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Emeryville has a population of 6,882 and is located in Alameda county.
There is one visual communications college in Emeryville for students to choose from. Visual Communications programs in Emeryville reportedly graduated 199 students in the 2008 - 2009 school year.
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By Mohammad Okasha
O you who have believed, decreed upon you is fasting as it was decreed upon those before you that you may become righteous. (Al-Baqarah 2-183)
The main goal of fasting according to the verse is that the Muslim becomes righteous and God-fearing. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said in a hadith narrated by Abu Hurairah, “Fasting is a shield. When any one of you is fasting on a day, he should neither indulge in obscene language, nor raise the voice; or if anyone reviles him or tries to quarrel with him he should say: I am a person fasting.” (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
The hadith shows that fasting is a shield against obscenity and ill manners, and that such acts are highly disapproved from the fasting person.
In another hadith, Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) reported, “The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “If one does not eschew lies and false conduct, Allah has no need that he should abstain from his food and his drink.” (Al-Bukhari) Thus, fasting is inconsistent with lying, falsehood and perjury.
But! Why does fasting seem fruitless today? Why doesn’t one find that positive effect of fasting on Muslims’ attitude? Why don’t Muslims change fro the better in Ramadan?
Unconsciousness of God, evil manners, falsehood, perjury and other bad things are widespread among an extensive part of Muslims. What’s wrong?
In fact, our problem now is acute and enormous. At a glance, one observes a great deal of deviation in some Muslims’ manners in various sides of the Muslim community.
The positive effect of worship in general dwindles and disappears from the Muslims’ life. One witnesses those who are habitual to attend to prayer in its due times, observe fasting and pay in charity, but the ethical dimension with them is progressively retreating.
This serious phenomenon reveals an interruption in the relationship between Muslims and worship.
To know how and why this happens, let’s recall the concept of worship.
What is worship?
According to Ibn Taymiyyah (a well-known Muslim scholar), worship is a comprehensive term that comprises all that pleases Allah the Almighty of the sayings, and the outer and inner deeds.
Everything that pleases Allah, including rituals, permissible works or activities, truthful intentions, sincere beliefs, good feelings and other similar things, are included in the general meaning of worship.
It is so comprehensive that it applies to all the permissible material and moral actions which are done for the sake of God. Thus, it embraces all the Muslim’s life, as Almighty Allah says,
Say, “Indeed, my prayer, my rites of sacrifice, my living and my dying are for Allah , Lord of the worlds. (Al-A`raf 6:162)
According to the verse, even death can be an act of worship. However, what did happen to that meaning?
Worship turned into mere customs
The basis of the acceptance of worship is two things: being dedicated for the sake of Allah alone, and compliance with the instruction of the Quran and Sunnah.
If an action meets these conditions, it is an act of worship. The influence of worship is depending on these two requirements. Also, worship must be offered with Khushu (reverence), love, submission, fear, faith, and sincerity to Allah.
A worshipper should be full of hope that Allah accepts his deeds, and full fear that Allah does not accepts his worship.
The problem now is that some Muslims, by the time, would do worship as something they are in the habit of, not because it is a duty and goal of his life. Thus, worship turned into lifeless routine that one does without touching their heart.
Prayer became mere bodily movements, fasting became limited to abstention from food and drink, charity turned into a subject of pride and similarly is Hajj. So, worship is offered incomplete. The most important requirements of worship, namely Khushu (reverence) and sincerity, are seriously inexistent which contributed to ineffectiveness of the worship.
Some Muslims do not feel the worship they offer. The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “When any one of you is fasting on a day, he should neither indulge in obscene language, nor raise the voice; or if anyone reviles him or tries to quarrel with him he should say: I am a person fasting.” (Al-Bukhari and Muslim)
The Prophet (peace be upon him) tells us that the fasting person should feel that he is offering a sacred worship that should not be violated.
The evidence in the hadith is that if a fasting person comes across anything that is contrary to good doing, he or she should not react badly. They should recall the status they are in: they are fasting.
Thus, fasting is not restricted to abstention from eating, drinking and lawful sex but also from obscenity, evil manners, falsehood, perjury and other bad things. The Prophet (peace be upon him) showed that these things are contradictory to the essence of fasting.
Worship is a training
The Quran and hadiths of the Prophet indicate that worship is a training course for the worshipper to perfect his or her attitude outside them. If you feel shy to displease God during worship, such as fasting, let this be a course of life outside them.
The Prophet (peace be upon him) said, “If one does not eschew lies and false conduct, Allah has no need that he should abstain from his food and his drink.” (Al-Bukhari)
Moreover, fasting, in particular, is legislated to prove for people the capabilities placed in them which they may not be aware of. It revives the capacities of patience and strong will inside them. The Muslim who fasts in Ramadan learns to be patient with the prohibition of lawful things, and this educates him to be patient. The same applies to prayer that teaches order and humbleness and Zakah (obligatory charity) that trains one on generosity.
Appreciating the worship
The one who does his best to perfect the worship in terms of submissiveness, following the model of the Prophet and sincerity will be keen not to spoil its reward by means of misdeeds and wrongdoing.
This is indicated by the hadith of Abu Hurairah (may Allah be pleased with him) who reported: “The Messenger of Allah (peace be upon him) said, “Do you know who is the bankrupt?” They said: “The bankrupt among us is one who has neither money with him nor any property”. He said, “The real bankrupt of my Ummah would be he who would come on the Day of Resurrection with Prayer, fasting and charity, (but he will find himself bankrupt on that day as he will have exhausted the good deeds) because he reviled others, brought calumny against others, unlawfully devoured the wealth of others, shed the blood of others and beat others; so his good deeds would be credited to the account of those (who suffered at his hand). If his good deeds fall short to clear the account, their sins would be entered in his account and he would be thrown in the (Hell) Fire”. (Muslim)
A true Muslim is always keen on his rewards, values them highly and fears that they are spoiled by indulging in wrongdoings. So, he keeps away from everything that can spoil the rewards of his good deeds.
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Our thoughts and ideas, and our rational and intuitive knowledge, are carried by the mental body. Its vibration is greater than the etheric body and the emotional body, and its structure is less compact. It is oval, and the development of man than its volume can be extended to occupy about the same space as the emotional body and the emotional aura together. The aura of the mental body irradiation has a range of a few meters.
The appearance of the mental body
In a mentally undeveloped person, the mental body looks like a milky white substance. The few existing colors are muted and dull, and its structure appears relatively opaque. The more alive the thoughts and the more profound are the intellectual knowledge of a person, the more clear and intense colors are radiating its mental vehicle.
Like the emotional body, the mental body also has a higher octave and one octave lower.
Their frequencies less manifest in linear thinking rational understanding, through which access to seek the truth most people. This type of activity is rationally based on the perceptions of the physical plane. Alongside this, the physical body and senses collect information transmitted through the emotional body delcuerpo etheric body transforms the information into emotional feelings and then retransmits the mental body, which, in turn, reacts to them with training verbal thoughts.
The influence of emotional body
Often, due to the influence of the emotional body and emotional structures unreleased, information is distorted and stained thinking. Recurring mental patterns emerge by which we judge the events of our world. This means that rational understanding is far less impartial and objective, even if you spew that quality.
The thoughts that arise in the mental body in this way usually revolve around the personal welfare and interests of future earthly and mundane. In this case the solution of the problems rational becomes the body's primary function mental.
The aura of the man from the inside out:
1) The etheric aura.
2) The emotional aura.
3) The mental aura.
4) The spiritual aura.
The role of the mental body
The real function of the mental body is to collect the universal truths that come from the plane of the spiritual body and integrate them with rational understanding, which transfers them to concrete situations and leads to a solution of the problem in accordance with the universal laws.
The knowledge that in this way we get the spiritual plane of our being manifest as intuitive as sudden insights, often in images or even sounds that later become verbal thoughts. They allow us to look into the true nature of things and have a holographic structure, unlike the linear understanding of the rational.
The higher octave of the mental body
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These are some of the views and reports relevant to our readers that caught our attention this week.
Digital News Report 2016
Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism
This year we have evidence of the growth of distributed (offsite) news consumption, a sharpening move to mobile and we can reveal the full extent of ad-blocking worldwide. These three trends in combination are putting further severe pressure on the business models of both traditional publishers and new digital-born players – as well as changing the way in which news is packaged and distributed. Across our 26 countries, we see a common picture of job losses, cost-cutting, and missed targets as falling print revenues combine with the brutal economics of digital in a perfect storm. Almost everywhere we see the further adoption of online platforms and devices for news – largely as a supplement to broadcast but often at the expense of print.
Food Security and the Data Revolution: Mobile Monitoring on the Humanitarian Frontline
Advanced Training Program on Humanitarian Action, Harvard Humanitarian Initiative
Obtaining real-time and actionable information on the needs of affected populations has long been a priority for humanitarians; so keeping up with new technologies that could improve existing data collection systems is also a necessity. Innovations such as mobile phones and the Internet have already profoundly changed the nature of humanitarian work. They are proving to be faster and cheaper than legacy information systems, increasing the amount of information that decision makers have, and ultimately enabling them to save more lives. However, what is truly transformative is their potential to reach previously ‘invisible’ populations. | <urn:uuid:1499c8b4-63f5-4be7-a3db-670cb307a65b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blogs.worldbank.org/category/tags/g20 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719908.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00158-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944938 | 318 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Renee Kent wrote this post as archivist for the Meadowbrook Parents Association. The MPA meets monthly to discuss various aspects of school life with members of the teaching and administrative staff. Each meeting begins with the presentation of an educational topic from a faculty representative. In this post, MWS class teacher Andrew Gilligan brought his incredible energy to discuss with us what it means to enroll in a Waldorf School. Renee writes, “He presented with such passion and reverence and I am sharing here what I took away from the discussion, not the least of which is an incredible gratitude that people such as Andrew Gilligan exist and take deeply into their own souls the responsibility for educating children in a way that goes much deeper than the practical curriculum of reading, writing, and math.”
Andrew Gilligan began his discussion about the importance of Waldorf Education in the world and what it means by asking us to think about the word freedom. As parents, we exercise our freedom to choose the type of education that best fits the needs of our child. Waldorf Education exercises its freedom as an independent school system, free from the full weight of government regulation. Waldorf philosophy (or pedagogy) views children as free beings who come with unique gifts to bestow upon the world. The children are granted the freedom to enjoy childhood. The education itself is intended for children to grow into adults who are confident in exercising their own freedom to be who they are meant to be.
Educating for an Unknown Future
Children are the lifeblood of human society. Children are, quite literally, our future. While this is a popular media catchphrase, the gravity of this is taken quite seriously by teachers. Our children will become the adults that make the decisions in our world. The root of the word education means to draw out. Waldorf educators abide by the philosophy that their primary role is to remove hindrances so that children are able to bring their own ideas out into the world. This stands as a stark counterpoint to the general idea that a proper education ‘fills up’ the child with information, information that may or may not be relevant when the child is grown. As a teacher Mr. Gilligan asks: “How is the gesture of education able to draw out the capacities that lie within the child?” “How can we educate this child for freedom?”
We prepare a child of today for an unknown world of tomorrow by allowing them to know their own self, to rely on their inner strength, and by allowing them their own freedom within the moral compass of knowing that they must take responsibility for that freedom. We do this by holding a quiet knowing of what childhood ought to be, by allowing them the freedom to fully experience childhood.
Education Begins with Healthy Relationships
Waldorf educator and author, Gary Lamb describes a Holy Trinity of Education made up of parents, teachers, and children. The basic foundation of a healthy school is healthy relationships, where no one is given authority to make a decision about a child unless that individual knows the child in question and bears some responsibility for the education of that child. No outside agency, (government, academic or industrial) should be involved in making policy decisions about education unless directly involved in providing that education to the children concerned. If children are to be free to develop to meet the future they must be free of the demands of present economic and political considerations. Waldorf Education is child-centered meaning all decisions regarding that education are driven by the needs of the individual child and the class in question. Using the Holy Trinity of Education those decisions are made by the child’s parents and teachers.
In a Waldorf School, the teacher is a pedagogical artist with the freedom to bring his or her own particular interests, experiences, and skills to the students, enriching the curriculum with deeper meaning. Public school colleagues are limited in this capacity. This is not because they lack the understanding or do not feel the gravity of their responsibility. It is because their freedom is restricted by school systems. They are regulated by the need to provide quantifiable results. They are required to evaluate success according to metrics. Metrics that are based on standards unconnected to the individual child’s capacities. Within the Waldorf curriculum, teachers are free to make choices that meet the needs of the class, assessing progress and evaluating the process as it relates to the children concerned.
Freedom to Invest in an Education
As parents we know our children, their needs and gifts, better than anyone. As parents we have the freedom to choose the educational system we feel is the best fit for our children. However, the cost of attending an independent school may mean some parents are unable to act on their choices. Parents in Waldorf Schools are partners in their children’s education not only by working with the teacher in support of the work done in the classroom, but by sustaining community life and helping alleviate financial pressures through volunteerism.
Mr. Gilligan offered that it is a brave choice to become a part of a Waldorf School. It is a free choice, not something foisted upon you and it requires a personal investment. What it calls on us to do is to rise up and hold ourselves accountable, to sharpen our responsibility of soul.
Freedom to Pursue Their Life’s Work.
As a parent listening to this talk, I was repeatedly moved by the depth of commitment expressed by Mr. Gilligan. Most parents if asked, I imagine would say that what they want is for their children grow into happy, well adjusted adults. To me this means that they will pursue what they are passionate about, something that is soul satisfying and that they can fully immerse themselves in. What became clear to me while listening to Mr. Gilligan is that in choosing a Waldorf School, I have surrounded my children with adults doing exactly that. Adults who felt a calling and pursued it, a calling they are free to fully inhabit to the benefit of the children. With adults they respect, doing their life’s work with integrity and passion, the children are being shown daily that they are free to do the same. I can’t think of a better place for my children. | <urn:uuid:ff4bea1b-cc81-4577-b00d-08d89b47de2c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.meadowbrookschool.com/tag/future | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718866.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00004-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974513 | 1,267 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Wellington health professionals ready to transform health through nutrition
DFN’s Hannah O’Malley (BPharm) and GP Dr Luke Wilson presented to 50 clinical colleagues at a recent professional workshop, in collaboration with the Pharmaceutical Society of New Zealand.
A Food Odyssey
Dr Wilson began the presentation by taking attendees on a ‘Food Odyssey’, exploring how human dietary patterns have changed through history, arriving at where we are now, and how we can get to a better place. Dr Wilson then presented the Gisborne BROAD study (of which he was a co-lead), and used a range of evidence to explain the powerful benefits of plant-based nutrition.
Dispensing Lifestyle Medicine
Pharmacist Hannah O’Malley asked the audience, “If you had access to a pill that could significantly reduce the risk of heart disease, obesity, diabetes and bowel cancer, without any side effects, would you recommend it?”. She went on to present on ‘Practical Ways To Dispense Lifestyle Medicine’, where time and again, the evidence has shown that whole food plant-based eating does just that.
Feedback from the event corroborates what we already know: that a lack of nutrition awareness is common in the health profession but that there is a great appetite to fill this knowledge gap. As one attendee put it: “I have really been impacted by the realisation that poor diet and nutrition is the leading cause of so many health conditions. Will certainly be improving my current diet.”
>90% would recommend or highly recommend the workshop to other health professionals
Many members of the audience came away inspired to start incorporating their learning in their personal and professional lives. “I am going to use this info starting NOW – in my own lifestyle and then when I’ve learnt more, will share with others.” Several have committed to undertaking further professional development in nutrition as a result, with one calling the workshop “truly life changing”.
Handouts, references and further resources
Links to further educational resources are provided on our website here.
Please also browse our information on the impact of nutrition on many common health conditions and stay tuned for further resources and guidance that are in the pipeline.
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25 years ago today, Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 (C-GMXQ) was a chartered passenger flight operated by Nationair from King Abdulaziz International Airport, Jeddah, Saudi Arabia to Sadiq Abubakar III International Airport, Sokoto, Nigeria. The Douglas DC-8-61 was carrying 247 passengers & 14 crew members.
The accident aircraft C-GMXQ at Faro Airport in 1989.
The pilots on board Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 were Captain William Allen, 47 a former Canadian Air Force pilot, had logged 10,700 flight hours. First Officer Kent Davidge, 36, had logged 8,000 flight hours and Flight Engineer Victor Fehr, 46, had logged 7,500 flight hours.
Nigeria Airways Flight 2120 started its take off roll from Jeddah’s runway 34L at 08:28, bound for Sokoto, Nigeria. At about 15 seconds into the take off, an oscillating sound was heard in the cockpit. Within two seconds, the flight engineer said: “What’s that?” The first officer replied: “We gotta flat tire, you figure?” Two seconds later, an oscillating sound was again heard. The captain asked the first officer: “You’re not leaning on the brakes, eh?” The first officer responded: “No, I’m not, I got my feet on the bottom of the rudder.”
At that time, the aircraft had accelerated to about 80 knots. Marks on the runway showed that the No.1 wheel started to break up at about this time. In addition, the left and right flanges of No.2 wheel began to trace on the runway; rubber deposit from No.2 tire continued which appeared to be from a deflated tire between the flanges.
At 28 seconds into the take off, the captain called 90 knots this was acknowledged by the first officer. The captain called V1 at about 45 seconds. Two seconds later, the first officer noted: “sort of a shimmy like if you’re riding on one of those ah thingamajigs.”
At 51 seconds, the captain called rotate and the airplane lifted off the runway. Witnesses noticed flames in the area of the left main landing gear. The flames disappeared when the undercarriage was retracted.
During the next three minutes several indications of system anomalies occurred, which included pressurisation system failure, a gear unsafe light and a loss of hydraulics.
The captain requested a level-off at 2000 feet because of the pressurisation problem. In his radio call the captain used the callsign “Nationair 2120” instead of “Nigerian 2120”. Confusion set in for the air traffic controller and mistook the transmission to be from a Saudi flight returning to Jaddah and cleared the Jeddah bound aircraft to 3000 feet. The captain of Nigerian 2120 acknowledged the ATC transmission without a call sign, saying “understand you want us up to 3000 feet.”
This misunderstanding continued for the next three minutes with ATC assuming that all calls were from the Saudi flight not from Nigerian Airways Flight 2120. About a minute later the captain reported that the aircraft was leveling off at 3000 feet. The first officer interrupted with “… declaring an emergency. We’re declaring an emergency at this time. We believe we have ah, blown tires.”
As the aircraft continued on the downwind heading, a flight attendant came into the cockpit and reported “smoke in the back…. real bad.” A few moments later, the first officer said “I’ve got no ailerons.” The captain responded “Ok hang on, I’ve got it”.
This was the last record on the CVR which failed along with the FDR at 08:33:33.
The ATC controller gave a heading to intercept the final approach and thereafter continued to give heading information.
Meanwhile, during the downwind and base leg, the fire had consumed the cabin floor above the wheel wells, permitting cabin furnishing to sag into the wheel wells. When the gear was probably extended at 11 miles on the final approach, the first body fell out because fire had burned through the seat harness. Subsequently, with the gear down and forceful air supply through the open gear doors, rapid destruction of more floors structure permitted the loss of more bodies and seat assemblies. Despite the considerable destruction to the air frame, the aircraft appeared to be controllable.
Eight minutes after the aircraft began its take off and 10 miles from the runway, the captain declared an emergency for the third time saying. “Nigeria 2120 declaring an emergency, we are on fire, we are on fire, we are returning to base immediately.
The aircraft came in nose down and crashed 9,433 feet short of the runway at 08:38. All 247 passengers & 14 crew members were killed instantly. The crash of Nigeria Airways remains the deadliest accident involving a DC-8 & the deadliest aviation disaster involving a Canadian airline.
The Investigation was led by the Canadian Transportation Safety Board. They concluded that prior to departure, the lead mechanic had noticed that the #2 and #4 type pressures were below the minimums for flight dispatch and attempted to inflate them, but no nitrogen gas was readily available, and the project manager, unwilling to accept a delay, disregarded the problem and readied the aircraft for dispatch.
As the aircraft was taxiing, the transfer of the load from the under-inflated No.2 tire to the No.1 tire on the same port side axle resulted “in over deflection, over-heating and structural weakening of the No. 1 tyre. “The No.1 tyre failed very early on the take off roll”, followed almost immediately by the No.2. The latter stopped rotating “for reasons not established”, and the subsequent friction of the wheel assembly with the runway generated sufficient heat to start a self-sustaining fire.
The crew realised there was a problem, but not the nature or seriousness of it. The aircraft was not equipped with fire or heat sensors in the wheel assembly. When the landing gear was retracted. “Burning rubber was brought into close proximity with hydraulic and electrical system components”, causing the failure of both hydraulic and pressurisation systems that led to structural damage and loss of control of the aircraft.
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January 30, 2012 in Illustration (E)
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With the audacity to overreach, President Obama commemorated the fifth anniversary of the bipartisan Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act on Monday by calling it "the boldest expansion of opportunities to serve our communities and our country since the creation of AmeriCorps."
He's wrong. National-service advocates, including Democrats otherwise loyal to Obama, say the law has gotten little more than lip service from the White House—and far less than that from House Republicans.
In fact, both the Obama administration and Congress received failing grades Monday in a report by ServiceNation and Voices for National Service, two groups advocating for programs that support volunteerism and community service.
This must be what Obama considers to be bold and expanded:
- From 2010 to 2013, the number of people serving the nation through AmeriCorps declined by nearly 18,000 because of a lack of funding from Washington, according to the report.
- This year, despite soaring number of applicants for AmeriCorps positions, fewer than 80,000 national-service members are serving. That is 120,000 short of the law's goal for 2014.
The 2009 act authorized the growth of AmeriCorps from 75,000 positions in 2008 to 250,000 by 2017. That pledge appears unattainable, given the resistance of Republicans to support national service and Obama's inability to overcome the GOP.
"As we celebrate this anniversary," Obama wrote in a letter to national-service advocates Monday, "let us recommit to fulfilling its promise." One recipient, who asked not to be identified, emailed me a copy of the letter and scoffed, "You can't recommit to something that's never been committed to."
Zack Maurin, executive director of ServiceNation, put it more diplomatically. "Congress and the White House need to make good on their promise," he said. "The millennial generation is desperate for opportunities to work and gain experience, while communities across the country need help tutoring and mentoring struggling students, rebuilding after natural disasters, and helping people climb out of poverty."
The law, named in honor of Sen. Edward Kennedy, an advocate for national service who died in 2009, builds upon the legacies of Presidents Johnson, Nixon, George H.W. and George W. Bush, and Clinton, each of whom played a role in developing the modern-day national-service system. While Obama's immediate predecessor grew AmeriCorps by 50 percent, the program has flatlined under the current administration.
The report lays most of the blame on Republicans, noting that House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan has called repeatedly for the elimination of national-service funding. But it also criticizes Obama for finessing the numbers in an attempt to disguise the lack of progress.
I've written previously about the many Democrats who believe the president has not fought Republicans hard enough on behalf of AmeriCorps. In their report released Monday, the two advocacy groups issued a report card grading Washington's leaders, with an "A" awarded in three areas: focusing national service toward the nation's greatest needs; developing interagency partnerships that take advantage of national-service programs; and steering service members toward national disaster relief.
In addition to the failure to expand the program, an "F" grade was issued against the goals of increasing service opportunities for older Americans and enhancing service-leading opportunities for the young.
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T-Mobile does not have a 4G network. Sprint, which first launched WiMAX in June of 2009, does not have a 4G network. Verizon Wireless will flip the switch on LTE later this year and when it does, it will not have a 4G network. AT&T is taking its time with LTE and it won’t fire anything up until next year. When it finally does, AT&T will not have a 4G network.
“4G”, as we now use the term here in the United States, is marketing speak. Carriers have devalued it to the point where it simply doesn’t make sense to fight it anymore… but I’m going to anyway.
Though carriers aren’t going to like this, 4G actually does have a definition now. The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) took its sweet time issuing that definition, however, so carriers decided to dismiss the fact that the ITU is the body that defines these technical terms.
But as I mentioned, 4G is now defined.
We don’t need to get too deep into the technical definition of 4G. In this context, here’s what you need to know: for a service to qualify as 4G, it must deliver peak download speeds of approximately 100Mbps in high-mobility environments (cell phones) and peak download speeds of approximately 1Gbps in low-mobility environments. Current technologies such as WiMAX, LTE and HSPA+ certainly do not meet these criteria.
Of course carriers have known for a long time that once the ITU did finally define 4G, no current or near-term networks would fit the definition. But these telcos are making massive investments in building out and launching speedy new networks. How else can they relate these investments to the consumer?
“4G” is now simply a marketing term carriers use to distinguish new from old. They don’t care what new is, and they don’t care what old was. They just know what case studies have told them… people equate 4G with “fast”, so we’re calling our network 4G.
While T-Mobile is the latest carrier to fall under the microscope, it has just as much of a right to call HSPA+ “4G” as other carriers do to call WiMAX or LTE “4G”. WiMAX is faster than EVDO — 3G — so it is called 4G. HSPA+ (Evolved High-Speed Packet Access) is faster than T-Mobile’s older HSPA network — 3G — so it is called 4G.
What’s funny is that when T-Mobile finally does launch an LTE network, it could potentially use the same logic carriers use now and call it a 5G network. Yes, it would use the same technology as AT&T and Verizon Wireless’ 4G networks, but it would be 5G. This scenario sounds ridiculous — but it’s actually happening right now. AT&T has an HSPA+ network just like T-Mobile, but AT&T calls it 3G while T-Mobile calls it 4G.
Does any of this even matter? Carriers are simply using the term to distinguish new, faster networks from old, slower networks. What’s the big deal?
In the grand scheme of things, maybe it’s not a big deal. Maybe it also wouldn’t be a big deal if Honda started advertising the 4-cylinder engine in its base model Civic as a V5. Why not? It would just be branding its engine as a V5 to help customers distinguish between the older, slower 4-cylinder model and the newer, faster 4-cylinder model.
Eventually, false advertising lawsuits will start popping up with regards to “4G” but carriers are all in too deep now. Settling will be infinitely cheaper than rebranding. They’ve made their beds.
But the recurring argument surrounding the question “is this 4G?” should not continue. The answer is no longer open to debate. The ITU has defined 4G and no current or near-term networks in the U.S. fit the bill. There is no “4G”.
And so with that, I’ll leave you with the marketer’s mantra…
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The Forum on Geologic mapping applications in the Washington-Baltimore urban area was convened on April 23, 1997, at Reston, Virginia. The forum was cosponsored by the U.S. Geological Survey and the Maryland Geological Survey, with assistance from the Virginia Division of Mineral Resources. Spatial earth science information in the Washington-Baltimore area provides a scientific framework for environmental assessment, urban planning, and future resource and hazard investigations in this area of the Chesapeake Bay watershed, which has sustained three centuries of urban growth.
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One key to combating noxious weeds is knowing where they are, how quickly they've spread and which treatments are successful.
A group of volunteers, as well as officials from the city and U.S. Forest Service, hiked Spring Creek Trail on Thursday to look for and map toadflax.
The "weed warriors" found the two types of toadflax -- yellow and dalmatian -- during the hike, said Craig Robinson, open space coordinator for the city of Steamboat Springs.
"It's a very pesky, hardy weed that's hard to get rid of," Robinson said.
When the volunteers found a group of noxious weeds, they took the GPS coordinates. That information will be used to help measure the extent of the infestation.
Going back year after year allows the group to determine whether methods of controlling weeds -- from using herbicides to weed-eating bugs -- are working. Also, after the weeds are mapped, they can be destroyed by herbicide treatments and other methods.
The hike was one in a series of seven summertime hikes throughout the county organized through the Routt Invasive Plant Posse. Other sites that have been hiked include Emerald Mountain; the Mad Creek, Hot Springs and Red Dirt trails; and Lynx Pass.
Depending on the hike, volunteers may spread out and hike different trails or bushwhack along banks of a river, always keeping an eye out for weeds.
Volunteers for the Spring Creek hike began at the top of the trail and hiked down together. Having a group of people ensures the pesky yellow weeds aren't missed, Robinson said.
"The more eyes the better," he said.
Insects that kill toadflax have been released in the past several years along Spring Creek Trail, said C.J. Mucklow, Routt County Agricultural Extension agent.
"We are really hoping they're going to work," Mucklow said.
Toadflax doesn't always respond to a herbicide. But when the weed is weakened by insects first, the herbicide is more likely to work.
It's best to use more than one tool to manage noxious weeds successfully, Mucklow said.
"The more ways you can stress the plant, the more success you have," he said.
Insects have been released to combat different noxious weeds throughout the county. The main weeds targeted with insects have been musk thistle, leafy spurge and toadflax. Some insects eat the weed's roots, and others eat seeds.
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Without international investigation accused will become judge: CPI
The Tamil Nadu Assistant Secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI), Mr C. Mahendran in an interview to Junior Vikatan this week, rejected a statement by the Marxist Communist Party (CPM) central committee member and parliamentarian, TK Rangarajan saying that there is no need for an international investigation on Sri Lanka. Mr Rangarajan’s statement has found opposition even inside his party. Commenting, Mahendran said, he was surprised and he didn’t understand that in what sense Rangarajan had made the statement. Rangarajan should realise that expecting Sri Lanka to conduct the investigations is like appointing the murderer as the judge to deliver justice, Mahendran said.
When the communist ideology argues for the right of even recalling elected representatives, Rangarajan rejecting the idea of conducting a referendum among Eezham Tamils, is contradictory and surprising, Mahendran said.
What is happening in Sri Lanka is a historically continuing genocide. Annihilation of the identity of Tamils is the long-term agenda of the Sinhala chauvinists. It started with the disenfranchisement of plantation Tamils immediately after the independence.
|C. Mahendran, the Tamil Nadu assistant secretary of the Communist Party of India (CPI)|
Tamils in the island have been fighting through peace means for 35 years and deploying militancy in the next 25 years, just for their fundamental political rights.
In the last days of the war alone, 40,000 were killed in a war without witnesses. How come Rangarajan, a parliamentarian, is unaware of it?
The argument that a genocide crime has to be resolved internally could never be accepted. The international organisations like the UN, International Court of Justice and the UNHRC have been created just to see no state should breach the limits. The international communist movement played an important role in the creation of these institutions.
One could come out with ample evidence to prove why Sri Lanka will not resolve the crisis. If every country were left to resolve issues domestically, many of them would go back to the times of savagery. TKR rejecting international option is surprising, Mahendran observed.
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Why the CPM is on record for opposing the liberation of genocide-affected Eezham Tamils is a puzzle for many.
Those who theoretically explain the phenomenon cite its Stalinist orientation that favours Indian imperialist solutions rather than liberations inside and in the neighbourhood. They cite at the stand of the party on the North Eastern Frontier nations in India and on the war in the tribal belt.
But there are the others who cite at the social structure of the party that is paranoid especially at the national question of Eezham Tamils.
The CPM strongholds are in the states of West Bengal and Kerala in India.
In Kerala the undivided Communist Party came to power in 1957 itself.
After the Russia–China divide of 1960s, the CPM was long dominating the State of West Bengal. It was the ruling force that took up the issue of the liberation of Bengalis in Bangladesh in 1971.
People of Kerala in the long run will be much benefited and will find conducive milieu in the neighbourhood, if on their own they take an articulating stand supporting the universally righteous question of Eezham Tamils, revolting against their own elite in New Delhi and parties like the CPM, is a strong opinion in Tamil Nadu.
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In the Process: A Visual Arts Portfolio Assessment Pilot Project.
The California Art Education Association conducted a portfolio assessment pilot project to provide visual arts educators with examples of classroom practice to serve as a foundation for further development of performance/portfolio assessment. Key issues addressed during this project included the purposes of assessment portfolios for students and teachers and the selection of portfolio contents. A portfolio that is assessed regularly offers students the opportunity to learn about learning, engages them in self-reflection, and allows them to value both their own work and themselves as learners. Examples of selected portfolio artwork and students' written responses to those artworks are provided. Samples of surveys conducted with students (n=50) and teachers to discover how they feel about portfolio assessment also are documented. The results of the survey show that both students and teachers benefit from using assessment portfolios. (KM)
Descriptors: Art Education, Creative Thinking, Educational Assessment, Evaluation Methods, Fine Arts, Formative Evaluation, Intermediate Grades, Learning Strategies, Portfolios (Background Materials), Secondary Education, Self Evaluation (Individuals), Visual Arts
California Art Education Association, 2257 Van Ufford Lane, Carmichael, CA 95608 ($3.50).
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New Yorkers can stop grumbling when the warning about surge pricing pops up in the Uber app. At least according to Uber, that is.
Yesterday, the ride sharing service released a case study conducted by their company and Chris Nosko, an economics professor at University of Chicago.
Surge pricing goes into effect when the demand for rides outnumbers the amount of Uber vehicles on the road.
“Without surge pricing, Uber is not really Uber—you can’t push a button and get a ride in minutes,” Uber researchers Jonathan Hall and Cory Kendrick wrote on the Uber blog.
The case study looked at two different nights in New York City in the past year. The first was March 21, the night of the sold out Ariana Grande concert at Madison Square Garden. The second was New Year’s Eve.
Even though the Uber app was opened more than four times more than usual after Ms. Grande’s concert ended, causing prices to surge to 1.8 times the original price, Uber says this was beneficial in multiple ways.
On New Years Eve, by contrast, Uber surge pricing broke down in New York City for 26 minutes during a busy part of the night. According to the case study, not having surge resulted in negative consequences for both drivers and riders.
One of the benefits of surge according to Uber is the increase of drivers on the road, because they are being paid more; which in return benefits riders because more Ubers are available.
Another benefit is that surge pricing makes riders value Uber more. On the night of the concert, the app openings increased, but the number of requests did not, as some decided to take an alternative route or wait for surge pricing to end.
“Those that ended up requesting a ride are those for which their outside option was worse, leading them to value Uber more in that particular moment,” the case study said.
How is surge-free Uber bad?
On New Year’s Eve, when surge pricing failed to work, wait times increased as fewer drivers were on the road, according to the study.
Although Uber lost the data that would tell if demand increased because of the technical glitch; the case study hypothesizes that drivers were less likely to drive because of the holiday and that without surge, there was no increase in pay. This led to many uncompleted rides.
This study comes a month after Gett introduced its first ad campaign in New York City, with many anti-Uber ads.
“Uber is our biggest competition in NYC and their customers have a major point of frustration—surge! Our campaign highlights Gett’s surge-free guarantee,” Nathan Roth, Gett’s spokesperson, previously told the Observer.
Besides no surge pricing, Gett is currently offering riders a $10 ride anywhere in Manhattan under 110th Street, something neither Uber nor Lyft offers.
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Just to be proactive my children's pediatrician agreed to test the kids. So we have tested my 14 yr old son and my 6 yr old daughter. My son's tests came back good. My daughter on the other hand tested high for B2 Glycoprotein IgA. The range is 0-20 and she tested at 21. Her platelets are at 445,000 and her in the states the range is 150,000 to 400,000. The results also says she needs further testing for LLI plus cardiolipin and Beta 2 Glycoprotein 1 antibodies. It will be a few weeks to a few months before we see a children's Rheumy. I am not going to jump to conclusions, panic, or predict. I just always wondered if my mom would have known could the last 15 yrs have been a little easier for us. If my daughter could have it i want to make sure she has the best care, someone to fight it with her.
What is everyone's thought on having your children tested and being proactive. Honestly i would rather keep an eye out instead of waiting until a DVT, heart attack, Stroke, miscarriage, stillbirth or other symptoms and complication to happen. Please tell me your thoughts and if you have any info regarding this please please let me know.
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This Article Originally Appeared in "Exercise for Men Only" written by Andy Troy, C.S.C.S.
THERE IS A DISEASE MORE FEARED THAN ALL OTHERS. IT AFFECTS MEN AND WOMEN ALIKE, CAUSING EVERY CELL IN THE BODY TO WITHER AND DIE. IT PROVES FATAL IN ALL CASES AND, AS YET, THERE IS NO CURE. THAT DISEASE IS CALLED AGING. YOUTH MAY BE FLEETING, BUT SOMETHING WE WANT TO PRESERVE. IN SPITE OF THIS OUR LIVES OFTEN LEAD US DOWN A VERY DIFFERENT PATH. WE EAT THE WRONG THINGS, DRINK AND SMOKE, EXERCISE FAR TOO LITTLE AND GET WAY TOO MUCH SUN. AS BADLY AS WE WANT TO STAY YOUNG, WE SEEM TO DO EVERYTHING IN OUR POWER TO CUT IT SHORT. THIS IS ONE OF MODERN AMERICA’S GREATEST PARADOXES.
In this article, we're going to look at 20 things that we can control regarding how well we age. Using yesterday as your guide, read the following 20 questions and answer them honestly. It might be an eye-opening experience that leads to seeing a younger, healthier you.
Below is a hypothetical day based on a 9-5 workday with a 45-minute commute. 7 a.m.
7 a.m. Did you meditate? Those in the fitness world learn to weigh risk versus benefit when creating an exercise routine. Few things I've found in life have as positive an upside/downside ratio as meditation. A study done by the Medical College of Georgia found that meditation can help you maintain a healthy heart. In addition, the National Institutes of Health now recommends it as part of the first line of treatment for high blood pressure. It has been used for thousands of years to treat chronic pain, drug addiction and possibly the biggest killer – stress itself. Unless you do it on the subway traveling through a bad part of town, there is no negative.
But what is meditation? Patricia Monaghan, author of Meditation, The Complete Guide, defines it as "Activities (or lack of activities!) that center the person in the moment, that free the mind from the continual rant of the inner dialogue, and that promote (although often rather slowly) a more peaceful and serene approach to life.”
So how does one learn to meditate? If you're in a position to take a course like transcendental meditation, great. If not, here are some simple instructions: Close your eyes and sit quietly for about 30 seconds. Next, begin thinking a word that has as few associations as possible. Many people choose the number one, but anything will work. Let the word pass through your mind for the next 15-20 minutes. Next, stop thinking the mantra and sit quietly for a minute or two before slowly opening your eyes. While there are other methods to employ for meditation, the one I described is simple and has shown great results.
7:20 a.m. How much water did you drink? Our bodies are composed of over 50 percent water, and as little as a 1-2 percent loss of your bodyweight can sap your energy and make you tired. So how much water should you drink? Well, we lose about 2.5 liters every day through urination, sweating, etc. Since most of us get about 20 percent of that back in the food we eat, drinking two liters a day should replenish lost fluids.
Remember that physical activity, heat, and humidity increase your need for fluids, as do some medications and health conditions. No upper limits have been set for water consumption, so too much (fraternity hazing and the Spanish Inquisition aside) is rarely a problem.
7:45 a.m. Did you eat breakfast? This meal is the one most often skipped, but also the most important. Your body can only store glycogen (the storage form of carbohydrates) for about 12 hours. After that it starts breaking down muscle and using it for fuel. One good breakfast suggestion is a bowl of whole grain cereal (like Kashi GOLEAN) with a handful of fresh blueberries and a little one percent milk.
7:45 a.m. Did you take a multivitamin? This is good low-calorie nutrition; taken with a balanced breakfast, it will start your day off right. A word of caution: When it comes to vitamins, more is not better. In high quantities, fat-soluble vitamins (A, D, E and K) can be toxic. It is often thought that water-soluble vitamins can't be overdone since the excess is excreted in the urine. But if your body gets accustomed to an extremely elevated level of a water-soluble vitamin and the dosage is suddenly cut to a level more in line with the RDA, symptoms of deficiency can show up. This has been known to happen with vitamin C and can lead to an illness called rebound scurvy.
8:05 a.m. Did you use sunscreen? “Sunscreen helps prevent all those things that people worry about when they grow older, such as wrinkles, brown spots and 'loose skin." says Dr.York dermatologist. "It's good preventive medicine." And when combined with a moisturizer in products like NeoStrata, it provides additional benefit.
8:10 a.m. Did you start your day with music? I once dated a woman who made a point of listening to one of her favorite songs every day, just before leaving the house. That was 20 years ago, but it's a simple, logical idea that stuck with me. According to a Penn State study, whatever type of music you choose to listen to will improve your mood. In another study at Michigan and Florida involving 130 retirees, most claimed that taking keyboard lessons greatly diminished feelings of anxiety, depression and loneliness. Improving your mood reduces stress and thereby reduces illness. Talk about being proactive!
On the reactive front, music is being used by an ever-increasing number of hospitals to help patients cope with the trauma of surgery. In an article published by WebMD in November 2000, musician Kate Richards dealt with her childhood fear of surgery by listening to music immediately before and after the operation. She described her recovery room experience as follows: “I somehow felt my nerves were being massaged."
8:15 a.m. Did you pet the dog? Numerous studies have shown that pets reduce stress levels, leading to a longer, healthier life. In a University of Pennsylvania study, researchers reported that, “Quietly watching fish swimming in a home aquarium eases stress, and may offer a means of treating high blood pressure." In another study done by Karen Allen, Ph.D., of the State University of New York-Buffalo, it was discovered that heart attack survival rates were higher for pet owners. Keep that in mind when you head for work, and remember to pet the dog. As for the fish ... maybe just wave.
8:25 a.m. How did you breathe? Breathing is taken for granted by pretty much everyone, but how you breathe has a lot to do with how well and long you live. Proper breathing should come from your abdomen - not your chest. When you inhale, your stomach should extend. As you exhale it should move back towards your spine. So while on your trip to work, take a few minutes and focus on your breathing.
10 a.m. Did you have a mid-morning snack? Eat a little something to keep those metabolic fires burning. Growing up, I always heard how bad it was to snack between meals. We now know that whether it's good or bad depends on what that snack is and how much of it we eat. Since five smaller meals are recommended by many in the health and fitness community, a healthful snack can be a positive thing. Good choices include lowfat yogurt with some fresh fruit added or a half-cup of walnuts (which have been shown to raise your level of HDL, thereby fighting heart disease).
Noon. What did you have for lunch? If you're brown bagging it, some good choices include brown rice and beans or pasta and broccoli (both combinations provide complete proteins). When eating out, Subway offers some good options. I like several of their heroes on honey oat bread. Make sure to get the full array of vegetables (tomatoes, peppers, olives, etc.}. I also like their grilled chicken and baby spinach salad.
3-5:30 p.m. Did you meditate again? It's recommended that you meditate twice a day. In some ways the second time is even more important. This break in the action allows your body to recharge. If you can find a quiet place in the late afternoon, do it then. If you take mass transit home, the ride is an excellent time for session number two.
5:45 p.m. Did you stretch? Your workday is done and it's time to hit the gym. After a 5-10 minute warm-up, it's time to stretch. Here are some general guidelines:
- Hit all muscle groups you plan to work on;
- Focus on those muscles that are especially tight, inhibiting normal range of motion;
- Hold all stretches for a minimum of 15-20 seconds;
- Do not bounce.
Flexibility training is important for improving performance and avoiding injury. But it is also important to remember that more is nut necessarily better. Athletes like mania! artists and gymnasts, who need tremendous flexibility to perform, often suffer from joint instability later in life when they reduce their strength training; the resulting lack of muscular strength can no longer support their joint's hypermobility.
5:55 p.m. What about strength training? When I was a teenager, strength training was limited mostly to athletes and guys who wanted to impress the gals with their bulging biceps. Today the negative myths that once surrounded it have fallen by the wayside and have been replaced with reams of scientific evidence showing that regular strength training helps everyone. A recent study done at Tufts University showed that strength training benefits arthritis sufferers. I have had numerous female clients with early onset osteoporosis referred to me. The reason for this is because resistance training builds bone mass.
The first decision you need to make is whether to work your entire body in one day (full body workout) or split it up (split routine). Some who are really committed and can work out six times a week will work their legs alone twice a week.
6:55 p.m. Did you do cardio? The fact that good cardiovascular fitness improves both the length and quality of your life is no longer news. According to a study of 45,000 men done by the Harvard University School of Public Health, those who ran for at least an hour each week reduced their risk of death from heart disease by 42 percent. There are many factors to consider when deciding on an endurance training program, but the minimum recommendations for cardio are 20 minutes 3-5 times a week.
7:15 p.m. What was your second snack? After your workout is a good time for snack number two. Something with a highglycemic index is recommended to help resynthisize glycogen back into your muscles. Good choices include a box of raisins or a baked potato (hold the butter and salt).
8 p.m. What did you have for dinner? While far too many of us skip breakfast, we usually work in dinner, often in the company of someone who raises the heart rate - therefore burning off a few calories in the process! This is also the meal where many of us poison ourselves with tons of salt, fat, cholesterol and other goodies that may well cut our dinner-eating future short. Try to get a sensible balance of nutrients here and keep portion sizes reasonable. Several times a week I eat at a restaurant near my gym that offers a salmon steak over brown rice with some grilled asparagus and a side salad. While you may not always be that vigilant, try not to live on Big Macs and fries, either.
8 p.m. Did you drink alcohol and, if so, how much? This one is tricky, since it can be a plus or a big minus depending on the type and quantity. It has been accepted bv the medical communitY that 1-2 drinks a-day has health benefits: the best choice being red wine. Caution: More than two is a negative - possibly a big one.
9:30 p.m. Did you have a cup of green tea? There is growing evidence that green tea can help prevent a number of health problems, including cancer. In a study done at UCLA and reported in the Feb. 15 issue of Clinical Cancer Research, green tea was found to target cancer cells ,vithout harming healthy tissue. According to Jian Yu Rao, ivLD., "In effect, the green tea extract may keep the cancer cells confined and localized, where they are easier to treat and the prognosis is better." Based on these and other findings, it seems safe to say that a cup or two a day is not a bad beverage of choice.
11 p.m. Did you have sex? As the creator of The Bedroom Workout For Men DVD, I'm in my element here. Sex (assuming it's safe) is as healthy an activity as it is an enjoyable one. Ir relieves stress, burns calories and gives many muscle groups in your body a workout. I also find that a spirited bout helps me sleep, thereby preparing me for our final component:
Midnight. How much sleep did you get? Here, too, more isn't necessarily better. Studies have shown that people who sleep too little live shorter lives. These reports show the same for those who sleep too much. In general, it's safe to say that 7-8 hours a night is a good choice. This allows your body time to adequately repair itself
Like exercise, however, there are more variables to consider than just duration. Quality of sleep is just as important and is affected by many factors, including a comfortable mattress and not eating or consuming alcohol, caffeine or nicotine for at least an hour or nvo before bed.
The above day is just a guideline, as people's schedules vary widely. Some work across the street from the gym and nvo blocks from home, while others have an over-hour commute. Still, the concepts here are valid and, if followed, might improve the length and quality of your life. Try incorporating some of them into your daily routine. Read Less | <urn:uuid:d1feb06a-925c-4508-9426-9e0bfb2db4a2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://andytroy.com/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.962448 | 3,059 | 1.835938 | 2 |
I know this will not be a popular idea, but at least read my post and think for a second before replying. George Lucas was good friends with Joseph Campbell, one of the most brilliant social scientists of the 20th century. Campbell was a student of Jung and believed in a universal-unconscious. He sought to prove this by showing the common threads in all the world's myths. He broke down thousands of myths to one Monomyth, the common elements in all the world's legends. Now, it's generally acknowledged that GL essentially took Campbell's brilliance and put it in space. However, Campbell's ideas have become a blue-print for modern storytelling, with Harry Potter being the most recent example of a work that totally copies Campbell's ideas. One of the stages in the monomyth is the Woman as a Temptress. Essentially, the hero is revolted by his own earthly nature/ mortality and projects this revulsion onto women. Now, we have already seen that Anakin is frustrated with the limits of his power and the pace of his education. He has lost a hand and failed to save his mother. At the same time, Padme is trying to make him believe that he need not be all powerful -- making him the examplar of his mortal nature. It seems highly likely to me that Anakin will be increasingly frustrated by his limitations and is desperate for more power (perhaps something goes badly in the Clone Wars) but Padme opposes him. With prodding from Sidious Anakin turns and projects his anger. This would, in all likelyhood, be something that the Emperor would demand (is it really conceivable that the Emperor would want another influence on Anakin? Or that Darth Vader would let Padme abandon him?). Now I know this goes against Leia remembering her mother, but who cares. Her response to Luke was vague at best, and her memories are similar to those I have of my grandfather who died before my first birthday. Toss in some power in the force and who knows... Any thoughts? | <urn:uuid:972ae6ab-a660-4b0c-b1ac-f8e7fff0093f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://boards.theforce.net/threads/will-anakin-kill-padme.9772680/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281574.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00020-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987077 | 413 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Mona Lisa Smile: IBM Helps The Louvre Become Europe’s First “Smarter” Museum
At Pulse 2012 here in Las Vegas, IBM announced today that it is working with the Louvre Museum in Paris to preserve and protect its facilities and artwork, which covers more than 650,000 square feet, making it one of the largest museums in the world.
Established in the 18th century, the Louvre is home to thousands of objects and artifacts ranging from prehistory to 1848, including the most famous painting in the world, the Mona Lisa. To preserve and protect its facilities and world-famous artwork, the museum staff handles more than 65,000 repairs and maintenance visits per year. Through the use of IBM Maximo Asset Management software the museum’s staff has been able to streamline their maintenance processes to improve customer service as well as the efficiency and real-time operation and management of the museum.
As Europe’s most visited museum, with a record breaking 8.8 million visitors in 2011, one of the Louvre’s goals is to keep the majority of its galleries open daily. To meet that goal while managing over 65,000 repairs and maintenance visits, the museum needed to make its corrective and preventative maintenance more streamlined and efficient.
Prior to working with IBM, the staff managed its facility-related repairs and maintenance work by paper, involving hundreds of vendors. In order to keep the majority of its galleries open daily, the museum recognized that it needed a computerized maintenance management tool to make its corrective and preventative maintenance more streamlined and efficient.
The museum engaged IBM Business Partner SQLI to upgrade IBM Maximo software in order to create a single information database and shared repository for the museum staff. The software solution’s integrated database helps the museum visualize processes including the initial planning, cleaning, maintenance and disposal of the rooms and facilities systems such as the air-conditioning system, heating system, elevators, lights for each room or gallery, and the locking system for more than 2,500 doors,
“Managing thousands of repairs, cleaning and maintenance visits per year to preserve the facilities and artwork while keeping the galleries available and accessible to visitors is a daunting undertaking,” said Metin Pelit, department manager of computerized maintenance management system, The Louvre Museum. “Thanks to IBM software, we’re able to visualize our entire infrastructure and make better, more informed decisions about when and how to respond to problems — and about when to proactively address a potential problem that we otherwise wouldn’t have seen coming.”
Better Managing The Louvre, Making The Mona Lisa Smile
The Louvre’s management system can now aggregate data from individual systems within the museum, providing the museum staff and its vendors coherent and real-time information on each asset. Additionally, the software provides a predictive view into the performance and reliability of the facility equipment and systems, allowing museum staff to better determine which assets need to be repaired or replaced.
“Buildings are massive systems of systems, and these systems need to talk to each other for a building to become smarter,”added Pelit. “In the Louvre’s case, there’s the added challenge of being home to thousands of irreplaceable pieces of art which must be carefully preserved while trying to accommodate millions of visitors annually. By using Maximo software to monitor the condition of assets across the museum’s facilities in one single database, these systems begin to talk to one another, allowing staff to preserve artwork and facilities with more ease and efficiency. As a result the Louvre is now able to keep the majority of their galleries open to customers on a daily basis while simultaneously reducing costs and energy consumption.”
The IBM software enables the museum to gain better insight on what assets they have: how many assets they own, their location and the maintenance history log. The software helps the Louvre Museum staff to manage both planned and unplanned maintenance activities, from initial work request and work order generation through completion and recording of the actual work performed.
The software matched job tasks to available contractors, estimated and obtained approval of costs, established priorities and initiated maintenance activities throughout the museum and its individual galleries. It enables the museum to better follow-up on the maintenance staff – especially contractors, who also work with Maximo. Based on this knowledge, the museum can tailor its tender offer, and consequently contractors can better align their offer to the customer needs.
About IBM Smarter Buildings
IBM delivers technology that manages buildings from museums to office buildings, warehouses, factories, power plants, laboratories, campuses, apartments, resorts and more, to save costs, better manage systems, and reduce carbon emissions. IBM software, hardware and services help create, manage and maintain the world’s most intelligent and interconnected infrastructures from smarter buildings, cities, utilities, offices, transportation systems and operations in every industry.
Since launching its Smarter Buildings initiative in February 2010, IBM has created a portfolio of smarter buildings solutions that integrate with building automation software from across the industry. IBM’s real-time monitoring and analysis, facilities and space management capabilities, and advanced dynamic dashboards helps property owners and managers reduce facilities operations and energy expense, and improve asset management and reliability.
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The region of space around the star Eta Carinae is a complex and turbulent area.
Against the wide backdrop of the Eta Carinae Nebula can be seen an expanding region of
dark gas - the 'Keyhole' of the Keyhole Nebula.
The Nebula consists of a huge cloud of ionised hydrogen
surrounding the extraordinary star Eta Carinae. Eta Carinae itself is a
binary system, consisting of two massive stars
in a mutual embrace, each casting off spherical shrouds of matter to form a peculiar dumb-bell shape.
It is one of the most massive and luminous stars known, and also one of the most
variable. In the mid-nineteenth century, it was one of the
brightest stars in the sky, but has now faded very considerably.
Surrounding the hourglass of Eta Carinae is an extensive cloud of ionised gas, within which
several star clusters are in the process of forming. Clouds of dark obscuring
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Mises Institute, November 20, 2017
by James Bovard
This month is the 100th anniversary of the Communist Party’s seizure of power in Petrograd, Russia. British Guardian columnist Paul Mason recent declared that the Soviet revolution provided “a beacon to the rest of humanity, no matter how short lived.” The New York Times has exalted the Soviet takeover in a series of articles on the “Red Century” – even asserting that “women had better sex under communism” (based largely on a single dubious orgasm count comparison of East and West German women.)
Professor Hunt Tooley’s November 1 Mises article on “The Bolshevik Great Experiment: 100 Years Later” vividly captured the stunning death tolls communism produced in Russia and elsewhere. Stalin reputedly said that one death is a tragedy, a million deaths is a statistic.
Communism’s mortality toll does not capture its full horror – the daily degradation that its victims suffered. In the mid-1980s, there were plenty of Soviet apologists writing in the western media. Practically any Soviet Bloc reform was touted as the turning of the corner to sustained economic progress. I was mystified why people living in freedom would idealize a system of state slavery.
In 1986 and 1987, I slipped behind the Iron Curtain a half dozen times to study economic perversity and political slavery, writing articles for The New York Times, Wall Street Journal Europe, Freeman, Journal of Economic Growth, and other publications. My final trip – in November 1987 – began in Budapest, Hungary, before heading on to the most repressive regime in Europe.
The train from Budapest to Bucharest, Romania was called the Orient Express. The original 1880s Orient Express connected Paris to Constantinople. The menu on the train’s first run included oysters, soup with Italian pasta, turbot with green sauce, chicken ‘à la chasseur’, fillet of beef with ‘château’ potatoes, ‘chaud-froid’ of Game animals, chocolate pudding, and a buffet of desserts. In the communist rendition of the Orient Express, there was no food on the train in Romania, though a few morsels may have been available in Hungary.
I had a cabin to myself as the train rolled southeast from Budapest. I had been told that if border guards found a map of Romania or any other dubious papers, I would be arrested or denied entry. Late at night, nearing the Romanian border, I studied documents one more time, drilling into my head the things that I should be looking for, and then tore them up and threw them out the train window, piece by piece.
Shortly after midnight, the train lumbered to a stop in Transylvania, at the Hungary-Romania border. The scene had all the ambience of the original 1931 Dracula movie. I didn’t hear wolves howling but the mountain terrain, low-hanging fog and military guards with German shepherds endlessly circling the train sufficed.
My cabin was searched four times, with each team outdoing their predecessors. The mattresses on the bunk beds were jostled and practically every cubic inch of space was poked or prodded.
The final inspection was supervised by a cute (by communist standards) military officer. Perhaps the authorities thought I would confess my perfidy to a different gender. Nope: I was just another tourist heading to the “Paris of East Europe,” as Bucharest preened itself in pre-communist times. Except that there were almost zero tourists in a land renamed “the Ethiopia of Europe.” I entered Romania illegally, relying on an easily-acquired tourist visa instead of going through the hassle of getting a journalist visa (which would have also assured more harassment).
After the final search, guards bolted my cabin shut from the outside. The pseudo-luxury train had officially been transformed into a traveling jail. My American passport had earned me special treatment again. I leaned back and counted my blessings. In Western Europe, they charged double for a private cabin.
The Orient Express was no longer an express after it entered Romania, taking 13 hours to rumble 400 miles and running far behind schedule.
Everywhere were signs of a government increasingly fearful of its people. Throughout Transylvania, radio towers were surrounded by military guards and barbed wire. The train stopped at Brasov – a medieval-era city that had been briefly renamed Stalin City – until relations with Moscow chilled. Shortly before I passed through, thousands of workers responded to wage cuts by ransacking communist party offices and killing two government militia men.
There were horse-drawn wagons next to spewing factories and huge apartment complexes. Many people had abandoned their slipshod cars after government sporadically banned the sale of gasoline for private vehicles.
Around 9 the next morning, there was a rapping on my cabin door – like someone sending a secret message.
I heard someone struggling with that bolted lock and then the door popped open and half a dozen ill-clad Romanian factory workers rushed in. They had heard there was a foreigner confined on the train. They stared at me like I was E.T. from outer space. Two workers leaned over and pawed my leather boots, eyes wide in amazement. Leather boots had apparently become the same luxury there that full-length mink coats were in America. Yet, in the pre-communist era, leather boots were probably commonplace for factory and farm workers. We communicated with simple gestures since I did not speak Romanian and they spoke no English. They seemed to be full of good will, but vanished after a few minutes – perhaps fearful of being caught with a foreigner.
The workers were likely no fans of communist dictator Nicole Ceausescu, who seemed determined to starve the people into submission. Though Romania had been one of the world’s top grain exporters before World War One, food had become as rare as honest economist statistics.
Children could not get milk without a doctor’s prescription. It was forbidden for foreigners to send food to Romanians. The government responded to food shortages with a publicity campaign on the danger of overeating. The government also revved up advertising in western nations touting Romania’s “world famous” weight-loss clinics. Food shortages became so bad that the lion in the Bucharest Zoo was converted into an involuntary vegetarian and lost his teeth as a result.
The communists destroyed hundreds of square miles of prime farmland to erect factories and open pit mines. Hundreds of villages were razed and the residents corralled into cities and conscripted to work in factories. The government put almost all investments into heavy industry — the ultimate source of bragging rights for communist leaders. But roughly half of Romania’s output was so shoddy that it was ready for the junk heap moments after it rolled off the assembly line. Romanian industry was also extremely inefficient, consuming up to five times as much energy per unit of output as western factories. The government compensated by cutting off electricity to people’s homes for up to six hours during the winter, and permitting only one 25-watt light bulb per room.
The health system was collapsing, and the infant mortality rate was so high the government refused to register children as being born until they survived their first month. The government also routinely cut off power to hospitals, causing a thousand deaths the previous winter.
Yet, some western experts hailed Ceausescu as a path-breaking visionary. A 1979 World Bank report, the “Importance of Centralized Economic Control,” praised the Romanian regime for pursuing “policies to make better use of the population as a factor of production” [italics added] by “stimulating an increase in birth rates.”
And how did the benevolent ruler do this? By prohibiting distribution of contraceptives and banning abortions. Because the Plan called for higher birth rates, every female forfeited the right to control her body or life. Ceausescu proclaimed in 1985: “The fetus is the socialist property of the whole society… Those who refuse to have children are deserters.” The government forced all women between the age of 18 and 40 to have a monthly gynecological exam to assure that no one robbed the State by having a secret abortion. These policies turned Romania into the World Capital of abandoned babies.
Finally arriving in Bucharest, I learned that the Hotel Intercontinental was the only place westerners were allowed to stay. After I checked in, a beefy 30ish woman with bad eye makeup came flat-footing up. She asked in a gravely, three-pack-a-day voice: “Would you like to have some company?”
“Would you like some company – in your room?” She smiled and pointed upstairs.
“Uh… no, I’m doing fine.”
“Why are you here in Bucharest?” She cooed gutturally.
“I’m a tourist.”
“But it is so cold outside. Let’s stay inside. Aren’t you lonely?”
There were several reasons I demurred, including my strict rule to never tussle with any woman who had a better mustache than I did.
The Romanian government was known for using intelligence agents as prostitutes. Instead of a simple honest hooker, she was probably a spook-hooker. Seeing how badly everything else in that country functioned, I had no itch to learn the Romanian standard for “good enough for government bawdy work.”
I checked into my room, which looked custom-designed for surveillance. There was “dead space” and unmarked doors between each guest room. I flipped on the TV and saw choruses of peasants and workers in overalls listlessly waving flags and singing praises to Ceausescu, the self-proclaimed “Genius of the Carpathians,” as the camera zoomed in for close-ups of the great man’s face.
Fascinating stuff, but the plot line was thin, so I sought entertainment elsewhere.
When I visit a new city, I love to spend hours walking around and getting a feel for the turf. I stopped and asked the concierge for a street map of downtown Bucharest. I figured he might have a guide to the Greatest Triumphs of Ceausescu-ism within an eight block radius of Communist Party headquarters.
The concierge grimaced even before I got to my verb. This gray-skinned, beady-eyed guy was hired for this job because he naturally exuded hatred of mankind.
“For what do you need a map?”
“Because I want to see the city’s landmarks.”
“We have no maps. If there is some place you want to go, you tell me what it is and I will tell you how to get there.”
“Where is the old part of the city?” I asked, knowing that most of it had been leveled to make room for the ugliest “socialist realism” monoliths outside of Pyongyang.
The concierge scowled and muttered something – perhaps a Romanian slur for vexatious foreigners. My hunch was this guy didn’t make a living from tips.
On the street, many people darted their eyes away – as if looking at foreigners caused leprosy. I had heard that it was a crime for Romanians to talk to strangers. But a few people summoned up a hodgepodge of English phrases to plead for a pack of Kent cigarettes to bribe doctors to treat their sick children. Because the Romanian currency was practically worthless, packs of Kents circulated as a black market currency. I had bought a couple cartons of Kents before going to Romania, and I gave packs to a few people who spoke to me.
I stepped into the largest department store in Bucharest; it was dark, dank and miserable. Sales clerks were sitting on piles of new clothing heaped on the floor. While workers in Hungary had lazed around, Romanian workers seemed stupefied. One of the store’s main attractions were incredibly rickety baby carriages – the kind to use when you want to kill your kid and sue the pants off somebody. Except that this government never had any liability to its victims, no matter how many perished from its products or policies.
I passed by the boarded-up front door of an ancient church, standing forsaken amidst construction projects that had obliterated surrounding edifices. Many Romanians fretfully crossed themselves as they passed it by.
Outside the U.S. embassy, Romanian guards with machine guns stood to dissuade locals from seeking asylum. My hunch was that stopping there would be far more hassle than it was worth. (I had been targeted by Czech police after visiting the U.S. embassy in Prague earlier that year.)
Like other communist regimes, Romania was an economic theocracy. The government used its iron fist to make sure everything happened according to Plan. For instance, according to the 1986-90 five year plan, Romanian scientists would make 4015 discoveries, of which 2,423 would result in new products by Romanian businesses. The Plan did not specify how insufficiently creative scientists would be scourged.
Romania was one of the World Bank’s favorite regimes, receiving more than $2 billion between 1974 and 1982. The World Bank predicted in 1979 that Romania would “continue to enjoy one of the highest growth rates among developing countries over the next decade… and become an industrialized economy by 1990.” But much of Romania’s apparent economic growth was the result of World Bank aid. The more handouts the World Bank gives a country, the easier it becomes to portray the nation as a success story. World Bank president Robert McNamara cited Romania to vindicate his “faith in the financial morality of socialist countries.”
The World Bank also praised the Romanian regime for its ability to “mobilize the resources” required to boost economic growth. In reality, the government was brutalizing its subjects to squeeze out “surpluses” to lavish funds on World Bank-approved industrial enterprises – the same tactic Stalin used to finance his Five-Year Plans.
The Romanian regime also “mobilized resources” by pawning its ethnic German and Jewish inhabitants. West Germany paid roughly $20,000 for each German exported, and Israel paid a similar amount for each Romanian Jew released. There were international agreements banning slave trading in the nineteenth century, but selling human beings in the twentieth century was acceptable if the receipts went for progressive purposes. (Eighty percent of Romanian children resettled in West Germany were judged to be severely malnourished.)
The World Bank never cut Ceausescu off; instead, he ceased borrowing after he became convinced that western debt was a curse on his country. Championing Ceausescu did not prevent McNamara from being appointed to the Board of Directors of the Washington Post or from being canonized as a benevolent saint by the American media when he kicked the bucket in 2009.
As I knocked around Bucharest, I assumed I was being followed. Roughly 1 in 15 Romanians was working as a government informant. Since I knew that pulling out a notebook would set off alarm bells, I instead jotted notes on the palm of my hand. Such behavior was seen as merely weird, not menacing. I could use single words as pegs to later pull up a strand of facts and thoughts.
When I arrived at Bucharest’s main airport to exit to Frankfurt, I noticed that most of the travelers ahead of me were openly giving a pack of Kents to each dreg at the multiple security checkpoints. I was soon passing out cigarette packs to guards like an old widow tossing candy to kids on Halloween.
I saw one or two German businessmen yanked aside for more punitive searches, and their clothes were scattered far and wide across the guards’ tables. As I passed the last checkpoint, I counted my blessings that I had avoided such depredations.
That Lufthansa jet on the tarmac was the prettiest thing I had seen since the Orient Express crossed the Romanian border. There was one past-his-prime soldier standing listlessly about 20 yards from the plane. I held up my passport and he waved me on.
I’d almost reached the plane’s gangway when I heard: HALT!
I turned and saw the guard running towards me, his submachine gun bouncing off his ample belly.
Puffing a bit, he caught up to me – grabbed my left arm, yanked it back, and, pointing at my palm, demanded to know: “WHAT IS THIS?!!!?”
I looked at my hand, then I looked at the guard.
He paused, squinted, nodded his head knowingly, and then waved me on to the plane.
As soon as the Lufthansa jet cleared Romanian air space, I retrieved my small notebook from the usual hiding place – inside my underwear – and began extracting my palm notes.
The following month, the New York Times printed my “Eastern Europe, the New Third World” which declared that “Eastern Europe is much closer to economic collapse than most westerners realize. After hundreds of so-called market-oriented reforms, there are still no market economies in Eastern Europe.” The Readers Digest piece on the same topic appeared in ten foreign language editions. I was trying to help East Bloc regimes get the credit rating they deserved.
Throughout the Soviet Bloc, governments tried to reform economies while retaining government ownership and pervasive control of prices and production even for non-socialist activities. It was impossible to repair East Bloc economies without stripping communist parties of their power.
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Hurricane Harvey has had an unprecedented impact on the Texas Gulf Coast. This has caused an immediate supply disruption on materials coming from that region. Over 50% of North America’s ethylene capacity is down at this point in time, creating a supply chain disruption unlike any we have seen before. In addition, as you may be aware, our plastic resin moves primarily by rail cars; which have been halted in the area at this time. Our suppliers and the railroads will begin making assessments of their infrastructure as soon as they are able to do so. These suppliers are also trying to locate and assemble their work forces. | <urn:uuid:5e9d8aec-d090-4701-b7d9-f8d47386fc5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.tri-cor.com/hurricane-harvey-impacts-resin/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.985181 | 125 | 1.65625 | 2 |
At the urging of the Oklahoma-based Miami Tribe, (for whom the school is named) the Miami Board of Trustees voted on Sept. 25, 1996 to discontinue the use of Redskins as the nickname for the university's athletic teams. More than 3,000 nickname suggestions (700 different names) from alumni and current members of the Miami community were received. At its meeting on April 19, 1997, the board selected the nickname RedHawks from three nickname finalists - RedHawks, Thunderhawks and Miamis - forwarded them by the athletic nickname selection committee. The new moniker went into effect July 1, 1997.
University president Dr. James C. Garland unveiled the RedHawk logos at a press conference on Oct. 18, 1997 prior to the Marshall game. Swoop, the mascot of Miami teams, made its first appearance on Dec. 9, 1997, before the men's basketball contest versus Xavier.
Use of the nickname Redskins for Miami athletic teams dated back to the 1930-31 school year, when the Miami alumni magazine, then edited by the school's lone publicity man, Ralph McGinnis, announced the new nickname as successor to Big Red, which had caused confusion with Denison University teams. A similar tag had popped up in a 1928 story in the Miami Student that referred to the "Big Red-Skinned Warriors," but the transition wasn't made for another three years. For a time in 1931, Redskins and Big Red were used interchangeably in The Student. Prior to 1928, teams had been referred to as The Miami Boys, The Big Reds or The Reds and Whites.
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Srimad-Bhagavad-Gita, English translation and commentary by Swami Swarupananda, , at sacred-texts.com
1. To him who was thus overwhelmed with pity and sorrowing, and whose eyes were dimmed with tears, Madhusudana spoke these words: 1
The Blessed Lord said:
2. In such a crisis, whence comes upon thee, O Arjuna, this dejection, un-Aryalike, disgraceful and contrary to the attainment of heaven? 2
3. Yield not to unmanliness, O son of Prithâ! Ill doth it become thee. Cast off this mean faint-heartedness and arise, O scorcher of thine enemies!
4. —But how can I, in battle, O slayer of Madhu, fight with arrows against Bhishma and Drona, who are rather worthy to be worshipped, O destroyer of foes!
5. Surely it would be better even to eat the bread of beggary in this life than to slay these great-souled masters. But if I kill them, even in this world, all my enjoyment of wealth and desires will be stained with blood. 5
6. And indeed I can scarcely tell which will be better, that we should conquer them, or that they should conquer us. The very sons of Dhritarâshtra,—after slaying whom we should not care to live,—stand facing us.
7. With my nature overpowered by weak commiseration, with a mind in confusion about duty, I supplicate Thee. Say decidedly what is good for me. I am Thy disciple. Instruct me who have taken refuge in Thee. 7
8. I do not see anything to remove this sorrow which blasts my senses, even were I to obtain unrivalled and flourishing dominion over the earth, and mastery over the gods.
9. Having spoken thus to the Lord of the senses, Gudâkesha, the scorcher of foes, said to Govinda, "I shall not fight," and became silent. 9
10. To him who was sorrowing in the midst of the two armies, Hrishikesha, as if smiling, O descendant of Bharata! spoke these words. 10
The Blessed Lord said:
11. Thou hast been mourning for them who should not be mourned for. Yet thou speakest words of wisdom. The (truly) wise grieve neither for the living nor the dead. 11
12. It is not that I have never existed, nor thou, nor these kings. Nor is it that we shall cease to exist in the future. 12
13. As are childhood, youth, and old age, in this body, to the embodied soul, so
also is the attaining of another body. Calm souls are not deluded thereat. 13
14. Notions of heat and cold, of pain and pleasure, are born, O son of Kunti, only of the contact of the senses with their objects. They have a beginning and an end. They are impermanent in their nature. Bear them patiently, O descendant of Bharata. 14
15. That calm man who is the same in pain and pleasure, whom these cannot disturb, alone is able, O great amongst men, to attain to immortality. 15
16. The unreal never is. The Real never is not. Men possessed of the knowledge of the Truth fully know both these. 16
17. That by which all this is pervaded,—That know for certain to be indestructible. None has the power to destroy this Immutable. 17
18. Of this indwelling Self, the ever-changeless, the indestructible, the illimitable,—these bodies are said to have an end. Fight therefore, O descendant of Bharata. 18
19. He who takes the Self to be the slayer, he who takes It to be the slain, neither of these knows. It does not slay, nor is It slain. 19
20. This in never born, nor does It die. It is not that not having been It again comes into being. (Or according to another view: It is not that having been It again ceases to be). This is unborn, eternal, changeless, ever-Itself. It is not killed when the body is killed. 20
21. He that knows This to be indestructible, changeless, without birth, and immutable, how is he, O son of Prithâ, to slay or cause another to slay? 21
22. Even as a man casts off worn-out clothes, and puts on others which are new, so the embodied casts off worn-out bodies, and enters into others which are new. 22
23. This (Self), weapons cut not; This, fire burns not; This, water wets not; and This, wind dries not.
24. This Self cannot be cut, nor burnt, nor wetted, nor dried. Changeless, all-pervading, unmoving, immovable, the Self is eternal.
25. This (Self) is said to be unmanifested, unthinkable, and unchangeable. Therefore, knowing This to be such, thou oughtest not to mourn. 25
26. But if thou shouldst take This to have constant birth and death, even in that case, O mighty-armed, thou oughtest not to mourn for This. 26
27. Of that which is born, death is certain, of that which is dead, birth is certain. Over the unavoidable, therefore, thou oughtest not to grieve. 27
28. All beings are unmanifested in their beginning, O Bhârata, manifested in their middle state and unmanifested again in their end. What is there then to grieve about? 28
29. Some look upon the Self as marvellous. Others speak of It as wonderful. Others again hear of It as a wonder. And still others, though hearing, do not understand It at all. 29
30. This, the Indweller in the bodies of all, is ever indestructible, O descendant of Bharata. Wherefore thou oughtest not to mourn for any creature. 30
31. Looking at thine own Dharma, also, thou oughtest not to waver, for there is nothing higher for a Kshatriya than a righteous war. 31
32. Fortunate certainly are the Kshatriyas, O son of Prithâ, who are called to fight in such a battle, that comes unsought as an open gate to heaven. 32
33. But if thou refusest to engage in this righteous warfare, then, forfeiting thine own Dharma and honour, thou shalt incur sin.
34. The world also will ever hold thee in reprobation. To the honoured, disrepute is surely worse than death. 34
35. The great chariot-warriors * will believe that thou hast withdrawn from the battle through fear. And thou wilt be lightly esteemed by them who have thought much of thee.
36. Thine enemies also, cavilling at thy great prowess, will say of thee things that are not to be uttered. What could be more intolerable than this?
37. Dying thou gainest heaven; conquering thou enjoyest the earth. Therefore, O son of Kunti, arise, resolved to fight.
38. Having made pain and pleasure, gain and loss, conquest and defeat, the same, engage thou then in battle. So shalt thou incur no sin. 38
39. The wisdom of Self-realisation has been declared unto thee. Hearken thou now to the wisdom of Yoga, endued with which, O son of Prithâ, thou shalt break through the bonds of Karma. 39
40. In this, there is no waste of the unfinished attempt, nor is there production of contrary results. Even very little of this Dharma protects from the great terror. 52
41. In this, O scion of Kuru, there is but a single one-pointed determination. The purposes of the undecided are innumerable and many-branching. 53
42-44. O Pârtha, no set determination is formed in the minds of those that are deeply attached to pleasure and power, and whose discrimination is stolen away by the flowery words of the unwise, who are full of desires and look upon heaven as their highest goal and who, taking pleasure in the panegyric words of the Vedas, declare that there is nothing else. Their (flowery) words are exuberant with various specific, rites as the means to pleasure and power and are the causes of
[paragraph continues] (new) births as the result of their works (performed with desire). 42
45. The Vedas deal with the three Gunas. Be thou free, O Arjuna, from the triad of the Gunas, free from the pairs of opposites, ever-balanced, free from (the thought of) getting and keeping, and established in the Self. 45
46. To the Brâhmana who has known the Self, all the Vedas are of so much use as a reservoir is, when there is a flood everywhere. 46
47. Thy right is to work only; but never to the fruits thereof. Be thou not the producer of the fruits of (thy) actions; neither let thy attachment be towards inaction. 47
48. Being steadfast in Yoga, Dhananjaya, perform actions, abandoning attachment, remaining unconcerned as regards success and failure. This evenness. of mind (in regard to success and failure) is known as Yoga.
49. Work (with desire) is verily far inferior to that performed with the mind undisturbed by thoughts of results. O
[paragraph continues] Dhananjaya, seek refuge in this evenness of mind. Wretched are they who act for results.
50. Endued with this evenness of mind, one frees oneself in this life, alike from vice and virtue. Devote thyself, therefore, to this Yoga. Yoga is the very dexterity of work. 50
51. The wise, possessed of this evenness of mind, abandoning the fruits of their actions, freed for ever from the fetters of birth, go to that state which is beyond all evil.
52. When thy intellect crosses beyond the taint of illusion, then shalt thou attain to indifference, regarding things heard and things yet to be heard. 52
53. When thy intellect, tossed about by the conflict of opinions—has become immovable and firmly established in the Self, then thou shalt attain Self-realisation.
54. What, O Keshava, is the description of the man of steady wisdom, merged in Samâdhi? How (on the other hand) does the man of steady wisdom speak, how sit, how walk? 54
The Blessed Lord said:
55. When a man completely casts away, O Pârtha, all the desires of the mind, satisfied in the Self alone by the Self, then is he said to be one of steady wisdom. 55
56. He whose mind is not shaken by adversity, who does not hanker after happiness, who has become free from affection, fear, and wrath, is indeed the Muni of steady wisdom. 63
57. He who is everywhere unattached, not pleased at receiving good, nor vexed at evil, his wisdom is fixed. 57
58. When also, like the tortoise its limbs, he can completely withdraw the senses from their objects, then his wisdom becomes steady. 58
59. Objects fall away from the abstinent man, leaving the longing behind. But his longing also ceases, who sees the Supreme. 59
60. The turbulent senses, O son of Kunti, do violently snatch away the mind of even a wise man, striving after perfection.
61. The steadfast, having controlled them all, sits focussed on Me as the Supreme. His wisdom is steady, whose senses are under control.
62. Thinking of objects, attachment to them is formed in a man. From attachment longing, and from longing anger grows.
63. From anger comes delusion, and from delusion loss of memory. From loss of memory comes the ruin of discrimination, and from the ruin of discrimination he perishes. 63
64. But the self-controlled man, moving among objects with senses under restraint, and free from attraction and aversion, attains to tranquillity. 64
65. In tranquillity, all sorrow is destroyed. For the intellect of him who is tranquil-minded, is soon established in firmness. 65
66. No knowledge (of the Self) has the unsteady. Nor has he meditation. To the unmeditative there is no peace. And how can one without peace have happiness?
67. For, the mind which follows in the wake of the wandering senses, carries away his discrimination, as a wind (carries away from its course) a boat on the waters.
68. Therefore, O mighty-armed, his knowledge is steady, whose senses are completely restrained from their objects. 68
69. That which is night to all beings, in that the self-controlled man wakes. That in which all beings wake, is night to the Self-seeing Muni. 69
70. As into the ocean,—brimful, and still,—flow the waters, even so the Muni into whom enter all desires, he, and not the desirer of desires, attains to peace. 70
71. That man who lives devoid of longing, abandoning all desires, without the sense of 'I' and 'mine,' he attains to peace. 71
72. This is to have one's being in Brahman, O son of Prithâ. None, attaining to this, becomes deluded. Being established therein, even at the end of life, a man attains to oneness with Brahman.
The end of second chapter, designated The Way of Knowledge.
27:1 Overwhelmed with pity: Not Arjuna, but Arjuna's feeling was master of the situation.
28:2 Mark with what contempt Krishna regards Arjuna's attitude of weakness masked by religious expression!
30:5 i.e. even in this world I shall be in hell.
31:7 Dharma is the ness, the law of the inmost constitution of a thing. The primary meaning of Dharma is not virtue or religion, but that is only its secondary significance. Fighting in a just cause is the religious duty or Dharma of a Kshatriya, while the same is a sin to a Brâhmana, because it is contrary to the law of his being. Working out one's Karma according to the law of one's own being is p. 32 therefore the Dharma or religion or way to salvation of an individual. The cloud of Karma hides the Self-Sun from view. The means which exhausts this cloud without adding to it and thus helps in one's Self-restoration is one's Dharma.
Thy disciple: Until this declaration has been made, the Master may not give the highest knowledge.
33:9 The object of Sanjaya in using these names is to remind Dhritarâshtra—who may naturally be a little elated at the prospect of Arjuna's not fighting —that this is only a temporary weakness, since by the presence of the Lord of the senses all ignorance must eventually be dispelled. Arjuna's own nature also is devoid of darkness. Is he not the conqueror of sleep, and the terror of foes?
34:10 Smiling—to drown Arjuna in the ocean of shame. Krishna's smile at Arjuna's sorrow is like the lightning that plays over the black monsoon cloud. The rain bursts forth, and the thirsty earth is saturated. It is the smile of the coming illumination.
34:11 Words of wisdom: Vide I. 35-44.
35:12 Of course Krishna here does not mean that the body is immortal, but refers to the true Self, behind all bodies.
36:13 According to this, the continuity of the ego is no more interrupted by death than by the passing of childhood into youth and youth into old age in this body.
Calm souls: Those who have become calm by Self-realisation.
36:14 They have a beginning and an end: as distinguished from the Permanent Self. The more one is able to identify oneself with the Permanent p. 37 Self, the less one is affected by the agreeable and disagreeable conditions of life.
Impermanent in their nature: That is, the same object which gives pleasure at one moment gives pain at another, and so on.
37:15 Thus perfect sameness amidst the ills of life means full and unbroken consciousness of our oneness with the Immortal Self. Thus is immortality attained.
38:16 Unreal: Real: The determination of the nature of the Real is the quest of all philosophy. Sri Krishna here states that a thing which never remains the same for any given period is unreal, and that the Real on the other hand is always the same. The whole of the phenomenal world, therefore, must be unreal, because in it no one state endures for even an infinitesimal division of time. And that which takes note of this incessant change, and is therefore itself changeless,—the Atman, Consciousness,—is the Real.
38:17 p. 39 That by which all this is pervaded, i.e. He that pervades all this as the Witness.
39:18 Arjuna's grief which deters him from his duty of fighting against the Kauravas is born of ignorance as to the true nature of the Soul. Hence Sri Bhagavân's strong and repeated attempts to illumine him on the subject.
40:19 Cf. Katha Up. I. ii. 19-20.
40:20 p. 41 This sloka refers in the sense of denial to the six kinds of modification inherent in matter: birth, subsistence, growth, transformation, decay, and death.
41:21 How is he to slay?—referring to Arjuna. To cause another to slay—referring to Krishna's own part.
42:22 As one only puts off the old, when one already possesses the new garment, so the embodied is already entering a new body in the act of leaving this. The Upanishad compares this to the movement of a leech, which has already established a new foothold before leaving the old.
43:25 This Self is infinite and partless, so can be neither subject nor object of any action.
44:26 Krishna here, for the sake of argument, takes up the materialistic supposition, and shows that even if the Self were impermanent, sorrow ought to be destroyed, since in that case there would be no hereafter, no sin, and no hell.
44:27 This sloka concerns only those who are not yet free. So long as there is desire, birth and death are inevitable.
Therefore thou oughtest not to grieve: Since you cannot control the inevitable and preserve the bodies of your relations, work out your own Karma and go beyond both birth and death.
45:28 Beings: In their relationships as sons and friends, who are mere combinations of material elements, correlated as causes and effects.
The idea here is that that which has no existence in the beginning and in the end, must be merely illusory in the interim, and should not therefore be allowed to have any influence upon the mind.
46:29 The sloka may also be interpreted in the sense that those who see, hear and speak of the Self are wonderful men, because their number is so small. It is not therefore remarkable that you should mourn, because the Atman is so difficult to comprehend.
47:30 Krishna here returns to His own point of view.
47:31 That is to say, it is the duty of a Kshatriya to fight in the interest of his country, people and religion.
48:32 The Shâstras say that if a Kshatriya fighting for a righteous cause falls in the battle-field, he at once go to heaven.
49:34 The present argument,—slokas 33-36, assumes that the cause in hand is already proved to be right. Hence it could only be from cowardice that Arjuna could abandon it. Even a hero may be weakened by the stirring of his deepest emotions.
49:* Vide commentary I. 6.
51:38 It is always the desire for one of the pairs of opposites that binds. When an act is done without attachment either for itself or its fruit, then Karma can be worked out without adding to its store, and this leads to Freedom.
51:39 Yoga:—Karma Yoga, or that plan of conduct which secures the working out of past Karma; non-accumulation of new; and the striving for Self-realisation with the whole of the will. In this discipline, one's sole object in life is Self-realisation; hence no importance is attached to anything else. Thus all actions are performed without attachment, p. 52 or care for results. So no new Karma is made: only the already accumulated is exhausted. And at the same time, the whole will is left free to devote itself to the achievement of Self-realisation alone.
In the preceding slokas, 11-25, Krishna has given the point of view of the highest knowledge, the ancient Brahmajnâna. In the 25th and 27th we have a purely materialistic standpoint. Slokas 28 to 37 give the attitude of a man of the world. In the 38th we have an anticipation of the Yoga. And in what is to follow, we have Sri Krishna's own contribution to the philosophy of life.
52:52 Waste of the unfinished attempt: A religious rite or ceremony performed for a definite object, if left uncompleted, is wasted, like a house unroofed which is neither serviceable nor enduring. In Karma Yoga, however, that is, action and worship performed p. 53 without desire, this law does not apply, for every effort results in immediate purification of the heart. Production of contrary results: In worship for an object, any imperfection in the process produces positive loss instead of gain. As in cases of sickness, the non-use of the right medicine results in death. The great terror: Being caught in the wheel of birth and death.
53:53 In Karma Yoga, the one goal is Self-realisation. The undecided (that is, about the highest), naturally devote themselves to lower ideals, no one of which can satisfy. Thus they pass from plan to plan.
55:42 Samâdhi has been rendered into 'mind' in the above. The generally accepted significance of the term (absorption in God-consciousness produced by deep meditation) would give an equally consistent and happy meaning: Persons attached to pleasure and power cannot have perfect steadiness of mind in divine meditation.
Panegyric words of the Vedas: The Karma Kânda or the sacrificial portion of the Vedas which lays down specific rules for specific actions and their fruits, and extols these latter unduly. Nothing else: Beyond the heavenly enjoyments procurable by the sacrificial rites of the Vedas.
55:45 The Vedas deal with etc.: That is to say, the Vedas treat of relativity. Pairs of opposites: Dvandva, all correlated ideas and sensations, e.g., good and bad, pleasure and pain, heat and cold, light and darkness, etc.
Guna is a technical term of the Sânkhya philosophy: also used in the same sense by the Vedânta. Prakriti or Nature is constituted of three Gunas; Sattva (equilibrium), Rajas (attraction), Tamas (inertia). Prakriti is the three Gunas, not that she has them. Guna is wrongly translated as quality; it is substance as well as quality, matter and force. Wherever there is name and form, there is Guna. Guna also means a rope, that which binds.
56:46 A man possessed of Self-knowledge has no need whatever of the Vedas. This does not, however, mean that the Vedas are useless; only to the knower of Brahman they have no value, as the transient p. 57 pleasures derivable from them are comprehended in the infinite bliss of Self-knowledge.
57:47 Be thou not the producer, etc.: That is, do not work with any desire for results, for actions produce fruits or bondage only if they are performed with desire.
Karma primarily means action, but a much profounder meaning has come to be attached to this word. It means the destiny forged by one in one's past incarnation or present: the store of tendencies, impulses, characteristics, and habits laid by, which determines the future embodiment, environment and the whole of one's organisation.
Another meaning of Karma often used in reference to one's caste or position in life, is duty, the course of conduct which one ought to follow in pursuance of the tendencies which one acquired in p. 58 one's past, with a view to work them out and regain the pristine purity of the Self.
59:50 Alike from vice and virtue: A follower of Karma Yoga can have no personal motive for any action. Our action without motive becomes colourless, loses its character of vice or virtue.
Dexterity of work: It is the nature of work to produce bondage. Karma Yoga is the dexterity of work because it not only robs work of its power to bind, but also transforms it into an efficient means of freedom.
60:52 The taint of illusion: the identifying of the Self with the non-Self, the ego.
61:54 Arjuna is asking, (1) what is the state of the mind of the man of realisation when in Samâdhi? and (2) how is its influence shown in his conduct when out of it? p. 62
Steady wisdom: Settled conviction of one's identity with Brahman gained by direct realisation.
62:55 This answers the first part of Arjuna's question.
63:63 This and the following two slokas answer the second part of Arjuna's question, as to the conduct of one of perfect realisation.
Muni: Man of meditation.
63:57 Not pleased etc.: consequently he does not praise or blame. This is an answer to the query: "How does he speak?"
64:58 Withdraw the senses: bring the mind back upon the Self from all sense-objects. This is known as Pratyâhâra in Yoga.
To explain the sloka more fully: a man of the highest realisation can, at any moment, shake himself clear of all impressions of the sense-world and go into Samâdhi, with the ease and naturalness of a tortoise drawing its limbs within itself.
64:59 Abstinent man: An unillumined person abstaining from sense-pleasure for penance, or because of physical incapacity.
66:63 A beautiful image appears. The tendency of the mind is to repeat it. Then, if the image is allowed to recur, a liking grows. With the growth of liking the wish to come close, to possess, appears. Any obstacle to this produces wrath. The impulse of anger throws the mind into confusion, which casts a veil over the lessons of wisdom learnt by past experience. Thus deprived of his moral standard, he is prevented from using his discrimination. Failing in discrimination, he acts irrationally, on the impulse of passion, and paves the way to moral death.
Thus Krishna traces moral degradation to those p. 67 first breaths of thought, that come softly and almost unconsciously to the mind.
67:64 The above is in answer to Arjuna's fourth question, "How does he move?"
67:65 That is, firmly concentrates itself on the Self.
69:68 This does not mean that the senses remain completely estranged, but that they are all estrange-able at will.
69:69 Where all beings are in darkness, there the Muni sees, and vice versa. The consciousness of the man of realisation is so full of God that he cannot see anything apart from Him. The ignorant man, on the other hand, lives in the world of plurality alone and God is a nonentity to him. p. 70
It follows, that non-susceptibility to the influences of Nature, that is, perfect self-control (spoken of in the preceding sloka) is quite as natural a trait of the illumined soul as its opposite is of the ignorant.
70:70 The ocean is not at all affected by the waters flowing into it from all sides. Similarly, that man alone finds true peace in whom no reaction of desire is produced by the objects of enjoyment, which he happens to come across during his sojourn on earth.
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By Moale James
“West Papuans are being denied their basic human rights … Human beings have a right to freedom. Freedom to be treated fairly like a human being. Freedom to be respected. To have your own dignity and pride. This is being taken away from West Papuans.”
Richard Mogu is a Papua New Guinean musician and activist currently touring with fellow Papuans and West Papuans in the band, Rize of the Morning Star. For the last decade Rize has been spreading the message: “Sorong Samarai. One people, one soul, one destiny.”
In 2016 the song Sorong Samarai composed by Airileke Ingram featuring the duo Twin Tribe was released. The song itself leaves the listener feeling empowered and inspired to create change as the lyrics sing.
“Rise up freedom fighter. Rise up and take your stand again. Bird of paradise never die in vain. Melanesia you, me rise up again. For those who live in darkness, consider the light afar. Dawn of a new day come. With the rise of the morning star … Sorong Samarai. One people. One soul. One destiny.”
The video shows powerful footage of men, women and children proudly raising the Morning Star flag, painting it across their bodies in protest against the Indonesian government. This act is a chargeable offence in West Papua, with people having been persecuted for this simple act of freedom, to be able to fly the Morning Star Flag.
The message of Sorong Samarai itself suggests that from the tip of West Papua, Sorong, to the Eastern point of Papua New Guinea, Samarai, the people of New Guinea are one, with the same destiny, to be free.
This song is a rally cry for all Papua New Guineas to unite and stand together for the freedom of all their people.
‘Echos’ of abuses
There are many who echo stories of these human rights abuses under the hand of the Indonesian government and militia.
“There is a war going on next door. People here [in Australia and Papua New Guinea] they don’t know about it…. My Father went to jail for 10 years for speaking out for West Papuans. He was charged with a death sentence… Activists and independent journalists are being taken [by Indonesian military]. They are killed and then thrown in rivers.”
These are the words of West Papuan refugee and dancer, Sam Roem. At 15 years-old Sam fled the genocide in his hometown of Merauke in Papua in a small dinghy with his older brother and 41 others.
After being lost at sea for a week with only food scraps to eat, their canoe came to rest on the shore of Cape York Australia. At thirty years old, you can now find him performing with Rize of the Morning Star sharing his art as a dancer and his story as a refugee.
“My parents were tortured by Indonesian military. I felt then and still feel now anger and pain. I want to do something in my home. But what can I do? I don’t want to be stupid and get myself killed.”
Nicclaude Domini (stage name, Ukam Maniczy) is twenty-two year old West Papuan musician and rapper. Nicclaude is currently wanted by Indonesian authorities for speaking out against the government’s abuse.
‘Forced to flee’
Despite calling many places in Indonesia home, people like Sam and Nicclaude have been forced to either flee or go into hiding due to the threat of persecution back in their home country. Research shows that today there are more than 11,000 West Papuans living in refugee camps or in exile overseas.
At times, for these men and many others the battle can seem helpless and hopeless as the years continue. Today, in 2019 despite the efforts of many West Papuans, activists, government officials and even the United Nations, the Indonesian government is still in control.
West Papuans are still trying to survive the genocide being committed by the Indonesian Government and associated militia. At this point in time, 528,000 West Papuans have lost their lives and their fight for freedom at the hands of brutal military and government abuse since Indonesian occupation in 1963.
Research has found that many West Papuans have been killed, raped, tortured, imprisoned and have witnessed the burning down of their villages and many other atrocities (Elmsie, 2010).
Journalist and chief editor of West Papua media, Nick Chesterfield has been working with Rize of the Morning Star and other independent journalists for the last thirteen years.
‘Issue of genocide’
“This is an issue of genocide,” he said.
“There are 250 language groups in West Papua alone. It is the most linguistically and culturally diverse place on earth. There is a complete human uniqueness that has been lost in this genocide. The loss of old knowledge and the loss of ancient land custodianship. When the primary human right of self-determination is suppressed that is a tragedy for everyone.”
West Papuans have been protesting more frequently and powerfully than ever before.
Since the anniversary of the 1962 New York Agreement in August there have been a number of rallies and protests by West Papuans. The response from Indonesian militia and the government has been severe.
Many civilians have been arrested, militia have opened fire on demonstrators, and cases of mutilations, killings and sexual assaults have increased. It reached a point where there was a complete internet blackout across West Papua, preventing any international media attention and support.
The fight for freedom and independence for West Papua is not over. It has not been an easy fight and there have been many sacrifices and consequences for those brave enough to protest. Although, there has been so much pain, West Papuans still hope for their freedom. The members of Rize of the Morning Star still have hope as they continue to spread their message.
Sorong Samarai. One people, one soul, one destiny.
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If you love Northern Europe but hate its weather, you’ll fall in love with Solvang, also known as “Little Denmark.” Founded by Danish Americans in 1911, Solvang integrates Danish architecture, food, and traditions into the beautiful surroundings of the Santa Ynez Valley. The town even features windmills and a statue of The Little Mermaid! If you can’t get enough of Danish-American culture, make sure to attend the Danish Days festival every September and Julefest every December. Wine lovers, take note: You can pair Danish delicacies with some of the best wines from the Central Coast. This is wine country, after all. Want a taste of local history? Visit Old Mission Santa Inés, which was founded by Franciscan priests in 1804. Let’s summarize: gorgeous surroundings, culture, and culinary treats. You’ll be sold on Solvang! | <urn:uuid:df38caef-0ad3-4ef9-a0e1-37d2ec5eff1f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.searchlightproperties.com/communities/solvang/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.941896 | 196 | 1.640625 | 2 |
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Opening Reception: Friday, August 2, 2019 5 – 9 PM during Art Loop
Animals migrated to North America long before humanity and today they remain. As humanity has infringed upon or removed their original habitats, many species have adapted, surviving and often thriving in the most unlikely of places.
In this exhibition, McClurg uses photography to explore wildlife in the region living everywhere from our backyards to wildlife refuges.
The title is a play on the computer programming term “First In, Still There” which refers to a database where information is added, and never removed. In this model, all data is retained and the database simply grows ever larger. In our area, some species have fled or gone extinct, but many are still here living among us.
Scott Alan McClurg received his BFA in printmaking and ceramics in 1995 from the University of Delaware. He maintains a studio and has exhibited at The Delaware Contemporary since the opening of the Wilmington Riverfront facility in 1999. | <urn:uuid:91d54e98-cf15-4bad-be7d-2fb83e156c0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://inliquid.org/calendar/first-in-still-here/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570767.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808061828-20220808091828-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.967939 | 212 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Just about every baseball fan over a certain age has seen The Natural, the 1984 movie about the incredibly talented (and incredibly jinxed) Roy Hobbs, played by Robert Redford. It’s one of the best baseball movies ever.
However, very few baseball (or movie) fans of any age know that the movie is based—admittedly somewhat loosely—on an actual baseball player who played in the Major Leagues in the 1940s and 50s.
Yes—there truly was a Major League player referred to as The Natural who was shot by a strange woman in a Chicago hotel room…and almost died. The movie isn’t really the life story of that player’s life. In fact, it was the shooting of that player that was a jumping-off point for writer Bernard Malumud, who wrote a novel called The Natural in 1952. The movie was an adaptation of that novel (another fact few people know about).
Here are the similarities and differences between the heroic Hollywood story of The Natural—the movie player we know—and the actual, forgotten player on whose life it was somewhat based.
The movie Natural was named Roy Hobbs. Hobbs was from Nebraska, a young phenom pitcher who had a gift for baseball at an early age. His dad tells him, “you got a gift, Roy, but it’s not enough…you rely too much on your gift, and you’ll fail.” Roy was going to have a tryout with the Cubs in 1923 at age 19. He boarded a train to Chicago with his scout, Sam Simpson. On a train stop, he faced a Babe Ruth-type character (“The Whammer”) and struck him out on three straight pitches, winning a bet for his scout.
The real Natural was named Eddie Waitkus. Eddie Waitkus was born in Massachusetts and got into the big leagues in 1941. He was a very athletic and fit ballplayer, a good hitter and fielder. Some reporters referred to him as “The Natural” and “the Fred Astaire of first basemen.” Other reports said that Waitkus’s teammates called him “Nature Boy” and “Vitamins,” because he focused on staying fit and in top shape. But that was just a nickname for a pretty-good young player. He wasn’t anything like a young Lou Gehrig or Babe Ruth. In other words, he wasn’t like the movie’s Roy Hobbs, who could fire a fastball past the Whammer and hit anything.
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Roy Hobbs was a rookie in the Majors when he was 35. On his way to Chicago for his tryout, Roy was shot in a hotel room. The next time you see him, Hobbs is walking into the dugout of the (fictional) New York Knights. He was 35 years old and a right fielder. He had just finished a semi-pro stint with the Heeber Oilers and had a contract in hand to play for the Knights. When he got his uniform with the number 9, the team doctor said, “Welcome to the Majors.” In his first at bat, pinch-hitting in a game against the Phillies, he knocked the cover off the ball.
Waitkus’s rookie season was in 1941 for the Chicago Cubs at age 22. In his rookie MLB season, Waitkus was a first baseman for the Cubs, hitting .175. He made the April 15, 1941 opening day lineup, wearing number 27. He went 1-4 in a 7-4 Cubs win over the Pirates. He played in only 54 games that season before being sent to the minors. He also played the ’42 season in the minor leagues and then missed the next three full seasons, 1943-45, when he served in WWII. He came back from the war unharmed.
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Hobbs was shot by a mysterious woman dressed in black he met on the train to Chicago. In the movie, Harriet Bird had evidently been stalking and shooting athletic heroes and she was on the train to shoot The Whammer, a baseball legend. But when Roy struck out The Whammer during the train stop, she turned her attention to Roy. She talked to him on the train and got him interested in her…enough to lure him to her room later. When she shot him when they arrived in Chicago, it interrupted Roy’s dream to play in the Majors.
Waitkus was shot by a girl he’d never met, but who was obsessed with him. After Eddie Waitkus returned from the war, he returned to the Cubs for the 1946 season. He’s now wearing number 36, and even though he’s not in the opening day lineup, he plays 113 games and hits .304. He does well the next two seasons too, which gets the attention of a 19-year-old Chicago fan named Ruth Catherine Steinhagen. She becomes romantically obsessed with Waitkus from a distance. Her mother later admitted that Ruth would set a place for Waitkus at the family dinner table. When Waitkus is traded to the Phillies for the 1949 season, she falls apart emotionally and feels abandoned. When the Phillies come to play the Cubs at Wrigley field in June of 1949, she had a plan to kill him.
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Harriet Bird shot Hobbs and then committed suicide. In the movie, Harriet Bird evidently committed suicide by jumping out the hotel window. It’s never mentioned, but you see the open window in the room and Harriet is gone after shooting Roy. Years later, sports reporter Max Mercy showed pictures of a dead woman, Harriet Bird, to Iris, Roy’s high school sweetheart, who’s back in his life. The shooting is a scandalous story they were hoping to use to blackmail Roy into throwing a playoff game for the pennant.
Ruth Steinhagen shot Waitkus and was sent to a state psychiatric hospital. According to interviews, articles, Ruth had actually intended to kill Waitkus by stabbing him with a knife. She was then going to commit suicide by shooting herself with the rifle. But the rifle shot didn’t kill Eddie Waitkus as she envisioned—the bullet went through his lung and lodged in his back muscles. Instead of shooting herself, Ruth went to Eddie and asked him where he’d been shot, as if she weren’t sure she’d hit him. She then dialed the hotel operator and said that she’d just shot a man. She never did jail time. After a court hearing and grand jury investigation, a judge decided she was insane at the time of the shooting and sent her to a state hospital for a term of three years.
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The movie Roy Hobbs played part of one season only, hit a heroic homer, then settled down. During his only season with the Knights, Hobbs is the hottest player in baseball but he got involved with a woman (with links to gamblers) who poisoned him. Hobbs wound in the hospital, where doctors extracted the silver bullet that had been lodged in him all these years. He missed three games at the end of the season, but he left the hospital (against his doctor’s advice) to play in a one-game playoff against the Pittsburgh Pirates for the NL Pennant. He belted a walk-off homer to win the game. As the movie ends, you see him playing catch on Iris’s family farm, with a son he never knew. It’s a happy Hollywood ending.
Eddie Waitkus missed one season after being shot and had an 11-year career. In 1949,Eddie Waitkus was in his fourth season after returning from the war and his first season with the Phillies. Ruth Steinhagen shot him on June 14th of that year. But whereas Roy Hobbs was set back for 16 years, Eddie Waitkus was able to return to the game the next season. In fact, the 1950 Phillies, known as the Whiz Kids, won the NL Pennant and Eddie Waitkus was named Comeback Player of the Year by the Associated Press. He would play through the 1955 season, winding up a career in which he averaged .285 and was a two-time All-Star.
However, you can’t say that Waitkus’s story had a happy—or Hollywood—ending. According to one of his sons, Waitkus suffered what we now call PTSD, post-traumatic stress disorder. After retirement, he went from being an outgoing, happy-go-lucky guy, to a man who was paranoid about meeting new people. He died at age 53 of cancer in 1972.
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Role of GPS Tracker in Vehicle Tracking System
The GPS tracker is a great invention to track a mercantile fleet of vehicles in the industry. This GPS tracker system plays a vital role in tacking all vehicles at a point of time to avoid late delivery of ordered goods. Most of the times, keeping a track record of a huge commercial fleet seems a big challenge. The GPS vehicle tracking system is designed and produced with unique functions highly helpful in monitoring the directions and moments of an official convoy. Thus, an entrepreneur can assure the timely and safe delivery of good without any interruption. Furthermore, promised transfer of supplies and merchandise can be done at ease by avoiding delays.
This GPS tracker device is a suitable solution for troubleshooting minor on the way fleet issues. A businessman can easily keep an eye on the real position of vehicles and record the updates of delivery progress. Its remote access and embedded interface enables a layman to operate the vehicle routes as required. The functioning of this GPS device is very quick, simple and reliable. All vehicles of fleets must be registered with this tracking system whereas a receiver unit should be installed professionally inside each vehicle. All coordination operations between vehicles and this GPS tracker device are supervised through satellites by sending and receiving latitude & longitude readings. By broadcasting all readings on a display screen, one can measure the actual destination distance and can update the client on the same simultaneously.
Mobile accessibility, software integrated dashboard and real- time mapping system are the intuitive features facilitate an entrepreneur to track convoy vehicles anywhere, anytime without any connectivity worries. This GPS tracking system, an instant all in one interface system, is based on real- case studies intended to run a trade successfully. This pay- per- use system is very easy to operate and reduces the labour costs immediately. A businessman can enjoy reduction in fuel costs by improving the productivity. Do not worry about the price as this GPS tracker device is available with three plans such as Basic tracking, Light tracking and advanced tracking. Thus, you can invest according to your organization size and requirement.
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From Richard Bache
ALS: American Philosophical Society
Philadelphia May 20th. 1782.
Dear & Hond: Sir
We have had no Arrivals from France lately, therefore could not possibly hear from you— Your last Letter is dated in January, and was handed us by Mr. Vaughan, who had the misfortune of being taken on our Coast, and carried into Newyork; whence he came here on Parole—2 Our Coast has for some time past, been lined with British Cruizers, which have done infinite Injury to our Trade, our port is at present intirely blocked up by them, so that nothing can get in or out; this Stroke of the British, we feel more than any hitherto experienced; it has caused a general Stagnation of Business among us, and I am afraid the consequences will be fatal to many in Trade.—3
We have just received very disagreeable Reports from the Westindies, of a Victory obtained over the French Fleet, which, if true, will in all probability frustrate the intended Expedition against Jamaica; there are some grounds for doubting these reports, but our fears on this occasion seem to overcome our doubts—4
There is no possability of sending you the papers by this conveyance, as the Letters are to be carried by the post to some other port, whence they will be conveyed, I believe, by a Frigate, but this circumstance is kept secret—
I have the pleasure to inform you that Sally & the Children are well, I purpose sending them into the Country for a couple of Months during the Summer, to avoid the disorders, which you know young Children are subject to, at that Season in Town—5 We all join in Love & Duty to yourself— With affectionate regards we also desire to be remembred to Temple & Ben.
I am ever Dear & Hond. Sir Your affectionate Son
Addressed: His Excellency / Dr. Benjamin Franklin / Minister Plenipoy: from the United States / of No: America at / Passy
Notations in different hands: receiv’d & forwarded by your humble St L’orient 2. augt. 1782. Jonatn. Nesbitt &c. / Rich: Bache Philadelphia May 20th. 1782.
2. BF’s letter of Jan. 19, 1782, recommended John Vaughan. On April 25, a British frigate captured the ship transporting him: XXXVI, 450.
3. For the spring blockade see our annotation to Robert Morris’ first May 18 letter to BF.
4. For Rodney’s April 12 victory over de Grasse see our annotation to BF’s journal of the peace negotiations, under May 26. Philadelphians received conflicting accounts of the battle throughout May: Livingston to BF, May 30, below.
5. William was almost nine, Elizabeth four, Louis almost two and a half, and Deborah almost eight months. The younger children had been removed for the same reason in past summers: I, lxiii–lxiv; XXVII, 603; XXXIII, 99, 271; XXXV, 278. | <urn:uuid:ad63c81e-31c0-42f1-a5b1-90e4124fb9a0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://founders.archives.gov/documents/Franklin/01-37-02-0235 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00145-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951928 | 655 | 1.617188 | 2 |
OK, when changing the reverse light switch I loosened what I thought was the reverse light switch, when I loosened it I got a shock as coolant poured out, anyway I retightened it and all seemed ok but all is not what it seems, I have now developed a tiny leek when the car is at running temp. This thing I loosened looked exactly like the reverse light switch (what you can see from outside of the engine, not sure what the other side looked like as i didn't take it out fully). . . . it is like a probe going into the engine block with a couple of wires attached to it, it was even the same nut size. Its screwed into the block right opposite the battery. I've tightened it as much as possible but still has leak, maybe it needs some kind of sealing compound? Any help on what it is or how to stop the leak much appreciated, can't drive the car now and miss it already!! | <urn:uuid:e9804a61-9521-4fc6-8107-cf7c1afb412f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.alfaowner.com/Forum/alfa-147-156-andamp-gt/176979-156-v6-how-to-change-reverse-light-switch.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719215.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00200-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.987168 | 197 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Although rates of pay are still an important consideration when applying for a job, studies show that people are more interested in the benefits, or perks, that the company provides. Apparently this is the priority for 60% of employees, which is an important factor for employers to take into consideration in a more competitive job market.
The main benefits that employees look for are fairly traditional: health insurance, bonuses, holiday allocation, retirement plans and paid sick leave. For new parents, childcare vouchers, flexible working time and the ability to work from home on occasion are important. Discounted canteens offering healthy meals, wellbeing vouchers with access to specialists as and when required and a car allowance scheme are also high on the list of perks staff would appreciate.
We have all heard about the extent to which large companies provide benefits for their staff, such as giving them three meals a day; providing on site gyms and fitness and life coaches; and equipping relaxation areas with TVs, sofas, toys and games. These benefits may be sustainable for companies such as Google, Facebook, and Airbnb, but they are not economically viable for most SMEs. In a more competitive job market, employers need to consider the perks they could offer staff to attract them to the job vacancies and ascertain which would help with the retention of good staff.
The idea that employees should be rewarded, motivated and delighted is a long way from the days when all you did was clock in, do the job, clock out and get paid. The only expectation of the employer then was that you were paid for the hours you worked; however, perks are the way of the modern working world.
Employers today are looking at ways to keep their staff happy and motivated that may be cheaper than a pay rise but will keep morale high and prevent employees jumping ship to the opposition. There are even companies that specifically negotiate employee perks on behalf of employers.
Luncheon vouchers are no longer de rigueur; today, employers give cinema tickets, supermarket and shop vouchers, restaurant vouchers, gym memberships and child care vouchers, not to mention loans at reduced rates for items such as cars, travel to work and baby equipment. This can work out considerably cheaper than a pay rise and was a way of rewarding staff when pay rises were often not possible during the recession.
Employers’ watchwords today should apparently be attract, motivate and retain.
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Initiative to improve hauora of people leaving prison in Canterbury extended
Funding for a programme which aims to support people recently released from prison to re-engage with their general practice in Canterbury has been extended.
The Te Ara Whakapuāwai (People of Release) Programme, which is a partnership between Canterbury Health providers, social agencies and Ara Poutama Corrections is now available to anyone released from prison.
Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Waitaha Canterbury funding is available for three free visits with a GP, including an extended first consult, for all persons leaving prisons into the Canterbury district and people returning from Australia to Canterbury on a Section 501 order. This includes people who have been in prison on Remand.
Te Ara Whakapuāwai aims to remove obstacles of enrolment, cost, discomfort and potential whakamā (embarrassment or shame) for this group of the community.
We know that people in our services are amongst the least health connected in our community, says Corrections’ Southern Region Operations Director Health, Jill Thomson.
“Te Ara Whakapuāwai will encourage and support prison leavers to maintain the health gains they have made in prison and to continue to access their essential medications,” says Jill.
People will be able to access a voucher for the service through their Probation Officer, Case Manager, the Court team or prison health services.
“Most people will have a probation officer and will be provided with information and a voucher at their first meeting. For people leaving prison without the need for Community Corrections services, a voucher will be issued at, or just prior, to release by prison staff connecting with our community team.”
While people don’t need a voucher to access the service, the group believe having this will increase people’s comfort and reduce concerns of a difficult conversation or unexpected charge at the health services’ reception area.
The CCN Coordinated Access on Release Group, which is behind the initiative, has been meeting for several years and is made up of representatives of health and social services from across Canterbury, including Te Whatu Ora - Health New Zealand Waitaha Canterbury, Christchurch Primary Health Organisation (PHO), Pegasus Health, Waitaha Primary Health, He Waka Tapu, ACC, Ministry of Social Development (MSD), Laura Fergusson Trust, and other community health organisations.
“The organisations in this group all have a goal to improve health equity and outcomes in the community and this has led to us exploring a wide range of initiatives including eradicating Hep C in prisons, improving ACC reporting and referrals,” says Jill.
“The group also recognise that the challenges to health services often begin before the person reaches a GP. Many GP practices are full and some people we work with may feel they have burned bridges with their GP through their behaviour including bad debts. People having difficulty finding a GP can be helped to enrol through the Partnership Community Workers (PCWs) service.”
Laila Cooper, Acting Chair of the Coordinated Access on Release Working Group, welcomes the introduction of the revamped Te Ara Whakapuāwai service. It has been very encouraging to work with colleagues from other sectors to develop this initiative designed to help address gaps in the health system for this population. I have been impressed by the dedication and commitment of the Working Group members to work collaboratively and problem solve and hope that this will be an ongoing process.
The initiative has been running for some time for people who have served a prison sentence of more than two years and for Australian returnees.
The programme also supports people on release to connect with services to support their mental and physical health and other health supports and resources in the community.
In addition, a new Post-Imprisonment Health Assessment HealthPathway is now available and covers the initial approach to physical health checks by general practitioners and practice nurses for this group.
More information can be found here.
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How IBM Brought Analytics to the Cloud
IBM's new private cloud environment for business analytics could be considered the culmination of IBM's overall strategy around analytics to this point.
On Nov. 16, IBM announced its private cloud computing environment for business analytics, which launches internally with more than a petabyte of information, equivalent to 20 million four-drawer filing cabinets filled with text, which stacked end-to-end would circle the entire planet Earth. And to share the success models of this internal project, IBM also announced a new solution for clients to build their own private cloud environments based on this architecture, called IBM Smart Analytics Cloud.
IBM Smart Analytics Cloud provides easily consumable business intelligence services, systems and software to help customers create an efficient delivery of shared business intelligence services across lines of business and functional organizations, IBM officials said. IBM's own Analytics Cloud deployment served as the template for this solution offering, which features:
??Ã IBM services - enables the client to transform the corporate business intelligence (BI) strategy and achieve rapid return on investment with planning and strategy sessions, installation and implementation of the Smart Analytic cloud solution, as well as optimization of the cloud for the enterprise
??Ã IBM Cognos 8 BI - provides the BI capability for the cloud, offering a broad range of business intelligence services, including reports, analysis, dashboards and scorecards to monitor business performance, analyze trends and measure results
??Ã IBM System z - supports the foundation for the cloud with z/VM industry leading virtualization running Linux on efficient "specialty engines" for massive scale with resilient, secure, multi-tenant operations
Some IBMers my cringe at the use of the word "culmination" to describe what the cloud analytics play means for the company's analytics push, because there is so much more that IBM plans to do in this space.
"'Culmination' makes it sound like there's nothing more...there will be more around this in the first half of next year. That said, this is certainly the result of many recent acquisitions," an IBM spokesperson said.
Indeed, IBM's acquisitions of companies such as Cognos, RedPill Solutions and SPSS, among several others have strengthened the IBM business analytics portfolio, but the company is not done yet. IBM intends to continue to seek dominance in this fast growing market segment through both acquisitions and internal growth, Big Blue officials said.
Ambuj Goyal, general manager, Business Analytics and Process Optimization, IBM Software Group, said, "This is a trend for us. This is not just an announcement; it's a journey for us."
Goyal, who has shepherded the business intelligence and analytics acquisitions for IBM, said, "This is an example of how IBM's $6 billion worth of R&D is coming together to further the company's overall mission. We will continue to grow through both organic moves and acquisitions."
For instance, SPSS had been a global leader in predictive analysis with 20 years of experience before it became part of IBM, Goyal said. IBM now owns all of that expertise.
Dave Laverty, vice president of worldwide information management marketing at IBM, said IBM has expended its efforts across the company to "help clients accelerate information-led transformation. Laverty said IBM has made more that $10 billion in investments in information management software, and has more than 4,000 global business service analytics consultants.
Overall, the amount of time, effort, manpower and financial investment IBM is putting into analytics is impressive, Goyal said. And IBM Research deserves credit as well for enabling Big Blue to push its analytics offering into the cloud, company officials said.
Steve Mills, senior vice president and group executive of IBM Software group, said, "Our clients' investment in business optimization projects is growing more than twice as fast as business automation." Analytics play a key role in IBM's business optimization efforts.
Mils said he has noticed three trends that IBM is addressing: workload optimized computing; workload optimized systems; and simplified, unified infrastructure. Moreover, he said characteristics of analytics workloads include search and query, predictive analytics, and risk analysis.
Meanwhile, IBM customers say they welcome the analytics efforts.
Shirley Lady, vice president of Business Informatics/Blue Health Intelligence for the Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association, said the two biggest issues in healthcare are controlling the costs of healthcare and maintaining the quality. Analytics can help on both counts, she said.
"We're looking at various trends, such as utilization trends and prevalence of diseases," Lady said. "We have an analytics data mart we call ADAM. Since we added analytics capabilities, we have added fraud functionality to the system to determine fraud aspects across the data."
Melody Playford, a data mining architect and manager of enterprise solutions at the Dillard's retail department store chain, said Dillard's has several projects going that require analytics. "In this economy we have to look at closing under-performing stores," she said. "So we looked at the performance of stores and also looked at our customers to see if they were shopping our others stores" to determine which stores could be closed with the least impact to the company and its customer base, she said.
People are analyzing historic data to be able to discern what to do in the future," Goyal said.
Regarding the cloud scenario and analytics, Mills said, "We're spanning the private cloud model where there is sensitive information" that IBM clients will want to keep private. "But there is potential for certain types of mixed scenarios where you can get a hybrid of public and private cloud information."
"This is about unlocking the business value of information," Goyal said about the analytics push. "If you're going to treat information as a strategic asset, you need to do transformation projects. And to do this we needed to build a service line built on consulting,"
"Our clients understand they're operating in a competitive environment where more than ever before, in addition to being fast, they have to be right. That requires something beyond the traditional notion of 'sense and respond,'" said Frank Kern, senior vice president of IBM Global Business Services, at the launch of the line. "That drives the need to speed business decisions, understand the consequences of any decision and predict outcomes with more certainty-in short, moving to a new level of enterprise intelligence."
In addition, IBM has been opening a series of IBM advanced analytics centers around the world to promote the use of analytics. Most recently IBM opened an analytics center in Washington, D.C.
"The new IBM Analytics Solution Center in Washington, D.C., will draw on the expertise of more than 400 IBM professionals. These will include IBM researchers, experts in advanced software platforms, and consultants with deep industry knowledge in areas such as transportation, social services, public safety, customs and border management, revenue management, defense, logistics, health care and education. IBM also plans to add an additional 100 professionals, through retraining or new hiring, as demand grows."
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Room yield in October following the 11 September attacks on the US was down 33.4% to £68.19 compared with the same time last year, said hotel industry financial adviser PKF.
This compares with a plunge of 33.9% in February 1991 when US and Japanese visitors last took fright. The October 2001 result is worse because although the Gulf War emptied hotel rooms rates held up.
This time, says PKF, travellers strike harder bargains, so empty rooms are also bringing down prices. The figure of 33.4% for the October 2001 room yield is arrived at by multiplying room occupancy by the average achieved room rate. Occupancy levels fell by 22.6%, and average room rate by 13.9%.
Worst hit are the plusher London hotels, although Gatwick and Heathrow hotels were also suffering, while in Brighton the room yield improved.
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There’s often a lot of groaning and moaning about new construction in the city. Pretty much anything that gets built has someone that hates it. Contemporary design gets decried as “awful glass boxes” or “metal and glass monstrosities” (just try Google-searching either phrase.) Sometimes the criticism has real merit, but I’ve heard such slurs used against buildings that I thought were excellent.
Meanwhile, this stuff is what you get when you don’t encourage contemporary modernism. Faux-historicism is rightly denigrated by architectural purists as “watered down” and wishy-washy – even the ardent opponents of glass-box design must realize that there’s something unsatisfying about a brick-skinned condo with a few quoins and keystones tacked on.
Consider the two designs above – interesting facade compositions, and wonderful recessed porches, but what’s up with the random bits of stone? Is it supposed to be a Pullman row house? Are we meant to take the square columns and thinly banded stone as a contemporary Prairie style? Why the red brick? Is there any actual history of this area using red brick for… well… anything?
To do historicism right takes money and it takes serious architectural intention, neither of which are high on the priority list of your typical city developer. And even if you get it right, you’re left with an anomaly, a building out of time, a testimony that we live in a era that has failed to produce a great architectural style of its own.
So, let us celebrate those fleeting moments when the architectural spirit does prevail. Chicago is dotted with infill houses in the truly contemporary style, where buildings become grids, and the grids are then pulled apart, cut open, sliced, diced, turned, flipped, snipped, slipped and zipped. This is architectural play – contemporary architectural design at its best. It takes a committed designer to do it well. Chicago is lucky to have so many excellent examples.
On the bottom, a classic Chicago house, deconstructed. On the top, a Frank Ghery Lite composition.
The classic contemporary modern infill home – a flat front facade seems to have slipped loose from its moorings, leaving an open strip of shadow. This move generates a bit of mystery – what’s inside that shadow? What materials are beyond there? Can you occupy that space?
At a glance, a “glass box” – oh, the horror! But just look at how space flows through it. The bedroom is a box within a box, suspended over the living room with its own windows looking out onto the double-height living space that faces the street – and its own curtains to provide privacy when desired. On the right, the staircase seems to rise forever.
Two floating planes and a solid chimney tower make a plan block box into an engaging composition.
Thickened wall planes have become one of the architect’s most potent weapons. Somewhere along the line, architects seem to have gotten over their obsession with making walls thinner and thinner… thus liberating them to make the wall into an actual object, or a thing with physical substance – something to contrast with all that glassy openness.
Likewise, the construction of a building as a series of overlapping shapes – interconnected boxes clad in different materials – has become a common form of architectural play.
I’m not normally a big fan of standing seam metal panel as a cladding material. Usually it looks cheap and ugly. Architects give it way too much credit in general; when it’s hailed as a material of the future, I find the future to seem very bleak indeed. Here, however, it’s brought vividly to life with color, contrasting delightfully with the red brick. Another clever move is changing the directions of the seams to match the colors and harmonize with the window orientation. | <urn:uuid:d4d145f2-b2f0-4a1b-9243-5efd5ad0d70b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://achicagosojourn.wordpress.com/2010/07/08/contemporary-infill/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572163.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815085006-20220815115006-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.942953 | 815 | 1.851563 | 2 |
We often discuss the importance of regular exercise for older adults. In addition to keeping your muscles strong, your heart healthy, and your energy high, physical activity can have positive effects on your mental and perhaps even cognitive health. It may even extend your lifespan and help you remain independent for longer. This time of year, however, getting regular exercise can be a challenge. The low temperatures, slick sidewalks, and heightened desire to be warm and cozy can keep us sitting on our couches when we should be getting up and moving. To help you stick to or begin your exercise regimen, here are a few tips for staying active during wintertime:
- Find an indoor exercise class near you.
At Corso Atlanta, we offer a wide variety of guided indoor fitness activities, but no matter where you are, you’ll likely be able to find yoga, tai-chi, jazzercise, and other specialized fitness classes for your skill level.
- Utilize our indoor fitness center.
Jogging, walking, or doing other forms of exercise outdoors can be great during the more moderate seasons, but it’s easy to fall behind when it gets too hot or too cold. Fortunately, Corso Atlanta residents have access to an indoor fitness center that can accommodate a wide range of health levels and activity preferences.
- Try walking at the local mall.
Walking regularly is one of the best ways for seniors to stay active and independent. A quick trip to your local mall can provide a safe, well-lit, and temperature-controlled environment for regular strolls. And you might get some of your holiday shopping done in the process.
- Use your space creatively.
Guided lessons on yoga, tai-chi, and other forms of exercise that seniors tend to gravitate toward can be easily found for free online. Many standard exercises, such as push-ups and balance exercises, require little-to-no equipment and can be done on your bedroom floor. You can use our tips for exercising with arthritis for some ideas of how to jumpstart your low-impact, indoor exercise routine.
- Practice safety at every turn.
If you decide to exercise outside this winter, make sure to check the weather forecast beforehand. Ensure that any surfaces you want to run or walk on are free of ice and snow, and don’t spend too much time outside when it’s too cold for safety. If you’re exercising indoors, make sure to learn proper form and technique from a professional and to pace yourself. Always check with your doctor before engaging in a new exercise regimen.
No matter the time of year, it’s important to keep your body and brain engaged as much as you can. At Corso Atlanta, we offer several health, wellness, and exercise programs specifically geared toward seniors. If you’re interested in learning more about assisted living, independent living, memory care, or any of the many programs & activities we offer, please contact Corso Atlanta for more information. Don’t forget to follow us on Facebook for updates and to check back soon for a new blog. | <urn:uuid:f759a2f5-245c-4c5f-896c-48094bf31296> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://experiencecorsoatlanta.com/5-tips-for-getting-exercise-during-winter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.938239 | 637 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Essay Example Challenge in Life Leadership
Leadership Challenge Essay
In these pages from the text, there is a counterintuitive grouping together of intuitively compatible principles, such as “Leaders Inspire a Shared Vision” and “Leaders Enable Others to Act”, with a principle such as “Leaders Challenge the Process.” Namely, the former principles suggest the building of community, whereas the latter is almost revolutionary in character: it underscores the importance of challenging an established order.
However, upon reflection, their coupling seems entirely logical: one of the ways to encourage “others to act” and establish a “shared vision” is to critique established “processes” that deserve criticism. It is this act, if correct in intent as well as execution, which can inspire others.
This is a fundamentally Christian principle. The life of Jesus Christ is one that challenges an existing order. This is the reason Christ is condemned to death: He challenges the practices of the Jewish rabbis and is crucified for this reason. Yet at the same time He creates the Christian community, giving this community a vision and a course of action. Hence, in Luke, we read the following: “And the eyes of all in the synagogue were fixed on Him.
And He began to say to them, “Today this Scripture has been fulfilled in your hearing.” (Luke 4:18-21) The rabbis’ corruption has led them to forget their ethical obligations to the weakest in the community: in the preceding scripture, Christ mentions the poor, the blind, the captives, and the oppressed. Christ’s action is necessary because Judaic practice has not yielded justice. Christ’s words are the infinite justice and goodness of God; when this justice and goodness is not carried out by those who claim to be holy, this hypocrisy must be exposed, in turn inspiring others.
From my own perspective, perhaps before one can study leadership, one first has to find a cause: a leader becomes a leader because he or she has something he or she believes in. Wanting to become a leader and then looking for a cause is reminiscent of the worst excesses of politics, where entrance into “public service” is a mask for personal ambition.
Christian ethics is the exact opposite: one looks at the situations of others, one empathizes with the injustices they experience, and then decides to act. This is how one inspires others: not because one wants to inspire others, but because of the pure love of the initial act that in its authenticity compels others to follow the same immutable Christian ethical principles.
- Kouzes, J.M. & Posner, B.Z. (eds.) (2004). Christian Reflections on the Leadership Challenge.
- San Francisco, CA: John Wiley & Sons.
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The gradual however regular transition to renewable vitality was already underway when Russia invaded Ukraine in February, and since then the worldwide vitality market has been turned on its head. We’re more likely to witness extra upheaval because the geopolitical vitality panorama sees energy shift away from international locations wealthy in oil and fuel in direction of these wealthy in supplies essential for making batteries, electrical vehicles, photo voltaic panels, wind generators, and the like. Actually, the push for clear vitality is already contributing to a pattern towards protectionism, and this pattern is simply going to proceed because the stakes get greater.
Somewhat than ready to be squeezed by tariffs or provide shortages, some organizations are pre-emptively making strikes to be as self-sufficient as attainable in what’s going to doubtless be a risky market. Two such organizations are Nissan and NASA. The carmaker and the house company might not seem to have a ton in frequent, but one curiosity they do share is affordable, scalable, energy-dense batteries. Final week they introduced a partnership aimed at developing solid-state batteries.
The lithium-ion batteries used at the moment in every part from smartphones to electrical autos depend on a liquid electrolyte to maneuver lithium ions between a graphite anode (the destructive electrode) and a cathode (the constructive electrode), which might be constituted of varied supplies.
Stable-state batteries swap the liquid electrolyte out for—you guessed it—a strong one, growing the vitality density two-fold or extra. Efforts to develop these batteries have been tormented by problems, including discovering an efficient alternative for the separator (the element that retains the anode and cathode aside whereas permitting lithium ions to move by), and fixing issues like oxidative degradation and dendrite formation (needle-like projections from the lithium anode that may pierce the separator).
The Nissan-NASA initiative is much like one introduced over two years in the past by IBM and Mercedes-Benz; the computing powerhouse and the carmaker deliberate to make use of each classical and quantum computing to design solid-state batteries, together with simulating the properties of molecules for solid-state lithium-sulfur batteries. In late 2019 they unveiled a “heavy-metal-free” battery whose supplies may supposedly be extracted from sea water.
Crucially, the Nissan-NASA partnership can also be specializing in batteries that don’t depend on uncommon metals, like cobalt (of which greater than half the worldwide provide is within the Democratic Republic of the Congo, as highlighted in an episode of the New York Instances Each day podcast final month), nickel, or manganese.
However eliminating these metals means discovering supplies with comparable properties to exchange them, which can be no easy job. Right here’s the place NASA’s computing chops will lend the partnership a much-needed hand. They plan to create an authentic materials informatics platform—that’s, an enormous database that runs simulations of how varied supplies work together with each other. When the platform narrows numerous choices and combos down to some prime candidates, researchers can then begin testing them.
Nissan has focused 2028 because the 12 months to roll out its proprietary solid-state batteries. How lifelike that timing seems to be stays to be seen (Toyota is much more formidable, aiming to have its personal autos with solid-state batteries available on the market by 2025), but Nissan is placing its cash the place its mouth is with plans to open a pilot plant in Japan in 2024. How this performs out can be revelatory, as scaling up manufacturing of solid-state batteries has produced sudden problems prior to now. Encouragingly, startup Stable Energy has additionally focused 2028 for commercializing its solid-state batteries.
We don’t but understand how lengthy it would take, however one factor is wanting fairly sure: because the scramble to safe dependable vitality provides continues over the next months and years, we’re more likely to see many extra efforts to carry batteries and associated know-how in-house.
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LINCOLN, Neb., Feb. 7 (UPI) -- While duck numbers in the United States are the highest in decades, duck hunting is down, possibly bad news for conservation efforts, environmentalists say.
The decrease in the number of hunters isn't necessarily good news for ducks, researchers write in the Wildlife Society Bulletin, because the loss of revenue from "duck stamps" -- the federal license needed to hunt -- could result in millions of lost dollars for vital conservation work.
"The last 15 years have brought hunting opportunities not seen since the turn of the last century," Mark Vrtiska of the Nebraska Game and Parks Commission said. "The waterfowl population has passed 40 million six times since 1995, something only seen nine times since records began. These should be the glory days for duck hunting."
But as duck numbers go up, "duck stamp" sales are plummeting, officials said.
More than 2.1 million stamps were sold annually in the 1970s but from 2004-08 that declined to 1.3 million, with an ongoing annual decline of 36 percent.
"Duck hunting has been a tradition for rural America for centuries, yet a cultural shift and changing attitudes has seen a slow decline in hunter numbers," Vrtiska said. "The resulting fall in funding is impacting all those involved in habitat conservation which is only made more important by the dramatic rise in duck numbers."
"Federal funding for conservation is dependent on the revenue raised by selling the duck stamps, a unique dynamic for wildlife managers in the United States," he said. "Up to 98 percent of money raised by the duck stamps is used to purchase or lease habitat within the National Wildlife Refuge system."
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Henry Melville and
away together on a walking tour round the Cornish coast.
people, they were interested in the case; and one morning, while at
breakfast at a little inn, they learnt that the absconding men had been
tracked to that very neighbourhood, and that a strong cordon of police
had been drawn round the district, making an escape very
fact, an inspector and a constable came into the inn to make some
inquiries, and exchanged civilities with the two members of the Puzzle
A few references to some of the leading London detectives, and
production of a confidential letter Melville happened to have in his
pocket from one of them, soon established complete confidence, and the
inspector opened out.
He said that he had
just been to examine a very
of a mile from there, and expressed the opinion that Messrs. Lamson and
Marsh would never again be found alive.
At the suggestion of Melville
four men walked along the road together.
"There is our stile
in the distance," said the
found beside it the pocket-book that I have shown you, containing the
name of Marsh and some memoranda in his handwriting.
It had evidently
been dropped by accident.
On looking over the stone stile he noticed
footprints of two men—which I have already proved from
previously supplied to the police to be those of the men we
am sure you will agree that they point to only one possible conclusion."
Arrived at the
spot, they left the hard road and
got over the
footprints of the two men were here very clearly impressed in the thin
but soft soil, and they all took care not to trample on the
followed the prints closely, and found that they led straight to the
of a cliff forming a sheer precipice, almost perpendicular, at the foot
of which the sea, some two hundred feet below, was breaking among the
you see," said the inspector,
straight to the edge of the cliff, where there is a good deal of
trampling about, and there end.
The soil has nowhere been disturbed for
yards around, except by the footprints that you see.
The conclusion is
"That, knowing they
were unable to escape capture,
decided not to be
taken alive, and threw themselves over the cliff?" asked Wilson.
"Exactly. Look to
the right and the left, and you
will find no
or other marks anywhere.
Go round there to the left, and you will be
satisfied that the most experienced mountaineer
that ever lived could
not make a descent, or even anywhere get over the edge of the
There is no ledge or foothold within fifty feet."
impossible," said Melville, after an
"What do you
propose to do?"
"I am going
straight back to communicate the
We shall withdraw the cordon and search the coast for the dead bodies."
"Then you will make
a fatal mistake," said
and in hiding in the district. Just examine the prints again.
the large foot?"
"That is Lamson's,
and the small print is
a tall man,
just over six feet, and Marsh was a little fellow."
"I thought as
much," said Melville.
"And yet you will find
takes a shorter stride than Marsh.
Notice, also, the peculiarity that
Marsh walks heavily on his heels, while Lamson treads more on his
Nothing remarkable in that? Perhaps not; but has it occurred to you
Lamson walked behind Marsh?
Because you will find that he sometimes
treads over Marsh's footsteps, though you will never find Marsh
in the steps of the other."
"Do you suppose
that the men walked backwards in
asked the inspector.
"No; that is
No two men could walk backwards some
yards in that way with such exactitude.
You will not find a single
where they have missed the print by even an eighth of an inch.
Nor do I suppose that two men, hunted as they were, could
have provided themselves with flying-machines, balloons, or even
They did not drop over the cliff."
explained how the men had got
be quite correct, for it will be remembered that they were caught,
under some straw in a barn, within two miles of the spot.
How did they
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Health Care Professional Paper/ Speech Language Pathologist
- To develop a understanding of roles of other healthcare professionals
- To develop an understanding of how Occupational Therapy practitioners can consult with other healthcare professionals in order to provide optimal patient care.
- To identify how each member of the team can contribute to patient’s care.
As an occupational therapy practitioner we work with numerous other healthcare professionals. It’s important to be familiar with these different professions and what their role is on the healthcare team. After receiving the name of a healthcare professional in class, you are to write a paper that is a minimum of 4 pages on that professional. At a minimum, the following items should be included in your paper: a description of the profession in general, the specific educational requirements and training needed for this profession, a detailed explanation and examples of the professionals typical job duties, how this healthcare professional might interact with the occupational therapy practitioner and how this team member contributes to the patient’s care. Each student will post their paper so that other students can save this a resource. In addition, each student will be required to present in class.
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Peace Talks Continue Despite Rising Mideast Tensions
Author: Shlomi Eldar Posted August 28, 2013
It’s all happening very quietly, beneath the radar, which is now aimed at Syria. There’s a parallel world out there, where the winds of war have yet to reach. The people who inhabit that world hadn’t exchanged a word between them until a few weeks ago. They were completely cut off from one another, separated by a raging dispute, and they presented each other with terms and conditions, before they even got back to talking. In the end, they conceded. They got off their high horses, made up, and started talking. They’ve been talking and talking ever since, without anything diverting them from the reason of their meeting.
Stubborn rumors about an impending war and coalitions being formed by the armies all around them haven’t ruffled their feathers. Talk about the use of chemical weapons and the hundreds of missiles aimed at them are no bother whatsoever. They don’t leave a dent in their schedules. Even a very violent incident, which took place very near to where they met — and which, in days past, would have resulted in a full frontal clash between them — barely moved them at all this time. They just carried on doing what they were doing. Skeptics and pessimists who expected the talks to last days at best, if not hours, until they inevitably fell apart, are absolutely stunned by what they see. The rest of the world may be in turmoil, but Justice Minister [responsible for negotiations] Tzipi Livni and Palestinian chief negotiator Saeb Erekat still insist on talking about peace.
Yes, it’s surprising, but it’s still happening. Five weeks have passed since US Secretary of State John Kerry announced [July 19] that Israel and the Palestinians would renew their negotiations. Three weeks have passed since the two sides actually entered into direct talks. Remarkably, there hasn’t been a crisis yet.
Their sincere desire to get around the hurdles and keep talking could be seen in the way both sides responded to the deadly incident that occurred in the Qalandia refugee camp just a few days ago [Aug.26], when two vehicles of the Israeli Defense Forces arrived there one morning to arrest a suspect. They were greeted by the local residents with a barrage of rocks and Molotov cocktails. Feeling that their lives were at risk, the Israeli troops responded with live fire. Three Palestinians were killed, and many more were injured.
The way that Erekat and Livni responded to this was rather surprising. It was certainly not what one would expect, based on past experiences. They took it in stride and did everything they could to find some way to continue with the negotiations. Sure, there were those who tried to insert sticks between the spokes of the talks. Others wanted to suspend the meetings. But the two of them immediately released a statement saying that the incident was regrettable and should be condemned, but as far as the talks were concerned, it was business as usual. Not even the establishment of a new settlement, Leshem, nor the announcement, as the talks commenced, of Housing Minister Uri Ariel on the building of hundreds of residential units [in the West Bank] stopped or otherwise hindered their discussions.
Although the negotiators are forbidden to leak the content of the talks or to make any public statements about agreements or differences that have come up, every so often we get some indication that the Israelis and Palestinians are taking these talks seriously. Here is just one example of many, which prove that deep in the negotiating chambers, the talks are focusing on the major issues that lie at the heart of the conflict. Almost every day, Hanan Ashrawi, a member of the PLO’s executive and one of the Palestinians’ most eloquent spokespeople, releases angry statements and condemnations of various routine issues. But she doesn’t limit these statements to the topic at hand, and frequently raises some information or other that has nothing to do with what she is condemning, but which undoubtedly relates to the negotiations.
In the wake of the Qalandia incident, Ashrawi condemned what she called “excessive and indiscriminate violence” by the IDF. In a statement published the day after, however, she added something that had nothing to do with the incident per se: “Without east Jerusalem as our capital, there can be no Palestinian state or no hope for peace''. She then went on to say that, “The status quo is not sustainable and will not last forever; if Israel succeeds in destroying the two-state solution, the future will not bode well for anybody.” And there are many other examples of similar statements.
Nor is Ashrawi alone in this. Just about every day, some unofficial Palestinian spokesperson or other releases a statement expressing unease over issues pertaining to the negotiations. The litany includes such things as Jerusalem, borders, and refugees, but also more mundane issues such as the division of water sources between Israel and the Palestinian Authority.
One Palestinian I spoke with claimed jokingly that Martin Indyk, who is overseeing the talks for the Americans, is apparently keeping information from the participants about the impending attack on Syria and, in fact, any other news that might distract them. In fact, he said, the negotiators have absolutely no idea of what is happening in that other world, which exists right outside the negotiating chamber. While he may have been kidding, there is some truth in what he said. The Palestinians really are surprised that the talks are still going on, and that they are being taken so seriously.
Maybe all the upheavals occurring in the world provide some kind of advantage to the current round of talks. With everyone paying such rapt attention to the goings-on in Egypt and Syria, and with the concurrent lack of public interest in the talks, there is far less pressure on the negotiators, who have plenty of room to maneuver without fear of being interrupted. Who knows? We may yet see white smoke rising from the chimney to hover above the gloomy war clouds. We’ll need lots of hats if that really happens, to hand out to everyone, myself included, who said that they would eat their hat if the two sides really reach an agreement this time.
Shlomi Eldar is a contributing writer for Al-Monitor’s Israel Pulse. For the past two decades, he has covered the Palestinian Authority and especially the Gaza Strip for Israel’s Channels 1 and 10, and has reported on the emergence of Hamas. In 2007, he was awarded the Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most important media award, for this work.
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Shlomi Eldar is a columnist for Al-Monitor’s Israel Pulse. For the past two decades, he has covered the Palestinian Authority and especially the Gaza Strip for Israel’s Channels 1 and 10, reporting on the emergence of Hamas. In 2007, he was awarded the Sokolov Prize, Israel’s most important media award, for this work. On Twitter: @shlomieldar | <urn:uuid:d5ef61fc-af15-4124-9085-d9928377d0f9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.al-monitor.com/pulse/originals/2013/08/israeli-palestinian-negotiations-us-attack-syria-livni.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00531-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.976542 | 1,520 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Deceased persons: limited interests in residue - payments made during the administration period
As a life interest can be an important source of income for a beneficiary, payments are often made during the administration period. The limited interest (see TSEM7652 for definition) beneficiary is treated as having income equal to the gross equivalent of the amount paid in the year of assessment. When the administration is completed, the beneficiary is treated as having received the balance of income to which he was entitled.
As with absolute interests, the beneficiary should be supplied with a statement, which may be on form R185 (Estate Income). This shows income bearing tax at the basic and savings rates (for years where this rate applies). It may possibly include non- payable or non-repayable tax. You should normally accept this statement. If you wish to make an enquiry involving this source of income, consult Trusts & Estates Edinburgh before doing so.
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TIME OF TAKING EFFECT Sec. 31. (a) Sections 2, 8, 13, 14, 15, and 16, and subdivision (f) of section 1ì, shall take effect on July 1, 1924, except that immigration visas and permits may be issued prior to that date, which shall not be valid for admission to the United States before July 1, 1924. In the case of quota immigrants of any nationality, the number of immigration visas to be issued prior to July 1, 1924, shall not be in excess of 10 per centum of the quota for such nationality, and the number of immigration visas so issued shall be deducted from the number which may be issued during the month of July, 1924. In the case of immigration visas issued before July 1, 1924, the fourmonth period referred to in subdivision (c) of section 2 shall begin to run on July 1, 1924, instead of at the time of the issuance of the immigration visa.
(b) The remainder of this Act shall take effect upon its enactment.
(c) If any alien arrives in the United States before July 1, 1924, his right to admission shall be determined without regard to the provisions of this Act, except section 23. (43 Stat. 169; 8 U. S. C. A. 201, annotation 1.)
SAVING CLAUSE IN EVENT OF UNCONSTITUTIONALITY
Seo. 32. If any provision of this Act, or the application thereof to any person or circumstances, is held invalid, the remainder of the Act, and the application of such provision to other persons or circumstances, shall not be affected thereby. (43 Stat. 169; 8 U. S. C. 226.)
Approved, May 26, 1924.
Immigration and Related Acts
Other than the Acts of February 5, 1917, and May 26, 1924
NO TAX OR CHARGE BY STATE ON IMMIGRANTS
Act approved May 81, 1870
Sec. 16. No tax or charge shall be imposed or enforced by any State upon any person immigrating thereto from a foreign country, which is not equally imposed and enforced upon every person immigrating to such State from any other foreign country.(R. S. $ 2164.)
AUTHORIZING PAYMENT TO INFORMER IN CASES OF VIOLATION
OF CONTRACT LABOR LAW
Act approved February 26, 1885, as amended SECTION 1.
That the act approved February twentysixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, entitled "An act to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia,” be, and the same is hereby amended so as to authorize the Attorney General to pay to an informer who furnishes original information that the law has been violated such a share of the penalties recovered as he may deem reasonable and just, not exceeding fifty per centum, where it appears that the recovery was had in consequence of the information thus furnished. (23 Stat. 332; 25 Stat. 567; 8 U. S. C. 140.)
AUTHORIZING THE PRESIDENT TO SUSPEND IMMIGRATION FROM COUNTRIES IN WHICH CHOLERA OR OTHER INFECTIOUS OR CONTAGIOUS DISEASES EXIST
Sec. 7. That whenever it shall be shown to the satisfaction of the President that by reason of the existence of cholera or other infectious or contagious diseases in a foreign country there is serious danger of the introduction of the same into the United States, and that notwithstanding the quarantine defense this danger is so increased by the introduction of persons or property from such country that a suspension of the right to introduce the same is demanded in the interest of the public health, the President shall have power to prohibit, in whole or in part, the introduction of persons and property from such countries or places as he shall designate and for such period of time as he may deem necessary. (27 Stat. 452; 42 U.S. C. 111.)
1 For other provisions covering head tax, see also sec. 2, Act of February 8, 1917 (89 Stat. 875; 8 U. S. C. 1:32), p. 2, and Public Resolution 44, p. 79.
? Act of October 19, 1888 (25 Stat. 567 : 8 U. S. C. 140). Prior thereto, prorision for paying Informer was not in the Act of February 26, 1885 (23 Stat. 332). See also sec. 5, Act of February 5, 1917 (39 Stat. 879; 8 U.S. C. 139), p. 8, and the Act of June 28. 1940 (54 Stat. 578), p. 107, for other provisions covering rewards to informers.
REQUIRING STEAMSHIP OR TRANSPORTATION COMPANIES TO POST COPIES OF IMMIGRATION LAWS IN FOREIGN COUNTRIES
Act approved March 8, 1893
Sec. 8. That all steamship, or transportation companies, and other owners of vessels, regularly engaged in transporting alien immigrants to the United States, shall twice a year file a certificate with the Attorney General that they have furnished to be kept conspicuously exposed to view in the office of each of their agents in foreign countries authorized to sell emigrant tickets, a copy of the law of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and of all subsequent laws of this country relative to immigration, printed in large letters, in the language of the country where the copy of the law is to be exposed to view, and that they have instructed their agents to call the attention thereto of persons contemplating emigration before selling tickets to them; and in case of the failure for sixty days of any such company or any such owners to file such a certificate, or in case they file a false certificate, they shall pay a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars, to be recovered in the proper United States court, and said fine shall also be a lien upon any vessel of said company or owners found within the United States. (27 Stat. 570-571; 8 U.S. C. 172.)
CONTRACT LABOR LAWS APPLICABLE TO TERRITORY OF HAWAII
Act approved April 30, 1900
Sec. 10. That the Act approved February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-five, "to prohibit the importation and migration of foreigners and aliens under contract or agreement to perform labor in the United States, its Territories, and the District of Columbia," and the Acts amendatory thereof and supplemental thereto, be, and the same are hereby, extended to and made applicable to the Territory of Hawaii.(31 Stat. 143; 48 U. S. C. 504.)
REGULATING ADMISSION OF ALIENS UNDER CONTRACT IF ENGAGED IN INSTALLING OR CONDUCTING EXHIBITS
Act approved April 29, 1902
Sec. 3. That nothing in the provisions of this Act or any other Act shall be construed to prevent, hinder, or restrict any foreign
• See 8 C. F. R. 178, for interpretation of this act.
• For provisions probibiting importation of contract laborers generally see sec. 5, Act of Feb, 5, 1917, p. 8. For provisions relating to rewards to informers, see sec. 6. Act of Feb. 5, 1917, p.8, and Act of June 26, 1940, p. 107.
exhibitor, representative, or citizen of any foreign nation, or the holder, who is a citizen of any foreign nation, of any concession or privilege from any fair or exposition authorized by Act of Congress from bringing into the United States, under contract, such mechanics, artisans, agents, or other employees, natives of their respective foreign countries, as they or any of them may deem necessary for the purpose of making preparation for installing or conducting their exhibits or of preparing for installing or conducting any business authorized or permitted under or by virtue of or pertaining to any concession or privilege which may have been or may be granted by any said fair or exposition in connection with such exposition, under such rules and regulations as the Attorney General may prescribe, both as to the admission and return of such person or persons. (32 Stat. 177; 8 U. S. C. 136 (h).)
AUTHORIZING REFUND OF HEAD TAX
Act approved February 3, 1905 •
Provided, That the Commissioner General of Immigration, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor, shall have power to refund head tax heretofore and hereafter collected under section one of the Immigration Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that such collection was erroneously made. (33 Stat. 684; 8 U. S. C. 134.)
AUTHORIZING PAYMENT IN ADVANCE FOR SUBSCRIPTIONS FOR
That the annual subscriptions for publications for use in the Immigration and Naturalization Service at large may be paid in advance. (33 Stat. 1182.)
DEPORTATION OF CERTAIN ALIENS CONVICTED OF VIOLATION OF NARCOTIC DRUGS IMPORT AND EXPORT ACT
Act approved February 9, 1909, as amended Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That sections 1 and 2 of the Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the importation and the use of opium for other than medicinal purposes," approved February 9, 1909, as amended, are amended to read as follows:
"That when used in this Act
u(a) The term 'narcotic drug' means opium, coca leaves, cocaine, or any salt, derivative, or preparation of opium, coca leaves, or cocaine;
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Sweden, along with Norway and Denmark, shared the currency and pegged it to gold. Back then, 1 krona in Sweden and krone for Norway and Denmark was equivalent to 1/2480 of a kilogram of gold. The monetary union lasted until the beginning of the first World War. By August 1914, it was dissolved and the three countries adopted their own independent currencies but maintained the name krona or krone.
What is USDSEK?
USDSEK is the financial symbol referring to the spot exchange rate of the US dollar and the Swedish krona.
The Swedish krona is governed by the Sveriges Riksbank or simply known as the Riksbank. It is known as the world’s oldest central bank, founded in 1668, and the third oldest that has been in operation.
The central bank has the mandate to support economic growth while making sure that inflation does not surge. Following the 2008 financial crisis, the Riksbank was the very first central bank in the world to implement negative interest rates when they cut rates to -0.25%. The Swedish economy is heavily reliant on its exports which are primarily driven by hydropower, iron ore, and timber.
Therefore, data on the trade balance is particularly important in trying to forecast the USDSEK rate. The 2008 financial crisis dampened exports as well as consumption which would explain why the central bank adopted such an aggressive easing measure.
In 2011, the Swedish economy rebounded from the recession. The central bank is widely credited for the turn-around in the economy and its credibility is widely regarded by market participants. With that said, jawboning from Swedish central bankers tend to cause volatility on the Swedish krona and should be considered in your analysis when trading USDSEK.
The Swedish policymakers are also the first ones to adopt a digital currency. They created the e-krona as people found lesser use for physical cash.
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How to decide which languages to localize?
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What is the secret of success?
How do you make right decisions?
How do you gain experience?
A.P.J. Abdul Kalam (former President of India)
More and more decisions can be made on data and facts let alone your language decisions. You can know a lot about the visitors of your website, web store or company profile in social media and the information can help you making right localization decisions. The following information can help you finding out which languages are important to your business:
You can find out where the visitors come from. Then you can analyze their needs and locations to map the languages appeared most.
To target your online marketing to the right audience is highly recommended. And it’s also a relatively cheap way to do market researches. By studying the search terms, you will get to know the demand in certain Language Translation Services, if the language is not in your current language selection, congratulations; you have found a new market to localize.
If you repeatedly get emails in the same language, that probably means people want to use language with your product, then you can choose that language to localize your project.
By collecting the contact information of customers, you can tell their locations. And compare the customer map to the visitor map you will see if there are huge demands in some countries.
Check out customer feedback to see if they need your product in some languages or the usability is hindered by language barrier.
By comparing the information above, you can make a more accurate decision on which languages to localize. Though it may not suitable for everyone, but I’m sure you can get something from researches, it’s no harm to know yourself as well as the customers.
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Vincent Lamont Carter, Jr. was born on January 26, 1977, in Daytona Beach, Florida. He was the first of two boys born to Michelle and Vince Carter, Sr. Michelle, was a teacher. Vince’s stepfather, Harry Robinson, was a teacher, too. Vince’s natural father, Vince Sr., left the family when Vince was in second grade, and they had little contact thereafter. When Vince thinks “Dad,” he thinks Harry.
Vince picked up his
first basketball at the age of two. He was obsessed with the game, and
idolized Julius Erving. He marveled at the Doctor’s ability to lift
off and hang in the air a half-beat longer than anyone else on the court.
He copied Dr. J’s moves when he practiced on the playground, imaging
himself soaring to the hoop with perfect body control. His moves were
so wild that his friends nicknamed him UFO.
Vince’s parents encouraged him to find different outlets for his creativity. Harry was a bandleader, and introduced Vince to the saxophone, trumpet and drums. Vince enjoyed drums the best—probably because he had a lot of energy, and liked to be in charge. Keeping the beat for the marching band did the trick.
The countless hours spent on the basketball court began to pay off when Vince was 11. That was the year he first ticked the rim with his finger. He stood just over five feet tall. A year later he threw down his first dunk.
Vince competed in pickup games with older boys, and dunking was a big part of the playground culture in Daytona Beach. The crowds that gathered to watch him play, however, recognized that Vince was about much more than dunking. He saw the court, set up his teammates, and played smart D. His uncle, Oliver Lee, had a lot to do with his development as an all-around player. A star for Marquette, Lee was drafted by the Chicago Bulls in 1981, but failed to make the club. He returned to Daytona Beach, where his legend grew on the city blacktops.
Vince’s parents supported his basketball, and held up his uncle as an example of how you could trade your hoops skills for an education. The more serious you were about school, they said, the better college you get into. Vince took this lesson to heart and hit the books all the way through high school.
Vince attended Daytona Beach’s Mainland High School and was the star of the freshman hoops team in 1991-92. He was double-teamed constantly, which frustrated him to no end. Once, on a drive to the basket, he left his feet earlier than he planned and rose to the rim. Vince was prepared to toss up a floater or flick in a finger roll, but to his amazement he kept going as the defenders descended and pulled off an amazing dunk. The other nine players on the court stood in slack-jawed awe. The referees had to remind everyone that there was a game going on.
Vince sensed that he might have a real gift with his leaping ability and worked hard to develop it. He also practiced dribbling, passing and shooting with both hands. The following year he made the Mainland varsity. He was six feet tall and still growing, but played well above the rim. Vince averaged 20 points a game as a sophomore.
Heading into Vince's
junior campaign, coach Charlie Brinkerhoff moved the teen star from guard
to forward, where he could use his height (he was approaching 6-6) to
post up opponents and grab rebounds. He finished the year averaging 25
points and 11 boards for the Buccaneers, who went 30-2.
Vince had a busy senior year. He maintained a solid 3.0 average, led the Mainland marching band and wrote its halftime music. He was also the most heavily recruited hoopster in Florida. After leading the Buccaneers into some of the country’s most prestigious high school tourneys—and being named Florida’s “Mr. Basketball”—he confounded the experts who predicted he would attend Florida or Florida State and chose North Carolina.
Vince took some heat for leaving the state. Some questioned why he would pass up a chance to be a marquee player at home and go to a school where his skills would not be showcased. Dean Smith ran a system that did not encourage the kind of showmanship Vince was capable of. Michael Jordan had played for Smith and, although he was named College Player of the Year, no one knew how great he was until he reached the NBA.
ON THE RISE
Vince had no idea what kind of reception he would receive at Chapel Hill. So many great players had performed for the Tar Heels, he just hoped he could get a chance to start. When he arrived on campus, he was front-page news. "Vinsanity" had come to Carolina, and he had no idea how to deal with it.
Then it spread. Just a couple of weeks into the semester, Vin was watching MTV and saw a bunch of kids wearing light blue UNC #15 jerseys. He hadn’t even gotten his uniform yet!
Vince was joining a team that had lost its two brightest stars from the previous season. Jerry Stackhouse and Rasheed Wallace, a pair of monstrously talented sophomores who had led the Heels to the Final Four, had entered the NBA draft. Vince and two other highly touted freshman—Antawn Jamison and Ademola Okulaja—would be counted upon to blend quickly with holdovers Serge Zwikker, Jeff McInnis and Dante Calabria to extend coach Smith’s streak of 20-win seasons to 26.
Vince got off to a fast start and was brimming with confidence as Carolina entered the grinding part of their ACC schedule. Enemy defenses had watched film of him dunking on lesser opponents and suckered him into penetrating into the lane when there was no lane to drive. With his offense stymied, he failed to hustle on defense, and suddenly Vince was looking like an out-of-sync freshman. Smith benched him, and he watched as Okulaja finished the year strong and Jamison won ACC Rookie of the Year honors.
The Tar Heels did
poorly in the postseason, losing in the first round of the ACC Tournament,
then falling to Texas Tech in the regionals of the NCAA’s.
Smith was delighted with Vince’s play. He also felt freshman Ed Cota was ready to be the team’s starting point guard. Vince agreed to move to forward so that Shammond Williams, who had been holding down the point, could play two guard. The teenager had a blast rediscovering his old high school post moves.
The Tar Heels peaked at just the right time, sweeping to victory in the ACC Tournament, and marching all the way to the Final Four. Vince was amazing in wins over Cal and Louisville. The young Carolina team was a victory away from a shot at the national championship when they ran into the even younger Arizona Wildcats. Their two freshman guards, Miles Simon and Mike Bibby, stole the show in a tense 66-58 victory. Vince was brilliant, scoring more than a third of his team’s points, but it wasn’t enough.
As he had the year before, Vince hung around campus during the summer months. One of the players he met in his pickup games was a high school star named Tracy McGrady. Rumor had it that T-Mac, a junior, would enter the NBA draft if he had a big senior year.
At a family reunion later that summer, McGrady was stopped by a distant cousin who asked if he knew her grandson, who played ball, too. When he learned that grandson was Vince, he couldn’t believe it. The two young stars were actually related.
The 1997-98 college season was likely to be Vince’s last at UNC. He felt he would be ready for the NBA the following fall, and wanted to go out on top. The Tar Heels were among the nation’s top-ranked teams, with a young, experienced nucleus and a new center, Brendan Haywood, in uniform.
The excitement of
the impending season was tempered by the announcement that Smith was retiring.
The players did not know it, but the coaching legend was facing a battle
with cancer. Assistant Bill Guthridge took the reins and let the players
do their thing. Vince and Jamison formed a world-class forward tandem,
playing great defense and hitting shots from all over the court. It was
usually Vince’s job to guard an opponent’s best player, regardless
of whether he was a guard or forward.
UNC finished the regular season with just one loss. The Heels rolled to their second straight championship in the ACC Tournament, and were awarded a number-one seed in the NCAA Tournament.
Carolina blew out Navy in the first round, but needed big games from Vince in nail-biting wins over UNC-Charlotte and Michigan State. Vince flashed his defensive prowess in a win over UConn, shutting down Rip Hamilton and helping UNC reach the Final Four again.
The Tar Heels came out flat against Utah in the national semifinal and found themselves on the short end of a double-digit lead. Vince tried to spark a second-half comeback but the Utes hung tough for the upset.
The loss left a bad taste in Vince’s mouth. Suddenly he was rethinking his NBA plans. He wanted the national championship in the worst way, and was planning to stay for his senior year. But when Jamison declared for the draft, Vince had flashbacks to the triple-teams he faced in high school and suddenly a fourth year at Chapel Hill seemed less appealing.
It was difficult choice for Vince, who was a class or two away from fulfilling his major in Afro-American Studies, and who really enjoyed campus life. He went to Guthridge, Smith and his parents for advice, half hoping they would tell him to stay in school. All were in agreement—it was time to go pro.
A pair of big men, Michael Olowokandi and Raef LaFrentz, and point guard Mike Bibby figured to get snapped up with the first three picks in the 1998 NBA Draft. The Golden State Warriors owned the fourth pick, and were in the market for a high-scoring forward. It was a toss-up between Vince and Jamison, and in the end the Warriors selected Vince. The Toronto Raptors, picking next, felt Vince was the superior player. GM Greg Grunwald, knowing the Warriors were strapped for cash, picked Jamison and then packaged him with a half-million dollars in exchange for Vince. The Warriors took the deal, and Vince was a Raptor. He was happy to go to Toronto, where he would get to play with McGrady, whom the Raptors had drafted the previous spring.
MAKING HIS MARK
In many respects, the Raptors were the perfect team for Vince. He would join a couple of veteran bruisers on the frontline, Charles Oakley and Kevin Willis, and a pair of solid all-around guards in Doug Christie and Dee Brown. Butch Carter, brother of football star Cris Carter, was the team’s coach.
Vince had to wait
a while before he was in uniform, as a lockout postponed the start of
the season until January and cut the schedule from 82 to 50 games.
Since training camp was so short, school was in session all season long. Oakley often sat next to Vince during games and taught him how to recognize defenses. Willis would point out weaknesses in opposing players and how they tried to mask them. Christie pushed Vince hard in practice every day. And Brown was always giving Vince pointers on how to carry himself on and off the court.
Vince hit for 16 in his first NBA game, a win over the Boston Celtics. He was a consistent contributor thereafter, leading the Raptors to the first winning month in franchise history that March. In many of the club’s victories, Vince was the go-to guy down the stretch—a rare honor for a rookie with a team battling for a playoff spot. He was also making big-time blocks and pulling down clutch rebounds. NBA fans knew Vince from his highlight-reel dunks, which seemed to air every time the Raptors played.
Toronto just missed the final playoff slot, but Vince was recognized for his remarkable effort when he was named Rookie of the Year, garnering 113 of 118 votes. He averaged 18.3 points and 5.7 rebounds a game, while dishing out three assists. He was lost on defense sometimes, but usually made up for it with his quickness and jumping ability.
Toward the end of the year, Vince exhibited a little more dimension to his game, canning some classy pull-up jumpers and finding a bit more consistency from the perimeter. He finished strong, averaging more than 20 a game in April.
The 1999-2000 season was Vince’s coming-out party. The Raptors picked up experienced role players in Dell Curry and Antonio Davis, and fashioned a nifty 45-37 record riding their young star’s coattails. Vince was sensational, scoring 30 or more on several occasions and a high of 51 on his way to a 25.7 average. McGrady, meanwhile, was a handful in his third year, benefitting from the space created when Vince had the ball or when Curry, a three-point specialist, was lurking outside the arc.
Vince received nearly two million votes for the All-Star Game—the second-highest total in history—and put on a Jordan-like show in the Slam Dunk competition, including a through-the-legs alley-oop jam with McGrady as his spotter.
The Raptors faced the New York Knicks in the first round of the playoffs, and Vince’s inaugural postseason effort was a forgettable 3-of-20 shooting performance. He bounced back in Game Two, playing splendidly and keeping his team in a tough contest. The Knicks held a one-point lead with time running out. Vince took the ball to the hole, drew a double-team and then kicked the ball out to Brown for a wide-open shot. He missed the game-winner but Vince took the blame. A true superstar would have taken it all the way, many fans and reporters maintained. The Knicks sent the Raptors packing in Game Three, bottling up Vince with two defenders much of the contest.
The 2000 offseason
had its ups and downs for Vince. He was ordered to repay a huge bonus
he had received from Puma, after he decided not to wear the shoes the
company had paid him to endorse. Vince said they hurt his feet.
Next came the firing of Carter. The coach had not handled the media well in his first playoff, and the team felt he rode Vince a little too hard at times. Lenny Wilkens, a more serene sideline presence, was hired as his replacement.
The next piece of news was that cousin Tracy, who was just coming into his own as a pro, was traded to Orlando. McGrady had one year remaining on his contract and the Raptors believed they would not have been able to re-sign him. The emerging star had some choice words for Toronto management, and told reporters he was looking forward to kicking Vince’s butt. Vince was stunned by the quotes he read, but the two eventually worked it out.
Things improved during the summer when Vince was asked to replace Tom Gugliotta on the U.S. Olympic squad. He accompanied the Dream Team to Australia for the Summer Games, and struck up a friendship with Steve Smith. The veteran guard told Vince that he had to start concentrating on the little things that win games in the NBA, and forget about the showtime dunks.
Prior to the Olympics, Team USA played a warm-up game against France. In the most-replayed sequence of the year, Vince took the ball to the hole against 7-2 Frederic Weis. The French center moved to block him, but Vince kept rising off the floor. At one point his waist was chin-high to Weis, who cowered as Vince slammed the ball right over him. The Americans won the gold medal easily a few weeks later.
Without much of a break, Vince began the 2000-01 NBA season. The Raptors tried to assemble a complimentary team around him. New to the roster were workmanlike forward Corliss WIlliamson and veteran point guard Mark Jackson. Rookie Morris Peterson, a member of Michigan State’s NCAA champion squad, was also added to the frontline. Vince moved down to two guard, working with Jackson and Alvin Williams in the backcourt for much of the year.
Vince had reached
the point where NBA refs were giving him the benefit of foul calls when
he took the ball to the hole. This pleased Wilkens, who wanted to see
him get more points from the charity stripe. But NBA defenders soon decided
if they were going to get called for cheap fouls, then they would make
their fouls count. Vince was hammered to the floor again and again.
As a result, Vince played the year with a variety of aches and pains, and missed several games with a sore tendon in his left knee. The injuries made him a bit more timid, and he began shooting more from outside. This kept him on the floor longer, which in turn boosted his average over 27 points a game.
The Raptors were pleased with Vince’s progress, but unhappy with the lack of chemistry on the club, which was mired at .500 with almost half the season gone. In early January, a series of moves went into motion that changed the face of the team. Jackson, Williamson and Willis were shown the door, while point guard Chris Childs and rebounding demons Jerome Williams and Keon Clark came aboard. The Raptors won 29 of their final 46 games to snag second place in the Central Division.
In the playoffs, Vince and his teammates got their revenge on the Knicks, taking them out before a shocked crowd at Madison Square Garden. Next up were the Philadelphia 76ers, favorites to reach the NBA Finals. Vince and Allen Iverson hooked up in a thrilling display of basketball genius, as the seven-game series see-sawed back and forth. Vince dropped 50 points on Philly in a Game Three blowout, while Iverson racked up a pair of 50-point performances in the series.
The morning of Game Seven found Vince in cap and gown at his graduation in Chapel Hill. He had completed the requirements for his degree the previous summer and wanted badly to participate in the ceremony. He flew up to Philadelphia in time for the game, where he met with criticism regarding his priorities. When he missed the series-winning shot with two ticks left, he opened himself up to a summer’s worth of second-guessing.
The offseason began with speculation that Vince had his eye on a bigger NBA market, and planned to make the 2001-02 campaign his last in a Raptor uniform. He denied these claims, then backed it up by inking a six-year contract extension.
The new season featured the same cast of characters, with the notable addition of Hakeem Olajuwon, who was playing out the string in Toronto as a part-time center. Vince seemed more reluctant than usual to take the ball inside, preferring instead to launch long jump shots. This altered the flow of the offense dramatically, and Wilkens was unable to push his club much past .500.
When Vince injured his left leg, he had to beg out of the All-Star Game and ended up missing most of February. The Raptors floundered in his absence, then lost six straight upon his return. In March, Vince’s knee began bothering him again and he opted for arthroscopic surgery, figuring the Raptors were out of the playoff hunt anyway. The team, however, went 12-2 down the stretch and actually made the playoffs. Vince was not available to play and Toronto fell to the Detroit Pistons in the first round.
Suddenly people were
wondering if the Raptors might not be better off minus Vince.
This kind of talk stung Vince. He fumed all summer and vowed to slience his critics with a happy, healthy 2002-03 campaign. But three games into the new season, he hurt his left quad again and had to sit out.
Just as it was fashionable to call Vince the new Jordan a couple of years earlier, so it became de rigeuer to drop his name into trade rumors. Toronto sports columns had him headed all over the NBA, with Cleveland mentioned most often. The team denied there were any active trade talks, but they did not hide the fact they were worried about Vince being brittle.
Vince ended up being sidelined for more than half the season, which threw the Raptors into chaos. Antonio Daniels was also hurt most of the year, which sapped the team’s strength up front. Newcomers Lindsey Hunter and Lamond Murray were also felled by injury. The result was an embarrassing 24-58 record, third-worst in the league.
Even more embarrassing was the fiasco surrounding the All-Star Game. Vince was voted into the starting lineup on reputation despite having missed most of the games to that point. Everyone wanted Michael Jordan, picked for the team in his final NBA campaign, to start, and assumed Vince would give up his slot. He balked when first approached with the idea, drawing the ire of fans and sportswriters. Only after Vince saw the reaction did he take himself out and let Jordan start.
The bright side to an otherwise dismal year came that June, when the Raptors used their #4 pick to snag Chris Bosh, a 19-year-old pivotman who tore apart the ACC in one season with Georgia Tech. Bosh was the most notable addition to the 2003-04 Raptors, who fired Wilkens and hired former Piston assistant Kevin O’Neill.
Not to worry. With Vince healthy, the club was giving opponents all they could handle. This was a different Vince, a more mature Vince. Instead of killing himself looking for the play that lifted fans out of their seats, he was now saving his best for the fourth quarter, when time and time again he carried the Raptors home.
The rest of the time Vince was content to let his teammates make the highlight reels. He was much quicker passing out of the double team, and initiated plays he knew would result in someone else’s dunk, not his own. No longer caught up in his own hype, Vince wasn’t worried whether he was the next Jordan or not. And in doing so, he took a crucial step toward the kind of leadership the Toronto franchise so badly needed.
What were thought to be other important pieces of a championship puzzle came when the Raptors picked up Jalen Rose, Donyell Marshall and Lonny Baxter in a December deal with Bulls. Unfortunately, Vince’s problems resurrected when he re-injured his right quad in mid-January. He missed the next three games and the Raptors limped into the second half of the season.
For the fourth time in his career, Vince received more All-Star votes than anyone else in the league. But in mid-February he sprained his left ankle, causing him to miss more time as Toronto suffered through a nine-game losing streak. After Vince's ankle injury, the Raptors lost their grip on a playoff spot, and finished out the season winning only eight of their last 30. Injuries to Rose, Williams and Bosh also contributed to the team's demise.
Vince ended the campaign averaging 22.5 points in 73 games. More adept at driving the lane and pitching it out to an open teammate, he raised his passing numbers to 4.8 assists per game. At times, however, he tried to do too much. As a result, his turnovers also climbed.
As the 2004-05 season began, the Raptors let it be known that Vince could be pried away at the right price. The success of the superstar-less Pistons the previous spring had changed the team chemistry paradigm in the NBA, and Toronto was listening to offers for their star. The Raptors had some solid offensive players and talented youngsters, but still harbored reservations regarding Vince’s ability to lead them. Though more mature, he simply had too much history in Toronto. A change-of-scenery deal seemed to make sense for both sides.
A nagging Achilles strain limited Vince in the season’s first month, taking his scoring down below 20 points a game and eventually landing him on the injured list. Still, plenty of teams were interested.
The Nets had what the Raptors wanted—rebounders and draft picks. New Jersey also had a disgruntled leader in Jason Kidd, who was unhappy when Kenyon Martin was allowed to leave over the summer. After coming back from a bad knee, Kidd reenergized his teammates in December, but was unenthusiastic about playing for a club for which Richard Jefferson was the only consistent scoring option. Acquiring Vince would not only restore the three-pointed star system that had taken the Nets to a pair of NBA Finals, it would keep Kidd from seeking greener pastures. A deal was hammered out that sent Toronto three post players—Eric Williams, Aaron Williams and Alonzo Mourning—plus three non-lottery draft picks, for Vince. Both sides were pleased with what they received.
The Nets were especially happy when Vince regained his scoring touch and showed he could once again be a dominant player. In February alone, he posted three games of more than 40 points, and averaged 30 a night. Vince was just as good in March and April, as New Jersey launched a furious playoff run. Kidd was doing his thing running the offense, while youngster Nenad Krstic emerged as a strong rebounder and inside socrer. The Nets got a another boost when Richard Jefferson returned from a wrist injury.
New Jersey won eight of its final 10 to finish 42-40, and grab the eighth seed in the East. That earned the club a first-round matchup with Miami, a series amyn believed the Nets could take in a mild upset. Shaquille O'Neal , Dwyane Wade and the Heat bench had other things in mind, however. Miami rolled over New Jersey in an impressive four-game sweep. Vince was one of several Nets who slumped from the field. Though he was the team's leading playoff scorer, he shot poorly and often tried to do too much on his own.
Still, Vince has re-established himself as one of the NBA's true impact players. This may mean his time in New Jersey is limited. The Nets have long wanted a true big man, and Vince could end up being the trade bait that lands them what they need.
Wherever Vince winds up, with the spotlight on younger players like LeBron James and Carmelo Anthony, he is happy that he's no longer immersed in a rock star atmosphere. In New Jersey, he's in a system that pushes the basketball, but also stresses lunch-bucket defense, so life may get even less glamorous in the short run. That’s fine with Vince, who is all for more Sanity and less Vin in “Vin-Sanity.”
Vince can do just about anything he wants to on a basketball court. It’s what he doesn’t want to do that is keeping him from being a true superstar—and keeping the Raptors from becoming a legitimate champion contender. After two years of furious above-the-rim play, Vince backed out of the paint and began working on his perimeter game. This was a break for NBA defenders, who were content to let him fire away from long range, or pull up on his drives for fadeaway jumpers.
Vince has a nice game now, setting up his occasional drives by drawing defenders out with an improved jumper. As any serious fan can tell you, he’d be much better off the other way around. The looming threat of a drive will get him the same open jumpers, only from closer in. And the more he drives, the more he goes to the line, where his foul-shooting prowess will translate into important points. On a team that lacks a stud center, it is the only way to get opposing big men in foul trouble.
All the signs are there that Vince is ready to reach a new level. His passing has improved greatly, and he is much better about dribbling into traps. On defense, he is now above average—a testament to his commitment and experience.
If Vince can stay healthy, his newfound leadership will be on display in the playoffs each year.
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Being a successful regional executive for the St. Louis Fed is an impressive accomplishment and title in itself, but now Martha Perine Beard has another title to add, courtesy of the Memphis Business Journal: Super Woman. The newspaper recently announced its second class of "Super Women in Business," and Perine Beard is one of the honorees.
Recognizing "25 of the most accomplished and influential women in the Memphis area business community," the class includes executives from several companies and organizations. The newspaper described the honorees as not only successful professionals but also "community activists who spend personal time to make Memphis the best it can be" and congratulated them on being "great role models for younger female executives."
"It really is an honor to be included in this list with so many other accomplished women," said Perine Beard. "It's also recognition of the Fed's prominence in the Memphis business community."
For a full list of the 2013 honorees, visit http://www.bizjournals.com/memphis/news/2013/07/09/mbj-names-2013-super-women-in-business.html.
In a recent op-ed published in the Louisville Courier-Journal, the St. Louis Fed's Louisville Regional Executive Maria Hampton discussed the need for Kentucky and Indiana schools to place a greater emphasis on financial literacy.
"The local conversation about education has focused on the need for increasing enrollment in Kentucky colleges and universities and on making it easier for all to attend college and earn a degree," Hampton wrote. "While those objectives will be instrumental in the success of future generations, they don't address the issue that many of our children leave high school and college without the ability to manage their money."
"The St. Louis Fed has a staff of economic education specialists that are working closely with teachers across our seven-state district—including many here in the greater Louisville region—to provide professional development and lesson plans on financial and economic education," Hampton noted. "Local teachers serve on our educator advisory boards to help us identify personal-finance needs in their classrooms, to review and pilot our curriculum, and to organize professional development programs for local schools and school districts."
Hampton concluded, "We must do more to ensure that students leaving Kentucky high schools are prepared with the personal finance education necessary for financial success in whatever career path they pursue. Together we must teach our children the skills they need for their financial future."
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WXYZ: Mammograms & self checks for breast cancer are a must even amid pandemicOct 15, 2020
Like most healthy 23-year-olds, Sydney Rozycki didn't think much about health or life insurance. She figured she had plenty of time to worry about those things; and then she received news that changed her life forever.
“August of 2019 I was diagnosed with an aggressive form of breast cancer. Specifically Triple Negative Ductal Carcinoma," she told 7 Action News.
At just 23, Sydney was in stage 3 of the fight of her life. Within a few weeks, she was starting chemo and still trying to cope with news she never expected. And if it wasn't for a self breast check, she may not have caught it soon enough.
“I came across something that didn’t feel normal," she said.
Self-checks, said Dr. Kimberly Hart with Detroit Medical Center, are often overlooked despite making a huge difference in successfully beating this disease.
“Every week I have patients come in who have found the lump themselves," Dr. Hart said.
During the pandemic, doctors like Hart noticed something alarming; fewer people coming in for breast-related visits.
Nationally, breast cancer diagnoses were down 52 percent in August according to the National Institutes of Health and the Journal of American Medical Association.
Breast imaging also down since the pandemic, 62 percent.
“There is that difficulty to overcome the patients fear of coming into a hospital setting," said Dr. Hart. "This is actually one of the safer settings for you to be in. Because everyone that comes in our door is screened. Much safer than going to a family gathering, shower etc.”
Dr. Hart said women starting at 40 should get annual mammograms; and the fear of radiation associated with them she said, shouldn't stop you from getting one.
“Mammography compared to some of our other modalities like CT and pet scans are relatively low radiation. The benefits of finding an early cancer way outweigh the potential risk of getting a second malignancy from medical radiation," she said. "We encourage people to not use alternative methods such as thermography in place of mammography."
Sydney, now 24, is in remission after 16 rounds of chemo and a bilateral mastectomy.
On top of a great support system from her medical team at Beaumont Royal Oak, Sydney said her recovery wouldn't have been possible without the support of her family and her boyfriend of six years, Tyler.
She's now an advocate for self checks and seeking help sooner rather than later.
“This is something that could happen to anybody at any time. And it’s important to be aware of your body what feels normal," she said.
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Rookie of the Year Award
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The Rookie of the Year Award, often abbreviated to RoY, is given to the best rookie (first-year player) in a league. The Major League Baseball award is given to the most outstanding rookie both the American League and the National League. Most leagues have an award of this type; a common variant in single division leagues is to have separate awards for position players and pitchers.
The first MLB award was chosen by the Chicago, IL chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America from 1940 to 1946; that award is considered unofficial. In 1947, the chapter invited all members of the BBWAA to vote. Jackie Robinson won the first award.
Originally the award was known as the J. Louis Comiskey Memorial Award, after the Chicago White Sox owner of the 1930s. In 1987, in honor of the 40th year since Jackie Robinson broke the color line, it became known as the Jackie Robinson Award.
- Fewer than 130 at bats or
- Fewer than 50 innings pitched
- Fewer than 45 days on the active roster, excluding time on the disabled list, in military service, or time when the rosters are expanded (currently after September 1)
It was not until the late 1950s that who was a rookie was defined and the criteria has changed twice since. During the 1960s, players were not considered rookies if they had more than 75 at bats or 45 innings pitched in previous seasons or were on the active roster at any time from May 15th to September 1st. The current criteria were established in the 1970s.
Two BBWAA members who cover each MLB club vote for their respective league award. No voter may vote for more than three players. The votes and their placement are tallied for each player and a point system is used to determine the award winner. Each first place vote is worth five points, each second place vote is worth three points, and each third place vote is worth one point. The player with the highest point total is the Rookie of the Year.
In recent years, the award has come under fire as it has been given to Japanese players who, while having no major league experience, played for many years in Nippon Professional Baseball. Hideo Nomo, Kazuhiro Sasaki, and Ichiro Suzuki had all played at least five years in Japan before transferring to major league clubs and subsequently won the award. This has caused some writers to refuse to put Japanese players on their ballots and others to call for an age or playing experience restriction (much like the NHL). This was the case again when Jose Abreu, a veteran of Cuban and international baseball, won the award, although the fact that he was a unanimous winner meant that no writer had held his past experience against him.
On the other hand, the first winner of the award (Robinson) had played in the Negro Leagues as did the first five winners of the National League's award: Don Newcombe, Sam Jethroe, Willie Mays, Joe Black and Jim Gilliam.
- BOLD indicates unanimous selection
Chicago BBWAA Award (1940-1946)
|1940||Lou Boudreau||Cleveland Indians (AL)||SS|
|1941||Pete Reiser||Brooklyn Dodgers (NL)||OF|
|1942||Johnny Beazley||St. Louis Cardinals (NL)||P|
|1943||Billy Johnson||New York Yankees (AL)||3B|
|1944||Bill Voiselle||New York Giants (NL)||P|
|1945||Dave Ferriss||Boston Red Sox (AL)||P|
|1946||Eddie Waitkus||Chicago Cubs (NL)||1B|
Single Award (1947-1948)
|Jackie Robinson||Brooklyn Dodgers (NL)||1B|
|Alvin Dark||Boston Braves (NL)||SS|
League Awards (1949-present)
- Michael Guzman: "Adolis, Yermín could join select ROY club", mlb.com, June 6, 2021.
- Donald Honig: American League Rookies of the Year, Bantam Books, New York, NY, 1989. ISBN 0553280236
- Donald Honig: National League Rookies of the Year, Bantam Books, New York, NY, 1989. ISBN 0553279793
- Richard Justice: "Here is the best ROY at each position, all-time", mlb.com, April 3, 2020.
- Matt Kelly: "All-time Rookie of the Year rankings", mlb.com, November 12, 2018.
- Will Leitch and Mike Petriello: "Ranking every ROY from 2000s: Who's on top? Each Rookie of the Year from 2000-19, from 1-40", mlb.com, April 23, 2020.
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Hard by is a bronze statue of Diitrephes shot through by arrows....I was greatly surprised to see the statue of Diitrephes pierced with arrows, because the only Greeks whose custom it is to use that weapon are the Cretans. For the Opuntian Locrians, whom Homer represents as coming to Troy with bows and slings, we know were armed as heavy infantry by the time of the Persian wars. Neither indeed did the Malians continue the practice of the bow; in fact, I believe that they did not know it before the time of Philoctetes, and gave it up soon after. Pausanias
Philoctetes on Lemnos, 1788, Jean-Germain Drouais (1763 - 1788), (1.76 m x 2.25 m) Chartres, Musée des Beaux-Arts
He was one of the Argonauts, as well as the personal friend and arms-bearer of Heracles. He was present at the death of Heracles and, because he lit Heracles' funeral pyre (or Iolaus did) when no one else would, he received Heracles' bow and arrows. The arrows were dipped in the gall of the Hydra. He took a solemn vow to never reveal the location of Heracles's ashes.
He traveled to Sparta and became one of the suitors of Helen of Troy. She married Menelaus. All of the suitors took vows to protect Helen, and so, when she ran off with Paris, Menelaus called upon Philoctetes to sail to Troy.
There are two separate tales about what happened to strand Philoctetes on his journey to Troy. He received a wound on his foot that festered and had a terrible smell. Odysseus removed Philoctetes from the Greek camp and stranded him on Lemnos or Chryse.
One version holds that Philoctetes was bitten by a snake that Hera sent to molest him as punishment for his service to Heracles (bastard son of Zeus). Another tradition says that the Greeks forced Philoctetes to show them where Heracles's ashes were deposited. Philoctetes would not break his oath by speech, so he went to the spot and placed his foot upon the site. Immediately, he was injured in the foot that touched the soil over the ashes.
Philoctetes, whose story has been treated elsewhere, was a master- archer, perhaps inventor of some new type of bow, such as the bow with bent -back curvature at the tips for a secondary spring effect, which is a kind of bow that Homer mentions. But he is rejected by the army storming Troy, left on a desert island on the weak excuse that he had a badly infected foot which represented a curse, and only when the military realize that they need his weapon, is there any attempt to make a reconciliation with him William Harris, Man the Inventor of Tools
Regardless of the cause of the wound, Philoctetes was not able to join the rest of the Greeks and was angry at the treatment he received from Odysseus, who had advised the Atreidae to strand him. Medon took control of Philoctetes' men. He was there on Lemnos, alone, for ten years.
Drachme , Lamia Head, Philoctetes on Lemnos, Text Lamiaion (Thessaly), 302/386 BC
Machaon and Philoctetes, Etruscan Mirror
Later though Helenus, son of King Priam of Troy, was tortured until he revealed that one of the conditions of the Greeks winning the Trojan War was that they had the bow and arrows of Heracles. Odysseus and Neoptolemus retrieved Philoctetes from Lemnos. Philoctetes' wound was healed by Machaon or Podalirius. Philoctetes then killed many Trojan worthies, including Paris, son of Priam and husband of Helen.
After the war, he went to Italy and founded the town of Petilia in Calabria and establish the Brutti.
The legend of Philoctetes was, in part, the inspiration for Robert Silverberg's science fiction novel The Man in the Maze.
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SEATTLE, WA--(Marketwired - August 21, 2013) - Atossa Genetics Inc.
) and its subsidiary The National Reference Laboratory for Breast Health (NRLBH)
, will display their products and services at the Georgia Obstetrical and Gynecological Society 2013 Annual Meeting
, August 22-25, in Greensboro, Georgia, and at the inaugural National Women's Survivors Convention
, August 22-24, in Nashville, Tennessee.
The ForeCYTE Breast Health Test, provided by the NRLBH, detects reversible precancerous conditions in the breast up to eight years before they become cancer. The test uses a sample of nipple aspirate fluid collected with Atossa's hand-held, FDA Class II medical device which is quick, painless, and non-invasive and can be administered during an OB/GYN office visit. Unlike mammograms, which are commonly recommended for women starting at age 40 to 50, the ForeCYTE Breast Health Test is more age agnostic, uses no radiation and does not require invasive biopsy needles or surgical incisions. To view a video about Atossa's device, click here: https://vimeo.com/62365818.
"The ForeCYTE Breast Health Test serves as an early warning system for the detection of precancerous cellular abnormalities that heighten a woman's breast cancer risk," said Chris Destro, Vice President of Sales and Marketing. "This is particularly true for younger women for whom little is done today in terms of risk assessment or screening unless there is a specific reason for concern, such as a strong family history. We believe the ForeCYTE Breast Health Test empowers all women with vital information that they and their doctors can use to take charge of their breast health and make more informed treatment decisions."
Mr. Destro continued, "We are excited to work with outstanding organizations like the Women Survivors Alliance, which provide vital services to breast cancer victims. In times of trouble women need to come together, share information and feel the support of other women as they cope with their disease and their new normal. As we continue to roll out the ForeCYTE test nationally, we believe we will have a significant impact on the incidence of this dreaded disease so that in the future fewer women will be afflicted. We look forward to meeting with physicians, patients and other breast health stakeholders at these important conferences."
Atossa's specimen collection devices are available through physicians nationwide.
About Atossa Genetics, Inc.
Atossa Genetics, Inc. (NASDAQ: ATOS), The Breast Health Company™, based in Seattle, WA, is focused on preventing breast cancer through the commercialization of patented, FDA-designated Class II diagnostic medical devices and, through its wholly-owned subsidiary, the NRLBH, patented, laboratory developed tests (LDT) that can detect precursors to breast cancer up to eight years before mammography.
The NRLBH is a CLIA-certified high-complexity molecular diagnostic laboratory located in Seattle, Washington.
For additional information on Atossa, please visit www.atossagenetics.com. For additional information on the ForeCYTE test and the National Reference Laboratory for Breast Health, please visit www.nrlbh.com.
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Deck layout advice for working around AC unit
I'm about to attempt to build a deck in our backyard. There are a few things I'm trying to figure out. First, let me begin by explaining my situation.
Attached is a rough sketch of the back of the house. It's a semi, with the neighbour side not shown in the sketch. The elevated door is the kitchen door and I'm planning to make the deck at that level. The alley is concrete, with two concrete stairs leading to garden level where I currently have flagstones that I'm planning to relocate when building the deck. The gray box you see on the flagstones is the AC unit.
I'm planning to have the deck span the entire width (14') of the house and make it extend around 10' away from the house. I'm definitely not going to build my deck over the AC unit, so I'll probably end up making a notch to go around the AC unit. However, my concern is that I may not have enough working space around the AC unit to use an auger to dig holes for footings. I may need to do some tedious manual digging (lot's of roots in the soil!).
I don't know if I can get away with precast concrete piers. The deck is not that high (2' from garden level and 2 2/3' from alley) and the soil is fairly compacted, but I guess I need to check the local building code for that (East York, Toronto, Ontario).
I'm also wondering if I could use the concrete wall surrounding the alley as footing. It's solid concrete that probably won't move anywhere with the weight of the deck. But, I don't know if the code would allow that...
Any advice based on my situation will be appreciated.
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Google presents a far greater threat to the livelihood of individuals and the future of commercial institutions important to the community. One case emerged last week when a letter from Billy Bragg, Robin Gibb and other songwriters was published in the Times explaining that Google was playing very rough with those who appeared on its subsidiary, YouTube. When the Performing Rights Society demanded more money for music videos streamed from the website, Google reacted by refusing to pay the requested 0.22p per play and took down the videos of the artists concerned.
It does this with impunity because it is dominant worldwide and knows the songwriters have nowhere else to go. Google is the portal to a massive audience: you comply with its terms or feel the weight of its boot on your windpipe.
Its boot on your windpipe! Because of a commercial disagreement with another enormous industry over the acceptable size of royalty payments!
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Eating disorders (EDs) are “biopsychosocial” illnesses, meaning each individual case stems from complex interactions of biology, psychology and socialization. They vary widely and are defined by the National Institute of Mental Health as “severe disturbances in people’s eating behaviors and related thoughts and emotions.” Extreme low weight is by no means a requirement for an ED diagnosis. According to the National Association of Anorexia Nervosa and Associated Disorders, “Fewer than 6% of eating disorders are medically diagnosed as ‘underweight.’”
Despite the traditional belief that EDs affect mostly wealthy, Caucasian, heterosexual, young females, they actually affect people from all demographics and ethnicities. According to studies published by Mitchinson, Hay and Mond (2014) and Kilpatrick, Ohannessian and Bartholomew (1999), Asian, Black, Hispanic, Native American and Caucasian youth have reported attempting to lose weight at similar rates. Given the myths that surround EDs, death rates are often elevated in marginalized communities, often due to late diagnoses and poor access to care. EDs require specialized treatments, and early intervention is key. Treatment requires an in-depth understanding of the physiological, nutritional and psychological issues that contribute to, and result from, ED behaviors. Medical intervention is often necessary, as virtually every function of the body, from cardiovascular to neurological to bone, hair, teeth, skin and vision, can be affected. This is especially true for young, underweight patients who are still growing and developing.
Recovery or recovered?
Is full ED recovery possible? According to Dr. Patricia Price, a Rochester psychologist specializing in the treatment of EDs, the answer is a resounding “yes.” Price, who openly shares her own recovery with patients, families and others, suggests that to be “fully recovered,” the individual must be completely free from their ED and also accept their natural body shape and size. She uses the term “in recovery” to describe the time between a patient’s initial diagnosis and approximately 2-5 years after full symptom remission.
For Price, the recovery phase lasted from age 13 until her mid-20s. Price’s ED followed a common pattern, beginning with restrictive anorexia nervosa and gradually moving through various ED diagnoses, before all symptoms gradually resolved. Evidence suggests the psychological factors that maintain EDs are similar across diagnoses, and when these factors are disrupted, full recovery is possible (Fairburn, 2008). At age 28, Price changed careers from school teaching to attain her doctorate in psychology, in order to help others recover.
Prevention and “talking back”
Advocacy and education are important preventative measures against EDs. Parents can play a major role in both ED prevention and recovery. Parents should not be afraid to talk back to societal pressures that idealize thinness and diet culture. Also, Price adds, “Don’t be afraid to speak up, even when you might be speaking up to a respected professional.”
Despite a 2016 recommendation by the American Academy of Pediatrics that physicians avoid recommending any form of restriction, Price notes this directive is not always followed. While physicians never mean to do harm, many focus mainly on obesity prevention. When pressed, most admit to having little or no formal training in EDs. Other harmful messaging comes from television, social media and even well meaning friends and relatives.
It is important to remember that eating disorders are not anyone’s fault. Anywhere from 28-74% of risk for ED development is through genetic heritability, which means prevention is not always possible. It is equally imperative to remember that treatment options are available and there should be no stigma in seeking help, whether for yourself or a loved one. With acknowledgment and timely, skilled treatment, the road from “recovery” to “recovered” is possible. | <urn:uuid:53561751-53f6-4f01-8539-0873573eb755> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rwmagazine.com/eating-disorders/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.953448 | 813 | 3.59375 | 4 |
Human rights activist Munir Said Thalib was popular in Indonesia by his first name, Munir. Ten years ago (Sept. 7, 2004), he was assassinated by someone who is still not identified.
The U.S. Department of State issued a statement Saturday asking the Indonesian government to identify and catch Munir’s assassins.
“Still today, justice has not been served. Full accountability for all those allegedly involved remains elusive. In 2004, President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono recognized that the credible resolution of Munir’s murder case would be a key test of Indonesian democracy. That is still true today. We support all efforts to bring those who ordered Munir’s assassination to account,” said U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry in his statement.
[ Also Read: What Should be the U.S. Policy on Human Rights? ]
It’s said that human rights and anti-corruption activist Munir was poisoned on a flight from Jakarta to Amsterdam.
“Munir was a voice of conscience and clarity. He inspired a generation of activists, scholars, and public servants who today are transforming Indonesia. So many today, including his widow Suciwati, serve his memory by carrying on his mission.
Today we join with the Indonesian people to commemorate the legacy of Munir Said Thalib, and we call for the protection of all who work for peace, democracy, and human rights around the world,” said the statement from the U.S. Department of State.
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Apple RTC - 1:1 iPad Best Practice for school leaders
Thu 17 November 2016, 17:00 – 19:00 GMT
This is an opportunity for leaders/e-learning coordinators from any sector to learn about all
aspects of a successful 1:1 iPad programme, with time to reflect upon and develop their own
vision & implementation plan.
Delegates will have the chance to talk to key staff involved in a successful pilot and 1:1
implementation at the school, including senior staff, teachers and students. The day will cover:
• Planning a 1:1 deployment, key areas to
focus on for realising your vision
• The Apple ecosystem
• Staff engagement & essential CPD
• Measuring impact
• Sustainability & cost-savings
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By Dan Serra
RISMEDIA, August 10, 2010—(MCT)—Business as usual at banks is becoming a thing of the past now that the federal government has laid down new laws for lenders. That means how we manage our accounts is more important than ever.
The laws for credit cards—part of consumer protection legislation—are aimed at regulating the industry. Banks have estimated the changes in how they can charge customers will eliminate an estimated $390 million in credit card revenue.
Naturally, when a company can’t charge for one thing, it looks to charge for another to make up revenue. This is why it’s important to watch your account for changes.
What some customers already see include:
-Increased or new annual fees
-Increased interest rates
-Increased late-payment fees
-Shortened billing cycles to require faster payments (minimum is now 21 days)
-Added fees for not using the card or not charging a minimum amount
-Higher fees for using the card outside of the country
More could follow, so don’t neglect the notices in the mail from credit cards—you could be hit with a charge you didn’t realize was coming. If you are, call the credit card company immediately and dispute it. Many can be persuaded to waive the fee for first-time offenders. If you are hit with new fees, it may be time to shop around for a new credit card. Beware, however: If you anticipate applying for a large loan soon, new credit could count against you.
The fee contagion is spreading, not just through credit cards but also into checking accounts. The days of free checking are threatened as more banks are starting to charge monthly account fees, fees for paper statements, fees for using tellers, etc. The banks want to reduce their expense of operating checking accounts by getting customers to use ATMs and Internet banking.
Other interesting regulations added by consumer protection laws include:
-Consumers must now be provided, on request, their credit score if turned down for a loan or given a higher interest rate. Insurance companies and landlords must also provide the score if prices are higher because of lower credit scores.
-Prepayment penalties on adjustable mortgages are no longer allowed. Mortgage origination fees are now capped at 3%.
-The federal government and colleges and universities can limit what you charge on your credit cards. This means you may not be allowed to put tuition or tax payments on your card.
-It is now legal for stores to offer discounts to shoppers who pay with cash instead of charging a purchase. So if you have the cash, ask about a discount.
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English words and Examples of use
Sentences for "multiplicity"
"Multiplicity", from Buffy the Vampire Slayer magazine (Uk, May 2000), page 8-9.
Townsends work regards a multiplicity of terminology for the definition of poverty in that what is said as poverty be it broke, be it destituton or underprivlag
ed it counts and is poverty.
In addition, the individual contributions of artists known and unknown add to the multiplicity and complexity of this single project, which, finally, can be appreciate
d as a work of art in itself.
Between them, the collections span the world, offering a multiplicity of perspectives of twentieth-century history.
"On the multiplicity of cross/parallel distinctions".
What had protected Egypt so long was the multiplicity of Persia's enemies, the large number of wars that were continually being waged and the want of a bold, energetic, and warlike monarch.
The formation of various artistic assemblies led to the multiplicity of meaning in the visual arts.
klein and Wangyal, 2006, p. 48 There can be found within Dzogchen a sense of Reality as limitless wholeness, a multiplicity which is yet all of one 'taste', which is a borderless wholeness.
One benefit of the Structural paradigm is that test generation
can focus on testing a limite
d number of relatively simple circuit elements rather than having to deal with an exponentially exploding multiplicity of functional states and state transitions.
The name is derived from their multiplicity of mouths, through which they constantly ingest the stories conveyed by the waters.
Two sets differing only in one or both of the: Order in which their members are listed; Multiplicity of one or more members, :are in fact the same set.
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Explanation Text: Instant Noodles
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How instant noodles came about
Instant noodles were invented by Taiwan born inventor
Instant noodles were marketed on August 25 1958.
Then, 'Cup Noodles' were introduced in 1971, to which boiling water is added to cook the noodles.
Why are instant noodles popular
Instant noodles gain immense popularity which spread throughout the world.
Production of instant noodles
The main ingredients of instant noodles are flour, starch, water, salt, mixture of sodium phosphate as well as potassium carbonate.
Then the dough gets kneaded and will be put through two rotating rollers.
After that, it is made to desired thickness and then cut right away to ensure the noodles' springiness.
The noodles are then steamed for one to five minutes depending on the amount.
Next, noodles are dried by either the frying process or hot air drying process. This ensures a longer life span for consumption.
Lastly, the noodles are packaged with the packets of seasoning which give flavour to the noodles when consumed.
How have instant noodles evolved
A change in high calorie, salt laden fast food into healthier fare.
~ less salt
~better environmental standards
~ donating instant noodles to natural disaster victims
How to cook instant noodles
Health Concerns on instant Noodles
Instant noodles are often categorized as junk food.
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It’s not enough to merely reinvent your look each season. These days, you also have to reinvent the language used to describe the clothes you wear.
Fashion bloggers and ad copy writers have taken to this task with enthusiasm, coining “abbreves” and portmanteaus (the combining of two words to create a new one) for every trend they can get their ombre-manicured hands on.
And this is a problem. To put it in perspective: These words ugly up the English language the way Ed Hardy tattoo-art tees muck up fashion.
Some words stack hyperbole upon hyperbole; others cutesy up language to the point that a blog post written by a grown woman can read like a text from an illiterate tween.
Since many of these new fashion terms appear online, in tweets or in print ads, the words look better than they sound. Try saying “covetable” out loud without smirking.
“Words have always gone in and out of fashion,” says Allison Leopold, assistant professor at New York’s Fashion Institute of Technology. “Some slang is fleeting : ’23 skidoo,’ ‘the bee’s knees.’ Other terms become part of the lexicon, like ‘cool’ or ‘funky.’ ”
In recent times, some words (“skinnies,” “sunnies”) have already gone mainstream; others are unlikely to ever leave the corner of the Internet relegated to discussing the re-emergence of stacked heels and moto jackets.
Here’s our list of the worst offenders in the current fashion pack.
Noun: Platform shoes that are also flats, for those who crave a look that hints at the aesthetic of orthopedic shoes minus the matching cane.
Example: Before you judge a fashionista, walk a mile in her flatforms.
Adjective: Because “fierce” as a fashion descriptor was starting to seem too tame. Derives from ferocious, though you might not know this from the dorky spelling.
Example: Girl, those flatforms are a ferosh new look for you.
Noun: Sunglasses, because the word “sunglasses” really needed to be cuter, and “shades” sound like something Tom Cruise sported circa 1983.
Example: What’s more ferosh — these Prada flatforms or these Ralph Lauren sunnies?
Noun: Short for collaboration, particularly when a high-end designer deigns to work with a low-end retailer. The word is a forewarning of long lines outside H&M and, potentially, trampling deaths.
Example: These sunnies are care of the Phillip Lim collab at Target, which was so ferosh it sold out in, like, literally three minutes.
Noun: The front row of a fashion show. Add one letter and it becomes “frown,” which is what this word should make you do. Oh, come on, seriously, how hard is it to just say “front row”?
Example: I almost didn’t recognize Kim Kardashian in those ferosh flatforms and sunnies in the frow at the Givenchy show.
Adjective: Some might say “genius” is a word that should be reserved for the Gateses and Galileos of history. In fashion, the bar is considerably lower. You’ve come up with a new way to tie a scarf? Genius!
Example: From the frow, those ferosh flatforms were a genius look in the collab collection.
Noun: Christian Louboutin heels can be characterized by their red soles. Folks who say “Loubs” can be characterized by their braggy Instagrams.
Example: Wearing Loubs, sitting in the frow in my sunnies — just an average day for a fashion blogger. #ferosh #genius
Noun: No, not another word for models — it’s short for skinny jeans.
Example: Skinnies & Loubs, or should I wear the genius flatforms from the Man Repeller collab? Wanna impress people with my ferosh style when I’m sitting there in the frow!
Adjective: It might not be so dazzling in real life, but add a Valencia filter on Instagram and throw it on your “swoon-worthy looks” board, and you have found something Pinteresting.
Example: Your ferosh aubergine flatforms with emerald skinnies and wood sunnies from the genius Isabel Marant collab are soooo Pinteresting.
Adjective: A concise and cohesive closet or collection. Proper usage applies to high fashion (think Met exhibits) or, duh, Picassos. Your closetful of Ann Taylor ain’t “curated.”
Example: Every curated closet includes skinnies, sunnies, flatforms and Loubs — it’s what makes your wardrobe Pinteresting and helps you earn your place in the frow.
Adjective: If as many things in life were as “swoon-worthy” as fashion blogs claim, it would be considered a medical epidemic.
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This is because you can make new friends, and chat with other people. The only way i think its bad is because some kids put their address to people they dont know and could get hurt. Also kids will probaly become less social. I am a kid and use social media and i still socialize with real people. So this is why i think social media should be allowed for kids at least 9 or older.
I am not saying that a six year old should have a social networking profile, but that children around the age of ten and twelve should. I state this because really it is not up to the child whether or not they have a social networking profile, it is up to the parent and what they want for their child. Of course the internet is dangerous, but not all of it. There are plenty of good, healthy, and safe websites for children to use.
What will happen if you became friends with a stranger?They might hack your account and they might block you so it's better if you went on safes sites for your age.If you're 4,please don't go on msp!Instead go on Cbeebies.Always check with an aduld to see.That is why I think no.
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Children should not use social networking sites and I'm saying that and I'm a kid! Children could get hold of people they don't know and get hacked into or even get money taken from hold. I have seen my parents use this website and sometimes age innapropiate words pop up. I have stated my opinion now and hope you will agree.
Social networking sites are okay for people who know how to set safe limits and standards for who they will allow in their network. Children, however, do not yet have this ability. Allowing a child to participate as a member on this type of website is like letting the world into your home. It's a very dangerous thing to do, especially since children are young, impressionable, and eager to make friends.
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With the final Islamic State (IS) stronghold of Raqqa, Syria on the brink of falling, counterterrorism officials are still in the dark over how many, if any, Indonesian fighters have survived the caliphate’s collapse and are headed back to light a fire under a percolating terrorist movement at home.
In the most detailed breakdown yet, the Detachment 88 anti-terrorist unit noted recently that 97 of the 671 Indonesians who are documented to have gone to Syria and Iraq since 2014 have so far died in the conflict.
At least 70% of the total were women and children identified through deportations, including 17 non-combatants who escaped from Raqqa last June and were eventually handed over to Indonesian officials by Kurdish forces on the Syria-Iraq border.
“Our mission it to make sure that no foreign fighters who joined [IS] from a foreign country and came to Syria, they will die in Syria,” America’s top envoy to the anti-IS coalition, Brett McGurk, said recently. “If they are in Raqqa, they’re going to die in Raqqa.”
About 100 IS fighters have surrendered over the past few days, leaving an estimated 300-400 still holding out in the battered town, many of them foreigners who are likely to fight to the death rather than face justice for war crimes.
It is not clear how many Southeast Asians fall into that category, but Indonesian Abu Walid, Malaysian Rafi Udin and Filipino Mohammad Reza Kiram were all in a June 21, 2016 video where they were shown beheading three Syrian prisoners.
An associate of IS leader Bachrumsyah, Walid’s whereabouts are a mystery, but his fluency in Arabic and contacts in Saudi Arabia likely means he would try to head elsewhere in the Middle East or to the Philippines, where he also has had a long association.
Another Indonesian militant was killed not long after he was filmed in a late 2014 video taking part in the beheading of a long line of prisoners; the same video showed the execution of Peter Kassig, an American humanitarian worker.
Kurdish troops claim to have “completely” surrounded Raqqa in June, but in recent weeks hundreds of so-called IS defectors are reported to have slipped away and massed along the heavily-patrolled border with Turkey after paying up to US$2,000 each to escape the crumbling caliphate’s capital.
Some are thought to have evaded capture and entered Turkey. “It only takes five to return, you don’t need 100,” says Sidney Jones, director of the Institute for Policy Analysis of Conflict (IPAC), who admits there is no clear view of how many Indonesian fighters remain in Syria. “It depends on their ability to pay.”
Nothing has been heard of Bahrun Naim, 34, the reputed leader of IS Southeast Asia, since last December. There were rumors several months ago the former computer technician had been confined to an IS prison in Raqqa over an internal conflict, but they were never confirmed.
Jones believes Bachrumsyah, has a higher position in IS Central than Naim. Several statements were issued on his behalf in July and August, months after he was mistakenly reported to have died in a suicide attack in Syria. The car-bomber turned out to be an Uzbek fighter using the same nom de plume.
The main concern of anti-terrorist officials may not be survivors from Iraq and Syria, but the handful of militants who manage to escape from the western Mindanao town of Marawi, where Philippine government forces have finally got the upper hand in the nearly five-month siege.
According to Detachment 88, at least three dozen Indonesians joined the fight in Marawi, of which six are known to have been killed and six returned to Indonesia, along with an unknown number of other deportees who failed to link up with the IS holdouts.
Indonesia, Malaysia and the Philippines have recently initiated sea and air patrols in the Sulu Sea to intercept returning militants and to protect commercial shipping from seaborne Abu Sayyaf Group (ASG) gunmen operating out of the southern island of Basilan.
It is part of a 15-point Plan of Action aimed at preventing IS-linked groups from expanding their influence across the often-lawless Sulu Sea, which has been a conduit in the past for Indonesian militants seeking refuge in Mindanao.
Indonesian courts continue to deal harshly with terrorists. The East Jakarta District Court recently sentenced an IS sympathizer to life imprisonment for carrying out an attack on an East Kalimantan church last November, which killed a toddler and wounded three other children.
But the House of Representatives, preoccupied with trying to draw the teeth of the Anti-Corruption Commission (KPK), is dragging its feet over a long-delayed revision to the 2003 Anti-Terrorism Law to give enforcement agencies better tools to deal with homegrown militants.
Among other things, the revised law will allow authorities to target anyone who acts as a recruiter or who otherwise cooperates with a militant group, and to use electronic eavesdropping, intelligence reports and financial transactions as evidence in the trial of extremist suspects.
More controversially, the legislation also includes an extended, post-arrest 510-day detention period and a provision under which Indonesians who have joined a militant training camp or participated in terrorist acts in a foreign country will be stripped of their citizenship.
The government initiated the revision after IS-affiliated militants launched a bomb and gun attack in the heart of Jakarta in January 2016 that left eight people dead, including all four assailants, and 23 wounded.
Jakarta-based security firm Concord Consulting has documented 13 incidents of militant violence since then, most of them lone wolf attacks and not on the scale of the bombing campaign during the early 2000s that put Indonesia firmly on the global terrorism map.
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Courses of Instruction
Theatre (THTR)The terms indicated are expected but are not guaranteed. For the courses offered during any given term, consult the Schedule of Classes.
THTR 101 Introduction to Acting (4, FaSp) Study of genres, terminology, and disciplines of acting; fundamental techniques necessary for performance; scene study from contemporary plays.
THTR 110 Dramatic Analysis (2, Fa) Actors work on the text: analysis in rehearsal of scripts drawn from contemporary realism for dramatic characterization. Corequisite: THTR 115, THTR 120a, THTR 140a.
THTR 115 Movement I (2, Fa) Basic training for the actor’s body for expression and communication. Awareness and control through mind-body techniques. Corequisite: THTR 110, THTR 120a, THTR 140a.
THTR 120ab Acting I (2-2, Sp) Basic principles and techniques of acting through theatre games and improvisation. Introduction to contemporary texts, basic characterization and cold reading techniques. Open to B.F.A. majors only. Corequisite: a: THTR 110, THTR 115, THTR 140a; b: THTR 140b.
THTR 121abx Fundamentals of Acting (2-2, FaSp) a: The elements of the actor’s imaginative skills. b: Continuation of THTR 121a. Not available for credit to theatre majors.
THTR 122 Improvisation and Theatre Games (2, max 4, FaSp) Individual and group exercise to free the actor physically and emotionally and to stimulate creativity, imagination, and self-expression.
THTR 124abx Character Acting (2-2, FaSp) a: Concentration of imaginative processes which develop the individual characteristics of a dramatic role. b: Continuation of THTR 124a. Not available for credit to theatre majors.
THTR 125 Text Studies for Production (4, Fa) Focuses on the questions, artistic choices, methodologies, and approaches of an actor/director/designer in the preparation of a production score prior to rehearsal.
THTR 130 Introduction to Theatrical Production (2, max 4, FaSp) Introduction to the non-performance areas of theatrical production (administrative, design, and technical fields) through hands-on participation in USC productions.
THTR 132ab Art of Theatrical Design (2-2, FaSp) a: A guided student exploration of the fundamentals of applied design elements and their use as creative tools in the design process; b: Development of the artistic process and theatrical design vocabulary of the individual within the environment of collaborative storytelling.
THTR 140ab Voice I (2-2, Fa) Physiological mechanism of voice: breath control, phonation, resonance, articulation of language for the stage; expressive use of stress, intonation and rhythm. Corequisite: a: THTR 110, THTR 115, THTR 120a; b: THTR 120b.
THTR 152 Introduction to Scene Study (2, FaSp) Application and consolidation of the skills, knowledge and techniques acquired in the study of fundamentals of acting encountered in THTR 101. Prerequisite: THTR 101.
THTR 181ab Modern Dance (2-2, FaSpSm) a: Techniques of modern dance; elements of dance composition. b: Advanced techniques of modern dance; elements of choreography and production.
THTR 182ab Advanced Modern Dance (2-2, FaSpSm) a: A continuing study of modern dance skills toward an advanced level of competency. b: Advanced technique and composition.
THTR 183abcd Ballet (2-2-2-2, FaSpSm) a: Beginning techniques of classical ballet consisting of basic barre and center work; basic body and arm positions, port de bras, allegro and elementary adagio. b: Intermediate techniques of classical ballet with intermediate barre, adagio, allegro combinations and pirouettes; development of a working knowledge of ballet terminology. c: Advanced techniques of classical ballet; emphasis on clarity and precision with execution of movement. Study of beats, tours, advanced adagio and allegro, grand combinations, pointe-work. d: Elementary to intermediate level ballet technique en pointes for women and men; conditioning and barre exercises; variations from classical and modern ballets.
THTR 184abc Jazz Dance (2-2-2, FaSpSm) a: Beginning techniques and practice of jazz dance. b: Continuing study in the techniques of jazz dance. c: Advanced techniques of jazz dance: advanced warm up, rhythmic and isolation exercises, turns and advanced jazz sequences or combinations.
THTR 185 Hip-Hop Dance (2, max 4, FaSpSm) Elements of Hip-Hop dance, including technique, movement, musical rhythm, tempo and phrasing required to develop the skills needed to perform this unique dance form.
THTR 188ab International Style Ballroom Dance (2-2, FaSpSm) Representative ballroom dances: waltz, slow foxtrot, tango, and quickstep. a: Beginning. b: Intermediate. Graded CR/NC.
THTR 189ab Tap Dance (2-2, FaSpSm) a: Basic tap rhythms developed into elementary dances with progression of time steps and other combinations of sound. b: Continuing study of tap dancing including more complicated rhythmic patterns and combinations; polishing technique; combinations to varied music and introduction to advanced steps and combinations. Prerequisite: THTR 189a or departmental approval.
THTR 195 Theatre on Film (4, FaSp) Introduction to the theatre and its relationship to society through major plays in film versions. Separate screenings to be arranged.
THTR 201 Introduction to the Theatre (4, Sp) Gateway to the majors and minors in theatre. Introduction to and exploration of the creative elements of theatre art: playwriting, acting, directing, and design of scenery, lighting, and costume. Research on a selected area. (Duplicates credit in former THTR 100.)
THTR 210 Theory and Practice of World Theatre I (4, Fa) A multicultural and transnational examination of the history, theory and practice of theatre from its origins to the age of Shakespeare and Zeami. (Duplicates credit in former THTR 310.) Recommended preparation: THTR 125.
THTR 211 Theory and Practice of World Theatre II (4, Sp) A multicultural and transnational examination of the history, theory and practice of theatre from the Renaissance to the 19th Century. (Duplicates credit in former THTR 311.) Recommended preparation: THTR 125.
THTR 212 Theory and Practice of World Theatre III (4, Sp) A multicultural and transnational examination of the history, theory and practice of theatre from the late 19th century to the present date. Recommended preparation: THTR 125.
THTR 215ab Movement II (a: 2, Fa; b: 2, Sp) a: Training of the actor’s body with focus on development of precision and strength. Prerequisite: THTR 115; corequisite: THTR 220a, THTR 240a. b: Training of the actor’s body with focus on mask work for the development of precision, strength and expressiveness. Prerequisite: THTR 215a; corequisite: THTR 220b, THTR 240b.
THTR 216 Movement for Actors (2, FaSp) Training and practice in the coordination of the physical apparatus of the actor utilizing various movement techniques through improvisation.
THTR 220ab Intermediate Acting I (2-2, FaSp) Continuing development of imagination leading to an increased range of dramatic expression through the formalized text of William Shakespeare. Prerequisite: THTR 120b.
THTR 222 Stage Make-up (2, FaSp) Principles of stage make-up materials and skills allowing the actors to enhance their features and techniques for moderate and extreme aging, injuries, and character roles.
THTR 230 Communicating Theatrical Design Concepts (3, FaSp) The visualization and communication of design ideas through free-hand and mechanical drawing, including orthographics, isometrics, perspective, shades and shadows, plans, sections and elevations.
THTR 231ab Costume Construction (3-3, FaSp) Historical survey, theory and practice in construction of costume, emphasis on period and style. Recommended preparation: THTR 125, THTR 201.
THTR 232 Stage Lighting (3, FaSp) Theory and practice of theatrical lighting design including electricity, radiant energy, refraction, reflection, absorption, chromatic variation, and electronic controls. Prerequisite: THTR 131.
THTR 236 Stage Sound (2, FaSp) Basic audio engineering science, how sound is measured, basic transducers and signal flow. Operation of recording and playback equipment used in theatrical sound design/mixing.
THTR 240ab Voice II (2-2, FaSp) Development of the voice using material which explores the techniques of Shakespeare and his contemporaries. Prerequisite: THTR 140b; corequisite: a: THTR 215a, THTR 220a; b: THTR 215b, THTR 220b.
THTR 241 Methods and Materials (2, FaSp) Cutting-edge and traditional methods and materials that enhance both the planning stages and realization of the theatrical design.
THTR 252ab Intermediate Acting I (2-2, FaSp) a: Polishing the actor’s skills through analysis and class performance of scenes from plays. b: Continuation of THTR 252a.
THTR 280 Dance as an Art Form (4, FaSpSm) Gateway to the minor in dance. Concepts of art exemplified in dance; origins and evolution of classic and contemporary dance forms; elements of art criticism applied to dance productions. Required attendance at dance concerts and art exhibits.
THTR 282 Activities for Professional Preparation: Dance (1) Fundamental movements and composition in modern and aerobic dance; study of popular social dance forms; teaching and evaluation methodologies; course and class planning.
THTR 285 Elements of Dance Production (4) Theoretical aspects of creativity, choreography, accompaniment, dance notation, and production; application in individual and group composition. Lecture, 2 hours; performance laboratory, 6 hours.
THTR 295 Theatre in America (2, max 8, FaSp) Current state of American theatre, through a study of acting, playwriting, criticism, stage design, lighting, and dramatic styles.
THTR 300 Introduction to Modern Drama (4, Fa) An investigation of the ideas, forms, genres, and thematic concerns of modern drama. Equal emphasis is placed on the plays and their historical contexts. (Duplicates credit in former THTR 200.)
THTR 301 Greek and Roman Theatre (4, Fa) Examines the function of theatre, production and acting conventions, and the drama of classical Greece and Rome. (Duplicates credit in former THTR 213.) Recommended preparation: THTR 125, THTR 201.
THTR 302 Shakespeare in His World (4, Sp) The plays and theatre of Shakespeare, the influences on his work and his contemporary world. (Duplicates credit in former THTR 214.) Recommended preparation: THTR 201, THTR 210, THTR 211.
THTR 305ab Directing (4-4, FaSp) Examination of basic directorial principles. Pre-production analysis and rehearsal procedures; relationship of the director to actor; integration of technical aspects of production. Prerequisite: THTR 305a before b.
THTR 313 Comedy of Manners (4, Fa) Study of the development of Comedy of Manners, with primary focus on Restoration Comedy of Manners. Recommended preparation: THTR 201, THTR 210, THTR 211.
THTR 314 Advanced Topics in Modern Drama (4, Sp) 20th century realism and the avant-garde. Recommended preparation: THTR 201, THTR 210, THTR 211.
THTR 315ab Physical Theatre I (2-2, FaSp) Actor training anchored by rigorous physical movements. Activities include comedy, clowning, juggling, and mask work. Open to B.F.A. Acting majors only.
THTR 316 Advanced Movement for Actors (2, FaSp) Advanced physical training for the B.A. actor utilizing various movement techniques through improvisation. For B.A., Theatre (Acting) students only. Prerequisite: THTR 216.
THTR 320ab Intermediate Acting II (2-2, FaSp) Further development of range and breadth of performance skills with emphasis on texts of heightened language and style. Open to B.F.A. acting majors only. Prerequisite: THTR 220b; Corequisite: a: THTR 315a, THTR 340a; b: THTR 315b, THTR 340b.
THTR 330 Scene Design I (4, Fa) Historical styles, methods, and dramatic analysis for scene design as applied in contemporary practice. Recommended preparation: THTR 130ab.
THTR 331 Costume Design I (4, Sp) Historical styles, methods, and dramatic analysis in costume design as applied in contemporary practice. Execution of costume designs for assigned works. Recommended preparation: THTR 231.
THTR 332 Lighting Design I (4, FaSp) Historical styles, methods, and dramatic analysis in lighting design as applied in contemporary practice.
THTR 333 Stage Management I (3, Fa) Basic skills, including assembly of prompt book, blocking notation, and organizational and communication procedures applied in theatre production.
THTR 335 Scenic Construction (3, FaSp) Technology, organization, and operation of the theatrical scene shop centered around the proper and safe use of tools, the choosing of materials, and methods of construction. (Duplicates credit in former THTR 131.)
THTR 336 Introduction to Sound Design (3, FaSp) The art and techniques of theatrical sound design. The use of music and ambient sound in theatrical presentations. Design elements as metaphor.
THTR 340ab Intermediate Voice (2-2, FaSp) Extended development of vocal freedom and range, acquisition of articulate speech. Enhancement of vocal power and resonance, techniques for performing with a dialect. Open to B.F.A. Acting majors only. Concurrent enrollment: THTR 315ab, THTR 320ab.
THTR 341x Voice for the Non-Theatre Major (2, Fa) Designed for the non-theatre major focusing on the range, color, texture, and projection of the human voice in a variety of situations. Not available for credit to theatre majors.
THTR 342ab Basic Voice (2-2, FaSp) a: Examination of the individual voice centering on resonance, tone, flexibility, and support through dramatic selections for transmitting meaning and emotion of character. b: Continuation of THTR 342a.
THTR 343 Musical Theatre Audition (3, FaSpSm) Designed to give students confidence and integrity for auditions in musical theatre. Choosing appropriate material and preparation for the audition and performance. Audition required.
THTR 352ab Intermediate Acting II (2-2, FaSp) a: Building and sustaining character in drama. b: Continuation of world drama. Class performance and critique. Prerequisite: THTR 252b.
THTR 354 Acting Shakespeare (2, FaSp) Basic approach to the acting and analysis of the highly formalized texts of William Shakespeare. Prerequisite: THTR 101; recommended preparation: THTR 252b.
THTR 365 Playwriting I (4, FaSp) Essential elements of playwriting through weekly assignments, students’ initiative, occasional productions of scenes, and extensive classroom analysis.
THTR 366 Playwriting II (4, FaSp) Continuation of the work begun in THTR 365. Prerequisite: THTR 365.
THTR 380 Historical Approaches to Dance (4) Roles of dance in pre-technological societies; development of classic and romantic ballet from medieval, baroque, and renaissance periods to contemporary forms.
THTR 385 Choreography and Performance (4) Aesthetic concepts in dance and related arts; integration of concepts in choreography, performance, and production; philosophical bases of dance criticism; critical analysis of performances. Lecture, 3 hours; performance laboratory, 3 hours.
THTR 388 Senior Seminar in Dance (4) Synthesis of principles, philosophy, and history of dance, culminating in senior individual project.
THTR 390 Special Problems (1-4, FaSp) Supervised, individual studies. No more than one registration permitted. Enrollment by petition only.
THTR 395m Drama as Human Relations (4) A focus on American ethnic and multicultural diversity from the perspectives of gender, race, and myth as revealed in plays, film, and other performance media.
THTR 396 God, Drama and Entertainment (4, FaSp) An exploration of money, power, sex and love in relation to secular and spiritual values represented by contemporary theatre media.
THTR 397 Theatre Practicum (1-4, max 12, FaSpSm) Substantive participation in productions sponsored by the school and supervised by the faculty.
THTR 403 The Performing Arts (4, FaSp) An interdisciplinary inquiry into the aesthetics of the performing arts. Examines a dramatic classic and its adaptation into musical theatre, opera, ballet, and film. (Duplicates credit in the former THTR 303.)
THTR 404 Acting Theory (4, FaSp) Examination of the theoretical foundations of acting as an art form through the reading of primary historical texts.
THTR 405m Performing Identities (4, FaSp) This course explores the live performance medium as a creative means of social redress and personal expression. (Duplicates credit in the former THTR 393m.)
THTR 406 Theatre on the Edge (4, FaSp) An exploration of the art of theatre at the edge of possibilities.
THTR 407ab Drawing and Rendering for the Theatre (2-2, FaSp) Drawing and rendering techniques appropriate for theatre designers. a: Drawing and drawing theory. b: Drawing and rendering. (Duplicates credit in former FA 407ab.)
THTR 408ab Dialects (2-2, FaSpSm) a: The study of standard American stage dialect using the international phonetic alphabet. b: The study of accents and regional dialects. Prerequisite for b: THTR 408a.
THTR 415ab Physical Theatre II (2-2, FaSp) Advanced Physical Acting focusing on principles of verbal/non-verbal improvisation and communication. Elements of textual analysis, including development of character mask and of the ensemble. Open to B.F.A. Acting majors only. Prerequisite: THTR 315b.
THTR 417 Stage Combat (2, FaSp) Introduction to safe and effective portrayals of violence for the stage. Training and practice of unarmed stage combat skills. Recommended preparation: THTR 216.
THTR 420ab Advanced Acting (2-2, FaSp) Contemporary material from plays and screenplays with an emphasis on individual challenges and problems. Open to B.F.A. acting majors only. Prerequisite: THTR 320b; Corequisite: a: THTR 415a, THTR 440a; b: THTR 415b, THTR 440b.
THTR 421 Effective Oral Presentation (2, FaSp) Developing and practicing performance skills necessary to give an effective oral presentation.
THTR 430 Stage Management II (3, Sp) Application of stage management procedures required in the professional theatre. Prerequisite: THTR 333.
THTR 431 Seminar in Theatre Design (2, FaSp) Research into the application of contemporary topics relevant to theatrical design within the diverse cultural environment of the greater Los Angeles area.
THTR 432ab Scene Design II (3-3, FaSp) Continuation of THTR 330. Evolution of scene design through analysis of script, environmental factors, and styles. Prerequisite: THTR 330.
THTR 433ab Costume Design II (3-3, FaSp) Evolution of costume design through analysis of script, environmental factors, and styles. Prerequisite: THTR 331.
THTR 434ab Lighting Design II (3-3, FaSp) Continuation of THTR 332. Evolution of lighting design through analysis of script, environmental factors, and styles. Prerequisite: THTR 332.
THTR 435 Advanced Theatrical Drafting (3) Drafting style and complex graphic communication. Emphasis on creating professional plates, developing an individual style and graphic problem solving.
THTR 436 Sound for Theatre (3, Fa) Introduction to electronic sound and sound reinforcement, including basic equipment, recording, editing, and show operation.
THTR 437 Scene Painting (3, Sp) Techniques, materials, and equipment of the scenic artist, including both historic and modern methods. Recommended preparation: paint and drawing experience.
THTR 438 Technical Theatre (3, Sp) Theory and practice of technical theatre. Emphasis is on technical problem solving and graphic solutions to technical theatre. Prerequisite: THTR 230.
THTR 439 Stage Properties (3, Sp) Organization, management, and construction of properties for the theatre.
THTR 440ab Advanced Voice (2-2, FaSp) Continuation of exercises related to the individual student for the stage. Open to B.F.A. students only. Prerequisite: THTR 340ab.
THTR 441 Advanced Sound Design (3, Sp) Advanced exploration of theatrical sound design theory and related technology; creative uses of music, sound effects, and audio equipment in modern theatres. Prerequisite: THTR 436.
THTR 442 Voice-over Acting (2, FaSp) Acting techniques, recording studio technology and editing for the field of voice acting and voice-overs. Prerequisite: THTR 342a or THTR 408a.
THTR 444 Applied Voice: Speech and Text (3, Fa) Intensive study of speech and voice regarding text, context, environment, dynamics, range, and accent. Recommended preparation: THTR 342ab.
THTR 452ab Advanced Acting (4-4, FaSp) Intensive investigation and performance of audition techniques. Scene study skills developed, including cold readings, first readings, rehearsal procedure, performance process, camera/taping. Prerequisite: THTR 352b.
THTR 458 Visiting Artist Workshop (2, max 4, FaSp) A workshop course taught by the visiting artist holding the George Burns chair. Course topics will be determined by the instructor.
THTR 459 Songwriting for the Musical Theatre (2, FaSp) Structure, character and intention in songwriting for the musical theatre. Writing for the voice and examination of how form follows content. Portfolio submission required.
THTR 465 Playwriting III (4) Analysis of a full-length play or its equivalent with continued production opportunity. Prerequisite: THTR 366.
THTR 466 Playwriting IV (4) Continuation of the work begun in THTR 465. Prerequisite: THTR 465.
THTR 468 Theatre in Education (4, Sp) Exploration of the theory and practice of theatre arts in the learning environment. Design and implement projects to support elementary and secondary education. Recommended preparation: THTR 201, EDUC 200.
THTR 471 Senior Showcase (2) Designed to provide the graduating students with an opportunity to select, prepare and perform for agents, directors and producers in film, television and theatre. Audition required. Open to Theatre majors only.
THTR 472 Professional Preparation for Actors (2, FaSp) Introduction to the skills, knowledge, and promotional materials that will enable the student to manage an independent career in the performing arts. Open only to theatre majors at the senior level. Recommended preparation: THTR 101, THTR 252ab.
THTR 475 Acting on Camera: The Collaborative Process (4, max 8) Acting students will learn to develop on-camera acting skills and to collaborate with student directors and cinematographers from the School of Cinematic Arts. Recommended preparation: 300-level acting course.
THTR 476m African American Theatre, Dance, and Performance (4) A survey of African American theatre and cultural performance traditions as a reflection of both African American culture and American history.
THTR 477 Theatre and Therapy (4, Fa) Explores theatre as a healing art form. Techniques include games, improv, playback theatre, Boal’s and Moreno’s drama therapy, and Jungian dream theatre to name a few. Work with incarcerated youth, gay/lesbian/bi teens, elderly, disabled and other populations.
THTR 478ab Theatre for Youth (2-2) a: Theory and practice of youth theatre, including development and rehearsal of mainstage productions. Emphasis on multicultural and bilingual pieces. Enroll by audition or interview only. b: Continuation of a, bringing developed pieces into production for regional K-12.
THTR 479 Solo Performance (4, Fa) A writing-performance workshop in which students write, develop, and rehearse original, autobiographical and character monologues and perform them at the end of the semester.
THTR 480ab Performance for Camera (2-2, FaSpSm) a: Structured to address the dynamics of acting in relation to film/television. Refining the students’ understanding of the similarities/differences between acting on stage/film. (Duplicates credit in former THTR 480.) b: Continued exploration of acting for film/television. Furthering the student’s understanding of the similarities/differences between acting on stage/film.
THTR 481 From The Border to Broadway (4, Fa) An investigation of the role that Latina/o plays and performances have played in creating and documenting a contemporary American experience of the theatre.
THTR 482 Choreography for Television (4) Creative choreography of theatrical dance for television. Emphasis on rhythmic analysis, versatility, composition, notation techniques, and stylizing.
THTR 483 Dance Performance (2, max 8, Sm) Preparation, rehearsal, and performance of experimental choreography in main stage repertory.
THTR 484 Acting in Television Commercials (2, FaSm) An on-camera, workshop-style introduction to techniques, perspectives and theories unique to performing in television commercials. Recommended preparation: a 300‑level acting or voice class.
THTR 485 Advanced Solo Performance (4, Sp) An advanced writing and performance workshop. Students will write and rehearse an extended personal monologue to be presented at the end of the semester. Prerequisite: THTR 479.
THTR 486 Creating Characters (4) A writing workshop devoted to the creation of living, breathing characters, exploring a range of techniques designed to develop authenticity.
THTR 487 Promotion for the Performing Arts (4, Fa) Introduction and overview of all aspects of marketing the arts including both non-profit and commercial organizations.
THTR 488m Theatre in the Community (4, Fa) Research and actively develop the theory of theatre as a moving political, social, economic and spiritual force of change within the local community.
THTR 489 Theatre Internship (2-6, max 12, FaSpSm) Practical experience in the entertainment industry.
THTR 490x Directed Research (2-8, max 8, FaSpSm) Individual research and readings. Not available for graduate credit.
THTR 491 Theatre Organization and Administration (4, Fa) Budgets, contracts, box-office procedures, public relations; personnel and executive policies of the school, community, and professional theatre.
THTR 492 Producing Theatre (4, Sp) Analysis of all procedures involved in producing theatre (commercial or non-profit) including legal and business guidelines and contracts. Prerequisite: THTR 491.
THTR 493ab Periods and Styles (2-2, FaSp) A survey of the influence of historical and cultural events on the evaluation of theatrical styles. a: Classical to Jacobean. b: Restoration to 20th century.
THTR 494 Raising Money for the Arts (4, Sp) Overview of fundraising techniques for non-profit theatre including grantsmanship, board development, direct mail soliciting, and money raising activities and events.
THTR 495 Experimental Theatre Workshop I (4, max 8, FaSp) Guidance and direction in the production of new and experimental plays for a public audience.
THTR 496 Experimental Theatre Workshop II (4, max 8, FaSp) Continuation of THTR 495ab. Enrollment by audition only.
THTR 497 Advanced Theatre Practicum (2, max 4, FaSp) Intensive participation in a production sponsored by the school and supervised by the faculty, to increase and develop artistic growth. Prerequisite: THTR 397.
THTR 498 Production Analysis and Performance (4) Investigation and analysis of the work of a major dramatist and his milieu; production of one of his plays.
THTR 499 Special Topics (2-4, max 8, FaSp) Studies in selected areas of theatre art. Intensive practice in role and script interpretation and its psychological relationship to the audience.
THTR 501 Poetry and Prose into Drama (4, Sp) Plays for the stage shall be written using public-domain poetry and prose as inspiration and source material, complemented with exploring poetry, prose, and varied dramas as context for the student writer. Students should be well-versed in literature, and have written in one or more genres. Recommended preparation: reading poetry and novels.
THTR 504 The Art of Collaboration and Ensemble (2, FaSp) An investigation of the role that collaboration plays in making ensemble work. MFA Actors will collaborate with MFA Dramatic Writers in creating an ensemble company.
THTR 505 Staging Community-based Theatre (3, Sp) Explores the theory and practice of staging community-based popular theatre, including Theatre of the Oppressed, street theatre, witness theatre, agit-prop and festival theatre events.
THTR 510 Writing the Short Drama (2, FaSp) The art and craft of dramatic writing. In particular exploring its dimensions with regard to character and story development in the ten minute play.
THTR 512 Studies in Dramatic Analysis (2, FaSp) A skill-based workshop that uses a historical survey of theatre texts to develop critical reading skills along two different tracks: Acting and Dramatic Writing.
THTR 513 Seminar in History of the Theatre (4) Bibliography, historical evolution, patterns, and techniques of the theatre from primitive to modern times.
THTR 515abcdef Advanced Movement (2-2-2-2-2-2, FaSp) Advanced exercises in movement for the use of the body in relation to the stage. Corequisite for e: THTR 480, THTR 540e, THTR 555, THTR 575; corequisite for f: THTR 520e, THTR 540f, THTR 597.
THTR 520abcde Advanced Acting (4-4-2-4-2, FaSp) Advanced training in acting skills; emphasis upon individual needs. Corequisite for e: THTR 515f, THTR 540f, THTR 571, THTR 597.
THTR 521 Engaging Community Narratives (3, Fa) Provides training for actor/artists who partner with non-actors in community-based theatre projects.
THTR 525 Seminar in Contemporary Theatre (4, SpSm) Analysis of trends, problems, and the work of major figures in the contemporary theatre.
THTR 526 Seminar in Dramatic Literature (4) Study and analysis of world drama best representing changes in philosophies, aesthetics, and tastes of audiences.
THTR 528 Seminar in Dramatic Analysis (4, Fa) Drama as a living art; reading, analysis, and discussion of plays which best illustrate principles of effective playwriting.
THTR 529ab Textual Studies for Performance (a: 4, Fa; b: 4, Sp) Close textual reading of dramatic texts as a fundamental tool for rehearsal and performance.
THTR 530 Seminar in Dramatic Criticism (4) Dramatic criticism from the classical Greek period to the modern.
THTR 533 Seminar in the American Theatre (4, 2 years, SpSm) History and literature of the American theatre from its beginning to the present day.
THTR 535 Seminar in Aesthetics of the Theatre (4) Aesthetic theories which apply to the art of the theatre; emphasis upon acting and play direction.
THTR 540abcdef Advanced Voice Diction (2-2-2-2-2-2, FaSp) Advanced individual vocal development and application to a variety of professional and performance circumstances. Corequisite for e: THTR 515e, THTR 575, THTR 480, THTR 555; corequisite for f: THTR 515f, THTR 520e, THTR 571, THTR 597.
THTR 541 Diction and Dialects (2, Fa) Fundamentals of speech, diction, dialects and accents, including work in the International Phonetic Alphabet.
THTR 544 Embodied Poetics (2, Fa) Explores the relationship between vocal and physical expression and the spontaneity of human impulse within the community-based context.
THTR 545 Visiting Artists Master Seminar (4, Sp) A workshop taught by a master visiting artist, concentrating on his/her specific expertise in relation to dramatic writing. Course topics determined by the instructor. Recommended preparation: reading or viewing the work of the visiting master artist.
THTR 550ab Seminar in Scene Design (3-3, FaSp) Theory and practice of scene design; an intensive investigation into the relationship of a script to the visual statement.
THTR 552ab Seminar in Costume Design (3-3, FaSp) Theory and practice of costume design; intensive investigation into the relationship of a script to the visual statement.
THTR 553ab Seminar in Lighting Design (3-3, FaSp) Theory and practice of lighting design; intensive investigation into the relationship of a script to the visual statement.
THTR 554 Visual and Spatial Relationship (2, FaSp) The illustration and understanding of how space can be used to add emotional undertone, contextual information and strong staging ideas to a production.
THTR 555 Directing Fundamentals (2) To provide the basic foundations for the conceptualization and execution of works for the stage.
THTR 556ab Directing (2-2) A seminar/workshop in developing and testing directorial skills: text, design, acting, producing, and communication with an audience. Prerequisite: a: THTR 555; b: THTR 556a.
THTR 558ab Design for Directors (2-2) Basic elements of scenic, costume, props, lighting, sound, and make-up design, as they apply to the art of directing. Prerequisite: a: THTR 555; b: THTR 558a.
THTR 567ab Studies in Playwriting (4-4) a: Extensive examination of playwriting, dramaturgical development process, and readings of work toward the completion of professionally promising plays. b: Continued extensive examination of playwriting, dramaturgy, development, and readings of work toward the completion of professionally promising plays.
THTR 568 Popular Theatre for Education and Development (3, Sp) Theory and practice of Theatre in Education and Theatre for Development as resources for conscientization and liberation of communities at the margins of power.
THTR 571 Professional Seminar (2, Sp) Introduction to the world of the professional actor.
THTR 572 Global Dramatic Writing (4, FaSp) “Tour” of non-European and non-European American cultures with regard to their dramatic subject matter and traditions.
THTR 574 Dramatic Writing Across Media for the Playwright (4, FaSp) Intensive overview of career paths for playwrights in a wide array of media as they exist now, and as new opportunities arise.
THTR 575 Creative Production Projects (4) Advanced creative projects for production with emphasis on theatre as a synthesis of the performing arts.
THTR 577 Theatre and Therapy for Cultural Fieldwork (3, Sp) Explores the theory and practice of theatre and therapy in the cultural fieldwork and community development settings. Recommended preparation: THTR 587.
THTR 578 Theatre of the Oppressed Theory, Games, and Techniques (4, FaSpSm) Basic theoretical foundations of game playing for populations at the margins of power. Recommended preparation: THTR 521, THTR 544.
THTR 579 Writing Culture (3, FaSpSm) Borrows from anthropology, popular/community-based theatre, cultural studies, and literature to provide an array of methodologies and approaches to artistic collaboration across cultures and difference.
THTR 586ab Applied Theatre Arts: Los Angeles Residency (2-2, FaSp) a: Academic and group process context for students’ work in their chosen local internships to help students engage with communities as cultural fieldworkers. b: Supervisory, logistical, and theoretical container for THTR 589a. Engages students in their curricular experiences in the cultural field in partnership with their community-based organizations.
THTR 587 Liberation Arts and Community Engagement – Theory (4, Fa) Historical foundations of liberatory movements using expressive arts towards community-based goals of reciprocal and collaborative empowerment, civil rights, psychological or political freedom and justice.
THTR 588 Liberation Arts and Community Engagement – Praxis (3, Sp) Theory and practice of developing liberatory and Theatre of the Oppressed events, from first community contact to staged public event. Prerequisite: THTR 587.
THTR 590 Directed Research (1-12, FaSpSm) Research leading to the master’s degree. Maximum units which may be applied to the degree to be determined by the department. Graded CR/NC.
THTR 591 Seminar in Producing Theatre (4) A seminar in the theories and processes of producing theatre (commercial and non-profit).
THTR 592ab Participatory Action Research for Community-based Theatre (a: 2, FaSp; b: 2, Sm) a: Examination of theories and practices of Participatory Action Research (PAR) to better understand its various forms in community-based contexts using theatre as the research mode. b: Implements the theories and practices of THTR 592a towards the creation of a summative research paper on the local and international applied theatre arts experience.
THTR 593 M.F.A. Project (2, max 4, FaSpSm) Credit awarded upon completion of project. Graded CR/NC.
THTR 594abz Master’s Thesis (2-2-0, FaSpSm) Credit on acceptance of thesis. Graded CR/NC.
THTR 595ab Graduate Playwrights’ Workshop (4-4) a: Development of thesis plays utilizing faculty dramaturgical support and involvement of student actors/directors. Includes readings with/without audiences. Simulates professional development process. b: Continued development of thesis plays in a simulated professional development workshop process utilizing dramaturgy and involvement of student actors/directors. Culminates in staged readings.
THTR 597 Theatre Practicum (1-4, max 12, FaSpSm) Preparation, rehearsal, and performance of dramatic works in main stage repertory.
THTR 598 Applied Theatre Arts: International Externship (2) Supervisory, logistical and theoretical container for students exploring cultural fieldwork in international settings. Prerequisite: THTR 588.
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It’s tough running a small business. Not only is the competition stiff, but you also have to consider that you have limited resources to contend with. While tough, the one thing you should keep in mind at all times is that all corporations started small. This means that if they can rise from the depths of entrepreneurship, so can any other small business.
One of the most challenging parts of running a small business is knowing what you can do with marketing while on a limited budget. You don’t have to organize massive marketing campaigns or complex strategies as a small business.
All you really need is smart marketing and it’s the form of marketing that’s becoming more popular with business owners.
There’s no exact definition of what smart marketing is. To put it simply, it’s just any marketing practice that’s both cost-efficient and effective. It takes into consideration a small business’s lack of a large marketing budget and their limited internal and external resources. The key to proper smart business marketing is essentially knowing which practices yield the best results.
Smart marketing also means utilizing various tools and platforms at the disposal of smart businesses. These include specific business software, social media platforms, and even traditional forms of marketing. If small business owners do it right, smart marketing can earn them a ton of leads and engagement.
Here are a few smart marketing strategies that can help small business owners rise to their full potential.
Take Advantage Of SEO
The common misconception is that it’s enough to have a website for your business. Consider that there are already billions of websites in existence and countless more are created each day. At least thousands of those are going to be in competition with your business.
The best way to stand out with your website is by taking advantage of SEO or search engine optimization. It is basically the practice of using various tools and techniques to ensure that your web pages rank high on the results pages of Google and other search engines.
The higher your website ranks, the better it is for you. Put yourself in the shoes of a regular consumer. If you’re looking for the best plumbers in Ohio and the results come up, which website are YOU going to pick? The first link, the second link, or the third link?
The answer should be pretty obvious. Even today’s top websites actually benefit from SEO and you should too.
There are various ways you can increase your website’s SEO. It’s not just about keywords and tags. The current state of SEO demands great and informative content coming from your website. The better and more concise your content is, the better it is for your SEO.
You should also consider the SEO you’ll put in your images and videos. These can affect your website’s ranking. You should incorporate the right captions and alternative text so that Google’s algorithm treats your content better than most. Don’t get lazy with the little things!
Understandably, SEO can be a tough beast to tackle. It’s constantly changing and it can be hard to keep up with all of the algorithm updates. One way to better manage your SEO is by having the pros do the work for you.
Hiring SEO specialists is common practice given how complex SEO has become in the last couple of years. With the right specialists by your side, you can rise through the ranks of Google effectively and this, in turn, can increase your leads and engagements by a huge margin.
Let The Media Do The Marketing For You
Press releases are a great way to get the word out about your businesses’ next event or product launch. Simply put, press releases are brief announcements that you can send to media outlets which in turn, they’ll publish for you should they deem it good for their platform.
This is an effective means of smart marketing as you can take advantage of an outlet’s following to increase yours. Press releases like this are great at keeping people up to date about the latest happenings related to your business. However, do keep in mind that making an effective press release is not as easy as it sounds.
Media outlets are very discerning with regards to the stories they publish so it’s very likely that you’ll have to create a good press release if you want yours noticed. Here are a few tips to consider.
- One of the first things people will see in the press release is the headline. Make sure it is catchy but not too creative as press releases are serious and not creative pieces. There should be enough information to tell the readers what’s up without having to give them the entire details.
- When writing a press release, keep in mind that you aren’t writing for the audience, you are writing for media outlets. Make sure that the overall tone of the piece is serious and direct to the point.
- Keep the important details on top of the article and then let the supporting details flow below. It’s a pyramid structure of writing so the most important information stays up.
- If possible, try to send supporting media like videos and images to the press release. This will make it more enticing for the media outlets to publish your story as they have the right materials to go along with your article. It also helps future readers understand what the piece is about.
- If you have a particular media outlet you want your story published to, then it’s a must to write the press release in their style as well. It will increase the press release’s chances of getting published as the media outlet will see that there’s not much change to be added.
Press releases may be brief and short but they are in every way effective when it comes to getting the attention of potential customers. So long as you know what you are doing, you can do wonders with a well-written press release.
Take To Social Media
Nearly half of the world is on social media. If you aren’t taking advantage of this, you are missing out on big opportunities. With such a huge percentage of the world’s population now on social media, you should be more active with engaging with your audience on platforms like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram.
When it comes to social media marketing, it’s hard to go wrong. What’s hard though is becoming creative enough that more people actively engage with your accounts more than they do with others.
There are many ways to make waves on social media. If you are on Facebook, you can begin an aggressive marketing campaign by actively posting daily. You shouldn’t just focus on your business and your customers, you should focus more on the products and services that you offer as well.
A good example of this is if you’re running a restaurant that serves only vegan dishes, constantly post about the benefits of meatless products. Not only are you enticing more people to become your customers, but you are also making your business an authority in the industry.
Another way to do this is to rely on user-generated content. The best way to do this is to conduct regular contests that your customers can participate in. This could be in the form of them sending pictures of them using your products. As for the mechanics, the submission with the most likes gets a special gift.
The key to winning with social media marketing is to generate more engagement. It’s not just about the likes and shares that you get, people must see that people are actively engaging with your business account on social media. It may seem like a tiring thing to do but it’s going to work for you in the future.
Don’t be afraid to take new and unique steps when it comes to your approach to your customers on social media. If you remember, Wendy’s Twitter account is very popular for actively engaging in insult wars with other users and other accounts of restaurant chains.
Of course, each business should have its own unique identity. While you are starting up, start to see what your audience likes and check what works for you.
Quality Customer Service Means Quality Business
It’s wrong to focus all of your funds on improving your product or service. You should also improve your business’s customer service. Customers greatly appreciate businesses that are easily accessible and have great response times. This might seem tough to achieve but with the help of technology, it’s more than possible.
Consider investing in chatbots to help your business flourish through better customer service. This isn’t exactly a marketing technique but consider this – marketing is all about putting up a good name and reputation for your business. What better way to have that reputation than by having good customer service.
Another way you can help improve your reputation is by making yourself accessible through various platforms. Aside from social media and your website, make sure that your business can also be contacted through the telephone and email.
The more responsive you are, the better your reputation will be with your audience. In this day and age where people prefer instant responses, your accessibility will be greatly appreciated.
Use Unconventional Marketing Techniques
The problem with most business owners is that they think that only a few digital marketing techniques work. In reality, though, unconventional marketing practices such as PPC advertising and email marketing are still effective in helping you get more attention.
Don’t limit your small business to social media marketing, SEO, and other popular marketing practices. You’ll be surprised at how effective email marketing can be when it comes to generating leads and engagement. Don’t trust what others say, email is far from dying.
In fact, more and more people are using email due to work and other important focuses. The emergence of personalized and automated email has made it easier for marketers to put email marketing to good effect. Your business can still benefit greatly from it as well.
Pay-per-click advertising, on the other hand, is good at helping you take advantage of the popularity of other websites.
Basically, PPC advertising lets you put your links on relevant content on the website of others. If you are just starting up as would most small businesses do, it can be a smart move to ride the momentum of other websites first. Since PPC marketing is output-based, you’ll only have to spend money on leads generated from their content.
Focus On A Smaller Audience
The biggest hindrance that small business owners face is their limited resources. Be it budget or manpower, small businesses can’t keep up with the marketing efforts of larger firms no matter what. Big companies can reach out to a global audience but it’s impossible for smaller businesses to do that.
The best way to make your marketing efforts more effective is by simply thinking small. Smart marketing is and will always be about being more cost-efficient about your marketing efforts. What better way to do that than by making sure that your marketing funds are being used for the right people.
Since you are just starting up, it might be wise to focus your marketing on the local scene first. Try to attract people within your vicinity. Since they are nearby, you’ll have better chances of having them as customers as compared to those who are a bit further.
As you build your reputation with the local scene, you can then begin to grow your reach. Marketing should be taken slowly so there’s no need to go all out in the beginning.
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The Importance of Mental Health Programs in the Workplace
The phrase “workplace wellness” usually implies a program in place at an office to improve the physical health of employees: helping them lose weight, stop smoking, improve cholesterol and blood pressure levels and exercise more. But while all of those goals are important, that alone isn’t enough. It’s also necessary for employees to have access to mental health programs.
By ignoring the mental health of their employees, an employer can suffer serious financial setbacks. According to the Partnership for Workplace Mental Health, mental illness and substance use disorders are the fifth leading cause of short-term disability and the third leading cause of long-term disability.
Narrow it down to depression and you can see how one area of mental health can have a huge impact on the productivity in an office. In a given year, 9.5 percent of the adult population will suffer from some form of depression. And those who have depression miss an average of 4.8 days from work in a three-month period. That causes 200 million lost workdays a year, costing companies between $17 and $44 billion. And that’s just depression. Add in bipolar disorder, anxiety disorders and acute stress disorder and you can see just how important of an issue this is.
That’s why it’s so important for companies to make sure there are mental health programs in place for employees. First and foremost, make sure employees understand what mental health benefits are included in their health insurance plans. By adding it to the new-hire orientation, employees will instantly feel that mental health issues are treated the same way that physical health issues are and that there’s no stigma for seeking help for one.
It’s also important to make employees feel there’s a process for bringing up stress- or anxiety-causing issues at work and to encourage employees to use all vacation and personal days allocated to them. If employees feel that their bosses are on their side and will do whatever they can do reduce office-related stress and burnout, it goes a long way.
For other ways to make the office a healthier and happier place, check out these blogs:
- What Does a Healthy Workspace Look Like?
- Trend Alert: Workplace Wellness Incentives That Actually Work
- Five Ways to De-Stress at Work
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This is a short list of some common mathematical shapes and figures and the
formulas that describe them. Contents. [hide]. 1 Two-dimensional shapes ...
Shape, Formulas for Area (A) and Circumference (C). Triangle . A = bh = x base x
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Geometry Formulas. (Math | Geometry). Polygon Properties · Area Formulas ·
Volume Formulas · Surface Area Formulas · Circle Formulas · Perimeter
Some of the most useful formulas in geometry are presented.
Use these simple illustrated formulas to calculate volume and surface area of
A list of commonly used geometry formulas and equations with brief explanatory
notes for each one.
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radius, etc, to perimeter, area, surface area, or volume, etc. Some of the formulas
Geometry Formulas. Areas and Perimeters. Figure. Sketch. Area. Perimeter.
Square. A = s. 2. P = 4s. Rectangle. A = lw. P = 2l + 2w. Parallelogram. A = lh.
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A slick, in Army slang, is a cargo vehicle, whether it has wheels or a rotor. The name probably derives from the fact that most trucks and quite a few of the Army's helicopters are carrying stuff inside that gets in the way of passengers and cargo. Most units kept a couple of slicks around for the kind of thing suburban mothers use SUVs for: picking up food, carrying the kids to the bathhouse, and running various errands for which the unit's normal vehicles, whether they be intercept vans or jamming jeeps or tracks, would be utterly unsuitable.
The most common slick during my time in the 331st ASA Company and the 523rd ASA Company (1980-85) was the gasoline-fueled M880 Dodge 5/4 ton pickup truck, widely believed to be the bastard child of Congressional pork and Chrysler's dire need for money. As the 880s got older and the Army got tired of having to lug two kinds of fuel all over the place, these were replaced by M1008 Chevy diesels and mil-spec versions of the Blazer SUV. These slightly modified civilian vehicles worked fairly well in a training environment, especially in Western Europe, which had a zillion roads and not too much really rough country. Unfortunately, when the Army had to take these trucks to other parts of the world, they proved to be not well suited for extended off-road/no-road use and wound up being replaced by the HMMWVs they were supposed to complement.
"Slick" does not refer to the M151 jeep or to any truck bigger than a deuce, just as one does not have a "slick" Chinook.
The_Custodian has wisely suggested that I include the following:
In my part of Vietnam, they were just as often called Slicks as Hueys. The origin of the term may be two-fold. Before the AH-1 Cobra appeared in 1967, UH-1s had been fitted with side-mounted guns—improvised gunships. Those without guns were "slick-sided" or just Slicks. The Marine origin of the term may refer to the UH-1's ability to fly without the internal seat frame arrangement, just a "slick deck." Either way, the UH-1 made its mark. | <urn:uuid:c25b2ecd-3edc-4451-98d7-9052d52c088a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://everything2.com/title/slick | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.977478 | 513 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Medical knowledge, technology and rapid clinical advances in related scientific fields are expanding in an almost exponential manner. It is thus impossible for any individual or any medical specialty to absorb and implement these strides. Consequentially we physicians and other caregivers not only tend to specialize in medicine today, we are essentially ordained to subspecialize as a result of this knowledge explosion.
The current medical care environment then, requires revisiting traditional delivery models and such a re-assessment must begin at the foundation: family practice. With increasing demand, access to quality care and the need to make every penny count, the first question we must ask is, “What is the role and necessity of the family doctor in the age of 21st medical challenges?”
Understand that I ask this question as a former family practitioner in Canada. Unlike the United States, where family practitioners have experienced the continuous erosion of their patient care activities, in Canada they deliver babies, treat non-displaced fractures, set some displaced fractures, deliver well-baby care, well-women’s care, provide on-going treatment for chronic disease and many other things that here in the United States are, for myriad reasons, referred to a specialist.
While physicians have earned and enjoyed elevated status, our societal needs have encouraged enhanced training and certification in other non-physician provider disciplines such that an equivalency of sorts has been developed. A well-trained nurse practitioner or certified physician assistant working under the supervision of board certified internist can and does provide this type of equivalency.
In the current practice environment both see the same patients and perform similar clinical services. Yet, the cost of labor for the nurse practitioner is less than the family doctor and the time and price to train the former is less, therefore permitting more to enter the system at lower expenditures in less time.
Additionally, the current and future fiscal constraints placed on medical practice as a result of the Affordable Care Act, or ACA, and the increasing cost of providing care, as well as the flood of people coming into the healthcare system, will require the training of many more providers and physicians. Where will we spend our money how will we distribute our resources?
Training a nurse practitioner for four years costs $49,000/year following a BSN. The cost to train a family practice physician, requiring a three-year residency after an undergraduate degree and medical school averaged $96,000 per year for three years in 1999. This is not to suggest that the knowledge base or requirements of each discipline are the same, but the practical reality is the tasks required of each are very similar.
Thus, if we can train more nurse practitioners in less time and cost to perform similar services and tasks as today’s family practitioner and we re-allocate family practice training funds to train more internists, whose knowledge base replaces and exceeds that of the family practitioner, what then is left for the American family practitioner to treat that a well-trained nurse practitioner or a physician assistant can’t, or at least refer to a supervising internist? As the New York Times recently suggested in a lead editorial, much of the time and for many things, a doctor is not required.
Churchill said, “To improve is to change; to be perfect is to change often; in other words, we must continuously change to improve.” These changes in medical knowledge, healthcare delivery and technology have brought about the creative destruction of American family practice and times and circumstances dictate it will go the way of performing an appendectomy on the kitchen table, house calls and the hometown doctor of a Norman Rockwell illustration.
Mitchell Brooks is an orthopedic surgeon and the host of Health of the Nation on Talk Radio 570 KLIF in Dallas, Texas. He blogs at Health of the Nation.
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Welcome to the page of the Chemical Management Section (CMS)! Our section has the following mandates under Title II of RA 6969:
◘ Inventory of chemicals and chemical substances currently used in, manufactured in, and imported to the Philippines, and update the Philippine Inventory of Chemical and Chemical Substances (PICCS).
◘ Update the list of chemical substances that DENR-EMB determines to pose potentially unreasonable risk to public health, to work place, and to the environment, then register importers, users, and manufacturers of these chemicals through the Priority Chemical List (PCL).
◘ Evaluate the safety of notified new chemicals and chemical substances by requiring prior notification of new chemical substances to be manufactured in or imported to the Philippines; developed a Pre-Manufacture Pre-Importation Notification (PMPIN) process and procedure.
◘ Regulate, limit, gradually phase out, or ban those chemical substances that are determined to pose unreasonable risks to public health and environment through issuance of Chemical Control Order (CCO).
◘ Educate and inform the public on the hazards and unreasonable risks in the manufacture, handling, storage, transport, processing, distribution, use and disposal of toxic chemicals.
Chemical Management Section
Environmental Quality Managament Division
Environmental Management Bureau
Draft Policies for Public Comments
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Jiabin Shen, M.Ed., a doctoral student in the UAB Department of Psychology, won two awards that will further his work in understanding and preventing children’s injuries. Shen was granted the SOPHE/CDC Student Fellowship in Injury Prevention and the Lizette Peterson-Homer Memorial Injury Prevention Research Grant Award.
“This is my first year in graduate school at UAB and my first time to be in the United States, so I feel really excited to be awarded these two grants,” said Shen, who received his master’s from East China Normal University in Shanghai. “These honors offer me a great start to my research at UAB on cross-cultural unintentional injury prevention for children.”
Thousands of children in rural China suffer serious dog-bite injuries every year. Shen will examine the attitudes, beliefs and practices of Chinese farmers and their children around dogs. His goal is to develop an intervention program to train families and reduce the number of children that are injured.
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The interest for items through the Internet develops by 33.5% contrasted with the last part of March and areas, for example, design and innovation are recuperating.
During the principal fortnight of April there has been an expansion of 33.5% in the interest for items through the Internet, contrasted with the most recent fifteen days of March. In this sense, it is being seen that shopper conduct is going through varieties as the time of constrainment elapses.
Areas, for example, innovation or design are recuperating, on account of the last option to a great extent because of advancements to exchange stock; while areas, for example, drug store and food, which had expanded extensively during the primary days of this period, have directed their development, in spite of the fact that keeping up with information higher than past levels. Similarly, it is normal that inquiries and deals will keep on filling before long, taking as a kind of perspective what’s going on in the Italian market, with the vulnerability of how the advancement of the shopper will proceed.
During these long stretches of control because of the circumstance produced by the Covid-19, eCommerce has been the elective viewed by private companies as ready to proceed with part of their movement and keep in touch with their clients. This has implied the need to upgrade their internet based administrations, in any event, for certain foundations it has been a valuable chance to speed up the digitization of their business.
The current setting, as well as delivering an adjustment of the buying propensities for buyers, has likewise been a defining moment in a large number of the independent ventures with regards to reevaluating their systems. The advanced circle and, explicitly, eCommerce have turned into a supplement to the up close and personal deals channel with which organizations and customers should coincide.
Growth By Sectors
During the primary fortnight of April, there has been a sharp expansion in the child and youngsters’ clothing areas, expanding by 75%, and in the home and nursery area (61%). As far as concerns its, the interest for innovative items and domestic devices has additionally expanded significantly (43%), as in the drug area (40%), in the vehicle and bike area (37.6%), design (31%) ) and in games and instructive material (27%).
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Lincoln library opening hours. Tuesday on the citys response to COVID-19. Abraham Lincoln was born on February 12 1809 the second child of Thomas Lincoln and Nancy Hanks Lincoln in a log cabin on Sinking Spring Farm near Hodgenville Kentucky. For Chicago to thrive we need all of our residentsespecially our young peopleconnected to rich engaging and safe environments where they can be empowered to explore their passions and develop their talent said.
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Lincolns Inn is a thriving society of barristers situated on a large estate of historic buildings and contemporary facilities in central London. This website works best with modern browsers such as the latest versions of Chrome Firefox Safari and Edge. He was a descendant of Samuel Lincoln an Englishman who migrated from Hingham Norfolk to its namesake Hingham Massachusetts in 1638The family then migrated west passing through New Jersey Pennsylvania.
Monday through Saturday 9am 6pm. The Lincoln Highway is one of the earliest transcontinental highway routes for automobiles across the United States of America. Expanding Sunday hours is part of an ongoing effort by CPL and the Mayors Office to ensure library services are more equitable and accessible for all Chicagoans.
Lincoln Mayor Leirion Gaylor Baird and city officials will provide an update at 330 pm. SAU 16 does not discriminate on the basis of race color national origin gender sex sexual orientation religion nationality ethnic origins country of origin economic status status as a victim of domestic violence harassment sexual assault or stalking disability age or other protected classes under applicable law in its educational programs and activities. Since then it has become known as a research center and a setting for hands-on learning exhibitions and lectures and other public programs.
New York New Jersey. The Inn is a multifaceted organisation but is primarily dedicated to the qualification training and development of our members at. Lincolns Inn offers over 18 million each year through various scholarships awards and prizes.
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We are beginning a new series on the blog called the "Health Innovation Round Up" where we post 5 links every month to interesting innovations that we discovered in the health space. The purpose of this series is to inspire other entrepreneurs in the health industry or would like to enter the health industry to learn about the current innovative solutions that exist in the market today. Perhaps even help these new innovations find great partners through our blog posts. Please share these posts with your network and comment if you have any interesting innovative solutions not listed on our post and we would feature it on the next round-up post we do. Here is our first list: Symphony® CGM System
This is a needle-free glucose monitoring system for diabetic patients. Echo Therapeutics in Philadelphia has begun developing technologies that would replace the painful process of pricking your finger with using a patch instead. "Symphony is being designed to provide reliable, continuous blood glucose data in order to improve patient monitoring of blood glucose to allow for better overall clinical outcomes for patients in hospital critical care units and, subsequently, for people with diabetes."
For more information on how this needle-free device works, check out their website
Whatsapp for Ebola
"The BBC World Service is launching a WhatsApp service in West Africa to give users of the chat app more information about the Ebola virus. The service will deliver information on preventative care, health tips and breaking news bulletins specific to the region about the virus in French and English, and often in audio formats." This is a great initiative considering there is a high mobile penetration at the moment in West Africa. This is especially beneficial to help them reach people in remote area and provide the right information to them. Read More
Wutuband for the Elderly
This smart wristband was designed to help simplify the lives of elderly people in the society. The wristband takes multiple actions and simplifies them in an intuitive interface. "The elderly population is significantly growing and is a big potential market for smart products. Our reference device incorporates simple interaction design with digital services. It is minimally designed, friendly and interactive, offering a rich and rewarding user experience. The design is intuitive and has been developed with today’s active and independent elderly people in mind." Learn more about this interactive wristband on their website
3D printing has been gaining a lot of traction within the medical industry these days and Organovo is one of the companies tapping into this space with their bio printers that print internal body parts like organs and vessels.This 3D bio-printers have an intuitive software that enables engineers construct a model of the body tissues even before the printer begins producing the physical version of the vessel or organ. Read more about their technology here.
The Medisafe app and its cloud-synced database enables friends and family help a loved one who needs medical care. The app enables friends and families facilitate medication adherence remotely so their loved ones either young or elderly can stay on top of their meds as necessary. In one of our blog posts, we talked about how medical adherence was a huge costly problem, this app helps eradicate this problem. Read More about this great app
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Mass Readings for Christmas
The Christmas story touches our hearts and gets past our defenses. Why? Because babies evoke a loving response! God’s love story with humanity helps us see how the Lord – in taking on our human form – helps us to draw near through the gentleness of an infant. May the Christ child take us by the hand and lead us this Christmas to embrace our faith and give glory to God through the gift of our lives.
This painting held my attention at the Uffizi for several minutes, and I consider it one of the most beautiful I have ever seen. Enjoy!
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challenges and difficulties
Christopher Wallace doubts his own intelligence and mental capacities, and he may work very hard at studies in order to compensate for this. The Notorious B.I.G. is often overly serious and disinterested in light or superficial conversation. Spontaneous communication, social give-and-take, and making small talk are likely to be difficult for him.
He is very conscientious, responsible, and concerned with his duty, his public image and reputation, and becoming a person of stature in the world. Notorious B.I.G. understands the need for hard work and careful planning in order to accomplish anything substantial and he is capable of much self-discipline and patience once he sets his sights on a goal.
But Notorious B.I.G. is very judgmental and hard on himself if he fails to attain success, and he can become dry, bitter, or cynical if the world does not recognize his efforts.
His faith, optimism, and sense of possibilities are tempered by much caution, and often doubt or skepticism as well. Whatever hopes or visions Notorious B.I.G. has for his life are firmly held in check by his sense of reality. At times he may wish for more freedom, but The Notorious B.I.G. also fears it and hang back. Notorious B.I.G. may blame practical limitations or some external condition or the prevailing Authority for his own inhibitions.
The conflict between spiritual needs and ideals versus material desires or limitations of the "real world" is one of The Notorious B.I.G.'s ongoing challenges. It may be hard for Notorious B.I.G. to sort out his true values, especially when he is enmeshed in the demands of mundane life. Times of retreat, isolation, meditation and prayer could be helpful to Christopher Wallace in this regard. Finding inner strength through spirituality and attunement to a higher source is ultimately the answer for him.
His attitude toward life is quite serious and he is very thorough. The Notorious B.I.G. has the need to be by himself and think out everything very carefully before he takes action. Notorious B.I.G. may enjoy doing some type of creative art work shaped from hard or heavy materials.
Now we will discuss patterns of behavior which Notorious B.I.G. instinctively and habitually reverts to when under stress - a mostly subconscious process that he is apt to over indulge in because it is so familiar and hence easy for him. The direction Notorious B.I.G. needs to follow in order to develop balance, greater awareness, and wholeness is also described.
Notorious B.I.G. has a great capacity for sympathy, tenderness, and caring, which is a gift that he is apt to over bestow at times. For balance, Notorious B.I.G. needs to foster mature self-discipline, self-control, and personal responsibility.
When under stress, he has a strong instinct to retreat back to the nest, to be a child again, or to become overwhelmed with feelings and longings to be taken care of. Also, he may encourage others to depend on him emotionally (and otherwise) to an unhealthy degree. Notorious B.I.G. needs to learn how to set limits and to turn off the flow of support when necessary.
It is in his work and his relationships with co-workers, employers, and employees that he is most likely to wrestle with these issues. Integrating the qualities described above into Christopher Wallace's work and daily routine will lead to greater satisfaction, improved health, and personal growth.
Notorious B.I.G. has a tendency to shy away from other people, and he reacts toward others in an almost fearful way. Christopher Wallace seems to lack confidence in himself and for this reason may feel that he lacks the ability to adapt easily into relationships with others.
Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:
Saturn in Gemini
Saturn in 10th house
Jupiter Quincunx Saturn
Saturn Opposition Neptune
Saturn Conjunct Mercury/Venus
N. Node in Capricorn
N. Node in 6th house
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All You Need to Know About the AMS 5510 Standard
Integral to the manufacture of tools, appliances, and equipment necessary for modern life, the U.S. metal fabrication industry continues to grow by significant margins. The U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics estimates that the industry will record a CARG of 9% between 2016 and 2026, adding at least 12,000 jobs to the workforce. The increasing demand for combined metals in the automotive, aerospace, and manufacturing industries will continue to drive up the growth of metal fabrication.
A critical aspect of thin metal sheet use is the industrial standards. Specifications such as the AMS 5510 provide a guideline of the technical, chemical, and physical properties of the different metal sheets. The standards also dictate the use of the specific metal in certain industries.
The AMS 5510
The AMS 5510 is a stainless-steel specification for the 321 stainless grades. Type 321 is a chromium-nickel stainless steel grade with an addition of titanium. The titanium sets it apart from the 304 stainless steel series and increases its industrial applications.
Learn more about the properties of the AMS 5510 stainless steel below.
Resistance to Intergranular Corrosion
One of the greatest challenges in welding stainless steel under high temperatures is carbide precipitation. At temperatures between 930°F and 1470°F, the chromium combines with carbon to form chromium carbide grains at the edges, becoming a detriment to the corrosion resistance properties of the stainless steel.
Manufacturers using thin metal strips of stainless steel can combat intergranular corrosion by using the AMS 5510 specification 321 grade. At high temperatures, carbon has a higher affinity for titanium over chromium, thus preventing the formation of chromium carbide grains. This makes the stainless steel 321 grade a better option than the 304 series.
Oxidation and Corrosion Resistance
The AMS 5510 specification for the 321 stainless grade guarantees better corrosion and oxidation resistance at higher temperatures of 800°F to 1500°F. This makes the stainless-steel grade an excellent metal for use in chemical manufacturing industries with high intermittent temperature ranges. Besides, the 321 has higher creep and stress rupture properties than the 304 or 304L stainless.
The high endurance mechanical properties of the AMS 5510 make it an ideal metal for use in high-temperature exposures. In an annealed condition, the typical fatigue limits in the 321 stainless steel are higher than those in the 304 or 304L stainless. This increases the ductility of the 321 in high-temperature welding conditions.
The temperature factors in 321 are slightly higher than those of the 304 and 304L at elevated temperatures. This makes 321 an excellent choice for higher temperature ranges such as aircraft piston manifolds, exhaust pipes, refinery equipment, and high-temperature chemical plants.
You can order the 321 stainless steel grades in a variety of forms. The AMS 5510 is available in sheet, strip, bar, tube, plate, strip, or forging fork. You can discuss your exact thickness specifications with your compound metal supplier in Chicago.
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No one wants weeds in their yard, and we’re about to explain why. Imagine creeping lawn weeds appearing in your yard when you wake up in the morning. It’s not a happy sight, but luckily, their growth isn’t inevitable. There are many ways to find out which plants are weeds, how to get rid of them, and how to prevent them from growing again.
Weeds Vs Grass
Most people don’t know the difference between weeds and grass. Ironically enough, they don’t know the difference because they believe there is a list of grass types and a list of weed types. But this isn’t the case. You can classify any grass or plant as a weed that is invasive and unattractive. That’s what really makes a weed what it is, the fact that it is unwanted. Whereas grass is green, attractive, and always wanted.
Why Get Rid Of Weeds?
Weeds are no fun and that’s easy to see. And no, it’s not just because they are ugly. Weeds can be dangerous to the other life around them. Many weeds cause allergies while others are poisonous. But it’s always other plants that suffer. Unwanted weeds can steal the nutrients from plants in your yard.
How To Get Rid Of Weeds
Getting rid of weeds can be done in a few different ways. There are many materials or substances that snuff out weeds. The problem is that weeds are harder to kill than grass so if you kill the weeds, it’s hard not to kill the grass too.
Salt kills weeds the same way that it can kill other plants and insects like termites. It disrupts water flow and dries out the plant. It is easy to place only on the weeds and not the grass, leaving the weeds to wilt and die.
Newspaper is an amazing tool that you can shred up and sprinkle over weeds. Wood chips can do the same thing but the newspaper is more readily available. It smothers the weeds while decomposing properly.
Vinegar can be deadly to weeds. It also dehydrates the weeds only does so faster than salt. Mix the two together for an even faster job well done. Just keep in mind that you may need to do so a few days in a row.
Dish soap in particular can really kill weeds. You can use it alone, or mix it with vinegar. You can mix most of these ingredients together to create a cocktail that will really take care of those weeds in no time.
Or rather, boiling water, will boil those weeds and cause them to die. This works on most plants so be careful. Boiling water can also be poured down anthills to kill entire communities of ants harassing your yard.
Bleach is a strong chemical that does a wonderful job at killing weeds. It can take care of weeds in any area faster than almost anything else. Though most people use it as a last resort because it is just so strong.
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Cybersecurity Governance specifies the accountability framework and processes and provides the oversight to ensure that cybersecurity risks are adequately mitigated and managed to ensure that adequate security controls are implemented to mitigate inherent and future risks.
A well-designed governance program aligns with cybersecurity strategies, supports business objectives, and is consistent with applicable laws and regulations through adherence to policies and internal controls, and provides assignment of responsibility to manage risk across the enterprise.
- Security Program Development
- Security Program Management
- Security Policy Development
- Security Program Maturity Review
- Security Advisory and Augmentation
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Definitions for institutionalized
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word institutionalized
officially placed in or committed to a specialized institution
"had hopes of rehabilitating the institutionalized juvenile delinquents"
given the character of an institution or incorporated into a structured and usually well-established system
"institutionalized graft"; "institutionalized suicide as practiced in Japan"
of or relating to something that has been established as an institution
It is very difficult to get bureaucracies to abandon their institutionalized practices.
of or relating to someone who has been committed to an institution, such as a prison or an insane asylum
Once a potential employer learns that you've been institutionalized, you can forget about getting the job.
"Institutionalized" is a song by the American crossover thrash band Suicidal Tendencies. It was released in 1983 as the only single from their debut album, Suicidal Tendencies. It is often classified as the band's signature song and would be re-recorded for the album Still Cyco After All These Years ten years later. The 1993 version was nominated for the Grammy for Best Metal Performance in 1994. The original version of the song was featured on the long-out of print compilation album F.N.G., while the Still Cyco After All These Years version appears on Prime Cuts and Playlist: The Very Best of Suicidal Tendencies, which was not endorsed by the band. The song was also included in the 12-inch EP Institutionalised, which was released exclusively in the UK in 1988 after Suicidal Tendencies had risen in popularity.
The numerical value of institutionalized in Chaldean Numerology is: 8
The numerical value of institutionalized in Pythagorean Numerology is: 2
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It really is heartbreaking because these kids are in institutionalized homes ; they are n’t getting the families that they deserve.
Colorblind racism is the new racial music most people dance to, the 'new racism' is subtle, institutionalized and seemingly nonracial.
It is not clear yet if the change in economic policy is being institutionalized or if it only has the lifespan of this one man in the administration.
I really want a family, it really is heartbreaking because these kids are in institutionalized homes ; they are n’t getting the families that they deserve.
In Syria we only had the Baath Party and the Muslim Brotherhood, so they are more organized and institutionalized than anyone else because they have such a long history.
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More healthcare organizations - and thus, more patients - are being victimized by cyber criminals. Physician practices are not immune to this threat.
In 2015, a record number of healthcare organizations dealt with major data breaches, exposing the protected health information (PHI) of millions of patients. According to cybersecurity vendor Bitglass (Campbell, Calif.), which analyzed records from HHS, roughly one out of three Americans were a victim of a healthcare data breach in 2015.
While most of these breaches occurred at large healthcare organizations - major insurers such as Anthem and Blue Cross Blue Shield; and major health systems such as UCLA Health System - small practices are not immune, says data security expert, Mac McMillan, co-founder and CEO of Austin-based consulting firm, CynergisTek and Chair of the HIMSS Privacy & Security Policy Task Force. McMillan recently spoke with Physicians Practice managing editor, Gabriel Perna, on the failing state of data security in healthcare, what physician practices should be concerned about, and whether or not Phase 2 audits is something that is worth losing sleep over.
Below are excerpts from that interview.
Where do you see data security in 2016?
The threat is clearly a lot worse and is getting worse. The reason it’s getting worse at the moment, the threat community … have pretty much figured out healthcare is not where it needs to be in terms of cyber security preparedness. They're taking advantage of it. We're seeing more and more activity, more ransomware activity, more targeted phishing attacks. It’s like anything else, the bad guys go where it’s easiest to score a victory. Until healthcare realizes that this is not going away … they're going to be a high-visibility target for those folks.
The information we have is more valuable than it has ever been … and the problem remains that healthcare has not ponied up to invest in information security at a level that will make them more resilient to these threats. The physician community, in one sense, they are very vulnerable and in another, probably a little bit better off. If you are a big time cyber thief, are you going to go after a physician's office or a large insurance provider that has millions of records? You're going where the money is. You're going after the bigger guy.
But that doesn’t mean the little guy can't be hurt by some of those indirect attacks. [Cyber thieves] are looking for anyone with an Internet connection that's not secure. If you look at some of these attacks, a big organization … if they get hit with a ransomware attack, if they have done everything correctly … they can recover from it quickly. On the other hand, a small physician practice that hasn't done a good job backing up its data … if its system gets attacked and compromised by ransomware, it will have no access to its data anymore. That is devastating for a small entity. That’s the concern I have for these [smaller practices], these indirect malware delivered-type attacks. The cyber criminals aren't looking for you, but they can find you.
How can practices avoid this fate?
Good blocking and tackling. We make sure that whoever is helping us with our systems is someone we can rely on. Most of these physician practices don’t manage their own systems. Most have it hosted somewhere offsite. That's how it should be. Physicians should treat their data - their systems and EHR - as a service. It should be hosted in a data center where the people managing that system have the wherewithal to do it correctly. When they try to do it on their own, they put themselves at risk.
What are the top changes to regulatory and HIPAA compliance that physician practices have to know about in 2016?
The framework and standards under the Cyber Security Act. No one knows what that looks like [since it hasn't been released yet] … For most physician practices, this will be difficult to get their minds wrapped around.
Also, CMS has announced at some point meaningful use is going away. But if you peel back the onion, it's not really going away. They are just moving it into other the [Merit-based Incentive Payment System program]. The question I have is … what will happen to the privacy and security requirements around EHRs? How will that change?
2016 will have some changes and that’s disruptive to these physician practices. If I were a physician practice, I probably wouldn't do anything until the dust settles on this.
Should practices prepare for a Phase 2 HIPAA audit from HHS' Office of Civil Rights (OCR)?
First of all, you don’t want to play that up too much. There are only going to be 224 audits performed. Across the board, there will be 200 desk and 24 comprehensive audits. That 224 encompasses all types of providers. The number of physician practices going to get audited is probably less than 20.
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A small bronze cockerel dating from prehistory was found in Maurecourt, but the first significant traces of its history go back to Roman times.
The name « Maurecourt »,which used to be spelt « Morecourt », appears to come from the Roman anthropnym, Maurus, followed by the suffix « court », de cortem, which means domain.
Until just before the Revolution the commune was included in the Seigneury of Andrésy and was therefore the property of the Chapter of Notre-Dame de Paris.
In 1791 Maurecourt became an independent village of the Parish of Andrésy-Maurecourt.
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Of all the lilies, the Easter lilies are best known. But there are many wonderful kinds of lilies. In the garden, they bloom from May through September. They can bear either single or multiple buds.
Lilies are perfect as cut flowers. Most commercial cut lilies are either Asiatic hybrids, Oriental hybrids, or longiflorums.
So far as colors are concerned, you can take your pick. They’re available in white, pink, yellow, orange, and red.
Plant breeders have come up with many improved varieties of lilies. Now they are as easy to grow as any other garden plant. Most are hardy to zone 4. Lily bulbs aren’t hard to find. They’re often sold at local garden centers. One mail-order company, B & D Lilies (www.bdlilies.com) specializes in lilies.
Lily flowers can differ in shape and growth habit. Most commonly, they’re shaped like trumpets or cups, but others may resemble bells, stars, or bowls. Some will be erect, while others are horizontal or drooping. In most cases, l ilies are fragrant.
When choosing lily stems for cut flower arrangements, consider the size of the bloom. Some are only three inches wide, while others may be up to a foot across. The larger ones can be overwhelming if too many are used in an arrangement. So far as height is concerned, lilies can range from one to six
The vase life of most lilies will be between 7-14 days. For the Asiatics, the vase life is determined by the life of the flower that opens first. Ideally, the other buds will open soon afterward. Commercial bulb growers sometimes soak the bulbs in a specific preservative before they are planted. This can prolong the vase life, but this isn’t practical for home gardeners.
From ancient Egypt to Greece, these much-beloved blooms have been enjoyed throughout history. They were depicted in art of the period. One of the frescoes at the palace of Knossos on Crete shows the Prince of Lilies. Lilies were used medicinally in medieval England. Kings of France were known as “Lords of the Silver Lilies.”
In the Victorian language of flowers, a pure white lily symbolizes innocence. Romans believed that the flowers sprang from the breast milk of Juno, the Roman goddess of nature. Later, during the Christian era, the lily became associated with the Virgin Mary.
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MATILDA is an online tool which makes available our new methodology known as Instance Space Analysis. It provides:
- visualisations of the instance space for a problem
- showing the location of benchmark test instances across the instance space
- showing the strengths (“footprints”) and weaknesses of algorithms across the instance space
- summarising the properties of the instances that an algorithm finds easy or hard
- objective (unbiased) metrics of algorithmic power via footprint analysis
- synthetic generation of new test instances at specific locations in the instance space (e.g. real-world-like instances, or instances with controllable properties)
- automated algorithm selection tools to assist deployment of the best algorithm for a given instance.
Our efforts thus far have created instance space analyses for the following problem classes:
- Combinatorial Optimisation Problems
- Graph Colouring
- Travelling Salesman Problem
- Knapsack Problem
- Mathematical Programming
- Linear Programming
- Mixed Integer Programming
- Continuous Optimisation
- Black-box Single Objective
- Black-box Multi-Objective
- Job Shop Scheduling
- Combinatorial Optimisation Problems
- Learning and Model Fitting
- Machine Learning
- Time Series Analysis
- Time Series Forecasting
- Image Analysis
- Facial Age Estimation
- Machine Learning
If you have additional problems you would like to make available in MATILDA, please contact us (email@example.com)
VIDEO TUTORIAL: Introduction to Instance Space Analysis
The engine behind MATILDA is powered by MATLAB code, also available to download and run offline. MATILDA's online platform enables researchers to:
- Download benchmark datasets for various library problems, including existing algorithm performance results, instance features, and our existing instance space visualisations;
- Upload a new algorithm's performance metrics and visualize its comparative strength and weaknesses across our constructed instance space;
- Create instance spaces for new problems to examine the diversity and adequacy of existing benchmarks;
- Generate objective metrics and visualisations of algorithm performance and problem instance distributions across the instance space, to support insightful analysis of algorithmic strengths and weaknesses;
- Use machine learning methods to make recommendations about which algorithm is predicted to perform best in certain regions of the instance space.
VIDEO TUTORIAL: How to Perform an Instance Space Analysis
The methodology used by MATILDA for visualizing and understanding the strengths and weaknesses of different algorithms has been originally described in a series of three papers focusing on graph colouring as a case study:
- Smith-Miles, K. A., and Lopes, L. B., “Measuring Instance Difficulty for Combinatorial Optimization Problems”, Computers & Operations Research, vol. 39, no. 5, pp. 875-889, 2012.
- Smith-Miles, K. A., Baatar, D., Wreford, B. and Lewis, R., “Towards Objective Measures of Algorithm Performance across Instance Space”, Computers & Operations Research, vol. 45, pp. 12-24, 2014.
- Smith-Miles, K. A. and Bowly, S., "Generating New Test Instances by Evolving in Instance Space", Computers & Operations Research, vol. 63, pp. 102-113, 2015.
The early ideas for the instance space analysis methodology are summarised in three earlier papers:
- Smith-Miles, K. A., “Cross-disciplinary perspectives on meta-learning for algorithm selection”, ACM Computing Surveys, vol. 41, no. 1, article 6, 2008.
- Smith-Miles, K. A., "Towards insightful algorithm selection for optimisation using meta-learning concepts", International Joint Conference on Neural Networks, Workshop on Hybrid Systems, Ensembles, and Meta-Learning Algorithms, pp. 4118-4124, 2008.
- Smith-Miles, K.A. “Generalising meta-learning concepts: from machine learning to meta-heuristics”, in Proceedings of the 7th Meta-heuristics International Conference (MIC’07), Montreal, June 25-29th, 2007.
Additional publications from the MATILDA team have applied this methodology to a wide variety of other problem domains, including:
- Guimares, C., Aleti, Al, Grunske, L. and Smith-Miles, K., "Mapping the Effectiveness of Automated Test Suite Generation Techniques", IEEE Transactions on Reliability, vol. 67, no. 3, pp. 771-785, 2018.
- Muñoz, M. A., Villanova, L., Baatar, D. and Smith-Miles, K. A., "Instance Spaces for Machine Learning Classification", Machine Learning, vol. 107, no. 1, pp. 109-147, 2018.
- Kang, Y., Hyndman, R. and Smith-Miles, K., "Visualising Forecasting Algorithm Performance using Time Series Instance Spaces", International Journal of Forecasting, vol. 33, no. 2, pp. 345-358, 2017.
- Muñoz, M. A. and Smith-Miles, K. A., "Performance analysis of continuous black-box optimization algorithms via footprints in instance space", Evolutionary Computation, vol. 25. no. 4, pp. 529-554, 2017.
- Smith-Miles, K. and Tan, T. “Measuring Algorithm Footprints in Instance Space”, in Proceedings of the 2012 IEEE Congress on Evolutionary Computation, pp. 3446-3453, 2012.
- Smith-Miles, K. A., and Lopes, L. B., “Generalising Algorithm Performance in Instance Space: A timetabling case study”, Selected papers of the 5th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6683, pp. 524-539, Springer, 2011.
- Smith-Miles, K. A., van Hemert, J., Lim, Y., “Understanding TSP Difficulty by Learning from Evolved Instances”, Selected papers of the 4th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6073, pp. 266-280, 2010.
- Lopes, L. B. and Smith-Miles, K. A., “Pitfalls in Instance Generation for Udine Timetabling”, Selected papers of the 4th International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 6073, pp. 299-302, 2010.
- Smith-Miles, K. A., James, R. J. W., Giffin, J. W. and Tu, Y., “A Knowledge Discovery Approach to Understanding Relationships between Scheduling Problem Structure and Heuristic Performance”, Selected papers of the 3rd International Conference on Learning and Intelligent Optimization, Lecture Notes in Computer Science, vol. 5851, pp. 89-103, 2009. | <urn:uuid:b9b8f8bb-1fe0-4800-8cdc-6b2cff3c6729> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://matilda.unimelb.edu.au/matilda/our-methodology | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.783209 | 1,552 | 2.203125 | 2 |
On the Red Sea, off the coast of the port city of Jazan, are the Farasan Islands, an archipelago comprising 84 islands, its main island named Farasan as well. Ask any local and they’ll tell you: each island offers something exciting and truly unique. From lush greenery to the coastal cliffs, a clear view of the Red Sea, pristine beaches, and coral reefs, Farasan is indeed a perfect getaway for the advent traveler looking for a slice of paradise by the sea.
With natural beauty and historical sites, the Farasan Islands are set to become #SaudiArabia's first natural reserve on @UNESCO's Man and the Biosphere Program (MAB) of UNESCO by the end of next month.— SAPRAC (@SapracOrg) August 4, 2020
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But, if a day spent just in nature isn’t your cup of tea, the island is also known for its historical sites. One of those sites is the iconic Beit Al Rifai, which was once home to a known pearl trader in the early 20th century, Ahmed Munawar Al Rifai, who built his house in 1922 during the height of pearl trading on the island. Stunning, intricate, and fascinating all at once, local materials were used to build Beit Al Rifai, along with a handful of other materials such as timber and stained glass, imported from overseas.
At first glance the building may look similar to what you might expect to find in India, and that is because Al Rifai wanted his house to be reminiscent of his time trading in the Indian subcontinent. Let’s take the exterior design, for example. The arch gateway is beautifully crafted with geometric shapes and carvings, the Arabic word for “Allah”, and stained glasses, which give it its luxurious appearance.
Plaster decoration and inscription bands in al-rifai house on farasan lsland - jazan province جانب من الزخارف الجصية والاشرطة الكتابية في بيت الرفاعي - جزيرة فرسان منطقة جازان pic.twitter.com/CU8cegCibL— Kamaan كمعان (@AlkamaanKamaan) January 7, 2019
The main entrance and facade of the house bear similar craftsmanship, and the windows are also decorative with triple arches. The interior design is just as impressive. The house itself, which is said to be seven meters tall, has doors, windows, and what resemble shelves with similar carvings, with Qur’anic texts carved over the main entrance.
Get to know Farasan Islands, the Saudi hidden gem that boasts stupendous coastlines, pristine beaches, and rich marine fauna.https://t.co/lCNw8mgGH5— About Her (@AboutHerOFCL) January 20, 2020
Indeed, Beit Al Rifai is one of the hidden pearls on Farasan Island, and an elegant mixture of Indian and Arabic design that is reminiscent of the island’s once thriving pearl trade. If you want to see it for yourself, it is located southeast of the island and not too far from a nearby Ottoman fort. | <urn:uuid:013ab54f-f551-42a3-af06-8a2bc528e2aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abouther.com/node/35131/lifestyle/travel-food/beit-al-rifai-stunning-pearl-farasan-island-saudi-arabia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00665.warc.gz | en | 0.918091 | 756 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The world's tallest man helped save two dolphins in China by reaching into their stomachs and pulling outharmful plastic they had swallowed, state media said Thursday.
The dolphins got sick after eating plastic from the edge of their pool at an aquarium in Liaoning province.
Veterinarians said they decided to call for help from Bao Xishun, a 7-foot-9-inch herdsman from Inner Mongolia, according to Chinese state media.
Photos from the scene show Bao reaching his arm, which is more than one metre long, inside one of the dolphins, which has a towel wrapped around its jaw so it can't bite.
Chen Lujun, the manager of the Royal Jidi Ocean World aquarium, told the Associated Press that the shape of the dolphins' stomachs made it difficult to push an instrument very far in without hurting the animals.
The dolphins are in "very good condition now," said Chen.
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A study from a University of Arizona professor in the College of Architecture, Planning and Landscape Architecture predicts that millions of homes owned by baby boomers and Gen Xers will become unsellable due to demographic and preferential shifts among millennials and Gen Zers in the next couple of decades.
The Daily Wildcat interviewed Arthur Nelson, a professor of urban planning and real estate development at the UA, who authored the study to find out more about his research and its implications.
Daily Wildcat: What led you to conduct this study in the first place?
Arthur Nelson: I’m one of maybe two or three people in the country that look long-term to the effect of changing demographics and changing economics on future housing demand and future land use demand. … I’ve been doing this work since I worked for [the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development] for a year on some kind of a release back in 2000, so I’ve been at this sort of genre of research for about 20 years now.
That got me into looking — I’m always looking at least 30 years ahead. I got numbers looking to the year 2100, but I’m looking to 2050, 2040 to see where we are now, where we’re headed and the nature of change that we have to be prepared for. Most local governments, most decision makers, our politicians don’t know the future — not that anybody does — but we know more about the future than a lot of people do … so my role, as is a few others, is to show how demographic changes will change housing demand and change land use patterns and change the nature of what government needs to do.
DW: Would you be able to summarize for me in layman’s terms what this study showed?
AN: The study looks at different generations. We’ve had, since World War II, five or so generations of people: the so called baby boomers, Gen X born between 1965 and 1980, Gen Y born between 1981 and 1997 or so and Gen Z born in the late 1990s and just got finished being born two or three years ago, depending on who you talk to.
Each generation has its own housing demand characteristics, both as they age and as their preferences change. That’s the point of this paper, though sort of in a long-winded way as academics will do. I looked at this huge group called baby boomers. We are still the most influential generation on land-use patterns and housing demand ever in this nation’s history. At first, we were the ones who were the reason that the suburbs started, because the cities had no room to accommodate massive numbers of families with children. The suburbs became the way in which we could meet that housing demand, and it worked pretty well, frankly. But as the boomers move on through their age groups, their housing demand changes from a large home and large lot to a smaller home, maybe a townhouse, a condo, assisted living and so forth.
Eventually, boomers who own homes by the 10s of millions are going to want to sell their homes. Well, to whom will they sell their homes? The generations behind them are a lot smaller. The next generation is Gen X, but they’re kind of tagging along in the same age cohort as the boomers. As the boomers start selling their homes, so will Gen X householders soon after. So you basically have the double whammy of very large generations of baby boomers and the smaller one, Gen X, but still combined being a huge part of the housing market.
They’re going to be trying to unload their homes at about the same time … the only ones out there buying would be the millennials and then the younger Gen Z, but there won’t be enough of them to buy all the homes that the baby boomers and Gen X want to sell.
That’s one problem: excess supply relative to the demand. The next problem is that the Millennials and Gen Z households — they don’t want the large home on the large lot in the distant suburbs. Certainly some do, but they don’t want that to the extent that that was produced in the 1960s, 70s, 80s, 90s. … They’re looking for something closer in, a little higher density, but not high rise. They’re looking for townhouses. They’re looking for smaller homes and smaller lots and they’re looking for walkable communities … they want to have a relatively short bicycle ride to places.
Again, not all of them, but we’re talking at least half, maybe to a third of them, whereas the baby boomers, when they were raising their own children, couldn’t care less about walkable communities … and so here we have the baby boomers and Gen Xers with larger homes in larger lots in distant suburbs trying to sell homes to millennials and Gen Zers who want smaller homes on smaller lots, maybe attached homes, that are walkable and bikeable to places. There’s the mismatch going on that will lead to an excess number of homes trying to be sold relative to the demand.
Then, I also get into the geographic disparities. It’s not going to be an issue so much in Tucson, Phoenix, Denver or some of the other growing metropolitan places. One thing growth does is sort of fix mistakes. Maybe people who bought larger homes on larger lots 30 miles from downtown Tucson will sell their home because they’ll reduce the price low enough to where some people will buy the home and that’s that. But what if you’re in Buffalo or Rochester or the exurbs of Chicago or Detroit?
In most metropolitan areas in this country, the supply of potential baby boomer sellers will vastly exceed the supply of people wanting to buy those homes because of the lack of growth. There’s a map in the report showing, by county in red, where those counties are losing population. We have the age dynamic going on, we have the preference dynamic going on, and we have the growth dynamic going on, and so I try to sort of plow through all of those things at the same time and come up with a way for them to address the concerns I have about the millions of seniors trying to sell their homes between now and 2038.
DW: Do you know why Millennials and possibly Gen Zers have this preference for smaller and less dense areas?
AN: Let’s not overgeneralize, because many millennials and many Gen Zers will want a larger home and a larger lot away from people. But we are seeing that more will want something that’s more manageable for lot-size and that’s more manageable for house-size. For one thing, their household size will be smaller.
They’re going to have one or two children, not the three or four when I grew up. They also have less income. We still have a situation in the U.S. where in real dollar terms, the wages of 2020 are still lower than the wages of 2000. I don’t see that changing anytime soon. We have lagging wages in real dollar terms, we have changing demand structures, and so younger households are looking for certainly their own home, but not a large lot and not a large home, but especially a home that is accessible, ideally walkable to stores, restaurants, the park and so forth.
DW: In light of these shifts, do you see the expansion of urban areas, urban outskirt areas and more houses being converted into multiple family residences or even apartments?
AN: What I see in the data is that millennials and probably Gen Zers are having fewer children. When they do have children, they have them later in life, which means that the couples get settled into someplace that is more mature, like the cottages or the townhouses and the condos with the shops, restaurants and parks nearby, and so they’re used to that. Then they have children … and they will tend more than in the past to raise their children in their condo, in their townhouse, in the small home, in the same neighborhood where they’re established with their own friends, with their social networks, and walkable places that they are used to. That’s one dynamic going on.
Another dynamic going on that we see among the new housing being built in the suburbs is that the market is for smaller homes in smaller lots in walkable planned communities. We’re seeing suburban subdivisions being built with walking paths, bicycle paths and connected to nearby shops, nearby restaurants and so forth. Now that probably isn’t happening as much as it should happen because I think the market demand is pretty robust, but it’s happening much more now than it did 20, 30, even 10 years ago.
DW: How has the pandemic affected any of the Great Senior Short Sale? Has it had any effect at all?
AN: I would say no effect at all because it's been too short. If the pandemic lasts two or three or four years, I don’t know exactly what we’ll see because, on the one hand, some will say that it will push people out into rural areas to be safe from [COVID-19], but I don’t think so because even though you might be able to work from home, and even though you might want to be away from people, we’re still social creatures. We’re still near enough to people to socialize to some extent. And, this is still going to be a short term situation.
Everything I’m reading is that we’ll have vaccines out next year, by middle next year or a little later, the U.S. population will be inoculated and then have people go back to more or less what they had before. Let’s keep in mind that human beings are social creatures with short memories people will want to be together and they will come back together after [COVID-19].
Will [COVID-19] have an effect in the long-term? No, provided we have the vaccines promised. Will there be a long-term effect if [COVID-19] lasts a long time? Certainly.
DW: Tell me more about your policy recommendations for this projected trend.
AN: We pretty much know which counties in the U.S. aren’t going to grow and we pretty much know why. If we know what is not going to grow and why, let’s find ways now to help those people live in those counties and cushion the economic blow to them.
One direct way would be to offer them money to sell their homes to whatever federal agency and then they could move. The federal agency would raise the homes, tear them down and reassemble land into larger open-space areas. But that’s just one solution.
Another solution would be, where there is a market, facilitating the purchase of homes from seniors to groups who would turn those homes into rental homes, because that is the future demand for many metropolitan areas. I think the point is that we should start a conversation now to address the reality of what’s going to happen and the alternatives to soften the blow of those people by the millions who will be adversely impacted by that change.
You can view Nelson’s study, "The Great Senior Short-Sale or Why Policy Inertia Will Short Change Millions of America's Seniors", published in the Journal of Comparative Urban Law and Policy, here.
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The global economy is expected to start off slowly in 2012, as debt resolution issues remain a concern, and strengthen during the second half as underlying economic fundamentals improve. Overall, the U.S. will experience modest growth during 2012 as uncertainty about debt reduction and the elections keeps businesses and investors cautious. However, with record corporate profits and improving consumer demand, the U.S. appears poised for growth to accelerate in the second half of the year. Canada and Mexico are also expected to continue to expand at generally stronger rates than in 2011, but growth will be modest with demand from the U.S. remaining slow.
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A novel, low cost, energy and resource efficient, sustainable process to enable selective metallisation of microscale devices, components and printed circuit boards (PCBs).
The Mesmoproc project aims to achieve the first application of an innovative new process that combines electrochemical reactor engineering with innovative ultrasound agitation to enable selective metallisation of microscale devices, components and printed circuit boards (PCBs) without requiring the use of repetitive conventional photolithography stages. It will implement a new invention, Enface – electrochemical nano and micro fabrication via sustainable chemistry and engineering, to transfer patterns onto substrate surfaces. In the Enface process copper is first etched off the copper from selected areas and thereafter copper is deposited directly on those areas which remain metallised. The ability of Enface for selective copper etching and plating in micro-sized areas has already been proven.
Enface uses a patterned tool to transfer patterns selectively, which eliminates the need for photolithography of substrates, thereby offering the potential for a much simpler process. The project will implement first industrial plants within partner SMEs’ facilities in both the metal finishing and printed circuit board-manufacturing sectors. Key factors influencing the potential uptake of the developed technology are the increasing costs of raw materials, energy, treatment and disposal of waste, where significant potential savings have been identified.
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(Tá Gasóga Mara Mhullach Íde/Scouting Ireland) – Rowing aficionados have their annual Boat Race (for all but the 16 rowers from the Universities of Cambridge and Oxford only an affair to watch) on the River Thames. But the real sports man or girl is not satisfied with watching. It’s being on the water oneself that counts, and if one can combine the effort with fund raising for a good purpose, it is even better.
That is what Alan and Tiarnán, two Sea Scout Leaders from Malahide Sea Scouts, in Dublin, Ireland, must have had in their minds when they decided to compete in this year’s Devizes To Westminster International Canoe Marathon.
A quick look on your map will tell you: that’s far from being like a pleasant Sunday afternoon on the Serpentine. No. This is a real marathon race, with mostly tandem teams paddling some 200km downriver on the Thames, from Devizes, in the County of Wiltshire, all the way to Westminster Bridge in the heart of London.
This year’s race was held on the Easter weekend 2014. A large support team and a van-full of equipment had accompanied Alan and Tiarnán across the Irish Sea to their temporary headquarters in Reading. With the two Sea Scout Leaders having more than six months of tireless training out of and on the water behind them.
“This is really the ultimate endurance test”, agrees Alan, “125 miles (some 200km) of gruelling waterways to negotiate, including uncountable locks and weirs (which make it necessary to get out of the water and back in a few minutes later, having carried boat and gear past the obstacle), typical foolish April weather, the dark hours of a long and cold spring night, tricky effects of high and low tide, and surprise encounters with all kinds of creatures of wildlife.”
“To top it off”, says Tiarnán, “the race is normally for a tandem canoe. So teamwork is critical to avoid capsizing in freezing waters and rough currents. And more than 20 hours of non-stop paddling must not be underestimated, even with the odd technical halts every now and then!”
Novices of the sport know that canoeing is not so easy as it looks when watching from the riverbank. But in darkness on a river amidst some 200 hundred competing teams? No wonder, about a third of the teams drop out before reaching the finishing line.
By the way: the origins of the race go back to the late 1940s, when Rover Scouts from the local 1st Devizes Scout Group would aim to complete the distance in less than 100 hours in home built double kayaks. The first “race” took place at Easter 1948, with Brian, Peter, Laurie and Brian, all not yet 18 years old, and the nature of their effort was such, that progress reports made it to national press. And they beat the goal by finishing in just under 90 hours!
Another challenge was added in the 1980s when competitors were formally encouraged to raise funds for charities by being sponsored to complete the race. Since then, every year many thousands of pounds are collected. And the team raising the largest amount is awarded a special trophy for their efforts!
And Alan and Tiarnán? Well, it appears that they sat together on a mild St. Patrick’s Day last year when they made the decision to compete, as they recall: “It was on that evening back in March 2013 that we had the enlightened idea of attempting the ‘Devizes to Westminster’, this legendary canoe/kayak race with a reputation for being the world’s toughest. We were inspired by two of our former Leaders from Malahide Seas Scouts, Andy and Paul, who had completed the same race a decade previously (finishing 12th out of 52 teams). And the advice we have received from these guys, as well as members of their support crews has been invaluable!”
And it is not just the endurance challenge that motivated the canoe tandem from Dublin: “As is customary with this race, we had also chosen to help raise funds for two particular charities”, explains Alan, “and we are very happy that we reached close to 60% of our target, collecting just under EUR 3 000 for Diabetes Ireland (to help continued research and support of 200 000 people suffering from diabetes in our country) and for our own Sea Scout Group in Malahide, where funds for repairs and redevelopment of current facilities are always welcome so that we can continue contribute to the development of children and young people in our community.”
Robert, Group Scout Leader of the 540 member-strong Malahide Sea Scouts, remembers the months prior to the big race: “Over the many months that Alan and Tiarnán were training for this event, they showed all of our Group that hard work and total persistence pays off. They are true leaders in our Group, as they have demonstrated more than once and lead by simply doing and this is true leadership in life and in Scouting!”
“And, as the Irish playwright George Bernard Shaw once said: ‘Life isn’t about finding yourself. Life’s about creating yourself’”, concludes Robert, “and this is what Alan and Tiarnán have done in their Scouting journey to date.”
We can only join Robert and the large family that is the Malahide Sea Scouts – 9th Port of Dublin and congratulate Alan and Tiarnán for what they have achieved: “Tá Gasóga Mara Mhullach Íde an-bhródúil as duit agus do bhaint amach iontach!” (*)
For more details:
– Malahide Sea Scouts, 9th Port of Dublin (Scouting Ireland) on the web and on Facebook;
– Sea Scouting Ireland on Facebook;
– Alan & Tiarnán on Facebook and on their charity donation page;
– The Devizes to Westminster International Canoe Marathon on the web.
– To find out more about the race’s history you may wish to read Brian Greenaway’s book “The Devizes to Westminster Canoe Race” which explains the origins and evolution of the race over the last 65 years.
(*) The Malahide Sea Scouts are very proud of you and your fantastic achievement!
© Images: Malahide Sea Scouts 2014
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#ScoutGuideSupport #RefugeesBetween September 2015 and May 2016, the European Scout Region of the World Organization of the Scout Movemente (WOSM) and the Europe Region WAGGGS regularly shared stories featuring Scouts and Guides involved in refugee and migrant support activities in their local communities.
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The Official World Scout ShopThe Official World Scout Shop offers an ever-growing range of high quality Scouting products. It is the only authorised supplier of World Scout items, and ALL profits go directly back to Scouting.
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Published in the October 2013 80th Anniversary issue
Name: Michael Bloomberg
Date of birth: February 14, 1942
Which makes him: 71
Occupation: Mayor of New York City, philanthropist, founder of Bloomberg LP
Rank among the richest men in the U.S.: Seventh
Elected mayor of New York: 2001
Terms served: Three. (His final term ends this year.)
Use of his financial power to wield influence outside New York: Significant. Dictated mostly by the work of his philanthropic endeavor, Bloomberg Philanthropies.
Postmayoral career plans: To continue that work
As in New Orleans: Funded a $4.2 million crime-reduction program.
And Rio de Janeiro: Aided the installation of new rapid-transit bus corridors in anticipation of the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics.
And Cairo: Installed speed-tracking cameras along Ring Road.
And Hanoi: Pushed through a motorbike-helmet law.
And Istanbul: As part of the $600 million spent on curbing tobacco use, implemented a nationwide ban on smoking in public places.
And Atlanta: Committed $3.4 million to reduce homelessness and panhandling, and to start a 311 phone service.
And Tokyo: Funded a public art pavilion in partnership with the Museum of Contemporary Art in Tokyo.
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If you live in Texas and have a concrete floor slab on grade foundation, you do not need to worry about freezes affecting your foundation. If you have a pier and beam foundation, you can have problems.
In most of Texas (that is everywhere but the Panhandle), the ground rarely freezes. When it does stay cold enough to freeze the ground, only the top few inches are affected. Because a concrete floor slab foundation is usually dug one to three feet into the ground, the cold cannot get under the slab. The ground’s natural warmth and heat from the interior of a home protect a slab and the plumbing in the ground under a slab.
With a pier and beam foundation home, the space between the floor and the ground (the crawlspace), can have problems. If a crawlspace is open to the cold air, pipes in a crawlspace can freeze. If waterlines freeze and burst, water can flood a crawlspace. In extreme cases, the flooding can cause foundation movement. Of course, when pipes break, the immediate problem of repairing the breaks gets attention first.
The best way to protect a crawlspace and the pipes in it from freezing is to cover the vents. Vents are openings in the sides of the wall that forms the edge of the foundation. The vents allow air to circulate and help to control humidity. Once the vents are covered, heat from the ground and from the house will be trapped in the crawlspace and pipes will not freeze. It is also a good idea to let water drip from your faucets. Dripping faucets will keep water flowing in your pipes and will help prevent freezing.
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As the injector of the new fourth-generation SKIF synchrotron light source at the BINP SB RAS (Novosibirsk, Russia), the linear accelerator will provide a 200 MeV electron beam. A precise measurement of the beam is very important for the control of the linac and even the entire light source. A set of diagnostic instruments for tuning the linac and measuring the beam parameters starting from the electron RF gun to the output of accelerator has been designed. The instrumentation should cover the dynamic diagnostic range of 0.6 to 200 MeV and a beam duration from the initial 100 ps to 3 ps at the output of the accelerator. The set includes eight fluorescent screens to measure beam transverse size, two Cherenkov probes and RF-cavity sensors to record beam duration, a dipole magnetic spectrometer to measure energy and energy spread, a Faraday cup (FC) and fast current transformers (FCTs) to measure beam charge current, and beam position monitors (BPMs) to check the beam position. This paper aims to give an overview of the beam instrumentation and briefly describes the design and parameters of each diagnostic system. The results of numerical and dynamics simulations of some of the instruments are briefed. Possible scenarios of linac tuning are discussed.
- Beam-line instrumentation (beam position and profile monitors, beam-intensity monitors, bunch length monitors)
- Instrumentation for particle accelerators and storage rings - high energy (linear accelerators, synchrotrons)
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Planting tomatoes and you can basil regarding backyard together with her don’t simply make feel as you instance a great Italian sauce, in addition to as they grow better along with her.
Bush tomatoes inside the later spring season otherwise early summer, as they flourish with the enthusiasm. This is why, nonetheless they you need full sunrays for about 5 to 9 circumstances.
In order to keep the brand new tomato herbs off the ground, play with a share, trellis, otherwise cage. Have fun with just as much as 2 to 4 inches of mulch to retain wetness and continue maintaining weeds away from broadening. The latest tomatoes requires a great amount of wetness, therefore attempt to liquid them one or more inches a week, though you would be to drinking water her or him a whole lot more during summer months.
Perhaps you have realized, there are various choices for mate growing that will work with the vegetable yard. If you are considering some of such choices for the 2009 lawn, contemplate adding one of many friends to simply help the make together. Whatsoever, nothing is completely wrong with more make.
How can you plant a friend lawn?
You bush a companion yard by reading which herbs build an excellent increasing people on the herbs we should grow and you can while making an agenda for what possible expand with her. Sometimes spouse planting means with vegetation share the backyard place from the the same time frame, and frequently it is a very regular approach from flipping the backyard off to you to bush since the another’s year on the yard appear so you can an-end. You should perform a little research and considered prior to diving within the, because some plant combos simply aren’t effective out and can in reality feel bad for for every other’s progress.
Why does lover planting performs?
Lover growing is the habit of cultivating helpful relationship anywhere between flowers that are sex together with her regarding backyard. A familiar analogy is the “around three sisters” growing type expanding corn, beans, and you may squash together with her. In this arrangement, new corn also provides a surface to help with new kidney beans while they develop vertically. The beans render nitrogen for the soil, that is used from the all of the about three herbs. The fresh squash provides highest simply leaves you to definitely tone a floor like a level off mulch perform, protecting new surface and remaining they wet and you will cool whilst unsatisfactory the organization of weeds.
What shouldn’t be planted together?
For now, most of the pointers that is online on the lover growing was anecdotal. Here, we’ve gathered several of you to suggestions while making a summary of the plant life which will definitely not getting sex with her into the lover planting.
- Cucumbers and you will carrots shouldn’t be planted together with her because they create pH levels that almost every other finds out inhospitable. Cucumbers together with you should never excel planted close to aromatic flowers.
- Remain people in the allium friends (onions, garlic, leeks, and you will shallots) regarding beans, beets, cabbage, carrots, corn, cucumbers, and strawberries. Onions are problematic when they grown near to asparagus, kidney beans, otherwise peas, as they’ve been said to stunt its increases.
- Lettuce and cabbage will likely be kept regarding both. Cabbage is also problematic if it is grown near tomatoes, rod beans, otherwise strawberries.
- Dont plant kohlrabi close carrots, eggplant, onions, parsley, peppers, otherwise tomatoes.
- Corn and you may tomatoes both often slide sufferer on same yeast infection, so they are going to be person separately.
- Kidney beans is reported in order to hate getting planted near gladiolus plants.
- Potatoes are inclined to an equivalent disorder as peppers and you may tomatoes, very keep carrots expanding well away from the pepper and you whiplr may tomato plants.
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