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Adisseo and Fermentalg sign partnership
Adisseo, an international expert in animal feed, and Fermentalg, an industrial biotechnology company that specialises in the production of compounds and molecules of interest derived from microalgae, have announced a new partnership.
The two groups have decided to combine their respective expertise in the joint development of new generations of proteins for animal feed.
"Today's animal feed industry is faced with the dual dilemma of the sharp increase in demand for proteins and the constant depletion in marine resources. Thanks to their unique metabolism which draws on the best of both the animal and plant kingdoms, microalgae have a similar nutritional profile and value to fishmeal, making them a sustainable answer to this global challenge", commented Pierre Calleja, founder and Chairman and CEO of Fermentalg. He adds: "We are delighted to be able to work with a global leader like Adisseo in rolling out our groundbreaking technology for the industrial production of microalgae across the new and major market of animal feed as we have already done on the human nutrition market."
Jean-Marc Dublanc, CEO of Adisseo is looking forward to the cooperation: "Fermentalg clearly has the vision, expertise, resources and original technology needed to quickly bring this groundbreaking project to the market. This technological partnership is a perfect illustration of Adisseo's outward-looking and client-centric sustainable innovation strategy."
Founded in 2009 by Pierre Calleja, Fermentalg is an industrial biotechnology company that specializes in producing the compounds and molecules of interest derived from microalgae that are found in everyday products. Its patented technology allows it to target a range of global markets, from food and animal feed to specialty chemicals, cosmetics and biofuels. Fermentalg has already signed its 1st industrial and commercial joint-venture for the production of Omega-3 oils rich in EPA and DHA. Its goal is to duplicate this model with other industrial groups, some of which have already signed up to the collaborative programmes overseen by Fermentalg. For more information, visit the Fermentalg website.
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Alternate names: Miechów [Pol], Miechov, מיעכאוו [Yid], Mekhuv, Мехув [Rus], Mekhev, Myekhov. 50°22' N, 20°02' E. Four places are named 'Miechów' in Poland, but this is 20 miles NNE of Kraków and shares a yizkor book: Sefer yizkor Miechow, Charsznica, Ksiaz, (Tel Aviv, 1971). This town in Lesser Poland Voivodeship 40 km N of Kraków is the capital of Miechów powiat with a 2004 population of 11,852. Miechów acquired city rights in 1290. Some sources indicate Jew lived in Miechowie in 1819. in the year 1767 issued a decree, which forbade Jews to settle in Miechowie (also not previously been allowed to live here). A few years after the construction of Orthodox Church (1893-1895), the brick synagogue was built. The cemetery was established in 1882 with its entry from the current ulica Powstańców. A preburial house existed. Around 1900, two Jewish dentists lived here, Epsztejn Perl and Sura Ruchla Kobylnicka, and a physician named Dr. Stefan Lejman. The owner of the print shop and bookstore was Icek Posluszny; the mill belonged to Label Israel Kupczyk. Many shops were run by Jews. 1931 Census: 154,574 people including 7,271 Jews. The Nazi occupation meant humiliating work including cleaning the streets and the market. By November 23, 1939 by order of Governor-General Frank Jews wore a white arm band with a Mogen David. By April 1940, Jewish goods were inventories and confiscated and slave labor instituted. The ghettobetween the streets and the Market: Krakow, Slovak and Mickiewicz was created. Cramped quarters meant epidemics. Exit and entrance to the ghetto was possible only by special passes and locations under the Jüdische Ordnungspolizei (JOP). In November 1941 Jews were deprived of any means of transport including dorożek and wagons. The Jews gave no resistance.During a transport of Jews from Charsznicy-Miechowa-Chodówkach, the first 24 people were shot together; for the second, seventy were shot. On November 18, 1942, some 500 Jews from the ghetto were taken to Belzec, a person hiding in the ghetto was found by dogs. On November 19, 1942 in Chodówkach about 360 or 380 Jews were shot. November 23, 1942 year to the Jewish cemetery in the German police shot 35 Jews. Jagdkomando, which was organized by Nazi troops to go to a village, into the forest, and find hiding Jews. Miechowski Jagdkomando committed many murders during the war. On March 15, 1943 Gestapo came to Miechowa, where Vincent Baranka was hiding Jews: Pińczowski, Skowron, Sybirski and Wajcman. All died including the entire Baranka family. The synagogue [photo] located at 10 ulica Adama Mickiewicza built in the early 20th century was destroyed by the Nazis and after WWII became municipal property that was completely rebuilt for a popular café. [June 2009]
CEMETERY: Video. The Jews of Miechow were murdered in the forest by the Nazis. One victim, who wounded a Nazi, was set upon by the dogs and torn to piece. A memorial marks the site. monument photo. Miechowie Jewish cemetery was founded in 1882 on a parcel of land between the current ul. Powstaców and ul. Powstaców and ul. Pęckowskiego.The house mortuary [tahara] with a cemetery caretaker apartment was added. During WWII, the Nazis stole the gravestones for road construction. After liberation, the few survivors recovered and moved part of the matzevot at the cemetery. Today, only a fragment of one of those gravestones remains since some probably were stolen for building after WWII. The edge of the cemetery fences mass graves that followedr the liquidation of the ghetto. Germans had locals bury the corpses moved there on horse carts. The memorial reads: "Here lies some 35 Jewish victims murdered by Nazi monsters of 23 Nov. 1942, m. Rachel Strosberg other, the daughter of Lola and Dora z Brzeska Nowego. "Besides, on a stone block of irregular shape, Star of David, the Hebrew acronym of" buried here ", the names of the victims Strosberg and Hebrew letters TNCBH (Let her soul be bound up in crown of eternal life). Finding the cemetery may difficult. Enter from ul. Powstańców 1863, turning at property 56. [June 2009]
US Commission No. POCE000276
Miechow is located in Kielce at 50º22 20º01, 78 km from Kielce. Cemetery location: Powstancow 1863 Str. Present town population is 5,000-25,000 without Jews.
Dr. Adam Penkalla, deceased, completed survey. The site was not visited; no interviews conducted.
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By Emily Olsen
Russian soldiers that have been invading Ukrainian towns this spring appear to be fired up about the critical need to capture NAZIs. They have been indoctrinated to believe, falsely, that their neighbors to the south are a threat to Russia because fascist NAZIs are taking over the country.
Upon bombarding towns such as Bucha, where Russian soldiers are accused of killing hundreds execution-style, the invaders have demanded to know where the NAZIs were, but residents who insisted that there were none suffered an immediate fate, according to survivors.
The Washington Post reported that some of the soldiers have referred interchangeably to NAZIs and the right-wing Azov Battalion group in Ukraine. Despite the existence of such an extremist group there, Ukraine successfully held a democratic election in 2019 where Volodymyr Zelenskyy, a former actor/comedian, became the president. Like David against Goliath, Zelenskyy has done an incredible job defending his country against the sustained Russian assault against all odds.
Recently Boyd Matheson, host of “Inside Sources” on KSL Radio, identified Vladimir Putin as an authoritarian or autocrat, and he mirrored the message of leaders of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints that have announced their solidarity with Ukraine. Putin has been the leader of Russia for 20 years, and his unprovoked attack on Ukraine, that has been at the center of the world stage for weeks now, indicates his absolute power over his subjects.
One recent study of 14 authoritarian state leaders, including Putin and the Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro, found that they were less caring or trusting of others. They were less emotionally stable compared with less autocratic leaders. They also scored higher on antisocial, “dark personality traits,” such as Machiavellianism (manipulative and deceptive), narcissism (grandiosity, superiority and entitlement), and psychopathy (low empathy, aggression and impulsivity), according to TheConversation.com.
Some believe that Putin, a former KGB agent, has leftover ideals from the Cold War to regain the territory of the former Soviet Union. It’s hard to believe that the former President Donald Trump continues to praise Putin in conservative media outlets despite undeniable evidence of the needless and devastating destruction occurring in Ukraine.
The message you receive from the media varies greatly depending on where you get your news. The media is powerful, and leaders like Vladimir Putin desire to manipulate the message that is piped out to people.
We Stand with Ukraine
Darlene McDonald, U.S. Congressional candidate in the Utah 4th District, stands with Ukraine, and she supports President Biden in his efforts to equip the Ukrainian army with needed artillery. It is a dance to help Ukraine without provoking Putin, armed with nuclear capabilities, to direct his Eye of Sauron towards the United States or its NATO allies.
Putin has demonstrated his ability to decimate communities with his devastating acts in Syria, Afghanistan and elsewhere, but we must help to curb this bloodshed. In a time of war, the United States must stand united as a matter of national security. The devastation in Ukraine is impacting our economy, our markets and our supply chain. As we protect Ukraine, we will be protecting our allies and our homeland. | <urn:uuid:87f4fcd8-e418-435b-987e-1aedfe700053> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://1utp.org/index.php/putins-autocracy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00264.warc.gz | en | 0.968257 | 673 | 1.664063 | 2 |
What does Romonia mean?
(female) Rimonia, Romoria, ..
(male) Romoney, Romori, .. Middle name pairings:
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How popular is Romonia?
Romonia is an uncommon given name for females. Romonia is an equally unique last name for all people. (2000 U.S. Demographics)
Which version is better?with its source form and related girl names. Popular varying forms of Romonia (not ranked) appearing in the Top 2000 are Ramona (#1076 in 2015), Remona and Romona. Other forms, like Ramonita, are uncommon. Adoption of these forms of Romonia was more pronounced among parents in the 1930s (usage of 0.08%) and has become significantly lower since (usage 0.01%, ▼87%). (2015 U.S. SSA Records)
Romonia is pronounced similarly to Rimona, Romana and Romina▲. Other recommended names are Allonia, Apolonia, Begonia, Domicia (see Domitilla), Domitia, Eionia, Erminia, Hamania, Idonia, Ionia, Leonia, Mounia, Pomona, Rania, Rayona, Reginia, Rhodia, Rhona, Riona, Rionna, Roanna, Robena, Robenia, Robina, Robinia, Robyna, Robynna (see Roberta), Rodina, Rohana, Rohanna, Rolanda, Romala, Romalda, Romane, Romea, Romelia, Romella, Romene, Rommola, Romney, Romola, Romolla, Romula, Rona, Ronica, Ronna, Ronnda, Ronni, Ronnie, Rosalia, Rosana, Rosanna▼, Roselia, Rosemonda (see Rosamond), Rosena, Rosmunda (see Rosamond), Rowena▼, Rowenna, Roxana, Royanna, Rozanna, Rozina, Rubinia, Sidonia, Simonia, Sofronia, Sohnia, Sonia▼, Sydonia, Tonia▼, Umnia and Valonia. These names tend to be more commonly used than Romonia.See names in meaning and etymology. | <urn:uuid:d3f05d8c-a1a9-4b2d-b3d3-68b9814fc0b8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thinkbabynames.com/meaning/0/Romonia | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00290-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.777675 | 488 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Cara Setting Router Tenda N301 Mode PPPoE, DHCP dan Static – Inilah cara paling mudah setting router merek tenda menggunakan hp/smartphone. Saya akan membagikan tutorial mulai awal hingga terkoneksi dengan internet. Berikut ini adalah beberapa
Simple Tenda W300D Router Port Forwarding Steps 2020-7-21 · Recommended - Our free program will setup a static IP address for you. → Download Network Utilities today! Or follow our Static IP Address guides to setup a static IP address. After setting up a static ip address on your devices you need to login to your router. Step 2. Now we are going to login to your Tenda W300D router. The default LAN IP address of Tenda router is 192.168.0.1. You can change the LAN IP address to 192.168.10.1 , then click Apply and the router will reboot. After the router finishes rebooting, please login with new ip address. (Tenda)F3-How to setup Static IP Mode Note: If you have no idea about what is the connection type of your network, please contact the ISP (Internet Service Provider) to confirm it. Step 1: Connect the broadband line to the WAN port of router, and then connect your computer to LAN1/LAN2/LAN3 port by a cable. Find the default login, username, password, and ip address for your Tenda N301 router. You will need to know then when you get a new router, or when you reset your router. Jun 17, 2019 · It’s a LAN IP address and Subnet Mask. This IP address is to be used to access the router’s homepage through a web browser. Make sure to save a note of any changes you apply to this page. The Default Settings are 192.168.0.1 and 255.255.255.0. Tezadvise: In short leave these settings by default. g) DNS Settings Jul 03, 2017 · In the “Network” window, select the “TCP/IP” tab. You’ll see your router’s IP address listed simply as “Router.” Find Your Router’s IP Address on the iPhone and iPad. On an iPhone or iPad, just head to Settings > Wi-Fi, and then tap the name of your Wi-Fi network. You’ll see the router’s IP address listed as “Router”.
Apr 30, 2019 · Technically, the major task for IP camera configuration is to get the right IP address of your camera which serves as the only clue to find it among various devices attached to the same network. Note that the IP camera installation and configuration on the local area network (LAN) could be a little different from that in the wide area network
DHCP Address reservation - Tenda Forum 2019-2-27 Default settings of the Tenda N301 - routerdefaults.org Home; Tenda; N301; Default settings of the Tenda N301. Here you can find the default IP address and the password for the user interface of the Tenda N301 Wireless N300 router. This site also contains information about the preconfigured Wi-Fi settings of the device. In the bottom part of this website, you will find a manual for accessing the user interface of this router and resetting its
May 17, 2019 · The IP address 192.168.0.1 is a private IP address and is the default for certain home broadband routers, principally various D-Link and Netgear models. How to Access 192.168.0.1, Can’t Access 192.168.0.1, How To Find The Router IP Address and find out more as you go on with this blog. What Is An IP
Tenda; AC5; Default settings of the Tenda AC5. Here you can find the default IP address and the predefined access data for the user interface of the AC5 AC1200 Smart WiFi router of Tenda. This site also contains information about the preconfigured Wi-Fi settings of the device. Jun 16, 2020 · Unlike other IP addresses on home networks that usually change periodically, the router's private IP address remains static (fixed) unless someone manually changes it. Alternatively, find the local IP address of the router in Windows, Mac, and Linux operating systems by verifying the default gateway address . | <urn:uuid:81227e78-eba7-47b7-a71d-60a2872515e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://vpn2021cdbvq.netlify.app/plantier82434cage/ip-address-tenda-vec.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.820627 | 939 | 1.710938 | 2 |
OCC Social and Behavioral Sciences Division Honor Society The History of Phi Alpha Mu
PHI ALPHA MU was created in 1957 by the Orange Coast College Social and Behavioral Sciences faculty. It grew from a desire to recognize, honor, and encourage outstanding student achievement in OCC social and behavioral sciences courses. The name was derived from Thucydides who, in reporting the Funeral Oration of Pericles, described the Athenians as searching for “wisdom without loss of strength.” The name, accordingly, is intended to signify an organic fusion of Philosophy, Anthropology, and other matters pertaining to the Muses. Thus, through these studies individuals can achieve “wisdom without loss of strength.”
Each year faculty members donate money to the scholarship fund to award students of excellence. For the past 54 years, a faculty member has dedicated themselves to building Phi Alpha Mu into a strong academic organization, chairing the scholarship committee and advising the students. Phi Alpha Mu remains true to its mission as it helps students excel in its Pillars of Excellence: Leadership, Service, and Research. | <urn:uuid:b8c581b7-3feb-43a7-ae0d-39faf32d269c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.orangecoastcollege.edu/academics/AcademicHonorSocieties/PhiAlphaMu/Pages/default.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00043-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950625 | 222 | 1.90625 | 2 |
Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
A microscopic mite that is a debilitating parasite of the honeybee, causing loss of honey production.
- ‘Orkney is one of the few places in Britain to be free of the deadly varroa mites that have devastated honey production in many parts of the world.’
- ‘Monthly samples of the fallen varroa showed that the screen insert reduced the mite populations by about 15 percent.’
- ‘In field tests, the formic acid gel killed up to 84% of varroa mites and 100% of tracheal mites, another bee pest.’
- ‘Among the greatest problems is the varroa mite, a bloodsucking parasite that attacks young and adult honeybees.’
- ‘Earlier this year a dead varroa mite was found in a hive in North Canterbury, prompting a major investigation by MAF and restrictions on the area.’
1970s: modern Latin, from Varro, Marcus Terentius (with reference to his work on beekeeping) + -a.
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The definitions of ‘buddy’ and ‘bro’ in the OED have recently been revised. We explore their history and increase in popularity. | <urn:uuid:372bfdc4-c18f-4963-ac0b-3c020f2b19f3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/us/varroa | 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 | 0.926978 | 348 | 2.390625 | 2 |
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As defined by the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS), a transition in care refers to a change in care being provided to patients from one healthcare facility to another. Discharge from a hospital poses a unique set of challenges depending on the patient’s level of vulnerability.
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what is transition of care in nursing?how does transition of care work?what is the tcu in a hospital?why are transitions of care important?why is transitions of care important?what are care transition models?what is transitional care role?what is transition of care in healthcare?what is best strategy during transition of care?what is a transition of care plan?is transitional care considered inpatient?how long can you stay in transitional care?what are transitional care facilities?what is a hospital transitional unit?why is improving transition of care important for patient outcomes?what is transition of care for meaningful use?why is transitional care important to the family and or carers?
What Is Transition Of Care In Nursing?
Care is rendered after a patient or a client moves one healthcare setting (i.e., acute or chronic). There are several types of acute care hospitals, nursing homes, assisted living facilities, skilled nursing facilities, primary care physicians, residential care, and specialty care facilities.
How Does Transition Of Care Work?
There is a vast range of options available within transitional care settings to promote good and timely passage of patients between healthcare settings and with different providers. The patients usually reside in the health care system as their primary care doctor or nurse.
What Is The Tcu In A Hospital?
In addition to providing transitional care, it has become the largest medical center in Pennsylvania. It assists patients as they transition from acute hospital care back to house/family living, including assistance following an admission. TCU is smaller than the main hospital because of this configuration.
Why Are Transitions Of Care Important?
A transitional care setting – the transition of health care – represents a risk to the health care system where mistakes are made in medical care and there is a clinical deterioration risk.
Why Is Transitions Of Care Important?
It refers to an array of time-limited services that guarantee continuity of care for patients, eliminate preventable poor outcomes related to populations at high risk, and promote transference to a different kind of setting or facility of care.
What Are Care Transition Models?
An initial stage of the Care Transitions Model identifies high-risk patients at risk of medical complications or rehospitalization. Patients from the hospital are visited by specially trained nurses (the coaches) during this period before they are sent home on their own for self-management therapy.
What Is Transitional Care Role?
provides a variety of supportive medical practices and interventions designed to aid patients moving from health care to other settings and settings during their lives.
What Is Transition Of Care In Healthcare?
From one setting of care (hospital, primary care, ambulatory surgery centers, ambulatory specialty care practices, long-term care centers, home health or rehabilitation facilities) to another is a transition of care.
What Is Best Strategy During Transition Of Care?
Successful transitional care strategies include patient engagement, using an independent transition provider, medication management (including medication reconciliation), the provision of care during outpatient visits, as well as facilitating communication with outpatient providers, The following elements of a successful transitional care strategy include patient engagement, use of
What Is A Transition Of Care Plan?
During transitional care planning, the patient’s potential needs are examined at admission and as his or her stay unfolds and the processes and procedures are developed for each step in each step of the journey.
Is Transitional Care Considered Inpatient?
Specifically, the term transitional care applies to general hospital services provided on a local basis to patients who do not have acute or primary care medical or nursing needs but will continue to need such ancillary services as tionative care” shall mean sub acute care services provided to patients of a general hospital who
How Long Can You Stay In Transitional Care?
Depending on what health decisions must be made when it comes to treatment, TCM can last for up to 30 days. The services include follow-up appointments, medication management, and care coordination.
What Are Transitional Care Facilities?
It is commonly the short-term care facility that provides medically complex patients as they begin the process of shifting from a hospital stay to transition to home or from one hospital setting to another for less than 21 days.
What Is A Hospital Transitional Unit?
An alternate level of care (ALC) Unit may become available for hospital patients still needing acute or intensive medical care, but who can’t be transferred back to their home. They may also wait for the placement of a long-term care facility or VA beds. As well as transitional care units (TCU), addiction care organizations can also refer to themselves as.ACOAs.
Why Is Improving Transition Of Care Important For Patient Outcomes?
A transitional care intervention program appears to have improved results after discharge, lowered costs of hospitalization, enhanced quality of life, and avoided hospital readmissions in its first few months of implementation.
What Is Transition Of Care For Meaningful Use?
Transition of Care – An institution (such as a hospital, primary care practice, ambulatory center, specialty care center, long-term care facility, home health, or rehabilitation facility) that shifts a patient to another setting.
Why Is Transitional Care Important To The Family And Or Carers?
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We evaluated the performance of four models for estimating soil heat flux density (G) in maize (Zea mays L.) and soybean (Glycine max L.) fields under different irrigation methods (center‐pivot irrigated fields at Mead, Nebraska, and subsurface drip irrigated field at Clay Center, Nebraska) and rainfed conditions at Mead. The model estimates were compared against measurements made during growing seasons of 2003, 2004, and 2005 at Mead and during 2005, 2006, and 2007 at Clay Center. We observed a strong relationship between the G and net radiation (Rn) ratio (G/Rn) and the normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI). When a significant portion of the ground was bare soil, G/Rn ranged from 0.15 to 0.30 and decreased with increasing NDVI. In contrast to the NDVI progression, the G/Rn ratio decreased with crop growth and development. The G/Rn ratio for subsurface drip irrigated crops was smaller than for the center‐pivot irrigated crops. The seasonal average G was 13.1%, 15.2%, 10.9%, and 12.8% of Rn for irrigated maize, rainfed maize, irrigated soybean, and rainfed soybean, respectively. Statistical analyses of the performance of the four models showed a wide range of variation in G estimation. The root mean square error (RMSE) of predictions ranged from 15 to 81.3 W m‐2. Based on the wide range of RMSE, it is recommended that local calibration of the models should be carried out for remote estimation of soil heat flux. | <urn:uuid:9fcd7dbd-fffb-4507-8e1b-c2e7c24d72ae> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/natrespapers/334/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00066-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.931094 | 359 | 2 | 2 |
Charles II of Navarre
|King of Navarre|
|Reign||6 October 1349 – 1387|
|Coronation||27 June 1350
Cathedral of Pamplona
|Regent||Philip VI of France (1349–1350)
John II of France (1350–1352)
10 October 1332|
|Died||1 January 1387
|Spouse||Joan of France|
|Marie, Duchess of Gandia
Charles III of Navarre
Bonne of Navarre
Peter, Count of Mortain
Joanna, Queen of England
|Father||Philip III of Navarre|
|Mother||Joan II of Navarre|
Besides the Pyrenean Kingdom of Navarre, he had extensive lands in Normandy, inherited from his father, Count Philip of Évreux, and his mother, Queen Joan II of Navarre, who had received them as compensation for resigning her claims to France, Champagne, and Brie in 1328. Thus, in Northern France, Charles possessed Évreux, Mortain, parts of Vexin, and a portion of Cotentin. He was a major player at a critical juncture in the Hundred Years' War between France and England, repeatedly switching sides in order to further his own agenda. His horrific death by burning was widely considered God's justice upon him.
- 1 Life
- 1.1 Early life
- 1.2 The murder of Charles de la Cerda and relations with John II (1351–1356)
- 1.3 Charles against the Dauphin (1356–1358)
- 1.4 Charles, the Paris Revolution and the Jacquerie (1358)
- 1.5 Charles capitulates (1359–60)
- 1.6 The Burgundian inheritance and the loss of Normandy (1361–1365)
- 1.7 Charles and the Spanish Wars (1365–1368)
- 1.8 Last French possessions lost and the humbling of Navarre (1369–79)
- 1.9 Marriage and children
- 1.10 Death
- 2 Family tree
- 3 Notes
- 4 References
- 5 Sources
- 6 External links
Charles was born in Évreux. Since his father was first cousin to King Philip VI of France, and his mother, Joan II of Navarre, was the only child of King Louis X, Charles of Navarre was 'born of the fleur de lys on both sides', as he liked to point out, but he succeeded to a shrunken inheritance as far as his French lands were concerned. Charles was raised in France during childhood and up to the moment he was declared king at 17, so he probably had no command of the Romance language of Navarre at the moment of his coronation.
In October 1349, he assumed the crown of Navarre. In order to take his coronation oath and be anointed, Charles II visited his kingdom in summer 1350. For the first time, the oath was taken in a language other than Latin or Occitan as it was customary, i.e. Navarro-Aragonese. Apart from short visits paid the first 12 years of his reign, he spent his time almost entirely in France; he regarded Navarre principally as a source of manpower with which to advance his designs to become a major power in France. He hoped for a long time for recognition of his claim to the crown of France (as the heir-general of Philip IV through his mother, and a Capetian through his father). However, he was unable to wrest the throne from his Valois cousins, who were senior to him by agnatic primogeniture.
The murder of Charles de la Cerda and relations with John II (1351–1356)
Charles II served as Royal Lieutenant in Languedoc in 1351 and commanded the army which captured Port-Sainte-Marie on the Garonne in 1352. The same year he married Joan of Valois, the daughter of King John II of France. He soon became jealous of the Constable of France, Charles de La Cerda, who was to be a beneficiary of the fiefdoms of Champagne, Brie, and Angoulême. Charles of Navarre felt he was entitled to these territories as they had belonged to his mother, the Queen of Navarre, but they had been taken from her by the French kings for a paltry sum in compensation.
After publicly quarrelling with Charles de la Cerda in Paris at Christmas 1353, Charles arranged the assassination of the Constable, which took place at the village of l'Aigle (8 January 1354), his brother Philip, Count of Longueville leading the murderers. Charles made no secret of his role in the murder, and within a few days was intriguing with the English for military support against his father-in-law King John II, whose favourite the Constable had been. John II was preparing to attack his son-in-law's territories, but Charles's overtures of alliance to King Edward III of England led John instead to make peace with the King of Navarre by the Treaty of Mantes of 22 February 1354, by which Charles enlarged his possessions and was outwardly reconciled with John II. The English, who had been preparing to invade France for a joint campaign with Charles against the French, felt they had been double-crossed: not for the last time, Charles had used the threat of an English alliance to wrest concessions out of the French king.
Relations between Charles and John II deteriorated afresh and John invaded Charles's territories in Normandy in late 1354 while Charles intrigued with Edward III's emissary, Henry of Grosmont, 1st Duke of Lancaster at the fruitless peace negotiations between England and France held at Avignon in the winter of 1354–55. Once again Charles changed sides: the threat of a renewed English invasion forced John II to make a new agreement of reconciliation with him, sealed by the Treaty of Valognes on 10 September 1355.
This agreement, too, did not last. Charles befriended and was thought to be trying to influence the Dauphin, and was apparently involved in a botched coup d'état in December 1355 whose purpose appears to have been to replace John II with the Dauphin. John amended matters by making his son Duke of Normandy, but Charles of Navarre continued to advise the Dauphin how to govern that province.
There were also continued rumours of his plots against the king, and on 5 April 1356 John II and a group of supporters burst unannounced into the Dauphin's castle at Rouen, arrested Charles of Navarre and imprisoned him. Four of his principal supporters (two of whom had been among the assassins of Charles de la Cerda) were beheaded and their bodies suspended from chains. Charles was taken to Paris and then moved from prison to prison for greater security.
Charles against the Dauphin (1356–1358)
Charles remained in prison after John II was defeated and captured by the English at the Battle of Poitiers. But many of his partisans were active in the Estates General which endeavoured to govern and reform France in the power-vacuum created by the King's imprisonment while much of the country degenerated into anarchy. They continually pressed the Dauphin to release him. Meanwhile his brother Philip of Navarre threw in his lot with the invading English army of the Duke of Lancaster and made war on the Dauphin's forces throughout Normandy. Eventually on 9 November 1357 Charles was sprung from his prison in the castle of Arleux by a band of 30 men from Amiens led by Jean de Picquigny. Greeted as a hero when he entered Amiens, he was invited to enter Paris by the Estates General, which he did with a large retinue and was 'received like a newly-crowned monarch'.
He addressed the populace on 30 November listing his grievances against those who had imprisoned him. Étienne Marcel led a 'demand for justice for the King of Navarre' which the Dauphin was unable to resist. Charles demanded an indemnity for all damage done to his territories while he had been imprisoned, free pardon for all his crimes and those of his supporters, and honourable burial for his associates executed by John II at Rouen. He also demanded the Dauphin's own Duchy of Normandy and the county of Champagne, which would have made him effectively ruler of northern France.
The Dauphin was virtually powerless, but he and Charles were still in negotiations when news reached them that Edward III and John II had reached a peace agreement at Windsor. Knowing this could only be to his disadvantage, Charles had all the prisons in Paris opened to create anarchy and left Paris to build up his strength in Normandy. In his absence the Dauphin tried to assemble a military force of his own, but Charles meanwhile gave his executed followers a solemn state funeral in Rouen Cathedral on 10 January 1358 and effectively declared civil war, leading a combined Anglo-Navarrese force against the Dauphin's garrisons.
Charles, the Paris Revolution and the Jacquerie (1358)
Meanwhile Paris was in the throes of revolution. On 22 February the Dauphin's chief military officers, the marshals Jean de Conflans and Robert de Clermont were murdered before his eyes by a mob led by Etienne Marcel, who made the Dauphin a virtual prisoner and invited Charles of Navarre to return to the city, which he did on 26 February with a large armed retinue. The Dauphin was forced to agree to many of Charles's territorial demands and to promise to finance for him a standing army of 1,000 men for his personal use. However illness prevented Charles from escorting the Dauphin to meetings demanded by the nobility at Senlis and Provins, and the Dauphin was thus able to escape his Parisian and Navarrese guardians and open a campaign from the east against Charles and against revolutionary Paris.
Etienne Marcel implored Charles to intercede with the Dauphin but he achieved nothing and the land around Paris began to be plundered both by Charles's forces and by the Dauphin's. In the last days of May the peasant rebellion of the Jacquerie erupted to the north of Paris as a spontaneous expression of hatred for the nobility that had brought France so low. Etienne Marcel publicly declared Parisian support for the Jacquerie. Unable to get help from the Dauphin, the knights of northern France appealed to Charles of Navarre to lead them against the peasants.
Although he was allied with the Parisians, Charles was no lover of the peasantry and felt Marcel had made a fatal mistake. He could not resist the chance to appear as a leader of the French aristocracy and led the suppression of the Jacquerie at the Battle of Mello, 10 June 1358 and the subsequent massacres of rebels. He then returned to Paris and made an open bid for power urging the populace to elect him as 'Captain of Paris'.
This move lost Charles the support of many of the nobles who had supported him against the Jacquerie, and they began to abandon him for the Dauphin while he recruited soldiers – mainly English mercenaries – for the 'defence' of Paris, though his men, picketed outside the city, raided and plundered far and wide. Realizing the Dauphin's forces were much stronger than his, Charles opened negotiations with the Dauphin, who made him substantial offers of cash and land if he could induce the Parisians to surrender. They, however, distrusted this deal between princes and refused the terms outright; Charles agreed to fight on as their captain but demanded that his troops be billetted in the city.
Before long there were anti-English riots in the city and Charles, with Etienne Marcel, was forced by the mob to lead them against the marauding garrisons to the north and west of the city – against his own men. He led them (no doubt deliberately) into an English ambush in the woods near the bridge of Saint-Cloud and about 600 Parisians were killed.
Charles capitulates (1359–60)
After this debacle Charles stayed outside Paris at the Abbey of St Denis and left the city to its fate while the revolution burned itself out, Etienne Marcel was killed, and the Dauphin regained control of Paris. Meanwhile he opened negotiations with the English King, proposing that Edward III and he should divide France between themselves: if Edward would invade France and help him defeat the Dauphin, he would recognize Edward as King of France and do homage to him for the territories of Normandy, Picardy, Champagne and Brie. But the English king no longer trusted Charles and both he and the captive John II regarded him as an obstacle to peace. On 24 March 1359 Edward and John concluded a new treaty in London whereby John would be released back to France on payment of a huge ransom and would make over to Edward III large tracts of French territory – including all of Charles of Navarre's French lands. Unless Charles submitted and accept suitable (undefined) compensation elsewhere, the Kings of England and France would jointly make war on him. However the Estates General refused to accept the treaty, urging the Dauphin to continue the war. At this Edward III lost patience and decided to invade France himself. Charles of Navarre's military position in Northern France had deteriorated under attacks from the Dauphin's forces throughout the spring, and with the news of Edward's impending invasion Charles decided he must reach an accommodation with the Dauphin. After protracted haggling the two leaders met near Pontoise on 19 August 1359; on the second day Charles of Navarre publicly renounced all his demands for territory and money, saying he wanted nothing more than what he had at the beginning of hostilities and 'wanted nothing more than to do his duty to his country'. It is unclear whether he was actuated by patriotism in the face of an imminent English invasion, or had decided to bide his time until a more favourable juncture to renew his campaign. After the comparative failure of Edward's campaign in the winter of 1359–60 (the Dauphin did not offer battle and pursued a 'scorched earth' policy with the populace seeking shelter in the walled towns while the English endured terrible weather) a final peace treaty was agreed between Edward III and John II at Brétigny, while John II concluded a separate peace with Charles of Navarre at Calais. Charles was forgiven his crimes against France and restored to all his rights and properties; 300 of his followers received a royal pardon. In return he renewed his homage to the French crown and promised to help clear the French provinces of the marauding companies of Anglo-Navarrese mercenaries, many of which he was responsible for releasing in the first place.
The Burgundian inheritance and the loss of Normandy (1361–1365)
In 1361, after the premature death of his second cousin, Philip I, Duke of Burgundy, Charles claimed the Duchy of Burgundy by primogeniture. He was the grandson of Margaret of Burgundy, eldest daughter of Robert II, Duke of Burgundy (d. 1306). However, the duchy was taken by King John II, who was son of Joan of Burgundy, second daughter of Duke Robert II, who claimed it in proximity of blood, and made provision that after his death it would pass to his favourite son Philip the Bold.
To have become duke of Burgundy would have given Charles the position at the centre of French politics that he had always craved, and the abrupt dismissal of his claim provoked fresh bitterness. After the failure of an attempt to win the Pope to his claim, Charles returned to his kingdom of Navarre in November 1361. He was soon plotting afresh to become a power in France. A planned rising of his supporters in Normandy in May 1362 was an abject failure, but in 1363 he evolved an ambitious plan to form two armies in 1364, one of which would go by sea to Normandy and the other, under his brother Louis, would join forces with the Gascons operating with the Great Company in Central France and invade Burgundy, thus threatening the French King from both sides of his realm. In January 1364 Charles met Edward, the Black Prince at Agen in order to negotiate the passage of his troops through the English-held duchy of Aquitaine, to which the Prince agreed perhaps because of his friendship with Charles's new military adviser Jean III de Grailly, captal de Buch, who had been betrothed to Charles sister and was to lead his army to Normandy. In March 1364 the Captal marched towards Normandy to secure Charles's domains.
John II of France had returned to London to negotiate with Edward III, and the defence of France was once more in the hands of the Dauphin. There was already a royal army in Normandy besieging the town of Rolleboise, nominally commanded by the Count of Auxerre but actually generalled by Bertrand du Guesclin. Charles's designs were well known in advance and in early April 1364 this force seized many of Charles's remaining strongholds before the Captal de Buch could reach Normandy. When he arrived he started concentrating his forces around Évreux, which still held out for Charles. He then led his army against the royal forces to the east. On 16 May 1364 he was defeated by du Guesclin at the Battle of Cocherel. John II had died in England in April, and news of the victory of Cocherel reached the Dauphin on 18 May at Rheims, where on the following day he was crowned Charles V of France. He immediately confirmed his brother Philip as duke of Burgundy.
Undeterred by this resounding defeat, Charles of Navarre persisted in his grand design. In August 1364 his men began a fight back in Normandy while a small Navarrese army under Rodrigo de Uriz sailed from Bayonne to Cherbourg. Meanwhile Charles's brother Louis of Navarre led an army augmented by contingents pledged by the captains of the Great Company and the freebooter Séguin de Badefol through the Black Prince's territories and across France, evading the French royal forces sent to intercept him and arrived in Normandy on 23 September. Hearing of the collapse of the civil war in Brittany after the Battle of Auray (29 September), Louis abandoned his design to invade Burgundy and instead set about reconquering the Cotentin for Charles. Meanwhile Séguin de Badefol and his fellow-captains captured the town of Anse on the Burgundian border, but only to use it as a centre for raiding and plundering far and wide. They did Charles of Navarre's cause no discernible good, and Pope Urban V excommunicated Séguin. Although Charles offered Bernard-Aiz V, Lord of Albret huge sums to take over the command of his forces around Burgundy, he finally realized he could not prevail against the King of France and must come to an accommodation with him. In May 1365, in Pamplona, he agreed to a treaty by which there was to be a general amnesty for his supporters, the remains of Navarrese executed and displayed for treason were to be returned to their families, prisoners would be mutually released without ransom. Charles was allowed to keep his conquests of 1364, except for the citadel of Meulan, which was to be razed to the ground. In compensation Charles received Montpellier in Bas-Languedoc. His claim to Burgundy was to be referred to the arbitration of the Pope. The Pope never in fact pronounced on the matter. It was an ignominious end to Charles's 15 years of struggle to create a major territory for himself and his line in France. Henceforth he resided mainly in his kingdom.
At the end of 1365 Séguin de Badefol arrived in Navarre to claim the considerable sums Charles had pledged to pay him for his services in Burgundy, even though he had achieved nothing of substance. Charles was not pleased to see him, received him in private and poisoned him with a crystallised pear.
Charles and the Spanish Wars (1365–1368)
The cessation of war in France left vast numbers of French, English, Gascon and Navarrese soldiers and freebooters in search of mercenary employment, and many of these soon became involved in the wars of Castille and Aragon, both of which bordered Navarre. Charles typically tried to exploit the situation by making agreements with both sides that would enlarge his territory while leaving Navarre itself relatively untouched. Officially he was ally of Peter of Castile, but at the end of 1365 he concluded a secret agreement with Peter IV of Aragon to allow the marauding army led by Bertrand du Guesclin and Hugh Calveley invade Castile through southern Navarre in order to depose Pedro I and supplant him with his half-brother Henry of Trastámara. He then reneged on his agreements to both sides and attempted to hold the Navarrese borders intact, but was unable to do so and instead paid the invaders a large sum to keep their plundering to a minimum.
After Henry of Trastámara successfully seized the throne of Castile, Pedro I fled to the court of the Black Prince in Aquitaine, who began to plot his restoration by sending an army across the Pyrenees. In July 1366 Charles himself came to Bordeaux to consult with Pedro I and the Prince and agreed to keep the mountain passes of Navarre open for the passage of the army, for which he would be rewarded with the Castilian provinces of Guipúzcoa and Álava as well as additional fortresses and a large cash payment. Then in December he met Henry of Trastámara on the Navarrese border and promised instead to hold the passes closed, in return for the border town of Logroño and more cash. Hearing of this the Black Prince ordered Hugh Calveley to invade Navarre from northern Castile and enforce the original agreement. Charles at once capitulated, claiming he had never been sincere in his dealings with Henry, and opened the passes to the Prince's army. Charles accompanied them on their journey but, not wanting to take part in the campaign personally, got Olivier de Mauny to stage an ambush in which Charles was 'captured' and held until the reconquest of Castile was over. The ruse was so transparent it made Charles a laughing-stock in Western Europe.
With the resumption of war between France and England in 1369 Charles saw fresh opportunities to increase his status in France. He left Navarre and met John V, Duke of Brittany in Nantes, where they agreed to come to each other's aid if either was attacked by France. Basing himself in Cherbourg, the principal town in what remained of his territories in Northern Normandy, he then sent ambassadors to Charles V of France and Edward III of England. He offered to aid the French King if he would restore his former territories in Normandy, recognize his claim to Burgundy and bestow the promised lordship of Montpellier. To the English King he offered an alliance against France whereby Edward III could use his territories in Normandy as a base to attack the French. As on previous occasions, Charles did not really want an English army on his lands; he wanted the threat of one to put pressure on Charles V. But Charles V refused his demands outright. On the strength of Charles of Navarre's offers Edward III despatched an expeditionary force to the Seine estuary under Sir Robert Knolles in July 1370. He invited Charles to come to England in person – which he did during that same month. Charles of Navarre entered into secret negotiations with Edward III at Clarendon Palace, but committed himself to very little. Simultaneously he continued to negotiate with Charles V, who feared the King of Navarre would throw in his lot with Knolles's army now operating in Northern France. Though Edward III sealed a draft treaty with Navarre on 2 December 1370 it was a dead letter after the destruction of Knolles's army at the Battle of Pontvallain a few days later. In March 1371, seeing no option left, Charles of Navarre had a series of meetings with Charles V and did homage to him.
Having gained little or nothing from these activities, he returned to Navarre in early 1372. He was subsequently involved in at least two attempts to have Charles V poisoned and encouraged various plots by others against the French King. He next entered into negotiations with John of Gaunt, who was aiming to make himself King of Castile by virtue of his marriage to Pedro I's daughter Constanza. But in 1373 Henry of Trastámara, now firmly installed as King of Castile and victorious in war against England's ally Portugal, forced Charles of Navarre to agree to a marriage alliance, to surrender the disputed border fortresses he had held on to since the Castilian civil war, and to close his borders to any army of John of Gaunt. Nevertheless in March 1374 Charles met John of Gaunt in Dax in Gascony and agreed to let him use Navarre as a base for invading Castile on condition he recapture the towns surrendered to Henry. Gaunt's sudden decision only a few days later to abandon his plans and return to England Charles took as a personal betrayal. In order to placate the Castilian King he now agreed for his eldest son, the future Charles III of Navarre, to marry Henry of Trastámara's daughter Leonora in May 1375.
In 1377 he proposed to the English that he would return to Normandy and put the harbours and castles he still controlled there at their disposal for a joint attack on France; he also proposed that his daughter should be married to the new English King, the young Richard II. But the threat of an attack by Castile forced Charles to remain in Navarre. Instead he sent off his eldest son to Normandy, with a number of officials, including his chamberlain Jacques de Rue, who were to prepare his castles to receive the English, as well as a servant whose mission was to insinuate himself into the royal kitchens in Paris and poison the King of France. Meanwhile he urgently appealed for the English to send him reinforcements from Gascony to help him fight the Castilians. But in March 1378 all his plots finally unravelled. On their way to Normandy the Navarrese delegation were arrested at Nemours. The draft treaties and correspondence with the English found in their baggage, along with Jacques de Rue's confessions under interrogation, were all that Charles V needed to send an army into northern Normandy to capture all the King of Navarre's remaining domains there (April–June 1378). Only Cherbourg held out: Charles of Navarre begged the English to send him reinforcements there but instead they seized it for themselves and garrisoned it against the French. Charles's son submitted to the French King and became a protégé of the Duke of Burgundy, fighting in the French armies. Jacques de la Rue and other prominent Navarrese officials in France were executed.
In June–July 1378 the armies of Castile, commanded by John of Trastámara, invaded Navarre and laid the country waste. Charles II retreated over the Pyrenees to Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port and in October he made his way to Bordeaux to plead for military aid from Sir John Neville, the Lieutenant of Gascony. Neville despatched a small force to Navarre under the knight Sir Thomas Trivet, but the English achieved little over the winter and in February Henry of Trastámara announced his son would re-invade Navarre in the spring. Having no options or allies left Charles II asked for a truce, and by the Treaty of Briones on 31 March 1379 agreed to Henry's demands that he agree to be bound in perpetual military alliance with Castile and France against the English, and to surrender 20 fortresses of southern Navarre, including the city of Tudela to Castilian garrisons.
Charles of Navarre's remarkably slippery and devious political career was at an end. He retained his crown and his country but he was effectively a humiliated client of his enemies, he had lost his French territories and his Pyrenean realm was devastated and impoverished by war. Though he continued to scheme and even still to consider himself the rightful King of France, he was essentially neutralized and impotent for the years that remained until his gruesome death.
Marriage and children
- Marie (1360, Puente la Reina – aft. 1400), married in Tudela on 20 January 1393 Alfonso d'Aragona, Duke of Gandia (d. 1412)
- Charles III of Navarre (1361–1425)
- Bonne (1364 – aft. 1389)
- Peter, Count of Mortain (c. 31 March 1366, Évreux – c. 29 July 1412, Bourges), married in Alençon on 21 April 1411 Catherine of Alençon (1380–1462), daughter of Peter II of Alençon
- Philip (b. 1368), d. young
- Joanna of Navarre (1370–1437), married first John IV, Duke of Brittany, married second Henry IV of England
- Blanche (1372–1385, Olite)
Charles died in Pamplona, aged 54. His horrific death became famous all over Europe, and was often cited by moralists, and sometimes illustrated in illuminated manuscript chronicles. There are various contemporary versions that vary in detail. This is Francis Blagdon's English account, of 1801:
Charles the Bad, having fallen into such a state of decay that he could not make use of his limbs, consulted his physician, who ordered him to be wrapped up from head to foot, in a linen cloth impregnated with brandy, so that he might be inclosed [sic] in it to the very neck as in a sack. It was night when this remedy was administered. One of the female attendants of the palace, charged to sew up the cloth that contained the patient, having come to the neck, the fixed point where she was to finish her seam, made a knot according to custom; but as there was still remaining an end of thread, instead of cutting it as usual with scissors, she had recourse to the candle, which immediately set fire to the whole cloth. Being terrified, she ran away, and abandoned the king, who was thus burnt alive in his own palace.
Another version states: "He was now sixty years of age, and a mass of disease, from the viciousness of his habits. To maintain his warmth, his physician ordered him to be swathed in linen steeped in spirits of wine, and his bed to be warmed by a pan of hot coals. He had enjoyed the benefit of this singular prescription some time in safety, but now, as he was perpetrating his barbarities on the representatives of his kingdom, "by the pleasure of God, or of the devil," says Froissart, "the fire caught to his sheets, and from that to his person, swathed as it was in matter highly inflammable." He was fearfully burnt, but lingered nearly a fortnight in the most terrible agonies."
Source: Cassell's Illustrated History of England volume I. p.406
- John E. Morby, "The Sobriquets of Medieval European Princes", Canadian Journal of History, 13:1 (1978), p. 5.
- González Olle (1987), p. 706.
- Jonathan Sumption, Trial by Fire: The Hundred Years' War II
(London: Faber & Faber, 1999), pp. 107–8.
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Statements of the United Presbyterian Church bear witness to the belief that motherhood should be a choice of free citizens and that women have a right to bear children when they are prepared in their own view to undertake this responsibility. Forced motherhood is not the basis on which a democratic society can function. It is against the best interests of children, women, the family, and the society itself. Only tyrannies insist that women must bear children as a duty they owe as citizens.
Furthermore, the positions of the General Assemblies of the United Presbyterian Church recognize there are competing rights within the situation of pregnancy: The rights of women, other family members, and the medical care personnel-but, the person most responsible for the consequences of the pregnancy, the woman, is the proper person to make the decision. Few women make an abortion decision without careful and soul-searching thought.
United Presbyterians know that a variety of Biblical and theological views on abortion have traditionally been held by people throughout history and across diverse religious communions. Significant and contradictory views of sincere religious groups with respect to abortion a re found in our country. While the General Assemblies of the United Presbyterian Church support safe and legal abortions, we know that some religious groups and their members believe that abortion is against their theological understandings. We regret the confusion and the sometimes heated debate between religious groups on abortion. It is important to note, however, that the Supreme Court decisions of January 22, 1973 on abortion do not force any person to violate a religious principle or moral law but allow each woman to decide on the basis of her personal religious or moral belief whether to continue or to abort a pregnancy. These decisions coerce no one and establish equal freedom of choice for all. On the other hand, the proposed constitutional amendments would compel women to bear children against their consciences and force particular religious and moral standards on every citizen.
In conclusion, let me briefly review some of the possible consequences of approval of the constitutional amendments against abortion rights:
1. The proposed amendments would severely limit the right of women citizens to privacy and equal justice under the law by removing their freedom to make decisions about their own bodies when they are pregnant. This is a most serious erosion of our individual freedom.
2. These amendments would cause return to the hazards and tragedies of illegal abortions, high maternal death rates, unequal treatment of poor women, uplanned large families, an increase in abandoned and abused children, and an increase in public assistance costs. In addition, severe laws would again be permitted with criminal penalties for women who feel they must prevent childbirth. To approve these constitutional amendments would create greater problems than it solves.
3. Severe stress between religious groups would result if either of these constitutional amendments come to the States for ratification. Because religious people hold deep and contrary views about their theology and abortion, the harmony of our religious institutions will be disrupted as persons on each side of this question marshal their arguments and prepare as citizens to influence each State legislature. The ecumenical movement will be tragically fractured.
4. Finally, the effect on American communities will be divisive. Where church members have strongly differing views about abortion, the State-by-State ratification of these proposed amendments will erode the mutual respect and goodwill upon which our democracy is built.
On behalf of the General Assembly of the United Presbyterian Church in the U.S.A., I affirm the belief that freedom of personal choice in problem pregnancies is better than a return to uncontrollable illegal abortions and maternal deaths. I support the Supreme (Court rule which allows safe and legal abortions on the decision of the woman. I oppose the proposed amendments as a serious infringement on the rights of women to plan their families, and the rights of all persons to realize a full and healthy life and to increase the public well-being.
I urge this subcommittee to turn back these attempts to amend the ('onstitution and reduce valuable privacy and responsible freedom in our society.
Senator Bayu. Thank you, Mr. Thompson. I would like to ask a question or two if I might.
You came down pretty hard on the issue of concern over implementing, within the confines of the Constitution, the religious beliefs of one particular religious sect. Is that really a fair assessment of the opposition to abortion?
Mr. THOMPSON. I believe, Mr. Chairman, if you read the statement, that I have not attributed the views opposing those which I expressed to any one particular sect. I recognize they are held by many religious persons, and it would be the imposition of those views. upon the rest of the citizenry who hold the contrary view.
Senator BAYI. I just thought you had stressed rather strongly that this was imposing the beliefs of one religious group upon everybody else.
Mr. Thompson. This was certainly not my intention. If I gave you that impression. I regret it. I have reread my testimony, and I believe that my intenton is clearly stated in there. .
Senator Bayu. The full freedom of personal choice is an interesting question. Is it prudent to impose any limitations, in your judgment, on abortion? Is there a time beyond which it would not be wise to have an abortion?
Mr. Thompson. The position of my church does not make any distinction between one time as compared with another.
Senator BAYI. How about William Thompson?
Mr. Thompson. My own personal view? As a lawyer, I support the position of the Supreme Court. I think it is judicially sound. My church's position is much further beyond that.
Senator Bayu. So you feel the Court's three-trimester distinction makes sense to you from a legal standpoint?
Mr. THOMPSON. That is correct and is historically based upon common law developed over the past century or so.
Senator Bayi. The right to privacy, of course, is one of our basic rights. The Court decision commented on the right to privacy of the mother. Cardinal Krol today responded to a question I directed to
him with the following statement : "that the right to privacy of one individual has never been protected if it required itself the taking of a life of another individual.” As a lawyer, what is your professional opinion on this statement?
Mr. THOMPSON. I heard the cardinal's testimony. I think in this particular area that so much depends on how we define our terms.
The Supreme Court in its majority opinion said that the right of privacy includes the right of free choice in the case of an abortion, and it defines the right of the mother to make such a free choice as a part of the right to privacy projected to her under the laws of our land. If we define the fetus as a human being, which these amendments would do as a matter of constitutional provision, then we would come out where Cardinal Krol does. If on the other hand, we define the right of privacy as including the right to decide whether or not one would have an abortion, then we come out on the side the Supreme Court does. My own view accords with that of the Supreme Court.
Senator Bayu. I suppose there is a great temptation to determine where an individual wants to go and figure out how he gets there.
Mr. THOMPSOx. That is the hazard. I think that is characteristic of much argument, certainly in this field in which we are now engaged.
Senator Bayit. One of the most, if not the most, fundamental disagreement, of course, is, when does life begin? Do you care to say anything further relative to your views as to when life is really constituted ?
Mr. THOMPson. Well, let me again state the position of my church. In the view of my church, this is a question that need not be determined, because the position of my church is that an abortion should be a matter of choice for the entire period of pregnancy.
If you are asking me personally, my personal view, I share the views expressed by Mr. Justice Clark in the Law Review article. which I quoted and which Mr. Justice Douglas quoted in his concurring opinion.
Senator Bayu. Your closing concern about fragmenting the ecumenical movement, can you tell how, without violating the rights of all of our citizens to be heard in legislative halls, there is not going to be some significant development of ecumenical differences now after the Court's case ?
Mr. THOMPSON. I think, Mr. Chairman, that we all recognize that there are differences within the Christian church, using that term in the most inclusive sense. There are certainly differences of opinion within the United Presbyterian Church. But to create situations in which those differences of opinion are aired publicly is to do a disservice, it seems to me, to the unity of the church unless the particular discussion is absolutely essential.
Now, it seems to me that the arguments against submitting these amendments to the States for ratification are overpowering. But in the event that they are submitted to the States for ratification, one unforunate result will be that we will have a public forum in which the differing views of persons will be expressed with great emotional intensity, and the result will be an adverse effect upon the rather fragile ecumenical movement.
Senator Bayit. I am sure that is happening now. There have been some who have suggested the way to keep this from happening is to just not have any hearings.
But that seems to me then to jeopardize the basic concept of free expression.
Mr. Thompsox. I quite agree with you. I certainly do not wish to be understood as being critical of this subcommittee.
Senator Bayu. Oh, go right ahead. I did not bring that up to criticize either. I just wanted to get your view.
. Mr. THOMPSOX. Quite the contrary, I think it is very important that the subcommittee hear the views of people on all sides of the issue. And it seems to me that the substantive arguments against the proposing of the amendments are very convincing.
I merely mention that one of the effects of submitting the amendments to the States for ratification will be this adverse effect upon the ecumenical relationships that have developed.
Senator Bays. Well, thank you very much, Mr. Thompson. I do not think there is any need to delay you further. I appreciate your contribution and that of your church.
I understand that our next witness, Dr. Robert Moss, the president of the United Church of Christ, is unable to be here; and Dr. Howard E. Spragg, executive vice president of the board for homeland ministries of the United Church of Christ, is not able to be here with us. But we have Rev. Sidney Lovett, Jr., and Mr. Tilford Dudley present who will present his statement.
STATEMENT OF REV. SIDNEY LOVETT, JR., CONFERENCE MINIS
TER FOR THE CENTRAL ATLANTIC CONFERENCE, ACCOMPANIED BY TILFORD DUDLEY, DIRECTOR, WASHINGTON OFFICE OF THE UNITED CHURCH OF CHRIST
Reverend LOVETT. Mr. Chairman
Senator Bayit. Reverend Lovett and Mr. Dudley. I want to apologize for the lateness of the hour, which was something we did not anticipate. We should have but we did not.
Reverend LOVETT. Mr. Chairman, on behalf of the United Church of Christ I want to thank you for your openness and willingness to extend the hour and your patience and wisdom. I shall be very brief, abridging the message from our denomination for your consideration.
My name is Sidney Lovett and as the elected conference minister of the Central Atlantic Conference of the United Church of Christ, I am appearing today on behalf of Dr. Robert Moss, president for our denomination and the Rev. Howard Spragg, executive vice president of the board for homeland ministries of the United Church of Christ both of whom were unable to be here at this time.
I would like to have their statement entitled "Freedom of Choice Concerning Abortion" submitted into the record.
Senator Bayh. Without objection. [Statement of Robert V. Moss and Dr. Howard E. Spragg follows:]
STATEMENT OF DR. ROBERT V. Moss And Dr. Howard E. SPRAGG OF THE U'NITED
CHURCH OF CHRIST ON “FREEDOM OF CHOICE ('ONCERNING ABORTION” This statement is submitted by the Rev. Dr. Robert V. Moss, President of the United Church of Christ, and the Rev. Dr. Howard E. Spragg, Executive Vice President of the Board for Homeland Ministries of the United Church of Christ.
The United Church of Christ was formed in June 1957 by the union of the Evangelical and Reformed Church and the General ('ouncil of the Congregational Christian Churches of the United States. It has just under two million members in about 6,900 local churches, which are grouped in area associations and state conferences. The top deliberative body is the biennial General Synod, with about 800 delegates chosen by the churches through their conferences. The U.C.C. national office is at 297 Park Avenue South, New York, N.Y. 10010. Its local office is at 110 Maryland Ave. N.E., Washington, D.C. 20002.
The Board for Homeland Ministries is an independent agency, founded many years ago to render service in the fields of home missions, church extension, Christian education, evangelism and research, health and welfare services, higher education, race relations and church publications. When the l'nited Church was formed, BHM was recognized as a United Church instrumentality. Its top full time officer is its Executive Vice President.
I'NITED CHURCH PROCEDURES ESPECIALLY SIGNIFICANT
Great emphasis is placed in the United Church on the preferences of individnal members and of the local churches. Consequently the Standing Rules require that Pronouncements proposed for General Synod action, and Proposals for Action in application of a Pronouncement, must be submitted to the national Secretary at least four or two months, respectively, before the opening of the Synod. The Secretary is to send the proposed Pronouncement and/or Proposal for Action to the local churches, conferences and known delegates at least three or one month, respectively, before the Synod. Each local church and/or individual is asked to study the proposals and to send in any yotes, opinions, remarks or other reactions offering guidance. Copies are given to the proposal's sponsor to the Synod Committee.
At the Synod the Committee on Pronouncements holds an open hearing, receives presentations from delegates and instrumentality representatives, consults with interested parties to produce maximum agreement and prepares its own recomendation to the Synod delegate body. At the plenary session the floor is open for the usual parliamentary motions, debates and votes.
HISTORY OF ABORTION DISCUSSIONS IN UNITED CHURCHI
In the late 1960's, many of our local clergy in New York, California, Ohio, Minnesota and numerous other states were voluntarily involved in the original inception of the Clergy Consultation Service on Problem Pregnancies--a network referral service that served thousands of women across the country. In time, United Church Conferences in such states as New York, Ohio, Minnesota, California, Washington, Connecticut, Indiana and Kentucky supported through formal policy statements and direct voluntary action a position of freedom of choice for women facing problem pregnancies.
In mid 1970 the l'nited Church Board for Homeland Ministries adopted and issued a statement calling for the repeal of all laws forbidding or limiting abortions. In September 1970 the ('ouncil for Christian Social Action, an official agency established by and within the United Church of Christ, adopted a statement entitled: "Toward Freedom of Choice in the Area of Abortion." This statement found that many abortion laws "are neither just nor enforceable" and "compel many women either to bear unwanted children or to seek illegal abortions.” It noted a "wide variation in theological and scientific views as to when personal human life begins" and called for a wise law" which would repeal “legal restrictions on physican-performed abortions during the early months of pregnancy.” The ('ouncil called upon the l'Of churches and their members to involve themselves in the "repeal of overly restrictive legislation."
The Council for Christian Social Action also voted to submit its statement to the next General Synod scheduled for June 1971. At its next meeting, on Feb. 6. 1971, the Council noted the disagreement between itself and the Board for Homeland Ministries, the Council favoring no legal restrictions during the "early months" of the pregnancy and the Board supporting no legal restrictions at ans time. Hearing that attempts at reconciliation had failed, the Council voted again to submit its statement to the next Synod and to face there any amendments proposed for liberalization.
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Is there wisdom in fearing God?
Psalm Reading: Psalm 111
For Sunday, Jan. 29, Year B − Epiphany 4
In the midst of premarital counseling, I spoke to a young couple about the plethora of things that cause hardship in marriages—trying to discern and mark the bumps that might be in the road ahead.
Filled with Fear
We covered family of origin and attitudes toward money. We talked about children. Did they plan to have them? What if they weren’t able to have kids? What sort of parenting styles made sense to them? How would they discipline their child?
The groom-to-be looked at me steadily and said, “I was afraid of my dad. All he had to do was walk in the room and I was filled with fear. I never want my child to look at me the way that I looked at my father.” | <urn:uuid:ef37c0ac-6b03-46e6-a02c-90a1af641de0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.christiancentury.org/blogs/archive/2012-01/there-wisdom-fearing-god | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00088-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98115 | 189 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Modernist Literature: An Introduction is edited by Mary Ann Gillies and Aurelea Mahood. This engaging textbook provides a critical assessment of British literature produced between 1900 and 1945. The book adopts a unique structure in which individual chapters focus on a single decade, a distinct genre and a specific theme: the 1900s - the short story - gender and sexuality; the 1910s - poetry - war, technology and propaganda; the 1920s - the novel - new modes of literary expression; the 1930s - the documentary - political engagement. A final chapter covers the 1940s and beyond looking at new literary and artistic movements and 'other' modernisms. Covering key canonical texts as well as lesser-known works, Modernist Literature introduces students and general readers to a diverse range of literature in its historical and aesthetic contexts and to current debates in this ever-evolving field of study.
Edinburgh University Press
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Photos show you the beauty.
Built around 1882 as a four room home for the
Charles A. Swift family, by the early 1900's the home grew to 16 rooms.
Entrance. The garland is made from Magnolia tree leaves, which the staff used all around the house, stunning! You can see some lights through the door, they decorated a large tree at the end of the entry way (two doors opposing, believe this is called a shot gun arrangement, used widely in the south for air flow/breeze).
Above, Banister decorated for the holidays, magnolia leaves, AND, cotton!
Normally they do not allow interior photos, but, they did allow me to take this one interior one, as I was so enthusiastic about the cotton in this garland. Taken without a flash, I have digitally enhanced it, below is a close up, cropped and edited differently, to show the cotton.
Above: Cotton picked from the fields, worked into the garland.
Above: Quite a few of these surround the house.
In 1976, Nik Coles purchased the home and began a lengthy and thorough restoration. Upon his death in early 2007, the Swift-Coles Home was willed to the Baldwin County Historic Development Commission.
Our gracious tour ladies told us about some of the furniture Nik Coles purchased to fill the home. He lived in the home for about 30 years. They told us a goose bump story (you know, one of those that raises the goose bumps on your arms and makes ya shiver) of a ghost who protested the restoration. By the way, the story goes that the ghost moved on to different digs, when a Swift descendant removed a family desk to his own home.
There are several statues in the yard, includng this one.
We had an enjoyable afternoon holiday tour with friends John and Donna thank to the docents at the Swift-Coles home.
* You just know I had to do bit of genie-digging while writing this post. Nik was Norman N. Coles, born 7 Mar 1923, died 9 Jan 2007. Found a nice obituary for him published in the Birmingham News, Birmingham Alabama on January 12, 2007. A few quotes from that obituary:
"He served his country with commendation during WWII. Nick was a member of the Naval Air Corps in the European North African Theatre. Following the war he attended college at George Washington University in Washington, D.C.
His love of international travel drew him to the Greek Isles in pursuit of his ancestral heritage. During these travels he developed a lifelong love and appreciation of antiques, which he collected for the remainder of his life.
Upon returning from Europe, he located in Gulf Shores, Alabama where he owned and operated, for several decades, the popular restaurant and antique shop called 'The Friendship House'." | <urn:uuid:1f75698c-78e6-48e2-be8f-4ca64d067f63> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://reflectionsfromthefence.blogspot.com/2009/12/2009-10-winter-tana-tour-swift-cole.html?showComment=1260815247683 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00136-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971416 | 590 | 2.03125 | 2 |
ABT, the proprietor of technology that uses unmanned buoys to access previously “stranded” offshore reserves to depths of 600 metres, has entered into a 50/50 joint venture with independent stock exchange-listed oil and gas company Enegi Oil.
We are confident this will help Enegi gain substantial oil and gas reserves.
Together they intend to develop stranded reserves around the world more cheaply than through conventional platforms.
The ABT buoy sits just below the surface of the water, housing production and processing equipment. The oil produced is stored in a seabed storage reserve before being collected by a tanker.
The initial focus of the new venture will be the UK continental shelf. In the North Sea there are 88 fields with 15 million barrels of oil or gas which Enegi Oil believes no conventional offshore unit can develop economically.
There are 579 fields already identified worldwide that could potentially be tapped into using the innovative technology, with recoverable reserves estimated at between 5 and 30 million barrels of oil or gas.
There has been “significant interest” in the buoy technology from a number of parties. Frank Jackson, non-executive director of Enegi Oil, said: “We are confident this will help Enegi gain substantial oil and gas reserves.” | <urn:uuid:9583e681-dfbb-4b96-a793-b8eb18898d42> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.express.co.uk/finance/city/406251/North-Sea-oil-hopes-buoyed-by-tie-up | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00055-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947732 | 266 | 1.703125 | 2 |
Thematic Analysis of Rocket Boys and Sister of My Heart
Dedication is defined by Webster's Dictionary as "a devoting or setting aside for a particular purpose." Without dedication you would never succeed at anything, but with dedication you can do anything you put your mind to. In these two novels, Rocket Boys and Sister of My Heart, by Homer H. Hickam and Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni, the characters can only succeed in life if they are determined. The theme of dedication is evident in Rocket Boys and Sister of My Heart through the actions of Sonny Hickam, Ms. Riley, Anju, and Sudha. Sonny would never halt his rocket building/launching. Ms. Riley did everything in her power to help the rocket boys succeed. Anju, while carrying a baby, relentlessly works to earn money for Sudha and her baby to move to America. Finally, Sudha is resolute to live a happy life with her baby.
In the book Rocket Boys, Sonny Hickam was devoted to keep building/launching rockets. For example, when Sonny was told by his father never to launch rockets on company property again, he realized that they must find another place. Sonny tried to get support from the other rocket boys by saying, "We're outlaws now. We're not ever going to quit" (Hickam 98). This statement was made with determination, because Sonny knows if the rocket boys give up then they would never build better rockets. It is clear by Sonny's statement that the rocket boys would never stop building/launching rockets.
Equally important in Rocket Boys, Ms. Riley was unwavering on her decision to help the rocket boys be successful. For instance, when Ms. Riley gave Sonny the book about rocketry design, Sonny was astounded by this gift. While he was in the state of awe Sonny says, "I felt... | <urn:uuid:f39817a9-2254-40ab-bd1a-06d11c81ff12> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.writework.com/essay/thematic-analysis-2-novels-rocket-boys-and-sister-my-heart | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00241-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97485 | 388 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Fighting between informal gold miners in a remote part of northern Chad has left around 100 people dead and 40 injured, the government says. What began as a “mundane dispute between two individuals… degenerated”, Defence Minister Daoud Yaya Brahim told the AFP news agency. The mountainous Kouri Bougoudi district near the Libyan border attracts miners from across Chad and its neighbours. The clashes occurred last week but details are only emerging now. Some groups have put the death toll higher than the authorities and have blamed the security forces for a few the deaths. The government sent a mission to the affected area – about 1,000km north-east of the capital, N’Djamena – when news of violence first came through. Mahamat Nour Ibedou, the head of Chad’s National Human Rights Commission, said the soldiers who were sent to intervene “fired on people”, AFP quotes him as saying. He, and an opposition leader, put the death toll at 200, but the authorities deny this and say they were not responsible, AFP reports. All gold mining activities in Kouri Bougoudi have now been suspended. | <urn:uuid:c3679281-5612-4887-b31a-510e6480ffe2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://iafrica.com/deadly-clashes-rock-chads-mines/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.9715 | 244 | 1.625 | 2 |
A firm has to do a lot to boost an employee’s output. Having a stylish, sustainable office interior design is one way. In this post, we will discuss simple methods to boost employee morale. Design blends privacy, ergonomics, communal places, and a natural interior atmosphere for optimal performances.
An employee works at the office for most of the day, sometimes up to 14 hours. A well-designed workplace interior style influences long-term working extensively. Some companies have excellent lighting. A piece of furniture intended for a particular occupational purpose and exemplified with a wrong executive chair in the visual section for artists. A futon in a council chamber is also inappropriate. Cabin, bathroom, and pantry lighting have to be planned.
Examine the open workplace idea, which may be popular with many entrepreneurs and start-ups nowadays.
A lovely hue tone on the walls. It increases productivity at work. Add great artwork or a computerized picture to the wall to encourage gazing. A room for motivation and presentation conferences should include the logo, branding, and workplace accomplishment image frames. It reminds us of our victories. The prizes should go there as well. Are you aware that yellow inspires and green fosters peace?
Lighting is essential in workplace design. Lighting indoors should be cheap and not damage the eyes. The computers are always on. Away from the screen, excellent illumination is desired. Energy-saving lighting saves money. Indoors, natural light, or spotlights brighten the scene.
Own private room is vital.
Workplace privacy was unknown decades ago. It now adds to workers’ attractiveness. It keeps everyone focused. Imagine escaping to a quiet space before a big presentation to develop company ideas and solve complicated challenges.
An open place for brainstorming is gaining popularity in such a setting, teamwork flourishes. It’s a place to relax and socialize if the hours are to be.
Indoor plants are calming and non-polluting. Offices often have terrariums. They are a universe unto themselves and inspire everybody.
Do you want to rethink?
Now that you know how to make the office more appealing contact the experts for help. There are several alternatives to juggling files, folders, stationery, and spaces. A neat rack reduces the strain and appears organized. The use of energy-efficient lighting, ergonomic chairs, and tables ensures that there are lesser health risks in the finish. | <urn:uuid:dde228f5-56a7-4e06-9f83-fa1291cf115c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://shivastan.org/2021/general/pick-the-best-office-interior-design/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.937563 | 509 | 1.890625 | 2 |
Art Collectors Show Their Chinese Prizes
By: Barbara Pollack
When the prodigious Miami collectors Don and Mera Rubell first visited China, in 2001, they found the artists they met fascinating, but they were frankly unimpressed by the art itself. “It was our most intense trip with the least amount of art,” Mr. Rubell said. “Many of the artists seemed to be making work for export.”
Seven years later, the pair returned to a new landscape: a vibrant art world filled with men and women making work that was relevant to social issues in China today and mostly free of the clichés that had characterized contemporary Chinese art in the past. What they saw inspired the Rubells to spend the next five years seeking out artists and gallerists in Beijing, Shanghai and far-flung Chinese cities. And during this year’s Art Basel Miami Beach, the Rubells, who are best known for supporting the works of young American artists, unveiled “28 Chinese,” a new exhibition at their museum in Miami that displays for the first time their acquisitions from six trips to China; it runs through Aug. 1.
Ms. Rubell, 70, equates finding artists like He Xiangyu, who paints with boiled-down Coca-Cola, and Chen Wei, who photographs surrealistic scenes in his studio, to first encountering the Aaron Curry and Thomas Houseago, California artists who are now hot. Mr. Rubell, 73, a retired gynecologist who now devotes most of his time to his boutique hotel business, said that after visiting Mr. He’s and Mr. Chen’s studios and those of dozens of other artists, “we realized we were seeing something different that blew us away.”
The exhibition at the 45,000-square-foot Rubell Family Collection and Contemporary Arts Foundation, in the Wynwood Art District of Miami, features the work of 28 Chinese artists, each given a separate gallery. There is “Ton of Tea,” by Ai Weiwei, a huge cube of expensive Pu’er tea that resembles a Chinese Donald Judd, and “Diary, by Zhang Huan, a canvas based on a Cultural Revolution-era photo of a man in a Mao suit holding a book.
But, for the most part, the work departs from “made in China” iconography, especially the tapestries of the Shanghai artist Xu Zhen, next year’s commissioned artist for the spring Armory Show in New York, or the geometric abstractions of Liu Wei, who had a recent exhibition at his New York gallery, Lehmann Maupin.
“The Rubell collection is not an illustrated history of the avant-garde, on the one hand, nor a speculative portfolio, on the other,” said Richard Vine, the author of the book “New China New Art” (Prestel, 2011). “It seems like a personal response, much more than I expected.” He added: “I suspect the lesser-known people they’ve plucked from obscurity will benefit. But I don’t think they are operating like some other collectors, who bought household names, promoted them and then sold them for a profit.”
The Rubells began collecting in the 1960s, as the story, now famous, goes, on a budget of $25 per week — “25 percent of our income,” Ms. Rubell said during a recent trip to Manhattan for contemporary auction week. Their finds have grown into a collection of more than 5,000 works. Studio visits are the heart of the Rubells’ mode of discovering new talent; they have visited at least 100 artists in China over the last few years. Among the first was Mr. Ai, in 2001, before he was the dissident artist he would become.
“He was a bit insecure about whether he would be accepted in the West, but was totally the ringleader for all the younger artists at that time,” Mr. Rubell recalled.
Rather than buy from the artists, as many collectors did in the 1990s, the Rubells purchased through galleries, particularly Long March Space, Shanghart, Urs Meile and Pearl Lam Gallery, thereby helping China’s fledgling gallery scene develop. They also steered clear of auctions, where prices can be highly inflated, and fakes abound.
“I would say the single most shocking change in the Chinese art world is that the gallery system is now in effect,” said Mr. Rubell, who argues that the new system has helped to legitimize contemporary Chinese art.
The Rubells could be brusque when the art did not appeal to them. “When they didn’t like the work, they would make excuses for running out — but when they liked the artist, they would sit down and have long discussions,” said Ms. Lam, who advised them. One of the artists she steered them to was Zhu Jinshi, the oldest of the show’s artists but still undiscovered when the Rubells met him; his signature style is to ladle paint on calligraphic compositions.
“It was amazing,” Ms. Rubell recalled. “We walked into his studio, and there was 40 years of history in there. We asked if there was more to see, and they took us into three more studios filled with paintings.”
The couple’s son, Jason Rubell, 44, a co-owner of the family business, Rubell Hotels, accompanied his parents on several trips and collaborated on the purchases. “People tend to visualize Chinese art as Warhol-esque, brightly colored figurative stuff, but we found work that is quite conceptual,” he said. “The politics that has been framing the Chinese art scene is there, but in a sophisticated way that is a little more subversive.”
Certain artists in the collection, like Li Songsong, who is represented by Pace, and Zhang Enli, represented by Hauser & Wirth, have sold for more than $700,000 at auction in China. The Rubells, who drive hard bargains with dealers by buying six or eight pieces by an artist at a time, say they rarely spend over six figures for any Chinese work. And while their endorsement is expected to raise prices in this roiling market, they say they are not aiming to sell the work and be beneficiaries of those increases.
“In 50 years of collecting, we’ve put together over 5,000 pieces and we’ve sold less than 20,” Don Rubell said.
Reaching a consensus was sometimes a struggle for the three Rubells. “Abstraction was a little difficult at the beginning,” Ms. Rubell said, yet they finally all agreed that geometric abstraction was an important trend. The “28 Chinese” show at the museum includes eight abstract painters’ work, ranging from the calligraphic brush paintings of Lan Zhenghui to the optical illusions of Wang Guangle. Several young artists whom the Rubells admired were already out of their price range, like Sun Xun, who is featured in the “Ink Art” exhibition, which opens Wednesday at the Metropolitan Museum of Art.
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American Old Time Song Lyrics: 25 He Never Deserted A Friend
Theater, Music-Hall, Nostalgic, Irish & Historic Old Songs, Volume 25
He Never Deserted a Friend.
Copyright, 1889, by Harding Brothers.
Words and Music by J. F. Mitchell.
Tis an Irishman's glory, an Irishman's pride,
That thro' ages of sorrow and strife
He has never deserted the love of his land,
But loved it far better than life.
His thoughts are in Erin, that speck on the wave,
Altho' in a far foreign clime;
And tho' 'tis but nature to think of his own,
Yet some there are call it crime.
He never deserted a friend,
Nor turned his back on a foe,
You'll find him the same, light-hearted And free,
Wherever you may go.
Eviction has scattered his race
In every land upon earth;
You may rob him of home, of all that is dear,
But he still loves the land of his birth.
Can you see either honor or justice in laws
Which take a man's birthright away?
For the Irishman tights other's battles abroad.
He gets nothing but sneers for his pay.
There is not a spot in the civilized world
That the Irishman cannot be seen;
And no law ever passed can ever make him forget
His own little island of green.-Chorus.
Thank heaven, when enemies have done him their worst,
And forced him over the foam,
'Neath the sheltering folds of the stars and stripes
He always is sure of a home.
Where the grip of the landlord no more can be felt,
Where no longer eviction can he,
For the moment he stands on American soil,
"Thank God, " he can say, "I am free! " -Chorus.
In America, land of the brave and the free,
Whose flag is the terror of foes;
The Irishman meets with both friends and respect,
And his mind is at rest and repose.
Sure the day can't be distant when Ireland is loosed
From the hull-dog that grips at her throat;
When her old flag of green, with the sunburst and harp,
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UK Police have uncovered a fairly massive data theft operation with a total close to 8,500 victims.
It’s quite worrying when things like this are uncovered as if 1 is uncovered or discovered…imagine how many aren’t found out about, just like exploits.
British electronic-crime detectives are investigating a massive data theft operation that stole sensitive information from 8,500 people in the U.K. and others in some 60 countries, officials said Tuesday.
In total, cybercriminals targeted 600 financial companies and banks, according to U.K. authorities, who have worked over the past week to identify and notify victims.
Through intelligence sources, U.K. police were given several gigabytes of data — around 130,00 files — that came from a server in the U.S., said Charlie McMurdie, detective chief inspector for the Specialist Crime Directorate e-Crime Unit of the London Metropolitan Police. Most of the data related to financial information, she said.
Several GIG of data, that’s a hell of a lot of text.
They were using a pretty basic program though, haxdoor.
The data was collected by a malicious software program nicknamed Haxdoor that infected victims’ computers. Some 2,300 machines were located in the U.K. McMurdie said.
Haxdoor is a powerful program that can collect passwords and send them to another e-mail address plus disable a computer’s firewall, among other functions, according to a description posted on security vendor F-Secure Corp.’s Web site. Symantec Corp., another security company, wrote it first detected Haxdoor in November 2003.
Computers can get infected with Haxdoor if they don’t have security patches or up-to-date antivirus software. London police said it’s believed many victims were infected through instant message programs.
Nice to see the good guys also using technology to parse the data and locate victims.
Metropolitan police experts built a special program to search through the data and identify victims, she said. The data contained information such as logins and passwords for major Web sites such as eBay Inc., Amazon.com, BT Group PLC and Pipex Internet Ltd., a U.K. Internet service provider.
In some instances, Haxdoor employed a screen-capture function to obtain information, McMurdie said. | <urn:uuid:148044ba-02d8-4157-9def-07283c3116e7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.darknet.org.uk/2006/12/massive-data-theft-operation-uncovered/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00303-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932563 | 498 | 2.109375 | 2 |
February 22, 2011
Study Shows Tobacco Retail Proximity To Schools
Research by UB and RPCI counters industry claims that tobacco-ad bans near schools would equal a total ban
For years the tobacco industry has argued that efforts to ban tobacco advertising near schools would constitute a total ban on tobacco advertising in urban areas.But public health researchers at the University at Buffalo and Roswell Park Cancer Institute have presented research that shows this is not the case in Buffalo and Niagara Falls, N.Y. The UB and RPCI researchers presented their study results in a poster session on Feb. 18 at the annual meeting of the Society for Research on Nicotine and Tobacco held in Toronto.
They found that tobacco outlets in Buffalo and Niagara Falls are more concentrated around elementary and secondary schools; the outlets (convenience stores, groceries, delis, etc.) also are more densely concentrated in lower-income areas, which may be exacerbating tobacco-use disparities between socioeconomic groups.
According to the tobacco industry's argument, the area around schools in urban areas comprises a significant percentage of land area and population that would be off-limits to tobacco advertisements if an advertising ban were in place.
"The tobacco industry has stated that a tobacco advertising ban within a 1,000-foot buffer zone near schools in urban areas would be equivalent to a total ban on advertising and would, therefore, be unconstitutional on First Amendment grounds," explains Andrea Licht, a doctoral candidate in the Department of Social and Preventive Medicine in the UB School of Public Health and Health Professions. Licht is first author on the study.
"However, based on our analyses, a law banning tobacco advertising within 1,000 feet of schools would affect fewer than half of their outlets," she says. "We also found that only about one-third of the population potentially lives within this 1,000-foot buffer zone, so such an advertising ban would not act like a 'de facto' ban, as industry has claimed."
During 2009-10, the years covered by the study, there were 350 tobacco retail outlets and 104 schools located in the City of Buffalo.
The study found that 17.3 percent of schools in Buffalo have a tobacco retail outlet located within 500 feet, while 49.9 percent have a tobacco retail outlet located within 1,000 feet and 71.2 percent of schools have a tobacco retail outlet located within 1,500 feet.
In the City of Niagara Falls, there were 65 tobacco retail outlets and 15 schools. Of those 15 schools, 13.3 percent have a tobacco retail outlet located within 500 feet, 33.3 percent have a tobacco retail outlet within 1,000 feet and 46.7 percent of schools have a tobacco retail outlet within 1,500 feet.
"The proximity to schools is significant because smoking patterns are almost exclusively developed during the adolescent and teen years," Licht explains.
"These outlets near the schools and in lower-income areas may be more likely to be frequented by adolescents, young adults and other disadvantaged populations," says Licht. "Since availability, accessibility and the perception that smoking is normal are all associated with higher youth smoking rates, it is likely that advertising bans near schools may serve to reduce youth smoking initiation."
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There has been very little recognition of the Debt/Growth Imperative that is built into our global system of money, banking, and finance. As I have been preaching for many years, the creation of money as interest-bearing debt requires that indebtedness, in either the private sector or the public sector, must be continually increased at an accelerating rate in order for the system to continue to function. When the private sector is fully “loaned up,” government must step in as “the borrower of last resort.” That was clearly manifested in the latest bubble-bust cycle with the massive bank bailouts and the assumption by governments of enormous amounts of their “toxic debt.”
The aggregate debt burden is destined to ultimately become unbearable, and no amount of government or central bank intervention can save this flawed system (such is the nature of exponential growth). The fiscal crisis that is now confronting national governments around the world signals the imminent collapse. How that will play out is difficult to assess, but it behoove us to use our available resources to enhance the resilience of our communities and build new systems that can be relied on to provide the things we need in order to thrive and build a world that works for all.
One prominent commentator who “gets it” is Chris Martenson. His recent observations (below) are worth considering.—t.h.g.
The Breakdown Draws Near
Tuesday, April 19, 2011, 12:22 pm, by Chris Martenson
Things are certainly speeding up, and it is my conclusion that we are not more than a year away from the next major financial and economic disruption.
Alas, predictions are tricky, especially about the future (credit: Yogi Berra), but here’s why I am convinced that the next big break is drawing near.
In order for the financial system to operate, it needs continual debt expansion and servicing. Both are important. If either is missing, then catastrophe can strike at any time. And by ‘catastrophe’ I mean big institutions and countries transiting from a state of insolvency into outright bankruptcy. [emphasis added]
In a recent article, I noted that the IMF had added up the financing needs of the advanced economies and come to the startling conclusion that the combination of maturing and new debt issuances came to more than a quarter of their combined economies over the next year. A quarter!
I also noted that this was just the sovereign debt, and that state, personal, and corporate debt were additive to the overall amount of financing needed this next year. Adding another dab of color to the picture, the IMF has now added bank refinancing to the tableau, and it’s an unhealthy shade of red: Banks face $3.6 trillion “wall” of maturing debt: IMF
Read the rest of Martenson’s post here.
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Since mid-October this blog has commented on Cuba’s arrest and detention of José Daniel Ferrer, the leader of Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU).
The Cuban Government had no official response to the many issues raised by this arrest and detention until November 20, when Granma, the official newspaper of the Communist Party of Cuba, published a lengthy statement alleging that Ferrer was acting as an agent of the U.S.
The Granma Article
“The United States government has been conducting a new slander campaign to discredit Cuba, as part of its policy of increased hostility toward our country. Given the resistance of the Cuban people, celebrating the 500th anniversary of the capital [Havana] with optimism, a media effort is being mounted to distract attention from failed U.S. attempts to force the Cuban people to surrender by reinforcing the blockade and depriving us of fuel.”
The pretext for this U.S.media campaign “is the arrest of counter-revolutionary José Daniel Ferrer, a salaried agent of the United States, with a long history of provocative actions, disruption of public order, and violations of the law.”
The U.S. embassy in Cuba led by its chargé d’affaires “has been the fundamental . . . [instrument for the] orientation, and financing of . . . Ferrer’s conduct, clearly interfering in Cuba’s internal affairs, openly inciting violence, promoting the disruption of order and contempt for the law by this citizen. . . .”
“It is well known that, far from devoting its efforts to promoting bilateral ties, protecting the interests of the U.S. people and their government, and the development of peaceful relations between states, the U.S. diplomatic mission in Cuba, and particularly its chargé d’affaires, have in recent months focused on a failed effort to recruit mercenaries, promoting division and confusion among our people, identifying areas of the economy to attack with coercive measures, and attempting to slander and discredit the work of our government and the Revolution.”
“As usual, the [U.S.] practice of government officials repeating lies, over and over again, is a fundamental ingredient of the campaign.”
“Ferrer was arrested by the police on October 1, in response to a complaint filed by a Cuban citizen, accusing Ferrer and three other individuals of abducting him for an entire night, and giving him such a severe beating that his subsequent hospitalization was required.”
“Ferrer is awaiting trial. He has received a visit from his wife and children, as appropriate in accordance with Cuban regulations.. . . All references to his physical disappearance, to alleged physical abuse, to torture, or insufficient food, are absolutely false, lies deliberately conceived and disseminated by the United States government and its embassy in Havana. He has received proper medical assistance, performs regular physical exercises and, upon request, is provided religious attention.”
“For the record, it must be known, given his activity in the service of the United States government, that . . . Ferrer has a criminal history of violent behavior, totally unrelated to political motivations. He has recorded violations of the law dating back to 1993. These include attacks with physical violence on other citizens, including women, and public disorder, behaviors that have increased in recent years.”
“It is nothing new for the U.S. government to use people with these characteristics to conduct its subversive activities in Cuba, including slander campaigns with unscrupulous support from the corporate media.”
The Cuban organization led by Ferrer, Patriotic Union of Cuba (UNPACU), denounced the Cuban government’s statement about him. It said, “The one who does have a long history of murder, brutal beatings, torture, robbery, threats, slander and forced expatriations against his people, and more incisively against dissidents, is the Cuban regime.” The UNPACU statement added the following:
- “The manifestations of popular discontent against the Cuban regime, which today thanks to the social networks of the Internet we can appreciate on a daily basis, are a direct consequence of 60 years of communist government of a single party that deprives Cuban citizens of fundamental rights and freedoms. which translates into a permanent state of material and spiritual crisis, which from time to time reaches critical levels like the current one.”
- “In the name of ‘international revolutionary solidarity, the Cuban State trained and armed citizens of other nations on the Island to form guerrillas in their respective countries. Our organization receives unimpeded help from various foreign institutions that promote values such as democracy, freedom, the rule of law and the division between the powers of the state, without which it is impossible for a government to guarantee and respect the human rights of its people.”
- “With the help we receive, weapons, bombs and terrorism are not bought. With that help we buy printers and sheets to print thousands of copies of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and distribute them to the population.”
- “Regarding the slander against José Daniel Ferrer, we can say that in his case and in that of the Patriotic Union of Cuba there is no aggression against any member of the repressive bodies of the Cuban State during these years of activism.”
- “UNPACU expressed concern about the “conditions of confinement of detainees, as well as the torture, cruel, degrading and inhuman treatment to which José Daniel Ferrer is being subjected, as his wife confirmed in a recent visit to the Aguadores prison in Santiago from Cuba, after 34 days of being kept missing. “
- The organization held the Cuban regime responsible for the life of José Daniel Ferrer and his companions, and demanded his “immediate and unconditional freedom.”
The Miami Herald’s article about Cuba’s allegation that Ferrer was an U.S. agent added, “The Cuban prosecutor’s office charged Ferrer and three activists with causing ‘serious injuries’ to a person identified as Sergio García González at the UNPACU headquarters on Sept. 20. According to Granma, González accused them of ‘having kidnapped him for a whole night and beat him up, so he had to be admitted to a hospital.’” However, his wife, “Maribel Cabreja, [has said] that her husband told her the injuries were due to an accident on a motorcycle.” She “also confirmed that state security agents were pressing García González to blame Ferrer.”
So far the U.S. has not responded to these allegations. When it does, they will added as a comment to this post or as a new post.
It is difficult for this non-Cuban blogger to reach a definitive conclusion on these issues. There is abundant evidence that the Cuban regime is hostile towards Cuban dissidents, for which the regime deserves criticism. On the other hand, the U.S. for many years has provided financing and support for what it now calls Cuba’s “Journey to Self-Reliance,” the total for which for FY2015 was stated to be $6.25 million. It, therefore, is understandable that the Cuban government is suspicious of at least some Cuban dissidents, especially when the Trump Administration has adopted and implemented so many policies that are expressly hostile towards Cuba and when the U.S. is so much wealthier and stronger in military power.
Therefore, this blogger believes that Cuba should invite an U.N. organization or investigator to come to Cuba with unfettered access to Ferrer to assess his medical condition and issue a public report on the findings. In addition, Cuba should allow Ferrer to have an attorney and submit the claims against Ferrer to an independent international court or arbitrator to determine whether he is guilty or innocent. Finally, the U.S. should be compelled to submit a public report to that international court or arbitrator on whether the U.S. has provided any financial or other assistance to Ferrer and UNPACU.
U.S. Imposes New Sanctions on Cuba and Denounces Cuba’s Detention of Dissident, dwkcommentaries.com (Oct. 19, 2019) In addition, these comments have been added to that post: Cuban Court Denies Habeas Corpus for Ferrer (Oct. 21, 2019); Ferrer’s Family Released from Detention (Oct. 26, 2019); More Pressure for Release of Ferrer (Oct. 31, 2019); Cuban Attorneys Say Cuban Regime Frequently Forcibly Disappears Its Citizens (Nov. 2, 2019); No Cuban Government Report on Status of Ferrer (Nov. 2, 2019); Washington Post Editorial Calls for Cuba To Release Ferrer (Nov. 9, 2019); Cuba Allegedly Using Venezuelan Torture Technique on Ferrer (Nov. 11. 2019). See also Amnesty International Reiterates Demand for Release of Ferrer, dwkcommentaries.com (Nov. 13, 2019).
New US slander campaign UU. against Cuba, Granma (Nov. 21, 2019)(English edition); ‘A criminal with violent behavior,’ this is how the regime presents José Daniel Ferrer, Diario de Cuba (Nov. 20, 2019); Assoc. Press, Cuba accuses US diplomat of supporting illegal actions, Wash. Post (Nov. 20, 2019); Reuters, Cuba Accuses U.S. Embassy of Abetting Country’s Leading Dissident, N.Y. Times (Nov. 20, 2019).
The previously cited Reuters article said, “The U.S. embassy in Havana last week posted on Twitter a video of its top diplomat Mara Tekach with Nelva Ismarays Ortega, partner of Ferrer” and “together they pled for his release.” Ortega added, “He has lost half his weight, he has lost a lot of his sight and voice. He has been beaten up and left without medicine, they haven’t let a doctor see him.”
UNPACU: The Cuban regime [that] has a ‘long history’ of violence against the opposition, Diario de Cuba (Nov. 21, 2019).
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This Game Will Have No Winners
Who is in fact the winner of the British sailors’ dispute? How can this question be answered? Over the past few days, many analysts have attempted to review this event from different angles. The struggle between Iran and the West, or at least the US, is slowly taking the shape of a Grand Prize Game. This game has players and spectators, takes place in stages, and each of the contestants have strengths and weaknesses in different areas. One gets ahead of the other, only to be overtaken by him in a different stage of the game. But this game can only have one final winner. With the stance the US has assumed vis a vis Iran, the loser—whether Iran or US—will gain nothing. The difference between this Grand Prize Game and chess is that there can’t be a tie. This game may be analyzed in different ways. It can be evaluated in each stage, or based on the final results. Environmental or outside factors of the game can also be reviewed, each of which can affect the game in its entirety. In this way, the analysts can each take a piece of the facts and base their results around it.
With this opening, what was the message of the British sailors’ saga? Was their freedom a sign of Iranian Government’s generosity? Did it cause the world to see how benevolent the Ahmadinejad government is? Or did it work to strengthen the anti-Iran propaganda which has been in full force over the past months? What are the effects of this crisis in short- and long-term? For Iran, what are the ramifications of the sailors’ statements yesterday, telling of psychological pressures while in custody, threatened to seven years in prison if they didn’t confess to entering Iranian waters? What will be the price Iran will have to pay? Is it still too soon to examine the different dimensions of this event?
In the Grand Prize Game, the West (represented by Britain and US) has been able to facilitate three resolutions against Iran in the United Nations Security Council, encourage Iran’s neighbors to form a united front against Iran, slowly limit Tehran’s economic ties to Western banks and countries, limit Iran’s allies’ maneuverability in Lebanon and Palestine (Hezbollah and Hammas), and to take measures displaying Iran as an enemy of US strategies in the region. To this list we can add more traditional measures of attempting to destabilize Iranian boarder security, support of anti-revolutionary groups’ terrorist activities, support of ethnic and religious minority opposition groups—this effort’s goal is a regime change in Iran--, and so forth. Let’s not forget a buildup of military presence in the Persian Gulf, which with the several US navy ships there is slowly becoming an “American Lake,” and a re-emphasized stance on “all available options against Iran are on the table.” Of course the list does go on.
With the image which has been successfully developed against Iran both in the region and worldwide, Tehran is now facing the international community. Arrests and the subsequent release of the British sailors and their statement in London, has been accompanied with the word “hostages.” In an evening program, CNN copied the style of ABC’s Nightline program during the 1979 American hostage crisis in Iran, counting the days the hostages were held in Iran. Nightline continued that style until “Day 444,” reminding Americans daily of the Iranian Government.
Hostage situations pose a very bitter image to Westerners. Carter’s Deputy of Secretary of Defense said in a recent interview with CNN that prior to this event, Iran had left all the “hostage taking” to its allies such as Lebanon’s Hezbollah, Hammas in Palestine, and Shiite insurgency in Iraq, and now Iran is directly involved, in essence seeking a confrontation with the world. To what end is this statement and similar reasoning made? It serves to convey that Tehran government is itself a hostage taker and a terrorist regime. This same image has been promoted heavily against the Iranian Government over the past few weeks. This is also the same claim by Neoconservative groups who call Tehran a terrorist government. Whether we like it or not, whether we love Ahmadinejad or whether we are objectively reviewing the situation, recent events fuel the fires set by supporters of war in Washington.
Unlike supporters of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Government, or those who criticize the Government but are concerned about the future of Iran, people in the West don’t watch programs on Iranian Television or Al-Alam Network, so they aren’t bombarded with Iranian Government propaganda; therefore they are not affected by the same. Western media views arrest of the British sailors as a message by Tehran about a preference for a confrontation as opposed to negotiations. Western analysis is founded on the notion that innocent sailors completing a mission inside Iraqi boarders cannot be arrested first, followed by invitations for negotiations, and the eventual release of the sailors called a “gift to British People.” The British sailors said in their press conference that “resistance was not an option. If we were to resist, none of us would have come out alive.”
Issuance of incorrect information by Iranian authorities in the beginning of the affair, coupled with behavior demonstrated over the coming days such as television interviews which angered British public, was an unsuccessful attempt by Tehran to replicate the treatment it has afforded its political and journalist dissidents. Though time and again this policy has proven unsuccessful and an out-of-date measure inside Iran, it was surprising to see that intelligence organizations close to Revolutionary Guard continue to implement this policy. This policy pays no regard to the fact that these prisoners, much like any other prisoner, will eventually be released and upon their release, they will say things which will face a very receptive audience, unlike Iranian Government’s words which have a very sparse audience now. Surprised by the sailors’ story and pressure for their confessions, over the past two days, Western networks have referred to this event as “Mahmoud Ahmadinejad’s Political Theatre.”
Arrest of the sailors in disputed Iran/Iraq water boarders was another sign for Iran’s neighbor to remember its previous struggles with Iran several decades ago. A continued dispute over waters around Iran’s southern boarders will lead to renewed age-old differences with Iraq, an issue better left alone at this time. This type of adventurism will also threaten Iran’s shaky friendship with its other neighbors, making them fearful. This will have the exact same impact as Iran’s nuclear program has had on its neighbors.
Iran’s posturing for the West, and making threats about how any harm to Iran might have unforeseen results for the West has both proponents and opponents. Some Ahmadinejad supporters view this as a pre-emptive measure, and believe that this way the US will not dream about attacking Iran.
Opponents of this idea believe that with the determined stance of the West for reining Iran in, such actions only confirm that the Islamic Republic of Iran is a rogue government, and sooner or later it must be toppled. It is noteworthy, for example, to say that over the past two weeks, the word “evil” has been frequently used on different US television network programs. In a recent program on CNN, the topic for which was “End of Time,” war between “good” and “evil” forces was discussed, and unfortunately, Iran was not mentioned in the “good” category. )
Other recently-performed analysis can be added to the above. Iran’s willingness to see its hostages released in Iraq, Ahmadinejad’s concerns about Tehran’s loss of control over the crisis and a subsequently forced freedom of the sailors without any tangible gains for Tehran, and Tony Blair’s statements about British soldiers’ casualties in Basra and Iran’s possible involvement in the matter, etc., are among these new analysis.
The game continues, however, and the results are not yet clear. We must wait and see what the next stage of this Grand Prize Game is, and whose side has been strengthened through Iran’s arrest of the 15 British sailors. As events shape and continue, there is another speculation on the horizon and that is that this game will have no winners. | <urn:uuid:2a3b072d-eddf-422c-a6c5-426847590450> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://omidmemarian.blogspot.com/2007_04_01_archive.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00222-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966069 | 1,747 | 2.140625 | 2 |
The presidential and vice-presidential debates provided us with two snapshots of two different and yet very similar men.
The Obama who showed up to debate Mitt Romney and the Biden who showed up to debate Paul Ryan were outwardly different types. One white and one black, one elderly and one middle-aged, one a veteran of the Senate and the other a political tyro rushed through the ranks on the promise of his electability.
But Obama and Biden showed once again at the debates that they have more in common than anyone would give them credit for. Obama was surly while Biden was belligerent, but both men behaved the way they did out of an innate sense of entitlement. With their every word and gesture they made it clear that they were too good to be here.
While Romney and Ryan have often been accused of elitism, both as a personal accusation and as a class accusation, they behaved with dignity and discretion. Obama and Biden on the other hand treated their opponents with contempt beginning with their lack of preparation for the debates and their lack of grace in the debate.
Obama believed that he had won the debate after he lost it and Biden believed that he won the debate before it even began. Biden’s braggadocio and Obama’s disdain both came out of their own exaggerated senses of self-worth that made them feel that they were too good for the forum and too good for their opponents.
Biden and Obama may not have race, religion or age in common, but they both share a common narcissism that leads them to believe that their innate specialness transcends competence and that their rhetorical gifts can overcome their laziness and lack of preparation. Neither man bothered to hide their belief that their opponents are inferior to them in every possible way.
Strip away the years and races, the experience and the capped teeth, and you have two petty egotistical men who believe that they are destined for greater things than whatever thing they happen to be doing at the moment, even if what they happen to be doing at the moment is occupying the two highest offices in the land.
Their thin skins and fake smiles go together, along with their contempt for each other and the whole world. They are men who live oblivious to other men, who occupy a current of their own imagining, who are always certain that life has not rewarded them sufficiently for all that they have done, even though they have done nothing. They are men of ambition, but not talent. Their only gift is one of imagining themselves in greater and greater positions and the accompanying talent of convincing others that their imaginary abilities should be rewarded with real positions.
They are glib, but not smart men. They have a facility for speaking off-the-cuff, but that facility betrays them as often as it rewards them. Like actors they love the sounds of their own voices so much that they never notice when their own song becomes a siren call dooming them to the crash of their own stupidity.
They can tell stories, but they are always the stars of their own stories, the “I’s” of the legends that they build around themselves, the gods who stride from their own temples, the heroes who come to their own rescue and then marry themselves and cheer themselves on.
Both men have come out of political machines where rhetoric was more important than competence. Political machines disguise their mechanisms of corruption with high-flow rhetoric and tribal appeals that convince their audiences that while may be thieves, they are ‘their’ thieves who steal on behalf of their race, their community and their group.
Biden and Obama both excel at the rhetoric of grievance. They summon up displays of fake anger to disguise their own corruption and incompetence, striving to convince slices of the electorate that they are fighting for them, because they know that they have no hope of convincing them that they are competent managers.
Obama is the new face of the Democratic Party, the perfect public face of its coalition between the government upper class and their minority voters, while Biden is the face of the old Democratic Party, the one that played on the working class Irish, Italian and Jewish vote in urban centers on behalf of the social planners of the New Deal and the New Frontier.
The Democratic Party is losing its grip on the Reagan Democrats, the loss of manufacturing jobs and the growing conservatism of small business is leaving less and less room for the kind of barstool campaigns that Joseph Robinette Biden was once good for.
The 2012 election is the last hurrah of the Biden class, those grinning senseless storytellers and glib millionaires with hard-luck tales and rolled up sleeves pretending to be working class, shaking hands with union steelworkers, mill workers, factory workers, telling them, “Oh boy that’s tough, but lemme tell you about the time my wife almost caught me with Cindy. Don’t worry the Democrats have your back. Stick with us and we’ll take care of you.”
Those voters are vanishing, falling through the cracks of EPA fascism and globalized outsourcing. If Obama wins another term, there may still be room for a few thousand of them to put together solar panels and windmills from China, but even those jobs will go to the new face of America. To Somali refugees and Mexican immigrants, and those workers will not need Biden to stand outside their bar and shake their hands. Some of them won’t have bars and most of them won’t care about anything but the benefits package they get through their local cultural center.
That’s the new face of America that Obama represents. It’s the same old story of the urban political machine which caters to the revolving door of new immigrants, stocking up front men who speak their language and know all their customs, only to give those front men the boot when the demographics of the alleys of Slumville and Immigrant’s Row change.
Tammany Hall’s leadership went from English to Irish to Italian, Jewish and Black in some 170 years. The process has since accelerated and Joe Biden with his fake working class mannerisms and outdated jokes doing his best to be everyone’s fun crazy uncle is almost done.
Biden’s currency, like Obama’s currency, was his identity. Not a real identity, but an artificial identity. Crazy Uncle Joe is as authentically working class as Barry Hussein is an African-American. Neither of them was chosen for anything but their ability to mimic the identities of others in order to project a lower class sensibility that they have no part of.
Debating Ryan was Biden’s last hurrah, it was the thunder of a dinosaur crashing through the trees, snapping his teeth and roaring at the sky, without understanding that the big fire above is a meteor coming down on top of him. The world in which Biden might have aimed at the top job is long gone. Biden’s function today is to snap his teeth, to roar and remind the youngsters that old time political crooks didn’t need to call themselves community organizers or bolster their credentials with fake teaching gigs. All they needed was a barstool and a great deal of nerve.
Biden has ushered in that new world, and yet he has no apprehension of it. Joseph Robinette Biden imagines that the future still belongs to him and that he can keep hold of it so long as the hair plugs keep hold of his skull. And while he may be an object of fun back at the White House, his boss should carefully consider his fate as an object lesson.
The only thing really separating Obama from Biden is a generational shift and the shift is driven by the political agenda of the left. It is not too difficult, although quite horrifying, to imagine an America in the year 2037 where Barack Hussein is as much of an anachronism as Crazy Joe. The Democratic Party has reinvented itself numerous times and the stresses that it imposes on the country come out of the left’s program.
The smirking fake working class pol was not the endpoint of the Democratic Party, though in his own time the creature seemed every bit as radical as a man with Muslim roots in the White House. There is no reason to think that Barack with his Third Culture image and his fake veneer of culture is going to be the endpoint either. If the left has taught us anything, it is that its narrative of cultural destruction is always able to conceive of more and more horrifying worlds than anything we might behold today.
Obama has already gotten his, and so has Biden, though the corrupt Senator still fantasizes about a White House he cannot have. The difference between political ambition and political success is often timing and luck. As a child, Obama used to tell his classmates that he was an Indonesian prince. That position wasn’t open to him, but he lucked into a political career that coincided with a wave of Muslim terrorism and an accompanying wave of appeasement by his party.
Had that not happened, it’s quite possible that Obama’s exotic bio would have meant nothing and he would be sitting in the Illinois Senate watching Cory Booker making his acceptance speech in the race to unseat President McCain. And conversely, had the Democratic Party not swung so far to the left and stayed focused on the American working class instead of an artificially imported diversity overseen by a college educated upper class. Had it embraced tariffs and protected American manufacturing, then the country might be a very different place and President Joe Biden might be inveighing against Republican elitism while boasting of showing Chinese products the door.
But these worlds are not places that narcissists like Obama or Biden, who believe in their own specialness, rather than the random chance of world events and the influence of ideological movements, can visit or appreciate.
Obama and Biden see themselves as men of destiny, when they’re actually front men for a massive scam that has been going on long before their grandparents got out of diapers. The scam has evolved and become more sophisticated, and that growing sophistication is why Biden is only useful to the scam as a scarecrow shouting at Ryan about anything and everything, while Obama is useful as the healer who will reassure the country of its new moral stature.
But though they play different roles, that does not make them different men. It is the accidents and plans of the machine that made them fit only for these different roles, that left Biden no choice but to play the loud buffoon, while Barack got the star part of the new JFK.
Barry and Joe are the same man because the machine they serve is the same machine and though they imagine that they rule the machine, it is the machine that chose them, it is the machine that uses them and it is the machine that will throw them away when it is done.
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Category:History of literature in the United Kingdom
This category contains general survey articles on broad periods of English language literature in the United Kingdom and on the history of other literatures of the United Kingdom. There are separate categories for literary movements and other more detailed topics.
This category has only the following subcategory.
- ► British literary awards (2 C, 20 P)
Pages in category "History of literature in the United Kingdom"
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A Day in the Life of a Graphic Designer
Graphic designers generate the visual presentation and design of goods, including websites,
detergent boxes, album covers, and dog food cans. Their work is usually done on a project
basis. Designers must be able to work under extreme time constraints and very defined
financial and design limits to produce quality material. A graphic designer must be able to
synthesize feedback from a number of different sources into a distinctive image; use research
prepared by a marketing department and cost specifications determined by a budgeting
department; and produce a variety of sketches and models that demonstrate different
approaches to the product. This takes a person who
can listen to comments and has a good eye for aesthetic
design, a flair for color, and a solid understanding of
the needs of the corporate world.
“Graphic design isn’t one job. It’s 20,” wrote one overworked designer. “Sales[person]
skills are very important if you want to see your designs accepted,” wrote another. Nearly all
respondents listed communication skills as either second or third in importance for success
in this profession. Over time, choosing a specialty is the name of the game, either in website
design, product or packaging design, material use, or object arrangement.
When projects are under way, graphic designers can expect to work long hours brainstorming
and meeting with executives to discuss ideas. The job is highly visible; successes
and failures alike are recognized and are put on display. Individuals who are insecure about
their skills or their ideas have a hard time accepting the amount of risk and rejection this
career entails. A successful graphic designer has an enviable life, choosing clients and earning
significant amounts of money. However, be warned: An artist’s style may be very hot one
season and turn into a parody the next. People who are unwilling or unable to change could
find promising careers declining. Of the nearly 25,000 people who try to enter the field of
graphic design each year, only about 60 percent last the first two years, and about 30 percent
remain in the field at five years.
Paying Your Dues
The majority of graphic designers have a four-year degree, usually in product design, art,
or art history. Graphic designers must have talent and an understanding of the business
world, including issues of finance and production, and should be familiar with computer
software such as InDesign, Quark XPress, Photoshop, Adobe Illustrator, and other painting
and graphic design tools. Graphic designers must be able to work in a variety of media and
meet deadlines, sizing limits, and financial restrictions, especially those designers who wish
to work as freelance graphic designers rather than in-house salaried designers. Basic pre-professional
coursework should include design, drawing, computer artwork, and specific knowledge
(for example, anatomy for medical graphics designers) relating to any area of specialization.
Professionals must assemble a working portfolio to approach companies for work of
any scale. For individuals who wish to pursue further study, more than 100 schools offer
accredited graphic design programs, according to the National Association of Schools of Art
and Design, and each addresses issues of the working life of the graphic designer along with
issues of design.
Present and Future
Graphic design has been around since shopkeepers started hanging signs to advertise
their wares. In the 1700s, artisans were approached by merchants eager to make their goods
and services recognizable to a largely illiterate population.
Graphic design will become even more significant as computer technology becomes
increasingly available and as more companies realize that a definitive, distinctive logo and
product design can make an enormous difference in product sales. Job opportunities should
increase during the next few years with even more openings seasonally for such projects as
holiday window displays and specialty sales events. Currently, more than a third of all graphic
designers are self-employed. This figure is expected to increase in the coming years.
Quality of Life
PRESENT AND FUTURE
Unproven graphic designers negotiate a difficult road as they try to assemble portfolios,
bid competitively for small jobs, and build their reputations. Those designers
with good connections have an easier time getting a foot in the door, but unfamiliarity
with standard working conditions and standard practices still may make the beginning
rocky. The hours can be long and unrewarding; be prepared to withstand significant rejection.
Forty percent of all graphic designers leave the profession in the first two years.
FIVE YEARS OUT
The field evens out at the five-year mark; only individuals with proven records, solid
connections, and strong references survive. Around a third of those designers who
began in this career stay in it to this point, and around 10 percent remain independent
freelance graphic designers. The majority of graphic designers become in-house consultants,
designers, and producers. For the most part, designers are satisfied with their work,
although the hours are long and salaries are average. Those who have shown good judgment
sometimes choose other graphic designers to produce out-of-house work or recommend
other designers for hire.
TEN YEARS OUT
Ten-year veterans have established sound (and profitable) reputations; their designs
remain fresh, and they should be able to find a number of fairly lucrative in-house
graphic design positions. Many of them spend more time supervising design
departments or “stables” of newer, less expensive designers. People who’ve started their own
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People who are addicted to drugs tend to choose instant gratification without thinking of long-term costs. As part of Brain Awareness Week, the radio program With Good Reason will rebroadcast "Willpower and Addiction," with Warren Bickel, director of the Addiction Recovery Research Center of the Virginia Tech Carilion Research Institute. Dr. Bickel is looking at ways to curb addiction by increasing the value of future rewards in the minds of addicts.
Also part of the broadcast: Call it java, brew, mud, or just coffee. Many people can’t conceive of starting their day without their dose of caffeine. Lisa Pawloski of George Mason University is a part of team of researchers who say coffee may reduce the risk of liver disease. Also featured: Some of us are more apt to succumb to a calorie-rich Frappuccino over a simple cup of coffee. But Niels Christiensen of Radford University says there are ways to avoid unhealthy decisions and strengthen your willpower.
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Six members of the Syracuse community discuss energy as it is understood in the fields of psychology, graphic arts, biology, architecture, physics, and literature. Professor Weissman provides an overview.
Fisher, Seymour; Garcia, Mario R.; Levy, H. Richard; Seligmann, Werner; Wali, Kameshwar C.; and Weissman, Judith
"Images of Energy,"
Syracuse Scholar (1979-1991):
2, Article 12.
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There are different forms of pollution, such as water, air, soil, manufacturing, agriculture, etc. but, apart from this biological pollution, a new type of pollution “radioactive pollution” has now arisen. The by-products of nuclear power generation and other uses of nuclear technology are commonly radioactive waste. The increase in the levels of natural radiation caused by human activities is known as radioactive pollution. It is estimated that human activities account for about 20 percent of the radiation we are exposed to. Human activities that are capable of releasing radiation include activities involving radioactive materials, such as the extraction, handling, and processing of radioactive materials, the handling and storage of radioactive waste, as well as the use of radioactive energy reactions (nuclear power plants), and the use of radiation in medicine (e.g. X-rays) and research.
Radioactive pollution happens when there is a presence or statements of radioactive materials in the climate or climate, particularly where their essence is inadvertent and when it presents a natural danger because of radioactive decay. Emissions of harmful ionizing radiation (radioactive decay) such as beta or alpha particles, gamma rays, or neurons in the atmosphere where they reside are responsible for the damage caused by radioactive materials. Radioactive pollution, otherwise called radiological contamination is the presence of radiological substances on solids, fluids, or gases. This sort of contamination is perilous as it is equipped for having long haul risky impacts on mankind like that of leukemia.
Sources of environmental radiation are both natural and manmade.
- Natural Radiation: This involves gamma rays from space touching the surface of the earth and terrestrial radiation from radioactive elements found in the crust of the earth. In rocks, soil, and water, many radioactive elements, such as radium 224, uranium 235, uranium 238, thorium 232, radon 222, potassium 40, and carbon 14, are present.
- Man-made Radiation: This incorporates mining and refining of plutonium and thorium creation and blast of atomic weapons, atomic force plants, atomic energizes, and preparation of radioactive isotopes. Nuclear weapons development includes the testing of nuclear weaponry. These experiments generate vast amounts of radioactive elements into the atmosphere and can make other products radioactive. Strontium 90, cesium 137, iodine 131, and several others are included.
Radiation is basically energy that movements and spreads out as it goes; this is alluded to as electromagnetic radiation. The radioactive materials are changed into gases and fine particles which are conveyed to far-off spots by the wind. At the point when the downpour drops, the radioactive particles fall on the ground, it is called atomic aftermath. Radioactive substances are taken from the soil by plants, so they enter humans and animals through food chains. Iodine 131 can cause lung tumors and damage white blood corpuscles, bone marrow, spleen, lymph nodes, skin cancer, sterility, and faulty eyesight. Strontium 90 accumulates in the bones and, in most animals and humans, can cause bone cancer and tissue degeneration.
In the postmodern world, different types of energy are being found. Among them is atomic energy, which is promoted to be the most intense wellspring of energy because of its high idle force. Reports show that the high inert force is because of its significant level of radiation. However, in some cases and countries, nuclear power plant accidents such as the nuclear disaster of Fukushima Daiichi (2011), the disaster of Chernobyl (1986), and the accident of Three Mile Island (1979) left many dead and many more affected by the released radiation. The radioactive materials are washed from land to water bodies where the oceanic creatures assimilate them. From these creatures, radioactive materials may arrive at man through evolved ways of life.
For the development of detectors and in other manufacturing operations, radioisotopes are used. Isotopes like uranium have high radiation concentrations in them. On the other hand, common isotopes such as radioactive material containing carbon can be easily discovered via sewage lines in waterways. People additionally intentionally get radiation from demonstrative X-beams and radiation treatment for the disease. Individuals working in force plants, atomic reactors, fuel processors, or living close by are powerless against radiation openness. Therefore, the sense of radiation exposure is that while there are pervasive sources of radiation, radiation pollution is mainly caused by high-energy radiation, which carries significant health risks (such as cancer or death).
Mining primarily includes the mineral ores being excavated, which are then divided into smaller, manageable parts. Radium and uranium, for example, are naturally occurring and similarly radioactive in the environment. Owing to their dangerous effects, radioactive elements with a short and very brief half-time pose a significant threat to human health. A large portion of the radioactive materials have half-existences of countless years and, once produced, may persevere in the climate for an exceptionally significant time-frame.
The effects of radiation were first reported in 1909 when uranium miners were found to suffer from skin burns and cancer due to radioactive mineral radiation. Different species are susceptible to ionizing radiation in various ways. It has likewise been accounted for that high height plants have created polyploidy as a defensive instrument against radiations. Numerous radioactive components (materials) are normally present in the climate. They are mainly used in nuclear power plants and as fundamental elements of nuclear weapons.
The radioactive squanders are of three class’s significant level, low level, and transuranic. They principally include the removal from atomic weapons, the cleaning materials from atomic plants, army bases, discharged from plutonium handling, and different radioisotopes from emergency clinics and research centers. Nuclear waste handling and disposal can generate low to medium radiation over a long period of time. Not only are their impacts difficult to predict, but they may not be easily distinguishable because radioactivity can also contaminate and spread through the air, water, and soil.
By increasing leukemia, skin cancer, and causing mutations, nuclear exposure influences the biological environment. Higher levels can cause instant death as well. Generations are passed on to the mutant cells, and the impacts are obvious. There are immediate or short-range and delayed or long-range effects of radiation.
- Short Range (Immediate) Effects: After exposure, they occur within days or a couple of weeks. The symptoms involved hair loss, nails, subcutaneous bleeding, changes in blood cell count and proportion, altered metabolism, blood cell proportion, etc.
- Long Range (Delayed) Effects: Several months or even years after exposure, they emerge. The symptoms are caused by genetic modifications, mutations, life-span shortening, tumour development, cancers, etc. In the human race, the influence of mutations will continue.
The plants are additionally presented to radiation, and the harm is generally done because of the expanded Ultraviolet waves. Various plants get influenced in an unexpected way. The force plants, which are the wellsprings of atomic energy and synthetic preparing, have been delivering radioisotopes into the water for quite a long time. Cesium, Radon, Crypton, Ruthenium, Zinc, and Copper are not many of them.
The following preventive measures should be followed to control radioactive pollution:
- It is important to fully stop the leakage of radioactive materials from the nuclear reactors, industries, and laboratories which use them.
- The disposal of nuclear waste must be safe. They should be modified or preserved in safe places in a harmless way so that they can decay in a harmless manner. Radioactive waste can only be dumped into the sewerage with very low radiation.
- Preventive steps should be taken so as not to increase the amount of natural radiation above the allowable levels.
- Protection steps against incidents at nuclear power plants should be taken.
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How “Khorasan” Went From Nowhere To The Biggest Threat To The U.S.
Sept. 23, 2014, at 11:38 a.m.
Rosie Gray BuzzFeed Staff
The guided-missile cruiser USS Philippine Sea (CG 58) launches a Tomahawk cruise missile, as seen from the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), in the Arabian Gulf. Handout / Reuters
(The US informed Iran of the bombing of ISIS positions in advance. I wonder if they were also told about the little side trip to Korasan land?-LS)
WASHINGTON — An Al-Qaeda-connected group that the Obama administration has targeted with airstrikes alongside ISIS was almost totally unknown to the American public until the U.S. started bombing them, though sources say the group has been known to the administration and to Congress for some time.
The U.S. claims that Khorasan, an Al-Qaeda-linked terrorist group said to be led by an operative named Muhsin al-Fadhli, was a direct threat…
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A Zambian student living in Maine has won the right to compete in a national poetry competition. The federal-government-funded contest had barred him from the final round because its rules require contestants to be legal residents or citizens.
Federal Judge John Woodcock, of the U.S. District Court in Portland, ruled Friday that Allan Monga can compete in this week’s national Poetry Out Loud competition in Washington, D.C., according to a report by the Associated Press. The competition, April 24-25, will be webcast live.
Monga, a 17-year-old junior at Deering High School in Portland, left his native Zambia last year to seek asylum in the United States. Monga won Maine’s Poetry Out Loud competition, even though the rules of the National Endowment for the Arts, which sponsors the program, require contestants in the state and national rounds to be citizens or permanent residents.
The federal agency said valid social security or tax identification numbers are needed to receive the prize money attached to the final rounds of competition. Maine Public Radio reported that Monga has a social security number, but doesn’t yet have a green card.
When the National Endowment for the Arts barred Monga from competing in the national finals in Washington, D.C., he and the Portland school district filed a lawsuit arguing the agency was denying him guarantees to equal education outlined in the U.S. Constitution and the Civil Rights Act. Judge Woodcock ruled in his favor late Friday afternoon.
Portland Public Schools Superintendent Xavier Botana said the school community is “ecstatic” that Monga will be able to participate in the national contest, according to the AP.
Unlike “slam” poetry contests, where students perform original compositions, Poetry Out Loud requires students to memorize and perform work by other poets. Students compete to win their school titles, then proceed to regional and state competitions. State champions participate in the finals in Washington. (Education Week profiled Poetry Out Loud at one school earlier this year.)
At a hearing last Wednesday, Judge Woodcock asked an NEA attorney to explain why it’s “in the national interest” to bar “someone like Mr. Monga” from participating in the national finals.
“It’s in the national interest to give the limited resources of the country to permanent legal residents and U.S. citizens,” Assistant Attorney General Rachael Westmoreland told the judge, according to the Bangor Daily News. She also said the rules were based on qualifications Congress set for winners of the National Medal for the Arts, the newspaper reported.
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Where's the good in goodness?
The world as it is today needs a few cultural changes in certain countries like our own Jamaica. There is a lack of regard for law and order and there is an unending drive to do corrupt acts in our midst. This leaves me to ask, where is the good in goodness?
How can we create a better world with people who are willing to exercise the type of prerequisites which will enhance our status to be regarded as good ambassadors? Though some police personnel are corrupt, I assume the majority are hard-working Jamaicans who work in accordance with the laws which govern the land.
Recently Jamaicans signalled a clear mandate and acceptance of the ideology of the PNP in the general and local government elections. In so doing we must now have an appetite to work in one resolve to solve the problems of our country and move on to make our country a prosperous one.
We must realise that we cannot be too cynical about life and we have to make a strong statement to secure the requisite dream of our people.
I spoke with Corporal T Guthrie from the Greater Portmore Police Station some days ago and it was a joy to hear what he had to say. We need more people of the character of Corporal Guthrie who could be a trump card for trust in officers to be restored.
Corporal Guthrie spoke freely on many issues which require stamping out the things creating a poor image for many in the force. She spoke of seeing some semblance of hope among our colleagues. Life can be good for us all if we lessen the corruption by playing our most crucial part in the rejuvenation of law and order within our society.
The hard-working Commissioner Owen Ellington envisions a death rate of 12 in every 100,000 per annum in the not too distant future. This would be a welcome dream to all Jamaicans.
I told my siblings not to come back to Jamaica in spite of the fact that I would love them to be back with me after 30 years, but death before dishonour. To honour my request could result in death. Many criminals prey on returning residents like ticks and kill them like dogs. I don't want that for my siblings. Let us work together for the future of this country.
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The 2014 Ebola epidemic is the largest in history, affecting multiple countries in West Africa. Two imported cases, including one death, and two locally acquired cases in healthcare workers have been reported in the United States. CDC and partners are taking precautions to prevent additional cases of Ebola in the United States.
Ebola is highly infectious but it is not airborne. It is contracted only via direct contact (through broken skin or mucous membranes) with the blood, secretions, organs or other bodily fluids of infected humans or animals. Most infections are the result of human-to-human transmission including the handling of infected corpses, but it is also contracted through the preparation and eating of bush meat such as fruit bats, which host the disease.
Concern has been working in the two countries hardest hit by the latest outbreak – Sierra Leone and Liberia – for many years. Already on the ground, Concern was one of the first NGOs to respond to the crisis, immediately diverting existing resources to help fight the spread of the disease. While Ebola has no proven cure or vaccine, it is preventable. Prevention requires both education and supplies.
Directly and indirectly, tourism accounts for almost 10% of sub-Saharan Africa’s GDP and pays the salaries of millions of people. The industry is worth about $170 billion a year. In 2013 more than 36m people visited Africa, a figure that had been growing by 6% per year. Now many safari lodges are closer to extinction than the animals that surround them. Redundant workers might eventually turn to poaching. | <urn:uuid:2ea5507c-5709-48a3-9712-3f5116dc160e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://tackk.com/n53era | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00128-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957928 | 316 | 3.6875 | 4 |
There are increasing concerns retirees are not making informed decisions when choosing drawdown funds and could have high exposure to sequence risk, writes Stephanie Baxter.
Savers in defined contribution (DC) schemes will benefit from Brexit if their investments are truly diversified, says SEI's Ashish Kapur.
More than 60% of trust-based schemes do not provide access to a flexible drawdown facility, suggesting a slow response to the April freedoms, according to Willis Towers Watson.
There is considerable uncertainty over how the new DC governance rules fit in with the existing framework, finds Stephanie Baxter
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Editor's Note: Get the Facts Yourself, RedmondMar 17, 2006, 23:30 (25 Talkback[s])
(Other stories by Brian Proffitt)
By Brian Proffitt
I went to Vincennes University on Tuesday to give a talk about the technological and business structure of Linux and open source software. There were about 70 students in the audience, and I think the talk went well. (At least no one passed out from sheer boredom.)
It was a mix of business and computer students, with the computer students comprising of about one part programmers and three parts system and network admins. Interestingly, during the Q&A session, it was the alpha male of the programmer gang who seemed to have the most trouble believing that Linux was a viable desktop solution, asking me if I really believed it was more stable than Windows.
I responded that in all my years of using computers, I'd only seen two full-blown system crashes on Linux, and countless blue screens of death on Windows machines. He indicated that the opposite was true--he'd seen plenty of kernel panics and only a few BSODs. This was one of those discussions best taken off-line, since the rest of the audience was getting quickly bored with the technical back and forth. Unfortunately, the kid left before I could ask him just how the heck he got so many panics--though I suspect it was due to his work as a programmer.
Clearly, though, the concept of open source had not impressed him or, it appeared, his cadre. Vincennes University as a whole, however, is very much embracing open source, having implemented it in quite a few IT courses with more plans on the way. Very exciting stuff.
After getting back to the home office, I found an anonymous note in the contrib queue of Linux Today (the page where I see all of the story recommendations sent in via the site). It was titled "Fake Microsoft Story?" and pointed to a URL on Microsoft Malaysia's Web site. I read it, and what was a good day became that much better.
Though you wouldn't think of it when you read the article's title: "Jukebox Eliminates Inefficiencies by dropping OpenOffice For Microsoft Office," this article contains some gross inaccuracies that reflect poorly on either the vendor, the customer, or both. The article is a case study about Malaysian retail shoe company Harian Shoes Sdn Bhd, which is known for its Jukebox chain of stores in that Asian nation.
Apparently, according to the study, Harian switched over to OpenOffice.org a while back and found that they didn't like it: "However, [Harian] got less than it bargained for when it discovered the application had certain weaknesses such as the unreliable conversion of documents to Microsoft Office format. In addition, the company's IT users spurned OpenOffice [sic], preferring to use Microsoft Office which was installed on some of the company's PCs."
Now, right away, you have to wonder: "unreliable conversion of documents"? What's that about? I remember a time when documents saved as .doc or .xls in OpenOffice.org were slightly off in formatting (usually on documents that were heavily formatted to begin with), but that old bugaboo hasn't been trotted out in quite some time. But, even if you buy into this problem, there are some serious contradictions in this story, most of them surrounding the issue of timing.
You see, according to the Harian employee interviewed for the study, Marketing Manager Anson Leow, Harian migrated to OpenOffice.org in the "late 1990's."
Hello? Late 1990s? That would be a neat trick, considering OpenOffice.org didn't even exist back then.
OpenOffice.org, the open source offspring of Sun Microsystem's StarOffice, was not released to the general public until October 13, 2000. (It was announced on July 19, 2000.) In the late 1990s, only StarOffice was available.
While a few year's difference may not seem like much, it pokes a huge hole in the veracity of this case study. Because either the case study is misrepresenting the time factor, the products involved, the problems with the non-MS Office products, or some combination of all of these.
Here are a few ideas about what I think really could have happened:
Scenario #1: Harian adopted StarOffice in the late 1990s, not OpenOffice.org. This seems plausible because StarOffice did had more problems with handling the Office formats back then. Sun had just acquired the technology from Star Division and wasn't putting a huge coding effort into it, other than making everything in the application purple.
But then why not say this was StarOffice in the first place? Well, for one, it blows any chance for the case study to use the "no vendor support" line of FUD. If Harian were using StarOffice, and claimed they couldn't get help, then everyone would ask "what about Sun?" Plus, and I think this very likely, why point fingers at new business buddy Sun when you can just what a poor, "defenseless" open source community?
Scenario #2: Harian adopted StarOffice in the late 1990s, then OpenOffice.org when it became available. That still accounts for the alleged format problems, and the discrepancy of the products' timelines. Still, if that were the case, then Harian's IT staff was so not on the ball. If they were really having trouble with StarOffice, why in the world would they re-deploy OpenOffice.org? Perhaps the problems weren't so bad after all?
Scenario #3: Harian adopted OpenOffice.org, but later than the "late 1990s." This makes a bit of sense, since one of the chief advantages cited for their initial switch was the fact that OpenOffice.org was free--something StarOffice wasn't for commercial deployments. But then, why the wrong date? You could argue a simple misrememberance, but this glaringly wrong fact makes the other facts in the case study that much more suspect. Though if you look at it, you will see a strong absence of facts regarding their reverse migration to Office.
For example, how much did Harian's move back to Office cost? Leow's only comment on this described a "small initial investment." Given that Office retails for around $300-$400 (depending on how you get it) and Harian has 31 stores and who-knows-how many desktops in their company, I question the use of the term "small."
Unless, of course, you count the big price break Harian probably got for participating in this case study.
Another question I have is, regardless of when Harian started using OpenOffice.org, the case study is quite explicit on the fact that they migrated back to Office in 2005. Even if they started with OpenOffice.org in 2000, that's five years of "suffering" with an office suite. I'm sorry, but if an application that was a major part of my business' productivity model was giving me that kind of difficulty, I'm sure I would not wait five years to make a switch back to what I was using. In fact, if Harian had tested OpenOffice.org on a trial basis and really, truly discovered these conversion problems, why the heck would they deploy company wide?
Finally, how accurately portrayed were these problems? Leow states: "Unlike Microsoft Excel, OpenOffice [sic] didn't have full functionalities for pivot tables, standard deviation, indexing and hyperlink functionalities." Really?
OpenOffice.org has had pivot table functionality since 1.1.2 (it's called data pilot), and I know you can do standard deviations. I know there's an INDEX function in Calc and, by golly, there seems to be an Insert|Hyperlink menu command in my version of Calc 2.0.2.
In the interests of fairness, I tried to contact Leow via e-mail, and posed these questions to him. As of press time, he has not replied.
This article is another jab at Microsoft's open source competition, one that is replete with misrepresentations and factual errors. IT customers should take away this article as a reminder of just how far Microsoft will go to hold on to their market share.
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Everblooming is part of the Iris genus and is a Bearded iris variety. Its scientific name is Iris germanica 'Everblooming'. Everblooming is a variety of hybrid Bearded iris .
Glowing white blooms in spring and again in fall. 18-24" tall with a 15-18" spread. Rebloomer.
This variety is a Flower
that typically grows as an Perennial
, which is defined as a plant that matures and completes its lifecycle over the course of three years or more. Normally grows to a mature height of 86.0 cm
Everblooming Bearded iris is normally quite a low maintenance plant and is normally very easy to grow - great for beginner gardeners!
This variety plant info is provided by the myfolia gardener's wiki. All details about Everblooming have been kindly provided by our members.
How to grow Everblooming
Try to plant in a location that enjoys full sun and remember to water moderately. Keep in mind when planting that Everblooming is thought of as very hardy, so this plant will survive though longer winters with little or no damage. The USDA Hardiness Zones typically associated with Everblooming are Zone 3 and Zone 9. Everblooming tends to grow best in a soil ph of between 6.1 and 7.8 meaning it does best in weakly acidic soil - weakly alkaline soil.
Growing Everblooming from seed
Look to ensure a distance 1.19 inches (3.05 cm) between seeds when sowing - bury at a depth of at least 0.99 inches (2.55 cm) deep.
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On Monday evening, May 10, Rabbi YY Jacobson shared an inspiring shiur on behalf of Chazaq about Shavuos. He noted that 3,300 years after the giving of the Torah, we can still hear the echoes of Sinai. “Shavuos is the holiday that allows us to focus on what it means to be a Jew, the people of the book, the people of eternity.” He taught that our nation is a nation because of the Torah. He added that he salutes Chazaq for sharing so much Torah and teaching so many of all ages what it means to be a Jew. He offered a brachah to Chazaq to be strong – and stronger – to go from strength to strength to bring the vitality and depth of Yiddishkeit to all Jews.
Chazaq and TorahAnytime both do sacred work. He thanked both organizations for spreading so much Torah. He offered a brachah to Chazak.
He then taught that we are one people, united by one Torah for eternity. If one Jew was missing at Sinai, Hashem would not have given the Torah. “Every Jew has an indispensable role in the cosmic symphony.” Just as if there is one letter missing in a Torah scroll, the whole Torah is disqualified, because the Torah is a completely unified entity. That’s why every letter is essential. “Torah is indivisible and that is the way to look at the Jewish people. We are indivisible.”
All Jews come together on Shavuos to hear the Ten Commandments read in shul. It’s like Hashem is re-giving us the Torah. We should all try to do this. Rabbi Yishmael taught that there are 26 generations that existed before the Torah was given. G-d wanted to protect the path that takes you to true life. The path of ethical behavior leads you to Torah. A mishnah in Pirkei Avos states if there is no derech eretz, there is no Torah; and if there is no Torah, there is no derech eretz. Thus, derech eretz precedes Torah.
There is a powerful emphasis in Yiddishkeit on derech eretz.
The way you deal with people anywhere – at home, at work, in public places, etc. – is derech eretz.
The great sage Hillel taught: Don’t do something to someone that is not something you would want done to you. The essence of Torah is to be a kind, empathetic person. Learning Torah should bring me to powerful values and to being sensitive to other people’s feelings. “It makes me become more expansive and helps me see the G-dliness and spirituality in every person. Torah is the blueprint to help me deal with my issues.”
Rabbi Akiva taught that we should love our neighbor as ourselves. Torah compares a person to a tree. A person should not focus on how beautiful and great he is, as this develops selfishness and is not what Hashem wants. Rather, the essence of the soul is that it is part of the infinite. Arrogance is the worst thing, as it makes a person become obsessed with self-consciousness. Of course, it’s important to have an awareness of your strengths, realizing they are gifts from Hashem. At the same time, it’s important not to become haughty or vain. The impact of learning Torah should be decency, mentchlichkeit, and humility.
Next, Rabbi Jacobson shared a story about Rav Moshe Feinstein zt”l. A rabbi recalled that when he was a yeshivah student learning in Israel, he had a sh’eilah and decided to call Rav Moshe. Rav Moshe answered, sounding a bit tired, and then the student realized that he’d forgotten about the time difference and he’d called Rav Moshe Feinstein in New York in the middle of the night. Rav Moshe just said, “Hold on a minute,” and then he came back to the phone and answered the sh’eilah. Rav Moshe asked for his address and then, surprisingly, a few weeks later, this student received a check in the mail from Rav Moshe Feinstein. Rav Moshe explained that he knew it was expensive to call long distance, and that he’d made him wait before answering the sh’eilah.
Here, he was awakened in the middle of the night, and yet he answered with complete serenity, and even sent a check thinking the student had to pay a lot for the call.
Torah makes you sensitive to the perspective of the Divine. Rabbi Jacobson taught that the essence of Torah is to treat others with respect. “If you love Hashem, then you love His children.”
This beautiful shiur can be viewed on www.TorahAnytime.com.
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Part 2: Randall Jarrell
Randall Jarrell’s poetry and criticism have lately experienced individual resurgences. Even his children’s books, with illustrations by Maurice Sendak, have proven very popular. He is one of a small handful of deservedly enduring authors from the golden age of mid-century American letters, the “Age of Criticism,” one of the men who fought in the Second World War, attended university on the GI Bill, and decided to face European traditions on their own terms. He was a very American writer. He loved his sports cars, his cats, and Hollywood; he wrote some of the best war poems of the century, though he never fired a shot himself; his late career recollections of childhood resemble William Wordsworth’s in their nuance and William Blake’s in their immediate simplicity and subtle complexity.
Photographs tell us a great deal about his world. They nearly all show him in domestic situations. Far from the pearled glamor of Anne Sexton or exotic poses of Allen Ginsberg in a white cloak feeding monkeys in India, one finds Jarrell holding the fluffy family cat, wearing gray flannel suits, seated at grassy curbside polishing the hubcaps of his Mercedes-Benz, poised on chair’s arm with Alastair Reid and Robert Graves, in conversation with Robert Lowell at the Arts Forum. If he blazed, it was on paper. He was not, however, an example of the “uptight, plastic fantastic, Madison Avenue” type made famous by the 1956 film Man in the Gray Flannel Suit. He tenderly hosted a ragged Jack Kerouac at his home, escorted Jack (six-pack slung from his thumb day and night) to the Washington Zoo, though Mrs. Jarrell had the sense to conceal their remaining liquor bottles. Author of Poetry and the Age, one of the great books of literary criticism in the past century, Jarrell remained an independent and sometimes brutal critical voice (he said of one book that it seemed to have “been written on a typewriter by a typewriter”), and he took his punches in return (though, as it turns out, he may have had a glass jaw).
Like so many of his generation of American writers, and the generation that trailed them, he suffered nervous exhaustion and attempted suicide. A severe review of one book-commingled with terrible anxiety and the mental strain of a second divorce-led him to slash his wrists open. Robert Lowell, a friend, wrote to comfort and fortify him: “Your courage, brilliance and generosity should have saved you from this.” In the autumn of 1965, while in a Chapel Hill hospital for therapy on his torn wrists, he went for the last walk of his life; he was struck by a car on the edge of a highway and died instantly. This may or may not have been suicide, and the matter is still debated by his devotees. Lowell described Jarrell as “the most heart breaking poet of our time.” It seems that most of the time it was Jarrell’s own heart that was breaking. Like many poets, prized for his delicate observation and aesthetic sense, he was quite fragile when it came to daily life.
The recordings begin with poems written on the subject of the Second World War. Jarrell enlisted in the Army Air Force in 1942 and tried his hand at being a pilot; though he failed to earn his wings, he became a celestial navigation training operator for B-29 pilots. His detailed knowledge of bombers and their pilots proved a serviceable runway for two of his best-known and most harrowing poems, ‘Eighth Air Force’ and ‘Death of a Ball Turret Gunner’. These “war” recordings, delivered in Detroit in 1962, include the rather abstract observations of ‘The Lines’, the sad humor of ‘Gunner’, and the eerily calm ‘A Ward in the States’. As with many recordings, they point up revisions, made on either page or tongue, such as the replacement of the line “All my wars over? . . . It was easy as that!” with the more forceful “All my wars over? . . . How easy it was to die” in ‘Gunner’. ‘A Ward in the States’ immediately calls to mind Wilfred Owen’s description of shell-shocked soldiers from the First World War in ‘Mental Cases’, those “whose minds the Dead have ravished.” Jarrell’s ward is less freighted than Owen’s with deathly cargo, but it is no less gripping. The images are of peace and recovery, yet the ward in which disoriented soldiers rest is “barred with moonlight.”
‘Death of a Ball Turret Gunner’, the poem most familiar to readers of anthologies, is couched in considerable explanation. Given the compression of the poem itself (five lines long), Jarrell’s extempore commentary dwarfs it. Likewise, his grounding for ‘Eighth Air Force’ is extensive. In both cases, the background is welcome. Most readers would not have known, for instance, that the ball turret gunner on an American bomber was often positioned like a fetus in the womb or that at high altitude blood would instantly freeze to the fur-lined jacket. These facts are necessary for complete comprehension of the poem:
From my mother’s sleep I fell into the State,
And I hunched in its belly till my wet fur froze.
Six miles from earth, loosed from its dream of life,
I woke to the black flak and the nightmare fighters.
When I died they washed me out of the turret with a hose.
He doesn’t give too much away, though. The Pilate/pilot dichotomy of ‘Eighth Air Force’ is alluded to simply by way of crediting the Gospels for many of the lines in the second two stanzas of that poem.
An unavoidable characteristic of his natural speaking voice is that Jarrell often sounds as though he is about to weep. This would be an effectual quality if it did not soak every poem. There are other distractions that both add to and detract from the interest of these recordings. In the otherwise “clean” recording of ‘The Truth’, read at Princeton in 1951, an air raid or fire siren goes up midway through the poem and holds its enervating pitch for much of the poem. The trinity of poems written from the perspective of an aging woman, ‘The Face’, ‘Next Day’, and ‘The Woman at the Washington Zoo’, are quite moving given the minor quaver of his voice. The final line of ‘The Face’, “It is terrible to be alive,” is the sort of line that it best to hear Jarrell himself deliver. The last stanza of ‘Next Day’ strikes a commanding chord, at least for the middle class in America:
How young I seem; I am exceptional;
I think of all I have.
But really no one is exceptional,
No one has anything, I’m anybody,
I stand beside my grave
Confused with my life, that is commonplace and solitary.
Jarrell’s consideration of Donatello’s David-a lithe giant-killer poised with foot on the head of Goliath, certainly not the imposingly large and docile David of Michelangelo-is loving in its detailed litany; such a light but erotic treatment brings continued definition to the statue upon which it reflects. The poem seems an act of devotion, particularly its surprising close:
Blessed are those brought low,
Blessed is defeat, sleep blessed, blessed death.
The remainder of the recordings, with the exception of the excellent poem ‘The Player Piano’, is taken up with the three-part long poem ‘The Lost World’, which derives its name from the story of that title by Arthur Conan Doyle and the subsequent 1925 film directed by Harry O. Hoyt. By way of an introduction to his own “Lost World,” Jarrell describes his boyhood journey to school on a double-decker bus, which would take him past the Hollywood studio from whose gates papier-mâché dinosaurs peered menacingly. Much as Doyle’s fantastic notion of a valley untouched by millions of years of evolution is very pleasing in its way (the clumsy use of that title by the Jurassic Park franchise makes no sense, if one thinks about it at all), Jarrell’s notion of a boyhood that remains intact though lost somewhere in time is very gratifying and, in the hands of the adult poet, irresistible.
Certainly Marcel Proust understood that although time cannot be regained, memories may recreate sensations of the past; Wordsworth likewise understood that objects and places fade in the light of age but that with age we are rewarded with wisdom and insight. Jarrell reads ‘The Lost World’, written in conversational rhymed iambic pentameter, with agonizing slowness, and it should be recalled that after the book’s publication he gradually lost control of his life. The little boy surrounded by toy planes and stories of mad scientists has gone. As John Berryman answers his own question in ‘The Ball Poem’, “I am not a little boy.” The adult knows that madmen can destroy the world. He knows now that those toy planes were replicas of machines used to demolish cities. The world has become a murderous place for the grown man, who has attained experience and knowledge, and it is not to be redeemed in reminiscence. This is the world we all inherit:
Mended almost, I tell him about the scientist. I say,
“He couldn’t really, could he, Pop?” My comforter’s
Eyes light up, and he laughs. “No, that’s just play,
Just make-believe,” he says. The sky is gray,
We sit there, at the end of our good day.
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We all know that dieting can be hard. But I am here to introduce you to a secret weapon in maintaining a healthy weight — your metabolism. Your body is constantly using energy at all times of the day, even when you're sitting around reading your favorite articles on All Women's Stalk. But even with a fast metabolism, your body can always use a little help, which is why I have complied 7 easy ways for you to give your metabolism a boost.
Caffeine doesn’t just give you the energy needed to start your day, it gives your metabolism a boost too. Caffeine raises your body’s ability to burn fat and can help with weight loss. Some scientists have even claimed that it can raise your metabolism by as much as 10%. All kinds of drinks like coffee, soda, and energy drinks have caffeine, but if you are health conscious it is best to stick with options like black coffee and tea.
Everyone knows that exercising burns calories, but did you know that long after your workout is done, your body is still working off energy? In the hours after a workout, your metabolism is still in kicked into high gear. The more intense the workout, the higher your metabolic rate. As an extra tip, to burn a meal off faster, eat after a workout instead of before.
Your time at the gym probably consists mostly of running and cardio. But if you really want to boost your metabolism, head over to lift some weights with the boys. Muscle burns more energy then fat does, and muscular people have an overall faster metabolism. I’m not saying you have to become a professional body builder, but doing some light lifting at the gym can have a heavy impact on your metabolism.
Protein, Protein, Protein. It's one of the necessities of a well balanced diet and has a huge impact on your metabolism. Your body will spend more energy digesting protein than sugars or carbs. Protein also helps build muscle which burns more energy and increases your metabolism. Protein can be found in all kinds of lean meats, nuts, eggs, beans and tofu. With so many yummy options, it’s easy to make sure you get enough protein while eating foods you love.
Adding some spice to your life now has a whole new meaning. Some chemicals found in foods like chili peppers have been linked to a faster metabolism. The heat activates your nervous system and kicks your body into high gear, burning a lot of energy with it. Try eating a tablespoon of chopped chili pepper (make sure to have a glass of water on hand), or sprinkle some on your pasta, pizza, or any of your favorite foods.
Drinking a cold glass of water on a hot day does more than cool you down, it uses energy. Your body must work hard to bring the water’s temperature up to the temperature of your body. Drinking enough water is vital because if your body is dehydrated, your metabolism won’t be working at full capacity. So drink 8 cold glasses a day to keep your body hydrated and working hard.
Our bodies natural instinct is to keep fat on our bodies for as long as possible, and when we skip meals, that instinct kicks in. If you skip a meal, your body thinks you’re starving and will prevent itself from burning fat. You can avoid this by not skipping meals or using crash diets that have no nutritional value. The best way to plan your meals is to have 4 small meals a day and snack in between.
Which of these tips worked best for you? Do you have any other suggestions for how to boost your metabolism?
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Queen Elizabeth’s close friend and longtime horse racing advisor dies on Day of Prince Philip’s Funeral at the age of 86 years old. Sir Michael Oswald became manager of the Royal Studs in 1970 and remained in the role for 28 years.
Queen Elizabeth is saying another difficult goodbye.
Michael Oswald Death Reason
Sir Michael Oswald died from a long illness on Saturday, further adding to the monarch’s heartbreak. He died at the age of 86 years old.
The Queen’s racing adviser John Warren said: “Sir Michael did a magnificent job managing the Royal Studs for so long.”
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“He was deeply committed to the studs, the Queen, and the Queen Mother. He was extraordinarily enthusiastic and got such a buzz out of all the royal winners.”
While attending the funeral, In keeping with pandemic guidelines, the Queen and members of the congregation wore face masks and sat six feet apart. Sitting inside the chapel, the Queen could be seen with her face down, only the top of her black hat visible.
Michael Oswald Wiki
Oswald was the Queen’s close friend and longtime horse racing advisor. He died the same day that Prince Philip was laid to rest at St. George’s Chapel in Windsor Castle. In the 2020 New Year Honours list, Oswald was appointed Knight Grand Cross of the Royal Victorian Order (GCVO).
Besides, he studied history at King’s College, Cambridge. Michael Oswald served as a captain in the 8th Battalion, Royal Fusiliers, and briefly worked for a City merchant bank before joining a subsidiary of pharmaceutical conglomerate Fisons, the Times reports.
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Michael Oswald became manager of the Royal Studs in 1970 and remained in the role for 28 years, in addition to acting as a racing manager to the Queen Mother and jumps adviser for the Queen.
Sir Michael’s widow, Lady Angela — who was a lady-in-waiting to the Queen Mother for many years — remembered her husband in an article for the Racing Post.
Furthermore, She told the Racing Post: ‘He always said he had the most wonderful job anybody could ever have had and that for all his working life he was simply doing what he would have done had he been a rich man who didn’t have to work.’
BiograhyData.org has no evidence for his net worth, but it will be updated soon.
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Understanding transfer switch operation
Consulting engineers should understand transfer switch construction, performance requirements, selection criteria, and desired operation to ensure that critical systems and equipment are supplied with reliable backup power when needed.
- Explain basic transfer switch operation.
- Describe types of standby systems and transfer switch requirements.
- Compare types of transfer switches and their operations.
- Evaluate transfer switch construction and performance requirements.
When utility power is interrupted, power system failure is not an option for many facilities. Standby power systems have many components, including transfer switches that must be designed correctly. During power transitions, transfer switch timing and sequence is critical to ensure proper system operation. Consulting engineers must understand transfer switch types, timing requirements, ratings, and the types of standby systems where transfer switches are used to transfer to backup power. The basis of this article is NFPA 70-2014: National Electrical Code (NEC) unless otherwise noted.
Basic transfer switch operation
Transfer switches are responsible for transitioning electrical power from the primary source to a secondary source in the event of primary source interruption, maintenance, or failure. The primary source most commonly consists of the utility service. The secondary source typically consists of the backup or emergency power source. The sequence of operation typically occurs as follows:
- The primary source is interrupted or fails.
- When the secondary source is stable and within voltage and frequency tolerances, the transfer switch transitions to the secondary power source. This transition can occur automatically or manually.
- When the primary source is restored and stabilized, the transfer switch transitions back to the primary source and resumes under normal operation. This transition back to the primary source can occur automatically or manually.
Standby system types
Standby system types include emergency systems, legally required standby systems, optional standby systems, critical operations power systems (COPS), and systems that support health care facilities (see Figure 1).
Emergency systems (NEC Article 700): Emergency systems are defined by the NFPA as "intended to automatically supply illumination, power, or both, to designated areas and equipment in the event of failure of the normal supply or in the event of accident to elements of a system intended to supply, distribute, and control power and illumination essential for safety to human life." These systems may include fire detection and alarm systems, elevators, fire pumps, and egress lighting.
Transfer equipment, including transfer switches, are required to be automatic, identified for emergency use, and approved by the authority having jurisdiction (AHJ). Transfer equipment shall be designed and installed to prevent inadvertent, simultaneous connection of primary and secondary supplies of power. Transfer equipment shall supply only emergency system loads. Power must be transferred to the secondary source in 10 sec or less.
Legally required standby systems (NEC Article 701): Legally required standby systems are defined by the NFPA as "intended to automatically supply power to selected loads (other than those classed as emergency systems) in the event of failure of the normal source." These systems may include heating and refrigeration systems, communications systems, ventilation and smoke removal systems, and other processes that, when stopped in the event of primary source interruption, could create hazards or hamper rescue or firefighting operations.
Transfer equipment, including transfer switches, are required to be automatic, identified for standby use, and approved by the AHJ. Transfer equipment shall be designed and installed to prevent inadvertent, simultaneous connection of primary and secondary supplies of power. Power must be transferred to the secondary source in 60 sec or less.
Optional standby systems (NEC Article 702): Optional standby systems are defined by the NFPA as "intended to supply power to public or private facilities or property where life safety does not depend on the performance of the system." These systems may include data processing and communication systems, and mission critical systems that are not legally required by the AHJ.
Transfer equipment, including transfer switches, for optional standby systems are not restricted to the same requirements as emergency and legally required system transfer equipment. However, transfer equipment shall be designed and installed to prevent inadvertent, simultaneous connection of primary and secondary supplies of power. There are no code requirements for power to be transferred to the secondary source within a certain time frame.
Critical operations power systems (COPS) (NEC Article 708): Interruptions or outages to designated critical operations areas may negatively impact national security, economy, public health, or safety. The requirement to comply with NEC Article 708 is provided by any governmental agency having jurisdiction or by a facility providing documentation establishing the necessity for such a system. These systems may include power systems, HVAC, fire alarm, security, and communications in these areas. NFPA 1600-2013: Standard on Disaster/Emergency Management and Business Continuity Programs contains further information on this topic.
Transfer equipment, including transfer switches, are required to be automatic and identified for standby use. Transfer equipment shall be designed and installed to prevent inadvertent, simultaneous connection of primary and secondary supplies of power.
Health care facilities (NEC Article 517): Essential electrical systems for hospitals consist of the emergency system and equipment system to supply a limited amount of lighting and power essential for life safety and effective hospital operation when the normal service is disconnected. The number of transfer switches used "shall be based on reliability, design, and load considerations" in accordance with NEC Article 517.30(B)(4). Each branch on the emergency system and equipment system, respectively, shall have one or more transfer switches to serve the system loads. However, one transfer switch shall be permitted in a facility with a maximum demand on the essential electrical system of 150 kVA or less. NFPA 99-2015: Health Care Facilities Code has additional requirements for transfer switch operation and features.
Transfer switch types
Transfer switch types include open-, closed-, fast closed-, soft closed-transition, and bypass/isolation.
Open-transition transfer switches: Open-transition transfer is commonly described as "break-before-make." This means that the transfer switch disconnects from the primary source before establishing the connection to the secondary source (see Figure 2). There is a short-duration electrical system outage during this transition. In addition, open transition, by design, does not allow paralleling of the two sources at the same time. Open-transition transfer switches are the most commonly used type. They are less expensive than other options. | <urn:uuid:e12142d8-b3a7-412c-a06b-211f856ae5bd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.csemag.com/single-article/understanding-transfer-switch-operation/03dfcdec8e1192d187cf636959c0f572.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00327-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92376 | 1,302 | 2.9375 | 3 |
REACH regulations : the SVHC product list
Safic-Alcan is a global specialty chemicals distributor that offers a direct access to a large and diverse portfolio of innovative products. Our regulatory support accompanies our partners not only to ensure they remain compliant in any market, but also in anticipating upcoming industry trends.
What does SVHC mean ?
SVHC stands for Substances of very high concern, they are :
- Carcinogens category 1A or 1B
- Mutagens category 1A or 1B
- Toxic to reproduction category 1A or 1B
- Persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic
- very persistent and very bioaccumulative
- Substances with an equivalent level of concern to those listed above (e.g. endocrine disruptors, respiratory sensitisers)
Who and how decides if a chemical is SVHCs ?
Member States, or ECHA at the request of the European Commission, may propose a substance to be identified as a substance of very high concern (SVHC) by preparing a dossier in accordance with the requirements set out in Annex XV to REACH.
The intention is published in the registry of intentions before the proposal is submitted, to inform interested parties in advance of the submission.
After publication of the proposal, interested parties can comment on it or provide further information during the 45-day consultation. Comments can be made on the properties of the substance, its uses and alternatives.
When comments are received that provide new information or challenge the basis for the identification as an SVHC, both the proposal and the comments are referred to the Member State Committee (MSC) to agree on the identification of the substance as an SVHC.
If the committee reaches a unanimous agreement, the substance is added to the Candidate List. If the committee does not reach a unanimous agreement, the matter is referred to the Commission.
SAFIC-ALCAN advises you comment during the public consultation, so that decisions are based on as much information as possible.
When is the SVHC list updated ?
The list is updated every six months, often in January and in July. It has 224 entries since the last update 10/06/2022. It can be consulted from the ECHA website.
Am I concerned ?
Companies may have legal obligations resulting from the inclusion of substances in the Candidate List. These obligations, which are effective from the date of inclusion, refer not only to the listed substances on their own or in mixtures but also to their presence in articles. Definition of substances, mixtures and articles is in Article 3, REACH¹.
SAFIC-ALCAN advises you to clearly identify whether your product is a substance, a mixture or an article under REACH.
What is the obligation ?
The obligations including informing customers and consumers, notifying ECHA, submitting information in SCIP Database, providing Safety Data Sheets, minimizing releases. Requirements can be different according to the article’s composition. The details can be found on ECHA’s dedicated page².
SAFIC ALCAN reminds you that as long as the SVHC substance is not in the authorization list (Annexe XIV of REACH), it is not prohibited.
What is the relation between SVHC and Authorisation ?
The authorisation process aims to ensure that SVHCs are progressively replaced by less dangerous substances or technologies where technically and economically feasible alternatives are available.
ECHA regularly assesses the substances from the Candidate List to determine which ones should be included in the Authorisation List as a priority. The prioritisation is based on information on the intrinsic properties, wide dispersive use or high volumes that fall within the scope of the authorisation requirement. ECHA launches a three months consultation as part of the process.
What is the impact if a substance is in the authorisation list ?
Companies that want to continue using a substance included in the Authorisation List after the sunset date need to prepare an application for authorisation and submit it before the latest application date.
Companies also need to pay for the authorisation application. Standard fees for applications for an authorisation are as follow :
- Base fee EUR 54 100
- Additional fee per substance EUR 10 820
- Additional fee per use EUR 48 690
SAFIC ALCAN advise you start to look for substitute solution as soon as the substance is included in the SVHC list. Because the main aim is to phase out these substances.
CSR: Chemical safety report
ECHA: European Chemicals Agency
EEA: The European Economic Area
EU: European Union
MSC: Member State Committee
PBT: persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic
REACH: Registration, Evaluation and Authorisation of Chemicals
SCIP: Substances of Concern In articles as such or in complex objects (Products)
SVHC: Substance of Very High Concern
UVCB (unknown or variable composition, complex reaction products or of biological materials)
vPvB: very persistent and very bioaccumulative
WFD: Waste Framework Directive
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an inlet of the Gulf of Mexico.
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[gawl-wey] /ˈgɔl weɪ/ noun 1. a county in S Connaught, in W Republic of Ireland. 2293 sq. mi. (5940 sq. km). 2. its county seat: a seaport in the W part. /ˈɡɔːlweɪ/ noun 1. a county of W Republic of Ireland, in S Connacht, on Galway Bay and the Atlantic: it has a deeply indented […]
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Statistics is a growing area of research and its fields of application are also on the rise. Public, private and academic sectors alike are constantly seeking data, methods and models which will allow them to make more informed decisions or draw conclusions in uncertain scenarios. On the one side, there is a need to aggregate and understand the data, thereby selecting the most appropriate techniques for their analysis. On the other side, it is of increasing importance for these techniques to be as accurate as possible so as to reduce risks in the decision-making procedure or in research-based conclusions.
The members of the Research Center for Statistics (RCS) have been developing fundamental statistical research over the years and are continuing to actively contribute to the creation and improvement of statistical methods and techniques. They do so by constantly bringing forward numerous international collaborations which deliver benefits in terms of quality and importance of their research activities.
The Research Center for Statistics was officially created January 1st, 2011.
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ARLINGTON, VA – Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) has accepted 25 requests for export assistance from Bongards, Dairy Farmers of America, Darigold, Foremost Farms, Michigan Milk Producers Association, United Dairymen of Arizona, and Upstate Niagara Cooperative/O-AT-KA Milk Products Cooperative to sell 2.784 million pounds (1,263 metric tons) of Cheddar and Monterey Jack cheese, and 4.381 million pounds (1,987 metric tons) of butter, to customers in Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa. The product will be delivered November 2012 through May 2013.
In 2012, CWT has assisted member cooperatives in making export sales of Cheddar, Monterey Jack, and Gouda cheese totaling 111.1 million pounds, butter totaling 71.1 million pounds, anhydrous milk fat totaling 127,868 pounds, and whole milk powder totaling 85,980 pounds. The product will be delivered to 36 countries on four continents. On a butterfat basis, the milk equivalent of these exports is 2.579 billion pounds, or the same as 69% of the increase in U.S. milk production through September 2012.
Assisting CWT members through the Export Assistance program positively impacts producer milk prices in the short-term by helping to maintain inventories of cheese and butter at desirable levels. In the long-term, CWT’s Export Assistance program helps member cooperatives gain and maintain market share, thus expanding the demand for U.S. dairy products and the farm milk that produces them.
CWT will pay export bonuses to the bidders only when delivery of the product is verified by the submission of the required documentation.
The Cooperatives Working Together (CWT) Export Assistance program is funded by voluntary contributions from dairy cooperatives and individual dairy farmers. The money raised by their investment is being used to strengthen and stabilize the dairy farmers’ milk prices and margins. For more information about CWT, visit www.cwt.coop. | <urn:uuid:058cb4aa-382d-4059-bd96-a7ab29a666c9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cwt.coop/cwt-assists-with-7-2-million-pounds-of-cheese-and-butter-export-sales/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00554-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923991 | 416 | 1.523438 | 2 |
RAVEN/ CROW PEOPLE
THE DUCK’S FLY MOON
SEPTEMBER 23--OCTOBER 20 (LIBRA)
People born under the DUCKS FLY MOON are the RAVEN/ CROW PEOPLE. They entered their earth time during the first moon of EPINGISHMOGE, The Spirit Keeper of the West and The Father of the Winds. People born during the moons of The West (EPINGISHMOGE),are influenced by the Winds of the West with its animal totem the Grizzly Bear, the plant ally/ totem is Sage (Mshkodewashk), the season is Autumn (Dwaagig), the time of the day is Sunset, and the influencing colours are Blue and Black (Mkadewaa). The powers of EPINGISHMOGE are Strength and Introspection.
RAVEN/ CROW PEOPLE’S specific totems/ allies associated with their birth moon The Duck’s Fly Moon are-- plant ally/ totem is MULLEIN. Their mineral ally/ totem is RED (BLOODSTONE) JASPER. They have an affinity to the colour BROWN. They are members of the ELEMENTAL CLAN of the BUTTERFLY (Element of Air). Raven/ Crow people are compatible with Elk/ Owl, Deer, and Sturgeon/ Salmon people. They compliment Red Hawk/ Falcon people who are opposite them on the Medicine Wheel. Like the Raven and Crow these people are group orientated and do not like their own company for long. They are very much concerned with the welfare of others. Raven/ Crow people are great communicators, who enjoy conversation for it’s own sake. They are friendly and comfortable in most situations, and can help others feel at ease. They are somewhat of a trickster, and have to ensure their antics do not backfire on themselves. They need to make important decisions in a timely and decisive manner, and not to change their minds so quickly and easily. They are constantly trying to find the correct balance in their lives and will often go to extremes to find the mid-point of balance to bring greater harmony into their lives.
Otter People Aquarius, Sturgeon /Salmon People Leo,
Cougar / Wolf People Pisces. Brown Bear People Virgo
Red Hawk / Falcon People Aries. Raven / Crow People Libra.
Beaver People Taurus. Snake People Scorpio.
Deer People Gemini. Elk /Owl People Sagittarius
Flicker People(Woodpecker) Cancer, Snow Goose People Capricorn
THE MEDICINE WHEEL
Life goes in a Circle, a Medicine Wheel. Medicine means power and the Circle is Harmony. Us humans are part of the Great Medicine Wheel of Creation, but not the only part. The plants, the minerals, the four legged, the winged ones, the creatures in the waters, the Spirit Keepers, the Powers of the Directions, the times, the seasons are also part of the Great Circle. We are their relatives and they are ours. Together, we have been placed on our common Earth Mother to learn harmony with each other and the Great Spirit, the Creator.
The time we chose to be born, determines the traits, gifts, and talents we begin with on our personal circle. It determines our Elemental Clan, those two-legged we compliment, those with whom we are compatible, and our special relations in the mineral, plant, and animal kingdom.
To become complete we must travel the circle learning all we can about all our relatives in Creation.
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Let’s All Enjoy the World of Nihon Buyo - The Japan -
Foreign visitors can enjoy the performances of Nihon Buyo (traditional Japanese dance) and Hogaku (traditional Japanese music). In addition to hands-on experiences playing traditional Japanese instruments such as the Shamisen and Taiko, participants can also try on stage makeup and costumes. Participants can view performances based on themes representing Japan, and the program will provide easy-to-understand enjoyment of traditional performing arts.
＜Date＞ Saturday, March 4, 2017
＜Time＞ 14:00 （Experience corner at 13:00）
＜Venue＞ Nihonbashi Public Hall (Nihonbashi Theater)
1-31-1 kakigara-cho, chuo-ku, Tokyo
Performers：Senyoichi Nishikawa, Etsuko Fujima, Yuka Mizuki, Jutaichiro Hanayagi, Satojiro Wakayagi, and others
＜Price＞ Adults: 1,000 yen Students: 500 yen Preschool child: Free of charge(In case of sitting on the knee of the parents or protectors) ＊When you need a seat, it is charged a fee.
＜On Sale＞ Friday, November 18, 2016 Ticket（All seats reserved）
Organized by Arts Council Tokyo (Tokyo Metropolitan Foundation for History and Culture)
Supported by and in cooperation with Tokyo Metropolitan Government
Supported by The Asahi Shimbun Company
Produced by Another company
Inquiry： Tokyo tradition office, Arts Council Tokyo
＊All programs and performances are subject to change without notice
*The seat number will be shown on the ticket screen one day before the event date.
*You will get to know ready to show the seat number by email.
*Its mail comes from "firstname.lastname@example.org"
What to do after getting email.
1. Open DMM.E app and go to your ticket
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Approximately 50 to 100 defenseless pilot whales were driven into a fjord at Vestmanna in the Faeroe Islands around noon today where every adult male, female, and calf was barbarically massacred in an orgy of blood that stained the waters a deep scarlet.
This shameful atrocity followed in the recent wake of Sea Shepherd’s departure from the Faeroes after successfully preventing all bloodshed for multiple months during Operation Ferocious Isles Pilot Whale Defense Campaign. Sea Shepherd’s limited budget dictated that we could only spend two months in the Faeroes and not a single whale was killed during this time.
During the months of July and August 2011 when Sea Shepherd vessels the Steve Irwin and the Brigitte Bardot were in the area, the Faeroese police advised all of the local communities to not kill any whales. It is estimated that 668 pilot whales were slain in the Faeroes during July and August 2010, compared to zero during the same months this year as a result of Sea Shepherd’s presence.
“I think that the Faeroese whalers are craven cowards,” said Captain Paul Watson. “They did not kill a single whale when we were there. They waited, knowing we would eventually have to leave, and within a week of our departure, they resumed their grisly and barbaric ritual of cruel and horrific slaughter. I have only one word to describe these killers and that word is – cowards.”
The killings today have vindicated Sea Shepherd’s presence and tactics in the Faeroes this summer. It is quite evident that if the Sea Shepherd ships and crew had not been in the isles for the past two months, hundreds of whales would have likely been butchered.
“They will now sit down to their mercury poisoned meal of whale flesh and blubber and they will snigger and boast of the lives they have so cruelly taken,” said Chief Cook and crewmember Laura Dakin of Australia. “It is easy to kill the defenseless, the babies and mothers, so easy to massacre creatures that can’t fight back. These men are pathetic cowards.”
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"A bunch of fruits, nuts and flakes."01 May 1980Comedy90 mins
Gorp is a delighfully silly send up of summer camp movies. It is set in a Catskills style resort for wealty Jewish kids. The main source of plot movement is from the following elements: camp waiters vs. camp management; camp guests vs. waiters; waiters vs. waiters. There are many memorable moments from young actors who later became major stars.
Expecting the usual tedium that accompanies a summer in the Catskills with her family, 17-year-old Frances "Baby" Houseman is surprised to find herself stepping into the shoes of a professional hoofer -- and unexpectedly falling in love.
Seeking to offer his son the satisfying summer camp experience that eluded him as a child, the operator of a neighborhood daycare center opens his own camp, only to face financial hardship and stiff competition from a rival camp.
Misery is brought to a small group of Sho in the Kalahari desert in the form of a cola bottle. In his quest to throw the evil object over the edge of the earth, Xixo encounters Western "civilization," a haphazard doctor and a tyranical despot.
A New York University professor returns from a rescue mission to the Amazon rainforest with the footage shot by a lost team of documentarians who were making a film about the area's local cannibal tribes. | <urn:uuid:8c07ddc0-9890-474a-ac2c-b7a7aeb6fc8a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.movie-trailer.co.uk/trailers/1980/gorp/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00348-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961699 | 298 | 1.59375 | 2 |
We’re pleased to present another one project for the Polytechnic College of Nur-Sultan – IT Network Systems Administration Lab.
The laboratory includes:
- NTC-03.02 “Computer network security”
- NTC-03.03 “Fiber-optic communication”
- NTC-03.05 “Global, local wired and wireless networks”
The laboratory is intended for training network and system administration specialists, information security specialists and network technicians.
Our specialists have conducted a practical training course for the teaching staff, the laboratory is ready for practical classes from the new academic year.
The laboratory equipment will be used both for standard laboratory and practical classes within the curriculum and for the training of the WorldSkills Kazakhstan and WorldSkills International competitors. | <urn:uuid:b9b6769b-75b4-4039-8080-f648318d7ab3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ntpcentr.com/en/news/it-networks-systems-administration-lab/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.866598 | 166 | 1.578125 | 2 |
A stable life: BLMS student displays horse-riding talents on world stage
Katie Fulkerson calmly stares directly ahead, back perfectly straight, bouncing in rhythm with the trotting horse beneath her. Her arms stay bent at the same angle, her hands clasping the reins.
Her parents and trainer say there's a competitive fire behind that calm expression. Katie says she's just having a lot of fun.
“I just really love doing this,” Katie said.
Katie, 12 years old and a sixth-grader at Basehor-Linwood Middle School, was back in training Saturday at Justindeavor Stables in Kansas City, Kan., a week after returning from the Grand National and World Championship Morgan Horse Show in Oklahoma City.
At that show, Katie won championships in two Grand National events and finished third and sixth in two World Championship shows.
Many of the other competitors in her age group at the show have likely been showing horses since they were very small, said Shaughnessy Morris, Katie’s trainer. But Katie just started about a year and a half ago.
“It shows how talented she is,” Morris said.
Katie had been taking horse riding lessons at the stables for about a year before Morris took them over. She’d grown an interest in horses because a neighbor had one, and her parents hoped to teach her how to ride and take care of a horse in case she wanted one of her own someday.
“I thought I would just come and ride,” Katie said, “but it turned out to be a lot more than that.”
But soon after Morris began giving Katie lessons in February 2010, she told Katie's parents that she was talented enough to ride in horse shows.
“Shaughnessy suckered us into it,” Mike Fulkerson, Katie's father, said, laughing.
By that summer, Katie was competing in a regional Morgan horse show in Wichita. And this year, she's won championships at regional shows in Kansas City, Wichita and Lexington, Ky., riding horses from Morris’ stables. Those victories qualified her for the world championship event earlier this month. Morgan horses are Morris' preferred breed.
Riding in horse shows such as these requires a strong connection between the rider and horse, Morris said. Riders ride their horses around a ring, following directions from an announcer to walk, trot and change directions. The rider and horse must keep themselves positioned properly the entire time, moving in concert with one another. When it all comes together, it's “magical,” she said.
And despite all this intention to detail, the riders must make it all appear smooth and easy, she said, even if something goes wrong. Katie's directions to her horse — a kick in the side with her spurs here, a tug on the reins there — must be nearly imperceptible.
“It looks like the horse is listening to the announcer,” Carrie Fulkerson, Katie's mother, said.
Competing in the shows also requires a good deal of time commitment from riders, Morris said, to train, become familiar with different horses and to help out around the stables to keep things running.
Katie comes out to the stables every weekend and a few days after school, as soon as her homework is done, Mike said. Oftentimes, she has had to turn down invitations to parties or sleepovers so she could head to the stables, Carrie said.
Katie said she doesn't mind that.
“When you're having fun doing it, it's not always that hard to work,” Katie said.
Morris said Katie had a deep passion for riding that's uncommon among children her age.
“She's just an incredible kid,” Morris said.
Mike and Carrie Fulkerson credited the instruction by Morris, herself a world champion show rider, for Katie's quick success. They said riding in shows revealed a competitive streak in Katie, as well.
“She hates losing,” Carrie said. “If she doesn't win, she's not satisfied.”
But Katie said the biggest reason she puts in so much time and effort is that she loves riding and working with the horses. And competing at the Grand National event was exhilarating, she said.
“It was really cool, because it's a really fun environment to be in,” Katie said. “And when you go in the ring and you're showing, you have a lot of adrenaline.”
The Oklahoma show concluded this year's showing season, Morris said. Next year, Katie will move up to a higher age division, which will require cantering in addition to trotting and walking around the ring.
Carrie said Katie talks of wanting to win a world championship some day. But Katie said that wasn't her biggest goal.
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Eleven more people have died in East Yorkshire from coronavirus.
The total number of deaths to have occurred in December is now at 18.
Five deaths were recorded on Tuesday (December 1) and also on Wednesday.
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December 3 has been the deadliest day of the month so far after six deaths with another two recorded yesterday (December 4), NHS data has confirmed.
The number of cases in East Yorkshire has gone up by 98 with a majority of positive test results in Hull.
The city recorded 58 more coronavirus cases in the last 24 hours bringing the total up 10,723.
The infection rate is now 4,127.8 per 100,000 people since the pandemic began.
East Riding now has an infection rate of 2,976.8 after recording 40 more cases – the total in the area is now 10,156.
The Government said a further 397 people had died within 28 days of testing positive for Covid-19 as of Friday, bringing the UK total to 61,014.
As of 9am on Friday there had been a further 15,539 lab-confirmed cases of coronavirus in the UK.
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Every year, thousands of people flock to T in the Park but perhaps little thought is given by most of the attendees to the logistical side.
The support staff needing to travel around the site at Balado throughout the event, the setting up of the site and the clearing up of the site afterwards.
Every year, Perth Bike Station hires out recycled mountain bikes for the support staff to use, to help them travel around the site quickly and more easily than on-foot.
Perth Bike Station diverts old, unwanted and broken bicycles from landfill, either repairing and refurbishing them for reuse or stripping them down to salvage parts for the making or repairing of other bikes. As part of the day-to-day running of the Project, Perth Bike Station employs a handful of volunteers to assist the mechanics, providing valuable training opportunities which often help people move into full-time employment.
Perth Bike Station is open 6 days a week (Monday to Saturday) and also hosts Fix Your Own Bike Sessions on Wednesday evenings (4pm to 8pm) and Saturday afternoons (1pm to 5pm), hiring out workspaces and all the tools required to repair and maintain a bike, under the helpful guidance of the Perth Bike Station mechanics.
Over the last couple of years, Perth Bike Station has also teamed up with a group in Aberfeldy to offer a bike project for young people in Highland Perthshire.
Mark Sinclair of Perth Bike Station explains: “Perth Bike Station stocks both children’s and adults’ bikes for reuse. If you are considering taking up cycling – whether for commuting, to keep fit or for pleasure – we are likely to have the bike for you. Our mechanics not only aim to provide a good quality and affordable bike, but also aim to help each customer to choose the bike that fits them and their lifestyle best. Having recycled 13,000 bikes, Perth Bike Station is a good starting point for someone just taking up cycling, or for people with small children, who will out-grow their bike quickly. Bikes can then be donated back to Perth Bike Station for reuse when a new size or style is needed.”
Councillor Alan Grant, Convener of the Environment Committee for Perth & Kinross Council, said: “This is a wonderful project and it is great to see it in action. We are very conscious of the volume of waste being sent to landfill, and this is something that we actively looking to reduce. It is a great shame when you see things like bikes, which may be a little damaged or broken, being discarded when there are parts that can be re-used and recycled. Projects like these help make a difference to reducing waste, and I hope to see many other projects take inspiration and think about what they can do.” | <urn:uuid:6e13f9e0-7926-4f60-98a4-0a3338c5f108> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://perthgazette.co.uk/2014/07/perth-bike-station-supports-t-park-supplying-recycled-bikes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.961267 | 570 | 1.554688 | 2 |
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Taxing financial transactions as an alternative to the regulation of financial markets
Proposal for a
implementing enhanced cooperation in the area
of financial transaction tax
Subject matter and definitions
1. This Directive implements the enhanced cooperation authorised by Decision 2013/52/EU by laying down provisions for a harmonised financial transaction tax (FTT).
2. Participating Member States shall charge FTT in accordance with this Directive.
Scope of the common system of FTT
1. This Directive shall apply to all financial transactions, on the condition that at least one party to the transaction is established in the territory of a participating Member State and that a financial institution established in the territory of a participating Member State is party to the transaction, acting either for its own account or for the account of another person, or is acting in the name of a party to the transaction.
2. This Directive, with the exception of paragraphs 3 and 4 of Article 10 and paragraphs 1 to 4 of Article 11, shall not apply to the following entities:
(a) Central Counter Parties (CCPs) where exercising the function of a CCP;
(b) Central Securities Depositories (CSDs) and International Central Securities Depositories (ICSDs) where exercising the function of a CSD or ICSD;
(c) Member States, including public bodies entrusted with the function of managing the public debt, when exercising that function.
3. Where an entity is not taxable pursuant to paragraph 2, this shall not preclude the taxability of its counterparty.
4. This Directive shall not apply to the following transactions:
(a) primary market transactions referred to in Article 5(c) of Regulation (EC) No 1287/2006, including the activity of underwriting and subsequent allocation of financial instruments in the framework of their issue;
(b) transactions with the central banks of Member States;
(c) transactions with the European Central Bank;
(d) transactions with the European Financial Stability Facility and the European Stability Mechanism, transactions with the European Union related to financial assistance made available under Article 143 of the TFEU and to financial assistance made available under Article 122(2) of the TFEU, as well as transactions with the European Union and the European Atomic Energy Community related to the management of their assets;
(e) without prejudice to point (c) and (d), transactions with the European Union, the European Atomic Energy Community, the European Investment Bank and with bodies set up by the European Union or the European Atomic Energy Community to which the Protocol on the privileges and immunities of the European Union applies, within the limits and under the conditions of that Protocol, the headquarter agreements or any other agreements concluded for the implementation of the Protocol;
(f) transactions with international organisations or bodies, other than those referred to in points (c), (d) and (e), recognised as such by the public authorities of the host State, within the limits and under the conditions laid down by the international conventions establishing the bodies or by headquarters agreements;
(g) transactions carried out as part of restructuring operations referred to in Article 4 of Council Directive 2008/7/EC17.
1. For the purposes of this Directive, a financial institution shall be deemed to be established in the territory of a participating Member State where any of the following conditions is fulfilled:
(a) it has been authorised by the authorities of that Member State to act as such, in respect of transactions covered by that authorisation;
(b) it is authorised or otherwise entitled to operate, from abroad, as financial institution in regard to the territory of that Member State, in respect of transactions covered by such authorisation or entitlement;
(c) it has its registered seat within that Member State;
(d) its permanent address or, if no permanent address can be ascertained, its usual residence is located in that Member State;
(e) it has a branch within that Member State, in respect of transactions carried out by that branch;
(f) it is party, acting either for its own account or for the account of another person, or is acting in the name of a party to the transaction, to a financial transaction with another financial institution established in that Member State pursuant to points (a), (b), (c), (d) or (e), or with a party established in the territory of that Member State and which is not a financial institution;
(g) it is party, acting either for its own account or for the account of another person, or is acting in the name of a party to the transaction, to a financial transaction in a structured product or one of the financial instruments referred to in Section C of Annex I of Directive 2004/39/EC issued within the territory of that Member State, with the exception of instruments referred to in points (4) to (10) of that Section which are not traded on an organised platform.
2. A person which is not a financial institution shall be deemed to be established within a participating Member State where any of the following conditions is fulfilled:
(a) its registered seat or, in case of a natural person, its permanent address or, if no permanent address can be ascertained, its usual residence is located in that State;
(b) it has a branch in that State, in respect of financial transactions carried out by that branch;
(c) it is party to a financial transaction in a structured product or one of the financial instruments referred to Section C of Annex I to Directive 2004/39/EC issued within the territory of that Member State, with the exception of instruments referred to in points (4) to (10) of that Section which are not traded on an organised platform.
3. Notwithstanding paragraphs 1 and 2, a financial institution or a person which is not a financial institution shall not be deemed to be established within the meaning of those paragraphs, where the person liable for payment of FTT proves that there is no link between the economic substance of the transaction and the territory of any participating Member State.
4. Where more than one of the conditions in the lists set out in paragraphs 1 and 2 respectively is fulfilled, the first condition fulfilled from the start of the list in descending order shall be relevant for determining the participating Member State of establishment.
Chargeability, taxable amount and rates of the common FTT
Chargeability of FTT
1. The FTT shall become chargeable for each financial transaction at the moment it occurs.
2. Subsequent cancellation or rectification of a financial transaction shall have no effect on chargeability, except for cases of errors.
Taxable amount of the FTT in the case of financial transactions other than those related to derivatives contracts
1. In the case of financial transactions other than those referred to in point 2(c) of Article 2(1) and, in respect of derivative contracts, in points 2(a), 2(b) and 2(d) of Article 2(1), the taxable amount shall be everything which constitutes consideration paid or owed, in return for the transfer, from the counterparty or a third party.
2. Notwithstanding paragraph 1, in the cases referred to in that paragraph the taxable amount shall be the market price determined at the time the FTT becomes chargeable:
(a) where the consideration is lower than the market price;
(b) in the cases referred to in point 2(b) of Article 2(1).
3. For the purposes of paragraph 2, the market price shall be the full amount that would have been paid as consideration for the financial instrument concerned in a transaction at arm's length.
Taxable amount in the case of financial transactions related to derivatives contracts
In the case of financial transactions referred to in point 2(c) of Article 2(1) and, in respect of derivative contracts, in points 2(a), 2(b) and 2(d) of Article 2(1), the taxable amount of the FTT shall be the notional amount referred to in the derivatives contract at the time of the financial transaction.
Where more than one notional amount is identified, the highest amount shall be used for the purpose of determining the taxable amount.
Common provisions on taxable amount
For the purposes of Articles 6 and 7, where the value relevant for the determination of the taxable amount is expressed, in whole or in part, in a currency other than that of the taxing participating Member State, the applicable exchange rate shall be the latest selling rate recorded, at the time the FTT becomes chargeable, on the most representative exchange market of the participating Member State concerned, or at an exchange rate determined by reference to that market, in accordance with
the rules laid down by that Member State.
Application, structure and level of rates
1. The participating Member States shall apply the rates of FTT in force at the time when the tax becomes chargeable.
2. The rates shall be fixed by each participating Member State as a percentage of the taxable amount.
Those rates shall not be lower than:
(a) 0.1% in respect of the financial transactions referred to in Article 6;
(b) 0.01% in respect of financial transactions referred to in Article 7.
3. The participating Member States shall apply the same rate to all financial transactions that fall under the same category pursuant to points (a) and (b) of paragraph 2.
1. The Commission's interest in financial taxation - 2. Financial taxation to correct competition: similarities with the environmental tax - 3. What is the recipe for financial market stability: taxation or regulation? - 4. The option to tax: is it a purely political choice? -
1. The Commission's interest in financial taxation
In recent years European institutions have shown great conviction in taking the road of financial taxation: although – and we must point this out here – the literature has not reached any unequivocal position on the suitability of this form of taxation . The topic is of particular interest as a legal analysis of the intervention of European public institutions in not just economic but also social relations, as it highlights a trend worthy of attention: the European institutions, and in particular the Commission, have a special sensitivity to the objectives of “social justice” which can be pursued through regulatory measures and the rescaling of competition and the market. The purpose of this article is therefore to propose the introduction of a framework for taxation of financial transactions, based on essentially social and distributive grounds; it therefore concerns the willingness of the EU to take charge of economic and social imbalances, which today represent inequalities and prevent people from exercising the rights to which they are entitled. Back in 2010, the first communication from the Commission entitled Financial Sector Taxation set out the reasons for a tax on these particular activities. The first reference document therefore consists of an act of so-called soft law, a non-binding but already very significant statement on the position taken by the European institutions in this area; despite the absence of any legal status, it is of particular interest for the approach adopted to “fiscal policy”. The context is that of the economic and financial crisis within which this new mode of taxation would be an appropriate contribution to achieving a threefold goal. First, it would probably improve the stability of the financial sector, by discouraging certain high-risk activities and at the same time making it a source of tax revenue. Second, the new taxes would affect a sector that has been judged to be largely responsible for the onset and extent of the crisis and its negative effects on public debt across the world. As a result, these taxes could be seen as a contribution which the financial sector, to which some governments have provided massive support during the crisis, makes to the economic systems, as the resources so collected could achieve a fiscal consolidation and create reserve funds. And finally, since the majority of European financial services are exempt from [continua ..]
2. Financial taxation to correct competition: similarities with the environmental tax
The basic premise of the latest proposal of the Commission, which in 2013 sought to enhance cooperation, is quite unusual when compared with the purposes that have led in the past to the Community harmonisation of indirect taxes. The Commission with the proposed directive takes an unusual position in relation to financial market dynamics, identifying those markets among the causal factors of the recent economic and financial crisis and providing a specific intervention for them which is intended to produce a correction, not to say outright compensation. The financial sector is singled out as a major contributor to the economic crisis, the costs of which were borne by governments and European citizens but not by the financial operators themselves. The Commission therefore embodies the opinion, widespread in Europe as well as internationally , that the financial sector should “contribute more fairly given the costs related to management of the crisis and the current insufficient taxation”. In particular, financial taxation is intended to achieve three objectives: first, it should harmonise legislation on indirect taxation of financial transactions, which is necessary to ensure the proper functioning of the internal market of financial instrument taxation and avoid distortions in the competition between instruments, operators and financial markets throughout the European Union. Secondly, taxation in this manner is expected to ensure a fair and reasonable contribution from financial institutions in order to cover the costs of the recent crisis, as well as to ensure a level playing field with other sectors in fiscal terms; and ultimately the aim is to create appropriate mechanisms that would demotivate transactions that do not contribute to the efficiency of financial markets, in order to avoid future crises. This set of objectives is considered achievable only through the initiative of the Union; only this “could in fact prevent financial markets from becoming fragmented across the activities and states and at the level of products and operators, by ensuring equal treatment of EU financial institutions and therefore, ultimately, the proper functioning of the internal market. The development of a system of common financial transaction taxes in the Union reduces the risk of market distortion due to the geographical relocation of the activities induced by the tax system” . The peculiarity of the process started [continua ..]
3. What is the recipe for financial market stability: taxation or regulation?
The process of adoption of the European legislative framework on tax on financial transactions or the Financial Transaction Tax (FTT) seems incomplete at the moment, and, since this is the indispensable condition for states to deploy it in a coherent and consistent manner, it is not possible to express an opinion on its progress, which has only just started. Although the statistics on effect are not currently available yet, and therefore not measurable, we can still speculate about the motivation and the appropriateness of this choice. The line of argument here is however still broader as it goes beyond the analysis of this single proposal. It is necessary to reflect on the broader theme of the many instruments which could lead to financial stability. The instruments of taxation are in fact different from other instruments, which are already well known and used , also intended to achieve the objectives of financial stability. This is primarily in reference to the nature of regulatory approaches, which the European institutions have undertaken since the end of the last century – with the banking directives, then collected and codified in 2000 by Directive 2000/12/EC; and later supplemented by subsequent acts on financial supervision – always remaining the preferred route to achieve financial market conditions that guarantee the freedom of movement of services and establishment, and prevent actions of operators which lead to mistrust and instability. It is clear that this question cannot be answered in a definitive manner: it is only possible to allude to problematic aspects, such as stressing that until now efforts have been made only for the preparation of a framework of regulation and supervision, and highlighting how, in recent years, a profoundly different vision has surfaced, a vision that somehow advocates operating hand in hand with the regulatory setting. With this in mind, it is necessary to reflect on the functionality and convenience of the alternative route – that of taxation as a mechanism for the recovery of stability – which is designed to produce effects and consequences that must be weighed when trying to maintain competition in financial markets. Before proceeding with such an evaluation it is necessary to observe that taxation could be considered also a form of regulation, and not a proper alternative route. This is particularly true if we discuss just about environmental taxes. The literature agrees [continua ..]
4. The option to tax: is it a purely political choice?
It is now quite clear that the world view that has predominated in the economic and political environment in recent decades has been guided by the principle according to which “the ‘freest’ markets, i.e. the financial markets, cannot produce systematically wrong price signals, the type of signals one would see if trending were the most characteristic property of asset price dynamics”: such a cultural context can only be contrary to any form of taxation on transactions . And yet, despite the lack of predisposition on the part of government institutions, financial institutions and traders in this direction, the most recent literature has highlighted the fact that using this method of taxation “Governments have an additional instrument at hand to influence trading activity” since the levy aims to reduce “regulatory arbitrage, flash trades, overactive portfolio management, excessive leverage and speculative transactions of financial institutions – activities that have contributed to the financial crisis”. In a perspective of Business Ethics, “a Tobin-like tax on stock transactions might be just a means of achieving greater justice in the distribution of the social cost burden. We have noted that such a tax, implemented properly, might also be less costly and more effective in internalising the social costs of doing business than regulation” . And in any case, even if, contrary to expectations, the harmful transactions are not contained, at least the FTT will generate “large tax revenues that can contribute to covering the costs of the financial crisis,” although there is awareness that “attempts at tax avoidance are, of course, inevitable, and therefore the effect of the tax should be monitored closely so that the governments can react quickly if tax loopholes and tax-induced geographical relocation plans of financial institutions come to light” . The scale of the problem seems to be a more than sufficient reason to justify such taxation. It has been observed that supporters of FTTs generally wish to use them to achieve one or both of the following goals: raising revenue from the financial sector to help pay for the costs of the recent financial crisis or for global development; and reducing financial market risk and helping to prevent asset price bubbles. The ease of collecting such a tax on exchange-traded instruments is also frequently [continua ..] | <urn:uuid:f205476f-0349-4646-894b-c97a4fa0da7a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.rivistadellaregolazionedeimercati.it/Article/Archive/index_html?ida=34&idn=2&idi=-1&idu=-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.950023 | 3,893 | 1.585938 | 2 |
October 11th, 2012, 03:44 PM
Help combining files
I am trying to take all the files in my folder proteinsequences and combine them all into one file. I have been on the nternet trying to find other peoples programs. This one seems like it should work but I get a syntax error. The arrow points to the =. in "print(l, file = out)" Any suggestions?
#set to the file extension of "to-be-merged" files
#set to your working directory
#set to the name of your output file
for f in files:
data = open(f)
out = open(results, 'w')
for l in data:
print(l, file = out)
October 11th, 2012, 04:15 PM
the code you posted is a python3 code. It won't work in python2.
Hmm, it has recently been shown to me that you might be able to import print_function from the future.
from __future__ import print_function
But why are you writing a program?
in unix, and it looks like you've got a unixy system, the command is:
$ cat *._ALL > NB_protein.fasta
I'm not going to bother checking what the DOS command is, but it's probably
A:> copy *._ALL NB_protein.fasta
[insert new floppy for A:]
[/code] are essential for python code and Makefiles!
October 11th, 2012, 04:51 PM
b49P23TIvg is right, no point writing a program that is already done by dos or terminal
but to answer your question your problem is you print(l, file = out), this doesn't work this way at least not to my knowledge use something like the following
That should be good enough to give you an idea of what you need to do. hope this has helped good luck with python
file = open('INFORMATION.txt', 'w')
a_file = open('MORE_INFORMATION.txt', 'w')
results = open('RESULTS.txt', 'w')
results.writeline("%s\n" % for item in file)
results.writeline("%s\n" % for item in a_file)
October 11th, 2012, 09:20 PM
Thank you for the help guys.
You were right I just used the cat *>file command in the terminal. The only reason I was trying to code it is because I didn't know it was so easily done.
Thank you again for the help!
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As President-elect Barack Obama prepares to enter the White House, he must ponder what to do about the world's trouble spots: Iran, Iraq, North Korea, the Caucasus. And, oh yes, Detroit.
On Friday, General Motors and Ford announced more multibillion-dollar losses in the third quarter; closely held Chrysler doesn't publicly report results. When GM, which seems in the worst shape, was 45 minutes late releasing its results, rumors spread that a bankruptcy filing was imminent. It wasn't, but the company says it could run out of cash in the first half of next year. Make that the first quarter if the current cash bleed continues. GM is lobbying furiously for emergency federal assistance, with Ford and Chrysler close behind.
Let's assume that the powers in Washington -- the Bush team now, the Obama team soon -- deem GM too big to let fail. If so, it's also too big to be entrusted to the same people who have led it to its current, perilous state, and who are too tied to the past to create a different future.
In return for any direct government aid, the board and the management should go. Shareholders should lose their paltry remaining equity. And a government-appointed receiver -- someone hard-nosed and nonpolitical -- should have broad power to revamp GM with a viable business plan and return it to a private operation as soon as possible.
That will mean tearing up existing contracts with unions, dealers and suppliers, closing some operations and selling others, and downsizing the company. After all that, the company can float new shares, with taxpayers getting some of the benefits. The same basic rules should apply to Ford and Chrysler.
These are radical steps, and they wouldn't avoid significant job losses. But there isn't much alternative besides simply letting GM collapse, which isn't politically viable. At least a government-appointed receiver would help assure car buyers that GM will be around, in some form, to honor warranties on its vehicles. It would help minimize losses to the government's Pension Benefit Guaranty Corp.
But giving GM a blank check -- which the company and the United Auto Workers union badly want, and which Washington will be tempted to grant -- would be an enormous mistake. The company would just burn through the money and come back for more. Even more jobs would be wiped out in the end.
The current economic crisis didn't cause the meltdown in Detroit. The car companies started losing billions of dollars several years ago when the economy was healthy and car sales stood at near-record levels. They complained that they were unfairly stuck with enormous "legacy costs," but those didn't just happen. For decades, the United Auto Workers union stoutly defended gold-plated medical benefits that virtually no one else had. UAW workers and retirees had no deductibles, copays or other facts of life in these United States.
A few years ago the UAW even waged a spirited fight to protect the "right" of workers to smoke on the assembly line, something that simply isn't allowed at, say, Honda's U.S. factories. Aside from the obvious health risk, what about cigarette ashes falling onto those fine leather seats being bolted into the cars? Why was this even an issue?
When GM's bond ratings plunged into junk territory a couple years ago the auto maker sold 51% of its financing arm, GMAC, to Cerberus, a private-equity powerhouse. Then last summer Cerberus bought 80% of Chrysler from Daimler for just 25% of what the German company paid for the company a decade earlier. It looked like a great deal at the time, like buying a "fixer upper" house at a steep discount. Until, that is, you have to shell out big bucks to shore up the foundation, repair the leaky roof, etc.
Cerberus tried hard in recent weeks to sell Chrysler to GM, with government financial assistance. Controlling GMAC's lending to GM dealers and customers gave Cerberus enormous leverage at the negotiating table. Cerberus squeezed hard, say industry analysts and insiders, but the GM board balked. Last Friday the companies said the talks were off -- "for the moment," as the company's chief operating officer put it.
For the moment? How about, like, forever? Buying Chrysler would just give GM an excuse to delay the fundamental task of putting its house in order. Management would turn its energy to producing pretty PowerPoint slides with all the requisite buzzwords: synergies, transformation, downsizing, rightsizing and exercising. What's needed, instead, is exorcising.
A thorough housecleaning at GM is the only way to give the company a fresh start. GM is structured for its glory days of the 1960s, when it had half the U.S. car market -- not for the first decade of this century, when it has just over 20% of the market. General Motors simply cannot support eight domestic brands (Cadillac, Buick, Pontiac, Chevrolet, GMC, Saturn, Saab and Hummer) with adequate product-development and marketing dollars. Even the good vehicles the company develops (for example, the Cadillac CTS and Chevy Malibu) get lost in the wash.
Nevertheless, the current board of directors and management have stuck stubbornly to this structure. The lone exception was a dissident director, Jerome B. York, who resigned a couple years ago. He warned that without fundamental changes the "unthinkable" might happen to GM. Well, here we are.
Which brings us back to what the government should do. If public dollars are the only way to keep General Motors afloat, as the company contends, a complete restructuring under a government overseer or oversight board has to be the price.
That is essentially the role played by the federal Air Transportation Stabilization Board in doling out taxpayer dollars to the airlines in the wake of 9/11. The board consisted of senior government officials with a staff recruited largely from the private sector. It was no figurehead. When one airline brought in a lengthy, convoluted restructuring plan, a board official ordered it to come back with something simpler and sustainable. The Stabilization Board did its job -- selling government-guaranteed airline loans and warrants to private investors, monitoring airline bankruptcies to protect the interests of taxpayers -- and even returned money to the government.
As for Ford and Chrysler, if they want similar public assistance they should pay the same price. Wiping out existing shareholders would end the Ford family's control of Ford Motor. But keeping the family in the driver's seat wouldn't be an appropriate use of tax dollars. Nor is bailing out the principals of Cerberus, who include CEO Stephen Feinberg, Chairman John Snow, the former Treasury secretary, and global investing chief Dan Quayle, former vice president.
Government loan guarantees, with stringent strings attached and new management at the helm, helped save Chrysler in 1980. But it's now 2008, 35 years since the first oil shock put Japanese cars on the map in America. "Since the mid-Seventies," one Detroit manager recently told me, "I have sat through umpteen meetings describing how we had to beat the Japanese to survive. Thirty-five years later we are still trying to figure it out."
Which is why pouring taxpayer billions into the same old dysfunctional morass isn't the answer.
Mr. Ingrassia is a former Dow Jones executive and Detroit bureau chief for this newspaper.
Write to Paul Ingrassia at email@example.com
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Microscopic fungi are an under-appreciated cause of infection and death in patients worldwide. 1.5 million people die from fungal infections each year, comparable to the number of deaths from malaria, despite a lower incidence of disease. This is because mortality rates for fungal infections are much worse than other well-studied infectious diseases, including HIV and TB. This reflects a gap in our collective understanding of fungal diseases, in timely diagnosis, and in available treatments. But it also offers hope that, through research, we can solve this global health challenge.
Many pathogenic fungi are opportunistic and acquired from the environment. Growth in the human host can induce changes in morphology. Specific adaptation to host stresses allow the fungus to proliferate and cause disease.
In our research, we ask how do fungal pathogens integrate information about their environments to undergo these dramatic changes? We focus on human fungal pathogens, with the long term goal of improving disease treatment and patient outcome. We seek to address this central question using the tools of genetics, genomics, chemistry, cytometry, and molecular biology. Work in the lab investigates this using two model systems: Cryptococcus and Rhizopus. | <urn:uuid:ad2b2e8c-938f-4894-8122-db55860ac173> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://balloulab.org/research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.937873 | 246 | 2.921875 | 3 |
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- I'm interested in building tools that researchers can use to better find and understand patterns in observational data bases.
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- Treatment efficacy and side effects can be identified within subgroups of patients quickly and efficiently.
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- Large complex observational data sets will be used to identify patterns useful for patients, physicians and other medical decision makers. It is important that these patterns be valid (not just chance and not just due to bias) so that the best decisions are made on patient care.
- What specifically motivated you to ask this question? (For example, you are developing a clinical guideline, working with a policy with large uncertainty about the appropriate approach, costly intervention, new research you have read, items in the media you may have seen, a clinical practice dilemma you know of, etc.)
- I am an expert statistician and I would like the best technology to be available to people doing the work of pattern identification. I know all too well that it is easy to falsely identify patterns.
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- Chance variation can lead to false claims. For example, two studies did not support the claim that Type A personality leads to heart attacks. The original claim appears to be a false positive claim. Sometimes very sick patients are "channeled" to a particular treatment so that treatment may appear to be dangerous. Clinicians and policy makers should be acting on the best data analysis possible.
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- Data analysis methods should be selected/invented and prototyped in computer code and tested on large observational data bases. Analysis systems should be alpha and beta tested. The process should take 18 months. It could be compressed to a one-year project.
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Who is the chief of the evangelicals? Is it John Piper? Mark Driscoll? Joel Osteen? Rob Bell? All of the above are marked as evangelicals in one place or another. Two are Calvinists and two very clearly are not. In anthropology, we see two different kinds of chiefs, the war chief and the paramount chief: the war chief rules through charisma and persuasion to unite tribes for war, and his authority dissipates when the war is over or he dies; the paramount chief is the chief because of tradition, and his son or relative will inherit his authority when he dies. Denominations have paramount chiefs, but congregations may not know who they are. Evangelicals have war chiefs, but who is the paramount chief?
Yes, Christ is the head of the Church, but he went back to heaven. He sent the Holy Spirit, but even Spirit-filled people quarrel and fight about power and authority. As much as I disagree with papal claims of authority over all the Church, the Roman Catholic ability to hold up one man as the chief and the long centuries of tradition supporting the Pope’s position are a formidable part of Roman Catholic Christianity. If the Pope dies, they can elect a new one and roll right on. Local churches have local autonomy, but they also have a chain of command to follow so that they can replace a priest who goes off his rocker. The Reformation happened because of abuse of authority and political problems crippled the Pope’s ability to address Martin Luther’s list of abuses and so allowed the Reformation to develop, and so Protestantism broke with the Roman Catholic Church but retained confessional unity.
The Reformation’s fallout includes the multiplication of Christian denominations. The we-don’t-want-to-be-Catholics in one country started their own denomination, while the we-don’t-want-to-be-Catholics-either in another country did the same thing. When they came to America, the blurring, blending, and emulsification of ethnic boundaries and the creation of American denominations and theological development intensely complicated an already complex scene. As the American national identity developed, American Christians started talking to each other, evangelists took to the lecture circuit, and a countrywide Christian scene developed. Non-denominationalism became a practical workaround for people who wanted to do ministry but avoid entanglements with denominational lines of authority. Enter: the war chiefs.
In American evangelicalism, war chiefs are preachers and authors who build a large following outside their respective churches, crossing multiple denominational lines. John Piper is one such war chief. There is also a missionary preacher named Paul Washer, whose YouTube sermons are quite popular in certain circles. There are also Francis Chan and David Platt, respectively authors of Crazy Love and Radical, books immensely popular in my home church. They may have denominational affiliations, but their books and their sermons are widely popular in the broader evangelical sphere. If one disappears, another will rise from somewhere. John Macarthur is widely respected in Christian circles, but he has no denomination. The war chiefs make theological pronouncements, and the average pastor or Christian in the pew is left to decide who is more authoritative on what issue. Calvinism is a theological unifier for some, but Calvinist theology has done a Linux and been ported to many different kinds of devices by many different manufacturers so that there is no one Calvinist denomination. Who is to mediate between war chiefs if they disagree?
By the grace of God and the work of the Holy Spirit, evangelicalism is broadly unified around core theological convictions. Evangelicalism is an organizational nightmare, but it is a phenomenon and not an organization. If evangelicals had a paramount chief–and some evangelical denominations have them–then there would be an arbiter in theological dispute. With the war chiefs, however, they operate by persuasion to move evangelicals to address issues inside or outside of the Church. They are not all powerful, so if they declare turnips to be a manifestation of the Holy Spirit and uncover a fourth member of the Trinity, other war chiefs will put them to the sword, burn their dwellings, and scatter salt over their fields. Or the polemical equivalent. However, there is no absolute evangelical orthodoxy, so no one war chief can define evangelicalism without cutting certain denominations out of the picture. Calvinist theology bothers me in this regard because it is a version of orthodoxy without a central authority with the right to apply it to all of evangelicalism.
Denominations are incredibly important because they have the authority to moderate the influence of a far off war chief through the actions of a local paramount chief–someone with established authority over a given set of people can address the teachings of a popular author or speaker. Baptists, Presbyterians, and Anglicans can all be Calvinists, and Calvinist ministers can float between different denominations that do not explicitly hold to Calvinism. They are likely to be evangelicals, but not all evangelicals are Calvinists. Suppose there is a fight between John Piper groupies and a local Arminian pastor: who can fight against John Piper? It is one thing to get help from outside when there is insurmountable abuse at home, but it is quite another to replace an ordained minister with the dregs of the ministry of another. As awesome as John Piper’s books and sermons may be, they are processed food and the life of the local church–including the minister–is vitally irreplaceable. No local church exists in isolation, so it is key for them to have healthy, natural relationships with other churches in their area and within their denominations.
Non-denominationalism is a useful workaround for Christian institutions like universities and seminaries that want to aid the Church as a whole, but non-denominationalism is no decent representative of “basic” Christianity. In seeking to imitate the early Church in belief and practice, they cut themselves off from historical Christianity while unconsciously carrying on historical influences. They may have connections with other non-denominational churches, but they do not have something like a family connection to the beginning of a denomination, rejecting that as though it is automatically a channel for abuse. They carry forward the divisive “I see abuse in the Church so I will separate myself” mentality of the Reformation without having Luther’s capacity to confessionally unite and ensure proper uniformity of belief. Some non-denominational churches could be charismatic and others hard core cessationist without having a clear idea why, and this rootlessness in historical theology opens them to the influence of an evangelical war chief without the moderation of a denominational paramount chief.
Denominational churches have at the very least search terms that interested parties could use to look into the history of their church and the evolution of its beliefs and practices. In my home church, I at least knew the name Baptist General Conference and something about Swedish people. In college, I went to a Christian and Missionary Alliance church, so I had that denominational name to look up. Denominations have leadership beyond the local church and they can hold their ministers accountable for what they preach. Denominational leadership should exercise pastoral and theological care for ministers and congregations as a whole to keep them moving forward in their commitment to Christ while also addressing what evangelical war chiefs are saying and writing, possibly even curtailing what they say and write when they exert hegemonic authority. The president of the denomination should be someone to listen to by virtue of his position and not just be an administrative ringmaster in the denominational circus. As good as it is for pastors to be the ones to receive wide attention in Christian circles, they can exert undue influence by virtue of their popularity and their popularity can keep people from raising legitimate questions about what they say. To challenge a war chief, another war chief has to contradict him, or there has to be a paramount chief has to rein him in.
One of the strengths of evangelicalism is the freedom for individual ministers to experiment and try new things. In theology, however, there is no freedom to experiment. Not everyone can be Martin Luther to declare a Reformation, and while the gospel of Jesus Christ is as exciting as a revolutionary pamphlet, it also has the gravity of its two millennia of age. Surely we must have our war chiefs, but please, bring back the paramount chiefs. They are there, but we have to listen to them. | <urn:uuid:4864067f-7069-43e0-9e6c-062f4e1f12b7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://evangelicaloutpost.com/archives/2013/06/evangelical-denominations-chieftains.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00326-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961365 | 1,734 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Distinguished Hindu statesman Rajan Zed, in a statement in Nevada (USA) today, said that Spain should follow the example of its regions Catalonia and Canary Islands and ban the age-old tradition of bullfighting altogether; which he described as barbaric, inhumane, horrendous, cruel and unacceptable. Spain could easily find other ways to entertain its citizens and visitors, Zed added.
Zed, who is President of Universal Society of Hinduism, also urged other countries of the world to outlaw bullfighting practice. European Union should impose a Europe-wide ban on all blood-sports. People, whose jobs were thus affected, should be rehabilitated in other jobs with related training.
Rajan Zed stressed that non-violence was a greatest virtue. We had long been out of the caves. Let us get rid of these outdated traditions. World would be a better place without these blood-sports.
Bullfighting was just plain cruelty and unnecessary tormenting and abuse of the animals and not an art form, Zed pointed out. Bullfighting ban took effect in Catalonia from January one, 2012, while it has already been banned in Canary Islands since 1991. Spain holds an estimated about 2,000 bullfights annually and has granted it a cultural heritage status.
Besides Spain, bullfighting is also practiced in France, Ecuador, Mexico, Peru, Portugal, Colombia, and Venezuela. A typical bullfight usually is of 20 minutes in which a bull is stabbed several times before the final blow with a sword pushed between its shoulder blades. Said to dating back over 4,000 years, Nobel Prize winner author Ernest Hemingway (1899-1961) mentioned bullfighting tradition in his work “Death in the Afternoon”.
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In France I had never eaten a pecan nut. In the US, the first time I ate one I really liked it and since then have eaten many shelled pecans or used them in recipes. The pecan tree (Carya illinoinensis) is a tree native to North America and is found mostly in the south central states. In French pecan is called “pacane” or “noix de pécan.” The name “Pecan” is a Native American word, from the Algonquian, which means a nut requiring a stone to be cracked. Starting in the 16th century Native American tribes in the US and in Mexico used the wild pecan in the fall as a food source. They were the first ones to cultivate the pecan tree.
Pecan tree and nut (courtesy Georgia Agriculture)The US grows nearly 90% of the world’s pecans and Georgia farmers grow the most pecans in the country followed by Texas. Pecan harvesting in Georgia starts in mid-October to the end of December. In early January we drove to Decatur, Georgia – another suburban town east of Atlanta. We stopped to take pictures of some old houses and parked in an empty lot. When ready to leave we saw that there were many pecans on the ground which had fallen from a big pecan tree there. No one had picked them as there was not a house close by. So we did. We placed them in a large grocery bag. I weighed them once at home – we had picked over 8 pounds! (over 3 kg and ½.)
The French in Louisiana were exporting pecans to the West Indies by 1802 through their port of New Orleans. The first time I went to New Orleans I ate “Pecan Pralines.” I had eaten “pralines” in France many times but they were made with almond. The history says that the cook of the French soldier Marshal du Plessis-Praslin (1602-1675) invented the confection and named them pralines. They are usually covered with a caramelized coat of sugar tinted red. You can buy them in Paris in the little kiosks on the street. French settlers brought the recipe to New Orleans and used the pecans instead of the almonds and added sugar cane and cream to the recipe. Below are the French pralines in red, the Pecan pralines in brown and what the Belgians call “pralines” which are their fancy chocolates. (Click on collage to enlarge, then click on each picture to see them better.)
Last week at a local farmer’s market I saw some pecans for sale – they called them “small” but they were a lot larger than our pecans.
Our pecans are small but very tasty. To better show their relative size I took another picture with a paperback book next to them – a poetry book given to me at Christmas by Ruth, my sister-in-law.
I found out that there are more than 500 different varieties of pecans. They vary in size and shape. Some are native species, some have been improved, some are cold hardy, etc. Some of the varieties have great names reminiscent of Native American tribes like Apache, Cheyenne, Choctaw, Kiowa, Oconee, Pawnee, Mohawk, and Comanche. I wish I knew the name of the variety we picked in Decatur. Whatever its name it is a pretty and tasty little nut.
In the 1980s a friend gave us a small black walnut tree which we planted in our yard. The tree is mature now and gives us black walnuts but they are so hard to shell that we leave them on the ground for the squirrels. I wish we had planted a pecan tree instead. It takes twenty five years to mature so by now we would have many pecans. My husband has been shelling the pecans we gathered as I promised to make a pecan pie for him since it was his birthday and pecan pie is one of his favorites.
I find that the corn syrup in the standard pecan pies too sweet for my taste. I have never baked a pecan pie but decided to create one without the corn syrup. I looked at several recipes and came up with something. It came out quite good and not too sweet. Here is my recipe below.
My Pie with Georgia Pecans
1 ½ cup brown sugar
1/3 cup agave syrup (or maple syrup or ½ cup white sugar)
½ cup butter (1 stick) or butter substitute
¼ teaspoon salt
1 Tablespoon 1/2 and 1/2 cream or milk
1 ½ Tablespoon Bourbon Whiskey – if not use milk
1 teaspoon vanilla
2 cups pecans, chopped later
1 cup pecan halves
1 9” unbaked pie shell (homemade or store bought)
Preheat oven to 350 F degrees
Place 2 cups pecans in a shallow baking dish and roast them in a 350 F oven for 8 minutes. Remove from oven and cool. When cool, chop the pecans. Increase the heat in the oven to 400 degrees F.
Melt butter and add to chopped pecans. In a large bowl beat eggs slightly. Stir in brown sugar, agave or white sugar, flour, salt, ½ and ½ cream or milk and Bourbon Whiskey. (Or just use cream or milk instead of the Bourbon because once baked I frankly could not taste the Bourbon at all.)
Add the 2 cups chopped pecan in butter to bowl.
Place above in prepared pie shell. I bought a deep-dish Pillsbury pie shell.
Place pie in 400 degree F preheated oven. Bake for 10 minutes only. Remove from oven and turn oven down to 325 degree F. Place the 1 cup of pecan halves on top of pie (or as many as you can squeeze on top.) I sprayed some liquid butter on top of the pecans so they would not get too dry, but that is optional.
Return pie to 325 degree F oven with a piece of aluminum foil placed over it, loosely. Bake 50 minutes more. Take out of oven and remove aluminum foil.
When I took the pie out of the oven it looked done but the center was jiggling a bit. I don’t know if this is the right term – I am not a recipe writer – but it felt like it was not set. So I placed it back in the oven for 10 minutes. I think now that I should have placed it back for only 5 minutes or not at all, as it would have set when cool.
My husband had some artisan vanilla ice cream with his piece of pie. I preferred to eat my piece of pie with a little glass of “Praline” pecan liquor from New Orleans.
The pie would be good with some whipped cream flavored with a bit of Bourbon whiskey. Last week we went to a Waffle House restaurant and I had a small piece of pecan pie. This pie was made with the usual corn syrup. It was a lot sweeter and did not have pecans in the filling. Here is this pie below.
We still have many pecans to shell. I hear they keep up to two years in the freezer but I’d like to bake “pecan bars” next time– maybe with cranberries or some other type of cookies. Has anyone a good recipe?
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Distance from Parola to Itarsi
Distance from Pārola to Itārsi is 334 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 208 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Pārola and Itārsi is 334 km= 208 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Parola to Itarsi, It takes 0.37 hours to arrive.
Parola is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||20° 52´ 48.9000'' N |
75° 7´ 2.0280'' E
Pārola Distances to Cities
|Distance from Parola to Panvel||297 km|
|Distance from Parola to Adoni||625 km|
|Distance from Parola to Indore||217 km|
|Distance from Parola to Alibag||341 km|
|Distance from Parola to Bhusawal||72 km|
Itarsi is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates||22° 36´ 53.1720'' N |
77° 45´ 43.9920'' E
Itārsi Distances to Cities
|Distance from Itarsi to Silapathar||1,674 km|
|Distance from Itarsi to Dhar||253 km|
|Distance from Itarsi to Chicholi||237 km|
|Distance from Itarsi to Daudnagar||727 km|
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Current debate on the use of population genetic data for complex disease research is driven by the laudable goals of disease prevention and harm reduction for all, especially dispossessed, formerly enslaved, or colonized populations. This article examines one of the oldest gene-based theories of complex disease causation: the thrifty genotype hypothesis (THG). This hypothesis is emblematic of the way in which genetic research into complex disease attracts a high investment of scientific resources while contributing little to our capacity to understand these diseases and perpetuating problematic conceptions of human variation. Although there are compelling reasons to regard the high prevalence of type 2 diabetes mellitus as a by-product of our biological incapacity to cope with modern affluent and sedentary lifestyles, there is at present no consistent evidence to suggest that minority populations are especially genetically susceptible. Nor is it clear why such genetic differences would be expected, given the original pan-species orientation of the TGH. The limitations inherent in current applications of the TGH demonstrate that genetic research into complex disease demands careful attention to key environmental, social, and genetic risk factors operating within and between groups, not the simplistic attribution of between-group differences to racialized genetics. A robust interdisciplinary approach to genetic epidemiological research is proposed. | <urn:uuid:f3767219-ea6d-4c4c-9fbe-6522cf7cf412> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://muse.jhu.edu/article/213833 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718296.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00538-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919103 | 249 | 2.59375 | 3 |
The issue of gender freedom is one that is often raised when favourably contrasting liberal western societies with other (in particular today, Muslim) parts of the world. The idea of freedom is fundamental to liberalism’s claims to legitimacy and ideological hegemony. Female emancipation is seen as a great triumph of liberal thought and action – women in western liberal democracies are enfranchised, and are seen to have formal equality under the law in the areas of employment, pay and in control over their bodies.
Women’s emancipation is seen as central to an understanding of modernity, it is seen as a marker of a progressive society, and as such contributes to liberalism’s sense of pre-eminence. However, there are considerable problems with this picture. At the turn of this century, liberal regimes opportunistically laid claim to the idea of female emancipation in order to justify illegal war in Iraq and the invasion of Afghanistan, the consequences of which are still reverberating today as the west gears up for another Iraq war, to combat a terrorist movement of its own making.
Just prior to the bombing and invasion of Afghanistan in 2001, the most prominent women in the west leant their voices to the justification of this action on the basis of liberating Afghani women. Both Barbara Bush and Cherie Blair made statements in the media denouncing the burqa as a symbol of the oppression of women in Afghanistan. Soon after, two British cabinet members at the time, Claire Short, International Development Secretary, and Estelle Morris, Education Secretary, echoed these sentiments when they launched a campaign to improve the rights of Afghan women. But prior to the invasion of Afghanistan, there was very little concern in the west for the plight of women in Afghanistan under the Taliban, or its predecessor the Muhajideen, despite the (largely ignored) efforts of the Afghani women’s organization RAWA.
We might ask where the Bush administration’s concern for women’s rights in Afghanistan was when, in May 2001, it gave $43 million to the Taliban regime as part of its “War on Drugs”. It was only after 9/11 that the west became interested in the plight of women under the Taliban. As Annabelle Sreberny (2004) argues, "the burqa was used as part of a Western propaganda campaign" becoming the "synecdoche for fundamentalism, anti-modernism, and suddenly a ruthless pursuit of the terror network behind the September 11 events was transformed into a war of liberation with women as the main victors". And, as Amrit Wilson points out, while the British and American forces were bombing Afghanistan in order to ‘rescue’ women from the Taliban, the British Home Office "routinely tried to send Pakistani women back to villages in those very parts of Pakistan… which had been the support base of the Taliban and were largely under its control".
A closer look at liberalism 'at home', both today, and in its origins, reveals its deep fault lines as a project of human emancipation. Historically, liberal thought was not aligned with female emancipation or gender equality. When Mary Wollstencraft published the Vindication of the Rights of Women in 1792, the first manifesto of female emancipation, it was well received in revolutionary circles in France, but in England its main detractors were prominent liberal thinkers, including Edmund Burke and the well-known Blue Stocking, Hannah More.
In fact, much of Vindication is a refutation of the views on women espoused by the radical liberal, Jean-Jacques Rousseau, whose traditional views on female inferiority were considered by Wollstonecraft to be a painful betrayal of liberalism. But these traditional ideas that women are inferior to men and to be kept in a state of dependency are not a betrayal of liberalism - instead, they were at the heart of liberal thinking until the 1970s. Before then, women did not have the right to demand equal pay under the law and it was perfectly legal to discriminate against women at work. Up until the late 1950s women could not get a bank loan or a hire-purchase agreement without the signature of a male relation. As Domenico Losurdo (2011) argues, at its height there were three ‘macroscopic exclusions’ in liberal notions of freedom – the oppressed colonial subject and the enslaved African, the exploited worker in the metropolitan centers, and women. Losurdo makes a strong case that the freedom of the liberal property-owning classes in the west actually depended on these exclusions, and one can argue that liberal regimes today continue to depend on the exclusion of subaltern groups from full political participation, as election turnouts in the UK have steadily declined since 1950.
But one of liberalism’s greatly proclaimed achievements is universal suffrage, including women’s suffrage. On this count too liberalism had to be forced to concede the vote in response to mass dissent. In the UK, many suffragettes were imprisoned and then force-fed after going on hunger strike. The vote was only conceded to women in Britain in 1928. In some liberal democracies full female suffrage came even later – France in 1945, Italy in 1946, Switzerland 1972 and Liechtenstein in 1984! The advances in gender equality have been made by challenges to such liberal democracies rather than as an outcome of liberal philosophy or deliberation—liberal thought was forced to adopt the principles of democracy—and at great cost.
Overcoming the exclusion of women from the liberal sphere of political equality, like the end of slavery in the US, was the outcome not of liberal reform but of violent upheavals. The realisation of women’s political rights was the consequence of struggle which had the violence of the First World War behind it and the revolutionary upheavals of the early twentieth century.
And, as in the cases of class and race, complete gender equality and emancipation have not yet been fully achieved in the liberal west (over a century and half after the bourgeois revolutions that swept away the old order and brought in modern liberal democracies). Full voting rights have not produced female emancipation. Liberal thinking, in equating political freedom with economic or social freedom, disavows the inequality and unfreedom that arises from a lack of social justice. Indeed, the liberal wing of the feminist movement in the nineteenth and early twentieth century, by adhering to the liberal tenets on the separation of political rights and economic rights, and focusing almost exclusively on the franchise, not only made an appalling historic compromise in supporting the First World War with the promise of the vote, but also wrongly believed that when the vote was obtained, the struggle for equal rights would be won.
This divided the struggle for female suffrage from other feminist struggles, and from those advocating a challenge to the basic social structure and calling for economic and social justice as well as political rights. Almost a century since women won the vote, women still only make up 22% of MPs – a total of 143 out of 650. More than four decades after equal pay was enshrined in law (1970) (a direct result of the women car factory strike in Dagenham rather than benign liberal intervention), women still earn 2/3rds of male earnings, and more than three decades after equal rights legislation on work (1975), discrimination at work is rampant, and women are still predominantly employed in the low paid service sector and social services.
And it is women, particularly working class women and women of colour, who are bearing the brunt of austerity measures, including the attacks on welfare, depressed wages, the rising cost of living that are designed to cut the size of the national debt following the bail-out of the banks, whose ‘freedom’ from regulation precipitated the financial crash in 2008. Liberalism’s promise of freedom and equality was never intended for the majority, but for the propertied elite, and the advances made by women, workers, and the anti-racist movement have been under sustained attack from our liberal rulers almost from the moment they were won.
This article is part of the Gender and Race strand of the Liberalism in neoliberal times series that OurKingdom is running in partnership with Goldsmiths, supported by the Department of Sociology. You can read Gholam Khiabany's introduction to the whole series here.
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“Judaism believes there is no duality in nature…Either everything is profane or everything is sacred. It is up to man either to extend Kedushah to every niche and corner of the universe or to desecrate even the Holy of Holies…One may serve God by building a house, or by healing the sick, provided that he is aware that he can accomplish nothing without Divine help.”
More than 30 years have passed since Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Maimonides School founder, made that observation at a meeting of parents. But in classrooms and lunch rooms, on playing fields and at computer keyboards, its profundity is manifest every day of the school year.
“Religious life” at Maimonides School knows no boundaries. Certainly there are classes under the category of Judaic Studies, and chagim, both joyous and solemn, are celebrated with passion. There are daily school experiences that can be labeled “religious practices": davening at set times, chesed projects, kashrut as a common denominator, bentsching after eating, and Shabbatonim and retreats away from the familiarity of the Maimonides campus.
Authentic Judaism, however, transcends such categorization; indeed, it provides the framework for every element of the Maimonides School experience. What else would one expect in a community of mitzvot? Torah is the blueprint for individual choices and connections, be they carried out as classroom conduct, respect for others, protection of the environment, or advocacy for Israel. The laboratory for practical application of halachic knowledge is right outside the synagogue door. Tzniut, often translated as modesty, is the guideline for appearance and behavior. Tzniut is more than a word; it is a philosophy of interaction that elevates all involved.
When religious observances at Maimonides are in the forefront, they are all-embracing, replete with sincerity and intensity. Kindergarteners prepare for Shabbat with special ceremonies every Friday. Elementary School classes learn about middot (character attributes) and then put them into practice. Upcoming holidays are celebrated with pageantry and song in special assemblies. In the Middle and Upper School, daily davening is broken into appropriate age groups; students of Sephardic heritage conduct their own minyan. Extracurricular opportunities include the annual journal of Torah thought as well as weekly newsletters on Torah topics and Israel affairs. Students of all ages prepare and deliver appropriate divrei Torah. Festivals are occasions for spontaneous dancing or serious contemplation, and for personal gestures like mishloach manot or flowers for Shavuot.
The richness of students’ religious experience at Maimonides extends to the greater community. Collaboration with the National Conference of Synagogue Youth on programs and activities is common, and students assume leadership roles on the local and regional level. Recently, the school joined Young Israel of Brookline to organize and operate a Bnei Akiva religious Zionism program, led by four shlichim from Israel who also contribute to classroom understanding and appreciation of Hebrew language and Israeli culture.
Judaism, the Rav told the parents back in 1971, is “an experience of intoxicating beauty, enriching man’s life, inspiring his heart. . . . It demands sensitivity and inner responsiveness on the part of man. This experiential quality is very hard to impart through special classroom techniques. This must be absorbed by osmosis, by involvement, by living participation. . . . We try our best to create such an atmosphere.” These inspirational words remain part of the fabric of our school, today and always. | <urn:uuid:313f4030-9867-4c71-840e-a0f469686dfb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.maimonides.org/content/lif-religious-life | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00281-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950068 | 767 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Name: D.A Sherron | City: Brooklyn NY | IG: @DASherronmin
What does being a father mean to you?
Fatherhood means responsibility. I have made an irrevocable and irreplaceable bond between my wife and my daughter that places upon me an intentional responsibility to nurture, nourish and be an example in thought, word and deed.
Being a father has changed my life. I have always been a surrogate or a spiritual father and mentor but having my own child has taught me the importance of presence. Fathers build identity and my daughter is my first priority to shape her imagination and intuition as it pertains to manhood.
This is a sacred trust that I do not take lightly.
Describe your experience with your father growing up and how that impacted you today.
I was blessed to have a remarkable relationship with my father, as well as my grandfathers and great grandfather. Although my parents divorced when I was a senior in high school, the lessons and language that was embedded in me regarding manhood, mission and even maturity had been imparted in me from my childhood.
For example, every day before my brother and I left the house, my father would ask us, “Who are you?” We would respond, “I am a Sherron.” Then he would ask, “What does that mean?” At which we would reply, “Honor, integrity and respect.” Afterward, we would hug our parents and walk to school. Looking back, this call and response has served as the impetus for a life marked by character, convictions and a commitment to my calling. I will forever be grateful to my Dad for that and the infusion of wisdom from my grandfathers, whose wisdom guides me this very day.
What things did you take from your experience growing up into your own fatherhood journey?
Honestly, I’ve taken all of my experiences, particularly the wisdom that I’ve received from the plethora of strong Black men I had has role models, mentors, and sages along the way. I was blessed as a childhood prodigy preacher to be molded and mentored by many seasoned older Black men. I would always ask questions, listen and gleam from the brilliance and the bravery of the men in the churches I attended, served and fellowshipped with. My neighborhood had a lot of families and those men and their stories shaped my journey into fatherhood. I knew what it took to be a husband, a father and a provider. As a result, my journey with my wife has been smoother then many because of the blessing and benefit of that exposure.
Have you had any obstacles on your fatherhood journey?
My major obstacle was adjusting to fatherhood and holding that in tandem with all of the other areas of my life. My wife and I have tremendous responsibilities as pastors, business owners and other ventures we’re pursuing. Learning how to ride the wave and bring support to my wife as she healed, attend to my daughter, as well as my other responsibilities has taken time. Thankfully, the pandemic enabled me to slow the pace down some but it is still a balancing act. 🙂
What advice would you give others new on their fatherhood journey?
I would advise all new fathers to spend as much time with your wife, or child’s mother as possible. Provide as much emotional support. Sometimes saying nothing but being present makes all the difference in the world especially in the beginning phases.
I think men sometimes don’t understand all of the toll our wonderful women warriors endure as they bring our bundle of joy into this world.
Support. Support. Support and self care for your own well being is important.
It is all tied to sacrifice but over time you’ll develop your own rhythm and find best practices that work for you and her and the baby. Every journey is different but being attentive and available is a great step on the way.
If you could write a quick letter to your father, starting with “Dear Father,” what would you say?
Thank you for your example and your insight. Although we had some challenging times during our journey, you have always been one that has had the tenacity and fervency to talk, share and never fail to articulate your love.
I am proud to be your son and to carry and convey the principles from our family into the next generation.
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Genome sequencing is being used to combat the spotted wing drosophila (SWD), a major pest that targets berries and cherries and other fruits in the United States, Canada and Europe.
For growers and the agriculture industry as a whole, new strategies for pest control could be implemented with studies such as this one.
“Genomic sequencing will bring about the development of control strategies that can serve as alternatives or complements to chemical insecticides,” says molecular geneticist Joanna Chiu of the University of California Davis Department of Entomology and Nematology. “They will likely be more species-specific, and less harmful to beneficial insects such as honey bees, native pollinators and natural enemies of the pests.”
As part of a U.S. Department of Agriculture research grant, Chiu recently collaborated with scientists at UC Davis, Oregon State University, the China National Gene Bank and the American Museum of Natural History on the $5.8 million project to study the biology and management of spotted wing drosophila.
New tools for pest control using sequenced genomes will allow researchers to determine the range and types of sensory receptors SWD have and help design more effective attractants or repellents, Chiu says.
By finding the fly’s unique genetic signature, scientists hope that DNA testing will quickly determine if ready-to-be-shipped fruit contains spotted wing drosophila larvae, says OSU entomologist Vaughn Walton, lead investigator of the USDA grant, in a statement.
“If production facilities have accurate molecular tools to differentiate between drosophila species, they can quickly (within an hour or two) determine whether the fruits they are shipping out contain SWD,” Chiu says. “This way, they don’t have to wait for days to rear the larvae to adults to determine if they indeed have SWD in their fruits. By that time, the fruits are already all spoiled.”
Although the specific project only targets the spotted wing drosophila, genomic sequencing can be applied to other species of pests.
“It can help identify new insecticide targets and allow researchers to develop accurate markers to assess insecticide resistance if that comes about,” Chiu says. “Finally, it can be used to design RNAi-based pest control, which will only be species-specific if we have the genome sequence.” | <urn:uuid:c8dd2626-7185-4d76-b121-adf7884f7e2e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.greenhousegrower.com/production/crop-inputs/pest-control-strategies-evolve-with-genome-sequencing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00437-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922972 | 502 | 3.703125 | 4 |
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A joint undercover operation by NOAA’s Fisheries Service Office of Law Enforcement and New York and New Jersey enforcement agents has uncovered evidence of alleged illegal fishing by two charter operators.
The operators, Steven N. Forsberg and Viking Starship Inc. of Montauk, N.Y., and Jerome E. Hurd of Avalon, N.J., have been charged by NOAA with taking their patrons to catch striped bass in federal waters, where capture of the prized sport fish is prohibited.
During the undercover operations, federal agents and state officers posed as patrons on several charter vessels operating in New York and New Jersey.
Striped bass are one of the most sought-after species for both commercial and recreational fishermen from Maine to Cape Hatteras. The popularity of this fish, the complex nature of its migration, and its decline in harvest and recovery, led to significant management efforts in state waters by the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission, and a ban on fishing in federal waters since 1990.
“Unscrupulous charter and party boat captains quietly promote their willingness to take patrons into federal waters, primarily when striped bass are scarce in state waters,” said NOAA special agent Jeffrey Ray. “This creates an unfair business environment that penalizes law-abiding charter and party boat captains who refuse to break the rules.”
Forsberg and Viking Starship, the operator and owner of the FV Viking Starship, has been notified by NOAA of the charges of fishing, harvesting, possessing and retaining Atlantic striped bass illegally from federal waters, and submitting false oral or written statements about the catch to authorized federal officers. The agency also issued to Forsberg a notice of a potential $30,000 fine and a 30-day permit suspension for the alleged violations.
Hurd has been notified by NOAA of the charges of fishing, harvesting, possessing and retaining Atlantic striped bass illegally from federal waters, and then submitting false oral or written statements about the catch to authorized federal and state officers. The agency also issued to Hurd a notice of a potential $25,000 fine.
Violations of federal fishery rules are civil, not criminal matters. Disputed allegations are heard before an administrative law judge, whose decisions can be appealed to the NOAA administrator and through the federal court system.NOAA understands and predicts changes in the Earth's environment, from the depths of the ocean to the surface of the sun, and conserves and manages our coastal and marine resources. | <urn:uuid:61c5796e-4c41-44a3-a50b-3dba6a1506d4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.noaanews.noaa.gov/stories2008/20081114_stripedbass.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00217-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945005 | 557 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Relationships: The Heart of Research Success
When it comes to conducting successful clinical trials, it's all about the relationship.
It's a fact with which doctors in Montefiore's Cardiac Research Institute for Clinical Trials are all too familiar.
"Believe it or not, it's difficult to get patients to enroll in cardiac studies," says Auris Browne, MD, Director, Clinical Trials and Regulatory Affairs, Cardiology. "There's sensitivity with the heart that doesn't exist with other organs."
At any given time, Montefiore is actively recruiting patients for dozens of cardiac trials, including three new studies that began in 2011. The first is a National Heart, Lung, and Blood Institute-sponsored trial that is exploring the safety and efficacy of injecting stem cells into the heart muscle of Left Ventricular Assist Device recipients.
The second study is a Phase III trial called INOVATE-HF, which is aimed at demonstrating the long-term safety and efficacy of vagus nerve stimulation with the CardioFit® system for the treatment of subjects with heart failure. CardioFit® is an implantable congestive heart failure modulator that reduces the heart rate, improves ventricular volumes and restores regular cardiac rhythm.
Through the third study, Montefiore cardiologists are evaluating the effect of 48 hours of IV treatment with omecamtiv mecarbil (a novel, small-molecule, direct activator of cardiac myosin) in subjects with left ventricular systolic dysfunction who are hospitalized for acute heart failure.
"We spend a lot of time with patients, explaining the benefits-both intrinsic and extrinsic-that are associated with their participation in a clinical trial," adds Roger Swayze, RN, BSN, MBA, Director, Clinical and Regulatory Affairs, Department of Cardiovascular and Thoracic Surgery and Department of Surgery. "Once patients better understand the big picture they are more willing to enroll."
Which brings Browne and Swayze to their next challenge -retention.
Swayze explains that they maintain an open line of communication with clinical trial patients-calling them to check in, making sure that they have transportation to appointments, following up after the appointment to see how they are doing.
"We like to say that our clinical trial participants are our 'VIPs,'" he jokes. "After all, they are playing a very important role in advancing the care we deliver."
Browne and Swayze's collective ability to connect with patients and develop strong relationships has worked to Montefiore's benefit.
"We are consistently among the top enrolling sites for all of our clinical trials," says Browne. "This has helped us garner the attention of institutions such as the National Institutes of Health that select sites based upon their ability to enroll and retain participants."
When asked what drives them to come to work each day, both agree that it's both the leadership and personal satisfaction.
"The leadership here is passionate about research and the critical role that it has in improving patients' lives," says Swayze. "It really drives home the importance of what you are doing and makes you want to succeed."
"What I always love to see is the difference in a patient from the start of a trial to completion," says Browne. "A patient may begin a trial unable to take more than a few steps before resting, then months later you see the person and he or she is walking two miles nonstop. It really makes me feel great to know I had a role in that progression." | <urn:uuid:639df2f2-00bd-4a95-a295-17cb6f1bb65e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.montefiore.org/heartline-spring2012-clinicaltrials | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00255-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961352 | 725 | 1.726563 | 2 |
'The Quest,' by Daniel Yergin
Published 4:00 am, Sunday, September 18, 2011
Energy, Security, and the Remaking of the Modern World
(The Penguin Press; 804 pages; $37.95)
In 1990, Daniel Yergin published "The Prize," a magisterial history of oil. Not the typical stuff of best-sellers, it became one anyway based on timeliness (coinciding with the first Gulf War), the originality of Yergin's thesis and his eloquence of expression. It was a top-to-bottom historical reappraisal of the late 19th and 20th centuries.
Rather than an inexorable march of world-spanning war, towering technological advancement and collapsing empire, the centuries, in Yergin's persuasive telling, turned on an improbable pivot - the need for, shortage of and switch to oil. To summarize what petroleum had made of humankind as a species, Yergin coined the catchy anthropological phrase "Hydrocarbon Man." In 1992, the work was awarded a Pulitzer Prize.
But Yergin did not stop there. One is challenged to think of another writer who in the succeeding years parlayed his Pulitzer into a more successful business: Yergin's white-shoe energy consulting practice today enjoys the patronage of the world's most powerful oilmen, sheikhs and energy ministers, and his annual Houston oil show is probably the industry's most important. He presides over both with the intellectual cachet of Henry Kissinger and the showmanship of Mick Jagger.
Now arrives the sequel to "The Prize," covering the years since. Following up a blockbuster in any field is daunting, a challenge made more difficult when navigating the tricky space separating the dispassionate historian and the successful consultant-investment adviser. So how does Yergin manage? Unfortunately, not very well.
This is a book that puts Yergin's impressive breadth of experience and knowledge on display. It is easy to read, a genuine feat given its size, and seems to cover every facet of energy. But it does not reach the standard that Yergin established with "The Prize," with its unforgettable anecdotes, flesh-and-bone personality profiles and trenchant insights, all of it set against the canvas of a big thought.
It should not have been a tall order given Yergin's privileged entry to oil inner sanctums penetrable by perhaps no other writer. Yet for whatever reason, Yergin elects only rarely to mine his daily sources. Instead, we are supplied with a thin soup of largely archival material, absent a unifying theme apart from the ordinary messages that we need much energy, it is not easy to come by, and no one knows what is going to happen next. The reader ends up the loser.
"The Quest" falls short as a sequel, but what happens when one reads it on its own terms? There are very good sections. Such moments come almost exclusively on the subject of alternative energy. A highlight is the rollicking history of electricity, including the spectacular rise and fall of Samuel Insull, the pioneer of U.S. electrification; the rivalry between Thomas Edison and George Westinghouse; and the importance of a seemingly mundane invention - the electric meter. Similarly riveting is the 240-year-old history of the science of climate change, starting with a Swiss Alpinist named Horace Benedict de Saussure, who pondered why at night the Earth's heat did not escape into space.
Yet here too one is left unsated. Do we really need another exposition on alternative fuels, or another fellow excavating the newspaper clippings? In petroleum, Yergin and probably only Yergin has the cachet of Kissinger, and it is there that - unlike the elderly statesman on his own turf - he never dishes. His stabs at sweep - events are couched as occurring "since the beginning of the 21st century," or as "the most significant innovation in energy so far since the start of the 21st century" - tend to ring hollow. After all, a few years into the 20th century, John Fleming's invention of the vacuum diode seemed like a huge breakthrough, but less so a short four decades later, when Bell Labs perfected the transistor. A few years into a century, better for a historian simply to cite the date.
Often, this book's hedged and grudging delivery is exasperating. Footnotes are miserly even when the door is left ajar, the sole word "Interview" often sufficing as the source of a tidbit. Interview with whom? We are not told.
I kept wondering what was deeply nagging me about "The Quest." I concluded that it was its selective gentility. Yergin singles out two individuals for a lashing - peak-oil pioneer Marion Hubbert, whose "cantankerous and combative" personality led colleagues to perceive him as "something of a crank" handicapped by "deep-seated insecurities"; and former California Gov. Gray Davis, who suffered from "a stunning lack of commercial acumen" when it came to his state's early 2000s energy crisis.
Such bluntness works if evenhanded, but jars when it is not. Yergin spares Big Oil titans such as former Exxon Mobil Chief Executive Officer Lee Raymond - in the 1990s probably the most disagreeable executive on the oil patch - who here is described simply as a fellow from South Dakota who attended the University of Minnesota. Do Davis' failings compare with those of Enron, an energy-trading company that - all but unchronicled by Yergin - imploded with criminal charges, convictions and guilty pleas by almost two dozen individuals, including its top three executives?
Similarly, in his 100-page section on climate change, Yergin rightly raises the subject of Climategate, in which British climate scientists were revealed in hacked e-mails to have engaged in loose language while describing their conclusions. But Yergin omits a second storm - Exxon Mobil's funding of controversial climate-skeptic groups that arguably as much as Climategate worked to cast doubt on a human role in global warming. Balance requires the mention of both.
Not measuring up to "The Prize" is not ordinarily a knock. But it is when part of the reason is a dearth of fair play.
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What it Means to Dedicate Your child to the Lord
Baby dedication is a voluntary act in which Christian parents or guardians commit their child and themselves to the Lord. It is an outward expression of commitment to teach the child God’s ways and raise them according to God’s Word, trusting God to use the child for His purposes.
In Deuteronomy 6:5–7 the Lord commands, “You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, and with all your strength. And these words which I command you today shall be in your heart. You shall teach them diligently to your children, and shall talk of them when you sit in your house, when you walk by the way, when you lie down, and when you rise up.”
Ephesians 6:4 encourages parents to raise children “in the training and admonition of the Lord.”
Baby dedication is not an infant baptism nor does it take the place of baptism. It is our hope that the child may grow and personally decide one day to accept Jesus as their Lord and Savior and choose to take the next step of faith and be water baptized. | <urn:uuid:1e432fb9-8129-48c2-9c9f-e69aac21bb27> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tscnyc.org/baby-dedication/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00145-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950279 | 243 | 2.359375 | 2 |
“Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”
Awarded the 1921 Nobel Prize in Physics, named Time’s Man of the Century in 1999, and best known for his conception of the theories of special and general relativity
Organizations today seem to have a never ending supply of performance measures. Our data rich environment feeds the need of many managers to have all things counted. Yet as Albert Einstein suggests, not everything that can be counted matters. And just because something is counted doesn’t make it important. Thus, not everything that is measurable should be assigned its own performance indicator; rather only those things that are truly important, whether currently counted or not, should be measured. The identification of performance measures should therefore start with the identification of the key factors critical to the organization’s success.
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From George Lee Turberville
Jany. 28th. 1793.
Richmond County Virginia
My very dear Friend,
Your favor of December 2d. last past1 reached me in 22 days, for which receive my thanks, a severe fit of the Gout has deprived me of the use of my Limbs ever since, tho’, thank heaven the mildness of the Winter, surpassing every thing the Memory of Man ever knew in this Country is again bringing me about. Mild as the Winter has been, no Snow having as yet ever whiten’d the ground, & very little frost, Still it has been fatal to numbers more hearty young men & greater numbers of people having gone off precipitately with violent peripneumonies than were ever known—before, three Physicians have gone off & Doctor Jones (who I hope will be with you in Congress from this District) has had a narrow escape & is just recovering. So much for the events of the neighbourhood.
The French Republic is in my opinion confirmed—the Potentates allied agt. France will be puzzled to bring into the Field, a Force adequate to that of the last year, & the French Nation, now a Nation of soldiers, will be better prepared to withstand their attack, they are more united, & less Factious too. The Fate of human nature is involved in Europe at least in the Event of the French Revolution, & I do think that we may now without the Spirit of Prophecy predict, that the Reign of Despotism in whatever form it may appear in Europe will scarcely survive the 18th. Century. America may rejoice, & plume herself in the idea of having made the Rent in the great Curtain that withheld the light from human nature by her exertions she let in the day & the Rights of Man became legible & intellegible to a shakled World. O may her future Conduct be alike serviceable to human nature, if the same spirit reigned in the bosoms of our Eastern Bretheren, that inspired their Breasts in 1776. & 1777. when their Members in Congress rose & with true Patriotic virtue assented to a sacrifice of their Fortunes in the Bestruction [sic] of Boston for the good of the Common Cause, we shou’d not Now see Assumption schemes, endless Funding Schemes, & Factious acts to aggrandize the Few at the expence of the great mass of the People prevalent in almost every debate, & Visible in almost every Act of Congress.
I mean to be in the next Assembly & my Object is to carry a Remonstrance in the most solemn Mode from this State to Congress, in which our sister States shall be invited to concur, having real justice & the evident good of all our Citizens (that is the honest & disinterested ones) for its object I cannot but hope it will generally avail, & in order to compass it, I cou’d wish to possess if it can be had an Authentic Statement of the Public Paper interest, funded, Bank—&c &c—and also as accurate a state of the sources from which the Revenue that supports this mass of Paper wealth is drawn—for I am well assured, that 9/10ths. of the Paper are in the hands of Persons north of Susquehanhah, & 7/8ths. of the Revenue is raised from the Labour on the South of that River—it is impossible to give you even the outline of what I contemplate in a letter, but if you can repose a confidence in me to furnish me with the Statements above mentioned I give you my word they shall not be acted upon before we ⟨meet?⟩ & if it is not possible for you to come down amongs⟨t us⟩ next summer, I will most certainly spend a few days with you when you shall appoint in order to confer upon the undertaking that I do assure you is now uppermost in my mind.
A Recurrence to fundamental principles is Absolutely necessary upon all occasions if we mean to continue a free people, how fortunate for us it wou’d be if every man cou’d be brought, to feel precisely as he did in 1777. & 1778, much I fear that no people ever suffered a greater chang⟨e⟩ in the Same space of time, than those of our Fellow Citizens in the U. S. who reside on the North of susquehannah have done in 17 years last past. My Paper is out—I write in bed—near Midnight, excuse the incoherent scrawl, thank heaven my dear Wife has mended surprizingly, altho within a few days the two abcesses have become connected & the Syringe throws water near 8 inches thro’ ⟨the⟩ side—from hole to hole, My little Boy often talks of you he is now asleep. Mrs. T. join⟨s⟩ in best Affection, & beleive me to remain with real regard & respect Yrs. very sincerely
George Lee Turberville
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Sycamore Gap and Crag Lough
The Sycamore Gap and Crag Lough walk starts at The Sill National Landscape Discovery Centre (at Twice Brewed). It takes a different route to previous Sycamore Gap walks and gives an alternative view of the tree, with fewer people.
The Sill National Landscape Discovery Centre is Northumberland National Park’s new visitor attraction and will excite and inspire people of all ages to explore the landscape, history, culture and heritage of Northumberland.
The tree is one of most photographed in the country. It stands in a dramatic dip in Hadrian’s Wall in the Northumberland National Park. The 1991 film ‘Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves’, starring Kevin Costner, was filmed here. The tree has been known as The Robin Hood Tree ever since.
Sycamore Gap is only a short distance East from The Sill, but we will walk past the wall and along the road, until we get to a byway, north of Hadrian’s Wall. We will follow this for a while.
We walk up the byway to Peatrigg, where the track ends and the path crosses fields. All the way, we will get a distant view of the Wall on top of the whin sill. It is a well trodden path but still far quieter than the Wall.
Soon we see Sycamore Gap from a different perspective. You might even think that it looks better here, than close up.
We also get a good look at Crag Lough, the lake under the crag. It looks different down here. We usually only see it from above, walking by the Wall, along the top of the crag.
The path continues parallel to the Wall, before we turn south, towards the Wall. We will cross the Wall through a gate and join the Military Way to return to the road, by Steel Rigg.
Return to the Sill
We return down the road to the Sill National Landscape Discovery Centre or the Twice Brewed Inn for refreshments.
This is a beautiful walk, not to be missed, with outstanding views and of course the iconic Robin Hood Tree.
We hope you can join us.
Julie and Martin x
Gallery – Sycamore Gap and Crag Lough
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The acute phase protein lactoferrin is a key feature of Alzheimer's disease and predictor of Aβ burden through induction of APP amyloidogenic processing.
Ryan, Tim M
Evans, Robert W
Springer Science and Business Media LLC
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Tsatsanis, A., McCorkindale, A. N., Wong, B. X., Patrick, E., Ryan, T. M., Evans, R. W., Bush, A. I., et al. (2021). The acute phase protein lactoferrin is a key feature of Alzheimer's disease and predictor of Aβ burden through induction of APP amyloidogenic processing.. Mol Psychiatry, 26 (10), 5516-5531. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41380-021-01248-1
Amyloidogenic processing of the amyloid precursor protein (APP) forms the amyloid-β peptide (Aβ) component of pathognomonic extracellular plaques of AD. Additional early cortical changes in AD include neuroinflammation and elevated iron levels. Activation of the innate immune system in the brain is a neuroprotective response to infection; however, persistent neuroinflammation is linked to AD neuropathology by uncertain mechanisms. Non-parametric machine learning analysis on transcriptomic data from a large neuropathologically characterised patient cohort revealed the acute phase protein lactoferrin (Lf) as the key predictor of amyloid pathology. In vitro studies showed that an interaction between APP and the iron-bound form of Lf secreted from activated microglia diverted neuronal APP endocytosis from the canonical clathrin-dependent pathway to one requiring ADP ribosylation factor 6 trafficking. By rerouting APP recycling to the Rab11-positive compartment for amyloidogenic processing, Lf dramatically increased neuronal Aβ production. Lf emerges as a novel pharmacological target for AD that not only modulates APP processing but provides a link between Aβ production, neuroinflammation and iron dysregulation.
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Last month Brooke Harris’ eighth-grade class asked her about the “kid who was killed over some skittles;” she seized the opportunity to bring her students’ lived experiences into the classroom—a strategy we and other experts advocate.
Brooke’s students identify with Trayvon Martin. Many of them are African American. Many have been stopped by police who thought they looked suspicious.
Again, Brooke saw a teachable moment. She and her students began the formal process of organizing a school event. Students wrote persuasive letters to the principal and superintendent. Brooke and a co-worker filed the necessary paperwork. The principal immediately signed off on the fundraiser.
Superintendent Cassell was less enthusiastic. She refused to approve the proposal, despite having supported many other “dress down” fundraisers. Brooke’s students took the disappointment in stride, but asked to present their idea to Cassell in person.
And that’s when things got weird.
Brooke asked that a few of her students be allowed to attend her meeting with Cassell. Outraged by the request, Cassell suspended Brooke for two days. The explanation given—she was being paid to teach, not to be an activist.
Those two days morphed into a two-week, unpaid suspension when Brooke briefly stopped by the afterschool literacy fair (she had previously organized) to drop off prizes (paid for with her own money) and to pick up materials for several students whose parents were unable to attend. Supporting her students was insubordination.
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Faizel Patel – 07/10/2020
If a person has mild symptoms of a mental disorder like depression, anxiety or Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), should it be mentioned at a marriage proposal or not?
As part of mental awareness month in October, Radio Islam posed this question to its listeners with many sharing valuable feedback and advice.
Reading out some of the responses, Radio Islam morning drive presenter Ml Sulaimaan Ravat indicated that majority of the responses showed that the mild symptoms of a mental disorder should be disclosed.
“The challenge for those who want to disclose it is that they probably fear that if we disclose it, it should not be that it becomes a game changer, a deal breaker that ok I was interested in marrying you, but now that you tell me you suffer from mild depression, I am sorry, I don’t think I can risk it. It is because of the kind of stigma and also the kind of lack of knowledge that exists around these issues.”
Ml Ravat also shared the sentiments and comments from Radio Islam listener Dr Haroon Issa, a clinical psychologist.
“According to the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Disorders (DSM), if a mental health professional determines if there is no impairment in social and occupational functioning and doesn’t warrant further treatment, what would be the purpose of announcing this at a marriage proposal be. Islam does promulgate to us the middle path and I agree with some of the comments. A meeting of mind should happen between the Ulama and the psychological profession because we obviously trained in a Eurocentric model which may sometimes not always coincide with the Shari’ah.”
So what are your thoughts or comments? Should mild symptoms of a mental disorder be disclosed at a marriage proposal or not?
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Behind the Classroom Door; 21
The topic on this week's Behind the classroom door from northern Illinois University's College of Education is should all children go to college. Here's the moderator Dean Robert F. top. It is interesting that in our country it appears the thing to do is to send your child to college. All children apparently planned to go to college or at least their parents would like to plan to have them go to college. This is an interesting development actually because there have been changes over the years with regard to what was expected educationally for one to be a success in life. You know several generations ago it was sufficient if a person graduated from the eighth grade. Later a high school diploma became necessary to attain a satisfactory position in life but today it seems that a college diploma is essential if you want to get the job you desire. Now when you consider what has
happened it appears to me that the completion of the eighth grade and then the completion of the high school course. Now the completion of college would indicate that employers have always looked for a certain degree of persistence that was shown by the completion of these three different types of educational programs in past generations. Yes. It's interesting that you mention generations Leo because I was just sitting here thinking as you were talking that relating this to my own family for example in my father's day if you said an eighth grade education was adequate I think in my day one generation later I'm in my day a high school education was adequate for most of my classmates and of course now for my children a college education is a necessity. You know there's like oh you know you say I wonder if we aren't almost past that
stage. Some type of graduate work or graduate degree is a necessity for many fields. Well a large percentage of baccalaureate earning students plan to go on to their and their master's degrees. But you know there can be a lot of harm come out of this custom. This idea that you aren't in unless you have completed college degree. I think we have to recognize that even though a high school diploma used to be. The mark of distinction indicating a person was ready to go to work that many people then did not finish high school program. And today there is a considerable percentage of young people who don't finish the high school program. These are so-called dropouts and whatever may be the cause. They just don't finish. And perhaps a different kind of program needs to be designed for such individuals. I think that in some cases the job market tends to be quite
unrealistic and that often times an educational requirement is attached to the job when it would be very different to determine the rationale for that particular degree. You begin to wonder were the employers asking for a bachelor's degree because of the now only skills a person has or whether just to winnow out. Some people do think in general might not do the job. You know when I consider this problem it appears to me that at the present time the elementary school and the secondary school have all they can do to prepare children to become good citizens and thinking human beings without taking the time or they don't have the time to prepare these children for a specific occupational skill. So I think it's a necessity then that children continue beyond high school to pick up the
technical knowledge which will fit them for a job and in the community now. I don't think that necessarily has to be a college bill. I think we ought to consider any institution that prepares a child beyond the high school. But isn't it truly all that as we talk more and more about all students going to college those of us at the college level are guilty of forcing high schools to concentrate more on the college preparatory program and we won't let them in unless they have so many hours for laying foreign language and so forth and yet dropouts often have dropped out of high school because the curriculum was not meaningful to them. I think in many cases the potential dropout is a type of individual who wants immediate reward or he wants to be able to see the relationship between what he is studying in school and what he will
be doing in life. And. Most recent figures I've seen for the state of Illinois indicate that we have approximately one third of our youth who start the first grade who do not complete high school. Well that's a large number. And I think that our schools have to become concerned much more concerned about providing a meaningful curriculum for that group. You know when you say that it's meaningful this is significant because it's wrong to think that all of those children all the children of all the people can can complete the typical academic colleagues prep program at the high school level they just can't or as you've indicated they may not be interested or motivated enough. So were it were seriously in error and not providing the kind of high school programs that meet their needs. One of the features that is being incorporated in many high school programs these days
is the work study program in this program the student who was on able or unwilling to continue with the regular basic highschool course to work part time in industries or offices within the community it's shared time. Type of arrangement where the child spends part time in the in the business office or factory and part time in the classroom in the high school. Then he is able to get this training which otherwise would not be a vailable for him. And I think that's definitely a step in the right direction and many schools of course in the last few years have started such programs. But I also think that. Many laypeople in fact many people even in the profession have a very erroneous idea is about to drop out based on studies that were done many years ago all.
For example I think we tend to think of the dropout as being someone with a lower IQ. Someone who was unable to achieve in school and yet one member of our Illinois junior college board is on a committee that has just well they're in the process of completing a study. The dropout and surprisingly cities they found that it is the person with the higher IQ who is dropping out of school. Imagine that. How do they account for that. These individuals of course. I think you're dealing largely with minority groups. Once you moved into the inner city but they know all that they're not going on to college and therefore they're intelligent enough to see that much of what they're doing in high school. Has no relationship to what they will do in employment. I shouldn't say they necessarily have a higher
IQ but he found that they have. There is no significant difference between the IQ of the individuals who drop out and those who stay. However there was a slight advantage for those people who were dropping out. Now if when these people were traced through their elementary schools their grades often were fairly high at the beginning and then gradually became lower and you could almost see that as the student Developmentally he saw that what he was doing in school had no relationship to his world. So again I think that those of us in education have to make certain that teachers try to relate what a person is studying in a classroom to the child's world not to the teacher's world or not to the college life. But to the entire class and you have to realize and face up to another thing that I think is a factor in the dropout rate or the
person's disinclination to go to college and then is that intellectual activity requires a lot of inner drive. Sit do sit down and apply or sow independently do homework or preparation requires a lot of internal drive and motivation. More perhaps than actual work. I think many and many a dropout who had given up because you just can't bear the boredom him sitting down and studying can go out and make a good contribution. But we want them to be prepared in the areas where they can contribute. Now we've indicated there are a lot of alternatives because of my concern and I think you would have the concern to parents who are saddling their children with their own ambitions to finish a typical baccalaureate program when many of them should not do this. Or perhaps are not capable of doing it. Under present circumstances where we still formalize a baccalaureate degree I know there are a lot of opportunities
other than the baccalaureate degree and I think that parents ought to realize this and try to assess their children's interests and abilities and think of these other things. I think one of the best things certainly happening throughout the United States and happening very rapidly in the state of Illinois is the development of community colleges or perhaps more commonly called junior colleges. And these are part of the higher education system in the state so that it is possible for an individual to attend a junior college. If he is uncertain whether he should. An attempt a baccalaureate he can take a college parallel program a so-called program because it parallels what the individual would take in his first two years at a senior college. And if he does satisfactorily on that program he may transfer into a senior college
without loss of credit. But the best thing about the community college is that the community college often offers programs that would be more meaningful for the non academic student backed by a percentage of the curriculum has to be devoted to the technical aspects. Yes Tech and technical and vocational and I think. Eventually in the state of Illinois they do hope to have community colleges within commuting distance of all high schools. In other words an individual should be able to commute to a nearby Jr. College Well actually you can make some mistakes in the counseling young beginning junior college student. Again if we aren't careful of our own desires and ambitions are projected to this individual we don't give them sufficient testing and counseling to find out what his interests are. I think many a person going into a junior college chooses the
college prepare a well program as though you were going right on to a baccalaureate when again. If his counselors and his teachers and his parents had a little more insight this young person they would try to encourage him into some kind of a technical or terminal vocational program in the community college. When you think of the needs of the junior colleges now serving in Illinois and will serve in the future it's amazing to me that we've haven't had more junior colleges in the past I know about 25 years ago. There was a movement towards private union colleges across the country. And then during the war. They sort of fold many of them folded. And so now there certainly is. It certainly is evident that there is a need for this sort of institution. And then furthermore there's there is the student that that really doesn't know whether or not he will be successful in college and it's a good chance for
this student at sort of on the fence to test him self because sometimes they have the idea that they have to be highly intellectual to be successful in college. And as Dean top said a few minutes ago there are other factors that are important here such as that inner drive that stick to it and is to do a good job in rural encouragement. And so I think many times students who feel they wouldn't be successful in college surprised themselves by by being very successful. Well then it's not too hard really to decide to discover where their young person is a mechanically inclined. I see this with children that I know where one child grasped the relationships between physical things and mechanically can put them together or take them apart or has this insight. On the other hand a very bright person academically speaking maybe all thumbs may be unable to see the spatial relationships.
Well this is a junior college movement would appear to indicate then that there is going to be a 14 year educational program available to all children then at at state expense. In our time we had this program available through the through the 12th grade and we were talking about past generations where this program was available through the eighth grade but. It definitely appears now that. The educational program for all children will be increased to 14 years. I think you're making an important point to stress in the idea that this would be at state expense because of financial reasons of course have kept many capable individuals from attending college and the junior college at least will give the individual the opportunity of attending. For a two year period to
determine whether he actually has the drive to go on and continue at the senior college and also gives him the opportunity to take a technical or vocational program at comparatively low cost. I think the present arrangement in the state of Illinois still. It has a tuition fee. For the youngster. In fact the individual pays one third the cost of attending. The state pays one third and the Junior College District pays one third. Is this true of all or part of our junior County. The ones that have gone under the master plan as class a class one junior colleges generally follow that plan. The local district me assume a greater share of the cost and I think my own opinion is that they should that the cost youngster should be as low as
possible. California for example. I had no charge to the individual through the baccalaureate. Well University of Guelph actual state of California prior to some recent changes that were made under the present governor. Unable an individual to attend from kindergarten through the doctorate without pain tuition there were fees but these were relatively small fairly typical tuition charges fairly minor and I think almost any needy child in golf or knew was able to get a grant that would pay the cost of the fees. But I taught in connection with a community college in California for a few years and at that time we charge students one dollar and I was one dollar simply for registration. Well it's free for all practical purposes.
This nation has always taken the position that the education of young people was everybody's responsibility. Whether the individual taxpayer had children or had educated children or not this was settled in court cases earlier. Which indicated that it was legal and desirable. Well I think that the idea of some tuition is partly to demonstrate the seriousness of purpose of the student and his parents. And in a way we may have forgotten to mention that many a good student who wants to go to college and can finish it doesn't do so because of a relaxed careless attitude on the part of his birth's apparent sometimes even today. And this seems unbelievable to some of us. Discourage their children from going on to college when they might be capable. It's been said that anybody can go to college now if he has enough ambition. The financial problem can be solved. I think that's true although it costs much more money today for boarding room and for
another living cost than it did let's say when I was in college. There are other sources of income available to national defense and national defense loans are available to students who have the need. And then you take the student who goes to a junior college and is highly successful in his grades. That student has access to different types of scholarships if he would investigate through his counselor. He would find different scholarships available to him. It's probably easier for a needy child. To attend college today and needy financially than it is for a child of middle class parents. Because so many of the grants and scholarships have need to attach to them financial need. While the child who cannot prove that his parents lack the finance finances to support his education may have much more difficulty.
I don't think we should mislead people though when we consider scholarships that are available because I think that poor families benefit little from these scholarships because most awards are too small to be practical without the family having some additional money to supplement the award that the child is getting. And many many times this has to come from the young person himself because he has to work. He has to have the desire to go to college. And I think we'd be surprised to discover how many parents really are not encouraging their young people to go. Why. I know several young people who have borrowed money from the National Defense loan. And I don't know whether everyone is acquainted with those loans or not but the student borrowers I think they can borrow up to about a thousand dollars a year. And then what loans do not they do not cumulate any interest on these loans until after this good student finishes
college and then after he finishes if he goes into teaching he's forgiven five percent of the loan every 10 percent of the loan to beat every year for the first five years. He teaches in other words if he goes out and teaches for five years he's forgiven 50 percent of the money that he borrowed to go to college. You know in addition to these loans and scholarships that are available the student always has the opportunity to earn additional money on any campus because of the university businesses and the town are always looking for student help. Students can can work and dormitories and work in the preparation of food in the library and. Throughout the university there are many such jobs available. In fact I think it's a very good thing if individual does work cover at least part of his expenses to attend college I think he may become a more serious student and certainly has the advantages of
learning. From whatever particular job he has. I. Think it's also interesting we're talking about the expansion on one end at one time if you finished eighth grade. It was except a bald and high school and college that were also expanding our educational program at the other. In other words kindergarden is becoming mandatory at least school districts are going to be required to set up kindergarden throughout the state of Illinois. We have many preschool programs nursery programs and so forth so that the period of time that an individual can expect to spend in formal education certainly has been. Increased rapidly within the last few years our nation has always respected education and felt that it was one of the greatest gifts that a person could be. There are quire and there are benefits from going to college and I am
maintain that everybody should continue his formal education as long as he can as long as he's capable of doing this. This may mean that some people will do only one year of college study in a technical school. This may mean two years it may mean four but there are benefits that don't come through the classes. In fact I sometimes wonder if an individual doesn't learn. More. Outside the classroom than he does within the class. And I'm not talking about courses just academic matters but other things that would help him in life and would be very important to him. Life the. Child for example who grows up in a community in a small town or every size town has very little contact or at least certainly close relationship with individuals from other areas large cities other parts of the US
and attending a college gives him an opportunity to be on somewhat of a cosmopolitan Veyron meant I think he can learn a great deal from that and also from the social activities college sponsors Well a social development that takes place in college is very evident. We can see this as we contrast the freshman with the seniors tremendous changes take place during those four years of college and they can't be attributed only to the instruction going on in the classroom and by the way Ray I do think that outside of the classroom the student probably gains more academically also through his study in the library. Yeah because gosh and Gertrude's what a one hour lecture is hardly comparable to one hour reading even because you read so much more and can acquire so many facts and insights this way. Maybe we're touching on another motivation. Earlier we were talking about motivation for going to college. I. Think that many girls are quite frank to
admit that one of the major reasons they attend college is to find a boy who eventually they'll marry and what could be better objective I think for either the boy or the girl thing most of them are quite successful too dontcha think so they get a in the last minute selection process. I haven't done a survey at Leo but I'm glad you speaking as this is an interesting change takes place when young people get married in college and I think this guy is supported by formalized study as well as my experience with these young people and that is that when a boy gets married you know while he's attending college he gets more serious. He applies himself harder and he settles down and he starts to worry about supporting wife Now contrariwise and perhaps I'm judging in too few cases the girls I've known who've gotten married in colleges sometimes thought well I better make a good home for my
husband and I'm not going to worry too much. Well this is a serious mistake because as you pointed out Leo earlier 60 percent and you say 60 percent of the families have the wife doing some work and some kind of a continuing basis. And this seems to be a way of life. Nowadays not only do earn the money but do enrich the experiences of the wife or the mother. I certainly want to reinforce what you said about college being a desirable experience for those who are capable of attending. I think most individuals who attend college eventually look back on college years as being perhaps the most enjoyable years in their lives. The atmosphere of courses is different and you can find in the world of work different than the high school level. And I think can be a
very enjoyable experience for most youngsters only just getting away from home. It is important I think I really believe that. Children should go away from home to go to college so they are living at home but are associating in dormitories and in rooms with other people. I think some parents should realize too that when their child goes off to college that they may have some difficulty in adjusting that first year because it is quite an adjustment for a student from maybe a small high school going into a big university. But at least he is with other people who perhaps have the same adjustment problem. If he left his hometown to go somewhere to work he may have the same sort of adjustment problem to a new environment a new city. And yet he doesn't have a peer group to share that with. Well I think the response we are giving to the question is should all children go to college is essentially yes. And if they're at
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The relationship between music and the visual arts has always been close.
Paintings or forms of rhythms, melodies, lyrics and the feeling of a song is a timeless and universal phenomenon.
This is especially the case when we talk about whole musical currents, genres of music that have made history, sealed their time and continue to inspire future generations.
Undoubtedly, Rebetiko belongs to this category and is also the central theme of an exhibition organised by the Municipality of Athens beginning on February 10.
This interesting exhibition records the visual imprint of rebetiko, but with a modern look.
Among the 125 works of 50 different artists included in the exhibition, one can see the masterpieces zeibeks by Giannis Tsarouchis, the wonderful features of Tassos from the covers of Sotiria Bellou’s albums, and the inspired drawings of Alekos Fasianos from the covers of Elias’ books Petropoulos for rebetiko music.
However, we will learn mainly what rebetiko means for the contemporary artist.
“The aim of the exhibition and the accompanying edition is to illustrate rebetiko and its mythology through a modern perspective,” explained Christoforos Marinos, the curator of the exhibition and all the activities of the Organisation of Culture, Sports and Youth (OPANDA) of the Municipality of Athens.
“A contemporary artist can connect emotionally and perform rebetika songs through images.
“We were mainly interested in examining how contemporary art converses with rebetiko, how contemporary Greek artists approach and interpret it.
“That is why most of the works are assignments and were carried out especially for the exhibition.”
He also reveals that many of the artists participating in the exhibition explored their roots through this process.
“For example, the work of Giannis Theodoropoulos refers to Pikinos, who was his relative and was stabbed in 1931 on Akamantos Street in Thissio.
“Maria Tsagari, on the other hand, studied the history of her great-grandfather, the famous violinist Nikos Syrigos.
“Katerina Zacharopoulou, with the play The Rosa Buffet, examines the case of Eskenazy, retrieving personal family stories and memories.”
The exhibition includes mainly paintings but to a lesser extent other arts are also on display, such as engravings, photography, books, sound installation and performances.
Among the works, the cartoons of the rebetis Costas Bezos stand out, who were artistically active under the pseudonym A. Kostis.
Admission to the exhibition will be free for the public.
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Protesters of the world take a bow. Time magazine, that international publication of record, salutes you as their Person of the Year.
When Time celebrates street radicals fighting against their ruling classes, you know the world has been turned upside down.
For those of us in this country who take to the streets to draw attention to a cause or an injustice, whether it's union workers fighting for a living wage, Maori opposing seabed and foreshore confiscation, environmentalists against mining, or social justice campaigners marching in solidarity with some overseas oppressed people, it is high honour indeed that such activity is recognised as a legitimate and effective role outside the usual power structures.
Not since the anti-nuclear campaign and the anti-Springbok rugby tour protest in the 1980s have we seen mass street movements that changed our nation by drawing attention to injustices.
Those who continue this noble tradition are accustomed to being abused and marginalised. It seems New Zealanders have no trouble being inspired by a lone Chinese shopper in 1989 defiantly standing in the pathway of a military tank. Yet when most of us see Kiwis protesting in support of some good cause in our own neighbourhoods, we can't even be bothered tooting our car horns as we drive past, let alone joining in.
Ah, if only I had a dollar for every moron who thought they were being witty yelling out for us to "get a job".
For years it seemed the Earth's population had bought the New World Order mantra that there was nothing you could do as an individual to change the status quo.
Street protesting became a waste of time. If you were lucky, you could cast a vote to elect people who - the day after the election - promptly ignored your concerns. Maybe that's why a million New Zealanders didn't bother to vote this year.
But something in the cosmos must have affected people in the rest of the world. Protesting is back in vogue as a legitimate and effective way to not only change the discourse in a country, but even to overthrow authoritarian regimes everywhere.
This year it started in North Africa. Now it has spread to the Middle East, Russia, Europe and the United States. Protesters are marching in their millions and dying in their thousands fighting against oppression and injustice.
In New Zealand, our protest culture has been on hold. But here's a warning to Prime Minister John Key: in the next few months, it's our turn to step up.
He believes, with the backing of the financial and media elites, that National's electoral victory gives him a mandate to sell off our profitable assets. He's wrong. Two out of three New Zealanders oppose that. He's on an ideological mission to flick off assets to make the wealthy even richer without doing an ounce of work.
If there was ever a time for Kiwis to join with Time's people of the year, it is now.
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NATO Secretary General Lord Robertson said that the alliance has quickly overcome divisions sparked by the war in Iraq.
"NATO has overcome these problems, and our decision to take over the stabilisation force in Afghanistan and to go ahead with planning for helping Poland in Iraq shows how fast NATO has picked up speed," Robertson told reporters after meeting yesterday with Czech Prime Minister Vladimir Spidla.
Last week, NATO's 19 member states agreed unanimously to start planning to help Poland lead a multinational peacekeeping force in Iraq.
The Polish-led peacekeepers will maintain order and help set up new civilian authorities in a zone of central-southern Iraq wedged between the British-run area in the south and the US-controlled zone in the north.
Before the Iraq war, the alliance was plagued by inner disputes when France, Germany and Belgium held up sending defence units to Turkey for weeks to emphasice their opposition to the US-led war.
Speaking to the NATO Parliamentary Assembly later in the day, Robertson warned against further divisions within the alliance.
"We can afford a crisis only once in 10 years," Robertson said.
Robertson arrived in Prague yesterday to attend the assembly meeting and to meet with Czech leaders.
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The Boris Hede In Hond I Bryng
Music: English Traditional
Found in The Porkington Manuscript, #10, f 202 r; now referred to as Brogyntyn MS ii.1.
Communicated to the authors by Sir Frederick Madden
Thomas Wright and James Orchard Halliwell, eds., Reliquiæ Antiquæ. Scraps
from Ancient Manuscripts. Vol. 2 of 2. (London: John Russell Smith, 1845),
p. 30, and
Thomas Wright, Specimens of Old Christmas Carols Selected from Manuscripts and Printed Books (London: The Percy Society, 1841), pp. 3-4.
See generally: The Boar's Head Carols
SONG OF THE BOAR'S HEAD.
Porkington, No. 10. sm, 4to. sec. 15. on paper.
This Song or Carol differs from the two on the same subject printed in Ritson's Ancient Songs, p. 126.
Hey, hey, hey, hey, the borrys hede is armyd gay.
1. The boris hede
in hond I bryng,
With garlond gay in porttoryng,
I pray yow alle with me to synge.
2. Lordys, knyõttes, and skyers,
Persons, prystis, and wycars,
The boris hede ys the furt mes,
3. The boris hede, as I yow say,
He takis his leyfe, and gothe his way,
Gone after the xij. theyl ffyt day,
4. Then commys in the secunde kowrs with mykylle pryde,
The crannus, the heyrrouns, the bytteris by ther syde,
The pertrychys and the plowers, the wodcokus and the snyt,
5. Larkys in hot schow, ladys for to pyk,
Good drynk therto, lycyus and fyne,
Blwet of allmayne, romnay and wyin,
6. Gud bred alle and wyin dare I welle say,
The boris hede with musterd armyd soo gay ;
Furmante to pottage, with wennissun fyne,
And the hombuls of the dow, and all that ever commis in ;
Cappons i-bake, with the pesys of the roow,
Reysons of corrons, with odyre spysis moo.
It ends abruptly thus at the bottom of a page.
The two carols in Ritson's Ancient Songs that are on the same topic are:
VI. A carol on bringing up a boars head to the table on Christmas-day: The Bores Heed In Hand Bring I, p. 158
VII. In die nativitatis. [a Christmas carol]: The Borys Hede That We Bryng Here, p. 160
Above the carol in Wright's Specimens of Old Christmas Carols is the following: "From the Porkington MS. of the fifteenth century, communicated by Sir Frederick Madden to the Reliquiæ Antiquæ, vol. ii. p. 30. It appears to end imperfectly." In the Preface to Vol. 1, Reliquiæ Antiquæ, which is dated Dec. 30th, 1840, the editors wrote that Sir Frederick Madden was among those who materially assisted in the course of the present volume. The Preface to Specimens volume is dated December, 1841.
This carol has the odd distinction of having been first printed in one volume (Specimens of Old Christmas Carols, 1841) with attribution being given to a second volume that was published subsequently to the first (Reliquiæ Antiquæ, Vol. 2, 1845). The versions are identical (that is not always the case).
The Porkington Manuscript is now referred to as Brogyntyn MS ii.1, located at Llyfrgell Genedlaethol Cymru (The National Library of Wales) in Aberystwyth. It is discussed on the page A Middle English Miscellany (BROGYNTYN MS ii.1). In part, it is described as:
This mid-fifteenth-century miscellany of prose and verse, formerly known as Porkington 10, is one of the most important medieval English manuscripts at the National Library. Written on paper and parchment, it contains a remarkable variety of texts, mainly in Middle English though a few are in Latin. These cover subjects from political prophecy to instructions for computing the position of the moon, from weather lore to medicine, from an Arthurian poem relating the adventures of Sir Gawain to saints' lives, and from love poetry and drinking songs to carols.
Richard Leighton Greene cites his source as "Lord Harlech, Brogyntyn, Oswestry. MS. Porkington 10. XV Century." The Early English Carols (1932), Carol 135.
Also found in Furnivall, The Babees Book, p. 397, citing as its source the Porkington MS, No. 10, fol. 202 (circa 1460-1470). In the footnotes to this carol, Furnivall writes that “this carol is printed in Reliq. Antiq., vol. ii, and is inserted here – copied from and read with the M.S. – to fill up a blank page. The title (“the Boris hede furst”) is mine.”
To the phrase "Larkys in hood schow," Furnivall, notes “stew.”
To the phrase “blwet of allmayn,” Furnivall notes that “allmayn” is a wine. He further notes that “Recipes for the dish Brouet of Almayne (H. O.), Brewet of Almony, Breuet de Almonde, are in Household Ordinances, p. 456. Forme of Cury, p. 29, and Liber Cure Cocorum, p. 12.” These recipes are available in other Fifteenth Century cookbooks as well.
He also notes that the recipe for Potage de Frumenty is in Household Ordinances, p. 425. As of Feb. 10, 2013, “Household Ordinances” has not yet been scanned and posted to either Google Books or the Internet Archive.
It has been remarked, that, in spite of the invitations contained in these Carols to partake of the "first mess," the Boar's Head, it is conjectured, was little else but a show dish ; for, in all the allusions to it, mention is only made of one head being served at each feast, though, even were the number greater, it could hardly have been sufficient to have yielded a mouthful a-piece to the numerous guests who were generally present at these entertainments. See: Joshua Sylvester, A Garland of Christmas Carols, Ancient and Modern (London: John Camden Hotten, 1861)
In short, the presentation of the head was little more than ceremonial. After the Head was presented, it would seem likely that the rest of the roasted pig was carved and served being the remainder of a fit first course. We still do this today anytime that we go to a barbeque (baby back ribs, pulled pork sandwiches, etc.), have a pork roast for dinner, a ham sandwich for lunch, or bacon (with eggs, etc.) for breakfast.
Also found in Edith Rickert, Ancient English Christmas Carols: 1400-1700 (London: Chatto & Windus, 1914), p. 257 as “The Boar's Head In Hand I Bring.”
Rickert gives the following for line 2 of the burden:
“The boar's head is armed Gay”
Rickert gives the following for line 3, verse 3:
“Gone after the Twelfth till fit day,”
Note: The “Twelfth Day” is January 6th (Epiphany, the last day of the Christmas-tide in some traditions.).
Rickert's note concerning Second Course in Verse 4:
“All these things are mentioned in cookery books and directions for carving between the days of Henry IV and James I. Some of them, as bruet of Allmayne and frumenty, were especially associated with Christmas cheer.” (page 301)
Rickert's note concerning the third line of the fifth verse (“Blwet of Allmayne”):
“For bruet of Allmayne, i.e., German stew.”
Rickert, verse 6:
“Good bread, ale and wine, dare I well say,
The boar's head with mustard armed go gay;
Frumenty to pottage, with venison fine,
And the humbles of the doe, and all that ever comes in;
Capons ybaked with the pieces of the roe,
Raisins and currants, with other spices mo.”
Ricker's note concerning “Reysons of corrons” in the last line of the sixth verse:
“Literally, raisins of currants, the common expression of the time, meaning originally, raisins of Corinth.”
One unusual aspect of this carol is the stark difference between the first three verses and the last three verses. Other have observed, and I agree, that the first three verses were a separate carol to which was appended the balance of the song, as a sort of expansion on the description of the feast. An entirely different song, with a different meter, would be necessary for verses 4 and 5; verse 6 is completely different from the preceding five (although it might be stretched to match the tune and meter of verses 4 and 5, doubled).
Also found in William Sandys, Christmas-tide, Its History, Festivities and Carols, With Their Music (London: John Russell Smith, 1852), #12, pp. 230-1, virtually identical to the text found above. No notes to the carol, however, he does have a brief discussion of the boar's head carol in his history: The Boars Head Feast.
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Folic acid enables the body to form haemoglobin. Folate plays a pivotal role in the correct development of a baby’s spinal cord during the three months following conception and helps lower the risk of heart disease.
Vit B12 (Colalamin)
Colalamin is necessary for the normal functioning of the nervous system and the formation of red blood cells. This vitamin can only be found in animal sources, therefore vegetarians are strongly encouraged to supplement. Read more here.
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Our sleep needs vary quite a bit. For most of us, it’s around eight hours a night. You might find that you need more and don’t feel quite right after only eight hours, which is also totally normal. Or, you may have a rare genetic mutation which means that you only need six hours a night and can function perfectly well long-term. But the main point here is that you need a quality rest. There are many benefits of a good night’s sleep.
Why talking about benefits of a good night’s sleep matters
Most of us can cope with a few small variations. The odd late night might leave you a little tired and grumpy or have not affect at all.
As long as you go back to eight hours as soon as you can, it won’t do any harm. You might also find that you have the odd catch-up. After a busy week, a few sleepless nights or a heavy workout session you might find that you sleep for over ten hours in one night.
As a one-off, this is also fine. It’s just your body’s way of telling you that a little extra rest is necessary and it’s taking the chance to catch up when it can. However, if this starts happening regularly for no clear reason and you struggle to open your eyes after a solid eight hours, you should see your GP as it might be a sign of an underlying health condition.
So, sleep is important, and if you are struggling to get enough, it’s a good idea to try some home remedies like CBT for insomnia, warm drinks before bed, cutting caffeine and sugar later in the day or increasing your activity levels. But, why is sleep so important? What are the real benefits of a good night’s sleep? Spoiler alert, there’s probably a lot more to it than you think. Let’s look at eight of the benefits of a good night’s sleep.
1. Feel better
This is perhaps the most obvious and noticeable benefit to a good night’s sleep. You’ll feel better. Getting out of bed in the morning will be much easier, you’ll feel alert and focused straight away, and your energy levels will stay level throughout the day. Without enough sleep, you might feel fine first thing in the morning but find energy dips later on in the day.
Sleep helps to keep you consistent too. If you get lots of sleep but still struggle to get going or feel sleepy in the afternoon, try making a few other lifestyle changes like exercising in the morning, drinking more water, and eating healthier snacks.
2. You’ll be less stressed
One of the main causes of a lack of sleep is stress. We lie awake at night worrying about problems or dreading the next day. We spend hours tossing and turning trying to find solutions or dwelling on or worries. Then, the next day you feel tired and have trouble concentrating.
Staying up worrying never helps. You’ll never come up with a good solution or let your stresses go in the early hours. Even if you do manage to do so, you likely struggle to put it to the back of your mind. This will only increase stress levels.
Getting a good night’s sleep gives the brain a chance to rest. This automatically reduces your stress levels and makes it easier to spot solutions to any issues. Try meditating before bed to help you to switch off and stop worrying.
3. Remember more
Your brain might be taking a rest from worrying while sleeping but that doesn’t mean that it’s not working hard. While your body is switched off, your brain is getting a different kind of workout. While you are in a deep sleep your brain is in a process we call consolidation. This is when it strengthens memories and practices (or consolidates) the skills learned that day.
Sometimes we stay up late revising or practicing something that we need to know the next day. You’d actually be better off learning the skill, practicing until you were tired, and then sleeping to let your brain consolidate the knowledge.
4. You might live longer
The science on this one is a bit complicated. Studies show that people who sleep the right amount can live longer than those who sleep too much or too little. But, people that are ill often sleep less or more than they should. So, it’s hard to know if sleep is a cause or an effect.
But, we do know that sleeping reduces stress levels, promotes good mental health, and helps your immune system to work at its best. This can help you to live longer, so there’s no doubt that sleep plays a big part in living a long and healthy life.
5. Reduce inflammation
Inflammation in your body can lead to a whole host of conditions and diseases. These include strokes, heart disease, premature ageing and diabetes. This inflammation can be anything from gum disease to a physical injury. It’s never good. Studies have shown that people who sleep for six hours or less have higher levels of inflammatory proteins in their blood, making them more likely to be affected.
6. You’ll be more creative
Do you ever find that a creative block is lifted after a great night’s sleep? This might be due to the consolidation process taking place, or because your brain has had time to restructure your thoughts. It might even just be because you are feeling more alert and relaxed, allowing your mind to wander down more creative avenues.
7. Healthy weight
Weight is something that many of us struggle with. It’s thought that nearly one-third of the world’s population is obese or overweight. There are many reasons for this, including confusing guidelines and information, cheap and unhealthy foods, a lack of time to cook, and not exercising. But, sleep also plays a role, and getting more is perhaps one of the easiest lifestyle changes to make when trying to lose weight.
Studies show that dieters who are sleep deprived lose more muscle mass than fat, and those that get a good night’s sleep can lose up to 56% more fat. A common problem with weight is also eating late at night when we’re bored and have nothing else to do. Going to bed earlier can dramatically reduce this risk.
8. Fewer accidents
Driver fatigue is a real risk, and more people need to know that. When you are tired, your judgement is impaired, your reaction times are slower, and you don’t think as fast. This can make you clumsier and more likely to be involved in an accident when driving. Getting a good night’s sleep means that you can think faster and your reflexes are sharper. Just being able to make a decision faster can help keep you safer.
The tips above are helpful, as is seeing your doctor for further advice and support. Don’t put off making good sleep a priority. It matters a lot, as you now know!
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