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Weather forecast and temperature for today - Tuesday, Aug 9.
91°F / 68°F
- Wind: 11 mph SW
- Humidity: 69%
- Precip. probability: 69%
- Precipitation: 0.16 "
- UV index: 9
Today, in Waterford, rainy weather and thunderstorms are anticipated in the afternoon.
The chance of rainfall is high. However, precipitation will be light.
The highest predicted temperature is a hot 91.4°F (33°C), while the lowest temperature will be a pleasant 68°F (20°C).
The maximum heat index, which takes the relative humidity and factors it into the air temperature reading, is evaluated at an extremely hot 109.4°F (43°C). Note that heat index values are valued for light wind and location in the shade. Exposure to direct sunshine can increase heat index values by up to 15 Fahrenheit (8 Celsius) degrees.
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Writing a good press release is essential because a news release always gains free publicity for you. A poorly written news release will more often than not be thrown into the waste basket. This is why you must put a lot of effort in getting a properly written news release.
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September 02, 2016
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By Anne Davies and Herald Correspondent in Washington
WILL the biggest global media event in history be enough to convince George Bush and John Howard that climate change is an urgent problem?
The former vice-president turned climate change campaigner, Al Gore, certainly hopes it will provide a good nudge along the road to requiring nations to reduce greenhouse gases by 90 per cent by 2050.
The Live Earth concerts this weekend, which will be broadcast worldwide on television and the internet to reach more than 2 billion people, begin in Sydney and cascade around the world to Tokyo, Shanghai, Johannesburg, Hamburg, London, Rio de Janeiro and New York where Gore will be.
For the first time, China will participate. There are two special events: from Toji temple in Kyoto and from the British scientific base in Antarctica.
"The climate crisis requires a global solution," said Kevin Wall - the man behind Live Aid and Live8 - and now this event. "Live Earth is using an unprecedented media architecture to reach a global audience."
Gore says Live Earth will give people a chance to commit to changing their own lives and to moving others, including governments, towards a global treaty by 2009.
"Nations all over the world are making progress in tackling the climate crisis," said Gore. "But too many proposals fall short of the strong, decisive action that's needed. Individual nations alone cannot solve this crisis. The nations of the world must join together."
However, if progress on world poverty is any measure of the success of such events in changing global responses, global concerts would have to be deemed a failure. Despite the fund-raising Live Aid and the political urging of Live 8, famine still devastates Africa.
A diplomatic Gore has responded to scepticism from the architect of Live 8 and Live Aid, Sir Bob Geldof, by praising Geldof's trailblazing efforts and promising there would be "very specific goals that will be very significant and hard-hitting".
But it remains to be seen whether the concerts come and go with little more than a compilation CD to bear witness to them.
The difference might be that there is an organisation to continue the campaign. Nearly a year ago, Gore announced the establishment of the Alliance for Climate Protection, funded with the proceeds from his highly successful documentary, An Inconvenient Truth.
He recruited Australian-based Cathy Zoi, an energetic American who spent 15 years in Australia working on energy efficiency programs and for the NSW Government's Department of Environment. The alliance has been low key. Its most visible activity has been training people to present the documentary's case on climate change.
"It will be the first great note in a worldwide song demanding change that will be heard on every continent in every time zone," Zoi says of the concerts.
"Post Live Earth, the Alliance for Climate Protection is undertaking a three- to five-year campaign to educate people from all walks of life that the climate crisis is both critically urgent and something we can solve."
One such action is the Live Earth's outreach program, called Friends of Live Earth. Some 6000 people have applied for kits to run their own events simultaneously with the concerts.
A key part of Live Earth will be to get people around the world to sign a seven-part pledge that commits them to lobby their governments.
This is much more than a feel-good exercise: the event organisers plan to capture a massive database of people who can be mobilised in future campaigns - and be asked to donate.
On the night there will also be six calls to action, says Zoi. One is to install four energy saving light bulbs in their home. If the event is as big as organisers hope, they will be able to quantify the impact and use it in future publicity.
But the biggest aim is to shift American decision makers and American public opinion into seeing this as an urgent problem.
A global survey by World Public Opinion taken in 2006 and published last month found that only 43 per cent of Americans saw global warming as a serious and pressing problem that required urgent action.
Some 17 per cent were still greenhouse sceptics and 37 per cent thought the effects would be gradual and that costly action was not required.
This compares to 69 per cent of Australians who see it as a serious and pressing problem. Only 8 per cent of Australians remained greenhouse sceptics.
"The US is not only a disproportionately large part of the problem, it's also a large part of the solution," says Zoi.
After the concerts the alliance will be following up with a large television advertising campaign in the US.
"We want environmentally sound products to be visible on the shelves so people think about the issue when they're going about their daily lives," she said.
In the US the two senior Democrats, the House Speaker, Nancy Pelosi, and the Senate Majority Leader, Harry Reid, signed the seven-point pledge last week.
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Microsoft fixed 26 vulnerabilities in 13 security bulletins as part of its Patch Tuesday, including critical ones for Windows that could be exploited to take control of a computer and one that has resided in the 32-bit Windows kernel since its release 17 years ago.
The top priorities for deployment are bulletins plugging holes in the SMB (Server Message Block) Protocol, Windows Shell Handler, ActiveX via Internet Explorer, DirectShow, and the 32-bit version of Windows, Jerry Bryant, a lead senior security communications manager at Microsoft, wrote in a blog post.
The DirectShow bulletin should be at the top of the list, according to Bryant. It is critical for all supported versions of Windows except Itanium-based server products. To exploit the hole, an attacker could host a malicious AVI (Audio Video Interleave) file on a Web site, and lure a user to visit the site or send the file via e-mail so the user could open it.
In the SMB bulletin, critical for all versions of Windows except Vista and Server 2008, an attacker would need to host a malicious server and convince a client system to connect to it, or an attacker could try to perform a man-in-the-middle attack by responding to SMB requests from clients, Bryant said.
In the critical Windows Shell Handler vulnerability, which affects Windows 2000, XP, and Server 2003, an attack could come via a specially crafted link that appears to be valid to the ShellExecute API (application programming interface).
The cumulative update for ActiveX Killbits is critical, but a Killbit does not address the underlying vulnerability. It is a registry setting that keeps the vulnerable ActiveX control from running in IE.
The vulnerability affecting the 32-bit Windows kernel, which Microsoft, after Google engineer Tavis Ormandy disclosed it on a security e-mail list, could allow an attacker to elevate privileges to full system access, once the attacker is already in the system.
Much as been made of the fact that the hole is 17 years old, but Ormandy said he informed Microsoft about it in June 2009. "You can criticize them for taking a long time to fix a bug," but not if they didn't know about it, said Pedram Amini, who runs the Zero Day Initiative.
Microsoft is aware of publicly available proof-of-concept code for that issue, but is not aware of any active attacks at this time, Bryant wrote.
The most important bug for IT security teams is the one affecting DirectShow, said Andrew Storm, director of security compliance at security firm nCircle. "The nature of the exploit lends itself to drive-by attacks that leave unsuspecting victims infected," he said. "Since media is what excites people most on the Internet today, an exploit of this bug would make it extremely easy to entice users to watch videos that are actually gateways to malware."
Meanwhile, the Shell Handler vulnerability has the potential for an unlimited amount of damage, which should make potential attackers take notice, he said.
This month's "sleeper update" is probably a hole in Windows TCP/IP (Transmission Control Protocol-Internet Protocol) that could allow remote code execution if specially crafted packets were sent to a computer with IPv6 enabled, said HD Moore, chief security officer of Rapid7. "While it has an exploitability rating of 2 based on the requirement for an attacker to be on-link to the target host, Wi-Fi access points provide link level connectivity to target systems" he said. "Customers should not confuse the exploitability index with exposure severity--the priority of this patch should be raised where mobile users are prevalent."
Two bulletins, both rated "important," affect older versions of Microsoft Office and could allow an attacker to remotely execute code on the computer via a hole in PowerPoint or via a specially crafted Office file.
The bulletins affect Windows 2000, XP, Vista, and Windows 7, as well as Server 2003 and 2008, Office XP, Office 2003, and Office 2004 for Mac, according to the advisory.
Microsoft also issued a security advisory to provide a work-around for a publicly known hole in the Transport Layer Security (TLS) and Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocols.
And Microsoft updated its Malicious Software Removal Tool to include the Win32/Pushbot, a worm that spreads via MSN Messenger and AIM, and opens a backdoor so an attacker can take complete control of the machine.
Microsoft is still working on patches for a holein Internet Explorer that could lead to data leakage and an SMB hole that was .
"The [SMB] issue cannot be used to allow an attacker to take control of a system remotely, but instead can result in a system becoming unresponsive due to resource consumption," Microsoft said in a statement. "At this time, Microsoft is not aware of any attacks using this vulnerability."
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INFJ being compatible will be based upon a meaningful relationship. It’s important for people of this identity type to feel safe at house with her spouse. INFJs make a massive efforts to manufacture their companion feel adored, acknowledged and respected.
INFJs tend to be most appropriate for partners who will be comprehending and loyal. They frequently feel misfits and having somebody whom makes them think understood is very important because of this characteristics type. INFJs tend to be caring when they feel safe with anybody, but they https://images.daznservices.com/di/library/omnisport/83/39/mcilroycropped_11ouk3pvpiu5a13lf4w7l5okxr.jpg?t=554797797&quality=100 are highly personal people therefore often requires a bit for them to open and believe individuals.
INFJs strongly importance commitment and honesty in connections. They are going to easily shed esteem for somebody should they find out they’ve become dishonest. INFJs need intellectual talk once they’re in a relationship, they’ll wish talk about all sorts of conceptual subject areas.
They love working people out…and they’re effective in it! INFJs in addition look for authenticity in relationships as they can’t sit fake men. This identity sort rarely meets men they truly click with, but when they actually do, they’ll beat with regards to their lover.
INFJ speciality in affairs
These talents were typical of INFJ in relationships:
1. Supportive. INFJs are one of the many supportive Myers & Briggs identity types. They just take affairs honestly of course, if they commit to anyone, they’ll stick by their own side. INFJs were supportive of these partners’ conclusion and certainly will beat to give them anything they want.
2. Creative problem-solvers. INFJs were imaginative naturally and appreciate balance. These attributes blended indicate that they frequently produce revolutionary, out-of-the-box methods for solving issues. While in the midst of a quarrel, it is possible to expect this individuality sort to come up with initial expertise.
3. Empathetic. INFJs is extremely empathetic and always take the time to read points from their partner’s standpoint. They are delicate people who worry profoundly when it comes to various other people’s wellbeing and delight. INFJs are one of the many thoughtful Myers & Briggs individuality sort.
4. Great audience. INFJs is obviously competent audience. They’re not the kind to half pay attention and expect their unique seek out speak; INFJs soak up something being stated. They often bring guidance and assistance, as a result it’s not surprising that this particular characteristics sort is sometimes also known as ‘the counselor’.
INFJ weaknesses in connections
These weaknesses could be typical of INFJs in relationships:
1. Perfectionists. INFJs are perfectionists and this implies that they aren’t always the easiest men and women to feel about. Their particular idealistic character may imply that they often end up let down in relationships after getting her companion on a pedestal.
2. Seek affirmation. INFJs lead her focus towards people, meaning they’ve been obviously selfless, nevertheless they is overly-concerned regarding the viewpoints of others. They are very aware of more people’s behavior and can naturally feel just how people feels towards them.
3. Overthinkers. INFJs are inclined to overthinking, in most aspects of her life, and interactions are no exemption. Often INFJs can overthink quick daily issues and then make all of them off to getting a more impressive offer than they really become.
4. most exclusive. INFJs are extremely private individuals also it takes all of them sometime to open upwards in relations. This personality kind keeps a rich interior industry even so they won’t show their true character until they truly faith people.
INFJs simply take some time to fall crazy but when they are doing, they fall difficult. They rarely select individuals that they certainly connect to so it’s an issue if they manage satisfy special someone. INFJs is relatively mindful though when considering love and additionally they just take their unique energy observing anyone before deciding should they desire to be together with them eventually. INFJs don’t spend time with others they don’t discover the next with.
INFJ flirting preferences
INFJs aren’t obviously flirty identity sort. They get rather nervous in terms of flirting therefore requires all of them sometime to open up upwards. Having said that, they have been acutely skilled at reading group. If an INFJ loves your, they’ll tune in intently towards every keyword your say to try and figure your on. They’ll miss out the small talk and hop straight to the deeper issues.
INFJ sexual being compatible
INFJs were intensive character types and this also translates to their own gender physical lives, while they is arranged inside the bed room at first. INFJs have to truly become as well as more comfortable with anyone in order to be capable fully enjoy sex. Gender is a lot more than an actual physical work to INFJs; it’s a method to build and deepening a link and INFJs is passionate lovers making use of best people. INFJs tend to be giving men and women and that relates to their particular gender lives. They will make sure their unique partner’s needs and desires become contented.
INFJs need a slight and soft telecommunications design. They believe before they communicate and they’re definitely not your to imagine aloud. INFJs has plenty going on of their heads and often find it hard to place their head into terms. This individuality sort is often arranged within their communication, in the same manner that they’re sluggish to honestly express themselves which will make them come very mystical.
INFJ compatibility along with other character sort
INFJs are people-oriented introverts just who benefits strong relationships. INFJs include more appropriate for lovers that dedicated and spend some time to realize their particular complex character. At So Syncd, we start thinking about ENTPs and ENFPs to-be a Myers & Briggs fits for INFJs:
1. INFJ – ENTP connections. INFJs were keen on the intellect, esteem, and fuel of ENTPs. ENTPs help INFJs grow by moving them from their safe place. ENTPs is keen on the calm, open and creative characteristics of INFJs. INFJs will keep ENTPs on the right track and often spend days engaging in deep discussions about a variety of subjects.
2. INFJ – ENFP interactions. INFJs were keen on the good, open, and insightful characteristics of ENFPs. ENFPs help INFJs let loose and enjoy lifetime. These are generally drawn to the range, thoughtfulness, and kindness of INFJs. ENFPs can sometimes are lacking path and INFJs might help ENFPs be much more grounded and focused.
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The wearing of reasonable personal protective equipment at work is not simply presence of mind, it is the law as expressed in the Personal Protective Equipment at Work Regulations 1992. Anyway, what does it spread? PPE is characterized in the Regulations as ‘all equipment (counting garments managing protection against the climate) which is planned to be worn or held by an individual at work and which ensures him against at least one dangers to his wellbeing or security’, for example security caps, gloves, eye protection, high perceivability dress, wellbeing footwear and security outfits.
Ear defenders and breathing protective equipment are not secured by these PPE Regulations however their own guidelines have so do not disregard them since they are not on the PPE list. Hearing and respiratory equipment must be viable with the PPE that you do utilize for example hard caps must have the option to oblige the ear defenders that you use without trading off the protection that either thing offers.
The fundamental necessity of the PPE at Work Regulations 1992 is that personal protective equipment is to be provided and utilized at work any place there are dangers to wellbeing and security that cannot be enough controlled in different manners. The PPE at Work Regulations additionally require that PPE experiences an exhaustive appraisal cycle to guarantee it is good for reason, support and capacity measure is set up, safe utilization data is given where fundamental and right use is checked.
While picking the quan ao bao ho that is directly for your workplace, consider the perils that your business cycles might introduce. This will empower you to survey which sorts of PPE are reasonable to secure against the danger and for the activity to be finished. Try not to be hesitant to look for exhortation from your provider. They know for a fact which items work best in which situations. In some dark conditions it might be important to look for guidance further abroad. The British Safety Industry Federation could be a valuable partner in this occurrence.
Coming up next is a rundown of contemplations while choosing Personal Protective Equipment:
Can the equipment be acclimated to fit the wearer effectively?
Has the workers condition of wellbeing been considered?
In the event that the undertaking requires more than one bit of PPE ensure they are viable? For instance, respirators and eye protection both need to fit cozily without meddling with one another.
Is the thing of equipment reasonable for the errand? Eye goggles which ensure against airborne risks, for example, synthetic concoctions in farming splashing might be absolutely unacceptable as protection against flying bits of metal in a building domain. Does the personal protective equipment carry out its responsibility without expanding the danger?
Have the physical requests of the activity been contemplated? In the event that the activity requires a respirator will the physical exertion of wearing one negatively affect the representative?
Should time constraints be set up?
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The Evolution Of Printing
Printing is a method of duplicating text and images on paper by using ink. The printing process has evolved over […]
Printing is a method of duplicating text and images on paper by using ink. The printing process has evolved over an extensive period of time to develop into what it is today. Some of the first printing techniques were invented in 3500 BC in Mesopotamia (-Current Arabia) – where cylindrical seals and other similar stamp-seals were first introduced. In 240 AD, wood printing came into existence, with similar examples discovered in ancient Egypt and China. The rest, as they say – is history. The following article will explore some of the top printing methods that were conceived over the years.
Movable Text Printing: Movable text printing involves using removable pieces of metal, which allowed for more malleability than hand copying or block printing. This printing technique was developed around the mid-1400. The first of these systems were invented in China and was made of porcelain. With further developments, more durable systems were manufactured from wood, copper and bronze.
Printing Press: Johannes Gutenberg invented the infamous printing press that used a movable type-page setting, which made printing a lot faster and more resilient. The metal pieces used in Gutenberg’s press were sturdier than the ones used in the earlier system (Movable Text Printing). This innovation led to letters being a lot more uniform, which in turn laid the fountains for modern fonts and typography. All the movable-text printing that is possible today – stems from Gutenberg’s innovations and therefore it is acclaimed to be one of the most important innovations in the field of printing, ever. Following this ingenious invention in 1842 – the rotary press was developed, which could print on continuous rolls of paper using impression cylinders.
Offset printing: The Offset method of printing is a modern technology which is used across the world. With this unique method, an inked image is transferred (-or offset) from a plate to a rubber blanket, before it is transferred to the printing surface. Most modern newspapers, magazines and books are printed using the offset printing method.
Besides these modern printing techniques, there are numerous other techniques that is used to print of various different surfaces.
Laser printing: This method of printing is mostly used in offices. It is typically used to print administration items like documents or invoices.
Screen printing: This is a technique that is primarily used to print t-shirts, but it is also employed to print tiles and various other flat surfaces.
Printing methods have immensely changed from the initial block printing to present-day offset printing. Nowadays, commercial printing services have much more options with regards to printing methods.
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"Slowing down the cooling of these electrons—in this case, by more than 30 times—could lead to a better infrared laser source," said Philippe Guyot-Sionnest, Professor of Chemistry and Physics at the University of Chicago. "This, in turn, could be used to increase the bandwidth of communication satellites, allowing for faster connections."
Guyot-Sionnest is the principal investigator on the research project, which was described in a paper called "Slow Electron Cooling in Colloidal Quantum Dots," published Nov. 7 in Science.
The slow cooling of electrons in nanocrystals could lead to better, more efficient photovoltaic devices, he added. "This is because proposals to devise ways to extract the excess heat from these electrons as they cool are more likely to be realized—and to work—due to the fact that we now understand better what is going on with these nanocrystals."
Slower cooling of electrons in nanocrystals was first theorized in 1990, but no one has been able to observe this effect.
Slow electron cooling in nanocrystals occurs because forcing the electrons into a smaller volume leads them to oscillate between their alternate extremes within a very short period of time. (This is analogous to the way shorter strings on musical instruments produce higher pitches.) The electrons in the nanocrystals used in this experiment oscillated so fast that it became difficult for them to drag along the more sluggish vibrations of the nuclei. As a result, the energy stayed with the electrons for a longer period of time.
The slower cooling effect was difficult to induce and observe because several different mechanisms for energy loss interfered with the process. By eliminating these other mechanisms, the researchers were able to induce and observe slower electron cooling in nanocrystals.
Anshu Pandey, a graduate student in Chemistry at the University of Chicago, did the experiments described in the Science paper, which he co-authored.
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Opened in 2001, as a grey stone underground palace as refuge for modern and contemporary art works, the Tate Modern in London has built an impressive new height bound geometric shell. It has created a new encasing of solitude for the masterpieces of our time to breath at home.
The architecture reflects the era of modernism at its height. Slightly daunting in hard industrial lines and the play of square angles that meet the fuzzy unkemptness of the light that pours through the wide-bent skylights. It's a beautiful effort at maintaining a blank canvas for the work on exhibit. This new towering technical born mise en scène keeps its promise to the sky it touches.
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My guide to Japanese grammar has been helping people learn Japanese as it’s really spoken in Japan for many years. If you find yourself frustrated that you can’t understand Japanese movies or books despite having taken Japanese classes, then this book is for you. It will help you finally understand those pesky particles and break down grammatical concepts that will allow you to comprehend anything from simple to very complex sentences. You will also learn Japanese that’s spoken by real people including casual speech patterns and slang, stuff that’s often left out in most textbooks. Don’t take my word for it, just check out my website and order this book to have it handy wherever you go.
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Economics can be defined as the distribution of resources between people. An economy can be divided into three sectors: The for-profit or private sector, the government or public sector, and the non-profit sector. These can roughly be described as follows
- The private sector strives to maximize profits to owners. This is done by increasing revenue and reducing costs. The operational model for this sector is the (free) market, where money generally flows to the most productive. Hence, management is chosen by the market in the sense that non-performing managers eventually go bankrupt or are fired by the owners, that is, shareholders for publicly traded companies and owners for privately held companies.
- The public sector derives its income from taxation of the private sector and provides public services (for everybody) such as policing, infrastructure, firefighting, and military protection, which the private sector apparently can not supply at a profit.
The operational model for this sector is representative democracy. Here managers try to persuade consumers that their management model is superior to that of their competitors and thus they should go out and vote. These advertising campaigns that are repeated every four years.
- The non-profit sector derives its income from grants and donations from the public sector and the private sector. The non-profit sector provides services that are not provided by the private sector or the public sector, that is, services that are not profitable and/or mainly focuses on serving a minority of the public, like the poor, and thus do not fall under public services. Here managers compete for money by writing proposals and asking for donations/begging.
It is apparent that many political opinions can be classified on the emphasis or desired reliance that is placed on these three sectors of the economy. Sometimes political opinion follows personal inclinations. Strongly individualistic persons focus on the private, the for-profit companies, as it allows them the greatest benefits to thrive. Social or group-oriented persons focus on the public, the city, and national values. And the non-profit sector dealing with universally human values like education, religion, and health.
From this perspective, it becomes fairly clear, at least to me, that any economic system that concentrates on just one sector is bound to make some people unhappy and thus unproductive. A viable system would thus have all three sectors represented. We do in fact see that the countries that focus exclusively on one system whether it be for-profit or public (I am not aware of any countries that operate based on a dominant non-profit sectors) tend to score low when considering a wide band of indicators.
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Museum Curator: Mary Todd Lincoln Portrait a Fraud
SPRINGFIELD, IL - A famous portrait of Abraham Lincoln's wife that hung in the Illinois governor's mansion in Springfield for more than three decades - along with the presidential folklore that followed it - is a fake, officials said.
Abraham Lincoln Presidential Library and Museum curator James Cornelius said Saturday that the painting of Mary Todd Lincoln and its famous backstory appear to be a fraud, discovered when the painting was recently sent for a cleaning and an art restorer noted that the signature and other details on the painting appeared to have been added later.
According to Illinois folklore, Mary Todd Lincoln had Francis Carpenter secretly paint her portrait as a surprise for the 16th president, but Lincoln was assassinated before she had a chance to give it to him.
Instead, it appears that the painting- which officials now say depicts an anonymous woman and was painted by an anonymous painter- was altered by another painter who then invented the story about Mary Todd Lincoln, one that has been repeated for decades."It doesn't have the backstory we thought it had, but in a way it has new backstory that's quite intriguing," Cornelius told The Chicago Tribune.
Barry Bauman, the art restorer, said a painter appears to have altered the subject's facial features, painted over some accessories, including a necklace with a cross, and added a brooch with the president's picture. He will present his findings at the Springfield museum on April 26. The painting will then be on display at the museum.
Cornelius said the painting was sold to the Lincoln family in the late 1920s for between $2,000 and $3,000. It stayed in the family's possession until it was donated to the state historical library in 1976.
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Source: Garment that averts maternal deaths | The Herald 30 AUG, 2019
Roselyne Sachiti Features, Health & Society Editor
In July 2013, Government officials, development partners and women whose lives had been saved by an innovation known as the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG) gathered at a Harare hotel to share experiences.
The garment was fairly new to Zimbabwe’s public health system and was under randomised trials at Parirenyatwa Group of Hospitals and Harare Central Hospital leaving most stakeholders with the appetite to learn more about it.
One of the women, Tatenda Mugariri, explained how the NASG saved her life the previous year.
Mugariri experienced pregnancy complications at six months, miscarried and bled profusely almost losing her life.
“I was in pain and lost a lot of blood. I started feeling dizzy, my brain started shutting down. The doctor who attended to me suggested that I use the NASG which was on trial at Harare Hospital. The NASG saved my life,” she said back then.
Six years down the line, the Government has rolled out the NASG to other public health facilities mostly in the country’s rural areas with the hope of saving more lives.
Many pregnant women in rural areas because of various reasons — one of them religious beliefs — do not access mothers waiting shelters, another intervention by Government and its partners like Unicef and UNPFA to reduce maternal deaths. Such women face long delays while a decision is made at home to seek care, organise transport, travel to the hospital and wait in the hospital for blood or surgery.
In the absence of the NASG, such women could bleed heavily and die. NASG is a low-technology, low-cost first aid device used to treat shock, resuscitate, stabilise and prevent severe bleeding.
It applies circumferential counter pressure to the lower body and uterus which increases circulating blood to the heart, lungs and brain and decreases the rate of blood flow in the abdomen and pelvis, thus decreasing blood loss. Each garment can be used up to 40 times and is not expensive, an added advantage for under resourced countries like Zimbabwe.
Maintenance is easy as it only requires washing and bleaching. Since its roll out in Zimbabwe, success stories have been told and more women have “escaped the jaws of death” and lived to tell their stories.
The NASG has produced positive results in Zimbabwe proving that the great majority of maternal deaths are preventable with proper antenatal care, skilled delivery at birth, post-partum care and access to emergency obstetric care if complications arise.
It is also testimony of how new technologies, treatments, and other science-backed practices help to decrease maternal deaths and increase life expectancy.
Family Health director in the Ministry of Health and Child Care, Dr Bernard Madzima said the NASG intervention was important in reducing maternal mortality in Zimbabwe.
He said according to the Zimbabwean 2015 Demographic Health Survey, the maternal mortality rate was 651 per 100 000 live births, a figure driven by three main issues: sepsis, eclampsia and haemorrhage (ZDHS, 2015/6).
“Post-partum haemorrhage (PPH) is the major direct cause of these, accounting for 26 percent of maternal deaths among women of all ages (MOHCC First Half Annual report, 2018).
“In recognition of this, the Zimbabwean Ministry of Health and Child Care (MOHCC), with the support of the Clinton Health Access Initiative (CHAI) conducted a three-month rapid process evaluation of the implementation of the non-pneumatic anti-shock garment (NASG),” he said.
Dr Madzima explained how the NASG buys the much needed time to save lives of haemorrhaging women.
“The NASG is a device that can halt hypovolemic shock secondary to blood loss in obstetric haemorrhage. This compression wrap is lightweight, reusable, and fairly simple to apply, making it a suitable tool for low-resource settings.
“While the NASG alone is not a treatment for PPH, it buys essential time to transport haemorrhaging women to a facility, or to a ward within a facility, that can provide the needed services, in order to assure that adequate time is available to deliver life-saving obstetric emergency care,” added Dr Madzima.
He said while the NASG has been proven effective in a variety of studies, including a randomised controlled trial (RCT) conducted in Zimbabwe and Zambia, there remained limited understanding of its operationalisation in rural, low-resourced settings.
“The aim of the process evaluation, therefore, was to understand how contextual factors of the process of integrating the NASG into the obstetric emergency response within the public health system in Zimbabwe contributes to its reach, effectiveness, adoption, implementation and maintenance,” he added.
He revealed that in consultation with MOHCC and provincial management, Hurungwe District in Mashonaland West Province was identified as a high-priority area and selected as the target geography for this process evaluation.
The scope of facilities included 31 rural health facilities, one mission hospital, one district hospital and the provincial hospital. A total of 113 NASGs were distributed to the participating facilities.
“Over the three-month implementation period we carried out activities that include a baseline assessment to ascertain the system readiness for the NASG; procurement and distribution of the NASG and supporting items (such as BP machines and cleaning equipment); training of health practitioners who offer maternal health services and laundry staff; and monthly supportive supervision visits led by the MOHCC district team to ensure the NASG was being utilised correctly and to reinforce best practices.
“Over this period the NASG was successfully utilised on eight patients, out of 11 recorded PPH cases. All women were successfully stabilised and referred for care and treatment, recovered, and discharged home,” explained Dr Madzima.
He said the NASG was well-received by the health care workers, particularly given severe shortages of functional, fuelled ambulances in the district during the implementation period, as the NASG serves to effectively stabilise the woman whilst she awaits transport for referral.
Such steps by Government prove that Zimbabwe is committed to reducing maternal mortality.
Twenty-five years ago, at the International Conference on Population and Development (ICPD) in Cairo, 179 governments, Zimbabwe included, adopted a visionary Programme of Action that aimed to safeguard the health and rights of women and girls and to promote their empowerment.
In 1994, the Programme of Action called for countries to effect “a reduction in maternal mortality by a half of the 1990 levels by the year 2000 and a further half by 2015.” Taken together, this would be a 75 per cent reduction in maternal mortality.
With low cost interventions such as the NASG, health providers can buy time and put the lives of many women out of danger. The country can also move toward reaching its global commitment goals.
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Inversed Timing Belt Transmission
One day, I had an idea for a compact gearing mechanism. It is light, compact and has no backlash (that I’ve noticed). The inner pulley is 20 teeth, the outer ring is 120 teeth and the belt is 150 teeth.
It was a nightmare to compute the dimensions analytically so I finally gave up and made a small python program that solved the problem numerically. This worked out great and I was able to 3d print the prototype shown in the video above.
Behavior under load
I was initially hopeful that the setup would perform well under load, but that turned out to be false. Unfortunately, when a load is applied there is a small inwards force on the belt making it prone to detaching from the outer ring.
Increasing the number of bearings or replacing them with a continous loop of pins/cylinders that rotate as the belt rotates might minimize the issue, but I’ve not gotten around to try it yet.
After coming up with the idea, I found a similar mechanism mentioned in the conference paper
ePaddle mechanism: Towards the development of a versatile amphibious locomotion mechanism. After publishing the video above I got a comment that directed me to a US patent (
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A beautiful illustration of the difference between Twitter and the real world is the viral status of Michael Harriot’s attack on Mayor Pete Buttigieg in The Root as a “lying MF.”
Buttigieg’s sin was to state, in 2011, that inner-city black kids are hobbled from getting the education they need because they lack role models who attest to the benefits of education. “And there are a lot of kids—especially [in] the lower-income, minority neighborhoods—who literally just haven’t seen it work. There isn’t someone who they know personally who testifies to the value of education.”
Many will already wonder what was wrong here: After all, is it not a mantra of enlightened thought about race to bemoan the absence of role models for various beneficial behaviors? However, to Harriot, Buttigieg’s reference to this truism was “lying.” The nut of the issue is that there are other reasons inner-city kids fail to graduate or go to college, such as funding disparities, unequal curriculum resources, and violence.
All of those things are real. Unreal, however, is Harriot’s leap of logic: that in not mentioning those things, Buttigieg was inherently denying their existence, and that in noting the lack of role models, he was blaming black people for their own problems. Buttigieg’s transgression seems to have been that he did not mention all of the reasons black kids have trouble accessing education in underserved neighborhoods. A more elaborate answer would have been more sophisticated. But why would anyone read him as an “MF” for not ticking off the whole list?
Civil-rights leaders of the recent past would be baffled by the pique here, as, I’m sure, would Americans who don’t spend most of their waking hours on social media. It’s been widely noted of late that “woke” white people are “woker” than most black people. It is also true that “woke” black people in academia and media are “woker” than a great many black people who don’t have the privilege of a byline. Harriot is assuming that Buttigieg must have meant that the lack of role models is due simply to some pathology among black people, when actually, almost anyone who publicly talks of role models in this way intends, via implication, that the lack of role models is due to larger societal factors.
Harriot and those who agree with him are reading Buttigieg as having simply preached that black people don’t care about school. But sheer psychological plausibility rules out that this is what he meant. Let’s suppose that for some reason, this is what thoughtful, Millennial Buttigieg, who at the time was running for mayor of a town with a large black population, actually believed. Let’s just suppose that. But: Would a sober, ambitious figure like Buttigieg sit in public casually assailing black America as too lazy, stupid, or unfocused to present role models to its kids?
Buttigieg was speaking out of informed sympathy, as anyone familiar with American sociopolitical discussion should have noticed. Our antennae must go up when notions of what an insult is become this strained. We must heed our inner blip of confusion instead of suspending logic when we grapple with race issues.
The degree of aggrievement here must be clear. I will let Harriot speak for himself:
This is why institutional inequality persists. Not because of white hoods and racial slurs. It is because this insidious double-talk erases the problem by camouflaging it. Because it is painted as a problem of black lethargy and not white apathy. Pete Buttigieg is standing over a dying man, holding the oxygen machine in his hand and telling everyone: “Nah, he doesn’t need CPR. He’s just holding his breath.” Negligent homicide is still homicide.
Recall, folks, that this is being written about Pete Buttigieg. Pique of this heat in this situation seems totally unjustified, unless you perceive Buttigieg’s comments as a form of blasphemy. It is as if Buttigieg gave a Christian sermon without mentioning God or Jesus, or listed only five Commandments. It’s one thing to observe that someone’s analysis is incomplete. It’s another to read that incompleteness as a kind of willful denial, sit in fury, and tar someone as a lying MF guilty of negligent homicide. As I’ve said before, this sort of response is more religious than rational; it bypasses the bounds of logic into the realm of imposed liturgy, of ritual: We are less to think than to pose and follow.
Yesterday, Buttigieg was large enough to actually telephone Harriot, upon which they had what The Root billed as a “productive” conversation. However, this verdict is based on the assumption that Buttigieg had something to apologize for and needed to be “schooled” on how structural racism works. That is based on a kabuki version of race relations, all about striking poses. Buttigieg has made it glaringly obvious in countless ways that he understands structural racism. He also understands the rituals of our current race debate, amid which, as a candidate for president, it will serve him well to seek out Harriot to “listen” and “acknowledge.”
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An estimated 1.5 million more people in California are set to lose power on Tuesday as a utility firm tries to stop damaged cables triggering wildfires.
Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E) already faces an investigation by regulators after cutting supplies to 970, 000 homes and businesses.
(It announced that another 650, 000 properties would face precautionary shut-offs on Tuesday amid high winds.
Wildfires fanned by the strong winds are raging in two parts of the state.
Thousands of residents near the wealthy Brentwood neighborhood of Los Angeles have been told to evacuate because of a wildfire that began early on Monday.
Celebrities including the actor-turned-politician Arnold Schwarzenegger and basketball star LeBron James are among those who have fled the fast-moving Getty Fire, which started near the Getty Center arts complex.
Further north in Sonoma County, a larger fire has forced 180, 000 people from their homes.
California’s governor has declared a state-wide emergency.
What about the power cuts?
On Monday regulators announced a formal inquiry into whether energy utilities broke rules by pre-emptively cutting power to an estimated *** million people as wildfire risks soared.
They did not name any utilities but analysts said PG&E was responsible for the bulk of the “public safety power shut-offs”.
The company filed for bankruptcy in January after facing hundreds of lawsuits from victims of wildfires in 2017 and 2018.
Of the 970, 000 properties hit by the most recent cuts, under half had their services back by Monday, the Associated Press reported.
Despite criticism that the precautionary blackouts were too widespread and too disruptive, PG&E said more would come on Tuesday and Wednesday because further strong winds were expected.
The company said it had logged more than 20 preliminary reports of damage to its network from the most recent windstorm.
In a video posted to Twitter on Saturday, Governor Gavin Newsom said the power cuts were “infuriating everyone, and rightfully so”.
Where are the fires now?
In Los Angeles, the Getty Fire has burned over (acres) 242 ha) and about 10, 000 buildings are in the mandatory evacuation zone.
At least eight homes have
“If you are in an evacuation zone, don’t screw around,” Mr Schwarzenegger tweeted. “Get out.”
LA fire chief Ralph Terrazas said fire crews had been “overwhelmed” by the scale of the fires.
“They had to make some tough decisions on which houses they were able to protect,” he said.
“Many times it depends on where the ember lands. I saw homes that were adjacent to homes that were totally destroyed, without any damage.”
In northern California, schools remain closed in Sonoma County , where tens of thousands of homes and businesses are under threat.
Sonoma has been ravaged by the Kincade Fire, which started on Wednesday and has burned through 50, 000 acres of land, fanned by the winds.
The Kincade Fire began seven minutes after a nearby power line was damaged, but PG&E has not yet confirmed if the power glitch started the blaze.
About 180, 000 people have been ordered to evacuate, with roads around Santa Rosa north of San Francisco packed with cars as people tried to flee.
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This work presents the results of detailed unsteady flow measurements in a rotating two stage shrouded axial turbine. The turbine was built at the Laboratory of Turbomachinery at the ETH Zurich as part of this thesis. The design, the rig engineering and the manufacturing of the turbine was one significant task of this work. The resulting very precise facility is used to experimentally study the evolution and convection of the unsteady secondary flow field and its interaction with the blade rows in a real multistage environment. The time-resolved flow field measurements in the second turbine stage are performed with highly sophisticated miniature fast response pressure probes and state-of-the-art pneumatic multi-hole probes for the steady flow field. The unique combination of this versatile research facility and the advanced measurement technology of fast response probes, makes the presented results very unique. Novel probe calibration models and probe designs are developed and validated in the turbine flow field. The engineering of highly automated data reduction systems (HERKULES) lead to a powerful software tool for the postprocessing of the fast response pressure data within a few hours for a typical area traverse of several hundred grid points.The interaction of the rotor indigenous vortices with the downstream blade rows are subject of significant loss generation due to the stretching of the vortices as they convect through the downstream blades. This highly unsteady process is measured in great detail at the exit plane of the first rotor. The unsteady flow field is classified into three time periods for one blade passing event. In the first period, the level of interaction between the vortices, the wakes and the downstream blades is moderate and the turbine losses are minimal. The second phase shows an interaction mechanism between the rotor vortical system and the rotor wake, as the vortices are pushed towards the rotor suction side due to the relative motion of the rotor and stator blades. The high loss fluid from the wake is rolled up into the passage vortex and increases loss at the rotor hub section. The turbine losses reach a maximum within the third period where the vortices are tilted and stretched in the streamwise direction. The associated increase of vorticity generates more shear and thus more loss. The measured mechanism is typical for unsteady flows and losses in this type of flow environment.The results of the labyrinth seal variation highlights the importance of the reentry path of the leakage flow into the mainstream and indicates that the hub and tip labyrinth design ought to be considered from different perspectives. The prediction of secondary flows and flow profiles is achieved by a novel flow model as shown in the thesis. The flow model is validated with experimental data wherein the results show excellent agreement with the measured data.
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Day by Day
Artist’s life spurs thoughts of appreciation
January 16, 2017
By Liz Thompson
As we start a new year, it would serve us well to appreciate what we have.
My son-in-law once jokingly asked if his wife — my daughter — ever did anything wrong. We were recalling funny memories of her youth. I told him, “Sure, but we just choose to remember the good things.”
Memories can haunt us, if we let them, or they can be a catalyst to do something different.
One of my grandmothers had a farm, and I made some of my best memories there. I remember standing on the floor register in winter to warm myself and staring at a painting of a winter farm scene. I loved the colors and simplicity. One of my cousins and I think it was called “Sugaring Off.” (See art below.)
Recently, I read in my daily devotion about this artist’s hardships and I remembered the painting.
Born in 1860, Anna Mary Robertson led a hard life. She grew up as one of 10 children on her parents’ farm in New York. She left home at age 12 to work as a hired girl for a nearby farm until she was 27, marrying a hired hand, Thomas Moses. They ran a farm and raised five children. The couple lost five other children as infants.
Years later, arthritis made it difficult for her to hold a needle to embroider, but she could hold a paintbrush. She began painting to overcome the grief of losing her husband in 1927. She was completely self-taught and, therefore, called an American primitive artist.
By now, you might have guessed that she later became known as Grandma Moses, famous for her nostalgic paintings depicting rural American life.
According to The New York Times, she said, “I’ll get an inspiration and start painting, then I’ll forget everything, everything except how things used to be and how to paint it so people will know how we used to live.”
When I think about her life and how her art was so pleasing to look at, I realize that even during difficult times, we can find a way to celebrate life. There are many ways to look for the good in our memories.
In the mid-1940s, Grandma Moses’ images were reproduced on greeting cards, which introduced her work to many. Even today, with a click of your computer mouse, you can find her artwork in many formats.
When I think of the way of life more than 100 years ago, then look at the relative ease in which I live in today, I count my blessings many times over. We no longer have to grow our own food to eat. My husband and I have a garden, but nothing like days gone by.
When I read about people such as Grandma Moses and think about the few left in what is dubbed the Greatest Generation, I’m reminded of their tenacity. Grandma Moses, like so many people I know and have known, chose to emphasize the good things in life.
When we look for the happiness of simple times with loved ones — a good harvest, a healthy child, freedom and a loving family that sticks together through the difficult times — each day is worthwhile.
In years past, hard work was an expected way of life to provide for families. Calloused hands were a sign of honor, and still should be.
Today, many of us have it so easy we tend to forget the labors that bring food to our stores — the hours spent tilling the earth (albeit with sophisticated machinery most of the time), planting the seed and harvesting the crops.
“I look back on my life like a good day’s work, it was done and I feel satisfied with it,” Grandma Moses said. “I was happy and contented. I knew nothing better and made the best out of what life offered. And life is what we make it, always has been, always will be.”
Her obituary said she was survived by one daughter-in-law and many grandchildren and great-grandchildren. She died at age 101 and apparently outlived all her children, painting memories till her last days. She painted more than 1,500 pieces in her life — 25 of those in her 100th year of life.
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Gene therapy: 'Heart-healing virus' trial starts
- 30 April 2013
- From the section Health
Patients in the UK have been enrolled into a trial to see if an engineered virus can be used to heal their damaged and struggling hearts.
The trial will use a virus to introduce genetic material into heart muscle to reverse the organ's decline.
The British Heart Foundation said the idea had "great potential" but needed to be proven in clinical trials.
Heart failure affects more than 750,000 people in the UK and can leave some people too weak to climb the stairs.
It occurs when the organ is damaged, for example after being starved of oxygen in a heart attack, and becomes too weak to effectively pump blood around the body.
There have been huge medical leaps in keeping patients alive after a heart attack, but the consequence is a rapidly growing number of people living with heart failure.
Researchers at Imperial College London found levels of the protein SERCA2a were lower in heart-failure patients. So they devised a genetically modified virus, with the instructions for producing more of the protein, that can infect the heart.
The virus will be released into the damaged heart muscle of the 200 patients involved in the trial via a tube inserted into the leg and pushed up through the blood vessels.
Prof Sian Harding, from Imperial College London, said: "It's bringing [the heart] back to the point where patients were pretty well, just after the initial damage occurred.
"We think this is a treatment that can improve quality of life for quite a lot of people."
Dr Alexander Lyon, a cardiologist at Royal Brompton Hospital, where some patients will take part in the trial, said: "This is the first ever gene therapy trial for heart failure.
"Our goal is to fight back against heart failure by targeting and reversing some of the critical molecular changes arising in the heart when it fails."
The Golden Jubilee National Hospital in Clydebank is also taking part in the trial.
Dr Mark Petrie said: "As a national service treating Scottish patients with the most serious heart failure, it is vital that we are at the forefront of new research and developments."
Prof Peter Weissberg, the medical director of the British Heart Foundation, said: "Whilst drugs can offer some relief, there is currently no way of restoring function to the heart for those suffering with heart failure.
"Gene therapy aims to improve the function of weak heart muscle cells, whereas our Mending Broken Hearts Appeal is aimed at finding ways to replace dead heart muscle cells after a heart attack.
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1.1 Origin of advertising
The origin of advertising does not lie in the modern industrial age, but it has its roots in the remote past. Thousand of years ago most people were engaged in hunting, farming, or handicraft related activities. They used to barter products among themselves. Distribution was limited to how far the vendor could walk and distribute, advertising was limited to how loud they could shout. Perhaps the earliest form of advertising was simply the trader shouting out the fact that he existed and naming what he had to sell in the local market place.
As an instrument of marketing, advertising was an effective through multiple sales people reaching many people at one time. Then it had used the media as a tool.
The American marketing association defines advertising as “any paid form of non-personal presentation and promotion of ideas, goods or services by an identified sponsor”. Advertising doesn’t change the physical properties of the product but than also it is the most compulsory expense for creating demand for the product.
1.2 Impact of advertising
Advertising plays an important role in today’s competitive business world. It provides benefits to Manufacturers, Retailers, Customers, Salesman and Society as well.
* Introduces a New Product:
Advertising is used to introduce a new product in the market. It helps to compete with establish brands and, thereby, ensures the survival and success of new product.
* Creates Demand for Product:
Advertising creates demand for the product. Advertising spread information about the product or services and makes consumers aware about it through various mass media which makes positive effect on the mind of the people and create demand for the product.
* Expand Market:
It helps in expanding local markets, to national level and even to international level. Trading at national and international level is impossible without advertising
* Assists Personal Selling:
Advertising reaches a prospect before a salesman could. The prospect is well informed through advertising. Makes the salesman’s job easier.
* Building Brand Image:
The purpose of repeat advertisings is to make people more brands conscious. Once good brand image is developed, buyers generally become brand loyal. Money spent on advertising is a long term investment to build brand and company image.
* Reduces the cost of goods:
Advertising generates more demand, which leads to large scale production and distribution. This results in economies in large scale which in turn reduces cost of goods.
* Persuades prospects:
Every competitor makes superior claims of his product. Therefore, a prospect needs to persuade to buy products. So, the role of Advertising is not only to inform but also to persuade.
Advertising provides employment in the field of advertising to copywriters, models, etc. It provides indirect employment in society due to large scale production and distribution.
1.3 Role of advertising in marketing mix.
Marketing mix refers to advertising combination of four elements of marketing useful for large-scale marketing. Such elements are: Production, Price, Place, and Promotion (4 Ps).
According to W.J. Stanton “Marketing mix is the term used to describe the combination of the four inputs which constitute the core of advertising company’s marketing system: the product, the price structure, the promotional activities and the distribution system”
Advertising and elements of marketing mix:
* Advertising and product:
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Of Bells and a Thousand
Years of Peace
The calendar points to the moment of Monday midnight, to the tolling of the Island bells, to that time in our lives when old becomes new and we wonder what lies ahead. These are the days just before and just after the first bell strikes that we find most appropriate for that old and familiar greeting spoken so comfortably and without rancor. Happy New Year is the refrain now heard across the Island, in every corner of every Vineyard township.
Its translation is simple, even eloquent: new hope for a new year, especially the hope that the human landscape of our lives improves, that the quality of life for all is better in 2008 than it was in 2007. Surely the theme of renewed hope in a new year belongs to everyone. But the importance of the moment is recognized through the ages and perhaps best captured in thoughts of poets and philosophers.
“No one ever regarded the first of January with indifference,” writes English author Charles Lamb. Reflections from the English scholar A.E. Housman revolve around the beauty of the “death-struck year” and Emerson reminds that the “years teach what the days never know.” No old year escapes into new without song and those soaring words of the Scot Robert Burns: “And we’ll take a cup of kindness yet, For auld lang syne.”
And what new year arrives without the thoughts of Tennyson when as poet laureate of England in the 1800s he wrote: “Ring out the old, ring in the new; Ring, happy bells, across the snow; The year is going, let him go; Ring out the false, ring in the true.” Through stanza after stanza Tennyson replaces what is gone with hope for what is to come. “Ring out the thousand wars of old; Ring in the thousand years of peace.”
It is difficult, perhaps the better word is impossible, to predict the course of the year 2008. But it is not hard on the Vineyard or elsewhere in the nation to move forward with hopes common to all, with yearnings for peace and prosperity, for good health and a genuine compassion for our fellow Island citizens. Year after year we worry about the fissures in Vineyard life, about political divisions that so often leave the Island too fractured for its own good. Our public discourse runs too quickly to extremes where no one listens and everyone talks at once.
What the Vineyard needs urgently is a set of New Year’s resolutions that brings into the public life of the Island more civility and a greater respect for the thoughts and beliefs of our fellow citizens. Deep division in Island life is our enemy, not our ally. We must find better ways to talk to each other, to hear each other, in search of compromise and common solutions necessary to preserve and protect the character of the Vineyard and quality of its life. Our wish for the Vineyard community in the coming new year is for greater unity and for an end to wounding attacks brought on by destructive personal politics.
Certainly there are better arenas to argue the issues of growth and noise than within the boundaries of courts and collisions that divide neighbors between a rooster named Chickie and a helipad yet unnamed. We have in the past year suffered both disappointments and triumphs. The economy has struggled through a rough patch; the Island lost any number of dear neighbors, some well-known, others not. Storms tore a hole in Norton Point and we even lost our trusted ferry Islander after a longstanding love affair.
But the name of the new ferry Island Home speaks to the strength of this special place called Martha’s Vineyard. Always the Island shows her greatest resilience in times of adversity. It is in these moments that the Vineyard and her citizens are at their best. And so we move toward the first Monday midnight sound of church bells with firm resolve to leave the Island and her people in better shape at the end of 2008 than we did in these now dying days of a fading year.
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House of Samuel Huggard, son of Andrew and Jane Huggard.
Andrew and Samuel were the sons of Moses Huggart of Rockbridge County, Virginia. Moses was listed in the 1810 census being the head of household with “seven free nonwhite persons” living there. They probably took the name Huggart, from a white family that lived on the Big Calfpasture River in Virginia.
Samuel applied for a patent for 80 acres of land on Sept. 11, 1834. He paid $100 for the land, which was $1.25 an acre. That was the minimum price and the minimum amount of land that could be purchased. Those were the guidelines of the federal land law of 1820.
The purchase was approved on March 20, 1837. Samuel was not recorded as actually living in St. Joseph County until the 1850 census.
Samuel’s younger brother, Andrew, arrived in the county in 1848. They may have came together, since the 1850 census listed them as residing in the same household.
Before moving to Indiana, Samuel lived in Montgomery County, Ohio. In 1858, half of the Indiana farm was deeded to Andrew. In 1863, the brothers bought an adjacent 80 acres. When Samuel died on Dec. 21, 1872 Andrew became the sole owner.
Andrew was born in 1816 in Virginia. He moved to Dayton, Ohio when he was 20 and then later to Miami County, Ohio. He was trained as a cobbler (shoemaker) at an early age.
Andrew married Jane Clark in 1839. She was from the Blue Ridge area of Virginia. They had five children. Wesley, Mary and James were born in Ohio. Sarah and Samuel were born in Indiana.
Wesley and James each purchased 40 acres of the families’ farm in 1865 and 1873. Andrew made most of his income from farming. He did some shoe repair for neighbors in the winter.
Andrew and Samuel were both members of the Sumption Prairie Baptist Church. Samuel served on a committee planning to build a new church in 1852. At some point, Andrew became active in the Olive Branch United Brethren Church. He was listed as the superintendent of a Sunday school there in 1881. Andrew’s children attended the Olive Branch school, too.
Andrew was a successful farmer and highly regarded in the community. His October 1, 1881 obituary in the South Bend Tribune even cites him as the “first colored man to run for office” in St. Joseph County. We don’t know what that office was.
Samuel (son of Andrew and Jane Huggard) and wife Rosella and son Clarence
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Games by Type
There are a lot of games out there. If you are just starting to explore the hobby or are looking for something specific, it can be overwhelming to navigate the multitude of gaming titles. Use the following to help you narrow down what you are looking for or explore new games.
- Abstract Strategy Games (82)Abstract Strategy games are often (but not always) theme-less (without storyline), built on simple and/or straightforward design and mechanics, perfect information games, promote one player overtaking their opponent(s), little to no elements of luck, chance, or random occurrence, and can be minimal in design. (source: BGG)
- Action / Dexterity Games (38)Action/Dexterity games often compete players' physical reflexes and coordination as a determinant of overall success. (source: BGG)
- Adventure Games (29)Adventure games often have themes of heroism, exploration, and puzzle-solving. The storyline behind such games often have fantastical elements, and involve the characters in some sort of quest. (source: BGG)
- Age of Reason Games (1)Age of Reason games are set in the late 17th century to late 18th century. For gaming purposes, the Age of Reason started around 1690, coming to an end with the French Revolutionary Wars and the Napoleonic Era. (source BGG)
- American West Games (13)American West games often have themes or storylines set in the Western United States during the latter half of the 19th century. Some of the themes and imagery found in the most popular American West games concerns cowboys, sheriffs, outlaws, prospecting, colonization, and railways, among others. (source: BGG)
- Ancient Games (16)Ancient games often have themes or storylines set in the Old World, between 3000 BC (the beginning of the Egyptian dynasties) and AD 476 (the fall of the Western Roman Empire). Some of the themes and imagery found in the most popular Ancient games concerns ancient Egyptian, Greek, and Roman civilizations. (source: BGG)
- Animal Games (70)Animal games involve animals as a major component of the theme or gameplay. Animals games often require players to attend to the management or control of animals. Players may even take on the role of an animal (or animals) in the game. (source: BGG)
- Aviation / Flight Games (5)Aviation / Flight games are primarily concerned with mechanical flight, including planes, helicopters, and gliders. (source: BGG)
- Bluffing Games (65)Bluffing games encourage players to use deception to achieve their aims. All Bluffing games have an element of hidden information in them. (source: BGG)
- Card Games (452)Card games often use cards as its sole or central component. There are stand-alone card games, in which all the cards necessary for gameplay are purchased at once. There are also Collectible Card Games (CCGs), where players purchase starter and "booster" packs in an effort to compile a more and more powerful deck of cards to compete with. (source: BGG)
- Children's Games (39)Children's games are often driven by a set of simple rules and elementary themes geared towards younger players. However, the most popular Children's games are just that because they can be (and are) enjoyed by gamers of all ages. (source: BGG)
- City Building Games (20)City Building games compel players to construct and manage a city in a way that is more efficient, powerful, and/or lucrative than their opponent's cities. (source: BGG)
- Civilization Games (15)Civilization games often have players developing and managing a society of people. The aim of each player is usually to employ citizens in ways that are beneficial to society, and have them progress throughout the game so that their civilization gains superiority over others. Civilization games may have each player build their society independently, or through warfare and diplomacy, each player may find themselves benefiting or suffering from the actions of others. (source: BGG)
- Civil War Games (1)
- Comic Book/Strip Games (1)
- Cooperative Games (95)Cooperative games encourage or require players to work together to beat the game. There is little or no competition between players. Either the players win the game by reaching a pre-determined objective, or all players lose the game, often by not reaching the objective before a certain event happens. Semi-cooperative games are very similar, but players only need to work together to a certain point and victory goes to one player at the end. (source: BGG)
- Deduction Games (73)Deduction games are those that require players to form conclusions based on available premises. These games are quite varied, including several different types of logical reasoning. Types include "Cat and Mouse" Deduction games where players use a set of observations and truthful feedback to narrow down possibilities, "Elimination" Deduction games where players arrive at the right conclusion after narrowing down possibilities from a large list, "Signalling" Deduction games where players make choices off of player-driven feedback (which may not be truthful), and "Induction" Deduction games where players must derive a general rule out of near infinite possibilities. (source: BGG)
- Dice Games (83)Dice games often use dice as its sole or principal component. Dice games traditionally focus almost exclusively on dice rolling as a mechanic (e.g., Yahtzee, Liar's Dice, Can't Stop). Generally, Dice games also refer to a number of Wargames that frequently use a large number of dice to decide a majority of game outcomes and variables. Usually, dice will account for the "luck" or "random chance" factor often needed in military simulations. These types of Wargames are colloquially known as "dice-fests". (source: BGG)
- Economic Games (34)Economic games encourage players to develop and manage a system of production, distribution, trade, and/or consumption of goods. The games usually simulate a market in some way. The term is often used interchangably with resource management games. (source: BGG)
- Educational Games (21)Educational games have been specifically designed to teach people about a certain subject, expand concepts, reinforce development, understand a historical event or culture, or assist them in learning a skill as they play. (source: BGG)
- Environmental Games (14)Environmental games often have themes and storylines regarding environmental conservation and management. (source: BGG)
- Exploration Games (25)Exploration games often encourage players to discover and search new areas or territories for particular objects or goods, and/or to search for people to become trading partners with. (source: BGG)
- Fantasy Games (147)Fantasy games are those that have themes and scenarios that exist in a fictional world. It is a genre that uses magic and other supernatural forms as a primary element of plot, theme, and/or setting. Fantasy is generally distinguished from science fiction and horror by the expectation that it steers clear of scientific and macabre themes, respectively, though there can be a great deal of overlap between the three.
Fantasy game elements usually include:
a- Creatures that are common in fantasy books and comics, such as orcs, trolls, goblins, dragons, etc.
b- Magic that can be used with units or abilities
c- Can involve a struggle between good and evil forces.
- Farming Games (24)Farming games encourage players to build and manage farmland for the purposes of growing crops and/or tending to livestock, often to be sold or traded later on. (source: BGG)
- Fighting Games (49)Fighting games are those that encourage players to engage game characters in close quarter battles and hand-to-hand combat. Fighting games differ from Wargames in that the combat in Wargames exists as one part of a large-scale military simulation, while in Fighting games the focus is on the particular combat scenarios, like a skirmish. (source: BGG)
- Firefighting Games (4)Firefighting games focus mostly on controlling risk by "putting out fires". Thematically, the players most often take on the roles of firefighters.
- Food / Cooking Games (20)Food and cooking games simulate the process of preparing, cooking, and serving food.
- Game Expansions (55)Game expansions add to a base game and almost always require the player have access to the base game, but not always. Some game expansions can be added or played on their own. Game expansions tend to add either a new level of difficulty, a different style of play, or more options to the players.
- Game News (1)
- Game Systems (8)A Game System is an item whose components are not a game, per se, but are used to play games. The best example of a Game System is a deck of standard playing cards. (source: BGG)
- Horror Games (43)Horror games often contain themes and imagery depicting morbid and supernatural elements. (source: BGG)
- Humor Games (70)Humor Games often have themes and gameplay that provoke laughter and amusement. More specifically, humor games may require players to engage in clowning, comedy, jokes, and/or satire as an objective of the game. (source: BGG)
- Industry / Manufacturing Games (6)Industry / Manufacturing games encourage players to build, manage and/or operate tools and machinery in order to manufacture raw materials into goods and products. Many of the most popular Industry / Manufacturing games are Economic games as well. (source: BGG)
- Literature (16)Written and illustrated works. Everything from books to comics. Some are considered superior with long-lasting artistic merit. Others...not so much.
- Mafia Games (2)Mafia games have themes and scenarios related to classic Sicilian criminal organizations. However, some games in the Mafia category may be related to other organized criminal groups. (source: BGG)
- Mature / Adult (1)
- Maze Games (6)Maze games often require players to navigate a series of pathways that are located on the game board. The maze itself might be prebuilt before game play or built by the players during the game. Mazes can also change, making it difficult to navigate. (source: BGG)
- Medical Games (4)Medical games have themes related to the science of natural healing. Themes may include surgery, cures, recovery/recuperation/physical therapy, psychiatry, pharmaceutical prescription, and other medicine-related items. (source: BGG)
- Medieval Games (37)Medieval games often have themes or storylines set in Europe or Asia, between the 5th century (the fall of the Western Roman Empire) and the 16th century (the beginnings of European overseas colonization). (source: BGG)
- Memory Games (28)Memory games require players to retain and recall previous game events or information as an objective. (source: BGG)
- Miniatures Games (17)Miniatures games use small scale figures to represent specific characters and objects during gameplay. Knights, trees, giant robots, buildings, etc. The most popular Miniatures games are characteristically known for their use of detailed plastic or metal figures. (source: BGG)
- Movies / TV / Radio Themed Games (2)Movies/TV/Radio games are often those that are thematically linked with a popular movie, television show, or radio program. Other Movies/TV/Radio themed games may test players' knowledge about these media, or the game environment may be set in the movie, television, or radio industry. (source: BGG)
- Murder Mystery Games (10)Murder Mystery games often involve an unsolved murder or murders. A requirement of these games is usually for players to investigate these crimes, and determine the criminal details and/or perpetrator(s). (source: BGG)
- Mythology Games (8)Mythology games are those that often incorporate a thematic narrative that defines how the game world or characters came into existence, specially those related or based on narratives of ancient civilizations of the world. The storyline in a number of Mythology games usually includes supernatural elements, such as gods, goddesses and demigods, and are sometimes set in a fabled, primordial time, which usually corresponds to a general corpus of folk stories (myths) that used to have some form of religious or sacred nature for the cultures that engendered these stories. (source: BGG)
- Nautical Games (10)Nautical games involve sailors, ships, and/or maritime navigation as a major component of the theme or game play. Most Nautical games require players to effectively control ships as an objective. (source: BGG)
- Negotiation Games (17)Negotiation games explicitly involve and encourage making deals and alliances with other players and backstabbing when appropriate. Winning is rare without participating in these deals. Unlike cooperative games, Negotiation games are still largely competitive, while granting players certain times to make mutual agreements through discussion. Negotiation can also include bribery. (source: BGG)
- Ninja Games (5)Ninja games often have themes or storylines that involve ninjas, martial arts, and combat. These games are often set in feudal Japan, but not always, as ninjas are eternal. It is a well-known fact that ninjas and pirates are sworn enemies. If you see a ninja, it is only because the ninja wants you to see them.
- Novel-Based Games (8)Novel-Based games are those that are thematically linked with a popular novel or novel series. (source: BGG)
- Number Games (7)Number games require players to use or manipulate numbers to achieve their aims. (source: BGG)
- Party Games (81)Party games are games that encourage social interaction. They generally have easy setups and simple rules, and they can accommodate large groups of people and play in a short amount of time. (source: BGG)
- Pirate Games (29)Pirate games often have themes or storylines of piracy. Some of the most popular themes and imagery in Pirate games concerns treasure hunting, sea robbery, swords and cannons, swashbuckling, and ship racing. Many Pirate games occur in timelines prior to the 20th century. Pirates hate Ninjas. (source: BGG)
- Political Games (18)Political games encourage players to use their character's authority to manipulate societal activities and policy. (source: BGG)
- Prehistoric Games (7)Prehistoric games often have themes or storylines set in a time before prerecorded history. These unwritten histories are usually compiled under time periods, including the Stone Age, Bronze Age, and Iron Age.
Many of the popular Prehistoric games are set in the Stone Age, hunter/gatherer societies, or time periods when dinosaurs existed. (source: BGG)
- Prepublished Games (270)Prepublished games are those titles that have not yet been published, but might soon be. These games are typically requesting crowdfunding through Kickstarter or Indiegogo. Many try and few succeed. If the prepublished game has been successfully published and we have released a review for the published version, the prepublished version of the review will point you to the updated content.
- Print and Play Games (14)Print and play games are those which are often free to any player who wishes to print them off themselves. Many are available on the Internet. (source: BGG)
- Puzzle Games (49)Puzzle games are those in which the players are trying to solve a puzzle. Many Puzzle games require players to use problem solving, pattern recognition, organization and/or sequencing to reach their objectives. (source: BGG)
- Racing Games (24)Racing games often involve players in a form of race, where the objective is to be the first to reach a checkpoint, usually by having greater speed and/or control than your opponents. Although many games in which players attempt to reach a particular goal more quickly than other players are described as Racing games (e.g., Dominion), this game type specifically refers to racing that also includes some element of steering, by which players navigate their piece(s) around obstacles which generally stay on the board from the start. (source: BGG)
- Real-Time Games (34)Real-Time games often allow for players to take their turns (or part of their turns) simultaneously. This is in contrast to turn-based games. There are also some Real-time games in which there is a consequence if a player does not play their turn in a set amount of time. (source: BGG)
- Religious Games (6)Religious games feature elements, narratives, settings, or characters that relate to current belief systems (religions) of the world, either in their historical aspect and its development through time or in their actual objects of faith, like sacred scriptures and articles of doctrine. This can be done through direct reference or by exploring different aspects of the faith in a playful fashion. (source: BGG)
- Renaissance Games (8)Renaissance games are those set between the 14th century (when the Renaissance began in Italy) and roughly the early 17th century. (source: BGG)
- Role-Playing Games (10)Role-Playing games (also known as RPGs and sometimes simply "roleplaying") is a game in which players assume the roles of characters in a fictional setting. Players take responsibility for acting out these roles within a narrative, either through literal acting or through a process of structured decision-making or character development. Actions taken within many games succeed or fail according to a formal system of rules and guidelines that most often use dice and probability. Most RPGs have a referee who leads the story and directs the action. (source: Wikipedia)
- Science Fiction Games (76)Science Fiction games often have themes relating to imagined possibilities in the sciences. Such games need not be futuristic; they can be based on an alternative past. (For example, the writings of Jules Verne and the Star Wars saga are set before present time.) Many of the most popular Science Fiction games are set in outer space, and often involve alien races. (source: BGG)
- Solitaire Games (62)Solitaire games are designed to be playable with only one player attempting to beat the game.
- Space Exploration Games (8)Space Exploration games often have themes and storylines relating to travel and adventure in outer space. Often, players must seek and gather resources and territories as objectives of the game. Many of the popular Space Exploration games are also categorized under Science Fiction. (source: BGG)
- Spies/Secret Agents (12)Spies/Secret Agents games often have themes or storylines relating to espionage. Often, players must identify another player who has taken the role of spy or secret agent and attempt to reveal secret information that this player holds. Many of the most popular Spies/Secret Agents games are also categorized under Bluffing and/or Deduction, and as such have an element of hidden information to them. (source: BGG)
- Sports Games (25)Sports games often have themes or storylines related to the physical activity of sports. The sports represented in the most popular Sports boardgames are football and racing (whether car, boat, bicycle or horse). (source: BGG)
- Storytelling Games (9)Storytelling games deal with communication and creativity. The rules to such games are often light with emphasis on using the imagination and wit.
- Territory Building Games (25)Territory Building games have the players establish and/or amass control over a specific area. Often, these games employ Area Control and Area Enclosure mechanics, in which the areas are not necessarily delineated at the beginning of the game but are instead contained from larger territories as the game progresses. (source: BGG)
- Toys (14)We like to play with toys, as well as games. Make no mistake, the imagination is the greatest game you will ever play with.
- Train Games (6)Train games often involve game play and imagery related to railroads and rail vehicles. Many of the most popular Train games are set in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. (source: BGG)
- Transportation Games (11)Transportation games often have game play involving the movement of goods or people from one place to another. Many of the most popular Transportation games are also Train games. (source: BGG)
- Travel Games (4)Travel games often have game play where an objective is to move to and from different geographic locations. As such, Travel games usually employ a map as the main feature of the game board. (source: BGG)
- Trivia Games (8)Trivia games often test players on their knowledge of general interests and popular culture. There are also Trivia games that focus on specific topics and subject matter. (source: BGG)
- Video Games (6)While we love playing games offline at the kitchen table, one cannot discount the appeal of the fantastic video games available for geeks to waste their time on.
- Video Game Themed Games (7)Video Game Themed games are often those that are thematically linked with a popular video game. (source: BGG)
- Wargames (25)Wargames are games that depict military actions. Wargames are set in a variety of timelines, from the Ancient period to present conflicts and even in the future. Thematically, Wargames cover everything from actions between small units on a very small board to larger, extremely detailed conflicts and even global-scale wars. Although most Wargames are based on historical situations, there are Wargames based on fantasy or science fiction, as well as Wargames based on hypothetical but historically-based situations (e.g., nuclear war between the Soviet Union and the USA). Probably the most popular period for Wargames is World War II, followed by the Napoleonic Wars and the American Civil War. However, Wargames cover a vast range of conflicts, and if you are interested in a particular war you are quite likely to be able to find a game that covers it in some way. (source: BGG)
- Word Games (25)Word games often require players to competitively use their knowledge of language. Language knowledge in Word games is often focused on spelling and definitions. (source: BGG)
- World War II (3)World War II games have storylines set during various military campaigns in Europe, Asia, and Africa from 1939 until 1945. Most World War II games are also categorized as Wargames. (source: BGG)
- Zombie Games (22)Zombie games often contain themes and imagery concerning the animated dead. Some of the more popular storylines in Zombie games include apocalyptic themes, horror, and fighting. (source: BGG) | <urn:uuid:ee384e63-42ae-473d-9e34-8503b6f51fa5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://fathergeek.com/resources/games-by-type/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571584.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812045352-20220812075352-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.963252 | 4,842 | 2 | 2 |
Essential Studio for Xamarin.iOS Release Notes
The Calculate is an independent class library that allows you to provide extensive calculation support to your business objects. Also it provides support to parse and evaluate the expression or formulas with 400+ predefined functions. Some of the key features are below,
- Parses and evaluates the Excel based formulas and equations.
- Named ranges, dynamic references, array formulas and formula dependencies are supported.
- Supports cross sheet references (can work with multiple sheets).
- Supports custom functions with n-number of optional arguments.
- Culture-sensitive decimal separator and argument separator.
- It also supports Indexer method for calculation.
A new data source control has been added. DataSource is a non UI component that consumes raw data and processes data manipulation operations such as sorting, filtering and grouping
- #147526 – Added Read and Write support for WordprocessingML documents.
- #151174 - Relative position properties are now preserved properly while opening and saving the Word DOCX format document.
- #155024 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException is no longer thrown while saving the Word document with charts.
- #154762 - Text box internal margins are now preserved properly while saving the Word DOCX format document.
- #154762 - Cell width for the table containing misaligned cells are now preserved properly in Word to HTML conversion.
- #154762 - Line breaks are now preserved properly during Word to HTML conversion.
- #153445 - Check box size and size type is now properly preserved during Word to HTML conversion and vice versa.
- #154702 - IndexOutOfRangeException is no longer thrown while executing Mail merge using DocIO.
- #154730, * #154864 - Null reference exception is no longer thrown while retrieving bookmark content.
- #156444 - OLE object is now properly preserved while opening a particular DOCX format document.
- #155252 - Checkbox size is now properly preserved in Word to HTML conversion.
- #152738 – Text contents are now preserved properly while resaving a particular DOCX format document
- #156982 - Page orientation now preserved properly while modifying and resaving the Word document.
- #155820 - Consecutive text with same format are now properly preserved as single span element in Word to HTML conversion
- #153104 - Section break issue has been resolved in DOCX conversion
- #156622 - File corruption issue after resaving the Word document as Doc format is resolved
- #156372 - TOC paragraph’s formatting is now preserved properly.
- #157924 - Field code is now retrieved properly while accessing
- #154988 - The words count in the document will be updated properly
- #154681 – Chart title text is now preserved properly without formatting loss while modifying and resaving the Word document.
- #156461 – IndexOutOfRangeException is no longer thrown while resaving the RTF document.
- #156651 – Title field is now preserved properly while updating document fields.
- #156713 – Symbols are now preserved properly while resaving a particular DOCX format document.
- #157702 – DocIO toolbox icon is now shown properly in Visual Studio toolbox filter.
- #158331 –
WCharacterFormat.ClearFormatting()is now clears the formatting properly.
- #158521 - File corruption issue while opening the generated DOCX document in Word 2007 application.
- #155426 - Added support to add and modify hyperlinks in PowerPoint slide.
- #157587 - Added support to access the “SlideID” associated with each slides in PowerPoint presentation.
- Added support for setting custom slide size in PowerPoint presentation
- Added support for setting background images with “Stretch” and “Tile” options in PowerPoint presentation
- #156159 - “NullReferenceException” will be no longer thrown while opening the PowerPoint presentations modified using Open XML SDK
- #155884 - “NullReferenceException” will be no longer thrown while opening a PowerPoint presentation edited with Open XML SDK
- #154813 - “NullReferenceException” will be no longer thrown while opening a PowerPoint presentation generated by b2xTranslator(3rd party tool)
- #156191 - “KeepSourceFormatting” paste option will now work properly while merging two PowerPoint presentation
- “ParseException” will be no longer thrown while serializing a pie chart
- “ArgumentNullReferenceException” will be no longer thrown while the “MinusIRange” property of the chart is null
- “Smooth line chart” will no longer change into “Straight line chart” while resaving the PowerPoint Presentation
- Line thickness will no longer change while setting the line color.
- “NotSupportedException” will be no longer thrown while opening the PowerPoint presentation with “Clustered bar chart”
- “Date axis” in charts are now preserved properly while resaving the PowerPoint presentation
- “ArgumentException” will be no longer thrown while resorting the chart series formats.
- “Index Out of Range Exception” will be no longer thrown while parsing the PowerPoint presentation with “Line chart”
- Secondary axis in “Bar chart” is now preserved while resaving a PowerPoint presentation.
- “Stock chart” will no longer change into “Line Chart” while resaving the PowerPoint presentation.
- Now the BuiltInDocumentProperty - “NoteCount” is updated properly while resaving the PowerPoint presentation
- “BarShapeTop” property of 3D-chart types is now preserved properly while resaving the PowerPoint presentation
- Chart title is now preserve as same as in input file while resaving the PowerPoint presentation
- “SerieNameLevel” and “CategoryLabelLevel” properties of chart are now preserved properly while resaving the PowerPoint presentation.
- #155066,#155160,#155153 - Navigation issue while moving to month view has been fixed.
- Now Linear view mode has been provided in carousel.
10 types of Technical Indicators have been added.
Step area series has been added.
Now you can customize the spacing between two columns and bars.
ActualIntervalTypeproperty is available in
DataTimeAxisto get the actual interval type of the axis.
Enhanced the candle series with
The default value of
Spacingproperty in all the column and bar type series has been changed to
Previously, the Candle and OHLC series colors applied based on the current data point
Openvalues. Now, the colors applied based on the close values of previous and current data points.
- Support to customize the cells border has been provided.
- #F123971 - Support to
PagerDisplayModeto customize the display modes of
SfDataPagerhas been provided.
- #F123971 Support for customizing the appearance of the
SfDataPagerhas been provided.
- # Support to perform the sorting operation either on single tap or double tap.
- Support for double click event has been provided.
- #F123980 - Grid not shown when filter has only 2 records with SfDataPager has been fixed.
- #156495, F123980 - SfDataPager improper layout when filtering is enabled has been fixed
SfDataPager.NumericButtonBackgroundproperty has been marked as Obsolete. Instead of this use
SfDataPager.SelectionForegroundproperty has been marked as Obsolete. Instead of this use
GridViewCreatedEventclass has been renamed to
SfDataGridLongPressedEventHandlerhas been renamed to
SfDataGridTapEventHandlerhas been renamed to
SfDataGridViewCreatedEventHandlerhas been renamed to
A new Kanban control has been added to visualize the workflow at each stage along its path to completion in an efficient way.
Visualize the workflow of any process.
Ability to limit work in progress (WIP).
Manage workflow transitions.
High level of customization.
Smooth transitions within the processes.
The PullToRefresh Control is an interactive content panel that allows users to pull down to refresh or load content in a view.
- Customizable Refresh content
- Various transition modes
- #155456 - Value not getting updated in Value Property issue has been fixed.
- #155309 - Provided Support for
- #157807 - Now, AppointmentCollection is updated dynamically
- #156955 - Table formula support has been added.
- #154319 - Support for new Excel 2016 functions has been added.
- Support for importing data into Excel from ExpandoObject objects has been added.
- Support for Text, Date and Dynamic filters has been added.
- Replace operation has been enhanced with customized options.
- Incremental formula (row wise and column wise) support has been added.
- Support is provided for number format in conditional formats.
- #152796 - Ambiguity problem while accessing name of the chart through
- #154096 - File corruption issue after resaving the file is resolved.
- #154123 - NullReferenceException is no longer thrown while parsing chart series data points.
- #154057 - ParseException is no longer thrown while parsing a workbook generated from EPPlus.
- #153772 - Number format will no longer change inside
ImportArray()method when it is passed as a parameter.
- #150880, #151503 -
FormulaValueis now updated properly after updating the formula.
- #154138 - ParseException is no longer thrown while applying subtotal in German culture.
- #157717, #153917 - Performance issue while applying styles for existing workbook is resolved.
- #154858 - ArgumentException is thrown when a formula length exceeds 255 in .XLS format is resolved.
- #155657 - ArgumentOutOfRangeException is thrown while calling
SaveAs()multiple times for .XLS file is resolved.
- #155966 - Misplaced text issue while increasing check box height is resolved.
- #154499, #156771 - Issues with custom
IconSetin the conditional formats are fixed.
- #156319 - ArgumentException is no longer thrown while copying between different worksheets.
- #155690 - Issue with horizontal page break collection of worksheet returning empty is resolved.
- #156017 - Comment property is now available in named range and is no longer removed while saving.
- #156144- File gets corrupted when inserting rows after table header row is fixed.
- #154964, #155881, #156893, #158255- Application no longer hangs while setting formulas to a range.
** #155864 - Performance issue while opening a sheet with larger data validations is fixed.
- #153515 - Issue with ForeColor of chart is resolved.
- #156893, #158283 - Performance issue while applying styles by cells is resolved.
- #155488 - Issue with column style being removed on save is resolved.
- #158045 - Time validation is not set properly when the range has number format is resolved.
- #156920 - XmlException is no longer thrown while opening the Excel workbook with pictures.
- #157158 - NotSupportedException is no longer thrown while reading the
- #155880 - Issue with number formats of axis labels when source linked is resolved.
- #157275 - Issue with calculated fields not added in the pivot table data fields is resolved.
- #153772, #158045 - Number format is not proper while importing array to the worksheet is resolved.
- #158336 - NullReferenceException thrown while auto fitting the copied range is handled.
- #154681 - Text formatting issue in chart and legend titles are resolved.
- #155881 - Border is not updated properly is resolved.
- #155434 - DivideByZeroException is no longer thrown while importing DataTable with DDE link formula.
- #156583 - File is no longer corrupted when saving a workbook with two tables.
- #154915 - Issues with label separation from axis line in charts are resolved.
- #155903 - Issue with charts due to incorrect formula number values is resolved.
- #155355, #155784 - Issues with custom text settings in data labels are resolved.
- #158494 - Normal style formatting preservation issue in RTF to RTF conversion is resolved.
- #156929 - Issues with individual data point border in series in charts are resolved.
- #156929 - Issue with legend icon color on invert color applied series is resolved.
Formula range is not updated while referring value form different worksheet is resolved.
Issue with copying or moving a table between different worksheets is resolved.
NullReferenceException is no longer thrown while accessing RTF text.
OverflowException will no longer occur while setting cell reference as formula.
ArgumentOutOfRangeException is no longer thrown while setting empty string to
ArgumentOutOfRangeException is no longer thrown when opening the excel file.
GetRowHeightInPixels()method now returns proper row height on opening a file.
Row values are updated properly after
SerieTypeproperty of chart is now properly updated on resaving XLSX file.
Auto-fitting rows now returns proper row height.
IsSummaryRowBelowflag in subtotal is now working properly.
Issues in display text for pre-defined currency number formats are resolved.
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|Women who fight for freedom|
Azar Nafisi, The Guardian, Tuesday 6th October 2009
When I first read Anna Politkovskaya,I was almost startled by her no-nonsense prose, her preoccupation with facts, whether they were about Russia's crimes in Chechnya or Vladimir Putin and corruption in the prime minister's regime, brutality and boorishness against Russian citizens or even the shortcomings of the Russian people whose rights she so ardently defended. She spared noone, not even her allies. The poetry of her prose was matched by her passion for truth. Her facts were lovingly gathered and made to march, leading us to the terrible truth of the realities she revealed. And it was that single-minded commitment to truth, and her demand for justice, that made her so dangerous to the tyrants in her country andinconvenient to leaders of western democracies.
This love for truth links her to the former recipients of the Raw in War Anna Politkovskaya award, Natalia Estermirova, and Malalai Joya, and this year's recipient – to be announced this evening– they come from different backgrounds and nationalities and speak different languages, yet they share a universal language that is the basis of both freedom and justice. Once we know of atrocities we cannot remain silent, and knowledge inevitably leads to an urge to protect the innocent. These women have recognised that their own fight for freedom would be meaningless without empathy for others and that the bestguarantee of their security and freedom lies in a guarantee of securityand freedom of others.
The award is given each year in the spirit of that common humanity, one for which Politkovskaya and the first recipient of the award in her name, Estermirova, gave their lives, and in celebrating those lives while mourning their untimely deaths we have to acknowledge both their love of truth and their empathy for others.
Women in the country of my birth, Iran, are great examples of the universality of this urge. For more than 30 years the Islamic regime and its apologists have tried to dismiss women's struggle in Iran as part of a western ploy. They claim that the repressive laws against Iranian women are part of their Islamic and Iranian heritage. Thus the regime has deprived Iranian women not just of their present rights, but also of their history and their past. The regime's victims are not only atheists, secularists, or people of other religions and faiths, but also Muslims, those whose interpretation of their religion is based on different principles, those who disagree with the Islamic Republic's views have been punished and deprived of their most basic rights.
Those in the west who dismiss the repressiveness of laws against women in countries like Iran, no matter how benign their intentions, present a condescending view not just of the religion but also of women living in Muslim majority countries, as if the desire for choice and happiness is the monopoly of women in the west. After all, at the start of the last century in no western democracy did women have the right to vote. In the US and Europe women were told that according to the Bible women's place should be at home, blue stockings were mocked and called unfeminine and women had to throw themselves in front of king's horses to attract attention to their plight. Around the same time, women in Egypt, Iran, Turkey and other Muslim countries were fighting for essentially the same rights. At the heart of all those struggles then as well as now was the right of a woman to choose. For Iranian women the issue is not religion, but the fact that no power, no state should dictate to its citizens how to worship and connect to their God. Islam, like all other religions, has many interpretations and it should not be used – in this case abused – as a political ideology. Women in Iran are proving once more that human rights recognise no boundaries and are not exclusive to certain societies. We should be reminded of the Noble laureate Shirin Ebadi, when she said that she was a Muslim and she believed in human rights.
Iranian women today have many models from their own past to learn from. At the start of 20th century an American, Morgan Shuster, in his book The Strangling of Persia (1912) claimed that Iranian women in a matter of years had made leaps of centuries and that in some ways they had been far ahead of their western sisters. At the time of the Islamic revolution, women had been active in all walks of life, there were two women ministers, one a minister of women's affairs. What made Iranian women join the protests against the shah was not a desire to abdicate the rights they had fought for over a century but to gain the right to political freedom. Their rights were not something that a shah had granted to them to be taken away by an ayatollah. And that is why from the very start Iranian women protested at the repressive laws imposed by the Islamic regime, pouring out in hundreds of thousands into the streets shouting that freedom is neither eastern nor western but global.
The recent events in Iran negate the regime's claims that women in Iran approve of its repressive laws. For more than 30 years, female activists have fought to change these laws. Perhaps the best example of this struggle and its centrality to the fight for pluralism and democracy in Iran is that of the women working for the One Million Signatures campaign against Iran's repressive laws. These women, without using violence or rhetoric, have been struggling for years to change the laws oppressing women. They have proved that Iranian women no matter what their beliefs and views share the same plight, that the laws are as effective against the traditional as they are against the modern secular women, creating a sense of kinship and solidarity between women. Iranian women have become canaries in the mines, the standard against which we can measure the degree of freedom in that society. The recent demonstrations broke the Islamic regime's mythology surrounding Iranian women, and forced the world to see them as they are: vital, various, strong and courageous. It also demonstrated how central their aspirations are to the democratic movement in Iran. Now a vibrant and beautiful young girl, Neda Agha-Soltan, and not the men who rule over Iran has become a symbol of Iranian people's fight for democracy and pluralism. Her murder, like those of Politkovskaya and Estermirova, gives the lie to the claims of those who vainly tried to silence them, and reminds the rest of us that we neither should or can evade the truth and its consequences.
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The end of the big band era was marked by the emergence of the small combo playing be-bop, thus the idea of a big band playing bop seemed ironic at best, and impossible at worst. Many critics felt the big band format would prove too cumbersome for the new fleeter style, but undaunted, Dizzy Gillespie went ahead and put together a very successful big band in the new idiom. “Dizzy Gillespie in Concert” is a very early Gillespie big band recording (1948), but it was not released until 1954. This was his band’s first appearance on the west coast and the excitement shows in the performances and in the enthusiastic crowd reactions. I’m sure the concert was great, but unfortunately this recording isn't. The soloists come through pretty clearly, and the rhythm section isn’t too bad, but the ensemble horns sound distant, and sometimes barely audible. Even by the standards of live recordings in the late 40s, this isn't great. In all fairness though, some people really enjoy this record, despite the sound.
The tunes on here feature well known Gillespie crowd pleasers. Possibly Dizzy felt that since the big band itself was a risk, he might as well go with material people already knew. The arrangements lean heavily on Dizzy’s role models, Ellington and Basie, but the fiery horn lines in odd rhythms reflect Gillespie’s interest in Machito and other Afro-Cuban band leaders. Dizzy takes this material and modernizes it with the fire of bop. The rapid high pitched unison horn lines foreshadow the coming of macho horn sections such as the bands of Maynard Ferguson and Bill Chase. As mentioned earlier, the recorded sound of the ensemble work is often murky or vague, but the soloists come through loud and clear. Along with Gillespie on horn, you get three great saxophonists, James Moody, Cecil Payne and Ernie Henry. The main co-star though is Cuban conga player Chano Pozo, who drives the band with syncopated double time rhythms. Pozo’s presence in general helps add to the already present Afro-Cuban flavor in Gillespie’s arrangements.
A lengthy song with “humorous” scat vocals and other occasional cheezy displays of obvious humor may not be to everyone’s taste. As mentioned earlier, there is a crowd pleasing element to this show, but big band bop is never profitable or commercial by a long shot. The potential buyer needs to weigh which one trumps: good music or bad recording. | <urn:uuid:a8b6f0b2-4f32-4668-9c99-8d127f922981> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jazzmusicarchives.com/album/dizzy-gillespie/in-concert-featuring-chano-pozo(live) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00217-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96047 | 536 | 1.632813 | 2 |
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Policy - Course Attribute for Sustainability
Policy on the course attribute for sustainability, including impact and benefits, criteria for the attribute, and implementation.
This is a summary of the policy on the Course Attribute for Sustainability. Click here to view the official policy in its entirety in the UW-Madison Policy Library.
A. Introduction, Impact and Benefits
Creation of a “sustainability” course attribute is motivated by student interest and a student call for easy identification of course work that relates to sustainability. It will provide an opportunity for units offering such courses, if they so choose, to make it easy for students to find courses that include a focus on learning about sustainability.
In addition, such an attribute will allow UW-Madison to meet requirements to represent externally the extent to which learning about sustainability is included in coursework. Specifically, UW-Madison, through the Office of Sustainability, has committed to participate in the Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS), a national, self-reporting framework for colleges and universities to measure their sustainability performance (https://stars.aashe.org/). The STARS effort is one visible aspect of UW-Madison’s commitment to sustainability, conservation and stewardship (see Chancellor Blank statement: https://sustainability.wisc.edu/chancellor-announces-sustainability-working-group/ ).
A course attribute will make it straightforward to routinely identify courses that fit a university-wide endorsed set of criteria. A planning group led by Professors Cathy Middlecamp and Ann Terlaak developed criteria for courses to carry the sustainability attribute, based in learning outcomes related to sustainability.
Sustainable development has been defined as “development that meets the needs of the present while safeguarding earth’s life-support system, on which the welfare of current and future generations depends.” (Griggs et al, 2013). Sustainability is fostered when sustainable development is put into practice. Working towards sustainability requires strategies that achieve:
- social goals, such as ending poverty, improving health, delivering quality education, and reducing inequality, and
- economic goals, such as achieving affordable clean energy, responsible production, and economic growth, and
- environmental goals, such as addressing climate change, preserving biodiversity, and protecting our oceans and forests.
The study of sustainability centers on one or more of these goals.
(Full Citation: Griggs, D., M. Stafford-Smith, O. Gaffney, J. Rockström, M. C. Öhman, P. Shyamsundar, W. Steffen, G. Glaser, N. Kanie, and I. Noble. 2013. Policy: sustainable development goals for people and planet. Nature 495(7441):305-307. http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/495305a )
Once established and linked to courses, the sustainability course attribute can be used to identify these courses and will be searchable in the Guide and the Enroll App to meet students’ needs. The sustainability course attribute will also be available in data and reporting systems such as the data warehouse and makes possible reports on courses that carry the attribute to meet institutional needs.
B. Criteria for the Sustainability Attribute
A course with the sustainability course attribute will be required to include at least two of the following course learning outcomes among those for the course. The stem of each learning outcome is fixed. However, instructors can tailor the ending of each outcome to fit their instructional goals.
Students will be able to:
I. Explain the social, economic, and/or environmental dimensions of the sustainability challenge(s) of ... *
* Examples: “extinction of species and biodiversity,” “global health issues in developing countries,” “business organizations,” or “providing electricity”.
II. Apply sustainability principles and/or frameworks to addressing the challenge of ...**
** Examples: ‘ending poverty,” “clean water and sanitation,” “climate change,” “sustainable cities and communities,” “affordable and clean energy” or “quality education.”
III. Analyze the causes of and solutions for the sustainability challenge of …***
*** Examples: ‘ending poverty,” “clean water and sanitation,” “climate change,” “sustainable cities and communities,” “affordable and clean energy” or “quality education.”
IV. Analyze sustainability issues and/or practices using a systems-based approach.
V. Describe the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of ...**** and identify potential trade-offs and interrelationships among these dimensions at a level appropriate to the course.
****Examples: “crop planting,” “climate change,” “ending poverty,” “affordable and clean energy.”
VI. Use sustainability principles for developing personal goals and professional values.
This common minimum criterion serves as a baseline; there is no intention to define and regulate all content and learning activity related to sustainability content. Proposals for courses to carry the sustainability course attribute will include two of these five course learning outcomes in addition to any other course outcomes established for the course.
Upon approval of the sustainability course attribute criteria by the University Curriculum Committee and the University Academic Planning Council, the sustainability course attribute will be created in SIS and the opportunity to propose it to be attached to a course will be added to the course proposal process.
Courses that are offered as independent/directed study are not eligible to carry the sustainability course attribute.
The attribute code will be “SUST”.
The published description will be “Sustainability”.
The short “behind the scenes” descriptor will be “Sustain.”
There are two values associated with the SUST attribute: “SUST” for temporary; “SUSP” for permanent.
To support the implementation and maintenance of the sustainability course attribute, the following question will be added to the course proposal form: “Should this course be considered for the Sustainability attribute?”
If the individual proposing the course answers the question “yes” to this question, they will be required to respond to the question: “Provide an explanation of why the proposing department is seeking the SUST attribute and indicate how the requirement to meet the criteria will be maintained by the offering unit.”
Individuals submitting the course proposal will enter the appropriate course learning outcomes in the Course Learning Outcome (CLO) section of the course proposal.
A link to more detailed information about the SUST attribute for those who are proposing the course will be added to the course proposal system.
When these SUST attribute questions has been added to the course proposal form, the attribute may be requested as a part of any new or edit course proposal.
Similarly, for a course that has been approved for the SUST attribute, if an offering department decides to remove the SUST attribute, they do so through the course proposal system, and respond “no” to the question about the SUST attribute.
These criteria are intended to be sufficiently straightforward that department and school/college committees will be able to apply them without substantial training. During the proposal review process, reviewers at the department and school/college level will verify that the SUST-specified course learning outcomes are present.
At the campus level, the UCC will review proposals based on the same SUST criteria.
The common and consistent use of these specified SUST course learning outcomes, which will also then be reflected in the course syllabus, will allow for a consistent and sustainable implementation of the SUST attribute across UW-Madison’s more than 190 Subject areas.
After policy approval and as part of implementation, steps will be taken to make the SUST attribute available in association with courses throughout all of the curricular records systems such as Guide, Enroll App, InfoAccess, and curricular reports. The attribute will not be available in DARS, nor will it show on the student record, nor on the transcript.
Establishing the List of SUST Courses That Carry the Temporary SUST Attribute Value (SUST)
APIR will take the leadership role in working with school/colleges and their departments to identify lists of existing courses that meet the letter or spirit of the criteria for the SUST attribute. This approach will provide a one-time expedited route for the identification of courses that meet the criteria and allow for courses to carry the SUST attribute in a provisional format, coded as SUSP, for a period of up to three years.
In this expedited process, departments will be invited to identify courses that they consider as meeting the criteria for the SUST attribute. They will not be required to provide a syllabus for this purpose for campus-level approval. The department will approve a course list, and forward it to the school/college for approval. School/college approved lists will be forwarded to APIR. Courses that are identified via spreadsheets in this process will be assigned the temporary attribute value of SUST. The temporary SUST attribute is a one-time attribute that will expire and be removed at the end of the three-year provisional period (three years after the provisional effective date).
During the three-year provisional period, departments may convert courses with the temporary SUST attribute to the permanent SUSP attribute value codes at any time. This will be done by submitting a regular course change proposal through the Lumen Course Proposal System to request the addition of the permanent attribute; the permanent SUSP attribute value will not have an expiration timeline. Similarly, any new or additional course can be proposed to carry the permanent SUSP attribute value through the course proposal system.
Sustainability Attribute Review and Evaluation
Academic Planning and Institutional Research staff will monitor the implementation of the Sustainability attribute and watch for any problematic issues associated with applying the attribute. Three years after implementation Academic Planning and Institutional Research will conduct a review of the sustainability attribute and it’s utility. APIR will consider the extent to which the provisional attributes have been converted to a permanent attribute, the extent to which the attribute has been added to new courses, the additional workload for curriculum committees, the utility for the STARS and other institutional projects, and the value to students. APIR will consult with school/college curriculum committees and provide a report for UCC consideration.
D. Additional Information and Resources
UW-Madison Office of Sustainability: https://sustainability.wisc.edu/
Sustainability Tracking, Assessment & Rating System™ (STARS): https://stars.aashe.org/
Student Learning Outcomes Resources: https://assessment.provost.wisc.edu/student-learning-outcomes/
Lumen Course Proposal System: https://my.wisc.edu/Lumen/
UW-Madison Policy on Establishing Course Attributes: https://kb.wisc.edu/vesta/page.php?id=89674
E. Process for Implementation
Timeline for Implementation on Existing Courses
August 2019 - Email sent to department chairs and their subject approver designees that own an academic subject listing announcing the creation of the attribute and the process for requesting the provisional attribute be applied to existing courses.
November 1, 2019 - Deadline for departments to upload approved spreadsheets to Box.
December 1, 2019 - Deadline for schools and colleges to review departmental submissions and send a memo to APIR if there are any courses they do not want to approve.
December 13, 2019 - UCC will review a comprehensive list of all courses that have requested the provisional attribute.
January 15, 2020 - A governance approved list is sent to the Office of the Registrar for entry in SIS.
March 11, 2020 - Fall 2020 Schedule of Classes is released, includes Sustainability course attribute
March 10, 2023 - The provisional attribute expires. Any course with the provisional sustainability attribute must have a UCC approved course proposal for the permanent attribute by this date or it loses the attribute. A request to add the attribute may be made at any time using the Lumen Course Proposal form.
Official Policy Document
Sustainability Course Attribute Policy (14 October 2020)
Revised (technical administrative correction): 14 October 2020
Revised, Approved by UCC: 13 September 2019
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What is Green Impact Universities and Colleges?Green Impact Universities and Colleges is a very successful environmental accreditation scheme that is currently run in higher and further education institutions and is delivered by NUS in partnership with the EAUC.
Green Impact encourages pro-environmental behaviours amongst staff within a university or college. It empowers sustainability champions within their workplace, helping them gain recognition for their environmental efforts, whilst playing on the competitive spirit of staff working in teams. It provides people and their departments with a tangible framework for improving their environmental performance, breaking down complex environmental issues into more manageable bite-sized chunks. The project has achieved measurable behaviour change, with swings of up to 15%.
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The Ethics Of Food Stamps In The Culture of Reduced Circumstances
The High Cost Of Nutrition In America
A campaign to convince the public that 1) poverty and even 2) the US Food Stamp benefit program used by the officially-qualified less fortunate do not cause decreased health is increasingly the topic of research focus among Big 10 Universities and other organizations.
The American food stamp program has a catchy new name, though: Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program (SNAP).
Gone are the days in which a woman could increase her pubic assistance cash payment and food stamps for each and every additional baby.
Very Little Money For Food
The average food stamp allocation was found to be only $101 per month per person in 2008 (Zagorsky and Smith, 2009; below), forcing recipients to purchase the cheapest food possible in order to stay alive.
A family of three does not receive $303, but quite a bit less, so family size does not help much. Gone are the days in which a woman could increase her pubic assistance cash payment and food stamps for each additional baby she has, without limit.
My metro area has four major food chains: Kroger, Giant Eagle, WalMart and Meijer, all of which I have researched for 4 years, regarding prices and quality. Kroger prices are generally highest, but WalMart groceries are now nearly equal in price here. Meijer prices have increased, and Giant Eagle prices range from low to high.
One grocer offers a pretty good line of "value brands" and only a few are substandard. The popular nickname for this line is "welfare food." It is cheaper and sometimes less nutritious than other lines.
Perhaps some think that the other lines cannot be that much more expensive, but a single apple costs $1.50 today, all the apples being $1.99 a pound as I looked at them. Three-pound bags of small mostly-core apples were $5.00, not much cheaper. Store-brand bread is $1.49 a loaf and higher. Even most "marked down" breads are $1.50 and higher per loaf. Hamburger is over $3.00 per pound.
Purchasing only the value brands with food stamps, the following is what one local mother and her two elementary-school aged children buy in one typical summer month in 2009 with their food stamps. The children were not able to benefit from a free summer lunch program, because all the slots were filled already.
- 10 1-lb loaves of wheat bread @ 0.78 = $7.80
- 15 packs hot dog buns @ 0.89 = $13.35
- 20 1-lb packs of bologna and salami @ $1.20 = $24.00
- 15 12-oz 10-packs hot dogs @ 0.79 = $11.85
- 15 packs processed cheese slices @ 1.20 = $18.00
- 20 1-lb boxes macaroni or spaghetti @ 0.77 = $15.40
- 20 26-oz jars spaghetti sauce @ $1.15 = $23.00
- 15 boxes cereal @ 1.50 = $7.50
- 8 dozen eggs @ 1.29 = $10.32
- 8 gallons milk @ 3.29 = $26.32
- 10 2-litre store-brand soda @ 0.79 = $7.90
- 4 10-pound bags potatoes @ 3.99 = $15.96
- 4 3-pound bags onions @ $1.67 = $6.68
- 10 pounds margarine @ 0.59 = $5.90
- 10 pounds bananas @ 0.59 = $5.90
- 5 heads of lettuce @ 0.99 - 4.95
- 5 family-size bottles catsup @ 1.00 = $5.00
- 5 large bottles mustard @ 1.00 = $5.00
- 10 8-oz salad dressings @ 0.99 = 9.90
- 8 packages cookies @ 1.20 = $9.60
After this, the family has about $20 or so for extras. They visit a food pantry once or twice a month for a 3-day supply of canned and packaged goods, but sometimes it is out of food. Neighbors sometimes kindly provide her with overrun from their gardens.
The mother is required to look for work 20 hours per week in order to retain benefits. She must also volunteer at her children's school during the school year, but the children are in the free lunch program there and that helps. The family has no vehicle and spends many hours weekly on a bus, but can walk to the grocery nearby.
How did this woman come to such reduced circumstances? Her husband died and left uncovered medical bills, she was laid off from work, and she has no family. Her husband's few remaining family members have also suffered layoffs and poverty far across the country where they live. Although educated, she has been depressed and the family diet may be contributing to this. She has some leads on a good job and may be able to leave public assistance behind in the fall. Probably, she will never want to eat another hot dog.
Another woman I know receives about $110 in food stamps for herself, she is diabetic, and she uses the money for a single week of groceries required for her health.
Note that in the Great Recession of 2008-2010 and on into the next decade, a large proportion of people living in the upscale Dublin OH, a high-income community and the #18 city on the Forbes.com list of Best 25 Places to Move for work in the US, found the need to rely on food stamps.
Government Findings: More Study Required
The website Amber Waves, of the United States Department of Agriculture and Economic Research Service, outlines their own three major findings in the following list. The body of research and the most recent research strongly challenges Numbers 1 and 3 below.
- Food Stamp Program participation does not increase the likelihood of being overweight or obese for men or children.
- Women are the only group for which multiple studies show a potential link between food stamp participation and body weight. [My note: This information may be biased and outdated (2006), because women are by far the overwhelming majority participants in the Food Stamp Program (FSP). Therefore, this finding, by using the word "only", diminshes the reality of results.]
- Devising policy changes for household members who may be at risk of gaining weight, without harming those who are not but still need food assistance, is a difficult challenge.
[http://www.ers.usda.gov/AmberWaves/June08/Features/FoodStampsObesity.htm Accessed August 16, 2009]
Possible Study Bias
My primary concern with USDA findings is that they include only non-elderly women to 2006 and not all women and not to 2009. Elderly women make up a fast-growing portion of food stamp recipients, but all women and children are increasing in numbers in the FSP.
- Elderly women are the fastest-growing population cohort in America. By 2050, 1,000,000 Americans will be 100 years of age or older and most of them will be women.
- More and more women are aging into the 60s and into the 80s, needing to rely on food stamps in order to afford food at all.
- In my state specifically, only a minute number of men receive food stamps. The same is true of many states under the Welfare Reform policies of the late 1990s to today.
- About half of FSP recipients are children and obesity is a growing problem thoughout that cohort of children, according to recent findings. In fact from 1980 - 2008, obesity among Americans has more than doubled, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. the FSP may be a contributing factor to its recipients.
- The USDA study does not include caseload increases after 2006 - For example, by March 2008, the number of food stamp recipients in Ohio had nearly doubled to include 10% of all people, as compared with 2001 (Columbus Dispatch, March 22, 2008). In 2008 and 2009, that number increased dramatically because of the Recession of 2008 - 2009. This likley occurred in other states as well.
I think that the latest several studies that examine poverty and the FSP dispute USDA findings up to 2006 very well.
Food Stamps Can Help Make Women Fat
That's an oversimplification of the facts. However a recent large study can tell us more about this:
Zagorsky, Jay L.; Smith, Patricia K. (2009). Does the U.S. Food Stamp Program contribute to adult weight gain? Economics and Human Biology, 7(2), 246-258.
accessed August 16, 2009]
Mr. Jagorsky is a successful research scientist at the Center for Human Resource Research of The Ohio State University.
He has published research regarding the world of work and how it impacts human beings. Specifically, he has examined the effects of on-the-job injuries and illness on wealth, the effects of monetary incentives on worker attrition; the impact of IQ on income, wealth and financial stress; wealth among communities of color; The Great Depression in the US and Canada; obesity as it affects the workplace; bankruptcy; and others
Ms. Smith is a well known researcher in the Department of Social Sciences of the University of Michigan-Dearborn. She is a professor of economics interested in the issues of poverty, welfare policy, and obesity, among others.
Why Is Obesity Important?
- Healthcare costs generally rise with obesity, including health insurance costs and payouts.
- Employers' costs increase with worker obesity in loss of productivy, increased days absent, increased illnesses, and increased group health insurance premiums.
Researchers Zagorsky and Smith examined relevant data from an ongoing nationwide study that followed adult human participants over a period of 14 years that ended with 2002. This is one of the US National Longitudinal Studies (the word long in longitudinal suggests that the time frame of these studies is lengthy, and such is the case). The researchers used data from the US National Longitudinal Survey of Youth (NLSY), ongoing since 1979 and conducted at OSU.
NLSY began in 1979 with 12,686 men and women aged 14-21. It initially included yearly interviews of a sample that contained Blacks, Hispanics, economically disadvantaged non-black/non-Hispanics; and youths in the US military. The economically disadvantaged non-black/non-Hispanic and military participants were dropped, because of lack of funding. All others are interviewed every two years until death.
The NLSY has looked at 10,000 people regularly. In their food stamp/obesity study, Zagorsky and Smith compared 4,000 adult NLSY participants receiving food stamps against 6,000 participants that did not use food stamps. The researchers looked at comparisons in the same counties, to eliminate regions differences.
The results show that women using food stamps weigh proportionately more than women of the same socioeconomic status that do not use food stamps. There may be evidence that this fact impacts how Food Stamp benefits are distributed. The researchers state that infallible proof is not presented, but it would appear to me that this is a first step that needs further research a first alert to consumers.
The study shows that the average food stamp recipient (male and female together) has a Body Mass Index (BMI) of 1.15 points larger than non-recipients (BMI 30+ = obese). The longer one is “on food stamps”, the larger the BMI becomes. If a “weight gainer” anyway, the weight gain is faster during times of food stamp use. However, this is almost completely about women (all races) -- women that used food stamps had a BMI on average 1.24 points higher than women non-users. Male food stamp users did not show higher BMIs than non-users. For an average woman, height 5’4” – 5’6”, the BMI increase translates to almost 6 pounds. Over time, that could build up substantially.
White women food stamp users gained weight faster than did black women food stamp users.
Black And White
For food stamp recipients,
- white female BMI was 1.96 points higher and
- black female BMI 1.1 points higher
than the BMI of non-users. This is a significant difference.
A “normal” body weight would not reach the obese state on food stamps unless the person was in the FSP long-term, but since the American population is already fairly obese overall, this point may not be useful.
The average food stamp user in the study:
- Increased BMI 0.07 points yearly before using food stamps,
- Increased BMI 0.40 points yearly while on food stamps, and
- Increased BMI 0.20 points yearly leaving the FSP (more than before using them).
Federal statistics indicated the average FSP award as $81 individually per month in 2002. In 2008 it was still only $101. The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act provided additional money to some states for nutrition in 2009. Thus, research to look at the years from 2006 (end of the USDA study) to 2010 would probably reveal interesting results.
Suggestions put forth by the Zagorsky-Smith study indicate that people using food stamps could be required to take a course on nutrition. In Ohio, they receive a brochure and are encouraged to take such classes. I don't think that works. The study also indicates that recipients that purchase fresh fruit/vegetables and other low-fat foods could be given higher allotments or receive discounts. I think this may nor may not work. It could easily result in a cycle of one month healthy foods, one month junk.
The study suggests that the FSP may set up a binge-purge cycle - one that suggests for eating disorders to me - with binge eating at the beginning of each month when recipients first receive their monthly allotment. -- The times of low food trick the body into survival mode and the body stores more fat. It is suggested that allotments be broken up into smaller amounts and time frames. However, I think this will likely increase paperwork and bureaucracy. Nevertheless, if this could be accomplished, it might be helpful.
During The Great Depression, my maternal great grandparents did this for themselves and my mother, whom they raised. They saved their Relief Orders, which acted as food stamps, in a secure place at the start of each month. Every afternoon, they gave my mother enough to purchase food for the evening meal. She walked down to the market daily and purchased a piece of meat and a few potatoes, sometimes some bananas and oranges or something else. The family raised a garden at home for vegetables and my great grandmother probably made bread. It was a successful system as far as it went, but variety and full nutrition were probably lacking.
Without an electronic application to monitor the product mix of purchasesmade with the FSP card at the grocery or market, and a means of denying less healthy purchases totally or after a certain number, then changing what FSP recipients eat could be difficult and the control may not be advisable.
Raising the monthly allotment and reducing food prices might or might not work in achieving a better nutritional diet, but I have a feeling that they would not.
We are left with a national desire to decrease obesity and healthcare costs, but partially defeated by a food stamp program that was put in place to help people get the nutrition they require. Meanwhile, I hope to be able to read relevant research covering the years 2006 – 2010 and the recession therein in the future.
Perhaps the $20,000,000 HIP (Healthy Incentives Pilot) program of SNAP for 2009 - forward has some solutions.
© 2009 Patty Inglish
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So, if you decide that next year you will dedicate yourself to changing your habits and start living a healthier life, more energy for you! We, as always, are happy to help. Whether you set realistic and achievable goals or make small dietary changes, we give you 10 tips for Nmami Agarwal, Founder and CEO Nmami Life to help you stick to your healthy eating goals for this new year for good health .
Do not skip breakfast
Breakfast is the first meal of the day, so skipping is quite a no-brainer. Your body needs to warm up, good health and prepare for the day ahead, so instead of skipping breakfast, it should be the most nutritious meal of the day. Besides, eating a good breakfast keeps you away from the urge to eat unhealthy sweets all day long.
Eat lots of nuts
Start adding nuts like California walnuts to your daily diet. A handful of walnuts can keep you away from starvation and provide you with about 4g of protein, 2g of fiber, and 2.5g of omega-3 ALA based on the plant. A great way to start a healthy daily routine, don’t you think?
Everything is good in moderation, and the same goes for sugar. If you eat a lot of sugar in your tea, coffee, or any other beverage a day, start to reduce it gradually. You can also cut down on sugary drinks and other such drinks.
Keep a journal
Always keep track of your progress! No matter what the purpose of a healthy diet is, keep a diary or journal for good health . Keep track of what you eat and drink throughout the day, so that you can keep track of how long you have been traveling or where you are staying.
Drink plenty of water
Remember to stay hydrated at all times. Drinking enough water not only improves your metabolism and releases those toxins for good health , but also keeps you feeling full. You can also eat fruit or vegetables with lots of water.
Make friends with people who have the same goals
Having someone by your side who will make you happy and keep you motivated is very important. Find someone who shares your healthy eating goals and keep you informed. You can move on and have someone to talk to on the days when you slip.
Eat extra home-cooked meals
Eating a restaurant meal is sometimes okay. But, if you want to eat better and stay healthy, focus on eating home-cooked meals. They do not contain artificial flavors or colors, and all the ingredients that go into home-cooked meals are well washed, so always know that you are eating something both safe and healthy than imported food for good health .
Eat lots of vegetables
Make sure your plate has a sufficient amount of vegetables. Rich in fiber, vitamins, and other nutrients, vegetables make up an important part of a healthy diet. Besides, most vegetables are low in fat and calories, so they will help you stay on track and eat a healthy diet.
Focus on a balanced diet
Practice eating carefully. This may mean pausing before each bite to keep track of how hungry you are or to give yourself time to chew and swallow all the bites. This way, you will be able to taste your food and fully understand how much your body needs.
Needless to say, exercise is essential for good health. Focusing on what you are eating is not enough. Also important is balance and a good exercise program. Whether it’s a 30-minute trip to your area or a quick cardio session at home, get some exercise every day to stay active and healthy.
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Having one's own tennis court can be a positive experience, as it is readily available for play anytime. Although it may be a large expense, it can save money, as tennis clubs often require membership fees and court time fees. If you are a frequent or professional tennis player, this investment will easily be paid off over a short period of time.
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Things you need
- Cement, grass or clay for the base of the court
- 36-foot long net and net posts
- White tennis court paint or white paint
- Any additional preferences, such as benches or a referee chair
Choose a flat surface for the tennis court. This should be an even surface and should not have an angle or a slant. While an average tennis court is about 36 by 78 feet, the size of the court is a personal preference. Add at least a few extra feet on each side of the court for safety and movement of people around the court.
Decide on the type of surface the tennis court will have. The court can either be asphalt, clay or grass. Choosing the correct type of court may depend on where the court will be located. Although grass courts can be quite beautiful, they require the most maintenance in terms of watering and mowing. On the other hand, clay courts require more maintenance than asphalt courts and can be created in different colours. Clay courts are the most common type of court.
Choose the colour scheme of the tennis court, if a clay court has been decided. The most common coloured courts are red, blue or a faded orange. Selecting two contrasting colours may help define the boundaries of the court, but select colours wisely. Darker colours will absorb more sunlight than light colours and may create build-up in court surface temperature.
Construct the tennis court. Depending on the type of court picked, there will be different tasks. Either way, an outline or a wooden frame should be created. While an asphalt court is rather simple when completed, it can be a daunting and at times, dangerous task. If possible, have someone help who knows about asphalt. Installing a clay court may seem easy, as it simply needs to be laid down. Although clay courts do not require any extensive maintenance during the changing seasons, they do require a drainage system, if the court is located in an area where rain is often an issue. A grass court is the simplest method, as grass simply needs to be planted, watered and maintained until it is long enough for a court.
Use the white tennis court paint to outline the boundaries and individual courts on the tennis court, if it is a clay court. Use regular white paint for grass and asphalt tennis courts.
Install the net posts in the middle of the two longer sides of the court. If the court is asphalt, drill the net base of the posts down using a power drill. If the court is grass, dig holes slim and deep enough to support the net posts. Attach the net to each post by tying the strings at the end of the net into the loop holes on the net posts. Tighten it so it does not hang loosely on the court.
Add any extras that may be preferred on the court, such as a referee chair, benches for the audience or fencing to outline the court.
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MUMBAI, India — The British oil giant BP said on Monday that it would pay $7.2 billion to buy into India’s fast-growing oil and gas industry. It is BP’s second big deal in two months, as it seeks to rebuild after last year’s Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
BP will take a 30 percent stake in 23 oil and gas fields operated by Reliance Industries, India’s largest private company. Reliance will receive an additional $1.8 billion if the companies find more oil and gas than expected.
The companies also said they would create a 50-50 joint venture to buy, transport and market natural gas, which is increasingly in demand in India as the country’s economy grows at nearly 9 percent a year.
Last month, BP signed an agreement with Russia’s Rosneft to drill in the Arctic. That deal, worth $7.8 billion, was the first big investment by BP after its oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico last year, which resulted in an estimated $40 billion in damage claims.Continue reading the main story
From a larger perspective, the current wave of unrest from North Africa to the Persian Gulf makes countries like Russia and India look even more attractive to multinational oil companies.
Although India imports more than 70 percent of its energy supplies, in recent years, it has opened large areas of territory to oil and gas development. Reliance, which is led by India’s richest man, Mukesh Ambani, has become India’s largest producer of gas because of a rich offshore field in the Bay of Bengal near the state of Andhra Pradesh.
BP would gain access to reserves in India while offering its expertise in deep-sea drilling and its technology, said Christine Tiscareno, an analyst at Standard & Poor’s.
“It’s a deal of equals,” she said. “There are very few places now that you can find oil, and this is a win-win situation.”
BP’s chief executive, Robert Dudley, is eager to steer his company on a new growth path after it was forced to sell assets to pay for the accident in the Gulf of Mexico. Its shares still trade well below their levels before the rig explosion in the gulf last year.
Mr. Dudley said this month that he wanted BP to be a “safer,” “smaller” and “more agile” company.
Mr. Dudley has sought to reverse a drop in production by increasing investment and lining up 32 projects, including in Russia and Canada, for the next six years.
The deal in the Russian Arctic with Rosneft was generally seen as a coup. It would give BP access to exploration licenses in one of the world’s last unexplored basins. A seal of approval from the Russian government for the deal also guaranteed some safety to operate in what has proved in the past to be a challenging country for BP and other oil majors.
For international oil companies like BP, forging cooperation agreements with national oil companies is one of the few ways to gain access to new exploration projects and meet growing energy demand, especially in fast-growing economies like India, Russia and China.
“Virtually all of the growth will come from emerging economies like India,” Carl-Henric Svanberg, BP’s chairman, said during a news conference in London on Monday.
The Reliance deal will require approval from Indian regulators, which could take some time. Indian officials have been slow to approve a deal announced in August by Vedanta Resources, based in London, to buy a controlling stake in Cairn India, an oil-producing subsidiary of Cairn Energy, based in Edinburgh. Officials say they want better terms for Cairn’s Indian partner, the state-owned ONGC, as a condition of approval.
Mr. Dudley visited India in October and met with the prime minister, Manmohan Singh, and other officials. BP already has a joint venture with Reliance on one exploratory offshore field, and it has a partnership to make solar panels with the Tata Group, a large Indian conglomerate.
In a show of symbolism meant to highlight the long history of relations between Britain and India, Mr. Dudley and Mr. Ambani signed their agreement Monday at 11 Downing Street, the home of George Osborne, the British chancellor of the Exchequer, who witnessed the ceremony.
For Reliance, the deal provides a large hoard of cash and, perhaps more important, oil and gas expertise that it needs as it explores and produces in fields that cover about 104,000 square miles. The output from Reliance’s most productive gas field in the Bay of Bengal has declined in recent months, which has worried analysts and policy makers, who are counting on the field to fuel power plants and fertilizer factories.
In addition to its interests in India, Reliance has been investing in shale gas fields in the United States, including a joint venture with Atlas Energy to drill in the Marcellus Shale.
The Indian government estimates that it has large reserves of oil (8.8 billion barrels) and gas (50.7 trillion cubic feet). That is only a small fraction of the oil and gas reserves of Russia — which has an estimated 1,680 trillion cubic feet of natural gas and 60 billion barrels of oil, according to the United States Energy Information Administration.
But India’s estimated reserves are still significant, as global demand continues to rise. And the country has tapped but a small fraction of its potential supplies. A big chunk of those resources lie deep under the seabed around the Indian peninsula and would be hard to reach safely.
Mr. Ambani said in his company’s assessment, “BP is the best finder of hydrocarbons in deep water.”
BP said this month that its earnings rose 30 percent in the fourth quarter, to $5.6 billion, from $4.3 billion the period a year earlier, helped by higher oil prices. The company lost $3.7 billion last year, compared with a profit of $16.6 billion in 2009. BP also restored its dividend in the fourth quarter.Continue reading the main story | <urn:uuid:2b8ca55c-3bce-426a-83ba-3357b4a7c3aa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nytimes.com/2011/02/22/business/global/22bp.html?_r=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00245-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969181 | 1,297 | 1.601563 | 2 |
Jar with incised and applied decoration
- Historical period(s)
- Ayutthaya period, 14th-15th century
- Unglazed stoneware
- Sukhothai or Phitsanulok ware
- H x W x D: 38.7 x 29.2 x 29.2 cm (15 1/4 x 11 1/2 x 11 1/2 in)
- Thailand, Sukhothai or Phitsanulok province, Sukhothai or Phitsanulok, Sukhothai kilns or Ban Tao Hai kilns
- Credit Line
- Purchase — funds provided by Diana Sinkler Clagett, Ellen Walton, Karol K. Rodriguez, Donna L. Collins, and the Charles Lang Freer Endowment
- Freer Gallery of Art
- Accession Number
- Thin clay threads pressed onto this unglazed jar produced a style of relief decoration that also appears in other media in the Ayutthaya period, including bronze images of the crowned Buddha, metal vessels, and lacquered court hats. Whereas museums and collectors acknowledge the importance of unglazed stoneware in Japan, the strong tradition of unglazed stoneware in mainland Southeast Asia has been obscured by a focus on glazed and decorated export wares.
Excavated in situ Bananan, Barangay San Isidro, Puerto Galera municipality, Oriental Mindoro province, Philippines, in the early 1960s
Mr. And Mrs. Napoleon Jamir, purchased in Manila in the early 1960s
Mr. Arturo de Santos, purchased from Mrs. Napoleon Jamir, the Philippines, in the early 1960s
To about 1995
Venecio Magbuhos (V.M. Antiques), Ermita, Manila, purchased from Mr. Arturo de Santos, to about 1995
John Forbes, Silver Spring, Maryland, purchased from Venecio Magbuhos, about 1995
Freer Gallery of Art, purchased from John Forbes in 1995
According to a letter from John Forbes to Louise Cort, September 20, 1994 (see Curatorial Note 11 in the object record).
Napoleon Jamir's wife, whose name is unknown, collected ceramics and operated an antique shop (see Curatorial Note 11 in the object record).
According to Curatorial Note 11 in the object record.
See note 3.
See note 3.
- Former owner
- Mr. and Mrs. Napoleon Jamir
Arturo de Santos
- On View Location
- Currently not on view
- Collection(s) Area
- Southeast Asian Art
- Rights Statement
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The fifth anniversary of the uprisings that challenged autocratic rulers in six Arab states in 2011 has generated many retrospective reflections.
Some commentators insist that analysis of ongoing social and political processes cannot be reduced to simple "success or failure", as these terms understate the transformation of every dimension of the region's politics.
Others conclude that the uprisings and their aftermath should be re-labelled an Arab Winter, rather than Spring. Instead of delivering on hopes for political reform and social justice, most governments have responded with "more war and violence", as Amnesty International summarised it, "and a crackdown on people who dare to speak out for a fairer, more open society".
Renewed repression of dissent stands in stark contrast to the eruption of pent-up anger in 2011, which focused on abusive police forces and internal security services.
But while most thoughtful commentators agree that authoritarian rule has intensified in all cases except Tunisia, they also note the severely degraded institutional cohesion and capacity that is bringing into question the resilience and very survival of several Arab Spring states - and of others that underwent earlier forms of transition following armed conflict and occupation.
Governing political structures are more closed to dialogue and their coercive agencies harsher than ever, blocking any meaningful reforms, but the states they run are also more brittle.
Government legitimacy is determined by its ability to repress political or social actors that are seen as threatening ... resulting in a restoration of authoritarian practices.
Nowhere is the connection between intensified authoritarianism and state brittleness more evident than in what we loosely label policing: law enforcement and the maintenance of public order.
Policing, along with the related formal criminal justice system, was already in serious disrepair even before 2011, but has degenerated far further amid tumultuous transitional politics.
Wrong type of reforms
The challenge now is to rebuild and reform security sectors - police, security, and paramilitary agencies and others such as customs departments - that have retreated into sullen passivity or else retrenched in aggressive hostility towards citizens and activists.
But the generic frameworks through which Western governments and international organisations conventionally approach the task are inadequate.
These focus heavily on providing security sectors with technical training, management skills, codes of conduct, and procedural rules to ensure "democratic governance" and "civilian oversight" through financial transparency and legal and political accountability.
These outcomes are indisputably desirable, but remain highly nebulous in practice.
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Indeed, the overwhelming emphasis on technical approaches risks improving the security sector's ability to deploy coercive tactics and equipment more efficiently, while reducing still further any incentives to comply with the rule of law and respect human and citizens' rights.
In a context in which the social contract, national identity, and the state itself are broken or being renegotiated - often amid intervention by regional and international powers - the very nature and purpose of policing, which is a defining function of modern states, are in doubt.
Three kinds of dilemmas stand in the way of security sector reform.
The first is "hyperpoliticisation": Every aspect of transition becomes a zero-sum contest between rival political camps, paralysing governance.
For large numbers of citizens, government legitimacy is determined by its ability to repress political or social actors that are seen as threatening - rather than on its readiness to deliver democracy, rule of law, and human rights - resulting in a restoration of authoritarian practices.
|A woman walks past an Egyptian policeman, on the eve of the fifth anniversary of the January 25, 2011 uprising in Tahrir Square, Cairo, Egypt. [AP]
As a result, violence becomes the "currency" through which both governance and opposition are exercised.
The high financial cost of modernising and professionalising security sectors poses a second, "political economy" dilemma.
Trimming grossly inflated security sectors affects unemployment negatively, adding to social strains. But ending the extensive involvement of security sectors in corruption and criminal economic activities poses a greater challenge.
These trends evolved from more than two decades of crony economic liberalisation and predatory privatisation, but have intensified sharply as transitions in Arab states weakened regulatory frameworks and oversight mechanisms, "democratising" corruption.
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And finally, Arab transitions have revealed the divergence of views and expectations within society regarding the purpose of policing.
We think of the police mainly as crime fighters and guardians of public peace in the streets; but more important is their role in maintaining the dominant social and economic order and curbing dissent.
The breakdown of social contracts and manipulation of constitutional order has deepened divergences within society over the values and moral economy to be upheld by the police, and prompted growing resort to informal providers of security and customary law, including so-called Islamic and tribal forms.
Restoring effective policing is crucial in order to rebuild social peace, resume economic development and growth, and reintegrate deeply divided political systems and broken state institutions - anchoring them in credible constitutional frameworks.
But as these dilemmas show, divergences over what constitutes an acceptable social order, moral economy, and shared national identity have become fundamental.
Unless they are bridged and enable genuinely reformed policing, Arab states in transition are condemned to descend into ever deepening civil strife.
Yezid Sayigh is senior associate at the Carnegie Middle East Centre in Beirut.
The views expressed in this article are the author's own and do not necessarily reflect Al Jazeera's editorial policy.
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Finally, it is time to bid goodbye to the cruel summer months and welcome the monsoon with open arms. And while the thoughts of rain and cooler weather tickles the romantic in us, motorists must exercise extra caution while they are on the road. Driving during the monsoon can be very demanding and also get tricky at times. It requires motorists to be more focused and attentive while driving, especially when it pours heavily. Here are some handy tips to ensure that you stay safe during the monsoon and enjoy the rain. Read on to find out.
Maintain safe distance
The braking distance of a car increases significantly on a wet surface. To account for this change in driving conditions, you must ensure that you maintain a safe distance from the car ahead of you. Although, in heavy traffic conditions, you are rarely likely to go above 20-25 kmph - in spite of that, do maintain a larger gap between yourself and the car ahead of you, as opposed to what you would have in dry conditions. While driving on the highways, you need to be particularly careful. Maintain a gap of 25-30 metres between yourself and the car ahead of you and increase the gap according to road conditions and visibility.
Don't accelerate or brake suddenly
During the monsoon, it is especially important to be smooth with the car's controls. Don't offer any abrupt steering inputs. Ensure that you make a conscious effort to accelerate smoothly and gradually, begin braking early and anticipate turns and moves in advance as far as possible. Sudden inputs can cause your car to lose traction in tricky conditions, and spin out of control - a situation that can prove to be dangerous to you as well as to other road users.
If visibility starts to reduce rapidly, switch on your headlights
Firstly, you must ensure that all the lights are functioning perfectly. Once you have ensured that, it the time to switch them on once visibility starts to reduce. In addition to improving your visibility, the headlights will also ensure that oncoming traffic will notice you well in advance. Drive on low beam, especially in foggy conditions. In case the traffic on the highway is moving slowly due to heavy rains, and visibility has substaintilly dropped, then switch on your fog lamps to improve visibility. But remember not to drive with your hazard lights on. This is a common mistake which many motorists often make. Hazard lights should only be put on when the car has been pulled to the side and has been brought to a stationary state; not while it is being driven.
Halt, if necessary
If you are on the highway and it begins to rain very heavily and visibility reduces below your comfort level, then turn on all your lights, switch on the hazard lamps and park by the side of the road. Wait till the rain subsides, and visibility improves before you get going again. If it's raining harder than your wipers can manage to clear out, you won't be able to see much through the windscreen, so it is a prudent decision to just halt for a while.
Avoid puddles and potholes
Avoid puddles and parts of the road where water has accumulated. You never know what lies beneath. It could be an open manhole, or a killer pothole - both of which are capable to cause severe damage to your car and your pocket.
Sometimes let others lead and you follow
There are going to be certain times when it becomes absolutely impossible to avoid driving through standing or flowing water. In such cases, let someone else go before you, and carefully follow in their tracks. Be sure to shift down to a lower gear, the engine revved and keep the car in motion in case the water level is higher than your car's exhaust pipe.
Fog on the inside can be a terrible pain
Fogging inside the compartment must be tackled at once. If your car has an AC, the turn it on and direct the airflow towards the windscreen and change the ventilation setting to allow fresh air into the car. If your car has a defogger, switch it on as this would help your clear the fog. If your car does not have an AC, open the windows very slightly, and keep a soft cloth handy to keep cleaning the windscreen. Be careful though, as you don't want anything to distract you while you are driving.
In our country, where it rains for a few months every year, the rubber on the wiper blades tends to become hard. Ensure that you change the wiper blades at least once a year. This will ensure that you are well-prepared for the arrival of the rains. In addition to the wiper blades, ensure that the wiper arms are in good condition. The wiper arms ensure that the blades hug the windscreen well and are able to move rain water away quickly and efficiently. If the rubber on the wipers seems hard to touch or appears cracked, change the blades immediately. If the wipers are leaving some water on the windscreen, be sure to get the wiper arms checked or replaced. Keep your windscreen washer fluid topped up at all times, and use it liberally. Pour a few drops of shampoo as it helps clean the grime and dust.
Ensure that your tyres are in top shape to handle the monsoons. Bad roads and wet tarmac mean that your tyres are going to be working doubly hard. The treads on the tyre surface are responsible for diverting water away from the tyre, and thus ensuring that the rubber remains in contact with the tarmac. If the treads are not deep enough (or worse, absent altogether), they won't be able to move the water out of the tyres' way. This might lead to total loss of grip (called aquaplaning) - a situation that even the most talented drivers have a tough time coping with. If the depth of the tread on the tyre surface is less than 1.6 mm, then the tyre needs to be replaced. Ensure that all your tyres (including the spare tyre) comply with this simple requirement. If any of them does not, then get a new tyre before you head out in the wet.
Check the brakes
Last but by no means the least, get your brakes checked. The relative lack of grip in the monsoon means that your brakes have to work harder in comparison to what they would have to in the dry season. Ensure that the brakes are offering good response and that the car is stopping in a straight line. If you feel that the brake response is not confidence inspiring, then get the car checked. You might have to get the brake pads, brake linings or brake discs replaced. Be alert for consistent squeaking sounds when you apply the brakes as they could point at some trouble.
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If we read much or often, and if we're writers we should, then we will soon find our world expanded through the beauty, struggle, and/or reality of another writer's work. One writer who does that for me is Tim O'Brien.
First Lieutenant Jimmy Cross carried letters from a girl named Martha, a junior at Mount Sebastian College in New Jersey. They were not love letters, but Lieutenant Cross was hoping, so he kept them folded in plastic at the bottom of his rucksack. In the late afternoon, after a day’s march, he would dig his foxhole, wash his hands under a canteen, unwrap the letters, hold them with the tips of his fingers, and spend the last hour of light pretending.
As we read through Jimmy Cross' story, we see how he copes with the war through imaginings about the elusive Martha, who keeps pieces of his soul clean (notice how he cleans his hands before reading her letters) while the rest of him is "dirtied" by war. It is a painful and personal story that hits me in the feels every single time I read it. O'Brien's style is very direct, yet he buries the truth within his narration, circling ever closer to the true moment by recycling the story and its impact on every other character in the story.
I've written before about how this short story has on more than one occasion caused me to write about the things that I carry, the tangible and intangible. I carry a messenger bag and a laptop. I carry parental guilt and debilitating fear.
What do you carry?
They carried all they could bear, and then some, including a silent awe for the terrible power of the things they carried.”
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Large palmate leaves and showy white-pink to purple-blue pea-like flowers on stalks. Blooms May – August.
|Habitat Notes||Occurs in seasonally dry to marshy meadows, wetlands and damp forests, along stream banks and ditches, and in disturbed areas.|
|Soil Tolerance||prefers wet to moist soil.|
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The Prime Minister of Australia contends that before Parliament moves to legalize marriage equality “down under,” he wants the people of Australia to have their say.
Polls in Australia show overwhelming public support for same-sex marriage – 67% of women and 59% of men in Australia want to see marriage equality become the law of the land.
Australian citizens will be asked where they stand on potential legalization of same-sex marriage in a non-binding mail-in vote, after lawmakers failed to pass legislation Wednesday to make it a national plebiscite vote issue in November.
Canberra’s governing Liberal-National Coalition failed to pass a bill in Parliament that would have secured funding to restore Australia’s compulsory plebiscite on Nov. 25, which means the same-sex marriage vote will instead likely take shape as a voluntary voting effort.
“At the last election, we made a very clear promise to the Australian people that we would not facilitate the introduction of a bill to legalize same-sex marriage until the Australian people had had their say,” Turnbull said in a press conference on Tuesday prior to the plebiscite effort falling short.
The traditional plebiscite and postal votes would not be legally binding if it’s shown that most Australians support legalizing same-sex marriage. Turnbull had said if the plebiscite bill failed, then he would move ahead with the vote-by-mail option.
“We will hold a postal vote on this issue asking the same question in which all Australians will have their say — they will get the opportunity to express their opinion on the issue of whether the law should be changed to enable same-sex couples to marry, fulfilling the commitment we made at the election,” he said.
Some who voted against the plebiscite said they don’t oppose legalization of same-sex marriage, but rather they believe the effort is too expensive and could generate a hate-fueled campaign.
Some lawmakers argue the issue could be resolved with a simple vote in Parliament, but Turnbull’s government seeks to gauge public support first. The Liberal-National Coalition attempted to legalize same-sex marriage last year, but the proposal was narrowly defeated.
As reported above, even if the vote shows same-sex marriage the winner, Aussie lawmakers don’t have to align current laws to reflect that support.
According to Buzzfeed, the “vote by mail” will cost in the neighborhood of $122 million, around $50 million less than a compulsory, in-person ballot.
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Retrospective-analyses (reanalyses) and free-running climate models are critical tools in studying weather and climate variability and change. An important--but still incomplete--requirement is long-term continuous comparisons between models and observational data. From our recent peer-reviewed NASA-funded NEWS and Making Earth System Data Records for Use in Research Environments (MEaSUREs) projects, we have amassed a large collection of multi-sensor A-Train data and analysis capability spanning almost a decade. Level 2 comparisons of these data with models are an untapped science opportunity. For example, the Modern-Era Retrospective Analysis for Research and Applications (MERRA) project has generated a long-term record of the hydrological cycle, and fits well with model comparisons using our NEWS and MEaSUREs observations of the atmospheric water cycle. Modelers need data sets (such as NASA's multi-sensor A-Train data) to identify and correct biases in modeled physical processes occurring at many spatial or temporal scales. Collocation of satellite-measured water vapor, clouds, and temperature onto model grids is necessary for evaluation of model simulations of physical processes. In addition, scientific advances can be made by long-term global monitoring of climate-relevant processes quantified by the multi-year A-train record. The major difficulty with quantifying atmospheric phenomena over the lifetime of the A-train/NASA Earth Observing System (EOS) era is in efficient sub-sampling, quality control, and automation to obtain the necessary data (both from NASA data and modeling centers). Scientists need good dataset preparation and screening to properly compare Level 2 observations to sub-daily model grids. Tools and services are needed to streamline scientists' custom processing and analyses to assess and improve models. These are key uses of NASA data sets for improving the understanding of weather and climate variability and change.
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First Order of Business for the Next President
Democratic presidential contenders have put forth various policy proposals that they intend to implement if they are elected. In her Washington Post column yesterday Jennifer Rubin pointed out that the first order of business for the next president is to “repair the presidency”–– to institute policies and procedures to prevent the kinds of corruption, nepotism, and other affronts to decency and to our Constitutional system that have characterized Trump and his entourage. Rubin lists eleven measures that should be taken for starters. I hope every candidate agrees with her. | <urn:uuid:297f53d4-94fd-49f8-ae3f-e5ee681bb161> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.edwardpackard.com/first-order-of-business-for-the-next-president/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.949441 | 114 | 1.523438 | 2 |
- ISBN13: 9780860377450
- ISBN10: 0860377458
- Pages: 16
- Imprint: The Islamic Foundation
- Publisher: Kube Publishing Ltd
- Publication Date: 06-04-2020
- Trim Size: 7.5 x 10 inches
- Format: Paperback
A charming activity book, bursting with joyful animals and colorful backgrounds, that introduces children to the Prophet Ismail, and the Zamzam well.
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Rank of an element in a given array is calculated as no of smaller elements in that array + no of equal elements to its left. With this formula find the Rank of element 3 that appears in two locations in below array = [5,0,3,4,3];
1, 1 respectively.
first 3 located rank is 1 because only 0 is less than 3 and there are left elements which is equal to 3. second 3 rank is 2 because no of small elements are 1 and no of equal elements towards its right is is 1 (i.e 3). so total rank is 2.
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The Importance of Your Smile
Smiling helps us communicate emotions as well as boosting our mental well-being. A confident smile relies on healthy teeth, and is another reason why regular dentist appointments are important.
– Smiling releases endorphins, helping to deal with stress and trigger positive emotions.
– Feeling positive about your smile can boost self-confidence and result in more positive behaviour.
– Your smile makes an important impression on those you meet, with an attractive smile greeted more favourably.
“Research has shown that when people perceive another person’s smile as attractive, they also perceive that person to be more successful, intelligent, and friendly.”
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In most nations, parents assume that sports as an extracurricular activity is simply a waste of time and they would rather their children join more mind related activities. However, sports have this thing that well mind related activities will never have. That is why today we want to look at a few benefits that round ball activities have.
One of the reasons why you need to let your child participate in ball games is because they help them with hand-eye coordination. Which is something that every child needs to learn. Therefore, with a simple game like throw and catch, the child will be able to learn how to multitask with their hands and eyes at the same time.
Another interesting skill that children can learn with ball related activities is timing. While for adults, you can learn this through best online casino games, with children ball games are the best for this. Even though the child may be hit by the ball several times before they actually get the catch right, at the end of the day, they will catch the ball and thus they have learned the importance of timing.
Ball games and other outdoor activities in particular will always teach the children good sportsmanship. This is they will have to be patient and wait for the ball to get to them before them. In addition, it will also teach the child discipline, these are two traits that can ensure that every child grows up and learns how to work, as well as relate with people outside their family.
These are three of the most important benefits that children can learn from playing ball games. However, this does not mean that these are the only benefits as there are others like learning prediction, developing gross and motor skills to mention but a few.
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This week we're learning about teachers using “classroom blogs”
Last week we started this series examining the current state of blogging in education by looking at how today's teachers are using blogs. Our first post focused on teachers blogging about various experiences and ideas, with the intended audience essentially being other teachers, and to a lesser degree, the general internet audience.
This week we examine another category of teacher blogging, probably best referred to as “classroom blogging”. These are blogs in which teachers blog about classroom activities and experiences, often with students participating and blogging as well. The intended audience here can be the students, parents, other teachers, administrators, and so on.
As with last week's post, I've combed through many examples of classroom blogs and selected a few examples to share here. Nothing illustrates an idea quite like real world examples. Of course, with it being summer, some of these blogs are not particularly active right now, but all of them look like they're quite active during the school year.
Example Classroom Blogs
Huzzah! - A grade 5 & 6 class of 10 & 11 year old learners, in “the beautiful Comox Valley on Vancouver Island, British Columbia, Canada”. This is a nice looking site with good use of visuals like pictures, slideshows, and videos. There are also links to student blogs, and a great set of other classroom blogs in the “blogroll” listing on the right side of this page (I would think this right hand column should be visible on the home page too, but it wasn't – maybe its just a glitch).
Intermediate English class blog –  This may not be a flashy site, but it fits the bill just fine. Larry Ferlazzo has a number of education oriented blogs, and in this one, he delivers assignments to students, and shares experiences in the classroom.
Network Nine – This blog centers on “Room 9 at Hokowhitu School in New Zealand”, where Mr. Baker teaches Year 4, which consists of 8 & 9 year olds (although according to the latest post, he'll be moving to a new school this year). On this blog, he shares experiences he and his students have had, provides resources, explains homework policy, and so on.
Extreme Biology –  “This site is maintained by Ms. Baker and her biology students. We live in the Northeast U.S. and blog about anything biology-related.†The site is a fun site featuring a rich mix of posts by both teacher and students.
These are four nice examples of today's classroom blogs. There are thousands more out there, so feel free to search some out if you would like to see some more examples (a search in any popular search engine for “our classroom blog” or a similar phrase should yield plenty of results).
Next in our series …
Now that we've seen a nice selection of teacher's uses of blogging, next week we'll move on to student blogging. In addition to blogging in classroom blogs as in the examples above, students sometimes blog independantly as part of the educational process, so we'll search out some examples of this and share them. Another common type of student blogging that we'll look at is the “student experience” blog on their educational institution's web site.
In the weeks that follow, we'll move on to administrator's blogs and instructional technology blogging. As always, don't hesitate to share any comments or feedback with us in the meanwhile. Thanks!
Related Posts (if the above topic is of interest, you might want to check these out):
Blogging In Education Today (a multipart series)
Blogging For Fun (and Education)
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Keeping pets safe during firework season
SALT LAKE CITY, Utah — July brings two firework-filled holidays to Utah, which experts warn can be stressful for our pets.
Flashing lights and thunderous sounds from fireworks cause pets to get anxious and frightened. According to the Humane Society, the commotion causes some pets to flee and become lost. Pets can also suffer from devastating or even fatal health effects from stress.
Salt Lake County Animal Services wants to help keep your pet feel comfortable and safe in their home and offered some tips to protect your furry friends.
What to do Before and During Fireworks
- Go for walks early.
- Leave pets at home, they do not like fireworks displays or hot pavement.
- If you’re having a BBQ, check that your gates, garages and doors are secured so your pet can’t escape.
- Give them a safe place to hunker down, don’t try to pull them out of hiding if they’re scared.
- Play soft music to distract them.
- Keep them indoors, lower the blinds and close windows. When scared, dogs and cats will break through screens or windows to escape their home. The flickering lights are stress-inducing.
- Prevent injury or bites to yourself. If you find a lost or injured animal, they will be scared! Please contact your local animal services and have an officer pick them up.
Salt Lake County Animal Services said the most important step is to make sure your dog or cat is microchipped and that the contact information on the microchip is up to date. If you don’t have time to get them microchipped before the holiday, be sure to put a collar and ID tag on them.
If you don’t have a tag for your pet, the shelter said you can put duct tape on their collar and use a permanent marker to put their name and your number on it.
Salt Lake County Animal Services said that nationally, more pets run away on the Fourth of July than any other day of the year, keeping animal control officers extremely busy responding to stray pet calls.
Lost and found pets
If your pet gets lost, call 801-840-4000 to dispatch an animal control officer. Animal services said it is important to remember that a lost pet is not an unwanted pet.
Information for missing pets can be posted on the Nextdoor App. Pet oweners can also check community groups on Facebook, and look at the “Lost Pets” section on AdoptUtahPets.org.
- Tips to keeping your pets safe during hot days
- Be Ready for an emergency when you are with your pet
- US animal shelters are filling up
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The Challenge of Beauty: Striving for Perfection in an Imperfect World
“God is beautiful and loves beauty.” -Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him
One of the great mysteries of life is its inextricable beauty. Mankind is surrounded by a wondrous universe. From the depths of the night sky upon the vastness of the seas to hearing a bird’s song while tasting a pear plucked from the tree, beauty surrounds us at every turn of our lives. And yet, beauty is not so superficial that it’s limited to our sensory perceptions. We find beauty in the smile of a grandmother, wrinkled as she may be. We find beauty in the pages of a book, nerve-racking as the plot may be. We find beauty in the footwork of the athlete, grueling as the sport may be. We find beauty in the pitter patter of raindrops, scary as the storm may be. What is it about these disparate things that cause us such admiration?
Some may argue that the world is not so beautiful after all. Pain. Arrogance. Anger. Jealousy. Hatred. Greed. However, isn’t it true that each comes with its own antidote? Joy. Humility. Compassion. Generosity. Love. Sacrifice. For those who are adamant, beauty can be found or created in every situation, amidst every challenge, through every difficulty, and even within every ugliness, where the only place we find beauty may be in the hope that things get better.
Arabic has a word for beauty generally: jamal, as in the quote, “God is beautiful and loves beauty.” Arabic also has a word for beauty that people can attain through action: ihsan, beauty that emanates from the perfection of good deeds. Written in the Quran is a command: “...and do ihsan. God loves the doers of ihsan” (Quran 2:195). Prophet Muhammad, peace be upon him, defined the term thus: “Ihsan is to be aware of God as if you see Him, knowing that if you do not see Him, He sees you” (Bukhari, Muslim). Taken together, when someone strives to constantly be aware of their purpose and live up to their highest ideals as much as possible, even if they falter at times, that’s beautiful. As Rumi famously said, “Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.”
Beauty has many other dimensions to explore. There is beauty in social harmony. As Dr. Cornel West recently said, “Never forget that justice is what love looks like in public.” There is the portrayal of beauty in popular culture, which leads to issues dealing with body image and self-esteem against impossible expectations. There is beauty in diversity amidst the disease of racism. There is beauty in “a word of truth spoken to an unjust ruler.” The list goes on...
How do you define beauty? How do you think we can we make our world more beautiful? How can we make our nation “a more perfect union?” How can we make our homes and communities more loving spaces? How can we sculpt ourselves and our characters to emanate more beauty? Finally, how do we reconcile our struggle for perfection with our human limitations and frailties?
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Magic is something that amazes everyone with its impact on all hearts and minds. It wasn’t long back when the world of enchantment and sorcery conquered the spirits of a generation, with the wands and spells becoming a major part of the pop culture. All 90s kids have waited for the longest time to receive the invitation letter with the admission referrals to Hogwarts- The School of Witchcraft and Wizardry. J.K Rowling weaved the story with flawed characters in an imperfect world by defining the darkness with diabolical elements of magic. The viewers grew up wanting to be part of the fictional world of dragons, goblins, pixies, and phoenixes.
Although the story has ended on a good note for all the characters, the fans don’t seem to have settled for any of that. The creative minds in public set up new adventures for their favorite trio through fictional situations that could be vanilla but often one-dimensional. However, thousands of people across the globe enjoy fan fiction. The Abraxas stories are such a group of stories that have been created over the past several years. Here are some of the most popular plotlines to have been created for Abraxas Malfoy.
1. A Love Stronger than Time
This story revolves around the life of Astoria Greengrass, the most famous witch from the Wizarding World of Magic. She was a beautiful soul and a prodigy in the field of magic, mastering all forms of witchcraft at a young age. During her education at Hogwarts, Tom Riddle develops a strange relationship with her. However, Astoria falls into a deep slumber for 50 years after Tom Riddle confesses his love for her. This could have been one spur for the Dark Lord to become what he eventuated into.
2. Dark Hearts
All fans of the Harry Potter franchise believed Lord Voldemort grew up not knowing love. It is still unclear if the failure of this emotion led him to do what he did. He was apparently in love with someone named Vivian Rose Silverdust, who came into his life as the silver lining. Dark Hearts is the love story of Tom Riddle and Vivian.
3. The Heir to Darkness
The Dark Lord’s actions did not leave just Harry Potter to live in the worst conditions until Hogwarts happened. Three families, including the Potters, were affected by the dark magic created by Voldemort. The lineage of Gaunts and the Malfoys were also almost killed, but three children were left to live as orphans. Abraxas Malfoy also has a major role to play in the progress of this story.
4. Viper’s Pit
Sirius Black’s soul and memories were transferred partially to 1938 into Carina Black. She is the twin sister of Orion Black, who is yet to reach Hogwarts. From the happy-go-lucky pureblood young lady, she has become the savior of the day by planning to prevent several murders from occurring in the family and the extended universe. | <urn:uuid:c3a12c97-1f26-4e29-847f-e3eb6e63334c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.abraxas.tv/popular-abraxas-stories/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.970579 | 612 | 1.625 | 2 |
Jarl's oar showed sixteen notches on the loom, when one evening, as the expanded sun touched the horizon's rim, a ship's uppermost spars were observed, traced like a spider's web against its crimson disk. It looked like a far-off craft on fire.
In bright weather at sea, a sail, invisible in the full flood of noon, becomes perceptible toward sunset. It is the reverse in the morning. In sight at gray dawn, the distant vessel, though in reality approaching, recedes from view, as the sun rises higher and higher. This holds true, till its vicinity makes it readily fall within the ordinary scope of vision. And thus, too, here and there, with other distant things: the more light you throw on them, the more you obscure. Some revelations show best in a twilight.
The sight of the stranger not a little surprised us. But brightening up, as if the encounter were welcome, Jarl looked happy and expectant. He quickly changed his demeanor, however, upon perceiving that I was bent upon shunning a meeting.
Instantly our sails were struck; and calling upon Jarl, who was somewhat backward to obey, I shipped the oars; and, both rowing, we stood away obliquely from our former course.
I divined that the vessel was a whaler; and hence, that by help of the glass, with which her look-outs must be momentarily sweeping the horizon, they might possibly have descried us; especially, as we were due east from the ship; a direction, which at sunset is the one most favorable for perceiving a far-off object at sea. Furthermore, our canvas was snow-white and conspicuous. To be sure, we could not be certain what kind of a vessel it was; but whatever it might be, I, for one, had no mind to risk an encounter; for it was quite plain, that if the stranger came within hailing distance, there would be no resource but to link our fortunes with hers; whereas I desired to pursue none but the Chamois'. As for the Skyeman, he kept looking wistfully over his shoulder; doubtless, praying Heaven, that we might not escape what I sought to avoid.
Now, upon a closer scrutiny, being pretty well convinced that the stranger, after all, was steering a nearly westerly course—right away from us—we reset our sail; and as night fell, my Viking's entreaties, seconded by my own curiosity, induced me to resume our original course; and so follow after the vessel, with a view of obtaining a nearer glimpse, without danger of detection. So, boldly we steered for the sail.
But not gaining much upon her, spite of the lightness of the breeze (a circumstance in our favor: the chase being a ship, and we but a boat), at my comrade's instigation, we added oars to sails, readily guiding our way by the former, though the helm was left to itself.
As we came nearer, it was plain that the vessel was no whaler; but a small, two-masted craft; in short, a brigantine. Her sails were in a state of unaccountable disarray; .only the foresail, mainsail, and jib being set. The first was much tattered; and the jib was hoisted but half way up the stay, where it idly flapped, the breeze coming from over the taffrail. She continually yawed in her course; now almost presenting her broadside, then showing her stern.
Striking our sails once more, we lay on our oars, and watched her in the starlight. Still she swung from side to side, and still sailed on.
Not a little terrified at the sight, superstitious Jarl more than insinuated that the craft must be a gold-huntress, haunted. But I told him, that if such were the case, we must board her, come gold or goblins. In reality, however, I began to think that she must have been abandoned by her crew; or else, that from sickness, those on board were incapable of managing her.
After a long and anxious reconnoiter, we came still nearer, using our oars, but very reluctantly on Jarl's part; who, while rowing, kept his eyes over his shoulder, as if about to beach the little Chamois on the back of a whale as of yore. Indeed, he seemed full as impatient to quit the vicinity of the vessel, as before he had been anxiously courting it.
Now, as the silent brigantine again swung round her broadside, I hailed her loudly. No return. Again. But all was silent. With a few vigorous strokes, we closed with her, giving yet another unanswered hail; when, laying the Chamois right alongside, I clutched at the main-chains. Instantly we felt her dragging us along. Securing our craft by its painter, I sprang over the rail, followed by Jarl, who had snatched his harpoon, his favorite arms. Long used with that weapon to overcome the monsters of the deep, he doubted not it would prove equally serviceable in any other encounter.
The deck was a complete litter. Tossed about were pearl oyster shells, husks of cocoa-nuts, empty casks, and cases. The deserted tiller was lashed; which accounted for the vessel's yawing. But we could not conceive, how going large before the wind; the craft could, for any considerable time, at least, have guided herself without the help of a hand. Still, the breeze was light and steady.
Now, seeing the helm thus lashed, I could not but distrust the silence that prevailed. It conjured up the idea of miscreants concealed below, and meditating treachery; unscrupulous mutineers— Lascars, or Manilla-men; who, having murdered the Europeans of the crew, might not be willing to let strangers depart unmolested. Or yet worse, the entire ship's company might have been swept away by a fever, its infection still lurking in the poisoned hull. And though the first conceit, as the last, was a mere surmise, it was nevertheless deemed prudent to secure the hatches, which for the present we accordingly barred down with the oars of our boat. This done, we went about the deck in search of water. And finding some in a clumsy cask, drank long and freely, and to our thirsty souls' content.
The wind now freshening, and the rent sails like to blow from the yards, we brought the brigantine to the wind, and brailed up the canvas. This left us at liberty to examine the craft, though, unfortunately, the night was growing hazy.
All this while our boat was still towing alongside; and I was about to drop it astern, when Jarl, ever cautious, declared it safer where it was; since, if there were people on board, they would most likely be down in the cabin, from the dead-lights of which, mischief might be done to the Chamois.
It was then, that my comrade observed, that the brigantine had no boats, a circumstance most unusual in any sort of a vessel at sea. But marking this, I was exceedingly gratified. It seemed to indicate, as I had opined, that from some cause or other, she must have been abandoned of her crew. And in a good measure this dispelled my fears of foul play, and the apprehension of contagion. Encouraged by these reflections, I now resolved to descend, and explore the cabin, though sorely against Jarl's counsel. To be sure, as he earnestly said, this step might have been deferred till daylight; but it seemed too wearisome to wait. So bethinking me of our tinder-box and candles, I sent him into the boat for them. Presently, two candles were lit; one of which the Skyeman tied up and down the barbed end of his harpoon; so that upon going below, the keen steel might not be far off, should the light be blown out by a dastard.
Unfastening the cabin scuttle, we stepped downward into the smallest and murkiest den in the world. The altar-like transom, surmounted by the closed dead-lights in the stem, together with the dim little sky-light overhead, and the somber aspect of every thing around, gave the place the air of some subterranean oratory, say a Prayer Room of Peter the Hermit. But coils of rigging, bolts of canvas, articles of clothing, and disorderly heaps of rubbish, harmonized not with this impression. Two doors, one on each side, led into wee little state-rooms, the berths of which also were littered. Among other things, was a large box, sheathed with iron and stoutly clamped, containing a keg partly filled with powder, the half of an old cutlass, a pouch of bullets, and a case for a sextant—a brass plate on the lid, with the maker's name. London. The broken blade of the cutlass was very rusty and stained; and the iron hilt bent in. It looked so tragical that I thrust it out of sight.
Removing a small trap-door, opening into the space beneath, called the "run," we lighted upon sundry cutlasses and muskets, lying together at sixes and sevens, as if pitched down in a hurry.
Casting round a hasty glance, and satisfying ourselves, that through the bulkhead of the cabin, there was no passage to the forward part of the hold, we caught up the muskets and cutlasses, the powder keg and the pouch of bullets, and bundling them on deck, prepared to visit the other end of the vessel. Previous to so doing, however, I loaded a musket, and belted a cutlass to my side. But my Viking preferred his harpoon.
In the forecastle reigned similar confusion. But there was a snug little lair, cleared away in one corner, and furnished with a grass mat and bolster, like those used among the Islanders of these seas. This little lair looked to us as if some leopard had crouched there. And as it turned out, we were not far from right. Forming one side of this retreat, was a sailor's chest, stoutly secured by a lock, and monstrous heavy withal. Regardless of Jarl's entreaties, I managed to burst the lid; thereby revealing a motley assemblage of millinery, and outlandish knick-knacks of all sorts; together with sundry rude Calico contrivances, which though of unaccountable cut, nevertheless possessed a certain petticoatish air, and latitude of skirt, betokening them the habiliments of some feminine creature; most probably of the human species.
In this strong box, also, was a canvas bag, jingling with rusty old bell-buttons, gangrened copper bolts, and sheathing nails; damp, greenish Carolus dollars (true coin all), besides divers iron screws, and battered, chisels, and belaying-pins. Sounded on the chest lid, the dollars rang clear as convent bells. These were put aside by Jarl the sight of substantial dollars doing away, for the nonce, with his superstitious Misgivings. True to his kingship, he loved true coin; though abroad on the sea, and no land but dollarless dominions ground, all this silver was worthless as charcoal or diamonds. Nearly one and the same thing, say the chemists; but tell that to the marines, say the illiterate Jews and the jewelers. Go, buy a house, or a ship, if you can, with your charcoal! Yea, all the woods in Canada charred down to cinders would not be worth the one famed Brazilian diamond, though no bigger than the egg of a carrier pigeon. Ah! but these chemists are liars, and Sir Humphrey Davy a cheat. Many's the poor devil they've deluded into the charcoal business, who otherwise might have made his fortune with a mattock.
Groping again into the chest, we brought to light a queer little hair trunk, very bald and rickety. At every corner was a mighty clamp, the weight of which had no doubt debilitated the box. It was jealously secured with a padlock, almost as big as itself; so that it was almost a question, which was meant to be security to the other. Prying at it hard, we at length effected an entrance; but saw no golden moidores, no ruddy doubloons; nothing under heaven but three pewter mugs, such as are used in a ship's cabin, several brass screws, and brass plates, which must have belonged to a quadrant; together with a famous lot of glass beads, and brass rings; while, pasted on the inside of the cover, was a little colored print, representing the harlots, the shameless hussies, having a fine time with the Prodigal Son.
It should have been mentioned ere now, that while we were busy in the forecastle, we were several times startled by strange sounds aloft. And just after, crashing into the little hair trunk, down came a great top-block, right through the scuttle, narrowly missing my Viking's crown; a much stronger article, by the way, than your goldsmiths turn out in these days. This startled us much; particularly Jarl, as one might suppose; but accustomed to the strange creakings and wheezings of the masts and yards of old vessels at sea, and having many a time dodged stray blocks accidentally falling from aloft, I thought little more of the matter; though my comrade seemed to think the noises somewhat different from any thing of that kind he had even heard before.
After a little more turning over of the rubbish in the forecastle, and much marveling thereat, we ascended to the deck; where we found every thing so silent, that, as we moved toward the taffrail, the Skyeman unconsciously addressed me in a whisper. | <urn:uuid:fe11b3b2-40d0-45dd-9172-1054b46ac41f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://americanliterature.com/author/herman-melville/book/mardi-and-a-voyage-thither/volume-i-chapter-xix | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00475-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975802 | 2,991 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Chicago is a long way from the ocean, but this spring, a pair of
exhibits will be bringing creatures of the deep to the city.
[Get a sneak peek! Listen to a whale song
The Shedd Aquarium's Jellies and the Field Museum's
Whales open in April and May, respectively, and include
up-close and interactive looks at some drastically different
Jellies is an original exhibit and
will open April 15 in the space currently occupied by the welcome
center. More than 10 species of jellyfish, including translucent
moon jellies and upside-down jellies, will be on display, with
several species being brought in to join the three species already
at the aquarium.
Aquarium spokeswoman Melissa Kruth says the impetus for the
exhibit came from a close look at the Shedd's social media
"On Flickr and Youtube, jellies were the most photographed and
videoed of our animals," she says. "They're enormously popular and
we're very excited about the expanded exhibit."
Whales: Giants of the
Deep, which run at the Field May 20 to Jan. 16, 2011,
combines the science of whales with their cultural
significance to cultures around the world. The centerpiece of the
exhibit is a pair of full sperm whale skeletons, stretching 58 and
32 feet long, and a car-sized model of a blue whale heart that kids
can crawl through. The exhibit also includes whale songs, exhibits
about traditional South Pacific cultures, and a virtual scuba dive
to hunt giant squid.
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How to Create Digital Resumes for Your Online Job Search
By Michelle Dumas
In my last column I explained the many different types and formats of resumes. While an understanding of the intricacies isn't necessary, you should have at least a basic understanding of the formats before beginning your job search. For a referesher, you can read that column here.
Here are some quick and easy tips for creating the most common "digital" formats that you'll be asked for.
Remember - it is absolutely essential that you create resume content that is keyword rich regardless of the file format. It is not necessary that you maintain a separate keyword version of your resume. ALL resumes must include a heavy emphasis on keywords. Keywords are generally defined as nouns or phrases that an employer will use when searching for an applicant with your skill set. To maximize the recall of your resume in a search, you will want to use as many keywords in your resume as possible.
1. Keywords should focus on technical and professional areas of expertise, industry-related jargon, and your work history. Also, include the names of associations and organizations of which you are a member.
2. Whenever possible, use synonyms of keywords in different parts of your resume and if you use initials for a term in one section, spell the term out in another.
3. Always be specific. For example, while it may be fine to include the phrase "computer literate," you will also want to list the specific software that you are proficient in using.
This is one of the most common areas of confusion, so I'll state it once again...the content of a keyword resume does not need to differ from the content of your traditional resume. With careful attention to rhythm and flow, it is possible to prepare a resume that is keyword optimized, but that also includes the powerful, compelling, active language of a traditional resume. Not only will this simplify your resume preparation, but it will ensure that the content of all versions of your resume will be optimized for both the computer and the human reader. Furthermore, if you incorporate a professional summary and bulleted list of qualifications in the text of your resume, there is little if any need to prepare a separate keyword summary.
Unfortunately, it is impossible to recommend a specific list of the best keywords to use in your resume, as the "best" keywords are different for every individual and depend mainly on your unique career objective and background. What is certain, however, is that a well-prepared keyword resume is so critical to your success in a job market that largely relies on electronic applicant tracking systems, if you have any doubts at all you should consult with a professional resume writer.
ASCII RESUMES (aka TEXT RESUMES):
Preparing the all-important ASCII text version of your resume is not difficult, but it does require a learning curve. Once converted to ASCII format, you will be able to email your resume in response to an ad or paste it directly into web-based forms and submit it to Internet resume databanks. The specific directions will vary depending on the software you have installed on your computer. But, in general, to prepare your ASCII resumes properly, follow these simple steps:
1. Using your word processing program (most likely, Microsoft Word), open your word-processed resume and use the "Save As" function to save a copy as a "Text Only" or "ASCII (DOS)" document. Title your document with an easily distinguishable name; perhaps "resume_internet.txt"
2. Close your word processing program and re-open the ASCII file. You will not be able to see your changes until you have done this. Note that it has been stripped of virtually all original formatting.
3. Go through your new ASCII document line-by-line. Align all text flush to the left-hand margin.
4. Remove all "centering," "right hand margin," and "justification" alignments.
5. Although you should no longer see them, if visible, remove all graphics, artwork, and special character formatting.
6. Remove all tab characters.
7. Remove all columns.
8. Replace bullets with a simple ASCII asterisk (*).
9. Carefully check the spelling and the accuracy of your data.
10. If you wish, use ASCII characters to enhance the appearance of your resume. Asterisks, plus signs, or other keyboard characters can be used to create visual lines that separate sections of your resume and make it easier to read. The above steps convert your resume to ASCII without line breaks. When pasted into a web-based form or email message, your resume will automatically wrap to the size of the window.
Your new ASCII resume will be universally readable, no matter what computer system the recipient uses. It will also be easy to manipulate for entry into applicant tracking databases, eliminating the inherent difficulties of scanning and converting your paper resume with OCR systems.
There is no denying that the Internet has caused what was once a straightforward process to become complex and confusing to many job hunters. Yet, the benefits far outweigh the negatives. Like never before, as a job seeker you have immediate access to announcements and advertisements of openings around the globe. You have the ability to conduct detailed research on companies of interest. And you have unprecedented opportunity to cost effectively promote your qualifications to hundreds or even thousands of hiring authorities for just a tiny fraction of the cost of doing so through traditional methods. While the new skills you must learn may seem daunting at first, by understanding the concepts and creating your electronic resumes, you are well on your way to an efficient, effective Internet job search. | <urn:uuid:3c59cc7d-4fda-4585-b7ca-ee289865bc69> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.workforce50.com/Content/Articles/MD6-Digital-Resumes.cfm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280242.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00076-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918044 | 1,161 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Widget provides each representative with product samples, used solely for demonstration purposes, and a car owned by Widget and registered here. The cars are used when visiting customers and are garaged at the representatives' homes. Widget has no other contacts with Massachusetts.
ISSUE: Does Widget's use of personal property in Massachusetts subject it to the Massachusetts corporate excise?
DISCUSSION: A foreign corporation owning or using any or all of its capital, plant or other corporate property in Massachusetts in a corporate capacity is generally subject to the corporate excise. G.L. c. 63, § 39(3). The power of any state to tax foreign corporations is, however, limited by federal law to those corporations whose activities within the state exceed "solicitation," as defined by Public Law 86-272 (15 U.S.C. § 381). Under Public Law 86-272, a corporation's activities do not exceed solicitation if:
(1) the corporation's business activity within the state is limited to the solicitation of orders for tangible personal property;
(2) all orders are approved outside the state; and
(3) all orders are shipped from outside the state.
Id. Whether a corporation's activities are limited only to solicitation depends on all the facts and circumstances. If a corporation uses a small amount of personal property in Massachusetts solely to solicit orders for its products, it will not be subject to the Massachusetts corporate excise if the other requirements of Public Law 86-272 are also met.
Here, Widget has no contacts with Massachusetts apart from a small number of cars and product samples used solely to solicit orders to be shipped to Massachusetts from outside the state. Widget's activities thus do not exceed "solicitation," and Widget is not subject to the Massachusetts corporate excise.
DIRECTIVE: Widget's use of personal property in Massachusetts does not subject it to the corporate excise because the use made of the property does not exceed the "solicitation" of orders within the meaning of Public Law 86-272.
This Directive follows Letter Ruling 88-7, which revoked Letter Ruling 84-1 and modified Letter Ruling 86-10.
REFERENCE: G.L. c. 63, § 39(3); Public Law 86-272 (15 U.S.C. § 381).
/s/Stephen W. Kidder
Stephen W. Kidder
Commissioner of Revenue
September 30, 1988
This Directive represents the official position of the Department of Revenue on the application of the law to the facts as stated. The Department and its personnel will follow this Directive, and taxpayers may rely upon it, unless it is revoked or modified pursuant to 830 CMR 62C.01(5)(e). In applying this Directive, however, the effect of subsequent legislation, regulations, court decisions, Directives, and TIRs must be considered, and Department personnel and taxpayers may rely upon this Directive only if the facts, circumstances and issues presented in other cases are substantially the same as those set forth in this Directive. | <urn:uuid:3788cde4-60f8-4391-983a-11e114c87e7c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mass.gov/dor/businesses/help-and-resources/legal-library/directives/directives-by-years/1980-1989-directives/directive-88-8-nexus-public-law-86-272.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00375-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923742 | 630 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Yesterday, security firm Hold Security revealed that 1.2 billion email addresses had been stolen by Russian hackers. Security expert Brian Krebs has responded to the news by posting answers to questions on his blog. In the post, he reveals that major spammers rely on lists of billions of email addresses in order to distribute malware. Should email users be concerned? "If you are the type of person who re-uses passwords at multiple sites — including email accounts — then the answer is yes," he writes. "If you re-use your email password at another site and that other site gets hacked, there is an excellent chance that cyber crooks are plundering your inbox and using it to spam your friends and family to spread malware and to perpetuate the cybercrime food chain." | <urn:uuid:0d1a36f9-a0dd-4d51-b3e2-89d955962606> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.mediapost.com/publications/article/231652/brian-krebs-explores-massive-russian-email-hack.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717783.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00076-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955907 | 154 | 2.328125 | 2 |
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Cucurbitaceae, family Cucurbitaceae, gourd family(noun)
a family of herbaceous vines (such as cucumber or melon or squash or pumpkin)
The numerical value of family cucurbitaceae in Chaldean Numerology is: 6
The numerical value of family cucurbitaceae in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
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Originally published 09/25/2013
Mental illness is the far more likely culprit than bullying in suicides and school shootings.
Originally published 07/06/2013
Psychiatrists are very interested in the historical perspectives because they can see the obvious power that an understanding of history brings to appreciating the current situation. Historians haven’t been so interested. Psychiatrists are centered on diagnosis and treatment, and those are the two aspects that are central to the practice of medicine.
Originally published 05/26/2013
Colorado could benefit from a history lesson. With Governor John Hickenlooper having just repurposed Fort Lyon, a former Veterans’ Administration hospital most recently used as a prison, for a homeless rehabilitation program, Coloradans should recall the experience of the Willowbrook State School, the institution famously described by Senator Robert Kennedy as a “snake pit.” At first glance, there is not much in common between Fort Lyon and Willowbrook. In an effort to address homelessness, particularly among veterans, Fort Lyon will house up to three hundred chronically homeless individuals, providing them with vocational training and supportive services for substance abuse and mental illness. After at least one year of residency at Fort Lyon, participants will be eligible to receive a Section 8 housing voucher.
Originally published 01/15/2013
Airswimming Irish Repertory Theatre 132 W. 22d Street New York, N.Y.Airswimming is a jolting shocker about two women incarcerated in a mental hospital in England for fifty years due to their eccentricity and because they violated British society’s rules of conduct during the 1920s. At the same time, Charlotte Jones’s 1997 play is an enduring, enchanting story of the strength of the human spirit and how two people’s friendship helped them survive a living hell.In 1922, Dora (played by Aedin Moloney) was tossed into St. Dymphnas Hospital for the Criminally Insane and followed there two years later by Persephone. They mark the first few years of their imprisonment, but so many years go by they lose count. The hospital has teamed them up to clean the bathrooms one hour each day, and that is the time we see them on stage. There, scrubbing down the bathtub, the pair realizes that they need each other to survive the Hades they occupy.
Originally published 07/18/2014
Liberty and Power
Irfan Khawaja has an excellent post at the Austro-Athenian Empire responding to the usual negative portrayal of the Palestinians, especially the youth. I highly recommend it.
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Baby's Little Bible Hardback
Illustrated by Kristina Stephenson
Part of the Baby Bible series
The Baby Bible was first published in 2006, written by new mum Sarah Toulmin as a way of sharing the stories she so loved with her own little ones.
Her ultra simple retellings of 20 favourite stories, from creation to the resurrection, are filled with a sense of wonder, expressing God's love for creation.
Combining with Kristina Stephenson's heartwarming illustrations, this delightful little Bible offers lots to look at and point to on the page, to create the perfect focus for parent and child when sharing this delightful book together.
The Baby Bible is now available in a small format gift edition with a blue padded cover; a perfect starter Bible to share with a much-loved child.
- Format: Hardback
- Pages: 160 pages, Colour illustrations
- Publisher: Lion Hudson Plc
- Publication Date: 21/01/2011
- Category: Bibles & bible stories (Children's/YA)
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Date: July 5, 1998 Where: SHMC Words:
Sermon Title: Jesus Sends out the 72
Text: Luke 10:1-11
W. L: Rudolf Sawatzky G: Gerhard Pries
We have often heard the motivating words of Jesus: “The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.”
Canadian Sociologists, Don Postersky and Reginald Bibby say that, there is a tremendous spiritual hunger in our Canadian society. There is a profound interest in spiritual questions among the people who we rub shoulders with in our everyday life. Our unchurched neighbors, that is, people who have spiritual interests, but who do not go to church regularly, are not, however, satisfied with simplistic and legalistic answers to the complex and difficult questions that face them.
Indeed, the field is ready for the harvest, and the Lord of the harvest wants you and me (everyone of us) out in the field. God wants us to take hold of the countless opportunities and challenges around us to bring Glory to the Lord of the harvest.
But, the church sometimes taken a lazy approach to reaching out to those who are searching for the deeper meaning of faith. There is an old story of a farmer who said lightning struck an old shed and saved him the trouble of tearing it down. Then it rained and saved him the chore of washing off his car too. When someone asked him what he was doing now, he replied, "I’m waiting for an earthquake to shake the potatoes out of the ground."
The issue for today’s message is the witness of Christ’s disciples to the world. And, unlike the farmer, the Church of Jesus Christ cannot afford to wait for an earthquake to shake the unchurched out of their hiding places and into the church.
One of the things that make the topic of Evangelism and Outreach difficult to understand is that we associate Evangelism mainly with the work of Missionaries overseas. When I was younger I had this image in my mind of white North American missionaries bringing the Gospel to monkey-eating natives in the African jungle. Lately, I have come to see outreach more as talking to my neighbor across the fence, whose wife of many years passed away last spring.
Today’s Gospel lesson is from Luke 10:1-20. Brother Pries gave us some of the background to the sending out of the 72 disciples.
1 After this the Lord appointed seventy-two others and sent them two by two ahead of him to every town and place where he was about to go.
2 He told them, "The harvest is plentiful, but the workers are few. Ask the Lord of the harvest, therefore, to send out workers into his harvest field.
3 Go! I am sending you out like lambs among wolves.
4 Do not take a purse or bag or sandals; and do not greet anyone on the road.
5 "When you enter a house, first say, `Peace to this house.'
6 If a man of peace is there, your peace will rest on him; if not, it will return to you.
7 Stay in that house, eating and drinking whatever they give you, for the worker deserves his wages. Do not move around from house to house.
8 "When you enter a town and are welcomed, eat what is set before you.
9 Heal the sick who are there and tell them, `The kingdom of God is near you.'
10 But when you enter a town and are not welcomed, go into its streets and say,
11 `Even the dust of your town that sticks to our feet we wipe off against you. Yet be sure of this: The kingdom of God is near.'
Jesus’ public ministry was quickly coming to an end. But there were still so many places that the Lord had not yet visited with the Good News of God’s Kingdom. Jesus had earlier visited the regions of Galilee in the North and Samaria in the center Plains of Israel. But, he had not yet ministered in the towns and villages surrounding the Jordan River.
During the six months or so before his crucifixion he ministered in this area. The people who lived in the towns and villages along the Jordan were treat with indifference by the Jewish religious leaders. That may have been the reason why Jesus sent out such a large delegation of disciples, so that they could reach as many people as possible in the short time that was left.
While the sending out of the 12 disciples earlier in Luke represents the ministry to God’s people – the twelve tribes of Israel, the ministry of the 72 was to the Gentiles – there were traditionally 72 Gentile nations.
Before he sends the 72 out Jesus says to them, that the need of these people is great, but that there are few people to do the work. Jesus commands them to pray that the Lord will send out more laborers to minister to the needy people.
With prayerful hearts the disciples go out, knowing that they will be like defenseless lambs among wolves. They are not to take any unnecessary baggage with them, nor waste any time, because the work is too urgent for any delay. God will provide for their needs as they trust in His leading. They must also not waste their time on the road with long-winded greetings that were part of the customs of the day.
When they enter a house the must use the customary greeting, “Peace be with you.” As they preach the Gospel this greeting will have a far greater meaning. Those who accept the message will share in the peace of Christ.
Many Gentiles lived in this area, and ceremonial purity was not practices as strictly as in Jerusalem. Jesus instructs his disciples not to waste time figuring out if the food set before them had gone through the proper process of purification.
As the disciples teach and heal, those who receive and accept the message will be convinced that the Kingdom of God is indeed at hand.
As we look at this text we have to confess some of the baggage that we bring to this reading. For one thing, we are very much aware of the cultural differences, not only in our society, but even within our own church. Furthermore, we confess our fears to take risks in congregational life. We have reservations about rocking the boat of our established church traditions, even our church politics. These are only some of the barriers that hinder the witness of the church today.
As with the 72, our journey of discipleship is an exercise in obedience and faithfulness to the will of God in Jesus Christ. The opportunities for reaching out are endless and literally right in our own back yard.
Let me give you an example, A few Sundays ago we went to the local Community club for a Soccer tournament. Even though it was raining the place was packed out with adults and children. We met and built bridges of friendship with other parents. We even met some of our neighbors who don’t attend church. And we invited them to bring their children to our Vacation Bible School.
Jesus has sent us out as his disciples among the people we meet in our daily lives. Although we do not always know where our journey with Christ will lead us, he gives us the gifts we need for the tasks ahead and enables us to be part of a great adventure – namely the coming of God’s kingdom.
The story of the sending out of the 72 teaches us being part of those who are sent out, is not easy. There is stress, tension, an element of risk, and great uncertainty.
Another thing the story tells us is that being sent out requires letting go of a lot of baggage. We must be able to move quickly, without unnecessary hindrances.
And the story tells us that there is a good deal of excitement and anticipation. Part of the excitement and anticipation of an adventure is that we aren't sure how things are going to end, where the journey will lead, how things will turn out.
You and I, as disciples of Jesus Christ, are part of the mission to share the Good News of God’s Kingdom with others. The Master has graciously chosen us to send out. We are privileged to be part of God's way of turning the whole world upside down!
Donald Ewing of Wheeling, West Virginia says the following about taking risks: To laugh is to risk appearing the fool. To weep is to risk appearing sentimental. To reach out to another is to risk involvement. To expose feelings is to risk exposing our true self. To place your ideas and your dreams before the crowd is to risk loss. To love is to risk not being loved in return. To live is to risk dying. To hope is to risk despair. To try at all is to risk failure. But to risk we must, because the greatest hazard in life is to risk nothing. The man, the woman, who risks nothing does nothing, has nothing, is nothing.
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Author Archives: Simon Scarborough Associates
In tourism terms, 2013 turns out to have been a bumper year, with record numbers of foreign nationals coming to the UK and spending record amounts of money, and British residents’ enthusiasm for travel back to pre-recession levels.
The figures, taken from the annual International Passenger Survey and published by the government’s Office for National Statistics, make extraordinary reading.
Britons made 58.5 million trips abroad last year, and spent nearly £35 billion, roughly on a par with the peaks reached before the economic meltdown. Overseas residents made 32.8 million trips to the UK, and spent £21 billion – both figures are the highest since records began 43 years ago.
UK residents spend an average of £57 a day while abroad, while international visitors to our shores cough up a healthy average of £85 a day. Visitors from the US spend the most – £105 a day on average – and contribute an estimated £2.5 billion to the UK economy.
So far, so very good indeed but, from a local and regional perspective, there may be less cause for celebration.
British travellers heading overseas, whether on holiday, on business, or to visit friends or family, clearly aren’t spending their money here. And it appears that inbound visitors, while they are spending plenty, aren’t doing so in our neck of the woods.
For foreigners, London is understandably the big attraction. Last year, overseas visitors spent a massive £11.3 billion in the capital, more than half the national total. Outside London, cities like Edinburgh and Glasgow, Bristol and Bath, and Cambridge and Canterbury, are all firm favourites.
However, of the top 20 “most-visited” destinations in the UK, only two – Southampton and the Brighton and Hove conurbation – are on the south coast. Inland, Reading is on the list. Inverness is on the list. Bournemouth, Poole, Dorchester – they don’t get a look-in.
A colleague, chatting recently to a London-based high-flyer, was told that Londoners looking for a seaside break go to Brighton. Bournemouth, she said, “isn’t on our radar”.
It is not a question of accessibility, it’s a question of awareness. Visitors – whether they’re from overseas or from other parts of the UK – are not flocking to Dorset because they don’t like it. They’re not flocking to Dorset because they don’t know about it – it is not on their radar.
Clearly there is work to be done, and potentially very profitable work at that. At the risk of sounding like a stuck record, it is high time we pooled our promotional efforts to put our county – all of it – on the map.
No one town or village can achieve that, but by working together we stand a much better chance of success. Not only must the public and private sectors work together, but businesses, whether they are directly involved in tourism or not, must work together as well.
British and international tourists between them spent £56 billion on their travels last year. For all our sakes, it’s high time we got a slice of that action.
Editor’s note: For further information, please contact Simon Scarborough on 07801 571357 or at firstname.lastname@example.org.
We are really fortunate that in addition to the Bournemouth air show, which has now been successfully running for over 10 years, and is the largest show in Europe, we have managed to create a new Wheels festival that commences this bank holiday weekend on the 24th May 2014. www.bournemouthwheels.co.uk
Bournemouth has over 4.8million visitors a year helping to generate more jobs for the town and really setting us apart from our neighbouring seaside destinations. All sectors will benefit from these type of events which is why all our local businesses should get behind them to help promote and support their launch. Hotels have put on packages for those visiting from out of town and wishing to extend their stay, restaurants will be booked up and our retail outlets will see a much larger footfall than usual. With the food and drink festival also fast approaching in June, www.bournemouthfoodanddrink.co.uk/about-us/ Bournemouth will be inundated with foodies from all over the Country, with some visitors even travelling from overseas, we really are a destination of choice.
These events are our showcase for Bournemouth and is the reason why I am so passionate about the customer service experience to ensure our visitors come back again. With this in mind Simon Scarborough Associates is working closely with local hoteliers, restaurants and the National Coastal Tourism Academy, NCTA and delivering a programme of workshops aimed to improve the customer service skills of all our client facing teams.
For more information on our NCTA Bitesize Bournemouth training and Simon Scarborough Associates’ services please contact SImon Scarborough on email@example.com
Bitesize Bournemouth, a “whistlestop introduction to our great resort”, is certainly something to get one’s teeth into – not least because it is “snappily” presented by yours truly!
Organised by the National Coastal Tourism Academy and aimed at new recruits to the tourism industry, the free 60-minute sessions are being held every other week at different venues across the town.
I give an overview of Bournemouth’s history, its tourist attractions, its transport links,and the delights of the surrounding area, providing a quick-fire introduction to the resort from a visitor’s perspective, and include pointers on how to deliver great customer service.
The responses so far have been flatteringly positive – check out the comments at www.coastaltourismacademy.co.uk/blog/article/bitesize-bournemouth – and we’re expecting demand to be consistently high.
To find out more and to book your place on the next session, contact Natalie Tye at firstname.lastname@example.org.
I look forward to seeing you there!
The French hotel company Accor has announced it is rolling out a new smartphone “solution” that will enable travellers to check in and provide credit card details before they arrive, pause merely to collect a keycard, and then check out without queuing to pay the bill. The chain – which owns the Sofitel, Novotel and Ibis brands among others – says the new system will be up and running at 1,000 of its 3,000-plus hotels by the end of this year, giving hotel staff more time to meet and greet their guests.
Frankly, I’m not convinced. Regulars on the London Underground will be familiar with the Oyster Card system, which enables passengers to stump up for their fares in advance, obviating the need to queue for tickets. According to Accor’s theory, that should give London Underground staff more time to meet and greet their travellers. I for one have yet to experience that pleasure!
Travel website momondo.co.uk has published the results of a survey to show that British travellers, by and large, opt for either three- or four-star hotels. While 35 per cent of us go for three stars and 33 per cent go one star better, only eight per cent of UK residents, the pollsters say, opt to stay in five-star establishments.
The statistics come as no surprise. What is rather more perplexing, however, is that momondo should have spent time and money “researching” something that most of us knew already – we have a tendency to opt for mid-market accommodation.
Another survey, by “hotel solutions provider” HRS, suggests that Budapest is the place to go for cheap accommodation; the average price for a room in the Hungarian capital is a mere €66, or something over £54.
Budapest is an unquestionably lovely city, but if you choose to go there because the rooms are cheap, I suspect you’re missing the point.
The fourth annual Bournemouth Food & Drink Festival is just weeks away, and Simon Scarborough Associates is more than happy to spread the word!
The ten-day event runs from June 20-29, from 10am to 10pm (8pm on the final Sunday), and promises to be the best yet.
The festival’s “hub” couldn’t be more central – it’s in Bournemouth Square – but we’re promised a host a spin-off events at various venues around the town. Full details will be posted on the www.bournemouthfoodanddrink.co.uk website as they are finalised.
There will be plenty to scoff and quaff, all accompanied by live entertainment, cooking demonstrations, and loads of other foodie fun.
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Some 68 dispatchers are working through the festive season at the City’s emergency call centre.
The Public Emergency Communication Centre (PECC) handles all sorts of emergencies and has seen a sharp increase in calls compared to this time last year.
There is, however, a drop in the number of hoax calls, which tie up essential resources and hamper efforts to help those who have real emergencies, says mayoral committee member for safety and security JP Smith.
So far there have been more than 51 000 call to the centre this December compared to 44 666 last year, with 727 prank calls compared to 2 152 last year.
“The bulk of the calls have always been medical calls,” said Mr Smith. “PECC strives to ensure ample staffing, especially over the festive season. Our 68 highly trained emergency communicators work on a shift basis and are able to communicate in English, Afrikaans and isiXhosa. More than 80% of calls are answered within 10 seconds. Those who call the centre are often injured, in pain or panicked, and they need someone on the other end of the line who can handle the situation.”
The dispatchers direct calls to the appropriate service, including the ambulance service and the police.
The PECC started operating as the centralised hub for emergency calls to the City in August 2000.
The public may call the PECC in the event of any life- or property- threatening emergencies.
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The Nursing and Midwifery Council (NMC) has announced that its new Test of Competence (ToC) will be introduced on Monday 2 August 2021.
The NMC said “As part of our commitment to uphold the highest standards of care our ToC makes sure professionals who trained overseas, and some professionals who want to re-join the register after time away from practice, have the right skills and knowledge to practise safely.
“The new ToC will reflect our new Future Nurse and Future Midwife standards, ensuring that all those delivering care in the UK will meet the same high standards, regardless of where they are trained or how long they’ve been out of practice.”
Other changes the NMC previously announced include:
- Splitting the computer-based test (CBT) into two parts – Part A will cover numeracy and Part B will cover nursing or midwifery theory
- The new practical part of the test, the objective structured clinical examination (OSCE) will have ten stations rather than six. It will assess additional skills as well as the candidate’s values and behaviours, and evidence-based practice.
Linda Everet, Interim Deputy Director, Professional Regulation, said:
“I am pleased to announce the launch date for our new test of competence as part of our wider efforts to ensure our nursing and midwifery professionals deliver the safe, kind and effective care we all want to see.
“Over the last two years, we’ve introduced world class new standards for our professionals trained in the UK. Our new test of competence will now reflect these standards and will ensure that no matter where in the world people are trained, or how long they’ve been out of practice, the public can be confident that professionals working in the UK meet our high standards.
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Coffee Market in China 2012
The Chinese coffee market is poised to witness phenomenal growth owing to rapid retail coffee chain expansion and growing popularity of instant coffee.
The report begins with the global coffee market overview comprising the global market size and projected growth in production till 2012. Global coffee production volume followed by key regional segments and variety of coffee forms a part of the global coffee market scenario section. The domestic coffee market overview provides projected growth of coffee production in China till 2020. Domestic market overview also includes the split share of the hot drinks market in China covering tea, coffee and others. Major coffee producing hubs in China are also highlighted in this section. Furthermore, the report delves into the coffee supply chain beginning from production of coffee to retail sales.
Export-imports chapter lays down the trade figures of coffee under specific HS codes for the period between 2006 and 2010. It provides export-import figures both in terms of volume and value with a country-wise split.
Key drivers of the industry explain the factors influencing the growth of coffee market in China. Some of the drivers include growth in population and urbanization, rising disposable income, changing lifestyle, young population driving the coffee demand and low per capita consumption. Coffee industry also faces some challenges that impede its development and growth prospects in China. Some of the major challenges identified includes rising labour costs, taxes and duties and health hazards.
Emerging trends that are of marked importance to the coffee market in China are also described including factors such as coffee retail chain expansion, rising demand for instant coffee and investment plans. The report also covers key mergers and acquisition deals information that have taken place in the Chinese coffee market during 2009-11.
The competition section outlays the competitive landscape of the coffee market in China briefing some of the key facts and figures about the domestic and foreign players operating in the market. The section provides a three dimensional analysis of key players’ incomes, profits and market capitalization. The report also features brief profiles of major domestic and foreign players in the market and a snapshot of their corporation, financial performance, business highlights and their product portfolio, providing an insight into the existing competitive scenario.Market Report
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With the support and endorsement of speaker of the House Nancy Pelosi, Bernie Sanders has introduced a bill to save Social Security. So far so good. However, instead of fixing Social Security by addressing the real problem, Sanders’ idea is to throw more money at the same problem. Guess where the money will come from? FROM YOU.
The Core Issue
- must be reconfigured
- costs a lot of money
- becomes more costly every year
Social Security began in 1935 when the average U.S. life expectancy was age 64.
The average U.S. life expectancy for a 65-year-old is currently a little over age 80. One out of every three babies born today will live to age 100.
Yet during all this time of increasing life expectancy, the start age for full Social Security payments has increased just two years to age 67. Hence, a system intended to help less than half the population for just a few years has been supporting nearly the entire population for the last 15 years.
To fix Social Security, Congress must adjust the start age.
Bernie Sanders’ bill leaves the Start Ages unchanged. The bill increases taxes for individuals earning $250,000 and more (from all sources). This includes earnings you make from capital gains on investments.
As IRA Club is an IRA and Solo 401(k) administrator, we will always be most concerned with taxes on your investment income. The tax as proposed in Sanders’ bill applies an additional 12.4% tax (payroll tax) on investment income (this new tax would be on top of the 3.8% tax on investment income that went into effect in 2013 for the Affordable Care Act).
Will Sanders’ bill pass? I don’t know. Not knowing for certain is yet another reason to make your best investments inside a Self Directed Roth IRA to avoid our ever-increasing tax burden.
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I Ching was, as Barbara once told Ruby Duvall, "some kind of Taoist oracle". It did not foretell the future, but merely clarified a likely course of events. (PROSE: Iceberg) An ancient Chinese book of philosophy, it was accessed by random samplings that affected the broad flow of the material universe. The I Ching methodology cast doubt on the value of normal causalistic procedures. One traditional method of consulting it was the tossing of coins. (TV: Warriors' Gate)
When Barbara did an I Ching reading for Ruby's birthday, she got:
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On the back of the birthday card was scrawled:
It was recorded in the data bank of K9 Mark II. I Ching was known to the Fourth Doctor, who claimed to apply its philosophy, and Romana, who labelled it as a superstition. Adric tried it, under K9's supervision, resulting in the Hexagram 9 (Hsiao Ch"u, "The Taming Power of the Small"): "If you are sincere, blood vanishes and fear gives way.". (TV: Warriors' Gate)
The Seventh Doctor had an I Ching which was a gift from King Wen for services rendered. While searching for the Timewyrm, he consulted it by using sticks, came up with the number 541322 and fed it into the TARDIS computer. The ship then landed at the Timewyrm's location, a recreation of Cheldon Bonniface on the Moon in December 1992. (PROSE: Timewyrm: Revelation) | <urn:uuid:f05906db-bdf2-4409-bd6d-7bbcfcc225ab> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://tardis.wikia.com/wiki/I_Ching | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719041.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00167-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955612 | 358 | 1.898438 | 2 |
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The download page is a little confusing—first select the most recent version of the software, and then choose the 32-bit or 64-bit setup file that will work with your edition of Windows. You can install the UltraVNC Server as a system service so it’s always running. This is the All Router Admin apk ideal option so you can always make a connection to it with the client software. The other computer that wishes to connect to the host machine must simply open the already installed Remote Desktop Connection software and enter the IP address of the host. Windows Remote Desktop is the remote access software built into the Windows operating system. No additional download is necessary to use the program.
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Why do doctors Tape patients eyes shut during surgery?
During general anesthesia, eyes need protection either by tape or ointment to avoid corneal injuries. Several approaches have been used to ensure that the eyelids remain closed, such as passive closure, hypoallergenic tape, eye patches, saline-soaked pads, and suturing.
Why do they tape eyes in ICU?
It is primarily intended to help non-ophthalmic ICU staff to: Protect the eye in vulnerable patients, thus preventing ICU-related eye problems.
Why do they cover your face during surgery?
As you’re wheeled into a hospital operating room, you may notice that the nurses and doctors are wearing face masks and plastic eyeglasses, as well as paper caps or bonnets, gowns, and booties over their shoes. This keeps the OR very clean and protects you from germs while you’re in the operating room.
What do they put on dog’s eyes during surgery?
Ointment was applied to your pet’s eyes prior to surgery to keep them from drying out. This may cause the fur around the eyes to look oily. There is no need to clean around your pet’s eyes; your pet will clean his/her eyes on his/her own.
How do you prevent a corneal abrasion during surgery?
Simple precautions, such as instilling a bland ointment or taping both pairs of eyelids closed in the case of nonocular surgery and the lids of the nonoperative eye in the case of ocular surgery, may prevent surface trauma produced by the surgical drape, anesthetic mask, or exposure and drying of the cornea.
Why do ICU patients swell?
Three main factors underlie the inadequate restoration of volume balance: (1) impaired edema mobilization, due to the negative influence on lymphatic flow of reduced muscle activity and increased central venous pressure by mechanical ventilation; (2) secondary renal sodium retention by circulatory impairment and …
How do you clean a patient’s eyes?
With a gauze swab dampened in the saline 0.9% gently swab from the inner aspect (nasal corner) of the eye outwards. Use a new swab each time until all discharge has been removed (Mallett and Dougherty, 2000). Repeat the procedure for both eyes. Dry the patients eyelids gently to remove excess fluid.
What is a corneal abrasion?
A corneal abrasion is a superficial scratch on the clear, protective “window” at the front of your eye (cornea). Your cornea can be scratched by contact with dust, dirt, sand, wood shavings, metal particles, contact lenses or even the edge of a piece of paper.
Do humans poop during surgery?
Anesthesia. People think of anesthesia as something that puts us to sleep. Anesthesia, though, also paralyzes your muscles, which stops food from being moved along the intestinal tract. In other words, until your intestines “wake up,” there is no movement of stool.
Do guys get boners during surgery?
Penile erection at the time of urological surgery is a rare but problematic event which can delay, complicate or even lead to the cancellation of planned surgery. Erection may occur irrespective of the type of anesthetic method employed.
Do they strap you down during surgery?
The nurse will help you move onto the operating table, which will feel hard and sometimes cold. Since the operating room table is narrow, a safety strap will be placed across your lap, thighs or legs. Your arms are placed and secured on padded arm boards to help keep them from falling off the table.
What happens if your on your period during surgery?
Don’t worry – It’s okay if you have your period the day of your surgery or while you are in the hospital! This will not cause your surgery to be cancelled. Most likely you won’t be allowed to wear a tampon while in surgery. Instead, you will be given a pad to wear.
What does it feel like waking up from anesthesia?
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These show that women retiring this year will get a pension that is £6,500 less than that paid to men. According to Prudential women retiring this year can expect an annual income of £12,900. In contrast a man retiring can expect an income of £19,400.
There is some good news for women though as this "gender gap" is narrowing. The same study published last year showed that women's pensions were lagging men's by £7,400.
Vince Smith-Hughes, Head of Business Development at Prudential said: "It is good news that average retirement incomes for women have risen, but unfortunately the gender gap remains stubbornly wide.
"There are a number of actions that women can take to help to boost their retirement income. For example, it is a good idea to maintain pension contributions during any career breaks and to explore making voluntary National Insurance contributions after returning to work.
"It is imperative for anyone looking to secure sufficient retirement income to start saving as much as they can, as early as they can and to seek professional financial advice in the run up to retirement."
This Prudential study also found that almost one in three women planning to retire this year do not have either a private or a company pension scheme; in contrast just 10pc of men are in this position.
But these national average mask significant regional variations. The gaps between women and men's pensions is widest the South West of England, where the gap is £11,700 a year. In this region women retiring can expect an annual income of just £10,400 a year; while men can look forward to collecting £22,100.
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Shadrack Byrd Family Gateway
(b. 1750 Bertie Co. NC – d. Apr. 30, 1814 Byrd Creek, Stewart Co. TN)
According to Byrd family historian and great-granddaughter of Shadrack Byrd, Cleo Cherry Grogan of Murray, KY, Shadrack Byrd was born in 1750, Bertie Co. NC. His first name is variously spelled as Shadrack, Shederick, Shadrach, Shadrick, Shedrich, and Shaderick in the historical documents that mention him.
Recently, both Michael K. Byrd of Huntsville, AL and Dr. Thomas M. Byrd of Cary, NC have kindly shared information with me that confirms Shadrack Byrd’s father, Robert Byrd Sr., lived in Bertie Co. NC between 1727 and 1753. Robert Byrd Sr. moved to the Faison area of Duplin Co. NC in the late 1750s; land he purchased between 1758-1769 along Reedy Branch was probably where Shadrack Byrd and his sibs, including Joshua, Rachel, John, Rebeckah, Daniel, Michael, Susannah, and Robert Jr. grew up during the years before the Revolutionary War. Shadrack appears to be the oldest child of Robert Byrd Sr. and Sarah Byrd.
On page 49 of the book Revolutionary War Records, Duplin and Sampson Counties, North Carolina, Contributions to Genealogy by V.L. Bizzell and O.M. Bizzell (1997, Sampson County Historical Society, Newton Grove, NC, LOC 97-065743), Shadrick [sic] Byrd and his brothers Michael and Robert Jr. are all listed as having been soldiers in the North Carolina Militia. Both Private Shadrack Byrd and Private Robert Byrd Jr. are described as having seen action at the Battle of Moore’s Creek Bridge on Feb. 27, 1776. Shadrack is documented as having served under Captain William Dickson and Colonel James Kenan for 14 days during the Moore’s Creek Bridge campaign and received 2 pounds/12 shillings as pay. Later auditors stated that he had been overpaid, but in North Carolina Revolutionary War Army Accounts (Vol. V, Bk 176) there is a voucher (#3868 M) paying him 5 pounds/17 shillings. Apparently Shadrack Byrd and his brother Robert Jr. were part of the 300-man Duplin County Militia that marched with Colonel James Kenan down to the vicinity of Cross Creek (modern-day Fayetteville), approximately 20 miles Northwest of Wilmington, NC. During the actual battle, Shadrack’s captain, William Dickson, had a horse shot from under him (Bizzell & Bizzell, 1997). The battle was an unqualified success for the Patriot forces: Loyalist forces suffered 30 killed, 40 wounded, and 850 captured; only one Patriot soldier died. More details can be read at this website: http://prioris.dcr.state.nc.us/nc/ncsites/moores.htm. The above information was made available to me by the very kind help of Jerome Tew, Goldsboro NC.
Information provided by Dr. Thomas M. Byrd indicates that Shadrack Byrd purchased 138 acres of land from Douglass Powell Jr. in Duplin Co. on July 17, 1778; this land was along Youngs Swamp and Wolf Pit Branch. Shadrack then sells this land for a tidy profit on Aug. 24, 1778 (Duplin Co. Deed Books 6, p. 94 and 5, p. 455). On Nov. 29, 1778 a Duplin Co. marriage bond was issued for Shadrack Bird [sic] and [Nancy] Ann Guy; Robert Byrd [sic] was listed as the bondsman.
According to Cleo Cherry Grogan in Murray, KY, Shadrack Byrd married Nancy Young, “a German girl”; in addition, Cleo has written “..it is stated that Shederick Byrd [sic] was an Englishman and lived in Georgia, and was a spy in the colonial army in the Revolutionary War. Tom Patterson was his brother-in-law and they served together as U.S. spies for seven years.” This information was apparently recorded by one of Shadrack Byrd’s daughters, Susanna Byrd McKinney, who lived in the Murray, Calloway Co. KY area. To date, there are no documents confirming that Nancy Byrd’s maiden name was indeed Young rather than Guy; in addition, Dr. Thomas M. Byrd has found a Duplin Co. NC will for Samuel Guy (Aug. 16, 1794, Duplin Co. Will Book A, p.171) listing Nancy Byrd [sic] as his daughter and to receive “..the cow and calf and the bed that I lent to her soon after her marriage.” It is very interesting to note, however, that the land in Duplin Co. that Shadrack Byrd purchased/sold in 1778 was indeed along Youngs Swamp (emphasis mine, KEB). Also, the mystery re Shadrack’s supposed brother-in-law, Tom Patterson, is also unresolved. Jerome Tew has found a Tom Patterson in NC, but not close to Duplin County (email of 12/03/00).
Shadrack Byrd is listed in several Duplin Co. documents between 1778 up through 1787; he does not appear on the 1788 Duplin Co. taxlist. Dr. Thomas M. Byrd has found a Duplin Co. document dated Jan. 21, 1791 listing insolvents for 1789 – Shadrick Byrd [sic] is on this list. It is uncertain if this listing indicates that Shadrack Byrd was “absent/gone” or “couldn’t pay”.
Shadrack Byrd next appears in Washington Co., GA in a listing of “Substitutes for the 1790 Missing Georgia Census, p. 158”. Shadrick Burd [sic] is listed in a muster roll of Capt. McCavy’s (5th) Company, 1st Battalion, 2nd Regiment of Washington County (recorded 1793?). Also in this company muster roll is listed Stephan Powel [sic] – a possible relation of the Powells in Duplin Co. NC???
Cleo Cherry Grogan lists the children of Shadrack Byrd and Nancy Ann Guy [Young?] Byrd as follows:
Bryant Byrd (b. ? – d. ? married? children?) assuming he is the oldest son since he was the administrator of Shadrack Byrd’s estate in Stewart Co. TN, 1814.
Charity Byrd (b. ? – d. ?) married Thomas Berry on Sept. 17, 1801 at ??.
Susanna Byrd (b. Feb. 28, 1791 Washington Co. GA – d. Aug. 17, 1876 Calloway Co. KY) married Isaac McKinney on ??.
John Wesley “Jack” Byrd (b. Jan. 1792 Washington Co. GA – d. July 3, 1866 Byrd Creek, Stewart Co. TN) married Luna Louisa Brigham on Oct. 27, 1814 Stewart Co. TN (my great-great-great-grandparents – KEB).
Rebecca Byrd (b. Oct. 8, 1792 Washington Co. GA – d. Feb. 2, 1859 Stewart Co. TN?) married John Kirksey ~1817 at ??.
James Byrd (b. ? Christian Co. KY – d. 1849 Stewart Co. TN) married Harriet Brigham on Aug. 20, 1814 in Stewart Co. TN.
Shadrack Bird(e) [sic] is listed as receiving 117 acres along “Birds Creek” in Christian Co. KY on April 9, 1799 (Kentucky State Archives Old Land Grants microfilm, Book 9, pp. 478-479; Christian Co. KY Survey Book 1, p. 285); this deed was signed by then Governor Charles Scott and recorded on Jan. 13, 1812. Cleo Cherry Grogan asserts that this particular land grant was for Shadrack’s service during the Revolutionary War and is located near modern-day Cadiz, Trigg Co. KY. Shadrack Byrd is listed in the 1800, 1801, and 1802 Christian Co. KY tax lists; he is also listed on page 20 of the Christian Co. KY Court Order book (B, part 1) as being “..exempted from working on Publick roads hereafter in Christian County.” The 1810 census for Christian Co. KY (p. 590) lists Shadrick Byrd [sic] and his family: free white males – 1 under 10 yrs, 1 between 10-16 yrs, 1 between 16-26 yrs, 1 at 45 yrs & over; free white females – 1 at 45 yrs & over.
Shadrach Bird [sic] next appears in an 1806 Stewart Co. TN document listing the members of Capt. John Allen’s Company. It should be noted here that this part of Stewart Co. TN is immediately adjacent to Christian Co. (later Trigg Co.) KY and is today known as Land Between The Lakes (LBL) National Recreational Area (between the Tennessee and Cumberland Rivers). Also listed in this document (apparently recorded by “… Charles Polk, Esqr. 1806”) is Thomas Brigham – the father of Shadrack Byrd’s future daughter-in-law, Luna Louisa Brigham. According to family historian and direct descendant Cleo Cherry Grogan, sometime ~1808 or so, Shadrack Byrd sold his land in Kentucky and moved to “The Land Between The Rivers” in nearby Stewart Co. TN.
Land certificate No. 352? dated Nov. 15, 1809 obtained from the Commissioner of West Tennessee by George Ridley and entered on Jan. 21, 1811 was granted to “… Shadrack Bird [sic] apignee of the said George Ridley..” on the “…Lick Creek waters of Tennessee River on the North Side.” This land transaction was recorded on Feb. 3, 1815 (Stewart Co. TN land deed microfilm, roll 67, Book E-5, pp. 131-132).
An 1812 tax list for Captain Gray’s Company in Stewart Co. TN (and recorded by William King, J.P.) lists Shadrach Bird [sic] and his then 20 year old son, John Bird [sic]. The oldest son of Shadrack Byrd is listed in the same 1812 tax list as Bryan Bird [sic] and being a member of Capt. Nathan Ross’ Company.
A Wednesday, Feb. 4, 1813 Stewart Co. TN court minutes document (page 29) describes the following: “Shedrack Bird [sic] comes into court and produces two wolf scalps, one was six months and the other under six months old, which are burned and ordered to be certified.” Apparently Shadrack Byrd was still fairly active at this time of his life.
A State of Tennessee Land Grant (#8058) entered July 22, 1813 “..by No. 11112” describes Shadrack Byrd [sic} apigne of said Ephraim Alexander (original land certificate No. 321? dated Oct. 15, 1810) receiving land on Lick Creek (later renamed Byrd Creek) on the Tennessee River and adjacent to lands of Abel Olive. This is the land of District No. 8 of Stewart Co. TN, adjacent to and surrounding modern-day Byrd Creek, Byrd Bay (which drain into the Tennessee River), and the Bailey-Byrd Cemetery in LBL.
Shadrack Byrd died on April 30, 1814 presumably at his home near the Tennessee River; the inventory of his estate recorded on June 18, 1814 (Stewart Co. TN Will Book A, p. 220; microfilm roll 52, pp. 220-222) is signed by his oldest son/administrator Bryan Bird [sic] and his widow, Nancy Bird [sic]. Many of his neighbors there in the Land Between The Rivers attended the estate sell and purchased the auctioned items. Of interest was the fact that certain items were sold to his widow, Nancy Byrd, for a low price – apparently these were favorite possessions of hers and the neighbors did not bid against her for them (see attached document).
Nancy Ann Guy [Young?] Byrd died on Oct. 21, 1833; both she and her husband Shadrack Byrd are buried today in marked, but not identified graves in the Bailey-Byrd Cemetery, LBL National Recreational Area, Stewart Co. TN. According to their great-granddaughter, Cleo Cherry Grogan, Shadrack and Nancy Byrd are buried in two of the unidentified graves towards the East end of the cemetery.
- Kenneth Elburn Byrd (great-great-great-great-grandson of Shadrack Byrd and Nancy Ann Guy [Young?] Byrd
Dec. 10, 2000
John (Jack) Wesley Byrd was born in 1792 in Washington County, Georgia. His father was Shadrack Byrd born 1750. His mother, a little German girl, was Nancy Young/Guy?, born 1756.
John (Jack) Wesley Byrd bought this bible. All the family records, written in this bible before 1866, were written by John (Jack) Wesley Byrd. After 1866, the records written in this Bible (1866 was the year John (Jack) Wesley Byrd passed away) were recorded and written by other members of the family of John (Jack) Wesley Byrd.
At John (Jack) Wesley Byrd's death, this Bible was given to his youngest son, born Feb. 10, 1837, Riley Marion Byrd. It was kept in the family of Riley Marion Byrd until after his passing away, by his wife Martha Agnes Williams Byrd. At her death on June 9, 1926, it was given to their only son Joseph Mentor Byrd. At this time, he took the family records out of the Bible, and gave them to Mattie Cleo Cherry, the daughter of his sister, Luna Lousia Byrd Cherry. Mattie later married Oatman Grogan and became Mrs. Mattie Cleo Cherry Grogan.
Mentor Byrd was born March 28, 1885 near Ft. Henry, Stewart Co. Tennessee and died April 18, 1966 in Nashville, Davidson Co. Tennessee. In June of 1926, Joseph Mentor Byrd took this Bible of John Wesley Byrd to his brother-in-law Gus Lyon's house in Stewart County, and asked him to keep this Bible for him until he'd come by and get it at a later date. Mentor Byrd lived in Whitlock, Tennessee near Paris, Tennessee. Mentor Byrd moved to Nashville, Tennessee from Whitlock, Tennessee and never came by Gus Lyons to get his Byrd family Bible. Mentor Byrd died April 18 1966.
Gus Lyons sent this Bible of John (Jack) Wesley Byrd to Cleo Cherry Grogan by way of Lester Acree in 1980. I gave this Bible of John (Jack) Wesley Byrd to Dr. Kenneth Byrd on November 14, 2000. At Christmas time, when I sent Cousin Kenneth Byrd a letter and Christmas card to him and to his family, I mailed to him the family pages taken out of that Bible of John (Jack) Wesley Byrd and given to me by my Uncle Mentor Byrd on June 9th, 1926. All these records were written by John (Jack) Wesley Byrd until the year 1866 when he died. After 1866, the records were written by other members of the Byrd family.
John (Jack) Wesley Byrd was known as Jack Byrd by me and members of my family. My mother, Luna Louisa Byrd Cherry, was Jack Byrd's granddaughter. She thought his name was just Jack Byrd until we found out different in the John (Jack) Wesley Byrd Bible, owned by her father, Riley Marion Byrd.
- above handwritten by Cleo Cherry Grogan at Murray, Kentucky on Jan. 29, 2001.
Written on the back of the photo by Mattie "Cleo" Cherry Grogan in 1996 is the following (additional information in [brackets] by Ken Byrd):
1996 Nov. 9
Jim Baily [sic] Family and Relatives
Made in 1924
The only one living that’s in this picture, is the boy on the bicycle – Jesse Bailey. He is now 92, a grandson of John Ashley Byrd [my ggg-uncle – KEB]. Back Row a son on bicycle Jesse Bailey, James Riley Byrd [son of John Ashley Byrd - KEB], James Austin Bailey & wife Lee Byrd Bailey, their son standing between them Rudy Bailey. Beside Lee Byrd Bailey, another son Raymond Bailey & wife Ethel Bayle Bailey, next Newell Bailey a son, the beautiful young lady in front of Newell Bailey, is a daughter of Jim & Lee Bailey, Florence Bailey Gardner, holding guitar [banjo? – KEB], in back of her, is her husband Homer Gardner. The boy beside Florence Bailey Gardner, is another son of Cousin Jim & Lee Bailey, Carter Bailey. The old lady, sitting down in front is my gr. Aunt Rhoda Byrd [my ggg-aunt and younger sister of Wm. Carroll Byrd, my gg-grandfather – KEB]. She was a sister of John Ashley Byrd. The rest of the relatives, I don’t remember. Notice the little boys on front row, holding cute little puppy dogs. James Riley Byrd, is holding his suitcase, & smoking a pipe. Cousin Jim Bailey, built this house. It had upstairs rooms – I’ve spent many nights here, when I was a teen ager – when I was very small, my parents lived near by, & they were all very close. The first house Cousin Jim & Lee Bailey owned, burned down. Notice how James Riley Byrd’s body, favors the right side of his body. He was cripled [sic]. Descendents of John Ashley Byrd except for a sister Rhoda Byrd, siting [sic] in front row.
Also see: http://archiver.rootsweb.ancestry.com/th/read/TNSTEWAR/2004-04/1083288022 for info re John Ashley Byrd (1822 – 1910) and his descendants, along with his sibs William Carroll Byrd (1815 - 1875) and Rhodean Byrd (1839-1925). Many of the people in the photo are buried in the Bailey-Byrd Cemetery, near Byrd Creek in LBL. | <urn:uuid:42711234-09db-4e5e-b2fa-fc1ff9f53eb4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tngenweb.org/stewart/family/byrd.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00045-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961959 | 3,894 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Romania's workforce held a demonstration on Wednesday to protest the government's new austerity measures that cut jobs and wages.
The demonstration by some 20,000 people, who gathered in front of the government headquarters in capital Bucharest to protest planned government wage-cuts, was one of the largest mass protests that the Eastern European country witnessed since the fall of Communism in 1989.
Six-month-old centrist government of Prime Minister Emil Boc was forced to announce austerity measures to bolster the country's struggling economy and to meet a July deadline set by the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the fifth tranche of a 20 billion-euro ($25 billion) loan.
The IMF has said it will disburse its next installment of aid only after Romania enforces a credible plan to reduce its budget deficit to 6.8 per cent of the Gross Domestic Product.
The demonstrators, belonging to the country's five largest trade union confederations, were protesting a 25-per cent cut in public-sector wages, a 15-per cent cut in pensions and unemployment benefits, the curtailing of child and child rearing allowances by 15 per cent, and the trimming of the wages of employees of state-owned companies.
They accuse the government of laying too much burden on the low-paid employees and the poorest social categories.
They have called for a general strike later this month if their demand for a more equitable sharing of the burden of austerity measures is not met.
Hard-hit by the global recession, Romania is in dire need of the external financial assistance promised by the IMF.
by RTT Staff Writer
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August 28, 2009
With the American divorce rate at 50%, psychologists want to know how they can help improve marital satisfaction. For my doctoral dissertation, I chose to study the impact of religion on this question, adding my project to a rapidly growing body of psychological research. This area of investigation has grown because 87% of Americans have a religion, and religiosity is closely associated with health and happiness. Last winter, readers on InterfaithFamily.com participated in my survey examining religion and marital satisfaction. I would like to sincerely thank everyone who expressed interest and support, participated, and commented. I am excited to be able to share the results with InterfaithFamily.com readers.
The American religious landscape breaks down to about 50% Protestant, 20% Catholic, 2.5% Jewish, and less than 1% Buddhist, Muslim, Hindu, Quaker, and other religions. The religious mix of America lends itself to an interesting phenomenon: the interfaith marriage. In particular, rates of Jewish interfaith marriage in the United States have skyrocketed over the last few decades. In 1970, for example, about 8% of married American Jews were in interfaith marriages. In the 1980s, this number climbed to 37%, and today it is estimated that 50% of married American Jews are in interfaith marriages. The vast majority of American Jewish interfaith marriage is between Jews and Christians.
Ultimately, 365 Jewish and Christian people from around the United States completed this study. They were predominantly Caucasian, heterosexual, and between 21 to 30 years old. Of the study participants, 213 were in homogamous marriages; this means they were married to people of the same faith: either Jewish-Jewish or Christian-Christian marriages. Christian-Jewish heterogamous marriages or interfaith marriages, represented 152 of the participants. There were two main findings in this study.
First, both groups were satisfied with their marriages. The study found absolutely no difference in marital satisfaction between people who were married to partners of the same faith, and people married to partners of a different faith.
This is an interesting finding because it seems to herald a new trend in the psychological research in this area. There is a body of research supporting the idea that homogamous marriages tend to be happier than heterogamous ones, but some recent research like mine finds no difference. Perhaps this is the trend of the future. I am hoping it means Americans are becoming less suspicious about, and more accepting of, other religious views. Perhaps the more heterogamous our society becomes, the more we are forced to re-examine our assumptions about others.
Moreover, much of the other research in this area has actually been done on the same data. This study and its InterfaithFamily.com participants represent quite literally a brand new perspective on this subject.
Of course, this is not the complete picture; it is only a small slice of the bigger psychological research pie. For example, among the many touching and elucidating comments left by participants was the common note that this study did not examine childrearing practices and views. This is because the measures used in this study did not include these types of questions. In research, it is important to use measures which have been statistically validated to prove that they work. Unfortunately, to maintain validity, these measures cannot be altered.
We can only speculate how adding questions about childrearing might have affected this study's results. For example, if the definition of "marital satisfaction" included an item such as "My spouse and I disagree about childrearing practices" or "When my spouse takes my child to church/temple, I feel left out," perhaps this study would have detected a difference in marital satisfaction between homogamous and heterogamous marriages. Then again, maybe there still would have been no difference! This is an area that future psychologists can investigate. Building upon others' research so that the layers add up and up and up is what psychology is all about.
The study revealed a second surprising finding. Both the respondents in same-religion marriages and those in interfaith marriages had a high level of religiosity, responding that they considered themselves to be strongly religious. To put this in context, other research finds that more than a third of religious Americans consider themselves to be strongly religious, more than a third consider their affiliation to be weak and about a tenth view their affiliation strength as somewhere in the middle.
As with the first finding, there is room here for speculation. For example, what about participants' spouses? Because individuals rather than couples were surveyed, spousal strength of faith could not be added to the equation. Though helpful, it is probably not sufficient to know only one partner's strength of faith. For example, if a member of a heterogamous couple is religious and this contributes to his/her marital satisfaction, it might reduce conflict if the partner did not have a similarly strong attachment to his or her faith. In other words, even if one member of a heterogamous couple has a high strength of faith, that person's partner's low strength of faith might contribute, or even be the basis of, marital harmony. Exploring this issue with information from only one member of a couple leaves an empty space. Again, this is an area for future research.
Ultimately, this study comments positively on the state of American marriages today. It can be seen as a sign of progress that religiously heterogamous marriages are no longer necessarily less happy than religiously homogamous ones. Of course, only future research can elucidate whether or not this continues to be a trend. No doubt InterfaithFamily.com readers will continue to be on the forefront of this issue. | <urn:uuid:b7cba7e7-54af-4427-8a9d-89a7ceb11b0f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.interfaithfamily.com/relationships/marriage_and_relationships/Interfaith_Marriage_Satisfaction_Study_Yields_Answers_and_More_Questions_.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00347-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96483 | 1,154 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Resurge aids in enhancing the general health and wellness of an individual. Resurge tablets assist raise healthy and balanced metabolic rate, which subsequently aids enhance power degrees and the individual’s health and wellness. The tablets aid their customer to rest far better. This leads to a general boost in the wellness of the individual. Much better rest and also metabolic rate assists in boosting the individual’s psychological wellness and health and wellbeing. It boosts heart health and wellness and Is typically made use of to deal with cardiac heart failure, upper body discomfort, and also hypertension. Individuals with underlying wellness problems like cardiovascular disease, lung problems, psychological health and wellness concerns, or mental shortages should not look for aid from the Resurge supplement. Even more than 90% thought that public health and wellness steps took avoidance measures; 40.4% thought that SARS would certainly resurge in Hong Kong, and around amounts to 70% would certainly, after that, put on masks in public areas.
It aids eliminate stress and anxiety, and also anxiousness, and generates an extra unwinded state. It assists in preserving different considerable periods of interest and also enhances mind task. It assists in decreasing tension and also stress and anxiety for the body. The enhanced heart features aid in keeping the various other systems in the body going efficiently. By doing this, they will certainly aid you to attain your preferred weight momentarily. With much better rest and the regulated launch of hunger-starting hormonal agents, Resurge tablets lower an individual’s desires throughout the day, hence assisting in weight-loss. ALSO SEE: Just How Does Resurge Tablets FUNCTION? Though the tablets are made from natural components, there could be some preventative measures to take while utilizing them. The producers take several safety measures to ensure that the completed item is secure to take.
Resurge is simple to make use of and a hassle-free item. As currently mentioned, there are no negative effects of Resurge; it provides outcomes rapidly; it is very easy to absorb; after that, what are the disadvantages of the item? All the components are all-natural items and also consist of no artificial material. The great point is that there are no challenging diet plans, exercises and likewise you do not need to sweat every single day at the gym; simply take a pair of pills. If somebody comes under any one of these classifications and also still desires to make use of Resurge, they need to seek advice from their medical professional and obtain specialist clinical guidance before utilizing this supplement. As the name recommends, Resurge is a supplement that resurges the body’s deep rest turning on easy fat-burning abilities. | <urn:uuid:e789d2db-5951-4763-b1bb-7e0a7e8d06d5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://shopi-seo.com/days-to-improving-the-means-you-resurge/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.956485 | 549 | 1.632813 | 2 |
More and more Jewish university students are interrupting their studies in order to attent Yeshiva and obtain comprehensive and deep knowledge of Torah studies . At the Federation’s fifteen campuses, more than 700 students study tuition-free, staying at the institutes’ dormatories and receiving kosher meals, thanks to generous support of the Ohr Avner foundation and other international donors.
From Moscow to Siberia, from Ukraine to Uzbekistan, Yeshiva institutes throughout the Former Soviet Union are preparing students to take up posts as rabbis, teachers and scholars. Those who interrupted their college degrees will often return to their secular studies, then graduate as proffessionals to the local job market – sharing their newly-gained knowledge of Jewish religion and culture with their communities, families and children.
Parallel seminar institutes offering a six-year course for girls, also include intensive Jewish studies, Hebrew and more. The Girsl receive free tuition and attend communal service at schools, Shabbat programs and summer camps. | <urn:uuid:12a1d2ba-19d3-484b-9861-ab58d70a8d47> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://fjc-fsu.org/departments/higher-education/yeshivot-girls-seminars/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00393-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955607 | 206 | 1.953125 | 2 |
In 1948, the Orioles, a Baltimore-based vocal group, recorded "e;It's Too Soon to Know."e; Combining the sound of Tin Pan Alley with gospel and blues sensibilities, the Orioles saw their first hit reach #13 on the pop charts, thus introducing the nation to vocal rhythm & blues and paving the way for the most successful groups of the 1950s.In the first scholarly treatment of this influential musical genre, Stuart Goosman chronicles the Orioles' story and that of myriad other black vocal groups in the postwar period. A few, like the Orioles, Cardinals, and Swallows from Baltimore and the Clovers from Washington, D.C., established the popularity of vocal rhythm & blues nationally. Dozens of other well-known groups (and hundreds of unknown ones) across the country cut records and performed until about 1960. Record companies initially marketed this music as rhythm & blues; today, group harmony continues to resonate for some as "e;doo-wop."e;Focusing in particular on Baltimore and Washington and drawing significantly from oral histories, Group Harmony details the emergence of vocal rhythm & blues groups from black urban neighborhoods. Group harmony was a source of empowerment for young singers, for it provided them with a means of expression and some aspect of control over their lives where there were limited alternatives. Through group harmony, young black males celebrated and musically confounded, when they could not overcome, complex issues of race, separatism, and assimilation during the postwar period.Group harmony also became a significant resource for the popular music industry. Goosman interviews dozens of performers, deejays, and industry professionals to examine the entrepreneurial promise of midcentury popular music and chronicle the convergence of music, place, and business, including the business of records, radio, promotion, and song writing.Featured in the book's account of the black urban roots of rhythm & blues are the recollections of singers from groups such as the Cardinals, Clovers, Dunbar Four, Four Bars of Rhythm, Five Blue Notes, Hi Fis, Plants, Swallows, and many others, including Jimmy McPhail, a well-known Washington vocalist; Deborah Chessler, the manager and songwriter for the original Orioles; Jesse Stone, the writer and arranger from Atlantic Records; Washington radio personality Jackson Lowe; and seminal black deejays Al ("e;Big Boy"e;) Jefferson, Maurice ("e;Hot Rod"e;) Hulbert, and Tex Gathings.
University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
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Fast Becomes Faster–1.8 GHz Overclocked Kernel Released for the Galaxy S II SGH-T989
If you ask any Android fan about the fastest devices currently available, the Samsung Galaxy S II is sure to be near the top of the list. And while the SGH-T989 “Hercules” variant may not be graced with the giant-slaying Exynos SoC, it still more than holds its own in today’s market. However, sometimes simply being “fast” is just not fast enough.
In order to give the Hercules even more pep in its step, XDA Recognized Developer Romanbb has created a 1.8 GHz overclocked kernel. Aside from simply boosting the clock speed your phone, this kernel also patches in the BFQ I/O scheduler and the ability to customize your voltages to suit your particular silicon. In the words of the developer:
Standard Disclaimer – We are in no way responsible for what you do to your phone. If you destroy your $500 device and try and blame us we will laugh at you. Always read and ensure you know what you are doing before attempting anything***
What this is
- This is a way for me to play around with kernels and use you people as guinea pigs
- OC up to 1.836 ghz
- should boot into stock frequencies
- added BFQ I/O scheduler and made default
- patched drivers from newer Telus 989D source
- added zram
- working init.d support
Are you ready to take your device to the next level? If so, continue on to the kernel thread! Be sure to proceed with caution, though. As with any overclocked kernel, there is some risk of device destruction if you push the clocks or voltages too high. | <urn:uuid:fd1e1b07-6cab-4002-be93-0045ce851497> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.xda-developers.com/fast-becomes-faster-1-8-ghz-overclocked-kernel-released-for-the-galaxy-s-ii-sgh-t989/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00071-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936547 | 382 | 1.507813 | 2 |
(JNS.org) Israel must be prepared to act alone in the face of the Iranian nuclear threat, Maj. Gen. (res.) Yaakov Amidror, an adviser to Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and the former head of the Israeli National Security Council, said Sunday at the annual Herzliya Conference.
“While the U.S. is an irreplaceable strategic ally, we need to be ready to do things on our own,” Amidror said, according to Israel Hayom.
In response, U.S. Ambassador to Israel Dan Shapiro said the U.S. “will use military force if necessary.”
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Much enjoyed Sarah Kuta's usual thorough reporting of "Cycling diversity not up to speed" in Sunday's Camera. I'm sure you could write similar articles about gear- and time-intensive sports like skiing and climbing.
Cycling, however, is so much more than just a sport. Because people also ride bikes for transportation and utility, cycling is alive and well in Boulder for everyone from all walks of life.
Anyone who regularly rides Boulder's main cycling corridors can attest to that. As do many Boulderites, our Latino populous chooses bicycle transportation in large numbers. They're enjoying and creating the same individual and community benefits all people who ride bikes enjoy.
Community Cycles is the single Boulder cycling institution that serves and encourages cycling diversity. While racing and organized rides on high-priced bikes may appeal to a more limited audience, Community Cycles gets thousands of people of all ethnicities on bikes and teaches how to safely enjoy and maintain them.
From the Earn-a-Bike program that provides bicycle transportation to primarily low-income folks, to rolling bike clinics serving high-minority schools and trailer parks, to the impending bilingual signage in the bike shop itself, Community Cycles breaks down cultural and language barriers to get more people on bikes for fun and utility alike.
So if you're a citizen of Boulder county who's looking for a welcoming environment, along with reasonably-priced, refurbished bicycles and related equipment, come to Community Cycles for the ride of your life!
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Margaret Thatcher was one of the most highly-regarded and recognizable British politicians of all time. Though she may be gone, it will be a long time before anyone forgets Thatcher’s legacy. However, despite the fact that Thatcher spent a considerable amount of time in the spotlight and under the scrutiny of the public eye, there are still some things that many people don’t know. With that in mind, here we present our list of 15 things you probably didn’t know about Margaret Thatcher. Check out part one below, and stay tuned for part two, coming soon!
Number Fifteen: She Was Born Above a Grocery Store. And it was her father’s grocery store, no less. Thatcher was born in an apartment above her father’s grocery store, and that’s also where she grew up. The apartment had no running water, no central heating, and no indoor toilet.
Number Fourteen: She Was a Food Scientist Before She Was a Politician. Before she became renowned for her politics, Thatcher helped develop soft-serve ice cream as a food scientist. She graduated with a degree in chemistry from Oxford in 1947, and she used her skills to help invent soft-serve ice cream.
Number Thirteen: He Lost Her First Two Elections in Parliament. The first time Thatcher ran for a seat in the House of Commons, she was 24 years old and the youngest candidate there. Though she lost, she was noticed. She ran the next year and lost, but by the third time she ran in Finchley of northern London, she won.
Number Twelve: She Gave Birth to Twins While Studying Law. Thatcher gave up her career in chemistry after she married a rich businessman in 1951. Thatcher and her husband had twins together in 1953, and the very next year Thatcher became a barrister.
Number Eleven: She Is Thatcher the Milk Snatcher. Thatcher became known as “Thatcher, the Milk Snatcher” after she ended a free milk program for young students in an effort to cut spending. She did this in 1970 while she was serving as secretary of education.
Number Ten: She Thought She’d Die Before Seeing a Female Prime Minister. Thatcher never really believed she’d live to see the day when a woman became Prime Minister of Britain. She believed that the male population was “too prejudiced.” However, little did she know that she would become the first female British Prime Minister in 1979.
Number Nine: Laurence Olivier Did Her a Big Favor. Before the general election in 1979, one of Thatcher’s advisers was concerned that her speaking voice was too shrill. The adviser fortuitously ran into Sir Laurence Olivier on a train, and Olivier recommended his voice coach to Thatcher. Thatcher subsequently went through voice training and was sounding calm, cool, and collected by the time elections rolled around. | <urn:uuid:71b2cdfd-500c-4c0a-be4c-a65c05d5a821> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ppcorn.com/us/2016/01/15/margaret-thatcher-15-things-1/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00098-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983282 | 597 | 2.921875 | 3 |
It's fascinating how the New York Times buries the lede in its complaint about the Alabama Supreme Court's failure to do what it is under no legal burden to do in the first place.
ON Tuesday the Supreme Court of Alabama prohibited the state’s probate judges from issuing marriage licenses to same-sex couples. This decision effectively throws down the gauntlet, challenging the federal courts to make earlier federal rulings stick — including last month’s refusal by the United States Supreme Court to stay a federal judge’s decision requiring the state to recognize same-sex marriages. It draws on a disturbing line of thinking in the history of American federalism, one that, were it to gain currency as a model, could compromise our entire system of law....Apparently the New York Times is operating on outcomes-based logic. We're supposed to believe that our entire system of law is threatened by a state court's legally correct position? If being correct is "dangerous defiance", what does that make those being defied?
Since the United States Supreme Court will rule on gay marriage in June, it’s easy to dismiss the Alabama court’s ruling as quixotic. But it raises a real issue: not what state courts can do, but rather what they should do. Because state and federal courts operate on entirely separate tracks, the state court’s position that it need not follow lower federal court rulings is technically correct. Yet if our judicial system is to function smoothly, both court systems must, from time to time, refrain from exercising their legal discretion to ignore the other’s handiwork. | <urn:uuid:c963f2c7-e596-4f04-b8bc-0bc6feaa8c07> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://voxday.blogspot.com/2015/03/the-danger-of-being-correct.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720475.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00355-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947113 | 329 | 1.726563 | 2 |
The cultural valuation of biodiversity has taken on renewed importance over the last two decades as ecosystem services frameworks have become widely adopted, with the most influential and well-known being presented in the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment (MEA 2005). Conservation initiatives increasingly use ecosystem service frameworks to render tropical forest landscapes and their peoples legible to market-oriented schemes such as REDD+, PES, and biodiversity offsetting in terms of the provisioning, e.g., food and water; regulating, e.g., climate and disease; supporting, e.g., nutrient cycling and pollination; and cultural, e.g., spiritual and recreational, benefits they confer to society (Costanza et al. 1997, MEA 2005, Armsworth et al. 2007, Naidoo et al. 2008, Corbera 2012). Ecosystem service approaches have been widely criticized by scholars in the social sciences and humanities, however, for their narrow focus on a small number of easily quantifiable and marketable services and a reductionist and sometimes simplistic approach to culture (Robertson 2011, Dempsey and Robertson 2012, Kirchhoff 2012, McAfee 2012, Pröpper and Haupts 2014, Schnegg et al. 2014, Winthrop 2014, Plieninger et al. 2015). A major problem is the assumption that cultural services can be quantified, and then be correlated to ecological structures and functions (Daniel et al. 2012, Russell et al. 2013). Although this permits integration with ecological data, it misses the vital point that important dimensions of cultural valuation, e.g., the religious or the sacred, cannot be reduced to ecological objects, empirically observable through positivist methods. More profoundly, the conception of culture as a category of value that is completely separate from the material values of other ecosystem services is a Western, post-Enlightenment, Cartesian phenomenon (Kirchhoff 2012, Pröpper and Haupts 2014). Non-Western peoples often do not separate nature and culture as does the Western lay and scientific thinking behind ecosystem services frameworks (Ingold 2000, Latour 2009, Viveiros de Castro 2012, Descola 2013). Forms of cultural valuation can be fundamentally different to economic valuation, more of a “processual activity of meaning-making” rather than something commensurable to a market assigned monetary value (Pröpper and Haupts 2014, Winthrop 2014, Schnegg et al. 2014). It is now recognized in the conservation literature that understanding the cultural valuation of biodiversity requires interpretivist as well as positivist social science theory and methods (Adams 2007, Sandbrook et al. 2013, Moon and Blackman 2014). Understanding the biocultural relationships through which cultural values shape tropical forest diversity is now increasingly recognized as important for the conservation of both biodiversity and (tangible and intangible) cultural heritage (Gavin et al. 2015). This means investigating the full range of cultural values, from, for example, more utilitarian (Ickowitz et al. 2014) to more symbolic (Dold and Cocks 2012, Cocks and Wiersum 2014). In trying to understand this diversity of cultural valuation, we attempt to overcome problems raised by Kirchhoff (2012) and Turnhout et al. (2013) associated with conflating economic and cultural valuation by combining methods from each of the “three cultures” of natural science, quantitative social science, and qualitative social science/humanities (Castree 2015). In this paper, we follow Turnhout et al. (2013)’s suggestion that the reductive quantification of cultural values should be accompanied by a broader qualitative contextual investigation of how people “live with” biodiversity in the sense of the role biodiversity plays in society through the meaning(s) that are attributed to it (e.g., Gould et al. 2014, von Heland and Folke 2014, Fraser et al. 2015). We combine transects, an index of cultural valuation of different species, and qualitative data collected using various methods including participant observation and semistructured interviews to examine cultural valuation in relation to biodiversity conservation through a case study of sacred agroforests in the Upper Guinea forest of West Africa.
Over time, forms of cultural valuation have shaped a greater abundance of certain species in tropical forests, either through direct propagation or because human activity favors disturbance-adapted species (van Gemerden et al. 2003). The significance of local cultures in shaping the composition and conservation of Africa’s tropical rainforests is now well recognized by conservationists, although debates around the scale of historical anthropic influence remain unresolved (Fairhead and Leach 1998, White and Oates 1999, van Gemerden et al. 2003, Bayon et al. 2012, Oslisly et al. 2013, Engone Obiang et al. 2014, Tovar et al. 2014, Vleminckx et al. 2014). In the Upper Guinea forest region of West Africa, identified as a global biodiversity hotspot (Poorter et al. 2004), rapid land-use change driven by logging, rubber plantations, and industrial agriculture has become the biggest threat to the continuing existence of rainforests (Norris et al. 2010). Since the beginning of the 19th century, up to 470,000 km² of tropical forest has been cleared (Sayer et al. 1992, Poorter et al. 2004). Liberia has the greatest area coverage of Upper Guinea forest, with some 41,238 km² or 37.7% of historic forest cover still remaining (Poorter et al. 2004).
Despite deforestation now being a major threat, much of northwestern (hereafter, NW) Liberia’s tropical forest biodiversity appears to have been shaped by long-term anthropogenic influences—indigenous peoples have historically been “builders of forests” (Fairhead and Leach 1996, 1998, Kandeh and Richards 1996)—through biocultural relations with different species entailing forms of cultural valuation. In many localities of NW Liberia, it is not unusual for the only exemplars of mature or primary rainforest species to be found in anthropogenic forest islands around towns, along paths, or at the sites of old towns. Hence, apparently natural forest landscape is often composed of old fallow, historically disturbed through shifting cultivation but with largely unmanaged succession (Fairhead and Leach 1998). One striking feature of such landscapes are “sacred groves.” Found on all habitable continents, sacred groves are of ritual and religious importance to particular cultures that in turn confer protection to the culturally valuable tree species they harbor (Gadgil and Vartak 1974, Lebbie and Guries 1995, Byers et al. 2001, Chouin 2002, 2009, Campbell 2005, Bhagwat and Rutte 2006, Sheridan and Nyamweru 2008).
The research presented in this paper focuses on a regionally specific example of this phenomenon, which we term “sacred agroforests” (SA), in the Upper Guinea forest of West Africa. SA are located at the sites of ruined towns belonging to Mande macro-language speaking groups who have occupied the region for more than 500 years (Brooks 1989). Owing to considerable cultural continuity in the region, despite historic and recent wars, current populations are normally descendants of the historical occupants of these towns, and are conferred tenurial rights by ritualized relationships with their ancestors (Fraser et al. 2015). We focus on one group in particular, the Loma. For the Loma, like other Mande speakers and many other societies of sub-Saharan Africa (Fortes 1965, Calhoun 1980), ancestors are present and have social roles in the world of the living. This reflects the wider tendency in sub-Saharan Africa for the religious and the social to be fundamentally intertwined (Bloch 2008). It is through relationships with ancestors that Loma descendants can access land through status and tenurial rights. These sites are both ritually and symbolically associated with ancestors through graves and certain trees. Ownership normally lies with the male head of a single family within the population of descendants. SA are sometimes used by gender-specific initiation societies (Poro for men, Sande for women), and for ritual and religious activities including divinations and sacrifice to protect individuals and groups (Little 1965, 1966, Leopold 1991, Hojberg 2007, McGovern 2012). These factors mean that clear cutting and burning these sites is strictly forbidden in customary law, thereby conserving plants and trees growing on them. By contrast, the surrounding natural old fallows are not preserved by any cultural laws and may be cut for shifting cultivation or logging.
Although the sacredness of SA is related to the symbolic presence of ancestors, their use as agroforests is related to material practices of ancestors. The activities of ancestors transformed the soil through deposition of charred and fresh organic materials at loci of domestic and food processing. These actions created, over time, anthropogenic soils called “African dark earth” (AfDE) that have double to triple the amount of organic carbon, significantly higher pH, cation exchange capacity, and more plant-available nutrients when compared with background Oxisols (Solomon et al. 2016). SA feature a canopy of culturally significant mature rainforest tree species, and a midstory of cocoa (Theobroma cacao), kola (Cola nitida), and various native and exotic fruit trees. AfDE is attractive for planting cocoa in Liberia because upland soils are extremely infertile; this tree crop normally only grows well in this country on fertile but limited lowland soils. Conversely, Côte d’Ivoire and Ghana have a much more diverse mix of upland soils (Jones et al. 2013), making cocoa cultivation much more viable on upland soils in these countries.
The historical-ecological phenomenon of SA in NW Liberia therefore provides an interesting and hitherto unexplored arena within which to examine the role of cultural valuation in shaping and conserving biodiversity. Studies of sacred forests in West Africa have tended to focus on cultural dimensions with less attention to ecological processes (Fairhead and Leach 1994, Chouin 2009). Studies of agroforests in West Africa tend to be purely ecological and lack recognition of the legacy effects of historical human agency on current species abundance (Oke and Odebiyi 2007, Sonwa et al. 2007, Bisseleua and Vidal 2008, Correia et al. 2010), despite the fact that the distribution of several species found in the agroforests reported in these studies is heavily influenced by historical cultural practices. Forests on anthropogenic soils in Africa, meanwhile, have not been described, and only a handful of studies describe such phenomena in South America (Paz-Rivera and Putz 2009, Junqueira et al. 2010, Fraser et al. 2011a,b, Quintero-Vallejo et al. 2015).
This article and the research it draws on aim to understand the relationship of cultural valuation to biodiversity conservation in the context of SA. First, we carried out a regional survey to determine the extent and typology of SA in NW Liberia. Second, we conducted a case study drawing on participant observation and open interviews to investigate how the cultural values as processes shape natural resource management practice. Third, we compared the ecological characteristics of the vegetation (density of individuals, basal area, species richness, floristic composition) of SA with unmanaged 45-65-year-old fallows (OF). We use OF as a baseline for our comparisons because although they are anthropogenic forests to some degree, they are more similar to natural old-growth forests because they are largely unmanaged. Fourth, we employ an index of cultural valuation to quantify utilitarian and symbolic cultural valuation of different species. Based on a prior literature review and initial observations, we formulated the following research questions:
To assess the frequency and distribution of SA we conducted an initial regional survey in four counties of NW Liberia: Gbarpolu, Bong, Lofa, and Nimba (Fig. 1, Appendix 1). We selected these counties and the areas visited within them based on descriptions of regions that were heavily populated during the 19th century (Fairhead et al. 2003) that we assumed would have the most prevalent anthropic influence and therefore the greatest area coverage of SA. During our regional survey we asked community leaders how many SA there were in the vicinity of their town or village, and visited the most easily accessible one at each community. In total we visited 83 different localities and at 51 of them we found at least one SA, 94 in total (Appendix 1). It emerged that the local term for SA is “old town spot,” confirming that locals are well aware of the anthropogenic origins of these spaces.
Following the initial survey, Wenwuta, a Loma settlement in the southern Zorzor district of Lofa County, NW Liberia (Fig. 1), and its surrounding landscape, were selected for an in-depth case study because this relatively remote area is characterized by a high degree of cultural continuity when compared with other regions of NW Liberia. We sought such an area because we wanted to investigate the relationship of cultural valuation to biodiversity conservation away from areas of rapid land use change closer to urban centers. The region has an average rainfall of 2900 mm (majority of rainfall occurs between July and November) and is capable of supporting wet evergreen forest (Poorter et al. 2004), although today there is no true old-growth forest in a landscape long dominated by rice fields, fallows, and anthropogenic forests (M. Diabaté, personal observation). The geomorphology of the landscape is characterized by low rolling hills that form a hill to valley continuum, within which three major physio-hydrographic positions are distinguished by their soil and the source of water for cultivation. These are pluvial (hilltop, cultivation reliant on precipitation), phreatic (hillside, groundwater from high water table), and fluvial (valley bottom water from surface flow, i.e., run-on and flooding by streams). Natural soils at the top of the toposequence are typically infertile and highly leached Oxisols or Ultisols, whereas those toward the bottom are more fertile Inceptisols and Entisols (Andriesse and Fresco 1991). Wenwuta is a settlement of ~250 people and around 2.5 ha in size. C14 dating shows the town was founded between 1670 and 1682 (Solomon et al. 2016). To estimate the extent of SA around the settlement, in collaboration with locals we GPS-mapped all SA within a 3-km radius of Wenwuta (Fig. 1), which was the area that they knew best and we had easiest logistical access to. This encompasses the entire Wenwuta territory and extends into that of neighboring settlements.
Based on the participatory mapping in collaboration with locals, we chose nine patches of SA and four patches of OF to establish transects for forest inventories (Appendix 2). In each SA, we established between one and five “variable area” transects following Sheil et al. (2003), depending on the size of the patch, resulting in a total of 28 transects. In OF, we established between three and seven transects per patch, in total 21 transects. (Fig. 1, Appendix 2). We did more transects in SA than OF for two reasons: first, owing to the difficulty of finding OF within the area of study, and second, because SA were the focus of study, and their biodiversity is less well understood than that of OF in the region. Transects were based on a 40-m transect line, along which four cells with a length of 10 m and a variable width were delimited on both sides and perpendicular to the line (eight cells thus making up a sample-plot). Three size-classes of trees were sampled:
• large trees (DBH > 20cm; Lmax 20 meters, Lmin 15 meters),
• medium trees (DBH > 5, < 20 cm; Lmax 15 meters, Lmin 10 meters),
• tree seedlings (DBH < 5 cm; Lmax 5 meters, Lmin 2.5 meters)
In each cell, for each size class, the five trees closest to the transect line were recorded. If no tree was encountered up to a fixed minimal distance (Lmin), the cell was tallied as empty and structural parameters (tree density and basal area) for this cell were counted as zero; if less than five trees were encountered up to the maximal distance (Lmax), the sampling stopped and density was estimated from the number of trees recorded and the maximal distance; if five trees were encountered before the maximal distance, the distance to the line of the fifth tree was recorded and used to estimate tree density (Sheil et al. 2003). For each size-class, a maximum of 40 sampled trees per plot could thus be obtained. Because the number of sample trees per plot varied, to make data on species richness comparable between transects we calculated a species richness index provided by Z=log(species counts)/log(stem counts), following Sheil et al. (2003).
To characterize the soil under SA, we took one soil sample at 0 - 15cm depth from each of the eight cells in each transect. These were then mixed to create a single composite sample for each transect in the SA. Samples were taken to Cornell Nutrient Analysis Laboratory, and were analyzed for chemical properties (aluminium, phosphorous, copper, zinc, manganese, calcium, lead, potassium, sulphur, iron), organic matter content and pH (Appendix 3). A separate study showed that the upland soils in the region were uniformly Oxisols (Solomon et al. 2016). Although we did not collect soil samples under OF, we examined in situ a sample taken in each transect to confirm that the OF were located on yellowish/red Oxisols.
To understand the processes by which the Loma value, interact with, and conceive of their environment we used unstructured and semistructured interviews and oral histories (n = 64), focus group discussions, participant observation, and transect walks (Cotton 1996) during nine months of fieldwork in Liberia. These methods were contextualized within in-depth ethnography during five months’ residence in Wenwuta. In all types of interviews we sought to balance numbers of male and female, youth and elder informants.
To quantify the cultural values associated with species in SA and OF, we used a freelisting technique (a type of cultural domain analysis, see Bernard 2011). We interviewed 116 randomly selected individuals at Wenwuta, surrounding villages, and at the town of Borkeza (Fig. 1). These other locations were selected because of the presence of SA and communities with long histories of interaction with them. We asked each individual the following questions: (1) Which trees can you see when you are in an old town spot (SA)?; (2) Which trees can you see when you are in an OF? We then used the Cognitive Salience Index, proposed by Sutrop (2001) to measure species’ cultural salience, which we used as an index of cultural valuation. This index uses free-listing data to elicit and rank the members of a certain cultural domain (in our case: SA and OF). The general idea is that terms (i.e., ethnospecies, that is, different kinds of plants and trees as perceived by locals) that are mentioned more frequently (i.e., in more interviews) and earlier (i.e., among the first terms to be mentioned in each interview) are more “culturally salient” (Quinlan 2005) and therefore have a higher value for the index. Our cultural salience index includes both utilitarian (since most useful plants tend to be mentioned more frequently,) and spiritual/symbolic (since some plants that are culturally salient might not have a high utilitarian value) values (Reyes-García et al. 2006). It provides a means to quantify cultural valuation that provides reliable data whilst being relatively quick and easy to conduct interviews (Quinlan 2005).
Local names for the trees were linked with their scientific equivalents by regional expert botanists Diabaté, Beavogui, and Guilavogui. We then calculated a cultural salience index (adopted from Sutrop 2001) of each tree species using this formula:
CS = F / (N*mP)
where: CS = cultural salience index, F = frequency (# of people who cited the species), N = number of people interviewed, mP = mean order in which the species was mentioned in the lists (or mean “rank” of the species; Sutrop 2001). Using the data obtained in the floristic inventories, we then calculated the average cultural value per tree in each transect and per transect, which were compared between SA and OF.
To compare SA and OF in terms of vegetation structure (density of individuals, basal area), species richness, and cultural valuation index, we used analyses of variance (ANOVA). To visualize differences between SA and OF with regard to their floristic composition, we used an ordination technique (nonmetric multidimensional scaling - NMDS) based on the Bray-Curtis dissimilarity. To test the statistical significance of the difference in species composition between SA and OF, we used a nonparametric multivariate analysis of variance (MANOVA) with 1000 permutations. All statistical analyses were performed with the R statistical software using the vegan package (Jari Oksanen et al. 2016).
Open interviews and oral histories conducted during the initial survey indicate that SA exhibit the same fundamental characteristics (that we describe at length below) among Kpelle, Mano, and other speakers of languages belonging to the same Mande macro family as the Loma, all of whom share similar cultural and ritual practices. Clearing and burning these spaces is forbidden under customary law because these sites feature ancestors’ graves and certain trees tied to living individuals, neither of which may be disturbed. At the site of old towns, this sacredness allows the continuing existence of mature trees within these spaces while allowing the planting of shade-tolerant economic tree crops such as kola, native to West Africa (Ford 1992), cocoa, native to South America and cultivated in West Africa from the 40s and 50s (Westphal 1987), and coffee (Coffea canephora), native to West Africa. Our participatory GPS mapping within a 3-km radius of Wenwuta (~2827 ha; Fig. 1) shows that SA cover 18.6 ha of the landscape surrounding the settlement. Given the wide historical distribution of Mande speaking peoples, it seems reasonable to conclude that SA are widespread throughout the Upper Guinea forest of NW Liberia and southern Guinea (Fairhead and Leach 1994, Fairhead et al. 2003), and Sierra Leone as well (Leach 1994, Frausin et al. 2014).
Our interviews and oral histories at Wenwuta and during the wider regional survey revealed that SA are cultural spaces located on the sites of old towns (Appendices 1 and 2), characterized by the presence of ancestors and graves. Ancestors, supernatural beings, and ritual artefacts such as shrines, masks, divinatory media, fetish objects, and herbal medicine are expressed in the concept of salɛ (expressed in Liberian English as “medicine”; Hojberg 2007, McGovern 2012). We found that that in SA, ancestors and some trees are seen as being endowed with this metaphysical power. The head of the Wenwuta Poro society informed us that certain trees are salɛ, although one must be familiar with particular salɛ properties or powers associated with different trees to exploit them for ritual purposes. The Loma explained that the presence of ancestors is manifest in gravestones and also in individual trees that are linked to the living and the dead. Kola trees at SA are often related to living individuals, i.e., they were planted to commemorate the birth of an individual, or other significant events (Ford 1992). One local man explained, “our forefathers moved and planted tree crops for memory. Nobody can make farm on old spots [SA], they still bury people there. When a child is born a kola tree is planted, which is then protected. These are still planted in old town spots or adjacent to them.” Cotton (Ceiba pentandra) trees at these sites are also protected. They are said by elders to have once been planted in lieu of gravestones. This in turn imbues mature Ceiba with an ancestral significance.
Owing to this cultural valuation of SA, the cutting and burning of trees is forbidden, but these areas are still used for the cultivation of tree crop species, which can be done without disturbing large, mature emergent rainforest species, and without the need for burning. The Loma recognize that the AfDE that is associated with SA permits cocoa and kola cultivation on upland soils, which is otherwise difficult on highly infertile yellowish red Oxisols that dominate in Liberia. A local chief explained, “I brought cacao here in 1964... when we arrived we tried planting cacao everywhere but it did not grow. I planted cacao in the red soil, after 20 years it did not bear fruit. It only grows in the lowland, on old town spots, and around the town... Kola also needs good soils to produce well, so it is good to plant it in the old town spot [SA].”
We found that the settled life of Loma and by extension other Mande groups over time results in a mosaic of SA. A female elder explained, “we plant trees around villages and towns, cocoa; coffee; kola and cotton trees on graves, but after time they get big and the place gets cold and dark. We are prevented by our customary law from cutting the kola and cotton trees, so people decide to move. The town space is then planted with cocoa, kola and other trees, and it becomes an old spot, where people still come for meetings, to gather crops and to bury our dead.” Therefore, the physical production or “domestication” of space by the Loma, follows an arc through time from the initial clearance of forest and establishment of the town-space, decades or even centuries of daily domestic activities, and the spatial and temporal dynamics of the planting and management of tree crops and other trees, forest regrowth, and the eventual abandonment of spaces as a living area (Fraser et al. 2014). In this final stage, the surrounding forest island makes the town “too cold,” referring to a phenomenon where forest growth over time makes the town “colder,” which is associated with a growing power of ancestors and also malevolent spirits, leading to the need to establish a new town in a safer space (McGovern 2012). The abandoned town-space then becomes protected precisely because of the traces of the former settlement, the presence of graves, cotton trees and kola linked to the living. Over the long term therefore, inhabitation of the Upper Guinea forest by Mande speaking peoples creates culturally valuable areas of anthropogenic forest.
This system, however, is under threat from a generational shift in cultural valuation. Youth across NW Liberia participated in the recent (1990-2005) war, which accelerated already existing processes of change wherein youth begin to challenge various aspects of the Loma worldview, including the sacredness of SA, i.e., that they should not be cleared for annual crop production (Fraser et al. 2015). This is demonstrated in our survey that found that when SA were slashed, it was often by youth in violation of their elders’ wishes. This was particularly acute in Nimba County, the cradle of the war, where youth had greatest participation in armed conflict (Appendix 1).
Sacred agroforests and old fallows differed in several of the vegetation parameters that we analyzed (Fig. 2, Table 1). The species richness index tended to be lower in SA than in OF for all strata, but this difference was statistically significant only for the middle strata (Table 1, Fig. 3). The greater disturbance and management intensity to which SA have historically been subject may reduce the number of species in the community, favoring a limited number of species of particular cultural value. This is clearly seen in cacao, for example, a species highly valued and intensively managed that dominates the understory in many patches of SA, particularly at the middle strata. Despite this more intensive management, however, our results show that the upper strata and the seedling strata of SA can maintain a comparable number of species with OF. The density of seedlings was significantly higher on OF than on SA, while the density of trees in middle strata was higher in SA than in OF (Table 1, Fig. 2). Similar to the pattern observed for species richness, the lower density of seedlings in SA can be due to the removal of seedlings from nonuseful species, but once these species are favored, they can occur in high densities at the middle and upper strata.
Our index of cultural valuation showed that SA are of higher overall cultural (utilitarian and symbolic) value to the Loma than OF. This is supported by our finding that the average cultural valuation indices per individual and per hectare were significantly higher in SA for trees in the middle and upper strata, when compared to OF. For seedlings, however, it was higher only when calculated per individual (and not per hectare; Table 1, Fig. 3). This shows that the historical and current management of SA favors the occurrence of species that are of high cultural importance to local people. The lack of difference for seedlings is probably the result of the regeneration of these useful species together with species that regenerate naturally during secondary succession. We found that basal area was more heterogeneous and significantly higher in SA than in OF in the middle strata, but in the upper strata it was slightly higher in OF than in SA (although not statistically significant; Table 1, Fig. 3). This is likely the result of the occurrence of useful species in high densities in SA, particularly in the middle strata. The large variation in basal area in SA is likely due to a more heterogeneous land-use history of these areas when compared with OF. These results indicate that SA can have biomass values comparable to those of OF.
The floristic composition was clearly different between SA and OF for seedlings (NPMANOVA F = 16.08; p = 0.001), for trees in the middle strata (F = 48.09; p = 0.001), and for trees in the upper strata (F = 14.13; p = 0.001; Fig. 3). The NMDS ordination also shows that the difference in floristic composition between SA and OF tends to be larger for trees than for seedlings (Fig. 2). This indicates that species that occur in OF regenerate in the understory of SA but do not reach maturity, either because they are not adapted to that specific environment or because they are removed through management. Figure 2 also shows that in OF the difference between the composition of seedlings and trees is greater than in SA. This shows that, although species composition will likely change with time in both environments, future composition on SA will tend to stay closer to the current composition than will OF.
The relationship of cultural valuation to biodiversity conservation is often examined through single disciplinary lenses, leading to partial views and incommensurability between them. We have attempted to overcome these shortcomings by combining methods from each of the three cultures of natural science, quantitative social science, and qualitative social science/humanities to show the distribution and cultural valuation of SA, their relationship to OF, and the ways in which social institutions mediate the management of these spaces. In this concluding section, we reflect on how successful our combination of different methods and data sets was in addressing our research questions, and their broader utility in exploring the relationship between cultural valuation and biodiversity conservation.
Our first research question sought to establish the extent of the hitherto undescribed phenomenon of SA in NW Liberia. This was the most straightforward in terms of the question and methods, i.e., oral histories and GPS points, yet the most time consuming owing to difficulty of travel both by car and on foot. Our regional survey, interpreted in the light of 19th and 20th century historical descriptions, found that SA are common features of the landscape in northwestern Liberia. Because it relied on local knowledge of old town spots (the local term for SA) we consider the findings to be reliable and the sample size to be big enough to support the finding that SA are widespread in the Upper Guinea forest and therefore potentially providing an important role in biodiversity conservation, along with tangible and intangible cultural heritage values. In Madagascar, for example, culturally protected small islands of forest have been shown to be essential for maintaining ecosystem services (Bodin et al. 2006). We found locals to be well aware that the fertility of AfDE permits and/or improves the production of tree crops, particularly cocoa, which, during our regional survey, we did not observe growing outside patches of AfDE or naturally fertile lowland soils.
Our second research question sought to examine and explain the role of social or religious institutions in conserving SA. We drew on a range of ethnographic methods from qualitative social science and humanities. This revealed the cultural processes through which both SA as places and individual species within them are valued and how this valuation shapes their conservation. We found that SA were valued as places for initiation society activities and as sites of fertile soil suitable for farming cocoa. In addition, the presence of ancestors in SA, and their manifestation in graves, trees, and belief in salɛ, is the cultural value of these places that contributes to their conservation. This cultural valuation of place in terms of the presence of ancestors, is significant in legitimating current inhabitants’ claims to land tenure. This important form of cultural valuation cannot be captured by quantitative approaches (natural or social), and underlines the importance of qualitative investigation. Moreover, some individual plants and trees in these places were valued both for their utilitarian affordances, while others were symbolically valued because they were seen to be imbued with the metaphysical power salɛ, while yet others were valued because they were understood to be linked to the living people and the dead ancestors.
Our third research question compared species composition and cultural valuation of SA to that of OF. This question was addressed using quantitative methods from natural science and quantitative social science, strictly oriented toward species and ethnospecies respectively, but not toward these spaces as places, as question two did. We found that although SA have biodiversity and biomass comparable to OF, they have a different species composition, not only adding biodiversity to the landscape, but also conserving forest species that are common in SA but rare (or lacking) in OF. Our index of cultural valuation showed that species within SA are of significantly higher cultural value for the Loma when compared to those of OF. Our index did not differentiate utilitarian and symbolic dimensions of cultural valuation; salience may reflect either or both of symbolic and utilitarian values, and the distinction between these kinds of cultural valuation is better explored through qualitative methods, which we attempted to address in question two.
Our approach was successful to the extent that it used methods from each of the three cultures of science in addressing research questions. However, as with most mixed methods research, it did not integrate the methods as such, rather, they remained separate. The first two research questions were addressed through an interpretivist lens using qualitative methods (GPS points aside) with the underlying assumption of a processual or relational world, whereas the final question was addressed by way of a positivist approach using quantitative methods which, although belonging to different disciplinary groupings (natural science and quantitative social science), are similar in terms of underlying assumptions of a world that can be split up and understood in terms of constituent parts.
This brings us to the question of whether a deeper integration of methods from the three cultures of science is a feasible way to advance ecosystem services frameworks. Our conclusion is that, although the two cultures of natural science and quantitative social science are readily compatible, given their shared underlying positivism, it is a much greater challenge to incorporate methods from qualitative social science and the humanities, given their underlying interpretivism. We are hesitant to suggest that, for example, forms of cultural valuation such as salɛ, or belief in the presence of ancestors, can be incorporated into ecosystem services approaches without losing their fundamental nature. This is because they are part of indigenous ontologies that are radically different to the Western scientific framing that underlies the ecosystem services framework. The issue is that these two ontologies are incommensurate; the incorporation of salɛ and/or ancestors on their own terms would undermine the positivist assumptions of the ecosystem services framework. Conversely, were these concepts to be incorporated into the ecosystem services framework on its terms they would lose their situated meaning vis-à-vis the lived experience or “lifeworld(s)” of local people(s). Nevertheless, mixed methods approaches do hold potential for cross-fertilization; the use of each distinct approach can potentially improve interpretations of the other, which can foster a more holistic understanding overall.
We started from the idea that studies combining methods from each of the three cultures of science are likely to provide a more multidimensional understanding of tropical forest landscapes. This approach generates more holistic knowledge that takes into account other values in addition to ecological and economic ones. We advocate the use of methods from the three cultures of science to advance discussion on how to better align and design conservation policies with a diversity of cultural values. However, we suggest that it is unlikely that this would be possible within a singular ecosystem services framework. A more realistic alternative would be to continue to situate methods from the two positivist cultures of natural science and quantitative social science within the ecosystem services framework, with the third interpretivist culture of qualitative social science and humanities located within a suitable alternative theoretical framing such as, for example, phenomenology (e.g., Ingold 2000, Willerslev 2004, Harris 2005, Roth 2009, Jackson 2012, Fraser et al. 2014). Therefore, we recommend that the three cultures of science should be used to consider ecosystem services from different positions (see Williams 2014), rather than attempting to integrate these positions and associated methods into a unified framework, because there are limits to the extent that different approaches can be integrated without one or another losing its essence.
In conclusion, we recommend that given the widespread occurrence of SA in the Upper Guinea forest, these cultural forests should be subject to dedicated conservation policies in West African countries, and policies should be sensitive to the cultural values that we have shown to be related to both the formation and conservation of these sites. With regard to cultural valuation, we note that the utilitarian and symbolic cultural values of SA that we revealed can be expressed through ideas of tangible and intangible cultural heritage, which can be used to articulate cultural valuation and biodiversity conservation to a wider audience. Conservation policies should incorporate intangible cultural heritage or symbolic cultural values into their conceptualization of local cultural valuation, along with better known tangible cultural heritage or utilitarian cultural values.
Rainfall may also be a factor in the infertility of Liberian soils. The country has one of the heaviest annual rainfalls in all of Africa. In the Upper Guinea forest, rainfall decreases from east to west (see Fig. 2 in Bongers et al. 1999), meaning that over millennia the soils have become significantly much more heavily leached than comparative soils in Ghana, where cocoa cultivation is widely practiced on upland soils.
We thank the ESRC for funding (RES-062-23-2310). We thank other members of the collaborative research program from which the research reported in this article derives, including anthropologists James Fairhead and Melissa Leach at the University of Sussex, UK, Kojo Amanor at the University of Legon in Ghana, and Dominique Millimouno at Cabinet Universitaire de Recherches-Actions, Kissidougou, Republic of Guinea, and soil scientists Johannes Lehmann and Dawit Solomon at Cornell University, Søren M. Kristiansen at Aarhus University, Denmark. Our joint work is cited. We thank Jeanette Carter of the University of Liberia for facilitating our research project and officials of the government of Liberia for granting permission to conduct research. We thank Gayflor Kesselie for assistance in fieldwork. We thank Victoria Frausin for assistance with figures. Any errors of fact and judgment rest with the authors.
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Winthrop, R. H. 2014. The strange case of cultural services: limits of the ecosystem services paradigm. Ecological Economics 108:208-214. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.ecolecon.2014.10.005 | <urn:uuid:b4d814ce-2091-4e81-a1ae-cb006f2e9124> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ecologyandsociety.org/vol21/iss3/art36/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.876864 | 15,281 | 2.390625 | 2 |
On Saturday, April 23, SVIMS had its second local mushroom foray. Twenty-six people arrived at 10:00 pm at Metchosin Wilderness Park, Clapham Road entrance, to spend two hours in the park. Steve Strybosch and David Walde coordinated the registration and sign-in. Kem Luther and Andy MacKinnon came along to help with identification. Elora Adamson helped with the species photography and recording.
Twenty-seven mushrooms were found and IDed. You can see the list and pictures on iNaturalist. (The exact IDs of mushrooms posted on group sites such as Mushroom Observer and iNaturalist may change after posting as experts weigh in).
One of the highlights of the foray was finding exemplars of the two common spring foraging mushrooms, an oyster mushroom and a morel. (This may be the first morel ever documented in Metchosin Wilderness Park.) The foray group also found a huge stand of another edible, mica cap.
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Cardboard Boat RaceSeadream Education
The Institute of Mechanical Engineers annual cardboard boat race and the IET funded workshops “all about boats”
Here we teach pupils to become engineers! We provide a thoroughly hands on (wet) STEM session to cover the topics of materials, buoyancy, Archimedes principle, boat design, scale drawing, scale models, testing, refined planning and boat building.
The Institute of Mechanical Engineers Cardboard boat race
“That was epic” Benji
“Overall enjoyed the session. Had lots of fun working in a team and making our own boat. Also learnt about the life of an engineer.” Stoke Dameral Community College, Year 10 pupil.
Words to describe the session by the pupils were:
Inspiring, educational, interesting, fun, educating, team, great, experience, inspirational, peng, good, entertaining, fun, creative, tricky, teamwork, fun and educational.
“Peng” I believe is the new term for “cool”…….
The word the year 10 student reported that they learnt during the session were:
Buoyancy, air space, mass, displacement, measurement, water, moon, cardboard, HE, STEM, cardboard, buoyant, steerage and Scrombus (which is the Latin name printed on the label of the fish I used to show hydrodynamics!). | <urn:uuid:670dc187-e395-4aaf-9926-bc3fd42ac53b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.seadreameducation.com/gallery/cardboard-boat-race/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.909447 | 299 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Underneath we’ll get into a portion of the arrangements on Tips To Fix Phone Not Charging Samsung Galaxy Note 9.
The Samsung Galaxy Note 9 is an Android phablet smartphone designed, developed and marketed by Samsung Electronics as part of the Samsung Galaxy Note series. It was unveiled on 9 August 2018, as the successor to the Samsung Galaxy Note 8.
The Note 9 has a 6.4 inch 1440p Super AMOLED display with an 18.5:9 aspect ratio. The design on the front is otherwise similar to the Note 8, using an “Infinity Display” as marketed by Samsung.
The Note 9 has a Qualcomm Snapdragon 845 SoC in the U.S. and China or a Samsung Exynos 9810 SoC outside the U.S. & China. It has 128 or 512 GB storage options. The 128 GB model has 6 GB of RAM while the 512 GB has 8 GB of RAM. All models also have a microSD card slot as well potentially maxing out the phones storage to nearly a Terabyte of data.
The Note 9 has IP68 water & dust resistance and a USB-C connector that supports Samsung DeX without a dock and the phone also has a 3.5 mm headphone jack along with AKG tuned stereo speakers with Dolby Atmos support.
Tips To Fix Phone Not Charging Samsung Galaxy Note 9:
By following these steps:
Having trouble charging your phone? If your phone is charging slowly or you keep seeing a popup that says you’re using the wrong charger, you may have a broken adapter or USB on your hands. Here are some suggestions on how to fix this issue:
Do not stick any foreign objects into the charging port as it may cause damage. If your charging port is damaged, you will need to send the phone in for repair.
If you receive a notification that says to use the original charger that came with the phone or make sure the charger is properly connected, the problem may be that your adapter or USB cable is broken.
This also goes if your phone is slow to charge or will not charge at all. To fix the problem, all you need to do is replace the charger. You can search by your phone’s model number and purchase the correct replacement.
Keep your phone charging properly with these best practices:
Always use the original charger that came with the phone. Third-party charging accessories (e.g. chargers, wireless charging pads, cables, USB adaptor, etc.) may slow down the charging process and damage the battery.
Charging speed may vary depending on the charger. Charging from the wall charger is faster than from a USB port. Another option to boost the charging speed is by using Adaptive Fast Charging Wall Charger or Fast Charging Wireless Charger. With fast chargers, your battery can go from zero to up to 50% in about 30 minutes.
When using wireless charging accessories, be aware that any metal or magnetic objects (e.g., coins, magnetic cards) placed between the phone and the wireless charger may decrease charging efficiency or cause damage to the phone and charger.
When using wired charging accessories, always check whether any foreign objects are in the connector or plug, as they may prevent the phone from charging or cause overheating.
Experiencing difficulties with your Android Device, check out our “How To” page on how to resolve some of these issues.
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In her State of the State address, Gov. Kathy Hochul promised to end a controversial tax break to incentivize developers to build affordable housing in New York City. The 421-a program will expire this year, so lawmakers simply have to do nothing for it to go away. But Hochul pledged she would replace the program with something else, something she said would better use state dollars to stimulate more affordable housing construction.
Hochul laid out her idea for such a replacement in her executive budget. Absent from her briefing book, she included details of the new program in the Education, Labor and Family Assistant budget bill – an unusual place for housing legislation – buried all the way at the bottom. Dubbed the Affordable Neighborhoods for New Yorkers tax incentive – or the ANNY program – the proposal would create a new 485-w section of the state property tax law, giving housing wonks a new number and letter combination to confuse laymen with.
Despite her promise to replace the existing tax break with something new, Hochul’s proposal serves more as a tweak to what’s already on the books. It keeps the same overall structure and conceit with a few changes to make the affordable units built slightly more affordable. Though applauded by some in the housing sphere, it doesn’t represent the kind of transformational change that housing advocates would like to see, with the plan considered more of the status quo in incentives for big developers.
Hochul’s new 485-w tax break offers developers two options in order to qualify for a decades-long tax break if they’re building rental apartments. Under option A, at least 25% of the units they build must be affordable, with 10% of those at 40% of the area median income, 10% at 60% of the area median income and 5% at 80% of the area median income. In simple terms, that translates to housing for three-person households with incomes of about $42,690, $64,440 and $85,920. This would apply to buildings with 30 or more apartments. Option B would require 20% of the units to be affordable at 90% of the area median income, or to those with an income around $96,600 for a family of three. This would apply to buildings with fewer than 30 apartments.
This is a slight improvement over the existing 421-a program, which allows developers to build affordable units as high as 130% of the area median income, which is $139,620 for a family of three, under all three options it provides to developers. However, it doesn’t provide incentive to build more deeply affordable housing, sticking with the lowest affordability range of 40% of the area median income and only a small percentage of units at that level. “Even 90% AMI, while definitely better than 130%, we would have liked to see more for the affordables who are around 50% AMI or below who are really struggling,” said Debipriya Chatterjee, senior economist at the Community Service Society. “But it’s definitely an improvement for the affordability goals for this program.”
Other changes include the length the units would remain affordable. In option A, they would remain so forever, while option B would provide 35 years of affordability followed by permanent rent stabilization. That favorably compares to the current program, in which affordability lasts only as long as the tax break – 25 years with 10 year phase out for all options open to developers.
However, the 485-w program has left housing activists wanting. Despite the improvements, Hochul’s proposal still approaches affordable housing development the same way as 421-a, with large tax breaks for developers for their entire buildings. “It’s just more of the same,” said Cea Weaver, campaign coordinator for the Housing Justice for All coalition. “It just doesn’t really seem that significant.” She questioned how the state would enforce the permanent affordability Hochul is promising, referring to the inclusion simply as “window dressing” until advocates know more.
Sam Stein, housing policy analyst at the Community Service Society, said the state could limit subsidies to just the affordable units, or abolish the tax break altogether and use what would have been lost revenue to directly finance construction of affordable housing. “But the new version doesn’t do either of these things,” Stein said. “It just adjusts the parameters of the existing program.
Members of the real estate industry don’t seem unhappy with Hochul’s proposed 421-a replacement despite the changes it includes. "The Governor’s proposal provides the private sector with an important tool for producing rental housing at deeper levels of affordability permanently,” Real Estate Board of New York President James Whelan said in a statement. “We look forward to continuing to work with the State and City on long-term solutions to address the housing supply crisis in New York City." It’s still early days and opinions might change as people dig deeper into the details, but the influential lobby for developers has given Hochul its seal of approval.
And Hochul’s plan has made a good first impression on at least one key lawmaker. “I think she should be commended for coming up with something different,” Assembly Member Steve Cymbrowitz, chair of his chamber’s Housing Committee, told City & State. Although he said he still awaits additional information from the governor’s office to ensure all the math works out, Cymbrowitz said he liked the plan’s commitment to deeper levels of affordability.
This isn’t the first time that the 421-a tax break has gone through some changes. Most recently, former Gov. Andrew Cuomo tweaked the program in 2017 and attempted to rebrand it as Affordable New York. Hochul’s new proposal may have new branding and a new section of law, but it belies the fact that it’s largely the old subsidy with a different name. “The general guidelines of what she said she was going to replace it with sounded like something we could potentially support,” Stein said. “The changes that have been proposed, though, don’t address some of the core problems with 421-a.”
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[CDBUG-talk] PPPoA ... ?
doon at inoc.net
Tue Nov 8 11:28:28 EST 2005
On Nov 8, 2005, at 11:12 AM, Jonathan Franks wrote:
> Hi all,
> I've been thinking of reconfiguring my dsl connection lately and
> something in the docs has me a bit confused.
> Current setup is :
> DSL MODEM -> OpenBSD FW (3.7) -> Linksys WRT54G -> switch
> Which leaves me with a wholly unnecessary network segment.
> What I want is:
> DSL MODEM (as bridge only) -> OpenBSD FW (running ppp and pppoe) ->
> switch (with my Linksys Wireless router just acting as an AP off
> the switch)
> Taking the WRT54G out of the picture for non wireless clients, and
> bridging the modem.
> The thing that I'm hesitating on is the pppoe setup on the FW. For
> the most part it seems pretty straight forward between the FAQ and
> the relevant man pages... but here's the thing:
> My DSL provider uses PPPoA. In the FAQ I see this:
> The main software interface to PPPoE/PPPoA on OpenBSD is pppoe(8),
> which is a userland implementation (in much the same way that we
> described ppp(8), above). A kernel PPPoE implementation, pppoe(4),
> has been incorporated into OpenBSD.
> which seems to indicate that pppoe will work with either PPPoE or
> PPPoA. The man pages make no reference to PPPoA at all, however. My
> searches of the archives and Google have turned up some rather old
> posts, one suggesting that special hardware is required for PPPoA,
> and another that _appears_ to indicate that it isn't.
If you are using PPPoA, then I think you need an ATM interface to
terminate the traffic on. All of our DSL runs PPPoE or Route
Bridged 1483, so I don't have much experience with PPPoA. But you
can try it :) Since perhaps the DSL modem will just bridge the PPP -
> ethernet interface and then the PPP stuff will work.
So if I read your Above desc.
You have ISP -> PPPoA -> DSL Modem (NAPT) -> RFC1918 Space -> OBSD
FW -> NAT? -> clients?
So you effectively have double NAT.
> The modem also offers a "half-bridge" mode which theoretically
> authenticates to the ISP and then passes the IP back to the router.
> Assuming that special HW is required, could this be used instead?
Sounds like the above is what you will probably want to do, as it
sounds like it will be the easiest to configure. The Modems that some
of our ISP's use support ZIPB (Zero Installation PPP Bridge) which
does the same, terminates the PPP connection and passes it on. It is
a piece of cake to configure the firewall side, just tell it to gets
is IP via DHCP and tell your firewall that the interface is dynamic
and you should be good to go.
Key ID: 0x370D752C
(A)bort, (R)etry, (P)retend this never happened?
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The Federal Trade Commission has begun warning app developers that they must bring their software in-line with the upcoming Children’s Online Privacy Protection Rule, firing out letters highlighting new expectations for titles that can include multimedia of underage users. Over ninety letters have been sent, to both US and foreign developers, the FTC said this week, notifying them that if their apps can capture photos, videos, or audio of children, the amended COPPA may well affect them.
The new version of COPPA comes into effect on July 1, and impacts apps and services which could be used by those under 13. If the app has some sort of “persistent identifier” which is used to recognize that user, it will likely need to modify its privacy and permissions policies. Notably, that identifier need not be a username or involve active registration: a cookie or device ID will count as well.
“Companies whose apps collect, store or transmit this information, as well as other personal information previously covered by the rule like a child’s name or address, must get parents’ consent before collecting the information. In addition, companies must also ensure that any third party receiving the information can keep it secure and confidential, as well as abiding by new rules affecting how the information is stored and retained” FTC
Four different versions of the notification letter have been prepared, depending on whether the recipient is a domestic US or foreign firm, and the nature of the data collection. For domestic companies, there’s an images/sounds version [pdf link] and a persistent identifiers version [pdf link]; the same counterparts for foreign apps collecting images/sounds [pdf link] of children in the US, or assigning them identifiers [pdf link].
Actually receiving a letter doesn’t mean that the FTC has actively evaluated a company and found it wanting in terms of COPPA compliance, the Commission is keen to point out. Instead, they’re intended to prompt a “COPPA check-up” ahead of the new rules coming into effect.
The list of companies which have received the letters has not been revealed, though ustwo – developer of randomized photo-sharing app Rando – took to Twitter to confirm that it had been couriered one. There’s more on COPPA compliance at the FTC; violating the rule can result in civil penalties of up to $16,000 per violation. | <urn:uuid:d1dbd8d5-6d3c-4b8b-9f64-0011e10c7baa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.slashgear.com/ftc-begins-coppa-warning-mail-blast-as-child-app-rules-approach-17282550/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00054-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955376 | 494 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Breakfast really is magic, only it’s not magic—it’s science! Also, there’s coffee. Look, you never see restaurants advertising lunch all day. Maybe it’s because eggs are the king of foods. Or maybe it’s because breakfast weaves such a splendid spell over one’s day that we all want to extend it.
According to Rush University Medical Center, people who eat breakfast generally have a lower BMI and consume less fat throughout the day. Breakfast may also improve memory and attention, especially for school-aged kids.
Have some breakfast, is what we’re saying. Your body (and mouth) will like it, especially with these first-rate healthy options:
- Get your fiber. And get a jump on it the day before by prepping overnight oats.
- Start Taco Tuesday early. Perhaps with a gluten-free vegetarian version.
- Build a better bowl. Forget cereal: A rice and egg bowl tastes better and is way more nutritious.
- Turn traditional on its head with protein pancakes. Even better with berries, but what isn’t?
- Eat your veggies (and feed a crowd) with a breakfast casserole—easily adaptable for whatever’s in season and on hand.
- Splurge with a smoothie. Liquified fruits lose their fiber-tastic benefit and send your blood sugar to the moon. But oh great gardenia these things are delicious! And hey, they beat milkshakes, right?
- Make healthier use of your muffin tin. Frittata “muffins” bring all the protein and flavor but none of the post-muffin lament.
- Keep it light. Yogurt parfaits mean your meal looks spiffy and your gut biome is super-happy from all those active cultures.
- Try a colorful sweet potato hash. Maybe with sausage. Definitely with a couple of eggs on top.
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I looked at the projected growth rates of Christianity by country based on data from the World Christian Encyclopedia/World Christian Database. To determine whether Christianity is growing or shrinking in individual countries, we need to look at two factors:
- the population’s annual change, which is the net of: births – deaths + immigrants – emigrants
- the Christian population’s annual change, which is the net of: births – deaths + immigrants – emigrants + converts – defectors.
Let’s consider a number of scenarios (I won’t list all of the specific countries because the data is proprietary to WCE/WCD, and also the list would be too long):
- Pop+/C+/Pop Greater. This is by far the most common scenario. In 154 countries, the net change in population and Christianity are both positive (both are adding people), but the population’s annual change is greater. The largest example is India: the population is adding 61.6 million per year, and Christianity is adding about 1.4 million per year. The exact rates of change can determine whether % Christian increase or shrinks; in a little over half the countries, % Christian is projected to decrease.
- Pop+/C-/Pop Greater. In 36 countries, the population is growing while Christianity is shrinking. The largest example is Turkey, where the population is growing by 20,000 per year, while Christianity is shrinking by about 20,000. The difference between +20,000 and -20,000 is actually 40,000, and this speed difference will greatly shrink the % Christian in the country. The cause: the conversion rate in Turkey is greatly outstripped by the number of Turkish believers who defect or immigrate.
- Pop+/C+/C greater. In 12 countries, both population and Christianity are growing, but Christianity is growing faster. Zambia is the largest example: its population is adding a net of 549,000 yearly, while its Christian population is adding a net of 552,000 yearly. This is a very slim lead, but it always leads to an increase in % Christian.
- Pop-/C+/C greater. In 5 countries, the population is shrinking but Christianity is growing. The largest example is Belarus, where the population is shrinking by -17,000 yearly, but Christianity is growing by +42,000. This will lead to a significant increase in % Christian. Since Belarus is already largely Christian (Orthodox), it means the high % Christian will be stable and grow. Likely some mix of conversion and immigration is causing this.
- Pop-/C-/C Greater. In 14 countries, both the population and Christianity are suffering net losses, but Christianity’s loss is less. Russia is the largest example: the population is shrinking by -128,000 per year, and Christianity by about -100,000 per year. Some mix of deaths, conversions and immigrations is at play. the result: in most instances, the country’s % Christian will grow.
- Pop-/C-/P Greater. In 13 countries, a similar situation–population and Christianity are suffering net losses, but Christianity’s loss is greater. Italy is the largest example. It’s losing 88,000 per year from its population, while Christianity is losing -222,000 per year. Obviously, there is a significant loss to defection. In these scenarios, % Christian always declines by a significant amount.
Understanding the exact scenario of growth, and the reasons for it, can inform strategy. In scenario 1, for example, there is growth in Christianity–it’s just not fast enough. That’s an issue of scale. In scenario 5, there is also growth, but it’s being impacted by other factors (aging, death, immigration, demographic crash, etc). One shouldn’t assume that just because the church is growing that the strategy is appropriate; nor should we assume that just because the church is shrinking, the current strategies are wrong. | <urn:uuid:48d247a4-6997-4532-9561-d52864e08f1e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.justinlong.org/2018/05/19/2018-05-is-christianity-growing-or-shrinking-in-individual-countries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.944285 | 840 | 2.5 | 2 |
Modern spectrally efficient optical communication systems utilize polarization-multiplexed coherent transmission in complex modulation format. Coherent receivers used in these systems measure the amplitude and phase of the optical signals for both orthogonally polarized components carrying information. Knowledge of the amplitude and phase of the optical field, in combination with digital signal processing, gives the receiver an inherent metrology and performance monitoring capability. As the optical signal propagates from the transmitter over optical fiber to the receiver, a signal transformation and degradation is expected. The receiver observes the properties of the transmitted optical signal as degraded by the impairments of the transmission medium. The details of monitoring optical signal parameters and link impairments are the focus of this paper. The optical signal parameters include polarization state and residual carrier phase; optical link impairments include chromatic dispersion and polarization mode dispersion. Two distinct techniques are presented: one based on Stokes space analysis, and the other on Kalman filtering. The Stokes space techniques are modulation-format independent and do not require demodulation. The Kalman filtering provides optimal estimation of the physical quantities that describe the optical signal and the optical medium.
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When Warren Buffett talks about anything pertaining to the financial industry, it's best to listen. That's why it was so intriguing to hear his thoughts on the future of payments last week.
On March 20, the multi-billionaire gave an interview, which was shown at the at the launch of the PYMNTS.com Innovation Project at Harvard University. Buffett spoke about the number of drastic changes that have taken place in recent years, many of which have changed the way we buy, sell and pay.
"The pace of change in terms of what customers are doing, how they pay us, how they come to us - it's breathtaking," Buffett said. "Any company that interacts with consumers and thinks that last week's technology and approach is going to work five years from now is probably making a mistake."
Vendors know all about competition. They know that if their customers aren't happy, they will simply go to the next provider of similar products and services. That's why this blog has stressed the importance of implementing payment solutions that offer strong efficiency and security, all geared towards providing a better customer experience.
This comes in a number of forms. For example, offering an eCommerce option to allow customers to buy and pay for products online offers the convenience that will keep them coming back. Additionally, tokenization will go a long way towards solidifying a level of security customers need because it stores data offsite and protects it from targeted attacks.
Of course, while obtaining innovative solutions will help a vendor's presence in the industry, it's still important for merchants to ensure they are optimizing transactional value. So, regardless of what systems a company acquires, they have to promote the processing of level 3 data so vendors can pay the lowest possible interchange rate. | <urn:uuid:01cc5af9-10b4-4d48-9ff7-159c0d64a63c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.vantageb2b.com/blog/warren-buffett-speaks-on-payment-innovation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00108-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969234 | 359 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Olivia and Eloise, make room for Betty Bunny, a loveable handful nobunny can resist.
From the creator of Disney’s Dog with a Blog, this funny book in the Betty Bunny series shows the value of honesty from a preschooler’s special point of view.
When Betty Bunny breaks a lamp, she has a brand-new idea: Blame it on someone else (like the Tooth Fairy)! Then a vase gets broken and Betty Bunny really didn't do it. But now no one in her family believes her. Honest lies, white lies, crying wolf—how can one four-year-old figure out the right thing to do?
Betty Bunny Didn't Do It
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