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November 30th, 2016
On the occasion of UAE Martyr's Day, on behalf of the entire Empower team, we ask God to have mercy on our martyrs’ souls.
Sacrifices of the heroes from the armed forces raise the importance of national unity, as well as our pride and loyalty to the nation. On Martyr’s Day, we commemorate the sacrifices made by our soldiers, which is a matter of great pride to every UAE national.
Homelands are built by its men, forces and principles. Sacrifices of the heroes of the armed forces have wrote the history of our great country and we should be proud and pass this pride to our children and grandchildren and future generations of this beloved country that is so close to our hearts.
They wrote with their blood the honorable history of their homeland, and we stand on this glorious day to remember the sacrifices of our martyrs in the pages of history and gratitude for what they gave to the homeland.
We take this occasion to pay tributes to the martyrs and wishes to our wise leadership. We set our sights higher, as we carry out the tasks and responsibilities on the road to progress.
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Oestrogen has long been linked to the development of breast cancer, both through the stimulation of breast cell growth, which can lead to mutation, and through oestrogen metabolism, which can interfere with apoptosis and DNA repair.
Oestrogen receptors act as a go-between for oestrogen activity including the metastatic growth of breast cancer cells. They are also an important marker in therapy as readable levels of oestrogen receptor proteins are expressed in a large portion of human breast cells.
US researchers think that the oestrogen receptor may play a further signalling role in other oestrogen target tissues, including uterus and prostate tissues.
By investigating the oestrogen and anti-oestrogen signalling pathways mediate by this new receptor, they could explain why some breast cancers grow worse or resistant to anti-oestrogen therapy, specifically the drug tamoxifen, which blocks oestrogen signalled responses through ER-a66 in breast tissue.
Tamoxifen is an oral selective oestrogen receptor modulator, which is used in breast cancer treatment.
Tamoxifen was invented by AstraZeneca and is sold under the brand names Nolvadex, Istubal, and Valodex. It is also available as a generic drug in a number of countries.
The study demonstrated that the new receptor, hER-?36, unlike other oestrogen receptors, is situated on the cell plasma membrane that surrounds the cell cytoplasm.
The receptor stimulates cell growth by oestrogens and anti-oestrogens through activation of the MAPK/ERK signalling pathway. This is a pathway involved in cell differentiation and growth.
According to the study, this new finding could lead to conclusion that oestrogens and anti-estrogens can both stimulate cell proliferation through membrane-associated hER-?36.
"By identifying and cloning a novel form of the human oestrogen receptor, our studies suggest that hER-?36 may have a greater potential to signal estrogen stimulated membrane responses than hER-a66," said Thomas Deuel, a >Scripps Research scientist who participated in the study.
"The results of our experiments demonstrate that the presence of hER-?36 strikingly inhibits both oestrogen-dependent and oestrogen-independent transactivation functions-which result in protein production-mediated by ER-?66," added Deuel.
Previous research conducted by the team led to the identification of the human oestrogen receptor (hER), which is mediated by specific nuclear receptors including hER-?66.
However, question marks remain over the functional significance of cell plasma membrane-initiated oestrogen signalling in human breast cancer and in other oestrogen responsive tissues that still remain unanswered.
The scientists were surprised that anti-oestrogen treatments such as tamoxifen stimulate cell growth and that the anti-oestrogens appear to have a stronger and a more prolonged activation of the MAPK/ERK signalling pathway than the oestrogens tested.
The study therefore supports the conclusion that tamoxifen functions as both agonist and antagonist of oestrogen signalling and that the expression of hER-a36 may be involved in the development of tamoxifen-resistant human breast cancer.
This raises the possibility that oestrogen-activated ER-a36 signalling initiated in the cell plasma membrane may actually accelerate the course of tamoxifen-resistant human breast cancer.
"The apparent ability of hER-?36 to trigger membrane-initiated oestrogen and anti-oestrogen signalling that leads to cell growth makes it an important new member of the oestrogen signalling pathway," Deuel said.
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A LANDMARK council estate built when Tyneside’s slums were cleared could be in line for an £80m facelift.
Newcastle’s Byker estate, including the world famous Byker Wall, designed by Ralph Erskine, was built in the 1970s.
But major work is needed and city council chiefs have revealed plans to take on private-sector partners to do the job.
If the go-ahead is given, the estate will be transformed with improvements to homes and the environment, including measures to tackle problems such as community safety, along with more than 100 new houses.
Plans to remodel the local primary school would also be brought forward to fit in with the housing investment.
However, the scheme is conditional on Government approval and Newcastle will be competing with authorities across the country for cash in the latest round of private-finance housing cash allocations.
The Byker estate, with 1,850 houses, flats and maisonettes, is home to 4,500 people.
The estate is in a deprived area and problems were identified in the last residents’ survey including anti-social behaviour.
Improvements are being carried out under the Government’s decent homes programme, but officials say much more needs to be done and the only way of raising the money is through a Private Finance Initiative (PFI).
This would involve taking on a private-sector partner who would borrow money which the council would then pay back, using mainly Government funds.
The aim is to start work in 2013 and the job would take five years to complete. The private partner would then be responsible for repairs and maintenance until 2043.
The council says entering into a PFI does not mean the estate would be privatised. The homes would continue to be owned by the council and managed by Your Homes Newcastle.
Members of the council’s Liberal Democrat executive have agreed to seek Government backing.
Executive director of environment and regeneration David Slater said: “Byker is regarded as one of the most important and influential social housing schemes of the period, both in the UK and internationally.
“The cost of refurbishment and re-modelling far exceeds the funding available under the Government’s Decent Homes programme. To uplift and bring the estate back to its original condition and transform it to 21st Century living would require significant additional investment. PFI is the only option available for the large-scale investment required.’’
Labour councillors representing Byker have concerns but say they want to hear what residents think.
Coun Nick Kemp, chairman of the Byker ward committee, said: “The officers have identified a PFI as a route to achieve the modernisation of the Byker estate.
“The Byker councillors remain potentially concerned about the PFI process and are adamant that full consultation takes place, with residents explaining what the options are and the implications. A public meeting will be held in November and councillors will support residents.’’
The present scheme to achieve the Government standards will be complete in 2011 but Mr Slater says much more is needed and the PFI proposals include windows and doors, roofs, wall ties, balconies, timber cladding and asbestos removal.
Environmental plans include improvements to public spaces, children’s play areas and community safety measures, more private space for residents, better access and parking and the removal of overgrown trees and shrubs.
Plans also include restoring the derelict Bolam Coyne building for housing, renovating community facilities at Raby Cross with workshops converted to housing and building 23 homes for people with learning disabilities in a village-style setting.
A new estate of 118 houses is proposed at South Byker, with 30 “affordable’’ and the rest for sale at market prices.
Mr Slater says if the bid is successful, the project will be part of a wider regeneration plan covering Old Byker and the remodelling of Byker Primary School. The PFI project itself would provide jobs and training.
The heating system, which also needs investment, will be excluded from the PFI contract, with heat and hot water supplied separately, and YHN is drawing up a business case.
Around 170 homes on the estate have been sold and owners will be offered the chance to buy the same package of work as tenants.
Knock it down
RESIDENTS have welcomed the plans and agreed the money should be aimed at creating more facilities for children and teenagers, improving security and structurally upgrading the Byker Wall.
Eddie Hawkins, 65, has lived in Raby Gate, within the Wall, for 25 years and believes the money should be put towards pulling the whole thing down and rebuilding it.
He said: “It would be great if we got the £80m, the estate really needs it. When they built the Wall it was only supposed to stay for 25 years – so it’s well past its sell-by date.
“I think the money should be put towards knocking down the whole thing and rebuilding it.
“If that’s not possible, the windows, kitchens and bathrooms in just about all the flats need replacing – they haven’t been touched since the Wall was built.”
Neighbour Roberta Paterson, who has lived in Raby Gate for 13 years, agreed and said the money should also be used to put security cameras back in the building.
The cleaner and carer said: “We need the security cameras that got taken down a few years ago. Although there isn’t as big of a problem with security as there was in the past, they still need to be there.
“Other than that, the roofs are disgusting and seriously need replacing. I have had problems with rain coming in through my ceiling when it rains.
“I’m happy living here, but there are definitely a lot of structural improvements that need to be made. .”
The landlady of the Stag’s Head pub, Margaret Hoggins, 55, said security and creating more facilities for the young should be the priorities in any cash injection.
She said: “First off, they need more facilities for youngsters. All the young people around here have is the swimming pool and that just isn’t enough.
“They need money to be put in youth clubs or anything that will keep kids and teenagers occupied.
“They definitely need more children’s playgrounds and spaces for children.
“The second most important area where that money is needed is security, like putting more police out on the estates. Most people are frightened to walk around Byker now and it never used to be like that.”
Fraser Ramsey, 52, of Long Hedlam, added: “It’s the Byker Wall which needs the most money structurally. It needs to be pulled down and rebuilt.” | <urn:uuid:745389af-5fee-4c20-939a-bf85fe7a36d4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.chroniclelive.co.uk/news/north-east-news/byker-estate-line-80m-revamp-1476594 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00088-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965236 | 1,443 | 1.625 | 2 |
Saving money is like brushing your teeth
I guess people who are reading a blog about retirement are probably a special subset of society, but it seems you are doing much better than most people at saving.
The results of the poll (on Monday afternoon) are as follows:
Saving is the foundation of investing. If you don't have any money to invest, it doesn't matter how brilliantly you do it, so these results are very encouraging.
If you are not currently saving, it probably seems very difficult. We only started saving seriously this year, but it has already become second nature. It's kind of like brushing your teeth. At first you have to make kids do it, but after a while it becomes a habit and not doing it seems weird.
Here are my top hints for increasing your saving rate:
- Take the money out as soon as you get paid
Automating this process is best, but I just log into my current account on payday and transfer the amount I want to save to another account. If you wait until the end of the month the money probably won't be there.
- Start small
Start with a really easy amount (say 5000 yen or so) and gradually increase it once you get into the habit of saving. Seeing the balance on your saving account increase is a great feeling and will motivate you to keep going.
- Figure out what matters to you
I used to spend more than I made. I'd buy all sorts of gadgets and toys, often throwing them away just a year or two later. Eventually I realised that not only were they a waste of money, they weren't making me happy either. Conscious spending or frugality is not a matter of penny-pinching or going without, but rather deciding to use money effectively. Now, I spend very little on things, but more than most people on food and travel (which do make me happy).
- Factor in the opportunity cost
Whenever I think about buying something, I think about how much it is really going to cost me. One easy way to do this is just to add a 0 on the end of the price (saving and investing the money could end up paying you ten times as much) or dividing by 300 to give you the monthly income it could give you (this is based on a conservative 4% return).
- Save pay increases
If you get a pay raise or do extra part-time work, save the extra money. It won't affect your lifestyle so you won't really notice.
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I would like to learn more about creating and using the symbol molding tool to create detailed dentil moldings.
In this article, we will be creating a crown molding with a repeating pattern similar to that in the image above.
This article will cover the following:
Using molding profiles, CAD tools, and solids to create a 3D symbol molding object
Converting a Symbol Molding
Using a Symbol Molding in your plan
To create the 3D symbol molding object
First, let's copy the molding profile from the library and place it in the plan.
Browse the Moldings and Profiles library category and select a molding profile.
Right-click on the name of the profile and select Place Molding Profile from the menu that displays.
In this example, the crown molding CM-09 is used.
Next, click in the drawing area to place the selected molding profile at that location.
Select the molding profile polyline that we just placed and click the Convert Polyline edit button.
In the Convert Polyline dialog, select Polyline Solid and click the OK button to display the Polyline Solid Specificationdialog.
On the General panel, specify theThickness, which will be the length of the molding segment.
For this example, set the thickness to 3/4" then click theOK.
Note:To reduce the overall surface count in your mode, you can instead set the Thickness to 12 inches.
Select 3D> Create Perspective View> Perspective Full Overview to see the results so far.
Select File> Close View to return to the 2D floor plan view.
Before continuing, we will convert this new molding segment to a solid. This is important so that later we can do a solid subtraction in order to create the dentil portion of this molding.
To convert this segment into a solid
Using the Select Objects tool, click on the polyline solid, then select the Convert to Solid edit button.
Next, select Build> Primitive> Box from the menu, then click and drag to draw a rectangular solid as shown below.
The rectangular solid is shown above in the red rectangle, where we have changed its Line Style color to be able to easily distinguish it.
You will need to have the Grid Snaps turned off in order to create a primitive box of this size. To turn off Grid snaps, navigate to Edit> Snap Settings and remove the check mark next to Grid Snaps.
Click on the rectangular solid to select and click the Open Object edit button to display the 3D Box Specification dialog.
On the 3D Box panel:
Set the Width and Depth dimension to 3/8".
Set the Height to to 5/16"
Set the Z Position value to to -9/16".
Your object should now be similar to what you see below:
In the image above, the selected solid has a Red material applied to it so it can be more easily seen compared to the molding profile, which we converted into a solid.
Optional: After placing the rectangular solid in the correct location, you can use the Multiple Copy edit tool, then select the Multiple Copy Interval edit tool. Here, you can set the Primary Offset for General Objects to 3/4" to replicate additional copies down the taller molding created in the previous optional steps.
To subtract the rectangular solid from our molding solid
Select the larger molding segment, click the Solid Subtraction edit button, then click on the Box primitive we created above to subtract the area where they intersect.
You should now have something similar to this:
Apply a material to the new solid that we will use later for the molding. You can adjust the material size, texture etc. so that it looks the way you want it to.
You should now have something that looks like this:
To rotate this object so that it is oriented correctly for a crown molding.
Click on the front edge of the molding in any 3D view or cross section view. Note the triangular handle on the front edge of the object.
Using the triangular edit handle, rotate the object clockwise so that it looks like this.
Watch the task bar in a 3D view to see how far you have rotated the object. When it reaches -90°, you have rotated it the correct amount.
We are now ready to create the symbol.
To create the symbol
While still in your camera view, select Tools> Symbol> Convert to Symbol .
In the Convert to Symbol dialog, use the drop down menu to select the appropriate symbol category of Molding, then check both the Add to Library and Show Advanced Options and click OK.
In the Symbol Specification dialog, on the 3D panel, give the symbol a descriptive name.
For the purposes of our example, we will name this symbol Crown Dentil Molding
Once you have finished making modifications in this dialog, click OK to apply the changes.
You have now saved a copy of the molding in your Library Browser that can be used in future plans.
A symbol molding can be used anywhere a normal molding profile can be used.
To use a symbol molding
To use the molding in a room, simply go to the Molding panel of theRoom Specificationdialog and add it from the library.
Molding can also be applied to Base, Wall and Full Height Cabinets, also on the Moldings panel of their specification dialogs.
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- The act of transmitting or conveying certain forms of energy, such as heat, sound, or electricity, from one point to another, without evident movement in the conducting body.
- The transmission of stimuli of various sorts by living protoplasm.
[L. con- duco, pp. ductus, to lead, conduct]
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The technology can build cheap, climate-resilient structures in a fraction of the time of traditional construction
* 3D construction market could be worth $1.5 billion by 2024
* The process builds homes faster, cheaper and with less labor
* Structures are more resilient to natural disasters
By Carey L. Biron
WASHINGTON, Feb 15 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - After years of homelessness and hard living, Tim Shea has swapped the sharp corners in his life for the round, flowing design of his new 3D-printed home in Austin, Texas.
In August, Shea became the first person in the United States to move into a 3D-printed home, according to Austin-based developer ICON, in what advocates say is a milestone in efforts to boost the national supply of affordable housing.
This month New York-based firm SQ4D listed what is purported to be the country's first 3D-printed house to go up for sale, while ICON completed the largest 3D-printed structure in North America – a military barracks.
Shea, 70, said his new house - which he moved into for free and is located in a community of formerly homeless people - has saved his life.
"It's just phenomenally beautiful ... it just wraps around and gives me a feeling of life security," Shea told the Thomson Reuters Foundation by phone from his 400-sq-ft (46-sq-m) home.
The house's high ceilings, large windows and skylights make it feel larger than it looks from the outside, he added.
Shea got to watch his home being built on site by a large new "printer", developed and operated by ICON, a process which the company said took about 48 hours and is being reduced further as the technology improves.
Large-scale 3D printing is gaining steam around the world as a quicker, cheaper and more efficient way of building housing, with some projects producing a home in 24 hours of printing time for just a few thousand dollars.
ICON constructed the first permitted 3D-printed building in the United States in 2018 and is one of the few 3D construction firms focusing specifically on affordable housing.
Last year, Habitat for Humanity's Terwilliger Center for Innovation in Shelter helped an Indian company called Tvasta build India's first 3D-printed home, which brought construction times down by more than a third and reduced waste by about 65%.
"3D printing technology has huge potential to boost the affordable housing sector," said Patrick Kelley, the center's vice president, in emailed comments.
AFFORDABLE AND SUSTAINABLE
Using 3D printing, also known as additive manufacturing, for construction goes back to at least 2004, when a University of South Carolina professor tried to print a wall.
Unlike other uses of 3D printing - such as medical devices or complex modeling - the process typically uses some form of quick-drying concrete laid precisely by a computer-controlled extruder.
The approach has been used for niche projects in recent years - such as the world's first 3D-printed bridge, which opened to the public in Madrid in 2016. But it is now at the cusp of a major expansion, according to market analysts.
While the global market for 3D-printed construction stood at $3 million in 2019, it is projected to grow to more than $1.5 billion by 2024, according to a study from consultancy Research and Markets.
Last year, the global industry publication 3Dnatives listed a dozen companies working on 3D-printed houses globally.
Jason Ballard, who spent a decade working in housing and homelessness before helping form ICON four years ago, said he came to 3D printing seeking a construction method that was affordable, sustainable and climate-resilient.
"For me it was always about housing," the CEO said, suggesting the technology should eventually be the "predominant paradigm" for home construction.
This week a developer is putting the country's first series of 3D-printed homes up for sale for the mass market, with printing completed by ICON and move-ins expected this summer, the firm says.
Ballard points not only to savings in cost and time but also labor, since homes can be printed off of a tablet or phone.
The structures are also more resilient to disasters such as hurricanes, more energy-efficient and easily adaptable to unique design needs, he added.
"You could imagine hundreds or thousands of these printers - ending homelessness and the affordability crisis," Ballard said.
ICON built its first homes in an anti-homelessness "village" in Austin, overseen by the nonprofit Mobile Loaves and Fishes.
The site, called the Community First! Village, is currently expanding to offer homes to about 500 individuals at the village, including tiny homes, recreational vehicles and six 3D-printed homes, said the organization's president, Amber Fogarty.
"What attracted us is the promise of this technology," said Fogarty.
"A lot of the time, innovation becomes available only for people with resources, so for this to be available to our neighbors is really special."
Although ICON has only recently started rolling out its technology, Ballard said the firm has already been inundated with requests from homeless people, nonprofits and foreign governments.
The company has partnered with New Story, a U.S.-based nonprofit that works internationally to provide housing in low-income communities.
Together, they are building houses in a community of fishermen and textile workers in Tabasco, Mexico.
Elsewhere, New Story has typically constructed homes using cinder block, but they were interested in ways to work more quickly, said Sarah Lee, the group's chief operating officer.
Housing is "such a massive problem, and without taking risks these families are going to be the last people to benefit from this technology," she said.
Although the Tabasco project was slowed by the coronavirus pandemic, families will start moving into 10 of the houses in coming months, Lee said.
ICON's work has also attracted interest from the U.S. military.
The Texas barracks - which the company finished this month - will house 76 troops as part of a project with the Department of Defense that will test a range of uses, according to Lieutenant Colonel Alex Goldberg, a lead with the Defense Innovation Unit.
The military is interested in using 3D printing to address its mammoth construction backlog and also in its response to natural disasters, Goldberg said in an interview.
He added that the building process is five times faster than traditional approaches and has "significant" cost and labor savings.
All of this means 3D-printed structures hold significant prospects for post-disaster missions, he noted.
"Having this capability where you're not just building temporary facilities but can leave behind infrastructure that can get a foothold and begin the recovery - that has the possibility to become transformative," Goldberg said.
(Reporting by Carey L. Biron @clbtea, Editing by Jumana Farouky and Zoe Tabary. Please credit the Thomson Reuters Foundation, the charitable arm of Thomson Reuters, that covers the lives of people around the world who struggle to live freely or fairly. Visit http://news.trust.org)
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The worst American drought in decades has deepened.
The U.S. Drought Monitor now has 60.1 percent of the lower 48 states in some form of drought. Extreme or exceptional drought, the two most severe categories, now affects more than 19 percent of the land area.
Colorado is way behind as well. The poor showing of snowfall so far has experts concerned the state may endure another lost ski season.
"There have been a bunch of years (ski seasons) with similar setups to this one, and the majority ended up dry," said Klaus Wolter, a National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration forecaster.
If that happens, Colorado will experience back-to-back dry winters.
A recent Denver Post story reported that from 2007 to 2011, 41 percent of Colorado home insurance claims paid out were due to large-scale events, the ninth highest share of any state.
Catastrophes caused $1.6 billion in damages in Colorado from 1990 to 1999, the article says. In 2010 and 2011 alone, they triggered $1.1 billion in damages. The totals aren't in yet, but 2012 was the worst summer on record for property-destroying wildfires.
Until now, hailstorms had posed a bigger problem. The July 2009 hailstorm, for example, generated $768 million in claims.
Drought is insidious. The Fern Lake Fire in Rocky Mountain National Park, which began Oct. 9, is still burning. A flare-up on Dec. 1 forced the evacuation of parts of Estes Park.
Reservoirs have been drawn down, ski resort bookings are down, and the last few days of November and the first few days of December had fire-weather watches across the state because of high temperatures, low relative humidity and strong winds. Boulder is nearly 5 inches below normal in moisture for the year.
Still, Boulder has had 23 Novembers that were drier than this November. And there have been 11 with less snow. Although last month was 4 degrees warmer than normal, there have been 12 Novembers that were warmer.
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Foreshadowing and Flashback Two Writing Techniques That Make Fitzgerald A Great Writer by Jonathan Werne Suppose you met somebody just as careless as yourself I hope I neverwill she Jordan answered I hate careless people Thats why I like you Fitzgerald pg 63 Jordan is explaining to Nick how she is able to drive badly aslong as everyone else drives carefully This quote represents the writing technique of foreshadowing which is being used in one of its finest form Fitzgerald isforeshadowing to chapter seven where Daisy kills Myrtle Wilson because of her recklessdriving Fitzgerald uses foreshadowing to strengthen the plot of his book In chapternine Nick begins to recall the past and relive his old memories His must relieve hislingering thoughts of the past During the chapter Nick uses a flashback to tell aboutGatsbys funeral for the readers to know what happen the day Gatsby was shot Flashbackin The Great Gatsby also helps to give the reader background information about thecharacters In The Great Gatsby the structure of the novel is influenced byforeshadowing and flashback Fitzgerald utilizes foreshadowing to the best of its ability to help organizethe novel Luckily the clock took this moment to tilt dangerously at the pressure ofhis head whereupon he turned and caught it with trembling fingers and set it back inplace Im sorry about the clock he said Its an old clock I told himidiotically Fitzgerald pg 92 This quote is the first use of foreshadowing whichis in chapter five It pertains to all of the trouble Gatsby causes as he tries to winDaisy back The past is represented by the clock and how Gatsby wants to repeat it withDaisy Eble pg 963 This quote foreshadows to the end of the novel when Nick is leftto tell the story of the dreamer whose dreams were corrupted Eble pg 963 they smashed up things and creatures and then retreated back intotheir money or
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SETI, the search for extraterrestrial intelligence, has a new director.
For 25 years, scientists in Mountain View, California have been manning listening stations, hoping not to miss the moment aliens make contact with us humans. The place is known as the SETI Institute. It was inspired by the famed astronomer Carl Sagan. And the idea was to use radio telescopes to listen to the cosmos just in case.
Sagan’s first doctoral student was David Morrison, and this week he took over as the new head of the institute’s Carl Sagan Center for the Study of Life in the Universe.
I still miss Carl Sagan. I guess if he were alive now he’d have to invent a force field to repel all the political mud that rains on anyone who is too reality-based. Good luck to David Morrison, it would really rock if he actually got the extraterrestrial station of NPR. To read the interview live from planet Earth, go here. | <urn:uuid:f3448807-f3ae-4f2e-a0b3-1bef493307ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://kmareka.com/2010/06/27/extraterrestrial/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00466-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963863 | 199 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Happy Easter! Here’s wishing everyone a safe and happy long weekend.
This Good Friday (April 22) is also Earth Day, reminding us that we need to take actions to help save our planet and to perhaps save a bit of money along the way.
More than 6 million Canadians will join 1 billion people in over 170 countries to bring environmental awareness through local events and presentations. Earth Day was first launched in 1970 as an environmental awareness event in the United States.
Canada has been participating in Earth Day for over 20 years and has grown it into Earth Week and even Earth Month to accommodate all the events and projects taking place. Events range from small community initiatives to large public events, like Victoria’s Earth Walk (April 16, 2011), Edmonton’s Earth Day Festival at Hawrelak Park, and Oakville, Ontario’s Waterways Clean-up (April 16, 2011). Do you know what you’re community is doing for Earth Day or Week?
As a part of Earth Day, I’d like to remind you of some things that you can do to green your household.
- Replace incandescent light bulbs with compact fluorescent bulbs. This uses about 75% less energy than standard incandescent bulbs.
- Use low-flow shower heads or aerators on faucets. According to Statistics Canada, a family of three could save between 80-$100 a year on energy costs
- Weatherstrip your windows and doors. Air leaks in your home can account for 30 to 40% of the home's overall heat and cooling loss.
- Wash full loads of clothes in cold water and hang to air dry. If you wash 80%, or four out of five loads, on cold/cold, you could cut two-thirds of a kilogram of greenhouse gas emissions per month.
- Take short showers instead of baths. In the end how much water you save or whether you save water at all depends on the length of your showers. Baths usually require about 20 gallons (80 litres), the same as a ten-minute shower.
- Close water taps while brushing your teeth. According to WaterSense, the average bathroom sink faucet flows at a rate of two gallons a minute.
- Choose natural, non-toxic cleaning products. Make simple, natural cleaners with ingredients like vinegar, baking soda and water.
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The Animal Medical Center began in 1906 as the brainchild of Ellin Prince Speyer when she founded the Women’s Auxiliary to the American Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals. Believing that there were, “branches of humane work especially suited for women,” Ellin and her friends developed their organization as a way to supplement the activities of the male-dominated ASPCA. The first major activity organized by the Women’s Auxiliary was the Work Horse Parade. Held on Memorial Day in 1907, the parade encouraged streetcar drivers, peddlers and other horse owners to treat their animals better. Thousands turned out for the event forecasting a bright future for the organization that would one day become the Animal Medical Center
Spurred by their initial successes, in 1909 the Women’s Auxiliary set out to establish a dispensary and out-patient clinic for all animals whose owners could not afford to pay for medical treatment. The clinic opened in 1910 on the Lower East Side in the heart of New York’s largest poor and immigrant section. Several veterinarians volunteered their services on a part-time basis while Auxiliary members and friends donated money and resources. The clinic treated 6,028 animals in the first full year.
By 1910, the Women’s Auxiliary had grown to more than 120 members and had established itself as a strong force in the humane movement separate from the ASPCA. On May 12, 1910 Auxiliary members officially separated when they incorporated themselves as the New York Women’s League for Animals. Meanwhile, the animals needing treatment at the Lower East Side clinic were increasing significantly each year. It was decided that the newly-founded New York Women’s League for Animals would raise the funds for a permanent animal hospital that was better staffed and equipped to treat more animals.
The new animal hospital opened in 1914, just down the street from the original clinic’s location. The hospital was a new, three-story building equipped with offices, an examination room, a reception room, an emergency room for horses, operating rooms, a padded stall for horses, isolation wards, quarters for birds, and an apartment for resident veterinarian, Dr. Bruce Blair, and his assistants. By 1920, the hospital was treating well over 9000 patients annually.
The hospital faced difficult times through the 20s and 30s, beginning in 1921 when founder and president, Ellin Prince Speyer passed away. The Great Depression caused an explosion of sick and abandoned animals, as well as a rise in owners who could no longer afford to pay for their pet’s care and treatment. Somehow, the League met this challenge, holding its own through tight economies and steady, generous support and actually increasing its level of service to the public.
In 1946 the end of wartime shortages and price restrictions sparked a post-war inflation that hit the League hard. Despite its pressing finances, the League continued to strive forward in several new areas. First of all, the hospital benefited from new advances made in human and veterinary science, such as the discovery of powerful antibiotics such as penicillin, and the development of vaccines for distemper and rabies. The League also implemented a mobile animal clinic in 1951 to supplement the work of the hospital. The mobile clinic rode through different neighborhoods treating the pets of the poor and teaching them about proper animal care.
In 1954, the League proposed to create an institute for veterinary studies. The institute would take the Leagues mandate a step further by exploring the causes of animal disease and developing possible treatments. Thanks to the contribution of late League Director Margaret M. Caspary’s husband, it looked like the institute would become a reality. Under the influence of the new Caspary Institute, the animal hospital evolved into a veterinary medical center of national stature. In 1959 the League voted to change the name to the Animal Medical Center and thus the modern-day AMC was born.
In January, 1960 construction began on a new 4 million dollar facility for the Animal Medical Center on 62nd Street, just west of the East River. In 1962, the new building which featured state-of-the-art laboratories, operating suites, and sophisticated medical equipment, threw its doors open to an expectant public, beginning a new era in veterinary medicine.
Throughout the 60s and 70s the AMC launched many new initiatives, including an intensive internship and residency program, a medical and surgical team concept that concentrated the energy and talent of several veterinarians on difficult cases, and an emergency medical service clinic open 24 hours a day, 7 days a week. The AMC also greatly increased the size of its staff by increasing the number of vets from 20 to 70, hiring more animal nurses, initiating an animal aides program, and bringing in scores of attending physicians, and veterinary consultants.
By the 1980s the AMC had begun to set itself apart as an institute of higher learning as well. In 1983 the AMC launched an intensive postgraduate course in clinical veterinary medicine. It also sponsors regular lectures and seminars, as well as clinical training programs for senior veterinary students, visiting veterinarians, and animal health technicians.
Throughout the 80s and 90s the AMC continued to expand its reputation by acquiring the latest technological advances, offering more specialized services and programs and performing revolutionary operations.
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The interfacial bonding strength between ultraviolet-curing resin and diamond is a key factor affecting tool properties in manufacturing of ultraviolet-curing wire saw. Therefore, in this paper, the application of surface-modified diamond coated metal was studied in ultraviolet-curing wire saw aim at retention problem of diamond in bond. Effects of surface-modified diamond were evaluated according to model of tensile test. Furthermore, retention mechanism of diamond was analyzed according to bond theory. The experimental results prove that the machining properties and service life of ultraviolet-curing wire saw can be improved by surface modification of diamond. | <urn:uuid:e8669d11-6da3-4d08-b4c6-da99b0200dc8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.scientific.net/AMR.69-70.24 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00054-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940263 | 120 | 2.203125 | 2 |
The village in Keur Bakar Diahité lies in Senegal’s Fatik region near the Sine Saloum nature reserve. The area has no electricity, water, school or health services, and these living conditions are shared by the inhabitants of many villages in the immense Sahel region, extending southwards from the desert to the Atlantic coasts of Mauritania and Senegal all the way to the Red Sea and northern Eritrea. H2OS is a solution to the most serious problem afflicting the area – unrelenting desertification. With architecture as its focus, it draws on the community’s technical and management skills and its agricultural self-sufficiency. The eco-house itself is built from unfired clay bricks made by the community using traditional techniques. It has been made energy self-sufficient using the principles of eco-architecture. The butterfly roof harvests rainwater which is collected, filtered and reused for the sanitation systems; natural ventilation replaces mechanical systems, with the air cooled by channelling it through a tank of cold water and energy produced by a photovoltaic circuit; shading in the form of bamboo screens provides natural protection from the heat and dust. Plant design is handled by a team of specialised technicians, while the eco-systems mentioned above are based on artisan techniques which are passed on to the local workforce. In keeping with local tradition, the women look after the organic community vegetable garden which is irrigated by the water recovery system.
The general lack of sophistication which lies at the heart of the project is reflected in the extremely simple design. The eco-house is a single-storey rectangular building with bamboo screens on its north and south facades and a butterfly roof which directs rainwater along its longitudinal axis. Two projecting roofs supported by a slim white metal frame cover the two entrances. Natural colours, from bamboo to unfired red bricks, dominate both inside and out. The different textures create visual continuity on the four facades.
At the core of the entire project is “non-invasive, shared design, which acts as a champion and symbol of human rights” conclude TAMassociati “such as access to water, food, and being able to continue living in one’s birthplace and only leaving out of choice”.
Architects: studio TAMassociati
Inspired by: Circolo Sunugal APS, Venice,
Coordination: MUSOCO onlus Mutalità, Solidarietà e Cooperazione
Local partners: Senegalese NGO “Union pour la Solidarité et l’Entraide (USE)
Technical partners: Francesco Steffinlongo, K&G Progetti
Location: Keur Bakar Diahité, Senegal
Gross project area: 4500 sqm
Indoor area of community eco-house: 400 sqm
Gross area of community eco-house: 280 sqm
Shared pathway and partnership building: 2012-2014
Architectural design: 2014-2015
Eco-house built: 2015-2017
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As host city to many international organizations, Geneva has become known as "International Geneva". It is home to a very wide range of international organisations active in areas as varied as humanitarian action, human rights, trade, environment and sustainable development, education and training, peacekeeping and security, meteorology, intellectual property, nuclear research, health, telecommunications and labour.
Similarly are nearby Lausanne and the shore of Lake Geneva host to numerous international institutions and NGOs, in particular in the field of sports and the environment.
World Trade Organization (WTO)
The WTO, established on 1 January 1995, is the legal and institutional foundation of the multilateral trading system. It provides the principal contractual obligations determining how governments frame and implement domestic trade legislation and regulations. It is also the platform on which trade relations among countries evolve through collective debate, negotiation and adjudication
United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
UNCTAD is the principal organ of the United Nations General Assembly in the field of trade and development. UNCTAD members aim to achieve steady sustained growth in all countries and to accelerate the development of developing countries, so that all people can enjoy economic and social well-being.
International Trade Center (ITC)
The ITC UNCTAD/WTO is the focal point in the United Nations system for technical cooperation with developing countries in trade promotion. As an executing agency of the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), ITC is directly responsible for implementing UNDP-financed projects in developing countries and economies in transition related to trade promotion.
The World Bank - Geneva Office
The World Bank is a vital source of financial and technical assistance to developing countries around the world. We are not a bank in the common sense. While the headquarter is located in Washington DC, the World Bank maintains a liaison office in Geneva.
United Nations Office at Geneva (UNOG)
Geneva is home to the second largest United Nations office, after the New York Headquarters. UNOG is the largest and most active centre for conference diplomacy in the world and the site of many historic negotiations.
The World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) is a specialized agency of the United Nations. It is dedicated to developing a balanced and accessible international intellectual property (IP) system, which rewards creativity, stimulates innovation and contributes to economic development while safeguarding the public interest.
Bank for International Settlements (BIS), Basel
The Bank for International Settlements (BIS) is an international organization which fosters international monetary and financial cooperation and serves as a bank for central banks.
Economic Commission for Europe (ECE)
The UN/ECE is the forum at which the countries of North America, western, central and eastern Europe and central Asia come together to forge the tools of their economic cooperation.
European Free Trade Association (EFTA)
The European Free Trade Association (EFTA) was established in 1960 by the Stockholm Convention to eliminate tariffs and other restrictions on trade between EFTA members.
World Economic Forum (WEF)
The Geneva-based Word Economic Forum is widely known through its annual meeting in Davos, Switzerland. The WEF is an NGO in consultative status (Category 1) with the Economic and Social Council of the United Nations.
The Crans Montana Forum was created in 1986. It is formally recognised notably for its purpose to contribute to the construction of a more Humane World: "Committed to a more Humane World".
United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD)
The United Nations Research Institute for Social Development (UNRISD) is an autonomous agency engaging in multi-disciplinary research on the social dimensions of contemporary problems affecting development.
International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD)
The International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development (ICTSD or the Centre) was established in Geneva in September 1996 to contribute to a better understanding of development and environment concerns in the context of international trade.
The South Centre works for the benefit of the South as a whole, making efforts to ensure that all developing countries and interested groups and persons have access to its publications and the results of its work, irrespective of membership.
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Dean Cycon, author of Javatrekker: Dispatches from the World of Fair Trade Coffee, was recently featured in the cover story in BusinessWest, the business journal of Western Massachusetts.
From the article:
“I said that people graduating from college should be less concerned about getting a job than with finding out who they are so they can work toward long-term satisfaction with their employment, especially if they’re interested in making a difference in the world,” [Cycon] said. “It wasn’t until I was 40 that I found the proper vehicle for my life’s work.”
That would be Dean’s Beans, which he created after navigating a winding career path that took him in a number of directions.
It started with international corporate law.
Cycon told BusinessWest that he handled a number of licensing and distribution agreements for several companies with overseas operations, while also undertaking some environmental-law work, which he described as a “passion.”
Eventually, Cycon left law and had a series of fellowships, including a two-year stint at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institute and an extended stay in New Zealand as a senior Fulbright Scholar. He was teaching part-time at the University of Rhode Island and UMass, while also practicing some law, when a chance encounter took his career in a new direction.
“I was giving a lecture at URI on the ‘real causes of deforestation in Brazil,’” he explained, “and was approached by a professor after the talk. He said he had a friend in Providence who owns a coffee shop, buys Brazilian coffee, knows how poor the farmers are, and wants to make a difference. Will you meet with him and talk to him?”
Cycon did, and this discussion eventually led to those three individuals forming what Cycon describes as the first nonprofit development organization for the coffee world. Called Coffee Kids, the initiative raised funds from the coffee industry and then distributed them for development projects such as water supply quality, education, and alternative income generation.
Now in its 20th year, Coffee Kids is still addressing quality-of-life issues, but Cycon moved on to take his work with coffee growers to a new, much higher level.
“After doing Coffee Kids for a number of years, I came to realize that the charitable approach was a noble thing, but it was not going to bring change to the coffee industry,” he said. “Companies didn’t have to change their business practices, which were what kept people in a chronic state of underdevelopment.
“I thought, ‘what would it look like if a company actually paid a fair price for the coffee and engaged directly in the lives of the people it bought from through development work?’” he continued. “So I created Dean’s Beans to model how that might look; could I do this and still be profitable? If I could, then no coffee company had an excuse to do things differently.
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A study undertaken by the National Center in HIV Epidemiology and Clinical Research (NCHECR) has predicted a sharp increase in HIV infections in Victoria over the next 7 years. The increase has been blamed on falling condom use.
According to the study, based on a mathematical model, Victoria's HIV infection rate is likely to rise by 73% by 2015, a substantial increase in comparison with all other areas in Australia.
AdvertisementA 20% rise in HIV infections is predicted for Queensland. The infection rate in New South Wales is predicted to fall slightly.
Researcher Dr David Wilson has attributed the predicted increase in HIV cases to reduced condom usage and a rise in other sexually transmitted diseases.
"If somebody's HIV positive and have another infection such as syphilis, gonorrhoea, chlamydia, herpes, then they are 200 to 500 per cent more likely to transmit HIV to a susceptible person," Dr. Wilson said.
Director of the Infectious Diseases Unit at the Alfred Hospital, Professor Sharon Lewin has observed that there is a growing complacency among people about safe sex.
"We do know that there's less condom use and also increasing numbers of other sexually transmitted infections, particularly syphilis, " she said.
"Other sexually transmitted infections sort of fuel transmission of HIV as well, so we really need to target those infections too," said Professor Lewin.
The report predicting the steep rise in HIV cases by 70% has alarmed some in the gay community
The Victorian AIDS Council (VAC) has dismissed the study as 'flawed.' Mike Kennedy, Executive Director for the Victorian AIDS Council says that since campaigns have already begun to combat rising figures the report is now redundant.
"A mathematical model is not a reliable tool it is not an exact science," observed Mr. Kennedy. "You build a model and the model gives you an answer but it depends on what you feed into it. [NCHECR] have looked at what has happened over the last seven years and they say if nothing is done about it there will be a rise but a number of steps have been taken already by the state health department and the VAC such as our Drama Down Under campaign," he said.
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What it's like
Northamptonshire – once the very best place in the UK to make shoes. Now one of the best in which to use them.
Pull on your boots, and set out to explore a fascinating landscape. Nothing is very steep, nowhere is particularly high. But there is an incredible number of interesting things to see along the way.
There are long distance paths a plenty - the Jurassic, Macmillan, Midshires and Nene Ways pass through. There are short strolls to historic buildings - big houses, small houses, unfinished houses and even a triangular house.
Historical figures with stories to tell have long been at home in Northamptonshire, and there is good walking around and between the numerous locations with historic significance. One village, Fotheringhay was both the birthplace of Richard III and place of execution for Mary Queen of Scots.
Or you could join the Tresham Trail; discovering four buildings commissioned by Sir Thomas Tresham, father of a Gunpowder Plotter. Sir Thomas expressed his suppressed Catholic faith through his architecture, notably at the unfinished cross-shaped house at Lyveden and the Holy Trinity homage Triangular Lodge near Rushton.
We’ve got woods galore across what were once the Royal hunting grounds of Rockingham. The castle at Rockingham is just one of the many grand homes to visit. There are dozens more including the Spencer family home, Althorp. There’s industrial heritage too to discover: try the Harringworth railway viaduct with its 82 arches; or scamper about the wildlife riches of the former Collyweston quarries. Rock and stroll!
- Go with the flow on the Nene Way A 110 mile meander following the River Nene, from a source at Badby in the south of the county to Wansford in the north and beyond. www.ramblers.org.uk/INFO/paths/nene.html
- Irchester Country Park Explore geology in this truly Jurassic park while strolling in and out of the woods. www.northamptonshire.gov.uk/Leisure/Countryside/irchester.htm
- Look! Lyveden Walk from Fermyn Woods Country Park to the National Trust treasure of Lyveden New Bield www.gnn.gov.uk/imagelibrary/detail.asp?MediaDetailsID=127354
Must see and do
- Take the tree-top walk The 300 metre long tree-top walk at Salcey Forest is some 20 metres high amid the trees. www.forestry.gov.uk/salceyforest
- Let’s go spy a kite Look up while walking in Rockingham Forest and you will see one of the now thriving population of graceful Red Kites, a stunning bird of prey. www.english-nature.org.uk/redkite
- Have a tunnel vision Hire a narrowboat for the day and point it into the 203-year-old Blisworth Tunnel on the Grand Union Canal; it’s almost two miles long but luckily wide enough for two boats to pass. www.blisworthtunnel.co.uk/m2_1.htm
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The guided visits are geared towards the general public, and are led by local lecturers in history of art. They have a simple, lively approach to art history and apply it directly to the works themselves.
Subjects of the visits
- Un couvent devenu musée (A Monastery-turned-Museum)
The Augustine monastery as a whole from 1309 to the present day: the evolution and change of one of Toulouse's historical monuments.
- Les chefs-d'œuvre du musée (The Museum's Masterpieces)
This visit covers the main paintings and sculptures in the Musée des Augustins: major Romanesque sculptures (the works from la Daurade) and Gothic sculptures (the Rieux cycle and Nostre-Dame de Grasse), as well as paintings from the Classical Period to the beginning of the 20th Century, from Rubens to Toulouse-Lautrec.
- L'art des sculpteurs romans (The Art of the Romanesque Sculptors)
Noteworthy finds from la Daurade, Saint-Sernin and Saint-Etienne make up one of the loveliest collections of Romanesque sculpture in the world, providing a real overview of this period.
- L'art gothique (Gothic Art)
From the expressiveness of the Maître de Rieux's works to the elegance of Nostre-Dame de Grasse, the museum's Gothic collections illustrate the upheavals in faith and society in the 13th to 15th Centuries.
- De Delacroix à Rodin, peinture et sculpture du XIX siècle (From Delacroix to Rodin, paintings and sculptures of XIXe century)
- L'art du portrait (Portraiture)
Whether idealist or realist in style, the portrait mirrors the aspirations of each and every age. From 14th Century recumbent tomb effigies to Impressionist portraits, the museum's collections bear witness to the diversity of portraiture.
- La peinture italienne du Pérugin à Guardi (Italian Painting from Perugino to Guardi)
Set in a city rich in links with Italy, the Musée des Augustins' Italian collection provides an in-depth view of transalpine painting. There are masterpieces representing the greatest names (Perugino, Guerchin, Guido Reni and Guardi), whilst the church pictures of the 17th Century are particularly representative of that period and demonstrate its astonishing variety of styles, from Caravaggism to Classicism and Baroque.
- La Femme dans l'art (Women in Art)
Sensual Salome, impetuous Judith or the immaculate Virgin: throughout art history women have usually been portrayed by male artists, but there are many different themes that make for great variety in their representations.
- Le paysage ou la nature apprivoisée (Landscape or nature under control).
- Images et pouvoirs du XVIe au XVIIIe siècle ( Pictures and Powers: from the 16th to the 18th Century )
The visits last approximately 1 hour and are limited to 25 people.
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March 06, 2013 - NEXUS EnergyHomes, Inc. is partnering with The Dow Chemical Company as the first homebuilder to offer the revolutionary DOW POWERHOUSE™ Solar Shingle on the East Coast.
The DOW POWERHOUSE Solar Shingle is an integrated solar roofing system that protects the home and generates electricity.
"Dow Solar Shingles are among the most cutting-edge renewable solutions on the market, making DOW POWERHOUSE the ideal partner for NEXUS EnergyHomes," said Paul Zanecki, NEXUS EnergyHomes founder and President. "They enable us to offer our customers a truly breakthrough product, from one of the biggest names in renewable energy solutions. This solar integrated roof product protects the home, uses sunlight to power it, and provides superior aesthetic appeal for our homes' exterior design, and that is exactly what we were looking for, because they support our ability to lead the market in sustainable living. This is the future of new homebuilding in America."
Recently named Smart CEO's Fastest Growing Technology Implementer, each NEXUS EnergyHome® is designed and constructed to meet the rigorous requirements of the ICC 700 National Green Building Standard (NGBS) at the highest certification levels. After visiting their award-winning North Pointe Nexus GeoSolar Community™ in Frederick, Maryland Governor, Martin O'Malley praised NEXUS EnergyHomes home building 'recipe' as the "epitome of innovation" in his State of the State speech last month. All of the homes built in this 50-lot community have achieved Emerald certification by the National Association of Home Builders Research Center. Nexus EnergyHomes, Inc. has the most Emerald certified homes in the State of Maryland, and the North Pointe community is the largest concentration of Emerald certified homes in the United States.
NEXUS EnergyHomes, Inc. will now offer the POWERHOUSE Solar Shingles to homebuyers in their upcoming Nexus GeoSolar Communities, as well as to their new construction luxury custom homebuyers, and clients within the trending teardown market. With several home projects already underway in Maryland, and constructing Philadelphia's first net-zero luxury townhomes and the Low Country's first Nexus GeoSolar Community™, and other projects in the Baltimore-Washington Metropolitan area soon to be announced, strong demand for the product is anticipated.
Zanecki says he expects its homeowners with Solar Shingles to realize thousands of dollars in energy savings, plus the POWERHOUSE Solar Shingles will increase the overall value of their home.
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Sophomores went through their first year virtually lacking an interpersonal college experience. Now, as they shift from the virtual to a flourishing college campus, sophomores may have felt that they were starting from scratch.
From the changes in her social life to the geography of campus, Naomi Kil, a sophomore pre-nursing major, was eager to get back on campus to see the offerings of the UA.
Kil came to the UA with the expectation of lively activity, especially within her dorm, but began to feel isolated. The UA COVID-19 pandemic guidelines did not allow guests or neighbors to remain in each others’ rooms. Kil felt that she was able to spend time in common spaces and create friendships with her floormates but was confined to those people.
Studies on the changes of social behaviors have become hot topics of COVID-19 research. According to a study done in China towards the onset of the pandemic found that 54% of people, "rated the psychological impact of the COVID-19 outbreak as moderate or severe."
Current freshmen may have not experienced college life virtually, but they did come from a drastic change due to the pandemic. Freshman Jacob Ayars who is majoring in engineering compared his experience to those of sophomores.
Ayars spoke about his excitement and adventurous attitude when he arrived on campus. He felt lucky to get to experience the campus up and running again but also hoped sophomores could start again with “the joy of a first year on campus.”
Kil continued to live in a dorm her sophomore year and described the differences. She interacted consistently with her dorm mates last year and now spends more time with others she met on campus and through clubs such as UA Emergency Medical Services which she joined this fall semester.
“I think, generally, I was so desperate to meet people,” Kil said.
Ayars has gotten to explore dorm life without as many restrictions and said that he tries to be friendly and says “hi” to all of his neighbors. Ayars has a brother in his junior year, Tanner Ayars, studying pharmaceutical sciences, who had his dorm life experience in his freshman year cut short. This has allowed Ayars to appreciate the opening of the UA and dorms even more.
“I feel like, for me, I've taken note of that, and then made extra efforts to meet new people and find new people because he's given me advice… and he’s also been such a great resource for me learning about different things on campus,” Ayars said.
The mentality of students has changed drastically as COVID-19 restrictions are lifted at the UA. In-person classes are in full swing while requiring masks and following CDC guidelines. Both Kil and Ayars described a lack of energy and interest in classes while learning virtually.
This phenomena had a scientific backing. According to a study published in 2004 on students’ perceptions of the challenges of online learning underlines that a lack of community, understanding of the topics and technical difficulties prove to be the main challenges students have with online learning.
Kil and Ayars are experiencing their first large lecture halls and in person exams which Kil expected to raise anxieties about classes. She, instead, saw a peak in curiosity to learn and understand the materials which prepared her for the potentially daunting tasks. Class became a time where she could meet new people and form relationships.
One major task of moving from online to in person classes is the geography on campus. Campus tours and major-specific orientations usually prepare students for their classes, but both Kil and Ayars had their orientations online. Kil recounted that freshmen have asked her for directions but she could not give any.
Although this semester would be different from Kil's previous virtual semesters, she was hopeful.
“I feel like I'm starting new this year,” Kil said.
Freshman Jacob Ayars hoped that sophomores can leave behind the potential bitterness and sadness of a loss of freshman year and enjoy as he has on this seemingly new campus.
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Faculty Book: Thomas G. Weiss
Michael Barnett and Thomas G. Weiss, eds.
Humanitarianism in Question: Politics, Power, Ethics
(Ithaca: Cornell University Press, 2008)
Years of tremendous growth in response to complex emergencies have left a mark on the humanitarian sector. Matters that once seemed settled are now subjects of intense debate. What is humanitarianism? Is it limited to the provision of relief to victims of conflict, or does it include broader objectives such as human rights, democracy promotion, development, and peacebuilding? For much of the last century, humanitarianism was guided by the principles of neutrality, impartiality, and independence. More recently, some humanitarian organizations have begun to relax these tenets. The recognition that humanitarian action can lead to negative consequences has forced humanitarian organizations to measure their effectiveness, to reflect on their ethical positions, and to consider the consequences of their actions. This book brings together scholars from a variety of disciplines to address the humanitarian identity crisis, including humanitarianism's relationship to accountability, great powers, privatization and corporate philanthropy, warlords, and the ethical evaluations that inform life-and-death decision making during and after emergencies. Thomas G. Weiss is Presidential Professor of Political Science and Director of the Ralph Bunche Institute for International Studies at the Graduate Center.
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In Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature, Richard Rorty has attempted to find an underlying metaphor upon which the history of Western philosophy has been founded. He has turned the critic’s attention away from propositions, submitting that pictures form the core of philosophical positions. Beginning with Plato, Rorty purports, Western philosophers have constructed a doctrine of the mind as a mirror of nature. Thus, the ultimate forerunner of the Western mode of thinking would have to be Plato, or at least the Platonic ontology: that there exists an external reality which is independent of the perceiving mind; it is, however, accessible— whether through intuition, sense perception, or propositions—to the mind, which is pictured to be an “inner eye.”
If Plato serves as the genesis of this view of reality, Rene Descartes is just as important in that he provided the major connection between the Platonic ontology and modern philosophy. Descartes’ epistemological turn established the commonly held version of mind-body dualism. Hence, the mind is an independent entity, a thinking thing, which knows itself better than it knows anything else, given its privileged access. Nevertheless, it achieves knowledge of “outer realities” by accurately mirroring or representing those realities. This view fit nicely with John Locke’s view of the human mind as a tabula rasa. On this blank slate, the outer world somehow imprints itself, creating an inner impression which exactly replicates the world outside. Finally, Immanuel Kant, in his Kritik der reinen Vernunft (1781; The Critique of Pure Reason, 1873), systematizes the ideas developed by the previously mentioned philosophers. He combines a Cartesian sort of intuition with a Lockean representation allowing predication in his synthetic a priori approach to knowledge. Through all this development of philosophical thought, the metaphor of the mind as a mirror of nature held firm.
Rorty’s book, decried by many because of its so-called polemics, has sought to displace the mirror metaphor. He believes that this image serves as the rallying point upon which analytic philosophers of otherwise widely diverging views have agreed. He is also convinced that it is the precursor of perennial philosophical problems, such as those of mind/body, Spirit/Nature, and consciousness. In the light, then, of these devastating problems presented to philosophy by this “optional” notion, he sets sail to deconstruct the history of philosophy by examining it without the help of the Cartesian picture. This concomitantly requires the laying aside of the common field of inquiry usually associated with that picture: the nature of privileged representations, incorrigible sensations, and understanding “raw feels.” Thus, the need is expunged to ground a statement such as “my head hurts.” Instead of spending needless effort on epistemological questions of how I know, or what it means to know what I think I know through privileged representation or raw feels, I can far more profitably turn my attention to the pragmatic question of finding the aspirin bottle.
This pragmatic turn, which Rorty so readily embraces with the help of the “edifying” trinity of Wittgenstein, Heidegger, and Dewey, is meant to create new kinds of conversation contra the systematizers of traditional philosophy. Interestingly, even those who are not thoroughly enamored of his approach acknowledge the important role played by this study. In his October 7, 1981, review of Philosophy and the Mirror of Nature in The New Republic, Ian Hacking said:Unlike Will Durant, who encapsulated the history of philosophy into an uplifting theme of better and better, Rorty, with an equally attractive historical style, tells us that the whole project is spiraling down into nothingness. Yet this very book is causing numerous young people to read philosophical classics as never before. This is the closest thing to a cult book commencing popular philosophy that we have seen for many a year. So there is an internal paradox: a death-of-philosophy book doubles interest in all kinds of philosophy.
Rorty proposes (chapter 7) that the issue at stake is the way in which the problem of knowledge is framed—epistemologically or hermeneutically. Indeed, he had been moving toward this claim throughout the book. To view knowledge epistemologically, so Rorty asserts, is to take up the project proposed by Descartes: to doubt what can be doubted until one reaches that which is indubitable. In other words, Descartes’ quest aimed at finding certainty. Wittgenstein and Rorty propose a very different project. Instead of certainty, they aimed at a perpetually self-correcting understanding via a never ending methodology of revision. This is not “clear and distinct” certainty. Whereas the “epistemological project” is after truth, Rorty’s “hermeneutical project” focuses on method. The former seeks propositional statements which stand beyond the need of correction; the latter sees its conclusions as always and necessarily corrigible.
Several reviewers of the book have queried what the practical effect would be of approaching philosophy as hermeneutics. Would this move, by its very nature, displace the need for a discipline called philosophy? Undoubtedly, if this model were adopted, the notion of philosophy as a foundational subject, and the philosopher as a guardian/judge of rationality, would suffer serious damage. That is, in fact, Rorty’s point. The self-deception of thinking that a perspective or a system can be eternalized would eventually fall into disrepute. To answer the above question, one need look no further than Rorty’s own conclusion on the matter, “Professions can survive the paradigms which gave them birth. In any case, the need for teachers who have read the great dead philosophers is quite enough to ensure that there will be philosophy departments as long as there are universities.”
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To the inexperienced, the thought of a codependent connection doesn’t appear so bad. Counting on each other is nice, right? Well, yes-but codependency is approximately a whole lot more than that. It is more about need.
A codependent individuals lifestyle centers entirely around their lover’s. Their unique identity becomes taken in inside total on the commitment. They danger dropping view of who they are as a person. Their particular self-worth is completely contingent on the lover’s approval, and they’ll do anything to kindly them-even whether it makes them miserable and renders all of them unrecognizable to friends and family.
But actually recognizing you’re in a codependent partnership is another question altogether. It’s good to understand what to check out for-and making the essential modifications to save yourself.
- Your spouse is crucial and controlling-and you comply to help keep the comfort: this might be a classic telltale manifestation of narcissistic punishment. Narcissists flourish down becoming satisfied and pandered to, while codependents are often anyone pleasers of course. This creates a seemingly inevitable period. Beware anyone who throws you down, dismisses you, or reduces your really worth. If you should be continuously likely to inordinate lengths to win your spouse’s endorsement, as well as great expense your happiness and health, it really is really worth stopping to imagine: exactly what are We starting to winnings my personal acceptance?
- You dislike saying aˆ?no’: Your usually fear or think shame or stress and anxiety on prospect having to deny your partner’s wishes. You may imagine to trust all of them given that it only looks smoother in minute. This reduction in self can cause a feeling of dissociation, disconnecting you against the relations with friends and family.
- Your own relationship was a one-way road: The co- in codependency can be somewhat fake. It might seem they means the overreliance streams similarly from each party. But it is more frequently the outcome any particular one companion demands additional, who in turn varies according to the impression to be needed. Codependents on a regular basis set their own lover’s specifications above xmatch their own, and use essentially all energy for the daily repair for the relationship. They may also feel uncomfortable becoming regarding obtaining conclusion of an uncharacteristically kind motion, not knowing ideas on how to respond. But of course, a wholesome relationship comprises constant acts of reciprocal fancy and affection. If you lack self-confidence, the limitless drive to please your partner may suffer altruistic, but it’s probably just assertion.
How do I get free from a codependent connection?
- Get acquainted with yourself: Codependents occasionally have a problem with a feeling of who they are, because their personality possess for way too long become tied to their own partner’s. It’s for that reason imperative to take some time for your self, checking out who you are and what you need. Getting true to on your own is challenging at first, but creating a listing of all of your top qualities as well as their interests you may like to cultivate is a fantastic place to begin.
- Split the trauma relationship: A codependent commitment may not be appreciation, but control. You really feel trapped; you think you can’t survive with out them. This addiction to her approval is often combined by an activity known as intermittent reinforcement, where your spouse might be kind, occasionally harsh, therefore the pattern is actually entirely volatile. A codependent people is highly vunerable to this actions simply because they simply want those around them to end up being happier. A manipulative individual are cognizant for this, and makes use of her close nature against all of them. If this so-called injury connection continues for enough time, the individual goes through self-doubt. Possibly their companion calls them insane, gaslights all of them. The only path using this pattern is finished detachment from the scenario. Reduce contact. Surround yourself with those that certainly keep your best passion at heart. You may want to seek professional assistance in order to comprehend the way the traumatization relationship enjoys damaged your, simple tips to undo the deleterious issues, and the ways to one-day prefer again-only now with an attachment that’s healthier, not codependent.
- Figure out how to state aˆ?no’: regardless of the enormous force you think in the minute, there is not in fact any overriding, objective, cosmic reason behind one yield to your spouse’s each demand. Unless you desire to go along, refuse. Let them know you’re not interested. It’s challenging, specially in the beginning, but it’s a very powerful solution to take some energy into yourself.
You will be well worth a lot more than this
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We wanted to get answers to those questions and more… so we reached out to our community and beyond. We ended up with a snapshot of the web developers out there to better guide our plans for the Mozilla Developer Network. While we know a lot about Mozilla hackers, add-on developers, and those working on mobile, we wanted to learn more about web developers, who are by far the largest segment that we touch. And while there is data available about their demographics and the technologies they use, we couldn’t find anything that would give us a better understanding of where they hang out and what they think of the companies that are working on the products and technologies they build and use.
I’ll summarize the results from the 1,331 responses we received from our “Web Developers & the Open Web 2010” (WDATOW 2010) survey, and share the infographic we created to capture some of the key findings.
We reached the greatest number of respondents via our Hacks blog and @mozhacks Twitter account, but we were also able to tap into our global community through our localizers, who helped translate the survey into 9 languages: English, Spanish, German, French, Italian, Hungarian, Portuguese, Japanese, and Indonesian. We also posted requests for responses to various developer forums and websites affiliated with other companies, to ensure we had a broad sample that was as representative as possible. Of course we didn’t get as many responses from some of those channels, so the results should be interpreted with the caveat that active Mozilla community members are likely overrepresented.
However, that does not take away from the value of the information we have gathered. We identified “Mozilla” developers and “Other” developers based on answers to a few questions and found that the cross-over profiles of both categories of people were very similar. You can find out more on page 11 in the full report. We identified both categories based on the overall feedback on Mozilla sites vs other company sites, as well as how often they visited those sites, with those that primarily visited MDN making up the “Mozilla” developers, and those that did not being labeled “Other”. Therefore, while some of the open-ended questions might have a lot of subjective and fairly biased opinions, most of the questions produced fairly consistent responses from both groups when it came to the technologies and resources.
We had a very diverse set of respondents that spans the entire globe. While most other research has large US samples, with only a few other countries represented, for our survey, only 20% of the respondents were in the US. Given the high response rate from Europe, we ended up with a well-balanced international sample. That’s why some of our results may not look like web developer profiles that you have seen elsewhere. And that’s a good thing: we are providing another data point for comparison and further analysis.
Web Developer Profiles
We started the survey with some basic questions that would allow us to segment the developers taking the survey. One interesting finding that didn’t seem to match other research we had looked at was the primary OS used by developers. While we would expect most web developers to be on Mac OS X, followed by Windows and a small percentage on Linux (like in the Web Directions survey), we had a more evenly distributed breakdown. Recent Windows versions combined made up 46%, followed by a strong showing of Linux users at 30%, and Mac OS X with a 24% developer base. I would say that a strong bias towards open source in the sample combined with the fact that we had a lot of responses from outside the US are the reasons for Linux being more popular. Also, while a lot of people self-selected as both a web developer and designer, the sample definitely skews towards web developers, so perhaps that explains the Mac OS X numbers.
It was also interesting to see the years of experience spread out across veterans and newbies, with about 48% of the sample having less than 5 years of experience and 52% having 6 or more years in web development.
There were no surprises from the industries question, with most web developers working in technology at 38%, followed by media at 18%. And while there were smaller percentages working in other industries, 11% of those surveyed were students who have not yet entered the work force. For more on developer profiles see the full report.
Where Developers Spend Time
Perhaps the most important series of questions in this survey focused on the web resources and communities that developers rely on for their day-to-day work. Whether it was for looking up documentation or asking questions to debug their code, we wanted to get an idea of the most popular websites for web developers.
We picked a list of websites based on initial feedback from web developers during the survey design process, and the results clearly show that all of them are popular and engender a lot of opinions on aspects of those sites.
We not only asked which resource and community was the respondent’s favorite, but also provided a list of attributes for them to rate. PHP.net was the most popular resource at 32%, followed by jQuery.com and w3schools. And Stack Overflow was by far the most popular developer community at 40%, followed by GitHub and Wikipedia.
We intentionally included a diverse set of websites in order to see how developers rated them on our list of criteria. Since MDN supports both resources and communities, we wanted to get data on a broad set of sites. Be sure to take a close look at the ratings to see how all the websites did across a number of important attributes. You can find them starting on page 20 of the full report.
We were looking for a way to find out what works across a variety of site characteristics. For example, our Hacks blog is mostly posts about web technology, the MDN Doc Center is all about documentation, and our various programs and campaigns via Mobile, Add-ons, and Labs provide a more interactive forum for developers to get involved. Based on the ratings and open-ended feedback, we have learned a lot about which existing sites do well in terms of effectiveness, documentation, navigation, aesthetics, etc.
All of this information is valuable for us as we evaluate and prioritize projects that will help us grow and improve our MDN community.
We also asked which next-generation technologies were interesting to our respondents, and found out that HTML5 video, canvas, and SVG were all important to developers. 3D using WebGL seemed less interesting to them, but that might be due to the technology being not yet ready for prime time and the lack of examples in the wild. We hope to change that with the capabilities in Firefox 4 and beyond.
Company Affiliated Websites
Although all of the sites in this category serve different purposes and have varying feature sets, it was still important to get a feel for where developers were spending their time and how they viewed the developer sites from companies like Adobe, Apple, Google, Microsoft, Mozilla, Oracle, and Sun.
Given our sample, we expected most developers to have heard of and frequently visited Google’s and Mozilla’s sites. The data clearly shows both as popular destinations for web developers. But it’s important to note that these two sites offer different benefits to developers. Google Code is a great open source code repository and community, while the MDN website remains a very popular web documentation resource.
The other sites are mostly focused on promoting and supporting the company’s products and technologies, so it wasn’t surprising to see that many of our respondents had never, or rarely, visited them. Again, given our audience, we expected to see this and it was nice to confirm our assumptions.
Our survey report, as well as the high-level data reflected in our infographic, give us a snapshot of the web developers we serve through our MDN website and programs. With the insights from this survey, we now know where in the world our audience is, where they go for information and help, and what they think about the companies that help define the web.
A few key areas we need to work on right now are localization, documentation, and developer tools. From the knowledge we have gained, we now have data to back up some of the assumptions we have made to date, the details we need to refine our MDN roadmap, and user feedback to guide our developer engagement efforts from a marketing and communications stand point.
As we kick off the new MDN docs platform project, build out a demo gallery to showcase the latest in HTML5 and CSS3 the web has to offer, and continue to find ways to connect with the web developers that visit us every day, this survey and future developer research will continue to guide us.
Thanks to everyone who participated and we hope that you find the infographic interesting. We tried to capture the major findings in a way that would allow anyone to quickly get a sense of what the web developer community looks like today. If you’re interested in seeing the full report, it is available at: http://www.scribd.com/doc/39278543/Web-Developers-the-Open-Web-Survey-Results.
– Jay & the MDN team
UPDATE: I apologize for anyone that had problems viewing the full report on scribd.com. I did not realize you needed an account to view public slides. The report is now available for download in .pdf, .odp, and .pptx formats.
About Jay Patel
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One might expect Icelanders to be very eco-friendly; that would fit the image, considering all that clear water, clean air and geothermal energy.
On the contrary, I find Icelanders rather careless when it comes to environmental awareness.
I could name many aspects in which Icelanders aren't very green, but let's focus on recycling.
In Iceland, it seems, it's normal to just throw everything in the same trash can. Sorting waste is surely no common habit among Icelanders.
As I found out, it was usual until 2009 for Icelandic households to have only one single trash can for what is simply called “domestic waste”. Unbelievable.
In my hometown Stuttgart, if you don't sort your trash as required, the garbage collectors won't empty your trash cans until you do the waste separation correctly. You might even get fined.
So this is the basic Icelandic recycle system in theory:
There are two places you can go to get rid of your garbage (other than the domestic waste cans outside every house): drop-off centers and recycling centers.
The drop-off centers can be found in each residential area and have blue and green containers.
The blue container are for all kinds of paper waste while the green containers are intended for all sorts of containers made of plastic, e.g. juice bottles, shampoo bottles, shopping bags etc.
Interesting side note: the collected paper is shipped to Sweden where it is recycled.
Shipping trash abroad gives Iceland an annual amount of approximately ISK 150 to 200 million (USD 1.2 to 1.6 million, EUR 760,000 to 1 million) in foreign exchange earnings. It’s good that money doesn’t stink.
The recycling centers are for any type of waste other than the aforementioned categories. At this site waste is accepted and stored until it is shipped abroad, sorted or handled in some other way. The trash is then transferred for disposal, reuse or recovery, or is disposed of on site.
So far so good.
But is that reality proof? The devil is in the details.
I can tell you, this system is extremely unhandy and inconvenient; a dark voice inside of me wants to call it ridiculous.
Most people just don't care about proper waste sorting; they just throw everything into one trash can because recycling the waste properly is too complicated.
Example: The nearest recycling center from my flat in downtown Reykjavík is about a ten-minute drive away, give or take. Not very handy for people without a car. Minus point number one.
When I drove to said recycling center for the first time to return a whole bunch of glass bottles I had collected over the year I was asked how many bottles I had.
I honestly thought it was a joke when I learned that I was supposed to count and sort all the bottles beforehand. Am I seriously expected to count every single bottle of the load?
And you can't even count the bottles while transferring them into the center's containers, no way. They have to be counted before you arrive. Period. It's even written on a big sign. Minus point number two.
At least you get paid a small fee for handing in bottles and aluminum cans, that's definitely a plus. Money is always a good stimulus to make people recycle. I doubt it's enough, though.
No wonder nobody recycles. It's like the local system doesn't want you to.
Germany's recycling system is a fine example for how it can work. Let me brag a little.
Every residential area in Germany has several containers for glass. You can just walk there, dispose of your bottles and go home. Quick and easy.
If you have special bottles with refundable deposits it's even easier. When you do your shopping in the supermarket of your choice, you just put your empty bottles on a conveyor band especially for that purpose and then receive a ticket stating number of bottles and amount of refund. Quick and easy.
By the way, every store is obliged to take back the wrappings of the products it sells. That makes the stores use as few wrappings as possible and reduce the production of trash. Brilliant.
Almost every German household uses special trash bags or cans (usually yellow) for any kind of plastic garbage. Those bags or cans are regularly taken by the garbage collectors.
It’s the same story with bio waste. In Germany you can use a special bio trash can which is also picked up from your doorstep, whereas in Iceland such a thing seem to be too exotic to be commonly used.
Also, Icelandic apartments and houses don't seem to be designed for recycling. There is never enough space for more than just one tiny trash can.
So, (very) long story short: The Icelandic recycling system is very, very poor and needs a reform! People can be lazy, myself included, and if you want them to sort their waste properly you have to make it easy and not try to put as many obstacles in their way as possible.
Disposal sites have to be easily accessible and the process of unloading trash should be simple and functional. Also, people have to be legally obligated to handle their waste properly.
Well, I could go on forever. I don't mean to be condescending but this is a burning and frustrating issue for me that I've been waiting to talk about for years.
This blatant lack of ecological awareness of Icelanders is such a shame...
By the way, the impetus for this article was a recent trip to said drop-off center. A woman parked her car next to the container to recycle some paper just like me. She left the car's engine running the entire time.
What a wonderful world.
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Research supports the idea that all of us live with a lot of anxiety and fear. Much of the anxiety is just part of being alive: Our awareness of death, our fragility and vulnerability create a constant "existential" anxiety.
Within our relationships, however, most of us suffer from too much anxiety and fear primarily because our communications provoke these destructive emotions through criticism, accusation, punishment and humiliation.
Living with anxiety and fear creates unhappiness and despair in all our relationships. So reducing the anxiety and fear caused by blame is one of this book's primary goals.
The goal of living Beyond Blame
is to live without criticism and accusation.
No More Criticism or Accusations -- How Would It Feel?
Imagine what it would be like if all the important people in your life stopped criticizing and accusing you! Imagine that the only things they said were positive and supportive! And when conflict arose (as it must) it was handled respectfully, with hardly any anger, fear or pain.
Wouldn't that feel wonderful?
In the meantime, we need to dig a little deeper into the debilitating emotions of anxiety and fear, and how they're connected to blame.
Anxiety and Criticism Negatively Affect Recipients and Cause Unhappiness
Aaron teaches high school and shares custody of his ten-year-old son, David, who has a learning disability. Aaron's ex-wife is studying nursing and also works, so she has little time to follow David's studies. Aaron blames a lot of David's problems on his ex-wife. Aaron is constantly in the grip of all six negative emotions (anger, resentment, anxiety, pain, fear, humiliation), but his primary emotion is anxiety: he worries about his son's academic success.
Aaron teaches science and he believes his son should shine in that subject, despite his disabilities and interest in art and reading. Aaron is completely unaware of how his anxiety over David's lack of ability in math and his ongoing criticism affect his son.
During a recent shopping trip, Aaron popped a quiz about the bill. "David, the total was $17.21, and I gave the clerk twenty dollars. So how much change should he have given me back? Go on, do the math in your head."
David mumbled an answer. Aaron snapped, "It's simple! Just think! David, you've got to do something other than read books if you're going to support yourself."
Of course the boy was humiliated and anxious. Why was reading silly? He wasn't naturally good at math and it seemed that unless he was, his father wouldn't love him.
Criticism Creates Anxiety and the Belief of Being Unworthy
Sadly, Aaron's comment was part of a pattern of criticism that eventually created a great deal of anxiety in the boy. He felt increasingly incapable in all his studies. This anxiety made his study of math all the more problematic. In other words, he did a lot worse because of his father's criticism.
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Criticism is the main source of anxiety in relationships and threatens the stability of the connection because it communicates that we're not okay, that our performance is substandard.
AN OCCASIONAL CRITICISM IS NOT THE PROBLEM
I'm not saying that an occasional minor criticism destroys relationships. A snappy, "Why did you do that?" will not be a problem. Nor will occasional disapproval cause harm.
The problem is the constant flow of messages with a negative emotional charge that tell you that you are not good enough. The consequence of living in such a critical environment is a tremendous amount of anxiety about the stability of the relationship.
Our sensitivity to criticism and accusation goes back to our earliest days as children with our parents. We know that their approval is essential to our happiness and all children do their best to please their parents.
Expressing Disapproval Through Blame & Criticism?
Unfortunately, too many parents (even in this more enlightened era) still use generic forms of blame and criticism as a means of expressing disapproval. The intention might be to improve the child's behavior, but the criticism just makes children feel bad about themselves, anxious about their relationship and especially anxious about their self-worth.
The dynamics of pain and humiliation are similar to those of anger and fear because they typically produce anxiety.
Reprinted with permission of the publisher, Jeremy P. Tarcher/Penguin,
a member of Penguin Group (USA). ©2011 by Carl Alasko.
Beyond Blame: Freeing Yourself from the Most Toxic Form of Emotional Bullsh*t
by Carl Alasko, Ph.D.
For many, a rare day goes by in which the need to blame does not arise-be it to cover one's own errors or just to assign an unfortunate event some kind of name (i.e., "If only X hadn't said X, we wouldn't be in this mess.") The path to eliminating blame is not a quick or easy one but, as Carl Alasko demonstrates, it is a road that must be traveled if we hope to achieve true peace in our lives.
About the Author
Carl Alasko, Ph.D. has been a practicing psychotherapist specializing in couples and families for over twenty years. For the past thirteen years he has written a weekly advice column, "On Relationships", for the Monterey County Herald, which has consistently been one of the Herald's most popular columns. He has also given numerous lectures on the topic of healthy relationships and has hosted a popular advice radio show. Visit his website at www.carlalasko.com | <urn:uuid:9411c9e4-54b1-4103-a3ad-3f7d1bb9a53e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://innerself.com/personal/attitudes-transformed/perfectionism/8009-criticism-leads-to-anxiety-and-fear.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.968623 | 1,179 | 2.390625 | 2 |
One of the foremost political issues – the most foremost political issue of our time – in North America, I would argue, is how to proceed with the development of pipelines. Specifically, the Keystone XL pipeline which TransCanada Inc. proposes to build for $7 billion to transport heavy oil sands crude from a terminal in Hardisty, Alberta to Cushing, Oklahoma and the Gulf Coast, the major heavy crude refining centres in North America. This is all public information which has been repeated countless times in the media, and why so many? Because it is a difficult issue to resolve. There are dozens of firms operating in the oil sands and several would like to sharply increase their production in the next decade. The issue is how to move all this oil to where there is capacity to refine it so it can then be transported abroad to energy-hungry markets. Keystone XL is the easiest, simplest, cheapest, most obvious way to do this.
Lining up against the pipeline are several prominent American intellectuals, celebrities and at least one billionaire. But I’m not here to take sides in the media’s fake polarization of the issue between the Hollywood High-horse cavalry and a bunch of profiteer oil companies hungry for new revenue and new markets, which is the simplistic way to frame it. I have just realized, thanks to an excellent New Yorker article, what a big deal this actually is and thus, want to assess the probabilities and consequences in either scenario.
As a betting man, I’m thinking the President denies this pipeline. The smart money was on him approving it, a year and a half ago, until the republicans took back Congress and have made Obama’s failure their full time agenda. Climate change legislation will not get nowhere, immigration reform is stalled, Obamacare, the signature health care reform legislation that the President would like to consider his biggest accomplishment, being attacked by all sides. This is an issue whose approval is the exclusive jurisdiction of the State Department, an executive office under Mr. Obama’s purview headed up by former presidential candidate John Kerry, who would really like to be remembered as the 300 million dollar French speaking man who sold his $2.25 million worth of Suncor stock before becoming America’s top diplomat and denying them and all their competitors this crucial access to refining capacity in order to “save the world from climate change”. Wow. A fox news anchor would probably have a heart attack on air reading that. All kidding aside, the President knows this is the one issue, the only issue around on which he can take decisive action for his legacy to be environmentalist trailblazer and not reluctant coward trying to please everybody. You would think Stephen Harper, Alison Redford, and the oil patch’s lobbyists in Washington would realize that they are essentially saying the same things to Obama in nice sweet tones as the Republicans are screaming at him with expletives and thus not really endearing themselves to him, but they are literally defending their own constituencies bread and butter with passion more than being American right-wing lapdogs. Harper and Redford were both elected by voters in constituencies of Calgary’s rich South-west suburbs, inhabited no doubt as well by many of the top executives of the dozens of Calgary-based oil and gas firms to whom Keystone would be a boon.
Being pro-pipeline is a lot more complicated than being disgusted by the hypocrisy of private-jet owning environmentalist celebs. It’s great to be for “reducing our dependency on fossil fuels” until you realize a) what this means for the average person and b) what this means for the broader economy. I’m not talking about the convenience of one individual driving to Wal-Mart or hopping on a plane. I’m talking about every farm, every mine, every oil rig across the land, every machine humming to get all that stuff we need out of the ground. I’m talking about every manufacturer, every factory, every shipyard and scrap yard. How are any of these goods going to be brought to market in the volume they are now, without petroleum? Then there is the North American automobile fleet, with something like 1.6 cars per habitant. This is the largest source of emissions globally. Yet no North American politician, of any stripe, can prevent himself from proclaiming with sheer joy the speed at which North American auto plants are humming right now, churning out a record number of autos and making record profits. Many of these politicians will, in the same breath, earnestly state the importance of “getting serious about climate change” Does a whole continent not realize, improved fuel efficiency standards notwithstanding, the amount of energy required not just to power those vehicles on an ongoing basis but to build them and bring them to market? How about all the fuel and lubricants required to run all the crap found in the aisles of our national treasures, Canadian Tire and Rona or their US equivalents. All the solvents, compounds, and dyes in our clothes, cosmetics, household products and electronics. Where is all this energy going to come from, without petroleum. Beets? Corn? Pixie Dust?
I know, I’m just stuck in the past. I drank the oil companies’ propaganda. Then the environmentalist will tell you about electric cars and Germany and Denmark until you realize that Germany and Denmark still run principally on coal despite their show-off windmills and “clean-burning natural gas” is only so when its easy to access – Josh Fox’s documentary Gasland highlights how the emissions intensity of the gas being extracted now from Shale plays all over the US makes it as bad as – coal. So guess what. I’ve looked into this, and you can’t get blood from a stone. We can innovate, we can tweak, we can get more efficient, we can shave off bits of pollution here and improve biodiversity there – I don’t want to turn my nose up at the great work scientists all over the world are doing – but if the goal is truly avoiding the great catch phrase of our time “catastrophic climate change” – Keystone XL is about furthest thing from the panacea you can get. I’m with internet bloggers like James Howard Kunstler, John Michael Greer – even former Canadian bank economist Jeff Rubin is kind of in this category now -that any long-term hope in the future lies in the past, in the era before petroleum. I do not see how these changes will arrive by choice – I am almost certain they will arrive by force
Of course I’m up to 1000 words now, and North America’s political class needs to sell things in one sentence or less. Simply put, Obama understands the dangers of climate change – like most people – and knows that politically he has no skin in this and has nothing to gain by being the latest hapless politician to “kick the can down the road”. It would send the message that the US is serious – we need to somehow, someway get off fossil fuels and carbon emissions. It would be making a “moral” choice over an “economic” choice; the last time a president did that, there was a civil war and it cost him his life. But abolishing slavery was necessary to civilize the nation, and of course, the States with a vested interest in slavery fought the change tooth and nail and received an economic handicap from which they never really fully recovered. The North was of course in a better position to withstand the abolition of slavery since it was already largely functioning without it.
Similarly, whether we choose to get off fossil fuels or are eventually forced to get off them by their scarcity, the societies which will adapt the best are those who are already functioning without it, i.e, Third world nations. Canada, meanwhile, will suffer; up to one third of our economy may already be dependent on the oil sands. Vehicle ownership is less popular for generation x and y but almost universal for boomers. Millions of Canadians would simply not know what to say if you told them they could not drive to work, not because they are dumb, but because no other options exist.
As a Canadian I feel sort of morally obligated to defend Keystone. We as an oil-producing nation that certainly pays for our energy in the form of taxes and regulations; Iran and Saudi Arabia give gas to their citizens for pennies. At the same time I think powering down is the only real option and while I salute and support efforts to improve public transit, get us off of red meat, stop shale gas drilling, combat GMOs and Monsanto and overthrow corrupt and oppressive governments worldwide, I know we are just chipping away at a behemoth. The 2013 citizen of earth knows he can have and wants fast internet, fast smartphones, real-time news, hummers, mcmansions, Costco and wal-mart. I don’t want to uphold my personal choices like some virtuous ideal to be upheld but they exclude many of these things entirely or as much as possible and I think personal choices and personal responsibility are much powerful drivers of change than celebrities coalescing around the symbolic manifestation of a problem. When there are shale plays and mountaintop removal going on all over the USA it seems a little hypocritical that they are turning their nose up at the 17% more carbon-emitting petroleum source that currently supplies 1/20th of their energy needs; however, what they may really be doing is dragging our asses into the future since no Canadian politician can really touch the oil sands with a ten foot pole since we are making tons of cash off them, like way too much to consider shutting them down, every single year. Hmmmm.
One thing that is clear is that the UN just released its latest report that should bring into line the last few deniers of climate change. Come 2015 the Conservatives’ unapologetic belligerence about our 3rd-highest per capita energy consumption population on earth may not play out as well as it has in the past. And then there is a very good chance of a keystone denial waking up the nation before then. The Canadian Association of Petroleum Producers may be right about environmental improvements and progress made on oil sands development but it in the end their defence of their industry and the government’s obfuscation are no substitutes for leading by example and “getting serious”, so to speak. If we pushed harder on transit, efficiency, building standards and R&D then we could probably get away with the oil sands and be exporting that shit like crazy. As it stands, we have a bad reputation for strip mining bitumen (which is what we’re doing no matter what you dress it up with) and for that to continue we are going to have to dialogue and we are going to have to create. The government muzzling scientists and accepting “mandatory motoring” as our nation’s inevitable destiny aren’t going to cut it.
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A teenage transplant patient has told how her life was saved by a donor liver which was plucked from the burning wreckage of a crashed plane.
Frail Kate Trevener, 18, was just hours from death with acute liver failure when a suitable donor organ was found in Northern Ireland.
It was packaged in a protective box and flown to Birmingham Airport – but the private Cessna crashed on landing and exploded into a fireball.
Dramatic pictures of the burnt-out plane made headlines around the world after the crash on November 19 last year. Both the pilot and co-pilot survived the crash.
Amazingly, rescue workers found the organ in ”pristine” condition packed inside the charred red ice box.
The container was strapped to a motorbike and police closed major roads during rush hour as it was raced to the Queen Elizabeth Hospital in Birmingham.
And just 45 minutes after the plane crashed the liver was successfully transplanted into Kate.
Yesterday the teenager, from Castle Bromwich, West Mids., spoke of the moment she was told of the dramatic liver transplant.
She said: ”I was sitting up in bed and my mum was telling me about the crash and I just couldn’t believe what I was being told.
”It makes me so incredibly grateful to still be here today.
”There’s one thing to be told you’re going to die if you don’t get a new liver but to get one which had just been in a plane crash blows my mind.
”I can’t take it all in because at the time I had no idea what was going on and was sedated.
”When I came round the doctors told me the liver had been in a plane crash but they were still able to perform the operation – it was just amazing.”
Kate was rushed to hospital last October after she collapsed at home.
Doctors took blood tests and told Kate – who has never drank booze in her life – that she had the liver of a chronic alcoholic and would die without a transplant.
She was placed at the top of the super-urgent list – the highest priority for transplant patients in the country – and told she would die within 72 hours unless a suitable donor was found.
When a suitable donor organ was found a private plane was sent to Northern Ireland to collect it but the aircraft crashed in thick fog at Birmingham Airport.
It took three surgeons four hours to transplant the liver into Kate, and within hours she was walking around the ward with the help of nurses.
Simon Bramhall, consultant liver surgeon who carried out the operation at the Queen Elizabeth Hospital, said he was ”astonished” the organ survived the crash.
He said: ”I was told the plane carrying the liver had crashed and I just thought to myself ‘well that’s that’.
”I was very sceptical the liver would still be transplantable but it was rushed over to me to inspect.
”I was astonished because the box it was in was badly damaged and covered in soot and petrol and foam but inside the liver was pristine.
”It was still packed in ice and the seals holding it in place were not damaged so I decided we could go ahead with the surgery.
”The operation after that was quite straight forward. It is incredible considering how it came to be here.”
But eight days later Kate was dealt a devastating blow when the liver suffered a massive hameorrhagic necrosis (MHN) – meaning it died in her body.
It is so rare MHN only happens to around eight transplant patients in Britain a year.
Tests are still being carried out into the liver to discover if the crash caused the organ to fail.
Kate was again placed on top of the super-urgent transplant list but doctors warned her parents, Tracey and Mike, to prepare for the worst.
The couple, who also have eight-month-old daughter Annabel, were even advised to ”say their goodbyes” to Kate.
Dad Mike, 45, a lorry driver, said: ”It was a hell of a shock for everyone.
”The doctors came and told us she needed another liver because the other one had literally died inside her.
”Her body didn’t reject the liver, it just died which is incredibly rare but the doctors don’t think the plane crash had anything to do with it.
”We were told to say our goodbyes and warned that the chances of getting another suitable donor were very slim.
”We honestly thought that was it. We were all deeply upset.”
But another donor was found and Kate prepared to go under the knife on November 27.
Unbelievably, her second life-saving op was also close to being cancelled after the plane carrying the liver from Dundee in Scotland had problems taking off.
Mike said: ”Apparently the weather was so bad in Scotland the plane was delayed while snow ploughs cleared the runway and the pilots de-iced the windows.
”We were trying to stay positive but it seemed like everything was against us.”
But the plane touched down just four hours behind schedule and Kate received the liver.
Five weeks after receiving her second liver Kate is expected to make a full recovery and is looking forward to going back to studying for a qualification in child care.
Mum Tracey, 39, an art worker, said: ”When we talk to friends and relatives now about what happened they think we’re making it up.
”It was the worst rollercoaster ride ever but we’re so happy and relieved that Kate is now on the up and is looking better each day.”
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The word encyclopaedist fits Damiao de Goes, a diplomatist, traveller, humanist and bosom friend of Erasmus.
The death of his deeply beloved consort Anastasia and his son Demetrius, and the desertion of his one bosom friend Prince Kurbsky, about the same time, seem to have infuriated Ivan against God and man.
He became Henry's bosom friend and was consulted in all affairs of state.
Within a few weeks he had become the lampooner of the fallen treasurer, the bosom friend of Oxford and Bolingbroke, and the writer of the Examiner, a journal established as the exponent of Tory views (November 1710).
Of Hebron) to betray him, of David's magnanimity displayed on two occasions, and of Jonathan's visit to console his bosom friend (xxiv.
Among the slain was Sir John de Graham, the bosom friend of Wallace, whose death, as Blind Harry tells, threw the hero into a frenzy of rage and grief.
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During Barack Obama’s State of the Democrat’s speech last week, he presented an argument for his presidency and a second term with an address that outlined a sweeping vision for American exceptionalism sustained by an economy rooted in “fairness.”
But it seems he doesn’t use that fairness for American War Veterans and our disabled soldiers. The difference is staggering. Welfare recipients are getting their benefits inside of 30 days and some emergency assistance recipients are getting their food stamps within seven. However, there are over 600K Veteran benefit claims, while nearly 400K claims have been pending for 125 days or more. This is not fair at all but then again this is Obama’s America. | <urn:uuid:8fa53f43-9896-4dec-bbb3-1c2432618fa2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://waynedupree.com/fairness-welfare-recipients-getting-assistance-veterans-getting-shaft/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00139-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963851 | 144 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Avoiding deforestation in the tropics can play a key role in reducing future greenhouse gas concentrations, a new study by the Global Carbon Project and CSIRO has revealed.
"Deforestation in the tropics accounts for nearly 20 per cent of carbon emissions due to human activities. This will release an estimated 87 to 130 billion tonnes of carbon by 2100, which is greater than the amount of carbon that would be released by 13 years of global fossil fuel combustion. So maintaining forests as carbon sinks will make a significant contribution to stabilising atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations," said Dr Pep Canadell from the Global Carbon Project and CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research.
AdvertisementIn the first study of its kind, Dr Canadell joined an international team of experts from the US, UK, Brazil and France to compare data from 11 climate-carbon computer models and found that tropical deforestation releases 1.5 billion tonnes of carbon each year into the atmosphere.
The results showed that tropical forests continued to accumulate carbon through to the end of the century, although they became less efficient at higher temperatures.
"The new body of information shows considerable value in preserving tropical forests such as those in the Amazon and Indonesia as carbon sinks, that they do not release the carbon back into the atmosphere as has been suggested. However, it also demonstrates the need to avoid higher levels of global warming, which could slow the ability of forests to accumulate carbon," said Dr Canadell.
He said while tropical deforestation will continue, slowing the amount of clearing will make significant impacts.
"If by 2050 we slow deforestation by 50 per cent from the current levels, with the aim of stopping deforestation when we have 50 per cent of the world's tropical forests remaining, this would save the emission of 50 billion tonnes of carbon into the atmosphere. This 50/50/50 option would avoid the release of the equivalent of six years of global fossil fuel emissions," he said.
"Reducing deforestation is just one of a portfolio of mitigation options needed to reduce concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere," he added.
"Globally, we need a range of actions to reduce the build up of carbon in the atmosphere. This study ensures we have a sound scientific basis behind the consideration of deforestation reduction," he further said.
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"The number one issue facing the commonwealth today is jobs," said Democrat Joe Hoeffel, candidate for PA governor. "We need a comprehensive strategy to create jobs, build a strong workforce, help small businesses, revitalize our cities, and rebuild our infrastructure as we move Pennsylvania's economy forward. Many see our situation as a problem to solve, but we also have an opportunity."
Investments to revitalize and rehabilitate older communities and downtowns will bring Pennsylvania's cities economic growth they haven't seen in many years, in turn bringing renewed safety, prosperity, and pride. As Montgomery County Commissioner, Joe Hoeffel launched a bold county economic development plan to spur major urban redevelopment projects, attract and retain businesses, and rejuvenate older commercial complexes. Hoeffel's economic development plan balances attracting large businesses to locate in or invest in Pennsylvania with strong support for small and local businesses in the commonwealth.
"I am also deeply committed to infrastructure projects," said Hoeffel. "We both create jobs and improve safety through projects to repair aging road and rail bridges throughout the state."
By investing in our roads, looking not only at maintenance but also at long-deferred upgrades and expansions, we not only increase highway capacity, but also encourage responsible development which will preserve both urban neighborhoods and suburban communities. "These projects can strengthen the connections between cities and suburbs and help both as they help each other."
Hoeffel also knows that investing in mass transit creates jobs in construction, maintenance, and transportation operations. An important by-product of this investment is that it facilitates and supports jobs throughout our cities and their surroundings. Through improved commuting, we improve quality of life for families. Moreover, we help the environment through reduced energy consumption and air pollution.
Revitalizing our urban centers can provide the economic "pull" to complement the "push" of the open space preservation programs. Coupled with transit-oriented design guiding our development, we can help our cities, suburbs, and rural areas work together as never before.
"Creating jobs right away through urban redevelopment and infrastructure rebuilding is the key to getting our economic recovery moving full steam ahead. But we also need to make sure we are creating a sustainable, long-lasting recovery. Through bolstered education and job training programs, we can build a strong workforce," said Hoeffel.
"And through sound investment in the business sectors which have demonstrated they are going to be the backbone of our 21st century economy, we can create high-paying, skilled jobs for Pennsylvania's workers. These are the two things we need most in order to not only recover from our current recession, but maintain a robust economy in the future."
"It is critical that we increase access to community college programs designed to educate and re-train workers in the skills the 21st century demands for Pennsylvanians of all ages. Those who stand to benefit the most from this are those most likely to be out of work. Increased funding and tuition assistance programs are a must if we are to bring this opportunity within their reach."
Hoeffel already has a track record of success in attracting investments from out-of-state and overseas partners for Pennsylvania businesses, from his days as Pennsylvania's Deputy Secretary for the Office of International Business Development. But when looking at businesses in Pennsylvania, Hoeffel wants us to keep a sense of scale: "Only 2% of Pennsylvania businesses have 100 or more employees. The other 98% of Pennsylvania businesses are small businesses, with 62% being sole proprietorships," Hoeffel explained. "And in a down economy, these are the businesses which are hardest hit. They have fewer resources and less money in the bank to help weather the storm, and less access to the financial capital required to right the ship when the seas calm."
To help small, local businesses across the commonwealth, Hoeffel has outlined a plan calling for investment in local and community banks and credit unions and recognizing the added value of awarding contracts to Pennsylvania businesses. He believes Pennsylvania can build a system where taxpayers, financial institutions, and businesses work together with the common interest of investing in our communities and rebuilding Pennsylvania's economy.
“Unlike J.P. Morgan and Citigroup, Pennsylvania’s community banks and credit unions are tied to the success of our towns, schools, and communities. And many are rated as much safer than the big banks," explained Hoeffel recently. "Community banks have unique knowledge of local economies and familiarities with local business prospects, and they have a vested interest in seeing their communities thrive."
Hoeffel said he would encourage municipalities, agencies, and school districts across the commonwealth to rethink the way we use public assets and invest in the institutions that invest in us. “By shifting public assets out of the banks that have bilked us for millions, and into local institutions that support our taxpayers and grow our small businesses, we can make our money work for us, not the tycoons of Wall Street,” he said.
Hoeffel also pledged to create a fair bidding practice for state business contracts. “When the state buys goods from out-of-state businesses, we send money out of the state and never see it again,” he explained. “But when we buy from in-state businesses, some of that money returns to Pennsylvania in the form of taxes from the companies and workers.” By using a net bidding procedure for state contracts, Pennsylvania can more fairly assess the value of bids -- taking into account the money that will return to the state in business and individual taxes, and also the economic benefits to the state from the employment of Pennsylvania workers that the work will maintain or create. | <urn:uuid:68debf68-9b22-4e1d-b064-8e133f89453b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://aboveavgjane.blogspot.com/2010/04/hoeffel-on-economic-development.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00143-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960241 | 1,178 | 1.507813 | 2 |
The risks of cosmetic surgery for body dysmorphic disorder patients
Many people feel unhappy or insecure about their physical appearance during some point in their lives. However, individuals can become obsessed with the way that they look and worry excessively about small, or imagined, flaws within their appearance leading to a little known illness called body dysmorphia. To cure the dysmorphia, some go under the knife and make changes to their appearance. However, having body dysmorphia and plastic surgery can be risky.
Understanding body dysmorphia
Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) is estimated to affect 1 in 50 people and is a disabling preoccupation with perceived defects. The condition usually develops in adolescence, a time when people are generally most sensitive about their appearance, and can affect both men and women, making sufferers excessively self-conscious.
Symptoms tend to include checking your appearance repeatedly and trying to camouflage or alter the defects you see. Many patients often undergo needless cosmetic treatments. Onlookers are frequently perplexed because they can see nothing out of the ordinary, but BDD causes devastating distress and interferes substantially with your ability to function socially.
That's why it's important to diagnose people early, as it's easier to treat body dysmorphic disorder before your thoughts and anxieties have really become entrenched.
Body dysmorphia is commonly referred to in the media as 'imagined ugliness syndrome' which isn't particularly helpful as the word 'ugliness' is very real to the individual concerned and does not reflect the stress and anxiety that BDD can cause.
Many people with BDD don't always seek help as they are worried about being viewed as vain and narcissistic. The condition is incredibly misunderstood, and more funding is needed for research. Figures show that 1 in 330 people take their own life each year because of their BDD, so it is important that the media helps to raise awareness of BDD and most importantly, reinforces the fact that it is a treatable condition.
The effects of social media on BDD patients
Social media and bullying has frequently been cited as a contributory factor in influencing body image. A recent survey showed that teenagers spend over an hour a day using social media sites such as Facebook, Instagram and Snapchat.
In recent years, the 'selfie' has become a social media phenomenon with smartphones making it easier to take daily snaps of yourself. A survey showed that 16-25 year olds spend, on average, 16 minutes and seven attempts to take the perfect selfie.
It's difficult to draw the line where body dissatisfaction stops and BDD starts. Social media, in particular Instagram, certainly play a part in showcasing perfect bodies and BDD patients just want to fit in with what they see.
Cosmetic surgery and BDD
Many people who suffer with body dysmorphia try to alter perceived defects with frequent and repetitive cosmetic surgery. However, fewer than 10% of BDD patients will be satisfied with the results of the BDD plastic surgery, and their anxieties are often transferred to another aspect of their appearance. It is thought that around 15% of people seeking plastic surgery have BDD.
Although cosmetic surgery can temporarily reduce the anxiety caused by your BDD, it's likely that you'll soon find yourself fixating on another part of your body that you want to change. In addition, all cosmetic surgery comes with risks and it's a possibility that some patients will have 'botched' surgery which can ultimately make your condition worse.
At its worst, BDD can make regular employment or family life impossible. Those in regular employment or those who have family responsibilities would almost certainly find life more productive and satisfying if they did not have the symptoms of BDD. Partners, friends, and family members can often find it very distressing when they are unable to help the person they love stop feeling 'ugly' or regain control of their lives.
Signs and symptoms of BDD
Thelist below shows some of the most common BDD symptoms:
- Obsessively checking your appearance in a mirror or reflective surface
- Cutting or combing your hair to make it 'just so'
- Picking your skin to make it smooth and feeling for imperfections and flaws
- Constantly comparing yourself to models in magazines or friends'/celebrities' social media
- Disproportionate amount of discussion about your appearance
- Using make-up to camouflage and hide behind
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What is our relationship with nature?
During the lockdown, my relationship with nature looks a little like this — figuring out the different types of trees and plants and how they change with the season, seeing fireflies light up entire trees like Christmas lights, listening to a symphony of American bullfrogs croak, finding fungi in every corner of the forest. What I realized is in the midst of great uncertainties, Mother Nature continues to provide for us.
There are a few pivotal moments that led me to this realization and my relationship with nature today:
In 2013, I worked with green startups in Egypt focusing on recycling and solid waste management. I remember one of the youths from a startup asking me, “Veronica, what are we trying to do here?”, and I answered enthusiastically about how we need to save the environment and all. He calmly replied,
“Mother Earth has been around for 6 billion years, it will survive but humans may not. We are just trying to save ourselves.” I took a huge gulp and agreed.
In 2014, I pursued a Masters in Sustainability Management thinking that the exploitation of natural resources will eventually hit companies’ bottom line and it is imperative that companies integrate sustainability in their core business model. What I learnt is nature has a right to exist on its own, not merely as a resource for humans to utilize. As I listened to my coursemates describe their relationship growing up and spending time on Chesapeake Bay, the largest estuary in the United States, I remember thinking what is our relationship with nature in Asia?
From 2015, I started working in sustainable agriculture in China and Colombia. Through my colleagues and the farmers we work with, I learnt the importance of understanding the language of the soil and I remember how fascinated I was when I first learnt that:
There are more microorganisms in a spoonful of healthy soil than there are people on Earth.
At the same time, I was horrified by the scale of the pollution that’s taking place, whether in metropolitan cities or remote areas. Running along a river filled with floating dead fish, oasis forming in the middle of nowhere from waste water piped from nearby factories, clouds of smoke amidst rolling hills because farmers are burning their crop waste. I wonder why do people do this? Do they not know it’s bad? But for the farmers at least, they do know what’s good and bad for the soil, their health and the environment. It’s just that industrial agriculture doesn’t allow them to do that.
In 2019, I went through a personal crisis that made me stop and reflect on what truly gives me grounding, is it the people in our lives, the work that we do or? I spent a lot of time in and being with nature — listening to the rustling of the leaves from the wind and the sound of raindrops, feeling the warmth of the sun and the uneven lines on the bark of a tree, seeing the turtles every time I run past the pond near my house — a sense of calmness and ease began to develop every time I am in nature.
However, it has become increasingly clear that as we continue to tip the balance of natural ecosystems, one day it will crash. Emerging zoonotic diseases like COVID-19 are often the results of encroachment on previously untouched natural areas which provides a buffer between humans and disease.
My biggest fear is that post-COVID, we just go back to business as usual. On Jul 1st, 2020, I read an article written by the Borneo Project about how logging concessions were approved for 148,000 ha of indigenous Kenyah land in Sarawak, Malaysia without proper consultation of the local affected communities. I’ve been away from Malaysia, my home country for over a decade now but I realized the plight of indigenous people around the world, the keepers of our forest and land are not that different. The Borneo rainforest is one of the oldest forests on Earth, estimated to be around 140 million years old, twice as old as the Amazon. 80% of the rainforests in Sarawak have already been heavily impacted by logging in the last 50 years. The rainforest is the life and blood of the Kenyah, Penan, Kayan, and 200 other ethnic groups in Borneo. What is the logic of cutting down ancient, old-growth forests to make plywood and cheap furniture? The whole world is talking about a green recovery — how to build back better. Why not Malaysia?
Shocked by the approval of the concession that allows the harvesting of timber from a fragile ecosystem bordering a national park, a wildlife sanctuary, and at least four community reserved forests, communities have reached out to local advocacy organization SAVE Rivers to support their complaints. SAVE Rivers has launched a petition urging the international timber certification body PEFC to hold the Malaysian Timber Certification Council to account for their failure to obtain consent from indigenous communities, as required by their own guidelines. My dream is to one day be able to document the relationship of the indigenous people of Malaysia with nature and in turn, begin to learn from them and form our own narrative of how we relate to nature in Asia.
As Sia Ngedau, a Penan activist puts it beautifully:
“Kita akan kehilangan semua hutan. Ini bukanlah untuk keperluan orang Penan saja. Ini adalah untuk kebaikan semua orang, baik di dalam atau luar negara. Saya harap kepada semua orang supaya terus memberi sokongan kepada kami untuk terus mengekalkan alam yang indah ini untuk milik kita semua.” (All of the jungle will eventually be lost. This is not just for the needs of the Penan. This would be for the good of everyone in this country and overseas. I hope that all people both from this country and around the world would continue to support us so that we can keep preserving this beautiful land that belongs to us all.) | <urn:uuid:68273385-294f-48d6-9cd3-769995a8a36a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://veronicayow.medium.com/what-is-our-relationship-with-nature-5bb38c664ade?source=post_internal_links---------4---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.934452 | 1,273 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Suffern is a village in the Town of Ramapo, Rockland County, New York, United States located north of the State of New Jersey; east of Hillburn; south of Montebello and west of Airmont. As of the 2000 census, Suffern's population was 11,006. The village is one of the more urban communities in Rockland County.
Alternative Dispute Resolution Lawyers In Suffern New York
What is alternative dispute resolution?
Alternative Dispute Resolution is a mechanism by which different types of legal disputes are resolved through out-of-court processes like arbitration, and mediation as an alternative to civil litigation. ADR methods can be effective in reducing the time, money, and adversarial nature associated with traditional court-based proceedings.
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The importance of a correctly drafted witness statement
The President of the Family Division recently issued updated guidance on how witness statements should be prepared for use in family courts. Sir Andrew McFarlane said clear instructions were needed as “Too many witness statements are prepared in breach of proper professional standards”.
So what makes a proper and effective witness statement, and when do you need to make one?
What is a witness statement?
A witness statement is a written document that records evidence of a witness in legal proceedings. It is signed by that person to confirm that their statement is true.
It can be used to record what a witness saw, heard or felt.
Witness statements are used across many areas of law, but in family law, they are particularly important as evidence that will be submitted when dealing with a range of issues including (but not limited to) proposed child arrangements or financial settlements. Having inaccurate or poorly presented witness statements can slow proceedings down and delay the outcome.
Who can provide a witness statement?
Anyone over the age of 18, who has mental capacity and factual knowledge relevant to the matter, can provide a witness statement.
The court will ask you, or via your solicitor (if you have one), to prepare a witness statement if they believe one is needed. They will also give you a timeline within which you or your solicitor must submit the statement to the court and the other party.
In family cases, the other people who might be required to give witness statements are usually relatives or acquaintances. For example, in a child arrangements case, if an ex-partner has concerns about the other party making an application because they have shown worrying behaviour in the past, they can ask someone who has witnessed this behaviour to provide a statement. The individual will need to have directly witnessed this behaviour and be impartial.
What do I need to include in a witness statement?
To write a witness statement that is useful and accepted by the family court, you must consider the below:
- The statement must only contain evidence from the maker of the statement.
- It must be expressed in the first person using the witness’s own words. It cannot be a second-hand account of what happened.
- A statement must only include matters of fact, information and belief that are relevant to the case.
- A witness statement must not:
- Include a quote from any other document;
- Seek to argue the case;
- Take the court through the documents in the case;
- Set out a narrative derived from the documents;
- Express the opinions of the witness; or
- Use persuasive language (rhetoric).
- A witness statement must not be longer than 15 pages in length. Sometimes the court will impose a further limit on the length or extend it in extenuating circumstances.
A family solicitor will help you to put a witness statement together and check it over before it is submitted to the court.
Litigants in person
A litigant in person is an individual, company or organisation who has to go to court without legal representation from a solicitor or barrister. As they do not have a professional to check their witness statement, there is a template they can use to make it easier.
Why has my solicitor edited my witness statement?
Family cases can be emotional, and it can be difficult for witnesses to remain focused and clear on factual evidence. It is natural to want to include your feelings and personal opinions in something which involves loved ones.
Your solicitor may edit your witness statement to ensure that any emotive language is removed, it contains factual evidence and is impartial. This will ensure that it is accepted by the court and used in proceedings.
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Dont be undecided about death squads
Debate over the Colombia Free Trade Agreement came to the forefront last month when the pact emerged as President Bush's top legislative priority. A wide range of Democrats, from Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama to Earl Blumenauer and David Wu, quickly announced their opposition. They rightfully argue that consideration of a trade agreement with Colombia is inappropriate until that nation improves its atrocious human rights record. Why, then, does Congresswoman Darlene Hooley remain undecided?
My union, the Association of Western Pulp and Paper Workers, typically opposes free trade agreements because of their harmful legacy of offshoring American jobs. Our members have experienced first-hand the destructive impact that cheap, foreign imports can have on Oregon families and communities. Trade deals that increase the federal trade deficit, put Americans out of work and cause environmental damage are the wrong choice for this country.
As bad as past trade policies have been, however, the Colombia Free Trade Agreement is even worse. This pact is especially repugnant given Colombia's status as the deadliest country in the world to be a union member. Since 1991, more than 2,300 labor advocates have been assassinated there - many only after being kidnapped and brutally tortured first.
Apologists for the trade agreement point out that the numbers of assassinations are down from their historic highs. While distastefully arguing that only 39 unionists were murdered last year, and only 17 have been murdered so far this year, they fail to acknowledge that more than 400 murders have taken under the watch of Colombia's current administration, and that the rate of impunity for the murder of trade unionists remains around 97 percent. Not only do the level of assassinations in Colombia remain the highest in the world, but those responsible continue to walk the streets freely.
The routine violence against labor advocates in Colombia has created an intense climate of fear. This has had the intended affect of sinking the nation's unionization rate from 15 percent two decades ago to approximately 3 percent today - the lowest in Latin America. Even if the killings stopped completely tomorrow, if the fear of violence continued, the sweatshop working conditions under which many Colombians toil would remain the same.
Trade between nations simply cannot be 'free' when workers in one country lack basic freedoms of speech and assembly. Nearly 15 years after enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement, we today know that large corporations use such pacts to shift jobs around the globe to wherever labor is the cheapest. If passed, the Colombia trade deal would force Oregonians to compete with workers literally forced to accept poor working conditions under the threat of death.
The fate of the Colombia Free Trade Agreement today rests in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi. While acknowledging the human rights concerns implicit in the agreement, the Speaker has repeatedly pronounced her willingness to negotiate with the Bush administration over allowing it to the floor. In this context, it is crucial that all members of Congress express their disdain for the agreement.
A clear message must be sent that there is no room for negotiation when it comes to the basic rights of working people. While including strong and enforceable labor, environmental and human rights standards should be a prerequisite for any future trade agreement, this alone is not adequate for the Colombia trade deal to pass muster. In a country where the rule of law is so often disrespected, simply putting new rules down on paper is not enough.
Congresswoman Hooley is Oregon's only House Democrat who fails to understand that to accept the Colombia Free Trade Agreement one must first accept Colombia's death squads. No matter what she has convinced herself is to be gained by this agreement, she should not lose sight that this issue is ultimately about one's respect for basic human liberty. For true Americans, there should be little indecision.
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Our goal is to help people build their microcontroller prototypes faster then ever. So we're inventing, developing and maintaining all the novel hardware, software, tools, libraries and web infrastructure that make up the mbed rapid prototyping platform to do just that.
The mbed platform hasn't been around long and it is still early days, but it is already proving a great success. We are therefore looking for some really talented engineers, who share our vision, to join the mbed team and make it even better!
We're a small team and we need stand out people, so you need to stand out. Point us at your website or stuff you've done. Code or port something amazing to mbed that will demonstrate your skills. Tell us your ideas and how you'd make mbed better. Show us something that makes it clear you are the right person for the job!
The mbed team is a small start-up in ARM with a mission to enable rapid prototyping with microcontrollers for a very wide audience. We're building a novel combination of hardware, software, web tools and infrastructure that will bring a step-change in productivity for developers, enabling them to concentrate on prototyping remarkable products in record time. See http://mbed.org for what we've achieved so far.
Based in Cambridge, UK, this role is for a Senior Embedded Software Engineer who can lead defining and delivering software architecture for microcontrollers.
We are looking for a versatile and skilled embedded C/C++ Software Engineer with the depth of expertise in RTOS, driver stacks and libraries to develop microcontroller software library architecture and implementations that will enable the "batteries-included" experience of linux in the microcontroller space. You will enable the software framework for a community of developers to build on and around, eliminating the "from-scratch" MCU mentality and providing the familiarity of standards such as ANSI-C, POSIX and Linux.
You will be involved in all aspects of defining, designing, implementing, porting and testing the software libraries and framework to help users in their prototyping goals. This requires an eye for API design, the skill and attention to detail required for creating rock-solid implementations, the ability to quickly wrangle code and test ideas and work with unfamiliar middleware code-bases, as well as a familiarity with software toolchains, build systems and version control workflows.
You will help steer development in our day-to-day discussions, come up with great ideas, and help out with anything else you can turn your hand to. In summary, the ideal candidate is a highly skilled Embedded Engineer who understands what we are trying to do, can help us do it better, and who will very quickly become an essential member of the mbed team.
This is a full-time position located at the ARM HQ in Cambridge, UK, reporting to the technical lead.
Education & Qualifications
You should have a good university degree (or equivalent) in Computer Science, Software Engineering or Electronic Engineering, although other disciplines will also be considered with relevant experience.
Essential Skills & Experience
- Excellent embedded programming skills in C/C++
- Experience writing complex device driver stacks (e.g. USB, TCP/IP, CAN)
- In-depth experience of embedded RTOSes, including internals
- An eye for software architecture and API design
- Proactive approach that challenges conventions
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Excellent MCU toolchain and C library/runtime knowledge
- Kernel level knowledge and experience of Linux, including drivers, storage, networking
- Experience working with open source projects
- Fluent with DVCS (e.g. mercurial) and scripting languages (e.g. python)
- Salary dependent upon experience
- Shares (Restricted Share Units) at the discretion of ARM Holdings plc
- Save As You Earn (SAYE) scheme
- Private medical insurance
- Permanent health insurance
- Life assurance
- Contributory pension
- Relocation expenses as appropriate
We're looking for excellent software and electronic engineering students or recent graduates who want to work in industry on real projects and products.
You will be available to join us for a 6-12 month placement, and be located at ARM HQ in Cambridge, UK.
The mbed platform helps users quickly develop microcontroller-based prototypes by providing much of the groundwork necessary for their development to build on. To support this further, we identify and undertake key reference design projects that can help make new components and modules accessible to everyone. Projects have included networking layers, robot IMUs, language interfaces and audio platforms.
You will help hardware and software for these reference design projects, and make them available to the mbed community to enable users to quickly experiment with them in their own designs.
In addition, you will contribute to reactive work, helping to support the mbed community. This will include developing code examples, investigating reported issues and questions, and publishing articles, tips and tricks. You will take a full and active role in all aspects of the team.
You should have completed at least two years at a university studying a course with a significant electronics or software engineering element to it.
Desirable Skills & Experience
- Programming skills in C/C++
- Experience developing embedded applications for microcontrollers
- Hardware and PCB design, circuit level fault finding and debug
- An understanding of electronic circuit design
- A keen general interest in software engineering, computer science and embedded electronics
- A good portfolio of projects of your own; include a link
Placements are for a period of 6-12 months; In your application, make it very clear when you are available and for how long.
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U.S. Drought Disaster Spreads to Counties Across 8 States
Posted by feww on February 7, 2013
DISASTER CALENDAR SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,129 Days Left
[February 7, 2013] Mass die-offs resulting from human impact and the planetary response to the anthropogenic assault could occur by early 2016.
- SYMBOLIC COUNTDOWN: 1,129 Days Left to the most Fateful Day in Human History
- Symbolic countdown to the ‘worst day’ in human history began on May 15, 2011 …
Global Disasters/ Significant Events
USDA declares 58 additional counties across 8 states drought disaster areas
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has designated 58 counties in 8 states as primary and contiguous disaster areas due to damages and losses caused by the recent drought.
- The latest disaster list includes counties in the states of Alabama, Arizona, Florida, Georgia, Nevada, South Carolina, Texas and Utah.
Drought Map for Contiguous U.S. dated February 5, 2013, released by US Drought Monitor on February 7.
Major winter storm is forecast for parts of the Northeast and New England Friday into Saturday. “This Nor’easter-type storm system will bring strong winds and heavy snow to the region. Eastern New England will see the greatest effects, and a Blizzard Watch has been issued for Boston and surrounding areas.” NOAA reported.
- WARNING: Human impact 2.85 x Earth’s diminishing carrying capacity
- WARNING: RAPID DECLINE IN PROGRESS!
- Europe: The First Phase of Collapse Has Started
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Hash Functions (Hash Algorithms)
A "Hash function" is a complex encryption algorithm used primarily in cryptography, and is like a shortened version of full-scale encryption.
Hash vs Encryption
Encryption is a broad term, while a hash algorithm is just one of the many encryption schemes.
Encryption - the process of converting information from its normal, comprehensible form into an obscured guise, unreadable without special knowledge.
Hash - a special form of encryption often used for passwords, that uses a one-way algorithm that when provided with a variable length unique input (message) will always provide a unique fixed length unique output called hash, or message digest.
a collision is when two different messages result in the same exact hash. Hash algorithms are written to avoid collisions, but some, such as MD5 - have been shown to have collisions.
A Hash Example
Website User Registration and subsequent Login
a user goes to a website and clicks a button that says "New User Registration"
unknown to the user, his browser has downloaded the Hash algorithm as Java code which begins running in the computer memory
when he types in his user ID it is not encrypted - but when he then types in a password (a short, message) - the Hash JAVA routine encrypts it (into a longer, "message digest" - or hash) - so for this example, he types in his password "mypass" but before it is sent to the web server, it is encrypted by the JAVA Hash algorithm running on his machine as a hash: "5yfRRkrhJDbomacm2lsvEdg4GyY="
the web server and stores the hash (not the original message) in a database as "5yfRRkrhJDbomacm2lsvEdg4GyY=" - IMPORTANT: the web host never sees the actual password, but stores only the hash in it's database !!
the nest time the user connects to the site - he types in his ID and password ("mypass") which is converted by the JAVA routine to "5yfRRkrhJDbomacm2lsvEdg4GyY=". The server compares "5yfRRkrhJDbomacm2lsvEdg4GyY=" to the message stored in it's database - it matches and the user is granted access. Since the server only stores the longer, encrypted message - it NEVER has to decrypt anything !!!
NOTE: if he typed a wrong password, such as "mypass1" - an entirely different message would be created and would not match the message on the server's database and he would be blocked.
IMPORTANT - How this protects the system from un-authorized Users logging in : if an individual somehow intercepted the "password" as it was being sent to the server, or somehow got access to the server database - all they would have is the hash (5yfRRkrhJDbomacm2lsvEdg4GyY=), and not the password (mypass). So then they connect to that website, and are prompted for a login and password. They will only get access if they type "mypass" - but all they know is the hash - not the actual password !!! Even if they manage to view the JAVA code and see the exact algorithm that converted the password to the hash - it is very difficult, if not impossible - to reverse the process and find the password from the hash (see Example for full details).
Hash algorithms take a long string (or message) of any length as input and produce a fixed length string as output; not all such are suitable for use in cryptography. The output of is sometimes termed a message digest or a digital fingerprint. Tne term "hash" is derived from the breakfast dish, since it is comprised of a bunch of miced up pieces of food:
*** see also
SHA (Secure Hash Algorithm)
NIST supports five hash algorithms called SHA, for generating a condensed representation of a message (message digest). The five algorithms are SHA-1, SHA-224, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512.), and they are detailed in FIPS 180-2. When a message of any length < 264 bits (for SHA-1 and SHA-256) or < 2128 bits (for SHA-384 and SHA-512) is input to an algorithm, the result is an output called a message digest. The message digests range in length from 160 to 512 bits, depending on the algorithm.
MD5 (Message-Digest algorithm 5)
*** RFC 1321
MD5 is a widely used message digest algorithm (aka, cryptographic hash function) with a 128-bit hash value. It is not merely a checksum generator, though the term is sometimes imprecisely used. It is one of a series of message digest algorithms designed by Professor Ronald Rivest of MIT. When some analytic work indicated that MD5's predecessor, MD4, was likely to be insecure, MD5 was designed in response, in 1991. This indication was subsequently confirmed when weaknesses were found in MD4 in 1994 (Dobbertin, 1998).
MD5 has been widely used, and was originally thought to be cryptographically secure. However, work in Europe in 1994 uncovered weaknesses which make further use of MD5 questionable. Specifically, it has been shown that it is computationally feasible to generate a collision, that is, two different messages with the same hash. Unlike MD4, it is still thought to be very difficult to produce a message with a given hash. In 2004, a distributed project with the name MD5CRK was initiated to demonstrate that MD5 is insecure by finding a collision. Because of these concerns, many security researchers and practioners recommend that SHA-1 (or another high quality cryptographic hash function) be used instead of MD5.
MD5 hashes (or message digests) are commonly represented as a 32-digit hexadecimal number. A sample looks like this (using characters 0-9, a-f):
The MD5 hash (sometimes called md5sum, for MD5 checksum) of a zero-length string is:
RIPEMD-160 (RACE Integrity Primitives Evaluation Message Digest)
RIPMD-160 a 160-bit message digest algorithm (and cryptographic hash function) developed in Europe by Hans Dobbertin, Antoon Bosselaers and Bart Preneel, and first published in 1996. It is an improved version of RIPEMD, which in turn was based upon the design principles used in MD4, and is similar in both strength and performance to the more popular SHA-1.
There also exist 128, 256 and 320-bit versions of this algorithm, called RIPEMD-128, RIPEMD-256, and RIPEMD-320, respectively. The 128-bit version was intended only as a drop-in replacement for the original RIPEMD, which was also 128-bit, and which had been found to have questionable security. The 256 and 320-bit versions diminish only the chance of accidental collision, and don't have higher levels of security as compared to, respectively, RIPEMD-128 and RIPEMD-160.
RIPEMD-160 was designed in the open academic community, in contrast to the NSA-designed algorithm, SHA-1. On the other hand, RIPEMD-160 is a less popular and correspondingly less well-studied design.
Wikepedia Crypto HASH Links
Previous Example detailed - one-way Hash Encryption of a Password
This scenario is a perfect candidate for
"one-way hash encryption" also known as a message digest, digital
signature, one-way encryption, digital fingerprint, or cryptographic hash. It is
referred to as "one-way" because although you can calculate a message
digest, given some data, you can't figure out what data produced a given message
This is also a collision-free mechanism that guarantees that no two different values will produce the same digest. Another property of this digest is that it is a condensed representation of a message or a data file and as such it has a fixed length.
There are several message-digest algorithms used widely today.
Algorithm Strength MD5 128 bit SHA-1 160 bit
SHA-1 (Secure Hash Algorithm 1) is slower than MD5, but the message digest is larger, which makes it more resistant to brute force attacks. Therefore, it is recommended that Secure Hash Algorithm is preferred to MD5 for all of your digest needs. Note, SHA-1 now has even higher strength brothers, SHA-256, SHA-384, and SHA-512 for 256, 384 and 512-bit digests respectively.
Typical Registration Scenario
Here is a typical flow of how our message digest algorithm can be used to provide one-way password hashing:
1) User registers with some site by submitting the following data:
2) before storing the data, a one-way hash of the password is created: "mypass" is transformed into "5yfRRkrhJDbomacm2lsvEdg4GyY=" .
The data stored in the database ends up looking like this:
username password jsmith 5yfRRkrhJDbomacm2lsvEdg4GyY=
3) When jsmith comes back to this site later and decides to login using his credentials (jsmith/mypass), the password hash is created in memory (session) and is compared to the one stored in the database. Both values are equal to "5yfRRkrhJDbomacm2lsvEdg4GyY=" since the same password value "mypass" was used both times when submitting his credentials. Therefore, his login will be successful.
Note, any other plaintext password value will produce a different sequence of characters. Even using a similar password value ("mypast") with only one-letter difference, results in an entirely different hash: "hXdvNSKB5Ifd6fauhUAQZ4jA7o8=" .
plaintext password encrypted
password mypass 5yfRRkrhJDbomacm2lsvEdg4GyY= mypast hXdvNSKB5Ifd6fauhUAQZ4jA7o8=
As mentioned above, given that strong encryption algorithm such as SHA is used, it is impossible to reverse-engineer the encrypted value from "5yfRRkrhJDbomacm2lsvEdg4GyY=" to "mypass".
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1. Dopamine activity is an index of...?
- Reward prediction error
- Reward processing
- Utility prediction error
- Utility processing
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Other questions in this quiz
2. At what age do humans develop ability to recognise false beliefs?
- 4 years
- 2 years
- 6 years
3. What does activity in the ventral tegmental area reflect?
- Instrumental conditioning
- The utility of a stimulus
- The reward value of a stimulus
- Operant conditioning
4. What is a criticism of normative theories?
- Lack direct evidence
- Do not actually represent real world behaviour
- Lack theoretical background
- Lack validity of claims
5. What characterises the mesolimbic pathway?
- Projections to nucleus accumbens (near ventral striatum), amygdala and hippocampus
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February 14, 2014
Americans eat an awful lot of pizza, according to a February report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture on pizza consumption from 2007–2010.
The findings can be summarized thusly: On a given day, about 13 percent of Americans eat pizza. Especially teenage boys. And white people. And kids, at lunch. Pizza has a lot of calories. And sodium.
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A Special Message from President Mo Qayoumi
- May 18, 2009
UPDATED: May 22, 2009, 5 p.m.
The World Health Organization continues to maintain the influenza level at a “Phase 5” alert. Dr. Cathy Coulman, Chief Health Officer for the University, has been in contact with the Alameda County Health Department regarding local information on the status and reported cases.
The Influenza H1N1 strain has remained primarily mild in the United States. It looks much like the seasonal flu. For that reason, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) has issued new flu guidance recommendations that schools no longer have to close if they have a suspected or actual case of the flu. Schools that had closed for flu-related reasons may now open. Sick students and staff members with flu-like symptoms should stay home for a minimum of seven days. Schools should continue to encourage good health habits to reduce the flu's spread.
Campus administrators are closely monitoring the situation and progress of the virus. We are reviewing our policies and procedures for handling such cases if they do occur. Please be assured that the health and safety of our campus community is our most important priority.
As we hear about these cases we are reminded that it is extremely important for all of us to be careful about health concerns at this time. The symptoms that the CDC has connected with H1N1 flu are fever, cough, sore throat, body aches, headache, chills, and fatigue. Some people also experience diarrhea and vomiting.
If you are a student experiencing these symptoms, contact the Student Health Center Monday –Thursday: 8:30 a.m. – 5:30 p.m., Friday: 8:30 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.; after hours call your personal physician or local emergency room. University employees should see their personal physician.
We are all responsible for practicing good health habits: cover your cough with a tissue and throw the tissue in the trash after using, wash your hands carefully and frequently, remain physically active, drink plenty of fluids and eat nutritious foods. Avoid close contact with those who are sick if possible, and avoid crowded settings
We are committed to keeping the campus community informed about the situation. Information from state and national health agencies will also be included in our links and communications.
You can find campus updates regarding H1N1 flu on CSUEB's special urgent information Web page.
Again, let us all do what we can to protect the health and safety of our CSUEB community by following good health habits.
President – California State University, East Bay
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Bill to Protect Ratepayers from Cuomo Nuclear Bailout a Step in the Right Direction
Reclaim New York Initiative released the following statement applauding (S6651) introduced by Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan to end the zero-emission credit system that forces energy companies to pass costs for the Governor’s nuclear plant bailout onto New York consumers. The bill would instead use Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative funds:
“New Yorkers who are already paying some of the highest energy prices in America can’t afford to foot the bill for even higher costs to bail out failing nuclear plants.
“The need for the Governor’s bailout was never publicly reviewed. It was designed to keep New Yorkers, and even the legislature in the dark, while avoiding any sense of accountability.
“Senator Flanagan’s bill exposes this raw deal. It protects taxpayers and consumers by reducing the costs of the Governor’s program using funds from an anti-carbon emissions program. This legislation should be passed without delay as the first part of a broader effort to create energy policy that makes New York more competitive, and lowers costs.” | <urn:uuid:47214008-67b6-4e88-a6bc-80ad012d2994> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.reclaimnynow.org/2017/06/14/bill-to-protect-ratepayers-from-cuomo-nuclear-bailout-a-step-in-the-right-direction/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00066.warc.gz | en | 0.921324 | 234 | 1.773438 | 2 |
How To Grow Back Receding Gums Naturally?
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How To Regrow Gums At Home?
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Can Receding Gums Regrow?
The last point that you should know about how to fix receding gums in your home is the easiest way is just to brush regularly, and floss daily. Routine brushing and flossing may help prevent the gums from becoming overly bad and retain them white.
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To begin with, it’s important that we discuss dental care and hygiene. This is an important aspect in treating tooth decay, so be certain to brush your teeth regularly and work with a toothbrush that’s made specifically for kids. A kid’s toothbrush isn’t meant for adults, so make sure that you pick one out for your son or daughter also.
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Regrow Receding Gums
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Hi Student, The CBSE prepares the syllabus for the academic year of class 12 for all the subject. Program of Class 12 Sociology Syllabus, as you know very well that the Central Board of Secondary Education (CBSE) has its curriculum. They hold the supreme authority to change it further for the benefit of students. In this article, you can get the latest CBSE Class 12 Sociology Syllabus and Exam Pattern in PDF for the academic year 2022-23, and this syllabus is absolutely free of cost.
The demand for Class 12 Sociology at the initial stage of schooling is evident in the mushrooming of private ‘English medium’ schools and in the early introduction of Sociology as a subject across the states/ UTs of the country. Though the problems of feasibility and preparedness are still to be solved satisfactorily, there is a general expectation that the educational system must respond to people’s aspirations and need for Sociology. Within the eight years of education guaranteed to every child, it should be possible in 5 years to ensure basic English language proficiency, including basic literacy skills of reading and writing.
2. Objectives of Class 12th Sociology
3. CBSE Class 12 New Syllabus 2022-23
4. Class 12 Syllabus
5. CBSE 12 Study Materials
CBSE Class 12 Sociology Syllabus Overview
Before we discussed the Class 12 Sociology Syllabus, let us check the CBSE Class 12 Summary, below we have mentioned complete CBSE Class 12 Summary. Students are advised to check out the complete summary.
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Objectives of Class 12th Sociology
The general objectives at Level-1 are:
- To build familiarity with the language primarily through spoken input in meaningful situations (teacher talk, listening to recorded material, etc.)
- To provide and monitor exposure to and comprehension of spoken, and spoken-and-written inputs (through mother tongue, signs, visuals, pictures, sketches, gestures, single-word questions/answers).
- To help learners build a working proficiency in the language, especially with regard to listening with understanding and basic oral production (words/phrases, fragments of utterances, formulaic expressions as communicative devices).
- To recite and sing poems, songs and rhymes and enact small plays/skits
- To use drawing and painting as precursors to writing and relate these activities to oral communication.
- To become visually familiar with the text [word(s)], what it means, and to notice its components- letter (s) and the sound-values they stand for.
- To associate meaning with written/printed language.
- At the end of this stage, learners should be able to Talk about themselves, members of the family and the people in their surroundings.
- Follow simple instructions, requests and questions, and use formulaic expressions appropriately
- Enjoy doing tasks (including singing a rhyme or identifying a person, object or thing) in English
- Recognise whole words or chunks of language
- Recognise small and capital forms of the English alphabet both in context and in isolation
- Read simple words/short sentences with the help of pictures and understand them
- Write simple words/phrases/short sentences.
CBSE Class 12 Sociology New Syllabus 2022-23
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CBSE Class 12 Sociology Syllabus 2022-23
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Class 12 Sociology Syllabus
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Here in this Section, we have mentioned the Class 12 Sociology Exam Pattern. Students can check the Class 12 Sociology Exam Pattern for the academic year 2022-23.
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|1. Introducing Indian Society||0||Non-evaluative|
|2. The Demographic Structure of Indian Society||10||6|
|3. Social Institutions-Continuity and Change||12||6|
|4. The market as a Social Institution||10||6|
|5. Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion||18||6|
|6. Challenges of Cultural Diversity||22||8|
|7. Suggestions for Project Work||10||Non-evaluative|
|Change and Development in Indian Society|
|8. Structural Change||8||6|
|9. Cultural Change||12||6|
|10.The Story of Indian Democracy||16||6|
|11.Change and Development in Rural Society||10||6|
|12.Change and Development in Industrial Society||12||6|
|13.Globalization and Social Change||10||6|
|14.Mass Media and Communications||12||6|
Below we have mentioned the Class 12 Sociology Syllabus Brief Review like which topics/chapters to be covered in the syllabus. students are advised to check the brief review of Sociology syllabus.
|1||Introducing Indian Society|
Colonialism, Nationalism, Class and Community (Nonevaluative)
|2||The Demographic Structure of the Indian Society|
Theories and concepts in demography
Rural-Urban Linkages and Divisions
|3||Social Institutions: Continuity and Change|
The Caste System
Family and Kinship
|4||The market as a Social Institution|
Sociological perspectives on markets and the economy
Globalization – Interlinking of Local, Regional, National and International Markets
|5||Patterns of Social Inequality and Exclusion|
Social Inequality and Social Exclusion
Caste prejudice, Scheduled Castes & Other Backward Classes
The Struggle for Women’s Equality and Rights
The struggles of the Differently Abled
|6||The Challenges of Cultural Diversity|
Cultural communities and the nation-state
Problems of Regionalism
The Nation-state, religion-related issues and identities
Communalism, secularism and the nation-state
State and Civil Society
|7||Suggestions for Project Work|
|B||Change and Development in India|
Colonialism, Industrialization, Urbanization
Social Reform Movements and Laws
Different Kinds of Social Change: Sanskritisation, Westernization, Modernization, Secularization
|10||The Story of Indian Democracy|
The Constitution as an instrument of Social Change Panchayati Raj and the Challenges of Social Transformation Political Parties, Pressure Groups and Democratic Politics
|11||Change and Development in Rural Society|
Land Reforms, Green Revolution and Emerging Agrarian society
Agrarian Structure: Caste & class in Rural India
Green revolution and its social consequences
Transformation in Rural Society
Globalization, Liberalization and Rural Society
|12||Change and Development in Industrial Society|
From Planned Industrialization to Liberalization
Getting a Job
|13||Globalization and Social Change|
Dimensions of Globalization
|14||Mass Media and Communication|
Types of Mass Media: Radio, Television and Print Media
Changing Nature of Mass Media
Theories and Classification of Social Movements
Class-Based Movements: Workers, Peasants
Caste-Based Movements: Dalit Movement, Backward Castes, Trends in Upper Caste Responses
Women’s Movements in Independent India
Below we have mentioned the Class 12 Sociology Practical Syllabus like which topics to be covered in the practical. students are advised to check the brief review of Sociology syllabus Practicals.
|Max. Marks: 20 and Time allotted: 3 hours|
|The project was undertaken during the academic year at the school level||15 Marks|
|Introduction -2 Marks|
|Statement of Purpose – 2 Marks|
|Research Question – 2 Marks|
|Methodology – 3 Marks|
|Data Analysis – 4 Marks|
|Conclusion – 2 Marks|
|Viva – based on the project work||05 Marks|
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Much like bandwidth in the electromagnetic spectrum, the capacity of the worldwide airspace is a finite resource. Rising demands for air transport incentivize efficient exploitation of this airspace “bandwidth.” As frequent travelers, we know too well the frustrations caused by flight delays that strand us at the gate or leave us circling above an airport. These travel delays are not merely a nuisance. Delays cascade through the air transportation system and cost businesses billions of dollars in lost productivity and fuel. In this era of global warming, excess fuel burn and associated greenhouse gas emissions exact a toll on the environment as well as on the bottom line. Given predicted continuing growth in demand for air cargo and passenger transport, disruptive technologies are urgently needed to reduce air traffic delays and increase capacity. Fortunately, large-scale efforts to reenvision the air transport infrastructure are under way.
This special issue focuses on three significant technologies for restructuring air traffic management: bounded-error navigation, aviation communications networks, and automated algorithms to increase air traffic capacity.
Take a glance at proposed plans for the modernized air transport infrastructure, and you will find that aviation information systems will play a central role in the coming revolution. In the United States, for example, the Federal Aviation Administration (FAA), NASA, Department of Transportation, Department of Defense, and other government agencies are coordinating under the umbrella of the Joint Planning andDevelopment Office (JPDO) to construct the Next Generation Air Transportation System (NextGen). NextGen will exploit novel information system technologies to maximize our use of the airspace. In particular, NextGen seeks to increase air traffic capacity while maintaining extraordinarily high levels of safety. A novel aviation information infrastructure will maintain the workload for human air traffic controllers, without increasing their number, and enhance system flexibility to support the entry of unmanned aircraft systems (UASs) into the national airspace.
Internationally, the aviation research community is just beginning its journey to innovate and coordinate new solutions for air traffic management. This Special Issue on Aviation Information Systems is timely in that it provides an in-depth view of the challenges and opportunities that lie ahead. It is heartening to know that we have talented researchers tackling these challenges, as is demonstrated by the 13 excellent papers that compose this volume.
This Special Issue on Aviation Information Systems zeros in on three of the most significant technologies for restructuring air traffic management: bounded-error navigation, aviation communication networks, and automated algorithms to increase air traffic capacity. We should note that these central themes are by no means an exhaustive list of the information technologies that will be deployed in the next-generation air traffic management system. Topics such as formal validation of flight management software and improved display technologies for maximizing human operator performance will also have an impact. Given the limited space of this volume, however, the papers presented here are intended to paint a tableau of critical ongoing efforts that will revolutionize air traffic management.
The first group of papers presented in this special issue focuses on stunning advances in the field of satellite navigation. The Global Positioning System (GPS) provides 10-m accuracy available worldwide, 24 hours per day, in any weather. This current capability is based on L-band signals broadcast from 30 or more satellites in medium earth orbit. GPS has created such a stir that the Russians are redoubling their efforts to reliably populate the GLONASS orbits. It has motivated the Europeans, Chinese, and Japanese to deploy brand new systems called Galileo, Compass, and the Quasi-Zenith Satellite System, respectively. These new systems also broadcast L-band signals from medium earth orbit. Importantly, the new civil signals provide frequency diversity with three or more civil frequencies per satellite. The accuracy and integrity of satellite navigation will improve based on this frequency diversity from a multiplicity of constellations. The new signals and systems are well described in the paper by Hegarty and Chatre, “Evolution of the Global Navigation Satellite System (GNSS).” The impact on aviation is described by Walter et al. in “Worldwide Vertical Guidance of Aircraft Based on Modernized GPS and New Integrity Augmentations.”
For precision landing, these capabilities can be augmented with a local reference receiver that broadcasts correction data to nearby users of GPS. This capability is called differential GPS or DGPS. The data from the local reference receiver improve accuracy to better than 1 m. More importantly, they also monitor the quality of GNSS signals and provide error bounds in real time. A civil application of DGPS is well describedby Murphy and Imrich in “Implementation and Operational Use of (GBAS) Ground Based Augmentation Systems—A Component of the Future Air Traffic Management System.” A military application is elegantly described by Rife et al. in “Navigation, Interference Suppression, and Fault Monitoring in the Sea-Based Joint Precision Approach and Landing System.”
The second group of papers explores the roles that aviation networks will play in modernizing air traffic management. NextGen and other worldwide efforts seek increased decentralization in air traffic management that will offer greater responsibility and greater flexibility to individual aircraft. An enhanced Traffic Collision and Avoidance System (TCAS), for example, would automatically resolve traffic conflicts at a local level and free controllers to manage entire groups of densely clustered aircraft. This vision requires a new communication infrastructure that robustly and securely passes messages not only between aircraft and controllers but also among distributed aircraft in a local area. To ensure that the costs and benefits of new communications capabilities are equitably shared among stakeholders, Mozdzanowska et al. offer us their paper entitled “Feedback Model of Air Transportation Systems Change: Implementation Challenges for Aviation Information Systems.” This paper employs a controls framework to analyze user acceptance of two key technologies: Automatic Dependent Surveillance-Broadcast (ADS-B), which will distribute GPS coordinates and other information among nearby aircraft; and the UAS infrastructure, which will support operation of automated aircraft in the national airspace.
Constructing aviation communication networks also requires the resolution of several design challenges, including issues of security assurance and effective bandwidth allocation. It is important to recognize that automated capabilities employing externally broadcast data introduce potential vulnerabilities, both to malicious spoofing and to unintentional interference and data errors. Accordingly, new aviation networks must bear the burden of verifying the authenticity and integrity of information received from distributed providers. Sampigethaya et al. explore these pitfalls of wireless networking and possible solutions in their paper entitled “Secure Operation, Control, and Maintenance of Future eEnabled Airplanes.” Aviation networks must also make the most of limited communication bandwidth, especially for safety-critical transmissions on dedicated aeronautical bands. Frew and Brown propose an innovative approach to resolving the multiple access issue by exploiting spatial relationships among aircraft. They describe their approach to meshed aviation communication networks in a paper titled “Airborne Communication Networks for Small Unmanned Aircraft Systems.”
Broadcast of accurate, timely, and secure positioning data will support decentralized conflict resolution for densely packed air traffic. Critical data may not be available at all times, however. Fundamental bandwidth limitations and anomalous system failures must be considered in designing conflict resolution algorithms. Gariel and Feron provide an excellent example in their paper entitled “Graceful Degradation of Air Traffic Operations.” This paper introduces a conflict resolution technique that is robust to communication network failures and to failures of navigation or surveillance subsystems that might result in partial data loss. Even under nominal conditions, it is critical to limit the quantity of data broadcast to enable communication among as many aircraft as possible. With this in mind, Hwang and Seah examine how intentions of other aircraft may be implicitly inferred from their trajectories and used to improve conflict resolution (without requiring the broadcast of explicit intent data). Implementing these and related methods will make the decentralization of air traffic management possible and enable entirely new strategies for managing air traffic flows.
The third and final group of papers delivers several strategies aimed at revolutionizing air traffic management for the high-capacity airspace of the future. In the United States alone, the national airspace is currently managed by hundreds of operators who together handle approximately 50 000 aircraft per day. It is hard to comprehend the complexity of this system, let alone the demands for a new traffic management paradigm. Up to the challenge, Sridhar et al. clearly survey the issues and potential benefits of new traffic management approaches with their paper, “Modeling and Optimization in Traffic Flow Management.”
The most significant bottleneck in augmenting air traffic capacity involves the terminal area airspace which surrounds major airports. Maximizing airport throughput requires extremely efficient and robust methods for scheduling takeoff and landing slots. The paper by Lee and Balakrishnan, “A Study of Tradeoffs in Scheduling Terminal-Area Operations,” explores new methods for improving terminal area throughput and implications for stakeholders, including the airlines and air traffic controllers.
Enhanced terminal area operations will significantly increase the density of air traffic throughout the airspace. Radical new traffic-flow management strategies are thus also needed to handle aircraft en route. In order to promote safe and efficient traffic-flow management without increasing workload, researchers are exploring methods for displaying and controlling groups of flights as aggregate flows rather than as individual aircraft. Work and Bayen propose a creative new approach for managing aggregate traffic flow in “Convex Formulations of Air Traffic Flow Optimization Problems.” To address the interests of multiple stakeholders, Waslander et al. present an exciting alternative mechanism that meters traffic flows based on a competitive bidding process, described in their paper, “Lump-Sum Markets for Air Traffic Control with Competitive Airlines.”
The complex nature of air traffic management, along with a relentless demand for safe and reliable operations, makes system-wide restructuring a daunting prospect. Close coordination of representatives from industry, from the government, and from the research community will be required to implement needed technical advances. We hope the papers in this issue will promote cooperation among these groups by highlighting key challenges and potential solutions for enabling the next generation of air traffic management.▪
The Guest Editors would like to thank the contributors for their diligent research and hard work in preparing their papers. They extend their gratitude to the anonymous reviewers whose commentary has helped ensure consistently high-quality scholarship throughout this issue. We also offer a heartfelt thanks to the staff of the Proceedings of the IEEE and, in particular, to the Managing Editor, J. Calder, and the Publications Editor, J. Sun, without whose assistance this issue would not have been possible.
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At issue: The Huron School District continued to pay a former superintendent months after he resigned. Why did the district continue the payments and why did it refuse to comment on the reasons why it did so until terms of a secret agreement were revealed?
We frequently comment on why openness in government is important and why more needs to be done to make sure the public has access to not only public records but to what their elected officials are doing and why.
Wednesday’s Public Opinion provided a perfect case in point. We ran a story that appeared a few days ago in the Mitchell Daily Republic about a dispute that paper was having with the Huron School District. The newspaper has spent more than a year trying to find out why the Huron School District was continuing to make monthly payments to a former school superintendent who was no longer employed by the district.
Ross Opsal resigned in March 2011, less than a year after he signed a three-year contract to be Huron’s superintendent. Opsal cited “personal health issues” in a public letter released by the school district at the time of his resignation.
Fast forward a few months when The Daily Republic, acting on a tip from a reader who saw payment amounts to Opsal listed in newspaper legal announcements after his departure, sought a copy of the agreement concerning his resignation for a news story published in 2012. The school declined and also did not say why Opsal was no longer with the district even though several months earlier Opsal cited “personal health issues” as the reason for his resignation in a public letter released by the school district.
Why the secrecy on the school district’s part on why Opsal resigned even after the former superintendent and the district gave an explanation months earlier? Why the secrecy on how much money was being paid when the amounts were published in the local newspaper via a legal notice? Why continue paying someone who not only was no longer a district employee but left before fulfilling the terms of the contract he signed less than a year before resigning? And, more importantly, why did the district enter into a secret signed, sealed agreement to keep all the answers to these questions away from the public?
No matter how school officials tried to sugar coat their actions or say they were bound by confidentiality rules concerning things discussed in executive session, that fact remains that the district was clearly trying to hide things that were already in the public eye.
In the end, the school district struck out, big-time, on this issue. The district lost when the newspaper took them to the Office of Hearing Examiners, which said the information should be public. The district lost when a judge agreed with that decision and the newspaper’s request. And the district lost with the people of Huron, who deserve to be treated better when it comes to spending the taxpayers’ money.
The beauty in all of this is: It was a taxpayer reading a legal notice in the Huron newspaper that created this whole catastrophe for the Huron school board. Which makes us wonder, and you should too, what do you think the Huron school board thinks of publishing legal notices in the newspaper? We would hazard a guess, they, like too many elected public servants and bureaucrats, want to discontinue that long-held practice of reporting on the school district’s business in a legal notice in a newspaper – where, as this case proves, it gets read!
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For the past four years, Jennifer Scaife has become a fixture in San Quentin inmate education, enhancing the lives of some 1,500 students and generating some $100,000 worth of donated textbooks.
“I certainly have the sensation that the work I’ve done barely scratches the surface – there are just too many people in prison with too many needs for me to feel truly effective,” she said in an interview.
“People here tell me every day that I make a difference, so I believe them. But really, I think that one can only make a difference if others are open to doing things differently. Any differences I’ve made I attribute to the individuals impacted by my efforts, because that shows that they were doing some very important work themselves.”
On June 25 Scaife bid farewell as the program coordinator for San Quentin’s Prison University Project, run by the privately funded Oakland-based Patten University.
Scaife began volunteering as an English instructor in 2005. The following year she replaced Nicole Lindahl, the previous coordinator left to work in New York.
At the June 24 graduation, Jody Lewen noted that Jennifer facilitated the donation of about $100,000 worth of text books, answered about 90,000 e-mails, walked through the entrance gates about 4,000 times, spent about 960 evening inside the institution, carried in all school supplies including about 15,000 notebooks, taught about 240 people and edited hundreds of papers.
“I think what drew me toward working inside a prison in the first place was a kind of transgressive curiosity: I wanted to go where most ordinary people didn’t want to go,” she said. “And because I’d been in a prison once before (in Virginia) and had such a positive experience there, I was completely unafraid of entering San Quentin.”
What made you decide it was time to move on?
For the last year and a half, I’ve been considering all the possible ways – in addition to working with the college program – that I could make an impact on the state of corrections in California. I’ve learned such a huge amount about this field in the last four years that I feel I can now go somewhere else and leverage that knowledge to gain more insight and continue making change happen. So I guess what I’m saying is, I’m leaving now so I can do more, but this time from the other side of the gate.
What do you plan to do with yourself after you leave?
I’ve accepted a position with the Reentry Council of San Francisco. The purpose of the Reentry Council is to coordinate local efforts to support adults exiting San Francisco County Jail, San Francisco juvenile justice out-of-home placements, the California Department of Corrections and Rehabilitation facilities, and the Federal Bureau of Prison facilities.
What did you find most surprising about San Quentin?
The old and crumbling infrastructure. The vast number of people serving life sentences. The unpredictable and yet mundane nature of prison life. The nonsensical (at least from an outsider’s point of view) rituals surrounding racism and racial segregation inside prison. The indomitable optimism of some of the men who live here.
What personal stereotypes about the men in San Quentin were shattered once you got to know the place?
Jonathan Simon, a professor at UC Berkeley who gave a lecture here last summer about mass incarceration, has written about the commonly held stereotype that all prisoners are young, body-building, volatile men. Looking back, I think I must have bought into the first part of that stereotype: I was astonished to realize how many elderly prisoners there are in the system.
What will you miss most about your work in SQ?
I will miss sharing in the camaraderie that springs up among people surviving this experience. There’s an intensity and quality of human interaction here that I haven’t witnessed anywhere else.
What are your hopes for the future of education in CDCR?
I hope that funding for quality educational and vocational programming inside CDCR institutions can be made a priority. And if that does not come to pass, I hope more community-based organizations step up to take on that responsibility.
How does offering prisoners the opportunity to earn college degrees benefit society?
(It) reminds us all that people everywhere deserve the chance to grow and change. But in a more practical sense, people in prison remain connected with family members and loved ones on the outside, and transfer knowledge and motivation to others to become better educated. Most people currently in prison will leave one day; the more skills they have at the time of their release, the more options they have for getting meaningful work and supporting themselves.
Since spending time here, has your interpretation of justice changed?
I know scores of men here at San Quentin who want desperately to give back to the communities in which they caused harm years ago. I think that my ideal version of justice would include providing the opportunity for people in prison to give back meaningfully and visibly to the individuals or communities they’ve damaged
What do you think people should know about San Quentin that they generally do not?
Outsiders should know that there are 32 other prisons in California besides San Quentin, and all of them need the help and influence of volunteer programs. I think people tend to flock to San Quentin because it’s famous and because it’s accessible, but the consequence is a concentration of resources here that are just as badly needed elsewhere. | <urn:uuid:f2272cc2-71ce-4838-b5a6-98fc3395a327> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://sanquentinnews.com/jennifer-scaife-leaves-s-q-after-four-years/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00067.warc.gz | en | 0.962253 | 1,145 | 1.546875 | 2 |
“Revolution in Cairo” is a partnership of PBS Frontline and GlobalPost and is set to air on Tuesday, Feb. 22nd at 9 pm.
CAIRO — In the early morning, we headed for the airport leaving behind a country that has succeeded in transforming itself and changing the political landscape of the Middle East.
Suddenly, anything seems possible. The most populous nation of the Arab world has shaken off a dictator and raised the hopes of so many neighboring countries living under tyranny.
In the hotel room before heading for the airport, there were reports on CNN of Iranian demonstrations picking up and more protests in Algeria and continuing unrest in Jordan. It was a spark from Tunisia that ignited a fire in Egypt.
And whether it will spread through the region is anyone’s guess.
But this much seems certain: The revolution in Egypt has profoundly challenged American foreign policy in the Middle East. It has forced the State Department and the White House and hopefully the American people to reflect on a hypocrisy that has long lied at the heart of our approach to the region. That is, for decades the
US has supported corrupt, brutal regimes like that of Hosni Mubarak, while simultaneously calling for democracy.
Now a popular cry for democracy has won out over a self-serving play for stability, and that shift in U.S.-Egypt relations will inevitably present extraordinary challenges for American crafters of foreign policy. It’s time for them to go back to the drawing board.
After almost two weeks of reporting the historic events in Egypt, we leave here believing there is an opening to talk with new players in Egypt and find a new way to navigate the path forward.
There are new political forces that have emerged from Egypt’s youth who will need support and guidance as they take shape. And there is the Muslim Brotherhood, a sleeping giant of a social movement in Egypt, that is relatively moderate compared to militant Islamists.
We’ve spent most of our two weeks here reporting on the Muslim Brotherhood, trying to assess the impact it could have on the new Egypt.
We’ve talked with the old guard of the Muslim Brotherhood, a social and political movement that was banned under Mubarak and forced to operate largely in the shadows. That old guard hesitated to join the demonstrators, dismissing the protests of the young people connected by Twitter as headed nowhere. And we talked to the youth movement within the Muslim Brotherhood that pulled the organization forward to join in the demonstrations after they got rolling in a big way. The Brotherhood was late to the party, but eventually played a quietly effective role in bringing their hundreds of thousands of followers to the square and organizing checkpoints to keep the regime’s thugs from trying to trigger violence.
The Muslim Brotherhood is a moderate movement that seeks to shape Egypt as an Islamic society. For years, Mubarak tried to paint them as Islamic radicals, intentionally trying to blur very clear lines between the Brotherhood and violent extremists such as Al Qaeda and Egyptian Islamic Jihad.
The reality is the Muslim Brotherhood in Egypt rejected violence decades ago and is loathed by the likes of Al Qaeda. The Brotherhood has actively sought to play a role in civil society in Egypt with some 1400 different organizations that establish schools, health clinics and counseling services for poorer sectors of Egypt that were neglected by the regime. When invited, the banned party tried to field independent candidates in elections, even though they knew the vote was ultimately rigged by the regime. In 2005, they succeeded in taking 88 seats, or about 20 percent of parliament. Then in the following years, the regime cracked down on their members and seized the assets of wealthy donors who fund them and blunted their attempt to play a prominent role in parliament.
We spoke to many analysts who believe the U.S. now has a chance to engage with the Muslim Brotherhood. Some like, Shadi Hamid, an Egyptian-American expert on the Brotherhood at the Brookings Institution, believe they should seize the opportunity. It’s a policy question that will be hotly debated in the coming weeks and months in Washington and in Cairo and an issue we will explore in the partnership with FRONTLINE and GlobalPost scheduled for broadcast on Feb. 22. | <urn:uuid:aa2909a8-feba-46df-af8b-1a1dcc5fb028> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.pri.org/stories/2011-02-15/revolution-cairo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00174-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9679 | 850 | 1.765625 | 2 |
On January 4, the People’s Republic of China announced the opening of four new flight routes over the Taiwan Strait. Instead of giving the region some time to process the announcement, planes began using these routes the same day. Due to the location of the routes and the unilateral nature of the announcement, Taiwan has protested the opening of the routes.
In the announcement, China noted that opening up these additional routes would help with delays in an already congested flight area. To the casual observer, such an announcement makes sense: if there are too many flights on a specific route, it would make sense to open new ones to prevent flight delays. Who likes when their flight is delayed?
Behind these new flight routes, however, is the poor state of cross-Strait relations. Since May 2016, China has cut official communication with Taiwan due to the inauguration of Tsai Ing-wen and her refusal to acquiesce in Beijing’s demand that she accept the so-called “1992 Consensus” and the related “one China Principle.” China has also recently increased the number of “island encirclement” missions, whereby Chinese bombers and surveillance planes fly around Taiwan and occasionally breach its Air Defense Zone. Talk of a Chinese invasion—although the possibility of invasion remains remote—has been a topic of much discussion since December 2017, particularly after a Chinese diplomat threatened invasion if a U.S. ship ever makes a port call in Taiwan. When compared to these other issues, a commercial flight route could be seen as innocuous.
But the new flight route is all a part of China’s strategy—ratchet up pressure on Taiwan in both large and small ways—especially while the world is focused on the crisis on the Korean Peninsula. If China continues to increase measures to force Tsai’s hand, which of the many threats would she ask China to limit or remove first?
In response to the announcement, Tsai tweeted: “Cross-strait stability is [important] to regional stability. Recent unilateral actions by #China – including M503 flight route & increased military exercises – are destabilizing & should be avoided. #Taiwan will continue to safeguard the status quo. We call on all parties to do the same.”
China opened a similar route in January 2015, and Taiwan protested due to aviation safety concerns—the flights then (and now) were 7.8km away from Taiwanese airspace and cross paths with some domestic Taiwanese flights. By March 2015, Taiwan and China reached an agreement that one southbound flight route would remain open but the route was moved further west and that before China would open new routes, it would do so after consultation with Taiwan.
There is one slight, yet extremely important, difference between the 2015 spat and now. In 2015, the president of Taiwan was Ma Ying-jeou, a member of the Kuomintang, the party that advocates for closer ties with China. Now, in 2018, Tsai Ing-wen is president, and she is a member of the Democratic Progress Party, the party with a less favorable view of China. That’s the only change in the situation and thus the reason that the routes were opened again and the reason that China won’t be as amenable to compromise this time.
Taiwan under Tsai has limited leverage to push back against a more recalcitrant China, but it has done several things to make its stance known to China and the world. To try to press China into some sort of dialogue, Tsai’s government has called on the United States, Canada, and other countries to support Taiwan in this endeavor and for their planes to avoid using the new route. On January 18, the Taiwan CAA confirmed that it “has provisionally delayed approval of applications by two China-based airlines to operate additional cross-strait flights during the Lunar New Year holiday in protest at China’s unilateral decision to launch a northbound M503 route.” This postponement will affect nearly 200 flights and about 50,000 passengers.
Tsai has also made Taiwan’s stance known to the International Civil Aviation Organization (ICAO), a UN organization that deals with global aviation issues. Unfortunately, since Taiwan is not a member of the United Nations, it is also not a member ICAO and cannot broach the topic directly. It must work through other indirect channels, specifically its formal and informal allies in ICAO. ICAO is not likely to do anything with Taiwan’s complaint because Taiwan is not allowed to be a member of the organization. Moreover, the Secretary General of the organization is a Chinese citizen, and Taiwan was excluded from the 39th Assembly in Montreal in 2016 after attending at China’s request in 2013.
For these reasons, it is unlikely that ICAO will work in favor of Taiwan even though according to ICAO guidelines, before a country makes a change to a flight route, it must work with “all parties concerned.” And China did not do that. In fact, China only notified Taiwan’s Civil Aeronautics Administration two hours before it sent out the official notification. At of the time of writing, ICAO has not formally responded to Taiwan’s complaint.
For its part, the United States has encouraged “authorities in Beijing and Taipei to engage in constructive dialogue, on the basis of dignity and respect,” but has not done much else. The United States should be more forceful in its rebuke of China’s unilateral action because since Tsai’s inauguration, China has shown it is not willing to have any dialogue with Taiwan. For now, to quote the great Yankees catcher Yogi Berra, “it’s déjà vu all over again” for cross-Strait relations. | <urn:uuid:b662caee-bf78-41d8-b557-54e2b0f93a05> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fpri.org/2018/01/deja-vu-china-re-opens-flight-route-m503/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.967383 | 1,202 | 2.375 | 2 |
10 Unique Kyoto Customs That Even Japanese People Find Confusing
Kyoto was Japan’s capital for over 1,000 years, during which time it served as the country’s political and cultural center. Even today, domestic and international tourists flock to this city that’s overflowing with history in the form of its many shrines, temples, gardens, castles, and other historical sites. Kyoto also boasts its own unique culture that you won’t find in any other Japanese prefecture, and which largely remains a secret to outsiders. This hidden side of Kyoto is one of the things that make the old capital a one-of-a-kind jewel in the crown of Japan. The good news is that it’s possible to learn all of the city’s secret customs, which will help you avoid all sorts of trouble during a trip and allow you to experience the real Kyoto. In this article, we’ll discuss 10 Kyoto customs and bits of knowledge that will help you think and enjoy the city like a true local!
Oct 21 2021 (Jun 16 2022)
Why Does Kyoto Have So Many Unique Customs? The Answer Lies in the City’s History!
Kyoto has so many deeply-rooted and unique rules and customs that even Japanese people from other prefectures lament about how difficult it is to live there. The reasons behind these rules and customs lie in how Kyoto developed during its 1,000-year-long history as the capital of Japan, which started all the way back in 794. You also have to examine how the city changed after Edo (modern-day Tokyo) became the capital in its place.
When Kyoto was the capital, it was the country's commercial, political, and cultural center that attracted people from all over the land. After Edo became the new capital of Japan, Kyoto continued to develop on the commerce front. In order to form better interpersonal relationships, which were incredibly important in business, the people of Kyoto created many unique rules to build stronger bonds of trust and to avoid conflicts with other people. Though some customs have faded over time due to the influx of tourists from all over the world, many are still implicitly shared and practiced among the locals today.
1. Trust Is More Important Than Money? Turning Away Unknown Customers
Kyoto City, with its plethora of shopping districts and tourist spots, is surprisingly so compact that you can easily get around it on a bicycle! There are many traditional stores that have been around for hundreds of years as well as locals whose families have lived in the same area for generations. In Kyoto, all the neighbors know each other well, and due to the strong relationships between them, rumors spread like wildfire, no matter whether they're good or bad.
Due to the above, Kyoto locals highly value trust. Even for shops, relationships with customers are extremely important, to the point where some stores will turn away first-time customers whom they don’t know. However, these first-timers may be admitted with an introduction from an existing customer that the shop already has ties with. Many stores have relaxed this rule over time, but some are still quite strict about it.
While this rule may seem a little bit much in the eyes of travelers, Kyoto locals would rather focus on building strong connections that bring long-term benefits over short-term profits. In recent years, however, it has gotten easier to visit these kinds of stores thanks to intermediary hotels or travel agencies. If the place you want to visit normally turns away first-time customers, there are businesses out there that can help you get in.
2. Being Vague and Avoiding Outright Saying Yes or No to Stay Out of Trouble
Over the 1,000 years that Kyoto was the capital of Japan, the city experienced countless wars and changes in government. It wasn't unusual to see someone flaunting their power and wealth one day, only to have them lose it all overnight. In such times, being close with someone who fell out of favor like that could lead to your downfall, too. So, in order to survive, Kyoto locals developed a culture of "being vague about which side you're on."
This vagueness works great for people who grew up in that culture, but it has been the source of a lot of frustration for outsiders visiting Kyoto. Let's say that you're having a meal with an acquaintance from Kyoto. If they said, "Thank you so much for always inviting me," wouldn't you think that they enjoy spending time with you? Well, in reality, they could be thinking, "I don't understand why they're always inviting me, but it's rude to just tell them to stop, so I'll just stay vague about it until they get the hint and stop.”
That’s why communicating with people from Kyoto goes beyond just words. You also have to observe their facial expressions and general vibe, which even Japanese people from outside the city can have trouble with! If you're still unsure about what a Kyoto local is thinking, sometimes it's best to just ask those around you or even the person themselves for clarification. They'll happily be honest with you if you ask politely.
3. If You're Served Ochazuke, Hurry Home Before You're Kicked Out!
Ochazuke is a simple Japanese dish made by pouring tea or broth over cooked rice. In Kyoto, it is sometimes called "bubu-zuke," as "bubu" is a regional word for “tea.” In Kyoto, a customer or guest may be asked if they'd like bubu-zuke right when they're getting ready to leave. Saying yes in that situation is a big social faux pas that can really sour the atmosphere. That’s because offering bubu-zuke is the Kyoto way of politely telling you to please go home.
However, a more positive theory about this strange custom states that offering ochazuke to guests is actually a formal though vague way of saying “I wish we could have talked more.” Like we said: Kyoto locals don’t like revealing their true intentions. So, if you’re ever offered ochazuke by a person from Kyoto, the polite thing to do is to refuse and say something like "Maybe another time. Goodbye!"
4. How Kyoto People Ride the Escalator: Do What the Person in Front of You Is Doing
How people ride the escalator differs from country to country, but did you know that in Japan it also differs by region? In Japan, it’s common to stand on one side to clear a path for those in a hurry. In Tokyo, you usually stand on the left, while in Osaka people tend to stand on the right. Other regions follow one or the other. However, in Kyoto, there are no hard rules about which side you should stand on. Instead, you follow the lead of the person in front of you.
So, when you're in Kyoto, have a look at which side is not moving before getting on the escalator. Also, if you're lugging around something big, make sure that it doesn't obstruct the other side. Furthermore, during busy times, expect both sides of the escalator to be occupied by standing people. In conclusion, while there are some basic rules to riding the escalator in Kyoto, it ultimately depends on the actual situation at hand.
5. On Festival Days, the City Buses Are Often Late
Japan's transportation system is known for its punctuality, but Kyoto city buses are an exception. Compared to other major cities like Tokyo and Osaka, Kyoto has very few train lines. Instead, they have many buses, which most people—both locals and tourists—rely on to get around the city each day. So it's not uncommon for buses to be late due to problems like travelers not knowing when to change buses, how to pay the fare, or how to deal with large luggage.
Another reason why buses can be late in Kyoto is the frequent occurrence of traditional events and festivals. Kyoto has a lot of seasonal celebrations such as the Gion Festival, during which buses detour from their usual routes or even stop in the middle of the street to allow crowds and festival floats to pass.
In cases like that, all you can really do is either wait patiently or try a different bus route. For most destinations, there are usually multiple ways of getting there. We recommend checking the official Subway/Bus Navi information to see all your options ahead of time. Also, these kinds of delays sometimes result in two buses arriving at a stop at the same time, so don’t be surprised if it happens to you.
*See other language options or the latest version of Subway/Bus Navi: https://www.city.kyoto.lg.jp/kotsu/page/0000019770.html
6. Most People in Kyoto Get Around on Bicycles
You’ll always see a lot of people riding around on bicycles in Kyoto. Compared to Tokyo, Kyoto is quite compact with flat terrain and roads arranged in a grid pattern, making it perfect for biking. Furthermore, since the city has a lot of narrow alleys and one-way roads and the city buses are often late, traveling by bicycle can be faster than by car or other forms of public transport. This is why a vast majority of Kyoto locals choose to get around on two wheels when commuting to school or work or when going shopping.
There are many bicycle rental places around Kyoto, so that’s how many travelers have been getting around the city in recent years. There's parking by most temples and shrines as well as paid parking areas throughout the city. Since many restaurants, cafes, knick-knack stores, and crafts shops in Kyoto are only accessible through narrow alleys, exploring Kyoto by bicycle is a sure way of unearthing some real treasures! It costs around 1,000 yen to rent a bicycle for a whole day, so why not give it a try the next time you're in Kyoto? You'll surely fall in love with how refreshing it feels to bike around this historic city.
7. Did You Know Very Few Geishas in Kyoto Are Locals?
One of the most unique Kyoto scenes is a geisha elegantly strolling around in a traditional kimono. But did you know that most of these women are not from Kyoto? They are often maiko—apprentice geishas between 15 and 20 years of age—who come from all over Japan to train at Kyoto's "okiya" geisha houses.
Also, please keep in mind that it's quite rare to come across a geisha or a maiko in Kyoto, especially during the day. That’s typically when geishas and maiko train, so most of the ones you see strolling around the city around noon are most likely travelers enjoying some type of “geisha for a day” experience.
To meet a real geisha or maiko, head to a tea shop in the hanamachi quarter (originally a red-light district; nowadays, the courtesan and geisha district). The cost varies wildly depending on the number of people, price of the food and drinks, fees for hiring the geisha, and the type of entertainment she offers, but, at a minimum, expect to spend over 20,000 yen per person. While that may seem expensive, it's a chance to experience something that you can’t get outside of Kyoto. Ryokan inns, ryotei restaurants, and travel agencies often have reasonably-priced plans for travelers, so why not go with them if you're unsure of where to start?
8. Ajari Mochi – An Affordable, Delicious Souvenir That Kyoto People Love
Ajari mochi is a famous Kyoto sweet dating back to 1922 created by local confectioners “Mangetsu,” founded in 1856. This semi-baked confectionary is made from lovely, chewy dough that’s filled to the brim with delicious azuki red bean paste. It’s an incredibly popular souvenir among travelers and Kyoto locals.
The secret to ajari mochi’s popularity lies in its deliciousness, which is the result of only using carefully-selected ingredients to make the sweet. For example, the filling boasts red bean paste made specifically for ajari mochi through a production process where every step has been honed to perfection, from the selection of the beans to the flavoring and preparation. Furthermore, the store that came up with the sweet has done its best to not raise prices, so even today, a piece of ajari mochi costs only 119 yen! This combination of high quality and affordability is what won over the notoriously discerning people of Kyoto, who are some of the most frequent buyers of ajari mochi.
If you're interested in buying some for yourself, don't wait until the end of the day! The sweets are available everywhere, from the original ajari mochi store and its many Kyoto branches, to department stores and even souvenir shops inside Kyoto Station, but it's not unheard of for them to sell out by evening during public holidays and the like.
9. Kyoto Locals Don't Know a Lot About Their Own City
Kyoto is a world-famous tourist destination full of historical wonders, such as the Historic Monuments of Ancient Kyoto, a UNESCO World Heritage Site that includes 17 temples, shrines, castles, and other monuments. Overall, there are 800 shrines and 1,700 temples officially registered in the city. Furthermore, owing to its 1,000-year-long history as the former capital of Japan, Kyoto is filled with a plethora of historically-significant buildings, roads, and other relics of the past.
However, despite the city's rich history, most of the people who were actually born and have lived their entire lives in Kyoto don't know about many of those spots. This is perhaps because, to them, they are just part of everyday Kyoto scenery, even though some of these places are famous enough to have appeared in textbooks. It's like how many Tokyo locals have never gone to the top of Tokyo Tower, which is equally surprising to Japanese people from other parts of the country.
To travelers, though, Kyoto is a treasure trove of places to explore, so travel around the city at your leisure and unearth parts of the city that even the locals haven’t discovered yet.
10. Even Kyoto Locals Can't Stand the City’s Scorching, Humid Summers and Freezing Winters
Kyoto is situated within a basin and doesn't get a lot of rain. As a result, the differences in temperature between summer and winter, as well as day and night, can be extreme. The mountains surrounding Kyoto block winds, so it gets especially humid and scorching in the summer. Then during winter, the cold air settles at the bottom of the basin, so the city becomes freezingly cold.
You need the right know-how to survive such extreme weather. In the summer, change out your cushions and bed covers to ones made out of smooth material specifically for summer weather, and hang up wind chimes to stay cool and relaxed. In the winter, consume lots of locally-grown, nutritious vegetables to keep your strength up. A few traditional events where you can sample simmered dishes made with such vegetables include "Daikodaki" and "Kabocha Kuyo," which are held every December.
As a traveler, you should make sure to check the humidity and temperature before coming to Kyoto. That being said, what you actually experience can drastically change depending on how crowded a place is or the weather that day, so just prepare yourself for multiple contingencies.
Kyoto is filled with customs that even other Japanese find peculiar. While it might take a bit to get used to the ways of the Kyoto locals, understanding the reasons and sentiments behind them is akin to getting to know Kyoto itself and its rich history and culture. After all, what makes Kyoto so attractive is not just the old-timey townscape, but also the people living there.
Of course, there are many more rules and customs in Kyoto than what we've detailed above, and you're bound to run into some of them during a visit to the city. And when you do, we hope that you will embrace them as a quirk of this fascinating city and continue to enjoy your time there.
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ABC News reports that a neuroscientist from the University of Pittsburgh has been charged with homicide following the death of his wife from cyanide poisoning.
Dr. Robert Ferrante, 64, allegedly killed his wife, Dr. Autumn Klein, 41, by lacing her creatine drink with cyanide on April 17.
According to police records, the couple had been exchanging emails about conceiving a second child. The husband had suggested a regimen of creatine drinks would help them conceive. Police found a glass vial near a resealable, plastic bag holding a white substance in the couple’s home. Ferrante told them it was creatine.
However, police now know that Ferrente had used a credit card to order cyanide not long before his wife’s death. He is a neuroscientist, but he was not involved in any experiments using the chemical.
Police have discovered that there were arguments between Ferrente and Klein about whether she might be having an affair.
Anolther witness reported seeing Ferrente himself drinking creatine samples in his lab in the days before his wife’s death. The cyanide he ordered was locked in a safe that only he and one other person had access to.
Cyanide poisoning as a method of homicide or suicide is still not unusual. We reported here recently about a man who ordered cyanide just before his trial on sodomy charges involving a 14-year-old female. When found guilt, he took the poison right there in the courtroom and died rather than go to jail.
Another man we reported on recently died of cyanide poisoning shortly after winning a lottery of $600,000. No arrests have been made in his death.
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(CNS Business): The local body representing the offshore sector has described a recent Oxfam report on tax havens as “the same purposefully misleading rhetoric pretending to be research that Oxfam has published and republished for years”. Cayman Finance said the analysis was biased and “intentionally inaccurate and misleading information”, as it accused the global charity that has been helping the world’s poor and vulnerable people for well over 70 years of advancing an agenda and harming countries they do not ‘like’ in the process.
In a statement Tuesday, Cayman Finance CEO Jude Scott claimed that the Oxfam report published this week, outlining the issues that major tax avoidance by the mega wealth and huge conglomerates cause, was “alarmism” that was “unsupported by the facts”.
He said that international policymakers recognise the “vital role the Cayman Islands plays in the global economy”, as he advanced the idea that Cayman connects law-abiding users and providers of investment capital and financing around the world, which benefits both developed and developing countries.
Scott added that last year alone, the World Bank’s International Finance Corporation invested more than $400 million in ten different Cayman-based investment vehicles to support critical telecom, energy, agriculture, technology, venture capital and manufacturing development projects in more than 24 developing countries.
“Oxfam continues to use a misleading and overly simplistic definition of what a tax haven is. Its assertion that a zero tax jurisdiction is a key criterion in defining a tax haven is simply not correct. Cayman Finance believes that any criteria used should be transparent, objective and meaningful,” he said.
Scott said that a definition of a ‘tax haven’ is a place providing shelter for illegal or inappropriate transactions and a jurisdiction that engages in practices that supports or conceals transactions relating to tax evasion, which is illegal.
“The Cayman Islands is not a ‘tax haven’,” he said. “The Cayman Islands is an efficient and effective tax neutral jurisdiction that does not add additional taxes and has been recognised for decades as a strong partner in combatting global financial crime including money-laundering, terrorism financing, corruption and tax evasion. The Cayman Islands has gained the reputation of a transparent jurisdiction by meeting or exceeding globally accepted standards for transparency and cross border cooperation.”
He said this jurisdiction provides a tax neutral platform that allows parties domiciled in countries that have differing laws, regulations, tax rules and customs to do business with each other.
“In the fight against tax evasion, the Cayman Islands has implemented global standards for best practices for transparency such as US/UK FATCA and being an early adopter of the OECD’s Common Reporting Standard, which provides automatic exchange of tax information with countries around the world,” Scott added.
He continued, “Aggressive tax avoidance requires legal mechanisms or treaties, such as double taxation agreements, to be in place between countries to legally transfer tax bases from one country to another to aggressively reduce taxes. The Cayman Islands does not have any double taxation agreements or similar arrangements. As such, the Cayman Islands is not a jurisdiction used for aggressive tax avoidance schemes.”
He said that Cayman Finance hopes all jurisdictions will adopt the globally accepted standards for transparency and cross border cooperation as it is critical that they apply equally to all jurisdictions.
Scott stated that Cayman attracts investment capital and financing which is pooled and invested back into opportunities across the globe – often benefitting the citizens of the developing countries that Oxfam purports to speak for. “Oxfam would benefit from spending its time and resources to properly understand the tremendous value the Cayman Islands provides globally,” he added. | <urn:uuid:36711cdb-05d1-4159-bb1f-f251dccc3c00> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://cnsbusiness.com/2016/12/cayman-finance-says-oxfam-is-wrong/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00161-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944927 | 776 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Complications from preterm births now outrank all other causes of death for young children. Of the more than 6.3 million deaths of kids under age five in 2013, more than one million resulted from preterm problems.
The new study was released November 17, World Prematurity Day, and appears in The Lancet medical journal. It’s a collaborative effort by researchers from the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine and the World Health Organization.
The vast majority the deaths from direct complications of preterm births occurred within the first 28 days of life – with an additional 125,000 deaths occurring between one month and five years.
Dr. Andres de Francisco, interim executive director of the Geneva-based Partnership for Maternal Newborn and Child Health, said, “Over the last few years the proportion of deaths due to preterm births has been increasing. The reason for this is that we do not really have major interventions in place to avoid premature births -- and second, to manage them in most communities where they occur.”
He said preterm birth complications are a worldwide problem.
“We have countries in Africa, for example – Nigeria – or in Asia -- India and Pakistan -- that have extremely high numbers of kids that are dying related to preterm births. But this is not only a problem in developing countries," de Francisco said. "This is also a problem that affects developed countries, as well.”
India actually tops the list, followed by Nigeria, Pakistan, the DRC, China, Bangladesh, Indonesia, Ethiopia, Angola and Kenya. Researchers warn the Ebola outbreak in West Africa raises the risk of preterm complications in the affected countries.
The rise in deaths from preterm birth complications actually coincides with a dramatic decline in the worldwide mortality rate of children under five.
“Mortality has been reducing by about 3.9 percent per year, which is a very impressive reduction of mortality -- and is due to a lot of interventions that we have in stock, including decreasing the mortality due to infectious diseases, such as pneumonia and diarrhea, malaria, among others,” de Francisco said.
Some of the interventions credited for the mortality rate decline include vaccines, bed nets, antibiotics, anti-malarial and HIV treatments.
But de Francisco said the mortality rate for premature babies has decreased by a much smaller rate of 2 percent a year. A big part of the reason, he says, is a lack of adequate interventions. And, right now, it’s not clear what the best interventions are, aside from addressing obesity and high blood pressure or hypertension.
The study said for the most part it’s not fully known what triggers pre-term labor – and about half of pre-term births occur spontaneously.
“This cause of mortality needs to be studied much more specifically and in a much more focused way. Because if we don’t have the causes – if we don’t have the factors – pregnancy is going to end in a premature birth. And this needs to be the focus of intensive research,” de Francisco said.
Some $250 million worth of intensive research is getting underway through four major initiatives: the Global Coalition to Advance Preterm Birth Research; the March of Dimes; the University of California at San Francisco’s Preterm Birth Initiative; and the Global Alliance to Prevent Prematurity and Stillbirth.
“If we are able to support these research programs, within the next five years or so, we will be able to have interventions that are going to contribute to the reduction of mortality in these very small babies,” he said.
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Hunt in Jerome County, Idaho — The American West (Mountains)
Minidoka Relocation Center
Erected by National Park Service.
Location. 42° 40.687′ N, 114° 15.055′ W. Marker is in Hunt, Idaho, in Jerome County. Marker is on Hunt Road west of County Road S1400E, on the right when traveling west. Click for map. Marker is located in the Minidoka
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. A Question of Loyalty (here, next to this marker); Minidoka National Historic Site (here, next to this marker); On Guard (a few steps from this marker); Minidoka Relocation Center (within shouting distance of this marker); Soothing Waters (within shouting distance of this marker); Supporting the Camp (approx. 0.4 miles away); Prehistoric Hunters (approx. 2 miles away); Hunt (Camp) (approx. 2.1 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Hunt.
Also see . . . Minidoka National Historic Site. Official National Park Service website. (Submitted on February 14, 2014.)
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August 7, 2012
MADISON -- A nuisance plant that readily attaches to people working or playing outdoors is being revealed as a threat to Wisconsin bats, spurring state invasive species experts to encourage people to take simple steps to avoid spreading the plant.
"Most people are well aware of common burdock and the seed heads that can cling to your clothing if you work or play outside," says Courtney Ripp, invasive plant specialist for the Department of Natural Resources. "The plant is largely a nuisance for people but we're learning that it can be deadly to bats."
The seed heads of common burdock - the inspiration behind the hook and loop fastener Velcro -- can stick to almost anything fibrous and have been documented to snag the wings of passing bats on their night-time forages for food. The bats get entangled in the seed heads and eventually die due to starvation, Ripp says.
Burdock, a common invasive plant in Wisconsin, can pose a threat to bats.
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"We're asking people - particularly landowners and outdoor enthusiasts -- to help save Wisconsin bats by taking a few simple steps to avoid spreading this plant around," she says.
Everybody who works outside or who hikes, bikes, or otherwise recreates outside should clean off mud, seeds, and other plant parts from clothes, equipment and pets before and after enjoying the outdoors to avoid spreading invasive species to new areas, Ripp says.
Property owners also can help by taking steps to reduce burdock on their land. Burdock is a biennial, which means the plant spends its first year as a leafy rosette and produces a flowering stem its second year that yields flowers and seeds before it dies.
There are simple steps property owners can take during burdock's first year and/or during its second year to keep it from spreading, Ripp says.
"If you have small rosettes, they can be removed with a dandelion digger. Larger rosettes can be removed with a sharp shovel by cutting the root 2 to 3 inches below the soil surface," she says.
Plants in their second season can be cut or mowed when flowers are just about to open. This prevents further seed production.
"Bats play a vital role in keeping nature in balance and in providing critical pest control for our agriculture and forestry industries," she says. "Let's all do our part to keep these important species safe by slowing the spread and managing common burdock and other invasive plants."
Wisconsin has seven species of bats, four of which are listed as threatened due to concerns that the bats are at serious risk from a deadly bat disease, white-nose syndrome, which has killed more than 6 million bats in the eastern U.S. and Canada and was found earlier this summer in caves in Iowa.
Visit DNR's website, dnr.wi.gov and search "Invasives" to find out more about invasive species, or find out how you can help bat populations by visiting the Saving Wisconsin Bats page of the DNR website or visit the Wisconsin Bat Monitoring Program (exit DNR).
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Diamonds and the Perception of Value
Diamonds are an essentially valueless commodity whose supply has been purposely restricted in order to make them valuable. Yeah, this article is over twenty five years old and anyone who has ever even been on the internet once has probably already seen it. Regardless, its still an absolutely fascinating read on so many levels. The story of the diamond is an illustration of the power of monopolies and cartels to restrict supply and to create value from the valueless. It is a story about the greatest marketing campaign of all time, one that has not only created the perception of value but maintained and increased that perception over time. It is the story of a society which buys into that perception even though an increasing percentage of the population is aware of the truth. It is the story of human natures need for symbolism and the individuals need to demonstrate status within society. It is the story of people’s ability to ignore that which they would normally find appalling. It is a fascinating story, but perhaps it is a story undergoing a revision? And more from USA Today. | <urn:uuid:5ba23261-96fb-4154-b587-9abc1650aba1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://newsburglar.com/2007/11/19/burglars-hate-diamonds/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00333-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973831 | 218 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Vis town center
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|• Total||52 km2 (20 sq mi)|
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Vis is a town on the eponymous island in the Adriatic Sea in southern Croatia. It has a population of 1,934 residents (as of 2011[update]). The town is also the seat of the eponymous Vis municipality, one of the two municipalities on the island (the other one being Komiža) which both administratively belong to the Split-Dalmatia County.
Vis was established in the 4th century BC as the Greek polis of Issa, a colony of Syracuse, Sicily (which in turn was a colony of Corinth). Dionysius the Elder, the contemporary tyrant of Syracuse, founded the colony in order to control shipping in the Adriatic Sea. Ancient Issa developed as the urban and economic center of the Dalmatian coasts, and also served as a military base. The city established several colonies, such as Aspálathos, modern-day Split (which in modern times is the largest city in Dalmatia), and others such as Epidauros (Stobreč), and Tragurion (Trogir). Issa functioned as an independent polis until the 1st century BCE, when it was conquered by the Roman Empire. After the Roman conquest Issa lost its significance until the late Middle Ages when it was mentioned in several historical sources.
The town of Vis is located in a relatively large and protected bay (Croatian: Uvala Svetog Jurja, English: Bay of Saint George) on the north-east side of the island facing the island of Hvar and the Dalmatian mainland. The port of Vis is located in the south-west part of the bay. The port is protected from open sea influence by the islet of Host (named after William Hoste) and the peninsula called Prirovo (sometimes spelled "Prilovo"). Other ports are smaller and located in Kut. and Stonca, which are also parts of the town of Vis.
Vis is isolated from its fields (Dračevo polje and Velo polje) thanks to 250–300 m high hills which are important for the local citizens as the main source of incomes from viticulture. Other official parts of the town on the south and south-east coast are villages located on bays such as Milna, Rukavac, Srebrna, Stiniva, Stončica, although some of them have a tendency to become new towns. These bays and villages are, besides the town of Vis itself, the main source of tourist income for the whole island.
Vis experiences warm and temperate winters with warm to hot summers with the landward breeze making it the most moderate climate in the Republic of Croatia. The climate allows for Tropical and Mediterranean vegetation, including palms, carobs, olives, grapes and lemons. The average rainfall is about 750 mm (29.5 in) per square meter. The island of Vis has a number of natural sources of drinking water from the natural spring water reservoirs. The island is also home to twelve distinct types of island vegetation. Vis has been marked as one of the ten most environmentally preserved islands in the Mediterranean by the World Organization for Environmental Protection.
Formal area of town of Vis is whole eastern part of the island. Western part of the island is under the authority of Komiža. Area of Vis embraces eight villages: Dračevo Polje, Marine Zemlje, Milna, Plisko Polje, Podselje, Podstražje, Rogačić and Rukavac. Town's council consists of eleven councilors divided currently in three groups; five councilors from SDP - HNS - HSS coalition, three from Independent list of Ante Acalinović and three from HDZ - HSP coalition. Ascendancy is currently held by HDZ - HSP coalition in alliance with the Independent list.
Until the middle of the twentieth century the main sources of income were vineyards and wine production. Recently more and more people work in tourism. The town is also famous for its greenery of palms, the only example on the eastern coast of the Adriatic Sea.
- Niko pl. Giaxa (Jakša)(1845-1905) first national major of Vis
- Ivan Farolfi (1892–1945), high-ranked official and former mayor;
- Ranko Marinković (1913–2001), Croatian poet born in Vis;
- Vesna Parun (1922–2010), acclaimed Croatian poet who was born in Zlarin but spent her childhood in Vis;
- Thor Einar Leichhardt (1969 -), Northern Irish and Croatian author and writer, originally from Vis
Monuments and historical sites
- Rests of antique Issa (thermae, necropolis, theatre, parts of the port)
- Five Roman Catholic churches (Župna crkva Gospe od Spilica, Crkva svetog Ciprijana, Crkva svetog Duha, Franciscan monastery on peninsula of Prirovo and Crkva Vele Gospe)
- Residences of Hvar and Vis noble families (Hektorović, Jakša, Gariboldi, Dojmi Delupis)
- War forts dating from various time (from old Venice to Austria-Hungary)
- British Military Cemetery (dating from the British presence during the 1810s)
The Church of Our Lady of Spilice was named after smaller semi-caves that were on the site where it was built. Construction began on the land donated by Frano de Pelegrinis at the very beginning of the 16th century. According to archive documentation, it can be seen that in 1521 it was still not finished and that the builders had increased their dimensions during the construction. There are various styles visible in this appearance: gothic, renaissance and baroque. Its oldest part, the central one, was built in the first half of the 16th century and brings the characteristics of transient gothic and renaissance style. The main door has fluted dooryambs on which are two semi-capitals supporting the door transom. Above the door is a semicircular lunette, that is simply and well-defined and adomed with pinions. Even the rounded window of the façade is of the Renaissance period whilst an attenuate distaff with three bells is the highest in Dalmatia. The church's naves are entered through two baroque doors over which are double-winged pediments and above them rounded windows. The church's interior is divided by broad semicircular arches on masonry pillars into three naves. With this the unity of the space was achieved illuminated by the long narrow windows of Romanic and gothic exterior, of which some were transferred from the old walls which dated back to the 16th century. The posterior part of the church was also enlarged with a baroque shrine, the chapel of St. Vicko and a sacristy. From the altar polyptych created by the famous Venice painter, Girolamo de Santacroce.
The late baroque Church of St. Cyprian and Justina was built in 1742 in the eastern part of Vis, in the region known as Kut. Here, there was once a church built at the beginning of the 15th century, whose remains are still visible in the rear wing of today's church, with an immured opening of a Gothic window. A flat façade of the church shows late baroque decorations weaving with a number of gothic motifs - rounded and quatrefoil windows intertwine with baroque vaults on a triangular pediment. Seven small windows together with a niche inside which was the statue of the martyr St. Cyprian constructors, adom the upper part of the façade which ends with borders that have been executed with laid and threaded vaults. In the lower part, closer to the portal, there are shallow pilasters above which are roses. The interior of the church hosts a spacious apse and two side chapels which give the church layout the form of a cross, but this is hardly noticeable thanks to the shallowness of the chapels. The church ceiling is wooden and relief coffered with decorations in the form of rhombuses with stylized flowers whilst in its centre a canvas has been inserted representing the Creator. Close to the church there is also a bell tower built at the same time. It is decorated in the same way as the church façade with horizontal belts, quatrefoil openings, relief roses, angel heads, elliptic windows and final vases. It also has loopholes oriented towards the port, thus making it is easy to see that the constructors had tried to use its dominant position to defense purpose too.
Church of St. George was built in the 9th century on a small peninsula situated at the entrance to the deep Vis bay. The Vis bay was named after it in the Middle Ages becoming the Port of St. George, there was also an islet at the entrance Škoj sv. Jurja (the cliff of St. George) as well as Jurjevo brdo (George's hill) to the east, and Saint George is the patron of the town of Vis. The church has been modified over time, so today the appearance of its façade on which the door have been enlarged and two smaller windows have been added, shows more stylistic characteristics of the 16th century than its original ones. Inside the church walls are divided with pilaster strips whilst two Byzantine amphorae have been built into the vault of the church. The Church's apse is semicircular with an altar that replaced the old one in the 17th century. Hermits lived here throughout the 15th century whose graves were found around the church.
The Church and monastery of St. Jerome was built on the small peninsula of Prirovo at the beginning of the 16th century. The church façade was made of marble taken from the adjacent ruins of ancient Issa, primarily from the Roman theatre over which the Franciscan monastery was built. The Church's door is simply profiled, adorned with swallow carved roses with a lunette above them. A little above the centre of the church façade there is a gothic renaissance window in the form of ring, surrounded by ovules. At the northern side doors there is unfinished relief of the stigmatisation.
The Gariboldi Palace was built in 1552. At the beginning of the 16th century, Frane Gariboldi moved from Milan to Hvar, becoming an inhabitant, and building a house and shop in a very crowded part of the town and a graveyard in the Franciscan church. He owned land on Vis and so built a palace there soon after on which above the portal of the outer, high façade wall he placed an inscription where he emphasized that he was a citizen of Hvar and outline his Milanese origins. LAVS DEO FRANCISCVS GARIBOLDVS MEDIOLANENSIS NVNC CIVIS LESINAE PRO SE IPSO AC FILIIS ET HEREDIBVS SIV HOC OPVS CONSTRVXIT MDLII. A paved courtyard extends behind the fenced wall that was later partitioned with divisions and shortened. There is also a well spring. The house façade was dismembered with profiled windows and bordered with the stone wreath of the roof adorned with stone acroterions in the form of a sphere. On the ground floor there is a cellar whilst stoned steps lead from the ground floor to the first floor and to the central door, above which is a Latin inscription. GLORIA LAVS ET HONOR TIBI SIT CHRISTE REDMEPTOR. Above the door a relief coat of arms stands out in which there is a fortress and four stars whilst on both sides there are the initials of Fran's name F.G.
Gazarović Palace was built by the well-known Croatian writer, dramatist and poet Marin Gazarović, the author of Murat Gusar, Ljubica and other works-of-art. He built this palace as a place for resting and to monitor his land ownership, as did many other Dalmatian nobles on their coastal lands. The summer residence with courtyard, completed prior to the last decade of the 16th century, is surrounded by a high wall and on the Renaissance portal the following verses by Gazarović have been inscribed in the Croatian language. PRIN NER CHIES CA PROCIN OSTAVI HIMBE VAN CA OBECHIASC VCIN AC HOCH BIT VIROVAN VIROM XIVE OV VICH DRAGYE VIRAN SLVGA YER CA TVRDI COVICH TVRDI ZA ZLA DRVGA. Gazarović's palace was built in the late Renaissance style. On the ground floor there is a cellar illuminated by means of small rectangular windows, whilst on the outside stairs once leaned to the façade and up to the front door of the first floor. The writer's apartment of the writer was found there; the interior was completely changed by subsequent construction, whilst parts of the stone Renaissance basin which were found in many Dalmatian houses in the period from the 15th to the 18th century can still be seen in its original form. At the centre of the façade was Gazarović's coat of arms surrounded by mermaids whilst at the top there was a dragon with outstreched wings, which was carved by the writer himself.
Renaissance and baroque one storey house belonging to the Prdvarić family was built in the later 16th century and is situated at the part of Vis known as Kut, close to the sea. On the ground floor there was once a tavern, whilst on the first floor there is a central hall situated between side rooms which are entered through a door with profiled stone frames. In the hall coveredby a wooden ceiling that relies on stone consoles, there is a profiled well's crown and a large walled in basin with two stone shelves on side consoles decorated with lilies whilst at the bottom there is a grotesque mask in relief. Grotesque masks are typical decorations of Dalmatian wall basin from the 16th to the 18th century.
The Perasti tower, kaštil, was built of Vicko of Perast in Bay of Kotor, in 1617. He requested permission to construct from the general commissioner which he received on December 16, 1616. There is not much information about Vicko of Perast, the builder of the tower. The earliest document in which he is mentioned dates back to 1587 in which his family was also mentioned. He was always given the title Sir (ser, dominus). Vicko of Perast lived in the Vis settlement of Luka, in his own house close to the tower, and died in 1622. He built the tower on his own land as defence from himself and other Vis inhabitants against possible Ottoman attacks on the town. The castle walls are divided by horizontal garlands whilst there are openings for cannons and loopholes along the walls. There are square sentry boxes standing on consoles at the corners of the tower whilst acroterions adorn their roof part. The tower was entered from a door situated on the first floor, which connected to Perasti's house by means of a wooden bridge. As this was the only in the door the tower, all equipment was brought inside along the wooden bridge and through it. The tower was armed with small bronze cannons that are mentioned in documents in the 17th in the 18th century. It was forbidden to build walls, houses and other facilities around the tower that would impede the defensive action of the cannons situated within it.
Our Lady's Battalion (Gospina batarija) is the main fortress built by the Austrians during their reign over the island. It was built in 1830s, in the very heart of Vis Bay, in a place known as Levaman. Following the Italian occupation of Vis, this fortress was renamed Batteria della Madonna. The fortress surrounded by a 2 m deep trench whilst defence walls are inclined and made of finely worked stone. Entrance the fortress is from the eastern wing, constructed as an arch, with well worked stone protruding from a wall. The fortress itself was entered by means of a wooden drawbridge into a spacious rectangular courtyard on the bottom of which was a well to supply water to the fortress. In the southern part of the courtyard is an elevated embankment surrounded by a high inclined wall on which there were once cannons. Below the embankment is a lovely parabolic arched vault with storage spaces and a dungeon. The main building is to be found in the southern part with a single storey and floor were command of the island and a barracks for the accommodation of officers and soldiers were situated. During the remarkable Battle of Vis, which took place from July 18 to July 20, 1866, it played an important role, damaging the Italian ship, Formidabile, captained by Simone Antonio Saint-Bon.
Fort George was built by the British when Austrian Imperial authority in region was ceded to the French as a part of a humiliating peace settlement dictated by Napoleon. Fearing Napoleon would turn the Adriatic into a French lake, with free rein to launch warships from the Venetian Arsenal and expand his empire further into Europe, the Royal Navy was sent to the Adriatic with a regiment of foot and detachment of artillery to prevent Napoleon's ambitions coming to fruition. The British had used the island of Vis for its fresh water and safe anchorage for a number of years prior the committing defences to the island. In 1811 the French successfully raided the bay of Vis inflicting damage to the town and destroying numerous merchant vessels. It was hence decided that the bay of Vis needed protection from further such attacks. Initial defences were built on Host Island in the middle of the harbour, consisting of two 18 pound guns in a stone fortification. In 1812 Fort George was begun after the British Governor, Colonel Robertson, decided that the harbour needed greater protection. Fort George was to be primarily a light cannon and musketry defence and was therefore built to cooperate with three further Martello towers; towers Bentick and Robertson to the rear of the fort and Wellington across the bay. Like the defences on Host Island, these Martello towers would carry large cannon able of deterring enemy ships from approaching the bay. The defense towers and Fort George were built under the supervision of Captain Henryson using labourers recruited directly from the island and remained strictly under the jurisdiction of the army whilst the battery on Host Island remained under the control of the Royal Navy. The defences were completed by late 1813 and two years later were handed to the Austrians, who had begun reclaiming control of their Adriatic territories following decline and eventual fall of Napoleonic forces in the region.
There is no information on when and where in Issa the bronze bust of the goddess Artemis was found. It was held in a house on the island of Vis, and was probably part of the collection of the Dojmi family of Vis. In the 1950s it was brought to the Archaeological Museum in Split, where many years of conservation works and scholarly analysis commenced. It belonged to a bronze sculpture between 1.5 and 1.6 m in height. The bust depicts a young woman with an idealized appearance. Her face, with no lines, exudes the harmonious tranquility of her internal disposition. The eyes are large and lined with a light leaf (lead), which creates a powerful colourist contrast in relation to the greenish patina of the bronze. The young woman's eye sockets are nicely sculpted, and the mouth is small. The hair is wavy and quite natural, so that even individual locks are interwined. It is parted down the middle, and combed into a bun at the back of her head, leaving her ears free. There is a diadem just above the forehead, which has on it a decoration resembling a tendril. The neck is broken off of the body in a jagged line. The facial expression and the shape of the head indicate sculptural elements based on the tradition of Praxiteles. It is an original Greek cult statue made in either the late fourth or early third century BC. There is a considerable archaeological evidence testifying to the cult of Artemis in Issa.
- Vis Primary school
- Until the 1960s secondary schools existed in the villages of Podselje, Podstražje and Marine Zemlje but these were eventually closed because of the lack of students due to drastic emigration that affected the island as a whole. In 1975 a secondary school named after Antun Matijašević - Karamaneo was built. It remains the sole centre of secondary education on the island.
- Cricket Club, named after Sir William Hoste, Bt.
- ŠRC Issa (sport and recreation club Issa)
- bowling club Vis
- "Population by Age and Sex, by Settlements, 2011 Census: Vis". Census of Population, Households and Dwellings 2011. Zagreb: Croatian Bureau of Statistics. December 2012.
- An Inventory of Archaic and Classical Poleis: An Investigation Conducted by The Copenhagen Polis Centre for the Danish National Research Foundation by Mogens Herman Hansen,2005,Index
- Dalmatia by Dmitar J. Culic. page 106
- Footprint Croatia by Jane Foster. page 258
- Migration and Population Decline in the Island of Vis, Croatia 1910-2001 by Ivo Nejasmic & Roko Misetic.page 116. The paper discusses the population dynamics of the island of Vis, Croatia and the geo-graphical, demographic and social characteristics linked to the process. Demographic sta-tistics and the results of the research show the substantial population decline of the island of Vis.
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Beryllium in Nature and Ship Repair (by Robbie Walker)
In the News
Beryllium is a lightweight metal that is six times stiffer than steel, melts at 2,349 degrees Fahrenheit, and possesses the highest thermal conductivity of all metals.
The metal has very unique mechanical and thermal properties as well and is used in many applications and industries including:
- Aerospace (gyroscopes, spacecraft)
- Automotive Electronics
- Defense (explosive ordinance, high-speed aircraft)
- Medical Specialties (MRI, radiation windows for X-ray tubes)
- Telecommunications (satellites, transmitters)
- as well as non-sparking tools and spot-welding electrodes
Beryllium is identified by the atomic symbol Be, and it is atomic number 4 in the Periodic Table of the Elements:
Beryllium occurs naturally in the form of several different minerals. It is most commonly extracted from beryl (a silicate mineral with the formula Be3Al2Si6O18), emerald (a variety of beryl), and bertrandite ores.
The beryl family of gemstones includes many colors of the rainbow:
- Emerald (green) is a widely known variety of beryl and is the birthstone for the month of May.
- Aquamarine (blue-green) also known as “sea water”
- Bixbite (red)
- Goshenite (colorless, like glass)
- Heliodor (golden-yellow)
- Maxixe (blue)
- Morganite (peach to pink)
- Pezzottaite (pink to red magenta)
According to NIOSH, Beryllium and beryllium-containing alloys and compounds have been produced commercially in the US since the 1940s. However, despite their many applications, gemstone beauty, and even reflective nature when polished to a mirror finish, Beryllium is extremely toxic when inhaled. According to OSHA, the 8-hour Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL) for Beryllium and Beryllium compounds is a very low 0.2μg/m3 (~parts per billion).
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Caring for the water in your aquarium is important and can be somewhat complex. Even a child’s simple bowl fish needs water that meets certain specifications. Whether you are a casual pet owner or a serious aquarium hobbyist, here are some simple facts to consider.
At the most basic level, all aquarium water should be carbon filtered before it is introduced to the aquarium. This can be accomplished in a variety of ways, whether through a whole house carbon filter or a small drinking water system. This is primarily about chlorine removal, though there are many other contaminants removed by carbon filtration that your fish will be glad you removed. Additionally many aquariums have integrated carbon filters that continually cycle the water. This helps to reduce the waste byproducts from the fish. In some cases these systems are small and ineffective, but can easily be upgraded to more robust equipment.
Aquariums should never use softened water, as it contains elevated levels of sodium and will be harmful to the fish, especially fresh water varieties. Salt water fish require exacting measures of specific types of salt and minerals, and using soft water will complicate the calculations to get the water right. It’s ok to use softened water if it will be passed through a reverse osmosis system or otherwise be demineralized before use.
For more complex aquariums with exotic species, plants, or salt water species, it’s best to start with demineralized or DI (deionized) water. DI water can be made by steam distillation which requires tremendous amounts of electricity, or through reverse osmosis or by using special resin based filter cartridges. Any of these methods will reduce total dissolved solids (TDS) to very low levels, making it much easier to control the final water product. If you are working with DI water it’s a good idea to own a TDS meter in order to quickly and easily measure the TDS content of the water. You should also be aware that water low in TDS may also have a low ph, which may or may not matter depending on your specific situation. Which leads us to the next consideration.
It’s important to be able to analyze the water for elevated levels of contaminants and ph, both before and after it is introduced to the aquarium. Inexpensive test kits with easy to use test strips are available for this task, and are a must for any serious aquarium owner.
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Politicians are taking us down the road to Dogmeat
As Canada approaches a fall Federal Election, politicians’ misunderstanding of immigration’s role in Canada becomes more and more ominous. Traditionally, Canada’s politicians believed that immigration had to serve the needs and interests of its majority population. After all, if Canada’s politicians did not look after the needs and interests of its majority population, who would?
However, as Canadians have observed over the past 30 years, Prime Ministers such as Mulroney, Chretien, Martin, Harper and Trudeau have refused to end Canada’s high and unnecessary immigration intake. As a result, the interests of recently-arrived immigrants such as Muslims, Sikhs, Chinese and others have taken priority over the needs and interests of Canada’s majority population. In other words, the question that most recent PM’s have dealt with is not “Should we bootlick recent immigrants?”, but “Can we get down to bootlick faster than our opponents?” All those PM’s have degraded the PM’s office and the entire country with their boot-licking. With only four years in office, Justin Trudeau has out-done all of his boot-licking predecessors. And, contrary to what Trudeau thinks, most humans think boot-licking is not something to be proud of.
As for MP’s, most people who aspire to become one have abandoned the traditional idea that immigration should serve the interests of Canada and its majority population. For example, the contrast between the nationalist immigration views of the NDP’s founder (J.S. Woodsworth) and the NDP’s recently-elected leader, Jagmeet Singh and other NDP MP’s such as Jenny Kwan is one of many examples of how disgraceful politicians’ behaviour has become.
Singh is an ethnic Sikh and Kwan is an ethnic Chinese. Their primary loyalties are to their ethnic groups, not to Canada. Their primary goal is to increase the numbers of their groups through high immigration. Kwan demonstrated that several months ago in her role as the NDP’s immigration critic when she led a charge to remove health restrictions on immigrants. Essentially, Kwan argued that if a potential immigrant is sick, Canada should not prevent that person from entering Canada. In her view, such a practice would discriminate against sick people!! Her view is one that NDP founder Woodsworth and traditional NDP’ers would have vehemently opposed. Worse, Kwan went even further. She spoke in favour of a new law that establishes every April as Sikh Heritage Month. To most Canadians, the biggest “heritage’ that Sikhs have in Canada is the bombing of Air India, an incident that killed 329 Canadians. Why is this group, whose members are responsible for the largest mass murder in Canadian history, to be honoured? If anything, they should rot in Canada’s “Hall of Shame” forever.
Kwan may have heard Woodsworth’s name, but she definitely knows little about the nationalist views and traditions bequeathed by Woodsworth and the early NDP to her political party and to Canada. Woodsworth was a Canadian patriot who was very proud of Canada’s founding French and UK settlers. Woodsworth revealed his nationalist outlook about immigration in his 1909 book titled “Strangers Within Out Gates”.
Like the current NDP leader and many NDP MP’s, Kwan has probably never even heard of Woodsworth’s book, let alone read it. In her most notorious statement as an elected politician , she defended Chinese Immigrant Entrepreneur tax evaders when she stated : “The Chinese are very private about their money.” When some legislators discussed a law to force Chinese millionaire immigrants pay their fair share of income taxes, Kwan objected :”This law (against Chinese tax evasion) goes against our (Chinese) culture.”
As for Singh, in his acceptance speech as the new NDP leader, he virtually declared that Canada’s two founding groups had no right to be in Canada. Singh’s contempt for Canada’s majority population has obviously alienated NDP donors and probably tens of thousands of traditional NDP voters. In fact, Jagmeet and his clawing and grasping Sikh supporters, in their crude grab for power, may well turn the NDP into dog meat in the Fall election. If poetic justice were to occur, Jagmeet himself could well become dog meat.
In his 1909 book, Woodsworth foresaw that immigrants would become a political force and that their interest in getting the franchise and in voting would make them a stronger force in future. He quotes American researcher Preston F. Hall on immigrants’ impact on the U.S. : “The heterogeneity of these races tends to promote passion, localism, and despotism, and to make impossible free co-operation for the public welfare”. (P.208)
Trudeau and other politician boot-lickers should take special note of Woodsworth’s and Preston’s conclusion. What Preston and Woodsworth are saying is that Diversity is not the strength of immigrant-receiving countries. In fact, it is a significant societal weakness which leads to passion (violence), localism (the triumph of local tribal concerns over national ones) and despotism (an overall lack of social cohesion).
In addition, Woodsworth is saying that the lack of social cohesion can lead to the break-up of countries who currently allow extremely foolish and naive high immigration intakes.
In the early 1900’s, Preston and Woodsworth said much the same thing that current American social researcher Robert Putnam has said.
For the enlightenment of ethnics like Singh and Kwan, we present several conclusions about immigration that Woodsworth reached in his book :(1) “Some say that all this mingling of different people is in the highest interest of our country.” Woodsworth asks : “Will the change be for better or for worse?” EDITOR : Obviously, groups such as The Muslim Brotherhood would have made Woodsworth turn over in his grave. That group has declared on paper that their goal is to infiltrate all of North American society to the highest level and to destroy and replace it with Islam. In addition, Woodsworth would have said that Canada is worse for admitting large numbers of Sikhs. That group has repeatedly demonstrated in its demands that turbans and kirpans be accepted and in their grasping for political positions that their goal is to hold power over Canada’s majority population. As the recent Chinese have shown, their goal is to increase their numbers, re-establish in Canada the corrupt life so common in China and, like the Sikhs and Muslims, establish virtual colonies in parts of Canada. If anyone were to ask Canada’s population if they wanted to become Muslim, Sikh or Chinese, the answer would be a resounding “NO!!” In other words, the answer that most Canadians would give to Wordsworth’s question is that the presence of large numbers of Muslims, Sikhs and Chinese in Canada has definitely made Canada worse. In fact, if high and unnecessary immigration continues, the situation will worsen dramatically.
(2) Woodsworth quotes frequently from American sources such as Preston F. Hall’s exhaustive study in the U.S.which concludes: “Foreign labor stands as a constant menace to the progress of the American laborer, and a check to his advancement. “The general law seems to be that cheap labor tends to drive out higher-priced labor and lower the standards of living.” (P.184)
(3) Woodsworth adds : “It is evident that “immigration means a very heavy burden upon all our charitable institutions”. (P.187) He cites a Report of the Associated Charities of Boston, 1894: “Because nearly all those needing assistance are recent immigrants, we feel we have to have changes in our immigration laws. Recent immigrants are inferior to previous ones. (P.187) Preston F. Hall concluded that recent immigration has caused pauperism (in the U.S. population) by causing displacement. (P.187)
(4) MPP Hanna presented the following information in the Ontario Legislature: “From 1903 to 1907, the cost of maintenance of foreign-born (asylum) patients had increased from $24,613.20 to $51,744.30. While the foreign-born of the entire adult population were only 20%, the total admissions to asylums from that class was 30%. “The figures showed the necessity of effective methods to prevent the dumping of undesirables by friends and others, aided by charitable organizations, with no other object than to get rid of the responsibility of their maintenance.” (P.190)
(5) Woodsworth cites the “Report of the Charity Organization Society of Montreal, 1905”: “Immigration has caused severe problems in the past year: 1000 unemployed Italians; 2000 unemployed Jews; many penniless British immigrants. The U.S. Bureau of Immigration reports that it has rejected 10,000 applicants for immigration to the U.S. from Canada. Canada cannot afford to be populated with outcasts from Europe.” (P.188)
(6) Of the Ontario population 16 and over, 20% were foreigners. Of those sent to jail, 38% were foreign. Toronto Asylum showed that a proportion of insane among arrivals was 26 times greater than it should be, and there was a strong suspicion that many were deliberately sent out from Great Britain to be got rid of. (P.190)
(7) A Winnipeg General Hospital report shows that non-Canadian patients “are out of all proportion to their number in the country and…a very much larger percentage of these (non-Canadians) are charity patients”. Immigration “has its benefits”, but it “also brings very heavy burdens”. (P.191) EDITOR : Research on immigrant use of Canada’s Health Care system remains to be done. However, two veteran Canadian economists concluded that immigrants were taking up to $35 Billion in benefits every year from Canada’s coffers. An update on that total has done been done, but it is probable that it has reached $40 Billion per year. This cost in not just for one year. It is a cost happening every year and this cost adds up to hundreds of billions of dollars. If the money being thrown to immigrants were spent on ending homelessness, Canada’s homeless crisis could have been ended years ago. Recently, the Trudeau government announced a program to end homelessness in Canada. the announcement said nothing about ending the cost of immigration and of ending senseless immigration.
(8) Woodsworth presents tables showing the concerns that physician inspectors and other inspectors had with immigrants arriving at Canada’s ports over a 9-month period in 1906-07. The largest number of concerns were with eye diseases (trachoma and conjunctivitis). Other physical concerns were tuberculosis, insanity, senility, debility, blindness, likeliness to become a public charge, and bad character. (Pp.193-203) EDITOR : As we stated earlier, NDP MP Kwan convinced members of the House of Commons Immigration Committee to not consider health deficiencies such as diseases as a reason for refusing immigrants entry to Canada. To Kwan, Canada has the ability to pay for endless health expenses of all immigrants. Also to Kwan, there is no possibility that new immigrants might be displacing Canadian-born in treatment. Woodsworth notes that immigration inspectors had to deal with very large numbers of immigrants (sometimes 7000 per day) every day and that clinical examinations of people who did not appear unhealthy did not occur. (P.192) He implies that many health concerns had been missed.
(9) Woodsworth notes that illiteracy of immigrants in English and in their own language should be a major concern to Canada. He uses a Report of The U.S. Commissioner of Education to show illiteracy rates among immigrants arriving from Europe. Northern and western European countries had the lowest rates of illiteracy (0 to 6%). The ones with the highest illiteracy rates (61 to 89%) were Portugal, Spain, Russia, Servia and Roumania. Woodsworth notes that there is a strong connection between illiteracy and poverty. He also says that school must be obligatory in order to increase educational standing. (Pp.204-05)
(10) Woodsworth cites the American Preston F. Hall who notes that immigrants “furnish more than twice as many criminals, two and one-third times as many insane, and three times as many paupers as the native element.” (P.206) Woodsworth cites numbers from the police court in Winnipeg for 1907 which showed that 1541 Canadians appeared there while 3707 non-Canadians (well over 2 times) made appearances there. (P.206) | <urn:uuid:a2b5154a-f207-4cbc-930a-c7cb4d6342df> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://immigrationwatchcanada.org/2019/07/30/politicians-are-taking-us-down-the-road-to-dogmeat/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573118.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817213446-20220818003446-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.975144 | 2,697 | 1.75 | 2 |
Remembering & Remembrance, 2016
Friday, November 4, 2016
The Gateway Community College (GCC) office of Veteran’s Affairs hosts two important events in honor of Veteran’s Day.
The NewAlliance Art Gallery opened on November 7 with Remembering and Remembrance, in partnership with the Giant Steps Program, an ongoing group-oriented recovery program for Veterans who are encouraged to use the creative arts alongside other therapies that assist with adjusting to life after service. The show that features watercolors, acrylics, oils, and other media. Remembering and Remembrance will be on display November 8-11 from 9:00am to 4:00pm. On November 9 the GCC Office of Veteran’s Affairs hosted a commemorative ceremony for veterans on campus. Members of the GCC community gathered for a special celebration to honor veterans for their service and dedication to our country. The ceremony, which was held in the Curran Community Center, opened with a moment of silence. Highlights of the ceremony included remarks from director of Career Student Engagement and Veteran’s Affairs, Kellie Byrd-Danso and Veteran's Affairs Coordinator, Rick Palinko. The solemn event culminated in a rededication of the Oath of Enlistment and the Commemorative Challenge Coin.
Gateway Community College is particularly mindful of the needs of students and staff who have served in the military. Among the available resources is the Veterans’ Oasis, where veterans can gather before, after and between classes, academic advising, career counseling, a veteran-to-veteran work-study mentoring program and a veteran certifying officer who can assist veterans with their benefits.
Gateway Community College is committed to providing high quality services to students, faculty and staff who are Veterans. The Veteran Services office, located Room N213H, serves as the point of contact for all Veteran students. Veterans are connected to both internal and external resources aimed at making their experience at the college a success. For more information contact GCC’s Veterans Office at (203) 285-2146 or email firstname.lastname@example.org. | <urn:uuid:8b65d0f5-ff1f-452b-9483-cfccfb0a9e7f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gatewayct.edu/newalliance/past-exhibits/remembering-remembrance-2016 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571993.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814022847-20220814052847-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.934403 | 439 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Monday, 9 January 2017
M25 Button Street
Post to the north Swanley Village
Post to the west Swanley
Canada Heights. Motorcycle Trials Circuit. This is owned by Sidcup Motor Cycle Club. It got the name of Canada Heights, during the Great War when Canadian troops were camped here. It has been in regular use for off-road motorcycle sports for many years, and by the Sidcup Club since 1938. It has hosted many events, from Club level to International status. Including national TV coverage with the BBC "Grandstand Trophy" events during the 1960s. In 1985 the Club bought the site with the help of a Sports Council grant and sponsorship. After that access roads were laid, undergrowth was cleared a and a new track was created.
The Hop Pole. This appears to have been a pub with a landlord said to have had a a tenure from 1816 to 1842. The Hop Pole. In the mid 19th there was horse racing here. It was still open in 1900.
Broomhill. This is a business, probably used cars.
Ancient woodland with outstanding views over the Kent countryside. This is a nature reserve opened by Sir David Attenborough in 1986, Farningham Woods Nature It is also a Site of Special Scientific Interest, and home to the Small-Leaved Lime, a rare tree which is only found on one other site in Kent, and several other unusual plants, including the largest British colony of the nationally rare Deptford Pink.
Dover Kent. Web site
Explore Kent. Web site
Farningham and Eysford Local History Society. Web site
Kent County Council. Where to see Wildlife in Kent.
Sidcup and District Motor Cycle Club. Web site
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Everyone, at some point, has made a bad mistake or has been in the wrong place at the wrong time resulting in trouble.
Unfortunately for some, trouble can result in a criminal record reflecting an arrest, charge or conviction. While most convictions cannot be removed from a person’s record, Texas law does allow individuals to permanently remove information about an arrest, charge or conviction from their permanent records in certain circumstances. This is called an expunction. Once a person’s record is expunged, all information is removed from the criminal record and that person can deny the incident ever occurred.
Records eligible for expunction include:
- An arrest for a crime that was never charged;
- A criminal charge that was ultimately dismissed;
- Certain qualifying misdemeanor juvenile offenses;
- Conviction of a minor for certain alcohol offenses;
- Conviction for Failure to Attend School;
- Arrest, charge or conviction on a person’s record due to identity theft by another individual that was actually arrested, charged or convicted of the crime;
- Conviction for a crime that was later acquitted by the trial court or the Criminal Court of Appeals;
- Conviction for a crime that was later pardoned by the Governor of Texas or the US President.
Even if you don’t qualify for the expunction of your criminal records, you may be able to achieve sufficient results by having your criminal records sealed. See Criminal Record Nondisclosure for more information.
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Patriot Day is about remembering those who were tragically killed and injured in the terrorist attacks that destroyed the World Trade Center in New York City. This includes the heroes who died fighting to save the innocent victims of this horrific event. On this day the residents of North Pole City solemnly pay homage to the fallen victims of the September 11th terror attacks. They also give thanks to the brave heroes who are still alive including members of the supernatural world who were there that day. This includes Santa Claus himself!
On September 11th, 2001 Santa Claus was in his office at the North Pole City Capital building when a security elf stepped in. He informed Santa that an airplane hit one of the twin towers. Santa switched on his satellite TV to watch the news coverage as he honed his psychic powers to target the general area. He then had a vision of a second plane hitting. At that point, Santa and the gathered Elves then knew it was a terrorist attack. Santa wanted to power up the sleigh and rush to thwart the second plane along with the one that hit the Pentagon. However, before he could even get out of his seat his Archangel Father Sarandiel whispered in his mind, “No interference in major human affairs, my son!” This was the wish of Heaven and a part of the infamous Supernatural Secrecy Pact signed by an armada of higher dimensional beings.
So Santa contacted various people in order to try and get the second building evacuated. Unfortunately, the calls were ignored for the most part. He then called his Elves out in the field nearby to see if they could help. He also informed various supernatural beings of the light to converge on New York City to aid those in need. In the midst of this, the second plane hit as he predicted. Mrs. Claus stepped in with their kids Nick, Jr., and Mary to witness the tragedy taking place in her home country. Santa immediately took off a glittering white snowflake necklace and gave it to the Cheif Elf Elmer while saying, “You have command!” Elmer placed the necklace around his neck while replying, “I have command, Sir!” Santa then indicated he was going to the twin towers to help. Before Mrs. Claus could object he teleported away to ground zero of the alarming event!
The long-distance teleportation and a magical Glamour to make himself look like a firefighter drained quite a bit of his power. However, Santa still had Demi-Angel strength, speed, senses, and agility. Father Christmas immediately sprung into action and entered the first tower to save lives! He remained within until the building collapsed. Out of the view of prying eyes, he exploded from the rubble and stomped to the second tower to repeat his exercise with the intent of saving everyone he could. He was on the roof as the second tower collapsed with several people he was trying to save. He had no choice but to teleport them away just as the roof left their feet. They made it to a nearby rooftop as Saint Nicholas collapsed from enchanted exhaustion. The people he saved were stunned at suddenly appearing somewhere else as they looked on with shock at the collapsing tower. Meanwhile on the streets nearby a superhero, who would later be known as Patriot Woman, was born from the toxic ashes!
Santa Claus had passed out but quickly regained consciousness as a white light formed around him. His Angel half along with The Spirit Of Christmas began healing and recharging his power. He now appeared in his true glorious form complete with red Santa suit. The people around him couldn’t even speak due to all the surreal events that had just occurred. He then hypnotized them to forget everything and directed them to the stairwell that would lead them off the roof. When they turned around he was gone. He was still powered down and had actually jumped off the roof. Santa barely levitated to the ground within the cloak of toxic black smoke and debris from the collapsed towers. He directed some lost suffocating people to shelter but passed out again briefly amid inhaling tons of the toxic waste. He still wasn’t completely healed and was draining his powers again.
As he awoke a group of three athletic-looking people stood around him. A handsome young man then said, “Santa you’ve done more than enough. We got this you magnificent bastard!” It was a team of paranormal warriors among others who were summoned to the city by Santa, the news, or their own psychic powers. Santa nodded while they helped him stand up. Suddenly four Elves sparkled from the smokey surroundings and teleported Father Christmas back to North Pole City. Within several hours he was back to full steam. He continued to watch the news reports and returned with Elves to aid in finding trapped people. Saint Nicholas ultimately mourned for all his Christmas children who grew up and bravely met their maker on September 11th…🎅 | <urn:uuid:c1e35277-6613-4269-83ef-9c3d53863f6d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mysticinvestigations.com/christmas-blog/patriot-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.988518 | 997 | 2.046875 | 2 |
If the 2018 Olympic athletes had time to step away from their competitions in February to visit the South Korean countryside, they would have spotted acres of rice paddies covering more than half of the cultivated lands in the small Southeast Asian country. Rice has been South Korea’s predominant crop for hundreds, if not thousands, of years.
Because rice takes so much water to grow, most of the rice paddies in this small country of 24 million acres are near streams or rivers. The farmers use this surface water to irrigate and flood the rice paddies.
What the Olympians wouldn’t see is how a computer simulation model developed in Temple, Texas, is helping South Korean scientists evaluate the water quality of these paddies and the streams and rivers.
Developing a crop-specific model
As with U.S. farmers, South Korean rice farmers use fertilizers and pesticides to manage their rice fields. Once the paddies overflow, water runs back into the nearby water bodies, potentially polluting the water. With the country’s five major rivers showing recent signs of pollution, the Korean government knew it needed to monitor and measure the possibility that rice paddies were part of the problem.
Scientists from the Republic of Korea’s National Institute of Agricultural Sciences approached Dr. Jaehak Jeong, research scientist with the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Temple, several years ago to help with determining the amount of nonpoint source pollution from the rice paddies for the entire country.
“The South Korean scientists had been conducting a lot of field-scale research, monitoring rice paddy fields and measuring contaminant concentrations,” Jeong said. “But at the country-scale they didn’t have the numbers to quantify rice paddy pollution.”
The scientists traveled to Temple to learn the computer model APEX, or Agricultural Policy Environmental Extender.
Major agricultural and environmental computer simulation models developed primarily at the Texas A&M AgriLife Research and Extension Center in Temple, Texas, in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service and Natural Resources Conservation Service are now used worldwide.
- Mimicking Nature, txH2O
- SWAT Goes International, txH2O
- Simulating the Effects of Agricultural Management on Water Quality Dynamics in Rice Paddies for Sustainable Rice Production—Model Development and Validation, Water journal
- Blackland Research Center Models website
- Soil and Water Assessment Tool website
- Environmental effects of rice paddies in monsoonal climate
- Agricultural Policy/Environmental eXtender Recent Activities and Developments
APEX is a computer simulation model that can be used to evaluate crop and land management technologies and decisions that can affect agricultural production and environmental sustainability for individual fields, whole farms or small watersheds. APEX has components for routing water, sediment, nutrients and pesticides across complex landscapes and channel systems to the watershed outlet. It also contains groundwater and reservoir components.
Jeong said the South Korean scientists wanted to learn how to possibly use APEX and modify it to estimate loads of nutrients from rice paddies. “We discussed how to optimize the model for Korean use, what to improve to have the model better simulate rice paddy processes.”
Jeong and others at the center worked with the Korean scientists on developing a module within APEX to make those modifications, using the Korean scientists’ field research to test and calibrate the new model. The result is a rice paddy-specific model: APEX-Paddy.
The Korean government is now collecting and organizing data to expand the APEX-Paddy model to the entire country.
“They will be running the model and evaluating best management practices to reduce nutrient and sediment loads,” Jeong said.
Multitude of models
APEX is just one of the major agricultural and environmental computer simulation models developed primarily at the Temple center in collaboration with the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA)’s Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Natural Resources Conservation Service. These research groups have collaborated for more than 40 years, developing and perfecting models that are now used worldwide.
“We have had a long relationship of working very collaboratively together especially with development of these models,” said Dr. Tom Gerik, the center’s director.
Computer simulation models, such as APEX, can help researchers solve complex environmental problems. Large amounts of information, including weather and soils information, geospatial information and crop management practices, as well as equations, or algorithms that describe biophysical processes, such as transpiration and groundwater infiltration, are fed into the models.
Jeong said the models “recreate the earth systems” to help answer how human activities on the land influence the environment.
As humans, we can come up with the creativity, but the models can help us answer complicated questions. We can’t calculate all the processes at a point level of a watershed; there are hundreds of thousands of points to consider.Dr. Jaehak Jeong
“As humans, we can come up with the creativity, but the models can help us answer complicated questions,” he said. “We can’t calculate all the processes at a point level of a watershed; there are hundreds of thousands of points to consider.”
The models, including APEX and EPIC, or Environmental Policy Integrated Climate, a crop and soil productivity model, can then evaluate the effects of technology, management or climate change impacts on the productivity and sustainability of agriculture and natural resources, such as soil and water.
Although there are many crop models in existence, Gerik said the ones developed at the Temple center are unique.
“What sets our models apart from other crop models out there is our models consider the management and the tools used to grow the crops.
“When we simulate the crop production system or crop, we can simulate the biophysical attributes that go along with the piece of equipment being used, whether it’s irrigation equipment or a fertilizer applicator, and show how that equipment is affecting the crop and soil properties,” Gerik said.
While other crop models are focused on plant development and yield production, Gerik said APEX and EPIC are “focused more on how agriculture is using natural resources, and the two main natural resources are the soils and water.”
SWAT, or Soil and Water Assessment Tool, is another model jointly developed with ARS primarily at the center. This model is a river basin-scale computer model developed to quantify land management practices in large, complex watersheds. The public domain model is widely used to simulate the quality and quantity of surface water and groundwater and predict the environmental impact of different land management practices.
The models initially developed at the Temple center have been used all over the world to simulate, estimate and solve environmental issues.
Gerik said the models are all open source, and other scientists have taken these fundamental models and developed them further for specific applications.
“We rely on other people to share their knowledge and information and capabilities with us,” he said. “Thousands and thousands of other modelers around the world are using the models in ways we don’t even know they are being used.”
What sets our models apart from other crop models out there is our models consider the management and the tools used to grow the crops.
Jeong said other modelers might build a specific interface program that answers a question that applies to their research of interest. “Oftentimes our models serve as scientific background to answer those questions,” he said.
In addition to working with Korean scientists on the APEX-Paddy, Jeong is part of an international working group for rice paddy modeling.
The group is interested in better simulating rice paddy processes in Japan, Vietnam, India, China and United States.
By far the most widely used model developed at the Temple center is SWAT. An entire research community exists around SWAT; the river-system model has been used in more than 120 countries to address environmental and water management issues.
“The fastest growth of the application of the SWAT model is in Africa and Asia,” Srinivasan said. “And most of its application in next five to 10 years will come from Asia and Africa.”
In one of its most comprehensive uses, SWAT has been adopted as a model by five countries in Southeast Asia to help these countries collectively negotiate water rights and manage water resources in the Mekong River Basin. The 675,000-square-kilometer Mekong Basin cuts through Thailand, Vietnam, Cambodia, Laos and Myanmar.
Srinivasan said in other multiple-country river basins, the countries don’t have a common platform — the same model and same assumptions — to make decisions.
“When water planning has to be done, these five countries use the same model and the same tools to make the decisions,” Srinivasan said. “This platform has really made the negotiation easy because everyone has the same information.”
The U.S. Agency for International Development funded a research project for the Kenyan government in which researchers applied the SWAT model to a portion of the Tana River below Mt. Kenya to determine the effects of reforestation policies on a reservoir.
Also in Africa, SWAT and APEX are being used in the Innovation Lab for Small-Scale Irrigation project, part of Feed the Future, the U.S. Government’s Global Hunger and Food Security initiative. The project works in Ghana, Ethiopia and Tanzania to provide improved efficient methods of supplying water to small farms. (See “Feeding the Future”.)
“The project partners used APEX at the field level to look at small-scale irrigation in terms of how the farmers can grow crops and determine if they have enough water within those small areas to be able to grow crops,” Gerik said. “We can simulate crop water use and the depletion of the aquifer and well around it to see if they have enough water to fully grow the crop and what the yield potential would be if water starts to run out.”
Srinivasan said SWAT and APEX were also used to identify potential regions in the countries to expand the use of specific irrigation technologies that were adapted for use on the small farms.
Expanding through training
Training workshops have been a fundamental pathway for expanding the use of these models internationally and opening up possibilities for collaborations.
“Once we do training, we become engaged with a few of the students, and they begin to use the models and become pretty avid model users,” Gerik said. “We develop ties and linkages with those people. Sometimes we develop a collaborative working relationship with them to develop a new feature or new capability that gets added to the models.”
Jeong initially trained the Korean scientists in using APEX in Temple and has since conducted trainings in Korea for each of the last three years with another training this year. In addition to his workshops in South Korea, Jeong is visiting a Chinese university this year to teach researchers about using APEX-Paddy in China and will be a visiting scholar for a month at a Japanese university next fall.
Srinivasan, particularly, has worked to organize SWAT trainings and conferences all over the world.
Srinivasan said the Temple team is conducting eight to 10 workshops a year worldwide while other researchers are conducting about 50-60 workshops a year. The Temple group organizes two to three international and regional conferences a year, each averaging 150 participants from 30-40 countries.
The increase in SWAT being used worldwide by so many scientists has brought along an increase in the number of peer-reviewed publications. Srinivasan said 3,100 peer-reviewed publications about SWAT have been published, 600 in 2017.
Not only do the modelers travel internationally teaching and conducting research using these models, scientists from all over the world come to Temple to learn and work with the Temple group.
Gerik said the center itself has 40-50 scientists on staff from other countries, including Zimbabwe, China, Argentina, India, South Korea, Italy, Bolivia, Germany, Taiwan and Ethiopia. Other scientists come to Temple for extended visits to work on adding new features to the models.
Gerik said these scientists are experts in particular areas of science who contribute their knowledge on biophysical processes to the model.
“In many cases, they are the people who help refine the models because they look at the simulation methodology and outcomes differently than we do,” he said.
Dr. Ann Van Griensven, associate professor of hydrology and water quality at the IHE Delft Institute of Water Education in the Netherlands, recently was in Temple working closely with Dr. Jeff Arnold of ARS and the SWAT team of developers. She has worked with SWAT for 20 years, including model developments and auto-calibration tools.
“At this moment, I am working on the new SWAT+ version, which is under development,” Van Griensven said. “I am working on improving the representation of riparian wetland processes in SWAT model applications.”
She said wetland processes have a large impact on water quality and quantity but are poorly represented in catchment models.
“The new SWAT+ version better represents interactions between rivers and landscape units, which is important for the simulation of riparian wetlands, which interface between the river and the landscape.”
Continuing model collaboration
Gerik said the Temple group will continue to collaborate with scientists around the world to refine and develop the models for new applications.
The team is currently developing a global platform for the SWAT model with cloud-based worldwide basic data.
Srinivasan said scientists now using SWAT download the model, collect and input the needed data into the SWAT model and then develop their own project.
“This new platform will make it easier for anyone in the world to use the SWAT model without worrying about how to get data,” Srinivasan said. “With the global platform, we are developing the model for the whole world and others can just do the application.”
“Because we have such a long history here and because of the models’ wide application and because people are interested in improving water use and finding ways to reduce the impact of agriculture on the environment and to more efficiently use all of our natural resources, there is lot of demand to use models,” Gerik said.
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Hot dogs: The ultimate American food
The hot dog is a part of America's history, but its origins have become the stuff of debate and folklore.
"It's ensconced in American mythology," says Bruce Kraig, a culinary historian and author of "Hot Dog: A Global History."
For example, Kraig disputes the long-held belief that Charles Feltman, a German butcher, invented the idea of putting a hot sausage on a bun, hawking it to Coney Island beachgoers in 1867.
"There's no evidence of it," says Kraig. Rather, it's safer to assume that German immigrants popularized sausages, wieners and frankfurters as street food sometime in the late 1860's.
Then there's the question of the origin of the name "hot dog." Entire scholarly books have been devoted to the topic. One nice-sounding but untrue story says the moniker was coined at a 1901 baseball game by cartoonist Tad Dorgan. The earliest use of the term, says Kraig, traces back to an 1860's song written in German dialect, "Oh where, oh where has my little dog gone?" The punch line is that the dog was made into sausages.
But the fact that all these legends exist reinforces how much the hot dog is a part of our culture.
"The hot dog's popularity comes with the urbanization of America," says Kraig. "With the rising middle class, with enough disposable income and leisure time — the hot dog is embedded in that changing America."
Another way the hot dog is the quintessential American food is that it has developed so many regional variations — from the deep-fried Texas wieners of North Jersey to the bacon-wrapped Sonoran dog of the Southwest.
"It's a platform for culture and individuality; people will put on a hot dog what they want, and that style becomes a symbol of the region," he says.
Some may associate hot dogs with New York City — think Gray's Papaya or a dirty-water dog from the ubiquitous street vendors — but you'd be remiss to skip out on the multitude of wieners in our own back yard. The Garden State's hot dog culture has its origins in transportation routes.
"New Jersey is at the crossroads of everything," Kraig says. "Back in the 1920's, there were Routes 1 and 9, and before the age of hamburgers, hot dogs were America's fast food."
John Fox, a postal worker from Union, leads the popular "New Jersey Hot Dog Tour," which draws fans from across the country and around the world. "[The state] has more styles of hot dogs than most areas," he says.
Part of a nationwide community of hot dog connoisseurs, Fox is as passionate and erudite about cured meat on a bun as wine and truffle enthusiasts are about their delicacies.
"A hot dog is not just a hot dog," says Fox. "There's a big difference in how it's made, the quality and style. So much goes into making the final hot dog."
And while the recent trend has been to pile toppings on your dog — chili, raw onions, cheese, coleslaw, even kimchi — Fox is a wiener purist.
"Why have a good quality dog and not even taste it?" he says. "It's like putting lipstick on a pig."
New Jersey specialties
Deep-fried rippers: Rutt's Hut in Clifton and Hiram's Roadstand in Fort Lee both specialize in deep-fried Thumann's dogs. At Rutt's, the waitress will ask how you'd like your dog done: a "ripper" is fried until the skin splits down the middle, an "in-and-out" is barely fried, a "weller" is well-done and the "creamator" is fried like crisp bacon. The yellow relish adds a nice sweet bite. If you're into toppings, Hiram's does the chili dog very well. There's also a self-serve vat of sauerkraut at the counter.
- Rutt's Hut, 417 River Road, Clifton; 973-779-8615
- Hiram's Roadstand, 1345 Palisade Ave., Fort Lee; 201-592-9602
Hot Texas Weiner: It isn't actually from Texas. Its creator, a Greek cook from Paterson in the 1920s, wanted to give his chili sauce an exotic-sounding name. These early hot dog stands fed factory workers and drivers passing on the major highways. It's a hot dog, with mustard, a thin chili sauce (no beans) and raw onions.
- Libby's Lunch, 98 McBride Ave., Paterson; 973-278-8718.
- Hot Grill, 669 Lexington Ave., Clifton; 973-772-6000; thehotgrill.org
- Falls View Grill, 578 Route 46 east, Totowa; 973-890-9448; fallsviewgrill.com
- Goffle Grill, 1140 Goffle Road, Hawthorne; 973-423-0881; gofflegrill.com
Italian hot dog: Born in Newark at Jimmy Buff's, this dog is stuffed inside a quarter of pizza bread, with sautéed onions, peppers and potatoes.
- Jimmy Buff's, 60 Washington St., West Orange; 973-325-9897; jimmybuff.com (six locations in New Jersey, including the Prudential Center in Newark)
Other interesting hot dog spots in North Jersey
- Banana King
53 Passaic County 622, Passaic; 973-779-7333
390 21st Ave., Paterson; 973-742-8777
Their Hawaiian hot dog comes with a super sweet sauce, mustard, mozzarella, mayonnaise and pineapple.
- Hot Dog Caboose
211 Greenwood Ave., Midland Park; 201-444-2531; hotdogcaboose.com Sabrett hot dogs offered in many varieties, including a Chicago and Texas dog. Kids will love ordering from the real red caboose (photo,left).
NEW YORK CITY
- WHAT: A kosher all-beef hot dog, grilled and topped with sauerkraut and mustard.
- WHERE: Papaya King, 600 Getty Ave., Clifton; 973-340-1100.
- WHAT: A steamed all-beef dog squirted with yellow mustard, and topped with dark green relish, chopped raw onion, tomato slices, sport peppers and a dash of celery salt – the order of the toppings counts. Must be served in a poppy seed bun.
- WHERE: Sonic, North Bergen, Totowa and Hasbrouck Heights; sonicdrivein.com
- WHAT: A dry chili sauce made with puréed beef hearts and topped with chopped raw onions.
- WHERE: Detroit and the Midwest. Sonic has it's own twist.
— Sachi Fujimori
Consumers looking for healthier hot dogs have several options. Brands listed below can be found at most supermarkets.
- Applegate Farms: All-natural, uncured beef hot dogs, meaning the cattle are raised hormone- and antibiotic-free. Also does not contain sodium nitrite, the ingredient that preserves meat and adds red color.
- The Great Organic Hot Dog: Same; the cows are also grass-fed.
- Hebrew National: 97 percent fat-free franks—have a spicier flavor for kosher hot dog fans.
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Hello my friend and welcome back! In today’s post we are going to look at securing your property and the importance of using ever possible advantage you can get. The last thing you want is to come up short when it counts so grab a cup of coffee and have a seat while we visit.
With everything going on in the world today and here at home in America, security is at the forefront of people’s minds. We all understand the need to prepare, so we do not become a victim of violence in the world today. Whether it’s on the street or at your home, you need to be sure that you will always have what you will need to protect yourself. This will be especially true when SHTF hits.
Let’s start with your work place if you don’t work at home. Many businesses have some pretty heavy-duty restrictions about what you can carry on you while at work. I work for a University and believe me, these people consider a hang nail as a deadly weapon. Taking steps to be sure you can protect yourself if the worst were to happen is a challenge to say the least. Having said that, let me offer a few ideas which may help you skirt these rules and keep yourself safe.
During an “Active Shooter” or so called “work place violence” attack, every minute will count so you will need to act fast. Depending on the circumstances and the number of terrorist involved, your best option may be to just hide until you can figure the best course of action. There is nothing wrong with hiding, if you don’t feel that you are capable of attacking back. In this case, it would probably be best to stay out-of-the-way of those who can fight back.
So, how do you fight back when you’re not allowed to have weapons on the premises? There are many items you can use to protect yourself if you plan ahead. Tactical ink pens are one good way and are allowed pretty much anywhere, except possibly on a plane. They are inexpensive and are designed to allow you to strike a person in the side of the head, or in the eyes for openers. You can even use them to write with if you need to.
Another good weapon which could be used is the metal expandable baton. Many Security personnel use these and they are very effective against attackers if you know how to use them. The important thing is that they are allowed just about anywhere including most University campuses. When added to your other items you could have a fighting chance.
Whether you are skilled in combat or not, a neck knife hidden under your shirt is always a great addition to your personal security items. Because it is hidden, it gives you the advantage of surprise and can be deadly when used properly. While not all places allow it, concealed carry is always your best option if it’s available.
But what if you are not at work, but on the road instead? Besides the weapons mentioned above, what else is available for defense? If you are in a parking lot and have your keys with you then sound the panic alarm on your key ring if you have one. Use your key as a weapon by placing it between your fingers and stabbing at the attackers face with it. If you are battle trained you may want to keep a fixed blade knife someplace where you can grab it quickly. Anytime you can surprise your attacker, regardless of the situation, you will for at least a few seconds have the upper hand. Don’t waste the opportunity when it presents itself. Most of us have our homes and retreat property surrounded with electrical and electronic gadgets that warn us if someone tries to enter protected areas. Booby-traps are another way of securing your property, just be aware that children and adults could accidentally fall prey to them. Teach any children and adults who have access to your property where they are and how to avoid them.
Oddly enough, many people don’t really consider keeping dogs because of their upkeep. As an ex-law enforcement officer, I can personally tell you that they value of having medium to large size dogs, both inside and outside your home or retreat cannot be over emphasized. They have saved many lives and can hear and smell things and people long before a human can.
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Protective Services: Career and Education Opportunities in Wyoming
Protective Services: In general, Protective Services workers provide an array of services to safeguard and protect the community from crime, fire and other illegal or harmful activities. Their services are often provided to the public without fee and are considered basic public services.
Wyoming has a population of 544,270, which has grown by 10.22% in the last 10 years. Nicknamed the "Equality State," Wyoming's capital and most populous city is Cheyenne. In 2008, there were a total of 404,855 jobs in Wyoming. The average annual income was $48,580 in 2008, up from $46,726 in 2007. The unemployment rate in Wyoming was 6.4% in 2009, which has grown by 3.2% since the previous year. Roughly 21.9% of Wyoming residents have college degrees, which is lower than the national average.
The top industries in Wyoming include mining, mining (except oil), and crude petroleum gas extraction. Notable tourist destinations include the Cheyenne Botanic Gardens, the Nelson Museum of the West, and the Union Pacific Historical Society.
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CAREERS WITHIN: Protective Services
Correctional workers are the professionals who makes sure our prisons and jails remain safe. Keeping order on the inside of these institutions, they also make sure that those incarcerated stay that way.
While fire and police are the most visible, there is a wide range of jobs in protective services. From lifeguards to animal control workers, these are all careers aimed at keeping people safe and secure.
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A landmark trial has begun against the oil giant Chevron. A San Francisco district court is hearing a case brought by Nigerian plaintiffs who accuse Chevron of recruiting and supplying Nigerian military forces involved in the May 1998 shooting and killing of protesters in the oil-rich Niger Delta. The protesters were occupying a Chevron-owned oil platform called the Parabe, demanding jobs and compensation for environmental damage to their communities. We play an excerpt of Democracy Now!'s award-winning documentary, Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria's Oil Dictatorship, and we speak with two activists. [includes rush transcript]
AMY GOODMAN: A landmark trial has begun against the oil giant Chevron. A San Francisco district court is hearing a case brought by Nigerian plaintiffs who accuse Chevron of recruiting and supplying Nigerian military forces involved in a May 1998 shooting and killing of protesters in the oil-rich Niger Delta. The protesters were occupying a Chevron-owned oil platform called the Parabe platform, demanding jobs and compensation for environmental damage to their communities.
Soon after landing in Chevron-leased helicopters, the Nigerian military shot to death two protesters and wounded several others. The eleven activists were detained for three weeks, thrown into the notorious Nigerian jails. During their imprisonment, one activist said he was handcuffed and hung from a ceiling fan hook for hours for refusing to sign a statement written by Nigerian federal authorities. Chevron claims force was used to defend the platform from a violent assault and hostage-taking by the protesters.
Chevron is being sued under the Alien Tort Claims Act, which allows foreign nationals to take legal action over crimes against them overseas.
In a moment, we’ll be joined by two human rights activists involved in the case, but first I want to turn to an excerpt of the documentary Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship. Democracy Now! correspondent Jeremy Scahill and I traveled to the Niger Delta to investigate Chevron’s role in the killings in 1998. In the documentary, a Chevron official acknowledged to us that on May 28, 1998, the company transported Nigerian soldiers to the Parabe oil platform. This is an excerpt of Drilling & Killing.
AMY GOODMAN: Until now, Chevron has claimed that its only action against the occupation was to call the federal authorities and tell them what was happening. But in a startling admission in a three-hour interview with Democracy Now!, Chevron spokesperson Sola Omole acknowledged that Chevron did much more. He admitted that Chevron actually flew in the soldiers who did the killing. And he further admitted that those men were from the notorious Nigerian navy.
SOLA OMOLE: I guess —
AMY GOODMAN: Who took them in?
SOLA OMOLE: What’s that?
AMY GOODMAN: Who took them in?
SOLA OMOLE: Who took them in?
AMY GOODMAN: On Thursday morning, the Mobile Police, the navy?
SOLA OMOLE: We did. We did. We did. We, Chevron, did. We took them there.
AMY GOODMAN: By how?
SOLA OMOLE: Helicopters. Yes, we took them in.
AMY GOODMAN: Who authorized the call for the military to come in?
SOLA OMOLE: Chevron’s management.
JEREMY SCAHILL: Chevron’s management. So, Chevron authorized the call for the military and transported the navy to the barge. On top of that, Chevron’s acting head of security, James Neku, flew in with the military the day of the attack.
AMY GOODMAN: Were you on that helicopter?
JAMES NEKU: Yes, I was in the helicopter.
AMY GOODMAN: And how many people were there in that helicopter?
JAMES NEKU: That helicopter had seven — six of us. There were six of us, six officers.
AMY GOODMAN: Including the Chevron pilot or not including?
JAMES NEKU: I think excluding the pilot. Including the pilot would be seven.
AMY GOODMAN: And then, was it a mix of navy and —
JAMES NEKU: A mix of navy and the police. The police were armed with tear smokes.
AMY GOODMAN: Was it the regular police or the Mobile Police?
JAMES NEKU: Mobile Police.
AMY GOODMAN: The Mobile Police, also known as the "Kill ‘n’ Go." That’s the Kill and Go. Shell Oil, the largest producer of oil in Nigeria, came under heavy international condemnation in recent years for their use of the Mobile Police, forcing them to publicly renounce the use of the Kill and Go because of their brutal record in Ogoniland.
ORONTO DOUGLAS: They shoot without question. They kill. They maim. They rape. They destroy.
AMY GOODMAN: Environmental lawyer Oronto Douglas was one of the lawyers on Ken Saro-Wiwa’s defense team.
ORONTO DOUGLAS: The Kill and Go are a murderous band of undisciplined paramilitary Mobile Police force. Their order is to kill. When they go to a community, it’s not to maintain peace, it is not to maintain order.
AMY GOODMAN: It was for exposing the relationship between the Mobile Police, the Nigerian regime’s henchmen, and a multinational oil giant that Ogoni activist Ken Saro-Wiwa was ultimately executed.
OGONI MAN: Great Ogoni people!
OGONI MAN: Great Ogoni people!
OGONI MAN: I have devoted all my intellectual and material resources, my very life, to a cause in which I have total belief and from which I cannot be intimidated or blackmailed.
JEREMY SCAHILL: An Ogoni man reciting the last speech of Ken Saro-Wiwa.
OGONI MAN: I have no doubt at all about the ultimate success of my cause, no matter the trials and tribulations which I and those who believe with me may encounter on our journey. Neither imprisonment nor death can stop our ultimate victory. I repeat that we all stand before history. I and my colleagues are not the only ones on trial. Shell is here on trial, and it is as well that...
JEREMY SCAHILL: When we visited the parents of Ken Saro-Wiwa a few days before coming to Ilajeland, this man stood up and recited Saro-Wiwa’s closing statement before the military tribunal that would ultimately hang him.
OGONI MAN: In my innocence of the false charge I face here, in my utter conviction, I call upon the Ogoni people, the peoples of the Niger Delta and the oppressed ethnic minorities of Nigeria to stand up now and fight fearlessly and peacefully for their rights. History is on their side. God is on their side. Bene Ogoni!
AMY GOODMAN: Ogoni leader Ken Saro-Wiwa’s final words of resistance continue to echo throughout the Niger Delta, but so does the fierce response from the Nigerian regime and its multinational partners.
This is a Democracy Now! special, Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship.
JEREMY SCAHILL: And so, here we have, on May 28th, 1998, Chevron flying in the Nigerian navy and the Mobile Police to confront a group of villagers who thought they were in the midst of a negotiation with the oil giant, which brings us to another admission by Chevron spokesperson Sola Omole. Again, listen carefully.
AMY GOODMAN: Were any of the youths armed?
SOLA OMOLE: I don’t know. I don’t know. I don’t know. So I cannot say that they came armed with — there was talk about local charms and all that, but that’s neither here nor there.
AMY GOODMAN: So, you don’t think that they came onto the boat armed, you’re saying?
SOLA OMOLE: No. No.
AMY GOODMAN: The youths.
SOLA OMOLE: Mm-hmm.
ORONTO DOUGLAS: It is very clear that Chevron, just like Shell, uses the military to protect its oil activities. They drill. And they kill.
JEREMY SCAHILL: Again, environmentalist Oronto Douglas.
ORONTO DOUGLAS: They are shooting our people for just demanding for their right.
AMY GOODMAN: Chevron contends that when the helicopters landed on the barge, the soldiers got out and issued a warning that if the villagers calmly dispersed, they would not be hurt. Villagers say there was no such warning, that the soldiers simply started shooting. Either way, where could those who had occupied the barge disperse to? The barge was surrounded by water in the Atlantic Ocean, miles from shore.
JEREMY SCAHILL: They were then tear-gassed and shot. While Chevron security chief James Neku says that two of the villagers tried to disarm a soldier, which is why they were shot dead, Chevron contractor Bill Spencer says one of the men who was killed was actually trying to mediate the situation.
The final tally: two dead, one shot and seriously wounded, and reports of other injuries. And what of the eleven activists locked in the shipping container? They say they were held there for hours in what they described as suffocating heat. They were then transported to several jails in the dreaded Nigerian prison system. After three weeks, they were released.
AMY GOODMAN: Bola Oyinbo was one of the eleven activists imprisoned after the barge occupation. He says the prison authorities tried to extract a confession of piracy and destruction of property from him by torturing him. They began with handcuffs.
BOLA OYINBO: They used the handcuff to hang me on a fan for almost five hours.
AMY GOODMAN: Wait a second. They put you in handcuffs and hung you?
BOLA OYINBO: Hung me. And there’s a hook they use for ceiling fans. So they put me there for almost five hours.
AMY GOODMAN: They hung you from a ceiling fan hook?
BOLA OYINBO: Hook, yes.
AMY GOODMAN: For five hours.
BOLA OYINBO: Five good hours.
AMY GOODMAN: Your feet weren’t on the floor?
BOLA OYINBO: My feet were not on the floor. I was hung, suspended in the air.
JEREMY SCAHILL: We asked Bill Spencer what he thinks of the torture Bola Oyinbo says he endured.
BILL SPENCER: I don’t think anybody here really is under the impression that when you go to jail in Nigeria, it’s pleasant.
AMY GOODMAN: Was there concern about the young people who were held in detention? Was there any follow-up?
BILL SPENCER: By me? Not at all. No.
AMY GOODMAN: Were you concerned about them in detention?
BILL SPENCER: I was more concerned about the 200 people that work for me. I could care less about the people from the village, quite frankly.
AMY GOODMAN: But once your people were safe?
BILL SPENCER: Did I personally have any concern for them? Not one little bit.
ORONTO DOUGLAS: Two people dead, several people injured, and there is now still a threat of clampdown on the local people.
JEREMY SCAHILL: Again, environmentalist Oronto Douglas.
ORONTO DOUGLAS: What have they done? They have simply asked for: take care on our environment; give us a cup of water to drink, because you have polluted our water; give us the means of livelihood so that we can survive as a people. Is that too much?
AMY GOODMAN: An excerpt of Drilling and Killing: Chevron and Nigeria’s Oil Dictatorship, my documentary with Jeremy Scahill, based on our trip to the Niger Delta in 1998.
We go now to San Francisco, where the lawsuit against Chevron is being heard. I’m joined by two guests: Laura Livoti, founder of Justice in Nigeria Now, a group that’s helped bring this case to the United States — their website is justiceinnigeria.wordpress.com — and Sowore Omoyele. He is a longtime Nigerian human rights activist, arrested and tortured by the Nigerian military government for his political activities. He runs the Nigerian news website saharareporters.com and went with us to the Niger Delta.
Welcome, both, to Democracy Now! Laura Livoti, let’s begin with you. Where does this case stand now in court? The court case began yesterday?
LAURA LIVOTI: Hi, Amy. Yes. We are at a historic moment. Yesterday, a jury was selected in the case. A jury of folks gathered from San Francisco, because the company is headed in San Ramon, California, which is the Greater Bay Area. And today, opening arguments will begin.
AMY GOODMAN: And talk about the judge and exactly how the case is shaping up.
LAURA LIVOTI: The judge is Judge Susan Illston, and she — this is San Francisco district court. She’s the same judge that heard the BALCO steroids case with [Barry] Bonds.
AMY GOODMAN: And the lawyers for this case, and who will be testifying?
LAURA LIVOTI: The lawyers for this case are a broad-ranging team of attorneys, the non-profit firm Earth Rights International out of Washington, D.C., the Center for Constitutional Rights out of New York, and several private firms, including Traber & Voorhees, among others.
AMY GOODMAN: I do want to point out that we did invite Chevron to join us for this broadcast. They declined to appear on the program, however, citing a gag order imposed by the judge in the case. But Chevron did provide us with a statement. It says, quote, "Chevron’s lawyers will present evidence that shows the hostage takers put Chevron Nigeria Limited (CNL) employees and contractors in danger... The incident began when plaintiff Larry Bowoto and other members of the Concerned Ilaje Citizens, an unsanctioned Nigerian community group, threatened CNL with violence and sea piracy if the company did not pay them money and give them jobs. Weeks later, they followed through on their threats by seizing the oil platform, an adjacent barge and a tug boat on May 25, 1998, holding CNL employees and contractors hostage and demanding money and other considerations. CNL attempted to negotiate a resolution without success. Although plaintiffs say they were peaceful protestors, eyewitnesses have testified in deposition that the hostage takers poured diesel fuel on the barge and threatened to
set it on fire. Fearing for the safety of its workers, and with tensions mounting, CNL asked for assistance from the Nigerian Navy. Under Nigerian law, only the country’s military can provide armed security. During the rescue, some of the rescue team members were attacked by the Ilaje and shots were fired, according to an investigation conducted by CNL immediately after the incident. Some of the fleeing hostage takers then forced seven of the workers to go to a village, where they were held for three more days before their
release was secured.” That’s the press release. That’s the statement of Chevron.
Sowore Omoyele, your response to that statement?
SOWORE OMOYELE: Well, we’ve made it very clear that Chevron continues to fish for evidence of hostage taking by these peaceful protesters. But what we know, Amy, you and I and Jeremy and Oronto Douglas were one of the first people to visit the village where this incident took place in Ilajeland, and we saw clearly that there was nothing like violence involved in all of this. And I am quoting also directly from some of the documents that we saw at that time, from correspondence between Chevron and the US embassy, saying that these were peaceful protesters. And we saw the villagers. We saw that there was no weapons involved.
And also, it’s important to say here that the Nigerian government does not tolerate people who are armed protesters. If these guys were armed in any way, after they were arrested and tortured and jailed for several weeks, they would have been arraigned before a kangaroo tribunal, like they did to Ken Saro-Wiwa, and they are still doing now, to be prosecuted for being in possession of weapons to attack Chevron facilities, because Nigerian government does not play with those facilities at all. When it comes to enforcing justice, they won’t do lightly. And broadly in the society, justices are not available to the people of Nigeria and the Niger Delta region, in particular.
So, we don’t have any evidence that anybody was ever prosecuted or any attempt was made to prosecute any of the so-called hostage takers from Ilajeland. So this is part of Chevron’s elaborate blackmail against the people of Ilajeland and particularly these protesters. Somebody has died, someone is injured. Chevron is unable to present anybody in court from the security team that they claim were attacked by these villagers, except just constantly fishing and putting around information in American mainstream media that it is hostage takers. And it’s very unfortunate that they continue to do this. And I hope that the jury will not let them get away with this.
AMY GOODMAN: Sowore, can you talk about the significance of this case, of a case that took place in the Niger Delta, being tried in a California court? What does this mean for Nigerians who have worked in the Niger Delta, for the community, for Ilajeland? You’re an Ilaje yourself.
SOWORE OMOYELE: Yes, it’s very important to say that this is a very important day. I am very happy to be in San Francisco yesterday, because I was one of the first person to visit the village after the attack and one of the first person from that region to also witness this trial. And, by the way, it’s important to say that there are about seventeen individuals from Ilajeland, family members of the plaintiffs, plaintiffs themselves, who are currently in San Francisco. And this is one very historic moment.
And for me, it is victory that you can get an exposé on Chevron activities on their home turf. Otherwise, they have controlled the media, they have controlled the propaganda machinery, and they have absolutely controlled the Nigerian government on how they conduct the issue of justice in Nigeria. But the fact that we can take this over the head of the Nigerian dictatorship, as it is going to today, and get somewhere else that somehow is a neutral ground — let me say, just a little bit of neutrality is better than what one obtains in Nigeria — is something that I’m sure the villagers are very proud of and are happy about. And whatever happens out of this trial, one thing is certain, that Chevron can no longer pretend to be the saint that it claims it is in its operation in the Niger Delta region in Nigeria. Their honorability has been exposed, and right here in San Francisco. That is something that I think is very good for all of us, that the facts of the case are out, no matter how much Chevron wants to spin this.
LAURA LIVOTI: I think it’s important to say —-
AMY GOODMAN: Laura Livoti.
LAURA LIVOTI: —- the only people on the platform who had guns were the Nigerian military, who were present when the villagers arrived on their boats and explained why they were there and then boarded the platform. The only other guns that arrived arrived in Chevron-leased helicopters flown in by Chevron pilots with the Chevron head of security on board and overseeing the Nigerian military. Those were the only guns that existed. They were in the hands of the Nigerian military, who was providing security for Chevron. The protesters were unarmed, and they were acting in the tradition of the civil rights movements and the lunch counter sit-ins or in the Gandhian tradition in India. They were peaceful, and that was their intent, and they remained peaceful.
AMY GOODMAN: I think it’s very significant, in our documentary, when we went to Lagos where the Chevron compound was and talked to the spokesperson, Sola Omole, who admitted that they didn’t have weapons and then actually brought in James Neku, who we heard in the documentary, the head of security, because at that time, in 1998, Chevron was not saying they had flown in the Nigerian military, and this was the first admission, as we sat there with our tape recorder on Sola Omole’s desk, that he admitted that it was Chevron that flew in the Nigerian military and the Mobile Police. The Mobile Police — maybe, Sowore Omoyele, you can talk more about this, who is known in Nigeria as the kill ‘n’ go. That’s the kill and go. Sowore?
SOWORE OMOYELE: That’s right. I mean, I’ve been a student activist since 1989. And my village, which is a smaller village in the Ondo State, Kiribu, in 1980 was also invaded by the kill and go, on the Christmas Eve of 1980. And during and up until now, the kill and go, which is the Mobile regiment of the Nigerian police, is still very notoriously known for killing people and just walking away. That’s why they call them kill and go in Nigeria. They still do that up until now.
And Chevron knew quite well that the kill and go brooks no respect for human rights and have respect for order, have no respect for law. That is why they are a very, very interesting, I mean, you know, manpower of choice in the attack against the villagers, because they know that when they get there, the kill and go will just kill people, and that was Chevron’s intention. Look, there is the regular police, there’s several other police regiments that could have been used, but the mere fact that Chevron used the equivalent of American SWAT, you know, in attacking peaceful villagers tells you the intention from the beginning. It was aimed at killing people on the platform and ensuring that every other person, every other community, will be scared from engaging in any form of protest against Chevron.
And they continue to do this. I mean, the facts are clear that Chevron continues to do this, even after this event, and they’ll continue to do this ’til tomorrow, that they have paid and continues to pay into a slush funds that are being used by the Nigerian government to suppress the Niger Delta region. Right now they have the joint task force again — I mean, the military task force that is comprised of the kill and go, the navy and all the regiments that are well-known for disrespecting human rights in Nigeria, operating entirely and blanketing and carpeting the Niger Delta region with their own form of local occupation. It’s a well-known fact. So, it’s very clear.
But Chevron is appealing to one thing in the American psyche at this time. That’s the fact that oil prices are up and that this insurrection in the Niger Delta, and they think that if they play into that consistently, they keep telling this lie, it will become the truth. I hope it will not be so and the jury in the San Francisco high court, where this is happening, will understand very well that this is time for justice. Don’t forget that they have delayed justice for ten years. They’ve brought motions upon motions for ten years before this is going to trial, and it started yesterday. So it’s been their tactic to delay, blackmail and lie, hoping that they will get away with this. I hope they won’t.
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Monday 12 December 1910
It was Monday, under the sign of Sagittarius. The US president was William Howard Taft (Republican).
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The balance of my reading always falls down on the side of fiction, but I do love a good nonfiction book. Something to really get my teeth into, and something that might cause me to change or challenge my view of the world. So when I saw the increasing swell of interest that was gathering behind Rust I was intrigued.
Rust is a true account of the author Eliese Colette Goldbach’s , experiences in the steel mills of Cleveland. Working in the so called rust belt of the US at a time of unprecedented political turmoil, in a job she never expected to do, Rust offers a fascinating insight into a world so often referred to but little explored.
Growing up in Cleveland, the mill was a constant of some what looming presence for Eliese. She was up in family that was Catholic and staunchly republican, anti abortion and vehemently anti democrat. In spite of these traditional leanings … and her sister were encouraged to look for more than traditional female roles.
As a dedicated student and committed Christian Eliese believed she was destined for higher things, always believing she would have a successful career, away from Cleveland, never for one minute thinking she would end up in the mill. Going away to college opened up Eliese’s world. Suddenly she was mixing with those who held liberal views, challenging her republican upbringing, shaping her own views.
But in the same place Eliese was subjected to a terrifying sexual assault which threw Eliese’s life far off course. The trauma of her experience triggered the onset of mania and depression found in a bipolar diagnosis. The terrifying mixed state of her condition, coupled with a crippling lack of opportunity brought about by the Great Recession and Eliese finds herself applying for a job in the mill.
The pay is good, far surpassing what she earns working as a house painter. But the conditions are tough; the hours are long and irregular, the mill is inherently dangerous despite all the health and safety measures regularly implemented and updated. At times the mill is terrifying, and it is particularly tough for the female workers who have to work longer, harder and tougher to prove their worth.
The mill is a community. Rough around the edges, where respect is earned, but a community that looks after it’s own. It is a community peopled by generations of mill workers, ruled by the union and increasingly terrified by the reduction of their industry and it’s life blood.
It is in this context that Trump begins his rise to power. Exploiting the fear and unrest felt by the Rust Belt workers and those like them, he made promises and offers, things the workers wanted to hear. But despite their vast political differences Eliese finds herself drawn the workers of the mill. Drawn to their sense of togetherness and camaraderie, Eliese appreciates the differences in their political opinions and begins to find hope in a nation that seems hopelessly divided.
Rust is quite simply excellent. If you have ever questioned the how and why of Trump’s rise to power, Rust might just help you understand. But more importantly it might provide some hope that the seemingly huge divisions between the left and right can, at some point, be bridged.
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As a new long-span space system, the prestressed arch-supported reticulate shell structure performs the advantages of reticulated shell and prestressed structure. The construction process, large span/depth ratio and small critical load of long-span space structure, can lead to obvious stress excess of tensile steel, especially when prestressed arches are used in truss arch and reticulated shell combined structure. However, no research was conducted on how the residual stress in the steel affects the structure stability. Thus, the dynamic behavior of some actual structure is simulated numerically through modal analysis by ANSYS in this paper. The results show that, for prestressed arch-supported reticulate shell structure, the vibration frequency increases with the whole stiffness, and the prestress can improve obviously the buckling ultimate load. There is great difference in vibration modes for different structure styles. This kind of hybrid structure conducts good whole performance, and may be used widely in the near future. | <urn:uuid:119e8f02-daef-438a-ae42-b9b3f720902b> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.scientific.net/AMR.150-151.188 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717954.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00508-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922955 | 199 | 2.34375 | 2 |
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Preparing to Teach Your First Course
Preparing to teach your first course can be intimidating. Colleges, universities, and other educational institutions have required materials such as selected textbooks, curricula, and syllabi that are necessary to begin your teaching experience. However, some teaching positions require the instructor to assist in developing such materials prior to the first day of class. In such cases there is planning to be done that will help ensure instructors are fully prepared prior to meeting with their classes on day one.
Approximately three months before beginning class instruction create an appropriate set of learning objectives for your students. Highlight key areas you would like your students to have a thorough understanding of at the end of the course; they should know how to apply their new-found knowledge in real-world situations. Instituting an effective set of learning objectives will better help you formulate details of the course components including required textbooks, technology, teaching methodology, student activities such as labs and assignments, and quizzes and projects for learning assessment. In addition to learning objectives, it is imperative to find ways to engage students in classroom discussions. Be sure to add a plan to your course components that can be used as an introduction exercise for the first day to help break the ice. This will enhance the learning environment and add a little fun.
Once you have gathered all the course materials and technology, itís time to outline topics you will teach in a document called a syllabus. The syllabus should begin taking shape about two months before class begins. One way to view a syllabus is like a contract between a student and the instructor. The syllabus explains the teacherís expectations and the studentís responsibilities within a specific timeframe. A syllabus is an effective tool that helps both students and instructors stay organized, particularly if students are taking more than one class and instructors are teaching more than one. Today, with various classes being taught online, it is wise to provide both a hard copy and an electronic version of the syllabus.
Approximately one month before your class begins you should put yourself in the studentís chair. Examine the syllabus and do the coursework yourself. This will assist you in methodically understanding the learning objectives you want to deliver, and you may discover a few novel ideas in an area you thought you were proficient at, particularly if textbooks have been revised. Reviewing the course materials also enables a second look to enhance presentations already developed from previous classes you have taught. Ride in the passenger seat before you get behind the wheel.
A few weeks prior to class, ensure all your technology and resources are in place. Make sure a list of technology tools needed to participate in class discussions or viewing presentations has been developed. Many instructors today use YouTube videos or create presentations or lectures using a variety of applications. If your lecture is interactive and requires particular browser compatibility, ensure students are aware of this in the course requirements section. Noting all the necessary requirements up front will provide a smoother learning environment without the worry of technical difficulties. Some instructors teach the same course each quarter; it is always wise to review the student resource links to ensure they are active because the one constant in technology is that itís always changing.
As an online instructor, send your students a welcome / introduction letter about a week before class begins, or as soon as the class discussion board is available. Tell a little about yourself including your work, education, and hobbies. So many students participate in online courses today that they automatically begin sending their own introduction on day one. Ensure your introduction letter is posted prior to class beginning to ensure students do not assume the usual questions will be asked. Get ahead of the game: create an interesting and engaging letter that not only highlights who you are but encourages students to share more about their interests and goals. The more fuel you add to that initial introduction letter, the better chances you have of building an engaging momentum within an online learning environment.
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Your body's energy comes in the form of calories. The more energy you need, the more calories you burn. Calculating how many calories you burn in a day must take into account your basal metabolic rate and your overall activity level. It must also factor in your exercise routines, which burn additional calories on the days that you work out.
Basal Metabolic Rate
Your basal metabolic rate, or BMR, is the number of calories your body burns in one day to support basic body functions like respiration, circulation and immune system function. Calculation of BMR uses a person's weight, height and age. Your BMR accounts for only about 60 to 75 percent of the total daily calories you burn because it does not include the calories expended in activities and exercise.
The Harris-Benedict equation adjusts your BMR to reflect activity and exercise levels by multiplying BMR by one of a set of activity multipliers. The multipliers reflect varying levels of activity throughout a one-week period. If you are sedentary and do not exercise, multiply your BMR by 1.2. If you exercise lightly one to three times per week, multiply by 1.375. If you exercise three to five days per week, multiply by 1.55. For exercise six or seven days per week, multiply by 1.725; if you exercise seven days a week and also have a physically demanding job, multiply by 1.9.
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Heart rate monitors attach to your wrist and provide a real-time display of your heart rate. Because your heart rate can be used to calculate your rate of caloric expenditure, many monitors include calorie burn calculators. You can wear a heart rate monitor all day to determine how many calories you burn. A heart rate monitor takes into account any activities and exercises you engage in as well as your basal metabolic rate.
Higher or Lower Calorie Expenditure
The Harris-Benedict equation is still prone to error. Depending on your specific activity level and your metabolism, your caloric expenditure might be higher or lower than that obtained with the Harris-Benedict equation. If you work out several times a week in addition to your routine activities, you may burn additional calories. If you are trying to determine your calorie expenditure for weight loss or dietary reasons, talk to your doctor or nutritionist about your specific dietary needs before starting any diet or exercise plans. | <urn:uuid:acbf92e7-336a-4f9c-ba65-21182cee93e5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.livestrong.com/article/526442-the-activity-factor-for-calculating-calories-burned/ | 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 | 0.922016 | 488 | 3.671875 | 4 |
LOS ANGELES — The Coast Guard has issued a warning that pointing handheld lasers at Coast Guard vessels and aircrews is dangerous and illegal.
Earlier this month, watchstanders at Coast Guard Sector Los Angeles/Long Beach operations center, received a report from the 45-foot motor lifeboat crew at Coast Guard Station Channel Islands that four of the members were struck twice with a laser while transiting near the Channel Islands Harbor entrance. Crewmembers reported that the laser came from shore and once they energized their blue law-enforcement light, the laser desisted.
After a medical evaluation, there were no reported injuries associated with the incident.
Pointing a laser at an aircraft is a federal crime and a felony offense under Title 18, United States Code, Section 39A. If found guilty, offenders could be fined up to $250,000 and sentenced to five years in prison.
Crewmembers affected by laser strikes can have temporary effects in vision, including: afterimage, flash blindness and temporary loss of night vision. In some cases, a laser strike can result in permanent damage to a person’s eye sight. If a crew member is lased it severely compromises his ability to effectively respond and safely operate the vessel or aircraft, ultimately endangering the safety and lives of crewmembers aboard and the general public.
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12th of March is the 94th anniversary of the acceptance of Mehmet Akif Ersoy’s masterpiece, our National Anthem, which depicts our nation’s struggle for independence. 18th of March is the 100th anniversary of “The Çanakkale Sea Victory” where we showed the world that a nation can never be defeated by economical superiority. Therefore, we are commemorating these two important dates together and respectfully welcome all those joining us for this ceremony.
Our Turkish Language teacher, Pırıl Üngör Hızar, started proceedings with a speech which was followed by a moment of silence for the Canakkale Martyrs. After The Turkish National Anthem, our students watched “Çanakkale 1915” documentary.
Our school principle, Mehmet Durak, spoke about the importance of national unity and togetherness. This was followed by our history teacher Ertuğrul Sertbaş’s speech, which recalled the heroic stories of our nation. Our student from 6C, Kerem Kurtulmuş, recited Necmettin Halil Onan’s “Dur Yolcu” poem, followed by 10B Ecem Tuana Özdemir’s speech on the meaning and importance of this day. The ceremony continued with an oratorio performed by high school students ended after the performance of the art department.
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Publication Date: 1998
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Academic Integrity Matters. NASPA Monograph Series.
Burnett, Dana D., Ed.; Rudolph, Lynn, Ed.; Clifford, Karen O., Ed.
The problem of academic dishonesty is festering on campuses across the nation. On most campuses a student-managed honor system is the sole mechanism for enforcing the integrity of the academic process. This monograph examines the many perspectives the problem presents and is designed to be used by a broad cross-section of the institutional community. It includes the following chapters: (1) "Creating a Campus Climate for Academic Integrity" (Jon C. Dalton); (2) "Students' Perceptions of Academic Integrity: Curtailing Violations" (Wanda Kaplan and Phyllis Mable); (3) "The Academic Dishonesty of College students: The Prevalence of the Problem and Effective Educational Prevention Programs" (William L. Kibler); (4) "The Classroom Environment and Academic Integrity: A Behavioral Science Perspective" (Bernard E. Whitley, Jr. and Mary E. Kite); (5) "A Comprehensive Approach for Creating a Campus Climate that Promotes Academic Integrity" (Lynn Rudolph and Linda Timm); (6) "When Institutions and Their Faculty Address Issues of Academic Dishonesty: Realities and Myths" (Donald D. Gehring); (7) "The Effect of Institutional Policies and Procedures on Academic Integrity" (Donald L. McCabe and Gary M. Pavela); (8) "Academic Integrity and Campus Climate at Small Colleges" (Karen O. Clifford); (9) "Can the Academic Integrity of Cost-Effective Distance Learning Course Offerings be Protected?" (Mary Elisabeth Randall); (10) "The Impact of Technology on Academic Integrity" (Harold Goldsmith); (11) "Conclusions." (Contains 242 references.) (JDM)
Descriptors: Academic Achievement, Cheating, Educational Environment, Higher Education, Honesty, Integrity, Student Behavior, Student School Relationship, Technology
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A Mistake is Simply a Lesson … If You Don’t Quit!
By Katie Souza
Taken from Katie Souza’s Journals while incarcerated on 2001
“In Joppa there was a disciple named Tabitha (in Greek her name is Dorcas); she was always doing good and helping the poor. About that time she became sick and died, and her body was washed and placed in an upstairs room. (Peter said), ‘…Tabitha, get up.’ She opened her eyes, and seeing Peter she sat up. He took her by the hand and helped her to her feet. Then he called for the believers, especially the widows, and presented her to them alive. This became known all over Joppa, and many people believed in the LORD.’”
Acts 9:36, 40, 41 (NIV)
I finished Mr. H’s floor and left a note for a second grade. (My first grade had been a failure).
Today is my last day of fasting for Ms. C. We had unit prayer group and went to the San Francisco Christian Center seminar with Rev C. They were talking about the gifts that God gives us and used the scripture about Dorcas above. They asked who had a prophecy, so I raised my hand. Claudia and some of the others prophesied to him, “In the past, you thought that you could fix things, but now God is going to fix them. God will come at a moment’s notice, and He will validate you in front of your people. You already have the anointing. I’ll bring the response that brings glory to me. God is going to give you a real friend – one that won’t use you.”
Then I went up; my stomach was burning, and I was shaking. I laid one hand on his head, and one on his heart, and I waited. Then, I started to weep. I said exactly what came to my mind, “That thing that is trying to trip you up, let it go. Cast it down to the ground or it will trip you up. You’re gonna pick it up and play with it for a while, but after you cast it down, I will restore you.” God told me that word is going to come to pass, so don’t be dismayed at their faces. Be bold, but watch that the flesh doesn’t get involved. (Later, I was told that what I had said was exactly right.)
“For the whole law is summed up in a single commandment, ‘You shall love your neighbor as yourself.’”
Galatians 5:14 (NRSV)
Today I attended prayer meeting, walked, typed, and went to unit prayer group. Then I stripped the floor under the vending machine in the staff lounge. I give thanks for what Marnie is trying to do against me. At 12:30 prayer meeting, I prayed over sister Constance and she got slain in the spirit! I felt Holy Spirit nudge me to pray for her and so did Ms. L. Jessie just had to make a negative comment, but I ignored her and just shed His love abroad through me to her as I wept.
In unit prayer group, we talked about how Edison had 6000 tries to make the light bulb and that a mistake is simply a lesson which you will work through if you don’t quit. It is one step you take down the path toward discovering what will work. So, instead of beating yourself up for making a mistake, it would be more appropriate to congratulate yourself because you have made a discovery. Now you can move on and try something else. Most great inventions come at the end of a long list of mistakes. In fact, that mistake may have been the last thing that didn’t work before the one that will. We must regard mistakes as stepping stones toward greater knowledge.
This morning I buffed the dining room, and I stopped and actually talked normal to Mr. G. I told him that I am going home soon because I am going to win my appeal! I buffed the whole dining room, then came home (to my cell). Sherrie was asleep. She woke up and told me she had a dream that Mr. G came up to her and said, “So, Katie is going home soon!” Wow that can’t be a coincidence!
Today, everybody else on floor crew got stuck in the dining room, but I travailed in prayer meeting, so it was meant to be that I didn’t work lunch. We got two new people on the crew, but Marnie trained them. I must die to self. The Lord is testing me, I must hand over the floor crew. I don’t want or need control. I will do my job well, but I won’t stress or try to control anything anymore. Also, He is testing me on giving my things away… like the stuff I covet – my radio, cream, etc. The measure I use is the measure returned to me, shaken, pressed down, flowing over into my lap!
How do you look at mistakes or failure? Have you found that you are harder on yourself than you are on others when they make the same mistake you made? Why is that?
What gifts have God given to you?
What have you tried to do, but failed, and need to try again?
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In a certain code language, "BISLERI" is written as "IREBISL". How is "PANTHER" written in that code language?
"BISLERI" is written as "IREBISL"
The word is divitded into two parts of 4 and 3 letters respectively = (BISL) (ERI), now both the parts are swapped and the second part is also reversed. Code = (IRE) (BISL)
Similarly, for PANTHER = (PANT) (HER), second part is reversed and swapped.
Thus, PANTHER : REHPANT
=> Ans - (A)
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If you don't want a permanent structure and need to be able to put your goal out of the way, you will need a portable one. This kind of goal is the most challenging to assemble, and can take anywhere between 5 hours to a full day, although once assembly is complete, you will have a premium basketball goal. The instructions will let you know what tools are needed to assemble the goal and before play, you will need fill the base with water to ensure that it is stable You can place this type of goal anywhere you want, and moving it around will be easy as it will have wheels on its base. An added advantage of this type of goal is that it can be adjusted to different heights to suit different players.
Having the right outdoor gear for any type of camping trip will help to make things easier, comfortable and more convenient. It is not only important to have a great tent, but what goes in and around it. This gear can make a trip far more enjoyable, and help make the camp site feel like home.
Another important trekking outdoor gear that you must have is a hat to cover your head. You should not also forget to buy a good quality waterproof and breathable jacket. This is also an indispensable outdoor gear. Try to choose a jacket that has pockets to put some important stuff. You need to buy winter gloves and headpiece if you are going to do winter trekking. Many trekkers use trekking poles to maintain balance, gain stability, and to provide support to their joints and knees. The trekking poles are also helpful to increase speed, reduce tiredness, and to minimize the stress on back, knees, legs, and feet.
One of the available outdoor sports gear on the market today is the Pulse Kick n' Go Xcelerator. This super scooter is foot operated with a ratcheting gear mechanism that enables the rear wheel to give children hours of enjoyment. Children will find no trouble at all mastering this incredible scooter simply due to the fact that there is nothing to figure out. All your child has to do is get on the scooter and then pump their foot up and down on the ratchet bar to propel their scooter as fast as ten miles per hour.
With your children out of school have you began to wonder how to get them to participate in more outdoor activities instead of having them hang around inside the house all day? You can get your children off the video games and computers with some wonderful outdoor gear for children of all ages.
Sometimes, taking your dog with you on an outdoor adventure can mean exposing him or her to some fairly harsh elements. For those pet owners concerned about their dogs' health, water proof and windproof canine jackets can be purchased. Such jackets are made of materials like Teflon and Lycra, which resist both moisture and dirt; fleece is often used as a liner for warmth and to avoid chafing. Many dog jackets are brightly colored or feature reflective trim in order to make the dog more visible in dim light. | <urn:uuid:925bee46-3238-4fa2-a683-9422d54f0521> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.expocafeperu.com/tractor-supply-pliers/tractor-supply-pliers-linesman-needle-nose-fencing-j-clip-snap-ring-abn-set-5-pc-interchangeable/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.966565 | 647 | 1.5 | 2 |
Songi Han, professor of chemistry and biochemistry and chemical engineering at UC Santa Barbara, has received the Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize from the Humboldt Foundation. Han is internationally known for her pioneering work in developing a novel technique for exploring surface water dynamics at biomolecular surfaces in solution.
“I was very excited,” Han said of learning that she had been chosen for the Bessel Prize. “It’s an honor to be selected.”
The Alexander von Humboldt Foundation grants up to 20 Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Research Awards annually to scientists and scholars who are not only internationally renowned in their fields but also expected to continue producing cutting-edge achievements that will have a seminal influence on their disciplines beyond their immediate fields of work. Each winner receives a stipend of 45,000 Euros (approximately $50,000).
“The Friedrich Wilhelm Bessel Prize is a prestigious and meaningful affirmation of Professor Songi Han’s innovative research on nuclear magnetic resonance and electron paramagnetic resonance spectroscopy,” said Chancellor Henry T. Yang. “This prize affords a proud recognition and exciting opportunity to advance her research by working in collaboration with prominent colleagues in Germany. Professor Han’s contributions are a mark of pride for our campus, and I look forward to cheering for her as the impact of her research continues to grow.”
Named after the late Prussian naturalist and explorer, the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation promotes academic cooperation and each year enables more than 1,800 investigators from all over the world to spend time conducting research in Germany. Han is working with professor Martina Havenith-Newen of the Ruhr-Universität Bochum’s Cluster of Excellence RESOLV on solvation science (the science of water). Together the two scientists collaborate with an international team to unravel the role of solvation in protein dynamics, protein-membrane interaction and catalysis by synergistically combining multiple techniques and expertise.
“It’s an exciting topic and a controversial one as well because water as it interacts with biological surfaces is so difficult to measure and there are not enough experimental methods,” Han said. “We are studying how water interacts with biomolecules, including proteins, DNA and lipid membrane surface, using a variety of spectroscopy methods.”
Han received her doctorate from Aachen University of Technology in Germany in 2001. She pursued postdoctoral studies at the Max-Planck Institute for Polymer Research in Mainz, Germany, and at UC Berkeley. She joined the faculty in 2004.
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How To Raise $500 In 10 Days
- Day 1: Sponsor yourself $25 (or more!).
- Day 2: Ask three family members to sponsor you for $25.
- Day 3: Ask five friends to sponsor you for $10.
- Day 4: Ask five teachers or coworkers to sponsor you for $10.
- Day 5: Ask five neighbours to sponsor you for $10.
- Day 6: Ask three more family members to sponsor you $25.
- Day 7: Ask your boss, babysitting client or coach to sponsor you $25.
- Day 8: Ask five local businesses to sponsor you for $20.
- Day 9: Ask two friends’ parents or family members to sponsor you $25.
- Day 10: Celebrate that you’ve reached your goal!
- Don’t forget how easy it is to use social media to raise funds! Use Facebook and emails to reach tons of people fast. Visit your personal link and start sharing!
- Ask your social media contacts to help spread the word by asking them to reach out to their contacts.
- Ask friends and family to forward your email donation request to 5 people they know.
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- Remember that no donation is too small! Every dollar shared makes a difference for people who fight CF every day!
- Host a steak night at a local restaurant or pub!
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For WD PCB1698 series, it’s one difficult data recovery job if the hard drive is not detected or keeps busy. So far it’s almost not possible for any other firmware repair tools to repair this kind of drive and get lost data back.
Situation becomes worse if these kind of PCB1698 hard drives don’t have the cache loader-module 13 and if the module dir is missing or damaged without backup, no other tools except DFL-WDII can repair such kind of hdd failure and recover the data.
Here in this article let’s discuss how to repair undetected or un-ready WD PCB1698 hard drives with DFL-WD II hdd repair tool.
Option 1: Users can use the universal loader-module 11 and ROM offered by Dolphin Data Lab deal with the patient hard drives.
With the offered loader and ROM: If the hdd can reach readiness, users can access the hdd, load the module 11 and then the program will automatically detect the dir module and give users to import one dir module or the DFL program will search it from the tracks users assign.
If the hdd stays busy, users need to enter kernel mode/safe mode and write the ROM we offer or find a donor ROM to write so that the hdd can become ready and then access to hdd detecting the module dir automatically from tracks and then check modules, repair modules and then recover data with DFL-DE data recovery tool.
Option 2: Use Hot Swap Method to access to the HDD.
- Find one donor hard drive of the same family with same head numbers;
- Connect the donor hard drive to DFL-WDII program, power on the hdd and then stop the motor;
- Remove the PCB from the donor hard drive while it it ready;
- Put the PCB from the donor to the patient hard drive;
- Power up the patient hard drive, enter DFL program, start motor and the hdd will become ready and at this time the tracks of the patient hdd can be read and next is to write down the SPT value;
- Without powering off the hdd, close the corrent function interface and go back to program start interface, re-enter the program, fill in the SPT text box with the written-down value and then continue. The program will go to search the module 01 automatically and then check modules in ABA mode.
Note: Sometimes the module 01 detected enables the users to check modules but find most modules are damaged. This is because the module 01 is not the real one. Users need to change the track range by skipped the searched track location and then find the real necessary module 01.
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Benjamin Chaikin was born in St. Petersburg, Russia, in 1883. He completed his studies in architecture in England, where he designed a number of buildings before World War I, during which he served as an officer in the Corps of Royal Engineers. He immigrated to Eretz Israel in 1920 as a British citizen and opened his own firm in Jerusalem. The buildings he designed for wealthy public figures and British government representatives were characterized by their meticulousness, respectability and majestic splendor.
Even though Chaikin did not identify with the International Style, which reigned in the world of architecture at the time, he avoided frivolous decorations and designed respectable-looking buildings with pleasant, modest proportions, in the spirit of Modernism.
Chaikin designed the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, in collaboration with the Swiss architect Emil Vogt and the interior designer architect G.H. Hufschmid. He also designed the municipality building in Haifa and the Daniel Sieff Research Institute in Rehovot (1934), which later gave rise to the Weizmann Institute of Science.
He died in Jerusalem in 1950 and is buried in the Givat Ram (Sheikh Badar) Cemetery.
Yoel Dvoriansky was born in Israel in 1973, pursued architectural studies within the framework of the Israel Defense Forces’ atuda army study program, and served in the Air Force construction department as head of projects and of the planning division. He then worked in the firm of the architect David Yanai.
Having graduated with honors from the architecture faculty of the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1995, he established a firm in partnership with the architect Avi Livay in 2001.
The firm works in a variety of fields, including projects for the Israel Ministry of Defense. They also won the design competition for a museum and exhibition hall for Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd. in northern Israel.
In the civilian sector, the firm has been responsible for designing the Israel Railways control center in Haifa (2008) and the main branch of Bank Leumi in Jerusalem (2009), among other projects. They have also designed the building for the Israel embassy and ambassador’s residence in Montevideo, Uruguay, and the interior of the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality building.
At the Weizmann Institute of Science, the architects have designed the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building (the addition of a second floor to the existing structure) and the new lobby for the physics building (under the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Library).
Arieh Elhanani was born in 1898 in Ukraine, and completed his architecture studies at the School of Art and Architecture in Kiev in 1917. In addition to working as an architect, he designed theater sets and engaged in sculpture, typography and graphic design (his work in this area includes the logos of the Palmach and the Israel Defense Forces). Elhanani made aliya in 1922 and settled in Jerusalem. His combination of art and architecture brought him to the peak of his career – designing and managing the site of the international Levant Fair held in Tel Aviv in 1934, including the design of some of the Fair’s buildings and sculptures. Elhanani created “The Hebrew Laborer,” an 8-meter-high concrete sculpture in the style of Russian Constructivism.
Among the buildings designed by Elhanani are the Hall of Remembrance in Yad Vashem (in collaboration with Arieh Sharon and Benjamin Idelson), the municipal auditorium in Kfar Saba and the Gan Ha’ir Tower in Tel Aviv. At the Weizmann Institute of Science, Elhanani designed the Wix Library, the Jacob Ziskind Building, the Charles Clore International House, the Stone Administration Building and the Isaac Wolfson Building. Elhanani was awarded the 1973 Israel Prize in architecture for his contribution to shaping Israeli culture. He died in 1985.
Moshe Harel was born in 1920 in Sittard, the Netherlands. In 1942 he completed his studies in architecture in Rotterdam and joined the Dutch resistance that fought the Nazi occupation, an activity for which he received a medal of valor from General Eisenhower. A year after immigrating to Israel in 1950, Harel started working for the architect Lotte Cohen. In 1953 he moved to the firm of the architect Nahum Zalkind and immediately became a partner in that firm, which specialized in designing science and research buildings.
Harel designed numerous buildings at the Weizmann Institute of Science, including the Danciger Power Center, the Ullmann Building of Life Sciences, the Ernst David Bergmann Institute (which formed the basis for the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building), the biodynamics building (today the Max and Lillian Candiotty Building), Arnold R. Meyer Building, the Harry Levine Family Building and the Dannie N. Heineman Laboratory. When Zalkind left the firm in 1967, Harel remained alone. At the Weizmann Institute, he designed the Koffler Accelerator and the Canadian Institute for the Energies and Applied Research (“the solar tower”). In designing the latter building, he collaborated with the artist Dani Karavan, who contributed the design of the building’s façade and landscape planning.
Harel retired in 1992 and died in 2001.
Benjamin Idelson was born in Russia in 1911. From 1948 to 1964 he was a partner of the architect Arieh Sharon. They designed buildings in the styles of Minimalism and Functionalism, in line with the spirit of the time – the austerity period in the young State of Israel. Their well-known projects from that period include the Soroka Medical Center in Beersheba and the Jewish Agency building on Tel Aviv’s Kaplan Street. Idelson and Sharon won the 1957 Rokah Prize for designing the Beit Lessin Theater in Tel Aviv.
In 1964 Idelson parted ways with Sharon and opened a firm in partnership with the architect Gershon Zippor. He worked in that firm until his death in 1972. Among his most important projects from that period are the London Ministore tower in Tel Aviv and the Ammunition Hill memorial in Jerusalem.
At the Weizmann Institute, Idelson took part in designing the Feinberg Graduate School, the Michael and Anna Wix Auditorium, the Perlman Chemical Sciences Building, the Weissman Building of Physical Sciences, the Wolfson Building for Biological Research, and the San Martin Faculty Clubhouse and Hermann Mayer Campus Guesthouse – Maison de France. He won the Israel Prize in architecture in 1968; he died four years later, in 1972.
Raphael (Rafi) Lerman was born in Jerusalem in 1936 and moved with his family to Tel Aviv at the age of nine. He served in the Airborne Nahal unit of the Israel Defense Forces and was a member of Kibbutz Yad Hannah. After a stint as a tour guide, he worked in the firm of landscape architect Josef Segal before enrolling in architecture studies at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology.
After the Six-Day War, Lerman opened his own firm with his wife, the architect Edna Lerman. He undertook numerous national and regional master plans, as well as several for the Weizmann Institute of Science. Lerman has designed a number of residential neighborhoods, among them Ramat Beit Hakerem in Jerusalem, “Dutch Rehovot” in Rehovot, “House and Country” in Givat Shmuel and the 16th Quarter in Ashdod.
In parallel, Lerman designed offices and public buildings, including the Ziv Towers in Tel Aviv and the EuroPark in Yakum, which won excellence awards from the Association of Contractors and Builders in Israel in 2002 and 2004, respectively.
At the Weizmann Institute of Science, the buildings he designed include the Davidson Institute of Science Education and the Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences; he has also served as a consultant in preparing a master plan for the Institute.
Lerman coordinated the activities of the conservation council in southern Israel from 1985 to 1992. In 2005 he earned the title of Honorary Planner from the Israel Planners Association.
Avi Livay was born in Israel in 1965. He worked in the firm of Giora Ben-Dov, later in the firm Yaski Sivan Architects, and taught architecture in Askola-Meimad College. He earned a degree in architecture with honors from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1995 and established a firm with the architect Yoel Dvoriansky in 2005.
The firm works in a variety of fields, including projects for the Israel Ministry of Defense. They also won the design competition for a museum and exhibition hall for the Rafael Advanced Defense Systems Ltd.
In the civilian sector, the firm has been responsible for designing the Israel Railways control center in Haifa (2008) and the main branch of Bank Leumi in Jerusalem (2009). They have also designed the building for the Israel embassy and ambassador’s residence in Montevideo, Uruguay, and the interior of the Tel Aviv-Yafo municipality.
At the Weizmann Institute of Science, the architects designed the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Building (the addition of a second floor to the existing structure) and the new lobby for the physics building (under the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Library).
Erich Mendelsohn, one of the most important Jewish architects of the twentieth century, was born in Allenstein, Prussia (now Olsztyn, Poland), in 1887. One of the founders of Modernism, he is known for his dynamic expressionist style, deriving inspiration from organic shapes in nature. He received architectural training in Berlin and Munich, where he became familiar with Expressionism in art, which was reflected in the building that won him worldwide recognition: the Einstein Tower, a solar observatory built in the early 1920s in Germany.
When the Nazis came to power in 1933, Mendelsohn fled Germany and divided his time between England and Palestine. In 1936 he designed his first building in Israel, the private house of Dr. Chaim Weizmann in Rehovot. It was followed by various research buildings for the Daniel Sieff Research Institute, which later became the Weizmann Institute of Science.
Yet during the same period, Mendelsohn’s curved shapes began to adapt to the need to provide fast, cheap construction for the masses. Additional prominent buildings Mendelsohn designed in Eretz Israel include the Schocken House and Schocken Library in Jerusalem, the Hadassah University Hospital on Jerusalem’s Mount Scopus and the Rambam Medical Center in Haifa.
In 1941 he left Eretz Israel and settled in the United States, where he opened an architectural firm, lectured in universities and published articles in architectural journals. He died in San Francisco in 1953.
Dagan Mochly was born in 1957 in Haifa and now lives in Ein Hod. He completed his studies in architecture at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology with honors in 1984, and in 1986 earned a master’s degree. In 1987 he received a scholarship for studying conservation in Italy and worked there for two architectural firms. In Israel, he worked mainly in the firm of his father, the architect Josef Mochly, which in 1996 became Dagan Mochly Architects Ltd. (with associate architects Dror Sdomi, Ziva Eilam and Ofer Zaid). In 2008, Dun & Bradstreet ranked it ninth among architectural firms in Israel.
Among the projects it has designed are research laboratories, high-tech buildings and food and pharmaceutical industry buildings. It also designs “green” buildings, such as the Intel building in Haifa (in planning stages).
At the Weizmann Institute of Science, the firm has designed the interiors of the Sussman Family Building for Environmental Sciences, the laboratories in the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building and the Arison Building for Neurobiology. The firm’s experience in conservation was applied in the reconstruction of three buildings at the Institute designed by Erich Mendelsohn: the Daniel Wolf Building, the Helen and Martin Kimmel Center for Archaeological Science and the Ruthie and Samy Cohn Building for Magnetic Resonance Studies in Structural Biology.
In 1997, Mochly presented his “Hotel in the Old City of Acre” at the Venice Biennale; he also presented his work at the Milan Triennale.
Dan Peleg was born in Poland in 1937. A year before his birth his family bought property in Tel Aviv, but decided to postpone their aliya to Eretz Israel. During World War II almost all the members of the family perished in the Holocaust. Dan and his brother survived in hiding, disguised as Christian children, and in 1946 a distant family member brought them to Eretz Israel. At the age of nine, Dan arrived at Kibbutz Sha’ar Ha’amakim. After completing his army service, he started working in construction on the kibbutz.
Peleg then studied construction engineering at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology, graduating in 1964. In 1976, he earned a master’s degree in architecture from the prestigious Pratt Institute in New York. In the United States, he worked in the firm of Ada Karmi- Melamede, and upon his return to Israel, he worked initially in the technical department of Hashomer Hatzair. In 1992, he created his own private firm.
Dan Peleg has worked on a broad range of projects, from science and recreation parks (Weizmann Institute of Science, Kibbutz Sha’ar Ha’amakim), to buildings intended for educational and cultural purposes, residences, healthcare institutions and construction projects for kibbutzim and moshavim.
His office is managed today by his son, the architect Amos Peleg.
Yakov Rechter, born in Tel Aviv in 1924, was the son of Ze’ev Rechter, one of the fathers of Israeli architecture. After completing his architecture studies at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1952, Yakov joined his father’s architectural firm. Among his five children are the actress Dafna Rechter and the musician Yoni Rechter.
Rechter’s architecture is Modernist in style; he preferred to use hard, traditional materials, such as stone and concrete, while taking into account environmental conditions. His Mivtahim Inn in Zichron Ya’akov was awarded the Israel Prize in architecture in 1972.
He designed numerous public buildings and structures in Tel Aviv, including the Frederic R. Mann Auditorium (1957) and the Performing Arts Center (1994).
Outside of Tel Aviv, his works include the Maurice and Gabriela Goldschleger Life Sciences Library, the Lunenfeld-Kunin Residences for Visiting Scientists and Europe House on the campus of the Weizmann Institute of Science.
The Israel Ministry of Education awards the Rechter Prize – second only to the Israel Prize in its importance in local architecture – in his and his father’s memory.
Since his death in 2001, his firm has been managed by his son, the architect Amnon Rechter.
Arieh Sharon was born Ludwig Kurzmann in Poland in 1900. He immigrated to Israel in 1920, underwent agricultural training and became one of the founders and planners of Kibbutz Gan Shmuel. He designed the kibbutz dining room before even qualifying as an architect. In 1926 he left the kibbutz to study architecture in the Bauhaus school in Dessau, Germany, and worked in the firm of the school’s director, the architect Hannes Mayer.
Upon returning to Eretz Israel in 1926, he opened a private firm in Tel Aviv and started designing buildings in the new International Style he had adopted while at the Bauhaus. His extensive ties with the government allowed him to leave his imprint on Israel’s urban landscape.
In the years 1949 – 1953, Sharon, considered one of the fathers of Israeli architecture, designed the country’s first master plan, which laid down the building principles and defined future areas of construction. He also took part in Israeli projects abroad, designing the University of Ife in Nigeria. From 1950 to 1964, he worked in partnership with Benjamin Idelson, and later in partnership with his son Eldar.
For his extensive activities, he was awarded the Rokah Prize and the first Israel Prize in architecture (1962). He died in Tel Aviv in 1984. The family firm, specializing in designing medical centers, is managed today by his grandson Arad.
Zadok Sherman was born in Russia in 1944 and immigrated to Israel in 1949. He completed his architecture studies at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1967, then served for four years in a construction center of the Israel Defense Forces as a planning officer and head of the army base construction division. For two years after his army service, he was a partner in Shimor-Sherman Architects. From 1974 to 1977 he was a partner in A.C.D. Architectural Design.
In 1977 he established his own firm, which operated until 1981. That year he established the Sherman Potash Architects Ltd., which he headed until 2006. Within this framework, he designed such military installations as the Hebrew school building at Mechva Alon army base (1996). He served as Chairman of Consulting Architects and Town Planners (2001 – 2004).
In 2006 he became the founder and CEO of Sherman Architecture & Programming Ltd., where he programmed national projects for the Israel Defense Forces in the Negev (a training base complex, a technological campus) and plans for recreational areas. At the Weizmann Institute of Science, he designed the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Building for Brain Research (1992), the Helen and Milton A. Kimmelman Building (together with Gershon Zippor, 1994), the Camelia Botnar Building (1999) and the Lorry I. Lokey Preclinical Research Facility (2009).
Nahum Zalkind was born in Russia in 1895 and completed his architecture studies at the Imperial Academy of the Arts in St. Petersburg in 1917. He emigrated from Russia to Berlin, where he designed, among other buildings, the Gloria Cinema. With the rise of the Nazis to power in 1933, he immigrated to Eretz Israel.
In 1934, together with a colleague, he won the competition for designing the new central bus station in Tel Aviv. The station was considered to be the most sophisticated of its kind at the time.
In the 1930s and 1940s, Zalkind designed a variety of buildings. In 1947 he won the competition for designing the Dov Hoz Stadium in north Tel Aviv, a project that was never realized. A year later, with the establishment of the State of Israel, he was a member of the government’s Planning Department headed by Arieh Sharon.
In 1953 Zalkind opened his own architectural firm. In 1954, the architect Moshe Harel joined him as a partner. In 1957, Zalkind served as a judge in the public competition for designing a permanent home for the Knesset.
At the Weizmann Institute of Science, Zalkind took part in designing several buildings, including the Michael and Anna Wix Auditorium and the Edna and K.B. Weissman Building of Physical Sciences (both in collaboration with Arieh Sharon and Benjamin Idelson). Together with Moshe Harel he designed, among other buildings, the Ullmann Building of Life Sciences. He died in 1976 at the age of 81.
Moshe Zarhy was born in Jerusalem in 1923 and completed his studies in architecture at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1945. About five years later he obtained a degree from École d’Urbanisme in Paris. In 1950 he joined the firm of Ze’ev Rechter as a partner, and in 1959 became a partner of Rechter’s son, Yakov. In 1970 he opened his own firm, which in 1979 was joined by his son David Zarhy and daughter-in-law Anat Patrycha Zarhy.
Today the firm employs about 20 architects and is engaged in a variety of projects, including master plans, public institutions and private residences.
Among the firm’s major projects are the Yanko Dada Museum in Ein Hod (1983), the Central Zionist Archives in Jerusalem (1987), the Sheba Medical Center at Tel Hashomer, and the 140,000-square-meter Weizmann Center near the Tel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center.
At the Weizmann Institute of Science, among the buildings the firm’s architects have designed are the Hermann and Dan Mayer Building for Semiconductor Science and the Nella and Leon Benoziyo Physics Library. They have also designed the Rabin Industrial Park in Ness Ziona, adjacent to the Weizmann Institute, in collaboration with the Africa-Israel Group.
Gershon Zippor belongs to the generation of architects who were among the founders of the State of Israel. The scope and style of his work evolved together with the development of Israeli architecture, from Functionalism and Brutalism to modern high-tech architecture.
He was born in Tel Aviv in 1931, completed his studies in art at the Avni Institute in 1948 and his studies in architecture at the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1957. He was then employed for seven years, until 1964, in the architectural firm of Arieh Sharon and Benjamin Idelson. When the partnership between those two architects was dissolved, Zippor joined Idelson as a partner. After Idelson’s death in 1972, Zippor worked independently until 1990 when he joined the firm of his son, Barak Zippor, a graduate of École Spéciale d’Architecture in Paris.
Zippor Architects Ltd. has been responsible for designing hundreds of buildings. Zippor has designed numerous and varied buildings for the Weizmann Institute of Science, including the Arison Building for Neurobiology, the Wolfson Building for Biological Research, the Perlman Chemical Sciences Building and the Feinberg Graduate School (in two stages).
Zippor has received many awards, including the 1998 Rechter Prize, and served as Chairman of the Israeli Architects Union for many years. In 2005, he was named Yakir (Honorary Resident) of Tel Aviv.
Moshe Zur was born in Tel Aviv in 1948, studied architectural engineering in the ORT technical school in Givatayim, then obtained a degree in architecture with honors from the Technion – Israel Institute of Technology in 1974. He founded his own firm in 1978. In 1983, his wife, the architect Orna Zur, joined the firm, which has three additional partners and about 45 employees. The firm designed more than 800 varied projects, characterized by their large scale, their complexity and the use of advanced technology and high-quality construction.
Many of Zur’s projects have won awards, among them the Rechter Prize (for the design of the Elbit Systems building in the MATAM science park, Haifa); first place in the international contest for planning the Tel Aviv Port area and the old Exhibition Grounds (with Prof. Herman Hertzberger from the Netherlands); and the Haifa municipality’s Quality House Prize (for the Bat-Galim office building). In 2003, the Council for a Beautiful Israel awarded him the Yakir and Magshim Award for designing the Children’s Museum in Holon; and the Association of Contractors and Builders in Israel presented him with a public buildings award for designing the Belfer Building for Biomedical Research at the Weizmann Institute of Science. | <urn:uuid:57c166d1-81cf-4b63-9512-8144b40f3425> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wis-wander.weizmann.ac.il/gallery/campus-buildings | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00373-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967531 | 4,994 | 1.898438 | 2 |
“(Re)Thinking the Male Gaze” is my response to the contemporary conversation about gender, power and representation. I’m engaging as a photographer with some of the most famous paintings in art history, made by men of nude women, re-creating the paintings as gender-flipped photos. With that as my starting point, I research each painting, learning about its cultural context, reading feminist critiques, understanding each work’s place in art history. Then I re-stage the painting, assuming the creator’s role as a woman, choosing body types, objects, messages, backgrounds – grounding the work in my own female gaze, creating a new narrative and critique. The project began with my re-creation of Manet’s Le Dejeuner sur l’herbe. His larger-than-life image of a casual picnic marked a groundbreaking moment in modern art – due in large part to its bold depiction of a female nude, which shocked Parisienne audiences in 1863 at the now infamous Salon des Refusés. But in many ways, what Manet painted was nothing new at all – it was just another depiction of a woman (a naked one), made by a man, for the pleasure of other men, through the lens of the notorious “male gaze.” It’s at the heart of centuries of history of the western world, from the early Christian church to renaissance nobles to Hollywood moguls: the representation of women as objects of desire commissioned by, paid for, created by and made for…men. To be the object of someone else’s gaze: women know that power dynamic well. Even with the #metoo movement’s important insistence that women’s voices be heard, and their stories believed, the power dynamics of who gets to do the gazing hasn’t changed much. But it will. This is a work in progress, and will ultimately include 20 to 25 photos. Each photo is accompanied by a photo of the original painting, with my annotated notes attached to give an indication of my thinking and the narrative I am creating. | <urn:uuid:2110e4d6-475f-4a75-9f1a-85fa120efb6a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gallery.visitcenter.org/reviewsantafe2019/?gallery=Sara_Terry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.949476 | 436 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Climate change summit is a reality, is the plan actionable?
The conference of the parties is holding presently in the United Kingdom with ambience, presentations, and inquiries into promising action plans that may be copied or exemplified for effective implementation by all the parties taking part in the conference. The United Nations framework convention on climate change is an agreement aimed at ‘preventing dangerous human interference with the climate system”.
The 26th session of the conference of parties (COP 26) to the UNFCCC is ongoing. The overarching goal of the summit known as COP 26 is to put the world on a path to aggressively cut greenhouse gas emissions and slow earth’s warming. Negotiations will take place for over two weeks but the two day leader’s summit started yesterday Monday with 100plus heads of states and government scheduled to attend. On this second day our BBC correspondent tells us that pledges for about 90countries have been received and the main plan of action in line with a majority of countries is the avoidance or complete halt on deforestation which will help absorb emissions. Stop the action of clearing a wide area of trees, this action will halt widespread deforestation of the Amazon and continue planting more trees where you have vast uncultivated land. The deal is having plenty of money on the table, a lot of money for a potentially changing world, where policing will be the next way to go, connections will be needed to get involved with working on such projects as the networking environment is remote.
How realistic will the implementation be?
It will be scandalous if such a huge budget goes to waste, the reality will definitely be addressed to make the project plan actionable, and those on top will have to push them to do it, they must have to get the work done because money is on the table. The rain forests are a good back up where emissions are absorbed so such natural habitats must be preserved, just as good as large uncultivated areas in the country, more grease to the elbows of conservationists.
Campaigners are welcoming the Glasgow declaration on keeping the forests and reducing methane, mistrust should be handled on a special part on the agenda which goes along with accountability. | <urn:uuid:a98fa3a5-bf81-49ca-87ba-54aee9fe93da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ngur1974.medium.com/climate-change-summit-is-a-reality-is-the-plan-actionable-f86f2b087060?source=post_internal_links---------4---------------------------- | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.945615 | 445 | 2.578125 | 3 |
What side dishes should I serve with quinoa?
Quinoa is a gluten-free grain that has become very popular over the last decade.
It’s high in protein, fiber, iron, calcium, magnesium, zinc, B vitamins, and antioxidants.
It also contains less fat and sodium than other grains.
Quinoa is a great addition to salads or soups, but it can also be served as a side dish.
Here are some delicious recipes to try
Why Consider Serving Side Dishes for Quinoa?
Quinoa is a complete protein, meaning it contains all nine essential amino acids needed by humans. It’s gluten free, making it a great option for people who suffer from celiac disease. It’s also rich in fiber, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper, manganese, selenium, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, vitamin B6, folate, and biotin.
What to Serve with Quinoa? 8 BEST Side Dishes
Quinoa is a wonderful grain because it cooks quickly and tastes delicious. It pairs well with many different flavors, but here are eight side dishes that go especially well with quinoa. 1 Roasted Cauliflower & Chickpeas 2 Spicy Black Beans 3 Creamy Polenta 4 Lemon Garlic Asparagus 5 Sweet Potato Fries 6 Easy Homemade Hummus 7 Grilled Corn on the Cob 8 Quinoa Pilaf
1 – Steamed Kale
Kale is a superfood that is packed full of nutrients. It’s loaded with vitamins A, C, E, B6, folate, calcium, iron, magnesium, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper, manganese, fiber, protein, omega 3 fatty acids, and antioxidants. It’s also low in calories and fat. This leafy green vegetable is great for detoxifying your body. 2 -Spicy black beans Black beans are a good source of protein, fiber, and minerals such as iron, zinc, and magnesium. They’re also rich in vitamin B and folate. These beans are very versatile and can be used in salads, soups, tacos, burritos, and other recipes.
2 – Roasted Brussel Sprouts
Brussels sprouts are a member of the cabbage family. They have a mild flavor and crunchy texture. Brussels sprouts are a healthy alternative to potatoes because they are lower in carbohydrates and higher in fiber. They are also a good source of vitamin C, vitamin K, and folate. 3 – Broccoli Broccoli is a cruciferous vegetable that belongs to the cabbage family. It contains many health benefits. It is a good source of vitamin K, vitamin C, folate, and fiber. It is also a good source of manganese, thiamin, riboflavin, niacin, pantothenic acid, and vitamin B6.
3 – Eggs with Veggies
Eggs with veggies is a great way to get protein from eggs while adding vegetables to your diet. This recipe uses broccoli florets, but you could use any other veggie you prefer. 4 – Egg Salad Sandwich 5 – Scrambled Tofu
4 – Vegetable Soup
1 Eggs with Veggies 2 Egg Salad Sandwich 3 Scrambled Tofus 4 Vegetable Soup 5 Egg Salad Sandwich
5 – Baked Sweet Potatoes
1 Eggs with veggies 2 Egg salad sandwich
6 – Roasted Beets
5 – Baked Sweet Potatos You can bake sweet potatoes in the oven, but I prefer using my slow cooker. Cut the sweet potato into 1/4 inch slices and place them in a bowl. Add butter, salt, pepper and cinnamon. Mix well. Place the sweet potatoes in the bottom of a slow cooker. Cover with a lid and cook on low for 4 hours. Remove from the slow cooker and serve warm.
7 – Rice and Beans
I love making rice and beans! It’s super easy and delicious! In a medium saucepan combine 2 cups of white rice, 3 cups of vegetable broth, 1 cup of black beans, 1 tablespoon of olive oil, 1 teaspoon of garlic powder, 1 teaspoon of cumin, 1/2 teaspoon of chili powder, 1/2 teaspoon oregano, 1/2 teaspoon paprika, and 1/2 teaspoon kosher salt. Bring mixture to a boil; reduce heat to simmer and cook until liquid is absorbed about 20 minutes. Serve hot. 8 – Chicken Soup 9 – Vegetarian Chili
8 – Vegetarian Chili
1 I think it depends on what type of rice you’re using. White rice cooks faster than brown rice, but brown rice takes longer to cook. So if you’re looking for something quick, go with white rice. But if you want something that tastes better, go with brown rice. 2 To get rid of the smell, put a towel over the pan and let it sit overnight. Then rinse it off in the morning. 3 Yes, you can. Just follow the instructions on the package.
Conclusion – Flavor & Why Serving Side Dishes
I love serving side dishes because they give me the opportunity to try new recipes and experiment with different flavors. It’s fun to see how people react to my side dish and how they enjoy it.
Quinoa is versatile and can be used in many different ways. It can be added to soups, salads, casseroles, and even desserts. One way to enjoy quinoa is to mix it into a salad. For instance, you could combine quinoa with spinach, tomatoes, cucumbers, red onions, and feta cheese. Or, you could toss together quinoa with romaine lettuce, grape tomatoes, and blue cheese dressing. How to cook quinoa? Cooking quinoa is easy. Simply rinse the quinoa well under cold running water. Then, place the quinoa in a saucepan with 2 cups of water per 1 cup of uncooked quinoa. Bring the mixture to a boil, reduce the heat to low, and simmer until the liquid is absorbed, about 15 minutes. Remove from the heat and let stand covered for 5 minutes. Fluff with a fork and serve.
Quinoa is a great grain because it is gluten free. Quinoa is a complete protein source, meaning it contains all nine essential amino acids. This makes it a perfect choice for people who follow a gluten-free diet. Quinoa is also rich in fiber, iron, magnesium, manganese, phosphorus, potassium, zinc, copper, and vitamin B6.
What should I serve with quinoa?
Sides are very important part of our meal. It is always better to eat healthy side dishes rather than junk food. Here are some good sides to serve with your main dish. 1. Garlic bread 2. Potato salad
What are some good side dishes for diabetics?
Menu planning is important for any restaurant business. A well planned menu helps customers know what to expect from your restaurant. Menu planning is not only about creating a good tasting menu but also about making sure that your guests get value for money. So here are the five types of menus: 1. Fixed Menu 2. Flexible Menu 3. Seasonal Menu 4. Special Occasion Menu 5. Customized Menu
What can be mixed with quinoa?
Quinoa is a grain that is gluten free. It is very versatile and can be used in many different ways. Quinoa is usually served plain, but it can be cooked in soups, salads, casseroles, and even desserts. Here are some ideas for what to serve with quinoa: • Tossed salad • Vegetables like carrots
What is quinoa best served with?
Some great side dishes for diabetis patients are: 1 Broccoli – This vegetable is low in calories and fat but high in fiber. It helps lower cholesterol levels and blood sugar levels. 2 Sweet Potatoes – These are rich in vitamin B6, potassium, and iron. They help reduce the risk of heart disease.
What are some good sides to go with?
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Approximately 35 people participated in the Visioning Validation and Interpretation workshop held on January 6, 2004 at the FGDC Coordination Group Meeting. The stated purposes of the meeting were to validate and interpret the vision or desired future state of the NSDI and begin to identify steps to get there.
Ivan DeLoatch welcomed participants. He emphasized the importance of the Future Directions Initiative and participants' involvement in the process. The facilitation team, Tricia Gibbons and Susan Warner of LEAD Alliance, reviewed the agenda, meeting roles, meeting rules and objectives. (See Workshop Frame) The workshop structure was a combination of individual thinking, small group tasks and whole group discussions.
After individually responding to a few "thought questions," participants worked in five discussion groups with the task of sharing perspectives on the desired future state of the NSDI in 2014. Group members also explored the role of the FGDC in the development of the NSDI, and agency contributions and benefits.
After 45 minutes of small group discussions, each group shared aspects of its conversations to build a description of the desired future state. Participants exchanged ideas, questioned for clarification, and began to articulate issues, concerns, challenges and opportunities. In general, participants agreed that the vision was still valid. The descriptions validated the vision statement and the four goal statements. Key discussion points were captured on the graphic organizer. Small group discussion notes can be accessed through the FGDC website within the next week.
Representative vision themes that emerged included: interdependent systems and services; seamless access; understood by leadership at all levels; standard practice to use NSDI; the data are complete, accurate and understood; accountability; and NSDI is the basic infrastructure that users can build upon.
The role of the FGDC highlighted awareness, education and understanding; facilitation and coordination; policy development; implementation framework standards; and development of the business case. Different perspectives were expressed concerning the structure and membership of the FGDC.
Participants were then asked to brainstorm Bold Steps that the FGDC and the Federal Geospatial Community can take to reach the desired state. After 20 minutes, each group prioritized its top three Bold Steps to put forward as recommended actions. (Also listed on the BOLD STEPS arrow on the graphic)
- Build content according to published framework
- Establish the business case as an FGDC-sponsored activity which defines societal benefits and performance measures with agency input
- Seek authority for FGDC to assure compliance with NSDI goals
- Establish a National Geo Data Council
- Alternative to Exhibit 300
- Re-launch the NSDI
- Define a National Architecture
- Influence NSDI-friendly legislation
- Identify NSDI expectations
- Define specific national goals
- Plan of attack (MOU performance metrics)
- Re-evaluate/re-define structure of the FGDC
- Seek FACA exemption
- Implement not just data content but service standards
- Revise governance and charters of FGDC subcommittees and working groups
There was some discussion and questions about clarification related to the recommended BOLD STEPS. Some suggestions were made related to combining similar bold steps. There was no consensus-building conversation or attempt to flesh out the action required to reach each BOLD STEP at this time. It was suggested and agreed that the recommended BOLD STEPS would be more fully explored and prioritized at the February 3, 2004 Coordination Group Meeting,
Actions as a result of this workshop:
- Meeting notes will be distributed to all participants within 10 days.
- An Executive Summary will be written to accompany the graphic and emailed to the Coordination Group distribution list within 2 weeks.
- The Future Directions Team will use the data from today's meeting to begin writing the vision description.
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WASHINGTON (AP) -- U.S. businesses increased their stockpiles in April but their sales fell for a second straight month, held back by a decline in orders to American factories.
The Commerce Department said Thursday that business stockpiles rose 0.3 percent in April from March. That followed a 0.1 percent decline in March from February.
Sales slipped 0.1 percent in April following a sharp 1.2 percent drop in March. It marked the first back-to-back sales declines in nearly a year, although the weakness was concentrated in manufacturing.
A separate Commerce report showed retail sales jumped 0.6 percent in May. The gain in a critical measure of consumer spending could prompt businesses to keep stocking their shelves.
More restocking boosts economic growth because it means companies are ordering more factory-made goods. The economy grew at a 2.4 percent annual rate from January through March, a gain boosted by stronger inventory growth.
In April, retailers increased restocking 0.4 percent to lead all categories. Manufacturing and wholesale stockpiles both grew 0.2 percent.
The April drop in sales reflected further weakness at U.S. factories. Manufacturing sales fell 0.7 percent. That offset an increase in sales at wholesale businesses. Sales at retailers in April were flat.
U.S. factories have struggled this year as weak economies abroad have slowed U.S. exports. American businesses have also reduced their pace of investment in areas such as equipment and computer software.
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Olympic earthquake watchers
Starting today, millions of people around the world will crowd around
their television sets to watch the 2002 Winter Olympic Games in Salt Lake
City, Utah. Among the millions is a team of seismologists from the University
of Utah, who will be watching the Olympics 24/7 from start to finish. Armed
with a new $1.2 million seismic network, they are on the watch for earthquakes
and ready to quickly supply public safety information should a quake shake
the international event.
With its majestic mountains, the Wasatch Range seems the perfect site for steep competition in Olympic skiing, snowboarding and bobsledding. But beneath the wintry landscape, rocks are slowly grinding, lifting the mountains, and creating the potential for an earthquake. “Here in our Wasatch front urban corridor, the major threat is posed by the Wasatch fault, which is the longest active normal fault in North America,” says Walter Arabasz, director of the University of Utah Seismograph Stations.
And that is where Arabasz and his team of earthquake watchers come into play in the Olympic Games. They have partnered with the U.S. Geological Survey to put a real-time earthquake information system in place in time for the Olympics. “It’s a convergence of needing to have rapid earthquake information available during the Olympic time-frame, but also the building of an Advanced National Seismic System to modernize earthquake monitoring in the United States,” Arabasz says.
Authorized by Congress in 2000, the Advanced National Seismic System (ANSS), calls for installing more than 6,000 seismic sensors to monitor earthquakes in 26 metropolitan areas across the United States. ANSS is only about 5 percent complete now, but Salt Lake City was one of the lucky few cities to get a head start on the project, Arabasz says. “We were fortunate here in our Wasatch front urban corridor to get seed money from this program to be able to accelerate having a basic real-time earthquake information system in place by the time of the Olympics.”
The seismic network features a Shakemap -- a rapidly generated computer map. “I liken it to a Doppler radar image that within five minutes after a disruptive earthquake is able to generate an automated computer map showing the location, severity and extent of actual strong ground shaking”, Arabasz says. The information then goes to the program’s Web site, where anyone, including emergency managers and earthquake scientists can view the results.
A Shakemap relies on a seismograph network of strong motion sensors that continuously record data to upload to the telecommunication system. In Utah, 45 sensors lie within and surrounding the urbanized area.
Seismologists developed the system in southern California after the 1994 Northridge earthquake, and have since routinely produced maps for moderate-sized earthquakes in California and the Pacific northwest, as well as the larger Nisqually earthquake that hit the Seattle area in February 2001.
Olympic venues in Wasatch Front valleys are primarily at risk from moderate earthquakes of magnitude 5 or greater. The probability of a moderate earthquake is about 1 in 1,700 during the 37-day time frame of the Olympics and Paralympics. The risk of a larger earthquake is a little less. “Where there is an active fault such as this near an urban area, the common term is to refer to a large earthquake as a big one -- namely a magnitude-7 event,” Arabasz says. The probability of such an event, he says, is 1 in 3,500.
Even a minor earthquake, however, could endanger alpine venues by triggering landslides or avalanches. The chances of such an earthquake occurring within 9 miles of one of these venues during the Olympics is about 1 in 750.
Arabasz says the Olympic planners did recognize the earthquake risk in this area, but did not give the possibility a sense of urgency. “However, as a seismologist, the last thing I wanted to do was have a disruptive earthquake during the Olympics on my watch,” he says. “Goodness knows any seismologist has a very keen sense of responsibility for public safety, and that’s what we’re about.”
Lisa M. Pinsker
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INTERNAL WEBSITE OPTIMIZATION. KEY FACTORS. Interest in internal optimization sharpened immediately after search engines declared war on link promotion. However, work on the technical part of the site, its content and design have always been a good practice. Today we will talk about the main internal factors that need to be paid attention to when preparing a resource for more active promotion.
Optimization of the tag Title
TITLE – HTML-tag that defines the text that will be displayed in the header of the browser when you open the site. Also, the information indicated there is displayed in the search results. That is why the content of the tag needs to be carefully worked out. Think of it as an ad headline.
There are three TITLE optimization rules:
place a key request within the tag;
prepare a unique title for each page;
make it so that you want to click on it when you see it in a search.
For all this, to optimize a site for search engines, it is important that the content of this tag is informative. It should clearly indicate what is placed on the page.
Optimization of Keywords and Description tags
We figured out the page title in the search engine results – it is determined by the TITLE tag. To create the site card itself, you need to prepare a snippet. This is a text description that also appears in the search.
A snippet is formed from the Description meta tag. However, each search engine has its own principles of work. For example, Yandex will take the information indicated there and show it in the search results if the request entered by the user is simultaneously present:
in the header H1;
in the Description meta tag;
in the text of the page.
It is important that there is a meaningful advertising message inside the tag. In this case, you increase the chances that the user of the search engine will open your site. The optimal length is 150-180 characters.
Keywords are an auxiliary meta tag. It is necessary to list all the keywords that relate to the page. Today there is no evidence that it seriously affects the results of search results. However, the algorithms are constantly changing, and at one point the presence of filled Keywords tags can be your advantage.
Text optimization Text
preparation for SEO purposes consists of adapting its structure. Need to add:
main heading (H1);
several subheadings (H2-H5);
bulleted or numbered lists.
The last paragraph does not affect promotion directly. However, it simplifies the process of reading text, which helps to improve the user factors of the site. They, in turn, are already ranked by search engines when ranking search results.
You must also add keywords to the text.
To optimize your text, you need to add keywords to it that you plan to advance on. However, the question arises, how many occurrences should be? Among optimizers, it is customary to talk about the density of key phrases. This is the ratio of the number of occurrences of the key to the length of the text in characters.
Since the site promotion in Google has its own characteristics, it is difficult to accurately determine the necessary density. Search engines work differently. In practice, the optimal density of occurrences most often is 3-5%.
To promote the site you need unique articles and images. In an effort to provide users with the highest quality result, search engines carefully filter out resources that consist of materials copied in other places. Non-unique content for them is a clear sign of the site, the creation, and design of which did not receive enough attention.
Even if you write articles and materials yourself, regularly check to see if copies have appeared on other pages on the network. Search engine algorithms are imperfect and they may well believe that it was you who “stole” someone else’s text. If a copy is found on any third-party resource, we advise you to contact its administration or simply rewrite your materials in other words (re-write). | <urn:uuid:65b53cdc-8b9e-4823-95b9-9f95e3d72ed3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.gcc-marketing.com/internal-website-optimization-key-factors/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571911.5/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813081639-20220813111639-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.932345 | 840 | 1.765625 | 2 |
A new website is calling on students “to expose and document college professors who discriminate against conservative students and advance leftist propaganda in the classroom.”
Professor Watchlist displays a photo gallery of professors and educators the website says have an anti-conservative bias.
The website was created by Turning Point USA, an organization founded in 2013 “to identify, educate, train, and organize students to promote the principles of fiscal responsibility, free markets, and limited government,” it says.
Critics say Professor Watchlist is meant to chill free speech among liberal or non-conservative educators.
“The apparent purpose is to curtail free speech in the classroom,” said Hans-Joerg Tiede of the American Association of University Professors (AAUP).
“If any of information is false, we’ll happily remove it,” said spokesperson Matt Lamb, Turning Point’s director of Constitutional enforcement and transparency, who graduated in 2015 from Loyola University Chicago.
Teacher profiles include a photo and a short blurb that describes how a professor exhibited an anti-conservative bias, according to Professor Watchlist. It links to websites like Campus Reform and Judicial Watch.
Campus Reform is a product of Leadership Institute, whose mission is “to increase the number and effectiveness of conservative activists and leaders in the public policy process.” It is staffed by self-described conservatives, libertarians and Republicans.
Judicial Watch is “a conservative, non-partisan educational foundation, [that] promotes transparency, accountability and integrity in government, politics and the law. Through its educational endeavors, Judicial Watch advocates high standards of ethics and morality in our nation’s public life and seeks to ensure that political and judicial officials do not abuse the powers entrusted to them by the American people.
“Judicial Watch fulfills its educational mission through litigation, investigations, and public outreach,” according to its website.
Assistant Professor Melita Garza is one of the teachers featured on the watchlist. Garza was accused by a student for failing him and removing him from class because she did not agree with his conservative perspective on feminism, according to TCU360, “a student-led, faculty advised … part of the TCU Student Media,” its website says.
The source for Professor Watchlist’s inclusion of Garza is an article from Texas Christian University, whose original source was Hypeline, a publication of Turning Point USA, which owns Professor Watchlist.
Garza said she could not comment because of student privacy issues. Calls to TCU administration were not immediately answered.
While students on college campuses overwhelmingly supported Democratic candidate Hillary Clinton in the November 2016 election, conservative students say they feel outweighed.
At Yale, 81 percent of students supported Clinton, reported theYale Daily News. At the University of Virginia, 75 percent of students said they would vote for Clinton and 13 percent backed Trump, the conservative candidate, according to the Cavalier Daily.
And at Harvard University, the Crimson student newspaper said 87 percent of students there would vote for Clinton, while 6 percent said they would vote for Trump.
Meanwhile, the Yale Daily News found that 95 percent of conservative students felt their views were unwelcome.
Critics say student complaints should be handled through college or university channels.
“AAUP does not condone discrimination of students based on political views,” Tiede said. “Every university has mechanisms to deal with student allegations. If somebody wishes to complain, that will be reviewed by the institution.”
Turning Point was founded by Charlie Kirk, a 21-year-old from Chicago. Kirk’s LinkedIn profile indicates he graduated from Wheeling High School in Illinois in 2012, but does not list college attendance or degree.
Atlantic magazine in 2015 reported that Kirk was enrolled part time in online classes at King’s College in New York, a “Christian, liberal arts college in the heart of New York City,” according to its website.
Kirk said he started Turning Point USA with the slogan, “Big government sucks.” His profile says he reports on bias in higher education.
“Since launching Turning Point, Kirk has written op-eds for the Washington Times and Breitbart, appeared frequently on Fox News and CNBC, built a network of thousands of student activists around the country, and been entrusted with, he says, at least $1 million by donors enthralled by his conservative promise,” said the profile that Atlantic magazine wrote about Kirk in 2015. “His backers swear he’s the future of conservative politics—and he’s only just old enough to drink.
“Kirk … is a reasoned and articulate advocate for his peers who is taken seriously by older generations of conservatives,” the article said.
Rating professors is not unusual or atypical. Students can check out how other students rate professors — on ratemyprofessor.com — in grading or lecturing.
Students can see how other students rated professors’ overall quality, level of difficulty, whether or not they need a text book, and general feedback. And students can add a chili pepper to indicate whether a teacher is “hot.”
Since ProfessorWatchlist has gone viral, social media began trending #trollprofwatchlist. Parody submissions to Professor Watchlist range from Harry Potter character Lord Voldemort to Jesus Christ to President-Elect Donald Trump:
In a New York Times Opinion piece, writer George Yancy, a professor of philosophy at Emory University and the author of “Black Bodies, White Gazes” and “Look, a White!” and a co-editor of “Pursuing Trayvon Martin,” say this:
“Well, if it is dangerous to teach my students to love their neighbors, to think and rethink constructively and ethically about who their neighbors are, and how they have been taught to see themselves as disconnected and neoliberal subjects, then, yes, I am dangerous, and what I teach is dangerous.”
This story was reported and curated by VOA Interns Arnella Sandy, Rebecca Hankins and Brittney Welch and editor Kathleen Struck.
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How to Get Rid of Mouse Droppings from Your House? Top Methods of Restoring Hygiene after a Severe Mice Infestation
Have you occasionally spotted dark, sausage-shaped mass on the couch, bed or the floor? If yes, then you’re glaring at a mouse droppings menace! You should, however, remain calm and desist from handling the excrete using your bare hands. Cleaning up the mouse droppings immediately you spot them is critical in enhancing hygiene as well as preventing severe health hazards that may result from uncontrolled interaction with the waste materials. This article will give you necessary tips on handling the problem. It’ll clearly articulate the procedure to apply in eliminating the droppings, regardless of their location, while safeguarding your health.
What to do if you find mouse droppings
If you’ve confirmed the presence of the rodent’s poop, you need to devise a safe method to get rid of them. You should never handle the droppings without gloves to minimize the risk of acquiring infectious agents that are a threat to your health.
The first step you should initiate when you find the dark, brown pellets is identification. You need to be sure of what you’re handling. Most of the parameters used in the process does not require physical handling of the fecal material!
The list below gives crucial points on the do’s and the don’ts in such a scenario:
- Don’t Overreact. The presence of the mouse poop inside your house is unsightly but you should restrain yourself. The first reaction would be to sweep them away using a broom as quickly as you can. The action, can, however, expose you to health dangers!
- Don’t use a vacuum cleaner. When trying to get rid of the mess, you may be tempted to vacuum clean your house. If the poop contains disease-causing agents, it’s likely that you’ll blow them off allowing easy inhalation and consequently leading to illnesses.
- Don’t handle the mice droppings using your bare hands. Always ensure that you put on your rubber or latex gloves.
- Do air the area before cleaning. Open all the windows to allow free air circulation which minimizes the chances of inhaling the disease-causing microorganisms.
- Do collect and dispose of all the droppings in a sealed bag then put them in a covered trash can.
Your safety, as well as the well-being of your children and pets, is vital. As such, you should ensure that you follow these tips to the letter to avoid inhaling harmful agents that can make you seriously ill.
Mice poop: Identification
Have you found dark masses inside your house but you aren’t sure what they are? You should undertake a proper identification process before handling them to eliminate all the risks that are associated with mouse droppings.
The rodents excrete fecal matter in pellet form and can deposit between fifty and seventy-five pellets in a single day. The droppings are usually dispersed in regions that are heavily infested by rodents.
The following tips will allow you to make an informed decision on the identity of the masses:
- Shape. The knowledge of the appearance will help you differentiate between the mice’s poop from that of a rat. The droppings are granular in shape and resemble rice grains. Although there are a few rounded pellets, the majority of the droppings are tapered either at one end or both ends. The shape ensures that you do not confuse the mouse poop with that of a rat or any other rodents which ideally produces rectangular/spindle shaped droppings.
- Size. This parameter is a crucial element that helps you to undoubtedly set apart mouse’s droppings from the rest; mice excretes smaller poop pellets measuring between 1/8 and 1/4 inch.
- Color. The poop will either be brown or dark depending on the type of seeds the mice consumed. In most cases, it’s initially brown and soft, turns dark and hardens after several hours and eventually becomes grey.
- Amount. It’s crucial to note that the amount of the pellets is lesser with the mice compared to other rodents. They are usually scattered and not concentrated in a single place.
If what you found in the house has the above description, do not panic! The droppings will not cause any harm if the right procedure of their elimination is followed.
Mice droppings in the house
The rodent’s poop presents an ugly sight especially when they are in an open place in your house.
They primarily infest food-rich and dark regions including:
- Behind Kitchen Cabinets.
- Dark corners of the house.
- Pantries and food stores.
- Attics and Crawl Spaces.
The mice frequent these areas due to food availability as well as a conducive environment for them to establish their nests. If you, therefore, spot the dark cylindrical droppings here, it’s highly likely that you’ve identified mouse poop! When that happens, you should embark on a cleaning process to decontaminate the house. The mice are shy and it’s thus unlikely that you’ll find the droppings on the couches or the carpet. In case this happens, you should not use your broom or vacuum cleaner to avoid inhaling disease-causing microorganisms.
Mice like spending their time in an area where they can easily access food. This behavior explains their dominance in your kitchen! As such, it’s not uncommon to find their pellet-looking droppings in the oven. While the poop looks bad and everyone thinks it’s unhygienic, it actually does not expose you to as much harm as the poop dropped on the ground. The oven heat significantly incapacitates and eventually destroys the disease-causing microorganisms. That does not mean, however, that you should let the droppings stay!
Follow the following simple steps to remove the dirt from your oven:
- Prepare bleach solution. Ensure that you use ten parts of water and one part of bleach. Once that’s achieved, you should apply it on your stove and allow it to soak for a minimum of fifteen minutes.
- Wipe off the bleach solution using a clean piece of towel. As you wipe, ensure that the droppings are carefully collected and disposed of into a sealed container.
- Immediately after wiping off the bleach, you should apply 70% alcohol solution and let it stay for approximately 5 minutes then wipe it off.
In case you need to restore fragrance on the stove, you can use a fragrant such as rosemary, lavender oil or any other product designed to eliminate the stench akin to that produced by a dead, rotting mouse. You can get more information on how to get rid of dead mouse smell here.
On the stove: Now what?
Are you disgusted by the discovery of mouse droppings on your stove? Well, relax! Cleaning up mouse droppings from your stove is a simple process that shouldn’t stress you. First, you need to spot all the droppings by separating the stove’s parts. Once you do this, you should embark on the crucial step of removing the unsightly pellets from the stove.
Wear latex or rubber gloves and dissolve the pellets in a bleach solution.
After they’ve settled in the solution for approximately fifteen minutes, remove them using a piece of cloth and put them in the garbage pit. You should then apply 70% alcohol on both the interior and exterior parts of your stove for disinfection and decontamination. Let them dry up and reassemble the stove for use. If you detect a stench, you can use fragrant materials to restore the full functionality of your stove.
How to get rid of mouse droppings
The surest method of getting rid of the mouse droppings completely is by ensuring that all the mice in your house are exterminated!
Droppings should thus be exterminated to prevent exposure to the dangers. Ensure that you apply proper methods to either repel or kill the mice including traps, poison baits, and other repellents. If you want to find how to kill mice, go here. The first step of a successful elimination process involves identifying the areas infested by the rodents and setting up traps and other baits you may decide to apply.
The kitchen is the primary target due to its proximity to food sources, water, and conducive places to hide. It’s, however, vital that you exercise caution when placing poisons in regions near food sources to avoid contamination of the foodstuffs which may be lethal to your family members. Read on the best way to get rid of mice in the kitchen here.
If you’re already struggling with the droppings menace, you should follow the procedure detailed below to clean up the mouse droppings:
How to safely clean mice droppings
Cleaning up mouse droppings is a high-risk exercise that requires you to exercise high-level caution. The poop may expose you to Hantavirus which causes a potentially fatal disease. The microbes that cause this illness are passed through the droppings and urine of an infected mouse. When you disturb the mice droppings, the agents dominate the air after which you'll breathe the infected air and acquire the illness.
You should follow these 5 steps to eliminate the chances of getting infected
Ventilate the room 30 minutes before you start the clean-up
You should ensure that you open all the doors and windows. Once you achieve this, leave the house and allow the room to air for 30-45 minutes.
Soak droppings in a disinfectant
You should spray all the regions, with the poop, using a DIY disinfectant. Prepare the solution by mixing one part of bleach with ten parts of water. Once you've sprayed all the affected areas, allow it to settle for approximately five minutes. Do not handle the droppings before at least five minutes are over after the soaking process!
Wear latex or rubber gloves
Ensure that you do not touch the poop with your bare hands. With the gloves on, look for a rag and mop up the wet droppings. You can also pick them up using paper towels. Once you've collected them, you should immediately dispose of them in a plastic bag. Carefully put the bag into a garbage container with a fitting lid.
Thoroughly wash gloves before removing them
After successfully collecting the poop, ensure that you clean your gloved hands to avoid transferring the dirt and potentially disease-causing microorganisms into other parts of your body. Carefully remove the gloves and put them in the tightly closed garbage bin.
Wash your hands!
You should use warm water and plenty of soap to clean your hands after which you should dry them using a clean towel and apply a topical disinfectant.
If you are uncomfortable with handling the procedure, you should always consult professionals to help you in cleaning up the mouse droppings. This is a sure way of guaranteeing your safety as well as that of the people you live with.
In case you observe the following symptoms two to five weeks after the process, you should consult your physician urgently:
- Body aches.
- Breathing difficulties.
- Body chills.
Cleaning up mouse droppings is a necessary exercise but it exposes you to numerous disease-causing agents. As such, you should carry out the process following all the recommended guidelines as detailed herein. In case you lack the confidence to follow the procedures to the letter, you shouldn’t risk it! Instead, you should involve a professional to help you clean up the mess left behind by the stubborn rodents.
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SPARKS, Nev. - The eleventh annual Family Day: A Day to Eat Dinner with Your children was celebrated in Sparks Monday. Sparks Mayor Geno Martini asked all families living in the city to make time to sit down with their children and eat a family meal.
"Being able to sit down and have a family dinner most nights or every night is just a wonderful time," Mayor Martini said.
The annual day is the brainchild of the National Center on Addiction and Substance Abuse at Columbia University.
The goal of the national movement, which began in 2001, is to set aside a regular time when the family can eat dinner. Studies done by CASA Columbia have found that children who eat dinner with their parents at least five times a week are less likely to try or abuse alcohol and drugs.
Children who don't eat family dinners regularly are almost four times more likely to use tobacco, more than twice as likely to use alcohol, two-and-a-half times more likely to use marijuana, and almost four times more likely to say they expect to try drugs in the future.
For the Abbott family in Silver Springs, family dinner is not an option.
"It's just a good opportunity to get together and spend some time and decompress after each day," Matthew Abbott said.
Matthew and his wife Lisa sit down to dinner with their two girls every night of the week, even when it has been a bad day.
"It might be late, or I'm tired and we haven't been able to get dinner together quickly, or I just want to watch T.V., but the girls will say 'No come on, we have to eat dinner together' and that reinforces that we are heading in the right direction," Lisa Abbott said.
Matthew and Lisa also start their dinners by asking each of their daughters what the best and worst parts of their days were and why.
"Instead of waiting for a report card, or waiting for a parent teacher conference, or for something else to happen, it's a way to know on a day to day basis what's going on in their lives," Lisa said.
Of course, with busy lives it's hard to set time aside for dinner. But the Abbotts suggest on days that you know will be hectic, prepare dinner ahead of time. They do all of the prep work in the morning, so they can put dinner together quickly when they get home from work.
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