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Speech delivered by Professor Yaman Akdeniz at the Speak-Up!2 Freedom of Expression and Media in the West Balkans and Turkey Conference in Brussels, 20 June 2013.
The Internet as the largest communication network in the world is increasingly becoming indispensable for everyone around the world to take part in cultural, social and political discourse. In fact the Internet is the linchpin of a democratic society and social media platforms have become crucially important for participatory democracy.
The dramatic events involving the Gezi Park protests exposed the complicity and almost complete government control of mainstream Turkish media, which largely failed to report the protests. In fact, traditional media as we know almost died a few weeks ago in Turkey, and the only media that people can obtain information on crucial matters of public interest such as the Gezi Park and subsequent protests is the new media and social media platforms.
As you all know by now rather than showing the live images of the protests CNNTurk showed a very interesting documentary about penguins. In fact, the Penguins have become the symbol of an anti censorship movement in Turkey and the beginning of a shift from traditional media to social media for a considerable number of Turkish people.
With regards to the Gezi Park protests it should not be forgotten that the European Court decided in several cases that the right to freedom of assembly is a fundamental right in a democratic society and, like the right to freedom of expression, is one of the foundations of such a society. You cannot separate these two fundamental rights from each other. In fact they go hand to hand.
Going back to the Internet and social media related issues, contrary to the statement of the prime minister, social media is not a menace but a sine qua non of democracy. In this new world if there is no social media or Twitter there shall be no democracy.
Let me tell you about the Internet Control Regime in Turkey as an update to what I told the attendees in this room during the first SpeakUp Conference. Law 5651 resulted with approximately 30.000 websites being blocked from Turkey in the name of protection of children disregarding adults rights to access legal content. The Law has been challenged at the Strasbourg level and found to be incompatible with Article 10 of ECHR in the case of Ahmet Yildirim v Turkey. It was regarded as a disproportionate ban even though there was a legal basis for the blocking order. So far no single government authority has commented on such a crucial case nor took action to reform the censorship provisions of Law No 5651 or any other similar legal measures.
In Turkey we not only have access blocking measures but also filtering from Internet cafes and homes “for our safety of course” as part of the broader paternalistic approach adopted by the government.
Morevoer, during the last 12 months or so we started to come across more and more bloogers and social media users being prosecuted, Fazil Say, Recep Okuyucu, İbrahim Davutoğlu, Sevan Nişanyan a few to name..
Now the government hinted that they might introduce further measures with regards to social media platforms. It is not clear in my mind what they will do but the dominant position which the Government occupies makes it necessary for it to display restraint in resorting to criminal proceedings, particularly where other means are available for replying to the criticisms it received.
Democracy does not simply mean that the views of the majority must always prevail: a balance must be achieved which ensures the fair and proper treatment of minorities and avoids any abuse of a dominant position.
In fact, in times of crisis governments should avoid knee jerk reaction to such events and immediately introduce further restrictions. We want the government to reform the Internet law in compliance with ECHR and not to introduce further restrictions on Internet communications and social media platforms whether in the form of new content related restrictions or law enforcement measures which would intrude on privacy of Internet users including the right to stay anonymous in Turkey. | <urn:uuid:a1f4dab7-3864-4fef-8182-d81e4690ddfc> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://cyberlaw.org.uk/2013/06/23/speech-delivered-by-professor-yaman-akdeniz-at-the-speak-up2-conference/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00301-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948645 | 807 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Around the Sea of Galilee
Bet She'an National Park – the biblical mound containing remains of the city to which the Philistines brought the bodies of Saul and his three sons (1 Sam. 31:10), and capital of the Greco-Roman alliance of cities known as the Decapolis, Bet Shean boasts colonnaded streets, mosaics, temples, fountains, pools, a theater, an amphitheater and more.
Tiberias - The present-day capital of the Sea of Galilee, built by Herod Antipas and once the headquarters of the Sanhedrin, ancient Tiberias is now undergoing excavation that will one day reveal in all their glory its market streets, colonnades, theater and more treasures. Visit the dig, as well as Hamat Tiberias National Park– the remains of a magnificent synagogue mosaic and Mount Berenice – the Anchor Church.
Capernaum – the first of the three cities of the “evangelical triangle” (including Bethsaida and Korazim) to return from historical oblivion, with Byzantine and Roman remains of a synagogue, a church and dwellings that raise many interesting questions and illustrate New Testament stories.
Bethsaida – excavations are underway of the Roman city that figured centrally in the ministry of Jesus, and of huge remains of the biblical city of Geshur, hometown of David’s wife Maacah (2 Sam. 3:3).
Korazim National Park – an early Talmudic-era synagogue that is interesting to compare to Capernaum’s, with the replica of its original Moses Seat, a ritual bath, dwellings and other elements that bring alive Talmudic descriptions of community life. | <urn:uuid:663e9e84-e316-495d-aa9a-a5249a8eaf11> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.goisrael.com/Tourism_Eng/Tourist%20Information/Itineraries/Archaeological-7-Day-Tour/Pages/Archaeological-7-Day-Tour-Day-6.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720941.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00519-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928726 | 361 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Teen Book Club!
Jun 27, 2008
from 03:30 PM to 05:00 PM
|Where||Library Study Room|
|Contact Name||Debbie Stanton|
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This month we'll be reading Franz Kafka's story, "The Metamorphosis", which was first published in 1915.
The story begins with a traveling salesman, Gregor Samsa, waking to find himself transformed into a giant, monstrous bug! (Fits the theme well, don't ya think?!)
Reserve a copy at the library, or read the story in its entirety online at: Project Gutenberg. It's really a fairly short story (in the library's copy it is only 45 pages!), so take your time with it...
As always, we'll have snacks and drinks for those attending... See you there! | <urn:uuid:5648b9d7-bdfe-4385-983f-647ec0bb05b8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.kalona.lib.ia.us/archive/2008/jun08/ya-bookclub?month:int=11&year:int=2012&orig_query= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719215.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00200-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88988 | 174 | 1.828125 | 2 |
American Old Time Song Lyrics: 55 The Bridegroom That Never Came
Theater, Music-Hall, Nostalgic, Irish & Historic Old Songs, Volume 55
THE BRIDEGROOM THAT NEVER CAME.
Copyright, 1897, by T. B. Harms & Co.
Words and Music by Gussie L. Davis.
The village church was crowded on a quiet Summer's eve,
And eager ones were gathered at the door
To see the happy wedded couple marching down the aisle,
And hear the wedding bells ring out once more.
The bride, the maids of honor, and the ushers waited long,
With friends that were to greet the joyous pair.
"'Tis nine o'clock," the preacher said," they were to wed at eight!"
All wondered why the bridegroom was not there.
Waiting for the bridegroom, waiting, alas, in vain!
Little does the bride know they will ne'er meet again!
She can't believe him faithless, she loves him still the same;
Sad are her fears, waiting in tears for the bridegroom that never came.
The bridegroom had an old sweetheart he'd loved in days of yore,
But Fate had kept them far apart for years;
He'd heard that she was married, while she thought that he was dead!
They met that morn, her eyes wept joyful tears.
With old love vows once more renewed, they wedded were that day!
He sent no message to his promised bride.
Her life was wrecked; within her home they never speak his name,
A broken heart she vainly tries to hide. - Refrain. | <urn:uuid:9d3c930a-7f02-46a8-8a30-209e401a5e54> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.traditionalmusic.co.uk/songster/55-the-bridegroom-that-never-came.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00005-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97171 | 361 | 2 | 2 |
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In the Import Data popup, you can choose your CSV file and upload it that would merge with the existing table.
Things to watch out when adding into an existing table – AKA Appending query:
It’s critical to make sure the structure of your CSV files matches with the structure of your table! If the structures don’t match, the import will probably fail and ZenBase will show you an error message.
- The number of fields per row in your CSV files matches with the number of columns in the ZenBase table. If you have 10 columns in your table, you’ll need to have 10 values per row in your CSV file.
- The values in the primary key fields in your CSV file are unique. If ZenBase detects primary key values which already exist in your table, the import will fail. | <urn:uuid:088f9770-39f5-49b2-9ef1-397ba4a120f1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://getzenbase.com/tutorials/adding-records-into-an-existing-table/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.827463 | 253 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Category: Society & Social Sciences|
The author of the book: Matthew Sharpe
Format files: PDF, EPUB, TXT, DOCX
The size of the: 31.63 MB
Edition: Acumen Publishing Ltd
Date of issue: 30 September 2008
Description of the book "Understanding Psychoanalysis":"Understanding Psychoanalysis" presents a broad introduction to the key concepts and developments in psychoanalysis and its impact on modern thought. Charting pivotal moments in the theorization and reception of psychoanalysis, the book provides a comprehensive account of the concerns and development of Freud's work, as well as his most prominent successors, Melanie Klein and Jacques Lacan.The work of these leading psychoanalytic theorists has greatly influenced thinking across other disciplines, notably feminism, film studies, poststructuralism, social and cultural theory, the philosophy of science and the emerging discipline of neuropsychoanalysis. Analysing this engagement with other disciplines and their key theorists, "Understanding PDF Psychoanalysis" argues for a reconsideration of psychoanalysis as a resource for philosophy, science, and cultural studies.
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The first collection published by D.A. Powell, Tea (1998), looked oddly like a smart restaurant menu: Wesleyan University Press manufactured a shiny, green and gilt hardback, six inches tall and nine inches wide, to accommodate Powell’s very short poems and very long lines. The promise the cover gave was borne out inside, where those long lines flaunted multiple midline stops, unruly punctuation (stopping where the grammar said go), terse yet explicit depictions of gay sex and profuse quotation from disco hits:
now the mirrored rooms seem comic. shattered light: I once entered the world through dryice fog
not quite fabulous. just young and dumb and full. come let me show you a sweep of constellations:
16, I was anybody’s. favorite song: dance into my life [donna summer] and they did dance
17, first fake i.d. I liked walk away [donna summer] I ran with the big boys …
20, the year I went through the windshield. sylvester sang I want to be with you in heaven.
Powell’s phrases worked like pick-up lines or pop hooks, designed to get attention in a crowd. You could put those phrases together to read about lives defined by a certain gay male sexuality, by its codes (‘I wore the green bandanna as often as I could’), by its conspiratorial exhilarations and – in the late 1980s and early 1990s – by the early deaths and constant mourning occasioned by HIV and Aids.
Powell grew up working class, if not flat broke, in the rural American South and then in agricultural California: his teenage years were marked by a car crash that killed a close friend (‘andy buried under a hunter’s moon … I had meant to be first among us dead’). His apprenticeship included the usual poetry workshops (at Sonoma State University, and then at the University of Iowa) but also days on the street: ‘There were times when I was younger,’ he has said, ‘when I had limited options and had to prostitute myself. It’s something that is not very far beyond my life.’ A poem from Chronic entitled ‘central valley’ describes his California youth this way:
kids like me blowing black snot into sleeves and checked bandannas
the farmers – almost extinct – wheezing along the earthen dikes
and the sky a mass of black lung: spittle settling upon the nutsedge
Like almost everything else in Powell, such bleak places may be rescued for the imagination by sex, in the same moments that stamp them as frightening:
here I inhaled first plum blossoms and took the yellowjacket stings
saying ‘sticks, I live in the sticks, don’t drive me home I’ll sleep instead
on your rug, be your boy, just ask me to spread my legs, I’ll spread’
The self as teenage prostitute, as body for sale, physically open for inspection, becomes the self-appeasing, self-delighting soul who finally writes the poem, and delights in its internal rhymes.
Tea was a coming-of-age book, a fractured autobiography, but also a group elegy, the strangest and most vivid, it seems now, of the many books from the 1990s in which gay poets described the early deaths of their friends; an elegy, but also a celebration, whose choppy, lengthy, remixed lines showed how some gay men of (more or less) his generation put together a subculture in which they might rebuild lives. Powell learned that he had HIV shortly after he finished writing Tea: his unusual lines could model his friends’ (and his friends’ friends’ friends) bricolage, their efforts and his own (as he wrote in prose) ‘to reshape my life from its incomplete bits’.
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Presentation on theme: "Work, Power and Energy Review Each table will work as a team to earn points by answering questions. There will be 60 seconds to answer each question from."— Presentation transcript:
Work, Power and Energy Review Each table will work as a team to earn points by answering questions. There will be 60 seconds to answer each question from the time I am done reading unless otherwise noted. Answers will be recorded and presented on the whiteboards at each team table. Correct answers will earn the points denoted by the question. Incorrect answers will not be penalized. The choice of category and question will rotate among teams. At Final Jeopardy, each time may wager all of their earned points, or $1000, whichever is greater. The winning team will earn 1 point of extra credit each on tomorrows test.
Strategy Work together with your team. Talk quietly but discuss possible options. Make sure to write down your solution before time runs out. After each question and answer we will have time to discuss and answer questions.
Work, Power and Energy EnergyConservation of Energy WorkPowerPotpourri Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Q $100 Q $200 Q $300 Q $400 Q $500 Final JeopardyFinal Jeopardy: Units
$100 Question from Energy ___________ is the energy of an object in motion
$100 Answer from Energy Kinetic energy
$200 Question from Energy Pulling back a rubber band is a form of storing __________ energy
$200 Answer from Energy Potential
$300 Question from Energy Energy is a measure of an objects _________________
$300 Answer from Energy Ability to cause change
$400 Question from Energy What is the kinetic energy of a 15 kg boulder resting at the top of a 12 m cliff?
$400 Answer from Energy 0 J (Not moving = no kinetic energy)
$500 Question from Energy What is the potential energy of a 15 kg boulder resting at the top of a 12 m cliff?
$500 Answer from Energy 1764 J
$100 Question from Conservation of Energy When a ball is thrown directly upward, which of the following is true? A.Its kinetic energy is mostly converted to potential energy. B.Its potential energy is mostly converted to kinetic energy. C.Its kinetic energy is mostly converted to heat.
$100 Answer from Conservation of Energy A. Its kinetic energy is mostly converted to potential energy.
$200 Question from Conservation of Energy If energy can be neither created nor destroyed, what do we mean when we say Dont waste energy!
$200 Answer from Conservation of Energy Dont convert energy into less useful forms, like heat.
$300 Question from Conservation of Energy When a car rolls down a hill, most of its potential energy converts to kinetic energy. Where does most of the rest of it go?
$300 Answer from Conservation of Energy Heat (from friction)
$400 Question from Conservation of Energy A 2 kg object sits at the top of a 10 m hill. How fast will it be rolling at the bottom of the hill?
$400 Answer from Conservation of Energy 14 m/s
$500 Question from Conservation of Energy An object starting with 20 J of potential energy rolls down a hill. At the bottom, 7/8 of the potential energy has been converted to kinetic energy. How much energy (in Joules) was lost due to friction?
$500 Answer from Conservation of Energy 2.5 J
$100 Question from Work Work is a measure of _____________
$100 Answer from Work How much energy is transferred.
$200 Question from Work One unit for work is a Joule. A Joule is equivalent to a _______________
$200 Answer from Work Newton-meter [N-m]
$300 Question from Work How much work is done if a 20 N force is used to slide a box 4 meters?
$300 Answer from Work 80 J
$400 Question from Work How much work is done if Mr. Richter pushes against a boulder with 200 N of force for 5 seconds but the boulder doesnt move?
$400 Answer from Work 0 J
$500 Question from Work How much work is done to lift a 40 kg barbell to a height of 2 m?
$500 Answer from Work 784 J
Daily Double! You have 30 seconds to submit your wagers.
$100 Question from Power Which of the following is not a definition of power? A.The rate of energy transfer B.How many Joules are converted to other forms of energy C.The rate at which work is done D.How quickly energy is converted
$100 Answer from Power B. How many Joules are converted to other forms of energy (this is a definition of work)
$200 Question from Power Which is more powerful, a student that runs up the stairs or a student that walks? Assume they have equal mass.
$200 Answer from Power A student that runs. Same work, less time.
$300 Question from Power Calculate the power of a machine that can do 2400 J of work in 8 seconds.
$300 Answer from Power 300 W
$400 Question from Power How much energy does a 1500 W microwave use if it is on for 40 seconds?
$400 Answer from Power 60,000 J
$500 Question from Power How powerful is a weight lifter who lifts a 400N weight 2 m in 1.6 seconds?
$500 Answer from Power 500 W
$100 Question from Potpourri Which force does the most work?
$100 Answer from Potpourri C
$200 Question from Potpourri Work has the same units as what other quantity?
$200 Answer from Potpourri Energy
$300 Question from Potpourri Complete the sentence: Energy can never be created or destroyed, just __________
$300 Answer from Potpourri Energy can never be created or destroyed, just converted from one form to another.
$400 Question from Potpourri A 1000 kg car and an 1200 kg car roll down a hill. Assuming energy is conserved, which car, if either, will be rolling faster at the bottom of the hill?
$400 Answer from Potpourri Neither. Gravity accelerates all objects the same regardless of mass.
$500 Question from Potpourri An ice skater is gliding across the ice at a constant speed. Is she doing work?
$500 Answer from Potpourri No. No acceleration means no force. No force means no work.
Final Jeopardy: Like all objects, humans need energy to cause change. What unit do humans most often use to describe their own changes in energy?
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Travel with Joseph on his amazing journey as you study Genesis 37-50. Take seven weeks to follow him from one fascinating adventure to the next. Find out how God used Joseph to save his special people from starvation. Learn about the power of forgiveness. This Bible study is packed full of lessons that help young people study Joseph’s life in great detail and teach them more about the wonderful works of Joseph’s God. | <urn:uuid:19acb659-fe3d-4bbb-ba30-5a90ec897e00> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://wilds.org/store/product/joseph/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.950818 | 88 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Karachi: People living in glass houses should not be throwing stones at others, the Indian envoy in Pakistan has said as he described Kashmir as an internal matter of India.
Answering questions on the Kashmir issue and the recent statement by Prime Minister Narendra Modi on Balochistan, Indian High Commissioner in Pakistan Gautam Bambawale said there are problems in both India and Pakistan.
He said people living in glass houses should not be throwing stones at others.
Calling Kashmir an internal matter of India, he said, "There are problems in both India and Pakistan and you [Pakistan] should focus on resolving your problems before looking into the problems of other countries."
About the statement made by Modi, the envoy said, "The Prime Minister, in his August 15 independence day speech, only referred to the letters he had received."
Bambawale was speaking at an interactive session organised by the Karachi Council on Foreign Relations on Monday. He said the Indian government had been saying: "Let's work together to get to the bottom of terrorism which is a headache not only for Pakistan, but for India and the world." Bambawale said the two countries should not be talking on just one issue, but on all issues.
When asked whether Modi will visit Pakistan to attend the SAARC regional summit in November, Bambawale said, "Prime Minister Modi is looking forward to visiting Islamabad for the SAARC summit".
He said that even while tensions were high between the two nations, there had been contacts at the operational level, The Dawn reported.
Over the past one-and-a-half month, there had been "cordial" interactions between Pakistani and Indian border forces. Several meetings of the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation (SAARC) had also been held.
Bambawale also called for greater trade ties between Pakistan and India and said political issues will take time to resolve.
He said that Pakistan should also grant India the Most-Favoured Nation status. "There should be more participation in trade fairs and more Pakistani trade delegations should visit India," he added.
"There is no option but to do it step by step," he said. The Indian envoy said the road to normalisation of ties between the two countries lies through greater trade and business.
The roadmap in this regard was prepared by the two governments in 2012 could be unveiled soon. The total trade between the two countries was worth just USD 2.5 billion a year, whereas its potential was of USD 20 billion, he said. "There is a great potential that needs to be tapped." According to reports in the leading Pakistani newspapers, he said that political issues take time to resolve but the two countries can take up smaller matters and move forward. | <urn:uuid:1daa6d3b-5ea8-4716-93c8-d72948ff7777> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.firstpost.com/india/people-living-in-glass-houses-should-not-throw-stones-at-others-indian-envoy-to-pakistan-2992482.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00030-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977037 | 562 | 1.664063 | 2 |
is generally good for you (due to the presence of antioxidants and other beneficial minerals) and has the added advantage of being completely organic and sugar-free (zero fat or calories). This makes it a better beverage to consume than say Coke, Pepsi, Red bull, etc. which all contain sugar and calories (not to mention a high concentration of acidity which are bad for the teeth). Having after large meals can help with digestion and prevent the “after-meal hangover” or “food coma” due to the moderate levels of caffeine in the tea.
Note: onlywill give you all the beneficial nutrients from the tea (and be organic) — tea bags usually contain tea dust/extremely poor quality tea which should be avoided at all costs.
If you want to become a regular drinker of tea as a matter of course, a good schedule to follow is:
7:00–9:00am —including [with breakfast]
2:00–3:00pm —[can be an accompaniment to lunch]
5:00–8:00pm —[with high tea or light supper]
9:30–11:30pm —[1 hour before going to bed]
The ranges are given for people’s sleep/lunch/work schedules — there is no hard and fast rule regarding the consumption of tea. Similarly, you can easily substitute theand with (although I enjoy the variety of flavours and depth of different teas) in the afternoon or at supper time. | <urn:uuid:5d5983ad-489d-4282-8fbf-2d37cb27d3ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chaiandmighty.com/blogs/updates/what-is-the-ideal-time-to-drink-tea | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.939756 | 313 | 1.640625 | 2 |
International Conference on Engineering Design - ICED'09 edition:17 location:Palo Alto date:24-27 August 2009
While architects think and work in a visual way, people who are visually impaired may pay more
attention to other senses and, as a result, are able to appreciate other spatial qualities. Because of this
particular ability, our research seeks to explore how to enhance communication between architects and
visually impaired people. It is imaginable that there is significant disparity between how architects and
visually impaired people talk; even so, this paper seeks to discover points of connection that support
enabling a genuine dialogue between these two groups of people. The study reported here aims to gain
insights into how both groups talk about the built environment by comparing and contrasting two
independent data sets: four in-depth interviews with architects, and four with visually impaired people.
Through analysis of the spoken word, we identify what common ground exists and what the central
differences are between both groups. On this basis, we discuss potential elements that may challenge
or facilitate developing connections towards deeper conversation between architects and visually
impaired people. While the study focuses on architectural design and visual impairment, the findings
may be transferable to communication between designers and non-designers in general. | <urn:uuid:0c1ef45a-cd0f-484d-9e83-fd97b61c588a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://lirias.kuleuven.be/handle/123456789/223606 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00391-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939005 | 264 | 2.375 | 2 |
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Research into self-assembled semiconductor quantum dots (QDs) has helped advance numerous optoelectronic applications, ranging from solid-state lighting to photodetectors. By carefully controlling molecular beam epitaxy (MBE) growth parameters, we can readily tune QD light absorption and emission properties to access a broad portion of the electromagnetic spectrum. Although this field is now sufficiently mature that QDs are found in consumer electronics, research efforts continue to expand into new areas. By manipulating MBE growth conditions and exploring new combinations of materials, substrate orientations, and the sign of strain, a wealth of opportunities exist for synthesizing novel QD nanostructures with hitherto unavailable properties. As such, QDs are uniquely well positioned to make critical contributions to the development of future quantum technologies. In this tutorial, we summarize the history of self-assembled QDs, outline some examples of quantum optics applications based on QDs, discuss the science that explains the spontaneous formation of QDs, and provide recipes for successful QD growth by MBE for some of the most commonly used semiconductor materials systems. We hope that compiling this information in one place will be useful both for those new to QD self-assembly and for experienced researchers, ideally supporting the community’s efforts to continue pushing the boundaries of knowledge in this important field.
Copyright 2020 American Institute of Physics. This article may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the author and the American Institute of Physics. The following article appeared in:
Sautter, K.E.; Vallejo, K.D.; and Simmonds, P.J. (2020). Strain-Driven Quantum Dot Self-Assembly by Molecular Beam Epitaxy. Journal of Applied Physics, 128(3), 031101.
and may be found at doi: 10.1063/5.0012066
Sautter, Kathryn E.; Vallejo, Kevin D.; and Simmonds, Paul J.. (2020). "Strain-Driven Quantum Dot Self-Assembly by Molecular Beam Epitaxy". Journal of Applied Physics, 128(3), 031101-1 - 031101-25. https://dx.doi.org/10.1063/5.0012066 | <urn:uuid:dee25756-e687-4156-ab0d-6972852d016b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://scholarworks.boisestate.edu/physics_facpubs/232/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.828654 | 491 | 3.515625 | 4 |
In January of this year The American Conservative published “Why Aren’t There More Black Republicans” byMusa Al-Gharbi. I found some excellent and insightful points in Al-Gharbi’s piece. While there are also some legitimate grievances mentioned (which the GOP needs to take seriously) I believe many of these grievances are aimed in the wrong direction. I admit my perspective is not one of a political insider or policy wonk. I’m just a regular Joe trying to make a living. With that in mind, please consider the following.
Al-Gharbi makes the remarkable (and rare) point that the GOP has a positive historical record on civil rights and that Americans need to be reminded of this history. Al-Gharbi also touches on some important Democrat history of American politics and race. Can you imagine what campaigning would be like today if Americans were reminded of historical Democrat opposition to civil rights (including filibustering civil rights legislation in the 1960s)? For more eye opening info on this topic, Bruce Bartlett writes about the abysmal Democrat past on civil rights in his book Wrong on Race: The Democratic Party’s Buried Past. Dinesh D’Sousa’s movie “Hillary’s America” is another good place to look.
But when Al-Ghardi moves off of history and into the meat of his article there is a vital distinction between Republicans and Conservatives that is not mentioned – the difference between conservatives and RINOs (Republicans In Name Only). This distinction, I believe, would reshape many of his points. Another point I want to reexamine in Al-Gharbi’s article is what appears to be a left wing perspective on many issues.
Take, for instance, the argument on the supposed harm inflicted on black Americans “by advocating for voter ID laws, which disenfranchise primarily low-income and legal minority voters.” We can ask, in what way does a common sense (and internationally speaking, a very common) election security precaution disenfranchise anyone? The “widespread evidence” standard is a legitimate one, and I’d like to see widespread evidence that such abuse is inevitable in the implementation of voter id laws. For the liberal left it is standard procedure to ignore or downplay stories of various forms of election fraud, and we should not neglect the fact this fraud is so often in their favor. The numerous cases of voter fraud are often simply ignored or actively covered up by those who benefit from them (which should not be surprising). I humbly suggest the complaints of Voter ID laws should not be taken at face value.
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If “widespread evidence” and “a single example of when such voting has actually turned an election” (criteria Al-Gharbi mentions) are the standard Voter ID proponents must measure up to, why not hold opponents of Voter ID to that same standard?
A couple examples of voter fraud come to my mind. A Philadelphia man gleefully admitted on live television he voted multiple times for Barack Obama. Imagine all the details that have to work together for this to occur. First, the only system innate in the voting process to prevent multiple voting is the poll workers. Unfortunately, the poll workers either don’t notice or don’t care that he voted more than once. And he feels so confident that nothing is wrong with this he is willing to admit on TV that he committed the crime. Some questions ought to naturally follow. Was this man charged? Did anyone in law enforcement follow up?
In another example, this woman, (who was a poll worker at the time) admits voting for Obama multiple times and yet denies committing voter fraud. When the perpetrators of voter fraud don’t recognize or even deny their crime it makes sense there would be difficulty in finding “widespread evidence” for it. As an experiment, one could show these two examples of voter fraud to people who voted for Barack Obama and ask them if these incidents qualify as voter fraud, and subsequently discover why “widespread evidence” for this crime is so difficult to find. Many people are so enamored with the idea of the first black president, election laws seem to be irrelevant.
On the other hand, there was an article a few years back on how the current election system (regardless of voter IDs) may be designed to disenfranchise black voters by default. Could it be that requiring voter ID might help liberate the black community from this and other common election shenanigans which already disenfranchise them?
I would also ask for widespread evidence that “Republican legislators court Neo-Confederates and other ethnic nationalist movements” as Al-Gharbi states. There seems to be no concern for nuance here (such as the difference between groups reaching out to politicians and politicians actively courting organizations). Do we know such groups reach out to conservatives and not to RINOs? RINOs are more likely to get government involved and appeal to special interest groups because RINOs act more like Democrats than like conservatives.
But does it matter when questionable groups have ties to politicians? It apparently didn’t matter in regard to the late Democrat Senator Robert Byrd, as Bill Clinton explained Sen. Byrd was merely “trying to get elected” by being a member of the KKK. A lame excuse, sure, but it worked. Evidently it doesn’t matter that Robert Byrd spent half a century representing people for whom a “fleeting association” (full blown membership) with the KKK counted as an asset rather than a liability. As Al-Gharbi already mentioned, the liberal narrative would sugar coat and disregard this record with a racist hate group. Then, curiously, Republicans would be blamed for the evils committed by that group. Despite many theories, the reality of why Democrats and Republicans are treated so differently on matters of racism escapes me. Even the myth that the parties “switched sides” is losing its influence as more people learn the truth of the matter, yet Democrats often get a pass for overt racism. There are no more whites only water fountains, restrooms, lunch counters, etc. It is not incidental that Republicans dominate the American South during its LEAST racist era. Racism abounds throughout the country, we are constantly told, and the South is no longer the preeminent example of it.
On the matter of affirmative action, I don’t doubt there was a time for this sort of government intervention. But it has become a crutch for the black community. The left wing narrative constantly promotes the idea that black Americans cannot survive without Uncle Sam’s helping hand on a daily basis. This, of course, makes it easier to displace white people to make room for demographic quotas in various jobs (though I don’t see much effort to REDUCE counts of blacks among professional athletes (such as the NBA or NFL) to make the demographics more closely match those of the general population). This narrative is promoted largely by perpetuating the belief that there has been no progress in the battle against racism over the last half century, that racism still lurks around every corner. No one claims racism has been eliminated but it certainly sounds like Democrats infuse race into every discussion possible. Fear mongering and race hustling work for Democrats.
But what should we expect from people who, as Bob Parks put it, make money finding racism even when it isn’t there? The Duke Lacrosse scandal is one of the more prominent examples of how the ghost of racism is kept alive because the fear of racism is fuel for the fire – even if liberals have to lie about it. But let us not forget that manufactured racism and affirmative action both provide the same benefit for Democrats: a belief that the black community needs government, and that government can solve all of life’s problems.
We should question whether government can solve such problems. There is an astounding degree of blind faith in the magical powers of government. This faith is often supported by questionable data if not outright lies. The figures Al-Ghardi provides sound familiar, much like the feminist data constantly touted about the supposed wage gap. I’d like to see the data that show “Black families have, on average, 5 percent of the wealth of their white counterparts.” How do we know “blacks earn only 60 cents for every dollar that white people earn in salary and wages.”? (And if blacks did earn 60 cents for every dollar that whites earn, wouldn’t blacks have 60 percent of the wealth of their white counterparts?) Are these numbers produced in the same way the specious 77 cents wage gap figure was produced? And if the methods for producing the 77 cent or 60 cent figures are valid there are other questions we should put on the table; such as is it okay for Hillary Clinton to pay her female workers 72 cents for every dollar she pays a male?
Others have made good points in that the data show the black community was stronger and more likely to overcome the lingering effects of slavery and racism before government started trying to “help” in the 1960s. In fact, Dr. Thomas Sowell and others who have looked into this issue make a good case that the lingering effects of slavery and racism we see today are largely perpetuated by government intervention (meaning Democrats and RINOs).
In conservative thought, a nanny state government is an insatiable government. Every decision the government makes on our behalf is a decision we no longer have the right to make for ourselves. Every effort for the government to “help” people grows the power and influence of the state, which diminishes the autonomy and liberty of the individual. Over time this sort of help infantilizes people, who look to government more and more to take care of them, and they eventually become slaves to their own government. Conservatives expect other conservatives to accept this viewpoint. RINOs don’t really care about the size or fiscal appetite of government.
I appreciate the viewpoint diversity Al-Ghardi speaks of. I would like for viewpoint diversity to be valued among our increasingly closed minded, intolerant, progressive culture. Progressives are astoundingly judgemental and abusive to those expressing dissent. (Just as an experiment, find a moment to say out loud to a group of progressives “marriage is between one man and one woman” as if you actually believed that statement, and tell me how tolerant they are of a view they disagree with.)
On any number of issues you can find ample viewpoint diversity among conservatives, of any race. But on the fundamental issue of liberty vs. government influence, to veer away from this premise is to veer away from conservatism. Given there are relatively few people who subscribe to this belief, conservatives gladly embrace all who agree with this view regardless of race. It is one of the building blocks of all conservative thought.
But to Democrats and liberals/progressives, to free people from a nanny state form of “help” is uncompassionate and even dangerous. Stoking racial strife is one of the most common ways for Democrats to promote their idea of benevolent government. Alan Keys, Herman Cain, and Ben Carson do not “downplay the significance of historical disadvantages or institutionalized racism” when they speak of the natural result of increasing government power, as Al-Gharbi suggests. Slavery is in fact the destination at the end of that road. Democrats, on the other hand, do downplay the significance such evils when they constantly accuse Republicans of racism, such as VP Joe Biden’s comment about putting black people back in chains.
As to alienating blacks, quite frankly it is not conservatives who do that. According to one of my favorite conservative commentators, Alfozo Rachel, it is the black community who alienates Republicans. And it is liberals who accuse black conservatives of being sell outs among other things. There is a concerted effort to marginalize black conservatives. Black conservatives often pay a huge price for coming out of the closet as conservatives.
RINOs do in fact offer the “top down” approach Al-Ghardi mentions, the same government-knows-best approach Democrats offer the American people. But RINOs and Democrats fail to understand something about economics that is common sense among conservatives: poor people don’t create jobs. On the other hand, somehow the American people have largely been convinced raising their taxes helps them.
One of the biggest lies in American politics is about taxes. So many people who claim to want “fairness” are led to believe “the rich” and “corporations” don’t pay their “fair share”. I’m still waiting for someone to tell me what “fair share” actually means. One question on this issue conservatives like to ask is “how much of other people’s stuff are you entitled to”? Many Americans are in fact “looking for government handouts” and they are “demanding wealth redistribution as a corrective for historical disenfranchisement”. It is not conservatives who are doing this, it is liberals/progressives. I see it in the black community, the hispanic community, the white community, etc. American culture, with the exception of conservatives, is largely infected with an entitlement mentality – an attitude of “somebody owes me something”.
Everyone claims to desire a “fair playing field, opportunity for social mobility” but many people will likewise demand government handouts without even noticing the contradiction. In fact, from what I’ve seen, when liberals say they want a fair playing field and opportunity for social mobility, they actually mean government regulations and handouts. Thankfully conservatives are pushing back against this distortion. Black conservatives are doing a lot of this pushback but they are often marginalized and ignored, or attacked with racial epithets by those favoring government handouts.
I don’t know anyone who actually opposes a social safety net that prevents people from sinking into total despondency (though I know many who are blithely accused of opposing any social safety net at all). The biggest objection I see to the current American social safety net is that it is corrupt and inefficient, and has a tendency to trap its recipients in poverty. As Bill Whittle put it, the food, housing, education, and even cell phones offered by the government are all crap, crumbs from Uncle Sam’s table. And human beings deserve better than that.
Sadly, crumbs are the best we can expect from a massive, corrupt government. This is what “micromanaging the poor” looks like – the government-run social safety net. It is not conservative Republicans who support the inefficient social safety net, it is RINOs and Democrats who support it. That’s why conservatives preach so much about freedom. Crumbs we can get easily but if we want more than crumbs we have to work for it. This is why conservatives are constantly talking about getting government out of our way – so people can live their own lives.
But that brings us to a core difference between the way conservatives and others see life. Conservatives don’t look at life from a perspective of helping people attain minimal survival, but from one where people should be allowed to thrive. We don’t seek a social safety net as the peak of civilization, we seek prosperity so that a social safety net does not overwhelm all of us (as is inevitable given the way Democrats and RINOs constantly seek to expand that net). These things require work, a lot of work. Smart work. Making good decisions is crucial to prospering in life.
Making good decisions is a challenge faced by us all, but it seems the black community is more challenged than any other group of Americans. We can tell ourselves this is a result of slavery and discrimination, but perhaps a closer look might shed further light on the matter. Unfortunately, this closer look could lead to some socially unacceptable observations, even if they are true.
In the black community there is very common disdain for education, especially among young males. And why shouldn’t this be the case? From decades of telling the black community they can’t succeed because of racism, and then forcing the black community into what is arguably the worst sector of American education (often riddled with a political agenda), why should the black community believe success is possible for them? Why shouldn’t they expect a life of government handouts? That’s an alarmingly common attitude among the general American population, not merely in the black community. Many times I’ve witnessed people share ideas on gaming the entitlement system, with the mentality of getting as many benefits as possible from the government. And that’s one result that can be traced back to slavery but perpetuated by government: dependency on a master.
Conservative Republicans want to set people free from this kind of misery. One major effort to achieve this freedom is school vouchers. School vouchers empower parents to decide what sort of education is best for their children. But school vouchers take this power away from a bureaucratic state, which is the lifeblood of progressivism today. Thus Democrats typically oppose school vouchers, and make people fear the freedom this would grant them by making that freedom look “raysiss”.
The same is true of government entitlement programs. These programs often trap people. Promoting liberation from a minimum standard is often viewed as “draconian restrictions” on the “assistance provided” by government. And this brings us from bad government programs back to good individual decisions.
Government handouts have made headlines for buying alcohol, drugs, and other entertainment. To the people whose resources were confiscated by government and then redistributed, these sorts of purchases look like a betrayal of trust. We have been lead to believe the social safety net is intended to prevent “people from sinking into total despondency.” Buying booze, drugs, porn, etc., make it seem some of the recipients of these benefits are not as poor as we’ve been lead to believe. Like anything else in life, the people who genuinely need the social safety net have to suffer consequences of others, of those who abuse or defraud the social safety net. Republicans don’t want to make “draconian restrictions” on those who actually need assistance but they do want to stop fraud and abuse of programs which spend other people’s money. Social trust is an important element for those being forced to pay the bill. As long as abuse and fraud occur conservatives will be offended by the waste of aid intended for those who really need it, and seek to prevent such waste. Wasting this aid harms those who really need it. Shouldn’t we all be offended by that?
But rather than simply cleaning up corruption in the system, conservatives want to move beyond merely talking about setting people free and actually set people free. This requires a total change from the predominant safety net paradigm.
Which brings us back to taxes. The current government structure rests on making people think someone else should pay more taxes. The brilliance of this progressive system is that most people don’t realize they are the “someone else”. Businesses “pay” business taxes because they first raise the prices we pay – we the people actually pay all taxes. We can call it corporate tax, or employment tax, or whatever the government wants. But it is we the people who pay. Raising taxes directly impacts we the people, hitting the poor the hardest. Rather than building a massive government scheme designed to control wealth (the progressive way), conservatives prefer to reduce government involvement to the minimum required (military, police, courts, roads, etc.). With minimal government control over wealth there is also minimal government appetite, and thus less government involvement, thus minimal burden on the people. Imagine the jobs that would naturally be created if even 10% of the wealth currently confiscated by the government were instead left to the people who generated that wealth in the first place. People who create wealth naturally put it back into the economy in the form of purchases and business expansion. But we are supposed to call this greed, and consider increased jobs a bad thing when businesses are allowed to create them rather than the government.
And that leads us to another difference between conservatives and others. The ability to freely exchange among our fellow Americans is hampered by over taxation and corrupt regulation. Making life more expensive works quite well for government as it feeds the perceived need for government intervention, thus making a self fulfilling prophesy. But it does not work so well for the people, particularly the poor. Government’s strength is greatest in the act of taking and controlling, but the market’s strength is greatest in offering goods and services for voluntary exchange.
Which brings us back to politics. Conservatives want to change the “getting help” paradigm (government intervention) to a paradigm of achievement (individual liberty). Conservatives also want to redirect the new cultural obsession with “fairness” and return to an obsession with liberty. It is possible. There are prominent black Americans showing us success is possible if people were simply free from an over burdensome government. But that’s the rub; to be free to live one’s own life also entails the responsibility of doing so. A very important question conservatives should ask is “do you want to be free, or do you want to be taken care of?”. It is alarming to see how many people say they want the former but act like they want the latter.
Blind faith in the power of a benevolent government does more harm than good, especially to those it is allegedly trying to help. Democrats have an unwavering faith in the myth. RINOs share this faith. RINOs betray the Republican identity by becoming nothing more than diet Democrat. Democrats and RINOs betray the American people by making false promises resulting merely in more expensive government control of people’s lives. Obamacare is a prime example, from lies about keeping your insurance, to lies about reduced costs, to lies about improved access to health care.
Conservatives should work harder to reach the culture rather than look to politics to solve life’s problems. The “if government doesn’t help, no one will get help” myth must be confronted. So should the lies told which make people think a nanny state government taking of them and making decisions for them is “empowering”. Democrats and RINOs have a vested interest in making people look to government to solve life’s problems. The American people have a vested interest in the truth. It is conservatives who must tell it.
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Creative Writing Workshop (Middle, Reading/Writing)
Bring this lesson into your unit about creative writing and precise language. First, middle schoolers create a piece of writing with the help of their classmates. In the second part of this workshop, they edit their own piece of writing. This exercise allows them to use their knowledge of grammar and word choice in their writing. | <urn:uuid:7aa9cf64-2416-4a1a-8c57-e5d930617768> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.lessonplanet.com/teachers/creative-writing-workshop-middle-reading-writing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00339-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954942 | 75 | 3.984375 | 4 |
Abstract Each amino acid in a protein is considered to be an individual, mutable characteristic of the species from which the protein is extracted. For a branching tree representing the evolutionary history of the known sequences in different species, our computer programs use majority logic and parsimony of mutations to determine the most likely ancestral amino acid for each position of the protein at each node of the tree. The number of mutations necessary between the ancestral and present species is summed for each branch and the entire tree. The programs then move branches to make many different configurations, from which we select the one with the minimum number of mutations as the most likely evolutionary history. We used this method to elucidate primate phylogeny from sequences of fibrinopeptides, carbonic anhydrase, and the hemoglobin beta, delta and alpha chains. All available sequences indicate that the early Pongidae had diverged into two lines before the divergence of an ancestor for the human line alone. We have constructed some probable ancestral sequences at major points during primate evolution and have developed tentative trees showing the order of divergences and evolutionary distances among primate groups. Further questions on primate evolution could be answered in the future by the detemination of the appropriate sequences. | <urn:uuid:e634ee56-70f4-4604-9b18-89907dd6b04a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.mysciencework.com/publication/show/7743a9d326269220723076910a7a08ce | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280410.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00458-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.933749 | 248 | 3.21875 | 3 |
Aggressive driving is extremely common among U.S. drivers. According to AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety’s 2019 data, nearly 80 percent of drivers expressed significant anger, aggression or road rage behind the wheel at least once in the previous 30 days.
Aggressive driving has increasingly become a major cause of concern for many road users. Learn more about aggressive driving risks and tips to avoid aggressive driving behaviors here.
- Speeding in heavy traffic
- Cutting in front of another driver and then slowing down
- Running red lights
- Weaving in and out of traffic
- Changing lanes without signaling
- Blocking cars attempting to pass or change lanes
Extreme cases of aggressive driving can escalate to road rage. Examples of road rage are:
- Cursing and rude or obscene gestures
- Throwing objects
- Forcing a driver off the road
According to estimates by the AAA Foundation’s Annual Traffic Safety Culture Index, millions of drivers engaged in the following angry and aggressive behaviors in the 30 days before the survey, including:
- Aggressive driving by switching lanes quickly/or very close behind another car: 26 percent (57 million drivers)
- Made rude gestures or honked at other drivers: 32 percent (71 million drivers)
- Driven 15 mph over the speed limit on a freeway: 48 percent (106 million drivers)
- Driven through a red light: 31 percent (68 million drivers)
- Passed in front of a vehicle at less than a car length: 22 percent (49 million drivers)
- Speeded up when another vehicle tried to overtake you: 25 percent (55 million drivers)
- Followed vehicle in front of you closely to prevent another vehicle from merging in front of you: 34 percent (75 million drivers)
- Merged into traffic even when another driver tries to close the gap between vehicles: 28 percent (62 million drivers)
Manage your behavior, manage your responses
You will see other drivers doing things that are illegal, inconsiderate and even incomprehensible. Don’t respond personally. Most drivers are not thinking about their impact on you; they are just rushed, distracted or upset.
Follow the rules of the road:
- Maintain adequate following distance.
- Use turn signals.
- Allow others to merge.
- Use your high beams responsibly.
- Tap your horn if you must (but no long blasts with accompanying hand gestures).
- Be considerate in parking lots. Park in one spot, not across multiple spaces. Be careful not to hit cars next to you with your door.
Remaining calm and courteous behind the wheel lowers your risk of an unpleasant encounter – with another driver and with law enforcement.
Dealing with Confrontation
- Avoid eye contact with angry drivers.
- Don’t respond to aggression with aggression.
- If you feel you are at risk, drive to a public place such as a police station, hospital or fire station.
- When you park, allow room so you can pull out safely if someone approaches you aggressively.
- Use your horn to attract attention but remain in your locked vehicle.
- If you are confronted, stay as calm and courteous as possible.
- If you feel threatened, call 911.
- Don’t Offend: Never cause another driver to change their speed or direction. That means not forcing another driver to use their brakes, or turn the steering wheel in response to something you have done.
- Be Tolerant and Forgiving: The other driver may just be having a really bad day. Assume that it’s not personal.
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A magnitude 3.8 quake woke some Christchurch residents in the early hours of the second anniversary of the city's deadliest day.
Two years ago today the destructive February 22, 2011 quake killed 185 people, felled hundreds of buildings and wiped out thousands of homes.
At 2.54am today, the ground beneath Christchurch showed it had not yet been silenced with a mag-3.8 quake.
Geonet shows the quake centred 8km deep, just offshore from New Brighton.
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There are various reasons for pimples at you age.it can be because of wrong selection of soap/cream to hormonal
disturbances .If you have irregular periods
, weight gain, scalp hair loss or facial hair ,then you should get a hormonal check up done to rule out polycystic ovary disease(PCOD).
I hope you are not using any steroid cream on your face ,as that would aggravate your pimples.
There are lot of options for treatment ,but that would depend on the cause of pimples and the stage of pimples.
You can start of with oral antibiotic to begin with ,along with topical anti acne creams lke clindamycin
or adapelein gels.
If this doesn't help the one can plan for oral retinoids
too,but this would require lot of investigations and precautions (esp in females) before starting.
If you have hormonal acne then hormonal medicines needs to be given.
So kindly consult a dermatologist
for proper diagnosis of the cause and proper treatment.
Meanwhile you can use a anti acne soap and avoid all moisturizers on face.
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OAKLAND -- California, and the Bay Area in particular, is blessed with some truly magnificent natural treasures. Still, while many of these outdoor wonders are often no more than a stone’s throw from many urban centers, a high number of largely inner-city youth never experience them.
To address that, the East Bay Regional Parks District (EBRPD) has launched a “Get Active Campaign” that aims to tap into the creative potential of young people in the East Bay to heighten awareness and appreciation of their regional parks.
“It’s a major initiative to get to urban youth,” says Shelly Lewis, community relations manager with the park district. “Many don’t have that connection to nature,” she adds, recalling a trip she took with several youth who had never before ventured into one of the area’s 65 parks.
“They were afraid,” she says, “of lions and tiger . . . They were afraid of the wild.”
Indeed, with more than 1,200 miles of hiking trails spread across some 112,000 acres in Alameda and Contra Costa counties, just east of San Francisco, the district is truly wild, representing the largest regional park district in the United States. But despite its size, many young people say it remains inaccessible.
Xavier Polk, 18, lives in Richmond and works at the Ryse Center, which seeks to provide local youth with a safe space to hang out and develop their creative capabilities. “A lot of people I know don’t go to parks,” says Polk. He adds that one reason has to do with violence and issues of gang territoriality. “It’s hard getting across the city,” he explains.
Dan Riley with the Ryse Center agrees. He notes that with the high rate of poverty and crime that exists in cities like Richmond and parts of Oakland, many younger residents may not see parks “as having as much value as their own survival.”
Those are fairly stark terms, and while the Get Active Campaign may not address all of the ills plaguing the Bay Area’s inner cities, it can help instill a healthy appreciation for nature and the benefits it has to offer.
With three categories including poster art, rap/spoken word and video/skit, the campaign invites young people to submit their work detailing their own experiences with the East Bay’s regional parks and extolling its many offerings.
“Think about the last time you went to an East Bay park. What did you do? What did you see? How did you feel? What would you want to tell a friend about getting active outdoors,” reads the campaign’s Web site.
The competition offers over $2,000 in cash and prizes, with $500 going to the first place winner. Winners will be announced in mid-June 2012, with all winning entries promoted on the East Bay Regional Park District’s websites, as well as being featured at its Healthy Parks Healthy People Festival.
Entrants must be residents of Contra Costa or Alameda counties between the ages of 12 – 18. The deadline to submit entries is May 25, 2012.
“Media connects young people to a community of peers,” says Riley, who conducts classes on video production and other multimedia projects at the center. “It naturally leads to the creation of a support network.”
With respect to regional parks, he says the campaign’s more targeted outreach is a good way to get young people “thinking about the issue.”
For Tania Puldio, that doesn’t seem to be a problem. “My parents didn’t buy us video games,” she says. “We went to the park every weekend.”
Point Pinole and Alvarado Park were two family favorites, recalls Puldio, a native of nearby San Pablo.
The 22-year-old, who teaches gardening to students at Lincoln Elementary School, credits her appreciation for the outdoors to her parents. She says its that kind of exposure that can foster a healthier respect for nature among her peers.
“I took a friend to Alvarado Park once,” she says. “It was her first time there, even though it was so close to her house.”
Puldio says her friend’s parents worked two jobs and simply didn’t have the time for recreational fun. After a day in the park, she thanked Puldio. “It was really relaxing… she really enjoyed it.”
With the ongoing recession, parks have in fact seen a spike in visitors seeking alternative and affordable sources of entertainment. Still, Puldio says she’s seen local schools cutting back on field trips and other outings to the parks, which she fears could undermine children’s appreciation for the park system.
That's where Get Active comes in.
“Welcome to the East Bay, where we roam and play. We don’t stay at home and look at TV all day.” That is the start to a rap video on the contest’s Web site featuring three young people as they look up from their computer screens to discover the bikes, lakes, and barbecue pits that form just part of the recreational activities to be found at any one of the district’s parks.
With all they have to offer, the creative potential is truly limitless.
中文 Editor's Note: The following article is part one of a three-part series on…
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“Indradhanush” aims to highlight the colourful tribal heritage and dance forms of India…reports Asian Lite News
Miji dance of Arunachal Pradesh, Rongmei dance of Manipur, Siddi dance of Karnataka and Gujarat, Kalbelia of Rajasthan and Thiruvadikala of Kerala have enthralled the packed hall of audiences at the Nehru Centre recently. Titled “Indradhanush”, the program aims to highlight the colourful tribal heritage and dance forms of India.
“Miji or Sajalong have an interesting propensity towards nature-based worship,and are a distinct group in Arunachal Pradesh. Rongmei or Kabui in Manipur area are also animistic and nature worshippers, with vibrant drapes and dance. With environmental conservation as a core issue globally, these two dances perfectly fitted into the context, besides displaying the rich tribal culture and heritage never seen before in the UK. We may also recall that the UK has recently declared climate emergency, hence portraying these dances and cultural background of the communities at this moment in time is also deeply contextual ” says Ragasudha Vinjamuri, chief organiser of the event, organised by Sanskruti Centre.
“We aim to generate greater understanding and awareness of India’s tribal arts and project India’s cultural image to wider audiences” she adds.
Messages from culture ministers of Arunachal Pradesh and Manipur, Taba Tedir and Jayantakumar Singh wishing the organisers and performers all the best and expressing appreciation for highlighting tribal culture from their respective states, were read on the occasion.
Speakers on the occasion were Dr Anand Arya, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon at Kings College Hospital, also serving as Vice President- OFBJP-UK, entrepreneur Dr Melissa Kapoor and Tushar Joge, who spoke on importance of promoting tribal arts, dance and Indian civilisation and tribal empowerment in the state of Maharashtra, having second largest population in the country. Ragasudha Vinjamuri outlined tribal population and the measures taken by the government to empower tribal communities economically, educationally and culturally.
Sushil Rapatwar presented a tribute to tribal heroes and heroines who fought against British and who made India proud in arts, sports etc. These included Rani Gaidinliu, U Tirot Singh, Mathmor Jamoh, Moju Riba, Baichung Bhutia, Mary Kom, Kamala Siddi, OP Jaisha, Deepika Kumari and other eminent personalities. All the kaaryakaras, well wishers, event was compered by Dr Mrittunjoy Guha Majumdar. Kalyanashram, Purva Seema Vikas Prathishthan from North East area have been thanked for their help and support towards the program. Several community organisation members and different nationalities have attended the event and appreciated the rich content it delivered. RS Virdi, of P and I Wing represented the High Commission of India. | <urn:uuid:54d6e0bc-0db7-42d9-977b-d09d05fd7c12> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://asianlite.com/2019/news/uk-news/indradhanush-portrays-rich-indian-diversity/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.922998 | 637 | 1.773438 | 2 |
The tradition of Queen's Day as a holiday began before the World War II. Initially it celebrated the birthday of Queen Wilhelmina on 31 August.
Since 1949, the day has celebrated of the birthday of Wilhelmina's daughter, Queen Juliana, on 30 April.
The tradition of changing the holiday to match the birthday of the reigning queen stopped when Queen Beatrix succeeded Juliana in 1980.
Beatrix decided to keep that the Queen's Day on April 30 as a tribute to her mother. Additionally her own birthday is at the end of January 31, so celebrating it outdoors would be difficult.
In January 2013, Queen Beatrix announced that on Queen’s Day in 2013, she would abdicate in favour of her son, Crown Prince Willem-Alexander. Therefore 30 April 2013 will be the last Queen's Birthday day until the next female monarch. As it stands, 30 April will no longer be an official public holiday. Willem-Alexander was born on 27 April, which falls on a Saturday in 2014.
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November 30, 2021–10:23 a.m.
Over the last few days, we have been hearing about a new COVID-19 variant.
The Omicron variant was first detected on November 9 in Botswana in Africa, according to Dr. Gary Voccio, health director for the 10-county Georgia Department of Public Health Northwest District.
“Then a very astute physician in South Africa figured out that this was something new and different and was something that needed to be looked into,” Dr. Voccio said. “Sure enough, it was a new variant which has 50 different mutations, and it had now spread around the world. We have not yet detected any cases in the US or Georgia, but we expect that we will. People are so easily able to get on a plane and travel the world now, as we first saw with COVID.”
He said that we don’t know a lot about this particular variant at this time.
“We do not know if it’s more transmissible, how sick people will get from it, or whether neutralizing antibodies from the vaccine will be effective,” Dr. Voccio added. “We do not have that information just yet, but that will be forthcoming. However, we still recommend people still get vaccinated.”
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Informations and abstract
Keywords: Integration; Migrants' Selection; Civic Integration; Planning Documents; Integration Plan.
After the law Turco-Napolitano was issued, migrants' inclusion has become a specific purpose of the Italian government. The idea of integration, thus, has gained a central position within the Italian migratory policies and has been defined in a detailed way within the triennial Planning documents, which contained the guidelines and the operating instructions on admission and inclusion of non-citizens. The first two planning documents (1998-2000 and 2001-2003) depicted migrations in Italy as a structural phenomenon and, as a consequence, affirmed that the paths of migrants' integration had to be planned. Within a framework of enduring interactions between citizens and foreigners, integration was represented as a symmetric and bidirectional process that involved both Italians and non-Italians. During the following years, nonetheless, the idea of integration promoted by the institutional documents has started to change. After the issuing of the third and last planning document (2004-2006) and the launch of the "Integration Plan: Security, Identity and Engagement" (2010), Italy seems to have adhered to the principles of "civic integration". Since that moment, security has become a keyword within the Italian migratory policies, while integration has acquired the meaning of an asymmetric process or, more specifically, of a selection tool for migrants' categories deserving to remain in the Italian territory. | <urn:uuid:2d7e852d-dda3-4d39-bc52-aa0b91811fae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rivisteweb.it/doi/10.1424/77397 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.95861 | 298 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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It is an international network of markets that work in accordance with the principles of Slow Food.
The protagonists are small producers and food craftsmen. They sell only what they produce and can personally guarantee the quality of their products.
On the stalls of the Earth Market there is good, clean and fair food: the products are local, fresh and seasonal; they respect the environment and the work of the producers; they are offered at fair prices, for those who buy and for those who sell.
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SAN MATEO -- Venture capitalist Tim Draper insisted again Monday that he's not just joking about his proposal to split California into six states.
The Secretary of State has now given Draper the go-ahead to start collecting signatures for his ballot measure, but the Silicon Valley tech investor offered mostly off-the-cuff answers at a news conference Monday when asked how he would run or fund a campaign that has generated plenty of media attention and a huge dose of "Is he really serious?" suspicion.
Draper said he hasn't yet decided whether to try for this November's ballot -- for which he'd effectively have to gather almost 808,000 voters' signatures by mid-April -- or try to put it on the 2016 ballot.
"What I'm proposing here is to bring us closer to our government," he said. "We are all better off with more local government -- local government is more efficient, it's more effective, it represents us better."
In areas from schools to prisons to public infrastructure, "we spend the most and we get the least" in California, said Draper, 55, of Atherton. "Leaving California the way it is, the status quo, is a crime."
His proposed measure would split California into six states, each with its own government; much of the Bay Area, plus Santa Cruz and Monterey counties, would become the state of Silicon Valley.
The northernmost parts of the state would become the state of Jefferson, as some counties up there have wanted for years; some North Bay counties would become part of North California; Stockton, Fresno and Bakersfield would be among Central California's largest cities; Los Angeles, Ventura and Santa Barbara would wind up in West California; and San Diego would anchor South California.
Each new state would determine its own type of government; dividing California's existing debt either would be negotiated among them or divided among them according to population. (Sorry, L.A.)
If California voters approve the measure, splitting the state still would require action by Congress. "But once it gets passed, I believe there will be some strong momentum," Draper said Monday, adding perhaps New York, Florida and Illinois might decide to split, too.
"I have worked on this for years," he said, adding he has taken time off from his global venture capital firm, Draper Fisher Jurvetson, to make a contribution to society -- and this is it. "This is something I just have to do, I just feel it."
Draper, who spent $20 million on an unsuccessful school-voucher ballot measure in 2000, said he isn't interested in running for governor of Silicon Valley or any other office real or imagined -- a question raised by critics who say this proposed measure is little more than a ham-handed political publicity stunt.
Calfornia's beauty and strength is rooted in its size and diversity, said Rep. Eric Swalwell, D-Pleasanton. "Six Californias is a foolhardy plan to tear that apart," Swalwell said.
Even getting on the ballot seems like a long shot, given that Draper said Monday he hopes to spend "as little as possible" to accomplish this. "I've got a whole bunch of people who are willing to raise money for this," he claimed, refusing to name any.
Draper has until July 18 to gather signatures from 807,615 registered voters in order to put the measure on the ballot. But in order to put it on this year's ballot, he'd basically have to submit signatures to county registrars by April 18 so they and the Secretary and State can certify the measure by mid-year; otherwise, it'll wait for 2016.
Corey Cook, a University of San Francisco political expert said he's "very skeptical" that this is going anywhere, particularly if voters view this through their own self-interest -- for example, Central California would probably have the highest poverty rate of any state in the nation while Silicon Valley probably would become the richest.
Dan Newman, a veteran Democratic campaign consultant, called the idea "silliness," though it could be a full-employment act for people like him. "The thought of California having a dozen U.S. Senate races and six gubernatorial campaigns does have a certain appeal to some of us," Newman said. | <urn:uuid:b7a54006-d5b8-44e4-bc7f-dfdc7d4d44b8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dailycamera.com/nation-world-news/ci_25219845/tim-draper-insists-six-californias-ballot-measure-is | 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 | 0.975547 | 887 | 1.507813 | 2 |
One of the basic principles of Debbie Tzima is to contribute to the protection of the environment and therefore the company is constantly searching for ecologically mnufactured raw materials.
Our Scarves are produced and printed at the northeast part of Greece, right in the centre of the Evros, Soufli. This small town enjoyed international recognition in the late 19th century due to its unique flourishing sericulture industry for silkworm rearing for the production of silk.
Until the 1980s, this remote part of Greece retained its reputation as part of the Byzantine “silk road” because its economy was almost exclusively based on the production of high-quality silk yarn that was exported to the rest of Europe. As a mater of fact, Soufli was the only town, not just in Greece but in the wider Europe, involved in the production of silk. Visitors to the town can still see the “koukoulospita”, high-ceiling houses, where the upper floors were once used to house silkworms and their cocoons.
As years went by, Soufli suffered the economic consequences caused by the political and social turbulence of Greece. Because of this, the inhabitants of Soufli became scarce and forced to move to urban areas, even abroad.
Today, local authorities and the people of Soufli have put their efforts and know-how together in order to revive the silk industry in order to regenerate the town. As part of this, the self-governing body of Soufli has created a spinning mill and it has offered land to farmers in order to cultivate mulberry trees. As well as this, it is renovating an old mansion to be used as a hostel and model silk rearing area. Environmental organizations together with the Ministry of Education have conducted a series of educational programs that include visits to several areas of northern Greece in order to explain the benefits of sericulture and showcase the methods applied by Soufli’s craftsmen and women. Around 200 individuals are employed in the local silk industry today ranging from sericulture to selling silk products at stores, as well as artisans working on embroideries at home.
The rearing of the silkworm
The silkworm in Soufli is fed with mulberry tree leaves. The mulberry tree presents extremely comparative advantages compared to other crops such as:
Degumming (the process of removing the sericin, or silk gum, from silk.)
The cocoon degumming process in Soufli uses zero chemicals and only Marseille soap made from vegetable oils.
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Sir Arthur Conan DoyleWriter
Born: 22 May 1859
Died: 7 July 1930 (heart attack)
Birthplace: Edinburgh, Scotland
Best known as: The creator of Sherlock Holmes
Arthur Conan Doyle was born in Scotland and studied medicine there, eventually serving as a physician in the Boer War (1899-1902). But his fame rests on his creation of the fictional detective Sherlock Holmes. Doyle published his first Holmes tale, A Study in Scarlet, in 1887. Over the following 40 years he published 56 short stories and four novels featuring Holmes and his sidekick, Dr. Watson. Sherlock Holmes was a keen observer, relentlessly logical and a master of deduction from the smallest of clues -- traits that made him a model for many later detectives, and made Arthur Conan Doyle a model for many later mystery writers. Late in life Doyle became closely interested in mysticism and wrote the 1926 book A History of Spiritualism.
Arthur Conan Doyle was knighted in 1903 for his services to the crown, including his authorship of the 1902 pamphlet The War in South Africa… Doyle also created Holmes’s nemesis, the arch-villain Professor Moriarty… Arthur Conan Doyle and Dr. Watson have much in common: both are medical doctors, both are writers, and both served in the British Army… According to his New York Times obituary, Doyle was married to the former Louise Hawkins from 1885 until her death in 1906. He was married again to the former Jean Leckie from 1907 until his own death in 1930. Doyle had two children with his first wife, three with his second.
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Post Date : July 4, 2020
The Indian Ports Association (IPA) today informed that India’s major ports, which handle more than half of the country’s seaborne trade have witnessed a downfall in traffic of nearly 20% during the quarter ended June due to the slowed economic activity resulted by coronavirus lockdown.
As per the data revealed by IPA, the twelve state-run major ports handled 141.9 million tonnes of shipments in the quarter ended June 30, compared with 176.7 million tonnes the previous year.
The handling of major types of shipments such as crude oil, coal and containers fell, except for iron ore and fertilizers, the data showed. The data showed that iron ore traffic rose 18.83% in the quarter.
Speaking on which, Atul Kulkarni, analyst, CRU Group, said, “It was a result of higher exports due to weak local demand for steel and clearance of stockpiles by miners in the south-western state of Goa. Exports will be lower for the rest of the year, as local demand increases and global logistics and supply of iron ore improves.”
Thermal coal imports fell nearly 35% due to reduced power demand, while coking coal demand fell 29% as local demand and production of steel fell. Major ports make up 20-25% of India’s annual imports of the fuel.
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James Francis Durante
Big-nosed and boisterous, Durante was a vaudeville favorite who remained a hit in the early days of radio and TV. Originally a saloon piano player, he combined his ragged musical talents with a rumpled charm and endless jokes about his nose, a mighty instrument which earned him the nickname "Schnozzola" or just "the Schnoz." The 1935 stage musical Jumbo paired Durante with an elephant and boosted his career; he was a popular guest on the radio shows of stars like Bob Hope and Bing Crosby, and eventually hosted his own shows as well. Durante's dese-and-dose New York accent was much parodied by impressionists of the day. He had a musical hit with the novelty tune "Inka Dinka Doo" and his famous sign-off phrase was "Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash, wherever you are."
Durante is the guy who “kicks the bucket” at the start of the 1963 film It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World… Hotbreath Houlihan, a character from Durante’s radio show, was the inspiration for the nickname Hotlips Houlihan in the film and TV sitcom M*A*S*H… Durante narrated the 1960s holiday TV cartoon Frosty the Snowman… The origin of the phrase “Goodnight, Mrs. Calabash” is unknown, and Durante wouldn’t say what the funny phrase meant; his first wife died in 1943 and may or may not have been the “Mrs. Calabash” referred to.
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WHEN WE UNDERTAKE A LONG JOURNEY ALONE WE CARRY A BOOK.THIS IS ADIYEN ATTEMPT TO MAKE PEOPLE UNDERSTAND THAT NALAYIRA DIVYA PRABHANDHAM IS THE BOOK WE ALL NEED TO CARRY IN OUR LONG AND LONELY JOURNEY TOWARDS THE FEET OF THE LORD.
om namo narayana.i want to know what are pasurams that are sung daily in tirupati during jeeyar sevai. i know pallandu pallandu..but there are few others. i was lucky enough to be inside jeeyar seva. but not sure about rest of pasuram. i want to learn them b4 i go next time, perumall willing thank you very muchrajesh
Hi RajeshI am also very very eagar to know the pasurams being sung at Titumala during jeeyar Swamy satrumurai.Could you or anyone help me to understand.My gmail is firstname.lastname@example.orgThanks in advance with perumal asirvadhamR. Narasimhan
I would like to have the audio version of the pasurams sung during the jeeyar sevai at tirumala so that I can sing them during my next visit to the temple. Please help me someone.K S Nagarajan e mail: email@example.com cell: 9942125275
The tiruppavai satrumarai starts with 29th followed by 30th pasuram of Thiruppavai. This is followed by 1st pasuram of pallandu. Then Seesailesadhaya pathirm, PB Anna's Vaazhi thiruvai mozhi pillar and Vaazhiyae. All months except Maargazhi follow this & depending on pagal pathu start date - Ubhadesa ratina maalai of Manavala mamuni is chanted
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God and His Mindset
“Happy are you who are hungry now, you shall be satisfied. Fortunate are you who weep, for you shall laugh.” ~ Q10, Lost Gospel Q.
Mindset is everything. Simple but true. God’s mind is sharp and focused on one thing, that would be you, me, and all of humanity. This is evident from the first page of Genesis of the Bible to the last page in Revelations, all 66 books of the standard Christian version and all 81 books of the Catholic Bible, not to mention all 82 scriptures of His son’s teaching which were recorded and passed down to us in the form of The Lost Gospel Q. God chose to make us in His likeness, He chose to make a place that would support our every need and gave us dominion over the Earth, He chose to love us no matter the cost, and God chose to forgive us and to ultimately save us. Since these decisions every action God has taken has been to support those specific promises all of which He was so confident in that He had it written so everyone could see for all time His devotion to us. Because God’s mindset is so focused on us it affects our personal lives and relationship with Him. It is the primary reason why God also stresses the need for every person to be focused upon Him and His word. God’s heart is set upon a real lasting personal relationship with you and everyone around you spiraling out to encompass the entire planet. God wants a relationship so as to build you up and to make you strong. His grace is focused on your sin and the forgiveness of those sins in such a way that it makes each and everyone of us sinners worthy of God when on our own we could never be truly worthy. God’s mindset is one of hope and love, you could say that God is the creator and chief among the optimists always seeing to good in everyone and thing always seeing the opportunities through the calamities we face. God’s mindset is to be there with us through those calamities holding our hand, giving us the strength to make it through to the finish line. God’s mind sees what we cannot and His spirit is eternally seeking the path that will mould us into a more perfect version of ourselves, individualized personal development plans if you will that only ends with our absolute purification of our heart, mind, and soul. God’s mindset is set upon giving us the length of years to see the truth, to testify to it, to live by it, to live a Godly life, and yes to ultimately return to Him and to live with Him in Heaven forever. So it is that when we are hungry He gives us food, both to nourish our bodies and our spirit. So it is when we cry He wipes away our tears and gives us a reason to smile and laugh. God’s miracles support His love for us, His words have never been broken, and His mind is filled with thoughts of your eternal happiness.
God’s Mindset vs Our Mindset
8 “For My thoughts are not your thoughts, Nor are your ways My ways,” says the Lord. 9 “For as the heavens are higher than the earth, So are My ways higher than your ways, And My thoughts than your thoughts.” ~ Isaiah 55:8-9
First and foremost there is no comparison between God’s ability to continue to see the positive through the pain and heartache when times get hard verse our ability which is infinitesimally less than, so much so in fact we don’t even rate on the universal scale of positive thinkers or believers. This was made completely evident in the willingness for God to send Jesus, His only son with one mission and for that mission to have only one out come, Jesus’s death! For that to even be on the table so to speak was far and beyond anything we humans or even Satan himself could ever comprehend let alone pull off. With that said, I can only testify that it is this one singular thought that converted me as a child and has played a major role in my life ever since. How could a god, a perfect being, an entity so powerful and magnificent need and love our drama? How could God need our ungratefulness, our sneakiness, our filth of mind and soul, our lack of courage and willpower to always do the right things in life regardless the outcome, and our pride and selfishness which is the root cause to so much chaos in our world? The short answer is that He does not need us, but rather we need Him. When a person first realizes this one point it is a transformational thought because what happens is for the first time we become aware of our own mortality and sin. It brings to mind our unworthiness, it makes us responsible for our sins, and it also reinforces in every-way possible of how blessed we are to have a God who loves us anyway. Then there is the small idea that comes next, the door opens and we see how many times in our life we have given-up on God, not God giving-up on us. Millions of years have gone by and yet every action and promise of God has been to make our life and world better day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute, and it is us who do not have the time to notice or even to say thank you in return. It is mankind who has often given-up on God, and still our Lord is there loving us and providing for us – despite us. This makes God’s words real and tangible, ever lasting, and never changing, because they are perfect in every application in every manner and interpretation for God has made known what and who is on His mind, the what and the why that is in His heart, and more importantly the how we fit into His master plan. For when we apply Gods teachings into our lives we do the right things and in turn those actions glorify God, when we love others it glorifies Him, when we forgive our enemies it glorifies Him, and when we reach out to God it glorifies Him. God made us, He alone protects us, and provides for us. It is God who chooses to remember us and to honor us by His grace. Because these are the truths about God then we as Christians need to filter everything in our lives and thinking through his Holy filter and through His holy words and promises. Because there is so much immorality in our world due to our imperfect nature we need to cling to the mercy and grace of our loving all powerful God.
God’s Mindset Equals Strength
“Look at the lilies that grow wild in the fields. They don’t weave clothes for themselves. But I tell you, even King Solomon in all his splendor was not dressed as beautifully as these flowers. If that is how God clothes the grasses, which are green today and burned in the sun tomorrow, how much more will God provide for you. How little faith you have!” ~ Q52, Lost Gospel Q.
Faith in God is at the core of our personal strength in life. Faith is the bedrock of our actions we take, what we think, how we feel, and how we apply our new and old knowledge no matter the source. This is proved true every time you debate others, to the side you defend, and to the manner and tone you use when debating. If a person has no faith in God then their arguments tend to be in the negative excepting modern teachings which are contrary to the Bible and to the will of God thus their personal beliefs tend to be based upon false teachings. Therefore, when we compromise on the truth of God, the Bible, and the teachings of Jesus and all his disciples who uniquely owned the moral authority to preach the word of God which has been written down and spread across the world, we fall into the worlds trap of acceptance of unholy beliefs and compromise ourselves in the most unholy of ways. In this trap we find ideas that degrade our bodies, our minds, and our soul. Within this trap we hear unholy music, unholy words, unholy sounds that invade our personal space and warp our perceptions of the very word of God. To this end what we allow in unfiltered by the teachings of the Bible, (which are the very words of God), and unfiltered by His moral principals do we then assign ourselves to the notion that it is us who have to become accepting of the world, instead of the world changing to accept God. The side-affect of this is seen in our societies as we assimilate these false teachings into our beliefs and thus begin to comprise the teachings of God. It always starts very innocently with a song, or a joke, or a law passed by a government or constitutions written and then changed by governments and like a computer virus working in the background unchecked it begins to change our vocabulary and it warps the very meanings of words we once held as holy and changes them to mean something completely different and unholy. Thereby the words that you use to placate others so as to fit in or to not offend them, which would have been against your personal beliefs and suddenly now do not reflect God in your words, then you in deed compromised God, compromised your faith in God, and fallen short and have missed the opportunity to share as a witness for God. Therefore, faith is a mindset you burn into your every action, into your every words, and within that you share God’s holy message in order to help inspire others to become followers, and eventually for them as they study the Bible to become the children of God as He had intended. Faith is God’s mindset!
Take this as proof, God created Adam and the garden of Eden so as Adam would be taken care of with more than enough to eat and drink and to be happy. God loved Adam so much that He gave to Adam all the wild animals and plants of the garden so as to fill Adams mind with the love of God expressed through all he saw and heard. God then created Eve so Adam would not be lonely and feel unloved, thus with each embrace of Eve, Adam felt alive and could feel the love of God in the most holy of ways. Eve too shared in this experience and was Adams equal sharing in all the fruits and rewards of a life given by God. These two people knew God in a way we could never experience, they saw God in a way we can never replicate, and they heard the very voice of God in a manner our ears will never in this life hear. Though they were not perfect, and made mistakes and fell from grace, God in his punishment of them never stopped loving them and never stopped believing in them nor has He ever stopped believing in us. God’s Mindset has never attempted to placate Satan, He has never changed His beliefs to become more popular, God is not guilty of adopting a superficial life style that is more in tune with the world and modern dogma. God did not become more accepting to sinful acts and more willing to negotiate on holy principals, nor has God changed the meanings of words to make them mean something completely contrary to their original meanings to suit a new belief so as to entrap us further within our sin. God has not stopped spreading His divine message nor has He changed the facts or purposes of the events of our history so as to be more easy on our conscience. God didn’t send Jesus to save humanity and then half way through changed His mind because it was too hard or would hurt to much. Nor did God abandon Job when Satan destroyed His life, or when King David fell to lust and had Bathsheba’s husband killed. Therefore, we need to adopt God’s mindset and allow Him full access so that our faith in Him will grow and our spirit can bathe in the full glory of the Holy Spirit. God so wants to dress us up with faith, with love, and arm us with the knowledge of truth so as to protect us for ever and ever. The world is very much like grass which is green today and burns in the sun tomorrow, but God’s mindset never changes, never tires, and never turns away or forgets His promises. For God’s mindset is perfect, strong, and equals strength and wisdom, character, devotion, purpose, courage, and love if you accept God and adopt His word as the truth, the life, the pure and only source for all eternity.
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Adolescents are the age group with the highest rates of antiretroviral nonadherence, bringing elevated risks of AIDS-related morbidity and mortality [1,2]. AIDS is the most common cause of death amongst adolescents in Africa . Nonadherence can also lead to viral resistance and greater risk of onwards HIV-transmission through increased viral load .
There is an emerging evidence base on factors associated with adolescent nonadherence to ART. Studies have identified lower adherence amongst older adolescents and those who are vertically infected . Qualitative and quantitative reviews suggest risks related to ART formulation and higher pill burden, depression and behavioral problems, low family support, and parental death [6–14]. Studies also suggest potential impacts of economic factors such as poverty and food insecurity [7,15].
The World Health Organization (WHO) Africa region, home to 80% of HIV-positive adolescents also has the world's highest rates of violence against children and adolescents . Violence exposure takes place within a range of settings and includes physical, psychological/verbal, and sexual violence, . Most adolescents live at home, whereas some are exposed to abusive caregivers or relatives and witness domestic violence between adults. In addition, adolescence brings new independence and exploration, with associated increased violence exposure in community settings . Studies also report physical and verbal violence from teachers and clinic verbal violence by healthcare providers, perhaps reflecting the challenges faced by overburdened and resource-constrained systems [19,20].
Two important recent studies show that exposure to violence more broadly is associated with adolescent ART nonadherence. In Malawi, Kim et al. found that a dichotomous variable of any exposure to sexual, physical or household violence was strongly associated with reduced adherence. In a US study (amongst 8–15-year olds) a sum score of violence exposure (physical, sexual or crime) was associated with nonadherence, unsuppressed viral load and CD4+% less than 25% . Evidence from other health behaviors shows that any form of violence victimization during adolescence is associated with negative health impacts, and that witnessing domestic violence – especially within the home – may be equally harmful [23,24]. In other non-HIV medical contexts, abuse in the home has been shown to be associated with medication nonadherence in children . However, no known studies have tested potential associations of different types of violence with adolescent antiretroviral nonadherence. In addition, increased severity, chronicity, and exposure to multiple types of violence (polyvictimization) show greater impacts on other health outcomes such as increased mental health problems, substance use, sexual risk behavior, HIV-infection and educational delay [26–31]. There is a clear need to examine impacts of different types and cumulative effects of violence on adolescents living with HIV (ALHIV) in a high-prevalence setting.
The current study tests potential associations of violence exposure and antiretroviral nonadherence amongst HIV-positive adolescents in South Africa. It examines victimization and witnessing violence within home, school, community, and clinic settings. First, we test whether different types of violence are associated with nonadherence, and if so which are most salient. Second, we identify whether there are interactive or additive effects of multiple victimization on adolescent antiretroviral nonadherence.
We conducted a cross-sectional survey of ALHIV and community controls in South Africa. The study took place in the Eastern Cape, a province with the lowest per-capita GDP nationally, and very limited social service access . Within a health sub-district constituting urban, rural, and peri-urban settlements, all 53 facilities providing adolescent antiretroviral therapy (ART; hospitals, primary care clinics, and community health centres) were visited and included in the study. In each clinic, paper and computerized clinical files were reviewed to identify every patient aged 10–19 who had ever initiated ART, regardless of current healthcare attendance. To prevent sampling bias towards those attending healthcare, adolescents were not interviewed in clinics, but were traced to 180 communities and interviewed in their homes and schools. It was important to avoid risk of stigma or identification of HIV-positive status from participation in the research. Consequently, the study was presented as focusing on general adolescent use of health and social services, and as an additional stigma avoidance strategy, we also interviewed 467 adolescents who were co-resident or living in neighbouring households.
Ethical approval was given by IRBs at the Universities of Cape Town (CSSR 2013/4) and Oxford (SSD/CUREC2/12-21), the Provincial Departments of Health and Education and participating health facilities. All participants and their primary caregivers provided written informed consent for interviews and accessing clinical records. Consent procedures were also read aloud in case of low literacy. No financial incentives were used, but participants received a small gift pack, snacks, and a certificate of participation. Confidentiality was maintained except in cases of disclosure of risk of harm. Where participants reported on-going or prior abuse or violence, referrals were made to relevant child protection, health services, or police (n = 112 referrals). A registered child protection social worker oversaw referrals and subsequent follow-up.
Adolescents completed confidential 90-min tablet-based questionnaires, designed in collaboration with a Teen Advisory Group to be enjoyable and nonstigmatizing. Measures were translated and back-translated into Xhosa and English and completed in the language of participants’ choice. Audio-CASI was used for sensitive items. Researchers trained in working with vulnerable adolescents provided support for questionnaire completion, depending on adolescents’ literacy, and cognitive needs. Research tools were prepiloted with 25 HIV-positive adolescents in the Eastern Cape. In order to mitigate risk of social desirability bias, self-reported nonadherence was validated against two clinical outcomes that may be associated with nonadherence: clinic-based records of virologic failure and a combination of clinic records and self-reported symptomatic tuberculosis (TB) . The study was developed in collaboration with the South African National Departments of Health, Social Development and Basic Education and National AIDS Council, UNICEF, PEPFAR-USAID, and NGOs including Pediatric Adolescent Treatment for Africa.
ART nonadherence was measured using the standardized self-report Patient Medication Adherence Questionnaire, combined with measures developed in Botswana by Lowenthal et al.[35,36]. After piloting, vignettes were added to reduce social desirability bias, for example, ‘Even if Lindiwe tries her best sometimes unexpected things get in the way and prevent her from taking her pills… this is not her fault.’ Past-week nonadherence was defined as ART medication adherence below 95% over the preceding 7 days (always including both a weekend and weekdays) . Two validation measures of self-reported nonadherence were applied. Virologic failure was measured using clinical records and defined as viral load greater than 1000 copies/ml . All viral load measures taken in the year of interview and the prior year were recorded. Concurrent symptomatic pulmonary TB was measured as clinic report of TB diagnosis without subsequent treatment in the past year or self-reported WHO diagnostic criteria for symptomatic TB, validated against sputum specimens [39,40]. To maximize precision for case identification, we combined criteria for highest positive predictive value (chronic cough and weight loss with sensitivity 72.9%, specificity 85%, PPV 11.4) and highest negative predictive value (NPV; any cough, drenching night sweats, and weight loss with sensitivity 75%, specificity 82.4%, NPV 99.2) amongst HIV-positive participants.
Ten potential violence factors were measured and coded as dichotomies of exposure/no exposure. Past-year physical abuse victimization by caregivers at home past-year verbal abuse victimization by caregivers at home and past-week witnessing domestic violence between adults in the home were measured using UNICEF Measures for National-level Monitoring of Orphans and Vulnerable Children . Contact sexual violence by any perpetrator was measured using three items from the Juvenile Victimization Questionnaire and defined as any lifetime contact sexual abuse or forced sex . Past-year physical violence from teachers in school was measured as being hit by a teacher ‘sometimes’/‘always.’ Past-year physical violence from peers and past-year verbal violence from peers were measured using the Social and Health Assessment peer victimization scale . Past-year physical violence victimization in community settings was measured as being physically attacked in the community or being robbed and past-year witnessing of violence in community settings was measured as any of past-year witnessing of shootings or stabbings, using the Child Exposure to Community Violence checklist . Past-year verbal violence in the clinic setting was measured as adolescent self-report of being shouted at angrily by clinic staff ‘sometimes’/‘always’.
Nine potential confounders were identified using quantitative and qualitative literature review of factors associated with adherence amongst adult, pediatric, and adolescent populations included socio-economic factors of age, sex, urban/rural location, and living in formal or informal housing, using items based on the 2011 Census . They also included family factors of maternal orphanhood and paternal orphanhood, and HIV-related factors of mode of infection (vertical/ horizontal), time on ART treatment (in years), and travel time to clinical care (dichotomized as >1 h) .
Analyses were conducted in six stages in SPSS 21.0 and STATA 14. First, associations of self-reported nonadherence were tested in multivariate logistic regressions, against validation measures of virologic failure and symptomatic TB, controlling for potential confounders. Second, known characteristics (sex, age, and location) of excluded and included participants were compared to check for potential differences. Violence variables were excluded if numbers were too small for analysis. Third, sociodemographic characteristics were reported and potential associations between violence and ART nonadherence were assessed following a sequential regression approach recommended by Hosmer and Lemeshow . Three logistic regression models were run: with all violence victimization factors and potential confounders entered simultaneously, with all variables significant at 0.1 or below, and with only variables significant at 0.05 or below. Fourth, we tested all potential two-way interactive effects between violence factors significant in Stage 3, using logistic regression applying Hochberg's multiple hypothesis step-up method to reduce false discovery rate. Fifth, we tested potential moderation effects of sex and age on associations between violence factors significant in Stage 3 and nonadherence, using interaction terms in the final regression model. Sixth, to test potential cumulative effects of multiple types of violence exposure on ART nonadherence, marginal effects models were run with all potential combinations of significant violence factors and summarized with a marginal effects model using a multiple-violence score of 0–4 types of violence.
Of 1176 eligible ALHIV, 90.1% (n = 1060) were interviewed together with community controls (n = 467). 4.1% of ALHIV or their caregivers refused participation, 0.9% were unable to participate because of severe cognitive delay, 3.7% were untraceable and 1.2% no longer lived in the study area.
Validating self-reported adherence
Self-reported nonadherence was 36% in the past week. Only n = 412 (38.9%) of patient medical records included a viral load measure taken within the past 2 years (Table 1). In those, self-reported nonadherence was significantly associated with virologic failure [odds ratio (OR) = 2.32; CI 1.41–3.84, P = 0.001) independent of age, sex, urban/rural location, formal/informal housing, maternal orphanhood, paternal orphanhood, mode of infection, time on ART treatment, and travel time to clinic. In the full sample, self-reported nonadherence was associated with increased rates of concurrent symptomatic pulmonary TB (OR = 1.54, CI 1.07–2.22, P = 0.021), independent of potential confounders.
Comparing included and excluded participants
Known factors of excluded participants (those who were not able to be traced or interviewed) were identified from clinic files as age, sex, and urban/rural location and compared using z scores and chi-square tests. They showed no significant differences from included participants on any variable.
HIV-positive participants had a mean age of 13.8, 55% were girls and 22% lived in rural areas (Table 2). Nineteen percent lived in informal housing and the remainder in formal or traditional homes, 59% were paternal orphans, 48% were maternal orphans, and 67% were vertically infected. Primary caregivers were 46% biological mothers, 28% grandmothers, 15% aunts, 4% biological fathers, 2% sisters, 1% uncles, 1% grandfathers, and 3% other caregivers such as foster parents or carers in children's homes. Mean years on ART was 5.9 (median 5.0, range 0–19 years, IQR 8.0), and mean travel time to clinical care was 45 min (median 30 min, range 0–3 h. IQR 26 min).
Levels of violence exposure were high (Table 2). Past-year physical abuse from caregivers was 19.6%, verbal abuse from caregivers was 18.6%, witnessing domestic violence between adults at home was 11.8%, and sexual abuse was 5.2% (removed from subsequent analyses because of low n). Physical violence by teachers was 41.2% and physical violence by peers 45.7%, with verbal violence by peers at 46.6%. Past-year community violence victimization was 45.3% and witnessing of community violence 22.0%. Verbal victimization by clinic healthcare staff was experienced by 21.7% of adolescents.
Associations between violence exposure and nonadherence
In the first model, five violence factors were excluded with significance P > 0.1: verbal abuse by caregivers, peer physical violence, peer verbal violence, community violence victimization, and witnessing community violence (Table 3). Of the five remaining violence factors retained in the second model, only four were significant in the third and final model: physical abuse by caregivers, witnessing domestic violence at home, violence from a teacher at school, and verbal victimization from a clinic staff member. All four types of violence were associated with higher ART nonadherence, independent of each other and of all covariates: physical abuse by caregivers (OR 1.49, CI 1.18–2.05, P = 0.015); witnessing domestic violence at home (OR 1.80, CI 1.22–2.66, P = 0.003); violence from a teacher at school (OR 1.51, CI 1.16–1.96, P = 0.002) and clinic verbal victimization from a staff member (OR 2.15, CI 1.59–2.93, P = 0.001).
No potential two-way and three-way interactions were significant when P values were adjusted for multiple hypothesis testing using Hochberg's step-up method. There were no significant moderation effects of sex or age. Marginal effects models controlling for all factors significantly associated with ART nonadherence, show additive increases in nonadherence with each different combination of violence exposures (Table 4). This showed a clear pattern of increasing risk of nonadherence by additional violence exposures. Categorical Principal Components Analysis (CATPCA) established that all four violence variables loaded onto a single factor (Eigenvalue 1.5) accounting for 38.3% of the total variance. Loading factors for all four violence predictors loaded between 0.3 and 0.65. A summative index of individual violence variables (polyvictimization score) was computed (Fig. 1). This showed a strongly graded relationship of significant increases in nonadherence with each additional victimization. Nonadherence rose from 25.6% amongst adolescents with no violence, to 36.5% with any one violence victimization, 49.3% with any two victimization types, 62.2% with any three types, and 74.9% with all four violence victimization types.
Despite enormous progress in ART roll-out, nonadherence remains a major impediment to the health and survival of HIV-positive adolescents [48,49]. To date, responses have focused on healthcare services, including adolescent-friendly clinics, counseling, treatment literacy, extended clinic opening hours, and peer support [50,51]. These have the potential to address important barriers to retention in care.
But this study identifies an additional, structural-level risk. Exposure to four types of violence was associated with lower ART adherence, independent of each other, and of socioeconomic, family, and HIV-related factors. They included physical abuse from caregivers, witnessing domestic violence between adults at home, physical violence from teachers, and clinic verbal victimization by healthcare providers.
Findings indicate that violence in community settings and between peers, and verbal abuse from caregivers were not associated with ART adherence. It may be that these are perceived as part of a generally high-violence environment, and whilst they likely have other negative impacts on adolescent development, they did not lead to inability to take a lifesaving medication [16,52]. It is possible that physical violence from caregivers and teachers, and clinic verbal violence from healthcare providers evoke a sense of betrayal amongst adolescents for whom they are hoped for sources of care and support. Just as positive relationships with adult role models may be protective for adolescent health behavior, abusive relationships may be exceptionally detrimental.
The violence type with the strongest individual association with nonadherence was clinic victimization. Patient care experiences may be a particularly important focus for interventions, and qualitative studies of adult ART patients in sub-Saharan Africa report negative provider–patient interactions as a major barrier to adherence [53,54]. Adolescents also report experiences of being shouted at or treated harshly, whilst healthcare workers report frustration and worry regarding their adolescent patients [8,55]. A recent situational analysis of 218 healthcare facilities across sub-Saharan Africa found that healthcare workers lacked training or protocols for supporting HIV-positive adolescents, suggesting that more targeted support may be essential .
This was primarily a young sample, with a mean age of 13 years and only 18% sexually active. As these adolescents become older, it will be essential to also measure impacts of intimate partner violence on ART adherence. A recent meta-analysis of intimate partner violence amongst HIV-positive adult women (primarily in US-based studies) found associations with lower ART use [25,57], supported by quantitative and qualitative studies of adult women in sub-Saharan Africa [58,59]. A study this year of HIV-positive adolescents and young women in South Africa found associations between intimate partner violence and reduced medication adherence . We also need to understand if and how intimate partner violence interacts with other types of violence and whether this increases other risks, particularly for young women.
It will be important to further examine the pathways by which violence from different sources may impact adolescent adherence. There is substantive evidence of mental health problems associated with violence victimization, and this may lead to reduced self-esteem, future orientation, and lowered motivation for adherence . It is possible that high-violence home and school environments are also less conducive to safe storage and medication-taking, and may also contribute to increased stigma and secrecy. Qualitative research suggests that negative healthcare experiences can reduce trust in medical treatment, and encourage care-seeking outside of clinical settings . Clinic verbal violence from healthcare providers may alienate adolescents from attending clinics, may trigger defiant behavior in terms of nonadherence, and may inhibit them from disclosing mental health distress or other risks for nonadherence.
This study has a number of limitations. First, all associations are cross-sectional, thus no certainty regarding causality can be held. In particular, shouting and scolding by clinic staff may be both a cause of and a response to nonadherence by adolescents. However, measurement crossover for this association was reduced by reporting periods – we measured past-week adherence, whilst only a handful of adolescents had received clinical care in the past week. The possibility of reverse causality is also unlikely across all four types of violence that were found to be associated with nonadherence. Second, we did not measure intimate partner violence experienced by adolescents, and rates of reported sexual abuse within the HIV-positive sample were too small for inclusion in analyses: these are important potential risk factors that require further investigation.
Third, a strength of this study was that it was a real-world sample of adolescents initiated on ART in government healthcare services in a low-resource South African province. We had overall high inclusion rates, and community-tracing from all clinical files allowed inclusion of adolescents regardless of healthcare retention. However, 9% of ever-initiated adolescents were untraceable, had severe cognitive delay, or did not consent. These may be important subgroups for risk of violence victimization and nonadherence – in particular, there is specific evidence that children with any form of disability may be particularly vulnerable to violence [61–63]. Finally, this study uses self-reported nonadherence, which has the risk of under-reporting because of recall and social desirability biases. However, reviews have identified some unreliability in all methods of measuring ART adherence [64,65]. This study found high correlation between self-reported nonadherence, virological suppression failure, and symptomatic TB, as found in other multisite studies [66,67].
Despite limitations, this study has major implications for adolescent HIV care. It is the first to examine associations of multiple types of violence victimization to nonadherence. It finds impacts of violence – both witnessing and victimization – and strong and graded effects of polyvictimization with increased nonadherence. Amongst adolescents exposed to four types of violence, only 25% were adherent in the past week, compared with 75% of nonvictimized adolescents.
Findings suggest that violence prevention and response may be an essential, and insufficiently addressed, component of adolescent HIV care. Fortunately, there is an increasing evidence-base for effective violence prevention programs for adolescents in high HIV-prevalence countries. The Good Schools program has been shown to reduce teacher and peer violence against learners in Uganda, and the Parenting for Lifelong Health programs show reductions in caregiver violence in South Africa [68–71]. Also in Uganda, the SASA! program reduced intimate partner violence between adults, and in South Africa the PREPARE trial showed reduced IPV victimization amongst school-going adolescents with further trials are underway [31,73,74]. There are no known effective programs shown to reduce verbal violence towards adolescents within clinical settings, although reviews suggest that reducing workload and providing patient-centred care skills may be helpful .
Integrating violence prevention and HIV treatment is a complex challenge in resource-constrained settings. It will be important to ensure that HIV-positive adolescents access services for violence prevention and response, without exposing families to dual stigma. However, new initiatives such as kNOw Violence and the Global Partnership to End Violence against Children's INSPIRE package provide important opportunities for advocacy, evidence-building and multiagency collaboration [17,76]. Sustainable Development Goal 17 promotes integration between goals, and these findings demonstrate the importance of ending violence against children (SDG 16) for the promotion of HIV healthcare (SDG 3). If we do not rise to the challenge of addressing violence, the goal of ending AIDS will remain out of reach.
L.C., E.T., F.M., L.S., and R.H. contributed to conceptualization of the study. L.C., F.M., and E.T. oversaw research fieldwork. L.C., M.O., F.M., E.T., and L.S. conducted analyses and interpreted findings. All authors provided comments towards drafts of the article and approved the final version for publication.
We thank all the adolescents, parents, and their communities who participated in this study. We thank Eda He, McKenzie Berezin, and Marija Pantelic. The study was supported by the Nuffield Foundation under Grant CPF/41513, the Johnson and Johnson Global Health Programme, Evidence for HIV Prevention in Southern Africa, a UKAID programme managed by Mott MacDonald (MM/EHPSA/UCT/05150014), the John Fell Fund (103/757), the International AIDS Society through the CIPHER grant (155-Hod), and the Clarendon-Green Templeton College Scholarship (MP/ET). Additional support for L.C. was provided by the European Research Council (ERC) under the European Union's Seventh Framework Programme (FP7/2007–2013)/ERC grant agreement n°313421 and the Philip Leverhulme Trust (PLP-2014-095). F.M. was funded by the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC, ES/N017447/1) and the project received ESRC Impact Acceleration Account Support.
Funding: This research was supported by Nuffield Foundation, DFID, Johnson & Johnson, Leverhulme Trust, IAS, ERC, ESRC, John Fell Fund.
Conflicts of interest
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Mother knows best, no matter what the species! A clever calico cat from Istanbul (not Constantinople) reminded us of that salient fact when she brought her sick kitten to the right place... no, not the vet, the emergency department of a nearby hospital!
No offense to veterinarians, mind you, but this particular feline made her choice and as it turned out, it was the right choice. Pics or it didn't happen? It did and, thanks to Twitter member Merve Ozcan, we've got both the pics and some back-story.
“Today we were in the emergency of the hospital,” wrote Ozcan, when “a cat brought her baby in her mouth to the emergency room.” Things could have taken a turn for the worse at that moment – hospital policies and protocols being a thing – but Turkey (and Turks) have got a soft spot for cats. To quote one commenter at Ozcan's Twitter, “In Turkey, stray cats and dogs are like everyone's pet.”
We don't suppose the doctors and nurses in the emergency department dropped everything to care for the sick kitten... Turkey, like much of the world, is dealing with the COVID-19 pandemic and its tragic human fallout.
That said, Ozcan's photos show staff dealing with both mom and child in a compassionate manner. The witness also reported that doctors quickly determined the nature of the problem, and even had some milk and cat food on hand to calm the caring cat mom, who apparently had recently birthed a litter of kittens close by.
Having dealt with the emergency, hospital staff made contact with a local veterinarian who gladly took over, and who wasn't overly perturbed at not being the mom's first choice of caregiver.
Ozcan's post quickly went viral and the unusual yet heartwarming happenstance was widely reported on by the Turkish mainstream media. Many have inquired as the the welfare of the mom and her kitten but not to worry, both are doing well. Keep that in mind the next time YOUR mom has some advice to give! | <urn:uuid:1d59eb7c-185c-4bc6-81aa-aabb28a9082f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://petslady.com/article/clever-cat-mom-brings-sick-kitten-human-hospital | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.977793 | 431 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Doctors will openly admit that medication is not a ‘cure’ for autism spectrum disorder (ASD) as there is no medication that has been proven to address the core characteristics children with ASD show in the areas of communication and social relations. As such many parents are now asking about CBD for children with Autism and whether they should try it?
Although for some children, medication can help with the challenging behaviour associated with ASD, which might be interfering with their ability to learn and respond to interventions, for many others it simply does nothing. Medicines are given more in hope that they might help and offer the parent some consolation in the knowing that at least the condition has been recognised and some help is available.
Autism is much more common than many people think. There are around 700,000 people on the autism spectrum in the UK – that’s more than 1 in 1001. If you include their families, autism is a part of daily life for 2.8 million people. Autism doesn’t just affect children too as autistic children grow up to be autistic adults.
While autism is incurable, the right support at the right time can make an enormous difference to people’s lives as well as alternative remedies that many claim to have worked in varying degrees. These alternative routes include CBD, Cannabis oil, diets, therapy and relaxation techniques to name a few.
One major factor that influences parents to try and find an alternative is the risk of side effects from medication and the fact that their child is having to undergo a succession of medications at a young age without knowing the long term effects of them.
In a recent study* Israeli researchers have found more compelling evidence that medical cannabis is an effective therapy for children on the autism spectrum. In this soon-to-be-published study in the journal Neurology, researchers treated autistic children with high concentrations of CBD, a non-intoxicating cannabinoid found in the cannabis plant.
Early results showed conditions in 80% of the children improved. Alternatively, the children had not shown improvement with conventional drug therapies.
The study was led by the director of Paediatric Neurology at Jerusalem’s Shaare Zedek Hospital, Dr. Adi Aran, who treated sixty children with a high-CBD Cannabis oil (20% CBD and 1% THC). The children were treated for at least seven months with the oil.
After the treatment period, parents answered assessment questionnaires to characterize their child’s condition. Questions were asked about behavioural changes, anxiety levels and ability to communicate. Here’s what they reported:
- 80% of parents noted a decrease in problematic behaviours, with 62% reporting significant improvements.
- Half of the children had improved communication.
- 40% reported significant decreases in anxiety. (Note: one-third of the study participants began the study with no anxiety.)
- Due to the lack of more comprehensive studies on the matter, many doctors are still reluctant to prescribe cannabis. However, many families have tried it successfully on their children.
- CBD-rich oils seem to be an effective tool for improving social skills of people with autism.
- So far, it has been proven that cannabis can influence the Endocannabinoid system and increase the production of Oxytocin and Anandamide. This helps people with this disorder not to isolate themselves so much and feel better about relating to others.
Findings are continuing to develop on the subject, but according to echoconnection.org, there is reason to believe that the Autistic brain’s cannabinoid 2 receptors, which are thought to be blocked by the condition (Autism), are opened when exposed to cannabis, which allows molecules to act on them. So the treatment is, in essence, believed to open pathways in the brain previously hypothetically closed off by the condition.
CBD for Children with Autism – Case study reported by Green Lotus Hemp**
We recently visited a mother who’s been using CBD oil tinctures to help with her son Maddox’s autism. For obvious reasons, this decision wasn’t made lightly. As a parent of two children with autism, Kyla’s experience with this condition is extensive. As she came to learn, autism affects children in a variety of ways, and Kyla wasn’t sure how to help her son.
Like most parents of autistic children, Kyla spent years researching different solutions to help with the complexities of autism. Avoiding the use of medications, she resorted to therapy and dietary adjustments – note, Maddox hated vegetables.
With minimal improvements, Kyla continued her search, coming across a few videos describing the potential benefits of CBD for autistic children. Skeptical at first, she said “No way, I’m not going to give my kid marijuana!” (Learn the difference between cannabis and hemp-derived CBD here.) But once she saw a little girl very similar to her son gain the ability to speak, sing, and even look others in the eyes, she knew it was worth trying CBD oil as a remedy for her son’s autism.
Just after two days Kyla noticed a difference in Maddox. Specifically, Maddox experienced:
- Increased focus
- Increased responsiveness
- Improved social interaction
- Increased appetite for healthy foods
Furthermore, Kyla noticed that her son would finally look her and others in the eyes – something she deeply cared about.
Eager to see if anyone else had noticed these changes in her son’s behaviour, Kyla confided in Maddox’s teacher, explaining that she’d been adding CBD oil to his diet. To her surprise, the response was overwhelmingly positive.
His teacher thought he’d just been getting more sleep, but assured Kyla that Maddox had been following instructions and appeared to be more attentive. Most importantly, he began interacting positively with the other children.
After a few months of using CBD, Maddox continues to see improvement in all areas. One of his mother’s greatest comforts is seeing how calm and aware her son is now – something she believes is directly correlated to the CBD oil.
This is just one of many stories and there are many more as a quick search online will show you. As always, we recommend you speak with your family doctor before beginning any course of CBD for your Autistic child. However rather than ask your Doctor if they think it is a good idea or not, ask them for reasons why you shouldn’t use CBD oil for your child. This will allow you to make a more informed choice. | <urn:uuid:1a9de87c-2927-467e-8659-f4f904bdf71b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://alphacbd.eu/cbd-for-children-with-autism/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.971736 | 1,356 | 2.4375 | 2 |
As I mentioned in an earlier post, one of my goals this year is to read an autobiography each month. For February, I chose “Long Walk to Freedom” by Nelson Mandela. It was a daunting book that took me over a month to read, but it was worth it. If Mandela’s life was written as fiction, no one would believe it, because it’s so incredible. He was born into one of the most oppressive societies in the world as a minority with virtually no rights. He gained an education, became a lawyer and a political activist. He served 27 years in prison, but never gave up the fight. Upon his release at age 71 he continued to fight against apartheid and within five years helped achieve the impossible. He helped overturn the racist government and became president of a free South Africa, a country he had lived most of life as a political criminal or prisoner. He earned the Nobel Peace Prize and became the father of a free South Africa, long after he had earned the title of “Madiba” or father. Like the other biographies I am reading, I wanted to share some lessons from Mandela’s example that could apply to the world of education.
No task is too small: Throughout his life story, there are examples of Mandela doing “small” things to help others. Whether it was teaching someone to read in prison or helping a neighbor with legal assistance. He often remarked that the leaders he looked up to always found time to do the “little things”. As educators, the little things we do for students and parents can mean the world. A simple smile, a phone call home to check on their well being, and a helping hand can make positive ripples in the life of a child.
All people can change: Some of the most remarkable parts of Mandela’s story take place in prison. As I read the many chapters of prison life, I kept thinking that Mandela sounded like the characters of Red and Andy from The Shawshank Redemption rolled into one and that character rather than escaping, changed the world around him. He continually spoke of the importance of hope and that he never doubted he would get out and that his struggle would end in success. There were many instances in the several prisons he was confined to, where he would earn the respect of the prison wardens and would often educate the guards on South African history and about the goals of the African National Congress that he worked with. He noted that once fear and ignorance were removed, respect and trust were gained. As educators, we can NEVER give up on a child. No matter their past, their situation or even their attitude. When we can remove fear and replace it with knowledge, we will change the course of their lives.
It’s about the future and not the past: Mandela had a habit of planting gardens in prison and would often turn a dusty patch of land in a prison courtyard into a beautiful vegetable garden. He would even share his yield with the prison guards and their families as well as his fellow political prisoners. His gardens would often take years to cultivate before they bore fruit. It was a great example of how he lived his life. He wasn’t focused on quick fixes, but tended and cared for his garden to produce better fruit each year. When he rose to power and became president of South Africa, he used this same approach. He told his country that it was not about looking back at the past with an eye for revenge, but rather looking toward the future with an eye on hope. As educators, we may never see the fruits of our labors. We tend the garden of children in our schools and we nurture them and hope that one day, those efforts will bear fruit with happy and successful adults. It’s hard work and requires patience and one eye on the present and one eye on the future.
My goal was not to reduce the incredible life of Nelson Mandela into a few bullet points. However, I did want to share how educators can learn from people of all walks of life. Especially those who made the “Long Walk to Freedom“.
“Education is the most powerful weapon which you can use to change the world.” – Nelson Mandela
“It always seems impossible until it’s done.” – Nelson Mandela
“There can be no keener revelation of a society’s soul than the way in which it treats its children.” – Nelson Mandela
Saturday Shout Out – Dina Rocheleau
- Grades are due on Monday, March 23 at midnight
- Report Cards will be visible to families on Parent Connect on Wednesday, March 25
- The district will be sending out an update to staff (and then to families) very soon about how we are moving forward. As always, feel free to email or text me with any questions or clarifications.
- I will continue to send out a staff post each week and also my weekly parent update to keep consistency for our team and our community.
- Remember to take care of YOU and your family. Reach out to me or one another if you need assistance. | <urn:uuid:192b4783-1814-4775-9fa5-0aebd4e4d49b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jonwennstrom.com/2020/03/22/madiba/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00469.warc.gz | en | 0.985211 | 1,055 | 3.578125 | 4 |
Today we’re excited to introduce you to Katie Janowiak, who works for the Medtronic Foundation, our company’s philanthropic arm. It’s an exciting job, helping Medtronic employees get involved in the communities and causes we care about. But today, she’s here to share something personal – her diagnosis with type 1 diabetes 15 years ago, and what she’s learned since then about living with diabetes. We can’t wait to hear more from Katie in blog posts to come!
Growing up, a generous portion of my time was devoted to a few choice activities: listening to New Kids on the Block, ensuring I had the coolest pogs, waiting for that glorious static sound that indicated a successful log on to dial up internet, and reading the entire Babysitter’s Club book series.
Long before wizards, vampire romances, and tributes were the norm in young adult reading, The Babysitter’s Club series chronicled the coming-of-age of several middle-school-aged girls as they ran a babysitting business. Stacey McGill, (a native New Yorker and “one of the best dressers of the babysitter’s club”), was diagnosed with type 1 diabetes in one of the chapter books, and for whatever reason – despite the extensive plot builds of boy drama, friend drama, drama drama – something random stuck with me: Stacey was very thirsty and peed, a lot.
I was very thirsty. I peed, a lot – so much in fact, that I couldn’t make it to a toilet on multiple occasions. When I began experiencing other similar symptoms, I told my parents, quite matter-of-factly, “I think I have diabetes.”
What a great imagination she has! Little Miss Self Diagnosis! How do you know what diabetes is? Maybe you have a cold? I think someone is about to hit puberty.
Regardless of what my parents must have been thinking, they agreed to schedule a doctor’s appointment for me – this was the day before Halloween, October 30, 1998.
From trading pogs to tapping insulin bottles in a matter of hours.
I remember friends coming to the hospital to visit. One asked me “What if you never get kissed now? Guys won’t want to get diabetes!” (I wish I could take this moment to knock some witty response into 12-year-old me. Having had fifteen years to think about it, I’m sure it would be brilliant.) The books and VHS tapes and nurses had all been extremely helpful, but no one had told me how to handle natural curiosity, or other’s lack of education surrounding type 1.
I now have a husband (who kisses me!), a fancy pink pump, and a job devoted to ensuring Medtronic employees have the tools and resources necessary to get involved in their communities around causes they care about. I look forward to sharing with you the laughter, frustration, and everything in between that fifteen years of diabetes has provided me in future posts. If a 20-something is able to impart any words of wisdom from those first moments, days and years upon diagnosis, here are mine:
- A positive attitude and a positive influencer in your diabetic’s life, can completely change the trajectory of the effect illness has on their life. Having even the fictional model of Stacey immediately made T1 “normal” to me…after all, a famous book person had it!
- The balance between “you can lead a normal life” and the “this is a part of your life where you will always be different” is a constant give and take. Almost 15 years in, I am still figuring it out.
- To parents: THIS IS YOUR CHILD’S DISEASE. Empower them to know it and own it.
- To people with diabetes: YOUR FAMILY DOES NOT KNOW WHAT IT FEELS LIKE TO BE YOU. But, they really want to support you. Understand that the questions (“Have you tested lately?” “Can you eat that?” “Ohhhh, you’re being bad”) are truly only to relate with you and to better understand your situation. Take each and every one of these as an opportunity to educate.
- Don’t tell your newly diagnosed diabetic that “it could be worse” (who wants to feel invalidated in their emotions?), but do all you can to provide a healthy sense of perspective to the disease.
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The warehousing industry has experienced a challenging two years thanks to the pressures imposed by Brexit and COVID-19.
During COVID-19, warehousing experienced a short-term boom owing to an increase in eCommerce. This was primarily the result of self-isolating consumers moving their shopping habits from the high-street to the internet. However, this increase in demand was also countered by the impact of trade tariffs and slump in European imports caused by the UK’s departure from the European Union.
As the economy moves on from the impacts and effects of Brexit and COVID-19, the warehousing sector faces new tests from the effects of inflation and the cost-of-living crisis. Here, we discuss the challenges the warehousing sector faces heading into the summer.
Figures from the Office of National Statistics show that between Q1 in 2020 and Q2 in 2022, transport and warehousing vacancies increased by 59.9%. This is also compounded by figures that show that in Q1 2022 job vacancies exceeded the unemployment rate. Vacancies rose to 1.3 million, narrowly eclipsing the unemployment figure for the first time since records began.
Such a market favours employees rather than employers. In this environment, warehousing professionals can seek higher-paying roles as the market becomes more competitive in its efforts to attract talent. Warehouse operators must remain competitive and offer improved incentives to retain staff.
This difficulty in recruiting and retaining staff posed a significant challenge as volumes and demand returned to pre-COVID levels in Q1. However, the ever prominent cost-of-living crisis and runaway inflation is likely to have an impact on consumer spending.
Since summer 2021, inflation has increased by nearly 10%, overtaking wage increases in real terms. These sweeping price increases means that consumers are having to make difficult financial decisions. These decisions usually lead to the prioritising of staple necessities over luxury and non-essential items.
In line with the increased cost-of-living, interest rates have steadily risen to help arrest further inflation. By raising interest rates, the cost of borrowing money rises. However, interest rate rises also increases the return on consumer savings. The overall effect discourages borrowing and spending, and instead encourages consumers to save.
These financial factors are in parallel to fuel and utility price rises, influenced by the war in Ukraine. All this points towards a general decline in consumer spending and demand.
The warehousing sector must anticipate and be prepared for a fall in demand as the cost-of-living and inflation hits consumer spending and confidence.
The increased temperatures experienced during the summer months has multiple impacts on warehousing. The first challenge is the general absenteeism experienced due to the warmer weather. School holidays see significant absences as employees take annual leave to cover childcare and enjoy the summer months with their families.
The heat associated with the summer months also has an impact on warehousing equipment. Chilled and frozen warehouses face power plant issues as their refrigeration units struggle against the heat. Warehousing sort systems are also susceptible to overheating faults.
With regards to warehouse employees themselves, the heat can pose safety risks. When warm weather is anticipated, to avoid overheating and dehydration, it is important for staff to have access to an ample drinking water supply.
The warehousing industry has weathered challenging circumstances in the past two years. Short term success during COVID-19 as a result of consumer spending has led to a strong position heading into summer 2022. However, financial pressures on consumers may lead to a drop-off in demand that may see the viability of warehouse operations challenged.
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NEW DELHI (AP) — ArcelorMittal, the world's largest steelmaker, has abandoned plans for an $8.5 billion steel plant in eastern India in the second major blow this week to the government's efforts to lure foreign investment.
The company said Wednesday it decided to scrap the steel plant in Orissa state after a seven year delay in acquiring land. Its decision came a day after South Korean steel giant Posco dropped plans for a steel plant in southern Karnataka state.
ArcelorMittal said the failure of the state to allocate iron ore fields and delays in land acquisition meant the project was no longer viable.
The global steel industry is also suffering from slower growth in demand as Europe remains in recession and the economies of India and China have cooled.
The company's decision is a setback for the Indian government, which had been trying to woo foreign investment to spur a slowing economy. India's Finance Minister Palaniappan Chidambaram was in Washington D.C. last week making a strong pitch for investment in India.
ArcelorMittal and the Orissa government signed an agreement in 2006 to produce 12 million metric tons (13.2 million U.S. tons) of steel a year with iron ore to be mined locally.
ArcelorMittal officials met with the state's top bureaucrat Wednesday to inform him of the company's decision. The project also had involved building a power plant to serve the steel facility.
"Over the last seven years we have invested considerable resources into this project. However, the delays relating to land acquisition and allocation of captive iron ore blocks means this project is no longer viable," said Vijay Bhatnagar, CEO of ArcelorMittal's India and China businesses.
The company, however, said it would go ahead with two other projects in Jharkhand and Karnataka states.
Difficulties in getting environmental clearances, bureaucratic delays and conflicts between state governments and local communities over land ownership have made India unattractive for companies planning large capital-intensive industrial investments.
Despite shelving its Karnataka plans, Posco on Tuesday said it would go ahead with a separate $12 billion steel plant in Orissa, which is India's biggest foreign investment ever. That project too has been hit by snags in getting environmental clearances and land.
The government on Tuesday further eased restrictions on foreign ownership in several industries, part of its efforts to pull Asia's third-largest economy out of a downward spiral of declining demand, high interest rates and a weakening rupee.
The withdrawal by the two steel companies was a reflection of a decline in the global demand for steel, said A.S. Firoz, an Indian steel expert.
"China is slowing down. In India, demand is down. This is not the best time for steel companies to feel greatly confident. Slowing demand makes it difficult for companies to mobilize funds," Firoz said. "The investment climate is bad everywhere. And in such a situation, companies will take a cautious approach in a high capital costs industry." | <urn:uuid:c5257168-f0cc-45c6-8b81-ab5dd3660e32> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.impomag.com/news/2013/07/arcelormittal-scraps-plan-steel-plant-india | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00465-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965299 | 632 | 1.820313 | 2 |
Could your next car get 86 mpg? It might if it’s a Honda. The next-generation Honda Fit subcompact will be unveiled this fall and arrive in the US in the first half of 2014. Most of the buzz over the new Fit, called the Honda Jazz in some countries) is the hybrid version, which promises a 35% improvement in fuel economy. The US currently gets the gasoline Honda Fit and EV Fit — not the hybrid Fit — but that could change with the next model.
On a Japanese test cycle, 2014 Fit Hybrid fuel economy will be on the order of 2.7 liters consumed per 100 km or 85.6 US mpg. That’s a mathematical conversion that doesn’t account for the US test cycle. But still, it could be the most efficient hybrid if and when it arrives stateside. Currently the most efficient non-EV cars sold in the US are the Toyota Prius C and Toyota Prius, each with 50 mpg combined EPA rating, 53 mpg and 51 mpg city ratings for the Prius C and Prius, respectively. The 2013 Honda Fit gets 29-31 mpg combined depending on the transmission or 33-35 mpg highway; the Honda Fit EV gets 118 mpg-e (miles per gallon equivalent), best in the category the EPA calls small station wagons.
Atkinson engine, 7-speed double clutch transmission, electric motor
Under the umbrella of Honda’s Earth Dreams Technology program, the new Fit Hybrid will be the first to employ Honda’s Intelligent Dual Clutch Drive system, or i-DCD. The gasoline power comes from a 1.5-liter, four-cylinder Atkinson cycle engine. A single electric motor is packaged with a seven-speed dual clutch transmission, linked through an intelligent power unit (IPU) to a lithium-ion storage battery. An Atkinson engine has an effectively shorter compression stroke (when the piston moves upward) than the downward power stroke, accomplished by not immediately closing each cylinder’s intake valve. It captures more of the power in the fuel-air mixture.
When starting out, the clutches disengage the gas engine and the Fit Hybrid starts off on battery power. The clutches engage the engine and gearbox under sporty (hard) acceleration and at higher speeds. When the Fit Hybrid decelerates, the gas engine is again disengaged.
Honda has claimed a 35% increase is compared to the current Fit Hybrid’s integrated motor assist (IMA) configuration. The IMA electric motor only runs when the gasoline engine runs, functioning much like a turbocharger. This is called a mild hybrid or weak hybrid configuration. A hybrid such as the Prius that can run on battery power alone is a strong hybrid, and who wouldn’t prefer strong over mild, let alone weak?
IMA may be cost-effective tech, but lots of hybrid owners want to see — and show their friends — a car that runs on battery alone for a mile or two. This is what happens when you let engineers have input into how a company runs: They pick solutions that make cost-effective sense. Sometimes the market agrees, other times not. Honda has long argued nobody needs an engine of more than six cylinders and it turns out they’re right, but that hurt the Acura brand competing against V8 offerings from Lexus, Audi, BMW and Mercedes-Benz the last two decades. Honda has also been one or two gears shy of the competition in transmissions, arguing that four or five forward gears was fine — “look at our mpg figures, not the numbers of gears.” Now, they too are creeping upwards to as many as seven (the industry record is currently nine). The IMA hybrid is giving way to the i-DCD hybrid. At the very least, IMA served its purpose and Honda is moving on to a more efficient technology.
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Hi Justin. I hope this helps. The idea is to promote the apples to grow on the old growth of the tree. So you want to remove all the vigorous upright shoots. And do some good thinning. This is important especially if it hasnt been maintained yearly.
Sell your customers on the importance of having this down EVERY year by you and they will have the best apples they have ever eaten from their tree.
I suggest you watch this video from Martha Stewart. She owns the most impressive apple orchard I have ever seen. And you may learn something from her long time gardener. Follow this link, then click on the watch video button in the middle of the screen. http://www.marthastewart.com/article...003d370a0aRCRD
This first picture should give you an idea of what I would cut off. But you will need to do more extensive cutting than just what Ive shown.
This next picture is what a properly pruned apple will look like when you are done. And after many years of proper cutting. Note that all the branches are old growth, and low growing. It should have the look of an umbrella when you are done.
Well the large upright ones should have been cut when they were small and vigorous. But now that they are considered old growth, they will be ok for fruit, but you can still cut it for a better visual appeal, or leave it. That is where it becomes up to you. if you have 2 large branches too close together, then you can cut one for thinning. It is all subjective and up to you.
Keep these rules in mind, and try to picture a visually appealing outcome before you start.
1. Promote fruit growth from old growth.
2. Keep crown thinned.
3. Remove vigorous uprights (not the same as old uprights)
4. Keep branches growing low.
5. Try for a good visual appeal.
6. Remove anything dead or diseased.
Also, did you watch the video I linked above? It is a must see.
The picture you took is kind of hard, with the glare.. so If you don't mind showing me a few more cuts from the close up pic (the last one, where you see the transport in the back) That would help me alot.
Kind of hard to tell in the pics what wood is what, but the idea is to remove the new growth, and leave the older growth. The tree will look WAY thinner when you are done. once you start cutting, you will see what I mean.
Just try not to cut too much of the old growth, unless it is necessary for room, branches rubbing.
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You can save snapshots of a drawing to view later. A snapshot saves the current drawing in either *.emf, *.wmf, or *.sld format exactly as it appears on the screen. A snapshot is not a drawing file. You cannot edit or print the snapshot; you can only view it.
You can use snapshots in the following ways:
Make presentations by showing snapshots of your drawings.
Reference a snapshot of a drawing while working on a different drawing.
Present a number of snapshots as a slide show by using scripts.
When you view a snapshot, it temporarily replaces the current drawing. When you refresh the display of the current drawing (by redrawing, panning, zooming, minimizing, maximizing, or tiling), the snapshot image disappears, and you are returned to the current drawing.
A snapshot does not include any invisible entities on layers.
To create a snapshot
Choose Tools > Make Snapshot.
In the Create Snapshot dialog box, specify the name of the snapshot file you want to create.
From the Files Of Types list, choose either *.emf, *.wmf, or *.sld.
Command line MSLIDE
The current drawing remains on the screen, and the snapshot is saved to the directory that you specify. You can view previously saved snapshots, and you can also view snapshots created using other CAD software.
To view a snapshot
Choose Tools > View Snapshot.
In the View Snapshot dialog box, specify the name of the snapshot file you want to view.
Click Open. ZWCAD displays the snapshot in the current drawing window.
Command line VSLIDE
You can view previously saved snapshots, and you can also view snapshots created using other CAD software.
MSLIDE: Creates a slide file of the current model viewport or the current layout
VSLIDE: Displays the slide files
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On March 30, 1880, after a brief move to the Douglas Mansion at 128 West 14th Street, the Museum opened to the public at its current site on Fifth Avenue and 82nd Street. The architects Calvert Vaux and Jacob Wrey Mould designed the initial Ruskinian Gothic structure, the west facade of which is still visible in the Robert Lehman Wing. The building has since expanded greatly, and the various additions—built as early as 1888—now completely surround the original structure. Metropolitan Museum of Art
The is, again, one of New York City’s most luxurious hotels. After being acquired by Radisson Hotels and Resorts the hotel has regained its former prestige and has buried a very unfortunate period in its history. Situated on 32nd Street between Broadway and Fifth Avenue, the 19-story hotel is a restored Beaux Arts Landmark. Built in 1898 by Henry J. Hardenbergh (creator of the original Waldorf-Astoria and Plaza hotels), it sat in the heart of the city’s former Uptown and Theatre District sections. The hotel was a favorite gathering spot for luminaries and patrons of the world of theatre and popular entertainment. However, by the 1970s it was very far from being posh and elegant…it was a nightmare.
As the theatre district moved further north in the mid-twentieth century, the Martinique started to lose its glitzy clientage along with its theatrically propitious setting. The neighborhood was quickly transformed into a commercial cynosure, more a venue for shoppers and merchants than for hotel guests. The move of theatres to streets above 42nd Street also led to a severe decline in real estate values that further plummeted as the 1960s rolled in. Burlesque parlors and strip shows were fast becoming the “new theatre” of depressed conditions with porno shops, peep show joints and various other exotic establishments popping up everywhere…ladies of the night (and of the day) walked the streets in abundance.
Poverty rose in the 1970s and 1980s as the quality of life declined for most people amidst a city foundering in recession. A lack of affordable housing resulted in an ever-growing homeless population that sought refuge in community housing. Those who didn’t have this option found themselves in the city’s homeless shelter system, usually in hotels and apartment buildings that were no longer profitable: welfare hotels.
The Martinique was designated a welfare hotel in the 70s but quickly disintegrated into an overcrowded storehouse of fear and human misery instead of welfare; an absurdist cross between a flophouse and a maximum security prison. The hotel’s spacious beaux arts ceiling loomed above in silent mockery to the threadbare hordes of castaways beneath its enduring elegance. Imposing steel doors, alongside French Renaissance decor, echoed with the sounds of crammed chaos and imminent violence that arose from hallways and adjoining rooms. However, it was the stench of destitution and hopelessness that laid claim to the entire setting: a distinct and pungent odor that clung to everything around it, including clothing.
Barely enough room was to be found for the approximately 440 large families of which 1,000 residents were children. They were huddled into once snug and cozy rooms that were now makeshift apartments that couldn’t contain the bedraggled beds, cribs and dressers essential to family life. Kitchens were nonexistent and hot plates were forbidden; yet, even though it was grounds for eviction, nearly every resident used one. Security guards (most were billy club-wielding thugs who exercised their authority with abandon) often demanded sexual favors from women caught using hot plates to keep from reporting them. Of course, there were other welfare hotels, in New York and in other cities, but the Martinique was the most notable and infamous of them all.
Even if the news media contrived or sensationalized many of their reports of brutal conditions at the Martinique, a fraction of these stories would be more than enough to outrage a rational person. Rarely has opulence and indigence, ambition and despair, been set in such stark and incongruous juxtaposition…Charles Dickens would have had a field day.
The Martinique Hotel’s shameful career as a welfare hotel ended in 1988. City-run vans that used to arrive and take people to look for apartments, maybe once or twice a week, were suddenly cluttered outside the hotel in September of that year; a new urgency to suitably relocate every beleaguered inhabitant of the Martinique was given top priority. Strangely, many were reluctant, even afraid, to leave the ramshackle security of the Martinique. Unused to life on their own, they, like prison inmates, could hardly imagine a life of freedom…and the responsibilities that reward a person with independence.
When I was a child, I stumbled upon this photograph in Life magazine that appeared to be that of a beautiful girl peacefully asleep. The fact that she was fully-dressed, if rather disheveled, supine against a layer of crumpled abstraction outlined with passersby, wasn’t clear to me. But her face caught my attention and dispelled any notion of actual horror: an expression of composure that was haunting. I was five or six years old and death was still unknown to me…mental anguish borne of ill-fated love was, of course, unimaginable.
Her name was Evelyn McHale; she was 23-years old (the NY Times reported that she was 20). On May 1, 1947, she jumped off the Empire State Building‘s observation deck on the 86th floor. She landed on a United Nations limousine parked at the curb at Thirty-third Street and Fifth Avenue, the impact staving the car’s metal body and shattering its windows. A photographer by the name of Robert Wiles, who was standing across the street, rushed to the scene. His photograph, less than four minutes after her fall, immortalized Evelyn in Life magazine and everywhere else it appeared.
She left behind an unfinished note which she crossed out; the typical overtone of suicide contained within its few words: “He’s much better off without me … I wouldn’t make a good wife for anybody.” Apparently there wasn’t anything special about Evelyn’s life (her gray coat and a pocketbook containing family photos and a few dollars were found lying on the spot from where she jumped)…nothing special in her life but eternally beautiful in her death.
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The annual NYC Easter Parade, of old and on Fifth Avenue, continued strolling along today. Dating back to the 1870s, the parade is a festive occasion (and leisurely excuse) for many New Yorkers to sport fancy threads and even more fancier hats. Decked out in the traditional to the bizarre, paraders marched from 49th Street to 57th Street and past St. Patrick’s Cathedral. Sunny skies and mild temperatures complemented the scene.
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The dictionary defines a Bachelorette as a young unmarried woman who lives alone, an adult female or a bachelor girl. The rather unpleasant and harsh sounding word,spinster, according to the dictionary refers to an unmarried woman, typically an older woman beyond the usual age for marriage.
I am fortunate to interact with many a happy bachelorette not exactly pining for male attention.And I wonder why there’s not more of them in literature.
Even the most progressive and open- minded of parents tend to get uneasy at the sight of their happily aging daughter who refuses to ‘settle down’. One such happy young female approaching thirty wrote a letter to her father. She said that for all these years her wonderful,adoring father and her supportive mom had taken pride in her ability to stand up for herself, find her own way,run a business, manage a job, excel at art, speak her mind and in general be a woman of substance. She complains of how she is unable to comprehend their sudden haste to get her married now. She reminds her dad of his pet name for her ‘Sher ka bacha, the child of lion’ asking him to let her be and lose his peace of mind over her.
Fervent calls from the ‘concerned and caring’ in the extended family, the news of their peers becoming granddads and grandmoms, their own concerns as to who will look after her once we are gone etc must be gnawing at the heart of her parents..
Available literature about unmarried woman is not very uplifting either. W.H.Auden’s unhappy spinster who succumbed to sarcoma creates a rather scary picture. In most evening soaps on the television, there is the villainous unmarried sister who cannot tolerate the joy of companionship in her family.There’s a seldom an unmarried woman who lived happily in popular imagery unless she’s Mary Poppins. But, of course, she could fly!
While a bachelor status can work in your favour in the society, the spinster status can make you worthy of distrust, unwanted curiosity, unsolicited advice and what not?
Marriage does not make many happy, yet married people rush to thrust it as a compulsion upon young people who think differently.
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- Here are 3 places to be more intentional about the words you use from the platform and in your everyday life.
What you say is important. I’m pretty sure that God designed it to be that way. The books of Genesis and John both speak about some very important words that God used. We see that Jesus is the Word of God. (John 1:1-5). God’s Words created the world in which we live. He spoke—and it came into existence out of nothing. God’s Words create life. Jesus used His Words to heal, to forgive, to preach, and to save. He is the Word and His words changed eternity. The Bible is God’s Word to us. And prophets in the Old Testament would receive and share a Word from the Lord. If God used words in such important aspects of the life He gave us, then we can be pretty sure that God places a lot of importance on words. What we say matters.
We’ve all had times when we fumbled for words, said the wrong thing, sounded tacky, or unintentionally hurt someone’s feelings. We make mistakes. And we make mistakes with our words. But it’s time for the Church, church leaders, and everyone who associates with the body of Christ, to strongly consider the importance of their words and the effect those words have on others around them. We need to be intentional with our words. It matters.
1. Person-first Wording.
As a church, if we are striving to be inclusive in our worship services and in our churches (and if we’re not, why aren’t we?), then we need to look at the words we use in reference to those in our ministry. Specifically, person-first wording should infiltrate all of our speech patterns. Person-first wording means we put the person ahead of the adjective we are using to describe them because the person is more important than their challenges, roles, or functions. So rather than calling people an autistic person, a foster kid, or a cancer patient, we need to turn those words around. Instead, if you must use specific descriptors, you would say you were meeting with a person who has autism, assisting a child who is in (foster) care, and visiting a person who has cancer. Always put the person first, because they are much more than their challenges. It may seem trivial to you, but it means a lot to choose to see the person over their pain or even their role in ministry.
2. Gender-neutral Wording.
This can be a pretty controversial topic, and as a woman in ministry, I have pretty strong opinions after spending several years in seminary researching women’s roles in society, family, and ministry. I believe in equality for men and women. I believe that Jesus redeemed women’s place in society. Whether you are in agreement with those statements or not, it is still worth the Church’s time and effort to examine the language used referring to men and women. This is not about changing the Bible. This is about changing what we as leaders or church members say and what we sing. If we believe in equality for men and women, we need to show it in our language, including important, long-standing traditions in the church. And that may mean adapting our songs and even our favorite hymns and liturgy. Will this stir up trouble? Perhaps. Is it important? Definitely. Jesus demonstrated hospitality and kindness to women in a time when this was seen as controversial and punishable. Sometimes we have to be willing to tackle the hard topics to include everyone that Jesus included.
A great example of this is the Christmas carol, “Good Christian Men Rejoice.” Obviously, this hymn isn’t putting women down, but it does exclude them. The United Methodist Hymnal has done a great job of adapting this hymn to include women by changing it to, “Good Christian Friends Rejoice.” The change does not affect the rhythm or pentameter of the hymn; it fits in quite smoothly and does not exclude half of the congregation. This minor change does not reflect a church’s leaning towards egalitarianism, complementarianism, or traditionalism, and it might seem trivial to someone who has grown up singing the original version. But if we want to show real love for women the way Jesus did, we need to remember that our words matter. It is not enough to say that it is understood that the word mankind means the same as the word humankind. We need to make the change and honor both genders that God created with all of our language.
3. Private and Public Words.
We need to take a good, hard look at the words we use both in front of the congregation and behind closed doors. Do our words reveal integrity, are they in line with Scripture, and do they speak love and life? Or have our office conversations sneakily degraded into gossip and hurtful sarcasm? Are our prayer requests just an excuse to talk about other people’s problems? Does our language exclude a person or a people? We need to look at both the content of our words and the syntax of our words. What are we saying to and about the children in our church? We may not realize that referring to “those kids” has a much more negative connotation than talking to “our church’s children.” Does our grammar show what we really mean? And would God be pleased with those words? What about ethnic groups? Speaking in stereotypes isn’t helpful. In fact, it just reveals our unnoticed racial biases, which are always wrong. Our words matter and they often, even if unintentionally, reveal the condition of our hearts.
The Bible says that out of the overflow of the heart, the mouth speaks (Luke 6:45). Small changes in our vocabulary, minor changes in our songs, and adjustments to our speech patterns take a little bit of effort, but that effort will speak volumes about our love for the people that God has placed in our care. As we incorporate these changes in our speech, they will imprint on our hearts.
Is it on your heart to make sure that everyone feels welcome in your worship services? Does your congregation know that you truly value everyone? Ask God to point out to you ways in which your language might be hurtful rather than helpful. Be intentional as you sing, speak, and write, and make each word an effort to impart life, love, and hope into another person’s life. It matters.
Amanda is a toddler-chasing, coffee drinking, fashion boot-wearing, Fit-bit addicted, Jesus-loving, wife and mom to 6 small children. She spends her free time absorbed in fashion and tattoos, watching Pirates of the Caribbean, Googling, attempting clean eating, all while spreading autism awareness, encouraging adoption and foster care, championing the underdog, and of course, juicing. Amanda serves the local church as a licensed American Baptist pastor, worship leader, and free-lance writer. She holds a Master of Divinity from Liberty Baptist Theological Seminary, a Bachelor of Arts in Church Music from Eastern University, and a cosmetology license from Metro Beauty Academy. Her favorite places to be are the local zoo, the church piano bench, Facebook, and anywhere her family is. Catch up with Amanda at thebeautifulblog.com and twitter.com/beautifulmanda.
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[en] Cadmium (Cd) tolerance seems to be a constitutive species-level trait in Arabidopsis halleri sp. halleri. Therefore, an interspecific cross was made between A. halleri and its closest nontolerant interfertile relative, Arabidopsis lyrata sp. petraea, and a first-generation backcross population (BC1) was used to map quantitative trait loci (QTL) for Cd tolerance. Three QTL were identified, which explained 43%, 24%, and 16% of the phenotypic variation in the mapping population. Heavy metal transporting ATPases4 (HMA4), encoding a predicted heavy metal ATPase, colocalized with the peak of the major QTL Cdtol-1 and was consequently further studied. HMA4 transcripts levels were higher in the roots and the shoots of A. halleri than in A. lyrata sp. petraea. Furthermore, HMA4 was also more highly expressed in all BC1 genotypes harboring the HMA4 A. halleri allele at the QTL Cdtol-1, independently of the presence of an A. halleri allele at the two other QTL. Overexpression of AhHMA4 in yeast (Saccharomyces cerevisiae) supported a role of HMA4 in zinc (Zn) and Cd transport by reducing the Cd and Zn contents of the yeast cells. In epidermal tobacco (Nicotiana tabacum) cells, AhHMA4:green fluorescent protein was clearly localized in the plasma membrane. Taken together, all available data point to the elevated expression of HMA4P(1B)-type ATPase as an efficient mechanism for improving Cd/ Zn tolerance in plants under conditions of Cd/ Zn excess by maintaining low cellular Cd2+ and Zn2+ concentrations in the cytoplasm. | <urn:uuid:9a432653-1676-41a4-a50e-da7c723134c6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://orbi.ulg.ac.be/handle/2268/60889 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00238-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.918479 | 397 | 1.65625 | 2 |
KT, a Korean telecom provider, has tested the use of a new technology that may help users of 5G networks conserve their phone batteries. Termed CDRX (Connected Mode Discontinuous Reception) the technology aims to put handsets to sleep if no incoming communication happens. The premise is that the handset will turn off its 5G reception and periodically check for new incoming transmissions. The result would be a longer battery life since the 5G connection isn’t continuously checking for message updates.
KT has utilized the technology on the newly released series of Samsung devices. The Galaxy Note 10, Note 10 Plus and the S10 5G model all support the function. The company has moved to synchronize this function with these particular handsets on their 5G network. The results released by the Telecommunications Technology Association (TTA) showed an increase in the battery life of the Note 10 5G by up to four hours and twenty-one minutes.
A Stopgap Measure for Increased Battery Life
The results are impressive, and KT announced a series of other tests it performed with connected Samsung devices. Devices that had CDRX applied to them had battery lives that ranged from ten to eleven hours on average. The battery life of the machines was extended by approximately 65%. KT is the second largest network in South Korea and first applied the technology to its systems in 2017.
The values shown suggest that CDRX could come as welcome boon to heavy users of cell phones, allowing their battery life to be extended at the expense of continual connectivity. However, it remains a stopgap measure at best. The solution to the problem is to develop better battery technology that can run these 5G handsets over more extended periods. With the massive connections speeds the 5G system boasts, users will likely be utilizing the mobile networks far more widely than they did on 3G and 4G. CDRX is indeed useful technology, but it doesn’t extend the life of the battery, it just works around the limitations of the existing hardware. | <urn:uuid:1c8f10aa-cbcc-4601-8adf-dad6d4e766b1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cloudwedge.com/news/korean-telecom-company-kt-demos-battery-saving-tech-on-5g-network/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.953003 | 412 | 2.1875 | 2 |
Python is one of the most rapidly growing programming language it’s a high-level programming language built in with an excellent library. Python is an interpreted language which means that it can execute instruction directly without being compiled due to built in system that can translate each statement into machine code before you execute the code.
Python is a dynamic and multi-purpose programming language and available on most of the platform including Windows, Mac and Linux. Python is widely used all over the globe even the companies like Google, Facebook, Dropbox, NASA uses python.
Python was created for general purpose programming language but today it is being used everywhere in various fields of science and technology, robotics, developing actual softwares for operating system using different types of python framework, one of them is QT framework which provides cross platform support.
When someone tries python for the first time it seems like it is for newbies but it’s a real badass language, python is sort of write less output more which means the task you complete in other language with 20 lines of codes can be done in 10 lines using python. Like C++ and JAVA which is hard to learn and takes a lot more time to write even simple program whereas python takes half the effort and time writing the same program. Although python scripts are slower than JAVA and C++ but it also requires less memory compared to other programming language out there.
On the other side python is becoming popular day by day between web developers for creating dynamic website and web applications due to its huge resources and frameworks. There are thousands of open source libraries and documentation which can guide learner through every step and boost learning speed. Python can be used for both frontend and backend development of websites and its content, it can be used for server side scripting and for frontend it’s a little tricky using along with JS but the great community is out there to help you make it possible.
Developers are creating and sharing their tools and modules opensource which helps a lot for developing web apps and web content for beginners out there, also huge numbers of libraries and frameworks provided by the communities helps in increasing speed and saves time writing scripts. Python is so easy and smooth to learn it just feels like you are learning the English language even if you are a beginner in python you can understand the scripts written by the professional it’s just that common and simple.
Python is also famous for server side scripting and creating dynamic content for websites. As we all know that PHP holds a large amount of market on backend development but python is also gaining popularity nowadays due to strong security built in, python may be not as flexible as PHP but comparatively python is a lot clean to write code, error free and easy to debug. It’s an elegant language with clarity and functionality which is pleasure to work with.
Best Python Frameworks for Web Development
Now, let’s talk about frameworks which are another interesting part of python and don’t get confused with framework it’s just walls and pillars or structure for your specific projects to make you go fast with code and scripts. It is just all python or python with some other language to make scripts fast and productive some frameworks are build purely using python like reahl and some are just combination of different languages that are hidden away and feels like native language.
There are large number of python frameworks available out designed for various specific purposes, for web development it’s even growing huge which is why it’s gaining popularity in web development.
Below are the list of best python frameworks with specific goals.
Django is widely used by the developer for creating web application because of its ready to go out of the box fully featured web-interface that gets generated automatically for every apps you build and have a great community. It also provides good documentation so that it’s easy to get used to it
Flask is a little like a django in level and more explict which is good for beginner easy to understand but it is kinda hard to master, anyway it is still the popular framework due to it’s reliability speed and minimalistic code structure.
Pyramid is a minimalistic framework which is an open licensed and have very little limitation of code you can use with your pyramid apps and it is intended for more bigger and complex application than flask. It is based on Zope and has good documentation like django and also one of the fastest web framework.
Web2py is a simple and portable framework and easy to learn. It’s a database driven web based application it also follows the same principle write less output more and helps you shorten your code but it doesn’t follow all the community standard despite that it’s easy and fun to learn.
Cherrypy is also one of the minimalist web framework quite popular an easy to use and similar to object oriented python programs. It’s an HTTP framework which is quite stable and fun to use and doesn’t need to understand the entire framework to get you start using it.
Grok is similar to zope3 and a based on it due to API compatibility. Using grok will not be that hard if you are familiar with Zope3 also there are some benefits of using zope3 with grok because no ZCML or XML files are needed, most of the files are automated and also it generates less messy code.
Pylons is an opensource web-development framework providing flexibility combining great and collective ideas form experienced project leader which focuses on modern web development technology. It also offers online debugger which helps in finding errors easy. Overall it’s a great framework if you are familiar with django it will be even easier for you to get started.
It may be one of the oldest python based framework it started as Zope –Z in 1995, it’s suitable for object oriented development and easy for finding errors and the best thing about it is the reusability of the components.
It’s a web-framework which is mostly used in web servers due to it’s performance for handling thousand of concurrent connection. It’s an asynchronous web framework that has it’s own event loop and supports web sockets and you can also work combining WSGI (web server gateway interface) and tornado.
Nagare is opensource we development framework based on stackless python combining continuation which helps in improving the HTTP connection requests. The way application is developed using Nagare is that same of desktop application.
Hug is not a web framework but the function it performs secures it’s place being important framework for web developer. With it developer can create their own APIs in a simple and fast method; it’s fast and intelligent to consume the memory only on certain case when required. It is easy to learn and even till now developer are trying to make it simple as they can.
Sanic is a web framework famous for it’s fast and asynchronous HTTP requests handling. It is UVLOOP and HTTPtools based framework which is developed to go fast, sanic is created and developed by github and it’s large community.
Falcon is a minimalist WSGI (web server gateway interface) web framework with hassle free APIs and cut’s down all the unnecessary abstraction. It’s reliable and flexible and can be used for both high level and low level project development.
May be it’s enough to describe all the mass of peoples trying to get into python; it is getting very popular in today’s web technology due to its flexibility and usability on various multi platforms.
So learning python is not that hard though some might get confused due to it’s large number of python framework available it is up to you, every single framework has it’s own pros and cons it depends upon your specific goal for learning python. It’s a multipurpose language after understanding the basic structure and work flow you can implement your skills on wide range of platforms. Learning of python is not a waste of time it’s getting popular and who knows in future it might get even huge. Today huge companies and professional are targeting python to make it their primary It may have started as a general purpose language but today it got so big tomorrow it will get even huge that’s for sure. | <urn:uuid:5e2592ed-2f1d-4436-9739-354fcf2a74f4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://onaircode.com/best-python-frameworks-for-web-developer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.934331 | 1,979 | 3.15625 | 3 |
The ever-reliable Jamie Whyte has a superb piece in The Times in which he identifies quite precisely what’s wrong with ‘the precautionary principle’:
Suppose that, in return for an annual premium of £1, someone promises to pay you £1 million if you are abducted by aliens (such insurance exists). … You lack the information required to know if the insurance is a good deal. It is in such situations of uncertainty that the precautionary principle is supposed to apply. … [T]his principle tells you to buy the ticket. You should incur the £1 cost of the premium if there is any chance that it will save you from the greater cost of experiencing an uncompensated alien abduction. Whenever the prize is greater than the bet, and you do not know the odds, the principle says you should gamble. Bookmakers must dream of the day when punters bring such wisdom to the racetrack.
That’s a very illuminating parallel. What those who preach precaution are doing is secretly evaluating the likelihood of the Very Bad Thing we are supposed to be scared of as certainty, and their avoidance policy as perfect.
I would add, now Whyte has given me the right analytical start, that the way that the problem is usually posed should give this away directly. The precaution preacher says that: the Very Bad Thing (B) may be unlikely, but it is so very very bad, that however unlikely it is, it is too horrible to contemplate not doing onerous things P prevent it. It might as well be certain, but for P. That is implicitly a claim that both B is infinite in horribleness and that P is guaranteed to reduce its (unknown) likelihood.
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Diabetes artificial pancreas hope5th February 2010
Scientists in Cambridge have made a breakthrough in helping children with Type 1 diabetes.
They have shown that an "artificial pancreas" can be used to regulate blood sugar in children with the condition.
Findings published in The Lancet from a trial show that a "real time" sensor measuring glucose levels combined with a pump that delivers insulin can boost overnight blood sugar control and help cut the risk of blood sugar levels dropping to a dangerous level.
Study leader Dr Roman Hovorka said: "This is the first randomised study showing the potential benefit of the artificial pancreas system overnight using commercially-available sensors and pumps.
"Our study provides a stepping stone for testing the system at home."
Seventeen children took part in the study over 54 nights in hospital.
Glucose monitors and insulin pumps are both used individually but researchers developed an algorithm to calculate the appropriate amount of insulin to deliver, based on the real-time glucose readings and tested it over different circumstances in the children.
The artificial pancreas was shown to reduce the times that blood glucose dropped to a level considered as mild hypoglycaemia by half.
The research was funded by the Juvenile Diabetes Research Foundation.
Its chief executive Karen Addington said: "We need to redouble our efforts to move the artificial pancreas from a concept in the clinic to a reality in the home of children and adults with type 1 diabetes."
Diabetes UK said the development was an important step forward in managing overnight blood glucose levels.
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U.S.-based Students for a Free Tibet says Chinese authorities have detained six more of its members and supporters in Beijing.
The group says five American members were detained Tuesday evening in Beijing's Olympic park after unfurling a "Free Tibet" banner. The message was spelled out in English and Chinese using bright blue lights.
The group also says that earlier in the day, American artist James Powderly was detained in the Chinese capital, where he was planning to use laser lights to beam pro-Tibet messages onto buildings.
The group's deputy director, Tenzin Dorjee, said in a statement that the Tibet issue will not disappear until Chinese leaders acknowledge the demands of the Tibetan people to end China's occupation.
The group says Chinese authorities have detained and deported 37 of its members and supporters who were involved in six previous protests in Beijing over the past two weeks.
On Monday, the Washington-based International Campaign for Tibet said more than 40 athletes competing in the Beijing Olympics have downloaded from the Internet an album of Tibet-solidarity songs performed by prominent musicians.
The Chinese government said it would allow some demonstrations in designated protest zones during the Olympics. But Chinese state media have reported that the government rejected all 77 applications for protests it received this month. Some applicants have also been detained.
U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice had planned to join the closing ceremonies on Sunday. But the White House said Tuesday that Rice is too busy addressing global problems, including Russia's invasion of Georgia, to attend the event. U.S. Labor Secretary Elaine Chao will stand in for Rice.
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Feb 26, 2013National Survey Shows Medical Students and Residents Have Frequent Interactions with Pharmaceutical Companies
Boston - A first-of-its kind national survey of medical students and residents finds that despite recent efforts by medical schools and academic medical centers to restrict access of pharmaceutical sales representatives to medical trainees, medical students and residents still commonly receive meals, gifts, and industry-sponsored educational materials. The study was completed by a team of researchers led by fourth-year Harvard Medical School student Kirsten Austad and Aaron Kesselheim, M.D., J.D., M.P.H., an internist and health policy researcher in the Division of Pharmacoepidemiology and Pharmacoeconomics at Brigham and Women's Hospital and is scheduled to publish online this week in the Journal of General Internal Medicine.
"In medical school and residency, as trainees are learning the fundamentals of their profession, there is a need to ensure the education they receive is as unbiased as possible," said Dr. Kesselheim. "However, it is well known that promotional information and gifts from pharmaceutical companies can encourage non-evidence-based prescribing. Though many institutions have tried to insulate trainees from these effects, trainees' exposure to industry promotion is still quite high."
The surveys were completed by a randomly selected subset of more than 2,000 medical students and residents representing every medical school in the United States. Students answered questions about the frequency of their interaction with pharmaceutical representatives, the types of gifts pharmaceutical representatives gave them and whether they thought these interactions affected their learning. One-third of first-year students and more than half of fourth-year students and residents reported receiving industry-sponsored gifts. A majority of students reported that pharmaceutical industry interactions provided them with valuable education, even though a majority of students also acknowledged the interactions opened them up to bias. Additionally, a majority of students supported measures that would further reduce access of industry sales representatives to trainees.
"Medical schools and academic medical centers need to continue to work on separating students from industry promotion at this highly impressionable time in their professional development," said Austad. "As an alternative, medical schools should provide students with more education about how to interpret clinical trials and ways to approach evidence-based prescribing so trainees can learn to critically evaluate industry promotion when they become practicing physicians."
This research was funded by a grant from the Edmond J. Safra Center for Ethics at Harvard University. Dr. Kesselheim is supported by a career development award from the Agency for Healthcare Research & Quality and a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Investigator Award in Health Policy Research.
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Dramatically sited on cliffs overlooking the Solway Firth, this award winning museum is next to a Roman fort probably founded in the first century AD and rebuilt during the reign of the emperor Hadrian.
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Employee work performance can help to identify the success of an organization. One of many concepts in psychology that can describe work performance is organizational citizenship behavior (OCB). OCB is a concept used in industrial and organizational behavior learning, which usually being associated with the organizational effectiveness. The purpose of this research is to examine the role of harmonious passion as a mediator on the relationship between job resource and OCB. The data collection in this study included 240 employee respondents who work in Bank Pembangunan Daerah (BPD). The measurements used in this study are OCB Scale (2002) to measure OCB; Questionnaire on The Experience and Evaluation of the Work (QEEW) Scale (2017) to measure job autonomy, performance feedback, and technology resource; and Passion Scale (2003) to measure harmonious passion. The analysis statistic method of Process Macro for SPSS and SAS 3.0 were used to examine the mediational hypotheses. Consistent with job demand-resource theory, result shows that when job resource exist in working environment, it can motivates and encourages employee to develop OCB and this association is partially mediated by harmonious passion. This study provides a deeper understanding about the importance of extra-role behavior in organization and how to generate this behavior in future.
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Many Apple (NASDAQ:AAPL) watchers are familiar with the incredibly strong alloy known as Liquidmetal. Apple acquired the rights to this unique material in a 2010 deal with Liquidmetal Technologies (LQMT.PK). Since then, the Cupertino-based company has not done much with this material except make a SIM card eject tool for the iPhone. One reason for the limited use of this material is the difficulty in producing it in large amounts.
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Geneva: Yesterday, at the United Nations in Geneva, the UAE government presented a report on the progress that the UAE has made in promoting and protecting human rights.
In a bid to improve the protection of human rights across the world, once every four years the UN Human Rights Council holds a public review of each of the 193 member states of the UN to examine where they are doing well and where they can improve. This is the second such review for the UAE since the process known as the Universal Periodic Review (UPR) was instituted in 2006.
The UAE government accepted thirty six recommendations stemming from its 2008 review, including measures aimed at reinforcing protection of the rights of children, women and workers. In addition, the UAE made nine voluntary pledges of its own.
In a formal presentation about the UAE's progress in implementing the recommendations from the first review, Dr Anwar Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs, informed the Human Rights Council about the steps the UAE government has taken to further enhance the protection of human rights.
"While we recognise that the UAE will continually need to review and enhance its efforts to protect human rights, the level of protection of human rights already achieved represents a significant success", said Dr Gargash in his statement.
Referring to the UPR process, he said: "The dialogue we are having with the international community in Geneva today represents an unparalleled opportunity for our nation to bolster efforts to promote transparency and inclusion in our approach to promoting human rights. It is an opportunity we fully embrace and value." Outlining the work that has been done in various areas, Dr Gargash pointed to a number of key laws the UAE has adopted in recent years to safeguard the rights of women, children, contract workers and people with disabilities, noting that additional and significant legislative changes are currently being prepared.
During the interactive session, ninety UN member nations welcomed the positive progress that has been made and asked questions regarding the protection of human rights in the UAE. They also made a series of recommendations on possible further action to enhance human rights protection.
Among the most prominent issues raised in questions to the UAE delegation was that of labour and the expansion of rights for the UAE's large community of contract workers.
The UAE delegation reaffirmed its commitment to uphold the rights of workers and noted numerous steps taken by the government in this respect, from overhauling health care to enacting legislation guaranteeing the protection of domestic workers against mistreatment or abuse.
In his statement, Dr Gargash also dedicated significant time to human trafficking, noting the government's pledge to strive vigorously to build the capacity of law-enforcement workers to tackle this crime.
Dr Gargash commented that: "While there is still much more to do, the UAE possesses one of the strongest human rights records in the region. We intend to build on it and use the UPR process to set milestones and a roadmap for us to achieve an ever higher standard." Following the review the Human Rights Council will present the UAE with a formal set of recommendations on how to further promote human rights. The UAE will then study these recommendations and in due course outline which of the recommendations it has chosen to accept and how it intends to implement them. - Emirates News Agency, WAM
Below is the full text of speech delivered by Dr Anwar Gargash, Minister of State for Foreign Affairs before the Human Rights Council's Working Group of the Universal Periodic Review in Geneva yesterday:
Thank you, Mr. President.
On behalf of the United Arab Emirates, I am honoured to return to Geneva to discuss the progress we have made in implementing the recommendations from our first Universal Periodic Review, in 2008.
With my colleagues, I thank the countries that participated in the Working Group for our review, and the Troika of Germany, Thailand, and Ethiopia. I would like to convey to all of you who are here today the warm greetings of the people of the UAE.
At the outset, let me express the UAE's appreciation for the review process and the opportunity it gives us to have this open dialogue with the international community. The UPR process represents a beacon for the cause of human rights worldwide.
The dialogue we are having in Geneva today presents an unparalleled opportunity for us to promote a transparent and inclusive approach to human rights. It is an opportunity we fully embrace and value.
Mr. President, It is my pleasure to introduce our delegation, which is comprised of several officials who have very ably supported the compilation of a report on human rights in the UAE. Our delegation also includes members from civil society groups who were involved in the preparation of this report.
Since the 2008 UPR, the UAE Government has made it a priority to put into practice the outcomes of the review. In 2010, we set up a committee specifically to support the objective of ensuring that we are following through on our commitments under the UPR. The committee is comprised of government bodies, both federal and local, and advisers from civil society organisations. It now acts as a permanent forum for the consultative process with civil society in the UAE.
The committee developed a plan to implement the outcome of the review, working closely with a host of national actors. Feedback on a draft of the plan was sought from government ministries, civil society associations and our national assembly - the Federal National Council.
I would like to take a moment to acknowledge and thank our own civil society, for their contribution to the review. Their participation was a centrepiece of our UPR process. In the course of the consultations and engagement they had with the committee over the last two years our citizens and civil society organisations have shared their views on human rights in the UAE. Much of this input is reflected in the report.
Following our last consultative meeting with civil society the draft report was put on the committee's website in order to enable all our citizens to participate in the discussion about advancing human rights in the UAE .
The final national report was submitted to the Human Rights Council in October 2012 but our dialogue with civil society and other stakeholders in the UAE continues.
Mr President, This report demonstrates the efforts the UAE has made to implement the findings of the review, and the continuous progress we are making.
During the UAE's first review, many countries put forward questions regarding the UAE's human rights record. Recommendations were made covering a wide range of human rights issues, including the ratification of international human rights treaties, national implementation of human rights commitments, the rights of workers, and the rights of women and children.
The UAE Government accepted 36 recommendations and made 9 additional voluntary pledges. More than 90 per cent of these were implemented.
Details of the actions we took are in the report, which provides a specific response to each recommendation. In the course of this intervention, I would like to discuss a few thematic areas that these recommendations covered, and review some of the significant progress that has occurred during the last four years.
Mr President, The UAE has a stable political system characterised by a consultative relationship between its citizens and its government, the application of the rule of law and good governance. This is underpinned by a Constitution which guarantees the rights of UAE citizens.
The UAE's political system has evolved over time in response to the needs of a modern nation state, while staying consistent with its traditions.
We take pride in our achievements but we are never satisfied with the status quo. Let me be clear: we are facing challenges. I will not stand here in front of you, and say that we have a spotless record in the UAE. Indeed, I am not aware of any country that does.
In a difficult and unstable region, and in a country with a rapidly growing population, a large percentage of whom are expatriates, our approach to human rights is inevitably an evolving one.
What we do have is a strong commitment to improve the situation. I can assure you that the UAE government takes concerns of any possible violation of human rights very seriously and that we are constantly working on strengthening our capacity to respond to these.
We will continue to take this proactive approach, in a way that is consistent with our constitution, laws and traditions, to address or prevent situations which threaten or violate human rights.
Mr President It is a central duty of any Government to ensure that it has adequate legislation and institutions in place to ensure the rights of its people are protected.
Since the first UPR, the UAE has comprehensively reviewed its constitution and laws in order to implement systems that effectively protect human rights. This process entailed undertaking significant reforms, details of which are in the report. Allow me though to highlight a few developments in this regard.
The UAE Constitution was amended in 2009. Among other changes, the tenure of Federal National Council members was extended to four years, in order to allow its members to complete a comprehensive term of parliamentary work. This is in line with international parliamentary standards.
The remit of the FNC has also now been expanded to include a role in debating international treaties and international conventions undertaken by the government .
During recent years, the UAE has also implemented diverse legislative initiatives to address other human rights issues, including the enactment of several measures to strengthen the rights of workers, and the amendment of legislation on the rights of people with disabilities.
The UAE accepted two recommendations on protecting children's rights at the last review and as a result we are in the process of adopting a federal law concerning children's rights. The law includes a number of measures that are designed to protect children and prescribes penalties for breaching its provisions.
More details related to the progress of human rights legislation in the UAE are set out in our report.
The UAE also understands the importance of promoting institutional frameworks that aim to strengthen the protection of human rights. As our report shows, several departments and governmental entities concerned with human rights have been established at both federal and domestic levels during the past few years.
A group of recommendations that we received during the first review, as well as questions submitted in advance of this session by the Netherlands and the United Kingdom, concerned the establishment of a national human rights institution in the UAE. We remain committed to taking this recommendation forward and have taken a series of important steps in order to realise it.
Mr President, A number of the recommendations in 2008 called on the UAE government to do more to ratify treaties and other international instruments.
We appreciate that our engagement with the international community in the field of human rights must be multifaceted, including studying the accession to international conventions, cooperating with treaty bodies and special procedures, undertaking the UPR and cooperating with the activities of the Human Rights Council. On each of these levels, the UAE has done much to comply with internationally-accepted standards.
The UAE has acceded to various international conventions, including the Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women, the International Convention on the Elimination of All forms of Racial Discrimination, the Convention on the Rights of the Child, the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (whose optional protocol we signed in 2010), the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide, the Convention on Transnational Organised Crime and the Protocol to Prevent, Suppress and Punish Trafficking in Persons, especially Women and Children.
The UAE also recently joined the Convention against Torture and other Cruel, Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment, formally acceding to that Convention last July. We will also continue the process of joining the optional protocols on child involvement in armed conflicts and the optional protocol on child exploitation in pornography.
We continue to review and actively consider ratification of other international human rights instruments.
Acknowledging the vital role that this cooperation plays in advancing human rights, the UAE welcomes visits by Special Rapporteurs in accordance with its customary practice and international commitments. In October 2009, the UAE received the UN Special Rapporteur on the Sale of Children, Child Prostitution and Child Pornography, and the UN Special Rapporteur on Racism and Racial Discrimination. In April 2012 the UAE received a visit from the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Trafficking in Persons.
In the second quarter of 2013, the UAE will host the United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights. The Working Group offers an invaluable service by assembling the world's largest business-focused team of human rights specialists.
Mr President, The UAE's status as an attractive place of work for people from around the world has led it to become a major recipient of foreign labour, which benefits both the foreign workers and the UAE.
The UAE has an extensive strategy for safeguarding the rights of workers and improving their work and living conditions. This is a matter of national interest, as well as a human rights issue, as foreign workers are our development partners and their contribution to the growth of our economy is invaluable.
We are fully committed to the goal of strengthening the rights of workers so that they can enjoy opportunity in the UAE, free of any form of abuse or exploitation.
We have undertaken a series of measures that create more flexibility and freedom in the labour market. These include: regulations protecting the rights of workers in case of disputes with employers and providing access to litigation processes; measures guaranteeing decent and safe accommodation for workers; and provisions regarding medical care and rights for workers to move from one job to another without time limitations.
The UAE has also entered into a series of memoranda of understanding with major labour-exporting countries, including India, Pakistan, Sri Lanka, Bangladesh, China and the Philippines, designed to facilitate efforts to protect workers from exploitation.
Ensuring the fair and on-time protection of workers remains a critical priority for labour policy enforcement. A new wage protection system introduced in 2009 helps to ensure that this objective is met by facilitating the transfer of salaries to workers via authorised banks and exchange companies. One notable feature of the system is that it allows the Ministry of Labour to monitor the process of transferring salaries through a comprehensive database. As a result, 3.5 million workers in more than 215,000 enterprises are ensured payment protection.
As mentioned earlier, the government adopted general standards related to workers' residencies and access to amenities.
These stressed the responsibility of employers to provide a suitable residency for workers that is in line with internationally-approved standards. It is based on these standards that the UAE continues to work on the construction of residential worker cities. Currently, there are 21 such cities in the UAE, which host approximately 345,000 workers.
Importantly, the government has recently approved a new law to protect domestic workers, which will be issued this year and will afford them far greater protection and assurances. This new law particularly benefits women, who make up a major portion of this segment of the workforce.
The UAE has worked hard to protect the rights of the different communities that contribute to the country's growth and development. For example, the right to practice religion freely is a firmly protected right. This is why the UAE has numerous mosques, churches, Hindu temples and other places of worship for the diverse population of workers that reside there.
Mr President It is always a pleasure for me to talk about women's rights because I have seen the great things that can be achieved by women when they are given the opportunity.
A few years ago, the Prime Minister of the UAE, His Highness Sheikh Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, famously observed: "A place without women is a place without spirit". Indeed, without a large number of women in leadership positions, the UAE would have greatly lacked in creativity and confidence.
Women now occupy thirty per cent of higher leadership and decision-making positions in the UAE and participate meaningfully in every facet of civic and political life. In addition, in December 2012 the UAE Cabinet made it compulsory for corporations and government agencies to include women on their boards of directors.
Just last week, the UAE made history when a woman chaired a session of the Federal National Council for the first time. In 2011, the same Dr Amal Al Qubaisi was the first woman to be elected as the FNC's Deputy Speaker. Seven women now serve in the FNC and the UAE now has female federal judges.
Women occupy two thirds of the jobs in federal government - one of the highest percentages worldwide. There are four female ministers in the Federal Cabinet, which is one of the highest ratios in the Arab world. Women occupy seventy five per cent of positions in the education and health sectors.
Women are major contributors to the UAE's economy. Official statistics indicate that the Businesswomen Council in the UAE has more than 12,000 members who run more than 11,000 ventures, with an estimated value of US$3.4 billion. Women also occupy more than one third of the jobs in banking and finance, one of the major economic sectors in the country.
Ninety five per cent of female high school graduates go on to pursue higher education as do eighty per cent of their male counterparts. Currently, seventy per cent of all graduates from UAE universities are women. Women in the UAE work in jobs that are not considered traditional jobs for women in a conservative Muslim society. For example, women have been certified as fighter pilots in the UAE Air Force.
In 2011, the UAE took another important step in cementing the rights of women when the President, His Highness Sheikh Khalifa bin Zayed Al Nahyan, issued a decree addressing the issue of children born to Emirati women but whose father is not Emirati. It accords them citizenship rights and at the age of eighteen they have the choice of taking UAE nationality or retaining the father's nationality.
It is not surprising then that according to the UN Gender Inequality Index for 2011 the UAE ranked as the 38th most gender equal in the world and one of the most gender-equal Arab countries.
The UAE's election to the membership of the Executive Council of UN Women for a three-year term from 2013 to 2015 is a clear indication of the international community's confidence in the UAE's achievements in this field.
Women's empowerment is something the UAE continues to be proud of but our work does not end here. The government is taking the implementation of recommendations on women's rights very seriously and is in the process of adopting a National Strategy for the Advancement of Women for 2013 to 2017.
Mr President, The UAE is committed to the global effort to combat human trafficking and is taking a lead on this issue regionally. It was the first country in the Arab region to enact a comprehensive anti-trafficking law.
Remarkable progress was made between 2007 and 2012 on the UAE's four-part anti-trafficking strategy, which focused on: developing legislation and regulations related to human trafficking; guiding the relevant authorities towards implementing preventive and deterrent measures; securing protection and support for the victims of these crimes; and promoting regional and international cooperation to combat human trafficking.
With a view to raising awareness about human trafficking and building the capacity of law-enforcement officers to tackle this heinous crime, the UAE National Committee on Countering Human Trafficking has organised a series of training courses and workshops during the last four years, involving various government agencies and institutions concerned with the welfare of the victims of human trafficking.
Other highlights of the UAE's anti-trafficking activities in recent years include: an expanded media campaign to enhance public awareness about the crime of human trafficking; a strategy to combat all forms of forced labour through the imposition of heavy fines; and an expansion in the number of shelters for women and children who are victims of human trafficking and sexual exploitation. These shelters provide care for victims of human trafficking in line with the highest international standards.
Furthermore, the UAE Cabinet strengthened the National Committee to Combat Human Trafficking and submitted for ratification an amendment to Federal Law No. 51 on combating human trafficking in order to bring it in line with the Palermo Protocol.
Mr President At the last review, the UAE committed itself to continue to provide foreign aid to developing countries. The UAE continues to be one of the most generous Arab donor countries.
In 2011, the UAE disbursed a total of US$2.1 billion in grants and loans to development, humanitarian, and charity programs worldwide. These funds have been provided to more than 120 countries. We will continue to be at the forefront of efforts to alleviate the humanitarian and development challenges faced by other states.
One other recommendation asked the UAE to devote particular attention to organising workshops focused on spreading human rights principles among law enforcement authorities in charge of combating terrorism. Both the UAE Ministry of Interior and the Ministry of Justice have held seminars and training courses for law-enforcement officers to ensure that human rights and the rule of law are protected when counter-terrorism measures are taken.
Another group of recommendations that we accepted concerned the development of infrastructure in remote areas of the UAE. Major progress has been achieved in this area since then and this commitment is being honoured. A series of government initiatives, with an estimated cost of US$4.4 billion, have contributed to the development of housing, water and electricity utilities, roads and bridges, and hospitals and health care centres in remote areas of the UAE.
Mr President Allow me to say a few words by way of closing. While we recognise that the UAE will continually need to review and enhance its efforts to protect people's human rights, the level of protection of human rights already achieved represents a significant success.
Two months ago, we celebrated our 41st anniversary as a nation. We are a young country but one that continues to be proud of the progress it has made in a short time. According to the UN's Human Development Index, the UAE has the highest level of human development in the Arab world.
We take pride in the fact that the people of the UAE have a high level of well-being; that ours is a tolerant and multicultural society in a region that has long been beset by multiple and complex challenges; that the empowerment of women has been one of our notable success stories; that all citizens have a right to education and access to healthcare; that we are pioneers in promoting sustainable development and clean energy; and that people from over 200 nationalities residing in the UAE worship freely in churches, temples and mosques.
There is no doubt that the turbulence in the Arab world of the last two years has presented all countries in the region with extraordinary challenges. Within this context, the UAE has worked to maintain its stability and security, to protect the progressive nature of our society, and to prevent extremism from gaining a foothold.
Every country has to find the right balance between preserving civil liberties and maintaining national security. This is not always easy, especially in volatile and rapidly changing contexts. The UAE has not shied away from its responsibility to protect national security but it has done so, and will continue to do so, strictly within the framework of our constitution, our laws and our judicial practices, while respecting international human rights principles.
Mr President, The UAE's progress has not always come easy but we have worked hard to set new standards in the protection of human rights and we will continue to do so. At the same time, we acknowledge the remaining challenges and reiterate our resolve to meet them, based on the bedrock principle that governments must act with fairness and equity to protect the rights of people.
Thank you for the opportunity to speak about the importance we attach to human rights in the United Arab Emirates. We hope that our response today fully demonstrates the UAE's commitment both to human rights and to multilateral engagement through the UPR. - Emirates News Agency, WAM | <urn:uuid:c5ad2592-a732-4f23-9946-fe46617e9463> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.mideast-times.com/left_news.php?newsid=3311 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719677.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00559-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957434 | 4,778 | 1.984375 | 2 |
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2013 Florida Statutes
School Community Professional Development Act.
School Community Professional Development Act.
1012.98 School Community Professional Development Act.—
(1) The Department of Education, public postsecondary educational institutions, public school districts, public schools, state education foundations, consortia, and professional organizations in this state shall work collaboratively to establish a coordinated system of professional development. The purpose of the professional development system is to increase student achievement, enhance classroom instructional strategies that promote rigor and relevance throughout the curriculum, and prepare students for continuing education and the workforce. The system of professional development must align to the standards adopted by the state and support the framework for standards adopted by the National Staff Development Council.
(2) The school community includes students and parents, administrative personnel, managers, instructional personnel, support personnel, members of district school boards, members of school advisory councils, business partners, and personnel that provide health and social services to students.
(3) The activities designed to implement this section must:
(a) Support and increase the success of educators through collaboratively developed school improvement plans that focus on:
1. Enhanced and differentiated instructional strategies to engage students in a rigorous and relevant curriculum based on state and local educational standards, goals, and initiatives;
2. Increased opportunities to provide meaningful relationships between teachers and all students; and
3. Increased opportunities for professional collaboration among and between teachers, certified school counselors, instructional leaders, postsecondary educators engaged in preservice training for new teachers, and the workforce community.
(b) Assist the school community in providing stimulating, scientific research-based educational activities that encourage and motivate students to achieve at the highest levels and to participate as active learners and that prepare students for success at subsequent educational levels and the workforce.
(c) Provide continuous support for all education professionals as well as temporary intervention for education professionals who need improvement in knowledge, skills, and performance.
(4) The Department of Education, school districts, schools, Florida College System institutions, and state universities share the responsibilities described in this section. These responsibilities include the following:
(a) The department shall disseminate to the school community research-based professional development methods and programs that have demonstrated success in meeting identified student needs. The Commissioner of Education shall use data on student achievement to identify student needs. The methods of dissemination must include a web-based statewide performance support system, including a database of exemplary professional development activities, a listing of available professional development resources, training programs, and available assistance.
(b) Each school district shall develop a professional development system as specified in subsection (3). The system shall be developed in consultation with teachers, teacher-educators of Florida College System institutions and state universities, business and community representatives, and local education foundations, consortia, and professional organizations. The professional development system must:
1. Be approved by the department. All substantial revisions to the system shall be submitted to the department for review for continued approval.
2. Be based on analyses of student achievement data and instructional strategies and methods that support rigorous, relevant, and challenging curricula for all students. Schools and districts, in developing and refining the professional development system, shall also review and monitor school discipline data; school environment surveys; assessments of parental satisfaction; performance appraisal data of teachers, managers, and administrative personnel; and other performance indicators to identify school and student needs that can be met by improved professional performance.
3. Provide inservice activities coupled with followup support appropriate to accomplish district-level and school-level improvement goals and standards. The inservice activities for instructional personnel shall focus on analysis of student achievement data, ongoing formal and informal assessments of student achievement, identification and use of enhanced and differentiated instructional strategies that emphasize rigor, relevance, and reading in the content areas, enhancement of subject content expertise, integrated use of classroom technology that enhances teaching and learning, classroom management, parent involvement, and school safety.
4. Include a master plan for inservice activities, pursuant to rules of the State Board of Education, for all district employees from all fund sources. The master plan shall be updated annually by September 1, must be based on input from teachers and district and school instructional leaders, and must use the latest available student achievement data and research to enhance rigor and relevance in the classroom. Each district inservice plan must be aligned to and support the school-based inservice plans and school improvement plans pursuant to s. 1001.42(18). District plans must be approved by the district school board annually in order to ensure compliance with subsection (1) and to allow for dissemination of research-based best practices to other districts. District school boards must submit verification of their approval to the Commissioner of Education no later than October 1, annually. Each school principal may establish and maintain an individual professional development plan for each instructional employee assigned to the school as a seamless component to the school improvement plans developed pursuant to s. 1001.42(18). An individual professional development plan must be related to specific performance data for the students to whom the teacher is assigned, define the inservice objectives and specific measurable improvements expected in student performance as a result of the inservice activity, and include an evaluation component that determines the effectiveness of the professional development plan.
5. Include inservice activities for school administrative personnel that address updated skills necessary for instructional leadership and effective school management pursuant to s. 1012.986.
6. Provide for systematic consultation with regional and state personnel designated to provide technical assistance and evaluation of local professional development programs.
7. Provide for delivery of professional development by distance learning and other technology-based delivery systems to reach more educators at lower costs.
8. Provide for the continuous evaluation of the quality and effectiveness of professional development programs in order to eliminate ineffective programs and strategies and to expand effective ones. Evaluations must consider the impact of such activities on the performance of participating educators and their students’ achievement and behavior.
(5) Each district school board shall provide funding for the professional development system as required by s. 1011.62 and the General Appropriations Act, and shall direct expenditures from other funding sources to continuously strengthen the system in order to increase student achievement and support instructional staff in enhancing rigor and relevance in the classroom. A school district may coordinate its professional development program with that of another district, with an educational consortium, or with a Florida College System institution or university, especially in preparing and educating personnel. Each district school board shall make available inservice activities to instructional personnel of nonpublic schools in the district and the state certified teachers who are not employed by the district school board on a fee basis not to exceed the cost of the activity per all participants.
(6) An organization of private schools which has no fewer than 10 member schools in this state, which publishes and files with the Department of Education copies of its standards, and the member schools of which comply with the provisions of part II of chapter 1003, relating to compulsory school attendance, may also develop a professional development system that includes a master plan for inservice activities. The system and inservice plan must be submitted to the commissioner for approval pursuant to rules of the State Board of Education.
(7) The Department of Education shall disseminate, using web-based technology, research-based best practice methods by which the state and district school boards may evaluate and improve the professional development system. The best practices must include data that indicate the progress of all students. The department shall report annually to the State Board of Education and the Legislature any school district that, in the determination of the department, has failed to provide an adequate professional development system. This report must include the results of the department’s investigation and of any intervention provided.
(8) The State Board of Education may adopt rules pursuant to ss. 120.536(1) and 120.54 to administer this section.
(9) This section does not limit or discourage a district school board from contracting with independent entities for professional development services and inservice education if the district school board can demonstrate to the Commissioner of Education that, through such a contract, a better product can be acquired or its goals for education improvement can be better met.
(10) For teachers, managers, and administrative personnel who have been evaluated as less than satisfactory, a district school board shall require participation in specific professional development programs as part of the improvement prescription.
(11) The department shall disseminate to the school community proven model professional development programs that have demonstrated success in increasing rigorous and relevant content, increasing student achievement and engagement, and meeting identified student needs. The methods of dissemination must include a web-based statewide performance-support system including a database of exemplary professional development activities, a listing of available professional development resources, training programs, and available technical assistance.
(12) The department shall require teachers in grades 1-12 to participate in continuing education training provided by the Department of Children and Family Services on identifying and reporting child abuse and neglect.
History.—s. 789, ch. 2002-387; s. 10, ch. 2003-118; s. 47, ch. 2003-391; s. 75, ch. 2004-41; s. 5, ch. 2004-255; s. 62, ch. 2006-74; s. 165, ch. 2007-217; s. 34, ch. 2008-108; s. 198, ch. 2011-5; s. 7, ch. 2012-155; s. 42, ch. 2013-27; s. 14, ch. 2013-89; s. 11, ch. 2013-185. | <urn:uuid:439eef94-78d2-4e98-94ab-131eb017cb78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.flsenate.gov/Laws/Statutes/2013/1012.98 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.943305 | 1,971 | 2.09375 | 2 |
"Classic" Sanitary Napkin Belt, U.S.A., about
The word "classic" conveys comfort,
solidity and security, and implies a
long history. Sports people sometimes
misuse the word, in naming
tournaments, for example, that have
never been played before!
See a German
belt with washable pads from
just before this time.
See many more
images, long download time!
Tabs from a disposable
menstrual pad snaked through
the buckles of this American
menstrual napkin belt, worn around the
waist; it's probably from the 1940s.
Disposable pads gradually replaced
washable pads in America in the 1920s
and 1930s. Catalogs and stores of
the time, and until the early 1970s,
sold dozens of models. Adhesive pads
appeared in the 1970s, almost killing
the belt-and-tabbed-pad industry.
See a Swedish ad
with belt and a side view on
model used by the old Tampax
At left we see the back
of the package of the belt; at right,
the front. This museum has an
almost full dealer's case of the
packages, bought from a seller of
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Kes director pays tribute to 'great humanity' of author Barry Hines
Published 22/03/2016 | 16:41
Film director Ken Loach has praised the "great humanity" in the writing of his close collaborator Barry Hines after the author's death on Friday.
Hines was the author of A Kestrel For A Knave, which became the classic 1969 film Kes directed by Loach.
The two then worked closely together on other films including The Price Of Coal (in two parts, 1970 and 1984), The Gamekeeper (1980), and Looks And Smiles (1981).
Hines was diagnosed with Alzheimer's disease in 2009 and died with his family at his side in a care home in South Yorkshire at the age of 76.
Explaining why he and producer Tony Garnett had been drawn to work so closely with Hines over the years, Loach told the Press Association: "His writing, the way he wrote, was very much the way we wanted to make films.
"It was very simple, direct, clear, economical. Funny, sometimes. And with a great warmth, a great humanity."
Hines wrote nine novels over a career that spanned almost 50 years. His second book was adapted for the film Kes, which is ranked seventh in the British Film Institute's top 10 British films.
Kes tells the story of a troubled schoolboy who lives in a mining area. He is constantly bullied and considered a "hopeless case", but finds an outlet for his frustrations by training a kestrel he finds on a farm.
Like most of his books, it lays bare the struggles of the working class in the North of England.
Loach, 79, said: "He's describing a culture that existed at a certain period in time, that no one else has matched. If you want to know what it's like to live in that part of the world in those years, read Barry Hines and you've got it absolutely.
"I think also, his political commitment is very important. He was absolutely aware of the conflict at the heart of society between employers and workers, and he knew which side he was on, and he was a socialist all his life."
He added: "In Kestrel For A Knave, which became Kes, the boy Billy Casper had talent that society would not recognise because he was marked down for unskilled manual labour, and that's what they were determined he should be."
The two worked closely together, with Hines joining Loach on set.
The director recalled: "When we made the films, Barry would be very actively involved.
"He chose the locations that we wrote about and where we invariably filmed, he'd come along with me when we were casting, we'd sit and meet people together.
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In various types of financing transactions, one of the borrower’s main assets is a portfolio of receivables, e.g. under leases (when financing commercial property) or under loans (when the borrower is in the business of granting loans). In such cases, the lender seeking effective security will often require such a portfolio to serve as collateral.
Under Polish law, assets in the form of a set of receivables can generally be encumbered in only two ways: a registered pledge or assignment as security. This raises the question: pledge or assign?
Registered pledge on a set of receivables
Under Art. 7(2) of the Act on Registered Pledges and the Pledge Register, the subject of a registered pledge may be, in particular, a set of movables or rights constituting an economic whole, even if the composition of the set is changeable. The first difficulty arises here, as the legal commentaries are not in agreement on whether a pledge can be established on a set of rights alone. A literal reading of this provision, and in particular the use of the conjunction “or,” should indicate that it is possible to establish such a pledge. But some commentators take the view that there is no such thing as a set of rights alone.
A bigger challenge is to demonstrate that the portfolio of claims to be pledged constitutes an economic whole. This issue must be determined on a case-by-case basis, but it should be pointed out that the views of the Polish legal literature on determining what conditions must be met for a set of rights to constitute an economic whole are becoming more liberal.
It seems that if the subject of the pledge is to be, for example, all of the pledgor’s claims under loans granted as part of its business, it may be easier to demonstrate that they constitute an economic whole. In the case of encumbering such a defined portfolio, the advantages of a registered pledge become more apparent. The primary advantage is that such a pledge has a construction similar to a “floating charge” from common-law systems. A registered pledge on a set of items is essentially a joint pledge of the specific elements of property making up the set. It can automatically cover further, future elements, e.g. claims under new loans granted after the pledge is established. If the new claims meet the criteria defined in the pledge agreement, they automatically become subject to the registered pledge.
Difficulties arise when for various reasons the borrower cannot establish a pledge on a set of all claims that will arise within its business operations, but only on a segment of its portfolio. In that case, the lender may be interested in maintaining a constant value of the pledged portfolio, which requires a detailed determination of the mechanism for new claims to “join” the pledged assets.
Another demand by the pledgee in this respect may be to require the pledgor to prepare a list of receivables and regularly update it according to the rules set forth in the pledge agreement. Creation of a list of elements covered by the pledge requires a description of the legal relationships under which the claims arise adequate to identify them. If the subject of the pledge is loans made to individuals, their personal details need to be stated, and if the pledgee requires such a list to be filed with the registry court, it might violate data protection regulations.
Turning to the issue of execution, it should be stressed that with a registered pledge, an extrajudicial method of enforcement may be provided for in the pledge agreement—for example, taking over ownership of the collateral. But it should be borne in mind that exercising such a method will require issuance of a number of notices. And thus in a situation where the secured claim is due and payable but remains outstanding, the pledgee seeking to claim satisfaction out of the collateral must notify the pledgor of its intention to pursue such measures. In the case of a pledge on a set of rights, the pledgee may also demand in such notice that the pledgor draw up a list of the elements of the set in order to secure the pledgee’s claims. But this is dubious security, as the Act on Registered Pledges and the Pledge Register does not provide for any method of enforcing such a demand by the pledgor if the pledgor refuses to prepare the list. Nonetheless, from the time of the notice, the pledgor cannot dispose of the pledged collateral.
Then the pledgee may proceed to take ownership of the pledged receivables, which occurs through submission to the pledgor of a declaration of assumption of ownership. Passage of title to the receivables occurs upon delivery of the declaration to the pledgor.
While issuance of the two notices described above ensures passage of title to the receivables to the pledgee, it is only the third notice, to the debtors, that enables the pledgee to obtain payment under the claims. As a rule, until the debtor is notified of the change in creditors, it can effectively discharge the obligation by paying the prior creditor.
Consequently, although the possibility of providing for an extrajudicial method of execution is clearly easier than pursuing enforcement through the courts, taking title to the collateral may not occur as quickly as the pledgee hoped.
It follows that establishment of a registered pledge will not always be the most convenient and safest security. No doubt the openness of the pledge register and a number of related presumptions—in particular maintenance in force of the pledge when the pledgor sells the set of receivables (although the pledge does not continue if the acquirer shows that it did not know and with due diligence could not have known of the existence of the registered pledge, which is very hard to prove given the openness of the register)—does give the pledgee greater comfort. It must be remembered, however, that these effects only arise upon entry of the pledge in the register, which in extreme instances can take up to several weeks.
Assignment of a portfolio of receivables for security
Assignment of receivables as contractual security is characterised by greater flexibility than a registered pledge. This is particularly evident in the mechanics of how this instrument functions.
When concluding an agreement on assignment of receivables for security, selected, specific receivables can be assigned without having to meet the requirement of constituting an “economic whole.” This is an undoubted convenience, particularly when only a selected portfolio of receivables is to be encumbered. (A global assignment of all the debtor’s receivables under any and all legal relationships is not permissible under Polish law, however, and in that situation a registered pledge has a distinct advantage.)
Assignment of receivables under new contracts concluded in the future is also possible. For this purpose, it is necessary to frame the assignment agreement appropriately to allow further claims arising under new contracts to be assigned.
The typical provision authorising the assignee (lender) to satisfy itself out of the receivables in question by definitive passage and enforcement of the rights under the claims is an essential advantage of assignment. Upon occurrence of the event described in the agreement, the assignee (lender) obtains the right to pursue satisfaction under the assigned receivables. In practice this may mean that the borrower’s creditor receives an instruction to make all payments directly to the account of the assignee (lender).
The evident advantage of assignment is thus that the process of satisfaction of the assignee out of the assigned receivables is much less formalised than the process of execution, even extrajudicial execution, pursuant to a registered pledge.
What about bankruptcy?
The issue of effectiveness in bankruptcy is essentially similar for both of these methods of security. Neither receivables assigned for security nor pledged receivables can be excluded from the bankruptcy estate; notwithstanding their assignment or pledge, they remain part of the bankruptcy estate. However, assignees or pledgees are in a better position than unsecured creditors, in that they enjoy a right of segregation, i.e. a right to satisfy their claim out of the proceeds of sale of the assigned or pledged receivables before the debtor’s other creditors, who may obtain satisfaction under general rules out of any surplus, which passes to the general funds to the bankruptcy estate.
However, to exercise this privilege, the assignment agreement must bear a certified date, which guarantees the effectiveness of the transaction as against the bankruptcy estate. A registered pledge agreement does not require this form, as the date of entry of the pledge in the register serves as a kind of certified date.
A major difference may arise, however, when analysing the regulations on ineffectiveness of transactions concluded prior to declaration of bankruptcy (i.e. during the “clawback” period). Determination of when the period for ineffectiveness begins to run may then prove vital. In the case of a pledge or assignment of receivables, particularly in the context of future claims, the point from which the period when the transaction may be deemed ineffective under the Bankruptcy Law or the Restructuring Law is measured may differ.
For these reasons, a precise examination of the circumstances of the case is essential. Attention should be paid first and foremost to identification of the receivables, as well as the frequency and scope of the changes occurring in the portfolio serving as collateral. All of these circumstances will be relevant for structuring the security instruments in a way that is legally and commercially effective in the specific case.
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Editors’ note: In a running conversation with Indian Country Today Senior Editor Jose Barreiro, John Trudell seeks to address lingering issues in the dissolution of the early American Indian Movement. In this final segment of the series, Trudell addresses his own shift from direct political activities to musical poetics of stage and film.
Indian Country Today: As pressing as the issues raised early by AIM continue to be, the revolution in the arts and culture beckoned you. Serious change, or continuity?
Trudell: I think that the activist period served its time. It lasted as long as it was supposed to. It played a purpose. It fulfilled its purpose and then life shape-shifted for us. And I think that’s healthy and the way it should be because when you look at the activism, the political activism days, it’s not our political system. So I look at our political activism period and we did the best we could with what we had, and it was a necessary thing to happen because I think the main accomplishment out of that time was it rekindled the spirit of the Native people. It just kind of reignited our spirit, our identity, just something about us. I think that’s the true lasting impact.
ICT: An awakening.
Trudell: Yes. It’s like the spirit was starting to ember and all of a sudden here were these sparks, and now it’s a flame.
ICT: It did do that.
Trudell: It did do that and I think that in the long run that’s the real reason and purpose it happened. But our political activist movement was meant to self-destruct because, basically, we were only men, and we were the ones that got us into whatever we got into. The men were the ones in the end that made the decisions the women weren’t allowed to make. But because we were only men, and this is just my observation, we had our frailties and our weaknesses and all this stuff so we did the best that we could with who we were and what we had.
ICT: It had to evolve.
Trudell: For me, the whole idea is that the political activism movement shape-shifted and that change is healthy. And I’m not trying to put down anybody doing the political activist work that needs to be done because it needs to be done. But the difference is that is we took political activism on as an identity, and I’m saying don’t take it on as an identity. Just recognize it’s a job that has to be done; but don’t take that on as your identity, because when you take on the identity as a political activist then you view life only from the perception of being a political activist, which is not necessarily objective or productive.
ICT: It’s limited, although more action-oriented.
Trudell: Yes, and for us as a people, we need to be expanding these other consciousnesses and this other thinking.
ICT: You were talking earlier about belief and knowing.
Trudell: Well, I find belief, the word, it’s an interesting word. I mean, all words have power and we can’t use this word and mean that word because each word makes its own sound in a vibratory reality so each word has its own meaning. But belief is a word that I get very concerned about because I hear so much – people saying I believe this, I believe that. Well, to me it’s like if we believe it, it means we don’t know. And I think that we are playing a mind game with ourselves, not deliberately – we’ve been programmed with this misuse of sound, words, language, we’ve been programmed with the misuse so it keeps us confused. But to be realistic about it, if I believe this, that means that I don’t know, I just believe it. Political action based just on belief can be confusing.
ICT: This is where the cultural work comes in. You consciously made that shift from, I would say you’ve been called this before, a messianic voice, you made a shift from an oppositional activist to U.S. policies toward Indians to a voice that messages through an artistic medium.
Trudell: Well, for me, I’m continuing to go into what you call the culture or the art thing. I got forcefully put out of my political reality and in the course my current life I am having to define reality almost from the beginning again because it is a new reality. I started writing, for instance, not consciously, this just happened, but I made a conscious decision that I would follow the writing because I was looking for something to hold onto and then the writing comes and I hang onto these lines. They’re lines, and I can hang onto them, so that was my reasoning and I’m going to go with where that takes me. But in the course of that it helped me to have an understanding again about political activism. It helped me to have an understanding that for us as a people maybe the best way to express our realities is through our culture and our art, because that’s us.
ICT: Art can change us more than politics?
Trudell: The politics belong to somebody else so it’s likely to never synchronize with us; but again, our culture and our art – that’s us. That’s the reality of who we are, and it is only through this way that we can truly speak our truths. We couldn’t do it through the politics because you had to compromise your truths or deny them to get things done. But through our culture and our art we can speak our truths. We can express the reality of who we are and how we feel and how we see. And this communication and expression of reality I think is very important for us collectively as a people because it is some kind of a bonding. It’s some kind of a joining, communion almost in a way.
ICT: A shared reality, from the inside out.
Trudell: It is. When you look out and you look at the distortion going on in the outside reality – and I call that distortion pain – there’s a tremendous amount of pain going on and we see it in our own little realities and I think expression through the arts is some kind of dealing with that pain. We show the realities of who we are because it helps us to feel less isolated. And in a way that’s what I see coming out of the culture and the art, and yet at the same time we’re being real. And for our community, that’s what we need. We need to redefine reality again, in some instances because we’ve got to get past the romanticism about the way it was.
ICT: Hard to think clearly if you romanticize.
Trudell: There’s a lot of confusion in our reality right now. I think we need to remember tradition is based upon respect. And they may mess with the ceremonies and the language and all of that because that’s the way this attack comes against us, but in reality tradition is based on respect. No matter what the culture is, true indigenous tradition is based upon respect and I think we really need to think about that and remember that as we fight and struggle to hang onto our traditions, because sometimes in our fight and struggle to hang onto our traditions we forget that – the tradition of respect. We pretend that our own righteousness justifies whatever action we take.
ICT: The message that you are putting out in your work right now – how is it coming back to you? What are you getting back from your audiences?
Trudell: I get a positive energy back. I think in terms of energy. To me, everything is about energy. Everything. I mean, our conversation, everything is about energy. So when I go out and do my stuff, whatever my stuff is, it’s really about trying to communicate this energy. Language is a sound and this and that and all, but it’s mainly about communicating an energy. And almost consistently the energy that comes back to me these days is healthy.
ICT: How do you use words to create that energy?
Trudell: We’re in a vibratory reality, right? I mean, really, and we are. And it’s like, so a word, what’s a word? It has its meaning and definition, but you go to another level and in another dimension of reality a word is a sound that has its own vibratory thing. So it’s how you use the sounds to synchronize the energy. | <urn:uuid:7f0a5a96-c409-4639-b5da-1a5d2436c69c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://indiancountrytoday.com/archive/still-confronting-interview-with-john-trudell-shape-shifting-from-politics-as-culture-to-culture-as-politics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.973365 | 1,852 | 2.5 | 2 |
A major new West Midlands segregated cycle lane installed in April has attracted criticism from local riders who say it is "ridiculous" and "dangerous", however the council and the area's cycling and walking commissioner insist it has been designed to encourage less-confident cyclists.
BirminghamLive reports the first phase of the two-way three-metre-wide Solihull cycle lane links the town centre, retail parks and surrounding villages, and while the council says it will "encourage local people to get active" and is "safer than traditional cycle lanes", some local club cyclists disagree.
The Blossomfield Road lane replaced the painted cycle lanes (seen below in April 2021) which UK-based riders will be all too familiar with.
However, speaking to the local news website, two members of Solihull Cycling Club said the new infrastructure is "not designed for cycling".
"It's not designed for cycling, especially heading into town," one of the club riders said. "You're heading into traffic. It's stop-start, you're having to take your feet out and come across [to where the cycle lane resumes on the other side of the road]. The [old] system wasn't broken."
The other added: "It's not ideal, if you're travelling into town, when you do use it, you're having to come across, potentially into the path of people coming out of town. It's not particularly safe, my worry is the build up of debris, unless they sweep it regularly, it's the ongoing maintenance of it really.
"I imagine pot holes are going to develop at some point and the road surface is going to deteriorate."
BirminghamLive visited the site to film a video of the infrastructure, available on their news story, which shows some bike lane wands already missing, a series of wands narrowing the entrance to the lane (presumably to stop motorists using it), and pinch points with raised speed bumps to allow those waiting at bus stops to walk across the lane to the road.
In other places, cyclists must dismount and cross the road at a pedestrian crossing to continue to use the lane on the other side of the road.
And while acknowledging the benefits of the infrastructure for families, they suggested it could lead to other problems. "The only time I used that bike lane was on my way to a time trial, so I was in my full race getup. Two scallies on mountain bikes coming the other way decided to swerve in front of me then narrowly miss a head-on collision," the second rider continued.
"They clearly did this on purpose. If this happens to me on my first and only time using it I can't imagine what it's like for other cyclists who perhaps aren't so confident."
When asked if the infrastructure was revolutionary, one of the riders quipped, "It will cause a revolution". Both say it is "dangerous" and choose to avoid the lane or use alternative routes
Designed for less-experienced riders
However, West Midlands Cycling and Walking Commissioner, Adam Tranter, addressed the comments, saying: "In truth — experienced cyclists who are cycling faster speeds, are more confident or are riding in groups, may prefer to continue to use the road, which is their right and totally acceptable under the Highway Code.
"We know that more people want to cycle in the West Midlands but don't feel it's safe enough. Two-way cycle tracks like this one give dedicated space away from cars and we find people less confident appreciate this set-up. The plan is to continue to develop and expand the route based on future funding and feedback can be taken into account for improvements."
Solihull Council's cabinet member for environment and infrastructure, Cllr Ken Hawkins, believes the lane will attract users of all ages and abilities, and suggested the infrastructure is not necessarily there for more experienced riders.
"We have been able to create these three-metre-wide two-way cycle lanes by altering the existing road space and our engineers have also ensured that they can be used flexibly in case of emergencies," he told Birmingham Live.
"More confident and experienced cyclists who would rather cycle at speed on the road with cars and buses still can. The cycle lane has been created in order to offer another option and encourage less-confident cyclists.
"It is really important that as a council we provide choices, encourage and support cycling and walking in many different ways so that travelling without polluting the borough or using up the earth's finite supply of oil is a workable option for people."
In addition to the two Solihull Cycling Club members, another local rider, Gemma Queenborough, said the lane "seems ridiculous".
"It starts by Tudor Grange and only goes to the Co-op. The money would have been much better spent on creating cycle paths on roads which do not have them. The old cycle lanes seemed to work much more efficiently and safer," she said.
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CSS Past Papers - Islamiat 2007 - Test 1
How many stages the Quran contains?
Who was the first writer of "wahi" in Quraish?
a) Harat Abdul Rahman bin Auf (RA)
b) Hazrat Zaid bin Sabit (RA)
c) Hazrat Abdulla bin Zubair (RA)
d) Hazrat Ibn Masuod (RA)
Kitab-ul-Assar is compiled by?
a) Imam Abu Hanifah (RA)
b) Imam Shafi (RA)
c) Imam Malik (RA)
d) Imam Humbal (RA)
Imam Shafi took the office of "Religious Judgment" in the age of?
a) 13 years
b) 14 years
c) 20 years
d) 15 years
What was the name of faster sister of the Holy Prophet (PBUH)?
a) Hazrat Salmah (RA)
b) Hazrat Raqiyyah (RA)
c) Hazrat Mariah (RA)
d) Hazrat Shima (RA)
Namaz-e-Istisqa" is prayer for?
a) Blessing of God
The "Kissing of the Hajr-e-Aswad" is called?
What is the number of Ramzan in the Islamic Calendar?
Give the name, who compiled first work of Hadith "Sahifa-e-Sadiqa?
a) Hazrat Abu Bakar (RA)
b) Imam Muslim (RA)
c) Hazrat Abdullah bin Amr (RA)
d) Hazrat Abu Hurairah (RA)
Who is called "saqi zam zam"?
a) Hazrat Abbas (RA)
b) Hazrat Hamzah (RA)
c) Hazrat Muaz bin Jabal (RA)
d) Hazrat Muawiyah (RA)
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Which animal makes the sound of woofing? Which animal mews? Is it easier for you to recognize these voices? Now it will be easier with the help of an ...
Which animal makes the sound of woofing? Which animal mews? Is it easier for you to recognize these voices? Now it will be easier with the help of an app called Animal Sound S. This app is designed by WebTeam Corporation to teach children with autism about identifying different animal sounds in an interactive way. The In-App version of this app lets children on the spectrum identify sounds of animals such as cat, dog, bear, and horse. Buy this app and help your child recognize who is neighing in the neighborhood. ABA & iLearnNEarn App Series ===================== As we know, the recommendation of 40 hours per week of ABA programming as employed by Lovaas’s study has been cited by many parents as being vital to their child’s success. The National Research Council’s 2001 report (p. 184) summarizes the skills necessary for implementing an effective ABA program as: “Teachers must be familiar with theory and research concerning best practices for children with autistic spectrum disorders, including methods of applied behavior analysis, naturalistic learning, incidental teaching, assistive technology, socialization, communication, inclusion, adaptation of the environment, language interventions, assessment, and the effective use of data collection systems. Specific problems in generalization and maintenance of behaviors also affect the need for training in methods of teaching children with autistic spectrum disorders. The wide range of IQ scores and verbal skills associated with autistic spectrum disorders, from profound mental retardation and severe language impairments to superior intelligence make the need for training of personnel even greater.†iLearnNEarn offers series of apps based on ABA which help parents and teachers with minimum knowledge of theory. These apps provide supplemental intervention and are delivered through mobile device, tablets and iPads. It also helps introduce generalization in different settings. The content is reviewed and approved by the expert educators and researchers from the Autism industry and are based on ABA therapy (the only scientifically-validated treatment for children with developmental disabilities, special education needs or autism). This app records score information for progress tracking and analysis purposes. Recorded scores are also used for customization of the assignment of the new educational material delivered through the app as the user progresses with the targeted skills. Animals Sound - A tutorial: http://www.shanesh.com/Game/AniSound_iLNE.html KEYWORDS - Autism, ABA, ABA Therapy, Applied Behavior Analysis, intervention ASD, learn, shanesh, colors, individualized, kiosk, tablet, early intervention, supplemental, aspergers, syndrome, autism spectrum, social skills, emotional, learning, developmental disabilities, IEP, Assessment, learning disability, children with autism, direct Instruction, DI, autistic, prompt, prompting, individualized, custom, Early Intervention, Individualized Intervention, webteamcorp, shanesh, webteam, autism diagnosis, aminals sounds
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It has already been demonstrated that all the dead must go to Hel—not only they whose destination is the realm of bliss, but also those who are to dwell in Asgard or in[Pg 483] the regions of torture in Nifelheim. Thus the dead tread at the outset the same road. One and the same route
The Asas have two thingsteads: the one in Asgard, the other in the lower world. In the former a council is held and resolutions passed in such matters as pertain more particularly to the clan of the Asas and to their relation to other divine clans and other powers. When Balder is visited by ugly
As those beings for whom Urd determines birth, position in life, and death, are countless, so her servants, who perform the tasks commanded by her as queen, must also be innumerable. They belong to two large classes: the one class is active in her service in regard to life, the other in regard to death.
Investigations into Germanic Mythology, Volume 1 by Viktor Rydberg IV. THE PURPOSE OF MIMIR’S GROVE IN THE REGENERATION OF THE WORLD. We now know the purpose of Ódáinsakur, Mimir’s land and Mimir’s grove in the world-plan of our mythology. We know who the inhabitants of the grove are, and why they, though dwellers in the lower
“ Investigations into Germanic Mythology ” – by VIKTOR RYDBERG Translated and Annotated by William P. Reaves © 2010 All Rights Reserved The grove is called after its ruler and guardian, Mimir’s or Treasure-Mimir’s grove (Mímis holt – Uppsala Codex of Gylfaginning 53; Hoddmímis holt – Vafþrúðnismál 45, Gylfaginning 53). 7 Gylfaginning describes the destruction of the world and its regeneration, and then relates how the
Viktor Rydberg’s Investigations into Germanic Mythology Volume II Part 1: Indo-European Mythology Translated and Annotated by William P. Reaves © 2010 All Rights Reserved I. Germanic Myths of Proto-Indo-European Origin – THE THREE WELLS – 13) In Norse mythology there are three well-known world-wells: Hvergelmir, the northerly; Mimir’s well, the middlemost; and Urd’s well, the southerly. The
Viktor Rydberg’s Investigations into Germanic Mythology Volume II Part 1: Indo-European Mythology Translated and Annotated by William P. Reaves © 2010 All Rights Reserved I. Germanic Myths of Proto-Indo-European Origin. – The World-Tree – 5) The Rigveda passage mentioned above (X, 129, 4) says that when warmth made its power felt in the primal waters,
In Germanic sources, Mother Earth holds a prominent position. The evidence (as compiled in the previous chapters) is overwhelming. She is present from the beginning of the record. In Germania, chapter 2, Tacitus informs us that the Germanic tribes in common claim descent from an earth-born god. In chapter 40, he says that no less
I.THE PROTO INDO-EUROPEAN ORIGIN OF THE BALDUR MYTH. 1.THE TRAGIC MYTH OF THE DIVINE BROTHERS. Viktor Rydberg’s Investigations into Germanic Mythology Volume II Translated by William P. Reaves © 2004 TOWARDS THE BALDUR MYTH I.THE PROTO INDO-EUROPEAN ORIGIN OF THE BALDUR MYTH.1.THE TRAGIC MYTH OF THE DIVINE BROTHERS. 1) A comparative investigation of the Iranian
INVESTIGATIONS Into GERMANIC MYTHOLOGY “ – Volume 1 – by Viktor Rydberg With Gram-Halfdan, the Germanic patriarch period ends. The human race had its golden age under Heimdall, its copper age under Skjold-Borgar, and the beginning of its iron age under Halfdan. The Skilfinga-Ynglinga race has been named after HeimdallSkelfirhimself, and he has been regarded as its progenitor. | <urn:uuid:b33b5fbf-286c-41b8-b70e-0b2baa270b0f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://norroena.org/category/research/page/6/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.903493 | 971 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Those suffering from low back pain and not found relief through conventional spinal cord stimulation (SCS) can supposedly benefit from the following device. Scientists have now designed a unique device that eases pain in patients with low back pain. The newly invented spinal neuromodulation device probably works to achieve paresthesia that alters the pain sensation into a ‘pins and needles’ or tingling sensation through stimulation of certain pain pathways.
The study encompassed 30 patients with and without previous spine surgery who had an average back pain Visual Analog Score (VAS) of 8 out of 10 and an average leg pain VAS score of 6 out of 10. After approval from an ethics committee and the completion of a successful trial, dual octapolar, percutaneous leads were placed sequentially near the anatomic midline. This anatomic midline is between T8-T11 points which are allegedly present in the thoracic area of the spinal column. The Nevro system device was connected to a rechargeable Implantable Pulse Generator (IPG) capable of delivering waveforms with frequencies up to 10 kHz.
On completion of three months, the average VAS score for back pain seemingly dropped to 2.9 and the average VAS score for leg pain fell to 2.2. At six months the average back and leg pain VAS scores purportedly fell to 1.6 respectively. Also the Oswestry Disability Index (ODI) was put to use for measuring how back pain affected patient’s everyday life. The ODI apparently declined from 61 to 44. Authors pointed out that the device was capable of providing significant pain relief at six months for both back and leg pain.
“To date there is no evidence that any of these techniques provide persistent long term pain relief at the lower back. Nevro Spinal Cord Stimulation is the cutting edge in implant technology which certainly is going to make a major difference in the management of persistent lower back pain,” commented Dr Adnan Al-Kaisy MB ChB FRCA, Clinical Lead of the Pain Management and Neuromodulation Centre, Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospital, London, UK. “Using unique super high frequency stimulation, it suppresses the sparse fibers of the lower back, at the spinal cord level. Moreover, the frequency is so high the patient does not feel ‘the tingling sensation’ which some patients find extremely uncomfortable and distressing.”
No need for intra-operative paresthesia mapping appeared with improvement in pain from the implantation of the device. The spinal neuromodulation was supposedly able to enhance patient function without movement-induced shocking and when the system was used overnight, the subjects reported improved sleep. The ultimate goal of spinal neuromodulation may be to achieve paresthesia, which modifies the pain sensation into a ‘pins and needles’ or tingling sensation through stimulation of specific pain pathways.
Even though SCS apparently is the preferred treatment for patients suffering with failed back syndrome surgery (FBSS), providing paresthetic coverage of the low back is difficult and clinical results are poor.
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Damaged and soiled fire boots can be a hazard to firefighters. Chapter 10 of NFPA 1851, Standard on Selection, Care and Maintenance of Protective Ensembles for Structural Fire Fighting and Proximity Fire Fighting, 2020 Edition mandates that structural ensemble elements, such as fire boots, shall be retired no more than 10 years from the date of manufacture.
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Millions of people look set to get free downloads from Sony BMG after a judge provisionally approved a settlement for many lawsuits against the music maker.
A Louis Armstrong CD was among discs protected by XCP
The settlement was negotiated following legal action over controversial copy protection technology.
The virus-like techniques used by the anti-copying system led to a lot of bad publicity for the music maker in 2005.
However, still pending are legal cases mounted by several US states over Sony BMG's anti-piracy technology.
The row blew up in early November following the discovery that Sony BMG was protecting some of its CDs using a system called XCP.
When played on PCs, this software installed a proprietary media player and hid itself deep inside the Windows operating system.
Following reports that virus writers were starting to use this ability to hide their malicious creations, many consumers took legal action over the software.
Other consumers took action over CDs that were being protected with a technology known as MediaMax.
The consumer lawsuits were all rolled together and a tentative deal to settle them all was reached shortly after Christmas.
Now following a hearing US District Judge Naomi Reice Buchwald has given tentative approval to the terms of the deal.
The deal involves Sony BMG giving cash refunds and downloads to consumers who bought CDs that used the XCP technology. Consumers can forgo the cash and get more downloads.
Those who own CDs protected by MediaMax will only get downloads as part of the deal.
The settlement also requires Sony BMG to stop using XCP and MediaMax. The music firm is already recalling all XCP-using CDs but so far has said nothing about swapping MediaMax-using discs. The XCP technology was used on 52 releases and MediaMax on 27.
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The World's Grip
The World’s Grip
As Christians we must exercise vigilance in our relationship to the world. On the one hand, we are “not of the world” (Jn. 17:16 ESV); but on the other hand, the Lord has sent us “into the world” (Jn. 17:18 ESV). So spiritually we are set apart from the world, but missionally we are sent to the world – and this inevitably involves tension. Paul’s one-time team member Demas failed to navigate this tension: “For Demas, in love with this present world, has deserted me” (2 Tim. 4:9 ESV).
Demas’ worldliness is exactly what we must avoid: “Do not love the world or the things in the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the Father is not in him.” (1 Jn. 2:15) Indeed, an indispensable part of true religion is “to keep oneself unstained from the world” (Ja. 1:27 ESV). Frankly, we aren’t going to be very effective at rescuing people out of the world’s sin-sick system, if we ourselves are infatuated with it. Those who crave the advantages of this present world aren’t in a position to persuade others to cherish the Lord’s promise for a new heaven and a new earth.
So we must be on guard and keep watch over the inclinations of our heart. Consider these four questions:
1) Do you let the world draw you into its desires?
According to 1 John 2:15-16, loving the world is bound up with “the desires of the flesh and the desires of the eyes and pride of life” (1 Jn. 2:16 ESV). James 3:13–4:4 makes a similar point: “friendship with the world” (Ja. 4:4 ESV) is tied to intensely misguided desires. If we find ourselves craving ‘much, more, and better’, then the spirit of the world is at work within us.
2) Do you let the world draw you into its treasures?
Sometimes we ‘succeed’ at turning our desires into acquisitions. And every treasure that we acquire makes us feel good… for a little while. The problem, of course, is that the luster of worldly possessions fades over time, and ultimately our possessions are subject to decay and theft (Matt. 6:19). And even if some of your treasures are in perfect condition at the time of your demise, you won’t be taking them with you when you exit this brief life (1 Tim. 6:7).
3) Do you let the world draw you into its respectability?
All things being equal, we would rather be welcomed and honored by other people. But all things are not equal, and the corrupt world is in the habit of doling out praise to those who share its values. Let’s be clear: if you are a true believer in Jesus, then you do not share the world’s values. So why maneuver to win its applause? If they didn’t applaud Jesus, they won’t applaud you (Jn. 15:18-20). “Woe to you, when all people speak well of you, for so their fathers did to the false prophets.” (Lk. 6:26) But Jesus assures that we are blessed when people hate, exclude, and revile us because of our fellowship with Him (Lk. 6:22).
4) Do you let the world draw you into its fears?
Fear is big business! The world fears everything except the Lord, and in consequence their fears will ultimately overtake them. By contrast, we are to fear the Lord alone, trusting Him to be our refuge at every turn. “Do not call conspiracy all that this people calls conspiracy, and do not fear what they fear, nor be in dread. But the LORD of hosts, him you shall honor as holy. Let him be your dread.” (Is. 8:12-13 ESV) And as it turns out, honoring the Lord alone as holy is key to our witness to a fearful and hopeless world: “But even if you should suffer for righteousness’ sake, you will be blessed. Have no fear of them, nor be troubled, but in your hearts honor Christ the Lord as holy, always being prepared to make a defense to anyone who asks you for a reason for the hope that is in you; yet do it with gentleness and respect” (1 Pt. 3:14-15 ESV).
Brothers and sisters, it is no surprise that the world is unhinged: its desires are never satisfied, its treasures are destined to perish, its respectability game is void of true virtue, and its fears are inescapable. And let’s be honest: this blend of unquenched thirst, fragile possessions, social flattery, and fearful hearts doesn’t allow much space for gentle and respectful conversation about matters of utmost importance – whether in Congress, on college campuses, through social media, or around the dining room table. Yes, worldliness comes with a hefty price tag!
But we are summoned to be different. The world is what it is because “the prince of the power of the air… is now at work in the sons of disobedience” (Eph. 2:2 ESV). But a different spirit – the Holy Spirit! – is at work in believers. The Holy Spirit enables us to understand the riches of God’s grace (Eph. 1:15-21), establishes us in deep unity with each other (Eph. 4:3-4), enlivens us unto the bearing of good fruit in all of life (Eph. 5:18–6:9), and empowers us for the spiritual battle against the powers of darkness (Eph. 6:17-18).
Friends, don’t let the world draw you into its agenda – an agenda that is destined to fail. Instead, “be filled with the Spirit” (Eph. 5:18 ESV) and let the Spirit’s controlling influence protect you from the world’s alluring grip and instead satisfy you with the superior joys that Jesus gives. In Jesus’ kingdom, there is living water for the desiring heart; there is treasure that will never be diminished; there is the Father’s steadfast love which is so much better than the world’s flattery; and there is peace that will never run dry.
If perchance you have gotten sucked into the world’s conversation and it is wearying you, you should pursue the biblical solution: indulge yourself in the things of God. “Incline my heart to your testimonies, and not to selfish gain! Turn my eyes from looking at worthless things; and give me life in your ways.” (Ps. 119:36-37 ESV)
No one will regret spending a lifetime of looking at the worthy ways of our God!
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Rescission (to rescind or set aside a contract) has been defined as the unmaking of a contract between the parties. Rescission is the unwinding of a transaction. This is done to bring the parties, as far as possible, back to the position in which they were before they entered into a contract (the "status quo ante"). This an equitable remedy and is discretionary. The court may decline to rescind a contract if one party has affirmed the contract by his action or a third party has acquired some rights or there has been substantial performance in implementing the contract.
- Abdallah, Inc. v. Martin, 242 Minn. 416, 420, 65 N.W.2d 641, 644 (1954) (full-text).
- See Long v Lloyd, 1 WLR 753.
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Sometimes a compound can be trapped inside another molecule rather like
a ball in a cage. Organic chemists in the US who have looked at such compounds
have found that they are held in place unexpectedly tightly, and are unable
to move about freely. They believe that these cage compounds could one day
be made to behave like liquid crystals.
Donald Cram and his colleagues at the University of California, and
Marco Vincenti of the Guido Donegani Institute at Novara, Italy, made seven
new compounds in which one, or even two, ‘host’ molecules, such as methanol
(CH3OH) or acetonitrile (CH3CN), are trapped inside
large ‘guest’ molecules (Journal of the Chemical Society: Chemical Communications,
Cram’s group has been making cage molecules since 1985. Cages form in
a reaction in which the two halves come together. In the process, a compound
may be trapped. For example, when the two halves of a cage are joined in
a solution such a acetonitrile or methanol, one or two of the solvent molecules
may end up incarcerated.
Cram and his colleagues used the technique of nuclear magnetic resonance
(NMR) spectroscopy to probe the inner secrets of the cages. The technique,
which involves placing the cages in an intense magnetic field and subjecting
them to radio waves, identifies the hydrogen atoms of the trapped molecules.
The results reveal just how the prisoners are arranged. When two acetonitrile
molecules are trapped, their CN parts are together at the host’s equator,
and their CH3 groups in the temperate regions.
Cram’s team found that acetonitrile molecules are not entirely stable
in this arrangement. When the chemists heated the complex to 110 °C,
one of the molecules escaped from the cage, probably through a hole at one
of the poles. But the chemists found that they were unable to dislodge the
remaining molecule, even by heating the cage at 215 °C for five days.
Cram believes he has an explanation. He believes that the first molecule
is expelled only when it is struck by the other, rather like when two billiard
balls collide. However, this mechanism no longer operates when the second
molecule is left alone. It simply cannot accumulate enough energy to escape.
Cram and his colleagues find that when the trapped molecules are both
methanols, even the billiard ball trick won’t allow either to escape. Heating
the cage at 110 °C for five days has no effect. Cram believes that methanol
molecules stay together because a hydrogen bond connects their oxygen atoms.
However, it is a peculiar hydrogen bond. When the chemists take an NMR spectrum,
the sign that this hydrogen atom creates resonates in a different part of
the spectrum from any other hydrogen bond.
Cram’s group hopes to exploit the ability of host molecules to control
their guests in order to make compounds that behave like liquid crystals.
At the moment, the chemists are investigating host molecules in which the
guest responds to visible light which is transmitted through the cage.
If the trapped molecules are polar – that is, there is a separation
of positive and negative charge within the molecule – and an external electric
field is applied, they will line up in the same direction temporarily. In
this regular arrangement, they will diffract light in a regular pattern.
When the electric field is removed, however, the molecules will relax into
random positions and scatter light in all directions.
Inorganic chemists have also been encapsulating other chemicals, including
chloride, bromide, iodide and carbonate ions. Achim Muller and his colleages
at the University of Bielefield have discovered that vanadium and oxygen
atoms will form ‘spherical cluster shells’ which hold negatively charged
atoms captive. Muller points out that this is remarkable because the shells
themselves are negatively charged and should repel their captives.
Muller and his colleagues made a typcial shell by treating a solution
of caesium vanadate (CsVO3) with hydrazinium hydroxide. (N2H5OH)
at 95 °C for an hour. To the dark brown solution they then added hydrobromic
acid, and left the mixture for a further hour-and-a-half at the same temperature.
On cooling, black crystals precipitated out with the formula CS9(H4V18O42Br).
Muller’s group analysed these using the techniques of infrared spectroscopy
and X-ray diffraction. These revealed that the bromide ion was inside the
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Commentary on the Bible, by Adam Clarke, , at sacred-texts.com
In the commencement of this chapter we are informed how Belshazzar, the grandson of Nebuchadnezzar, when rioting in his palace, and profaning the severed vessels of the temple, Dan 5:1-4, was suddenly terrified with the appearance of the fingers of a man's hand, which wrote a few words on the wall before him, Dan 5:5, Dan 5:6. The wise men and astrologers were immediately called in to show the king the interpretation; but they could not so much as read the writing, because (as Houbigant and others have conjectured) though the words are in the Chaldee tongue, yet they were written in the Samaritan or ancient Hebrew characters, with which the wise men of Babylon were very probably unacquainted, as the Jews were at that time a despised people, and the knowledge of their language not a fashionable attainment, Dan 5:7-9. Daniel, who had been so highly esteemed by Nebuchadnezzar for his superior wisdom, appears to have been altogether unknown to Belshazzar, till the queen (the same who had been the wife of Nebuchadnezzar according to the general opinion, or the queen consort according to others) had informed him, Dan 5:10-12. Upon the queen's recommendation, Daniel is called in, Dan 5:13-16; who boldly tells this despotic king, that as he had not benefited by the judgments inflicted on his grandfather, but gave himself up to pride and profanity, and had added to his other sins an utter contempt for the God of the Jews by drinking wine out of the sacred vessels of Jehovah in honor of his idols, Dan 5:17-23; the Supreme Being, the Ruler of heaven and earth, had written his condemnation in three words, Mene, Tekel, Peres, Dan 5:24, Dan 5:25; the first of which is repeated in the copies containing the Chaldean original; but all the ancient Versions, except the Syriac, are without this repetition. Daniel then gives the king and his lords the fearful import of the writing, viz., that the period allotted for the duration of the Chaldean empire was now completed, (see Jer 25:12-14), and that the kingdom was about to be transferred to the Medes and Persians, Dan 5:26-28. However unwelcome such an interpretation must have been to Belshazzar, yet the monarch, overwhelmed with its clearness and certainty, commanded the prophet to be honored, Dan 5:29. And that very night the prediction was fulfilled, for the king was slain, Dan 5:30, and the city taken by the Medes and Persians, Dan 5:31. This great event was also predicted by Isaiah and Jeremiah; and the manner in which it was accomplished is recorded by Herodotus and Xenophon.
Belshazzar the king made a great feast - This chapter is out of its place, and should come in after the seventh and eighth. There are difficulties in the chronology. After the death of Nebuchadnezzar, Evil-merodach his son ascended the throne of Babylon. Having reigned about two years, he was slain by his brother-in-law, Neriglissar. He reigned four years, and was succeeded by his son Laborosoarchod, who reigned only nine months. At his death Belshazzar the son of Evil-merodach, was raised to the throne, and reigned seventeen years, and was slain, as we read here, by Cyrus, who surprised and took the city on the night of this festivity. This is the chronology on which Archbishop Usher, and other learned chronologists, agree; but the Scripture mentions only Nebuchadnezzar, Evil-merodach, and Belshazzar, by name; and Jeremiah, Jer 27:7, expressly says, "All nations shall serve him (Nebuchadnezzar), and his son (Evil-merodach), and his son's son (Belshazzar), until the very time of his land come;" i.e., till the time in which the empire should be seized by Cyrus. Here there is no mention of Neriglissar nor Laborosoarchod; but as they were usurpers, they might have been purposely passed by. But there remains one difficulty still: Belshazzar is expressly called the son of Nebuchadnezzar by the queen mother, Jer 27:11 : "There is a man in thy kingdom, in whom is the spirit of the holy gods: and in the days of Thy Father light and understanding and wisdom, like the wisdom of the gods, was found in him: whom the king Nebuchadnezzar Thy Father, the king, I say, thy father, made master of the magicians." The solution of this difficulty is, that in Scripture the name of son is indifferently given to sons and grandsons, and even to great grandsons. And perhaps the repetition in the above verse may imply this: "The king, Nebuchadnezzar thy father, the king thy father." The king thy father's father, and consequently thy grandfather. If it have not some such meaning as this, it must be considered an idle repetition. As to the two other kings, Neriglissar and Laborosoarchod, mentioned by Josephus and Berosus, and by whom the chronology is so much puzzled, they might have been some petty kings, or viceroys, or satraps, who affected the kingdom, and produced disturbances, one for four years, and the other for nine months; and would in consequence not be acknowledged in the Babylonish chronology, nor by the sacred writers, any more than finally unsuccessful rebels are numbered among the kings of those nations which they have disturbed. I believe the only sovereigns we can acknowledge here are the following:
4. Belshazzar; and with this last the Chaldean empire ended.
To a thousand of his lords - Perhaps this means lords or satraps, that were each over one thousand men. But we learn from antiquity that the Persian kings were very profuse in their entertainments; but it does not follow that the Chaldeans were so too. Besides, one thousand lords and their appropriate attendants would have been very inconvenient in a nocturnal assembly. The text, however, supports the common translation. Literally, "Belshazzar the king made bread for his lords a thousand; and against the thousand he drank wine." That is, say some, he was a very great drinker.
Whiles he tasted the wine - He relished it, got heated by it, and when Wine got fully in, Wit went wholly out; and in consequence he acted the profane part of which we immediately read.
And praised the gods of gold - They had gods of all sorts, and of all metals; with wooden gods, and stone gods, beside!
Fingers of a man's hand - The fingers were collected about the style or pen as in the act of writing.
The king's countenance was changed - Here is a very natural description of fear and terror.
1. The face grows pale;
2. The mind becomes greatly agitated;
3. Pains seize on the lower part of the back and kidneys;
4. A universal tremor takes place, so that the knees smite against each other;
5. And lastly, either a syncope takes place, or the cry of distress is uttered, Dan 5:7 : "The king cried."
Whosoever shall read this writing - He knew it must be some awful portent, and wished to know what.
They could not read the writing - Because it was in the pure Hebrew, not the Chaldean character. See below.
The queen - came - This is generally allowed to have been the widow of Nebuchadnezzar; if so, she was the queen Amiyt, daughter of Astyages, sister of Darius the Mede, and aunt of Cyrus, according to Polyhistor, cited by Cedrenus. See Calmet. Others think that Nitocris was the person who is said to be queen when Cyrus took the city; and is stated to have been a lady of eminent wisdom and discretion, and to have had the chief direction of the public affairs. She was the mother of Labynithus; and, if this be the same as Belshazzar, she must be the person here introduced.
Nebuchadnezzar thy father - See the note on Dan 5:1 (note).
Dissolve doubts - Untie knots - unbind what is bound. An expression used in the east to signify a judge of eminent wisdom and skill.
Let thy gifts be to thyself - They could be of little use to any, as the city was in a few hours to be taken and pillaged.
Nebuchadnezzar thy father - Or grandfather, as the margin reads, Dan 5:2. See the notes on Dan 5:1 (note).
Whom he would he slew - The genuine character of a despot, whose will is the only rule of his conduct.
He was deposed from his kingly throne - Became insane; and the reins of government were taken out of his hands.
Hast not humbled thine heart - These judgments and mercies have had no good effect upon thee.
But hast lifted up thyself against the Lord - And the highest evidence of this rebellion was, the profaning the sacred vessels of the Lord's house.
Then was the part of the hand sent - This was the filling up of the cup of thy iniquity; this last act made thee ripe for destruction.
And this is the writing - Had the words been written in the Chaldean character, every wise man there, every one that could read the alphabet of his own language, could have read and interpreted them. Let it be observed, -
1. That the character which we now call Hebrew is the Chaldean character.
2. That the true Hebrew character is that which we call the Samaritan.
3. Daniel could easily read this, for it was the character used by the Jews previously to the Babylonish captivity.
4. It appears that it was simply on account of the strangeness of the character that the Chaldeans could not read it.
I shall set down the words in both characters, by which the least learned reader may see that it was quite possible that one might be well known, while the other might be unintelligible.
In ancient times, no doubt, these letters differed more from each other than they appear to do now; for we know that the Samaritan on ancient coins, though radically the same, differs very much from that now used in printing.
It should be observed, that each word stands for a short sentence; מנא mene signifies Numeration; תקל tekel, Weighing; and פרש peres, Division. And so the Arabic translates them mokeeson, measured; mewzonon, weighed; mokesoomon, divided. All the ancient Versions, except the Syriac, read the words simply Mene, Tekel, Phares, as they are explained in the following verses; without the repetition of Mene, and without the conjunction ו vau and plural termination, ין in, in Peres.
Clothed Daniel with scarlet - ארגונא argevana, more probably with purple. The gold chain about the neck was an emblem of magisterial authority. It is often thus mentioned in Scripture.
In that night was Belshazzar - slain - Xenophon says, he was dispatched by two lords, Gadatas and Gobrias, who went over to Cyrus, to avenge themselves of certain wrongs which Belshazzar had done them. We have already seen that Cyrus entered the city by the bed of the Euphrates, which he had emptied, by cutting a channel for the waters, and directing them into the marshy country.
Darius the Median took the kingdom - This is supposed to be the same as Cyaxares, son of Astyages and maternal uncle of Cyrus, to whom he gave the throne of Babylon, after himself had had the honor of taking the city.
Daniel speaks nothing of the war that raged between the Babylonians and the Medes; but Isaiah speaks particularly of it, chap. 13, 14, 45, Isa 46:1-13, Isa 47:1-15.; and so does Jeremiah, chap. 50, 51. I need not add, that it is largely spoken of by profane authors. The Medes and Persians were confederates in the war; the former under Darius, the latter under Cyrus. Both princes are supposed to have been present at the taking of this city. Mandane, daughter of Astyages, was mother of Cyrus, and sister to Cyaxares. | <urn:uuid:4a35c602-5b3f-48bf-9b56-34ff61c89904> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://sacred-texts.com/bib/cmt/clarke/dan005.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00347-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973778 | 2,761 | 2.21875 | 2 |
In the run-up to Dr. Bill Thomas’ upcoming Age of Disruption 2015 Tour, ChangingAging has been publishing stories on the theme “DisruptAging” to highlight a wide range of innovative ideas related to aging.
I’ve got a great new “DisruptAging” idea from Martin Bayne I’m going to share below, but first I’d like to hone in and define exactly what we mean by “disrupting” or “changing” aging. If you look at some of our recent posts — A Radical Idea: Residents Hiring Staff; The Way of the Tiger; Forget About Memory! Focus on Imagination; Cognitive Wellness — you’ll find they share a simple, compelling theme: Aging is an asset.
It sounds simple but “aging is an asset” represents a major paradigm shift. The dominant narrative around aging in our society is deficits based. The idea that we can move away from deficits-based models of aging and create new, assets-based models of aging is just about as radical and disruptive as you can get. I have to credit our friend Jay Bloom in Portland, Ore., for framing the movement explicitly in these terms. Jay is one of the architects of Age-Friendly Portland and from the outset he has framed the initiative around the specific goal of moving away from deficits-based approaches to aging to create new assets-based models.
This came into sharp view when I had a conversation with one of our contributors, Martin Bayne, this morning. Martin has a radical vision for caregiving that he asked me to run by ChangingAging’s audience. Take a look at what he has to say and then visit his site to offer feedback:
After twelve years as a resident in assisted living facilities, I offer the following observations:
The existing system of long-term care in this country is, in a word, broken.
We cannot spend or legislate our way out of this broken system.
A national system of direct intervention (i.e. caregiving) that favors a community rather than a facility approach MUST be the foundation of any permanent, workable system.
Baby Boomers – Americans born between 1946 and 1964 – are shifting gears as they prepare for retirement, senescence and death.
Boomers as Roomers offers an opportunity to help create a more balanced system of national intervention by:
Creating a national directory that matches care giver to care recipient through the Boomers as Roomers meta database. This concept, at about half the cost of assisted living, creates a directory of homeowners who wish to share their residence with a like-minded adult in need of ADL assistance. These care recipients will be private-pay residents not subject to state Adult Congregate Living laws. Example: A 78 year-old widow, currently living alone in her home, has recently fallen and broken her hip. Her children have suggested in the strongest terms that she enter an assisted living facility. She hears about Boomers as Roomers and discovers that she would be able to purchase private accommodations’ in a lovely 5 bedroom ranch home at roughly half of what it would cost in an assisted living facility. She finds the arrangement perfect for her needs, especially.
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This one will have the conspiracy fiends saying “I told you so”: new reports have come out that point to the US government, and the Department of Homeland Security more specifically, spying on Twitter users who use “sensitive” words.
The DHS has apparently created a watch list of words that are considered “sensitive”, and simply using a single one could put you on the government’s radar.
The Electronic Privacy Information Center, an online privacy advocacy group, is suing the DHS for the data that the Department has collected on Twitter and Facebook users.
Their complaint claims that the DHS will begin monitoring social media sites in February in an effort to “store and analyze the information gathered, and then to disseminate relevant and appropriate de-identified information to federal, state, local and foreign governments and private sector partners.”
And the ways in which the DHS is said to be spying on Twitter users are pretty nefarious.
For instance, the suit claims they are setting up fake profiles – like the ones that you normally brush off as spambots – to monitor individual accounts.
Plus, they’ve created a database of keywords and phrases that stand out as “sensitive”, such as:
- illegal immigrant
- human to animal
When they find an account using these words, they record it and any personal information associated with it.
It’s not clear whether simply using one of these words once is enough to get you on the government’s watch list, or whether you have to use a certain number within a period of time.
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St. Domnina of Syria
Commemorated on March 1
The Virgin Domnina of Syria was a disciple of St. Maron. She built a straw-covered hut in her mother’s garden and lived there as an ascetic, eating only lentils soaked in water.
St. Domnina went to church each morning and evening, covered in a veil so that no one ever saw her face. Her voice, in the words of her biographer Theodoret of Cyrrhus, was “resonant and expressive, and her words were always accompanied by tears.” She peacefully fell asleep in the Lord between 450-460.
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Fund Balance with Treasury
Treasury Financial Manual Guidance
About the Reconcilation Process
Why We Developed this Process
We want you to know the importance of timeliness and accuracy in performing your reconciling and clearing duties.
You, the reconciler, are assuring that your portion of the Fund Balance with Treasury is properly reported on your financial reports and to Treasury's General Ledger.
This Web site contains the methods that you should use in reconciling Deposit, Undistributed and Check Issue differences effectively, and easily. You are shown how and where to get the information you need to clear your differences.
Why You Need to Reconcile
The validity of the classified receipt and outlay data published in the financial reports of the U.S. Government by the Financial Management Service depends on the accuracy of the monthly Statement of Transaction (FMS-224) and Statement of Accountability (SF-1218 and FMS 1219) submitted by all departments and agencies. The purpose of reconciling is to ensure the accuracy and timeliness of deposit and disbursement data reflected in the Fund Balance with Treasury.
Internal control systems ensures that all funds are recorded and accounted for correctly. You should always be suspicious of problems that won't go away. You are the "first alert" when indicators of fraud are present. Your concerns should be relayed to a supervisor who, after appropriate review, will determine whether or not the office of Inspector General (OIG) should be involved. Your OIG routinely examines the internal control system for faults and vulnerabilities.
Agencies should identify and clear differences within 2 months of occurrence. During the reconciliation process, be aware of conditions creating your differences. Keep records of the causes of differences and analyze monthly to see if the same conditions are recurring; i.e., differences between months, missed bank-cutoff times, failure to get copies of the documents, bank-processing errors, your agency reporting/processing errors, or Treasury errors.
Reconciling the Deposit Statement of Difference
At the close of each accounting month an FMS 224 or FMS 1219/1220 is transmitted to FMS via GOALS II for transactions (receipts and outlays) that occurred during the month. If no transactions occurred, a report with the words "No transactions" must be submitted. You may refer to the Treasury Financial Manual (I TFM 2-3100 or I TFM 2-3300) for detailed information on preparation of the FMS 1219, SF1220 and FMS 224.
Agencies should maintain transaction logs as a part of their internal accounting system. The transaction log for deposits should contain detail information that relate to the SF 215 (Deposit Ticket ) and the SF5515 (Debit Voucher). The totals of these logs for each month should agree with the totals reported on your FMS224 or FMS1219.
An automated comparison of totals is made of the deposit data submitted by you on Line 3, Section III of the FMS 224 or Section I, Line 4.20 and Section II, Part B, Column 3 and 4 of the FMS 1219 with that submitted by commercial banks and or FRB's through the CA$HLINK II system. An FMS-6652 "Statement of Differences-Deposit Transactions" is generated if there is a difference between the FMS 224/ 1219 and CA$HLINK II. A copy of the FMS-6652 is available GOALS/IAS as well as the DT/DV Detail Support Listing. If there is no difference, you will not receive an FMS-6652, but a copy of the DT/DV Detail Support Listing will be available to you for your records on line in GOALS.
To identify items that are causing a difference compare the documents listed on the DT/DV Support Listings to the documents listed on the transaction logs prepared by your agency.
Prepare a list of all unmatched items. The total unmatched items should agree with your Statement of Difference. The unmatched items should be researched and resolved within 2 months of occurrence.
Reasons for Unmatched Items
Reconciling Disbursement Statement of Differences
How did this difference occur?
8 digit Agency Location Codes
Agencies that use Regional Finance Centers to issue checks (8 digit ALC's) report their disbursement activity monthly to Treasury/FMS using an FMS 224 Statement of Transactions. This activity is reported in section I of the FMS 224 as well as in section II, line 1, by month. This disbursing activity is also reported to Treasury by Regional Finance Centers (Treasury Disbursing Offices), as well as by the Interagency Payment and Collections (IPAC) System.
The amount reported for each month on Line I, section II of your FMS 224 is compared to the total accumulated for each month by Treasury from the two sources previously mentioned. If the amounts reported on the FMS 224 do not agree with the amounts reported to Treasury by the other sources, a Statement of Differences (SOD) is created. Notification of this is available in GOALS II, in the form of the FMS6652, Statement of Differences - Undistributed.
4 digit Agency Location Codes
Agencies that have authority to issue Treasury checks (4 digit ALC's) report their disbursement activity monthly to Treasury/FMS using the FMS 1219 Statement of Accountability and FMS 1220 Statement of Transactions. Since, four digit ALC's issue checks, they have two types of disbursement differences to address, Statement of Differences - Disbursement and Checks Issued Audit Differences.
This section addresses the Statement of Differences - Disbursements.
The Statement of Differences - Disbursements is created as a result of a comparison of IPAC transactions reported on Line 2.80, Section I, Part A, and broken down by month in Section II, Part A, Column 3 of the FMS 1219, to IPAC monthly totals accumulated by Treasury from the IPAC system.
How do you resolve your difference?
Agencies should maintain transaction logs as a part of their internal accounting system. The transaction log for disbursements should contain detail information that relate to the following forms.
Form 1081 has no effect on your statement of differences since both sides of the entry are reported in section I of the FMS 224 for eight digit ALC's and on the FMS 1220 for four digit ALC's.
Form 7306 should agree to the amount of OPAC Transactions reported on your FMS 224 or FMS 1219.
Forms 1166, 1185, 145 and 1098 should agree with the amount of net disbursements reported on your FMS 224 or FMS 1219.
Eight digit ALC's
To identify items that are causing the Statement of Differences, compare your agencies internal schedule which supports the amount reported on your FMS 224 to the activity listed on your IPAC Support Listing and RFC Support Listing. These Support Listings can be found on GOALS II.
The total of the unmatched items should agree to your Statement of Difference. Research each item to determine the reason for the discrepancy. Action should be taken to clear the difference within 2 months of occurrence.Common reasons for differences
Four digit ALC's
For Statement of Differences - Disbursements, compare your internal schedules that support the amounts reported by you on your FMS 1219, Section I, Part A, Line 2.80 and Section II, Part A, Column 3 to the IPAC Support Listing found in GOALS II. Prepare a listing of all unmatched items. Research each item to determine the reason for the discrepancy. Action should be taken to clear the differences within 2 months of occurrence.
Common reasons for differences
Reconciling Check Issue Audit Differences
Your agency may receive correspondence monthly from Treasury/Financial Management Services' Cash Accounting Division (CAD) that notifies you of your Checks Issued Audit Differences. Checks Issued Audit Differences are created as a result of a comparison of Checks Issued totals reported on lines 2.10, 2.11 and 2.12 of the FMS 1219 to the Checks Issued amounts and related adjustments recorded in the Check Payment and Reconciliation System reported to Treasury by SF1179 Checks Issued Tape.
Agencies should maintain transaction logs to support the Checks Issued amount reported on the FMS 1219 and SF1179. The logs should contain a list of Treasury checks issued and SF 5206's, Adjustments of Check Issue Amount.
Compare the detail from the FMS 1219 transaction log to the detail data on the SF1179 transaction log. Unmatched items should be researched and cleared within in 2 months of occurrence.
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In fact, you can use the same technique to make a no-sew pillow. This blanket is an appropriate project for ages 8 years and up. It will take only about 30 minutes from start to finish.
How long should a no sew blanket be?
Step by Step instructions to make a No-Sew Fleece blanket. Fleece comes 60-inches wide, so your blanket should be around 60 x 60 (or longer). Your finished product will be about 10- inches smaller than the fabric you start with.
How much fabric do I need for a no sew blanket?
What is this? For a child-sized blanket, you’ll need to purchase two different pieces of fleece fabric measuring 1.5 yards. For an adult-sized blanket purchase two lengths of fabric measuring 3 yards.
How many yards do you need for a no sew fleece blanket?
Fleece Blanket Chart Size. 2 Yards Of Fleece Is Perfect For A No Sew Throw.
How many yards do I need for a no sew baby blanket?
To make a no sew baby blanket, you’ll need: 2 yards of minky fabric (1 yard of each color) sharp scissors.
How do you make a no sew fleece blanket without bulky?
- Stack your two pieces of fabric on top of each other so that you cut them the same.
- Cut out a four inch square out of each corner.
- Cut the edge into 4 inch strips 1 1/2 inches apart.
- Make a one inch cut in the center at the top end of each strip.
- Continue all the way around the blanket.
What is a Linus blanket?
The phrase Linus blanket denotes an object, or occasionally a person, depended upon for reassurance and comfort. It was named after Linus van Pelt, a small boy who carries a blanket for comfort in the comic strip Peanuts, by the American cartoonist Charles Monroe Schulz (1922-2000).
How much does it cost to make a no sew fleece blanket?
Total Cost: $3.98 for 2 yards of fabric or $7.96 for 4 yards of fabric. That’s it! This project was so easy and fun to make. And since this is a no-sew custom fleece blanket it makes them even better because you don’t need to pull out a sewing machine to make them.
What are the dimensions of 2 yards of fabric?
How big is one linear yard of fabric?
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|4||144 Inches (12 Feet)||54 Inches (4.5 Feet)|
Should fleece be washed before sewing?
Should I pre-wash the fleece? Fleece does not shrink, fade or run so there is no need to prewash the fabric. It does not like to be ironed therefor if you need to press a seam flat, use a low setting with steam on and a pressing cloth.
Is Blizzard fleece good for blankets?
This type of fleece is ideal for blankets, scarves, and gloves that will keep areas of your body warm that other articles of clothing won’t. Blizzard fleece is typically made out of 100% polyester fibers. … That means that blizzard fleece is more prone to pilling.
Can you make no sew blankets with flannel?
It doesn’t take much to make no-sew flannel blankets: scissors, fabrics and a quick weaving step. These types of blankets work with flannel or fleece. They keep you warm while reading a book or watching a favorite TV program — but not for use on king, queen, full or twin beds because of manufactured fabric widths. | <urn:uuid:3fe5a2c1-f039-4f72-808d-31c8a42548eb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sewmanypins.com/needlework/how-long-does-it-take-to-make-a-no-sew-blanket.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570913.16/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809064307-20220809094307-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.894971 | 857 | 1.53125 | 2 |
He closed the window and lighted the fire. She sat in the armchair, and as she remained in it erect, he knelt before her, took her hands, kissed them, and looked at her with a wondering expression, timorous and proud. Then he pressed his lips to the tip of her boot.
“What are you doing?”
“I kiss your feet because they have come.”
He rose, drew her to him softly, and placed a long kiss on her lips. She remained inert, her head thrown back, her eyes closed. Her toque fell, her hair dropped on her shoulders.
Two hours later, when the setting sun made immeasurably longer the shadows on the stones, Therese, who had wished to walk alone in the city, found herself in front of the two obelisks of Santa Maria Novella without knowing how she had reached there. She saw at the corner of the square the old cobbler drawing his string with his eternal gesture. He smiled, bearing his sparrow on his shoulder.
She went into the shop, and sat on a chair. She said in French:
“Quentin Matsys, my friend, what have I done, and what will become of me?”
He looked at her quietly, with laughing kindness, not understanding nor caring. Nothing astonished him. She shook her head.
“What I did, my good Quentin, I did because he was suffering, and because I loved him. I regret nothing.”
He replied, as was his habit, with the sonorous syllable of Italy:
“Is it not so, Quentin? I have not done wrong? But, my God! what will happen now?”
She prepared to go. He made her understand that he wished her to wait. He culled carefully a bit of basilick and offered it to her.
“For its fragrance, signora!”
CHOULETTE TAKES A JOURNEY
It was the next day.
Having carefully placed on the drawing-room table his knotty stick, his pipe, and his antique carpet-bag, Choulette bowed to Madame Martin, who was reading at the window. He was going to Assisi. He wore a sheepskin coat, and resembled the old shepherds in pictures of the Nativity.
“Farewell, Madame. I am quitting Fiesole, you, Dechartre, the too handsome Prince Albertinelli, and that gentle ogress, Miss Bell. I am going to visit the Assisi mountain, which the poet says must be named no longer Assisi, but the Orient, because it is there that the sun of love rose. I am going to kneel before the happy crypt where Saint Francis is resting in a stone manger, with a stone for a pillow. For he would not even take out of this world a shroud—out of this world where he left the revelation of all joy and of all kindness.”
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Schenectady, New York
Schenectady (//) is a city in Schenectady County, New York, United States, of which it is the county seat. As of the 2010 census, the city had a population of 66,135. The name "Schenectady" is derived from a Mohawk word, skahnéhtati, meaning "beyond the pines". Schenectady was founded on the south side of the Mohawk River by Dutch colonists in the 17th century, many from the Albany area. They were prohibited from the fur trade by the Albany monopoly, which kept its control after the English takeover in 1664. Residents of the new village developed farms on strip plots along the river.
Nott Memorial Hall, Union College
"The horse that won the Belmont, #18. The horse was from Schenectady "
|Coordinates: 42°48′51″N 73°56′14″W|
|• Mayor||Gary McCarthy (D)|
|• City||10.98 sq mi (28.43 km2)|
|• Land||10.79 sq mi (27.95 km2)|
|• Water||0.18 sq mi (0.48 km2)|
|• Density||6,014.92/sq mi (2,322.38/km2)|
|Time zone||UTC−5 (Eastern (EST))|
|• Summer (DST)||UTC−4 (EDT)|
12301–12309, 12325, 12345
|GNIS feature ID||0964570|
Connected to the west via the Mohawk River and Erie Canal, Schenectady developed rapidly in the 19th century as part of the Mohawk Valley trade, manufacturing and transportation corridor. By 1824 more people worked in manufacturing than agriculture or trade, and the city had a cotton mill, processing cotton from the Deep South. Numerous mills in New York had such ties with the South. Through the 19th century, nationally influential companies and industries developed in Schenectady, including General Electric and American Locomotive Company (ALCO), which were powers into the mid-20th century. Schenectady was part of emerging technologies, with GE collaborating in the production of nuclear-powered submarines and, in the 21st century, working on other forms of renewable energy.
Schenectady is in eastern New York, near the confluence of the Mohawk and Hudson rivers. It is in the same metropolitan area as the state capital, Albany, which is about 15 miles (24 km) southeast. In December 2014, the state announced that the city was one of three sites selected for development of off-reservation casino gambling, under terms of a 2013 state constitutional amendment. The project would redevelop an ALCO brownfield site in the city along the waterfront, with hotels, housing and a marina in addition to the casino.
When first encountered by Europeans, the Mohawk Valley was the territory of the Mohawk nation, one of the Five Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, or Haudenosaunee. They had occupied territory in the region since at least 1100 AD. Starting in the early 1600s the Mohawk moved their settlements closer to the river and by 1629, they had also taken over territories on the west bank of the Hudson River that were formerly held by the Algonquian-speaking Mahican people.
In the 1640s, the Mohawk had three major villages, all on the south side of the Mohawk River. The easternmost one was Ossernenon, located about 9 miles west of present-day Auriesville, New York. When Dutch settlers developed Fort Orange (present-day Albany, New York) in the Hudson Valley beginning in 1614, the Mohawk called their settlement skahnéhtati, meaning "beyond the pines," referring to a large area of pine barrens that lay between the Mohawk settlements and the Hudson River. About 3200 acres of this unique ecosystem are now protected as the Albany Pine Bush. Eventually, this word entered the lexicon of the Dutch settlers. The settlers in Fort Orange used skahnéhtati to refer to the new village at the Mohawk flats (see below), which became known as Schenectady (with a variety of spellings).
In 1661, Arendt van Corlaer, (later Van Curler), a Dutch immigrant, bought a large piece of land on the south side of the Mohawk River. Other colonists were given grants of land by the colonial government in this portion of the flat fertile river valley, as part of New Netherland. The settlers recognized that these bottomlands had been cultivated for maize by the Mohawk for centuries. Van Curler took the largest piece of land; the remainder was divided into 50-acre plots for the other first fourteen proprietors; Alexander Lindsey Glen, Philip Hendrickse Brouwer, Simon Volkertse Veeder, Pieter Adrianne Van Wogglelum, Teunise Cornelise Swart, Bastia De Winter atty for Catalyn De Vos, Gerrit Bancker, William Teller, Pieter Jacobse Borsboom, Pieter Danielle Van Olinda, Jan Barentse Wemp(le), Jacques Cornelise Van Slyck, Marten Cornelise Van Esselstyn, and Harmen Albertse Vedder. As most early colonists were from the Fort Orange area, they may have anticipated working as fur traders, but the Beverwijck (later Albany) traders kept a monopoly of legal control. The settlers here turned to farming. Their 50-acre lots were unique for the colony, "laid out in strips along the Mohawk River", with the narrow edges fronting the river, as in French colonial style. They relied on rearing livestock and wheat. The proprietors and their descendants controlled all the land of the town for generations, essentially acting as government until after the Revolutionary War, when representative government was established.
From the early days of interaction, early Dutch traders in the valley had unions with Mohawk women, if not always official marriages. Their children were raised within the Mohawk community, which had a matrilineal kinship system, considering children born into the mother's clan. Even within Mohawk society, biological fathers played minor roles.
Some mixed-race descendants, such as Jacques Cornelissen Van Slyck and his sister Hilletie van Olinda, who were of Dutch, French and Mohawk ancestry, became interpreters and intermarried with Dutch colonists. They also gained land in the Schenectady settlement. They were among the few métis who seemed to move from Mohawk to Dutch society, as they were described as "former Indians", although they did not always have an easy time of it. In 1661 Jacques inherited what became known as Van Slyck's Island from his brother Marten, who had been given it by the Mohawk. Van Slyck family descendants retained ownership through the 19th century.
Because of labor shortages in the colony, some Dutch settlers brought African slaves to the region. In Schenectady, they used them as farm laborers. The English also imported slaves and continued with agriculture in the river valley. Traders in Albany kept control of the fur trade after the takeover by the English.
In 1664 the English seized the Dutch New Netherland colony and renamed it New York. They confirmed the monopoly on the fur trade by Albany, and issued orders to prohibit Schenectady from the trade through 1670 and later. Settlers purchased additional land from the Mohawk in 1670 and 1672. (Jacques and Hilletie Van Slyck each received portions of land in the Mohawk 1672 deed for Schenectady.) Twenty years later (1684) Governor Thomas Dongan granted letters patent for Schenectady to five additional trustees.
On February 8, 1690, during King William's War, French forces and their Indian allies, mostly Ojibwe and Algonquin warriors, attacked Schenectady by surprise, leaving 62 dead, 11 of them African slaves. American history notes it as the Schenectady massacre. A total of 27 persons were taken captive, including five African slaves; the raiders took their captives overland about 200 miles to Montreal and its associated Mohawk mission village of Kahnawake. Typically the younger captives were adopted by Mohawk families to replace people who had died. Through the early 18th century in the raiding between Quebec and the northern British colonies, some captives were ransomed by their communities. Colonial governments got involved only for high-ranking officers or other officials. In 1748, during King George's War, the French and Indians attacked Schenectady again, killing 70 residents.
In 1765, Schenectady was incorporated as a borough. During the American Revolutionary War the local militia unit, the 2nd Albany County Militia Regiment, fought in the Battle of Saratoga and against Loyalist troops. Most of the warfare in the Mohawk Valley occurred farther west on the frontier in the areas of German Palatine settlement west of Little Falls. Because of their close business and other relationships with the British, some settlers from the city were Loyalists and moved to Canada in the late stages of the Revolution. The Crown granted them land in what became known as Upper Canada and later Ontario.
It was not until after the Revolutionary War that the village residents were successful in reducing the power of descendants of the early trustees and gained representative government. The settlement was chartered as a city in 1798. Long interested in supporting higher education and morals, the members of the City's three oldest churches—the Dutch First Reformed Church, St. Georges Episcopal Church, and First Presbyterian Church—formed a "union" and founded Union College in 1795 under a charter from the state. The school had started in 1785 as Schenectady Academy. This founding was part of the expansion of higher education in upstate New York in the postwar years.
During this period, migrants poured into upstate and western New York from New England, but there were also new immigrants from England and Europe. Many traveled west along the Mohawk River, settling in the western part of the state, where they developed more agriculture on former Iroquois lands. A dairy industry developed in the central part of the state. New settlers were predominantly of English and Scotch-Irish descent. In 1819, Schenectady suffered a fire that destroyed more than 170 buildings and most of its historic, distinctive Dutch-style architecture.
New York had passed a law for gradual abolition of slavery in 1799, but in 1824, there were still a total of 102 slaves in Schenectady County, with nearly half residing in the city. That year the city of Schenectady had a total population of 3939, which included 240 free blacks, 47 slaves, and 91 foreigners.
In the 19th century, after completion of the Erie Canal in 1825, Schenectady became an important transportation, manufacturing and trade center. By 1824 more of its population worked in manufacturing than agriculture or trade. Among the industries was a cotton mill, which processed cotton from the Deep South. It was one of many such mills in upstate whose products were part of the exports shipped out of New York City. The city and state had many economic ties to the South at the same time that some residents became active in the abolitionist movement.
Schenectady benefited by increased traffic connecting the Hudson River to the Mohawk Valley and the Great Lakes to the west and New York City to the south. The Albany and Schenectady Turnpike (now State Street) was constructed in 1797 to connect Albany to settlements in the Mohawk Valley. The Mohawk and Hudson Railroad started operations in 1831 as one of the first railway lines in the United States, connecting the city and Albany by a route through the pine barrens between them. Developers in Schenectady quickly founded the Utica & Schenectady Railroad, chartered in 1833; Schenectady & Susquehanna Railroad, chartered May 5, 1836; and Schenectady & Troy Railroad, chartered in 1836, making Schenectady "the rail hub of America at the time" and competing with the Erie Canal. Commodities from the Great Lakes areas and commercial products were shipped to the East and New York City through the Mohawk Valley and Schenectady.
The last slaves in New York and Schenectady gained freedom in 1827, under the state's gradual abolition law. The law first gave freedom to children born to slave mothers, but they were indentured to the mother's master for a period into their early 20s. Union College established a school for black children in 1805, but discontinued it after two years. Methodists helped educate the children for a time, but public schools did not accept them.
In the 1830s, the abolitionist movement grew in Schenectady. In 1836, Rev. Isaac Groot Duryee (also recorded as Duryea) co-founded the interracial Anti-Slavery Society at Union College and the Anti-Slavery Society of Schenectady in 1837. Freedom seekers were supported via the Underground Railroad route that ran through the area, passing to the west and north to Canada, which had abolished slavery.
In 1837 Duryee, together with other free people of color, co-founded the First Free Church of Schenectady (now the Duryee Memorial AME Zion Church). He also started a school for students of color. The abolitionist Theodore S. Wright, an African-American minister based in New York City, spoke at the dedication of the church and praised the school.
Through the late 19th century, new industries were established in the Mohawk Valley and powered by the river. Industrial jobs attracted many new immigrants, first from Ireland, and later in the century from Italy and Poland. In 1887, Thomas Edison moved his Edison Machine Works to Schenectady. In 1892, Schenectady became the headquarters of the General Electric Company. This business became a major industrial and economic force and helped establish the city and region as a national manufacturing center. GE became important nationally as a creative company, expanding into many different fields. American Locomotive Company also developed here, from a Schenectady company, and merging several smaller companies in 1901; it was second in the United States in the manufacture of steam locomotives before developing diesel technology.
20th century to present
Like other industrial cities in the Mohawk Valley, in the early 20th century, Schenectady attracted many new immigrants from eastern and southern Europe, as they could fill many of the new industrial jobs. It also attracted African Americans as part of the Great Migration out of the rural South to northern cities for work. General Electric and American Locomotive Company (ALCO) were industrial powerhouses, influencing innovation in a variety of fields across the country.
Schenectady is home to WGY, the second commercial radio station in the United States, (after WBZ in Springfield, Massachusetts, which was named for Westinghouse.) WGY was named for its owner, General Electric (the G), and the city of Schenectady (the Y). In 1928, General Electric produced the first regular television broadcasts in the United States, when the experimental station W2XB began regular broadcasts on Thursday and Friday afternoons. This television station is now WRGB; for years it was the Capital District's NBC affiliate, but has been the area's CBS affiliate since 1981.
The city reached its peak of population in 1930. The Great Depression caused a loss of jobs and population in its wake. In the postwar period after World War II, some residents moved to newer housing in suburban locations outside the city. In addition, General Electric established some high-tech facilities in the neighboring town of Niskayuna, which contributed to continuing population growth in the county. In the latter part of the 20th century, Schenectady suffered from the massive industrial and corporate restructuring that affected much of the US, including in the railroads. It lost many jobs and population to other locations, including offshore. Since the late 20th century, it has been shaping a new economy, based in part on renewable energy. Its population increased from 2000 to 2010.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of 11.0 square miles (28.49 km2), of which, 10.9 square miles (28.23 km2) of it is land and 0.1 square miles (0.26 km2) of it (1.27%) is water.
It is part of the Capital District, the metropolitan area surrounding Albany, New York state's capital. Along with Albany and Troy, it is one of the three principal population and industrial centers in the region.
Interstate 890 runs through Schenectady, and the New York State Thruway (Interstate 90) is nearby. Amtrak has a station in Schenectady. The nearest airport is Schenectady County Airport; the nearest commercial airport is Albany International Airport.
Schenectady is sometimes used as an example city when a ZIP code is provided, as ZIP code 12345 belongs to Schenectady.
The city was a manufacturing center known as "The City that Lights and Hauls the World" – a reference to two prominent businesses in the city, the Edison Electric Company (now known as General Electric), and the American Locomotive Company (ALCO).
GE retains its steam turbine manufacturing facilities in Schenectady and its Global Research facility in nearby Niskayuna. Thousands of manufacturing jobs have been relocated from Schenectady to the Sun Belt and abroad. Corporate headquarters are now located in Boston.
ALCO produced steam locomotives for railroads for years. Later it became renowned for its "Superpower" line of high-pressure locomotives, such as those for the Union Pacific Railroad in the 1930s and 1940s. During World War II, it converted to support the war, making tanks for the US Army. As diesel locomotives began to be manufactured, ALCO joined with GE to develop diesel locomotives to compete with the EMD division of General Motors. But corporate restructuring to cope with the changing locomotive procurement environment saw the slow downward spiral of ALCO. Its operations fizzled as the company went through acquisitions and restructuring in the late 1960s. Its Schenectady plant closed in 1969.
In the late 20th century, due to industrial restructuring, the city lost many jobs and suffered difficult financial times, as did many former manufacturing cities in upstate New York. The loss of employment caused Schenectady's population to decline by nearly one-third from 1950 into the late 20th century (see Census table). The early industries had left many sites contaminated with hazardous wastes. Such environmental brownfields have needed technical approaches for redevelopment.
In the 21st century, Schenectady began revitalization. GE established a renewable energy center that brought hundreds of employees to the area. The city is part of a metropolitan area with improving economic health, and a number of buildings have been renovated for new uses. Numerous small businesses, retail stores and restaurants have developed on State Street in the heart of downtown.
Price Chopper Supermarkets and the New York Lottery are based in Schenectady. In December 2014, the state announced that Schenectady was one of three sites selected for development of Class III casino gambling, under terms of a state constitutional amendment passed by voters in 2013 that allowed such gaming in off-reservation sites. (Several federally recognized Native American nations in New York have gaming on their reservations.)
The Schenectady project, to be called The Rivers Casino and Resort at Mohawk Harbor, will redevelop the old American Locomotive Company (ALCO) site, a brownfield along the waterfront. The mixed-use project will include a hotel and residential housing development, and a marina, in addition to the casino. This will help create a variety of uses and a 24-hour population center.
|U.S. Decennial Census|
In the census of 2010, there were 66,135 people, 26,265 (2000 data) households, and 14,051 (2000 data) families residing in the city. The population density was 6,096.7 people per square mile (2,199.9/km²). There were 30,272 (2000 data) housing units at an average density of 2,790.6 per square mile (1,077.2/km²). The racial makeup of the city was 59.38% (52.31% Non-Hispanic) (7.07 White-Hispanic) White, 24.19% African American, 14.47% Hispanic or Latin of any race, 8.24% from other races, 5.74% from two or more races, 2.62% Asian American, 0.69% Native American, and 0.14% Pacific Islander. There is a growing Guyanese population in the area. The top ancestries self-identified by people on the census are Italian (13.6%), Guyanese (12.3%), Irish (12.1%), Puerto Rican (10.1%), German (8.7%), English (6.0%), Polish (5.4%), French (4.4%). These reflect historic and early 20th-century immigration, as well as that since the late 20th century.
The Schenectady City School District is very diverse; (71%- 2011)(80%–2013) of district students receive free or reduced lunch. The student population of the school district is majority minority: 35% Black (48% Graduate), 32% White (71% Graduate), 18% Hispanic (51% Graduate), 15% Asian (68% Graduate). As of 2016, the graduation rate for the high school was 56%.
Using 2010 data, there were 28,264 households out of which 31.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 28.0% were married couples living together, 24.7% had a female householder with no husband present, and 45.5% were non-families. 38.6% of all households were made up of individuals and 10.8% had someone living alone who was 65 years of age or older. The average household size was 2.23 and the average family size was 2.98.
In the city, the year 2010 population was spread out with 26.3% under the age of 18, 13.6% from 18 to 24, 30.7% from 25 to 44, 21.1% from 45 to 64, and 7.2% who were 65 years of age or older. The median age was 32 years. For every 100 females, there were 92.5 males. For every 100 females age 18 and over, there were 88.4 males.
The median income for a household in the city in 2000 was $29,378 (2010–$37,436), and the median income for a family was $41,158. Males had a median income of $32,929 versus $26,856 for females. The per capita income for the city was $17,076. About 20.2% of families and 25.9% of the population were below the poverty line, including 41.5% of those under age 18 and 5.6% of those age 65 or over.
The largest religious body is the Catholic church with 44,000 adherents, followed by Islam with 6,000 followers. The third largest religious body is the Reformed Church in America with 3,600 members. The fourth is the United Methodist denomination with 2,800 members.
Notable congregations are the First Presbyterian Church (Schenectady, New York) which is affiliated with the PCA, First Reformed Church RCA is formed in the 17th century, one of the oldest churches in the town. St George's Episcopal Church dates back to 1735; it shared facilities with the Presbyterians more than 30 years .
Amtrak, the national passenger rail system, provides regular service to Schenectady, with Schenectady station at 322 Erie Boulevard. Trains include the Ethan Allen, Adirondack, Lake Shore Limited, Maple Leaf, and Empire Service. Schenectady also has freight rail service from Canadian Pacific Railway and Norfolk Southern Railway.
In the early twentieth century, Schenectady had an extensive streetcar system that provided both local and interurban passenger service. The Schenectady Railway Co. had local lines and interurban lines serving Albany, Ballston Spa, Saratoga Springs and Troy. There was also a line from Gloversville, Johnstown, Amsterdam, and Scotia into Downtown Schenectady operated by the Fonda, Johnstown, and Gloversville Railroad. The nearly 200 leather and glove companies (178) in the Gloversville region generated considerable traffic for the line. Sales representatives carrying product sample cases would begin their sales campaigns throughout the rest of the country by taking the interurban to reach Schenectady's New York Central Railroad station, where they connected to trains to New York City, Chicago and points between.
The bright orange FJ&G interurbans were scheduled to meet every daylight New York Central train that stopped at Schenectady. Through the 1900s and into the early 1930s, the line was quite prosperous. In 1932 the FJ&G purchased five lightweight "bullet cars" (#125 through 129) from the J. G. Brill Company. These interurbans represented state of the art design: the "bullet" description referred to the unusual front roof that was designed to slope down to the windshield in an aerodynamically sleek way. FJ&G bought the cars believing that there would be continuing strong passenger business from a prosperous glove and leather industry, as well as legacy tourism traffic to Lake Sacandaga north of Gloversville. Instead, roads were improved, automobiles became cheaper and were purchased more widely, tourists traveled greater distances by car, and the Great Depression decreased business overall.
FJ&G ridership continued to decline, and in 1938 New York state condemned the line's bridge over the Mohawk River at Schenectady. This bridge had once carried cars, pedestrians, plus the interurban, but ice flow damage in 1928 prompted the state to restrict its use to the interurban. When in 1938 the state condemned the bridge for interurban use, the line abandoned passenger service, and the bullet cars were sold. Freight business had also been important to the FJ&G, and it continued over the risky bridge into Schenectady a few more years.
Places of interest
- Proctors Theatre is an arts center. Built in 1926 as a vaudeville/movie theater, it has been refurbished in the 21st century. It is home to "Goldie," a Wurlitzer theater pipe organ. Proctor's was also the site of one of the first public demonstrations of television, projecting an image from a studio at the GE plant a mile [1.6 km] away. Its 2007 renovation added two theatres: Proctors is home to three theaters, including the historic Mainstage, the GE Theatre, and 440 Upstairs.
- The Stockade Historic District features dozens of Dutch and English Colonial houses from the 18th and 19th centuries. It is New York state's first historic district, designated in 1965 by the Department of Interior and named after the historic stockade that originally surrounded the colonial settlement.
- The Schenectady County Historical Society has a History Museum and the Grems-Doolittle research library. They are housed at 32 Washington Avenue in the Stockade District. It has adapted a house originally built in 1895 for the Jackson family. It was used by the GE Women's Club from 1915 until 1957, when it was donated to the Historical Society. The History Museum tells of the history of Schenectady, the Yates Doll House, the Erie Canal, and the Glen-Sanders Collection, etc. The research library has many collections of papers, photographs, and books. It welcomes people doing local and genealogical research.
- The General Electric Realty Plot, located near Union College, was one of the first planned residential neighborhoods in the US and designed to attract General Electric Company executives in the late 19th and early 20th centuries. It features an eclectic collection of grand homes in a variety of architectural styles, including Tudor, Dutch Colonial, Queen Anne, and Spanish Colonial. The Plot is home to the first all-electric home in the United States. The Plot hosts an annual House and Garden Tour.
- Union College, adjacent to the GE Realty Plot, is the oldest planned college campus in the United States. The Union campus features the unique 16-sided Nott Memorial building, built in 1875, and Jackson's Garden, eight acres (32,000 m²) of formal gardens and woodlands.
- Central Park is the crown jewel of Schenectady's parks. It occupies the highest elevation point in the city. The Common Council voted in 1913 to purchase the land for the present site of the park. The park features an acclaimed rose garden and Iroquois Lake. Its stadium tennis court was the former home to the New York Buzz of the World Team Tennis league (as of 2008). Central Park was named after New York City's Central Park .
- The Schenectady Museum features exhibits on the development of science and technology. It contains the Suits-Bueche Planetarium.
- Schenectady City Hall is the focal point of government in the city. Designed by McKim, Mead and White, it was built in 1933 during the Great Depression.
- Schenectady's Municipal Golf Course is an 18-hole championship facility sited among oaks and pines. Designed in 1935 by Jim Thompson under the WPA, the course was ranked by Golf Digest among "Best Places to Play in 2004" and received a three-star rating.
- Jay Street, located between Proctor's and City Hall, is a short street partially closed to motor traffic. It features a number of small, independently operated businesses and eateries and is a popular destination. Just past the pedestrian section of Jay Street is Schenectady’s Little Italy on North Jay Street.
- Schenectady Light Opera Company (SLOC) is a community theater group on Franklin St in downtown Schenectady.
- The Edison Tech Center exhibits and promotes the physical development of engineering and technology from Schenectady and elsewhere. It provides online and on-site displays that promote learning about electricity and its applications in technology.
- Upper Union Street Business Improvement District, near the Niskayuna boundary, is home to almost 100 independently owned businesses, including a score of restaurants, upscale retail, specialty shops, salons and services.
- Vale Cemetery, listed on the National Register of Historic Places, includes more than 30,000 burials of noted and ordinary residents of the city. It includes the historic African-American Burying Ground, where city residents annually celebrate anniversaries of Juneteenth and Emancipation.
The city is served by the Schenectady City School District, which operates 16 elementary schools, three middle schools and the main high school Schenectady High School. Brown School is a private, nonsectarian kindergarten-through-8th grade school. Catholic schools are administered by the Diocese of Albany.
Wildwood School is a special education, all ages school.
Representation in popular culture
Due to its early importance in national history and the economy, Schenectady figured in popular culture.
- Author Henry James gave his lead character Daisy Miller, in his 1878 novella of the same name, an origin in Schenectady.
- Schenectady is referred to or is the setting for several of Kurt Vonnegut's books, most notably Hocus Pocus and Player Piano.
- Doctor Octopus, a Marvel Comics supervillain, was born in Schenectady.
- Joseph S. Pulver, Sr.'s Lovecraftian serial killer novel, Nightmare's Disciple (Chaosium, 1999) is set in Schenectady.
- Science fiction writer Harlan Ellison stated that anytime a fan or interviewer asked him the question "Where do you get your ideas?", he would reply "Schenectady". Science fiction writer Barry Longyear subsequently titled a collection of his short stories It Came From Schenectady.
Film and TV
- In Objective, Burma! (1945), Lt. Sid Jacobs (William Prince) tells reporter Mark Williams (Henry Hull) about his house on Crane Street in Schenectady. He had taught at Pleasant Valley school before the war.
- In the 1950s television series, The Honeymooners, Trixie's mother was from Schenectady.
- The Way We Were (1973) was filmed on location in Schenectady at Union College, and in nearby Ballston Spa. It starred Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford.
- The 1980s film Heart Like a Wheel starring Bonnie Bedelia as female race car driver Shirley Muldowney, is mostly set in Schenectady.
- The 1996 made-for-TV film Unabomber: The True Story starring Robert Hays as David Kaczynski, brother of unabomber Ted Kaczynski, refers to Schenectady, where David and his wife were living when they figured out his brother's involvement in the bombings.
- Star Trek: Enterprise (2001), Starfleet Captain Jonathan Archer is born in Schenectady in 2112.
- The Time Machine (2002), the remake starring Guy Pearce, features Schenectady's Central Park in the ice skating scenes, standing in for New York City's Central Park.
- Synecdoche, New York (2008) is a film partially set in Schenectady, where some scenes were shot. It plays on the aural similarity between the city's name and the figure of speech synecdoche.
- In the ABC-TV series Ugly Betty, Marc St. James (played by Michael Urie) is said to be from Schenectady.
- Winter of Frozen Dreams (2009) was entirely filmed in Schenectady County, but is set in Wisconsin, where the historic events took place. It features the Schenectady, the Town of Rotterdam, and the Village of Scotia, all in New York. The film stars Thora Birch as Barbara Hoffman, the historic Wisconsin murderer, and Keith Carradine as a detective determined to catch her.
- The Place Beyond the Pines (2013), starring Bradley Cooper and Ryan Gosling, was filmed locally in 2011 near the Schenectady Police Headquarters and other areas of Schenectady.
- In the NBC sitcom Will & Grace, Schenectady is the hometown of character Grace Adler (played by Debra Messing).
- The music video for the song "Hero" by Mariah Carey was filmed at Proctors Theatre in Schenectady.
- The song "Someone to Love" by Fountains of Wayne, refers to fictional character Seth Shapiro moving from Schenectady in 1993 to Brooklyn.
- The song "Join the Circus", the last major number in Cy Coleman's musical Barnum, mentions the city in its lyric.
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- Ralph Alpher (1921–2007), cosmologist, won National Medal of Science for seminal work on Big Bang Theory
- Chester Arthur (1829–1886), U.S. president, lived in Schenectady while attending Union College
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- Andy Bloom (born 1973), Olympic shotputter
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- Maria Brink (born 1977), lead singer of band In This Moment, was born in Schenectady
- Pat Cadigan (born 1953), science fiction author, was born in Schenectady
- Greg Capullo (born 1962), comic book artist, was born in Schenectady
- Jimmy Carter (born 1924), U.S. president, studied briefly at Union College
- Billy Connors (1941-2018), MLB pitcher, coach and executive who played for Schenectady's 1954 Little League World Series championship team
- Jackie Craven, architectural writer
- Dexter Curtis (1828–1898), Wisconsin State Assemblyman, was born in Schenectady
- Mary Daly (1928–2010), feminist theologian
- Ann B. Davis (1926–2014), actress (Schultzy on The Bob Cummings Show and Alice Nelson on The Brady Bunch), was born in Schenectady
- Antonio Delgado (born 1977), U.S. representative
- Amir Derakh (born 1963), guitarist for rock band Orgy, was born in Schenectady
- Paul "Legs" DiCocco (1924–1989), gambler and racketeer
- John Owen Dominis (1832–1891), prince consort of Queen Liliuokalani of Hawaii
- Jamie Dukes (born 1964), football player, born in Schenectady
- Harry J. Flynn (born 1933), Roman Catholic archbishop of Minneapolis and St. Paul, was born in Schenectady
- Henry Glen (1739–1814), Continental army officer, U.S. representative
- Harold Gould (1923–2010), actor (The Golden Girls, The Sting), was born in Schenectady
- Harold J. Greene (1959–2014), United States Army general
- Kevin Greene (born 1962), football linebacker, coach
- Joseph E. Grosberg (1883–1970), pioneer in supermarket and wholesale foods industries
- John E. Hart (1824–1863), Union Navy officer
- Gilbert Hyatt (ca. 1761–1823), loyalist, founder of Sherbrooke, Quebec
- Fred Isabella (1917–2007), dentist, businessman, and politician
- Patricia Kalember (born 1957), actress, born in Schenectady
- Steve Katz (born 1945), guitarist (Blood, Sweat & Tears)
- Barry Kramer (born 1942), basketball player, jurist
- Irving Langmuir (1881–1957), 1932 Nobel laureate in chemistry
- Wayne LaPierre (born 1949), CEO of the NRA
- Arnold Lobel (1933–1987), author and illustrator of children's books, was born in Los Angeles and raised in Schenectady
- George R. Lunn, (1873–1948), mayor, U.S. representative, lieutenant governor
- Ranald MacDougall (1915–1973), screenwriter and director
- Sir Charles Mackerras (1925–2010), Australian conductor, was born in Schenectady.
- John Van Antwerp MacMurray (1881–1960), U.S. China expert
- Donald Martiny (born 1953), artist
- Tom Moulton (born 1940), record producer
- Shirley Muldowney (born 1940), auto racer in International Motorsports Hall of Fame, born and raised in Schenectady
- Ray Nelson (born 1931), science-fiction author and cartoonist, born in Schenectady
- Eliphalet Nott (1773–1866), president of Union College
- Jean-Hervé Peron (born 1949), Germany rock musician, lived in Schenectady in 1967–1968 as exchange student
- Jacob Van Vechten Platto (1822–1898), Wisconsin state assemblyman
- Joseph S. Pulver (born 1955), novelist, poet, editor, born in Schenectady
- Pat Riley (born 1945), NBA player, executive and Hall of Fame coach, was born in Rome, NY, lived in Schenectady
- Don Rittner, author and historian, lived in Schenectady
- Ron Rivest (born 1947), cryptographer, co-inventor of RSA cryptography
- Lewis K. Rockefeller (1875–1948), U.S. representative, born in Schenectady
- Al Romano (born 1954), football player
- Margaret Rotundo (born 1949), Maine legislator
- Mickey Rourke (born 1952), Academy Award-nominated actor, born in Schenectady
- R. Tom Sawyer (1901–1986), engineer, writer and inventor of the first successful gas turbine locomotive, born in Schenectady
- John Sayles (born 1950), film director and Academy Award-nominated screenwriter, born and raised in Schenectady
- Vincent J. Schaefer (1906–1993), chemist, meteorologist
- Amalie Schoppe (1791–1858), German writer
- Michael H. Schill (born 1958), president of the University of Oregon
- Ben Schwartz (born 1981), actor, (Jean-Ralphio Saperstein on Parks and Recreation), graduated from Union College in 2003
- William H. Seward (1801–1872), Abolitionist Republican Governor of New York, U.S. Senator, U.S. Secretary of State during and after the Civil War
- Nehemiah Shumway (1761–1843), teacher and musical composer, lived in Schenectady
- Kenneth Schermerhorn (1929–2005), conductor of Nashville Symphony, born in Schenectady
- Simon J. Schermerhorn (1827–1901), U.S. Representative
- Gerald Stano (1951–1998), serial killer
- Charles Proteus Steinmetz (1865–1923), mathematician, electrical engineer, developer of alternating current
- Brian U. Stratton (born 1957), mayor, director of the New York State Canal Corporation
- Samuel S. Stratton (1916–1990), mayor, U.S. representative, father of Brian Stratton
- Frank Taberski (1889-1941), billiards champion; born in Schenectady
- Lynne Talley (born 1954), oceanographer, born in Schenectady
- Marybeth Tinning (born 1942), serial killer
- John Tudor (born 1954), MLB pitcher
- Deborah Van Valkenburgh (born 1952), actress (The Warriors), was born in Schenectady
- Charles H. Veeder (1796–1871), Schenectady native, founder of Minden, Louisiana
- Kurt Vonnegut (1922–2007), author, lived in Schenectady while working for GE in the early 1950s
- Lee Wallard (1910–1963), race car driver
- George H. Wells (1833–1905), Confederate officer, attorney and member of the Louisiana State Senate
- Casper Wells (born 1984), MLB outfielder
- George Westinghouse (1846–1914), engineer and inventor, grew up in Schenectady
- Andrew Yang (born 1975), entrepreneur and 2020 Democratic presidential candidate
- Charles Yates (1808–1870), Union Army brigadier general during the American Civil War; nephew of Joseph Christopher Yates
- Joseph Christopher Yates (1768–1837), governor of New York
- Clifton Young (1917–1951), actor
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Yoga retreat in Greece
£1500 excluding flights
Description of Yoga retreat in Greece
This trip can be tailor made throughout the year to suit your requirements
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PlanetWelcome to our Greek Garden: our mission is to sustainably maintain a glorious mountain retreat where the bounty of nature abides. We grow and harvest Koroneiki olives which produce extra virgin olive oil, Kalamon eating olives, oranges, lemons, limes, pomegranates and a stunning variety of aromatic, therapeutic and medicinal herbs to soothe the body and soul. The fertile earth is organically farmed and nurtured through sun and rain to produce intensely aromatic and therapeutic herbs and incredibly flavoursome fruits that everyone can enjoy.
Our goal is to provide an excellent range of seasonal produce, creating wholesome organic foods and healing therapeutic gifts from our smallholding and to share them with customers who care about the quality of their food and wish to replenish both body and soul.
Energy efficiency: We heat our properties by using wood-burning stoves to burn our own wood which has been naturally pruned each year from our olive trees. We heat our water with solar panels.
Recycling: We provide separate recycling bins for our guests at Lavender Lodge and we dispose of these appropriately, recycling as much paper, plastic cardboard and glass as we can.
Water use and conservation: We encourage all guests to save water through the use of appropriate signage. We use waterbutts and onsite underground reservoirs around the property to conserve natural rain-water for irrigation of the land and for any other use.
Local projects with environmental benefits: We run trips in conjunction with Archelon (Turtle Conservation) where travelers learn about such issues as the environmental threat to turtles. We organise trips to visit the local Watermill where visitors learn about the local production of bread, herbs, citrus products and aromatherapy products .
Gardening: We grow plants, herbs and flowers organically to attract pollinators and use our plants to create herbal healing remedies and aromatherapy products.
The packages we offer entirely support and uphold the preservation of ancient monuments and archaeology, culture and cultural practice in our local area of the Peloponnese.
Social and Political: Before each trip all guests are given information covering the history (both social and political) of the place to be visited in the form of a talk followed by a guided tour and they are provided with access to up to date guide book material.
Minimising negative impact: We run every trip from a standpoint of environmental conservation, highlighting issues of pollution, litter or any action contrary to the preservation of the ancient artifacts or cultural importance attached to the sites which we visit.
We are local guides,: Bill is an Oxford Classics graduate with an in-depth knowledge of Greek archaelogical sites and 40 years experience in teaching and taking trips to Greece. Our retreat has a certificate in botanical herbal remedies and aromatherapy massage with 25 years teaching experience in Ancient Greek Theatre and Drama
PeopleWe run a mountainside olive-grove smallholding sustainably in the southern Peloponnese in Greece, selling our produce locally and online. Our goal is to provide an excellent range of seasonal produce, wholesome organic extra virgin olive oil and fresh garden foods, citrus products and healing herbal therapies all grown on our single estate. We aim to share our experiences of this beautiful area of the Peloponnese with visitors who care about the quality of their food and the preservation of the natural environment.
Lavender Lodge is intended to be a tranquil retreat for guests to enjoy local foods, explore the bountiful wildlife and nature in our gardens and grove and to receive therapeutic wellness treatments such as massages and aromatherapy days as well as participating in cultural archaeological visits and appreciating nature in areas of outstanding beauty such as waterfalls and island coves.
Social projects: We run educational guided cultural trips to Olympia (site and museum), the museum of Hora, Nestorís Palace, Pylos Castle and harbour, Epidauros ( ancient amphitheatre), Messene and Mycenae with the intention of patronising relevant social and cultural tourist establishments.
Economic responsibility is important to us - we aim to work in accordance with local practices, customs and expectations regarding olive farming and sustainable living. We employ local olive pickers and farm maintenance workers when necessary and use the local press for our harvests.
We also support our local business by buying exclusively from them for all of our farming requirements. While we grow most of our own food, we obtain the rest from local suppliers.
We have made substantial donations to Archelon, the Sea Turtle protection society of Greece which operates along Kyparissia bay and we include a conservation visit in our itinerary of activities when appropriate. We employ local professional skippers for our boat trips and support all local tourist conservationist enterprises.
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Providing Security in VPN by using Tunneling and Firewall
Sonam Wadhwa1, Kunwar Pal2
1Sonam Wadhwa, She Achieved her B. Tech Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from G.B.K.I.E.T, Malout, Punjab, India.
2Kunwar Pal, He Achieved her B. Tech Degree in Computer Science and Engineering from KNIT, Sultanpur, India.
Manuscript received on January 26, 2013. | Revised Manuscript received on February 12, 2013. | Manuscript published on February 28, 2013. | PP: 381-382 | Volume-2 Issue-3, February 2013. | Retrieval Number: C1145022313/2013©BEIESP
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Abstract: The use of security increased consistently day by day. Huge amount of network requires large amount of security. For maintain things consistent and proper functioning, people require secure way to share information over the network. To accomplish this goal Virtual Private Network is one of the popular techniques. It constructs logical link by using existing public infrastructure. Internet is one of the public networks and VPN utilize the internet to connect the users. IPSec Protocol is a protocol suite based on VPN to protect the communication. For uninterrupted VPN services, it is necessary to provide some mechanism by the combination of tunneling and firewall. This paper proposes a new kind of configuration for security to the public network.
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Год издания: 2005
Book DescriptionThe true story of an African-American man who found, through faith and the self-assurance it provided, the strength to break free of the cycle of poverty and despair that had once characterized his life. John W. Fountain grew up on some of the meanest streets in Chicago, where drugs, crime, decay, and broken homes consigned so many black children to a life of despair and self-destruction. A father at seventeen, a college dropout at nineteen, a welfare case soon after, Fountain was on the verge of giving up all hope. One thing saved him--his faith, his own true vine. True Vine is John Fountain's remarkable story--of his childhood in a neighborhood heading south; of his strong-willed grandparents, who founded a church (called True Vine) that sought to bring the word of God to their neighbors; of his mother, herself a teenage parent, whose truncated dreams help nurture bigger dreams in him; of his friends and cousins, whose youthful exuberance was... | <urn:uuid:0d027178-d183-4933-ad03-cfff0562ba0a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.libring.ru/books/148221 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00487-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899181 | 330 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Here’s What You Need to Remember: Eligible parents can net as much as $3,600 per year for a child under the age of six and up to $3,000 for children between ages six and seventeen—meaning that a $250 or a $300 direct cash payment for each child will head into bank accounts on a monthly basis.
The Internal Revenue Service has launched two new online tools that are specifically designed to help families manage and monitor the recurring monthly payments from the expanded child tax credits that were approved under President Joe Biden’s American Rescue Plan.
Keep in mind that these two new tools are separate from the Non-filer Sign-up Tool that was revealed last week, which enables individuals who normally don’t file tax returns to receive the credits.
As for the two new tools, the first one—called the Child Tax Credit Eligibility Assistant—will allow parents to answer a series of questions to determine whether they qualify for the credits. The other tool—known as the Child Tax Credit Update Portal—will allow “families to verify their eligibility for the payments and if they choose to, unenroll, or opt-out from receiving the monthly payments so they can receive a lump sum when they file their tax return next year,” the IRS release states.
“The Update Portal is a key piece among the three new tools now available on IRS.gov to help families understand, register for and monitor these payments. We will be working across the nation with partner groups to share information and help eligible people receive the advance payments,” he added.
The IRS added that more features will be included in the Update Portal in an effort to further expedite the processing of the credits.
“Coming soon, families will be able to use the Child Tax Credit Update Portal to check the status of their payments. In late June, people will be able to update their bank account information for payments starting in August. In early August, a feature is planned that will allow people to update their mailing address,” the agency writes.
“Then, in future updates planned for this summer and fall, they will be able to use this tool for things like updating family status and changes in income,” it continues.
Starting on July 15, nearly forty million American families, including nearly 90 percent of all children in the country, will be on the receiving end of monthly checks that will be sent out till the end of 2021.
Eligible parents can net as much as $3,600 per year for a child under the age of six and up to $3,000 for children between ages six and seventeen—meaning that a $250 or a $300 direct cash payment for each child will head into bank accounts on a monthly basis.
In addition, eighteen-year-old dependents and full-time college students who are under twenty-four can give their parents a one-time $500 payment.
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In response to a reporter's question at a press briefing late last week, President Bush took umbrage at the suggestions that his administration's deeds don't match his words with respect to accountability.
The reporter specifically identified three examples of non-accountability: (1) the failure of the Maliki government in Iraq to meet benchmarks of political progress; (2) Scooter Libby's escape from any substantial penalty for committing perjury; and (3) the continuation of Alberto Gonzales in office. Bush responded by (1) ignoring the question about Iraq; (2) asserting that Libby has been held accountable because he was convicted; (3) and claiming that Gonzales shouldn't be held accountable because he didn't do anything wrong.
Those answers are sufficiently ludicrous that I'll let them speak for themselves. Here I'll just give a film recommendation for those interested in being reminded of this Administration's commitment to accountability.
Charles Ferguson's "No End in Sight" tells the story of the descent into chaos in Iraq, with devastating commentary from administration insiders. The principal villain is Donald Rumsfeld, whose breathtaking arrogance led to the critical mistakes that, according to Ferguson, created the insurgency: Insufficient troop levels to secure the country after the overthrow of Saddam; deliberate disdain for occupation plans drawn up by the State Department and other experts; and the disastrous decision to disband the Iraqi armies, thus loosing thousands of angry, armed men on the population when those very same men could have helped secure the country. Rumsfeld's key partners, besides VP Cheney, were Paul Wolfowitz and Coalition Provisional Authority head L. Paul Bremer III. Wolfowitz was not only a key figure in dreaming up the war, but is shown testifying in favor of the lower troop numbers on the ground that surely it can't take more troops to secure a country that lacks an army than it takes to overthrow that army---a point that was apparently known to be false by anybody with any experience at all. Bremer, who himself was critical of the low troop numbers, at least after he left Iraq, is shown making decisions without consulting with any of the people with the knowledge to help. Thus, Bremer participated in the decision to disband the Iraqi army and to de-Baathify Iraq by purging professionals who had only joined the party to keep their job.
Bremer and Wolfowitz were held accountable by receiving the Presidential Medal of Freedom. Rumsfeld hasn't been awarded a medal yet, but President Bush has never to my knowledge even criticized a single decision Rumsfeld made before his resignation last year.
It's also worth noting that "No End in Sight" is not an anti-war film as such. Its point is not that the U.S. should not have invaded Iraq in the first place but that having decided to do so, the Bush administration utterly bungled the job. It's possible that the invasion was doomed from the start, but that is not the perspective of the film or the people who appear in it.
Nor does the film even have a clear-cut policy prescription for the present. It takes no position on whether the "surge," soft partition, immediate withdrawal, or any other strategy is the least bad of the remaining bad options. What many viewers will infer, however, is that people who have done such a terrible job so far, and who have not remotely owned up to it and attempted to make amends, lack all credibility. | <urn:uuid:b3a4c28e-db41-4d03-afe0-b1d9a7e88647> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.dorfonlaw.org/2007/08/new-era-of-accountability.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00154-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975782 | 703 | 1.609375 | 2 |
Since arriving at the Great Central Railway less than a month ago, the team restoring Great Western Railway 4079 ‘Castle’ Class locomotive No.7027 Thornbury Castle have been busy collecting and producing parts for the steam locomotive.
Recently purchased items include the boiler water gauge frame pedestal and locomotive brake valve.
Although cast in preservation, the locomotive brake value was cast using the original Swindon Works pattern. This was used to cast many locomotive brake valves before this and most likely 7027’s original one.
With thanks to a kind donation, locomotive 7027 Thornbury Castle now has one of the whistles needed.
A team member has been busy cleaning and painting the tender axlebox tops ready for use.
As can be seen from the photo, there are many parts to look through, to assess which can be used, which can’t and which parts are missing and need sourcing.
For more information, please visit the 7027 Thornbury Castle Facebook page.
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Prescription ADHD drugs like Adderall, Ritalin, and Vyvanse are sought-after drugs for overscheduled and overworked college students – who have not been diagnosed with ADHD.
Sean McCabe, research associate professor at the University of Michigan Substance Abuse Research Center says, “Our biggest concern is the increase we have observed in this behavior over the past decade.”
According to a National Survey on Drug Use and Health report released in 2009, full-time college students were twice as likely to have used Adderall non-medically as part-time students.
“When we look at upperclassmen, the number really begins to jump. The more time you stay on campus, the more likely you are to use,” says Alan DeSantis, professor of communications at the University of Kentucky, who has led research on stimulant use in college.
The most common reason students use it is to concentrate while studying, with more than 90% of users doing it for this purpose.
“It helps me stay focused and be more efficient, which is very helpful with the chaos of college,” says one student who takes Adderall, who depending on her workload takes it once a month to a few times a week.
McCabe says students may not know the stimulant’s contraindications (situations in which a drug might be harmful) or recommended precautions or how it may interact with other drugs.
Short-term adverse consequences can include restlessness, headaches, sleep difficulties, irritability, and depressed feelings. There can be a long term risk of psychological and physical dependence for routine users that may find they feel they can’t function without it.
While most students obtain the drug from friends with prescriptions, many feel the drug seems less dangerous and illegal than buying drugs off the street. “The fact that it’s illegal really doesn’t cross my mind. It’s not something that I get nervous about because it’s so widespread and simple,” says one student.
Researchers see the biggest barrier to changing attitudes is the effectiveness of the stimulants, where the ends justify the means. After taking Adderall, one university student says, “I just feel very alive and awake and ready for challenges that come my way. I’m on page 15 (of my paper) in just a few hours…. and I’m very confident in it.” cnn.com 4/17/14 | <urn:uuid:acb1ebea-d41b-4f21-954d-fd0858ea75dd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chicagoheadacheclinic.com/the-rise-of-study-drugs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.955429 | 521 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Confidence is one of the most important factors in your life, especially at work. Being confident means you can realize the valuable and the importance of yourself. It also means you dare to express your opinion or do something. In the others hands, believing in yourself also plays an important role of confidence. Besides, positive thinking, practicing, getting knowledge and communication to others are one of the most ways on how to be confident at work.
How To Be Confident At Work – Best Tips To Follow At The Workplace:
The confident comes from the feeling of satisfied, the acceptance of your body and yourself thinking about the ability and skills when doing something. Lacking of confident can lead to many problems such as: scared of many new things, reviewing, unsatisfied with the work you do, ineffective time management, lacking knowledge. Besides, one of the best ways to help you on how to be confident at work is a positive thinking and friendly attitude to the colleagues. Being confident does not only make you love yourself and your work but also helps you to shine and stand out from the crowded. Confidence does not mean conceit, egotism.
In the article today, I would like to reveal some of the most effective tips that help people deal with the low self-esteem issue as well as to build up self-confidence at the workplace without spending too much time and efforts or meeting any difficulty. Here are 6 tips on how to be confident at work that my readers should know:
This is the very first tip to increase working confidence that I want to reveal in this entire article and my readers should learn for good!
Planning is one of the most important steps on how to be confident at work that you may read this writing. Firstly, to train your confidence, you need to define the ways of work development, find out your weakness and set your goals. A working chart with your weakness and goals from high to low should be built. After establishing itself as a range of topics, you practice as a presentation to familiarize it smoothly. Having a positive attitude also helps you minimize the unnecessary pressure. Your mind always needs to relax and comfortable to focus on resolving problems. You may remember that the biggest competitor is yourself. So you must overcome yourself to be confident at work. Moreover, setting your goals also help you more. However, you should not choose unrealistic targets. Lacking confidence may start from the feeling of fail. So you should not choose or accept for yourself with impossible goals. You need to know your possibilities and limitation and divide the goal into small period to complete it easier.
The second tip on how to be confident at work is removing anxiety. The confident will be increased after you reject the scared from your thinking. Because of society development, people are gradually scared of many things around them. It’s not useful for your life because it obstructs your work. For examples, when being a child, you scared of riding a bike because you think of being felt. However, after overcoming this scared, you feel that it’s easy to ride your bike to school. The same at work, a lot of anxiety is building in your mind. However, after passing this anxiety, your confidence will increase. Turning fear into action is also one of the best ways to solve this problem. You often show a panic when being dropped into new situations. You shouldn’t waste all the energy and your thoughts to conceal the fear. In contrast, let’s turn it into action: just talk and communicate with others.
Not only for developing a comfortable life, removing anxiety also helps you reduce unconfident at work.
You should remember that confidence comes from knowing how to accept and pleasure yourself. You shouldn’t lay the blame at somebody’s or something else because nothing is perfect. Instead of thinking to the failure, you may concentrate on working and learning new things each day. After doing these things, the positive thinking is building in your brain. You always think of what you have done with good results and get rid of negative factors out of your mid. For instant, after reading book about 300 pages, you can proud of it. You must remember that suspicion never exists in your head. Your colleagues can have problems in their mind when they do not answer your questions. You may not think of it because your duties are working and feeling comfortable as much as possible. Besides, you do not fear of criticism. The criticism sometimes will make you discouraged and worried because you think of the mistakes you made. However, some scientists said that if you think in that way, you will never improve. Instead of negative thinking, you should see it as an opportunity for you to recognize the reality and improve your experience. You may try to forget the thoughts of other people about you and concentrate on working. After that, you will realize that paying attention to others people’s thoughts is wasting time and energy. If negative thinking about yourself appears, replace them with positive thoughts. For example, instead of saying, “I can’t do that”, you should think “I can do anything if it appears in my mind.”
Appearance is the important element to show that you are confident or not because no one can deny the power of costumes and dress. You can improve about shape, type of dressing, manner of walking, body language. Therefore, the factors that make up your confidence are clothing and accessories. Fashion style is very essential for your life because you are not comfortable and confident without dressing the most suitable and fashion clothes. If you are well-off in term of finance, you should buy many branded clothes. Choosing colors also help you create accents with others. If you are familiar with the neutral colors, you should try to refresh yourself with more warm colors. You feel that you are the most beautiful, the most prominent when wearing the costume, that is enough. This is one of the significant tips that men and women should read and learn on how to be confident at work.
Besides these tips I released above, learning confident people is the other way on how to be confident at work. You should pay attention to the way of the confident people walking, talking, behaving… You should note to a notebook and then practice it again. Some researchers said that it takes 3 weeks to build a new habit and about 3 months to maintain your routine. You may reinforce what you have learned to suit with yourself. In the first time, you may see a little strange and hardly to practice. However, when time is over, you will gradually change and behave in this ways. This way can help you more confident, especially at work.
This is the last thing for you to remember if you want to increase your working confidence fast.
By improving knowledge and currently skills to learn new things, you will improve productivity significantly and boost the confidence of yourself. In particular, the period of integration and development, you should learn and update something new daily, especially in the field of your work. Once you have the skills required, you will feel more confident. This is the last but not least important tip that I hope all of reader can learn and practice in this writing to be more confident at work.
Training confidence is one of the most important tips to success in work and life. When dating a girl, presenting a project, looking for a job … it should be based on confidence and yourself and your abilities.
Another thing that people should do after reading my article today and learning about 6 best tips on how to be confident at work is to read another writing which also aims to help you increase your confidence, the Top 45 Confidence Building Activities For Youth And Adults article. This is actually the great article that is helpful for people especially for youth and adults.
The 6 tips today are the best and most effective tips on how to be confident at work that readers visiting VKool.com and other people who are concerning about this problem can learn and practice right away without meeting any difficulty.
After reading the writing how to be confident at work, you should spend time visiting our pages to know more about tips and tricks for solving problems in many fields of life. I hope that you will get the most useful knowledge for you and your work after reading this article. If you have any questions, please leave your feedbacks and comments below and I promise to reply as soon as possible.
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By Roy Mark
August 9, 2005
Remember the dreaded “walled gardens,” where closed-system broadband providers would decide what content would be delivered over their high-speed pipes? The end of the Internet as we know it?
The Federal Communications Commission (FCC) certainly does. After voting Friday to allow phone companies to close their DSL lines, the agency also issued a new policy statement supporting open networks.
After ruling in 2002 that cable companies could close their lines to competing broadband providers, then FCC Chairman Michael Powell and his fellow commissioners were roundly condemned by many for providing the ground work for walled gardens of content.
The U.S. Supreme Court upheld the FCC decision. New Chairman Kevin Martin almost immediately moved to give the incumbent Bells’ high-speed networks the same status as cable modem broadband, but not before declaring its fealty to the open and interconnected nature of the Internet.
In the statement, the FCC declared that consumers are entitled to access the lawful Internet content of their choice, run applications and services of their choice and plug in and run legal devices of their choice. The FCC also said consumers have a right to competition among network providers, application and service providers and content providers.
“Consumers have demanded this ability, and cable and telephone companies have delivered it,” Martin said at the Friday open meeting of the FCC. “In a competitive marketplace, providers must do so. They provide a service consumers want or they do not succeed.”
There’s only one problem with the FCC’s lofty statement of principle: it has absolutely no force of law.
“Policy statements do not establish rules nor are they enforceable documents,” Martin said. But he added, “Today’s statement does reflect core beliefs that each member [of the FCC] holds regarding how broadband Internet access should function.”
Monday, U.S. Rep. Rick Boucher (D-Va.), a longtime player in congressional Internet policy circles, praised the FCC’s statement but pointed out the inherent weakness of its position.
“The absence of a binding statute codifying the principles of Net Neutrality leaves a significant gap in our regulatory structure which will undoubtedly be exploited again by companies seeking to gain an inappropriate competitive advantage,” Boucher said in a statement.
The 12-term congressman called for lawmakers to turn the FCC statement of principles into law since no binding rule or law currently exists to prohibit network operators from engaging in anti-competitive practices in the operation of their platforms.
“The next step must be taken by the Congress in codifying the Net neutrality principles and bestowing on the FCC the clear authority to enforce the principles,” he said.
Evidence of anti-competitive behavior is thin so far, but in March the FCC fined a small North Carolina telecom carrier for blocking Voice over IP (define) calls delivered by competitors to the telecom’s own VoIP service.
Madison River Communications of Mebane, N.C., which owns and operates four rural telephone companies in Georgia, Alabama, North Carolina and Illinois, admitted no guilt but agreed to pay a $15,000 fine and promised to drop the practice.
“This is the single-largest problem VoIP will face. It’s critical not only to our survival but for all next-generation IP services,” Jason Talley, CEO of VoIP provider Nuvio, told internetnews.com at the time. “Port blocking is easy to point out, but the other stuff [degrading the VoIP signal] is harder to prove.”
Talley added, “Here’s what cable is afraid of: they sell someone a broadband connection and then they get their video service from, say, SBC.”
Boucher said Monday the principles of Net neutrality should be incorporated into any telecom reform by lawmakers.
“As the House and Senate prepare to reexamine our nation’s telecommunications laws, we have an opportunity to use a light regulatory touch and insert into the statutory law the very common sense principles of Net neutrality,” Boucher said. | <urn:uuid:d5876cf1-dedc-4228-949f-2dbdf1d78dfc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wi-fiplanet.com/fcc-net-neutrality-for-all/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.947197 | 863 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Podcasting is a new form of media distribution that’s done a good job of reviving old forms of media, particularly old radio shows. In the past, we’ve pointed you to several old radio broadcasts, including Orson Welles’ famous 1938 radio drama that led many Americans to hunker down in basements, desperately hoping to avoid an unfolding martian invasion. Today, we’re highlighting a vintage radio collection (iTunes – Feed – Web Site) that features dramatizations of mysteries written by Agatha Christie, the ‘Queen of Crime.’ Here, at your leisure, you can listen to the adventures of Hercule Poirot, the fictional Belgian detective who appeared throughout much of her writing. To be precise, he figured into 33 of her novels, and 54 of her short stories. Right now, you can access 27 individual recordings of Christie’s work, and there’s seemingly more to come.
In the meantime, if you’re looking for more old time media, I’d encourage you to visit this producer’s larger collection of podcasts on iTunes. Among other things, you’ll find revived productions of Abbott & Costello, Jack Benny, Flash Gordon and more. | <urn:uuid:cb93f721-e152-484c-a5bd-9ddc591caf4d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.openculture.com/2007/12/agatha_christie_radio_mysteries.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00476.warc.gz | en | 0.923188 | 261 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Kansas Officials Learn About Crossing and Pedestrian Safety Onboard Special Train
On Board The Operation Lifesaver Train, March 23, 2009 A special passenger train is making stops this week in several Kansas communities over Union Pacific Railroad lines to promote highway-railroad crossing and pedestrian safety through a program called Operation Lifesaver.
"Operation Lifesaver" is the nationwide, non-profit public safety education and outreach program designed to eliminate collisions, deaths and injuries where streets and roads cross railroad tracks at grade and on railroad rights-of-way.
Hundreds of community leaders, law enforcement officers and education officials are learning about highway-railroad grade crossing safety and the consequences of trespassing on railroad property.
"This special train is just one way we can work to educate and call attention to highway-railroad grade crossing and pedestrian safety. We always look for unique ways to deliver our safety message to the general public and civic leaders," said John Simpson, Union Pacific manager – public safety and the president of Kansas Operation Lifesaver.
During the train's tour through Kansas March 23 – 27 stops are being made in: Liberal, Pratt, Hutchinson, Herington, Topeka, Lawrence, Bonner Springs, Atchison, Sabetha and Seneca.
Guests are getting a rare opportunity to see what train crew members see as they travel down the track. Video cameras are mounted in the locomotive cabs broadcasting to television monitors in the passenger cars allowing the guests to observe what the train crew sees.
While civic and education leaders were learning about highway-railroad grade crossing and pedestrian safety, law enforcement officers reviewed "Officer on the Train" activities.
"Officer on the Train," one part of the Operation Lifesaver program, provides police officers the opportunity to ride on trains and observe motorist behavior at highway/railroad grade crossings. If a motorist violates the grade crossing traffic laws, the police officer on the train radios to an officer near the crossing, who can issue the motorist a citation.
About Union Pacific
Union Pacific Corporation owns one of America's leading transportation companies. Its principal operating company, Union Pacific Railroad, links 23 states in the western two-thirds of the country. Union Pacific serves many of the fastest-growing U.S. population centers and provides Americans with a fuel-efficient, environmentally responsible and safe mode of freight transportation. Union Pacific's diversified business mix includes Agricultural Products, Automotive, Chemicals, Energy, Industrial Products and Intermodal. The railroad emphasizes excellent customer service and offers competitive routes from all major West Coast and Gulf Coast ports to eastern gateways. Union Pacific connects with Canada's rail systems and is the only railroad serving all six major gateways to Mexico, making it North America's premier rail franchise.For further information, contact Mark Davis at (402) 544-5459.
The statements and information contained in the news releases provided by Union Pacific speak only as of the date issued. Such information by its nature may become outdated, and investors should not assume that the statements and information contained in Union Pacific's news releases remain current after the date issued. Union Pacific makes no commitment, and disclaims any duty, to update any of this information. | <urn:uuid:8ac1be49-ea4f-48b1-88a6-9b71e0f576fb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.uprr.com/newsinfo/releases/community/2009/0323_kanoli.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00127-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943894 | 659 | 1.976563 | 2 |
LONDON - Africa's contribution to the global body of scientific research is very small and does little to benefit its own populations, according to a report from Thomson Reuters relea0sed yesterday.
Like India and China, Africa suffers from a "haemorrhage of talent", the report said, with many of its best brains leaving to study abroad and failing to return.
"The African diaspora provides powerful intellectual input to the research achievements of other countries, but returns less benefit to the countries of birth," Jonathan Adams, director of research evaluation at Thomson Reuters, said in a statement as the report was published.
Adams and colleagues, who use a Thomson Reuters database to track scientific publications, found that three nations dominate Africa's research output - with South Africa leading by a long way, ahead of Egypt in second place and then Nigeria.
"Africa's overall volume of activity remains small, much smaller than is desirable if the potential contribution of its researchers is to be realised for the benefit of its populations," said Adams.
The report found that part of the problem was down to a "chronic lack of investment in facilities for research and teaching" - a deficit the authors said must be remedied.
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Biodiversity is in crisis. The degradation and loss of nature and species’ extinction are immense and have serious impacts on our lives. This is no longer just a warning from environmentalists, but a stark warning from the scientists who report to the United Nations. No net loss of biodiversity is positioned by some as a solution to the biodiversity crisis.
No net loss relies on offsetting mechanisms- if a corporation, for example, destroys a specific ecosystem to dig a mine, build a dam or a road, it can offset or compensate for this destruction by protecting or restoring another ecosystem. According to this corporate logic, the losses in the destruction are negated by the protection or restoration of nature elsewhere, resulting in no net loss.
This is a form of greenwashing, allowing corporations to continue their economic activities which destroy biodiversity. What we need to do is stop biodiversity destruction in its tracks, not ‘compensate’ to allow it to continue.
The very principle of no net loss is erroneous, because it is impossible to quantitatively or qualitatively compare any two ecosystems, since each has its own unique qualities, not least its spiritual and cultural meaning. Attempts to quantify biodiversity and its functions in economic terms will not resolve the environmental crisis, they only reveal the levels to which the those in power will go to defend business and profits over peoples and the environment. No net loss artificially divides people from nature and perpetuates land grabbing and other destructive forces.
This publication analyses the workings and impacts of the no net loss, for use in national and international advocacy work.
To truly stop the loss, erosion and extinction of biodiversity we need real solutions. No net loss cannot be part of the Global Framework for Biodiversity if it is to pave the way for the system change we so desperately need. | <urn:uuid:e54127d2-10ab-4cd9-949c-652c0e719e1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foei.org/publication/no-net-loss-of-biodiversity-a-false-solution-and-more-destruction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.926492 | 365 | 3.34375 | 3 |
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