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Vila, L.,; Reichgelt, Han
Author Affiliation, Ana.
Mathematics and Computer Science; Faculty of Pure and Applied Sciences
The token reification approach to temporal reasoning
Date of Publication
The approach to temporal reasoning which has proven most popular in AI is the reified approach. In this approach, one introduces names for events and states and uses special predicates to assert that an event or state occurs or holds at a particular time. However, recently the reified approach has come under attack, both on technical and on ontological grounds. Thus, it has been claimed that at least some reified temporal logics do not give one more expressive power than provided by alternative approaches. Moreover, it has been argued that the reification of event and state types in reified temporal logics, rather than event and state tokens, makes the ontology more complicated than necessary. In this paper, we present a new reified temporal logic, called TRL, which we believe avoids most ot these objections. It is based on the idea of reifying event tokens instead of event types. However, unlike other such attempts, our logic contains 'meaningful' names for event tokens, thus allowing us to quantify over all event tokens that meet a certain criterion. The resulting logic is more expressive than alternative approaches. Moreover, it avoids the ontologically objectionable reification of event types, while staying within classical first-order predicate logic.... | <urn:uuid:578e2eb4-3c95-4e20-bece-a3272eb7c227> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mord.mona.uwi.edu/biblio/viewrefs.asp?rid=1629 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00430-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.909482 | 292 | 1.625 | 2 |
Does chronic constipation make people more prone to heart problems? Some studies suggest the answer is yes, but the evidence is far from clear. As is true for all observational study findings, a correlation between two conditions doesn’t mean that one causes the other.
“Another problem is that constipation can be defined in many ways, so results from different researchers vary,” says Dr. Kyle Staller, a gastroenterologist with Harvard-affiliated Massachusetts General Hospital. Nearly everyone gets “backed up” once in a while, but chronic constipation is different (see “What is chronic constipation?”). In fact, other studies, including one Dr. Staller coauthored, found no association between constipation and heart-related conditions.
|What is chronic constipation?Chronic constipation is often described as having fewer than three bowel movements per week. Other common symptoms includestraininghaving lumpy or hard stoolsfeeling as though your rectum or anus is blockedneeding help to empty your rectum, such as pressing on your lower belly with your hands or using a finger to remove feces.|
A questionable link?
A study published Sept. 1, 2020, by BMJ Open used data from the Danish National Patient Registry to explore the constipation-cardiovascular link. Researchers matched more than 83,000 people diagnosed with constipation with more than 832,000 people of the same age and sex who weren’t constipated. Constipation was associated with a 20% to 50% higher risk of heart attack, stroke, peripheral artery disease (narrowing of the arteries in the legs), atrial fibrillation, and heart failure.
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But how these researchers defined constipation wasn’t clear. Also, the associations were strongest during the first year after the constipation diagnosis and then tailed off. Normally, if something is causing something else, there’s a cumulative effect, and the link grows stronger, not weaker, over time, Dr. Staller explains. In this case, the trend suggests that other unmeasured factors, such as short-term illness and medication use, may be causing the excess heart-related problems in people who are constipated, he says.
However, the results revealed one interesting finding that may merit further study. Compared with people who weren’t constipated, those with constipation were about twice as likely to develop blood clots in the veins (venous thromboembolism). These potentially dangerous clots usually occur in the legs. But in rare cases, clots form in the veins that carry blood from the gastrointestinal organs, including the large intestine (colon). Known as splanchnic venous thrombosis, this problem was four times as common in people with constipation than in those without.
The connection between constipation and these uncommon clots makes sense, says Dr. Staller. “Your colon might not work as well as it should if there are blood flow problems in your gut,” he says. In rare instances, constipation could be a warning sign of vascular disease in the gut.
Don’t become overly concerned about this possibility, Dr. Staller cautions. Some people simply tend to be a bit constipated and have been that way their entire lives. For others, constipation is usually a temporary problem with a clear cause, such as travel, a schedule change, or a new medication. Narcotic pain relievers that contain oxycodone (Percocet, Percodan) are notorious for causing constipation. Other possible culprits include diuretics (which remove fluid from the body to treat high blood pressure), iron supplements, and aluminum-containing antacids.
But if you’re in your 60s or 70s and suddenly develop constipation without a clear cause, that may be more worrisome and warrants a visit to your physician, says Dr. Staller. Also worth noting: straining and bearing down to have a bowel movement can temporarily boost blood pressure, putting your cardiovascular system at risk. So, take steps to avoid or treat constipation, including eating fiber-rich foods such as vegetables, fruits, and whole grains and drinking at least four to six glasses of fluid daily.
Bible verses for today’s meditation and inspiration: Matthew E. McLaren
Ah, Sovereign Lord, you have made the heavens and the earth by your great power and outstretched arm. Nothing is too hard for you.
May the God of hope fill you with all joy and peace as you trust in him, so that you may overflow with hope by the power of the Holy Spirit.
His divine power has given us everything we need for a godly life through our knowledge of him who called us by his own glory and goodness.
2 Peter 1:3
For I am not ashamed of the gospel, because it is the power of God that brings salvation to everyone who believes: first to the Jew, then to the Gentile.
Wealth and honor come from you; you are the ruler of all things. In your hands are strength and power to exalt and give strength to all.
1 Chronicles 29:12
But you will receive power when the Holy Spirit comes on you; and you will be my witnesses in Jerusalem, and in all Judea and Samaria, and to the ends of the earth.
The angel answered, “The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called the Son of God.”
For in Christ all the fullness of the Deity lives in bodily form, and in Christ you have been brought to fullness. He is the head over every power and authority.
The Lord said to Satan, “Very well, then, everything he has is in your power, but on the man himself do not lay a finger.” Then Satan went out from the presence of the Lord.
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Protecting women and girls from tobacco and alcohol promotionBMJ 2021; 374 doi: https://doi.org/10.1136/bmj.n1516 (Published 19 July 2021) Cite this as: BMJ 2021;374:n1516
- Emma Feeny, advocacy director1,
- Katie Dain, chief executive officer2,
- Cherian Varghese, cross-cutting lead, NCDs and special initiatives3,
- George A Atiim, researcher4,
- Dag Rekve, senior technical officer3,
- Hebe N Gouda, project officer3 5
- 1The George Institute for Global Health, United Kingdom
- 2NCD Alliance, Switzerland
- 3World Health Organization, Switzerland
- 4United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health, Malaysia
- 5School of Public Health, University of Queensland
- Correspondence to: E Feeny
Women have traditionally consumed less tobacco and alcohol than men because social and cultural norms have stigmatised their use of these products, particularly in low and middle income countries. The combination of changing gender norms, aggressive industry marketing, and continuing population growth in low and middle income countries, however, means that without urgent action, the number of women and girls consuming tobacco and alcohol is likely to rise substantially in the coming years.
This change has important implications for the burden of chronic or non-communicable diseases and injuries, for public health, service delivery, and—given the strong, reciprocal links between non-communicable diseases and poverty1—sustainable development. Consumption of tobacco and alcohol has repercussions throughout life, particularly when it begins at a young age, making it harder to stop or reduce consumption later in life. Such consumption increases women’s risk of developing cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and a range of other conditions (table 1). Risks can also be transmitted to the next generation: tobacco and alcohol use during pregnancy can have lasting effects on the health of children, who are also more likely to use tobacco and alcohol themselves if exposed to parental consumption.45
Non-communicable diseases already account for over 70% of all deaths worldwide, but this huge and growing burden among women is often overlooked by global health stakeholders, who continue to view women’s health from a reproductive viewpoint. The biggest killers of women globally are cardiovascular diseases, cancers, and chronic respiratory diseases.6 People living with non-communicable diseases are also at risk of severe covid-19 should they become infected.7
Because tobacco and alcohol use are now steady or falling in many high income countries, producers have identified women and girls in low and middle income countries as a growing market.89 The global prevalence rates of smoking among women are decreasing, but trends among girls are concerning; in 123 countries, the prevalence of girls using tobacco is higher than the prevalence of adult women, and in some countries, such as Mozambique and Argentina, it is also higher than the prevalence of adolescent boys using tobacco.10 The proportion of men who drink is much higher than the proportion of women who do so, but the global gap between male and female drinkers is shrinking.11
These threats are well recognised, but calls for action to reduce the exposure of women and girls in low and middle income countries to the well honed tactics of the tobacco and alcohol industries have so far gone unheeded.912 If this continues, we can expect to pay a high price, with an increase in non-communicable diseases and undermining of hard won development gains. Developments in sex and gender research and practice provide opportunities to not only prevent a rise in smoking and drinking among girls and women, but to break down pervasive gender inequities while doing so.13
Sex specific impacts of tobacco and alcohol, and interaction with gender
To understand the association between women, tobacco, and alcohol, and better protect women and girls from tobacco and alcohol promotion, it is important to distinguish between sex—the biological attributes that distinguish male, female, and intersex; and gender—the social and cultural norms, identities, and relations that structure societies and shape our attitudes and behaviour.14
Sex specific factors, such as hormones, genetics, anatomy, physiology, and organ function, affect our response to tobacco and alcohol, and so rates of intoxication, dependency, or damage. For example, women typically have a higher proportion of body fat and water and fewer enzymes to metabolise alcohol.14 Similarly, differences in the way in which male and female bodies respond to nicotine, which are linked to sex hormones, might help to explain why fewer women quit smoking.15
Increasing research is disclosing how sex specific factors can also affect health conditions linked with alcohol and tobacco consumption, and so prevalence of non-communicable diseases. For example, alcohol seems to have greater long term negative effects on the health of women than on men, including liver problems, diseases of the heart muscle, and cognitive dysfunction.16 Smoking has effects that are specific to women, such as cervical and breast cancer, and appears to increase the risk of some diseases more in women than in men—for example, coronary heart disease.17
A complex interaction is found between sex specific factors and gendered attitudes, behaviours, and relations. For example, in many contexts, gender norms attach particular stigma to women’s consumption of tobacco and alcohol, which might prevent them from seeking support to quit. Women experience high rates of intimate partner and sexual violence, which is often linked to alcohol consumption among men, but can trigger “victim blaming” of women if they have also been drinking. Gender ideals of slimness can see women take up smoking as an aid to weight loss.
Sex and gender also intersect with a range of equity based factors, including age, sexuality, income level, and ethnicity. For example, in some contexts, smoking is more prevalent among women experiencing poverty, while sexual minority status—being gay, lesbian, bisexual, or pansexual—is a risk factor for higher prevalence of substance use in general.14
In this paper we focus on industry’s targeting of women and girls in low and middle income countries as potential consumers of tobacco and alcohol. We do not cover other important matters related to sex and gender, such as exposure of women and girls to secondhand smoke and to interpersonal violence linked to men’s use of alcohol.
Exploiting gender narratives around women’s empowerment
When women are regularly confronted with gender power imbalances which limit their opportunities and choices, a vision of equality can be appealing. Tobacco and alcohol companies have exploited this effectively, using gendered marketing that links alcohol and tobacco with female empowerment and other aspirations.1819 An analysis of alcohol marketing in India and a number of African countries, for example, found that women were targeted through associations with empowerment, Western lifestyles, wealth, and sexual success.19 Similarly, the tobacco industry has used images of the cigarette as a “torch of freedom” for women as it creates new markets around the world.18
In line with other advertising targeting women, the tobacco and alcohol industries use numerous, often contradictory, gendered norms and behaviours in their quest to attract new consumers. While the narrative is one of female empowerment, it is often underpinned by a hypersexualised portrayal of women’s bodies and the use of gender stereotypes, such as a preference for sweeter flavours, or desire to conform to a feminine ideal19 (box 1).
Slim, pink, and fruity: marketing tobacco and alcohol to women and girls in low and middle income countries919
Using their experience of successful marketing in high income countries, the tobacco and alcohol industries create products for low and middle income countries which are linked to narratives of empowerment, but based on gender norms and stereotypes. These products may be:
Packaged in “feminine” colours (eg, pink, purple, glittery, or with a floral design), shapes (eg, purses), and sizes (eg, lipstick shaped boxes of cigarettes)
Provided in different flavours—for example, drinks might be sweeter or fruit flavoured with lower alcohol content, cigarettes might be “light” or menthol
Linked to messages about weight control—for example, “slim” cigarettes
Linked to messaging about health—for example, beer as a way of improving skin and general beauty, or as a way of treating menstrual pain
Promoted through media with a predominantly female audience—for example, women’s magazines
Given away, discounted, or sold cheaply, with home delivery offered in some cases where cultural norms deter women from making purchases
Despite reinforcing gender stereotypes and inequalities through their traditional marketing techniques, both tobacco and alcohol brands have used corporate social responsibility initiatives to associate themselves with gender equity campaigns and empowerment projects in low and middle income countries. One global alcohol company has partnered with an international non-government organisation to “empower women and engage men to address the root causes of gender inequality through research, programming, and advocacy activities.”20 The same brand’s activities in India have included a programme to empower women through education and work skills.19 Initiatives ostensibly focused on gender equity have also been implemented during the covid-19 pandemic. For example, in South Africa, one alcohol company launched a WhatsApp helpline in response to a sharp rise in gender based violence during national lockdown.21
These companies have a wealth of experience to draw on, as the unhealthy commodity industries—tobacco, alcohol, food, and beverages—use similar and shared strategies to promote products detrimental to health; one of the definitions of “the commercial determinants of health.”22 There is a well-documented history of these industries infiltrating public health organisations, subverting science, and undermining public health policies23; including non-communicable disease control measures during the covid-19 pandemic.24
Blocking the path to progress
One of the core obstacles to dealing with industry tactics is the idea that governments should let individuals make their own choices; a naïve concept given that individual choices are influenced by factors including context, education, and availability of alternatives.25 Governments should implement policies to facilitate healthier lives for all their citizens, but are too often hindered by conflicts of interest, or face aggressive lobbying by industry.
Another challenge is double standards, which mean that—in contrast to the imagery of industry driven marketing campaigns—women who drink or smoke are more likely than men to be portrayed negatively in news reports and other media coverage.26 These double standards mean that control policies and public health messaging targeting women have a stigmatising and punitive effect in some circumstances, particularly for pregnant women and mothers.27
Robust surveillance and monitoring of tobacco and alcohol consumption at a country level is often lacking,28 and the gendered approach of industry contrasts starkly with the limited extent to which control and research communities apply gender and diversity based analyses.9 Sex and gender have largely been missing from research and control of substance use,14 and arguably from non-communicable disease prevention measures in general, despite the commitments to pursue and promote gender based approaches made by governments at the first UN high level meeting on non-communicable diseases in 2011.29 All stakeholders urgently need to catch up with industry, and focus on the gaps in evidence which persist for women and girls in low and middle income countries.
Adopting a gender transformative approach to counter industry tactics
A gender transformative approach recognises gender as a key determinant of health and aims to tackle the causes of inequalities by transforming harmful gender roles, norms, and relations, while improving health.13 Growing evidence in the fields of HIV and violence against women suggests this approach might offer a more effective framework for alcohol and tobacco prevention, and treatment programmes to counter gendered industry tactics.
Examples of gender transformative programmes are scarce and come mostly from high income countries. These programmes, however, offer promise for low and middle income countries because they seek to tackle the gender inequalities that leave women and girls exposed to industry tactics. For example, one US intervention focused on 12-13 year old girls and their relationships with their mothers. The intervention built the girls’ agency by promoting their social skills and decision making as ways of coping with stress, managing substance use, questioning peer norms, and understanding media influences, while their mothers were supported to improve their rule setting and monitoring of substance use. The programme changed normative beliefs, reduced substance use among the girls, and reduced alcohol consumption among their mothers.30
Interventions to deal with alcohol consumption on college campuses in Canada have included peer run programmes to promote examination of, and change in, the gender norms and inequities that underlie alcohol use to reduce consumption and promote health. In doing so the programmes work to empower women to question the alcohol industry’s gendered marketing approaches.31
Introducing a gender transformative approach in low and middle income countries to counter tobacco and alcohol promotion will require action by a range of stakeholders beyond those in the health promotion sector. To increase governments’ motivation to act—and their accountability—the approach can be aligned with other rights based mechanisms to achieve gender equality and promote health and wellbeing according to the sustainable development goals.32
Civil society stakeholders and grassroots movements play an important part in raising awareness of the effects on health of tobacco and alcohol. They also highlight the harmful use of gender stereotypes in marketing and sponsorship campaigns, and the extent of industry interference in policy making. For example, the International Network of Women Against Tobacco, which was founded in 1990, seeks to improve women’s health and increase gender equality by sharing information and strategies on countering tobacco promotion, supporting women centred prevention and cessation programmes, and promoting female leadership.33
Civil society can also use public health laws and human rights frameworks to require governments to deal with industry tactics and increase gender equality. For example, local groups led by the InterAmerican Heart Foundation of Argentina submitted a shadow report to the UN Committee on the Elimination of all forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) in 2016. The report called for the committee to recommend that the government of Argentina ban all forms of advertising, promotion, and sponsorship of tobacco products according to World Health Organization Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC)34 standards to prevent the tobacco industry from targeting women and girls.35 The committee did subsequently make this recommendation.
While the government of Argentina has yet to do so, it is imperative that countries meet their commitments under CEDAW and FCTC. They should also follow the recommendations set out in WHO frameworks such as the 2010 Global Strategy to Reduce the Harmful Use of Alcohol, and technical packages, including MPOWER for tobacco and SAFER for alcohol. These packages include not only bans and comprehensive restrictions on advertising, promotion, and sponsorship, but also the collection of sex disaggregated surveillance and monitoring data, and the full participation of women at all levels of policy making and implementation.34363738 Multilateral and human rights agencies should support governments to meet their commitments and hold them to account when they fail to do so.
Finally, researchers should focus on the gaps in evidence that persist on alcohol and tobacco consumption among women and girls in low and middle income countries, and investigate strategies to counter industry campaigns. To design effective interventions, multidisciplinary research is needed into how sex specific factors and gender interact, and intersect with age, class, ethnicity, religion, education, identity, poverty, and other factors to make women and girls more or less vulnerable to alcohol and tobacco marketing. Research funders can support this by providing grants to mobilise knowledge and identify best practice examples of gender transformative approaches to health promotion, prevention, cessation, and treatment programmes.
Win-win on non-communicable diseases and gender equity
Based on 2010–16 trends, women in just 17 of 176 countries (and men in only 15 countries) are expected to achieve sustainable development goal target 3.4—namely, reduction by a third relative to 2015 levels of the probability of dying from a non-communicable disease between the ages of 30 and 70.39 The time for discussion has long gone. We have an opportunity to shift the focus from individual behaviours to government action, recognising and dealing with the broader inequalities that underlie the consumption of alcohol and tobacco and are exploited by industry. Such a gender transformative approach offers promise not only for sustainable development goal target 3.4, but for target 5—that is, to achieve gender equality and empower all women and girls.
Women and girls in low and middle income countries are exposed to aggressive marketing tactics by tobacco and alcohol industries, which exploit gender inequalities and associate their products with women’s empowerment
A rise in the consumption of alcohol and tobacco among women and girls will lead to an increase in non-communicable diseases globally, both in the short term and among generations to come
A rise in non-communicable dieases has important implications for public health and the achievement of global development goals
Governments and other stakeholders should tackle gender and other inequalities while improving health to protect women and girls in low and middle income countries from tobacco and alcohol promotion
We thank Avni Amin and Michelle Remme for their support and advice. We appreciate inputs from Maisha Hutton at the Healthy Caribbean Coalition; Lucy Westerman at the Non-Communicable Disease Alliance; and Vinayak M Prasad at the No Tobacco unit in WHO’s health promotion department.
Contributors and sources:EF, CV, and KD led the conceptualisation with advice from Avni Amin. EF led the drafting of the paper with input from CV, KD, and GAA. DR and HNG provided expert contributions on alcohol and tobacco, respectively. The authors are advocates, researchers, and technical officers engaged in various ways with non-communicable diseases and their determinants, and drew on their collective experience and knowledge of the literature.
Competing interests: We have read and understood BMJ policy on declaration of interests and have no interests to declare. The views expressed are solely the responsibility of the authors and do not necessarily reflect the views, decisions, or policies of the institutions with which they are affiliated.
Provenance and peer review: Commissioned; externally peer reviewed.
This article is part of a series commissioned by The BMJ based on an idea from the United Nations University-International Institute for Global Health and the World Health Organization to mark the 25th anniversary of the adoption of the 1995 Beijing Platform for Action. The BMJ retained full editorial control over external peer review, editing, and publication. WHO and UNU-IIGH paid the open access fees.
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Is real estate the easiest way to get rich?
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How do you become a millionaire in real estate?
My Advice to Millennials: 4 Steps to Becoming a Real Estate Millionaire
- Get off the debt merry-go-round. …
- Save 15–20% of every paycheck, and pay yourself first. …
- Save at least $5,000–$10,000, and then stop renting (or living with your parents), and buy your first house. …
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Can owning real estate make you rich?
When you invest in real estate, you could achieve a million-dollar or greater net worth simply because the properties you own and manage have gone up in value over the years. Few of us have the cash on hand to buy the property outright. This is why many put a down payment down on a property before repairing it.
How can I get rich in real estate with no money?
5 Ways to Begin Investing In Real Estate with Little or No Money
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The Ultimate Tickle Test
Interview with Dr. Leah Bent
Q. How did Hypersole come about?
A. Research into skin and vestibular input in balance has been an area of interest to me for quite some time. But it hadn't occurred to me to test healthy astronauts until Canadian astronaut Dave Williams mentioned in 2007 that he had experienced some tingling in his feet during a shuttle flight in 1998 and for a short period of time when he returned home. He told us that he knew of other astronauts who had also experienced the same sensation when they stood. Since then, we’ve talked to others who have been to space. One astronaut recounted how she’d bungee-cord herself in to run on a treadmill and every time her foot hit the treadmill it was suddenly tingly. She noted that it mostly happened when the foot was fully loaded [in full contact with the treadmill surface].
A Canadian research project that explores sudden changes in skin sensitivity experienced by some astronauts in space is unlocking down-to-earth secrets of the role played by our feet in the way we age.
The six-member research team from the University of Guelph (with one member from Wilfrid Laurier University) has been conducting a series of tests to collect balance and hypersensitivity data from the foot soles of ten astronauts who will have travelled aboard four NASA's shuttle missions. Hypersole will be conducted for the last time, in July 2011, during STS-135, the ultimate scheduled shuttle flight of NASA's Space Shuttle Program.
Using vibration devices and filaments to "tickle" responses from the eight astronauts, researchers are documenting, for the first time, any changes in the skin sensitivity of each astronaut's foot sole in order to identify which receptors may be influenced by a period of weightlessness. Coupled with functional balance tests, these measures will help establish how hypersensitivity contributes to balance control.
Anecdotal evidence from astronauts suggests that the tingling sensation some feel in their feet while in space and for short periods back on Earth may be the response of different sensory systems that naturally compensate for the re-weighting of sensory information due to the decreased input from the vestibular, or inner ear, system in an environment of microgravity.
Project results are expected to add significantly to existing studies of the aging process, which includes reductions in information relayed by skin sensors that lead to a loss of balance control and, among the elderly especially, a greater incidence of falls. The data will also provide knowledge that benefits astronauts as they perform their flight and post-flight duties.
Participating astronauts are tested before and after each of the following Shuttle flights. Pre-flight tests generally take place 20-40 days before launch, and post-flight tests are done as quickly as possible after landing (before astronauts adapt to Earth's gravity).
Three astronauts participated inthe first Hypersole session, which took place during STS 132 on May 14, 2010. Five additional astronauts from the crews of the Discovery mission in February-March 2011 and Endeavour in April-May 2011 underwent identical trials before the launch of their shuttles and immediately upon their return to Earth. Two members of the STS-135 crew will be the last to participate in Hypersole.
Research Team Members:
University of Guelph
(Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, College of Biological Sciences)
- Dr. Leah Bent, associate professor, Human Health and Nutritional Sciences, College of Biological Sciences
- Catherine Lowrey, Ph.D. Candidate
- Nick Strzalkowski, M.Sc. Candidate
- Christopher Lam, M.Sc. Candidate
- Stephanie Muise, research assistant
Wilfrid Laurier University
- Dr. Stephen Perry, associate professor, Kinesiology & Physical Education
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The teeth in your mouth are actually alive. They have what is called the pulp at the core of the tooth, and this pulp contains nerves and blood vessels. You may wonder how a tooth feels painful when injured or decayed, but it is because of the nerves in there. And because teeth are alive, it means they can die. A tooth would die because of a couple of reasons.
What Causes a Tooth to Die?
Trauma arising from sports injuries, physical contact, and falling can cause damage to the teeth. When a tooth is injured to an extent where it cannot repair itself, then it is said to be dead. Often, blood flow in the tooth may stop and the nerves and other issues start dying.
Another reason you may have a dead tooth is decay. A tooth has three layers – the outer layer we call the enamel is found above the gum line. The outer layer found below the gum is known as cementum. The two layers are calcified and pretty hard. They help protect the teeth from bacteria and plaque action. The second layer is known as dentin, and then there is the third layer known as the pulp, which provides life to the teeth.
Symptoms of Dead Teeth
When bacteria cause decay through the first two outer layers, it reaches the pulp where it brings symptoms such as sensitivity to cold or heat, pain while chewing, pain while biting down, and facial swelling. You may also have gum boil. It is a good idea you visit our dental office if you have any of these symptoms. Regular dental exams are also crucial because they can help identify some of these issues before they worsen. Contact us today for an examination and dental treatment. We want to make sure that you have a healthy, strong bite.
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Ethiopia limits diplomats' movements, media access
Ethiopia has banned access to foreign-based opposition media and restricted foreign diplomats' travel, in new provisions of a state of emergency.
The government declared the six-month state of emergency eight days ago, stepping up its response to an unprecedented wave of protests against its authoritarian rule which has left hundreds dead.
New restrictions published in local media on Sunday also include a 50-kilometre (30-mile) "red zone" adjacent to the country's borders in which it is illegal to carry firearms. The areas around several key roads have also been declared red zones.
Foreign diplomats are forbidden from travelling more than 40 kilometres outside the capital, Addis Ababa, "for their own security".
"This is a state of emergency and we expect repressive measures," a Western diplomat told AFP on condition of anonymity on Monday.
"But we also expect an opening of the political space for the opposition as stated by the president in front of the parliament. This is not what seems to be happening," the diplomat added.
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is following developments in Ethiopia "with concern", his spokesman said Monday.
The UN chief urged Ethiopian authorities to uphold human rights and called for calm and urged "inclusive dialogue to resolve all grievances."
The new measures include a 6:00 pm to 6:00 am curfew around factories, farms and government institutions, which have come under attack from protesters in recent weeks.
Political parties are "banned from giving press statements that incite violence" and religious leaders are forbidden from making political statements.
Security forces are banned from going on holiday or resigning their jobs.
The measures also make it illegal to watch television stations set up by the diaspora such as Ethiopian Satellite Television (ESAT) and the US-based Oromia Media Network (OMN).
Posting links from these organisations' websites onto social media has also been declared a "criminal activity".
Cellphone internet access has been cut for almost three weeks in most parts of the country, including the capital.
"There is a pressing concern that the Ethiopian authorities will need even less of a pretext to prevent foreign journalists from doing their work during the state of emergency," said Will Davison, head of the Foreign Press Association, an informal gathering of foreign correspondents in Ethiopia.
On Friday an AFP photographer was stopped in the central town of Sebeta -- in the restive Oromia region -- and taken to the police station before being released.
The country's Oromo and Amhara communities -- which together make up 60 percent of the population -- have been protesting for nearly a year against marginalisation by a government largely made up of minority Tigrayans, which controls power and the economy.
The latest surge in violence came after police fired tear gas at protesters attending an Oromo religious festival on October 2, sparking panic in a massive crowd and triggering a stampede that left over 50 dead.
International rights groups estimate the government crackdown has left more than 500 dead.
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Until recently, Clay Shirky was best known as the author of Here Comes Everybody: The Power of Organizing Without Organizations. The book was widely praised (seriously, Boing Boing calls it a “masterpiece”) and is still referenced by social media strategist/expert/guru types as a must-read for anyone looking to explore the social dynamics that drive the use of technology, which at the time (and even now, to a certain extent) is not what drives most conversation about the internet and social media in particular.
Rather than focusing the catalyst of online social behavior on specific technologies (i.e. what makes Facebook so popular?) Shirky argued that social tools facilitates common group behavior, conversation and social interaction. At the time, the beginning of Facebook’s online dominance and in the midst of growing fascination and panic about social media from the mainstream press. Shirky presented a reasoned, articulate and well-researched argument that the idea of “crowdsourcing” was not a new idea, but actually rooted in common, even traditional social interaction. The Internet just made that interaction happen more widely and more rapidly.
If you talk to any social media/internet “expert” or “enthusiast” these days, this perspective is seen as common knowledge, but without Shirky’s well-presented theory and research to bolster this theory it wouldn’t have taken root.
In 2010, you’d think that this argument wouldn’t need repeating or clarification, but as traditional media continues to evolve and digital use continues to grow and become more ubiquitous, the panic of social theorists and mainstream media commentators continues unabated. The continuing debate of whether the Internet makes you smarter or more stupid seems to have a new chapter each day, but in Cognitive Surplus, Shirky’s latest book, he does add fuel to that fire, but also offers a modified version of his Here Comes Everybody thesis: The Internet has given us the tools to create, publish and share media faster, cheaper and with more people than ever before
Shirky’s revised thesis is the reason that I think Cognitive Surplus is a must-read (there’s that term again) for media professionals in every field.
It gets at the root of the disruptive change that has rattled corporate media industries for the past decade: the music industry, television, print and traditional marketing and public relations. In addition, he places this change within a broader historical perspective: illustrating how social systems adapt to economic and technological change. (In the first chapter he uses the introduction and consumption of gin in 1700’s London to show how city dwellers were adapting to rapid industrialization)
For media industry professionals, Shirky challenges that the definition of “media” has undergone a redefinition:
“We need a new conception for the word, one that dispenses with the connotations of “something produced for professionals for consumption by amateurs.”
Here’s mine: media is the connective tissue of society…
With this definition, the implicit competition between professional and amateur media becomes less relevant; there’s no need for both to not co-exist. While there’s still no definite answer for what that means for economic impact of media industries, i think it’s useful for traditional media professionals to wrap their heads around the evolution of media that’s shaken up the work that they do.
While I’m not a big fan of defining social media behavior by age, I do think this redefinition of media is not going to be as disruptive for future generations of media professionals, as many of them before they move into the profession of media making will have had years of “amateur” media making, sharing and commentary behind them before they enter the workforce.
Another topical thread in Cognitive Surplus is the comparison of online participatory culture (LOLcats, Wikipedia) to the television-driven consumer culture that has dominated our free-time since post World War II. (He calculates that Americans collectively watch roughly two billion hours of TV each year) In fact it’s a pretty defiant rebuttal against the trivialization of online culture (and participatory culture as a whole) against its critics. In this way, it’s kind of the spiritual sequel of Henry Jenkins seminal 1992 book on fan culture, Textual Poachers.
Nearly everyone who is active in online culture, whether its blogging, online gaming, fan culture or Twitter has received the often-derisive comment “where do you find the time?” Shirky argues that this new use of free time is mostly challenged by those who have a stake in preserving the once stable behavior of media consumption as the standard for what constitutes “free time,” i.e. television executives. In response, he writes:
“Media in the twentieth century was run as a single event: consumption… but media is actually like a triathlon: with three different events: people like to consume, but they also like to produce and to share. We’ve always enjoyed all three of those activities, but until recently, broadcast media only rewarded one of them.”
I’d argue that traditional media in general has only rewarded the consumption event of the triathlon, and the challenge is for media professionals to devise appropriate rewards for the other two legs, since the new standard for the audience of the future is to complete more than one. To not reward – or even acknowledge – these other two behaviors is the mistake that continues to hold back media industries as a whole.
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Background to the formation of the South African National Students Congress (SANSCO)
The emergence of the Black Consciousness Movement (BCM) and the adoption of its philosophy by the youth and students added a dimension to the struggle against Apartheid that changed political landscape in South Africa. Students founded the South African Student Organisation (SASO) which became a vehicle through which the BCM propagated its ideas. Concerned by SASO’s influence particularly after the June 16 1976 Uprising, SASO was banned in October 1977 and this deprived black higher education students of a political student organisation.
In 1978, about 400 women students at the University of Zululand boycotted classes against the expulsion of a pregnant student. For almost a period of two years this gap was unfilled and in 1979 a new student’s structure, the Azanian Student Organisation was constituted to fill the gap. The decision to form AZASO was taken at an Azanian People’s Organisation (AZAPO) conference held in September 1979. An Interim Committee (IC) was elected by students. Their duty was to prepare for the launch of a national student organisation.
On 23 November the new structure, AZASO was established by students from five black universities; Fort Hare, Zululand, Natal, University of the North and Durban-Westville universities as well as Mapumulo college. According to Dr. Saleem Badat, mandated delegates who attended the inauguration were from just two institutions; University of Fort Hare and University of the North. AZASO, which was formed under Tom Nkoane, initially emerged as a continuation SASO which was still a banned organization. Thus, AZASO was initially aligned to the BCM and AZAPO. Between its formation and 1986 AZASO grew and was represented in 67 institutions.
However, this changed as some leaders in the organisation began adopting African National Congress (ANC) policies and the Freedom Charter over the Black Consciousness philosophy. First tension emerged between AZASO and AZAPO after the suspension of AZAPO president, Curtis Nkondo after he was accused of violating the policy and protocol.
Launching of SANSCO
AZASO become increasingly aloof from its BCM origins and sought to change by forming a new organisation or renaming the existing one that represents adherence to the Freedom Charter and the congress movement. Consequently, AZASO was renamed the South African National Students Congress (SANSCO) in 1986. SANSCO became an integral component of the broad mass democratic movement in South Africa. Amongst the SANSCO leadership was Joe Phaahla, Reveal Nkondo and others.
The 1980s decade saw a wave of schools boycott. On 28 May 1980 the schools boycott spread to the Black townships. In Durban and Port Elizabeth riot police were called in. At Elsies River, near Cape Town, police fired on Coloured children, killing two and wounding three. During this period, SANSCO strengthen its working relationship with the Congress of South African Students (COSAS), which was also established in 1979 as a national organization to represent the interests of Black school students in the wake of the Soweto uprisings.
A year before the renaming to SANSCO, on 25 July 1985, President PW Botha declared a state of emergency in 36 of the country’s 260 magisterial districts. Within the first six months of the Emergency, 575 people were killed in political violence – more than half killed by the police. Under the provisions of the Emergency, organisations could be banned and meetings prohibited; the Commissioner of Police could impose restrictions on media coverage of the Emergency; and the names of detained people could not be disclosed. On 5 March 1986 Botha announced that he would lift the Emergency, and on 7 March the announcement was made law.
In 1987 SANSCO called for the transformation of tertiary institutions into 'Peoples' Campuses' and called for formation of committees of peoples' power at all levels. Including, the SRC through to hostel and floor committees, faculty councils, class committees, as well as sports and cultural committees. These structures that had their parallel in the street committees, people’s courts and the like, were seen as the foundations of people’s power and democratic control of campuses. On 1 April 1987 NUSAS and SANSCO jointly launched a campaign calling for one man, one vote.
SANSCO closely co-operated with National Union of South African Student's (NUSAS), against De Klerk's Education Bill that intended to reduce subsidies to politically active Universities. In February 1988, government banned a wide range of organizations including the United Democratic Front (UDF) and SASNCO. By this time there was increasing joint action by both SANSCO and NUSAS, recognizing the need for a single national student organization to articulate student aspirations. Thus, despite unequal facilities, racist white lecturers, conservative university administrations, police and army invasion of campuses, student struggles were largely shaped by events in schools and communities around them.
Merger and Transition to SASCO
In December 1990 both NUSASand SANSCO held their respective annual congresses where Steven Silver of Wits and Mike Koyana of the University of the Western Cape were elected president of NUSAS and SANSCO respectively. At the joint session of NUSAS and SANSCO, ANC leader, Nelson Mandela said that the success that NUSAS and SANSCO achieved in forging unity among the students of South Africa will be a major contribution to national unity. NUSAS President Steven Silver stated that
“The conditions are now ripe for the launch of the new organisation. Non racialism, which recognises the divisions created by apartheid and the need to work to work together to end this system, has grown amongst the students on campuses.” (William David Angel, The International Law of Youth Rights: Source Documents and Commentary, p.975)
The need for joint action by NUSAS and SANSCO led the organisations to convene a weeklong meeting at Rhodes University, Grahamstown in the Eastern Cape. An estimated 600 black and white students from 129 tertiary education institutions converged to deliberate the formation of a non racial student body from 1-6 September 1991. After a week of deliberations SANSCO and NUSAS merged to form the South African Students Congress (SASCO). At the end of the gathering SASCO was formally launched on 6 September 1991. Thus, the establishment of SASCO answered questions about whether it was possible to establish a single non-racial progressive student organization in education tertiary institutions.
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To keep the ocean at bay forever, a wall – The Great Wall of Lagos – is rising. From the Bar Beach Waterfront of Lagos’s Victoria Island it looks like a grey snake nestled in the water. Once completed, the seven-kilometre-long mass of rocks, topped by five-ton concrete blocks, will rise nine metres above sea level. The developers, South Energyx, say it will withstand the worst storms that the ocean can muster for the next two centuries.
Actually, they are banking on this, that the wall will protect Eko Atlantic City, their massive new $6 billion infrastructure and real estate development being built on land reclaimed from the Atlantic ocean.
In the Trenches
Eko Atlantic City is off-limits to wanderers and the curious, and signs to this effect are boldly printed on the main gate to the development, on Victoria Island’s Ahmadu Bello Way. The only other entrance is from the far end, via Bar Beach, which is itself policed by enterprising young men who have made a business of collecting an entrance fee from anyone wanting to walk along the water. I begin here, making my way past revellers and shoeless prayer-warriors, headed in the direction of the new development.
I soon come to a stretch of giant, rusty steel tubing, part of the machinery of the city-in-progress. In the distance is a cluster of workers’ cabins, painted green. I spot a lone man, cooking out of a makeshift kitchen – a ramshackle wooden shed topped with aluminium sheets – next to the wall of a warehouse in which Eko Atlantic’s giant concrete pipes are molded. His name is Lawrence Inyang and he’s 57 years old. He is one of the hundreds of men working to make the Eko Atlantic City a reality. He drives a Volvo “motor-grader” – an imposing piece of machinery that resembles a caterpillar. “My job is to do all the roads in here,” he says, something he’s been doing for close on two years. There are no feeding arrangements in the living quarters, he tells me, which is why he’s here, making his food. “We’re up to 12 in one room. All we do is sleep there and then go to work,” he says. On weekends he goes home to his family in Ikorodu, one of Lagos’s fastest-growing urban corridors, far away on the mainland.
The life he lives now has nothing in common with the kind of life he is helping to create for those who will inhabit Eko Atlantic City when it’s up and running by the end of the decade. “Unless I get a job here I don’t think I’ll ever be able to enter the city,” he says.
“This place is for big men.” He’s heard that one square metre of land costs 700,000 naira – about $4,000. (South Energyx Limited says prices actually start from $850 per square meter, with plot dimensions starting from a minimum of 2,000 square meters).
On his current income, Inyang would have to work for one year to earn 700,000 naira. To prove it he rummages through his nearby grader and returns with a sheet of paper on which is scribbled his name, a Guarantee Trust Bank account number, and “N18,000.” That money, he says, was for two weeks’ worth of work. The wage for workers like him ranges from N1,500 ($10) to N2,000 ($18) per day. I ask him if he would take a plot of land here if it were offered to him. “I won’t take it,” he says.
“Even if I take it I’ll sell. Maybe after 20 or 30 years the wall will break. I can’t stay here. I’m scared, I have to be honest with you. One day this place might sink or be overrun by water. We see it on TV all the time, [footage from other countries], where floods come and cover entire houses.”
Why Lagos Needs Eko Atlantic City
Lagos, which sits in the south-western region of western Nigeria, is a city perpetually on the brink of flooding. Bounded in the South by the Atlantic Ocean, the city is situated on the mainland, home to 70 percent of the city’s population with series of islands and a peninsula that holds the remaining 30 percent. At the heart of the city lies the expansive Lagos Lagoon. Today, if it were a country, Lagos would be Africa’s fifth largest economy – as is, Lagos is Africa’s second largest city. It is one of the fastest growing cities in the world – from a population of 300,000 in 1950 it has grown to some 15 million people. The United Nations predicts that by 2015 it will have a population of over 25 million.
Between 1908 and 1912, British colonial authorities constructed three “moles” or “breakwaters” around Bar Beach, to ease the movement of ships into the Lagos Harbour. These moles disrupted the natural flow of the ocean and set up tidal action that would, over the next century, erode more than one kilometre of Bar Beach coastline. Since the late 1950s there have been several unsuccessful attempts to keep the ocean at bay, by sand-filling. By the turn of the 21st century, the Atlantic had crept dangerously close to the heart of Victoria Island, eventually washing away half of the Ahmadu Bello coastal road.
In December 2005, the government launched the Shoreline Protection Project, which involved the construction of a kilometrelong wall of interlocking concrete blocks and stone. The project was commissioned in 2008 and trumpeted as a decisive victory of man over nature. This same year, Lagos Governor Babatunde Fashola launched an even more daring project – Eko Atlantic City, envisioned as a land reclamation project to restore the Lagos coastline. His predecessor, Bola Tinubu, had in July 2006 granted the concession for the reclamation and development project, including a 78-year lease for the developed land to South Energyx.
A Belgian dredging vessel, the bizarrely named, Congo River, is doing most of the heavy lifting. By the time its work is done, 140 million tonnes of sand would have been dredged from the floor of the Atlantic to create the new city. Three million square kilometres of land have already been reclaimed. When the reclamation is complete in 2015, nine million square kilometres of land will sit where, a decade earlier, the ocean sat, terrafirma for a city one-and-half times the size of adjoining Victoria Island. The dredging and land reclamation is being carried out by Belgian firm Dredging International (DI), while Dutch firm Royal Haskoning designed and is building the Great Wall. Providing architectural services are MZ Architects (with offices in the Middle East and North Africa) and ARH Architects. | <urn:uuid:41c9cedd-f14d-4d8f-9088-ccaaa340bb99> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.africanglobe.net/business/eko-atlantic-mega-city-development-lagos-coastline/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00302-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956466 | 1,508 | 1.84375 | 2 |
A carbon footprint is a gauge of the measured output units of carbon dioxide (CO2) and methane (CH4) for a particular individual, product, practice or organization as it applies to environmental impact. Carbon footprint is most commonly expressed in metric tons per year. Historically, carbon footprint was an intended measure of all emissions but in its expression, it is converted to CO2.
A carbon footprint is an important measure of the environmental impact of carbon dioxide and methane’s contributing factors to man-made climate change in the form of greenhouse gases, also known as global warming.
A carbon footprint is composed of two parts, a primary and secondary footprint. The primary footprint is the sum of the direct carbon dioxide emissions of burning of fossil fuels, such as the domestic energy consumption by furnaces and waters heaters, and transportation, such as automobiles and airplane travel. The secondary footprint is the sum of indirect emissions associated with the manufacture and breakdown of all products, services and food an individual or business consumes.
Carbon footprint can be reduced through the use of Carbon-neutral or carbon negative alternatives in materials or fuels. Some methods of building, lifestyle or power generation might end up locking away as much carbon as is produced in its processes, effectively making them carbon neutral. Going further, when more carbon is locked away into a material or in a process than is emitted, then it is carbon negative. Another option to reduce carbon footprint is the buying of carbon offsets, a credit purchased to negate a carbon footprint. Often, the funds from purchased offsets are used to invest in green energy projects, such as green computing technologies.
Several countries worldwide have set targets for reductions in emissions – carbon reduction commitments (CRC) – in international meetings with agreements like the Paris Agreement and the Copenhagen and Kyoto Accords. | <urn:uuid:f801f796-accf-4055-ad9f-dc46ddb80263> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techtarget.com/whatis/definition/carbon-footprint | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.949154 | 363 | 3.90625 | 4 |
Two filmmakers record a large chunk of glacier breaking off and sinking into the ocean while filming the award-winning documentary Chasing Ice. It was the single largest calving event that has ever been recorded. Over the course of 75 minutes, they watched almost five square kilometers (3 square miles) of ice break away. This isn’t just a little crust of ice either, it’s about 915 meters (3000 feet) The video shows a time lapse of what that process looks like over the course of a few seconds. At the end of the video, the filmmakers show what it would look like if lower Manhattan were sitting in that same area. It is a humbling feeling to see such a great expanse of ice fall into the water as if it were nothing.
Glacial retreat is just one of many parameters that scientists use when studying climate change. As global temperatures rise, the glaciers cannot hold the sea water as ice any longer. As they melt, the sea levels will rise. Scientists have calculated that sea levels appear to be rising at 3.5 millimeters (0.14 inches) over the last 25 years. On the surface, that sounds meager enough… unless you know how to multiply. Globally, sea levels are up as much as 8 inches (20 centimeters) in the last 100 years alone. Unfortunately, glacier retreat and subsequent sea level increase have sped up over the last two decades.
By 2100, it is estimated that sea levels will rise as much as 40-120 centimeters (16-48 inches). Unfortunately, because of all of the combining factors that play into glacial retreat and rising sea levels, more precise numbers cannot be given. On the upper end of that scale, millions living in cities like New York, London, Miami, and Los Angeles will be displaced. Entire islands could disappear. The changing ocean waters are also expected to impact the fish populations and could very well reduce the food supply. These consequences are going to be catastrophic. | <urn:uuid:21443317-2ff9-457f-bbfa-2b645ce8477e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.iflscience.com/massive-chunk-glacier-breaks-ocean-23884 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573104.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817183340-20220817213340-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.958763 | 402 | 3.78125 | 4 |
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The Town of Red Oak had a population of 3,541 as of July 1, 2016. Red Oak ranks in the lower quartile for Population Density when compared to the other cities, towns and Census Designated Places (CDPs) in North Carolina. See peer rankings below.
The primary coordinate point for Red Oak is located at latitude 36.0596 and longitude -77.9057 in Nash County. The formal boundaries for the Town of Red Oak (see map below) encompass a land area of 19.52 sq. miles and a water area of 0.01 sq. miles. Nash County is in the Eastern time zone (GMT -5). The elevation is 203 feet.
The Town of Red Oak (GNIS ID: 2407186) has a C1 Census Class Code which indicates an active incorporated place that does not serve as a county subdivision equivalent. It also has a Functional Status Code of "A" which identifies an active government providing primary general-purpose functions.
Beneath the boundary map are tables with Red Oak population, income and housing data, five-year growth projections and peer comparisons for key demographic data. The estimates are for July 1, 2016.
Alternate Unofficial Names for Red Oak: Jones Store.
|Population in Households||3,540|
|Population in Familes||3,204|
|Population in Group Qrtrs||1|
|Average Household Size||2.7|
|Average Family Size||3|
|Total Housing Units||1,422 (100%)|
|Owner Occupied HU||1,130 (79.5%)|
|Renter Occupied HU||180 (12.7%)|
|Vacant Housing Units||112 ( 7.9%)|
|Median Home Value||$217,213|
|Average Home Value||$255,642|
|Median Household Income||$72,757|
|Average Household Income||$89,896|
|Per Capita Income||$33,148|
|(Compound Annual Growth Rates)|
|Median Household Income||0.55%|
|Per Capita Income||1.22%|
The table below compares Red Oak to the other 739 incorporated cities, towns and CDPs in North Carolina by rank and percentile using July 1, 2016 data. The location Ranked # 1 has the highest value. A location that ranks higher than 75% of its peers would be in the 75th percentile of the peer group.
|Total Population||# 220||70th|
|Population Density1||# 654||12th|
|Diversity Index2||# 494||33rd|
|Median Household Income||# 38||95th|
|Per Capita Income||# 74||90th|
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These signals often incorporate the name of the user, or sometimes the name and a trademark. Most of the time, they do not incorporate a URL, a summary of the objectives, or other data that would swarm a signal. This is with the argument that its main objective is to spread familiarity with this political candidate. The name, as well as the shades and drawings used in this sign, mirror the candidates marking the custom yard signs in Spartanburg, SC.
Frequently, the signs of the political courtyard in the US are red, white, and blue in variety and may have different stars or references that give them an energy vibration. By making a feeling of nationalism, besides spreading numerous signs throughout the city or region, these promoters expect to spread the full attention of the brand. In many cases, they are less interested in the observers discovering their political plan. Being all things the same, they trust that citizens perceive their name as they end a form of voting and will feel a good association because of their marking efforts.
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WASHINGTON -- In a tentative step forward in resuming support for rebels deemed moderate and trustworthy, the U.S. has delivered medical kits to fighters in northern Syria, and hopes to resume shipments of other non-lethal supplies.
This latest delivery consisted of what one U.S. official described as "life-saving medical equipment" to be used on the battlefield in a brutal 3-year war that has killed upwards of 130,000 people.
The shipment was small, but significant in that it was the first aid to be delivered since the State Department suspended support to the Free Syrian Army's military council last December, after an Islamic extremist rebel faction seized warehouses where U.S. aid was stored.
Symbolically the resumption is important and the way it was delivered -- straight into the hands of individual rebel unit commanders rather than to a warehouse -- shows that the Obama administration believes it has at least some sense of which groups it can work with on the ground, and how to keep aid out of the hands of al Qaeda-linked extremists.
Congress was consulted before the aid was resumed.
Food and medical assistance to Syrian civilians in cities under siege remains stuck, however, in part because it is being delivered via the United Nations, which requires permission from the Syrian government to act inside the country.
Despite official condemnations of its brutality, the Assad regime remains the diplomatically recognized government of the Syrian Arab Republic at the U.N.
In short, U.N. bureaucracy and Russian attempts to protect its ally have prevented the global body from forcing the Syrian government to help its own people.
The result is what U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. Samantha Power referred to on Tuesday as the "most catastrophic humanitarian crisis any of us have seen in a generation."
Power made those comments on the heels of a small diplomatic victory; Russia agreed to sign a U.N. resolution that calls for Syria to halt attacks on civilians and allow in unfettered humanitarian access. But the resolution has no teeth -- there are no enforcement actions for violations. In 30 days, it will be gauged as to whether Syria has implemented the requirements.
As for future action, Democratic Senator Tim Kaine of Virginia argues that Russia "absolutely" wields the influence to demand Syria comply. The Senator, who sits on the Senate Foreign Relations committee which has oversight of the State Department, told CBS News that every possibility should be explored within the U.N. to make that possible.
"There has got to be a case that the U.S. makes to be more aggressive on aid and delivery," Kaine said. He declined to say whether he supported humanitarian corridors, airlifts or specific ways to make those deliveries.
He sees the refugee crisis as the preeminent issue in the Syria conflict right now, as the influx of desperate civilians fleeing their homes in the war-torn country puts increasing strain on an already fragile region.
Currently, one in four people in Lebanon is a Syrian refugee. That statistic is just one of many that raise questions about whether the Obama administration's so-called "contain and mitigate" strategy has accomplished either of its two goals.
Senator Angus King of Maine told CBS News he is also worried about the regional spillover from the war. He sits on the Senate Intelligence Committee and recently visited Syria's neighbor countries with Kaine. King said Lebanese, Israeli and other regional leaders that he met are concerned about jihadist fighters from Syria crossing borders into their territory.
"Lebanon is suffering from the echoes of the Syrian war," he said.
Secretary of State John Kerry, a member of the Obama cabinet who favors more robust action in Syria, also appears to be hamstrung in any effort to stop the conflict.
The State Department acknowledged Wednesday that the Assad regime has retaliated against the delegates sent by the Syrian opposition to recent peace talks in Geneva by labeling them as terrorists, freezing their assets and arresting some of their family members.
That retribution is not an encouraging sign for the next round of U.N.-sponsored and U.S.-supported peace talks.
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THE SYSTEMS APPROACH TO OPERATIONAL MANAGEMENT
An organized enterprise does not, of course, exist in a vacuum. Rather, it is dependent on its external environment; it is a part of larger systems such as the industry to which it belongs, the economic system, and society. Thus, the enterprise receives inputs, transforms them, and exports the outputs to the environment. However, this simple model needs to be expanded and developed into a model of operational management that indicates how the various inputs are transformed through the managerial functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling. Clearly, any business or other organization must be described by an open system model that includes interactions between the enterprise and its external environment.
Inputs and Claimants
The inputs from the external environment may include people, capital, and managerial skills, as well as technical knowledge and skills. In addition, various groups of people will make demands on the enterprise. For example, employees want higher pay, more benefits, and job security. On the other hand, consumers demand safe and reliable products at reasonable prices. Suppliers want assurance that their products will be bought. Stockholders want not only a high return on their investment but also security for their money. Federal, state, and local governments depend on taxes paid by the enterprise, but they also expect the enterprise to comply with their laws. Similarly, the community demands that enterprises be “good citizens,� providing the maximum number of jobs with a minimum of pollution. Other claimants to the enterprise may include financial institutions and labor unions; even competitors have legitimate claim for fair play. It is clear that many of these claims are incongruent, and it is manager’s job to integrate the legitimate objectives of the claimants.
The Managerial transformation Process
It is the task of managers to transform the inputs, in an effective and efficient manner, into outputs. Of course, the transformation process can be viewed from different perspective. Thus, one can focus on such diverse enterprise functions as finance, production, personnel, and marketing. Writers on management look on the transformation process in terms of their particular approaches to management. Specially, writers belonging to the human behavior school focus on interpersonal relationships, social systems theorist analyze the transformation by concentrating on social interactions, and those advocating decision theory see the transformation as sets of decisions. Perhaps, however, the most comprehensive and useful approach for discussing the job of managers is to use the managerial functions of planning, organizing, staffing, leading, and controlling as a framework for organizing managerial knowledge.
The Communication System
Communication is essential to all phases of the managerial process for two reasons. First, it integrates the managerial functions. For example, the objectives set in planning are communicated so that the appropriate organization structure can be devised. Communication is essential in the selection, appraisal, and training of managers to fill the roles in this structure. Similarly, effective leadership and the creation of an environment conductive to motivation depend on communication. Moreover, it is through communication that one determines whether events and performance conform to plans. Thus, it is communication which makes managing possible.
The second purpose of the communication system is to link the enterprise with its external environment, where many of the claimants are. For example, one should never forget that the customer, who is the reason for the existence of virtually all businesses, is outside a company. It is through the communication system that the needs of customers are identified; this knowledge enables the firm to provide products and services at a profit. Similarly, it is through an effective communication system that the organization becomes aware of competition and other potential threats and constraining factors.
Effective managers will regularly scan the external environment. While it is true that managers may have little or no power to change the external environment, they have no alternative but to respond to it.
It is the task of managers to secure and utilize inputs to the enterprise, to transform them through the managerial functions — with due consideration for external variables – to outputs.
Although the kinds of outputs will vary with the enterprise, they usually include many of the following: products, services, profits, satisfaction, and integration of the goals of various claimants to the enterprise. Most of these outputs require no elaboration, only the last two will be discussed.
The organization must indeed provide many “satisfactions� if it hopes to retain and elicit contributions from its members. It must contribute to the satisfaction not only of basic material needs (for example, employees’ needs to earn money for food and shelter or to have job security) but also of needs for affiliation, acceptance, esteem, and perhaps even self-actualization so that one can use his or her potential at the work-place.
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Check the school website calendar for each club's meeting dates and times.
The Computer Club focuses on technological and problem solving skills through block-based coding. The students also compete in the annual Bebras Challenge, a world-wide competition that focuses on computational and logical thinking.
The Drama Club has been a vital part of the Bradley Beach Elementary School community for 15 years. Every student who is interested in theatrical performance and production will have a role. Club members learn the skills and techniques of acting, singing, dancing, and improvisation. They engage in vocal training and stage movement and develop their listening skills and their ability to work as an ensemble.
Mrs. Sauer & Ms. Bialek
The Environmental Club's goal is to offer students the opportunity to learn about local, national, and worldwide environmental issues; participate in fun activities inside and outside of school, and to work together to make our school a more sustainable and eco-friendly place. We'll go on beach sweeps, work in the garden, come up with solutions to real-world environmental issues, and we will get to talk to some cool guest speakers along the way.
The Tides is looking for writers, artists, photographers, podcasters, and videographers. No experience is required. We meet weekly after school. Click here to read the Tides Newspaper!
Safety Patrollers serve as role models for their peers. They play an important role in helping their peers during arrival, lunch, and dismissal. Students must fill out an application with parent/guardian permission, complete safety training, and be able to attend mandatory monthly meetings to serve the school as a Safety Patroller.
Ms. Grady & Mrs. Skribner
SOLE Sisters will focus on building the girls' mental and physical confidence. We will encourage our girls to become confident leaders, develop strong relationship skills, manage their emotions, and achieve personal and collective goals. SOLE Sisters will also participate in a beach sweep and 5K race. Follow us on Instagram @bbessolesisters.
Ms. Acerra & Mrs. Covert
Student Government is a service organization. This year we raised money for the Monmouth County Chapter of the Red Cross and held a food drive for the Bradley Beach Food Pantry. We are the student board and represent the student body with issues, hold Spirit Weeks, and sponsor the school dances. | <urn:uuid:29c5de27-458a-4519-a0a4-0e59bbe9f6c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://bbesnj.org/bbes/Athletics%20%26%20Activities/Clubs/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.951607 | 552 | 1.789063 | 2 |
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Target: David P. Abney, CEO of UPS
Goal: Urge UPS to stop supporting law banning filming of animal cruelty.
Protecting animal abusers is now easier thanks to a corporate-funded law. The law, titled “ag gag,” makes filming illegal in industrial and corporate businesses. Corporations fund support for this law and UPS is one of its largest backers. Urge UPS to stop condoning animal cruelty.
The Iron Maiden Hog Farm is one of the most well known cases of animal cruelty. Conditions at the plant were horrific. The pigs were kept in cages too small for them to turn around and were denied veterinary care even when seriously ill. In early 2014, the Humane Society of the United States found more than 900 piglets dead at this industrial plant. After succumbing to a gastrointestinal disease, the piglets’ body parts were ground up and fed to their parents. This is considered an act of animal cruelty and is illegal. Thanks to undercover filming within the plant, the farm was shut down. If not for video evidence, than these animals would continue to suffer.
Thanks to “ag gag,” filming animal abuse is no longer legal. Whistleblowers have been arrested for filming within these locations and their evidence is inadmissible in court. If we cannot submit these films as evidence of animal cruelty, then the animals will continue to suffer under the protection of greedy corporations. Sign below and demand that UPS stop funding animal cruelty.
Dear Mr. Abney,
Animals are suffering and dying inside of slaughterhouses. They live in cramped cages, are denied essential veterinary care, and are forced to eat the body parts of other animals. The “ag gag” law, a product of the American Legislative Exchange Council (ALEC), is preventing whistleblowers from getting the video evidence they need to shut these plants down. We demand that you stop funding ALEC and its agenda to end undercover filming in industrial plants.
“Ag gag” bans citizens from filming industrial animal abuse without permission. Amy Meyer filmed a cow being tortured with a forklift in an Idaho slaughterhouse. The film was to be used as evidence in prosecuting the owners and stopping the suffering of the cows. Instead, Meyer was prosecuted under “ag gag” and her films could not lawfully be distributed.
It’s time to end animal cruelty. Join Google, Facebook, and Shell in boycotting ALEC and halt your funding of animal cruelty now.
[Your Name Here]
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Editor's note: This story is part of Southwest Michigan Second Wave's On the Ground Calhoun County series.
At the root of the majority of crimes are underlying issues that rarely get addressed. This is about to change in Calhoun County with the addition of a social worker in the Public Defender’s Office.
David Makled, the county’s Chief Public Defender and director of that office, says resources and supports are available for those who commit crimes it goes a long way to reducing jail or prison time and recidivism. These were among the benefits he saw when he represented youth in a Juvenile Drug Court while he was in private practice in Barry County. He also saw these same benefits while working as a Family Division Court referee in Calhoun county.
“This is something I have wanted to do since we opened (the Public Defender’s Office) here in 2019,” Makled says.
He and his staff are in the midst of interviewing candidates this week to fill the social worker position. Once hired, Calhoun County’s Public Defender’s Office
will be the 11th in Michigan to have a social worker as part of their team of 18 defense attorneys.
The Michigan Indigent Defense Commission will cover the cost of the social worker position in Calhoun County as it has done and will do with each participating county as part of its Social Worker Defender Project
In 2016, the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission, in partnership with the Urban Institute, was awarded a Bureau of Justice Assistance (BJA) grant to develop, implement, and measure the impact of social worker involvement in public defense representation for adults facing criminal charges.
The model developed through these efforts was the Social Worker Defender Project (SWDP). The goal of the project is to reduce incarceration rates by lowering or eliminating jail and prison sentences for participants in favor of appropriate community alternatives. It also is working to decrease recidivism through the increased use of treatment and educational programs, according to the project’s manual.
In reaching these goals, the Social Worker Defender Project seeks to: decrease reliance on incarceration, increase advocacy for clients, and increase collaboration between criminal justice stakeholders and social service providers.
Makled says social workers will work with clients who have committed crimes that aren’t considered serious offenses but that would still result in lengthy prison sentences. These clients must be willing to work with the social worker who will identify resources and support services that will address the root causes that contributed to their entry into the criminal justice system.
Makled says his office annually handles close to 3,000 misdemeanor cases and 1,700 felonies cases.
“When we get clients, we get all kinds of situations and some of the clients’ charges are so severe, they’re going to go to prison for a lengthy period of time and when that happens, there won’t be community-based sentencing opportunities for them,” Makled says. “Then there’s another group that may not be interested in participating.”
The clients who are most likely to be given the opportunity to work with the social worker are those facing a significant jail sentence and those who have an interest in addressing the underlying issues that led them to commit a crime. Makled says these issues include unmanaged mental health issues, homelessness, substance abuse or a troubled home life.
“The majority of our clients would qualify,” he says. “Our primary focus is on someone who could go to jail or prison. Our goal is to identify those people as early as possible so we can provide alternatives to incarceration. This doesn’t mean they won’t get jail time or have other consequences. But, through this program, we can present the court with alternatives and show that the client has a track record because of their participation. If they’re participating before their sentencing, it puts them in a better position and gives the court a better more complete picture of the client and creates other alternatives.”
Calhoun County District County Judge Tracie Tomak says most defendants do have underlying factors contributing to their being in the criminal justice system.
“I can tell you that if a person enters a guilty plea or is found guilty at trial, the probation department screens them for underlying issues,” Tomak says. “If you put someone on probation to address underlying issues it helps the person convicted. If it helps at the beginning stage instead of the end it makes a difference. Getting treatment sooner sometimes can result in a plea of a lesser charge.”
Defense attorneys in Makled’s office will identify clients who meet the criteria and benefit from these alternatives then make referrals to the social worker who will do the assessments and screenings and coordinate services and linkages to community resources, Makled says.
The goal, he says, is to have the social worker do a sentence mitigation report to provide the court with a more complete picture of “our clients – their history, background, where they messed up and their successes – so the court can make a more informed decision and recommend to the court a sentence focused less on incarceration and also allows the client to make progress on the things they’re working on. The (social worker) will be part of the defense team, but supporting clients in a different way by addressing issues and getting them services.”
While he says he knows there is likely to be some pushback from those who don’t think his clients deserve the opportunities through the Social Worker Defender Project, he says it makes sense from a societal and financial standpoint.
“We could spend a substantial amount of money to have them in the local jail for one year or have them out there as productive and contributing members of the community,” Makled says. “Funding for this position is coming entirely from the state. The county is not paying for this, but they believed it’s a worthwhile investment of resources.”
Genesee County served as the pilot location for the Social Worker Defender Project. But, the Public Defender’s Office in Muskegon County was doing similar work well before the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission began the social worker project and made funds available. Makled traveled to Muskegon to see how they were getting it done.
Muskegon County’s Public Defender’s Office was the first in Michigan to have a social worker on staff, says Fred Johnson, director of that office. He says the credit for this goes to Manda Mitteer, a staff attorney with a Master’s degree in Social Work, and Chad Catalino, who has gone on to be the director of the Allegan/VanBuren County Public Defender’s Office.
“Chad and Manda applied for a grant from the Bronx Defenders
based out of the Bronx in New York,” Johnson says. “They are the ones who saw it and had the insight and put it in place.”
The Bronx Defenders is a public defender nonprofit that is radically transforming how low-income people in the Bronx are represented in the justice system and, in doing so, is transforming the system itself, according to its website.
“We have pioneered a groundbreaking, nationally recognized model of defense called holistic defense
that achieves better outcomes for our clients. Each year, we defend 27,000 low-income Bronx residents in criminal, civil, child welfare, and immigration cases, and we reach thousands more through our community intake and outreach programs,” says a statement on the website.
Johnson said he, Mitteer, and Catalino were trained in 2015 through the Bronx Project.
“When we did it, there were 23 holistic organizations on the Bronx Model and we were the first in the state of Michigan. The Bronx funded us with a $10,000 grant that covered expenses and training,” Johnson says.
Today, two social workers and 12 social work interns work with Johnson and his team. The cost of the social workers is covered by the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission and the interns don’t cost the county anything.
“In Social Work you have to have 240 hours of community service to get a degree. Our interns come in on shifts for nine months and provide services to the county at no charge,” Johnson says. “Manda figured out a way to provide resources at no cost to the county. There will be social work students who need to work in the community to get credits to get their degree. We have been told by their professors that we provide them with the best internship opportunities in the state because they’re not paper pushers or answering phones.”
Social workers in Johnson’s office reach about 30 percent of the 10,000 clients annually served. They can be facing charges including, felonies, misdemeanors, neglect, and abuse. “We are known to cover all those bases,” Johnson says.
He has seen firsthand the positive impact that the social workers in his office are making.
“I had this one guy I must have represented six or seven times for driving on a suspended license and he was accumulating a lot of fines that were costing a lot of money that he couldn’t pay. He told me that he couldn’t read so he couldn’t pass the written driver’s test,” Johnson says. “I matched him up with a social worker who went to the Secretary of State’s office with him and read him the exam and he passed and got his license.”
On Tuesday, Johnson was able to get a woman who is schizophrenic and self-medicating with heroin out of jail. The judge allowed her to go home because she is entering a substance abuse program that a social worker connected her with.
“She gets to go home, keep her job, and gets to be with her kids,” Johnson says. “The folks who face serious consequences are the most eager to try this and work with our social workers.”
However, this work does not always involve opportunities for someone to serve a lesser or reduced sentence or go home as was the case with a client who was convicted of first-degree murder and was sentenced to life in prison. Johnson says his client admitted to killing someone and the prison sentence was not a surprise.
He was a juvenile at the time of the crime and had a slew of caseworkers and probation officers and also was sent to Boys Town in Nebraska. His case cost Muskegon County hundreds of thousands of dollars, Johnson says.
A social worker worked with him for two years and it took him 18 months of that time to realize that he had taken the life of someone who didn’t deserve to die, Johnson says.
“The first time he cried about this was with the social worker,” Johnson says. “He was into getting high, shooting people, and having sex. He was an enforcer. He had the potential to do so much more but that’s not where he applied himself and those opportunities.”
Like the majority of the clients that Johnson’s office works with, this young man had underlying issues that included a lack of family support and an absence of anyone he could really talk to.
“We tried this case knowing that if he loses, he would go to jail for the rest of his life,” Johnson says. “His mother came to court one day and never came back.”
Even though the outcome of the trial was clear to everyone involved, the social worker focused her efforts on getting him counseling and offering support to make family connections to help him better manage his incarceration or navigate a world that will have changed if he ever has the opportunity to get an early release.
“We may never see the benefit of it in this community, but someone else may see the benefit when he was incarcerated,” Johnson says. “If we can provide a service that’s effective to assist and help people when they’re coming home, at some point, we’ll provide it.”
Much of what Johnson cites as successes is based on anecdotal, not statistical information. He says the Michigan Indigent Defense Commission is compiling statistical documentation that will offer a more fact-based assessment of the effectiveness of the social work project.
Makled says a 10-year study done by the Bronx Defenders showed positive results, including less jail time and less recidivism.
“This study showed that while conviction rates stayed the same, there were shorter sentences and more alternatives offered to incarceration,” Makled says.
Johnson says judges he has dealt with have been very receptive to having alternatives to putting someone in jail.
“They’ve gambled on it and so far I think they’re happy with it. Before this came about a judge had two options -- put you in jail or not. By bringing in this wave of social workers, judges have other options to work with. You have judges listening to me, this crusty old defense attorney and calling in social workers to talk with them,” Johnson says.
Tomak says her reaction to this is completely positive.
“As a former defense attorney, I can say that to have that type of asset and assistance will allow public defenders assigned to a case to have access to additional information that contributed to this situation, such as underlying mental health issues that may have caused them to lose their temper,” she says. “It helps the court in the event of a guilty finding and it helps the probation department to help this person and not just to punish them.”
To have this service available to everyone, will level the playing field, she says. “That’s what the Public Defender’s Office is for, to give everyone the same level of legal representation.”
Johnson says prosecuting attorneys are among his office’s greatest supporters.
“If I have a drug addict on heroin, during the course of a year she will steal from 1,000 people to meet her addiction, but if I get her into a substance abuse program, that costs the county and the taxpayers nothing,” Johnson says. “She gets a job, gets her kids back from the state, is paying taxes, and is part of the PTA. That kind of logic defeats iron bar therapy. Putting people like her in jail doesn’t make economic or social sense.”
Makled says the Social Worker Defender Project is part of an evolution in the way the criminal justice system does its work.
“The United States is known for having the highest incarceration rates in the world and for certain kinds of crimes and behaviors, it’s understood why society wants to remove or take the people who commit these crimes out of circulation, but when you’re dealing with mental health and drug problems, there’s been for some time now a cultural shift in attitudes about this,” he says. “We’re not trying to coddle criminals, it’s about investing in people who want to make a change in more productive ways which is better than them sitting in a jail cell.” | <urn:uuid:0d027287-1d0d-428f-8597-070c7666f096> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.secondwavemedia.com/southwest-michigan/features/Calhoun-County-Public-Defenders-Office-adds-staff-social-worker-to-deal-with-issues-behi-092321.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.974507 | 3,170 | 1.5 | 2 |
May 17, 2015 – university entrants of any IT discipline will be able to get a Certificate for the Future of IT!
For the first time in history, entrants will be able to attend a course by the renowned Russian futurologist Danila Medvedev, “The future of IT systems”, at the Higher Institute for ITIS KFU Open Day. On completion of the course you will receive a certificate that can be used when applying to study IT at any university in the country.
Calling all school-leavers and first year IT students!
10.00 am — presentation of IT education at Kazan Federal University
12.00 am— free 5 hour training course from Russian futurologist Danila Medvedev
- Why hasn’t there been a computer revolution?
- Why don't we have systems like Tony Stark? What would Tony Stark use in our world? Does Elon Musk have a super PC of the future?
- The impossibility of creating a model of mobile phone apps. How the battle for the consumers’ market has distorted the architecture of computer systems (web systems, search engines and notifications).
- The major players of the future – how Microsoft and Singapore see the computers of the future (plus what they don’t, and can’t, predict).
- Communications, data, knowledge and programs – the cornerstones of the information systems of the future. - How commercial interests suppress technological innovations.
At the end of the course each participant will receive a certificate confirming completion of the course.
Danila Medvedev was born 21 March 1980 in Leningrad. He is a futurologist and author of numerous articles and interviews about the future. One of the founders of the “Russian Transhumanist Movement” and a member of its coordination council, he is also Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Russian cryogenics company KrioRus, and a proponent of the ideas of transhumanism. | <urn:uuid:58051b66-69eb-470a-acde-f99a87caf410> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://kpfu.ru/eng/itis/may-17-2015-ndash-university-entrants-of-any-it.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00099-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923414 | 407 | 2.125 | 2 |
School for Social Work
Transgender people-Identity, Gender identity, Queer theory, Critical discourse analysis, Social work with sexual minorities, Transgender, Gender, Social work
This study critically examines the current discourse in social work on transgender individuals in an attempt to be a starting point for those seeking to gain a better understanding of the ways in which the profession has conceptualized and served this population over the last 25 years. Queer theory and critical discourse analysis were used to analyze a final sample of 30 social work articles that focus on the transgender subject. Analytical focus was aimed at the production and reproduction of social norms, particularly those that function through heteronormativity, as well as forces of power operating within the discourse. Through this study, researchers are recognized as having the power - through their choice of problem formulation, design, recruitment methods, and language and eligibility criteria to influence what voices are heard, what identities are represented, and which gender identities are framed as the norm. The findings of this study suggest that social work professionals must continually question their assumptions and recognize the ways in which gender functions to regulate individuals. By recognizing discourse as power, we should be able to shift societal perceptions of transgender individuals, ultimately moving professional conceptualization beyond the current perception of transgender as "other" to the creation of a "center" that can encompass all gender identities. As social workers, we cannot truly help people to thrive and to actualize their full selves without a constant self-questioning about our biases and assumptions and without continually conducting and consuming research and education through a more rigorous critical lens.
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Four monoclonal antibodies, human T cell leukemia-lymphoma virus (HTLV) 6, 7, 8, and 9, which react with the 24,000 dalton internal core protein of HTLVI, have been developed. These monoclonal antibodies reacted with only HTLV-infected cells and not with a broad spectrum of normal, neoplastic, mitogen-stimulated, or virus-infected cells and tissues. HTLV 6, 7, 8, and 9 identified at least two different antigenic determinants on HTLV p24 that were also recognized by antibodies present in HTLV+ patient sera. Monoclonal antibodies HTLV 6, 7, 8, and 9 reacted in indirect immunofluorescence assays with HTLV p24 localized at the cell surface of 5-d cultures of HTLV-infected T cells and, as well, reacted with T cells infected with HTLVII, a new type of HTLV isolated from a patient (MO) with a T cell variant of hairy cell leukemia. Thus, HTLV 6, 7, 8, and 9 should prove to be useful diagnostic reagents in the identification of HTLV- and HTLVII-infected T cells. | <urn:uuid:2660f1cd-d4e3-4ce6-bcea-f88cad569777> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.mysciencework.com/publication/show/96e1ac5a1ca4825d8f40716d63d45728 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00401-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937049 | 255 | 1.851563 | 2 |
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Composting 101: Reducing Food Waste and Creating Healthy Soils
September 8, 2021 @ 12:00 pm - 1:30 pm CDTFree
Approximately 32% of the waste that Nashville residents create each year is food and yard waste that could be composted. Composting is nature’s way of recycling food and yard waste. It is a process that naturally occurs when anything that was once alive is returned to the soil through decomposition. Tune in and learn more about this process from our local experts.
Special Guest Speakers:
Co-Owner, Service and Business Development,
The Compost Company, LLC
This event is free and open to the public. Registration required to view live.
Metro Public Works and Urban Green Lab are partnering on a new educational series “Sustainable in the City: Thinking Upstream” focused on how Nashvillians can better reduce, reuse, and recycle and live more sustainably.
Hosted by Metro Nashville’s Waste Reduction Program Manager Jenn Harrman and Urban Green Lab’s Sustainability Education Manager Patrick King, “Sustainable in the City: Thinking Upstream” features interviews, webinars, and panel discussions with Nashville’s top experts in all areas of waste and sustainability. | <urn:uuid:9e43134f-dc5b-444c-bcce-b9d3c2ed956e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ourgreenlab.org/index-142.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.90403 | 303 | 2.828125 | 3 |
The Pontifical Catholic University of Valparaíso has a library system made up of five major libraries, nine specialized libraries and two special collections. The systemic notion allows the University to have a single large library, with centralized technical and administrative management, and distributed in services and physical collections, which means that the doctoral student can access any text found in any of the University Libraries. . The integration of the collections of all the Libraries that make up the University Library System is achieved through a single catalog, available via the Internet, which can be accessed from any computer connected to the network at all times.http://biblioteca.ucv.cl/#).
In the School of Agronomy, the Specialized Library of the Faculty of Agronomic and Food Sciences is located, which preferentially attends to the students of the School of Agronomy. The integration of the collections of all the Libraries that make up the University Library System is achieved through a single catalog, available via the Internet, which can be accessed from any computer connected to the network at all times (http:// library.ucv.cl/#). The Specialized Library of Agronomy, whose constructed area is 631 m2, has a collection in all areas of agriculture and the environment, made up of 15,000 physical titles, without considering digital resources, it has an open shelving system, 9 work cubicles in group, general reading room and silent study areas. The Specialized Library of Agronomy is staffed by highly qualified personnel made up of 1 Librarian, 1 library assistant and student assistants. Its office hours are Monday through Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. and Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.
The Main Library of the Faculty of Natural Resources, which is the one that currently meets the requirements of the School of Food (due to a location factor), is attended by a professional Librarian and two assistants who, in a schedule that responds to the needs Academic offices, Monday to Thursday from 8:30 a.m. to 8:00 p.m., Friday from 8:30 a.m. to 7:00 p.m. and Saturday from 9:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., provide students and teachers with a quality service. The library has an open shelving system which allows, without major setbacks, access to all books, magazines and theses, among others. It has an automated catalog, available on the Internet, which reflects the content of all the University's libraries, giving access to a collection of more than 345 thousand volumes. It has study rooms specially equipped for group work, with the ideal conditions of light, ventilation and silence. It also has a space specially equipped with computers for consultation by students and teachers (electronic reference), with wired internet connection and has a scanner. In addition, the Library is enabled with WiFi service for laptops, which helps create an environment conducive to adequate availability of bibliographic resources. | <urn:uuid:7923074b-42d8-4ca6-9905-b905f538594b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.doccsaapucv.cl/en/biblioteca-y-otros-espacios/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.948739 | 623 | 2.09375 | 2 |
A commemorative postage stamp on the Birth Anniversary of Jyoti Prasad Agarwala, Rupkonwar of Assamese culture and founder of Assamese cinema :
Issued by India
Issued on Jun 17, 2004
Issued for : The Department of Posts pays rich tribute to his greatness by release of this commemorative stamp.
Stamp & FDC : Sankha Samanta
Cancellation : Alka Sharma
Type : Stamp, Mint Condition
Colour : Multicolour
Denomination : 500 Paise
Print Quantity : 0.4 Million
Printing Process : Photogravure
Printer : India Security Press, Nashik
Name : Jyoti Prasad Agarwala
Born on Jun 17, 1903 at Tamulbari Tea Estate, Assam, India
Died on Jan 17, 1951 at Tezpur, Assam, India
- Jyotiprasad Agarwalla was a cultural icon, a nationalist, a musician, a poet and above all a humanist. He believed that “man derives supreme happiness in life by the complete propagation of culture”, and his life was a reflection of his belief.
- He was born on 17th June 1903 to Parmananda Agarwalla and Kiranmoyee Devi. His early education was in Tezpur High School, Dibrugarh. He left school inspired by the influence of Gandhiji when the latter visited Tezpur in 1921. Later he completed his education from Chittaranjan Das University and National College Calcutta. What flickered as a flame of patriotism in the young heart flared into a lifelong fire of nationalism. Jyotiprasad Agarwalla became an active Satyagrahi in the 1930s and toured extensively in the rural areas of Tezpur. He composed many patriotic songs that inspired the younger generation. In 1932 he was arrested for his activities and fined Rs. 500. In this turbulent period, he married Debajani Bhuyan of Dibrugarh in 1936. During the Quit India movement, as a commander of the volunteer force, Jyotiprasad remained underground spreading revolutions message. He remained a pacifist and on Gandhiji‘s advice, surrendered to the British at the Darrang District Court on 15 August 1943. He was tried but released for want of evidence.
- The multifarious talent in Jyotiprasad Agarwalla flowered early. The artistic atmosphere of Tezpur and the inspiration from his music loving father were the elements which built the climate conducive for such flowering.
- He penned “Shonit Kunwari“ at the age of 14. It was a musical dance drama with an experimentation in “Padumkali” dance, a combination of “Bihu” and ‘Bhawna’. In 1924 it was staged for the first time in the Ban theatre and it became a milestone in the history of Assamese drama. His other works were Karingarligiri, Rupalim, Labhita, Nimati Kanya.
- A prolific poet, he wrote with a flourish using chaste and sweet Assamese words. He also wrote ‘Jyoti Ramayana‘, considered to be one of his most notable contributions towards children’s literature.
- He also introduced ‘Jyoti Sangeet’, a combination of Assamese, Hindustani and Western music.
- In 1926 he left India and joined Edinburg University in 1927. He was influenced by the prevalent trends of experimentation in music and drama and the huge strides in cinema. He studied cinematography in Berlin in 1929.
- After return to India, he made “Joymati” the first film in Assam and also a talkie in the age of silent films. It was released on 10th March, 1935 and ushered in a new chapter in the cinematic history of Assam. The film was far ahead of its time in cinematic technique and was marked with subtle and realistic acting. His next film was “Indramalati“. He established ‘Chitraban‘ the first film studio, ‘Jonaki’ the first theatre, and also ‘Tezpur Sangeet Mahavidyalaya’. He also made the first gramophone records of his plays along with Shri Bishnu Prasad Rabha, the famous litterateur.
- Jyotiprasad Agarwalla devoted his entire life to rejuvenate Assamese society. The theme of unity between the ethnic groups of Assam flows through his literary output. The way to cultural change, according to him was through empowerment of the masses. He fought for establishment of Assamese as the official language of Assam. Guwahati University is another example of his selfless and tireless efforts.
- For his contribution to the Assamese literature, music and culture, he is lovingly called the ‘Rupkonwar‘, i.e. the Prince of Beauty.
- Jyotiprasad Agarwalla died on 17 February, 1951. This day is observed as ‘Silpi Diwas’ in Assam.
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CBD Gummies are a popular way to consume CBD, but there is some confusion about whether or not they break a fast? CBD is a non–psychoactive compound found in cannabis plants, and it is thought to have a variety of health benefits.
CBD Jellies are made by infusing CBD cannabinoid into gelatine based sweets. They are often used to help with anxiety, pain, and sleep but can only be classed and sold as a food supplement under law.
What are CBD Gummies?
CBD Gummies are a type of edible that contains the active ingredient CBD, or Cannabidiol. CBD is derived from the hemp plant, and is a non–psychoactive compound that has shown to have a variety of health benefits.
Cannabidiol infused jellies or sweets are becoming increasingly popular as a natural way to help with anxiety, stress, pain relief, and more They are easy to take, and offer a discrete and convenient way to get your daily CBD intake.
Do Cannabidiol Jellies stop fasting?
Yes CBD Gummies are made using gelatin in most cases and contain sugar or sweeteners to create a tasty, fruity alternative to CBD Oil. These ingredients do stop fasting as they need to be digested by the body.
Do they work better on an empty stomach?
Can you take these before a fasting blood test?
CBD Gummies can interfere with fasting blood tests. The CBD in the Gummies can increase the level of a protein in your blood that the test is measuring. This can cause the test results to be inaccurate.
Do not take CBD jellies before a fasting blood test as they will break your fast and potentially skew the results of the blood test you are taking later in the day. After the test is complete you are free to take your supplement.
What is the point of fasting?
The point of fasting is to cleanse the body of toxins and impurities. Fasting helps to improve digestion and detoxifies the body. When the body is free of toxins, it is able to function more efficiently.
Additionally, fasting can help to improve mental clarity and focus however it is important to research fasting practices first to see if they may be right for you. Always start low and build on fasting times.
How do I take CBD Edibles?
CBD Gummies are a type of edible that contains the active ingredient Cannabidiol, or CBD. Unlike other edibles, such as brownies or cookies, Gummies are specifically designed to be easy to eat and easy to dose on a daily basis.
Such Gummies are available in a variety of flavours and strengths, and can be found at most health food stores or dedicated online CBD stores. To take, simply eat one or two Gummies per day for symptom relief.
CBD Gummies typically take effect within an hour or more, and the effects can last for four to six hours. If you are new to CBD, it is best to start with a low dose and increase as needed. Take daily to ensure CBD is allowed time to build a supply up in the system.
Do CBD Gummies have calories?
What are the benefits?
This form of CBD supplement provides a convenient and easy way to consume CBD. They are discreet and can be taken anywhere, making them ideal for those who need to take CBD on the go.
CBD Gummies are also a great option for those who do not like the taste of CBD oil as they are sweet and come in fruity flavours to mask the taste of hemp.
Are there any side effects?
The short answer is that there are no known side effects of CBD Gummies. However, because CBD is a relatively new compound, there is still a lack of long–term data on its safety.
Therefore, it is always best to consult with a medical professional before starting any new supplement, including CBD Gummies if you are choosing to use them alongside prescription medication.
Additionally, it is important to purchase from a reputable supplier, with customer reviews for this product. Laboratory test reports should always be available for customers to access and view before purchase. | <urn:uuid:3d758eed-0285-463a-9439-8e73214ed198> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cbdreviewireland.ie/cbd-gummies/do-cbd-gummies-break-fast/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.954273 | 855 | 2.015625 | 2 |
The Nigerian woman named Risikat told the Punch Newspaper that she was born with blue eyes and passed it on to her children. In an interview with the local media, she remembers no one in her family to have had this issue and that she’s the first to have been born with it.
Risikat says there’s nothing wrong with her eyes and that she has never gone to visit the hospital for any sort of discomfort or a medical issues.
So her kids have healthy, normal eyes too.
If there was ever a better time to protect the rights of children, it is now.
To stop the victimization of innocent children in Nigeria and many other African countries, child rights groups and all stakeholders involved must create campaigns to sensitize parents, particularly those in the rural communities on the need to accept their children the way they are while celebrating their uniqueness. | <urn:uuid:3cc77f8d-f197-4ebc-8818-e65f8771c866> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.maybelleboma.com/igerian-man-abandons-his-wife-and-two-daughters/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.983119 | 181 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Agriculture and Food Dioxins and PCB Testing
Dioxin, Polychlorinated Biphenyls (PCB) and Persistent Organic Pollutant (POP) testing from SGS – verify that seafood, pork products and other proteins are free from contamination.
Among many countries, the EU has strict regulations governing the presence of dioxins, PCBs and POPs in food and food products. Products shipped that are contaminated with these substances will be in violation of laws at their destination market.
Our testing and analysis services ensure that you can demonstrate compliance with each market’s specified levels.
Testing in our global network of food testing laboratories can be conducted as:
- High resolution-gas chromatography/mass spectrometry (HR-GC/MS)
- Gas chromatography-mass spectrometry/mass spectrometry (GC-MS/MS)
Failure to verify the absence of dioxins, PCBs and POPs, will result in product being seized, destroyed and/or recalled. All of which have the potential to destroy your brand reputation.
Operating globally, we have the industry knowledge to ensure that you meet the requirements of your destination markets. Contact your local SGS office to find out how dioxin and PCB testing and analysis can support your business. | <urn:uuid:c02bf5e2-c5c0-4692-8f45-c826c78917da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sgs.co.id/en/agriculture-food/food/food-contaminant-testing/dioxins-and-pcb-testing | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.913923 | 271 | 2.078125 | 2 |
There is no question that any person seeking to advance in their job would benefit from receiving some on-line soft abilities training and after that utilizing these abilities to thrust themselves even more up the ladder of their selected career path. Nonetheless, it is not simply those people that have actually made the commitment to take their abilities as well as education to a greater level that are most likely to be successful. Much more importantly, most of us would be glad if we can get on with our jobs in the same place where we started them – without needing to attend any more courses or workshops. It is essential to keep in mind that on-line soft skills training does not require to be a lengthy or much too pricey task. Whilst a fairytale wedding or the conclusion of a crucial paper may well demand you participate in workshops or possibly take part in some analysis sessions, you are unlikely to really feel obliged to do so for such memorable occasions in your functioning life. Rather, you might select to allot a long time throughout the week or perhaps a couple of days a week to discover brand-new skills. And this is where online knowing programs enter into their own. By using a variety of computer-based programs, which are commonly created by market professionals, you can quickly as well as comfortably enhance your abilities, without ever before having to leave the comfort of your very own residence. Certainly, there are many on the internet soft abilities training service providers out there providing a variety of different online programs to their customers. Yet it is usually rewarding for prospective students to take into consideration only those suppliers that have a great credibility and also a demonstrated track record for providing what they guarantee. There are several methods to go about choosing the appropriate company, but it is necessary to pick the one that finest matches your specific needs. So as to get one of the most from any online program, it is needed to know what you are expecting to gain from it. As an example, some courses will certainly concentrate on offering you with a qualification in a location of work that you are currently knowledgeable about. Additionally, some will certainly focus on improving your abilities in a new however valuable location. Others will certainly provide you an extensive summary of what skills you need to be able to successfully execute certain jobs in different professions. The more specific the information you look for, the more probable you are to make the right option. If you do decide to carry out an on the internet training course, it is essential to recognize that the outcomes will certainly not be as instant or visible as those from classroom-based programs. A lot of on the internet training service providers will recommend you to exercise a variety of strategies prior to you start to see considerable improvements. This is since you will require to place in the job yourself, in order to see the advantages of your initiatives. You might find that you require to make further refinements in locations which initially seemed simple enough to master. Nonetheless, this is not to claim that on-line training is inadequate; rather, it just requires a specific quantity of time and initiative to reach the desired outcomes. If you have actually determined that an on the internet soft skills educating service is ideal for you, after that there are a couple of points you can do to prepare. First and foremost, you need to try to arrange sessions at convenient times, such as in the morning when you are freshened and also all set to get going. Second of all, you need to likewise consider any type of previous experience you might have in your chosen area. Some courses will only educate you the fundamentals, while others will require you to examine extensive. If you have actually had any training in the past, after that you might be much better placed to pick up skills in the exact same area that you would certainly have gotten formerly. | <urn:uuid:be4c6cf6-93b4-4cc8-a753-d523af6621aa> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://freetoasthost.biz/if-you-read-one-article-about-read-this-one-5/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00071.warc.gz | en | 0.977008 | 759 | 1.835938 | 2 |
The New Deal:
The 1933 Glass-Steagall Act established the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation (FDIC) to insure bank deposits and regulate some operating practices.
In October 2008, Congress authorized the Treasury Department to spend $700 billion to shore up struggling banks.
By Eric Dodds and Rebecca Kaplan
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The assault and killings suffered by Abahlali baseMjondolo members at Kennedy Road represent a quiet 'coup' and an attack on democracy, write Nigel Gibson and Raj Patel in this week's Pambazuka News. At once a reflection of the ANC's (African National Congress) encouragement of thuggery and the disturbing entrance of an ethnic politics 'unthinkable even in apartheid’s darkest days', the incident was the result of a deliberate attack on an autonomous, grassroots movement. With S'bu Zikode – Abahlali's elected chair – now forced into hiding, the intolerance of poor people's desire for representation and the emergence of 'demons of ethnic hatred' threaten the nation's very stability, the authors conclude.
You don’t need presidential palaces, or generals riding in tanks, or even the CIA to make a coup happen. Democracy can be overthrown with far less pomp, fewer props and smaller bursts of state violence. But these quieter coups are no less deadly for democracy.
At the end of September, just such a coup took place in South Africa. It wasn’t the kind involving parliament or the inept and corrupt head of the ANC (African National Congress), Jacob Zuma. Quite the opposite. It involved a genuinely democratic and respected social movement, the freely elected governing committee of the shack settlement at Kennedy Road in Durban. And this peaceful democracy was overthrown by the South African government.
First, some background. As South Africa prepares to host the 2010 World Cup, the poorest South Africans are still waiting for the end of apartheid’s predations. The country is spending US$1.1 billion just to build new stadiums, while those who fought apartheid wait in shack settlements for running water and electricity. Levels of human development are now lower than in 1994, and South Africa has overtaken Brazil as the country with the widest gap between rich and poor.
But not everyone is waiting patiently, hands outstretched, for the government to drop something into their palms. Some people, particularly those living in shack communities, have organised to bring the dividends of housing, water, education, healthcare, employment and food to their communities. When some communities organised to protest against their government, using the freedoms enshrined in one of the most open and supportive constitutions to be found in any modern democracy, the government responded by initiating its bloody coup.
In the middle of the night on Saturday 26 September, men armed with guns, knives and even a sword, descended on Kennedy Road, and into a shack settlement housing about 7,000 people. These men chanted slogans of ethnic cleansing, pitting Zulu against Pondo. With these words, they summoned an ethnic politics that was unthinkable even in apartheid’s darkest days. Even the 1980s battles between the Inkatha Freedom Party and the ANC were political rather than ethnic clashes. But under Jacob Zuma’s South Africa, the Zulu nationalism that was once anathema to the ANC has now become its standard operating procedure.
Four people were killed. The violence continued under the eyes of the police and local ANC officials. Once it was over, the democratic leaders of the Kennedy Road Development Committee were arrested (even though many weren’t in the settlement at the time of the attacks). Thousands of shack dwellers have now fled the settlement and many shacks have been destroyed.
It has now become clear that the thugs were backed by the local branch of the ANC and their leaders. Jackson Gumede, the chairperson of the Branch Executive Committee of the ANC in the electoral ward containing Kennedy Road, has now taken over the settlement where those remaining live in a state of fear. The ANC provincial government has also become a willing partner.
It has also become clear that the target of the attacks is the autonomous and grassroots democratic shackdweller organisation – Abahlali baseMjondolo – which has grown over the past four years into the largest poor people’s movement in South Africa. Abahlali has become a significant thorn in the side of the ANC provincial government in KwaZulu-Natal.
What particularly irks the ANC is Abahlali’s refusal to let the shackdwellers continue to be a vote bank for the ANC at election time. Rather than supporting any political party, Abahlali has promoted a 'No house, no land, no vote' policy. As well as rejecting the legitimacy of the local ANC councillor, Yacoob Baig, Abahlali has taken the provincial government to court over the constitutionality of the government’s Elimination of Slums Act and spoken out against the forced relocation of shackdwellers to transit or temporary camps outside the urban areas.
Abahlali have also had successes, which have annoyed local politicians. Through their activism, they forced the Durban municipality to agree to upgrade some of their settlements. Controls over the settlement means control over the disbursement of funds. This is the prize that Yakoob Baig and Jackson Gumede covet.
The ANC’s decision to destroy a grassroots poor people’s movement has been condemned around the world. The South Africa Council of Churches (SACC) has called the incident 'an attack on democracy' and has issued a statement of alarm at how community leaders are being criminalised. Bishop Rubin Phillip, the chairperson of the KwaZulu-Natal Christian Council and Anglican Bishop of Natal, who had visited Kennedy road, was 'torn with anguish' by the attack and spoke of the real social hope that Abahlali was creating. Around the world and in South Africa statements of solidarity and outrage continue to pour in and while these pressures may give the ANC pause in their actions against Abahlali, it is also clear that the ANC are not in control of the violence that they have unleashed.
At the settlement anyone associated with Abahlali has been threatened with violence and forced to leave. Already 2000 people have been left homeless. S’bu Zikode, the elected chair of Abahlali, is now in hiding after receiving a number of death threats. Writing on 29 September, Zikode understood that the attack was an attack on the voice of ordinary poor people: 'This attack is an attempt to terrorise that voice back into the dark corners. It is an attempt to turn the frustration and anger of the poor onto the poor so that we will miss the real enemy.' He ends by not only calling for solidarity but asking 'for close and careful scrutiny into the nature of democracy in South Africa'.
Zikode is right, of course. This is why he has been targeted by the militia, and why his safety must be guaranteed. And the attack augurs ill for South Africa’s future. The demons of ethnic hatred had no harbour in South Africa. But once unleashed, they could very well tear the Rainbow Nation apart. Without swift and transparent justice to right this grave wrong, the future looks grim. History makes one thing very clear: small coups beget bigger ones.
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* Nigel Gibson is a visiting research fellow at the School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and the author of the forthcoming book 'Fanonian Practices in South Africa'.
* Raj Patel is an honorary research fellow at the School of Development Studies, University of KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa, and the author of the forthcoming book 'The Value of Nothing'.
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If you're examining your network with an eye for improving performance, you're going to run into tinygrams eventually. I get questions about this all the time: "What are tinygrams? When do they arise? Are they a problem? What can I do about them?"
I'll take these one at a time.
What Is a Tinygram?
Tinygram is just another way to say "small packet." In general, small packets should be avoided if possible because they're very inefficient for the network. Tinygrams lead to inefficient ratios of frame header data to actual useful information going across the network. Every network is subject to conditions like congestion, TCP/IP overhead, and latency. Network admins strive to mitigate these conditions, and tinygrams are often part of the problem.
Consider a moving company that's helping clear out your old house. Imagine they've got a line of trucks waiting to haul furniture. Inside of each truck the movers only place a single piece of furniture, then send the truck off to deliver it to your swanky new pad. Obviously, for any given road along the path this could cause congestion - a bunch of trucks are all sent out to deliver furniture, with a payload size of one table or chair. Tinygrams are similar: they're TCP segments that could hold more data, but don't.
Clearly it would be more efficient for the movers to completely fill each truck and only then ship it off to the destination. This gives you more 'bandwidth' efficiency - more furniture (payload) is being moved per truck (packet) per round trip between the old place and the new one (latency).
When Do Tinygrams Arise?
The plot thickens in application-delivery world though. In most any environment you've got core services as well as adjuncts like intermediate proxies, load balancers, firewalls, etc. that can all affect the delivery of traffic. These services may each have different Maximum Transmission Units (MTUs) or other settings that limit the amount of data that can be sent across the network.
For example, if any part of your system has a restricted MTU that is too small, it can result in larger numbers of packets being transmitted, with disadvantageous ratios of frame header data to actual payload. It's like there's a city regulation that says you're only allowed to put one piece of furniture in any vehicle, even a huge moving truck.
By default, TCP uses Nagle's Algorithm to minimize network congestion due to tinygrams. The algorithm maximizes the efficiency and saves bandwidth by aggregating small packets into as few TCP segments as possible before allowing the segments to be sent. It tells the moving crew they can't drive away before filling up the truck.
In this analogy, limiting the MTU size sounds ridiculous, but sometimes you need smaller packet sizes or restricted MTUs. That depends on the unique variables in your environment, which brings us to the next question:
Are Tinygrams a Problem?
To know whether tinygrams are a problem in your application delivery environment, it's important to understand a few things:
- The types of traffic and the patterns of that traffic in your environment.
- Who the consumers of these application streams are, whether humans, machines, or other applications.
- The business requirements around the delivery of any specific application or service.
A single server could be responsible for several different types of traffic. Interactive sessions, bulk data loads, or others in between. Each one of these could warrant special treatment on the wire. It turns out that tinygrams may well be common, expected, or even required depending upon the type of application we're dealing with.
Let's look at an example of a situation where allowing tinygrams on your network is actually vital to creating a good user experience. Imagine a user logged into a virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI). The screen looks normal to them, but all the computing is happening in a datacenter far away, maybe in a different state. What happens when they move their mouse?
- The user's computer sends a series of coordinates corresponding with their cursor movement to the Virtual Desktop server, wherever it is hosted.
- The Virtual Desktop server processes the coordinates, performs the necessary computations, and sends signals back to the user's machine telling it where to display the cursor.
- The user's cursor moves in the way they expect it to, based on how they moved their physical mouse.
In this example, the amount of data that needs to be sent is tiny, but it needs to get there fast, otherwise the user's cursor movements will be slow or jumpy. That's a bad user experience, and people hate it. You have to allow the tinygrams containing the cursor coordinates through to keep users happy.
This presents IT teams with a difficult situation. Conserving bandwidth is usually a priority in network infrastructures, but there are times when doing so will be disastrous for user experience. You have to choose between speed and efficiency.
How ExtraHop Can Help
The ExtraHop wire data analytics platform recreates the TCP state machine for each endpoint communicating over the network, allowing it to surface all kinds of L4 metrics, including Nagle Delays and tinygrams. This lets you make informed, intelligent decisions about traffic policies, device configuration, or even application architectures themselves. For example, if you've got a highly interactive service like VDI, you'll often want to prioritize this traffic and allow tinygrams through without aggregating them to allow for smooth user experience. Likewise, if you're using a load balancer with a default configuration you'll often have stalls introduced by Nagle's algorithm if you're moving lots of small packets through the device.
The good news is that all of this is actionable. With real-time wire data analytics, it is easier to understand what's happening in your system, and to make informed choices to optimize your performance.
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SAN FRANCISCO (KCBS) – A new computer model, which estimates the amount of pollutants and greenhouse gases of proposed development projects, is being put to use throughout the state.
The California Emissions Estimator Model was developed by air districts across the state.
"Projects, when they go through the environmental review process, are required to look at their air quality impacts associated with their projects," said Dave Vintze, Planning Manager at the Bay Area Air Quality Management District. "This model helps projects do it more accurately."
Vintze said much of the estimation used to have to be done by hand. But now, planners and consultants can input details of their planned development and immediately see how, for instance, it will impact vehicle traffic and how much impact a facility's refrigeration or air conditioning units will have.
"It's a tool to evaluate planning," said Vintze.
KCBS' Anna Duckworth Reports:
Barbara Lee with the Northern Sonoma County Air Pollution Control District said it's a great platform for businesses.
"When you pave a surface, the paving material releases some of the chemicals that are in the paving," she said. "It does that over time, so this model will calculate those kinds of emissions too."
Air districts have been hosting free training classes throughout California. The computer model is free and has already been downloaded 6,000 times.
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(NewsUSA) – Sponsored News – Across the country, families are taking advantage of the warmer weather by spending more quality time outdoors. This year, as families prepare to host a variety of outdoor gatherings, mosquito prevention and protecting against mosquito bites should be top of mind.
Mosquitoes transmit numerous diseases and are often described as one of the deadliest animals on the planet. This year, the Zika virus has made the mainstream news and has become a cause for public concern, especially for women who are or planning to become pregnant. As it is unknown how Zika will spread, particularly in the U.S., practicing caution is warranted.
“Proactivity and public cooperation are huge components of mosquito prevention,” said Cindy Mannes, vice president of public affairs at the National Pest Management Association. “Homeowners play an important role in helping to reduce mosquito populations and can work to eliminate mosquito breeding grounds throughout the season.”
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There is nothing quite as comforting and cosy as the rich texture of hardwood furniture. Oak is often the wood of choice for finer furniture and cabinetry. One popular method of finishing oak is the use of a liming paste. This ancient preservation technique gives the oak a frosted patina that mimics the look of a finely aged antique. Keeping limed oak furniture clean is not complicated; however, great care must be taken to ensure the finish is not removed.
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Dip a clean rag into cleaning solution and wring it out thoroughly.
Gently rub wet rag across the wood surface. Do not scrub too hard or you will remove the limed finish.
Dry area thoroughly or allow to air dry.
If the liming is starting to fade, apply a liming paste to the wood with a clean rag. Wipe off excess paste and buff to a shine.
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A review of nonpharmacological therapies for fibromyalgia (FM) has revealed that mind-body therapies (such as nutrition, exercise, massage, etc.) are much more effective than conventional drug treatments for this set of disorders. This article will present information gathered from research into these areas.
The findings of several studies suggest that FM patients receive maximum therapeutic benefit from a program of moderate to intensive aerobic exercise combined with a high fiber diet consisting largely of fruits, vegetables and grains, and modest nutritional supplementation.
When taken as a whole, the findings of some studies point to the hypothesis that a potential new treatment for FM could be supplementation with a combination of folate (folic acid), vitamin B12, vitamin B6 and riboflavin (vitamin B2).
Numerous studies have demonstrated that this combination of B vitamins substantially reduces total homocysteine (tHcy) levels in the body.(1-11) Most tHcy studies have been done in recent years because lowering tHcy levels has been found to help patients with coronary artery disease.(1,2,12,13) A vascular disease meta-analysis suggests that prolonged lowering of tHcy concentrations could save tens of thousands of lives each year.(14) The lowering of tHcy levels may also be relevant to FM patients (and potentially to Chronic Fatigue Syndrome patients) based on the findings of a 1996 study conducted at Uddevalla Hospital in Sweden.(15)
The Swedish study found that of the 12 patients with symptoms of both FM and Chronic Fatigue Syndrome studied, all 12 (100%) of them had unusually high levels of tHcy in their cerebrospinal fluid. While this study was of a small sample, the 100% rate of elevated tHcy makes it probable that a larger study would have similar findings.
Another noteworthy finding from the Swedish study was that each patient’s level of tHcy was positively correlated with their level of fatigability. By combining the findings of the Swedish study with those of other tHcy studies, one could hypothesize that decreasing tHcy through B vitamin supplementation may benefit FM patients.
Another finding of the Swedish study was that of the 12 patients studied, 10 of them (83%) had abnormally low levels of vitamin B12 in their cerebrospinal fluid. Only two had vitamin B12 levels within the normal range. This finding further supports a hypothetical treatment for FM that includes vitamin B12 supplementation.
Several studies have found that many patients with depressive disorders have elevated tHcy levels. B vitamins may, therefore, also be relevant in treating depression, a frequent symptom of FM patients. It is also interesting to note that serum folate levels have been found to be low in as many as 70% of patients with rheumatoid arthritis(16), another condition that could possibly be treated with vitamin supplementation.
While there has yet to be a direct study to determine the therapeutic value of B vitamins for FM, there is no reason not to try this now, particularly since B vitamins have few if any known adverse effects(3), and many benefits. Most studies point to a 25-31% lowering of tHcy1 within four weeks of the start of B vitamin therapy.(4,5,12) Any positive results would, therefore, likely occur in FM patients within the first months of vitamin therapy.
In additional to the potential benefit to FM patients, B vitamins have been studied recently for treating a variety of disorders including coronary disease(1,2,12,13), Alzheimer disease(3) and for lowering tHcy in patients receiving hemodialysis(6) and those on antiepileptic drugs(5).
The alteration of diet to increase the intake of foods containing natural B vitamins could also benefit FM patients. Several foods have been found to lower tHcy levels including pulses (chickpeas, beans, peas and lentils), green leafy vegetables, fruits, cereals, egg yolks, liver and nuts.(4,13) A diet that is rich in natural folate also offers additional benefits because of its lower content of saturated fatty acids and higher content of various vitamins and minerals.(4)
People wanting to lower tHcy should be advised to avoid things that elevate tHcy including high coffee or alcohol consumption, smoking and lack of physical activity.(13)
It would be helpful to conduct a placebo-controlled study using B vitamins to determine their actual usefulness for FM and to see if the hypothesis presented here is true. It would also be useful to conduct a study with a large number of subjects with FM to determine the statistical occurrence of elevated tHcy and lowered vitamin B12 levels.
It has been found that the most important of the B vitamins is folate(4,6,7), however, since the remethylation of tHcy to methionine in the body also requires vitamin B12 and riboflavin, it is important for the body to be replete with all of these. Vitamin B6 has also been found to enhance the effect of folate supplementation.(1,8)
The therapeutic value of various B vitamin doses has been tested in numerous studies and a meta-analysis of these randomized trials found an effective and safe daily combination to be 0.5 mg of folic acid with 1 mg of vitamin B12. Large (10 mg) and small (0.5 mg) doses of folic acid were found equally effective, however, the meta-analysis went on to state that higher doses may be of benefit to people at high risk.(1) A cardiovascular study compared the effect of 2.5 mg versus 10 mg daily of folic acid and found no statistical difference between the two groups.(12) The exact dosages of Vitamin B6 and riboflavin do not seem to be as crucial. One trial that included vitamin B6 used a daily dose of 50 mg.(3) Riboflavin was used at a daily dose of 1.6 mg in a different trial.(8)
At high doses (5 mg or more per day), folic acid can mask the hematologic manifestation of unrecognized pernicious anemia.(14) Since there is no apparent benefit of such high doses, this situation can be avoided simply by keeping daily doses well under 5 mg.
Supporting the hypothesis of possible treatment of FM with B vitamins is a study that found FM patients show remarkable improvement when they consume nutritional supplements of their own choosing.(17) Since B vitamins are contained in most standard multivitamin supplements, it is possible these were the source of benefit to FM patients.
Also related to nutrition, a study in Finland demonstrated benefit from an uncooked vegan diet. After changing to such a diet, FM patients experienced a substantial decrease in join stiffness and pain as well as an overall improvement of their self-experienced health. After switching back to their original omnivorous diets, symptoms worsened.(18)
It was theorized in the study that improvements from the vegan diet result from increased antioxidants in the blood and affected tissues, diminishing the actions of radicals. The Finnish research concluded that the vegan diet is effective based upon its microbiologic effects, not its subjective and mental effects as others had previously theorized. It is possible that the enhanced presence of folate, vitamin B6 and riboflavin in a vegan diet may have been a contributing factor if the hypothesis proposed earlier proves to be correct.
It should be noted that vitamin B12 is only derived from animal sources and, accordingly, is not present at all in a vegan diet.(13) Patients who follow vegan or vegetarian diets should, therefore, be monitored to ensure that they receive adequate amounts of vitamin B12, as well as vitamin D and calcium.(18) Foods rich in these substances and/or appropriate supplements should be incorporated into the diet.
Also found to support the use of nutritional therapies for FM was a study conducted at the Medical College of Virginia. This FM study compared the effects of supplementation with chlorella (a fresh water alga) with a placebo. Pain was reduced in a statistically significant fashion in the group taking chlorella. Further, it was found that chlorella may reduce high blood pressure, lower serum cholesterol levels, accelerate wound healing and enhance immune functions. Several studies have suggested that FM is associated with growth hormone deficiencies. Levels of insulin-like growth factor I are also frequently reduced in FM patients. It has been theorized that chlorella consumption might increase production of growth hormone, and perhaps this contributes to its lessening of symptoms from FM.(19)
An extensive review of nonpharmacological interventions for FM conducted by researchers in the United Kingdom found the most noteworthy intervention of those reviewed to be aerobic exercise, which provided significant benefit in three studies.(20)
Additional research finds that therapies such as biofeedback, hypnosis and cognitive behavioral therapy provide modest relief of symptoms in some cases.(21) These therapies, however, do not seem nearly as effective as regular exercise and proper nutrition.
Acupuncture is sometimes used to treat FM patients; however, it should be used with caution as acupuncture has been found to exacerbate symptoms in some FM patients. A recent NIH conference concluded similarly that acupuncture is effective for acute pain but there is little evidence that it helps with chronic pain syndromes such as FM.(21)
Doctors from the Complementary Medicine Program at the University of Maryland conducted an extensive study of thirteen mind-body trials involving 802 FM patients. The results of this study were largely inconclusive except for the study’s confirmation that moderate to high intensity exercise provides considerable benefit to FM patients.(22)
It is important to note that this same study found that many FM patients have difficulty mastering mind-body interventions.(22) It, therefore, may be better for caregivers to find ways to help patients actually eliminate contributing unhealthy and stress-inducing lifestyle factors rather than simply trying to teach coping strategies.
In contrast to mind-body therapies, conventional medical treatments have provided little help to FM patients. One long term placebo-controlled study, and several other studies, have demonstrated that conventional pharmacological treatments for FM such as amitriptyline and cyclobenzaprine offer no long term benefits to patients, with only brief initial improvement in 25% of patients.(23) This evidence combined with the potential for side effects from such medicines negates recommending such a course of treatment.
In the face of these findings, it should be noted that there has been considerable debate as to whether or not FM is a distinct clinical disease. Current evidence points to FM being a disorder characterized by a set of common symptoms, rather than a clinical disease.(17) FM is perhaps best considered within a biopsychosocial model of pain.(22) This is further confirmed by a study of 60 FM patients published in the Journal of the American Academy of Nurse Practitioners. The study found that half of the most successful treatments reported by FM patients were psychological or social in nature, with some of the best therapies found to include support groups, writing, diversion and social contact.(24)
The same study also reported FM patients achieve significant success with several complementary therapies including aromatherapy, heat and massage, each of which provided relief to more than 80% of the patients surveyed. This study also confirmed frequent failures with acupuncture, which was found effective by only 29% of those surveyed.(24)
Despite its unclear classification, the symptoms of FM are consistent across large groups of people with the disorder. An accurate assessment of current therapies is, therefore, essential to providing each patient with the best care possible.
Proposed Treatment Protocol Based Upon Current Research
1. Folic Acid (2.4 mg/day), Vitamin B12 (1 mg/day), Vitamin B6 (50 mg/day) and Riboflavin (1.6 mg/day).
2. Increased intake of foods rich in folate and B vitamins such as green leafy vegetables, chickpeas, beans, peas, lentils, fruits, cereals, egg yolks, liver and nuts.
3. Elimination or reduction of coffee consumption, smoking and alcohol consumption.
4. Chlorella supplementation.
5. Frequent moderate to intensive aerobic exercise.
6. Mind-Body therapies that focus on changing life circumstances to decrease stress and increase healthy interpersonal relationships.
7. Addition of a general multivitamin and mineral supplement to the diet.
12. Increased social contact.
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This video is concerned with a long term employee making life difficult for a new employee and their supervisor. It provides an opportunity for discussing age discrimination and bullying.
Key personalities in this scene:
- Julian, learning about the store job
- Cassius, long-term employee
- Mark, their supervisor.
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Especially suited to public spaces, fully automatic defibrillators (AEDs) can be used by any individual. These units generally offer voice prompts and/or visual instructions. After the defibrillator has analysed the patient's heart rhythm it will automatically administer a shock to the patient if one is required.
Public access defibrillators (often shortened to PADs) are commonly fully automatic. The level of guidance an automation built into these devices means they can be used by anybody capable of handling the unit and following the instructions. This makes fully automatic defibrillators an excellent choice for use within the community.
The DefiSign Life fully automatic defibrillator is programmed with 3 default languages (English / German / Polish), provides clear voice instructions, and boasts a 10 year manufacturer's warranty for peace of mind.
The Defibtech Lifeline Auto defibrillator uses fully automatic operation and supports the responder through clear voice and LED display instructions. Unique optional standard or high capacity battery available.
The fully automatic HeartSine Samaritan PAD 360P defibrillator automatically delivers a life saving shock if needed, and its durable design carries the industry's highest protection rating against dust and moisture.
The Mediana HeartOn A16 fully automatic defibrillator features 3 programmed languages (English / Welsh / Polish) and an adult / child button allowing users to quickly change from adult to paediatric mode; only one set of pads is required.
The Zoll AED Plus fully automatic defibrillator has the benefit of Real CPR Help feedback technology, and features a specially designed lid to use under the patient's shoulders to help maintain an open airway.
The fully automatic Physio-Control Lifepak CR2 defibrillator takes pressure off the responder by automatically delivering a shock (if needed) and gives clear voice guidance throughout. Providing easy to follow, clear voice prompts throughout treatment, the Physio Control CR2 has been designed to help keep the responder calm and in control while operating the defibrillator.
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The United States and France are closely watching rising grain and soy prices and will be ready to call for an emergency meeting of G20 agricultural officials if needed, France's agricultural minister said on Monday.
"France ... and the United States remain attentive to any new fact that could justify a meeting of the rapid response forum," Agricultural Minister Stephane Le Foll wrote in a statement.
Last month, France activated the G20 grain action body that deals with agricultural market information and said it would call an emergency meeting of the forum - which was created last year to manage market crises - if the grain situation in the United States and Russia were to worsen.
The United States, where severe drought has led to a global surge in cereal prices, will take over the helm of the grain action body in October over which France currently presides.
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सरोकार-भारतीय स्वास्थ्य सेवाओं की चुनौतियां
Every year, 7th of April is celebrated as the World Health Day. In this edition of Sarokaar we try to explore the various health related concerns faced in India and how have we fared in tackling public healthcare.
A cursory look at the available data regarding healthcare suggests that a lot still needs to be done. A worrying rate of infant/maternal mortality, the swine flu outbreak, casualties due to Japanese Encephalitis, deaths from vaccine preventable diseases, poor or lack of medical equipment, etc. draws our attention to the reality which leaves a lot yet to be covered in terms of healthcare.
Public healthcare in India is still riddled with problem areas which need to be looked upon before it can be effective and available to all. Large population in our country is still deprived of quality and affordable healthcare.
Watch Sarokaar with eminent panellists bringing out various facets of the issue.
Guests: Shailaja Chandra (Former Secretary in the Ministry of Health and Family Welfare) ; Prof. K Srinath Reddy (President, PHFI) ; Dr. Vandana Prasad (National Convener, Public Health Resource Network) ; Nitin Sethi (Associate Editor, Business Standard) ; Kanwar Singh Tanwar (MP, BJP & Member, Standing Committee on Health and Family Welfare)
Anchor: Amrita Rai
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Choosing a curing light is one of the most important equipment purchases you will make, and it is important to select the right one that will suit your style of practice, according to GPS Dent. For some, this is a piece of equipment you will use on nearly every patient. If you select the right light, it will result in more successful treatments, and the opposite is true if you select the wrong light.
There are a lot of claims about what some curing lights can accomplish. Make sure you do your research, as there is lots of controversy about misinformation centering on how long you have to cure, as well as how deep you can cure using the curing light.
The importance of a curing light cannot be underestimate. If you undercured a restoration procedure, it will affect the longevity of the treatment and the performance. This could lead to more work for you on having to sort out the problem you made.
There are many different types of curing light, but we would recommend an LED curing light. Why you may ask? Well, these curing lights are often cordless, are light in weight and are relatively small in comparison to other curing lights. The battery life is also very good since the LEDs don’t need that much energy to function. Overall, LED curing lights should be the type of light you should buy.
What LED Curing Light Should I Buy?
LED-C Woodpecker Curing Light
The LED-C Woodpecker Curing Light is one of our most popular lights. It offers cordless operation, with three different modes, namely, full, ramping and pulse. Changing the battery with this light is possible, which makes future maintenance a breeze. It comes fitted with a timer and an autoclavable light guide.
LED Dental Curing Light w/Built In Caries Detector
If you are looking for a high-end curing light, the LED Dental Curing Light w/Built In Caries Detector should be considered. It comes with a built in radiometer, and this light will not overheat during prolonged treatments, thanks to the smart heat management technology within the device. It comes with six different modes, namely, Low, Ramp, Standard, High, Plaque Inspect, & Caries Inspect. The manufacturers say that it only takes 3 seconds to cure 2mm of resin composite.
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The country, whose Socialist government has never seemed hugely enthusiastic about the free trade deal, will try to get other EU members to agree to the request -- but its chances looked slim. The EU Commission, which negotiates for the 28 member states, and Germany showed no signs of agreeing to a delay to the start of talks planned for the beginning of next week, which come after months of protracted and painful efforts to come up with a common European stance.
France was at the heart of those difficulties, insisting on protections for its film and other cultural subsidies.
Just Tuesday night, the Commission said the planned start of technical negotiations in Washington "should not be affected" by the surveillance scandal that has emerged in recent days. But France is again raising its voice in protest.
"It seems wise to us to suspend (the talks) temporarily, for a period of 15 days," French government spokeswoman Najat Vallaud-Belkacem told reporters Wednesday.
After reports that the U.S. National Security Agency bugged EU diplomatic offices in Washington and infiltrated its computer network, Vallaud-Belkacem said mutual trust is needed before launching talks on such a huge trade deal, expected to provide a boost to economies on both sides of the Atlantic by removing tariffs and other barriers to trade.
She said France will first "discuss with our European partners to take a joint decision."
Her boss, President Francois Hollande, had hinted at a threat to trade talks in unusually outraged comments Monday demanding that the United States immediately stop any such eavesdropping.
In Berlin, German government spokesman Steffen Seibert suggested Germany is sticking to the plan to start talks as planned, despite Germany's anger over the U.S. snooping allegations. Speaking to reporters earlier Wednesday, he said that "we support the Commission in its effort to begin the negotiations on July 8."
The Commission, too, insisted that the trans-Atlantic atmosphere needed to clear up for the talks to be successful.
"For such a comprehensive and ambitious negotiation to succeed, there needs to be confidence, transparency and clarity among the negotiating partners," it said in Tuesday's statement.
On Wednesday, the EU trade commissioner's office said it is sticking to its position.
It's unlikely that France could block the talks on its own. Last month, the Commission was given the mandate from all members to start the talks after striking a deal with France about keeping the movie and television business out of the negotiations to shield Europe's audiovisual industry from Hollywood.
EU Trade Commissioner Karel De Gucht said hinging the start of talks on such political issues as the eavesdropping scandal would amount to the EU shooting itself in the foot. The EU, he said, was entering talks out of self-interest, not to be subservient to the United States.
A free trade pact would create a market with common standards and regulations across countries that together account for nearly half the global economy. A recent EU-commissioned study showed that a trade pact could boost the EU's output by 119 billion euro ($159 billion) a year and the U.S. economy by 95 billion euros ($127 billion). For Europe in particular, that extra growth could be crucial to help pay high public debt and bring down unemployment, which is at record highs.
Associated Press writers Raf Casert in Brussels, Frank Jordans in Berlin and Angela Charlton in Paris contributed to this report.
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Improving quality across construction
Construction quality has been the focus of many news headlines lately – for all the wrong reasons. From cracks forcing residents out of Opal Tower
in Sydney and combustible cladding setting Melbourne’s Lacrosse tower
apartment complex ablaze, quality has been compromised in ways that it really should be guaranteed.
In Australia countless Building Codes and Standards determine baseline quality across the construction industry – but as recent events have shown, these codes and standards can’t always guarantee
that quality and safety will be achieved. Is the quality that consumers have come to expect still achievable? If so, how can our industry take greater responsibility across the supply chain for delivering safe and high quality construction?
Investing in technology
Technology plays an important role in our industry’s ability to maintain quality. Some examples of how technology makes a difference, include:
- Construction management software to improve efficiency, and ultimately the quality of construction projects.
- Building Information Modelling (BIM) technology to enhance accuracy during the digital design process.
- New and emerging applications for technology – like using drones for conducting site inspections during construction to improve safety and quality.
People and culture
No matter how clever technology becomes, it cannot replace a workforce that values and strives for quality. Coates Hire invests in developing its people, and fostering a culture that values quality in all that we do. We try to give our people responsibility and accountability for achieving quality, which means listening to our ‘eyes and ears’ on the ground too.
A valuable exercise for all businesses to perform, is defining what quality really means to your organisation. What does it look like on your projects? What does it represent for your people? And how can your quality standards be upheld? With clarity on what quality actually means, everyone can buy into it and be accountable for achieving it.
And just as good safety practices and performance are often celebrated, quality should be acknowledged too. This means setting measurable quality targets and indicators, and regularly measuring performance against them.
Tools, systems and processes
To deliver the level of quality that our customers and our industry demand, Coates Hire invests in quality processes. Some of the areas we focus on include:
- Maintaining Health, Safety, Environmental & Quality (HSEQ) certification.
- Communicating clearly about the behaviours we expect our people to choose, and the quality we must all demonstrate across the organisation.
- Developing programs like the Silver Service Maintenance System that help Coates Hire to excel in fleet availability, utilisation and quality and maintain the integrity of service we offer to our customers.
- Training is another important tool for achieving quality in our industry, particularly around communication, which can lead to better efficiency and performance in all areas of business – including quality.
Quality can be complex to achieve, with many phases, suppliers, standards and materials involved in delivering construction projects. Project managers also tread a fine line between balancing project costs, timeframes and quality – often with conflicting demands. But quality must
remain a top priority for our industry.
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Dr. Kathy Fox
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The following projects are supported by Watson College of Education research grants:
2. Access to Culturally Relevant Children’s Literature. This study examines the accessibility of culturally relevant children’s literature in one elementary school, designated as Title 1 due to high poverty demographic population, using both the school and classroom libraries as access points. How do classroom teachers build their classroom libraries? What resources in the community influence their choices? How do classroom teachers and school libraries use these resources in serving the school population?
Family literacy - in particular in regards to
what families "bring to the table" from their diverse
Please see my curriculum vitae for a current list.
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The operator of Japan’s crippled nuclear plant said Wednesday it was still working on a detailed plan to end the country’s nuclear crisis a month after it began, as tests showed radiation levels in the sea near the complex had spiked.
Engineers moved a step closer to emptying highly radioactive water from one of the six crippled reactors, which would allow them to start repairing the cooling system crucial to regaining control of the reactors.
Japan’s nuclear safety agency said the latest tests showed radiation nearly doubled last week, to 23 times above legal limits, in the sea off Minamisoma city near the plant.
Radiation in Tokyo, 240 km (150 miles) from the plant, had fallen to pre-disaster levels Tuesday, the science ministry said late Wednesday.
A series of strong aftershocks this week has rattled eastern Japan, slowing the recovery effort at the Fukushima Daiichi plant due to temporary evacuations of workers and power outages.
The beleaguered president of operator Tokyo Electric Power Co (TEPCO) said the situation at the nuclear plant, wrecked by a 15-meter tsunami on March 11, had stabilized.
But TEPCO president Masataka Shimizu said the firm was still preparing a blueprint to end the crisis, now rated on a par with the world’s worst nuclear accident, the 1986 Chernobyl disaster.
“As instructed by Prime Minister Kan we are working out the specific details of how to handle the situation so they can be disclosed as soon as possible,” a relaxed-looking Shimizu told a news conference in Tokyo.
Shimizu has been largely absent from the recovery operation, spending time in hospital and only visiting the area Monday. He refused to comment on public calls for his resignation, and again apologized to the Japanese people for the crisis.
“We are making the utmost effort to bring the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi to a cold shutdown and halt the spread of radiation,” he said.
TEPCO’s Tokyo head office has been the target of angry protests over the nuclear crisis and authorities took no chances Wednesday, with riot trucks and security officers guarding the front gate during the news conference.
Latest data shows much more radiation leaked from the Daiichi plant in the early days of the crisis than first thought, prompting officials to rate it on a par with the Chernobyl disaster.
But experts were quick to point out the two crises were vastly different in terms of radiation contamination, and on Wednesday, Russia’s nuclear chief said Japan was exaggerating the scope of the disaster.
“It is hard for me to assess why the Japanese colleagues have taken this decision. I suspect, this is more of a financial issue, than a nuclear one,” Sergei Kiriyenko said on the sidelines of a meeting of major economies in southern China.
There have been fears of contamination among Japan’s neighbors, but China said the impact there had been small, noting the radiation was just 1 percent of what it had experienced from Chernobyl.
The toll of the disaster is rising. More than 13,000 people have been confirmed dead, and Wednesday the government cut its outlook for the economy, in deflation for almost 15 years, for the first time in six months.
“The biggest risks, or uncertain factors for the economy, are when power supplies will recover, whether the nuclear situation will keep from worsening,” Economics Minister Kaoru Yosano said.
The total cost of the triple catastrophe has been estimated at $300 billion, making it the world’s most costly natural disaster. TEPCO said it was working on a compensation plan.
The Yomiuri newspaper reported Wednesday that the government may cap TEPCO’s liability to as little as $24 billion for damages. Bank of America-Merrill Lynch has estimated compensation claims of more than $130 billion.
SEAWATER RADIATION SPIKE
Radiation readings in seawater near the crippled plant spiked last week, Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency (NISA) said Wednesday.
Seawater samples collected Monday from around 15 km (9 miles) off the coast of Minamisoma city showed radiation in the water rose to 23 times the legal limit from 9.3 times on April 7, said Hidehiko Nishiyama, a NISA deputy director-general.
He later said NISA had asked TEPCO to assess the quake resistance of the buildings, and to look into how they could be reinforced against aftershocks.
“We need to think about how these aftershocks are affecting the buildings, which are already damaged,” he said.
Japan has expanded the 20 km (12 miles) evacuation zone around the plant because of high accumulated radiation.
No radiation-linked deaths have been reported and only 21 plant workers have been affected by minor radiation sickness.
Still, the increase in the severity level heightens the risk of diplomatic tension with Japan’s neighbors over radioactive fallout. Chinese Premier Wen Jiabao told Kan on Tuesday he was “concerned” about the release of radiation into the ocean.
“Its impact on our country’s environment has been small, equivalent to about 1 percent of the impact of the Chernobyl nuclear accident on our country,” China’s nuclear safety body said Wednesday.
“There is no need to adopt protective measures.”
Source: Reuters (Taiga Uranaka and Chisa Fujioka)
Although down-played, the radiation risk from Fukushima nuclear plant is no longer negligible– globally. The negative effects of the radiation on the environment and humans could only manifest many years from now.
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In today's fast paced world with emails, cell phones, and social media, it's very easy to get distracted. For those of us who work from home, it's an even bigger problem, with the TV, kids, and all the other unexpected events that happen in the course of a day which demand our attention. Most of us have long to do lists and very little time. So when we do get distracted, we feel angry with ourselves, and even more stressed out. However, by learning a few simple techniques, we can take back control, concentrate, and improve our efficiency.
10 Concentration Techniques for the Easily Distracted
Do you find it difficult to motivate yourself? Are you easily distracted? Follow these tips to improve your concentration and get things done.
10 Concentration Tips
Do not multitask. It will result in you doing several tasks badly. By doing one task at a time, you'll finish quicker, accomplish more, and your work will be of a higher standard.
Find a quiet environment to work in. I used to work in my living room. But the pull of the TV was always too much. Even if I didn't actually switch it on, I'd be sitting there trying to fight the urge to grab the remote control. Now I try to work from my study whenever possible. I listen to classical music (studies show it actually improves concentration). I prefer music without lyrics. If a song has lyrics, I find myself listening to the words instead of concentrating on what I'm doing. It helps to have a room that you only associate with work. If you don't have space in your home, or you find working from home too distracting, try a library or cafe.
Practice the 5 minute rule. If there is something that I'm having trouble starting, I tell myself I will only do it for 5 minutes. Most of the time, once I get started, I continue until the task is finished. But this technique helps me to begin.
Take regular breaks, especially if you are working on a computer. A good rule of thumb is 45 minutes of work, followed by a fifteen minute break. You can use the time to do something you enjoy or other things you need to do around the house. Go for a short walk. Giving a reward will motivate you to complete your task.
Set goals. Break big jobs into small, manageable chunks. For example, if you plan to write a Wizzley, first you might choose an idea, write a plan, a headline, and so on. Take one task at a time. Don't worry about the next step, just concentrate on what you are doing in this step. Finishing the step you are on will help you move on to the next step.
Do an easy task first to get you started. In their book "Working From Home: Managing Your Time, Money, and Stuff", Paul and Sarah Edwards recommend stopping mid-task at the end of the day. If you are a writer, stop writing in the middle of sentence, so you have an easy starting point the next day. If you really feel demotivated and overwhelmed by a job, focus on what you can do. By doing what you can, your confidence will increase, and that task that seemed like climbing up a mountain at the beginning of the day suddenly seems doable.
Have a routine. Having a specific work schedule helps train the mind to concentrate during these times.
Keep up hobbies and have fun. Don't burn out. If you are able to relax outside of work, it will you concentrate when you are working. Aim for balance. Getting fresh air and exercise are particularly important if you work from home. Get out and about. Working from home can be lonely. You might want to find a networking group in your area. This will not only give you valuable business contacts, but you'll also meet other people in the same situation.
Don't be a perfectionist. Be positive. I realized that a lot of my concentration and procrastination came from trying to be perfect. If I couldn't do something a hundred percent, I was too afraid to do it at all. But this attitude meant I never got to where I wanted to be and I never made progress. I learned it's okay to make mistakes. There are very few mistakes which can't be fixed. Besides making mistakes is part of the learning process. Imagine if you didn't get behind the wheel of a car until you knew everything about mechanics. You would never learn to drive. Learn from your mistakes. Don't give yourself a hard time.
Practice mindfulness techniques such as meditation. Be present in the moment. Let go of all your worries. If there is something you can do about them, do it. If not, let them go.
Music to Help You Concentrate
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Reaching The Finish Line
One of the great rewards of concentration is that you finish projects and achieve your goals. Start off with something small. There is no better feeling that ticking something off the to do list. You'll gain confidence and be inspired to achieve your next goal.
|Working From Home: Managing Your Time, Money & Stuff|
From the authorities on home-based business, Paul and Sarah Edwards, this gets as close as possible to everything you need to know, from office layout to maintaining personal relationships. A must for anyone considering working out of the home.
|Your Brain at Work: Strategies for Overcoming Distraction, Regaining Focus, and Working Smarter A...|
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Today we made a new attempt to discover some misconceptions that the students have about the teen numbers. To begin, we had the students use number cards to identify the number words. The students were able to quickly recognize the numbers 12-19, so we decided to ask the students to elaborate on how they know which number is which and how they “see the number”. Many of the students responded, “12 is 1 and 2”. Although this answer made sene visually to the students as a way to remember the number, we realized that this is not an accurate understanding of the number itself. I primed the students to continue their metacognition in order to realize their own misconception. I reiterated the students’ response, “so 12 is 1 and 2 right”, and simultaneously held up 1 finger on one hand and 2 fingers on the other. I asked the students, “so if 12 is 1 and 2, how many fingers are we holding up?”. The students responded 3 with a confused expression on their face. We asked them why we would hold up three fingers to represent 12. The students seemed stumped which is the type of intrigued confusion we were looking for. To develop the students’ understanding of the teen numbers, we told them we were playing a game in which they had to build towers to show the teen numbers, but the towers could only be 10 blocks tall. The students then proceeded to practice making towers of 10 and a few more loose cubes to represent each of the teen numbers. The students then compared the tower of 10 blocks to the first number “1” in each of the teen numbers. Their faces seemed to lighten as they began to discover that the initial “1” in the number is not really a one, but a “ten”. We will definitely need to further support this idea with the students through excersices which elaborate with the idea of a ten and ones group, but it was great to see the students begin to realize and adjust their own assumptions.
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EU Testing Software to Cut Airports' Emissions, Energy Costs
The CASCADE system has been pilot tested in the Rome and Milan airports and will save them $1.1 million per year, the European Commission announced July 28.
A new software and sensor system named CASCADE promises to reduce EU airports' carbon emissions and energy costs by 20 percent, the European Commission announced July 28. Commission funding supported its development, and pilot testing is now taking place in major Rome and Milan airports, with the system expected to save at least 6,000 MWh, equal to 42,000 tons of CO2 and saving $1.1 million annually.
Partners in Germany, Italy, Ireland, and Serbia are working on the new system, and the Airports Council International Europe – representing more than 450 airports in Europe – has committed its support, so the system will enter wider use beginning in 2015.
"Sensors and meters are placed on the infrastructure and communicate information to a central database," said Nicolas Réhault, coordinator of the CASCADE project at the Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems in Freiburg, Germany. "Innovative software can detect faults, for example fans operating when they are not required, simultaneous heating and cooling, control errors, and so on. It can then suggest corrective actions to the energy management and maintenance teams, like resetting controls or replacing faulty detectors."
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Tips and hints for paragliding students
Paragliding has gone from being a taboo, a sport to which fear is kept, to become the favourite aerial sport of thousands of people around the world. More and more people are putting on wings and embarking on the adventure of spotting clear blue skies, crowned by mountains or soaring the sand dunes with the sea breeze.
If you are also thinking about to learn to fly, here you have four tips that may help you to make your first steps to the sky:
1. Try a dual paragliding flight with a professional pilot.
Book your first tandem flight with a trustworthy company, better a paragliding school which offers instruction and support during the learning process. It is possible that you like paragliding from the ground, but nothing compares to being soaring the sky in live and direct; this, no doubt, will be a memory to treasure for your whole life. Hire a flight with a professional instructor who will also teach you the basics of paragliding and without the pressure of having to control the paraglider by yourself.
2. Sign up for a paragliding course.
If vertigo did not shock you, you may have gotten the hang of paragliding. Fears, anxiety, and prejudice are lost with practice, so it may be in your best interest to become a pilot. For this, you have to enrol in paragliding courses with certified professionals, who will be able to guide you from a beginner to Icarus.
3. Buy the right equipment.
Just as a tennis player needs a good racket or a footballer needs the right clothing, if you join the paragliding fans, you will need to have the basics to practice this sport. Your instructor can offer different paragliders at different prices and for a wide variety of budgets. It is important that the equipment purchased for this activity is in perfect condition.
4. Join a Paragliding Club.
Make friends. Joining a paragliding club is an excellent opportunity to make friends, free yourself from social pressures and meet people with interests similar to yours. In the club, you will meet experienced pilots and you will keep learning and progressing in your pilot career. | <urn:uuid:84d6ddb9-b04e-4e56-9228-4db30128f289> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.paraglidingspain.eu/uncategorized/4-tips-for-beginners-to-start-paragliding/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.96121 | 469 | 1.976563 | 2 |
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In addition to helping readers to understand conflicts and bargaining dynamics, this book shows how to negotiate in virtually any context, fully explaining the techniques, uses, and limits of mediation and other forms of negotiated dispute resolution. A detailed negotiation planning workform and graphic outline of the mediation process are among the numerous practical tools included. This guide is written in a progressive, building-block fashion, moving from simple to more complex ideas. The first section covers basic negotiating strategies, concepts, and tactics; the next discusses cognitive and psychological aspects of negotiation. The book goes on to explore elements that may complicate negotiations-in particular coalition-formation and bargaining for constituencies -- and concludes with a chapter on negotiation preparation and planning. Also included are a section on dispute resolution in special contexts affecting bargaining dynamics, and chapters dealing with negotiation in the context of litigation, basic mediation, and other negotiated dispute resolution processes. | <urn:uuid:9688083d-d964-4a77-9c22-eaf7c1abeea0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wildy.com/isbn/9781571052087/a-guide-to-negotiation-and-mediation-paperback-transnational-publishers-inc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00458-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9174 | 224 | 2.484375 | 2 |
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENT
AT THE SIGNING OF
THE 21ST CENTURY COMMUNICATIONS
AND VIDEO ACCESSIBILITY ACT OF 2010
2:06 P.M. EDT
THE PRESIDENT: Hello, everybody. Good to see you. Everybody, please have a seat. Well, it is wonderful to see all of you here today, to be with all of you. I want to make some special acknowledgements. We’ve got some legislators here who have been fighting on behalf of the disabilities community for a very long time. We’re so proud of the legislation I’m signing today, as well as legislation we signed earlier this week. So I want to acknowledge all of them.
First of all, responsible in large part for guiding this process through in the Senate — Senator Mark Pryor of Arkansas. Representative Ed Markey, Democrat from Massachusetts. We also have here Senator Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia. Senator Barbara Mikulski, Democrat of Maryland. We’ve got Kent Conrad, as well as Byron Dorgan — the Dakota boys from North Dakota. (Laughter.)
We’ve got Representative Henry Waxman, who’s on so many important pieces of legislation this year, and we’re grateful to him. Mr. Julius Genachowski is here, who’s the chairman of the FCC. Where’s Julius? There he is right there — a classmate of mine, somebody who has just been a great friend for a long time.
And finally, we’ve got this guy. (Laughter.) Some of you may know him. I happened to be listening to him this morning when I woke up. He’s what I work out to. (Laughter.) He’s what I sweet-talk Michelle to. (Laughter.) Mr. Stevie Wonder is in the house. (Applause.) I was doing a little rendition of some of his music to him and he was kind enough not to laugh. (Laughter.)
Now, earlier this year, we celebrated the 20th anniversary of the Americans with Disabilities Act right here in the White House. Many of you were here. And it was a moment for every American to reflect not just on one of the most comprehensive civil rights bills in our history, but what that bill meant to so many people. It was a victory won by countless Americans who refused to accept the world as it is, and against great odds, waged quiet struggles and grassroots crusades until finally change was won.
The story of the disability rights movement is enriched because it’s intertwined with the story of America’s progress. Americans with disabilities are Americans first and foremost, and like all Americans are entitled to not only full participation in our society, but also full opportunity in our society.
So we’ve come a long way. But even today, after all the progress that we’ve made, too many Americans with disabilities are still measured by what folks think they can’t do, instead of what we know they can do.
The fight for progress isn’t about sympathy, by the way — it’s about opportunity. And that’s why all of us share a responsibility to keep building on the work of those who came before us — one life, one law, one step at a time.
So today, we’re here to take two more steps on that journey. First of all, on Tuesday, I signed Rosa’s Law. This is named for a nine-year-old girl, right there — Rosa, wave to everybody. (Applause.) That’s some good waving there, Rosa. (Laughter.)
Rosa Marcellino — it’s so inspiring to have her here. As one of hundreds of thousands of Americans with Down Syndrome, Rosa worked with her parents and her siblings to have the words “mentally retarded” officially removed from the health and education code in her home state of Maryland.
Now, Rosa’s Law takes her idea a step further. It amends the language in all federal health, education and labor laws to remove that same phrase and instead refer to Americans living with an “intellectual disability.” Now this may seem to some people like a minor change, but I think Rosa’s brother Nick put it best — where’s Nick? You right there, Nick? You can wave, too. Go ahead. (Laughter.)
But I want everybody to hear Nick’s wisdom here. He said, “What you call people is how you treat them. If we change the words, maybe it will be the start of a new attitude towards people with disabilities.” That’s a lot of wisdom from Nick. (Applause.)
Nick and Rosa’s parents are all choking up because they’re really proud of their kids, and appropriately so.
Now, the bill I’m signing today into law will better ensure full participation in our democracy and our economy for Americans with disabilities. The 21st Century Communications and Video Accessibility Act will make it easier for people who are deaf, blind or live with a visual impairment to do what many of us take for granted — from navigating a TV or DVD menu to sending an email on a smart phone. It sets new standards so that Americans with disabilities can take advantage of the technology our economy depends on. And that’s especially important in today’s economy, when every worker needs the necessary skills to compete for the jobs of the future.
So together, these changes are about guaranteeing equal access, equal opportunity, and equal respect for every American. And they build on the progress that we’ve already made as an administration over the last 20 months.
Together, we put in place one of the most important updates to the ADA in 20 years by prohibiting disability-based discrimination by government entities and private businesses and by updating accessibility standards.
I issued an executive order focused on establishing the federal government as a model employer of Americans with disabilities.
We passed the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Act — the first piece of comprehensive legislation aimed at addressing the challenge faced by Americans living with paralysis.
We reauthorized the Children’s Health Insurance Program, covering an additional 2.6 million children in need in 2009, including children with disabilities.
And the Affordable Care Act we passed will give every American more control over their health care — and will do more to give Americans with disabilities control over their own lives than any legislation since the ADA.
So equal access. Equal opportunity. The freedom to make of our lives what we will. Living up to these principles is an obligation we have as Americans — and to one another. Because, in the end, each of us has a role to play in our economy. Each of us has something to contribute to the American story. And each of us must do our part to continue on this never-ending journey towards building a more perfect union.
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There are unique parts of your life that are shaped by your own personal history. This being said, do not assume that all parts of your history are completely unique. There are some common elements that many individuals in recovery share. For example, when you go to an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting, you will even hear some similar stories—or at least similar parts of the stories—from other members. Some of the similarities for many addicts are in the following areas:
No One Plans to Be an Addict
Addiction is not something any one plans. In most cases, addiction starts as experimentation, often in a social setting such as at a party. Whether the substance is alcohol, heroin or any other substance, the influence of peer pressure often leads to different decisions being made than if an individual is alone. In many situations, drugs are even combined together. Drinking alcohol can lead to marijuana use. Poor decisions lead to more poor decisions. In some cases, what happened is not even remembered, which can be a sign of having a black out. Symptoms of substance abuse from the NCADD include changes in appetite or behavior, shakes, tremors, slurred speech, changes in personality, seizures and unusual smells on breath, body or clothing.
To move forward, know that it is essential to be aware of your surroundings and to not allow others to manipulate you into doing things you do not really want to do. For the recovering addict, it is essential to not put themselves into very risky situations. Having a support network and a sponsor is often very helpful. Knowing what makes you want to use is very important as well.
Experimentation Turns Into Dependency
After social use, drugs are used more in isolation and in larger amounts. The reasons for continuing use are often stress related. It may be due to a job that is very stressful, financial problems, marital problems, relationship problems or many other reasons. Some addicts choose to pick up the bottle of alcohol or pills as a way to escape the world around them whether it is the past or present. There are many different factors here that may be unknown such as genetics. According to the National Institute of Drug Abuse, between 40 and 60 percent of the tendency toward addiction is related to genetics.
So if your father or mother was an alcoholic, you are much more likely to be addicted to alcohol as well. There are possible environmental factors that will vary from individual to individual in this regard. For example, you may have had an abusive relationship that was influenced by alcohol. This could even be part of the reason you use addiction to cope with stress from the past.
Being Chemically Dependent Has Many Different Repercussions in Your Life
Once an individual is fully addicted and not just using occasionally, your life changes. No longer do you have interest in anything else. The time you spend not getting high or drunk drags along. You are likely cranky, depressed and even suffering from withdrawals. There are many functional alcoholics according to the New York Times as high as 50 percent, but even if an individual is still employed and contributing to society, the individual is slowly falling apart. Relationships start to deteriorate. Slowly lies and half-truths start to pop up and this leads to distance. It is impossible to be fully engaged when you are addicted. You must be sober to be fully present and healthy.
This is a similarity where all addicts must find healing and restoration when they enter the recovery process. While it is impossible to fix the past, there can be healing and forgiveness which lead to a brighter today and tomorrow.
Treatment Is Not a Quick Process
At some point to enter recovery, your addiction requires treatment. The specific treatment does not matter as much as the use of treatment. The Twelve steps and Cognitive Behavior Therapy (CBT) are two popular methods that have many things in common and also have helped millions of people. These treatments do not need to be recreated or torn apart to be applied. The general concepts of recovery are very similar.
The following is a summary of the fundamentals of recovery:
- Be humble and honest enough to admit that you are addicted.
- Get help from someone you trust like friends or family.
- Get professional treatment, if needed, to stop using.
- Have accountability for your newly sober life.
- Seek out continual treatment like a therapist or support group.
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UC Clermont student turns challenges into opportunities
When Isabella Burton started classes at the University of Cincinnati's Clermont campus in August 2017, she faced all the typical challenges of a college freshman — finding her classrooms, meeting professors and making new friends. But Burton faced an additional hurdle: navigating life as a new student from her wheelchair.
Burton, who graduated from Batavia High School in 2017, was born with spina bifida, a birth defect where there backbone and membranes around the spinal cord fail to develop properly. Burton’s spinal cord was exposed at birth, and she has undergone several surgeries in her lifetime.
Burton walked until age 13, when two back surgeries eventually led to her using a wheelchair for mobility most of the time. Transitioning into the chair just as she entered her teenage years, she said, was emotionally difficult.
“It’s a tough age anyway, and adding that change was rough,” Burton said. “But my mom, dad and sister have always supported me, and they helped me through it. I’ve always believed that I could do anything I wanted to do.”
Now 19, Burton wants to earn her bachelor’s and master’s degrees in social work so that she can help clients with drug addictions — an interest that began after watching TV programs like A&E’s “Intervention,” she said.
Searching for an affordable option and a gentle introduction to college life, Burton began exploring the opportunities at UC Clermont. She plans to complete her associate degree in social work at the college before transitioning to UC’s Uptown campus to continue her studies.
“I loved that it was a smaller campus,” said Burton. “I would recommend UC Clermont to anyone, especially people who need accessible resources.”
She highlighted the school’s "College Success Program," which helps students prepare for college-level courses, for easing her transition from high school to post-secondary studies. She also said the accessibility resources office at UC Clermont has been helpful.
When she isn't in class, Burton can often be found at work: she takes tickets during Cougar basketball and volleyball games in the Student Activities Center.
The personalized attention she has received from faculty and staff — and the friendships she’ has developed with other students — have made her experience at UC Clermont a positive one, Burton said.
She recalled when an elevator broke on her first day of classes, and she couldn’t get to her classroom — so the class came to her instead. One of those classmates, Bryanna Deaton, became her best friend.
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- Basic production processes
- Colourplate production
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photoengraving, any of several processes for producing printing plates by photographic means. In general, a plate coated with a photosensitive substance is exposed to an image, usually on film; the plate is then treated in various ways, depending upon whether it is to be used in a relief (letterpress) or an intaglio (gravure) printing process.
Engraving is the broad term for the procedure used in making plates, in which printing and nonprinting areas are distinguished by their height with respect to the general plane of the surface, the artistic decoration created by mechanically incising a design into a surface, and the creation of original works of art by tooling or etching an image into the metal (or plastic) surface and transferring the resultant image to paper. For detailed information on these last two subjects, see printmaking. This article is limited to consideration of the procedures whereby a printing surface useful in the production of multiple ink-on-paper images is produced.
The term photoengraving is correctly applied to the procedures discussed here, since the use of light energy, as involved in photographic processes, is essential. A distinction must be made between a relief printing plate, in which the ink-carrying (or image-bearing) surface coincides with the general level of the plate surface, with nonimage portions cut below the surface, and intaglio printing surfaces, in which the ink-carrying image elements are incised into the plate surface. In the first type of printing, a uniform film of ink is distributed over the surface of the plate and transferred from the individual image elements to the receiving paper surface. In the second, the plate is flooded with a low-viscosity (thin) ink, then wiped with a blade (doctor blade) to remove any ink adhering to the surface. The doctoring action leaves the incised intaglio image filled with ink; later, as paper is brought into contact with this image and pressure is applied, surface-tension and capillary-action forces cause the ink to transfer from the plate to the paper.
History of photoengraving
The earliest engraved printing units were wood engravings, in which the nonimage areas of an illustration were removed by carving them from the surface of a flat wood block. The oldest known illustration printed from a wooden block was a Buddhist scroll discovered in 1866, in Korea. While the dating of the print is not exact, it is believed to have been prepared about 750 ce. The Chinese Diamond Sutra, dated 868, incorporates a woodcut title page and text that includes numerous woodcut images.
From these 8th- and 9th-century dates, it is clear that the use of woodcuts (images cut into a surface parallel to the wood grain) and wood-block engravings (images incised into the end grain of an assembled block) antedates the invention of movable type. The earliest extant example of a European print from a wood engraving to which a reliable date may be attributed is a print titled “St. Christopher,” dated 1423, discovered in the library of the Carthusian monastery in Buxheim, Germany. Another authenticated example of 15th-century wood-block printing is the “Apocalypse of St. John,” printed in 1450, after a 14th-century manuscript.
Early etched plates
Plates engraved in wood continued to find use in printing application through the late-medieval and early-modern periods. Plates made of copper, pewter, and other metals were also produced, by a process in which an image in wax or bitumen was drawn on, or transferred to, the surface of the plate and nonimage areas removed by action of appropriate acids.
Preparation of intaglio printing plates by coating a metal plate with an etchant-resistant substance (ground) such as wax, bitumen, or shellac, scratching through this substance (ground) to expose the plate surface, then etching in acids is also a late-medieval European development. This process, however, developed as a medium of artistic expression, rather than a technique for the mass production of printed images.
The first experimental application of light-sensitive materials to the production of printing surfaces was made by Joseph Nicéphore Niepce, of France, an early researcher in lithography who began his experiments in about 1813. He is credited with having produced the first permanent photograph. In 1826 Niepce coated a pewter or copper plate with a photosensitive asphaltum and exposed the surface to bright sunlight through an etching of a portrait, which served as a positive image. Sunlight passing through the background of the etching hardened the asphaltum, while the protected areas, under the inked portion of the etching, were developed in oil of lavender and white petroleum to create an image in exposed metal. This image was then etched into the plate, and from the intaglio image, prints were made on a copperplate press.
Though this basic discovery was of historical importance, it did not bring about the immediate use of photoengraved images for printing, and many other attempts to produce engravings by exploitation of the photosensitivity of various natural compounds were made by experimenters in Europe and the United States. The origin of the modern photoengraving process rests, however, on the report (1839) by a Scottish scientist and inventor, Mungo Ponton, of the light-sensitive properties of certain chromium compounds. But Ponton, who demonstrated the chemical change that occurs when glue containing a compound of chromium is acted upon by light, was not concerned with preparation of printing plates, and it remained for William Henry Fox Talbot, an English pioneer in photography, to propose the use of chromium-treated colloids such as albumin as an etchant-resistant for preparation of intaglio printing surfaces.
Early 19th-century work on production of chemically etched letterpress printing plates antedated, in many instances, the invention of photography. A researcher in Paris developed a process for the preparation of engravings on zinc. His work involved transfer of an image to the zinc plate by mechanical means, using ink or wax, and the removal of the nonprinting areas in a series of etching operations, each of which involved applying a coating of ink to the sidewalls of the etched lines by means of resilient rollers. The ink served to protect the lines of the engraving from the action of the etching acid, so that the printing area was not reduced. | <urn:uuid:1b3ae0e3-ad55-44c7-9b66-6338bddd5ae4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.britannica.com/technology/photoengraving | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.955478 | 1,422 | 3.78125 | 4 |
This One Thing Happens to Almost Everyone's Core in Pregnancy
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Your abs will probably separate, but it's not the end of the world (promise!). Here's what to know—and how to keep your core strong despite the split.
- Abdominal separation, called diastasis recti (DR), often happens as your abs move out of the way for your expanding uterus.
- While DR doesn't cause weakness, it can make you less likely to train your core, leading to loss of strength.
- Changing up your core work and connecting with your breath can help minimise the impact of DR.
Read on to learn more ...
*This content is designed to inform and inspire, but it is not meant to diagnose, treat or give specific medical advice. Always check with your health care provider about how to stay healthy and safe before, during and after pregnancy.
When you're pregnant, it's probably obvious that your belly is growing. But what you might not realise is that there's something pretty wild happening just under the surface to adjust for your changing shape.
We all have a line of thick, ropey tissue called the linea alba running down the middle of our core that connects the two halves of the abs (specifically the rectus abdominis, aka the "six-pack" muscles). The linea alba thins as your belly expands and your abs move out of the way to make room for your growing baby, says Laurel Proulx, DPT, PhD, a pelvic health physiotherapist in Colorado Springs and the founder of FEM Physical Therapy. As this connective tissue stretches out with pregnancy, it becomes thinner and more pliable, explains Proulx. The result? Diastasis recti, DR for short, or a separation between the left and right side of the pack.
Diastasis recti shows up in one-third of women by 21 weeks of their pregnancy, according to one study published in the British Journal of Sports Medicine. And nearly all women will experience it to some degree before the big day, says Proulx. The good news, she says, is that for the majority of people, these muscles come back together naturally by 12 weeks post-partum.
For some, they don't, which is OK too: Even elite athletes have competed with diastasis recti (reduction in width isn't required for a return to exercise). But fears about the safety of exercising with DR can lead people to take it too easy, avoiding core work and subsequently losing strength, and the sensation of weakness and instability can cause people to adjust movement patterns in a way that could lead to injury, says Brianna Battles, a certified strength and conditioning specialist in Eagle, Idaho, and the founder of Pregnancy and Postpartum Athleticism.
That lack of core coordination and function, not the separation itself, can be connected to back pain and pelvic floor dysfunction, says Proulx. And the separation can also cause the post-pregnancy "pooch" that bothers some people. (Some women opt for surgery to bring their abs back together. That's fine if you want an aesthetic fix, says Proulx, but surgery won't improve core strength or function.)
Even though some level of DR is inevitable (and it's tied to factors out of your control, like genetics and how you carry, says Battles), you want to have it on your radar early on, when you can switch up your habits to preserve a healthy core and maintain a feel-good workout routine. Start here:
1. Work your core right.
If you train your core throughout pregnancy, you're more likely to move with less pain and discomfort, says Proulx. But certain old-school core work, such as crunches, bicycles and sit-ups, isn't the best for your belly once you start to show. For one, your bump gets in the way, which can mess with your form. And abdominal changes mean that flexion, or forward bending, can put unnecessary pressure on the linea alba and pelvic floor.
A visible bump is also a good cue to take your other go-to core exercises down a notch, especially if you notice your belly coning (more on what that means below). For example, take some pressure off your belly during plank exercises by dropping to your knees or placing your hands or forearms on a sturdy bench or table. You can also prioritise multi-joint exercises, such as squats, deadlifts, lunges and farmers carries, all of which activate your abs throughout the move but don't require the flexion that increases pressure in this area, says Battles.
2. Breathe easy.
"Bearing down or holding your breath when lifting or doing an exercise puts excessive pressure on your abdominal wall and pelvic floor", says Proulx. To support your body in motion, work with your breath, not against it: When you squat, lunge or do other strength-building moves, exhale to engage your transverse abdominis, aka TA, the deep core muscles that wrap around your midsection like a corset from front to back. A good rule of thumb is to inhale on the way down and exhale as you return to standing from a squat, lunge or deadlift.
OK, but how exactly do you engage the TA? "You're looking for a bottom-up contraction, as if you're zipping up a tight pair of jeans", explains Proulx. That means your lower belly will engage, not just the upper abs. If you have a baby bump, activating your TA should pull it gently in and up. If you haven't popped yet, your stomach should flatten a bit.
The earlier you start practising activating your TA, the easier it should be as your belly grows. That said, it's also good to allow your abs to relax when you're at rest—no need to "suck it in", which creates excess pressure and tension on the midline as well as the pelvic floor, says Battles.
3. Watch for coning.
Coning, or doming, is when the middle of your belly pushes out in a literal cone shape in response to intra-abdominal pressure. To quickly see what this looks like, lie on your back, knees bent, with your shirt pulled up, and start to do a crunch or sit-up. See that little cone sticking out in the middle of your bump? That's what we're trying to be careful about. Now please return to your temporarily sit-up-free lifestyle.
You may have been taught to fear coning, but it's not necessarily a sign of disaster, says Battles. Your belly is simply giving you important information about the need to adjust your movement. "That's feedback that you're generating so much forward force, you can see it", she explains. It's a symptom of diastasis recti and a sign that you may need to reconnect with your deep core or switch up the exercise itself to focus on one you can perform without the dome.
FYI, coning can also happen during regular daily activities, like getting off the couch or out of bed. If you see it happen, try again with better deep core connection (go back to step no. 2). If you still see it happening, it may be smart to use your hands to press yourself up to a seated or standing position.
Once baby is here, you'll need to give yourself time and grace to restore your core strength. But you know what? You'll get there—so many new parents say they've never felt stronger.
Words: Jessica Migala
Photography: Vivian Kim
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The “tragedy of the commons” — the theory that a shared resource will be inevitably overused without government intervention, as Planet Money puts it — was widely-held as a fundamental paradox of modern economics and ecology.
Elinor Ostrom changed all that.
Ostrom, 78, died of pancreatic cancer Tuesday at a Bloomington hospital after five decades on the Indiana University faculty.
Colleagues remember her for her humility and generosity. But the world will remember Ostrom for the achievement that won her the 2009 Nobel Prize in Economics — to date, she’s the only woman to receive that honor — as Planet Money writes:
She was famous for challenging an idea known as the tragedy of the commons — the theory that, in the absence of government intervention, people will inevitably overuse a shared resource.
So, for example, if a village shares a pasture, it’s in the individual interest of each farmer to graze his cattle as much as possible on the pasture even though, in the long run, overgrazing may ruin the pasture for everyone.
“It’s a problem, it’s just not necessarily a tragedy,” Ostrom told us when we spoke to her in 2009. “The problem is that people can overuse [a shared resource], it can be destroyed, and it is a big challenge to figure out how to avoid that.”
But, she said, economists were “wrong to indicate that people were helplessly trapped and the only way out was some external government coming in or dividing it up into chunks and everyone owning their own.”
To mount her challenge to the tragedy of the commons, “Lin” — as she was known — crossed over boundaries separating academic disciplines. Though a political scientist by training, Ostrom’s is remembered for contributions to economics, anthropology and even fisheries management.
Here’s IU provost Lauren Robel in an interview with StateImpact and Indiana Public Media Tuesday:
Nowadays, interdisciplinarity is the catch word. But when Lin started, it was not a possibility. She never let boundaries define the questions. She never let any kind of boundary define the questions. Not disciplinary boundaries, not geographical boundaries — no boundaries. She never let the way in which academics traditionally define things, define her. As a result, she did brilliant work.
Colleague Burney Fischer agreed with Robel’s characterization in an interview with Indiana Public Media.
“People talk about collaborative research, the National Science Foundation tries to encourage it. She’s been doing it for 30 years. So in many years, she’s so far ahead of everybody else in terms of thinking that way,” Fischer says.
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When the Bush administration first embraced it five years ago, the idea seemed like good conservative education theory and the most promising device around to improve academic standards in American schools. The "it" was "outcome-based education," and OBE was going to help make Bush the "education president." At its core was a fundamental shift in education policy from a focus on inputs--hours spent in class, years of schooling completed, courses taken, dollars spent--to the definition and measurement of academic outcomes. OBE fit perfectly with the increasingly fashionable idea of school decentralization. The state would promulgate guidelines and develop assessments for what students should know and do; the local school would determine how to reach those goals.
The standards and assessments, moreover, were to be "criterion referenced," meaning they would be based on what students had to know in the real world (thus presumably closing the gap with the Germans and the Japanese), not normed, as they had always been, according to what the average student was doing. Chester E. Finn, the most innovative educational thinker in the Reagan and Bush administrations, pushed hard for OBE, and it became part of Bush's America 2000 education proposals. The idea also became a cornerstone of Bill Clinton's education program, now enshrined in Goals 2000--the Educate America Act--which Clinton signed last spring.
But a funny thing happened to OBE on the way from Checker Finn's embrace to its implementation in the classroom, and thereby hangs a revealing tale about why it's so hard to reform American schools. Mention outcome-based education now to the religious conservatives at Citizens for Excellence in Education (CEE) or the National Association of Christian Educators, with which CEE is affiliated, or to the conservative members of Focus on the Family or Concerned Women for America or Phyllis Schlafly's Eagle Forum, and they're likely to become apoplectic. Depending on the version, they insist, OBE is either nonsensical mumbo jumbo or part of something very sinister: undermining children's religious faith, promoting "politically correct issues such as environmentalism, gun control and homosexuality" in the words of Rutherford Institute President John W. Whitehead, and thus representing "one of the most frightening assaults on individual freedom we've ever faced." OBE, says former Education Secretary Bill Bennett (who happens to be one of Checker Finn's heroes), has become a tool for the education establishment to advance its own social agenda: "a Trojan horse for social engineering."
In the past couple of years, pitched battles have been fought over OBE and related programs from one end of the country to the other: in Pennsylvania and Virginia, Washington and California, Kentucky and Oklahoma, and a great many local communities in between. In some instances, those fights have been over shadows: a story in a new state curriculum guide that seems to some group to question the primacy of heterosexual marriage as the foundation of social life, or that suggests to someone that maybe the writer is trying to foist vegetarianism and animal rights on the tender minds of fourth graders.
But to dwell on these phantoms of the new school wars would distort a far more complex story. This is not only a controversy between an ever-reasonable education establishment and the know-nothing right, as the annual textbook censorship reports of the liberal People for the American Way seem to suggest; nor is it just a fight against attempts by the forces of political correctness to capture the hearts and minds of our children, as conservatives like Thomas Sowell or Dinesh D'Souza would have it. At bottom it reflects genuine social, intellectual, and ideological controversies about how children should be taught, what they should learn, and what, ultimately, schools should be in a democratic society. Unless the progressive education establishment begins to appreciate the sources of resistance to reform, it will invite the kind of paralyzing backlash we have seen in many areas of our national life.
Lost in the Translation
The OBE fights have raised important educational and ideological issues. If OBE was a welcome answer to conservative impatience with the constant emphasis on school inputs (which usually meant demands for more money), few people noticed that it also dovetailed nicely with a major liberal agenda: to get rid of objective testing and rote learning in favor of so-called performance-based assessment--more open-ended essay questions, more problem solving, more analysis, more emphasis on "higher-order" reasoning, perhaps even more creativity. At the very pinnacle of OBE guru William Spady's "Demonstration Mountain" was something called the "transformational zone," where assignments transcend the bounds of specific academic disciplines and require "real world . . . complex role performances," sometimes called "authentic assessment." For all its jargon, Spady's pinnacle seemed to be precisely what a lot of employers were looking for: applicants with social skills, the ability to work cooperatively, tolerance of people of other races, and skills suited to solve practical problems. In many states, the Business Roundtable was a major booster of OBE-type reforms.
But OBE also lends itself to monumental mushiness, and when state departments of education produced their new OBE guidelines for local districts, they often included such outcomes as "positive self-image," "environmental stewardship," "openness to change," "appreciation of diversity in others [and] appreciation of the global community," "interpersonal competencies," "a willingness to question things," and "holistic learning." Those criteria not only brought the Christian right into the battle, sometimes with barrages of misinformation; they also made a great many other parents nervous. Were students going to be tested on this stuff? Were school curricula going to be based on it? OBE, Finn said recently, "was hijacked."
Spady, who is a full-time private consultant on OBE to school systems and state education departments, says those outcomes aren't integral to OBE. As Spady sees it, things got "mistranslated" on the way down: "Values, attitudes, and psychological states like self concept and tolerance are not outcomes and cannot be measured." The important thing, in his view, was to free local districts from the time requirements and curricular boxes that are staples of all education codes: so many years of English and math; so many hours in class. The purpose, he says, is not to impose new mandates but to free schools from the old ones. But he also speaks of stressing "broad attitudinal, affective, motivational and relational qualities."
Whatever his intent, affective OBE set off fights in scores of places. In Pennsylvania and Virginia OBE became a major political issue that, in the words of CEE, was nothing less than "a battle between secular humanists and persons who believe in Judeo-Christian values." OBE, CEE charged, might eventually include gay and lesbian studies; the initiative would lead to the collection of data on the personal moral beliefs and values of individual students, and then to the development of means of altering those beliefs. In the end, OBE was withdrawn or blocked in Virginia, Ohio, and Oklahoma, at least temporarily stopped in Connecticut, and, after a school board was recalled, repealed in Littleton, Colorado, where it had been in place for more than two years. While it survived in Pennsylvania, it did so only after the state agreed to downplay the affective goals and to guarantee that students would not be assessed on them. Yet OBE remains the theoretical cornerstone of the Clinton education reform program and, depending on the definition, versions of OBE are in place in a growing number of states. Among them, according to the nonpartisan Education Commission of the States, are Kentucky, which has overhauled its entire education system, Oregon, Utah, and all overseas U.S. military dependents' schools. Meanwhile, in places like Florida, the battle goes on.
From Dewey to Pumsy
The struggles over OBE resonate with echoes of curriculum fights past--fights about the inclusion of the United Nations and one-worldism in the social studies curricula of the 1950s and 1960s, fights in the teaching of reading between phonics and look-say, fights over the "open school" and between child-centered and discipline-centered learning--fights, most commonly, between traditionalists and Deweyan progressives. The religious right continues to resist the inclusion of Catcher in the Rye and Of Mice and Men in high school English courses and is still battling furiously to give what it calls scientific creationism equal time with evolution (and, if some of them had their druthers, more than equal time). Liberals are still complaining about Huck Finn and prayers at school graduation exercises.
But the new ideological controversies are loaded with a great deal of additional freight, much of it derived from the national uncertainties about multiculturalism and from escalating mandates that schools educate all students from that great diversity at least through the twelfth grade, which has never been done anywhere. Those mandates pile yet more demands on the already excessive burdens of the schools--AIDS education, sex education, tolerance for ethnic diversity (and often for diversity in sexual preference as well), environmentalism, animal rights, inclusion of even the severely handicapped in regular classes, classes for 14-year-old mothers, and programs to enhance self-esteem. In New York, the chancellor orders the schools to "include references to lesbians and gays in all curricular areas" and requires that they be treated as "real people to be respected and appreciated." In Southampton, New York, school officials cancel a student production of Peter Pan after some local Indians complain that the song "Ugg-a-Wugg" is offensive. In Flushing, the same fate befalls an elementary school production of Annie Get Your Gun after somebody complains that the word "gun" might encourage violence. In Lake County, Florida the local board, reacting to the miasma of "multiculti" relativism, orders that American culture be presented as "superior to other foreign or other historic cultures." In a Texas district, Santa's name comes off the classroom wall because it's an anagram of Satan.
And then there's Pumsy, a blue dragon in an elementary school series of self-esteem books who is a little short of self-confidence because she doesn't breathe enough fire and who finally gets it together through the power of positive thinking: "I am me," goes a Pumsy anti-drug mantra, "and I'm okay." (Shades of the Reader's Digest of the Eisenhower era). For the 210,000 member CEE, the trouble with Pumsy is that she becomes too self-reliant, thereby undermining the authority of parents, teachers, and organized religion. CEE has waged war on Pumsy all over the country; in 1993 People for the American Way listed Pumsy as one of the leading targets of attempts by the religious right to censor school curricula. But you surely don't have to be a religious fundamentalist to wonder whether trying to generate self-esteem ahead of (or apart from) genuine achievement isn't getting things backward. A few years ago, "Doonesbury" did in the cult of self-esteem better than all the forces of CEE.
A great many of those new cultural imperatives, and particularly those focused on equity and diversity, have now become part of the civic religion of the public schools. It thus shouldn't be surprising that conservative ideas like OBE lose (or gain) a great deal in translation as they move toward the classroom. The problem is compounded by the proclivity of the schools for "whole-hoggism": No curriculum change is ever gradual.
Thus, when it's decided that concentration on the basics--the refrain of the late 1970s and 1980s--leaves kids unable to solve real problems or to develop what the trade calls "higher-order skills," the tendency is not just to modify the curriculum but to substitute a new one. And so "whole language" reading programs are instituted to emphasize the comprehension of literature, not just the decoding of words and sentences. But instead of retaining things like phonics, the new syllabus in California now tells teachers they should never teach phonics except in the context of a "whole language" framework. That, the critics charge, probably with some justification, has helped to drive California's fourth-grade reading scores down to forty-eighth in the nation, just above Mississippi's. But don't worry, say the state guidelines, if the kids can't spell the words or remember the multiplication tables; the mechanics should always be subordinate. "Early memorization of number facts is seen as a hindrance rather than a help in developing mathematical understanding," the guidelines say. The important thing is that the student gets the general idea. Similarly, the influential National Council of Teachers of Mathematics calls for "a shift toward mathematical reasoning . . . toward conjecturing, inventing and problem solving--away from an emphasis on mechanistic answer-finding."
That may sometimes be a perfectly sensible proposition. But when it hardens into all-purpose doctrine, it has no more validity than what the progressives call drill-and-kill. And, of course, it drives a lot of traditionalists nuts.
California's CLAS Struggle
And so we come to what may be the most revealing of the contemporary ideological curriculum battles, the fight last spring over CLAS, the California Learning Assessment System, a so-called performance-based test. In 1991, when Republican Governor Pete Wilson enthusiastically signed the bill authorizing its development, CLAS, like OBE, was expected to become a major instrument for driving the public schools toward higher academic standards. It was also supposed to be a model for the Clinton school reform program. CLAS tests were to be given in grades four, eight, and ten in reading, writing, and math, and in grades five and ten in history, social science, and natural science, and would require a lot more than fill-in-the-bubble answers to multiple-choice questions. The tests would demand analysis, problem solving, and comprehension based on global criteria. Since each test was to provide individual scores for each student, as well as average scores for each school and district, it would also send a persuasive message to the many complacent parents who thought, contrary to most international comparisons, that the A's and B's their kids were getting in school really meant they were doing well.
But last June, after a series of increasingly embarrassing disclosures, Wilson killed CLAS's funding. Several months later he killed a bill extending and reforming CLAS. By then complaints about the test had come not just from the religious right but from the teachers unions, the state school boards, and a wide range of others who had once been strong backers of the test. These groups now objected that the questions intruded into the personal lives and beliefs of students; that in shifting to open-ended questions the basics were all but ignored; that the reading samples offended religious sensibilities and, in some cases, contained racial stereotypes to boot; and, worst of all, that CLAS didn't measure the things it purported to measure.
Some of the early attacks on the test, which was first given in 1993, were just plain silly: that an Alice Walker story about a Christian (black) woman who marries a Muslim fosters religious relativism; that a child's musings in an Annie Dillard story about a snowball fight were too violent; that another Alice Walker essay on the life of a horse was "anti-meat-eating." In some cases, the complaints parodied themselves. CEE, which was one of the leaders of the fight from the start, complained that on an arithmetic item in which fourth graders were asked how they would divide five apples among four people, the preferred answer was one apple apiece, with the fifth going to the neediest. Nobody could ever produce evidence for such an item, but since state officials, for legitimate security reasons, never disclosed all the test questions, no one could ever prove that the item didn't exist. Still, it seemed reasonable that when some districts asked to be exempted from the test--a number were hit with parent lawsuits filed by the Rutherford Institute, which now regards itself as the civil liberties union of the religious right--the state Education Department argued that they ought not give in to a bunch of religious nuts.
At that point, however, a host of other problems began to emerge. While the department, in its first trial of the test, wisely decided not to give individual scores and to confine its reports to school and district averages, the Los Angeles Times learned that in several hundred schools, those averages were based on the test results of a handful of students and in some cases on no more than one. But that disclosure paled next to news about the test items themselves, particularly on the reading portions. Those items, instead of first asking specific questions about the reading passages, asked students in the fourth grade to note down their "thoughts and feelings about this story." Tenth graders were asked to tell their "first response (ideas, questions, or opinions)." Thereafter they were invited to tell "what it means to you . . . how it relates to your own life, or whatever else you think is important." There were also cartoon-type balloons (or empty heads) to fill in with words or pictures describing what the characters were thinking.
Defenders of the test, echoing the conventional (and depressing) classroom wisdom, argued that, far from being intrusive, such questions reflected standard classroom practice; there was no way to engage kids in the reading unless it was directly related to their own lives. Moreover, they said, in another bow to current fashion, different children learned and expressed themselves best in different ways--hence the empty heads and the invitation to students to draw pictures.
But if the questions were not intrusive invitations to discuss personal and family problems, they were at least self-referential. They demanded not answers and analysis that would show how well the student had read and understood the text but "your first response" (in the tenth grade) or "your thoughts and feelings" (in the fourth). If this was a test of anything, it was a test of writing, not of reading. It seemed to foster the idea that no literary text had content, much less merit, that could be objectively understood and analyzed; it existed only as a mirror of the reader's own experience. It was hardly surprising, therefore, that a lot of people, including Wilson's own secretary of education and child development, were asking why there weren't at least some objective, short-answer questions on the test.
Yet if the reading test suggested the embrace of the prevailing education establishment ideology, the solitary sample of the fifth grade science test that the Department of Education provided fairly shouted it. The item, titled "Don't send it to the landfill!," was devoted to the proper disposal of household waste. Given a bagful of "trash," the students were told to think about the properties of such items as tin, paper, and glass, sort them, and then discuss the best methods of disposal. Finally, they were told, "The landfills in our state are running out of space! Write a letter to Governor Wilson telling him how we can reduce the amount of trash we send to our landfills." (All exclamation points in the original.) "This isn't science [but] propaganda," Los Angeles Daily News columnist Linda Seebach wrote. Just as important, in many respects the test was factually wrong and economically misleading.
What made the prospects for CLAS's performance-based future particularly dim was the fact that the independent statistical validation that Wilson ordered (from a group of psychometricians headed by Lee Cronbach of Stanford) cast grave doubts on the possibility that the test could be made reliable for the individual scores that the test was supposed to provide. It was hard for anyone to develop much confidence that a score of 4 in Bakersfield was the same as a score of 4 in Eureka, much less in what the standards were for either. American Federation of Teachers President Al Shanker, who has vigorously pushed for higher school standards, has predicted that it will take 20 years to develop reliable performance-based tests, and there was nothing in CLAS to suggest he's wrong. But that did not prevent FairTest, the Cambridge-based organization that opposes objective testing with something approaching religious fervor, from immediately concluding that it was the Christian right that had done CLAS in.
It's striking how quickly our struggles about curriculum ideas escalate into quasi-religious controversies over social or moral absolutes. The right sees a conspiracy by the federal government and its secular humanist legions to strip parents of control over their children and inculcate them with relativistic values, witchcraft, and satanism. The left looks at every parent who walks into a principal's office complaining about a book or a school assignment as a tool of religious fanatics. A generation ago people who challenged the absolute primacy of phonics were attacked in school board fights as socialists; now FairTest regards anyone too devoted to the SAT as, at the very least, an unconscious racist or sexist.
In the face of such heat, and in the absence of vigorous centrist forces speaking for parents, it's not surprising that politicians and school bureaucrats tend to capitulate easily--formerly (and in some places still) they gave in to the official demands of Rotarians, America firsters, and the organized right; in recent years they more often bowed to the trendier demands of multicultural correctness. Until a generation ago, most textbooks were carefully calibrated not to offend southern segregationists and militant anticommunists, and were only condescendingly conscious of American groups other than WASP males. That in itself was an improvement from the first decades of the century, when textbooks were laced with stereotypes about Jews, Italians, Chinese, and blacks (to quote The Great School Legend, Colin Greer's classic study) as "mean, criminal, immoral, drunken, sly, lazy and stupid in varying degrees." Nowadays, by contrast, they tend to be closely tailored to make certain that all races and both genders are proportionately represented, even where the authors have to scratch to find examples--Clara Barton and Susan B. Anthony, yes, but Sarah Winnemuca? Those described as people of color are unfailingly cast in a positive light. In California, one state office does nothing but make certain that the pictures in textbooks offend none of the current shibboleths, from ethnic balance in all occupations and activities, to proper diets and proportional representation of persons with various handicaps. Where anthropomorphized animals are shown, even they must be balanced by gender.
Probably the best indicators are the textbooks, which have to withstand scrutiny from scores of special interest groups and which have undergone a stunning transformation. As Gilbert T. Sewall, director of the American Textbook Council, points out, in latter-day revisions of venerable textbooks like Lewis Todd and Merle Curti's Rise of the American Nation:
Liberal crusades and activism receive uncritical accolades. Two photographs of protestors in wheelchairs and a third captioned, "A woman with visual impairment demonstrating for civil rights," reflect the force of pressure groups on the shape of schoolroom history. So do profiles of Native Americans Russell Means and Wilma Mankiller. The 1974 Bilingual Education Act receives prominent attention as a multicultural initiative. The 1946 Employment Act shrinks to two sentences. The saga of the postwar computer industry vanishes; the computer is presented instead as a machine that helps "make the workplace safe for people with disabilities." Recent American letters are represented by Gish Jen, Sandra Cisneros, and Jessica Hagedorn.
There is no shortage of horror stories; Richard Bernstein has a string of them in his recent book, Dictatorship of Virtue: Multiculturalism and the Battle for America's Future. There is the well-rehearsed story of the battle over the Rainbow Curriculum ("Fostering Positive Attitudes Toward Sexuality," including homosexuality) in Queens and the "ice people" versus "sun people" racism of City University Professor Leonard Jeffries. Then there's the bitter battle over the attempt to eliminate a popular advanced placement European history course at Brookline High School in Massachusetts, apparently because it ran counter to the multicultural orthodoxy of both the faculty and the national professional organizations. Bernstein cites a series of official reports, all with the same message: that, to quote a New York commission, all young people are being miseducated because of "a systematic bias toward European culture and its derivatives."
Such stories all leave the same question: Are they aberrations or illustrations? And while the answer is complicated--there are not likely to be many PC-infested business or engineering schools--the elementary and secondary schools, particularly outside the rural South, seem to be showing a pronounced tilt toward the mushy and the therapeutic. That's true whether one looks at the prevailing rhetoric and literature of the National Education Association, the state education departments, the teacher colleges, or the textbooks.
The tilt toward the therapeutic shouldn't be surprising in an age when schools are supposed to succeed with almost everybody (or at least when it's so hard to toss anybody out). But neither should it be surprising that conservative parents and organizations have become increasingly militant and tend to see ominous child-snatching conspiracies even where none exist: fears that, in the name of tolerance, the system is promoting homosexuality; fears that in the face of the (legitimate) prohibition of school prayer, schools are peddling all sorts of New Age mumbo jumbo and sanctioning every sort of sexual promiscuity; fears that the move away from objective tests and traditional rote-and-drill basic education is really a dumbing down instituted for the benefit of those groups--guess who?--that always score below average on the bubble tests. With the passage of Clinton's Goals 2000, says James Dobson, who heads Focus on the Family, "the National Education Association, which supports every anti-family cause from homosexual activism to abortion and condom-mania, has finally achieved the prize it has pursued for decades: control of the nation's children."
But if the right's rhetorical excess isn't new, neither is the wider historical ignorance. When exactly was the presumptive golden age? The editorial writers of the Wall Street Journal and the ideologues who are convinced, with Thomas Sowell, that American education these days is mostly deception, decline, and dogma, conveniently forget that the wonderful standards of the past applied to only a small fraction of the students. The majority were stuffed with rote learning, much of it fatuous. They dropped out after the sixth grade, and went to work laying streetcar tracks or shoveling coal in steel mills. Even after World War II, the schools kept things under control: On the one hand, they ignored diversity (and, of course, maintained segregation) and, on the other, they kept the curriculum, textbooks, and syllabus as bland (and "basic") as possible. The multiculturalists did not invent anti-intellectualism in American education. But they are making their contributions.
We have always been ambivalent about what we want of schools: to teach values, but whose values? To socialize children but according to whose norms? To pursue equality, but equality only of opportunity or also of result? The stakes seem to keep getting higher. The more the schools embrace hot-button social agendas that they are ill-suited to perform--tolerance of gays, self-esteem, environmental correctness--the more likely it is that the resulting fights will threaten not only reform but the schools themselves. We have banned prayer in the schools as too divisive, but we have yet to understand that a lot of other things currently fashionable among educationists carry similar hazards.
For people like Checker Finn, Bill Clinton, or former California school superintendent Bill Honig, who was the real father of CLAS, the goal of educational reform is to turn out literate, numerate students who can think clearly, know something about the world, and have a commitment to America's civic values and standards. Their aim has been to reassert the primacy of the academic, as opposed to the social, agenda of the schools but to assert it in standards higher--and, because they invite thought and the expression of opinion, riskier--than the "basics" that the right wing embraces. However, if those goals and the tests that accompany them also include the wider social and affective agenda of the education establishment, there can be nothing but controversy and gridlock, and possibly worse.
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King oyster mushrooms (scientific name Pleurotus eryngii) also known as trumpet mushrooms, and king brown mushrooms amongst other names, are the biggest edible mushrooms of the Pleurotus genus of gilled mushrooms. Their name stems from the fact that their color and caps make them look similar to oysters.
Where To Find King Oyster Mushrooms And When
King oyster mushrooms grow natively in East Coast U.S regions, Mediterranean countries, Middle East regions and some parts of Asia, such as China, Korea, and Japan.
They are weakly saprotrophic in nature, which means that they feed on decayed or dead organic matter, such as the roots of hardwood trees (like oak and aspen) and, unusually for the Pleurotus species, the roots of herbaceous plants.
These mushrooms grow at all times of the year. Unlike other gilled mushroom species, they grow individually and not in clusters, but you may find a few mushrooms in close proximity to each other in wild forest regions.
How To Identify Them
The first thing to look out for when identifying a King oyster mushroom is its small flattened cap. The cap is smooth and light or medium brown in color.
The stem of these mushrooms is a milky white or light beige in color, is semi-smooth, thick, and has a firm texture. They do not have any spots or warts in their caps or stems. The majority of King oysters grow from 2 inches to 8 inches (5 to 20cm) in height, with the average diameter reaching 2 inches (5cm).
King oysters are fairly distinctive in their appearance and there aren’t really any (poisonous) look-alikes to be wary of.
How To Grow Them
There are several ways to grow your King Oyster mushrooms at home, which are typically focused on three phases: cultivation space, fruiting the mushroom, and final collection after a few weeks.
The easiest way to grow King Oysters is to get a specialised kit, available in offline nurseries or online with all the essentials you need such as containers, bags, and spawn. These kits are typically sold for $15-25 so they are a quite affordable and convenient choice for newbies.
The step-by-step process to grow King Oyster mushrooms is:-
- Get a large sheet of cardboard and cut it into 4 x 4 inch (10 x 10 cm) squares and place them in a bucket with hot water to saturate them. Let these soak overnight and then drain excess moisture by gently squeezing out the squares.
- Place 10 to 12 small pieces of mushroom spawn over each cardboard square and especially near the sides. Then pile the squares up on top of each other.
- Place the piled-up spawn squares into a large transparent plastic bag and seal it. Keep the bag at a temperature of around 50 to 65F (10 to 18 celsius) in a dark place such as a cabinet. Check every couple of days to make sure that the bag is moist but has no pools of water. Carefully drain excess water if this is necessary. Other than this, leave the bag undisturbed for 4 to 6 weeks.
- Once you see small white strands (mycelium) popping up, open the bag and move it to a sunny area. The first batch of mushrooms may appear after 1 to 2 weeks. In the meantime, make sure you spray the walls of the bag with water to encourage more growth two to three times a day.
- If you are satisfied with the size of the mushrooms, it’s time to harvest them by carefully twisting the stems off.
King oyster mushrooms are a great source of protein, B-complex vitamins such as folate and thiamine, and trace minerals such as zinc, copper and magnesium which play a role in various metabolic processes and have potent antioxidant properties.
These mushrooms also contain bioactive compounds that support immune system activity and speed up recovery from illness. Some studies have also shown that they can help lower bad cholesterol by suppressing the production of certain fatty acids.
How To Cook King Oyster Mushrooms
These mushrooms are a culinary favorite amongst chefs in many popular cuisines and especially in Asia, where they are cultivated on a large scale. They have a tender meat-like texture and nutty flavor with a hint of seafood aromas. You can slice them up and use them in Asian stir-frys, rice dishes, pasta, pizzas, stews and soups. They are also great side dishes for barbeque meals.
Here is a quick and easy recipe to try out:-
- 4 medium-sized King oyster mushrooms, sliced lengthwise to one third of an inch pieces
- 1 tablespoon lightly salted butter
- 2 cloves garlic
- ½ teaspoon cumin
- 1 tablespoon vinegar
- Heat the butter in a medium pan and add the mushroom pieces. Season with the cumin and salt-pepper to taste and sauté for 2 minutes on each side.
- Add the garlic and sauté until fragrant for 1 more minute. Finish off with the vinegar, poured on top of the mushrooms.
- Drain the butter and serve.
King oyster mushrooms are incredibly versatile and very easy to cook with. It’s no wonder they are a popular food all over the world. Since they are fairly easy to find in stores or to grow yourself, you should definitely give them a try.
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This is one of the six portraits of his eldest children James Beekman (1732-1807) commissioned from John Durand in the 1760s. James Beekman, Jr. studied at Princeton intermittently between 1770 and 1775. He married Lydia Watkins Drew and following the death of his brother William, inherited the family’s country estate and portraits. Like those of the other family members, this portrait of James Jr., at age nine, relies on poses and motifs from English mezzotints. While squirrels were common pets in colonial America, the one perched on James’s arm, taking meat from a nut, also symbolizes perseverance, diligence, and patience. His clothing, which is more ornate than the other children’s, may reflect his recent “breeching,” an important right of passage for young boys, when they would begin to wear knee breeches and dress in men’s clothing much like their father’s.
John Durand (1731-1805) first began working in Virginia in 1765, but by 1766 had moved to New York City to paint portraits of the Beekman children for their father James Beekman. Durand’s background and training are unknown, but his use of rococo colors, interest in historical paintings and reference to his name in French lead art historians to believe he was born or trained in France. He left New York in 1768 as one of the city’s most celebrated painters and returned to Virginia, where he lived for most of the remainder of his life. The style of his late work executed in Virginia changed notably, never garnering him the critical acclaim and popular response his early New York portraits received.
All six portraits of the Beekman children bear elaborately carved and gilded frames by the New York carver James Strachan, which are superior examples of rococo ornament, a style all the rage among the American colonial elite during the mid-eighteenth century. The children's portraits, as well as those of James Beekman and his wife, remained in the Beekman family until presented to the New-York Historical Society through the Beekman Family Association.
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The Texas House Committee on Public Education voted 10-1 today to advance a bipartisan anti-bullying bill, authored by Republican Rep. Diane Patrick of Arlington. The bill, a committee substitute for Patrick’s HB 1942, doesn’t specifically protect LGBT youth but incorporates much of the language from another anti-bullying bill by Rep. Mark Strama, D-Austin. For example, Patrick’s bill would update the definition of bullying to include cyberbullying, and it would allow the bully, instead of just the victim, to be transferred to another classroom or campus. Strama’s bill had the backing of Equality Texas, which now plans to support Patrick’s bill. The text of the committee’s substitute for Patrick’s bill wasn’t immediately available on the Legislature’s website, but Equality Texas provides details of the measure in a press release below.
A BIPARTISAN VICTORY FOR TEXAS SCHOOL CHILDREN:
HOUSE PUBLIC EDUCATION COMMITTEE ADVANCES ANTI-BULLYING BILL
Committee Votes Favorably for Rep. Diane Patrick’s Bill – CSHB 1942
Austin, Texas (Tuesday, April 12, 2011) – The House Committee on Public Education today advanced anti-bullying legislation authored by State Representative Diane Patrick (R-Arlington). Patrick’s CSHB 1942 was voted favorably by the committee on a 10 to 1 vote. While more than a dozen anti-bullying bills have been proposed this legislative session, including HB 224 by Rep. Mark Strama (D-Austin), CSHB 1942 by Patrick is likely to be the only anti-bullying legislation with enough bipartisan support to pass the Texas House of Representatives.
Equality Texas has worked with Rep. Strama’s office for the past two years on his proposed legislation, HB 224. “Equality Texas considers Rep. Patrick’s bill a bipartisan victory for all Texas children. While Rep. Strama’s bill presented the most comprehensive approach to addressing bullying and harassment so that all Texas school children are safe, we are pleased to see that Rep. Patrick has incorporated most of Rep. Strama’s language into her bill,” said Dennis Coleman, Equality Texas Executive Director. “Rep. Patrick’s bill is just the first step towards making Texas schools safe for all children. This bill needs to go to the full House for vote.”
Components of Rep. Diane Patrick’s bill that are similar to Rep. Strama’s bill include:
• Updated definition of bullying to include expression through electronic means (cyberbullying),
• Covers written, verbal, electronic, or physical conduct that:
Harms a student, damages property, or places a student in reasonable fear of harm to person or property,
Is sufficiently severe, persistent, and pervasive that it creates an intimidating, threatening, or abusive educational environment,
Exploits an imbalance of power between the perpetrator and target, and
Interferes with a student’s education or disrupts the operation of a school.
• Provides for the transfer of a student who engaged in bullying to another classroom on the same campus, or to another campus in the district,
• Provides for parental notification of an incident of bullying to parent/guardian of the bully and the target,
• Provides for the establishment of procedures for on-campus reporting, investigating, and response.
Unlike Rep. Strama’s bill, CSHB 1942 does not require reporting accountability beyond the campus. The bill does not mandate reporting from the campus to its district, or from the district to the state. However, Rep. Patrick has added provisions to incorporate bullying and harassment into schools’ health curriculum with essential knowledge and skills that include evidence-based practices that will effectively address awareness, prevention, identification, and resolution of and intervention in bullying and harassment.
“We don’t want to see another Texas child bullied to death. We want this Legislature to pass an anti-bullying bill, and we look forward to working with Rep. Patrick to make that happen,” said Coleman.
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|Young "Hendry" gets pinched and learns|
the two most important things in life.
Haven't you ever made your friends promise to keep a secret? It wasn't a bad thing, right? When we learned Peanut made her friend pinky swear something, we were mildly concerned at worst. It wasn't that she made her pinky swear, it was what she made her pinky swear. In true mafioso form, our little angel told her friend, "not to tell her mom anything about her anymore." That's right. Peanut's friend got pinched, see. While Peanut generally keeps quiet to us (the code), her friend - not Italian - sang like a canary to her mom.
Here is the anatomy of the crime:
- Peanut and friend interact at school.
- The friend tells her mom the story.
- Peanut tells us nothing.
- Friend's mom tells My Director.
- We tell Peanut.
- Peanut tells friend to keep her mouth shut.
My Director didn't want Peanut becoming a mean girl. Worse, a sneaky mean girl. Someone who likes to keep secrets, both from us and among her friends. Someone who was perhaps bullying her friend to keep things from us. (Really?! She's five.) I understood her concern, but I also understand the code. (I'm Italian. My Director is NOT.) Sometimes secrets have to be kept. Then again... do they have to be kept in Kindergarten?
While I found all of this mildly amusing, I don't like the idea that my daughter is a schemer. Already.
We've had several conversations with her since the "pinky swear" incident. We've been sure not to be accusatory. We told her we want to hear everything about her day - the good and the bad - no matter what. That it's ok if something or someone bothers her, or if she doesn't like someone or something. We just want to know anything and everything. Open the vault, kid. We might not always agree with her, we might not always like her decisions, but we will always be on her side.
That was out mini-intervention. It seems to have worked. Lately, Peanut has been spilling the beans herself, to us. Often she volunteers the information without prompting. After all, the code begins and ends with family. We're the best at keeping secrets. And the best at making sure our little princess doesn't turn into a mean girl.
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In the Gospel of John 21: 1-19, Peter and the other disciples return to their normal tasks after the death of Jesus. These disciples are still to be instructed to carry the new of the resurrection all over the world. The news would become familiar to all with whom they spoke.
Pastor indicated the beautification of the church is a message to the community that things are happening at Good Shepherd and all are invited to have a place to join in the activities. But the overwhelming purpose of all things is to glorify God.
According to the Gospel, Peter denies knowing Jesus even after he has been questioned three times whether he love Him. The life of the disciples and the message they carried proved dangerous and all suffered violent deaths. Saul, for his actions of persecuting Jesus, was stricken with blindness. Ananias, though reluctant, goes to meet with Saul and restore his sight so Saul can serve as the Lord’s vessel to carry the message to Gentiles, kings, and the children of Israel.
Jesus had other labors for the disciples, that of carrying the new of the resurrection to all the world. Life as they knew it was over - vacation was over. Jesus wanted them to reach everyone with news that would become familiar. The purpose in this was to glorify God.
The current beautification of the church is a message to the community that things are happening at Good Shepherd. This serves as another invitation and message to people that they can also find a place to serve in this church.
Jesus asks Peter three times if he loves him. Peter denies knowing him. In the mission where Jesus sent the disciples forth proved dangerous to all of them. Ananias reluctantly goes to restore sight to Saul after Jesus explains Saul is a chosen vessel who will carry the message to the Gentiles and kings and children of Isreal. For this Saul was marooned, imprisoned and killed.
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Educators often refer to the “teachable moment”—that moment when a comment, incident, or question by one of our students presents an opportunity for deep learning to take place. When it comes to matters of ethics, it sometimes feels like every moment of the day qualifies, giving us teachers the chance (and the responsibility) to help students reflect on their behavior and refine their decision-making skills. Here are just a few examples I’ve encountered:
Walking down the hall on my way to my first period class, I overhear one student exclaim to his friend, “That’s so gay!” A few steps later, I hear another student declare, “Is she retarded?”
During my study hall duty period, I spot one student copying another student’s homework.
In the cafeteria, I notice a deserted lunch table on which three or four students have left behind trays, brown bags, empty sandwich bags, and food remnants. They know that a custodian will come by to clean up after them.
At the end of the day, a senior comes to me with one of her college applications. There is a question on the application about whether or not she has ever been suspended, and she asks me whether she really has to check “Yes” if she has only been suspended once—and an “in-house” suspension at that.
I would estimate that the typical school teacher encounters a dozen ethically charged teachable moments like these every day. Speaking for myself, it can sometimes be overwhelming to feel as if I am never “off duty”: so often these moments bubble up during my lunch break, on a mad dash to the photocopy room, or even on a trip to the bathroom. And, of course, each of the examples I offer above is somewhat complicated. They are by and large not simple rule violations, such as when one student calls another a derogatory name; in that situation, I might simply remind the offending student of the school policy against “shame, blame, or attack.”
Instead, consider the first example: the student who exclaims, “That’s so gay!” When I stop to address this comment, which I consider to be inappropriate, the offending student will explain to me in an earnest (or even pitying) tone that of course he or she is not intending to insult gay people, but rather that this is just an expression—a figure of speech. Helping this student to understand my concerns with such homophobic language requires a conversation about the following. First, his or her intent in making such a comment is not all that matters. Second, a comment that equates “gay” with “bad” makes our community a hostile and even dangerous one for gay students and faculty members. And third, both of these problems are true even if there is not a gay person around to overhear the comment.
Such a conversation—one that may actually prove effective in changing the offending student’s behavior—can be a difficult one to take on during the four minutes in between classes or the 26 minutes allotted for lunch. And yet taking on these conversations does feel like part of my job—part of what I signed up for.
Partly because of these conversations, especially at the high school level, I am sometimes astonished by how much better I seem to know my students than do my students’ parents.
“Your daughter has a wonderful sense of humor,” I once told a mother and father on Open House night. The two parents stared back at me in astonishment.
“Really?” said the mother.
“She doesn’t talk to us,” the father admitted sheepishly. I reassured them that they were by no means alone in receiving the silent treatment from their teenager. Of course, conversations like these leave me all the more convinced of my responsibility to take on ethically charged teachable moments with my students. For better or worse, I may be the only adult they really talk to all day.
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Whats the difference between Basecamp vs Asana ? Use this detailed pros and cons list on both of these popular tools to make a decision
In this post, we’ll discuss two cloud-based project management tools - Asana and Basecamp - to help you make an informed decision for your business. Asana is designed for companies of all sizes, while Basecamp caters mostly to small to medium-sized businesses.
Asana helps users to manage tasks through a virtual workspace. This means that users don't need to be in the same place to work together on projects. It helps managers to create tasks, and assign them to specific members.
Have a look at their free plan if you're on a tight budget, it's perfect for smaller teams.
Variety of integrations. Asana has numerous integrations with other software, including Salesforce, Google Calendar, Slack, Dropbox, and more.
An important feature of Asana is to help businesses keep track of projects and deliverables. This is why any task within a project is labelled with the name and deadline for its progress to be monitored. It also allows users to add files from the device used or from Dropbox or Google.
Asana provides business-level storage security through such measures as two-factor authentication and a secure data center.
Their dashboards are highly customizable to make sure you're always tracking your goals, and always on top of what your team is doing.
Asana allows you to keep track of your projects in a centralised place on the web, with your team.
New users have mixed feelings about Asana because of its intimidating aesthetics and interface. Most experienced users find Asana useful because of its one-of-a-kind features which cater to their needs. However, new users feel the opposite because of their lack of exposure and experience with the platform. For new users to be productive and derive the full value of the software, they need to do onboarding training, which is both costly and time-consuming.
Not good for small teams or single projects. Asana works best for large teams and projects with a lot of moving parts - it's too complicated and overwhelming for smaller teams. In fact, a lot of users have complained about decision fatigue because of this.
Tasks can only be assigned to one person. While other software allows projects to be assigned to more than one person, Asana believes that it should only be assigned to one person to avoid confusion as to who is responsible.
Asana is not a time tracking software. It's not ideal for tracking projects and tasks and who they have been assigned to and more. If you need to bill clients and track time actively, then you'll need to look for a different software.
In Asana, you can export data only in the JSON and CSV formats, but not PDF or Excel.
Asana has been used by many companies for many years. The above pros and cons aren't very different in number, but they are still up to each individual user to decide whether Asana is the right tool for them, based on their own experience.
Basecamp helps you be more organized and less isolated by making communication easier. It gives your company a centralised hub for discussion, communication and project management. It allows users to comment on files and assign tasks and keeps everyone on the same page. It uses visual cues to understand where a project is and to keep everyone informed.
With their product, you can store all of your important files and documents in one place. This is especially useful for virtual teams as it helps ensure that you and your team mates can find older files because every project is provided with a documents and files section.
The pricing system of Basecamp is optimized because all plans have a free trial. This allows customers to experience Basecamp's full set of features while monitoring the amount of storage used by themselves and other users.
Basecamp allows the user to toggle notifications on and off. This can be scheduled according to your preference or left switched on for those who want to receive notifications all the time.
Great communication system. Basecamp allows you to create informal discussions, called Campfires, or to send direct messages, called pings.
You can access Basecamp on all mobile devices, including Android and iOS.
We have a good file system which helps to keep everything organised. It's possible to attach documents, images, and files to messages that are sent and received on Basecamp.
No time tracking at the moment. One of the most important aspects of project management is time tracking to make sure that a project’s deadline is always met.
If you have a lot of topics in your Basecamp list, it may get cluttered. However, there’s no way to archive these unused topics. You could delete them, but you might need them in the future.
No stand-out feature. Google users know how useful the "Starred" feature is; it would be nice if Basecamp had a similar feature so staff could easily find the information they need.
It's not Google Docs or Evernote. It's a downright simple cloud-based project management application. It's only meant to be a simple way to manage projects and teams.
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Archbishop of Peace
South African Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who grew up in the ghettos of Johannesburg and has devoted his life to promoting peace and equality, is coming to Oahu this weekend to share his message in a series of lectures hosted by the Cathedral of St. Andrew
Nobel Peace Prize laureate Desmond Tutu, the Anglican Church Archbishop Emeritus of South Africa, visits Oahu this week for a series of lectures and special appearances
While Archbishop Desmond Tutu is best known for helping the blacks of his native South Africa unshoulder the yoke of white oppression enforced through their draconian apartheid laws, it is his keen understanding of the many shades of gray that make up all men that has allowed his message to succeed in the world.
Archbishop Desmond Tutu
Tutu, who will visit the Islands next week for a series of lectures, grew up in the ghettos of Johannesburg, and from a young age recognized that as George Orwell once wrote, “all animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.”
“I would see black kids scavenging in the dustbins of the schools where they picked out perfectly OK apples and fruit,” said Tutu in an interview with the Academy of Achievement, a museum of living history in Washington, D.C. “White kids were being provided with school feeding, government school feeding, but most of the time they didn’t eat it. They preferred what their mommies gave them, and so they would dump the whole fruit into the dustbin, and these kids coming from a township who needed free meals didn’t get them. It was things like that which registered without your being aware that they were registering and you’re saying there are these extraordinary inconsistencies in our lives.”
This impression of inequality could have caused a young Tutu to take a very dark view of the white minority that ruled his land, but he was a remarkably prescient kid despite being a self-proclaimed “OK student,” and noticed that not everything is as it seems, that bad governance does not necessarily make bad people.
“I would go to town in part to go and buy newspapers for my father and, before taking them home, I would spread them on the sidewalk, and I would kneel to read,” said Tutu. “Now this is a racist town, yet I can’t ever recall any day when what should have happened, in fact, did happen, which is that a white person would walk across the face of the newspaper.
“I still am puzzled that they used to walk around this newspaper with this black kid kneeling down there reading when you would have expected that they would have made my life somewhat uncomfortable. I mean, I cannot understand that particular inconsistency. It is, therefore, one of my memories that why in the name of everything that is good didn’t those whites actually just be nasty, and they weren’t.”
These two seemingly conflicting memories of his youth helped form the man who originally was destined to be a healer of bodies but instead became a mender of souls. Medical school was too expensive for the son of a teacher and a domestic worker, so he followed his father’s route, trained to be an educator and returned to his alma mater.
But Tutu was not to be long in the classroom. Deplorable conditions, overcrowded facilities and the initiation of the Bantu curriculum made him realize he could not stay on and assist the apartheid government in the corruption of young minds.
“But then I decided, no, I would not participate any longer as a collaborator, when the government decided that they were going to have something called Bantu education, an education specifically designed for blacks, and they made no bones about the fact that it was designed as education for perpetual serfdom.
“Dr. Favolt said, ‘Why do you have to teach blacks mathematics? What are they going to do with mathematics? You must teach them enough English and Afrikaans, the other white language as it were, for them to be able to understand instructions given to them by their white employers.’ He said that. I mean, unabashedly that was the purpose for him of education. So I said, ‘No, I’m sorry. I can’t collaborate with such a travesty,’ but I didn’t have too many alternatives, too many options to choose from.”
The only sensible option open to him was in the priesthood, and it proved to be the perfect one to help foster the empathy for his fellow man that had sprouted in him in his youth. Despite leaving the education field, he continued to beat the drum for it, saying that if the next generations of blacks were to lead their nation, they needed to be educated to do the task.
His ability to separate the man from his sins is best embodied in his thanking of the infamous Minister of Police Louis le Grange for allowing prisoners to do post-matriculation studies while imprisoned. It takes a man of tremendous soul to extend that olive branch to the man who later masterminded the bombing of the African National Congress Building in London, but such was Tutu’s devotion to educating his people.
He rose through the church, some of his time spent in England but always returning to his homeland, where the white leaders could pretend to ignore his message but could no longer fail to hear it. He warned Prime Minister John Vorster in 1976 of the impending danger if they did not loosen their grip on the black community. Vorster ignored his plea and the bloody uprising of the Soweto students soon followed.
“I spoke to some of them (the students) and said, ‘You know, are you aware that if you continue to behave in this way, they will turn their dogs on you, they will whip you, they may detain you without trial, they will torture you in their jails, and they may even kill you?'” said Tutu. “It was almost like bravado on the part of these kids because almost all of them said, ‘so what? It doesn’t matter if that happens to me, as long as it contributes to our struggle for freedom,’ and I think 1994, when Nelson Mandela was inaugurated as the first democratically elected president, it vindicated them. It was the vindication of those 1977 remarkable kids.”
In 1978 he became the general secretary of the South Africa Council of Churches. This finally gave Tutu the pulpit he needed to be heard worldwide, where he not only beat the drum against the atrocities of his own country, but once again demonstrated his colossal empathy by appealing to Israeli Prime Minister
Begin to stop bombing Beirut and for Palestinian leader Yasser Arafat to exercise a “greater realism regarding Israel’s existence.”
His evenhandedness in all affairs and steadfastness to the cause of his black countrymen netted him the Nobel Prize for Peace, ironically in 1984, the year made famous by an Orwell novel whose government bore such an eerie resemblance to that of South Africa’s at the time.
His work for peace has not slackened through the years, and even now at 80 he continues to do work as the chairman of the Elders, a private initiative that mobilizes world leaders outside of the conventional diplomatic process. Here he works with the likes of Jimmy Carter, Kofi Annan and Nelson Mandela on problems such as those in Darfur and the Gaza Strip.
Tutu will be appearing five times during his three-day visit. If you would like to see the archbishop in person, here are the opportunities available:
>> Aug. 3, 6 p.m. – An Evening With Archbishop Desmond Tutu at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew. Tutu will engage in a conversation with Leslie Wilcox, president and CEO of PBS Hawaii, in the historic cathedral. Prior to the conversation, guests will enjoy a reception catered by the Halekulani. Tickets cost $500 per person for reserved seating, and $1,000 per person for the Archbishop’s Circle, which includes premium reserved seating near the conversation stage, a special reception and photo with Archbishop Tutu.
>> Aug. 4, 10 a.m. – The Peggy Kai Memorial Lecture at Tenney Theater, at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew. Free to the public, but seating is limited and reservations are required. Two tickets will be allowed per person.
>> Aug. 4, 5 p.m. – Bishop’s Luau at the Bishop Museum. The Right Rev. Robert L. Fitzpatrick, Bishop of Hawaii, will host an evening with Tutu featuring Hawaiian food, traditions and entertainment. Tickets cost $75 per person.
>> Aug. 5, 9:30 a.m. – Choral Eucharist at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew. Tutu will be the preacher for the Sunday Holy Communion service. The public is invited; there is no admission charge.
>> Aug. 5, 5:30 p.m. – Interfaith Prayer Service at the Cathedral of Saint Andrew. Archbishop Tutu will join Hawaii faith leaders for an interfaith prayer service. He will participate in the service, but is not scheduled to speak. The public is invited; there is no admission charge.
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A wonderfully creative class where children will be taught the fundamentals and techniques of painting, pastels, water colors, collage, printing, clay, sculpture and more. All highly imaginative projects will inspire creative thinking, confidence and freedom of expression. Art projects will be new and definite keep sakes. A class not to be missed!
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Torah should matter in the concrete, daily lives of Jews, and therefore Torah must speak to political issues. Budgeting priorities, health care access and quality, legitimate grounds and tactics of war – these are precisely the types of issues that Judaism in particular cares deeply and has much to say about.
This remains true even when those issues become the subjects of partisan debate. If Democratic policies will fund the abortion of many late-term fetuses that would otherwise be born, and a rabbi sees late-term abortion as murder, how can s/he not say so? If Republican policies will deprive many people of their basic human dignity, how can a rabbi not say so?
It is true that political parties take positions on many, many issues, and individual politicians do not agree with all the positions of their party, so a religious claim that one must vote a particular way is always oversimplified. I think it is almost always wiser to discuss and weight the values involved and let listeners reach their own conclusions. But the job of a religious leader is to set priorities in complex circumstances.
It is also true that voting involves a judgment of consequences, not just of intent, and rabbis often have no particular qualifications to judge consequences. But neither do politicians, and in any case, all legal and moral decisions require judgments as to facts and consequences. We should train religious leaders to be expert in these areas, as much as or more as we train them to be expert at dealing with the emotional consequences of personal decisions. (Of course, rabbis, like everyone else, should avoid speaking out of ignorance, or lecturing the more informed.)
Nonetheless, pulpit discussions of partisan issues are often unwise, and even unfair if an expectation has been set otherwise. The Jewish religious community generally aggregates along ritual rather than ethical/political lines, and therefore it is practically necessary for rabbis to get along with members of both parties. Rabbis who talk primarily about politics, and in partisan fashion, will reasonably be suspected of imposing their ideologies on Torah rather than deriving them from Torah.
This does not mean that ritual is more important, or naturally a more appropriate topic for rabbis, than politics. Decisions to aggregate along ritual rather than theological grounds, or on ritual rather than Zionist grounds, do not require us to consider nusach hatefillah more important than the national existence of the Jewish people, or precise kashrut standards more important than precise standards of monotheism – they simply reflect practical judgments as to the best way of advancing our collective interests. I suspect that much American Jewish rhetoric on the subject of religion and politics is a product of IRS regulations and of our status as a minority religion.
Bottom line: Rabbis cannot, and congregants should not, see political issues as offlimits. Rabbis are wise to make such pronouncements sparingly, and with humility – they should make clear that even their wisest, most Torah-grounded judgments do not exclusively or unquestionably represent G-d’s true will. But they are entitled, and sometimes obligated, to vigorously seek to persuade their congregants to act in accordance with their best judgment as to G-d's true will, even when His will does not command a political consensus
Yes, a rabbi can discuss partisan political issues BUT it depends how he or she does it. A rabbi will be more successful in discussing partisan issues when he or she lays out the arguments on both sides of the issue. This way both sides feel heard, even if the rabbis decides to offer her or his view on which side she or he supports. A rabbi should try to be as inclusive as possible so that everyone in the community feels like they have a place there. Respectful honest debate on issues certainly has a place in a Jewish setting. After all this is exactly what the rabbis of the Talmud did. They debated everything. Tone, safe space, and open conversation are key to a successful conversation.
This is a very personal question that truly depends on the Rabbi and his or her relationship and covenant with the congregation.
There are Rabbis that strongly believe their role as leaders requires them to address burning issues even if these are partisan political issues. As long as they ground their approach in a Jewish teaching rater than a personal agenda, this is definitely a legitimate thing to do. They follow in the footsteps of great Rabbis that were never afraid to express an opinion even when that opinion could be controversial.
Other rabbis believe that politics altogether should not be brought into the spiritual experience of a Shabbat service and that addressing such issues should take place in special designated program where participants chose to come and listen rather then being a "captive" audience at a Shabbat service.
Both approaches are legitimate and should be adopted through mutual understanding between the rabbi and congregation
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If you own a business, liability insurance protects you if there's an accident or injury in your workplace or caused by one of your employees. Your general liability policy also protects any other business that hires you as a subcontractor. If you cause an accident or damage property while you're working as a subcontractor, your liability insurance pays the bill, and the company you're working for isn't held liable for the damages. If you subcontract with other companies, or you hire subcontractors as part of your business, a certificate of liability insurance serves as proof of insurance coverage.
Depending on the type of work you do, you may have more than one type of liability insurance. A general liability policy protects you from many potential losses, including a lawsuit by a customer who slips inside your store and a mistake by a worker who damages someone's property. It could protect you in most lawsuits you might encounter as a business person, including libel and slander. Professional liability insurance protects you from malpractice or errors you might make in your profession. Doctors carry professional malpractice insurance, but certified public accountants, engineers and other professionals do too. Your state may require you to have professional liability insurance to practice your profession. If you manufacture and distribute a product, you may have product liability insurance to protect you from any potential harm the product may cause.
Certificate of Insurance
A certificate of liability insurance provides the basics about your insurance coverage on a single page. Rather than having to read through your entire insurance policy, a business that wants to subcontract work to you can find everything it needs to know on one page: your policy number, the name of your agent, the types of coverage and coverage limits and the dates the policy is in effect. If you hire a subcontractor, the certificate of liability insurance is your reassurance that the company is insured and you'll be protected in the event of an accident.
Receiving the Certificate
When a potential contractor requests a certificate of liability insurance from you, contact your insurance company and ask that a copy of your certificate be sent to the person who requested it. This provides an extra level of reassurance against fraud, because the certificate comes from your insurance company, not from you. Likewise, when you request a certificate of liability insurance from a potential subcontractor, it should come from her insurance agent, not from her. If you still have concerns, call the agent listed on the policy to verify insurance coverage.
Why You Need a Certificate
If a subcontractor you hire causes damage to equipment you own and you want to make a claim, all the information you need will be on the certificate of liability insurance you should have on file. Your insurance company may also require you to obtain certificates of liability insurance from any subcontractors you use and keep them on file. Your insurance company has the right to audit you and request these certificates. If your insurer finds you are using uninsured subcontractors or that you don't have certificates for all your contractors, it can assess an additional premium or it might drop your insurance coverage.
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Extra water for your garden is always a plus. If you have an old septic tank in the ground, get it pumped out, then disconnect a close drainpipe that can be used to fill said tank. The water might naturally flow to it or else use another hose or pipe to reach the opening of the old tank. All you need then is a small water pump and hose to use the water on your garden.
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The high marginal costs of “fitting in” are by intention of those who design and most benefit from our consumer society. Prejudice plays an important role for the monetary elite, and it works its ugly way down the economic ladder.
Human beings face extreme pressure to fit into the dominant culture which often reflects pressure to overcome not only class barriers but also race and sex barriers. Impediments and complexities to being among “the winners” in the bread wars can take many forms. The necessity to reject “invisibility” to fit into a workplace can require adoption of alienating measures that are themselves demeaning or even dangerous in one way or another.
I thought of this recently as I watched a young adult Stanford-educated biracial football player on the professional team I have loved since childhood driven to emotional illness and leaving his team through harassment in the workplace that often was racial in nature. In essence, he was forced to choose between (a) continuing to subject himself to the use of the “N” word and other outrageous bullying conduct, which can lead to dangerous depression as we learn from the many suicides that result; and (b) getting the hell out of there. He chose the latter. Fortunately, under his circumstances, with two Harvard law school-educated parents, he has the tools to finally begin to protect himself and either regain his promising career on the football field or receive significant financial compensation for what he has lost.
But what about those who have to fit into more mundane, but sometimes equally emotionally harsh, workplaces? Fitting in, often by purchasing luxury goods to provide ready-made “status,” can come at the price of losing needed savings–but it also can come at the societal price of losing needed agents of transformation. The “best and the brightest” can sometimes pick themselves up by their bootstraps and find their piece of the rock–but nothing changes to the system designed by the elite.
Peaceful democratic evolution of society to meet everyone’s basic needs is difficult enough already, but if the potential participants are constantly forced to pay high diverting prices to play roles in capitalism to obtain their own means of survival, the needed evolution is less likely to take place. This is yet another subtle “divide-and-conquer” ploy of capitalism.
It is all quite complicated for the individuals involved. To “judge,” rather than empathize with, “All the Lonely and Invisible People” (see Pamphlet No. 1, beginning a p. 47) is unfair and counter-productive to helping anyone. Ralph Ellison was keen to observe the tension between being an agent of societal change and remaining true to oneself. (For a Marxist analysis of “Invisible Man,” I would suggest reading this piece, which I cite in Pamphlet No. 1 at p. 48.)
“Dressing up” in an expensive and desperate attempt to “leave the hood” prevents full mobilization in the work for freedom, but it also allows the “successful” participants to survive and in some cases amass enough capital to “give something back” to their families left behind. On the other hand, if we are forced to break our own hearts and abandon those we love in the process of “succeeding,” this is too big a price to pay–escape through abandonment is a soul- destroying façade.
Hopefully love can find a way through this morass of oppression.
Tressie Mcmillan Cottom recently did a moving personal account at Talking Points Memo answering the question “Why Do Poor People ‘Waste’ Money on Luxury Goods?” It helped me to understand the answer to its question: poor people often spend money on nice clothes and other luxury goods because they are trying to signal to the dominant society that they fit in and therefore should be hired for desperately needed jobs and otherwise allowed to benefit from entry into the dominant society. These same slightly less poor people who are able to obtain some measure of entry into the dominant society in turn can extend a helping hand of mutual aid back to others. (I think of my uncle who, after serving in the U.S. Air Force, was able to loan my father a suit of nice clothes to wear on school trips during his senior year in mid-1950s Miami. How precious are these memories of love.)
Meanwhile, over at Daily Kos, chaunceydevega did a robust cautionary analysis of the flip side of the same issue, “Shopping While Black”: Is Conspicuous Consumption Related to the Black/White Wealth Gap?. This helpful piece suggests that the aggregate impact of being forced to spend money on luxury goods in signaling behavior has a significant negative effect on the African-American community in the U.S., which already starts the race in the U.S. miles behind the starting blocks. In essence, it has forced the people at the bottom to put on feathers and powdered wigs of prosperity they do not have, and the money for the feathers and powdered wigs mostly goes directly out of the African-American community.
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Java 1.5.0_04 apparently still has this fatal webstart bug.
1. make a few jars
2. sign each of them individually
3. use all-permissions
4. access the JNLP
1. Java downloads the JAR's
2. Java claims that PART of your Jar file is unsigned. Obviously, this is *impossible* - you either signed the file or you didn't.
3. You break down and weep at how crap webstart's implementation is.
1. Only one google hit on this problem, and the solution was: "I read that filenames with length 131 or 132 chars cause JWS to throw-up. Turns out that out of the 1000+ file I have in this particular jar 2 files have names that are exactly 132 characters. Increasing those filenames by just one character has fixed the problem !"
I've checked there aren't any files with names anywhere near that long.
Since this is not the first, 2nd, 3rd, or even the 5th time I've encountered similar bugs with Sun's JWS + signing (just random errros that are out-of-touch with reality and have no apparent cause and no apparent fix) I'm edging very close to giving up on it entirely. | <urn:uuid:29b3c1a9-4716-4740-82a8-6b586eceae7f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.java-gaming.org/index.php?topic=10390.0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00197-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945285 | 269 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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2011. 0th Edition. Hardcover. A celebration of the architecture and of the Square Mile of London City. Beginning with a general introduction that provides an historical overview of the City's development, this book deals with various districts of the City. It includes approximately 25 entries on individual buildings and urban spaces such as squares and public gardens. Editor(s): Kenyon, Sir Nicholas, CBE; Hall, Michael; Powell, Kenneth; Powers, Alan; Reid, Aileen. Num Pages: 352 pages, 533 illustrations, 438 in colour. BIC Classification: AMX. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 296 x 258 x 35. Weight in Grams: 2430. . . . . . Books ship from the US and Ireland. Bookseller Inventory # V9780500342770
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The green displayed on the graphic below denotes the areas of rainfall expected during that time period. This display is for 7am Saturday morning. Notice no rain for North Carolina yet but that will change once we get to Monday. Notice the high pressure center that sits over central Canada. Notice the flow of air around the high. That flow extends into North Carolina. We do have dry, cold air feeding into the state over the weekend.
The surface pattern for the same time period as the graphic above shows the rain has spread into North Carolina. Notice there is no 'Parent' high pressure system sitting just to our north over New England feeding cold, dry air into the state. The high is well to the northwest sitting just north of Minnesota. It is not in the right position for us to see a sustained frozen precipitation event. If the rain arrives early enough on Monday it could begin as a mix, but the thinking now suggests an afternoon arrival which would allow surface temperatures to rise enough that this would begin and remain a cold rain.
Here is the rainfall expectancy from the Hydrometeorological Center for the time period Friday through Wednesday morning. As you can see this system has the potential to produce inches of rain where it is badly needed in the Plains and perhaps up to an inch of rain across our part of the state. | <urn:uuid:611239ce-5b64-4bc2-ba73-6d6214f816e5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wral.com/weather/blogpost/1102295/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00139-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940221 | 298 | 2.28125 | 2 |
Over one hundred youth participated in a rally on the streets of Cameroon’s capital and posted "anti-gay signs on bars suspected of being gay-friendly", reports the Associated Press.
The rally organized Wednesday by the Association of Cameroonian Youth called for stricter enforcement of anti-gay laws. Demonstrators also placed signs saying "Homosexuals Forbidden" and "No Gays in Cameroon" on various school buildings.
Moving in four groups of about 40 people each, the demonstrators paraded Cameroon's green, red and yellow flag through the streets of Yaounde while distributing pamphlets and T-shirts with anti-gay slogans. They occasionally paused to speak to onlookers about what they described as the dangers of homosexuality.
Homosexual acts are punishable by up to five years in prison in Cameroon. [The organizer] said the Association of Cameroonian Youth was calling for authorities to increase the maximum sentence to 20 years in jail.
Recent years have seen an increase in arrests and prosecutions under section 347a of Cameroon's penal code, which criminalizes same-sex sexual acts. Human Rights Watch, Amnesty International and regional LGBT groups report that Cameroon already prosecutes more of its LGBT residents than any other nation in sub-Saharan Africa.
Cameroon is one of at least 38 of Africa's 54 nations that currently have laws penalizing same-sex relations or even sexuality. Four nations—Mauritania, Nigeria, Somalia and Sudan—boast the death penalty for gays or same-sex activity. South Africa and Seychelles are the only African nations that protect LGBT rights. South Africa is also the only African nation to guarantee marriage equality.
In July, the prominent gay HIV/AIDS activist Eric Ohena Lembembe was tortured and killed in a case that attracted international attention. Lembembe was the most high-profile African LGBT rights activists to be killed since the January 2011 murder of Uganda's David Kato. Police have not made any arrests in connection with Lembembe's murder—but detained at least two of his former coworkers earlier this month.
Colleagues Detained After Gay Activist's Murder
Gays "Forced to Undergo Anal Probes" in Cameroon
Court Acquits Two Men Sentenced for "Looking Gay"
AF Pilot Refuses to Deport Gay Man to Cameroon
20+ LGBT Activists Assaulted by Mob in Cameroon
Cameroon Urged to Release 2 Gay Youths
CAMEROON: 3 Gay Youths Sentenced to Five Years
CAMEROON: Alice Nkom Warns of Rise in Arrests
CAMEROON: 2 Teens, 2 Men Face Trial
2 Gay Youth Arrested for "Looking Feminine"
2 Gay Youth Face Trial for Homosexuality
Air France Refuses to Deport Gay Asylum Seeker
CAMEROON: 3 More Arrests for Homosexuality
Cameroon: Pro-LGBT Attorney Threatened w/ Arrest
Cameroon Sentences Journalist to 6 Months
Cameroon Sentences Three for Homosexuality
Gay Man Imprisoned for Two Years Without Trial
"Homosexuelle en Afrique"
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Most drivers don’t think of low tire pressure as a driving hazard, but insufficient pressure in tires is responsible for thousands of accidents each year. To monitor the tire pressure of their vehicle, most people use an old fashioned tire pressure gauge you apply to the inflation value of a tire. However, because using the gauge requires going to each tire and reading them separately, most people don’t take pressure readings as often as they should.
The easiest solution is mounting a remote tire pressure gauge from Tadibrothers inside your vehicle. Instead of having to check the pressure of each tire manually, you can mount a tire pressure monitor system in your vehicle and read the pressure of each tire at all times. All you need to do to get the following benefits is unscrew the valve cap on each tire, replace it with a screw on pressure sensor, and install the pressure monitor somewhere in your vehicle.
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We typically think of deadly accidents as being caused by drunk driving, bad weather, and other serious impositions to safe driving. But tragic accidents can also result from something as banal as an underinflated tire. When the pressure of the tire gets too low, it can easily rupture when the vehicle hits a pothole, or come off the tire rim when the automobile takes a sharp turn. In either case, the car partially loses its ability to grip the pavement and can veer into oncoming traffic.
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As mentioned above, insufficiently inflated tires can easily deflate when the vehicle hits a bump or takes a sharp turn. In addition to potentially causing a deadly collision, getting a flat tire while driving could also expose you to danger while you are changing the tire. Each year, thousands of people are hit as they attempt to change tires along busy roadways, and many of them die instantly. Using a tire pressure gauge from Tadibrothers can help increase your personal safety.
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Car tires routinely cost over $100 each; if your vehicle has designer tires, each tire could cost several times that much. High-quality new tires should drive for several thousand miles before they need to be replaced, but when they are poorly inflated, they seldom last that long. In addition to predisposing tires to go flat, low tire pressure can also cause them to wear unevenly. Regardless of the kind of tires your car has, keeping them properly inflated will extend their life.
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You can also use a tire pressure monitor system to monitor the pressure of spare tires. By purchasing an extra system and mounting one of the pressure sensors on a spare tire, you can ensure that it stays properly inflated in case you need it. If you have an all terrain vehicle that has room for one or more spare tires, having an extra system to monitor pressure in the spares can be well worth it, especially if you enjoy going offroading.
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Underinflated tires can lead to deadly accidents, cause drivers to be injured as they change tires roadside, and lead to expenses such as tire repair and towing fees. Implementing a tire pressure monitor system from Tadibrothers can keep these things from happening. Instead of checking tire pressure manually, you can check it by conveniently looking at a tire pressure gauge that is mounted inside the vehicle. Get a tire pressure monitor and start driving safer today! | <urn:uuid:0a92c88c-d04d-4aef-b24e-52d83a0accd3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.tadibrothers.com/category/tire-pressure-monitor-systems | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00390-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961795 | 713 | 2.53125 | 3 |
There are many animals and insects around the world which use toxins, both for defence and for predation.
Due to the high toxicity of many of the substances detailed on this website, and the fact that many of them are only needed in very small amounts to cause disease, some biotoxins have been exploited in the past as biological warfare agents. Biological warfare is use of biotoxins, such as those we have seen, in war. This means that the aim of the bioweapons is to maim or sometimes kill those that are on the opposing side. As of 1972, the use of bioweapons as a form of attack was made illegal by the BWC (the Biological Weapons Convention), in an attempt to try and protect as many people as possible, as a biological attack could affect whole nations. If a nation, group or individual uses this method of attack, it is considered bioterrorism.
When planning biological warfare, different toxins are chosen for their relative benefits (including incubation time, virulence, infectiousness, availability of vaccines and lethality), depending on the effect desired. According to the Encyclopaedia Britannica, there are five categories of agents which can be weaponised for warfare or terrorism:
- bacteria, such as plague or anthrax.
- viruses, such as influenza or encephalitis.
- fungi, such as aflatoxins from Aspergillus species.
- rickettsiae, which are microorganisms that are like bacteria but are intracellular parasites, such as typhus.
- other toxins, such as the poisons from animals (e.g. snake or spider venom) and plants (e.g. ricin toxin).
A biological attack could be used for various reasons. These include to specifically target, and so eliminate crops or vegetation as well as livestock (in a war, this might mean that the opposing army would starve and therefore have less chance of holding out and winning the war). Also, animals and livestock could be attacked for other reasons, such as their use for transport. Finally, it is also possible to use insects to attack – for example, to send infected mosquitoes into an enemy's territory to try and spread disease. This is known as entomological warfare.
At the moment, agents that are seen as potential and the most likely threats for a terrorist attack, or similar, include ricin, anthrax, smallpox and botulinum toxins: all of which are extremely lethal to humans and could cause massive widespread chaos. As stated in an article on bioweapons in BMJ in 2002, bioweapons which are viable and usable are actually technically not hard to produce – a scary prospect when many and most countries lack any legal protection against these weapons.
Currently, since its creation in 2003, a non-government organisation called the BWPP (the BioWeapons Prevention Project) works to try and stop the use and storage of bioweapons, by monitoring governments around the world and advising them on policy. This is an attempt to eliminate bioweapons, and to ensure that any future warfare is fairer and would not necessarily affect the world in a way that it could not come back from. | <urn:uuid:c540122d-dc02-4870-8037-39c4b2bd2b90> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.biosciences-labs.bham.ac.uk/exhibit/bioweapons.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00353-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966856 | 653 | 3.34375 | 3 |
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Neo-Marxism is a loose term for various twentieth-century approaches that amend or extend Marxism and Marxist theory, usually by incorporating elements from other intellectual traditions, such as critical theory, psychoanalysis, or existentialism (in the case of Sartre).
Erik Olin Wright's theory of contradictory class locations, which incorporates Weberian sociology, critical criminology, and anarchism, is an example of the syncretism in neo-Marxist theory. As with many uses of the prefix neo-, many theorists and groups designated as neo-Marxist have attempted to supplement the perceived deficiencies of orthodox Marxism or dialectical materialism. Many prominent neo-Marxists, such as Herbert Marcuse and other members of the Frankfurt School, were sociologists and psychologists.
Neo-Marxism comes under the broader framework of the New Left. In a sociological sense, neo-Marxism adds Max Weber's broader understanding of social inequality, such as status and power, to Marxist philosophy. Strains of neo-Marxism include: critical theory, analytical Marxism and French structural Marxism.
The concept arose as a way to explain questions which were not explained in Karl Marx's works. There are many different "branches" of Neo-Marxism often not in agreement with each other and their theories.
Limitations within orthodox Marxism
The development of Neo-Marxism came forth through several political and social problems which traditional Marxist thought was unable to answer. Examples to this were: Why did socialist and social-democratic political parties not band together against WWI, but instead supported their own nations' entrance into the Great War? Why, although the timing seemed to be right for a workers' revolution in the West, had no large-scale revolution occurred? Also how at this time could the rise of Fascism occur in Europe?
All these questions led to internal problems within Marxist theory, which caused renewed study and reanalysis of Marx's works to begin.
Some political orders have used the term 'Marxist' as a slur - more so in America (see, the Red Scare). In some cultures, the term has become synonymous with debunked or dangerous ideas. This stigmatization of Karl Marx's ideas has led some thinkers to distance themselves from the label of 'Orthodox Marxist' or even the more generally term, 'Marxist'. Some thinkers who fit this category are David Harvey and Jacque Fresco. Therefore, to overcome this cultural limitation, some thinker such as Fresco, have re-branded their Marxist beliefs with other terms. In Fresco's case, he re-branded himself a 'Social Engineer'.
Expansion of Marxist critiques
One idea that many "branches" of Neo-Marxism share is the desire to move away from the idea of open, bloody revolution to one of a more peaceful nature. Moving away from the violence of the Red revolutions of the past while keeping the revolutionary message. Neo-Marxist concepts can also follow an economic theory that attempts to move away from the traditional accusations of class warfare and create new economic theory models, such as Hans-Jürgen Krahl did.
Several important advances to Neo-Marxism came after World War I from Georg Lukács, Karl Korsch and Antonio Gramsci. From the Institute for Social Research founded in 1923 at the University of Frankfurt am Main grew one of the most important schools of neo-Marxist interdisciplinary social theory, The Frankfurt School. Its founders were Max Horkheimer and Theodor W. Adorno whose critical theories had great influence on Marxist theory especially after their exile to New York (Columbia University) after the rise of National Socialism in Germany in 1933.
Neo-marxist theories of development
The Neo-Marxist approach to development economics is connected with dependency and world systems theories. Here the "exploitation" which defines it as a marxist approach is an external exploitation rather than the normal "internal" exploitation of orthodox/classical Marxism.
Neo-Marxist Feminist Therapy
It is a school of thought that believes that the means of knowledge, culture, and pedagogy are part of a 'privileged' epistemology. Where privilege is meant to mean the absence of injustice and the resultant undue enrichment in terms of production of knowledge. Neo-marxist feminism relies heavily on critical theory, inter-sectional feminism and postmodern thought, and seeks to apply those theories in psychotherapy as the means of political and cultural change. Teresa Mcdowell and Rhea Almeda use these theories in a therapy method called "liberation based healing", which like many forms of Marxism uses sample bias in the many inter-related liberties, in order to magnify the 'critical consciousness' of the participants towards unrest of the status quo.
- Analytical Marxism
- Cultural Marxism
- Libertarian Marxism
- Marxist feminism
- Marxist humanism
- Neue Marx-Lektüre
- Budapest School (Lukács)
- Open Marxism
- Western Marxism
- Young Marx
- John Scott & Gordon Marshall (eds) A Dictionary of Sociology (Article: neo-Marxism), Oxford University Press, 1998
- Yates, Shaun (2014). CRIME, CRIMINALITY & SOCIAL REVOLUTION. UK: Clok. p. 44.
- Foster-Carter,A (1973) Neo-Marxist approaches to development and underdevelopment Journal of Contemporary Asia, Vol. 3, No. 1
- John Taylor (1974): Neo-Marxism and Underdevelopment — A sociological phantasy, Journal of Contemporary Asia, 4:1, 5-23
- Kalecki, Michał (1971) Class Struggle and the Distribution of National Income (Lucha de clases y distribución del ingreso), Kyklos, Vol 24 Issue 1
- Baran, P and Sweezy, P (1966) Monopoly Capital: An essay on the American economic and social order, Monthly Review Press, New York
- Theresa Mcdowell "unsettling white stream pedagogy" - the great white project - 9th Annual Liberation Based Healing Conference
- Theresa Mcdowell "VALUING IDEAS OF SOCIAL JUSTICE IN MFT CURRICULA"
- Theresa Mcdowell "class and classism in family therapy praxis: a Feminist, neo-marxist approach"
- Rhea Almeda Cultural Context Model: A Liberation Based Healing Paradigm.
- Paul Blackledge, Perry Anderson, Marxism, and the New Left. Merlin Press, 2004. ISBN 978-0-85036-532-0
- Hans Heinz Holz, Strömungen und Tendenzen im Neomarxismus. Carl Hanser Verlag, München 1972, ISBN 3-446-11650-8
- Horst Müller, Praxis und Hoffnung. Studien zur Philosophie und Wissenschaft gesellschaftlicher Praxis von Marx bis Bloch und Lefebvre. Germinal Verlag, Bochum 1986, ISBN 3-88663-509-0
- Andreas von Weiss, Neomarxismus. Die Problemdiskussion im Nachfolgemarximus der Jahre 1945 bis 1970. Karl-Alber-Verlag, Freiburg/München 1970, ISBN 3-495-47212-6 | <urn:uuid:1644d602-ad6f-4572-a64c-20ea355d72db> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-Marxism | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720941.32/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00518-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.847993 | 1,588 | 3.125 | 3 |
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Louisiana Politician Wants to Legalize LGBT Workplace Discrimination
A Republican Louisiana state representative filed a bill on Tuesday that would ban employment discrimination lawsuits based on sexual orientation or gender identity in the conservative state, Think Progress reports.
Louisiana currently does not have any laws that protect members of the LGBT community from employment discrimination. Rep. Alan Seabaugh (R) apparently wants to take things further.
Under his bill, any lawsuit alleging wrongful termination based on sexual orientation or gender identity would be automatically dismissed as "frivolous." The bill would essentially allow Louisiana employers to openly discriminate against gay and transgender workers.
As stated, Seabaugh's bill (HB 402) "provides that suits filed for employment discrimination for any reason other than age, disability, race, color, religion, sex, national origin, pregnancy, childbirth and related medical conditions, sickle cell trait, and genetic discrimination shall be dismissed and considered frivolous."
Officials from Equality Louisiana took to their website to condemn the legislation. The LGBT group writes the bill would make it so gay and transgender employees' complaints are not heard and that it would actually punish them. Workers would be liable for damages for discriminating their employers and have to pay court costs. According to the Independent Media Group, the measure would also overrule local anti-discrimination ordinances. | <urn:uuid:b9b171b3-694a-4bd7-ba62-b1f143516a10> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.edgemedianetwork.com/index.php?ch=news&sc=workplace&sc2=news&sc3=&id=143610 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00109-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96277 | 268 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Avant Garde – One of the four themes in The Mansion at Sofitel Macau
Last week Jack and Jill were in a muddle with their choice of a dark paint color. To get out of their jam, they called in a professional. They knew the eggplant color had an edge, but they didn’t know how to use it. The designer explained how color, tone and value can work to their advantage. Together they created an environment that fit their lifestyle.
Dark colors, like eggplant, black and rich dark-chocolate brown can be a brilliant backdrop for art, furnishings, upholstery and more . . . simply by contrast and color. You can see how the light colors pop against the dark walls in the picture above. Any room can be painted in dark colors–living rooms, kitchens, bedrooms, bathrooms, family rooms. These dark colors are not new, they have been used forever. Dark wood walls, beams, wood floors and furnishings were all used in the early centuries.
All the paint manufacturers have rich dark colors, Benjamin Moore, Sherwin Williams, Farrow & Ball all make quality paints. Sometimes, although you’ve chosen a dark color, it takes two coats to cover the paint on the walls to get the cover and depth those tones create. So how do you do this? Houzz, a popular site filled with design and decorating information has the answers with pictures: Here’s the link for you.
Last week’s blog talked about tonal distribution, and according to Ethel Rompilla’s and the New York School of Interior Design, Color for Interior Design, tonal distribution is a fundamental principle that goes back to the earliest interiors with the concept of nature’s distribution of tonal values. We feel more comfortable in a room with a light ceiling, medium walls, and dark floors, which parallel the tonal values of the sky, trees and earth. Understanding that, there are numerous variations and exceptions to the theory–like the walls of the black bedroom at Boscotrecase, and the still popular dark wood paneling in traditional rooms seen in the early centuries. In the 1960s to today, we love the variations of the dark walls and lighter floors in contemporary spaces.
This week we are also addressing chromatic distribution. A second general rule follows nature’s distribution of vivid color in its accessories, such as birds and flowers, and is also allied to Munsell’s theory that strong colors should not overpower weaker ones. The guideline states that the largest areas of a room, such as floor, walls and ceiling, should be the most neutral. As size is decreased chromatic value can be increased. Furniture or draperies can be brighter, and small upholstered items or accessories and other accents can be the most chromatic. Many successful interiors break this rule, but you should be aware that there is a chromatic range on walls in which, depending on the light, an intense color can become intolerable.
To be continued . . .
Other news . . . My publisher, Soul Mate Publishing, has blogger hosts C.D. Hersh, featuring my book, Indigo Sky, on their Friday, April 29, 2016 blog. I would be honored if you visit and comment. Here’s the link: http://wp.me/p1tsn7-16j
Barns are simple structures of basic post and beam construction. I love barns, I love barn shapes, and barn roofs. I love to paint barns . . . on canvas that is. Barns not only keep animals, but are large enough to invite friends, family and all your neighbors and have a barn dance, a wedding, or become a quirky, marvelous architectural space. Some folks live in barns.
Barns are sometimes a large shed used for storing vehicles. It’s been said that a barn is a large and unattractive building. Buildings are sometimes referred to as a barn of a house. Is a barn the same as a stable? Wasn’t Jesus born in a barn, or was it a stable? Do you think they are the same? Barns are also known as a large building for storing grain, hay or straw and housing livestock. And tools, lots of tools. Square dances are fun in a barn. Which barn would you like to see me paint? Do you like barn paintings? Do you have a barn you love? Here’s more for your viewing pleasure. Which one is your favorite?
Ugly green house
This could happen to you. Elsa and Bob chose what they thought would be the perfect color for the exterior of their house. They wanted green.The sample was one of those one-inch sizes, but just to be sure they liked the color, they got a larger sample, four inches. Perfect.
They left the job in the hands of a pro painter, and went on vacation. Have you figured out the end of the story? Returning, the limo dropped them off in front of a house. “This isn’t ours, do you have the right address?” Turns out this green house, lime green, or something similar, couldn’t be, but yes, it was theirs alright. The house was bright, really bright, green, of some kind, screaming. They rushed into the house and immediately called their pro painter.
Benjamin Moore Wythe Blue for porch ceiling & shutters, white house.
Wythe Blue, this time they chose a soft color, almost neutral, for the porch ceiling and shutters, enhanced with a Forest Green front door, together with a brilliant white for the house. Imagine this gorgeous porch behind those unsightly bushes.The bushes have to go, and with new landscaping the house will be handsome. And yes, their painter charged them. You don’t think he would repaint for free, did you? His time is valuable. This happens often. That’s why the paint companies make small jar samples. So you could paint one whole big surface for color practice. That’s one solution, but what you need to know is that those small samples don’t give you the whole truth. You see, color gets stronger and brighter as the area you are painting gets bigger.
This color is a really important subject. You can’t cover it with a couple of paragraphs, but I will give you some ideas that will enlighten you.
Area subdivisions are:
Dominant Areas: Walls, floor and ceiling.
Medium Areas: Draperies and large pieces of upholstered furniture, bed-covers, etc.
Small Areas: Small upholstered furniture, chair-seats, pillows, etc.
Accent: Piping, welting or fringes on draperies and upholstery, lamp-bases or shades, books, plants, flowers, etc.
There are fancy names for color schemes, like monochromatic, analogous and complementary.
You’ll need the color wheel as reference.
Itten color wheel
A color wheel or color circle is an abstract illustrative organization of color hues around a circle that shows relationships between primary colors, secondary colors, complementary colors, etc.
Monochromatic color scheme
Monochromatic Schemes: One color in various shades and tonal values (light to dark). Using the subdivisions: The dominant areas (walls, floor and ceiling) of a room are different in tone, of the same color. This system has great unity, and great dignity, but has enough variety to maintain interest. Variety can be obtained by introducing changes both in tonal value and brightness (chromatic values). The brightest for throw pillows and accessories.
Complementary color scheme
Complementary Scheme: Opposite colors in the color wheel cover the dominant and medium areas. In this scheme a more agreeable harmony will be attained if each color is slightly tinged with another and the same color. Such as red with some yellow as in russet, in combination with a green also slightly tinged with yellow as in green citron. If the red is on the blue side, as in red-mulberry, the green should also be on the blue side as in green-slate. The same should be applied to the other complementary schemes and the proper colors may be easily selected by reviewing the color wheel. Of course, remember your distribution as mentioned in subdivisions.
Mark Rothko Analogous painting
Analogous Scheme: Any three adjoining hues in a twelve color wheel, or any three of six adjoining colors in a wheel of twenty-four. To have the greatest unity in this scheme, limit the color of the wall to one color and repeat in small areas elsewhere. Remember your subdivisions and the distribution of tone and brightness.
Does this information give you some insight? What have you gained from this post? Are you inspired to do some coloring, in your house?
Edward Hopper painting – can you figure out which color scheme he used for this famous work?
I thought passion pushed the artist. A gargantuan gut tumult right in the center of your body and words whirling in your head.
Threads of Wisdom by Gail Ingis Claus 36x36 Oil on canvas
“I must paint, I must write, I must sing. The drive is all consuming.
In last Sunday’s April 22, Connecticut Post, was the article, Art, religion collide in ‘My Name is Asher Lev.’ The article addresses the Chaim Potok novel “My Name is Asher Lev.” It tells the story of a Jewish boy determined to pursue a life in the world of modern art despite the opposition of his parents and the New York City religious community within which his family lives.
Potok set the novel in a very specific time and place, but the tale of a son having to battle his father to find his own way in the world has resonated with readers of all faiths since the book was first published in 1972.
Asher’s deeply religious father is puzzled and then outraged by his son’s fascination with drawing – from a very early age – ultimately forcing the boy to choose between his religion and his passion for art.
Hasidic praying in the Synagogue on Yom Kippur
You don’t have to be Jewish or an artist to identify with Asher’s quest to be his own man and the result is a coming of age classic that has been added to many high school reading lists over the years.
My issue with this article are the words “quest to be his own man.” The passion to do art and the quest to be your own person are two separate issues. Writers must write, painters must paint, sculptors must sculpt. But growing up, finding your way in the world, the quest to be your own person is part of life. I am an artist, I must paint, I must draw, I have a quest to do art in some form, design, create, fill the negative space, but I am still finding my own way.
The recent stage adaptation, written by Aaron Posner, will be receiving its Connecticut premiere at Long Wharf Theatre in New Haven, Starting May 2.
Hasidic with Shawls
“It’s a universal story. It’s about Hasidic Jews and a painter, but I think you could substitute almost anything you want,”
Actor Ari Brand
actor Ari Brand said of the way so many diverse people have related to the Potok tale for the past 40 years.
“The stronger the pull of the parents and the stronger the pull of a child’s passion, the greater the conflict,” Brand said of the battle so many young people have to go through over their career paths.
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On the possibilities to use atmospheric reanalyses to evaluate the warming structure in the Arctic
- ISSN: 16807316
- DOI: 10.5194/acp-13-11209-2013
There has been growing interest in the vertical structure of the recent\nArctic warming. We investigated temperatures at the surface, 925, 700,\n500 and 300 hPa levels in the Arctic (north of 70 degrees N) using\nobservations and four reanalyses: ERA-Interim, CFSR, MERRA and NCEP II.\nFor the period 1979-2011, the layers at 500 hPa and below show a warming\ntrend in all seasons in all the chosen reanalyses and observations.\nRestricting the analysis to the 1998-2011 period, however, all the\nreanalyses show a cooling trend in the Arctic-mean 500 hPa temperature\nin autumn, and this also applies to both observations and the reanalyses\nwhen restricting the analysis to the locations with available IGRA\nradiosoundings. During this period, the surface observations mainly\nrepresenting land areas surrounding the Arctic Ocean reveal no\nsummertime trend, in contrast with the reanalyses whether restricted to\nthe locations of the available surface observations or not.\nIn evaluating the reanalyses with observations, we find that the\nreanalyses agree better with each other at the available IGRA sounding\nlocations than for the Arctic average, perhaps because the sounding\nobservations were assimilated into reanalyses. Conversely, using the\nreanalysis data only from locations matching available surface (air)\ntemperature observations does not improve the agreement between the\nreanalyses. At 925 hPa, CFSR deviates from the other three reanalyses,\nespecially in summer after 2000, and it also deviates more from the IGRA\nradiosoundings than the other reanalyses do. The CFSR error in summer\nT-925 is due mainly to underestimations in the Canadian-Atlantic sector\nbetween 120 degrees W and 0 degrees. The other reanalyses also have\nnegative biases in this longitude band. | <urn:uuid:aba8b1bc-38a3-4417-9e7f-b4ecf70e6d0a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.mendeley.com/research/possibilities-atmospheric-reanalyses-evaluate-warming-structure-arctic/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00423-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.877556 | 471 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Our privacy is an important asset these days, as more and more companies are hunting for our personal information so that they can sell their products and services. When visiting, for example, betting sites, e-commerce sites, or any other type of sites that require your personal and financial information, it is essential to pay attention to security. And even though sites that only publish information, such as the review of Jackpotjoy or some news, might not be collecting your personal data, they still might lead you to another website that will ask for your info.
Almost any site requires bits of personal data when signing up, like phone number, email address, birth date and even social security number, and this information can be used for nefarious purposes. If your sensitive information happens to fall into the wrong hands, it could cause you a lot of inconveniences, so we advise following the next simple steps in order to stay on the safe side when online.
Create strong passwords
The majority of people tend to set easy-to-remember passwords, so they use personal details like their names, their children’s birth dates, or phone numbers as password, which is very wrong as it leaves the door open for hackers. If you think it’s too hard to remember passwords for every site you visit daily, just use a password manager.
Don’t reveal all your personal details on social media
Don’t dig your own grave. The less information you fill out on your Facebook, Instagram or Google+ profile, the better as it keeps the bad guys at bay. The people who really need your personal details probably already have them or, if not, they can get them directly from you.
Be cautious when shopping online
If you like online shopping and you need to do online transactions, make sure the sites you are shopping on are secure. In order to be secure, a website needs to use SSL, a security protocol that encrypts users’ data. To check if a site is secure, look at the address bar and check if the “HTTPS” and the padlock icon are present at the beginning of the website address.
Use private browsing and clean up your search history
Most web browsers are built to track your every move. This means every single website you type in the address bar and every single webpage you visit. That’s why is important to clean up your history periodically. This will also help your computer run at top speed.
Additionally, for privacy’s sake, it would be a good idea to turn on “private browsing,” which is available in almost all web browsers. This setting is very useful as it automatically deletes cookies, temp files, and history when closing the window.
Protect your devices with antivirus software
Regardless of whether you’re using a computer, a tablet or smartphone, it’s important to protect your device from viruses, spyware, Trojans and other malicious programs that could invade your privacy and even steal your personal data. | <urn:uuid:32e58c3c-c669-42e3-ad6b-d3adcc7de7ff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.unltdworld.com/how-to-protect-your-online-privacy/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.932204 | 619 | 2.28125 | 2 |
In Chapter 21 of "To Kill a Mockingbird", how would you describe Jem's reaction to the verdict?
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One of the prominent themes of Harper Lee’s book is centered around the “coming of age” scenario. Jem is on the breaking point in his loss of innocence. Before this point there was some sort of idealized belief that even though bad situations happen, such as Tom being arrested, society proves to be righteous and the innocent are exonerated. However, when Tom is convicted this shatters the ideal image that Jem has in his mind and he cannot conceive why society works as it does. Chapter 21 serves as the pinnacle point in which Jem stops being a child and is awakened to the workings of the real world. Furthermore, chapter 22 shows the consequences of Jem’s innocence being shattered and how he deals with this corruption emotionally and physically.
His reaction is one of pain.
In the beginning of this chapter, Jem is cocky (to say the least). He fully believes that Tom will be aquitted. When Reverand Sykes expresses his concern, Jem says,"don't fret, we've won it...Don't see how any jury could convict on what we heard."
However, as the jury comes in, it is clear that things will not go well. The judge polls the jury. "Gulity...guilty...guilty...guilty...". Scout looks at her brother and saw that "his hands were white from gripping the balcony ral, and his shoulders jerked as if each "guilty" was a separate stab between them."
Jem has learned a painful life-lesson. Innocence will not always equal justice.
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A Zombie in the Power Station.
|Game||Call of Duty: Black Ops II|
|Objective||Survive endless waves of zombies.|
Upon getting off the bus, the player will see an outhouse. The door to the outhouse costs 750 points, and leads to the nuclear reactor. On the side of the outhouse, there is an AK-74u that costs 1200 points to obtain. Upon entering the nuclear reactor, there is a locked door behind the player that can be powered with a Turbine to open the door for Pack-a-Punch Machine. The machine is located in the Bank Vault in the Town, and must be built before the player can use it.
The Power Switch must be built in the nuclear reactor. The parts can be found scattered about the reactor. When the power is turned on for the first time, streaks of lightning will come out around the middle structure. These will kill any zombie in the round room (not the small cut-out where the switch is, and not the long entrance hallway). A center glass cylinder will rise out of the middle structure where, the Avogadro can be seen manifesting. Thirty seconds after the power is turned on, when the electricity stops and Avogadro flies up into the air, the garage-type door will open, which leads to the rest of the Power Station. The door can also be opened before the electricity stops by utilizing a Turbine. The Avogadro will then begin to spawn throughout the rest of the game. The switch can be toggled on and off, though the lightning will not shoot out again for the second time.
- Electrical Board
- Zombie Hand
- Old TV Screen
- Board with Pole
- Car Battery
- Possible spawn location for the table
- This area was scheduled to be a separate Survival map, but was removed for unknown reasons. Its map selection icon is still present within the game files. Interestingly, the map icon itself (pictured at the right) is still present on the map. It's located above farm. However, it's hard to see because it is overlayed by fog.
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Another Example of Persistence
If you want to be in the publishing business, you have to listen to your inner voice and continue persistently moving ahead--even in the face of rejection, disappointment or any other obstacle. Many of the decisions are admittedly subjective. One person loves your writing and wants to get it out into the marketplace while someone else doesn't see it and rejects it. You (and I) are on that constant search for someone to champion your work and get it published. It's not easy and takes a good measure of regular and consistent persistence.
I love this quotation from James Whitcomb Riley which came across my screen today from Cynthia Kersey at Unstoppable. Riley said, "The most essential factor is persistence - the determination never to allow your energy or enthusiasm to be dampened by the discouragement that must inevitably come."
In my local newspaper, I ran across this story about Terry Fator, the Dallas-based ventriloquist who captured the heart of America last year in the America's Got Talent contest and won a million dollars. You may have skipped over this story but I'd encourage you to read it again and look for the persistence. Fator was "on the verge of bankruptcy" (first paragraph), "snarky comments about ventriloquists" (third paragraph), and the turnaround (fifth paragraph from the end of the article) "In February 2007, Fator auditioned his act for three different Las Vegas producers; each one told him he wasn't "Vegas material." This May, he signed a $100 million, five-year deal to headline at Vegas' Mirage hotel, beginning Feb. 14. Now he has a full-time manager, road manager, publicist and a team of writers."
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`Extinct` frog hops back into northern Israel
Jerusalem: A frog species believed to be extinct has hopped back into sight in northern Israel.
Omri Gal of Israel`s Nature and Parks Authority said Thursday the Hula Painted Frog was seen for the first time in 50 years this week. He said it was declared extinct.
Gal said, "It`s an amazing find, now we have a second chance to preserve the species."
The frog is native to the Hula Valley, a swamp drained in the 1950s to stop malaria.
Aquatic ecologist Dana Milstein says the frog was rare even before, and little is known about it. In the 1940s, a specimen ate a second frog, leading to speculation the species is cannibalistic.
She credited rehydration of the area for the frog sighting and said more are likely in the reserve.
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Looking for ways to get the conversation started on hiring immigrants?
Developing your organization's business case?
Here are some helpful resources:
A statistical fact sheet (pdf) on London Region's immigrant population.
"Immigration and the Demographic Challenge: A Statistical Survey of the Ontario Region" (pdf), CERIS-The Ontario Metropolis Centre.
- LMIEC presentation on "Strengthening London's Economic Competitiveness in the Global Competition for Talent" (pdf) - Presented to Municipal Affairs Committee, London Chamber of Commerce, May 2009.
- Elisabeth White presentation on "Hiring, Retaining & Integrating Immigrants in London & Middlesex" (pdf) - Presented at Leaders' Roundtable on Immigration, Chatham-Kent, April 2009.
- Statistics Canada presentation on "Tracking Trends in London" (pdf) - Presented at London Chamber of Commerce, January 2009.
- Naomi Alboim's presentation on "Emerging Trends in Canadian Immigration: Planning for the Future" (pdf) - Presented at LMIEC/WIL Employer Breakfast, November 2008.
- "Services help employers find skilled immigrants" TechPulse, (as appeared in London Free Press, April 29, 2009).
- London Free Press feature series on immigrant experiences in London Region's labour market. - January 2009.
- "Immigrants key to labour growth", London Free Press, January 26, 2008.
- "Immigrant skills promoted", London Free Press, February 23, 2007.
- The LMIEC, Skills International and Mentorship for Newcomer Success were among best practices associated with employment opportunities highlighted in a province-wide review entitled "Characteristics of a Welcoming Community" published by the Welcoming Communities Initiative. Click here for full report.
- "London 3Ts Reference Report" (pdf) - April 2009, part of the Ontario in the Creative Age project, Martin Prosperity Institute
- "Immigration and Diversity in Canadian Cities and Communities" (pdf) - March 2009. This Federation of Canadian Municipalities report looks at 24 Canadian communities, including London.
- EMOLTB Trends, Opportunities and Priorities Report (pdf) - March 2009. See "Increasing Diversity in the Workplace" trend.
- Status Report on Welcoming Cultural Diversity Action Plan (pdf) - March 2008
- London Economic Development Corporation Workforce Survey (pdf) - August 2007. This employer survey found that 60% of respondents experienced difficulty filling positions and/or compromised their requirements as a result. 10% decided against expansion in London because of difficulty finding staff.
- Welcoming Cultural Diversity Action Plan (pdf) - Spring 2006
- "Can Immigration Compensate for Below-Replacement Fertility?: The Consequences of the Unbalanced Settlement of Immigrants in Canadian Cities, 2001-2051" (pdf) by Deb Matthews - 2006.
- Creative Cities Task Force Final Report (pdf) - April 2005
- "Voices for Change: Making Use of Immigrant Skills to Strengthen the City of London" (pdf) - October 2003
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Spend Matters welcomes this guest post by Mark Kozlowski from Mintec.
Thursday, Feb. 19, 2015 marks the beginning of the Chinese New Year celebrations, which traditionally run for over 2 weeks with various events on each day. In the Chinese zodiac, this year will be the year of the goat or sheep; however one animal that is always closely associated with Chinese New Year is the pig.
From an outside perspective, pork prices this year have been looking good for New Year celebrations as they are currently down 8% year-over-year.
Prices this year have been falling due to increased supply and reduced demand. Chinese pork supplies have boosted supply in the short term after a recent cull of sows (expensive feed prices). The breeding herd has now dropped to its lowest level since it was first reported in 2008.
Pork demand in China is also currently low and is certainly not helped by the long-standing governmental clampdown on extravagance. These initiatives have led to people cutting down on overall consumption of many luxury resources and reducing the number of governmental feasts thrown to exchange these gifts.
So why is this relevant to readers in the US? Well, China is the world’s largest pork producer and consumer, accounting for over 50% of the world’s approximate 110m tonnes of annual production. To meet this demand, China needs to import an extra 1m tonnes of pork per year, also making it the world’s second largest importer. The US is the world’s third largest producer and the largest exporter, with 7% of total US pork exports going to China in 2014.
Currently the import demand from China for US pork is down by 34% y-o-y. So, if this cheaper pork has nowhere else to go, let us hope for some mild weather and we can start hosting some extravagant New Year celebrations of our own.
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The Lake Placid-North Elba Historical Society has announced the first program of its 2015 “Odds and Ends” Winter Lecture Series on Wednesday, January 28 at Howard Johnson’s Restaurant in Lake Placid, NY. The program is “Dating Photos by Fashion” presented by Margaret Bartley, Trustee of the Essex County Historical Society.
“Dating Photos by Fashion” is a slide/lecture program designed to teach anyone who is interested in learning how to date old photos by the style of dress and fashion. It will cover the period 1840 to 1920 and uses old photos to show how styles changed over a period of 80 years. Dating old photos is a great help to anyone interested in history, genealogy or simply has old family photos that are unidentified or undated. Continue reading
The New York Genealogical and Biographical Society’s new book, New York Family History Research Guide and Gazetteer, was featured on the “Forget-Me-Not Hour” podcast on January 7th. NYG&B President McKelden Smith explained what this monumental work is all about – the first of its kind ever for New York. Founded in 1869, the NYG&B it is the largest genealogical society in New York and the only one that is state-wide.
Listen listen to the podcast online here. Order the book online here.
Historic Huguenot Street will host The Gathering, a weekend-long celebration of the Huguenots and their descendants on October 10 – 12. The event will bring together over 200 individuals who trace their heritage to the region, including descendants of New Paltz’ original 12 founders.
This is the first Gathering since the inaugural event in 2010. Vignettes depicting important moments of Huguenot Street’s continued history, special programs and performances, and children’s programming will continue throughout the weekend and are open to the public. Continue reading
Steve Seim is a volunteer researcher attempting to catalog cemeteries established for residents of asylums, poorhouses, poor farms, prisons, orphanages, and similar institutions – in other words, cemeteries for the unclaimed.
Most of the individuals laid to rest in these cemeteries were forgotten in their own lifetimes. It is his hope that they will not be forgotten to history. Continue reading
The 2014-2015 series Exploring Schenectady’s Immigrant Past at the Schenectady County Historical Society will celebrate the rich cultural heritage of Schenectady County and will explore the history and significance of immigration in the region.
As part of the series, SCHS is has announced a Call for Submissions for its upcoming community-curated art exhibit, Where Do You Come From. The exhibit, made possible in part by a grant from the Schenectady County Initiative Project, will explore the wide range of cultures that makes up Schenectady County today. Community members, local artists, and students are all invited to submit their artwork, including but not limited to paintings, collages, photography, sculpture, or whichever medium best answers the title question. Continue reading
We remember loved ones. We remember those about whom we care and who are now departed. We remember our ancestors for one, two, and maybe three generations if we are lucky enough to have known them. Beyond that memory becomes difficult, figures become blurred, and people are forgotten.
We do not simply dispose of the body when death occurs, we perform a ritual. Whether or not the ritual aids the one who has died is beyond the scope of this post; the ritual certainly is intended to aid the living to continue their journey in this life. Continue reading
Professional genealogist Jane E. Wilcox of Forget-Me-Not Ancestry in Kingston will present a talk on New York tenant farmers at the New York Public Library in New York City on Tuesday, May 20 at 5:30 p.m.
Wilcox’s presentation, “Looking for Your New York Tenant Farmer: Little-Used Resources,” will focus on the tenants of the major colonial manors and patents of the Hudson Valley between Westchester and Rensselaer and Albany counties. Wilcox will discuss the types of records that were created in New York’s manorial lease-holding land system and will explain how and where to find documents that recorded the lives of the tenants. Included with the talk will be a handout with genealogical resources. Continue reading
Mother’s Day reminds me of a pretty bad week from last November. I was appearing back then on a nationally televised show in relation to one of my books, but that event was soon relegated to unimportance. At the time, my mom had been hospitalized for two weeks. She died in the early minutes of November 2—at the very same hour the show was running on Discovery ID. A few days later, her funeral was held—on my birthday. Those were just unfortunate coincidences, and they matter little. Death has a way of putting TV shows and birthdays in perspective.
Mom was a fan of my work, especially early on when the first few books sold well. She enjoyed selling books to local friends who stopped by to pick up copies, so I kept a small supply at her house solely for that purpose. It did seem to bring her lots of pleasure. Continue reading
MyHeritage, the popular online family history network, has partnered with BillionGraves to launch a global crowdsourcing initiative to help preserve the world’s cemeteries.
BillionGraves is a free iOS and Android application that lets users easily photograph and document gravestones and record their GPS locations. The gravestone photographs are then expected to be transcribed by volunteers on the BillionGraves website, resulting in searchable digital data. The app is expected to be available in 25 languages and support Gregorian, Hebrew and Julian dates. Continue reading
Big Data is a controversial subject featured in the news almost daily, from the NSA spying programs to the rise of corporate data brokers. For better or worse this data exists, and the high value of information to both governments and private interests alike, make it look as though the practice is here to stay in one form or another. But, it is not the entry of data collection into the many aspects of our lives that I am exploring here; rather it is how this data can be mined in the future by historians. Continue reading | <urn:uuid:cc0bec7c-6ff4-4bc8-9d80-813afcbfecce> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://newyorkhistoryblog.org/tags/genealogy/page/3/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00335-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953906 | 1,343 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Definitions for unsanitary
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word unsanitary
unsanitary, insanitary, unhealthful(adj)
not sanitary or healthful
"unsanitary open sewers"; "grim and unsanitary conditions"
Chambers 20th Century Dictionary
un-san′i-ta-ri, adj. not sanitary, unhealthy.
The numerical value of unsanitary in Chaldean Numerology is: 2
The numerical value of unsanitary in Pythagorean Numerology is: 7
Sample Sentences & Example Usage
I am also acutely aware of the many challenges faced by the people of the city who either are forced or choose to live on the sidewalks, in unsanitary and unsafe conditions, their living conditions are undesirable from not only their perspective, but also that of the people of the city who walk, drive, own a business, live in a house or attend a school next to them.
Life's dirty. Life's unclean you know. It's birth, it's sex, it's the intestinal tract. One big squishy, unsanitary mess. It never gets any cleaner either. You know, dust to dust, worms crawl in, worms crawl out, right Even though we know that, we still walk the walk, we still live the life. We're like a bunch of little kids. Little kids, you know, we jump in this big old pond of mud and we're slapping it all over our face, rubbing our hair all down our backs and we're making these glorious, gooey, mud pies. That's us.
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Early in the year 1900, local authorities in Springfield, Massachusetts, held a hearing on Hampden Automatic Telephone Company’s application to provide automatic telephone service in Springfield. The Bell System at that time provided operator-switched telephone service in Springfield. The hearing produced an early battle of experts. It also displayed general argumentative strategies quite common in modern regulatory proceedings.
Testifying against granting the application for the competing automatic service was Isaiah H. Farnham, “the well-known Bell telephone expert.” Mr. Farnham’s arguments:
- He has studied the 300 relevant patents and has concluded that automatic telephony is not practical.
- He personally made 100 telephone calls on an automatic telephone system, and he found that more than half the calls were failures (no response or failure to connect to the right customer).
- The automatic telephone system operating in Aiken, South Carolina, had an even higher rate of failure.
- The automatic telephone system operating in Augusta, Georgia, had many stations out of order.
- A person standing on a damp floor would receive an electrical shock from the dial of an automatic telephone.
- The automatic telephone had no protection against electrical currents from lightning or from telephone wires crossing electric light wires.
- He found that the automatic telephone system took 11 seconds to make a connection, while the Bell system in Springfield made connections in about 4 seconds.
- An ordinary person would have difficulty using an automatic telephone in the dark.
- Because the apparatus is more complicated, a subscriber is more likely to make mistakes with an automatic telephone.
- It takes longer to correct a mistake with an automatic telephone.
- The automatic telephone system provides a greater opportunity for central office personnel to eavesdrop on telephone conversations, because, with an automatic system, central office personnel have less work to do.
- An automatic telephone system costs more to construct, requires more expert knowledge, and has higher depreciation costs, and hence has a greater total cost than an operator-switched telephone service.
- The “central office of a modern telephone company” (meaning here one that employs operators) serves as a bureau of information. Automatic telephone service cannot provide information services.
- Automatic telephones have created public harms: “The fire department have been called out on false alarms over the automatic telephone. The police have been sent on fruitless errands, and newspapers misled by people, who maliciously used the automatic telephone, knowing that there was no way in which to trace out their identity. In one place, he said, the fire department has a standing rule not to answer any calls which come over the automatic telephone.”
S.L. Powers, an attorney for the New England (Bell) Telephone & Telegraph Company, added other arguments against granting the application:
- Only 20 companies have installed automatic switching equipment, and the largest automatically switched exchange has only 500 subscribers.
- New England Telephone pays $3.63 per year per telephone royalties, while the Automatic Company pays $5 per year in royalties.
- New England Telephone’s Springfield service has in the past reduced rates $4 per telephone, and the company has pledged to reduce rates as fast as possible.
E.A. Keith, an “electrical expert” from Chicago, offered testimony on behalf of the Automatic Company. According to a news report, “Mr. Keith’s testimony differed materially from that offered by Mr. Farnham, and in certain points appeared to be exactly contradictory.” Mr. Keith declared:
- An automatic telephone required, from an experienced user, one second per number dialed. Hence only three seconds were required to call anyone in an exchange of 999 lines or less.
- An automatic systems was being implemented in Chicago.
- All the automatic exchanges in operation have been installed within the past three years and have better equipment than the automatic telephone system patented in 1891.
- Automatic telephone switches can serve party lines, but the company does not plan to implement party lines because they provide inferior service.
- The Bell System has experts in the central offices. Their opportunity to overhear telephone conversations is as great as that of any automatic company personnel.
- Secret service is practically assured with an automatic system where metallic circuits are used.
- There’s little chance of wires getting crossed.
- Both the Bell System and the automatic system can be abusively used.
The Bell System implemented automatic switching slowly compared to other telephone companies. By 1920, two decades after this hearing, only 2% of telephones in the Bell System were automatically switched. Public hearings in which Bell System leaders argued against potential automatic-switching competitors probably helped to convince Bell System leaders’ of the inferiority of automatic switching long past when that inferiority was otherwise plausible.
Just as liars risk becoming confused about true and false, those battling with arguments before regulators may lose the capacity to discern their real interests.
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The quotations and the argument points are from “Arguments For and Against Automatic Telephony,” Electrical World and Engineer (New York), v. 35, n. 10 (Mar. 10, 1900).
In 1929, 26% of Bell System telephones were automatically switched, while the automatic shares in Austria, Netherlands, and Germany were 71%, 52%, and 40%, respectively. Sweden, a early leader in teledensity, also lagged in implementing automatic switching. Sweden’s share of automatically switched telephones was only 6% at the end of the 1920s. For the non-U.S. figures (and mis-statement of the U.S. figure), see Lipartito, Kenneth (1994) “Component Innovation: The Case of Automatic Telephone Switching, 1891–1920,” Industrial and Corporate Change, v. 3, n. 2, pp. 327, 351.
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7 Most Common Causes of Boating Accidents in Georgia
Boating season is in full swing, which means we’ve been getting an uptick in clients calling about boating accidents. If you’re going out on the lake or ocean this summer, make sure you take safety precautions and boat smartly. With an average of around 4,500 boating accidents each year, boating safety is not something to be taken lightly. Here are the seven most common causes of boating accidents in Georgia, so you are aware of what to avoid when cruising the waterways this summer.
The number one cause of fatal boating accidents in Georgia is intoxication. Boating under the influence is illegal in Georgia and punishable to the same extent as driving under the influence. If your blood alcohol content is above 0.08, you are considered intoxicated under Georgia law. Open containers are permitted on boats, and passengers are permitted to drink; however, boat operators must remain sober and alert so that they can operate the boat in a safe manner.
2. Operator inattention.
Since it is difficult to see underwater, boat operators must pay close attention to water conditions and objects in the vicinity of the boat, including other boats, swimmers, animals, and other objects or protrusions in the water. Even a momentary diversion of attention can lead to an accident.
3. Operator inexperience.
Like driving a car, operating a boat well takes experience. Newer boat operators are more likely to make errors that lead to accidents, so it is especially important for newer boat operators to take extra precautions when operating a boat.
4. Improper lookout.
Depending on the size of the boat, there may need to be more than one boat operator or a lookout – someone who is able to keep an eye on the areas near the boat that the boat operator isn’t able to see.
5. Excessive speed.
Similarly to driving on the road, boating at excessive speeds can be dangerous and increase your chances of getting into an accident. Boating at high speeds makes it more difficult to spot hazards and stop in time to avoid those hazards.
6. Machinery failure.
Sometimes boat engines can fail or produce unusually high levels of carbon monoxide gas, which can cause passengers to become ill. Make sure you regularly inspect your boat and ensure it is in proper working condition.
7. Bad weather.
Inclement weather, such as high winds, storms, rain, or even wakes from nearby boats can make navigating the waters more difficult and increase your chances of getting into an accident. A particularly sunny day can lead to the same result if the temperatures are high and the sun is strong, causing passengers to become more prone to dehydration and heat-related illnesses. Make sure to check the weather forecast before heading out on your boat and pack the boat accordingly.
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"Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-hop, Black Lives Matter, and the historic presidency of Barack Obama." -- Kevin Powell, author of The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy's Journey into Manhood
"A brilliantly conceived volume. Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams demonstrate why the Panthers' story-its lessons and failures-even fifty years after its founding remains key to understanding national and international struggles for freedom and justice today." -- Cheryl Finley, professor and director of visual studies, Cornell University
Even fifty years after it was founded, the Black Panther Party remains one of the most misunderstood political organizations of the twentieth century. But beyond the labels of "extremist" and "violent" that have marked the party, and beyond charismatic leaders like Huey Newton, Bobby Seale, and Eldridge Cleaver, were the ordinary men and women who made up the Panther rank and file.
In The Black Panthers, photojournalist Bryan Shih and historian Yohuru Williams offer a reappraisal of the party's history and legacy. Through stunning portraits and interviews with surviving Panthers, as well as illuminating essays by leading scholars, The Black Panthers reveals party members' grit and battle scars-and the undying love for the people that kept them going.
About the Author
Bryan Shih is a photojournalist based in New York. A former contributor to the Financial Times and National Public Radio in Japan, he is a graduate of the University of California-Berkeley Graduate School of Journalism and a former Fulbright scholar. His work on the Panthers has garnered him one of the highest rankings among entries in the LensCulture 2015 Portrait Awards competition, and has led to his selection for the New York Times inaugural portfolio review.
Yohuru Williams is Distinguished University Chair and Professor of History and founding director of the Racial Justice Initiative at the University of St. Thomas in St. Paul, Minnesota. He is the author and or editor of several books on the Black Panther party, including Rethinking the Black Freedom Movement (Routledge, 2015); Black Politics/White Power: Civil Rights Black Power and Black Panthers in New Haven (Blackwell, 2006), In Search of the Black Panther Party, New Perspectives on a Revolutionary Movement (Duke, 2006), and Liberated Territory: Toward a Local History of the Black Panther Party (Duke, 2008). He has appeared on ABC, CNN, MSNBC, Aljazeera America, BET, CSPAN, EBRU Today, Fox Business News, Fresh Outlook, Huff Post Live, and NPR, and is a regular contributor to The Progressive.
"The Black Panthers succeeds by destroying any assumptions you may have had [about the Black Panther Party]. The book tells the story of the Black Panthers through first-person accounts from people who were part of the movement but who mostly were not the stars-people who look like they could be my aunts and uncles...[It] does the much needed task of bringing the movement down to earth."
—Rembert Browne, New York Times Book Review
"Shih's powerful black-and-white portraits...are by turn-and sometimes all at once-bold, unflinching, poetic, familiar, cloaked, direct, joyful, defiant, mischievous and suspicious....To many readers, these stories of nascent revolution and service will be enlightening, even eye-opening, giving a new view of an organization that was vilified, feared and opposed in history and the press. For others, they are a reminder of a time when black organizers and other people of color declared an unstinting willingness to improve their communities and radically change the trajectory of their people's lives."
—Tina McElroy Ansa, Washington Post
"While no doubt rooted in the past, Portraits from an Unfinished Revolution focuses squarely on the present, with portraits and interviews with former members today. While the authors did an excellent job of tracking down higher-ups in the party, the book smartly turns its focus to the 'real heroes,' the group's rank-and-file members, giving us a fuller picture of life as a Black Panther, and the impact those years had on people's lives... A well-rounded primer on the Black Panther Party, then and now, top to bottom."—Mother Jones
"A brilliantly conceived volume that offers a refreshing take on a well-trod history too often told from the perspective of its Oakland-based, male leaders and their iconic images. Uniquely, this powerful book is driven by Bryan Shih's recent portraits of local chapter rank-and-file members, whose gripping recollections told in oral histories illuminate the complexity and importance of the BPP's grassroots organizing structure in history and for our own times. This innovative volume boasts a remarkable series of essays by leading scholars on a range of topics including Black Power, women, the rank-and-file, ethnic nationalism, health activism and international outreach as well as a treasure trove of archival images from the Black Panther Newspaper. Together, Bryan Shih and Yohuru Williams demonstrate why the Panthers story-its lessons and failures-even fifty years after its founding, remains key to understanding national and international struggles for freedom and justice today."
—Cheryl Finley, Associate Professor and Director of Visual Studies, Cornell University
"An hypnotic reflection pool on the movement, the mythologies, and the women and men who challenged oppression as no other organization made in America ever had before. Brilliant, painful, enlightening, tearful, tragic, sad, and funny, this photo-essay book is at its core about healing, and about the social justice work that still needs to be done in the era of hip-hop, Black Lives Matter, and the historic presidency of Barack Obama."—Kevin Powell, author of The Education of Kevin Powell: A Boy's Journey into Manhood
"During our moment of Black Lives Matter on the one hand and Trump-enabled open racism and hatred on the other, connecting to the stories of a previous generation of activists feels vital, and in these portraits, quite stunning."—Flavorwire
"An eye-opening experience...Reading The Black Panthers has changed a lot for me. The photos, the essays, the information found in this volume have now made my education on the Party paramount. Their movement will now be part of my activism, their fight, which sadly still rages on, is my fight."—Dan Arel, Patheos
"Fifty years [since the party's founding], photojournalist Shih and historian Williams observe that the party remains 'one of the most misunderstood organizations of the twentieth century.' To dispel this fog, they met with 45 surviving rank-and-file members, men and women who went on to become teachers, professors, attorneys, elected officials, founders and directors of not-for-profit organizations, and artists. Each is present here in striking photographic portraits and revelatory oral histories...Incisive essays provide a larger historical context."
—Booklist, Starred Review
"With a splendid assemblage of pictures and interviews, photographer Shih and historian Williams shine fresh light on the people in and the diverse activities of the Black Panther Party (BPP) on the 50th anniversary of its founding. Shih's photographs of the 45 interviewees have the vibrancy and immediacy of treasured family portraits. The interviewees' compelling recollections are buttressed by succinct but substantive essays...The special virtue of this book is as bottom-up, rather than top-down, history-an illuminating view of the everyday aspects of 'one of the most misunderstood organizations of the 20th century.'"—Publishers Weekly, "Most Anticipated Books for Fall 2016"
"This highly recommended compilation of interviews and photographs of the Black Panther Party helps reframe its legacy to include the humanitarian work they performed across the United States. Readers interested in the current Black Lives Matter movement will find resonance in the Panthers' stories."—Library Journal
"An intelligent, unapologetic book."—Shelf Awareness
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2. Function and regulation of drug-efflux transporters
Plant pathogenic fungi are exposed to a multitude of toxic compounds. Among the various mechanisms that allow them to survive ‘toxic environments’, we are studying the role of plasma membrane drug-efflux pumps in detoxification (Fig. 3). The genome of B. cinerea encodes more than 40 ABC-type, and more than 100 putative MFS-type efflux transporters. While most of these transporters are not yet functionally characterized, some of them have been shown to be involved in the export of fungicides, antibiotics and plant defense compounds (de Waard et al., 2006). The ABC transporter AtrB1 has been shown to transport a variety of natural and synthetic drugs, including the phytoalexin of Brassicaceae, camalexin. B. cinerea mutants lacking atrB show reduced pathogenicity on Arabidopsis wild type plants, but not on camalexin-deficient mutants, indicating that AtrB helps to overcome the chemical defense of host plants (Stefanato et al., 2009). Transcription of atrB is induced by various drugs, and requires the zinc cluster transcription factor Mrr1. We have identified a variety of gain-of-function mutations in mrr1 that lead to permanent activation of Mrr1, resulting in constitutive overexpression of atrB and multidrug resistance (MDR) phenotypes (see below; Kretschmer et al., 2009). We are further investigating the molecular details of expression regulation of drug efflux transporters (Fig. 4), and their role in protection of B. cinerea against chemical stress. A model for the regulation of expression of atrB by Mrr1 is shown in Fig. 5.
De Waard MA, Andrade AC, Hayashi K, Schoonbeek HJ, Stergiopoulos I, Zwiers LH (2006). Impact of fungal drug transporters on fungicide sensitivity, multidrug resistance and virulence. Pest Manag. Sci. 62: 195–207.
Kretschmer M, Leroch M, Mosbach A, Walker A-S, Fillinger S, Mernke D, Schoonbeek H-J, Pradier J-M, Leroux P, De Waard MA, Hahn M (2009). Fungicide-driven evolution and molecular Basis of Multidrug Resistance in Field Populations of the Grey Mould Fungus Botrytis cinerea. PLoS Pathog 5(12): e1000696.
Stefanato F, Abou-Mansour E, Buchala A, Kretschmer M, Mosbach A, Hahn M, Bochet C, Metraux J-P, Schoonbeek H-J (2009). The ABC-transporter BcatrB from Botrytis cinerea exports camalexin and is a virulence factor on Arabidopsis thaliana. The Plant Journal 58: 499-510 | <urn:uuid:142f942c-271e-4e59-b165-7a6819e83db3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.bio.uni-kl.de/en/phytopathologie/research/group-hahn/function-and-regulation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573699.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819131019-20220819161019-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.798722 | 651 | 2.546875 | 3 |
The P&B Bus Company has been transporting people since June 9, 1889. The bus company was started in 1888 in Plymouth, Massachusetts to build an electric powered street railway service between the towns of Plymouth and Kingston. The light rail line was originally planned for 2.5 miles and was expanded to 4 miles when service started. P&B has a history of investing in state-of-the-art technology that has ensured its success for more than 130 years.
The founders of the transportation company went with, at the time, a new power source–electricity instead of the established method of horse drawn vehicles. Then in 1923, the company purchased its first motor-powered bus which enabled passengers to travel beyond street railway that was tethered to electrical wire. By 1928, the company was using motor-powered buses for all its respective lines of transportation service. During World War II, to support the war effort, the bus company expanded service to the Hanover Fireworks and the Quincy Shipyards.
In 1949, P&B Bus Company applied for rights to operate buses from Plymouth to Boston via Route 3 (now Route 3A and Route 53). However, the regulatory agency kept bus service as a supplemental to train service which was on the decline for passenger travel. In 1959, Old Colony Rail Line ceased passenger train operations and P&B provided the needed transportation service. P&B bus service expanded from Hyannis to Boston in 1961. In 1983, P&B began providing bus service from Hyannis to Logan Airport.
P&B Bus Company continues to be the premier carrier from Cape Cod and the South Shore to Boston and Logan Airport. P&B provides the most reliable and frequent daily bus service from Hyannis to Boston and Logan Airport. In 2021, P&B started daily bus service from Falmouth, Woods Hole and West Bridgewater to Downtown Boston and Logan Airport. | <urn:uuid:cef2ed63-a1a1-46b6-b23e-0de963d9259e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.p-b.com/history/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.967063 | 379 | 2.59375 | 3 |
DALLAS — Can’t resist that bag of potato chips or a few extra handfuls of salted peanuts? Add some pepper to your meals. A new study finds that eating spicy foods may increase one’s sensitivity to salt, consequently curbing cravings for high sodium food.
Researchers at Third Military Medical University in China conducted an experiment with 606 Chinese adults, asking whether they preferred their meals to be salty or spicy. Later, the blood pressure levels of participants were measured, and subsequently evaluated against their taste preferences.
Participants who indicated a strong affinity for spicy foods were found to not only consume less salt than those who liked them the least, but their systolic and diastolic blood pressure numbers were significantly lower.
Imaging techniques used to examine the brains of participants showed that areas associated with the perception of salty taste were also stimulated by tasting a spicy substance.
It is believed that this stimulation could help someone compensate for a relative lack of sodium intake.
While all of the study’s participants were of Chinese descent, its findings are fascinating to say the least.
“If you add some spices to your cooking, you can cook food that tastes good without using as much salt,” says Dr. Zhiming Zhu, the study’s senior author, in an American Heart Association news release. “Yes, habit and preference matter when it comes to spicy food, but even a small, gradual increase in spices in your food may have a health benefit.”
Previous research had found that capsaicin, the chemical that gives a spicy food its olfactory kick, enhanced how salty a food smelled, but this study went a step further by cementing the link between a food’s spiciness and one’s tendency to reduce salt consumption.
The researchers note that lowered blood pressure, in specific, decreases one’s risk for many diseases, such as heart attack and stroke.
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This is my final post of this short series. If you missed the previous ones, the basic idea runs like this: yellow fish, en masse, look great against the blue. This time I’m looking at Bannerfish.
I’ve photographed Heniochus intermedius in the Red Sea so often, yet I still never tire of them. Not only are they quite easy to approach, they really ‘pop’ in any image, especially if you can get underneath them a little to capture some of the water column above.
They really are a great fish for portrait work and for showing a shoal, like in the image below, where they’ve been joined by a few Masked Butterflyfish, another quintessential Red Sea fish.
Somewhat ironically I have very few images of H. diphreutus, and none that are worth sharing. This species is called the Schooling Bannerfish. It has two much more well-defined black stripes and a longer filament on the dorsal. Personally I prefer intermedius, which has a little more yellow.
H. intermedius grows to about twenty centimeters long and is generally an open water feeder. I’ve seen them chomp down on jellyfish as well as taking smaller items from the zooplankton. | <urn:uuid:86f5ce65-fe43-4fe8-af02-179e7ed745bc> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://reefs.com/one-more-yellow-fish-that-makes-a-great-photography-subject/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.95333 | 269 | 1.789063 | 2 |
Java software allows to run application called as applets written in Java programming language. The applets allows users to have rich experience rather than just interacting with the static pages of HTML. The plug-in technology is also included as a main part of Java Runtime Environment. The standard edition of Java runtime environment established the connection between the platform of Java and popular browsers. The Java software allows this application to be downloaded over a specified network and run in the secured sandbox. The security restrictions are imposed under the sandbox. There are various platform applications which requires Java to be operated in the system.
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The main features of Java Runtime Environment are its strong connection between the browser and the Java platform. It is a software bundled with various libraries and components required to display wide range of programs and web content on the system. The plug-in browsers of Java and Java Web Start are utilized to deploy the standalone applications written in Java over the internet and other networks.
There are lot of popular websites which are dependent on Java for running the application. The Java libraries and components keeps the content fresh and therefore, these websites requires Java Runtime Environment for running the application.
Advancements of JavaFX:
The new version of Java includes Java Version 7 and JavaFX which is considered as the latest software platform and has new standards for the rich internet applications (RIAs) in Java.
There are some major security issues which were raised as warning flags related to the Java vulnerabilities and components of Java. The Java version 7.55 has addressed most of the security issues but it is still unsafe in some parts of program.
Version 8 compatibility:
The standard edition of Java version 8 has also been released but it has some problems with the system compatibility. The selection of version depends on the online habits, system and other factors according to the requirement of users.
Java Standard Edition comes with Version 7 update and can be installed easily and seamlessly in the system. Most of the Java applications keeps the installations updated and becomes apparent in the systems. The requirement of Java Runtime Environment is regular by popular websites because of Java written programs and therefore, it is a utility software for users.
The Java Runtime Environment provides Java virtual machines, libraries and other components for running the applets and applications written in the Java language. The other deployment technologies such as Java Plug-in and Java Web Start enables the applets to run in popular browsers. These applications deploys the individual application over the network. The official Java download is published by Sun Microsystems. The Java Runtime Environment can be traced in the other browser add-ons and category of plug-ins on the browser section.
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