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The incidence of age-related diseases continues to rise as the number of Americans over the age of 65 grows. As a result, research is now focused on discovering methods to promote longevity. Although few molecular indicators of biological age have been indentified, we and others have recently shown that p16INK4a serves a robust and accurate marker of mammalian aging. Induction of p16INK4a correlates directly with chronological age in rodents and can be slowed by anti-aging strategies such as caloric restriction. In addition, our preliminary data show that p16INK4a levels are decreased by moderate exercise in healthy human subjects. Despite these data, the mechanisms by which lifestyle modification promotes longevity remain largely undefined. Herein, I will exploit the unique properties of p16INK4a as an aging biomarker to assess the tissue- specificity of anti-aging strategies. To do this, I have developed a novel knockin reporter allele, p16-LUC, which expresses firefly luciferase under control of the endogenous p16INK4a promoter. Importantly, my preliminary data show that induction of this allele correlates with cellular senescence in vitro and can be visualized in living animals. Using these mice I plan to address the following specific aims: 1) Characterize the p16- LUC allele under conditions relevant to the mammalian aging process, 2) Investigate the influence of diet and exercise on the induction of p16INK4a, 3) Determine the time- dependent and organ-specific effects of diet and exercise on p16INK4a promoter occupancy.
These studies will determine the potential of a new mouse model to predict how exercise and diet influence biological aging. In addition, we will gain insight into the processes that cause our bodies to age, helping us to develop new strategies that promote human health and longevity.
|Sorrentino, Jessica A; Krishnamurthy, Janakiraman; Tilley, Stephen et al. (2014) p16INK4a reporter mice reveal age-promoting effects of environmental toxicants. J Clin Invest 124:169-73|
|Burd, Christin E; Liu, Wenjin; Huynh, Minh V et al. (2014) Mutation-specific RAS oncogenicity explains NRAS codon 61 selection in melanoma. Cancer Discov 4:1418-29|
|LaPak, Kyle M; Burd, Christin E (2014) The molecular balancing act of p16(INK4a) in cancer and aging. Mol Cancer Res 12:167-83| | <urn:uuid:0f442888-17ab-465d-8e16-9ebbecc99ce0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://grantome.com/grant/NIH/R00-AG036817-03 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00263-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.897214 | 528 | 2.125 | 2 |
Definition of Opposite:
unlike, conflicting; completely different
Synonyms of Opposite:
Sentence/Example of Opposite:
Opposite him sat a tall fellow very erect and stiff in his chair.
He had an invitation to the opposite coast which he thought he would accept.
It was at this critical moment that Cassidy entered from the opposite side of the office.
Therefore, two men of strong beliefs were set on opposite sides of the fence.
By this they were opposite the old stand, where Shandy was hiding.
It was flanked by a river, upon the opposite bank of which rose a gentle mountain.
It was opposite my eyes, which really were open now, I felt sure.
She is mentioned as the opposite to the mild, dignified Hygd, the queen of the Getas.
A white figure was visible under the shade of the opposite trees.
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The Incredible, The Amazing, Lithium!
It’s an amazing metal. Not only does it treat acute mania, prevent recurrences, and treat refractory depression, but when consumed as LiCl, it tastes pretty good on vegetables. Or at least it did before the 1950s, when it was dropped from the list of acceptable salt-substitutes for hypertensives because of a nasty tendency to cause toxicity.
The history of lithium is colorful, and is covered elsewhere in this month’s issue. In this article, TCR covers lithium from a clinical perspective, in the hopes of reminding you that it’s easy to prescribe and to monitor, it’s effective, and it’s very cheap.
In treating acute manic episodes, lithium’s response rate is in the range of 70-80%. That’s the good news. The bad news is that it takes up to two weeks to kick in, and thus is about a week slower than its main competitors, Depakote and the atypical antipsychotics. This is not a huge problem, however, because we will often use adjunctive neuroleptics or benzodiazepines for acute mania anyway.
Not only does lithium treat mania, but it is the only medication in the world that has been shown to be more effective than placebo in preventing recurrences of both mania and depression in bipolar disorder (1). Other medications may be effective for preventing specific problems in bipolar disorder. Thus, Lamictal (lamotrigine) prevents bipolar depression, and a recently reported but not yet peer-reviewed abstract reports that Zyprexa (olanzapine) was better than lithium at preventing relapse to mania in one trial (2). But lithium has been shown effective in bipolar disorder prophylaxis in study after study over the last 30 years.
Lithium is a good antidepressant, and is currently one of two drugs recommended in APA Guidelines for the treatment of bipolar depression (3). Lithium is the only psychiatric medication (other than clozapine) proven to prevent suicide. Meta-analytic studies have reported a 93% reduction in suicide acts in patients on lithium. Interestingly, lithium’s antisuicide effect was most robust in recurrent major depression, although it was still a boon in both bipolar I and bipolar II disorders. Does this suicide data imply that we should be putting all our severely depressed patients on lithium, whether they have bipolar disorder or not? It’s an arguable point!
There are a variety of allegations floating around related to certain supposed advantages of Depakote over lithium, especially in any manic presentation other than classic euphoric mania. Read the Depakote article in this issue for TCR‘s version of clarity on this topic.
How to Use Lithium
Now that you’re chomping at the bit to start prescribing lithium, how should you do it? Start by getting baseline TSH, T4, and BUN/Cr levels drawn before the first dose, and then start with regular old Lithium Carbonate, 300 or 600 mg QHS. LiCO3 may cause a bit more initial GI distress than Eskalith CR or Lithobid but it’s about half the price. Lithium’s half life is 24 hours, so don’t even think of dosing more than once a day, unless it becomes clear over time that your patient has fewer side effects with split dosing. Dosing it at night also has the beneficial effect of causing less polyuria.
Try to get the lithium level up to 0.8 meq/L or so. Comparative studies have shown that higher serum levels are more effective at preventing relapse, but on the down side, they lead to lower tolerability and more treatment drop-out. So shoot for 0.8, but if you have to drop down to 0.6 or 0.7 to maintain a happy camper, by all means do so. You’ll probably end up at a dose between 900 mg – 1500 mg QHS for most patients.
Check lithium levels, TSH/T4, and BUN/Cr after one week, at one to two months, then every 6 to 12 months thereafter. The most common side effects are GI discomfort (remedies: split dosing, take with meals, switch to long-acting formulation, or switch to Li Citrate syrup), tremor (use Inderal LA 60 mg QAM or regular Inderal 20 mg BIDTID prn), polyuria/excessive thirst (dose it all at night, use low dose hydrochlorthiazide but watch lithium levels, which will often increase on this regimen), memory problems (no proven remedy, some try stimulants or acetylcholinesterase inhibitors), weight gain (diet and exercise and prayer).
Two side effect issues are confusing and controversial. First, can lithium actually damage the kidneys, beyond causing reversible polyuria? The answer is: probably, but it’s quite rare. A ten-year prospective followup study of lithium’s effects on the kidney found that declining kidney function was more related to age of the patient than duration of lithium use. One risk factor appears to be a history of frank lithium toxicity. Bottom-line is that kidney damage is unlikely, but caution dictates yearly BUN/Cr levels.
The second issue is lithium’s effects on the heart. A Medline search reveals many case reports of lithium-induced sinus node dysfunction. Recall that the sinus node is our main cardiac pacemaker, and keeps our hearts beating in the 60-100 range. The usual symptoms of sinus node dysfunction are the results of bradycardia–fatigue, dizziness, and fainting. Studies that have bothered to measure sinus node functioning in large groups of patients on lithium have been pretty reassuring: severe, symptomatic sinus node dysfunction is quite rare (5). Based on this, a common sense approach would be to: 1) Get a pre-lithium EKG in patients with documented cardiac disease, especially in patients over 50, who have a higher rate of bradycardia due to age alone; and 2) Order an EKG in any lithium treated patient who has new onset dizziness or fainting.
TCR VERDICT: Don’t Neglect the Magic of Lithium!
1. Goodwin FK. Rationale for long-term treatment of bipolar disorder and evidence for longterm lithium treatment. J Clin Psychiatry. 2002;63[suppl 10]:5-12.
2. Tohen M. Olanzapine more effective for preventing mania relapse. Poster presentation, 5th International Conference on Bipolar Disorder, Pittsburg, 2003 (viewable on web at www.medscape.com/viewarticle/457508_print ).
3. American Psychiatric Association Practice Guidelines for the Treatment of Patients With Bipolar Disorder, Second Edition. 2002. Washington DC: APPI.
4. Baldessarini RJ, Tondo L, Hennen J. Lithium treatment and suicidal risk in major affective disorders: Update and new findings. J Clin Psychiatry 2003;64[suppl5]:44-52.
5. Rosenqvist M, Bergfeldt L, Aili H, et al. Sinus node dysfunction during long-term lithium treatment. Br Heart J. 1993;70:371-375.
Psychiatry Report, T. (2013). The Incredible, The Amazing, Lithium!. Psych Central. Retrieved on October 21, 2016, from http://pro.psychcentral.com/the-incredible-the-amazing-lithium/001606.html | <urn:uuid:872e15f0-f7d7-4077-b07e-0ffc3ffa2027> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://pro.psychcentral.com/the-incredible-the-amazing-lithium/001606.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718309.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00405-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.891256 | 1,618 | 2.796875 | 3 |
Dec 13, 2009
One of the most popular tutorials I've ever written was the one for the image I use on my Twitter profile, that is a digital Bokeh effect created in Photoshop.
I have already published a tutorial on how to create that in Photoshop and Pixelmator, but I still receive quite a few emails from people asking me how to do that. So Ash Davies from Photo Guides recorded a screencast showing how to create the effect.
In photography, bokeh is one of the most incredible implementations of Aperture. The shallow depth of field causes any light in the background to blur into a floating orb. Bokeh is derived from the Japanese word ‘Boke’ which means blur or haze. In the late 1990s though, when ‘boke’ photography was becoming popular, the word was changed to ‘bokeh’ to help us english speaking people say it properly.
"I'm Ash Davies and I'm the owner and editor of Photo Guides. Photography and Photoshop are two great passions of mine, and Photo Guides is my source to share my knowledge, as well as my excuse to learn cool new stuff."
For more screencasts I highly recommend that you check out http://www.photoguides.net. Also if you want to see the writter versions of this tutorial, visit: | <urn:uuid:22821eb6-907d-4cb5-9451-f2ca4608fd0d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://abduzeedo.com/digital-bokeh-photoshop-screencast-photo-guides | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00467-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96457 | 279 | 2.125 | 2 |
When setting up a small business, it is essential to craft an HR strategy that keeps the team happy and motivated. Particularly in the initial stages, there is often a lot of daily stress and the role of HR in a startup company gets overlooked in favor of product development and business strategy. Here, we provide a checklist of HR basics for small businesses that will create a happier work environment and improve overall team productivity.
HR laws may change at any time, and several important alterations are likely to occur in the aftermath of COVID. It is crucial that small businesses are fully in compliance with employment laws, tax laws, and any other relevant legislation at all times. By migrating to a cloud-based HR management software, the team can get automatic updates on alterations to the law and thus stay abreast without extra effort.
Paying employees in a timely fashion is one of the prerequisites to earning their respect. With a payroll management system in place, salaries get disbursed on time in an error-free manner, and relevant data can be referred to whenever needed. Another important aspect in this regard is employee benefits. To put it simply, a benefits package should not be one-size-fits-all. By understanding your employees better, you can create packages tailored to their needs and preferences. For instance, those with young children or elderly family members to look after at home might prefer more paid time off as a benefit, while this may not be the case for those living on their own. The package should also include affordable health insurance and generous provident fund plans.
One of the HR basics for small businesses is allowing adequate leave to its team members, including weekends, national/cultural holidays, and flexible hours. Employees should also have the flexibility to request their own leave through an online portal rather than approaching multiple people with emails. Incorporating an Employee Self Service portal will be of immense help here.
HR should prioritise having a clear performance pathway for their employees with mutually agreed-upon goals and regular feedback on how well they are doing. There should also be a system of recognition for the star performers. This is an ideal tactic to increase employee morale and engagement. It is also a good way to identify the team members who need to improve in certain areas — allowing the HR department to plan relevant training programs.
Giving employees autonomy over their own documents and daily affairs shows them that the organization trusts them, and also makes operations more convenient. By incorporating an automated Employee Self Service portal, HR can give employees full control over their personal details and admin-related tasks, such as updating their address proof or entering their attendance. While this ensures optimized operations, it also has another essential benefit — enabling ease of communication by allowing teams to reach out to HR directly for any queries.
In short, there are several HR basics for small businesses that need to be kept in mind by the executive team to create the best possible work environment. Having the right technology in place can be a great help with this.
Key takeaway: The role of HR in a startup company is a crucial one — to keep employees motivated and loyal through the challenges of setting up a new business. Having a small business HR compliance checklist handy can help with setting up robust HR practices. | <urn:uuid:a176fb29-138c-4d1a-97d5-a5af5ff0d9c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.greythr.com/blog/hr-best-practices-for-smes-and-startups/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.957689 | 654 | 1.585938 | 2 |
A guy in England figured out a way to make money off those annoying telemarketers who call.
Lee Beaumont set up a number through a phone pay service, so when others call him, they end up paying him 16 cents a minute for the calls. (Via BBC)
BEAUMONT: “I thought there must be a way to make money off these phone calls.”
REPORTER: “So how much money are you making from this?”
BEAUMONT: “Well, I’ve been doing this since about 2011, November time, and made just over 300 pounds.” (Via BBC)
That’s almost $465. Not bad for just answering phone calls. So how does it work?
He set up an 0871 line with a company called PhonepayPlus, which forces callers to pay 10 pence — or 16 cents — per minute, about 11 cents of which goes directly in Beaumont’s pocket.
Then, “He gives that number to banks, utilities or any other company. His friends have his regular number.” (Via KTVK)
It might sound a little sneaky, but as Gawker points out, Beaumont says he’s honest with callers. “Beaumont insists he makes sure every telemarketer knows up-front that they are being charged to harass him, and they are fine with it.”
It also decreased the number of random calls he gets. He used to get 20–30 a month. Now he says he only gets about 13 per month. Another change: Now that he knows how to make money from those calls, for once he’s actually wishing more telemarketers would call him. (Via Ars Technica)
This sounds like a sweet deal, but the company he used, PhonepayPlus, does clearly say its service is not meant to be used in this way and those who go against the company’s code could be fined.
There’s a similar service in the U.S. called “900 numbers,” but the Federal Communications Commission has guidelines regarding those numbers. However, a writer for Yahoo! says, “Those rules seem to provide wiggle room for anyone who wants to follow Beaumont’s lead as long as they are doing so transparently.”
Ehhh … could be risky. We’d advise thoroughly doing your research before giving that a try.
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Q. Could you elaborate on the exact dates this year for Palm Sunday, the passover meal, the Crucifixion, and Resurrection Morning. This is the first year I was aware of the difference between Easter and the Passover. I abstained from the first celebration and would like to honor the Lord at the Passover. Thank you very much.
A. Passover is a date specific holiday and always comes on the 14th day of the Jewish month of Nisan, no matter what day of the week it is. This year, 2008, Passover is Sunday April 20 on our calendar. Resurrection morning is always on the Feast of First Fruits, the first Sunday after Passover, so this year it’s on Sunday April 27.
There are really 2 Passover meals. The first is after sundown and before midnight on the 14th. It’s a quick ceremonial meal that’s no longer even observed by many Jews. The great festival meal, called the Seder, is eaten on the 15th, the first day of the feast of unleavened bread which is a Holy Day.
Remember that on the Jewish calendar evening precedes morning, so Jesus ate the ceremonial Passover meal, was arrested, crucified and buried, all on Passover. The special Sabbath that John referred to and that required that the Lord’s body be taken down before sunset was the first day of the Feast of unleavened bread. (John 19:31) He referred to Passover as the day of Preparation, because that’s the day on which all the work necessary for the Seder meal is done.
Only in some years do things line up as they did in the year Jesus was crucified because Passover can be any day of the week that’s also the 14th day of the month. But Resurrection morning is always the following Sunday. In the year of His death Passover was on the Thursday between Palm Sunday and Resurrection morning.
The anniversary of the first Palm Sunday will be April 13 this year, so you still have time to observe all the events of Holy Week on the anniversary of their occurrence. It’ll just require two weeks to do it. | <urn:uuid:77930f15-3117-4099-808a-d2c409c3a797> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://gracethrufaith.com/ask-a-bible-teacher/holy-week-events/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720941.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00518-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960488 | 456 | 2.6875 | 3 |
Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas
The novel of Louise de la Valliere by Alexandre Dumas Alexandre Dumas novel of Louise de la Valliere evokes a gentle and idyllic time of beauty at the court of the Sun King, Louis XIV. Nobility of spirit, gentility, gallantry and sentimentality seem to jump from the pages of this classic. The style, the exuberance, the humour and wit and descriptions of life at Fontainebleau and during the seventeenth century in France combine to make the story a work of art. So creative and endearing are the frolics of the characters and the amusements, poetic style and form of the novel that it certainly is a masterpiece of creativity. I loved reading this book as it conjures up another world of the gentility and also beauty of life. In this the king was quite adept.
An array of fascinating characters enlighten the story – from the King who falls in love with Louise de la Valliere, the musketeers, d’Artagnon, Aramis, Porthos and the Count of Bragelonne, son of Athos, who is sensitive and noble of spirit who has wished to marry Louise de la Valliere.
Humorous episodes are recounted as when Porthos is taken to a grocer’s country seat by d’Artagnon on their travels to Fontainebleau. Towards the end of the novel is a very descriptive scene of Charles II at Hampton Court where the Count of Bragelonne has been residing. Madame Henriette (Princess Henriette d’Angleterre) with her enduring vivacity and brightness, Montalais, a friend of Louise de la Valliere and the Count of Guiche who falls in love with Madame all play a fascinating role in the story. Also the courtiers who surround the king including Saint Aignan and Malicorne who had a canny way of knowing what would be to the king’s liking, as for example, when he advises people of the king’s party and a painter to arrive late so as to give Louise de la Valliere and the king a few moments together before the painting of a portrait of Louise de la Valliere. Colbert and Fouquet also make appearances in the novel as in a wonderful stage play.
The descriptions given of Fouquet are quite admirable and he seemed to be a popular and amenable character who falls in love with the Marquise de Plessie-Belliere who also assists him in raising money for the king by selling her jewellery. This scene is set earlier in the novel and Fouquet at times is also shown to be quite vulnerable in many respects. This, because of demands which are made of him by Colbert, as for example, raising money for the king and putting on an entertainment for the king and also by being advised by Aramis to send a letter to Louise de la Valliere believing at the time that the king was in love with Madame (Princess Henriette.) Louise de la Valliere was in the entourage of the court of Madame.
The scenes of bathing in the River Seine during the peak of the summer months where Madame is compared to a beautiful goddess from antiquity and the beautiful descriptions of settings at Fontainebleau, including a wonderful old historic oak tree cast a magic spell over the novel. At times I can almost be reminded of “A Mid-Summer Night’s Dream” such is the evocative and enduring beauty of this story. This book is indeed worth reading for people who love reading of the era of the Sun King. It is quite spell binding and riveting. Almost as though every word on the page is a delightful gift from the master craftsman. Alexandre Dumas has written a worthy novel of the early years of the king’s court and I now look forward to reading the sequel “The Man in the Iron Mask.” I will also look at the previous book of the series “The Count of Bragelonne.” | <urn:uuid:b8fca5ac-2d1b-4437-87c1-b6520e487358> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://gcbooks.wordpress.com/2012/09/06/louise-de-la-valliere-by-alexandre-dumas/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00128-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949327 | 840 | 2.390625 | 2 |
David Deutsch is an artist who has used color photographs as source material for his paintings of houses and other architecture in various landscapes. In recent years, he has also made black and white aerial photographs and exhibited them along with his paintings.
A handsome two book slip-cased set called David Deutsch: Photographs/Paintings from Twin Palms published in 2004 features these striking paintings and photographs.
Deutsch employed a helicopter and a high powered search light in order to make photographs of suburban neighborhoods in Los Angeles. Black and white grainy images, shot at night, illuminate the roofs and yards of homes that, by the circular glow of the searchlight, appear in an atmosphere of suspicion. The language of these photographs is one of surveillance and they are filled with the tension of searching for clues at a crime scene.
The contrast of blown-out highlights and hard shadows that fall away at the edges of the searchlight's illumination keep the viewer's eyes jumping back and forth over the plane of the image. It is not unthinkable that your mind is waiting for something to dart into view from a side yard or line of shrubbery as seen in many police videos of criminals evading capture. In essence, the way we read these photographs turns the natural subject on its head - we look for something that isn't there often bypassing the information that is. These photographs are exciting but not really pleasurable to view.
Deutsch's paintings are the opposite in feeling. The color palette of his oil on linen is delicate and easy on the eye. Illuminated by daylight, the tension from the suspicion of the photographs is substituted for harmony of landscape and tone. Somewhat abstract, the fields of color bring beauty and pleasure of seeing in contrast to the grit and menace found in his photos.
David Deutsch: Photographs/Paintings is beautifully produced and includes a two-part essay by Laurence A. Rickles called Haunts of Assimilation.
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The instrument has been used since the time of the ancient Egyptians by bricklayers, masons, and carpenters to make sure that their constructions are perfectly upright.
A plumb-bob or a plummet is a weight, normally has a pointed tip, its supposed to be suspended from a string and used as a vertical reference line, or plumb-line. Finally you have a digital version of a Plumb, if you normally need one.. then this is the perfect tool for you, | <urn:uuid:68341bbc-893e-4d96-8caf-3304e12c9861> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://appshopper.com/utilities/plumb-pro | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00376-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968174 | 117 | 2.609375 | 3 |
We recently sat down with Patricia Callone and Connie Kudlacek, co-authors of The Alzheimer’s Caregiving Puzzle and asked for their thoughts on caregivers and the role they play when supporting persons with Alzheimer’s disease.
Demos Health: What do loved ones need from their caregivers as Alzheimer’s progresses?
Answer: Loved ones with dementia need to receive person-centered care that nourishes their individual “enduring self” throughout the progression of the disease. Giving care to persons with dementia has many dimensions:
- There are the physical acts and deeds done to take care of the mind, body, and spirit of the loved one.
- Then there are the acts of compassion and love that treat the person with dignity and respect for who she/he still is – even though the progression of the disease changes his/her communication, memory, behavior, etc.
- The goal is to have both dimensions – compassion and love for “the enduring self” – working at the same time as the dressing, feeding, bathing, playing games, etc., is going on.
After the diagnosis of a dementia, a discussion about what the person with the disease expects for his/her care needs to be held as soon as possible. Loved ones need to be part of the conversation – expressing their wants and desires. Family caregivers need to offer them dignity and respect for their opinions on physical, spiritual, financial, legal, and daily caregiving options. However, promises about specific caregiving throughout the disease progression should not be made.
Persons with the disease need to be able to trust that their caregivers will be doing the best they can concerning their total care – mind, body, and spirit.
Demos Health: The book outlines three caregiving styles. Can you tell us about these?
Answer: Generally, the first caregivers of persons with Alzheimer’s disease are family members. Family members are not trained to take care of persons with dementia and many family doctors have not had the most up-to-date education about resources for the family. The Alzheimer’s Association has many resources and should be consulted early.
Caregivers go through transitions and stages in caregiving right along with loved ones who go through transitions and stages of the disease progression. Here is an overview of how the authors in this book explain the caregiving stages.
- YOU Stage (Loved one has “power”): In the Early-to-Mild Stage of the disease the person with Alzheimer’s is generally functioning quite well and can make decisions for him/herself. The loved one with the disease has “power” to make decisions as long as his/her safety and/or the safety of others is not compromised. The loved one usually is still driving, shopping for groceries, etc. Because Alzheimer’s disease progresses slowly, it takes 2 to 3 years for significant changes to begin.
- WE Stage (Loved one shares “power”): This is usually the Moderate Stage. The loved one is not able to take care of him/herself without help. Decision-making is hampered and for safety’s sake the primary caregiver begins to carry out the plans stipulated by the loved one at the beginning of the disease progression. Usually the loved one is not driving and making financial decisions. Other physical ailments may come into the picture as the body becomes more frail. Loss of hearing, eyesight, mobility – make caregiving for the dementia aspects of the loved one more complex.
- I Stage (Caregiver has “power” to carry out wishes of loved one): This stage is usually the Severe Stage of the disease. In this stage the loved one becomes dependent on primary and secondary caregivers. Again, the loved one deserves to be treated with dignity and respect. The lack of communication and overall body control is being caused by the progression of Alzheimer’s disease across the brain. Again, the wishes of the loved one should be carried out as best as possible. Family caregivers need to use resources in the community that fit the needs of the loved one and family.
Demos Health: Can you share with us a few of the most effective and constructive caregiving practices?
Answer: Here are some of our main philosophies concerning caregiving for persons with dementia that we have found most effective:
- Caregivers need to be aware of the changing needs, desires, and abilities of their loved ones who have Alzheimer’s disease throughout the disease process: the Early-to-Mild, Moderate, and Severe Stages.
- Dr. Roger A. Brumback, co-author with all three of our books, always taught us to “Nurture What Remains”© – to concentrate on the areas of the brain (skills and abilities) that still remain, even as the disease progresses. Thus, our concentration is on nourishing the functions that remain throughout the disease. All co-authors believe the “enduring self” remains – mind, body, and spirit – and deserves continued nourishment.
- Caregivers can learn to become “detectives” and continue to acknowledge what the loved one can still do and enjoy. One person may continue to love the outdoors, another art or music or eating favorite foods, or playing long-loved games. Finding those skills and abilities and nourishing what remains can be fun and delightful for those with the disease and caregivers.
- Keep caregiving as simple as possible. Try not to hurry when giving care. Enjoy the moment.
- Learn about new research and caregiving tactics that are being developed all the time. Think about how you would like to be treated and do the same for your loved one.
- Enjoy life to its fullest within the boundaries given to you.
No one book is able to give caregivers “the road map” to follow during the caregiving process, but experienced caregivers and healthcare professionals can offer their knowledge and resources to help others. Note: Attention also needs to be paid to the health of primary and secondary caregivers. The role of caregiving has changed over the years. Today, the primary caregiver is the person who makes all the connections with doctors, nurses, social workers, care companions, other family members, and financial and legal professionals.
Demos Health: As more and more resources are needed, more time and emotional energy is expended by caregivers. What are a few health practices a caregiver can start implementing today?
- Keep focused on your goals. Your goals are to give the best care possible to your loved one and to sustain and care for your own health – mind, body, and spirit. Every caregiver needs to learn a balance in order to attain both goals.
- Understand yourself as a caregiver. Your needs will change, as will the needs of your loved one. Learn what you can do and what you cannot do. Seek resources for yourself and your loved one. Find friends and family members that nurture you. Have fun!
- Try to understand your loved one. Nurture what your loved one can still do. Be the best “detective” possible in finding what your loved one can still do and enjoy.
- Keep communication open at all times – with other family members, caregivers, and health professionals.
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The Internal Revenue Service has many rules that lay out how interest on mortgage loans can be deducted. The IRS also lays out the criteria that must be met before interest on a home loan qualifies for such deductions. In addition, not every home may qualify for a full, or even partial, deduction. In most cases, however, you'll probably be able to deduct all of the interest on your home loan.
In the majority of cases, mortgage payments are composed of at least two parts. The first, of course, is the payment on the principal balance. Gradually, the payments you make will whittle that principal down to nothing. But money's never free, and there's normally a cost to borrow it. That's where interest comes in. As you pay the principal down, the less interest is charged to each monthly payment.
The federal government has a longstanding set of policies aimed at encouraging home ownership. One of the principal methods it employs to encourage demand for homes is through the deduction on mortgage interest. In fact, it's probably the most popular deduction among the relative few that the IRS authorizes in almost every case of home ownership. In some cases, the deduction has helped close a home sale, all other things being equal.
Taking the Deduction
The mortgage interest deduction can be taken only on itemized tax returns. Also, the interest paid on first and second mortgages is limited to a total of $1 million of mortgage debt. If you're married and file separately, you can only deduct a total of $500,000. Interest on a home equity loan can also be deducted. That's limited, however, to a maximum loan amount of $100,000 or the amount of equity existing in your home.
Your mortgage interest deduction generally declines slightly with each year you pay on your home loan. That's because you're paying less in interest and more in principal, with each passing year. Eventually, the total amount of your itemized deductions might not exceed the IRS-authorized standard deduction for your filing status. When that occurs, there may be little or no benefit to taking the mortgage interest deduction because the standard deduction would then be worth more to you.
In many cases, home buyers are permitted to deduct a certain amount on loan origination fees and discount points charged. This is always done on a prorated basis, though. Remember, too, that IRS rules for such deductions can be tricky. That's why it's always a good idea to consult a tax attorney or certified preparer or to at least read the IRS rules thoroughly before attempting to take the deduction.
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What is your name, and what is your involvement with e-learning?
|Valerie Fox. I've been teaching online courses for about five years. I teach writing and poetry at Drexel University, and writing and research for Excelsior College.
I was asked a few years ago to teach and help to develop blended freshman writing courses at Drexel. Our students take a lot of credits, and they appreciate being able to take part in e-learning. The transition to teaching fully online (including distance) courses was a natural one.
What is your favorite new trend in distance education?
This may sound vague...but I just notice a willingness to "go with" the technology and the possibilities--at departmental level, but also higher levels. I can't speak to the institutional (or overall educational) reasons behind this; I suspect they vary considerably, depending on discipline, institution, etc.
What is your favorite technology?
I don't really have a favorite. I like including lots of various audio and video sources as suggested if not required offerings. Specifically, I've had some good success asking small groups to create websites. This isn't anything new--it's really just adding a creative or creative writing element to an assignment. The visual learners, as one would expect, do a terrific job with this. It builds their confidence.
What kinds of instructional materials do you use in elearning?
Creating materials is something I enjoy, so the flexibility of being able to combine various sources and media definitely is a plus. I guess (like everybody) for a while I was using youtube a lot, and I make a point to combine the easily accessible sources/links with those requiring the use of library databases. A librarian recently told me about archive.org and I've been using/recommending it a lot.
How do you use textbooks in e-learning?
Having a textbook can help ground the learners that might be new to this, so I think at least one book should usually be required. Teaching English and writing, it isn't hard to work required readings into writings/discussions that can be efficiently read and graded. Blackboard Vista Media Library is an excellent tool also, making it possible to easily add suggested readings, videos etc. to a course. Students can be allowed to add to the Media Libraries and sometimes I give extra credit if students add items of interest.
What are your favorite social networks? How do you view them in e-learning?
I participate in various forums and writing groups. Because I enjoy this, I simply try to recreate what I think are their best features in my course websites. It isn't always possible, but often it is. I hear more and more about students using non-official means to communicate about class work and activity. This helps to replicate the before-and-after-class information sharing that students sometimes miss from a face-to-face class. I acknowledge this but don't interfere with their bonding, with their assisting of each other.
What is your favorite quote? or, what's a book that caught your eye recently?
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|Indian fern||Hemianthus micranthemoides was called as pearlweed in our lfs.|
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|Martino4||I thought so too but I'm a relative newb to planted tanks so just hoping someone more experienced could confirm.....thanks!|
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ID my foreground plant?
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THE SECOND AND THIRD EPISTLES OF JOHN
Two Letters From An Old Man
False teachers are still active in the world today, and we need to know how to respond to them.
The letters are not long. Both are almost identical in length, and each one was just large enough to fill a standard sheet of papyrus. The two letters are personal correspondence, and each was written to address a particular situation that existed at the time it was written. For this reason some may consider that they have little relevance today – but nothing could be further from the truth.
The apostle John, the writer of these two short letters, known as the Second and Third Epistles of John, is generally believed to have been the longest-surviving apostle. Some members of the original group of apostles had been executed for their faith and their commitment to Christ. John had been exiled to Patmos (Rev. 1:9). According to Church tradition he had left that lonely island and was in Ephesus when he wrote these two letters – but of this we cannot be certain. The letters appear to have been written between 85-95 a.d. when John was a very old man.
A Very Full Life
Many years had passed since that day when the Lord Jesus had walked by the Sea of Galilee. John had been mending fishing nets with his father and his brother James when Jesus came along. As a young man, John heard the call and, with James, left his father and followed Jesus (Mt. 4:21-22).
For three years he had lived in the company of the Son of God. He had seen the sick healed and the dead raised to life. He had heard the most remarkable teaching, including the Lord’s own revelation, “I will build My Church” (Mt. 16:18). He had watched for a while in Gethsemane, and had followed the Lord from there to His trial and then to Golgotha where He was crucified. He had met the risen Lord and had witnessed His ascension to heaven.
He had been empowered by the Holy Spirit along with the other apostles, and had gone forth to preach the gospel. The Church of which the Lord Jesus had spoken had been established, and John had watched it grow as souls were saved. But all was not well. False teachers had arisen, and some of God’s people were being led astray. Danger threatened the Church of God. Aware of this, John wrote the two letters now preserved for us in the Bible.
Similar, Yet Different
It is interesting to compare the similarities and differences of the two letters. One letter is addressed to a woman, the other to a man. One clearly warns of false teachers, the other warmly commends those who are true. The message of the second epistle is “close the door,” forbidding the reception of deceivers. By way of contrast, the third epistle’s message is “open your home” as the apostle rejoices at the welcome given to genuine believers.
Common themes emerge as we place the two letters side by side. Believers must walk in the truth and must love one another. We must be found abiding in Christ and in His teaching (2 Jn. 9), and by our good deeds must prove that we are God’s children (3 Jn. 11). Each letter closes with John stating that he has more that he could write about, and expressing the hope that soon he will be able to see the person he is addressing.
John passed on a long, long time ago, but his epistles remain – and so do the dangers they address. False teachers are still active in the world today, and we need to know how to respond to them. Love among the true people of God is needed as much as it ever was.
We can truly thank God that He has seen fit to preserve these two short but instructive letters in His Word to guide us in the path of truth. Let us heed again the timeless messages of that aged and beloved apostle, John.
By Martin Girard
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Clemson University has announced that it has selected Dell to provide its next supercomputing platform. The new machine, named Palmetto, will be housed at Clemson’s Information Technology Center and is made up of 512 Dell 1950 nodes. The nodes are packed with quad-core Intel silicon [presumably populating both sockets on the board] for a grand total of 4096 cores. According to Dell, the current benchmarks sit right around 31 Tflops with the option to grow the cluster above 100 Tflops.
The Palmetto Cluster is a shared computing infrastructure offering enhanced computational research capabilities that will benefit our entire research community,” said Jim Bottum, Clemson’s vice provost and chief information officer. “A system of this class from Dell, combined with quality research faculty, highly-trained support staff and world-class operations, is providing Clemson with a cyberinfrastructure for the future.”
The initial compute workloads on Palmetto will range from cross-layer protocol design of wireless communication networks to simulation of molecular dynamics and developmental studies in children. Not exactly your average compute workload.
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We brought our little visitor to the St. Mark's Visitor Center where the refuge manager would arrange for his release on the Refuge. As our pickup pulled into the parking lot, a crowd assembled and the little 'gator enjoyed his fifteen minutes of fame. Refuge Manager Terry Peacock showed Mr. Gator to a small visitor before the release. That evening, we watched from blind as normalcy returned to the marsh and our little band of cranes lined up to roost comfortably in the pen—just like old times. What a difference a day makes. The lesson here is simple: In the crane world, just as in the human world, actions speak louder than words. All you have to do is listen.
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Last week at a graduate conference an educator asked me whether I thought we should teach children about “homosexuality”. I was feeling generous, so I chose to interpret her question as a request for children’s texts with excellent queer representation that she could use as teaching resources with her primary school class. I had already grabbed my pen and ripped a page out of my notebook to begin compiling my list when she clarified that she was asking whether I thought it was ‘okay’ for children to learn that gay people exist. She was asking me for a moral judgement. I spent a very long time folding up the torn piece of paper.
Rationally, I know that it is best to respond to ignorance and bigotry with patience and warmth, but it’s hard in these situations to resist the impulse to “turn away and slam the door”. I mouth-smiled, and said, “Well, what about gay children? Or children with gay parents? They may already know” – I lowered my voice to a theatrical whisper – “about the existence of gay people.” She went on to speak about how she felt uncomfortable describing graphic sex acts to pre-pubescent children, mentioned that she taught at a faith school whilst fondling her crucifix necklace, and concluded, I believe with genuine concern, that she didn’t want to ‘confuse’ the (straight) children in her class. Wonderful, I thought, religious homophobia, my favourite flavour. I could feel myself physically withdrawing from her, folding myself up like I had folded the piece of paper. “Don’t let them in…don’t let them know,” Elsa sang in my ear. But this woman had asked me a question, and for the sake of the queer students in her class, I decided to give her an answer.
I had recently been to see Frozen 2 with some members of the children’s literature centre, and so the example was fresh in my mind. “I don’t have a particularly complicated or fraught relationship to my sexuality,” I said, “but if I had had a princess like Elsa as a role model when I was a child, who knows how much more quickly I would have come to understand and accept my queerness.” The crucifix was clutched, and yet I did not burst into flames – ice queens are fireproof, duh.
Elsa isn’t explicitly gay in Disney’s canon – like me, she is ‘straight-passing’ – but she has become a queer icon, and her story has been read as a classic Coming Out narrative. In the first film, Elsa’s younger sister, Anna, has to have her memory of Elsa’s powers erased, leaving her ignorant and unable to connect with or support her beloved elder sister. If we understand Elsa’s magical powers as a metaphor for her sexuality, the imperative to hide the truth from her younger sister parallels the logic of withholding the truth about “homosexuality” from school children. Both Anna and Elsa suffer as a result of this secrecy, but the closed door between them isn’t Elsa’s sexuality: it is the taboo surrounding her sexuality.
I don’t know if I changed this teacher’s mind – I doubt it – but it made me want to write about the queerness of Elsa’s anthems. Not as a literary critic, just as myself. Let it Go is about purging internalised homophobia. Yes, this is a declarative statement and I won’t couch it in cautious qualifiers so don’t make me say ‘it could be read as’, you cowards. This song is defiant and empowering, with its urgent, rising crescendo and building volume that climaxes in a roar; but it is also defensive, angry, lonely, and essentially advocates emotionally numbing oneself to protect against the pain of rejection. “Conceal, don’t feel” recalls “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell” policies that operate officially and unofficially in many public spaces, including in schools, such as Section 28 in the UK. Elsa screams into an icy void, “I don’t care what they’re going to say / Let the storm rage on, the cold never bothered me anyway.” She tries to liberate herself from an oppressive social community and disowns the chaos that her non-normative presence occasions within this group, but she only manages self-exile, which is just an alternative type of imprisonment. She has been so lonely for so long, she doesn’t perceive her “kingdom of isolation” as the punishment that it is.
Into the Unknown, in Frozen 2, begins with the allure of a female voice. Elsa hears a “secret siren” calling to her, a mythic creature associated with sexual desire. Elsa is fearful and unwilling to take risks: unlike in Let it Go, in Into the Unknown Elsa has something to lose. The idea that everyone she’s “ever loved is here within these walls” is subtly claustrophobic – it is small, and confining, in addition to being safe and snug. The “fears that once controlled” her in Let it Go have evolved, but they still centre on her anxious inability to put her whole trust in her loved ones (which is kind of understandable considering the fact that her doting parents locked her up for ten years). Elsa has achieved conditional acceptance within the heteronormative space of Arendelle’s palace walls, but the “unknown” that she longs for is an unconditional queer space. The volta in this song happens with the quiet questions, “Or are you someone out there who’s a little bit like me? / Who knows deep down I’m not where I’m meant to be?” Elsa yearns for connections with someone ‘like her’ in a space where she is not the exception to be accommodated. She explains that every day is getting harder as she feels her powers growing, suggesting that as she is approaching adulthood her longing for queer intimacy is intensifying. As with Let it Go, Into the Unknown races up the staircases of pitch and volume in a way that only Idina Menzel could render effortless, and is joyous and infectious. Whereas Let it Go slams doors, Into the Unknown throws open windows, revealing the vast, wild forests and lakes beyond the palace walls. A colleague, Leila M-K, spoke persuasively about the queer significance of the recurring images of doors and cupboards in Frozen at IRSCL. The audience’s desires are aligned with Elsa’s – the audience wants their princess to go on a thrilling adventure, and Elsa wants to leave the stability of the home. The remainder of the song is a series of desperate questions – the kind of questions a young queer school child might have – and having failed to silence her desires, the song ends with Elsa begging the voice not to “leave her alone”. This is something that Anna struggles to understand – how can her sister feel alone when she is surrounded by people who love and respect her? But a part of Elsa is still locked in her room and trapped in the closet – she hasn’t yet made that part of herself available to receive love and care.
The song Show Yourself in Frozen 2 is a beautiful imperative. It transforms Elsa into the persuasive siren urging queer children everywhere to heed her call. In Frozen, Elsa tries to build a kingdom with a population of one, but in Frozen 2 Elsa has a dual-belonging. She acknowledges, “All my life I’ve been so torn” – caught between who she is and who she thinks she should be, and the only way for her to maintain a sense of wholeness has been to remove herself from the location at the centre of these opposing forces. In Let it Go Elsa proclaims that she’s “never going back” to living in a fractured state, but when Elsa is allowed to express herself fully, she finally feels at home: “I’m arriving / And it feels like home”, she sings. In the narrative conclusion, Elsa is shown traveling freely back and forth between her chosen community in the Enchanted Forest and Arendelle on the back of an icy pony with a chandelier mane. The lyrics from Let it Go “Here I stand / And here I stay…Here I stand / In the light of day” are heard again in “Here I am…I am found”, but in the latter song she is truly seen. The ‘light of day’ exposes her in Let it Go, but her social community only sees her through the lens of their own fears and prejudice, whereas now she is invited to ‘show herself’ with confidence, honesty, and pride. It turns out that the female voice she has been chasing has been self-acceptance all along – represented by the affectionate authority-figure of her mother. This song, which uses love lyrics like “Are you the one I’ve been looking for / All of my life?”, is actually about her relationship with herself, and this is reflected in the tender softness of the melody and gentle, intimate volume. As she’s singing, her dress changes into a glittering bridal gown, and she repeats the refrain “Open the door”, coaxing the imprisoned part of her identity to join with her in this moment of loving anagnorisis and reunion.
Elsa’s arc does not end with her getting a girlfriend (HONEYMAREN IS HER GIRLFRIEND … IN MY MIND), but it does end with self-reconciliation after abusive treatment at the hands of her family and community. For real life Elsas, wouldn’t it be better if they didn’t have to go through the initial experience of transforming themselves into a “fortress” with “Cold secrets deep inside” and instead by-passed that trauma and went directly to stepping into their power? And don’t teachers have an obligation to create an environment in which it is possible for children to ‘grow themselves’, irrespective of their teacher’s personal beliefs? In silencing and erasing queerness in her classroom, that teacher is committing the same mistake as Elsa’s parents.
Emma Reay is a 3rd year PhD student researching representations of children in contemporary video games. She doesn’t believe that austerity tactics work either at a governmental level or a faculty level, and thinks that making graduate students undertake unpaid administrative work for the centre is exploitative, especially when this kind of labour usually falls to the most vulnerable students whose time would be better spent in other ways. She isn’t going to shut up about this until the centre stands up for its members. | <urn:uuid:5990ab40-31ea-49d5-a7ad-82886043253e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cambridgechildrenslit.co.uk/2020/01/02/elsa-is-queer-a-close-reading-of-song-lyrics-in-frozen-and-frozen-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.969274 | 2,320 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Answer: In its native habit, Norfolk Island Pine (Araucaria heterophylla) can reach 180-200 feet tall. Under cultivation, they rarely grow more than 6' high and 4' wide. Even at that, they may be planted too close to your house. These trees are rather slow growing so it will take a while for them to grow too close to the house; you can move them now while they're young, or you can plan on pruning them as they get older.
When hibiscus leaves turn yellow it generally indicates a nutritional deficiency (try fertilizing). It can also be a natural shedding of older leaves if the yellowing leaves are located in the center of the plant near the trunk. This is especially true if the plant continues to put out healthy new growth. Yellowing leaves might also indicate over or under watering. I'd fertilize the plant and make sure it's getting adequate water. Best wishes with your garden!
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BY HELEN RIDDELL
PUPILS in Eyeries National School have been getting into the festive spirit by creating Santa decorations made from logs.
Principal Michéal Lane outlined how the fifth and sixth class pupils came up with the idea themselves, and all money raised from the sale of the logs will be donated to St Joseph’s Hospital in Castletownbere.
Principal Lane said it has been a very different Christmas for the school this year: ‘Usually we would be preparing our Christmas concert and visiting the hospital in Castletownbere to sing carols for the patients, but unfortunately, that’s not possible this year. The pupils decided they would still like to do something to help the hospital and decided to make the wooden Santas.’
The entire school came together to help make the Santas, which are now being sold in shops throughout the Beara peninsula. Principal Lane said it was also a useful learning skill for the fifth and sixth class pupils. ‘They have learnt how to budget and keep track of their stock and to work in teams.’
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Members of U.S. Navy SEAL Team 6 freed two kidnapped aid workers, including one American, early Wednesday -- whisking them away from their captors in Somalia. Jeffrey Brown discusses the kidnappers' motives and how the operation unfolded with NPR's Tom Bowman and the Atlantic Council's Peter Pham.
And we get more on the operation and the situation in Somalia from Tom Bowman, NPR's Pentagon correspondent, and Peter Pham, director of the Atlantic Council's Africa Center. He just returned from a trip to Mogadishu last month.
Welcome to both of you.
Tom Bowman, first, back up first in this story. What's known about the original kidnapping?
TOM BOWMAN, NPR Pentagon correspondent: Well, this all happened last October. Two people were kidnapped. They were both working for a Danish de-mining organization.
One of them is an American, Jessica Buchanan, 32 years old, from Virginia. And her colleague was a 60-year-old Danish citizen. And we're told President Obama kept a close eye on this since last fall. And over the last week, we're told, this whole thing ramped up. There were indications that Jessica Buchanan had a serious health problem. She has a medical condition. We're not sure if she was out of her medications or whatever.
But they knew they had to move quickly. It was serious enough. They also got actionable intelligence about the precise location of where they were being held. They decided to go in.
Now, Peter Pham, we refer to pirates, criminal organizations. What's known about this one or about the designation generally?
J. PETER PHAM, Atlantic Council:
Well, those categories are somewhat — not transparent, but they're somewhat flexible in Somalia.
We're dealing with criminal organizations that will take whatever they can as a target of opportunity. If maritime targets are available, they're pirates. If human victims are available — but it's the same business model. It's kidnapping for random, whether at sea or on land, preferably Westerners whose governments or families are capable of generating hundreds of thousands, if not millions of dollars in ransom.
And what was the Pentagon saying about this particular group?
Well, the group, they're calling them common criminals. There's no sense they were linked to Al-Shabab, the terrorist group in Somalia.
And, again, there's no indication also — I know the FBI has been working on this case — no indication at this point of whether there was any ransom request for either of these hostages.
All right, so the raid itself, how was it carried out, from what kind of bases, what kind of personnel?
We're told two dozen SEALs from — actually from SEAL Team 6, one of the most elite commando units, left Djibouti on a C-130 aircraft, parachuted into this encampment in northern Somalia, and there was — shots were fired.
They killed nine of these criminals, alleged criminals, whatever you want to call them. And they grabbed the hostages, no casualties among the SEALs, and the hostages were in pretty good shape. And they left by helicopter, went back to Djibouti.
And they grabbed some of the kidnappers?
Well, we're told that's not the case now.
Oh, is it? I've seen it moving around here. So right now it looks like none?
Right. We were told by the FBI that there were several who were apprehended. But the Pentagon is denying that, saying no one was apprehended in this case.
You were just there, Peter Pham. What is the situation with the government? They're unable, unwilling to deal with these kinds of criminals or pirates?
J. PETER PHAM:
Well, the idea of the Somali government, the so-called federal transitional government of Somalia, which is internationally backed, is a legal fiction that makes it convenient for us to pretend that there's some governing authority there.
In actuality, it functions not like a government. It's notoriously corrupt. And it doesn't do anything. It barely has a foothold in Mogadishu, and there only by the grace of a 12,000-strong African Union mission whose sole purpose is to protect the government from its own people.
This is why these criminals, whether they be criminals on land or pirates, carry out their enterprises, because there is no effective governance in these parts.
And after a number, a series of piracy on the sea, there was more of a concerted effort by the international community. Is that having an impact?
That's certainly having impact.
Piracy continues on the seas, but certainly the pirates are being — having their style cramped by the patrols along the coast. So they turn to other targets of opportunity. And unfortunately people like Jessica who were working to help the Somali people in de-mining present themselves as targets of opportunity.
So, in a case like this — you referred to the team. This is the elite team and, as the president said, the same team that went and got Osama bin Laden.
Well, the same organization, not necessarily the same. . .
Same organization. But that's what I want to ask you.
And personnel from different military and intelligence? You refer to the FBI's involvement in some. . .
Well, we're told the FBI was involved, but this operation was done by SEAL Team Six, again, the same organization that took out Osama bin Laden.
And a lot of times, in cases like this, what they will do is, if they have enough time, they will build a mockup of the operation, the buildings, the encampment they're going into, so they know exactly where the doors and the windows are, where the tents are, so when they go in, they already know exactly where they're going to be going.
We don't know if it happened in this case. But, oftentimes, that's how they do it. A lot of training, a lot of preparation goes into this kind of operation.
You said in this case, one of the determining factors was her health. So was it — but was it all — how much do we know about the preparation and the reason for the final go-ahead from the president?
We don't know a lot about the preparation at this point.
People I've talked with at the Pentagon and elsewhere say we don't even have any pictures yet of what this place looked like. They're calling it an encampment, so that would lead you to believe that maybe some tents there, but probably not any buildings. But — so we don't know how much preparation time they did have before they went in.
What we're told is that, in the past week or so, the situation became dire because of her medical condition. They knew they had to go in and get her.
And do we know if they had any help on the ground or what the situation is on the ground, where our guys coming in have any assets on the ground?
We're not sure about that. But in cases like this in the past, with Abbottabad raid against Osama bin Laden, they would have spotters on the ground watching the compound.
We're not sure if that happened in this case.
Are there other — there are people still being held, right?
Yes, we have over 150 seamen who are being held by pirates along the coast for ransom. We also have a number of kidnapping victims.
There is another American out there, Michael Scott Moore, a journalist, freelancer, who was kidnapped just a week ago from the very same area in north central Somalia where Jessica and the Danish citizen were taken from several months ago.
And are these actively — I mean, do we know the situation? Is there ransom being asked for? Is a search on for them?
I presume that certainly the governments involved are keeping close tabs on this and trying to ascertain that they're safe.
And certainly in light of the successful liberation of these two captives, we also have to be concerned that those holding these others might react against them or perhaps even possibly sell them. What often happens in Somalia is one group will take captives, but they will sell the captives on to a group better able to extract ransom, better connected or better able to hold on to the prisoners.
Peter Pham and Tom Bowman, thank you both very much.
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Last week, I led a group of Republican senators that wrote to Secretary of State Hillary Clinton urging her to immediately relist North Korea as a State Sponsor of Terrorism and we also introduced an amendment to force the Obama Administration into action.
Yesterday on ABC’s This Week, I was pleased to hear Secretary Clinton’s response that they are now considering relisting North Korea. This is a very important step that I hope President Obama will agree to.
However, just days before Secretary Clinton’s statement, her spokesman bluntly claimed the State Department doesn’t believe there are any recent acts by North Korea that can be defined as supporting terrorism:
REPORTER: A group of Republican senators has written a letter to the Secretary urging her to relist North Korea on the terror list. They specify certain unnamed ongoing terrorist activities. Do you share that assessment, and where do you want to go with that?
STATE DEPT. SPOKESMAN PHILIP CROWLEY: …As for North Korea, I think we’re aware of that letter. But as far as I know, firing off missiles and over-heated rhetoric is unwise and unhelpful, but does not meet the legal definition of terrorism.
REPORTER: They seem to say – but they don’t refer to those tests as a terrorist activity – to say that other ones are ongoing, that those are — Is there anything else that you’re aware of?
MR. CROWLEY: To list a country on the terrorism list, there’s a legal requirement there. And what we’ve seen so far, I don’t think meets that legal test.
Based on this statement, I eagerly await the State Department to certify:
- That it was not terrorism if North Korea did cross into China to kidnap American journalists, who will be sent to a North Korean labor camp.
- That reports from our ally Japan are wrong about North Korea currently helping to launder money for terrorist organizations.
- That the rockets Hamas continues to launch into Israel do not come from North Korea or contain North Korean parts.
- That North Korea has not aided Hezbollah with their attacks on Israel (CRS report pg. 17)
- That North Korea is no longer aiding Syria’s nuclear weapons development, a country still listed as a State Sponsor of Terrorism.
- That North Korea is no longer supporting Iranian Revolutionary Guards (CRS report pg. 21)
- That President Obama’s defense officials and United Nations officials quoted in the Wall Street Journal are incorrect in their warnings that renewed “fears about Pyongyang’s ability and need to smuggle weapons of mass destruction around the world… Iran and Pakistan have already used North Korean materials to develop domestic ballistic missiles. Syria, Yemen, Libya and Egypt have also purchased North Korean missile components in recent years.”
- like Libya, North Korea has renounced terrorism and is a party to all 12 of the international conventions and protocols relating to terrorism.
- That no representatives of the Iranian government have been present at North Korean nuclear and missile tests as they were believed to be in 2006.
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Can social media be censored?
President Trump became once again a subject of controversy as today he is to sign an executive order about social media. The document presumably will cut the legal protection that Twitter, Google, and Facebook have for being held liable for what people post online. If signed, the companies could be held responsible for censoring freedom of speech.
It all started just a few days ago when, for the first time, one of Donald Trump's tweets got a Fact Check link, when he wrote about mail-in ballots proposed for this year's elections. The President publicly accused Twitter of interfering in the 2020 election, in ironically, a tweet "Big Tech is doing everything in their very considerable power to CENSOR in advance of the 2020 Election. If that happens, we no longer have our freedom. I will never let it happen! They tried hard in 2016 and lost. Now they are going absolutely CRAZY. Stay Tuned!"
According to him, the Republicans feel that they are not heard, as social media platforms try to shut them down. But this is not the first time when Republicans march on this idea, even though experts proved that the Silicon Valley companies don't "deliberately limit the reach of conservatives.”
But the Fact Check link shouldn't come as a surprise for users, as Twitter's CEO said last year that the company would ban any political ads. On top of that, the company applies a label to tweets “containing synthetic and manipulated media." Since March, it has warnings when it comes to news related to Covid-19.
On the other front is Facebook, whose CEO believes that social networks shouldn’t fact-check politicians, and the world should see what they say about different matters. Zuckerberg’s statement clashes with the fact that his company uses fact-checkers that review what people post on his platform. Yet again, he allows politicians to put ads on the platform, although some might have inaccurate information. Despite that, no one can post something that can cause violence or harm to themselves or other people. Overall, Mark Zuckerberg is not in favor of such a law.
Over time, many tech companies came into public attention for anti-competitive practices and violation of privacy. Federal authorities, alongside the state ones and the US congressional panel, brought antitrust evidence against Apple, Amazon, Facebook, and Google.
In after-hours trading, Twitter stocks fell 2.6%, while Facebook and Snapchat lost less than 1%.
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Traditional Breeding (Gary Comstock, Bioethicist)
Gary Comstock is a bioethics professor at Iowa State who wrestles with ethical issues surrounding genetically engineered organisms.
Transcript: Traditional Breeding
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Dominion Textile Inc. Business Information, Profile, and History
Montreal, Quebec, H3H 1E7
History of Dominion Textile Inc.
Dominion Textile Inc. is one of Canada's largest textile companies and the world's largest manufacturers of denim. Dominion grew slowly throughout the twentieth century, first strengthening its role as a Canadian manufacturer before acquiring a number of companies in the United States, mostly in the 1970s and 1980s. By 1994 Dominion posted sales of C$1.33 billion and held strong market positions in denim, yarn, technical fabrics, apparel fabrics, and nonwovens.
The roots of Dominion Textile reach back to 1890 with the formation of the Dominion Cotton Mills Company. Eight small, struggling textile firms had banded together to pool their resources; each had suffered from the high costs and inefficiencies associated with producing a small number of many items. Dominion, like many other Canadian textile firms, grew to depend on the profitable trade to the Far East, which had become possible with the completion of the Canadian Pacific Railway in 1885. However, the Boxer Rebellion in China in 1900 disrupted trade to that lucrative market. In 1905, in a further effort to stave off financial ruin, a handful of companies again banded together. They were the Dominion Cotton Mills, Ltd. (which by that time had plants in Halifax and Windsor, Nova Scotia; Moncton, New Brunswick; Montreal, Magog, and Caoticook, Quebec; and Kingston and Branford, Ontario), the Montmorency Cotton Mills Company, the Montreal-based Merchants Cotton Company, and the Colonial Bleaching and Printing Company, also of Montreal, for a total of eleven plants. The new entity was called the Dominion Textile Company Limited.
Montreal financier David Yuile was the company's first president, but it was Charles B. Gordon, who became president in 1909, who dominated the early history of the company. One of the first battles the company weathered was brought on by security holders of the former Dominion Cotton Mills Company and Merchants Cotton Company who had refused to sell their stock in 1905. The case was heard by the Canadian high court, the Privy Council, which ruled in favor of Dominion.
With the advent of World War I, Gordon was put in charge of war-purchase missions in the United States by the British and Canadian governments; he was later knighted for his duties. Dominion's plants ran continuously to supply goods for the war. The plants' overuse during the war meant that in the years immediately following much of the company's resources were put into repairing and refurbishing its manufacturing facilities, which included the facility that it acquired in 1919 when it bought the Mount Royal Spinning Company of Montreal.
A stock offering in 1922 brought Dominion C$2,500,000 in new capital. A new entity, the Dominion Textile Co. Limited, sometimes called Domtex, took over the assets of the Dominion Textile Company. A series of technological upgrades (after the introduction of long-draft spinning and multiple loom sets) and acquisitions swiftly followed. In 1928 Dominion bought two American companies that made tire fabric: the Jenckes-Canadian Company became a subsidiary known as Drummondville Cotton Company Limited, and the Canadian Connecticut Cotton Mills became Sherbrooke Cotton Company Limited. (In 1934 Sherbrooke was converted into a sheeting-fabric manufacturing plant, and tire manufacture was concentrated in Drummondville.) In 1930 Dominion took over the management of Montreal Cotton Limited, a company in which it had an interest since 1908. In 1948 Dominion bought the last of Montreal Cotton's shares, and by 1953 it was completely folded back into Dominion.
As with many other industries, the onset of World War II put a spur to textile production, which had suffered during the Depression. A plant that had lain dormant from 1934 was reactivated in 1940, and Dominion made a range of products for military purposes, from camouflage nets to bootlaces. With an eye on the postwar economy, Dominion entered a joint venture in 1945 to make rayon with the Burlington Mills Corporation of North Carolina, called Dominion Burlington Mills Limited. In March 1952 Dominion bought Burlington's 50 percent share and the company's name was changed to Domil Limited (those plants became fully integrated with the company in 1966).
During the 1960s, Dominion built four new plants in Quebec and Ontario, where a popular new fabric, the polyester/cotton blend, was spun, woven, and finished. One print ad created during this time featured "the unwrinkable Molly Brown," a little girl whose clothing, made of Dominion's Truprest fabric, stayed smooth and wrinkle-free. Also during this time, Dominion acquired Penmans in Ontario, a company engaged in the manufacture of knitted leisurewear. This represented Dominion's first move outside the primary textile industry.
In November of 1969 the company's name was changed to Dominion Textile Limited. A string of acquisitions and divestitures followed, as the North American textile industry tried to come to terms with the flood of cheap imports from the Far East. In 1969 Dominion bought Fiberworld Limited and Jaro Manufacturing Co. Ltd. In 1972 it formed a joint venture--DHJ Canadian, Ltd.--with New York-based DHJ Industries, Inc. Three years later, Dominion bought DHJ Industries Inc., which consisted of eight plants in the United States as well as affiliates and distributors throughout the world. That purchase strengthened Dominion's hand in the international marketplace as the textile industry continued to rapidly shift out of North America.
The DHJ takeover was an unfriendly one. The financially troubled company (with $64 million in debt, $20 million from the first nine months of 1975 alone) was dominated by chairman and founder Herbert Haskell. Much of his family's holdings in the company were held as collateral for personal loans made by Chemical Bank of New York. When Haskell refused to sell to Dominion, Dominion went to his banker and negotiated a deal without him, purchasing DHJ for $9.2 million. Haskell sued and vowed to go into direct competition with Dominion, but he eventually settled. Dominion got a lot out of the deal, for DHJ owned one of the largest denim manufacturing facilities in the United States through its Swift Textiles, Inc. subsidiary and had sales of $191 million for the fiscal year ending June 1974.
In 1979 Dominion, which had been renamed Dominion Textile Inc., continued to try to move away from "commodity" fabrics, which were dominated by imports. In October of 1979, DHJ and Facemate Corporation of Chicopee, Massachusetts, formed a joint venture--DHJ-Facemate Corporation--and merged their interlining operations. In 1980 Dominion bought Linn-Corriher Corporation of Landis, North Carolina, which made cotton and synthetic yarns, for $25 million. In 1981 it acquired Mirafi, Inc., the civil-engineering fabrics division of the Hoescht Celanese Corp. of Somerville, New Jersey. Mirafi made plastic-based materials used in roadbeds and drainage systems. In 1988, Dominion acquired Wayn-Tex, a manufacturer of carpet backing, based in Virginia. Also that year, the company acquired the London-based Klopman International, Europe's largest producer and distributor of workwear fabrics.
Recession exacerbated the difficulties brought by the inexorable growth of cheap imports, and from 1982 to 1985 Dominion lost money. Dominion responded by paring down operations. In 1981 it sold its 50 percent interest in DHJ-Facemate. Between 1983 and 1986 Dominion closed 13 of its 26 plants. Most of these facilities were in Quebec, where the company had repeatedly locked horns with the aggressive union Centrale des Syndicats Democratiques. As opposed to the United States, where most textile workers were not unionized, most of the workers in Canada at that time were, and wages ran approximately 7 to 10 percent higher than in the United States. Canadian textile executives also complained of the difficulty in competing against U.S. makers when U.S. plants were flexible enough to run seven days a week if necessary; strict union rules prohibited such flexibility, they said.
In 1986 Dominion again tried to make an incursion across the border when it tried to purchase Avondale Mills, a denim and yarn maker in Sylacauga, Alabama. Dominion lost out to AM Acquisition, which had countered its $26-dollar-a-share bid with an offer of $28. Dominion was not daunted by the effort and simply went after a bigger prize. That prize was none other than its former joint-venture partner Burlington Mills of Greensboro, North Carolina, which by 1987 was the largest textile company in the United States, with fiscal year 1986 sales of $2.8 billion. Dominion's sales in fiscal 1986 were $671 million.
Burlington was vulnerable, having become dependent on selling commodity fabrics in a market that was dominated by overseas makers. Dominion teamed up with renowned New York raider Asher Edelman to try and win Burlington. Edelman first quietly gained control of 7.6 percent of Burlington stock. Edelman and Dominion then bid $1.51 billion for the company on April 24. Some suspected that Dominion was interested in only a handful of Burlington's plants and planned, if it won control of the venerable manufacturer, to sell off the rest. Burlington's denim plants contributed 25 percent of its revenues and were considered Dominion's real goal. Dominion was also eager to put down roots in the United States in an effort to get around the expected results of lower tariffs in negotiations that were then taking place between the United States and Canada. Dominion was fearful of being undercut by larger-volume, lower-cost facilities in the United States, where Dominion earned more than a quarter of its sales.
The struggle for control of Burlington raged for over seven weeks, with a series of offers and counteroffers made until Dominion made a final offer of $2.1 billion. Lawsuits were filed on both sides. In the end Dominion lost the battle--Burlington took itself private in a leveraged buyout--but won the war. Edelman and Dominion agreed to drop their hostile takeover attempt in exchange for $25 million and certain Burlington properties. Edelman and Dominion sold their 12 percent stake for a post-tax gain of $15.2 million. Further, Dominion snapped up several of Burlington's most desirable facilities: a denim plant in Erwin, North Carolina, which it bought for $205 million (the purchase contract included an agreement to drop all litigation from the takeover attempt); Klopman International, the largest producer in Europe of polyester- and cotton-blended fabrics for workwear, purchased for $90 million; as well as included Klopman International SpA (Italy), Burlington Industries Limited (Ireland), Burlington Deutschland GmbH, and Burlington AC. These moves seemed to say that Dominion would place the bulk of its future investments outside of Canada. After the purchase of Burlington's denim factories, Dominion became one of the world's largest denim manufacturers.
The acquisitions of the 1980s left the company in debt, and the recession that hit the apparel industry in 1989 meant that Dominion lost money in 1990 and 1991. Dominion restructured to bring focus to the company's sprawling assemblage of plants and subsidiaries, which made everything from electrical insulation to book bindings, bedding to upholstery. Plants were closed and divisions sold. Mirafi was sold off during this time, and Dominion merged its Caldwell towel division with the operations of New York-based C.S. Brooks Corporation. In 1992 it sold off its Wayn-Tex and Dominion Fabrics Co. divisions. Poly-Bond Inc., a wholly owned subsidiary, became the focus of its nonwovens efforts in North America, and heavy investments were made at its Waynesboro, Virginia, facilities.
Thus Dominion's emphasis was on denims, nonwoven fabrics, and commodity yarns. In 1990, Dominion had acquired Quebec-based Textiles Dionne, which specialized in cotton and synthetic yarns. The company acquired Nordlys S.A., a nonwovens manufacturer in Bailleul, France, and in 1991 completed construction on a modern new facility to house all of the operations. In 1992, another nonwovens plant was built in Malaysia. In further efforts to strengthen its core businesses, Dominion agreed in 1995 to sell DHJ Industries to Chargeurs Textiles of France. The company also restructured Dominion Specialty Yarns in Canada to focus on its most profitable product lines, and the Poly-Bond subsidiary entered into a joint venture with Corovin GmbH to produce new high-technology nonwovens.
The popularity of denim in the early 1990s (denim demand grew by 30 percent from 1990 through 1993) and a 20 percent drop in cotton prices helped Dominion's financial position. In 1994 sales were C$1.33 billion, with a net income of C$33.5 million, a turnaround from two years before when it had lost C$74.8 million. In 1994, the bulk of its business was derived from denim, which accounted for 39 percent of sales (C$518.3 million), yarns, which made up 21 percent (C$281.4 million), and technical fabrics, 17 percent (C$228.4 million). Apparel brought in 13 percent of sales (C$178.1 million).
Principal Subsidiaries: Swift Textiles, Inc.; Swift Textiles Canada; Swift Textiles (Far East) Ltd.; Dominion Yarn Corporation; Dominion Yarn Company; Dominion Specialty Yarns; Dominion Textile (USA) Inc.; Dominion Cotton Services; Intech-PEM Inc.; Vivatex; Dominion Textile International B.V.; Dominion Textile International (Asia) Pte. Ltd.; Nordly's S.A.; Klopman International S.r.l.; Klopman International Ltd.; Poly-Bond Inc.; Dominion Industrial Fabrics Company.
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The selections are easily made, on the basis of what the world it's landed in requires. Japanese babies can tell apart the "l" and "r" sounds which Japanese adults struggle with, and English babies can distinguish all consonantal contrasts in Hindi. Waiting circuits that aren't reinforced by being heard weaken, detach, are harvested by prowling housekeeping cells, and then get dumped in the bloodstream for removal.
Brain cells which survive the Great Cull get nourished, and wrapped in fatty tubes to speed their electoral communications with each other. Since cholesterol is an excellent insulator, easily made by the body, it becomes one of the main components of the brain. By age seven, the cull is over, and although the remaining circuits can hook up in fresh configurations, it's hard to learn totally new skills - such as a language at native fluency - as well after this age as before. The apparatus of extra circuitry is metabolically just too expensive to keep on lugging around.
From the late teens on the brain has slowed so much that it's taking only 20 per cent of the body's oxygen supplies - half a four-year-old's level. There aren't going to be any new brain cells produced from here on, so the ones inside are well guarded. Blood entering the cranium gets filtered with a thoroughness matched only within the testicles - another container whose internal protection is recommended for species survival.
It's tempting to think that the insides of this fortress brain are divided into distinct areas, with separate parts for reason, emotions and vision, and a controlling sector on top of it all. But everything's much more dispersed. Vision, for example, isn't just a matter of carrying miniature copies of what the eye registers deeper into the brain. Even while still at the retina, the signal gets a first processing to boost the intensity of angles and edges. Then, once it's cabled to the main visual analysis centre at the back of the head, the truly surreal separations begin. Signals dealing with movement are ripped away and shuttled to one area; signals dealing with overall shape, colour and depth are pushed on to others. Similar deconstructions take place with our memory, word recognition, and other functions of the brain.
This is why strokes can be such an odd catastrophe. Destructions in the visual movement centre will make a street full of speeding cars seem desolately empty, with only the occasional parked cars being noticed. One woman with a lesion in this area could see tea when it was in an open pot, but when someone started pouring, it suddenly seemed to disappear for her. Only once it was settled in her cup, static enough for functioning brain groupings to take over, would it pop back into existence.
Increase the magnification down to the individual cells that carry our dispersed self around, and an even stranger landscape appears. Any vision of a controlling centre has vanished. Gnarled, long brain cells stretch forward in the darkness, laboriously pumping their electrical signals along. Since the cell endings don't quite touch, bubbling molecules are constantly being shuttled across the gaps to start up the circuit on the next side. These are the famous neurotransmitters, often of a simple, three-dimensional shape, which caffeine, crack, Prozac, nicotine and other chemicals can notoriously speed, duplicate, or slow.
The whole frantically-firing structure lasts a surprisingly long time, as most creatures our size have lifespans much shorter than ours. But even in a young adult it's quietly falling apart, with the brain's weight shrinking slightly from about age 25. By age 40, an estimated 5 per cent of the brain cells in the networks installing memories die each decade. Later other cells will shrink, or get hemmed in by decaying substance.
It sounds enough to justify Yeats's lament about being yoked to a dying animal, but it's not as one-way a decline as once thought. New connections form in the memory- installation centres, apparently by surviving cells trying to make do for the ones being lost. The cloud-like dispersal of our personality helps here. Although it may take longer to find a memory, its fragments will be so widely scattered that at least large parts of it are likely to still be around, somewhere, to be reached.
There's even comforting evidence that the mere effort of learning something new can accelerate the rate at which the surviving brain cells make fresh connections. A DIY course, anyone?
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My friend Oscar Wood has grown wild ginseng for ten years on a steep, wooded hillside near the top of Balsam Mountain in western North Carolina. This past season Oscar sold his organic ‘sang for $60 a pound, while most everyone else (including me) was pleased to get $50. He estimates that his good beds produce about 30 pounds (or $1,800 worth) per 1,000 square feet.
I work hard all through the growing season to nurture my plants and to protect them from potential problems. But Oscar just sits back (well, he does pluck some weeds from his beds once in a while) and lets his ‘sang grow naturally. He tolerates some crop damage from disease and therefore may harvest a few pounds less per acre; but on the other hand, he avoids the considerable expense of chemical fertilizers, fungicides, and insecticides — and he gets a premium price for his organically grown roots.
I asked Oscar to explain how he does it. Once he’d settled himself deep in his favorite recliner, he freely shared his knowledge and experience.
“After I got crippled up and couldn’t work reg’lar, I had to find somethin’ to do,” explained Mr. Wood. “I was lyin’ in bed one morning, and like a vision, I pictured the whole hilltop back of the house covered up with ginseng! I got up, and my wife asked me what I was goin’ to do. I said I was fixin’ to go ‘sang diggin’, replant it, and start growin’ it on our mountain.
“I ate my breakfast and took off. Hunted till noon and hadn’t found one bunch. I was restin’ on top of a ridge when I spied a black snake coiled by the side of a stump. I reached down with my hoe to move the critter, and right there stood a four-pronged bunch of ginseng. I looked again, and there stood another big bunch.
“I dug 118 roots off that ridge in two hours. I ’bout give out, so I gathered the ‘sang up and brought it home, rested awhile, and then planted it. I spent two more days diggin’ at the ridge, and then hunted for plants all over that area that fall, which was in 1974.
“In six weeks I dug enough bunches to set out a bed 113 foot long by 4 foot wide, with the roots spaced six inches apart each way. It come to about 2,100 plants altogether.
“Then I began pickin’ the berries from those plants every year and sowin’ the seeds. I got half a pound off ’em the first year, a pound the next year, and two and a half pounds the third. [Author’s note: There are about 8,000 seeds in a pound.] The first several years, when we’d get a little ahead, I’d buy a few thousand seeds, too. This past year I sowed 20 pounds of my own seed.”
Bed Preparation and Planting
“Before I plant,” continued the ‘sang grower, “I cut out the undergrowth, remove the stumps, and drag off the brush. That first year, when I transplanted, I used a mattock to break up the ground and get the roots out. Let me tell you, that’s hard work, brother! Now I use a tiller.
“I dig the dead leaves right into the ground, and that’s the only fertilizer I use. We plant before the season’s leaves drop — which commences about mid-October here — so that the new falling leaves are my mulch.
“I set up the beds six foot wide and maybe 200 foot long down the face of the slope, so they’ll drain well, and leave two-foot-wide walkways between the beds. I lay each bed out with string stretched between four corner stakes. If a large tree’s in the bed, I just let it be …I can plant roots right next to it, and they grow just fine like that.
“My wife does all the planting now, during the last two weeks in September. She takes a long-handled grubbin’ hoe and digs a trench across the width of the bed and drops the seeds in by hand four to six inches apart, dependin’ on how they bounce. Lots of times she’ll drop two or three seeds instead of one. They’ll grow, so we don’t worry about it. She covers ’em with about an inch of dirt, then she digs another row eight inches below the first, and so on.
“About twelve pounds of seed’ll plant one-third of an acre. I figure between 75% and 90% of our seed germinates.”
Care During the Growing Season
To hear Oscar tell it, the crop pretty much raises itself after it’s planted. “All I do during the growin’ season is try to keep the weeds down and the rodents out. I’ve never had any trouble with insects, and I don’t use chemical sprays or anythin’ else for disease. I’ve never had to water, either.
“I weed by hand once a year, any time before the weeds flower and go to seed — which is usually mid-August or September. To keep the rodents out, I have to trap the moles. The moles won’t eat the ginseng. They just like the grubs and worms, which I’ve got plenty of. But once they get a run started through a bed, it’s like a highway down there. The rats, mice, and voles use the mole run to get to the roots, and it’s hard to get the critters out. So as soon as I see mole sign in the spring, I set my traps to catch ’em. I once caught 45 moles out of one run!
“Anyway, I lose some roots to rodents each year, but not many. And I usually have problems with disease infectin’ the tops of the plants. It generally starts in August or September and keeps spreadin’ right on up till frost, when the tops die off. It doesn’t kill the older plants, it just makes the tops die, which stops growth and seed production. But the next spring a new top comes up. [Author’s note: The disease Oscar refers to is probably downy mildew, Peronospora parasitica. You probably should remove all affected tops from your beds, although Oscar doesn’t.]
“I don’t do anything with my beds during the winter. There’s nothing that needs doing.”
Harvesting and Storing the Seeds
Oscar’s method for propagating his plants couldn’t be simpler. “Sometimes the ginseng berries start turnin’ red in late July, but usually not till August or September. As soon as they ripen my wife starts pickin’ ’em, about once a week all fall. I figure we get four to twelve seeds off a three-year-old plant and up to about 50 seeds off a healthy old one.
“She puts the berries in a sack made out of cloth window screen and keeps it in a cool spot under a tree. When it’s full, I close up the sack to keep the rats out and bury it in a deep, dark, shady place so the seeds won’t dry out. I cover the screen bag with about four inches of dirt. The side of a bank is the best storage site, ’cause heavy rain will drain right off. [Author’s note: Most growers depulp their berries and then mix the seeds with sand before burying them.]
“The seeds won’t germinate and sprout till the second spring after you pick the berries, so I just leave ’em in the ground. I never fool with ’em till I’m ready to plant the next fall.
“I always test my seeds in a tub of water just before I plant ’em. The berry pulp’s long gone by then, and I can tell if they’re good seed. Only the ones that sink to the bottom of the tub are worth anythin’. The floaters I scoop off and throw out in the woods. The sinkers I lay in the shade to drain before I sow ’em.”
Digging and Drying Ginseng Roots
Oscar cautions novice growers to exercise patience before harvesting their crops. “To get anythin’ for ’em, you have to wait at least four years before you dig your roots. Five years is probably best. Growin’ much longer is wastin’ time, I think, unless you need to keep harvestin’ seed off ’em.
“I dig the roots in the fall, after the berries are picked. It’s simple to do. I find the dead top, then I just stick a spade fork under it, loosen the ground up, grab hold of the old stem, and pull it right out of there. That way, you don’t cut up the root. Buyers look for nicks and such, and knock down the price if they see ’em.
“I bring the roots to the house and drop ’em in a big ol’ tub. When it’s just about full of ginseng, I fill it the rest of the way with water and wash each root by hand. I just pick out a handful at a time and get the dirt off with my fingers. Then I rinse ’em in a small bucket of clean water. I make sure there’re no leaves or other trash clingin’ on the roots, but I’m gentle — I don’t scrub or scrape too hard, ’cause I don’t want to damage the skin. [Author’s note: Dirt left in the roots’ grooves is acceptable–even desirable–to buyers.]
“As soon as they’re rinsed, I lay ’em out on a screen-bottomed tray in the shade to drain. I don’t want the big parts of any of the roots to touch each other until they’re almost dried, or else they’ll rot where they’re touchin’. So I lay ’em out only one layer thick, and the screen lets air get around ’em.
“When I have a tray full, I slide it onto one of the bottom racks in my dryin’ room. I always slip a new tray in at the bottom so any water still on the roots will drip on the floor. Then I go back and finish washin’ and layin’ out the rest of the roots in the tub. If I leave ’em in the water too long, they’ll rot.
“I keep the temperature in my dryin’ room at 90° for about the first twelve hours after the roots are washed. You got to get rid of most of that wetness right away, or the roots’ll ruin on you. I use a wood stove. [Author’s note: Any source of dry heat will do.] And I have a thermometer hangin’ in the room where I can keep an eye on it. Some folks’ll put their roots right next to or even on a stove, but that’s a mistake. That’ll burn the roots or dry ’em too fast, and you won’t get as good a price.
“After the first night, I try to keep the temperature about 70°. But in cold, damp weather — ‘specially early on dewy mornings or whenever it’s rainin’ — I fuel up the wood stove to heat the room back up to 90°. If I don’t, the roots seem to take back moisture from the air, and mold. Once the temperature’s up to 90°, I open the door if I have to, to see that the room stays under 95°.
“It needs about two weeks of dryin’ before most of the moisture is out of the roots. After that, I can stack all the trays together on my top rack — or dump two or three trays into one, to make room for a fresh tray on a bottom rack. It may take another three or four weeks before the roots are completely dry. You can pretty well tell they’re dry if all the sponginess is gone and they break with a snap and the break is a little waxy-lookin’.”
Making It Pay
“After the roots are completely dry,” explained Oscar, “I pack ’em up in a clean cardboard box till I’m ready to sell. I don’t seal it completely tight, so they can still get air. And I make sure the rodents can’t get to it. Dried ginseng keeps fine at room temperature, but not in a basement or cellar by a window; they’ll suck water right back into themselves, and mold.
“The price you get is always fluctuatin’, so you got to be cautious sellin’. The folks I sold mine to this year gave me a better price ’cause I didn’t use chemicals.
“I’d advise anyone against using chemical fertilizers. The roots grow too fast, the plants are more susceptible to disease, and buyers don’t like ’em as much. You’re just not helpin’ yourself to use chemical fertilizers.
“I think the future of ginseng is as solid as anythin’ right now, but I’d still tell anyone wantin’ to grow it to be cautious and not to get too much into it at first. I figure in ten years about all I’ve spent is $1,200. The seven-strand barbed wire fence that I put around our six acres to keep out pests — animal and human — cost $600, and during the first five or six years, I reckon I paid another $600 all told for seeds.
” ‘Course, the biggest expense is going to be your own labor. I’m lucky: My wife does a whole lot of it, and my kids helped some in the beginnin’. They’re even talkin’ about goin’ into it with me now. But it’s hard work! Ever since that morning when I dreamed my mountain was covered green with ginseng, I’ve been workin’ toward gettin’ the whole hillside planted. I’m now half done. Still got another three acres to go.”
EDITOR’S NOTE: Keep in mind that, in the time since Oscar Wood transplanted the wild ‘sang from his ridge to cultivated beds, virtually all states in which ginseng is a native plant have enacted regulations to protect the species from being overharvested. Your state may have established specific seasons for digging or buying ginseng, and may require you to obtain a license for harvesting the herb. Some buyers will require you to certify that your ginseng, whether wild or cultivated, is “legal” before they will purchase your crop. It’s important, therefore, that you check with the department in your state that’s responsible for regulating such matters (your local agricultural extension office should be able to refer you to the appropriate agency), and that you comply with whatever legal guidelines may exist.
More Tips on Growing Ginseng Organically
If you’re going to grow ginseng organically–in other words, without an assist from chemical fertilizers and pesticides–you’ll need to do everything you can to nurture strong, healthy plants that will resist disease and will produce substantial root systems.
Good growing conditions are, of course, essential. Not everyone has a planting site equal to Oscar’s, where the soil is naturally rich and is protected with a thick, moist mulch of leaf litter; where the land slopes perfectly for efficient drainage; and where, because there is no thick growth surrounding the bed site, air circulates freely. But even if these conditions don’t already exist on your acreage, you can create them.
Although Oscar uses no fertilizer of any kind, some successful organic growers do apply natural soil amendments. A good soil analysis will show you which major elements and micronutrients you may need to add when preparing your beds. (You may also need to adjust the growing medium’s pH, which should be between 5.0 and 6.0.) One company I’m familiar with — The Carolinas Center for Agricultural Husbandry — has experience with ginseng cultivation and can analyze your soil, as well as recommend natural amendments specifically intended for that particular crop.
Other organic growers forgo a soil analysis and simply apply such natural foliar feeds as liquid seaweed or fish emulsion (or a combination of the two). The natural solutions contain a little of most anything your ginseng might need. Most growers spray immediately after their plants emerge in the spring, again at flowering, and perhaps one more time during the summer if there are drought conditions.
Oscar has only minor problems with disease, probably because he spaces his plants well apart and provides all other conditions necessary to produce healthy specimens able to resist the various evil fungi that can attack ginseng. If you do experience a serious disease infestation (alternaria blight, for example, can cause substantial crop losses), something is wrong with your growing environment. The Carolinas Center can also help with organic disease control. | <urn:uuid:9c656935-0a28-48f1-a191-4e994e31ee18> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.motherearthnews.com/organic-gardening/wild-ginseng-zmaz84sozraw/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.93582 | 3,870 | 1.796875 | 2 |
It’s been a whole week since legal news about tech giants fighting, so a federal appeals court has kindly stepped in to fill the void in our hearts: Oracle has scored a win over Google in a years-old case, and the decision has implications for software developers.
Two years ago, Google walked away the victor after Oracle sued it for patent and copyright violations related to the use of programming system Java in Android, Google’s smartphone operating system. Oracle, which acquired Java as part of its purchase of Sun Microsystems, had been seeking $6 billion, but it managed to win only minor damages. An expert told our own Brandon Bailey that in the end — there had been partial verdicts in the weeks-long trial — the outcome of the fight was “absolutely the best possible case for Google.”
U.S. District Judge William Alsup decided then that copyright law did not apply to Java’s API (application programming interface), although he stressed that his decision was based “on the specific facts of this case, the particular elements replicated by Google were free for all to use under the Copyright Act.” Today, Alsup’s decision was reversedby a three-judge Federal Circuit panel. (Ruling PDF.)
The decision could make it more difficult for software developers to build upon APIs, which could hurt innovation.
But back to Oracle and Google. What now? The court sent the case back Alsup, who must determine whether Google’s use of the 37 APIs in question is covered under fair use. Patent blogger Florian Mueller analyzes today’s ruling and says: “There may not be further proceedings if Google recognizes that Oracle is now on the winning track, and finally takes the license it was already negotiating years ago. That would be the most reasonable outcome.”
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Wireless communications have completely revolutionized the way we connect with people and access information. With the advent of Wi-Fi and 3G/4G cellular technologies, we can access the Internet from nearly everywhere around the world without the need for cables, and more importantly, while on the move. Increasingly powerful portable devices, such as tablets and smartphones, are further increasing the traffic demand on wireless infrastructures.
Increasing the capacity of a wireless network can happen in two ways: either through the authorized use of additional or wider frequency bands, or through the densification of the underlying wireless infrastructure through the deployment of an increasing number of Wi-Fi Access Points (APs) or cellular Base Stations (BTSs). The former solution is typically a very lengthy, expensive, and heavily regulated process. The latter bears a very significant investment cost on the part of the operator, currently undertaken by a number of cellular providers in their deployment of femtocell and picocells. When it comes to Wi-Fi networks, enterprises tend to spend a very significant amount of money deploying APs at a density that may be as high as one AP every four meters (commonly found in enterprise Wi-Fi deployments).
However, the pure increase of the density of Wi-Fi APs or cellular BTSs is not a solution by itself. Additional complexity arises from the management of a larger number of devices in the network, and more importantly its configuration to reap the desired gains. Benefits in terms of capacity are only delivered if the operator is able to appropriately allocate frequencies/channels to the different devices in its network, so as to minimize areas of overlap between APs that operate on the same frequency. The fundamental problem addressed in frequency selection is that given the wireless medium is a shared medium, the more devices you have operating in the same frequency band, the lower the effective throughput for each individual device (something that leads to even lower performance if a device is located in the area of frequency-overlapping base stations). Power control, combined with intelligent frequency selection algorithms, aims to increase frequency reusethe ability to reuse the same frequency often across space, however, without creating areas of frequency overlap.
The complexity of such a task is not for the fainthearted and has essentially led to the creation of an entire industry around Wi-Fi centralized architectures, pioneered by companies such as Aruba, Meru Networks, and Cisco, among others.
The following paper says that having multiple APs with an overlapping coverage area operating on the same frequency may not be a problem anymore. The authors describe a solution that can allow a wireless LAN to scale its throughput by continually adding more APs on the same channel! The target deployment scenario is that of a conference room or an auditorium, where APs are connected to each other through a high-speed wired network, and where dense AP deployments are absolutely necessary to accommodate traffic demand, while channels are too limited in number to prevent overlap.
The authors describe a solution that can allow a wireless LAN to scale its throughput by continually adding more APs on the same channel!
The authors borrow the fundamental working principle in today's Multiple Input Multiple Output (MIMO) transmittersthat of beamformingand make it work across a number of independent transmitters. They call their scheme Joint Multi-User Beamforming (JMB). The challenge that must be addressed is the JMB transmitters need to control the relative phases of their transmitted signals to enable effective beamforming, by which the signals to unintended recipients cancel out. Given that independent transmitters have independent oscillators, such a requirement is not naturally met.
The authors address this challenge by designating one AP in the wireless LAN as the lead AP. The solution works in two phases. During the measurement phase, each AP measures its channel to each receiver, as well as the channel from the lead AP to the slave APs. During the data transmission phase, each slave AP corrects its frequency offset with respect to the lead AP, and all APs jointly transmit to concurrently deliver packets to multiple receivers. They show that such a mechanism can be easily accommodated within the context of 802.11n.
An actual implementation on a 10-node software-radio Wi-Fi testbed demonstrates a linear increase in network throughput with a median gain of 8.1 to 9.4x. Further experiments on unmodified 802.11n cards highlight the tremendous potential of the proposed solution.
The work discussed in this paper could completely change the philosophy underlying the design of dense enterprise wireless LAN deployments.
To view the accompanying paper, visit doi.acm.org/10.1145/2618413
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President Donald Trump trashed the Russia investigation once again last week at a rally in West Virginia, saying that “there were no Russians in our campaign” and denouncing “a total fabrication” to enthralled supporters. “Have you seen any Russians in West Virginia or Ohio or Pennsylvania?” he asked mockingly. “Are there any Russians here tonight? Any Russians?”
There may well have been, for anyone in the crowd scrolling through a smartphone.
As Trump spoke, Russian-linked social-media networks were busy attacking Trump’s national security adviser, Gen. H.R. McMaster, using the same type of digital operations that the Kremlin deployed against the 2016 presidential election. Russian-linked Twitter accounts had for days been piling onto a growing campaign by the so-called alt-right to purge Trump’s national security adviser—who is viewed by some of the president’s base as a “globalist tool” and a threat to their hardline nationalist agenda. Meanwhile, recent content from Russian state media RT and Sputnik has included stories such as “What’s Behind Trump’s Striking Back at Washington’s ‘Russophobes’”—a piece that went on at length about McMaster “falling out of favor with Trump.”
Some of Russia’s digital efforts to continue to disrupt and influence US politics are now more in the open, thanks to “Hamilton 68,” a new dashboard tracing Russian-linked information warfare on Twitter. A project of the nonpartisan Alliance for Securing Democracy, Hamilton tracks 600 accounts in real time, analyzing “a network of accounts linked to and participating in Russian influence campaigns,” according to the site.
The dashboard tracker shows that #FireMcMaster became a top trending hashtag on their global list last week. As the New York Times reported Friday, the #FireMcMaster hashtag was tweeted more than 50,000 times in the previous 48 hours. “Echoing the drumbeat were social media organs tied to the Russian government,” the Times said. The dashboard also shows that each day the Russian-led effort delivered some 20,000 to 25,000 tweets.
“Here’s what #Putin wants Americans talking about,” tweeted former FBI agent Clint Watts, one of the cyber warfare experts behind the project.
How did the campaign start? Hamilton 68 engineer J.M. Berger told Mother Jones, “It appears that the #FireMcMaster hashtag campaign may have originated on Reddit, and users there took it to Twitter and directed it to prominent alt-right figures until it began to trend. At some point in this process, the Russian influence networks picked up on it and began to amplify it as well.”
“The Knives are Coming Out for H.R. McMaster,” is the way Business Insider described the spreading alt-right campaign on Friday, amid a fresh round of McMaster-bashing stories from Breitbart News and others. “Allies of White House chief strategist Steve Bannon intensified their battle against national security adviser H.R. McMaster this week as McMaster began asserting more control over the National Security Council and fired officials appointed by his immediate predecessor, Michael Flynn.”
The Russians likely were happier when Flynn was running the NSC for Trump and cultivating friendly ties with departing Russian Ambassador Sergei Kislyak, who appears to be no fan of Hamilton 68. According to a story in Sputnik on Saturday, Kislyak said he was “surprised” by the effort. “A tool after tool is being created to counter RT and Sputnik that have become regarded as almost a threat of a hybrid invasion in many countries,” he said.
The Kremlin’s M.O. is also to work the active fault lines in US politics. Faced with the rising social-media campaign against his national security adviser, Trump late last week sought to tamp down speculation of an imminent firing: “General McMaster and I are working very well together,” he said in a statement to the New York Times. “He is a good man and very pro-Israel. I am grateful for the work he continues to do serving our country.”
Meanwhile, another campaign picked up by the Russians this week has been a surge in the use of the #ResignPaulRyan hashtag, again echoing pressure from the nationalist base against the speaker of the House to be more compliant with Trump’s agenda. Other trending topics spotlighted by the tracker include Russian-linked promotion of Trump TV, a new “real news” video series produced in Trump Tower that the Washington Post says “feels a lot like real propaganda—or state TV.”
Though the provenance of the war on McMaster may ultimately remain murky, the bottom line is that the alt-right (whose current rallying cries include “bring back Michael Flynn”) and the Russians are both engaged in an active campaign to get rid of the current national security adviser. But even if that doesn’t come to pass, the political intrigue and infighting involved contributes to the Trump administration’s turmoil, in part by exacerbating uncertainty among US allies about American leadership on national security matters. That is in Russia’s keen interest, and they will keep at it—even as Trump, as he did again on Monday, keeps calling the whole thing a hoax. | <urn:uuid:cb3bc72c-50e1-4e70-9041-497887afee0e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://develop.motherjones.com/politics/2017/08/russia-is-continuing-its-cyber-attack-on-america-right-now/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.96298 | 1,129 | 1.6875 | 2 |
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As the protagonist in “The Odour of Chrysanthemums,” the reader follows Elizabeth through one night of her life. This is the night that changes everything for Elizabeth forever.
Elizabeth and her family wait for her husband Walter to come from work. He does not come home; Elizabeth believes that he is at the local pub. Eventually, she learns that Walter has been killed in a mine accident. The story concludes with Elizabeth and Walter’s mother preparing his body for burial. Elizabeth realizes that she has not been a good wife to Walter because she withheld herself from him.
Chrysanthemums and symbolism
Disillusionment and Dreams
‘…she, suddenly pitiful broke off a twig with three or four flowers and held them again her face.’
Elizabeth is a complex character. When her son finds some flowers and drop the leaves, Elizabeth tells him to stop because they look nasty. Yet, she places the flowers against her face. This gesture shows a soft side of Elizabeth. She then puts the flower branch in her apron rather than throw it away.
The chrysanthemums represent a dual meaning for Elizabeth. She loves the flowers, but they last briefly in the fall. The smell is refreshing sometimes.
The flowers are beautiful for a time. Elizabeth keeps them in vases in her house. Real beauty is fleeting in Elizabeth‘s life because it has not gone the way that she planned. She had dreams about her marriage and her life.
Now, disillusionment finds its way into her heart and mind. The town is filled with rats and dirt. Her husband goes to the pub rather than come home. She is pregnant with a third child. Nothing is as she thought it would be.
When her daughter asks to smell the flowers, Elizabeth is short with her. The daughter thinks that the flowers smell wonderful. To the mother, the chrysanthemums represent the good in her life and the bad times that have doused her dreams. Chrysanthemums were in her wedding bouquet, and Walter gave her chrysanthemums when her daughter was born. Those were the good times.
On the other hand, the first time that Walter was brought home drunk, he had a brown chrysanthemum in his button hole. Bitterly, she thinks to herself that this is what her life has come: Waiting on a drunken man.
Elizabeth associates death with chrysanthemums. When she prepares the room for Walter’s body, Elizabeth notices “two vases of pink chrysanthemums.” By having the chrysanthemums in her parlor, the reader knows that she obviously loves the flowers. Then she declares that the room has the smell of death coming from the flowers.
When the men bring in Walter’s body, one of the men knocks over the vase of chrysanthemums.The flowers symbolize not only the initiation of her marriage, but now the end of it: her marriage is broken and lost forever.
Elizabeth looks at Walter as she prepares his body for burial and realizes what she had missed in her marriage. She did not know him, nor did she give herself to him. She understands how delicate the balance of life is. Just like the broken vase of flowers that was intentionally broken, her life and marriage had been broken long death of her husband.
Elizabeth blames herself. Possibly that is why he did not come home each night. She was not there for him. In addition, Elizabeth had been waiting for something. Instead of living in the moment, she spent her time wishing for something different or something better.
The chrysanthemums symbolise key events in Elizabeths life. For example the when she got married. At the start of the story Elizabeth detests the flower when her son John picks them up and gives them to her. She shows no interest but shoves them into her pocket.
After her husband dies, she comes to realise that the flower's scent is actaully the scent of death.
The relationshop between Mr & Mrs Bates. They are present at all major parts of their life, and when he is brought home dead the chrysanthemums are knocked off the table???
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What is "Advanced Linker"?
"Advanced Linker" is a free tool for opening multiple links. You can open a list of URLs either all at once or with delays in between (e.g. open a list of URLs with a 1 second delay in between each one). Made this a while ago because there were plenty of websites that could open multiple links all at once but I couldn't find any that would be able to do so with delays in between them.
What is this tool useful for?
While "Advanced Linker" can open your list of links all at once, its core feature is to open URLs with a delay in between them. Why do you need a delay? Well, certain sites have strict rate limits (e.g. 1 request per second) that you'd quickly trigger were you to open a bunch of URLs from said site all at once, leading to you having to reload each new tab due to error pages or even getting your IP blacklisted by the site's owner. Spacing out your requests (which is what "Advanced Linker" allows you to do) avoids that issue.
Does the tool have any limitations?
In order to open links in a secure manner (avoiding the "window.opener" vulnerability) and to open them with delays in between "Advanced Linker" has to open new tabs / windows in such a way that the browser interprets them as a pop-ups. As such, you're going to have to allow pop-ups on this site to use "Advanced Linker".
If you intend to open a large number of links (specifically, more than 20) and use Firefox, you're going to have to follow these instructions to increase the number of popups a website is allowed to open:
- Open a new tab and type into the address bar about:config and press Enter. If you receive a warning, click the button that says "Accept the Risk and Continue".
- Type in dom.popup_maximum into the search field.
- Double click on the dom.popup_maximum preference and a text box will appear.
- Change the value to your choice (e.g. 999; default is 20) and press Enter.
Instructions (modified by me to work with new versions of Firefox) from "How do you remove the Firefox limit on (20) popups?" by Wk_of_Angmar (used under the CC BY-SA 3.0 license).
Where do I send my suggestions / requests / bug reports?
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Phishing scams spike as hackers use coronavirus to prey on remote workers
From fake work emails to fraudulent notes from the Centers for Disease Control
The Facts Inside Our Reporter’s Notebook
As more Americans move to remote work, security experts warn people to be on the look out for cornavirus-related phishing scams as cybercriminals prey on fears about the pandemic.
"Consumers should have their guard up when checking their email and filling out requests for information, especially when it comes to emails that have 'coronavirus' or 'COVID-19' in the subject line," said Aaron Higbee Chief Technology Officer for the Virginia-based cybersecurity firm Cofense.
One scam reported to Higbee’s company includes a phishing email disguised as an official work email that tells the user to sign up for a remote work program by the end of her work day.
Most obvious signs that it's a fake email is the lack of capitalization in Kate’s name, along with the period that’s separating her first and last name, he said. These emails often have grammar errors, and in this case there is an unnecessary apostrophe in the word “employee’s.”
Higbee explained that these scammers are often non-native English speakers, so spelling errors and grammar mistakes are easy indicators of when an email might be a scam.
In another email provided by Higbee, an email touted a supposed cure and treatment plan for coronavirus which doesn’t exist. Clicking on the link in the email prompts the user to enter their personal information in a sketchy website.
Other phishing emails that appear to be from the Centers for Disease Control or World Health Organization promise important news about COVID-19 that could impact your health or employment benefits.
However, scams go beyond just email lures.
The Better Business Bureau says it’s received numerous reports about scam websites claiming to sell face masks online, where the phony sellers take victims’ money and never deliver anything.
There are also reports that a malicious website is displaying a map of COVID-19 cases mimicking a legitimate one from Johns Hopkins University. The Florida Attorney General’s office warn that the fake page is being spread through email attachments and malicious online advertisements.
In New York City, the NYPD warns of coronavirus-related scams involving hackers using websites to sell fake products to steal personal or financial information.
Higbee said to slow down and check before you click on anything. Most legitimate websites and sources won’t reach out to you blindly and ask for your personal information. Double check with your company to make sure an email asking for information came from them in the first place, and do your homework.
Top ways to spot phishing emails
1. Emails Demanding Urgent Action
2. Emails with Bad Grammar and Spelling Mistakes
3. Emails with an Unfamiliar Greeting or Salutation
4. Inconsistencies in Email Addresses, Links & Domain Names
5. Suspicious Attachments
6. Emails Requesting Login Credentials, Payment Information or Sensitive Data
7. Too Good to Be True Emails
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The sale of 20% of the leftist Ha'aretz newspaper to Russian oil tycoon Leonid Nevzlin has provoked much commentary and speculation in Israel's media, as commentators speculated on why the Schocken family would sell a large chunk of the paper to an individual likely to be at odds with their journalistic point of view – and whose extradition Russia has been demanding for several years, after he was convicted in absentia for several crimes, including murder.
Those charges are considered false – or at least without legal basis - by many, including Israel, which has refused to extradite Nevzlin.The charges stem from when Nezvlin was vice-President of the Yukos Oil Company, which was crushed by the Russian government several years ago. He was a partner in the business with Mikhail Khodorovksy, who is currently in jail in Russa.
In 2008, Navzlin, who made aliyah in 2003, was tried in absentia, found guilty of several counts of conspiracy to murder and sentenced to life imprisonment. Nevzlin called the court case a show trial orchestrated by Vladimir Putin.
Nevzlin was active in the Jewish community in Russia and Israel, and is chairman of the Nadav Foundation, which supports dozens of charitable causes. He is also chairman of the Diaspora Museum in Tel Aviv, and sits on the boards of directors of the Jewish Agency, the Jewish National Fund, the Hebrew University and Tel Aviv University.
Nevzlin paid NIS 700 million (about $200 million) for his share of Ha'aretz, and joins fellow owners the Schocken family, as well as DuMont Schauberg of Cologne, Germany, which also owns 20% of the paper.
Commenting on the acquisition, Nevzlin said he was “happy” to be joining Ha'aretz. “I am convinced that together with the other board members of the company we will continue to develop the paper by further investments in core activities and the digital sphere, to the benefit of the readers and the advertisers in all platforms."
Veteran Ha'aretz publisher Amos Schocken said that the family decided to sell a share of the paper to Nevzlin after getting to know him for over a year, and that the paper would gain by having an individual with a fresh take on technology – and Judaism – on board.
Besides being close to Jewish causes, Nevzlin has a reputation in the Russian Jewish community of being more rightwing than Ha'aretz on many issues affecting the country. A reader of his Russian language website asked whether his purpose in joining Ha'aretz was to try and bring the paper closer to the center; Nevzlin said he couldn't comment.
One Israeli media report Tuesday said that before agreeing to sell to him, Ha'aretz made the new co-owner promise that he would not interfere with the editorial stance of the paper.
Writing in Globes, veteran columnist Matti Golan, giving voice to other opinion-makers in the Israeli media, questioned the deal, claiming that it is Nevzlin who was seeking a relationship with Ha'aretz in order to appear as a “proper businessman” and escape what Golan said was his reputation as a criminal.
“Russia has asked for his extradition, and the case is not yet over,” writes Golan. “Nevzlin may be a victim of persecution, as he claims, but still” the case is open. “What are such people looking for at Ha'aretz? ,” Golan added. “Since the newspaper is not a paying business, the prevailing view is that [Nezvlin] seeks to be identified with the paper's reputation as a respectable newspaper. In other words, something akin to laundering their past in exchange for their money - in the form of articles in Ha'aretz,” which makes a strong effort to make its new partners kosher.” | <urn:uuid:bf1ad921-393e-494a-ae8c-c66a4cd2f372> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.israelnationalnews.com/News/News.aspx/144935 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00029-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.982842 | 812 | 1.921875 | 2 |
Some time ago, a friend of mine wanted to start doing WordPress development. I created this resource for him and thought that many of you may also want to see this, so here it is:
There is a lot to cover here so I’ll break it down into:
- WordPress Community,
- WordPress Development
- My recommended talks
It will take some time for you to go through all the links, but there’s no rush, remember it is important that you follow your interests here as this is the best way to learn.
- How it all began and understanding the foundations of the WordPress community: https://wordpress.org/about/
- Note the spelling of WordPress ( always capital W and capital P ).
- Need a helping hand or if you’d like to help others: https://wordpress.org/support/
- Well known website built on top of WordPress: https://wordpress.org/showcase/
- Getting involved: WordPress is such a large project and has lots of sub focus groups which focus on a specific area of the platform: https://make.wordpress.org/
The most important thing to note is that you never, ever change any of the files that come with WordPress. You are welcome to read all the files from top to bottom, but if you wish to change WordPress you can do it via a plugin and if you want to change the look of your website you do this via a theme. That is the only options you have, but in combination, there is no limit to what you can do with WordPress (see these cool examples: http://pressbooks.com/ and http://www.happytables.com/ )
Here is a great list of how you can get started with Plugin / Theme development
- Install a theme: http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/how-to-install-a-wordpress-theme/
- Installing a plugin http://www.wpbeginner.com/beginners-guide/step-by-step-guide-to-install-a-wordpress-plugin-for-beginners/
- Note that the general rule here is: for functionality build a plugin and for styling build a theme. If you need both build a theme and a plugin. Never include heavy functionality within the theme. If you do keep it very minimal. Please read this for a great explanation: https://managewp.com/themes-design-plugins-functionality and also http://wptavern.com/why-wordpress-theme-developers-are-moving-functionality-into-plugins
- Build your first theme: https://developer.wordpress.org/themes/getting-started/your-first-theme/
- The meat of WordPress development is plugins. If you are more interested in code than graphic design I suggest you place emphasis on understanding this. I’d say build at least three small plugins before moving on, try to implement your own idea here. Create your first plugin: https://pippinsplugins.com/how-to-begin-writing-your-first-wordpress-plugin/
- When developing with WordPress it is really great to keep your finger on the pulse. When you are new you think you should create all the functionality but you’ll be surprised when you learn the functions already included within WordPress, make sure you always keep and eye out for this: http://codex.wordpress.org/Developer_Documentation. You will also find all the functions here.
- You will find that the more you do development you will want to alter some things within WordPress or another plugin. For this, we use Hooks and Filters: http://code.tutsplus.com/articles/the-beginners-guide-to-wordpress-actions-and-filters–wp-27373. You will find that you can also create your own hooks and filters so other can hook into your plugins and themes.
You can read all you like but nothing gets you up to speed like a video. Here are some really nice videos you can watch that will help you become a better developer in general:
- People First: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1i7Q6_ZnhUc
- Steve Jobs Confidential Metting: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9GMQhOm-Dqo
- Building and Maintaining a Successful plugin: http://wordpress.tv/2014/08/29/kevin-stover-the-candid-developer-developing-and-maintaining-a-successful-plugin-is-scary-2/
- Tooling for the modern web developer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3C5-LjRfomY
- Performance and scaling WordPress: http://wordpress.tv/2014/08/15/paul-clark-performance-scale-and-wordpress/
- Delivering the goods: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R8W_6xWphtw
- Technology solutions do not always solve business problems: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J7XAFa4wXgY
Finally, my friend, WordPress is continually changing, therefore:
Follow these WP focused twitter accounts as a start:
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How To Test
HOW TO TEST YOUR WATER
The best time to take a rain sample is in the initial stages of a developing rain storm. A migrating low pressure system is best as apposed to an isolated convective cell such as a thunderstorm. Try to collect the sample from the very beginning of the rain event.
Metals testing is not typically expensive, Basic Lab. in Redding California charges 21 dollars per element.
RAIN AND SNOW
- Any clean glass or plastic container can suffice for the collection of a rain sample, try to gather about 8 ounces of rainwater or melted snow.
- Keep your sampling container AWAY FROM roofs, trees, plants, or any other elements that can drop contaminants into the collection container. Any overhead structure, branches from trees, etc, can causal splashing from the ground which again can contaminate the sample.
- Its best to get samples delivered or mailed to the lab of choice soon after the sample is taken. If the sample sits for extended lengths of time, the contaminants can settle out and adhere to the inside of the collection container in a film, this will skew your test results. Particulates must be suspended in the rain sample just prior to testing. If the sample has been stationary for any significant length of time, the inside of the container should be swabbed with a sterile instrument to make sure there is not “film” from the settled out contaminants.
- There are labs around the country that test water. Ask the lab what their “minimum detection levels” are. Many labs have radically raised their detection levels and this now also skews the tests.
- The best primary elements to test for are aluminum and barium. If you wish to do further testing you can include barium and strontium.
- Get the results, hang onto the original and send us a copy, email etc….email@example.com.
Again: When transferring from one container to another, IT IS CRITICAL TO RE-SUSPEND the sample…shake the jar with the lid on, or stir with a sterilized instrument. Aternatively, you can ‘back and forth’ the samples, allowing a little “fall” to create enough turbulence to re-suspend any contaminents that may be stuck to the glass. | <urn:uuid:3485b5d7-6ab0-4b9e-9b6a-f6d0556b559e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.geoengineeringwatch.org/how-to-test-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00409-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900073 | 483 | 2.34375 | 2 |
A 19-year-old boy ended up with rotting feet after he spent six days playing online games nonstop at a local Internet café. The boy went several days and nights going on without eating any food.
The boy surnamed Chen was found by the police authorities with feet that is badly infected, bleeding, and with a rotting smell.
According to authorities, they were on a patrol when they discovered a pair of feet exposed on a grassy area. They then inspected the area and later found the unconscious teen. According to reports, the officials were about to make a call to 120; however, they saw the man move.
“I want to drink … water …” said the boy whose feet were severely infected and filled with mosquito bites. After what he said, he fainted.
The brought the boy in a shaded area where he regained consciousness 20 minutes later.
Police also revealed that that the temperature was hot during the time they found the boy. He was situated in a place that was not often visited. They said the boy could have been in a more dangerous situation and condition if they weren’t in the area and found him.
Before the family was contacted, the boy was taken to a cafeteria where he was given food. His identification cards were also checked. That was where they found information about his family and how to contact them.
Based on police investigations, the boy ran away from home so he could play online games. He spent all he got at the Internet café playing online games. He did not eat anything for several days. Upon walking out of the café, he began to felt dizzy.
His foot infection is in a severely bad state that it could have possibly killed him if he was not found at that moment.
The authorities re also hoping that this report would serve as a lesson and a warning to all parents to watch over their kids and set limits with regard to spending their time playing computer games. | <urn:uuid:48433a92-e39e-46b4-94d9-e68f6a386292> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://kami.com.ph/23004-boy-found-rotting-feet-spending-days-playing-online-games.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00129-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.992968 | 399 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Rangers are warriors of the woodlands and masters of the hunt. Always partnered with soul-bonded animal companions, they can be found in wild spaces all over the world. As their lifestyles often tend toward independence and isolation, it is rare for rangers to become an integral part of a large fighting force, though they are often employed as scouts and guides.
Rangers are expert sharpshooters with any ranged weapon. Though they traditionally rely on bows and crossbows, some use firearms or even magical implements. Regardless of their choice of armament, even novice rangers can strike swiftly and leave severe wounds that quickly wear down an enemy's endurance and movement. They are assisted in their efforts by their animal Companions, incredibly tough and loyal creatures with whom rangers form lifelong bonds, who share their lives (literally) with their masters.
Rangers often choose as companions creatures with whom they share a strong natural affinity. The process of soul bonding connects ranger and beast to such a degree that both entities share stamina, health, and eventually death. It is believed that rangers bind themselves to animals in which they were recently, or most vividly, incarnated. Once bonded, ranger and companion never part unless one dies of natural causes. In some cases, the feelings of loss in a ranger can be so great that it takes years before they form a new bond. Evidence has suggested that the ranger/animal bond can even outlast death, which may be a contributing factor to their shared mortality. The soul affinity between the two runs so deep that they are united in all but a shared body, and one could hardly abandon his or her mortal existence without the other following suit.
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Rangers have the second highest single-target damage output capability and can use all abilities at a long range. They coordinate their strikes with the help of animal companions, which are an integral part of the class, and gain additional abilities as the ranger advances.
List of abilities
- Ranger abilities (in Pillars of Eternity)
- Ranger abilities and passives (in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire)
Ranger and animal companion abilities require and consume Bond on use. Outside of combat, a ranger's Bond is restored, ready to be used in the next encounter.
Bond is an additional "power pool" resource added in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire. Rangers begin combat with full Bond (the amount of which is relative to their current level) and spend points to cast certain abilities, with more powerful abilities costing more points. After an encounter, Bond is replenished.
- Vicious Companion – Trains the ranger's Animal Companion in vicious tactics, causing it to deal more damage with each hit.
- Swift and Steady – The ranger becomes better able to shoot quickly, reducing the Accuracy penalty of Swift Aim.
- Accurate Wounding Shot – The ranger's aim becomes deadlier, making his or her Wounding Shots more accurate.
- Brutal Takedown – The ranger trains his or her animal companion to inflict Crush damage on opponents when using Takedown.
- Thorny Roots – The ranger's Binding Roots sprout nasty thorns that do additional Pierce and Slash damage to the target.
- Faithful Companion – The ranger's animal companion gains improved defenses against Charmed, Confused, and Dominated afflictions.
- Resilient Companion – The ranger's animal companion gains improved Damage Reduction against all damage types.
- Merciless Companion – Animal companions do small amounts of Sneak Attack damage against targets that qualify.
- Strengthened Bond – Increases the shared bonus provided by Defensive Bond.
In Pillars of Eternity
- At character creation, rangers must pick one of six Animal Companions.
- Rangers are able to select one ability at every odd level (1, 3, 5, etc.).
- At every odd level (1, 3, 5, etc.), the next tier of abilities are unlocked.
- As with other classes, rangers learn one talent at every even level (2, 4, 6, etc.).
- Ranger abilities specify their own max uses and restoration type, independent of the ranger's level.
- At character creation, rangers must pick one of six animal companions (Stag, Wolf, Lion, Bear, Antelope, and Boar), and select one 1st level ability (active only). This does not change for multiclass characters.
- As with other classes, rangers pick 2 abilities at every level where a new power level is unlocked excluding the first (3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13, 16, 19), and one ability at all other levels (1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 14, 15, 17, 18, 20). Ability points may be spent on active or passive abilities, and on any currently-unlocked power levels.
- Multiclass characters pick 1 ability from either the ranger ability tree or the other class tree at all levels where a new power level isn't unlocked, and 1 ability for both classes at all levels where a new power level is unlocked (1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19).
- Rangers use Bond (a power pool resource) to cast abilities. As with other power pool resources, the ranger starts with a pool of 3 Bond, which is increased by 1 at every power level, capping out at 11.
- As with other classes, new ability power levels are learned every second level from level 1 (1, 3, 5, 7, 9, 11, 13), then every third level from level 13 (16, 19). Multiclass characters may only learn up to (and including) power level 7 abilities, and unlock a new power level every third level from level 1 (1, 4, 7, 10, 13, 16, 19).
|Ability points at each level|
|Level||Power level learned||Points available|
|1||1 (I)||1 (I)||1||1+1|
|7||4 (IV)||3 (III)||2||1+1|
|13||7 (VII)||5 (V)||2||1+1|
|16||8 (VIII)||6 (VI)||2||1+1|
|19||9 (IX)||7 (VII)||2||1+1|
|Power pool capacity|
Rangers in Pillars of Eternity II: Deadfire are able to choose between four subclasses (or no subclass): Ghost Heart, Sharpshooter, Stalker, and Arcane Archer. A fifth subclass Gunhawk is exclusive to the companion Maia Rua.
Ghost Hearts are rangers whose animal companions have died but remained in the In-Between as spirits to serve their masters. Ghost Hearts can summon the spirit of their companion in combat for a limited duration.
Sharpshooters focus their attention entirely on ranged combat, relying on their animal companions to provide defense for them. Their Penetration and Accuracy with ranged weapons is superior, but they take more time to recover between attacks and have poor Deflection.
Stalkers have an especially strong bond with their animal companions and excel when when they are close to each other but suffer as soon as they are separated by any distance.
A rare few find themselves gifted in both physical ability and the more cerebral, arcane talents. Arcane Archers are among those few, and apply their innate aptitude with magic by temporarily infusing spells into their projectiles. More commonly seen among travelling performers or during archery contests, these skilled individuals are both admired and reviled for their abilities.
Gunhawks are a type of ranger unique to Rauatai who use hawk companions to complement their sharpshooting skills.
Rangers provide superior options for all ranged weapons. Pistols by default offer the best damage in most situations out of the different types of guns. In Deadfire, Two-Handed Style with scepters can cause serious damage, and it won't cause you an Accuracy penalty if an opponent reaches you in melee range. A war bow offers significantly better damage if you have a Chanter or other class-type in your group that lowers your enemies' Armor Rating. Otherwise, a hunting bow provides somewhat superior damage.
A ranger's pet can prove both a blessing and a curse. In certain situations, your pet will just flat out quickly die. This of course will net you some terrible statistics that make the character much worse of an experience to play. If this concerns you, then you might consider the Ghost Heart subclass. However as a solo class ranger, you absolutely need your pet to help out with your front line's damage. About half of a ranger's abilities feed into the pet one way or another. The other part maintains keeping your ranger out of melee with your opponents in battle, while your character automatically takes its ranged shots against some victim.
If you like the idea of the Stalker subclass, then a blunderbuss is your only good weapon choice. Powder Burns (the blunderbuss weapon proficiency) may cause you some trouble, since it applies Disrtacted cause your entire friendly front line to respond as if automatically flanked - though this can be countered with something that nullifies or adds resistance to Perception Afflictions. The Arcane Archer subclass effectively turns you into a some what limited Wizard with better Accuracy, so early on you will need weapons with high Accuracy to compensate for your Accuracy penalty in those early levels. It has its rewards later, when you find a ranged weapon that does some sort of secondary damage as your Arcana skill grows much higher! The Sharpshooter subclass tends to work better with guns, since they operate off of reload instead of recovery, which behaves similar.
Ranger abilities fire off quickly, so it makes a good Multi Class mix with most other classes that tend to stay in the back lines and away from the front, especially Cipher, Wizard, Priest, Rogue, and Barbarian.
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cheater's proof (cheet'-erz pruf) noun. A karmic occurrence which serves as indisputable evidence that a particular call or non-call was -- in the immortal words of Bill S. Preston and Ted "Theodore" Logan -- totally bogus.
Usage example: Kobe hit Ray Allen's arm when he "stole" the ball, so it was cheater's proof when Bryant immediately turned it back over.
Word Mystery: The cheater's proof is a mystical occurrence in which the Basketball Gods use their divine powers to negate bad officiating. The most common manifestation of this phenomenon is when a player gets a "superstar call" (in which no significant contact is made but the whistle blows anyway) and then misses one or both of the ensuing freethrows. Other examples include: when a player steals the ball by making illegal contact and then has it stolen back in a similar manner; when a player travels without incurring a violation but then turns the ball over in some other way (such as throwing it out of bounds); and so on. | <urn:uuid:858fae71-62a9-4e36-90b2-6fc30cf107ba> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://basketbawful.blogspot.com/2006/02/word-of-day-cheaters-proof.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.948985 | 221 | 1.757813 | 2 |
On June 4, President Obama spoke at Cairo University, where he sought a new beginning between the United States and Muslims around the world.
President Obama said, “...[R]ecognizing our common humanity is only the beginning of our task. Words alone cannot meet the needs of our people. These needs will be met only if we act boldly in the years ahead; and if we understand that challenges we face are shared, and our failure to meet them will hurt us all.”
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That’s the biggest year-over-year increase in 20 years. Inflation is just part of the reason.
Some graduated into a pandemic and are experiencing high inflation and market volatility. That's changing their approach to their finances.
From retirement savings to Social Security, the choices made for you are crucial and should be well designed.
Many say they worry that inflation will keep them from getting ahead, even though the job market has improved and wages are rising.
The recent Census household Pulse survey found LGBT people were almost twice as likely to be experiencing food insecurity as other Americans.
There is a usually a limit on how much consumers will pay for a given product. But figuring out what that limit is not easy.
People bought more stuff, like cars and home office equipment, an expert says. But also, there haven’t been any more relief checks.
We look into the history of rising tuition and shrinking student aid. | <urn:uuid:bc35cf34-a38f-4cde-afcd-24446e1582fa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.marketplace.org/tag/personal-finances/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.977709 | 194 | 1.695313 | 2 |
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President John F. Kennedy lived an extraordinary life. He was awarded a Purple Heart for bravery in World War II. He won the Pulitzer Prize for his book Profiles In Courage. He was the youngest man ever elected president and the first president born in the twentieth century.His commitment to civil rights and his efforts to limit the use of nuclear weapons changed American life. President John F. Kennedy's life and, sadly, his early death, are part of history.
A voracious reader of biographies, President Kennedy has fittingly been the subject of many volumes himself. When asked why he enjoyed reading biographies, President Kennedy replied, "Because they answer the question 'What's he like?'"
In attempting to answer that question, author Shelley Sommer presents John F. Kennedy in his many roles -- as a boy, a young man, a war hero, a politician, a husband, a father, and finally a president. This look at John F. Kennedy, illustrated with photos from the Kennedy Family Collection and the Kennedy Library, gives young readers a look at a dynamic man whose personality and politics helped to shape the twentieth century and continue to influence American life today.
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SANTIAGO, Chile (AP) - A 6.6-magnitude earthquake rocked north-central Chile on Thursday, causing buildings to sway in the capital and nervous people to run out into the streets.
But Chile's emergency services office said no damages to infrastructure were reported and Chile's Navy discarded the possibility of a tsunami.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake's epicenter was located about 40 miles southwest of the city of Coquimbo or about 250 miles from Santiago. Its depth was 6 miles.
Chile is one of the world's most earthquake-prone countries. A magnitude-8.8 quake and the tsunami it unleashed in 2010 killed more than 500 people, destroyed 220,000 homes, and washed away docks, riverfronts and seaside resorts.
That quake was so strong it shortened the Earth's day slightly by changing the planet's rotation. The strongest earthquake ever recorded also happened in Chile, a magnitude-9.5 in 1960 that killed more than 5,000 people. | <urn:uuid:7f95a232-3b68-4dca-bd1c-ebdd39e869ae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newstribune.com/news/news/story/2013/oct/31/magnitude-66-quake-strikes-north-central-chile/559471/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00237-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966965 | 211 | 2.625 | 3 |
For more than nine years we have been engaged in conflict and war – the result: multiple deployments, marriage breakups, troop suicides, increases in domestic violence and military sexual trauma. There are also countless hidden injuries – PTSD, TBI and chronic pain.
The flip side? No terrorist attacks on US soil. So the record is straight – I commend all our troops and our military families for their tireless work and commitment. There is no question of commitment.
What is at question – at least to some – is whether we are adequately taking care of those who return from war who have chronic pain…and are our methods of care appropriate?
The argument is simple: we send our servicemembers to get shot up, returning with broken bones, fractured nerves and then complain because they take addictive pain medications. Study after study show that it is the stigma of chronic pain meds that leads to addictive behaviors (dishonesty, sneaking around, hiding medication intake and problems). We need to correct how we treat and what we treat with…or so goes the argument.
I had the opportunity to interview Dr. Robert Newman. He is Director of The Baron Edmond de Rothschild Chemical Dependency Institute at Beth Israel Medical Center and President Emeritus of Continuum Health Partners, Inc., a corporation which controls Beth Israel Medical Center, St. Luke’s-Roosevelt Hospital Center, The Long Island College Hospital and The New York Eye and Ear Infirmary.
Dr. Newman is best known for his expertise on drug addiction and treatment, particularly with methadone, of which he was an early proponent. Dr, Newman led the roll-out of the first methadone maintenance program while at Beth Israel more than 35 years ago; today, this is the largest program in the world.
When it comes to prescription pain med addiction, Dr. Newman’s answer is straight-forward: eliminate TRICARE’s exclusion for coverage of medical maintenance treatment as set forth under 32CFR199.4(e)(11)(ii) that prevents our troops from receiving the best treatment options.
If we start thinking of medical maintenance the way we think of insulin then servicemembers have better pain control and fewer social problems. Most importantly the servicemember isn’t made to feel that they are inadequate. What is it with our thinking? Why would we want a servicemember with a broken body to live a life in constant pain?
For almost 40 years “maintenance” treatment of opiate dependence has been recognized as the most effective response to this serious, potentially deadly, notoriously relapsing medical condition. Such treatment has relied on methadone since the first reports were published in the mid-60s, and more recently has also involved the use of buprenorphine (approved by the Food and Drug Administration in 2002). The critically important role of maintenance therapy has been acknowledged by local, national and international authorities for years. To cite just a few examples:
• National Institute on Drug Abuse
• Institute of Medicine
• National Institute of Health
• US Centers for Disease Control
• WHO/UNODC/UNAIDS Position Paper (2004)
• Senator Carl Levin, in a Press Statement (12/8/06), noted:
“… the great success of buprenorphine treatment … for millions of Americans who suffer from dependence on opioids, which include heroin, morphine and some prescription painkillers.”
And yet both the Department of Defense (through its medical benefits program TRICARE) and the Department of Veterans Affairs (through its insurance program CHAMPVA) refuse to cover maintenance treatment.
This is especially lamentable in that:
•Recent reports estimate as much as 35% of wounded troops become addicted to pain medication;
•U.S. tax dollars pay for “medical maintenance” treatment to non-U.S. citizens overseas, the U.S., without exception or explanation, refuses to pay for methadone (or buprenorphine) maintenance at home for military, veterans, retirees, dependents or survivors of those killed in action.
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"Synthetic Forests provides an investigation into the devastating effects GE trees could have on our health and the environment
The documentary features interviews with leading scientists and activists who discuss the negative effects genetically engineered trees can have if released into our ecosystems. The documentary is a tool we can use together to challenge this destructive technology. It provides critical information for viewers familiar with GE trees as well as for those learning about genetically engineered trees for the first time.
Corporations in the USA and Brazil have requested government authorization to release hundreds of millions of genetically engineered eucalyptus trees to be turned into fuel.
The Genetically Engineered ARCTIC APPLE has just been approved and it was recently learned that a GE LOPLOLLY PINE tree was approved for release without public comment in 2012!
Many other species of trees such as pear and chestnuts are planted in hundreds of test plots around the world and will soon be ready for release as food if they are not stopped by informed public action.
Because trees could be genetically engineered to grow faster, have increased density, resist toxic chemicals or kill insects, they are expected to greatly expand the number of industrial tree plantations and bring about the loss of millions of acres of native forests worldwide. Rich Biologically Diversity would be replaced by plantations of cloned trees, growing at accelerated rates, diminishing groundwater and leaving a forest devoid of wildlife and understory plants.
Interviews in Synthetic Forests will also discuss how GE Eucalyptus and GE Poplar plantations can accelerate the devastation of indigenous communities. Because many GE tree plantations will likely replace tropical forests, the impacts on these on local communities will be especially severe, increasing illegal land grabs and disrupting intimate relationships with native forests." (Synopsis from http://asilentforest.info/ ) | <urn:uuid:c196520f-fb4a-4163-8786-9052f0907015> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.filmsforaction.org/watch/synthetic-forests/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00152-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945976 | 364 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Use alcohol-free mouthwash and bid bad breath bye-bye
SUMMARY: To truly wipe out halitosis, mouthwash needs to contain no mouth-drying alcohol.
Posted: March 21, 2012
If you use mouthwash with any regularity, then it's possible you've been doing your mouth a disservice. You see, many of the cheaper and less effective rinses out there contain loads of alcohol, which can actually lead to bad breath rather than eliminating it. The secret, then, is to stick to a specialty alcohol-free mouthwash when you have halitosis.
Take a look at the label on the back of an alcohol-based rinse. See the section at the top that says "active ingredients"? What does it list? If you're holding an average mouthwash, it will probably contain substances like thymol, benzalkonium chloride, methylparaben or eucalyptol, usually in concentrations of less than 1 percent.
Notice anything odd about this list? It doesn't contain alcohol! In fact, you'll have to glance down to the inactive ingredients list to find alcohol listed at all.
So how can the alcohol in mouthwash - which is usually found in a 40 percent concentration - not be an active ingredient? Because it doesn't freshen breath at all.
Essentially, alcohol is little more than filler. It gives cheap mouthwashes a tang or "bite" that makes them feel like they're working, even when they're not. This is the same reason that inferior mouthwashes come loaded with FD&C Blue dye no. 2 (the same stuff used to dye blue jeans) - namely, it makes the product look like it will work, even though it won't.
In fact, at 40 percent concentration (equal to about 80-proof vodka), alcohol does little more than dry out your palate and allow bacteria to multiply.
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Affect: to produce an effect upon, as a: to produce a material influence upon or alteration in.
(Piece presented in the "What happened to November?" exhibition, Rotor 1 gallery, Gothenburg, Sweden, the "Afecta" exhbition, La Galería gallery, Lima, Peru, Bai Jueta, e-star gallery, Lima, Peru, Retrospective: Legado: regalo de propiedad, Centro Cultural Pucallpa Gallery, Pucallpa, Peru)
When we enter an area we walk, breathe, look and touch; in all we do
we modify in one way or another the space. If we could see our personal effect on things and people how would this look? Our existence and the existence of everyone and everything affect the world in distinct ways in an infinite chain reaction. Our personal influence in the world could never be measured by our own eye.
This piece consists of an installation in a dark room where you can only see a dimly lit image of a hand on the wall. When you touch the hand a fingerprint appears in the center of that wall. The white fingerprint lines expand and grow creating a pattern that could continue infinitely. The white light from the expanding fingerprint lines illuminate the room.
Connection with previous projects
Theses ideas connect to my previous studies of the Shipibo- Conibo native community. These communities traditionally consider the world to be full off designs. Every person has their individual design perceived through all our senses, and affected by our mood or health in general. This the starting point; the use of fingerprints gives us the general knowledge of the individual. The project opens up ideas of our personal influence over any and in some way everything that surrounds us with a symbolic visual effect.CODING
This piece was built using an Arduino microprocessor and Processing Programming Language. A sensor triggers the beginning of the Processing code which selects a random fingerprint from a previously stored group. The fingerprints are taken from real people and the patterns that grow from them are drown and animated individually. | <urn:uuid:42cfded6-5ce4-4131-a3fc-60f437e6eb42> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://driescolind.blogspot.com/2009/01/affect.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.906875 | 430 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Super-wealthy pay super-low tax while the Government robs charities. Nice.
It’s a hard life being a multi-millionaire. If it wasn’t tough enough thinking of ways to spend all that lovely cash, you also have to spend ages working out how to pay as little tax as possible. New Treasury figures have revealed that of the very top earners in the UK, 6% pay less than 10% in income tax, with a further 23% paying an average rate of tax of less than 40%.
Of course, this is an average tax rate, not marginal (highest) rate of tax paid, so the average rate of a standard higher rate tax payer earning, say, £50k will not be 40%. However, it will probably be a darned site higher than 10%*. In fact, the average rate for someone earning over £10m should be 49.78%
The full set of figures released by the Treasury are detailed below, and these show that the very highest earners are also the ones avoiding most of the tax- where incomes fall between £500k and £10m a higher proportion (over 80%) of taxpayers cough up over 40% in tax. As has ever been the case, it it those with the most money, and the most to lose in tax, that are largely the only ones who can afford the complicated tax planning required to substantially reduce their chargeable income.
A Treasury spokeswoman said: "There are currently millionaires paying a lower tax rate than ordinary taxpayers. This is the system we have at the moment, but the Government is committed to making it fairer. We're capping benefits and these figures clearly show why it's fair to cap tax reliefs for the wealthy as well."
So, given these figures show the huge financial cost of the super-wealthy’s tax avoidance, why would the Treasury choose to make these figures public? There are two reasons- the recent Budget outlined proposals for a new cap on tax reliefs to prevent more than 25% of income being relieved from tax (excluding pension contribution relief and ES relief), so they are proving there is a problem that they are already solving. The second reason is to try and fight the backlash against a certain application of the proposed new rule.
One way in which tax liabilities can legitimately be reduced is through charitable giving. Under the Gift Aid system, donations made to charities are assumed to be made net of basic rate (20%) tax. A basic rate donor simply makes their donation, and the charity can reclaim 20% of the grossed up value (works out at 28p per £1) directly from HMRC.
However, if you are a higher rate taxpayer, the difference between the basic rate relief claimed by the charity and the highest rate of tax you pay, which could be the 50% rate of tax, can be claimed as a deduction on a tax return. It’s a win win win situation- the charity gets money from the donor and the taxman, the donor gets additional tax relief and HMRC forks out twice.
However, this new 25% cap on reliefs will also apply to charitable donations where gift aid is claimed. Which means that certain charities favoured by wealthy benefactors could find themselves short of a few bob.
These Treasury figures are meant to show that the Goverment aren’t evil overlords stealing money from charities, they are merely evil overlords trying to minimise tax avoidance. But this is proving a difficult sell for them. Chancellor George has already indicated he might ‘negotiate’ on the effect of the cap for charities, and a recent poll by ComRes found that out of 71 coalition MPs asked, 46 agreed that charity donations should not be subject to the new limit, 10 refused to express any kind of opinion, and only 15 supported their own Government’s policy.
And is it actually a goer? Tax avoidance isn’t really that “morally reprehensible” if avoiders are only getting back a percentage of what they have genuinely donated to charity surely? Is it right that the Government is banking on clawing back "£50m-£100m"** of money from Gift Aid donations that will not be made in 2016/17 in order to prop up their failing coffers?
* it actually works out at a neat 20%, in case you are interested.
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* Any views expressed in this article are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation.Can "zero tillage" farming clear Delhi’s deadly smog?
Recent media reports show that the 19 million inhabitants of New Delhi are under siege from a noxious haze generated by traffic, industries, cooking fires and the burning of over 30 million tons of rice straw on farms in the neighboring states of Haryana and Punjab.
However, farmers who rotate wheat and rice crops in their fields and deploy a sustainable agricultural technique known as “zero tillage” can make a significant contribution to reducing smog in India’s capital, helping urban dwellers breathe more easily.
Since the 1990s, scientists at the International Maize and Wheat Improvement Center (CIMMYT) have been working with national partners and advanced research institutes in India to test and promote reduced tillage which allows rice-wheat farmers of South Asia to save money, better steward their soil and water resources, cut greenhouse gas emissions and stop the burning of crop residues.
The key innovation involves sowing wheat seed directly into untilled soil and rice residues in a single tractor pass, a method known as zero tillage. Originally deemed foolish by many farmers and researchers, the practice or its adaptations slowly caught on and by 2008 were being used to sow wheat by farmers on some 1.8 million hectares in India.
Scientists and policymakers are promoting the technique as a key alternative for residue burning and to help clear Delhi’s deadly seasonal smog.
Burning soils the air, depletes the soil
“Rice-wheat rotations in Bangladesh, India, Nepal and Pakistan account for nearly a quarter of the world’s food production and constitute a key source of grain and income in South Asia, home to more than 300 million undernourished people,” said Andy McDonald, a cropping systems agronomist at CIMMYT.
“But unsustainable farming practices threaten the region’s productivity and are worsening global climate change.”
The burning of paddy straw is one example, according to expert studies. triggering costly respiratory ailments in humans and animals in farm regions and urban centers like Delhi, burning rice residues depletes soil nutrients, with estimated yearly losses in Punjab alone of 3.9 million tons of organic carbon, 59,000 tons of nitrogen, 20,000 tons of phosphorus and 34,000 tons of potassium, according to M.L. Jat, a senior agronomist at CIMMYT, who leads CIMMYT’s contributions to “climate-smart” villages in South Asia, as part of the CGIAR Research Program on Climate Change, Agriculture and Food Security (CCAFS).
Zero tillage: A lot to like
Traditional tillage for sowing wheat in northern India involves removing or burning rice straw and driving tractor-drawn implements back and forth over fields to rebuild a soil bed from the rice paddy, a costly and protracted process.
Zero tillage cuts farmers’ costs and provides better yields. By eliminating plowing, farmers can sow wheat up to two weeks earlier. This allows the crop to fill grain before India’s withering pre-Monsoon heat arrives — an advantage that is lost under conventional practices.
A 2016 study in Bihar state showed that farmers’ annual income increased by an average 6 percent when they used zero tillage to sow wheat, due both to better yields and savings in diesel fuel through reduced tractor use.
Zero tillage also diminishes farmers’ risk from erratic precipitation, according to Jat. “A new study in Haryana has shown that in wet years when conventionally-sown wheat fields are waterlogged, zero-tilled crops can produce 16 percent more grain.”
Environmental and climate change benefits include 93 kilograms less greenhouse gas emissions per hectare. “In the long run, retaining crop residues builds up soil organic matter and thereby reduces farming’s carbon footprint,” Jat explained.
Zero-tilled wheat also requires 20 to 35 percent less irrigation water, slowing depletion of the region’s rapidly-dwindling underground water reserves and putting money in farmers’ pockets by reducing their need to pump.
“It’s impressive that a single practice provides such a broad set of benefits,” said McDonald, who leads CIMMYT’s Cereal Systems Initiative for South Asia (CSISA).
Specialized seed planters sell slowly
Farmer awareness is growing, but putting aside the plow is not an easy proposition for some. In particular, zero tillage requires use of a special, tractor-mounted implement which, in a single pass, chops rice residues, opens a rut in the soil, and precisely deposits and covers the seed.
Development of this special seeder was first funded by the Australian Centre for International Agricultural Research (ACIAR) and led by Punjab Agricultural University, with contributions from CIMMYT and other organizations.
The latest version, the Turbo Happy Seeder, costs $1,900 — an investment that many farmers still struggle to make.
“As an alternative, we’ve been saying that not all farmers need to own a seeder,” Jat observed. “Many can simply hire local service providers who have purchased the seeder and will sow on contract.”
In Bihar and the neighboring state of Uttar Pradesh, the number of zero-tillage service providers rose from only 17 in 2012 to more than 1,900 in 2015, according to Jat.
Given New Delhi’s smog troubles, Haryana and Punjab policymakers are adding support to avoid burning rice straw.
“The government of Haryana has taken a policy decision to aggressively promote the seeder for zero tillage and residue management and to provide 1,900 seeders on subsidy this year,” said Suresh Gehlawat, assistant director of agriculture for that state, in a recent statement.
On the horizon: Zero tillage for rice
As part of these efforts, CIMMYT scientists and partners are testing and promoting with farmers a suite of resource-conserving practices. These include precision land levelling, which saves water and improves productivity, as well as directly sowing rice into untilled, non-flooded plots.
“The practice of direct-seeded rice requires less labor, raising farmers’ profits by as much as $130 per hectare over paddy-grown rice,” said Jat. “Moreover, growing rice in non-flooded fields uses 25 percent less water and reduces the emission of methane, a greenhouse gas 200 times more powerful than carbon dioxide, by 20 kilograms per hectare.” | <urn:uuid:47a429df-e80a-403c-85fe-b8972fcdc263> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://news.trust.org/item/20161201221914-7w1yq/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00080-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925796 | 1,411 | 3.21875 | 3 |
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Transcript of Metal Foam
Recyclable (Thermal process through smelter)
Metal foam can also be made of copper and nickel for different usage.
Metal Ores usually are mined through open cut mines. Countries leading in Bauxite production/mining are Australia, Asia, South/Central America and Russia. Aluminum and copper is then extracted from their ores at a reduction plant through the process of electrolysis (chemical process).
Metal Foam has an indirect environmental impact through the extracting of the ores (bauxite), and the greenhouse gas emissions through smelting. Greenhouse gases are the result of electrical consumption used by smelters. Perflurocarbons (PFC) is most potent from the process of smelting . Metal
Foam by Jeremy Coronel What is Metal Foam? Metal Foam is a cellular structured metal, usually aluminum, filled with a large volume of gas-filled pores. Metal foam comes in two structures : Closed cell foam (sealed pores) and Open cell foam (open pores which give the foam a network like structure) Extracting The life-cycle of Metal Foam Electrolysis Smelting Industrial Standard Stock How is the material sold? Metal foam is sold in sheets, usually sold using PPI(Pores Per Inches).
Open Pored metal foam = offers thermal management, steam generation, mixing, energy absorption
Closed Pored metal foam = mainly for energy absorption What is the price per unit? Prices may vary depending on the material (Aluminum, Copper, Nickel) and PPI (pores per inches)
The more pores per inches, the more expensive the foam Aluminum foam ~$13 @ 10 PPI
Copper foam ~$23 @ 10 PPI Processing There are four ways metal foam is processed:
Gas Injection - A MMC (Mixed-matrix composite)of Aluminium and silicon carbide or aluminium/magnesium oxide to add viscosity to the melt. Gas (air, nitrogen or argon) is then injected using vibrating nozzles. The bubbles and molten metal rise up to the surface of the mixture and solidify creating the metal foam.
Blowing Agents - This process uses blowing agents to create pores in the metal. Heat causes the blowing agents to release gas within the melt, creating air pockets/pores as the metal solidifies.
Powder compacts- Does not restrict to aluminum foam. A mixture of metal powders and blowing agents are heated just before melting point of the metal mixture. This allows the blowing agents to decompose and release gas, forcing the metallic mix to expand and produce a metal foam.
Foaming of ingots containing blowing agents- Titanium-hydride (a foaming agent) is directly mixed with the aluminum melt instead of using blowing agents and mixed metal powders to prepare the foam. The metal must be cooled immediately to prevent gas from escaping the pores.
The smelting process of these metals consumes a large amount of electricity. Perflurocarbons (PFC) is released during the smelting process, which is a greenhouse gas that depletes the ozone layer. | <urn:uuid:8cad01a3-9eb2-43d4-b2f6-1845b46af4e4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://prezi.com/cfqlgih942vn/metal-foam/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00502-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.884341 | 788 | 2.171875 | 2 |
|Not Made in the USA: Ben & Jerry's|
By Jarrod Dicker SEP 25, 2009 7:50 AM
Did selling out to the man sell out the environment?
In California, they boast that happy cows make happy milk. In Vermont, it seems that hippie cows make happy milk, or at least some damn good ice cream.
Thirty-two years ago, lifelong friends Ben Cohen and Jerry Greenfield completed a speed course on ice cream making at Penn State University. Soon after, they opened up their first ice cream store in a renovated gas station in downtown Burlington, Vermont. By 1979, Ben & Jerry’s began what would eventually become an international festivity, debuting the first-ever “Free Cone Day” to commemorate its one-year anniversary.
It seemed that this American company, with its hippie granola roots, was taking the nation by storm. But its story has evolved to be a lot less all-American than it started. As only die-hard Cherry Garcia fans know, Ben and Jerry fell into the arms of the British-Dutch food conglomerate Unilever (UL) nine years ago.
Fortunately, America’s beloved ice cream hasn’t transformed into mince pie as a result.
Since the merger, Ben & Jerry’s has admirably tried to stick to its roots despite its place in its new international family. It was always a food company with a deep-rooted mission: “To look for innovative ways to improve the quality of life in the community” in every business decision it makes. It complemented its unique and delectable ice cream creations with a motive to become socially conscious and involved in the community.
The company’s founders prided themselves on using the profits from their successful product to benefit the greater well-being of human beings, plants, and animals alike. Ben and Jerry’s product mission promises to make all-natural ice cream, and its economic mission aims for profitable growth.
Ben Cohen once said, “Business has a responsibility to give back to the community,” and give back it did. Ben & Jerry’s has contributed to communities nationally as well as around the globe, packaging food for local Vermont food banks, rebuilding houses in New Orleans, and constructing a playground in the lower-income neighborhoods of Berlin, Germany.
In April of 2000, Ben and Jerry’s decided to vastly expand that community. The privately held company was sold to Unilever for $326 million. Unilever, which also controls ice cream brands Breyers, Good Humor, Popsicle, and Klondike, claimed its objective was to “create an even more dynamic, socially positive ice cream business with global reach.”
Ben and Jerry’s suddenly went from being a small town Vermont creamery to being part of the world’s largest ice cream manufacturer. As part of the deal, Ben and Jerry’s retained a separate board of directors from Unilever’s other ice cream businesses to maintain its social mission and brand identity. Unilever vowed to continue that social mission internationally.
But, for a hippie-loving, tie-dye-wearing, Phish-following company, selling out to “the man” was met with a decidedly non-groovy reaction.
Bloggers immediately began voicing their concern, arguing that the socially active and mindful Ben & Jerry’s company was making a tragic mistake, selling its soul to the evils of the international, corporate machine. One blogger wrote:
“From reports of animal torture, to ruthless monopolizing of food distribution channels, Unilever acts exactly like you would expect a gigantic global profit machine would. No wonder the hippie movement was such a flash in the pan. You guys (Ben and Jerry) want to make a difference? Be one of the first companies to stand up to the machinery. Pull out of Unilever, and go back to being a private company!”
Of course, this Vietnam-like protest is to be expected when a private company with its own unique social agenda merges with the powers of the corporate world. Unilever declined to comment for this story, but Ben & Jerry’s website explains that the company is aware that many customers have been apprehensive about the change in ownership and insists that it doesn’t signal a change in its mission. “We are happy to assure you that Unilever supports the guiding principles that have been fundamental to our business from the beginning: To look for innovative ways to improve the quality of life of the community in every business decision that we make.”
So even as Deadheads and tree-huggers alike may still be stomping their feet, the Ben & Jerry’s-Unilever marriage continues to prosper, working to expand their 64 flavors of tasty treats to satisfy pallets of consumers all over the world. And while critics still argue that selling out to the man may tarnish the overall goal of the company, Ben & Jerry’s vows to continue to support all organizations that are working toward eliminating the causes of social and environmental issues.
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The likes of Transformers, My Little Pony and Monopoly could soon be heading to the world of 3D printing.
Toy giant Hasbro has partnered with 3D printing specialist 3D Systems to co-develop ‘play printers and platforms’ later this year.
The pair say they will deliver ‘new immersive, creative play experiences’ powered by 3D printing for children and their families.
This partnership combines Hasbro’s portfolio of consumer brands, including Transformers, My Little Pony, Twister, Monopoly, Nerf and Play-Doh, with 3D Systems’ 3D printing products. Both firms will work together to create experiences for kids and families both in the home and online.
"We believe 3D printing offers endless potential to bring incredible new play experiences for kids and we’re excited to work with 3D Systems, a recognised industry leader in this space," said Hasbro President and CEO Brian Goldner.
Avi Reichental, President and CEO at 3D Systems, added: "We are thrilled to collaborate with Hasbro, a premier, global, branded play company, to jointly define, shape and lead the entire digital play space, powered by 3D printing." | <urn:uuid:be8a9373-ab72-4efd-b5c5-d9b65c99b2c4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pcr-online.biz/2014/02/18/hasbro-brings-3d-printing-to-children-and-families/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.946659 | 252 | 1.570313 | 2 |
meanings of which the editor has happily traced to their hieroglyphic
prototypes. Professor Erman has also edited a curious text ((pvXaKTijpLOp)
from the British Museum 12 of which Professor Hyvernat had previously
published a photograph, and which appears to have the object of enabling
those who wish it—thieves, no doubt—to silence a too zealous watch-
dog. The document claims to be written bylsis, and contains examples
of a well-known cryptographic system. Under the title " Heidnisches
iei den Kopten, " the same scholar notices 13 three points of interest—an
obscure mention in one of Shenoute's writings of certain classical
divinities, the eventual degradation of the old Egyptian word for " god "
in Christian times to the meaning " demon," and a text relating a very
curious story of Isis and Horus.
A notice in the Revue Critique shows that M. Amelineau has published
a translation of the "Pistis Sophia";11 but I have not been able to see
The most remarkable event in this branch of Egyptian studies is only
known to us as yet from a notice in a daily paper.15 Dr. Carl Schmidt
had communicated to the Berlin Academy his astonishing discovery of
a 5th century (sic ?) MS. of the greatest importance containing three
Gnostic texts, viz. " the Gospel of Mary/' " the Wisdom of Jesus," and
" the irpd^i<i of Peter." The existence of the first of these had already
been presumed from the testimony of Irenasus.
4. Philological. Professor Erman has given an explanation of the
auxiliary meshe-, meshah, &c.,u which he proposes to add to the very small
list of verbs which represent the old simple conjugation with suffix.
Professor Piehl in two papers 17 discusses (1) the prefix se-, which
he derives from the ancient st; and (2), the mode of expressing the
numeral 80, which he shows to be a compound meaning literally 4 x 20,
as demonstrated by a passage in the " Pistis Sophia."
A reprint of Peyron's Lexicon has appeared in Berlin 18 with the useful
addition of the lists contributed to the Zeitschrift by Goodwin, Kabis
and Bschiai. These twenty pages added to Peyron's work will help, no
doubt, in maintaining its position until the appearance of Dr. Steindorff's
5. Miscellaneous. In his edition of the Ethiopic " Physiologus "
Hommel showed the probability of a Coptic version, and now
Professor Erman has discovered 19 a remnant of it in a fragment of late
date which may be compared with the passages quoted from the same work
in Budge's "St. Michael." The passages preserved in the Berlin frag-
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This time it is Dr. Peter Ridd (an expert in marine physics) who is claiming that there is an even greater swindle going on with respect to the Great Barrier Reef. The title of Dr. Ridd’s opinion piece dated 19th of July 2007, says it all – “The Great Barrier Reef Swindle”.
His thesis? Hundreds of scientists who work on the Great Barrier Reef are all also involved in the same sort of cover-up and conspiracy that we were told about in the Great Climate Change Swindle! Big news indeed.
Yes, same story, scientists make up the doom and gloom tale so that they can get lots of research money from unsuspecting agencies and donors.
Sound familiar? Jennifer Marohasy has written similar things in the past (and she loves his opinion piece!). Oh, and guess who Dr. Peter Ridd reports to in his role as Science Coordinator to the newly created” Australian Environment Foundation“? Yes, none other than its director, Dr. Jennifer Marohasy, also Environment Director to the right wing think tank, the Institute of Public Affairs (IPA). Jennifer also does not believe that the Murray Darling River system is a mess or that carbon dioxide is such a big deal either!
Okay – some much for the fun. Let’s get down to the facts.
What are Dr Ridd’s key messages? They are (with my response underneath):
1. “corals are more tolerant to rising waters temperatures than first thought by most people..” This is a reference to a paper published last week by the Australian Institute of Marine sciences. I have read the paper, though it seems that Peter has not.
The message to Peter is that there is a big difference between a newspaper article and a peer-reviewed publication in a scientific journal. Peter links us from his text to the Australian and … Voilà … that is what the headlines say.
The more diligent of us of course went to the paper and discovered that it didn’t say what the headline (or Piers Ackerman) said it said. In fact, when we profiled it at our blog, Dr. Madeleine van Oppen, the lead author, felt compelled to put a correction on the record and said “The article in today’s Australian is a miss-representation of our work.” Pretty final don’t you think?
Yes, Peter, you will need to go to the original sources next time. That is what other scientists do.
2. ‘Corals are cockroaches’
When I first read this statement, I thought, oh dear, Peter’s lack of training in basic biology has let him down again!” No – I wont be snide, I did actually understand what he was trying to say – and I actually agree with him. Corals are like cockroaches in that they’re extremely difficult to make go extinct. Corals are able to reproduce on their own (asexually) and have some of the largest biogeographical ranges of any organism. This means that they can hang out for long periods as a single individual and still grow and ‘reproduce’ without needing another individual. Their large ranges mean that they are likely to have somewhere, even in a catastrophe, to find shelter and survive. Not that it makes them invincible but it probably increases the odds against their extinction.
What is the point here?
Peter is telling us that we don’t have to worry about the extinction of corals. I also think we don’t have to worry about the extinction of corals. But this isn’t the issue.
The issue is that corals may survive in geological time but may dwindle so that they become very, very rare. That means they won’t be building the reefs that house the thousands of species. Those thousands of species underpin a $5 billion economic nest egg given to us each year from Great Barrier Reef associated fishing and tourism.
Corals can survive catastrophes and have as demonstrated in the geological record. But what Peter doesn’t tell you is that corals are not common during these catastrophes and that it takes thousands if not millions of years the corals to rebuild the coral reefs off to a catastrophe. Trying telling our friends in the tourism industry that they will have to do without corals for 10 let alone 1,000 years!
3. “Corals like it hot”
And so do we. But if you push the temperatures up are too high for us (beyond our coping range) we have big problems. The extraordinary heat wave in Paris in 2003, when over 14,000 people died, is a case in point.
Corals have certainly adapted to the temperature of the local environment. At each of these locations, I will bleach and potentially die when they go beyond the local thermal threshold. Off Sydney, corals will bleach when the water hits 26°C. Off Gladstone, on the southern Great Barrier Reef, I will begin to bleach at 29°C. Off Townsville, they will bleach at 30°C.
Raise the temperature by a further 2°C at each of those locations, however, and the corals will die. Yes, each has adapted (over hundreds if not thousands of years) to the local temperature. But the issue here is not adaptation. It is the rate at which corals can adapt relative than the rate of temperature change.
What Peter Ridd doesn’t tell us is that the current rates of temperature change are at least a hundred times greater than the Ice Age transitions (the period in which the Earth went from being told with lots of on ice to warm like it is today). Yes, at least hundred times as fast. Go get the Vostok Ice core data and calculate it for yourself.
Given that fact, it is perhaps no wonder that mass mortalities of corals are on the rise. In 1998, there was a 16% decrease in the number of corals survey by the multinational Global Coral Reef Monitoring Network (GCRMN). Peter Ridd states that we didn’t lose many corals from the Great Barrier Reef in 1998 or 2002.
Another furphy. Let’s have a look at the actual numbers.
The official figure from the Great Barrier Reef Marine Park Authority was that around about 5% of the corals on the Great Barrier Reef died (“severely damaged”) in each event (1998, 2002). Doesn’t sound like much until you consider the size of the Great Barrier Reef? If one does the calculation, there are probably at least 40,000 km² of corals dominated communities on the Great Barrier Reef. If you use this number as a minimal estimate (and it probably is) then the loss of 5% of 40,000 km² of corals, represents a loss of 2000 km² of coral communities! If you can live with that happening every 3-4 years, Peter, then you’re a better man than I!
But you are right, it is not like what happened in the Western Indian Ocean, on the reefs of the Okinawa, or in Palau or off Scott reef in Western Australia, where between 50 and 90% of the corals disappeared from reefs during 1998. The problem is that the best science (published in peer-reviewed journals) indicates that the frequency of bleaching events is likely to increase in the coming decades. Do we have any credible data to say that we should NOT heed these projections? To my knowledge and expertise, no.
4. ‘Climate change is happened before and has been worse’.
This is a common line from some who focus on long time scales – namely the geological record, which has a time scale that goes well beyond that of the ecological (today). Some (only only a few like Bob Carter and Peter Ridd actually) say that “it’s has all happened before, so why are we worried that it happening today”.
There is a small but critical detail missing from this type of interpretation and conclusion. And that is that the sudden retreat of the glaze or the flooding of coastal Australia at the end of the last Ice Age occurred at rates that were at least a hundred times smaller than the current rate of climate change and what we’ll be seeing in the future.
That is, an early Australian would have to have lived to 5000 years old (not 50) to see the sorts of changes that we are likely to see in the next 50 years. It basically says that early Australians probably only had the vaguest notions that the climate was changing if they had any notions at all. Change was nothing like recent decades or that that is projected.
5. ‘We have been swindled’
At this point, Peter, after trundling through half-facts and half-truths comes to his final section. Here, he lists why he thinks we have been swindled. The first reason given is that “some very bad science is involved”. I have already tackled this above – I think it is a bit rich from a fellow who has not published his objections in a peer-reviewed science journal and has blundered with the facts and science above. Scientists constantly criticize scientific ideas through the vehicle of anonymous peer-review. That is all part of scientific progress. Why hasn’t Peter used this vehicle before?
Secondly, Peter indicates that the examination of the issues for the Great Barrier Reef is dominated by the biological science community which should (but doesn’t according to Dr Ridd) make reference more to the geological history of corals. It is interesting that Dr Ridd has glossed over the work on two of the most prolific authors on the Reef, John Pandolfi (University of Queensland) and John (Charlie) Veron (ex-AIMS now University of Queensland) who have produced a vast literature and trained generations of scientists with the methodology which is constantly calling on our understanding of the geological time frame in which corals and coral reefs have evolved. This sounds like the confusion that Dr Ridd had with thinking that we are worried most about the extinction of corals when we are not.
The last point that Dr Ridd makes is the old argument that scientists are feathering their nests and that they have to mention the “CC” word to get funded. This is a tired old conspiracy theory — the peer review system works in a way that would make conspiracy very extremely difficult. Try running a committee to obtain consensus out of 10 let alone 100 scientists! Granting success works on originality, tractability and having the goods (a solid track record in the peer-reviewed literature). In fact, if you had the track record, and had solidly based evidence that climate change was a myth, then you would probably become one of the most well funded scientists of all time!
In his conclusion, Dr Peter Ridd Peter states that it would be good to have the disgraced director Martin Durkin (producer of “The Great Climate Change Swindle”) come over to Australia and do make “The Great Barrier Reef Swindle”.
I suppose that choosing a producer who faked data, misquoted people and chose to use data selectively is the right man for your job, Peter.
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BT is following in the footsteps of Virgin Media's recent campaign to educate consumers about P2P downloading and going a little further - in that, BT is actually threatening its customers with disconnection from the internet should they be found to be illegally sharing copyrighted music over peer-to-peer (P2P) networks.
The Register reports that BT emailed a customer recently "alleging that she had illegally participated in a network sharing of Biology, a song by Girls Aloud".
BPI talks tough
Geoff Taylor, boss of music industry trade body the British Phonographic Industry (BPI), told The Register: "Establishing partnerships with ISPs is the number one issue for the BPI, and we are beginning to form positive working relationships with BT, Virgin Media and most of the other major ISPs."
Taylor added: "Everyone agrees on where we need to be, and we are working closely with our colleagues across the music community, the more progressive ISPs, and government to get us there."
The BPI provided BT with the evidence to send the letter to the above-mentioned customer – which was proof that an Ares P2P client was installed on her computer, a timestamp, a file name and an IP number.
BT's letter to her reads: "I have received a complaint regarding one of our customers offering copyrighted material over the internet. On investigation, I have found that your account was used to make this offer."
The Register reports that BPI investigators "are simply able to collect lists of IP numbers participating in copyright-infringing P2P networks and trace which operator they belong to.
"Assuming the ISP has agreed to do so, it can then identify the individual account holder without sharing personal information with the BPI."
The BT letter 'recommends' to the user that she check her Wi-Fi connection is secure, she removes all filesharing software from her computer (kindly reminding her that "common filesharing programmes include Limewire, DirectConnect (DC++), eDonkey/eMule and Soulseek"), and that she pass the warning on to others in her household.
BT goes on to threaten the woman in question with disconnection, going beyond Virgin Media's recent "education campaign" initiative with the BPI.
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A Balanced Payments agreement is designed to offer customers the benefit of linking their interest repayments to LIBOR (London Inter Bank Offer Rate) with the additional benefit of fixed monthly payments.
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- Current LIBOR is 0.54%
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Silencing of a single gene, FMR1, is linked to a highly prevalent form of mental retardation, characterized by social and cognitive impairments, known as fragile X syndrome (FXS). The FMR1 gene encodes fragile X mental retardation protein (FMRP), which negatively regulates translation. Knockout of Fmr1 in mice results in enhanced long-term depression (LTD) induced by metabotropic glutamate receptor (mGluR) activation. Despite the evidence implicating FMRP in LTD, the role of FMRP in long-term potentiation (LTP) is less clear. Synaptic strength can be augmented heterosynaptically through the generation and sequestration of plasticity-related proteins, in a cell-wide manner. If heterosynaptic plasticity is altered in Fmr1 knockout (KO) mice, this may explain the cognitive deficits associated with FXS. We induced homosynaptic plasticity using the β-adrenergic receptor (β-AR) agonist, isoproterenol (ISO), which facilitated heterosynaptic LTP that was enhanced in Fmr1 KO mice relative to wild-type (WT) controls. To determine if enhanced heterosynaptic LTP in Fmr1 KO mouse hippocampus requires protein synthesis, we applied a translation inhibitor, emetine (EME). EME blocked homo- and heterosynaptic LTP in both genotypes. We also probed the roles of mTOR and ERK in boosting heterosynaptic LTP in Fmr1 KO mice. Although heterosynaptic LTP was blocked in both WT and KOs by inhibitors of mTOR and ERK, homosynaptic LTP was still enhanced following mTOR inhibition in slices from Fmr1 KO mice. Because mTOR will normally stimulate translation initiation, our results suggest that β-AR stimulation paired with derepression of translation results in enhanced heterosynaptic plasticity. | <urn:uuid:787f6f28-8ecc-4777-8e04-d48ddc299c17> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://experts.colorado.edu/display/pubid_38391 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.909391 | 406 | 1.539063 | 2 |
1915-1978 (Italy-United States)
Harry Bertoia was one of mid-century America’s most influential and beloved designers, developing a use of materials and a trademark minimalist panache that would become his signature. After emigrating to the US from his native Italy 1930, Bertoia began to experiment with using moulded lattice work and welded steel to create his seminal Wire Chair, which he would go onto adapt into numerous other designs. To this day, the Wire Chair and all of its variants still bring a touch of classic 20th century modernism to any setting they sit in, be it a styling metropolitan bar or a relaxing informal dining room.
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Interpretability of machine learning models
21 January 2021
The development of machine learning models that process large amounts of data greatly improves the performance of predictions.
Unlocking the value of data in outdoor agriculture is as much about lowering technology costs as it is about finding sound go-to-market strategies
Throughout their lives, farmers benefit from a limited number of crop cycles and seasons (~60 years for farmers spending their life farming) to understand the various agronomic dynamics of their parcels, acquire experience and adapt their practices over time. Against this limited number of trials stands an extensive range of parameters to leverage in order to increase yields: irrigation level; fertilizers’ rate; phytosanitary products’ rate; soil compaction; sun exposure; synergies between crops; etc. The infinite number of combinations makes decision making in farming a very complex task. On top of this complexity, farmers face pressure to produce more to satisfy increasing food demand (e.g. 8.5bn of individuals to feed by 2030, Food and Agricultural Organization) while dealing with an increasing number of challenges (e.g. soil depletion; water stress; legal environnemental constaints; intrants rising prices; etc.).
This complexity is also compounded by the unpredictable and uncontrollable nature of most parameters with which farmers must contend, especially the weather, implying that the same crop and management choices do not always lead to the same yields. This unpredictability can been removed in controlled environment farming (e.g. vertical farming; greenhouse farming) but remains a major issue for outdoor crops which still represent the overwhelming majority of cultivated surfaces across the globe.
This complexity, historically tackled through transgenerational experience and agronomic know-how, can now also be understood thanks to multiple outdoor agriculture technological innovations. These innovations enable farmers to collect data on their immediate agricultural environment (e.g. fields; crops; weather; etc.) and extract precise insights on their crops’ needs in order to increase yields while optimizing resource allocation at the plant level. The combined emergence of these technologies is generally refered to as ‘precision agriculture’, currently carried by a wide variety of players and technologies.
These technologies carry the promise to support farmers in their daily decision making process and operations by helping them chose the best combinations among all the parameters they have to leverage (e.g. how much inputs should I spread? how many times should I plough? etc.). One broadly adopted use case of precision agriculture is for instance the automation of section cutting and spraying modulation. Based on geolocation data, this technique connects one GPS location system with crop protection sprayers or seed drillers to avoid zone overdosing during field works. According to Arvalis, a French agricultural institute, this technique can represent up to 10-23€/ha savings in phytosanitary products depending on considered crop and farm. Many other technologies and decision support tools have been available for several years now to help farmers better manage their operations. However, despite their visibility and long-time presence on farm shows, these technologies are still unevenly adopted by farmers today. If local weather stations and basic GPS systems seem to have found their ways towards the majority of farms, more sophisticated technologies and techniques such as parcels modulation (e.g. modify inputs and works at the plant level based on parcels’ heterogeneity maps) still remain the exclusivity of a limited number of modern farms.
Several factors are holding back the broader adoption of agricultural and precision AG technologies, which are as much related to financial stakes as to go-to-market issues.
The first innovation hindering factor is parcels’ heterogeneity and ardous comparability. Unlike indoor agriculture where growing conditions are controlled and replicable regardless of considered geography, the agronomic diversity of outdoor parcels is infinite and complicates the production of universal return on investment demonstrations for technology providers. The ‘burden of proof’ must be demonstrated multiple times and on large scales to prove the value of a technological innovation to farmers. For the moment, a lot of AgTech companies demonstrate their value on a use-case basis, limiting the conviction impact to local specific conditions.
Beyond this sometimes challenging value demonstration, AgTech technologies still represent high investment costs for most farmers. Against these costs, return on investment can sometimes prove uncertain for outdoor farmers mostly because of the uncontrollable and unpredictable nature of major growing factors such as the weather, reducing the ability to reproduce with certainty the same result with the same parameters from one year to another year, despite extensive technological equipment.
Eventually, the lack of support and training for farmers can also hinder technology adoption. While farmers are a particularly connected and innovation-friendly public (e.g. 71% of farmers own a smartphone, 72% of them have at least one agricultural app), they also have a complex and time-constrained job. Against this limited amount of time available for technological watch, the AgTech landscape and its multitude of offers is still too fragmented to be easily understood, slowing down technologies adoption.
However, above-mentionned difficulties can all be addressed and partially overcome, thanks to both technical and commercial levers. Technological value demonstrations must first be run on a large scale and multiplied at local levels in order to get over parcel-level experiments’ limited trust generation potential. These large-scale demonstrations close to farmers can be carried out through partnerships with local relays in order to generate trust. Such demonstrations were for instance carried in Britany (France), where the Terrena farming cooperative ran an AB testing of its modulation technology over 4000 parcels, in partnerships with the Brittany Ille Armor’s CUMA federation.
Beyond this trust and value demonstration issue, several ways can be considered to moderate technologies’ cost. Greater sobriety can be integrated by-design in innovations to build technologically nimble offers. Several use cases could for instance be deployed by leveraging the data and computing power of hardware already widely deployed within farms, such as smartphones or tractors (provided that some partnerships are built with OEMs). Likewise, Kuhn developped a free smartphone app (‘Kuhn Easy Maps’) to help farmers navigate through their field and avoid overlap during spraying work.
The other way around, the automation of some technologies can also democratize their use by reducing costs associated to services. This is the promise of autonomous drones (such as those developed by American Robotics), which cut drones’ driving costs by removing the human from the loop.
Besides, non-technical approaches can also help to drive innovation costs down, thanks to investment cost sharing among farmers (e.g. through local collective institutions such as coops, agricultural chambers or technical institutes) or between farmers and other third party players. Costs could for instance be shared with insurance companies (since low risk exposure induced by innovation could imply lower premiums) or local authorities (since private investments can have positive externalities for local communities). Eventually, innovation costs can also be partially passed on to end-consumers through higher selling prices if investments have an established impact on the ecological value of produced crop and strong traceability is ensured. In this respect, current changing consumption habits of people regarding food and sustainability are a positive sign for innovation in agriculture, recognized by investors as funding amounts raised by the AgTech sectors reached record levels this year.
Technological value demonstrations must first be run on a large scale and multiplied at local levels in order to get over parcel-level experiments limited trust generation
Finally, AgTech players can improve their offers’ perceived value and adoption through simple and easy to use designs as well as through better user guidance and training. Such simplicity can be achieved by promoting sober integration into farmers’ existing digital ecosystems (e.g. avoid additional apps to access the service), limited calibration and maintenance requirements but also effortless interoperability with other farmers’ technological ecosystem components. One way to ensure easiness-of-use by-design is to involve partner farmers in the product development and innovation process (e.g. as promoted by the start-up Karnott).
Regarding user guidance and trainings, several best practices can help to foster adoption, from affiliated farmers enrollment in marketing (e.g. as promoted by the start-up Farmitoo) to enhanced presence on farmers’ preferred online communication channels. Indeed farmers are increasingly using social networks on a global scale (e.g. private facebook groups, youtube channels, specialized forums, etc.) to both reach out for advices among peers and engage on a personnal level with their end-customers (e.g. livestream platforms such as Taobao were massively used by Chinese farmers during the Covid-19 crisis), creating unique online spaces for AgTech players to engage with their potential users.
Although it has not reached its full potential yet due to its slow democratization, agricultural data analysis and precision farming represent part of the answer to the challenges of tomorrow’s agriculture as it can help – through technology – to increase yields while rationalizing costs and reduce pressure on ecosystems. However, precision agriculture will have to be coupled with other innovations – not always technological, ranging from biotechnologies to new cultural practices (e.g. vertical farming) as well as fairer and optimized distribution chains (e.g. less waste; shorter circuits) – to take on the challenge of ensuring food security globally while building sustainable farming and food systems.
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Electricians attend different schools, receive various levels of training, and specialize in different areas. However, there are some components of electrical work that all electricians need to understand well. Even with this variety in backgrounds, there are some wiring methods that every electrician should know.
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Here are the basic wiring methods every Blacktown electrician should know.
This is the most common type of wiring used in commercial and industrial buildings. It involves running electrical cables through metal or plastic pipes (conduits). Conduit wiring is more expensive than other types of wiring, but it provides better protection for the electrical cables.
Bundled wiring involves running multiple electrical cables together. This makes the wiring process simpler and cheaper.
Bundled wiring is not as secure as conduit wiring, so it is not often used in commercial or industrial buildings. It is done in some residential settings, though.
Surface-mounted wiring is also known as surface-mount technology (SMT) wiring. It involves mounting electrical components on the surface of a circuit board. Surface-mounted wiring is more expensive than other types of wiring, but it provides better protection for the electrical components.
Underground wiring, as the name implies, involves the running of electrical cables underground. Underground wiring is usually more expensive than other types of wiring, but often worth the expense as the cabling can be hidden from the site.
Surface wiring involves running electrical cables along the surface of a wall or ceiling. It is less expensive than conduit wiring but does not provide as much protection for the electrical cables. Surface wiring is often used in residential settings.
Cleat wiring is one of the most popular methods used by electricians. It involves mounting a metal plate onto the wall and then attaching the wires to the plate using screws or nails. This method is quick and easy, and it provides a neat and tidy finish. This form of wiring is often used in domestic properties and is considered to be very safe.
This is another popular method used by electricians. It involves attaching the wires to wooden battens that are screwed or nailed to the wall. This is a quick and easy method, and it provides a neat and tidy finish.
This is a common method used in commercial properties. It involves running cables through a trunking system, which is essentially a metal or plastic housing that protects the wires. This quick and easy method keeps the cables organized and out of sight.
Cable trunking is ideal for commercial buildings because it can be easily expanded as the need for more cables arises. And, if you ever need to move or replace a cable, it's a simple matter of opening up the trunking and making the necessary changes.
This method uses the electrical wires to be covered with a metal or plastic casing. The casing is then capped at the end to protect the wires. This is a common method used in many homes and businesses.
This method is so popular because it is very efficient and doesn't take up a lot of space. It's also very easy to install and doesn't require much maintenance.
This method uses a lead sheath to cover the electrical wires. The lead sheath is then sealed at the end to protect the wires. This method is commonly used in commercial and industrial applications.
This method is so popular because it is very durable and can withstand a lot of wear and tear. This is because lead is a very strong material. It's also easy to install and doesn't require much maintenance.
So whatever your electrical position - from handyman to expert electrical contractor - you must know all the basic wiring methods to complete your work properly and to ensure that you remain safe when performing any electrical work.
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Digital Trends reports on the issue of identity theft and how people can protect the privacy of their data:
Last year saw an increase in identity theft incidents when compared to 2010. According to a fraud report from Javelin Strategy & Research, there has been an increase of 13 percent in ID Theft for 2011, and some of the blame can be pinned on the rise of social media and smartphone use.
In 2010, roughly ten million adults were victims of ID fraud; that number is now up to 11.6 million adults in 2011. Javelin Strategy & Research’s long-running study surveyed 5,022 US consumers in October 2011 in order pinpoint the impact of fraud, as well as the prime areas of vulnerability. The fraud report found that, in 2011, the main catalysts for the rise in ID theft incidents were the rampant data breaches, negligent smartphone security and publicly displayed personal information on social media sites.
Interestingly, while the fraud incidents are higher for 2011, the costs of identity fraud haven’t increased. Compared to 2004, the consumer’s out-of-pocket costs have actually decreased by 44 percent. The report believes that this is due to the crack-down on authentication by institutions, as well as consumer awareness efforts by the government and institutions. […]
Javelin reports that there was a 67 percent increase in the number of Americans impacted by data breaches last year. The three most common items found to be exposed in a breech are: Credit card number, debit number and social security number. The research found that data breach victims are 9.5 more likely to have an identity fraud incident.
Javelin also found that certain social behaviors put consumers more at risk. Despite warnings that fraudsters often use social media as a resource, the research found that users were sharing a large amount of personal information on their networks; the same type of information used to authenticate identity by institutions. The study found that, of those who had public profiles, 68 percent shared their birthday information, 63 percent shared their high school, 12 percent shared their pet’s name and 18 percent even shared their phone number.
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Many baseball scouts called the young Mickey Mantle the most talented prospect they’d ever seen, and he justified their confidence in his abilities on the field and at the plate by reaching the big leagues in 1951 when he was just 19. The next season, at 20, he replaced Joe DiMaggio as the Yankees’ center fielder and finished third in the MVP voting.
The story of Mantle’s “arc” — from gullible country boy to big city superstar to faded, injury-ravaged icon playing out his last games as a shadow of his former, formidable self — has been told countless times. Here, LIFE presents a quick tour through The Mick’s life, on the field and off, in hopes of providing a glimpse into why one player won the hearts of so many fans across so many years . . . and what the lineaments of an athlete’s life can look like when the stands empty and the fans go home.
Mantle stood 5′ 11″ and weighed roughly 200 lbs. his whole career, but he packed prodigious power into that frame. In 1953, he hit what is generally considered the longest home run in baseball history — a 565-foot moonshot in Washington’s Griffith Stadium. He was especially dangerous as a hitter for two reasons: he was a switch-hitter with power from both sides of the plate, and he had a keen batting eye. He finished in the top three in walks 12 times and had a career on-base percentage of .421.
Mantle was just as big a threat in the postseason. A seven-time champion, he played the second-most World Series games in history and holds Series records for home runs (18), RBIs (40), runs (42), walks (43) and total bases (123).
His last few years as a player, however, were not the best of times, as his body, ravaged by injuries and alcohol abuse, began to betray him. His post-baseball life was also wracked with hardships, including liver failure and the death of his son, Billy. In his prime, though, Mickey Mantle was an absolute wonder on the diamond — a rare combination of speed, power, grace and, perhaps especially, grit. | <urn:uuid:a5a6c148-caf5-4ac8-a5c8-b5e968434b97> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://time.com/3868628/mickey-mantle-photos-of-the-yankee-legend-1952-1967/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00303-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984167 | 468 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Clickbait titles and eye-catching headlines are often used by modern journalists for the purpose of drawing immediate attention to their work. The strategy results in a large number of views, but what we're failing to realize is that imprecise headlines misinform our often non-reading audience.
On Oct. 11, an article titled “Obituary: Great Barrier Reef (25 Million BC-2016)” was posted by Outside and spread rapidly through social media. The post has been shared over 1.42 million times. Most people didn’t bother to read past the title and assumed the Australian reef was ruined.
The Great Barrier reef has officially died https://t.co/Ikn5DBmpGn— The Independent (@Independent) October 15, 2016
The "news" caused immediate outrage among readers. The idea that something so beautiful, a worldwonder even, had died was both astonishing and disappointing.
However, if people had taken a moment to research the situation at all, they'd know the Great Barrier Reef isn’t dead. In fact, the author, Rowan Jacobsen, is not a scientist, either, he's an environmental writer.
93 percent of the reef is affected by bleaching, which is a process through which symbiotic algae causes the reef to turn white due to stressors. This does mean that the reef is in danger of extinction, but it's definitely not gone yet. Unfortunately, the author of the article may have unknowingly deterred people from taking action to save it because they thought it was destroyed.
We can still save the Great Barrier Reef. Please share this ♻️ pic.twitter.com/txv5fywFmH— Gabrielle Webb (@gabswebb) October 15, 2016
Chief of the Coral Reef Ecosystem Program at NOAA’s Pacific Island Fisheries Science Center Russell Brainard said he believes the article was highlighting the urgency of the situation, but that those who don’t have any context “are going to take it at face value that the Great Barrier Reef is dead,” according to the Huffington Post.
This type of journalism has bred an audience that's unable to distinguish satire or clickbait from actual news. Every week I see people on Facebook sharing articles from The Onion and expressing actual anger or disagreement, not realizing the source is a satirical publication.
Social media has played a huge role in the circulation and popularity of clickbait. Publications base their worth on how many shares they get, and not necessarily the quality of their content. When a writer's purpose is to go "viral," they lose the journalistic value of their work.
Milton Coleman, Edith Kinney Gaylord visiting professor in journalism ethics, said the purpose of a headline is to be an accurate summary of a story. He believes that if a journalist can’t attract an audience with the facts, they shouldn’t write the story at all.
“It’s (headline) the effective title of the story, and you want the title to be accurate," Coleman said. "Some words are “sexier” than others, they draw more readers in. But I try to tell my students that what we are doing is not providing content, we’re doing journalism.”
Coleman said you lose credibility as a journalist by misleading an audience and stretching basic ethical principles is bad journalism.
“What kind of journalist are you? How far will you stretch the basic principles?" Coleman said. "The basic principle is the headline should be an accurate reflection of the story.”
We as journalists have to realize that more often than not, a reader gets through the first few paragraphs before they move on to the next story. If you don’t establish early on that your headline is true or false, you risk someone sharing the article or spreading word by mouth in a way that falsely depicts what you're writing about.
Many sectors of journalism are failing at this — on YouTube, creators use jaw-dropping titles to make people click. On E! News, anchors hint at scandals only to reveal later in the show that it was a false rumor they’re dispelling. On Outsideonline.com, they insinuate one of the world's largest and most diverse aquatic reefs has died out to do human error, creating panic and alarm.
However, this isn't just happening in the headlines. Many writers choose cover photos for their articles that are violent or sexual in order to attract more readers. It's sensationalism at its core.
This unethical form of reporting has to end. Modern journalists are too focused on entertaining an audience, and not focused enough on informing them. We'd rather raise our readers' hopes only to let them down, than to not attract them at all. Our job is to spread truth, and this toes the line. We're pushing the public farther and farther away, and wondering why they don't trust us.
Spreading news isn't about flashiness or catching the eye. In this case, the ends do not justify the means. Those extra view counts will never be worth the lessening of your publication's credibility or reputation.
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Designing Quotation Slides in PowerPoint
Author: Geetesh Bajaj
Product/Version: Microsoft PowerPoint 2007
Date Created: April 3rd 2010
Last Updated: April 3rd 2010
Excerpt/Capsule: Learn how you can create separate slides layouts for quotation slides in PowerPoint 2007
One of the strangest things I have found in PowerPoint land is how people create quotation slides -- by default no version of PowerPoint has had a separate layout for quotation slides, and so most people just use the default text and bullet layout for quotation slides. Yes, they do make some small changes on the slides such as removing the bullets, and some adventurous folks may also play with the text treatment -- but don't expect any fancy quotation graphics or any changes in the slide layout.
So we at Indezine.com started with Adobe Illustrator and created a few distinctive quotation marks (see Figure 1) -- to make doubly sure that we end up with something that would work well within PowerPoint, we saved them all as both EMF (vector) and PNG (bitmap with transparency) graphics.
Figure 1: Quotation marks created in Adobe Illustrator
Back in PowerPoint, I created individual slide layouts using PowerPoint 2007 -- I started with PowerPoint 2007's Paper theme, and changed the Theme Colors to start with. Then I created three modifications using background colors contained in the theme. The quotation marks were inserted as pictures -- for the EMFs, I could ungroup and use all the options available in PowerPoint 2007's Drawing Tool Format tab of the Ribbon -- similarly for the PNGs, I could use the Recolor options in the Picture Tools Format tab of the Ribbon.
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2 edition of The Washington almanac for the year of our Lord 1811 ... found in the catalog.
The Washington almanac for the year of our Lord 1811 ...
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the Year of Our Lord, Being the Twenty-Fifth Year of the Independence of the United States of America, Until July Fourth. Charleston: John Dixon Nelson, New Charleston Directory, and Stranger's Guide, for the Year Being the Twenty-Sixth and Twenty-Seventh YearsCited by: 4. Feb 24, · According to some it began when Jesus was born and is continuing to our present era. Some have correctly labelled our period as Current Era. According to the World Encyclopedia the word AD or anui domini (the year of our lord)is an evidence of Christ's influence on mankind.
The Laity's Directory to the Church Service, for the Year of Our Lord, Being the first after Leap Year, and forty-first of the Independence of the United States of America. To which are added, An Obituary, Biography, and an account of the Catholic Churches, Colleges, Seminaries, Benevolent Institutions, &c. &c. in the United States and. Probably the best known of all almanacs. The "Old Farmer's Almanac", North America's oldest, has been continuously published since The current publisher, Yankee Publishing, is in Dublin, New Hampshire and continues to produce a product that strays very little from that which founder, Robert B. Thomas began over two centuries ago.
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Program seeks higher-ed over incarceration, but hurdles remain difficult to clear
When his fellow inmates in a juvenile lockup on Rikers Island first told him about CASES – the abbreviated name for Center for Alternative Sentencing and Employment Services – Antonio*, then 17, paid little attention. “In my mind, it was like, another program — I’m not gonna go,” Antonio said. But once he got in more trouble with the law and ran out of options to secure his release, Antonio reconsidered his standoffish view toward the diversion program. Now 18 years old and in his third semester at Hostos Community College in The Bronx, Antonio is one of CASES’ biggest champions.
After earning his GED through CASES’ Young Adult Scholars program, and then enrolling in the organization’s collegeawareness and skills prep program, Next Steps, Antonio credits CASES with providing crucial financial assistance and guidance to get on track to earn some sort of postsecondary credential, which research shows will be required by about two-thirds of all jobs by 2018.
“We believe that education is one of the best solutions there is for ensuring that court-involved youth have a full range of options and opportunities for economic and social success,” said Yelena Nemoy, project director at National Youth Employment Coalition (NYEC), which singled out Next Steps as one of several programs in its Postsecondary Success Initiative that employ “promising practices.”
Antonio does not pretend that his initial reason for getting into CASES was all that noble, or that he had higher education on his mind.
“CASES was like – to tell you the truth – it was the way out [of jail],” Antonio said. “If I never went to CASES, right now I’d probably be locked up,” he said. “There was no other program for me to go to.”
CASES’ Next Steps program, which had enrolled a total 72 participants as of last December, is part of NYEC’s Postsecondary Success Initiative, or PSI.
The initiative supports a national network of 10 community-based organizations that support “formerly disconnected youth and young adults” ages 16 through 24 during transition to and through postsecondary education.
“Next Steps has created a strong collegegoing culture in our youth programs as the program has dramatically increased the college enrollment of our court-involved young people,” said Loyal Miles, director of development at CASES.
The number of young people who could benefit from such services is substantial. Some 1.3 million young people throughout the nation had contact with the 2010, and nearly 71,000 were being held in juvenile facilities, according to the American Youth Policy Forum, which featured CASES in a recent webinar titled “Building Pathways to Postsecondary Education for Youth Involved in the Justice System.”
Of incarcerated young people, only 30 percent are employed or enrolled in school within 12 months of release, and nearly half return to prison within three years, AYPF reports.
While college credit has been elusive among Next Steps participants (see sidebar, page 12), recidivism has been relatively low, CASES officials say, with just two participants re-incarcerated during the course of their participation in the program.
That’s “an extremely low percentage when compared to the 60 percent of offenders under the age of 25 serving felony jail sentences in New York who will be re-convicted of a new crime within five years,” Miles said, citing a statistic contained within an October 2013 “Criminal Justice Technical Report” issued by the New York State Division of Criminal Justice Services.
Carmen Daugherty, policy director at the Campaign for Youth Justice, an Washington, D.C.-based organization that advocates for various juvenile-justice issues, said postsecondary credentials are particularly important for young people who’ve “already been pushed out of school for various reasons and may lose interest in education.”
“The deeper they go into the system, the harder it may be for them to obtain education,” Daugherty said. “There has to be some sort of continuum of care for these kids.”
One of the most crucial things that organizations can do to help young people who’ve run afoul of the law is to help them acquire the requisite secondary credentials, become more “college ready,” and attain more “college knowledge,” said Nemoy, of NYEC.
Similar thoughts are expressed in NYEC’s report, “Promoting Postsecondary Success of Court-Involved Youth: Lessons From The NYEC Postsecondary Success Pilot:” “Many [young people], particularly those who have been absorbed by the school-to-prison pipeline, have developed negative perceptions of the educational environment,” observe the report authors,
“All of these barriers can cause these students to become frustrated with perceived lack of academic success and with college bureaucracy, causing them to drop out,” the report states.
Antonio is a living testament to that reality. He said he nearly gave up on college the first day he set foot on campus and ran into problems with registration and financial aid.
As he considered quitting before he even started, CASES staff members intervened. A Next Steps staff member helped Antonio set up a payment plan since he was ineligible for full financial aid. CASES staff also provided Antonio with a $500 tuitionassistance scholarship.
“If it wasn’t for that, I probably never would have come back,” Antonio said of his enrollment at Hostos. “I wouldn’t be here, period.”
Although Antonio viewed CASES as a last resort, NYEC considers CASES a leader when it comes to helping court-involved young people into college.
“CASES has developed an approach to assisting participants … in transitioning to college that combines structured, education-focused case management and a strong college-going culture,” states the NYEC report on postsecondary success.
“This approach addresses some of the major barriers to success for CASES students, including lack of services that support educational success, negative identities and self- perceptions, and gaps in college readiness and attachment to education,” the report states.
Investing in the model, Investing in youth
CASES Next Steps’ program received a three-year $500,546 grant from NYEC in 2011 as part of its participation in the PSI.
CASES used the funding to hire a postsecondary education specialist to implement direct services, including ongoing individual case management for all participants in Next Steps and for teaching a college prep class.
Funding from NYEC also supported stipends for books, school supplies and transportation as well as application fees, debt relief, food vouchers and performance incentives for students.
Miles said enrollment in remedial programs, such as CUNY Start, which allows students to meet developmental education requirements prior to enrolling in credit-bearing classes, can be an “effective pathway.”
“This kind of program helps students to fulfill these requirements so that they do not have to enroll in remedial classes that may impact their GPA or that may require the use of financial aid,” Miles said.
However, Miles said, staff at CASES have found that they have to “educate participants on the value of a program like CUNY Start, which many of our students perceive as not being the same as actual college, and their goal is often to get into college as soon as possible.”
To help lessen the reluctance to enroll in programs such as CUNY Start, CASES staff plan to have CUNY Start graduates share their experiences with students in Next Steps, and to have CUNY Start officials advise students about the program’s potential to give them a better shot at graduation.
Some of the money for Next Steps goes toward performance incentives for program participants. The performance incentives have played a crucial role in motivating participants such as Daryl,* a 20-year-old who got involved with CASES in order to get released from jail while facing charges of grand larceny.
“It was exciting,” Daryl said. “It’s not every day you can go get a $500 reward like that for doing something good. It boosts your confidence and makes you want to go harder.”
CASES also augmented the program through funding secured from the New York City Department of Youth and Community Development, which enabled the program to help participants get summer jobs to bridge the interim between semesters.
For Antonio, it was a job as an assistant in the SEEK (Search for Education Elevation Knowledge) program at Baruch College. For Daryl, it was delivering and preparing food for a Syrian grill.
Advocates say that securing funding for programs such as CASES will continue to be a challenge since juvenile justice funds at the federal level have continued to decrease.
Antonio, who has been taking courses in public speaking and the Latino experience at Hostos Community College, has arguments at the ready to finance programs such as Next Steps and organizations such as CASES.
“Without CASES, you would have to feed another inmate,” Antonio said, “because I would definitely be a problem if I didn’t have CASES.”
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I'll never forget the day that mommy brought Little johnny home.
Little johnny was just five pounds.
The doctor said that he might not live for very long.
All because he was so skinny and had a hard time breathing.
But Little johnny did live.
I showed Little Johnny how to say no
How to stick his finger up his nose.
I even taught Little Johnny how to sit up.
But there was a storm.
I'll never forget that storm.
The storm that changed our family.
Little Johnny was very sick and he cried.
He cried when mamma held him.
He cried when papa held him.
He cried no matter what mamma and papa did.
I woke up and asked to hold little Johnny.
Mama didn't want me holding him but papa said that I would be fine.
So I sat down on Grandpa Mark's rocking chair.
I sat down and rocked Little Johnny to sleep.
But then with a crack of thunder and a flash of lightning,
the window broke and Little Johnny woke up.
I had enough time to react and cover Little Johnny.
But, the glass came flying at me and Little Johnny.
The glass cut me and made me bleed.
But I kept Little Johnny safe.
I wouldn't let him get hurt.
Mama and papa came running in.
They saw me and Little Johnny surrounded by glass.
Mama took Little Johnny away from me,
And daddy took me into the car.
We drove to the hospital and they put me on a white bed.
A pretty lady came into my room.
She stuck something in my arm,
and I feel asleep.
I woke up later with bandage all over me.
I wanted to see Little Johnny but no one would let me.
I was let out of the hospital a week later.
When mama and papa came to get me,
Little Johnny wasn't with them.
"Where's Little Johnny?"
Mama looked as if she would cry.
Papa told me that Little Johnny is in Heaven.
I told them that they were lying.
And that Little Johnny was at home waiting for me.
Just like how I would tell him that I would always be home for him.
Papa picked me up and we went home.
Little Johnny wasn't home.
He wasn't any where I looked.
Latter that week we held a funeral.
Every one from town came
Every one was dressed in black,
and every one was crying.
I was very quiet,
I didn't talk the whole time.
Only when I stood in front of his coffin.
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GREEN BAY, Wis. (WFRV) – Tuesday, July 26, marks the beginning of in-person absentee voting ahead of the Aug. 9 primary election.
“In-person absentee voting is just like voting at the polls,” said the City of Green Bay clerk Celestine Jeffreys.
That means you’ll still need a photo I.D., like a passport, Wisconsin driver’s license, or state-issued identification.
This is also a partisan primary, meaning whatever party you choose to vote for at the top of your ballot is the only party you can vote for on the ballot.
“Depending on what party you choose, you go to that section of the ballot only,” Jeffreys added.
Jeffreys wants to remind people ballots are also two-sided.
“For instance, if you’re voting Libertarian, your choices are on the back of the ballot. Just be aware that when you’re voting, know your party and make sure you choose that one,” said Jeffreys.
Jeffreys says these primaries can also lend to people making mistakes without even realizing it.
“If you have not declared a party, and you vote in two different parties, those votes will not be counted,” she explained. “If you choose a party, and vote for candidates in parties other than the party you chose, those votes would not be counted.”
One of the biggest changes you’ll see this time around is the lack of ballot boxes, also known as drop boxes. They are no longer allowed in Wisconsin after a state supreme court ruling.
“We need to get that ballot by 8 p.m. on Aug. 9,” said Jeffreys. “So there is absolutely still time to put that in the mailbox. You can also bring it down in-person to city hall.”
Jeffreys wants to also remind people the only person who can drop off an absentee ballot is the person whose name is on the ballot.
If you are worried you might have made a mistake on your ballot, you should contact your local clerk’s office.
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While putting together Monday’s post on Louvima, I found a few other interesting names in Notes & Queries, so I thought I’d do a follow-up post.
Mr. Cuthbert Bede, the person who started the N&Q conversation on Louvima, actually had more to say about unusual names. Here’s the rest of his letter:
It may be remembered that Sydney Smith invented a new name, Saba, for his daughter (‘Memoirs,’ vol. i p. 22). I once invented a name, Mareli, which was intended as an amalgam of the names Mary Elizabeth. I did this for the purposes of a little story, in which the father of the baby girl has asked two wealthy maiden aunts to be the two godmothers; and he proposes to call the baby Mary Elizabeth; after the respective Christian names of the two aunts. Miss Mary Ricketts consents to this, and promises to give her godchild a handsome present. Miss Elizabeth Meagrim will do the same, provided that the baby is named Elizabeth Mary instead of Mary Elizabeth. Miss Ricketts will no yield; and at the last the father finds a way out of the difficulty by inventing the amalgam Mareli, with which combination the two aunts are satisfied. This little tale was published in a six-shilling volume, ‘The Curate of Cranston, with other Prose and Verse,’ by Cuthbert Bede (Saunders, Otley & Co., 1862). In the obituary of the Times, April 2, 1870, appeared the following;–
“On the 30th ult. at Eastbourne Priory, near Midhurst, Mary Elizabeth (Mareli), third daughter of Francis and Martha Tallant, in her ninth year.”
I conclude that the parents had read my story, and called their child Mareli as a pet name.
The next month, two responses were printed. One was from J. M. Cowper:
Cuthbert Bede’s note on this name reminds me of similar Christian names I have met with while preparing the registers of St. Alphage, Canterbury, for the press. In 1706 Louina Backer was baptized, where probably u=v. If so the name is Lovina. In 1730 Lovevina Cooper was christened, and in 1769 I find a Levina Cramp. Possibly the whole of these may be variants of Lavinia. If not, the first and second go far to prove that Sir Francis Knollys has narrowly escaped “appropriating” an invention of the last century.
The other was from E. Venables:
“Pereant qui ante nos nostra dixerunt.” If Cuthbert Bede coined the name Mareli for one of his fictitious heroines, a very similar name was coined for a real person long before his facile and amusing pen began to be exercised. A lady well known to visitors of Ventnor thirty or forty years ago, the wife of Rev. J. Noble Coleman, incumbent of St. Catherine’s Church, bore the name “Marella,” which was evidently formed in the same way by the combination of portions of two Christian names. I can mention another example. When dining, five-and-thirty years back, wich that excellent archaeologist and accurate editor the late H. T. Riley, I met a young lady who, to my surprise, answered to the name “Marmary.” Asking my host whether I had heard the name aright, he told me that the young lady had been so called after two godmothers, one of whom was named Martha, and the other Mary, her own name combining the two.
Here’s a little more information on Saba: She was born in 1802 and her father, Sydney Smith, was a well-known clergyman and writer. According to a biography of Sydney Smith, Saba was a place-name picked out of the Bible (Psalm 72:10). The name “was bestowed on her in obedience to her father’s conviction that, where parents were constrained to give their child so indistinctive a surname as Smith, they ought to counterbalance it with a Christian name more original and vivacious.”
- Bede, Cuthbert. “Louvima, a New Christian Name.” Notes & Queries 7 Jul. 1888: 6.
- Cowper, J. M. “Louvima, a New Christian Name.” Notes & Queries 4 Aug. 1888: 97.
- Russell, George W. E. Sydney Smith. London: Macmillan, 1905.
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The New Orleans City Council vote on four Confederate monuments continued to draw national attention. At TheRoot.com, Kirsten West Savali called the Confederate States of America "a domestic terrorist group that existed in this country 1860-1865, and one that is still revered by many white Americans who wax nostalgic about a time when the Old South still lived." Savali added, "There is no Gone With the Wind fantasy to protect, only the desperate need of racists to hold on to fond memories of mint juleps, mammies and black people as their property."
Meanwhile, local talk-show host Jeff Crouere took direct aim at Mayor Mitch Landrieu in an essay for TownHall.com, calling Landrieu "arrogant and pompous" and saying the mayor should be recalled — not just for his support of removing the monuments, but for the city's ongoing crime and infrastructure problems. Crouere — who is part of the Monumental Task Committee, one of the groups that filed an injunction after the council's vote — also thought removing the monuments would damage tourism: "These precious tourists, who fund the city's largest industry, will find New Orleans a much less interesting city to visit after the four historic monuments are removed." Not sure that many people come here to check out the Battle of Liberty Place monument ...
Kevin M. Levin of The Atlantic saw opportunity for change. "Ten years after Hurricane Katrina, in a city where fewer than half of the city's working-age African American men are employed and over 50 percent of African Americans live in poverty, there is an opportunity for a new reconstruction," Levin wrote. "Perhaps the public spaces opened up can be used to connect its residents to a past that more accurately reflects the city's shared values and points to a more promising future."
KREWE OF CHEW
ABC News marked the opening of Star Wars: The Force Awakens by spending time with New Orleans' Krewe of Chewbacchus as members attended the first screening: "Led by a trombone-playing Imperial Stormtrooper and featuring an Ewok on saxophone, a brass band welcomed light saber-wielding members of a fantasy-loving Mardi Gras marching club to a distinctly New Orleans-style celebration of Star Wars." May the Fortier be with you ...
LANCE MOORE ON
THE BLACK AND GOLD
Former New Orleans Saints wide receiver Lance Moore didn't learn the team had released him last year from head coach Sean Payton or general manager Mickey Loomis. He read it on Twitter.
"That was kind of a gut punch," Moore told Josh Katzenstein of The Detroit News, just before Moore's current team, the Detroit Lions, traveled to New Orleans for Monday Night Football in the Superdome, which resulted in a dismal 35-27 routing of the Saints.
Moore also said he'd received what were described as "generic letters" from Payton wishing him well in Lions training camp. Of course, Payton isn't on Twitter ...
National Public Radio's Morning Edition had a segment on Cynthia LeJeune Nobles' A Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook, which is subtitled "Recipes From Ignatius J. Reilly's New Orleans." Nobles explains two rarely seen delicacies — wine cakes and daube — as well as "Russian cake" (scraps of doughnuts and cake, glued together with sauce and alcohol).
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December 10 is the day for the annual observance of Human Rights Day which the UN General Assembly designated to commemorate the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. The UDHR, adopted in 1948, lays out the basic human rights that every person is entitled to receive, regardless of race or gender or any other distinction. It was drafted as “a common standard of achievement for all peoples and nations” and was the first universal statement that all human beings have certain inherent rights that are inalienable. Consisting of a preamble and thirty articles covering such human rights as freedom of expression, assembly, movement, and religion, it sets out the basic principle of equality and non-discrimination in terms of the enjoyment of human rights, and affirms that everyone shall be free from slavery, torture, and arbitrary arrest or detention. Article 1 describes the philosophy on which the UDHR is based. It reads:
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If you are considering getting a bachelor degree online, but aren't certain what field to go into, you might consider one of many business administration careers. And if you are a working adult who is looking for a career change but is concerned about leaving everything in order to return to school, you'll be glad to know that there are many accredited online colleges that offer business administration degrees online.
Business administration careers keep the businesses of America operating smoothly. Careers in Business and finance is what Americans - at least those fortunate and smart enough to know that the way to wealth is not through work, but though buying, selling and moving financial instruments - do best. The future of the world belongs to those who know the rules of acquisition and how to apply them to their own advantage. Online business administration degrees will help you find the career path to the top of what is by nature a rigidly hierarchical system.
Most of us would agree that it is better to be in the higher levels of a hierarchical system than toward the bottom. A business administration degree is also quite flexible, and can take you any number of places - something that is quite useful in a dog-eat-dog system in which one's head may be on the chopping block for any reason at any time without warning (metaphorically speaking, of course).
Of course, the unsung hero of any business organization is the "bean-counter" - the accountant. Although it is not nearly as glamorous as many other business careers, the accountant is indispensable to any well-run business; career and job opportunities are plentiful. A good accountant will never lack for employment. Accountants are also frequently self-employed free-lancers as well.
Banking and brokering are very hot careers in the new global economy. As you are probably aware, since 1980 the U.S. has moved its economic base away from manufacturing and real services (now well covered by our good friends in China and India) and toward a financial services base. Investment bankers, commodity brokers and stockbrokers are all positions that provide and control the flow and movement of assets in these areas.
As a human resource manager, you'll be among those that decides who gets the job and who doesn't. While there are many responsibilities for the HR person, the power associated with this career makes it quite worth the extra effort.
These are only a few of the many careers open to one who holds a business administration degree. Jobs for such people abound in the public as well as the private sector. The former offers greater security as well as opportunities to serve the public good. However, the latter is where the money is; it is no coincidence that many who leave government employment go on to highly lucrative careers in the private sector, especially lobbying. Who knows? With the skills you gain working toward a business administration degree online, you may even wind up writing important legislation from a corporate office on K Street! | <urn:uuid:b1b258d4-aaa8-4df8-83cb-33f0a178ced3> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.streetdirectory.com/travel_guide/188741/careers_and_job_hunting/what_types_of_business_administration_careers_are_available.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719453.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00229-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975412 | 592 | 1.882813 | 2 |
"Mc Clain" Surname
Surnames That Sort Like "Mc Clain"
Histopolis sorts surnames ignoring any capitalization, spaces, accents or punctuation in the name. Histopolis sorts "Mc Clain" as "mcclain" and the following surnames sort the same way (meaning they are spelled the same but differ only by capitalization, spaces, accents or punctuation).
Frequency of "Mc Clain" Surname in the US
2000 US Census
Accoring to the US Census Bureau, "McClain" ranked #688 in frequency out of 151,671 surnames for which statistics were released from the 2000 Census. 45,560 people, or approximately 1 in every 5,921 individuals in the US had this surname in 2000.
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Source: "Frequently Occurring Surnames from the Census 2000", US Census Bureau.
1990 US Census
Accoring to the US Census Bureau, "McClain" ranked #553 in frequency out of 88,799 surnames for which statistics were released from the 1990 Census. Approximately 1 in every 4,762 individuals in the US had this surname in 1990.
Source: "Frequently Occurring Surnames from the 1990 Census", US Census Bureau.
"Mc Clain" Graves on Histopolis
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Surnames that Sound Like "Mc Clain"
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Transitioning patients from one setting to another is an especially vulnerable time that can result in adverse effects. According to new data, caregiver engagement across healthcare transitions of chronically ill adults is integral to preventing hospital readmission, leading to better patient outcomes.
The meta-analysis of 54 studies involving over 31,000 patients added evidence proving the value of caregivers and their support to patients following discharge.
When the care team actively partners with caregivers in not only needs assessments and education prior to discharge, but also telemedicine follow-up post-discharge, care teams can improve care coordination, the press release stated.
As adults age with chronic illness, negative changes in health status may result in frequent and often sudden transitions across healthcare settings, such as from home to hospital and back to home or to a skilled nursing facility. On average, older adults will experience between two and five healthcare transitions in the year following a hospitalization.
But the analysis showed this isn’t always happening. Of the care transitions analyzed, only about half (49 percent) included caregiver engagement, the researchers said. The ones that included caregiver engagement yielded better clinical outcomes like lower hospital readmission or rehospitalization rates.
“In my own clinical practice, I have had multiple experiences of caregivers coming to me after a healthcare crisis of their loved ones to reflect on how they didn’t feel adequately prepared to support their loved ones’ care,” Kristin Levoy, PhD, MSN, RN, research scientist at Regenstrief Institute, said in a public statement. “These caregivers felt blindsided by how much care they had to provide and ill-equipped for the weighty healthcare decisions they were involved in.”
Despite caregivers holding a critical role in the patient experience, their needs are often overlooked, the study authors noted. When caregivers are not provided with necessary resources, they cannot provide the proper support and care to patients.
An unrelated 2018 study noted that about 70 percent of family caregivers feel ill-prepared for the job, underscoring a need for family engagement and support. In addition, the survey found that the demands of caring for a sick or aging family member are taking an emotional toll on caregivers. Fifty-three percent of family caregivers said they have high levels of stress.
“Caregivers play a critical role in enhancing patient outcomes and we can do a better job of supporting these unrecognized members of the healthcare team,” Levoy, who is also an assistant professor at Indiana University School of Nursing, explained. “Caregivers often feel abandoned, particularly in times of healthcare crises, like an unexpected hospitalization, and we need to set them up for success, which includes addressing their unique needs. And these needs only grow greater as the chronic illness advances and the patient’s disease and treatment complexity increases.”
Ensuring that caregivers are well-informed and trained makes them more likely to fulfill responsibilities and provide appropriate post-discharge care that can help avoid re-hospitalizations.
Studies have shown that patients with a strong social support presence are more likely to comply with their self-management plans and engage in healthy behaviors.
“Increasing support for caregiver engagement during care transitions may require the development of value-based reimbursement models that reward health care systems for the adoption of caregiver-engaged principles, creating an environment for systemic change in the way healthcare systems conduct business, which may also increase the capability of caregivers to provide care in the home over time, thus, delaying institutionalization,” the study authors stated.
“Whether in research or clinical practice, transitional care should not be conducted without careful consideration of where and how caregivers will be incorporated and supported as active partners in optimizing patient care across health care transitions.”
Since family caregiver engagement is seen as such an integral part of the care experience, the healthcare industry has been looking at ways to increase participation.
Some states have even enforced family engagement through law.
The Ohio Caregiving Act proposed by AARP Ohio requires hospitals to train and engage family caregivers in at-home patient care, easing the transition during hospital discharge.
Representative Sarah LaTourette, another law co-sponsor, explained that this bill will drive patient safety in the discharge and at-home care process. Family members are already providing care for their patients, LaTourette said. Driving family caregiver engagement will make this practice even safer and more efficient.Source: PatientEngagement HIT | <urn:uuid:c3cad2a0-dd8e-42e6-9811-e0885592bf54> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://distilinfo.com/hospitalit/2022/07/22/caregiver-engagement-during-care-transition-cuts-hospital-readmission/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573029.81/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817153027-20220817183027-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.954929 | 922 | 1.992188 | 2 |
The Yeni Valide Mosque is an early 18th century Ottoman mosque built by Ahmet III in honour of his mother. It is located in the Üsküdar district, in the Asian side of Istanbul. The Semsi Pasa Mosque and Mihrimah Sultan Mosque are close by.
- The complex includes a hospice, school, tombs, clock tower and offices. The architecture is typical of the Classical Ottoman period.
- The mosque is most easily identified by the Sultan’s green, birdcage-like tomb (see above), whose meshed roof was designed to keep birds out while allowing rain in to water the garden below.
- The complex is entered through a large gateway, with the Quranic school built above it. This leads into a spacious courtyard featuring an ablution fountain (sadirvan). The grilles of its cistern are highly wrought, their complex geometric pattern echoed in the stone carvings above them.
- The mosque is in the classical style, yet there are Baroque embellishments on the tomb of the Valide Sultan, the neighbouring sebil (kiosk from which drinks were served).
- The interior decoration is dominated by repetitive floral patterns and motifs. The calligraphy is the work of Hezarfen Mehmet Efendi.
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Might have slight differences. They are both in the 4th gen or EF class of civic. 88-91.
How do you replace the alternator on a 1988 Pontiac Fiero
To remove the alternator on 1988 Honda CRX the negative battery must first be disconnected. The belt needs to be loosen and the mounting bolts need to be removed as well. When unmounted the alternator will slide off, and a new unit can be replaced.
No it does not. I have an 88.
1988-1991 Honda civic dx,si,standard civic, crx dx,hf,si any Honda auto trans 1988-1991 will fit it
I don't have a 1988 honda civic sedan. But if someone did, and that sedan had 14 inch wheels, then yes they would fit on them.
There is a video on youtube. Just enter the question into the youtube search and you should find it.
Try looking at the workshop manual http://manualfile.com/Automotive/Honda/honda-civic-1988-1990-workshop-manual.html
Hou much should it cost to replace an alternator for a 1988 acura integra Ls?
No, the 1986 design is structurally different from the 1988 design. They may look similar, but they are very different in size and shape.
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Matthew Litton struggled to find work that accommodated the disabilities he sustained during his nine years with the Marine Corps. Unable to connect with an employer willing to adjust to his medical conditions, the 32-year-old veteran took matters into his own hands -- literally – when he opened his own custom woodworking business in January.
"You get so focused into the woodworking that you forget about everything else," said the Philadelphia native and owner of Litton Woodworking. "I find that it is therapeutic for myself and my doctors noticed a great turnaround, as well as my partner and family."
Prior to starting his own business, Litton held other jobs, including one as a tools and parts attendant at the Philadelphia Naval Yard.
"I worked for not even a year when my disabilities just started affecting what I could and couldn’t do,” he said.
Litton says he experiences pain in his back and legs if he sits in the same position for too long.
“It just kills my back and my legs start going numb,” he said. “It just snowballs.”
He was also diagnosed with post-traumatic stress disorder and suffers from short-term memory loss due to a traumatic brain injury.
"I have to write down where I left off so I know where to pick it up again," he explained. "If I couldn’t find something, I start getting frustrated and angry because now the PTSD and traumatic brain injury are kicking in."
Unable to modify his Naval Yard position to meet his medical needs, Litton left his job in January 2013 and opened his business a year later.
He operated out of his home’s garage for the first half of the year. Using skills he gained working with his uncles as a teenager, he makes one-of-a-kind jewelry boxes, shadow boxes, wine cabinets, tables and more for about five clients a month.
In mid-June, he relocated his workshop to a space within the Lower Bucks Senior Center at 301 Wood St. in Bristol. The new location is more than double the size of his garage and gives potential customers a chance to stop by and see his products, he said.
"Now I have four new clients," Litton said. "And thus far, my disabilities have not gotten in the way."
Even though running a business brings about its own stresses, being able to set his own limitations has helped Litton manage the conditions that held him back in other jobs, according to an expert with the Philadelphia VA Medical Center.
"He is able to titrate what he can tolerate in relation to his symptoms," said Dr. David Oslin, the VA’s Chief of Behavioral Health, who has not treated Litton.
And having a passion for one’s work also aids those dealing with mental illness, he added.
"Having a purpose in life is important to all of us," Oslin explained. "When a veteran with a mental illness, like PTSD, finds a role that they are confident with and can do – that is a substantial benefit to them."
Oslin cautions that becoming an entrepreneur is not the solution for all veterans adjusting to life after their service. Instead he suggests any veteran struggling on the job should seek help.
"Get treatment," urged Oslin. "Don’t try to do this alone."
Along with providing medical treatment, the VA helps connect veterans with work that matches their skills in an environment that does not aggravate any of their symptoms.
"Veterans are folks that volunteer and contribute to society in a very powerful and meaningful way," Oslin said. "When they come as civilians, they want to continue to do that."
For local veterans who want help getting their conditions under control, call the VA Medical Center’s eligibility office at 215-823-6000.
Litton, who regularly checks in with his own doctors, says his woodworking business is the best treatment for him.
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A lot of people are concerned with political polarization–the idea that people are becoming divided into opposing camps that don’t communicate with each other. (Not everyone worries about polarization–some people see it as healthy political competition, others worry about opposite problems such as political apathy and non-participation, and you even used to hear people say that there wasn’t a dime’s worth of difference between the two parties.)
Anyway, polarization can be measured in various ways: one approach is to ask people who they talk with, and find out the extent to which people mostly associate with people similar to them. Another method is to look at people’s positions on the issues and see if most people have extreme positions. Regarding this latter approach, Jeremy Freese points out a potential source of measurement bias:
Occasionally social scientists become interested in whether Americans are becoming “more polarized” in their opinions. The obvious strategy for considering this question is to take a bunch of survey items that have been asked of comparable samples in the past and now, and to look at whether people hold more divergent views now than they did then. . . . [But] people buying survey time are typically interested in questions that vary. If they are asking a question that doesn’t vary, it’s for some reason, like perhaps because it has been asked repeatedly in the past. . . . So, items that would provide evidence of polarization — consensus then, divergence now — are disproportionately less likely to be part of the universe of available items for comparison over time, while items that provide evidence of no polarization — divergence then, consensus now — are disproportionately more likely. And thus researchers claim to producing findings about the world of public opinion when the patterns in their data actually reflect the world of public opinion surveys.
It’s an interesting issue–selection bias of questions rather than the usual worries about survey respondents–and it’s something that Delia and I thought about some when using National Election Studies to analyze trends in issue polarization. These issues are real, although I don’t know that it’s such a problem as you say, because in any case the inferences will be conditional on whatever questions you happen to be studying–so, in any case, the researcher has to justify which issues he or she is looking at.
It happens all the time
Here I just want to point out that these measurement issues are not unique to the study of polarization. For example, is the Supreme Court drifting to the left, the right, or roughly staying the same? These things can be measured, but with difficulty because it depends on the docket for each year.
Or you could even ask simpler questions about median voters. For example, when I wrote why it it can be rational to vote (because you can feel that having your preferred candidate win would likely make a big difference to many millions of people), some people replied that it’s somewhat naive to feel that _your_ preferred candidate will be so great: if approximately half the people preferred Bush and half preferred Kerry, then what makes you so sure that your views are more valid than the other 50% of the population? One difficulty with that argument is that the answer depends on the reference set. For example, suppose you live in Texas. If you voted for Kerry, who are you to say that your judgment is better than the 61% who supported Bush? On the other hand, if you voted for Bush, who are you to say that your judgment is better than the (presumably) vast majority of people around the world who hate the guy? What it means to be in the “center” depends on your reference set. I’m sure there are many other examples of this sort of selection bias in measurements.
Back to polarization
The way that Delia and I actually measured polarization was through correlations between issue attitudes. The idea is that, if the population is becoming more polarized, this should show up as increasing coherence in issue positions, so that if I know where you stand on abortion, I’m more likely to be able to figure out where you stand on social security (for example). You can see our results here: they seem consistent with Fiorina’s theory that voters are sorting into parties more than they are polarizing on the issues.
One other amusing thing (well, it’s amusing if you’re a statistician, maybe)
Polarization is a property of a population, not of individuals. It doesn’t mean anything (usually) to say that “I am polarized” but you can talk about a group of people being polarized into different subgroups, or polarized along some dimensions. The polarization of a group cannot be expressed as a sum or average of polarizations of individuals. It’s an interesting example, because many (most?) of the things we measure in this way tend to be individual properties that we simply aggregate up (for example, the percentage of people who support candidate X, or the average age of people in a group, or whatever). In statistical terms, polarization is a property of the distribution, not of the random variable. | <urn:uuid:0048376b-af20-4152-8bd3-90714006a484> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://statmodeling.stat.columbia.edu/2008/01/16/selection_bias/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.960692 | 1,065 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Races are won on many different levels. It's not just the winning move or the perfect team tactics on the last lap that contribute to a win. It involves preparation at all levels ranging from proper nutrition to an effective training plan.
In this article we will specifically address pre-race tactical preparation. We ask our contributing top Masters racers, Dan Martin (VOS Racing) and Kevin Metcalfe (Team Specialized Racing) how they prepare and execute prior to a race to give them the best opportunity for a successful result.
Pez: When going into a race, what specific "homework" do you do to give yourself the best chance of a successful outcome?
Dan: I think one of the most overlooked and probably the most important part of racing is the mental race buildup. I witnessed many different techniques that people use to reduce the stress of racing rather than deal with it. We have all heard the following over and over:
- I'm just training through this race
- I haven't really trained at all this last week
- I'm not feeling that well today
- I'm just going to see how the race goes
- I am using my training wheels
To me, these are all negative ways to deal with the pre-race stress of racing. Instead of mentally putting yourself into the battle; you are removing yourself. I see this type of thinking, and I have to ask myself "Why did he/she get up at 5 a.m. and drive for two-plus hours to the race just to think like that?"
The bottom line is people are not thinking in a positive way. These will be the same riders that attack at the start of the race, stop rotating in the crucial break, sit at the back of the pack leading into the climb, etc. They are just not planning for their best result.
The stress and nerves you feel before a race is critical. It's there because you care about the race outcome; otherwise, we would not be racing. It is what gets you to the start line on time, what makes you double-check your tire pressure and skewers. Without it you would never get out of bed. Instead of trying to calm it down, try to make it worse.
Think about the upcoming race and the stressful situations that might be presented to you. What if you are dropped on the climb? What if you flat in the final few kilometers? How do you deal with each of these?
My experience has shown me that I will always do things with better judgment the second time around, so I make the first time mental. The second time is the real deal! That is much better than the reverse. The funny thing is that after I go through all these mental drills, I actually feel relaxed and focused.
Kevin: It's nice to know the course. Generally, even if you've never done a particular race before, it's okay because you'll do a number of laps. In that case you end up doing your recon in the early stages of the race.
The downside to that is that maybe you'll get bad advice or guess poorly on your gearing and end up under- or over-geared at a crucial part of the race. In those cases I might choose to go with a wider range cassette than I might otherwise use. You can always not go into the 27 if you don't need it. But if you do need it and you've only got a 23, well, it won't be fun!
Another thing to consider is the prevailing winds. If you are racing in the central valley in Nor-Cal you know that there is a decent chance of a wind from the north. Just by looking at a map you can discern where there might be cross winds and where you need to be alert and up front.
To mentally prepare for a race, I like to think about what parts of the course fit my strengths. Where would be a good place for me to be on the attack? Where would be a place I need to be more defensive? That can depend on your fitness level at the time also.
For example, I am good on the flats, but if I am not fit, a crosswind section that I may normally attack on may become a defensive place for me. | <urn:uuid:de8e561c-244b-49ad-ac5e-c0cb7d6753a2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.active.com/cycling/articles/pre-race-homework-knowing-is-half-the-battle?page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00428-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968562 | 876 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Surrounded by the moat and the oldest part of the town of Aabenraa, the 13th century castle Brundlund (see my previous post) and its park contain one of South Jutland’s most interesting gardens. The medieval castle has served during the years as a royal, ducal and national seat of administration. The turbulent history of the castle belies its wonderful sense of tranquillity today. Since 1998, the castle has housed the region’s art museum; the castle gardens contain permanently exhibited sculptures. The moat not only provides a sound barrier for this quiet space, but a natural environment for water birds. There are numerous old trees to enjoy and at this time of the year you can see the regularly visiting robins and great tits.
By the way: the collecting of sculpture, including that of earlier periods, goes back some 2,000 years in Greece and China, and many collections were available on semi-public display long before the modern museum was invented.
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snunney (104729) 2014-03-31 3:45
A quiet and peaceful scene beautifully captured here. A well composed shot that allows the eyes to focus first on the statue and then move over to the left and take in the village and its bright red roofs. Light and colours are most agreeable and the clarity excellent.
cornejo (45432) 2014-03-31 3:46
Hello Harriet, very good picture of this beautiful and peaceful garden, very well composed and captured in this interesting image, with good sharpness, depth, good light and color. Very good and interesting job well done, congratulations my friend. Thanks for sharing this beautiful work.
Good evening and happy start to the week.
Best wishes from southern Spain.
jurek1951 (42196) 2014-03-31 4:47
mir gefällt die gwählte perspektive sehr.... ein schönes ruhiges plätzchen,
Kamilutka (8107) 2014-03-31 5:00
This place looks very quiet and peaceful and indeed it is nice spot to get away from hustle and bustle of busy day in the town. You caught it very well too from this POV. The statue imitates a person who actually takes a stroll at the lake. Pretty and with very well saturated colors. The light management is also very good.
Thanks for sharing
dip (23890) 2014-03-31 5:44
eine tolle Aufnahme mit hervorragender Bildqualität!
Schöne Lichtstimmung und ein herrliches Farbenspiel,
schöne Grüße aus Athen,
Nicou (148498) 2014-03-31 7:02
Très très belle vue de ce parc de ville sueprbe avec la belle statue quel effet et iamge avec le plan d'eau ce beau gazon la végétation sueprbe.
Bravo et amitié
pajaran (64410) 2014-03-31 8:27
Dobar dan, popodne.
Interesantan i dobar tekst o starom dvorcu i mestu, sa istorijom i opisom ...
Lep pogled na mesto i deo grada u pozadini ...
Dobar snimak, ostrina, kontrast i perspektiva, lepo pokazano mesto, lepe boje.
Dobra kompozicija, lepo mesto za odmor sa lepim pogledom na crvene krovove.
Lepo popodne i sve najbolje u novoj nedelji koja je pocela, srecno.
Good afternoon, this afternoon.
Interesting and good article about the old castle and village, with a history and description of the ...
Nice view of the place and of the city in the background ...
Good shot, sharpness, contrast and perspective, nice place indicated, beautiful colors.
Good composition, nice place for a vacation with a beautiful view of the red roofs.
Nice afternoon and all the best in the new week that started, good luck.
saxo042 (37966) 2014-03-31 9:01
Very attractive colours with this pleasant combination of blue sky, red roofs and green grass. The life in this capture is represented by a statue but it still increases the interest in the picture.
holmertz (57389) 2014-03-31 9:53
No boats this time, but instead a couple of sculptures to catch the attention. They are not alone in this pleasant environment of lawns, neatly trimmed hedges, quiet water and a aprosperous urban area at a reasonable distance. Spring had clearly not yet advanced far, but it looks like having been a very nice and possibly warm day anyway.
Romano46 (18472) 2014-03-31 10:04
uno scorcio molto bello e ripreso molto bene.
Bella composizione, ottima luce e nitidezza impeccabile la rendono molto gradevole.
Splendidi anche i colori con tinte assai delicate e piacevoli.
Ciao e buona settimana
SWEETFREEDOM (24621) 2014-03-31 10:33
i like the red roofs of the village in bg contasting very well with the green lawn in fg. ineresting sculpture and notes.
lousat (95902) 2014-03-31 10:56
Hi Harriet,truly a beautiful corner to take a peaceful break,especially in a perfect sunny day like this,a very rich composition with a perfect quality of details and colors in the best exposure.Have a nice evening and thanks,Luciano
Royaldevon (41819) 2014-03-31 14:48
This is a lovely scene and seems to reveal some warm, spring weather. The light is glorious, creating interesting shadows and colourful reflections.
You have chosen a fine viewpoint which places the statue in a strong position and gives nice balance between the trees.
Isn't it pleasing when spring blossoms and the thought of winter's chill begins to fade!
My warm regards,
jhm (157892) 2014-04-01 4:48
We see less quiet places in the cities, certainly in Belgium becomes these lovely spaces as playground use through children that elder people a little bit provoke.
The river and trees care for a excellent picture.
This is really a wonderful panorama view about these area.
A splendid composition, lovely presentation too.
Very well done, TFS.
Have a nice day,
ikeharel (76145) 2014-04-01 10:44
Good evening harriet,
The statues posted in a great POV over the canal and town on far. a nice addition to the waterfront green lawn, a place to stroll in calm pace.
Fine taken photo.
abmdsudi (57168) 2014-04-01 14:48
Lovely, I adore the clear split of three basic bright colours in this shot which strengthen the total beauty of the landscape. The compo is impressive sufficiently packed with interests around as the contrasty statue firmly holds focus point. As usual your handling of exposure is second to none. it's so peaceful sight and pleasure to view. Well done shot, Congrats.
Silvio1953 (150289) 2014-04-02 10:54
Ciao Harriet, lovely and peaceful composition with beautiful statues, excellent clarity, splendid light and wonderful colors, very well done my friend, ciao Silvio
fds (9569) 2014-04-05 2:03
ciao dear friend kielia another very beautiful place near the denmarck city with great peace and quiet with great space freedom and great colors
i licke very much this super scharpnees
great my dear friend
Buin (42502) 2014-04-05 5:22
Hier sieht alles irgendwie gemütlich aus und die Häuser - dicht an dicht - strahlen Gediegenheit und so etwas wie "Heimat" aus. Das Stück Himmel im Wasser ist ein schönes Detail im Bild.
No map view ?? ;-)
Herzliche Grüße aus dem wieder kühleren Westfalen, nach 23°C vorgestern! Ein schönes Wochenende!
tyro (26142) 2014-04-06 5:13
You have written a very interesting and informative note and given us a delightful photograph to accompany it.
The light and colours are beautifully soft and your photograph is perfectly and pleasingly composed, the two statues making good foreground interest against a background of smooth water and red-roofed houses which stand out beautifully against a fabulous blue sky. Your exposure is perfect and the details and sharpness are exquisite.
Cricri (123740) 2014-04-10 10:19
Un endroit calme et tranquille, loin des bruits de la ville et près de l'eau se qui est encore plus attirant, belle idée ces sculptures dans le parc, celle ci en avant plan semble être vrai comme s'il marchait tranquillement les bras derrière le dos, belle présentation et note
ourania (49861) 2014-04-10 12:11
this scenery looks so peaceful and idyllic, your well considered composition has filled the frame with interest and has created an attractive juxtaposition between the lonely statue in the foreground and the fine town in the distance. I like very much the sense of depth and the elegant barrier of the trees. The colours are natural and splendid. Your note describes a really fascinating place. Congratulations and thank you!
All the best, have a great evening,
danos (101794) 2014-05-06 23:55
a really beautiful and charmy place with the village to be found so close to the lake.The sculptures on the foreground dominating the image making the scene even more effective with the old replicas sculpures from China and Greece must be a very interesting elements for the visitors.
jmdias (67209) 2014-06-21 1:36
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The MOST Theological Collection: Grace, Predestination and the Salvific Will of God: New Answers to Old Questions
507. Perhaps someone may object: "Is it not presumptuous for an ordinary man to think he can see the solution that was obscure or unknown to the great Saints and Doctors of the Church?"
The answer is: No. For many reasons.
1) Because of the progressive clarification of revelation, according to the providential plan, it is to be expected that men in later ages will be able to see more than those in earlier ages. Even a child can see farther than a giant, if he stands on the shoulders of the giant. We see this verified under our eyes today in the natural sciences. Many boys in high school know far more about the natural sciences than did the giants of earlier centuries.
2) Actually, the main elements of our solution are found elsewhere, especially in St. Thomas and St. Francis de Sales, even though some points were still obscure from certain difficulties which divine providence permitted, according to the plan of the gradual clarification of revelation.
3) But especially: Whatever good there may be in this work came from our good Father through the hands of our Spiritual Mother, the Blessed Virgin Mary. For God, as St. Paul tells us, often likes to use worthless, contemptible instruments. Also, the divine decision as to who should find the answer to this problem (and other problems) is a matter of the external economy. But in the external economy, God assigns His gifts not according to human merits, but in other ways. Whatever is deficient in this work is entirely mine.
Finally, we readily submit all these things to the judgment of the Church, being ready to modify it not only according to solemn definitions, but also according to the teaching of the ordinary magisterium of the Church.
However, even after this, at least one thing will always remain true-for we have received that from the Church herself: Whatever be the truth about the distribution of graces, it must always, in each individual case, be such as to be fully pleasing to the most loving heart of Mary, our Spiritual Mother, who is also the Mediatrix of all graces.1
Most hearty thanks, then to our good Father, whose inexpressible love has given us such a Mother: for He is love.
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My first post of this year is also the last post of the Christmas season that officially ends today, the 6th of January which is also called as the Epiphany, the Feast of the Three Kings. Epiphany is celebrated 12 days after Christmas (although some Orthodox churches celebrate it on the 19th of January as they celebrate Christmas on the 7th of January) and is the time when Christians remember the Three Wise Men (also called as the three kings) who visited Jesus after He was born.
The Eve of Epiphany (the 5th of Jan) is also called as the Twelfth Night and is also the tradition behind the Christmas song 'The Twelve Days of Christmas' (if you thought that the 12 days are a countdown to Christmas, you are mistaken - the first day of Christmas is Christmas Day itself - 25th Dec and hence the 12th Day would be the 5th of Jan). From what I gathered from my various searches on the internet, during the medieval and Tudor times the Twelfth Night was a big time celebration with people holding large parties during which something called the Twelfth Night cake was eaten. It was a rich cake made with eggs, butter, fruit, nuts and spices and perhaps the modern Italian Panettone is the one that closely resembles it. I guess the Julekake (the bread chosen for the month of December by Aparna for the monthly bread project - We Knead to Bake# 23) has some similar history behind it and is hence prepared and eaten during Christmas. When I learnt about this bread I felt that the timing couldn't have been any better. It was an easy bread perfect for the season!
Julekake which means 'Yule Bread' in Norwegian is a rich and aromatic bread that is traditionally prepared during the Christmas season in many Scandinavian countries especially Norway. This bread is more like a cake than a bread as it is so rich with dried /candied fruit and so some people frost/ dust it with icing/sugar glaze and garnish it with chopped almonds or crushed sugar candy or more candied fruit on top. With a crumb that is pretty dense and delicious bits of candied fruit included in it, it is a perfect festive bread.
Julekake involves candied fruit, nuts and cardamom to spice it up. However some recipes call for nutmeg or cinnamon. When left plain (without sugar glaze) it is usually served warm with butter or a kind of Norwegian caramelised brown goat milk cheese called Gjeitost / Brunost. Whether plain or glazed the two ingredients that are a must in this bread are raisins and cardamom. I used candied fruit (tutti-frutti) and wished I had added some citrus peel to it too but maybe next time.
This lovely bread needn't wait for the next Christmas season. You can make it anytime with or without the candied fruit and enjoy it warm with some butter for your breakfast. Leftovers if any can be transformed into a delicious french toast and enjoyed with a cup of hot tea! It tastes wonderful, trust me!
I wish all my readers a wonderful, fulfilling and joyful New Year 2015! May you and your family be blessed with happiness, peace, good health and success!
For the dough:
- 2 teaspoons active dry yeast * see notes
- 1/4 cup lukewarm water
- 1/2 cup lukewarm milk
- 1 egg
- 50gm unsalted butter, softened at room temperature
- 1/4 cup sugar * see notes
- 1/4 tsp salt * see notes
- 4 to 5 pods of cardamom, powdered
- 2-1/2 cups all purpose flour (maida)
- 1/2 cup mixed candied fruit or peel (tutti frutti)
- 1/4 cup golden or dark raisins
For the glaze:
- 1 egg, lightly beaten
- 1 tbsp milk
- sugar candy/pearl sugar or crushed sugar cubes and/ or slivered almonds
For the icing:
- 1/2 cup icing sugar
- 1 tablespoon cream or milk
- ¼ teaspoon almond extract (optional)
- 1 tablespoon slivered almonds (optional)
1. First, activate the yeast by placing it in a small bowl. To it, add the lukewarm water, lukewarm milk and 1 teaspoon sugar (from the 1/4 cup sugar) and mix everything together and keep aside for 10-15 mins or until the mixture turns frothy. * see notes
2. In a large mixing bowl add the egg, butter, sugar, salt and the yeast mixture and mix well. Add the flour and the cardamom powder to it and knead until you get a soft, pliable and elastic dough. If the dough is too sticky add a little extra flour or if it feels too hard dab your fingers in water and continue kneading till you get a soft dough.
3. Take the dough out and flatten it into a largish round. Sprinkle the candied fruit and raisins evenly and then roll it up, swiss roll style, knead the dough lightly and roll it up into a ball.
4. Place the dough in a well-oiled bowl and cover the bowl loosely with a tea towel. Keep in a warm place to rise until double in volume, about an hour or so.
5. When done, lightly knead the dough and shape it again into a ball. Place it on a baking tray lined with parchment (or you can also use a cake or loaf tin). Keep it to rise for another 45 minutes.
6. Preheat the oven to 180 degrees C and lightly brush the surface of the dough with the egg wash (beaten egg) or with milk if you want to skip the egg. If you are not going to use the icing sprinkle crushed sugar cubes or slivered almonds on top and bake for about 30 minutes till the bread is golden brown on top. Cover the bread with foil after 15 minutes into the baking time if you feel that it is browning too fast on the surface.
7. Remove and cool completely on a wire rack.
8. For the icing, mix the ingredients together until you get a thick pouring consistency and pour in the centre of the bread - the mixture will dribble along the sides forming a pretty design. Place a tray under the rack to collect the excess icing mixture. Sprinkle chopped almonds or candied peel over it. Let the icing set before serving
1. If the yeast does not turn frothy discard the mixture and try again with a new package of yeast. If the yeast is old or beyond expiry it is pointless using it as the bread won't rise very well or rise at all.
2. If you plan to use the icing, use just about 1/4 cup sugar (as per recipe above). If you won't be using icing then you can increase the sugar to upto 1/2 cup (in total)
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deep pocket..... can have a professional personal tutor for photography and travel to exotic places to take photo.... eg. rent a helicopter to fly up mountain to take sunset...
what I am trying to say is... there are advantages to having deep pockets....
My perception being :-
Deep pocket does not necessarily equate good photography but gets u there faster..
A quote taken somewhere which i agreed to a certain extent.
"Your equipment DOES NOT affect the quality of your image. The less time and effort you spend worrying about your equipment the more time and effort you can spend creating great images. The right equipment just makes it easier, faster or more convenient for you to get the results you need."
a portrait is showing a likeness of a person.
in a good fashion photo, human is always just a props.
in a good portrait, wardrobe is just to complement the person.
as for the "mistake", some "mistake" in a photo is showing the incompetent of the photographer, as this, we simply label it as "mistake"
as for some photos, the "mistake" is being created deliberately or left it there, as in part of a design element in a photo. so we don't label them as "mistake".
eg, subject or camera movement is always no no in most photos, but it can use it to create a sense of dynamic of the photo if it uses correctly.
there are many rules in art/design/photography etc, rules has being set and use, is we learn how we perceive things around us over the human history.
we can break the rule when we want to convey a message in another way, but we must first learn how the rules affect us before we can use or break them,
using/breaking it wisely, we are an artist.
but don't break the rule for the sake of breaking it.
deep pockets does not necessarily result in good photography, but it sure makes photography that much more enjoyable. in the same way that owning a ferrari does not automatically make you a better driver, but it sure makes driving more fun.
feeling good about your equipment does help you feel good about your photographs, and keeps the photography passion alive.
get the best equipment that you can afford, and make the most of it. excellence in photography comes from practice, not purchase.
as with any profession or hobby, having deeper pockets means you have a higher chance of getting better at it because of the training or equipment you can afford. but i believe no one should be limited alone by money
Juz share some personal experience. I have saw friend's comment on some FB photo and curiusity lead me to take closer look at the photos. Even as many of the photo is OOF like my friend have claimed, the person juz claim that the 5DmkII is a 2 year old technology and have oni 9 AF point, slow in focusing...... and he is using 135mm F2.0 prime at a big aperture hence it is not OOF but bokeh.....but it is clear that face less in focus than some other part of the body.
Deeper pocket help good photograper to get the best image but bad one alway put blame on them. I never complain wat the gear i own now becos they far exceeded my wat skill can squeeze from them. if my image suck.... it is my fault....
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gd ! Buy more sell more so that there will be cheap prices in the Buy and Sell !
Yes and No...
Hmmm by any chance is from Mt. E hospital? haha. I think my dad knows someone with exactly the same equipment.Was chatting with a doctor (in private practice) friend of mine and the subject turned to photography. Turns out that he has a $10K Leica M9 with several $4-$5K Leica lens. He uses a Leica X1 ($2000+) as his compact and a top-end Canon EOS as his "DSLR backup" (I assume with the pre-requisite pro lens). At that point, I shut up. Sigh...
Anyway, good equipment does nothing but make shooting easier.
But just because it makes shooting easier, you aren't guaranteed good photos unless your eye is good.
And in case you didn't know, not all good equipment needs to be expensive.
I strongly believe it is the person that is using the camera and his artistic skills in finding a unique angle and/or composition of a subject. There are some photographs of common subjects that is captured is a novel way that evokes a 'wow'. As for equipment, buy the best you can comfortably afford to save you money from upgrading.
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Just 20 per cent of over 50s have consulted an independent financial adviser (IFA) for retirement planning advice, despite increasing pension income concerns, LV= has revealed.
The research found that the number of over 50s seeking retirement planning advice increases to 27 per cent of those within five years of the statutory retirement age.
However, a confident 61 per cent of those abstaining from pension advice say they trust their own judgement when it comes to their financial situation. Commenting, Mike Rogers, LV= chief executive said:
"With a large majority of older workers more concerned than ever about when they will be able to retire and how much money they'll have, it is vital they review their options.
"There are many more investment and income generating options than there used to be for people approaching retirement, but too few are taking advice. As a result millions may miss the opportunity to secure a comfortable retirement," he adds.
In fact, where over 50s have sought advice, the most popular retirement planning advice topics have been ISAs and low risk investments, suggesting that Brits are seeking alternatives to the traditional pension plan.
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Oil lamps are great. They can provide long-burning light that shines brighter and more consistently than a candle. Plus you can make them with just about any jar.
There are couple of different methods to make them. One method is very simple:
Take any kind of jar that has a secure lid. Mason jars work great for this. Poke a small hole in the lid and thread a wick through. You can use a properly made wick, or even just strands of fabric, but a synthetic fiber wick properly made for this purpose is going to work best. They’re cheap, easy to find on sites like Amazon, and are a very valuable item to stock up on for DIY lamps or candles such as this.
Next, fill the jar with your fuel of choice. Olive oil is great but can be expensive, you’ll probably want to opt for lamp oil, which is relatively inexpensive and is sold at hardware stores and Wal-Mart (typically used for things like tiki torches-what you’re making here isn’t terribly different from a tiki torch to be honest).
When the jar is filled with fuel, secure the lid and let the wick soak up the oil. It might take awhile, overnight is best. Then, light the wick and you’ve got yourself a lamp! You’ll need to adjust the wick as it burns, pulling it out as needed, and possibly applying a new one if you don’t have the right ratio of fuel to wick length, which will vary based on the material and fuel you are using.
A good way to prepare these lamps for emergencies would be to prepare the jars with the oil, but to cover with a regular lid and keep the lid with the wick in it separately. That way you’re not taking up too much space but the lamps won’t be vulnerable to spillage or worse-flammable.
Speaking of flammable, obviously these lamps need to be used with caution. The lid needs to be tightly secured and this will make them safer, but of course there’s still the chance of breaking which can cause a fire. Make sure they are somewhere they cannot be easily knocked over whenever they are lit, and use in well-ventilated areas. And make sure to keep buckets of sand, water or a fire extinguisher near by when you are using them.
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MEDLEN, MALCOLM MAXWELL, Staff Sergeant, # 19066440, USAAF
Malcolm M. Medlen was born on 14 January 1919 in Hugo, Choctaw Co., Oklahoma to Claude Medlen (1894-1992) and Martha Lee “Mattie” (Kemper) Medlen (1897-1978). Siblings included Ronald Medlen (1920-1943) and Joyce (Medlen) Vaughn (1939- ).
He registered for the WWII draft on 16 October 1940, employed by L.B. Mathis, resided at 310 E. Main, Hugo, OK, and described himself as 5’11”, 147 lbs, with black hair and gray eyes. He noted a scar near his left ankle. He enlisted in the USAAF in Los Angeles, California, on 23 December 1941. He was trained to maintain the weapons (armorer) on the B-25 Mitchell (excluding bombs). He earned his crewman wings. He was sent overseas through India to China. On 8 April 1944 a B-25D, # 43-3290, assigned to 14th Air Force, 341st Bomb Group, 491st Bomb Squadron (Heavy), Yangkai, China, departed its airfield on a night combat mission southeast to Yulikau Bay when the bombers were attacked by seven enemy Zero fighters. From the flight of B-25s, two B-25s were missing and one was seen to crash. After recovery from China, his remains were buried in the Mount Olivet Cemetery, Hugo, Choctaw Co., Oklahoma.
His brother, Ronald Medlen, born in 1920, served in the USAAF, Staff Sergeant, # 6297785, 340th Bomb Group, 489th Bomb Squadron, from 16 September 1939, and was killed in the training crash of a B-25 Mitchell near Savannah, Georgia, on 12 January 1943. | <urn:uuid:63543af6-43df-4036-a85a-4ac6e8474caf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://miac47burmawwii.org/43-3290-e.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.975784 | 398 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Materials Required: AMERICAN THREAD COMPANY
"AUNT LYDIA'S" HEAVY RUG YARN, Article 235
24 skeins Cream.
7 skeins Pink.
8 skeins Lt. Blue.
Aluminum crochet hook Size H.
Large tapestry needle for sewing.
Each square measures about 10 ½ inches.
15 squares 3 x 5 are required for rug measuring 33 x 56 inches.
BLUE SQUARES: With Blue ch 26, s c in 2nd st from hook, 1 s c in each of the next 24 sts of ch, ch 1, turn.
2nd Row. 1 s c in each s c, ch 1, turn. Repeat the 2nd row 25 times, then without cutting yarn, work 25 s c on each side and 3 s c in each corner, join, cut yarn, turn.
Next Row. Attach Cream and working on wrong side, work 1 loop st in each st and 3 loop sts in center st at each corner (loop st: wind yarn over index finger, insert hook in st, draw yarn through pulling yarn from under index finger, drop loop from finger letting loop fall to right side of work and complete s c).
Next Row. 1 loop st in each loop st working 3 loop sts in center loop st at each corner. Repeat the last row once.
Next Row. 1 loop st in each loop st working 1 loop st, ch 1, 1 loop st in center st at each corner, cut yarn. Work 7 more squares in same manner.
PINK SQUARES: Work 7 squares in same manner using Pink in center.
Sew squares together as illustrated having a Blue square in each of the 4 corners.
EDGE: With Cream work 4 rows of loop sts all around, working 1 loop st in each loop st and 1 loop st, ch 1, 1 loop st in the ch 1 at each corner in each row.
The Crocheted Round Rug Pattern
The Gray and White Oval Rug Pattern
The Footprint Bath Mat Pattern
The Green and White Rug Pattern
The Oval Loop Stitch Rug Pattern
The Black Embroidered Rug Pattern
The Blue and Pink Block Rug Pattern
The Cream and Brown Embroidered Block Rug Pattern
The Yellow and Gray Rug Pattern
The Gray Rug With Stripes Pattern
Toilet Seat Cover and Top Tray Pattern
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Reason, seriousness, mastery over the emotions, the whole murky affair which goes by the name of thought, all the privileges and showpieces of man: what a high price has been paid for them! How much blood and horror is at the bottom of all "good things!"' On the Genealogy of Morals (1887) is a book about the history of ethics and about interpretation. Nietzsche rewrites the former as a history of cruelty, exposing the central values of the Judaeo-Christian and liberal traditions - compassion, equality, justice - as the product of a brutal process of conditioning designed to domesticate the animal vitality of earlier cultures. The result is a book which raises profoundly disquieting issues about the violence of both ethics and interpretation. Nietzsche questions moral certainties by showing that religion and science have no claim to absolute truth, before turning on his own arguments in order to call their very presuppositions into question. The Genealogy is the most sustained of Nietzsche's later works and offers one of the fullest expressions of his characteristic concerns. This edition places his ideas within the cultural context of his own time and stresses the relevance of his work for a contemporary audience. | <urn:uuid:7de9b8e9-dc34-4f65-aad8-9165b6d61e06> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pantarhei.sk/knihy/cudzojazycna-literatura/owc-on-the-genealogy-of-morals.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00192-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.869697 | 336 | 2.5625 | 3 |
Photo: MK Photo, Vancouver Heritage Foundation
As the name suggests, the Vancouver Special housing style originated in this great town. While variations of this design can be seen well beyond British Columbia, its roots – and controversies – can be traced right here. It was famous for being ubiquitous and yet, hated at the same time. While some called it ugly obstructions, others saw it as a symbol of ownership. Today, people are nostalgic for these boxy structures, and Vancouver has come to embrace its homegrown icon.
What is a Vancouver Special?
The Vancouver Heritage Foundation (VHF) defines the Vancouver Special as a front-gabled, 2-storey, boxy house. It usually has a shallow iron or aluminum balcony on the second floor that can be accessed from sliding glass doors. The ground floor, where the main entrance is located at the side, is usually covered with brick, while the second floor has stucco.
Coach lamps can be found on the inside upper corner of the living room window on the second floor. Guardian statues, usually in the form of lions, are often seen mounted at the front gate or stairs. With its uniform look, Vancouver Specials can be usually found alongside other houses in the same design.
Origins of the Vancouver Special
The Vancouver Special was built in response to the city’s stringent zoning laws and emerged as an affordable means of housing for families with small budgets. Created by draftsman Larry Cudney in the 1960s, it would go on to be the popular type of housing for the next 20 years.
As popular as the Vancouver Special was, there was a lot of criticism about it, too. The way it looked was a major disappointment for most people. The box shape, coupled with its size covering most of the lot (blocking the sun as a result), was a major eyesore for many Vancouverites.
Residents often complained about these “monster” homes, with the backlash so bad that neighbourhood organizations would harass building crews to stop further construction.
But despite its infamy, Vancouver Specials continued to be built because it was so cheap to make. It was simple, practical and can be created from inexpensive materials. The homes had no basements, which made them easy to plan, engineer, build and service. This greatly benefitted immigrant and working-class families who barely have a nest egg. Sometimes, the lower floor was even rented out so that the owners had extra help with the monthly payments.
It wasn’t until 1985, when the city introduced a new building code change, that the popularity of the Vancouver Special finally ended.
Vancouver Specials in the 21st century
Today, a smattering of Vancouver Specials remains. According to the Canadian Encyclopedia, Vancouver Specials can be found in the neighbourhoods of Surrey, Richmond and the lower mainland. These once reviled homes are experiencing a renewed interest lately, mainly because their simplicity inspires so much creativity.
Because the house is so spacious, renovators can make changes without affecting the structure. Its floor plan is flexible, and can easily adapt to various lifestyles. If anything, the problem won’t be because you’re limited by the space – you’ll be feeling overwhelmed by all the possibilities!
Perhaps the most famous renovation of a Vancouver Special is the award-winning design by architect Stephanie Robb, the Lakewood Residence. Realtor Rob Zwick gave it a try himself, chronicling his renovating adventures here.
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