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A Child Protective Services office morphed into a children's shelter this weekend. Because there weren't enough beds in Pima County foster and group homes, eight or nine children ended up staying in a CPS office.
Child Protective Services has also had to place kids outside of Pima County because of the bed shortage.
This combination has led many to say Pima County and Arizona are facing a foster-care crisis. Outside agencies have organized supply drives, seeking bottles, snacks, toothbrushes, diapers and other items for kids stuck in offices until homes open up for them.
Casa de Los Niños has even prominently played the issue on its website, saying "Pima County has a foster-care crisis."
"In the most simple form, there's way more kids coming into the system than there are placements," Sam Dyer, Casa de Los Niños' foster-care program supervisor, told me.
Dyer said he's been hearing about the shortage of homes for several months.
The struggle to find placements for kids isn't news. It's a challenge CPS has faced before.
But Dyer said the numbers and the ages of the kids are news.
"We have always sent kids out of county for placements, but the homes we never had enough of were for teenagers," Dyer said. "In the time I've been doing this, I've never seen them sending really young kids out of county. Now, 2-year-olds, 3-year-olds, 1-year-olds, are being sent to Havasu City, Tonto Basin and all over the place."
He also said he's never seen emails for help - until now.
Karen Russo,foster-care supervisor at CPES Loving Hearts Foster Care, is one of several people to recently send out an email blast seeking help. (It was forwarded to me.)
"CPS Nights & Weekends also needs assistance in caring for the children who are sleeping at the CPS office," the email says. "They also stated it would be helpful if people could bring hot meals to the office to feed the children as well."
Russo told me she never intended the email to spread so far and wide.
"It's sad that we don't have enough homes to place these children in," she said. "It feels like more kids are coming into foster care, and it's progressively getting a little worse."
But Child Protective Services has a different take, saying things aren't any more dire than in the past.
"It's not unusual. It's not a situation we like," Flora Sotomayor, acting program manager for CPS in Pima County, told me. "It's been happening a bit more lately only because we are experiencing an increase in cases."
Sotomayor said "eight to nine" kids spent the weekend at a CPS office. But she said it's nothing new, and that it happens in Maricopa County, too.
She also said the donations are appreciated - items like diapers are always helpful - but CPS has received plenty.
"Yes, we've had kids sleeping in our offices for a long time, not just in Pima County," she said. "We need more placements. We always need more placements."
She characterized the numbers as fluid, saying they rise and fall over different periods of time.
But removals and dependency petitions - a formal step to place children in state custody - are up.
Through this June, CPS workers had filed 698 dependency petitions, numbers from Pima County Juvenile Court show. That's significantly higher than 2006 through 2011. In each of those years, about 500 dependency petitions were filed through June in Pima County.
Note: A dependency petition could be for more than one child.
And between October and March, 1,190 kids in Pima County and 4,968 kids across the state were removed from their homes, Sotomayor said. Those numbers are also up. For example, between October 2010 and March 2011, 923 kids in Pima County and 3,978 kids across the state were removed.
"CPS is removing far more children than they have been before, and to add to that is the fact that there are fewer foster homes," said Bonnie Demorotski, of Aviva Children's Services, which provides basic necessities to children who have been removed from their homes.
The conventional wisdom is the economy has kept people from becoming foster parents.
There's less agreement about why CPS is removing more kids. Thoughts range from the economy, to a lack of staffers, to a response to recent children deaths. Whatever the reason, the foster-care crisis has made bad situations worse.
Siblings might get split up from one another. Children might get stuck hanging out in offices for days. A long-distance placement might mean fewer family visits.
"The main thing that we need is foster homes," Russo said. "This problem is not going to go away any time soon, and we need more foster homes."
Interested in Foster Care?
The Department of Economic Security has a toll-free number for people interested in becoming foster parents: 1-877-KIDS-NEEDU
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A Life in Shadow: Aimé Bonpland in Southern South America, 1817–1858
French naturalist and medical doctor Aimé Bonpland (1773–1858) was one of the most important scientific explorers of South America in the early nineteenth century. From 1799 to 1804, he worked alongside Alexander von Humboldt as the latter carried out his celebrated research in northern South America, but he later returned to conduct his own research farther south. A Life in Shadow accounts for the entire span of Bonpland's remarkable and diverse career in South America—in Argentina, Paraguay (where he was imprisoned for nearly a decade), Uruguay, and southernmost Brazil—based on extensive archival material. The study reconnects Bonpland's divided records in Europe and South America and delves into his studies of rural resources in interior regions of South America, including experimental cultivation techniques. This is a fascinating account of a man—a doctor, farmer, rancher, scientific explorer, and political conspirator—who interacted in many revealing ways with the evolving societies and institutions of South America.
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In October 2020, the US National Vaccine Information Centre (NVIC)
held the Fifth International Public Conference on Vaccination, which was broadcast online.
The goal of NVIC’s 2020 Fifth International Public Conference on Vaccination: Protecting Health and Autonomy in the 21st Century conference is to provide high quality information and perspective about how industry, medical trade, academia and government impact the advancement of vaccine science, policy, law and ethics within the context of emerging medical research, and how suppression of independent scientific inquiry, censorship of rational criticism and erosion of informed consent rights threaten health and human rights. This conference celebrates freedom of thought, speech, conscience and the human right to autonomy and informed consent to medical risk taking.
This is an excellent resource with presentations covering various aspects of vaccinations, including those pertinent to Covid19.
Here are some highlights:
Professor Dolores Cahill – Immune System, Viral Interference and Adverse Events
Dr Jacob M. Puliyal – Redefining Vaccine Reactions to Erase Evidence of Harm
Dr Meryl Nass – From Anthrax to Covid19: What you need to know about one company making the coronavirus vaccine
Stephanie Christner, DO – The Disappearing Medical Exemption Handcuffs Doctors and Increases Vaccine Risks
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The words ‘of’ and ‘off’ are used so frequently in modern English that people often confuse them. For example, the sentence, ‘He took off without a word’ could be mistakenly written as ‘He took of without a word’, and the meaning would be lost. Let us discuss the distinctions between the two words.
The word ‘of’ has several functions, but it is most in use as a preposition that denotes various relations described in the sentence. For instance, it indicates a point of reckoning: ‘South of the border.’ It is also commonly used to point out what something is made of or what it contains: ‘Heart of gold’ (this is metaphorical, of course), ‘Cup of tea’. Another relation frequently described by ‘of’ is that of possession, as in ‘Queen of England.’
‘Off’ is also a very common word with large number of functions as well, but it is most frequently used as an adverb or a preposition. As an adverb, it is used usually to describe a state of discontinuance, or suspension: ‘Turn off the light.’ As a preposition, it is used to indicate the physical separation or distance from a position of rest, attachment or union, as in ‘Take it off the table’ or ‘The gas station is just off the corner ahead.’ | <urn:uuid:16d4d887-2041-4a5a-be68-b10a1465f865> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.englishleap.com/common-mistakes/of-off | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00487-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980782 | 309 | 3.859375 | 4 |
Frequently Asked Questions
- 1How do I get started?
- 2Is the brain map safe?
Your brain is unique, so before you embark on any training, it is best to have a MAP of your brain. This MAP provides valuable information about how your brain functions.
On the day of your first Neuro-feedback session with the Brain Renewal technician, you will be asked to complete a brief assessment and questionnaire describing how you are feeling and include any concerns you may have that require attention. The tech will then take you through to the mapping room and have you sit in a comfortable chair facing a computer screen.
The technician then attaches tiny sensors (EEG/EKG) on your scalp and behind your ears to pick up the delicate electrical activity of your brain. Your technician will record a baseline reading of your brain in three states: Eyes closed, at rest and on task. This data is compiled and is used to generate your “MAP”. The MAP assessment takes between 1 to 2 hours.
Once you have completed the brain mapping session, a report is compiled from the map and is then sent to you within 48 hours.
The Brain Renewal tech will go through your map in detail with you either directly after the map assessment, or telephonically at a later appointed time. This is a great time to ask any questions before discussing your training program.
During this assessment, you will also receive a complimentary ten minute de-stress and have an opportunity to experience the power of Neuro-Feedback in real time.
From this map, a personal and customised training program will be created for you, in order for you to reach your desired goals. While Brain RenewalTM offers some very exciting ways of assessing your progress, in the end it is always how you are doing in your life that counts most. After all, this is what brought you to Brain RenewalTM in the first place!
Much like an EKG or ECG, the system is simply reading or listening to this signal. Nothing comes out or through the electrodes, no electricity. Pulses are sent down the electrodes into your brain.
Neuro-feedback is naturopathic and does not “harm” the brain in any way. Nothing invasive or intrusive is involved throughout the mapping or training process.
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A new study say that the free apps and web-based services that are downloaded on Android or iOS devices may have in turn leaked personal information, including names, gender, phone numbers, and email.
For the study, researchers investigated the degree to which each platform which includes advertisers and data analytics companies that these services rely on for finance, leaks personal identification information (birthdates, locations).
The findings showed that both apps and websites leaked personally identifiable information to varying degrees.
"We expected that apps would leak more as they have better and direct access to this information. Overall that's true," said Assistant Professor David Choffnes, at Northeastern University in Massachusetts, US.
He also said that typically apps leak "just one more identifier than a website" for the same service.
"In fact, we found that in 40 percent of cases websites leaked more types of information than apps," Choffnes added. Researchers also found that these services would send encrypted passwords to a third party due to a bug, for authentication purposes or for identity management.
"The reasons for the intentional leaks are legitimate, and I'm sure that the services have appropriate agreements with the other parties to protect the passwords," Choffnes said. He added, "Users have no idea that their passwords were being sent to other parties."
Users can select from a drop-down list of the services included and also the operating system they used either Android or iOS. Next the users are asked to rate various types of personal information, from their birthdates to their devices' unique identifier information that they mostly prefer to keep private.
"Then, automatically, the site generates two leakiness indexes for the service selected a sky blue bar for the app version, a lime green one for the web and recommends the best platform for that particular user," the researchers said.
Choffnes hopes that the study would start a dialogue between consumers and online services about the kind of information that should be collected - balancing the services' revenue needs with consumers' privacy needs. The results will be presented at the 2016 Internet Measurement Conference, in Santa Monica, California. | <urn:uuid:414735a7-9a36-469a-a30b-ac85cc6546a6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gizbot.com/apps/news/free-android-ios-apps-web-based-services-leak-personal-information-034888.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00458-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960514 | 429 | 2.578125 | 3 |
Poland's parliament launched debate on six draft laws on in vitro fertilisation Friday, an available but unregulated medical procedure in Poland, strongly opposed by the Catholic Church.
- A general view of the national assembly in Warsaw
- A view of St. Marys Basilica in Krakow
The drafts range from a total ban punishable by prison to the authorization of IVF including the freezing of embryos and its reimbursement by the state.
AdvertisementThe governing liberal Civic Platform (PO) party proposed that all six widely ranging draft IVF laws be debated further in parliamentary committees.
The opposition conservative Law and Justice (PiS) urged the immediate rejection of drafts authorizing the procedure while the opposition left-wing SLD called for the rejection of drafts prohibiting IVF.
Parliament is to vote on the drafts next week.
Poland's powerful Roman Catholic Church has launched a crusade against in vitro fertilization (IVF), threatening legislators with excommunication if they back proposals to authorize and fund the procedure.
The move has stunned both the government and medical professionals involved in the treatment.
"The threats, attempts to pressure and blackmail are amazing," Pawel Gras, spokesman for Poland's liberal government, told the private broadcaster Radio Zet on Tuesday.
President Bronislaw Komorowski, himself a Catholic and father of five, has called for a reasonable compromise that respects Catholics' sensibilities and the needs of "many, often desperate couples, seeking a way to have a child".
Prime Minister Donald Tusk said Wednesday that politicians were responsible to citizens, not the Church hierarchy.
Tusk supports a draft submitted by his liberal Civic Platform party which authorizes the freezing of embryos. An alternative draft does not allow for this freezing process, making it less effective.
The Church views the latter draft as less harmful because it prohibits storage of IVF embryos and therefore their selection and destruction. The Vatican regards an embryo as a human being from the second of conception. | <urn:uuid:693eec45-b672-45bd-a950-869b66b661d9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.medindia.net/news/Polands-Parliament-Debate-Regulating-IVF-75734-1.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00465-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944818 | 398 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Common Arcgis Runtime Sdk For Wpf Help and their Solutions
When utilizing your personal computer, you can never expect that you wont bump into specific issues. Most commonly, errors which you are not familiar of will come out while you are browsing the web. What you should know is that Arcgis Runtime Sdk For Wpf Help is normal. There is no reason to stress since this just tells you that there is something that needs attention or fixation. The first step that you need to take is to know the real cause of the existing issue. Doing so will assist you contain the damage.
Every specific Arcgis Runtime Sdk For Wpf Help has its very own unique Arcgis Runtime Sdk For Android Tutorial reasons. Sometimes, errors occur due to faulty drivers or incompatible application. Yes, anybody can just re-install the operating system and dont worry about working with the real problem. Nevertheless, what people dont know is that fixing the problem is beneficial. Here are the most common errors you may experience and how to solve them.
Blue Screen of Death (BSoD)
This Arcgis Runtime Sdk For Wpf Help doesn’t pick an operating system to attack, it can happen to all even in the most up-to-date ones. Resolving this takes more action than just easy pressing of ESC or Ctrl + Alt + Del. Though many reasons may cause this error, the main problem is a recent change in the software or hardware state of the computer. The best thing to do is open the computer in safe mode so that you can uninstall the software recently added, also remove any hardware devices attached to it.
Insufficient Virtual Memory
This error occurs after you have installed a huge application. Besides that, this can also happen when you have inadequate RAM space. In case you have insufficient RAM space, you will have to acquire more RAM chips. In case your RAM can still work, you only have to increase your pagefile size. In the Control Panel, go to System and click Security. Stick to the order of the areas you should be going: Advanced system settings, Advanced tab and Settings. This time, you can then adjust and increase your pagefile size from 1.5 up to two times your RAMs memory.
Missing DLL Files
This Arcgis Runtime Sdk For Wpf Help usually takes place if there is lack of a needed file when you run a certain program in your personal computer. Unless it is not a system file, getting another copy of the missing file from the web is feasible. Always take into account the dependability of the file provider. The problem is that not all files from the internet will work. On the other hand, if the problem is a software, re-installation is needed. Also do not forget to consider obtaining a great anti-virus as there are times wherein this error is due to certain viruses.
These Arcgis Runtime Sdk For Wpf Help may be experienced each time you use the functionality of your computer. The tips in solving these issues will not only develop your technical skills but also help you save money. Replacing the computer right away is not a wise move, try to troubleshoot the problems first. | <urn:uuid:9dea2e76-7d39-4f64-b267-36857a2d178f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.stage773.org/runtime/arcgis-runtime-sdk-for-wpf-help/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.937319 | 663 | 1.625 | 2 |
Josh Montgomery, assistant professor of computer science, and Amy McClellan, academic service specialist at Southern State Community College, addressed Hillsboro Rotarians on Tuesday, describing the Ohio Means Internships and Co-ops program.
According to program information, the purpose of Ohio Means Internships is “an investment of state and private dollars to increase the number of internships and co-ops for employers and students in key industries to close the skills gap, increase student completion, and give Ohio a competitive advantage in the global human capital talent marketplace.”
Benefits to employers who participate in the program include being eligible for 50 percent salary reimbursement for interns for up to 400 hours, and “providing learning opportunities for college students in high-demand, high-wage industries.”
Montgomery said that about 100 students so far have been placed in internships in the Southeast region, and the college has worked with 18 regional employers.
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Memorial Day always gets my attention. This is not a happy holiday. Do wars kill quite a few people? Well, World War II killed about 50 million people! And how many were terribly injured, lost family members or personal possessions and property? And besides death, pain, torture, detention, expense, destruction, and suffering from abnormal conditions …
By the 450,000 US cops, only about 1000 killings occur each year. Close to 99.8% kill nobody. But if just 1 cop could be convicted of an improper killing, and imprisoned, this could lead to more justice, less violence, and more peace for all Americans! Not one convicted in 2014 or 2015.
It should be a felony to seriously be intending, planning, preparing, and/or recruiting to commit violence against any person or persons for any reason. That’s not freedom of speech. The Peace Law should be passed by Congress now to protect all against violence whether by guns, bombs, knives, strangulation, beheading or any other method.
Murders and violence by terrorists and others would be preventable with The Peace Law recommended in Dr. Ed Marshall’s book The Peace Prescription, available on Amazon. Read on and contact your legislators to get it done.
Recruiting people to commit murder, as by ISIS, can be prevented by five steps. Military and personal weaponry for self-defense will be required until those steps are properly taken to reduce violence on both sides.
Check out the “jump-Starting America” plan for ending the unsuccessful War on Drugs, and other innovative problem solving. Dr. Ed’s books have real answers for real problems.
Korea was a single unified and mainly independent country for centuries until that all changed starting in the early 20th Century. Can North and South reunify? How? Other equally “impossible” peaceful results have happened. Check out the Five Step Plan Dr. Ed Marshall, author of The Peace Prescription, proposes for Koreans.
We need The Peace Law to prevent killings and massacres. Here is how that law would do the job.
Some people believe that killing is a good thing and that they must do the killing. That’s not what most of us would call “a good human value”. Read about the difference “The Peace Law” could make.
Burma’s civil war had almost ended after the plan I suggested in 2009 was followed by leaders of pro-democracy forces and of the then ruling military dictatorship forces. Flare-ups in violence over the past couple of years between multi-ethnic factions and the central government call for one more step. Here it is. | <urn:uuid:5115a094-7757-445c-9bf6-2fd68c2ec258> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dredmarshall.com/category/peace-preventing-violence-wars/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571210.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810191850-20220810221850-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.951948 | 551 | 2.140625 | 2 |
It Pays to be a Good Citizen
Corporate responsibility is much more than business throwing money at worthy causes, it's about environmental and social sustainability - and building customer trust. By Gillian Bullock
For the past four years Westpac, in partnership with Indigenous Enterprise Partnerships, has been sending employees to Cape York in far north Queensland to provide the indigenous community there with the skills and knowledge they need to help improve their lifestyle.
So far, more than 200 Westpac employees have ventured north for anything from two weeks to a year, and their total contribution is equivalent to 33 years of full-time work.
It's been a two-way street. Members of the Cape York community have started to budget and save for many items that had previously been beyond their reach; at the same time the Westpac employees who have been seconded to Cape York have returned to their regular jobs enriched.
This is just one example of corporate responsibility in Australia . And Westpac is clearly emerging as a leader in this field, ranking No. 1 on many local and global indexes that have been developed to measure companies' corporate responsibility and sustainability. Such indexes include Reputex, the Dow Jones Sustainability Index and Australia 's Corporate Responsibility Index.
So what is corporate responsibility, and how does it interact with the other buzz word, sustainability?
According to Graham Paterson, Head of Corporate Responsibility and Sustainability at Westpac, corporate responsibility is about doing the right thing socially, ethically and environmentally.
And sustainability is a key part of that corporate responsibility.
"Sustainability is a component of corporate responsibility," according to Paterson . "Ultimately corporate responsibility is all about sustainability. What it is saying for Westpac is that we have been around for 189 years and what can we do to keep going for the next 189 years."
But Ramsay Moodie, Director of Corporate Affairs at Fuji Xerox, does not agree with this. According to him corporate responsibility is more a subset of sustainability than the reverse. And under sustainability there are the subsets of environment and equity among human beings.
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development has the following definition: "The continuing commitment by business to behave ethically and to contribute to economic development, while improving the quality of life for the workforce and their families as well as the local community and society at large."
As ANZ Chief Executive John McFarlane observes: "Companies are not islands that exist separately from the communities within which they operate. Successful companies understand and engage with their customers, their staff and their communities."
Tim Sheehy, Chief Executive of Chartered Secretaries Australia, believes that companies embracing corporate responsibility today do so because it is usually a good business decision.
"A short-sighted focus on profits alone is not a sustainable approach to business," says Sheehy. "By contrast, pursuing a bona fide corporate responsibility policy can open up value-creating opportunities, build customer trust and promote innovation, all of which give a company a competitive advantage and builds a strong brand in the long run."
Former IBM Australia CEO and Managing Director Philip Bullock (recently promoted to head up IBM's hardware business across the Asia-Pacific region) says that corporate responsibility sends out a signal about values to clients, employees and the community.
"It's an intangible that becomes tangible when it comes to attracting and retaining the right employees," says Bullock.
Corporate responsibility is measured in the triple bottom line, a term coined in 1998 by John Elkington, the founder of the company SustainAbility. Basically, the triple bottom line is the quantitative measure of economic prosperity, environmental quality and social justice.
According to the Corporate Responsibility Index (CRI) in Australia, examples of possible corporate responsibility strategies include drafting a meaningful code of ethics, revising employment relations, social and environmental reporting and audits, philanthropy, employee volunteering, and community forums.
The CRI, a joint venture between St James Ethics Centre, The Sydney Morning Herald and The Age, and supported by Ernst and Young, was launched in February 2004.
For some companies, the focus is the environment, for others it's more community or employee based.
Fuji Xerox's Moodie says his firm sees responsibility towards the environment as half the equation.
"If we don't look after the environment, then we have a real crisis," says Moodie.
One of the recent highlights for Fuji Xerox on the environment front is the establishment of an "end-of-life" equipment recycling facility in Thailand.
"With the capacity of the Thailand facility being progressively implemented, we can see our target of zero waste to landfill will be achievable," says Moodie.
ANZ, meanwhile, has broadened the initial emphasis it placed on its customer charter and employee engagement when it started down the path of corporate responsibility some five years ago.
Julie Bisinella, Head of Corporate Responsibility at ANZ, says the bank's focus now includes such issues as improving the public's financial literacy as well as an environmental charter.
From the bank's perspective, there are two strands to its environmental focus.
"We look at the direct impact on the environment of the resources we use, while indirectly we consider the impact of our lending decisions on the environment. For instance, we look at ways to engage our clients in identifying and managing key environmental and social issues relevant to their business," says Bisinella.
Beyond chequebook charity
David Grayson, Chairman of the UK's Small Business Consortium and Director of Business in the Community, says the days of corporate chequebook charity, where companies simply gave money away to good causes, have largely been superseded by corporate community investment.
This is certainly where Westpac's Cape York project fits. In a similar vein, ANZ employees are given the opportunity to take eight hours of paid volunteer leave each year. ANZ also offers the chance to take a two-year career break once employees have notched up five years' service, which allows employees to pursue other interests including volunteering.
According to Grayson, volunteering can improve a company's image within the community in which it operates, thus strengthening its reputation. In addition, a company offering volunteering opportunities can often improve its ranking in terms of being an employer of choice.
Westpac's Paterson says: "Our corporate responsibility record is a key decision driver for a lot of new employees. It means we can attract very good quality employees and keep them."
A balancing act
Of course, corporate responsibility needs to deliver to all stakeholders - employees, customers, the community at large and shareholders.
As Paterson says, there is no point pursuing corporate responsibility without recourse to delivering real shareholder value.
"You can never lose sight of the bottom line and the need to always drive shareholder value," says Paterson. "After all, if the business fails, what does all the corporate responsibility stand for?"
Fuji Xerox Managing Director Phil Chambers reinforces this view. "In the context of sustainable development, successes and the resultant profitability are highly important. Without sound profitability, options are reduced, there is pressure to protect the profit to the detriment of long-term investment whether that be in the business or the community."
In most cases corporate responsibility is not a stand-alone part of a business but something that reaches across the whole spectrum.
"There is no specific corporate responsibility program at Westpac," says Paterson. "It's just part of what we do."
While many Australian companies have taken on corporate responsibility in recent times, the quality of their reporting lags behind the rest of the world.
According to recent research by the Federal Government, Australian companies have been slower than their global counterparts in adopting sustainability reporting.
Only 23 per cent of Australian companies currently publish a sustainability report. This is discouraging when compared with companies adopting the practice in Japan (80 per cent), or Britain (71 per cent).
And of those who do, Paterson says only about six Australian companies actually have their reports audited at present.
Paterson makes the point that an unaudited report carries nowhere near as much weight since words without substance don't mean a great deal.
Some companies have been publishing reports for a number of years. At IBM, for example, an Environment and Wellbeing Report has been issued since 2000, while a formal Corporate Responsibility Report has existed since 2002.
Insurance group IAG is another company that takes corporate responsibility seriously. Given its line of business, IAG focuses on reducing risk in the community.
"To achieve positive long-term social outcomes, an organisation must invest in initiatives closely aligned with its purpose," says IAG CEO Michael Hawker.
These include programs covering such issues as promoting safety at home, at work and on the road, reducing crime and helping slow the effects of global warming, which IAG believes is linked to the increasing number of catastrophes.
At ANZ, Bisinella says the bank tracks its performance through a number of measures. These include surveys on customer satisfaction and employee engagement, the outcomes of its community programs, and the assessment of corporate responsibility ratings agencies such as Reputex, CRI and the Dow Jones Sustainability Index.
"These agencies identify and rate leading CR [corporate responsibility] practice and help companies to understand opportunities for improvement," says Bisinella. "And the bar is being raised continuously."
And that's not such a bad thing. As the Corporate Responsibility Index reports, benefits from engaging in such an activity are numerous, including improved financial performance, reduced risk exposure, enhanced brand image, increased staff motivation, and reduced costs through environmental best practice leading to more sustainable profitability.
Westpac's experience at Cape York is an example of where involvement in a local community has paid many dividends. The program has proved so successful that Indigenous Enterprise Partnerships has identified Shepparton in Victoria as a second location to extend its work to.
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When you, as an internal communicator, need to send a message out to employees, who signs off on the content? Who is making the strategic decisions surrounding your timing, audience, and more? In case of emergency, who decides what needs to be most urgently communicated?
All these questions tie into the chain of command surrounding your internal comms efforts. If you’re still fine-tuning the order of events before you send information to your employees, we’re here to help.
In this blog post, we’ll guide you through the first steps of building an approval process and clear chain of command for getting messaging out at your organization. Remember, practice makes perfect—some trial and error may be required to make sure that your chain suits everyone’s work and communication styles. Don’t be afraid to be honest and open to feedback throughout the process.
Let’s get into it!
First things first: solidify your mandate at your organization
A mandate from your leadership team is the best way to clarify the purpose of an internal communicator (or multiple internal communicators) within your organization.
So what exactly is a mandate? It explicitly confirms that the political will exists for the internal comms function within the organization and confirms the organization’s support in achieving a set of goals. A mandate can mean the difference between simply taking orders at your organization as the designated internal communicator and having a strategic seat at the leadership table. If you need help with this piece of the puzzle, we have a questionnaire made for you to take to your leadership team to explain what you’re looking for.
With a clear mandate and a defined role for yourself, you now have the authority to execute that mandate and exercise your best judgement on how best to communicate with employees.
Step two: identify which type of chain of command works best for you
A chain of command describes the way in which organizations traditionally structure their reporting relationships. As we get into the finer points of chains of command, keep in mind that they could apply to your organization—and the internal communicator’s place in it—as a whole, or they could be used within a department, such as a multi-person internal comms team.
According to The Balance Careers, “Reporting relationships refers to an organizational structure in which every employee is placed somewhere on an organizational chart. The employees report to the employee who is listed above them on the organizational chart.”
This“traditional” chain of command style, where decisions and communications are controlled and flow directly down the chain, is probably familiar to you. AsThe Balance points out, there are some real benefits to this style, including that responsibility and accountability are clearly assigned and employees are not confused about where to find assistance or feedback. Cons include that it does cut down on the agility and speed of decision-making, and sometimes strangles the creativity and growth of employees.
But a move to more egalitarian workplaces is part of our new normal, and it might be a good idea for your internal comms team, too. More team-based, collective structures are decreasing micromanagement and increasing flexibility. If your internal comms team has multiple people on it—lucky you!—it might be worth considering whether a “flat” organizational structure works best. Perhaps each person takes care of certain types of messages, or one person schedules the timing of content while the other person writes that content.
Step three: developing an approval process for your internal comms
Once you have established a chain of command for identifying key messaging—say, a merger—and executing that within your team, you need an approval process to run alongside it. A chain of command is how the people on your team are structured; an approval process is how tasks move through that team. Having an approval process for your internal comms work will prevent unnecessary mistakes, like sending out a message to the wrong employees or bottlenecks of content waiting for approval to get sent out.
Sprout Social has a great guide for where to start here. Here’s their advice:
“First you need to determine who or what team is control of your internal comms strategy.Who will read, write or approve the messages you send to your team? Next, you need to know what stakeholders from each department can contribute to the approval process for content. …
Is your current team too small? Are there too many cooks in the kitchen? Assessing your current strategy should indicate where you can add on or trim fat on your internal comms team.”
If it’s just you running a one-person internal comms team, it’s still worth considering an approval process for messaging. Perhaps a member of the leadership team or a marketing or comms colleague can look your work over and occasionally advise on any issues.
An internal comms software could help you take the next step
Now that you’re armed with a mandate (or at least the know-how to create one)and an idea of your preferred chain of command style, you can be confident that the process of approval surrounding your internal comms is coming along nicely. Again, being flexible and open to change will help your team adapt to the new way of doing things and perform as well as possible.
If you’re still feeling overwhelmed by the tasks ahead of you as an internal communicator, we’ve all been there. Perhaps you need a purpose-built software to mend the gap between your capacity and the internal comms you’re working towards. Our own software option might be worth exploring—it’s driven by our own methodology and values to help you organize your internal comms, engage your employees, and measure your successes.
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Cockeysville in Baltimore County, Maryland — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
The first industry at what eventually became Phoenix, was a gristmill started in 1793 by Elijah Merryman and known as "Gunpowder Mills". A saw mill and a woolen mill soon followed. In 1848, Baltimore mill owner Thomas H. Fulton founded Phoenix Cotton Mill. When he died shortly after 1851, the property was sold at public auction. The auction notice listed a "factory house" 100 by 36 feet with an iron water wheel, a stone dam with 9 feet of waterfall, plus a town with 21 brick and log houses, a store, and a 2-story house. The property sold for $28,550. For the next few years the mill had a variety of owners. In 1875, the property was obtained by the Garrett family, noted Baltimore investment bankers. With improvements including a 54 inch turbine wheel and a 175 HP reserve steam engine, the mill was placed back in production in 1881. At this time the mill town had grown to 68 dwellings, the worker force numbered over 200, and 6,000 spindles
In 1903, the U.S. Cotton Duck Corporation, which now owned the mill, ceased its operations at Phoenix to take advantage of lower manufacturing costs in Alabama. By 1911, the town was nearly deserted as the area was expected to be flooded by the expansion of the Loch Raven Reservoir project. The final design of the Loch Raven high dam brought back the waters of the reservoir to the very walls of the mill. In 1922, Baltimore City obtained Phoenix, along with Warren Mill further downstream, for $1,000,000. Warren Mill was drowned by the reservoir expansion and Phoenix, with its 4-story mill of Beaver Dam marble, was demolished.
Today only a roadside pond, the remains of the millraces, some fragments of a rail spur, and a few stone foundations mark the location of the once prosperous cotton duck industry that created the original village of Phoenix.
The Baltimore County Union, Dec. 13, 1873
"Phoenix is a cotton manufacturing town of considerable importance on the Northern Central Railway .... containing a population of 350. Its commercial interests consist of a very extensive cotton mill recently erected to take the lace of an old one of less capacity. Also included in the town are 30 of the best and most convenient dwelling houses for the use of the operatives".
Location. Click for map. Marker is up on the North Central Railroad Trail, accessed from the parking lot. Marker is in this post office area: Cockeysville MD 21030, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 4 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Lime Kiln (approx. one mile away); North Central Railroad Trail (approx. 1.4 miles away); Gilmor's Raid (approx. 1.4 miles away); Sparks (approx. 1.7 miles away); Clynmalira (approx. 1.9 miles away); Hayfields (approx. 3.3 miles away); Gorsuch Tavern (approx. 3.5 miles away); My Lady's Manor (approx. 3.7 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Cockeysville.
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In a Facebook posting on Monday, far-left director Oliver Stone touted the "popularity" of Russian President Vladimir Putin in the wake of the move against Crimea. Stone credulously hyped, "The Crimean Referendum now going on, and seems clear more than 90% of Crimeans consider themselves Russian."
The filmmaker proceeded to shift the blame onto George H.W. Bush for his actions after the fall of the Soviet Union: "The entire world would be a far more peaceful place now if Bush father had any vision or generosity like Roosevelt or Kennedy, but instead he turned out to be another Truman in his time."
In 2013, Stone produced a documentary series for Showtime called the Untold History of the United States. In it, he echoed a similar theme, crediting Gorbachev and slamming Ronald Reagan:
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If you didn’t like 2012, chances are you won’t be crazy about 2013.
The economy is expected to continue its moderate — but still subpar — pace of growth, as consumers, businesses and governments adjust to the new normal of fiscal constraint.
Elected leaders will feel the pressure to rein in budget deficits with the understanding that fiscal policy will be dictated by the choices made today and the long-run growth of the economy.
According to Wells Fargo Securities, the 2013 forecast remains cautious to say the least:
“Real GDP growth appears to have slowed to around a 1 percent annualized rate during the final quarter of 2012, as businesses have put expansion and hiring plans on hold ahead of the fiscal cliff negotiations. We expect growth to get off to a slow start in 2013, as higher taxes hit households at all income levels. Federal government spending will also contract modestly. We expect growth to rebound modestly by the middle of the year, as the economy moves further away from the fiscal cliff and homebuilding gains momentum.”
Following is a sector-by-sector look at how Savannah’s economy is shaping up for 2013:
Tourism: Booming business
Savannah keeps making tourism records meant to be broken.
The visitor impact passed 12 million people and neared $2 billion in 2011, and 2012 will eclipse those marks. Hotel occupancy was up 2.6 percent as of Oct. 31 and rooms were fetching a slightly higher price than in 2011.
This year promises another increase. Savannah’s national and international profile continues to grow, as evidenced by the features and mentions the city regularly receives in travel publications. The city’s convention and visitors bureau, Visit Savannah, will launch an updated website in the coming months and expand its already significant social media marketing efforts.
Local convention business will likely fall short of 2012’s returns but will be at or above the historical average in 2013. Among the groups meeting in Savannah this year are Running USA, the National Association of Truck Stop Operators, Southern Association of Wholesale Distributors, the Georgia Municipal Assocation and the Georgia Association of Chiefs of Police.
The National YMCA Gymnastics Championships will also be staged in Savannah.
Banking: Crowded landscape
Many banking insiders believed the economic downturn would solve Savannah’s “overbanked” issue. Several financial institutions with a local presence would — and did — fail, including Darby Bank, First National, Woodlands, Atlantic Bank, Atlantic Southern and First Citizens Bank of Effingham.
Yet Savannah has seen expansion instead of contraction. Only one of those failed banks was acquired by another local bank, and several new names have come to town. Two more banks have opened local loan production offices and have plans to open branches.
Assuming those banks follow through in 2013, Savannah will have more banks than it did prior to the crisis. The impact will likely be felt across the market, with banks discounting products and services to remain competitive. That could be a drag on earnings and could lead many of the out-of-town banks to rethink their Savannah strategy.
From a pure earnings perspective, 2013 should be a banner year, at least relative to the last few years. The Coastal Bank will post a profit in 2012 after losing a combined $10 million the previous three years and expects growth in 2013. First Chatham closed 2012 with back-to-back profitable quarters and anticipates a profitable year in 2013. Carver State Bank avoided the red ink of its peers during the recession.
Savannah’s largest local community bank, Savannah Bank, is no longer local, having been acquired along with its sister bank, Bryan Bank & Trust, by South Carolina Bank & Trust. The deal closed in mid-December. Both Savannah Bank and Bryan Bank will maintain their brand names and their local management.
Real estate: Shortage ahead?
Savannah’s real estate rush stalled in 2008, leaving the area with an oversupply of warehouses, office space, condominiums and finished and unfinished subdivisions.
New construction will resume in most of those areas in 2013, and demand could threaten to outstrip supply. The start of the Savannah Harbor deepening project will stress the industrial sector. As for office space, there’s plenty available, but there’s not a wide variety, especially when it comes to high-quality properties downtown.
New retail projects are already under way across the area, from the Whole Foods center on the eastside to the Mall Boulevard redevelopment on the Southside to several strip centers in Pooler. A large-scale outlet mall near the airport is in the planning stages.
On the housing front, the market is poised to go from healing to thriving, although prices are unlikely to reflect it. Home building has resumed to the west, and the new westside high school will renew the demand for homes in the fallow New Hampstead developments. Housing starts are even set to resume in luxury communities, including The Landings, in 2013.
Holding prices in check will be the “shadow inventory,” which refers to repossessed homes and those owned by distressed borrowers. Many local Realtors believe there is a glut of these properties waiting to hit the market, and lenders will list more and more of them as demand increases, particularly during the spring and early-summer buying season.
Many local real estate insiders are proponents of a “slow and steady” recovery anyway. The 2013 market is unlikely to disappoint.
Jobs: Gradual improvement
Savannah’s 13,000-plus job losses during the downturn shook the local economy but failed to cripple it. Insulated by a diversity of industries — manufacturing, tourism, maritime, military, services — the area began to crawl back in 2012. Savannah reclaimed half of its job losses by the end of this year.
The trend should continue this year. Several local businesses have announced expansions, tourism is poised for another record year and the Savannah Economic Development Authority continues to market the area to large companies. The construction industry, the hardest hit sector during the recession, will get a boost as home builders address the housing shortage and contractors ramp up for the commercial projects.
Local economist Michael Toma, with Armstrong Atlantic State University, is forecasting 1 to 2 percent growth in the labor force.
“It is a good sign for the regional economy that employers are beginning to fill gaps in their workforce in response to increased demand,” Toma wrote in his quarterly “Economic Monitor” published in early December.
Several workforce development initiatives were launched in 2012 by Savannah Tech, Georgia Tech Savannah and the Savannah-Chatham County public schools, as well as area manufacturers such as JCB and Gulfstream. Improvement in the economy should allow for expansion of those programs.
Manufacturing: Slow, steady growth
It was more turtle than hare last year as most Savannah area manufacturers saw steady — if not overwhelming — growth in 2012. Some, however, posted significant gains. Gulfstream Aerospace has added jobs in the thousands as it ramps up production here of its newly certified ultra high-speed, ultra-long-range G650 flagship business jet, the G650.
A healthy backlog of orders for the G650 — the average wait time is five years — helped boost Gulfstream’s revenues by 30 percent in the third quarter. Construction equipment manufacturer JCB, retooled its Pooler plant to engineer, design and produce all JCB skid steer loaders for worldwide distribution, bringing production back up and nearly tripling a workforce once crippled by layoffs.
Of the relatively new area manufacturers, Efacec in Rincon now has more than 400 employees, Daniel Defense continues to expand and Mitsubishi has geared up on the megasite, expecting to finish the year with more than 300 employees.
Barring any major economic crises, the forecast for 2013 calls for more of the same steady growth with some significant upticks — Mitsubishi expects to double its work load in all product lines, for example — as Savannah’s diverse manufacturing base continues to pull out of the recession.
Ports: Ramping up to dredge
Georgia Ports Authority wrapped up fiscal 2012 last year with record cargo volumes, growing faster than any other port in the nation for the last eight years and sporting a 10-year compound annual growth rate nearly double its closest competitor.
Through June of last year, GPA moved a record 2.98 million TEUs — or 20-foot container equivalents, falling just 16,000 shy of the three million mark. Other records included 26.5 million cargo tons moved, an increase of more than half a million tons; growth of 15.6 percent in breakbulk cargo and a record 569,984 auto/machinery units moved.
But even those accomplishments paled in comparison to the news in October that the port’s 15-year effort to deepen the Savannah River channel had been given the final OK, with dredging expected to begin this summer.
The state has already committed to the majority of its share of the $652 million project financing and all eyes will be on President Obama’s budget recommendations in February. The federal portion of the deepening is approximately $400 million.
Meanwhile, the port continues to move out of the economic downturn with a solid lock on its position as the fourth busiest container port in the country, second only to the Port of Los Angeles in exports and third in auto imports behind Los Angeles and New York/New Jersey.
While the outlook for 2013 could be tempered by several factors (update fiscal cliff, strike and European economy), container numbers are generally expected to be stronger this year as the country recovers from the downturn and consumer confidence grows. Imports are beginning to rebound while exports continue to be strong. The movement of auto and heavy machinery is growing exponentially.
Infrastructure projects — necessary to accommodate port growth — will continue this year, with groundbreaking on the Jimmy DeLoach Parkway project, which will take 5,000 trucks a day off Ga. 21 by bringing Interstate 95 directly into the ports when it’s completed in 2015.
Economic Development: New leadership
When Steve Weathers resigned abruptly in September after two years as president of the Savannah Economic Development Authority, the SEDA board wasted no time finding a new leader.
Trip Tollison, former vice president and chief operating officer for the Savannah Area Chamber of Commerce and Visit Savannah, had played a critical role in helping SEDA with various economic development projects, including both phases of major Gulfstream expansions.
He negotiated a resolution between the state, county, Georgia Ports Authority and Caterpillar related to ad valorum taxes on Caterpillar goods-in-transit through GPA — the last issue to resolve before the company’s announcement of a major new facility near Athens and substantial exports through the Port of Savannah.
And he has worked with Georgia Ports staff for the past decade, representing the business community’s support of the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project in both Atlanta and Washington, D.C.
With Tollison on board as interim SEDA president — a position most business leaders expect will become permanent before the end of this year — and SEDA’s new World Trade Center Savannah in place, expectations are high for Savannah’s economic development future.
While he has made it clear the organization’s core strategies — job retention, job creation and attracting investment — remain central to the mission, Tollison has also challenged staff to “look outside the box” to fulfill that mission.
The World Trade Center Savannah, for example, is working to put the city on the global stage, making it more international in scope. A major initiative, “Savannah Touches the World,” is expected to be announced this month.
SEDA Innovations, meanwhile, will address the issue of helping startup businesses in the region become capital-investment ready.
Among the most recent major projects reportedly on the horizon include a preliminary master business plan for a mixed use development on 56 acres of land on Hutchinson Island and a $200 million upscale shopping mall in Pooler.
Small business: Uncertainty clouds picture
Small business remains the engine of economic recovery, but those companies and startups are taking a triple hit in 2013: higher payroll taxes, higher personal taxes for those making more than $400,000 and new healthcare costs and fees as Obamacare begins to kick in.
While the economy is expected to grow at a healthier rate of between 2.1 and 3 percent this year, small business loans still won’t be easy to get. According to the monthly Biz2Credit Small Business Lending Index, big banks are approving a little more than 10 percent of small business loan requests, while smaller banks are approving about half and increasing the number of SBA-backed loans they make.
Many small businesses, especially those just under the Obamacare threshold of 50 employees, are likely to hold off on hiring until they get a better idea of the costs associated with the Affordable Care Act.
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Free Speech on Israel wrote to all Greater London Authority (GLA) members to rebuke them for their hasty unanimous adoption of the flawed IHRA definition of antisemitism. Len Duvall, leader of the GLA Labour Group replied on behalf of the Group. His response was so inadequate that I felt impelled to respond personally in advance of the collective FSOI rebuttal.
My response to Duvall’s reply
Dear Len Duvall
Thank you for your reply to the Free Speech on Israel letter about the adoption of the IHRA definition of antisemitism. FSOI will be sending you an organisational reply shortly but this is my personal response.
I fear you misunderstand our concerns about the definition and indeed about the nature of the Israeli state.
I have concerns about the definition which fall into three separate, if occasionally overlapping, categories. The definition is:
- Problematic legally
- Poorly drafted and incoherent
- Politically partisan and repressive
1. Legal problems
The definition attempts to limit people’s rights to discuss Israel in a way which is inconsistent with Article 10 of the European Convention of Human Rights. This article requires a convincing definition of any restrictions on the right to free speech and establishes a presumption in favour of permitting speech even if it antithetical to the wishes of the Government or large sections of public opinion. The Equality Act 2010 sets out in carefully defined terms the basis of restrictions on what may be said: limiting the restrictions to incitement to hatred, violence and discriminatory action.
Some of the egregious examples you list such as holocaust denial or many of the utterances of Steve Bannon would be illegal under the act and we would share your concern to combat them. However, the definition is not, unlike the Act, carefully constructed and its poor drafting makes its application dubious for UK public bodies.
2. Poor drafting
Even the core definition is problematic. It states:
“Antisemitism is a certain perception of Jews, which may be expressed as hatred toward Jews. Rhetorical and physical manifestations of antisemitism are directed toward Jewish or non-Jewish individuals and/or their property, toward Jewish community institutions and religious facilities.”
Leave aside the great problem of trying to legislate for and constrain perceptions rather than words and actions. Even bypassing this, we are given the strange assertion that antisemitism may be directed to non-Jewish individuals and/or their property. This is not explicated in any of the eleven exemplars provided. It is true that a non-Jewish person who is mistaken for a Jew may be subject to abuse that may reasonable be interpreted as antisemitic, as Dr Brian Klug has demonstrated. However, if this is the situation anticipated it is entirely opaque from the wording. It leaves open the prospect that I, as a person of Jewish heritage, may in some unexplained circumstance be antisemitic towards a non-Jew.
The Government has made clear that the core definition cannot be separated from the exemplars and the definition must be taken a whole so the weaknesses of the exemplars vitiate the whole enterprise.
Even the most apparently straightforward of the exemplars are strangely worded. The first states:
Calling for, aiding, or justifying the killing or harming of Jews in the name of a radical ideology or an extremist view of religion (my italics).
What is the import of the italicised words? Are there circumstances where calling for the killing or harming of Jews is not antisemitic? Given current circumstances these words are a dog-whistle to Islamophobia, the religion sadly, but constantly, linked to the term ‘extremist’ in too much of both broadcast and social media and in political speeches.
The third exemplar gives a clear expression of holocaust denial, such denial is clearly unacceptable, but the fourth confuses this. The question of Jewish, or more accurately in this case Zionist, exaggeration leads into more contested areas. The disputed claims are about the alleged misuse of the undoubted reality of the Holocaust to justify the current actions of the Israeli state: acting as a perennial get-out-jail-free card.
The sixth and eleventh items both arise from the re-iterated exhortations both from Israel and from many UK Jewish bodies for uncritical support for Israel and the identification by them of Israel with the global Jewish communities and indeed the repeated, if undoubtedly false, claims by Israeli leaders that Israel is the state of all Jews. Such calls lead to confusion as to loyalty and responsibility amongst both Jews and non-Jews and do not have any necessary link to antisemitism.
The seventh exemplar has no connection between its two halves. ‘Denying the Jewish people their right to self-determination, e.g., by claiming that the existence of a State of Israel is a racist endeavor’. We are not dealing with a State of Israel but the State of Israel as it currently exists on the Eastern seaboard of the Mediterranean: a state that that privileges its Jewish citizens through at least 50 pieces of legislation as documented by the Israeli Human Rights group, Adalah. Self-determination must reasonably include respecting the rights of others but the definition is silent on this.
The eight item about double standards misses the point entirely. The demands of those the definition seeks to constrain are exactly that Israel should behave no worse than other democratic states.
Item nine refers to the blood libel and if anyone were to accuse Jews of kidnapping and murdering Christian children to use their blood to make Matzo for Pesach that would be evil. However, the blood libel is referenced on too many occasions where Israel is accused of shedding blood in their repression of Palestinians (just as, for instance, Assad is also accused of bloody warfare). The accusation may be mistaken or unwelcome but it is not at all related to the blood libel.
I am concerned at the uncritical adoption of a document that has not been subject to the detailed scrutiny that legislation is subject to in order to eliminate loose wording, misleading analogies and ambiguous wording.
3. Partisan and repressive
If, despite all this, the intent was to use the definition conservatively the situation would be less concerning. However, all the indications are that the definition is being used in the widest possible way to outlaw criticism of Israel.
First there was the conscious decision of the Government to ignore the strong recommendation of the House of Commons Home Affairs Select Committee to add the caveat of needing evidence of antisemitic intent. Then there was the letter that Jo Johnson, Minister of State for Higher Education sent to Universities UK not only urging Universities to adopt the definition but linking the definition, without any supporting argument or evidence, to the imminent Israeli Apartheid Week as though IAW is self-evidently antisemitic. We may disagree as to whether Israel is an apartheid state but it is not antisemitic for me to advance the case that it is, particularly when Archbishop Tutu and many of the other leaders of the South African anti-apartheid struggle concur with me.
As a result of Johnson’s letter events at some Universities were disrupted or cancelled and gloating items appeared in the Jewish press celebrating the effectiveness of the definition in curtailing what they described as anti-Israel activities; the organisers would characterise them as pro-Palestinian. We are unaware of any evidence that any of the disputed events had antisemitic characteristics; rather they were subject to a wholly inappropriate political censorship, at variance with the duty of Universities to promote debate and argument.
We are receiving details of an increasing trend of suppression of support for Palestinian Rights on the basis of the invocation of the IHRA definition: speakers disallowed; venues cancelled; staff harassed; academic activities curtailed.
Although I would welcome your acceptance of my analysis of the situation in Palestine/Israel, I do not, at least in the short term, expect that. What I do expect is that you should respect my right to present this case publicly without risk of being reviled as antisemitic merely for criticising Israel: that right is under threat following adoption of this flawed definition.
You have met with Jewish groups supportive of the definition, I hope you extend the courtesy of meeting Jews who find their basic rights to free, anti-racist expression threatened.
This is the response which is on behalf of the Labour Group.
Thank you for your email about the anti -Semitism motion.
I believe this represents mainstream Jewish opinion about anti- Semitism and is a fair representation of how Israel can be criticised when necessary in a reasonable way. The motion says in terms:
‘criticism of Israel similar to that levelled against any other country cannot be regarded as anti-Semitic’.
Of course, there are minorities within the Jewish and other communities who will disagree from both a fundamentalist religious viewpoint and from an anti- Zionist left view, but I think criticisms of Israel should be expressed in a way that does not encourage or reflect anti – Semitic tropes, especially referring back to the Holocaust.
Anti -Semitism is fuelled by far right and far left views, in my opinion. On the right, believers that the world is engaged in a clash of cultures approve of a strong Jewish state in the Middle East – they support Israeli settlement building as part of a generational struggle rooted in Islamophobia. These same groups on the right hold in disdain the majority of diaspora Jews, who are overwhelmingly centrist liberals and generally do not support parties of the far right or far left especially in the UK and North America.
This in the eyes of the alt-right makes them enemies of their national projects. For example Steve Bannon, chief strategist to President Trump is on record using various demeaning terms about Jews. When he refers to a shadowy group of “cosmopolitan elites in the media that live in a handful of larger cities.” He means Jews. At a meeting of Jewish Republicans, President Trump stated how honoured he was to be in a room of ‘great negotiators’ and then went on to suggest that they wouldn’t like him because he doesn’t want their money. Another anti-Semitic trope.
And when people from the left proclaim that Israel is a Nazi state or compare Israelis to SS murderers, they are using the most horrific and personal imagery to Jewish people. To do so is not only anti-Semitic in itself, but also downplays the significance of the Holocaust and the suffering of its victims and survivors.
Equally it is wrong to call Israel an ‘apartheid’ state. To do so is not merely a sloppy and inaccurate analysis, it shows real disrespect and diminishes the sacrifices made by the majority population in South Africa, to obtain the rights all Israelis have.
Israel does not deny Arab Israelis voting rights, nor enforce pass laws, nor insist, unlike Apartheid South Africa’s Afrikaans rules, that Hebrew should be the medium in schools.
Every person in Israel has full equal rights; 1.6 million Arab Israelis have the same rights as the 6.8 million Jewish Israelis; in Israel incitement to racism is a criminal offence; people have freedom of association, freedom of expression, freedom of religion, freedom of speech and they enjoy universal adult suffrage.
Israel is a place where women enjoy equality, religious minorities are free to practice their faiths, the media is unfettered and critical, an independent judiciary protects the powerless from the powerful, educational excellence and scientific innovation are pursued and a welfare state supports the poor.
Israel is a fully functioning and vibrant participatory democracy.
By the same token, any criticisms of Muslim states and the activities of the Palestinian Authority should be measured, though many of those who demonise Israel seem willing to turn a blind eye to them.
Those who criticise Israel as a ‘Jewish’ state should reflect that whilst this does not form part of the country’s official name, ‘Islamic’ is part of the official name of quite a number of countries; they expelled their Jewish communities 60 years ago, (incidentally in far greater numbers than displaced Palestinians), do not allow Jews to visit , do not promote religious tolerance, criminalise homosexuals, have restrictions on the media, deny rights to women and are not functioning democracies
Such criticisms can be advanced, as I just have, without recourse to the insulting language that some critics of Israel feel they are free to deploy against Israel.
Len Duvall AM
FSOI letter to all GLA members
Dear Assembly Member
We would like to draw your attention to this statement from the Jewish-led Free Speech on Israel campaign regarding the motion on antisemitism passed by the London Assembly on Feb 8.
In the statement, the group points out the worrying implications of the position the Assembly has taken – a position that could call into question the Assembly’s commitment to freedom of speech.
We invite you to look more carefully at the decision you made at the behest of Andrew Dismore, a prominent member of the lobby group Labour Friends of Israel.
A briefing document from Free Speech on Israel explains how equating anti-Zionism (a valid political position) and antisemitism (a noxious form of race hatred) constrains discourse about Palestine under the rubric of protecting Jews from antisemitism. This can only have the unintended consequence of stoking new hostility to Jews who may be seen as attempting to determine what non-Jews may or may not say about a foreign state.
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by Patrick Cozzi, who works on the Cesium WebGL engine.
With the new shader editor in Firefox 27 (available now in Aurora), WebGL tools are taking a big step in the right direction. This article reviews the current state of WebGL debugging and profiling tools with a focus on their use for real engines, not simple demos. In particular, our engine creates shaders dynamically; uses WebGL extensions like Vertex Array Objects; dynamically creates, updates, and deletes 100’s of MB of vertex buffers and textures; renders to different framebuffers; and uses web workers. We’re only interested in tools that provide useful results for our real-world needs.
Firefox WebGL Shader Editor
The Firefox WebGL Shader Editor allows us to view all shader programs in a WebGL app, edit them in real-time, and mouse over them to see what parts of the scene were drawn using them.
What I like most about it is it actually works. Scenes in our engine usually have 10-50 procedurally-generated shaders that can be up to ~1,000 lines. The shader editor handles this smoothly and automatically updates when new shaders are created.
The skybox shader is shown in the editor and the geometry is highlighted in red. (Click on any image for its full-screen version.)
I was very impressed to see the shader editor also work on the Epic Citadel demo, which has 249 shaders, some of which are ~2,000 lines.
Live editing is, of course, limited. For example, we can’t add new uniforms and attributes and provide data for them; however, we can add new varying variables to pass data between vertex and fragment shaders.
Given that the editor needs to recompile after our edits, attribute and uniform locations could change, e.g., if uniforms are optimized out, which would break most apps (unless the app is querying these every frame, which is a terrible performance idea). However, the editor seems to handle remapping under-the-hood since removing uniforms doesn’t break other uniforms.
There are some bugs, such as mousing over some shaders causes artifacts or parts of the scene to go away, which makes editing those shaders impossible.
Even though this is in a pre-beta version of Firefox, I find it plenty usable. Other than spot testing, I use Chrome for development, but this tool really makes me want to use Firefox, at least for shader debugging.
We planned to write a tool like this for our engine, but I’m glad the Mozilla folks did it instead since it benefits the entire WebGL community. An engine-specific tool will still be useful for some. For example, this editor uses the shader source provided to WebGL. If a shader is procedurally-generated, an engine-specific editor can present the individual snippets, nodes in a shade tree, etc.
A few features that would make this editor even better include:
- Make boldface any code in #ifdef blocks that evaluate to true. This is really useful for ubershaders.
- Mouse over a pixel and show the shader used. Beyond debugging, this would be a great teaching aid and tool for understanding new apps. I keep pitching the idea of mousing over a pixel and then showing a profile of the fragment shader as a final project to my students, but no one ever bites. Easy, right?
- An option to see only shaders actually used in a frame, instead of all shaders in the WebGL context, since many shaders can be for culled objects. Taking it a step further, the editor could show only shaders for non-occluded fragments.
For a full tutorial, see Live editing WebGL shaders with Firefox Developer Tools.
The WebGL Inspector was perhaps the first WebGL debugging tool. It hasn’t been updated in a long time, but it is still useful.
WebGL Inspector can capture a frame and step through it, building the scene one draw call at a time; view textures, buffers, state, and shaders; etc.
The trace shows all the WebGL calls for a frame and nicely links to more info for function arguments that are WebGL objects. We can see the contents and filter state of textures, contents of vertex buffers, and shader source and current uniforms.
One of WebGL Inspector’s most useful features is highlighting redundant WebGL calls, which I use often when doing analysis before optimizing.
Like most engines, setting uniforms is a common bottleneck for us and we are guilty of setting some redundant uniforms for now.
WebGL Inspector may take some patience to get good results. For our engine, the scene either isn’t visible or is pushed to the bottom left. Also, given its age, this tool doesn’t know about extensions such as Vertex Array Objects. So, when we run our engine with WebGL Inspector, we don’t get the full set of extensions supported by the browser.
The WebGL Inspector page has a full walkthrough of its features.
Chrome Canvas Inspector
The Canvas Inspector in Chrome DevTools is like a trimmed-down WebGL Inspector built right into Chrome. It is an experimental feature but available in Chrome stable (Chrome 31). In chrome://flags/, “Enable Developer Tools experiments” needs to be checked and then the inspector needs to be explicitly enabled in the DevTools settings.
Although it doesn’t have nearly as many features as WebGL Inspector, Canvas Inspector is integrated into the browser and trivial to use once enabled.
Draw calls are organized into groups that contain the WebGL state calls and the affected draw call. We can step one draw group or one WebGL call at a time (all WebGL tracing tools can do this). The scene is supposed to be shown one draw call at a time, but we currently need to turn off Vertex Array Objects for it to work with our engine. Canvas Inspector can also capture consecutive frames pretty well.
Tools like WebGL Inspector and Canvas Inspector are also useful for code reviews. When we add a new rendering feature, I like to profile and step through the code as part of the review, not just read it. We have found culling bugs when stepping through draw calls and then asking why there are so many that aren’t contributing to any pixels.
For a full Canvas Inspector tutorial, see Canvas Inspection using Chrome DevTools.
Google Web Tracing Framework
The Google Web Tracing Framework (WTF) is a full tracing framework, including support for WebGL similar to WebGL Inspector and Canvas Inspector. It is under active development on github; they addressed an issue I submitted in less than a day! Even without manually instrumenting our code, we can get useful and reliable results.
Here we’re stepping through a frame one draw call at a time:
Above, we see the tracks for frame #53. The four purple blocks are texture uploads using texSubImage2D to load new imagery tiles we received from a web worker. Each call is followed by several WebGL state calls and a drawElements call to reproject the tile on the GPU (see World-Scale Terrain Rendering from the Rendering Massive Virtual Worlds SIGGRAPH 2013 course). The right side of the frame shows all the state and draw calls for the actual scene.
Depending on how many frames the GPU is behind, a better practice would be to do all the texSubImage2D calls, followed by all the reprojection draw calls, or even move the reprojection draw calls to the end of the frame with the scene draw calls. The idea here is to ensure that the texture upload is complete by the time the reprojection draw call is executed. This trades the latency of completing any one for the throughput of computing many. I have not tried it in this case so I can’t say for certain if the driver lagging behind isn’t already enough time to cover the upload.
The tracks view gets really interesting when we examine slow frames highlighted in yellow. Above, the frame takes 27ms! It looks similar to the previous frame with four texture uploads followed by drawing the scene, but it’s easy to see the garbage collector kicked in, taking up almost 12ms.
Above is our first frame, which takes an astounding 237ms because it compiles several shaders. The calls to compileShader are very fast because they don’t block, but the immediate call to linkProgram needs to block, taking ~7ms for the one shown above. A call to getShaderParameter or getShaderInfoLog would also need to block to compile the shader. It is a best practice to wait as long as possible to use a shader object after calling compileShader to take advantage of asynchronous driver implementations. However, testing on my MacBook Pro with an NVIDIA GeForce 650M did not show this. Putting a long delay before linkProgram did not decrease its latency.
For more details, see the WTF Getting Started page. You may want to clear a few hours.
The WebGL Report is handy for seeing a system’s WebGL capabilities, including extensions, organized by pipeline stage. It’s not quite up-to-date with all the system-dependent values for the most recent extensions, but it’s close. Remember, to access draft extensions in Chrome, we need to explicitly enable them in the browser now. For enabling draft extensions in Firefox you need to go to “about:config” and set the “webgl.enable-draft-extensions” preference to true.
The simple Chrome Task Manager (in the Window menu) is useful for quick and dirty memory usage. Make sure to consider both your app’s process and the GPU process.
Although I have not used it, webgl-debug.js wraps WebGL calls to include calls to getError. This is OK for now, but we really need KHR_debug in WebGL to get the debugging API desktop OpenGL has had for a few years. See ARB_debug_output: A Helping Hand for Desperate Developers in OpenGL Insights.
There are also WebGL extensions that provide debugging info to privileged clients (run Chrome with –enable-privileged-webgl-extensions). WEBGL_debug_renderer_info provides VENDOR and RENDERER strings. WEBGL_debug_shaders provides a shader’s source after it was translated to the host platform’s native language. This is most useful on Windows where ANGLE converts GLSL to HLSL. Also see The ANGLE Project: Implementing OpenGL ES 2.0 on Direct3D in OpenGL Insights.
The features expected in WebGL 2.0, such as multiple render targets and uniform buffers, will bring us closer to the feature-set OpenGL developers have enjoyed for years. However, API features alone are not enough; we need an ecosystem of tools to create an attractive platform.
Building WebGL tools, such as the Firefox Shader Editor and Chrome Canvas Inspector, directly into the browser developer tools is the right direction. It makes the barrier to entry low, especially for projects with limited time or developers. It helps more developers use the tools and encourages using them more often, for the same reason that unit tests that run in the blink of an eye are then used frequently.
The current segmentation of Google’s tools may appear confusing but I think it shows the evolution. WebGL Inspector was first out of the gate and proved very useful. Because of this, the next generation version is being built into Chrome Canvas Inspector for easy access and into the WTF for apps that need careful, precise profiling. For me, WTF is the tool of choice.
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Utica (Schooner), aground, 25 Oct 1837
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SHIPWRECK -- The Schooner UTICA, as we learn from yesterday's Advertiser, was driven ashore about ten miles west of Presque Isle, on Lake Huron, on the 25th. ult, and became a total wreck. No lives were lost, but the passengers and crew suffered much, being stranded upon the shore forty-eight hours without shelter and exposed to the inclement weather. The UTICA was owned by Mr. C. M. Gidings of this city, and was insured, partially at least, at Oswego.
Daily Herald & Gazette, Cleveland
Tuesday, November 3, 1837
Schooner UTICA, of 103.67 tons. Built Oswego 1834. Home port, Cleveland, Ohio. 72.4 x 19.10 x 7.10. One deck; two masts; square stern; no figure-head. Owned by Charles M. Giddings. Commanded by Lyman Beckley.
Cleveland Enrollment No. 21 of 1837. dated June 17, 1837
Enrollment Cancelled by reason of "Vessel Lost"
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The government is apparently considering reintroduction of suspended Statutory Instrument (SI) 33 of 2012 which prohibits quoting prices in dollars, according to the Ministry of Finance.
Times of Zambia’s James Muyanwa in a recent summary of President Lungu’s press conference reported that the President as saying the “dollarisation of prices is illegal and unjustifiable, hence it should be stopped with immediate effect”.
Based on those words President Lungu is not saying it is illegal to quote in dollars nor is he against quoting in dollars per se. Contrary to many media reports, the President appeared focused on those who wrongly priced in dollars.
The big question now, given the recent Ministry of Finance statement, is whether the Ministry of Finance will simply reinstate the suspended SI33 or focus on preventing people from incorrect conversions as originally suggested by President Lungu.
We will wait to see details of the new legislation before commenting further. Suffice to say that if the problem is incorrect conversion then the key is to ensure that where dollar prices are being quoted, the equivalent price in Kwacha is always given.
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Half-elves exist perpetually on the outside. Too large and thickly built to be long mistaken for a full blooded elf, yet too slight and alien looking to be fully human, they find themselves on the outside of both parent’s societies. Many struggle constantly for acceptance that will never fully come, while many others leave both human and elven societies behind, living either on their own, amidst other races, or living amongst the generally tolerant and diverse population of adventurers.
The appearance and cultural outlook of a half-elf will vary widely. To be a half-elf, one must either have a human and an elven parent, or two half-elf parents. The children of a half-elf and an elf will be elven (though certainly looked down upon by their peers for impure blood) and those of a half-elf and a human will be human. Some take strongly after their elven parent, while others will look so human that they are often passed over in a casual glance. Perhaps the hardest life is for those who are raised in one culture, but closely resemble the parent of the other. These are often faced with difficult childhoods and uncertain futures, especially when human and elven realms are in conflict. About 50% of half-elven men can grow facial hair, and some of those do, further hiding their elven heritage.
Of course, not all half-elves are perpetual outsiders. Some few make their way in their world, either earning respect with their actions (be it as a heroic warrior or as a honest innkeeper), or forcing respect with their money and influence. Still, even those that integrate well into society find themselves with obstacles, especially those of age. While the average elf can easily expect to be in the prime of life while in his 4th century of life, very few half-elves see more than half of that century before succumbing to old age. Of course, with humans, this becomes even more pronounced, as even the shortest-lived of the half-elves regularly see their 150th birthdays.
The response to this is an increasing move to half-elf cultures, or subcultures, within the larger framework of society. While they are far too rare to form a significant portion of society, occasionally half-elves will settle together en masse, forming small communities that support their own. These are often led by a powerful or influential half-elf, though an elf with several half-elf children will sometimes take it upon himself (or very rarely, herself, though elven females are rarely fertile enough to have several children) to provide them a place away from elven and human bigotry.
As noted above, half-elves are far from uniform in either ability or culture. They gain the same cultural training advantages as the culture that raised them, or the cultures that went into creating a half-elf community.
The influence of elven blood is evident in a half-elf’s ability scores, however. A half-elf will have a +1 to either Dexterity or Perception, a boon from their elven parent. Of course, the curse of their lighter frames will give them a –1 to either Strength or Constitution.
Half-elves get 30 CP’s to spend on natural abilities. There is a wide variation amongst all half-elves, and it is not uncommon for siblings to have entirely different natural abilities.
Attack Bonus (5): +1 to attack rolls with any one weapon of choice. Those raised amongst elves will often have this bonus with bows or the swords favored by that race, and human or mixed-race raised half-elves can gain the bonus with any weapon.
Cold resistance (5): +1 bonus on saving throws vs. cold- and ice-based attacks, as the elf’s body is less susceptible to extreme temperatures.
Detect secret doors (5): because of his or her acute senses, the character is quick to spot concealed doors and hidden entranceways. Merely passing within 10' of a concealed door allows the character a Perception roll at one-half their full ability to notice it. If actively searching, they may make two such rolls for each attempt. Of course, doors that are especially well concealed may impose penalties on those searching.
Elven Senses (5/10): Like elves, the half-elf has exceptionally sharp vision and hearing. For 5 CP’s, the half-elf sees in moonlight or better as if it were day, and suffers a –1 to saving throws against blindingly bright light. They also get a +1 to Perception for either Hearing- or Sight-based checks. Those who take the hearing bonus get a –1 to save vs. deafness due to very loud noises, as well. For 10 points, the half-elf has the full range of elven sensory abilities and drawback, including the +1 to Perception for both Hearing- and Sight-based checks.
Heat resistance (5): +1 bonus on saving throws vs. heat- and fire-based attacks, as the elf’s body is less susceptible to extreme temperatures.
Less sleep (5): The half-elf requires only four hours worth of sleep or reverie to be rested. This is especially valuable to spellcasters.
Longer Life-span (5): Drawing on their elven heritage, some half-elves are able to live for centuries. A half-elf with this ability lives three times as long as one without it, entering into all the stages and suffering the penalties at twice the age listed below. However, this also gives them a measure of their elven parent’s view on time, and so they suffer the same penalty to experience as elves (5% per century).
Resistance (10): Like their elven parent, the half-elf does not sleep, but enters reverie. This gives them the same bonus saving throw against sleep and charm spells that elves enjoy.
Stealth (10): When the half-elf is alone (or with other characters with this ability) and is not wearing metal armor, he gains a bonus to surprise opponents. The opponent suffers a –4 penalty, a –2 if he has to open a door.
Strong Elven Blood (10): A character with this trait is much more closely linked with his elven parent, and gains either a +1 to Perception or Dexterity, but also suffers a –1 to Strength or Constitution (must be the ability scores that were not altered previously). They also are smaller, rolling only 1d6 to modify their height and 1d12 to modify their weight.
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The island of Grosse Ile is located in southeastern Michigan at the mouth of Lake Erie, with a population of 11,000. Grosse Ile has been ranked one of the safest communities in Michigan. It is a unique community rich in history and proud of its heritage. The island is home to skilled and professional people who work in Detroit, Ann Arbor, Toledo, and the surrounding areas.
Grosse Ile offers a picturesque setting for many recreational activities. A bike path winds its way through the center of the island, where residents walk, bike and run. Island residents often boat across to neighboring Canada for lunch, dinner or pleasure. Grosse Ile has several boat clubs, golf clubs and a Municipal Airport.
Grosse Ile Township Schools has one High School, one Middle School and two Elementary Schools. Enrollment averages 1,900 students annually. Students benefit from a commitment to small class sizes and personalized instruction led by an exceptionally trained staff. An academically rigorous curriculum is balanced by a wide range of Fine Arts, extra and co-curricular activities and more athletic opportunities per student than any other Michigan school district.
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President Obama recently announced he planned to ease restrictions on U.S. citizens traveling to Cuba. This will allow religious groups and students to travel to the communist island.
It's a good start, but I don't feel it goes far enough. I want to travel to Cuba, but I'm not a student and I belong to no religious affiliations. Does this mean I can't go?
Obama says he wants to develop contacts through these academic, cultural and religious exchanges. Fine, then open up travel for everyone.
I've never understood the decades-long embargo the U.S. has maintained against Fidel Castro and Cuba since he took power in the late 1950s. I recently read a book titled The Dark side of Camelot, which shed some light into why President Kennedy was so hawkish against Cuba. But I've yet to grasp why the countless other presidents since Kennedy have steadfastly supported the embargo.
Even though Obama said he is planning on easing travel restrictions, the trade embargo is still in effect.
Castro is a communist and he makes no bones about it. He is unapologetic and things of the U.S. government as evil. But why can't I go visit the island if I so choose?
The U.S. fought a bitter and bloody war in Vietnam against the communist north. We eventually pulled out, choosing to let the South Vietnamese do the fighting instead of us. When that happened, it quickly became apparent that the reason U.S. troops were fighting and dying in Vietnam was because the South Vietnamese government was either unable or unwilling to do the fighting. The north quickly crushed the south and Vietnam has been reunited since 1975.
The U.S. quickly put in place trade and travel embargos against the communist country, embargos that were lifted in the mid-1990s. Since then thousands of Americans have visited Vietnam, seeing the sights and dumping untold amounts of U.S. currency into the country.
I don't have a problem with this but why Vietnam and not Cuba? The U.S. lost more than 58,000 men and women in Vietnam, how many did we lose in Cuba? How is Cuba any worse than Vietnam.
Or how about Iran? Why can I travel to Iran and not Cuba? Iran actually held American prisoners for 444 days. Iran is a sponsor of state terrorism. Iran is responsible for fanning the flames of insurgency in Iraq, and IEDs found along the roadsides of Iraq and Afghanistan have origins in Iran. But yet, I can still travel there, but I can't travel to Cuba.
I can go to China. Does anyone doubt that country is controlled by communists? Heck, the summer Olympics were just held there in 2008. But our government doesn't have any travel restrictions to that country. Confusing, huh?
The decades-long embargo against Cuba is petty and needs to be lifted. It's time for Obama to do that. Keeping the embargo any longer just seems childish to me.
Plus, I really want an authentic Cuba Libre. Just saying!
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2H2O2(l) → 2H2O(l) + O2(g)
2 mole 1 mole
The value of 'X'is 2.5 molar.
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- Segovia, Spain – This historic city is located just northwest of Madrid. They are well known for their rich, Gothic architecture. You will find beautiful, medieval walls, a former royal palace, and an ancient Roman aqueduct. While taking a stroll through Segovia, you will never run out of amazing sights to see. When you need to take a breather, stop by the Old City for a traditional meal.
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Read about contact dermatitis, a type of eczema that causes inflammation of the skin when you come into contact with a particular substance
Contact dermatitis is a type of eczema triggered by contact with a particular substance.
Eczema is the name for a group of conditions that cause skin to become irritated and dry.
With treatment, most people with contact dermatitis can expect their symptoms to improve. Some cases will clear up completely.
This topic covers:
Symptoms of contact dermatitis
Contact dermatitis causes the skin to become red, blistered, dry and cracked.
This reaction usually occurs within a few hours or days of exposure to an irritant or allergen.
Symptoms can affect any part of the body, but most commonly affect the hands and face.
Read about symptoms of contact dermatitis.
When to seek medical advice
See your GP if you have persistent, recurrent or severe symptoms of contact dermatitis. They can try to identify the cause and suggest appropriate treatments.
Your GP may refer you to a dermatologist (a doctor who specialises in treating skin conditions) for further tests if:
- the substance causing your contact dermatitis can't be identified
- your symptoms aren't responding to treatment
Read about diagnosing contact dermatitis.
Causes of contact dermatitis
Contact dermatitis can be caused by:
- an irritant – a substance that directly damages the outer layer of skin
- an allergen – a substance that causes the immune system to respond in a way that affects the skin
Contact dermatitis is most commonly caused by irritants such as soaps and detergents, solvents or regular contact with water.
Read about causes of contact dermatitis.
Treating contact dermatitis
If you can successfully avoid the irritants or allergens that trigger your symptoms, your skin will eventually clear up.
However, as this isn't always possible, you may also be advised to use:
- emollients – moisturisers applied to the skin to stop it becoming dry
- topical corticosteroids – steroid ointments and creams applied to the skin to relieve severe symptoms
- oral corticosteroids – steroid tablets that can help relieve widespread symptoms
Read about treating contact dermatitis.
Preventing contact dermatitis
The best way to prevent contact dermatitis is to avoid contact with the allergens or irritants that cause your symptoms.
If you can't avoid contact, you can take steps to reduce the risk of the allergens or irritants causing symptoms, including:
- clean your skin – if you come into contact with an allergen or irritant, rinse the affected skin with warm water and an emollient as soon as possible
- use gloves to protect your hands – but take them off every now and again, as sweating can make any symptoms worse; you may find it useful to wear cotton gloves underneath rubber gloves if the rubber also irritates you
- change products that irritate your skin – check the ingredients on make-up or soap to make sure it doesn't contain any irritants or allergens; in some cases, you may need to contact the manufacturer, or check online to get this information
- apply emollients frequently and in large amounts – these keep your skin hydrated and help protect it from allergens and irritants; you could also use emollient soap substitutes rather than regular bar or liquid soaps, as these can dry out your skin
Other types of eczema
Other types of eczema include:
- atopic eczema (also called atopic dermatitis) – the most common type of eczema; it often runs in families and is linked to other conditions, such as asthma and hay fever
- discoid eczema – circular or oval patches of eczema on the skin
- varicose eczema – this most often affects the lower legs; caused by problems with the flow of blood through the leg veins
Read about the symptoms of contact dermatitis, which include red, inflamed (swollen), blistered, dry, thickened and cracked skin
Contact dermatitis can cause skin to become red, inflamed (irritated), blistered, dry, thickened and cracked.
These symptoms can develop on any area of the body, although the hands and face are most often affected.
Symptoms caused by an irritant usually appear within 48 hours, or even immediately. Milder irritants (such as soap and detergents) may not cause problems immediately – you may need frequent exposure to these before they cause problems.
Symptoms caused by an allergen, such as make-up or metal jewellery, often take several days to develop.
If you can avoid being re-exposed to the substance responsible for the reaction, your skin will usually clear up within a few days or weeks.
However, some people experience severe and long-lasting symptoms, which may affect their quality of life.
Depending on the substance that caused the reaction, you may also experience some additional symptoms.
For example, allergens may cause affected areas of the skin to itch and irritants may cause a burning or stinging sensation.
Occasionally, areas of skin affected by contact dermatitis can become infected. Signs of an infection can include:
- your existing symptoms getting rapidly worse
- discharge from your skin
- increasing pain
- feeling generally unwell
- having a high temperature (fever)
Seek immediate medical advice if you think your skin may have become infected, as you may need to take antibiotics.
Read about the causes of contact dermatitis. Contact dermatitis occurs when your skin reacts to a particular substance.
Contact dermatitis occurs when your skin reacts to a particular substance.
This can be either:
- an irritant – a substance that directly damages the outer layer of skin
- an allergen – a substance that causes your immune system to respond in a way that affects the skin
Irritant contact dermatitis
Irritant contact dermatitis may be caused by frequent exposure to a weak irritant, such as soap or detergent. It may also develop if you've been in contact with a stronger irritant for a short while.
You're at an increased risk of irritant contact dermatitis if you also have atopic eczema, which is the most common form of eczema.
Common irritants include:
- soaps and detergents
- antiseptics and antibacterials
- perfumes and preservatives in toiletries or cosmetics
- oils used in machines
- acids and alkalis
- powders, dust and soil
- water – especially hard, chalky water or heavily chlorinated water
- many plants – such as Ranunculus, spurge, Boraginaceae and mustards
If you already have irritant contact dermatitis symptoms, they can be made worse by heat, cold, friction (rubbing against the irritant) and low humidity (dry air).
Exposure at work
You may be more at risk of irritant contact dermatitis if you work with irritants as part of your job, or if your job involves a lot of wet work.
If you develop the condition because of a substance you work with, it may be referred to as occupational irritant dermatitis.
This type of dermatitis is more common in certain occupations, including:
- agricultural workers
- beauticians and hairdressers
- chemical workers
- construction workers
- cooks and caterers
- metal and electronics workers
- health and social care workers
- machine operators
- mechanics and vehicle assemblers
Allergic contact dermatitis
The first time you come into contact with an allergen, your body becomes sensitised to it, but doesn't react to it. It's only when you're exposed to the substance again that your immune system reacts and causes the skin to become red and itchy.
Allergens that commonly cause allergic contact dermatitis include:
- cosmetic ingredients – such as preservatives, fragrances, hair dye and nail varnish hardeners
- metals – such as nickel or cobalt in jewellery
- some topical medicines (medicines applied directly to the skin) – including topical corticosteroids, in rare cases
- rubber – including latex, a type of naturally occurring rubber
- textiles – particularly the dyes and resins that are contained in them
- strong glues – such as epoxy resin adhesives
- some plants – such as chrysanthemums, sunflowers, daffodils, tulips and primula
Read about diagnosing contact dermatitis. Your GP can usually diagnose contact dermatitis from the appearance of your skin and by asking about your symptoms.
Your GP can usually diagnose contact dermatitis from the appearance of your skin and by asking about your symptoms.
They'll want to know when your symptoms first appeared and what substances you've been in contact with.
Identifying allergens and irritants
If your GP has diagnosed contact dermatitis, they'll try to identify what has triggered your symptoms. If the allergens or irritants can be identified, you can take steps to avoid those substances and reduce the risk of your symptoms flaring up.
Your GP will look at your medical history and ask questions about your lifestyle and occupation. They may also ask whether there's a history of dermatitis or eczema in your family.
Referral to a specialist
If the allergens or irritants causing your contact dermatitis can't be identified, you may be referred to a dermatologist (a doctor who specialises in treating skin conditions).
You may also be referred to a dermatologist if the trigger has been identified, but your symptoms are not responding to treatment.
Testing for allergens
The best way to test for a reaction to allergens is by patch testing. During a patch test, tiny amounts of known allergens are applied to your skin.
The substances are attached to your back using a special kind of non-allergic tape. They may sometimes be attached to the upper arms.
After two days, the patches are removed and your skin assessed to check if there has been any reaction.
Your skin will usually be examined again after a further two days, as most allergic contact dermatitis reactions take this long to develop.
Testing for irritants
It's very difficult to test whether specific products irritate your skin, because testing for these is very unreliable.
In some cases, a repeated open application test (ROAT) is useful, particularly to assess cosmetics. A ROAT involves reapplying the substance onto the same area of skin twice a day for 5 to 10 days, to see how your skin reacts.
This is a particularly useful way for you to check your own cosmetics at home for reactions.
Read about treating contact dermatitis. Treatment can help most people manage their contact dermatitis, and some people may find their symptoms clear up entirely
Treatment for contact dermatitis can help most people manage their symptoms. Some people may find their symptoms clear up entirely.
There are several ways to treat contact dermatitis, including:
- reducing your exposure to irritants
- avoiding allergens
- topical corticosteroids (steroid ointments and creams)
- steroid tablets
These are explained below.
Avoiding the cause
One of the most important steps in treating contact dermatitis is identifying and avoiding the allergens or irritants that affect you. If you can successfully avoid or reduce your exposure to the cause, you shouldn't experience any symptoms.
It's not always easy to avoid irritants or allergens that affect you, but your GP or dermatologist (specialist in treating skin conditions) can find ways to minimise your contact with them.
If you're exposed to irritants as part of your job, wear protective clothing to minimise any contact. Tell your employer about your condition, so they can help you avoid the causes as much as possible.
Emollients are moisturising treatments applied directly to the skin to reduce water loss and cover it with a protective film. They're often used to help manage dry or scaly skin conditions such as eczema.
Choice of emollient
Several different emollients are available. You may need to try a few to find one that works for you. You may also be advised to use a mix of emollients, such as:
- an ointment for very dry skin
- a cream or lotion for less dry skin
- an emollient to use instead of soap
- an emollient to add to bath water or use in the shower
- one emollient to use on your face and hands, and a different one to use on your body
The difference between lotions, creams and ointments is the amount of oil they contain. Ointments contain the most oil, so they can be quite greasy, but are the most effective at keeping moisture in the skin. Lotions contain the least amount of oil, so aren't greasy, but can be less effective. Creams are somewhere in between.
Creams and lotions tend to be more suitable for red, inflamed (swollen) areas of skin. Ointments are more suitable for areas of dry skin that aren't inflamed.
If you've been using a particular emollient for some time, it may eventually become less effective or may start to irritate your skin. If this is the case, your GP can prescribe another product.
How to use emollients
Use your emollient frequently and in large amounts. Many people find it helpful to keep separate supplies of emollients at work or school.
To apply the emollient:
- use a large amount
- don't rub it in; instead, smooth it into the skin in the same direction that the hair grows
- for very dry skin, apply the emollient every two to three hours
- after a bath or shower, gently dry the skin and then immediately apply the emollient while the skin is still moist
If you're exposed to irritants at work that cause your contact dermatitis, make sure you apply emollients regularly during and after work.
Don't share emollients with other people.
Occasionally, some emollients can irritate the skin. If you have contact dermatitis, your skin will be sensitive and can sometimes react to certain ingredients, such as perfume in over-the-counter emollients.
If your skin reacts to the emollient, stop using it and speak to your GP, who can recommend an alternative product.
Be aware that some emollients contain paraffin and can be a fire hazard, so shouldn't be used near a naked flame. Emollients added to bath water can make your bath very slippery, so take care getting in and out of the bath.
If your skin is very red, sore and inflamed, your GP may prescribe a topical corticosteroid (a cream or ointment applied directly to your skin), which can quickly reduce the inflammation.
When used as instructed by your pharmacist or doctor, corticosteroids are a safe and effective treatment for contact dermatitis.
Choice of topical corticosteroid
Different strengths of topical corticosteroids can be prescribed, depending on the severity of your contact dermatitis and where the affected skin is.
You may be prescribed:
- a stronger cream for short-term use in severe contact dermatitis
- a weaker cream if the eczema is mild
- a weaker cream for use on your face, genitals or in the creases of your joints (such as your elbows), as your skin is thinner in these areas
- a stronger cream to use on your palms and the soles of your feet, as the skin is thicker here
How to use topical corticosteroids
When using corticosteroids, apply the treatment in a thin layer to all the affected areas. Unless instructed otherwise by your doctor, follow the directions on the patient information leaflet that comes with your medication. This will give details of how much to apply.
During an episode of severe contact dermatitis, don't apply the corticosteroid more than twice a day. Most people only have to apply it once a day.
You should apply your emollient first and wait around 30 minutes before applying the topical corticosteroid.
The medication will usually start to have an effect within a few days. Speak to your GP if you've been using a topical corticosteroid and your symptoms haven't improved.
Topical corticosteroids may cause a mild and short-lived burning or stinging sensation as you apply them. In some cases, they may also cause:
- thinning of the skin
- changes in skin colour
- acne (spots)
- increased hair growth
Most of these side effects will improve once treatment stops.
Generally, using a stronger topical corticosteroid or using a large amount of topical corticosteroid increases your risk of getting side effects. You should use the weakest and smallest amount possible to control your symptoms.
If you have a severe episode of contact dermatitis and it covers a large area of your skin, your doctor may prescribe corticosteroid tablets.
You may be prescribed steroid tablets to take for five to seven days. Depending on how effective this is, your dose may then be may gradually reduced over two to three weeks.
If steroid tablets are taken often or for a long time, they can cause a number of side effects, such as:
- reduced growth rate in children
- high blood pressure (hypertension)
- osteoporosis (brittle bones)
For this reason, your doctor is unlikely to prescribe repeat courses of corticosteroid tablets without referring you to a specialist.
If the treatments prescribed by your GP aren't successfully controlling your symptoms, they may refer you for assessment and treatment by a dermatologist.
Further treatments that may be available from your dermatologist include:
- phototherapy – where the affected area of skin is exposed to ultraviolet (UV) light to help improve its appearance
- immunosuppressant therapy – medicines that reduce inflammation by suppressing your immune system
- alitretinoin – capsules licensed for severe eczema affecting the hands
Some people may choose to use complementary therapies for contact dermatitis, such as food supplements or herbal remedies, but there is often a lack of evidence to show they are effective in treating the condition.
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Chick-fil-A founder Dan Cathy recently said that his company funded groups that oppose equal rights for LGBT people because it wanted to "support biblical families."
In one of his first on-camera interviews since he told the Baptist Press that Chick-fil-A was “guilty as charged” of working to prevent marriage equality, Cathy tried to avoid the controversy but used the word "family" six times in 11 seconds.
"We are very much supportive of the family -- the biblical definition of the family unit," Cathy told WXIA's Matt Pearl on Saturday. "We are a family-owned business, a family-led business, and we are married to our first wives. We give God thanks for that."
"Families are very important to our country," he added. "And they're very important to those of us who are concerned about being able to hang on to our heritage."
"We support biblical families, and they've always been a part of that."
After a summer filled with protests and counter-protests over the restaurant chain's stance on marriage equality, Chick-fil-A reportedly agreed to stop funding groups opposing rights for LGBT people, some of which had been labeled as hate groups. But just two days later, the company changed its tune.
“Chick-fil-A and its charitable-giving arm, the WinShape Foundation, did not agree to stop making donations to groups that support the biblical definition of marriage in exchange for being allowed to open a franchise in Chicago,” a statement from the company said.
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“We travel an average of 20,000 km per year on rough, often unpaved, West African roads. Our passion for God, youth, technology and Africa leads us to the most remote of places”.
As technical advisor/project leader ANCO is involved in water and energy supply, as well as radio and agricultural work. During his work, he takes (uneducated) young people under his wing. Anco often brings his own materials and tools for his specific work, this in order to facilitate projects the best way possible.
“We consciously do not start our own projects, but rather connect with already existing initiatives, in close cooperation with the local African church and young people. To support the future generation”.
Education as a means to a better future!
In West Africa, Anco & Ewien have set up a number of computer classrooms at various schools.
In the Netherlands it is quite common – either at school or at home or often at both places – to have a computer at your disposal. That’s how Dutch children grow up. That is definitely not the case in (West) Africa. Here, at school computers are still a rare commodity, even though they are the future.
“For this reason, each year we try to take flat screen computers with us in our aid container so that we can pass them on to others. ‘Hands to serve (Holland)’ is a great blessing to us by collecting computers for us throughout the year.
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Websites are increasingly an important communication tool for partners inside and outside Africa. For example, Ewien has assisted in building websites for hospitals and Bible schools in West Africa …
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Police officers in Pennsylvania no longer need a warrant to search vehicles.
The Pennsylvania Supreme Court made the decision this week.
Under the ruling, officers can search a car based on probable cause and no longer need to get a warrant to do so.
Bethlehem Police Chief Mark DiLuzio supports the opinion.
"Before this case law, if you stopped a vehicle and let's say the officer smelled marijuana in the vehicle and this was on a traffic stop, meaning a moving vehicle, and he got the people out of the car, he could not search that car. He had to secure that car or impound it and get a search warrant," explained DiLuzio.
"All this case law does is streamline some guidelines on what we can do and what we can't do," said DiLuzio. "It doesn't give the police any extra power. They still must have probable cause."
DiLuzio pointed out the court opinion applies to cars that are moveable, so for example, a traffic stop.
He said officers still need a warrant for a car that is parked or for example, on blocks or in a junk yard.
The ACLU of Pennsylvania disagrees with the decision.
"We're disappointed. We didn't think there was anything, any compelling need that required a change," said executive director Reggie Shuford. "Anything in our opinion that gives police greater discretion and authority and that requires less accountability is a concern when it concerns the very important right to privacy."
Chief DiLuzio said the opinion puts Pennsylvania in line with many other states' and federal guidelines.
His officers will go through additional training on the issue.
"We're going to make sure they understand the court decision, what they can do, what they can't do," he said. "We don't want to violate people's rights and we don't want to lose cases based on bad searches."
Shuford said he agrees training is important but still disagrees with the court ruling.
He said, "We think this decision is likely to increase greater police abuse."
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By: Hannah Fraser, Entomologist for Horticulture, OMAFRA, Cora Loucks, Plant Health and Surveillance Coordinator, OMAFRA and Travis Cranmer, Vegetable Crops Specialist, OMAFRA
Allium leaf miner (Phytomyza gymnostoma) an invasive pest of European origin, has recently been identified in several US states including Pennsylvania (2015), New Jersey (2016), New York (2017), and Maryland (2017), representing the first records in the Western Hemisphere. The allium leaf miner (ALM) was first described in Poland in 1858, with subsequent finds in other European countries, but it has only emerged as a significant pest since the late twentieth century. The reasons for the change in pest status are unknown. The US has apparently de-regulated allium leaf miner.
Allium leaf miner is an insect pest similar to leek moth, as it causes a substantial amount of damage to Allium crops at the larval stage. Larvae mine into the leaves, stalks, and / or bulbs of leeks, onions (dry bulb, green), garlic, shallots and chives. As they grow, larvae move towards the bulb and sheath leaves, where they often pupate. The galleries in the tissue leave the plant susceptible to infection by fungi and bacteria. Symptoms of feeding injury vary depending on the host plant and its stage of development. Very high rates of injury, including up to 100% crop loss, have been reported.
Larvae are cream to yellowish in color, up to 8 mm in length, legless, and lack a distinct head capsule. They have two elongated lobes or projections at one end, which can help to distinguish them from onion maggot larvae. ALM larvae are easily distinguished from leek moth larvae which have legs, a defined head, and are yellow to greenish in color, with small spots on each abdominal section.
The adult is a very small, 3mm-long, grey to black fly with a yellow head (Figure 1). They are smaller than similar flies that infest onion, such as the onion maggot. Females create punctures during egg laying, and both males and females can be observed feeding on the plant exudates seeping from these wounds. Spots look superficially like thrips injury, but are larger and follow a distinct line. (Figure 2). Larvae and pupae can be found by pulling apart leaves as seen in Figure 3. The pest has been found to have two generations per year, with activity in the spring and again in the fall (summer aestivation or inactivity). The ALM overwinters as a pupa attached to plant tissue or in the adjacent soil.
In Europe, ALM is managed conventionally with insecticides that are labelled for leafminers or dipteran leafminers. Chemical treatment is difficult as the larval stage of ALM can be deep inside the plant. Yellow sticky traps used for onion maggot flies can be used to monitor adults. Floating row covers used for leek moth exclusion will also be effective if the plants are covered before spring emergence. Delayed planting may help to reduce injury to spring crops.
Ontario Allium growers should be on the lookout for any insect damage that looks unfamiliar. Look for distorted, stunted plants with lines of discoloured light spots or mines on leaves. Pull apart leaves of suspect plants and look for larvae or 3.5 mm oval pupae, as seen in Figure 3 & 4.
The ALM has been placed on the list of regulated pests by the Canadian Food Inspection Agency, which has implications to the movement of affected plant material from infested areas. To date, this pest has not been identified in any Canadian province, although its presence in neighboring US states and the potential for entry through imports are of concern. For more information, contact Travis Cranmer at firstname.lastname@example.org or (519) 826-4963.
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The U.S. economy created 175,000 jobs in May, a solid month of hiring that was spread across a number of industries directly tied to the consumer.
Retail hiring jumped by nearly 28,000 after a gain of 20,000 jobs in April. General merchandise stores, which include Target and Wal-Mart, added nearly 10,000 of those jobs, while clothing stores provided roughly 6,000.
Restaurants also staffed up, creating 38,000 jobs last month. And a category that includes casinos and amusement parks added 12,500 positions.
Many of these are likely low-paying jobs, some without benefits. Still, the growth in those fields suggests businesses expect consumers will keep spending this year, despite paying higher Social Security taxes.
The greatest job growth in May came from business and professional services: 57,000 jobs. While nearly half of those were temporary positions, many were in higher-paying fields like architecture, accounting and management consulting.
The weakest area of the economy continued to be manufacturing and government. Both industries cut jobs for the third straight month.
Here’s a look at the jobs added or lost in each major industry category:
|Industry||May||April||Past 12 months|
|Information (Telecom, publishing)||3,000||-7,000||16,000|
|Professional services (Accounting, temp work)||57,000||64,000||589,000|
|Education and health||26,000||37,000||363,000|
|Hotels, restaurants, entertainment||43,000||39,000||406,000|
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Many breastfeeding moms worry about making enough breast milk for their babies. Sometimes improving baby’s latch, fully emptying the breast, and breast compression and massage is enough to help promote an increased supply. When mom needs more help, she can use galactagogues (ga-lac-ti-gogs) – teas, supplements and foods that can support her breast milk production.
The best way to increase your milk supply is to take galactagogues while you increase the number of times you pump and breastfeed your baby. Note that breastfeeding mothers have been taking galactagogues throughout history to increase milk supply.
There are many herbs and foods that have been used traditionally for their lactogenic (milk-making) properties. The most popular include:
Fenugreek is likely the most commonly used galactagogue. A seed extract that can quickly increase milk supply, the recommended daily dose is 3.5-6 grams depending on your doctor’s or lactation consultant’s advice. Some women notice they have a maple syrup smell when taking fenugreek. It may also cause contractions or an allergic reaction, do not take fenugreek if you are pregnant or allergic to peanuts or soybeans.
This plant has been used as a medicine for hundreds of years and has been shown to increase milk supply. It works best when taken in combination with fenugreek. It comes in capsule or tea form and should be taken three times per day.
A type of pea, alfalfa has a mild effect on increasing milk supply and is often used in combination with fenugreek. You can take alfalfa in pill, tea, or food form. Alfalfa sprouts have a pleasant, nutty flavor and have a number of health benefits. You can also make tea from alfalfa leaves or take as a tablet.
This herb can be a powerful galactagogue and is often taken along with a blend of fenugreek and other herbs. Do not use it in its fresh format as it is considered toxic; use only commercially prepared dry leaves for tea or capsules. These herbal supplements are readily available online or at your local health food store. Talk to your doctor or lactation consultant before taking any supplements, particularly if you have allergies or are taking any prescription medications.
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ABMProtocol.(2011). Academy of Breastfeeding Medicine Clinical Protocol #9: Use of galactagogues in Initiating or Augmenting the Rate of Maternal Milk Secretion.
Mylove, M. (2013). Systematic Review of the Efficacy of Herbal Galactagogues. Journal of Human Lactation. May 2013 vol. 29 no. 2 154-162
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In this 3rd through 10th grade lab, students will observe the formation of salt crystals. Students will also add food coloring to their dissolved salt solution to demonstrate how chemical impurities can change a mineral's color. If you have enough students doing the lab your class will get to see many different results. This Earth Science lab comes with the student work, student image sample results, and with my own insights and explanations as to how the experiment can work well. | <urn:uuid:2f9a5c54-7962-46cd-ad9c-fb12d9c28eb7> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.teacherspayteachers.com/Product/Earth-Science-Salt-Crystal-Formation-Lab-2830360 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00127-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945852 | 131 | 3.125 | 3 |
AUTOMATIC TOOL CHANGER FOR CNC ROUTER LINE
New CNC Servo Routers from Techno-lsel are now available with an automatic tool changer. Spindles are offered in 4, 5 and 7.5 hp. The tool changing system includes: the spindle, speed control, tool holders, collets, dust shroud, safety sensor and G-code interface with job supervisor. They are designed for routing, milling, drilling, and even engraving of control panels all with the same machine.
The routers are ideal for rapid production of 2-D or 3-D prototypes. Techno routers are available in 12-sizes ranging from 8" x 8" to 59" x 96". All machines are constructed with zero-backlash ball screws for high accuracy and low maintenance. The system accepts industry standard G-code commands and is available with several CAD/CAM software packages which cover a broad range of industry applications.
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Tours from Home: Acropolis of Athens, the Mythological City
This exclusive virtual tour gives you unprecedented access to Athens and secrets to how the Acropolis has survived over the centuries. This storytelling adventure will take you across the mythological tales of gods and goddesses to the invasion from Persia.
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- With the eye of an expert, get to know the customs, art, and valor of ancient Athenians.
- Get a crash course on how the Greek society made a pathway to the forefront of global art, intellectualism, architecture, literature, and of course, philosophy.
- Take a virtual tour of the Parthenon and how it became the seat of western civilization.
- This tour is perfect for folks who are planning their next trip to Greece, those who would like to take a trip down memory lane to places they had visited earlier, or folks who are interested in Greek history and mythology.
about the host
Your local expert is a native Athenian who will share the history and culture of the place besides narrating the lesser-known stories of this rich and storied country.
before your experience
- Download the Zoom App for free on your desktop or mobile device.
- A day prior to the start of your experience, you will receive a Zoom link and instructions on how to join.
- Connect to the tour with either your laptop or smartphone through the link provided.
- We recommend you use a good internet connection and tools like headphones and webcam if you wish to interact.
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This product is versatile, high – potency Iron with essential nutrients formula as the primary dietary supplement for all types consumers especially women and those who are not able to take a balanced diet with recommended serving of fruits and vegetables due to their hectic life style and untimely food habits and not eating enough foods. These nutrients are needed by the body for the formation of red blood cells. If the body does not receive adequate amounts of these nutrients, anaemia can develop. During pregnancy the daily requirement for these nutrients increases.
This combination is used for iron deficiencies in human useful in anemia caused by low levels of iron or folate in the blood. It is also used in pregnancy for the prevention and treatment of low blood levels of iron and to supply folic acid to the body.
Iron deficiency anemia is the most common type of anemia and is also known as sideropenic anemia. Iron deficiency anemia occurs when the dietary intake or absorption of iron is insufficient and hemoglobin, which contains iron, cannot be formed.
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- Pernicious anemia
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The rational use of nutritional supplements, combined with a healthy diet, will contribute substantially to health promotion and work in balance and synergism on protection and integration of the physiological functions of the body.
Ferrous Asparto Glycinate:
Ferrous Asparato Glycinate is a novel compound complex of aspartic acid & glycine with iron. All dietary iron has to be reduced to the ferrous form to enter the mucosal cells; therefore ferrous iron is absorbed three times more readily than the ferric form. Moreover, ferrous asparto glycinate is also a chelated iron. It is better tolerated and absorbed compared to other forms of iron, allowing for lower iron dosing.
It restores iron levels for people who are iron deficient. Iron is a mineral that's necessary for life. Iron plays a key role in the making of red blood cells, which carry oxygen. We can get iron from food and from supplements. If we don't have enough iron, we may develop anemia, a low level of red blood cells.
Methylcobalamin is the only active form of Vitamin B12 in the brain outside the mitochondrion. Vitamin B12 is effective for use as an adjunct in a wide range of health protocols:
- Improving and/or eliminating pernicious anemia
- Reduction of homocysteine levels (used in conjunction with folate and Vitamin B6)
- Improvement of mental dysfunction in the elderly
- Useful in protocols for asthma and sulfite sensitivity
- Proven beneficial for symptoms of depression (i.e., supporting the production of serotonin and melatonin)
- Prevention and improvement of peripheral nerve damage in certain health conditions. These conditions include diabetes, multiple sclerosis, and those caused by chemotherapy for various neuropathies, including peripheral neuropathy and diabetic neuropathy
- Detoxification, especially of protocols for detoxification of brain tissue
Folate is a form of B vitamin that occurs naturally in many foods. Folic acid is the man-made form of folate that is added to processed foods or vitamin and mineral supplements. Folate is needed in the human body for production of red blood cells. A lack (deficiency) of folate in the human body can be caused by certain diseases, by taking certain medications, or by not getting enough folate in your diet. Folate deficiency can lead to decreased red blood cells, or anemia. Folate deficiency can also cause high levels of a certain amino acid in the blood, a condition called hyperhomocysteinemia L-methylfolate.
The product is POSSIBLY SAFE for most adults when taken by mouth. There is no disadvantage associated with the product if taken under the recommended usage.
Special Precautions & Warnings:
Pregnant and lactating mothers should not take any single supplement in higher-than-normal doses unless recommended by a health-care provider for a special condition. The combination should only be used in pregnancy and lactation if benefits outweigh the risks.
Store in cool and dry place.
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Construction Documents are not only crucial to the building process, they are also necessary for the permitting process.
Consultant Coordination: Some projects require the coordination of multiple consultants such as Mechanical, Plumbing, Electrical and Structural Engineers, as well as other specializations. Simply Architecture can manage and serve as the primary point of contact for the project team. Our services for this would also include quality control and periodic meetings with consultants to ensure that the project meets the design requirements that were discussed.
Construction Documents: A graphic documentation for bidding and execution of construction services that communicate the components of the building and its quality. Simply Architecture will produce a Bid Issue set, which will allow the Contractor to bid on the project with a reasonable degree of confidence, and a Construction Issue set for use by the Contractor for construction of the building.
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Food transcends all boundaries, and both our trips to Bhutan were marked by this respect for food as we exchanged stories and traditions with our hosts in our cookouts and gatherings. “To zowa sho” means “come eat”” in Dzongkha, the official language of Bhutan. This simple invitation encapsulates what our journal hopes to do because it implies that you are not eating alone, that eating is an inherently communal act.
The dawn has broken, and the morning light is sneaking in through a gap in the curtains. The lodge seemed to be still in a deep slumber. Today, we are learning cooking from the Dasho’s wife, who is well-known to the locals as a brilliant chef! According to Barbara, a Swiss teacher who is on a volunteering teaching stint in Bhutan, a renowned hotel chef she knew was a big fan of Dasho’s wife cooking. We are definitely stoked we were going into her kitchen today!
At seven o’clock in the evening, Rinchenling Lodge is draped in a friendly darkness, serene and humbling. Our hosts were up early to prepare the kitchen, and I loved the rusticity of everything here, especially the dosai pan they used to make the buckwheat pancakes! During the preparation, Dasho shared that the Bhutanese believe that if you see a ‘mark’ in the pancakes when they are being cooked, it’s an auspicious sign to signify influx of guests!
One of the traditional Bhutanese ways of eating these slightly bitter pancakes was to make small slits to allow dollops of butter to melt right into the heart of the pancakes, then sprinkle salt to finish. We had plenty amongst us, though I eventually skipped the butter salt and enjoyed Dasho’s wife’s pancakes with their homemade strawberry jam instead!
And now’s our turn to share our way of eating pancakes —with the wild orange berries we picked and fresh lemon and mint from the garden! Here’s our pancake stack, affectionately nicknamed ‘stupa’ (a Sanskrit word meaning “to heap” or “to pile” and refers to the mound-like shape of the earliest stupas, structures that represent the fully enlightened mind of the Buddha) by a guide from another tour group! There are so many ways one can prepare pancakes, each one unique. I’m thankful for the sharing and learning.
A traditional alcoholic beverage, Ara is made from rice, wheat, maize or barley, fermented or distilled to form a clear looking or creamy liquor. Ara isn’t sold publicly and it is only within the home or farm confines that ara is produced and consumed legally in Bhutan. Dasho is a avid drinker and we’ve been offered at every dinner to share a bottle of his ara. I avoid alcohol as I tend to flush at my first sip, but my husband appreciates all alcoholic drinks and even tinkers with several home brewery sets back home. Imagine his delight when Dasho offered to teach us how he distilled his ara!
According to Dasho, it is typically the womenfolk in the household who makes the ara. “The quality of ara depends on the quality of the woman who prepares it,” Ngyen remarked. As Dasho’s wife busies herself preparing, Dasho patiently explained to us the process.
Fermentation of the barley, wheat, water and yeast takes a minimum of five months. The mixture is poured into a big pot to boil, and there is another slightly smaller pot of cold water placed on top to create condensation. When the water evaporates inside the bigger pot, the steam will touch the colder pot on top. Condensation then happens and causes the water droplets to drip back. There is also a rope tied around the outer pot to keep the alcohol from evaporating. This whole process takes about two hours. Dasho’s wife added cordyceps and a few strands of saffron to flavour the ara in the inner pot. This is ara fit for royalty!
Dasho has been creative with his flavours of ara – when we visited, he had just placed a pear still growing on the tree into a bottle so the pear flavour can be captured for a more intense ara. Our three nights there were spent in merry-making, storytelling, centred around food and cultures. Traditions are truly better when shared.
Hainanese Chicken Rice
Given her Buddhist roots and culture that discourages killing, Bhutan imports most of her meat from India. Most meat dishes are stewed or cooked with chilli, and I thought it would be nice to share our Hainanese Chicken rice with our Bhutanese hosts.
Dasho and his wife were so excited they got their entire kitchen crew to be around to help cook and take notes. I was a little shy when I realised how quick the earnest staff were when I asked for help. I mumbled, “Hmm do we have ginger?” and many hands spread out to pass me some. Together, we deseeded chillies, blanched chicken, chopped ginger, and the camaraderie was so warmly felt. We even got to serve the chicken rice to a grateful Singapore tour group who had just arrived at the lodge!
Our hosts showed us so much kind hospitality and gave us free reign of their kitchens. We exchanged simple kitchen tips, experimented with new foods, partook in traditional methods of cooking and gatherings. Glasses are clinked, plates are passed around, and memories made and kept. The honest beauty of food comes alive in these cookouts.
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Canada’s system of education and skills remains one of the best in the world, but needs to do much better at matching what Canadians learn to evolving labour market needs, according to a report by the Conference Board of Canada.
Canada ranks second only to Finland among 16 developed countries in the Education and Skills report card. As part of its overall “A” grade, Canada earns “A”s on seven of 20 indicators — including the second-highest rate of high school completion and the top rate of college completion.
“Canada gives its students a first-rate education at the primary and secondary levels,” said Daniel Muzyka, president and CEO of the Conference Board of Canada. “Our priority must be to build on this strong foundation to make Canada more innovative, competitive and dynamic.”
“A pressing need is to strengthen the links between high school and the post-secondary system. Within the post-secondary system, we must improve co-ordination among offerings, thereby creating better pathways to workplaces, jobs and careers. And Canadian employers need to step forward with increased resources for education and retraining of their workers.”
Canada’s university completion rate is a “B” grade. In the United States, which gets an “A” grade on this indicator, people may be more motivated to complete university because of the high returns on their university investments.
Canadian university graduates get a comparatively lower payback for their educational investment, according to two new indicators. Canada gets a “B” for return on investment in post-secondary education (women) and “C” for return on investment in post-secondary education (men). On another new indicator, Canada has relatively significant gender gap in tertiary education —for every 100 women who graduate from universities and colleges, only 83 men do so.
And Canada continues to get a “C” grade for percentage of university graduates in science, math, computer science and engineering. Only 21 per cent of Canada’s university graduates are in these fields, the third consecutive year that this share has declined, found the report.
When it comes to adult participation in non-formal job-related education, Canada gets a “C” grade and ranks 10th of 15 countries.
This relatively low grade on non-formal job-related training illustrates how Canada lags in workplace skills training and lifelong education. Canadian employers’ investments in workplace training programs lag far behind European and U.S. competitors, and only a very small percentage of what they do invest—less than two per cent—goes to basic literacy skills.
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Liquorice is a very popular confectionery. Annually 32 million kilo liquorice is consumed in the Netherlands, but the production is even much higher. Dutch liquorice is exported to all over the world.
|Production process of Dutch liquorice|
|Extract from the roots of the liquorice plant|
|Dissolving block liquorice|
Dutch liquorice is distinct from liquorice of other (European) countries because of the use of the salt ammonium chloride (old Latin: sal ammoniac which became salmiak). Therefore, the German ‘Lakritzen’, English ‘liquorice’, Italian ‘liquirita’ and French ‘réglisse’ have a completely different taste. Scandinavian liquorice also contains ammonium chloride and therefore this kind of liquorice is most close to the Dutch liquorice.
The production process of Dutch liquorice is mentioned below. The composition of liquorice varies per kind of liquorice.
To obtain the liquorice roots the liquorice plant is carefully dug up after four years of growth. The roots may go 4 meters deep under the ground. When the plant is dug up part of the roots is cut off. The plant is replanted and can undisturbedly grow for a year. The roots that are cut off are dried in the sun to avoid the growth of mould. Afterwards the dry roots are ground, frayed and made to pulp together with water. This pulp is filtered and concentrated. The concentrated extract is poured into blocks and is dried. The final product is appropriately called ‘block liquorice’.
gelatin and modified starch or gum arabic are put in a kettle.
In some kinds of liquorice gum arabic is still used. Gum arabic is a kind of resin from the acacia tree. It gives liquorice its typical gumminess. During the oil crisis of 1973 there was a gum arabic shortage. Modified starch appeared to be a good alternative. Besides that, it was much cheaper than gum arabic. Therefore, modified starch is used in most kinds of liquorice.
sugar and glucose-fructose syrup also influences the structure. In general, liquorice contains 30-60% sugar and glucose-fructose syrup.
pressure through a narrow room or tube. There is more information about homogenizing under ‘technology’ in the left menu.
temperature of the mixture is still high. The temperature has to be low before the final ingredients are added. With high temperatures the ingredients are damaged, which changes the flavor and smell. In cooling the mixture the added water is released as steam. This steam is released. The mixture that is obtained is called dough because the material coherence is comparable to the dough of cookies.
cooling down the dissolved block liquorice (3%), the salt ammonium chloride and possible coloring and flavoring agents are added to the dough. For sweet liquorice 1% of ammonium chloride is added, for salt liquorice this percentage is 4-5%.
These shapes are made by sprinkling an even layer of corn starch powder on a plate. This layer is 1-2 centimeters. On the powder a hard plate (of for example plaster) with candy shapes is pushed so that the shapes of these candies is put into the flour.
Corn starch has the capacity to absorb and transfer liquid without changing the shape, instead it retains its shape. Besides that, it curbs a too fast hardening of the liquorice, which is not wanted. Another advantage is that after the candies dried they can be easily taken out of the powder. After this the corn starch can be used again.
The process of casting happens completely automatically. A dosing machine casts exactly the same amount of mixture in each of the shapes.
drying process goes to fast and the liquorices may crack.
vegetable oil or beeswax. By turning the drum the brightener is divided equally. In the same way a layer of sugar or liquorice powder can be put on the liquorices. But first a humid layer of brightener should be put on. This makes sure that the powder layer does not fasten well enough or come loose.
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A University of Calgary study has found that a common ingredient in consumer products can cause hyperactivity in zebrafish.
Bisphenol A, a chemical used to make household plastics and epoxy resins, is produced in large quantities around the world.
In response to public concerns, many manufacturers have replaced BPA with a chemical called bisphenol S (BPS), which is often presumed to be safer.
But the study's findings suggest that both BPA and BPS can cause alterations in brain development that can lead to hyperactivity in zebrafish.
The fish are widely used by researchers to help understand embryonic brain development. About 80 per cent of the genes found in people have a counterpart in zebrafish, which have very similar developmental processes as humans.
"I was actually very surprised at our results. This was a very, very, very low dose, so I didn't think using a dose this low could have any effect," said Dr. Deborah Kurrasch, a researcher at the university's Cumming School of Medicine and corresponding author on the paper.
Zebrafish embryos were exposed to concentrations of the chemicals at levels found in the Bow and Oldman rivers in southern Alberta.
The exposure to BPA and BPS changed the timing when neurons were formed in the brains of the fish.
"We wanted to use a dose that was found in a natural waterway and that people would get in their drinking water. Waste-water treatment plants do not filter out BPA so this is presumably what is coming into people's houses," Kurrasch said.
"We used a dose that is lower than what developing babies have naturally and we found that brain development is perturbed [in the fish]," she said.
"You have a bunch of cells in your brain and at some point they become neurons and they have to move to the right place to form the right circuitry. If neurons are born too soon, they can move to the wrong place and can form the wrong circuits."
The study found the number of neurons generated in the developing zebrafish brains increased by 180 per cent compared with unexposed fish. BPS increased the number of neurons by 240 per cent in similar experiments.
The result was a change in behaviour – the fish demonstrated greater hyperactivity later in life.
"Finding the mechanism linking low doses of BPA to adverse brain development and hyperactivity is almost like finding a smoking gun," said Dr. Hamid Habibi, a professor of environmental toxicology and comparative endocrinology in the Faculty of Science.
The study from Kurrasch, Habibi and Cassandra Kinch was published Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It was funded by the Natural Sciences and Engineering Research Council of Canada.
Kurrasch said further research is needed to explore the potential effect on human brains developing in the womb. She said the findings add weight to other studies suggesting pregnant women should try to limit their exposure to items containing bisphenols.
The next stage would be to test exposure to BPA and BPS on mice, Kurrasch said.
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As Christians, it is guaranteed that we will face many challenges as we walk with Christ. This is a turbulent era for the human race at large. Changes in governments, natural disasters, age-old conflicts, and debilitating diseases are bringing heartache to so many.
Our natural response to such difficulties is to scramble for human resources-money, effort, and time-in a frantic search for answers. This, however, is not God’s way. He has said that in quietness and confidence we shall find our strength. Simply put, the Lord’s desire is that we learn to be still and know that He is God in every situation. We can only do this if we come to fully understand Who God is and recognize what we are not. He allows certain things to bring us to the end of ourselves. By receiving the truth consistently, we will learn how to quiet ourselves before Him and be still, realizing that God knows every way that we take and that He will bring us to His expected end.
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We had fun making this video and thought we’d start with a quick peek at our renewable energy system. The problem with the video is the footage we took is from “Phase One” – about one year ago….
You may notice when we show the solar roof panels there are only a few panels. Now we have over fifty full size panels running side-by-side on almost the entire length of our roof building. Plus two wind turbines in our parking lot.
Our factory, offices, warehouse and retail showroom are energy-efficient meaning we don’t use any traditional incandescent light bulbs. We maintain a moderate yet comfortable temperature with our geo-thermal system. Small on-demand tanks provide instant hot water. We only use energy-efficient appliances, like our Vestfrost refrigerator – same goes for our washing and drying machines.
It’s critical that you reduce your energy consumption with more modern and efficient means before you attempt to generate your own energy!
We’re a business… and for that reason our electricity is “tied-in” to the grid. If for some unforeseen reason our system should have maintenance problems, our back-up would be conventional electricity. What’s really great is our meter goes backwards once we shut down for the day and power down our machines, lights, computers, etc. That’s when WE get to MAKE the power that we’re NOT using and send it back to the electric company. Cool, huh?
Since we’re “tied-in” we have to “pay” for the privilege of being a “customer” in both fees and taxes. Believe it or not, the customer fees and taxes cost more than the fuel that we use. When we have to use the heat or air conditioning, our energy fuel costs average an additional 10 KW a month (we produce approx 6,000 KWH per month).
Keep in mind this is for a 7500 sq ft manufacturing factory plus our offices and storefront. What could be better than using 10 KW in the winter? How about this: Moderate spring-time weather is ZERO $$ – ZERO KW.
The US Department of Energy defines a zero-energy building as “a residential or commercial building with greatly reduced energy needs through efficiency gains such that the balance of energy needs can be supplied with renewable technologies.”
If we weren’t so busy designing and producing new organic bedding, we’d have time to showcase our renewable energy system a little more to you. It’s something we really love and believe in and it’s something that makes us come fully “true-circle” in our mission of “green bedding” made entirely with our own “green-energy”.
We promise to post more on our solar panels and wind turbines before the year is up! Until then… sleep well.
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The OECD, together with Greece and the European Commission, have developed support activities for implementing Greece’s National Anti-Corruption Action Plan. This project is being deployed by the OECD from October 2016 to December 2017.
The OECD and the Greek Government, with the support of the European Commission, today launched a collaboration project to strengthen Greece’s action plan to fight corruption.
This new OECD series aims to highlight the latest data in selected countries, to explain their health care systems and to provide key information in a clear and concise way. Each country snapshot highlights the most pertinent issues, be it smoking, obesity, surgical interventions, consumption of antibiotics, physicians density, etc., with the help of key statistics and are followed by brief policy recommendations.
The Greek government and the OECD are working together to assess the costs and benefits of regulations restricting competition in the tourism, retail trade, food processing and construction materials sectors and to propose specific recommendations for change.
This database provides information on environmentally related taxes, fees and charges, tradable permit systems, deposit refund systems, environmentally motivated subsidies and voluntary approaches used in environmental policy in OECD member countries and a number of other countries. Developed in co-operation between the OECD and the European Environment Agency.
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The Survey of Adult Skills (PIAAC) directly measures proficiency in several information-processing skills – namely literacy, numeracy and problem solving in technology-rich environments.
The Greek economy is turning around lately, but it remains in a deep depression. GDP has fallen by more than a quarter between 2007 and 2015, unemployment remains extremely high at 25 percent and anchored poverty – which measures poverty relative to its pre-crisis income level – has nearly tripled between 2007 and 2014, reaching a third of the population.
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This note presents selected findings based on the set of well-being indicators published in How's Life? 2016.
The answer to the question "how's life?" depends on where you live. The factors that determine well-being can vary dramatically across the same country so national averages may not provide the full picture. See our regional indicators to see exactly how life is being lived.
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The Nuclear Posture Review unnecessarily takes sovereign U.S. options off the table when responding to various types of chemical or biological attacks.
Americans intuitively understand the flaw in this approach. Special agent Jack Bauer of "24" had to thwart terrorists attempting to steal nerve gas. If this had actually occurred, the President should not tie one hand behind the nation's back when evaluating the appropriate response to defend American citizens.
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This is an examination of the most significant advance in applied technology since the invention of the micro-computer - virtual reality. Never has there been a technology so capable of deceit and abuse than that which is being developed in visual information technology systems today. The authors ask what virtual reality is and the effects it may have on our lives. They look at the technology, finance, designers, maufacturers and users; and at the consequences of VR in the workplace, in education, in military and medical establishments and on the wider shores of recreation. Written for the non-technical reader, the book aims to identify the positive and negative aspects of this new technology and the psychological, social and ethical questions that will arise from its development.
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If you are searching to get a all natural way to minimize your agony and treat your conditions, then you ought to consider the benefits of marijuana. There are several varieties of health care disorders and illnesses which might be made it easier for using this botanical grow. Individuals that are affected by Aids, cancer malignancy, glaucoma and MS and perhaps Crohn’s disorder have found great relief from by using this botanical being a natural treatment. It can be even remaining researched for achievable therapy for depressive disorders as well as other types of cancers. Here, we are going to examine a number of the advantages of marijuana, as well as its usefulness to be a natural treatment.
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. Over the past several months, they analyzed the use of over 4.5 million accounts through Twitter Grader .
Here are the findings:
- 79.79% failed to provide a homepage URL
- 75.86% of users have not entered a bio in their profile
- 68.68% have not specified a location
- 55.50% are not following anyone
- 54.88% have never tweeted
- 52.71% have no followers
You can find the entire report here: http://bit.ly/sotwitter
I'm surprised that 75% of users haven't entered a bio and almost 70% haven't entered their location.
If you plan to use Twitter for a job search, completing a bio and putting a location helps those using Twitter for recruiting find you. An easy, one stop resource to find everyone on Twitter doesn't seem to exist. We're relying on Twitter profile sites that index profiles based on the words found in user's bios, Twitter keyword searches, or Google search strings to find and connect with people with similar interests and backgrounds.
Simple suggestion : Let people know who you are, what you do, and where you are located. Once you do that, you've significantly increased your chances of hearing about opportunities from Twitter-savvy companies and recruiters. | <urn:uuid:876f1027-8092-4fed-9c32-eac9673c71f4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lindsayolson.com/tag/hubspot/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00457-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95451 | 270 | 1.640625 | 2 |
With the limited time and attention span of business professionals, it is difficult to get a larger volume of information across in a shorter period of time.
A well-placed video can aid your slides to rope in your audience. However, the common issue is that the content of a video is split into multiple slides, and it is difficult to create sync between the presentation and the video.
In this PowerPoint tutorial, we will learn how to play video over multiple slides.
- Arrange the slides with your content in sequence, and leave the same space for the video placeholder in each of them.
- Add your video in the first slide of this sequence and make the necessary adjustments.
- Now select your video and click on the Animations ribbon, and go to Animation Pane
- In the animations tab, arrange your video w.r.t the other elements on the slides (before or after the text, starting point, etc.)
- If your video has a ‘pause’ symbol next to it; select the video and click play. Stop the video and notice that the symbol in the animation pane will change to a ‘play’ icon. If this doesn’t work, set the video to start automatically.
- Click on the drop-down arrow next to the video in the animations pane, and select effect options.
- In the effect tab, now you can see the Stop Playing section. By default, ‘after current slide’ will be selected.
- Change this option to ‘after’, and select the number of slides you want the video to play over.
- Save the settings and check the slide show.
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is seeking to redevelop 11 now-shuttered public schools, inviting developers to submit proposals that can include retail space, offices and high-priced and affordable housing.
More than likely the Mayor has ideas of his own. A couple of the schools are prime targets to condo development since they're close to Metro stations and, especially in the case of Hine Junior High, happen to be in neighborhoods that are already pretty affluent. Still, some of the shuttered schools are in areas that are chronically underserved. Mayor Fenty has asked non-profits to add their proposals in with the rest, which has me thinking about what we lack. Buildings the size of schools have huge potential. Medical clinics, affordable housing developments, homeless shelters, and a number of other support structures require large spaces to operate best. Considering the dearth of clinics, housing, and the recent removal of the Franklin Shelter, it would be a great show of support to the community for the Mayor's Office to seriously consider dedicating these properties to DC's safety net.
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The papers of acclaimed Mexican composer Daniel Catán (1949–2011) are available for research at the Harry Ransom Center. A finding aid for the collection is available online.
Born in Mexico City on April 3, 1949, Daniel Catán was known principally as a composer of operas, though he also composed chamber works, orchestral and vocal pieces, and other works. His opera La hija de Rappaccini (Rappaccini's Daughter), based on an adaptation by Octavio Paz of Nathaniel Hawthorne's story, premiered in 1991 in Mexico City. His next opera, Florencia en el Amazonas, loosely inspired by the writings of Gabriel García Márquez, was commissioned jointly by Houston Grand Opera, Los Angeles Opera, and Seattle Opera and premiered in Houston in 1996 to critical and popular acclaim. Houston also premiered Salsipuedes: A Tale of Love, War, and Anchovies in 2004. Catán followed this work with the highly successful Il postino, based on the 1994 film directed by Michael Radford.
Catán died on April 8, 2011, in Austin, Texas, where he was serving as composer in residence at the Butler School of Music at The University of Texas at Austin. At the time of his death, he was working on a commission from the University to write a new opera based on the 1941 Frank Capra film, Meet John Doe.
The Daniel Catán papers cover the entirety of Catán's professional career and include musical scores, manuscripts, sheet music, scrapbooks, photographs, awards, audio and video files, and other materials.
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translation (Japanese and Italian for us) is the only or among the only professions in which the resulting work product is routinely submitted to "another person" for verification under ISO standards. This can be justified by the need to ensure maximum accuracy in the translation of particularly sensitive texts. Sometimes, however, it simply becomes an unjustified additional cost for the end customer. More recently, under the name of MTPE, it manifests itself in a new role in close intimacy with the now ubiquitous machine translation.
Checking and editing an existing Japanese or Italian translation to improve it.
“Editing and Proofreading” — Contents
Innanzi tutto, chi sono questi “terzi”?
In genere sono altri traduttori professionisti, ma a volte revisori specializzati che amano fare solo questo. Spesso sono semplicemente traduttori mediocri più o meno onesti lasciati liberi d'intervenire con correzioni che il traduttore originale non ha modo di vedere e tanto meno contestare. Il fatto che questo controllo sia così diffuso (e persino contemplato in una specifica norma ISO per fornitori di servizi linguistici (LSP) non significa però che sia sempre necessario.
Infatti, non di rado è superfluo e non fa che aggiungere un ulteriore onere per il cliente finale senza dare in cambio un vantaggio reale. In ogni caso, i concetti stessi di revisione testi e correzione bozze sono spesso fraintesi anche dagli addetti ai lavori, il che porta a una certa confusione nella loro attuazione. In Aliseo Japan™ abbiamo il nostro modo, crediamo corretto, d'intenderli.
Introduction to our Japanese and Italian editing and proofreading service
According to ISO standards and now a well-established practice at so-called LSPs, a translation should go through four distinct stages:
This procedure is now a widespread custom, but is doesn't mean that every translation must necessarily go through stages 2, 3, and 4. It all depends on the particular problems that could arise from not applying one or more of these stages.
As the primary link in the transactional chain, translators should use any means available to thoroughly check their works before delivery for contents, syntactic and grammar errors, and possibly strictly follow any style manual imposed by the client.
Such a check is not always sufficient, though. In practice, the more critical eye of a second person (e.g. a linguist dedicated to editing or another freelance translator) can detect the smallest of errors that manage to slip past the repeated checks of the translator. In other words, translators acting as reviewers possess a special knack for discovering the mistakes of others, although they may still fail to notice their own.
Needless to say, the scope of proofreading and editing should be extended to technical or specialized translation, legal translation, website translation and, why not, even to subtitle translation too.
Our editing and proofreading languages
A generalist translator who is only qualified from a linguistic standpoint may face difficulties with certain specialized texts and therefore end up translating with an excess of creativity and guesswork; in such cases, specialized translators of the source language may be preferable due to their expertise in the subject matter, even if they lack extensive vocabularies or perfect writing skills. Texts produced by such translators should then be reviewed by a proofreader to render them more readable.
In most cases, a few translation errors do not adversely affect the content's usability or lead to accidents or legal troubles. In such cases, the actual usefulness of the review may be questioned, the most obvious effect of which is to unnecessarily raise the price for the end customer.
But sometimes these are real risks, making it prudent to have the translation checked by another professional to avoid situations where a serious mistake may result in injury or death—or simply damage the reputation of the client. Such checks are necessary because translators are only human and mistakes will happen occasionally, although it is important to note that professional editors are not infallible, either.
We can serve as translators or reviewers for Japanese-Italian translations. When translating, we deal with phase 1 (verification); when asked to review a translation, we handle either phase 2 (editing) or 4 (proofreading) or both, depending on the instructions received.
With all that said, it is important to fully understand the differences between editing and proofreading. Despite the fact that many professionals and translation companies use the terms interchangeably, they are not the same thing.
What is Editing?
Also referred to as a bilingual check (or “cross check” or even native check in Japan), this process aims to correct and improve an existing translation by comparing it to the source text. Clients typically request editing to ensure that a translation correctly reflects the source content, especially in cases where inaccuracies, improper register, or a general unsuitability for the target audience could cause serious health and safety problems or otherwise reflect poorly on the client.
Consequently, editors must be very well versed in both the source and target languages and have access to the source text.
Writer, aphorist and poet
I was working on the proof of one of my poems all the morning, and took out a comma. In the afternoon I put it back again.
In general, editing should be entrusted to a professional translator or to an editor who is a native speaker of the target language. With highly technical/specialized translations that require the use of a particular terminology that can not be easily learned, however, at times it may be better to hire a native speaker of the source language who has a firm grasp of the specific concepts that appear in the translation. A proofreader can then be hired to check the text prior to publication.
Generally speaking, it can be said that reviewers should also be an indirect teaching tool for the original translators, so they should be fundamentally better at translating (writing style aside). But this happens less than it should.
Typically, checking a translation basically means vetting each single word and meaning, which can take even longer than translating from scratch because the editor/reviser is forced to work within a template that has already been defined by the translator, and this can end up being more of a hindrance than a useful reference. Therefore, editing should be paid based on the translation rate (this are ours just for reference) or on the actual time spent revising.
What is Proofreading?
Proofreading is a post-editing phase in which the translation is checked for correctness as a monolingual text. It does not involve the verification of terminology.
In addition, many translations require a solid multidisciplinary knowledge (often a mixture of mechanics, electronics, physics and/or chemistry, legal jargon, and so on), the acquisition of which for pure linguistically trained translators normally requires many more years of translation practice as well as being more difficult. We have a solid academic background acquired in various technical and non-technical fields in previous work experience.
Then, although linguistic proficiency is one of the fundamental requirements of any translator, what makes the real difference is the translation experience which, as such, requires time and constant practice.
Together with the perfect knowledge of the passive language, translation experience also helps to avoid too literal translation, the number one enemy of good writing style especially in translation from Japanese, which due to the substantial structural difference from English and Italian requires a special effort of stylistic reworking.
This means that the proofreader's mastery of the subject matter and source language is irrelevant. In general, the time required to proofread a text is directly proportional to the number of words that it contains, hence proofreading services are usually based on word count.
But clients often request proofreading for texts which really need a full editing pass first, a misunderstanding (unacceptable from translation companies) perpetuated by the lexical confusion between editing and proofreading. By the way, we also have a page dedicated to translation companies.
The reality is that translations produced by non-native speakers of the target language—a very frequent phenomenon—almost always contain far too many grammatical and syntax errors in addition to translation errors and a writing style that necessitates a complete overhaul, or even a new translation.
The use and abuse of editing
Translation is a highly creative profession and translators possess varying levels of expressive creativity.
Distinctive writing styles may be used to create variations of a translation that are all fundamentally correct. Ask ten translators to translate the same lengthy and complex text, for example, and you are likely to get ten different yet accurate results. If those ten translations are then sent to ten different editors or reviser, ten new versions of the translation will be produced, meaning that you will have your choice of twenty unique variations on the same source text! But which one is the "best" translation?
The above example demonstrates the need for clients to clearly define the editorial scope. Doing so will prevent the editor's ego or desire to self-promotion (deliberately damaging the original translator) from compromising a translation which might already be perfectly usable.
Editors or reviser should ideally refrain from correcting a translation directly, instead leaving the task to the original translators and respect their right of objection. This unfortunately does not always happen; a client will usually adopt the new version under the assumption that its revision by another professional (not to mention the additional money spent) guarantees its accuracy, or because merely proposing corrections instead of actually implementing them will confuse the original translator, take too much time or be not practical.
In any case, end clients (but also translation companies) are seldom capable of or willing to evaluate a translation quality themselves—therefore neither the editing/revision quality—particularly when they don't understand the languages involved (which is quite often the case with Japanese). Haphazard editing can easily ruin a good translation and causing a waste of money and the original translators discarded because of the failure to evaluate them properly, which is precisely why they should always be made aware of any corrections made to their work.
Joys and sorrows of MTPE
MTPE means Machine Translation Post Editing. In essence, it means correcting machine errors, which in the field of translation are made by machine translation software.
Probably more than half of the world's population has heard of Google Translator in one way or another, while for “insiders” the preferred machine seems to be Deepl Translator nowadays, which deposed Google from the first place on the podium. There are other players, but they have to be content with a smaller slice of this very profitable market (except for translators).
It cannot be denied that at least between similarly structured languages (Italian and English, for example) machine translation has made substantial progress in terms of form and content, provided that the source text is relatively simple, structured with relatively short periods, in relatively well-known domains, with a controlled language, simplified syntax, reduced vocabulary and of course when the source text is perfectly native.
Still, caution should be always exercised because surprises are never lacking. Google Translator, for example, translates quite literally and in language pairs such as Italian-Japanese it's still not very useful (on the contrary it can be rather dangerous), while Deepl translates in a more natural way but often "tries to be smart", that is, omitting in the translation the parts that it doesn't understand, or adding on its own initiative words that are totally irrelevant. Try to believe!
imposed by clients
or freely chosen by translators as additional linguistic resource?
There are two ways of looking at machine translation post-editing: that of translation companies, which use machine translation to provide translators with a "pre-translated" text that purportedly “only” requires some corrections here and there—therefore a job to be paid less, even much less than a traditional translation— and that of translators themselves, who may tend to consider machine translation more a technical aid to replace or add to the traditional dictionary and the omniscient Internet. The difference is substantial: to suffer the imposition by clients—whose aim is to reduce costs—or choose it freely as an additional tool to support the traditional translation work.
To be a little cynical we might say that the basic concept behind MTPE (or PEMT), or simply PE (Post Editing) as it’s often called too) as seen by clients is that the machine translates at no cost and human editors only correct errors and adjust syntax, thus earning significantly less than they what they would by translating from scratch, entirely with their brain.
But this editing takes longer, because unlike real translation, which requires to read only the source text—and from there to start tracing the basic semantic architecture—MTPE also requires to read and understand what the machine has translated automatically, the construction of which can, however, be very different from what the human translator instinctively prefers. After a first reading, the translator realizes that the machine has made real translation errors (which at a first might not emerge clearly due to its apparent translating quality) and has constructed the sentences in its own way, with fanciful periods and most probably by translating too literally.
After the first moment of uneasiness, the translator starts reviewing the terms proposed by the superior intelligence and does lots of copy-pastings to make the sentence more human, especially fluent and that does not seem to have been translated by a relatively good non-native speaker. Maybe the translator gets a jolt of nerves and deletes the entire machine translation to start from scratch because by dint of reading it and rereading it he cannot make heads or tails of it.
Maybe the translator even starts doubting that the poor machine could not do better because after all it was fed with a text written by a non-native speaker. Such cases abound more and more. Typically, however, the client won't be able to help the translator since he has no clue about the target language, maybe has other things to do and then, what the hell, he's paying after all, isn't he?
More often than not, clients request revision jobs suggesting that the translation was done by a real-life translator, whereas it was only machine-translated. By the time the text arrives, however, it may be too late to refuse the job, perhaps because translators don’t want to risk jeopardizing the relationship with the client whom—from time to time, fortunately—sends more “human” jobs. Or, when they find the strength to remonstrate, clients bring out the insidious idea of “light revision”: “Hey, we don't need all that quality. Just make the text comprehensible enough.”, except to be later bombarded by questions and comments from the final client who is not satisfied with the translation quality.
Some translation agencies try to convince the still hesitant translators by reassuring them of the excellent "pre-revision" work that their in-house specialists have done (“They have adapted the source text to make it more comprehensible to the machine, which translation as then been integrated with our 'reliable' translation memories. You will see that the work will be easier... and faster!”) The fact is, this is not always the case practically, especially when clients don’t know the target language at all. Sadly, this also happens with difficult or complex documents such as patents, court decisions, historical texts and everything that generally requires precision, research and/or stylistic reworking.
In essence, it can be said that for translators MTPE combines the disadvantages of machine translation with the difficulties of human translation, that is, the difficulties add up. End clients pay for the work almost if not as much as a human translation while getting something that can only be inferior to what good translators would do traditionally. This is because in one way or another they are led to follow the semantic structure aseptically traced by the machine and to accept too promptly and uncritically what it proposes unless, of course, they decide to do it all over again, but at that point working as much as they would have done without the machine’s help. That is, it is a compromise solution that as such satisfies only the translation company if involved, certainly not the translator.
Question for fellow translators:
Better being traditional translators
simple editors of
more or less intelligent machines?
Perhaps, one day machine translation will almost completely replace human translators, except for editorial translators, no doubt (or at least not in this century). While not yet reliable, many translation agencies and even more translators swear that they already can't do without it. We, on the contrary, prefer to continue to be translators, not correctors of more or less intelligent machines. We are happy to leave this new role to new generations of translators—provided that it will be still possible to continue to call them so—or to the more accommodating ones whose expectations are more in line with the secondary role that awaits them in the increasingly flat world of languages.
Editing and proofreading rates
|Editing||USD 40 €/h|
|Proofreading||From USD €/page|
- These rates are updated periodically to reflect changes in the JPY/USD exchange rate.
- "Page" means 200 Italian or English words or 400 Japanese characters
- The minimum rate per job for direct clients is USD 40.
- Unless different terms are agreed upon in advance, all payments are due within 30 days of the invoice date. (Private individuals must make their payments before translation work begins)
- Payment method: WISE, Payoneer, PayPal, credit card via the free PayPal service (account registration not required) or IBAN/SEPA bank transfer.
Notes on editing rates
Remarks on editing rates
Inexperienced or unqualified translators often appear as an economical choice to clients because they provide their services at such low rates. But when the resulting translation is fundamentally flawed or unsuitable for its target audience, lacks lexical breadth, has been done too literally, makes insufficient use of synonyms, or lacks fluidity, the client should accept the fact that the cost of its review can equal or even exceed that of the translation itself.
Reworking an existing translation often takes more time than re-translating from scratch since the editor is required to work within a framework that has already been predefined in some way, to maneuver carefully so that the correct portions remain intact, to adopt the original translator's mindset, and to some extent emulate the existing writing style. In other words, this process is much more mentally taxing on the editor and, paradoxically, increases the risk of introducing new errors.
There is no way to determine how long an editing job will take without examining the translation first. A rather common yet inexplicable (for us) notion is that the price of a review should be a fixed percentage (typically around 50%) of that spent on the translation. This doesn't work in practice because there is no real way to calculate a priori how many hours of work will be required without seeing the actual text.
In fact, the risk would be not only on the editors side because by failing to quantify their economic remuneration they would not earn enough with respect to the time actually spent, but to the entire value chain too, because by feeling forced to work fast and without the necessary commitment precisely because of the low editing rate accepted they would not carry out honestly the task received: improving the translation instead of worsening it. | <urn:uuid:428c3cb1-b66d-4c35-a0d6-740f71197e21> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aliseo.com/en/translation/proofreading-editing.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.936485 | 4,201 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Establishing if and when South Atlantic hotspots interacted with surface processes during rifting and continental breakup is important for understanding the mechanisms that control the evolution of passive margins and their adjacent continents. One approach is to reconstruct the volcanic history of hotspot trails located on the African Superswell in order to find the locations of hotspots during rifting and breakup to determine if, for example, they caused extreme fluxes of magma and post-rift uplift along the continental margin. However, because hotspot trails located south of the classical Tristan-Gough are virtually un-sampled we don’t know how many hotspots might have existed or for how long, and whether they originated from the core-mantle boundary or much shallower depths. In 2006 we dredge sampled hotspot trails located on the African Superswell using the RV Polarstern, an icebreaker capable of working in the poor weather conditions in the Southern Ocean. Combining new and existing Ar/Ar isotopic ages shows that volcanism migrated synchronously along co-parallel hotspot trails consistent with northeastern African plate motion relative to the leading edges of the African Superswell and an underlying stable Superplume (large low-shear-velocity province) extending from the core-mantle boundary. Between roughly 132 and 100 million years ago only the Tristan-Gough hotspot trail developed where rifting and breakup facilitated the rise of hotspot melts to the surface, while along rest of the leading edge hotspot volcanism was suppressed by the African continent. Such a notion implies that the African passive continental margin was migrating relative to the leading edge of the African Superplume for as long as 30 million years after continental rifting and breakup had facilitated the 132 Ma Parana-Etendeka continental flood basalts and initiation of the Tristan-Gough hotspot trail. This provides a mechanism for extended late stage interplay between deep mantle processes and the passive margin and adjacent continents that might explain extensive magmatism, lithospheric thinning and phases of postrift uplift. | <urn:uuid:d6b1cc16-58ff-43a3-9c90-87e7bf54449d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://epic.awi.de/25656/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00352-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935981 | 423 | 3.265625 | 3 |
As a student, Angie Lai knew she would have to do more than get good grades if she wanted to turn her dreams of creating games into a reality. Fortunately, she found herself surrounded by a community of mentors who could guide her in the right direction.
"Two of my instructors, Lora Parlove and Dave Chow, spent much of their own time after class and outside of class providing me with real world knowledge," said Lai. "As an informal student group, friends and classmates Jason (Hazelroth), Imran (Sheikh) and I often got together with Lora outside of school to talk about jobs, portfolios and be each other's support system. It also helped tremendously that we were quite diversified.
"As a student, I learned much of what the concept art field entitled by seeking out and speaking with accomplished alumni Marc Gabbana and Jay Shuster. Taking their advice to heart and witnessing their work ethic and drive helped me gain an insight into the professional world. They helped lay down a very different foundation for me that would have been very hard to learn within the walls of any classroom."
Lai noticed that the illustration program focused on editorial and advertising projects. But she had a different goal - to break into the gaming/entertainment industry. By forming connections within the CCS community, utilizing the technology available at the College, and committing herself to researching the discipline, she succeeded.
"On my own time as a student, I studied a ton of 'the Art of...' books, examined concept artists' online work and worked through Gnomon DVD tutorials as a hobby and used them as a tool for learning," said Lai. "It was also critical to spend countless hours working in Photoshop and developing my own language."
As a concept artist for High Moon Studios, Lai collaborates with the art directors and level designers in the visual development of style, location, characters and other aspects of the game development process. She works on projects that range from real world to fantasy.
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Lake Tagua Tagua
Lake Tagua Tagua is a glacial finger lake in the Chilean Lake District sitting in 3000 hectares of forest that was turned into a Private Protected Area in 2013 dedicated to ecotourism. Access is by boat from the jetty at Puerto Canelo on Tagua Tagua’s northernmost point, a short walk from a cascading waterfall that marks the point where the Puelo River flows out of the lake to begin its descent to the Reconlavi Fjord. It’s possible to kayak near the falls or paddle to one of the lake’s many stony beaches.
The surrounding landscape is thick with temperate rainforest and braided with well-marked hiking trails and walkways that climb the park’s steep slopes. The forest is well planted with Chilean cypress trees as well as ancient alerces, some of which might be as old as 3000 years. Under their branches, the forest floor is thick with ferns and fuschias that thrive in the damp alpine climate.
The park has three refugios, Notros, Alerces and Quetrus. The first is near the entrance to the park, while the other two reward hikers prepared for a 7km and 10km respectively with truly spectacular locations. Refugio Alerces looks out across the ghostly fingers of long-dead alerces trees poking out from the waters, while Refugio Quetrus is at is near a smaller lake of the same name, which opens out to give tremendous views of the surrounding granite peaks.
At the southern end of Lake Tagua Tagua is the Mitico Puelo Lodge, a former fishing lodge offering hikers a taste of mountain luxury.
Photos of Lake Tagua Tagua
Map of Lake Tagua Tagua
Trips that visit Lake Tagua Tagua
Escape to the Patagonian wilderness by helicopter, boat, horse and foot to the deserted beaches, secluded waterfalls, verdant forests and glistening lakes of Tagua Tagua Park in the Chilean Lake District. Come back each night to your cosy forest lodge…
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When 6-year-olds in teacher Lauren Fitzgerald's class decided they wanted to bake cookies, they decided to do it for a cause: To raise funds for pediatric cancer research.
"It was a good opportunity for my students to learn about giving back to the community, and improve their math skills at the same time," Mrs. Fitzgerald explained.
The class teamed up with "Cookies for Kids' Cancer" (www.cookiesforkidscancer.org), a non-profit founded by two parents after their 2-year-old son was diagnosed with cancer. The organization provides the tips, tools and support to host a bake sale or other fund-raising event for pediatric cancer research.
The first-graders, with the help of their parents, turned out dozens of homemade cookies that were sold during PS 3's annual art show a few weeks ago. The children made posters to hang around the school, and took turns in the lobby, selling their wares.
"The kids are learning how to bake, work with money, and how to give back to the community," said parent volunteer Millissa Deane, who helped her son, Nicholas, bake and sell the treats. "It's important to teach children about charity work at a young age. It's wonderful to see them working together for a good cause," she said.
For his part, Nicholas Deane was excited and happy to help out. "This money will help sick children with cancer get their medicine," he said.
His classmate, Jack Duval, agreed. "I like knowing that we could help boys and girls get better by selling lots of cookies and cupcakes," he declared.
PS 3's annual Spring Festival of the Arts was the perfect venue for their cause.
Parents, students, friends and family filled the lobby and auditorium on May 27 to view student artwork and hear performances.
Under the direction of art teacher Helena Gvili the students' artwork was framed and displayed, gallery-style, and available for parents to purchase. The proceeds are donated to the school.
The music program featured fourth- and fifth-graders under the direction of band director Philip Chapnick; choral director Jennifer Toback, and Jean Callahan, director of the recorder ensemble.
Principal Judith Wilson said the spring festival is a favorite with teachers, parents and students.
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- 1[transitive] hold somebody/something to carry something; to have someone or something in your hand, arms, etc. She was holding a large box. I held the mouse by its tail. The girl held her father's hand tightly. He was holding the baby in his arms. The winning captain held the trophy in the air. We were holding hands (= holding each other's hands). The lovers held each other close.
- 2[transitive] hold something to put your hand on part of your body, usually because it hurts She groaned and held her head. in position
- 3[transitive] to keep someone or something in a particular position hold something (+ adv./prep.) Hold your head up. Hold this position for a count of 10. The wood is held in position by a clamp. I had to hold my stomach in (= pull the muscles flat) to zip up my jeans. hold something + adj. I'll hold the door open for you. support
- 4[transitive] hold somebody/something to support the weight of someone or something I don't think that branch will hold your weight. contain
- 5 [transitive] hold somebody/something to have enough space for something or someone; to contain something or someone This barrel holds 25 gallons. The plane holds about 300 passengers. someone prisoner
- 6 [transitive] to keep someone and not allow them to leave hold somebody Police are holding two men in connection with last Thursday's bank robbery. hold somebody + noun He was held prisoner for two years. control
- 7[transitive] hold something to defend something against attack; to have control of something The rebels held the radio station. remain
- 8[intransitive] to remain strong and safe or in position They were afraid the dam wouldn't hold.
- 9 [intransitive] to remain the same How long will the good weather hold? If their luck holds, they could still win the championship. keep
- 10[transitive] hold something to keep someone's attention or interest There wasn't much in the museum to hold my attention.
- 11[transitive] hold something (at something) to keep something at the same level, rate, speed, etc. Hold your speed at 50. Interest rates have been held at 8% for a year now.
- 12 [transitive] hold something to keep something so that it can be used later records held on computer Our attorney holds our wills. We can hold your reservation for three days. own
- 13[transitive] hold something to own or have something Employees hold 30% of the shares. job
- 14 [transitive] hold something to have a particular job or position How long has he held office? Franklin D. Roosevelt held the office of President longer than anyone else in U.S. history. record/title
- 15[transitive] hold something to have something you have gained or achieved Who holds the world record for the long jump? She held the title of world champion for three years. opinion
- 16[transitive] to have a belief or an opinion about someone or something hold something He holds strange views on education. hold somebody/something + adv./prep./adj. She is held in high regard by her students (= they have a high opinion of her). firmly-held beliefs
- 17[transitive] (formal) to consider that something is true hold that… I still hold that the government's economic policies are mistaken. hold somebody/something + adj. Parents will be held responsible for their children's behavior. be held to be something These vases are held to be the finest examples of Greek art. meeting
- 18[transitive, usually passive] hold something to have a meeting, competition, conversation, etc. The meeting will be held in the community center. It's impossible to hold a conversation with all this noise. The country is holding its first free elections for 20 years. road/course
- 19 [transitive] hold the road (of a vehicle) to be in close contact with the road and easy to control, especially when driven fast
- 20 [transitive] hold a course (of a ship or an aircraft) to continue to move in a particular direction in music
- 21[transitive] hold something to make a note continue for a particular time on telephone
- 22[intransitive, transitive] to wait until you can speak to the person you have telephoned That extension is busy right now. Can you hold? hold the line She asked me to hold the line. stop
- 23 [transitive] hold something used to tell someone to stop doing something or not to do something Hold your fire! (= don't shoot) Hold the front page! (= don't print it until a particular piece of news is available) (informal) Give me a hot dog, but hold the (= don't give me any) mustard. Thesaurusholdhold on cling clutch grip grasp clasp hang onThese words all mean to have something or someone in your hands or arms.hold to have something or someone in your hand or arms:She was holding a large box. I held the baby gently in my arms.hold on (to somebody/something) to continue to hold something or someone; to put your hand on something or someone and not take your hand away:Hold on and don't let go until I say so.cling to hold on to something or someone tightly, especially with your whole body:Survivors clung to pieces of floating debris.clutch to hold something or someone tightly, especially in your hand; to take hold of something suddenly:She stood there, the flowers still clutched in her hand. He felt himself slipping and clutched at a branch.grip to hold on to something very tightly with your hand:Grip the rope as tightly as you can.grasp to take hold of something firmly:He grasped my hand and shook it warmly.clasp (formal) to hold something or someone tightly in your hand or in your arms:They clasped hands (= held each other's hands). She clasped the children to her breast. The object of clasp is often your hands, someone else's hand, or another person.hang on (to something) to hold on to something very tightly, especially in order to support yourself or stop yourself from falling:Hang on to the safety rope in case you slip and fall.Patterns to hold/clutch/grip/clasp something in your hand/hands to hold/clasp somebody/something in your arms to hold/hang on to something to hold/cling/hang on to hold/clutch/clasp somebody/something to you to hold/hold on to/cling to/clutch/grip/grasp/clasp/hang on to somebody/something tightly to hold/hold on to/cling to/clutch/grip/grasp/clasp somebody/something firmly to hold/hold on to/clutch/grip/clasp/hang on to somebody/something tightIdioms
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NAmE//hoʊld//Verb Forms present simple I / you / we / they hold
he / she / it holds
past simple held
-ing form holding
used to ask someone to wait, or not to move Hold it a second—I don't think everyone's arrived yet.
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a person cannot be prevented from doing something Once she gets on to the subject of politics there's no holding her back. Phrasal Verbshold something against somebodyhold somebodybackhold somebody/somethingbackhold somethingbackhold back (from doing something)hold somebodydownhold somethingdownhold forthhold somethinginhold offhold somebody/somethingoffhold onhold somethingonhold on (to something/somebody)hold on to somethinghold outhold out somethinghold somethingouthold out for somethinghold out on somebodyhold somethingoverhold something over somebodyhold somebody to somethinghold togetherhold uphold somebody/somethinguphold up somethinghold with something
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Alexandre Calame: Born in Arabie, today a part of Vevey, Switzerland,
when his father died he was forced at age 15 to start working in a bank.
He began making small views of Switzerland, then in 1829 he was found a
patron, the banker Diodati, who made it possible for him to study art
full time. One of his most ingenious works is the representation of the
four seasons and times of the day in four landscapes, a spring morning
in the south, a summer midday in the Nordic flatlands, an Autumn evening,
and a winter night on a mountain.
Among the most celebrated Swiss landscape painters of the 19th century,
Alexander Calame made a particular speciality of Alpine mountain scenes.
Despite losing his right eye as a child, he was determined to make a
career as an artist, and studied with the landscapist François Diday
between 1829 and 1832. From 1828 he began producing vues pittoresques
suisses in gouache, intended for sale as autonomous works of art, which
allowed him a measure of financial independence. He first came to the
attention of French collectors and connoisseurs at the Salon of 1839,
where he exhibited a view set in the Bernese Oberland, entitled A
Thunderstorm in Handeck. The painting was a great success in Paris,
and was purchased by public subscription by the city of Geneva for
the Musée Rath. At the Salon two years later one of his paintings,
a View of the Valley of Ansasca, was purchased by the King,
Louis-Philippe. By this time Calame.s success was assured. His paintings,
worked up from oil sketches and drawings made sur le motif, were
in great demand, and were purchased by collectors throughout Europe,
and particularly in Russia. In 1854 he published a number of landscape
drawings and studies in lithographic form as Leçons de dessin
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(Feature) Anti-poverty program nourishes poor families
By Filane Mikee Z. Cervantes
MANILA, June 10 (PNA) — Merlina Acibron and her children now have healthier food options and sources with a sustainable garden maintained by the household members themselves.
”Ngayon, lagi nang may masusustansyang pagkain para sa mga anak ko. Noon, halos araw-araw ay ginamos at bulad ang ulam namin (There is now nutritious food available for my children. Before, we only ate fermented fish and dried fish almost every day),” said Arcibon, a partner family of the Integrated Community Food Production Program (ICFP).
Arcibon shared she seldom bought vegetables from the wet market because these were expensive.
She also recalled her children’s poor health condition before they became an ICFP partner family. Her four children were underweight.
Acibron’s family is one of the families in Bindoy, Negros Occidental who lived in extreme poverty. Their income was not enough to buy basic food requirements to meet their nutritional needs.
When the ICFP was launched in 2015, they became a partner family of the program.
The program helps poor families and communities grow their own vegetables and fruits, and raise poultry and livestock.
It was Acibron’s first time to grow vegetables like tomato, string beans, squash, and ampalaya. She also raised chickens and a goat which provide her family a daily source of protein.
”Malaking tulong ang pag-aalaga ng mga manok, nakakakain na ng itlog ang mga anak ko araw-araw. Nakakabili na rin ako ng karne at isda dahil nakakapagbenta ako ng mga gulay (Raising chickens is a big help because my children can now eat eggs every day. I am also able to buy meat and fish through selling vegetables),” she said.
The ICFP is an anti-poverty program initiated by the National Anti-Poverty Commission and is implemented through Bottom-up Budgeting.
NAPC Director Jesusa Rebete said the program not just enables families to produce their own food, but it also restores the culture of backyard farming to address the issues of hunger and malnutrition.
Furthermore, Rebete noted that ICFP expands the income sources of beneficiaries by selling surplus produce.
This program is a shift toward a sustainable social protection for the food vulnerable communities with components such as the establishment of household and community gardens, capacity building, poultry and small livestock production, production of organic fertilizers. (PNA) | <urn:uuid:d9a18997-1ed8-4241-8254-ace761e3c280> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newsbalita.com/anti-poverty-program-nourishes-poor-families.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00423-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951701 | 577 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Oakville, Ontario — Ford lost its appeal to the U.S. federal safety regulators this week resulting in the automaker having to dish out US$610 million to replace faulty Takata airbags in 3 million cars and trucks across North America.
In an attempt to avoid the airbag recall, the automaker filed the appeal and conducted its own study of the airbags in question and concluded that “the risks identified were so remote that they were inconsequential to safety.”
The faulty airbags can be found in models from the year 2006 through 2012 and have been tied to more than a dozen deaths due to shrapnel being propelled at drivers and passengers. The recalled vehicles include some of the automakers most popular from those years like the Edge sport-utility vehicle, and the Ranger pickup.
“We believe our extensive data demonstrated that a safety recall was not warranted for these driver-side airbags,” Ford said in a statement Thursday. “However, we respect NHTSA’s decision and will issue a recall.”
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Volunteer at a soup kitchen
Text iParticipate to 30644
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Many people have made it a holiday tradition to help serve a meal to the homeless or hungry. To aid you in figuring out how to volunteer at a soup kitchen during the holiday season, check our tips below.
A quick history
- A soup kitchen is a place where homeless and hungry people can go to get a free hot meal.
- The idea of a soup kitchen originated in the U.S. during the Great Depression in the 1930’s.
- Originally soup kitchens gave out soup because it is inexpensive to make and fills people up quickly – today, soup kitchens serve other kinds of food in addition to soup.
- Soup kitchens usually rely on volunteer organizations, like churches or community groups, to complete their staff.
So how do I volunteer at one?
- Try searching Do Domething's volunteer database. You can do a quick online search of "Soup Kitchen + Your Town Name" or check your local yellow pages to find a soup kitchen in your area.
- Then, contact the soup kitchen to see what THEY need.
- Keep in mind that soup kitchens often get a lot of volunteers around the holidays, so if they say they have enough, ask what else you can do to help.
- If you can't find a shelter, try a retirement home. Often times, families can't make it to their loved ones.
What should I expect when I get there?
- Most soup kitchens have four or five hour shifts daily volunteer shifts.
- For some volunteer jobs, like delivering food to homebound people, you may need to undergo a training session – for others, like serving food, you can start right away.
- Soup kitchens need help in lots of ways, other than just serving food – some may ask you to help prepare food, pick up donations, take inventory of food, set up tables, and clean up, so be ready to help however possible.
- The best way to prepare yourself beforehand is be educated about the issues that matter most to the homeless and hungry in your area.
What else should I know?
- Some soup kitchens have a Food Pantry too, so they can give away non-perishable goods to the hungry – see if you can collect donations for your local food pantry at your school this holiday season. Click here for info on our Feed the Need Campaign and tips on how to have to a collection drive.
- A great way to do this is to ask students and parent to bring one non-perishable item to holiday assemblies, concerts or dances. Place a box at the door where they can drop off their donation.
- Remember, soup kitchens and food pantries need help year-round, and especially throughout the cold winter months – make it a monthly or weekly habit to volunteer for a day! Take your friends and family to make it a fun event.
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FRANKFURT (Jul. 15)
In mass meetings held at the site of postwar internment camps in Lower Saxony and in Hesse, thousands of Germans who were interned there by the Allies shortly after the war as particularly dangerous or high-ranking Nazis have demanded “indemnification” for their “illegal detention.” Resolutions were adopted which called for compensation “along the same lines as that granted to former concentration camp inmates.”
At the meetings the German Party, a member of Chancellor Adenauer’s governmental coalition, distributed electioneering handbills soliciting the support of the ex-internees. The Hesse rally, held at Schwarzenborn, was addressed by the chairman of the German Party for Hesse, Dr. Schranz, the former Nazi mayor of Offenbach who polled almost a quarter of the vote there in the last local elections.
At Oerkpe in Lower Saxony, the featured speaker was Dr. Emil Ehrich, former personal aide to Heinrich Hellwege, a member of the Bonn cabinet, and at present chief organizer for the German Party in Lower Saxony. | <urn:uuid:0637a246-d15c-4e44-8d09-54b516ebbc65> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jta.org/1953/07/16/archive/nazis-interned-by-allies-demand-indemnification-as-victims | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00191-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975573 | 241 | 2.40625 | 2 |
interview with Jim Bones
BATTER UP: THROWING SEEDBALLS!
CURWOOD: All around us from small patches of erosion along roadsides to broad expanses of overused land, we know places where nothing much seems to grow. A few forlorn weeds, maybe, but most plants, like most people, like company. Seeding these bare spots can be expensive and frustrating as anyone who’s tried to start a lawn will tell you. But there is a little-known Japanese technique for habitat restoration that’s both cheap and easy. It’s called seedballing. Seed balls are small balls of clay encasing soil and seeds. They can be thrown just about anywhere, and when they are watered they give their seedlings a strong start. Folks are trying it now in northern New Mexico, including Native Americans and Federal agencies. Landscape photographer Jim Bones is promoting the seedballs, and as John Burnett reports, Mr. Bones is trying to prove that complex problems need not have complex solutions. Read the rest of this entry » | <urn:uuid:b7467888-4722-4753-8836-e656bcd36a0d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://pangwei.wordpress.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00136-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962646 | 222 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Evolution of glacier microstructure
The microstructure of ice evolves with depth and time in an ice sheet. This evolution of microstructure depends on the ice flow field, temperature, and impurity content. The flow field, in turn, depends on glacier microstructure, leading to feedbacks that produce layered variations in microstructure that are related to climate and flow history. Velvet Ice is a comprehensive study of the relationship between ice microstructure, impurities, and ice flow and their connection to climate history for the West Antarctic Ice Sheet (WAIS) Divide ice core site. Our objective is to understand how the evolution of ice microstructure with time and stress is related to impurity content, temperature, and strain rate and how the spatial variability of ice microstructure and its effect on ice flow affects our interpretation of climate history in the WAIS Divide ice core. This project combines a detailed study of ice crystal orientation fabrics obtained through scanning electron microscope based Electron Backscatter Diffraction (EBSD) with measurements of borehole deformation made using logging instruments. We incorporate and build on data collected by other WAIS Divide researchers, including borehole sonic velocity measurements, borehole optical dust log measurements, borehole temperature, crystal size and shape, and ice core chemistry.
This work is funded by the National Science Foundation, Antarctic Glaciology Program.
Faculty contact: Rachel W. Obbard | <urn:uuid:8fd125c0-90da-497e-ac44-25edf03bc912> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://engineering.dartmouth.edu/research/evolution-of-glacier-microstructure | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00018-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.888182 | 288 | 2.78125 | 3 |
1st and 2nd Year Medical Students
For first and second year medical students, it can be hard to know what specialty you will eventually pursue. Urology has a satisfying combination of medicine and surgery, with a large variety of procedures and sub-specialties (oncology, endourology, laparoscopy, robotics, infertility, female urology, sexual medicine, reconstruction, pediatrics, neurourology, etc.). We have the opportunity to follow patients for life for many of the diagnoses we treat. The best way to know if you want to go into urology is to see it for yourself. If you are interested in shadowing as a first or second year BUSM student please contact our medical student advisor, Dr. Shaun Wason (email@example.com). Getting involved in research (even if you end up choosing another specialty) is another good way to explore various fields of medicine. You may also find the links below helpful.
- BUSM Urology Interest Group
- Why Urology?
- Research Opportunities: | <urn:uuid:ddd8a966-2bdb-4536-bb55-818622b88a68> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bumc.bu.edu/urology/education-and-training/medical-students/1st-and-2nd-year-medical-students/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.928282 | 219 | 1.804688 | 2 |
- NetBSD Manual Pages
PAM_DENY(8) NetBSD System Manager's Manual PAM_DENY(8)
Powered by man-cgi (2021-06-01).
Maintained for NetBSD
by Kimmo Suominen.
Based on man-cgi by Panagiotis Christias.
pam_deny -- Deny PAM module
[service-name] module-type control-flag pam_deny [options]
The deny authentication service module for PAM provides functionality for
all the PAM categories: authentication, account management, session man-
agement and password management. In terms of the module-type parameter,
these are the ``auth'', ``account'', ``session'', and ``password'' fea-
The Deny module will universally deny all requests. It is primarily of
use during testing, and to ``null-out'' unwanted functionality.
The following options may be passed to the module:
debug syslog(3) debugging information at LOG_DEBUG level.
no_warn suppress warning messages to the user. These messages include
reasons why the user's authentication attempt was declined.
for password management (``password'' feature), return
PAM_IGNORE in the preliminary phase. This allows the module to
be used (with the ``required'' flag) at the end of a chain of
``sufficient'' modules with this service (where the entire chain
is in fact run twice).
syslog(3), pam.conf(5), pam(8)
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Horror movies in the 1980’s: Questioning Innocence and Authority
Two films in the 1980’s make us question the meaning of innocence and place of authority in our lives. Both Canadian films, PIN and Parents, may carry a deeper message to audiences at a time when cultural norms were shifting away from conformity and parental involvement.
PIN (1988) is not a well known horror film
This Canadian psycho-horror thriller by writer-director Sandor Stern (who wrote the original Amityville Horror), brings a whole new meaning to dysfunctional family.
We know already something isn’t right with this anatomically correct dummy figure. What the audience doesn’t expect is how this “plastic nightmare” comes to life as two siblings become caught up in a strange series of events that leave them questioning their family and their sanity.
The father, Dr. Frank Linden (Terry O’Quinn), isn’t what he seems and the son, Leon (David Hewlett) witnesses a disturbing scene with Pin and a nurse. Ursula (Cynthia Preston) is torn between her brother’s jealousy and her own feelings of what family is supposed to mean.
Both siblings react to their secure, innocent dream world being shattered by adults. Each deals with this new rude awakening differently: Ursula conforms while Leon rebels, in the most terrifying way possible.
The movie is based on the novel by Andrew Neiderman, author of The Devil’s Advocate.
Parents (1989) is a truly disturbing cult film that carries a lot of bite decades later
If bizarre suburban comedy-horror is your pick then Parents is sure to satisfy your dark hunger.
Nick (Randy Quaid) and Lily (Mary Beth Hurt) Laemle have moved to sunny suburban California with their son Michael (Bryan Madorsky) who is having nightmares. Michael’s strange dreams of blood and gore catches the attention of the school counselor, Millie Dew (Sandy Dennis).
It’s the perfect introduction for the family to have a new guest over for dinner–literally.
It turns out Nick and Lilly have a hankering for human flesh and their son will have to learn to carry on the family tradition or else.
The most disturbing scene in this movie happens to be the nightmarish “sex” scene with the parents as Michael catches them in their forbidden embrace which reenacts his fears and mimics a cannibalistic ritual. It’s here that Michael’s innocence takes a detour and he sees his parents in a very different light.
Michael must fight his parent’s influence but it looks like he may be all alone in the end. Will he finally give in to this acquired taste?
The movie directed by Bob Balaban and written by Christopher Hawthorne didn’t do well commercially but later on became a cult hit.
Both PIN and Parents were filmed in Canada.
The creepy theme running behind these films is a fear of turning into your parents
Growing up is hard enough without the added stress of finding out your parents are cannibals or wondering if your cold, emotionally distant father carries a psychosis that might be contagious.
The conformity and enabling of violence is another factor these young characters must contend with.
Surely, it’s obvious the nurse is having some *ahem* private time with Pin but the doctor father plays dumb. The father puts on a prudish act yet uses an anatomically correct male figure to explain to his children how a body is supposed to work. Having a thing for ventriloquism is equally disturbing yet the kids are supposed to play along in their pretend game. Gee, thanks for ruining our sanity, Dad!
The sister turns a blind eye to her brother’s disturbing behavior out of love but in the end he’s out of control and it’s up to her to end the insanity once and for all.
The mother in PIN is nothing more than a prop, as most rich housewives are. She’s nowhere in sight as the brother and sister play make-believe in their father’s office.
In Parents, the mother takes a more central role and it’s assumed she is a willing participant to the horrors her son, Michael, is facing.
She certainly doesn’t have any qualms about her husband’s job or what he does after. She expects her son to follow in his father’s bloody footsteps.
The school counselor’s role is a bit put-on but she serves as the breaking point in the story that leaves no doubt in the son’s mind about what his parents are.
The film also plays upon the secret knowings of childhood, in which the son’s subconscious nightmares come true in the worst way possible.
We always get the feeling that children know more than they let on and it’s a major red flag that the school counselor picks up on. The son has few friends and exhibits the classic behavior of the *troubled child*.
It’s always an excuse when adults say that children have too much imagination and rarely does an adult ever take a child seriously.
Having bloody nightmares of gore with bodies hanging from hooks as your parents bite into each other is probably a sign something is seriously wrong at home.
The school counselor tries to disprove the son’s fear about his parents but finds out too late that he was telling the truth all along.
Sometimes horrors are hard to believe and we do anything not to know about them.
Such is the tragic ending of these two films. Without spoiling too much, you find out the characters live but are irreversibly changed–their innocence is gone and terror is left in their wake.
The son, in Parents, wonders if he can keep standing up against his family or lose his willpower to defend himself in the end.
The two siblings, in PIN, must contend with a permanent outcome knowing they can no longer cross the divide of insanity that has taken over their lives completely.
Seeing these movies for the first time was a flashback to when I was a child. It’s extremely frustrating to try to tell adults something is terribly wrong and not have them believe you. This has happened multiple times in my life.
Imagine if you’ve witnessed something really bad: like a murderous mannequin or your dad dissecting a human body before preparing it for dinner.
Nothing is quite as terrifying as having those in authority ignore the horrors that are obviously happening right under their very noses
It’s even more terrifying knowing you must save yourself and your life without the help of authorities–even if it means going against the ones you’re supposed to love.
Innocence carries the blind trust we have of family figures and those in authority. We are ignorant of the world and the evils around us, even among our own family members.
Worse yet, is the knowledge we might turn evil because how can we escape what we come from? Does evil really run in our blood?
I like how these movies test the character’s will against all odds. It’s not so much a physical battle of running away or fighting the enemy because the most major fights happen in the mind.
There’s a denial and disconnect of what’s going on because the characters don’t want to believe that someone they love is capable of so much evil.
The mind knows what it knows: as in the case of Michael’s bloody dreams or with Leon’s mannequin telling him the awful terrible truth.
It turns out what we really fear most in the end is ourselves.
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All the Higher Education Institutes (HEIs) of Pakistan should keenly focus on their education quality to meet the current professional, competitive and technology based market demands, otherwise the students with inappropriate learning and critical thinking may face difficulty in getting suitable jobs in the marketplace. In the same manner, the universities with poor education quality and governance may also taper off their market repute and may confront poor ranking among national and international universities. Currently, Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistanis carrying out extraordinary efforts to develop quality culture in both public and private HEIs as per their designed policies and standards, which is commendably appreciable. The echo of quality assurance in Higher Education of Pakistan was started in 2005 when Quality Assurance Agency (QAA) was established under the umbrella of HEC to properly implement the quality assurance mechanism in the HEIs. This agency not only operates as a monitoring body but also acts as a policy making body to ensure and enhance the education quality of HEIs. Currently, two major sections are working under QAA namely Internal Quality Assurance (IQA) and External Quality Assurance (EQA). One of the core objectives of IQA is to develop Quality Enhancement Cells (QECs) in all HEIs to implement all academic standards developed by HEC. At present, IQA has achieved this milestone as QECs have been successfully established almost in all public and private universities of Pakistan. The foremost responsibilities of QEC are to develop quality assurance processes, implement self-assessment mechanism and to conduct periodic academic audit of the degree programs to safeguard the quality standards of HEC. To monitor the academic quality more comprehensively, HEC has also been productively implementing external quality assurance mechanism in HEIs which consists of Institutional Level Evaluation (ILE) and program level accreditation. The ILE is carried out through applying equally important11 institutional performance evaluation standards and each university gains the performance based recognition on the basis of their level of implemented standards. On the other hand, 9 independent and 5 HEC professional accreditation councils are also working to particularly monitor and ensure the quality of undergraduate programs of the HEIs. In the same manner, quality assurance mechanism for MPhil and PhD programmes is also effectively working to impede sub-standardized graduate level degree programs of the HEIs. Various monitoring committees are working under this mechanism to determine the extent to which the universities are following the quality standards. Recently, HEC banned the admission of various universities who were providing substandard degrees to the students, showing the existence of strong monitoring mechanism for quality assurance. As mentioned, HEC has developed a significant internal and external quality assurance mechanism for the enhancement of academic quality of HEIs, now there is a need that all HEIs must properly adopt and implement HEC specified policies and procedures for creating better learning and creative environment in their academic vicinities. Although HEC has designed strong and comprehensive quality assurance mechanism, however a few points may also be considered by Higher Education Commission to more strengthen their quality mechanism. First, the standards of accreditation councils may be more coherent with the standards of self-assessment mechanism. Second, the activities of research and development may be considered in QA mechanism more comprehensively. Third, the impact of quality assurance mechanism may be increased in the university ranking criteria developed by HEC. Fourth, Higher Education Commission may also standardize the teaching load of the faculty members of HEIs because it is also one of the key antecedents of quality assurance. Lastly, survey proforma of self-assessment may be re-tested to obtain more reliable and valuable output from all the concerned stakeholders. The writer is Quality Enhancement Cell deputy director at the National College of Arts Lahore Published in Daily Times, January 22nd 2018. | <urn:uuid:7b2e89e5-a028-41d1-8af3-54fa99249e64> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dailytimes.com.pk/186157/quality-assurance-mechanism-hec/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.956488 | 758 | 2.015625 | 2 |
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Compared to EPA Method 1623. 1, the cost savings of using biofilms to track Cryptosporidium contamination will enable utilities to sample water sources more often and at more locations than is realistic given limited operating budgets. Biofilm analysis could be used to determine high-risk areas within a large, complicated watershed and the associated water treatment plants at risk for increased oocyst loads in the water supply; this information can then be used to determine the locations within the watershed where the more costly EPA Method 1623. 1 is warranted. Although oocyst detection or numbers of oocysts found by sliding biofilm testing did not necessarily agree on a particular day, there was no seasonal variation in the frequency of oocyst detection or numbers of oocysts found whether the water was monitored by filtration or slide biofilm sampling. These results show that oocyst detection in biofilms is similar to oocyst detection in filter water samples. Compared to EPA Method 1623. 1, the cost savings of using biofilms to screen for Cryptosporidium contamination would enable utilities to sample water supplies more often, and at more locations than is possible given limited operating budgets. Biofilm analysis may be used to identify high-risk areas within a large, complicated watershed and the water treatment plants at potential risk for increased oocyst loads in the water supply; this information could then be used to determine the locations within the watershed where the more costly EPA Method 1623. 1 is indicated.
In rural and urban Ethiopian rural and urban areas, Chlorocebus aethiops and Colobus guereza samples from 185 fecal samples of Chlorocebus aethiops and Colobus guereza. In two samples, mixed infection with C. parvum and C. hominis was confirmed. Four C. hominis family subtypes and one C. parvum family subtype were identified, as well as one C. parvum family subtype. The most common subtypes found were C. hominis IaA20 and C. parvum IIaA17G1R1. Chlorocebus aethiops and Colobus guereza can be infected with a number of C. parvum and Colobus guereza subtypes that can also infect humans. These findings have shown that Chlorocebus aethiops and Colobus guereza can be infected with Chlorocebus aethiops and Colobus guereza subtypes that can infect humans. Additional studies may help to determine the role of NHPs in the zoonotic transmission of Cryptosporidium in Ethiopia.
This paper seeks to synthesize all currently available information on interactions between Cryptosporidium oocysts and biofilms. Following a waterborne outbreak, the integration of Cryptosporidium oocysts in biofilm has been well demonstrated. According, in oocyst water quality testing, it has been suggested that substrate-associated biofilms be investigated more thoroughly. The effect of physicochemical variables has been investigated on oocyst biofilm retention. Surface roughness, ionic concentration, laminar/turbulent flow, shear strain, and electrostatic repulsion factors all appear to be relevant when considering oocyst removal from biofilm.
This research will determine how much of the binding ability is due to long-range electrostatic forces versus other bonding methods. In addition to raising the scientific understanding of fate and transport of oocysts, an improved understanding of the binding mechanisms may help with the development of new tools and sensors that monitor and track oocysts in waterways. ABSTRACT: Cryptosporidium parvum is a potentially lethal gastrointestinal disease in humans and can not be effectively removed from drinking water by traditional methods. This research investigates the link of C. parvum oocysts to silanized surfaces. Any age, oocyst age, oocysts bind most strongly to carboxylic acid functional groups, with rupture rates greater than that required to crack noncovalent molecular bonds. This research provides new insight into the chemical conditions that influence C. parvum oocyst binding to surfaces. Increasing knowledge of how age and water chemistry influence the binding strength of oocysts may help with future environmental monitoring and drinking water treatment, as well as the introduction of oocyst-specific sensors that allow for more accurate monitoring of oocysts in the environment. This research starts to show the mechanism of direct binding of Cryptosporidium parvum to surfaces with both carboxylic acid and amine moieties, in an attempt to determine how much of the binding ability is due to long-range electrostatic forces rather than other bonding techniques.
Cryptosporidium spp. After handling calves, epidemics of cryptosporidiosis have arisen in several countries. Both students and calves were included in the context of the fetotomy experiments, according to our investigation, which used a One Health approach and combined epidemiological approaches and laboratory methods. The findings revealed a high risk of contracting cryptosporidiosis among vet students in the fetotomy lab environment, particularly when using calves with high fecal Cryptosporidiosis loads. Our results will be used to inform future attempts to discourage the transmission of Cryptosporium parvum to students during fetotomy exercises. ABSTRACT OF HYPODERY TERMS An outbreak of cryptosporidiosis among veterinarian students participating in fetotomy treatments in euthanized calves in Denmark in September 2018 occurred. Eleven students completed a questionnaire regarding symptoms and potential risk behavior. In stool samples from students and scientists used to determine the fecal parasite load in the calves used for the experiments, stools samples from students and to determine the fecal parasite load in the calves used for the experiments. During the exercise, we found the risk factors for cryptosporidiosis during diarrheic calf, detecting apparent fecal contamination on the personal protective equipment, and reporting problems with PPE during the training. Comparing to younger calves, a significant percentage of the calves aged 7 days old and above were positive. The results revealed a high risk of contracting cryptosporidiosis among veterinarians in the context of the fetotomy procedures, particularly when using calves with high fecal Cryptosporidium loads. During fetotomy exercises, our results can be used to inform future attempts to minimize the transmission of Cryptosporidium parvum to students.
ABSTRACT Compliance with guideline removal goals for Cryptosporidium that do not give any credit for the inactivation of oocysts by wastewater treatment processes can greatly raise the cost of providing recycled water. After various treatment stages at three Victorian and two South Australian wastewater treatment plants, here we discuss the use of an integrated assay to determine both oocyst counts and infectivity levels. The ability to quantify risk from infectious oocysts revealed that the danger from Cryptosporidium is much lower than previously expected, and that including it in quantitative risk assessments of reuse schemes will more accurately guide treatment decisions and capital investment, improving the longevity of such programs. Thus, the inclusion of oocyst infection in guideline values and in a quantitative microbial risk assessment has the ability to influence future treatment recommendations and capital investment.
The return of biofilm-associated C. parvum oocysts back into the water column by biofilm sloughing or bulk erosion of biofilm sloughing or bulk erosion of oocyst attachment to biofilms, as well as the physical and chemical factors controlling oocyst attachment to biofilms is important to predict the behavior of oocysts in the environment. Biofilms were produced in rotating annular bioreactors using prefiltered stream water and rock biofilms until the mean biofilm thickness reached steady state, according to our analysis. The deposition of Oocyst demonstrated no indication of solution ionic strength; rather, the presence of calcium enhanced oocyst attachment, as shown by deposition tests. IMPORTANCE The cation bridging model in our study gives new insight into the effects of calcium on the attachment of C. parvum oocysts to environmental biofilms.
ABSTRACT TRACTATION OF Cryptosporidium spp. The environmental transport of Cryptosporidium spp. In this research, we took 40 CSO samples and 40 raw wastewater samples from Shanghai, China, and analyzed them by PCR and DNA sequencing for Cryptosporidium species, Giardia duodenalis, and Enterocytozoon bieneusi genotypes. In addition to Cryptosporidium hominis and Cryptosporidium parvum, two new pathogens found in industrialized countries, C. ubiquitum and Cryptosporidium viatorum, were also identified. Both of the two novel C. ubiquitum subtype families identified appeared to be genetic recombinants of well-known subtype families. Similarly, the most prevalent group 1 E. bieneusi genotypes and G. duodenalis subassemblage AII are identified human pathogens. Storm overflow is a common pathogen in surface water, according to the same distribution of human-pathogenic Cryptosporidium species and E. bieneusi and G. duodenalis genotypes between wastewater and CSO samples, reaffirms that the same source of pathogens in surface water. The frequent detection of C. ubiquitum and C. viatorum in urban water indicates that these recently identified human pathogens are endemic in China. According to this report, urban storm overflow, as well as untreated urban wastewater, combined sewer overflow is often contaminated with human-pathogenic Cryptosporidium, G. duodenalis, and E. bieneusi genotypes and subtypes, and urban storm overflow can play a significant role in the contamination of drinking source water and recreational water with human pathogens. Both newly identified human pathogens, Cryptosporidium viatorum, and Cryptosporidium viatorum, are also present in China, and genetic recombination can result in the emergence of novel C. ubiquitum subtype families.
These steady-state biofilms were then used to determine the effects of hydrodynamic conditions on C. parvum oocyst attachments. Both laminar and turbulent flows induced a pseudo-second-order scheme in C. parvum deposition onto biofilms. When the hydrodynamic wall shear stress increased, the number of oocysts attached to the biofilm at a steady state decreased. With increasing shear stress, the oocyst deposition rate increased at constant rate, but dropped at high shear, causing faster attachment of Cryptosporidium due to increased mass transport until the shear forces reach a critical threshold that prevents oocyst attachment. These results reveal that oocyst attachment in the short and long run are affected by shear: higher shear may be responsible for quicker initial oocyst attachment, but lower shear is associated with greater numbers of oocysts attached at equilibrium, which is shown by the following tables.
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This is the only document among Franklin’s papers that alludes to his participation in the Masonic ceremony held on November 28 by the Loge des Neuf Soeurs to honor Voltaire’s memory.3 Coming, as it did, in the footsteps of the August 25 commemoration by the Académie française of the philosopher, the celebration was an act of defiance flying in the face of the clergy’s unrelenting abomination of Voltaire.4
This makes Franklin’s participation in the event of considerable importance. One month before it took place, the writer of Bachaumont’s Mémoires secrets was already predicting that the American would attend: “On ne doute pas que le Dr Franklin, affilié à la même loge, l’héritier du tablier de Voltaire, l’ami & l’admirateur du défunt, n’y assiste & ne se distingue par quelque marque de son zèle en ce jour mémorable.”5 Why Franklin, always so careful not to antagonize the King or the government, chose to take part in what amounted to a subversive ceremony is a mystery to us. He may not have understood its full import: Condorcet, Diderot, and d’Alembert had announced their intention to be initiated that day and only withdrew at the last minute.6
Presided over by the current Vénérable, Lalande,7 the ceremony took place at the lodge’s seat in the rue du Pot-de-Fer-Saint-Sulpice and started with the initiation of new members, the most famous of whom was the painter Jean-Baptiste Greuze.8 Gathered in a vast auditorium dramatically lit and draped in black, the audience then listened to various eulogies alternating with the music of Rameau, Gluck, and Piccini, who also acted as conductor.9 By extraordinary exception there were two women among the audience, one of them Voltaire’s niece, Mme. Denis, who presented the lodge with a bust of her uncle done by Houdon. The high point of this first part of the proceedings was the reading by the poet Roucher of some overtly anticlerical passages of his forthcoming work, Les Mois.1 Finally, a huge painting representing the apotheosis of Voltaire was unveiled, and Franklin, along with two other participants, laid beneath it the crowns that had just been bestowed upon them.
The assembly then transferred itself for the banquet to a room full of flowers and bright decorations. Roucher was asked to read some more verse, and a line that clearly alluded to Franklin (“Le tonnere captif vient mourir à ses pieds”) provoked an ovation.
The ceremony had serious consequences for the Neuf Soeurs and almost cost the lodge its existence. The Grand Orient, hub of the Masonic organizations, was entrusted with restoring discipline to a lodge known for its autonomous tendencies. On the ground that it never should have allowed two women to see the Masons in full regalia, and on various other charges, the Grand Orient expelled the Nine Sisters from their seat, throwing out all their belongings including the Houdon bust. In the months following, Lalande put up a spirited defense while Paris took sides. Probably not by coincidence, a settlement was reached on May 20, 1779, exactly one day before Franklin took over as Vénérable.
Paris 28 Xbre 1778
Monsieur et cher frere
J’ai eu le bonheur de vous Voir aux neuf soeurs le jour qu’on Celebroit L’apotheose de Voltaire, Je dinai prés de vous, puisque le hazard me plaça entre Vous et le Pôete Rocher qui nous donna de si beaux Vers. Mon coeur desire de vous presenter ses sentimens; et chargé par une chambre de Commerce en Languedoc de savoir les productions du nouveau hamsphire Rhode Island, La Pensilvanie enfin les 13 Etats nos amis, je voudrais vous prier de m’admettre a vos audiences. Le jour qu’il vous plaira un quart d’heure de votre instruction et de mon admiration sera precieux pour toujours a celui qui est avec la plus affectueuse consideration, et par les nombres heureux et fraternels de la Lumiere maconique Monsieur et cher frere Votre tres humble et tres obeissant serviteur
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Notation: Bevoz Paris 28. Xbre. 1778.
3. Our information comes from the full accounts of both the event and its consequences in Louis Amiable, Une Loge maçonnique d’avant 1789 . . . (Paris, 1897), pp. 80–89 and 95–129 respectively. Amiable in turn used M. Tourneux, ed., Correspondance littéraire, philosophique et critique par Grimm, Diderot . . . (16 vols., Paris, 1877–82), XII, 188–93, and the various entries, anti-masonic in tone, written by the successor of Bachaumont in the Mémoires secrets (XII, 173–7). See also the Dec. 15 issue of the Courier de l’Europe, IV (1778), 380–1.
4. In spite of considerable pressure, the Church remained adamant in its opposition to Voltaire’s inhumation. His embalmed body lay in the vault of an abbey in Champagne until 1791 when it was transferred to the Pantheon.
5. XII, 141.
6. Amiable, Une Loge maçonnique d’avant 1789 . . ., p. 81.
7. For the astronomer Joseph-Jérôme le Français de Lalande and his involvement with the Nine Sisters see XXVI, 697. He was assisted on this occasion by two surveillants, BF and Strogonoff, a Russian count and man of letters living in Paris.
8. He had painted BF’s portrait in 1777: Charles C. Sellers, Benjamin Franklin in Portraiture (New Haven and London, 1962), 297–303 and plate 22.
9. The rivalry between Gluck and Piccini has been described in XXVII, 432n.
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In a meeting today, the Executive Council approved a preliminary report on the draft bill on Catalonia’s energy transition and the transformation of the Catalan Energy Institute (ICAEN) into the Catalan Energy Agency.
The legal text will lay down the legislative principles of Catalan energy policy necessary to meet the objectives established in the Climate Change Law and the National Agreement for the Energy Transition of Catalonia, which set the goal of achieving an energy model based entirely on renewable sources by 2050.
According to Minister Calvet, the new legislation will seek to “drive and incentivise the transition to an economy and society that are low-intensity in terms of consumption of energy and material resources, as well as being carbon-neutral”. To achieve these goals, areas of priority attention will include support for economic sectors adapting to new conditions caused by climate change, implementation of a new urban mobility model, elimination of regulatory and administrative barriers that hinder the fight against climate change, strengthening of incentives, and prioritisation of policies and resources that contribute to transforming the energy model.
In addition, to move forward as fast as possible, the Catalan government is finalising changes to the regulations that govern wind and solar power implementation in Catalonia.
The new legislation also envisages the transformation of the Catalan Energy Institute (ICAEN) into the Catalan Energy Agency. This measure, which fulfils a mandate established in the Climate Change Law, is aimed at making the entity an instrument for driving Catalonia’s energy transition, with the capability to effectively govern and coordinate actions under the National Agreement for the Energy Transition of Catalonia.
This legislative initiative is part of a package of measures the government has set in motion to tackle the climate emergency in Catalonia. Since declaring a climate emergency, the Catalan government has allocated €50 million to lines of action aimed at saving energy and improving efficiency in industry. A total of €7.3 million has been allocated to subsidise replacement of older vehicles with electric or more efficient models and for the installation of charging points. This funding is in addition to €2.9 million invested in a network of rapid charging points along Catalonia’s main roads. A further €8.3 million has been made available to fund business innovation projects that advance the energy transition, and the SOLARCAT strategy has been reoriented and expanded.
The Catalan government is also working to ensure that state-level electrical grid planning for the 2021–26 period includes a package of infrastructure (including 12 substations) for the evacuation of wind and solar power generated in Catalonia. Various dissemination and public participation projects have also been carried out to raise awareness and engage people and companies in the energy transition.
The Catalan government has been a pioneer in orienting its energy policies in a way that drives the transition to a new model that is cleaner and more sustainable. In 2016, the government started negotiating the foundations of the National Agreement for the Energy Transition of Catalonia with social, civic and economic partners, and its actions have made possible a state-level regulatory framework that is more favourable in areas such as shared self-consumption. | <urn:uuid:2997694c-2fa8-49f4-9b14-d5afeea2816c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://catalangovernment.eu/catalangovernment/news/379411/catalan-government-approves-preliminary-report-draft-bill-catalonia-s-energy-transition | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.945003 | 619 | 2.125 | 2 |
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In this lesson for grades 3–5, students watch an example of poetry performed orally and then discuss elements of the performance that lead to reading fluency. Students then use online resources to select a poem to perform in class. A performance critique sheet is used to evaluate performances and can be used for self-evaluation, peer evaluation, and teacher evaluation.
Performance Critique sheet
This sheet can be used in preparation for the oral poetry reading and after the class performance for self, peer, and teacher evaluation.
Rasinski, T. (2000). Speed does matter in reading. The Reading Teacher, 54, 146–151.
- Excessively slow, disfluent reading leads to less overall reading, has been associated with poor comprehension, and creates frustration for the reader.
- Strategies to increase the fluency of students include the use of poetry, which is often overlooked as a motivator for elementary students.
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BBC News is reporting that Florence, a 6′ (1.8m) nurse shark, is successfully recovering from what is believed to be the first out of water surgical procedure of its kind.
Florence, who appeared ill at her previous home at Weymouth Sea Life Park (UK) was found to have a rusty fishhook embedded in her. After being anesthetized and removed from her tank, surgery was performed while seawater was continuously pumped through her gills. During her recovery, she was treated with antibiotics and fed via a tube. Ten days after the surgery, Florence was able to eat on her own and has since fully-recovered. Florence went on display at her new home, National Sea Life Centre in Birmingham (UK), yesterday.
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Estate Planning Essentials: March 2017
The new monthly Chambliss Estate Planning Essentials brings you legal developments and other trends of vital interest in the world of estate planning. This post is brought to you by Leah McElmoyl and other members of the Estate Planning Practice Group of Chambliss Law Firm.
I’m Not Too Young for That – Estate Planning for Millennials
Was 1987 really 30 years ago? Why, yes, yes, it was. And, yes, this year many millennials, including myself, will be saying goodbye to their twenties. In other words, millennials are practically all grown up, and they need to do some estate planning.
Of course, you can’t just tell a millennial to do something without explaining what it is and why it is needed.
Estate Planning Overview
Estate planning involves preparing legal documents, determining beneficiaries, and titling assets – all to ensure your property and wishes are properly taken care of. For most people, estate planning documents typically include the following:
- Last Will and Testament
- Power of Attorney
- Health Care Directive
Last Will and Testament
Commonly referred to as a “will,” this is the document that says what happens to your property after you pass away.
I hear you – you are probably thinking “What property?” Property distributed under your will can include not only your car, house, retirement accounts, and life insurance proceeds, but also your pets, social media accounts, iTunes library, digital photos, and other “stuff” like your smart phone, jewelry, those expensive leather boots, Xbox games, Pokémon collection, etc. Under a will, you may specifically designate someone to take ownership and care of your pets and someone to take ownership and care of your digital assets.
If you happen to be married and/or have children already, you most definitely need a will for two primary reasons:
- Under your will, you may designate a guardian for your children in the event both parents pass away before your children reach adulthood. The guardian decides where your minor children live, where they go to school, what sports or other activities they participate in, what religion they practice, if any, what news channels they watch, etc. This person can but does not have to be one of your parents; it could be your sibling or close friend. In any event, it is best to appoint someone both parents can agree on.
- Under your will, you may designate a trustee to manage your assets (life insurance proceeds, retirement accounts, real estate, etc.) for the benefit of your child. For example, DO NOT leave your life insurance proceeds outright to your sister expecting her to take care of your children. Your child will have no legal right to benefit from that money, and a wide variety of unforeseen things could happen (e.g., your sister’s husband could run off to Cancun with the money and his new girlfriend). Instead, leave life insurance proceeds to a trust for your child under your will and appoint your sister as trustee.
Durable General (Financial) Power of Attorney
Commonly referred to as a “Power of Attorney” or “POA,” this document allows you to appoint someone to act on your behalf with regard to your financial and business matters in the event you become incapacitated or for whatever reason are unable to act for yourself.
For young millennials, this means that once you turn 18, your mother can no longer act on your behalf – only the person you appoint under a power of attorney can legally do so. So if you want your mother to be able to talk to the college’s financial aid office, you need a POA appointing her to do so.
Health Care Directive
Commonly referred to as a “Living Will” or “Advance Directive,” this document or set of documents (explained further below) is intended to do two things:
- set forth your wishes for how you want to be treated in the event you are nearing the end of life, and
- appoint someone to carry out those wishes and make other medical and health care decisions for you if you are unable to speak for yourself.
Traditionally, these two goals were accomplished in two separate documents, known as a health care power of attorney and a living will. However, in recent years, many states, including Tennessee, Georgia, and Alabama, have developed a state-specific form to combine the functions of a health care power of attorney and living will into one short, easily accessible form, known as an advance directive or advance care plan. Whether you have a health care power of attorney and living will or a state-specific advance directive is often determined by your specific situation, your state of residence, and your preferences. These forms can be customized by an attorney to fit your individual wishes.
An advance directive is probably the easiest estate planning document for the general public to access, but it is likely the last document on the mind of any millennial. It is difficult for us to imagine where we will be in five years, let alone at the end of life. It seems so far away. Well, so did 30 when I was 18. We know how that turned out. So think about it. Write it down. Update it when you change your mind – kind of like updating your Instagram bio.
Give Yourself Peace of Mind
Whether you are a millennial or a parent or grandparent of a millennial, estate planning is important to you and your family. Your estate plan may, in fact, be very simple, but I can assure you that without a plan at all, the process that follows in the event of an unexpected death or disability will be far from simple. Peace of mind is always worth an uncomfortable conversation. | <urn:uuid:53bb8913-1742-41aa-850c-81e874bac201> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chamblisslaw.com/estate-planning-essentials-march-2017-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.957295 | 1,191 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Fireplace, castle of Blois
by JackDesBwa 2019-08-02 09:36
This fireplace takes place in the "salle des capitaines de garde" (captains' room) in the castle of Blois, France.
This castle is one of the major residences of several French kings, hence the profusion of richly decorated fireplaces. On this one, we can see the salamander, symbol of king François Ier and the ermine, symbol of queen Claude of France.
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by JULIE POUCHER HARBIN, EDITOR, ISLAMi Commentary on FEBRUARY 18, 2016:
In November I had a chance to sit down with policy analyst, journalist, and scholar Raza Rumi at the ISLAMiCommentary office of the Duke Islamic Studies Center and speak to him about countering violent extremism in the Middle East and in Pakistan, and the plight of journalists in his native Pakistan.
Rumi was at Duke to lead a conversation on “Countering Violent Extremism: The Case of Pakistan.” He had been invited by the Duke Pakistani Students’ Association and his visit was co-sponsored by the Sanford School of Public Policy, the DeWitt Wallace Center for Media and Democracy, and the Duke Alexander Hamilton Society.
Rumi has been living in the U.S. since shortly after a March 2014 assassination attempt on his life that left his driver dead and guard seriously injured. While escaping with minor injuries, he said that after his car was ambushed he felt “insecure” and “traumatized,” and had to leave Pakistan after a few weeks. State agencies and local police, he said, couldn’t promise it wouldn’t happen again. (Police later reportedly implicated members of the Taliban-affiliate Lashkar-e-Jhangvi in the attack)
Rumi had been a broadcast TV commentator in Pakistan since 2010, but rose to prominence in when he began hosting current affairs shows, including at Pakistan’s Capital TV then Express News. He was on his way home from the station when his car was attacked. (Amnesty International has documented numerous cases of journalists being killed in Pakistan as a direct result of their work.)
He said he was targeted for being an “apostate” or “blasphemer.”
“I am used to saying what I believe in which is rational to me and where I don’t know how to mince words especially against extremist ideologies,” he said.
In Pakistan’s battle against terrorists, including the Pakistani Taleban, Rumi said the state has taken “a very militaristic approach.”
But he cautioned that that was only one part of the battle: “The other part is to give all citizens equal rights in conflict zones and undertake development and create a more inclusive society for them which restores their faith in the Pakistani state and which allows them the chance of carrying out a normal life.”
Rumi also described how outside influence has aided in the proliferation of extremist seminaries and violent militias in Pakistan, including support and training of mujahedeen to fight the Soviet Union in Afghanistan by the U.S. and Saudi Arabia in the ‘80s, or Saudi Arabia’s ongoing investments in Islamic seminaries (madrasas).
On state building — whether in Pakistan, Iraq, Syria or Afghanistan — he said that history has shown that outsiders cannot really accomplish this.
“It is the organic groups and the political groups within those countries who have to build and rebuild their state and rebuild institutions of governance with least possible interference from the outside world,” he said.
The ideological battle against violent extremism in Pakistan, Afghanistan, the Middle East, he said, must also be waged by the moderate Muslim clerics and intelligentsia, who “have to come up and say this is wrong, this is a misapplication, a misunderstanding, and total abuse of Islamic history.”
As to the question of whether the U.S. policy of engaging with moderate Muslims or moderate Muslim clerics was a useful exercise in combatting violent extremism, Rumi said there is “instrinsic worth in it” but that the US “can’t really do much.”
“As events in Iraq, and Afghanistan and elsewhere have proved. It is those societies, the Muslims themselves that have to do something about it,” he said, noting that the vast majority of Muslims in the world do not support extremist groups like ISIS, Boko Haram and the Taleban. “The ordinary Muslims are like ordinary people anywhere, they want security, they want jobs, a better education for their kids, they want food, they want prospects.” | <urn:uuid:855c87a9-3254-4f12-a3ef-318c976ab7d5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://razarumi.com/watch-raza-rumi-speaks-countering-violent-extremism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00057-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977352 | 887 | 1.648438 | 2 |
GEM Montebello was founded by the husband and wife team of Gian Carlo Montebello and Teresa Pomodoro in 1967 for the purpose of producing limited edition jewelry designed by the prominent artists of the day. From 1967 to 1978 Montebello and Pomodoro worked with over 50 artists, including César, Sonia Delaunay, Claude Lalanne, Lucio Fontana, Man Ray, Hans Richter, Larry Rivers, Niki de Saint Phalle, Raphael Jesus Soto, Ettore Sottsass and Alex Katz, and quickly established a reputation for turning out some of the most fascinating and imaginative artist-made jewelry of the time.
In 1968 Montebello and Pomodoro met the Italian photographer Ugo Mulas. Mulas, best known for his extraordinary body of images documenting the New York Pop art scene in the mid to late 1960s, was extremely impressed with GEM's designs and generously offered to photograph the jewelry at no charge and even found the models who wore them. Montebello describes GEM's first catalogue as, "really like a deck of cards. The box was fire-red on the outside, with the GEM logo while the inside was a splendid series of black-and-white photos by Ugo Mulas." Shortly after the release of the catalogue, the Mulas' stunning photographs were published in American Vogue.
In order to produce their progressive designs the Milan based GEM worked with a great variety of materials and relied upon a wide variety of the local craftsman; not only skilled goldsmiths and silversmiths but also more industrial trades such as those who worked with acrylic resin and galvanized steel.
GEM's artist made jewelry is included in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston. Examples have also been on view in numerous exhibitions including the Italian Metamorphosis, curated by Germano Celant for the Guggenheim Museum in New York (1993-1994). Images of various pieces have also been widely reproduced, seen in, among other publications, Fifty Years of Italian Artists, Jewels edited by Luisa Somaini and Claudio Cerritelli and published in 1996.
The present collection of 19 jewels - with the exception of lot 293 - were purchased by the present collector direclty from GEM.
Many of Lucio Fontana's jewelry designs for GEM clearly draw upon his concetto spaziale series, begun in 1949, where he punctured and slashed his canvasses (or in the early 1960s flat pieces of metal), thus creating voids. | <urn:uuid:d583ecee-ddae-4557-81e2-a1efcf0a50c9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.christies.com/lotfinder/Jewelry/lucio-fontana-a-silver-and-lacquer-bracelet-5085655-details.aspx?intObjectID=5085655 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00203-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963045 | 529 | 1.625 | 2 |
A Tale of Three Senators
By Brigitte Gabriel
In a time where courage is a precious commodity on Capital Hill, a Democratic U.S. Senator has set an admirable example of statesmanship in stark contrast to two of her former colleagues.
Senator Diane Feinstein of California, the Chair of Senate Intelligence Committee has sounded the alarm over the escalating threat from Jihadist terrorism and released a report in the pursuit of the truth about the terrorist attack on U.S. diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11th, 2012.
Senator Feinstein’s words and deeds stand in stark contrast to those of former Senators Hillary Clinton and John Kerry, the former and current Obama administration Secretaries of State.
Senator Feinstein recently correctly defined our enemies as a “very fundamentalist jihadist Islamic community” – in a warning that terrorism is on the rise. During a December 1st interview on CNN’s State of the Union with Candy Crowley, Senator Feinstein noted,
I think there is a real displaced aggression in this very fundamentalist jihadist Islamic community. And that is, that the West is responsible for everything that goes wrong and that the only thing that's going to solve this, is Islamic sharia law and the concept of the caliphate. And I see more groups, more fundamentalists, more jihadists, more determined to kill to get where they want to get. So, it's not an isolated phenomenon. You see these groups spread a web of connections. And this includes North Africa, it includes the Middle East, it includes other areas as well.
It took great courage for Senator Feinstein to publicly identify the enemy and describe the basics of the doctrine that underpins their actions. She knew full well that her democratic base will be very uncomfortable with her bold truth about a problem that is devastating our country yet no one wants to identify including the president. Her words were like a breath of fresh air. Few Republicans, much less Democrats, on Capitol Hill have done as good a job of articulating the threat we face from Jihad.
Unfortunately, Feinstein’s former colleague, Secretary of State John Kerry, is not nearly as well informed as she is. He has uttered nothing to indicate that he has any grasp of the enemy threat doctrine and what makes our enemies “tick.”
In fact, just this week, Kerry parroted the long-discredited theory that terrorism is caused by poverty. In remarks delivered during a visit to the Vatican, Kerry proclaimed poverty to be the “root cause” of terrorism.
This isn’t the first time Kerry has regurgitated such nonsense. Speaking at the Global Counterterrorism Forum in the wake of the Jihadist terrorist attack on a shopping mall in Nairobi, Kenya, Kerry called for “providing more economic opportunities” for youth to prevent them from being recruited to terrorism.
Perhaps Kerry has forgotten that Osama Bin Laden was a multimillionaire who left a life of luxury in Saudi Arabia to wage global jihad? Or maybe he forgets that the current leader of Al Qaeda, Ayman al-Zawahiri, was no pauper either. He was a professor of surgery and practicing physician at one time in his native Egypt before he turned to jihad. Then there is current captive Khalid Sheikh Mohammed, who was well off enough to come to the United States to earn a degree in engineering from North Carolina A&T.
There is no actual evidence that poverty causes terrorism. Jihadist terrorism has its roots in the doctrine known as sharia. Jihadists have come to commit acts of terror from a variety of lifestyles, nationalities and socioeconomic backgrounds. There is no evidence to indicate that poverty is a prerequisite for Jihadist terrorism, despite what Kerry says.
In fact, Kerry’s statement shows a profound confusion and naïveté when it comes to the war with which we are faced. Fortunately, Senator Feinstein doesn’t have the same problem that Secretary Kerry has.
In fact, as Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee, Senator Feinstein has just released a new, bipartisan report on the Jihadist terror attack on US diplomatic facilities in Benghazi, Libya, on September 11th, 2012, that goes a long way toward dispelling some of the myths surrounding that attack and assigning accountability for what went wrong.
Among the report’s findings:
• The attack was NOT a spontaneous act of violence touched off by a protest in reaction to a video about the prophet Mohammed.
• The U.S. government did not do enough to prevent the attack or protect the diplomatic facilities.
• The Obama State Department had ample warning of a dangerous security situation in Benghazi but failed to take proper action to secure lives and property.
• The Obama intelligence community issued statements after the attack that turned out to be wrong and then was slow in correcting those incorrect statements.
Feinstein’s committee’s candid, accurate report is quite different from the testimony before the Senate delivered by Senator Feinstein’s former colleague, then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton, on January 23rd, 2013. Who can forget the shameful prevarications and doublespeak from Hillary Clinton that day?
But worst of all was this cynical and infamous passage:
With all due respect, the fact is we had four dead Americans. Was it because of a protest? Or was it because of guys out for a walk one night and decided they would go kill some Americans? What difference at this point does it make?
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TV commentators say Mitt Romney won the first presidentialdebate. He won it on taxes: “I don’t have a $5 trillion tax cut . . . . My number one principle is there will be no tax cut that adds to the deficit. . . . I will not reduce the taxes paid by high-income Americans. . . . I will not, under any circumstance raise taxes on middle-income families. I will lower taxes on middle-income families.” Should we believe that?
Tax cuts for the wealthy are fundamental Republican economic dogma. Conservatives have made this policy the centerpiece of their economic theory: 1) the wealthy are job creators; 2) the more money they have, the more jobs they will create; 3) therefore lower their taxes. Which came first, the desire to enhance the household economies of rich Americans, or the theory that we all are better off when the rich get richer, is hard to say. They fit together so neatly.
Tax cuts for the poor do not fit into this economic theory.Republican proposals in the Senate and House, created mainly by Romney’s VP selection, Paul Ryan, lower taxes on the wealthy in two whopping chunks: the top tax rate drops from 35% to 25%, and all taxes on capital gains disappear. The taxes paid by millions of low-income families would rise, because tax credits that help them are reduced, such as the Child Tax Credit, Earned Income Tax Credit, and American Opportunity Tax Credit.
Last year, Romney’s “Believe in America” manifesto had no plan to reduce income tax rates. He supported the extension of George Bush’s tax cuts for everyone. Lower income tax rates might be the subject of a future “fundamental reform”. He did push a different tax reduction for the wealthy by eliminating the estate tax, benefitting individuals with estates worth more than $5 million.
Then in the January Republican debate in South Carolina, Romney said he wanted to reduce the top tax rate: “More than 25%, I think, is taking too much out of our pockets. . . . 25 is where I would like to see us go.”
In February, Romney said that he wanted to cut rates for all individuals by 20%, which would bring the top rate down to 28%. The cuts would be offset by reducing deductions, exemptions and credits for high earners, producing the same total revenue.
Romney did not explain how this could happen until April, when he proposed to eliminate the mortgage interest deduction for wealthy people who have second homes. “By virtue of doing that, we’ll get the same tax revenue, but we’ll have lower tax rates.”
Of course, removing that deduction comes nowhere near balancing the 20% reduction in tax rates, so Romney has been repeatedly asked what other deductions he would eliminate, without any answer.
In August in Las Vegas, Romney was clear: “My tax policy will not reduce the taxes paid by high-income Americans.” At the September Republican convention, he asserted, “I want to lower taxes on middle-income people.” But he also said in Ohio that middle-class people would not pay lower taxes under his plan.
What Romney said about taxes during the debate is merely the latest version of his constantly changing proposals, still full of contradictions. Although the wealthy pay the same, and middle-class people pay less, “we keep taking in the same money, when you also account for growth.” In fact, by eliminating the estate tax, the alternative minimum tax, and the Medicare surtax on high incomes, his plan significantly reduces taxes paid by the wealthy.
A bigger contradiction is that Romney has been claiming since April to get the benefits of a tax cut without it. In the debate with Obama he said, “And you think, well, then why lower the rates? And the reason is that because small business pays that individual rate. . . . And if we lower that rate, they’ll be able to hire more people.” This will happen just because the tax rate is lower, even if their tax bills are the same. That makes no sense.
In September the Congressional Research Service, working for the House and Senate, released a report on Taxes and the Economy. Their conclusion was “that changes over the past 65 years in the top marginal tax rate and the top capital gains tax rate do not appear correlated with economic growth. . . . However, the top tax rate reductions appear to be associated with the increasing concentration of income at the top of the income distribution.”
Doesn’t matter. Romney promised to create 12 million jobs in his first term. The Congressional Budget Office estimates that the normal processes of this recovery will create 12 million new jobs. He said that we could become energy independent under his plan, but earlier this year Citigroupsaid that would happen anyway by the end of the decade. Romney promises us nothing.
Romney’s New Economic Policy won the debate. Maybe he’ll be elected President. When a Republican-dominated Congress sends him the big tax cut for the wealthy that every Republican in Congress has been voting for, and that his Vice-President has staked his career on, what will President Romney do?
Will he veto it? I’d like to hear him say that.
But I still wouldn’t believe him.
Taking Back Our Lives
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54: StrangersUp one level
Strangers, March 2001
- Introduction: What We Talk About When We Talk About Strangers
John Brady and Steven Rubio
An issue devoted to Strangers faces a perhaps unique problem in this regard: the more strange you feel, the more difficult it is to make the connections which can help lead us to a changed and better world.
- Inaugurating the New Hegemony
Within the logic of Bush's vision, Americans are offered a trade-off: an increased role in civil society in exchange for their continued subordination in the face of political and especially economic power.
- 'Bush Drives Us Into Bakunin's Arms!': An Interview with Howard Zinn
Joe Lockard, Joel Schalit
On the day before George W. Bush was inaugurated as president, we asked Zinn about his observations concerning this juncture in American history.
- Strangers and Bedfellows: When Feminists Marry Animal Lovers
What happens when the advocates for these two groups that get shafted for deviating from normative understandings of gender and species identity decide to get together?
- None Meaner Than Gina: Ms. Arnold Cozy with Capital
Not only do musicians and other artists have to contend with the forces of capital shoving them out of the once-hospitable city, but they have to contend with seeing their case belittled by turncoats like gentrification's sycophant, Gina Arnold.
- Requiem for an Easy Rider
Countercultural style is a form of political resistance.
- The Heart of Whiteness: The Allure of Tourism in Vertical Limit and The Beach
Abusing the hospitality of other nations, Americans test the limits of their own subjectivity at the expense of the others' selves.
- Lesbian Invisibility and the Femme's Dilemma
I am automatically seen as a straight woman, because I look like a woman. The assumption that I am straight, moreover, carries with it other assumptions -- about my availability to men, my desires, my habits.
- Prime Locations
The last stranger I encountered was actually a neighbor, though a renter and therefore someone without the same assumed relationship to community as the rest of us, homeowners one and all.
- Home Isn't Where the Work Is: Why There's Casa Marianella
So long as there is a great disparity in wages between North and South and a labor shortage in the North, they will find a way to come and work. And, when they arrive in Austin with no place to stay, Casa Marianella offers them a sanctuary.
- The Truth Is Here: Strangers in Roswell, New Mexico
Media such as television, film, and narrative are handled at a safe distance. The Roswell incident, on the other hand, can be interacted with because Roswell is a physical site.
- Make It a Double: My Lives as Barkeep and Academic, or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Accept Bar Life
While these worlds may seem disparate at first glance, I've come to recognize similarities in how people deal with strangers, strangeness, and the unfamiliar. In each world, the familiar often goes unquestioned. The unknown is kept at arm's length and susceptible to limiting assumptions.
- Feel Like Going Home: Notes on Self-Marginalization
This is not a pretty piece. It is about being a stranger; it is about self-marginalizing behavior. It is in many ways the antithesis of a Bad Subjects piece. | <urn:uuid:63e0ffbc-faba-4511-8742-22fc24b20c15> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://bad.eserver.org/issues/2001/54 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00005-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.924224 | 732 | 1.65625 | 2 |
By Nate Owen
Those looking to dodge parking tickets in New York city will soon have a silent stalker. According to CNN, via Cars.com, the New York government recently purchased 70 new electric vehicles, including a squad of Chevy Volts to patrol New York city's meters.
The Volts will be limited strictly to parking ticket duties. I've seen meter-enforcers in other countries cruise around in what pretty much amount to glorified golf carts, but this is the first I've heard of smaller cars being used for that duty in America.
While they won't be engaged in any high speed chases, the environmentally and gasoline friendly Volt is certainly a dramatic change of pace from classic police vehicles such as the Mustang Interceptor. | <urn:uuid:7e20faaa-91b6-4777-89ad-3874414bdbb7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ctnow.com/otr-blog-janedee-071911-column.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00076-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962293 | 151 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Name sparked protests by faculty, staff and students
It will be renamed for Grace Murray Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist
Yale University announced Saturday that it would change the name of an undergraduate residence college named for 19th-century American politician, Yale alumnus and slavery proponent John C. Calhoun.
“Calhoun’s legacy as a white supremacist and a national leader who passionately promoted slavery as a ‘positive good’ fundamentally conflicts with Yale’s mission and values,” Yale President Peter Salovey said in a written statement released Saturday.
Calhoun was born in South Carolina in 1782 and graduated from Yale University in 1804. He was a congressman, senator, secretary of war, secretary of state and the seventh vice president. Calhoun was a vocal proponent of states’ rights and slavery in the pre-Civil War South. He died in 1850.
Calhoun College is set to be renamed for Grace Murray Hopper, a pioneering computer scientist and naval officer, who graduated from the university with a PhD in mathematics in 1934.
Hopper developed the first programming language compiler, changing the way computer programs were written. Her work laid the foundation for COBOL, one of the most widely-used programming languages in existence. She retired from the US Navy at the age of 79 with the rank of rear admiral.
The new name was chosen from among “hundreds” of suggestions from alumni, students faculty and staff, according to Salovey. “Hopper’s name was mentioned by more individuals than any other.”
Salovey’s announcement comes after years of debate among university leadership. It is also a reversal of Salovey’s decision last April to keep the name, citing fears of erasing the university’s history.
Protests over the name
That April decision led to an uptick in student, faculty and staff protests. The Black Student Alliance at Yale called it “a regression,” writing in a statement on social media at the time that the university had “actively recommitted itself to honoring the legacy of one of America’s foremost proponents of slavery.”
The Black Student Alliance at Yale could not be immediately reached for comment Saturday.
In June 2016, Corey Menafee, an African-American dining hall employee, shattered a stained glass window in Calhoun College that depicted slavery.
“I try to work and help people as hard as I can, and then you look up and see an image of slaves,” Menafee said at the time. “It’s the 21st century. I shouldn’t have to see that.”
Saturday’s decision to remove Calhoun’s name comes at the unanimous recommendation of a three-member advisory group made up of two professors and one Calhoun College alumnus.
“Calhoun himself defined a principal legacy – his defense of racial inequality as integral to national development – fundamentally at odds with Yale’s mission,” the recommendation letter reads. “It’s hard to see how it can be understood today other than a legacy of ‘racism and bigotry.’”
While the college will no longer bear his name, Salovey said other references to Calhoun, such as a statue of him on the main campus, will remain.
“In making this change, we must be vigilant not to erase the past,” Salovey said in a statement. “We will not remove symbols of Calhoun from elsewhere on our campus, and we will develop a plan to memorialize the fact that Calhoun was a residential college name for 86 years.” | <urn:uuid:065c9b4e-18c1-4fa6-91ad-9f4c388bb9ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.cnn.com/2017/02/11/us/yale-renames-calhoun-college/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.961685 | 778 | 2.5625 | 3 |
(1921- 1951). Active on Broadway
in the following productions:
(1921). Stage Play: The Triumph of X. Drama. Written by Carlos Wupperman. Directed by W.H. Gilmore and Jessie Bonstelle
. Comedy Theatre: 24 Aug 1921- Sep 1921 (closing date unknown/30 performances). Cast: Fred Burt (as "William Taylor"), Mrs. Herbert Gresham, Ben Hendricks, Robert Keith
(as "Ralph Armstrong") [Broadway debut
], Frank J. Kirke, Margaret Knight, Mrs. Jacques Martin, Benedict McQuarrie, Helen Menken, Alma Moeller, Frank Morgan
(as "Robert Knowles"). Produced by Lee Shubert and Jessie Bonstelle.
(1924). Stage Play: New Brooms. Comedy. Written by Frank Craven
. Directed by Frank Craven. Fulton Theatre: 17 Nov 1924- Feb 1925 (closing date unknown/88 performances). Cast: Albert G. Andrews (as "Rev. Philip Dow"), Dorothy Blackburn (as "Florence Wheeler"), Edward Crandall (as "'Wallie' Nowell"), Blythe Daly
(as "Geraldine Marsh"), Jack Devereaux (as "George Morrow"), James Kearney (as "Nelson"), Robert Keith
(as "Thomas Bates, Jr."), Doris Kelly (as "Ethel Bates"), Harry Leighton (as "Mr. Kneeland"), Charles MacDonald (as "Simpson"), Robert McWade
(as "Thomas Bates"), John Ravold (as "Williams"), Helen Weathersby (as "Margaret"). Produced by Frank Craven.
(1926). Stage Play: The Great God Brown.
(1926). Stage Play: Gentle Grafters. Written by Owen Davis
. Directed by Sam Forrest. Music Box Theatre: 27 Oct 1926- Nov 1926 (closing date unknown/39 performances). Cast: Katharine Alexander
[credited as Katherine Alexander] (as "Sally"), Walter Brown (as "Delivery Man"), Liane Held Carrera
[credited as Liane Carrera] (as "Ellen") [Broadway debut
], William David (as "Billy Dexter"), Charlotte Granville
(as "Cora Blake"), Robert Keith
(as "Dick Cameron"), Charles Kennedy
(as "Jerry Doyle"), Helene Lackaye (as "Kitty Doyle"), Guy Nichols
(as "Dan McClung"), Charles Ritchie (as "Tom Morton"), Lucille Sears (as "Mary Doyle"), Fred E. Strong (as "Roberts"), Morgan Wallace
(as "Jim Merrick"). Produced by Sam Harris
(1926). Stage Play: Beyond the Horizon. Drama/tragedy (revival). Written by Eugene O'Neill
. Mansfield Theatre: 30 Nov 1926- Feb 1927 (closing date unknown/79 performances). Cast: Thomas Chalmers
(as "Andrew Mayo"), Robert Keith
(as "Robert Mayo"), Victor Kilian
[credited as Victor Killian] (as "Ben"), Elaine Koch (as "Mary"), Judith Lowry
(as "Kate Mayo"), Aline MacMahon
(as "Ruth Atkins"), Joseph McInerney (as "Doctor Fawcett"), Albert Tavernier
(as "Captain Dick Scott"), Eleanor Wesselhoeft (as "Mrs. Atkins"), Malcolm Williams (as "James Mayo"). Produced by The Actors Theatre.
(1927). Stage Play: Fog. Written by John Willard
. Directed by Arthur Hurley. National Theatre: 7 Feb 1927- May 1927 (closing date unknown/96 performances). Cast: Charles Dow Clark
(as "Eph Kelly"), Alexander Clarke, Edward Colebrook
(as "Jeelo"), Ben Hendricks Jr.
(as "Olaf") [final Broadway
role], Wilfred Jessop
[credited as Wilfred Jessup] (as "Lord Jim"), Robert Keith
(as "Charlie"), Frank McHugh
(as "Scraggs") [Broadway debut
], Hugh O'Connell
(as "Darcy"), Vivienne Osborne
(as "Eunice"). Produced by Lorton Productions Inc.
(1927). Stage Play: Tightwad.
(1932). Stage Play: Singapore. Melodrama.
(1933). Stage Play: Under Glass. Comedy.
(1934). Stage Play: Peace on Earth. Drama. Written by George Sklar
and Albert Maltz
. Directed by Robert B. Sinclair
. 44th Street Theatre: 31 Mar 1934- 17 Apr 1934 (18 performances). Cast: Abner Biberman
(as "The Guard"), Donald A. Black, John Boruff
, Halliam Bosworth (as "President Howard"), Alice Brooks, John Brown, Allace Carroll, Thomas Griffin Cooke, Alvin Dexter, Charles Esdale
, Earl Ford, John Garfield
[credited as Jules Garfield] (as "Bob Peters/The Messenger"), David Gray, Millicent Green
(as "Rose"), Ethel Intropodi
(as "Jo Owens"), David Lesan, James MacDonald, Hilda Reis, Paul Stein, Mara Tartar, Charles Thompson, Frank Tweddell
(as "Krauss/Bill Prentice/Attorney Gordon"), Walter Vonnegut, Maurice Wells, Crane Whitley
[credited as Clem Willenchick] (as "Fred Miller"). Produced by The Theatre Union.
(1934). Stage Play: Yellow Jack. Written by Sidney Howard
and Paul De Kruif
. Scenic Design by Jo Mielziner
. Directed by Guthrie McClintic
. Martin Beck Theatre: 6 Mar 1934- May 1934 (closing date unknown/79 performances). Cast: Eddie Acuff
, Wylie Adams, Jack Carr, Eduardo Ciannelli
, Francis Compton
, Charles Gerard, Lloyd Gough
, Harold Hoffat, Colin Hunter, Bernard Jukes, Whitford Kane
(as "Dr. Carlos Finlay"), Robert Keith
, Geoffrey Kerr, Sam Levene
, Richie Ling
(as "Col. Tory"), Barton MacLane
(as "James Carroll") [final Broadway
appearance], Myron McCormick
(as "Brinkerhof"), John Miltern
(as "Walter Reed"), Millard Mitchell
(as "William H. Dean, Pvt., U.S.A."), Jock Munro, George Nash, Robert Shayne
, James Stewart
(as "O'Hara"), Frank Stringfellow, Clyde Walters, Katherine Wilson. Produced by Guthrie McClintic.
(1934). Stage Play: Good-bye Please. Comedy. Written by Burt Clifton. Directed by Edward Mendelsohn. Ritz Theatre: 24 Oct 1934- Oct 1934 (closing date unknown/2 performances). Cast: Eric Dressler
(as "Bob"), Ruth Hammond, Lois Huntington, Robert Keith
(as "Jack"), Percy Kilbride
(as "Caleb"), Molly Pearson, Selena Royle
(as "Marion"), Marjorie Wood. Produced by Edward Mendelsohn.
(1934). Stage Play: The Children's Hour. Drama. Written by Lillian Hellman
credit]. Scenic Design by Aline Bernstein. Directed by Herman Shumlin
. Maxine Elliott's Theatre: 20 Nov 1934- Jul 1936 (closing date unknown/691 performances). Cast: Barbara Beals (as "Rosalie Wells"), Katherine Emery (as "Karen Wright"), Katherine Emmett (as "Mrs. Amelia Tilford"), Lynne Fisher (as "Helen Burton"), Robert Keith
(as "Doctor Joseph Cardin"), Barbara Leeds (as "Catherine"), Alice McDermott
(as "Mrs. Lily Mortar"), Florence McGee (as "Mary Tilford"), Edmonia Nolley
(as "Agatha"), Eugenia Rawls (as "Peggy Rogers"), Anne Revere
(as "Martha Dobie", Jacqueline Rusling (as "Lois Fisher"), Elizabeth Seckel (as "Evelyn Munn"), Jack Tyler (as "A Grocery Boy"). Produced by Herman Shumlin.
(1937). Stage Play: Work Is for Horses. Comedy. Directed by Anthony Brown. Windsor Theatre: 20 Nov 1937- Nov 1937 (closing date unknown/9 performances). Cast: Patricia Carroll, Connie Gilchrist, Eula Guy, Robert Keith
(as "Cornelius Prentiss"), James Todd, Jack Warren, John Westley. Produced by Anthony Brown.
(1938). Stage Play: Tortilla Flat. Comedy. Written by Jack Kirkland
, from the novel by John Steinbeck
. Directed by Jack Kirkland. Henry Miller's Theatre: 12 Jan 1938- Jan 1938 (closing date unknown/5 performances). Cast: Peter Beauvis, Harry Bellaver
(as "Pablo Sanchez"), Eddie Craven
, Joseph Monneret De Villard, Samson Gordon, Robert Keith
(as "Pilon"), Harold Moffet (as "Big Joe Portagee"), Erin O'Brien-Moore, Mark Schweid, Mary Servoss
, Edward Woods
(as "Danny") [final Broadway
role]. Produced by Jack Kirkland and Sam H. Grisman.
(1938). Stage Play: The Good.
(1939). Stage Play: Ladies and Gentlemen.
(1940). Stage Play: Romantic Mr. Dickens. Written by H.H. Harper and Marguerite Harper. Directed by Arthur Sircom
. Playhouse Theatre: 2 Dec 1940- 7 Dec 1940 (8 performances). Cast: Diana Barrymore
(as "Caroline Bronson"), Tom Bate, Marshall Bradford, Lachland Campbell, Cathleen Cordell, Lawrence Fletcher, Gertrude Flynn
(as "Dora Spenlow, Later Dora Winter"), Elwyne Harvey, Roland Hogue
(as "Mr. Twilling, the Vicar"), Robert Keith
(as "Charles Dickens"), Thais Lawton
, Emily Lorraine, Marita Sylva, Zolya Talma
. Produced by John Tuerk.
(1941). Stage Play: Spring Again. Written by Isabel Leighton and Bertram Bloch
. Directed by Guthrie McClintic
. Henry Miller's Theatre (moved to The Playhouse Theatre from 10 Jan 1942- close): 10 Nov 1941- 10 Jan 1942 (241 performances). Cast: Ann Andrews (as "Edith Weybright"), Betty Breckenridge (as "Elizabeth"), Joseph Buloff (as "William Auchinschloss"), Jayne Meadows
[credited as Jayne Cotter] (as "Millicent Cornish") [Broadway debut
], John Craven (as "Tom Cornish"), Lawrence Fletcher (as "L.J. O'Connor"), Grace George
(as "Nell Carter"), Robert Keith
(as "Dr. Lionel Carter"), Ben Lackland
(as "Robert Reynolds"), Joe Patterson (as "Bell Boy"), C. Aubrey Smith
(as "Halstead Carter"), George Spelvin Jr. (as "Western Union Boy"), Richard Stevenson (as "Girard Weybright"), Michael Strong (as "Joe Crumb"), William Talman
(as "Arnold Greaves"). Produced by Guthrie McClintic.
(1943). Stage Play: Kiss and Tell. Comedy.
(1944). Stage Play: No Way Out. Written by Owen Davis. Directed by Robert Keith
and Owen Davis
. Cort Theatre: 30 Oct 1944- 4 Nov 1944 (8 performances). Cast: Maurice Burke (as "Jim Slade"), Jean Casto
(as Hesther Darrow"), Donald Foster (as "Dr. Walter Levenseller"), Viola Frayne
(as "Cora Hilliard") [final Broadway
role], Irene Hervey
(as "Dr. Enid Karley"), Robert Keith (as Dr. Niles Hilliard"), Nancy Marquand (as "Barbara Trent"), John Marriott (as "Napoleon"), Viola Roache
(as "Cora Hilliard"), Jerome Thor
(as "Bob Karley"). Produced by Robert Keith.
(1945). Stage Play: A Place of Our Own. Written and directed by Elliott Nugent
. Royale Theatre: 2 Apr 1945- 7 Apr 1945 (8 performances). Cast: John Archer, Seth Arnold
(as "Jesse Ward"), Wolfe Barzell, Anthony Blair, Jeanne Cagney
(as "Nancy Monroe"), Helen Carew, Toni Favor, Jack Howard, John Howes, Robert Keith
(as "Charles Reddy"), Mercedes McCambridge
(as "Mary Lorimer"), J.C. Nugent
(as "Sam Reddy"), Lotta Palfi. Produced by John Golden. Produced in association with Elliott Nugent and Robert Montgomery
(1946). Stage Play: January Thaw. Written by William Roos
. Based on the novel by Bellamy Partridge. Directed by Ezra Stone
. John Golden Theatre: 4 Feb 1946- 16 Mar 1946 (48 performances). Cast: Charles P. Burrows, Helen Carew, Lulu Mae Hubbard, John Hudson, Henry Jones
(as "Carson"), Robert Keith
(as "Herbert Gage"), Norma Lehn, Lorna Lynn, John McGovern, Charles Middleton
(as "Jonathan Rockwood"), Irving Morrow, Charles Nevil, Natalie Thompson, Paul Weiss. Produced by Michael Todd
(1948). Stage Play: Mister Roberts. Comedy. Co-written by Thomas Heggen
. Directed and co-written by Joshua Logan
. Alvin Theatre: 18 Feb 1948- 6 Jan 1951 (1157 performances). Cast: Henry Fonda
(as "Ltjg Roberts"), William Harrigan, Robert Keith
(as "Doc") [final Broadway
role], David Wayne
(as "Ensign Pulver"), Tige Andrews
, Robert Baines, Fred Barton, Joe Bernard, Jocelyn Brando
, John Campbell, Ellis Eringer, Murray Hamilton
, Steven Hill, Marshall Jamison, John Jordan, Mikel Kane, Brian Keith
[credited as Bob Keith Jr.], Lee Krieger
, John Kullers, Rusty Lane, Harvey Lembeck
(as "Insignia"), Karl Lukas, Joe Marr, Ralph Meeker
(as "Mannion"), Walter Mullen, Jack Pierce, James Sherwood, Len Smith Jr., Sanders Turner, Casey Walters. Produced by Leland Hayward
(1959). In 1959, along with Dick York
and Darryl Hickman
, he starred in an unsold pilot called "Men in White" about challenges faced by three doctors. The teleplay was based on Sidney Kingsley
play of the same name.
(October 24, 1949) He acted in Joshua Logan and Thomas Heggen's play, "Mister Roberts," at the Hanna Theatre in Cleveland, Ohio with John Forsythe, James Rennie, Robert Burton, Jackie Cooper, Cliff Robertson, Herbert Duffy, Frank Campanella, MIchael Reilly, Robert Carson, Dan Barton, Fred Eisley, Arthur P. Keegan, Harry Holsten, Frances Helm, Richard Walsh, Charles Boaz Jr., and Linwood McCarthy in the cast. Jo Mielziner was set designer. Joshua Logan was director. Leland Hayward was producer.
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There are some amazing online resources for home educators these days! Well – for anybody really; anybody who wants to learn anything, at any time.
How cool is that! And something we didn’t have when we were first starting home education way back, when access to others was through phone calls only via Education Otherwise‘s members book, or the very slow and painful (and sometimes not at all) process of ‘dial up’! (For those of you too young to remember ‘dial up’, read the history here)
I remember when we first had that exciting new facility out here, right at the end of a very long lane in the middle of nowhere and we waited in excited anticipation for our first web page to load only to discover we had inadvertently dialled up a prostitute, (You can read the amusing story in ‘A Funny Kind of Education’) Then my overriding concern was not download speed but getting off the internet as fast as possible.
Now, almost a generation later, we have this incredible learning resource that provides immense support to those who want to home school; both support morally as well as educationally and knowledge wise. There is so much to investigate.
Along with specific learning resources, like ‘Twinkl’ for example, there are amazing sites linked to museums, programmes, films, educational games, video clips for learning how to do just about anything, along with limitless knowledge and ideas for the kids to explore.
I’m not in the habit of promoting any specific resource – I can hardly give them a test run now can I? But I know that Twinkl is a renowned resource used by schools as well as many home educators, which I consider a great endorsement. So when someone from the home education team there got in touch to ask for a chat and potentially a podcast about our home educating days, I thought it might be of help to people. For I also know that Twinkle has a huge and supportive home school community, and it’s community and the moral support it provides which is of enormous value to parents who are home educating.
Apart from panicking about making a horrible cock up I actually thoroughly enjoyed my chat with Alastair Lawson from the Home Ed team at Twinkle. And I think the farther the spread of ideas about alternatives to a school approach to education, the more children will be saved from wretched outcomes that sometimes result from a learning approach that doesn’t suit them. So I’ve asked him if it’s okay to share it here in case you weren’t able to access it through the Twinkle Facebook page.
Here it is, hope you enjoy it: https://rss.com/podcasts/twinklhomeeducators/220753/
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Nature can be truly amazing and miraculous in so many ways and people are slowly realizing that nature can be our true savior in desperate times. Thousands and thousands of years ago when people were unfamiliar with the term medicinal antibiotic, they turned to the one thing they only knew and that was Mother Nature.
However, as medicine advanced, so did the people’s belief that nature has the cure and answer to everything was slowly disappearing. It’s true, many diseases and medical conditions came to light, some of which we haven’t even heard of before and others more progressive and advanced than ever before.
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(RxWiki News) Tremors in the upper limbs are a major concern for two-thirds of multiple sclerosis (MS) patients as they can contribute to disability and are considered by to be one of the most difficult symptoms to treat.
Botulinum toxin has been show to reduce tremors in MS patients, but not without side effects.
A recent study seeks to evaluate the safety and effectiveness of botulinum toxin type A MS for upper limb tremor.
The study was led by Anneke van der Walt, MD, consultant neurologist at The Royal Melbourne Hospital and research fellow with the University of Melbourne in Australia and published in the July issue of Neurology, the medical journal of the American Academy of Neurology.
Thirty-three upper limbs from 23 MS patients received either botulinum toxin type A or a placebo for three months. For the next three months, those that received the botulinum toxin were given the placebo and the placebo group was given the botulinum toxin.
"Discuss any concerns with your doctor before treating tremors."
Tremor severity and the ability to write and draw before, during and after receiving the treatments were measured. Video assessments from an independent rater were taken every six weeks for six months.
Results improved significantly more at six weeks and three months after the botulinum toxin than with the placebo.
Outcomes were scored on a ten point scale. Botulinum toxin participants improved an average of two points on tremor severity and an average of one point on writing and drawing.
“Tremor can present significant functional limitations for some persons with MS,” said Nancy D. Chiaravalloti, PhD, Director of Neuropsychology & Neuroscience Research at Kessler Foundation.
“Importantly, gains were noted on both standardized assessments of tremor and functional tasks (writing, drawing, pouring). This indicates a daily life benefit of the treatment, which is essential to the lives of persons with MS.”
Tremors are caused by damaged areas along the complex nerve pathways needed for coordination and movement.
Current treatment methods for MS tremors include medications, physical therapy and surgery, but evidence of benefit is conflicting and treatments like surgery can have serious side effects.
The use of botulinum toxin could solve current major treatment challenges. However, botulinum toxin is known to have its own side effects.
Botulinum toxin can lead to decrease in muscle spasticity and strength. In this study, mild to moderate reversible muscle weakness was observed in 42 percent of people after botulinum toxin treatment and six percent after placebo.
The study was funded by Box Hill MS Research Fund and the Royal Melbourne Hospital Neuroscience Foundation. Allergen, the pharmaceutical company that makes Botox, donated 40 vials of the product for the study.
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The Associate in Applied Science Diploma program in Culinary Arts is a course of research over five (5) trimesters designed for college students getting ready for entry-degree food service management positions or higher education in the subject. Kendall additionally gives a bachelor’s degree in culinary arts, which is a traditional four-yr program with a tuition rate of $89,667.
No formal education is necessary to turn out to be a chef or a prepare dinner, but culinary packages at schools and vocational faculties and some certifications will help with advancement. We are a small, unique school that focuses on the scholar’s needs and we take nice joy in seeing our students succeed within the culinary trade.
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Abstract. Fenton and UV/Fenton oxidation technology were used to treat LAS wastewater. Experimental results showed that in the conditions of pH=6.0、Fe2+=7mM、H2O2/Fe2+=10:1, LAS removal efficiency was higher. Under the same conditions, for the removal efficiency of LAS and COD, UV/Fenton method is higher than Fenton method. After the treatment of UV/Fenton, the B/C value of raw water increased from 0.28 to 0.49, and can meet the requirements of biological process as followed. | <urn:uuid:41819421-24f1-49c4-a422-ebc1e574a1d3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.scientific.net/AMR.347-353.1860 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00412-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944542 | 125 | 1.9375 | 2 |
As interesting as it is to see mason bees surface after a winter dormant, I was hoping they would wait another week or two as there are virtually no flowers on our roof. Crocus have left us, currants, blueberries and gooseberries all look to be about a week or two away… in fact the only flowing plant on the roof is our massive rosemary. Oh well.
It was purely by chance that I checked the bees this afternoon and noticed a few plugs opened and bees at the entrance. As I’ve mentioned previously, last year we used store-bought bee houses along with bamboo tubes. Since the tubes were nearly impossible to open, I left them in the houses and just moved them to a safe, sheltered place on a north-facing balcony. As a result, the cocoons weren’t cleaned and the temperature control was left largely to nature.
What happened? Well, I was expecting that a lot of the tubes would not emerge at all. As I said, I hadn’t cleaned them, I hadn’t controlled the temperature, they weren’t perfectly shielded from rain through the summer… but I was pleasantly surprised. Emergence happened all at once with mason bee after mason bee peeking out of their tubes and taking short hops before settling on a south-facing surface presumably to warm up.
The major issue was something I predicted in an earlier post. While all of the bees looked fat and well-fed, there were some that were absolutely plagued with mites (see the photos in this post). Others, fortunately, seemed to be completely unaffected by mites, but those that were were covered by them.
Takeaway? This year’s cardboard and paper tube (Canadians can find cardboard tubes here) test is probably warranted given the situation with mites on my mason bees. Toward summer’s end I need to remove and open the mason bee tubes, remove the cocoons and clean them before storing them in the fridge (or other suitable location) until next spring. Hopefully, IF the bees choose to use the paper tubes, and IF the babies survive to form cocoons, and IF I remove and clean them properly we should have a healthy population come next spring.
It’s the middle of April, so time for my second post on native pollinators. This year I again purchased a handful of mason bee cocoons to get a jump on pollinating until the bumblebee and honey bee populations can find the roof. I should mention that last year several of the tubes in my bee houses were filled and sealed by the mason bees introduced at that time. Unfortunately I didn’t properly take care of them over the winter, though I intend to do so this year if I’m given a second chance. For anyone else in a similar situation, here’s a handy guide to harvesting your mason bee cocoons at the end of the season: https://crownbees.com/harvest-cocoons
The Good. As mentioned above, the cocoons we set out last year hatched (not all, but many of them) and were seen happily pollinating the flowers across our roof. After a few weeks I started to see a few of the tubes closed off with mud. All in all perhaps a dozen tubes were closed in this fashion.
The Bad. First, I noticed many small insects around one of my bee houses in particular, this being the one housing the leaf-cutter bee cocoons. They were almost certainly predatory wasps, and looked like this. Their presence might explain the very low hatch rate for the leaf-cutter cocoons that I’d purchased. Also, as mentioned above I didn’t properly harvest the mason bee cocoons, and instead left them outside over the winter. Fortunately for me, almost all of the plugged cocoons appear to have hatched this spring, and I’m seeing bees buzzing about the bee houses even though the newly purchased cocoons haven’t yet emerged.
The Ugly. While most of the bees I’ve seen up close this spring have looked healthy, I’ve encountered a couple that were absolutely INFESTED with mites. If you look at the photo at the top of this post, you’ll see 6 mites hitching a ride on the bee’s back. In one instance there must have been HUNDREDS of mites on the poor bee. As such, I will be absolutely sure to properly harvest the cocoons this year, and will at minimum continue to replace all tubes with new bamboo, and possibly replace the houses themselves. | <urn:uuid:0afab662-f308-44f3-bc02-13aa799aafc4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cultivatethesky.com/tag/bee-mites | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.97651 | 966 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Melvin Berger 1927–
American young adult nonfiction writer, biographer, and lecturer. Berger is a popular and prolific author of nonfiction works which explain aspects of science and music to a young adult audience. He is perhaps best known for his Scientists at Work series, which deals with pollution, cancer, crime detection, oceanography, weather, and medical research. A related concern is with the environment, and in The New Air Book, Jobs That Save Our Environment, and The New Water Book Berger demonstrates the impact that technological advances have had on nature. A graduate of the Eastman School of Music and a professional violist, he has written several introductions to instruments, noted musicians, and types of music. Believing that "all music is related to the world in which it was created or is being performed," he writes books that "relate the art of music to the social, political, and scientific ideas of the time." Although most critics praise his ability to simplify complicated theories, there are dissenters who maintain that his explanations lack precision. The majority of his books describe related jobs and their qualifications, a useful feature for the young adult planning a career. Recently Berger has begun collaborating with his wife, Gilda, herself an author of nonfiction for young people. (See also Contemporary Authors, Vols. 5-8, rev. ed., and Something about the Author, Vol. 5.)
In Triumphs of Modern Science, by Melvin Berger …, there is emphasis on the individual's participation in scientific discoveries. (Actually, I would like to know what prompted some of the inclusions as part of modern science, unless by "modern" the author means anything between 1900 and 1960.)
Each chapter is a biography of the scientist identified with a particular discovery, and includes the histories of penicillin, viruses, antibiotics, X-rays, DNA, radioactivity, and relativity. I like the human element in this type of reporting, because I think that young readers can relate to it and see the possibilities that exist for their own achievements in science studies. However, I wish the author had emphasized somewhere that many discoveries are not made suddenly, but usually have, as a foundation, years of work carried out by many people and leading to one individual's spectacular "breakthrough." (p. 17)
Evelyn Shaw, in Natural History (copyright © the American Museum of Natural History, 1965; reprinted with permission from Natural History), November, 1965.
A science book with the humanities reader in mind, [Famous Men of Modern Biology] investigates the work of fourteen biologists from Pasteur to the Double Helix duo…. [Each chapter develops] some personality through anecdotes, such as the preoccupied Salk assuring his neglected wife, "My dear, I'm giving you my undevoted attention." Mr. Berger does for biology what Bernard Jaffe did for chemistry...
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Harold F. Desmond, Jr.
A strong point of [For Good Measure: The Story of Modern Measurement] is its inclusion of many experiments, but there is no glossary for the numerous technical terms…. On the whole, however, this is a very solid treatment, both for students and teacher reference and review. (p. 3826)
Harold F. Desmond, Jr., in Library Journal (reprinted from Library Journal, October 15, 1969; published by R. R. Bowker Co. (a Xerox company); copyright © 1969 by Xerox Corporation), October 15, 1969.
Harry C. Stubbs
[Tools of Modern Biology] is good and describes a lot of apparatus well, but I fear we are not yet at the point where the electron microscope and pH meter can show very clearly why Beethoven could write a symphony and I cannot. I do hope, though, that scientific measuring, which forms the entire foundation for Mr. Berger's book, may someday make a big difference to the science of psychology. (p. 408)
Harry C. Stubbs, in The Horn Book Magazine (copyright © 1970 by The Horn Book, Inc., Boston), August, 1970.
William J. Murray
[Tools of Modern Biology] is principally a history of the development of the methods (Intellectual Tools) and instruments that have contributed to the growth and development of the Modern Biological Body of Knowledge. It is made more interesting by the fact that the works of some of the major researchers in the field are cited throughout.
Perhaps the most important contribution that this book offers to the reader is that it gives him meaningful insights into scientific process and method and a better understanding of the men who are engaged in scientific endeavors….
The scientific "Truth" is only as good as the methods and instruments employed and the data which support them. This point is so well made by the author's development of his subject that this alone is enough to recommend the book….
His treatment of the scientific method is one of the best yet for real insight and understanding. His treatment of Biometrics demonstrates his skill at taking a fairly complicated topic and making it simple and quite understandable for the average reader.
The author's chapters on the use of various scientific instruments such as light and electron microscopes, radioactive tracers and others are excellent. (p. 296)
William J. Murray, in Best Sellers (copyright 1970, by the University of Scranton), October 15, 1970....
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Henry Leland Clarke
Melvin Berger has presented his readers with the story of fourteen leading composers of the century [in Masters of Modern Music]. He has selected Stravinsky, Schoenberg, and Bartók to represent "Musical Explorers"; Richard Strauss, Sibelius, Hindemith, Prokofiev, Copland, and Britten, "Music in the Main Stream"; Gershwin, Richard Rodgers, and Menotti, "Music for the Many"; and John Cage and Vladimir Ussachevsky, "The New Music." All fourteen were born before the outbreak of World War I, and there is not a French, Yankee, or black composer among them. Within these limitations his list has been well chosen, despite a few possible objections. Surely, for instance, Webern should be added to the first three men, as one of the "composers who have pointed out the new directions of modern music."… [The author] has followed the present trend of placing Hindemith only among those "composers who have carried forward the musical traditions of the past." In addition, certain statements in the text raise the question of whether Richard Strauss and Sibelius are modern enough to be included at all. (p. 70)
In any case, the composers chosen are attractively presented. Each is introduced by a striking incident or characterization, which brings him close to the reader at the outset. The style is readable and especially appealing to the young person looking for a guide. One result of this format is that it makes the work suitable as a novel but...
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In a fascinating survey of research and findings, [Melvin Berger] makes a complicated subject clear [in Enzymes in Action], explaining the nature of enzymes, the ways in which they act, and the isolation … of a pure enzyme that led, in addition to other experimental work, to the production … of a synthetic enzyme…. Lively, informal, and informative, this is not only good science for the layman, but also a good picture of scientific method. (pp. 117-18)
Zena Sutherland, in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (© 1972 by the University of Chicago; all rights reserved), April, 1972.
[The Violin Book is...
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Leone R. Hemenway
Such books as [Erik] Bergaust's Oceanographers in Action … and [Charles] Coombs's Deep-Sea World: the Story of Oceanography … cover the techniques, tools, and projects of ocean scientists, but [Oceanography Lab] is unique in describing the Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI)…. [This is a] generally well-conceived and well-executed presentation. (p. 2190)
Leone R. Hemenway, in Library Journal (reprinted from Library Journal, July, 1973; published by R. R. Bowker Co. (a Xerox company); copyright © 1973 by Xerox Corporation), July, 1973.
[Pollution Lab] … or how "today's pollution...
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Phyllis G. Mordas
[Jobs in Fine Arts and Humanities is a] satisfactory introduction to career opportunities in art, dance, drama, music, and the humanities. Berger emphasizes the skills and training needed and the opportunities for advancement. Of the many jobs described only five are in the field of the humanities. Job coverage in the fine arts, however, is well done with helpful examples and photographs. (p. 116)
Phyllis G. Mordas, in Library Journal (reprinted from Library Journal, October 15, 1974; published by R. R. Bowker Co. (a Xerox company); copyright © 1974 by Xerox Corporation), October 15, 1974.
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Although [Jobs in Fine Arts and Humanities] gives some information about careers, it covers far too broad an area to be anything but superficial in treatment…. Adequately written, but not very useful. (p. 38)
Zena Sutherland, in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (© 1974 by the University of Chicago; all rights reserved), November, 1974.
[The New Air Book is a companion to The New Water Book. With] simple experiments worked into the text wherever possible, Berger introduces just about everything he can think of that has to do with air—breathing, atmosphere, wind, weather, flying, and pollution...
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David G. Hoag
Much of this book about air, the atmosphere, and weather, is excellent. The text [of The New Air Book] for the most part is clear and well organized…. The many experiments described should be instructive and fun. But here and there are factual flaws and incomplete or misleading statements. Ignoring buoyancy in the balloon air-weighing experiment or saying nothing about the chemical and pressure changes in the candle, glass and water experiment are unfortunate. This potentially excellent book could have made the mark if it had been more carefully checked before being published! I recommend it in spite of the problems for its generally good quality science and the many experiments included. The last few...
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H. C. Wohlers
The New Air Book provides an excellent description of one of man's natural resources. The author takes a detailed look at the technical aspects of air, describing what it is physically and chemically in an easy-to-understand text. In addition, Berger discusses the importance of air, weather, flying and air pollution, and what the public can do to learn more about the problems of air quality…. A number of pedantic scientific questions could be raised concerning the complete correctness of some explanations used in the book. In an attempt to simplify complex problems, Berger has sometimes oversimplified. One hopes that the book will provide the reader with an incentive to delve further into the science of air...
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Esther H. Read
Preceded by a foreword of deep feeling, this rather comprehensive book on cancer for young people [Cancer Lab] proceeds to discuss, in turn, all types of cancer therapists and researchers involved in treatment and study…. In a book such as this for older children, it seems unnecessary to confine the writing to very short sentences—they become tedious. Nevertheless, the boy or girl already interested in science or in the medical field will find this up-to-date work rewarding. (pp. 9-10)
Esther H. Read, in Appraisal (copyright © 1976 by the Children's Science Book Review Committee), Winter, 1976.
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John Dawson Boniol, Jr.
The increasingly important role of the police laboratory in law enforcement work is skillfully presented in this well-written and profusely illustrated book [Police Lab]. Berger covers the entire range of the criminologists' work and explains very lucidly the scientific processes in such areas as serology, toxicology, spectrography, chromatography, and pathology. Although the text points out that laboratory tests can be used to corroborate innocence, the examples presented show mainly how these tests can be used to prove guilt. With an increasing general interest in police work, this is a very good and up-to-date addition…. (p. 43)
John Dawson Boniol, Jr., in School...
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Beverly B. Youree
This well-written survey of the evolution of American folk music includes brief explanations of how folk music is created as well as descriptions of folk instruments and biographies of folk singers and instrumentalists. An unusual feature [of The Story of Folk Music] is the inclusion of instructions on how to make some simple musical instruments at home and compose one's own songs…. [It is an] extremely interesting book on a very popular subject. (p. 54)
Beverly B. Youree, in School Library Journal (reprinted from the November, 1976 issue of School Library Journal, published by R. R. Bowker Co. A Xerox Corporation: copyright © 1976), November, 1976....
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John D. Boniol
Covering the training and work of Special Agents, the operations of the Laboratory and the Identification Division but not the activities of the director and other high-level administrators, [FBI] is a glorification of the bureau. There is no mention of past illegal FBI maneuvers nor of the controversies that have surrounded the agency, and the inclusion of current "Ten Most-Wanted Criminals" posters is useless since these will quickly become out of date. (p. 46)
John D. Boniol, in School Library Journal (reprinted from the December, 1977 issue of School Library Journal, published by R. R. Bowker Co. A Xerox Corporation: copyright © 1977), December,...
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Medical Center Lab belongs on the vocational guidance shelf in school libraries. The book covers both clinical labs …, which assist the medical staff in diagnosis, and research labs …, which seek new knowledge and new techniques of treatment…. Because of the diversity of jobs in medical center labs and the brevity of the text, no particular aspect is discussed in depth; what is presented is an overall view of the many and varied careers which come together in medical center laboratories. This is done in the context of the treatment of actual patients, which is really what work in these labs is all about. (p. 151)
Dorothy Bickerton, in Science Books & Films...
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Daphne Ann Hamilton
The title [Medical Center Lab] is a slight misnomer, as the author describes the work of nine different labs which might be found in a large modern medical center…. While continually stressing the value of … research, Berger's one method of citing typical work done in the labs is much less applicable to research than to clinical labs, with the consequence that this section of the book is much less interesting and the work appears less vital—a distinct disservice to the subject. A few other problems occur: ECG is used for electrocardiograph, with no mention made of the less correct but more familiar term EKG; and in one account of a heart function experiment, the results are so exactly reflective of the...
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In a fairly objective assessment of the occult sciences, Berger covers a wide range of topics adequately if not comprehensively [in The Supernatural: From ESP to UFOs]. Separate chapters are devoted to such subjects as astrology, faith healing, parapsychology, witchcraft, and UFOs. Case histories and anecdotes add variety to the text, which includes some exposes and some unexplained, but documented phenomena. Not unlike other books on the supernatural, this does a workmanlike job of introduction. (p. 154)
Zena Sutherland, in Bulletin of the Center for Children's Books (© 1978 by the University of Chicago: all rights reserved), June, 1978....
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[The Supernatural: From ESP to UFOs is a] searching, unbiased study of supernatural reports. The first chapter sets the tone: The author describes a disquieting encounter he once had with a stranger in an art gallery, who spoke of actual events in Berger's life. Was the stranger receiving mental messages? The author purposely does not give an answer. The remaining eight chapters of the book examine several categories of supernatural phenomena…. (p. 308)
Sarah Gagné, "Supernatural Phenomena," in The Horn Book Magazine (copyright © 1978 by the Horn Book, Inc., Boston), June, 1978, pp. 308-09.
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[The Supernatural; From ESP to UFOs] is a book that will be of little use to the serious reader of any age. Loose and inaccurate, it lumps together a smattering of scientific research in parapsychology (most of which is behind the times) with astrology, witchcraft, spiritualism and UFOs. Even the effort at being impartial comes off poorly. In hit-and-run fashion, the author selects dramatic, rather than evidential, material and then cites critics and skeptics in a way that whitewashes the initial impact. Nowhere is there a valid sifting out of the real from the spurious. (p. 142)
Montague Ullman, in Science Books & Films (copyright 1978 by the American...
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On the blurb Mr. Berger is described as a "meticulous researcher," and [The Supernatural from ESP to UFO's] does have a bibliography and a list of organizations that deal in supernatural phenomena. It is not a book that presents both sides of an issue. The author clearly believes in all the mysterious things about which he writes. Any librarian who … has been trying to keep the shelves stocked with this type of drivel will at once recognize that this book offers nothing new. It is a rehash with a new cover. (p. 17)
Sharon Hendricks, in Young Adult Cooperative Book Review Group of Massachusetts, December, 1978.
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Jean F. Mercier
A true craftsman, Berger is a favorite with readers whose interests he covers in nonfiction. [In "The World of Dance"] he discusses the numerous ramifications of the dance, its history from ancient times to the present…. Berger doesn't fail to include information about great names in the dance in an absorbing book. One finds but one quotation to question. Scholar Curt Sachs says, "… dancing … is simply life on a higher level." (Make that "a different level" or add "sometimes.") (p. 69)
Jean F. Mercier, in Publishers Weekly (reprinted from the December 11, 1978, issue of Publishers Weekly by permission of the critic, published by R. R. Bowker Company, a Xerox...
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Daphne Ann Hamilton
[Melvin and Gilda Berger] have produced a low-key but highly informational book which should fill in a blank spot in most children's collections…. [The New Food Book: Nutrition Diet, Consumer Tips, and Foods of the Future] strikes a good balance between the traditional and health food viewpoints, avoiding both textbook dullness and over-enthusiastic proselytising. The authors don't hesitate to give the claims on both sides of an argument and leave the conclusion to further investigation by scientists, and … the reader. Very simple experiments illustrating a number of "food facts" are scattered throughout the book, smoothly merging into the text; they might provide some different science fair projects....
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[The Legionnaires' disease] provides the basis for Berger's discussion of the Center for Disease Control [Disease Detectives]. He follows the painstaking research of each department—bacteriology, virology, and toxicology—in the race to locate the epidemic's cause, describing the broader scope of their work along the way. Explanations of technical terms are integrated into the text; and though [Jules] Archer's Epidemic!… is wider in scope, the concise writing style and detective story approach make this more accessible for slightly younger readers. (p. 748)
Barbara Elleman, in Booklist (reprinted by permission of the American Library Association;...
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In a broad overview beginning with evidence of its primitive use in Paleolithic times, Berger traces the history of dance in a straightforward, perfunctory manner [in The World of Dance]. The discussion touches on the styles that developed in ancient Egypt, Greece, the Orient, and Medieval Europe and comments on reasons for these developments. Ballet receives far more attention as Berger describes its evolution, explaining terms, summarizing story plots, and mentioning dancers and choreographers responsible for its present form. Also included is the influence of Isadora Duncan, Martha Graham, and Twyla Tharp on the formation of modern dance techniques…. A useful history for music and social studies reports....
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Top 10 Things to See and Do
1. Oman’s vast desert plains are endlessly diverse, and provide the perfect canvas for a whole host of activities. In fact, you could probably wander the desert for days without once running out of new things to do; from sand skiing down the smooth slopes of the dunes to kicking up dust in dune buggies, wadi bashing, or sleeping under the star-spangled Arabian night sky, the Omani sands truly are the gift that keeps on giving.
2. Playful dolphins and several different species of whale are known to frequent the shores of Oman, and a range of both land and boat tours are offered to enable you to spot them; leaving early in the morning is advised for the best chances of seeing these majestic creatures.
3. The ancient city of Nizwa lies nestled amidst an oasis of thick green palms and a spiky cradle of soaring mountains. One of Oman’s most popular tourist destinations, it boasts many historic buildings, an ancient fort and a famous, bustling souk (market) where precious copper, silver jewellery and ornate handicrafts can all be purchased.
4. Oman is a country overflowing with caves of all shapes, sizes and topography. Although they also tend to vary in terms of accessibility (some are destined to only ever been seen by those experience few with specialist training and equipment), many are reachable by amateurs, and lie in wait to be discovered and explored by you.
5. Oman – and more specifically, Muscat – is a rising star on the luxury golf scene currently exploding in the Middle East. Three sophisticated 18 hole courses lie within easy reach of one another, and are staffed by highly qualified instructors happy to cater to all levels of ability.
6. Salalah, the vibrant capital of the Dhofar region, is an Arabic city with a curiously African personality. With stretches of white sandy beaches fringed by coconut trees and misty, tropical banana and papaya plantations, it makes for a colourful visit and an abrupt but exciting change from the dry, dusty landscapes that make up the majority of the country.
7. The crystal blue waters and vibrant marine life of Oman make it an exceedingly popular diving and snorkelling destination; if you fancy being spoilt for underwater choice, head to the capital of Muscat, which boasts a plethora of different diving areas, each with their own uniquely diverse environments.
8. Towering over a significant portion of the country, the mountains ranges of Oman are diverse, rugged, and often studded with a beautiful variety of flora and fauna. Reaching skywards in all corners of the country, any climb will be rewarded with spectacular views that ranges from the coastal to the mountainous, to the ethereal beauty of the wide open desert.
9. Each year, thousands of sea turtles migrate from the Arabian Gulf to the shores of Oman, where five of the seven species in existence can be spotted. Watch at night as they drag themselves from the shallows to dig a hole in the sand to bury their eggs, before once again making a dash for the safety of the sea.
10. Musandam Fjords – The achingly picturesque fjords of the Musandam peninsula can be explored at your leisure by dhow or traditional Omani boat. With the majestic mountains rising behind the tranquil crystalline waters, the scenery you will encounter on these excursions is truly awe-inspiring.
Top 10 Family Experiences
1. An innovative, exciting and relatively new water sport, kite surfing opportunities are developing fast in Oman, and make an action-packed day out for the all the families – especially those with slightly older kids keen for a challenge!
2. Take a family cruise through the azure waters of Oman and admire its beaches, cities and seascapes by boat.
3. With its diverse galleries, museums and entertainments, bustling souks and beautiful port, Muscat is a city with something to offer all the family. Take a hop-on-hop-off bus tour around the city to pick and choose your favourite destinations!
4. Enjoy some of Oman’s most beautiful beaches in the Sharqiya region, where wadis, turtle nesting sites and tumbling dunes all abound. The stunning coastal roads are ideal for family drives, or perhaps the first instalment of a truly spectacular camping trip!
5. The rocky Omani mountains are home to several designated climbing area which make ideal days out for the intrepid family; with paved paths for beginners and more rugged tracks for the more experienced climber, there will be something to suit every age and skill level among the diverse terrain.
6. Venture off-road in a four-wheel drive and explore the endless contrasts of Oman’s landscapes, from its sweeping desert sands and valleys to its shallow waters and mountain terrain.
7. Take diving and snorkelling lessons together in the impossibly warm, clear waters of Muscat, where a marine life bursting with colour and diverse sea life lies just below the glassy surface, waiting to be explored.
8. Known as the majestic ‘ships of the desert’, camels are as much a part of the fabric of Omani life as the ethereal sandy dunes and stately mosques. Camel racing is an authentic Arab sport that can be viewed at purpose built race tracks in many regions – the atmosphere is often electric, and the spectacle an unforgettable experience!
9. The Al Saleel Nature Park is located in wilayat Al Kamil W’al Wafi – it sprawls majestically across 220 square kilometres of what is primarily acacia tree forests, and is home to a number of rare species including the Arabian gazelle, the Omani wild cat and the Egyptian Eagle!
10. Horses are held in high esteem by the Omani’s, and the country has been renowned for breeding, raising and racing horses since ancient times. Horse racing is still a favourite past time in Oman, and stables offering lessons for riders of all abilities are not hard to come by.
Top 10 Honeymoon Experiences
1. Once already immersed in a land of spectacular scenery and hospitable people, absorb the beauty of Oman further by rejuvenating your minds and bodies at one of the many spas throughout the country offering a relaxing range of massages and luxury treatments.
2. Nestled two thousand metres above the ground in the Hajar Mountains, and overlooking a remarkable gorge with rosebushes cascading down the mountainside towards it, the Alila Jabal Akhdar is the perfect mountain hideaway for newlyweds. Relax and unwind with a bottle of champagne on the famous rose terraces (which are as romantic as they sound) as you overlook a truly unbeatable view.
3. Stroll hand in hand through the endearing chaos and warmth of Oman’s traditional Arab souks (markets) which zigzag through the streets of its various towns and cities; peruse everything, from handicrafts and frankincense to precious metals and the occasional camel or goat!
4. The ancient city of Sur is said to be the most easterly city in all of Arabia, and therefore the first to witness the sunrise in this mystical part of the world. Perhaps because of this - or maybe because of the sweeping white beaches, beautiful corniche or the slowly floating dhows - an inescapable air of romance pervades the streets of the city, making it an ideal destination for lovelorn honeymooners.
5. The Al-Dimaniyat Islands Nature Reserve comprises nine islands and lies marooned about 18 kilometres off the coast of Barka. With pristine white beaches that are lapped by crystalline waters and home to a number of sea turtles and beautiful indigenous birds, the reserve has been recognised internationally as it is located within the Great Barrier Reef project, and boasts the accolade of the Sea of Oman’s most beautiful diving and snorkelling location.
6. Jabal Shams translates as ‘Sun Mountain’ because, as the highest peak in the Arabian peninsula, it is the first place to greet the rising sunlight at dawn and the last place it sets on at dusk. Scale its heights together to watch the sun rise or set, or simply enjoy the breathtaking views over the ‘An Nakhr Balcony’, a ravine that cuts deep into the heart of the rocks and is one of Oman’s most dramatic sights.
7. Embrace the eerie beauty of the Arabian desert and sleep under the stars at the Desert Nights Camp situated on Wahiba Sands, 250 kilometres south of Muscat. The remote location will not diminish your comfort, with luxurious tents equipped with air conditioning, en suite showers and a mini fridge, while the activities on offer include camel riding, dune bashing and quad biking.
8. Oman’s stately castles are both stunning landmarks and the majestic relics of its rich history. Mainly clustered in the northern region of the country, stroll through the ancient fortifications and scale the dizzying heights of ruins that are steeped in Arabian legend and romance.
9. The Akhwar (or Beach Lagoons) are scattered along the coast of Oman, stretching from the top of the northern mountains through to the southernmost Dhofar coasts. Mostly formed at the estuary of large valleys, their sapphire blue waters intersected by proud rocky mountains and formations are magnificently serene and quietly beautiful.
10. The beaches of Oman are as varied as its topography, with stretches of pristine white sand, dramatic rocky coastlines, remote islands and secluded fishing coves all encompassed along its shores. Whether you’re looking for seclusion and privacy or the comfort of a luxury resort on your honeymoon, you are sure to find it somewhere along a diverse coastlines where the only constant is its beauty.
Culture in Oman
Although Oman is a modern country, western influence remains restricted, and much of its culture is dictated by the traditions and teachings of Islam. Traditional clothing consisting of an ankle-length collarless robe (called a dishadasha) with a hanging tassle is worn by most men, while the women wear a hijab and abaya. Hospitality is also a key cornerstone of Omani culture, and you are likely to be met with warmth and friendliness by the local people. | <urn:uuid:89befbf4-0329-4370-a954-d9fd7634d020> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.westernoriental.com/country/things-to-do-in-oman/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00029-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933705 | 2,159 | 1.625 | 2 |
There is a theory that neuroinflammation, inflammation of the nervous tissue, can be an underlying cause in the development of Autism. If so, scientists have reason to believe it can be treated early if babies can be diagnosed at an early stage through a blood test.
The theory that neuroinflammation can contribute to Autism development is becoming more widespread. MRI scans of Autistic patients have revealed abnormalities in white matter, which is the tissue that connects important brain areas. If neuroinflammation is involved in Autism, anti-inflammatory drug treatments can be developed for treatment.
Over the past decade, the entire field of neurological disorders has undergone a revolution with the growing realization that they are not only conditions of the brain, but of the entire body, raising the possibility of detecting them in the blood.
As a result, medical researchers are planning to compare blood samples between Autism patients and neurotypical individuals. They plan to study the protein fingerprint – a set of protein levels that is significantly different in those with Autism. Research has shown success in studying Asperger’s syndrome, with an accuracy rate of 80%, resulting in hope to develop a test that can soon be replicated for Autism.
The most probable future scenario is that clinical assessment would be combined with a range of biomedical examinations including blood tests and brain scans. If a blood test for Autism were to become available, it would be a major step towards prenatal screening. The existence of prenatal screening could result in development of potential treatments, and prepare for the best care that the child will need.
While the research shows promise, it will take time before it can become clinically available. Professor Simon Baron-Cohen of the Autism Research Center of Cambridge, who is a member of ICare4Autism’s Advisory Committee, states, “I think it could possibly happen within five years, but its premature to be thinking these tests are just around the corner.”
The ICare4Autism International Conference will be discussing significant Autism research and scientific advances on July 1st in NYC. Speakers include Dr. Martha Herbert, Assistant Professor of Neurology at Harvard Medical School, and Pediatric Neurologist at the Massachusetts General Hospital in Boston. Dr. Herbert will be discussing the evaluation methods of neurodevelopmental disorders, and the new methods of research that are being done in the Autism field. To hear Dr. Herbert speak, please select tickets here. | <urn:uuid:f75373b6-86f3-4ceb-bd1b-91753d1ef240> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.icare4autism.org/news/2014/05/scientists-may-develop-prenatal-screening-test-for-asd/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00033-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952734 | 487 | 3.171875 | 3 |
"495th Brookhaven Lecture: 'To See or Not to See a Warhead: Imaging Nuclear Weapons With Neutrons'"
Presented by Istvan Dioszegi, Nonproliferation and National Security Department
Wednesday, June 18, 2014, 4 pm
Berkner Hall Auditorium
Hosted by: Allen Orville
The stakes are high when it comes to world powers and nuclear weaponsâ€"very highâ€"and scientists from Brookhaven Lab's Nonproliferation & National Security Department are developing advanced neutron-imaging techniques to prepare for future inspections. Find out how with Istvan Dioszegi at the 495th Brookhaven Lecture on Wednesday, June 18. | <urn:uuid:a036a510-a0eb-4e43-8cca-a791dfcc45da> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.bnl.gov/events/details.php?q=10024 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00270-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.868081 | 151 | 1.765625 | 2 |
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