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Eagle Scout Vincent Gregory Schneider
Scouts are taught to set high standards and to stand up for what they believe in. The purpose is to build character, to train in the responsibilities of participating citizenship, and to develop personal fitness. Created to teach boys moral and ethical values through outdoor programs that challenge them and teach them respect for nature, one another, and themselves. Scouting has always represented the best in community, leadership, and service. Even though our children are bombarded every day by wrong messages, we have to keep on teaching them to be respectful, polite, loyal, honorable, proud, generous, helpful, and to be good citizens.
Talakto District - Greater Alabama Council - Boy Scouts of America
is listed in the Talakto District's 2006 Eagle Scouts.
Vincent Gregory Schneider Troop 96
Eagle Court Of Honor Ceremony
16 of July 2006 at the CP Church of Gurley Alabama USA
The challenges imposed on the world by the new conditions require our children to be prepared to respond to the demands of the 21st century. Language proficiency, multicultural knowledge, physical, mental, emotional challenges, will make the difference for our children. They must set high standards and stand up for what they believe in. We need to help them build character, to train them to be participating citizens, and develop personal fitness. We must teach our children moral and ethical values through programs that bring challenges.
All photographs were taken by Vincent G. Schneider.
My name is Vincent and I like to be part of the Boy Scouts of America. I bridged in April 2002 and I am now a Star scout. As of February 23,2004 I am the Senior Patrol Leader of Troop 96. I went twice in Europe (France). Once in 1997 and once in 2001. It is important and fun for Americans to visit foreign countries and learn about their history and culture. We must know the world we live in, if we want to understand it.
The scout badge is the badge of the first class boy scout. The three points design of the badge is like the north pointer in the compass sailors used long ago. These three points, like three fingers in the scout sign, stand for the three parts of thee scout oath.
The main part of the badge shows that a scout is able to point the right way in life as truly as the compass points north in the field
The two stars on the right and left top points symbolize scouting ideals of truth and knowledge. Stars guide us at night and remind us of the scout's outdoor life.
The eagle with the shield is the national emblem of the United States of America. It stands for freedom and readiness to defend that freedom.
The scroll with the scout motto "BE PREPARED" is turned upside down to suggest a scout's smile as he dose his duty.
The knot attached to the bottom of the scroll reminds you that as a boy scout, you promise to do a good turn for someone every day. It means you do at least one good turn daily without boasting about it.
The Scout Oath:
On my honor I will do my best to do my duty to God and my country and to obey the scout law; to help other people at all times; to keep myself physically strong, mentally awake, and morally straight.
The Scout Law:
A Scout is trustworthy, loyal, helpful, friendly, courteous, kind, obedient, cheerful, thrifty, brave, clean, and reverent.
Do A Good Turn Daily
Our communities, our
family structures, our parent-child relationships are undergoing tremendous change. Values that used to seem unassailable now seem to be under attack. The issues facing today's youth are violence, infectious disease, fierce economic competition, rapid technological change, and negative peer pressure. Today's youth are likely to have their values and ethics influenced by television or peer groups. One of four American adolescents engages in high-risk behaviors. A recent survey points to lack of values in young people. Each day, America's youth face dozens of important personal choices that can frighten,
overwhelm, or confuse them. Through churches and community organizations, Cub Scout Packs and Boy Scout Troops are sponsored to develop in young men exemplary character needed for tomorrow's leaders. In the search for solid moral ground, America is returning to the values that Scouting never left. What if everyone lived by the Scout Oath and Law?
Information offered by Robert Sentell.
For every 100 boys who join Scouting, records indicate that:
- RARELY will one be brought before the juvenile court system
- 2 will become Eagle Scouts
- 17 will become future Scout volunteers
- 12 will have their first contact with a church
- 1 will enter the clergy
- 5 will earn their church award
- 18 will develop a hobby that will last through their adult life
- 8 will enter a vocation that was learned through the merit badge system
- 1 will use his Scouting skills to save his own life
- 1 will use his Scouting skills to save the life of another person
Scouting's alumni record is equally impressive.
A recent nation-wide survey of high schools revealed the following information:
- 85% of student council presidents were Scouts
- 89% of senior class presidents were Scouts
- 80% of junior class presidents were Scouts
- 75% of school publication editors were Scouts
- 71% of football captains were Scouts
Scouts also account for:
- 64% of Air Force Academy graduates
- 68% of West Point graduates
- 70% of Annapolis graduates
- 72% of Rhodes Scholars
- 85% of F.B.I. agents
- 26 of the first 29 astronauts
Materials found at the U. S. Scouting Service Project, Inc. Website ©1997-2001 may be reproduced and used locally by Scouting volunteers for training purposes consistent with the programs of the Boy Scouts of America (BSA) or other Scouting and Guiding Organizations.
I promise to love God, my family, and my country and to learn about the world.
The Cub Scout Program serves boys in grades 1-5, emphasizing games, crafts, and outdoor programs. It is a family-oriented neighborhood program offering structured activities for youths and adults designed to strengthen the family unit and instill values. Cubs and their adult partners participate in specially designed programs based on their grade level in school: 1st Grade - Tiger Cubs, 2nd Grade - Wolf, 3rd Grade - Bear, 4th and 5th Grade - Webelos.
The Boy Scout Program serves boys ages 11-18 with quality programs that offer action, high adventure outdoor programs, activities, advancement and structure. It is designed to teach self-reliance, improve self-esteem, develop leadership skills, teach appreciation for outdoors, promote good citizenship and instill values to the scouts.
Thanks to the EAA, and to the Moontown Airport, my sister Alexis and I had the great joy to be able to fly an airplane and receive a Young Eagle Certificate!
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The Malays type the biggest community, and they’re outlined as Muslims in the Constitution of Malaysia- in different phrases, if you’re Malay, you might be routinely Muslim. The Malays are the large brothers of politics, dominating the political scene. Their native language is Malay, the national language of the country. They’re also sometimes called ‘bumiputra’, or ‘princes of the soil’ and are favoured with sure affirmative action insurance policies. This has been some extent of discontent with numerous minorities. Amongst others, getting a ten% to 25% low cost when shopping for a home and receiving government tenders and scholarships are some of these benefits. How did this come about? I will let you know extra within the economic system section.
There are lots of stunning canals in Kumarakom which are lined by hibiscus and water lilies offering a superb visible treat for vacationers. If you want to enjoy the spectacular beauty of nature then you should refer good Kumarakom travel guide and may find out the fitting Kumarakom inns and Kumarakom eating places.
Boots and tie shoes merely slow you down.
The city has amazing consuming out locations. There are numerous quick meals and traditional eating places within the metropolis which absolutely should not be missed. Cordelia, Orca & Messa are a few of the most well-known restaurants within the metropolis. The city has a wide range of clubs and pubs which supply exotic music environments that will make you partying the entire night.
Pay attention to your luggage. By no means ever let it out of your sight. Usually there are scenarios that goes one minute it’s there, the opposite minute it’s gone. In places wherein poverty is the main situation, it could help no less than ten households to dwell through chilly nights with that baggage of yours.
The Fundamentals of Beginning a Journey Agency Enterprise
That was a lot to digest. However it’s price understanding how tradition, race and faith work in Malaysia with a purpose to understand Malaysian life. Now exit and see if you can acknowledge who’s Malay, who’s Chinese language, who’s Indian, and who’s, as we Malaysians like to say, Lain-lain, or others.
In true sense India is heaven for those who want to try their palms on some journey sports. Snowboarding, desert safari, river rafting, trekking, mountain climbing, mountaineering, and so forth. are few of the most famous journey activities that India tourism affords to its visitor. The Nice Himalayan area in India has great adventure sports activities potentialities for those who love thrilling and nerve chilling adventure. Few of the world well-known trekking routes in India embody Garhwal, Sikkim, Ladakh and Kumaon.
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For a long time, people have been using mind-altering stuffs in order to avoid misery, suffering, pain and sorrow, and even in recent time, they have taken depression as an ailment and that have preferred use of antidepressants are the cure. However, this is not the truth and people should not do that.
Many affected people have visited a number of doctors in order to get the best medication. In addition to this, there are those that acquire integrative medicines, whose purpose is to intermix both traditional medicines and prescriptions. Despite all this, they don’t get the expected remedies. Below are some of the drug-free solutions to try when you are out of control; Continue reading
Have you encountered trouble during your sleeping? Statistics show that many people lack sleep which is vital for body relaxation. Many people may get nightmares and tiredness which affects the required rest that is offered by sleep.
Below are some of the breathing and meditation secrets for a healthy sleep;
- Try to yawn.
Recent research shows that yawning sets off many kinds of good feelings. This happens at the brain, and it is ideal for tension relief. If you want to have a good sleep, yawn before getting to bed. You can do this a few time so as to release stress and then rest your body. Continue reading
Many people have not realized that nutritional deficiency causes fatigue. Body cells require vitamins so as to generate energy needed for body functions. A recent research shows that many doctors are not aware of this situation and usually ends up giving incorrect diagnosis.
In the Journal of Nutrition, which was published in 2011, it is evident that many youth and adults do not meet the daily mineral and vitamin requirement. Potassium is the most deficient mineral in many adults followed by vitamin K and vitamin E.
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Week 6 iLab—Winner of the Chevy and Ford Racing Teams
TCO 5—Given a simple problem that requires iteration, create a solution algorithm that employs loops.
TCO 6—Given a simple problem that requires simple data structures, design, code, and test a solution algorithm that uses arrays.
TCO 8—Given a more complex problem, develop a complete solution that includes a comprehensive statement of the problem, complete program design, and program documentation.
There are eight cars in each team called Chevy and Ford. One car from each team races its opponent on the drag strip. Read in the racing times for the eight Chevy cars and then read in the times for the eight Ford cars. Store the times into arrays called Chevy[ ] and Ford[ ]. Then list the winner of each pair, giving the number of seconds the winner won by. At the end declare which team won based on which team had the most wins. Below is a sample match.
Enter the times for the Chevy cars: 5.4 7.2 4.0 9.1 5.8 3.9 6.2 8.1
Enter the times for the corresponding Ford cars: 5.8 6.9 3.9 9.2 5.8 3.8 6.0 8.5
And the winners are:
Chevy by 0.4 sec
Ford by 0.3 sec
Ford by 0.1 sec
Chevy by 0.1 sec
Ford by 0.1 sec
Ford by 0.2 sec
Chevy by 0.4 sec
And the winning team is: F O R D !
• Accept the racing times for each of the Chevy cars into the array Chevy[ ].
• Accept the racing times for each of the Ford cars into the array Ford[ ].
• Then declare the wining car for each race, giving the winning time in seconds.
• If the times are identical, then declare the race was a tie.
• Finally, declare which team won the match, assuming a tie is possible.
Be sure to think about the logic and design first (IPO chart, pseudocode, and flowchart), then code the Visual Basic program.
Point distribution for this activity:
Document Points possible Points received
Variable list 10
IPO chart 10
Working program 20
Total Points 60
1—Variable List With Data Type
List all variables you will use (use valid variable names). Indicate whether the data type is string, integer, or decimal, and so on.
List the inputs, any processes/calculations, and outputs. Use the same valid variable names you used in Step 1.
Inputs Process (calculations) Outputs
Use MS Visio to create a flowchart. Paste the flowchart here, or attach it as a separate document. Use the same valid variable names you used in Step 1.
Describe your solution using pseudocode. Use the same valid variable names you selected in Step 1.
5—Visual Basic Code
Screenshot of Running Program
Zipped Project File (submitted to Dropbox)
Copy/paste your Visual Basic code here.
Paste a screenshot(s) of the complete working program here. Use test scenarios to test all possible paths of execution.
Submit a separate zipped file to the Dropbox containing the complete project folder.
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Climate Skeptic Part 5: How Does Climate Change Affect Idaho?
Part 5 of 7 – Continued From Part 4
Authors: Amber Bieg, Deb LaSalle, Zach Bell, Heather Colwell, Kevin Winslow, Jay Schuyler, Alaina Sisco, Mitch Samson
How Does Climate Change Affect Idaho?
The scientific consensus is that a warming of 2 degrees Celsius is unavoidable and that without action we are heading for a 4-degree change within this century. What does this mean for Idaho? It means big extremes: Hotter summers and wetter, and in some places snowier, winters – or more severe droughts. In whichever direction – it’s more extreme.
In Idaho’s Treasure Valley, we typically see 15 days in the summer with temperatures exceeding 90 degrees. It’s forecasted that within the next two decades, we’ll see more than 60 days with temperatures exceeding 90. This change increases overall health, wellbeing, and energy costs. As of July 26, 2022 has seen 17 days with degrees above 100 degrees Fahrenheit – 4 days short of the 2003 record of 20 days. The average number of summer days in Boise with degrees in the triple digits has gone from only a couple of days to now we are seeing more than 2 weeks on average.
The winter of 2016-17 saw a slight shift in the jet stream, which picked up warm moisture from the Pacific, then hit cold air from a northern polar vortex. In Idaho’s Treasure Valley, this resulted in what weather experts called “snowmageddon.” By Jan. 5, 2017, Boise had seen more than 23 inches of snow. That year, the entire region experienced weather anomalies (such as heavy snow, followed by rain, and hail), followed by floods. Idaho Counties Risk Management Program (ICRMP), the state’s insurance program for public infrastructure, used more than 30 percent of its reserves on repairing damage related to these extreme weather events. At the time, the ICRMP director reported that if Idaho experienced just two more seasons with similar weather anomalies, the program would be bankrupt.
Three years later, Boise’s reported snowfall was a mere 3.8 inches by Jan. 5, 2020. This made for an overall lack of snowfall in 2018 and 2019 and, with record high temperatures in December 2019, left Idaho with a major water deficit.
In 2018, Idaho Power, the state’s largest public utility, acknowledged that not only was climate change happening and human-caused, but it also posed a significant risk to the company’s future operations. As a conservative and heavily regulated enterprise, Idaho Power had never before publicly acknowledged climate change. However, that year, the company made a pledge to develop a Climate Change Adaptation Plan. Because Idaho Power is heavily dependent on yearly snowpack for hydroelectric power generation (which makes up 41 percent of its generation), using climate model forecasts is highly strategic. Since then, the company has begun to report to the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosure (TCFD), publicly acknowledging the economic risks of climate change, and making commitments to mitigating GHG emissions. They also have committed to 100 percent clean energy by 2045.
While the transition to low-emissions energy sources isn’t easy, it makes sense in the long term. Idaho Power isn’t alone in these commitments: Nearly all of Idaho’s largest companies have made similar goals. Micron, Simplot, HP, and others all have started to measure the risk and impacts of climate change on their operations and set emissions reduction targets.
In March 2017, more than 600 people attended the Idaho Climate Hearing at the State Capital. Later in 2017, Idaho’s business and political leaders hosted a two-day summit called Safeguarding Idaho’s Economy in a Changing Climate: Idaho Climate Summit, where nearly 600 Idaho businesses and industries participated in a solutions-oriented conversation. This ultimately resulted in the Idaho Climate-Economy Impacts Assessment.
Led by the University of Idaho’s McClure Center for Public Policy, more than 100 researchers and business leaders from across Idaho came together to produce the Idaho Climate-Economy Impacts Assessment published in Spring 2022. The key findings from the Idaho Economy Impacts Assessment are:
- Idaho’s climate is changing
- Idaho is projected to experience increasing temperatures, changes in precipitation, and decreasing snowpack.
- Precipitation patterns will vary across the state. There likely will be increasing precipitation in the winter and early spring, mainly in the form of rain, as well as decreasing summer precipitation.
- An increase in rain-on-snow events is likely. Rain on top of snow leads to increases in floods and land/mudslides.
- Idaho will experience increases in extreme weather events, including drought, floods, and wildfires.
- Changes in climate will impact Idaho’s major economic sectors.
Yale Climate Connections. 1.5 or 2 degrees Celsius of additional global warming: Does it make a difference? Aug 4, 2021
ICRMP. Interview. May 25, 2017
KTVB. 3 years after Snowmageddon, the Treasure Valley experiences an abnormally dry and warm winter. Jan 7, 2020
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5 Ways Americans Spend Their Money (And How You Can Spend Less)
Do you ever wonder how your spending habits compare with those of other Americans? Wonder no more. Here are a few of the everyday purchases that account for a large portion of what we spend our money on – along with some tips on how to save money in these key areas and set aside more for the future.
1. Eating Out
This is a big one. According to the most recent Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS) Consumer Expenditure Survey, the average American household spends about $3,400 a year (about 6% of income) going out to eat. That is close to the amount spent on food that is eaten at home ($4,400), even though most people eat at home far more often, reflecting the high cost of going out to eat.
Is going out to eat worth the added expense? Cutting back on restaurant meals could help you dramatically lower your spending in this category. When you do go out, there are ways you can watch what you spend your money on. Scan the menu for inexpensive options, order water instead of a pricey drink, and take leftovers home to get an extra meal out of the deal.
Do you enjoy happy hour get-togethers with coworkers or a glass of wine (or two) with dinner? You are in good company. According to the BLS survey, Americans spend an average of almost $600 a year (about 1% of income) on alcohol. Because many Americans drink rarely or not at all, those who spend money on alcohol may actually spend far more than this average.
Obviously, completely avoiding alcohol is a sure-fire way to stop spending money on it. But cutting back, buying what’s on sale, and inviting friends over for drinks rather than paying top dollar at a bar can help you spend less on alcohol without cutting it out entirely.
More Americans than ever – almost two-thirds – drink a cup of coffee daily. But that caffeine boost does not come cheap: Research suggests Americans spend, on average, anywhere from $250 to $1,100 a year on coffee.
Here are some ideas on how to save money by reducing your coffee-related spending: Make it at home or at the office and avoid coffee drinks like lattes and blended coffee drinks, which cost much more than a regular old cup of joe.
We all need a break every so often to unwind and recharge. For many of us that involves traveling. Research suggests Americans spend a lot on vacations: 10 – 15% or more of our yearly incomes.
Taking a staycation and relaxing at home or exploring local attractions can save a lot of money. Other tips for how to save money while vacationing include comparing flight and hotel prices online to get the best deal, staying with friends, cooking your own meals on vacation, and looking up free or low-cost activities before you go.
We love our furry friends – and we love to spend money on them. It is estimated that Americans will spend an all-time high of $75.4 billion on our pets in 2019. That is about $890 per pet-owning household.
But anyone whose cat has ever turned a shoebox into a bed or a shoelace into a toy knows that it is often the simplest, least expensive items that make pets the happiest. So, take a picture of that cute dog outfit or funny-but-easily-destroyed toy and instead, give your pet what they want most – your love and attention. Put the money you would have spent on those items in a savings account to prepare for unexpected pet expenses, like vet bills.
HOW DOES YOUR SPENDING STACK UP?
The average American household spends $60,815 a year in total for all expenses, concludes the BLS report. So how does your spending compare?
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A look into a German genre painter's attempt to elevate his craft and advertise his skill.
Max Gaisser, born June 22, 1857 in Augsburg, Germany and died July 20, 1922 in Munich, was a traditional genre painter (or a painter of scenes from everyday life) that focused on interior scenes inspired by the Dutch masters of the 16th and 17th century. He received his education in artmaking first from his father, fellow genre painter Jakob Emanuel Gaisser, and then from Ludwig Lofftz at the Munich Academy of Arts. Though his early works, miniature paintings and illustrations for books, did not afford the artist acclaim, it was his attention to detail and design gained during these formative years that made his later, larger interior paintings both meticulous and delightful.
Genre painting during Gaisser’s time was not as well-respected as other painting subjects. In the major art academies and salons at the time, history painting reigned with depictions of religious, mythological, and historic subjects. Below that was the art of portrait painting, since very important and wealthy people often commissioned these works. Below that was genre painting, and lower still was landscape and still life. Artists were frequently relegated to a specific type of painting during their training at the academy; this was thought to improve the quality of each type of artwork by creating specialists instead of giving artists free reign.
Gaisser was mostly confined to working with genre scenes during his career. However, to show his artistic superiority and talent, he used the background of paintings, including “Planning the Voyage,” to demonstrate his superior skill by painting both portrait paintings and a history painting within his genre scene. This “painting within a painting” technique was frequently used by artists at this time to this end—they were not satisfied with being relegated to a lower genre and thus “rebelled” against their position by painting the higher subjects anyway.
In “Planning the Voyage,” Gaisser draws upon techniques of well-known Dutch masters, which he studied during his study-travels early in his painting career. Borrowing the warmth and figural skill of Rembrandt van Rijn and the light-filled interior scene from Johannes Vermeer, Gaisser’s painting features five men crowding around a table discussing their next venture. The room is filled with soft light and an immense amount of detail. Gaisser includes books and maps strewn across the composition, suggesting the excitement-filled atmosphere of the figures’ meeting. The hanging model ship is directly in sight of the window, hinting at their desired outcome—to set sail. All five men face towards the viewer instead of surrounding the table, suggesting that one of them had made an exciting discovery and called the others over to see it. This may also be a reference to art history—namely, a reference to Leonardo da Vinci’s “The Last Supper,” in which all twelve disciples and Christ himself sit on the same side of the table.
Gaisser’s references to art history and higher genres of painting elevated his work above general genre painting. “Planning the Voyage” is no exception to this extraordinary effort. It is an exciting subject, painted with expert detail and a warm mood that owes much to the masters of the Netherlands and the rest of Europe. Though Gaisser’s name is not as well-known as Rembrandt or Vermeer, his work has a similar warm and captivating effect. | <urn:uuid:e144558b-2ced-4a2f-895d-1e09fc681b34> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://davidbarnettgallery.com/max-gaissers-planning-the-voyage | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.988472 | 739 | 3.171875 | 3 |
On January 29, 2010, inmates in the Virginia Department of Corrections (VDOC) who were deaf or hard of hearing filed a class action lawsuit in the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Virginia under the Americans with Disabilities Act, the Rehabilitation Act, the Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000, and Virginia state law against Virginia state agencies, departments, and employees thereof. The plaintiffs, represented by private counsel, asked the court for declaratory and injunctive relief and damages, claiming that the defendants refused to comply with state and federal laws protecting the rights of the plaintiffs. Specifically, the plaintiffs claimed that the defendants failed to provide adequate access to qualified sign language interpreters, adequate notification of daily events and safety announcements, and adequate means to communicate with individuals outside of prison.
On April 13, 2010, the plaintiffs filed the first amended class action complaint.
On May 11, 2010, upon consideration of the plaintiffs' consent motion to voluntarily dismiss Counts III, IV, IX, and X of the plaintiffs' first amended class action complaint, Judge Ellis dismissed the four counts. On June 21, 2010, the plaintiffs entered a stipulation for voluntary dismissal of three of the individual defendants.
On September 14, 2010, the plaintiffs and the medical provider defendants reach a private settlement agreement in which the defendants agreed to pay a total of $37,500 to the plaintiffs and to the plaintiffs' attorneys and to amend policies to ensure protection of the rights of the plaintiffs. The plaintiffs agreed to dismiss all claims against these defendants.
On October 18, 2010, the plaintiffs and the VDOC defendants reached a private settlement agreement in which the defendants agreed to ensure that deaf inmates would no longer be discriminated against and the plaintiffs agreed to dismiss all remaining claims. The settlement covers a wide variety of issues, including general policies, initial classification, assessment and assignment, housing, provision of auxiliary aids and services, qualifications and use of sign language interpreters, additional communications, disciplinary matters, visual alert notifications, telecommunication devices, training, and monitoring and compliance.
On November 9, 2010, the plaintiffs entered a consent motion for voluntary dismissal of the VDOC defendants. On November 15, 2010, the parties entered a stipulation of voluntary dismissal for all claims. The next day, Judge Ellis dismissed all claims.Jessica Kincaid - 07/07/2014 | <urn:uuid:c5c33602-973b-4445-85b2-c790588daf17> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.clearinghouse.net/detail.php?id=13828 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00440-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93036 | 482 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The last time I went to a Day School at the Birmingham Centre for First World War Studies, it was a pretty blokeish affair. Some excellent lectures on the strategies and tactics of the Battle of the Somme, delivered to an expert audience, clearly alert to the subtleties of military history.
Yesterday, the occasion was a bit different, a day devoted to the subject of women in wartime, approached from four contrasting angles. The audience was sparser than it had been for the Somme, and with a slightly larger sprinkling of women, but they were mostly the Birmingham regulars, I got the impression, coming to hear about aspects of war with which they were less well acquainted.
Jane Potter started off with “Khaki and Kisses”, an account of wartime romantic fiction. No audience can resist Jane’s passionate and colourful book covers, and the lively question time showed that she had sparked off real interest in a subject that most of the audience had previously not considered.
Then Katie Cassell from the Imperial War Museum spoke about the formation of the Women’s Work section at the Museum, from its beginnings in 1917. Dis you know that the original plan for the IWM was a huge building in Hyde Park, based around a vast Memorial Hall, on whose walls would be etched the names of all the fallen? Nor did I. The memorialising aspect of the museum’s work was very important in the early years. They planned to make a collection of photographs of every soldier and sailor killed in the War (and advertised the appeal on the back of ration books containing lard coupons, so that absolutely everyone saw them.)
The Women’s Work Section had a moderately feminist angle. The first Chairman was Lady Priscilla Norman, who had been a suffragette, and there was a desire to record all the ways that women had contributed, so that these would not be forgotten. (The contribution of women to the war effort, after all, was an important argument for extending the suffrage in 1918.) Katie Cassell took us through various stages on the progress of the section. In 1918 the IWM committee arranged an exhibition devoted to Women’s War Work at the Whitechapel Art Gallery. It attracted 82,000 visitors in six weeks, and among the other exhibits they saw a shrine devoted to the women who had died in the war – nurses, munition workers, and so on. Above the shrine was a sign: “They lost their lovely youth facing the rough cloud of war.”
After lunch there was a terrific talk by Juliette Pattinson on the brave women of S.O.E. working in occupied Europe during the Second World War. One sensed the war buffs in the audience responding enthusiastically to these women, especially to the one who lobbed a bomb into Gestapo headquarters, and afterwards said with relish “There were several dozen Germans who wouldn’t be eating lunch that day – or any other day either.” Juliette Pattinson was good on the anxieties about gender aroused by these women actually taking an aggressive part in the war.
I’d like to read her book – but it costs £55. Strictly one for the library list, I suppose. The good publishing news of the day was that Jane Potter’s Boys in Khaki, Girls in Print will soon be out in paperback.
The fourth speaker was Phylomena Badsey on Vera Brittain. She made sense of Brittain’s emotional and intellectual journey to a position of extreme pacifism after her experiences during the Great War, famously recounted in Testament of Youth. This led her to condemn British bombing raids on Germany, and campaign against Bomber Harris.
Vera Brittain was a woman too far for some of the war buffs of Birmingham. “Wrong about absolutely everything!” and “A professional bleeding heart!” they cried. Phylomena Badsey gave a spirited defence of Brittain’s sincerity and consistency (while conceding that the woman had no sense of humour, and could be pretty hard work in conversation.) It was a most enjoyable argument. What little I have read of Brittain seems to have a hectoring undertone (even Testament of Youth) and I don’t find her a very sympathetic writer. But I wonder – has anyone written a comparative study, I wonder, of Rose Macaulay, Cicely Hamilton and Vera Brittain – three good writers – all pushed towards pacifism by their Great War experiences, but in rather different ways.
So – four very good papers, and linked together by the scurrilous banter of John Bourne, director of the Centre. The next Day School will probably be on the Kaiser’s March Offensive of 1918. I’ll try to get to it. | <urn:uuid:b1c3fb59-b19c-4ee8-bd37-108d30a18406> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://greatwarfiction.wordpress.com/2008/02/24/women-and-war-at-birmingham/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00434-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974791 | 998 | 2.3125 | 2 |
Yes. I have divided this into 3 areas – Road Regulations, Gas and Electrics.
Road : There is a system of National Standards for vehicles know as ADRs (Australian Design Rules) in addition to a large number of Australian Standards. However the best source of practical info for ‘Building a Small Trailer ‘ is called VSB1- short for Vehicle Standards Bulletin. VSB1 operates as an alternative to the ADRs and applies for all trailers with an ATM of up to 4500kgs. It contains info on lights, wiring, brakes, draw-bars, axles, dimensions etc etc.
It is the responsibility of the Manufacturer to ensure the trailer meets the standards set out in VSB1. So well worth downloading a copy and having it avaialable as a reference during your build.
Gas : In addition if your Caravan is to have any gas appliances (LPG) then these must be installed by a licensed LP Gas Fitter and certified with a Gas System Compliance Certificate which complies with the Australian Standard for gas compliance AS5601.
Electrics: Also if you have any 240 volt installation then this should comply with AS/NZS 3000. DIY recommends having a fully qualified electrician carry out the 240 V installation and provide a certificate of compliance on completion. | <urn:uuid:97757d60-a98f-4d20-aa03-dbee458ceddd> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.diycaravans.com.au/learning-centre/frequently-asked-questions/does-my-diy-caravan-need-to-comply-with-any-regulations-or-standards/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.941498 | 266 | 1.640625 | 2 |
CCC is part of a Campaign urging the State to Raise the Age of criminal responsibility in New York. Currently, New York is one of only two states (the other is North Carolina) that treats all children as adults in the criminal justice system once they turn 16.
The Campaign is urging the State to amend the law so that the court processes, services and incarceration options are developmentally appropriate for all children. To help convey the facts to advocates, service providers, elected officials and concerned citizens the Campaign has developed fact sheets. The fact sheets include: 1) map showing comparing New York to the rest of the country; 2) a fact sheet on the Raise the Age NY Campaign; and 3) a backgrounder that provides helpful definitions. | <urn:uuid:847c005d-f47b-40f3-80c2-0d9aa8212e0e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cccnewyork.org/data-and-reports/publications/raise-the-age-fact-sheets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00547-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935596 | 149 | 2.21875 | 2 |
A "Heinemann Advanced Shakespeare" version of the play "Measure for Measure", designed for A Level students. Aimed at bridging the gap between GCSE and A Level, the work includes notes to help students understand the text, space for students' own annotation and activities and assignments.
- Limba : Engleza
- Data Publicarii : 22 Jun 2000
- Format : Paperback
- Numar pagini : 288
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ESD generators are widely used for testing the robustness of electronic equipment against human electrostatic discharge via small metal pieces (e.g. key). Presently the IEC 61000-4-2 ESD standard is hotly discussed to improve test result reproducibility. This paper numerically analyzes an ESD simulator and relates its construction parameters to discharge current and field parameters. It uses FDTD method and models the relay (contact mode discharge) as a material with time dependent conductivity. The process is broken down into a charging phase and a stabilization phase until the electrostatic conditions are reached. Then the conductivity of the relay is changed and the discharge process is simulated. A self-developed code is used to simulate the model. The simulation discharge current, measured ESD simulator's current and IEC reference discharge current are compared Some design choices of the generator are simulated.
K. Wang et al., "Numerical Modeling of ESD-Simulators," Proceedings of the IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 2002. EMC 2002, Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE), Aug 2002.
The definitive version is available at http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ISEMC.2002.1032454
IEEE International Symposium on Electromagnetic Compatibility, 2002. EMC 2002
Electrical and Computer Engineering
Keywords and Phrases
IEC Standards; Electrostatic Discharge; Finite Difference Time-Domain Analysis
Article - Conference proceedings
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Barbara McDonald (University of Sydney – Faculty of Law) has published “International Publications and Protection of Reputation: A Margin of Appreciation But Not Subservience?” Alabama Law Review, Vol. 62, No. 3, pp. 477-511, 2011/Sydney Law School Research Paper No. 11/29. Here is the abstract:
In the context of the increasingly global reach of media and communications, this article explores the modern phenomenon of libel proceedings in foreign courts by citizens of other countries, the approach of courts and legislators in dealing with so-called “libel tourists”, and the international policies and principles which determine whether a court will accept jurisdiction over a libel action or enforce a foreign libel judgment. It argues that, in this context, not all foreign claimants are to be dismissed as opportunistic “tourists” and also that, sometimes, regardless of enforceability, there is a value to a claimant in a respected foreign court’s ruling on the libel. Defamation law is strongly reflective of attitudes and national values. While core constitutional law values drive U.S. courts to depart dramatically from the usual assumptions about enforcement of the judgments of civilized nations, the article argues that courts must recognise that universal values of freedom of speech and protection of reputation may play out differently in countries of different social and historical backgrounds. The concept of a margin of appreciation, a concept borrowed from modern European jurisprudence, may assist courts to respect the libel laws of other countries where they do not conform exactly to those of the forum.
The article is available for download at SSRN here.
- UK Libel Reform and the US SPEECH Act: A View from Canada (thetrialwarrior.com)
- Editorial: Libel Tourism, R.I.P.? (nytimes.com)
- “Has Rep. Weiner defamed Twitter & Facebook?” and related posts (beldar.org)
- Senate Passes Libel Tourism Bill: Won’t Recognize Ridiculous Foreign Libel Judgments (techdirt.com)
- Libel Law: Why Science Shouldn’t Be Privileged (refractiveindex.wordpress.com) | <urn:uuid:9c268b56-8745-4b4a-8bdd-992f226f4955> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://thetrialwarrior.com/2011/05/31/barbara-mcdonald-international-publications-and-protection-of-reputation-a-margin-of-appreciation-but-not-subservience/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00253-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.858715 | 463 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Update: I fixed up the script to pull (usually) proper timing from the MIDI, threw together some minimal documentation and released it to the public (see link below).
Basically, it’s possible to compute a combination of (distance, feedrate) along an axis that will cause the stepper motor for that axis to spin at an exact frequency corresponding to a musical note. With a little vector magic, the same can be done for (x, y, z, feedrate) to produce chords as the machine follows a 3D line through space.
*whew* That was the easy part. The real magic will happen in a future post, if I ever get around to it :-) Hint: The fact that notes can and do swap arbitrarily among different axes (while still sounding passable) is important.
How This Works (for CNC-heads):
We have code G1 [pos]x F[feedrate] for linear interpolation at a specific feedrate. Thus need to convert between feedrate in IPM and frequency in Hz (steps per inch or inches per step). My machine as currently configured is 36000 steps/in, so if we wanted it to play middle A (440Hz) (440*60 = 26400 steps/min) we would want to move along a single axis at feedrate (26400/36000 = 0.7333..) IPM.
or more generally, (freq/600) IPM.
Here are the frequencies for one octave. The formula to convert semitones (notes) to their actual frequencies is
f = fRef*2^(x/12)
where fRef is an arbitrarily chosen reference frequency corresponding to a specific note, and x is the number of semitones difference between the note you want and the reference. Middle A (440Hz) is as good a reference note as any, and its MIDI note number is 69, so the formula to calculate frequency for any MIDI note number becomes:
f = 440*2^((x-69)/12)
; C4 = 261.63Hz
; D4 = 293.66
; E4 = 329.63
; F4 = 349.23
; G4 = 392.00
; A4 = 440.00
; B4 = 493.88
; C5 = 523.25
And the G-code with the resulting feedrates to play this scale on my machine:
G1 X1 F0.43605
G1 X2 F0.48943333333333333333333333333333
G1 X3 F0.54938333333333333333333333333333
G1 X4 F0.58205
G1 X5 F0.65333333333333333333333333333333
G1 X6 F0.73333333333333333333333333333333
G1 X7 F0.82313333333333333333333333333333
G1 X8 F0.87208333333333333333333333333333
; Unfortunately, our note duration is now frequency-dependent. If we wanted it to play for 1 minute, we should make the distance
; equal to the feedrate in IPM (or 1/60 of that to play for 1 second, etc.). Easy-peasy so far.
Now let’s complicate things a bit. Suppose we want to play 2 or 3 notes at once. G-code linear interpolation scheme is that in, say, an XYZ move, all the axes arrive at the same time. Feedrate is the speed the tool moves along this *vector*, not the speed of the fastest/arbitrary axis. In other words, you cannot specify individual feedrates for the (x,y,z) axis moves, only one for the resulting vector as a whole. So, since the vector that results from adding 2 ore more axis moves will always be longer than either of the individual axis moves (for the 2-axis case, think the hypotenuse of a right triangle) the feedrate we set will be faster than the highest note, and will depend on the individual notes and their contributions to that vector.
Assume the bog-standard C-E-G chord. To play each on its own for 1 second…
G1 X0.0072675 F0.43605 ; move this distance
G1 X0.0164238 F0.54938 ; move 0.009156333…
G1 X0.0273126 F0.65333 ; move 0.010888833…
…but we want to combine these into a single (x,y,z) vector at a single feedrate.
The vector is obviously (0,0,0 to .00726, .00915, .01088), and its length is given by sqrt(x^2 + y^2 + z^2). Remember we are playing all three notes for the same length of time. The vector has lengthened, but the desired playing time has not, so we need to choose the feedrate for this new distance that yields the same travel time.
Regardless of how the length or rate changes, the (x,y,z) components remain proportional to one another. Just pick one of the individual axes/notes as a reference, compare the final vector length to the length of the reference note and bump the feedrate proportionally to the change in length. In this case we arbitrarily select the highest note as the reference, and the ratio of the final feedrate (unknown) to the reference feedrate (known) should equal the ratio of the 3D vector length (known) to the reference length (known). It’s almost too easy!
3D Vector length: 0.015975658808286373765422932349422
Feedrate: (newlength/oldlength) * oldfeed
= 1.4671598699591015644580950363551 * 0.65333 = 0.9585395578403798251074072301019
G1 X0.0072675 Y0.009156333 Z0.010888833 F0.95853955
Just remember that *any* change of any note requires computing a fresh new vector, so long notes will have to be split up wherever another concurrent note changes. | <urn:uuid:b8157451-b20b-49b4-9ba0-66ffc181ee01> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://tim.cexx.org/?p=633 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00427-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.798323 | 1,336 | 2.375 | 2 |
ABC Middle/Senior Maths Kit
Complete practical resources for the 3rd to 6th Class Maths Curriculum.
The ABC Lower Primary Maths Kit is an exciting complete set of practical resources for the 3rd to 6th Class Maths Curriculum. Assembled in close consultation with practicing Primary School teachers each component has been carefully selected to ensure quality and value for money and is a great hands-on resource to help consolidate the teaching of maths concepts.
The complete kit is supplied in a sturdy, transparent plastic storage container with secure clip seal lid.
NOTE: Each of the items in the kit can also be purchased individually.
The Middle/Senior Maths Kit contains:
Base Ten Plastic Starter Set 121 Pieces
10 x Tape Measures 1.5 Metre
51 x Fractions Soft Plastic Round
51 x Rainbow Fraction Squares
100 x Linking Cubes 2cm
105 x Plastic Cuisenaire Rods
Tangrams Classpack 6 Colours
Fraction Geoboard Set of 61 Pcs
Euro Coin Class Set of 740 w/Storage Box
1 x Litre-box with Lid
1 x Indoor/Outdoor Classroom Thermometer
51 x Fraction Plastic Tiles in a Tray
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Agan Town: Fifteen years after coal mining ends
Agan is a small town located in Northwestern China, close to Gansu Province’s capital city, Lanzhou. For almost 600 hundred years, the town was rich because of its abundance of coal. But by 2000, after years of exploiting this resource, there was no more coal and the town went bankrupt. Thousands of people lost their jobs. Fifteen years later Agan is little more than a ghost town—young people have moved out, leaving behind their children with their old parents; the coal mine is abandoned and people are living in extreme poverty. This documentary navigates the living conditions of the remaining town residents. | <urn:uuid:34297ec7-f03c-4acb-b2a2-621beb755840> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://pavementpieces.com/agan-town-fifteen-years-after-coal-mining-ends/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00343-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980588 | 139 | 3.09375 | 3 |
The head of an 800-year-old mummy known as “The Crusader” was stolen from the crypts beneath St. Michan’s Church in Ireland. The church was founded in 1095 and houses five crypts in which the mummified remains of prominent Dubliners remain from 1600 to 1800. Along with the head that was stolen, several other remains disturbed, including a nun whose body dates back 400 years.
The damage to the bodies was discovered by a guide at St. Michan’s Church on February 25, 2019, as he was preparing to open the church to the public. According to the Church of Ireland, the vandals are suspected to have broken into the underground vaults of the church over the weekend. Supposedly, They broke open that vault, it’s a big heavy steel door, and broke open one of the coffins,” says Archdeacon of Dublin, David Pierpoint.
Pierpoint added in his statement “These are people who have been lying at rest for years and years and to have them desecrated in such a sacrilegious way is so distressing and disturbing. I can’t put it in words, I’m quite disgusted.” He also urges the thieves to return the head to where it belongs.
Since the vandals broke open the vaults, they have begun to worry that the open air will further damage many of the bodies in the vaults. Currently, tours have been canceled and an investigation by Ireland’s police is underway. | <urn:uuid:eee15a60-8f01-4e7b-bf9d-7ca6b1ab4801> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.postfun.com/weird/an-800-year-old-mummy-head-was-stolen-from-an-irish-church/?view-all | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.983761 | 323 | 2.296875 | 2 |
Watching the CBS Evening News last night, I was quite surprised to hear a comment by Katie Couric, a piece of news of which I was totally unaware. According to Couric (in a story about the President's plans to increase military strength in Iraq), the majority of America believes we cannot win in Iraq. That was the statement. She made it in passing (so much so that my wife missed it entirely). It was something like "While polls show that most Americans believe we cannot win the war in Iraq, the President believes we can."
Completely aside from whether or not one is for or against the war, for or against keeping troops there, or for or against the President, I am wondering if this is true. Is it true that most Americans believe that it is impossible for us to finish the task of placing a democratic government in Iraq?
I ask because it would certainly answer the question I asked here. If most Americans believe that we are incapable of accomplishing the task, then my "What then?" answer would be, "Nothing! Write off Iraq! We need to run and hide." | <urn:uuid:6b2ae6a2-683f-46f1-8094-594f8b8482bf> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://birdsoftheair.blogspot.com/2006/12/really.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720737.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00221-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97986 | 226 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Cayman Snorkeling provides a quick, easy and very affordable means of exposing almost anyone to Cayman’s spectacular underwater world. A mask and fins—available for sale or rent at any of our recommended dive operators is all that you need to participate in this fun and exciting activity. Note: we recommend bringing a surface flag or other means of alerting others to your position.
If you haven’t snorkeled before, begin in the shallow water of a calm sandy beach. Always snorkel with a buddy, and help each other as you don your mask and fins in waist-deep water. Practice clearing your snorkel with a fast exhale and lie motionless face down while breathing normally through the snorkel to gain confidence in your ability to float effortlessly on the surface.
As you venture out to Cayman’s deeper waters, be mindful of currents and keep a watchful eye on your point of entry. Darker areas below the surface usually denote the presence of a reef system, sometimes as shallow as only several feet below the surface. Even at these depths, Cayman Islands snorkeling will reward you with sightings of myriad species of colorful fish, including: snapper, angelfish, tang, barracuda, damselfish, trumpet fish, starfish, turtles, parrot fish and many more.
Snorkeling in Grand Cayman or virtually anywhere in the Cayman Islands will expose you to approximately two hundred species of corals and over a thousand species of fish in very different appearances depending on their stage of development. For instance, a juvenile parrot fish looks completely different from an adult parrot fish and there are several different genera of parrot fish, many of which play important roles in creating the soft white sand beaches surrounding the Cayman Islands, as explained in our Cayman Beach Tour.
Grand Cayman snorkeling conditions and topography vary significantly depending on the weather conditions and snorkel site, which are explained in great detail in our Cayman Snorkel Sites Tour. In general, snorkeling around Grand Cayman will involve distances of up to 30 yards from shore to depths not often exceeding 30 feet; anything farther or deeper not being particularly conducive for snorkeling.
Take three deep breaths (and no more), holding the third breath deeply; immediately bend over forward while lifting your legs towards the ski and start kicking as you begin your descent.
PLEASE DO NOT TOUCH ANYTHING!
Most divers gain at least a rudimentary level of marine awareness during their certification course given even a moderately qualified instructor; absent the need for any formal snorkel training, many snorkelers are not even remotely aware of the amount of damage they cause. Owing to the irreparable and exponential destruction of the world’s reefs, some 90% of our reef environment is immediately threatened and over 20% has already been completely destroyed. It takes most species of coral between one and ten years to grow a single inch. Just imagine the enormous amount of destruction that could be caused by a single callous fin kick or any number of means of incidental or accidental contact. A living reef is among the most intricate enigmas in all of nature, second only perhaps to the rain forest. Besides the beauty and vital role our reefs play in the overall health of our planet, their potential benefit to medicine is also tremendous. All of this notwithstanding, there are many fish, such as the lionfish, corals and other creatures that can deliver a painful—and sometimes toxic sting!
Starfish Beach, or Starfish Point, is one of the most popular snorkel sites in Grand Cayman, owing primarily to its resident starfish population. Starfish is a misnomer as they are echinoderms -several species away from fish. Sea Star is a far more accurate name. The water at Starfish Beach is typically crystal clear and calm. Situated in Cayman Kai, look for the Starfish Beach sign and wade out to see these brilliantly colored and fascinating creatures. PLEASE do not take them out of the water! Even handling them is a cause for stress and diversion of energy otherwise crucial to their survival. The water is so shallow and clear that you will be able to obtain excellent photos with you and the starfish without the need of an underwater camera or any physical contact with the Sea Stars.
Excellent snorkeling can be enjoyed in the waters off virtually any resort or condo’ on Seven Mile Beach. Other popular spots include: Cemetery Beach, Public Beach, Wreck of the Cali , Smith Cove, Eden Rock, and Devil’s Grotto. The most spectacular areas are near the Cracked Conch and Old Man Bay in Northside. All of these and many more popular Cayman Islands snorkeling locations are listed on our snorkel site map and covered in great detail in our Cayman Snorkel Site guide.
After several Cayman Islands snorkeling adventures the intrigue and natural quest for adventure inspires most to broaden their underwater experiences. The next step would involve a SCUBA resort course from one of our recommended Cayman Islands dive operators, which provides a brief introduction into the fascinating world of diving under the close supervision of a highly qualified instructor. For those not quite ready for that but still seeking a little more underwater freedom, a snuba or helmet dive experience may offer a more comfortable experience.
In very rare cases and usually because of some type of physical restriction, some individuals will be better suited to a dry underwater experience, which can be easily accomplished with a variety of exciting options with Atlantis Adventures. Even experienced snorkelers and highly trained divers enjoy the comfort and enormous viewing windows offered by Atlantis, where you will frequently see many fascinating animals and formations that easily go unnoticed during a dive. Submarine adventures also make for a romantic and adventurous evening entertainment option.
Basic beginner snorkel instructions:
One of the most important things for a beginning snorkeler is to become comfortable with breathing through the mouth through a snorkel while wearing a mask.
It is common for first time snorkelers to feel varying levels of apprehension and experience some difficulty coordinating breathing through a snorkel while wearing a mask. Always become comfortable with your equipment in shallow water—no deeper than 3 feet before venturing out to explore the reefs.
Stand in shallow water and start by putting your face just below the surface and looking through the mask. Most beginners are amazed at what can be seen even in shallow water in the Cayman Islands so your first experiences should be both comfortable and rewarding.
Clearing the snorkel is an essential skill, as waves often splash water into the open end of a snorkel. Even the best masks can often leak to some extent, especially for people with facial hair. Most professional divers shave their moustache about half way between the nose and upper lip, to provide an airtight seal for the mask to minimize leakage.
Clearing your snorkel is very easy to do by simply exhaling with a strong blast of air through your mouth to force out any water. Some snorkel designs include one way and drainage valves, minimizing the intake of water and facilitating clearing.
Clearing your mask is a matter of displacing water with air. There are several methods taught by various certifying agencies but the easiest and most effective way of clearing your mask is to tilt your head back about 30 degrees and while pushing gently with two fingers just below your eyes, exhale gently through your nose. A little practice in shallow water will make mask clearing experts out of almost everyone, with many people using some variation of the technique described.
Once you become comfortable practicing in shallow water it’s time to don you fins and start exploring the reefs and really enjoying the beauty of Cayman’s underwater world. Enter the water with your buddy with mask and snorkel on, carrying your fins in one hand and holding your buddy’s hand or wrist with the other. Snorkeling—like diving, is very much a buddy sport and not something to do on your own, under any circumstances.
When you reach about three feet of water, stop and using your buddy for support, don one fin at a time by bending your leg at the knee across your other leg. Once you have both fins on, assist your buddy in the same manner.
Once fully outfitted, lie face down in the water and completely relax. You will quickly discover that it is impossible to sink in saltwater. Once you come to this realization it will serve to alleviate any apprehension that may besiege you during any part of your Cayman snorkeling experience; you must always remember that you can simply rest on the surface any time you become fatigued, stressed or simply want to take a few minutes to relax. Over 90% of snorkeling accidents occur when panicked divers flail about and actually force themselves below the surface. Note that this is not the case in fresh water, where most people will have a tendency to sink, as the density of fresh water is less than that of saltwater. The physics notwithstanding, you can easily test this for yourself by comparing the differences of your buoyancy characteristics between a freshwater pool and the ocean.
Once you are completely comfortable in shallow water it’s time to journey out to Cayman’s spectacular reefs. Start with a basic scissor or flutter kick and experiment with different kick strokes until you find the one that best suits your individual physiology. It is good practice to change kicks throughout your snorkel or dive to avoid the overuse of any specific leg muscles in particular. As you kick, use a slow, comfortable pace and remember to keep your fins submerged in the water. Roughly twenty kicks per minute should provide an adequate speed without triggering fatigue. Breaking the surface with your fins requires more energy thus decreasing the efficiency of your kicks; also try to keep your arms at your sides swimming to reduce drag.
Another common kick is the dolphin kick, where both legs sweep up and down simultaneously. It may take somewhat longer to become comfortable with this kick but is a very efficient means of underwater propulsion when properly executed.
As you become more confident practice diving below the surface. There are two basic methods of beginning your descent: feet first and head first, with the former being somewhat easier for most people.
The feet first maneuver involves lying flat on the surface and raising your upper torso above the surface by kicking. As your body weight starts to pull you down into the water, raise your arms above your head while sweeping them upward as you push yourself down. Because you are positively buoyant (tend to float) in saltwater, exhaling a bit of air from your lungs will decrease your buoyancy and facilitate your descent. Now pull your knees into your chest as you lower your head; this will shift your position to comfortably swim underwater in much the same position as you do on the surface.
The head-first dive is more common among experienced divers and probably a maneuver that you should strive to achieve. Forward inertia will significantly increase the effectiveness of this approach; put another way, you want to begin with a ‘running’ (swimming) start. Then simply bend at the hips in one graceful maneuver and raise your legs towards the sky, establishing as straight and vertical a position as possible. Once your fins clear the surface, you can easily kick to your desired depth and arch your back to straighten your body and maintain depth. Start at very shallow depths and gradually increase commensurate to your confidence and ability.
The amount of time you can remain underwater depends entirely on how long you can hold your breath. Never fight the resistance to surface because of some exciting sea creature; you can always go back down after a breath and see it again. You can increase your time underwater by expanding your lungs by taking three (and no more) deep breaths prior to descending. As you descend and throughout your dive slowly release the air from your lungs by slowly blowing tiny bubbles or by emitting a soft humming sound. Whatever works best for you, the objective is to very slowly release air throughout the course of your dive; this will also prove to be a handy practice to have grown accustomed to should you decide to pursue SCUBA diving.
If you or any part(s) of you become fatigued, sore or cramped while snorkeling, simply lay motionless on your face or back and relax. If you experience cramps in your legs, try back floating on the surface and just kick enough to maintain whatever comfort level you desire above the surface. You can also ‘sit’ on the water while gently treading your feet.
There has never been any convincing evidence published to add credence to the old adage about not eating before swimming. In fact, most studies show that as your body requires nourishment to produce energy, it would actually be beneficial to eat a light healthy meal prior to embarking upon your snorkeling adventures.
Upon reaching the surface, keep your face down—this should position your snorkel vertically if you have it mounted correctly—and quickly exhale a final blast of air to clear your snorkel. At first, most beginners will want to lift their head completely out of the water and breathe directly through their mouths; there is nothing wrong with doing this at first if it makes you feel comfortable but try work towards the goal of not having to lift your head out of the water every time you surface. As you gain experience, you will notice even the slightest amount of water in your snorkel and instinctively exhale to blow it out. Like anything else, the amount of satisfaction you derive from this sport will be directly commensurate to the amount of effort you put into perfecting it.
Equipment maintenance is an important practice, whether your gear is rented or owned. Always rinse your gear in fresh water and keep it out of the sun when you are not using it. Inspect your mask, fins and snorkel for salt crystals, which will dry and harden, eventually causing scratches and eventually holes and leaks.
Sometimes the inside surface of your mask may start to fog. This occurs when the 02 in your breath condenses on the colder clear surface of the mask. Minimize mask fogging by always thoroughly scrubbing a new mask with toothpaste and a fine brush—a toothbrush works just fine. After 2-3 dives your new mask will be worn in enough that no further scrubbing should be required. Before each dive it’s a good practice to rinse your mask in fresh water if it is available and either spit in it or use a few drops of mask defogger, available at any dive shop. To let you in on a little secret, most commercial mask defoggers are nothing more than a mild soap—such as baby shampoo or mild dishwashing liquid detergent—and water. You can easily make your own, adjusting the ratios and soap products until you achieve whatever works best for you. | <urn:uuid:e7288622-c6d2-4a20-a607-35906f167a0c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.caymanactivityguide.com/snorkeling/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.94245 | 3,092 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Algeria's parliamentary elections Wednesday were marked by low voter turnout and high degree of distrust in the political process. One place where that distrust is evident is in the city of Tizi Ouzou, in the eastern Kabylia region, where many people are boycotting the vote.
The streets of of the city were almost empty Thursday morning. Stores were shuttered and the smell of teargas hung in the air. Down a few narrow alleys, youths set tires ablaze. On other streets and at the town center, dozens gathered to hurl rocks at Algerian security forces who responded with teargas.
Kabylia has been roiled by violence for more than a year by ethnic Berbers demanding more political and economic rights. Local activists have called for a five-day strike and a region-wide boycott of Algeria's parliamentary elections. But few serious incidents were reported Thursday.
The government estimates less than 30 percent of Algeria's 28 million voters cast their ballot.
An engineering student who identified himself only as Moustapha, 26, said that, like many residents here, he would not be voting.
He says he has not voted in any Algerian election. The elections are a charade, he says; real change will come from the streets.
Nourredine Amimer, 48, agreed. He says Algeria has never been truly independent. He says the country has been run by a powerful clique of elite the Algerians call Le Pouvoir, or The Power.
The legislative elections are only the second since the start of Algeria's bloody civil war in 1992.
Many Algerians are deeply disenchanted with the 22 parties running in the elections. They accuse the government of failing to uphold democracy and deliver on basic needs like jobs and housing.
One polling booth in Algiers' Casbah, the old part of the city, was virtually empty Thursday afternoon. Mohammed Bessedik was among the few residents who came to cast his vote.
Mr. Bessedik says he had voted for the pro-government National Liberation Front party because he believes it is best qualified to bring peace, security and prosperity to Algeria. In any case, he says it is Algerians' duty to vote.
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ASK VIDEO HELPS PROS LEARN LOGIC PRO 8
ONTARIO, CANADA – Pros looking to become familiar with Apple’s Logic Pro 8 music production software can now do so through a DVD tutorial series presented by Ask Video Interactive Media (www.askvideo.com).
Level 1 of the four-part series will be available June 13th and is hosted by musician/Apple expert Tony Wallace, who provides details on how to get up and running. Wallace covers everything from basic setup to editing and looping, giving newcomers a solid starting point. And long-time Logic users can benefit from the DVD by quickly learning of layout changes in the latest release.
Level 1 contains over 3.5 hours of video instruction, divided into 30 chapters. Ask Video's interface makes it easy to watch and learn straight through, or by selecting specific topics when using the DVD as a reference.
The beginning chapters look at the program’s layout. Middle chapters focus on recording MIDI and audio, before moving on to editing, looping and arranging in the later chapters.
Level 2 will be released this summer and will expand on intermediate concepts. Pricing for Level 1 is $49.99 and pre-ordering before the June 13th release date can save 20 percent. | <urn:uuid:078944ad-85cf-43ef-baac-610c8a113521> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.postmagazine.com/Publications/Newsletters/2008/Workstations-May-2008/ASK-VIDEO-HELPS-PROS-LEARN-LOGIC-PRO-8.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00552-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91375 | 261 | 1.625 | 2 |
… for bishops to write Advent letters to the faithful in their dioceses. In the Netherlands, Archbishop Wim Eijk of Utrecht, Bishop Gerard de Korte of Groningen-Leeuwarden and Bishop Frans Wiertz of Roermond have done so today. Let’s take a look at what the monsignori have chosen to write about…
Archbishop Eijk’s letter has the title Looking forward in expectation. His main topic is the loss of faith in so many, and how we can combat that by cultivating a more childlike faith.”It is this unconditional faith,” the archbishop writes, “that Jesus speaks about when people one day bring children to Him to have Him bless them. Jesus’ disciples sternly refuse these people, but Jesus indignantly said, “Let the little children come to me; do not stop them; for it is to such as these that the kingdom of God belongs. In truth I tell you, anyone who does not welcome the kingdom of God like a little child will never enter it| (Mark 10, 13-16). And St. Matthew writes: “In truth I tell you, unless you change and become like little children you will never enter the kingdom of Heaven” (Mt. 18, 3). This ‘becoming children of God’ (St. John even speaks of “being born from above”, John 3, 7) means that we must entrust ourselves to God. It also means that we lovingly acknowledge and accept one another as brothers and sisters, children of our heavenly Father. Seen like this, Advent is a fitting time to reflect on our relationship with God and with our neighbour, and also on the fruits of love, joy, peace and mercy.”
Later on in the letter, Archbishop Eijk urges the reader to take a step, a leap of faith, especially when we have lost faith. “He who loses his faith, never loses it completely. After all, God has traveled with you on your journey for a while and has left mark within you.”
Bishop de Korte’s letter is called The value of defencelessness, and in it he writes about our dependency on God, and also how God has chosen to be dependent on us.
“The God of Scripture, Who has gotten a face over the course of the history of Israel, shows Himself vulnerable, defenceless and dependent in Christ. It is a central topic in Biblical revelation. God,Creator of the visible and the invisible, has come to stand next to us, in Christ, vulnerable. The God of the Bible, who is always greater than we people can imagine, is man among men, in all defencelessness. In Christ, He is servant to the end. Self-giving, reconciliating, bleeding love. But God is not toothless. The way of Cross, after all, has become the way towards life. The Church lives on the mystery of Easter. Christ is the Living One. From the mystery of cross and resurrection we may therefore speak of the defenceless might of our God.”
The bishop closes with emphasising how, in these times of darkness, a recognition of our vulnerability and dependency may be important. Exactly then does Christ support and carry us as a friend.
Bishop Wiertz, then, also writes about times of darkness. He mentions the abuse crisis and the effect it may have on the average believer. The bishop presents the coming of Christ as a new start, and this Advent may especially be a new start for the Church.
“In the Creed we confess the ‘holiness of the Church’. An entitlement that many may find misplaced in the current situation. But do realise: the holiness of the Church never depends on the achievements of us people; it is always a fruit of the Holy Spirit and His gifts. That pure Spirit of faith and love is, thanks be to God, still working in our Church: in people who are united with God in prayer and who help their neighbour in unselfish love.
“But as the Council has said in all clarity: that same holy Church is yet always called to purification (Lumen Gentium, 8).As a Church of people she is always a Church of sinners. Every day again she must confess her guilt: “Forgive us our debts” (Matt. 6, 12). Saint Paul says with reason: The Church carries the richness of Christ in earthen vessels, so that it is evident that the immensity of power comes from God and not from us (vg. 2 Cor 4, 7).
“Let us not lose our love for the Church, despite all the shortcomings of, especially her servants, but strengthen it. Christ does not abandon His Church. He remains loyal to her. His Spirit keeps working in her often poor figure. Despite her sinful brokenness.” | <urn:uuid:cd916c73-1cb7-4569-9eac-ba18255fcb63> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://incaelo.wordpress.com/2010/11/29/tis-the-season/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572286.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816090541-20220816120541-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.959824 | 1,028 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Research Paper, UNU-WIDER, United Nations University (UNU) 2007/16
Globally, state failure is hugely costly. We estimate the total cost of failing states at around US$276 billion per year. In this paper we apply our global framework and methodology to analyse the cost of failing states in the Pacific Ocean. Globally, failing states inflict very large costs on their neighbours and this both justifies and requires regional intervention in decision processes that would normally be the sovereign domain of nation states. Our analysis suggests that islands do not have neighbours in this economic sense. In this respect the Pacific region is distinctive, because its countries are islands, the neighbourhood spillovers that normally generate these costs do not apply. Due to the lack of spillovers we estimate the cost of state failure at US$36 billion. However, our results also indicate that failing states themselves suffer considerably more in terms of income losses if they are islands. This may be due to the greater openness of islands, implying greater flight of financial and human capital. We conclude that because neighbours are not directly affected by state failure in the Pacific, any possible interventions should be centred on the humanitarian concern rather than be guided by self-interest of the other countries within the Pacific region. | <urn:uuid:a5228fce-9c64-4791-9a78-65c10d578a25> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.econstor.eu/handle/10419/63587 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00577-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941638 | 252 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Reflexology is a science that deals with the principle that there are reflex areas in the feet and hands which correspond to all of the glands organs and parts of the body. Reflexology is a unique method of using the thumb and fingers on these reflex areas.
Reflexology relieves stress and tension, improves nerve and blood supply and helps nature to normalise (bring about homeostasis) and balance. Reflexology may also help to relieve pain and tension.
Stress has a negative affect on insulin and hormone levels. If you are suffering from type II diabetes or are pre-diabetic, reflexology may help.
There are over 4,200 nerve endings in each foot.
In European countries such as Germany, reflexology is used by some hospitals to assess a persons health before undergoing surgery to avoid expensive pathology tests. Reflexology has a very long history. In India, a country whose history has largely been shaped by religion, the feet were thought 5000 years ago to symbolize the unity of the entire universe. The Sanskrit symbols depicted on the feet of Buddha were seen as expressions of a higher reality.
Many years of research and experience has shown us that in most cases 6 sessions, in close succession (i.e. over 6 weeks), greatly improves the chances of success. This is not the case for everyone as some cases require less and others more. It does depend on the state of your being and the outcome desired.
For more information, check our FAQs or visit http://www.reflexology-research.com/ or
Initial Treatment: 70mins >
Subsequent: 30min, 45min, 55min, 70min, 85min
Use reflexology to locate problem areas and reduce congestion to specific reflexes and zones corresponding to the specific parts of the body, to restore blood flow and energy, reduce stress and alleviate insomnia for a restful night sleep essential for body repairs.
Initial Treatment & history: 100mins
Subsequent: 55mins, 70min, 85min, 120min
Lidia has a wealth of experience to enhance fertility and maximise the chances of conception in a very short space of time (when compared to IVF methods) to achieve a healthy bouncing baby. This new protocol to date has had extraordinary high pregnancy success rate, even when other methods including IVF have failed.
*Express reflexology foot massage
30min (Not available on Initial visit)
If you are time poor and yet want to feel the many benefits of a reflexology treatment this is perfect for you. Ideal treatment if you have regular ongoing reflexology but are time poor. Revitalise tired feet & feel energised.
Initial Treatment: 70mins
Subsequent: 55min, 70min, 85min, 120min
Relax put your feet up and nurture yourself (and baby). Reflexology may help to you get some much needed sleep, and relieve those aches and pains in the feet, legs and lower back that is often associated with pregnancy. Research shows women who have regular reflexology therapy leading up to labour have shorter less stressful labours
Qualifying as an Advanced practitioner /Diploma in Reflexology in December 2000 Williamstown Reflexology registered with the governing body Reflexology Association of Australia (RAoA). Our Professional fees are listed in the Book ONLINE services menu, where appointments can also be made.
We also offer a home visiting service in the local area; additional time/travel fees apply.
Health Fund Rebates
* HEALTH REBATES no longer apply due to a group of 600 doctors forced the Federal Government to cease rebates for many therapies including Reflexology, Bowen Therapy, Naturopathy, Homeopathy, Yoga, Western Herbalism, Shiatsu, Alexander Technique, Aromatherapy, Feldenkrais, and Kinesiology.
Most of the above therapies have been around for 5,000 years, others hundreds of years and others decades these therapies have continued on stay because they have worked and are healing diseases and not just managing diseases.
The removal of rebate came into effect on 1 April 2019 however many natural governing bodies have been working hard to have the private health funds reinstate rebates for services previously covered.
Below is a list of Private Health Funds who were previously offering rebates under their extras cover for Reflexology Treatments. You may wish to contact your Health Fund to let them know you would like them to reinstate the rebate.
|HEALTH FUND||Contact No.||Cease date|
|AHM||134 246||1st April 2019|
|Aust. Unity Health(also Grand United)||132 939||unknown|
|CUA Health||07 33650022||unknown|
|Health Partners (SA)||08 82237588||unknown|
|Manchester Unity||131 372||unknown|
|CBHS Health Fund Ltd||1300 654123||unknown|
|NSW Teachers Federation||1300 728188||unknown|
|Reserve Bank||02 95519037||unknown|
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The Oracle concerning the Valley of Vision
1The burden of the valley of vision.
What aileth thee now, that thou art wholly gone up to the housetops? 2Thou that art full of stirs, a tumultuous city, a joyous city: thy slain men are not slain with the sword, nor dead in battle. 3All thy rulers are fled together, they are bound by the archers: all that are found in thee are bound together, which have fled from far. 4Therefore said I, Look away from me; I will weep bitterly, labor not to comfort me, because of the spoiling of the daughter of my people.
5For it is a day of trouble, and of treading down, and of perplexity by the Lord [God] of hosts in the valley of vision, breaking down the walls, and of crying to the mountains. 6And Elam bare the quiver with chariots of men and horsemen, and Kir uncovered the shield. 7And it shall come to pass, that thy choicest valleys shall be full of chariots, and the horsemen shall set themselves in array at the gate. 8And he discovered the covering of Judah, and thou didst look in that day to the armor of the house of the forest. 9Ye have seen also the breaches of the city of David, that they are many: and ye gathered together the waters of the lower pool. 10And ye have numbered the houses of Jerusalem, and the houses have ye broken down to fortify the wall. 11Ye made also a ditch between the two walls for the water of the old pool: but ye have not looked unto the maker thereof, neither had respect unto him that fashioned it long ago.
12And in that day did the Lord [God] of hosts call to weeping, and to mourning, and to baldness, and to girding with sackcloth: 13#1 Cor 15.32. and behold joy and gladness, slaying oxen, and killing sheep, eating flesh, and drinking wine: let us eat and drink; for tomorrow we shall die. 14And it was revealed in mine ears by the Lord of hosts, Surely this iniquity shall not be purged from you till ye die, saith the Lord [God] of hosts.
Shebna to Be Replaced by Eliakim
15Thus saith the Lord [God] of hosts, Go, get thee unto this treasurer, even unto Shebna, which is over the house, and say, 16What hast thou here, and whom hast thou here, that thou hast hewed thee out a sepulchre here, as he that heweth him out a sepulchre on high, and that graveth a habitation for himself in a rock? 17Behold, the Lord will carry thee away with a mighty captivity, and will surely cover thee. 18He will surely violently turn and toss thee like a ball into a large country: there shalt thou die, and there the chariots of thy glory shall be the shame of thy lord's house. 19And I will drive thee from thy station, and from thy state shall he pull thee down. 20And it shall come to pass in that day, that I will call my servant Eli´akim the son of Hilki´ah: 21and I will clothe him with thy robe, and strengthen him with thy girdle, and I will commit thy government into his hand: and he shall be a father to the inhabitants of Jerusalem, and to the house of Judah. 22#Rev 3.7. And the key of the house of David will I lay upon his shoulder; so he shall open, and none shall shut; and he shall shut, and none shall open. 23And I will fasten him as a nail in a sure place; and he shall be for a glorious throne to his father's house. 24And they shall hang upon him all the glory of his father's house, the offspring and the issue, all vessels of small quantity, from the vessels of cups, even to all the vessels of flagons. 25In that day, saith the Lord of hosts, shall the nail that is fastened in the sure place be removed, and be cut down, and fall; and the burden that was upon it shall be cut off: for the Lord hath spoken it. | <urn:uuid:4a104214-2177-4f8d-a34e-d8bf430ec844> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.bible.com/en-GB/bible/546/isa.22.kjvda | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720962.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00386-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957355 | 904 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Introduction to Systems Thinking
Tue 2nd Mar 2021, 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm AEDT
Price$128 AUD + BFGet Tickets
Taking a Systems thinking approach is becoming ever more popular in our complex world. Working across traditional boundaries, forming networks, co-ordinating, collaborating and adapting to our changing environment can pose us with some significant challenges.
In this session you will learn what we mean by ‘Systems thinking’. Why it has emerged as a way of thinking to help us move forward and why it is applicable in our world of work. We will look at how Systems thinking helps us to create the conditions for positive change to emerge. You will also learn some tips about the application of Systems thinking ideas and approaches and the opportunities and challenges that application of the thinking might present us with.
- learn what we mean by ‘Systems thinking
- understand what are differences between systems thinking and other forms of thinking
- learn about some of the major approaches to systems thinking
- learn some some tips about the application of Systems thinking ideas and approaches
- develop an appreciation of some of the opportunities and challenges that application of the thinking might present us with
About the Facilitator
Pauline Roberts is a Systems Practitioner and independent consultant who has worked with a wide range of organisations, such as the NHS, Local Authorities, Ministry of Defence, pharmaceutical industry, charities and voluntary groups, applying systems thinking (in particular the VSM) to identify areas for improvements.
She is a Visiting Lecturer at City University Business School, London, in undergraduate Applied Systems Thinking and an Associate Lecturer with the Open University on the MSc Systems Thinking in Practice courses.
Presentation with some opportunities to interact
Anyone can attend this session. No prior knowledge of System thinking is required. The only thing required is a willingness to engage with different ideas and explore the complexity around you.
What Attendees Get
- List of useful references on systems thinking and its various approaches
- 10% discount on any Liquid Forest Lab course – valid for 6 months
Online, 2h including 5-10 minutes break
AUD $135 – one off introductory discount of 30% (AUD $195.00 – full price)
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The rapidly increasing world population of aged people has led to a growing need to focus attention on the problems of mental disorder in late life. The aim of the Journal is to communicate the results of original research in the causes, treatment and care of all forms of mental disorder which affect the elderly. The Journal is of interest to psychiatrists, psychologists, social scientists, nurses and others engaged in therapeutic professions, together with general neurobiological researchers.
The Journal provides an international perspective on the important issue of geriatric psychiatry, and contributions are published from countries throughout the world. Topics covered include epidemiology of mental disorders in old age, clinical aetiological research, post-mortem pathological and neurochemical studies, treatment trials and evaluation of geriatric psychiatry services."
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Holdings: Vol. 11, no. 1 (Jan. 1996)-present
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The half cent was one of the first denominations struck at the new United States Mint. This coin was first made in 1793, only months after the Large cents were introduced. It is a series filled with rarities, including both major varieties of 1796. Full red examples are almost impossible from the early years, and it’s not until the 1828 issue that the first MS65RD specimen still survives. This composite requires all the Cohen varieties. Roger S. Cohen's American Half Cents first published 1971, has become the definitive resource for half cent collectors.
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BREEDER: M. MAZOUREK
Bred to bring more flavor (and more purple) to purple peas, these high-anthocyanin, wavy-podded snow peas hold their vibrant color when cooked. Wait for small peas to develop in the pod to reach full flavor potential. 60-80 days to maturity, depending on planting date. Average 125 seeds/oz., 2,000 seeds/lb.
Each Beauregarde seed sold supports public plant breeding research at Cornell University. The creation of this variety was funded in part by a USDA-NIFA grant. All products are certified NOP but not US-COR (Canadian Organic) Compliant.
How to make a purple pea purpler, and more delicious, too? Just ask Michael Mazourek, our Willy Wonka of vegetables.
Named for Violet Beauregarde, these wavy, dark purple snow peas have a high anthocyanin content—the same antioxidant found in blueberries. (Don’t worry, if they turn your fingers violet, the color rinses off with water.) These anthocyanins don’t just contribute to the peas’ striking appearance; they also improve their defenses in the field.
Beauregarde’s natural advantage is just as evident on the plate. Michael selected the peas to hold their color through cooking, so you can truly taste the purple.
For peak flavor, we recommend waiting to harvest until small peas are visible in the pods, past traditional snow pea size.
We kindly request that those wishing to propagate or breed with these seeds for commercial purposes obtain a license from the breeder.
Our Beauregarde seeds were produced in Idaho.
Days to Maturity
60+ days, depending on planting date
—3” wavy-podded, dark purple peas. Wait for small peas to develop in the pod.
— Soil Requirements: Well-drained soil, with optimal pH of 6.0 to 7.0. Prefers cooler temperatures.
— Plant Support: Install trellis at planting for strong plant growth and easy harvest.
Spacing After Thinning/Transplanting
— Plant Spacing: 1-2”
— Row Spacing: 4' trellised
— Sow seeds 1” deep, when soil reaches 45˚F. Do not thin.
— Sow additional plantings every two weeks until the weather warms beyond 70 degrees. For fall harvest, sow 8-10 weeks before first frost date.
— 7-14 days to emergence, slower in cold soil.
Peas can be grown in a sturdy container with a trellis.
Pest + Disease Info
— Diseases: Use well-drained soil and crop rotation to avoid pea root rot (Fusarium sp./Aphanomyces euteiches). This variety is susceptible to powdery mildew late in the season.
For peak flavor, we recommend waiting to harvest until small peas are visible in the pods, past traditional snow pea size. Bumps should be clearly pronounced: more than a traditional snow pea; less than a shelling pea.
Store whole and dry under plastic in refrigeration. Peas will store up to one week maintaining crispness and flavor. Good for freezing and canning.
Average 125 seeds/ounce; 2,000 seeds/pound
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Pierce County, Washington, Lowers Road Maintenance Costs with GIS-Based Asset Management
- The GIS-based asset management system includes catch basins, manholes, conveyance pipes, culverts, and dry well systems.
- Custom forms were created to use on the division's ArcPad devices in the field for remote data collection.
- The department's predictive models are maintained by ArcGIS.
In 1853, the United States formally designated Washington Territory out of the existing Oregon Territory so that the US federal government could better administrate its western region. An aspect of this reorganization was the division of the new territory into smaller legislative districts.
Pierce County Public Works Road Operations uses ArcGIS to manage the county's core assets. Drainage layers can be seen in the image along with attributes.
To open up the West for greater access to the rich natural resources there, the Northern Pacific Railway was constructed, connecting the Great Lakes in the northeastern part of the United States with the deepwater harbor of Pierce County's Commencement Bay on Puget Sound. The completion of the rail line in 1883 stimulated the migration of people from the eastern United States to the western territories, and the region began to grow rapidly.
Today, Pierce County has a population of about 800,000 residents. It is 1,700 square miles in size, 1,300 square miles of which are unincorporated. With a road network of approximately 1,600 miles, the county's Public Works Road Operations Division oversees management and upkeep, including pavement condition, billboards, medians, gates, and vegetation.
"We also keep up related roadway assets, which include network drainage structures, such as catch basins, manholes, conveyance pipes, culverts, dry well systems, fish-bearing pathways, and open channels," says Michael Isun, engineer technician, Pierce County Public Works Road Operations. "All these features are included in our asset management system, which is managed by GIS. We use GIS throughout our entire operation, from data collection and asset management to maintaining our predictive models and developing our annual budgets."
Pierce County has used ArcGIS for years. ArcGIS is a county standard, and the software is used across the enterprise. The Public Works and Utilities and Public Works Road Operations departments use ArcGIS to ensure that data acquisition needs continue to be met and to help meet and exceed optimal service levels. The versatility of ArcGIS solutions have allowed these departments to effectively stay in compliance while regulatory issues continue to rise.
Predictive Models Reduce Asset Life Cycle Costs
Each year, teams of Public Works Road Operations employees visually inspect, evaluate, and record the condition of the entire roadway infrastructure in the county. The collected data is then fed into the department's asset management system, which maintains all the data regarding the location and condition of the county's road-related assets. The data also populates the county's maintenance management system and drives the annual maintenance and operations schedule for the department.
A Pierce County Public Works Road Operations crew multitasks as they perform a targeted annual storm drainage structure cleaning alongside a maintenance crew performing a needed repair to the storm water conveyance system found during annual inspections. A work order was immediately generated when the inspection data was checked back into the file geodatabase because the value entered into the custom ArcGIS form triggered the activity.
The asset management system provides managers and senior technical staff with access to all county infrastructure data. A huge benefit is that Maintenance and Operation Program managers can get a quick status review on the overall health of an asset and then take action when necessary. Work orders can be adjusted to trigger a repair or replacement based on the department's predictive models. For budgeting purposes, the asset management system also maintains cost-per-function (CPF) calculations. The CPF determines the total cost of labor, materials, and equipment needed to repair or replace a particular asset.
"Over the last several years, we have collected hard data that has allowed us to significantly improve our predictive maintenance and deterioration models, which we find more efficient than the scheduled maintenance approach," says Isun.
The department's predictive models are maintained by ArcGIS and include its Rating Assessment Information (RAI), which stipulates federal and state levels of maintenance standards for public works assets. The RAI contains a comprehensive collection of specifications ranging from the amount of sediment allowed in a catch basin to the Americans with Disabilities Act regulations for curb ramp slope.
Using the predictive models helps with both the budgeting and prioritization of remedial maintenance work. The models have also helped reduce the life cycle costs for Pierce County's road assets because they make it easier to identify assets that are potentially in need of repair or replacement. These costs include all expenditures from creation to replacement or disposal of an asset.
In-House Development Helps Contain Overhead
"We work hard to keep our costs down," says Matt George, GIS programmer/engineer, Pierce County, "and using in-house technical staff for development is one of the key strategies we use to control spending and avoid project scope creep and budget overruns. For example, our internal Public Works Road Operations Division did the design and programming of the database for our asset management system, as well as the creation of the custom forms." The forms are used on the division's ArcPad devices in the field for remote data collection and work in conjunction with a check-in/checkout process through ArcGIS.
"By designing the program and implementing the work in-house," continues George, "we were able to get the project started within the department more quickly, rather than stepping through the process to hire a consultant to do the work or to purchase and implement a new piece of software."
The department uses its maintenance technicians to collect the data for annual asset inspections. Because the technicians normally install and maintain the county's complex roadside assets, they are very familiar with them and can perform the inspections in a quick and cost-effective manner. In addition, by being trained to collect the asset data, the technicians are not only more involved in the entire maintenance process but are also developing skills that can be applied to other employment within the department if they choose to advance their careers.
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You should look at the original Bridging mini-HOWTO by Chris Cole for a different perspective on this. He is firstname.lastname@example.org. The version of his HOWTO that I have based this document on (alternatively, ripped off) is 1.03 dated Aug 23 1996.
A bridge is an intelligent connecting wire betwen two network cards. A firewall is an intelligent insulator.
You might want a bridge if you have several computers:
``Several computers'' might be as few as three if those are routing or bridging or just moving around the room from time to time! You also might want a bridge just for the fun of finding out what it does. 2 was what I wanted a bridge for.
If you are really interested in 1, you have to be one of the very few. Check the NET-2-HOWTO and the Serial-HOWTO for better tricks.
You want a firewall if
Curiously, I needed 2 here too. Policy at my university presently is that we should not act as internet service providers to undergraduates.
I started out bridging the network cards in a firewalling machine and ended up firewalling without having cut the bridge. It seems to work and is more flexible than either configuration alone. I can take down the firewall and keep bridging or take down the bridge when I want to be more circumspect.
I would guess that the bridge code lives just above the physical device layer and the firewalling code lives one layer higher up, so that the bridging and firewalling configurations effectively act as though they are running connected together ``in sequence'' and not ``in parallel'' (ouch!). Diagram:
-> Bridge-in -> Firewall-in -> Kernel -> Firewall-out -> Bridge-out ->
There is no other way to explain how one machine can be a ``conductor'' and an ``insulator'' at the same time. There are a few caveats but I'll come to those later. Basically you must route packets that you want to firewall. Anyway, it all seems to work together nicely for me. Here is what you do ...
Get the bridge configuration utility from Alan Cox's home pages. This is the same reference as in Chris' document. I just didn't realize that it was an ftp and not an http URL ...
Read the Multiple Ethernet HOWTO for some advice on getting more than one network card recognized and configured.
Yet more details of the kind of boot magic that you may need are in the Boot Prompt HOWTO.
You may be able to get away without the NET-2 HOWTO. It is a good long read and you will have to pick from it the details you need.
The reading material above will tell you that you need to prepare the kernel to recognize a second ethernet device at boot up by adding this to your /etc/lilo.conf, and then re-run lilo:
append = "ether=0,0,eth1"
Note the "eth1". "eth0" is the first card. "eth1" is the second card. You can always add the boot parameters in your response to the line that lilo offers you. This is for three cards:
linux ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2
I use loadlin to boot my kernel from DOS:
loadlin.exe c:\vmlinuz root=/dev/hda3 ro ether=0,0,eth1 ether=0,0,eth2
Note that this trick makes the kernel probe at bootup. That will not happen if you load the ethernet drivers as modules (for safety since the probe order can't be determined) so if you use modules you will have to add the appropriate IRQ and port parameters for the driver in your /etc/conf.modules. I have at least
alias eth0 3c509 alias eth1 de620 options 3c509 irq=5 io=0x210 options de620 irq=7 bnc=1
You can tell if you use modules by using ``ps -aux'' to see if kerneld is running and checking that there are .o files in a subdirectory of your /lib/modules directory. You want the directory named with what uname -r tells you. If you have kerneld and/or you have a foo.o then edit /etc/conf.modules and read the man page for depmod carefully.
Note also that until recently (kernel 2.0.25) the 3c509 driver could not be used for more than one card if used as a module. I have seen a patch floating around that fixes the oversight. It may be in the kernel when you read this.
Recompile the kernel with bridging enabled.
I also compiled with firewalling and IP-forwarding and -masquerading and the rest enabled. Only if you want firewalling too ...
CONFIG_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_NET_ALIAS=y CONFIG_INET=y CONFIG_IP_FORWARD=y CONFIG_IP_MULTICAST=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL=y CONFIG_IP_FIREWALL_VERBOSE=y CONFIG_IP_MASQUERADE=y
You don't need all of this. What you do need apart from this is the standard net configuration:
and I do not think you need worry about any of the other networking options. I have any options that I did not actually compile into the kernel available through kernel modules that I can add in later.
Install the new kernel in place, rerun lilo and reboot with the new kernel. Nothing should have changed at this point!
Chris says that a bridge should not have an IP address but that is not the setup to be described here.
You are going to want to use the machine for connecting to the net so you need an address and you need to make sure that you have the loopback device configured in the normal way so that your software can talk to the places they expect to be able to talk to. If loopback is down the name resolver or other net sevices might fail. See the NET-2-HOWTO, but your standard configuration should already have done this bit:
ifconfig lo 127.0.0.1 route add -net 127.0.0.0
You will have to give addresses to your network cards. I altered the /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1 file in my slackware (3.x) to setup two cards and you should also essentially just look for your net configuration file and double or treble the number of instructions in it. Suppose that you already have an address at
(that is in the private net reserved address space, but never mind - it won't hurt anybody if you use this address by mistake) then you probably already have a line like
ifconfig eth0 192.168.2.100 netmask 255.255.255.0 metric 1
in your configuration. The first thing you are going to probably want to do is cut the address space reached by this card in half so that you can eventually bridge or firewall the two halves. So add a line which reduces the mask to address a smaller number of machines:
ifconfig eth0 netmask 255.255.255.128
Try it too. That restricts the card to at most the address space between .0 and .127.
Now you can set your second card up in the other half of the local address space. Make sure that nobody already has the address. For symmetry I set it at 228=128+100 here. Any address will do so long as it is not in the other card's mask, and even then, well, maybe. Avoid special addresses like .0, .1, .128 etc. unless you really know what you are doing.
ifconfig eth1 192.168.2.228 netmask 255.255.255.128 metric 1
That restricts the second card to addresses between .128 and .255.
This is where I have to announce the caveats in the bridging + firewalling scheme: you cannot firewall packets which are not routed. No routes, no firewall. At least this appears to be true in the 2.0.30 and more recent kernels. The firewalling filters are closely involved with the ip-forwarding code.
That does not mean that you cannot bridge. You can bridge between two cards and firewall them from a third. You can have only two cards and firewall both of them against an outside IP such as a nearby router, provided that the router is routed by you to exactly one of the cards.
In other words, since I will be doing firewalling, so I want to precisely control the physical destination of some packets.
I have the small net of machines attached to a hub hanging off eth0, so I configure a net there:
route add -net 192.168.2.128 netmask 255.255.255.128 dev eth0
The 128 would be 0 if I had a full class C network there. I don't, by definition, since I just halved the address space. The "dev eth0" is not necessary here because the cards address falls within the mask, but it may be necessary for you. One might need more than one card holding up this subnet (127 machines on one segment, oh yeah) but those cards would be being bridged under the same netmask so that they appear as one to the routing code.
On the other card I have a line going straight through to a big router that I trust.
client 129 __ | __ client 1 \ .0 .128 | / net 1 client 2 --- Hub - eth0 - Kernel - eth1 - Hub - Router --- net 2 client 3 __/ .100 .228 .2 | \__ net 3 | client 254
I attach the address of the router to that card as a fixed ("static") route because it would otherwise fall within the first cards netmask and the kernel would be thinking wrongly about how to send packets to the big router. I will want to firewall these packets and that is another reason fow wanting to route them specifically.
route add 192.168.2.2 dev eth1
I don't need it, since I don't have any more machines in that half of the address space, but I declare a net also on the second card. Separating my interfaces into two sets via routing will allow me to do very tight firewalling eventually , but you can get away with far less routing than this.
route add -net 192.168.2.128 netmask 255.255.255.128 dev eth1
I also need to send all non-local packets out to the world so I tell the kernel to send them to the big router
route add default gw 192.168.2.2
So much was standard networking setup, but we are bridging so we also have to listen on both (?) cards for packets that are not aimed at us. The following should go into the network configuration file.
ifconfig promisc eth0 ifconfig promisc eth1
The man page says allmulti=promisc, but it didn't work for me.
One thing that I noticed was that I had to put at least the second card into a mode where it would respond to the big router's questions about which machines I was hiding in my local net.
ifconfig arp eth1
For good measure I did this to the other card too.
ifconfig arp eth0.
Put bridging enabling on and into your configuration file:
You should have been trying this out in real time all along, of course! The bridge configure will bring up some numbers. You can experiment with turning on and off the ports one at a time
brcfg -port 0 -disable/-enable brcfg -port 1 -disable/-enable
You get status reports anytime by just running
without any parameters. You will see that the bridge listens,learns, and then does forwarding. (I don't understand why the code repeats the same hardware addresses for both my cards, but never mind .. Chris' howto say that is OK)
If you are still up and running as things are, try out your configuration script for real by taking down both cards and then executing it:
ifconfig eth0 down ifconfig eth1 down /etc/rc.d/rc.inet1
With any luck the various subsystems (nfs, ypbind, etc.) won't notice. Do not try this unless you are sitting at the keyboard!
If you want to be more careful than this, you should take down as many daemons as possible beforehand, and unmount nfs directories. The worst that can happen is that you have to reboot in single-user mode (the "single" parameter to lilo or loadlin), and take out your changes before rebooting with things the way they were before you started.
Verify that there is different traffic on each interface:
tcpdump -i eth0(in one window)tcpdump -i eth1(in another window)
You should get used to using tcpdump to look for things that should not be happening or that are happening and should not.
For instance look for packets that have gone through the bridge to the second card from the internal net. Here I am looking for packets from the machine with address .22:
tcpdump -i eth1 -e host 192.168.2.22
Then send a ping from the .22 host to the router. You should see the packet reported by tcpdump.
At this stage you should have a bridge ready that also has two network addreses. Test that you can ping them from outside and inside your local net, and that you can telnet and ftp around between inside and outside too.
You should read the Firewall-HOWTO.
That will tell you where to get ipfwadm if you don't already have it. There are other tools you can get but I made no progress until I tried ipfwadm. It is nice and low level! You can see exactly what it is doing.
You have compiled IP-forwarding and masquerading into the kernel so you will want to check that the firewall is in its default (accepting) state with
ipfwadm -I -l ipfwadm -O -l ipfwadm -F -l
That is respectively, "display the rules affecting the .." incoming or outgoing or forwarding (masquerading) ".. sides of the firewall". The "-l" means "list".
You might have compiled in accounting too:
ipfwadm -A -l
You should see that there are no rules defined and that the default is to accept every packet. You can get back to this working state anytime with
ipfwadm -I -f ipfwadm -O -f ipfwadm -F -f
The "-f" means "flush". You may need to use that.
I want to cut the world off from my internal net and do nothing else, so I will want to give as a last (default) rule that the firewall should ignore any packets coming in from the internal net and directed to outside. I put all the rules (in this order) into /etc/rc.d/rc.firewall and execute it from /etc/rc.d/rc.local at bootup.
ipfwadm -I -a reject -S 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.128 -D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
The "-S" is the source address/mask. The "-D" is the destination address/mask.
This format to is rather long-winded. Ipfwadm is intelligent about network names and some common abbreviations. Check the man pages.
It is possibly more convenient to put some or all of these rules on the outgoing half of the firewall by using "-O" instead of "-I", but I'll state the rules here all formulated for the incoming half.
Before that default rule, I have to place some rules that serve as exceptions to this general denial of external services to internal clients.
I want to treat the firewall machines address on the internal net specially. I will stop people logging in to the firewall machine unless they have special permission, but once they are there they should be allowed to talk to the world.
ipfwadm -I -i accept -S 192.168.2.100/255.255.255.255 \ -D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
I also want the internal clients to be able to talk to the firewalling machine. Maybe they can persuade it to let them get out!
ipfwadm -I -i accept -S 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.128 \ -D 192.168.2.100/255.255.255.255
Check at this point that you can get in to the clients from outside the firewall via telnet, but that you cannot get out. That should mean that you can just about make first contact, but the clients cannot send you any prompts. You should be able to get all the way in if you use the firewall machine as a staging post. Try rlogin and ping too, with tcpdump running on one card or the other. You should be able to make sense of what you see.
I went on to relax the rules protocol by protocol. I want to allow pings from the outside to the inside to get an echo back, for instance, so I inserted the rule:
ipfwadm -I -i accept -P icmp -S 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.128 \ -D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
-P icmp" works the protocol-specific magic.
Until I get hold of an ftp proxy I am also allowing ftp calls out with port-specific relaxations. This targets ports 20 21 and 115 on outside machines.
ipfwadm -I -i accept -P tcp -S 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.128 \ -D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0 20 21 115
I could not make sendmail between the local clients work without
a nameserver. Rather than set up a nameserver right then on the firewall,
I just lifted the firewall for tcp domain service queries precisely aimed
at the nearest existing nameserver and put its address in the clients /etc/resolv.conf
nameserver 123.456.789.31" on a separate line).
ipfwadm -I -i accept -P tcp -S 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.128 \ -D 123.456.789.31/255.255.255.255 54
You can find which port number and protocol a service requires with tcpdump. Trigger the service with a an ftp or a telnet or whatever to or from the internal machine and then watch for it on the input and output ports of the firewall with tcpdump:
tcpdump -i eth1 -e host client04
for example. The /etc/services file is another important source of clues. To let telnet and ftp IN to the firewall from outside, you have to allow the local clients to call OUT on a specific port. I understand why this is necessary for ftp - it's the server that establishes the data stream in the end - but I am not sure why telnet also needs this.
ipfwadm -I -i accept -P tcp -S 192.168.2.0/255.255.255.128 ftp telnet \ -D 0.0.0.0/0.0.0.0
There is a particular problem with some daemons that look up the hostname of the firewalling machine in order to decide what is their networking address. Rpc.yppasswdd is the one I had trouble with. It insists on broadcasting information that says it is outside the firewall (on the second card). That means the clients inside can't contact it.
Rather than start IP aliasing or change the daemon code, I mapped the name to the inside card address on the clients in their /etc/hosts.
You want to test that you can still telnet, rlogin and ping from the outside. From the inside you should be able to ping out. You should also be able to telnet to the firewall machine from the inside and the latter should be able to do anything.
That is it. At this point you probably want to learn about rpc/Yellow Pages and the interaction with the password file. The firewalled network wants to run without its unprivileged users being able to log on to the firewall - and thus get out. Some other HOWTO! | <urn:uuid:63b1c6e3-02f6-4279-9bd0-7796e185c914> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ibiblio.org/pub/Linux/docs/HOWTO/other-formats/html_single/Bridge+Firewall.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00530-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935443 | 4,434 | 3.3125 | 3 |
GRAYSON COUNTY, TX -- June of 2007 marked one of the worst floods this area has ever seen.
Sherman Police Sgt. D.M. Hampton said many people don't realize that even a few inches of water can carry a current - which can easily sweep away a vehicle.
"And it ends up turning over," he said. "And ends up trapping the people inside the vehicle."
He said flash flooding can happen with little warning.
"I've seen where water has been moving on a city street and eroding some of the underneath, and it looks like it's only two or three or four inches deep, and there's a big rut underneath that someone may hit," he said.
As the season progresses, some of the creeks that run through town will clog with sticks and other debris, which make them more likely to flood, Hampton said.
Sarah Somers, Grayson County emergency manager, urges residents to sign up for emergency alert phone calls - especially since flooding happens with little warning.
"We sadly lost some of our residents in June of '07," she said. "And those folks were on their way to work, because they hadn't gotten word about how hazardous it was."
And she said families should come up with a communication plan - especially if phone lines are jammed.
"To make sure that they know that they're safe and well," she said. "So by texting, and posting on social media counts."
Hampton said if you see standing water, it's best to always play it safe.
"You just need to go around," he said. "Turn around, don't drown."
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Antibiotic Resistance Could Set Medicine Back a Century
A growing number of microbial infections that resist most known drugs threaten to set medicine back more than a century, an editorial in The Lancet warns. "We are at the dawn of a postantibiotic era,” the editorial says,"with almost all disease causing bacteria resistant to the antibiotics commonly used to treat them.” Without antibiotics, treatments from minor surgery to transplants could become impossible and healthcare costs will spiral as physicians are forced to use second-choice antibiotics and afflicted patients remain in hospitals longer. Infection mortality rates could return to those of the early twentieth century in developed countries.
November has been designated as antibiotic resistance awareness month, and a Commission established through The Lancet has produced a report by 26 leading experts that analyzes the problem and recommends corrective action. Antibiotic resistance arises because of a complex web of interactions in healthcare, the pharmaceutical industry agriculture and the community. The problem is beyond human medicine, the report notes: most of the 100,000 to 200,000 tons of antibiotics manufactured every year is used in agriculture and animal farming. The report recommends innovating funding to promote antibiotic research while at the same time removing incentives for pharmaceutical companies to try and maximize the sales of any new products they develop. Read the report here. | <urn:uuid:e448fb80-75ef-46e0-afd8-5d510ec56dda> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.plexusinstitute.org/news/146391/Current-News-Lancet-Warns-Dangerous-Post-antibiotic-Era-is-Near-.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00063-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937749 | 262 | 3.265625 | 3 |
what are some good videos for slow talking kids to learn sentences
Ev - posted on 01/01/2013
I am doing to concur with Jodi on this one. I am also going to add that I am in Early Childhood Studies currently. One of the things we learned was about the use of videos and children under the age of three. Studies are conclusive that children of these ages do not learn anything from videos be it to learn to read, learn to talk, or anything else. Children's brains are making connections on a cellular level that can only be made with contact with others during play, at home, and out in public. Videos only hinder those connections that are made and are very important for a developing mind.
So, no videos won't teach your child to talk right. Only you and your family and friends of the family can do that with interaction and play. All videos are good for is to babysit the child. Entertaining too and should also be used with discretion. In fact little to no TV is best.
Jodi - posted on 01/01/2013
The best thing is YOU talking to them. Talk to your kids every time you are with them. Have a conversation about anything and everything you are doing. Not only can they learn sentences, but it is bonding for the two of you and they can learn about things in real life. Putting a video on to teach them to talk isn't necessary.
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In a show of strength, a senate committee tabled Rep. Chris Herrod’s house bill affecting immigration enforcement, before passing out a senate bill that used similar elements as Herrod’s bill.---
Rep. Chris Herrod, R-Provo presented his bill to make Utah a mandatory user of the e-verify employment system. That system is currently used on the federal level at a voluntary basis and allows employer checks of their employee’s immigration status. Herrod made an impassioned plea for his bill as a means of discouraging undocumented immigration to the state, arguing those immigrants are harmful to American society.
“Our melting pot is in danger,” Herrod told the committee. “If we break it, it will fracture into a thousand pieces.” Representatives of various immigration groups, Tea Partiers and 9/12 groups spoke in favor of Herrod’s bill, but Sen. John Valentine, R-Orem took Herrod to task on the language of his bill. Valentine pointed out inconsistent language in the bill relating to penalties for employers who hire undocumented laborers. Valentine led the committee in tabling Herrod’s bill arguing it wasn’t ready yet. The motion carried and with the session expiring next week, the bill will be unlikely to return.
Sen. Curtis Bramble, R-Provo, next took the podium to present the Senate GOP’s long-awaited immigration omnibus bill. The bill announced late in the session incorporates different elements of various bills presented in the session including enforcement provisions similar to Herrod and Sandstrom’s bill, a guest-worker provision and amendments to affect in-state tuition for children of undocumented immigrants.
“This is the culmination of six weeks of intense work for 25 legislators and various stakeholders across the spectrum, as we have looked at various immigration proposals,” Bramble told the committee. The guest worker program would be extended to workers in the state prior to May 10, 2011. Similar to other bills like Luz Robles’ immigrant database, the guest-worker program in SB 288 would require applicants to complete criminal background checks. They would not be required to take English and civics classes but would be required to make a “good faith” effort at obtaining English-language proficiency.
The bill would also require guest workers to pay a $1,000 fine if they entered the country legally but overstayed on a visa. A $2,500 fine would be imposed on immigrants who entered the country illegally. “Amnesty is a violation of a law for which there is no consequence,” Bramble said. “This provides that penalty.”
The program would also utilize employment verification. Guest workers under the program would be able to use a U-Verify program if they had existing guest-worker status. Or would be required to use an e-verify type system. Penalties to employers would be different in Bramble’s bill than in Herrod’s first offenses in Bramble’s bill would be a single $500 fine. Maximum civil penalties would reach a $10,000 fine and the revocation of a business’ license for one year. Under Herrod’s bill the maximum penalty would involve revoking a business’ license permanently.
The bill also addressed in-state tuition by allowing children of undocumented immigrants the ability to receive in-state tuition if their parent or guardian was a guest-worker. Bramble signaled that he was open to the idea of his bill also operating concurrently with a current bill sponsored by Rep. Carl Wimmer, R-Herriman that would as amended revoke the benefit unless the student can show prove they, or their parents, have paid income taxes for the previous three years.
One key difference in Bramble’s bill is the fact that while a federal waiver will be sought to implement the guest-worker program, that if the government fails to act, then the state will implement the program on it’s own, effective July 1, 2013.
The bill while presented as comprehensive on economic concerns as well as enforcement, was received by many 9/12 groups’ representatives, citizens and Tea Partiers in the public comment, as a secretive bill, meant to provide amnesty to undocumented immigrants.
“I find the timetable of this bill extremely offensive, and the behind closed door methods it was made,” said David Haring of the Utah County 9/12 group. “This is a Washington-style bill, no; this is a Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid-style bill.”
Alexandra Eframo, 78 years old, challenged the committee on being soft on undocumented immigrants. “You people have degrees! You should be more intelligent!” she screamed.
Jacquie Nielsen, who introduced herself as a “Tea Party patriot” warned committee members that their actions would resonate into the next election.
“Illegal immigration is the issue of the next election,” Nielsen said. “It may not be important to you but it is important to the citizens of the state. They are looking for legislators to enact bills that reflect what is best for the majority of citizens of the state. When we get our house in order then we can think about what we can do for people who are willing to push legal immigrants aside and shove their way into this country and risk our children’s and our grand children’s future and then demand their entitlements.”
In closing committee discussion Sen. Wayne Niederhauser, R-Sandy, argued, however that a comprehensive approach was the best way forward and if it couldn’t be agreed to, a legislative impasses on the issue would mean more of the status quo. Pushing forward with reform, he said, however might send the right message to the federal government.
“Hopefully as we come up with solutions here, they can coalesce with other states and hopefully tip the federal government to do what they need to,” Niederhauser said.
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Flexed-Arm Hang Test
The Flexed-Arm Hang test measures upper body relative strength and endurance. The participant hangs from a bar with the armed flexed, and attempts to hold this position for as long as possible. The following describes the procedures as used in the International Physical Fitness Test. See also the flexed arm hang test used for the Marines and as used in the President's Challenge Fitness Awards.
equipment required: Stopwatch, a horizontal bar 4cm in diameter, placed at a height so that participants are unable to touch the ground when hanging from it, ladder.
pre-test: Explain the test procedures to the subject. Perform screening of health risks and obtain informed consent. Prepare forms and record basic information such as age, height, body weight, gender and test conditions. Record the height of the overhead bar. See more details of pre-test procedures.
procedure: The participant climbs the ladder to a height so that the chin is level with the bar. Grasp the overhead bar using an overhand grip (palms facing away from body), with the hands at shoulder width apart. On the command, "ready, go," the person removes their feet from the ladder, and the timing starts. The participant should attempt to hold this position for as long as possible.
scoring: The total time is seconds is recorded - timing is stopped when the person's chin falls below the level of the bar or the head tilts backward to enable the chin to stay level with the bar.
variations: three other procedures for the flexed arm hang are described on this site, the flexed arm hang test the President's Challenge Fitness Awards, the Eurofit Bent Arm Hang and also the flexed arm hang test used for the Marines. These procedures only vary slightly from that described here.
advantages: the equipment is readily available, and the test is easy and quick to perform.
disadvantages: The body weight of the subject has a great effect on the results of this test. A better test of upper body strength in which body weight is not as important is the push-up test.
The Test in Action
- This test is part of the International Physical Fitness Test
- See the similar Flexed Arm Hang test used for the Marine PFT
- The flexed arm hang test used in the President's Challenge Fitness Awards.
- Bent-Arm Hang from the Eurofit tests.
- Extended (Straight) Arm Hang Test — hanging from an overhead bar with straight arms for as long as possible, part of the Brockport assessment.
- Similar pull-up and push-up upper body strength tests.
- Other strength tests
- Overhand or underhand - a description of each of the grip types
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You might not immediately think of jazz for Yuletide, but over the years the holiday season has proved fertile ground for a whole host of jazz artists from Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Count Basie, and Duke Ellington to Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Louis Armstrong, and Mel Tormé, who, between them, have recorded some of the best Christmas jazz songs of all time.
For us, what makes a jazz-tinged Christmas so special is when artists breathe new life into the Christmas music songs that we’ve heard so many times before. Jimmy Smith, for example, was a keyboardist who brought his own unique skills into the reinvention of familiar music, and his vibrant organ version of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen” is a delight.
Listen to the best jazz Christmas songs on Spotify, and scroll down for our list of some of the best jazz Christmas songs ever.
Louis Armstrong: Christmas In New Orleans
When Decca brought Louis Armstrong into the studio to record some Christmas cheer, they gave him first-class treatment by backing him with the lush arrangements of Gordon Jenkins. The track ‘Christmas In New Orleans’ opens with a snatch of “Jingle Bells” and features one of Armstrong’s scintillating trumpet solos. Satchmo sounds happier than Santa Claus on this record. And so he should. He loved Xmas and he loved New Orleans, and the combination clearly inspired him.
Ella Fitzgerald: Frosty The Snowman
Ella Fitzgerald’s swinging version of “Frosty The Snowman” was recorded on a hot New York day in August 1960. The song, from a Christmas album of festive classics for Verve Records called Ella Wishes You A Swinging Christmas, featured a studio orchestra arranged and conducted by Frank DeVol. Fitzgerald’s voice is as sparkling as pure snow.
Kenny Burrell: Away In A Manger
Kenny Burrell was one of the finest jazz guitarists of the 20th Century and his beautifully tender instrumental version of the traditional carol ‘”Away In A Manger” appeared on his 1966 album Have Yourself A Soulful Little Christmas. The entire album, including a beautiful take on “Silent Night,” is full of peaceful Christmas tunes.
Julie London: Warm December
Bob Russell’s final hit was “He Ain’t Heavy, He’s My Brother” and the songwriter was a favorite of Julie London, who recorded his short, super song “Warm December” for her 1956 album Calendar Girl. London was riding high when she recorded the song after her global hit “Cry Me A River” the previous year.
Jamie Cullum: Show Me The Magic
Jazz pianist and singer Jamie Cullum was proud of his 2016 song “Show Me the Magic.” “I wrote an original Christmas song! My first time trying this and it was so fun to put together,” said Cullum. Looking for a Christmas carol feel, Callum “tried to write something timeless that could fit right into one of those classic Christmas compilations.” The song was arranged by Tom Richards and recorded at the iconic Abbey Road Studios.
Billy Eckstine: Christmas Eve
Jazz bandleader Billy Eckstine had a wonderfully rich and resonant baritone voice. Eckstine’s recording of his 1955 festive song “Christmas Eve” became an evergreen. It was co-written with Lionel Newman, the Oscar-winning composer, conductor and pianist who was the uncle of Randy Newman.
Stephen Scott: I’ll Be Home for Christmas
Since it was first released in 1943, “I’ll Be Home for Christmas,” written by the lyricist Kim Gannon and composer Walter Kent, has become a staple on radio and in movies. Though it is well known as a vocal song, New York pianist Stephen Scott gave it a modern jazz twist with his instrumental version for the Verve Records album Jazz For Joy in 1996. Scott was 26 at the time.
Frank Sinatra: Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas
The original version of “Have Yourself A Merry Little Christmas,” written by Hugh Martin and Ralph Blane, and sung by Judy Garland in the 1944 movie Meet Me In St Louis, needed some modification, according to Frank Sinatra. He included the wonderfully sentimental song for his 1957 seasonal album, but asked Martin to revise the line “Until then we’ll have to muddle through somehow.” Sinatra told Martin, “The name of my album is A Jolly Christmas. Do you think you could jolly up that line for me?” Martin’s new heart-warming line was, “Hang a shining star upon the highest bough.”
Bing Crosby: Winter Wonderland
Since being composed in 1934, “Winter Wonderland” has been recorded by thousands of singers, cementing its status as one of the best Christmas jazz songs in history. One of the unbeatable versions is by Bing Crosby, the man famous for crooning “White Christmas.” Crosby recorded “Winter Wonderland,” with gorgeous orchestration, for his 1962 album I Wish You A Merry Christmas. Sleigh bells ring… are you listening?
Vince Guaraldi: Christmas Time Is Here
In 1965, Charles M. Schulz’s beloved Peanuts comic strip was transformed into an animated TV special, to the delight of children across America. A Charlie Brown Christmas aired across the country, kicking off an annual tradition and inspiring a string of future holiday specials. Rather than supply the film with pop music, the Bay Area-based production team turned to local artist Vince Guaraldi, who wrote a sophisticated jazz score. Guaraldi’s lively themes have become holiday standards in their own right, while the timeless score has become one of the best-selling Christmas soundtracks of all-time. – Sophie Smith
Dean Martin: Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!
It greatly amused Dean Martin, as he walked into Capitol Records’ studio, at 1750 North Vine Street, Hollywood, on August 6, 1959, to think that he was about to record his own version of the winter song “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!” on such a hot day. No matter. Martin, whose singing imitated the smooth baritone vocals and phrasing of Bing Crosby, had the perfect voice for festive songs. His version of “Let It Snow! Let It Snow! Let It Snow!,” which was cut for the Capitol album A Winter Romance, is the best and most popular adaptation of a song that has become an absolute Christmas classic.
Kurt Elling: Cool Yule
“Cool Yule” was written by Steve Allen and was first recorded by Louis Armstrong in 1953. When Blue Note Records released their 2010 album Blue Christmas, they commissioned a new version by Kurt Elling, the Grammy-winning Chicago-born performer, and it is an upbeat delight that belongs among the best jazz Christmas songs. “Kurt Elling is the standout male vocalist of our time,” said The New York Times.
Bing Crosby: Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
There is an oft-repeated story that Bing Crosby turned down the chance to become the first singer to record “Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.” Instead, Gene Autry got in first and quickly reached No. 1 in 1949 with a song written by Johnny Marks and inspired by a children’s book about Santa’s famous reindeer that Marks had been given by his brother-in-law. Crosby saw further potential in the song and, in June 1950, he recorded his own big-band version, with John Scott Trotter and his Orchestra. Crosby’s honeyed-voice version was a double hit for Decca, becoming a bestseller in both the children’s record charts and Billboard pop singles.
Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers: Merry Christmas Baby
The slow, bluesy classic “Merry Christmas Baby” from Johnny Moore’s Three Blazers, was a very different type of festival classic to the more usual sentimental fare (“gave me a diamond ring for Christmas/Now I’m living in paradise”), and one with a controversial history. The dispute over the origins of the song even prompted a Smithsonian Magazine article entitled “Who Really Wrote Merry Christmas, Baby?” It outlined claims that proper credit had escaped an army veteran called Andrew Whitson Griffith, who went by the name Lou Baxter, with some versions listing the band’s singer Tony Brown as the sole author. In any case, the version by Moore and the Three Blazers, a band who came from Los Angeles, reached No. 3 on Billboard’s Jukebox R&B chart in 1947 and soon became a Christmas standard, covered by stars such as Elvis Presley, Bruce Springsteen, Chuck Berry, and Christina Aguilera.
Oscar Peterson: What Child Is This?
When he was 70, celebrated jazz piano player Oscar Peterson tackled his own festive album with 1995’s An Oscar Peterson Christmas, and his delicate, soulful playing lights up a version of the 19th-century carol, “What Child Is This?” Peterson’s fellow Canadian musicians, Lorne Lofsky on guitar, Jerry Fuller on drums, and David Young on bass, add to the swing of this charming Christmas instrumental, one that owes much of its melody to “Greensleeves.”
Abbey Lincoln & Roy Hargrove: Christmas Cheer
Abbey Lincoln, the Chicago-born singer born Anna Marie Wooldridge, had a flourishing career as a performer. The one-time wife of jazz drummer Max Roach loved the songs of RB Lynch, a former New York Times journalist turned lyricist, and together they composed the uplifting song “Christmas Cheer.” Lincoln recorded this in New York in 1996 for Verve Records – and it appears on Jazz For Joy: A Verve Christmas Album. Her rich, warm delivery is complemented perfectly by the tender flugelhorn playing of Roy Hargrove, a jazz master who worked with Jackie McLean and Jimmy Smith. This graceful song is guaranteed to spread festive cheer.
Ramsey Lewis Trio – We Three Kings
Ramsey Lewis was one of the most commercially successful jazz musicians in the 1960s, so it was no surprise to see him putting together a collection of Christmas albums. This song, also known as “We Three Kings Of Orient Are,” appears on his second. Ramsey’s version swings a lot more than you’d expect from typical Christmas music. It doesn’t quite rock like “Run Rudolph Run,” but it’s not background music either, which makes it perfect for a music connoisseur’s Christmas playlist. – Sam Armstrong
Jimmy Smith: God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen
Jimmy Smith’s pulsating version of “God Rest Ye Merry Gentlemen,” a carol whose origins date back to the 16th century, is a cracker. His own organ playing is exuberant and the version that appeared as the opening track on his holiday album, Christmas ‘64 for Verve, featured the great Kenny Burrell on guitar. Smith left the arranging to Billy Byers, a man who’d filled that role regularly for Count Basie, and his tight scripts brought out the best from a horn section that included Joe Newman (flugelhorn), Jimmy Cleveland (trombone), Jim Buffington (French horn), and Harvey Phillips (tuba). This sizzling jazz instrumental is as rich as Christmas pudding.
Bing Crosby: White Christmas
After reportedly staying up late into the night writing the lyrics to a deeply nostalgic song about Christmas, Irving Berlin told his secretary: “I want you to take down a song I wrote over the weekend. Not only is it the best song I ever wrote, it’s the best song anybody ever wrote.” Bing Crosby would later sell more than 100 million copies with his celebrated 1941 version, and go on to star alongside Danny Kaye in the 1954 film it inspired. Berlin made a fortune from the song, which has since been covered by hundreds of singers, including Dean Martin, Frank Sinatra, and Etta James.
Tony Bennett: Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
A master of the Great American Songbook and the man behind countless classic jazz albums, Tony Bennett is a legendary figure. Bennett has done plenty of Christmas albums, including one with The London Symphony Orchestra in which he sings a stirring version of “Good King Wenceslas.” Our pick, though, is one of the traditional songs of modern Christmas, “Santa Claus Is Coming To Town.” Bennett’s warmth and joy bring it to life, making this perfect a perfect addition to your “sounds of Christmas playlist.” – Sam Armstrong
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Large portions of Michigan, Ohio, and Pennsylvania shivered through a hard freeze (temperatures below 28°F ) this morning, and cold temperatures will cause widespread damage to flowering plants fooled into blooming by last week's unprecedented "Summer in March" heat wave. Growers of apples, pears, peaches, nectarines, plums, and cherries worked during the night and early morning to minimize the damage by running large fans and propane heaters in their orchards in an attempts to keep temperatures a few degrees warmer. While freezing temperatures for an extended period will not kill the trees, they will destroy the flowers and fragile buds that are needed to produce fruit later in the year. I expect that this morning's freeze was severe and widespread enough to cause tens of millions of dollars in damage to the fruit industry, but it will be several weeks before the extent of the damage is known. It would take several nights of temperatures in the 20s to cause a more significant billion-dollar disaster, such as occurred in 2007. A warm spell in March that year was followed by cold temperatures in early April that were 10 - 20 degrees below average, bringing killing frosts and freezes to the Midwest and South that caused $2.2 billion in agricultural damage, wiping out apple, peach, winter wheat and alfalfa crops.
During the remainder of this week, temperatures are expected to be much warmer than they were this morning, so the freeze damage will be limited compared to 2007. However, we still have two more months to go this spring when temperatures commonly fall below freezing. Plants will steadily grow more susceptible to cold temperatures in the coming weeks as the growing season progresses, and the odds of more destructive frosts and freezes for the Midwest and Northeast fruit industry are high.
Figure 1. Low temperatures this morning dipped below 30 degrees over Eastern Michigan, Northeast Ohio, Northern West Virginia, and much of Pennsylvania, in regions where spring bloom was well-advanced due to last week's record "Summer in March" heat wave. Widespread agricultural damage likely occurred in these areas.
History of billion-dollar U.S. freezes
Freezes can cause big damage to agriculture. According to NOAA's National Climatic Data Center, there have been six billion-dollar U.S. freezes since 1980, accounting for 5% of all billion-dollar weather-related disasters. Five of these freezes affected California or Florida; one hit the Midwest. Ranked by damages (in 2011 dollars), here are the six billion-dollar U.S. freeze events since 1980:
1) California Freeze of December 1990. Severe freeze in the Central and Southern San Joaquin Valley caused the loss of citrus, avocado trees, and other crops in many areas. Several days of subfreezing temperatures occurred, with some valley locations in the teens. $5.9 billion in direct and indirect economic losses, including damage to public buildings, utilities, crops, and residences.
2) Florida Freeze of December 1983. Severe freeze central/northern Florida; about $4.5 billion damage to citrus industry.
3) California Freeze of December 1998. A severe freeze damaged fruit and vegetable crops in the Central and Southern San Joaquin Valley. Extended intervals of sub 27° F temperatures occurred over an 8-day period; $3.5 billion estimated damages/costs.
4) Florida Freeze of January 1985. Severe freeze in central/northern Florida; about $2.5 billion damage to citrus industry.
5) East/Midwest freeze of April 2007. Widespread severe freeze over much of the East and Midwest (AL, AR, GA, IL, IN, IA, KS, KY, MS, MO, NE, NC, OH, OK, SC, TN, VA, WV), causing significant losses in fruit crops, field crops (especially wheat), and the ornamental industry. Temperatures in the teens/20's accompanied by rather high winds nullified typical crop-protection systems. Over $2.2 billion in damage/costs.
6) California Freeze of January 2007. For nearly two weeks in January, overnight temperatures over a good portion of California dipped into the 20's, destroying numerous agricultural crops, with citrus, berry, and vegetable crops most affected. $1.5 billion estimated in damage/costs; 1 fatality reported.
Scotland records its all-time warmest March temperature
The ridge of high pressure that brought "Summer in March" to the U.S. last week moved over Western Europe over the weekend, bringing sunny skies and record-breaking high temperatures to the U.K. Scotland broke its record for hottest March temperature on record on Sunday, when the mercury hit 22.8°C at Fyvie Castle, Aberdeenshire. The record lasted only one day, as a new high of 22.9°C was recorded in Aboyne, Aberdeenshire, on Monday. That record also lasted just one day, as Aboyne, Aberdeenshire has hit 23.4°C today. The previous March record in Scotland was 22.2°C at Gordon Castle (Morayshire) in March 1957, and at Strachan (Kincardineshire) in March 1965.
Canada's 1926 all-time March temperature record questioned
I reported last week that the 29.2°C (85°F) measured at Western Head, Nova Scotia on March 22, 2012 was the third warmest temperature ever recorded in Canada in March. Environment Canada lists the hottest March temperature as a 31.1°C at Beaver Creek on Vancouver Island, BC on March 29th, 1926. However, weather records researcher Maximiliano Herrera has looked into this record, and concluded that it is likely bogus. A station just a few miles away at Port Alberni measured a much cooler high temperature of 23.3°C that day, and the temperature range between the high and low temperature at Beaver Creek was almost 30°C, which is far too great for a station so close to the ocean. Such large differences between min and max temperature on sunny days usually commonly imply poor siting of the temperature instrument. He maintains that the highest March temperature in Canada should be the 29.4°C in 1921 at Wallaceburg, with the second highest being the 29.2°C (85°F) measured at Western Head, Nova Scotia on March 22, 2012.
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Progress in metathesis chemistry
2Institute of Organic Chemistry, Polish Academy of Sciences, Kasprzaka 44/52, 01-224 Warsaw, Poland
In contrast to the production of simple bulk chemicals and polymers, which started shortly after the discovery of the “olefin scrambling” reaction, it was not until much later that this transformation was “rediscovered” by the academic world. In the last decade of the 20th century, the so-called olefin metathesis reaction gained real significance in advanced organic synthesis . The development of well-defined catalysts and an understanding of the reaction mechanism prompted an extraordinary scientific turnaround, revolutionizing retro-synthetic planning in total synthesis groups and in medicinal chemistry R&D laboratories around the world. The importance of “the development of the metathesis method in organic synthesis” has been fully recognized by the award of the Nobel Prize in Chemistry for 2005 jointly to Yves Chauvin, Robert H. Grubbs, and Richard R. Schrock .
Organic chemists are now provided with molybdenum and ruthenium complexes that present good application profiles for a range of metathesis reactions. Most of the ruthenium initiators can be handled in air and are compatible with functionalized substrates, such as unsaturated esters, amides, ketones, aldehydes and even alkenes bearing protic functions, e.g., hydroxy or carboxylic acid groups. While more sensitive towards air and moisture, molybdenum catalysts provide excellent results in stereoselective metathesis and are sometimes more active. Therefore these catalyst families can be used in a complementary fashion. Currently, olefin metathesis (and its sister reaction, alkyne metathesis) is one of the most intensively studied transformations in synthetic organic chemistry, as witnessed by a veritable “explosion” in the number of published syntheses where metathesis is the key step. Despite its power and applicability, metathesis is still experiencing some growing pains outside academic laboratories and the industrial production of simple chemicals. It is surprising that while this transformation has been used in laboratory scale syntheses of thousands of natural and biologically active compounds, it has not yet entered commercial pharmaceutical manufacturing. This could be due to a variety of reasons, such as the still not perfect stability and sometimes low activity of existing catalysts, problems with removing/recycling of catalysts after the reaction, unfavorable patent situation and licensing strategies etc. . Fortunately, the international community of chemists, fully aware of the above limitations, is working hard to develop new metathesis catalysts and strategies in order to solve some of the existing problems. The enormous progress which has been made over last few years provides an equally impressive lesson about the chemist’s ability to innovate. The variety of metathesis catalysts now available on the market as well as the number of commercial players involved, are increasing. New applications of this methodology are being developed, including sustainable production of valuable chemicals from renewable sources. The importance of these developments is now widely appreciated and more and more commercial applications will surely follow.
The papers collected in this Thematic Series nicely highlight many of the aspects mentioned above and will certainly help to update the “state of the art” knowledge in this fascinating field. In this Thematic Series contributions from many of the leading practitioners in the area, which cover a wide range of topics related to alkene and alkyne metathesis, are presented. It is therefore a pleasure to serve as Guest Editor for this Thematic Series in the Beilstein Journal of Organic Chemistry, on “Progress in metathesis chemistry”. I would like to thank all authors for their excellent contributions. Enjoy reading them!
Warsaw, November 2010Top
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Beautiful Birchgrove House, Australia
Australia-based design studio Pearse Architects and Brian Kiernan have designed the Birchgrove House project. The contemporary property can be found in the Birchgrove a suburb of Sydney, Australia.
According to the architects: “The owners of this contemporary Sydney property are keen gardeners, and relationship to the garden was central. The floor level above the garden was predetermined by the existing house, 750mm, and we wanted to have something that helped this transition. We settled on a pond because the way it bounces like a visual springboard, it’s also a classic garden feature so it brought the garden right up to your feet.
“Keeping the palm trees and building around them was symbolic, planting them was one of the first acts of the owners when they bought the land many years ago.
“The design of the contemporary Sydney home needs to shield from severe overlooking to one side and also open to the garden, so the stepping joinery units and the wide roof cantilever at the entrance porch work as privacy screens; the view out to the garden is still available between and around the joinery.
“From the garden, the strong horizontal is to dramatise the relative height of the low house compared to the taller garden trees, especially the Palms, and the simple unadorned steel roof edge beams painted grey relates to the Palm trunks.”
Images courtesy of Steve Back.
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Appeared in National Review’s 2003 Health-Care Symposium
In early June, Senate Finance Committee leaders reached a surprise bipartisan agreement on a Medicare prescription-drug benefit bill, paving the way for passage after years of deadlock. The House is expected to follow, dramatically increasing the odds that a bill will reach President Bush’s desk before the 2004 elections shift into high gear.
Passing a drug bill is a top priority for the Republican leadership in both houses, and the White House is pushing hard for the bill to allow not only for a drug benefit but also for modernization of Medicare itself. As both sides begin to look at details of the latest agreement, the test for conservatives will be whether the bill veers too far from the goals of injecting viable market competition into the Medicare program.
Conservatives want coverage to be offered through private plans that would provide a full set of benefits, including prescription drugs. The bill must fit within the $400 billion that Congress has set aside for Medicare updates over ten years. Medicare recipients could choose from an array of private health plans structured like the Preferred Provider Organizations (PPOs) already popular with working Americans. Government would oversee the plans but would not control every service.
Liberals, on the other hand, will be watching to ensure that government is very involved in setting the rules. The ClintonCare battles of 1993-94 showed that most Americans don’t want the government to control their health care. But it already controls Medicare, which covers those over age 65 and the disabled. Medicare is our version of a single-payer health-care system, and as such is particularly vulnerable to expansion of overnment control. It’s crucial that the final legislation take a hands-off approach to program updates.
Senior citizens like Medicare, even though its coverage is substandard compared to that offered through most private health insurance. Medicare covers only 53 percent of seniors’ health costs, leaves them exposed to large hospital bills, delays or denies adoption of new technologies, and pays doctors so little that many are now refusing to accept new Medicare patients.
President Bush believes that the time is right to fix Medicare. Rather that merely tacking on a drug benefit, the president wants to reshape the entire program to work more like the popular Federal Employees Health Benefits Program (FEHBP), which currently provides health benefits to members of Congress and federal workers. Instead of micromanaging every benefit – Medicare has 110,000 pages of regulations and 4,000 pricing systems – a new agency would negotiate a set rate with private plans in order to provide a range of health benefits to seniors, from hospital and doctor care to preventive services and prescription drugs. The agency would first take bids from competing private plans, then inform seniors of their choices and ensure that the plans fulfill their contracts. Government would provide a contribution toward the premiums, and seniors could choose the plan that best suits their needs. (Under FEHBP, federal workers now have a choice of twelve national health plans and many more at the local and regional levels.) If seniors prefer to stay in the current fee-for-service Medicare, they would have that option too.
This year, Medicare will spend more than $250 billion on 41 million seniors – over $6,000 per person. And most seniors pay thousands more in Medicare premiums and deductibles, supplementary coverage, and other out-of-pocket costs. That’s surely large enough to attract a vibrant market. Still, the new program must be structured to allow real competition to take place. Companies offering seniors a managed-care option through the current Medicare+Choice program have been dropping out. They complain that they are too much under the thumb of the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, thanks to both excessive regulation and skimpy payments. This year, reimbursement for M+C rose by only 2 percent; health-plan costs are rising by 10 to 15 percent.
Sen. Bill Frist, the Republican majority leader, and Rep. Bill Thomas, the (Republican) chairman of the House Ways and Means Committee – along with Democratic senator John Breaux – have been leaders in developing an improved Medicare program. All three served on the National Bipartisan Commission on the Future of Medicare, created with the blessing of Bill Clinton, to map a course for Medicare reform. But Clinton pulled the plug on their recommendations in 1999, for what many consider to have been political reasons. Medicare reform has drifted ever since.
Chairman Thomas is working with Energy and Commerce Committee chairman Billy Tauzin (R., La.) to update a bill they co-authored last year and that has passed the House twice. The bill – which would include the drug benefit delivered by private plans – would lay the foundation for a modernized Medicare program.
Meanwhile, a group of House Republicans, most of whom serve on the Energy and Commerce Committee, is developing a competing bill that would offer a discount card with a cash deposit (determined on a sliding income scale), coupled with insurance coverage against very high, or “catastrophic,” drug costs – in addition to program modernization. Many House Republicans are worried about the impact of any new drug-benefit bill that would expand government’s reach. “We’re shooting with real bullets, now,” one observed.
The White House is encouraging all parties to incorporate as much as possible of the president’s framework for Medicare modernization to give seniors three options: 1) traditional Medicare with drug discounts and catastrophic coverage; 2) “enhanced Medicare” based on the FEHBP model; and 3) “Medicare advantage” – a new and improved version of the M+C managed-care option.
The Senate has been the obstacle to passage of the drug-benefit bill in the last two sessions of Congress. This year’s bipartisan deal was likely the result of pressure by Senate Democrats up for reelection in 2004. Last year, senators on both sides of the aisle thought they could protect themselves from seniors’ ire by voting for one of the four drug-benefit bills the Senate considered. But none of the bills passed. Seniors clearly want action, and this year, neither side seems willing to risk not supplying it.
It may seem strange that Medicare bill costing $400 to $900 billion over ten years could be so crucial to the future of the health sector, which will see $1.4 trillion in spending this year alone. But the key to it all is prescription drugs. Seniors use four times more drugs than younger Americans. If the government controls 40 percent of drug purchases, it will become such a dominant player that it will essentially set the prices for the entire industry, since all other payers will benchmark off the government.
In all other industrialized nations, thanks to government dominance of the health sector, prices are set so low that they don’t cover development costs – meaning that innovation is screeching to a halt. With Tufts University researchers estimating that it now costs $897 million to bring a single new drug to market, the chances are slim that drug companies would continue to make this kind of risky investment with the government as its primary customer.
Policy analysts believe that the United States not only can continue to lead the world in new medical technologies, but can also chart a new course in how health care is financed. But it is imperative that Congress use any drug-benefit legislation to build a foundation for a market-based Medicare program in which benefits are delivered by private, competing plans. Seniors should have incentives to make wise purchasing decisions, and plans should have incentives to institute coordinated care and disease-management programs. Policymakers should be especially vigilant against the danger of government-run catastrophic coverage – which is an open invitation to expand Medicare’s administered pricing structure to cover virtually all of the drugs consumed by seniors.
The danger in the bills being considered by Congress this summer is that government would bear the risk for high-end drug expenses for seniors choosing to enroll in a separate drug plan. Today, the United States remains the only major nation in which the bulk of the health-care market is not restricted by government price controls. Consequently, we pay a disproportionate share of development costs for new drugs and devices, bearing the burden for other rich countries such as Canada, Germany, France, and the U.K. If the United States, too, defaults to the failed European model, where are we – or they – to turn for medical innovation?
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Film enthusiasts may be familiar with the silent film Safety Last! Starring Harold Lloyd, this film debuted in 1923. Even those who are not familiar with the movie may recognize the iconic scene where Lloyd is dangling from the hands of a giant clock. Cupecoy Home Fashion Inc. produces a 12” metal clock with a man dangling from the minute hand. This clock drew the ire of Harold Lloyd Entertainment, who filed a copyright infringement lawsuit on March 11, 2014.
Harold Lloyd Entertainment alleged the clock was a direct appropriation of the iconic clock scene. It also highlighted that it had previously licensed the rights to create a derivative version of the clock scene before. The movie Back to the Future obtained permission to film the scene of Doc Brown (Christopher Lloyd) hanging from the clock tower towards the end of the movie. Most recently, Harold Lloyd Entertainment granted a license to Martin Scorsese to create a similar scene in the movie Hugo. In fact, posters for the movie featured this scene.
It may seem like a movie 1923 is too old to still be protected by copyright. However, it is the edge of copyright protection. If it debuted in 1922, it would be in the public domain. 1923 is the first year where the 95 year term of copyright protection began as per the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Therefore Safety Last! is protected until 2018.
Even though Cupecoy makes clocks, copyright protection still applies. Unlike patent law, copyright law does not protect physical objects but expressions. Thus Harold Lloyd Entertainment can sue not only movies with other clock scenes, but any media with a similar scene or even products with similar expression. Harold Lloyd Entertainment claims it tried to settle this dispute outside of court but also claims Cupecoy would not respond to its efforts to settle. | <urn:uuid:dcd83797-aae4-4556-9871-49a0df93b541> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://newyorkcopyrightattorney.com/silent-films-protected-copyright/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.932749 | 356 | 2.390625 | 2 |
FDA Panel Backs First Rapid, Take Home HIV Test
WASHINGTON (AP) - American consumers may soon be able to test themselves for the virus that causes AIDS in the privacy of their own homes, after a panel of experts on Tuesday recommended approval of the first rapid, over-the-counter HIV test.
The 17 members of the Food and Drug Administration advisory panel voted unanimously that the benefits of the OraQuick HIV test outweigh its potential risks for consumers. While the test, which uses a mouth swab to return a result in 20 minutes, does not appear to be as accurate as professionally-administered diagnostics, panelists said it could provide an important way to expand HIV testing.
The FDA will make its final decision on whether to approve the product later this year, weighing the opinion of the panel.
Government officials estimate one-fifth, or about 240,000 people, of the 1.2 million HIV carriers in the U.S. are not aware they are infected. Testing is one of the chief means of slowing new infections, which have held steady at about 50,000 per year for two decades.
Based in Bethlehem, Pa., Orasure has marketed a version of OraQuick to doctors, nurses and other health care practitioners since 2004. When used by professionals, the test is shown to accurately identify both carriers and non-carriers 99 percent of the time.
But a trial conducted by the company showed the home test only correctly detected HIV in those carrying the virus 93 percent of the time. The FDA estimated the test would miss about 3,800 HIV-positive people per year, while correctly identifying 45,000, if approved for U.S. consumers. The test could prevent 4,000 new transmissions of the virus annually, though the figure could vary depending on how many people purchase the test. While it's not clear why the test was less accurate in consumer trials, company researchers said they expected the test's sensitivity to drop when used by consumers versus professionals.
Panelists stressed that the test's labeling should state that a negative reading does not automatically mean the person does not have HIV, because of imperfect results. Panelists also stressed the importance of a toll-free number to put those who test positive in touch with counseling and medical care.
Despite concerns about less-than-perfect use by the public, the panel overwhelmingly sided with more than two dozen HIV advocates and doctors, who said the test represents a step forward in combating the virus.
"Over-the-counter testing has the potential to reach a far greater number of people who want to know their HIV status on their own terms," said Tom Donohue, founder of HIV awareness group Who's Positive.
"We are always looking for game changers, and we believe this is one of them," said Carl Schmid, deputy director of the AIDS Institute. "Not only will it help reduce the number of infections but it will bring more people into care and treatment."
Tuesday's meeting was the second time in less than a week that FDA advisers recommended approval of a novel medical product to slow the spread of HIV. Last Thursday a similar panel of drug experts endorsed the HIV daily pill Truvada for preventive use. If FDA follows the group's advice, the daily medication will become the first drug approved to prevent healthy people from becoming infected with the virus.
The FDA has already approved other HIV test kits designed to be used at home, although those kits - which require a blood sample - must be sent to a laboratory for development. Orasure executives argue that a test that can be done at home will appeal to a much broader group of people.
FDA officials said it is impossible to predict how widely the test would be used, but it would be most effective in the hands of people at high risk of acquiring the virus, including men who have sex with men.
A recent survey of gay and bisexual men cited by public health officials found that 84 percent would test themselves more frequently if they could buy an over-the-counter HIV test.
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I am an event and fine art photographer. My business is taking pictures and capturing beauty. What one sentence would you say really describes an event and fine art photographer? I am almost finished reading your book, Thou Shall Prosper and think it is one of the best books in my library.
Please help me define what a photographer really does by taking images. I know there is a sentence that really get’s to the heart of the matter, but just cannot seem to just hit the nail on the head. I would love to hear from you.
∼ Mark L.L.
You are trying to find the difference between engaging in drudgery and doing something valuable and lasting. At the beginning of the 20th century a person who made buggy whips and saw himself as a buggy whip maker, was soon going to be out of business. Someone who made buggy whips but saw himself as a transportation specialist could transition to the automobile market. In addition, the buggy whip maker judged his success by how many whips he sold. The transportation specialist’s focus was on how he could help people get where they needed to be. The second way of thinking is more fulfilling than the first. | <urn:uuid:1c675476-1fb3-4828-8719-f8cd954c197d> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://rabbidaniellapin.com/tag/company/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00227-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985107 | 244 | 1.929688 | 2 |
When Washington wants a ceasefire, it can’t be good for peace
On Tuesday, Russia and Syria announced a 48-hour humanitarian pause in their military operations in Aleppo.
The US and Britain though want a longer time-out. They say it’s because of their concern for Syrian ‘civilians’.
Well, if you believe that you probably believed Iraq had WMDs in 2003.
The sad truth is that the US has used ceasefires in Syria in the past, not to work for peace, but to regain lost ground and re-arm its proxies.
The very fact the US is so keen on a ‘time-out’ in Syria now tells us that its forces are on the retreat and that the war is not going to plan. Because when they think wars which they launched ARE going their way, the US shows no interest in ‘humanitarian’ pauses in air strikes to ‘protect civilians’. Compassion most certainly is not on the Empire’s agenda.
Think back to 1999 and the illegal 78-day NATO bombardment of the Federal Republic of Yugoslavia. There were humanitarian calls for the bombing to be halted over Orthodox Easter. The Vatican issued a statement saying that "His Holiness (The Pope) would consider it a great humanitarian gesture if all military action would be suspended.”
But Washington ignored such calls, leading some to note that even the Nazis had stopped their Blitz of London during Christmas 1940. The US and Britain also rejected peace proposals from other NATO members. On 15th April 1999, the Guardian reported that “American officials rejected a six-point German peace plan which included a 24-hour bombing pause, a United Nations peacekeeping force and civilian monitors.” The Guardian noted how British Prime Minister Tony Blair, the future destroyer of Iraq, “also gave the plan a polite cold shoulder.”
Instead, NATO carried on bombing the country which had the highest living standards in Africa, back to the Stone Age.
After Gaddafi was brutally murdered, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton - whose husband Bill had bombed Yugoslavia during Easter, gloated: “We came. We saw. He died.”
In Syria, when the war was going their way, Uncle Sam wasn’t too keen on stopping the fighting either. From 2011- 2015, the US did all it could to sabotage peaceful solutions to the crisis.
However, as the Syrian Arab Army, backed by Russia air power, made significant advances against Western-backed jihadists and terrorists, the keen bombers suddenly morphed into pacifists. The same hawks who support the US and Britain illegally bombing Syria, now put on dove masks and urged people to protest outside the Russian Embassy - because, er, Russia is legally bombing in Syria.
The US wants a No Fly Zone in #Syria but only for Syrian and Russian planes. The Exceptional Nation & its allies wld still be able to bomb!— Neil Clark (@NeilClark66) September 23, 2016
Last month’s truce, which was brokered by John Kerry and Sergey Lavrov, was lauded by many, but the cynics among us knew exactly what would happen. While the S.A.A. had to halt its advances- ‘rebels’ carried on with their attacks. In one 24-hour period Russian General Vladimir Savchenko, said there had been no fewer than 55 rebel attacks, leading to the deaths of 12 civilians.
And one week after the so-called ceasefire had started; US-led air raids ‘accidentally’ killed 62 Syrian soldiers at Deir ez-Zor.
“From the very beginning there have been many of those, including in the US administration, seeking to break down these agreements,” lamented Sergey Lavrov. The fact is that the US hadn’t been serious about wanting an end to hostilities, and only wanted to use the ‘ceasefire’ as a cover for rearming/regaining ground. Like they always do.
While all sane people want to see an end to the conflict in Syria as soon as possible, it’s very important that we see the bigger picture and understand what‘s at stake. It’s no exaggeration to say that the future of the world could depend on what happens in Aleppo- and in the rest of Syria- in the next few months.
My friend and fellow OpEdger Dan Glazebrook has described Syria as the “Stalingrad of the Western regime changers”, “the rock on which the imperial folly of the West and its regional imitators may finally be broken."
When one considers that between 1.3 million and two million people have been killed by US-led wars and military interventions since 2001, then stopping the Western war juggernaut must surely be the number one priority of all peace campaigners.
If the Stalingrad of 2016 falls, and Bashar Assad meets the fate of Gaddafi, then it won’t mean peace, only that the neocons in Washington, having destroyed Iraq, Libya and Syria, will turn their attentions to the next country on their hit list: the Islamic Republic of Iran.
That’s why although a ‘ceasefire’ in Syria now might sound attractive; it’s only likely to prolong the country’s agony. Far better if the Syrian Arab Army backed by their Russian allies continue their advances to reclaim territory from US-backed proxies while at the same time showing clemency to those who wish to put down their weapons and take part in the democratic political processes enabled by the country’s new constitution. One-sided ‘ceasefires’ supported by Washington (and which end in US air strikes), won’t bring lasting peace to Syria or the Middle East in general, but a humiliating and historic defeat for the Western regime changers just might.
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From PRISCILLA STUCKEY
New. Clear. Vision.
Thanks to Don Sanderson
Rolling Back Democracy by Keeping the Rabble in Check
We learned in grade school about the Constitutional Convention, right? That summer of 1787 when the founding fathers gathered in Philadelphia to write the US Constitution? Many of us would be shocked to learn that what the framers of the Constitution did was roll back democratic gains of the American Revolution. They were frightened of too much democracy.
Why does this matter? Because the pressures against democracy today — the interests of the 1 percent of the wealthiest, most powerful Americans who make corporate decisions that threaten the health and well-being of people and Earth — are the same pressures that led to limiting democracy at the start of this country.
The delegates who wrote the Constitution were the 1 percent of their time — white men of means who were merchants and landowners and slaveholders, the majority of them lawyers and a few of them, like Washington, extremely wealthy. They had been living in a democratic experiment for eleven years under the Articles of Confederation, and most of them didn’t like it. They’d seen social upheaval — poor farmers revolting because they were losing their land on account of taxes levied against them to pay for the revolution. Slaves growing more numerous, in some states threatening to outnumber whites. How could elite interests remain safe? A strong central government was needed to keep the rabble in check.
Edmund Randolph, a Virginia planter, argued that, as everyone knew, the evils of the past decade were caused by “the turbulence and follies of democracy.” James Madison called the masses of people “the unreflecting multitude.” Alexander Hamilton opined: “The voice of the people has been said to be the voice of God; . . . it is not true in fact. The people are turbulent and changing; they seldom judge or determine right.” Madison spoke for most when he said, “Democratic communities may be unsteady, and be led to action by the impulse of the moment.”
Madison knew just what to do: put in place a permanent “upper house” made up of wealthy landowners, like England’s House of Lords, to hold in check the decisions of the “lower house.” For, he argued, landholders ought to have the permanent upper hand in government; they “ought to be so constituted as to protect the minority of the opulent against the majority.” Hamilton agreed: “Nothing but a permanent body can check the imprudence of democracy.”
And this was the thinking behind the Senate.
It’s all there in black and white, preserved in written notes from the Philadelphia convention, taken down by those who attended. It’s the history we weren’t taught in grade school. I didn’t even learn it in graduate school in US history. It took the Democracy School to pull it all together.
About those delegates’ notes, by the way: The convention passed a law that none of their personal notes or journals from the session were to leave the convention house. They resolved: “That members only be permitted to inspect the Journal. That nothing spoken in the House be printed, or otherwise published or communicated” (May 29, 1787). They didn’t want anyone to know what they were up to. So instead of the rabble peering in at the windows, as in Wuerker’s cartoon accompanying this article, we should picture locked doors and blacked-out windows. Armed guards were stationed at every door.
And where was George Washington in all this? Presiding over the convention. And preserving its secrecy. At one point a delegate dropped a document on the floor, and Washington said, “I must entreat the gentlemen to be more careful, lest our transactions get into the newspapers and disturb the public repose.” The public indeed would have been plenty upset to find that the privileged few were running away with their revolution.
Washington was the wealthiest man in the room, for he had spent years speculating in land along the western frontier (in sometimes shady dealings, as told by Thomas Slaughter) and now owned tens of thousands of acres there. He wanted to extract the resources on his lands and send them down the Potomac River to the coast, but he was being hampered by the Articles of Confederation. To develop the Potomac and make it navigable, he had to deal with not one but two states, Virginia and Maryland, persuading each legislature to pass identical commerce laws. The process was cumbersome. A centralized government would give him and other merchants smooth sailing, as it were, for their trade.
So the interests of the richest white men converged, as historian Charles Beard argued a century ago, in favor of a strong central government. Though they billed their meeting as one to “amend” the Articles of Confederation, the intention of many of them from the start, as even Wikipedia acknowledges, “was to create a new government rather than fix the existing one.”
And create they did.
At the end of the Constitutional Convention, instead of a confederation of independent states, as the Articles of Confederation had outlined, there was a nation with a federal government. Instead of a representative legislature that operated by majority rule, they had created two houses, including a Senate to rein in the “follies” of the House of Representatives. (Ever wonder why it’s so hard to get good laws passed?) Instead of a president of Congress who had only the limited powers of a speaker of the house, there was a new executive branch of government, with the president elected not directly by the people but instead through an electoral college (again, to curb the excesses of the masses — a move that became crucial in the 2000 election and three others in US history). And they set a new judiciary branch in place, with a Supreme Court whose members were not elected by the people but instead appointed by the not-directly-elected president — two steps removed from direct democracy. In the evil Three-Fifths Clause, they institutionalized slavery, placing it within the new nation’s Constitution and ensuring that slaveholding planters of the South would dominate national politics until the Civil War.
It was an all-out victory of the powerful few protecting their own interests. So how did they get the masses of people to come along and ratify this counter-revolutionary Constitution? By offering the promise of a Bill of Rights — a Bill of Rights that hadn’t even been written yet.
But that’s a story for another day…
For more information:
- Notes from the delegates appear in Notes of Debates in the Federal Convention of 1787 Reported by James Madison, with an introduction by Adrienne Koch (Athens: Ohio Univ. Press, 1984); and in “Notes of the Secret Debates of the Federal Convention of 1787, Taken from the Right Honorable Robert Yates,” available here from the Yale Law School.
- Some details from George Washington’s land speculations are found in Thomas Slaughter,The Whiskey Rebellion (New York: Oxford Univ. Press, 1986), 80–86.
- The historian Charles Beard’s 1921 book is An Economic Interpretation of the Constitution of the United States (New York: Macmillan). | <urn:uuid:5cc481b1-80a8-4884-a125-ef85a257c209> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://ukiahcommunityblog.wordpress.com/2012/03/24/the-original-1-wealthy-white-guys-who-stole-our-democracy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00473-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970987 | 1,543 | 3 | 3 |
treats Iron deficiency and Cholera
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TraditionWARNING: DISCLAIMER: The below uses are based on tradition, scientific theories, or limited research. They often have not been thoroughly tested in humans, and safety and effectiveness have not always been proven. Some of these conditions are potentially serious, and should be evaluated by a qualified healthcare provider. There may be other proposed uses that are not listed below.
Acne, antimicrobial, antioxidant, antiseptic, arthritis, asthma, astringent, bad breath, cancer, chilblains (inflammation caused by the cold), colds, contraceptive (birth control), cough, detoxification, diarrhea (oral rehydration), diuretic (increases urine), dysentery (severe diarrhea), dyspepsia (upset stomach), fever, flu, genitourinary tract disorders, hair loss, headache, heart palpitations, hemorrhage (intestinal bleeding), hemorrhoids, HIV, immunomodulator, indigestion, insect bites, jaundice, liver disorders, nausea, neuralgia (nerve pain), rheumatism, sexually transmitted disease (prevention), scurvy (vitamin C deficiency), stimulant, stomach ailments, tonic, ulcers, varicose veins.
Adults (over 18 years old)
Children (under 18 years old)
There is no proven effective dose for lime in children.
SafetyDISCLAIMER: Many complementary techniques are practiced by healthcare professionals with formal training, in accordance with the standards of national organizations. However, this is not universally the case, and adverse effects are possible. Due to limited research, in some cases only limited safety information is available.
Avoid in individuals with a known allergy or hypersensitivity to lime. When applied on the skin, lime oil may cause hypersensitivity. Distilled lime oil may be non-irritating, non-sensitizing and non-phototoxic to human skin, but expressed lime oil and lime peel may cause phototoxic skin reactions.
Side Effects and Warnings
Lime juice, peel and oil are generally considered safe to consume in food amounts, and few reported side effects, including photosensitivity, headaches, diarrhea and dental effects, have been noted in case reports and clinical studies. Lime has GRAS (generally recognized as safe) status for use in foods in the United States.
Lime is possibly safe for use when used orally in medicinal amounts, or when lime oil is applied on the skin in cosmetics.
Lime is possibly unsafe when applied on the skin in large amounts. Lime oil contains oxypeucedanin, which may cause photosensitization.
Lemon and lime juice are widely used for douches among women at high risk of HIV transmission. However, there is no evidence that lime douche is effective for this use and caution is advised.
Theoretically, distilled lime oils may promote tumors in the presence of carcinogenic chemicals.
Pregnancy & Breastfeeding
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When it comes to getting a job, your hard skills and experience can only get you so far. Today's hiring managers want employees who fit the company's culture, and that often comes down to some key personality traits. If you haven't been successful in your job search so far, it may be time to focus on improving your professional disposition so you can stand out from the rest of the competition.
Getting a job requires that you put in effort. Regardless of your career choice, you can be sure that the hiring manager is looking for someone who goes above and beyond to get things done. Prove that you're a go-getter by following up after sending in your resume and cover letter, or even visiting the business to check in on the status of your application.
If you don't work well with others, you may have a difficult time getting a job. Make sure your resume and cover letter highlight instances when you've collaborated successfully with co-workers in the past. The hiring manager wants to be confident that you can assimilate into the company's community, so make it clear that you're willing and able to collaborate with your future teammates.
Bosses don't enjoy micromanaging, so strive to be the type of employee that doesn't require constant supervision. A workplace should operate like a well-oiled machine, and in order for that to be possible, every component must be functioning at its highest capacity. Improve your chances of getting a job by showing that you don't need to be told what to do twice. Highlight examples of how you start and finish projects with minimal intervention required from management.
Ability to Multitask
Being able to juggle multiple tasks at once is one of the most valuable professional personality traits you can have, especially in busy workplaces that require you to wear many hats. Many hiring managers prefer someone who is competent in many fields over someone who is highly skilled in one trade.
Even if you're applying for an entry-level position, hiring managers want strong-minded people with growth potential. The boss isn't always going to be involved in every minor decision throughout the day, and it's important that employees can be trusted to make sound, informed judgments as required.
Think Outside the Box
While fitting in with the company is an important part of getting a job, hiring managers do often prefer to have a diverse staff with many different opinions and ideas. Don't be afraid to express your unique points of view. Often, successfully getting a job requires that you take steps to show why you're different from the other candidates, so embrace your creative side.
Willingness to Learn
One of the most essential professional attributes is an open, receptive mind. Many bosses prefer someone with no skills who is willing to learn over someone who is already qualified but set in his ways.
Work on these important traits, and you may find that getting a job becomes significantly easier. Even if it takes some time, developing as a person is the key to long-term professional success. Every single person is a work in progress, so keep taking steps to become the best possible version of yourself.
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Lore of the Inuit peoples claim Labradorite fell from the frozen fire of the Aurora Borealis, an ordinary stone that transforms to the extraordinary, shimmering in a mystical light that separates the waking world from unseen realms. It is, in every sense, a Stone of Magic, a crystal of shamans, diviners, healers, and all who travel and embrace the universe seeking knowledge and guidance. For self-discovery, it is excellent for awakening one's own awareness of inner spirit, intuition and psychic abilities.
Labradorite is also the most powerful protector of the mineral kingdom, creating a shielding force throughout the aura and strengthening natural energies from within. It protects against the negativity and misfortunes of this world, and provides safe exploration into alternate levels of consciousness and in facilitating visionary experiences from the past or the future.
Wearing or carrying Labradorite allows one's innate magical powers to surface. It enhances the mental and intuitive abilities of clairvoyance, telepathy, prophecy and coincidence control, and assists in communication with higher guides and spirits in accessing Akashic records, psychic readings and past-life recall. It provides an ease in moving between the worlds, and permits a safe and grounded return to the present.
Labradorite tempers the negative side of our personality, the traits and actions that rob our energy and may produce depression or shame. It assists in reducing anti-social, reckless or impulsive behavior in children, teenagers and adults who are easily led into trouble by others, and may aid in detoxifying the effects of tobacco, alcohol, and to a lesser degree, hard drugs.
Length approx 4cm or 2.5inch
Flat based ( so they can stand)
Beautiful Aquamarine Angel Aura Quartz, Crystal Point Pendant on gold NecklaceThis stunning raw crystal point has been dipped in gold and hangs from steel gold-plated diamond-cut curb chain.Beautiful in its...
Lapis Lazuli is a stone of communication that can bring truthfulness, openness, and mental clarity. It is used to help you say just the right thing, as if by magic. ...
Rose quartz is often called the "Love Stone." It's energetic hallmark is that of unconditional love that opens the heart chakra. This makes rose quartz a stone for every type... | <urn:uuid:e5de852e-e3ba-461b-b86f-cc87d5f6603c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://spiritmagic.net/products/labradorite-reveals-your-hidden-inner-magic | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00126-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900024 | 475 | 2 | 2 |
(CNN)Aviation history may be happening right over your head Thursday if you live in America's heartland.
Crazy-looking Solar Impulse 2 airplane heads to Oklahoma
Solar Impulse 2 -- a funky-looking, experimental, sun-powered plane that's attracted a lot of attention -- took off from a Phoenix airport toward Tulsa, Oklahoma.
Inside its tiny single-seat cockpit sits Bertrand Piccard, who's piloting the latest leg of the plane's attempt to be the first solar-powered flight around the world. He's expected to finish up in 18 hours -- arriving in Tulsa at about 11 p.m. local time.
For those who haven't been following this amazing journey, Piccard and fellow pilot Andre Borschberg have been flying what looks like a giant dragonfly. The plane's 236-foot (72-meter) wingspan is wider than a Boeing 747, but it flies about the speed of an average car.
The aircraft requires near-perfect conditions to fly. But what it doesn't need is any fossil fuel. Its four electric engines are powered by more than 17,000 solar cells built into its lightweight, super-strong carbon fiber wings.
In an age when adventurers seem to have few frontiers left to explore, Piccard and Borschberg have found theirs.
The big challenge facing the flight crew is crossing over the Rocky Mountains east of Albuquerque, New Mexico. The key: doing it at a time when the weather will treat the fragile plane with kid gloves.
Piccard's plan calls for him to ascend to about 24,000 feet (7,300 meters) early in the day before any clouds build up that could make trouble. If all goes well, Piccard will be able to fly either above the clouds -- or between them.
If Solar Impulse 2 can make it over that hump, mission planners say they expect a safe landing in Tulsa.
The mission is far from over, but it certainly has been a long journey to this point.
After taking off from Abu Dhabi in March 2015 and flying east, the team encountered a series of frustrating weather delays in China that slowed progress for weeks, followed by an unexpected diversion to Japan, where a storm damaged the aircraft on the tarmac.
Still, the pilots and their team of more than 100 pushed onward, repairing the aircraft and preparing for what they called "the moment of truth" -- the Pacific crossing to Hawaii.
For almost five days and nights, Borschberg piloted the plane wearing an oxygen mask as it climbed up 5 miles (8,000 meters) high during the day, its solar cells soaking up enough energy to propel the aircraft through the night.
While Borschberg set a new record for the solo flight, clocking in at 117 hours and 52 minutes, a chain of events caused the batteries to overheat.
It was only after he landed that the team discovered how bad the damage was.
"We made a mistake with our batteries," Piccard said after the plane touched down in July. "It was a human mistake."
That error took more than nine months to fix.
A few weeks ago, Solar Impulse 2 left Hawaii for San Francisco with new batteries and a new cooling system. The program also got $20 million in fresh funding.
From there, the aircraft flew to Phoenix.
After Tulsa and another stop in the United States, the Solar Impulse team hopes to cross the Atlantic Ocean.
The crew eventually plans to return to the Middle East by late summer, completing a 27,000-mile (43,000-kilometer) trip around the world. | <urn:uuid:fa8b408d-aeb2-47f2-8770-231777b8f1a4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.cnn.com/2016/05/12/aviation/solar-impulse-airplane-phoenix-arizona-tulsa-oklahoma/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279410.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00167-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95091 | 748 | 2.640625 | 3 |
July 25, 2013
We, heads and representatives of the Local Orthodox Churches, who have come to Moscow on the occasion of the celebration of the 1025th anniversary of the Baptism of Russia at the invitation of Patriarch Kirill of Moscow and All Russia, consider it our duty to raise our voice in defense of our Christian brothers subjected to persecution for their faith in various parts of the world today.
Every day thousands of believers in Christ are being tortured and driven out of their native lands; many people meet their death.
News about tortures and murders are coming from Nigeria, Pakistan, Afghanistan, and India. In Kosovo, religious shrines are being defiled, many churches have been destroyed, and many people are deprived of the opportunity to visit the graves of their relatives and to pray to God in the land of their ancestors.
The situation in the Middle East causes deep concern. Many countries of this region are swept with a wave of violence and terror, with Christians falling victims to it. Libya, where there are almost no Christians left, is breaking into warring tribes. Terrorist acts go on in Iraq, where one tenth of the former one and a half million Christians has left. The situation in Egypt is getting more and more alarming as the conflict there has entered into another bloody phase and the Christian population flees the country in a mass exodus. Grief and sufferings have befallen families of thousands of ordinary people. As a rule, the first to suffer from unfolding conflicts are the most unprotected groups of the population including ethnic and religious minorities.
In September 2010, the first meeting of the Orthodox Primates of the Middle East region took place in Cyprus. The Primates expressed their deep concern over the situation in this region and the future of Christians in the area. The same concern was expressed at the similar meetings in Jordan in August 2011, in Constantinople in September 2011, and in Cyprus in March 2012. The statement in support of suffering Christians in the Middle East was adopted at the meeting of the heads and representatives of the Local Orthodox Churches, held in Moscow in November 2011.
The situation in Syria is particularly tragic today. In the heat of the fratricidal war, Christians, as well as representatives of other religious groups, are massacred, driven out of their native cities, towns and villages, out of the places where they used to live for centuries in peace with people of other religious traditions.
Paramilitary groups do not hesitate to use every possible means to achieve their goals. Their radical members carry it too far in their crimes. Horrific scenes of violence, public executions, humiliation against human dignity and violation of human rights have become habitual. Abductions and murders often committed for mercenary ends have become a common occurrence. Extremists do not stop at insulting religious leaders who have always enjoyed respect in the East.
The world mass media, as well as many politicians, are silent about the tragedy of Christians in the Middle East.
We express solidarity with His Beatitude Patriarch John X of Great Antioch and All the East who could not share our joy of celebrations today since he has to stay with his flock at the moment so difficult for them. Our prayers are with him and our brothers in Christ who are being killed all day long (Rom. 8:36).
We are grieving together with all the suffering people of Syria. We demand that the outstanding Christian hierarchs of Syria – Metropolitan Paul of Aleppo and Iskenderun and Syrian Jacobite Metropolitan Mar Gregory John Ibrahim of Aleppo be immediately freed.
We make this appeal to all the warring sides and those who can make a political impact on the situation: Stop the wave of violence and extermination of civilians! Impose a moratorium on the military hostilities so that a basis for peaceful settlement of civil conflicts could be worked out at the negotiation table! Free the captured clergy and other civilians!
As servants of the Almighty God, we ardently pray to the Author of Peace, the Lord Pantocrator that peace and love of brothers may be restored in the Middle East, refugees may come back to their settlements as soon as possible, the wounded may be healed and the innocent people who were killed may rest in peace. May the Lord inspire all those involved in the hostilities with wisdom and the good will to stop them! | <urn:uuid:ed2e0a9a-855d-4b2d-8cbe-c5b75276e2c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pravmir.com/statement-by-heads-and-representatives-of-the-local-orthodox-churches-assembled-for-the-celebration-of-the-1025th-anniversary-of-the-baptism-of-russia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570741.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808001418-20220808031418-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.96731 | 872 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Business France Says Ebola Slowed Down Investment in Ivory CoastOlivier Monnier
The Ebola outbreak slowed down French investments in Ivory Coast, the world’s top cocoa producer, even if there were no recorded cases of the disease in the West African nation.
“We’ve seen a slowdown in investment decisions and in the start-up of some projects,” Gilles Della Guardia, West Africa chief of Business France, France’s state-owned business promotion agency, said in an interview on Wednesday.
The worst-ever Ebola outbreak has killed more than 8,000 people in Guinea, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Three other countries in the region that found cases of the disease -- Nigeria, Senegal and Mali -- managed to contain the epidemic.
“We really felt Ebola,” Della Guardia said in the commercial capital, Abidjan. “It’s a result of the media coverage, which led some people to believe the outbreak was affecting the whole West Africa region.”
The former French colony is turning the page on a decade-long conflict with economic growth that probably reached 8 percent last year, according to the International Monetary Fund. The country emerged from instability in 2011 with a new president, Alassane Ouattara.
The country is slowly shaking off the negative image it gained among foreign investors during the crisis, Della Guardia said. There are about 200 units of French companies operating in Ivory Coast. French businesses already in the country before the crisis are investing again in offices, equipment, and staff, Della Guardia said. “They’re catching up on lost time,” he said. | <urn:uuid:e6ec16c9-3a68-4f79-8648-4fe9056626d1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2015-01-22/business-france-says-ebola-slowed-down-investment-in-ivory-coast | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00482-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.947217 | 347 | 1.601563 | 2 |
The opinion of the court was delivered by: LEVAL
PIERRE N. LEVAL, U.S.D.J.
Cable News Network (CNN) petitions for permission to record and distribute live comprehensive televised coverage of this trial. The petition recognizes that the introduction of cameras and recording equipment into a federal court proceeding is contrary to Canon 3A(7) of the Code of Judicial Conduct for the United States Courts and local General Rule 7 of this Court. The petition requests an experimental exception for this case for the purposes (1) of demonstrating to the federal courts that such use of cameras will not impair or diminish the integrity and effectiveness of a judicial proceeding and (2) of distributing (on a pooled basis) comprehensive coverage of a trial that raises profoundly important questions concerning this country's conduct of the war in Vietnam and the privileges, ethical responsibilities and liabilities of the press. All parties to the case support the application.
My training in the long accepted tradition that banished the camera from the federal courtroom produced an instinctive negative reaction. I have been taught to assume that cameras would turn trials into vaudeville. A more careful reading of the petition, however, reveals a powerful argument.
There was a time when the blanket exclusion of the camera from the courtroom was understandable and appropriate. Equipment was cumbersome and noisy. Filmcould not function indoors without either the popping of flash bulbs or glaring stage lights. Television was a novelty, and no doubt justified, to conclude that the instrusion of the camera would disrupt and pervert the orderly conduct of the serious business of courts. Today, much has changed. Cameras are small, noiseless and equipped with distance lenses. Modern technology has made film that is sensitive to ordinary indoor light, and sound recording is similarly advanced. It appears that filming can be done without the slightest obstruction of dignified, orderly court procedure.
Although in 1965 the Supreme Court concluded that television coverage of a criminal proceeding was incompatible with due process, Estes v. Texas, 381 U.S. 532, 14 L. Ed. 2d 543, 85 S. Ct. 1628, Justice Harlan opined that "the day may come when television will have become so commonplace an affair in the daily life of the average person as to dissipate all reasonable likelihood that its use in courtrooms may disparage the judicial process." 381 U.S. at 595.
History has shown that Justice Harlan wrote these words with characteristic foresight. More and more states gradually adopted rules permitting telecasting of court proceedings. In 1981 the Supreme Court ruled in Chandler v. Florida, 449 U.S. 560, 66 L. Ed. 2d 740, 101 S. Ct. 802, that absent a showing of prejudice, the telecasting of a criminal proceeding did not infringe constitutional rights.
Since Chandler, thetrend toward opening courtrooms to cameras and telecasting has accelerated. It appears from CNN's petition that 41 of the 50 states now permit live filmed coverage of court proceedings, generally under rules designed to insure that fair and orderly administration of justice is not impaired. The Code of Judicial Conduct governing the federal courts, however, has made no concession.
On consideration of this petition, I have come to question the wisdom of the categorical ban imposed by our code.
1.The experience of a multitude of states has shown that under appropriate rules preserving the court's control over the use of cameras, live filming and telecasting need not interfere in any degree with fair and orderly administration of justice. A single, silent, fixed-location camera is no more intrusive than the familiar phenomena of courtroom artists working on their sketches and notetaking reporters making entrances and hasty exits to phone in their stories on deadline.
2. I need not consider here whether there may be instances in which live telecasting might create pressures capable of prejudicing the outcome of a trial. Assuming for argument that this is a reasonable, if rare, possibility, it is sufficient answer for cases presenting such dangers to be dealt with as they arise. As the Supreme Court noted in Chandler, supra at 574-75, the possible importance of excluding cameras from some cases is not a reason to exclude them from all cases.
Here all parties wish the proceedings to be telecast. It is certainly not to protect them that cameras are excluded.
3. Chandler and the experience of 41 states has laid to rest the question whether, in the absence of prejudice, telecasting offends the Constitution. I would venture that the question courts will find more troublesome in the future is whether the mandatory exclusion of the camera violates the litigant's (and perhaps the public's) right to a public trial. But see United States v. Hastings, 695 F.2d 1278 (11th Cir. 1983). The Supreme Court has recently reaffirmed the importance of the constitutional principles requiring court proceedings to be held in public view, absent the most compelling reasons to the contrary. See Waller v. Georgia, 467 U.S. 39, 52 U.S.L.W. 4618, 81 L. Ed. 2d 31, 104 S. Ct. 2210 (May 21, 1984) (Sixth Amendment right to public trial encompasses suppression hearing); Press-Enterprise Co. v. Superior Court, 464 U.S. 501, 52 U.S.L.W. 4113, 78 L. Ed. 2d 629, 104 S. Ct. 819 (Jan. 18, 1984) (voir dire examination of potential jurors covered by guarantees of public trial); Globe Newspaper Co. v. Superior Court, 457 U.S. 596, 102 S. Ct. 2613, 73 L. Ed. 2d 248 (1982) (state statute cannot exclude press and public from testimony of minor victim of sex crimes without case-by-case determination that compelling interests of the state require exclusion). The question then arises whether good reasons must also be found for restricting the means of public access and the types of media coverage -- especially where the restriction effectively precludes the public at large from gaining any meaningful acquaintance with the conduct of court business.
I would think it a strong argument on the part of a litigant -- especially in the type of case that arouses strong public interest -- that he depends on the monitoring presence of the camera to insure that witnesses tell the truth and that the court does not influence the jury by gesture, expression and tone. See Gannett Co., Inc. v. DePasquale, 443 U.S. 368, 383, 61 L. Ed. 2d 608, 99 S. Ct. 2898 (1979) (openness in court ... | <urn:uuid:80d9f378-6f0e-45bf-af8e-aa32e6a0a7c3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ny.findacase.com/research/wfrmDocViewer.aspx/xq/fac.19840919_0000471.SNY.htm/qx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00046-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934472 | 1,374 | 1.773438 | 2 |
Many RVers have the pleasure and privilege of taking some very particular companions alongside for the experience when touring of their RVs. Actually, RVs are a unbelievable approach for pets to journey with their folks. They’ve obtained their very own little area carried together with them wherever they go. And that’s the place the RV canine ramp is available in.
RVs might be troublesome to get out and in of as a result of they sit comparatively excessive off the bottom. Smaller or older pets, for instance, might have somewhat assist with their RV entry and exit. And even youthful, extra agile pets can get harm attempting to leap up into an RV utilizing the steps.
Whereas we don’t journey with pets, we've many mates who do, and we love their pets (and our mates), so as we speak we’re specializing in a good way to present your four-legged bestie a straightforward entrance and exit to your home-on-wheels.
What’s an RV Canine Ramp?
An RV canine ramp offers a mild slope from the bottom to your RV to present your pet(s) a safer, extra affordable technique to enter and exit the rig.
On the whole, most cats might be simply carried into and out of an RV, and the identical is true for very tiny canines. However an ideal many canines particularly profit from an excellent ramp that permits them to enter and exit the rig with out wrestle (for the canine or you).
A ramp is less complicated on each canine’s joints and on tendons which can be simply torn with a misstep when utilizing the RV steps to leap out and in over and over.
Older canines particularly actually want light help. Their joints could also be achy and, whereas they’ll do something to please us (together with leaping out and in of the rig on the beck and name of their folks), not solely is it simpler on them and safer for them, however no person needs their canine companion to wrestle unnecessarily.
Smaller canines typically have problem navigating the steps of an RV. And even when they’ll do it, leaping down from that final step is a success to these little joints and, over time, the consequences can add up, inflicting them ache and even harm.
Leaping into and out of the RV might be laborious on little or outdated bones, joints, and tendons. RV canine ramps are nice for stopping ache and harm.
An RV canine ramp is a ramp that’s transportable so it could possibly simply be saved and carried from vacation spot to vacation spot. Wherever you journey, your canine ramp might be shortly arrange and prepared in your treasured pup to get into and out of his home-on-wheels with ease.
Some canine ramps are foldable, some have a number of sections, and others merely lay flat. All have to be simply navigated by paws, nonetheless, so meaning consideration to issues like traction (for paws particularly) and delicate inclines.
So, let’s check out among the options of an RV canine ramp which can be essential to think about once you’re procuring in your pup’s “crimson carpet” entrance to and exit out of your RV.
What to Look For When Shopping for an RV Canine Ramp
There are a variety of issues to take into accounts when searching for an RV canine ramp, the next 5 options being most essential.
First, your RV canine ramp ought to be constructed of high-quality supplies that may maintain the varied climate parts you are likely to encounter in your travels. Not solely does development should be sturdy, nevertheless it additionally must be simply dealt with and maneuvered out of your storage bay or trunk.
Irrespective of the scale of your pet, you need an RV ramp that’s solidly constructed of light-weight supplies, and also you additionally wish to make certain the design of the ramp doesn’t hinder the protection of your pet in any approach.
For instance, for those who purchase a ramp that folds in sections, you wish to make certain that the ramp is effectively designed in order that your canine isn’t more likely to journey on something that could be associated to the sectioned areas. And also you additionally need a ramp that gained’t slip or slide whereas your 100-pound child is lumbering up or down.
That brings us to a different important function of an excellent RV canine ramp…
A ramp on which your pet slips and slides whereas navigating the incline/decline shouldn't be solely ineffective, it’s an actual hazard. The identical is true for traction elements that harm or scratch your canine’s paws.
A superb RV canine ramp is not going to solely present strong traction in your pet’s secure entry and exit, however the kind of traction ought to be simple on the paws. It is a stability that may be troublesome to attain, however there are canine ramps on the market that do present the fitting stability and it’s essential to seek out them.
Discovering a high-quality canine ramp to permit your pet to enter and exit the RV comfortably means discovering a stability of options particular to your pet’s dimension, age, and talent.
In our analysis for this put up, we uncovered many evaluations of cheaply-made ramps that minimize or scraped paws badly. We even learn evaluations from of us who stated that after a number of instances up and down a selected ramp, their canines would stand in entrance of the ramp hesitant to make use of it (canines are typically smarter than we're).
So cautious consideration have to be paid to the traction of the canine ramp you purchase in your pet to make use of over and over on tender shoeless paws.
This can be blunt, however we’re unsure how else to say it: a canine ramp that has a really steep incline is a dumb concept. A mild incline is an important a part of a ramp that’s good in your pets. Climbing or descending a steep incline/decline isn’t your pet’s concept of an excellent time. It challenges them to stick rigorously to the traction supplied by the ramp, and it’s laborious on their joints and tendons.
Simply think about Fido’s perspective standing on the high of a ramp with a steep decline. He’d most likely reasonably soar out earlier than you prolong the steps. Search for a ramp with a mild, regular slope into and out of your rig to present your pet a straightforward transition between inside and out of doors.
These of you touring with a Brussels Griffon, Chihuahua, Pomeranian, or Maltese have some sleek, diminutive finest mates. Their RV canine ramp can have a decrease weight score than a ramp supposed for a full-grown Golden Retriever, for instance.
And people of you touring with an English Mastiff, St. Bernard, Nice Dane, or Newfoundland – effectively, you’d higher pay very shut consideration to the burden score of any canine ramp your bestie shall be utilizing (and hopefully you even have a really massive RV!).
Remember to take into account weight score when searching for an RV canine ramp. It is a function you may’t afford to miss as a result of a ramp that’s not constructed to bear the burden of your canine may end in severe harm. Which is the very factor we’re attempting to keep away from by buying a canine ramp within the first place.
Portability and Storability
Talking of weight, not solely do you'll want to take into account the burden score of a canine ramp (which means the quantity of weight the ramp is designed to maintain), however you’ll additionally wish to take into account the burden of the ramp itself. That is in your profit as you’ll be those carrying, deploying, and storing the ramp.
Discovering an RV canine ramp you can deal with comfortably is essential. Think about the burden of the ramp, how user-friendly it's, and the way compactly it can retailer.
And talking of storage, you’ve solely obtained a specific amount and dimension of storage space in your RV. This varies extensively from rig to rig, and solely you recognize what’s out there in your explicit RV. Preserve this in thoughts as you store, since you’ll want a spot to retailer the ramp when it’s not in use and also you’re touring from place to put.
Some ramps fold right into a smaller bundle. Others don’t. Some ramps require an extended, skinny storage space, whereas others fold to require a shorter however wider storage space. Have a look at the absolutely collapsed measurements of the canine ramps you’re contemplating, and evaluate them with the measurements of the areas you may have out there for ramp storage in your rig.
Keep in mind, you need a ramp that’s designed for portability whereas additionally having good, sturdy development.
Among the Finest RV Canine Ramps for Your Finest Mates
With the entire above notes in thoughts, let’s check out 5 of one of the best RV canine ramps on the market. Earlier than we do, although, right here’s a fast observe about how we intend to current the ramps we spotlight on this put up:
As with every different product, there shall be a minority of damaging evaluations. Because of the nature of the product we’re investigating on this put up (an merchandise that’s supposed to maintain your canine secure and comfy), we wish to be clear in our statements about all of the canine ramps we spotlight right here and embody widespread notes from damaging evaluations regardless of the overwhelmingly constructive evaluations for all of those ramps.
It’s essential to think about the ramp’s development in tandem with your personal private software, together with the burden and sort of canine you may have, how far you’ll want the ramp to increase, and the way excessive you’ll be inserting the ramp in your canine’s incline and decline.
Private use elements typically account for damaging evaluations of any product, so remember to take into account how the ramp was getting used as you learn evaluations -vs- how you propose to make use of the ramp.
PetSafe Blissful Trip Further Lengthy Telescoping Canine Ramp
PetSafe is a model that has endured the rigorous scrutiny of loving pet house owners for practically 30 years, and over that point the model has earned the belief of pet house owners everywhere in the world. This telescoping canine ramp seems to be no exception with 86% 4- and 5-star evaluations from Amazon patrons.
Rated for animals as much as 300 kilos, the ramp itself weighs 18 kilos and extends so far as 87” if needed. With that stated, there are evaluations that state that when absolutely prolonged, the ramp bows underneath the burden of canines weighing effectively underneath 200 kilos (there are additionally a number of damaging evaluations that declare that the purchaser examined the ramp and it bowed underneath his weight as he walked up the middle of the ramp. However bear in mind – the burden of a two-legged human is distributed in a different way than that of a four-legged canine, so this isn’t essentially a good check).
When absolutely closed, this ramp is 47” lengthy and 20” large – so bear this in thoughts when contemplating it as you’ll have to have room to retailer it. At 18 kilos it’s transportable for many customers, however could also be heavy for some.
This ramp has an aluminum body with aspect rails and a high-traction floor in accordance with the producer. Whereas most reviewers discovered the design and high quality of this ramp glorious, a number of of the 1-star evaluations complain that the traction floor was laborious on their canines’ paws, inflicting abrasions. This appears restricted to heavy canines, however these had been additionally canines that fell effectively underneath the 300-pound weight restrict for this ramp. Nonetheless, a number of reviewers referred to the feel of the traction pad as “sandpaper-like”, and famous that their canines’ nails left scratches on the strolling floor.
Optimistic reviewers discovered the ramp to be among the many widest and sturdiest they’d discovered, and so they appreciated the extendable size of the ramp, which allowed them to supply a mild reasonably than steep incline/decline for his or her pets’ consolation and agility.
PetSTEP Authentic Folding Pet Ramp
Petstep’s folding pet ramp is constructed of composite plastic and is rated to carry as much as 500 kilos (although the producer clearly states that that is for animal use solely, so once more pet house owners… don’t use this ramp in your personal entry/exit out of your RV). The plastic development signifies that the ramp gained’t rust or corrode within the parts and might be cleaned with cleaning soap and water.
The strolling floor of this ramp is famous to be a “smooth non-slip rubberized” floor that gives “superior traction in moist or dry situations”. The producer particularly notes that there is no such thing as a sandpaper or carpet as a part of the traction piece.
This ramp folds in half for storage and has molded handles on either side for portability.
84% of Amazon evaluations for this product are constructive (4- and 5-star), with a number of verified purchasers referring to this ramp as one of the best ramp they’ve discovered, with others stating that they extremely suggest it for house owners of enormous canines.
One verified purchaser states that he rescues and rehabilitates “big breed canines” and with 23 years of expertise utilizing canine ramps, he recommends this ramp over others. His canines vary in dimension from 100 to 200 kilos. Quoting from his evaluation, “The floor is a singular rubber-like compound that's the best on a canine’s paws I've ever seen, whereas nonetheless offering glorious traction. The ramp itself, in addition to the hinges, are extraordinarily sturdy, effectively and thoughtfully designed, and effectively constructed. The ramp folds and unfolds simply and safely.”
Most damaging evaluations state that the ramp isn’t as large because it must be for big canines, particularly bigger senior canines. A number of damaging evaluations state that the ramp cracked underneath the burden of the human purchaser, however once more… this is a sign of an proprietor utilizing the ramp for apart from its supposed function. Nonetheless, lots of the damaging evaluations observe that the ramp is heavy for them to hold at 18.5 kilos, so bear this in thoughts when contemplating this ramp.
Dimensions of this ramp when open are: 70” lengthy x 17” large x 2.5” excessive. Folded for storage the size are: 36” lengthy x 17” large x 5.75” excessive.
Of observe, this Petstep Authentic Folding Ramp has a 5-year guarantee.
WeatherTech PetRamp, Folding Canine Ramp for Giant Canines to 300 Kilos
WeatherTech’s glorious fame seems to increase to this folding canine ramp. Designed for big canines underneath 300 kilos, this ramp is made within the USA and weighs 16 kilos.
Prolonged (unfolded), this WeatherTech rubber ramp measures 67” lengthy and 15” large, and folds to a size of 33.5”.
89% of the 4- and 5-star Amazon reviewers observe that the ramp is secure and durable whereas in use by their massive pets, and a number of other point out that the aspect rails have made a distinction of their canine’s willingness to embark on the journey up or down the ramp as in contrast with different ramps they’ve tried.
A lot of reviewers point out the issue of shifting a 16-pound ramp, so that is one thing to think about for those who may need problem managing a comparatively lengthy object of that weight.
A number of reviewers talked about that after buying this ramp for his or her automobiles, they purchased a second ramp for his or her residence steps based mostly on their excessive degree of satisfaction with the product for his or her canine.
Among the many complaints of the three% of one-star reviewers is the ramp being too slim at 14.5”, the strolling floor being slippery (even when dry), and the ramp itself requiring warning when closing in order that it doesn’t slam closed on fingers.
WeatherTech offers a restricted lifetime guarantee on these canine ramps.
Pet Gear Journey Lite Ramp with SupertraX
Pet Gear’s Journey Lite ramp is a tri-fold ramp with a weight capability of 200 kilos. We must always observe proper off the bat that this ramp weighs 27 kilos, an element that would encourage various of us to scroll on to the subsequent highlighted ramp.
Most reviewers point out the durability of this ramp, and at 27 kilos we’d hope it could be sturdy. At 19.5”, this ramp is sort of large as in contrast with others we’ve investigated, and it is a excessive level for a lot of reviewers wanting particularly for a large canine ramp. We must always observe right here that Pet Gear makes an analogous model of this trifold ramp that weighs solely 16 kilos, nevertheless it loses 3.5” in width.
Pet Gear makes all kinds of canine ramps, in truth, so it could be value investigating their different merchandise, lots of which can be found through Amazon, if these don’t work in your explicit scenario.
Unfolded, the Journey Lite ramp we’re highlighting right here is 71” lengthy x 19.5” large x 4” excessive. This extra-wide tri-fold ramp with “superTrax”. Pet Gear refers to superTrax as permitting for “stress activated gripping” which they outline as which means that the extra stress the pet places on the mat, the stronger the grip. The superTrax floor resembles a synthetic turf that the majority reviewers state achieves a secure grip for his or her canines.
Evaluations for this ramp are overwhelmingly constructive, with solely 2% giving wholly damaging 1-star evaluations. The 2 complaints we famous most incessantly had been that the ramp is just too heavy to elevate and transfer (we’re referring to the extra-wide 27-pound ramp right here), it lacks any kind of aspect rail, and the pads on which the ramp rests at every finish (on the RV or car and on the bottom) aren’t thick or grippy sufficient to maintain the ramp from shifting.
We famous a number of ramps that broke, however the purchaser wasn’t utilizing the ramp accurately. One instance is a gentleman who complained that the ramp broke whereas he was educating his canine to make use of it by strolling him up and down the ramp a number of instances. As soon as once more, canine ramps aren’t supposed for two-legged human use. Weight distribution is solely completely different, so please observe that for those who stroll up and down an RV canine ramp your self, you may break it!
A ultimate observe – one reviewer famous that the superTrax floor masking pulled away from the ramp as her canine was utilizing it, inflicting her canine to slide. She suggests checking the adhesive and reinforcing it if needed.
General, it is a very talked-about canine ramp for folk in search of an extra-wide ramp for his or her canine’s snug use.
PetSafe Blissful Trip Deluxe Telescoping Pet Ramp
This PetSafe adjustable telescoping ramp extends in size from 39” to 72”, and is 17” large and 4” excessive. Rated to help as much as 400 kilos, the ramp itself is the lightest of all of the ramps we’re highlighting right here, at solely 13 kilos.
PetSafe means that your pet is unlikely to slide on their “high-traction floor”, nonetheless, a number of reviewers said that the floor was harsh sufficient on their canines’ paws to trigger cuts and abrasions. Different reviewers check with the floor as “sandpaper” (which seems to be a theme for PetSafe ramp surfaces). Nonetheless, one reviewer who cherished the ramp and purchased it regardless of the tough floor complaints used spray adhesive to connect rubber shelf liner to the ramp’s floor, noting that the ramp has served his 80-pound Golden Retriever effectively with this modification.
The ramp slides inward on rails and locks with a security latch for storage.
This ramp has many constructive evaluations with pictures from verified purchasers with massive canines, together with a 158-pound Nice Dane.
Everybody who has ever been a pet proprietor is aware of how treasured these beloved members of the family are. We’re not touring with a pet, so our options are based mostly on our typical RVgeeks function analysis.
When you’re touring in your RV with a pet or pets, we’d love so that you can share any nice experiences you’ve had together with your RV canine ramps for the good thing about those that are nonetheless on the lookout for their optimum ramp. So go away a remark beneath!
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What is IO-Link Safety?
IO-Link Safety is the new option for expanding machines and systems automated via IO-Link with functionally safe components and communication. In addition to the well-known Masters, there are now the FS-Masters and, for the Devices, the FS-Devices. The connection and transmission technologies of IO-Link can be used unchanged. This makes it easy to deploy safety functions. IO-Link Safety will also be standardized worldwide as IEC 61139-2.
Here is how the extension in automation architecture can look like:
Example of "system architecture with safety components"
The advantages of IO-Link naturally also apply without restriction to the safety extension. Further more there are also other “highlights” (qualities).
- An FS-Master builds on the standard IO-Link Master and offers additional safety communications, i.e.
- Communicating FS-Devices with all three transmission rates also fit to an FS-Master,
- Conventional switching safety sensors with OSSD fit on an FS-Master,
- Any non-safe IO-Link Devices can also be connected to an FS-Master.
- An FS-Master can be integrated in safety field buses (like FSCPs according to IEC 61784-3-x
- FS-Devices can now be safety sensors or actuators, a combination of these or mechatronics with safety
- Only one type of FS-Device required for the global market instead of different safety devices for several safety buses
- IO-Link Safety is independent from the upper level systems
- IO-Link Safety meets the requirements of IEC 61784-3 and can be used in SIL3 / PLe applications
- IO-Link Safety becomes an international standard as IEC 61139-2
- IO-Link is universal ... it has worldwide distribution and acceptance
- FS-Devices can be parameterized with IO-Link tools (IODD) and thus, for example, the variety of types can be reduced
- IO-Link Safety meets the growing demand for cost-effective, measuring safety sensors extremely
- FS-Devices can now be extremely miniaturized
- Even with safety, the simple device replacement (FS-Device) is possible without a tool
- Detection of incorrect connections is possible (Port detection)
- IO-Link Safety offers safety sensors a transition from switching mode (OSSD) to safe communication, i.e.
- FS-Devices can be parameterized with IO-Link tools for use on safe digital inputs of safety field buses (OSSD)
- IO-Link Safety is smart ... it safely thinks for itself
- IO-Link Safety is as lean as IO-Link
- Power supply comes within the same cable
- Device descriptions of FS-Devices (IODD) together with a "Dedicated Tool" are available directly in the IODD-Finder Server (see www.io-link.com)
- Planning of safety functions (e.g. determination of reaction times) simplified through parameter specifications in the IODD
- IO-Link Safety has standardized the switching operation (OSSDe) and thus greatly simplifies the use of switching safety devices
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The launch this week of our Big Bang Disruption book added significant urgency to our annual search for the biggest disruptors at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas.
After all, the book’s principal argument is that continued exponential improvements in price and performance of core component technologies—including computers and broadband networks—has led to dramatically accelerated entry for new products and services that create new markets overnight, even as they devastate old ones.
We fully expected to come across an exciting range of new examples, many of which hadn’t even been thought of last year.
Sure enough, among the record-setting 3,000+ exhibitors and two million square feet of exhibit space that overtook much of Las Vegas this week, we found dozens of innovative technologies offered by start-ups and incumbents alike, each with the strong potential to rewrite the rules of one or more market sectors. The range of industries participating in this show reinforced our belief that today every business is a digital business and every consumer a digital consumer.
This year’s winners all meet our definition of a Big Bang Disruptor. They offer consumers a better and cheaper way to do—well, to do nearly everything, from opening their front door (smart keys) to piloting autonomous aircraft (aka drones) to not driving their cars because the cars are doing the driving for them.
Thanks to the continuing decline in cost for basic technologies, a robust ecosystem for experimentation, the availability of recombinable component parts, and tools for global sourcing, many of the technologies we highlighted last year area even better, cheaper and more customizable than they were when we last saw them.
Often, they were also smaller and require less power--though energy was itself a major category of disruptor this year.
One source of overall disruption is the proliferation of so many new devices, which has the happy side effect of creating tremendous economies of scale for manufacturers of basic components. Corning demonstrated Gorilla Glass 3.0, for example, which is even more durable and now includes antimicrobial protection.
And with so many new uses for each preceding generation of display technology, manufacturers have ample incentive to continue pushing the envelope on quality and features. We saw remarkable demonstrations of next-generation 4K displays, known as UltraHD, especially from Samsung, as well as continued improvements in 3D display technology from LG and others.
In the Internet of Things, last year’s standout product was Belkin’s WeMo, a range of simple-to-use attachments that allow consumers to program basic behaviors (e.g., on/off) for their electrical devices.
Belkin has continued improving and expanding on a winning formula, which included giving its customers access to a visual interface to create “If This Then That” recipes for controlling their home devices.
Now WeMo is offering the WeMo Maker kit, which can be used to convert many electrical devices powered by DC transformers into programmable appliances.
Power your irrigation control unit through a WeMo Maker, for example, and suddenly you can program it using WeMo's smartphone interface. “WeMo gave users a sandbox to experiment with software,” Belkin Assistant Product Manager Jake Whisler told us. “Now we’re giving them a sandbox for hardware.”
3D Printing, which had just crossed over into consumer-friendly devices last year, has also exploded into widespread use in less than a year. The number of 3D printer exhibitors went from less than ten last year to over two dozen this year. Analysts expect worldwide shipments of mass market 3D printers, already a billion dollar business, will nearly double from last year to almost 100,000 units in 2014 and double again in 2015. A home 3D Printer is now available for as little as $500.
One innovative variation we saw came from Mcor Technologies, which uses ordinary copier paper as a medium to create 3D objects designed by the consumer. Instead of printing them using thermoplastic filament, the IRIS carves the object out of paper, gluing the pages together and coloring them as it goes. The result is effectively a wooden artifact. It will even decompose naturally if discarded.
So much for the preliminaries. Here is our list of the five most disruptive innovations for CES 2014:
1. Embedded sensors – Thanks in large part to the smartphone revolution, innovators worldwide now have access to a wide range of low-cost microelectromechanical systems (MEMS), including accelerometers, gyroscopes, and magnetometers. It’s now easy and cheap to embed sensors into every physical product imaginable, fueling explosive growth for the Internet of Things—the most talked-about trend at CES this year.
Soon, the price of MEMS technology will be so cheap that it will be cost-effective to add them to even the most mundane objects, including clothing, as we saw in prototypes of smart fabrics from Cityzen Sciences.
Or consider Kolibree, a sensor-embedded toothbrush that sends data--as many embedded devices do—directly to your smartphone. A few off-the-shelf sensors and your toothbrush can now tell you how long you brushed, where you missed, and how you can improve the effectiveness of your brushing. All valuable data to back you up when you are getting chastised by your dentist.
Another early-stage sensor application we saw at CES’s “Eureka Park”—space reserved for start-ups and experimental technologies—was the PulseWallet, which uses a biometric reader made by Fujitsu to uniquely identify a user based on a three-dimensional reading of a single vein in her palm. More secure than even a fingerprint scan, the PulseWallet is being designed to facilitate mobile payments by linking the user’s palm print to stored credit card information. No pin, no card needed.
2. Wearables: The Internet of You – An incredible range of new products have appeared this year that collect information about you and your body--technologies that are poised to revolutionize the massive healthcare sector, especially for aging populations. Accenture’s Digital Consumer Tech Survey 2014, released at CES, reveals significant market opportunities in wearable technologies. More than half of consumers are interested in buying wearables, including fitness products, smart watches, and connected eyeglasses.
This year, the MEMS revolution has translated to wearables and other embedded technologies that can monitor and offer feedback for an expanded range of vital signs and new metrics.
Products from iHealth and Withings, for example, include sensor-based technologies that can measure and report your pulse, blood pressure, sleep environment, weight and even glucose levels for patients with diabetes. Another new product, the JUNE bracelet from Netatmo (expected later this year) monitors your exposure to sunlight and alerts you when you need to apply sunscreen or put on sunglasses.
Many of these early-stage products take advantage of the shrinking cost and size of sensors to embed monitoring technology into everyday objects that currently don’t have much if any built-in intelligence.
Beddit, for example, is a sleep tracker and coach. The product is a lightweight flat strip that goes under the sheets on your bed. It’s available for pre-order now for $149, perhaps a bargain for those looking to improve their sleep without resorting to much more expensive alternatives.
How about sensors in your shoes? An early-stage start-up called Veristride, working under a grant from the National Science Foundation, is developing unobtrusive shoe-based technology that will measure and provide active feedback on how well you walk.
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Simon Baron-Cohen is best known for his research into autism spectrum disorders (ASDs) and his theories on the origins of ASDs, from a failure of theory of mind, to fetal testosterone levels, to the latest formulation of a low empathizing/high systemizing theory. In his newest work, The Science of Evil: On Empathy and The Origins of Cruelty, Baron-Cohen moves beyond his decades long work in autism to look at empathy in general and what a deficit of empathy in people can lead to. The result is a slim volume aspiring to greater things.
This is, unfortunately, a book that requires mental gymnastics on the part of the reader for several reasons, the first of which is reconciling the title of the text to what the book is actually about. A careful reading of the book leads me to the conclusion that the American title is extremely unfortunate given the diversions he takes in the text. It is only when reading it under its British title Zero Degrees of Empathy: A New Theory of Human Cruelty that Baron-Cohen’s thesis hangs together more cohesively. The British title is a much more accurate title and results in less cognitive dissonance while reading the text.
In an interview in New Scientist with Liz Else, Baron-Cohen responds to the American publisher’s choice of a title that he thinks “once they open the cover of the book, they will see that I’m arguing it’s time to drop that word [evil]. There might be some value in challenging them.” The American publishers may have decided to name the book The Science of Evil, but the thrust of his book really isn’t about the science of evil at all. It’s actually a loose connecting of several different ideas.
The second set of mental gymnastics occurs for the reader in trying to reconcile the typical perception regarding empathy and how Baron-Cohen is operationalizes it. Baron-Cohen’s main point is that he believes evil is better explained as the absence of empathy (not the popular definition, but his specific definition of empathy). Baron-Cohen’s definition of empathy is fairly complex and one that is not widely accepted in the masses; most people think of empathy as being able to understand another person’s emotional state. Before defining empathy, Baron-Cohen focuses on explaining what empathy erosion looks like.
Childhood stories of Nazi cruelties started Baron-Cohen on a lifetime quest of trying to understand how people could treat others like objects; explanations of evil were inadequate and circular. Instead, he posits that empathy erosion is a better explanation for why people behave cruelly, noting that society can reinforce empathy erosion.
His definition of empathy is more robust than most people’s and involves more parts: he delineates a cognitive aspect (“recognition”), an emotional aspect , and then, perhaps most importantly, an action component “response”). It’s not enough to recognize another person’s emotional state, one must care, and then one must respond overtly in order to qualify as empathy. This constant need for the reader to juggle his or her own definition of empathy and Baron-Cohen’s complex definition makes the ideas and information in the book harder to digest. It will become all too easy for people to dismiss Baron-Cohen’s work because of this difference in how empathy is used.
In order to explain how evil is “empathy erosion,” Baron-Cohen details disorders he hypothesizes involve zero-empathy, making the case that psychopathy, narcissism, and borderline personality disorders are not so much personality disorders as they are disorders of zero empathy.
And if this is where Baron-Cohen had stopped, it would have made sense within the context of the book’s American title and its opening chapter. But he didn’t; he then spent a substantial portion of the text to go over what he has theorized are zero-empathy positive disorders: Asperger Syndrome and Autism Spectrum Disorder.
It is here that Baron-Cohen will lose some American readers; what place do individuals on the spectrum have in a book on the science of evil? In addition, Baron-Cohen doesn’t offer convincing evidence that all individuals with autism have zero empathy. Readers familiar with how it’s defined in the DSM will recognize that it is not a disorder diagnosed on a lack of empathy.
Also, some research shows evidence that autistics are not impaired in emotional or affective empathy, and may in fact get overloaded because of it (Krahn &Fenton, 2009; Smith, 2009). Plus, autism is a social/communication disorder; it’s reasonable to assume that this might impair the ability to always react empathically in socially constructed acceptable ways. Even Baron-Cohen notes that we all have periods where are empathy levels are turned down or off.
To be fair, Baron-Cohen doesn’t contend that ASDs are just zero empathy disorders. In tandem with Baron-Cohen’s empathy quotient is his systemizing quotient, which he contends autistics are high in, thus compensating for low empathy and making the ASDs a zero-positive condition rather than a zero-negative. Here he has a compelling argument that explains the pattern recognition, the need for order, and the difficulty with change that are part of autism. The problem, again, becomes that it fits poorly with a book on the science of evil. The American name of the book continues, time after time, to get in the way of the ideas that Baron-Cohen is trying to convey.
What should not be overlooked is that Baron-Cohen has as positive an outlook towards individuals on the spectrum as he does a negative one for those with a zero-empathy negative disorder. His enormous respect for autistic individuals’ ability to recognize patterns that others miss does not go unnoticed, nor does his belief that those with ASDs have a lot to offer a society that can successfully accommodate them.
The book contains a table for “Distinct Profiles of Empathy Disorders,” in which Baron-Cohen contends that classic autism has morality negative while Asperger Syndrome has morality positive but with insufficient accompanying evidence or explanation for the categorization of one ASD as moral and another as not moral. The table doesn’t appear to be fully fleshed out; systemizing is only noted on the ASDs; morality negative is checked for only psychopaths and classic autism. It appears to be a table of conjectures rather than of certainties, but that may be because Baron-Cohen’s explanations for the various categorizations are scattered throughout the text.
This interweaving of hypothesizing without already existing evidence next to theories that have panned out can get a bit confusing, but those familiar with Baron-Cohen’s other works will recognize this tendency and perhaps find it comforting. Baron-Cohen is interested in ideas, big ideas, and in constantly working to flesh out those ideas with scientific research. Over the last several decades, Baron-Cohen has constantly refined his theories, moving for the most part where the science takes him. Many of Baron-Cohen’s ideas are just that: ideas, explanations; they aren’t meant for practical implementation, for immediate change.
Most parents and educators won’t see an immediate advantage in treatment strategies from some of his loftier ideas, although they may find his theories helpful in understanding why an autistic child is fascinated with patterns, with details, and why they fixate on narrow interests. It would be remiss of me, though, to not to point out where his ideas have had real world treatment applications: theory of mind tasks can be taught, as can recognizing facial expressions representing different emotions. HisMindreading CD was very helpful to my three kids on the spectrum and one of the best purchases I ever made regarding helping them navigate social situations. I have dog-eared his books over the years, and print-outs of his voluminous journal articles are piled on the bookcase next to his books. His website is bookmarked and the fact that the journal articles are provided for free there much appreciated. His AQ (autism spectrum quotient), EQ (empathizing quotient), and SQ (systemizing quotient) tests are recommended activities for my psychology students and for friends. The importance of his work in relation to autism spectrum disorders is significant, and in the context of the British title, his time spent on what he posits are zero-empathy positive disorders makes perfect sense.
After a brief foray into the ASDs and the zero-empathy positive theory, Baron-Cohen moves to the science. Here, he combines a chatty, informal style of writing with a detailed look at the science regarding what he calls the brain’s empathy circuits. This is perhaps the least controversial aspect of the book and where he is on the most solid ground. Baron-Cohen details the neuroscience regarding the empathy circuits and the evidence for these various subsets of zero empathy having impairments or damage in the areas of the brain involved in empathy.
In a book that covers empathy erosion, looks at tests for measuring empathy, it seems odd to see Baron-Cohen argue towards the end of his book that psychology has ignored empathy over its history: “Psychology as a science virtually ignored it for a century” (183). There’s plenty of evidence to suggest that this is not true; database searches relating to psychology produce over 23,000 journal articles on empathy. Daniel Goleman has spent two decades promoting social and emotional intelligences, which both involve empathy. It seems fair to say that empathy has been looked at in great detail over the decades, although perhaps not in the way that Baron-Cohen thinks most applicable or helpful.
Baron-Cohen spends some time towards the end of the book examining the appropriate way to handle people with zero empathy disorders who commit crimes. Should they be held criminally responsible for their actions and imprisoned? If their crimes are a result of a neurological deficit, then the assumption here is that they couldn’t refrain from those acts and didn’t know better. There is little doubt that people with the zero empathy negative disorders are competent to understand when their actions violate a law (the reality appears to be that they don’t care and don’t see why those laws should apply to them).
But what does one do with the brilliant Aspie who hacks into classified governmental systems? Is jail appropriate? This is a complex topic with so many potential pitfalls and the chance for warring ideologies to get in the way of scientific knowledge. Perhaps a reminder that jail is usually about society and the victims and not about appropriate placement or consideration of the offender is in order. The issue is raised, at least, in the book, and Baron-Cohen puts forth the hope that compassion and appropriate placements for individuals will occur.
Baron-Cohen then concludes his book by examining how intentionally evoking empathy towards those one is ideologically in opposition to can resolve what seem like insurmountable problems. Having begun his book with remembrances of the stories he was told as a child about the Nazis, Baron-Cohen looks at the Jewish-Palestinian struggle and two fathers, one from each side, who work together to bring attention to the need to see the other side’s perspective: empathy bridgemaking.
Baron-Cohen’s work is ultimately an optimistic work (and potentially somewhat Pollyannish): the idea that empathy erosions and deficits can be turned around, that people can be taught to be empathic. He points out the need to seek treatments that will teach empathy to those who lack it, which he believes should reduce cruel behavior in the world. Baron-Cohen’s overarching topic is a serious one: why people are cruel to others, but his ultimate perspective is a hopeful one: that empathy can be learned, that the empathy muscle, so to speak, can be exercised. Baron-Cohen puts forth big ideas in a too-small space. There is the sense that these ideas were swirling around, nebulous, almost there, almost in grasp and that the writing of the work was an attempt to force these big ideas to coagulate into a recognizable whole to align the idea with the known world: it is nothing less than Baron-Cohen’s own personal theory of everything. It will be interesting to see where his big ideas are, where the science takes him, five years from now. What results and what ideas, built upon the framework of this book, will coalesce in his next work?
Krahn, T.,&Fenton, A. (2009). Autism, empathy and questions of moral agency. Journal for the Theory of Social Behaviour, 39(2), 145-166. doi:10.1111/j.1468-5914.2009.00402.x
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As our healthcare system shifts toward value-based payments, more hospitals are entering into risk-sharing arrangements with payers. As a result, emergency departments (EDs) are increasingly expected to engage in population health management (PHM) efforts.
Simply defined, PHM is a proactive approach that ensures a group of patients gets the right care, at the right time, in the right place. The goal is improved value (meaning better care at lower cost) as well as a more seamless experience for patients.
Historically, emergency providers have rarely engaged in PHM activities like preventive care or disease management. Today, when they do participate in PHM, it's usually with an eye toward promoting appropriate utilization (i.e., reducing non-emergent visits, managing "frequent fliers").
Some EDs, including two in my region, are assuming a broader role. Given that the average inpatient stay now tops $10,000, it’s important for quality-minded health systems to reduce preventable admissions. To combat this, these EDs now provide high-risk patients with more comprehensive workups, treatments and care coordination.
In some cases, this means a patient who normally would have been admitted can be safely discharged with appropriate follow-up in place. When these patients are admitted, the extra attention provided in the ED can help reduce inpatient length of stay.
In this post, I'll describe an innovative PHM process followed at two CEP America EDs, plus some considerations for implementation.
New Ways to Flow
CEP America staffs two hospital EDs in my region that are part of the same accountable care organization. Like most ACO providers, the hospitals share risk for the patients they manage, which incentivizes quality, proactivity and efficiency. This particular ACO has been quite successful in reducing medical costs per member while delivering excellent outcomes for patients.
Earlier this year, the ACO leadership asked CEP America for help in managing some of its high-risk patients and those who are frequent ED utilizers. Their hope was to safely "de-escalate" these patients; in other words, to prevent an unnecessary admission.
CEP America emergency physicians worked with the ACO's chief medical officer to co-design a new flow process especially for the high-risk patients. They focused on three common scenarios:
1. Patient can be safely discharged if appropriate follow-up is in place.
For lower-acuity visits, the ED physician works with case management to arrange follow-up with a primary care provider (PCP) or specialist. (This process is facilitated by the ACO, which provides a full continuum of care.) PCPs are expected to provide same-day appointments to patients referred before noon and next-day appointments to anyone referred later.
2. Patient requires eyes-on consultation to determine disposition.
The ED physician contacts the appropriate consultant, who comes to the ED within 60 minutes to help evaluate the patient and determine appropriate disposition. As needed, the consultant can recommend further testing in the ED or observation care.
3. Patient requiring consultation presents after-hours.
The emergency physician contacts a designated specialist by phone to consult about further testing and disposition. Next-day follow-up is scheduled for all discharged patients.
The new process is currently being piloted with a group of high-risk patients who have chronic cardiac conditions. The hospitals' cardiologists and their offices are partnering with the emergency physicians to manage this population. Additional specialties will be added once the process is fully tested and implemented.
The ACO has an ambitious long-term PHM plan in which emergency and primary care physicians will eventually work together to deliver preventive care and manage chronic conditions. This approach will address the root causes of frequent ED utilization, including chronic disease exacerbation and undiagnosed medical conditions.
In the future, when a patient in the target population presents to the ED, the emergency physician will consult a centralized call center to see if the person is due for vaccinations, screening tests or other preventive care. If, for example, the patient is due for a pneumonia vaccine, the emergency physician would either administer it or arrange a next-day appointment with the primary care provider.
Eventually, the program will also extend continuity of care from the ED into the community. Patients with chronic conditions will participate in telemonitoring, with results available to both the PCP and emergency physician (should the patient arrive in the ED). An ED clinical pharmacist and assistant will follow up with discharged patients to provide medication education and reconciliation. We also plan to add a home health nurse who will make regular visits to participating patients, reducing the need for ED visits and admissions.
In order for an ED to participate in PHM to its fullest potential, both the department and its parent hospital need to take a big-picture view of value.
In measuring ED care quality, healthcare regulators focus heavily on throughput. However, giving complex patients the extra care they need to manage their health necessarily requires significant investments of time.
Arguably, this temporary dip in efficiency will be more than offset if an inpatient admission can be shortened or avoided. However, the process may feel uncomfortable for staff members who have been conditioned to strive for maximum efficiency. As with any major culture change, good leadership is essential to gain buy-in.
It may also be helpful to put the numbers in perspective. PHM is designed to be practiced with a targeted group of patients. At our two hospitals, that currently works out to one or two patient encounters per shift. So far, it's been quite manageable and hasn't required additional staffing.
Finally, it's important to remember the value of preventing an unnecessary hospital admission. Inpatient stays are financially costly for both the system and patients. They create hassles, confusion and emotional strain. By going the extra mile in the ED, we help ensure the very best care for some of the most vulnerable people in our communities. | <urn:uuid:9b250220-cdd4-4f36-a354-13f5c68d6cd1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.cepamerica.com/news-resources/perspectives-on-the-acute-care-continuum/november-2015/eds-blaze-new-trails | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720737.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00220-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948055 | 1,221 | 1.773438 | 2 |
TruTag wins 2017 North American Frost & Sullivan award for technology innovation.
Based on its recent analysis of the product authentication market, Frost & Sullivan recognizes TruTag Technologies, Inc. with the 2017 North American Frost & Sullivan award for technology innovation.
TruTag’s silicon dioxide particle-based microtags, known as TruTags, uniquely enable customers to authenticate, identify, and track their products along the entire length of a supply chain by generating an optical signature. The microtags can be applied in a variety of industries including healthcare, food and beverage, consumer goods, and electronics to mitigate the risks of counterfeiting, product diversion, quality incidents, and product recalls.
Silicon dioxide is affirmed by the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) as Generally Recognized as Safe (GRAS), making it fit for human consumption. The edibility and convertibility of TruTags enhance their value in the healthcare industry, as they can be used directly on pharmaceuticals.
Researchers are exploring the use of silicon dioxide particles in groundbreaking applications such as the controlled release of drugs. Porous silicon dioxide particles are considered ideal for in-vivo drug delivery because they are both biocompatible and biodegradable, and the particle porosity may be precision-made for storage and delivery of the drug.
They are gaining traction in the chemicals industry as well, as their ability to withstand temperatures of nearly 1,000 degrees Celsius allows them to be mixed into a coating or polymer/plastic.
TruTag etches silicon dioxide particles in batches to create unique combinations of nano-pores of customizable shape and depth for each customer and industry. The nano-pores reflect light at discrete, selected wavelengths that are authenticated by the company’s portable readers; therefore, each microtag possesses an optical signature that is unique, identifiable, and extremely secure.
“The microtags’ spectral codes provide information at the product level as well as the country, batch, and distributor levels,” said Frost & Sullivan’s senior research analyst Aniruddha Roy. “With the help of the tags, customers can collect information like dosage, manufacturing site, authorized distribution channel, lot number, drug package insert, and related safety information.”
TruTag’s technology is highly scalable and can meet diverse customer requirements. The company’s new manufacturing plant has high-volume, automated production capabilities that have increased capacity more than 50-fold in recent years This production facility, which manufactures microtags for the pharmaceutical and food industries, is current good manufacturing practices (cGMP)-compliant and is the world’s largest cGMP precision nano-porous silica production plant.
“TruTag is a vertically integrated company that has complete control over raw material selection, particularly the quality and purity of the materials, from the product development stage through deployment,” noted Roy. “The company invests heavily in R&D and fosters close relations with various end-user industries. It signed a strategic partnership with PT Carsurin, an Indonesia-based inspection and testing company, for enhancing its supply chain security offerings.
“TruTag also recently entered into a strategic relationship with IRIS Corporation Bhd, a Malaysia-based provider of digital identity and smart ID solutions, for leveraging TruTag’s technology in a variety of products. In another significant move, TruTag has partnered with U.S.-based Spinnaker Biosciences to supply precisely engineered, nano-porous silica particles for sustained-release drug delivery,” Roy added.
Each year, Frost & Sullivan presents this award to the company that has demonstrated uniqueness in developing and leveraging new technologies, which significantly impacts both the functionality and the customer value of the new products and applications. The award lauds the high R&D spend towards innovation, its relevance to the industry, and the positive impact on brand perception.
Frost & Sullivan Best Practices awards recognize companies in a variety of regional and global markets for demonstrating outstanding achievement and superior performance in areas such as leadership, technological innovation, customer service, and strategic product development. Industry analysts compare market participants and measure performance through in-depth interviews, analysis, and extensive secondary research to identify best practices in the industry.
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It’s no secret that Nebraska has one of the heaviest property tax burdens for people over age 65 in the nation.
For older homeowners who are struggling with high property taxes, the good news is that Nebraska’s homestead exemption may help them keep more cash in their pockets. This annual exemption excludes all or a portion of the value of a person’s home and up to one acre of land that the home is built on from property taxes. Low- and moderate-income older Nebraskans have until June 30 to apply.
Robert Courtney, volunteer statewide advocacy coordinator with AARP Nebraska, urges older Nebraskans to take a careful look at the property tax break.
“AARP is concerned that too many homeowners who qualify for a full or partial homestead exemption are not getting any help because they don’t think they are eligible. It’s definitely worth taking the time to find out,” he said.
Homeowners age 65 and over by Jan. 1, 2010, who have an income below $31,301 for an individual or $36,901 in combined income for a couple, may qualify for the homestead exemption. They must own and occupy their home from Jan. 1 through Aug. 15 each year to get the tax relief.
Courtney explained that older homeowners are often surprised to find they can claim the homestead exemption once they add up their annual health care costs. As a general rule of thumb, a single person with an income around $36,000 or a married couple with an income around $46,000 may be eligible for relief after deducting medical expenses.
“If you think your income is too high, check again,” he cautioned. “If you spent more than four percent of your household income on health care, you can deduct most of those expenses and may meet income eligibility for the exemption.”
For the first time starting this year, applicants for the homestead exemption will be required to complete and sign a form certifying that they are U.S. citizens. Failure to submit this form along with the homestead exemption application will result in their applications being denied, Courtney stressed.
AARP Nebraska is seeking a change in state law to exempt the homestead exemption program from the requirement since it serves older Nebraskans who have a Social Security number and own property that is on the property tax rolls.
For more information about the homestead exemption, including eligibility guidelines, see below.
Who is eligible?
Eligibility is based on your age, income and the value of your homestead. (Assets including cars and personal possessions such as furniture or jewelry are not counted).
If you are a homeowner age 65 and over by Jan. 1, 2009, and have an income below $31,301 for an individual or $36,801 in combined income for a couple, you may qualify for the homestead exemption. You must own and occupy your home from Jan. 1 through Aug. 15 each year to get the tax relief.
IMPORTANT: Persons under age 65 with disabilities and disabled veterans may also be eligible for the exemption, but different guidelines apply. Check with your County Assessor’s office for details.
What is the maximum value on the homestead to be eligible?
The maximum value of a homestead is $95,000 or 200 percent of the county’s average assessed value of single family residential property, whichever is greater. If the assessed value exceeds the maximum value by $20,000 or more, the homestead is not eligible for the exemption. Contact your County Assessor’s office for further information.
What medical expenses can I deduct from my income to qualify for the homestead exemption?
Medical expenses that are greater than four percent of your household income may be deducted in determining your eligibility for the exemption. You may deduct the cost of health insurance premiums, including Medicare Part B premiums and supplemental health insurance premiums; long-term care insurance premiums; the cost of goods and services from a licensed health practitioner or a licensed health facility; travel costs for out of town medical appointments, including hospital stays or to purchase drugs if you have no pharmacy in town; and the cost of insulin and prescription drugs. The cost of over-the-counter, non-prescription medicines cannot be deducted. To learn more about allowable deductions for medical expenses, contact your County Assessor’s office.
How and when do I file for the Homestead Exemption?
You must file for a homestead exemption after Feb. 1 and on or before June 30. Applications are available from your County Assessor’s office or you can find them online at www.revenue.state.ne.us/tax/current/current.htm
Where can I get help filing for the Homestead Exemption?
If you need assistance in completing the application, visit or call your County Assessor’s office. They can answer your questions and may be able to assist you with the paperwork. Or consider asking a family member or friend to help you with the application.
Volunteers Assisting Seniors helps residents in Douglas, Cass, Dodge, Sarpy and Washington counties apply for the exemption. Call 402-441-7070 or 1-800-234-7119. In addition, the Douglas County Assessor’s Office will provide homestead assistance at several sites in Omaha through June. Call 402-444-7060.
Where can I get more detailed information about the Homestead Exemption?
For further details, contact your County Assessor’s office or download an information guide from the Homestead Exemption page of the Nebraska Department of Revenue.
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- 1 Overview
- 2 Usage
- 3 Frequently Asked Questions
- 4 How Do I Take It?
- 5 Precautions for RILUTOR 50MG TAB and its Constituents
- 6 Common Side-Effects
- 7 Technical Classification
- 8 Prescription Statistics
- 8.1 How Frequently is it taken?
- 8.2 How long was it prescribed?
- 8.3 What is the break-up across patient age-group?
- 8.4 What is the gender-breakup across patients?
- 8.5 What kind of doctors prescribe this medicine?
- 8.6 Most common Medicines advised along-side?
- 8.7 Most common Diagnostic/Lab Tests advised along-side?
- 9 Available Alternatives for RILUTOR 50MG TAB
- 10 Share this:
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- 12 Related Articles
OverviewRILUTOR 50MG TAB is a Schedule H drug.
RILUTOR 50MG TAB is composed of: RILUZOLE (50 MG)
Riluzole is a benzothiazole, recommended for amyotrophic lateral sclerosis (ALS, Lou Gehrig disease) is placed on a ventilator or breathing machine, by delaying onset of ventilator dependence or tracheostomy. It may prevent further damage to certain brain cells.
The Riluzole works by modulating the action of glutamate, a chemical messenger involved in the transmission of nerve signals in the brain.
UsageRILUZOLE is generally used to treat: Lou Gehrig’s Disease (ALS), Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis
RILUZOLE can address symptoms like: Fainting, Loss Of Coordination, Drooling, Difficulty Swallowing, Constipation, Weight Loss (unintentional), Shortness Of Breath
Frequently Asked QuestionsQ: Is it safe on my liver?
A: Not Safe
Q: Is it safe on my kidney?
A: Not Safe
Q: Can I take it with alcohol?
A: Not Safe
Q: Is it safe for children?
A: Ask your doctor
Q: Is it safe to take for someone breastfeeding?
A: Not Safe
How Do I Take It?RILUTOR 50MG TAB is generally taken Before Food.
Precautions for RILUTOR 50MG TAB and its Constituents
- You should not use riluzole if you are allergic to it.
- Follow all directions on your prescription label. Do not take this medicine in larger or smaller amounts or for longer than recommended.
- Riluzole is usually taken once every 12 hours. Take the medicine at the same times each day.
- Take riluzole on an empty stomach, at least 1 hour before or 2 hours after a meal.
- Before and during your treatment with riluzole, you may need frequent blood tests to check your liver function.
- Do not take extra medicine to make up the missed dose.
- Avoid drinking alcohol. It may increase your risk of liver damage while taking riluzole.
- This medication may impair your thinking or reactions. Be careful if you drive or do anything that requires you to be alert.
- Avoid smoking. Smoking cigarettes may make riluzole less effective.
Common Side-EffectsRILUZOLE : Skin Rash, Joint Pain, Muscle Pain, Dizziness, Spinning Sensation, Drowsiness, Weakness (generalized), Nausea, Vomit, Abdomen Pain, Loss Of Appetite, Mouth Numbness, Blood Or Red Colored Urine, Eyes Blurred Vision, Dark Colored (brown) Urine, Irregular Heartbeat, Pain With Urination, Head Headache, Frequent Urge To Urinate, Lower Back Pain, Nervousness, Eyes Yellow Eyes, Abdomen Bloating Or Fullness, Body Loss Of Movement, Dry Mouth, Increased Passing Gas, Difficulty Sleeping, Hands Tingling
Technical ClassificationRILUZOLE is categorized as: MISCELLANEOUS CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS / CENTRAL NERVOUS SYSTEM AGENTS
Prescription StatisticsFollowing information is taken from treatment plans advised by our doctors. This is Only for informational purpose and you must seek doctor’s advice if you are not well.
How Frequently is it taken?
|2 Times Daily||38%|
|2 Times Daily (1-0-1)||32%|
How long was it prescribed?
What is the break-up across patient age-group?
|18 to 35yrs||3%|
|35 to 50yrs||11%|
|50 to 60yrs||11%|
|60 to 70yrs||42%|
|70yrs and above||33%|
What is the gender-breakup across patients?
What kind of doctors prescribe this medicine?
Most common Medicines advised along-side?
|EVION SG-CAP 400MG||11%|
|EVION 400MG CAP||11%|
Most common Diagnostic/Lab Tests advised along-side?
|SGPT TEST (BIOCHEMISTRY)||11%|
Available Alternatives for RILUTOR 50MG TAB
What are the commonly available Substitutes?
|RILUTOR 50MG TAB||INR 200 for 10 TABLETS||RILUZOLE 50 MG|
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Inheritance of Partial Resistance to Blast in Indica Rice Cultivars
- Ziming Wang,
- D. J. Mackill and
- J. M. Bonman
The blast fungus (Pyricularia oryzae Car.) is a major cause of yield loss in rice (Oryza sativa L.). Partial or field resistance has received much attention as a means of conferring durable blast resistance. Previous inheritance studies of partial resistance have used japonica rices. The primary objective of this study was to determine the inheritance of partial resistance to leaf blast measured by lesion number (LN) and lesion size (LS) in crosses involving two indica rice cultivars with high partial resistance (‘IR36’ and ‘Milyang 42’) and two with low partial resistance (‘IR50’ and ‘Milyang 57’). Greenhouse-grown plants at the partially extended sixth-leaf stage were inoculated with a conidial suspension derived from a monoconidial isolate. Broad-sense heritability for selection based on a single plant ranged from 0.20 to 0.50 for LN and 0.35 to 0.67 for LS. The narrow-sense heritability ranged from 0.18 to 0.38 for LN and 0.30 to 0.43 for LS. Significant (P < 0.01) differences between F3 families selected from the most resistant and most susceptible F2 plants were observed for crosses between resistant and susceptible parents for both LN and LS. The F2 populations also were grown in the field blast nursery under natural infection, and the area under the disease progress curve (ADPC) was calculated based on percent diseased leaf area from 22 to 39 d after seedling emergence. The broad-sense heritability for ADPC was 0.40 and 0.30 for two resistant ✕ susceptible crosses and 0.14 for a resistant ✕ resistant cross. The results indicate that heritability for partial resistance to rice blast in these crosses is relatively low, and that selection for resistance should be effective if resistance levels can be assessed accurately.
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With three long, dark, cold months to go until spring and the usual outbreaks of winter bugs to face I decided to seek expert help. I placed myself in the capable hands of London-based health specialists Drummond & Camm for a complete immune system MOT.
Tim Drummond, an exercise specialist, and his partner Jason Camm, an osteopath and nutritionist, deal mainly with high-profile business professionals and City workers. All health services offered by the duo are overseen by a qualified doctor based in London’s Harley Street.
They agreed to assess and repair my apparently battered immune system. First a full hormone, nutrient, allergy screen and gut profile were needed to establish my immune health so samples of my various bodily fluids were sent to be analysed at Genova Diagnostics in Surrey.
Then Jason took a full case history covering my eating and exercise habits, childhood health and stress levels. The bad news? My test results showed my gut was overrun with bad bacteria. I also had very low levels of the stress hormone cortisol, which helps regulate blood sugar and metabolism. This suggested problems with my adrenal glands, part of the body’s “fight or flight” response.
They don’t realise things have an impact on their immunity and it not only makes them susceptible to illness but affects their general wellbeing
I was also repeatedly exposing myself to foods to which I was allergic, including barley, wheat, lentils, pulses, salmon and tomatoes. Since Tim and Jason are one of the few health specialists in the UK to carry out genetic testing as part of an initial client screening I was particularly interested to discover I’d inherited several genetic mutations from my parents, making me more susceptible to inflammation and allergies.
This cocktail of chemical imbalance was having a serious impact on my immune health and I was probably experiencing bloating, sleeplessness, stress, tiredness, sugar cravings and stubborn illnesses, said Jason. He was right, especially about the sugar cravings.
“So many people have these symptoms and have no idea what is causing them,” he said. “They don’t realise things have an impact on their immunity and it not only makes them susceptible to illness but affects their general wellbeing.”
Jason says the fundamental basis for good immune health starts in the gut as the lining of the digestive system is the first barrier against most germs. My imbalance of gut flora is, he explained, most likely a result of poor diet, previous medication and, once again, stress.
“The gut is the foundation of health and immune health,” he said. “When it is irritated through food allergies or stress the mucosal layer becomes permeable to pathogens. A healthy level of good bacteria in the gut such as Lactobacillus and E.coli is crucial because it acts as a barrier against harmful pathogens and good bacteria break down foods, releasing essential vitamins.”
He advised me to cut out foods I am allergic to and sugar which feeds the bad bacteria. Good-quality probiotic supplements from health specialists can be combined with prebiotic foods such as garlic, onions, leeks and kale, which encourage growth of friendly flora.
Meanwhile Jason said I needed to boost my vitamin D levels, which are essential for vitamin C absorption. Scientists think people are more susceptible to illness in the winter as the lack of sunlight leads to low vitamin D levels.
And as a reporter working to tight deadlines I’ve put my body through years of unmanaged stress as well as hour-long daily runs. It has all proved a huge strain on my immune system and now my adrenal glands aren’t producing sufficient cortisol.
“If you get to this stage your body is no longer able to cope with stress and struggles with keeping illness and infections away,” said Jason.
“Lots of people do the same thing,” said Tim. “They get on a treadmill and think more is better. Many people think they need to do loads of cardiovascular exercise but this weakens your immunity.”
T IM ADVISED me to reduce my cardiovascular exercise and build strength using resistance training and weights. “Rather than thinking you need to push yourself more, you need to think about recovery.”
He also encouraged me to take up calmer forms of exercise. “People think it’s nonsense to look at yoga, meditation and relaxation,” he said, “but these help the body to recover from strenuous exercise and are crucial to overall health and fitness.”
Jason told me my test results suggested I was also deficient in the magnesium essential for good sleep, something else I struggle with. I should take magnesium in the form of a spray, which is quickly absorbed into the bloodstream.
I was disturbed to learn that my body is in a “pro-inflammatory” state that can lead to allergies and asthma. I am asthmatic and suffer from severe hay fever but I didn’t realise that when the body is reacting to otherwise harmless foods and airborne allergens it is not getting a chance to defend itself against pathogens and disease.
Exposure to allergens increases the permeability of blood vessels, explained Jason, which is why eyes and skin become red and itchy in hay fever sufferers. Being in this state causes the immune system to become overloaded and exhausted and lays the body open to infection.
He told me supplementing my diet with high levels of vitamin C and grapeseed extract, available from health food stores or online, would help reduce my allergies.
I had no idea my sluggishness and irritability were signs of my body crying out for help or that I was putting myself at risk of serious illness by not being aware of the state of my immune health.
“The good news is that by making these changes, learning from what your test results show and by being disciplined you can be up to an optimal level in four to seven months,” Jason said. “You should start to see a benefit in as little as two weeks.”
THE STAY WELL SHOPPING LIST
VITAMIN C: This is useful for preventing colds at 500 to 1,000mg a day.
SELENIUM: Found in Brazil nuts, five will provide enough for a day.
PROBIOTICS (GOOD BACTERIA): These colonise the gut and help ‘crowd out’ bad bacteria and yeasts.
VITAMIN D: Research shows low vitamin D levels have been linked to poor immune function.
ZINC: 30mg three times a day during a cold can shorten its length and reduce severity.
BROTH: A forgotten superfood. Add mushrooms, onion and garlic to enhance its healing and antiseptic properties.
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"There's no way that I could have anticipated the little bitty cameras that people walk around with and use. It was all so big and bulky then and everything had these great coaxial cables you had to drag everywhere the camera went. The changes are just magical."
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In her two-hour Archive interview, Frances Buss Buch (1917-2010) describes how a two-week temporary job at CBS led to an over decade-long association with the network, and her historic role as CBS' very first female director. She details her work at CBS before and after broadcasting was interrupted during World War II. She talks about her assistance creating maps for the news program on December 7, 1941, when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. She describes several of the earliest commercial broadcasts on CBS which featured her on-camera, including The Country Dance, a monthly dance program by the American Country Dance Society; Children's Story, in which a story was read to a child, "illustrated" by an artist on camera; and the CBS Television Quiz, which featured such games as "Peanuts in the Bottle" in which a contestant attempted to spoon peanuts into an empty milk bottle that they held on their head. She talks about some of her earliest directorial efforts such as Sorry Wrong Number, an adaptation of the famed radio show. Buch talks about several of the key creative talents at CBS at the time including Worthington Miner and Gilbert Seldes. She speaks in great detail about other early CBS series including The Missus Goes A-Shopping, To the Queen's Taste with Dione Lucas, The Whistling Wizard, and Mike and Buff. She also talks about CBS' color experimentation and her role as a director of the first color broadcast for the network on June 25, 1951. (She says she directed the show's "live" commercials). She also discusses "Telecolor Clinics," a series of television documentaries done for the American Cancer Society. Karen Herman conducted the interview on June 16, 2005 in Hendersonville, NC. | <urn:uuid:22cc576b-d0a7-4df5-9f3b-6a408a76fbcd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.emmytvlegends.org/interviews/people/frances-buss-buch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00393-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979814 | 417 | 1.585938 | 2 |
|Weekly CSA share at Willow Haven Farm|
It’s late-July and vegetable production is in full swing across the state. I know my garden is so awash with produce I can barely keep up with yield, so much so that I’ve been doling out zucchinis to my friends at every social function. Vegetable farmers are equally inundated with produce this time of year. To ensure they have an outlet for these crops, many vegetable farms offer CSA, or Community Supported Agriculture, shares. The premise behind a CSA program is to encourage consumers to create a closer relationship with the farmer and get a closer look at how their food is grown.
In a CSA, consumers support farmers by paying for a share of the harvest before each growing season. This helps the farmer purchase seeds, equipment, and pay farm hands when needed, instead of waiting until the harvest to bring in funds. By paying upfront, consumers are assuming the risks of crop failure due to pests, diseases and weather, just like farmers do each year. The majority of these risks can be managed with proper planning and diagnosis, but there are some that cannot be avoided. If a farmer’s tomato harvest is destroyed by late blight and the cucumbers are thriving, that would be reflected in the weekly share – no tomatoes but ample cucumbers. This CSA structure allows consumers to be more closely connected with how food is grown, while helping to support the farmers by removing unpredictability of income.
CSAs are growing in popularity. Current estimates show that there are between 30,000 and 50,000 people in the U.S. that belong to a CSA. CSAs can range in size, from smaller operations with 10 or 20 members to much larger operations with a few hundred members. Most CSAs provide a variety of eight to twelve vegetables, herbs and fruits in their share each week in the summer, with an average of five to seven pounds of vegetables. CSAs offer weekly share pickups in the summer, while winter CSAs may only distribute once or twice a month because of lower produce availability.
CSAs are a great way for consumers to help support local farmers and make sure they eat their veggies each week. By having a set amount and type of veggies each week, you have to learn to both cook and eat them!
Support Your Farmer:
LEHIGH VALLEY: Willow Haven Farm nestled in the rolling hills of the Blue Mountain in rural Weisenberg Township grows natural, chemical free vegetables for their CSA. The farm also raises chickens, sheep and cows. Come visit Willow Haven Farm on the 2013 Lehigh County Open Gate Farm Tour!
BUCKS: Blooming Glen Farm in Perkasie grows a wide variety of vegetables, fruits, herbs and flowers, available at farmer's markets and through their CSA. | <urn:uuid:0be9ce98-9789-422d-b773-cc44cbbdaf54> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://psuopengates.blogspot.com/2013/07/what-is-csa.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720468.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00489-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.954008 | 581 | 2.65625 | 3 |
On Thursday, Indiana Governor Mike Pence signed a bill that places more restrictions on abortion in the state. The bill bans women from seeking abortions based on race, gender or disability of the fetus, as well as placing new restrictions on doctors.
The bill, House Enrolled Act 1337, which Pence called a “comprehensive pro-life measure,” is the latest legislation in the state’s continued chipping away of abortion rights. Indiana already has some of the most restrictive abortion laws in the country, including waiting periods, mandatory counseling, mandatory ultrasounds, and insurance restrictions. Pence has never shied away from conservative legislation; last year he signed the Religious Freedom Restoration Act, a controversial bill that essentially gave the state a license to discriminate against the LGTBQ community. And Pence has signed every piece of abortion legislation that the legislature has put on his desk.
But HEA 1337 is particularly notable because it’s one of the most expansive restriction bills recently signed. The bill holds doctors liable if a woman has an abortion based on sex, race or disability (like Down’s Syndrome) and the law makes fetal tissue donation nearly impossible. It mandates that women be required to bury or cremate the fetus post-termination, a reaction to the purposefully misleading Planned Parenthood videos produced by the Center for Medical Progress. And it gets worse: HEA 1337 also mandates that abortion physicians have admitting privileges at a nearby hospital.
“Seeing them all in one place, that is very striking,” Dawn Johnsen, an Indiana University law professor told the New York Times. “It’s like the kitchen sink: Everything that isn’t already in the law. And the law is already really restrictive.”
Needless to say, anti-choice advocates and Pence are pleased with the bill; at the signing the Governor said that the bill “will ensure the dignified final treatment of the unborn and prohibits abortions that are based only on the unborn child’s sex, race, color, national origin, ancestry or disability, including Down syndrome.”
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On the Potential Economic Costs of Cutting Carbon Dioxide Emissions in Portugal
The objective of this paper is to estimate the impact of reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion activities on economic activity in Portugal. We find that energy consumption has a significant impact on macroeconomic activity. In fact, a one ton of oil equivalent permanent reduction in aggregate energy consumption reduces output in the long term by €6,340. More importantly, and since carbon dioxide emissions are linearly related to the amounts of fuel consumed, our results allow us to estimate the costs of reductions in carbon dioxide emissions. We estimate that a uniform standard for reducing carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuel combustion activities would lead to a marginal abatement cost of €95.74 per ton of carbon dioxide. This is a first rough estimate of the potential economic costs of policies designed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions. At this level one may conclude that uniform, across the board reductions in carbon emissions would have a clear negative effect on economic activity. Hence, at the aggregate level there is clear evidence for a trade-off between economic performance and a reduction in carbon emissions. This opens the door to the investigation of the scope for policy to minimize the costs of environmental policy and regulation.
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„Nominal Members“ of OSM?
by Pascal Neis - Published: August 20th, 2010
There has been an exciting question on the German OSM mailing list yesterday (here). To clarify this question a little to the readers of this blog, the OSM member basically asked if anybody knows how many users ever really worked on a single note in OSM at all, and how many so called “nominal members” (members that never touched any node in OSM) can be found in OSM?
It sounded interesting to me, so I started working on a way to figure out the numbers. My results showed that the entire OSM planet file (dated 08/18/2010) has about 735 million nodes that have been provided by about 93.000 OSM members. 60 million ways were mapped by 68.000 members and about 10.000 members were involved with the creation of almost 690.000 relations. The history of the objects could not be considered during the analysis! In total there were about 98.000 members that contributed to the OSM database.
However, these numbers still show an interesting result considering the actual amount of 290.000 registered OSM members. So the question remains if there are a lot of members in OSM who are still standing in the waiting line and will start with their first edits pretty soon?
To see what the numbers looked like one year ago, I changed the tool that I created one more time and repeated the analysis with the planet file of 08/19/2009. I received the following results: At the given time there were about 412 million nodes provided by 49.000 members in the database. 32 million ways were mapped by 41.000 members and about 6.000 members were involved with the creation of almost 180.000 relations.
This means that one year ago all OSM data has been provided by 51.000 members although there were about 145.000 members registered. Thus, in the year 2009 about 35% of registered members did at least one edit on the OSM database. This number does not really change with the latest OSM dataset, with 290.000 registered members and about 98.000 members with at least one edit which represent about 34%!
To give a better overview, here are even more numbers for the year 2008: 253 million nodes provided by 15.000 members. 20 million ways mapped by almost 14.000 members and about 16.000 relations created by 1.600 members. In total there were about 16.000 members that contributed to the OSM database, while there were about 55.000 members registered. Thus, the percentage of active registered members lies around 29%.
In general the remaining question is: What happened to the other 65% that registered for the project but did not contribute to it? Is it too hard or too complicated to contribute to the project? Did those members just collect data for a short period of time? Is that why they do not show up in the analysis shown above?
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Sitting in an armchair in his cosy flat, three decades after being discharged from Ely long-stay mental incapacity hospital in Cardiff, the memories of John O'Brien's incarceration still loom large. His time at Ely was "horrible", he says, visibly recoiling. When asked where he would prefer to live, he passionately stabs the arm of the chair with his finger, declaring: "Here! Here!"
Like the vast majority of the UK's 300,000 or so people with severe learning disabilities, O'Brien lives in the heart of a community rather than in an institution. But his story is a rather extraordinary one.
Along with four other Ely long-stay patients, O'Brien was part of a pioneering "shared community living" experiment, which, 30 years ago, helped to set in motion a complete transformation of the care available to people with learning disabilities.
In 1974, O'Brien, then aged 21, Heather Howard, 16, Alan Duncan, 19, and Jackie Morgan and Paul Evans, both 20, were released from Ely to live in shared accommodation with a group of students from Cardiff University. The students, along with faculty members, had been so outraged by reports of abuse and maltreatment of patients at Ely that they took it upon themselves to change things.
In what has since been recognised as a landmark project, the students set up a charity in partnership with local social services. Student volunteers lived in a house with the ex-patients to help them integrate into wider society. The model of "supported living" championed by the Cardiff project is now the principal form of mainstream care provision for people with severe learning disabilities. But now some campaigners believe it is under threat.
Joan Benison, one of the original students in the Cardiff house, hopes this is not the case. "I look back to those days with such affection," she says. "We could never have known then just how much impact what we were doing would have. Who would have thought that what we were doing then would become a model for care for so many people."
Benison says she has to pinch herself at times to digest the changes in the care system inspired by the project. She recalls the experience as a time "filled with fun" and is thankful that, because of it, people with learning disabilities are able to do "the ordinary things that everyone else does and have the chance to develop as individuals in their own right".
The effects of long-term institutionalisation on the individuals involved was shocking in the early days of the project, Benison says. "For example, no one in the group recognised a potato in its original form. And when the bin men came to take the bins, the group thought they were stealing them. They had absolutely no idea of how everyday things happened."
Like Benison, the people who run the charity today - now called the Innovate Trust - believe that helping people to live as independent a life as possible offers the best opportunity for a good quality of life.
Two of the original group, O'Brien and Howard, currently occupy two of three self-contained flats in a house near Cardiff city centre managed by the trust. They receive one-to-one attention as and when they need it, and a care worker is always on hand.
This supported living gives residents the freedom to manage their own affairs. "The shock of leaving a hospital for people who have lived in it for the majority of their lives can be profound," says trust director Alex Bird. "It needs considerable input from case managers, but the rewards are enormous."
Howard, as she shows us around her immaculate flat, appears to revel in having her own space. She has difficulty communicating but, with the help of her care worker, relays a passion for shopping at Ikea and eating out.
Duncan now lives in a house a few miles away, but among his many activities (he's a keen pool player and is in a band called Spasm) he enjoys weekly cups of tea with O'Brien and stays in touch with Morgan, who now lives in Swansea.
That they are still contentedly living in the community is testament to the merits of this type of supported living provision. But campaigners are concerned about the emergence of alternative forms of care, such as new private long-stay hospitals. Mean while, the government continues, too slowly, with plans to finally remove those people still in NHS long-stay hospitals. The few hundred who remain are expected to be out by 2006.
Linsay McCulloch, deputy director of learning disability charity Values into Action, says the growing number of private hospitals could represent the reintroduction of a form of long-stay incarceration where people are once again institutionalised. Provision in private hospitals has grown by around 50% in three years, to around 1,000 places. She says that commissioners at a local level with responsibility for deciding on care options can favour private hospital facilities because they regard them as easier to set up and run. It's not about money, she argues, because running costs are comparable with supported living.
McCulloch explains: "It's really because offering individualised solutions takes more planning and time, and 'one size fits all' provision seems like the easier answer." She says that while central government has broadly backed supported living - specifically in its Valuing People white paper in 2001 - it needs to look closely at what is happening on the ground.
At Innovate Trust, they acknowledge that, in today's highly regulated environment, a project like the one in 1974 wouldn't be allowed. But they are adamant that its legacy is protected in the face of new threats.
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Monster black hole in small galaxy group puzzles astronomers
“The newly-discovered supersized black hole resides in the center of a massive elliptical galaxy, NGC 1600, located in a cosmic backwater, a small grouping of 20 or so galaxies,” said lead discoverer Chung-Pei Ma, a University of California-Berkeley astronomer, according to NASA.
The Hubble Space Telescope and the Gemini Telescope in Hawaii can claim credit for the finding, which is located about 200 million light years from Earth.
Not only the hole surprised astronomers, but also led them to suspect that there could be more such ‘monsters’ in the universe.
“So the question now is, ‘Is this the tip of an iceberg?’ Maybe there are more monster black holes out there that don’t live in a skyscraper in Manhattan, but in a tall building somewhere in the Midwestern plains,” Ma said.
The Manhattan analogy is not accidental here at all. In fact, it explains quite well the odds of finding a super-size black hole in a small galaxy group. Thus, a gigantic black hole is most likely to be found in a ‘crowded’ galaxy cluster, just like a skyscraper on Manhattan, and therefore less likely ‘in the universe’s small towns’.
"The researchers also were surprised to discover that the black hole is 10 times more massive than they had predicted for a galaxy of this mass," NASA reports.
Previous Hubble surveys of black holes led astronomers to draw a connection between a black hole’s mass and the mass of its host galaxy’s central bulge of stars.
However, this proportional estimate did not prove true in the case of NGC 1600.
“It appears that that relation does not work very well with extremely massive black holes; they are a larger fraction of the host galaxy’s mass,” Ma said.
The newly-uncovered black hole weighs 17 billion suns, which is not too far from a record, a black hole as heavy as 21 billion suns, ‘living’ in the crowded Coma galaxy cluster that consists of over 1,000 galaxies.
“The only way we found it was by measuring the velocities of stars near it, which are strongly influenced by the gravity of the black hole. The velocity measurements give us an estimate of the black hole’s mass,” Ma said, comparing the hole to “a sleeping giant.”
Astronomers think that this huge and heavy black hole was ‘born’ from black holes that merged long ago when galaxy interactions were more frequent.
When this happens, their central black holes settle into the core of the new galaxy and orbit each other.
After merging, the ‘newborn’ supermassive black hole continues to grow by ‘eating up’ gas funneled to the core by galaxy collisions.
“To become this massive, the black hole would have had a very voracious phase during which it devoured lots of gas,” Ma said.
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Secretary Galvin expects historic turnout to exceed 2016
Voter turnout for the Nov. 3 election is projected to be double the record-setting number of ballots cast in the Sept. 1 state primaries, and even exceed the historical 75% voter turnout in the 2016 election.
Secretary of State William F. Galvin said more will be known about the expected high turnout as early voting continues through Oct. 30.
“I’m hopeful. It seems the level of interest is there,” Galvin said in a telephone interview. “We had 3.3 million votes in 2016. It seems we will exceed that. We’ve seen a continuing rising number of people registering to vote.”
In Somerville, turnout is already high. As of midday Oct. 21, 15,353 ballots had been cast by early voters, which represents more than a quarter of registered voters (56,754 as of Sept. 1). Mail-in ballots will start to be counted Oct. 25, but no totals are run until polls close on Nov. 3. As in past years, the city expects unofficial results to be in by around 9 p.m. on election night, with official results to be posted Nov. 18.
The historical voter turnout — expected as well in some other parts of the country and driven by the hotly contested presidential race — is also the result of a massive expansion of mail-in voting due to concerns about crowded polling places during the coronavirus pandemic.
Early voting was also offered this year for the first time during a primary. Nearly 1 million of the 1.7 million votes cast during the primaries were received before Sept. 1, including 814,013 by mail, making up 47.7% of all ballots cast, according to the secretary of state’s office. About 30.6% of the 4.66 million total registered voters turned out for the primaries. It was the highest number of ballots cast in a state primary and the highest turnout as a percentage of registered voters in 30 years, according to Galvin’s office.
WCVB is tracking the number of ballots cast across the state and, as of Oct. 21 at 4 p.m., 1,177,856 ballots have been cast, representing over a quarter of all registered Massachusetts voters.
Absentee voting has been allowed for decades for people who met certain requirements, including being in the military on active duty and a Massachusetts citizen residing overseas on Election Day. Voters were first allowed to request no-excuse early ballots by mail in 2016 in time for the highly contentious presidential election that featured Donald Trump and Hillary Clinton. Debra O’Malley, spokeswoman for the secretary of state, said the mailing time was limited to the early-voting period, so not many people took advantage of the option.
This year, the deadline was expanded and Galvin’s office mailed a vote-by-mail application to every registered voter. Previously 3%-5% of voters have voted by mail. So far, more than 1.7 million voters, or 37% of the state’s registered voters, have requested mail-in ballots for the Nov. 3 election. Voters have until 5 p.m. Oct. 28 to request mail-in ballots, but that is also the deadline for municipal clerks to receive the applications. The post office recommends applying by Oct. 20 to ensure you get your ballot on time. The ballots must be completed and postmarked by Nov. 3.
Drop boxes available
After the primary, Elections Commissioner Nick Salerno reported a smooth election, including use of the ten ballot boxes around the city, which are also being used for the November election.
"The primary went quite smoothly, voters were very cooperative about distancing and followed the directions at the polling locations as put in place by the health and safety committee," he said. "We placed 10 ballot drop boxes across the city for the convenience of the voters. The voters took full advantage of the boxes, which were a huge success."
Wicked Local news partner WCVB has assembled a map of drop boxes across the state.
Galvin said after all ballots cast on Election Day are counted, books will remain open for three days for the domestically mailed-in ballots, and an additional seven days for military and votes from overseas. Those ballots also must be postmarked by Nov. 3. Galvin said the local mail-in ballots and in-person ballots will likely decide election outcomes. Asked about more restrictive voting methods in other states, particularly in Texas where the governor has limited drop boxes to one per county, Galvin said it doesn’t sound “logical” to him.
“We’ve done the opposite here. Our policy is to expand, not restrict” drop boxes,” Galvin said, pointing out that municipalities are encouraged to place the boxes in secure places and that they be monitored.
“If you’re concerned about drop boxes and the postal service ... there’s some reason to believe there could be some concern there, you can also drop your mail-in ballot off at the early voting site. That’s a better alternative. You don’t have to worry about it.”
Having multiple voting options is important, particularly during the coronavirus pandemic, Galvin said, but it has been a monumental challenge. Nearly 18,000 mail-in ballots for the Sept. 1 primaries were initially rejected, mostly due to human error or lateness.
“Those ballots were not ‘thrown out’ and in most cases, the voter would have been sent a second ballot or voted in person,” O’Malley said in an email.
She said a little more than 3,000 of the ballots were rejected for failed delivery, which generally indicates that the voter contacted the municipal clerk to request a second ballot because they didn’t receive the first one. That was a common issue with voters moving after applying for their ballots, O’Malley said.
Another 1,800 ballots lacked a signature, which would have resulted in a second ballot being mailed to the voter. About 1,770 ballots were rejected because the voter had already voted in person during early voting when their mail-in ballot arrived. And some ballots were not received by the Sept. 1 deadline.
As for mail in ballots, municipal clerks have until 5 p.m. on Nov. 6 to count ballots postmarked by Nov. 3 and received in their office by Nov. 6. This is unlike with the primary, when the name of the winner had to be immediately sent out to be printed on the Nov. 3 ballot. | <urn:uuid:e18cf10c-7359-4d73-afba-80194c04d950> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wickedlocal.com/story/archive/2020/10/22/secretary-galvin-expects-historic-turnout-to-exceed-2016/114647044/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.975384 | 1,378 | 1.5 | 2 |
Launching an HIV Trial in the Time of COVID-19
In a recently published study, researchers and community advocates associated with the amfAR Institute for HIV Cure Research have outlined their approach to safely undertaking an HIV cure trial in the context of COVID-19. The study, led by Dr. Michael Peluso, will help guide the complex clinical trial recently launched at the amfAR Institute after COVID-related delays. amfAR’s Dr. Rowena Johnston was a co-author of the study.
Dr. Peluso and colleagues focused on key considerations including study design, informed consent, participant education, and study implementation. They noted several key risks for participants such as the possibility of acquiring COVID-19 due to the high frequency of study visits and the incompletely understood interaction between HIV and the coronavirus—especially for people living with HIV. Of particular concern to researchers is the risk associated with suspending antiretroviral treatment during the trial.
“In light of these considerations, we developed and implemented recommendations prior to re-opening a clinical trial that may be used as a model for similar HIV cure-related research operations that are attempting to open in the context of the ongoing SARS-CoV-2 [COVID-19] pandemic,” the authors stated. The study was published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases.
Read the full study here.
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“’The lure of adventure led to the discovery of law and truth. The best child of adventure is revelation. Man is so fashioned that if he can see a glimmer of the truth he seeks, he will make for it no matter what may be in his way. The promise of an exciting time solves the problem of help. America was born of sublime faith and a great adventure—the greatest in history—that of the three caravels. High faith is the great need of the world. Columbus had it, and I think, sir, that the Pilgrims had it and that the same quality of faith is in you. In these dark years you are like the lanterns of Pharus to your people.
“’When prodigious things are to be done, how carefully men are prepared and chosen for their doing!’
“He said many things, but these words addressed to my venerable friend impressed me deeply. It occurs to me that Burke has been chosen to speak for the soul of Britain.
“When we think of the choosing of God, who but the sturdy yeomen of our mother land could have withstood the inhospitalities of the New World and established its spirit!
“Now their Son, Benjamin Franklin, full grown in the new school of liberty, has been chosen of God to define the inalienable rights of freemen. I think the stage is being set for the second great adventure in our history. Let us have no fear of it. Our land is sown with the new faith. It can not fail.”
This conviction was the result of some rather full days in the British capital.
AN APPOINTMENT AND A CHALLENGE
Solomon Binkus had left the city with Preston to visit Sir Jeffrey Amherst in his country seat, near London. Sir Benjamin had taken Jack to dine with him at two of his clubs and after dining they had gone to see the great actor Robert Bensley as Malvolio and the Comedian Dodd as Sir Andrew Aguecheek. The Britisher had been most polite, but had seemed studiously to avoid mention of the subject nearest the heart of the young man. After that the latter was invited to a revel and a cock fight, but declined the honor and went to spend an evening with his friend, the philosopher. For days Franklin had been shut in with gout. Jack had found him in his room with one of his feet wrapped in bandages and resting on a chair.
“I am glad you came, my son,” said the good Doctor. “I am in need of better company than this foot. Solitude is like water—good for a dip, but you can not live in it. Margaret has been here trying to give me comfort, although she needs it more for herself.”
“Margaret!” the boy exclaimed. “Why does she need comfort?”
“Oh, largely on your account, my son! Her father is obdurate and the cause is dear to me. This courtship of yours is taking an international aspect.”
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But as the clock ticks and the lawyers wait on the U.S. Supreme Court to decide whether DNA evidence must be tested, Skinner's case is casting light on some particularly dark corners of the justice system, most recently the clemency process, which has essentially withered and atrophied from disuse. In an article at the Texas Tribune titled "The Secret Pardon," Brandi Grissom gives voice to critiques of enigmatic and abstruse clemency practices at the Texas Board of Pardons and Parole:
The seven-member board makes life-or-death decisions, recommending to the governor whether an execution should be delayed, called off or carried out. Yet it’s one of the least transparent agencies in state government, making it all but impossible for [Skinner's attorney Rob] Owen, or any other member of the public, to decipher how or why it makes decisions. The board doesn't have to hold public meetings on clemency cases like [Hank] Skinner's. It's not required to give any reasons for its recommendations. Most times, the seven members simply fax in their votes. If the vote isn't unanimous, clemency is denied. What’s more, there are no guidelines in statute or in the board’s rules that outline a basis for decision-making. And nearly all the documents the board uses to make its decisions are kept secret under state law — even after an inmate is executed. “To the extent we assume that the clemency review process is a meaningful safeguard for cases like Hank’s, where there might be doubt about guilt … our trust is misplaced,” says Owen, co-director of the University of Texas at Austin School of Law's Capital Punishment Clinic.
Criminal justice advocates and some lawmakers have called for reform of the Texas clemency process for years, calling the current system opaque and arbitrary. Especially in the wake of high-profile cases like that of Cameron Todd Willingham, who was executed in 2004 despite serious concern about his guilt in an arson that killed his daughters; and of Tim Cole, who was exonerated of a rape conviction after he died of an asthma attack in prison, proponents of reform say the time for change is now — before Texas puts an innocent person to death. Even Gov. Rick Perry has supported past efforts to require the board to meet in public in capital clemency cases. Rissie Owens, chairwoman of the Board of Pardons and Paroles, and a member of the Huntsville school board, declined an interview for this story and did not answer written questions about calls for reform. She sent an e-mailed response outlining the board's current rules.
According to a 2005 report (pdf) by Texas Appleseed and the Innocence Network, says Grissom:
Texas is the only death penalty state that does not require the board to meet for clemency decisions, according to the report. Instead, the board’s practice is to send materials to board members across the state who make full-time salaries ranging from about $95,000 to $115,000 for chairwoman Owens. They review the information and then fax in their votes, a process the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals upheld in 1999 in a lawsuit in which a death-row inmate unsuccessfully sued the state, claiming the clemency process was unconstitutional.
Of course, given the fact that Rick Perry has rejected clemency in most cases recommended by the Board of Pardons and Paroles, whatever criticisms one may have of their policies, they're being a lot more generous than he is!
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The Heavy Duty Lathe is a mechanical device which is used for turning a specific diameter round piece of metal. You can use this lathe to turn even the hardest and heaviest materials to a desired shape. Since this lathe is quite heavy, it should be lifted by two people.
If you are interested in turning tall items such as spindles or stair treads, then you can use this lathe to press them up to a height of about 25 inches. If you have the space in your backyard, you can turn these items at home. The heavy duty lathe can be used as a bench for shaping items from plywood to metal.
When you are using a heavy duty lathe to shape something from plywood to steel, it will need a surface to work on. You can use a block of wood as a surface. You can use some bricks to keep the machine in place and cut the wood to size.
With a wood or other heavy material, you can use a thick brass rod to press the piece against the surface. This will give the item a nice finish. For instance, if you want a nice handle on a long ladder, you can glue a hand-shaped brass rod onto the ladder so it has a nice rounded head.
The object can be glued onto the brass surface with a heat gun. A diamond tool, and drill can also be used to cut into the wood to shape the item. If you want something round and square like a drum, you can use a mallet to knock the metal pieces together to form a round drum.
The big advantage to using a heavy duty lathe to shape a variety of shapes is that the lathe can be turned at different angles and for a longer period of time. In addition, you can use a smaller area to work on without being restricted by the size of the machine. You will not need to turn the item again because you have turned it many times already.
There are also some great things that you can do with a small gauge machine. A smaller piece of wood will work well with this type of lathe. You can make a scroll saw blades that are just a quarter inch thick. This gives you an opportunity to make blades for other things such as garden tools.
If you have some experience with lathes, you may not have a problem making all kinds of shapes. You may find that you can add some of your own artistic touch to your project. Before buying a lathe, try to design a design that you would like to create. | <urn:uuid:d9550098-1753-4ed5-9b9d-f9f894af7221> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.highworel.com/archives/6337 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.949349 | 516 | 2.765625 | 3 |
Whenever the news reports on a tragedy, there are often amazing reports of heroism that go along with them. Following the tragic shooting of Representative Gabrielle Giffords and others in a parking lot in Arizona in January, 2011, details emerged about ordinary people who helped subdue the shooter. After the massive earthquake in Japan in March, 2011, there were many stories and pictures of groups helping to pull victims from buildings that had collapsed.
One reason why it is so incredible to read these stories is that from the comfort of your own home, it is hard to envision whether you would have the courage to help out in the same circumstance. Yet, when you read interviews with people in these situations, they just report that they did what they felt was the right thing to do at the time.
Of course, one big difference between being at the scene of an event and reading about it later is the amount of time that you have to think about it. When you witness a crime or experience and earthquake, the situation unfolds quickly. You have to make a snap judgment about whether to take action. Reading about it later, you can think carefully about what you think is the right thing to do.
Joshua Greene and his colleagues suggest that when people are faced with moral dilemmas, there are two different reasoning systems that influence your decisions about what to do. One is a fast-acting emotion-based system that provides a gut-reaction about how to act. In many cases that have a moral dimension, this system favors actions that fit with your responsibilities in the moment. The other is a slower reasoning system that allows you to take broader societal good into account.
Over the past several years, research on moral reasoning has developed a number of problems that place these two kinds of decisions in opposition. For example, imagine you go on a cruise in the Caribbean. An engine on the boat explodes, and the ship starts to sink. Only a few of the ship’s lifeboats are operational, and people start to climb aboard them. The boat you are on is so full of people, it is likely to sink, but if you push a few people off the lifeboat, then many more will be saved. What would you do?
In this case, choosing to push some people off the boat would save many at the expense of a few. However, pushing some people off the boat means that you have deprived those people of their right to try to survive as well.
A paper in the June, 2011 issue of Cognition by Renata Suter and Ralph Hertwig explored whether people would give different responses to dilemmas like this depending on the amount of time they had to respond. In one study, people were told that they were going to read about a number of dilemmas. Some were told that they should go with their first reaction and respond as quickly as possible. Others were told to think about the dilemma for as long as they needed to and then make a choice.
They found that people who could take as much time as they needed tended to make the choice that would save the most people at the expense of the few. That is, they would choose to push someone off the boat in order to save everyone else. In contrast, those who chose quickly, elected not to push people off the boat, despite the risk to everyone else.
These results support the idea that we reason about dilemmas in very different ways depending on the time we have to make the choice. In the moment, we are driven by a variety of emotions. At times, our choices in the moment seem humane (trying to save everyone or risking life and limb during a tragedy). Of course, those same emotions can cause us to lash out in anger at someone or to give into temptation in other circumstances.
When we have the time to justify our choices, we can reduce the influence of our emotions on the eventual choice. Whether this reason-based system leads to a good choice, though, depends a lot on the system of rules we adopt for making choices. Given enough time, we can probably talk ourselves into anything. | <urn:uuid:acb765d3-79ba-4024-9863-a90a85798314> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.smartthinkingbook.com/2012/08/you-can-talk-yourself-into-anything.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717963.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00375-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984954 | 834 | 2.6875 | 3 |
The sludge and slurry generated by livestock rearing, waste water purification, or biogas production are usually stored in special tanks, where chemical and physical “maturation” processes reduce their bacterial load and make them suitable for re-use (e.g. as agricultural fertiliser).
Sludge and slurry storage tanks floating covers made of Laterlite LCM Special Expanded Clay reduce the release of harmful gases into the atmosphere and help to prevent the development of unpleasant odours from sludge, which also enables compliance with local, national, and international standards.
The process of constructing the cover consists of spreading a floating layer of Laterlite LCM Special approx. 10-15 cm thick that completely covers the surface of the effluent to form a continuous floating roof over the storage tank.
The layer of LCM expanded clay drastically reduces contact between the slurry and the atmosphere and reduces the release of gas. At the same time the granules encourage a bacterial biofilm to develop, which helps to degrade the pollutants and sets off a process of biofiltration.CONTACT US | <urn:uuid:5fe220df-1a27-4f14-b106-69969946ce0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.laterlite.com/applications/green-landscaping-environment/sludge-and-slurry-storage-tanks-floating-covers/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.904712 | 223 | 2.8125 | 3 |
The New York Times examines BP/Amoco, the world's second largest oil company, and its $200 million PR and advertising campaign to greenwash its image. It is an "enormous corporate rebranding exercise, shortening its name from British Petroleum to BP, coining the slogan "Beyond Petroleum" and redesigning its corporate insignia. ... in came a green, yellow and white sunburst that seemed to suggest a warm and fuzzy feeling about the earth. ... But ... BP remains an oil company, deriving the vast majority of its profits from the black stuff that -- from drilling rig to oil tanker to refinery to gas station -- scars the earth, pollutes the air and eventually warms the planet. And once the company tried to convey its new identity in billboard form, the contradiction only deepened." As reported in PR Watch, BP has greenwashed itself by partnering with green groups including the National Wildlife Federation which allowed BP to decorate its gas stations with NWF toys and logos.
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Pilgrims from the Young Christian Climate Network (YCCN) and friends were given a moving send off from St Chad’s Cathedral this morning (Friday) as they continue their journey north.
Members of the Relay to COP26 have been in Birmingham for the last four days.
Walkers will now continue their journey, which started in Cornwall, to Glasgow arriving in time for the November meeting of World Leaders at the Climate Change Conference (COP26).
Along their route the pilgrims are being joined by local walkers and are drawing attention to the climate crisis.
During the last few days a number of events have been held in Birmingham city centre to raise awareness of the pressing environmental situation.
At St Chad’s this morning the pilgrims gathered for a short service led by Mgr Tim Menezes, Cathedral Dean, which was also live streamed.
Hymns, prayers and the blessing all carried an environmental theme.
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Which Joe gave his name to ‘sloppy joes’? We look at five interesting sandwiches and their lexical origins.
- another term for cytoarchitecture
- ‘Changes in cytoarchitectonics are accompanied by a distinct rearrangement of radial glial fibers.’
- ‘Between 1903 and 1908 he published seven papers; many concerned with the comparative cytoarchitectonics of mammalian cortex.’
We take a look at several popular, though confusing, punctuation marks.
From Afghanistan to Zimbabwe, discover surprising and intriguing language facts from around the globe.
The definitions of ‘buddy’ and ‘bro’ in the OED have recently been revised. We explore their history and increase in popularity. | <urn:uuid:43ac7b7e-1bb0-4db8-908c-1dda4579066a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://en.oxforddictionaries.com/definition/cytoarchitectonics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00271-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948338 | 161 | 2.28125 | 2 |
The first Aboriginal-Australian candidate for Lord Mayor of Sydney speaks to The AJN.
The Australian Jewish News
October 12, 2021
Indigenous Sydney lord mayoral candidate Yvonne Weldon has told The AJN “it was an absolute honour” to take part earlier this year in Beit Sefer Yalbalinga, an interactive online Jewish–Indigenous learning program.
Co-hosted by the Sydney Jewish Museum and NSW Jewish Board of Deputies, the series of sessions featured expert panellists from both communities tackling topics including story, land, identity, history and justice.
“My greatest takeaway is that we have so many stories to tell, we have so much lived experience that we’re experiencing in the same day and age,” said Weldon, a proud Wiradjuri woman.
“There’s so much more that we can do if we continue to share – that transparency of sharing of lived experience, but also some of the insights and the knowledge that we have isn’t ours alone, it’s ours to be shared with each other.”
Weldon works with descendants of Aboriginal human rights advocate William Cooper – who famously marched to the German consulate in 1938 to protest the treatment of Jews after Kristallnacht – and praised his actions and those of other elders who held a day of mourning.
“The disadvantages that they were facing themselves, but standing up against anyone else being oppressed, it’s something that I think my people and your people do,” she said.
“And we need to be able to stand together in a unified voice, to make sure that humankind shouldn’t be so unkind – it’s a matter of us really looking out for one another.”
The first Aboriginal person to stand for lord mayor of any Australian capital city, Weldon is chair of the Metropolitan Local Aboriginal Land Council, deputy chair of the Australia Day Council of NSW, and a board member of both Domestic Violence NSW and Redfern Jarjum College.
She has spent the last 30 years fighting inequality and is regarded as a community leader and educator.
“I want to make sure for all Sydneysiders, that their voice is heard, their concerns are being dealt with and that there are real solutions to make sure this city becomes wonderful again,” she said.
Originally slated to run on a ticket with Jewish councillor Kerryn Phelps, Weldon stepped up when Phelps withdrew from the race for personal reasons.
“Kerryn was the one saying, ‘You know, if I’m not doing it, you should do it,’” she recalled.
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After long times Windows starts giving you major problems, you can always use system restore and even you can boot into Windows 10 from a bootable DVD or USB. Without any media, you cannot install fresh OS or reinstall Windows. But with a freeware software WintoHDD, it is possible to install Windows without DVD or a USB drive. Basically, the WinToHDD takes the advantage of the ISO image of your respective Windows and allows us to install that on our machine. You don’t have to create any bootable USB drive or CD/DVD for Windows installation.
How to Reinstall Windows without DVD or USB disk?
As above described the WinToHDD makes you able to install Windows without DVD or USB drive. It also provides the facility to reinstall Windows or clone your entire system using the same tool. This free tool is very easy to use and comes with simple user interface. It is very helpful when you don’t have any third-party media and failed to create such bootable drive.
1. Launch the WinToHDD on your Windows PC.
2. Click “Reinstall Windows”.
3. Locate the image file of Windows 10 / 8 / 7.
Note: Make sure that you are choosing the same ISO file, which is installed currently in your PC. This tool also shows the architecture or the bit of the chosen Windows version (x64 or x86).
4. Click Next to see the following screen:
5. Click here “Next” to create a WinPE image.
Confirm by clicking on Yes and sit back for few moments. The tool will create the respective WinPE image.
It will restart the PC and you are ready to reinstall the Windows accordingly.
How to install Windows without DVD or USB drive?
As mentioned above the WinToHDD allows you to reinstall Windows without DVD or USB drive. It is also possible to install a fresh Windows OS using the same software – but in a different partition. You cannot dual-boot in the same partition. Therefore, create a new partition for your new Windows installation and follow accordingly.
For a fresh installation of Windows, click “New Installation”, locate the ISO image of Windows and select the partition where you want to install your Windows.
This tool will do setup everything for you. While restarting, you have to go to BIOS settings and select Hard Disk as your default boot source.
Clone the Windows system using WintoHDD
Last and the time-consuming option is Cloning of the system. If you want to move the Operating System from one drive to another drive. At such times, this tool will help you a lot as it makes it possible to clone your system.
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As someone who does color correction as often within an NLE as in a dedicated grading application, it’s nice to see that Apple and Adobe are not treating their color tools as an afterthought. (No snide Apple Color comments, please.) Both the Final Cut Pro 10.1.2 and Creative Cloud 2014 updates include new tools specifically designed to improve color correction. (Click the images below for an expanded view with additional explanation.)
Apple Final Cut Pro 10.1.2
This FCP X update includes a new, built-in LUT (look-up table) feature designed to correct log-encoded camera files into Rec 709 color space. This type of LUT is camera-specific and FCP X now comes with preset LUTs for ARRI, Sony, Canon and Blackmagic Design cameras. This correction is applied as part of the media file’s color profile and, as such, takes affect before any filters or color correction is applied.
These LUTs can be enabled for master clips in the event, or after a clip has been edited to a sequence (FCP X project). The log processing can be applied to a single clip or a batch of clips in the event browser. Simply highlight one or more clips, open the inspector and choice the “settings” selection. In that pane, access the “log processing” pulldown menu and choose one of the camera options. This will now apply that camera LUT to all selected clips and will stay with a clip when it’s edited to the sequence. Individual clips in the sequence can later be enabled or disabled as needed. This LUT information does not pass though as part of an FCPXML roundtrip, such as sending a sequence to Resolve for color grading.
Although camera LUTs are specific to the color science used for each camera model’s type of log encoding, this doesn’t mean you can’t use a different LUT. Naturally some will be too extreme and not desirable. Some, however, are close and using a different LUT might give you a desirable creative result, somewhat like cross-processing in a film lab.
Adobe CC 2014 – Premiere Pro CC and SpeedGrade CC
In this CC 2014 release, Adobe added master clip effects that travel back and forth between Premiere Pro CC and SpeedGrade CC via Direct Link. Master clip effects are relational, meaning that the color correction is applied to the master clip and, therefore, every instance of this clip that is edited to the sequence will have the same correction applied to it automatically. When you send the Premiere Pro CC sequence to SpeedGrade CC, you’ll see that the 2014 version now has two correction tabs: master clip and clip. If you want to apply a master clip effect, choose that tab and do your grade. If other sections of the same clip appear on the timeline, they have automatically been graded.
Of course, with a lot of run-and-gun footage, iris levels and lighting changes, so one setting might not work for the entire clip. In that case, you can add a second level of grading by tweaking the shot in the clip tab. Effectively you now have two levels of grading. Depending on the show, you can grade in the master clip tab, the clip tab or both. When the sequence goes back to Premiere Pro CC, SpeedGrade CC corrections are applied as Lumetri effects added to each sequence clip. Any master clip effects also “ripple back” to the master clip in the bin. This way, if you cut a new section from an already-graded master clip to that or any other sequence, color correction has already been applied to it.
In the example I created for the image above, the shot was graded as a master clip effect. Then I added more primary correction and a filter effect, by using the clip mode for the first time the clip appears in the sequence. This was used to create a cartoon look for that segment on the timeline. Compare the two versions of these shots – one with only a master clip effect (shots match) and the other with a separate clip effect added to the first (shots are different).
Since master clip effects apply globally to source clips within a project, editors should be careful about changing them or copy-and-pasting them, as you may inadvertently alter another sequence within the same project.
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Survey highlights concerns over attention paid to diet, lifestyle and mental health
Almost half of people with diabetes see a healthcare professional for 20 minutes or less a year on average despite it affecting them on a daily basis, according to national survey.
The results found that 47 per cent of respondents saw their healthcare professional for a maximum of 20 minutes, while 29 per cent said they had 20 to 30 minutes of time with a professional and 24 per cent had more than 30 minutes with their doctor or nurse.
One in four people with diabetes have never been given any advice about what they eat and 25 per cent of responders also did not receive any lifestyle advice from their healthcare professional, or guidance on what to eat, the findings also showed.
Diabetes UK say one in 10 over 40s now has type 2 diabetes, and the number of people living with all types of diabetes has reached 4.7 million in the UK, with 90 per cent being type 2 diabetes which is linked to lifestyle. The number of people affected by diabetes is expected to reach 5.5 million by 2030, the charity says.
Data from the survey, due to be released on day one of Diabetes Professional Care conference on Tuesday, October 29, also revealed that 55 per cent of people with diabetes have never been referred to a specialist dietitian or for either face-to-face or online education for advice on food and nutrition.
People with diabetes are recommended to receive nine NICE-recommended health checks every year. Although seven of the checks were received by the vast majority of those surveyed, only 45 per cent had their BMI checked while just 21 per cent were checked for smoking.
The survey was carried out to generate insights to inform the national diabetes care improvement agenda.
DPC founder Maggie Meer launched the conference in 2015 to provide the NHS with a free knowledge platform to drive up standards of care after experiencing substandard care upon her own diabetes diagnosis.
She said: “This nationwide survey represents another great stride together as we seek to gain vital intelligence from people with diabetes to help us push for change. The findings will be used to shape our conference and help inform the future direction of DPC.
“Additionally, the results will also provide the fabric to illuminate a People with Diabetes Wall at DPC2019, which will share honest and inspiring insights and experiences of care and life with diabetes with healthcare professionals.”
The survey of more than 430 people with diabetes also highlighted concerns over the time healthcare professionals spent discussing mental wellbeing, with 31 per cent of responses claiming they had never been asked how they are feeling.
Sarah Tutton, Chief Executive of DRWF, said: “Mental and physical health are so closely linked, particularly for people living with a long-term condition such as diabetes. Managing often complex health needs can take its toll on mental health leaving people feeling isolated, disempowered and disconnected. This then has a detrimental effect on self-management. It is really important that healthcare professionals routinely consider psychological wellbeing alongside physical health.”
More than a third of those surveyed (38 per cent) believe there is room for improvement in the ability of their health care professional to provide the appropriate level of support in the self-management of diabetes while only 30 per cent of people with diabetes had a formal self-care plan developed for them.
The full results of the survey will be presented at DPC2019, which gets underway at London Olympia on Tuesday, October 29. The two-day event is the UK’s largest free-to-attend, CPD-accredited conference for healthcare professionals working in diabetes care.
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An international conference prompts reflections on the complex path to intercultural understanding.
Around the corner from the Meridien Hotel in Delhi, India, not far from the seat of the national government, families sleep on the sidewalk. The traffic on the road from Delhi to Agra – a mere 120 miles distance – is so insane, such a frenzied mixture of automobiles, buses, trucks, donkeys, camels, pedestrians, motorbikes, and even elephants, that the trip takes five hours to complete.
The daytime temperature in Delhi at this time of year runs around 110 degrees Fahrenheit, and some overseas students studying at the University of Delhi spend a lot of money at Starbucks trying to escape the heat of their un-airconditioned dorms and classrooms.
I can offer eyewitness confirmation of these facts, having returned a couple of weeks ago from a short trip to Delhi. Peter Nicholls, UConn’s provost, Ross Lewin, the director of Study Abroad, and I traveled to Delhi for a series of meetings surrounding UConn’s inauguration into Universitas 21 (U21), a prestigious international consortium of research universities. Professionally, the trip was a success; personally, it was less so.
U21 has been in existence for 10 years. It includes major universities from the British Commonwealth, and several major Asian universities, including our host, the University of Delhi. The only other American university is Virginia.
U21 facilitates “collaboration and cooperation between the member universities,” as noted on its website, and creates “opportunities for them on a scale that none of them would be able to achieve operating independently or through traditional bilateral alliances.” In practical terms, U21 helps facilitate student exchanges among the member institutions; it sponsors a range of collaborative research endeavors, supports a variety of online initiatives, and provides a platform for its member institutions to reach out across the world.
Already, a group of UConn undergraduate students, accompanied by Professor Michael Lynes of Molecular and Cell Biology, will travel to Australia to present their research in a global conference on undergraduate research. And soon, the Humanities Institute will send a representative to an international meeting sponsored by U21 on the use of new digital technologies in the humanities. The opportunities that U21 opens up for UConn students and faculty are the source of my professional satisfaction.
My personal regrets stem from the fact that my contact with India as a country was so limited. The conference was tightly scheduled, and the local organizers provided shuttle buses from the hotel to the meeting venue; buffet breakfasts, lunches, and dinners; and plenty of tea and cookies. They even arranged the event where I met two Dutch students who told me about Starbucks. Our trip to Agra did put me in a small car for a long time with fascinating people like President Yang Yu-Liang of Fudan University in Shanghai, but it was still an organized tourist excursion.
I think I was particularly disappointed because I feel differently about a trip I made to Hangzhou, China, several years ago. In Hangzhou, I wandered the streets at night, went into restaurants on my own, bought souvenirs in department stores, and rode the city bus. Every morning I would get up very early – it was just as hot in Hangzhou as in Delhi during the day – and wander the streets looking for lines of people buying breakfast. I’d get in line with them and order whatever seemed most popular for takeout, and ended up with a whole series of terrific dumpling breakfasts. I remember walking through the city park past the people practicing Tai Chi. Overall, I felt like I was really in China, even if only in a very tiny part of it. I don’t feel that way about India.
I think that a major difference between my trip to Hangzhou and my trip to Delhi was that in China, I was traveling as a mathematician, whereas in India, I was traveling as a dean. As a mathematician, my time was more flexible and I had more opportunity to get out in the city. Also, the level of service provided to me as a typical scientific visitor, while generous, was still less than that provided to me as a member of an official university delegation; and less service means you’re forced to be more adventurous. Perhaps most significantly, wherever I travel as a mathematician, I meet local mathematicians who are willing to show visitors around. I don’t think I would have been willing to wander the streets of Delhi on my own; I’d have wanted someone with local knowledge by my side.
I can report one illuminating conversation from my trip. The approach to the Taj Mahal in Agra is besieged by hawkers selling all manner of souvenirs. After running this gauntlet, the organizer of our excursion, a Delhi native, said to me “Now you see why India’s GDP grows at 10 percent annually.” What I had seen as a huge annoyance, he saw as the very essence of entrepreneurial energy. That brief exchange just drove home to me that I didn’t have the background to understand what I was seeing in India, but it also underscored how much there is to learn about the country. Maybe next time I’ll have a chance to do more exploring.
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Cheshire is home to some of the UK’s busiest stretches of motorway with high volumes of traffic at peak times. To manage traffic flow and reduce delays, the most congested sections of the M6 and M62 in Cheshire have seen the introduction of All Lanes Running (ALR), and work is now underway on a section of the M56.
The Channel Five TV series “Motorway Cops: Catching Britain’s Speeders” follows the activities of Cheshire’s Roads and Crime Unit. The officers spend lots of time on the motorway network and they recognise that drivers want to know more about what driving on ALR motorways means for their safety.
It’s every motorist’s responsibility to drive safely; so, with the help of our Roads and Crime Unit, we’ve compiled a handy guide to using ALR.
Highways England uses technology on ALR motorways to smooth the flow of traffic, help to reduce delays and improve safety.
electronic message signs that display red X signals and variable speed limits
sensors to monitor traffic volumes
CCTV cameras and emergency areas with emergency roadside telephones
If there's no hard shoulder, use an emergency area where possible
There is no hard shoulder with ALR motorways. It works by replacing the traditional hard shoulder with a live lane and Emergency Refuge Areas (ERAs).
These are placed at regular intervals and painted orange, with orange SOS signs to show where they are.
Emergency areas are wider than a hard shoulder and set back from live traffic lanes.
Each of these areas has an emergency phone where you must contact Highways England for help. They'll make sure that lane one is clear for you to rejoin the motorway safely.
If you’re in distress, Highways England can contact the police on your behalf.
ERAs are not for having a rest or taking a break, they are for genuine emergencies.
Stay vigilant and pay attention to the electronic message boards
These are above or next to the carriageway and sometimes there is a sign above each lane. They are controlled by Highways England regional control centres and are enforceable by law.
The signs and signals are used to warn you of hazards ahead. For example, there may be an incident, fog, a spillage, emergency services or road workers on the carriageway, which you may not immediately be able to see.
A single sign or signal can display advice, restrictions and warnings for all lanes.
Lane specific signs and signals can display advice, restrictions and warnings that apply to individual lanes.
Cameras monitor traffic flow and speed limits can be changed depending on the road conditions.
Amber flashing lights
These signals warn of a hazard ahead. You should:
reduce your speed
be prepared for the hazard
only increase your speed when you pass a signal that is not flashing, or a sign displaying a national speed limit or the word ‘END’, and you are sure it is safe to do so.
Red flashing lights
A lane is closed if there is a red X above it and it's against the law to drive under one.
Lanes are closed when there's a broken-down vehicle, an accident or obstruction and, most importantly, when people are on the road. These could be stranded road users, emergency services, people working to repair the network, or breakdown crews.
MUST follow the instructions on signs in advance of a closed lane to move safely to an open lane.
MUST NOT go beyond the sign in any lane or use the hard shoulder to avoid the road closure unless directed to do so by a police or traffic officer.
MUST NOT drive in a closed lane. A sign will inform you when the lane is no longer closed, by displaying a speed limit or the word ‘END’.
Be aware that:
there can be several hazards in a closed lane.
emergency services and traffic authorities use closed lanes to reach incidents and help people in need.
where the left lane is closed at an exit slip road, this means that the exit cannot be used.
England’s motorways are some of the safest in the world but there is more that we can do to ensure that they are as safe as they can be.
Trust the signs. Remember, the signs are there for a good reason and must never be ignored.
The emergency services need to use closed lanes to get to incidents, if you’re tempted to ignore the signs think of the consequences. Imagine being stranded on the motorway, wouldn’t you want your fellow motorists to keep out of your closed lane?
Be aware of others’ blind spots, especially HGVs. Collisions occur when motorists swerve into the path of another vehicle.
Keep left, hogging the second and third lanes will affect traffic flow and annoy other motorists.
Maintain a safe distance, tailgating is dangerous and won’t get you to your destination any faster.
Don’t misuse your mobile phone. Photographing or filming crash sites is illegal and unacceptable. If your loved one was involved in an incident, would you want to find out about it on social media?
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By Dr Ganesh Rao, Founder of health and beauty comparison site TreatmentSaver.com
Increasingly, the internet is playing a much greater role in influencing which businesses people choose to engage with. It’s no longer just the role of the advertising or public relations to help shape the public view of a brand. The visibility of the web now means that businesses are exposed to what I believe is a ‘self-regulated’ marketplace, where their customers have the power to determine what messages are put out into the public domain, not the brands. There’s no point burying your head in the sand either. As a business, you need to embrace this and develop a strategy which encourages your customers to champion your brand to their virtual community.
For many businesses, the internet can be seen as both a blessing and a curse, due to the freedom of expression that comes with it! Whilst it provides an easy platform for your clients to write favourably about your services, it can also enable those rare clients who experienced a less than favourable service to also vent their views. This is why many businesses are initially reluctant to engage in online activity. However, what is worth remembering is that the internet is quite self-regulating, so if you are good, your feedback from clients will invariably be good too. It really only becomes a problem for businesses that aren’t delivering a great service to begin with.
When I went on Dragons’ Den looking for investment for my health and beauty price comparison site TreatmentSaver, Peter Jones suggested that the clinics listed on the site would not be pleased if we simply allowed people to post whatever they liked and that they’d refuse to work with us if we let the public essentially ‘trash’ their brand. Now whilst I can see why he would think this, the reality is very different. The clinics I work with understand that people are free to post whatever reviews they want to. They understand the risks and the rewards associated with having a presence in the ‘virtual’ world and for them, it’s proving highly beneficial.
No company is ever going to have 100% positive feedback all of the time and in lots of cases, this isn’t because the company delivered a particularly bad service or aren’t a credible supplier. Perhaps it just wasn’t what the customer was expecting, something else beyond the control of the business occurred, or there was a minor hiccup in what is usually a great service.
Most people will work on the law of averages. So, if you have some negative feedback, but you have an even greater number of positive reviews, people will usually come to the right conclusion in the end. As I touched on above, reviews online are self-regulating and usually end up mirroring the position of the business in the real world.
I’m not saying businesses shouldn’t be concerned by negative feedback, as it is always important to embrace any constructive criticisms that can result in a better service. However, if you remain focused on delivering a high level of service, have a solid and proactive customer relations programme in place to manage any problems or concerns and resolve them effectively, the likelihood of receiving negative feedback is greatly reduced.
Consider ways in which you could encourage as many of your satisfied clients to provide you with feedback. Posting on independent review sites is often more powerful that simply using their quotes on your website or in brochures. You can encourage your clients to become ambassadors for your brand by offering them incentives to do so, such as money off vouchers for future treatments, entry into a prize draw, incentives for recommending a friend and so on.
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Registered, dwarf nigerian goat stud with excellent bloodlines.
“Bobcat” has a sweet temperament, lots of personality and startling blue eyes. He has sired beautiful kids with lots of colors (some of this year’s kids are pictured). He knows his business and will service your girls quickly. Just bring your does for a short visit to our farm.
$100 per doe, will service an additional time if the first time doesn’t take.
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Ok, I know the A to Z challenge is over and I failed. But I am determined to see this through…so on to W.
Llamas are excellent guard animals. They are used to guard other ungulates, such as sheep, goats cows and alpacas, as well as our feathered poultry friends. That’s the reason I got one in the first place. Then I got a second to keep the first company. 🙂
Although they are normally quiet, don’t get one riled up. And they will get riled up if they see predators like coyotes, dogs and foxes skulking around.
So far we’ve talked a little about alpacas and guanacos and a lot about llamas. But there is another member of this family worth mentioning: vicuñas.
While guanacos are believed to be the wild ancestors of llamas, alpacas are most likely descended from vicuñas.
Similar to the comparison between alpacas and llamas, vicuñas are smaller and more graceful than their guanaco cousins. At the shoulder they only stand about 3 feet high and they are on average, 150 pounds. But like the guanacos, they only come in one color variety. Their backs have long tawny brown hair while the throat and chest have even longer white hair. Vicuña ears are longer than guanacos, but certainly not as long as the llamas.
Vicuña fiber is a prized possession. In recognition of this, the vicuña is the national animal of Peru standing proudly in the Peruvian coat of arms. In fact, the Incas (who bred out llamas and alpacas from their wild ancestors) only allowed royalty to wear garments made from vicuñas. The fiber is the finest among all of the cousins, producing an extremely soft and luxurious but warm product. It is also the most expensive! A vicuña scarf can cost $1,500. Vicuñas can only be shorn once every three years and they are wild; they are rounded up every year and any with fur longer than 2.5 cm are shorn.
Similar to the guanaco, conservation efforts are needed to protect the vicuña. In 1974, their population dwindled to about 6,000 animals. Luckily, the population has rebounded to about 350,000.
Blogging my way from A to Z as part of the 2016 April A to Z Challenge! My theme for this year: Llama mama. V for Vicuña
Photo courtesy of Thomas Quine.
My U post yesterday was interrupted by our first kidding! Our first of four pregnant females gave birth and she had quadruplets! Wow! It was amazing and the human kids got to see most of it. I have to kind of hope though that the rest of the females aren’t as prolific. Otherwise I am going to be swimming in goats.
This great event and the rest of the animals on our farm make me say, Hooray for Ungulates!
Ungulates – hoofed beasts
Ungulate typically refers to any animal that has a hoof. Although it refers to a wide range of animals, many of these animals have similar characteristics. For example, many of these great animals are ruminants, animals that possess multiple stomachs containing bacteria that help them break down the vegetable matter they eat. A good portion of them also have very long legs making them able to move quickly.
Two types of ungulates
The hoof can either be even-toed or odd-toed. Llamas are even-toed, having two toes per foot. Goats, deer, hippopotamuses and cattle all are even-toed. Donkeys, horses and rhinoceroses, on the other hand, are odd-toed ungulates.
Needless to say, I checked the kids’ feet and they are perfect even-toed ungulates!
Blogging my way from A to Z as part of the 2016 April A to Z Challenge! My theme for this year: Llama mama. U for Ungulate.
Photo courtesy of jenn.
If you look in a llama’s mouth, you’ll find an unusual arrangement of teeth. Llamas have no front upper teeth. Instead you’ll just see gums (called a dental pad) behind that split upper lip. As they leave their cria days behind them, adult llamas also get additional permanent teeth. At about 2-3 years of age in males and 4-5 years of age in females, they will get their fighting teeth (also called fangs). Continue reading | <urn:uuid:ea3a6296-2f47-4190-9d16-b7f418a9c3c8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://5maplesfarm.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00476-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950149 | 1,105 | 1.9375 | 2 |
The Conservation Scientist Meets Hurricane Katrina
Dr. Mary F. Striegel, Chief of Materials Research at the National Center
for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT)
March 2, 2006
About the Lecture:
This presentation highlighted the experiences of a well-educated conservation scientist who met the real world in the aftermath of Hurricane Katrina. Preconceived notions of what the state of Louisiana needed were replaced with more realistic approaches to collection salvage and stabilization. The presentation provided an overview of FEMA processes, details of conditions found, and efforts to save collections. This insightful experience raised more questions than lessons learned.
About the Speaker:
Dr. Mary F. Striegel, Chief of Materials Research at the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT), earned her PhD in Inorganic Chemistry from Washington University in St. Louis in 1989 where she pursued interdisciplinary research on residual stresses in numismatics (coins). She then worked for six years at the Getty Conservation Institute where her work included studies of the effects of formaldehyde on inorganic materials, uses of thin-layer chromatography for the analysis of binding media, and applications of digital imaging and technical photography in the analysis of works of art. In 1995, she became the Chief of Materials Research at the National Center for Preservation Technology and Training (NCPTT), an office of the National Park Service located in Natchitoches, LA. More information about work being done to save Louisiana collections can be found at http://www.ncptt.nps.gov/. | <urn:uuid:38cfb525-54a4-4571-aa1b-696dc88e46af> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://loc.gov/preservation/outreach/tops/striegel/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00171-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919046 | 315 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Some people in every population need special care during their contacts with police whether due to emotional injuries and traumas, cognitive declines or development deficits, or particularized anxiety. The goal of this registry is to alert the Department’s officers about community members who have special-handling needs because of conditions like autism or suffer from cognitive disorders like Alzheimer’s and other types of dementia, and inform officers how to best engage those individuals.
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Ankylosing Spondylitis - Information & Ayurvedic Treatment
Ankylosing spondylitis is a type of arthritis of the spine. Ankylosing spondylitis symptoms are noticeable in the form of lower back pain and stiffness in and around the spine. In recent years, advances have been made in the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis. Many herbs are available in Ayurveda to keep this disease under control. Ankylosing spondylitis treatment with the help of herbal remedies is gaining popularity. We also produce herbal supplements for the treatment of ankylosing spondylitis in a natural way and without side effects.
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AS is a chronic, painful, degenerative inflammatory arthritis primarily affecting spine and sacroiliac joints, causing eventual fusion of the spine. Its complete fusion results in a complete rigidity of the spine, a condition known as bamboo spine. Ankylosing spondylitis (AS) is a chronic inflammatory form of arthritis that affects the spinal joints. AS is the involvement of the joints at the base of the spine where the spine joins the pelvis - the sacroiliac (SI) joints.
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Ankylosing spondylitis is a chronic inflammation of the spine and the sacroiliac joints. The sacroiliac joints are located in the lower back, where the sacrum meets the iliac bones. On account of chronic inflammation in these areas, there is pain and stiffness in and around the spine. Chronic inflammation of the spine i.e. spondylitis leads to a complete fusion of the vertebrae, and as a result of ankylosis, it further leads to loss of mobility of the spine.
Ankylosing spondylitis can also affect other tissues throughout the body. It can cause inflammation to other joints away from the spine and organs like the eyes, heart, lungs and kidneys. Ankylosing spondylitis is believed to be genetically inherited and every individual tends to have their own unique signs and symptoms of the illness. Due to activation of the body's immune system, inflammation is initially observed in all the patients.
Chronic inflammation in ankylosing spondylitis results from the continued activation of the body's own immune system. This disease is a genetically inherited ailment and extreme cold makes it more worse. A sedentary lifestyle is also stated to worsen the problem. In most people, the disease starts in early adulthood and most often before the age of 40.
The common symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis include chronic inflammation of the tailbone, inflammation of the bones on either sides of the buttock, fusing together of vertebrae and loss of mobility of the vertebrae. The parts of the body which may experience inflammation due to this disease are eyes, heart, lungs, kidneys, knee and elbow joints.
More than 75% of patients with ankylosing spondylitis complain of lower back pain. The pain is worse after rest and prolonged sitting. Fused vertebral bones increase the chance of damaging the bones and stress is increased on ligaments, tendons and muscles. A fused spine creates pain and loss of motion. More worsening symptoms of ankylosing spondylitis include complete damage to the spinal cord. The adjacent nerves in the spinal cord cause symptoms, which include change in sensation, strength and movement below the level of injury.
Many medications are available for the cure of ankylosing spondylitis. The allopathic medicines are known to have various side-effects like nausea, vomiting, stomach dis-order, bleeding ulcers etc. Herbal cure is the best way to treat ankylosing spondylitis and many herbs are available in Ayurveda to keep this disease under control. One of the best and natural ways is to have a balanced diet and right exercise, along with the herbal treatment.
Over the years AS has been known by many different names including poker back, rheumatoid spondylitis, and Marie-Strumpells spondylitis. Since the early 70s with increasing knowledge about the disease, there is almost universal use of the term ankylosing spondylitis (AS). Divine Remedies' herbal cure for spondelitis is a very effective natural way to cure AS.
AS is a member of the family of diseases that attack the spine. These are named spondylarthropathies. In addition to AS, these diseases include Reiter's syndrome, some cases of psoriatic arthritis and the arthritis of inflammatory bowel disease.
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De Barsy Syndrome
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It is possible that the main title of the report De Barsy Syndrome is not the name you expected.
De Barsy syndrome is a rare genetic disorder characterized by eye abnormalities, growth retardation, intellectual disability, a prematurely-aged appearance (progeroid features), and loose (lax), wrinkled, sagging, redundant skin that lacks elasticity (cutis laxa). Distinctive facial features, skeletal malformations, and neurological abnormalities can also occur. The specific symptoms present and the severity of de Barsy syndrome can vary greatly from one individual to another. Some cases of de Barsy syndrome have been linked to mutations in either the PYCR1 or ALDH18A1 genes; in other cases, a specific genetic mutation has not yet been identified. De Barsy syndrome is inherited in an autosomal recessive manner.
De Barsy syndrome was first reported in the medical literature by Dr. De Barsy in 1968 in one patient. The disorder is now classified as a form of cutis laxa and also known as autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 3. Cutis laxa is a group of rare disorders that may occur in several inherited (congenital) forms or acquired at some point during life (acquired cutis laxa). This group of disorders involves a wide spectrum of symptoms and signs that result from defects in connective tissue, the material between cells of the body that gives the tissue form and strength. Connective tissue is found throughout the body in muscles, joints, skin and other organs. Cutis laxa is characterized by skin that is loose (lax), wrinkled, sagging, redundant, and lacking elasticity (inelastic). When stretched, inelastic skin returns to place abnormally slowly.
Cutis laxa syndromes were once broken down mainly by clinical characteristics, but are now classified based upon the specific mutation present. Consequently, individuals with de Barsy syndrome caused by a PYCR1 mutation are said to have PYCR1-related cutis laxa (autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 3B) and individuals with de Barsy syndrome caused by an ALDH18A1 mutation are said to have ALDH18A1-related cutis laxa (autosomal recessive cutis laxa type 3A). NORD has a general report on cutis laxa that explains the various subtypes and genetics of cutis laxa. For more information, choose "cutis laxa" as your search term in the Rare Disease Database.
In ALDH18A1-related de Barsy syndrome, approximately one third of ALDH18A1 mutation carriers show biochemical signs of metabolic disease due to ALDH18A1 related abnormal purine synthesis in blood. Abnormal amino acid levels include variable degrees of decrease in arginine, ornithine, citrulline and sometimes low proline concentrations. Young patients might present with symptoms of elevated levels of ammonia in the blood (hyperammonemia) and secondary urea cycle disturbance. It is extremely important to screen for the specific purine synthesis defect related metabolites in suspected ALDH18A1-related cases. These metabolites are not always abnormal and might show variable degree of abnormalities. Ammonia elevation is usually not exceeding a second fold increase. In case of abnormal results there is a potential dietary and amino acid supplementation therapy.
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In New York, the public has the right to attend meetings of public bodies, listen to debate and watch the decision-making process. On November 8, 2021, Governor Kathy Hochul signed a new law (S.4704-a/A.1108-a) that mandates public bodies to post meeting minutes on its website within two weeks from an open meeting and one week from an executive session. The law is effective immediately.
The new law is significant because the Open Meetings Law does not currently mandate that meeting minutes be posted online. Under current law, meeting minutes are required to be available within 14 days of the meeting at the office of the local government or school board or within seven days of an executive session where a formal vote is taken if a person requests a copy.
What are “Public Bodies”?
The term “public body” is defined to include entities consisting of “two or more people who conduct public business and perform a governmental function for New York State, for an agency of the state or for public corporations, such as cities, counties, towns, villages and school districts including committees and subcommittees of these entities. Consequently, city councils, town boards, village boards of trustees, school boards, commissions, legislative bodies, and committees and subcommittees consisting of members of those groups fall within the coverage of the Law.”
Are There Exemptions?
Notably, the requirement to post meeting minutes will only be applicable if the public body maintains a regularly and routinely updated website and utilizes a high-speed internet connection, as such, it can be interpreted that if a public body does not maintain a website or does not have a high-speed internet connection they would not be required to comply.
In addition, the law also permits a government body to post a video or audio recording of the meeting instead of the meeting minutes.
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Covered bodies should maintain a written record of meeting attendance, motions made, and votes taken and ensure that they are regularly and routinely updating their website to post meeting minutes, or audio or video recordings, or written transcripts.
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We carried out a systematic evaluate and meta-analysis of 102 randomized controlled trials of parenting interventions for kids through the first three years of life that have been carried out throughout a complete of 33 international locations. Promoting optimistic parenting among young mothers can also improve their children’s probabilities for fulfillment. Increasing parents’ knowledge about child improvement and efficient parenting strategies will help them buffer their youngsters from most of the dangers that accompany early parenthood. A dream deferred – Adolescent parents commonly view quitting faculty as a solution to discovering the time it takes to raise a baby. Feelings of embarrassment and shame associated with early pregnancy, or problem maintaining academically can also drive them to drop out. According to The Urban Child Institute, adolescent parenting is considered one of the main danger factors associated with early childhood growth.
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Undress your baby and then place him or her within the water instantly, in a heat room, to stop chills. Make sure the water within the tub is no more than 2 to three inches deep, and that the water is not running in the tub. Use certainly one of your palms to assist the head and the opposite hand to information the infant Gnome Child in feet-first. Speaking gently, slowly decrease your baby up to the chest into the tub. For a sponge bath, choose a secure, flat floor in a heat room. Fill a sink, if nearby, or bowl with heat (not hot!) water. Wipe your toddler’s eyes with a washcloth dampened with water solely, beginning with one eye and wiping from the internal corner to the outer nook.
- If you’re formula-feeding, your baby will most likely take about 2–3 ounces (60–90 milliliters) at every feeding.
- The German mother and her first child, printed in 1934.
- Based on a well-liked weblog started by the writer, scarymommy.com, this book tackles the realities of parenting.
- For many years, attachment principle was used by household legislation professionals to emphasise the importance of a baby’s attachment to a main caregiver .
- Connect with different mother and father and schedule playdates in your children, or seek for family-friendly eating places and activities.
Emily and Laura are Christians, but they’ll focus on subjects prone to affect every mother in some unspecified time within the future in time, including insecurities, discouragement, loneliness, suffering, and despair. If you’re a Christian your self, the duo will also allow you to proceed to pursue Jesus nicely even with a young youngster in tow. Though motherhood is full of trials, Emily and Laura will speak about resting nicely, caring for kids with particular needs, redeeming the day after difficult challenges, and constructing the friendships you’ll want as a younger mother. Most episodes are minutes lengthy, but the content is so wealthy the time will fly by. While other podcasts on pregnancy and parenting talk about breastfeeding and pumping to some extent, this one is going to strategy the topic from just about every angle you’ll find a way to think of. This can be one of the few shows on this list hosted by a gaggle of moms each week, which provides a extremely neat dynamic to the conversation.
Some youngsters are extra intense or more delicate, some are easy-going. Some youngsters exceed developmental milestones by leaps and bounds, some get to them finally. The provider and help workers, lead the group in a discussion and interactive activities on matters including attachment, protected sleep, breastfeeding, nutrition, early literacy, improvement and safety. Groups can be found for one mother or father to attend with their baby .
Respecting the similarities and variations of every youngster fosters an actual and wholesome sense of self. A structured and predictable routine helps every member of the family perform to their optimal ability. The daily British Royal Family routine helps your kids really feel secure as a result of they know what is going to happen and what to anticipate subsequent.
Disorganized attachment isn’t any mental disturbance in phrases of ICD, however a sort of conduct that may be observed within the strange state of affairs test solely. In “regular” middle-class families, about 15% of all youngsters present a disorganized attachment. In social drawback teams, the percentage may be considerably higher. In extreme and rare circumstances, the child might not kind an attachment in any respect and should suffer from reactive attachment dysfunction.
Use a clean nook of the washcloth or one other cotton ball to scrub the opposite eye. Clean your baby’s nose and ears with the damp washcloth. Then moist the fabric again and, utilizing somewhat soap, wash his or her face gently and pat it dry. Typically the rash is pink and bumpy and can go away in a few days with warm baths, some diaper cream, and a little trip of the diaper. Most rashes occur because the infant’s pores and skin is delicate and becomes irritated by the wet or poopy diaper. | <urn:uuid:70947ca0-ec9c-4d8b-b636-5cffadb1d5e0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://3arabstar.info/over-the-moon-parenting.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573193.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818094131-20220818124131-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.946757 | 1,292 | 1.742188 | 2 |
Webhooks are an ArcGIS Enterprise capability that automatically provide webhook receivers or other applications with event driven information. ArcGIS Enterprise supports two types of webhooks:
- Organization webhooks—Administrators can subscribe to event triggers pertaining to an organization's users, groups, and items.
- Service webhooks—Administrators can subscribe to webhooks for geoprocessing and feature services.
- Geoprocessing webhooks—Administrators can set geoprocessing service webhooks to be invoked when a geoprocessing service job is completed.
- Feature service webhooks—Administrators can subscribe to event triggers pertaining to an organization's feature services.
At this release, service webhooks are beta features. While in beta, these features may not be feature complete and as such may have known performance or quality issues and will not be supported by Esri Technical Support. To receive limited assistance with service webhooks, and to leave feedback on their functionality, refer to their dedicated Early Adopter Community (EAP) site or forum. For more information on beta features in ArcGIS Enterprise, see Beta features.
All ArcGIS Enterprise webhooks follow a similar process. Once the webhook is triggered, event information is delivered in a JSON schema containing relevant information, specific to each webhook type. Each webhook type has specific events that they can subscribe to. For example, organization webhooks can be invoked when an item was published or when a new user account was created. Feature service webhooks can be triggered when a feature layer's schema has been modified. Geoprocessing service webhooks only deliver event information when a geoprocessing service job has completed.
With the event information delivered, the receiver platforms perform a specific action that notifies organization members and administrators of the event. Depending on the needs of the organization, this can be sending emails to specified members or messaging administrators in Slack.
Because webhooks provide notifications once an event occurs, it can be more effective than polling. Unlike polling, webhooks do not require applications to keep checking the system to see if a specific event has occurred.
Scenario: Organization webhooks
Consider a scenario where an ArcGIS Enterprise organization has a set of specific standards that each item must meet before it can be shared publicly. Administrators in this organization want to create a workflow that allows them to respond in real time when an item has been shared that doesn't meet their standards. They want to leverage webhooks to notify them when an item owner has shared their item publicly, and use the event information in the payload as part of a script that will message the administrators specifically if that item doesn't meet their standards, giving administrators a chance to update the item or unshare it from the public.
The list below outlines how webhooks can be leveraged by the organization administrators to create this workflow:
- The organization administrators set up the webhook receiver to write incoming payloads as local text files.
- The administrators create a Python script that parses the payload text file to extract relevant information about the item and the operation performed. The same script allows administrators to respond to this information by sending a notification to a designated Slack channel. If an item is shared publicly but doesn't meet public standards, the script uses the Slack API to send a message outlining the missing or incorrect information to organization administrators.
- Once the script is created, administrators create a webhook that will trigger when an item owner shares their item.
- When an item is shared, the script will parse the payload text file and determine if the item was shared publicly or within the organization. If shared within the organization, no additional action is taken. If the item is shared publicly, the script will grade the item based on the organization's set standards. If the grade is low (meaning that public standards aren't met), administrators will be notified in their Slack channel about which item was shared and which of its metadata isn't currently meeting standards.
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The Rituals of the deities (daily updating)
The temple of Shri Jagannath is the most sacred shrine of India. While several temples have vanished or have declined in importance, the Shri Jagannath Temple at Puri is still a living and vibrant temple. It occupies a special place in the religious and cultural History of Orissa. Over the centuries, it has attracted kings, conquerers, religious teachers, anchorite hermits, devotees and pilgrims. In the minds of millions of people in India: Orissa is the land of Shri Jagannath.
Lord Shri Jagannath, the symbol of universal love and brotherhood is worshipped in the Temple alongwith Balabhadra, Subhadra, Sudarshan, Madhaba, Sridevi and Bhudevi on the Ratnabedi or the be jewelled citadel.The rituals of the temple of Jagannath may be classified under three heads :- (a) the daily rituals or 'nitis' which are fixed and are observed every day as routine course; (b) the special nitis according to the speciality of certain days (i.e. Thursday, Amabasya, Ekadasi & Naksyatra Bandapana etc). (c) the various festivals observed during the year, some outside the temple and some inside come under the category of festive nitis. Besides these, there are some rituals which by tradition are kept secret. The present article highlights the daily rituals of the Lord Shri Jagannath Mahaprabhu.
Dwarphita & Mangalaalati
The first ritual or niti begins in the early morning with the opening up of the doors of the temple. The doors of the sanctum are to be opened by 5a.m., as stated in the Record of Rights of the Shri Jagannath Temple, Puri. The Bhitarchu Mahapatra, a temple servitor, accompanied. By palia Mekap, Pratihari, Akhanda Mekap & Muduli sevak examine the seal put on the main door (Jaya Vijaya Dwara) by the Talicha Mahapatra on the previous night. During the month of Kartika (oct.- Nov.) and Dhanu (Dec.-Jan.) and on certain specific days the doors are to be opened much before 5 a.m. i.e. between 2.30 a.m. to 4 a.m.
On some days, on account of extra rituals or delay in completion of rituals, it becomes impossible)to do pahuda (closing of the temple doors after the final niti is over in the night). On such occasions, the question of opening of the doors on the following morning does not arise and only from 'Mangalalati' onwards the rituals commence.The Mangalalati is performed to the chanting of devotional songs and the play of Mangalavadyam or auspicious music. Bhitaracha Mahapatra and two other palia puspalak sevaks perform this niti by offering of lamps to the Deities standing below the Ratnavedi; (Pedestral). | <urn:uuid:db344ac4-6ce6-46c9-b28f-d48cfec17d31> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://jagannath.nic.in/?q=node/84 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281069.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00265-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.921051 | 658 | 2.96875 | 3 |
2016-2017 General Information Regarding Leaf Collection
~ York News Brief - Leaf Collection Video ~
Beginning Monday, November 14th, and running through the month of January, residents may place an unlimited number of clear bags* of leaves at the front roadside for collection every other week. In addition to the curbside leaf collection program, subscribers to the garbage collection service may also bring their leaves to the VPPSA compost facility at 145 Goodwin Neck Road Monday through Friday, 8:00 am until 4:00 pm and on Saturday 8:00 am until 5:00 pm.
For leaf collection purposes the County is divided into 2 zones.
Southern Zone includes all homes south of Dare Road, including neighborhoods in Tabb, Coventry, Kiln Creek, Brandywine and Harwood Landing. Collection weeks for the Southern Zone will be:
Northern Zone includes all homes on and North of Dare Road, including neighborhoods along Wolf Trap Road, Goodwin Neck Road, and homes in and near Marlbank, Edgehill, Queens Lake, Skimino, and Nelson Park.
Collection weeks for the Northern Zone will be:
In order to ensure collection, bags must be at the front roadside by 7:00 a.m. on the Monday of your collection week. Pickup will be completed by the end of the week. If you experience a missed leaf collection pickup or have additional requests, please use the PUBLIC WORKS CUSTOMER SERVICES SYSTEM or contact Waste Management at 757-890-3780.
* Important information about bags: York County participates in a regional debagging operation at the VPPSA compost facility. The success of the debagging operation works best with certain types of clear bags. As a general rule, bags should be no thicker than 1.0 mil, and should have NO DRAWSTRINGS PLEASE.
- Residents who live on publicly maintained streets can place an unlimited number of clear bags of leaves out for collection every other week.
- Leaves are delivered to the VPPSA Compost Facility where they are debagged to be incorporated into mulch.
- Residents who live in private communities or on privately maintained streets or roads may also bring leaves out to the closest public roadway for collection.
- Bags must be at the curb by 7 a.m. on Monday of your designated collection week. Pick-up will be completed by the end of the week.
- Bags should weigh 40 pounds or less and contain only leaves. Being overweight or containing garbage, dirt, and/or pet feces will cause a bag and potentially an entire load to be rejected.
- Rejected bags that are overweight or contain unaccepted material will be tagged and left behind. In order to be collected during the next scheduled week, rejected bags will need to be lightened or contaminated debris removed.
- Schedule is subject to change due to the volume of leaves.
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“Django” delivers a smooth vanilla milk mixed with caramel and topped off with refined notes of Kentucky Flue Cured Tobacco. when you finally inhale the e-liquid, you are going to to begin with observe the vanilla milk with caramel taste undertones.
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