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CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Schools have not been allowed to have prayers for the entire student body since the Engel vs. Vitale Supreme Court case in 1962. America has always prided itself on its First Amendment right to freedom of religion, which states, "Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof."Since the First Amendment was first written, it has taken the United States centuries (until just the past few decades) to become more sensitive to other religions and non-religions. With more people transitioning from Christianity to Buddhism, Agnosticism, Atheism, Confucianism, Judaism, Rastafarianism and so many more, there are no limits to what people worship or do not worship today.But Christianity is still the prevalent religion in the United States, and it has a lot of leverage.Separation of church and state is a very important idea in the United States. It allows for government institutions and ideals to be kept separate from religious ones. Since the Supreme Court ruled that schools can no longer engage students in prayer, schools have become part of this muddy separation.
Pocahontas County High School senior Emily Hefner agrees with this."I still think the church should be separate from the state," she said.It has become more common for schools to receive students from many different backgrounds and religions. Prayer for an entire student body is no longer acceptable because of the variety of beliefs a single population now can share. A single prayer could satisfy one group of students but cause a revolt amongst another, thus causing the entire learning environment of the school to be upset and unproductive.
"I think we should be allowed to say our prayers if we please," said Pocahontas County senior Caleb Arbogast, who noted that people who are "born and raised" with a specific religion may not feel safe unless they pray throughout the day.Students who wish to pray quietly to themselves throughout the day are allowed to do so. Student-led prayers are also acceptable, as long as they are not intended to influence an entire student body.Hefner said, "When it comes to the point they are pushing [their religion] on other people, [prayer] should not be allowed."But even students who intend to pray quietly to themselves without influencing others risk hazing and bullying. Voicing a religion can lead to a hostile environment for some students whose religions or non-religions are not accepted by others. No one wants to go to school feeling as if they have to follow a particular religion to be accepted.This is why schools are a poor place for prayer. Even when the praying is quietly done, hostile students may jump on the chance to bully someone solely because of his or her religion.The effects of prayer in schools, especially school-wide prayer, can be insensitive to many religions and non-religions, and it could ultimately be worse for the school environment. Prayer is a personal experience, and no matter how someone decides to worship, sensitivity from everyone is probably the best bet.Prayer should not be part of the school system. In this case, the separation of church and state can help avoid potential bullying, hostilities and a disruptive learning environment. | <urn:uuid:5b3c382d-d864-40b8-ac88-2ed75d5401b5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wvgazettemail.com/Entertainment/FlipSide/201403060168?page=2&build=cache | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00251-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969853 | 665 | 2.40625 | 2 |
The Return of Ralph - Buying a bigger TV usually means a better entertainment experience. For the Lorraine's, it means the return of Ralph, the conniving duck whose obsession with television has Helen's family desperate to be duck-free. But this time, Ralph has an even bigger surprise under his feathers... Vocabulary: (E) layover, migrate, pause, remain, stay. Little Bo's Sheep - Martha can't figure out why there's a sheep in her kitchen until Bo, a border collie, rushes in to explain that they got lost on their way to a herding festival. Can Helen and Martha get them there before it starts? And before the sheep eats all their pillows? Vocabulary: (E) dawdle, halt, insist, persistent, route. | <urn:uuid:d10d2190-770a-4313-a931-3f2c07f548f7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tv.azpm.org/schedules/episode/207499/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.95545 | 163 | 2.5 | 2 |
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We're not told exactly how far away he is from the camp, but we are told that he was too far away.
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State investigators took aerial photos Friday that show the SunCruz casino boat churning through sea grass beds off the Pasco and Hernando county coastline that had previously been torn up by a similar-sized vessel.
The photos show the gambling ship trailing what appears to be a plume of stirred-up mud and sea grass debris, said Keith Kolasa of the Southwest Florida Water Management District.
The state Department of Environmental Protection launched an investigation in December after Kolasa notified the agency that aerial photos showed that a large boat had gouged huge trenches 12 feet wide and up to 3,000 feet long through the beds. Those photos, shot last April, were being used as part of an effort to map the sea grass beds.
Earlier this month, a spokeswoman for the casino ship line told the St. Petersburg Times that state officials did not notify the company of any problems. Beth Fifer, a spokeswoman for Port Richey Casino Inc., said on March 14 that another vessel must have damaged the sea grass, not the casino boat.
A Coast Guard investigator, Lt. Matt Dooris, said the agencies working with the DEP on the case have not met to talk about it since January. The DEP's case file shows state officials questioning whether the damage west of Aripeka was done in state or federal waters, a crucial point in determining which agency would take the lead in pursuing the case.
Kolasa said Swiftmud scientists found damage 8 miles offshore and 4 miles offshore. Generally the boundary between state and federal jurisdiction in the Gulf of Mexico is 9 miles offshore.
One top DEP official — Jim Stoutamire, the administrator for the office of submerged lands and environmental resources in Tallahassee — joked in a Dec. 10 e-mail to other state officials that the 465-passenger ship was "apparently doing donuts" while picking up passengers brought out from the mainland on a shuttle. The e-mail's subject line says, "BIG offshore seagrass scars — SunCruz."
A federal scientist who studies sea grass scarring in the Keys said it's not surprising the DEP investigation is moving slowly.
"They've been dragging their feet on this issue for a long time," said Jud Kenworthy, a research biologist with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration.
A 1995 state study found that more than 170,000 acres of Florida's sea grass beds were scarred by boats, he said, "and that was 13 years ago, and we're still struggling with it."
However, DEP spokeswoman Pam Vazquez said the agency "has worked closely with the various agencies to address the situation that has been brought to our attention. The department remains committed to carrying out its regulatory responsibilities by conducting a full investigation."
A bill currently under consideration by the Legislature would allow patrol officers to charge careless boaters with damaging sea grass beds, with penalties that start at $50 and progressively increase to $1,000, said Kent Smith of the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission.
But those penalties would apply only to damage in a state aquatic preserve, Smith said. That would do nothing to protect the sea grass beds that may have been damaged by the casino boat.
"Although we worked hard to have this apply to all sea grass systems in state waters, the boating lobby successfully confined it to aquatic preserves," Smith said.
While they are not part of any aquatic preserve, the sea grass beds that may have been damaged by SunCruz are part of the largest and most pristine stretches of sea grass in the country, biologists say.
"That area has escaped major damage primarily because there hasn't been much development there," said Paul Carlson, a research scientist with the wildlife commission's marine science laboratory in St. Petersburg. He called those sea grass beds, which start just north of Anclote Key at the Pinellas-Pasco county line and wrap around the Big Bend area to just south of Tallahassee, one of the state's crown jewels.
The damaged portions of those beds will likely not recover for at least a decade, especially the parts that were covered in slow-growing turtle grass.
Sea grass beds filter pollution out of the water and form a nursery and feeding ground for a variety of marine species. Tear the sea grass out, Kenworthy said, "and there's a hundred, maybe a thousand, species out there that no longer have access to shelter and habitat they once had."
In 1999, the DEP sued the SunCruz operation in Port Richey, alleging propellers were gouging holes in the Pithlachascotee River's bed as the ship headed to sea. The casino boat now stays several miles offshore and lighter shuttle boats taxi gamblers to and from land. The new damage done to the sea grass beds appears to be occurring in the area where the shuttle boats meet the casino boat.
In 1997, the DEP and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers accused the company of harming the bottom of the Crystal River, but the company continued operating despite cease-and-desist orders. After two of its boat pilots were arrested, SunCruz finally gave up on that site and moved north to the Cross Florida Barge Canal in Inglis, where it then got in trouble for dumping its sewage in the gulf.
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BEIJING: The number of organ donations and transplants in China hit a record-high after it banned the use of executed prisoners’ organs early this year, making voluntary donation from citizens the only legitimate channel.
“More than 6,000 organs had been donated by over 2,000 donors as of early October, marking a record-high after January’s ban prompted concerns about an acute shortage of organs,” Huang Jiefu, a former vice-minister of health and current head of the National Human Organ Donation and Transplant Committee, was quoted as saying by the Beijing Youth Daily.
He said that over 300 hospitals will become qualified to perform organ transplants next year and that over 500 young doctors will be trained in donation and transplant procedures.
In 2014, voluntary donations from Chinese citizens became the largest source of organs for transplant, accounting for 80 per cent of all donated organs, state-run Xinhua news agency reported on August 22.
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Do you suffer from serious disruptions of breathing during your sleep? It could be that a sleep apnea cure will allow you to get a better nights sleep. There are sleep apnea clinics that can monitor you for disrupted breathing and then provide input on how to treat sleep apnea if that is affecting you. The main cause of sleep apnea is when the soft tissue in the back of the neck closes during sleep. Over the course of the night, it could cause you to stop breathing hundreds of times.
Treating sleep apnea does not have to be a complicated mystery, but some simple research will help you find the best sleep apnea clinics. To find the right facility for you, you can begin by researching providers on third party review sites. Most of the time, you will find extensive comments and feedback from both past and current clients. They can give you insights into their sleep apnea treatments and health plans that might be relevant to your needs.
When looking at the various reviews, you should pay special attention to their success rates and methodology that can give you a clear picture of how treatment at their facilities might work. Also, you should be able to get a fairly good idea of the initial consultation and self care suggestions they use. Use this feedback to create your short list of facilities to visit.
When you begin to visit the sleep apnea clinics, you will want to take a look at all of the services and amenities offered. While some may be focused more on monitoring and natural curing of sleep apnea, there are others that may have extensive breathing devices and health products available onsite. During your visit, if other clients are around, make sure you pay close attention to how the clients respond to the treatment and doctors, this can give you some insight into their bedside manner and customer service which can ultimately make or break a facility, and influence your own sleep success. Visit here for more. | <urn:uuid:07818cfe-f07b-4667-b339-c64e7302ec6c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://good-website.com/2013/10/sleep-apnea-clinics-and-their-treatment/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.960859 | 385 | 1.898438 | 2 |
Pretty soon Siri will be taking live requests to spice up your life. Developers have already put together a hack that lets them control a Wi-Fi thermostat from the luxury of their couch using some Siri magic. Talking to your thermostat may have seemed far-fetched months ago, but with the release of Siri it’s beginning to look a lot like it’s more of a distinct possibility than science fiction.
Case in point, a developer, only known as @plamoni on Twitter, has put together a nifty video that shows Siri getting information directly from the thermostat by using a proxy server. “Siri, why am I so bloody hot?”
Fine, Siri doesn’t understand sarcasm very well, but in the video @plamoni can clearly get the current temperature and thermostat status from his iPhone. It’s only a matter of time until we can start using Siri as a maid instead of a personal assistant. Siri may never be able to cook you a five-star meal, but it could, eventually, tell you how much longer it will take until your Chicken Cordon Blue is done cooking.
Could you imagine how huge this type of Siri integration could be if Apple were to give developers a way to integrate with third-party platforms, kinda like AirPlay? Imagine a world where your oven, microwave, coffee machine, hot tub, and other home electronic devices are all accessible via Siri. Apple can redefine our lives without having to actually make these products by just releasing Siri libraries to developers.
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(TRENTON) — Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee Chair Charles Mainor (D-Hudson) made the following statement Wednesday as the committee began a hearing to move more than 20 gun violence prevention bills:
“Good morning everybody and welcome to today’s special hearing of the Assembly Law and Public Safety Committee.
“We are here today for a serious and emotional discussion, but one I hope will be held with courtesy and respect for each other’s opinions.
“We may not agree today on everything, but one thing I hope we can agree on is that we must do what’s best for the people of New Jersey.
“And there’s no denying the fact that in recent years the United States has been witness to several horrific and preventable firearms related mass tragedies.
“These tragedies have heightened awareness of the danger that exists when adequate protections are not utilized to ensure that only responsible gun owners have access to firearms.
“The incidents are seared into our memories.
“A student killing 33 people and injuring 25 more during a shooting spree on the campus of Virginia Tech.
“A lone shooter killing six people, including a nine-year old child, and injuring thirteen others, including former Congresswoman Gabrielle Giffords, in a supermarket parking lot outside Tucson, Arizona.
“On Friday, July 20, 2012, a man opened gunfire on a packed movie theater in Aurora, Colorado, murdering 12 people and injuring 58 others.
“And on December 14, 2012, 20 school children and six adults were killed at Sandy Hook Elementary School in Newtown, Connecticut by an armed gunman in an unimaginable tragedy.
“These incidents have led parents, educators, law enforcement – everyone for that matter – to seek answers as to how best protect our innocent children, families, friends and our neighbors from such atrocities.
“And we know state lawmakers cannot win this fight alone.
“Congress, as you know, allowed the 1994 federal ban on the sale of semi-automatic assault weapons and large capacity ammunition feeding devices to expire in 2004 even though these weapons are the “weapon of choice” for drug traffickers, weapons traffickers, gangs, and paramilitary extremist groups, and have led to the deaths of one in five police officers killed in the line of duty between 1998 and 2001.
“We heard President Obama speak last night about the need to tighten federal laws.
“We here today will begin the process of doing the same thing on the state level.
“Whether it’s the streets of our New Jersey communities, a movie theater in Colorado or an elementary school in Connecticut, enough is enough is enough.
“No more talk.
“It’s time for action.
“The Assembly will show real leadership and do everything it can to better protect New Jersey residents by advancing a common sense plan to combat this scourge of gun violence that has touched us all so deeply.
“Reducing the maximum capacity of ammunition magazines is common sense.
“Banning assault-style .50-caliber weapons is common sense.
“Requiring ammunition sales to be conducted face-to-face is common sense.
“Disqualifying a person named on the federal Terrorist Watchlist from obtaining a gun is common sense.
“Requiring firearms seizure when mental health professional determines patient poses threat of harm to self or others is common sense.
“Let us not, after all, forget that 269 New Jerseyans were killed by senseless gun violence in 2011 alone – a 9 percent increase from the prior year.
“The time to get serious about protecting our children, our law enforcement officers and our communities from gun violence is long overdue.
“The tragedies have become too common and the sadness too deep.
“We recognize that we cannot put an end to each and every gun crime, but we can responsibly close the gaps and make our laws stronger for the benefit of everyone.
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Earlier this year, on the 2nd of January, I took a flight out of Mumbai for Chennai to join a small group of music and culture enthusiasts for a 3-day tour of Madurai.
Known variously as Halasya Kshetram, Koodal Nagaram, Aalavai and Kadamba Vanam, among others, Madurai is better known today as a temple town and is synonymous with the Meenakshi Amman Kovil. But Madurai has rich history that predates the temple and one that goes back to more than 2,000 years making it one of the oldest cities in the country. The city has been the seat of Tamil literature, culture, learning, politics, religion, and more.
An overnight train journey later, our group was in Madurai looking forward to exploring the city and getting to know it better. This was my second trip to Madurai, but it could very well have been my first for the previous visit in 2005 was only about visiting the Meenakshi Temple ! This trip, too, began with a visit to the Meenakshi temple — considered to be the heart of the city and the point from where the city is believed to radiate out like a lotus — before we moved on to explore other parts. | <urn:uuid:2ef40b7a-63ce-40b4-ae7e-c0dd9f99dfc2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sudhagee.com/2016/12/01/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.977987 | 264 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Roof Iris, Japanese
Plant of the Week
Japanese Roof Iris
Latin: Iris tectorum
Plants come and go in popularity. At the moment, irises are on the slide, being eclipsed by a host of perennials with a longer period of bloom. But, irises are a diverse group of plants, and they have more to offer than just the gaudy flowers of the flags most associate with the group. One of my favorite species is Japanese roof iris (Iris tectorum).
The roof iris is native to China, but was first discovered in the 1860s, growing in Japan on the roofs, hence the common name. It grows about a foot tall with a spreading, rhizomatous habit common to most irises. Leaves are light green, about a foot long, broadly sword shaped and slightly corrugated down their length.
Instead of standing stiffly erect, the leaves arch over, making them useful as a graceful groundcover. While not completely evergreen, the roof iris keeps its leaves through most of the winter in my garden. A variegated foliage form is available, but it has not persisted for me.
The flowers appear in late April and early May atop a 2-foot long scape that has a couple branches, each of which produces one or two blooms. The 4-inch wide flowers are usually a muted lavender but a white form is also common. Like most iris, the floral display is short, lasting about two weeks.
This charming little plant became known as the Japanese roof iris because that is where it was first observed by a Russian scientist, Carl Maximowicz (1827-1891). He spent three and a half years botanizing in Japan in the early 1860s and introduced numerous Japanese plants to Europe through his base in St. Petersburg.
In China, apparently the original home of the roof iris where it has been grown since at least seventh century, the plant grows on the ground like any sensible iris. But in Japan, it was found growing on the ridges of their thatched roofs.
Apparently this tradition started in Japan because of a decree by a Japanese emperor during a period of wartime when it became illegal to waste land growing flowers. All available land had to be used for rice or vegetables.
The main reason for growing the plant was not for its flowers, but for a white powder that was made by grinding the roots. The makeup used to create the white faces of the Geisha girls was made from the rhizomes. So, the plants moved from the garden to the roofs where it remained until being "discovered" by science.
I use this plant in my Japanese garden where the linear form of the leaves is echoed amongst three different plants. The largest of these is a broad-leafed bamboo that grows about 3 feet tall. Around it is a large groundcover planting of dwarf mondo grass. In the midst of this is a clump of roof iris. The leaves of each have a similar shape, but the contrast in size creates a pleasing effect.
The Japanese roof iris is unique amongst irises because it grows about as well in the shade as in the sun. Like all irises, it should be planted with the rhizomes just at the surface of the soil. The colony will slowly increase in size or you can speed the process along by dividing the plants in the fall. If happy, it will reseed. It seems immune to pests.
By: Gerald Klingaman, retired
Extension Horticulturist - Ornamentals
Extension News - February 4, 2005
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Center of Pakistan and International Relations (COPAIR) invited foreign speakers having different professional backgrounds and vibrant experiences in the field of cybersecurity on 22 October 2020 at the virtual conference focused on Cybersecurity as a new domain for national security. The purpose of the three-hour-long session was to gather insights from these technical experts and academics for the policy formulation of cybersecurity for Pakistan.
Mr Awais Siddique, the moderator of the session, welcomed the panellists and participants on behalf of the Center of Pakistan and International Relations (COPAIR). He briefs the audience about COPAIR initiatives and policy advocacy campaigns for establishing a comprehensive policy of cybersecurity in Pakistan. Mr Awais highlighted the COPAIR’s key focus on other emerging technologies and appreciated the untiring efforts of President Amna Malik for the cause.
Mr Ammar Jaffri, Former Additional DG FIA and a distinguished Member of Prime Minister Task Force on Cyber Security was the first speaker of the session. He set the tone of the conference by elucidating on the subject of cyberspace and emerging challenges for national security. His topic of speech as “Cyberspace: The new war front” and he highlighted the role of nascent technologies like AI, Big-data, IoT etc. and their implications on the securitization of cyberspace. He was of the view that with the advancement in technology and expansion in the user-base of cyber, the country will have to adopt a comprehensive framework to secure the national cyberspace. He has been a staunch advocate of cyber safety and cybersecurity and played a vital role in the development of Pakistan’s cyber laws.
Mr Farooq Naiyer, Chief Information Security Officer of ORION, Canada was the second speaker of the session. He has a rich experience of more than 18 years in cybersecurity, privacy, and assurance. In his talk about the importance of Cyber Threat Intelligence and countering cyber threats, he highlighted the salient contemporary challenges for securing the national cyberspace and shed light on the threat intelligence as well. He said that the threat intelligence is evidence-based knowledge including context, mechanisms, indicators, implications and actionable advice about an existing hazard to assets. He stressed that understanding the threat landscape from a dynamic and strategic perspective helps an organization or actor to prepare and react to a cyber-threat. He also talked about threat actor capabilities, organized criminals, Hacktivist cyber vandalism, and state-sponsored cyber-attacks. He also recommended that to overcome this challenge, Pakistan should develop a centralized cyber command or a national-level authority.
Dr Aftab Rizvi – CEO of Risk Associates, Australia was the third speaker of the conference who talked about the challenges faced to human security by cyberspace. He is an internationally renowned Information Security consultant and Entrepreneur and an expert in technology risk mitigation and cyber safety. Dr Rizvi was of the view that the purpose of national security is to keep the citizens safe from all the threats and cyberspace is posing serious threats to the individuals now. He correlated several examples in this regard and said that according to the UNDP 1944, human security should include economic security, food security, health, environmental, personal, community and political security. Dr Rizvi also overviewed the world news related to the cybersecurity and proposed a strategy to combat these threats.
Mr Jibran Ilyas was another distinguished speaker of the webinar, who shed light on the national strategies and capacity building for national cybersecurity. He serves as the Director of Incident Response at FireEye Mandiant and as an Adjunct Professor at Northwestern University. He briefed the audience about the national cyber strategy, evolving threat landscape, threat actors and capacity building for nations. he advised the cyber experts of Pakistan to spread awareness in their social circles and educate the masses about basics of cybersecurity. For the capacity building of Pakistan in the field of cybersecurity, he suggested that country should work on research and development, encourage innovation and incentivize the cyber teachers.
Dr Jiang Tianjiao, an Assistant Professor at the Fudan Development Institute China, shared his research on the “China’s Strategic Thinking on Cyber Offense and Defense”. Dr Jiang focused on the evolution of China’s cyber strategy and informed the audience about China’s cyber capabilities. He was of the view that the US-China cyberwar involving the issues of cyber espionage acted as the most significant variable in shaping China’s cyber policies and rendered cybersecurity crucial for the national security of China. While discussing the offensive and defensive capabilities of China in the realm of cyber, he stressed that China has considered the long-term approach and could exploit its cyber capabilities in a cyber-war against any country.
Mr Jorge Sebastiao, the Chief Technology Officer and a cybersecurity advisor was the last speaker of the session in COPAIR’s webinar. His topic of the speech was implications of Artificial Intelligence on Cyber Security, while he also highlighted the role of other nascent technologies like Blockchain, IoT and Big-Data as a challenge and opportunity in cybersecurity. He was of the view that with the increasing reliance on cyberspace, the risks are also increasing for the governments as well as civilians. With the advent of the internet and modern systems we use today, we have wide array servers and points, which should be protected from insider and outsider threats. He also talked about challenges and opportunities emerging from the tech-evolution and their correlation with cybersecurity. Mr Jorge said that Artificial intelligence poses a great risk for the cybersecurity but at the same time, it also provides us with greater opportunities.
Ms Amna Malik, the President Center of Pakistan and International Relations (COPAIR) Islamabad concluded the session with her recommendations for the policy formulation of cybersecurity for Pakistan. While putting forward the recommendation, she said that there is a dire need to build capacity and train the law-enforcement agencies in the field of cybersecurity. She also emphasized to promote international collaborations and to implement the international cyber standards in Pakistan. While presenting the recommendations, she added that there is need to raise cyber awareness, forge public-private partnerships and focus on the indigenous manufacturing of ICT hardware and software. She is a staunch advocate of the incorporation of cybersecurity in the national security of Pakistan and currently, she is leading her think tank’s research and development program on emerging technologies as part of National Security. In her speech, she stressed that it is high time for Pakistan to build a comprehensive and holistic cyber policy. While highlighting the COPAIR policy advocacy for cybersecurity, she shared her vision to build a cyber-secure and resilient Pakistan. | <urn:uuid:40a3ed46-6dc5-4809-bd99-8a2c31342f21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.melangemagazine.biz/center-of-pakistan-and-international-relations-copair-islamabad-hosted-an-online-conference-titled-cyberspace-the-future-territory-of-national-security/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.953612 | 1,337 | 1.554688 | 2 |
Earlier this week yet another pedestrian was killed by a police car involved in a chase. The victim was a 29-year-old woman whose only crime was to venture on to the mean streets of south London without a car of her own. We don't know, as yet, whether the burglars the police were pursuing got away, but even if they were caught and are now languishing in the cells, it doesn't make her death one jot less obscene.
The facts are these: since 1997/98 there has been a six-fold increase in deaths resulting from police car chases, and last year there was a total of 44. These statistics come from a report written for the Police Complaints Authority itself, and are described by its author, Dr David Best, as an "alarming trend". His key conclusion is self-evident, namely that the police are engaging in too many pursuits that endanger public safety. Dr Best suggests that officers who continue to chase cars without giving a risk assessment to their control rooms should face disciplinary measures. Personally, I find it astonishing that this is not already the case.
Further recommendations are that chases involving convoys of police vehicles and unmarked cars should be stopped. As I live in the epicentre of Lambeth's gun-crime zone, I'm never more than a few minutes away from the sound of an emergency vehicle of one kind or another.
We've all seen the grotesque scenes that ensue after a patrol car has carved its way through a traffic jam. Often some boy racer who fancies himself a wolf among urban sheep will try to follow in its wake, or a quite innocent driver who's pulled over to assist the police will pull out again too quickly and be hit by the next speeding police car in the convoy.
Since, by definition, once a police chase is under way the crime has already happened, the only possible conclusion is that the role hot pursuit plays in law enforcement is primarily psychological. I don't mean by this that it acts as a deterrent for the criminals, because being chased is all part of the adrenaline rush for serious offenders - it's being caught they cannot abide. No, it's the police themselves who need the car chase.
Let's face it, the vast majority of police work is emotionally harrowing, incredibly exhausting and even downright boring; like being a cross between a social worker, a filing clerk, and a train spotter. Without the lure of high-speed crime-hunting it would be still harder to attract recruits than it already is.
If the Met wants to continue to win the respect of Londoners for the vital work they do, they must end these deathly pursuits. But by the same token, if we want our police officers to rely on intelligence work to catch criminals, we must be prepared to pay the wages required by intelligent workers rather than Dirty Harrys.
James Bond, accountant?
With the collapse of WorldCom coming hard on the heels of the Enron implosion, and the revelation that both companies were audited by Andersen Accounting, the most painful of conclusions has become inescapable: accountancy is not boring.
Some analysts are now predicting that the WorldCom collapse will have a greater impact on the world economy than the attacks on the World Trade Center. Just fancy that! It turns out that a gang of grey suits wielding Biros, calculators and shredding machines are more deadly than whole plane-loads of murderous, nihilistic fanatics.
Presumably, we can look forward to the new ?interesting? status of accountancy being reflected in our popular culture. I keenly anticipate a James Bond extravaganza, in which Pierce Brosnan saves the West from a renegade, cat-stroking, chartered accountant, who threatens to destroy Her Majesty?s Secret Service by forcing M to disclose exactly what proportion of agents? car travel was for business purposes.
Enough of this Burberry madness
The Burberry check is a particularly hideous kind of pseudo-tartan, which used to be confined - quite rightly - to the linings of the Macintoshes of obese American tourists. Unfortunately, in the past few years, it's broken out from this foetid ghetto and spread all over everything, like a vile beige, red, white and black rash.
A couple of years ago it was seen entirely covering Madonna and Kate Moss but they - unlike the low-rent fashion victims you see wandering down your high street - could afford to get treatment. Earlier this week Burberry prepared to float on the stock exchange with an anticipated price of £1.45 billion, and while the company's revenue doesn't come exclusively from this fabric blight, perhaps once the mass of worms turn and shed their beige skins, the new investors will see their shares plummet.
The ensuing Burberry collapse will, I earnestly hope , match WorldCom and Enron for scale. But rather than being an example of gross corporate fraud, in this case the investors will have only their own awful taste to blame.
If you can't beat them ...In a sketch in which he plays the headmaster of a trendy coed school, Peter Sellers is asked by the parents of a prospective pupil how he separates the sexes. "If necessary," he replies, "I prise them apart with a crowbar." Figures released this week that show Britain retains its shameful status as the European country with the highest rate of teenage pregnancy, have provoked the usual stereotypical responses. In the right-hand corner are those who would prise apart the sexes with a crowbar, and then use it to give them a sound thrashing; while in the left-hand corner are those who would give them a copy of the Joy of Sex and a liberal supply of condoms.
However, neither group seems to be in dispute about the salient point at issue here, which is that young men can't help being priapic, just as young women cannot but be receptive. The British upper-middle classes of the Victorian era had the solution to this dilemma. By confining boys to same-sex boarding schools throughout puberty and adolescence they greatly increased their offspring's propensity for homosexual relationships. Now, try as he might, a young lad can't get his best mate pregnant, and a robust liking for the pleasures offered by your own gender, whether social or sexual, is a fine preparation for the future.
Would those great institutions, the Church of England, the Army and the Foreign Office have been nearly as effective as they were in the last century, without the "old boy" network? And cannot the decline of British society be more or less dated from the point where rabid coeducationalism began to force young people of the opposite sex into an unsavoury proximity with one another?Reuse content | <urn:uuid:4fe6bfcd-3ab8-47c0-bfdb-1c3fa5e003d7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.standard.co.uk/news/police-must-stop-these-deadly-car-pursuits-6310562.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00429-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967588 | 1,384 | 1.523438 | 2 |
This gallery contains the most common Chinese characters in order, along with some commonly used words constructed from the characters. The purpose here is to show how most characters only really make sense in the context in a word.
Characters have multiple and flexible meanings therefore knowing the most commonly used words they are used in helps to understand them in context.
Get a downloadable PDF list of the 1500 Most Common Chinese characters on which these graphics are based: Download the complete Hanzi WallChart 1500 Most Common Chinese Characters PDF List.
There’s also a free downloadable PDF eBook version of all of these graphics available at this website.
Also you can now find videos of all of these words being pronounced by Angel Huang of Mandarin HQ. Use the character diagrams and videos together to study not only the written form but also spoken Chinese.
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Podcast is the term used to describe digital media that is usually presented as an episodic series of audio/radio, and/or video files. Users subscribe to and download these files through web syndication or streamed online to a computer or mobile device. The term is derived from the combination of “pod” and “broadcast” and capitalizes on the popularity of Apple’s iPod.
Podcasts are stored and downloaded from a distributor’s server and accessed by users through a client application known as a podcaster. The interface, when accessed, checks for updates and downloads new files. These are normally managed and distributed though a subscription for a nominal monthly or yearly fee charged to the user’s credit card or other means of payment.
This process can be automated so that new files are downloaded automatically and stored locally on the user’s computer or other device ready for offline use and convenient access to the content. Despite the term and connection with Apple and its iPod, the content can be accessed using any computer that can play media files. The use of the term “podcast” predates the addition of native support for podcasting to the iPod, or to Apple’s iTunes software. | <urn:uuid:fa25177c-143b-4780-be64-126dc240af0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.icontact.com/define/podcast/?afid=1633776 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.932274 | 253 | 2.90625 | 3 |
Sixty years ago today one of the most famous marriages in American history became official: Marilyn Monroe and Joe DiMaggio.
“I don’t think it was a surprise at all,” said Jerry Coleman, one of DiMaggio’s Yankee teammates, according to PBS. “The greatest woman in the world and the greatest guy in the world. It was a perfect match.”
The two were married for nine months before a pretty messy divorce, where Monroe charged “mental cruelty”. From Life Magazine at the time: “Nobody had been surprised when they got married — they had been going with each other for two years. Nobody doubted their love — they had smiled happily through their married life. And almost nobody professed surprised when they broke up — the conflict in their two careers seemed inevitable.”
After Monroe’s divorce from playwright Arthur Miller, DiMaggio became a sort of rock for the actress. When she died, he stepped in to orchestrate her funeral. Again, from PBS:
For two decades, DiMaggio had flowers delivered to Marilyn’s grave twice a week. “I firmly believe,” said Brad Dexter, “that all the years that [DiMaggio] made those visitations to her grave site and left flowers. . . he was still in love with her, but also [did it] out of a great sense of guilt. Because I think he helped contribute to her demise. I’m firmly convinced that if he had behaved differently, they would have had a good marriage. He destroyed it–and he felt that guilt.”
Though it was disputed by some witnesses, according to his lawyer, when DiMaggio died in 1999 his last words were: “I’ll finally get to see Marilyn.”
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He was the son of John White and Lula Davison, who called him to Booker t. Washington. he was a cousin of blues artist B.B. King. there is lack of clarity about Whites precise date and place of birth. He himself has in several interviews 1906 and 1909 as birth years. In most sources (including Allmusic and Rolling Stone's Encyclopedia of Rock & Roll) is 12 november 1906 as birth date. White was born in Aberdeen or Houston (Mississippi).
With his six brothers and sisters he grew up on the farm of his grandfather on. his father taught White songs to play on the fiddle and later he gave him guitar lessons. Although his grandmother had objection against "those devilish music" in her house got White at the age of nine by his father a private guitar. he learned singing in a Baptist Church. his teen years brought White by in Grenada, Mississippi, on the farm of an uncle. During this period he worked in the countryside and made music in the evening.
In 1930, White discovered by talent scout Ralph Limbo, after which he took up in Memphis, Tennessee music for Victor Records. He then made use of the name Washington White. by the great depression , he managed to no success in this period still harvested: the record label wanted to release only a few songs, the economic slump had a detrimental effect on sales and White only years later got a chance to record music. In 1933, he moved to West Point, Mississippi. There he worked again in the countryside and was also active as an athlete: he played baseball in the Negro League and boxed.
Big Bill Broonzy asked him in Chicago in 1937 to record music for the American Record Company, but White had to postpone this recording session when he was arrested. He had, in his own words from self-defense, a man shot in his upper leg. He makes use of his bail to travel to Chicago, where he recorded two songs before he was picked up again. Three years after this (from 1937 to 1940) he sat in the Parchman Farm prison his sentence. Under the name Washington 'Barrelhouse' White he took in 1939 twice music for the Library of Congress. John and Alan Lomax took care of the musical production. After his release in 1940, he participated with Lester Melrose as a music producer twelve songs for Vocalion Records, including "Parchman Farm Blues", "Good Bukka's," Jitterbug Swing "Gin Blues", "Aberdeen," Mississippi Blues "and"Fixin' to Die Blues".
During the Second World War served White for two years in the United States Navy. He then moved to Memphis, Tennessee and was barely more active as a musician. Bob Dylan appeared on his debut album(1962) the by White written "Fixin' to Die". A year later, White rediscovered by blues enthusiasts John Fahey and Ed Denson (or Dawson). this began for him a second career as an artist. He took in the 1960smusic on for Takoma and Arhoolie Records, and performed in coffee houses and on music festivalssuch as the Newport Folk Festival in 1966. Also, he performed on the occasion of the 1968 Summer Olympics in Mexico. In the 1970s he appeared in all kinds of movies and television programs about blues. In 1977, at White established cancer . He died in a hospital in Memphis and was buried in that city at the New Park Cemetery. | <urn:uuid:8a0ba890-b1cc-43b0-a7ab-c93668dafd4b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://music.wikia.com/wiki/Bukka_White | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00480-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987222 | 727 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Edited on Thursday, 30th April, 2020
- IDDSI defines Level 5 as minced & moist food.
- Level 5 diets have defined parameters under texture, softness & moisture, which is prescribed by IDDSI.
- Speech therapist or dietitian prescribe a level 5 diet to people experiencing chewing difficulty.
One of the key things to understand with the ageing process and dysphagia is that while dysphagia is the deterioration of the swallowing action, it often deteriorates at the same time as a person’s ability to chew the food properly in the first place.
As an illustration of what happens, this video about minced and moist sandwiches shows what happens when a person isn’t able to chew their food properly and even a simple sandwich can pose a choking hazard.
For people who are experiencing difficulty chewing food, a Level 5 diet is often recommended or prescribed by a speech therapist or dietitian.
Level 5 is minced and moist food, and is defined by three criteria under the IDDSI:
The texture of food is to be particle sizes of 2 to 4 mm in size. Some textural variety is acceptable. For example, a grain of rice is typically 3 mm x 10 mm and can still be easily swallowed.
A regular 4-pronged dining fork will consistently mash food to this particle size.
The food must easily be eaten with a fork or chopsticks.
Level 5 rice.
The food should be soft enough that it can be further broken down by using the tongue or a gentle chewing action.
Using a fork to press down on the food: the fork prongs should mash the food at a pressure which does not turn the thumbnail white when pressing down. A light pressure should suffice.
The food can still be easily picked up using a standard fork or chopsticks, it does not drip off or run through the eating implements.
Level 5 rice.
The correct moisture is important for both enjoyment as well as to aid in the ease of swallowing.
Adding moisture-based foods to the meal such as sauces, milk, yoghurt and custard all increases the moisture profile of a dish.
Use the spoon tilt test.
Level 5 smashed potato.
When should I test the texture level of the food I am preparing?
The texture level test needs to occur when the food is at the temperature it will be consumed. If you test it when you bring it out of refrigeration, it may be too solid, or if it is piping hot, it may be too liquid for the level required.
How often should I test the texture level of a meal?
You shouldn’t have to test every single meal. If there is no change to the way the food is prepared, or the ingredients are used, or the temperature it is being served at, then the texture level should remain consistent.
If any of the conditions change, for example, a new product is being used, the food is served chilled in summer and warm in winter, then the levels must be retested.
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by Howard Bell, Your Property Path
Foreign investors have invested in America largely through buying American corporate bonds and US Treasuries.
Now these assets lose value when the U.S. prints money or causes the dollar to drop.
Our foreign investors realize that it makes foreigners’ holdings less valuable.
If you owned a lot of dollars and thought that the U.S. might be taking on inflationary actions, like printing money to cover all of our new obligations. What would you do? Well, you could sell, but if you sold a lot you might drive down the price because you own so much.
With the new crises unfolding, smart foreign investors will hedge with hard assets – your homes and apartments look very good to them. The number of overseas buyers has jumped. A study conducted last year by the Florida Association of Realtors and the National Association of Realtors found that 15 percent of the homes sold by almost 1,000 Florida agents in the past 12 months had been purchased by overseas buyers. Almost 60 percent of those buyers were Europeans taking advantage of the euro’s continued strength against the dollar, up 33% since 2002.
Large Market Still Untapped
The number of agents certified as international specialists by the National Association of Realtors has grown to more than 2,000, a 30 percent increase in three years.
What Did They Buy- The NAR Study
NAR has been looking into this for quite a while and here is what they have found. The NAR study says that like domestic buyers, international clients prefer single-family detached homes or town homes, but they also showed a stronger preference for condominiums and apartments compared to home buyers in general.
Here Are The Numbers
- Eighty-eight percent of existing home buyers bought detached homes, while 12 percent purchased multi-family housing (condos, co-ops, attached town homes, row homes, etc.)
- Seventy-eight percent of international homebuyers purchased in the multi-family category.
- Forty-seven percent of all international buyers purchased homes exclusively for vacation, while 22 percent were motivated primarily by investment.Nearly a third of foreign buyers cited both vacation and investment as reasons for their purchase.
- International homeowners spent an average of 4.2 months of the year in their U.S. property in 2006.
- A third of all international buyers are from Europe.
- Buyers from Asia and North America (outside the United States) each represent about one-fourth of the total market. Sixteen percent of all international buyers are from Latin America. By individual country, most buyers come from Mexico (13 percent), the United Kingdom (12 percent) and Canada (11 percent).
The Survey Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate
The Association of Foreign Investors in Real Estate (AFIRE) represents the interests of nearly 200 investing organizations from 21 different countries. AFIRE, a not-for-profit association of international real estate investors with headquarters in DC. I don’t know this organization, it seems that the membership is largely institutional and investment property orientated.
Top Five Global Cities for Foreign Dollars
1. New York; up from #2 in 2006
2. Washington, DC; up from #4 in 2006
3. London; down from #1 in 2006
4. Paris; down from #3 in 2006
5. Shanghai; up from #9 in 2006
Top U.S. PropertyTypes Within the U.S.
The most dramatic change was a total reversal of investors€”¢ preferred U.S. property types, with every property category shifting and, most dramatically, office properties falling into fifth place and retail properties rising to first.
1. Retail €” from 5th place in 2006
2. Hotels €” from 3rd place in 2006
3. Industrial €” from4th place in 2006
4. Multi-family €” from 2nd place in 2006
5. Office €” from 1st place in 2006
The Internet has been the key.
1. Search the Internet for sites that provide bi-lingual listing of properties for sale
2. Find multi -lingual agents in your area. Often they will have a relationship to an agency that represents foreign buyers
3. Try any of the largest agencies for their overseas listing partners.
4. Log on to sites from other English speaking countries and find agents that represent buyers looking for US investment properties or vacation homes. Condos in the sun belt areas are preferred.
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Officials are seeking two female and three male dolphins between the ages of three and five, with perfect teeth and no physical problems, according to public documents.
The dolphins need to be delivered before August to the military in the Crimean port city of Sevastopol, which has housed a training centre for the animals since 1965.
The centre was badly dilapidated after the Soviet Union collapsed and the dolphins were reportedly sold to Iran.
Ukraine's navy revived the centre in 2012 but, after the Russians annexed Ukraine two years later, the centre came under their control.
A source told RIA Novosti state news agency in 2014 that new training programmes were being planned to train the dolphins to serve the Russian military.
During the Cold War, dolphins were used to find submarines, underwater mines and suspicious objects near harbours and ships.
According to retired colonel Viktor Baranets, who saw this training, the dolphins were part of the arms race between the USSR and the US.
He said the US had looked into the abilities of dolphins first "but when Soviet intelligence found out the tasks the US dolphins were completing in the 1960s, the defence ministry at the time decided to address this issue".
The dolphins were trained to plant explosives on enemy ships and could find abandoned torpedoes in the Black Sea.
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The main uses of sodium bentonite are for fresh water drilling mud (oil/gas, water well and horizontal directional drilling), binder (e.g. foundry-sand bond, iron ore pelletizer), absorbent (pet litter), groundwater barrier (pond lining and gas collection) and industrial applications (viscosity builder and suspension agent).
BENTONITE AND ITS USES ... Dam Sealing and Industrial Landfill Sodium bentonite is a naturally occurring clay material composed predominantly of the active constituent montmorillonite. On exposure to water, bentonite exhibits high swelling properties. Use is …
The use of natural Bentonite to product industrial Zeolites, under the effect of hydrothermal fluids containing sodium hydroxide and barium chloride, …
Nov 27, 2016· The effect of bentonite on body function Detoxification. Bentonite clay has been shown to act as a detoxifying agent. This property is referred to its poly-cationic nature, which leads to absorption of negative charge toxins ().T-2 is a trichothecene mycotoxin which is a naturally occurring mold byproduct of Fusarium fungus and is toxic to humans and animals.
Bentonite WA is Western Australian's premier supplier of high quality Calcium Bentonite – they are WA owned and operated. . Often called "The Miracle Clay", Bentonite is a pure and natural organic product which can be used for a wide range of domestic garden and industrial applications. Our Watheroo mine site in the Wheatbelt of ...
Nov 23, 2011· Bentonite usually forms from weathering of volcanic ash, most often in the presence of water. However, the term bentonite, as well as a similar clay called tonstein, has been used for clay beds of uncertain origin. For industrial purposes, two main classes of bentonite exist: sodium and calcium bentonite.
Montmorillonite is a dioctahedral layer silicate and in sodium form swells when mixed with water to form dispersed colloid-size particles. There are two common types of Bentonite for commercial use; sodium (or swelling) Bentonite and calcium Bentonite. Toxicology. Bentonite is …
Sep 21, 2021· Uses. Bentonite has high swelling properties along with good viscosity and liquid limit. These properties are highly valued in most of the industrial applications. Sodium bentonite is well suited as a binder in the preparation of pellets, and in foundry and oil - well drilling mud. Bentonite also acts as a suspending agent in oil - well ...
Established in 1978 and incorporated in 1982, PT. BENTONIT ALAM INDONESIA is one of the oldest and largest Bentonite manufacturers in the country. With more than three decades of experience in procuring & manufacturing bentonites, the Company thrives and offers multi-bentonite applications for different industrial needs.
Jan 15, 2021· Commercial bentonites used in drilling muds are naturally occurring clays and are mined in many areas of the world. They contain the clay mineral smectite and may contain accessory minerals such as quartz, mica, feldspar and calcite.
Industrial and Commercial Uses. One of the obvious uses of bentonite is that it is used as a natural sealant due to its expanding and absorbing quality. Bentonite is widely used in both residential and public infrastructure schemes as it is highly recommended by state and national government agencies.
Mar 10, 2021· It is estimated that industrial casting uses in excess of 25% of the global production supply of bentonite every year(10). Wet compressive strength (i.e. pre-curing or resting of the mold) is higher with increased quantities of bentonite and coal(11) - which is a useful property should any kind of extrusion or mechanical compaction process be ...
It is a clay that has the property of swelling when made wet, it also has absorption capacity. Its useful to mix it in with (very) sandy soil to make its nutrient holding capacity better. Or plug bore holes. It is also used in pseudo medical appli...
Bentonite is used by several commercial Mushroom Growers in British Columbia as a growing medium to retain moisture. The use of bentonite in operations, such as mushroom production, adds stability to compost and substrates used for growing mediums. CLUMPING PET LITTER. APL Bentonite is the foundation of our scoopable pet litter products.
In this artiele raw materials of several types are considered under the term "industrial mineral s and rocks": 1. raw materials that are used in industry in variously prepared forms as minerals (e.g., talc, asbestos, diamond) or rocks (diatomite, bentonite, ochre); 2.
Sodium bentonite is naturally forming clay used in several different applications from industrial sealants and litter to food and personal care products. Sodium bentonite, called the "clay of a thousand uses" because of its versatility.
the United Nations, WHO, the United Nations Industrial Development Organization, the ... The responsibility for the interpretation and use of the material lies with the reader. In no event shall the World Health Organization be liable for ... 3.2.2 Uses 31 188.8.131.52 Bentonite 31 184.108.40.206 Kaolin 34 220.127.116.11 Other clays 37 4. ENVIRONMENTAL LEVELS AND ...
Mar 18, 2021· Bentonite inorganic gel is non-toxic, thickening and lubricating, and is mainly used in toothpaste abrasives. It has the characteristics of low cost, low irritation and pollution, and stable performance. When used as a gel, it can replace the thixotropic agent-synthetic aluminum magnesium silicate used as a thickening agent for imported toothpaste.
It features no chemical additives and is completely safe to use around livestock, plants and fish. IEC Covers produces some of the best bentonite clay pond liner products available in the market today. We can customize and fabricate a bentonite clay pond liner for use in your commercial/industrial retention ponds.
Feb 13, 2012· The high specific surface of Bentonite gives it a large capacity for both absorption and adsorption. Therefore, it is used in the bleaching and clarification of oils, wines, ciders, beers, etc. Bentonites are importance in industrial processes for purifying water that contains different types of industrial oils and organic contaminants.
Uses of Clay - Drilling Mud Bentonite and other clays are used in the drilling of oil and water wells. The clays are turned into mud, which seals the walls of the boreholes, lubricates the drill head and removes drill cuttings. Drilling mud slurry Cooling and cleaning the drill "Gushers" used to be common until the use of drilling mud was
Kaolin (or china clay), ball clay and bentonite are the dominant 'industrial clays', and are mined for a wide variety of uses ( Table 3.1 ), which exploit the special properties of each of the three clay types: Kaolin (china clay) — is chemically inert and can be prepared as a white powder specified (in part) according to its whiteness ...
Jul 02, 2021· Bentonite continues to rank second in quantity only to barite as a mud additive, as shown in Fig. 11-2.14 In spite of the partial replacement of bentonite by polymers in some muds, about 1,160,000 short tons (1,050,000 tonnes) of swelling-type bentonite, with a well-site cost of roughly $120,000,000, was used in 1978.
TMP Industrial 200 Bentonite. is a high swelling sodium bentonite suitable for a wide variety of industrial uses, including soil sealant, grouting, slurry trenching, horizontal drilling, pelletizing, water well drilling, and cementation of drill holes. This bentonite comes from an extremely pure deposit in eastern Oregon and contains a very ...
Redmond Bentonite is based in Central Utah. Established in 1958, Redmond's bentonite products have been used in the industrial, commercial and agricultural fields for almost 60 years. We gather our sodium bentonite from two locations in central Utah. Then we refine the product to meet your needs.
May 21, 2016· Bentonite can be used is an intact form for many industrial purposes. However, bentonite must be purified to montmorillonite for use in the food and pharmaceutical industries. As montmorillonite has swelling, rheological, moisture-retaining, and adsorption characteristics, it has been widely studied as an active ingredient in medicine.
Answer (1 of 2): I think you are a little confused about how the chemistry works. And what bentonite clay actually is. Perhaps you have been reading some "advertising" that pretends to tell you "facts". Bentonite is a clay. It does not "absorb" …
Food grade bentonite clay is cleaner and more carefully handled than industrial-grade bentonite clay. Benefits and Uses of Bentonite Clay Supplement and Detox. People take bentonite clay as a supplement and a way to detox the digestive system. Similar to DE, bentonite clay is rich in silica, though it does not contain as much as DE.
Industrial Applications of Calcium Bentonite. The major industrial applications of this popular Bentonite clay are signification in various industries: Cosmetic industry – This clay is used in all kinds of cosmetic products like foundation, skin lighteners, facials, pancakes, compact powders, anti-acne agents, and lipstick binders.
Grouts used in industrial applications fall into two general categories, bentonite based or cement based. Bentonite grouts can be either ground and sized natural bentonite clay, such as Baroid IDP's HOLEPLUG® and BENSEAL® grouts, or bentonite blended with additives, such as QUIK-GROUT® and AQUAGUARD® blended dispersible grouts.
Jan 01, 1978· This chapter discusses the properties and uses of bentonite. Bentonites have a variety of uses in various industries. The properties of bentonites are contingent upon the fact that they are composed of smectite clay minerals, and the properties of the smectite in turn are contingent upon its chemical composition, atomic structure, and morphology.
Oct 31, 2014· As far as facts outside of wiki, they are not hard to find. From the Clay Minerals Society to the US Library of medicine as well as many astrophysics departments of several universities, the knowledge is abundant. I appreciate the link though. Bentonite industrial uses go back to ancient times, especially sodium.
Uses of Bentonite: The main uses of bentonite are in drilling mud and as a binder, purifier, absorbent, and carrier for fertilizers or pesticides. As of around 1990, almost half of the US production of bentonite was used as drilling mud. Minor uses include as a filler, sealant, and catalyst in petroleum refining.
Jan 30, 2019· Industrial bentonite may be further chemically processed. So I definitely don't suggest going to the local hardware store and picking up a bag of bentonite clay for your skin. Are there added fillers or minerals? This is a typical scenario for commercial clays. Bentonite clay is effective if it contains at least 30% montmorillonite.
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Bankruptcy is a legal procedure allowing a person or business to have their debts absolved, in part or in whole. It is normally treated as a last resort, because, while it can prevent financial catastrophe, it has some huge long-term consequences. This warrants careful consideration of the costs and benefits. Bankruptcy is a creation of federal law, and goes through federal courts. Therefore, the procedure governing bankruptcy in Kentucky will be roughly the same as it is anywhere else in the U.S. But individual courts have different rules for what property is exempt, so you should consult a local Murray, Kentucky before you file.
Chapter 7 Bankruptcy in Murray, Kentucky
In Murray, Kentucky, there are 2 common forms of commonly-used consumer bankruptcy: Chapter 7 and Chapter 13. Chapter 7 requires that a certain percentage of the debtor's property be liquidated to pay off at least a small part of their debt. However, many types of property are exempt, and do not need to be liquidated, such as cars, homes, insurance policies, and retirement accounts.
Once qualified assets are sold, and the money turned over to the creditors, most remaining debt is absolved. However, there are certain types of debt that cannot be absolved in bankruptcy, including student loans, taxes, child support, and criminal fines. If most of your debt is non-dischargeable, it may not be a good idea to file for bankruptcy in Murray, Kentucky.
Chapter 13 Bankruptcy in Murray, Kentucky
Chapter 13 Bankruptcy in Murray, Kentucky differs substantially from Chapter 7. It might be a better option than Chapter 7, depending on the facts of your case. Chapter 13 does not excuse any debt, but it creates a new payment plan that should give the debtor some breathing room. Usually, all of the debts are consolidated into 1 periodic payment. While this might make it take longer to pay off the debt, if the debtor is willing to make a few sacrifices, the plan should be manageable.
Which Type of Consumer Bankruptcy Should I File in Murray, Kentucky
Which Bankruptcy type to file under depends heavily on the facts of each particular case. If you have a steady stream of income (enough to make a payment plan manageable), and a large amount of non-exempt property that you don't want to part with, Chapter 13 may be best for you. If you don't have a steady income or large amounts of non-exempt property, you may be better off filing for Chapter 7.
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Established in 1758, Leesburg (population 37,500) is the seat of government for Loudon County. The town’s rich history spans three centuries. Originally a settlement called George Town in honor of the reigning British monarch, Leesburg was renamed to honor Francis Lightfoot Lee, signer of the Declaration of Independence, who owned property nearby.
During the War of 1812, Leesburg served as the temporary capital of the United States when the valuable papers of the Federal Archives (including the Declaration of Independence and Constitution) were brought to town for safekeeping. President James Monroe resided just south of town at Oak Hill, where he wrote the Monroe Doctrine in 1823. Leesburg was the site of the 1861 Battle of Ball’s Bluff, a bloody Confederate victory which claimed the life of Col. Edward Baker, a close friend of President Lincoln, and spawned a Congressional committee to investigate the conduct of the war. The battlefield is marked by one of America's smallest national cemeteries.
In the 20th century, Leesburg was the home of World War II General George C. Marshall, architect of the famous Marshall Plan that re-built Europe after the war, and radio personality Arthur Godfrey, who donated land for the town's first airport. Today Leesburg continues to serve as the center of government and commerce for Loudoun County, the fastest growing county in the nation. From 1990 to 2001, Leesburg doubled in population from 16,000 to 32,000, a phenomenal growth rate that shows no sign slowing down.
One of the signature heritage preservation projects in the community has been the restoration and interpretation of General George C. Marshall’s home, Dodona Manor, a National Historic Landmark gracing the entrance to downtown Leesburg. General Marshall purchased Dodona Manor in 1941, after being named Army Chief of Staff. It provided a retreat from the tremendous demands of Marshall’s work, after he led the largest mobilization of World War II and during the implementation of the work for Europe’s economic recovery. During Marshall’s residence, Dodona Manor received prominent world leaders as guests, including President Truman, Madam Chiang Kai-shek, Field Marshall Sir John Dill, and Bernard Baruch.
When faced with the imminent sale of the neglected property for redevelopment in 1995, dedicated citizens raised the funds to purchase the property. Funding for restoration has come from a great variety of public and private sources, including the Commonwealth of Virginia, the Federal Republic of Germany, a community development grant from the Department of Housing and Urban Development, a Save America’s Treasures grant, a Department of Transportation grant, the Marshall Family, the Garden Club of Virginia, and many others. Countless volunteer hours supported the restoration and support current daily operations. Now a major heritage tourism site, Dodona Manor has attracted attention from national and international travel writers.
Leesburg’s Old and Historic District, one of the best-preserved and most picturesque downtowns in Virginia, was placed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1970 and expanded its boundaries to include late 19th century and early 20th century resources in the 1990s. The historic downtown offers Colonial and Civil War themed walking tours and an eclectic mix of specialty shops and eateries housed in historic buildings. Leesburg is also a member of the Virginia Civil War Trails program, and the “Journey Through Hallowed Ground” corridor. More information about the Civil War in Loudon County can be found at the Loudon Museum in downtown Leesburg, also known for its collection of southern textiles and schoolgirl samplers. A published guidebook and new wayfinding signage system help direct visitors to city heritage sites and area attractions, including Oatlands Plantation and Morven Park.
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DEP ISSUES REMINDER ABOUT BAN ON BLUE CLAW CRABBING
HEALTHY LOOKING CRABS POSE HEALTH RISK
(11/P83) TRENTON - The Department of Environmental Protection is reminding State residents that harvesting blue claw crabs from the waters of the Lower Passaic River and Newark Bay is prohibited, as scientists have found that crabs from those waters continue to show harmful levels of cancer-causing dioxin and polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs), as well as other contaminants, including mercury.
A coordinated multi-language education effort is underway this week, with the help of community groups and municipalities in the Lower Passaic and Newark Bay region, to get a reminder message out to area residents about the negative health effects of crabbing in those waters.
DEP enforcement officers and community and environmental organizations have monitored waters in the region this spring and found that many of the warning signs regarding the dangers of crabbing have been torn down and that some residents continue to fish for blue claw crabs.
"We strongly urge people not to eat crabs pulled from those waters. This is a matter of public health and safety for people who live in neighborhoods in that region,'' said DEP Commissioner Bob Martin. "Until the water quality issues are resolved, we are asking people to observe the ban on crabbing in that area. There are plenty of other places in clean waters for good, healthy fishing and crabbing in New Jersey.''
Contaminants found in blue claw crabs and some fish pulled from waters in this region can be especially harmful to fetuses and infants, so women of child-bearing years, pregnant women and nursing mothers should not eat these crabs. Children also are at risk of developmental and neurological problems if exposed to these chemicals.
"There is no way to prepare crabs from these waters to make them safe for consumption,'' said
Acting State Department of Health and Senior Services Commissioner Dr. Tina Tan.
The blue claw crab is a bottom dweller and feeder that has grown in size and increased in abundance in the Newark Bay Complex and Lower Passaic River in recent years because the area is closed to commercial crabbing. That increased size and abundance has made the blue claw crabs even more attractive to some crabbers, who ignore the ban on crabbing and consumption, which has been in effect since the mid-1980s.
"Some people don't want to believe there is a problem,'' said Gary Buchanan, manager of the DEP's Office of Science, which has extensively studied these waters. "Because these crabs look really healthy, many people may not truly comprehend the problem and, as a result, ignore our warnings. But those crabs are not healthy and should not be eaten.''
To inform residents of risks of eating blue claw crabs pulled from the Lower Passaic River and Newark Bay aquatic complex, the DEP is working with the State Department of Health and Senior Services (DHSS), local partners, and officials of 44 municipalities and 6 counties -- Bergen, Essex, Hudson, Middlesex, Union and Passaic - affected by this issue.
A long-term outreach and education effort being conducted by the DHSS Seafood and Shellfish Project has distributed nearly 200,000 copies of a brochure in English and Spanish that warns of the effects of dioxins on children.
The region in question is a highly industrialized urban area that includes Newark Bay, the Arthur Kill and Kill Van Kull, and the tidal portions of the Hackensack, Passaic, Elizabeth, and Rahway rivers.
In 2005, the DEP and State Attorney General's Office filed a lawsuit against the companies responsible for the intentional discharge of dioxins into the Lower Passaic River. At that time, dioxin concentrations in Passaic River crabs and fish were among the highest in the world. That lawsuit is still pending in Superior Court.
Additionally, the DEP is now working with the federal Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on plans for a cleanup of an eight-mile stretch of the Lower Passaic River. In a separate action, responsible parties are preparing to remove about 40,000 cubic yards of dioxin-contaminated sediments in a portion of Lower Passaic River. That work is scheduled to begin this summer.
Persons who violate the crabbing ban in the Lower Passaic and Newark Bay are subject to fines ranging from $300 to $3,000 for a first offense.
For more information on the ban, including Spanish and Portuguese language information, visit: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dsr/crab-outreach/alert-english.htm
For a full listing of marine fish advisories for Newark Bay and the Lower Passaic River, visit: http://www.state.nj.us/dep/dsr/fishadvisories/statewide.htm#newark
To see a list of fish consumption advisories in New Jersey, visit: www.FishSmartEatSmartNJ.org
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- Dolores Umbridge: "Why have you got all these letters, Mr Potter?"
- Harry Potter: "People have written to me because I gave an interview. About what happened to me last June."
- Dolores Umbridge: "An interview? What do you mean?"
- Harry Potter: "It means that someone asked me questions and I answered them-"
- Dolores Umbridge: "When did you do this?"
- Harry Potter: "Last Hogsmeade weekend."
- Dolores Umbridge: "There will be no more Hogsmeade trips for you, Mr Potter."
- — Harry Potter and Dolores Umbridge talking about the interview[src]
HARRY POTTER SPEAKS OUT AT LAST: THE TRUTH ABOUT HE-WHO-MUST-NOT-BE-NAMED AND THE NIGHT I SAW HIM RETURN was an article regarding an interview granted to Rita Skeeter from Harry Potter on February 14, 1996 during a Hogsmeade weekend. The main topic of the interview was the story that Harry had to tell the world about the return of Lord Voldemort.
After the return of Lord Voldemort in 1995, both Harry Potter and Albus Dumbledore were victims of a campaign from the Ministry of Magic to discredit them. The then Minister for Magic, Cornelius Fudge, installed a series of Educational Decrees for its influence at Hogwarts as he believed that Dumbledore was forming an army with students to overthrow the Ministry. For that reason, he named Dolores Umbridge as a Professor of Defence Against the Dark Arts, to have a spy in the school, and soon gave her more freedom, naming her Hogwarts High Inquisitor. Umbridge did the impossible to deny the release of Harry over to Lord Voldemort had returned and claimed that Cedric Diggory's death was a terrible accident. She punished Harry several times because he wanted everyone in the school and in the wizarding world knew the truth.
Knowing that the Ministry would not stop its campaign, Hermione Granger decided to remove out of her forced retirement to Rita Skeeter on Valentine's Day to make her a interview to Harry, who came to The Three Broomsticks after a disastrous date with Cho Chang in Madam Puddifoot's Tea Shop. In the interview Harry told everything to Rita, even gave the name of the Death Eaters who appeared in Little Hangleton graveyard before his duel with Lord Voldemort. Rita said that the Daily Prophet would not publish the interview as it was influenced by the Ministry, that's why Hermione has carried Luna Lovegood with them, and the interview would be published in the journal of her father, The Quibbler. When the interview was posted on March 23, 1996, Harry received a free copy of Xenophilius Lovegood and began to receive mail from different wizards and witches, some of whom told him that believed him, others said he was mad, and other said they did not believe he was crazy but they would not believe in the return of Lord Voldemort.
Seeing a commotion in the part of the Gryffindor table in the Great Hall where Harry was, Dolores Umbridge was over there and found out the interview, and thus established the Educational Decree Number 27, which said that whoever in possession of The Quibbler would be expelled, and banned tabi outputs to Harry to Hogsmeade.
As Hermione had predicted, the whole school read the interview, and some, like Seamus Finnigan, mailed it to relatives so they could read it. Due to the large value of Harry to give the interview, some teachers as Minerva McGonagall and Pomona Sprout gave him several house points for petty things.
The interview was republished in The Quibbler due to its success, and then when the Ministry had to accept that Voldemort had returned due to the duel between Albus Dumbledore and Lord Voldemort in the Ministry after the Battle of the Department of Mysteries, where Voldemort was seen by Fudge and a pair of Aurors, Xenophilius Lovegood sold the interview to the Daily Prophet to pay a holiday to Sweden alongside Luna to find the Crumple-Horned Snorkack, which published it as an unpublished interview saying that Harry was "the only innocent voice that never changed its position on the issue when everyone's back was turned."
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|Mass Effect: Evolution|
Cut off from reinforcements, Williams commanded a desperate guerrilla campaign from Shanxi's surface. However, the turians' brutal and efficient tactics made it impossible for the human forces to make any headway. Entire city blocks were destroyed by the turians just to exterminate small marine fire teams. Finally, Williams realized that the only way to save what was left of Shanxi's population was to surrender to the turians.
Shortly thereafter, Shanxi was liberated by the Alliance Second Fleet, but before a full-scale war could break out, the Citadel Council intervened and brokered a truce between humanity and the turians. General Williams went down in history as the only human commander to surrender to an alien force, and he fell into disgrace. While no official charges were brought up against him, Williams was drummed out of the military, and he eventually ended up working construction out in the colonies.
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Written by Ogechukwu Ezeajughi
NOW that the army of critics of Prof. Chinua Achebe’s new book: There was a Country are getting tired, it is appropriate to assess the psychology of these critics, their criticisms and the state of mind of the educated elite to the Nigerian project.
I have to own up from the on-set that I have neither seen nor read the book about which hundreds of thousands of both ugly and beautiful words, attacks and counter-attack have been heaped upon. As a resident in one of the numerous back yards of Nigeria where access to the basic necessities of life is a mirage and the desperate quest for daily sustenance, a consuming passion affair of such high intellectual magnitude may receive little or no attention. I, therefore, do not expect early access to the book. Our counterparts, who constitute the diminishing reading public resident in Abuja, Lagos and Port Harcourt, might have read the work. You can be sure that by the time some of us lay hands on the book, one would be quarreling with his vendor about whether what one is having in his hand is the original copy from Heinemann (assumed publisher) or pirated copy from the enemies of copyright owners.
Written words are probably the most criticised of the ‘inventions’ of man. Imagine the mountain of criticisms that have been made on Karl Marx’s The Communist Manifesto, Thomas Khun’s The Structure of the Scientific Revolution or Rashdie’s Satanic Verses. Even Chief Obafemi Awolowo reviled the forty-nine wise men that framed the 1979 Constitution and their product for having spent two years copying what took him six months to write. For the uniformed, the admirable chief was saying that the Constitution Drafting Committee headed by the late legal icon, Chief Rotimi Williams, copied or plagiarised his book: Thoughts on the Nigerian Constitution.
I am an ardent admirer of Achebe as an intellectual prodigy and Africa’s gift to the world that compares with established masters of English language and literature. I suspect you also admire him for his hard work. But certainly, I have also been a victim of his intellectual bravado whereby he cajoled Heineman into withdrawing the publishing right already given to translate Things Fall Apart, his magnum opus, into Igbo after the work has been rendered as Ihe Agbasaa by a publishing company in which I have financial interests.
From my reading of excerpts from There was a Country, Achebe has not said anything new on Biafra and Chief Awolowo’s place in that dirty interregnum on Nigerian history that has not been written between 1967 and 2012. And the literature on the subject is quite high. If scholars still write and reinterpret American Civil War, which occurred more than 200 years ago, Achebe has the right as a participant in the Biafra project, to write his recollections on such a recent event. The Constitution of the Federal Republic of Nigeria guarantees him safe landing. And the platform is also safe for Ebenezer Babatope, an ardent Awoist, Femi Fani-Kayode, an emergency Awoist, and others.
It is to my mind, a good development that Achebe has written again at the age of 82. A leopard will never change its spots. And as usual, he has provoked the kind of reactions that his works have always generated. But any person that has got some sinews of Nigerianess in him should be worried that mere exhibition of such old data from a personal perspective would generate such huge ethnocentric invectives. It shows that the Nigerian intelligentia is irredeemably lost. Rather than being worried that the Cocoa House, architectural symbol of Awoism has been in decay; rather than being worried that no other stadium has been built in the Western Region after Liberty Stadium, Babatope and others are worried about data that Chief Awolowo acknowledged to be its author before his death. In Anambra State, I am worried that the only state-sponsored functional library is the one at Onitsha built by Dr. Michael Okpara, a political contemporary of Chief Awolowo, but commissioned by Chief Chukwuemeka Odumegwu-Ojukwu in 1967. I am worried that in 2002, Governor Chinwoke Mbadinuju claimed he had built a state-of-the-art stadium at Awka when the nearest one to Anambra State is the Nnamdi Azikiwe Stadium at Enugu. I am worried that while Biafra, which is the subject of discussion, successfully operated two International Airports at Uga and Uli, Enugu Airport inherited from the Eastern Region has degenerated so hopelessly that sometime ago, the Sam Mbakwe Airport at Owerri built through community effort in 1980, has been the saving grace for air travelers in the entire Igbo region. I am worried that Gen. Yakubu Gowon’s own state, Plateau, is an isolated illustration of a failed ‘state’ where life has been short and brutish, forty two years after his so-called war to keep Nigeria one. I am worried that while Biafran scientists refined their own petroleum, invented ‘shore batteries’, self propelled bombs (ogbunigwe) etc and sustained the struggle for self-determination for three long years, today, Nigeria cannot satisfy the petroleum needs of its population.
For some of these writers to heap insult on Achebe and charge the atmosphere with anti-Igbo sentiments and ethnocentrism seems to be a continued portrayal of Nigeria as the ‘mistake of 1914’, which one would expect the Civil War to have corrected. I neither twit nor blog but I am informed that one blogger suggested that Things Fall Apart be banned in schools after he had exhausted his gangrene of tribalism on the Igbo. The corrective intendment of the National Youth Service Corps (NYSC) on the intellectual windsowers, whose primary and secondary allegiance has been to their tribe, is still lost as evident from anti-Achebe writings.
The Yoruba no doubt rightly hold Chief Awolowo in high esteem on account of his seminal works that started with the construction of Yoruba unity from the time he founded Egbe Omo Oduduwa through massive social and economic development efforts in the old Western Region. But for the attackers of Achebe to allude sainthood to Awolowo is to emulate a man who through the intrigues of cross-carpeting in 1956, elevated ethnicism to a standard policy. Achebe merely pointed to the Yoruba house with his right hand; he did not use his left.
The defenders of Achebe from the ‘East from whence I come’ have as usual fought back to prevent their kinsman from intellectual annihilation. The defence line is quite long – from both sides of the Niger shoreline to the littoral front of Igwocha (Port Harcourt). I doubt if I have come across any Yoruba writer that has called for a truce. From the Igbo side at least, I have read Dr. Anthony Nwaezeigwe simmering along that line. Prof. ABC. Nwosu’s detailed expose, which I suspect are excerpts from a forthcoming book on the same subject ‘I Horatio’ is authoritative and detribalised. We are waiting for I Horatio hoping that its production will not be encumbered with the mentality of publishing abroad.
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Robert Pollack, biology professor and the director of the Earth Institute’s Center for the Study of Science and Religion, sums up his academic interests on the biology department’s Web site this way: “To reconsider the large question—is the natural normative?—from both scientific and religious perspectives at once.” Pollack also holds positions as a lecturer at the Columbia University Center for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (since 1998), and an adjunct Professor for Science and Religion at Union Theological Seminary (since 2002). In 2011, he will become the director of the University Seminars at Columbia.
After he served as the 11th dean of Columbia College (1982-89), Pollack wrote his first book, Signs of Life: the language and meaning of DNA, and then decided to cede his role as an NIH-funded researcher in order to pursue questions that lie at the junction of what he terms “the unknown and the unknowable.” He writes, “I discovered the great need, interest, and yearning of people working out of religious commitment for facts about the natural world presented in an unthreatening way.”
With initial time-limited startup funding from the Office of the Provost, Pollack founded the Center for Science and Religion in 2000. Soon thereafter, Jeffrey D. Sachs came to Columbia and began to expand the reach of the Earth Institute. Pollack and Sachs agreed that the Earth Institute would be a suitable home for the CSSR. According to Pollack, “It became clear to us both that the obligations of global sustainable development were as much an ethical and moral obligation as a political or scientific one.”
Today Pollack shares the tasks of CSSR director with Cynthia Peabody. In lecture series, symposia, classes, and collaborations with community groups and colleagues in many religious traditions, Pollack and his CSSR associates, along with scientists whom they invite from other centers within the Earth Institute, have begun to wrestle with issues around sustainability and its ethical underpinnings. Pollack is interested in exploring, among other areas, people’s resistance to refraining from activities that are bad for the planet. Why, if everyone believes the reports of the environmental effects of global industrialization and consumption, are people not abandoning practices that they know are bound to have catastrophic consequences? According to Pollack, “The easy solution isn’t doable. It isn’t doable, not because of ignorance, but because the facts are so terrifying that people try to avoid confronting the reality.”
He goes on to write, “Among the people who stably, reproducibly have the strength to confront this moral problem of our responsibility to the rest of the world are religious people. It’s not that scientists don’t care, but it is difficult for them to confront the problem. The religious path to that confrontation turns out, in my experience, to be a very useful thing to understand and most scientists don’t understand the religious path.”
In 2009, Pollack and his wife, Amy, an artist and a farmer, became the first faculty advisors to GreenBorough, a Columbia College Special Interest Community in which sophomores, juniors and seniors with a common interest in environmental issues live together and explore their shared interest through programming. The mission of the GreenBorough Special Interest Community is “to establish a community of students to develop creative and practical ways to reduce their impact on the environment and increase campus awareness of environmental issues by example and education.”
Pollack’s style of perpetual inquiry and conversation seems particularly well suited to the role of an advisor to a Special Interest Community. With the establishment of the new undergraduate major in sustainable development, which was developed by Columbia College and the School of General Studies in conjunction with the Earth Institute, Pollack is also working with students, serving as an academic advisor to a group of ten undergraduates. He plans to host informal monthly group meetings with his advisees in an attempt to build a community with them, a unique format for this kind of interaction.
Pollack has been a professor of biological sciences at Columbia since 1978. He received the Alexander Hamilton Medal from Columbia University, the Gershom Mendes Seixas Award from the Columbia/Barnard Hillel, and held a Guggenheim Fellowship. He presented the Schoff Lectures at Columbia in 1998, which led to his third book, The Faith of Biology and the Biology of Faith. He received a B.A. in physics from Columbia College in 1961, and holds a Ph.D. in biology from Brandeis University. He has been a research scientist at the Weizmann Institute of Science, a senior scientist at Cold Spring Harbor Laboratory, an assistant professor of pathology at NYU Medical Center and an associate professor of microbiology at the State University of New York at Stony Brook. | <urn:uuid:109ba7e8-c123-4c4c-a1dd-b5ec3d8b5ccb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.earthinstitute.columbia.edu/articles/view/2738 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00056-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963468 | 1,017 | 2 | 2 |
This Grade 1, 16th century half-timbered hall is one of the north-west’s most important buildings.
Visitors can enjoy displays of 17th and early 18th century furniture, objects and artefacts, learn more about the life and work of Samuel Crompton and discover all about life in Stuart and Tudor times.The rooms have been accurately refurbished to retain their homely atmosphere.
Hall i’ th’ Wood Museum started life as a rich merchant’s home during the mid-17th century. Years later the building was split into several rented dwellings and, whilst living in one of these with his family, Samuel Crompton famously invented the Spinning Mule in 1779.
The mule went on to be one of the most significant spinning machines used by the textile industry. The house and grounds were presented to the people of Bolton in memory of Samuel Crompton and opened to the public as a museum in 1902.
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A report published Wednesday by an industry group found that hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, for oil and natural gas in Texas’ Barnett shale formation produced $11.8 billion each year and created more than 107,000 permanent jobs.
The report, entitled “An Energy Revolution: 35 Years of Fracking in the Barnett Shale,” highlights the scale of the fracking boom in Texas. The geologic formation around the Barnett Shale has used fracking to produce more than 15 trillion cubic feet of natural gas since 2003, enough to heat 225 million homes for one year. Nearly two-thirds of U.S. natural gas production currently comes from fracking, up from just one percent in 2000, according to the report.
The report was written by the pro-industry group North Texans for Natural Gas. The group’s website claims that it has more than 150,000 supporters from all over North Texas.
“The United States is in the midst of an energy revolution,” states the report’s executive summary. “Few experts saw this transformation coming, and it was made possible by the use of hydraulic fracturing (fracking) and horizontal drilling, which allowed oil and natural gas to be unlocked from tight rock (shale) formations. This revolution first began in North Texas 35 years ago, with the Barnett Shale being the birthplace of modern-day fracking.”
Fracking is the process of using a high-pressure water mixture to release natural gas or oil from rock, unlocking reserves that were previously economically unfeasible to access. The use of this process has triggered an oil and natural gas boom, which allowed the U.S. to pass Russia as the world’s largest producer of both oil and natural gas.
The study found that lower natural gas prices from fracking saved the average Texan $432 in energy and home heating costs in Texas between 2007 and 2013. A similar report published early last month by the federal Energy Information Administration (EIA) found that cheap oil and natural gas provided by fracking lowered the annual cost of living for the average American by almost $750. | <urn:uuid:7e0221c4-ce91-455c-87d4-25d97f9f5c7f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://climatechangedispatch.com/report-fracking-in-texas-created-12-billion-and-100k-new-jobs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00461-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951735 | 432 | 2.875 | 3 |
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A new research has found that social networking programmes designed to help people lose weight could play a role in the global fight against obesity.
Researchers of the Imperial College London compiled data from 12 researches spread across the US, Europe, East Asia and Australia which trialled social networking services for weight loss, involving as many as 1,884 participants. The findings showed that people who used these services achieved a collective decrease in body mass index (BMI) by a value of 0.64, which the researchers describe as modest but significant.
Lead study author Dr. Hutan Ashrafian, from the department of surgery and cancer at Imperial College London said, "One advantage of using social media is that it offers the potential to be much more cost-effective and practical for day-to-day use when compared to traditional approaches."
"It is not the only solution to the obesity epidemic but it should be introduced as an element of every country's counter obesity strategy," the author noted.
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November 27, 2018
THE GEORGIA CAPITOL DEVOTIONAL - 27 November 2018
Psalm 138 teaches the importance of expressing thanksgiving in praise. Anyone can pray to the god of their imagining but they cannot give praise. Paganism conveys thoughts concerning the world but not any thanksgiving. For the believer, praise and prayer should be a spiritual discipline. The psalmist’s praise arose from a thankful heart. Psalm 138 describes how to have a thankful heart for God.
Walking “in the midst of trouble” should not prevent the believer’s praise (vv. 1-3); indeed, they can help one pray and praise even more. In spite of the good and bad in a transient world, the believer can say, “I will give You thanks with all my heart.” Such adoration is volitional. The love of God towards his people is the most basic reason for giving thanks. While people may recognize other “gods,” the psalmist gave thanks to the one true, living God. The word “thank” is derived from the Latin word tongēre, and the root tong means “think,” thus the original manner for expressing thanks to someone else was to think what they have done for you. Thanksgiving for the believer arises from thinking with regard to God’s blessings.
Needing help for making decisions, the believer calls upon God and has the assurance that He will make one “bold with strength.” Believers are not dependent on self for power; rather, it is God who gives strength to one’s soul. Nothing is more pleasing to God than for his people to depend upon Him, and to recognize that as soon as we call to the Lord in prayer, He does answer.
Therefore, exalt God for all his ways (vv. 4-5). Elected officials are public servants; they speak in public. Similarly, when giving thanks to God, do so publicly with others. Take opportunities in public to give praise to God. Giving thanks to God in public demonstrates one is willing to exhibit thankfulness in appropriate proportion to the blessings and gifts received from the Lord (cf. Matt 10:32).
Difficulties will arise (Ps 138:6-7), yet the believer depends upon God in those circumstances. Psalm 23:4 affirms, “Even though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I fear no evil, for You are with me; Your rod and Your staff, they comfort me.” Whatever purposes God has for his people will be accomplished and thus we may legitimately feel invincible within the Lord’s will.
Know that God will fulfil his purposes for you because his lovingkindness is everlasting and He does not forsake the works of his hands (138:8). Faith is unwavering when trusting in the overruling sovereignty of God. No matter what others may do, God’s eternal purposes for your life will be accomplished. Ephesians 2:10 declares that believers are God’s “workmanship, created in Christ Jesus for good works.” God will perfect his plans for you and make you a better person in the process (cf. Phil 2:12-13). Praise arises from a thankful heart! Therefore, live with a bold confidence always giving thanks to the sovereign God whose love is everlasting toward his people and who overrules all until his divinely appointed purposes are fulfilled.
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- Research article
- Open Access
Assessment of sagittal spinopelvic alignment in asymptomatic Chinese juveniles and adolescents: a large cohort study and comparative meta-analysis
Journal of Orthopaedic Surgery and Research volume 16, Article number: 656 (2021)
Retrospective study and comparative meta-analysis.
To document the sagittal spinopelvic alignment in a large cohort study in asymptomatic Chinese juveniles and adolescents, and to explore whether these parameters were different from various regions using meta-analysis.
Medical records of 656 asymptomatic Chinese juveniles and adolescents were reviewed, whose mean age was 13.14 ± 3.41 years old, including 254 male and 402 female volunteers. Demographic and lateral radiological parameters were evaluated. Furthermore, a systematic online search was performed to identify eligible studies. Weight mean difference (WMD) with 95% confidence interval (CI) were used to evaluate whether these sagittal parameters were different from various regions.
The mean value of sagittal spinopelvic alignment in this study was calculated and analyzed respectively. Significant differences of PI (34.20 ± 4.00 vs. 43.18 ± 7.12, P < 0.001) and PT (3.99 ± 6.04 vs. 8.42 ± 7.08, P < 0.001) were found between juveniles and adolescents. A total of 17 studies were recruited for meta-analysis. For juvenile populations, TK, PI and SS of Caucasians were significantly larger than those of our study (all P < 0.001). As for adolescent populations, PI (P = 0.017), TK (P = 0.017) and SS (P < 0.001) of Caucasians was found to be greater when compared with that of our study. All in all, TK, PI and SS in Chinese pre-adult populations were significantly smaller than those populations in Caucasian regions (all P < 0.001).
Our study was the first large-scale study that reported the mean values of sagittal parameters in asymptomatic Chinese juveniles and adolescents. There were significant differences in TK, PI and SS between our study and other previous reported populations, which reminded us for using specific mean values in different populations when restoring a relatively normal sagittal spinopelvic balance in spinal deformity.
Sagittal alignment of the spine and pelvis is getting an increasing recognition of importance since the association between sagittal alignment and HRQoL (Health of Related Quality of Life) has been verified in many studies [1,2,3]. Therefore, how to restore the sagittal alignment is an important aspect to consider in the evaluation and treatment of spinal pathologies .
Assessments of normal mean values of sagittal parameters in juveniles and adolescents are the key to the restoration of sagittal alignment in correction surgery. However, although the normal mean values of sagittal parameters in juveniles and adolescents have been reported in many studies, the results were conflicting [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20]. In addition, it has been verified that sagittal spinopelvic parameters vary in various ethnicities. For example, the normal mean value of TK (Thoracic kyphosis), LL (lumbar lordosis), PI (pelvic incidence), PT (Pelvic tilt) and SS (sacrum slope) in Chinese adolescents reported by Qiu et al. were 20.8°, 49.3°, 44.6°, 11.3° and 33.3°, respectively, which was consistent with Wang et al.’s and Zhu et al.’s study . However, these sagittal parameters in Caucasians were significantly greater than those in Chinese populations, with TK of 28°, LL of 55°, PT of 8° and SS of 37°. Measured postural angles are variables that can be measured to quantify posture. Like spinopelvic parameters, measured postural angles also vary differently in various countries and ethnicitie . In addition to the various parameters in different populations, sagittal spinopelvic parameters also play important roles in growth and development of spine and pelvis. Diebo et al.’s study suggested that compensation for sagittal was ethnicity dependent and these different compensatory mechanisms might affect the sagittal spinopelvic alignment in various ethnicities. Spinopelvic sagittal alignment and parameters are getting increasing recognition of importance in different ethnicities since patient-specific and ethnicity-specific variation in sagittal spinal contour leads to challenges in characterization and quantification of sagittal spinal deformity in various populations , which should be considered when evaluating the sagittal plane and surgical correction strategies . Obviously, it is unreasonable to use the mean values of Caucasian populations in our Chinese populations.
Therefore, the objective of this study is to document the sagittal spinopelvic alignment in a large cohort study in asymptomatic Chinese juveniles and adolescents. Meta-analysis was also performed to explore whether these parameters were different in various ethnicities.
Materials and methods
A total of 656 asymptomatic young volunteers were included in this retrospective study, who visited the outpatient clinic of our hospital for physical examination from January 2013 to August 2018 and met the inclusion and exclusion criteria. The inclusion criteria were as follows: 1). Age ≤ 18 year; 2). With compete whole spine standing lateral X-ray film; 3). No scoliosis or vertebra growth malformation. The exclusion criteria were as follows: 1). Age > 18 year; 2). Patients were diagnosed as any kind of spine deformity; 3). Patients with neck and back pain, tumours or infections, or those who had hip, knee, and/or ankle abnormalities. This study was approved by the Institutional Review Board of the hospital, and the patients in our study provided written informed consent for the study.
Demographic data including sex and age were recorded. Lateral radiograph of whole spine standing lateral X-ray film was carried out while maintaining the neck and head in neutral relaxed position to largely eliminate the impacts of postural angles on measurements of spinopelvic parameters. Radiographic parameters were measured by three individual surgeons using Surgimap software, including Risser sign, TK (thoracic kyphosis, cobb angle between the upper endplate of T4 vertebra and the lower endplate of T12 vertebra), LL (lumbar lordosis, cobb angle between the upper endplate of L1 vertebra and the lower endplate of S1 vertebra), TLJA (thoracolumbar junctional angle, cobb angle between the upper endplate of T10 vertebra and the lower endplate of L2 vertebra), SS (sacrum slope, the angle between the horizontal and the sacral plate), PT (pelvic tilt, the angle between the vertical and the line through the midpoint of the sacral plate to femoral heads axis), and PI (pelvic incidence, angle subtended by a perpendicular from the upper endplate of S1 and a line connecting the center of the femoral head to the center of the upper endplate of S1), SVA (sagittal vertical axis, the horizontal offset from the posterosuperior corner of S1 to the vertebral body of C7). PI-LL was calculated by relative PI value minus LL value. The illustrations of sagittal parameters were shown in Fig. 1.
According to the age, asymptomatic young volunteers were divided into two groups: juvenile group (4 < age ≤ 9 years, n = 98) and adolescents (10 < age ≤ 18 years, n = 558), and sagittal parameters were compared between two groups.
Data sources and searches
A systematic online search using PubMed, EMBASE, Web of Science, the Cochrane Library, and China WeiPu Library was performed to identify eligible studies investigating the mean values of sagittal parameters in pre-adulthood populations. The searching strategies were used as follows: (Child OR Children OR Juvenile) OR (Adolescents OR Adolescence) OR (Teens OR Teenager OR Youth) AND (Sagittal). Then, stepwise screening was performed by two authors according to the inclusion and exclusion criteria. There was no limit of language restrictions in the searching progress. Further searches of eligible studies were conducted by searching the reference lists of the selected studies, reviews, or comments.
The inclusion criteria of recruited studies in our meta-analysis were as follows: 1). case–control or cohort studies; 2). concerned with sagittal parameters of child or adolescent; 3). studies with sufficient data. 4). all the studies should report the ethnicities of their study population.
Quality assessment and data extraction
Newcastle Ottawa Quality Assessment Scale (NOQAS) was used to assess the quality of all studies. Only studies with a score above 4 were included.
Valuable data from the eligible studies were extracted by two authors, and a consensus was reached by discussion. General characteristics and mean values of sagittal parameters were collected and analyzed.
Statistical analysis was performed using SPSS 19.0 statistics software (SPSS Inc, Chicago, IL). Descriptive statistics were listed in the form of mean ± standard deviation (SD). Radiographic sagittal parameters for juvenile and adolescent group were compared using independent samples t test.
Weight mean difference (WMD) with 95%CI was used to explore the pooled results of sagittal parameters. Sub-group analyses were also performed according to ethnicity rather than the institutions where these study populations received their examinations. Furthermore, volunteers were also divided into two groups according to the age, and meta-analyses were performed in juveniles and adolescents, respectively. The heterogeneity of included studies was examined by a chi-squared-based Q statistical test and quantified by I2 metric value. If I2 value was more than 50% or P < 0.10, WMD were pooled by the random effect model; otherwise, the fixed effect model was used. Sensitivity analysis was performed to assess the impact of each study on the combined effect of the present meta-analysis. Publication bias was also performed to detect publication bias existed in this study.
Revman 5.3 software was employed and a P < 0.05 was considered as statistically significant.
Assessment of sagittal spinopelvic alignment
A total of 656 asymptomatic Chinese juveniles (n = 98) and adolescents (n = 558) were recruited in study. The mean age of the asymptomatic volunteers was 13.14 ± 3.41 years old, including 254 male and 402 female volunteers. The mean values of all the spinopelvic parameters were listed in Table 1. Risser sign in adolescents was significantly greater than that in juveniles (P < 0.001); and we also found significant differences of PI (34.20 ± 4.00 vs. 43.18 ± 7.12, P < 0.001) and PT (3.99 ± 6.04 vs. 8.42 ± 7.08, P < 0.001) between juveniles and adolescents. However, no significant differences of TK, TLJA, LL, SS, PI-LL and SVA were observed between these two groups (all P > 0.05, Table 1).
Study selection and characteristics
A total of 17 studies [4,5,6,7,8,9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20] were finally recruited in our study, with 6 studies reported in Asian populations [4,5,6,7,8,9] and 11 studies reported in Caucasians populations [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18,19,20]. The selection process was shown in Fig. 2. The characteristics of these studies were shown in Table 2.
Meta-analysis of sagittal parameters in juveniles
3 studies [10, 11, 13] reported TK, LL, PI, PT and SS in juveniles, and these studies were performed in Caucasians. To our knowledge, no study has been performed to explore the normal values of sagittal parameters in asymptomatic Chinese juveniles and our study was the first large-scale research. Therefore, we used our results mentioned above to detect whether there was significant difference of sagittal parameters between Chinese and Caucasian juveniles. Our meta-analysis showed that TK, PI and SS were significant larger in Caucasians populations than those in our study, while we did not find significant differences in LL and PT between these two groups (all P > 0.05, Table4).
Meta-analysis of sagittal parameters in adolescents
A total of 15 studies [4,5,6,7, 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18, 20] reported the sagittal parameters in adolescents, among which 5 studies [4,5,6,7, 9] were performed in Asian populations, and other 10 studies [10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18, 20] were performed in Caucasian populations. Combined with our results, the meta-analysis showed that there was significant difference in TK between our populations and other Asian populations; and TK in Caucasians was significantly greater than that in our study. LL reported in our study was significantly greater than that reported in other Asian populations; however, we did not find significant difference in LL between our results and Caucasians. PI was also found to be greater in Caucasians while no significant difference was observed our results and other Asian populations. As to PT, the mean value reported in our study was similar with that reported in other Asian populations and Caucasian populations. SS in Caucasians was significantly greater than that reported in our study, while no significant difference was observed between our study and other Asian populations. All the data were shown in Table 4, Figs. 3 and 4.
Meta-analysis of sagittal parameters in pre-adults
4 studies [8, 10, 11, 19] reported sagittal parameters in pre-adults whose authors didn’t report the age range of volunteers. Therefore, it was difficult to classify these populations into juvenile or adolescent group. Combined with our results, our study showed that TK and PT in our study were significantly smaller than those in other Asian pre-adults, respectively. However, no significant difference was observed in SS between our cohort group and other Asian pre-adults. No significant data could be used to perform whether there would be difference in LL and PI between our study and other Asian pre-adults. Compared with Caucasian pre-adults, TK, PI and SS in our study were significant smaller (all P < 0.001), while no significant difference was observed in LL and PT (all P > 0.05). All the data were shown in Table 4.
Sensitivity analysis and publication bias
We performed a leave-one-out analysis to estimate the sensitivity of our study and found that any single study could be omitted without causing any significant effect on the overall statistical significance, indicating that the results of our meta-analysis were stable. Publication bias was also performed, and we did not find significant publication bias in this study.
To our knowledge, our study was the first large-scale cohort study that reported the mean values of sagittal parameters in asymptomatic Chinese juveniles and adolescents (n = 656). In addition, no studies have been performed to document the mean values of sagittal parameters in Asian juveniles, which was crucial to the correction of sagittal alignment in JIS.
Our study was also the first study that reported the norms of sagittal parameters including TK, TLJA, LL, PI, PT, SS, PI-LL and SVA in asymptomatic Chinese juveniles. The mean values of some parameters were inconsistent with previous studies that performed in Caucasian populations [10, 11, 13]. We attributed some reasons to this difference: first, ethnicity might be an important contributor that have a great impact on the skeletal growth and people’s spinopelvic alignment and sagittal parameter [11, 26,27,28]. In addition to ethnicity, the growth, development and posture of spine and pelvis was also associated with other factors, such as the coordination between spine, pelvis and lower limbs , biomechanical factors like walking and life style like prolonged static sitting [31, 32]. Furthermore, our meta-analysis showed that the Caucasian populations tended to have larger PI and SS than Chinese populations, further verifying our previous results. It was important to find out the norm value of sagittal parameters in Chinese populations, rather than using the norm value of other populations when we make surgical planning. Besides, the sample size, measurement errors and the differences of evaluation of sagittal parameters might also contribute to the difference between our study and other studies.
Many studies [4,5,6,7, 9,10,11,12,13,14,15,16,17,18, 20] have been performed to explore the normal values of sagittal parameters in healthy asymptomatic adolescents with various ethnicities; however, the sample size of these studies was relatively small. Furthermore, although sagittal parameters had been reported in previous studies [10, 11], these normal values could be only used in Canada populations rather than Chinese populations. Although a meta-analysis was performed by Pasha et al. ; however, this study aimed to determine the differences in sagittal spinopelvic parameters between adolescent idiopathic scoliosis (AIS) and non-scoliotic controls. In their study, 18 control studies were included, among which, 14 studies were searched out by our searching strategies and the other 4 studies [21, 34,35,36] were excluded by our inclusion criteria. In addition, sub-group analysis was not performed by ethnicity in their study, which had great influences on sagittal spinopelvic parameters and might cause biases in their results.
A total of 558 asymptomatic Chinese adolescents were recruited in our study. Independent samples t test showed that Risser sign, PI and PT were significantly larger in adolescents than those in juveniles, suggesting that skeletal tissues grew and pelvis developed with aging, and pelvis also rotated during the growth to keep the whole sagittal alignment balanced. However, TK, TLJA and LL were not significantly different between juveniles and adolescents, suggesting that spine curves including thoracic kyphosis and lumbar lordosis tended to development maturely in juvenile periods, and less development would occur in adolescent periods. There was no significant difference in PI-LL and SVA between juveniles and adolescents, further indicating the coordinate role of these sagittal parameters in keeping the sagittal balance.
Compared with other Asian adolescent populations [4,5,6,7, 9], TK and LL in our study were significantly larger. The selection of study populations, measurement errors and different measurement methods might contribute to these differences. We did not find significant difference in PI, PT and SS between our study and other Asian adolescent populations [4,5,6,7, 9], suggesting that pelvis morphology might be similar in Chinese populations and Japanese populations. Furthermore, PI and SS were significant larger in Caucasian population than those in our study, suggesting that Caucasians tended to have larger pelvis morphology and their pelvis might have larger compensation ability to keep sagittal balance. Larger TK was also observed in Caucasian adolescents, indicating that Caucasian populations tended to have larger spine curves and pelvis, which could be classified in Type II sagittal classification proposed by our team .
Classification into juvenile and adolescent groups were not performed in some studies [8, 10, 11, 19], and their populations were pre-adults with age < 18 years. We also performed meta-analysis to detect whether these parameters differed differently in pre-adults. The results showed that TK, PI and SS were significantly larger in Caucasians than those in our study, which was consistent with the results in adolescents, further verifying the difference of spine and pelvis morphology between various ethnicities.
Although we have documented the normal values of sagittal alignment in a larger-scale cohort study, some limitations of this study need to be addressed. First, the sample size of juveniles was relatively small compared with adolescent. Second, all the patients recruited in our study were outpatients of a single center. Since multiple minority nationalities such as Bai ethnic minority, Bouyei ethnic minority and Dai ethnic minority exist in China, the conclusion drawn from the study may not be applicable to the Chinese general population. Besides, due to the restriction policy of medical cost, postural angles measured in photogrammetry were not measured and analyzed in this study, which was another limitation. Moreover, on account of little access to BMI, this postural factor was not considered in our study. And because of no information of standardized for the subjects' posture in the included studies, bias may be caused in the comparative results. Therefore, multicenter studies with multiple minority nationalities and measured postural angles should be performed.
Our study was the first large-scale study that reported the mean values of sagittal parameters in asymptomatic Chinese juveniles and adolescents. Our study indicated that there were significant differences in some parameters between Asian populations and Caucasians, which remind us for using specific mean values in different populations when we restored a relatively normal sagittal spinopelvic balance in spinal deformity.
Availability of data and materials
The data that support the findings of this study are available from Changhai Hospital, China but restrictions apply to the availability of these data, which were used under license for the current study, and so are not publicly available. Data are however available from the authors upon reasonable request and with permission of Changhai Hospital, China.
Weight mean difference
Health of Related Quality of Life
The center sacral vertical line
Thoracolumbar junctional angle
Sagittal vertical axis
Calculation by relative PI value minus LL value
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Heat is hardest on dogs with black coats and squished-in faces, like pugs, Allison said. Providing them with sprinklers or kiddie wading pools helps.
Person and Allison said heat radiating off pavement or asphalt can burn the feet of toddler and dogs. Keep shoes on your kids and dogs on the grass.
"Hot truck beds can burn dogs' feet too," Allison said. "A good rule of thumb is if something is too hot for your hand, or to sit on, it's too hot for your dog."
If you need to run errands in the middle of the day, leave dogs at home and never, ever leave children in the car -- even for just a minute or two.
"Even with the windows rolled down, temperatures inside a vehicle can soar to 150 degrees in minutes, hot enough to kill a pet or small child," Person said.
"A dog's brain begins to cook at 106 degrees," Allison said.
Doug Hagedorn, coordinator for the Richland Parks and Recreation Department, said he has seen a huge increase in the number of people in the parks.
"The river, the pools, they're packed," Hagedorn said. "People who've been waiting for it to heat up so they could swim and get wet, now's their chance."
The shelves at Big Lots in Richland, where cases of water were stacked high last week, are looking bare, said Tim Mitchell, store manager.
"Fans, pools, water, anything swim-related, we'll probably be out of them before the Fourth of July," he said.
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In this exercise, you will respond to the following questions about constructive feedback.
- Which of the following is false:
- Parroting tells the speaker the words that were heard.
- Paraphrasing tells the speaker the words were understood.
- Parroting is better than paraphrasing.
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The world around us looks so real, and to proclaim that it is only an illusion seems sheer nonsense. How can this be true?
It is possible to accept this idea.
Do you agree that the body is some sort of an extraordinary machine, made up of a combination of various materials, but functioning as a unit?
Can you say confidently that you are the body? Are you the hair that is cut and thrown away when you go to the hairdresser? Are you, your fingers nails, nose, legs or thighs?
The body changes through the years, do you really feel that you are this changing form?
Many thoughts pass through the mind every day. Can you say that you are any one of these thoughts? They are like a movie that plays in front of your eyes. Do you remember what you thought one hour ago? Yesterday? How can these thoughts be the real you if they always come and go? You think them, but you are not them.
The same thing goes for your feelings. What do you think is more correct to say, “I am angry”, “I am sad”, “I am happy” or “I am letting feelings of anger, sadness or happiness to occupy my consciousness for a while”? As with thoughts, feelings and emotions pass through you, they come and they go. You cannot be your feelings, which constantly change.
Who are you?
After reading the above words, do you still believe that you are the body, the feeling and the thoughts, or something beyond them?
To know who you really are, you have to take your awareness beyond the mind. The answer comes when you are able to transcend your mind. Spiritual traditions and experience say that you are an inseparable part of the eternal, impersonal consciousness that created the world and infused life into everything, including this conglomeration of body, feelings and thoughts that you call “me”.
This homogeneous, indivisible, impersonal Consciousness manifests in and through everything. It is the life principle of the manifestation that you consider to be yourself. The manifestation, which is the combination of body, thoughts and feelings, is nothing without this life principle. This Life Principle – Consciousness, is the only real thing, and every manifestation is created by it, and therefore is dependent on it.
Can you become aware of this Consciousness? When you develop a certain degree of inner detachment and inner peace, you will be able to turn your attention within you, instead of turning it to the external world, and then you will become aware of the Consciousness that is beyond the mind.
Silence of the mind is the prerequisite for becoming aware of this Consciousness.
Only when the mind is silenced and there are no thoughts, you realize who you really are – the vast, eternal Consciousness.
Becoming aware of this Consciousness leads to enlightenment.
This is what yogis, saints and seekers on the spiritual path seek.
Through constant meditation, the mind is made quiet. Then, from deep inside, will rise great silence, peace, bliss and consciousness. Then, you will know who you really are. This is enlightenment.
The way to spiritual awakening is open for everyone.
Only attachment, and erroneous thoughts and concepts stand in the way. It can come suddenly, and it can come gradually. The funny thing is that you do not have to search for it, and you do not need to reach anywhere. All you have to do is dive within with a quiet mind, become aware of this inner, eternal underlying consciousness, and stay there.
Watching a movie without getting involved.
If you watch a movie, without getting involved with the story, the actors, and with emotions, you can still enjoy it. However, you don’t agitated by what happens in the movie. You know it is just a movie, the projection of light and color on a screen. After gaining inner peace and silence, and becoming aware of your real I, you see the world and live in it, but yet, at the same time, you understand that it is not real. This helps you stay calm and detached in all kinds of situations.
When you become spiritually awakened, the outside world will not affect your mind and moods. You may still need to work and interact with other people and the world around you, yet, you will do so while remaining detached, as if being outside of this world.
The mind and its thoughts create your world – the illusion you are living in.
Thoughts and imagination are creative, and therefore mold and affect your world. As your thoughts are, so is your world.
When you awaken to your real Consciousness, you will be able to master your mind and thoughts, and therefore, if required, be able to change your illusion – your world, through the creative power of your mind. By focusing your mind on the thoughts you choose, you can affect your “reality” accordingly.
You might say that after spiritual awakening you will be beyond the world’s illusion, and material things will not matter any more. This is true, but still, the illusion has to be lived. You have to eat, pay bills and take care of the body. It is true, you will approach these matters in a completely different way, but you will still need to take care of them. Even an enlightened master has to eat, drink and sleep.
Going beyond the mind, beyond the illusion of the world, puts a great power and responsibility in your hands, for then you have the power to affect the world. Your awakened consciousness is an immense power that can stimulate the spiritual awakening in others. As all Consciousness is one, calming down your mind, going beyond it, and becoming conscious of your real being, to some extent, affects the whole world.
Do you allow negative thoughts and emotions to control your mind and make you unhappy? Do you let other people's problems distress and agitate you? You can stop all this.
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The transition from youth to adulthood is often liberating, moving away from being told what to do by their elders. Hitting a milestone in which they are independent and in control to make their own life decisions. Simply put, the youth today are the leaders of tomorrow
Human biology means that our bodies will likely undergo a physical reaction whenever we try something new. A biological response causes us to feel nervous or even sense danger (fight or flight response). The more we do something, the more experienced we become and the less fearful we think of it. Young people will likely experience many things for the first time. They will typically confront each new experience using their instincts and what they have already been taught.
The lack of life experience means that those under 18 years of age will rely on their parents or guardians to make decisions concerning their daily lives and overall safety. In most countries, minors or those under age are under the protection and the sole responsibility of their guardians. Those with legal responsibility for their care will decide how they are brought up, where they live and how they are educated.
As individuals grow older and begin to understand their environment and the world around them, many may challenge or disagree with the views or how their parents or guardians live their lives. Most youths will likely experience a rebellious stage during their lifetime, typically during their teenage years. For most children or young adults, this stage of their life passes; however, it can result in rejection, homelessness, or worse for others.
During a child’s or teenager’s late teens, they will experience true independence. The right to vote, to serve their country or even to have consensual sex are all freedoms young adults will eventually experience.
Most of today’s youth will take what they have learnt from their family, environments and society. They take much of what they are taught and either accept, reject or improve their views, opinions and behaviours. They, in turn, will pass down their interpretations and ways of doing things to the next generations.
TAKING PRIDE IN YOU
AGES 0-4 YEARS
678 million or 26.1%
AGES 5-9 YEARS
664 million or 25.6%
AGES 10-14 YEARS
641 million or 24.7%
AGES 15-19 YEARS
612 million or 23.6%
1 in 3 or 2.6 billion
The first age group is typically from birth until a child starts formal education in most countries. The youngest age group of all youths and one that is most vulnerable, these infants rely on their parents or guardians to protect, feed, support and take care of all their needs. Babies and children within this age group will be in the early stages of their development. They typically start understanding and forming words as they develop their language skills. This group covers an age range from birth up until four years. Typically, children within this age range will:
- be in the early stages of their social and emotional development, as they start making sounds, mimicking words and talking, learning anything between 300 and 1,000 words
- double in size and quadruple in weight as they go from baby to preschooler
- begin developing hand-to-eye coordination, mastering skills such as crawling, sitting, walking and even using the toilet
- need a lot of sleep, often 12 hours or more, and will need good nutrition, routines and rituals to help keep them feeling secure and safe and aid their growth and development
- become more self-aware, will love to explore their environment, will recognise themselves in the mirror and becomes more expressive facially and with their emotions
Average LGBTQIA+ development
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- become more independent from their parents or guardians, learning empathy and the ability to see another person’s perspective
- further develop their social skills, integrating and working within social dynamics. Children of this age will also start experiencing peer pressure
- begin displaying a range of feelings and emotions, with the growing need for some privacy for their elders
- begin to form opinions based on what they have heard and will have a sense of right and wrong
- become more aware of the difference between the genders, and may begin to feel non-sexual attraction to others
Average LGBTQIA+ development
Any opinions passed down will influence a child’s perspective, resulting in some children teasing others who act differently from the perceived norm. Many LGBTQIA+ children start becoming aware that they feel different at this stage. However, they will often not know how to understand their thoughts and feelings at this stage.
For rural communities, countries traditionally more conservative, many views and opinions regarding the LGBTQIA+ community are based on stereotypes and misinformation. The lack of understanding can often lead to older generations passing down long-held views and opinions to children who may be confused about who they are.
Repeatedly being told or made to feel how they are thinking and feeling is wrong. Words hidden behind veiled threats that should the child act on these feelings in the future would likely result in them being disowned or rejected by those closest to them. All factors create conflict and confusion among young children.
2.6 billion or 33%
679.1 million or 26.2%
299.8 million or 11.6%
1.4 billion or 55.7%
158 million or 6.1%
13.1 million or 0.5%
- start to become more hormonal, with frequent mood swings, often struggling to handle their emotions and likely suffering from depression
- see accelerated periods of growth, where they will grow in height and where their weight may increase or fluctuate
- start becoming more independent, relying less on family and turning more to their friends and peers for support and guidance
- start becoming more sexually aware, feeling attraction towards others and begin to experience physical, sexual arousal
- continue improving their cognitive skills with problem solving and reasoning
Average LGBTQIA+ development
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- begin thinking about their future, about their long-term goals and objectives
- likely begin forming committed romantic relationships, including more intimate ones, physically and sexually
- become more independent, spend more time away from the family, move out and go off to college
- become more in control of their emotions, and the growth spurts that occurred during puberty will begin to slow
- become better at communicating and at reasoning, including being able to explain their choices, those good and bad
Average LGBTQIA+ development
EXCEPTIONAL PEOPLE MAKING HISTORY
Ultimately, teaching children more progressive subjects without resolving their parents’ concerns will expose more vulnerable children to negativity at a younger age. Likely, children will already be confused about how they think and feel, confronted by their parents’ views and beliefs much earlier than they might have had otherwise. Instead, it is important to address why parents are concerned and to educate them better.
Typically, the first question these parents raise is whether learning about or being exposed to LGBTQIA+ people will influence a child or cause confusion. The simple answer is no. LGBTQIA+ education is new, and many community rights and freedoms have only significantly improved over the past twenty years. So, was there no gay, bisexual or transgender people without this type of education? Again, the answer is no. If a child is confused and potentially gay, bisexual, transgender, or any other non-traditional gender or sexual identity, nothing or no one will change that. No one is to blame, and there is nothing wrong; the child is just made that way.
Some adults and even children might be curious or even experimenting sexually. Most will know early on in their lives that they think and feel differently from the so-called norm. It is not a sin, curse or blight; they are the same person that has always been. Instead, it is who they are attracted to or how they identify that has changed and nothing else.
LGBTQIA+ education is essential, but more from accepting who you are and how you feel and less from labels or defined gender roles. The more a parent or guardian resists, the harder it becomes for that child or adult to accept themselves, making their journey longer and more complex.
Not accepting who they are might make it a little harder for them in the future, but the youth are the priority, not how others think or act towards them. Simply put, LGBTQIA+ people cannot change who they are. Instead, the only thing they can learn is how to hide and suppress how they think and feel, effectively living an unhappy lie.
The second question is whether more youths identify as LGBTQIA+ than ever before. Over the past year, several news items, stories, and articles have reported that those who identify as millennials also identify as LGBTQIA+ in more significant numbers. Many see the increase as some form of LGBTQIA+ ideology, almost cult-like or as a trendy fad.
People fail to see that it is more likely that those born after the year 2000 have grown up in environments where they have the freedom to accept who they are and live without fear of persecution. With growing acceptance, understanding and progressive anti-discrimination laws, more people can be honest with themselves and everyone around them about their sexuality and gender identity.
Ultimately, there are not more than ever before. Instead, more people have the freedom and confidence to accept and be with whomever they wish without fear.
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The reasons for youth homelessness are typically due to: –
- Being rejected by their families, with 46% of homeless youths running away after rejection and 43% evicted from their family home due to their sexuality or gender expression
- Discrimination by private landlords and evictions from public housing due to their sexual orientation
- In a survey spanning 115 countries of the 3,340 young gay men interviewed, 24% had no stable housing
- LGBT youths, compared to heterosexual adolescents, are more likely to: –
- have a major depressive episode
- suffer from a posttraumatic stress disorder
- have suicidal tendencies
- become dependent on illegal substances such as cocaine, crack, or methamphetamines (Keuroghlian, Shtasel and Bassuk 2014)
Many vulnerable youths are forced to live in hostile environments and will likely face many difficulties. Many children face the rejection of their families and loved ones to homelessness, targeted by criminals while living on the streets. Ultimately, this leads to hopelessness and difficulty accepting who they are, causing many youths to take their own lives, let down by society.
The World Health Organisation (WHO) compiles a mortality database detailing information relating to the causes of death in any given year. Looking at data collated over seventeen years (2000 to 2016): –
- The average suicide rate amongst young individuals aged 10 to 24 years was 3%
- For youths aged from 10 to 14, the suicide rate was 1.6% (an average of 1,500 deaths each year)
- For adolescents aged from 15 to 19, the suicide rate was 3.2% (an average of 8,099 deaths each year)
- For young adults aged 20 to 24, the suicide rate was 3.3% (an average of 13,050 deaths each year)
- Suicide rates amongst the age group (10-24 years old) have increased each year by an average of 0.2%, and comparing 2016 to 2000; the rate has increased by 2.6% (which is now 5% in 2016)
- 55.3% of suicides amongst the young occurred in the Americas, followed by Asia at 21% and Europe at 20.8%
- Young men accounted for a massive 75% of all suicides worldwide. The percentage of young men was higher in Europe at 80% and in the Americas at 76.1%
Homeless, living on the streets, where many underage children face being taken advantage of by adults to obtain food and shelter. Rejection by their guardians and their education suffer because their families cannot accept one part of what makes them who they are. Whatever the reasons the parents or guardians may have, they surely should be outweighed by the desire to love, protect, and ensure that their child or any child they have known since birth is happy and healthy.
If a person believes their faith justifies the treatment of their child based on the concept of sin. If sin exists, is the rejection and persecution of a child more important than that child’s safety, happiness, education and ultimately the value of their life? No event or circumstance can justify treating children in such a brutal and unloving way.
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In the immediate aftermath of the Second World War, Samuel Beckett volunteered with the Irish Red Cross on the European continent. With a strong grasp several languages, the writer was assigned the role of driver and translator in the devastated Normandy city of Saint-Lô. During this time, while still stationed in the city, Beckett submitted a record of his experiences to Ireland’s national broadcaster, Radio Telefis Éireann (RTÉ). It was entitled ‘The Capital of the Ruins’. This unaired report on a landscape of wounded civilian casualties and collapsed buildings is the starting point for Joseph Anderton’s compelling new study, Beckett’s Creatures: Art of Failure After the Holocaust. [Read More]
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We as a whole love eating watermelons amid late spring. Actually, we can’t envision our mid year without them! They are bottomless in vitamins and minerals and what’s the most vital thing – they keep us cool and revived while we’re out on the town in the sun!
In any case, you most likely didn’t realize that watermelon skins are really eatable. This shouldn’t be an astonishment since watermelons are firmly identified with cucumbers and that implies that each and every piece of them is palatable! You should attempt watermelon skins as they are plentiful in supplements. Really, most organic products have their nutritive substance gathered in their skins or peels.
Numerous societies really utilize watermelon skins for a wide range of culinary purposes, as a result of the mellow flavor it has. It is likewise utilized by customary healers since it contains numerous therapeutic properties.
You likely all cast off the watermelon skin however here are a few reasons why you shouldn’t do that:
Watermelon Rind Helps Boost Your Workout Benefits
Watermelons contain citrulline, a sort of amino corrosive. You require all the amino acids you can get in the wake of heading off to the exercise center to help your muscles repair themselves. In this way, get some watermelon skin and place it in your fish or chicken bosoms, since it’s an amazing thought for an expansion to a post-workout feast.
Eating It Increases Your Libido
On the off chance that you have an inclination that you’ve some way or another lost your sex drive, begin devouring watermelon skin! It can expand your moxie, generally on account of its citrulline content. Really it is added as a fixing to numerous charisma boosting supplements available. Concentrates on have likewise demonstrated that citrulline is great against gentle erectile brokenness.
It Promotes a Healthy Weight Loss
Just by taking a gander at it, you can infer that the watermelon skin is inexhaustible in fiber. On the off chance that you attempt to incorporate it in your eating regimen, it might help you lose all the undesirable kilograms, since it has the ability to spare you from indulging and taking a greater number of calories than your body needs. The watermelon skin, and additionally the watermelon itself is likewise a diuretic, so they can help you lose water weight.
Devouring It May Help Regulate Your Blood Pressure
For individuals with hypertension, watermelon skins can be to a great degree advantageous as they are diuretics and will help you evacuate the abundance of water in the circulation system. Ponders have demonstrated that watermelon skin extricate has helped hypertensive grown-ups achieve lower circulatory strain when it’s brought together with measures prescribed by their specialists.
The Rind Of Watermelon Is Good For The Urinary System
Watermelon skin may help you save sound kidneys, and whatever is left of the urinary framework fit as a fiddle as a result of its diuretic properties. The creation of pee is upgraded, so it’s less demanding to guarantee that your urinary tract is perfect and in a decent working shape. Never forget to drink 8 to 12 glasses of water a day!
It May Help Ward Off Deadly Cancer
Lycopene, a capable cell reinforcement is a piece of watermelon skins. Actually, it can be to a great degree intense! Some studies have demonstrated that lycopene has figured out how to diminish prostate tumor hazard by up to 34%. This cell reinforcement may likewise avert distinctive sorts of growth, as for instance those of the throat, stomach, pancreas, colon and cervix.
Along these lines, starting now and into the foreseeable future make an effort not to discard your watermelon skins. You can incorporate them into your nourishment in a wide range of ways: they can be eaten that way or included into servings of mixed greens for an additional heavenly crunch; you may add them into soups, stews and mix fries. Numerous parts of the world transform the watermelon skin into relishes, jam, sticks and confections, so it’s dependent upon you to choose how you need to incorporate it, eat it and devour its advantages! | <urn:uuid:d60eac73-f341-45ba-a9b9-f51973c7a6a3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://lifestyle.ng/why-you-should-never-throw-away-watermelon-rinds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00053-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933134 | 892 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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By BARBARA NOVOVITCH
ODESSA, Tex., - Trustees of the Ector County Independent School District here decided, 4 to 2, that high school students would use a course published by the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools for studying the Bible in history and literature.
The council is a religious advocacy group in Greensboro, N.C., and has the backing of the Eagle Forum, a conservative organization.
The vote on the disputed textbook, for an elective Bible study course, has not ended the matter. Critics say the book promotes fundamentalist Protestant Christianity.
The district superintendent, Wendell Sollis, said Wednesday that he had recommended the textbook over a newer one by the Bible Literacy Project, published this year through the Freedom Forum and an ecumenical group of scholars and endorsed by a group of religious organizations.
"I felt like the National Council was a better fit for Odessa, because they're on several campuses here in Texas and because of their longevity," Mr. Sollis said.
David Newman, a professor of English at Odessa College, said he planned to sue the district because the curriculum advocated a fundamentalist Christian point of view.
The school board president, Randy Rives, said of the curriculum, which uses the King James Version of the Bible: "If you're going to teach something, it's better to use the source. I have complete confidence that we can teach this within the parameters of the law."
Professor Newman said, "If the beliefs of others don't match theirs, then the beliefs of others are irrelevant."
Last summer, the Texas Freedom Network, which promotes religious freedoms, asked a biblical scholar at Southern Methodist University, Mark A. Chancey, to examine the council course. Dr. Chancey said it had factual errors, promoted creationism and taught that the Constitution was based on Scripture.
A district trustee here, Carol Gregg, said she favored the Bible Literacy Project because it was "more user friendly toward teachers" and "more respectful of minority and majority" religious views.
Unlike the competing curriculum, it mentions several versions of the Bible.
Critics fear Bible classes erode line between church, state
Publisher: The Dallas Morning News
The hardscrabble town of Odessa on the West Texas oil patch famous for its obsession with high school football is becoming the new ground zero in a culture war.
The Ector County Independent School District unanimously approved an elective course in biblical literacy in April, an action underscoring the marked increase of such "Bible study" classes nationally. Constitutional scholars are concerned that these classes constitute a subtle erosion of what they see as the traditional and necessary wall of separation between church and state.
More than 300 school districts in 35 states use course material offered by the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools, said its president, Elizabeth Ridenour.
The North Carolina-based organization offers courses in biblical study in public schools as part of its commitment to restore religious and civil liberties in the nation. The council's board of directors and advisers draws heavily on such religious conservatives as evangelist Ben Kinchloe of television's "The 700 Club" and David Barton, a prominent conservative author and speaker on church-state separation.
"The world is watching to see if we will be motivated to impact our culture, to deal with the moral crises in our society, and reclaim our families and children," Ridenour wrote in a welcoming message on the organization's Web site.
Odessa school officials say they are walking a narrow path to ensure the proposed course meets educational and constitutional requirements.
"This will be an academic elective on biblical literacy, not a devotional," said Odessa Superintendent Wendell Sollis. "We have no intention of proselytizing. ... You really have to educate people about what you can and can't do."
But assurances that the course will be voluntary and non-devotional have done little to allay the fears of non-Christians and religious moderates that the class may evolve into the covert preaching of God's word.
"There's an awful lot of people in this town convinced that they're going to get Jesus taught in the classroom, a tool for evangelism. And that concerns people like me," said David Newman, an English professor at Odessa College who opposes the new Bible course. He is Jewish.
"If they want to teach the biblical influences on culture and art, why not make it a traditional humanities course that examines all the influences on Western culture?" he asked. "If I see this thing becoming more of an advocacy course, I can assure you there will certainly be legal action taken."
While relations between Odessa's 150 Christian churches and its non-Christian minority are good, Newman said his 12-year-old daughter has been subjected to some anti-Jewish statements from classmates.
"They'll ask her why 'your people' killed Jesus. Or if she knows that Jesus is her savior," Newman said. "I don't think it's hate. It's just kids being kids. But I worry what will happen if a pronounced Christian viewpoint is taught in the class."
Alfred Brophy, a University of Alabama law professor who teaches American legal history, said Odessa may reflect a new battleground for religious conservatives who complain God has been taken out of the nation's public schools.
"This is ground zero in the next culture war," Brophy said. "They're introducing a religious curriculum into the schoolhouse, but it's subtle. It's the camel's nose poking under the tent."
John Waggoner began organizing a petition drive in Odessa this year to develop a high school Bible course. He said he was not prepared for the results. By April, his group had obtained more than 6,000 signatures.
Waggoner said he and two friends began the drive out of a grass-roots interest in bringing legal Bible study to the classroom. Once they went public, they were supported by a cross-section of the community. "We just tapped into something people are very passionate about," he said.
"I don't mean to be flippant, but when people ask why we want a Bible course in the schools, I ask, 'Why not?'" Waggoner said. "The Bible is such a foundation of all that we have in this country, it just makes sense to educate our children about it."
But Waggoner is aware of the opposition to the class.
"Sure, we understand their concerns. We know these are good people who just disagree with what we're doing. I just think they're wrong," he said. "This will be the most heavily moderated course in the school's history. There will be no proselytizing. We don't want to subject this school district to a constitutional conflict.
Though no course curriculum has been picked, Waggoner said his group favors the curriculum designed by the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools.
"We invited the council's lawyer to speak to the school board on the constitutionality of the issue, and we know the council's curriculum has already been approved in Texas," he said. "Our hope is that ... we'll continue to have a seat at the table as the board picks a curriculum."
Conservative commentator Rush Limbaugh told his radio listeners he'd stand with Odessa schools against the American Civil Liberties Union _ even though the ACLU hasn't joined the fray. School officials have been swamped with interview requests and hundreds of phone calls and e-mails _ some accusing them of violating the Constitution and others thanking them for putting the Bible back in the classroom.
The district last offered a Bible class in 1979.
Roughly 80 percent of the schools using the national council's Bible course are small or rural districts, according to Ridenour, the group's president.
"It's not just gone into the Bible Belt states. It's gone into Alaska, Pennsylvania, California," Ridenour said. "We've already had over 170,000 students take the course nationwide. It's never been legally challenged."
Ridenour stressed that the curriculum is designed to help students understand the Bible in the context of its influence on culture and the arts. She emphasized it is not a course in Bible devotion.
"You wouldn't learn this in Sunday school class," she said. "How in the world could you understand what's going on in the Middle East today without introducing the Bible and understanding the background? How can they understand Michelangelo's Moses or Leonardo Da Vinci's Last Supper without knowing about the figures that inspired those works of art?"
Ridenour said supporters of non-Christian faiths could approach a school board and go through the same process as the council.
"Now the Quran has not had the influence on our society, of course, that the Bible has and our founding fathers didn't base things on the Quran," she said. "But it's a free country if anyone would like to approach the school board."
Judith Schaeffer, deputy legal director of the People for the American Way Foundation, said her group plans to monitor the case to see if the curriculum Odessa adopts is constitutional.
"We have no problem with the board's vote the other night," she said. "It puts it on our radar screen in the sense that we hope they will do this the right way."
Schaeffer said her organization is aware that the National Council on Bible Curriculum in Public Schools is "running around the country trying to get school boards to adopt their material for these courses."
Ridenour said her organization does not solicit school districts to carry their curriculum. "If people in the district, if it's on their hearts to do this, they'll call us."
The curriculum has not been challenged in court.
Schaeffer said another potential problem for school districts is finding instructors that are "academically competent" to teach what is often a lightning-rod topic.
"You really shouldn't be teaching the Bible in public schools," she said, "unless you have teachers who are qualified to do so."
Earlier this year, schools in Michigan decided not to use the council's Bible curriculum.
In January, the school board in Frankenmuth, Mich., ended a yearlong debate by turning down the council curriculum as "not academically rigorous enough." Frankenmuth Superintendent Michael Murphy told board members, "It goes beyond talking about religion and becomes faith-based."
K.K. Brannies, assistant superintendent of the Brady Independent School District in Texas, said her district has offered the council curriculum since the late 1990s as an elective and has had no complaints.
She is surprised that the course is offered in 49 districts in Texas and that more are considering it because the opportunity to offer electives is dwindling as course requirements increase.
However, she said she does not see the course "as something that will really continue heavily just because of the fact there are so few opportunities for any elective classes," Brannies said. "When we get to the new science requirements, the chances of us having to do away with it are probably good at some point just because kids won't have room for as many electives in their schedule."
Kathy Miller, President of the Texas Freedom Network, a statewide nonprofit group formed to protect religious freedom and individual liberties, said there is no inherent problem with studying religion in school.
She cautioned, however, that schools may unintentionally end up promoting a particular religion in the classroom and violate the principles of religious freedom.
"I think the danger here is that this Bible class could turn a public school classroom into a Sunday school classroom," Miller said. "Many school boards have rejected the curriculum because they feared the controversy around it, because they feared that it did possibly put them in an untenable position."
The test of a Bible literacy course in Odessa, however, lies with the kids.
Angie, 17, a senior at Permian High School, won't benefit from the proposed Bible course. But she would take it if she could. "I don't think it would hurt anyone to study about God's word," she said.
Across the parking lot, Ray, a junior, is noncommittal. "It's OK, I guess. But there's already a lot we have to get done for graduation; there's not much room for electives. It's like we'd have to choose between football, more science or the Bible."
Their last names were not used because neither student would give a contact number for their parents.
Nearby, Patricia Clark waited outside Permian High to pick up her daughter, Natasha, 16. Clark supports the idea of a Bible class.
"It'll be a good thing, something positive," Clark said. "I'm glad to see it happen."
Her daughter has another view.
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"For this is the will of my Father, that everyone who sees the Son and believes in Him may have eternal life. …" (John 6:40)
My dear sisters and brothers in Christ:
We have now begun the month of November when darkness comes earlier, sunrise later; the wind turns colder, and the trees have shed their leaves; night seems longer than day. In the midst of this seasonal transition of nature, Mother Church invites us in this month of All Souls to consider death and the preparation we make in this life to be worthy of eternal life. It begins with the acknowledgment and acceptance of the somber reality that we all one day will die, that this life is but an introduction to eternity.
Our present life is the moment to form our relationship with Jesus. To know, to love and to serve Christ in this life precedes all other concerns and priorities and should not be "put off" or delayed. Yet, we can procrastinate even though we know not the day, nor the hour when the Lord will call us home.
Edward Young, an English poet who lived from 1681 to 1765, once wrote: "Procrastination is the thief of all time. Year after year it steals, till all are fled. And to the mercies of a moment leaves the vast concerns of an eternal scene" (Poems of Sentiment I. Time, Procrastination, from "Night Thoughts, Night I"). Simply put, this life is not a dress rehearsal — we have one life, no second chances.
As human beings we can procrastinate; we can put off what is truly important in our lives. And yet, in history some of those individuals who accomplished the most did so in a very short period of time. Blaise Pascal, a scientific genius and mathematician as well as a profound philosopher, died at 39. St. Ignatius of Loyola, the founder of the Society of Jesus, the Jesuits, was dead at the age of 43. St. Teresa of Avila, a saint and doctor of the Church who founded the Discalced Carmelites, died at the age of 47. St. Thérèse of Lisieux, still another saint and doctor of the Church, died at the tender age of 24. But still younger was St. Dominic Savio, whose deep faith allowed him to die a grace-filled death, even at the age of 15, and the extraordinary act of St. Maria Goretti, who had the courage to die a martyr’s death when she was not yet 12 years old.
Yes, these people, our sisters and brothers in the faith, knew that this life is not a dress rehearsal, that we have only one life to live and we must live it to the full! We cannot put off until tomorrow what we can and should do today! How right St. Thomas More was when he said: "Let us not lose this time, therefore, suffer not this occasion to slip, which we can little tell whether ever we shall get it again or never" (A Treatise to Receive the Blessed Body of Our Lord, composed in 1534 in the Tower of London the year before his martyrdom).
The essence, the very heart and center for a strong relationship with the Lord in this life is our worthy reception of the Most Holy Eucharist in Holy Communion, communio: the union of our very person with the very person of Jesus Christ. In recent years we have as a Church quite tragically lost a sense of the importance of the eucharistic presence of Christ, which is confirmed by many studies indicating a very serious decline in weekly Mass attendance. Yet central to our Catholic faith is the belief that in the Most Holy Eucharist Jesus Christ is truly present, His very Body and Blood, Soul and Divinity. The Jesus who walked the shores of Galilee, the Jesus who chose the Twelve, the Jesus who healed the sick, raised the dead, fed the multitude, comforted the lonely and forgotten and forgave sinners, the Jesus who died and rose from the dead — He is here with us in the Sacrament of His Body and Blood.
It is true that Jesus can be present to us in many ways — in the beauty and majesty of nature’s wonders, in the love and warmth of family and friends, in our mutual concern for each other, extending care to the poor, the sick, the refugee, the outcast and the many forgotten brothers and sisters in God’s family. But these real expressions of Christian beauty and love find their heart in Christ, the Christ of the Eucharist, who sustains us and motivates us in fulfilling the mandate to love one another.
As in life there are levels of encounters with people and varying degrees of relationships with persons, so too with the Lord there are levels of encounters and the most profound encounter we can have with the Lord in this earthly life is the Eucharist.
If we really believe that Jesus is truly present in the Eucharist, why would we ever absent ourselves from the weekly celebration of Holy Mass? Come to His house, invite your families and friends to come with you, and bring to Him your concerns, your needs, and the needs of your families. Come and pray for peace in a world so scarred by war and violence, even violence present in our own communities.
Don’t procrastinate! Don’t put off being with the Lord. The Jesus who entered our world, who took upon Himself our humanity in the marvel of the Incarnation still lives among us and continues to say to us: "Come follow me!" (Matthew 4:19). And in our discipleship, daily we prepare ourselves for eternity.
When this life’s journey is over and we stand before the Lord, how shall we be remembered? Please, God, we will be well known as people of faith, those who placed Jesus above all else and, thereby, saw in every person the face of Jesus; those whom He recognizes as the ones who knelt in prayer and sought His help; those so well known to the Father that when we return to Him we are not strangers in a foreign land: we know the Lord and He knows us; rightly will we call Him Father and He, in turn, will call us His daughter, His son, and we will hear those beautiful words: "Come, you who are blessed by my Father. Inherit the kingdom prepared for you from the foundation of the world" (Matthew 25:34).
In meditating upon our earthy journey toward the heavenly Jerusalem, it is indeed opportune to call to mind that on Dec. 8, 2015, we will begin the Year of Mercy, which will conclude on the Solemnity of Christ the King on November 20, 2016. On the Third Sunday of Advent, Dec. 13, 2015, at 2 p.m., at Sacred Heart Cathedral, we will celebrate the Opening of the Door of Mercy in accordance with the Bull of Indiction, Misericordiae Vultus (The Face of the Father’s Mercy). The imagery conveyed by passage through the Holy Door is that those who enter the House of the Lord will experience His mercy in the Sacrament of Reconciliation, Confession, and be renewed in mind and heart as they unite with Jesus in Holy Communion. I have asked our parishes to cooperate with each other to provide extended times for confession, eucharistic adoration, while encouraging the practice of attending daily Mass whenever possible.
As we strengthen our relationship with the Lord, we then are inspired to imitate Our Savior and help our brothers and sisters in need: the poor, the forgotten, those incarcerated, the victims of abuse, those from other countries seeking to make a new home among us and the victims of violence fueled by prejudice. Then will the spiritual and corporal works of mercy come alive and naturally become integrated into the Year of Mercy. Like the saints who wasted no time in answering the call of Christ to follow Him, we, too, are called to do the same. We cannot procrastinate in our decision to be faithful disciples of the Lord Jesus.
The recent visit of Our Holy Father, Pope Francis, to the United States has been a wonderful introduction to the Year of Mercy, causing us to contemplate our life and to examine our daily activities which are to prepare us for our eternal destiny. At his general audience on Wednesday, Nov. 26, 2014, during the month of All Souls, Pope Francis said: "When we turn toward this horizon, we realize that our imagination stops, barely able to perceive the splendor of the mystery that surpasses our senses. God is preparing a new dwelling place and a new earth where justice will abide, and whose blessedness will answer and surpass all the longings for peace which spring up in the human heart." We are on "a continuous journey," Pope Francis continued, "towards the final, wonderful goal that is the kingdom of heaven." The goal toward which the Church strives, the Holy Father added, is "the new Jerusalem." More than a place, His Holiness said, "It is a state of soul in which our deepest longings will be fulfilled abundantly" and our being will "come to full maturity." Pope Francis said that it is marvelous to see how there is "a continuity between the Church in Heaven and the Church that still journeys on earth … those who already live in the sight of God can indeed support us, intercede for us and pray for us."
During this month dedicated to praying for our deceased loved ones, may we, as a diocesan family in union with the whole Catholic Church throughout the world, raise our voices in prayer on their behalf, beseeching Our Father that their souls and all the souls of the faithful departed, through the mercy of God, may rest in peace. Amen.
Uniting with you in prayer for your beloved deceased, especially during this month of All Souls, I remain
Sincerely yours in Christ,
The Most Reverend
Salvatore R. Matano
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The cryptocurrency community is breathing a sigh of relief after President Biden issued his hotly anticipated executive order for digital assets on Wednesday.
For the last year, Defiers have been bracing for bad news as regulators signalled a clampdown on the industry. While the administration’s 5,570-word directive marks a comprehensive push to rein in the unruly sector with a new supervisory regime, it recognized crypto as a technological breakthrough worthy of support, if it can be developed responsibly.
“At a very high level, this is a very positive development,” Kristin Smith, executive director of the Blockchain Association, a Washington-based lobbying organization that represents 80 crypto companies, told The Defiant. “You have the President of the United States saying that digital assets generally are something that the U.S. should maintain leadership in.”
The administration also vowed to support the research and development of a digital form of the U.S. dollar with the “highest urgency.” Thanks to blockchain, central bank digital currencies, or CBDCs, have the potential to make the global financial system far more efficient, and Biden clearly wants to make sure the dollar, the world’s No 1 reserve currency, isn’t left behind.
“A United States CBDC may have the potential to support efficient and low-cost transitions, particularly for cross-border funds transfers and payments,” the order states. With a focus on the mechanics and impact of CBDCs, the Treasury Department will submit a report to the president in six months covering “the future of money payment systems” and how cryptocurrencies are being broadly adopted.
“The political power of the crypto ecosystem is only going to grow over time.”
Investors initially welcomed the news as a bullish signal: BTC hit a six-day high of $42,438 on Wednesday and Ethereum a five-day mark of $2,761. Yet overnight, the market lost its mojo with Bitcoin dropping more than 7% in early morning trading U.K. time, and ETH down 6%, according to CoinGecko.
Needless to say, this is the most sweeping policy move Washington has made to date. The order stresses that digital assets must be developed in a way that protects consumers from the rapaciousness of lawless markets, doesn’t jeopardize financial stability or fuel the spread of money laundering and illicit finance, and ensures that the U.S. remains the global pacesetter in technology. And it settles the question once and for all about regulation — it’s coming in some form, but the administration will gather input from across its departments — from Treasury to Justice to the Budget Office — and, presumably, the industry itself as it moves forward.
The directive is essentially laying down a marker that the White House will not take draconian action to crackdown on crypto as it begins constructing a new oversight regime. But Biden wants to see careful, rules-based development of the new industry. Or as Gary Gensler, the chair of the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission put it last year, crypto ventures shouldn’t “operate outside the perimeter.”
Policy wonks were also surprised by the administration’s recognition that blockchain technology may be a powerful tool for improving financial inclusion, human rights, and energy.
“The Executive Order included the points we expected like the need to reinforce U.S. leadership in the global financial system and in technological and economic competitiveness through digital assets, but it also spoke to less commonly understood use cases like blockchain’s potential to mitigate climate impacts,” said Connor Spelliscy, an influential voice on crypto policy at the DAO research Collective.
Even Ryan Selkis, the outspoken founder of Messari, the crypto research firm, had nice things to say about the order. “I think this is a big milestone for the industry, and the Biden Administration was thoughtful in their approach and restraint here,” Selkis said in a statement sent to The Defiant.
Devil in the Details
Yet Selkis, who’s been a fierce critic of Gensler and regulatory meddling, remains wary. “The devil’s in the details,” he said. “We’ll see what the major regulators propose in the months ahead, but this is a positive development, and no red flags stood out on the first read.”
The order marks the end of a febrile period in relations between Washington and the burgeoning crypto community. Last summer, Congress passed a $1T infrastructure spending bill with a last-minute provision that levied onerous tax requirements on non-custodial parties like wallets and DeFi protocols.
The surprise move outraged the industry and mobilized a flurry of political activity designed to make sure crypto wouldn’t get blindsided again. States such as Wyoming and Colorado touted their regulation-free approach to registering DAOs and other crypto ventures. At one point Selkis, who has 246,000 Twitter followers, vowed to run for the U.S. Senate to make crypto’s case on Capitol Hill.
The Blockchain Association, which counts DeFi heavyweights Aave, Circle, Solana and Terra among its members, is in the thick of the fray. Smith said the group plans to engage in dialogue with key players in Washington as the administration puts together its report and turns to setting new policy or regulations.
“The political power of the crypto ecosystem is only going to grow over time as the services and products become more developed, as the industry gets more engaged in Washington,” Smith said. “So time is our friend on this. We will be better able to influence policy outcomes six months from now than we are today.”
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Neurosurgeons, also called as brain surgeons, are specialist physicians who focus on diagnosing and treating any problems related to the central, autonomic, and peripheral nervous system. They address any condition affecting the brain, brain blood vessels, meninges and skull, pituitary gland, carotid and vertebral arteries, vertebral column, and spinal cord.
The brain has extremely fragile, tender tissues that make it vulnerable to damage. Neurosurgeons have the difficult task of examining and operating on the brain when it gets damaged by an illness or injury. Due to the sensitivity of the organ, a single mistake on the part of a neurosurgeon will have some serious consequences. As they treat their patients, neurosurgeons have to take on several duties.
Neurosurgeons have to pinpoint what their patient’s problem is, hence the need for a diagnosis. They have to diagnose the condition of the brain and the spinal cord by looking at test results, such as MRIs or CT scans. Only then will they have an idea as to what’s happening inside the patient’s body before they start the procedure.
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Neurosurgeon treatment plan
After determining the problem of the patients, neurosurgeons must develop a patient care plan. It should be customized as it depends on the case of the patient. They have to lean on their expertise to find the best solution for the patient’s problem. They even have to come up with several solutions, after which they have to present their recommendations to the patients and their families for approval.
Although the name “surgery” is included in the job title of the neurosurgeons, operating only represents a small portion of their duties and responsibilities. They only get to the operating table with their patients after careful diagnosis and planning. They are trained to perform surgeries on the brain, but each case may still be taxing and time consuming for them.
Neurosurgeon pre- and post-operative care
Nurses fulfill most of the patient-care duties before and after the brain procedure. However, neurosurgeons still need to monitor the patients. They have to check the patients before the operation to ensure that their body can sustain during the operation. They also need to monitor the patient after the operation to determine whether the surgery was a success, or whether the patient needs additional treatment.
Experienced neurosurgeons are responsible for training the new neurosurgeons. They may teach doctoral candidates part-time or full-time at teaching hospitals or medical colleges. They usually go full time if they want to take a break from their hospital duties.
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Mosaic art is one of the oldest forms of art – you create images using an assemblage of small pieces of different materials. You can use paper, glass, pebbles, stone, or wood to make beautiful pictures, shapes, or just add a bit of color to your surroundings. It’s a great technique to create decorative art because you virtually cannot go wrong whatever you do. You might think that broken mirrors, old china, tiles and pebbles of different size and color have no place in your neat garden, but mosaic art can transform your garden from plain and ordinary into breathtakingly beautiful.
Find different small and colorful tiles: squares, dots, and mirror tiles ranging in size from a quarter of an inch to an inch. This will allow you to get more effective rocks in the end. Set out the tiles on the table so you can see them all at once and decide how you’ll group the colors: blues with purples, greens with aqua, and yellows with oranges and reds. Once you’ve picked the colors, use clear silicone adhesive to glue them to a rock. Once you’ve covered all surfaces of the rock with tiles and let the glue dry. Mix the grout, apply it to your rock mosaic art, and wipe the excess off with a damp sponge. Once it’s dry, you’ll have lovely mosaic rocks to decorate your garden. You can find this tutorial on Kenarry blog.
Garden stepping stones are great – they look good and they allow you to stay dry and mud-free when you’re walking through your garden in bad weather. These are easy to make in the comforts of your own home, and you don’t even need any special molds or tools. Garden stepping stones can be made using plain old non-stick cake pan (and it won’t be ruined when you finish). You’ll need some contact paper, old china, some glass gems or sea glass to make it more colorful, and some chicken wire. Break the china and place the pieces onto the sticky side of contact paper which you’ve put in the pan. Put an inch of concrete onto your mosaic art, place a piece of chicken wire on it, and cover it with concrete completely. Let it sit for two days, and you’ll have unique stepping stones.
Broken china birdhouse
If you have a birdhouse in your garden, you can make it more noticeable if you cover it with pieces of broken china. Use old plates, preferably with design on it (flowers are delicate and romantic) to cover your birdhouse completely. Glue the pieces of china onto the birdhouse with super glue or use a glue gun if you don’t want to keep putting the cap back on. Blend the grout with water until it starts looking like runny peanut butter, and cover the birdhouse with it completely (grout stays workable for 15 minutes alone, so work quickly). After half an hour, wipe the grout from china with a wet towel and let it dry for 24 hours.
Ask for help
Once you’ve set your mind on making mosaics and using it to enhance your landscape design, you might want to ask for help with putting those plans into action. Of course, sometimes you can’t do everything yourself, and it’s okay to ask friends and family to come help you. What is more, making mosaic art if a lovely activity which you can use to spend some quality time with your loved ones.
You might be a mosaic art enthusiast or an artist whose talent is evident in the way you arrange colors, but even if you’ve never done a mosaic project before, you’ll fall in love with it. Mosaics are easy and what’s best – there’s absolutely no wrong way to do them. You’ll be able to use all kinds of materials for your projects, and this will allow you to keep close old pieces which are broken, and use them to make art. Tiles, old, China, pebbles, and glass will all be used again and get a new life in your garden. | <urn:uuid:1c83b64f-1ca3-47a1-b299-f4b9bfa58047> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mozaico.com/blogs/news/mosaic-in-your-garden-why-not/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.915643 | 887 | 2.640625 | 3 |
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Students discuss basic interpersonal communication with coworkers and new vocabulary words. They role play new situations and then play a cooperation and positive attitude in the work place game.
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Date Written: After 970 BC
Most scholars suggest that Job was written during or after the reign of Solomon, but that the setting of the story is in the much earlier patriarchal period, about the same time as Abraham. The book of Job is included in the Wisdom literature of the Old Testament. While Job may have been an historical person, the book's purpose is to deeply meditate on the mystery of suffering.
Job is a poetic book with a dramatic structure. It begins with a bargaining match in heaven between God and Satan. The Lord boasts about Job's righteousness, but Satan claims that Job is self-serving, acting righteous only to reap the benefits of God's blessing. So the Lord allows Satan to take away all of Job's blessings: his wealth, his flocks, even his children. When Job remains faithful to God, Satan returns to the bargaining table and God allows him to afflict Job with a terrible skin disease.
The poetic core of the book begins in ch. 3 where we find Job sitting by himself, complaining to God. Soon his friends come to talk to him and the magnificent dialogue begins (4). Job's friends, Eliphaz the Temanite, Bildad the Shuhite and Zophar the Naamathite counsel him. They argue that Job must have sinned against God to bring such suffering on himself so he ought to simply accept the discipline and repent of his sin. Yet Job maintains his innocence before God. He claims his suffering is not a result of his sins.
While Job does not curse God as his wife suggests, he does struggle with his suffering. He curses the day of his birth (3:3) and he accuses the Lord of being unjust (). He claims that God has treated him unfairly (10:5-7). To give vent to his anger and frustration with God, he even wants to sue God in court for his inappropriate treatment (13:18-19). After the three friends fail to console Job, he sums up his case (29-31) and demands that an arbiter or judge hear his case against God (31:35).
Elihu, Job's young friend, shows up to act as the arbiter (32:11-12). He examines Job's case, but decides in favor of God by rejecting Job's right to bring a suit against him (34:23). Then God himself appears and confronts Job (38). The Lord does not answer Job's accusations and complaints directly. Instead he lifts Job's gaze from his miserable circumstances to God's glory. He illustrates the inscrutable nature of his divine wisdom. Job is silenced (40:4-5). He finally repents of the foolish words he spoke and withdraws his legal suit against God (42:2-6). God's appearance is enough for Job.
The major question Job confronts is why the just person suffers. The author gives us the benefit of the heavenly perspective. We know that God is testing Job's character, but Job's friends are convinced that his sins have brought suffering upon him. Job protests his innocence and insists that wicked people often prosper. However he can't see what God is doing so he angrily complains to God. Yet his suffering is not the direct result of his sin. Rather, his suffering is brought on by his righteousness!
Job is a book of poetry, so it must be understood within the complexities of poetic language. It is important to note when Job is speaking to his friends and when he is talking to God. Though Job's material possessions are restored in the end, the theology of the whole book shows that they are not the substance, but the expression of God's blessing. Jesus later emphasizes this same perspective (Matt 19:29). Jesus also clarifies and agrees with Job's view that sin is not always the cause of personal suffering (John 9:3).
Job is a consoling book in times of suffering. While it does not solve the problem of suffering, it shows us that the complexities of human life are not easy to understand and that God is present with us when we suffer.
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Google challenge to China over censorship Beijing yet to respond to search engine's move apparently prompted by hacking of human rights activists' Gmail accounts Google to end censorship in China over cyber attacks Tania Branigan in Beijing guardian.co.uk, Wednesday 13 January 2010 14.02 GMT Hillary Clinton has called on Beijing to explain cyber-attacks originating from China against Google. Photograph: Phillipe Lopez/AFP/Getty Images Google has thrown down the gauntlet to China by saying it is no longer willing to censor search results on its Chinese service. The world's leading search engine said the decision followed a cyber-attack that it believes was aimed at gathering information on Chinese human rights activists. It also cited a clampdown on the internet in China over the past year. Its statement raised the prospect of closing Google.cn and potentially its offices in China. The Chinese government issued its first, cautious response several hours after the announcement, saying it was "seeking more information". In a statement published via the state news agency Xinhua, an unnamed official from China's state council information office ‑ the cabinet spokesman's office ‑ added: "It is still hard to say whether Google will quit China or not. Nobody knows." The two sides spoke today. Google confirmed: "We have talked to the Chinese authorities and we will be talking to them more in the coming days." Google acknowledged that its decision to stop self-censoring "may well mean" the closure of Google.cn and its offices in China. That is an understatement, given that to launch Google.cn it had to agree to censor sensitive material, such as details of human rights groups and references to the pro-democracy protests in Tiananmen Square in 1989. The US government upped the stakes when it stepped into the row, with the secretary of state, Hillary Clinton, urging the Chinese to respond to Google's hacking claims. Google was in contact with the US state department ahead of its announcement. Department spokesman PJ Crowley said: "Every nation has an obligation, regardless of the origin of malicious cyber-activities, to keep its part of the network secure. That includes China. Every nation should criminalise malicious activities on computer networks." In a post on the official Google Blog, the company outlined a "highly sophisticated and targeted" attack in December which it believes affected at least 20 other companies: "These attacks and the surveillance they have uncovered, combined with the attempts over the past year to further limit free speech on the web, have led us to conclude that we should review the feasibility of our business operations in China. "We have decided we are no longer willing to continue censoring our results on Google.cn, and so over the next few weeks we will be discussing with the Chinese government the basis on which we could operate an unfiltered search engine within the law, if at all." Human Rights Watch praised the decision and urged other firms to follow suit in challenging censorship. "A transnational attack on privacy is chilling, and Google's response sets a great example," said Arvind Ganesan, director of the group's corporations and human rights programme. In China, some websites carried accounts of Google's decision, although they did not mention the cyber-attacks. News portals were reportedly told to downgrade the issue, although the Guardian saw articles on major sites including Sina.com. But while many seemed to welcome the firm's decision ‑ some left flowers at the entrance to its Beijing headquarters ‑ others attacked it. One poster, Weiwoguyan, wrote: "Since you are in China you need to obey Chinese law … Do not use it to threaten China." A prominent liberal blogger, Ran Yunfei, wrote on his blog: "Google leaving China is definitely not good news." Comparing the decision to dissidents who choose to emigrate, he added: "Those are obedient citizens and [their choice] is satisfactory to the authorities." Google claimed the cyber-attack originated from China and that its intellectual property was stolen, but that evidence suggested a primary goal was accessing the Gmail accounts of Chinese human rights activists. Its inquiry had shown that, separately, the Gmail accounts of dozens of human rights advocates in China who are based in the US, Europe and China appeared to have been routinely accessed by third parties. The company added that it was sharing the information not just because of the security and human rights implications "but because this information goes to the heart of a much bigger global debate about freedom of speech". Acknowledging the potential consequences, it stressed: "This move was driven by our executives in the United States, without the knowledge or involvement of our employees in China." The message, headlined "A New Approach to China" and signed by David Drummond, senior vice-president of corporate development and chief legal officer, said the company launched Google.cn in 2006 in the belief that the benefits of increased access to information for people in China "outweighed our discomfort in agreeing to censor some results". At the time Google promised to monitor conditions in China and reconsider its approach if necessary. But Evgeny Morozov, an expert on the political effects of the internet and a Yahoo fellow at Georgetown University, questioned why Google had made such a decision after four years. "They knew pretty well what they were getting into. Now it seems they are playing the innocence card ... It's like they thought they were dealing with the government of Switzerland and suddenly realised it was China," he said. Morozov said it was hard to see the logical connection between the security of human rights activists and Google's self-censorship, particularly given that the firm had chosen not to comment on whom it believed to be responsible for the hacking. In a CNBC interview, Drummond said: "I want to be very careful and very clear. We are not saying one way or the other whether the attacks are state sponsored or done with any approval of the state." Google has only a third of the search-engine market in China, which is dominated by the Chinese giant Baidu. Although its revenues have continued to rise, many analysts believed it was finding business hard going, particularly as it came under increased pressure from the government. "There are two schools of thought on this. One says that this is a mere smokescreen of sanctimony meant to hide a retreat from a market Google was unable to conquer for business reasons … The other is that this is a true act of moral bravery," said Kaiser Kuo, a Beijing-based expert on the internet. In June, Google suffered intensive disruption to search functions and Gmail for over an hour, after authorities told it to scale back search functions. Rebecca MacKinnon, an assistant professor at the University of Hong Kong's journalism and media studies centre, said her research showed Google had censored less than Baidu. 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Accessing your domain emails on an iPhone
Mail is one of the core apps on your iPhone.
If you use an email provider like iCloud or Google, Mail can automatically setup your email account with just your email address and password. You can also use Mail to access other email accounts, such as your custom domain email account.
In this article, we will show you how to set up your iPhone with your domain email accounts using the IMAP protocol.
Create your domain email address
Obtain your email client configuration settings from Member Zone
Why IMAP protocol?
The POP3 and IMAP protocols determine how your incoming email is moved, saved, deleted and synchronized between the mail server and your inbox. In simple terms, POP3 focuses on the email messages in the inbox on your local device(s), while IMAP focuses on making sure the email messages on the mail server and your inbox(es) are all synchronized. To learn more about POP3 and IMAP protocols, you can refer to our article POP3 vs. IMAP.
Chances are, your iPhone is not the only email-capable device you own. Many people use their iPhone to access emails when they are not around a laptop or computer. If you are using your iPhone as well as other devices to check and manage your domain emails, IMAP is the preferred protocol. IMAP lets you manage your domain email inbox from different locations, using different devices. In other words, with IMAP, you can log in from home, work, iPhone, iPad or desktop and see the exact same view of your email inbox.
Your email client configuration info
In order to successfully setup your domain email accounts on your iPhone Mail app, you will need to have the following information:
- Domain email address and password
- Incoming mail server and port information
- Outgoing mail server and port information
You can find all these information in your Doteasy Member Zone, under View Email Client Info.
For more information on your email client configuration info, please refer to our article Your Email Client Configuration Info.
Setting up email on your iPhone
- Open the Mail app.
- If this is the first time you’ve set up your Mail app, you will be presented with the Welcome to Mail screen and a list of common types of email accounts. Select Other.
- On the New Account screen, enter the following information:
- Your name – this is the name your email recipients will see when you email them
- Email address – enter your full domain email address, for example, firstname.lastname@example.org
- Password – enter your domain email account password
When ready, tap Next.
- On the next screen, make sure the IMAP protocol is selected.
- Under Incoming Mail Server, enter the incoming mailserver name as per your Email Client Info. Enter your User Name and Password. Your user name is simply your full email address.
- Under Outgoing Mail Server, enter the outgoing mailserver name as per your Email Client Info. Enter your User Name and Password. Your user name is simply your full email address. When ready, tap Next.
- The iPhone will check your email account information to ensure you have entered the correct email address and/or password. If so, you will see checkmarks next to each item and you will be taken to the next screen.
- On the IMAP screen, move the sliders to On if you want to sync additional items (such as Notes). Once ready, tap the Save button.
- Once your domain email account has been added to your iPhone, it will be listed under Passwords & Accounts in your iPhone’s Settings tool.
- Now that your domain email account is added to your iPhone’s Mail app, you can proceed to configure your SMTP settings and your folders since we are using IMAP. Select your newly added domain email account and tap on Account to open the Account settings screen.
- Tap on SMTP.
- On the SMTP screen, tap on your Doteasy mailserver under Primary Server.
- Make sure the server is enabled. If you have enabled Use SSL, make sure you have the correct port number, 465. When ready, tap Done.
- Going back to the Account settings screen, tap on Advanced.
- On the Advanced settings screen, tap on Drafts Mailbox. This will open the Drafts screen. From the On the server section, make sure Drafts is selected.
- Repeat the same for the Sent, and Trash mailbox settings.
- When ready, tap Done and your domain email account is now configured on your iPhone.
Adding domain email accounts to iPhone via Settings
You can also add your domain email account to your iPhone via Settings on your Home screen.
- Tap on Settings on your Home screen to open the Settings screen.
- On the Settings screen, tap Passwords & Accounts.
- On the Passwords & Accounts screen, tap Add Account.
- This will take you to the Add Account screen. Tap Other.
- On the Other screen, tap Add Mail Account.
- From there, follow the process for adding a new account detailed above (Steps 3 to 17).
Your iPhone is now configured to access your Doteasy domain email account using the iOS Mail app.
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Laurentian University, Vale Living with Lakes Centre
Sudbury, Ontario, Canada
Square Footage: 27,750
Green Building Wood Design Award, 2012
Wood WORKS! Ontario
Award of Excellence, Building Category, 2012
Canadian Consulting Engineers
Bronze Award, 2008
Holcim Award for Sustainable Construction
The Vale Living with Lakes Centre represents the next step in the evolution of Laurentian University's Cooperative Freshwater Ecology Unit (CFEU). The CFEU is an internationally recognized research center focused on restoration ecology, environmental protection and aquatic resource management and is a collaborative effort between Laurentian University, Environment Canada, and Natural Resources Canada. Located on the shores of Ramsey Lake, the building reflects the energy of scientific discovery and the character of the campus as a whole.
Our design team worked closely with CFEU's scientists to create a working environment conducive to creative and collaborative research, to minimize the building's ecological footprint, and to assist in the restoration of Sudbury's ecosystems. The building includes basic and applied research labs, collaborative meeting spaces, and a multimedia theater for teleconferencing, extending the center's outreach to the million lakes of Canada's Boreal Shield ecozone.
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Cruchley's New Plan of London Shewing all the New and Intended Improvements to the Present Time.
1849 (dated) 17 x 33 in (43.18 x 83.82 cm)
This is a very uncommon and obscure example of Cruchley's New Plan of London. Cruchley's famous plan of London was first issued in 1827 and was updated yearly until this issue, in 1849. The original New Plan of London was much smaller than the current plan covering from Pentonville to Shadwell and from Vauxhall to Brompton. This map is a variant that began to appear around 1829. In addition to the traditional coverage of central London exhibited in the 1827 plan, this map included an eastern extension encompassing the Isle of Dogs and the East India Docks. Though this configuration is much rarer than the more standard variant, there are recorded editions in 1829, 1830, 1833 and 1847. This example, dated June 1st, 1849 is exceptionally rare and does not appear in Hogwego or any of the other standard cartobibliographic references. Most likely, this is the last edition of this map Cruchley published. Like all other editions, this map is surrounded by a detailed street index. Streets, parks, important buildings, districts, and public transport is noted.
George Frederick Cruchley (April 23, 1797 - June 16, 1880) was a London based book and map seller active in the middle part of the 19th century. Cruchley began his cartographic career as an apprentice at the venerable Aaroon Arrowsmith firm. Many of Cruchley's earliest maps bear the words "From Arrowsmith's" on the imprint. In 1844 Cruchley acquired the massive stock of the important early 19th century firm of John Cary. Cruchley published his own maps as well as reissues of Cary's stock well into the 1870s. Cruchely is best known for his detailed plans of London, which in recent years have become increasingly scarce and desirable. Cruchley was based in London on 38 Ludgate Street until 1834 when he moved his offices to 81 Fleet Street. Shortly before his death in 1880 Cruchely auctioned (Hodgson's Auctions, Jan 16, 1877) his entire stock. Many of his map plates were thusly acquired by Gall and Inglis who continued the Cruchley tradition well into the early 20th century. Cruchley's son, also George Frederick (1837 - 1882), also continued to work as a book and map seller until his death.
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You fit what you should say, would, otherwise pass on as to the you may have attributed since the state of your audience or receiver – your adjust your behavior interaction to their direction that you have taken into consideration. Attribution will give you a real bundle (wear the particular attire in accordance with the content you would like to transmit) and hotel ‘s the operate off speaking, behaving, or acting-out one plan (showing up in one to clothes and you will acting accordingly for the state).
For this reason a strong vocabulary otherwise a degree toward internalized stuff otherwise insights is helpful – due to the fact way more words, suggestions, suggestions you have to work out-of, the greater amount of alternatives you have to complement this new communicative needs from another. | <urn:uuid:c83ae2ed-31ca-4ca3-b296-04e14069d055> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://anastasiaandrusyak.com/area-a-couple-implementing-empathy-when-you-look/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.957006 | 908 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Silicosis mortality with respiratory tuberculosis in the United States, 1968-2006.
Nasrullah-M; Mazurek-JM; Wood-JM; Bang-KM; Kreiss-K
Am J Epidemiol 2011 Oct; 174(7):839-848
The presence of tuberculosis (TB) in patients with silicosis increases mortality risk. To characterize silicosis-respiratory TB comortality in the United States, the authors used 1968-2006 National Center for Health Statistics multiple cause-of-death data for decedents aged greater than or equal to 25 years. The authors calculated proportionate mortality ratios (PMRs) using available information on decedents' industries and occupations reported from 26 states from 1985 through 1999. Among 16,648 silicosis deaths, 2,278 (13.7 percent) had respiratory TB listed on the death certificate. Of silicosis-respiratory TB deaths, 1,666 decedents (73.1 percent) were aged greater than or equal to 65 years, 2,255 (99.0 percent) were male, and 1,893 (83.1 percent were white. Silicosis-respiratory TB deaths declined 99.5 percent during the study period (P less than 0.001 for time-related trend), from 239.8 per year during 1968-1972 to 1.2 per year during 2002-2006, with no reported deaths in 2006. Silicosis-respiratory TB deaths reported from Pennsylvania (n = 525; 1.29 per million population), Ohio (n = 258; 0.81 per million), and West Virginia (n = 146; 2.35 per million) accounted for 40.8 percent of all such deaths in the United States. The highest PMR for silicosis-respiratory TB death was associated with the "miscellaneous nonmetallic mineral and stone products" industry (PMR = 73.7, 95 percent confidence interval: 33.8, 139.8). In the United States, 2006 marked the first year since 1968 with no silicosis-respiratory TB deaths. The substantial decline in silicosis-respiratory TB comortality probably reflects prevention and control measures for both diseases.
Epidemiology; Respiratory-system-disorders; Pulmonary-system-disorders; Lung-disease; Silicosis; Silica-dusts; Risk-factors; Mortality-data; Mortality-rates; Age-groups; Statistical-analysis; Information-retrieval-systems; Surveillance-programs;
Author Keywords: industry; mortality; occupational exposure; occupations; silicosis; tuberculosis
M. Nasrullah, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Division of HIV AIDS Prevention, Epidemic Intelligence Service, 1600 Clifton Road NE, Mailstop E46, Atlanta, GA 30333
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Exploring Contemporary Fine Art Photography with Thomas Michael Alleman
Contemporary Photography is a process of transforming ideas into images, and images into objects. The photographer acts as a channel to which this progression can evolve. This six-week course will investigate this process and use of photography as a tool for individual expression – not just in terms of innovative composition and interesting camera techniques, but more importantly, as an exploration into the fundamental principles of contemporary visual art.
We begin by examining the works of prominent photographers as well as other visual artists, thereby developing an aesthetic vocabulary and a working knowledge of visual syntax applicable to the study of both art history and popular culture. We will also study classic and contemporary styles of fine art photography through a series of conceptual assignments which will emphasize creative freedom and conceptual impact. Through weekly assignments, students will be encouraged to survey various different compositional and technical approaches to consider which would best exemplify the power of their own visual voice.
At the end of the course students will possess a greater appreciation of photography as a fine art form and a deeper knowledge of their own artistic expression. See more at: http://www.ssreg.com/juliadean/classes/classes.asp?courseid=24653&catid=3286#sthash.TpqnIWF3.dpuf | <urn:uuid:23f8816e-8460-43b3-97ed-05c0d0b44bb5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.calendar.theg2gallery.com/exploring-contemporary-fine-art-photography-with-thomas-michael-alleman/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00407-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93253 | 270 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Each nation that applies the Energy Star rating manages the testing and certification process. In Canada, Natural Resources Canada has that responsibility. Energy Star certified appliances are in the top 15% to 30% of their category for energy efficiency – and, importantly, this efficiency doesn’t come with any sacrifice in performance.
European brands have not trouble keeping up with Energy Star requirements. All of Bertazzoni’s dishwashers are Energy Star rated, as are 90% of all of Blomberg’s appliances. Zephyr, another European brand, has released three new models of Energy Star rated range hoods: the Siena Wall, the Vortex One-Piece Liner and the Twister Power Pack.
An Energy Star rating is good, but did you know that there is a Most Efficient category for top ranking appliances? Updated yearly, the list of Most Efficient appliances includes 78% of Blomberg’s laundry appliances and 55% of their dishwashers. | <urn:uuid:a18ebd84-647b-4b36-b5d7-d9026011037f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.distinctive-online.com/what-makes-an-appliance-truly-eco-friendly/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.941497 | 204 | 1.6875 | 2 |
• The occurrence of visual loss in substantial numbers of adult patients with pseudotumor cerebri is well recognized. In children, the disease has been said to spare the visual system. We evaluated the ophthalmologic features of 36 children with pseudotumor cerebri followed up for one to 12 years. Four patients had rapid, severe loss of visual acuity and visual field changes while receiving medical therapy. Six others had less-severe but prominent abnormalities of visual acuity and/or visual fields at some point during the disease process. Only one patient had a permanent, severe visual impairment, but five had moderate permanent visual abnormalities. A severe degree of papilledema was seen only in the group with visual loss, but some patients in this group had only moderate papilledema. More patients with dural sinus thrombosis had serious visual loss than did those with other associated diseases or idiopathic pseudotumor cerebri. Quantitative perimetry of some sort can be performed in most children and is the preferred sequential test for planning treatment.
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The implant surgery itself will not take long – depending on the number of implants and type of method used.
It should take less than a day. For example, one implant can take one to two hours to place.
However, the entire implant process often takes up to five months to complete the restoration, with three of these months dedicated to osseointegration (the healing period for the implant and the bone to fuse).
With dental implants, we always advise reading up as much as possible about them beforehand to further your understanding of the options involved.
We then attend a consultation with us to see if and what kind of implant placement method will be the most suitable for you.
The first step on your implant journey is undergoing an implant consultation and assessment with one of our implant dentists.
Each implant we place is unique because every patient’s mouth is fantastic, which means their journey often is too.
So, during your examination, we will take the time to discuss all of your available options to work out the best treatment plan suited to your specifications and budget.
During this time, if implants are something you want to progress with, we will take x-rays of your mouth to build a model of your existing teeth, as this will help us determine when the implants need to be positioned.
We might also recommend a CBCT scan, which will help our dentists understand how much bone you have.
In cases of insufficient bone, we need to perform a bone graft or a sinus lift to create enough space for the implants to sit securely.
The dentist, at this point, will also walk you through what will happen before surgery and what will happen once the procedure is complete. Dr Gutierres will also provide a breakdown of costs (and the chance to set up interest-free, monthly instalments).
After your clinical assessment to determine your implant suitability, we will be ready to schedule you for your implant placement, which will be performed at our practice.
The procedure is straightforward and performed under local anaesthetic, making it relatively pain-free.
However, if you are an anxious patient, we might be able to offer you sedation to put your mind at further ease.
The dentist will cut into the gum when your mouth is fully numb to drill a small home. The implant itself will then be inserted into the jawbone – and at this time, the gum is sealed with stitches.
With implant treatments like Smile in a Day, your new teeth can be restored the same day as the surgery. However, for conventional implant treatments, we need to allow for a healing period, and you will wear temporary teeth for the time being.
*Bear in mind that temporary teeth are called temporary teeth for a reason! They are nothing in comparison to what the final restoration will be like.
Stage three often involves fitting the permanent teeth. After three months, the implant should be fully healed and ready to hold your new teeth.
Dr Pedro Gutierres, at this stage, will place the abutment and crown, which will be custom-made to match the exact shape, size and colour of the teeth they’ll be replacing.
From here, you will have access to aftercare help and advice, although, with implants, no special care or maintenance will be required. If necessary, one of our dentists will advise on follow-up appointments to ensure the implants are secure and healthy.
Just like any surgery, the implant process poses some health risks. However, problems are infrequent, but when they occur, they’re often very minor and easily rectified.
Some of the risks include:
Choosing an experienced, highly-rated, credible dentist is essential when considering dental implants because who you choose to carry out your procedure matters.
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WASHINGTON — The math is harsh: The federal penalty for having no health insurance is set to jump to $695, and the Obama administration is being urged to highlight that cold fact in its new pitch for health law sign-ups.
That means the 2016 sign-up season starting Nov. 1 could see penalties become a bigger focus for millions of people who have remained eligible for coverage, but uninsured. They’re said to be squeezed for money, and skeptical about spending what they have on health insurance.
Until now, health overhaul supporters have stressed the benefits: taxpayer subsidies that pay roughly 70 percent of the monthly premium, financial protection against sudden illness or an accident, and access to regular preventive and follow-up medical care.
But in 2016, the penalty for being uninsured will rise to the greater of either $695 or 2.5 percent of taxable income. That’s for someone without coverage for a full 12 months. This year the comparable numbers are $325 or 2 percent of income.
Marketing usually involves stressing the positive.
Rising penalties meet no one’s definition of good news. Still, that may create a new pitch:
The math is pretty clear. A consumer would be able to get six months or more of coverage for $695, instead of owing that amount to the IRS as a tax penalty. (That example is based on subsidized customers now putting in an average of about $100 a month of their own money.)
Backers of the law are urging the administration to drive the math lesson home.
“Given that the penalty is larger, it does make sense to bring it up more frequently,” said Ron Pollack, executive director of Families USA, a liberal advocacy group. “It’s an increasing factor in people’s decisions about whether or not to get enrolled.”
“More and more, people are mentioning the sticks as well as the carrots,” said Katherine Hempstead, director of health insurance coverage for the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, a nonpartisan organization that has helped facilitate the insurance expansion under Obama’s law.
Administration officials are looking for a balance.
“We need to be make sure that we are very clear and explicit about that $695 penalty so people understand the choice they are making,” said spokeswoman Lori Lodes. But she said the main emphasis will stay on the benefits of having health insurance and how the law’s subsidies can dramatically lower the cost of monthly premiums.
The requirement that individuals get health insurance or face fines remains the most unpopular part of President Barack Obama’s health care law, a prime target of Republican repeal efforts. It started at $95 or 1 percent of income in 2014. The fact that it’s gone up so much may take consumers by surprise.
But many experts consider the mandate essential to Obama’s overall approach, as does the insurance industry. The law forbids insurers from turning away people with health problems, and the coverage requirement forces healthy people into the insurance pool, helping to keep premiums in check. After 2016, the fines will rise with inflation.
This year was the first time the IRS collected the penalties, deducting them from taxpayers’ refunds for the 2014 tax year in most cases. Some 7.5 million households paid penalties totaling $1.5 billion, an average of $200 apiece, according to preliminary IRS data. Separately, another 12 million households claimed exemptions from the mandate because of financial hardships or other reasons.
Although Obama’s law is five years old and has survived two Supreme Court challenges, administration officials say the upcoming open enrollment season won’t be easy. It may be a struggle to just keep about the same number of people covered.
The administration has set a goal of 10 million customers enrolled and paying their premiums by the end of 2016 on HealthCare.gov and state insurance markets. That’s roughly the number covered now, well below what congressional budget analysts had estimated for 2016. The administration expects most will be returning customers, but 3 million to 4 million will be people who are currently uninsured.
Among the difficulties for next year: Premiums are expected to go up more than they did this year, even if subsidies cushion the cost. The most eager customers have already signed up. And many of those remaining may have other financial priorities for their tight budgets, like car repairs or putting money in savings accounts.
Sign-up season starts Nov. 1 and runs through Jan. 31. As a result of the law, the share of people in the United States lacking health insurance is at a historic low of about 9 percent, and the White House wants to keep that trend going during Obama’s last full year in office. | <urn:uuid:f58a5cd4-3ced-4cf4-840a-aebb04ec2506> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cdispatch.com/news/2015-10-20/health-law-fine-on-the-uninsured-will-more-than-double-in-2016/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.956138 | 972 | 1.929688 | 2 |
Use Email and Video Conferencing
With the advent of email and high quality video conferencing, a lot of travel can be cut. Email provides and excellent medium for sharing information and documents. It is highly efficient by allowing messages to be left and responded to at the convenience of the sender/receiver. A lot of communication and document exchange can take place with email. Also, video conferencing has now advanced to the point where the quality is sufficient to allow conferencing via the personal computer on your desktop. Many business people justify traveling by saying they need to meet face-to-face with someone. While this is important in some cases, there are a number of other instances where it is not. Video conferencing is an excellent substitute for face-to-face travel. | <urn:uuid:6127bfee-6217-4197-8bf6-f156bc607efc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://e-channelnews.com/ec_storydetail.php?ref=408827 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00084-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938084 | 161 | 1.53125 | 2 |
'A generation is growing up,' Burgess wrote, 'in which drama resembling a bowl of Rice Krispies is replacing drama as a roast sirloin with Yorkshire pudding.' His point was that where the first television dramas - broadcast live and built like plays - 'accepted that the scene was a true dramatic unit', most current drama aspires to the condition of the award-winning commercial. The visual has replaced the verbal and the pulse of drama has quickened to frantic levels. Even if you haven't noticed this on screen, you can't miss it when you discipline yourself to watch one of the plays on Performance, because discipline is needed. You find yourself in an odd hybrid of a theatre seat and a television couch, strung between the habitual patience of the former and the fidgety liberty of the latter. 'Doesn't Tennessee Williams go on,' you find yourself thinking as you finger the remote or, even more ridiculously, 'That Hedda wouldn't have so many problems if she only got out and about a bit more.' This isn't to do with defects in the productions - Richard Eyre's Suddenly Last Summer and Deborah Warner's Hedda Gabler have been as good as any theatre on television for years - just that the patience and enclosure of stage-drama just doesn't sit well with our viewing habits.
The Entertainer suffered more in this respect than its predecessors in the season, partly because it is unrelenting anyway - a bilious assault that opens with invective and only calms down to get nastily maudlin - but also because the virtues it had when it was first staged (just after the Suez Crisis) have proved highly perishable. A line like 'Is it all for the sake of a gloved hand waving from a golden coach?', which caused apoplexies and threats of horse-whipping in 1957, now seems positively genteel in its dissidence. Archie Rice's seedy, self-deluding cheeriness was wired to larger issues then, designed to send a galvanising jolt through the audience but those old connections long ago came unstuck (we need a newsreel now to make sure that we all know exactly where Archie's soldier son has been kidnapped and killed). Gambon did marvels with what was left, a character formed from thin layers of patter pasted on to vacancy, but even he couldn't insinuate into the drama the urgency it used to have. 'You've been a good audience,' Archie Rice says at the end, 'a very good audience. Let me know where you're working tomorrow night and I'll come and see you.' Those who were still there to hear it had been good, but, as Burgess feared, they are likely to become increasingly rare.
I was fidgeting myself during the opening moments of 'Return to the Sacred Ice', a film by Nicholas Shakespeare for the Legendary Trails series (BBC 1). 'It is to the mountains I must travel,' he said early on. It is to the other channel I must switch, I thought, but he more than made up for the odd outbreak of cod orotundity with a marvellous film which took you into the Andes, where secular rationality is as thin as the air. I would have forgiven him a lot more than that for one beautiful image - of a sacred mountain reflected in the glass covering a heavy crucifix, a picture Shakespeare's voice-over touched into life with perfect delicacy.Reuse content | <urn:uuid:901bacb5-5a3c-4650-bef0-c2782deb52ca> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/an-audience-left-shuffling-in-the-stalls-1465751.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00574-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978418 | 714 | 1.5 | 2 |
The Raspberry Pi Vivarium Controller can be accessed anywhere you have an Internet connection and a web browser. You may also keep it private on your local network..See Demo
The Raspberry Pi Vivarium Controller can be used to monitor more than just vivariums. It's perfect for grow rooms, greenhouses and any application that requires automated environmental control & monitoring.
The Raspberry Pi is a $25 - $35 credit card sized single board computer that runs on Linux, an Open Source computer operating system.
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A visit to Sue Higgins Park shows progress in the cleanup effort following June’s flooding.
In southeast Calgary on the west side of the Bow River, the popular off-leash dog park was significantly damaged.
“The entire park was actually under water during high water mark, except for a small portion on the north side,” said Justin Brown, a superintendent of parks for the City of Calgary.
Contractors and volunteers are moving fast to clean up debris and repair fencing in the area, making it difficult to estimate how much of the park is open. Portions of the park started opening in late July, and Brown predicts 25 per cent to 40 per cent of the park is available to the public now.
The north, west and east ends of the park remain closed. An area directly south of the parking lot — just off Southland Drive — is open.
“We’ll be down here all year, that’s for sure,” Brown said.
“When Mother Nature shuts us down, that’s when we’ll stop working.”
For now, at least 25 city contractors are working in the 62-hectare park at any given time.
Mounds of rock and trees are spotted around the park. The usual tranquillity is interrupted by sounds of heavy machinery clearing pathways of dead trees.
Brown said beyond debris left behind by nature, everything from a diesel tank to a porta-potty was pulled out of the park.
Over 90 per cent of the fences in the park were damaged and roughly 70 per cent destroyed. Weeds can still be seen caked into some of the chain link fences, wrapped like Virginia Creeper.
According to Brown, repairing the fencing has been a major problem, especially given that construction fencing is hard to come by in post-flood Calgary.
Opening access to the river — one of the park’s biggest attractions to dog owners — was a priority for Brown and his team. One of the four official river access points is now available.
Dave Gibb usually takes his dog Hudson to the park twice a week. He said most dogs love going for a swim in the river.
“The dogs like to play and it was pretty crowded the other day (at the one available access point),” Gibb said.
The Regional Pathway and the pedestrian bridge linking Sue Higgins Park to Riverbend remain closed. Brown expects crews to continue working on those areas over the next few weeks.
“We will open it as soon as it’s safe,” he said.
The park was scheduled for some renovations before the flood. Brown said much of that work is now being incorporated into the restoration.
“We’re not anticipating changing anything. It should be exactly the same,” he said.
There is no word yet on who will pay for the work being done or how much it will cost.
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Consider the following scenario: there are two equally stunning tiaras: one is adorned with sparkling diamonds, and the other is adorned with radiant sapphires. Which one would you choose if you were only allowed to have one choice?
Some of us are aware of the answer, whereas others are not. If you're still not sure which one to choose, take a look at this quick comparison table.
There are a variety of colors to choose from.
Colors like blue and pink are the most widely used.
Because of its hardness of 9 on the Mohs scale, it is extremely durable and long-lasting.
It is not uncommon to find liquid, gaseous, and even other minerals' crystals that have flaws in their clarity.
Sapphires are heat-treated to produce a more vibrant color in nearly all cases.
The price ranges from $50 per carat to more than $10,000 per carat, depending on the quality.
In comparison to diamonds, the pricing is more reasonable.
Sapphires, particularly blue sapphires, have long been associated with royalty and opulence, which is one of the primary reasons for this association. One of the primary reasons for this is the association with royalty and opulence.
They have been in high demand since the beginning of time because they are white or colorless.
Colors such as blue, black, and pink are also popular.
10 on the Mohs scale of hardness
The hardest mineral ever discovered by man is a type of quartz.
Flawless diamonds (FL-Flawless) are among the most difficult to come by in the diamond industry.
Some diamonds of exceptional quality are subjected to treatment.
Price ranges for a one-carat diamond can range from $3,080 to $26,950, depending on its quality.
The price of diamonds is disproportionately high when compared to the prices of other precious gems.
Colorless diamonds are the most popular choice for engagement rings, followed by white diamonds.
They are highly sought after gems due to their symbolism of everlasting love that they represent.
No other gemstone can compete with diamonds in terms of long-term durability. The sapphire, on the other hand, is a close second in terms of popularity. This means that you won't have to be concerned about chips or scratches regardless of which jewel you choose. Diamonds are more expensive than other gemstones because they are more difficult to obtain. If you don't want to spend a lot of money but still want a colorless/white diamond, VS1 or VS2 Very Slightly Included (VS) diamonds may be a good option.
When compared to diamonds, sapphires are significantly heavier in weight (density). The size of the diamond will appear smaller when compared to a one-carat diamond. It is not uncommon for the value of a gem to skyrocket when it reaches 4 carats in weight. Opting for a sapphire in the 1 to 2 carat range is a wonderful way to appreciate the stone's extraordinary aesthetic appeal.
You can use these pieces as a Mother's Day gift or an engagement gift for your fiancée, depending on your needs and budget! Blue and pink sapphires are excellent choices for adding a splash of color to a piece. Only the dazzling brilliance and unending sparkle of a diamond, on the other hand, will do for the rest of time. Make it a point to always check the certificate of authenticity, regardless of which product you purchase.
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Doug Cavanaugh had it in his closet, hidden away like an escaped convict.
No sirens screamed and no searchlights glinted by his windows in Canoga Park, California but he was harboring a convict all the same; only this one hadn’t come barreling out of the Wayside Jail, 25 miles away. This one came barreling out the sands of time, 70 years away. More shocking still, he had come from Murderers’ Row.
Three years ago, Cavanaugh received a package in the mail from J.J. Johnston, a fellow boxing historian and collector of fight films. In the package was a videocassette. Cavanaugh popped it in his VCR and sat back as newsreels of Jack Dempsey, Mickey Walker, and Max Schmeling flickered across the screen. He watched Joe Gans succumb to Battling Nelson in the summer of 1908, knowing that two years later Gans would succumb to tuberculosis -–which was only slightly more debilitating than a fight with Nelson. He wondered whether Gans was already coughing blood, whether his body was already breaking down, and whether the great lightweight knew it.
Half way through the video, Cavanaugh leaned forward. Johnston told him that there may be a fleeting segment of someone special in action. This was it.
There are many who swear that Holman Williams of “Murderers’ Row” was among the greatest defensive technicians who ever lived. He was that and more. When Joe Louis first walked into Detroit’s Brewster Gym in 1930, it was Holman who took him under his wing and taught him the fundamentals. Joe was in awe of Holman “–-a beautiful boxer,” he would say. Later when Joe became a king and Holman proved too dangerous to get a shot at the crown in two divisions, Joe would see to it that his friend got a spot on his undercards. He would also invite Holman and some sparring partners to his training camps. When Holman worked out, trainer Eddie Futch remembered Joe delaying his own workout and sitting ringside with his gloves and headgear on, watching. Why? “To pick up ideas.” The heavyweight king never stopped learning from Holman.
Many boxing historians believe that Holman was a pure stylist. However, his first five years in the prize ring saw more than half of his wins come by knockout. “Holman is a busy, rangy fighter and packs dynamite in his right fist,” said the Times-Picayune in 1937 when he was barnstorming New Orleans. Later in his career he evolved into a stylist because he had to; because some fighters hit too hard for their own good. Thomas Hearns and Arturo Gatti both broke their right hands repeatedly because the impact of their punches was too much on their metacarpal bones. Old school fighters with fractured fists didn’t have Hearns’ and Gatti’s advantages with modern medical science. When “Cinderella Man” James J. Braddock fractured his vaunted right, he had to completely change his style. Holman’s case was similar. Somewhere along the way, his brittle hands forced him to become mobile and concentrate on the softer region of his opponent’s body. He learned to rely on elegance and less on power.
Considering what he faced over a 188-bout career, he needed both.
Fighters didn’t come any more dangerous (or more avoided) than those in boxing’s Murderers' Row. They still don’t. This ferocious set of black fighters was active on the west coast in the ‘40s. Not one of them got a world title shot, so they fought each other. Holman warred with fellow members of the row 36 times: He faced Cocoa Kid thirteen times, Charley Burley seven times, Bert Lytell and Jack Chase four times, Lloyd Marshall and Eddie Booker three times, and Aaron “Tiger” Wade twice.
They were all condemned to Murderers’ Row for the same reasons –their level of skill made them dangerous to champions and the color of their skin made them easier to avoid.
Archie Moore never forgot them. Like Holman, he fought them all. Like Holman, he gave them hell and got hell in return. Unlike Holman, Archie finally took a throne during Christmastime 1952 and became light heavyweight champion of the world. He was 36 years old. And he had a secret: Archie knew that had it not been for his grim resolve to defy age and injustice he too would have been condemned to the row.
He was grateful to them, and he felt sorry for them.
So, when fate smiled on the Old Mongoose, he made damn sure to lift them up just a little bit by mentioning their names during interviews and in print –he was a king who remembered those who made him great. Budd Schulberg listened. It was he who conceptualized their title in 1962: “I went with Moore all the way back to the California days,” he wrote in Esquire, “when he was in there with names unknown to the East but very rugged characters.” Schulberg referred to them as “that murderers’ row of Negro middleweights carefully avoided by the titleholders.”
Until recently, not much more was known about them. Allen S. Rosenfeld and Harry Otty published well-received biographies of Charley Burley and discussed his great rivals, but even they ran into fog and mystery when it came to who those rivals were, where they came from, and where they went.
Part of the problem has been the lack of film. As far as the boxing world knew, action footage existed only of Burley and Marshall. The remaining six were sentenced to indeterminate stretches behind concrete walls; or closets.
And then Doug Cavanaugh did us all a favor.
OUT OF THE CLOSET, INTO THE LIGHT
Cavanaugh recently asked if I’d be willing to take a look at the footage. Three days ago I received a package in the mail and sat in the dark watching images from long ago flicker to life.
Halfway through the video I leaned forward, looking for Holman. Whoever filmed the action sat in the third or fourth row and used a hand-held camera. Someone’s head blocks part of the view and at one point a man in a fedora walks by looking for his seat. These are ghosts.
Two supremely-conditioned athletes fight it out along the ropes. It’s Holman all right. His opponent looks like Young Gene Buffalo, a Philadelphia fighter who faced Murderers’ Row eight times and won none. I realized it when I saw another clip showing the same ring from the same seat that could only have been filmed by the same person. It showed Joe Louis-Abe Simon I. Records show that Holman defeated Buffalo on the undercard of his friend’s title defense at the Olympia Stadium in Detroit. It was March 21, 1941.
For 15 seconds, it is March 21, 1941.
Holman is very aggressive though his balance is perfect and his execution flawless. His hands aren’t bad yet; that right cross seems particularly hard. I note that he moves in a gallop –exactly like those old fight reports said he did. I also note that Joe Louis was right and will stay right forever: this is “a beautiful boxer.”
As Holman throws wicked combinations to the head and body of Buffalo, cigar smoke swirls in a corner outside the ring. It rises to the rafters like a prayer of thanks in the red light district. Just before the footage blinks off, he has Buffalo’s back on the ropes and presses his gloves on his biceps to stop any offense as he begins to move back. Then something special happens.
Holman Williams, alive again and in his prime, turns his head from the action and glances straight into the camera… at us.
Here is the clip: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zje1xxmDrdA
Photograph appears courtesy of Harry Otty.
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[root@study ~]# rpm -qa | wc -l
[root@study ~]# yum list installed | wc -l
Example, CentOS 7 :
$ rpm -qa | wc -l 1733 $ yum list installed | wc -l 1757
wc will also count the 24 "extra yum lines" ... please check with :
$ yum list installed >> yum-list-installed.txt $ rpm -qa >> list__rpm-qa.txt
... and watch the result in the text files : Use an editor with line numbers enabled.
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We covered the original question, but what if we tweaked it to say, "What if you traveled almost as fast as the speed of light?" In that case, you would experience some interesting effects. One famous result is something physicists call time dilation, which describes how time runs more slowly for objects moving very rapidly. If you flew on a rocket traveling 90 percent of light-speed, the passage of time for you would be halved. Your watch would advance only 10 minutes, while more than 20 minutes would pass for an Earthbound observer.
You would also experience some strange visual consequences. One such consequence is called aberration, and it refers to how your whole field of view would shrink down to a tiny, tunnel-shaped "window" out in front of your spacecraft. This happens because photons (those exceedingly tiny packets of light) -- even photons behind you -- appear to come in from the forward direction. In addition, you would notice an extreme Doppler effect, which would cause light waves from stars in front of you to crowd together, making the objects appear blue. Light waves from stars behind you would spread apart and appear red. The faster you go, the more extreme this phenomenon becomes until all visible light from stars in front of the spacecraft and stars to the rear become completely shifted out of the known visible spectrum (the colors humans can see). When these stars move out of your perceptible wavelength, they simply appear to fade to black or vanish against the background.
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History of the City of Kirtland
Ten-thousand years ago, Kirtland was under a huge glacier slowly moving toward the Ohio River. As the glacier melted, it left a mixture of soils and stones along with Gildersleeve Mountain, Pierson's Knob, the east branch of the Chagrin River and various ravines, gullies and streams.
The first known settlers in Kirtland were Indians around 6000 BC. Over time various Indian tribes, France, England, and the states of Virginia, Massachusetts, New York, and Connecticut, along with the United States government have all laid claim to Kirtland.
After the United States was established, a portion of Northern Ohio was designated as the Western Reserve. A section of the Western Reserve, including Kirtland, was given to the state of Connecticut after the Revolutionary War. The state of Connecticut formed the Connecticut Western Reserve Land Company which sold the land for 50 cents per acre. In addition, soldiers from the Continental Army were granted land in the Western Reserve in payment for their service during the Revolutionary War.
Daniel Holbrook, II, a stockholder in the Connecticut Western Reserve Land Company, obtained land in the Northwest Territory. Most of Holbrook’s parcels, including Kirtland, were given to agent Moses Cleaveland to subdivide and sell. Turhand Kirtland (a principal in the Connecticut Land Company, veteran of the American Revolutionary War, and a judge in Trumbull County) purchased the Kirtland parcel that was later named after him.
In 1803, Ohio was granted statehood and the state was divided into townships. Kirtland Township was initially part of Trumbull County and then Geauga County. In the late 1840's, Kirtland Township became part of the newly formed Lake County. Kirtland Township was governed by three citizens, elected as trustees, and a clerk. The trustees had limited governing power. They could establish and maintain township roads, cemeteries, appoint a fire department, take care of the poor, settle property line disputes, and place levies on the ballot for money to govern.
Kirtland Township was a farming community with dairies, orchards, poultry and potato farms. Christopher D. Crary, Kirtland's first settler and a Revolutionary War soldier, settled in the area of the South Kirtland Cemetery with his family. Estella Crary is believed to have become Kirtland’s first school teacher in 1814.
A special election was held in 1968 and Kirtland Township incorporated into a village, with a council and mayor to govern. In 1969, a Kirtland income tax was approved by voters and the first police department was established.
In 1970, the federal census confirmed that Kirtland Village exceeded 5000 citizens. Kirtland became a city in February 1971. In 1972, a Charter Commission created the first Charter for the city of Kirtland. The new charter was approved by the voters and Kirtland became a charter city. Kirtland remains a charter city today.
Two Presidents of the United States have visited Kirtland, including President Bush in 2005 and 2006.
The city of Kirtland, known as “The City of Faith and Beauty”, celebrated its 40th birthday in 2010. Holden Arboretum, Lake Metroparks, Lakeland Community College, the grounds and flower beds of the Kirtland Mormon Temple and Kirtland Recreation Park help form our beauty, and the 10 churches help us keep the faith. | <urn:uuid:e149deb9-8f83-4a5f-98d8-00ec13b1ec6b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.kirtlandohio.com/info/kirtland-history.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00088-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974082 | 735 | 3.40625 | 3 |
Paris: Collection of White Nettles // Collection des Orties Blanches [Printed by R. Bussières, in Saint-Amand (Cher)], nd [circa 1925]. First Edition Thus. Original Wraps. A black women on a mission to free slaves becomes a Madam. First published in London by Charles Carrington. Includes frontispiece and 7 heliogravures. The illustrations by Louis Malteste are quite exceptional, the frontispiece is particularly excellent.
French translation of The Memoirs of Dolly Morton, published in 1899 and 1901. Recent scholarly research suggests that Dolly Morton was one of James Joyce's sources of inspiration for passages from Ulysses. Very Good in Wraps. Minor shelf/edge wear, minor toning of textblock focused at edges, crease at one corner and minor chips to glassine DJ, else tight, bright, and unmarred. Printed paper wraps, red and black ink lettering. 8vo. 247pp. Illus. (b/w plates). Item #10080 | <urn:uuid:87e58f68-764d-45a9-84d6-6b8b904e4824> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.luxmentis.com/pages/books/10080/donovan-kipps-louis-malteste/dolly-morton-only-authentic-memoirs-on-the-flogging-of-slaves-before-the-american-civil-war-the | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.865041 | 233 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Business Insider Africa gathered that the demonstrators have specifically been protesting against skyrocketing energy cost and the newly imposed e-levy which mandates Ghanaians to pay a 1.5% tax for every electronic transaction they carry out.
Demonstrators take to the streets of Accra to protest worsening economic hardship
Hundreds of Ghanaians took to the streets of Accra on Tuesday to protest against worsening economic hardship. They did same earlier today.
While the police were initially cooperative with the demonstrators on Tuesday, officers were reportedly later forced to use water canons, rubber bullets and teargas to "restore order" when the protest seemed to be getting out of hands.
Reuters reported that about 12 officers were injured, even as some police vans were vandalised during the face-off. And even though the protesters later dispersed, the protest resumed again today with large crowds on the streets of Accra.
Like most people across different countries in Africa, Ghanaians have been going through tough economic times due to a myriad of macroeconomic challenges. For one, inflation rate had accelerated to 27.60% in May 2022, according to latest stats from the Ghana Statistical Service.
In the same vein, the country's economic growth slowed to 3.3% in Q1 2022, even as the Ghanaian Cedi has lost about 22% of its value (against the US dollar) between January till date.
In the meantime, prices of essential commodities and consumables are skyrocketing, exacerbated by Russia's ongoing war on Ukraine.
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Since you are here, we probably don’t need to remind you that the mission of Flip The Fleet is to:
Accelerate the uptake of EVs in New Zealand through providing scientific data, helping each other and informing the debate.
This is no easy feat for a professor of sustainability, a data scientist. a software entrepreneur and a core group of wonderful supporters. But since our launch three years ago, we’ve given it a big push, engaging over 1,800 of you to sign up, collecting nearly 23,000 rows of monthly data, generating over 100 media mentions, publishing over 100 pieces of content, published a report that was the most viewed scientific paper on PrePrints.org until recent, presented on your contributions at a global EV conference in Japan and even managed to win New Zealand’s “Smarter Transport” sustainability award along the way.
We also partnered with Exact IOT to trial the EV Black Box – a next-generation-data-collection project partly funded by EECA and Curious Minds. Not without hick-ups related to Nissan’s advice not to use OBD2 devices, since April 2018, the EV Black Boxes running in New Zealand have cumulatively collected over 3 millions rows of detailed CANBUS data, allowing us to publish some interesting findings on charging behaviours of Kiwis, as one example.
You – our drivers – have allowed us to achieve all of the above. And now – we hope for your buy-in and help once more with the next iteration of the EV Black Box, and Exact IOT’s partnership with CloudMade – a global leader in the design, development and delivery of artificial intelligence based solutions for the automotive industry.
About CloudMade and their EV Data Collection Program
(This section was provided by CloudMade)
CloudMade is a startup based across Ukraine, UK, France, Germany and the USA, and their mission is to create the building blocks and business logic that help the automotive industry connect the dots on every human journey. They are aiming to achieve this by linking intelligent apps with intelligent vehicles, and over the last 10 years their focus has been on the design, development and delivery of artificial intelligence based technology for the automotive and mobility use cases.
Since August 2019, Natalia Petrishina (Data Collection Product Manager and Product Support Manager, pictured above) and the Data Science team at CloudMade has been working with Exact IOT on improving the EV Black box to enable it to collect additional streams of data from each trip. This work aims to study people’s driving patterns and how they correlate with the car’s usage and performance. The collected data will be used by CloudMade to make the EV itself more efficient and alleviate some of the concerns EV owners most often have, such as:
- Running out of charge
- Poorly performing battery
- Driving range issues
- Finding a charging station
- Lack of info about the duration of charging
CloudMade believes that the collected data will go a long way towards developing smart technologies that will enable things like range optimization, preconditioned reminders and smart charging. These and many other features that can reduce range anxiety, increase battery efficiency and most importantly – take one more step towards the mainstream adoption of electric vehicles.
If you wish to learn even more, click the button below to download detailed PDF overview:
CloudMade’s EV Data Collection Program is an exciting and innovative project, and now you have a chance to be a part of it!
What we think
Since CloudMade’s vision around collecting data is closely shared by our team at Flip The Fleet, we jumped at the opportunity to help fine-tune this exciting new technology by helping find some willing participants in New Zealand. You don’t need to be contributing data to Flip The Fleet to take part in the CloudMade program, but if you are – the Flip The Fleet portal will automatically pull the last bit of monthly data from CloudMade for your Leaf, meaning, your battery data will be automatically populated for you in your Flip The Fleet dashboard at the end of each month while you take part! Neat, huh?
How you can take part
CloudMade plans to roll out one hundred EV Black Boxes in New Zealand over the next few months. The criteria to take part is pretty simple:
- You must be regularly-ish driving a Gen 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 Nissan Leaf.
- The program runs for 6 months, with possible continuation depending on how it goes.
- You’ll need to install an app onto the smartphone you usually carry with you while driving the car.
- If you take part, an EV Black Box will be sent out to you for you to install into your car. The installation process only takes a few minutes, and you only need a Phillips screwdriver to do the installation. At the end of the program, you’ll need to send the EV Black Box back in a provided pre-paid return box.
Here’s a short 6-minute video about the installation process – please take some time to review it to make sure you’ll comfortable with it:
Sounds great! I’d like to take part. How do I sign up?
It couldn’t be easier. Simply do one of these three things, and we’ll take it from here:
1. Click on firstname.lastname@example.org to generate a new email on your device and click “Send”, or….
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Have you received one of those letters in the mail asking you to send money to help wounded veterans from Iraq and Afghanistan?
If so, I hope you ignored it — not because I do not care about our troops, but because I do. It turns out that at least two of these charities are run by people who would rather line their own pockets than help veterans.
One charity is called Help Hospitalized Veterans. The Washington Post reports that this outfit spent hundreds of thousands of dollars on personal expenses for Roger Chapin, who manages the charity. Richard Viguerie, "to whom the charity has awarded millions in fundraising-consulting contracts," also reportedly used contributions to pay for personal expenses.
What kind of expenses? At least $340,000 in meals, hotels, and entertainment. And Mike Lynch, the executive director, received a loan of $135,000 for a divorce settlement for his ex-wife. Donations also paid for trips to Hawaii, country club memberships, and a million-dollar loan to Viguerie for a start-up initiative at his company. That does not even count the half-a-million-dollar yearly salary Chapin paid himself and his wife!
The second charity, the Coalition to Support America's Heroes, raised in excess of $168 million from 2004 to 2006. How much did America's heroes actually get? One-quarter. The rest went to direct-mail fundraising, salaries, and other expenses.
These abuses-both of the people who donated the money and the veterans the funds were supposed to benefit-were so serious that Congress decided to investigate. Retired Army General Tommy Franks, who had lent his name to Coalition to Support America's Heroes, stopped doing so when he found out how little money was actually helping the veterans.
Last week Congress condemned Chapin for what they called "an intolerable fraud"-squandering money intended for wounded warriors. When asked what would happen if the public found out, Chapin answered, "We'd be out of business." Let's hope so!
The military charity scandals illustrate why good character is so important when we are choosing leaders — whether they are leaders of charities or leaders of government. The Old Testament reminds us that leaders are not to pervert justice or take bribes. They should fear God and hate dishonest gain.
All waste and fraud are wrong, but the squandering of money intended for our veterans truly makes me ill. These are the men and women who risked their lives to protect America. To exploit our veterans to enrich oneself is contemptible.
Shockingly, there are not any laws that require charities to tell donors how their contributions are used. This means that when appeals arrive in your mailbox, like those letters with the coin in the window or the dollar bill, watch out. I would take the money, give it to a deserving charity, and throw the letter away.
You can check on charities' records with a watchdog group-like the American Institute of Philanthropy. Or go to Wallwatchers.org for information on Christian charities. And I urge you to visit the BreakPoint website for a list of fiscally responsible charities that help our men and women in uniform-charities that offer our wounded veterans the help they richly deserve. | <urn:uuid:62a2d67a-04e4-42be-a68d-02f9bf342c91> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://catholicexchange.com/exploiting-americas-veterans | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00005-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965619 | 666 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Fire Alarm -- Description
During fire, if a wire breaks, Class A Wiring provides an alternate route for signals to pass between field devices and the fire alarm panel.
How Does Class A Fire Alarm Wiring Work?
By Douglas Krantz
Fire alarm systems save lives and protect property. Fire alarm systems
also break down because they're electrical.
Class A or Class B wiring loops help the fire alarm panel to find and fix these breakdowns (faults) before a fire, while there is time for repairs.
Class B Loops
Normal Class B wiring - All devices are supervised and working.
In conventional Class B Loops
, all devices are daisy-chained together. By watching a small electrical current passing through the wires, the panel supervises them, and to limit this supervising current, at the end of the daisy-chain is an end-of-line resistor. The panel constantly watches for this current.
Open Fault in the Class B wiring. Supervision tells the panel that the wiring does not go through, but also the devices further from the panel don't work.
If the supervising current
stops flowing, the panel assumes a wire is broken (an open fault), and displays a trouble. When a wire breaks in Class B, the devices closest to the panel will still work, but because of the wire break, the devices further from the panel are cut off.
Class A Loops
Normal Class A wiring - All devices are supervised and working.
Under normal conditions, Class A Loops are similar to Class B Loops, but with an important difference.
Class A wiring takes error detection further than Class B. If a wire breaks, the panel uses a redundant wire path to maintain communication with devices beyond the break. Here even though a wire is broken, all devices work.
To keep more devices working, Class A uses a second path from the fire alarm panel; a redundant wire loop goes around the broken wire. A fire can still be detected, because, using this redundant path, most, if not all, devices on the loop remain connected to the panel.
Basically, when the fire alarm panel detects an open wire
in the Class A Loop, it automatically switches to using two separate un-supervised Class B loops. The first one is the original Class A loop, and second one back-feeds on the separate pair of wires to make the second Class B loop.
Most of the devices on the original Class A loop will be on either the first or the second Class B loop.
Separation on Class A Wiring Routes
The question is asked: In Class A wiring, how close to the feed wires are we allowed to get the return wires?
The answer is: It depends. During a fire, as the fire damages the wiring, how badly does one want the fire alarm system to continue to work?
- The feed and return wires can be in the same bundle or conduit if there's no concern.
- The feed will be in one part of the building and the return will be in the opposite part of the building if one is concerned about life safety.
True Class A wiring schemes make sure to protect the redundant return path by routing it through the building on a separate route.
The concern here is that whatever breaks a wire in the first part of the loop might break all the wires in the same bundle. An example: A forklift tears through all the wires in a bundle at once. If both feed and return wiring routes use the same wire bundle, and the whole bundle of wires is broken, and all the devices beyond the break will not communicate with the panel.
In that case, Class A wiring will not be any better than Class B.
The NFPA Code does allow for some exceptions, but mostly the code says the outgoing wiring path and the incoming wiring path should be separated by some distance.
Resetting Class A Troubles
Most fire alarm panels automatically restore trouble messages when the trouble is repaired. However, because the Class A Loop isn't supervised the same way as Class B Loops, the fire alarm panel can't detect corrections.
With Class A faults, after correcting the open fault, resetting the panel will clear the trouble message.
Bottom Line for Class A
Class A Loop wiring uses both a primary wire path, and a redundant secondary wire path.
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As a boy the one poem I learned off by heart was John Masefield’s ‘Cargoes’. In particular one stanza stuck in my mind, a description of Channel traffic probably inspired by Masefield’s own days at sea, and first published in 1902.
Dirty British coaster with a salt-caked smoke stack,
Butting through the Channel in the mad March days,
With a cargo of Tyne coal,
Firewood, iron-ware, and cheap tin trays.
Of course the industries these coasters served are long gone to foreign parts. The coasters themselves have vanished save the examples left in Museums. Now looking some 12 miles out to sea, where the westward bound lane of Channel shipping can be seen, ships passing look like huge blocks of flats laden with containers which wrecks along the English coast in recent years have shown to be full of diverse products such as Lego, engineered timber planks or BMW motorcycles.
Newhaven harbour used to be a busy coaster port, left behind by larger more modern places needed to dock the huge vessels used today, and in decline. A ferry still runs to Dieppe, tracing the route taken by some 6,500 Canadians in WW2 in the disastrous dress rehearsal for D-Day that started from here. Almost 70% of the forces landed on the Normandy beaches were British or Commonwealth soldiers (notwithstanding the pretensions of American historians) and the lessons learned so painfully at Dieppe saved many lives.
Looking across the bay housing now occupies sites where in 1916 tented camps housed troops waiting to go to war – troops that mutinied and rampaged through Seaford when an Atlantic gale roared up the Channel and blew away their tents, leaving many of them naked if contemporary accounts are to be believed. The golf course has pill boxes as well as bunkers, and the chalk cliffs are honeycombed with underground defensive works.
My own idyllic garden stands where huts once stood as billets, and the craft that fly over the cliffs are now the hangliders of modern leisure flyers, the purr of Merlins occasionally summoned from collective memories by an exhibition flight of Spitfire or Hurricane. Now the bay is full of people enjoying a varied leisure time, no longer working 7 day weeks, no longer working 16hour days. Instead they enjoy a rich life and in doing so add to the visual tapestry of other lives.
Now the shipping carries the products of Europe to the far corners of the globe in return for its riches, no “quinquiremes of Nineveh from distant Ophir” but canoes paddled down the river from distant Lewes, or power boats from Brighton marina. The wrecks off this coast are testament to the dangers of the onshore storms that frequently blow, as well as to the ancient wrecking traditions of Seaford folk in the 13th and 14th centuries.
Yet still 70% of trade goes by sea, much carried through the Channel, a modern seafarers motorway. No longer
Stately Spanish galleon coming from the Isthmus,
Dipping through the Tropics by the palm-green shores,
With a cargo of diamonds,
Topazes, and cinnamon, and gold moidores.
Now is the ‘Côte d’Alabastre’ unloading camper vans and tourists with personal loads of French wines and cheeses, coming into Newhaven from France. Nowadays we get our wines from Sainsbury’s, trucked in, not delivered by sea.
The romance of the sea and travel remains, and much as in Masefield’s day man sought to emulate the birds and fly, the para-gliders ascend along the cliff line trying to soar as the gulls so effortlessly do, whilst above the contrails left by the jet powered successors to the Wright flyer carry holidaymakers to the sunny shores Masefield alluded to.
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In a study published March 25 in Nature Immunology, George Hajishengallis, DDS, PhD, and his team -- in collaboration with a group led by Triantafyllos Chavakis, MD, PhD -- showed that administration of Del-1 in the oral cavity reduces the production of interleukin 17 (IL-17) and also inhibits periodontal bone loss. IL-17 is an important element of the inflammatory cascade.
"We think Del-1 is a very promising molecule for a new therapy in periodontitis and other inflammatory diseases," said Dr. Hajishengallis, who is professor of microbiology at the University of Pennsylvania's School of Dental Medicine. "It worked very potently in our experiments so in principle it could also work well in humans, although this will take time to determine."
Meeting of the minds
The work began in earnest in 2008 when Dr. Hajishengallis met Dr. Chavakis, from Dresden University of Technology in Germany, for the first time at an innate-immunity meeting in Greece. Both were delving into the functions of Del-1, which is produced by endothelial cells.
Dr. Hajishengallis' team had established that lower levels of Del-1 are associated with increased periodontal bone loss in old age. Dr. Chavakis presented data at the meeting showing Del-1 inhibits the action of lymphocyte function-associated antigen 1 (LFA-1). This inhibition in turn reduces the ability of neutrophils to adhere to blood-vessel walls, a necessary step in tissue infiltration (Science, November 2008; Vol. 322:5904, pp. 1101-1104).
"I was very enthusiastic when I heard Dr. Chavakis' talk because I immediately realized the implications of his research," recalled Dr. Hajishengallis. "So I asked him if he was interested in a collaboration."
“Del-1 acts as the local keeper of the homeostatic balance in the periodontium.”
— George Hajishengallis, DDS, PhD
The teams worked in tandem to demonstrate that periodontitis becomes more prevalent with age because Del-1 production decreases over time, resulting in less inhibition of LFA-1 and, hence, larger numbers of neutrophils in the periodontium.
"Both mice genetically engineered to not produce Del-1 in old but otherwise normal mice -- which also have practically no Del-1-- have periodontal tissue that is full of neutrophils," said Dr. Hajishengallis. "Strikingly, mice that were engineered to produce neither Del-1 nor LFA-1 did not have high levels of neutrophils in the periodontium because there was no LFA-1 and, hence, no LFA-1-mediated migration of neutrophils into the tissue."
Molecular detective work
These are among the findings published in the new paper. The team also found that both Del-1-deficient young mice and otherwise normal old mice have very high levels of IL-17 in the periodontium due to the accumulation of neutrophils, which produce IL-17. Furthermore, they found that IL-17 inhibits production of Del-1, which consequently cannot inhibit the action of LFA-1. This leads to uncontrolled tissue infiltration by neutrophils.
Through more molecular detective work, they made another key discovery. Mice lacking Del-1, which normally would give the neutrophils a "get out of jail free" card and allow them to infiltrate tissue without interference, and that lack the receptor for IL-17 -- which renders the mouse cells "deaf" to the potential effects of the IL-17 -- do not develop periodontitis.
"Together, this evidence unequivocally said to us that IL-17 is destructive, at least in the mouse model we developed," said Dr. Hajishengallis. "This is the first paper to make a causal link between IL-17 and destruction of tissue in periodontitis and to show how the link can be broken."
The pièce de résistance came when the researchers injected Del-1 into the periodontium of old mice, which naturally develop periodontitis. As a result, the mice periodontium had lower levels of IL-17, as well as fewer neutrophils -- fewer of other cell types associated with inflammation and less bone loss.
Similarly, when they induced periodontitis in young mice and treated them with Del-1 either locally or systemically, "these mice were also protected," stated Dr. Hajishengallis. "In other words, Del-1 acts as the local keeper of the homeostatic balance in the periodontium by preventing excessive neutrophil infiltration and IL-17 production."
The teams hope to conduct more animal experimentation and then begin clinical testing. Among the goals is to attempt to determine how to increase endogenous Del-1 production in the elderly.
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Writing at the FT, Simon Kuper quotes Szymanski to explain what is going on:
Western Europe and the US still occupy five of the top nine places in London’s medals table. But at the Rio Olympics of 2016, more developing countries should start following China into the elite. Stefan Szymanski, sports economist at the University of Michigan, says: “It entirely reflects what’s going on in the global economy. Their GDP is going up, so they are going to devote more resources to sport, so they are going to do better.”. . .While the macro-trends in the global economy appear to be well understood, as we have seen, it is quite another thing to be able to anticipate the particulars. Social scientists and policy researchers should take note -- despite the subject matter, there is a very important lesson here about what sorts of outcomes are predictable and which are not.
by 2016, Europe’s spending cuts will have bitten. Britain has already slashed funding for school sport. Across the west, athletes will lose resources.
Meanwhile new countries are rising. India – which had never won an individual gold medal before Beijing – is putting unprecedented public and private funds into sport. It has just four medals in London so far, but should improve in Rio.
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06 Αυγ Stanford College Study Finds Partners Which Meet Using The Internet Tend To Be More Diverse
Researchers have long already been fascinated with the ways online dating sites changed the way we meet and accommodate. A Pew Research Center evaluation of not too long ago introduced survey data from Stanford college found that on the web daters will select partners who’re distinctive from all of them in competition or ethnicity, earnings level, training or governmental affiliation.
The Stanford survey, just how partners satisfy and Stay Collectively 2017, obtained responses from 3,510 U.S. grownups who are presently married, presently in an union, or who’ve ever before previously experienced a commitment. Couples exactly who found on line had been very likely to date someone with another training amount, political ideology or race/ethnicity than lovers which found offline. The difference between people who came across online and traditional was actually specifically significant for governmental party and race/ethnicity.
Three in 10 participants just who found their particular spouse online reported that their own lover is actually yet another race or ethnicity, when compared to 19 % of participants which found their own partner traditional. A more substantial percentage of people that found their unique spouse on the web in addition stated they don’t really share their own partner’s political thinking (46 % vs. 40 %). For a number of lovers with differing governmental views, one individual leans to or perhaps is affiliated with a specific party whilst the different is actually a completely independent or unsure.
There is a simple description for this technology, describes Pew analysis Center. People of internet dating solutions tend to be more youthful as opposed to those which satisfy offline, and younger individuals are prone to maintain connections with associates that distinct from all of them, it doesn’t matter how they fulfill. The median ages of review participants just who met their lovers online had been 36. For offline partners, the median age was actually 51.
The difference between traditional daters an internet-based daters largely disappear after managing for age. Filter the data set-to check merely at Us americans in chronilogical age of 40, and you’ll find that nearly equivalent portion of the just who came across their particular spouse online (49per cent) and offline (48per cent) say their unique lover identifies with a separate governmental party. Comparable rates (31% using the internet, 27% offline) state their unique partner is of a different race or ethnicity.
The Stanford University information backs up previous results from economists Josue Ortega on University of Essex and Philipp Hergovich within University of Vienna. In 2017, Ortega and Hergovich published articles which they evaluated the results of online dating sites and variety. They figured internet dating is generating more powerful, happier plus diverse marriages. | <urn:uuid:d8628cdd-131b-498e-bfa9-32c0ebca8f21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://adlogic.gr/stanford-college-study-finds-partners-which-meet-using-the-internet-tend-to-be-more-diverse/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.951388 | 572 | 1.914063 | 2 |
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The school day at OLMC Academy is interwoven with the practice of virtue. Students must not only be well educated, but well rounded, especially gaining a an understanding and love of the Catholic religion. You can download the complete 2017-2018 OLMCA High School Curriculum here.
The goal of Catholic education is to form the man of sufficient character to live the good life. For this to be accomplished there is required not only a deep knowledge of the truths of the Faith, their basis, reasonableness and consequences, but also a true penetration of the will and the imagination with the spirit of Christ.
Our Theology courses from Grades 9 to 12 aim to provide a deep understanding of the Faith adapted to the adolescent mind which is on a quest for truth and understanding. Just as the simple elements of English and Math are no longer enough for the adolescent mind, so also the elementary truths of the Faith must be developed in a way adapted to a newly questioning mind. The OLMC graduate should leave convinced not only how to live his life and why, but also how to defend and spread the Faith.
Courses include: Theology 1, Theology 2, Theology 3, and Theology 4
The purpose of language is to clearly express ideas. Ideas should be clear in mind and well articulated in speech and writing. The human intellect is limited by its ability to categorize and to express thoughts. Competent communication of the English language translates into competent thought. Therefore, language studies are essential to a student’s intellectual formation, regardless of what future direction of study he may choose after school.
The study of English literature is presented as a quest for truth, goodness, and beauty. Good literature is not that which is merely well written and constructed, but rather that which, to the exposition of truth about God, about man in all his aspects, and about nature, is joined beauty of form and style. Classics of literature are presented in a way to educate the ability to discriminate between truly great literature, lesser forms, and bad literature.
In accordance with Pius IX’s instruction “Inter multiplices”, pagan works are not ignored, but are expurgated of gross content prejudicial to the age development of the student.
Courses include: English Literature 1, English Literature 2, English Literature 3, and English Literature 4; English Expression 1, English Expression 2, English Expression 3, and English Expression 4
Before a graduate practices a profession or trade, he must be first a thinking human being with a wide knowledge of philosophy, history, and culture, and the ability to practice the musical and fine arts. Crucially, the Humanities program seeks to inculcate the vital skill of discernment between truth and falsehood, good and evil, and between beauty and ugliness.
Due to their size and scope, the humanities are further broken down into separate plans as follows:
Philosophy plan, which include courses: Philosophy 1, Philosophy 2, Philosophy 3, and Philosophy 4
History plan, which include courses: History 1, History 2, History 3, and History 4
Latin plan, which include courses: Latin 1, Latin 2, Latin 3, and Latin 4
Music plan, which include courses: Music 1, Music 2, Music 3, and Music 4
Mathematics can serve to lay the foundations for a strong intellectual life in many ways. The most important aspect of mathematics is that it combats scepticism and uncertainty in adolescents. In other words, it answers the question: How can anything we are learning be true with certainty?
The Math studied here is based on the very successful “Cambridge International” program and requires rigorous mental exercise. In eleventh grade students must make a choice between two routes: Statistics and Pure Math or Consumer Math and Data Management. Students who are interested in university level studies should choose the challenging Statistics and Pure Math route.
Courses include: IGCSE Math 1 and IGCSE Math 2
Option 1: Pure Math 1 and Statistics 1
Option 2: Consumer Math and Data Management
The focus of the Science Program is to prepare students for the kind of methodical thinking that will assist them in approaching problems with confidence in their lives. The experimental method is taught as one way to approach the unknown in the natural world. A study of the sciences will assist students in knowing what it feels like to learn something through experimentation and be able to apply it with beneficial results in the physical world.
Experimental science, by definition, cannot touch the final cause which is the cause of causes. Logical thinking can present theories for science as well. Students are shown that experimental science is a rigorous, valuable way of obtaining certain knowledge, but it is not the only way.
Courses include: IGCSE Chemistry, IGCSE Physics, IGCSE Biology, Open Science, Astronomy
Not all lessons are suitably taught in the structured classroom environment. Some require more hands on or interactive instruction. These courses are essential for ordering the leisure time of our students and for directing them to their proper place in society.
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Gov. Charlie Crist wants to hold a special legislative session in December to cut a deal on commuter rail. The goal is to find a revenue stream for commuter rail systems in South Florida and greater Orlando. The state believes that will impress Washington enough to commit $2.5 billion in federal funds for an eventual high-speed rail line serving Tampa-Orlando-Miami. Florida needs all three rail systems — and the state must show a commitment to fund these operations for the long term. But the current proposal is a gimmick that does not secure rail, protect Floridians or send the right message to Washington.
Federal transit officials told Florida this fall to get its act together if it hoped to win federal funding for a high-speed rail system 25 years in the making. Florida has committed land and completed environmental studies for a high-speed rail link along Interstate 4 between Tampa and Orlando. The goal is to extend the line to Miami and connect it with other high-speed rail systems in development throughout the country. Federal officials said they wanted some sign that the state would support rail over the many years the system takes to mature.
Local officials in greater Orlando and South Florida saw this as a chance to finance their own regional rail systems. This is unfortunate, because high-speed was always a separate system and the troubles facing SunRail in Orlando and Tri-Rail in South Florida are serious enough that they could easily undermine Florida's high-speed bid rather than help it. In the case of SunRail, legislators have balked at the $1.2 billion price tag of a 61-mile line from DeLand to Poinciana, and the demand by the track owner, CSX, that the state indemnify the rail company against accidents.
In the case of Tri-Rail, South Florida legislators have repeatedly failed to secure stable funding for the Palm Beach-Broward-Miami-Dade system. Without funding for operations, South Florida officials fear the federal government will seek to recoup $256-million it spent on Tri-Rail.
The proposal gaining steam would commit unexpected, increased revenues from state vehicle fees and gasoline taxes toward SunRail and Tri-Rail. The money — about $76 million over the coming year — could get SunRail off the ground and go a long way toward supplying Tri-Rail with the $40 million or more it needs annually. It would enable lawmakers to avoid approving a rental car tax or other levy to finance the lines or establish the state's commitment to rail.
But what if the anticipated gas tax surpluses — estimated to be $376 million over a decade — do not materialize? Will the state reach into the transportation trust fund, or general revenue, to make up the loss? Or would that cost be shifted to local taxpayers in South Florida or greater Orlando? And what is the argument for taking those surpluses away from the state's road-building trust fund, which has nowhere near the capacity to meet Florida's needs? This is not dedicating a revenue stream; it is pinning rail to a 10-year economic forecast. And what is the split between SunRail and Tri-Rail? Better yet, why should motorists in Naples or the Panhandle subsidize local mass transit hundreds of miles away that they will never use?
An even bigger issue is SunRail's proposal to indemnify CSX for accidents that occur in the rail corridor the two would share. State and local officials say CSX is open to renegotiating the liability agreement. But there is no language on the table about reducing the public's exposure, which could dwarf any annual subsidies for SunRail or Tri-Rail. Lawmakers need to hold firm and insist CSX be responsible for accidents the company causes.
Crist is right to want to move quickly. Federal officials will award the high-speed money within months, and they need a strong sign that Florida will invest in rail. But the terms of the deal shaping this would-be special session are half-baked. It would not limit the financial risks to state taxpayers. It would not provide the two commuter lines the stable revenue stream they need. Nor would it provide a strong signal that Florida is responsible and deserves the federal rail money. SunRail, Tri-Rail and high-speed rail are all important to commuters and the Florida economy. But it is important to get the details right. | <urn:uuid:6ce69227-6061-4ad6-827f-576a175c6e0d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tampabay.com/opinion/editorials/rail-idea-on-wrong-track/1054855 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00292-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95389 | 885 | 1.523438 | 2 |
By Peter Gibbs
BBC Weather Centre
Hurricane Ivan is now a threat to Cuba and Florida
With hurricanes battering the Americas again, it is worth remembering that the 2003 season was also very active.
However, very few storms made landfall and so there was little media attention.
Hurricanes are natural phenomena and have been storming the globe for thousands of years.
They are important features of the Earth's atmosphere as they transfer heat and energy from the equator to the poles.
As to whether today's hurricanes are stronger and more destructive than in the past, many factors must be taken into account and it is often very hard to gauge.
Global warming has recently been at the forefront of media attention and the likely rise in global temperatures has often been linked with the increasing frequency and ferocity of worldwide storms.
is a spinning vortex of
winds swirling round a eye
of very low pressure
Warm, moist air is drawn
upwards around the eye
Cooler dry air is
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low pressure centre
Banks of thunderstorms
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It could be said that a rise in sea surface temperatures will surely increase the area where these storms can form, therefore it is likely to increase the frequency of such hazards.
However, there are many areas which currently have sea temperatures of over 26C but which do not spawn hurricane development.
There are in fact so many other factors which influence the development of hurricanes - the influence of El Nino, seasonal Saharan rainfall and wind shear to name but a few - that it is very difficult to pinpoint any effect that global warming might have.
What we do know is that for a hurricane to form, several conditions must be fulfilled:
- Sea surface temperatures greater than 26C
- Rapidly cooling air above
- A sufficient spin from the rotating Earth.
A hurricane's strength is measured on a scale of 1 to 5. Five is the strongest wind strength around the eye.
It is defined as a large rotating storm centred on an area of very low pressure, with wind speeds in excess of 119km/h (74mph).
A look back into the history books shows that the number of category 5 storms in the Atlantic Ocean has not increased in recent years.
The 2004 season started rather quietly with no hurricanes and only one tropical storm - defined as having winds of 90-100km/h (55-63mph) - in June and July.
In 2003, two hurricanes and six storms had already occurred in the same period.
August, however, was a different story: four hurricanes and four tropical storms formed, with four of them hitting the Caribbean or the US.
Storms such as Charley and Frances had long, warm sea tracks allowing them to gain moisture and energy as they made their way towards land.
With Ivan and Jeanne bringing the hurricane count to six, it could be said that after a late start, this season is surely shaping up to be a stormy one, and there are still two months to go.
In terms of loss of life, the deadliest hurricane occurred in 1900, when 8,000 people were killed, mainly in Texas.
This was mostly due to the lack of preparedness and technical advancement in understanding such storms.
The costliest of hurricanes, however, occurred in 1992. Hurricane Andrew (a category 5 storm) swept through one of the most densely populated areas of Florida.
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When I was a kid, I was a boy scout. I made it pretty far too but then I became a teenager, decided it was "lame" and quit. As a boy scout, I learned how to tie knots, camp outdoors, be a good citizen, play with knives and got to have cool sleepovers. One of the most important things you learn as a Boy Scout is their motto to always "be prepared," and as I've grown up and traveled the world, I've found this to also be a travel truism.
You never know what might happen on the road. Stepping out your door into the unknown is what makes travel so exciting. Each day brings endless possibility, but that possibility is for both good and bad. You may end up enjoying a day sightseeing in Paris -- or getting robbed in Berlin. You may spend an amazing day on the beaches of Thailand or suffer food poisoning in Costa Rica.
But if you're prepared, you'll be able to face whatever happens to you on the road:
Take Multi-Purpose Gear: Packing multi-use travel gear ensures you can easily adjust to changing conditions and helps reduce the amount of clothing you need to take. I like pants that zip off into shorts, walking shoes that look nice enough for an evening out and using my swim trunks as a pair of shorts. It saves room and I'm prepared for any dress situation.
Carry a Small First-Aid Kit: While we live in 2012, not 1912, and you can find modern medicine anywhere in the world, I always carry a small first air kit with me with a few essential items to be safe. I take Tylenol, stomach illness medicine, eye drops, Band-Aids, scissors, hydrocortisone cream, anti-bacterial ointment and a small supply of doctor-approved antibiotics. I'm usually able to find a pharmacy when I need one, but in case of an emergency it's good to have these items handy.
Pack a Small Flashlight: You'd be surprised how many travelers don't carry one, but a flashlight will prove to be invaluable when you suddenly decide to go caving in Panama, when your hike lasts longer than expected and nightfall sets in or when the electricity goes out unexpectedly, which is not uncommon in a lot of places. I carry a small, waterproof pen flashlight when I travel.
Bring an Umbrella: Many travelers don't pack an umbrella because it adds weight to their bag, and they figure they can just buy one if they ever need it. However, while it does add a small amount of weight, I've found myself thankful for taking it more times than I can count. You never know when you might be exiting an airport or walking down the street and find yourself in a sudden storm. While others run for cover, I simply take out my umbrella and continue to my destination.
Learn Basic Phrases: Locals don't expect you to be an expert in their language, but knowing how to say "hello," "goodbye" and "thank you" go a long way in endearing yourself to locals. After all, wouldn't you be annoyed if someone came to your home and expected you to know their language? Knowing a few key phrases will not only make interactions easier, it will also help you when you bargain for goods, order food, get lost or need help. I download the latest language app for my iPhone when I travel, but for those not using a smartphone, Lonely Planet Guidebooks makes excellent pocket language guides for just about every language spoken, and Benny Lewis wrote this excellent guide on learning languages.
Study Non-Verbal Communication: Most people interact using both verbal and non-verbal communication, so paying attention to facial expressions can help you appropriately read a situation, even if you don't understand the verbal part. When you don't know the language or might take words out of context, keep calm and take a moment to read the feelings of the person. This has helped me defuse tense situations with taxi drivers, vendors and hotel owners. Understanding non-verbal communication doesn't happen overnight. It takes practice, but these websites offer good guides on how to understand non-verbal cues.
Keep Emergency Cash with You: While there is almost always an ATM around these days, you never know when emergency cash might come in handy. You could end up in an airport (like I recently did) and find that none of your ATM cards work and you are stuck without any money. I recommend having a stash of $200 for emergency situations. I don't carry this money around but leave it in my hotel room safe in case something happens.
Have Back Up Cards: I always keep one back-up credit card and bank card with me in case of emergencies. You never know when one bank might decide to lock your account for suspicious activity without telling you -- yes, that has also happened to me -- or when you might get robbed. I recently had my bank account information stolen while I was traveling in Europe. My bank had to deactivate my card, and if I hadn't had a second one with me, I wouldn't have had access to any money.
Make Extra Copies: Keeping copies of your documents can come in handy during an emergency, especially if you lose your originals. If you get robbed or lose your passport, having copies ready for officials can make filing police reports and obtaining new documents much easier. When I lost my passport, my back-up copies helped with my police report and served as my proof of identity at the American embassy. Copy your passport, your health/travel insurance paperwork and your credit cards.
Know What to do When You Lose Your Passport: What do you do when you lose your passport? Losing your passport can be scary, especially if you are planning on traveling soon. I didn't know how to handle it, and trying to figure it out on my own was very confusing. Luckily, I took notes on the entire process for obtaining a new passport overseas -- you can read the full text here, but the main points are as follows:
- Go fill out a police report for your lost passport.
- Go to the State Department website, print out some forms. Fill them out.
- Take the forms to the U.S. Embassy or Consulate during morning hours.
- Wait in line.
- Wait in line some more.
- Show the official your police report, forms, proof of your upcoming travel plans and a passport-sized photo. (If you don't have a photo, embassies have small photo booths where you can take your picture.)
- Read every sign made by the U.S. Department of State while you wait even longer.
- Pay the fee (about $120).
- Go home and eat lunch.
- Come back in the afternoon.
- Wait in line again.
- Get your new temporary passport that will need to be replaced upon returning home.
Carry a List of Emergency Contacts: If something happens to you, having a list of emergency numbers on you will help medical professionals know who to contact. I also keep a list of my allergies with me so if I need treatment and can't answer questions, doctors know what I'm allergic to. I keep two copies: one with me and one in my bag in my hotel room. Because having back ups are important!
Have Travel Insurance: The ultimate form of preparedness, having good travel insurance, will be a blessing when you have to go to the hospital because you popped an ear drum scuba diving or you get sick on the road or break a leg. Chances are nothing is going to happen to you while traveling, but for when it does you are going to want to have insurance. Only a fool travels without it.
Read Before You Go: There's nothing more important than knowing about the place you're visiting. Head to a library or bookstore and get a few books on what life is like where you're going. If someone came into your home and ignored all your rules, you would get upset; the same guidelines are applicable when you travel overseas. Knowing basic rules and etiquette can help you avoid any misunderstandings and leave a favorable impression in your host's minds. Otherwise, you could end up like this British couple who were jailed for kissing in public in Dubai.
You never know when you might face the unexpected, and if there's one thing I've learned from my years of traveling, it's that even the best-laid plans can go awry. You may not use these items all the time, and hopefully you won't ever need some of them, but the point is to be ready when you do. After all, a scout is always prepared.
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Let’s look at that AD8532 dual op-amp mentioned yesterday and start with its “specs”:
The slew rate is relatively low for this unit. Its output voltage can only rise 5V per µs. In a way, this explains the ≈ 0.1 µs phase shift in the image which I’ll repeat again here:
As you can see, the 500 KHz sine wave takes about 200 ns to rise 1 division, i.e. 0.5V, so it’s definitely nearing the limit of this op-amp. Let’s push it a bit with 1 and 2 MHz sine waves:
Whoa! As you can see, the output cannot quite reproduce a 1 MHz input signal faithfully (there’s an odd little ripple), let alone 2 MHz in the second screen, which starts to diverge badly in both shape and amplitude. The vertical scale is 0.5V per division.
Sine waves are “pure frequencies” – in a vague manner of speaking. It’s the natural way for things to oscillate (not just electrical signals, sine waves are everywhere!). The field of Fourier analysis is based on one of the great mathematical discoveries that all repetitive signals (or motions) can be re-interpreted as the sum of sines and cosines with different amplitudes and frequencies.
You don’t have to dive into the math to benefit from this. Most modern oscilloscopes support an FFT mode, an amazing computed transformation which decomposes a repetitive signal into those sine waves. One of the simplest uses of FFT is to get a feel for how “pure” signals are, i.e. how close to a pure sine wave.
Unfortunately, I have too many FFT scope shots for one post, so tomorrow I’ll post the rest and finish this little diversion into signal analysis. It’ll allow us to compare the above three signals in a more quantitative way. | <urn:uuid:a760227b-9b8c-48a5-a556-1d90c0d2d1e6> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://jeelabs.org/2012/12/07/op-amp-limits/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720737.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00221-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.901219 | 422 | 2.5 | 2 |
In the roadless, snow-muffled backcountry of northwestern Montana lies your best chance of ever seeing a wild Canada lynx. An improbable creature, it is small on the spectrum of wildcats—about three times the size of a house cat—and stands on disproportionately long legs, on which it is uncommonly fast. Its great head seems larger and wiser for its tuft of beard and the birdish plumes at the tips of its ears, but its feet spoil its air of gravitas. They are enormous. They act like snowshoes, and they are part of what makes the lynx supremely adapted to this part of the Rocky Mountains. Another inhabitant, the snowshoe hare, is adapted to life here, too. A lynx, if it could, would eat nothing but snowshoe hares its whole life, and pretty much does.
An animal so specialized that it only eats one kind of food has a tenuous place in the world. But this stretch of Montana—what the 19th-century naturalist George Grinnell named the Crown of the Continent—is unlike most places, or even most wildernesses. In an age of daily extinctions, the Crown has not lost any of the vertebrate species present when the first Europeans ventured this far west—creatures seen, heard, and feared by Lewis and Clark. If the Crown is a window into the past, it is also a particularly privileged window: no other intact ecosystem on the continent affords a view this grand. Only here do you find the full suite of North America's big predators—wolves, cougars, coyotes, and black and grizzly bears. Then there are the stranger beings: cutthroat trout, bull trout, and Arctic grayling in the glacial waters; river otter, bobcats, fishers, martens, lynxes, and wolverines. Between Glacier National Park and the Bob Marshall Wilderness Complex, the Crown is 10 million acres of the West as it once was, and as it would have been.
Yet it is not a time capsule. Being free from development by people hasn't made it a static place: the Crown rearranges itself, in a constant flux between the living and the dying, as the planet rolls on. Historically, this has happened on a time scale largely beyond our power of perception—"glacial pace" is not far from the mark. The problem is that glacial pace is not what it used to be. It is speeding up, as the glaciers melt into the Rockies, retreating up to 90 feet each year. For the first time in geological history, you can watch glacial ice move, and by the current projection, 20 years from now there will be nothing to see. Altogether, climate change is a phenomenon more keenly felt in a place like the Crown—a mountainous landscape with reservoirs of ice and snow—than anywhere else. This makes it the best possible natural laboratory, a window into the large-scale ecological change that global warming will bring. The effects of warming are magnified two to three times in the Crown, says Dan Fagre, climate ecologist in Glacier National Park, though the Crown's persistent biodiversity suggests that the ecosystem is weathering the difference so far. But Fagre thinks this persistence has a limit: at some point, the pressure of the changes will be too great, and beyond this unmarked boundary the present system will come apart. An ecosystem doesn't die, but as species depart or spread, it will change the way it operates, take a different form. Potentially, the Crown has innumerable thresholds—the last of the glaciers, the first animal extinction—beyond which it could rapidly become a fundamentally altered place: different trees, different cycles, different lives. Whatever will trip that invisible wire, a look now at the Crown is a look at final moments—the last of a storied American West, of the natural wealth that once enabled this extravagant diversity of life. What awaits, in a climate-changed world, is a new era of uniformity.
What sets the Crown apart from every other ecosystem on earth is its ecological schizophrenia. Straddling the Continental Divide, it is besieged by disparate climates from the fertile west, the open prairie to the east, and the cold north; even its rivers, issuing from Triple Divide Peak, flow in all four compass directions into the Pacific, the Atlantic, and the Arctic oceans. In all this, the mountains are the agents of volatility: they toss wind and snow to different sides of the Divide and wildly apportion sunlight to different slopes; historically, their dramatic nightly cooling has produced some of the coldest temperatures ever recorded below the Arctic. The convergence of these forces is what packs into the Crown the widest range of life on the continent, a diversity as distinctive as the tight profusion of Madagascar or the sweeping wealth of the Serengeti. "We have this incredible mix of microclimates," says University of Montana climate expert Steve Running, who shared the Nobel Peace Prize in 2007 with the Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change, "which then allows an incredible mix of microhabitats for animals."
To a certain extent, this patchwork of habitats is its own refuge against ecological disturbance, which is why, though records of a warming trend go back to the 19th century, no population has yet abandoned the ecosystem. "The animals can make use of those gradients," Running explains. "They can go from the Pacific side over toward the continental side, they can walk from the southern end of the Rockies farther north, and then they walk up in elevation. When their habitat goes off the top of the mountain, then it's all over." Global warming has a leveling effect on mountains: under an atmosphere thick with carbon, mountains cool less, allowing lower-elevation plants and animals to push into the upper reaches. We get more of one kind of habitable world, but we lose the planet's extremes, along with their wholly unique strata of life—lynxes, for instance, and snow-colored hares.
On paper, the lynx population in the Crown goes back to the 1810s, in the records of the old Hudson Bay Co. fur trade. In 2000, when the species was pronounced "threatened" under the Endangered Species Act, trapping became illegal. This February the amount of lynx habitat singled out for protection dramatically increased, and of the nearly 43,000 square miles of new critical habitat spread across a handful of northern states, just under half is in one ecosystem: the Crown. Rarity, for a species, is a biological Catch-22: the animals are so well adapted to their particular ecological niche that they are unable to spread indiscriminately in larger numbers, but specialization is what makes their lives possible at all—by allowing them to survive in places where most others cannot. Lynxes, says Forest Service biologist John Squires, are "long, thin, and light"; with those oversized paws, they have "everything for flying through snow, trying to catch snowshoe hares." But while these animals are untouchable on their territory, they are the most vulnerable in the larger scheme of ecosystem change: as the Crown teeters toward a new balance of species and habitats, their niches will be among the first to wink out.
For the last 10 years, Squires has tracked lynxes in the Crown using radio telemetry and, more recently, data-streaming GPS collars. Between one study site in the -Seeley-Swan Valley, near the southern limits of the Crown, and a second in the Purcell Mountains, near Glacier National Park, he typically has about 60 cats "on air" every year. He does not know in what pro-portion the collared cats stand to the whole population, but from their movements he has come to understand their narrow world. "Clearly, there are places where this animal goes and places where it doesn't," he says, with GPS points plotted in clusters on a map. Unfailingly, lynx territories are boreal forests, congregations of subalpine fir, larch, and Engelmann spruce trees whose wide-reaching boughs come so low to the ground, they touch the snow. Snowshoe hares, a de-fault prey species for nearly all predators in the Crown, cling to this protected setting, and where the hares are, so are the lynxes.
Trapping a lynx is like trapping a ghost. Even its thick coat is the color of ashes. In the winter, its distinctive tracks show up in the snow. When one is caught, the invisibility cloak falls away, and it's as though the cat has been momentarily plucked from the whole mysterious whirl, a piece of the shifting wilderness held in an uncommon state of arrest. The trap Squires uses to catch and collar lynxes is his own de-sign: a wire-mesh cage the size of a dog-house with a suspended door tautly held to an angled floor piece. The cat walks over the floor piece to reach the mounted bait and triggers the door. This year, Squires has caught fewer new cats and almost no females. In March, two weeks be-fore the bears would emerge from their dens—at which point all bait becomes bear bait—he has collared only one female in Seeley and says, "I think something's going on." His mind goes briefly to the new surge of mountain lions in the Crown, a cat that kills lynxes on sight to eliminate competition, but reasons that lions stay out of snow-thick lynx territory in winter. But the one thing Squires can count on to affect the population of lynx is the population of hares, which has always, in this lowest fringe of the North American boreal forest, been on the brink. In fact, the fragile footing of this frontier population of hares is precisely what makes them valuable, because the moment the ecosystem falls out of balance, the hares will tell. If hare and lynx habitat ranges farther north as temperatures warm across the map, Squires's southern outpost is the best "early-warning -system"—the animals will stop showing up.
Unseasonable warmth is a problem for hares for a not-immediately-obvious reason: it isn't the heat itself but what it does to the single most important constant in the Crown—the snow. As the largest perennial food prize in the ecosystem, snowshoe hares have just one good trick—turning white in winter, brown the rest of the year—cued by the changing length of days. Now winter snow melts nearly a month earlier in the Crown than it did just a century ago, causing, says Dan Fagre, a "decoupling" between two cycles that used to be synchronized: light and temperature. This means that a snow-white hare will end up sitting on brown earth—and have no idea. Researcher Scott Mills at the University of Montana, with his own set of radio-collar signals, has found more and more compromised hares in recent years and believes that they are dying for it, in increasingly large numbers, every spring and fall. Given enough time, hares may genetically sort themselves out, along with all the other species that have evolved, over millennia, a certain exquisite timing for their migrations, for giving birth, or for coming out of the ground. But in a fast-decoupling world, expecting snowshoe hares to survive by adaptation is like trying to engineer a genetic jackpot. Statistically, it could happen, but every spring and fall, you lose a lot of chances.
Biodiversity happens when an ecosystem brings competing species to a stalemate: all have their niche, all get by, none can completely suppress another. Global warming doesn't so much tip this finely wrought balance in the Crown one way or another as knock it all down: no niche wins out; the real winners are the species that don't have a niche. These are the ones who don't have to change their genes. Grizzly bears may be the world's least choosy eaters, omnivores par excellence that can live on anything and learn what they need to survive. Wolves, mountain lions, and coyotes are also versatile generalists. Populations of these animals have become more and more robust in the Crown, and so long as they avoid getting shot by people, they will live just as well in an ecosystem restructured by climate change. So across the current range of species in the Crown "there's going to be a shakeout," says Fagre, "because some will be able to adapt better than others. The ability to change your behavior will be really important." Species that are "hard-wired" to live a certain way—hares who change color for winter, or bull trout that only spawn in clean, icy waters—will be hard-pressed to do things differently in their lifetime. And the world that leaves them behind is not necessarily one we would recognize. For all life in the Crown is checked by the available water, and mountains unable to hold onto snow and glaciers trickling to nothing can no longer provide a steady supply. That leaves the species that can make do with least, and an ecosystem determined not by the resources it has but by what it lacks. In place of a lively mosaic of habitats, Fagre has a vision of Glacier National Park as a single landscape of "wall-to-wall lodgepole pine," a tree that needs little water and is always the first to leap up after a forest fire, like a weed. In this impoverished place, the lynx—built for one niche, one prey—is an impossible biological flourish, a dream.
In a last effort to find cats, John Squires sent Dustin Ranglack, a member of his Seeley Lake crew, to scout out the slopes of Fawn Peak, which had been consumed by a forest fire in 2003. It was the only place he hadn't trapped, and now he thought he might as well try. Ranglack returned to report that there was no sign of life there—no tracks of deer, or mountain lions, or hares. "When there're no hares, there's nothing," said Squires. "There's no place else to go." He loaded his truck, and with two snow machines in tow, drove north. | <urn:uuid:93a4dd02-e6e6-4d4b-a88a-84609dd048d0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newsweek.com/what-climate-change-means-glacier-national-park-81749 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00205-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952854 | 2,963 | 3.09375 | 3 |
Discover Data Lakehouse With End-to-End Lineage
- Data Engineering
- Moscone South | Upper Mezzanine | 152
- 35 min
Data Lineage is key for managing change, ensuring data quality and implementing Data Governance in an organization. There are a few use cases for Data Lineage: Data Governance : For compliance and regulatory purposes our customers are required to prove the data/reports they are submitting came from a trusted and verified source. This typically means identifying the tables and data sets used in a report or dashboard and tracing the source of these tables and fields. Another use case for the Governance scenario is to understand the spread of sensitive data within the lakehouse. Data Discovery : Data analysts looking to self-serve and build their own analytics and models typically spend time exploring and understanding the data in their lakehouse. Lineage is a key piece of information which enhances the understanding and trustworthiness of the data the analyst plans to use. Problem Identification : Data teams are often called to solve errors in analysts dashboards and reports (“Why is the total number of widgets different in this report than the one I have built?”). This usually leads to an expensive forensic exercise by the DE team to understand the sources of data and the transformations applied to it before it hits the report. Change Management : It is not uncommon for data sources to change, a new source may stop delivering data or a field in the source system changes its semantics. In this scenario the DE team would like to understand the downstream impact of this change - to get a sense of how many datasets and users will be affected by this change. This will help them determine the impact of the change, manage user expectations and address issues ahead of time In this talk, we will talk about how we capture table and column lineage for spark / delta and unity catalog for our customers in details and how users could leverage data lineage to serve various use cases mentioned above. | <urn:uuid:52faf487-c973-4fb2-b4f6-a57b43a7d759> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.databricks.com/dataaisummit/session/discover-data-lakehouse-end-end-lineage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.921971 | 415 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Lesson: “Never give up” is bad advice. Real winners don’t hesitate to walk away from an unsuccessful venture.
Contrary to popular belief, if you want to win, you shouldn’t always just keep going. You should regroup and try something totally different. “Winners never quit, and quitters never win” is a lie. To win, sometimes you need to find a new game to play.
You may be familiar with this old adage, often attributed to Albert Einstein: “The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.”
Einstein was right in that the real danger of going insane, or just failing over and over, doesn’t usually come from doing something new. Rather, the worst failures come from something that we’ve been doing for a while.
Most of us are smart enough to realize that if we try something new and it doesn’t work, we can’t just keep doing the same thing and expect different results.
We might try once more, but we’ll usually switch up the tactic. Even mice in a maze will learn to adapt and attempt different solutions if they hit that same dead end enough times.
The greater problem comes when we’ve become conditioned to success according to a certain method or plan of action. When something works for a while and then it stops working, that’s when it’s tough to change.
“We don’t keep attempting the same thing over and over because we’re stupid, and it’s not because we don’t know any better. It’s just that we love the familiar, and change is hard.”
Many people who “try and try again,” only to come short of a big victory, never really recover. Sometimes even the ones who do make it struggle later with any kind of meaningful second act.
The real secret is that selective quitting is a powerful practice—you just need to learn when to give up and when to keep going. If you’re looking for permission, here it is: it’s okay to quit.
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C-Level View | Feature
Moving Beyond Technology
The NMC Horizon Project has released a new list of metatrends that will impact education over the next 10 years.
Under the auspices of the New Media Consortium's Horizon Project, a hundred thought leaders from 20 countries gathered last January to list the most important metatrends and global challenges facing education in the next 10 years. Their collective insight will help inform a special metatrends edition of the NMC Horizon Report being released this spring.
The January discussion referenced 28 metatrends, but NMC identified the 10 most compelling in a communiqué issued about the meeting (see box). "What's interesting is that the list is not really about technology, per se," CEO Larry Johnson tells CT. "It's about how people expect the world to work--such as how they collaborate, or openness as a value."
The implications of this for higher education are significant and encouraging. "We are moving away from a model of universities as the providers of technology," Johnson explains. "If I want to get on the internet, I'm not going to go to a lab at a university to do that--I'm going to do it on my mobile device. We are moving to more of a utility model. It makes me very optimistic because, in the next 10 years, the conversations are going to be less about devices and software, and more about learning and the real mission of an education institution. And the metatrends suggest that this mission is changing now in ways that have very little to do with technology--and everything to do with the ways people work and learn today."
Editor's note: Larry Johnson will give the opening keynote at the CT Forum 2012 conference in Long Beach, CA, on April 30. For information, visit CT Forum.
Most Significant Metatrends for the Next 10 Years
1. The world of work is increasingly global and increasingly collaborative.
2. People expect to work, learn, socialize, and play whenever and wherever they want to.
3. The internet is becoming a global mobile network--and already is at its edges.
4. The technologies we use are increasingly cloud-based and delivered over utility networks, facilitating the rapid growth of online videos and rich media.
5. Openness--concepts like open content, open data, and open resources, along with notions of transparency and easy access to data and information--is moving from a trend to a value for much of the world.
6. Legal notions of ownership and privacy lag behind the practices common in society.
7. Real challenges of access, efficiency, and scale are redefining what we mean by quality and success.
8. The internet is constantly challenging us to rethink learning and education, while refining our notion of literacy.
9. There is a rise in informal learning as individual needs are redefining schools, universities, and training.
10. Business models across the education ecosystem are changing.
Excerpts of the 10 top metatrends identified in A Communiqué from the Horizon Project Retreat, January 2012, an NMC Horizon Project publication under Creative Commons attribution license.
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Further to my post earlier this week, my Buenos Aires contact very kindly translated the newspaper article that she sent to me announcing that Harrods Buenos Aires was due to re-open. It is a considerable article so I can only offer a synopsis of it here. However, this store first opened on 31st March 1914 and was in fact the only branch of the store we know so well here in Knightsbridge, London. This store has been closed over a decade (since 1998) and the worked planned renovating it back to its former glory will cost, it is estimated, more than £25m. The new store will "conserve the model of retail store by departments" distributed across five floors. "The upper four floors are planned to be used for hotel services and offices." In a frozen scene from when the store was last open "black and White barbers chairs are still subtly leaned". "The ceilings and floors will be conserved...as well as the marbles, bevelled glass, and the covering of the impressive columns" . Within the article it also mentions how two doormen, one very tall and one very short would receive customers with an umbrella on rainy days and even the managers offices still have pictures hung on the walls of the celebrities of the time. This is such a fascinating insight to times long gone. With Internet shopping so prevalent this is perhaps indicative of an interesting cultural shift towards shopping habits -albeit locally - and maybe what customers actually want after all? Time will tell. However, as creatures of habit, and our love of nostalgia, perhaps (depending on which sources you read) 'Internet shopping only' customers may still not be in the majority for a little longer?
Thursday, 26 August 2010
This really must be the best scheme from Banana Republic that I have recorded to date. The overall scheme is based on 'Life at Work' with stacks of newsprint piled around the figures in some windows and the multiple use of these umbrellas printed with newsprint designs in another (as above). I also had flash backs to the, was it the early 1980's? when the Newton's cradle was marketed as an executive toy (or executive ball clicker as it was affectionately known) firstly by Harrods here in London. Of course it actually dates back much further than that and actually is a great example of both the conservation of momentum and kinetic energy (perhaps the information around this is a little too complex for our purposes within this context). However, although this is an electonic version it is nonetheless great fun and speaks to me on all sorts of levels. I must go in to the store and see if this has been carried thoughout the site. Job well done guys. | <urn:uuid:4a6f61dd-97d8-4185-abbd-b90e3a0a9db5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.retailstorewindows.com/2010_08_26_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00010-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979314 | 551 | 1.546875 | 2 |
A MANUAL OF HISTORIC ORNAMENT. Treating upon the Evolution, Tradition, and Development of Architecture & the Applied Arts. Prepared for the use of Students and Craftsmen.
London.B. T. Batsford Ltd. 1926. 184 pages. Black & white photographs and illustrations throughout. Hardback, blue cloth with gilt stampon front and spine. Tall octavo. Fourth edition. Minor bumping to corners and bottom edges. Inscription on endpaper, else a near fine, bright copy. | <urn:uuid:a6137963-bf4c-4e6f-a3fb-5ca161abc507> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.davidmilesbooks.com/book/7760/glazier-richard/a-manual-of-historic-ornament-treating-upon-the-evolution-tradition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.807203 | 112 | 1.507813 | 2 |
- Course Number:
- MCH 205
- Course Title:
- Vertical Milling Machines and Operations
- Credit Hours:
- Lecture Hours:
- Lecture/Lab Hours:
- Lab Hours:
- Special Fee:
Course DescriptionCovers setup, application and operation of the vertical milling machine. Introduces the commonly performed operations and uses of a variety of cutters, accessories, indicators, center/edge finder, clamping methods, squaring a block of material on all 6 sides, finding the edge of a workpiece, drilling/threading a hole, performing circular cutting operations, using the boring head to bore holes on manufactured parts to print specifications. Prerequisites: MCH 100, MCH 121, MCH 125. Audit available.
Addendum to Course Description
Vertical Milling Machines & Operations consists of the following modules:
Dial in Vice / Sweep in Head - Milling is the process of removing material using various cutters and accessories. This module will introduces the student to a variety of cutters, accessories, the use of indicators and a center/edge finder, and methods of clamping. This module will show the student how to "set-up" the milling machine to perform the precision work the machine is capable of doing.
Fly Cutter & End Mill / Square - The milling machine, if properly "set-up" is capable of squaring a block of material on all 6 sides to a tolerance of .003" or less when inspected on a surface plate with a combination angle plate and a test indicator. This module introduces the student to one method of performing this task.
PREREQUISITE SKILLS AND KNOWLEDGE:
Digital Readout / Drill, Tap, Ream - This module introduces the student how to setup, find the edge of a workpiece and drill, and thread a hole.
Turntable / Cut Radii - The turntable is used to perform circular cutting operations on the milling machine. This module introduces the student to introduces the student to the use of the boring head to bore holes into a piece of steel using the offset boring head attachment and boring bar.
Boring Head/Mill - This module will show the student how to use the boring head to bore holes into a piece of steel using the offset boring head
Intended Outcomes for the course
Upon completion of the course students should be able to:
Dial in a vise, square to .001 T.I.R., flat and perpendicular to .001 T.I.R. (total indicator reading).
Tram (or dial in) in the head to .001 T.I.R. or less.
- Square and size a block of steel to print specification, using .001 test indicator, parallels, fly cutter, end mills, and step by step instructions,
- Follow instructions for using the digital readout, test indicator, parallels, drills, reamers, chamfer tool, 5/16-24 tap, and a center/edge finder, to drill and ream four holes, and drill and tap four holes.
- Cut two radii per print specifications using appropriate materials, tools, and equipment.
- Use a boring head with a carbide insert boring tool and other tools and equipment to bore a hole in a squared block of steel to print specifications.
Course Activities and Design
MCH205 will be presented by means of audio-visual presentations, demonstrations, lab experiences, and research activities. The course activities and design emphasize the development of skills and knowledge outcomes prescribed by established industry standards. The identified outcomes will be achieved by means of individual and team activities.
Outcome Assessment Strategies
POLICY - Student performance measurements are based on established industry standards. The various areas of study during the course will be evaluated by a variety of activities. Typical of those activities are the following;
1. READING ASSIGNMENTS - Information sheets, textbooks, journal articles and the learning resource center are potential sources of information that the student will reference as directed in the modules identified in the introduction.
2. PRACTICE - Completion of tasks and projects identified in the reading assignments, information sheets, journal articles and textbooks. Students are required to complete practice activities with 100% competency.
3. SELF-ASSESSMENT - Checking and evaluating the students understanding and knowledge gained through the reading assignments and practices typically done through a practice evaluation.
4. LAB ACTIVITIES - Participation in structured laboratory exercises with the emphasis on developing skills or increasing expertise in the areas of study identified in the module packets.
5. FINAL ASSESSMENT - An assessment in the form of a written exam and/or practical application that addresses the subject areas identified in the module packets. Students are required to complete final assessment activities with 85% competency.
Technology of Machine Tools by Krar, Oswald, and St.Amand
Machine Tool Practices, by Kibbe, Neely, Meyer, and White
Course Content (Themes, Concepts, Issues and Skills)
This course is based on performance outcomes. The following performance outcomes are based upon established industry standards. The student will demonstrate knowledge and understanding by completing the following activities:
- Given the operators manual, .0001 test indicator the student will:
1) Dial in a vise, square to .001 T.I.R., flat and perpendicular to .001 T.I.R. (total indicator reading).
2) Tram (or dial in) in the head to .001 T.I.R. or less.
- Given the operators manual, .001 test indicator, parallels, fly cutter, end mills, and step by step instructions, the student will square and size a block of steel to print specification.
- Given instruction for using the digital readout, test indicator, parallels, drills, reamers, chamfer tool, 5/16-24 tap, and a center/edge finder, the student will drill and ream four holes, and drill and tap four holes.
- Given the materials, tools, and equipment, the student will cut two radii per print specifications.
- Given a boring head with a carbide insert boring tool and other tools and equipment the student will bore a hole in a squared block of steel to print specifications. | <urn:uuid:efa2287b-034f-420c-8ca7-4eb098e84d78> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pcc.edu/ccog/default.cfm?fa=ccog&subject=MCH&course=205 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00478-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.872472 | 1,308 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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Transitioning from SHA1 to SHA2
Due to the discovery of vulnerabilities in the SHA1 algorithm, the new SHA2 algorithm will be introduced at an accelerated pace. Until recently, SSL certificates and digital signatures were created using the SHA1 hashing algorithm. Internet browsers and Certificate Authorities (CAs) have now started to phase out SHA1 in favour of the new SHA2 algorithm. This will mean that SHA1 certificates with an expiry date of 2016 or later will soon create issues. This article offers you more information on how this will impact your certificates, and on what notice.
When an SSL certificate is created, it must be digitally signed in order to be valid. For this signature, several algorithms are available, such as the SHA1 and SHA2 algorithms. Because of the discovery of vulnerabilities in the SHA1 algorithm, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) advises to use SHA2 hashing for the creation of digital certificates. SHA2 does not contain the vulnerabilities that were found in its predecessor, making it a lot safer.
Over the past few years, it was discovered that SHA1 contains vulnerabilities that make the algorithm more susceptible to conflicts and increase the chance that, during an attack, two different values create the same output. A more powerful hash-function (like SHA2) offers much more security against such conflicts, and greatly reduces the chances that two different values create the same output.
To ensure that the data cannot be tampered with when a connection is made, SSL certificates make use of hashing (encryption). Cracking the SHA1 algorithm would mean that the contents of a signed message or certificate could be altered while the hash for the message or certificate remains intact. Vulnerabilities such as the ones found in SHA1 have not been found in SHA2.
Various internet browsers have indicated that they will start to give out warnings on SHA1 certificates in the short term, but the actual time frame and type of warning varies for each browser. So far, the following dates have been given:
- Microsoft ceases support for SHA1 codesigning certificates in Internet Explorer as of 2016. Support for all SHA1 certificates will cease as of 2017. These dates could possibly be adjusted in July 2015.
- Google has been giving warnings in Chrome version 39 for SHA1 certificates that expire after January 1st, 2017. With each new version, these warnings will intensify.
- In the next few months, Mozilla will also start rejecting SHA1 certificates that expire after 2016.
Google will soon (starting with Chrome 41) start to indicate the use of SHA1 certificates valid until after January 1st, 2017 according to the image.
It is therefore important to transition to SHA2 as soon as possible.
- All new certificates will be created with the SHA2 hash.
- You can reissue your SHA1 certificates as SHA2 certificates for free.
- Are you unsure which algorithm your certificate uses? Use our SSLCheck.
Most systems already support SHA2, except older systems like Windows XP. Please make sure that your system has been updated for the transition to SHA2.
Most clients and servers already support SHA2. Exceptions to the norm are older operating systems such as Windows XP without Service Pack 3. New SHA2 root certificates are available for the installation. Below you will find an overview of the clients, servers and mobile devices that support SHA2.
Adobe Acrobat/Reader 7+
Apple Safari 5+
Google Chrome 26+
Internet Explorer 7+
Java 1.4.2+ based products
Mac OS X 10.5+
Microsoft Windows XP SP3, Vista, 7, 8 and 10
Mozilla based browsers 3.8+
Mozilla Firefox 1.5+
.NET Framework 1.1+
OpenSSL 0.9.8+Opera 9.0+
Mac OS X Server 10.5+
Microsoft Windows Server 2003 SP2+ (after installing KB 938397 and KB 968730)
Microsoft Windows Server 2008+
Microsoft Exchange 2010 SP3 and newer
Microsoft Lync 2010 and 2013
Oracle WebLogic 10.3.1+
Apple iOS 3.0+
Windows Phone 7+ | <urn:uuid:0faccbf6-9b86-42d3-8155-ce1326dce890> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.networking4all.com/en/ssl+certificates/ssl+news/transitioning+from+sha1+to+sha2/?utm_source=;utm_medium=rss;utm_campaign=RSS%2BFeed | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00013-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.890282 | 869 | 2.84375 | 3 |
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