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The region around Lake Hallstatt – World Cultural Heritage
Since living memory it was the salt which provided the wealth for the Inner Salzkammergut. The salt is the basis for the typical ancient customs and interesting cultural peculiarities. Recently UNESCO determined a big part of this region as a World Heritage worth to be preserved. And you may visit this!
History of the World Heritage region around Hallstatt
A historical cultural landscape since thousands of years: The region around Lake Hallstatt appealed very early to humans looking for the vital salt. There are traces of salt mining on the Hallstatt Salzberg going back as early as 2000 B.C. Great prosperity was gained through the salt trade, the burial objects document extensive and wide spread trade relations. The climax of ancient mining was definitely from 800 until 400 B.C (older Iron Age), which is also referred as the Hallstatt-Period due to the numerous findings in Hallstatt.
The mine was affected by a part collapse later on. Around the time of Christ’s birth the area was ruled by the Romans who started to settle in the valley, while the local people continued their trade. During the 5th century with the end of the Roman dominance a cultural collapse took place. There is no sure evidence if there was any salt mining during the medieval times, except a few traces of possible salt production on the west side of the Sandling.
Obertraun is the smallest of the 4 World Heritage communities in the Inner Salzkammergut and is situated to the south east of Lake Hallstatt. During the Middle Ages.
The road to Gosau passes through the “Gosauzwang” – a 6 km long, forested gorge, alongside the river. The road is the gateway to a little paradise. As the woodland becomes less dense, a long, lush valley stretches out before you.
This beautiful little town has attracted visitors for centuries. The „white gold“, deep in the heart of the mountain, has meant local people have had to work extremely hard over the centuries
Bad Goisern lies embedded in the beautiful Traun Valley which borders Lake Hallstatt to the south side. The UNESCO World Cultural Heritage Site has a long history.
Around the turn of the 14th century we have reliable sources since the Habsburgs took over this area as their private property. Hallstatt regained its status as an important production site. The alliance between Austria and Bohemia in the 16th century resulted in a real boom era, and at the same time the region became dominated by Lutherans. Soon the mining capacity of Hallstatt became exhausted; the forests looked like karst formations, therefore the production had to be increased in Ischl and later on in Ebensee. The Catholic counter-reformation was a disastrous era for the Inner Salzkammergut, resulting in the displacement of more than 700 Lutherans to Transylvania at its peak. Only in 1781 the long awaited religious toleration became a reality. Around 1800 tourism slowly developed in this region, and the first travellers wrote in their guidebooks about travelling through the “Austrian Switzerland”. Tourism really took off with the construction of the railway, making the area more accessible. Since then the Inner Salzkammergut is a most popular tourist destination, which also was internationally appreciated with the World Cultural Heritage nomination by the UNESCO. © Dr. Michael Kurz, Dez. 2002
There is so much to discover in the UNESCO World Heritage region of Hallstatt Dachstein Salzkammergut. Old mines, mighty cave worlds or spectacular glaciers at romantic lakes - a paradise for cultural- and nature lovers.
Guided Tours with the Salzkammergut Guides
Discover the most beautiful features of Austria with the Salzkammergut Guides. Whether a walk through the historical village of Hallstatt, a culinary sightseeing tour or a stroll through the natural and cultural landscape of the UNESCO World Heritage Region of Hallstatt Dachstein Salzkammergut, there’s something for everyone. The opportunities are as varied and numerous as the many lakes in the heart of Austria. Certified guides from throughout the Salzkammergut are available year-round in every season. Guests will find an extensive programme with a wide variety of offers on the guides’ homepage. Make your plans for an unforgettable adventure in the Salzkammergut! Click now for more information.
Holidays around Lake Hallstatt
Hotels and accommodation providers in Hallstatt, Bad Goisern, Gosau and Obertraun offer the ideal room or apartment for your holidays, no matter what your tastes. Aside from establishments rated according to the international "star" scale, you will also find around Lake Hallstatt in Austria businesses that have been awarded two to four "edelweiss". The more flowers, the greater comforts you can expect. Whether you eventually find your cozy nest in an elegant 5-star luxury hotel, at comfortable guesthouse, a family-friendly apartment, or on a traditional farm, the choice is always entirely up to you. | <urn:uuid:a88d6220-e484-419b-bb03-c9b63ed1dcd5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hallstatt.net/about-hallstatt/weltkulturerbe-en-US/dachstein-salzkammergut-en-us/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.946939 | 1,083 | 3.46875 | 3 |
Today, at wee hours Maharashtra police landed up at the residence of Hari Prasad in Hyderabad, a technologist and Technical coordinator of VeTA to arrest him. The arrest was made on the flimsy charge of ‘theft of EVM’ used for vulnerability demonstration by Hari Prasad and a team of security researchers that included Alex Halderman, professor of computer science, University of Michigan and Rop Gonggrijp, a security researcher from Netherlands along with a team of their colleagues.
Earlier, police came to Hyderabad in the first week of August and recorded a statement on the EVM they had used for exposing the vulnerability of EVMs. They summoned him to Mumbai for further questioning. Hari Prasad could not go as he was busy with his professional work. Then, the sudden arrest happened this morning.
Over the past one year, the Election Commission of India (ECI) has been lying blatantly and willfully to ensure continued use of EVMs at all costs. It attributed all kinds of qualities to its EVMs: “totally tamper proof, perfect, fail safe and requiring no improvement” etc. etc. When Hari Prasad agreed to meet the ECI’s challenge to demonstrate tamperability of EVMs, the ECI backed out imposing silly, unscientific restrictions.
To call the ECI’s bluff, Hari Prasad and team have demonstrated the tamperability of EVMs on an EVM made available to them. This is like a sting operation carried out by media organizations. If the stings done by media are a legitimate method of information gathering, so is this sting demonstration. There cannot be separate standards for separate groups. In both cases, public interest is paramount. Moreover, the world over this is the practice followed by security researchers to expose vulnerabilities of absurd claims of “perfect” and “tamper proof” electronic voting systems. The details of this sting demonstration are available at www.indiaEVM.org
For the ECI, the following developments threatening EVM exit seem to have caused unbearable stress.
- 13 political parties had written to the ECI in April expressing concerns about the reliability of EVMs and urging the ECI to organize an All-party meeting. The ECI has not responded to this request so far.
- In Telangana bypoll held last month to 12 assembly constituencies, the TRS had fielded a large number of dummy candidates to avoid use of EVMs. The ECI was thus forced to use ballot papers in 5 of the 12 constituencies where byolls were held.
- Last week, international experts in computer security have concluded in a workshop held in Washington D.C on August 9 and 10 that the Indian EVMs do not provide the security, verifiability, or transparency adequate for confidence in election results, the Election Commission of India. (Read the letter here:
This workshop was attended by ECI’s expert committee chairman P.V. Indiresan and election commissioner Dr. Alok Shukla. Along with these ECI’s representatives, I had also participated in a panel discussion with these ECI representatives. ECI’s arguments were completely trashed by an independent team of security researchers. The audio of the panel discussion can be heard at this link:
All the above developments have clearly unnerved the Election Commission.
On August 10, the ECI had invited V.V.Rao, National Coordinator of VeTA along with Hari Prasad to discuss about the vulnerabilities of Indian EVMs. The chief election commissioner S.Y. Quraishi and commissioner V.S. Sampath have sought suggestions from Hari Prasad on how the EVMs could be strengthened. They said that they were willing to make improvements and are keen to understand what all improvements were needed.
Reliable sources tell us that the Election Commission of India had pressurized the Maharashtra police to press for Hari Prasad’s arrest on charges of stealing the EVM used for exposing the vulnerability of EVMs. The ECI’s intent becomes evident from the fact that they had instructed the police not to share a copy of the FIR with Hari Prasad to deny him an opportunity to move an anticipatory bail application. Hari Prasad did mange to get a copy of the FIR later but decided to court arrest if necessary rather than seek anticipatory bail.
What is the Election Commission of India trying to do? Does it think that it can intimidate critics of EVMs? What interests is the ECI trying to protect by resorting to such repressive actions? Has the Election Commission of India got skeletons in its cupboards that it is seeking to protect any damaging disclosures?
Worldwide, vulnerabilities of electronic voting systems are exposed in exactly the same manner as was done by researchers in India. Nowhere have the election bodies used such repressive steps to intimidate critics.
With its desperate actions, the ECI stands totally exposed and is betraying signs of losing the “EVM battle”. While earlier the ECI seemed only guilty of being ignorant about the vulnerabilities of EVMs, the latest actions raise question marks about the integrity and intent of the ECI.
In the ongoing battle for reforming the ballot (voting) system, fast paced developments are expected in the coming weeks. In the face of this adversity, as we double our efforts on all fronts, there is unstinted support forthcoming from all quarters.
Finally, the stage is now set for a renewed legal battle in the Hon’ble Supreme Court of India. With all the evidence now available and the statements from experts in computer security, defending the EVMs is becoming as difficult for the ECI as the unbridled bungling in Common Wealth Games (CWG). | <urn:uuid:c5dcc391-b3bd-4c53-bf39-3413be5758f7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.indianevm.com/blogs/?p=402 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00365-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966238 | 1,202 | 1.515625 | 2 |
- Historians for the Twentieth Century United States (HOTCUS)
- The Presidential History Network
- The White House
- The American Presidency Project
- Edward M. Kennedy Oral History Project
- Use of Executive Power in the US Presidency, presentation by James Pfiffner, hosted by Fora TV
- Presidential Studies Quarterly journal
- Roosevelt Study Centre
- Jensen's American Political History On-Line
- UK Survey of US Presidents
- The Miller Center, University of Virginia
American Presidency Centre
The American Presidency Centre, established by the UCL Institute of the Americas (UCL-IA), is dedicated to the study of what is the world’s single most important political office.
It is the American
presidency’s paradox of great power in the global context and constrained power
at home that makes it such a fascinating subject for study. No president of the
United States can hope to win office without a vision of how to change the
nation and the world for the better. However, the office that he (or one day,
she) inherits has been deliberately set within a system of institutional checks
and balances intended to prevent presidential domination of government in
pursuit of that vision.
The mission of UCL-IA’s
American Presidency Centre is to participate in the ongoing debate about the
presidency and its role in both American and world politics. It will not only
engage in research and teaching on the presidency but also promote and
facilitate scholarly research through hosting seminars and conferences on
issues pertaining to this crucial institution. And it will do so in a
multi-disciplinary framework that recognizes the importance of political,
historical and cultural study of the presidency. Finally, it will engage in public
outreach activities to provide talks on the presidency to schools and
The director of the American Presidency Centre is Professor Iwan Morgan. He has long experience of teaching and researching the US Presidency and has published widely in the field. His monograph, The Age of Deficits: Presidents and Unbalanced Budgets from Jimmy Carter to George W. Bush (University of Kansas Press, 2009) won the American Politics Group’s Richard E. Neustadt Prize. He has also edited a number of presidential collections. Recent titles include: Presidents in the Movies: American History and Politics on Screen (Palgrave, 2011); (with Michael Genovese) Watergate Remembered: Its Legacy for American Politics (Palgrave, 2012); and (with Philip Davies) Broken Government? American Politics in the Obama Era (Institute for the Study of the Americas, 2012).
also writes a regular blog, On the Economy, for the History News Network
In 2010, he also conducted the first UK academic survey rating the performance of every US president from George Washington to George W. Bush. The results can be viewed at http://www.ucl.ac.uk/americas/us-studies
Research on the presidency is also conducted by other US scholars in the
areas of foreign policy, especially of the Franklin D. Roosevelt era
(Tony McCulloch), the Civil War era presidency (Adam Smith), the
presidency and nineteenth century foreign policy
(David Sim), and presidents in the movies (Melvyn Stokes).
Regular updates of
American Presidency Centre events will be posted on our events page.
The rich programme of events for 2013-14 includes Scott Berg speaking on Woodrow Wilson, Sylvia Ellis on LBJ and civil rights, Randall Woods delivering the 2nd annual Richard E. Neustadt lecture on the American Presidency, and Tony Badger giving the 2nd annual Eleanor Roosevelt lecture.
Professor Morgan has played a leading role in establishing the new Presidential History Network. Anyone interested in joining it can review its mission, activities and membership at
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Toyota and partners launching public autonomous shuttle service in Indiana
The Toyota Mobility Foundation (TMF), Energy Systems Network (ESN), the Indiana Economic Development Corporation (IEDC) and the City of Fishers have joined with May Mobility, a leader in autonomous vehicle (AV) technology and shuttle operations, to inaugurate a free, public autonomous shuttle service on 20 December 2021 to serve the area surrounding the Nickel Plate Cultural District in Fishers, Indiana.
The AV shuttle service is part of the Together in Motion Indiana initiative announced earlier this year by TMF and ESN that previously provided a similar autonomous shuttle service in downtown Indianapolis for six months.
May Mobility will manage a fleet of autonomous, shared vehicles that will operate along a three-mile fixed-route loop with nine designated stops to service the live, work and play districts of downtown Fishers. The hop-on, hop-off service connects the residential area at Pullman Pointe and South Pointe Village apartments to the commercial district along Commercial Drive and Fishers Corner Boulevard, Municipal Drive and 116th Street, including a stop along the new Nickel Plate Trail. Each route stop is identifiable by a sign with route information and a QR code with more information about May Mobility’s technology. . . .
The free service will feature five hybrid Lexus RX 450h vehicles and one wheelchair-accessible Polaris GEM fully electric vehicle and is available Monday through Friday from 8 a.m. – 8 p.m., with shuttles arriving every 10- to 15-minutes on a rotating loop. Riders can see live updates of the shuttle’s locations on the Together in Motion Indiana website. . . .
May Mobility established its regional office in Fishers, Indiana, in early 2021. Fishers will be its ninth shuttle deployment since the company began operations. May Mobility recently completed shuttle operations in Indianapolis, Indiana, providing Hoosiers with more than 3,400 rides to school and work from June to November 2021. May Mobility conducts shuttle services in Grand Rapids, Michigan; Arlington, Texas; Hiroshima, Japan; and Ann Arbor, Michigan, as well.
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7-Eleven and Nuro launch first commercial autonomous delivery service in California
In collaboration with Nuro, a robotics company transforming local commerce with autonomous vehicles, 7-Eleven is launching the first autonomous commercial delivery in the state of California, enabling its customers in the Mountain View, California service area to order through the 7NOW delivery app to have their products delivered via bot.
Here’s how it works:
Download the 7NOW delivery app through Google Play, the Apple App Store or visit 7NOW.com.
Browse the app . . . Add items to your shopping cart, begin the checkout process, and choose autonomous delivery. Autonomous vehicle deliveries are available daily from 8:00 a.m. – 9:00 p.m. PT at no additional charge for customers in Mountain View, CA.
The 7NOW delivery app will send updates as the order is processed, and orders will arrive in approximately 30 minutes. Simply meet the autonomous vehicle outside, grab your items from the back of the vehicle and enjoy.
Nuro will begin this delivery service with its autonomous Priuses and later introduce R2 bots, the company’s autonomous robots that are custom-built to transport products and goods without any occupants in the vehicle.
All of Nuro’s Priuses will include an autonomous vehicle operator in the driver seat to monitor the technology and ensure an optimal delivery experience as the service is introduced in the Mountain View area.
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The slug-rider phenomenon in the Washington D.C. metro area is not new, but it remains fascinating to reporters as an organic response to traffic congestion and state incentives to carpool. The premise is that solo drivers need a companion in order to take advantage of the HOV lanes. (HOV equals high-occupancy vehicle; “high” being two in this case.) Drivers would pass bus stops and try to pick up riders, who became known as slugs. The article linked above connects the name to phony tokens used to bilk the subway system, but it seems an especially apt name in the way it encapsulates just how America views individuals who don’t drive—grubby, slow-moving objects. The article also lauds slug-riding as a “system of casual car-pooling that moves thousands of workers from the suburbs to the city, with no money changing hands and no official government involvement,” thus enlisting it as evidence to support the libertarian fantasy of spontaneous order. But there’s government involvement aplenty—the state builds the HOV lanes, maintains them, and patrols them to ensure their utility. And they provide and maintain the “park and ride” lots for the slugs to ditch their cars. Anyway, it seems the preferred market-libertarian solution is for private corporations to maintain the road system and to introduce variable pricing according to demand (“congestion pricing”), as was attempted on SR 91 in southern California. The D.C. HOV lanes are still part of a government-subsidized transportation scheme that distributes benefits bought by tax revenues to those who live in suburbs and drive cars (this providing an incentive to buy and drive a car, to take advantage of what government has made a priority, which in turn makes roadbuilding an even greater priority for government. And on and on the cycle goes.) The slug-rider system seems less a marvel of spontaneous civil engineering than a desperate, anxiety ridden response to inadequate public transportation. When the MTA strike hit New York last winter and stringent carpooling restrictions were enforced, a slug system rapidly sprung up in the outerboroughs, but no one was convinced by this that the MTA workers could stay on strike forever. Though it initially seems cheering that strangers can work together to maximize efficiency, ultimately it starts to seem like a dismal state of affairs when you think about it, riding in a strangers car but (in some cases) being forbidden to speak, as though you had become ballast. Or waiting in the rain to be picked up and being rejected by drivers who can pass you by or refuse you passage for no apparent reason. Or finding yourself described as a bad driver on a Web site and having slugs refuse you. Slug evangelist David LeBlanc insists that in slugging, “What always prevails is common sense,” but the phenomenon seems to prove that common sense has been delimited to instrumental rationality, to reducing other people to objects to be manipulated for your own convenience.
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Madam, - Fintan O'Toole's column of July 1st, drawing together Bertie Ahern's new office furnishings and the seven-year jail sentence imposed on a long-time drug-user, is a stark reminder that the eventual outcome of the Lisbon Treaty referendum may not be all that important for Irish society. Our present state is due far more to our own social and political decisions, and our political apathy, than to any diktat of the European Union.
In the referendum, No campaigners warned that our tax regime would be changed to suit the needs of the big four - Germany, France, Britain and Italy - and that Irish taxpayers would suffer accordingly. But it was Irish banks and builders, aided and abetted by our own political system, that created the grossly imbalanced economy which is now tottering into recession. We were warned against becoming an economic minnow in a European super-state, but we have long since voluntarily become an economic dependency of the United States and are now painfully at the mercy of US investment decisions. No campaigners also warned against the lack of accountability at the heart of "Super Europe". But here at home we have had 10 years of tribunals investigating corruption and other crimes and all we got was a platform for apparent perjury and plutocratic amnesia. Charlie Haughey prostituted our political system and was rewarded with a State funeral. Only one politician, and not even one shady businessman, went to jail - yet our prisons are full of petty offenders and fine-defaulters.
No campaigners warned against the loss of our cherished neutrality, the militarisation of Europe and the spectre of our young people being conscripted into an EU army. Yet for several years, the Irish electorate has tolerated the use of Shannon Airport to support the illegal, immoral and ultimately futile US invasion and occupation of Iraq. And for 30 years the Irish public remained largely silent in the face of an un-mandated war waged by Sinn Féin/IRA, all allegedly in the name of our Republic. A peculiarly Irish concept of "neutrality".
No campaigners warned against the importation of promiscuity, prostitution, euthanasia, etc, if Lisbon was ratified. But it wasn't "godless Europe" that imported the very high level of child sexual abuse that has been prevalent for generations, nor the alarming levels of elder abuse which have recently been highlighted.
No campaigners warned against Ireland losing its "sovereignty" in a new EU super-state and the concentration of power in an unelected Brussels bureaucracy. But it wasn't the EU that over the past several general elections has created a de facto one-party state, with little or no prospect of dislodging Fianna Fáil from permanent power. It was our own electorate - and recent opinion polls indicate on-going support for this arrangement.
No campaigners warned against our "national identity" being swallowed up in a gigantic super-state. Our identity in the Irish Republic used to be, by and large, Catholic, nationalist, GAA-playing, Gaelic-loving (but not speaking!), monogamist, sexually conservative. It wasn't a godless Europe that eroded these core values: we voluntarily and very rapidly gave them up to become fans of "European" soccer stars, Spice Girls and Sugababes of various flavours, Boyzlife and Westzone, Hathy Yoga, Tarot Cards, Hello magazine - you name it! Our "identity" is now truly catholic in the original sense of the word.
And so it goes. It's high time for Irish voters to realise that much, if not most, of our destiny still lies in our own hands. - Yours, etc,
Madam, -- I am mystified by The Irish Times's continued support of the Lisbon Treaty, as I am by the apparent acceptance of President Sarkozy's intent to "resolve" the Irish problem.
There is no problem. The Irish people looked at a treaty that was unreadable and unread by many of those who supported it - this in a context where the common citizen is seeing widespread, profound and uniformly negative effects from the Nice Treaty - and they very rationally voted No.
The absurd reiteration that Ireland is the "only" country to balk is simply a product of the fact that it is the only country where the people had the right to a say. Had the other EU countries had the opportunity, without doubt the Irish would not be alone in their response.
Far from this being an Irish "problem" needing resolution, this is a moment where Ireland has raised a vital question on whose interests the EU is to serve. Sarkozy's reaction gives a very perturbing indication of the answer to that question. - Yours, etc, | <urn:uuid:a5a02be3-aa38-4ce8-a8d0-01414c8540cc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.eurotrib.com/story/2008/7/9/72834/00549 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280872.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00318-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963006 | 985 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Colt handguns ruled the pistol market in the 1800s, especially their percussion revolvers.
With an open mechanism that was both elegant and very resistant to black powder fouling–not to mention Samuel Colt’s brilliant marketing– Colt handguns were legitimate fighting handguns. By the time of the American Civil War (1861-65), the US military’s standard issue pistol was the Colt 1860 Army revolver. The 1860 is half the weight of the previous Walker and Dragoon pistols with the same 44 caliber killing power.
But the Civil War was unlike other previous conflicts. In short, it was a war of attribution. Whoever had the most men and the most arms was going to win. The loss of arms meant that the US Army needed more handguns than what Colt could produce. That lead to a number of revolvers being sent to the front lines– the most popular of which was the Remington New Model Army. It was a revolver so good that it nearly bankrupted the company.
Pietta’s 1858 Remington
The “1858 Remington” is a modern collector’s term for the Remington New Model Army. The Old Model started production in 1861 with the slightly improved New Model Army coming out in 1863. Uberti and Pietta are producing fine Remington style handguns, both authentic and unauthentic.
Pietta’s Army pistol is quite close to the original except the wooden grips are a bit large and the necessary branding and proof marks are in plain view on the barrel. But overall the gun still has the futuristic aesthetics and handling that drew me to the Remington design in the first place when I first started shooting percussion revolvers.
The gun is blued steel with the only embellishment being a brass trigger guard. The barrel is eight inches long and octagonal and the loading lever doubles as a retainer for the cylinder axis pin. This dual purpose loading lever had an 1858 patent date, hence the modern designation of this pistol. Like most Civil War handguns, the New Model Army uses a six-shot cylinder and is single action, requiring the hammer to be cocked for each shot.
The Remington features milled slots in between the chambers so the gun may be carried fully loaded and the cylinder can be quickly taken out for cleaning by simply dropping the loading lever, half-cocking the hammer, and retracting the cylinder pin. I have carried around spare cylinders in the past for quick reloads, but the practice wasn’t documented at the time.
Like all percussion revolvers, loading is somewhat laborious–but fun. Like all percussion revolvers, you can tailor loads for a variety of shooters or purposes from plinking to handgun hunting.
After firing percussion caps on each of the nipples to rid the cylinder of oil, half-cock the hammer so the cylinder will spin freely.
Drop a charge of powder into each cylinder and top it with a ball or conical bullet. Pull the ramrod down and seat the ball.
Then put a percussion cap onto each nipple. A bit of grease over the chamber mouth or a lubricated wad will go a long way to keeping black powder fouling at bay.
When you first pick up the Remington Army, the first thing you will notice is how modern of a pistol it is. You will not get the elegant lines and engraving of a Colt, but a modern solid frame with fixed iron sights. This is not so much of a culture shock for today’s shooter.
The grips on this Pietta are somewhat larger than the original and they fit my meaty hands with room to spare. You can get a full grip on the piece. Where the Remington might miss the mark is natural point-ability as the gun feels somewhat rear-heavy, but it is not a challenge to line your sights on target quickly.
Those sights, by the way, are a groove in the top-strap and a front post, like a modern revolver. They are low profile, but still easy enough to pick up and they do shoot to the point of aim.
The load used in my standard testing is a 30 grain charge of Graf’s FFFg black powder and a .454 inch 141 grain Hornady round ball. This load is not the hottest you can work up–and it isn’t Civil War authentic– but it was easy to work up right from my powder flask. The lead balls are a piece of cake to seat and leave a nice ring of lead upon seating, assuring a tight and safe fit.
This load was mild recoiling yet accurate from seven yards out to twenty-five yards. Cocking the hammer takes little effort and the single-action trigger has no creep. When it breaks, it breaks.
An initial four-inch group at seven yards, one handed.
Then There Was the Conical Bullet
While a fair bit of my shooting with the Remington has been with round ball, I also took the opportunity to prepare some combustible paper cartridges–like those issued with these guns during their military service. The load was 30 grains of FFFg and a 200 grain .450 inch cast Lee conical bullet, similar to the Army load used during the Civil War. Unfortunately these were incompatible with the Pietta as the loading port where the rammer is located is too short for the longer bullet to clear and be seated. Without modification, Pietta revolvers tend to be for round ball use only while the Uberti reproductions are cut and will happily accept conical bullets. But this is an issue with the reproduction, not the overall design itself.
The pistol points very well, though perhaps not as naturally as the ubiquitous Colt 1851 Navy pistol. The gun’s solid frame caught on in years to come. This stronger, enclosed frame reduced the possibility of spent cap parts jamming the action over the Colt revolvers. However, the enclosed action comes at a price.
The Remington’s Achilles Heel
After twelve shots, the hammer became harder to cock and the cylinder will be slower to turn.
The Colt revolvers can go on for many shots with its open top action and an easily lubricated arbor pin in which the cylinder rotates on. The Remington’s closed off action and smaller, groove-less cylinder pin makes it more susceptible to fouling. It might even be necessary to tap the cylinder pin out because of all the fouling. This reality of the Remington design blows away the myth that it was quick and easy to carry multiple cylinders to reload the pistol. This is real life in the field use, not Pale Rider.
Using thick grease like Slick 2000 or Thompson Center Bore butter on the cylinder pin is the best way to keep the Remington trucking, but after twenty-four shots it became necessary to take a paper towel and wipe down the pin and the inside of the frame. Another step is to use lubricated felt wads under the ball or grease over the ball. This keeps fouling soft throughout shooting and in my experience shooting Remington’s, it is the best way to passively keep shooting without having to break the pistol down.
Though not perfect, the Remington New Model proved popular with over 200,000 units produced. This handgun was such a success that in the post-war era, Remington had trouble. With so many people returning from the war armed, Remington could no longer sell their handguns and hope to stay in business. It would take the internationally famous Remington Rolling Block military rifle to save the company and bring it ultimately into our century.
The Pietta firm is making a nice reproduction of the legendary New Model Army at an insane price point–under $300. These handguns are infinitively stronger and more available than original guns, so I can live with its few quirks. It commands range attention with plenty of puissance and aesthetics for a modern shooter.
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The World Sustainable Built Environment (WSBE17) Hong Kong – International Youth Competition invites imaginative ideas, projects and action plans that best demonstrate an innovative interpretation of the Conference theme “Transforming Our Built Environment through Innovation and Integration: Putting Ideas into Action” and the key discussion areas.
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) and the Hong Kong Green Building Council (HKGBC) jointly present the World Sustainable Built Environment Conference 2017 Hong Kong (WSBE17 Hong Kong) to be held from June 5-7, 2017. WSBE17 Hong Kong is the world conference of the 2015-2017 cycle of the renowned SBE Conference Series, which is now considered to be the most influential of its kind globally.
Shortlisted teams will
- Display their brilliant ideas at WSBE17 Hong Kong;
- Be known to over 1,800 global industry experts;
- Present in front of a panel of internationally acclaimed judges;
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Dwindling governmental control and a sharp influx of al-Qaeda operatives in Sinai and Syria have led to a spike in terror activity in the Sinai Peninsula and the possibility of a new front for Israel in the Golan Heights, according to the commander of the IDF Intelligence Corps, Maj. Gen. Aviv Kochavi.
“Sinai is a no-man’s land,” Kochavi told the Knesset Foreign Affairs and Defense Committee on Tuesday. “The terror groups in Sinai could attempt to create a diplomatic crisis by way of terror attack. Recently the infrastructure for 10 terror attacks was dismantled and the paths to attack are continually monitored.”
In Syria, he said, there is “a daily flow of al-Qaeda operatives into the country.”
The Sunni fighters were streaming in from Iraq and Yemen and other states in the region.
“The consolidation of global jihad elements in Syria could turn the Golan region into a front against Israel, much like that which exists in the Sinai,” he said.
He was no more optimistic about Israel’s prospects with its neighbor to the south, saying that although the Egyptian Muslim Brotherhood did not have a wide mandate, its installation into power did not augur well.
“The forecast is for a deep change in the nature of its ties with Israel,” he said, adding that “economic restraints” and others were currently preventing any radical shift.
In Egypt the urban population centers, those in Cairo and along the Red Sea coast, were largely in favor of former air marshal Ahmed Shafiq while the poorer villages and towns preferred Mohammed Morsi, the candidate of the Muslim Brotherhood. The close vote, along with the fact that Morsi is only the deputy head of the Muslim Brotherhood, “has had an influence on his confidence and makes it hard for him to make decisions,” Kochavi said.
Kochavi added that the Arab Spring, which the Israeli army prefers to call “a shake-up,” has changed the nature of regional conflicts, from territorial to religious. “This makes it much more complicated and much more uncompromising,” he said.
Iran, he said, has been making overtures to Egypt but thus far “has received a cold shoulder.”
Among the divided Palestinian public, the elections in Egypt have been a windfall for Hamas. Waxing poetic, Kochavi told committee members that “for Hamas, a gate has been born and for the PA a wall has been built.”
The head of military intelligence described Syria as an increasingly desperate, ever more brutal regime, which is beginning to come apart at its ethnic seams. Kochavi gave Bashar Assad between “two months and two years” but then hurried to say he did not want to put a time frame on the eventual, unalterable fall of the regime.
He estimated that between 500 and 700 people were being killed by the army per weekand that the rebels had managed to assassinate 60-70 Syrian officers. All told, he estimated, 13,000 officers and soldiers have defected from the armed forces. Kochavi said he saw “cracks in the vicinity of Assad,” yet cautioned that the opposition was disorganized and divided by ideology and a lack of shared goals.
Syria, he said, “is undergoing an accelerated process of Iraqization” — fragmentation along ethnic lines.
“The brutal nature in which they act” – he showed satellite photos of Syrian artillery batteries firing on urban centers—”is indicative of desperation,” he asserted.
Kochavi characterized the surveillance applied to Syria’s chemical weapons as “daily and uninterrupted” but said there is “an increasing danger” of those weapons falling into the hands of other organizations.
He did not mention Jordan, at least in the comments made available to the press, but did note, depressingly, that “the moderate axis is virtually nonexistent in the Middle East today.” | <urn:uuid:527f1341-9607-491e-99e2-873fd6163750> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.timesofisrael.com/mi-chief-terror-on-the-rise-in-sinai-and-syria/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00365-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975096 | 834 | 1.507813 | 2 |
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This from Reuters via the South China Morning Post ...
- Canadian lawmakers deliver on threat to examine ‘soft’ approach to Beijing with vote to form special committee
- Conservative opposition accuses prime minister of failing to stand up for Canada’s interests
Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau suffered his first parliamentary defeat since re-election on Tuesday with legislators approving the creation of a special committee to examine the country’s frosty relations with China.
Trudeau’s Liberals lost their parliamentary majority in an October election. He must now rely on opposition legislators to govern.
Canada-China ties turned icy a year ago after Vancouver police detained Huawei chief financial officer Meng Wanzhou
on a US arrest warrant. Soon afterwards, China detained two Canadian citizens who now face state security charges, and it also blocked imports of canola seed from Canada.
The right-leaning Conservative Party, which accuses Trudeau of being too soft with China, proposed setting up the 12-person committee, which will conduct hearings to review all aspects of Canada’s relations with China. It is due to meet for the first time on January 20.
“This committee will help shed light on Justin Trudeau’s failures to stand up for Canadian interests with respect to Beijing,” Conservative foreign affairs spokesman Erin O’Toole said in a statement.
Trudeau has stressed the need to avoid escalating the dispute with China, while the Liberals have said existing committees already deal with the China relationship.
Legislators voted by 171 to 148 to create the committee. Trudeau’s office was not immediately available for comment. | <urn:uuid:ffea9112-01a5-4a63-86fd-bc22677e4783> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://army.ca/forums/threads/parliament-to-scrutinise-canada-china-relations-in-defeat-for-trudeau.131614/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.938354 | 365 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Earth's satellite, the Moon.
- Moon is what someone wants to give you when they wish to give you everything.
An example of moon is when someone says they want to give you everything.
Moon is defined as the only natural satellite of the Earth.
Facts About the Moon
- It takes the moon 27.322 days to orbit the Earth. The orbit is almost circular.
- While the moon rotates, the moon also rotates on its axis. Due to this rotation, we always see the same side of the moon.
- The force of the moon’s gravity is stronger on the side of the Earth that is facing the moon and weaker on the other side of the Earth.
- It takes 29.53 days for the moon to cycle through its eight different phases.
- The moon is the fifth largest moon in the solar system and is bigger than Pluto.
- The moon’s average distance from Earth is 384,400 km or 238,855 miles.
- The radius of the moon averages 1,079.6 miles, which is around 27% of the Earth’s radius.
- The gravity of the moon is about 1/6 of the Earth’s. That means you would weigh much less on the moon and if you dropped something, it would fall much slower than here on Earth.
- The average distance from the center of the Earth to the center of the moon is 238,897 miles.
- The temperature of the moon ranges from -280 degrees F to 260 degrees F.
- The lighter areas are called terrae, which is Latin for "lands." These are the rugged highlands which were the original crust of the moon. They are full of craters from asteroids, meteoroids, and comets.
- The darker areas are called maria, which is Latin for "seas." Since these areas are smooth and dark, they look like seas. They are actually cratered landscapes that were flooded with lava from volcanoes. When the lava froze, it became dark rock.
An example of the moon is the disk or crescent of light you see in the night sky.
- the celestial body that revolves around the earth from west to east in c. 27 days with reference to the stars and once in c. 29 days with reference to the sun, and that accompanies the earth in its yearly revolution about the sun: diameter, c. 3,476 km (c. 2,160 mi); mean distance from the earth, c. 384,404 km (c. 238,857 mi); mean density, c. that of the earth; mass, c.; volume, c.: with the
- this body as it appears during a particular lunar month or period of time, or at a particular time of the month
- a month; esp., a lunar month
- anything shaped like the moon (i.e., an orb or crescent)
- any natural satellite; esp., a natural satellite of a planet
Origin of moonMiddle English mone ; from Old English mona, akin to Gothic m?na ; from Indo-European an unverified form m?n-, month, moon (from source Classical Latin mensis, Classical Greek m?n, month, m?ne, moon) ; from base an unverified form m?-, to measure
Origin of moonfrom the notion of behaving as if moonstruck to behave in an idle, dreamy, or abstracted way, as when in love
Origin of moonfrom an earlier slang use of the n., meaning “buttocks”Slang to engage in the prank of momentarily baring one's buttocks in public
- to pass (time) in mooning
- Slang to expose one's buttocks to (someone) as a prank
- often Moon The natural satellite of Earth, visible by reflection of sunlight and having a slightly elliptical orbit, approximately 356,000 kilometers (221,600 miles) distant at perigee and 406,997 kilometers (252,950 miles) at apogee. Its mean diameter is 3,475 kilometers (2,160 miles), its mass approximately one eightieth that of Earth, and its average period of revolution around Earth 29 days 12 hours 44 minutes calculated with respect to the sun.
- A natural satellite revolving around a planet.
- The moon as it appears at a particular time in its cycle of phases: a gibbous moon.
- A month, especially a lunar month.
- A disk, globe, or crescent resembling the natural satellite of Earth.
- Something unreasonable or unattainable: They acted as if we were asking for the moon.
- Slang The bared buttocks.
verbmooned, moon·ing, moons
- To wander about or pass time languidly and aimlessly.
- To yearn or pine as if infatuated.
- Slang To expose one's buttocks in public as a prank or disrespectful gesture.
Origin of moonMiddle English moone, from Old English m&omacron;na; see m&emacron;-2 in Indo-European roots.
top: waxing crescent moon
center: full moon
bottom: third quarter moon
(third-person singular simple present moons, present participle mooning, simple past and past participle mooned)
- (colloquial) To display one's buttocks to, typically as a jest, insult, or protest
- (intransitive, colloquial) (usually followed by over or after) To fuss over something adoringly; to be infatuated with someone.
- Sarah mooned over Sam's photograph for months.
- You've been mooning after her forever, why not just ask her out?
- To spend time idly, absent-mindedly.
- To expose to the rays of the Moon.
From Middle English mone, from Old English mÅna (“moon"), from Proto-Germanic *mÄ“nô (“moon"), from Proto-Indo-European *mḗhâ‚nÌ¥s (“moon, month"), from *mÄ“-² (“to measure"). Cognate with Scots mone, mune (“moone"), North Frisian muun (“moon"), West Frisian moanne (“moon"), Dutch maan (“moon"), German Mond (“moon"), Swedish mÃ¥ne (“moon"), Icelandic máni (“moon"), Latin mÄ“nsis (“month"). See also month, a related term within Indo-European. | <urn:uuid:4d6815ab-bb82-43df-8455-a4b5154b717c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.yourdictionary.com/moon | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00232-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906574 | 1,409 | 3.75 | 4 |
National Park Week Quiz #4 is a bit unconventional, so be sure to follow the instructions carefully. If you can provide the name of the correct national park before 12:00 midnight EST today you will be eligible for Traveler’s National Park Week prize drawing and a chance to win a National Geographic Trails Illustrated Map for the national park of your choice.
Identify national parks that can be matched with these four descriptions.
1 - A park that has a loop drive and a mountain with a car's name
2 - A park that has an active volcano and boiling mud pots
3 - A park that has famous fossils and a lodge built on Homestead Act land
4 - A park that has tide pools and mountain goats
Take the first letter of each park's name and rearrange these four letters to spell out a word in a fifth national park’s name.
Before 12:00 midnight EST today, tell us the name of the national park identified in this way.
Answers and a list of readers who answered correctly will be posted in tomorrow's Traveler.
If we catch you Googling or engaged in other sneakery we will make you write on the whiteboard 100 times:
The set of 17 chemical elements known as the rare earths (and which are neither rare nor earths) consists of scandium and yttrium plus the 15 lanthanides – lanthanum, cerium, praseodymium, neodymium, promethium, samarium, europium, gadolinium, terbium, dysprosium, holmium, erbium, thulium, ytterbium, and lutetium. | <urn:uuid:480702c5-23ea-4002-8182-45794180d8ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nationalparkstraveler.com/item/national-park-week-quiz-4-two-step | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00139-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.892753 | 353 | 2.640625 | 3 |
from The Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. An old weapon like a spear, having on each side of the central blade another curved one, the two curved blades forming together a crescent with the sharp edge on the concave side. Sometimes, however, these blades had a secondary or outward curve sharpened on both sides.
Sorry, no etymologies found.
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We use had better to refer to the present or the future, to talk about actions we think people should do or which are desirable in a specific situation. The verb form is always had, not have. We normally shorten it to ’d better in informal situations. It is followed by the infinitive without to:
It’s five o’clock. I’d bettergo now before the traffic gets too bad.
Not: I’d better to go now.
The democratic movement had better concentrate on the immediate issues of the economy and security. (more formal)
Had better is a strong expression. We use it if we think there will be negative results if someone does not do what is desired or suggested:
She’d better get here soon or she’ll miss the opening ceremony.
Sometimes people say had best instead of had better, especially in informal speaking. This sounds slightly less strong and less direct:
You’d best leave it till Monday. There’s no one in the office today.
Had better: negative and question forms
The negative of had better is had better not (or ’d better not):
I’d better not leave my bag there. Someone might steal it.
You’d better not tell Elizabeth about the broken glass – she’ll go crazy!
The question form of had better is made by inverting the subject and had. This means the same as should, but is more formal:
Had I better speak to Joan first before I send this form off? What do you think?
Had we better leave a note for the delivery guy to take the parcel next door?
Negative questions with had better are more common than affirmative ones:
Hadn’t we better ring the school and tell them Liam is sick?
Hadn’t you better switch your computer off? It might overheat if you leave it on.
Had better or be better, be best?
We use had better to give advice in a specific situation. We use the phrase be better or be best + to-infinitive for more general suggestions:
It’s always better to be safe than sorry. (‘It’s better to be safe than sorry’ is a saying which means that you should be careful before taking any action.)
I think it would be best to speak to the people in the video shop to see what they recommend.
Had better or would rather, would prefer?
We don’t use had better when we talk about preferences. We use would rather or would prefer.
I’d better get a taxi. The buses are so slow.
It is a good idea, better, or advisable to get a taxi.
I’d rather get a taxi. I don’t like buses.
I prefer to get a taxi.
Had better: typical errors
We use had better to give specific advice, not to talk about obligations or requirements; instead, we use have to, have got to or must:
You have to (or must) hold a full, valid driving licence to hire a car.
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The Principal Solar Institute, an online reference center and resource guide for the commercial and utility scale solar market, today announced the introduction of the PSI PV Module Rating, the first-of-its kind approach that allows easy, unbiased, comprehensive analysis and comparison of photovoltaic (PV) modules.
PSI Ratings are designed to allow solar consumers to make informed, intelligent comparisons and decisions when selecting PV modules.
The Principal Solar Institute Advisory Board consists of these highly influential academic and industry experts:
*Govindasamy (Mani) TamizhMani, Ph.D., President, TUV Rheinland PTL (Photovoltaic Testing Laboratory), involved in R&D activities related to photovoltaics and fuel cells for over 25 years, and PV module testing and certification activities for over 13 years.
*Robert Birkmire, Ph.D. (Physics), Director, Institute of Energy Conversion (IEC), University of Delaware, Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering and Department of Physics, University of Delaware, principal investigator on numerous government and industrial contracts on amorphous and polycrystalline thin film solar cells.
*Robert P. H. Chang, Ph.D. (Astrophysics), Professor, Department of Materials Science and Engineering, Northwestern University, recognized innovator in materials research, interdisciplinary science education and international networking.
*David Williams, Chief Executive Officer of solar developer dissigno, peer reviewer for the US Department of Energy’s SunShot program and lead for National Renewable Energy Laboratory’s Quality Assurance Communication task force.
“Until now, there was no accepted standard for comparing the critical characteristics of PV modules between different manufacturers, or even across a single product line,” says Matthew A. Thompson, Ph.D., executive director of the Principal Solar Institute. “The PSI Ratings elevate the solar industry in a rigorous approach similar to the financial sector, which turns to Standard and Poor’s Ratings for investments, and the air conditioning industry, which relies upon SEER Ratings. We are closing the gap in the solar power industry’s urgent need for a method to uniformly evaluate PV modules in order to make technologically and financially optimal decisions.”
PV modules produce electrical power under a wide range of environmental conditions, such as irradiance, nominal operating cell temperature and ambient conditions causing the electrical power output to differ between modules of the same nameplate wattage. The PSI PV Module Rating is a comparative number that can be used with pricing information, providing power plant designers and buyers with a consistent basis for choosing a particular PV module.
“Significantly, this method goes beyond simply tabulating results provided by the manufacturers in their specification sheets,” adds Dr. Thompson.
Michael Gorton, CEO and chairman of Principal Solar, Inc (PSI; OTC Pink: PSWW), explains, “No industry can be considered mature until it has adopted standards. As tireless, passionate promoters of solar as a near-term solution to so many energy-related issues, the Principal Solar Institute is committed to driving solar energy to the forefront of the national energy debate. These standards will help to build the solar industry’s solid foundation of credibility in the minds of energy leaders, investors and industries around the world.”
Principal Solar, Inc (PSI; OTC Pink: PSWW), is a publicly traded solar energy holding company executing a unique roll-up strategy to create the world’s first distributed solar utility. PSI concentrates its resources on the acquisition, finance, development and management of solar power companies. The Principal Solar Institute, an educational organization created by Principal Solar, Inc., is dedicated to spreading solar knowledge to the critical stakeholders in the ongoing energy debate. | <urn:uuid:3bc4d640-ac90-45d6-9bee-a82c79c935b2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.evwind.es/2012/10/16/principal-solar-introduces-photovoltaic-module-rating-system/24854 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.899466 | 783 | 2.015625 | 2 |
Prairieville Girl Scout achieves highest award in Girl-Scouting: the Gold Award
Prairieville Girl Scout Lacey Bowman has earned the Girl Scout Gold Award, the highest award a Girl Scout Senior or Ambassador can earn, and which is received by only a few Girl Scouts nationwide. Bowman was among seven Girl Scout Gold Award recipients from Girl Scouts Louisiana East, being honored at a reception and pinning ceremony at the Governor’s Mansion on August 2.
To earn the Girl Scout Gold Award, a young woman must demonstrate ability and skill in goal-setting, planning, putting values into action, and relating to the community, which includes planning and executing a community service project with a minimum 80 hours of work, that reaches beyond the Girl Scout organization and provides a sustainable, lasting benefit to the girl's larger community.
Bowman is a former member of Girl Scout Ambassador Troop 10464 and a 2016 graduate of Dutchtown High School. She recently completed her first year at the University of West Florida in Pensacola where she is majoring in marine biology and working towards a career in marine conservation research.
Chronic health issues such as obesity, high blood pressure, diabetes, depression and heart disease affect a significant portion of our population. Bowman held an event to demonstrate to youth and adults that exercising can be fun and exciting, but challenging. The event included physically strenuous practice activities and competitive challenges that any fitness level can perform. She also distributed informational sheets covering nutrition and activities and Presidential Youth Fitness Program pamphlets.
Girl Scouts Louisiana East offers the best leadership development program for girls, grades K to 12, in southeast Louisiana. Through Girl Scouting, girls learn to face challenges head-on, embrace failure as a learning opportunity, create lasting relationships, and find dynamic solutions to social issues —all while building the skills and courage they need to take the lead every day and empower themselves for life. For more information, call the council office at 800-644-7571, or visit its website at www.gsle.org. | <urn:uuid:7e99851c-ecf3-48e6-8eac-05f5fa752825> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.weeklycitizen.com/story/lifestyle/2017/08/16/prairieville-girl-scout-achieves-highest/19592938007/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.947275 | 418 | 1.65625 | 2 |
TOSS SSC, Inter Vocational Courses in TS Open SchoolsTOSS SSC, Inter Vocational Courses in TS Open Schools: Distance Vocational Courses in Telangana Open Schools, SSC, Intermediate Vocational Courses in TOSS Study Centers/Accreditation Institutions. Telangana School Education, Telangana Open School Society, Strengthening of Vocational Education -Identification of Government /Zilla Parishad School and Accreditation Institutions (AIs) of Open School - Certain instructions.
All the District Educational Officers in the State are informed that in the Review Meeting held on 09-08-2016, the Director of School Education, Telangana, Hyderabad emphases for strengthening of Vocational Education in Open Schooling and instructed to open the following Vocational Courses in SSC and Intermediate Accreditation Institutions / Study Centres which are functioning in Government / Zilla Parishad Schools.
SSC Vocational Courses
1) Tailoring, Designing & Making.
2) Beautician & Health Care.
3) Computer Course.
4) Automobile Mechanic
Intermediate Vocational Courses
1) Apparel Fashion Designing
2) Computer Science
3) Soil and Fertilizer Management
Therefore, all the District Education Officers are requested to identify the Accreditation Institutions having above 100 girl students and having ICT Programme in District Head Quarter / Revenue Divisions (in Urban Areas) and submit detailed report covering the strength of the School (Boys & Girls), Vocational Course already in existence, availability of instructors and infrastructural facility etc., by 17-08-2016 | <urn:uuid:c4cf2be2-9b08-43fd-bd6e-38e19eb6518a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.teachersbadi.in/2016/08/toss-ssc-inter-vocational-courses-ts-open-schools-telanganaopenschool.org.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721174.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00282-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.858644 | 341 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Modern technology has a tendency to be seductive. Unfortunately, it also has the same tendency to be adictive. When does an activity become a habit and when does a habit become an addiction? Do you feel vaguely uncomfortable if you miss your morning email/Facebook/Twitter fix? Or do you actually panic and have an uncontrolable urge to turn on the comuputer and check the latest news and updates? Genealogists are no more immune to tech addiction than any other group or individuals. You may look down your nose and a younger person's constant gaming habit, but at the same time be inseperable from the Facebook stream. You may have resented your mother's addition to soap operas, but now you have the same problem with Facebook.
Now we all know genealogy is highly addictive, especially to those who have the genealogy "gene." But the problem is that the tech addiction just might end up interferring with our preferable genealogy addiction. Wouldn't that be a tragedy? First, we have to be able to identify our tech addition. I suggest looking at the following:
Do you have more than three network connected devices, such as a computer, a tablet, an iPod or a smartphone?
Do you turn on the computer or other device before you get out of bed in the morning?
Do you find yourself going to be with your smartphone or iPad?
Do you read blogs and Facebook while you eat?
Do you find yourself in meetings, like church or social events, checking your email or Facebook instead of talking to people or listening to a speaker?
Do you have your smartphone on or laptop going while you watch a movie on TV?
There are of course other issues. Now we have to ask the ultimate question, is all this necessarily bad? Addictions always have a negative connotation, but isn't there the possiblity that we can become accustumed to a different lifestyle that completely incorporates technology? Is that bad or good? I look at it from the standpoint of production, personal interaction and work. Can I maintain a reasonable level of contact with the real world of friends and relatives and still be deeply involved in technology? Does my tech habit interfere or enhance my ability to pursue my family's history? If I were a journeyman carpenter, I might use a hammer and saw all day, but that does not mean I am addicted to their use. On the other hand, if I spend my days watching the Facebook stream and making comments instead of pursuing some more productive activities, maybe my tech addition is harmful.
My Grandfather worked for newspapers all his life. Every day he would come home from work and sit and read the newspaper. I just remember that, I don't feel like that was a problem at all. But had he neglected to speak to any of us or ignored what else was going on, it might have become an issue. Do we all need to evaluated our relationship to technology from time to time? | <urn:uuid:087d7376-538c-453d-929a-e8e8e4ce73f8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://genealogysstar.blogspot.com/2011/11/avoiding-excess-blogging-social.html?showComment=1321968734752 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00043-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967098 | 607 | 1.90625 | 2 |
We often think the opposite of simple is complex. This often on display when we talk of user experience in technology. We want the user experience to be simple. We also see it in discussions of business processes and project activities. And we see it in politicians who want simple sound bites when talking about complex issues.
But we also see it when we talk about responsible data practices in our work. Or when we talk about creating awareness among those we work with about how we use data about them.
Sometimes, in those conversations, it appears we treat care as the opposite of simple. We want a process, a message that is simple to deliver and implement so we can move on. Care requires time, money, and multiple interactions. And we see those requirements as the opposite of simple.
Somehow we have equated simple with off-the-shelf check box one-off activities. And weirdly, we’ve regulated the time and effort it takes to ‘care for those we seek to serve’ as too complex. Somehow creating awareness and understanding about how we use data about the people we work is viewed as a luxury activity, not an essential. Care has become a luxury and too complex. Care has become the opposite of simple.
How we view the people we seek to serve, especially when they are not the ones paying our bills, is a choice. Is creating awareness and understanding a luxury or an essential? Where do you sit on the spectrum? Where do you want to be?
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Details of a strange case have come forth, which was being heard at Queensland's Supreme Court. The case was filed by doctors, who told that a woman, who has delivered a baby has been suffering from hepatitis B infection and if vaccine is not given to the child immediately then he can also be infected with the disease.
Parents, whose baby was just 40 hours old, said they did not want their child to have vaccination, as it was against their religious belief. Justice Jean Dalton was surprised to know that parents were not bothered about the health of their child, but were more concerned about their beliefs.
Religious belief is quite a sensitive topic, and generally, people prefer not to comment on it. Irrespective of the religious belief, it is very important that child's security is given the utmost importance and same thing was being done by Dalton.
He immediately ordered parents to go to hospital and get their child vaccinated. Child's father was of the view that there are very less chances that his child will develop any sort of infection. "When there is a clash between the parents' beliefs and the health and wellbeing of a just-born child, it is appropriate the court takes the side of the child", said Civil libertarian Terry O'Gorman QC. | <urn:uuid:f969fc27-cdbc-4c16-955d-e304cb476a01> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://topnews.us/content/248387-queensland-apex-court-takes-side-child | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720972.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00251-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.993219 | 254 | 1.625 | 2 |
Taking up much of the southern tip of southern Illinois between the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, the Shawnee National Forest contains more than 280,000 acres and some of the most scenic views in the state. You’ll find a wide variety of terrain, including rock formations at the Little Grand Canyon and the Garden of the Gods that look more like something you’d find out west than in the Prairie State. There are five different recreation areas within the national forest—Bellsmith Springs, Garden of the Gods, Pounds Hollow, Lake Glendale and Johnson Creek, each of which offers a variety of activities from boating to hiking.
What Makes It Great
Despite all the rock formations in the park, the national forest offers just limited opportunities for rock climbing and rappelling. Their primary goal is to protect the fragile ecosystems and prevent erosion, so there is no rock climbing in any of the 80 designated natural areas in the forest, including the Garden of the Gods Observation Trail and Rim Rock National Recreation Trail. But rock climbing and rappelling are permitted at Jackson Falls in the Hidden Springs Ranger District, as well as several areas outside of the national forest.
At Jackson Falls, you’ll find about 60 climbing areas, each with named routes on them, totally 500 named routes in all, most on sandstone bluffs in the range of 50-60 feet high. Most are sport routes, and you’ll also find some good bouldering in the area. Find out more about the climbing at Jackson Falls here.
Most of the campsites are organized around a body of water or scenic highlight of the park. The national forest service doesn’t offer any cabins for campers, but there are private vendors who offer cabins in the forest. You can find help in finding lodging here.
For campers, there’s everything from primitive backpacking to established campgrounds with showers and electrical hook-ups. There are even equestrian focused camping facilities at Johnson Creek.
As for the national forest, the highlight for most are the scenic attractions found at the Garden of the Gods, which is known by geologists as an uplifted sandstone plateau. Unlike the rest of Illinois, the glaciers never reached this far south to level the terrain. So we’re not blessed with these outcropping of rock that look as though precariously put together by, well, I guess gods if we’re to believe the name. It’s not surprising that Garden of the Gods is the most visited site in the national forest. But there are also more than 403 miles of equestrian and hiking trials to explore, including the River to River Trail, a 160-mile route that will take you from Battery Rock on the Ohio River to Devil’s Backbone Park on the Mississippi River. Hikers have been known to do the whole trail over several weeks, but you can also just pick a section for day hikes.
The national forest was created when the federal government purchased much of the land, which was mostly exhausted farmland, in the 1930s. President Franklin Roosevelt declared the area the Shawnee National Forest in 1939. Previous to that, members of the Civilian Conservation Core planted many of the pine and hardwood trees that make up the forest today.
Who is Going to Love It
Anyone who enjoys the outdoors. Rock climbers looking to get out of the gym. And those looking for a western-like rock experience in Illinois. It is a long drive from Chicago—as far as you can go without leaving the state. But for a multiday trip, it’s worth putting in the miles. For a list of scenic drives in the area, click here.
Directions, Parking, & Regulations
The Shawnee National Forest is located at 50 Hwy 145 South, Harrisburg, IL 62946.
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Adenoid removal is surgery to take out the adenoid glands. The adenoid glands sit behind your nose above the roof of your mouth. Air passes over these glands when you take a breath.
The adenoids are often taken out at the same time as the tonsils (tonsillectomy).
Adenoid removal is also called adenoidectomy. The procedure is most often done in children.
Adenoidectomy; Removal of adenoid glands
Your child will be given general anesthesia before surgery. This means your child will be asleep and unable to feel pain.
- The surgeon places a small tool into your child’s mouth to keep it open.
- The surgeon removes the adenoid glands using a spoon-shaped tool (curette). Or another tool that helps cut away soft tissue is used.
- Some surgeons use electricity to heat the tissue, remove it, and stop bleeding. This is called electrocautery. Another method uses radiofrequency (RF) energy to do the same thing. This is called coblation.
- Absorbent material, called packing material may also be used to control bleeding.
Your child will stay in the recovery room after surgery. When your child is awake and can breathe easily, cough, and swallow, you will be allowed to take your child home. This is usually a few hours after surgery.
Why the Procedure Is Performed
A doctor may recommend this procedure if:
- Enlarged adenoids are blocking your child’s airway. Symptoms in your child can include:
- Snoring a lot
- Difficulty breathing through the nose (nasal obstruction)
- Episodes of not breathing during sleep (sleep apnea)
- Your child has chronic ear infections that:
- Cause him or her to miss school a lot
- Continue despite using antibiotics
- Happen 5 or more times in a year
- Happen 3 or more times a year during a 2-year period
- Lead to fluid in the ears that causes hearing loss and does not go away on its own
Adenoidectomy may also be recommended if your child has tonsillitis that keeps coming back.
The adenoids normally shrink as children grow older. Adults rarely need to have them removed.
Risks of any anesthesia are:
Risks of any surgery are:
Before the Procedure
Your doctor or nurse will tell you how to prepare your child for this procedure.
A week before the surgery, do not give your child any medicine that thins the blood unless your doctor says so. Such medicines include aspirin and ibuprofen (Advil, Motrin).
The night before the surgery, your child should have nothing to eat or drink after midnight. This includes water.
You will be told what medicines your child should take on the day of surgery. Have your child take the medicine with a sip of water.
After the Procedure
Your child will go home on the same day as surgery. Complete recovery takes about 1 to 2 weeks.
Follow instructions on how to care for your child at home.
After this procedure, most children:
- Breathe better through the nose
- Have fewer and milder sore throats
- Have fewer ear infections
In rare cases, adenoid tissue may grow back. This does not usually cause problems.
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Observers track secret satellites launched Tuesday
BY JUSTIN RAY
Posted: December 3, 2003
Serving as space-age sleuths tracking spy satellites high above Earth, a band of sky-watchers scattered around the globe are offering their insights into a clandestine cargo launched Tuesday atop an Atlas rocket from California.
Linked by the Internet, the hobbyists eagerly awaited the launch ever since a similar rocket mission in 2001 resulted in something highly unexpected.
That earlier flight and Tuesday's were believed to have carried new satellites for the Naval Ocean Surveillance System, or NOSS.
But unlike 11 previous NOSS missions launched successfully between 1971 and 1996 that each deployed three satellites in a close triangular formation, the 2001 flight only released two spacecraft.
As a result, many believed a third craft failed to properly deploy.
Tuesday's launch would potentially clear up the mystery -- if three satellites were released, it would lend strong evidence to say the 2001 launch suffered a deployment failure.
Within hours of Tuesday's 1004 GMT (2:04 a.m. PST; 5:04 a.m. EST) liftoff from Vandenberg Air Force Base, California, observers in Europe got the first chance to see how many new objects were soaring overhead.
The answer: only two spacecraft.
By Tuesday evening, hobbyists elsewhere were confirming only two satellites were visible.
"Several observers have reported seeing two NOSS, but nobody has reported seeing three, so I now believe that this and the 2001 duo are third generation NOSS -- the first to employ two satellites instead of three," said Ted Molczan, an experienced and respected hobbyist satellite observer from Toronto, Canada.
NOSS satellites are used by the U.S. government to track ships sailing across the world. The previous generations of NOSS satellites featured three craft from each launch flying in the shape of a triangle, working together to determine the positions of vessels below.
"They are believed to detect radio transmissions from ships at sea, and analyze the signals to triangulate on the precise location of the transmitter. This enables the U.S. government to locate and track foreign vessels of interest," Molczan said.
But with only two satellites deployed on each of the past two Atlas launches, the system may have changed. Observers believe it is unlikely that both missions experienced deployment malfunctions.
Based upon his tracking in 2001 and Tuesday night, Molczan says the orbiting craft from both launches appear the same.
"Visually, the similarity is striking -- especially in that the two NOSS differ greatly in brightness. Tonight, everyone who reported observing them noted that the trailing NOSS was one-to-two magnitudes brighter than the leading NOSS.
"The 2001 NOSS behaved similarly soon after their launch, but once they became operational, the large differences in brightness became much less common.
"The initial spacing of the NOSS appears to be about the same as that of the 2001 launch.
"If 2001 is a guide to this NOSS pair, then we can expect them to make a number of maneuvers over the next couple of months, and to take about six months to settle into their final orbits."
For its part, the U.S. government is obviously silent about the spacecraft. The National Reconnaissance Office -- the secretive government agency responsible for designing and operating the U.S. fleet of spy satellites -- acknowledged that both launches carried its payloads. But all details about the craft and their mission are not officially revealed to the public.
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Understanding Childhood Overweight and Obesity
Childhood overweight and obesity occurs when a child or adolescent is well above the normal weight for his or her age and height. It is a serious medical condition that can lead to health problems, including diabetes, high blood pressure, and high cholesterol. Childhood overweight and obesity has also been associated with poor self-esteem and depression.
Adopting healthy diet and exercise habits in your family can help prevent and treat childhood obesity, and can lead to improved overall health for your child.
To learn more about prevalence of childhood overweight and obesity in Chicago and the United States, click here.
For additional resources and information about childhood overweight and obesity, see Resources below or Related Links.
Visit the following sites for additional information about childhood overweight and obesity
- Mayo Clinic: Childhood Obesity
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Obesity and Overweight
- American Diabetic Association: Healthy Habits for Healthy Kids
- Cleveland Clinic/WebMD: Weight Loss—Obesity in Children
- Surgeon General’s Call to Action to Prevent and Decrease Overweight and Obesity in Children and Adolescents
- American Heart Association: Overweight in Children
- Centers for Disease Control and Prevention: Strategies and Solutions—Childhood Overweight and Obesity
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Guest editor Liam Riordan in this overview article explores the relationship between the humanities and policy in general terms, identifying the recurring themes in the other articles in this special issue of Maine Policy Review. He contends that the humanities offer fabulous promise to enrich the quality of civic life in Maine and that this promise is firmly rooted in how the humanities address our practical need for meaningful human experiences.
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Niemoeller and “When They Came for Me. . . “
Today’s quote from A.Word.A.Day:
Neutrality helps the oppressor, never the victim. Silence encourages the
tormentor, never the tormented.
-Elie Wiesel, writer, Nobel laureate (b.1928)
When I read this quote, I was reminded of Pastor Martin Niemoeller’s poem about Nazi Germany, “When They Came For Me:”
In Germany, they came first for the Communists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Communist;
And then they came for the trade unionists, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a trade unionist;
And then they came for the Jews, And I didn’t speak up because I wasn’t a Jew;
And then . . . they came for me . . . And by that time there was no one left to speak up.”
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I still remember my 10th grade Biology teacher explaining that because blonde hair is a recessive trait it will slowly vanish off the face of the earth. Recently I read a news article with a similar claim, and had an argument with a few other biology and genetic majors. So I wrote a simulation.
TraitSim is an animated toy for exploring random, neutral gene proliferation with brown and blue eyes as an example. I also wrote a python version of the simulation and ran it tens of thousands of times. Thanks pypy for the 8.3x speedup! Surprisingly the chance to win the gene-race is linear with the gene’s initial prevalence as can be seen in the following graph thanks to matplotlib.
The thing with dominance is that it affects the gene expression which can be seen in the following graph:
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Medical supplies are usually highly essential in a doctor’s therapy and research. Most supplies used by physicians are generally stored in a healthcare facility or other areas where they administer remedies.
Today, doctors will be in need of medical supplies and you should give them all the things that they might need during their procedure. Medical supplies are highly essential within a doctor’s treatment and analysis.
No issue what your specialty is, you should have the necessary offer that can help your professional to obtain additional benefit from the procedure that you are about to perform. You may be provided many products like device, devices, epidermis, tubes, belts, anesthesia and so many more. You should have all the fundamental stuff that makes it easier for you to carry out the treatment easily.
When you proceed through a surgery, you will be provided several basic things such as sutures, swabs, scissors, lancets, tweezers, syringes, gauze, and a lot more. These supplies are considered as medical materials. In fact, if you are in any clinical field, you will need to purchase these supplies.
It would be easier for you to buy the clinical supplies at inexpensive prices if you buy it from an online store. It is because the web shops will be getting a multitude of products.
Medical related supplies can be purchased at a price that can easily fit into your budget. This is because you do not have to worry that you will not have the ability to afford the medical related supplies and you can always pick from the wide variety of supplies.
There are various prices for each product, in order to find a one which will be ideal for your pocket. The web shops will usually give you special discounts over the materials once you purchase them from their website. These discounts are usually more affordable so you can have got an improved bargain often.
Online stores likewise have their very own online medical delivery service. If you prefer to have the supplies delivered at your doorstep, you can also get of this assistance.
One thing that you should know is that shipping and handling can be an additional charge for the shipment process. You have to bear the expenses of the delivery cost on your own.
When it comes to medical supplies, there are a lot of online stores that sell the materials. This means that you do not have to go around the corner and visit different stores to obtain the supplies.
You can easily get all the medical supplies that you need by shopping on the internet. Moreover, there is no need to worry that you might not have the ability to afford the medical related supplies because they are widely available at low prices.
Make sure that you are often stocked up with clinical supplies that can help you supply the best treatment you could. Online stores will always offer you with an array of medical related items at the lowest prices.
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Zitat von linhartJust keep the shift key pressed while using the down-key.
Thank you, dear Linhart, for your advice!
When I wanted to create the vocabulary list of ALL Ancient Greek words in the works stored in the Perseus data base, after having selected all the works at a time, from Aeschines to Xenophon, I got this answer: Request-URI Too Large The requested URL's length exceeds the capacity limit for this server
It is also possible to select only e few, let's say 5 or 10 works at a time: Select the first work, keep the shift key pressed and select the last one.
It is really irritating that the Perseus-website creates error messages so often:
Zitat von Perseus on http://www.perseus.tufts.edu/hopper/vocablistAn Error Occurred Sorry, we were unable to load the page you were looking for! You've encountered an error that probably occurred due to a problem on our end. The error has been logged, and we'll be looking into fixing it. If you'd like to help us out, you can fill out the following form
That means that it is rather difficult to create word lists, because it is not possible to go on rapidly.
Just now I have created only one list for the words in
Aeschines, Speeches Aeschylus, Agamemnon (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) Aeschylus, Eumenides (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) Aeschylus, Libation Bearers (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) Aeschylus, Persians (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) Aeschylus, Prometheus Bound (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) Aeschylus, Seven Against Thebes (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.) Aeschylus, Suppliant Women (ed. Herbert Weir Smyth, Ph.D.)
This list comprises about 10700 words (see my attached Excel-file)
But just now always the same error occurs, and unfortunately I cannot continue! Not in Internet Explorer, not in Mozilla Firefox, not in Google Chrome. What shall I do... Maybe tomorrow it will work better!
I copied my list like that: First I pasted the list in Microsoft Windows' WordPad - and the Greek letters were shown. Then I copied it from WordPad and pasted it into Excel - and now the Greek letters were shown correctly again!
I'm sorry I've been out of the conversation! And I had the page open all day!
It took me a long time just to read through everything, because I've been so busy (doing boring crap that has nothing to do with Scrabble3D, unfortunately). But now I'm settled in at home until about 3 PM on Sunday! I did get to paint a little bit though, and update my fb artist page.
I am willing to continue to extract the words the way I have been, and leave it to you to remove the punctuation if you can! That would be great if you could do it that way, because otherwise I'd be doing it 15,000 times just for the letter "A"!
And I don't mind building the list this way because this list is compiled from EVERY source in Perseus' library. I haven't run searches for any other letter besides "A", but even if 20,000 was an average, if you multiply that x26, that's 520,000 words. Well I can already tell you, 20,000 is NOT going to be average, but more on the high end. But you see what I mean, it's much more of a viable set of words for a lexicon! If somebody makes this work obsolete by getting at the full list all at once, then more power to you. I wish you luck! I don't mind doing it this way in the meantime because I'm too excited about having an ancient Greek scrabble dictionary.
And Bussinchen, are you saying you have found a way?
I am very curious if one of these professors can help us.
@Apollonius: The list you are building up seems to me the very best. Don't worry about the punctuation! This will be no problem.
By the way: Are accents very essential in ancient greek? That means, should there be special tiles with accents, like e.g. in Hungarian? Or do you think that the modern Greek letter set is also suited for ancient greek?
Now I succeeded in making a list of words from the first 10 books of Lucian. It did not work with wordpad, so I used Mathematica and produced an Excel file containing only the words and definitions (see appendix).
Thank you very much, Linhart, for your excellent word list extracted from Lucian's works.
I have studied it a little bit, and unfortunately I must say that there are only the ordinary dictionary lemmata, but no inflected forms. You must know that in both Latin and Greek for instance the verb lemmata in dictionaries are never given in their infinitive form, but always as 1st person singular, present tense, indicative mode. So the lemmata for those regulary verbs that have active form end always in -ω (omega).
Excerpt from your list:
λύρα lyre λύρον [unavailable] λύσις loosing, ransoming λυσιτελέω to pay what is due λυσιτελής paying what is due λύσσα rage. λυσσάω to be raging λύτρον requital λυτρόω to release on receipt of ransom, to hold to ransom λυχνίον a lamp-stand λυχνίς lychnis λύχνον [unavailable] λύχνος light, lamp λύω loose, loosen, set free λωβάομαι maltreat, outrage; λωίων more desirable, more agreeable λῷος [unavailable] λωποδυτέω to steal clothes λωποδύτης one who slips into another's clothes, a clothes-stealer λωτέω play the flute λωτός lotus. μά by
Let's look on λύω = I loose, I loosen, I set free. If there were all the inflected forms of that verb in the list, we should find for example forms like λύεις = you loosen, λύει = he, she it loosens, λύομεν = we loosen, λύετε = you loosen, λύουσι or λύουσιν = they loosen for the 2nd and 3rd person singular and the 1st, 2nd and 3rd person plural, present tense, indicative, active voice. But these forms are not in the list. And I'm not talking about other forms you can find on http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Altgriechis...gationstabellen as for example λύσω, λύσεις, λύσει, λύσομεν, λύσετε, λύσουσι(ν) for the future tense, or λύσαιμι, λύσαις, λύσαι, λύσαιμεν, λύσαιτε, λύσαιεν for the optative aorist and so on.
It's the same thing for nouns. Let's study for instance the noun φίλος = friend (in the list: φίλος = beloved, dear). I do not find even one of the following inflected forms besides the lemma itself which is given in the nominative singular masculine form:
So after this little spot check I can already say that if we continue creating word lists like this, we will not have inflected forms in our list, only the lemmata.
That's exactly what I had told to Apollonius yesterday in the Skype chat, when he showed me a small part of his list of words he had created in his way. Yesterday already I believed that it could be like that, but today I'm rather sure that we will not get any inflected forms in our lists extracted from the Perseus data base.
It is the same way with the English dictionary. Not every form of every word is included in the scrabble dictionary, even though technically they are words by virtue of the rules of the language. One example of this is the word "SPLINTER", which can be a verb. According to the rules of the English language, you would add "ER" to a verb to describe a person or thing that does the action represented in that verb. So for "SPLINTER", a thing which does that would be a "SPLINTERER"...however, that word is not present in the TWL or SOWPODS dictionaries because it isn't widely used enough. The fact that these words are derived from ancient written sources shows that they were at least used contextually in the literature of the day.
Believe me, I don't know how many times I've argued with the dictionary in scrabble and wished that there was a closer adherence to the rules of the language!
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Draft Horse Town celebrates those gentle giants with The Big Shoe
CALGARY – It’s called The Big Shoe. And given the size of the subject material, it might best be described as a really, really Big Shoe.
“Yes — with apologies to Ed Sullivan,” chuckles Tim Lane.
Draft Horse Town, which pays homage to the working-class gentle giants that helped build Western Canada, has been one of the most popular exhibits at the Calgary Stampede since its 2010 debut. And this year, organizers will be showing off their theatrical chops — with many of the individual demonstrations being corralled into a twice-daily, one-hour presentation called The Big Shoe.
“A lot of these demonstrations and presentations were great on their own, but we thought they would be even stronger if we pulled them all together, and added a strong narrative to it,” says Lane, the deputy mayor of Draft Horse Town.
Every day at the Northern Lights Arena, from Friday, July 6 through Sunday July 15, at 1 and 5 p.m., Draft Horse Town exhibitors such as the Bar U Ranch National Historic Site of Longview, Alta., the Calgary Fire Department, and the Roadbuilders and Heavy Construction Heritage Society of Canada will help tell the story of the mighty draft horse and its indispensable role in establishing Western Canadian society.
Local blues musician Tim Williams will be performing original music, and playing the role of troubadour, for The Big Shoe. And after each performance, audience members can step next door to Saddledome Lane, the home of Draft Horse Town, to meet these magnificent animals and the teamsters who look after them.
“We were looking for a better way to interpret the draft-horse story. Now, for example, when we present the Calgary Fire Department’s firewagon, we can pull it in, drop off the horses, show some original footage on a screen of burning buildings in Calgary, and actually spray water on it,” says Dale Befus, mayor of Draft Horse Town. “Sometimes, a simple explanation doesn’t resonate with everyone. We believe that in a setting like this, the audience will be thinking, ‘Ah — that makes perfect sense.’ ”
Draft Horse Town, nestled between the Agriculture Building and the Scotiabank Saddledome on Saddledome Lane, is an engaging venue that offers Stampede visitors a slice of living history, plenty of hands-on activities, and a close-up look at these sturdy, handsome, industrious beasts.
Guided by their human counterparts, draft horses plowed the fields, pulled the wagons, carriages, and firefighting equipment, built the roads, and hauled the dirt and rock from building sites during the settlement of Western Canada.
With the Stampede celebrating its Centennial in 2012, Draft Horse Town is also highlighting a century of change.
The Farm Equipment committee will be bringing in a new four-wheel-drive tractor as a stark point of contrast to a binder, a pair of seed drills, and a plough from a hundred years ago. The Roadbuilders Heritage Society will be doing the same thing, setting up a new front-end loader and a vintage Fresno scraper, cheek by jowl.
There’ll be four pens of heavy horses, including mares and foals, with the Percheron, Clydesdale, Belgian, and possibly Shire breeds represented.
The Bar U Ranch NHS, which is credited with saving the Percheron breed in Europe after the First World War, will offer visitors a chance to ride one of its famous equines. Stampede visitors will be able to take a spin in a heavy-equipment simulator, courtesy of the Roadbuilders Heritage Society, while smaller folk are sure to enjoy a sandbox with toy loaders, graders, and bulldozers.
Fort Steele Heritage Town, based in southeastern B.C., will return for a second year with its Michigan logging wheels and its famous black-and-white Clydes. The Draft Horse Town Historium will be combining the old and the new, antique photos mingling with SMART Board activities.
Meanwhile, the Stampede’s Blacksmith committee will be banging out horseshoes over glowing coke forges, while wheelwrights will demonstrate the craft of building wood-spoked wheels. “The wood and fire and steel together, with lots of smoke being produced, draws a crowd every time,” says Befus with a chuckle. “That’s a little gold mine that we haven’t fully exploited yet — but we will.”
As for the stars of the show? The response through two years’ worth of Draft Horse Town has been overwhelming, and that isn’t expected to change. “Most people have stories about uncles or grandparents who were involved with heavy horses. And everyone loves these horses. It’s just amazing,” notes Lane. “It’s the gentle-giant thing — people are in awe of their size, but also their temperament.”
The Stampede will be webcasting all events being held in the Scotiabank Saddledome and the Big Top this year. Visit http://ag.calgarystampede.com/saddledome-ustream for live streaming of Saddledome action, and http://ag.calgarystampede.com/big-top-ustream for events under the Big Top.
Groundbreaking will soon begin on one of the most significant infrastructure projects in Stampede history — the Agrium Western Event Centre, which will be the largest facility of its kind in Canada upon completion. For details and artistic renderings of this magnificent 150,000-square-foot agriculture showcase and competition venue, scheduled for completion in 2014, visit http://corporate.calgarystampede.com/about/park-development/agrium-western-event-centre/
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Akram, Hassan (2012) Book review: 21st century socialism in Latin America: triumphs and facades. LSE Review of Books (07 May 2012) Blog Entry.
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After the financial crises put free market evangelism on the defence, the message of 21st socialism has found increasing resonance across Latin America and abroad. The Triumph of Politics gives a comparative and historical overview of the governments of Hugo Chavez, Evo Morales and Rafael Correa at a time of deep divisiveness and political conflict in the region. Hassan Akram finds the book to be timely and important read, although he argues some of the political science concepts did not always suit the cases presented. The Triumph of Politics: The Return of the Left in Venezuela, Bolivia and Ecuador. George Philip and Francisco Panizza. Wiley and Polity Books. September 2011.
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The following terms were coined by the members of the WSGF to describe how different games behave on a widescreen monitor, when compared to a 4:3 monitor.
Hor+ (Horizontal Plus)
A hor + game is a game that when played on a widescreen monitor with a widescreen resolution, expands the horizontal component of the FOV while keeping the vertical component roughly or exactly the same. This is often considered the ideal solution for widescreen games, as it grants widescreen users a wider picture.
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A vert - game is a game that when played on a widescreen monitor with a widescreen resolution, decreases the vertical component of the FOV. The aspect ratio is generally correct, there is little or no stretching or distortion. This is often unappealing to widescreen users, as it reduces the are of the picture available to them.
Is a specific behavior of letterboxed pictures. If a picture with a wide aspect ratio is letterboxed on a 4:3 monitor, and when the same image is shown on a widescreen monitor, the aspect ratio is unaltered, but the black bars are either reduced or removed, it is said to be anamorphic. This behavior is very common for widescreen DVD movies, fairly common for cut-scenes in PC games, but very uncommon in proper gameplay of PC games.
Pixel based refers to a behavior that usually only appears in a number of 2D games. The horizontal component of the FOV is directly tied to the number of horizontal pixels, and the vertical component of the FOV is directly tied to the number of vertical pixels. The larger your resolution, the more the game will display. For example, 1280x800 will show more, both horizontally and vertically, than 1024x768. But 1280x1024 will show more vertically than 1280x800 while showing the same horizontally. And 1440x900 will show more horizontally than 1280x1024, but less vertically. Windows behaves this way.
Stretch refers to a type of screen change where the 4:3 image is stretched across the widescreen display. In these games, the image is stretched (and distorted), even though a widescreen resolution is in use. This is due to a fixed FOV being forced. This causes images to stretch and objects to appear "fat." This is the poorest type of widescreen implementation. | <urn:uuid:7a71c3a3-90d2-4837-adac-b755189569e5> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.wsgf.org/article/screen-change | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00561-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939044 | 501 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Book A Compendious Grammar Of The Egyptian Language: As Contained In The Coptic, Sahidic, And Bashmuric Dialects (1863)
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Test-retest reliability of the South of England Cochlear Implant Centre (SOECIC) Music Test Battery (MTB): an investigation of two responses.
University of Southampton, Institute of Sound and Vibration Research,
The South of England Cochlear Implant Centre (SOECIC) Music Test Battery (MTB) is a new battery of tests currently under development, designed for the assessment of cochlear implant (CI) users’ music perception in the clinic. The MTB consists of pitch discrimination, pitch identification and rhythm discrimination tests. This research project investigated the test-retest reliability of the SOECIC MTB and examined whether two different response methods influenced the test-retest reliability of the tests. Twenty normal hearing participants were recruited to complete the tests using both a three interval three alternative forced choice (3I3AFC) procedure and a three interval two alternative forced choice (3I2AFC) procedure. The test sessions were repeated on three separate occasions, in order to assess test-retest reliability. Eighteen of the twenty participants recruited completed all the test sessions and were included in the data analyses. It was hypothesised that the 3I2AFC procedure would produce more consistent results compared to the 3I3AFC procedure. This is because the presence of a reference tone (3I2AFC procedure) would assist the participant by providing a constant point by which to make a comparison. If the tests were reliable, then the participants’ scores would not change significantly when testing was repeated. A comparison of group means showed that scores did not statistically differ for the three test sessions for either response method, indicating that there was not an effect of time. Further statistical analyses showed moderate to strong correlations between the three test sessions when participants were using the 3I3AFC procedure. However, the correlations were weaker (some not statistically significant, p>0.05) between the test sessions when participants were using the 3I2AFC procedure. It was concluded that the SOECIC MTB demonstrated test-retest reliability when administered to a small sample of normal hearing listeners. The correlations between test sessions imply that the 3I3AFC procedure should be retained over the 3I2AFC procedure for future testing. It is proposed that further research should focus on investigating whether similar levels of test-retest reliability can be demonstrated when testing CI users.
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The Allegheny County Health Department has opened its influenza vaccination clinic at 3441 Forbes Avenue, Oakland.
The clinic will offer influenza vaccine, while supplies last, on Mondays, Tuesdays, Thursdays and Fridays, from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m., and on Wednesdays, from 1 to 8 p.m., with free parking available after 4:30 p.m. in the lot behind 3333 Forbes Avenue. No appointment is necessary. Health officials report there are many sources of influenza vaccine and ample supplies are expected to be available this flu season.
The influenza vaccine will be provided free of charge to uninsured/underinsured children from six months through 18 years old. It is a covered benefit to people with Medicare Part B coverage who are not in an HMO and may get vaccine from any Medicare-approved provider. The vaccine is $25 for others.
A limited supply of flu vaccine without thimerosal will be offered free of charge to uninsured/underinsured children. Call 412-687-ACHD (2243) in advance to make sure it’s available.
The vaccine protects against three strains of influenza virus expected to circulate this season – H1N1 Type A, H3N2 Type A, and a Type B influenza virus.
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We attend Chapel two times each week. This is an age appropriate interactive experience with a Bible story, songs, prayer and offering. Our goal is to introduce the children to church and the Bible. The pastors of St. Paul Lutheran Church often attend and participate in the services
Each week we have a Bible verse for the children to learn about. Our goal is for children to learn the Bible is God's word, God created everything, Jesus is God's son, and God and Jesus love us!
We lead the children in prayer before meals and before rest time. We offer simple prayers which the children often memorize. We encourage the children to speak directly to God through prayer.
Week of October 3: 1 Samuel 16:6-13
David Chosen as King
Week of October 10: 1 Samuel 17: 1-50
David Protects Sheep
Week of October 17: 1 Samuel 17: 1-50
David and Goliath
Week of October 24: 1 Samuel 20 14-17; 2 Samuel 9:1-13
David helps Mephibosheth
Week of October 31: 2 Samuel 9:12-15
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To Counter Trump and Far-Right, Labor Leaders call for 'Global New Deal'
Concern over disaffected workers being swayed by radical rhetoric spurs an international call to action from labor groups
Concerned about the rise of right-wing extremism and how it has preyed on the fears of working people across the world, labor leaders from nearly a dozen countries met in Washington, D.C. on Tuesday to declare the need for a "global New Deal" to fight these forces.
"Too many politicians in the U.S. and Europe are exploiting our differences and inciting hate and division," said Richard Trumka, president of AFL-CIO, which organized the day-long forum along with its non-union affiliate, Working America, and Friedrich Ebert Stiftung, a German political foundation associated with the Social Democratic Party.
Highlighting the unique position of the international labor movement to combat extremism, labor representatives traveled from Belgium, Canada, France, Germany, the Netherlands, Norway, Spain, Sweden, and the UK to strategize about how best to counter the appeal of far-right rhetoric to voters frustrated by years of gross inequality and, instead, harness that energy to advance workers' rights and values.
"Income inequality is a global problem that should unite all leaders; it should not give rise to right wing extremism and building walls," Trumka continued. "We must come together to focus on common issues like raising wages and creating good jobs. Political tactics that scapegoat hardworking immigrants and refugees only serve to pit workers against one another, while ignoring the corporate excess that created these problems."
The forum—which was convened as a reaction to the ascendancy of Donald Trump in the U.S., the National Democratic Party (NDP) in Germany, the National Front in France, Greece's Golden Dawn Party, and others—"illustrates the extent to which progressive movements across the developed world have begun to view the far right as a common, and urgent, threat," Huffington Post reported.
In fact, as the anti-union think tank Capital Research recently noted, mainstream Republicans who have expressed reservations over Trump's nomination also see "political opportunity" with the possibility that blue collar workers and so-called "Trump Democrats" will "gravitate toward the GOP—perhaps putting states like Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Minnesota into play in the Electoral College."
Underscoring that possibility, a poll released Tuesday showed Trump essentially tied with Democratic frontrunner Hillary Clinton in key swing states, including Pennsylvania.
The global labor leaders agreed that a deeply progressive agenda is the only viable solution to counter the Far Right, whose support has largely relied on those disaffected and disenfranchised by mainstream politics—communities that for years have struggled with austerity, economic stagnation, lack of jobs, and the effects of mass migration.
Notably, Tuesday's panel placed "a sizable share of the blame" on center-left parties' embrace of neo-liberalism, HuffPo reports, which has "diminished the public's faith in the ability of labor unions and progressive politics to deliver for them—paving the way for far-right populism."
"We must insist that the candidates and political parties we support back an ambitious program for broad-based economic growth driven by rising wages," declared Damon Silvers, director of policy at the AFL-CIO. "The labor movement must demand that the politicians we support offer, in place of neoliberalism and austerity, a global New Deal."
"Trust in government is broken in too many countries around the world where one in two working families have lost their jobs or have reduced working hours," said International Trade Union Confederation general secretary Sharan Burrow.
Indeed, a census of 1,689 face-to-face conversations conducted by Working America earlier this year found that voter frustration with politics is "pervasive," but that "worry is more prevalent than bigotry in determining voter choices."
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In addition to the Primary and Middle School Leagues, there are a number of opportunities within the county to pursue varied levels of competitive basketball. Generally, registrations begin in early to mid Fall for the Winter season. There are also Summer leagues. Look out for those registrations in the Spring
The YMCA offers a developmental league beginning with Bitty Basketball. The SWISH league, while still a developmental league offers a number of divisions of varying competitiveness within each age group.
The AAU programs are designed for the more competitive athletes and include some travel. The AAU was founded in 1888 to establish standards and uniformity in amateur sports. During its early years, the AAU served as a leader in international sport representing the U.S. in the international sports federations. The AAU worked closely with the Olympic movement to prepare athletes for the Olympic games. After the Amateur Sports Act of 1978, the AAU has focused its efforts into providing sports programs for all participants of all ages beginning at the grass roots level. The philosophy of "Sports for All, Forever," is shared by over 670,000 participants and over 100,000 volunteers. | <urn:uuid:645a2d6a-3cb8-4fd5-b65d-80e186b99c77> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.playskagit.com/basketball.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00255-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961433 | 230 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Biography Project for Mrs. Hemry's 6th grade Language Arts class
made by Conner Codling
Helen Keller was born in 1881.
When Helen Keller was baby, she got vary sick. You could hear her crying all throughout the house. Helen Keller was lucky and the sickens left her, but it left her blind and deaf. She was in a dark world with no light to see. She knew that she was different than other girls, so she went to a corner to cry and had temper tantrums all the time.
The people who influenced Helen Keller
- Her teacher taught her sigh language.
- Her teacher taught her talk.
- she went to college
- wort a book about her life
- spoke for the blind and the deaf
- She learns sigh language
- Learned how to write
- Learned appropriate behavior
- She learned how to read Braille
The theme of Helen Keller's life was...
I learned to never give up and to work hard event if you have a disability.
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U.S. Transportation Secretary Ray LaHood today participated in the groundbreaking of a new 3.9-mile modern streetcar line project that will directly connect thousands of commuters with Tucson's major downtown employers, health care facilities, the University of Arizona and regional attractions.
"Tucson is joining a growing list of American cities--from Portland, Oregon, to Charlotte, North Carolina--where the modern streetcar is spurring economic development, revitalizing downtown neighborhoods, and attracting a new generation of riders," said Secretary LaHood. "The Obama Administration is committed to investing in strong transportation choices like these as part of an "all-of-the-above' energy strategy to reduce our dependence on oil, relieve congestion and improve air quality."
The Tucson streetcar line will serve a population of more than 85,000 people who live and work within walking distance of 17 planned stops. The service also fills a gap by offering direct, high-capacity transit connections between downtown Tucson, the University of Arizona, the Arizona Health Sciences Center and points in between. Travel times between the University District and downtown are expected to improve significantly over current bus service, once the streetcar line is operational.
The streetcar project is expected to create an estimated 1,200 construction-related jobs. Oregon Iron Works Inc./United Streetcar of Portland, Ore., a U.S. manufacturer of modern streetcar vehicles, has been awarded the contract to build the cars.
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Buff-throated Woodcreeper (Dusky-billed)
Xiphorhynchus guttatus [eytoni Group]
Curtis A Marantz
20 Aug 1999
- Floresta Nacional de Tapajos; BR-163, Rodovia Santarem - Cuiaba, km. 83
- -3.0402778 -54.9319444
- Evergreen Forest
- NAGRA 4.2
- Sennheiser MKH 20
- Roché Parabola 74cm/17.7cm (29.1in/7in)
NOTES: 75 songs and one long call of bird #1 at dawn. Cut begins at 5:37:10 am, after I missed nine songs changing tape at conclusion of #99-31-04; bird began with a long-call at 5:18 am, and then song at 5:21 am; moving about quite a bit at first; singing bird was now on S side of logging road, ca. 500-800 meters W of intersection with highway; unseen bird was 25 meters away in canopy of tree with dense vine tangles just in from edge of road; bird was singing only intermittently at the end; started up again at 5:58:35 am, and I got back onto it for its fourth song at 5:59:44 am, when it was 20-25 meters away, and 18-20 meters up; cut ended when bird then flew across road at 6:04:58 am; 70¡ F, clear, calm; sun was in the trees at the end. Filter in HP-1 position.
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Public sector workers in Lancashire are being urged to vote in the European elections amid fears that the BNP could win a seat.
Employees of councils, health trusts and non-teaching staff at schools are being targeted by the campaign being led by public sector workers union Unison. It is urging the workers to use their vote in the June 4 elections.
The European Parliament plays a role in making European Union laws and also has a say over the EU's annual budget. The eight MEPs who are elected will represent the region on issues including environmental protection, consumer rights, energy policy and transport. The BNP is standing in June’s polls.
Katherine Johnson, branch secretary of Unison which has 2,500 members, said: “We have worked hard to develop community cohesion and we are con-cerned this will be undermined if the BNP are elected. The BNP will get £1million worth of funding over five years which we fear will be put into the party not the community.”
In Blackburn with Darwen, the council is joining forces with Unison to make sure all its workers are registered to vote in the elections on June 4. Unison, is working with Searchlight's Hope Not Hate campaign, to increase voter registration and turnout.
Ms Johnson added: “Unison in Blackburn, and Blackburn with Darwen United Against Racism, have joined forces in an anti-BNP campaign. We are working extremely closely.
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Deductive and Anterior model
Good day Professor Vosmik & adolescent classmates,
The Deductive and Anterior archetypal allotment a commonality as able-bodied as cogent difference. Both models are acclimated to analysis antecedent or theories in assorted settings about they still correlate.
The Anterior archetypal is generally acclimated with authentic or algebraic research. The anterior acumen is based on a accumulating of observations, inferences, or accepted understandings/principles. It’s the foundation to creating a hypothesis, a acumen that axis from a specific case and can be activated to a accepted setting. “Induction is the basal took for access building” (Page170). The anterior archetypal can accept a cessation or aftereffect that differs from their antecedent understanding. An archetype of application the anterior archetypal would be celebratory an individual’s behavior, and admiration their zodiac assurance based on the accepted ability of all zodiac signs and the behavior that the alone displayed. The anterior acumen will not agreement that the account is authentic about it focuses added so on animal compassionate or interpretation.
The Deductive archetypal is acumen from ambiguous attempt or ideologies that abetment with admiration specific instances or altitude that are audible and authentic. The answer archetypal is acclimated to analysis a antecedent or access to be authentic and accurate, with agnate affirmation to accommodate validity. Deductive acumen provides a added analytic and strategically accommodating access as the acumen needs to be true. An archetype of the deductive acumen is all dolphins are mammals and all mammals accept kidneys, accordingly all dolphins accept kidneys. Some accede the deductive acumen to be an capital accomplishment one can account from.
Citation: Myers, A., & Hansen, C. H. (2012). Experimental psychology, 7th ed. Wadsworth Cengage, .
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Genome Biol Evol 12 (1) 3586-3598 [2020-01-01; online 2019-11-28]
Plant mitogenomes can be difficult to assemble because they are structurally dynamic and prone to intergenomic DNA transfers, leading to the unusual situation where an organelle genome is far outnumbered by its nuclear counterparts. As a result, comparative mitogenome studies are in their infancy and some key aspects of genome evolution are still known mainly from pregenomic, qualitative methods. To help address these limitations, we combined machine learning and in silico enrichment of mitochondrial-like long reads to assemble the bacterial-sized mitogenome of Norway spruce (Pinaceae: Picea abies). We conducted comparative analyses of repeat abundance, intergenomic transfers, substitution and rearrangement rates, and estimated repeat-by-repeat homologous recombination rates. Prompted by our discovery of highly recombinogenic small repeats in P. abies, we assessed the genomic support for the prevailing hypothesis that intramolecular recombination is predominantly driven by repeat length, with larger repeats facilitating DNA exchange more readily. Overall, we found mixed support for this view: Recombination dynamics were heterogeneous across vascular plants and highly active small repeats (ca. 200 bp) were present in about one-third of studied mitogenomes. As in previous studies, we did not observe any robust relationships among commonly studied genome attributes, but we identify variation in recombination rates as a underinvestigated source of plant mitogenome diversity. | <urn:uuid:d60e1466-091f-44b9-83d3-12ab3c8f68df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://publications.scilifelab.se/publication/a6bc07a0f8a546cfa3841bdb3032ec2e | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.912893 | 370 | 2.078125 | 2 |
OLPC:What we mean by free and open
What Do We Mean by Open: Software Freedom and OLPC
Author: Benjamin Mako Hill
The $100 Laptop will bring children technology as means to freedom and empowerment. The success of the project in the face of overwhelming global diversity will only be possible by embracing openness and by providing the laptop's users and developers a profound level of freedom.
As the children grow and pursue new ideas, the software and the tools should be able to grow with them and provide a gateway to other technology.
To achieve these and other practical goals and to live up to the principles upon which we believe the success of our platform will be built, we insist that the software platform for the One Laptop Per Child project:
- Must include source code and allow modification so that our developers, the governments that are our customers, and the children who use the laptop can look under the hood to change the software to fit an inconceivable and inconceivably diverse set of needs. Our software must also provide a self-hosting development platform.
- Must allow distribution of modified copies of software under the same license so that the freedoms that our developers depend upon for success remain available to the users and developers who define the next generation of the software. Our users and customers must be able to localize software into their language, fix the software to remove bugs, and repurpose the software to fit their needs.
- Must allow redistribution without permission -- either alone or as part of an aggregate distribution -- because we can not know and should not control how the tools we create will be re-purposed in the future. Our children outgrow our platform, our software should be able to grow with them.
- Must not require royalty payments or any other fee for redistribution or modification for obvious reasons of economy and pragmatism in the context of our project.
- Must not discriminate against persons, groups or against fields of endeavor. Our software's power will come through its ability to grow and change with the children and in a variety of contexts.
- Must not place restrictions on other software that may be distributed along side it. Software licenses must not bar either proprietary, or "copyleft" software from being distributed on the platform. A world of great software will be used to make this project succeed – both open and closed. We need to be able to choose from all of it.
- Must allow these rights to be passed on along with the software. This means that we must not provide a license specific to the $100 Laptop project or organization or its customers. While we are the developers of this platform today, the users of this platform are the developers of tomorrow and it is through them that the platform will succeed, be transformed, and be passed on. They need the same rights as we do.
- Must not be otherwise encumbered by software patents which restrict modification or use in the ways described above. All patents practiced by software should be sublicenseable and allow our users to make use or sell derivative versions that practice the patent in question.
- Must support and promote open and patent unencumbered data interchange and file formats.
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Muslim Unitarian Universalists
Unitarian Universalist congregations have become religious homes to many people who have a personal relationship with Islam. Whether raised Muslim, married to a Muslim person, or simply inspired by Muslim teachings, a growing number of Unitarian Universalists weave strands of Islam into their faith today. It was like this for Hafida Acuay, who wrote in UUWorld:
"I had been reading the Tao Te Ching for a few years, and began to carry that little book in my purse, next to my pocket Quran. It gave me solace, too. I already knew that non-Muslims could also possess wisdom…. Eventually, I made the leap to Unitarian Universalism while searching for a philosophy that allowed me to identify and live my deepest values." (Read more from Hafida in "From Islam to Unitarian Universalism.")
Unitarian Universalists have supported American Muslim communities as they have faced threats, violence, and prejudice from citizens and authorities around the country. Through the Standing on the Side of Love campaign, we have challenged biases, condemned harassment, and built bridges through engagement and training. The Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA) is also a founding member of the Shoulder-to-Shoulder campaign, a group of faith-based organizations that are dedicated to ending anti-Muslim sentiment. Before 9/11/2001, and ever since, we have sought to be good partners for justice and understanding of Islam.
The UUA’s two publishing houses have been part of this support. Beacon Press has published Eboo Patel’s Acts of Faith: The Story of an American Muslim, the Struggle for the Soul of a Generation and Salaam, Love: American Muslim Men on Love, Sex, and Intimacy, plus many other engaging books about Islam by Muslims. Skinner House Books has published Muhammad: The Story of a Prophet and Reformer and Ayat Jamilah: Beautiful Signs: A Treasury of Islamic Wisdom for Children and Parents—books that seek to build understanding and share the beauty of Islam.
Our worship services, which draw from many sources, may include a reading from Islam’s sacred traditions, a passage by a contemporary Muslim author, or a poem by a Sufi mystic like Rumi or Hafiz. | <urn:uuid:3d9aed10-4e75-47eb-92c3-2d8582165683> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.uua.org/beliefs/who-we-are/beliefs/islam | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00239-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954117 | 467 | 2.328125 | 2 |
What is a macular hole?
A macular hole is a small hole in the central part of the retina which can lead to distortion and blurring of central vision. A macular hole normally only occurs in one eye, although they are present in both eyes in 10-15% of cases. They can be detected by a scan of the back of the eye.
Macular holes are not related to macular degeneration.
What are the symptoms?
There may be no symptoms in the early stages of a macular hole and clarity of vision can still be good. As a hole progresses, patients may notice distortion and blurring of vision.
What are the causes?
When light enters our eye, it passes through the cornea, the lens and the vitreous before finally reaching the retina. Here, it is converted to electrical impulses. These electrical impulses are sent via the optic nerve to the brain where they are converted into the bright, colourful images that we see.
The cause of a macular hole is not always clear, but on some occasions may be related to a shrinkage of the jelly filling the posterior part of the eye (the vitreous) which then pulls on the macula (vitreo-macular traction). However in many cases the cause is not apparent.
What is the treatment?
Every patient is unique, so we offer a detailed consultation with one of our Consultant Ophthalmic Surgeons to determine suitability, answer all your questions and explain the treatment options.
surgical removal of the vitreous gel from the eye, which is then replaced by a bubble of inert gas allowing the hole to close. Read more
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My friends the bees seem to be in trouble. A radio report the other day said a mysterious illness is affecting bees in great numbers across much of the United States. It's something called "colony collapse disorder." Beekeepers show up to pollinate an orchard or a field, open the hives, and find almost no bees inside.
The initial speculations offered to explain such occurrences often tell us more about our fears than about the facts. The report evoked for me thoughts of the kind of eco- disaster that Jared Diamond has written about in his book "Collapse." We worry about the bees the way we worry about a dirty bomb on the subway or a meltdown of the Internet.
All this suggests the degree to which human beings identify with bees. "Bee" has been used to mean "busy worker" since at least 1535. And in our own day, many people seem quite willing to refer to themselves as "worker bees" within an organization.
In a land of "rugged individualism," the worker bee may not be an obvious role model. But to refer to the rank and file as worker bees who get things done is to acknowledge, however obliquely, the presence of management "drones" who are, well, in a meeting.
Hmm. That may be a bit subtle. But it's out there. An accounting firm, for instance, has offered advice on closing the gap between executive and nonexecutive compensation. The headline: "Charming the Worker Bees."
Sometimes within an organization, the "worker bees" are the generalists as contrasted with the specialists, e.g., those within the IT department. Thus another online publication posted a piece called "Worker Bees: An IT Resource in Plain Sight." Its message was that companies should be willing to let the technically inclined staff in their operating units figure out new software applications and other tech stuff the IT people are too overloaded (or maybe just too geeky) to deal with.
An observation, while we're in the IT neighborhood: The metaphor behind the World Wide Web suggests a spider. But we could have captured some of the essential features of the Internet with a metaphor based on bees instead: the Holistic Horizontal Honeycomb. The relentless expansion, the built-in redundancies, and the capacity to work around obstacles as needed are as characteristic of honeybees as of the Web.
An apian metaphor is implicit in "buzz marketing," which attempts to generate word-of-mouth advertising for products and services.
James Surowiecki's 2004 book, "The Wisdom of Crowds" maintained that "the many are smarter than the few." Now that's something bees have understood from the get-go. Surowiecki argued that when a large number of ordinary people make some kind of estimate (of weight, price, etc.) and all the estimates are averaged, the result is likely to be a more accurate estimate than one expert, or even more than one expert, could provide.
The blogosphere is in some ways a good example of bee behavior. People blog as a form of individual self-expression, of course. But their voices add up to a collective buzz that can be a useful guide to public opinion – or the state of public knowledge. The blogosphere certainly helped disseminate the wisdom of crowds in Boston during our "terror scare" of a few weeks ago. Bloggers, though, figured out fairly quickly that the whole thing was just a marketing gimmick, under way in other cities as well as Boston.
Confidential to Mayor Menino and your colleagues in other cities: Your homeland security strategy needs to include monitoring the blogosphere. Harness the energy of the worker bees.
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The pre-Socratic Greek philosopher Heraclitus believed that the world was always in flux. When you stepped into a river, by the time you thought about your foot, the river you had stepped in was no longer there. It had been replaced by a new river, always flowing, through the river of time.
Here, the Heraclitean River flows ever on. Novel issues and novel perspectives are addressed. Heraclitus also believed that we could learn from the unity of opposites, and indeed, the solution to many problems is to start by realizing that the two polarized positions commonly offered to us are often just a framework prohibiting us from seeing another solution. Only through examination of the underlying conflict can we hope to achieve the status of true change.
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2013 Children’s Book Award Winners
I remember searching for the shiny, gold, Caldecott medals on book jackets as a child. I’d comb the library shelves looking for that beautiful sticker. I learned early on that the special gold seal marked the book as a stand-out in children’s book illustrations. The award was named for illustrator Randolph Caldecott. Each year, the American Library Association selects one winner, as well as a selection of honor books.
The 2013 winners have been announced, and I wanted to share them with you!
In this darkly humorous tale, a tiny fish knows it’s wrong to steal a hat. It fits him just right. But the big fish wants his hat back. Klassen’s controlled palette, opposing narratives and subtle cues compel readers to follow the fish and imagine the consequence.
1. Caldecott Honor :Extra Yarn by Mac Barnett, Illustrated by Jon Klassen
This understated picture book is certain to spark the imagination of every child who comes upon it, and what could be better than that? Annabelle lives in a black-and-white world, where everything is drab, drab, drab. So imagine her surprise when she finds a box filled with yarn of every color. Armed with the yarn and knitting needles, she makes herself a sweater, but after she finishes, she finds that she has extra yarn left over. After knitting a sweater for her dog, her classmates, and various (hilariously unsurprised) bunnies and bears, she still has extra yarn. So, Annabelle turns her attention to things that don’t usually wear wool cozies: houses and cars and mailboxes. Soon an evil archduke with a sinister mustache “who was very fond of clothes” hears about the magic box of never-ending yarn, and he wants it for his own.
Jasper the rabbit loves carrots until he notices they are everywhere. He is convinced they’re coming for him! Pronounced shadows, black borders and shaded edges enhance this ever so slightly sinister tale with a distinctly cinematic feel. This is one serving of carrots children will eagerly devour.
In this original concept book, Seeger engages all the senses with her fresh approach to the multiple meanings of “green.” Using thickly-layered acrylics, word pairings and cleverly placed die cuts, she invites readers to pause, pay attention and wonder.
Energetic line and dizzying perspective combine for a rollicking tale of Father, Elliot and a highly improbable pet (or two). Buzzeo’s text, brimming with sly wordplay, earns its perfect counterpoint in Small’s ink, watercolor and pencil illustrations with chilly details and visual jokes that invite many repeated readings.
Surrounded with dreamlike images of crowns, ornate patterns and repeated visual motifs, her parents coax her into bed. Using mixed media artwork on wood enhanced with computer illustrations, this is a whimsical story with universal appeal.
Here is a list of my personal favorite previous Caldecott winners:
1942: Make Way for Ducklings by Robert McCloskey
1963: The Snowy Day by Ezra Jack Keats
1964: Where the Wild Things Are by Maurice Sendak
1970: Sylvester and the Magic Pebble by William Steig
1973: The Funny Little Woman , illustrated by Blair Lent
1982: Jumanji by Chris Van Allsburg
1992: Tuesday by David Wiesner
1996: Officer Buckle and Gloria by Peggy Rathmann
2001: So You Want to Be President? Illustrated by David Small
2005: Kitten’s First Full Moon by Kevin Henkes
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After the Twin Overhead Cam article, I just had to bring up pushrods. Derided by many, the humble pushrod has been around as long as the overhead cam valve actuation. They are still in use, primarily in American made V8s. And they had a bit of reprieve with the advent of cylinder deactivation schemes that took advantage of specially designed hydraulic lifters – the bits between the cam lobes and the pushrods – that kept the valves from actuating on specific cylinders, in some cases an entire bank (side) of a V8 or in other cases every other cylinder in the firing order.
One of the earliest cylinder deactivation schemes was the ill-fated, un-lamented, Cadillac V8-6-4. An engine ahead of its time unfortunately. Now Chrysler is using cylinder deactivation in their V8 and to pull it off as seamlessly as possible they’re utilizing special exhaust valving to maintain the sound of the V8.
Cylinder deactivation makes a lot of sense, and it can be done in overhead cam and overhead valve engines. The idea is to reduce emissions and increase fuel economy in light load situations, where less power is required.
But the advent of variable valve timing (VANOS in BMW speak), variable valve lift (Valvetronic in BMW speak), and gasoline direct fuel injection – coupled to turbo-charging, has given even better gains than the cylinder deactivation schemes on pushrod V8s. You can start with less displacement to begin with. And we’ve seen that with the 3.0L N54/N54 making V8 power and returning small 6 cylinder fuel economy.
The age of pushrod engines is pretty much behind us, but they worked, were simple to maintain, and could make prodigious amounts of power. If you think that pushrod V8s are low reving lumps, be aware that with a little work a Chevy small block can be made to turn 9,000 RPM reliably.
So, pushrods will be with us for the near future in specialty vehicles (Corvette, CTS-V) and trucks where tradition, operational reliability, and economy of maintenance are of primary importance. Otherwise their time has passed.
Early cars had lousy brakes, operating on the drive shaft in some cases, some on one axle only, and mechanically actuated (cables, which were in need of constant and careful adjustment). Drive a Model T to see just how bad brakes can be.
In time the odd schemes for braking were standardized onto drum brakes. And in the 1930s the braking systems moved from mechanical to hydraulic actuation. It wasn’t until the 1950s that disc brakes came to the forefront in automotive braking.
The caliper type disc brakes used on the Jaguar C-Type race car were an eye-opener. Here were brakes that were able to shed heat more quickly than the big ‘Alfin’ drums (finned aluminum drum housings with a cast in steel braking surface for the brake shoes) used on race cars, and subsequently were less prone to brake fade.
So now discs have replaced drums at the front of almost all cars (and most light duty trucks). Drums are still used on the rear of many economy cars, where lighter braking loads don’t require the capabilities of a disc. However, nothing looks as silly as an 18 inch five spoke wheel with a tiny brake drum peeking out from the edges of the wheel. Four wheel discs are on almost any car that claims to be mid-ranged or above.
But here’s a dirty little secret, drum brakes are still in use – and even on BMWs! They actually are quite useful as emergency brakes. In a lot of cases there is a drum-in-hat parking brake that has brakes shoes inside the center section of the rear disc rotor. And, they’re mechanically actuated.
Look for this type of drum to be in use for some time, but as the parking brake handle is replaced by the electronic parking brake (a switch) the need for the separate drum-in-hat parking brake will be rendered obsolete.
Leaf springs have pretty much disappeared from automobiles. It wasn’t long ago that almost every American car used a live rear axle and was located (and sprung) by multi-leaf springs. They worked, but had a tougher time providing ride comfort and suffered from ‘axle tramp’ when placed under accelerative stress from a potent engine.
But I really want to bring up transverse leaf springs. The Model T used transverse leaf springs front and rear, and it allowed the Model T to negotiate the less than ideal roads (ruts is a more apt description) found in rural America at the time.
Today the Chevy Corvette is one of the few examples of an automobile with transverse leaf springs in use. But the composite material mono-leaf spring in the Corvette provides some interesting benefits. The spring can be used as a hub pickup point – it can locate the bottom of the suspension for a given wheel. It also keeps the spring weight at the lowest possible point. And it can effectively reduce the diameter required for an anti roll-bar – if implemented with appropriate mounting techniques. (If you think about it, an anti-roll bar is not much more than a transverse spring).
The Corvette engineers have kept the transverse leaf spring alive and now ZF has recently shown a transverse leaf spring rear suspension for use in small, FWD cars. It makes a lot of sense in that application. It keeps spring weight low and the srpins don’t intrude on passenger/cargo space.
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The importance of capacity
In a commoditized industry, supply is an important metric that directly impacts companies’ top line or revenue performance. When excess supply is building up (higher supply compared to demand growth), competition among shipping firms will increase, as firms will try to use idle ships and shipping rates will fall. This will negatively affect companies’ revenues, which also affects earnings, free cash flows, and share prices.
Capacity growth remains in downtrend
On October 4, year-over-year capacity growth for crude tankers stood at 2.68%, measured in deadweight tonnage. The latest data shows that year-over-year capacity growth is running on a downtrend, falling from 3.20% on September 20 and 3.10% on September 27.
Analysts look at year-over-year growth because it adjusts for possible seasonality and short-term noise. As figures for demand are often quoted on a year-over-year basis for the same reason, it makes it easier to compare supply and demand. During the first seven months of this year, oil shipments have increased at -2.2%, according to RS Platou. As supply growth been outpacing demand, shipping rates are likely negatively affected.
Capacity growth: A coincident and lagging indicator
As an indicator itself, capacity growth is often considered a lagging or coincident indicator. This is because there’s usually a lag between when managers see increased demand growth, place new orders, and get the vessel delivery.
Conversely, when demand growth is falling, shipping firms can’t simply cancel orders from shipyards. So supply growth could remain elevated and impact shipping rates negatively. Falling capacity growth is generally considered negative for shipping companies. However, if capacity growth does fall below demand growth, you can expect shipping rates to rise.
Effect on crude tanker stocks
Unless shipping rates are rising, you should interpret falling supply growth as a negative for the earnings of tanker stocks such as Frontline Ltd. (FRO), Nordic American Tanker Ltd. (NAT), and Ship Finance International Ltd. (SFL)—at least in the short term. To a lesser extent, this will negatively impact the Guggenheim Shipping ETF (SEA) as well. Navios Maritime Acquisition Corp. (NNA) could also be negatively affected if industry fundamentals don’t return by 2017 and beyond.
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The first time Andreanecia Morris remembers learning about the Community Reinvestment Act was at the Housing Authority of New Orleans, where she started her career in the mid-1990s. During her time there, the authority created its Section 8 Homeownership program, which allows families with rental assistance vouchers to convert them into mortgage assistance payments instead. But the housing authority still needed to convince banks to create a mortgage product that would be compatible with the Section 8 Homeownership program. It was the Community Reinvestment Act that brought banks to the table.
“They would get CRA credit for this,” Morris says. “That’s the kind of responsiveness [from banks] that you needed, the thoughtfulness in saying, ‘Listen, this isn’t a risk, it is to [our] benefit and [we’re] making a good investment’ — these are loans, not a gift to the homeowners.”
The CRA, a decades-old law meant to ensure banks meet the credit needs of the communities they serve, is in need of an update — both banks and community organizers agree. While 98 percent of banks get a passing grade on their CRA exams, it’s not always clear that their investments are actually benefiting locals. Yet today, there are federal regulators who want to gut the CRA — an effort CRA proponents have called “an attack on communities of color.”
But Morris and the coalition of partners she now leads, known as HousingNOLA, are hoping to make the CRA work better for low- and moderate-income communities as well as for banks. HousingNOLA recently published its first ever Community Development Finance Plan, providing estimates of how much investment is necessary to serve renters and homeowners in danger of being displaced.
“We’re going to make it really easy for banks to talk about the buckets of investments that are necessary and get to the point where we can say [to banks and regulators], ‘If your investments don’t hit any of these thresholds … you have not met this community’s needs,’” Morris says.
The impetus for the plan dates to 2016, when HousingNOLA issued its first report card on the progress of its 10-year Strategy and Implementation Plan for a More Equitable New Orleans.
“We said, ‘We’ve got to make sure the public partners buckle down, but we cannot ignore the private partners — this is not a problem that government money can fix on its own,’” Morris says.
Morris and other coalition partners had been witness to what happens when the private sector isn’t held accountable. In the ten years after Hurricane Katrina, she explains, the city and private sector partners had managed to create 88,000 units of subsidized affordable housing. Some critics claimed that was too much, but Morris and others saw it differently. Long-time residents of New Orleans, the people whose music and food make the city the tourist draw that it is, were still being displaced.
Even with the 88,000 new subsidized units, “we still found ourselves in the worst affordability crisis the city’s ever seen — because all of that was done without a cogent data-driven, community-rooted plan,” Morris says. “It just happened.”
Worse yet, according to Morris, banks were getting CRA credit for making investments in low-income neighborhoods to build housing that wasn’t affordable for low-income residents, or support businesses that didn’t serve existing communities. “Making an investment in a low-income neighborhood and making an investment in a luxury building that is just a force for gentrification is not, in my opinion, adequate,” Morris says. “But it will count toward CRA if it’s not properly contextualized.”
The CRA was the last big piece of civil rights legislation, passed in 1977, thanks in no small part to Gail Cincotta and other community organizers from the West Side of Chicago. Even after the Fair Housing Act of 1968, it was widely understood that banks were still redlining low-income areas, especially in cities, where such neighborhoods were predominantly home to people of color (not to mention many white households in rural areas). Earlier work like the Kerner Report had made clear the consequences of that neglect.
Fast-forward to today, and banks have become more than willing to tell regulators about investments they make in low-income areas. But the law still doesn’t require that banks show how those investments benefit residents of those areas. As others have shown, bank loans to acquire or renovate buildings in low-income areas can sometimes be made specifically to displace those residents and businesses.
What might seem like the CRA’s biggest flaw is also its saving grace — it’s actually very vague. It says regulated financial institutions have a “continuing and affirmative obligation to help meet the credit needs of the local communities in which they are chartered,” but it doesn’t specify a process for determining those credit needs. The law empowered federal regulators to do that, and over the decades that has been an evolving process that both banks and community organizers have characterized as inefficient and inadequate.
If a bank does fall short, regulators can deny proposed mergers or place growth restrictions on banks. The National Community Reinvestment Coalition and its grassroots partners have — by mobilizing to offer comments on CRA examinations or bank mergers — negotiated more than $82 billion in lending commitments from banks to low- and moderate-income areas over the past three years.
One of the chief complaints from banks about the CRA exam is that the process of determining a community’s credit needs can be inconsistent and unpredictable from one CRA exam to the next, usually three to five years later.
Morris frames HousingNOLA’s Community Development Finance Plan as a way for regulators and banks to have more clarity — that if a bank’s activities met the needs outlined in the plan, it should definitely get CRA credit for those activities.
“We are trying to take advantage of the rules as they are today, and [ensure] that they are consistently enforced,” Morris says. “We do have the opportunity to be heard, [and] our members, our resident leaders, understand this.”
Despite the shortcomings of current regulations for determining community needs, banks’ CRA-eligible community development lending continues to increase, reaching $96 billion in 2017, according to the Federal Financial Institutions Examination Council — that’s up from $87 billion in 2015 and $65 billion in 2013. Documents like HousingNOLA’s Community Development Finance Plan can affect where those dollars end up.
There is already some precedent for plans like these. While not every plan has the same level of community engagement or community leadership, it’s an accepted practice for banks to seek out master plans, comprehensive plans, neighborhood plans and other planning documents to identify or justify investments made for CRA credit. Banks may not even tell planning departments that they’re using their documents as part of their CRA compliance process. “We just pull [the plans off the internet],” one CRA officer told me at the NCRC gathering earlier this year.
Morris would like regulators to go even further — to have regulators give banks CRA credit only for activities that meet the specific needs outlined in planning documents made with community leadership.
“We’re joining the national chorus of voices saying not only do you need to strengthen [the CRA], you need to make it more responsive to community,” she says.
So far, they’ve gotten a mostly positive response from banks with business interests in New Orleans. Even with the recent policy victory of New Orleans’ new inclusionary zoning regulations, Morris and HousingNOLA aren’t expecting that policy alone to net all 33,000 new affordable housing units they estimate the city needs. It remains to be seen whether developers will get access to enough capital and at the right interest rates to hit that target.
“Some of the banks have responded really well, and it doesn’t mean they’re on the ground where we need them to be, but they are open to the honest reflection and trying to work with us,” Morris says. “Some of them meanwhile are like, ‘Wait, what are you talking about?’”
The HousingNOLA Community Development Finance Plan includes the formation of a “Lenders Roundtable,” described as “a collection of financial institutions, real estate experts, government agencies, developers and advocates that are committed to securing financial investments necessary to address the affordability crisis.”
The Lenders Roundtable includes representatives from the five largest banks by deposit market share in the New Orleans metropolitan area: Capital One and Hancock Whitney — which combined control $16 billion out of $34 billion in total metropolitan area deposits — as well as JPMorgan Chase, Regions Bank and Iberia Bank.
“We’ve gotten a good response rate from the banks we need to participate in the conversation — the devil is going to be in the details of their investment strategies,” Morris says. “We also have some smaller banks that need to be wrangled. It’s not just the big boys.”
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Startups are all the rage these days. Individuals have arrived in startupland as a result of an exodus from the worlds of finance, law, and other more traditional industries. Some came with knowledge, others looking to learn. But for the most part they came with the hope of making it big. It’s not their fault, most people enter the startup scene following the allure of and -like exits.
Unfortunately there is a dirty secret in startupland: unless you start your own company, are a C-level executive, or join a rocketship, you will not make the much admired and sought after “FU money” in an exit scenario. This isn’t to say you won't have a favorable outcome. Taking a $10-20k less salary than you normally would, getting $20k worth of options and having them worth 10X more within the 3 to 5 years is a great situation. But try living in a startup hub (NYC or SF) for the rest of your life on that $200k exit. It’s just not feasible.
Before I continue, I should note that joining a startup and building products shouldn’t be about the exit. The goal should be to build something that will make a difference in the world. It could be helping people find information, democratizing creativity, making money move faster and cheaper, or something else entirely. Money is just a byproduct of this. You need money to live. People like to live comfortably. Don’t think anything more of it.
Here are three different scenarios to reach the promised land of wealth creation.
Starting Your Own Company
This route is by far the most difficult, but has the most upside. For tech startups, having founder equity can make you a paper millionaire overnight although that money can take years to actually reach the bank. Because of this, some founders take money off the table even before their company exits by selling a piece of their shares in round of fundraising (usually a series B or C). Taking money off the table has a different effect on different people. For some it motivates them to go for the grand slam (i.e. nothing to lose), for others it makes them too laid back about actually getting the product rolling (i.e. having comfort of newfound money).
In terms of actual economics: Let’s say you start a company with three people. There isn’t always a clean split of equity, but we will evenly divide it for the purposes of the exercise. Each one owns 33%. If the first round of seed funding yields $1M at a company valuation of $5M, the investors in the seed round have claimed 20% of the company, or ~7% from each of the founders’ original stakes. The founders now own a total of only 80% of their company; equally diluted means that each founder owns about 26-27% of the company. This hypothetically means that each founder has $1. in equity.
But this number only exists on paper. Without any product or revenue, this won’t continue to increase. That value can certainly multiply over the course of the life cycle of the company, but this is why founders try to start companies with their own funds to avoid diluting their stake.
A great article to read that makes a case for starting a company to build wealth was written by Paul Graham in 2004. You can find it here.
Being a C-level Exec
Joining a startup as a CEO, CTO, COO, or some other chief can give you more than a favorable outcome. Not only will you receive a non-startup level salary (if you are sought after they will try to bring you on with a high salary). On top of that you will command a percentage point or more of the company. There have been cases in which non-founder CEOs of various stages of the cycle get up to 7% of the company. COOs or GMs can earn 1-3% of the company for joining in the early stages. People can make careers of joining startup as the seasoned veteran, getting a big chunk of the company, and helping take the business to the next level.
Joining A Rocketship
Out of the three possible options this is the easiest. It’s also hard to do right: there are only so many rocketships to join. Rocketships are companies like Twitter, Facebook, Google, , Instagram, Dropbox, Airbnb, etc. If you begin working for one of these companies, there is the potential to earn significant capital if there is an acquisition or an IPO. The difference between joining a rocketship and joining another regular startup is that if you get 0.3% of the company (a possible scenario if you are an early employee in a key role), for a regular startup with a $50M exit the .3% is $150k, whereas a $1B exit in the same scenario is $3M (both scenarios assume there is no more financing after you get your options).
Bottom line: If your goal is to break into the startup space and make gobs of money, you should understand that unless you are in one of the above scenarios, your chances of cashing out for life are very slim. A more realistic goal is to join a normal startup (i.e. one that isn’t considered a rocketship), learn from the founders, execs, and investors, and then go and start your own company. Make sure you learn everything from building, shipping, scaling, raising, closing, and more, so that you can take some of the best practices with you onto your next endeavor. | <urn:uuid:ffc136e9-52a9-4f25-8821-658373ca2dd4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.forbes.com/sites/alextaub/2012/09/27/the-dirty-secret-about-making-money-doing-startups/?commentId=comment_blogAndPostId/blog/comment/2039-329-51 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00439-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955701 | 1,194 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Up in the sky: themed crafts for toddlers and preschoolers - Little Hearts, Big Love
All sorts of Crafting the Word of God projects. This is a creation wheel (and many others) also, look at: http://icsjreligionresources.blogspot.com/ for a collection of religion resources
Creation Cube - Sunday School Crafts
I used these bags to introduce and teach the 6 days of Creation Exploring light and shadows with flashlights. We made shadow portra...
Create your own Nativity Story Stones to help children understand the true meaning of Christmas. These simple stones are easy to make. via @rainydaymum
Thrifty art: The Queen would approve of how Jane Perkins has recycled rubbish including old buttons to create portraits of her in her youth, left, and today
Teaching the 7 Days of Creation - Sunday School Crafts
Creation Wheel Bible Craft-Downloadable pattern...you could probably use stickers, etc for pics instead of drawing.
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They are the objects of everyday remembrance: homemade and heartfelt tributes to the fallen from our distant wars, and all-too-present conflicts.
The old photographs, handwritten notes, decorated wreaths and classroom art projects are left behind at Ottawa’s National War Memorial by members of the public with little fanfare, and surely fewer expectations. Yet they are actually being carefully collected, catalogued and documented and now live on forever in the archives of the Canadian War Museum.
“They’re wonderful examples of how Canadians remember,” says Jim Whitham, the museum’s director of collections. “You have everything from very personal stories—letters to soldiers or family members—to the kind of things that schools do to teach kids about Nov. 11.”
The offerings started appearing at the plaza near Parliament Hill shortly after the addition of the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier—an unidentified casualty from the First World War—in the spring of 2000. And now, like the poppies placed on the grave at the end of the official ceremony on Remembrance Day, they have become a grassroots tradition.
“Blown up and buried in dirt at Vimy Ridge, wounded at Passchendaele, survived the ‘War to end all Wars,’ my grandfather,” reads the inscription—in both official languages—taped to the back of a framed black and white studio portrait of Pte. Leeman Gerald Campbell dressed in the uniform of the Canadian Expeditionary Force, 146th Battallion.
“You are not forgotten but remembered whenever we think of Canada, freedom and our privileged life. Thanks,” says a note, handwritten in red ink that has been dotted by rain, left after the commemoration of the 90th anniversary of Vimy in April 2008.
A letter addressed to Pte. Nathan Smith, who was killed in Afghanistan in the spring of 2002, speaks of a still raw loss. “You touched the lives of so many people around you. I hope you know how much you were loved. You were my friend and I miss you.” Pinned to its bottom is a small, green and gold private’s stripe.
The items, which are collected and stored away by the National Capital Commission, usually arrive at the museum in one large shipment every year, a few weeks after Nov. 11. Curators sort, record and photograph each leaving, and then assess whether it should be preserved just digitally, or added the museum’s permanent collection.
Sometimes it’s the simplest tributes that are judged to have the most worth historically. Cardboard and paper dog tags for Ian Bazalgette—winner of a posthumous Victoria Cross in the skies over France in the Second World War—and Nichola Goddard, the first Canadian female combat soldier killed in battle,who died Afghanistan in 2006. Or a Canadian flag inscribed with a simple, black-markered message: “In honour of Robert Norton, Shaunovan, SK. Ortona and Holland. WWII. Always loved.”
As of present, none of the tributes left by the general public are on display at the War Museum, but Whitham says he imagines they will someday become part of a exhibition.
“It’s always been our mandate—to collect material that shows how Canadians remember,” he says.
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Guard your soul, oh precious one, especially if you have been hurt before, especially if you have a warrior’s heart. The harder our shell, the easier we shatter. Deep within the abyss of pain lie the roots of what was planted long ago. Seeds were scattered, maybe when we were little, maybe even long before this lifetime. Nonetheless, the energy of hate is strong and will catch you unaware. It seeks an open door to your mind and even the slightest breach will do. Energy attracts like unto itself.
Take my hand, oh precious one. I need you. I am no different than you and together we can walk the path of life. When we feel alone and when we are weary, we are at risk. The energy of hate is contagious and hits us like a superbug. And when we are tired it is able to attack us like a virus. But as we move closer, together, towards the Light of the Great Spirit we are shown the work that needs to be done. It is the work of healing that can reach the roots deep inside of us. It is these roots that easily connect to the energy of hate.
There is good news, oh precious one. We need not examine the past to heal the future. We need only to acknowledge the pain in the present in order to begin the work. Although it may be helpful to know the point at which damage was done, it does no good to spend time analyzing the cause. For too much focus there will only keep us there. Instead, as we shine the Light of healing power into those deep crevices of our minds, we release the feelings of pain, unworthiness, anger, hatred, and all of the emotions that fear keeps alive within us. The spirit of forgiveness is strong.
Until we do the work, oh precious one, the energy of hate is able to find a connection or a link within us. And in these tumultuous times there are plenty of opportunities. In America and around the world, we are faced with turmoil and we are feeling the need to make choices yet we know not where to turn. The work at hand is to stand our ground in the present moment. Call upon the power of the Great Spirit to fill our beings with Light, to fill in those dark places and to make us complete. We are not alone.
The following Native American Proverb, called The Two Wolves, speaks to us from a point of power.
A Native American boy was talking to his grandfather.
“What do you think about the world situation” he asked?
The grandfather replied, “I feel like wolves are fighting in my heart.
One is full of anger and hatred; the other is full of love, forgiveness, and peace.”
“Which one will win?” asked the boy
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Red Hat Bugzilla – Bug 76296
Amount of CPU % to different processes is wrong.
Last modified: 2008-08-01 12:22:52 EDT
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Description of problem:
Process with higher priority does not get more CPU power.
Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):
Steps to Reproduce:
I run two different Distributed projects: FAH and EON.
Actual Results: Both are getting equal amount of CPU power.
Expected Results: FahCore_78.exe 75% of CPU power and EON_client 25% of CPU power.
$ uname -a
Linux hareba 2.4.18-14 #1 Wed Sep 4 12:13:11 EDT 2002 i686 athlon i386 GNU/Linux
Strange but on the same system with the same priority set, different core will
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Yes, we republicans must not only see "climate charge" as one of politics, but one of reality. This reality stares us straight in the face as it tells us that our planet goes through severe climate change on the scale of only a few hundred years can mean a lot. Our planet can warm or cool +-10c shown by geological data over the last million years. As little as -2c cooler than We today could never support a population of our size on this planet, but that occurred 300 years ago! We republicans should focus our policies around safeguarding our food supply for all extremes. It is simply a good idea! We should support -Genetically modified grains, corns, fruits, ect. Less water to grow or higher ability to grow in any climate. -Upgrade our energy infrastructure *A high level of stable energy, Nuclear 40%, Hydro 20%, Wave 20%, *More research into energy storage *Yes, wind, solar, ect should be at least 20% Our civilization should use our planet alot more. It is clean air and water for our children to live in a world that isn't as full of poison. Without relying on the middle east for our energy. We want a system that is energy independent here at home. -Upgrade our infrastructure to be more efficient with the energy. Lot's of waste go on with the current system. So the Republican platform should be to safeguard our food supply through all extremes of climate change and to make our country more energy independent. We should move away from oil and coal. Republicans this is a sane policy of making sure our civilization survives through anything. | <urn:uuid:4d130f9e-b050-46cf-a094-570a118d6afa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.usmessageboard.com/threads/this-is-how-republicans-should-handle-global-warming.243100/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00054-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950692 | 327 | 2.171875 | 2 |
In the recent months there has been a lot of attention surrounding the issue of the current climate crisis. A lot of eyes are now on world leaders and big corporations as they continue to skirt around the issue. However, one young activist refuses to give up and continues to encourage youths to keep fighting. Just recently Greta Thunberg delivered a very emotional speech at the U.N Climate Action Summit held in New York.
Greta Thunberg attracted attention last year when she decided to sit outside the Swedish parliament. She did this to protest and raise awareness for climate change activism with a card reading “Skolstrejk för klimatet” which means ‘School strike for the climate.’
This then began the movement called School strike for climate, also known as Fridays for Future or Youth for Climate. Back in 2018 she was the only person to protest in regards to climate change but this year she was joined by approximately 4 million people worldwide.
Now the 16-year old Swedish environmental activist is working harder than ever to get world leaders to listen. She arrived in New York on the 28th of August via her emission free sailboat in preparation. The U.N Climate Action Summit was held from the 21st to the 23rd of September in New York.
On the 23rd of September, Greta Thunberg took to the stage to challenge all the world leaders present.
“”You have stolen my dreams and my childhood with your empty words… People are suffering. People are dying. Entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction, and all you can talk about is money and fairy tales of eternal economic growth. How dare you!”
She then continues her speech with some facts regarding the current sentiments towards the climate crisis. She said:
“The popular idea of cutting our emissions in half in 10 years only gives us a 50% chance of staying below 1.5 degrees [Celsius], and the risk of setting off irreversible chain reactions beyond human control.”
“But those numbers do not include tipping points, most feedback loops, additional warming hidden by toxic air pollution or the aspects of equity and climate justice. So a 50% risk is simply not acceptable to us — we who have to live with the consequences.”
She then ended her speech by straight up giving everyone a warning:
“You are failing us. But the young people are starting to understand your betrayal. The eyes of all future generations are upon you. And if you choose to fail us, I say: We will never forgive you.”
“We will not let you get away with this. Right here, right now is where we draw the line. The world is waking up. And change is coming, whether you like it or not.”
Reactions Towards Her Speech
Her speech has garnered a lot of mixed reactions from the public, politicians, and even celebrities. She posted a snippet of her speech on her Instagram and received more than 3 million likes.
A few prominent figures have voiced out their support for her and are also calling for action. Both actor Seth MacFarlane and U.S Senator Kamal Harris took to their Twitter accounts to repost the speech along with their own encouraging words.
She’s 1000% correct. What’s being advocated is not new. It’s the accelerated wholesale transformation of an entire industry, in proper response to a crisis. The US did it during WWII in response to a different crisis, thanks to FDR. We can do it again. https://t.co/WihdFbI6LY
— Seth MacFarlane (@SethMacFarlane) September 23, 2019
.@GretaThunberg is right: we are currently failing our nation's youth by not taking swift action to combat the climate crisis. We owe it to them to stand up to polluters and stop poisoning our planet.pic.twitter.com/coGN5JQOmA
— Kamala Harris (@KamalaHarris) September 23, 2019
On the other hand, she has also received some negative feedback regarding her stance and efforts. U.S President Donald Trump took to his Twitter account to mock her serious attitude. Australian Prime Minister Scott Morrison delivered a speech saying “I don’t want our children to have anxieties about these issues.”
She seems like a very happy young girl looking forward to a bright and wonderful future. So nice to see! https://t.co/1tQG6QcVKO
— Donald J. Trump (@realDonaldTrump) September 24, 2019
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Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Sunday linked the threat of a nuclear Iran to the Nazis’ attempt to annihilate the Jewish people in an address marking International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
“Anti-Semitism has not disappeared and — to our regret — neither has the desire to destroy a considerable part of the Jewish People and the State of Israel. They exist and they are strong,” Netanyahu said at the start of the weekly Cabinet meeting. “Holocaust-denial is being spread by one of the world’s major countries, not by a group or by individual countries or by marginal elements, but by Iran which, today, from the UN or any other platform, is the leader of Holocaust-denial while preparing for what they deem to be another Holocaust — the destruction of the state of the Jews.”
Netanyahu noted that Iran was not halting its “relentless and systematic” effort to gain a nuclear weapon. “We do not make light of these threats and we will prevent them. This is our primary mission as a government and as a people.”
“In the perspective of the almost 75 years that have passed since the Holocaust, what has not changed is the desire to annihilate the Jews. What has changed is the ability of the Jews to defend themselves,” said Netanyahu, referring to the Israeli military. “Nobody will defend the Jews if they are not ready to defend themselves; this is another lesson of the Holocaust…. Therefore, the root of the issue today, International Holocaust Remembrance Day, is not what happened, but how we can prevent it from happening again and this depends on the ability and the determination of the state of the Jews to defend itself against those who would destroy it.”
Netanyahu credited the establishment of International Holocaust Remembrance Day to the efforts of Silvan Shalom, vice prime minister and former foreign minister. He also made reference to Public Diplomacy and Diaspora Affairs Minister Yuli Edelstein, “who has struggled for the commemoration of the Holocaust, and who has struggled against the new anti-Semitism that is flooding the world.”
The Cabinet was presented Sunday with a new government study, reporting on global trends in anti-Semitism in 2012. Released annually, last year’s report shows a rise in anti-Semitic attacks, especially violent attacks by radical Islamic groups.
Prepared by the Edelstein’s ministry, the study found an increasing number of anti-Semitic attacks on Jews and Jewish communities worldwide, many of which were carried out by groups identifying with extremist Islamist factions or with the radical right, according to Israel Radio.
However, the report found no significant rise in anti-Semitic attacks in the Arab or Muslim world.
The study singles out the attack on a Jewish school in Toulouse, France, which left a rabbi and three children dead, and reports that the largest increase in anti-Semitic incidents over 2012 was in Europe.
It also points to parliamentary victories by a number of far-right anti-Semitic parties in Europe, including the Golden Dawn party in Greece and the Jobbik party in Hungary, as a worrying trend.
According to Edelstein, who will present the report, the anti-Semitic incidents, which took the form of everything from Internet propaganda to physical attacks, had no relationship to Israeli policies.
A report on the same subject released by the ministry last year also found a rise in anti-Semitism, though it gave no specific statistics to back up the claim. That report found the global economic downturn to be the main impetus behind anti-Semitism.
A Tel Aviv University report on global anti-Semitism released in April 2012, however, found a decrease in the number of anti-Semitic incidents in 2011, though attacks that were carried out were more severe.
That report showed that the number of cases of major violent incidents, including threats and vandalism against Jews, was down to 446 incidents from 614. There was an increase, however, in violence against Jews and Jewish property, as well as a rise in their severity.
France had the most hate crimes against Jews with 114, followed by the United Kingdom with 105, Canada with 68 and Australia with 30. Numbers for the United States were only partly included, noted the Kantor center for the Study of Contemporary European Jewry at Tel Aviv University, which presented the report.
Though a past report found an increase in anti-Semitism in response to Israel’s Operation Cast Lead against Gaza in 2008-2009, Edelstein said there had been no uptick in incidents during Israel’s eight-day mini-war with Hamas in November.
“The evidence can be seen that during Pillar of Defense and afterward, there was no dramatic increase in anti-Semitic incidents,” Edelstein told Israel Radio. “Unfortunately, no policies by Israel can influence or lessen this phenomenon of racist hate against Jews.”
January 27, the anniversary of the liberation of the Auschwitz Birkenau death camp, is marked each year by the UN and much of the world as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
In a video speech screened on Friday, UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon called on people of the world to not stand silent while others were slaughtered.
“In a world where extremist acts of violence and hatred capture the headlines on an almost daily basis, we must remain ever vigilant,” Ban said. “Let us all have the courage to care, so we can build a safer, better world today.”
Israeli Ambassador to the UN Ron Prosor, speaking Friday to mark the day, slammed Hamas and Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad for teaching anti-Semitism and denying the Holocaust.
“The hands of time threaten to cloud the world’s memory. It is our responsibility to rescue the history and lessons of the Holocaust _- just as the men and women that we honor today rescued its victims,” he said. “It is on us to teach the values of tolerance — to educate our children so that they live together as one human family.”
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By Darryl Ayo
Returning to Wolverine and the X-Men, No. 31 for deeper consideration.
Why is it that the bad guys lose? Not only lose but keep trying as though they will eventually win? And when they win, as Norman Osborne did in Marvel Comics for a while, they eventually get beaten up extra-badly and placed in a prison beneath the earth, never to be free again. Crime really does not pay when one is a supervillain?
The problem with villains winning in comic books (or similar media, television, movies, “genre” novels) is that the villains goals are fundamentally unacceptable to the audience. The world will no longer be “like ours” if a villain transforms all the people into monsters or detonates the Earth’s core or succeeds in invading the USA or what-have-you. The sense of it being “our world” becomes lost.
I think it would be interesting to experiment with villains who have more modest goals. Things that can be lost to the hero without changing the fabric of society, thus ruining the “world outside your window” illusion.
Let’s say you’ve got a villain who likes robbing banks (an archaic crime, if you look up the real stats, but roll with it). Then your superhero (Batman will do) attempts to foil the plot. He fails, gets beaten up, the villain gets the loot and Batman staggers back home with his cape between his legs. Lesson learned. No second act, no “this time it’s personal,” just simply “you win some, you lose some.”
I would like to see an element of plot uncertainty in action stories where the goal being battled over is forgiving enough that there remains a fair chance that the writer can send the hero into defeat without ruining the world.
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Tips for Getting Into a STEM Career Without a Degree
People who don’t have a STEM education, fear not!
You can still break into this exciting field. For instance, take web developer and entrepreneur David Karp. Don’t recognize his name? Well, you might recognize his website: Tumblr.
At age 11, Karp began learning HTML and designing websites for businesses. He attended The Bronx High School of Science for one year before dropping out at the age of 15 and starting homeschooling. Although Karp never earned his high school diploma, he went on to create a microblogging platform that sold for $1.1 billion in 2013.
By following the tips outlined below, you too can excel in STEM without a formal background.
Be your own master
Just like David Karp, you can become the master of your career without a traditional STEM education. Once you figure out your desired path, no matter the age, there is nothing to stop you from pushing yourself until you reach your goal.
“Anyone that has good analytical thinking skills can teach themselves. I was a programmer long before I got a degree. You just have to have a certain makeup for it.”
— Kforce Chief Information Officer Denis Edwards
In our current information age, there a variety of resources available that can be pursued through self-education. If you want to follow in Karp’s footsteps as a tech superstar, leverage developer platforms like O’Reilly’s programming eBooks, Coursera and Codecademy to help you dive into this new field.
Try an accelerated route
In fact, 15 percent of STEM workers have completed an associate degree, while 14 percent have some level of college education but no bachelor’s degree. The number of STEM workers without a bachelor’s degree is also higher than those with a master’s, doctorate or professional degree, according to new data from the Pew Research Center.
“You’re starting to see a lot of these boot camp schools that can teach you everything you need to know to have a solid tech background in two years, versus taking four years for a traditional degree,” described Edwards. For instance in 2018, coding boot camps grew by 20 percent and produced an estimated 20,316 graduates, claimed Course Report. “I think that’s viable for a lot of people,” Edwards added.
Channel your soft skills
With the need for STEM workers growing exponentially, big companies such as Ernst and Young, Google and Apple are considering workers without a traditional college degree as long as they have the required soft skills and are passionate about the field.
In fact, the proportion of employees at Google that don’t have a college education has increased to as high as 14 percent on some teams. According to Google’s former SVP of People Operations Laszlo Bock, the number one thing Google looks for is learning ability and processing on the fly, which is assessed through structured behavioral interviews.
“The world only cares about—and pays off on—what you can do with what you know (and it doesn’t care how you learned it). And in an age when innovation is increasingly a group endeavor, it also cares about a lot of soft skills—leadership, humility, collaboration, adaptability and loving to learn and re-learn.”
Leaders in STEM are looking for passion and skill just as much as a traditional degree. With the rising demand for STEM positions among startups and major corporations, there is an increasing need for non-STEM employees to help take a company to the next level.
The road to get started
As author, businessman and motivational speaker T. Harv Eker said, “If you are willing to do only what’s easy, life will be hard. But if you are willing to do what’s hard, life will be easy.”
Be willing to take the road less traveled. Although the path to a STEM career without a formal background isn’t easy, dedicate yourself to the craft and put in the work necessary to land your dream STEM role.
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A proposed plan to replace the Vallco Mall area with a mixed use city center has been submitted to the city of Cupertino.
The renovated space will be called The Hills at Vallco, and is being developed by Sand Hill Property Company, a Silicon Valley Real Estate Developer.
Senior Abigail Peña said she is looking forward to future changes in the mall’s area.
“Vallco Mall is lacking good stores,” Peña said. “They need to revamp it and make it look not old.”
The proposal for The Hills includes residential areas, retail space and Cupertino’s largest park, according to the official Hills at Vallco website.
Sand Hill Property Company’s managing director Reed Moulds said in an email that the green roof was added due to community interest in an open space being incorporated into the city center.
“The green roof will be publicly accessible and provide unprecedented recreational resources, a 3.8-mile trail network for jogging and walking, vineyards, orchards and organic gardens, an amphitheater, children’s play areas and a refuge for native species of plants and birds,” Moulds said.
According to the project’s official website, the plan will keep the AMC movie theater, ice rink and fitness center.
“Community input has been a vital ingredient in the creation of the plans for The Hills at Vallco,” Mould said. “Since purchasing Vallco Shopping Mall in late 2014, Sand Hill Property has hosted more than 30 community events and presentations and has met with more than 2,000 residents and business owners.”
Another feature included will be an Innovation Center, focused on giving students an area to work on projects and host competitions, according to The Hills website. The Innovation Center was specifically requested by FUHSD, Moulds said.
“[The center will serve as] an incubator for student‐led businesses, a hub for the district’s work‐based learning initiatives, a workshop where students can build all kinds of projects and potentially even an area for robotics competitions,” Moulds said.
Sophomore Susang Sijapati said he feels positive about the possible addition of a new city center for Cupertino, saying it will improve the social atmosphere of the area.
“I hope the new city center will bring a little more livelihood to our city,” Sijapati said.
Economics teacher Matt Wright said he is doubtful about the probability of the renovations occurring.
“I’ve heard so many things over the years about Vallco,” Wright said. “At one point, a development wanted to make it like a South Bay version of Chinatown, like San Francisco.”
The project is likely to occur due to the successful purchase of all 50 meters of the mall, as well as the funds to build the project without third party debt, Moulds said.
“This allows for a unified vision and revitalization plan that was never before possible for the site,” Moulds said.
Wright said he expects traffic to also be a reason for concern, as Vallco is located near the new Apple Campus, which is currently under construction.
“Once the Vallco center is open and the Apple [campus] is open, I will avoid driving that way because of how much traffic I anticipate,” Wright said.
Sand Hill submitted the application for The Hills at Vallco on Sept. 8, according to the city of Cupertino website.
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Why are there a million categories that decide when you board a plane? The Intelligencer explains: Airlines figured out that random boarding is faster than back-to-front boarding, because it spreads people throughout the plane as they stow their luggage and get seated, instead of the back section getting mobbed, then the front getting mobbed.
Then airlines realised that some passengers will pay more to board early, and thus guarantee they can find overhead space for their luggage—and not be forced to gate-check it.
After the Intelligencer explores the economics of boarding order, they give a tip for avoiding the gate-check, even if you’re in the last groups to board: use soft-sided luggage. You’re more likely to find just enough space to squeeze it between everyone else’s suitcases, or under the seat in front of you. And you’re more likely to convince the staff at the air plane door to let you on with that bag.
Switching to soft luggage will take some adjustment—and if it does get checked, a soft bag is a lot more vulnerable than hard-case luggage—but it’s also lighter and easier to carry. I’ve breezed through a lot of airports with a big backpack, walking faster than everyone dragging a roller case, and always finding a spot for it in the overhead.
If you’re worried about gate-checking luggage, you can also follow the tips in the related posts below to try to board as early as possible. Look up which sections your airline boards first, and try to book in those sections.
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As one of the most secretive countries in the world, it is hard for an outsider to get a true picture of what life is like for the average North Korean. Coverage of the country’s affairs in international media predominantly focuses on the state’s nuclear ambitions, its frequent scuffles with its southern neighbours, and its policy of imprisoning foreign individuals who appear to threaten its regime. The limited press coverage that is available of the lives of North Korean citizens paints a harrowing picture.
The most severe reports cite torture, slave labour and public executions as daily realities. Human Rights Watch states that more than 200,000 citizens, including children, live in prison camps where many die from forced labour, abuse and inadequate food. Abortions and infanticides are commonplace. Yet, even for those not subject to the state’s most brutal treatment, living conditions can be severe. Aid agencies estimate that as many as two million North Koreans have died in the last two decades due to food shortages. Whilst the government of North Korea may proclaim self-sufficiency, the truth is that many of its own citizens struggle for basic resources.
Arbitrary arrest and lack of due process make the criminal justice system a weapon of suppression for the powerful. Yeonmi Park, a North Korean defector, recounts watching, as a child, her best friend’s mother get publically shot by firing squad. The crime she had committed was watching South Korean films and lending the DVDs to friends. Such severe punishment ensures no dissent against the government and alongside the lack of an independent media and the suppression of religious freedom, the state controls all aspects of its citizens’ lives. Human rights violations are occurring across all sections of North Korean society.
Such brutal suppression and human rights abuses raise two key questions. Why there is so little revolt from North Korea’s own citizens, and what has been the international community’s response?
It is difficult to get a true picture of the level of revolt within North Korea’s borders, but it is clear that any rebellion is quickly suppressed. The totalitarian regime rests on complete obedience. This obedience stems from the ingrained cult personality of the Kim family, as well as the quick response of the authorities to crush any dissent. The conditions in North Korea do not, therefore, seem ripe for revolt. Alongside the leadership cult and fear of punishment, information on the outside world is so tightly controlled by the government that citizens are simply unaware of the possible alternatives.
The international community, however, has been vocally active in criticising North Korea’s human rights record. In February 2014, the United Nations published a detailed report after a year-long investigation into human rights violations. North Korea declined to assist in the investigation stating in a letter that it “totally and categorically rejects the commission of inquiry”. In practical terms this refusal presented the UN with a significant hurdle to obtaining a truly accurate picture of life inside the state. However, the UN was able to obtain first-hand testimony from defectors and experts through public hearings, confidential interviews, written submissions, and official visits. The fear of many witnesses to the consequences of testifying illustrates the ingrained terror of the North Korean regime.
The main findings of the report were that systematic, widespread and gross human rights violations have been and are being committed by North Korea. In many cases, these violations amount to crimes against humanity. The main perpetrators are state agencies, ranging from the Army, the governing Workers’ Party of Korea, and even the Supreme Leader of the Democratic People’s Republic of Korea himself. Without needing to repeat the exact findings in the report, the overall conclusion is powerful enough; North Korea is responsible for crimes against its citizens that “shock the conscience of humanity”.
The UN shared its damning findings with North Korea, urging punishment of the perpetrators and substantial reform. Despite refusing to cooperate in the investigation, North Korea has not been silent to these severe accusations. In September 2014, it published a rebuttal report asserting that its citizens “enjoy genuine human rights” and that upholding state sovereignty is the key to human rights protection. It claimed the UN report was a product of a US-led conspiracy. It is clear that despite powerful international condemnation of its treatment of citizens, North Korea continues to be as protective of its current regime as ever. What this means for the average North Korean, is that as long as this regime continues, life will continue to be a constant struggle.
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Founded in 1986, the Christine Dunlap Farnham Archive documents the history of women, transgender, and gender non-binary people at Brown University and in the state of Rhode Island. A research collection housed at Brown University's John Hay Library, the Farnham Archive is open to the public for research.
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BackgroundIn body surface potential mapping, increased spatial sampling is used to allow more accurate detection of a cardiac abnormality. Although diagnostically superior to more conventional electrocardiographic techniques, the perceived complexity of the Body Surface Potential Map (BSPM) acquisition process has prohibited its acceptance in clinical practice. For this reason there is an interest in striking a compromise between the minimum number of electrocardiographic recording sites required to sample the maximum electrocardiographic information.MethodsIn the current study, several techniques widely used in the domains of data mining and knowledge discovery have been employed to mine for diagnostic information in 192 lead BSPMs. In particular, the Single Variable Classifier (SVC) based filter and Sequential Forward Selection (SFS) based wrapper approaches to feature selection have been implemented and evaluated. Using a set of recordings from 116 subjects, the diagnostic ability of subsets of 3, 6, 9, 12, 24 and 32 electrocardiographic recording sites have been evaluated based on their ability to correctly asses the presence or absence of Myocardial Infarction (MI).ResultsIt was observed that the wrapper approach, using sequential forward selection and a 5 nearest neighbour classifier, was capable of choosing a set of 24 recording sites that could correctly classify 82.8% of BSPMs. Although the filter method performed slightly less favourably, the performance was comparable with a classification accuracy of 79.3%. In addition, experiments were conducted to show how (a) features chosen using the wrapper approach were specific to the classifier used in the selection model, and (b) lead subsets chosen were not necessarily unique.ConclusionIt was concluded that both the filter and wrapper approaches adopted were suitable for guiding the choice of recording sites useful for determining the presence of MI. It should be noted however that in this study recording sites have been suggested on their ability to detect disease and such sites may not be optimal for estimating body surface potential distributions. | <urn:uuid:1e32ff6e-a989-44d3-94b5-b676ed07a311> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pure.ulster.ac.uk/en/publications/mining-for-diagnostic-information-in-body-surface-potential-maps--3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.959157 | 395 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Diesen Sonntag finden die Europawahlen statt! Die Politikwissenschaft beschreibt und analysiert europäische (wie auch regionale) Wahlen häufig als zweitrangig (second-order). Demnach dienen diese Wahlen eher als Stimmungsbarometer nationaler Politik als eigenständige politische Auseinandersetzung auf der jeweiligen Governance-Ebene. Aber stimmt diese Annahme noch? Oder lassen sich zunehmend unabhähige politische Räume auf regionaler, nationaler und europäischer Ebene beobachten?
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Are European and regional elections really subordinate to national politics?
Low turnout and little interest of voters in European Parliament (EP) elections have led political scientists to describe them as second-order elections. This influential model on the subordination of EP elections compared to first-order national politics, developed by Reif and Schmitt in 1980, has since been widely employed and expanded to other seemingly subordinate political arenas, such as the regional and local level. Put simply, it argues that voters do not abstract between different levels of government and their respective competencies, but merely use European (or other second-order) elections to signal approval or disapproval of national politics. Because less is at stake, more voters decide to stay home, particularly those that are generally content with national politics. Besides just turnout rates, do voters really view other political arenas as inherently inferior to national politics?
Today, more and more scholars take issue with this rather simplistic conception of multi-level governance (MLG). Two interconnected developments motivate the assumption that the concept of second-order elections is not really up-to-date.
Multi-level governance has become commonplace
First, several layers of government – local, regional, national – have become commonplace in many countries throughout the world since the concept was first developed. For example, the United Kingdom initiated devolution – the conferral of powers from Westminster to parliaments and assemblies in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland – in the late 1990s. At least partly to appease separatists in Catalonia and the Basque Country, Spain has similarly devolved more powers to its regions. Many Eastern European countries, as part of a process coined Europeanization, built up administrative structures at local and regional level upon joining the European Union (EU). Today, albeit to different degrees, such systems of MLG in EU Member States are widespread and advanced. Unique in the world is the directly elected supranational level – the European Parliament – that complements MLG in the EU.
Second, particularly regarding the work of the EP, the last decades brought along an ever-increasing amount of competences and policy areas covered by the Parliament as well as the politicisation of European politics. Nowadays, the EP is co-legislator in many domains that directly affect EU citizens and the times of the permissive consensus are long gone: EU citizens care a lot more about European politics than they used to – whether that is affirmative interest or outright rejection of the EU.
What about regional elections?
So how does the concept of second-order elections fare in regards to regional elections? Where do they stand in comparison to both national and European elections? Do voters abstract these different levels of government or do they use all elections to judge the performance of their national governments?
Let’s take a look at some exemplary countries: When analysing voter behaviour in Spain, a country that has experienced far-reaching decentralisation over a short period of time, results quite clearly indicate that a majority of voters tends to base their electoral decisions on regional issues (about 50-60 %). This number is even higher in Spain’s most autonomous regions with an elaborate regional identity (f.ex. about 70% in Catalonia) (Cabeza, 2018). While European elections in Spain remain largely nationally driven (only 10-20 % make their decision thinking on European issues), regional elections are quite clearly first-order: The electorate makes its decision not to evaluate national politics but to advance regional issues they think of strongly.
In Germany, elections in the Länder are still frequently classified as second-order elections, but the extent of this second-orderness depends strongly on the timing of the election and its potential consequences – on what is at stake. Mid-term regional elections are most strongly influenced by federal politics. If regional elections can directly impact the national government or cause major shifts in national parties – for example when a national party leader would make his future dependant on the outcome of a regional election – the degree of second-orderness is reinforced. One reason often noted for the inferiority of Länder elections is the uniformity of political parties in Germany. Unlike in Spain, parties with a strong regional identification, the CSU being the only exception, are weak or do not exist and as such, regional and federal party competition is strongly intertwined. However, the German electorate tends to be more courageous at the Länder level, approving of party coalitions that seem unlikely or undesired at the federal level. Länder are often experimenting grounds for federal politics: The first coalition between Social Democrats and the Greens was formed in Hesse in 1980 and became the preferred option of Social Democrats at the federal level thereafter. Likewise, at Länder level, both the Greens and the Left currently lead a government (in Baden-Wuerttemberg and Thuringia respectively). This allows for the assumption that the electorate does view the political arena as distinct, at least in part, and that regional electoral decisions do differ from those in national elections.
If we broaden the analysis, a more nuanced perspective on elections below the national level emerges: In a wide-ranging study based on a dataset that includes the results of 2933 regional elections in Europe, Australia, Canada, and Japan, Schakel and Jeffrey identified strong second-order effects for only 18% of these elections! Assuming that all regional elections are somewhat second-order is hence an extremely flawed starting point for analysis. The truth is certainly more complex, and although there will always be interdependencies between different levels of government, the regional level seems to be increasingly independent. Although less pronounced, this development can also be observed for the European elections. Some conditions of the European political arena still favour their second-order character though, most notably the lack of clearly identifiable European parties or the non-existence of a usual government-opposition confrontation.
Not all sub- or supranational elections are second-order
As competencies are devolved from the nation-state level to sub-national and supranational bodies, voters increasingly accustom with this new form of multi-level governance and make qualified voting decisions dependant on the level of government. Although the national arena remains the most important in many cases, elections at different levels are no longer categorically inferior to national politics, a development that is likely to continue in the EU and beyond.
Karlheinz Reif & Hermann Schmitt, “Nine Second-Order National Elections – A Conceptual Framework fort he Analysis of European Elections Results”, European Journal of Political Research, 1980.
See for example Kopeke and Ringe, 2006, Brug et. al., 2016 & Nielsen and Franklin, 2017.
Laura Cabeza, “First order thinking in second order contests: A comparison of local, regional and European elections in Spain”, Electoral Studies, 2018.
Jochen Müller, “German regional elections: Patterns of second-order voting”, Regional & Federal Studies, 2018.
Arjan Schakel & Charlie Jeffrey, “Are Regional Elections really “Second-Order” Elections?”, Regional Studies, 2013.
Julie Hassing Nielsen & Mark N. Franklin, The Eurosceptic 2014 European Parliament Elections, Palgrave Macmillan, 2017.
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Every principal and aspect of How To Get Rid of Ants in The Kitchen is pretty much the same as what you do for getting rid of ants in the house. Duh! The kitchen is part of the house. So why are we including a completely separate post specifically for the kitchen? Because the kitchen is generally where all the food is kept. Food is what the ants are attracted to and are trying to get.
This is why it is especially important to keep your kitchen clean. Wipe up any spills, crumbs or other food messes as soon as possible. Never put it off, because you might forget about it, thus leaving a healthy (un-poisoned) bait pile for the ants. This is just common sense. If you are somebody who always keeps their kitchen clean anyway, you likely don’t have much of an ant problem.
If you do keep your kitchen (and house) clean and you are still on the internet searching for how to get rid of ants, well, maybe you do have a bit of an ant problem. Even if you think you keep your kitchen spotless, it is very easy to overlook a few places that might hold food particles or liquid spills that ants are attracted to. After you’ve eliminated the ant population from your kitchen (or house) it is very important that you do a thorough cleaning in your kitchen. First use a vacuum and/or broom to pick up any loose particles.
Next, use your favorite cleaning product, preferably one that kills germs, cleans, and gives off an odor that ants do not like. Make sure you clean every crack and crevice that you wouldn’t normally even think about cleaning. This includes pulling out appliances (stove, refrigerator, etc.) to clean under and behind. Empty out your food cupboards and drawers and give them a thorough cleaning. Make sure no loose food particles are left behind. Make sure all food from here on out is stored in sealed containers.
When choosing an ant killing method for getting rid of ants in the kitchen, remember that this is where you store and prepare food. You probably don’t want to use some sort of liquid spray product that could contaminate your food.
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The symptoms of salmonella include nausea, vomiting, diarrhea, abdominal cramps, moderately high fever, and frequent chills. These symptoms are not life-threatening, but can lead to medical complications if proper treatment is not done at the early stages.
Salmonella is a bacterial strain, which when ingested via contaminated food and water, causes food poisoning, which is referred to as salmonellosis. The worst part with this bacteria is that it can foul any type of food item. Salmonella food poisoning is a worldwide problem, affecting millions of people every year. In the United States alone, approximately 500 people die every year because of the medical conditions caused by salmonellosis. Overall, incidences of food poisoning are much higher in crowded regions having poor sanitation.
The root cause is lack of hygiene and sanitation. In a healthy individual, the body manifests infection symptoms after invasion by millions of salmonella. However, some people suffer from food poisoning even when attacked by a small number. After infection, there is an incubation period of about 12 hours to three days. The symptoms are not very serious themselves, but a prolonged condition can lead to medical complications. Thus, timely treatment and following self-care tips are of utmost importance to avoid worsening of the condition.
Humans (as well as pets) infected by salmonella remain as carriers of this deadly organism and pass them out in feces. When the bacteria comes in direct contact with food items or at the time of processing again contaminates food, rendering it unpalatable for human consumption. If, by any chance, people ingest these fouled foods, poisoning symptoms are manifested. This way, salmonella transmission takes place from an infected individual to another.
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- As the incubation period is over, the affected person manifests vomiting, forcing the stomach to empty with pressure. The frequency of vomiting may increase with passing time.
- Nausea, vomiting, and other gastroenteritis symptoms are associated with abdominal cramps and passing of loose stools. Diarrhea symptoms may range from watery feces to bloody stools.
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- In severe cases, salmonella enters the bloodstream, resulting in bacteremia, after which it may invade the internal tissues of the body, causing a condition called septicemia.
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BOSTON (CBS) — Is marijuana addictive? It’s a question many voters have as Massachusetts prepares to vote on legalized marijuana in November. The ballot question would essentially mean the state would treat Marijuana the same way it does alcohol. Highly regulated and taxed.
Many believe marijuana is a relatively benign substance, and isn’t addictive, but 17 year old Elliott Italiano of Jamestown, Rhode Island would disagree. He started smoking his sophomore year in high school and at first; it didn’t have much of an impact on his life.
“For school at first I started doing better. I was getting good scores and passing my classes much better,” he said. That changed pretty quickly when Elliott began smoking more.
“You start smoking morning, night, right after school, sometimes in school. It does become habit-forming, completely,” he said.
By the time senior year rolled around Elliott ended up in rehab at The Cove Center for Recovery. He was there for abuse of an anxiety drug, but says the pot was also a huge problem. “I started failing school more,” he said.
Because he met so many kids in rehab who were addicted to life-threatening drugs like heroin, Elliott is reluctant to use the word addiction when it comes to marijuana, but Harvard Medical School researcher Dr. John Kelly isn’t.
“About 10% of the people who use Marijuana will become addicted to it,” Kelly said.
Numbers compiled by the National Institutes of Health show Marijuana is second only to alcohol in the number of people who seek treatment for addiction. More than heroin, prescription pain killers or cocaine. While many dismiss the idea that marijuana is physically addictive, researchers have documented physical withdrawal symptoms in heavy users who quit including: irritability, sleep difficulties, cravings and restlessness.
According to Dr. Kelly, the younger someone is when they start smoking, the greater the risk of dependence. The other tricky factor is dose. Many of these legalized Marijuana products and edibles are a far cry from the pot Baby Boomers and even Gen-Xers smoked in college. There are products available with high levels of THC (the active ingredient in marijuana). Higher doses make today’s pot more addictive and more damaging to young brains. Dr. Kelly is certain that greater access to Marijuana will be a problem. “We would see higher numbers of people who are addicted. There is absolutely no doubt about that,” he warned.
Professor Miriam Boeri of Bentley College agrees marijuana can be addictive and should not be used by children. But, as a drug abuse researcher she wants to reduce harm, and believes Marijuana could help curb the opioid crisis.
“People are dying. Marijuana is far less harmful than Heroin and prescription drugs that these people are dying from,” she said.
Boeri has seen first-hand how marijuana can help opioid addicts kick their dependence. Boeri advocates the use of marijuana under the care of a physician, but claims many addicts don’t have access to medical marijuana because of previous criminal convictions or they simply can’t get to one of the four dispensaries in Massachusetts.
“Every state that legalized Marijuana, their opioid death rates went down, some of them by 30%,” she said, quoting a large epidemiological study.
Elliott believes people will smoke pot whether it is legal or not. He’s just glad he realized that it can take over your life. “I almost didn’t graduate. But now that I have been through all that I have been through, I’m now able to walk the stage this year, which is fantastic.”
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We first heard about a letter being signed last year, which hinted towards new Royal Caribbean cruise ships and also a new class launching over the next couple of years. The news came later on last year that this new Royal Caribbean class had been dubbed “Project Sunshine“, and would likely be second in line behind the world’s biggest cruise ships under the Oasis class. These include the Oasis of the Seas and Allure of the Seas.
The two Royal Caribbean Sunshine class ships will arrive 6 months apart, which the schedule is said to include the first cruise ship having its maiden voyage in fall 2014, and then the second in Spring 2015. Official confirmation of the home ports is yet to be announced although rumors point towards Cape Liberty, in Bayonne, for one of the cruise ships.
Within the last week we also received news about the company supplying scrubbers for the Royal Caribbean’s new Sunshine class cruise ships, and these will be compliant with 2015 Emission Control. Thanks to this compliance it means the vessels can travel anywhere in the world. You can read more about the hybrid approach to Sunshine’s scrubbers here, and why this benefits the new ships.
It is also worth noting that Royal Caribbean posted a financial loss for their last quarter, which totaled $3.6 million and is thanks to offering bigger deals in Europe after the Costa cruise ship accident caused a lot of negative news in the industry.
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In this section, we discuss three gaps that are central to understanding the underlying causes of the three issues outlined in the previous section: an epistemological gap, an institutional gap, and a strategic gap. The three gaps do not neatly correspond to the three issues, but cut across them. How the issues and gaps are intertwined is illustrated in Table 1.
The Epistemological Gap
What we call the epistemological gap refers to the fact that science and policy, and subdomains within each of these, have different interests and worldviews when it comes to the very conception of knowledge, and what it is to be used for. One of the reasons this gap exists is the sheer nature of social complexity rooted in disaster risk reduction issues. Scholars have argued that scientists, policymakers, and decision makers represent very different worlds that need to be reconciled (Marzocchi 2013; Dolce and Di Bucci 2015). Some of the differences between these worlds make it inherently difficult to integrate the results of research into disaster risk reduction practices. Scientists are generally reluctant to make premature statements about events over which there remains significant uncertainty; decision makers occupy a realm in which urgent decision making is a prerequisite. Following Knorr-Cetina (1999), we might say that the epistemological gap refers to the fact that the science and policy domains represent two different epistemic cultures.
A key reason why policymakers are prone to misunderstand the scientific and expert communities lies in the different scientific traditions (natural sciences, social sciences, humanities, and so on) and disciplines (geography, sociology, climatology, meteorology, legal science, among others) that seldom enter into dialogue and interdisciplinary problem-solving. Difficulties for policymakers in understanding science is further related to their “scientific illiteracy.” As noted earlier, in several of the surveyed countries, the terminology and jargon of researchers has been noted as a problem (see Sect. 3.3). This relates both to public dissemination and risk awareness raising, as well as to the interface between public officials and researchers in understanding one another. Science, and academic knowledge production as such, obviously needs to operate with specific terminologies that enable a precise inquiry into the phenomena studied. However, improving upon ways in which scientists and researchers can better communicate complicated material around the pressing matters inherent in disaster risk reduction is needed. This is not a question of merely “dumbing down” science, but rather to find new ways of communicating complex issues in comprehensible ways, for instance through mediators of science and employing officials in public institutions that have both theoretical and hands-on experience with disasters (see Sect. 3.2).
The problem of terminology merely reflects one aspect of a much deeper problem: uncertainty. As science and research runs on intellectual contestation and critique, and thus contingent and uncertain knowledge, it is often difficult to provide clear-cut conclusions to decision makers and policymakers in the transfer of knowledge from one domain to another (see Sect. 3.1). This has been the case for climate change mitigation (Lahsen 2005), but it also pertains to the domain of disaster risk reduction. Scholars have shown that “processes are characterized by an interplay of technical, social and economic discourses in ways both multi-scalar and cross-cultural in nature” (Wesselink et al. 2013, p. 3). Scientists therefore cannot be the only group that defines and assesses problems and risks. A more holistic approach is needed, where risk assessments are based on scientific advice, while corresponding to the cultural, ethical, and political elements of any given society (Gaillard and Mercer 2013). Decision makers and policymakers have a key role to play in this regard. While the output of scientific research is (ideally, at least) a nuanced recommendation based on probabilities and careful consideration of uncertainties, decision makers are forced to follow a Boolean, binary, logic when selecting a policy option for disaster risk reduction (Woo and Marzocchi 2012).
In the short term of a disaster situation, decision makers are often p rompted to provide an immediate response, often balancing low occurrence probabilities versus envisaged catastrophic consequences (Dolce and Di Bucci 2012). This is the case, for example, of short-term earthquake forecasting where models might show that the occurrence of a seismic sequence may increase the probability as much as a thousand times, but the absolute probability still remains very low (usually below 1%). These probabilities represent a formidable challenge to those decision makers responsible for taking mitigating and risk reducing actions, because it is obvious that in this low probability environment any warning could very likely be a false alarm (Woo and Marzocchi 2012).
The Institutional Gap
The integration of science and policy for disaster risk reduction is not only a matter of dealing with different types of knowledge and the management of uncertainty. It is equally about governance and institutional building. The scientific community’s role must be clearly identified in relation to the government system in question (municipalities, agencies, ministries, and so on) in order to effectively contribute to risk assessments and other central disaster risk reduction tasks. Because the connection between science and policy is considered to be a priority in implementing the Sendai Framework (Pearson and Pelling 2015), the central issue at stake is how to set up the most effective and useful institutional arrangements that allow the scientific community and scientists employed in government entities to contribute to disaster risk reduction.
Presently, however, the involvement of the scientific community is to a large extent dependent on the will of policymakers. Thus, we can speak of an institutional gap, in the sense that barriers for integration of science into policy for disaster risk reduction can be directly traced to the lack of new institutions, and changes to existing ones. The transfer of scientific evidence in disaster risk reduction into effective applications and decisions has been limited so far (see Sect. 3.1), despite a growth in risk reduction knowledge production (Weichselgartner and Pigeon 2015). This is not to say that there is an absence of widespread attention and awareness around this issue, as several recent reports and research studies attest (IPCC 2012; Southgate et al. 2013; Aitsi-Selmi et al. 2016; Poljanšek et al. 2017). Yet it is evident that institutional structures that facilitate knowledge transfer are lacking when the findings from the ESPREssO project are examined (Amaratunga et al. 2017b).
The issue of a lack of disaster expertise (Sect. 3.2) is a significant aspect of the institutional gap. The issue concerns not only the lack of risk experts in public governance institutions, but also in the private sector and nongovernmental organizations. One of the important aspects of this issue is also that there is a gap between academics and practitioners working on similar problems in disaster risk reduction, as well as in climate change adaptation, but who are seldom in dialogue due to a lack of platforms, arenas, and opportunities to initiate such dialogue. This indicates that the interfaces between science and policy can be thought of as “a complex terrain that it is best described as a multi-level system of governance and knowledge production” (Vogel et al. 2007, p. 351). In disaster risk reduction, there are many and varied stakeholders (see Sect. 3.3) who compete for attention and funding, both of which are abundant when disasters occur, but scarce when they are absent.
As academia is part of these stakeholder interactions, science itself—the practice of producing knowledge—is enmeshed in struggles for space in policy making for disaster risk reduction. Thus the characteristics of disaster risk reduction as a new paradigmatic field of knowledge in disaster research also impacts the dynamics of the science-policy interface. Building on the definition by the UNDRR (formerly UNISDR) provided earlier, disaster risk reduction can be said to be defined by an attentiveness to the reduction of vulnerability, and a move from response and recovery towards resilience, preparedness, and prevention. But how disaster risk reduction plans and practices play out varies from context to context. Academically, disaster risk reduction has to a large extent been championed by social scientists (Wisner et al. 2004). It is still a challenge to incorporate such perspectives into the natural sciences dealing with hazards and risks (for example, hydrology, volcanology, or seismology) that aim at producing statistical risk assessment models, albeit that vulnerability models are fast becoming a core part of disaster analysis in the natural sciences as well. Nonetheless, the fact that disaster risk reduction perspectives have been advanced primarily by the social sciences (especially sociology, human geography, anthropology, and development studies) means that there is a gap between different fields of knowledge with respect to disaster research that needs to be taken seriously.
The Strategic Gap
The epistemological and institutional gaps refer to the fact that there is a lack of agreement about the nature and application of knowledge, and a lack of institutions that can facilitate the application of that knowledge between the two domains. The strategic gap refers to the lack of common visions on how to progress. One of the key issues for the strategic gap is that of communication.
There are few outlets for scientists and related policymakers to debate and discuss issues of relevance and strategical long-term outlooks. On the global stage, standards and international frameworks such as the Sendai Framework (UNISDR 2015) have proposed trajectories for the involvement of science in disaster risk reduction policies; at the local level, integration and knowledge transfer tends to take place in a sectorial fashion rather than in a cross- or multi-sectorial fashion (see Sect. 3.1). Research has shown that disaster risk reduction can potentially save more money compared to a traditional reliance on disaster response (Schreve and Kelman 2014). Although international frameworks such as Sendai place great emphasis on risk reduction and capacity development, including educating and nurturing of disaster expertise, there has not been a similar level of focus on such aims at the national and local levels, and often institutions dealing with risk reduction fail to see the need for training on integration across domains (see Sect. 3.2). As Lavell and Maskrey argue: “Specialized disaster risk reduction institutions lack the political authority or technical capacity to influence development sectors” (Lavell and Maskrey 2014, p. 269).
Accordingly, the formulation of common visions for the science-policy interface is rare at the national and local levels, although they might be present at the international and EU levels. Divergent objectives and priorities are identified as a challenge to disaster risk reduction, both within policy frameworks (Raju and van Niekerk 2013) and between policymakers and scientists (Weichselgartner and Kasperson 2010). Accordingly, this challenge is reciprocal in nature. Scientists for their part need to understand cultural and institutional nuances in order to create knowledge inputs for sustainable, holistic policies, while policymakers need to develop and embrace more nuanced ideas of innovative knowledge production for disaster risk reduction.
In addition to a gap between science and policy, there is also a lack of communication between scientists and the general public. The issue of risk perception and public risk awareness, as highlighted earlier (Sect. 3.3), clearly demonstrates this communication gap at multiple levels. The issue of public risk perceptions being in conflict with scientific and expert risk assessments will perhaps always be present. Yet measures for experts to better understand the dynamics of public risk perceptions need to be a prioritization, as it might not always be a matter of a lack of communication but rather a matter of epistemological (see Sect. 4.1) and cultural factors (Douglas and Wildavsky 1982) leading to diverging risk perceptions. Finally, there is a communication gap not only between scientists and policymakers but also between different scientific disciplines, and a continuous prioritization of the natural sciences in hazard analysis and crisis management (De Groeve and Valles 2015).
Analysis of the Three Gaps in Relation to the Three Issues
In order to summarize the findings and discussions we have highlighted in the previous sections, Table 1 (Sect. 4) provides an analysis of how the three issues relate to the three gaps. The relevance of conducting such an analysis of correlation between the issues and the gaps is also to show how there are multiple factors and root causes at play when trying to come to grips with the barriers and obstacles that face the integration of science and policy for disaster risk reduction.
All three gaps ultimately relate to issues and challenges for governance, or how to reorganize political and legal frameworks in order to further the integration between science and policy in the domain of disaster risk reduction. While the three gaps as well as the three issues do not exhaust the challenges confronting the science-policy interface for disaster risk reduction in Europe, we argue that the focus on these provide a fruitful starting point for discussion.
It has to be acknowledged, however, that what we here refer to as the science-policy interface (following Van den Hove 2007), should take into consideration the sometimes conflicting interests between science and policy actors. In other words, we do not wish to adopt a normative deterministic understanding that supposes that science and research should and can always be made to bear on policy decisions, nor that all policy decisions necessarily benefit from scientific input. In many cases the two domains have very different understandings of what knowledge is, how to organize the production of knowledge, and what use knowledge can have in relation to risk reduction. Although risk reduction perspectives are now part and parcel of international frameworks such as Sendai and are embedded in practices advanced by institutions such as the Red Cross, disaster risk reduction is a field of knowledge that is still in the making in both academia and in practitioner contexts. What defines the type of expertise needed for professionals and academics in relation to disaster risk reduction is thus still an open question, but nonetheless centers on a focus on understanding the root causes of vulnerability, and on the fact that resources should be devoted to preparedness, prevention, and resilience, rather than only on response and recovery.
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Chairing Meetings – Planning Your Meeting
The first step in chairing a meeting is planning your meeting. You need to determine what your meeting will be about, what you want to achieve and how you’ll achieve it, and the logistics.
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Daniel wrote this in December 2000 – He was a finalist in the internship he applied for but wasn’t chosen.
“Writers write.” It’s a two-word creed spoken by journalists and novelists and screenwriters alike, spoken from all around the world. Writers write, it’s what they do. Not because they want to, though I imagine most of them do. Not because they like to, though I can’t see why they wouldn’t. Writers write because they have to. Writers write because they have no choice.
An idea appears. Where it comes from nobody knows. Some call it a muse, some call it imagination. It never occurred to me to explain it. An idea appears out of the fog of the mind that stands like a portal to another dimension. And if the idea is a good one, it grabs on, clenches itself to the flesh of your brain like a fertilized egg to the uterine wall. And that idea won’t let go, won’t let go no matter what, won’t let go until pen hits paper and it’s evicted from the apartment of your mind with a simple combination of movement and ink.
That is why I have to write. Because if I don’t I can’t sleep at night. Because if I don’t I don’t feel complete. That is why I have to write. But I also write for the pleasure of it. I also write because I like to.
Writing, writing at its very core, is all about control. Control of your characters, control of your readers, control of the worlds you create. Everything invented in the stories you write is forever under your command. You form mountains and rivers and families and friends, and they are yours in every way. You guide them. You move them. You make them speak. Sometimes they try to tell you want they want, but ultimately the decision is yours. It’s a truly empowering experience.
The other half is control of your readers. Of their opinions, of their emotions, of their thoughts and their dreams. I’ve been writing since I was eight, even if the early results weren’t good. In all those years there’s one experience that stands out most in my mind. One occurrence that totally affirms what it is that I can do, the power that I wield with a pen.
I’d been writing non-fiction for just three or four weeks, writing for my college’s newspaper. It was a year and a half ago, my first semester, my first profile of a professor. I was fighting a deadline, so I finished it in class. As I etched the last paragraph onto my paper, as I dropped the pen to a final point, suddenly something miraculous happened. It could have been a coincidence, it could have been a mistake, but every one of my classmates got up to leave. There were fifteen minutes left in class, but the atmosphere was one of finality. The air had the feel of completion. And even if it was all in my mind, that is the most powerful experience I’ve ever had. It affected me in a way you wouldn’t believe, because there was a chance, just a chance, that I had made them think class was over. That is what I get from writing.
I can’t say I’ll give anything back. I can’t say I’ll change anyone’s life. But I won’t have a chance unless people see what I do. That’s my goal for my career. To show people the ideas that come through the portal, to show them the babies that grow from my brain. To give them the chance to decide what they think, and maybe, just maybe, to change someone’s life. I’ll never know unless I try. | <urn:uuid:3f002e4a-ae95-4eab-a9cd-8bccf95f01ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nightfirepublications.com/about-us/daniel-foggs-autobiography/writers-write-daniel-fogg/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.975013 | 825 | 1.578125 | 2 |
President Donald Trump outlined his vision for a wall along the U.S.-Mexico border Wednesday night, telling reporters on Air Force One that he is serious about installing solar panels to help pay for the multi-billion dollar project.
When asked if he was joking when he first floated the idea for a solar-powered wall last month, the president was emphatic.
“No, not joking, no. There is a chance that we can do a solar wall,” Trump said. “We have major companies looking at that. Look, there’s no better place for solar than the Mexico border — the southern border.”
Trump has repeatedly insisted that Mexico will eventually pay for the border wall, but he has conceded that other funding streams will be necessary until a deal is worked out with the Mexican government. Although many Republican lawmakers have been reluctant to commit funds, the House Committee on Appropriations announced Tuesday that its FY2018 appropriations bill for the Department of Homeland Security will allocate $1.6 billion for the wall. (RELATED: Homeland Security Bill Provides $1.6B For Border Wall)
House Democrats will almost certainly fight the inclusion of wall funds as a part of DHS discretionary spending, which could lead to a protracted stalemate over an FY2018 budget deal.
In the meantime, Customs and Border Protection (CBP) is evaluating wall designs submitted by interested companies in the spring. Prototype construction was originally scheduled to begin by June 1, but CBP recently announced that testing is postponed until late summer.
En route to Paris Wednesday night, Trump offered his own suggestions for wall designs.
“One of the things with the wall is you need transparency,” he said. “You have to be able to see through it.”
“As horrible as it sounds, when they throw the large sacks of drugs over, and if you have people on the other side of the wall, you don’t see them — they hit you in the head with 60 pounds of stuff? It’s over,” Trump added. “As crazy as that sounds, you need transparency through that wall.”
During the campaign, Trump envisioned a wall across the entire 1,954-mile border with Mexico, but he told reporters that he’s been convinced there are several stretches of land that don’t need a manmade wall because of natural barriers.
“But you’ll need anywhere from 700 to 900 miles,” he said.
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Title: Knowledge management systems in organizations.
Part A. Introduction: (2 Marks)
The introduction part must highlight the following.
v Conceptual framework of knowledge management.
v A brief description of knowledge management systems in organizations.
Part B. Organizational Analysis:(5 Marks)
Students must choose any organization and highlight following points.
v Brief description of organization.
v Description of knowledge management system in the selected organization.
v Highlight and analyze the major knowledge management tools used by the selected organization for capturing and disseminating knowledge throughout the organization.
Part C. Recommendation and Conclusion: (3 Marks)
The students must come up with some suggestions/recommendations for the selected organization for improving their knowledge management systems.
Write down conclusion in one paragraph.
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🔼The name Gaham in the Bible
The name Gaham is mentioned only once in the Bible: Gaham is a son of Abraham's brother Nahor with Reumah (Genesis 22:24). Reumah has three more sons with Nahor and Nahor has another eight with his wife Milcah.
🔼Etymology of the name Gaham
The name גחם is difficult to interpret because the word גחם does not occur in Hebrew. At first glance, there seems to be a connection with the name חם (Ham), meaning Hot, but the dominant letter gimel can not readily be explained. Perhaps the name Gaham is supposed to point at the root גוח (guah), meaning to burst forth (see the name Gihon).
BDB Theological Dictionary assumes relations to an Arabic verb meaning to kindle or burn, and translates the name with Flame. Jones' Dictionary of Old Testament Proper Names points at the same Arabic verb but reports that it means Having Large And Burning Eyes. NOBSE Study Bible Name List simply reads Burning. | <urn:uuid:3383514a-3bdf-47f4-865e-6498c642209a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.abarim-publications.com/Meaning/Gaham.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00555-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.926332 | 243 | 2.65625 | 3 |
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To cause dents or dimples in something. I can't believe how much that runaway shopping cart dented up my car!
make a dent in (something)
To make noticeable progress in a task or to consume a noticeable amount of something of which there is a large quantity. I have a meeting in an hour, but before that I'm hoping to make a dent in this backlog of documents that need to be filed. I didn't think we had made enough potato salad for the party, but we barely made a dent in it—look how much we have left!
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dent something up
to mar or make depressions in something. I don't want to dent my car up. It's still new. He dented up my new bike!
make a dent in something
1. Lit. to make a depression in something. I kicked the side of the car and made a dent in it. Please don't make a dent in the side of the house.
2. Fig. to use only a little of something; to make a small amount of progress with something. Look at what's left on your plate! You hardly made a dent in your dinner. I've been slaving all day, and I have hardly made a dent in my work.
McGraw-Hill Dictionary of American Idioms and Phrasal Verbs. © 2002 by The McGraw-Hill Companies, Inc.
make a dent in
Begin to accomplish or consume something, as in I've barely made a dent in this pile of correspondence, or Help us put a dent in this pie. This metaphoric expression alludes to striking a blow to make a physical indentation in something.
The American Heritage® Dictionary of Idioms by Christine Ammer. Copyright © 2003, 1997 by The Christine Ammer 1992 Trust. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.
make a dent in something
COMMON If you make a dent in something, you reduce its amount or level. The savings from these cuts make only a small dent in the federal deficit. The average family in Britain spends £100 a week on food, which makes a big dent in the household budget. Note: You can also say that you put a dent in something. These devices can put a major dent in companies' IT budgets.
Collins COBUILD Idioms Dictionary, 3rd ed. © HarperCollins Publishers 2012
make a ˈdent/ˈhole in something(informal) reduce something: Having to pay out unexpectedly for car repairs made a big hole in my savings. ♢ The embarrassing stories about his past made quite a dent in his reputation.
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The strange spoons recently acquired by Shrewsbury Museums Service. © Portable Antiquities Scheme and British Museum
There are only 23 more of them in the world and it's been 80 years since anybody found some before these ones turned up.
What are these rare artefacts? They are mysterious bronze spoons, always found in pairs, dating from 800 BC – 100 AD, and Shrewsbury Museum is the proud owner of the most recently discovered set.
Post-medieval posy ring (1500-1650), found in Rowton Castle area, Shropshire. © Portable Antiquities Scheme and British Museum
Local metal detectorist Trevor Brown found the spoons in mid-Shropshire in 2005, and reported them to the Portable Antiquities Scheme. Archaeologists recognised the spoons as coming from the Iron Age, but what they were used for is uncertain.
One of the spoons is decorated with a carved cross, bearing a circle at the centre, while the other is plain but torn where there was once a perforation. They may have had a ritual or divinatory purpose – perhaps liquid was dripped from one to the other, predicting the future. Or their function could have been more prosaic. Whichever the case, they are enigmatic items.
Medieval gold finger ring (1200-1350), discovered in Condover area by John Martin. © Portable Antiquities Scheme and British Museum
Declared Treasure, the Shropshire spoons were purchased for Shrewsbury Museums Service and are going on display for the first time from December 1 2006. They can be seen at Shrewsbury Museum until December 22 alongside other recent purchases, donations and loaned items dating from the Iron Age to the 17th century.
Other items on show will include a medieval gold finger ring, a 16th century ‘posy ring’ and an Iron Age toggle.
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There is an old-wives tale that goes thus - if the Kalladikodan hills darken, the Kunkapuzha tends to breach its shores. The widespread forest fires in this area are often a sign of the harsh summers that are coming up. The Kalladikodan hills are not just one of the many other hills ; it is a Pandora's Box of myriad myths, rich history and many a witchcraft tales to tell. From the uprising against the British - to the legend of Kalladikodu Neeli, there is even an ancient art form called Neeliattam that is based on the myths surrounding Neeli.
The Siruvani Dam, Attilla waterfalls, Kanjirampuzha, Meenvallam waterfalls originates from the Kalladikodan hills. Mruthasanjjivani, the life-giving plant is said to have been found on these hills. There are many that head to Kalladikodan to collect another precious substance called 'Kanmadham' – a viscous rock formation that oozes out from the age old granite rocks here. The sticky substance is known to have unique medicinal properties. And that is not the only factor that is responsible for placing Kalladikodan on the tourism map.
The Siruvani Dam is a major centre in the Kalladikodan hill ranges. Siruvani in Palakkad District supplies drinking water to the city of Coimbatore. Water from Siruvani River is renowned for its taste and mineral properties. It takes around 18 Kms from Iddakurrissi on the Palakkad-Calicut NH route to get here. Private vehicles are allowed only as far as Injikkunnu which is 2 Kms away from Pallakayathu in the Karimba Panchayat. You are then required to take an entry pass from the forest range check post there. The fee for a group of eight members is around Rs. 1600. From here you can travel for 3 hours on the Forest office vehicle. It is customary for the vehicle to stop at the hairpin bends here called the S-Bend. The view here is breathtaking, covered with a dense fog and this includes the Kanjirampuzha Dam view too.
After the S-Bend, the next stop is Singaparra. You can get into the river from here. The Kerala –Tamil Nadu border runs through this range and we would by then be in the Kerala side. There is another kilometre long walk from here; this takes you into a dense forest. If mother luck favours you may even come across some wildlife. The Forest range guest house is located 4 Kms away from the Siruvani Dam. The 135 – year old residence is called Pattiyar Bungalow as it is set on the banks of the Pattiyar River. The building also goes by the name of Mylone Bungalow after its foreigner builder. Around 10 years back a foreign lady had come in search of the Mylone Bungalow claiming to be the granddaughter of late Mr. Mylone. She even had the original building plans and other drawings as proof.
At present the building doubles up as the Forest Camp Office. Muthikulam, the lap of Kalladikodan hills comes above Siruvani dam. This is where the purest water flows and it is from here that the Siruvani River originates. Between Muthikulam and Siruvani river there exists a dense forest route. The remains of a plane wreckage is said to be lying in there somewhere. Only a maximum of 100 people are allowed into Siruvani in a day. You can get to know any information about the trip from the Injikunnu check post and the permission for the same is obtained from here too. The contact number is 04924201042.
The Kanjirapuzha Dam is located along the Kanjirapuzha-Siruvani route. This is where the mystical Kalladikodan valley lies. Kanjirapuzha is just 4 Kms away from Palakkayam. There is the Attilla Waterfalls and also an expansive botanical garden of the District tourism promotion council at Kanjirapuzha. The falls are 12 Kms away from the Kalladikodu range along the Palakkad- Mannarkkad route. From the town, vehicles are allowed entry up till Munnekara. After that you will have to hire a high-gear jeep for the next leg of the trip. If you are up for it, a trek is also recommended. The walk uphill can get tedious though as only a short distance is covered in tar and concrete. The pathway is mostly in a dilapidated state because of the heavy rains, a pristine river and some smattering of plantation areas. Wild elephants are a common sight here.
There is a massive mango tree and from the foot of the tree you can get a good view of the Western Ghats. The Jeep journey ends after 2 Kms and what lies ahead is a narrow path hidden in the shrubbery and slippery boulders. A hermit is believed to come and live on a clearing below a huge rock. And because of this, the rock is known as ‘Swamipara’. Many put in offerings near a Devil-tree and pray here. The spirit of Kalladikodan Neeli is also believed to be present here.
A narrow way between the rocks leads to the crystal clear river and the cascading Attilla Waterfalls. The falls are so beautiful; it can almost calm your senses and take you to another world. Talks are on for setting up a Hydel Power Station at the foothills. Another 3 Kms from Munnekara is the Meenvallam Hydel project. There are 5 waterfalls here but the entry is restricted only to the first one and all five have a varied kind of charm and allure. The Forest protection Samiti at Munnekara provides passes for 20 rupees that will take you to Meenvallam.
There have been some studies relating these centres by the Palakkad-Idakurrissi-Palakkayam -Siruvani tourism circuit. But nothing much came from this. Examining the possibility of the Meenvallam-Attilla– Palakkayam – Siruvani- Kanjirapuzha forest route has also been proposed.
How to reach Siruvani; Siruvani is the drinking water project of the Kalladikodan ranges.
Entry is strictly with the permission of the Forest Department only.
An 8-member team will incur a fee of Rs. 1600.
The entry pass is obtained from the Injikunnu check post, there is a vehicle of the forest department to take you inside and the duration of the trip is 3 hours.
For more information, contact 04924201042
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[sws_grey_box box_size=”690″]SUMMARY: An Intuit sponsored study conducted by Emergent Research says that today, 37 percent of SMBs are ‘fully adapted’ to the cloud, a figure set to rise to 74 percent by 2020. If the data is correct then this is not a shabby result. That runs contrary to what Ron Miller reckons. But then Miller is way off base. But then the research might be questionable as well. [/sws_grey_box]
We don’t know the methodological basis for the Intuit research but we do know that Emergent is pitching cloud heavily for Intuit and we also know this only covers US businesses. That’s clear from a recent write up by Accounting Technology where the main ‘pitch’ covers a series of business type personas with which cloud native businesses will be familiar. To quote:
- Plug-in Players, which plug into cloud-based providers that deliver comprehensive, tailored solutions and take advantage of those ecosystems and networks to collaborate and share information.
- Hives, or the “Hollywood model” that futurists have been predicting to be the next big trend for the last 30 years, according to King [report author.] In this model, staffing levels are flexible, rising and falling to meet project needs and including pooled resources and shared workspaces.
- Head-to-Headers, or small businesses competing against major firms by using platforms and plug-in services to reach markets previously only accessible to large corporations. This persona has become more prevalent in the pharmaceutical industry, where King has witnessed “a surge in growth in small pharmaceutical companies that can use high-end software and big data on the cloud, and not need to have big labs and staff.”
- Portfoliosts, or cloud-adapted freelancers with multiple streams of income, some passion-based and some needs-based, who are building personal empires in the cloud.
I don’t have a problem with this but it is thoroughly wrong headed to assume that all businesses do or will behave this way. There are many, many small and medium sized business types that do not need to operate in these ways. If anything, the report authors seem to be predicting a services only world. If that’s the case then how does anything material get done? How did my local builder get materials to site for example? He called up, ordered over the phone and collected what was needed.
Regardless of the megaphone pimping going on among analyst aficionados, there are plenty of SMBs that will be making ‘stuff’ well into the future. Tried and trusted methods of getting from raw materials to finished product may be augmented by cloud services but they won’t be the be all or end all.
Miller thinks that those who don’t get on the cloud train are doomed. Speaking to the numbers, he says:
And let’s not forget that will still leave almost a quarter of small businesses not fully embracing the cloud. During that time, these small businesses using on-premises software will very likely be at a competitive disadvantage.
And right there you have it. The assumption that all SMBs use on-premises software. That’s not true. My analysis stretching back over five plus years suggests that the biggest barrier for vendors wanting to capture the new entrant SMB market isn’t the on-premises provider. It is the spreadsheet. Once that barrier is overcome then they’re all in with the cloud. For those businesses that have already established on-premises systems, if there is any barrier it is a lack of functionality in those systems that run their businesses.
You only have to look at Albert Pang’s analysis of cloud revenue among the top 500 vendors for 2013 to see that at number 19, Intuit only counts $224 million in cloud based revenue out of total reported revenues (PDF) of $4.17 billion. That’s 5.3 percent. And Intuit owns the US SMB accounting market. In other geographies we often hold up Xero as an example of a newish competitor doing very well but even they were only counting 284,000 paying customers globally in their March 2014 report.
Taking these factors together, it is therefore difficult to square the research circle while at the same time applauding Miller for any real insight. He says:
If I were a small business with employees, I would see the cloud as the easiest way to go even though I would move to paid versions of these tools. I can sign up new employees easily and it’s no problem adding or removing accounts, scaling up or down as my needs require. Contrast that with the cost of servers and software and maintenance and all that involves. Instead, you have a cloud provider that deals with all of that
Of course he would – Miller’s a tech guy. But like us, he’s in a less than one percent minority of people who live and breathe this stuff. In the real world, the Xeros of this world have to argue their case up and down the country with accountants every day. Why? Accountants remain significant technology investment influencers and they’re only just waking up to cloud benefits in any significant numbers.
I’d argue that the reality is very different from Emergent’s findings and that while there may be an acceleration in the cloud based solution adoption rate among those businesses that conform to Emergent’s four business personas, we are a long way off being able to definitively say that large swathes of SMBs are ‘all in’ or ‘fully adapted’ to the cloud.
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Children have tantrums because they can’t express themselves, so they cry, scream, kick and shout and even bite. It usually happens when they are 2-3 years old but can happen at any age and can feel very stressful for you as a parent.
Tantrums can happen for all sorts of reasons. They may be tired, over stimulated, hungry, wanting something they can’t have, or they had something taken away from them. It may also be a way of getting your attention or expressing their feelings to you as they are not able to tell you how they are feeling.
Staying calm is key
It’s really important to try and stay calm when your child is having a tantrum. This can be very hard to do but if you become stressed too your child will pick up on it. Keeping calm and in control shows your toddler that you are not overwhelmed by his or her emotions and while he or she feels out of control, you are in control. It is also helpful to be consistent in the way you approach the tantrum.
During her tantrum he or she may not be able to hear you but sometimes by speaking slowly and quietly, you can help calm the situation. Try to avoid worrying about what other people will think if you’re out in public – if you stay calm even if your child is screaming the place down they will more likely carry on by as you are dealing with the situation. Many of them will have had children themselves and know what you are going through.
Try to tune into how your child reacts and responds as you may be able to avoid a full blown tantrum if you learn what the triggers are and the early signs. Reduce stress and overstimulation as much as possible to prevent a possible tantrum. Other ways to help could be by using a distraction method. Reading a book, singing or something else to look at where they are like a bus going past might help them forget that they were about to have an episode.
Try to avoid giving them a treat as although this may be quick fix. It can end up with your child thinking that a tantrum will be rewarded. Have a drink or snack with you in case a child is genuinely hungry or thirsty. If you want to try distracting him or her before the full blown tantrum, you may want to have or toy or something handy.
Give them a hug
Sometimes a child having a tantrum may just want your attention and giving the child a hug might help. However, this will not work if the child has already too far gone in the tantrum. Sometimes this can make the situation worse. A hug may not stop a tantrum, but holding a child firmly and gently while talking to him or her in a clear voice may help the child understand that you are not giving in to the tantrum. You and your child may enjoy a loving cuddle after the tantrum has subsided. You may need to explain that you know she was angry but still the behaviour was not acceptable. Let him or her know what they can do next time when they are feeling frightened or angry. Give your child the words to let you know how he or she feels.
If it becomes too overwhelming
Sometimes it can be really hard to stay calm when your toddler is having a tantrum especially if you are tired and stressed too. If you feel overwhelmed ensure that your child is in a safe place, just move away for a moment until you feel calmer to deal with the situation. You could try some breathing exercises to calm your mind.
Lean on your support network
If you feel like you just can’t cope, wherever possible, it is better to ask for help than to keep everything bottled up and suffer alone. This will help to alleviate your own distress and will help you feel more able to deal with your toddler. Try give yourself a break sometimes:
- go for a walk or do some exercise
- meet with friends and have some time to yourself
- sit down with a cuppa
- read the paper
- watch your favourite show
These suggestions will give you a chance to recharge batteries. If it feels like you just can't think straight, try making an appointment with your GP or Health Visitor to see if there is any help and support available. Help is at hand though if you do feel that it is all getting too much, it may help to chat to other parents on our forums to find out how they are dealing with this issue within their family life. | <urn:uuid:fa2711fe-ffe7-49f5-9b7d-932c8debcb92> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.familylives.org.uk/advice/early-years-development/behaviour/understanding-and-dealing-with-tantrums?referer=/?_ga%3D2.208369682.1271565093.1559745945-1160541911.1556117255%26amp%3Btags%255B0%255D%3D120 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.976712 | 937 | 2.9375 | 3 |
36th Australian Infantry BattalionPrint Page
Plaque commemorates the personnel who have served in the 36th Australian Infantry Battalion in The Boer War, World War One and World War Two.
|Address:||Fairbairn & Limestone Avenues, Australian War Memorial Sculpture Garden, Campbell, 2612|
|GPS Coordinates:||Lat: -35.279626|
Note: GPS Coordinates are approximate.
1896 - 1945
36th Australian Infantry Battalion
South African War 1899-1902
South Africa 1901-1902
First World War 1914 - 18
Messines 1917 Ypres 1917 Polygon Wood Broodseinde Poelcappelle Passchendaele Somme 1918 Avre France and Flanders 1916-18
Second World War 1939-45
Buna-Gona Sanananda Road Liberation of Australian New Guinea South-West Pacific 1941-45
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Today is Thursday of the 3rd week of Easter. The liturgical color is white.
In the Extraordinary Form, the liturgical color for today is red.
Saints & Celebrations:
On April 26, there is no special fixed liturgical day in the Ordinary Form.
In the Extraordinary Form, we celebrate St.s Cletus and Marcellinus, popes and martyrs, who died in A.D. 91 and 304. It is a Class III day.
If you’d like to learn more about St.s Cletus and Marcellinus, you can click here.
For information about other saints, blesseds, and feasts celebrated today, you can click here.
To see today’s readings in the Ordinary Form, you can click here.
Or you can click play to listen to them:
According to the Holy See’s Letter on Some Aspects of Christian Meditation:
4. The Bible itself teaches how the man who welcomes biblical revelation should pray. In the Old Testament there is a marvelous collection of prayers which have continued to live through the centuries, even within the Church of Jesus Christ, where they have become the basis of its official prayer: The Book of Praises or of Psalms.2 Prayers similar to the Psalms may also be found in earlier Old Testament texts or re-echoed in later ones.3 The prayers of the book of Psalms tell in the first place of God’s great works on behalf of the Chosen People. Israel meditates, contemplates and makes the marvels of God present again, recalling them in prayer.
In biblical revelation Israel came to acknowledge and praise God present in all creation and in the destiny of every man. Thus He is invoked, for example, as rescuer in time of danger, in sickness, in persecution, in tribulation. Finally, and always in the light of his salvific works, He is exalted in his divine power and goodness, in his justice and mercy, in his royal grandeur. | <urn:uuid:11c8f232-c71e-4440-943a-5a6c1bec771e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://jimmyakin.com/2012/04/the-church-year-apr-26-2012.html | 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 | 0.950929 | 425 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Learn how to code in Solidity.
This is great: a step-by-step tutorial for learning how to code smart contracts in Solidity, the language of Ethereum. I’ve finished half already. Oh, and the game you build with this example is called CryptoZombies. How perfect for the internet. | learn more | <urn:uuid:6ba70448-5d81-49ab-a7d1-b1e6efcbb317> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://blog.hipavel.com/2017/12/31/learn-how-to-code-in-solidity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571472.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811133823-20220811163823-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.91323 | 69 | 1.578125 | 2 |
New Delhi, Sep 22 (IANS) Civil Aviation Minister Ashok Gajapathi Raju on Thursday said that the government has taken a number of initiatives to make tourism affordable and accessible to the international travellers.
The minister was speaking at the plenary session on “Core Infrastructure for Tourism” at the Incredible India Tourism Investors Summit.
The event was organised by the Ministry of Tourism in partnership with the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) and the Tourism Finance Corporation of India.
According to the minister, the recent National Civil Aviation Policy (NCAP) has taken an integrated approach to address the problem of air connectivity across regions and states.
He said the government has permitted 100 per cent FDI (Foreign Direct Investment) to attract greenfield and brownfield investment in airports, and enhanced FDI limit in airlines.
The Civil Aviation Minister pointed out that the 5:20 rule has been scrapped and that base fares are now capped for flights of one hour duration.
In June, the government had scrapped the 5/20 norm — that is an airline must have five years of domestic flying and a fleet of 20 aircraft to qualify to fly abroad.
The NCAP’s current provision has done away with the first five-year wait, but airlines will need 20 aircraft or fly 20 per cent of their total capacity on domestic routes first and then it will be allowed to operate abroad.
Further, the government is working towards an open sky policy with SAARC (South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation) countries, the minister added.
At the same event, Tourism and Culture Minister Mahesh Sharma said that the government is committed to lift India’s share of tourism from less than one per cent to at least two per cent by 2025.
Sharma elaborated the need for infrastructure and connectivity as crucial links for realising India’s inherent tourism potential.
Besides, the Tourism and Culture Minister said that the government is working towards addressing the requirements of tourist infrastructure in areas such as roads, rail, waterways, and civil aviation, among others.
Sharma added that the government has liberalised the policy environment including allowing 100 per cent FDI in hotels, railways and invited the private sector to address gaps. | <urn:uuid:17988ccc-e17a-40f4-9802-464dc0d0b392> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.canindia.com/ncap-to-boost-tourism-civil-aviation-minister/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00240-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954441 | 453 | 1.617188 | 2 |
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With the world waking up to a new tech discovery every day, with the rising increase of future work prospects, it has become imperative for organizations to keep their employee skills up to date to constantly adapt to the changing market dynamics. While tech advancements have helped create more business opportunities, it has widened the skill gap.
According to recent statistics, more than 50% of employees will need to upgrade their skills in the next five years to fit into the evolving job roles and meet skill requirements. 87% of McKinsey Global Survey respondents agreed that they are already experiencing gaps now or are expecting them within a few years. These alarming statistics emphasize why upskilling employees is the only solution to bridge the dreadful skill gap that has been slowing down tech innovation and digital transformation of almost every organization today.
While Upskilling teaches new skills to employees to help them perform better in their current position, on the other hand, reskilling employees trains them for different jobs in the same company. The two-way beneficial aspect of upskilling and reskilling makes these learning processes essential to employee training and development strategy. Upgrading skills add value to employee resumes and career prospects and helps organizations remain competitive in a constantly changing work environment.
Upskilling – the Hiring Differentiator
Moreover, according to a PwC survey, for more than one-third of job candidates, upskilling is so important that they are ready to take a pay cut if given the opportunity to learn new skills at the expense of being less paid at the workplace. The survey concluded that after salary and benefits, upskilling is the deciding factor based on which candidates decide whether to take up a new job or sustain with the existing employer.
Benefits of Upskilling your Employees
Let’s have a look at the key benefits of upskilling employees:
Bridges the Skill Gap
Gartner’s report states that about 70% of professionals today lack entry-level skills, leading to 50% vacancy in the cloud domain. This growing global IT talent shortage and skill gap within the existing workforce has been slowing down tech and cloud projects, causing the loss of millions of dollars and disrupting business expansion and innovation.
While hiring new talent may seem convenient to many, it is surely much more expensive than upskilling or reskilling your current employees through goal-oriented and employment-based skilling programs.
Boosts Employee Productivity
Lack of right skill training often leads to unutilized human potential. It is common for most companies today who fail to unleash the true capability of an employee due to not giving them the opportunity to acquire new skills.
Upskilling workers helps organizations make them more efficient and well-skilled for a particular job role or project. According to reports, 90% of companies that invested in employee upskilling agree that they have witnessed a sharp increase in employee performance and productivity. Therefore, if you want higher profit and better work results, then start enrolling your employees in upskilling programs that are aligned with your business objectives.
Helps Build Confident Team
Inability to match up to the latest technology requirements often demotivates employees who end up feeling underconfident. Upskilling your workforce can make them feel valued and confident about their ability to perform a given task.
A confident team can take up any challenge and solve it successfully. For this reason, organizations must upskill workers to upgrade their current skills from time to time to make them future-ready.
Increases Employee Retention
As per a survey conducted recently, it was found that 72% workers feel more involved and engaged with work whereas 69% feel happy when their employer invests more in training. Therefore, if you want to retain talent, then offer them opportunities to learn and develop their skills. Failing to do so would make your employees believe that other employers offer better career opportunities, and the result is they leave you.
Losing out on talent is something you would not want, and the only way to prevent it is by investing in employee education. When you upskill your staff, you make them feel valued. As a result, they not only continue working at your firm but also give their best performance.
Ensures Better Customer Satisfaction
The goal of every business is to achieve a higher level of customer satisfaction. Nobody would want a complaining customer or a disappointed client. This is because if your customers are not happy, they will give negative feedback influencing other customers not to buy from you, and thus your overall business prospects would be affected. Happy customers bring in more business and revenue and serve as loyal brand advocates encouraging others to trust your offerings and give them a try.
It is only through employee training that you can build a highly efficient team with some amazing behavioural and communication skills that can serve the purpose of driving greater customer satisfaction. Training employees in soft skills help them better handle customers and address their expectations in the best way possible.
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The pandemic forced companies to rethink their employee retention and engagement strategy. As executive leadership teams focus on creating their post-pandemic business models, they’re putting equal and perhaps greater emphasis on workforce training and development.
Upskilling can help your employees stay relevant in a fast-changing digital world. Not only learning new skills helps the employee, but also, through their well-shaped skills, you can maximize your business potential.
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About Purdue Aerial Robotics
The Purdue Aerial Robotics Team was founded back in 1996 as a committee within the Purdue IEEE Student Organization. The Purdue Aerial Robotics Team mission is to create an Unmanned Aerial System (UAS) to compete in the Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International Student Unmanned Air Systems (AUVSI SUAS) Competition.
PART consists of both engineering and non-engineering focuses. The engineering goals are to create mathematical and physical models, construct prototypes, and develop a final, mission-ready system. The non-engineering goals are to develop relationships with companies, encourage a collaborative work environment, communicate effectively with team members, and provide learning opportunities for students of any discipline and experience level. Achieving these goals will help us develop a UAS that meets the rigorous standards demanded by the competition, in order to succeed as a team.
PART prides itself on its student leadership, perseverance, and desire to excel in all frontiers. Furthermore, team members are constantly striving to learn the technical skills necessary to bring the design to fruition, including 3D-modeling in SolidWorks, designing power delivery systems, and programming in Python and MATLAB.
Computer Engineering and Mechanical Engineering
Systems Integration Lead
2020 Team Photo
The AeroMechanical sub-team of Purdue Aerial Robotics Team designs, builds, and tests a safe, mission effective platform for the AUVSI SUAS competition. The sub-team's goal is to provide team members a worthwhile, modern experience on aircraft design. The team has a strong emphasis on system design and manufacturing practicality. A rigorous engineering approach is applied from structures and propulsion, with training to provide any necessary skills to students of all skill and experience levels. FEA and CFD techniques are utilized along with traditional analysis and testing. Our designs are built around expertise in composites manufacturing, supported by precise 3D printed molds, to provide an efficient airframe while mirroring the ongoing changes in the industry.
2020 Fall Test Flight
The electrical sub-team of PART is responsible for designing and implementing
the plane's embedded hardware and software systems. The goals of this sub-team are
to develop a safe, efficient system capable of navigating and collecting data
about its surrounding environment with minimal human intervention. Much of the
work done by the electrical sub-team involves both hardware and software and
falls into the areas of communications, flight controls, and autonomy.
Current projects include the development of custom flight control software, radio communications between the aircraft and its ground station, telemetry sensor data collection, creation of autonomous flight algorithms, and mission simulation design to rapidly validate and improve existing navigation algorithms. To accomplish these tasks, the plane is outfitted with various sensors including an IMU, airspeed sensor, and GPS, among others. It's software is written in C and Python.
The electrical sub-team strives to design and implement robust, professional solutions on board the UAV. We constantly research and improve to allow the UAV to perform to its maximum levels each year.
Ground Control Station Setup
The software sub-team of PART is responsible for designing and implementing the UAV's
computer vision system. The goal of this sub-team is to develop a robust and accurate system
which can identify multiple characteristics of various objects on the ground with minimal
The software sub-team works with image processing libraries, such as openCV, to filter incoming pictures and extract necessary data. More recently, the team has also incorporated machine learning libraries to increase detection accuracy. The team is tasked with identifying targets from the air and numerous characteristics about these targets including shape, color, alphanumeric values, and location. Additionally, there exists a communication system between the aircraft camera and the ground station. The team runs some of its algorithms on board the aircraft, but the majority are processed on the ground via the communication system.
Our team is committed to pushing the limits of current technology and computer science. So, the team's current, year-long goal is to create a computer vision system as well as an image database to identify these targets with high amounts of accuracy. Our work this year is starting from the ground up and will set the team up for success for many years to come. | <urn:uuid:b5f7f499-f65e-4840-8adb-4d59b291d5a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://purdueieee.org/part/about/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.927447 | 957 | 1.953125 | 2 |
“Let us strive for that which is honorable, beautiful and highest.”
Kappa Delta was founded in Farmville, Virginia in 1897, and the Sigma Phi Chapter was installed at UGA on March 22, 1924. National, the objective of the sorority is the foundation and perpetuation of good fellowship, friendship, and sisterly love among its members, the encouragement of literature and education, the promotion of social interest, and the furtherance of charitable and benevolent purposes.
Kappa Deltas find pride in their sisterhood through a combination of leadership, involvement, and love for each other. KD encourages scholarship, community service, and campus involvement. Members of Kappa Delta’s hold positions in numerous organizations such as Orientation Leaders, Georgia Spirit Program, Georgia Recruitment Team, UGA Hero, UGA Miracle, Relay for Life, Tate Society, Order of Omega, Student Government Association, Grady NewsSource, Dawg Camp, Georgia Gameday, Hoop Girls, Diamond Darlings, Match Mates, Deck Dawgs, and many other noteworthy organizations.
Kappa Delta is very involved in supporting local philanthropies: the Athens Council of Prevent Child Abuse and local Girl Scout troops. Our chapter hosts events for local Girl Scout troops three times each semester during which we promote recognizing inner beauty and Kappa Delta’s Confidence Coalition.
Nationwide each chapter of Kappa Delta is granted their choice of local philanthropic Shamrock Events. Each year, Sigma Phi chapter hosts a 5K-road race, known as the 5KD. Sigma Phi also hosts an All-You-Can-Eat Waffle House dinner at the Kappa Delta house. All of the proceeds from this event benefit Prevent Child Abuse American and Prevent Child Abuse Athens. While we host events throughout the year to raise money for both local and national charities, our sisters feel that the most rewarding aspect of our philanthropies is that we have the opportunity to make a difference by interacting hands-on with the families our philanthropies support.
The Kappa Delta house is the only sorority house at UGA that is structured as one main house and 19 furnished apartments. The apartments enclose a beautiful courtyard where our sisters enjoy spending time together. Kappa Delta welcomes you to UGA and wishes you the best of luck during Recruitment!
750 S. Milledge Ave.
Athens, GA 30605
Natonal Founding: Longwood College, October 23, 1897
Colors: Olive Green and Pearl White
Flower: White Rose
Symbol: Nautilus Shell
Magazine: The Angelos
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This project, called E-FOTO, aims to develop and manage an educational photogrammetric softcopy kit. It is based on two main principles: the total freedom of the software under development and the self-teaching approach.
This is a seriously underrated program package. While it is aimed for use in education, with fairly small improvements it would serve in a production environment. Its architecture is well thought through, the individual modules work beautifully, and the workflow as a whole is also clear. Here's to hoping more international adoption. The UI english language needs polish.
Very good program! Many thanks to the developer, and good luck!
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Subject: A Brief History of the Mountain Bike
From: Jobst Brandt
Date: October 8, 1998, revised October 2005
The first successful high quality fat-tire bicycle was built in Marin County, California by Joe Breeze, who recognized a demand for such a bicycle while riding rocky trails of nearby Mt. Tamalpais with friends. They had used balloon-tire one-speed bicycles from the 1930s, 1940s and 1950s (Schwinn Excelsior) with coaster brakes. In that pursuit, one of these trails got the name "Repack" because one descent was enough to overheat the hub brake, requiring it to be re-packed. These Mt. Tamalpais downhill bikes were referred to as "my mountain bike" in contrast to "my road bike" without giving the term generic significance. This seems also to have been the case with riders in the Santa Barbara area where fat-tired bikes were also used to descend trails, according to Joe Breeze.
Joe Breeze, Otis Guy, and Gary Fisher, all still in the bike business, were top category USCF riders. Many of the Tamalpais riders were members of road racing Velo Club Tamalpais, whose blue and gold jersey carried the mountain logo. In October of 1977, Joe built a fat-tire bike of lightweight tubing that was previously found only on better road bikes, which he was also building at the time. It had all new, high-quality parts and 26" x 2.125" Uniroyal "Knobby" tires on Schwinn S2 rims and Phil Wood hubs. Joe built ten of these first Breezers by June 1978. Breezer #1 has been on display at various places, including the Oakland Museum, where it has been on permanent display since 1985.
However the first Breezer was predated by a frame built for Charlie Kelly by Craig Mitchell earlier in 1977. Like the Breezer frames that followed, it was made of 4130 chrome-molybdenum airframe tubing. Kelly equipped it with the parts from his Schwinn Excelsior. These parts included SunTour derailleurs and thumbshifters, TA aluminum cranks, Union drum brake hubs, motorcycle brake levers, Brooks B-72 saddle, Schwinn S-2 rims and UniRoyal Knobby tires (essentially, the best parts found on clunkers of that day). In spite of this, Charlie chose to switch back to his Schwinn frame, which he rode until June of 1978, when he got himself a Breezer, and for one reason or another the Mitchell frame was not further developed.
In January 1979, Joe and Otis, who were planning another transcontinental tandem record attempt, visited Tom Ritchey, who was building their frame, and brought along Joe's Breezer mountain bike. Peter Johnson, another noted frame builder who happened to be present, was immediately impressed with its features, as was Tom, who sensed the significance of the concept, being a veteran road-bike trail rider in the Santa Cruz mountains. Gary Fisher got wind of Tom's interest in fat tire bikes and asked Tom to build him one. Tom built one for himself, one for Gary, and one for Gary to sell.
After building nine more frames later in 1979, Tom couldn't find buyers for them in nearby Palo Alto, so he asked Fisher to sell them in Marin County. Fisher and Charlie Kelly pooled a few hundred dollars and started "MountainBikes" which became Gary Fisher Bicycles as the first exclusively mountain-bike business. It was Tom's bikes, and Fisher and Kelly's business, that made the introduction of the mountain bike take hold. There was an obvious gap in the market, with most frame builders focusing on road bikes, leaving this a field open for innovation.
Fisher and Kelly tried to trademark the name Mountainbike, but through procedural or definition errors, the application was finally rejected. Meanwhile in the 1980's Bicycling magazine had a "name that bike" contest that excluded the name "Mountainbike", which was before the trademark board at the time. ATB was the winner but it didn't hold ground against the more natural "Mountain Bike" (aka MTB) name that spread rapidly after the trademark application failed.
If anyone's name stands out as the builder of the earliest viable mountain bike, it is Joe Breeze, who today produces Breezers. The marketing push that first got the MTB rolling came from Tom Ritchey, Gary Fisher, and Charlie Kelly. At first the USCF felt it below their dignity, as did the UCI, to include these bicycles, but after NORBA (National Off Road Bicycle Association) racers began to outnumber USCF racers, they relented and absorbed these upstarts, as they certainly would recumbents if they had similar public appeal.
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