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Summer Institute 'Culture,Communication, Cognition'
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Summer Institute 'Culture, Communication, Cognition'
Short Title: SICCC
Date: 16-Jun-2008 - 20-Jun-2008
Location: Shanghai, China
Contact: Dingfang Shu
Contact Email: shudfkyahoo.com
Linguistic Field(s): Cognitive Science; Discourse Analysis; General Linguistics;
Linguistic Theories; Pragmatics
The Mouton journal "Intercultural Pragmatics" and the Chinese Cognitive
Linguistics Association will hold the Summer Institute "Culture, Communication,
Cognition" (SICCC) at the Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai,
China on June 16-20, 2008.
Summer Institute of the Mouton Journal ''Intercultural Pragmatics'' and the
Chinese Cognitive Linguistics Association: ''Culture, Communication, Cognition''
Venue: Shanghai International Studies University, Shanghai, China
Time: June 16-20, 2008
Contact: Professor Dingfang Shu
Email: shudfkyahoo.com or tanyeshengyahoo.com
Room 304, Administration Building
Shanghai International Studies University
No. 550, Dalian Xilu, Hongkou District
June 16, Monday
Lera Boroditsky, Professor of Cognitive Psychology, Stanford University, USA
''How the languages we speak shape the ways we think''
June 17, Tuesday
Istvan Kecskes, Professor of Linguistics, State University of New York, Albany, USA
''Cognitive aspects of bi- and multilingualism''
June 18, Wednesday
Suzanne Kemmer, Professor of Linguistics, Rice University, USA
''Language, culture and mind''
June 19, Thursday
Jan Nuyts, Professor of Linguistics, University of Antwerp, Belgium
''Tense-Aspect-Modality in language and conceptualization: A
June 20, Friday
Kasia Jaszczolt, Professor of Linguistics, University of Cambridge, UK
''Pragmatic inference and default interpretations in current theories of
Each instructor will teach two sessions on the assigned day:
10:00 - 12:00 AM
02:00 - 04:00 PM
Participation fee: 800 RMB (attendance and documents)
Accommodation: Guesthouse of Shanghai International Studies University
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Since the top management believes that organizational success depends on sound management of human resources, it provides specialized assistance to line managers through personnel managers. Thus, personnel managers are created for the purposes of providing assistance, advice and information to line managers in order to relieve them from the burden of management of personnel and to allow them to concentrate on their technical operations. Personnel managers perform the various functions of personnel management viz., employment training, developments wage and salary administration, motivation, grievance redressal of workers’ participation in management and collective bargaining. Also personnel managers perform certain staff functions relating to management of personnel like advising assisting, guiding suggesting counseling and providing information to line managers. Personnel management therefore is a staff function.
However, the final responsibility for the management of personal still rests with line managers. Personnel management is a line management responsibility while retaining the role of being a staff function.
Staff Role of the Personnel department
The personnel department in relation to other departments and managers performs the following roles:
Policy initiation an formulation: One of the important functions of the personnel department is formulation of new personnel policy and alteration or modification of the existing personnel policies. The personnel manager has to initiate modification or formulation of new policies. He assists, advises and counsels the managing director regarding implication in formulation and modification of all major or crucial policies. He may be authorized by the managing director to formulate or modify minor policies.
Advice: The major activity of the personnel department or manager is advising, counseling managers operating at various levels (junior, middle and top) regarding problems, issues and clarifications concerning policies or people of their respective department / sections. Advice should be based on thorough thinking, analysis and research regarding pros and cons implication during and after execution possible measures to be taken etc.
Service: Personnel department renders all secretarial and executive services and performs background work in all personnel activities regarding recruitment, receiving and scrutinizing applications conducting tests, interviews, placement, induction, training, compensation management and management of industrial relations.
Monitor and control: Personnel department monitors performance and controls line activities to the extent they are related to personal issues. It compares the actual performances of line managers what the established personnel policies, procedures and programs. It also identifies and informs the deviations with possible alternative solutions to the line managers. It envisages appropriate corrective action and advises the managing director to modify the policies (if necessary) based on what transpires in the process.
Organization of Personnel Department
The internal structure of a personal department depends on various factors such as nature and size of the organization, managerial preferences to structure operations clearly external forces etc. Small firms have only a single section, headed by a personnel officer taking care of everything. Medium sized firms may create a separate personnel department having experts in the personnel field supported by administrative staff. In large firms the structure of a personnel department may take various shapes, depending on organizational resources, competitive pressures and total employee strength. Let us examine this in detail.
Personnel Department in Line Organization:
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Public Boat Ramps
Information compiled by Lawrence Dennis
Public boat ramps in Northeast Florida and Southeast Georgia as listed by agencies like the Florida Fish & Wildlife Conservation Commission, City of Jacksonville Department of Parks, Recreation & Entertainment and Georgia Department of Natural Resources. There is no charge at these ramps except for those on certain state park property.
This is only a list of public-owned ramps; private ramps, such as those at fish camps and private marinas, are not listed. Such facilities generally charge $3-$10 for launching. Boaters should always inspect conditions, especially tides in coastal areas, at each ramp before attempting to launch.
For more specific directions or conditions at listed ramps, contact the recreation departments, public works departments, county commissions or law enforcement agencies in each county. Some counties and other agencies also have some ramp infomation on Web sites on the Internet.
Santa Fe River
High Springs: End of 210 Lane in town of High Springs.
Poe Springs Park: 28800 NW 182nd Ave. High Springs; public park, fee and horsepower restriction.
Earl P. Powers Park: 5910 SE Hawthorne Rd. (Fla. 20), Gainesville.
Owens Illinois Park: 11309 SE 16th Ave., Windsor.
Lake Alto Park 17800 NE 134th Pl., Waldo.
Waldo Canal Park: 400 Canal St., Waldo.
Santa Fe Lake
Melrose Ramp: At end of Trout St., Melrose; restricted horsepower.
Santa Fe Lake Park: 24500 NE Fla. 26, Melrose.
Holden Park: Holden Pond, 9725 Holden Park Rd., Hawthorne.
Lindsey-Phillips Park: Lake Johnson, 1 U.S. 301 N., Hawthorne.
Lochloosa Park: Lochloosa Lake, SE 207th Ln., Hawthorne.
M.K. Rawlins Park: Orange Lake, 18800 S. Alachua Co. 325, Cross Creek.
Watermelon Pond: 10700 SW 250th St., Newberry.
Ocean Pond (East): Osceola National Forest, off U.S. 90, Fla. 231 1/2-mile north of Olustee at state park; $2 fee.
Ocean Pond (West): Osceola National Forest, off U.S. 90, Forest Rd. 241, 241-A about 11 miles east of Lake City; $2 fee.
St. Marys River: Off Fla. 121 and Steel Bridge Rd., about 4 miles north of Macclenny; recently renovated with bulkheads and wide ramp; surface is hardpacked sand in good condition; some picnic tables and grills, but no restrooms.
Hampton Lake: South of Starke off U.S. 301, Fla. 18.
Little Lake Santa Fe: Southwest of Starke off Fla. 100, Bradford Co. 21A/B.
Sampson Lake: West of Starke off Fla. 100.
Black Creek (Rideout Ferry): On Old Ferry Rd. off Clay Co. 209, Clay Co. 220, Fla. 21, 1 mile north of Middleburg; two-lane ramp.
Black Creek (Middleburg): At end of Clay Co. 220 E. (Main St.), Middleburg.
Lake Brooklyn: Off Clay Co. 100, 2 miles northwest of Keystone Heights.
Lake Geneva: Off Clay Co. 100, 2.4 miles west of Keystone Heights.
Lake Johnson: Goldhead Branch State Park, 6 miles northeast of Keystone Heights; $2 state park entrance fee.
Lake Lowry: Off Treat Rd., Clay Co. 100, Fla. 21, Keystone Heights; on Camp Blanding Military Reservation; closed for maneuvers at times during year; call (904) 533-3318.
Lake Magnolia: Off Co. 100, Fla. 21, 3 miles north of Keystone Heights; on Camp Blanding Military Reservation; closed for maneuvers at times; call (904) 533-3318.
St. Johns River
Lakeshore Ramp: On Doctor's Lake, off U.S. 17 South, Clay Co., 220 south of Orange Park; two lanes, good surface, limited trailer parking, often crowded.
Knight's Bridge Ramp: Adjacent to Knight's Fish Camp where Black Creek flows into St. Johns; newly renovated three-lane ramp with floating docks that opened early in 2000; large new paved parking lot, restrooms, picnic area and bait/convenience store.
Governor's Creek: At U.S. 17 bridge just north of Green Cove Springs where creek enters St. Johns; limited trailer parking, shallow water where creek enters river.
Old Shands Bridge: Off Fla. 16, 3 miles southeast of Green Cove Springs; shallow water at low tide.
St. Johns River (Williams Park): Off U.S. 17, Clay Co. 209, about 6 miles southeast of Green Cove Springs; gravel ramp.
Santa Fe River
O'Leno State Park: At I-75 bridge off U.S. 441 north of High Springs.
Hollingsworth Bluff: South of Fort White off Fla. 47 on Hollingsworth Bluff Road.
River Rise Ramp: Northwest of High Springs at U.S. 27/Fla. 20 bridge; use caution at low water.
Rum Island: South of Fort White off Fla. 47 and 138.
Cone Bridge: Northeast of Lake City off U.S. 441 at old Cone Bridge site.
Alligator Lake (North): A mile south of Lake City off U.S. 441 on Oleander Rd.
Alligator Lake (South): Off U.S. 441 south of Lake City, behind Columbia High football stadium.
Lake Jefferey: West of Lake City off Fla. 250.
Montgomery Lake: Downtown Lake City off Baya Street across from 5th St.
Watertown Lake: North of Lake City off Fla. 100A.
Talbot Island State Park: ICW, Sawpit Creek at old Fla. A1A bridge over Nassau River; new ramp built in 1999 by Florida DOT as part of new Nassau River Bridge project; operated by Florida DEP Division of State Parks; single-lane ramp, crowded on weekends; $2 charge on honor system.
Fort George River: At Fla. A1A bridge; unimproved sand-and-shell ramp behind old Camp Alamacani; suitable only for small craft and personal watercraft; limited parking; picnic area and grills, portable restrooms; great ICW acess for small craft, but beware at low tide.
Sisters Creek Park: ICW at 8203 Heckscher Dr. (Bridge); recently improved double-wide ramp opened last September; adequate parking and new floating concrete docks; restrooms, paved parking lot, other park amenities are currently under construction, but ramp remains open except for brief periods; can't be used much of July because of use of site by Greater Jacksonville Kingfish Tournament.
Joe Carlucci: ICW, McKenna Dr. off Heckscher Dr. on north bank of St. Johns River at juncture with ICW; new, double-wide, rippled-surface ramp; picnic area, restrooms.
Mayport: Off Fla. A1A at village of Mayport just east of ferry slip, about 3 miles from the St. Johns River entrance. After extensive expansion and renovation over the last several years, probably one of the finest ramps for ready access to the ocean on the East Coast. For that reason, it can also be one of the most crowded, despite expanded parking and other facilities; currents, wakes from ocean-going vessels can be a problem.
Oak Harbor: In Oak Harbor Subdivision at 2428 Seaway St. in Mayport off Florida A1A; good access to the ICW and ocean. Good facilities, secluded and seldom overcrowded, but shoaling is an ongoing problem and shallow water at low tide can be a danger even for smaller boats.
Beach Blvd.: Just east of B.B. McCormick drawbridge in Jacksonville Beach behind Beach Marine and Florida Fish & Wildlife Commisssion headquarters. Good ramp, but parking is very limited.
St. Johns River and tributaries
Lonnie Wurn: At 4131 Ferber Rd. in Fort Caroline area on St. Johns south bank. Recent renovations and dredging have improved the facility, but like all old ramps built in what are now residential areas, parking space is limited.
Bert Maxwell: Located just north of I-95 at 680 Broward Rd. on Trout River: about 3 miles from the St. Johns: this little-used ramp has plenty of parking and a good launching surface. But despite recent dredging, care is needed going in and out.
Dinsmore: On upper reaches of Trout River at junction of U.S. 1 North and Dunn Ave. Recently renovated; limited parking.
T.K. Stokes: On upper reaches of Ribault River on Riverview Ave., off Lem Turner Rd; limited parking.
Harborview: On upper reaches of Ribault River on Harborview Dr.; limited parking.
Arlington Lion's Club: At Lion's Club Park on University Blvd. North, above Jacksonville University campus. One of the best on St. Johns, set in an idyllic park with plenty of parking, nature trails, picnic areas, restrooms.
Arlington Rd.: At foot of Arlington Rd. just north of Mathews Bridge; old single-wide ramp has been renovated over the years, but parking is extremely limited.
Pottsburg Creek: On upper reaches of Pottsburg Creek/Arlington River on Beach Blvd; old ramp with limited parking.
St. Johns Marina: Last ramp going south directly on St. Johns in Duval county, on Gulf Life Dr. downtown directly behind River City Brewing Co. restaurant and hard by Acosta Bridge. Wide and well-surfaced, but parking and access are limited because of location near restaurant and other businesses and ramps to bridge; currents can also be a problem.
Lighthouse Marine: Cedar River, 5434 San Juan Ave. at bridge; recently improved ramp with floating dock, restrooms; opened in 1999; limited parking.
Wayne B. Stevens: Fishing Creek off Ortega River at Ortega Farms Blvd. and Seaboard Ave. (off Timuquana Rd.); recently renovated and dredged; adequate parking, restrooms.
Hood Landing: On Julington Creek at foot of Hood Landing Rd. at Clark's Fish Camp; old single-wide ramp with no dock; parking is virtually non-existent, but ramp offers only ready access to St. Johns from east bank between downtown Jacksonville and St. Johns County.
Nobles Ferry: Off Fla. 6 (west of I-75) and Fla. 751 near Agricultural Inspection Station in Hutch-Gibson Park.
Campsite Ramp: Southwest of Jasper off Fla. 141 S. at campsite; free public ramp.
U.S. 41 Bridge: Just south of White Springs at U.S. 41 Bridge over river; no facilities, limited parking.
Adams Springs: Off Fla. 6 just east of Madison Co. line.
County Line: Just east of Madison Co. line off Fla. 6, Hwy. 143.
Cushing Creek: Off Fla. A1A, 5 miles west of Yulee; unimproved.
Holly Point Park: On Christopher Creek near Nassauville community off Fla. 200, Nassau Co. 107; restrooms, picnic area, floating dock.
Intracoastal Waterway: At foot of Ash St., downtown Fernandina Beach; shallow water, shoaling, heavily used by commercial fishermen; extremely limited parking.
Melton Nelson Park: On Lofton Creek on Fla. A1A east of Yulee; good surface, floating dock, limited parking.
Nassau Landing: On Christopher Creek, 4 mi. west of I-95 on Fla. A1A, Edwards Road; recently renovated.
North Amelia Island Park/Ramp: On ICW on N. 14th St., Fernandina Beach; park, with three-lane ramp, other amenities is adjacent to Fort Clinch State Park property and replaces demolished ramp on that site; good access to St. Marys River Entrance.
Wilson Neck: South of Yulee off U.S. 17.
St. Marys River
King's Ferry: Off Middle Road, Nassau Co. 108, northeast of Hilliard; single lane, floating dock.
St. Marys River: Off U.S. 301, Murrhee Rd., northwest of Hilliard; unimproved.
Tompkins Landing: Off Nassau Co. 115/121 west and north of Hilliard.
Walker Landing/Scott's Landing: Off U.S. 1, Lake Hampton Rd. north of Hilliard at Boulogne.
St. Johns River
City Dock: On 3rd (River) St., downtown Palatka by City Dock and old marina; double ramp with restroom, parking for 28 trailers; popular for sailboat races and fishing tournaments.
East Palatka: Off U.S. 17, Pico Rd., 1 1/2 mi. across river from Palatka; single lane, unimproved parking.
Elgin Grove: On Magnolia Avenue off Fla. 207, 100 & 207A, E. River Rd.; single ramp, unimproved parking.
Palmetto Bluff: Off U.S. 17 N. of Palatka and Cedar Creek Road near Bostwick; single ramp, unimproved parking.
Shell Harbor: U.S. 17 S. to Satsuma, Putnam Co. 309 and Shell Harbor Rd.; single-lane ramp, unimproved and very limited parking.
Welaka: Putnam Co. 309 S. from Palatka; on Elm St. in Welaka; single-lane ramp, unimproved parking.
Cowpen Lake: West of Interlachen off Fla. 20 and W. Cowpen Lake Rd.; not usable at low water.
Crescent Lake: Off U.S. 17 North from Crescent City on Central Ave.; single-lane ramp, fixed dock, parking for six vehicles.
George's Lake: Off Fla. 100, Coral Homes Rd., S. Bellamy Rd., Florahome; single-lane ramp, parking for 12 vehicles.
Lake Stella: Off U.S. Central Ave. Crescent City; single-lane ramp, fixed dock, unimproved parking for 12 vehicles.
St. Johns Co.
Boating Club Rd. Ramp: At foot of road west of Fla. A1A N. at North Beach; small ramp.
Butler Park: West of Fla. A1A S. between St. Augustine Beach and Crescent Beach; dredged in 1998.
Doug Crane Ramp: On Shore Dr. in St. Augustine South sub-division; shallow ramp, limited parking.
Green Rd. Ramp: Fla. A1A South N. of Crescent Beach; small ramp.
Guana Lake (North): In Guana State Recreation Area off Fla. A1A between Jacksonville Beach and St. Augustine, 6 miles north of Guana Dam; unimproved; small boats and kayaks, canoes.
Guana Lake (South): In Guana State Recreation Area, South Ponte Vedra; unimproved; small boats and kayaks, canoes.
Lighthouse Park: At St. Augustine Lighthouse on Salt Run, off San Marco Blvd. south of Bridge of Lions; good surface, limited dock space and parking, no restrooms; follow navigation markers through Salt Run.
Palmetto Ramp: Fla. A1A S. north of Butler Park; single ramp.
St. Johns Co. Park (Vilano Ramp): Fla. A1A North just west of Usina Bridge; good surface, adequate parking, but is crowded at peak periods; restructuring of parking lot, access lanes off highway are planned within coming year; dredged in 1999, but follow navigation markers carefully; along with Jacksonville's Mayport Ramp, offers best ocean access in area.
St. Johns River
Palmo Rd. Ramp: On St. Johns Co. 13, 1 1/2 mi. south of Fla. 16; shallow ramp, limited parking.
Riverdale Ramp: South of St. Johns Co. 13; shallow ramp, limited parking; dredging is planned within next year.
Trout Creek: Off Fla. 13, 4 miles south of Shands Bridge at Green Cove Springs; good surface and access to St. Johns, adequate parking but is crowded at peak periods.
Dowling Lake: On Fla. 238, 7 miles north of Lake Butler; dirt ramp.
Lake Butler: Off Union Co. 238 north of Lake Butler.
Lake Butler: Off Fla. 231 west of Lake Butler; dirt ramp.
New River: On Fla. 231, 5 miles south of Lake Butler at bridge.
Carter Bight Rd.: Off Ga. 144; Ga. DNR ramp.
Eason's Bluff: Ga. 339 (Eason's Bluff Rd.) off Ga. 144.
Morris Landing: Ga. 442 (Morris Landing Rd.) off Ga. 377 & Road S. 1824; Ga. DNR ramp.
Atkinson Co. Landing - Five mi. northeast of Pearson at Ga. 64; Ga. DNR ramp.
Axson Ramp - North of town of Axson; Ga. DNR ramp.
Millwood Ramp - Northeast of town of Millwood; Ga. DNR ramp.
Alapaha River: Berrien Beach Landing, 12 mi. east of Nashville on Ga. 168.
Herrin Landing: Off Co. Rd. 224, 6 miles northwest of Nahunta.
U.S. 301 Bridge: Off U.S. 301, 6 miles north of Nahunta.
Warner's Landing: Off Ga. 110, 3 1/2 mi. north of Atkinson.
Withlacoochee River: On Georgia 33, 8 mi. southeast of Quitman.
Crooked River: Crooked River State Park, off Ga. 40 E., east of Kingsland near King's Bay submarine base (follow signs to park from I-95); excellent ramp with floating aluminum docks, adequate parking; campground, restrooms, picnic facilities; $2 park admission fee.
Crooked River: In Hariett's Bluff community upstream from above ramp, south bank.
Little Satilla River: At U.S. 17 Bridge north of Kingsland.
St. Marys River (St. Marys): Foot of Ga. 40, downtown St. Marys.
St. Marys River (Temple Landing): Off Ga. 40 7 miles west of Kingsland.
St. Marys River (U.S. 17 Landing): East side of U.S. 17 Bridge; unimproved, limited parking.
Satilla River: Woodbine at Satilla Waterfront Park, U.S. 17.
Okeefeneokee Swamp: At Stephen C. Foster State Park, off U.S. 441 south of Fargo, Ga. Admission fee to park.
Okeefenokee Swamp: Kingfisher Landing, 1/2 mi. south of junction of U.S. 1, Ga. 121 near Folkston.
Okeefenokee Swamp: Suwannee Canal, off Ga. 121, 8 miles south of Folkston.
St. Marys River (Camp Pickney): Off Ga. 40, 2 miles east of Folkston.
St. Marys River (Trader's Hill): Off Ga. 121, 3 miles south of Folkston.
Satilla River: Off Ga. 252, 7 miles east of Folkston at Burnt Fort.
Fargo Landing: On Suwanee River at U.S. 441 Bridge just south of Fargo; newly repaved, adequate parking; no facilities; difficult to use at low water.
Statenville Landing: On Alapaha River at Ga. 94 Bridge just west of town of Statenville; good ramp, little parking, no facilities; Ga. DNR ramp.
Cedar Creek: Off Jekyll Island Causeway.
E. River/Brunswick Harbor: Andrews Island Rd. off Newcastle Street, Brunswick.
Jekyll River:On Jekyll Island south of causeway, Jekyl Harbor Marina.
Mackay River:Off St. Simons Island Causeway, Brunswick.
South Brunswick River:Blythe Island Regional Park, Brunswick.
Turtle River: Blythe Island Beach Dr., Brunswick.
Turtle River: Off Ga. 303, Brunswick.
Turtle River: Off Ga. 99, Brunswick.
Village Creek: Off South Harrington Rd., St. Simons Island.
Lake Irma - North side of lake in town of Lakeland.
Naylor Landing:On Alapaha River and Ga. 135, 1 1/2 mi. north of Naylor and U.S. 84 East.
Troupeville Landing:On Little River on Ga. 94 west of Valdosta; Ga. DNR ramp.
Clyattville Landing:Off U.S. 31, 5 mi. west of Clyattville; no facilities, unimproved parking.
Knight's Ferry:On Knight's Ferry Rd. 12 mi. southwest of Valdosta.
FFA Camp: Off Trudie Rd. 8 mi. east of Blackshear at Future Farmers of America Camp.
Hoboken Ramp: At Hwy. 121 bridge, 3 mi northwest of Hoboken.
Odom Bluff: Off Hwy. 121, 4 1/2 mi. southeast of Blackshear.
Okeefenokee Swamp:Suwannee River Sill off Ga. 177, Southwest edge of swamp.
Jamestown Landing:On Satilla River 6 mi. north of Waycross , Old Watertown Road.
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The City Council needs to get its act together on empty homes. A friend of mine lives in an average flat in an average tenement in Edinburgh. He has lived there since 1989. In all the time he has lived there the flat opposite has been empty. Or, not quite empty, but occupied by the owner – who lives abroad – for 2 weeks a year, usually at Festival time. My friend has mused that, if, instead, the flat had been rented out, the owner could have afforded to take a luxury suite at the Balmoral Hotel for those two weeks with the rent he received.
That is how irrational empty homes are. Of course, over those fifteen years the property will have increased in value two or three-fold, simply by sitting empty. That is why, as I have argued elsewhere, we need land value taxation.
But it is not just my friend’s phantom neighbour. The irrationality is widespread. In Edinburgh, according to a recent Bank of Scotland survey, there are 10,000 empty homes. While some of them will be owned by social landlords, the majority will be privately-owned. The last Post Census Vacant Dwellings Survey showed that Edinburgh had more private sector empties than anywhere else in Scotland, while, according to the Council Tax database, almost 600 private sector homes have been empty for more than a year. And that is in a city where 25,000 people are on the housing list and 4,600 were accepted as homeless last year. Indeed, such are the housing pressures in the capital that we have displaced thousands of families to west Fife, in search of more affordable housing. That evacuation and the consequent commuter demands, more than anything else, explains why Scotland is contemplating lavishing £2.3 billion on yet another road crossing of the Forth.
So, faced with such pressures, I imagined that the city council would be making serious efforts to bring empty homes back into use. In October 2007, my Green councillor colleague, Steve Burgess, brought a motion to the Council requiring the city to adopt an empty homes strategy; instead, all we have had is a very limited annual report to the Health, Social Care and Housing Committee.
The Council Tax database relies on property owners to declare a property empty. So a number of Scottish councils have signed up to a new website organised by Shelter and the Empty Homes Agency. The website allows members of the public to report an empty home to council staff. I would have thought that the City Council would have welcomed this additional source of information. But, it turns out that Edinburgh has not signed up. This reeks of complacency about a valuable potential resource. It also represents lost revenue from council tax since long term empty homes attract a council tax discount of between 10-50%.
It seems that, on empty homes, the City Council is determined to see no evil, hear no evil, speak no evil.
That complacency is not acceptable. I’ll be talking to my councillor colleagues about what we can do to inject some urgency into empty homes work in the city and, if I am elected as a Green MSP in May, I’ll want to explore what additional powers or strategies might help more properties to be brought back into use.
And if Edinburgh wants any help, it could ask Brighton and Hove Council for tips. The city council there has an excellent empty homes strategy which has resulted in hundreds of private sector homes being returned to use. The fact that Brighton and Hove has a growing group of 13 Green councillors and hosts the UK’s first Green MP, Caroline Lucas, may be pure coincidence. | <urn:uuid:a845fa3a-42d5-40e8-8412-a8d739c75b30> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.edinburghgreens.org.uk/site/blog/edinburghs-wasted-homes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00432-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968912 | 741 | 1.96875 | 2 |
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Accession Number : ADA314370
Title : Geoacoustic Study of New Jersey Coast from Townsends Inlet to Hereford Inlet.
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Corporate Author : ARMY ENGINEER WATERWAYS EXPERIMENT STATION VICKSBURG MS HYDRAULICS LAB
Personal Author(s) : McGee, Richard G. ; McVan, Darla C.
PDF Url : ADA314370
Report Date : JUL 1996
Pagination or Media Count : 244
Abstract : A comprehensive geoacoustic study has been performed for a 7-mile stretch of coastline off the coast of New Jersey between Townsends Inlet and Hereford Inlet for the purpose of defining the limits of available granular materials. The work was performed in support of the U.S. Army Engineer District, Philadelphia's, feasibility study for shore protection solutions for the Atlantic coast of New Jersey. Specifically, the objective of this investigation was to quantify the bottom and subottom sediments in terms of in situ density, mean grain size, and soil type from the seafloor surface to a depth of about 20 ft below the bottom, where possible, providing initial estimates of the sediment characteristics as related to their potential use as beachfill material. A high-resolution acoustic reflection technique was used to quantitatively assess the characteristics of the naturally occurring marine sediments. Analysis of 3,500-Hz and 1,000-Hz seismic reflection data in conjunction with vibracore sampling data from selected sites throughout the New Jersey coast study area has been completed. The seismic data were correlated with the laboratory analysis of the sample data through acoustic impedance and acoustic absorption analysis. This being a reconnaissance level study, the results are not intended to assess the suitability of any marine sediment as beach quality material; rather the results are intended to pinpoint areas for further detailed investigations.
Descriptors : *GEOACOUSTICS, *SEDIMENTS, *BEACHES, *ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE, COASTAL REGIONS, CONTINENTAL SHELVES, BATHYMETRY, SEISMIC DATA, MARINE GEOLOGY, GEOLOGICAL SURVEYS, ACOUSTIC ABSORPTION, HYDROPHONES, ACOUSTIC SIGNATURES, GEOPHYSICS, COASTAL ENGINEERING, OCEAN BOTTOM SAMPLING, MARINE ENGINEERING, ACOUSTIC DATA, SONAR TRANSDUCERS, NEW JERSEY, OCEAN BOTTOM SOILS, GRANULAR MATERIALS, ACOUSTIC REFLECTION, SHORE PROTECTION, CORE SAMPLING.
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Geology, Geochemistry and Mineralogy
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Bartholomew Allerton was born 1612 in Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands to Isaac Allerton (1586-1658) and Mary Norris (1588-1621) and died 15 February 1658 in Bramfield, Suffolk, England of unspecified causes. He married Margaret Fairfax (1612-) in England. He married Sarah Fairfax (1616-) in England. Ancestors are from the United Kingdom.
Vital Statistics Edit
Mayflower Pilgrim (at age 8) that later returned to England
- Son of Isaac Allerton (1586-1658) and Mary Norris
- Born circa 1612 in Leiden, Holland
Per Bradford's journal of Plymouth Colony, Bartholomew returned to England. There is a Bartholomew Allerton mention in English Ancestry by Banks (p 29-30) that references some legal matters in Norfolk, England. But proof if this is the same person is inconclusive.
|Offspring of Isaac Allerton, Sr. and Mary Norris (1588-1621)|
|Bartholomew Allerton (1612-1658)||1612 Reusel-de Mierden, Noord-Brabant, Netherlands||15 February 1658 Bramfield, Suffolk, England|| Margaret Fairfax (1612-)|
Sarah Fairfax (1616-)
|Remember Allerton (1614-1652)||1614 Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands||12 September 1655 Marblehead, Essex County, Massachusetts|| Moses Maverick (1611-1686)|
|Mary Allerton (1616-1699)||June 1616 Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands||28 November 1699 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, United States|| Thomas Cushman (1608-1691)|
|Child Allerton (1620-1620)||1620 Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands||1620 Leiden, Zuid-Holland, Netherlands|| |
|Stillborn Allerton (1620-1620)||22 December 1620 Plymouth Harbor onboard Mayflower, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts||22 December 1620 Plymouth Harbor onboard Mayflower, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts|
|Offspring of Isaac Allerton, Sr. and Fear Brewster (1606-1634)|
|Sarah Allerton (c1626-bef1651)||1626 Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Kingdom of England||1651 Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Kingdom of England|| |
|Isaac Allerton (1628-1701)||22 May 1627 Plymouth Colony, Plymouth, Plymouth County, Massachusetts, Kingdom of England||25 October 1702 Copley, Westmoreland County, Virginia, Kingdom of England|| Elizabeth Thurgood (c1630-)|
Elizabeth Willoughby (1635-1672)
Vital Records Edit
Bradford's Passenger ListEdit
From Gov Bradford's listing of 1620 passengers of the Mayflower:
Mr. Isaack Allerton, and Mary, his wife; with 3 children, Barthlomew, Remember and Mary; and a servant boy, John Hooke.
Mr. Allerton his wife dyed with the first, and his servant, John Hooke. His son Bartle is maried in England, but I know not how many children he hath. His doughter Remember is maried at Salem, and hath 3 or 4 children living. And his doughter Mary is maried here, and hath 4 children. Him selfe maried againe with the doughter of Mr. Brewster, and hath one sone living by her, but she is long since dead. And he maried againe, and hath left this place long agoe. So I account his increase to be 8 besides his sons in England. | <urn:uuid:7227786d-04fa-44dc-9f4b-25b178b5d994> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://familypedia.wikia.com/wiki/Bartholomew_Allerton_(1612-1658) | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00433-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.852722 | 810 | 2.265625 | 2 |
Memorial to Prince Leopold and Princess Charlotte by Francis John Williamson (1833-1920). After 1865. Marble. St George's Church, Esher, Surrey [Entire monument]. Photograph and text 2006 by Jacqueline Banerjee. This photograph may be used without prior permission for any scholarly or educational purpose.
In 1816, a local estate called Claremont was bought by the nation as a wedding present for Princess Charlotte, the popular only daughter of George IV, and her husband Prince Leopold of Saxe-Coburg. There was widespread grief when Charlotte died after a stillbirth in 1817, when she was only 21. Leopold was the young Princess Victoria's uncle, and she was very fond of visiting him at Claremont, remembering those visits with much pleasure in later life. Leopold left the estate in 1831 when he became King of the Belgians, but retained ownership of it until he died in 1865. His niece continued to make visits there, finally buying Claremont for her youngest son, Leopold, Duke of Albany, in 1882. It was Queen Victoria herself who commissioned the memorial to Charlotte and Leopold, originally installing it on the staircase at Claremont. The Duchess of Albany later gave it to St George's Church, Esher, where it remains today.
[For a contemporary account of Claremont and the Queen's arrangements there, see any edition of the Reverend Francis Kilvert's diary, which describes his visit in detail in the entry for 18 January 1871.
Cooper, Phyllis M. The Story of Claremont. London: Nelson and E Saunders, 8th ed. 1983.
The History of Claremont. Information pamphlet issued by Claremont Fan Court School, Esher, Surrey, n.d. Mee, Arthur. ed. Surrey: London's Southern Neighbour. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938. >Last modified 31 August 2006
The History of Claremont. Information pamphlet issued by Claremont Fan Court School, Esher, Surrey, n.d.
Mee, Arthur. ed. Surrey: London's Southern Neighbour. London: Hodder and Stoughton, 1938.
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Preliminary counts of game checking tags indicate West Virginia hunters killed 131,444 white-tailed deer during the recently completed bucks-only, antlerless, muzzleloader, archery and youth/Class Q/Class XS deer seasons, according to Division of Natural Resources Director Frank Jezioro.
This year’s total harvest was three 3 percent below the 2011 deer harvest of 135,696. A total of 56,658 bucks, 45,169 antlerless season deer, 24,571 bow-killed deer and 5,046 muzzleloader season deer were taken during the 2012 season.
Antlerless Deer Season
The 2012 antlerless deer season, which includes the youth/Class Q/Class XS deer season, was 12 percent above 2011 and one and one-half percent below the five-year average of 45,845.
“It is important to note that the antlerless harvest is the key component to any deer management strategy, as it controls the future deer population,” Jezioro said. “Many counties had liberalized antlerless hunting seasons in 2012, including 10 counties that required hunters to harvest an antlerless deer before harvesting a second buck with a gun or bow, and a new October antlerless firearms season in all open counties.
“These modifications to the antlerless season structure led to an increase in the harvest and will ensure that deer populations do not exceed management objectives.”
The top 10 counties are: Preston (2,343), Mason (2,026), Jackson (1,759), Wood (1,608), Lewis (1,575), Upshur (1,569), Harrison (1,511), Ritchie (1,391), Monongalia (1,340) and Randolph (1,325).
Muzzleloader Deer Season
The 2012 muzzleloader harvest of 5,046 was 36 percent less than the 2011 harvest of 7,873 and was 37 percent below the five-year average of 7,969.
“A change in season dates and an above-average acorn crop contributed to the decline in the muzzleloader harvest,” Jezioro said.
The top 10 counties are: Preston (237), Randolph (230), Nicholas (219), Braxton (216), Webster (203), Jackson (173), Fayette (170), Upshur (160), Lewis (157) and Mason (147).
Archery Deer Season
The bow hunters’ take of 24,571 deer was 10 percent below the 2011 harvest of 27,404, 10 percent below the five-year average harvest of 27,339. Archery harvests are directly correlated to hard mast crops, and the above average acorn crop was the primary factor for the lower harvest in 2012.
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As I remember, it’s my 12-year old niece who introduced me to these funny memes just months ago.
At first I thought they were just a bunch of kiddy stuffs over the internet, but I admit, they’re cute and hilarious!
A meme a.k.a. internet meme, based on its bookish definition:
“an idea, behavior, style, or usage that spreads from person to person within a culture; a humorous image, video, piece of text, etc. that is copied (often with slight variations) and spread rapidly by Internet users.”
It’s quite simple to understand what memes are though they serve a different purpose from time to time.
Memes can be a still image taken from popular movies or shows; pictures of real people, animals, places or events. These can also be those cranky caricatures mixed on comic strips we often see shared on social media platforms like Facebook, Reddit, Pinterest , and among many others.
These images are overlaid with some witty texts to be able to pass on the message one wants to convey to its audience, in a way that’s humorous and artistic. And it’s no news how this new social trend has created a “buzz” over the field of internet marketing.
These images are so viral, they are used for ads and campaigns ever since and has been proven over time to get all eyeballs turned on it. Obviously, discerning marketers are now taking advantage over this new cool trend. by way of “meme-vertising” (creating ads using memes).
Enough said, here are 88 humorous memes to wake up your nerves. Enjoy!
From Movies/ Shows
1. Happy springbreak everyone!
2. Another reason for buying iPhone 5
3. Rewind humour 1
4. What really if??
5. Choosing between the lesser ugly.. 😛
6. Yea, just don’t spill your drink and the popcorn!
7. Rewind humour 2
8. When he says something, he meant something else!
9. No matter what kind of cookie it is, cookie monster will sure save it!
10. I hope he doesn’t break the eardrum of the show host.. -_-
11. That is no joke Joker! xD
12. Yea, very well said.
13. Creeps…makes me wanna crush this spidy!
14. Let it goooo…
15. I won’t breathe at all?
16. Poor thing.
18. We all have different reasons to be sad. : D
19. He doesn’t need popularity..
20. Self obsession eh.
21. Now that’s illegal!
22. …somebody seen my cooling fan?
24. Grand ma’s complete disguise
25. Who ever thinks he’s boring? Go to the next meme.
26. And why yuou no like eet?
27. Ha! Ha! Got ya!
28. Hey, you pay attention lad!
29. Me neither. xD
30. Two for me and my amigo.
31. Major in house – keeping.. 😛
33. You got me nerdy!
34. Ohh.. that hurts!
36. Okay not your fault buddy!
37. And then I said… pinch your noses!
38. What ya lookin’ at??
Cute Babies turned Memes
39. Sorry.. 😀
40. Future Sumo!!!
41. Cute baby gone drunk!
42. Sorry bro!
43. No Matt Cutts! Hahaha!
44. We meet again!
45. I didn’t say that.. 😛
46. Got a point there monk guru!
47. Why not!!!!!
49. Stitch no need stitch!
51. Spin all the Leeks!
52. John without the “s”
54. A boon or a bane?
55. Before it was indeed cool!
57. RIP Cartoon Network
58. Forever alone!
59. Try them one by one.
60. Y U NO
Cute Animal Memes
61. Reincarnated to table
62. Have you seen your twin?
63. Raww! Fear me!
64. Super dawg! tadadada!!!
65. Nice costume! thought you’re a dog. haha!
66. Now it’s known.
67. Yea, couldn’t even spot one.
68. Do nothing…
69. I got the keys…
70. And that’s a threat!
71. Nice kitty kitty.. watch my rear!
72. It wasn’t ribbitting like I do!
73. Yea, like 11 times!
74. Say it to my face!
75. Wanna try it too?
76. Plotting something eh!
77. Thanks for pointing it that out!
78. Pitbulls gone selfie
79. Stop! I’m your general!
80. Get moving!
81. Looks like zebra, smells like cat!
82. I don’t understand what’s happening here…
83. Hahaha! Just got me laughing!
84. White toy dog lost!
87. Croc eats a croc!! Now that’s….
88. Don’t call me chick’n!
Sky is the limit with memes!
This is your chance to finally show off your hidden wits and creativity and nobody will say “it sucks!”
So how do you plan to use it for your business? Hmm, got an idea? Please share it with us in the comments below! We’ll love to hear it!
Make it a memeriffic day!
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Meteor in Action (Aircraft 152)
By Glenn Ashley
Publisher: Squadron/Signal Publications Inc. 1995 52 Pages
PDF 16 MB
The dream of jet powered aviation goes back almost as far as shortly after the First World War. Throughout the 1920s efforts were made to develop new types of aircraft propulsion using mainly rocket or gas turbine engines, but still requiring the use of a conventional propeller.
In the early 1930s, a young British engineer named Frank Whittle worked privately on a new engine design while still maintaining a career in the RAF. Whittle received mixed feedback from the various sections of the military about this new idea. A great deal of support was received from within the RAF, but the Air Ministry bluntly rejected his proposals leaving him to privately patent the project. His idea was for a gas turbine driving a scries of enclosed impellers, rather than the normal propeller.
By the mid-1930s Whittle had formed Power Jets Ltd. to develop his new ideas from the drawing board to hardware. As this development continued. Whittle was busy trying to find a suitable airframe for development. In 1939 he met with George Carter who was Chief Designer at the Gloster Aircraft Co. .and their ensuing meetings developed into a firm belief that, a jet powered combat aircraft was not far away. Around this time, the Air Ministry did an about-face on their previous views and started to take an active interest in the project. This culminated in the issuing of a contract to Gloster for a new design to be used as a developmental airframe for jet propulsion, but also suitable for possible introduction into RAF service without prolonged modification. | <urn:uuid:4eed9d91-ad63-4e68-af5f-6102c2b05abb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://eknigi.org/voennaja_istorija/61741-meteor-in-action.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00547-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978489 | 336 | 3.25 | 3 |
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Promotional Water Bottles - Boosting Campaigns For Sports and LeisurePromotional water bottles are very effective in marketing any type of business that is involved in leisure, sports, or fitness. These water bottles are among the most common marketing tools used in the industry thus presenting a broad range of companies a perfect method for advertising their business. Using these bottles is also a creative way to build loyalty for certain brands. Providing Promotional Water Bottles for Various Users Most of the individuals who appreciate being given these promotional water bottles include joggers, runners, football players, hikers, golfers, dancers, athletes, fitness and gym class students, personal trainers, and fitness instructors. However, aside from these people, there are also others like working moms and commuters who consider these bottles as great accessories for their lifestyles. Once these bottles are branded, they could already show off not only the name of your company but also you
Are Plastic Drinking Water Bottles Safe?We've been assured for the past decade or so that the best drinking water from our neighborhood water systems in the nation is potentially full of toxic chemicals like lead, chlorine, mercury, copper and bacteria. We've read frightening stories about municipal water systems being polluted by sewage systems. As a result, people got used to bottled drinking water as a safer and safer choice to ordinary tap water. Now we're learning that bottled drinking water isn't as good for us as we believed. Firstly there's the container itself. That handy plastic water bottle we've gotten used to carrying around with us is often made from plastics that bear cancer-producing toxins named phthalates. They really leach into the water that we're drinking and accumulate in our bloodstreams. Reports are showing that the concentrations of phthalates in our bodies are increasing with each generation, principally as a result of bottled drinking water packaged in to | <urn:uuid:607f30dd-50d7-43e4-b9b1-14384b6fdb14> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.sz-wholesale.com/Search-Result/Licence-Plate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00194-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958511 | 1,122 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Application Server Load Balancing & Failover
What is High Availability
High availability is a computing concept whereby a user’s request does so with the utmost reliability, by using built-in failover mechanisms that mitigate against the effects of any one component failing. Such systems typically have redundant hardware and software that makes the system available despite failures. Well-designed high availability systems avoid having single points-of-failure. Any hardware or software component that can fail has a redundant component of the same type.
When failures occur, the failover process moves processing performed by the failed component to the backup component. This process remasters systemwide resources, recovers partial or failed transactions, and restores the system to normal, preferably within a matter of microseconds. The more transparent that failover is to users, the higher the availability of the system.
What is Application Clustering?
Application clustering (sometimes called software clustering) is a method of turning multiple computer servers into a cluster (a group of servers that acts like a single system) to provide higher availability and scalability. In a cluster, each of the servers maintains the same information and collectively they perform administrative tasks such as load balancing, determining node failures, and assigning failover duty. The other clustering method, hardware clustering, requires that specialized hardware be installed in a single server that controls the cluster.
Because servers can easily be added or removed from the cluster as needs dictate, an application cluster is more scalable than its hardware-based counterpart. Furthermore, because it doesn’t require specialized hardware, an application cluster tends to be easier and cheaper to configure. For these reasons, application clustering is the more commonly practiced method.
High Availability, Clustering, Load Balancing and Failover in PeopleSoft
PeopleSoft application provides out-of-box high availability by using Tuxedo’s domain failover mechanism. Instead of clustering application servers, high availability is provided by running multiple domains and using software loadbalancing and failover.
Within a PeopleSoft system all application server processes belong to a domain. There can be multiple domains running on a host but domains do not span multiple hosts. Therefore each host will contain one or more application server domains. Within a domain there are multiple application server processes that handle service requests. The total number of application server processes in a domain is configurable and should be set according to the server’s capacity. Service requests are load balanced across these server processes. If any one of these application server processes crash, Tuxedo will route any active call currently handled by the affected process to another available server process in the domain. It will also restart the failed server process if needed. This is application server recovery mechanism. The failure is handled transparently and no error is reported to the webserver (JOLT client).
To do application server load balancing and failover, you need two or more applications servers. These application servers should ideally be running on different servers but if they’re on the same server, then the domain name and Jolt port should be different from each other.
PeopleSoft application only supports load balancing of application server domains using the configuration.properties file. External load balancers are not supported and do not work when trying to load balance application server domains. Read here for fundamental concepts of load balancing.
The configuration.properties file in mention resides in your webserver and is located at <PS_HOME>/webserv/<DOMAIN-NAME>/applications/peoplesoft/PORTAL.war/WEB-INF/psftdocs/<PIASITE>/
There are different options you can specify in the configuration.properties file to load balance requests and also for failover in case a domain is down.
Load Balancing and Failover
In the configuration.properties file, there is a variable, psserver, which is used to provide the application server name and jolt port number. If you’re connecting a single web, the variable would be like:
where server is application server name or IP address and port is the application server jolt port number.
for example, psserver=app.peoplesofttutorial.com:9000
In case of multiple appservers, you use comma to provide multiple appserver names:
for example, psserver=app1.peoplesofttutorial.com:9000,app2.peoplesofttutorial.com:9000
It is also known as equally weighted load balancing.
Note: The web server uses the round robin algorithm for load balancing. Oracle recommends using server name instead of IP address in psserver.
Tip: In a multi-server architecture, it is best not to use psserver defined exactly the same across all web instances. For example, if you have 3 web and 3 appservers, you can make “rotate” the server names in the psserver as well. For example:
1st web psserver=<server1>:<port1>,<server2>:<port2>,<server3>:<port3>
2nd web psserver=<server2>:<port2>,<server3>:<port3>,<server1>:<port1>
3nd web psserver=<server3>:<port3>,<server1>:<port1>,<server2>:<port2>
Weighted Load Balancing
It is common to have equal configuration servers and you may never need to have a weighted load balancing enabled, but it is good to know just because some place may need it. Using the above concept, you can also provide different “weights” when doing PeopleSoft application server load balancing and failover. Weight values are integers 1–10, with 1 being lowest and 10 being a highest load. Servers that can handle extra work can take heavy loads, while servers that are either less powerful or are configured for some other activities as well can take lower loads.
Weighted load balancing is done just by appending #Wt to the jolt port number used. The following format is used.
In this case, appserver1 would receive 7 requests for every 3 requests going to appserver2.
Strict Failover with Load Balancing
When implementing failover, you have the option to do a sequential or weighted failover/backup. You add the failover string within curly brackets at the end of the server entry.
Sequential Failover with Load Balancing
To set sequential backup, you separate multiple backup servers using a semicolon (;).
In this case, server3 and server4 are failover servers when server1 is down. The system assigns server3 the requests when server1 is down. Server4 gets the the requests when both server1 and server3 are down.
By appending #Wt, the above equation can be used for added weight as well. With the failover string, you can set weighted backup by separating failover server with a comma (,).
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Wishart, T. (2005) 'Memories of Madrid.', Centro del Conde Duque, Madrid.
The response to a commission for a group of international artists to install works in bus stops in Madrid over the Summer months (2005) as part of the 'Itenerarios del Sonido' project. It uses the sounds of voices recorded on the streets plus the sounds of the (old, rattling) buses of Madrid, manipulated using software procedures written specially by the composer, for example to extend vocal iteratives (like rolled-rr) in a plausible (naturalistic) way.
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Volunteer Eyeball and Immersion
April 26, 2005 (Tuesday); 1-5 p.m.
UST Engineering Sports Complex
83 vivacious children,
over 60 enthusiastic volunteers, 10 carefully-planned activity
and game booths in one scorching afternoon proved to be a
tedious task. From the giving out of nametags to the distribution
of food, from dividing the children into groups to convincing
them to join the games, everything was taxing. But everything
was well worth it. Sheena and Mars learned all sorts of jokes
from the children; Chezka took her pictures with them; Marie
gave out flaglets and her nametag for souvenir. Above anything
else, it was an afternoon full of unforgettable fun, and for
the volunteers, an experience full of meaningful insights.
April 25, 27, and May 4
inside our rooms for the three-day period reached 37 degrees
maybe, but it was another wonderful opportunity for us all
to see children who were very eager to learn. We had arts
and crafts on the first day, reading and math tutorials on
the second and Filipino games on the third. In the end it
was we who learned to cope with the high temperature and humidity.
May 21, 2005 (Saturday)
Heritage Park, Fort Bonifacio
Although the most
grueling project for us this summer, the Walkathon, set on
the 21st of May, is expected to raise 1 million pesos for
children’s education. We are all sure we could realize
this goal as all of us hardly lack optimism.
If you are interested
to find out more about VIP,
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This community-built FAQ covers the “Making GET Requests with a Web Browser” exercise from the lesson “Hello Spring”.
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I am having a hard time getting started with the very first exercise here. No matter what I try when I try to run the http://localhost:4001/restaurants in the browser nothing happens or I keep getting the same Whitelabel Error Page? Of course this exercise was just a simple copy and paste of code so I can’t imagine what I am doing wrong??
I am also running to the same issue.
I’m also facing the same issue
I have the same problem right now
Hi all, I don’t know if anyone is able to go to the next part of the lesson. I was able to move forward by clicking on “view solution”(click the run button a few times to populate the , then copy and paste the code from solution with the code already presented in the lesson, and selected “run”. Then I copied and paste the restaurant link to the web address. Finally check mark appear and “Next” button highlighted to move on to the next lesson. Please share if you did something different that allowed you to move to the next lesson.
Thank you that also worked for me! I had not been able to figure out a way to “trick” this step to pass and I have been trying everything. Thank you for sharing what you did!
Yes, “Replace with Solution” button unlocks Next
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Kevin A. Morrison, Syracuse University
Vol. 30, No. 1 (Spring 2011), 93-115
Nineteenth-century female poets frequently wrote about their pets. A pervasive tendency among contemporary critics has been to dismiss these poems as engaged in the conventions of mawkish, sentimental anthropomorphism that modernist writers, lauded for inaugurating a process of seriously rethinking human and nonhuman animal relations in terms of reciprocity and responsibility, are seen to debunk. This view has forestalled any real analysis of how Victorian women writers themselves, and Elizabeth Barrett Browning in particular, actively inquired into the epistemology and phenomenology of love across the species divide. This paper argues that Barrett Browning’s poems about—and frequent references in her letters to—her cocker spaniel Flush, which have frequently been looked on with embarrassment by literary critics and biographers alike, are actually contiguous with the theoretical concerns about love, kinship, and intimacy that occupy much of her literary and epistolary output. | <urn:uuid:97deb31b-3127-4b7f-8ac6-4e6808c999f5> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://tswl.utulsa.edu/abstract/elizabeth-barrett-brownings-dog-days/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721008.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00117-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950837 | 208 | 1.820313 | 2 |
create new courses and to evaluate students etalki.com uses
for evaluation the popular CEFR
standard (Common European Framework of Reference for Languages).
The six reference English levels are widely accepted as the global
standard for grading an individual’s language proficiency.
English levels are used by all modern English language books and
English language schools. It is recommended that students at
etalki.com use CEFR levels in job resumes (curriculum vitae,
CV, Europass CV) and other English levels references. We list here
the CEFR descriptors for language proficiency level with the
approximate equivalent to other global English evaluation schemes-
Cambridge ESOL, Canadian Language Benchmarks / Canadian English
Language Proficiency Index Program (CLB/CELPIP), Canadian Academic
English Language Assessment (CAEL), BULATS, IELTS and TOEFL.
English language levels description
English Basic User (A1, A2)
Students at the end of the level A1 can understand and use familiar everyday expressions and very basic phrases aimed at the satisfaction of needs of a concrete type, and also can introduce him/herself and others and ask and answer questions about personal details such as where he/she lives, people he/she knows and things he/she has. These students can interact in a simple way provided the other person talks slowly and clearly and is prepared to help. The level A1 is similar to Cambridge BULATS score 10-19, Young Learners English (YLE) Movers.
Students can understand sentences and frequently used expressions related to areas of most immediate relevance (e.g. very basic personal and family information, shopping, local geography, employment). Can communicate in simple and routine tasks requiring a simple and direct exchange of information on familiar and routine matters. Can describe in simple terms aspects of his/her background, immediate environment and matters in areas of immediate need. The level A2 is similar to Cambridge KEY (KET) certificate, BULATS score 20-39, CLB/CELPIP 4, YLE Flyers.
B levels- English Independent User
C levels- Proficient English User
Students can understand a wide range of demanding, longer texts, and recognize implicit meaning. Can express him/herself fluently and spontaneously without much obvious searching for expressions. Can use language flexibly and effectively for social, academic and professional purposes. Can produce clear, well-structured, detailed text on complex subjects, showing a controlled use of organizational patterns, connectors and cohesive devices. The level C1 is similar to Cambridge Advanced (CAE), BEC Higher, BULATS score 75-89, CLB/CELPIP 8-9, CAEL 70, IELTS level 7, TOEFL 110-120, TOEIC score 880.
Students at the end of this level can understand with ease virtually everything heard or read, can summarize information from different spoken and written sources, reconstructing arguments and accounts in a coherent presentation. They can also express him/herself spontaneously, very fluently and precisely, differentiating finer shades of meaning even in more complex situations. The level C2 is similar to Cambridge English Proficiency (CPE), BULATS score 90-100, CLB/CELPIP 10-12, CAEL 80-90, IELTS exam 8-9. | <urn:uuid:b8eadeae-aec1-4627-99c7-b3487f83eb53> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://etalki.com/local/pages/courselevel | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.876808 | 709 | 2.78125 | 3 |
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India ready to release over 100 Pak prisoners: Burney
April 08, 2008 21:19 IST
India is ready to release more than 100 Pakistanis lodged in prisons unilaterally, Pakistani human rights campaigner Ansar Burney said on Monday.
He told reporters after meeting foreign secretary Shivshankar Menon that he would try to persuade Pakistan government to release Indian prisoners reciprocating New Delhi's good gesture.
"The foreign secretary told me that India is ready to release over 100 Pakistani prisoners,'' said the former Pakistan minister who was recently instrumental in securing release of Indian prisoner Kashmir Singh from a Pakistani jail.
Burney, who was provided with a list of Pakistani prisoners India is ready to release, said he would look for their relatives when he returns to his home country.
"One problem that we encounter is their antecedents. If the Pakistan High Commission says they are not Pakistanis, that is a problem. So I want to find their relatives and ascertain their nationality,'' he said.
He expressed hope that this "good message" from New Delhi will bring more good news from across the border and help bring back smiles on the faces of numerous affected. "This is a day of Eid for many in Pakistan.''
Asked whether India raised the issue of reciprocity from Pakistan on the matter, he said, "It was a magnanimous gesture from Indian side that they did not raise such matters. I will tell Pakistani authorities that India has shown a big brotherly gesture and let us show small brotherly gesture.''
Burney also met Home Minister Shivraj Patil and NHRC Chairperson Justice Rajendra Babu to discuss the issue of prisoners.
Asked about the release of Sarabjit Singh, who is on a death row in Pakistani jail, he said he did not raise the issue during his meetings.Sarabjit, convicted in connection with bomb blasts in Lahore, has been sentenced to death. He was to be hanged on April one but it was postponed by a month after India made an appeal for clemency on "humanitarian grounds". | <urn:uuid:53a3bf2d-ef5d-4086-855d-8291035f21b7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.rediff.com/news/2008/apr/08burney.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00447-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971138 | 433 | 1.554688 | 2 |
The Chamber of Mines of the Philippines said that the industry contributed P40.7 billion to government coffers in 2013, contrary to the statement of the 2015 Country Report of the Philippine Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI).
COMP said that oil and gas revenues are at P35.3 billion while the mining sector had P5.4 billion, using the Philippine Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative 2nd Country report for FY2013 used by Bantay Kita. The amounts came from the 20 material companies and four energy companies that participated in the initiative and with gross sales of P1 billion.
“The oil and gas sector is included in the extractive or mining industry although it is regulated by the Department of Energy,” said executive vice president of COMP, Nelia Halcon, in a statement.
Halcon also said that while large – scale miners that participated in the initiative, “mandatory expenditures incurred by our mining companies for the benefit of our host communities and the protection and rehabilitation of impacted areas, must not be dismissed.”
“Bantay Kita should also look at the total taxes paid by the mining sector which includes metallic and non-metallic mines aggregating to PHP25.8 billion in 2015 as indicated in the Mines and Geosciences Bureau (MGB) website. This excludes excise tax which will be made available by the Bureau of Internal Revenue (BIR) in September,” she said.
Bantay Kita, a coalition of organizers for transparency and accountability in the extractive industry, said that large – scale miners paid only P5.4 million to the government, or 0.003 percent of the total government revenues in 2013, data from the same report used my COMP.
The coalition added that the mining industry should give a higher share to the government as payment for the minerals they extract.
“In 2013, a total of PHP2.9 billion was poured by the 20 mining companies into their respective Social Development and Management Programs (SDMP). The SDMP has a life cycle of five years and reporting expenditures on a yearly basis may not provide a holistic assessment of the program. This is our commitment to help in inclusive growth, especially in rural development where majority of the impoverished are,” Halcon said.
Corporate tax and excise tax on minerals both contribute to 27 percent of the total government share from the mining sector with royalties coming from mineral reservation contributing 15 percent. | <urn:uuid:cb78ff36-54bc-4943-be0c-c4bc40e5570d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://powerphilippines.com/government-earned-p40-7-billion-mining/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.952953 | 503 | 1.757813 | 2 |
Definition of Biologies:
any branch of natural science
Synonyms of Biologies:
Opposite/Antonyms of Biologies:
Sentence/Example of Biologies:
Gunnar and others hope to reveal more of the underlying biology behind the reboot.
This study also opens the door for other control measures that alter the biology of locusts themselves.
It expects women and men to behave very differently, from birth forward, simply on the basis of their biology.
Now researchers have proposed a new learning method more closely tied to biology, which they think could help us approach the brain’s unrivaled efficiency.
One key contender is CRISPR, the fast-advancing gene-editing technology that stands to revolutionize synthetic biology and treatment of genetically linked diseases.
He studied the Colorado River while getting a master’s degree in biology at the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, rafting through the Grand Canyon more than a dozen times in the process.
Unfortunately, “once gene theory took over, it became a biology of things,” said Scott Gilbert, a developmental biologist at Swarthmore College.
In this article, I’ll explore how genome sequencing and editing, along with new classes of anti-aging drugs, are augmenting our biology to further extend our healthy lives.
The Covid-19 High Performance Computing Consortium has assembled 41 supercomputers capable of 483 petaflops to work on 66 projects, including some studying the virus’s biology, potential treatments, and how to improve patient care.
Still, she is excited about how biology might someday play a role in engineering our buildings. | <urn:uuid:6eaa34a2-a664-4cdc-97fe-581b06042470> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wordscoach.com/dictionary/Biologies | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.927292 | 367 | 2.609375 | 3 |
My City Too has conducted extensive research through its monthly forums and local projects, which has helped to articulate the views of young people on the places and spaces that impact their lives. We believe young people must be fully involved in placemaking and policy-making if they are going to value, respect and take ownership of the spaces and places around them.
There is no defined route for young people to give their views on major regeneration projects or local area action plans, or any model for linking youth parliaments with planning councils in the capital. This lack of meaningful engagement for young people is compounded by media debates and headlines that focus on youth offending, knife crime and anti-social behaviour.
Negative perceptions of young people reinforce their ‘invisibility’ in public spaces.
My City Too’s extensive work through local action research projects and peer-to-peer surveys has gathered information to support our citywide campaign and enabled young people to explore built environment issues in depth. | <urn:uuid:b829cd77-c17f-405c-98f1-87e2c93d06d3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mycitytoo.org.uk/research/index.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00431-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956183 | 200 | 1.992188 | 2 |
As I’ve reflected upon the day, in many ways, Juneteenth is more of a holiday (i.e., properly “holy”) than July 4th.
Of course, that’s not to say I’m against American independence (since I am certainly grateful to be “American”), but to say that we cannot fully appreciate American independence until everyone in America is truly free.
Here are some reasons to value this special day:
1) The day recognizes the equality of all people, not only some.
2) The day celebrates liberation, not only from unfair taxation or religious oppression, but from physical and social oppression.
3) The day embraces the holistic value of the human person, which includes but extends far beyond political freedom.
4) The day does not sensationalize war with another country, but fosters peace within the same country.
5) The day parallels the ancient event of the Exodus, reminding that freedom from slavery is close to God’s heart and should be to ours as well.
It is this fifth reason, most of all, why we should all delight. As Israel’s exodus affects Gentiles today, so does God’s rescue of any people group affect us all. This day should inspire us again to see the world anew — awaiting the day when we are all free from sin, pain, sorrow, and death.
Someday soon, we will all be liberated, even from our unknown chains, in ways we cannot even fully imagine.
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Tornado-Chasing Project Aims to Improve Forecasts
The technology available this time is far superior. The inaugural Vortex used Doppler radar on planes, which would pass over a tornado at about five-minute intervals. Now radar mounted on trucks, which can get within two miles of a tornado, will provide uninterrupted data.
"We will be able to distinguish between rain, hail, dust, debris, flying cows," said Howard Bluestein, a meteorology professor at the University of Oklahoma and member of the Vortex2 steering committee.
Two ingredients are necessary to form the supercell thunderstorms that spawn tornadoes: a source of buoyant energy, namely warm and moist air near the ground, and a rotational force generated by winds at the surface blowing at a different speed or direction than winds high in the atmosphere.
A typical thundercloud develops as warm air rises into colder air masses above, then usually dissipates quickly once rain falls. Supercell thunderstorms, by contrast, can last for hours and can move rapidly, tracking over 100 miles. Supercell thunderstorms may also create "mesocyclones," swirling winds embedded within the larger thunderhead that can be as much as six miles in diameter.
About five to 10 percent of these storms actually spin off tornadoes, which are typically about 500 feet in diameter. Scientists know what forms a mesocyclone, but they are largely lost when it comes to understanding which ones will spawn tornadoes and how violent they will be.
"A number of things have to happen sequentially and at the same time and in the right order," said John Monteverdi, a meteorologist at San Francisco State University who has been chasing tornadoes for 24 years. "You have to start knocking the dominos down to find out what happens in that last stage. I think we're getting close, and this project should help."
Risky though it appears, members of the project note that their crews have never logged a death or severe injury. But they say amateur tornado-chasers who follow scientists around with video cameras are endangering themselves and others. Not only do these adrenalin junkies put themselves in harm's way, the scientists say, they often speed and park their cars in the middle of the road, endangering other motorists and distracting highway patrol officers.
Scientists warn that it is only a matter of time before a major tornado sweeps through a densely populated urban area and causes horrific damage and loss of life.
Chicago, Atlanta, Dallas and Houston, in particular, are in regions prone to violent tornadoes. Wurman said in a 2007 study that a tornado cutting through Chicago could kill 13,000 to 45,000 people and cause tens of billions of dollars in damage.
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What is the Core?
This question is one that is asked quite commonly in workshops. It seems appropriate to take a swipe at the core since the last two “muscle of the month” articles were the iliacus followed by the psoas muscle. They equal the ever popular iliopsoas muscle and are perhaps, the epitome of what we call the core muscles. The “core” question came up again this past weekend during a workshop as it often does. What is it? How do we access it? Why is it important? As usual, I turn it around, and ask the group so I can find out what people are thinking. One of the most common answers is this: “the abdominal muscles are related to core and it’s important that they be strong for stability of the core.” This is both true and on point, however, there is a lot more to the core than just thinking about abdominals. The abdominals are the most common answer because they are the most obvious. But there are less obvious muscles and less obvious ways that we WANT to think about the core, especially for yoga practice.
The Core Muscles
- erector spinae (paraspinal muscles)
- pelvic floor muscles
- deep gluteal muscles
- quadratus lumborum
The Core Itself
Let’s first define the word core. The word core itself implies deep and central. The anatomical structure that is the deepest and most central is the spine. A lot of what we hear about the core is directly related to the spine specifically, and the torso in general. After all, this is primarily what we want to stabilize with our core muscles. There is also a dynamic component to the core. This aspect of core is all about movement and the specific control of movement from the deep intrinsic muscles that move us. Based on my personal experience and training as a bodyworker, I often refer back to Ida Rolf who developed Structural Integration also known as Rolfing. For her, the spine was the core of the body. The tissues that were the deepest and most intrinsic were considered core muscles. For Ida, the more superficial muscles such as the abdominals were referred to as the “sleeve” not the core. This is not to say that the deeper more intrinsic core muscles don’t have a relationship with the superficial extrinsic; they do. But she wouldn’t classify them as core muscles in the way that we commonly do today.
Regardless of how we classify any of these core muscles, there is a more important question to ask. Why is it so important to understand the core? In yoga, there are a few reasons that we want to know about the core.
- Strength and Stability
- Relationship to Bandha
Strength and Stability
The strength that comes from the core is without a doubt the part of understanding the core that gets the most attention. This is exactly as it should be. One cannot say enough about how important it is to have a balanced relationship with the core muscles. By balance, I mean both strength and flexibility of the core muscles are equally important. This makes them more adaptable. It is this adaptability that we need at the most unlikely times. For instance, those of you living in places where there is ice on the ground for parts of the year use your core every time you slip and slide on the ice. For everyone, anytime you trip, start to fall, and then catch yourself, it’s the adaptability of your core muscles that is at the heart of what catches you. In yoga, we use this adaptability to move in and out of postures. We also use it when we are faced with demanding strength based postures such as arm balances, lifting up, jumping and the like. It is at these moments that we absolutely need the strength and stability of our core so that we can move it.
When we describe movement from the core what we’re really asking is: How do I control my center of gravity? It is this aspect of controlling our center of gravity that makes the iliopsoas so relevant to the conversation about core muscles. The iliopsoas is strategically located around our center of gravity, which is located at a spot close to the top and just forward of our sacrum.
When our center of gravity is in line with gravity itself, relative to our body parts, we are in balance and in control. When we move from our center, the movements are not only controlled but expansive and light. We actually end up with two sets of very important qualities of practice: groundedness, stability, or rootedness (Mula) and ease, lightness, or graceful movement (Uddiyana). Ida Rolf described this as having “Psoas Awareness.” This is where the iliopsoas, core, and bandhas all start to mix together from different points of view. These are different perspectives that converge to create a similar outcome. That outcome is a synergy of strength, stability, lightness, and ease during movement. This is often the point where people want to know how to strengthen their psoas, or their core muscles more generally. This is also where people make the most common mistake in my opinion. The mistake is to simplify this into either strengthening or lengthening of the psoas as if it’s that black and white.
I always tell people to establish a relationship with their psoas! In essence, you want to intend your movement from your core. Now, if you go searching for the feeling of your psoas contracting, you’ll probably miss it. Perhaps it’s easier to simplify things by picking one single solitary spot. How about… your center of gravity. If you do this, you will be on the path to understanding how bandha fits into this core muscle puzzle. This is not to say that your iliopsoas is your bandha, nor does it mean that your center of gravity is your bandha. It’s just a place to focus on until the bandhas do reveal themselves. Here’s a video of Fred Astaire – Ida Rolf’s go to guy for having psoas awareness. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GrJcqX9TwBc
Relationship to Bandha
What is the bandha anyway? It’s often very hard for people to describe what the bandhas are or what they mean by bandhas because it is an experience. Oh, don’t get me wrong. We may be able to intellectually and philosophically describe it, but describing the experience is something different. Being sure of your experience is something different altogether. Because people have different experiences of bandha and discuss it at different levels of understanding, there is often more confusion, not less. What most of us are able to describe is the physical control that goes with the energetic component of what a bandha is. But this is not really the bandha, this is the outcome or perhaps the quality that is created by the bandha. I personally, am not convinced that I know what the bandhas are. I only know what my experience has been so far.
From a philosophical point of view the bandha is an energetic element within us. So, how do we experience energy? As sensation? As movement? How do we manipulate and/or control that energy? Perhaps we experience it as all of these things. But the first place I suggest we start looking for an understanding of bandhas is with the attention we pay to our breath (article-How Breath Leads to Bandha). After all, it is our breath that we traditionally use as the mechanism to control energy (pranayama). It seems logical enough to me that without a level of control of the breath, you are going to have a hard time finding control of energy. That is both the inherent energy that circulates inside of us as well as the energy that we are bringing in through breath. No breath, no bandha; no bandha, no mind control, no development of concentration and focus. This is where we get to the root of the bandhas. In this sense, the bandhas are points of concentration that direct or control the prana. After all, it is our mind that directs prana. What we are really talking about is a level of awareness. Without concentrating the mind there is no space for awareness. We are stuck in the thought stream that is trying to conceptualize the bandha as opposed to experiencing it. This is no small feat of focus, and I am not professing to have mastered this, but ultimately we are looking toward our CORE! By core here, I am not talking about muscles anymore. I am talking about layers that are much deeper than that and at the same time live within the space of our bandhas, breath, muscles, and core.
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One of the most little known species of ants in North America is the leaf-cutter ant. This is mainly because it lives in tropical environments and it is not aggressive to animals or humans if not disturbed. The leaf cutting ant is a social insect. Alone the ant is virtually helpless but with the colony it can be a thing feared by animal and human alike. The leaf-cutting ants have a very important role in the tropical forest. They create and manipulate the environment around them. They also can do major damage.
The leaf-cutting or fungus-growing ants are distributed from northern Texas to central Argentina. These ants are injurious since they cut the green vegetation from trees, shrubs and crops, and carry it into the nest, where they cultivate fungi on it. They have been known to denude a tree or ornamental plants in one night. It has been estimated they do $1 billion damage per year in North and South America today, these ants still cause millions of dollars in crop losses in many South American countries. Although primarily an agricultural pest, this insect on occasion may invade the home for cereals. In the United States, the Texas leaf-cutting ant, Atta texana , occurs in Texas and Louisiana. This ant is believed to cause a total yearly loss of $5 million in the United States (unison services. 1998).
There are about 9,500 named species of ants. These ants are divided into 16 sub families and 300 genera, all which belong to the family called Formicidae, the family of ants (Hoyt. 1996). The leaf cutting ant belongs to the genus called Atta. There are fifteen different species of Atta and all are limited to the new world (Holldobler & Wilson, 1994).
The leaf-cutter ant looks pretty much like a regular ant in North America except that it is a little bigger than most ants. Looking at the ant in the untrained eye a person usually perceives that it is a primitive organism. Looks can be deceiving. The leaf-cutter ant is a complex superorganism unique social, environmental, and food gathering behavior.
The anatomy of the leaf-cutter ant is pretty simple.
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Way back in 1999 I wrote Infant Manifesto. This young family gave us the audio and pictures of their girls doing a dramatic reading of the script. We all had a big laugh. So here is their letter telling us about what they did. Your children will love hearing this 5-year-old and her big sisters do a really professional job reading.
At our little home studio, as I was attempting to clean up some of the Pearl’s ancient tapes, I came across the articles Infant Manifesto and Infant Maniwhatso. The flash of memories of the first time I read it made me giggle. It was if I was hearing little kid voices using all of these big words, and it made me laugh all day just imagining it. As soon as my husband got home from work I rushed to read it to him and we both had a big laugh. The obviousness of the child training principles, along with Mike’s sometimes obnoxious wit, was just what our family needed to really solidify some of the basic mindset of the need for consistency and what it looks like.
With this memory fresh in my mind, I called my girls into the room and asked if any of them wanted to record a monologue. My girls were going to have some fun and learn some skills that a lot of adults will never have.
One at a time, the girls came into the little studio and climbed up onto the stool to speak into the microphone. They had to sit still so that their rustling around wasn’t picked up in the recording. They had to enunciate their words, play the part of their character, and repeat the same phrase occasionally even fifteen times until they got it right. All of this, they had to do without getting nervous or embarrassed. My littlest one, whom we call Nomies, went first and after about forty minutes had to take a break. Her sister, Eden, then took her turn and did her whole article in one session. She just couldn’t wait to hear it played. They watched as I showed them how to reassemble all of the phrases and lines so that it would sound, at least somewhat like it was a continuous speech. It really gave them an appreciation for what goes into a project. After a few hours Infant Manifesto was complete and all of our girls were in the office giggling to their heart’s content (except for Eden who was laughing so hard one might think she was going to injure herself) as they listened to their voices over and over again.
After that, little Nomies reminded me about every half hour that she needed to do her next recording session. After all, her article was longer than her big sister’s. The next chance we got, we were back in the studio and she finished her article. In the first session she had become a little frustrated as she had to keep redoing lines, but this time she could barely contain her excitement. It took the rest of the day, and all the next morning before slow old mom had Infant Maniwhatso ready for her to hear. The technical knowledge and speaking confidence these girls learned this week will be with them for the rest of their lives, solidified by good old fashioned laughter and more new exciting projects.
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Data is growing at unprecedented rates. In 2018, IDC predicted that the amount of new data captured, created, and replicated in a given year would grow from 33 zettabytes in 2018 to 175 zettabytes by 2025.1 Their latest prediction expects that amount to more than double from now to 2026.
This avalanche of data creates not only opportunity, but also threats. In fact, cyber threats are noticeably more frequent today, with 93% of organizations suffering from data-related business disruption from attacks in the last 12 months. You can bet that data security will be top of mind for your organization, as it grows more reliant on the data it creates and stores.
Qumulo is committed to keeping you ahead of impending threats. With the latest release of Qumulo Core, we addressed two critical aspects of data security at massive scale: 1.) knowing exactly who is accessing your data storage system and 2.) controlling what data certain users are allowed to access and modify.
Secure File Access for Anyone from Anywhere
As the complexity of data environments grows, applications, devices, and users need to access file data in different ways, while maintaining the highest level of security. Qumulo customers have benefited from strong authentication and access control via SMB. NFSv3 provides access to a common pool of data across a protocol commonly used by Linux operating systems, but lacks the strong authentication mechanism of SMB. Since expanding our multi-protocol support to include NFSv4.1 in 2021, we’ve built our protocol stack from the ground up focusing on simplicity, efficiency, and security.
The latest versions of Qumulo Core enhance data security for NFSv4.1 workloads with authentication support via Kerberos, improved file locking control, and more intuitive ACL-based data permission management for multi-protocol environments. Now, any user can benefit from superior file data access through multiple protocols, while maintaining the highest standard of security and control.
Authentication Via Kerberos
Qumulo now offers strong, Kerberos-based authentication for NFSv4 clients, which has significant security advantages over NFSv3. In NFSv3, users can impersonate any user they wish with root access to their client machine. Kerberos solves this problem using a key-and-ticket system to securely authenticate users from Microsoft Active Directory, effectively eliminating the problem of savvy users who could spoof another user’s identity to access data over NFSv3.
The latest version of Qumulo Core also includes a more streamlined ACL editor, providing more user-friendly information to identify users and groups. This enhancement lets you see and leverage AD/LDAP user and group names, rather than going through a complicated, error-prone process of tracking and using UID and GID strings when managing file owner/trustee/access settings. Qumulo’s NFSv4.1 ACLs will interoperate cleanly in a cross-protocol environment. The ACLs they manipulate over NFSv4.1 can be configured, using either the standard Linux nfs-acl-tools utility from any NFSv4 client, or directly from the Qumulo CLI, to match the Windows NTFS ACLs on the SMB side, and vice-versa.
The table below shows one example of how permissions can be configured to match across both NFSv4 and SMB, using the same AD group (Everyone) to grant matching access (Read/Execute) to the same file (myfile.ext) on the Qumulo cluster.
|Permissions||NFSv4.1 Command||Qumulo CLI Command||NTFS (SMB) ACL Command|
|Add Read and Execute permissions to the file myfile.ext||nfs4_setfacl -a “A::EVERYONE@:rtRx” myfile.ext||qq fs_modify_acl –-path /myfile.ext add_entry -y Allowed -t “EVERYONE” -r Execute/Traverse, Read||icacls \myfile.ext /grant EVERYONE:RX|
Combining fine-grained ACL control with Kerberos-based authentication lets you guarantee only authorized users can access certain data sets and limit users to specific directories on the file system. This is especially critical for organizations with highly-sensitive data looking to:
1: Consolidate data into large, shared pools, while maintaining granular control for various user access levels.
2: Maintain a standard level of security and data awareness for regulatory compliance
3: Enable more secure data access for a large Linux/POSIX user base over NFSv4.1
Lock Handling Support
The latest release also includes improved lock handling for file access. When files are accessed by a client, they are placed in a locked state to ensure other clients aren’t able to write data to the file, preventing potential corruption or version conflict issues. NFSv3 had known problems with orphaned sessions leaving files locked, and administrators had to run a process to release locks from time to time. NFS v4.1 provides superior lock control and time outs to release locked files after some interval of inactivity.
Additionally, our NFSv4.1 protocol was built from the ground up in Rust, allowing us to provide the highest level of integration and interoperability with our existing protocols. This ensures that the best performance possible remains consistent with each node added as you scale. It also enables us to deliver constant, incremental improvements to your file system more frequently, to ensure that any user, device, or application in the organization can always take full advantage of your data while keeping it safe and secure. | <urn:uuid:e6a23ff1-4b54-4e50-b9b7-0d03987a43fe> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://qumulo.com/blog/qumulo-bolsters-data-security-with-nfsv4-1-enhancements-including-kerberos-based-authentication-and-improved-file-locking/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.88679 | 1,203 | 1.570313 | 2 |
This expertly edited profile features Bernardo Bertolucci through the decades, capturing the personality along with the career.
Hundreds of hours of interview footage are condensed into a satisfying and enriching repast in Luca Guadagnino and Walter Fasano’s “Bertolucci on Bertolucci.” Valuable for devotees and newcomers alike, this expertly edited profile features the maestro through the decades speaking about his work, philosophies and influences, conveying the man’s deep intelligence and profound self-reflection. Arranged to keep themes and chronologies in balance, the docu captures the personality along with the career, making it a likely fave with those who know the director as friend and mentor. Fests and ancillary will see a steady flow of traffic.
There’s no new footage here, yet Guadagnino and ace editor Fasano avoid the stolidity of a strictly linear approach, and while the docu more or less moves in order from film to film, the interviews themselves jump decades (and languages), highlighting thematic consistencies and maturing viewpoints. At the start Bertolucci jokes that he likes to think of himself as a small underground filmmaker who infiltrated commercial cinema to create disorder; it’s probably more accurate to say commercial cinema was opening itself up to his type of independent perspective just when he was ready for bigger budgets.
Bertolucci speaks of his early years, his beginnings as a poet and his collaboration with Pasolini (more about this partnership would be welcome). He talks of wanting to become a director after seeing “La dolce vita,” and of appreciating Rossellini thanks to Cahiers du cinema. The influence of French film theory is strong throughout the earlier interviews, combined with a tempered brand of pan-European leftism that energized most helmers of his generation; he also briefly delves into his rupture with Godard over the latter’s indefensible Maoism.
Appropriate space is given to “Last Tango in Paris” — the problems with censorship and casting, the troubles he had with Marlon Brando and Maria Schneider — but his self-awareness, at least in retrospect, keeps his recollections from descending into ungenerous complaints. This ability to dissect his own behavior forms a major theme in the docu, thanks in part to Bertolucci’s devotion to psychoanalysis, a passion shared as well by Guadagnino: The Sigmund Freud Museum is credited as one of the pic’s sponsors, and a major interview was done by analyst Andrea Sabbadini.
Given this angle, it’s unsurprising that a fair amount of time is allocated to the director’s relationship with his father, Attilio, a respected poet and sometime film critic for the local Parma newspaper. Less time is dedicated to his mother, though chats about “La luna” don’t need to overstate the obvious. Chronologically, the last movie discussed is the 2012 title “Me and You.”
Only occasionally are there glimpses of the helmer on set; it would be invaluable to have a companion piece to “Bertolucci on Bertolucci” consisting solely of footage with collaborators discussing the master’s work and style. There’s a tantalizing comment in which he expresses his love for musicals, where all is possible cinematically; what a pity Bertolucci never dipped his toe in the genre. He speaks effortlessly in Italian, French and English.
Venice Film Review: 'Bertolucci on Bertolucci'
Reviewed at Venice Film Festival (Venice Classics), Aug. 31, 2013. Running time: 107 MIN.
(Documentary — Italy) A Frenesy Film Co. production in association with Kimerafilm. Produced by Luca Guadagnino. Executive producer, Sila Berruti, Simone Isola.
Directed by Luca Guadagnino, Walter Fasano. Written by Fasano. Camera (color/B&W); editor, Fasano; sound, Davide Favargiotti.
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For decades, the employment relationship has been fairly straightforward: The employee completes tasks for the employer and then collects a paycheck.
More recently, the working landscape has begun to shift, and that seemingly straight line has become increasingly wavy. Sure, the employee might still complete tasks assigned by their employer. But they might also start up a side hustle. Or juggle two part-time jobs. Or pursue a cross-functional project. Or continue their education in the interest of going down an entirely different career path.
In short, today’s employees might not find the level of purpose, fulfillment, and development they want out of a single job with one company. This has given rise to an entirely new term: polygamous careers.
What exactly is a polygamous career?
If you’re familiar with polygamy in a romantic context, then the term “polygamous career” is pretty self-explanatory: Employees generate income through an assortment of jobs and projects, rather than growing their career with one employer at a time.
Polygamous careers, which are sometimes also known as “overemployment,” give workers the opportunity to hone new skills, fully leverage their knowledge, and pursue numerous interests at once. The emphasis is on contributing to various projects and roles, as opposed to working exclusively with a specific employer.
While this isn’t quite the norm yet, many experts predict that this approach will continue to spread across the workforce.
“I firmly believe that professional fulfillment will increasingly be the result of feeling fully utilized,” explains Scott Belsky, Adobe’s Chief Product Officer, in a piece for Business Insider. “The next generation of talent entering the workforce will overwhelmingly opt for what I've come to call ‘polygamous careers.’”
4 factors driving the push toward polygamous careers
What’s causing this shake-up of the traditional employer and employee dynamic? There are a number of potential factors at play, including:
Increased desire for learning and development: Workers don’t want to just punch the clock and go home – they want to expand their skill sets and advance their careers. Culture Amp research indicates that one in three employees cites a lack of growth as a top reason for leaving their jobs. Efforts like educational stipends, lunch and learns, and mentorship opportunities show an investment in development. But, polygamous careers give employees the chance to simultaneously explore different opportunities.
Shifting values and priorities: Even if workers didn’t participate in The Great Resignation, they certainly weren’t immune to The Great Reassessment, where employees reevaluated their own values and job satisfaction during the pandemic. 65% of employees in a Gartner survey admitted that the pandemic made them rethink the role of work in their lives. For those feeling unfulfilled in their current positions, diversifying their career, projects, and sources of income could be a logical next step.
Staffing shortages: “Help wanted” signs are seemingly everywhere and the labor market is increasingly tight, with the number of job openings continuously hitting new records. Many employers and HR teams are scrambling to fill positions and bridge skill gaps. Embracing the multi-faceted or polygamous career is one way for them to get talent through the door – even if they aren’t filling a traditional full-time position.
Growth in freelancing: Whether it’s fallout from The Great Reassessment or a response to the many layoffs at the start of the pandemic, freelancing has skyrocketed in recent years. In 2019, 28% of the workforce performed freelance work. In 2020, that number jumped to 36%. Some experts hypothesize that freelancers will make up the majority of the workforce by the year 2027, meaning employers will have to adjust the composition of their own labor force to match.
How polygamous careers will shift HR practices
The workforce is evolving – and your hiring practices need to follow suit. Here are a few things HR teams will need to change or consider as polygamous careers become more commonplace.
1. Ditch the exclusivity clause
Exclusivity clauses in employment contracts dictate that a worker’s position with the company will be their only form of employment. But, for people who wish to pursue polygamous careers, that level of rigidity will be a dealbreaker.
Removing the exclusivity clause doesn’t mean you’re necessarily unprotected, either. Requiring employees to sign a non-disclosure or confidentiality agreement will ensure that your sensitive information is kept under wraps – without strict prohibitions barring employees from working elsewhere. If you’re worried that employees with multiple roles will be using company time to pursue a secondary job, you can also include clauses within your contracts that stipulate how company time and property should be used. Noncompete, nonsolicitation, and intellectual property policies are also recommended.
2. Go beyond the chronological resume
As Belsky says in that same Business Insider piece, “One's profession will be a portfolio of projects, whether you're a designer, engineer, salesperson, or investor.”
A traditional chronological resume feels outdated when workers are juggling a variety of professional projects and responsibilities at one time. Employers will need to find other ways to evaluate talent, including:
- Personal websites
- Recommendations and referrals
- Test projects
As polygamous careers continue to gain traction, these non-traditional “alternatives” will tell employers far more about the breadth of someone’s work experience than a standard one-page chronological resume.
3. Find talent in unique places
Workers won’t be left to pursue multifaceted careers on their own. Belsky says that technology will keep pace. There are already several platforms that empower workers to pursue the projects they want and employers to find the talent they need, including:
Braintrust: This platform is talent-owned, which means Braintrust doesn’t take a cut when matching freelancers with companies that need their services.
Polywork: While LinkedIn is more of a digital chronological resume, Polywork helps workers create profiles that highlight their skills, achievements, and milestones, with less emphasis on their past positions and employers.
As more workers take the polygamous route in their careers, they’ll build communities of their own. Employers can lean on their workers to tap into their personal networks and recommend others they know for projects and opportunities.
4. Embrace cross-skilling and job crafting
Even for workers that dedicate the bulk of their time and attention to your organization, there are things you can do to support their various interests.
Cross-skilling involves training employees in a variety of job functions. For example, you might train the sales team in some aspects of customer support. This gives workers the flexibility to expand their skills, explore other careers, and develop a greater understanding and appreciation of all of the aspects of your organization.
Job crafting involves employees in the process of designing their own careers – designating the tasks they will be responsible for, the goals they want to reach, and the people they will work with. Even if their position with your company is their only professional role, this gives employees the level of control and autonomy that they crave.
The workforce is changing – and you should too
It’s no secret that the desires and expectations of the workforce have drastically shifted in recent years – and they’ll continue to evolve.
Employers who knuckle down on archaic approaches and practices will struggle to hire and retain talent as workers seek out organizations that are better equipped to support and even fuel their multifaceted interests and passions.
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The local economy is in relatively good standing, Holst told the crowd. Tourism and mining are growing industries that are providing good jobs. The private sector has been able to consistently provide compensation for lost government jobs.
It’s critical that we look at growing entrepreneurship, Holst says, you need to encourage people to take risks in your community.
Tourism is growing and the winter economy needs development.
Stable government will lead to growth for Juneau, Holst says.
If trends continue, Holst says, 50 percent of people will be freelance contract workers, he says. That means that come people will have jobs but also participate in freelance jobs in the so-called “gig economy.”
Juneau has a high cost of living, slightly higher than other cities in Alaska. The largest contributor to that cost is health care, he says.
Construction industry is continue to produce solidly, in terms of homes and rental construction. The city is at roughly six percent vacancies, which is ideal for a city to have.
Home sales are looking good and prices continue to go up. Days on market is short and prices are sold in favor of the seller, Holst says.
The 20-39 year-old group is a growing portion of the population which is a good sign, Holst says, lots of entrepreneurship in that group.
Juneau has one of the lowest unemployment rates in the state and 45 percent of households have an income of $100,000 or more.
Thirty percent of Juneau households have retirement income which, Holst says, is a source of stability in the local economy.
There is a 2,800 job gap between July and December, he says, saying there is growth in summer jobs but losses in winter jobs.
Juneau is the most visited city in Alaska, Holst says, showing a graph that shows a steadily increasing number of cruise ship passengers visiting each year.
Traded industry jobs, jobs that involve the exchange of goods such as mining or seafood, have grown from 2009 to 2018.
Highest paying sectors of the economy are mining and federal government, he says, showing a graph with the size and various industries.
This is the eighth straight year that we’ve lost government jobs in Juneau.
Overall state government is diminishing but not as fast in Anchorage as other parts of the state, Holst says.
Government is a drag on our economy, he says, while tourism and mining are contributing to growth.
Three sectors contribute almost as much earning to the economy as all remaining sectors combined, he tells the crowd, Mining, state government, and local government.
Mining is really, really important for Juneau’s economy he says.
“Today we’re all a little bit richer,” Holst says in reference to Permanent Fund Dividend payments being made today.
Holst takes the stage to present this year’s economic indicators report from the Juneau Economic Development Council.
Introductions are just beginning as chamber members finish their lunches.
Brian Holst of the Juneau Economic Development Council and member of the School Board is speaking at this week’s Juneau Chamber of Commerce Luncheon at the Moose Family Lodge.
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Synopses & Reviews
History tells us that World War II united Americans, but as in other conflicts it was soon back to politics as usual. Nancy Beck Young argues that the illusion of cooperative congressional behavior actually masked internecine party warfare over the New Deal.
Young takes a close look at Congress during the most consensual war in American history to show how its members fought intense battles over issues ranging from economic regulation to social policies. Her book highlights the extent of—and reasons for—liberal successes and failures, while challenging assumptions that conservatives had gained control of legislative politics by the early 1940s. It focuses on the role of moderates in modern American politics, arguing that they, not conservatives, determined the outcomes in key policy debates and also established the methods for liberal reform that would dominate national politics until the early 1970s.
Why We Fight—which refers as much to the conflicts between lawmakers as to war propaganda films of Frank Capra—unravels the tangle of congressional politics, governance, and policy formation in what was the defining decade of the twentieth century. It demonstrates the fragility of wartime liberalism, the nuances of partisanship, and the reasons for a bifurcated record on economic and social justice policy, revealing difficulties in passing necessary wartime measures while exposing racial conservatism too powerful for the moderate-liberal coalition to overcome.
Young shows that scaling back on certain domestic reforms was an essential compromise liberals and moderates made in order to institutionalize the New Deal economic order. Some programs were rejected-including the Civilian Conservation Corps, the National Youth Administration, and the Works Progress Administration-while others like the Wagner Act and economic regulation were institutionalized. But on other issues, such as refugee policy, racial discrimination, and hunting communist spies, the discord proved insurmountable.
This wartime political dynamic established the dominant patterns for national politics through the remainder of the century. Impeccably researched, Young's study shows that we cannot fully appreciate the nuances of American politics after World War II without careful explication of how the legislative branch redefined the New Deal in the decade following its creation.
"Essential reading for those interested in American politics and the emergence of the modern warfare state."—Journal of American Studies
"Shows how the war, far from simply marking the end of an era of reform, remained a time of struggle and contest over issues that would persist long into the postwar period."—Journal of Southern History
A study of Congress at the crossroads between the New Deal and the postwar era, showing that the wartime political dynamic established the dominant patterns for national politics through the remainder of the century. Reveals that moderates, not conservatives, determined the outcomes in key policy debates and examines how compromises were reached.
Table of Contents
1. The World before the War
Part One. Bringing Home the Bacon: Congress and the Economics of War
2. "We'll Get Down and Fight" over Resource Management
3. "Congress DOES Have Power" over the President
4. "A Lesson to the President": Labor Legislation
Part Two. Human Rights or Human Wrongs? Congress, Pluralism, and Social Justice
5. "The Dregs of Europe": A Conflicted Refugee Policy
6. A "Virtual Black-Out of Civil Liberties" and the Politics of Prejudice
7. "Saving America for the Americans": The Fascistic Origins of the Second Red Scare
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PUBLIC HEALTH ASSESSMENT
LINEMASTER SWITCH CORPORATION
WOODSTOCK, WINDHAM COUNTY, CONNECTICUT
The Linemaster Switch Corporation manufacturing facility is located in Woodstock, Connecticut.The facility has been manufacturing foot switches and other materials since 1952.Trichloroethylene (TCE1) was used as a degreaser for approximately 10 years, from 1969 to1979. There is evidence suggesting spent TCE and paint solvents were released into an on-site dry well.
Based primarily on the human health risks resulting from past exposure to hazardous substancesin the ground water, the Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) and theConnecticut Department of Public Health and Addiction Services (CT DPHAS) have concludedthat the site is a Public Health Hazard. Residents in the area received exposures to site-related compounds from private drinking water wells for an undetermined amount of time.
Private residential wells were identified in 1986 as being contaminated with volatile organiccompounds (VOCs). Three on-site wells including the Bald Hill Restaurant, and three off-siteprivate wells including the Tarr Apartments, Town Hall, and the Fire Department wells wereidentified as contaminated in 1986 and 1987. Bottled water was initially provided to all thoseresidences whose wells had been contaminated with site related compounds and granulatedactivated carbon (GAC) filters were later installed. The wells are monitored by Fuss & O'Neill forLinemaster Switch Corporation. The GAC filters are maintained under the direction of theLinemaster Switch Corporation.
Another source of ground water well contamination in the area not related to the LinemasterSwitch Corporation National Priorities List (NPL) site is the Woodstock Public School site.Between 1991 and 1992, benzene, methyl tert butyl ether (MTBE), and other components ofgasoline were found in eight private residential wells. The residences were initially provided with bottled water and subsequently with GAC filters.
Naturally occurring arsenic (also not related to the Linemaster site) has also been identified inover twenty wells in the area above comparison values. Residents in Woodstock should considertesting their wells for arsenic and consider treating their water if arsenic levels are found abovehealth and regulatory standards.
The principal community concerns include the potential health effects from exposures to drinkingwater containing site related contaminants and naturally occurring arsenic.
The Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (CT DEP) and the CT DPHAS havedeveloped a Public Health Action Plan. As part of the action plan, the CT DEP and the CTDPHAS will continue to review monitoring reports from those private wells identified ascontaminated from the Linemaster Switch and the Woodstock Public School sites.
The CT DPHAS will provide environmental health education for local public health officials, thelocal medical community, and the local citizens to assist the community in assessing possibleadverse health outcomes associated with exposures to toxic substances. The CT DPHAS willattempt to coordinate a well survey of the Town of Woodstock to investigate the extent ofnaturally occurring arsenic contamination in the private wells.
In cooperation with the ATSDR, the CT DPHAS evaluated the public health significance of theLinemaster Switch Corporation site. The purpose of the public health assessment is to determinewhether adverse health effects are possible and to recommend actions to reduce or preventpossible health effects.
Linemaster Switch Corporation is located on Plaine Hill Road in Woodstock, Connecticut,Windham County, on a hill originally called Bald Hill. The 92-acre site is bounded by Plaine HillRoad, State Route 171, and State Route 169 (see Figure 1 in Appendix A). The site includes one45-acre parcel that is used by the Linemaster Switch Corporation and one 45-acre parcel wherethe owner of the company resides. The owner's residence is 500 feet north of the manufacturingbuilding. The Linemaster manufacturing facility is located near the center of the site. Locatedon-site in the southeast corner of the property are the Bald Hill Restaurant, a small cottage, and a private home (see Figure 2-1 in Appendix C1).
The facility manufactures electrical and pneumatic foot switches and wiring harnesses.Approximately 150 people are employed at Linemaster Switch Corporation.
Linemaster Switch Corporation began manufacturing operations in 1952 in the carriage house ofan estate, later replaced by the present factory building. TCE, paint thinner, and other chemicalswere used in the manufacturing process. TCE was used in a vapor degreaser apparatus beginningin 1969. The quantity of paint thinner used and disposed of is unknown. The estimated quantity ofTCE used between 1969 and 1979 was approximately 100 to 600 gallons per year (7). Of thisamount, approximately 20 to 200 gallons per year were disposed of on-site (7). Originally, solidpaint waste was disposed of at the Woodstock Town Landfill. In 1980, the CT DEP conducted aResource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) inspection at the site, which found that on-sitedisposal of dried paint solids had occurred. The CT DEP concluded, among other things, thatdried paint waste most likely was disposed of either on-site, taken to the Woodstock TownLandfill, or both, for approximately 20 to 30 years.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) conducted site inspections in 1985 and 1986.Sampling from on-site and off-site private wells indicated the presence of VOCs, primarily TCE.Based on these results, bottled water was provided to the facility, one on-site residence, andseveral nearby off-site residences. Since that time, three on-site wells, the Woodstock Town Hall well, and three residential wells have been equipped with filter systems.
On April 8, 1986, an abatement order was issued by the CT DEP to Linemaster Switch requiringthe company to conduct a hydrogeologic study for the area (1). In 1987, a Consent Order wassigned by the EPA and Linemaster Switch Corporation instructing the company to "conduct ahydrogeological investigation, develop and evaluate removal actions to abate the contamination,provide an on-site and off-site ground water monitoring program, and provide alternative watersupplies for certain drinking water sources." In 1989, an air stripping tower and carbon polishingfilter were installed to remove VOCs from the on-site well water supply. This tower and filter arelocated in the southern portion of the factory building. In 1992, a groundwater collection andtreatment system, (the Interim Removal Treatment System (IRTS)) was installed to prevent themigration of VOCs off-site. Contaminated groundwater is pumped from six bedrock extractionwells to the treatment system which consists of an air stripper and carbon polishing filters. Thetreatment system is located in a small building to the east of the manufacturing building. Sinceinitiation of the IRTS, approximately 448 pounds of VOCs (407 pounds of TCE) have beenremoved from the groundwater (35).
The site was proposed for inclusion on the National Priorities List (NPL) on June 24, 1988. The site was listed on the NPL on February 21, 1990.
In 1986, the ATSDR provided a health consultation to the EPA regarding the public healthsignificance of ground water, surface water, and soil sampling data. On the basis of the dataavailable at the time, the ATSDR concluded the levels of VOCs in ground water represented animminent and appreciable public health threat and measures should be taken to reduce that threat (2).
In 1990, a preliminary health assessment was performed by the ATSDR which concluded thatalthough there were indications that human exposure to on-site and off-site contaminants mayhave occurred in the past, the site would not be considered for follow-up health activities at that time because there was no evidence of current exposure and no ability to ascertain past exposures to TCE (2).
Another source of ground water contamination not related to the Linemaster site was identified bythe CT DEP. An investigation in September of 1991, by the CT DEP detected gasoline in the soiland ground water at the Woodstock Public School property. Subsequent sampling of residentialwells south of the school detected several gasoline constituents including: benzene, toluene, ethylbenzene, xylene, and MTBE. These residents were initially provided with bottled water by theCT DEP and later with GAC filters. The Woodstock Public School was also equipped with aGAC filter. The CT DEP determined that the source of the contamination was two leakingunderground storage tanks that had been removed from the Woodstock Public School property(5).
In response to community concerns, a Public Health Action Plan was developed. As part of theaction plan, the CT DEP and the CT DPHAS will continue to review monitoring reports fromthose private wells identified as contaminated from the Linemaster Switch and the WoodstockPublic School sites. In addition, the CT DPHAS will provide environmental health education forlocal public health officials, the local medical community and to the local citizens to assist thecommunity in assessing possible adverse health outcomes associated with exposures to toxicsubstances. The CT DPHAS is also planning to coordinate a well survey of the Town ofWoodstock to investigate the extent of arsenic contamination in the private wells.
The public health actions that were implemented by the CT DPHAS are as follows:
- Site specific information regarding possible adverse health outcomes associated withexposures to toxic substances was distributed to community residents around the LinemasterSwitch Site.
- The ATSDR has reviewed health statistics provided by the CTDPHAS. ATSDR has concludedthat a further health statistics review is not indicated.
Edith Pestana and Kenny Foscue of the CT DPHAS and staff from the CT DEP conducted a sitevisit on Tuesday, March 30, 1993. During the site visit the CT DPHAS representatives met withthe project manager at the Linemaster Switch Corporation, and Fuss & O'Neill, developers of theRemedial Investigation/Feasibility Study (RI/FS) for the Linemaster site. A tour of the Linemastersite was conducted, including visits to the manufacturing facility, the adjacent site buildings, andthe area near ponds number two and number three.
During the inspection of the site, the following observations were made. These observations are not presented in order of significance or importance.
- The Linemaster manufacturing facility and office building are located atop a wooded hill.Access to the site is limited by a perimeter fence. Visitors to the site are required to sign in andout.
- The manufacturing operation appeared very clean. The plant has converted its metal degreasingoperation from solvent-based cleaning to a system employing an ultrasound wash tank with awater-based detergent. The painting operation has switched from solvent-based to water-basedpaint for spraying parts.
- The area around the contaminated dry well was covered with soil2
- The ground water treatment system (an air stripper and carbon absorption system) is located in a small building east of the manufacturing facility.
- A drainage ditch runs along the access road to Ponds number two and number three.
- Three piles of soil covered with plastic tarps were observed near Pond number two. Accordingto Fuss and O'Neill, this soil was contaminated and had been excavated and moved from the Zonenumber one area around the dry well.
- A structure housing three above-ground 550 gallon fuel tanks (one diesel and two gasoline) was observed near the facility.
- The new and old leaching fields for the private residence on-site were observed downhill to theeast of the manufacturing facility.
The town of Woodstock, CT has a population of approximately 6,000 people based on the 1990Census (6). Ninety-nine percent of the population is white. Eight percent of the population isunder the age of six. Seventeen percent of the population is between the ages of six and nineteen.Fifty-six percent of the population is between the ages of twenty and fifty-nine. Seventeen percentof the population is over the age of fifty-nine. The per capita income for the town of Woodstockis 18,649 dollars per year.
Approximately fifty homes and two apartment buildings are located within a one-half mile radiusof the site. The closest residents are located approximately 25 feet from the north propertyboundary (7). A review of deed information in the Woodstock Town Hall indicated that themajority of these homes were built and occupied during the time period of potential exposure(1969 to 1988). There are fifty-one private residential drinking water wells located at theperiphery of the site, used by approximately 130 people. Approximately 2,888 people are servedby ground water from both bedrock and overburden wells within three miles of the site (1) (seeAppendix A).
The Woodstock Public School, with an enrollment of 835 students, is approximately 1,800 feetfrom the Linemaster facility. The school has a drinking water well.
An outdoor running track is located to the north approximately 1,400 feet from the site.
Surface water streams in the vicinity of the site generally flow east or northeasterly into RoselandLake, approximately 0.75 miles east of the site area. Roseland lake drains into the Little River,which flows south to the Quinebaug River in Putnam. The nearest surface-water bodies off-siteare: an easterly flowing unnamed stream located approximately 2,000 feet to the north, anunnamed stream west of the site that flows southerly, and Mill Brook, which flows easterlyparallel to Route 171.
Four ponds; Northeast Pond, Pond 1, Pond 2, Pond 3, and one unnamed stream are located in theeastern section of the site. Pond 2 has no surface-water inlet and drains south by a small streamthat empties into wetlands (located 1,000 feet to the south of the site), adjacent to the Mill Brook(21). Pond 3 discharges into the unnamed stream just north of Pond 1. The unnamed streamoriginates at Northeast Pond, enters and exits Pond 1 and eventually discharges into Mill Brooksouthwest of the site.
There are two aquifers under the site, the overburden and the bedrock (2). Linemaster and oneon-site residence obtain water from one on-site production well (GW-08db). The water is treatedby air-stripping and carbon filtration to remove VOCs. Two other on-site residences and therestaurant obtain water from another well (GW-09db).
There are monitoring programs for the Interim Removal Treatment System wells, on-sitemonitoring wells, and on-site and off-site domestic water supply wells. Forty six domestic supplywells are monitored; five wells are monitored bi-monthly, twenty wells are monitored quarterly,nineteen wells are monitored semi-annually, and two wells are monitored annually.
Currently there are no municipal water or sewer utilities in the area. The Town of Woodstockplans to install sewer service along Routes 169 and 171, just outside the eastern and southernboundaries of the Linemaster property. Construction is expected to begin by the summer of 1995.
Based on our review of the environmental data and the toxicologic implications associated withthe identified completed exposures pathways, the CT DPHAS has gathered data from the CTTumor Registry specifically for the Town of Woodstock for evaluation. This health statisticsreview of existing data has been evaluated. The findings are reported in the Health Outcome Data Evaluation Section.
Concerns from citizens were compiled by reviewing historical records and documented complaintsat a number of agencies. The CT DEP Water, Solid Waste, and Superfund files were reviewed. Inaddition, local and state health officials were contacted. The concerns of the citizens were alsogathered from the EPA public informational meeting held April 14, 1993, at the Woodstock TownHall. This EPA meeting had an attendance of approximately 40 people. As part of the HealthAssessment process, an availability session for local residents to express their concerns wasconducted at the Woodstock Town Hall on April 27, 1993 (see the CT DPHAS notice inAppendix B). A total of six residents attended the availability session. The community concernsinclude:
- Does itching skin after bathing indicate that the well is contaminated or has beenre-contaminated?
- Could dizziness, fainting, and a feeling of weakness be related to exposures connected with the Linemaster Switch site?
- Is it safe for farm animals such as cattle to drink water contaminated by the Linemaster Switch or the water that was contaminated by the Woodstock School leaking fuel tank?
- Are the levels of arsenic in some wells safe? What are the health effects of arsenic in drinking water?
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On Wednesday, the Canadian government unveiled it's long-awaited national space strategy, focusing on artificial intelligence, deep-space robotic systems, Earth-observation capabilities, and a search for new ventures with the European Space Agency.
Along with this forward-thinking strategy, Science Minister Navdeep Bains announced the start of a "comprehensive and educational outreach program" that will focus on a "junior astronaut campaign" that will have online activities and a contest to get an astronaut to visit a school.
The 22-page Space Strategy was announced from the Telus World of Science in Edmonton, in front of children from Grades 1 to 6. The announcement follows on the heels of last week's announcement by Prime Minister Justin Trudeau that Canada will participate in the NASA-led Lunar Gateway program, a space station that will orbit the moon.
The federal government listened to the strong criticism by people in the space industry who called for a more robust and focused space program. With so many countries entering into space ventures, Canada has seemingly been left out. The federal government also promises to cut the regulatory red-tape the space industry says has hindered projects going forward.
And the initiative goes along with Canada’s space agency calling on companies to present their ideas for everything from moon-rover power systems to innovative mineral prospecting technique in September 2018.
"We are going to seize this opportunity that we have now and we're going to do it in Canadian style," said astronaut Jeremy Hansen, who is slated to become the next Canadian in space, after David Saint-Jacques who is currently on the International Space Station. "We're going to pursue excellence and bring a lot of benefits back to Canadians."
Canada's place in the aerospace community
Even though some in the space industry criticize Canada for not doing more and being involved in space endeavors, they overlook the fact that Canada is highly regarded in the industry. Canada was the third country, behind the U.S. and Russia, to launch a satellite into space, - the Alouette 1 in 1962.
Canada was involved in the Apollo Missions. The Lunar landing legs for the missions were made by Heroux-Devtek in Quebec, The Canadarm built for the International Space Station was a signature Canadian achievement in space technology that helped the country get a foothold in the U.S. shuttle program and space station.
There are Canadian-made instruments on Mars, including on the Curiosity rover which continues to roam the Red Planet and OSIRIS-REx, a sample-return mission around the asteroid Bennu.
The one thing everyone agrees on is that the Canadian government has not been disposed to spending a lot on the space or science sector. Last year, reports the Globe and Mail, after heeding a 2017 report from the Space Advisory Board that showed funding had been stuck in low gear for a number of years, the budget turned out to be a win for science and technology - but space was left out in the cold.
“The current level of small and uncertain funding means that Canadian space scientists can’t develop new technologies or engage in international missions in an effective way,” said Jeremy Heyl, an astrophysicist at the University of British Columbia who co-authored the white paper in 2017.
Some of the proposals in the 2017 report are now being included in Canada's new Space Strategy, according to CTV News Canada. They include:
1. To reverse the decline in the country's space capability before it's too late.
2. To develop "a new space strategy and follow-on space plan that provides the policies, programs and funding essential for the revitalization of Canada's space capacity."
3. To establish a "comprehensive and educational outreach program" for Canadians of all ages.
4. To pursue a "balanced space program" that includes all areas of Canadian expertise
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Crowdsourcing began as a legitimate tool to leverage the wisdom of the crowds to solve complex business and scientific challenges. Unfortunately, these very same techniques are increasingly being adopted by the criminal underground for nefarious purposes.
The concept of crowdsourcing first gained widespread attention in an article written in 2006 by Jeff Howe for Wired Magazine. Howe defined crowdsourcing as the act of outsourcing a task to a large, undefined group of people through an open call.
The increasing application of crowdsourcing is changing “business as usual” in a wide variety of industries. In a noted example, Don Tapscott, in his book Wikinomics, described how one Canadian gold mining company facing a looming shutdown desperately turned to the general public to help solve a critical business problem. The company, Goldcorp, was so frustrated with the inability of its own geologists to locate any gold that it did something unheard of at the time: it offered $500,000 to anyone who could find and map the location of the company’s own gold in its own mines. To facilitate the effort, Goldcorp posted their full datasets online. After receiving submissions from more than a thousand people in 50 different countries, Goldcorp achieved the success that had so eluded the firm previously. A member of the public used Goldcorp’s data to make an incredible discovery and to locate more than $3 billion worth of gold using techniques never previously employed in the mining industry.
While numerous productive examples of crowdsourcing such as the Goldcorp case have been documented over time, these very same techniques increasingly are being exploited for criminal purposes as well.
Crime and the crowd
The growing popularity of crowdsourcing has not gone unnoticed, either, by international organized crime groups and local neighborhood thugs, each of which is quickly updating its tactics to drive operational efficiencies. Welcome to the world of “crime-sourcing.” Borrowing from Howe’s concept, crime-sourcing can be defined as the act of taking the whole or part of a criminal act and outsourcing it to a crowd of either witting or unwitting individuals.
The growth in crime-sourcing is shaking up long-standing business models and traditions within the criminal underground and is leading to innovations in crime. For example, all organized crime groups have historically looked upon outsiders with great suspicion: don’t trust somebody you don’t know and who has not been vetted. Elaborate processes were established, such as the Mafia’s Omertà, to ensure newcomers to the criminal enterprise were neither rats nor cops. It would often take years of robberies, loan sharking and murder to gain the trust and confidence of the “boss.”
The distributed crime network
As the world turned to globalization, so too did organized crime. Their initial attempts were limited, but generally effective. Drug cartels in Latin American began to work with organized crime groups in Eastern Europe. The Japanese Yakuza and Chinese Triads developed ties and turned to one another for very specific tasks, such as carrying out a particular “hit” or laundering a large sum of money in a different jurisdiction. Though these disparate crime groups were located in different parts of the world, they found ways to build trust and work together in their joint illicit pursuits.
Eventually, specialties emerged and criminal enterprises learned to outsource all tasks not within their specific areas of expertise. For example, in a standard phishing operation, an organized crime group might commission the creation of a scam web page and contact a secondary broker to get a list of thousands of email addresses. Using another intermediary, the crime group would get access to a compromised computer and rent a botnet to distribute the spam emails for a period of agreed upon time, such as 12 or 24 hours.
As hapless victims readily provided their banking and credit card information, the data would be culled and forwarded to the contracting criminals. The crime group would likely rent a distributed proxy network to obfuscate their true locations and to run transactions against the compromised accounts.
Of course, all this money needs to be received, processed and laundered in a way that protects the criminal enterprise, and there are numerous illicit techniques for hiring unsuspecting participants to take on the task. The most common is to place an ad in a print newspaper or an online publication offering opportunities to “work from home” and make “quick money” as an “importer/exporter.”
Using this ruse, organized crime groups have duped thousands into receiving stolen property at their homes and opening shell bank accounts in their own names. After the funds are received in the account of the unwary pawn, he is instructed to immediately send them overseas via Western Union exchange for a small fee or commission. In doing so, the crime groups have crowdsourced the most dangerous part of their business, leaving behind a trail of false leads for law enforcement to find.
Strangers with a common criminal cause
One of the more interesting developments in crowdsourced offenses has been the birth of the crime “flash mob.” The practice of crime flash mobs has become so common that the media have now coined a term “flash robs” to describe the ensuing theft and violence. In these cases groups of individual criminals, who may or may not even know each other, are organizing themselves online and suddenly descending into unsuspecting stores to steal all that they can in a flash. The unsuspecting merchant has little he can do when 40 unruly strangers suddenly run into his shop and run off with all his merchandise. Dozens of these cases have occurred, including one in which co-conspirators planned an attack via Facebook and Twitter that lead to the pillaging of a Victoria’s Secret store in London.
Sadly, flash mobs are increasingly turning violent as innocent bystanders are being attacked and assaulted in broad daylight. In Chicago in June 2011, dozens descended on a neighborhood street and began assaulting and robbing law-abiding citizens. In the Chicago incident, 15-20 youths dragged a man off his motor scooter and severely beat him. A mere two months later in Philadelphia, a similar incident occurred.
Flash mobs are an advantageous way of crowdsourcing a robbery for the criminals involved. Using the power of the Internet, they are able to assemble an overwhelming force of unrelated strangers. Thus, if any of the participants involved are arrested, they are unlikely to be able to “rat” on their co-conspirators, whom they met for the first time at the scene of the crime.
The crime request hotline
Crime-sourcing reached new heights earlier this year when noted hacking group LulzSec opened up a hacking request hotline for the general public. The group advertised the 614 area code phone number on its Twitter feed and allowed the crowd to select LulzSec’s next hacking victim. This new modus operandi in crime-sourcing allows the public to vote, “American Idol”-style, on who shall be the next victim of a crime. The group later released a statement noting that it had successfully launched distributed denial of service attacks (DDoS) against eight sites suggested by callers.
Crime-sourcing’s unwitting accomplices
Not all of those who participate in a crowdsourced crime do so knowingly. In fact, employing crowdsourcing techniques, it is increasingly possible for organized crime groups to get hapless innocents to carry out key elements of a crime on their behalf. In one example, the unsuspecting (and the lustful) were enticed to solve a CAPTCHA word puzzle in order to get access to free online pornography.
It seemed like a good deal for the end-user: for each CAPTCHA they solved, a person using the name Melissa would provide access to more and more pornographic images. What the end-user did not know is that, in fact, the CAPTCHAs being solved were being used to break into Yahoo email accounts and steal information. By tapping the public appetite for pornography, organized crime groups were able to create a useful crowdsourced method of automating CAPTCHA solving in order to give them unauthorized access to email accounts.
Crowdsourcing a criminal casting call
In perhaps one of the most ingenious uses of crime-sourcing seen to date, a bank robber in Seattle utilized Craigslist to recruit a crowd of unwitting participants to facilitate his escape. In the days leading up to the robbery, the perpetrator placed an ad on Craigslist seeking workers for a purported road-maintenance project paying $28.50 an hour. He instructed his “contractors” to show up at a street location at the exact place and time an armored car was to be delivering cash to a local Bank of America.
The robber instructed all those showing up for the promise of work to wear their own yellow vest, safety goggles, respirator mask and blue shirt — the criminal’s exact outfit the day of the robbery. After overpowering the armored car driver with pepper spray, the suspect grabbed a duffel bag filled with cash, ran past a dozen or so similarly dressed innocents and made his escape 100 yards away to a local creek where he floated away in a pre-positioned inner tube. 911 calls reporting the robbery described the suspect as being a construction worker in a yellow vest. When police arrived on seen, they had numerous robbery suspects from which to choose.
Crime-sourcing meets “investigation-sourcing”
While crime-sourcing has allowed organized crime groups to commit more crimes with less risk, law enforcement officials are now leveraging the power of crowdsourcing to fight crime as well.
The NYPD has already launched a social media unit to track criminals on Facebook and Twitter. More recently, as the streets of the UK burned in the aftermath of violent protests, citizens of London banded together online to identify looters.
In one of the most impressive uses of “investigation-sourcing” to date, the Canadian public came together to identify the thousands of protesters who caused millions of dollars of damage as a result of the Vancouver Canucks losing the NHL championship in June 2011. Using a variety of image processing techniques, the firm Gigapixel was able to assemble 216 publicly submitted photographs and assemble them into one seamless high-resolution image. The phenomenal resolution of the resultant picture allowed the faces of tens of thousands of riot participants to be viewed in high resolution. The identification of more than 10,000 participants by name was completed by tagging individuals in Facebook, breaking a record for the number of tags in a given image to date. Many of those identified in the photos have now been successfully arrested and prosecuted by Canadian authorities.
The future of crime-sourcing
The technology involved in various crowdsourcing techniques is, of course, neither good nor bad. What started as a legitimate methodology to tap the wisdom of crowds for the betterment of business and science has unfortunately been adopted by the criminal underground. As demonstrated in the numerous examples listed above, organized crime groups clearly understand how to employ these techniques to commit more crime with less risk.
Undoubtedly, criminals will continue to innovate and develop new tactics to grow their profits from crime-sourcing. Whether this crime trend continues unabated depends on the ability of the police and the law-abiding members of our society to organize themselves as an effective countermeasure. In the looming clash between cops and robbers to crowdsource good versus evil, victory will belong to whichever group proves itself capable of mobilizing the larger crowd.
Thanks to Tarun Wadhwa for his helpful comments on earlier drafts of this post.
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According to my Social Studies-teacher-daughter, very little about the counter-culture of the 1960’s and 1970’s is taught in secondary schools in Texas. Nathan Spooner’s new release, Stories from Berkeley: Adventures in the Slow Lane, preserves a part of our history which, unfortunately, is becoming lost.
Spooner chronicles his life as a philosophy student at Berkeley and a street performer in the Bay area including his relationships with Joadie Guthrie, son of Woody Guthrie; renowned photographer Annie Leibovitz; various house-mates in the communal house in which he lived; and fellow musicians. Although Spooner does not emphasize the turbulent political tenor of the times, he does put the anti-Viet Nam war effort in perspective.
After Berkeley, Spooner moved to Alaska for ten years where he and his wife raised their children. Upon returning to Berkeley the Spooners no longer felt at home there and moved to the Central Coast of California. Nathan Spooner is now a special education teacher with grown children and grandchildren.
Spooner successfully captures an era of American life that should be preserved. Stories from Berkeley has a nice rhythm to it and is an interesting read. This book is appropriate for high school students and would make a wonderful adjunct to Social Studies programs in both secondary schools and in college curriculums.
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When you first learn PHP, and even if you already know about PHP constants and their valuable characteristics, you are likely to make your share of mistakes. One mistake that can be a bugbear is mistakenly defining values that already exist. When you define a pre-existing variable, PHP will simply adjust the value, and you must trace the change through the stream of execution as part of the debugging process. But when you do it with a constant, you are banging two rocks together. Here is how to avoid the sparks of an already defined constant.
In addition to the define() function that PHP uses to define constants, it also has a defined() function which you can use in conjunction with it. Let's say we write against a module that has the following definition:
define('MY_TEST_CONSTANT', 'example');If we then try to pass this line in our code:
define('MY_TEST_CONSTANT', 'a new value');PHP will whine:
PHP Notice: Constant TEST_CONSTANT already defined in <filename> on line <line number>It will refuse to define it again due to the immutability of constants.
To save ourselves the trouble of this notice, we can use the following line instead:
defined('MY_TEST_CONSTANT') or define('MY_TEST_CONSTANT', 'a new value');This is a way of asserting the constant definition more politely. If the name chosen is associated with a defined constant, we comply with PHP's rules for handling constants and use the value already defined. Otherwise, we get the name we want with the value we assign. Using this method can save you a lot of headache as you learn PHP. Understanding it, you can then move on to PHP datatypes or any of the other PHP tutorials listed below.
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On July 15th, 2009, a horrible scene was staged in the Xiheying Town Police Station of Wei County, Hebei Province. The victims were three women who practise Falun Gong. One of them was with her 2-year-old daughter. Four to five policemen, uttering abusive words, cruelly beat them, slapped them in the face, shocked them with electric batons and choked them with cigarette smoke. When a group of police became too tired to continue the beating, another group of police would step in to continue the abuse.
|Ms. Geng Li 's body was bruised in many places by brutal police beating|
The three women were arrested by the police while they were distributing leaflets exposing the persecution and telling people the facts about Falun Gong in a market in the Xiheying Town at about 10 a.m. on July 15th, 2009. Officials from the local 610 Office1 in charge of persecuting Falun Gong monitored the people in the market and shadowed the three women. Ms. Geng Li and Ms. Liu Shuli were arrested at first and Ms. Sun Jian Qin was arrested not long after.
Ms. Geng Li Cruelly Tortured
When Ms. Geng and Ms. Liu were arrested and taken to the Xiheying Town Police Station, the chief of the police station, Liu Zhong, slapped them in the face. Then he brought them to a room, closed the window curtain and 4 to 5 policemen abused and beat them. After slapping them in the face, the police handcuffed them and detained them separately. Ms. Geng contended that she was innocent as she had done nothing wrong and resisted while she was being handcuffed. In retaliation, the police handcuffed her in a more painful position called "carrying a sword on the back," in which one of her hands was pulled over her shoulder and cuffed to the other hand which was pulled up from behind her back.
At the time the room was crowded by police, uttering abusive words and verbally attacking the founder of Falun Gong. They drew two portraits on two pieces of paper, and wrote on them the name of the Falun Gong founder and abusive words against him. They tried to force her to curse him and and spit on the paper. Ms. Geng refused. Then the police spat on one of the pieces of paper and shoved it into her mouth. At the same time they threw the other piece of paper onto the ground and demanded that she step on it. When she refused, they pressed her against a bed and dragged her feet across the piece of paper.
One policeman lit a cigarette and blew a mouthful of smoke into her face. The policemen took turns beating and abusing her. They made a paper stick with a newspaper and slapped her face and arms with it. After the paper stick broke, they simply made a new one and continued the beating. Ms. Geng's face and mouth became swollen. The police shocked her arms and back with electric batons and forced her to sit on her knees. When she refused they brutally kicked her legs until she became too weak to stand and fell to the ground on her knees. One policeman stepped on her lower legs to prevent her from moving while the other violently whipped her knees with a rubber baton. Then they dragged her up and whipped her buttocks with a rubber baton covered with rubber spikes.
The police did not stop beating her until they left for lunch, leaving a policeman to watch her with a rubber baton in hand. Ms. Geng tried to escape the moment the policeman watching her left, but she was caught and taken back. She was then shackled to a special chair to confine detainees. Many officers slapped her face and mouth. Then a young policeman whipped her legs, feet, shoulders and arms with the rubber baton for long period of time until he was tired. As a result, her shoulders, arms, legs and feet were severely bruised.
Ms. Liu Shuli and Ms. Sun Jianqin Brutally Beaten
Ms. Sun Jianqin was also beaten by the police after she was arrested. All of this happened in front of her 2-year-old daughter. The little girl was frightened so badly she started crying loudly, but the police just continued to beat her mother. One of Ms. Sun's hands was cuffed to a radiator while the other hand was left free to carry her daughter. At the same time, the police slapped and punched her face, grabbed her hair, shocked her with electric batons and kicked her legs. Her mouth was injured and bled.
The next day she was sent to a detention centre in Zhangjiakou City, Hebei Province. She was not released until her family implored the police and paid them 700 yuan2 on the third day. After she returned home, police from the Nanyangzhuang Town Police Station threatened her husband, saying that his family would be in trouble if he does not follow their orders and keep his wife from practising Falun Gong.
In the Xiheying Town Police Station Ms. Liu Shuli was taken to a room in the north yard. She was beaten violently and her face was injured and bled. Police forced her to sit on her knees, beat her knees with a iron baton and shocked her with electric batons while clutching her hair. They drew a man's portrait and called it the founder of Falun Gong and forced her to curse it and step on it. After they discovered her name through interrogation they took a photograph of her and recorded her fingerprints by force. In the morning of the next day she was sent to a hospital for physical examination and in the afternoon she was sent to Zhangjiakou City and was detained for 5 days in a detention centre. After that she was taken to the Nanyangzhaung Town Police Station, where police officers slandered Falun Gong to her face and intimidated her family members. She was not released until her family paid the police 1,000 yuan.
We hope witnesses of these abuses will provide us with detailed information about the perpetrators and their families, as their crimes against Falun Gong practitioners should be exposed to their families and local people.
List of those involved in the mistreatment:
Liu Zhong, chief of the Xiheying Town Police Station, Wei County, Hebei province;
Ni Jiangong, Su Sheng, Si Zhangquan and Ren Lin, 610 officers in charge of persecuting Falun Gong
1. "The 610 office" is an agency specifically created to persecute Falun Gong, with absolute power over each level of administration in the Party and all other political and judiciary systems.
2. "Yuan" is the Chinese currency; 500 yuan is equal to the average monthly income of an urban worker in China.
Chinese version available at http://www.minghui.org/mh/articles/2009/8/1/205700.html
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Semiotics in Information Systems Engineering
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BeschreibungApplications of semiotics to computer system developments, aimed at professionals and academics.
Inhaltsverzeichnis1. Introduction; Part I. Semiotic Framework and Methods: 2. Understanding semiotics; 3. A semiotic framework for information systems; 4. A semiotic approach to information systems development; 5. Knowledge representation and information analysis; 6. Semantic analysis; 7. Pragmatics and communication; 8. The social layer: modelling organisations as information systems; Part II. Applications: 9. From semiotic analysis to systems design; 10. Semantic temporal databases; 11. Normbase: a new approach to information management; 12. Case study: development of a land resources information system; 13. Case study: development of a test construction system; Appendix A. Semantic templates and surrogate specification; Appendix B. LEGOL applications in the CRIS case; References; Index.
PortraitDr Kecheng Liu, Fellow of the British Computer Society, is a full Professor and holds a Chair of Informatics and e-Business in Business School. He is the Director of Informatics Research Centre (www.irc.rdg.ac.uk), one of the departments in the Business School, University of Reading, UK. He has published over one hundred papers in journals and conferences, and serves on the editorial boards of several journals. He has chaired conferences, written 1 and edited 5 books in the field of informatics and organisational semiotics. He has also been responsible for several research projects. He is Visiting Professor at Fudan University, Beijing Institute of Technology, Beijing Jiaotong University, Dalian University of Technology and the Graduate School of Chinese Academy of Science, all in China. He has been invited to deliver lectures in information systems and semiotics in Australia, Brazil, Chile, China, Czech, France, Hong Kong, Portugal, Sweden, the Netherlands and the United States.
PressestimmenReview of the hardback: '... an excellent overview of a rich and complex research program in the analysis, specification, and design of information systems ... will be of interest to researchers in information systems methodologies. In educational settings, it will be useful ancillary reading in a project-oriented course on information systems design, and might be the central text, if the course in fact adapts the MEASUR methodology.' H. Van Dyke Parunak, Computing Reviews
Untertitel: New. Sprache: Englisch.
Verlag: CAMBRIDGE UNIV PR
Erscheinungsdatum: Oktober 2011
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Here Comes the Hornet?
Yisrael MedadI am a resident of Shiloh, with my wife and children, and now grandchildren,...
As we know:
1. In...(Ex. 23:27-28): "I will send forth My terror before you, and I will throw into panic all the people among whom you come, and I will make all your enemies turn tail before you. I will send hornet ahead of you, and it shall drive out before you the Hivites, the Canaanites, and the Hittites."
2. Deuteronomy 7:20: "The Lord your G-d will also send a hornet against them, until those who are left in hiding perish before you."
3. Joshua 24:12: "I sent a hornet ahead of you, and it drove them out before you."
How was that?
The gemara, Tractate Sotah 36a, deals with the question of whether or not the hornet crossed the Jordan River:
A Tanna taught: The hornet did not pass over [Jordan] with them; but behold it is written: And I will send the hornet before thee! – R. Simeon b. Lakish said: It stood by the bank of the Jordan and injected a virus [into the Canaanites] which blinded their eyes above and castrated them below… R. Papa said: There were two hornets, one in the period of Moses and the other in the period of Joshua; the former did not pass over [Jordan] but the other did.
Rashi and Nahmanides base their commentary to Ex. 23:27-28 on this passage in the gemara. Rashi writes:
This is a kind of insect which wounded their eyes and injected poison in them, so that they died… for our Rabbis have explained in Tractate Sotah (36a) that the hornets placed themselves on the [east] bank of the Jordan and [from there] cast the poison against them.
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It’s no secret that spending time with friends is a great way to de-stress and have some fun. But what you may not know is that it can also be good for your mind and your career. Here are some reasons why you should go out with friends occasionally:
The benefits of spending time with friends
Eating out with friends
When you eat out with friends, you get to enjoy good company and great food. But that’s not all — there are several other benefits to be gained from this type of outing. For one, it’s a fun way to spend time together. Being together with friends isn’t only enjoyable but it’s also good for you. You can also share each other’s food while exploring different places like wine and dinner restaurants, fun snack options, and many others. It’s a great opportunity to catch up on each other’s lives, especially if you’re in different phases of life. For instance, if one friend is married while the other isn’t, it can be a good way to share life experiences and continue building a friendship. You can share advice and support with each other or simply celebrate special occasions.
Taking a break and going on vacation with friends
Taking a break from work with friends is the perfect way to rejuvenate yourself. When you’re feeling run down and stressed, a vacation with friends can help you feel more relaxed and refreshed. Not only do you get to spend time with your friends, but you also get to explore new places and enjoy different activities. This is a great way to bond with your friends and create lasting memories.
Keeping in touch with friends online
When you go out with friends, it doesn’t have to be an activity that lasts for hours. You can meet up with your friends online just to keep in touch for a few minutes. This is especially helpful if you haven’t seen them for a while. Chances are, they will ask about your career and how things are going. If you know someone who is going through a tough time, this can be a good way to show your support and encourage them to keep trying. In this way, it’s a great way to stay connected with your friends even if you live in different parts of the world.
What are some advantages for introverts when it comes to going out with friends?
Introverts often enjoy spending time alone, but that doesn’t mean they don’t appreciate the company of friends. For introverts, spending time with friends can be a great way to relax and de-stress. When you’re with friends, you don’t have to worry about small talk – you can simply enjoy each other’s company. It can also be a good opportunity to get some advice or support from your friends. If you’re feeling down, they can help lift your spirits.
Socialization is very important even for introverts. When you stay at home all the time, it’s easy to become emotionally and physically isolated from others. In order to stay healthy, you need to stay connected with people. This not only includes family and friends but also acquaintances. The more social connections you have, the less likely you will be to experience the negative effects of isolation. For instance, loneliness can cause problems such as stress and anxiety.
How to make plans with your friends
When it comes to making plans with friends, there are a few things you can do to make it easier. First, try to be as flexible as possible. This will make it easier for your friends to find time to meet up with you. Flexibility also allows them to accommodate changing schedules. If you’re finding it tough to make plans, continue to communicate with your friends about what you want to do. This way, they can find a time that works best for both of you.
Second, make a list of potential activities that you can do together. This will give your friends some ideas of things to do when they meet up with you. Activities can include things like going out to dinner or watching a movie at home. If you have trouble coming up with ideas, make sure you explore your interests and the things you all enjoy doing.
Finally, send out a group text or email to your friends letting them know what you’re planning. This will help ensure that everyone is on the same page and knows what’s going on.
If you’re feeling run down and stressed, taking a break to go on vacation with friends can help you feel more relaxed and refreshed. Not only do you get to spend time with your friends, but also explore new places and enjoy different activities that will create lasting memories. Taking a break from work with friends is the perfect way to rejuvenate yourself as well by sharing advice or support when needed. When it comes to making plans for your next outing, try being flexible in order to make it easier for other people’s schedules while continuing communication until an agreeable date has been found. If all else fails, make sure everyone knows what they are doing ahead of time so no one gets left behind! | <urn:uuid:1f529d0e-2e75-4f79-ac79-fe6241073e8b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.mymotheryourmother.com/going-out-with-friends-occasionally/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.960935 | 1,073 | 1.875 | 2 |
Overview and Indications
Microdiscectomy, also called microlumbar discectomy, is performed for patients with a painful lumbar herniated disc. Microdiscectomy is a very common, if not the most common, surgery performed by spine surgeons. The operation consists of removing a portion of the intervertebral disc, the herniated or protruding portion that is compressing the traversing spinal nerve root. Years ago, most spine surgeons would remove a herniated disc using a rather large surgical incision and surgical exposure without the use of a microscope or telescopic glasses, which would often involve a long hospital stay and prolonged recovery period. Today, many surgeons use a microscopic surgical approach with a small, minimally-invasive, poke-hole incision to remove the disc herniation, allowing for a more rapid recovery.
Most patients are able to go home the same day or early the next day after surgery. Before patients go home, physical therapists and occupational therapists work with patients and instruct them on proper techniques of getting in and out of bed and walking independently. Patients are instructed to avoid bending at the waist, lifting more than five pounds and twisting in the early postoperative period (first two to four weeks) to avoid a strain injury or recurrent disc injury. Patients should try to avoid sitting in the same position for more than 45 to 60 minutes in the first few weeks after surgery. After sitting for 45 to 60 minutes, patients should get up and stretch or walk for a little bit, then sit down again if desired.
Patients are generally not required or recommended to wear a back brace after surgery. Patients may be issued a small, soft lumbar corset that can provide additional lumbar support in the early postoperative period, if necessary. | <urn:uuid:6dc0bf8b-e919-45a0-87f4-f342a719b22a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.keckmedicine.org/treatments/microdiscectomy-mld/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.929219 | 382 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Travelling within Africa can be fun – real fun. Because meeting other Africans in their own countries adds a certain flavour to one’s experience of the continent, a good opportunity to share in the continent’s alluring natural scenes.
It is even more exciting to taste other African meals.
The experiences can be at certain times surreal and at others awesome. But travelling within Africa is burdensome, hectic, and almost impossible for most Africans, and that in itself has contributed to a large extent to the lack of knowledge among Africans of each other’s culture and general worldview .
The challenges of travelling within Africa begins with the high cost of transport fares both by air and by road. The cost of travelling to neighbouring countries is prohibitive for many Africans, sometimes more than it costs to travel to Europe or the USA.
Most average Africans cannot afford the transport costs ranging around $1000 or more.
Then there is the visa requirements, often more stringently applied for Africans than for Europeans and Americans. Indeed, it is often easier for citizens of these continents to acquire visas to African countries than it is for Africans themselves.
For instance on the website of the South African High Commission in Ghana is a list of 40 countries exempt from requiring visas to enter that country and the only African country on the list is Botswana! Probably all other South African Development Cooperation (SADC) countries, 12 of them might be exempt as well, but there is no information on the website about that. Botswana is a member.
I started writing this piece as I waited at the Hosea Kutako International Airport in Windhoek Namibia on transit to Durban via Johannesburg on December 1, 2011.
My trip itself was eventful. It started with the application for visa at the South African High Commission in Accra. I filed my application two days to the start of the trip on December 30, 2011. That was so because I had only returned from another international assignment in Addis Ababa the previous Friday November 25, 2011, late in the afternoon and therefore, the only time I could put in my application for a visa to South Africa was Monday November 28.
The Embassy staff minced no words in telling me that I couldn’t apply for a visa when my trip was only two days ahead! I overheard some applicants being told to return for their passports in two weeks! What?! I thought. How should a visa to South Africa take two weeks to process? But that’s the rule!
There is however, this very intriguing story of a friend I met in Addis Ababa. He told me of his ordeal in the hands of immigration officials at the Bole International Airport in Addis Ababa. He was in Ethiopia at the invitation of a state institution. There is no Ethiopian Embassy in the European country where he lives and so he had to get his visa on arrival at the airport. But on arrival at the airport, he was detained and questioned over what he was coming to Ethiopia to do! Meanwhile, as my friend was being questioned, other visitors of another race were being waved through immigration with broad smiles.
He asked the officials why they have detained him an African and yet allowed the visitors who might be coming from Europe to go through so easily. This was what the official told him, “these are tourists and our country’s economy depends on tourism.”
In spite of pointing out to the officials that he was in their country at the invitation of a state institution and that they should check on the list of guests for the specific event that he had mentioned, indicating that his name was on the list, they were adamant, until one official recognised him, because of his job in the media and asked his colleagues to let him pass.
A week after this sore incident, my friend returned to Ethiopia at the invitation of the United Nations Economic Commission for Africa (UNECA), just as myself and he was detained again. It took the intervention of an official who recognised him during his first detention to get my friend out. This is Africa, and yet Africans cannot enter each others’ countries freely.
Well, back to my story with the South African High Commission in Accra. I was given the visa on Wednesday afternoon November 30, 2011 and I was able to make my trip.
But my experience at the High Commission was no different from what I would have gone through seeking a visa to a European country. Interestingly however, my experience at the US Embassy in Accra was smoother than I had thought, but it is perhaps, because I was going to the US at the invitation of the US Department of State Foreign Press Centre. And my experience at the Ethiopian Embassy so far was the best! Each time I had applied for a visa, it was issued the same day within an hour! And all I needed to submit were my passport, one passport photograph, an invitation letter from my hosts, an introduction letter from my office and the visa fee.
At the South African High Commission, I was asked to submit my hotel reservation form and bank statement, even though my trip was being fully sponsored by Siemens Southern Africa. I was asked to submit an introduction letter from my office, even though this is not indicated on the requirements for a visa on the application forms. It takes more than four hours to go through the visa application submission process with a cranky security man at the gates calling the shots and deciding on who he would let into the premises.
Meanwhile, the requirements for applying for a visa as stated on the application form are as follows: A passport; proof of booking of airline ticket; two identity passport photographs; prescribed visa fee if not exempted; supporting documentation confirming the purpose of the visit and vaccination certificate if required. But at the High Commission, officials would ask of bank statements and letter of introduction from employers – these are not stated among the requirements for visa application!
Travelling from Ghana to Nigeria by road can be a nightmare! The unnumerable security checkpoints on the roads and the extortions are just unbelievable, often done brazenly and cruelly in broad day light by uniformed officials on duty.
It is equally gruelling to travel from Ghana to Ivory Coast. Some of the drivers collect money from travellers to bribe officials on the way, just so they would have smooth passage.
Only last month the African Trade Policy Centre (ATPC) of the Economic Commission for Africa (ECA) organised the first Africa Trade Forum that looked at how Africa can trade itself out of poverty. And some of the issues that came up were the physical and non-physical barriers that exist beween African countries.
Although global trade is valued at around $30 trillion, Africa’s share is only about 3% and intra-African trade is currently estimated at an abbysmal 10%.
It is necessary for African countries to take a second look at the facts that create these difficulties, that obviously hamper the continent’s growth. It is being trumpeted now that this is Africa’s time, as the continent has been experiencing growth, in the face of the challenges facing Europe and the US.
A good example that other African countries can also learn from is the relationship between neighbours South Africa and Namibia. As I experienced at the Hosea Kutako International Airport in Windhoek, I was able to purchase Internet airtime at the airport using the South African rand and was given change in the Namibian dollar. The currencies of the two countries are valued at one to one. I gave the attendant 100 rand as I bought 20 Namibian dollars worth of airtime, and I was given change of 60 Namibian dollars and 20 South African rand!
That certainly is a good example worth emulating by other African countries, apart from making travelling across the continent less cumbersome even as countries take into consideration security issues.
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Disentangling the effects of climate change and anthropogenic activities on the environment is a major challenge in paleoenvironmental research. Here, we used fecal sterols and other biogeochemical compounds in lake sediments from northern Norway to identify both natural and anthropogenic signals of environmental change during the late Holocene. The area was first occupied by humans and their grazing animals at ∼2,250 ± 75 calendar years before 1950 AD (calendar years before present). The arrival of humans is indicated by an abrupt increase in coprostanol (and its epimer epicoprostanol) in the sediments and an associated increase in 5β-stigmastanol (and 5β-epistigmastanol), which resulted from human and animal feces washing into the lake. Human settlement was accompanied by an abrupt increase in landscape fires (indicated by the rise in pyrolytic polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) and a decline in woodland (registered by a change in n-alkane chain lengths from leaf waxes), accelerating a process that began earlier in the Holocene. Human activity and associated landscape changes in the region over the last two millennia were mainly driven by summer temperatures, as indicated by independent tree-ring reconstructions, although there were periods when socioeconomic factors played an equally important role. In this study, fecal sterols in lake sediments have been used to provide a record of human occupancy through time. This approach may be useful in many archeological studies, both to confirm the presence of humans and grazing animals, and to distinguish between anthropogenic and natural factors that have influenced the environment in the past. | <urn:uuid:e84826d4-6cba-4668-b700-14195516dbb8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.scoop.it/t/archaeology-articles/p/3522528312/2012/11/29/climate-impacts-on-human-settlement-and-agricultural-activities-in-northern-norway-revealed-through-sediment-biogeochemistry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00298-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959096 | 331 | 2.90625 | 3 |
One of the most common problems that people encounter when dying hair brown is unwanted tonal qualities. If the wrong colour is selected at the outset, the results could be disastrous. Applying ash or cool colours to blond hair in an effort to dye it brown often results in a greenish cast or undertone to the hair. This is because brown hair possesses near equal parts of all three primary colours: red, yellow and blue. Blond hair has no red pigment whatsoever. If a cool colour with a green or blue base is applied, the result is blue, green or blue-green hair. Fortunately, fixing this type of colour error is easy to do.
- Skill level:
- Moderately Easy
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Things you need
- Hair clips
- Colour bottle
- Red-based colour
- 10 volume (strength) developer
- Warm water
Comb the hair until it is free of tangles. Section the hair into four loose sections by creating two parts, one horizontally and one vertically. The parts should run from ear to ear and from the middle of the forehead to the nape. Clip the sections into place if they do not remain parted on their own.
Pour 59.1ml of colour into the colour bottle. Add 56.7gr of 10 volume developer. Screw the lid tightly on the bottle, cover the open tip of the lid with your finger and shake vigorously until the colour is thoroughly blended. Put on gloves.
Apply the colour mixture along the parts of the hair and around the hairline by placing the tip against the scalp and lightly squeezing. As the colour comes out of the bottle, slowly move the bottle along the line so that a thin line of colour forms. Work the colour into the hair using your fingers.
Apply colour one section at a time starting at the top of each section. Create a 1/2-inch thick horizontal parting by parting the top of the first section. Apply colour to the base of the hair against the scalp using the same method outlined above.
Draw an s-shaped line of colour along the length of the parted hair and work it into the hair until the parted section is thoroughly saturated. Place the parted section up and over the head so that it is out of the way. Continue applying colour using 1/2-inch partings until the entire section is saturated with colour. Move onto the next section, and continue until all of the hair has been covered with the colour.
Set a timer for 20 minutes and process the hair at room temperature for the duration. Rinse with warm water until the water runs clear. Shampoo and condition.
Tips and warnings
- Colour selection is paramount when it comes to correcting greenish hair. Remember, red is the colour that green hair is missing, but choosing an all-red colour could result in a reddish colour instead of the rich, brown colour desired. Instead of choosing a red colour, select a brown colour that has a warm or reddish base. Perfect examples include auburn, chestnut and burgundy.
- If more colour is needed during the application process, mix additional colour according to the same instructions. Four oz of colour should be enough for short and medium hair lengths. Long hair may require 227gr or more.
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- 8. Compress Video for iPad
Only if you have installed iWorks application package on iPad, it will let you to view and edit Microsoft Office files, even to transfer Microsoft Office files from and to Mac or PCs. But you have to purchase each of the applications individually: the Pages app is for Microsoft word; the Numbers app is needed for Microsoft Excel, and the Keynote is for Microsoft PowerPoint. When you have installed all these applications, you can (take Mac as an example):
Part 1: Transfer Microsoft Office Files from your Mac to iPad
- Connect iPad with your Mac and launch iTunes;
- In iTunes interface, go to the Devices tab and click iPad;
- Select Apps tab and find File Sharing;
- Choose the app which you use to open your Microsoft Office file on new iPad （For example, if you want to view or edit Microsoft Word, select “Pages”）. And then click the "Add" button;
- Select the file you would like to import in the dialogue box, and then click Choose. Now you will find the file in the "Documents" box;
- Unplug your new iPad and then you can use the Microsoft Office files via iWorks by selecting My Document/Spreadsheets/Presentations ->the folder -> choose the file just imported.
Part 2: Transfer Microsoft Office Files from iPad to Mac
- Tap on the iWork application and select "My Documents/Spreadsheets/Presentations".
- Find the target Microsoft Office file and choose Share.
- Choose Export and set the corresponding Microsoft Office format to export the file.
- Connect iPad with your Mac and launch iTunes, click iPad in the Devices tab, and then select Apps tab.
- Find File Sharing and select the iWord application then choose the target files. Next, click Save To and set the destination for output files and then click Choose.
Part 3: Transfer Music/Videos/Photos between iPad/Mac/iTunes/Other Phones
iPad is not only a device for people to do work, but also a great player to enjoy movies, videos, music and even view photos. However, you can't transfer videos, music, playlists and photos freely because Apple doesn't allow you to. And you're limited to using only one computer to do the transfer thing via iTunes. Otherwise, all files on your iPad will be erased. If you're facing the problem as well, I recommend you try iSkysoft iTranfer.
iSkysoft iTransfer is an all-in-one file manager tool for iPad, iPhone, iPod and Android phone users. It allows users to transfer files between iOS, Android devices, Mac, Windows PC and iTunes Library, supported files including music, playlists, videos, Podcasts, audiobooks, and photos. iSkysoft iTransfer Windows version even let you backup SMS and photos from devices to PC. Here are its main features.
- Transfer videos, photos, music and playlists between 2 devices, supporting both Android and iOS devices.
- 1 Click to backup photos from iPhone, iPad and Android devices to Mac and PC.
- 1 Click to rebuild iTunes library with media files on iPhone, iPad, and Android devices.
- Transfer media files from iTunes Library to Android phones without a hitch.
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Nine Stories begins and ends with death (or at least the suggestion of death). While “A Perfect Day for Bananafish” and “Teddy” are the most clearly morbid of the book’s entries, death pops up again and again in various guises throughout. Eloise’s true love, Walt, was killed in World War II, in “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut.” The Laughing Man dies, as do his adversaries and his best friend, Black Wing. Esme’s father has died, as has the narrator’s mother in “De Daumier-Smith’s Blue Period.” Death creeps around the edges of the stories, rarely taking central stage but appearing frequently enough that it casts a pall over the proceedings. As in Teddy’s references to cicadas and Seymour’s story of the bananafish, Salinger seems to be commenting on the fragility of all life.
Nine Stories can be interpreted as a collective burst of reaction to World War II, in which Salinger fought. Though the stories were written in different years and only later compiled, they each address life after the war in some way. In certain cases, Salinger fixes his gaze on concrete effects of the war, such as post-traumatic stress disorder in “Bananafish” and perhaps “For Esme,” and the death of loved ones in “Uncle Wiggily.” In other cases, Salinger seeks to offer a vision of a post-bellum America, in which the “war” is still a frequent reference-point and topic of conversation, in which every character knows someone who fought or served, in which allusions to the war encroach on even the most seemingly frivolous and innocent discussions – as in “Just Before the War With the Eskimos.” The title of that story underlines Salinger’s approach – namely, to talk about the war not by facing it head-on, but by refracting it through jokes and passing asides, through human foibles and spikes of affection.
Genius and Madness
Salinger’s oeuvre is filled with “geniuses.” The Glass family is chock-full of them. In [Nine Stories], Salinger peers into the dark side of genius, exploring the fuzzy boundaries between madness and wisdom. Seymour and Teddy begin and end the book on similar notes; these are young men (the first a war veteran, the second a ten year-old boy) who see the world differently than their peers, who focus their attention on small details – orange peels, a woman seemingly looking at Seymour’s feet – and appear to reflect a larger-scale vision of humanity. Of course, one could be forgiven for interpreting both characters as lunatics: Seymour concocts a wild story about imaginary creatures, mistakes the color of Sybil’s bathing suit, and screams at a woman in an elevator, while Teddy rambles about reincarnation, meditation, and rails against logic. That, Salinger seems to argue, is the point. It’s a fine line that separates the kind of vision or mind-frame one could identify as genius from the kind of madness that can lead to an impromptu suicide.
In “The Laughing Man” and “For Esme – with Love and Squalor,” Salinger toys with storytelling form, offering a meta-commentary within the tales on his own actions as a writer. “For Esme” shifts from a sort of introductory abstract to a traditional narrative to a separate narrative that seems to answer a strand within the earlier narrative, then closing with a direct address to Esme – which in turn echoes the story’s title. “The Laughing Man” uses a story-within-the-story device to serve as counterpoint to the main action: the Chief’s fantastical tales assume the emotionality hidden between the lines of the narrator’s own account of Mary Hudson. In both of these cases, as in Salinger’s more conventionally told stories, the limits of narrative perspective and awareness create tension. Salinger is an ironist, and he uses discrepancies in narrative voice and gaps in imparted information to imbue his tales with bittersweet, bemused affection.
In “Uncle Wiggily in Connecticut,” a memory brings about sadness; in “For Esme,” a memory brings about joy. In the case of the former, Eloise yells at her daughter for her sleeping position after dipping into the past, then addresses her sleeping friend Mary Jane; her world is asleep, but not she. In the case of the latter, the narrator is finally able to sleep after retreating from the harsh present to the warmer past – a time in which he had all his “faculties” intact – so that memory is associated with a soporific, albeit in the most positive way. Several entries in [Nine Stories] explicitly take the form of recollections, and the idea of memory guides and shapes the storytelling. Interestingly, when the narrator of “The Laughing Man” wades back into his past, he brings with him none of his present-day knowledge or understanding; the memory blots out the present, so that all that remains is the past – which is to say, a child’s vision of the world.
Love in Nine Stories is often depicted in oblique and indirect ways, as in “The Laughing Man,” in which the Chief’s love for Mary Hudson is viewed from a distance. One is tempted to use the word “love” to describe certain relationships or emotions in the book that have nothing to do with romance or eroticism. What Esme and the narrator of “For Esme” share could be justifiably called love, as could the feelings of the nineteen year-old art instructor for Sister Irma. In neither case are we speaking of corporal love, but rather of a kind of human connection, fascination, and affection that transcends the ordinary boundaries.
Nine Stories is filled with young people, as are most of Salinger’s works. Children, in particular, figure large: Sybil in “Bananafish,” Ramona in “Uncle Wiggily,” Ginnie and Selena in “Just Before the War with the Eskimos,” the narrator of “The Laughing Man,” Lionel in “Down at the Dinghy,” and of course Esme and Teddy (not to mention their respective siblings, Charles and Booper). Salinger suggests that children can be simultaneously wise and foolish; he wavers from a Wordsworth-like view of the sagacious child (think Teddy) to a more ironic and comical depiction of the uncomprehending youth (think the protagonist of “The Laughing Man”). Just as wisdom and madness can coexist within the same mind, so can wisdom and foolishness or lack of understanding – or, should I say, childishness.
Nine Stories Questions and Answers
The Question and Answer section for Nine Stories is a great
resource to ask questions, find answers, and discuss the novel.
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Black Abolitionist Archive
Title: William Wells Brown
Speaker or author: Brown, William Wells, 1814?-1884
Newspaper or publication: Plymouth and Devonport Weekly Journal
Speech denouncing the Fugitive Slave Law, and describing the history of slavery as a history of legalized abuse and injustice.
Description of file(s): PDF 6 page, 1,989 word document (text and images)
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Definition of the noun Actenodes lebasi
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Actenodes lebasi is a species of Actenodes, described by Gory & Laporte in 1837.
- synonym: species Actenodes lebasi
- kingdom: Animalia
- phylum: Arthropoda
- class: Insecta
- order: Coleoptera
- family: Buprestidae
- genus: Actenodes
- species: Actenodes calcaratus
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NOTE file extension - Notessimo song file
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The NOTE file extension is associated with the Notessimo a music editing and music composition on-line service. The .note file stores song created in the Notessimo, that can be saved locally on the computer.
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Earlier today, Jan. 11, the United States Mint released its newest product for coin collectors, the 2016 America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Set for $14.95.
This product is the first opportunity to get all five 2016-dated quarters featuring unique artwork that commemorate the following national sites:
- Shawnee National Forest in Illinois
- Cumberland Gap National Historical Park in Kentucky
- Harpers Ferry National Historical Park in West Virginia
- Theodore Roosevelt National Park in North Dakota
- Fort Moultrie (Fort Sumter National Monument) in South Carolina
Emblematic designs of these sites appear on the respective quarter’s reverses (tails side) while the familiar portrait of George Washington appear on the other sides.
Proof Coin Finish
Quarters of the set are in proof finish, the highest Mint quality. They feature frosty designs, mirror-like backgrounds, and they are struck more than once in coining presses so they show more detail.
Produced at the U.S. Mint in San Francisco and carrying their "S" mint mark, they’re simply more attractive than regular circulating coins minted in Denver and Philadelphia.
The coins are placed in a protective lens, as seen above, to preserve their quality. This lens is then packaged in an illustrated box along with a certificate of authenticity.
Order 2016 America the Beautiful Quarters Proof Sets via this U.S. Mint’s product page or call the toll-free number at 1-800-USA-MINT (872-6468).
Update: The U.S. Mint suspended sales of the set due to a printing error on the packaging (incorrect image of the Cumberland Gap National Historical Park). Sales are expected to resume in the April timeframe.
Update 2: The set was relaunched with updated packaging on Feb. 23.
There are no mintage limits, product limits, or household order limits. Production will be determined based on demand. If figures for recent sets are an indication, at least 100,000 will sell.
Photos of 2016 Proof Quarters
CoinNews visited the San Francisco Mint to watch 2016-dated proof coins produced and packaged. We will talk more about their new packaging system in an upcoming article. Earlier, we ran image-centric articles on this year’s quarters and included names of the different artists and U.S. Mint sculptors that had a major role in creating them. For those articles, see:
- Photos of 2016 Shawnee quarters
- Photos of 2016 Cumberland Gap quarters
- Photos of 2016 Harpers Ferry quarters
- Photos of 2016 Theodore Roosevelt National Park quarters
- Photos of the 2016 Fort Moultrie Quarters
Next Two Quarter Products
One more America the Beautiful Quarter product will debut this month. A 90% silver version of this set launches on Jan. 25 for $31.95.
A few of days later, on Feb. 1, the United States Mint will release circulating-quality Shawnee National Forest quarters in rolls and bags at prices ranging from $18.95 to $46.95. The second through fifth quarters enter circulation in April, June, August and November. | <urn:uuid:6f4b667a-b7fa-47c8-bbdf-b6092056cbf9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.coinnews.net/2016/01/11/2016-america-the-beautiful-quarters-released-in-proof-set/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00344-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.902555 | 650 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Today is Thursday, June 12, the 163rd day of 2014. There are 202 days left in the year.
On this date in:
1776: Virginia’s colonial Legislature becomes the first to adopt a Bill of Rights.
1898: Philippine nationalists declare independence from Spain.
1920: The Republican National Convention, meeting in Chicago, nominates Warren G. Harding for president on the 10th ballot; Calvin Coolidge is nominated for vice president.
1924: President Calvin Coolidge is nominated for a term of office in his own right at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland. (Coolidge had become president in 1923 upon the sudden death of Warren G. Harding.)
1942: Anne Frank, a German-born Jewish girl living in Amsterdam, receives a diary for her 13th birthday, less than a month before she and her family go into hiding from the Nazis.
1956: The Flag of the United States Army is officially adopted under an executive order signed by President Dwight D. Eisenhower.
1989: Youngstown’s income-tax collection has slowed, and the city is losing thousands of dollars in interest income annually because of an understaffed collection department.
The sale of GF Corp.’s office furniture business to Westinghouse Electric Corp.’s furniture division could create a more competitive company, but makes the Youngstown plant “vulnerable” to closing, says an industry analyst.
Three members of the Mahoning Valley Soccer Club — Michael Griffith and Michael Martin of Boardman and Timothy Houle of Howland — are selected to play on the Ohio-North State Select team. Also named to the team is Jason Keller of Boardman, who plays for the East-West Soccer Club, and Chris Tartler of Boardman, who plays for the Sons of Italy.
1974: The Akron regional office of the Urban League announces a nonpartisan voter education and registration drive directed at Youngstown’s South Side.
Michael D. Braydich, a graduate of Woodrow Wilson High School, and Donald R. Stiffler, a graduate of Salem High School, are commissioned second lieutenants in the Air Force and awarded bachelor degrees during commencement at the Air Force Academy in Colorado Springs, Colo.
Dr. Phil Davidson, former Rayen School athlete, is one of 42 men to serve as game officials for the new World Football League.
1964: Paul Amendolara, 9, is killed while riding his bicycle on the sidewalk on Albert Street and four girls between the ages of 10 and 14 are seriously injured from a car jumping the curb. Police move in quickly to take the driver, who had been drinking, away after an angry crowd surrounded the vehicle.
John Holibonic, 8, of Campbell is killed when his bicycle collided with a car at 13th Street and Penhale Avenue.
The Wick Mansion on Logan Avenue, for 50 years a symbol of opulence of another age, is being razed to make room for home sites in the Wildfern Drive area.
1939: Dr. Stephen Cholar, 49, of Lisbon drowns when a speedboat carrying him and four other men overturned in Lake Milton. Nine-year-old Donald Booth is credited with saving the other four men when he sped to the scene in his motorboat.
Nearly 900 students of Youngstown parochial schools — Ursuline and Villa Maria high schools and St. Elizabeth School of Nursing — are graduated during a Cleveland diocesan commencement ceremony attended by 65,000 people at Cleveland Stadium.
U.S. Rep. Michael Kirwan introduces legislation to allow Erich Hecht, internationally known steel man of the Netherlands, to remain in the United States so that he can develop his process for reclamation and utilization of slag and other steel mill refuse. | <urn:uuid:0274d68d-f33f-45b1-a1b8-2e1b0bb4de42> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.vindy.com/news/2014/jun/12/today-is-thursday-june--the-rd-day-of--t/?newswatch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282926.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00399-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950782 | 782 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Billions of dollars and many more words have been spent discussing who will lead the U.S. for the next four years. But we’re invested in something more important: how we’re going to prepare our next generation of leaders.
Will we do it by making industrial schools better and more efficient? Or will we do it by recognizing the humanity and passions in each of us?
Will we do it through technology? Or building? Or community? Or tinkering?
Will we make it more fair for all students?
In 2024, today’s Kindergartners will be seniors in High School. That’s 3 election cycles from now. A lot can happen in a decade or so; just ask Google.
How we structure the future is up to us, not those we elect. Elect to be bold this decade.
Share your thoughts about what the next 12 years will look like amongst your friends, whether those be online or in your immediate area.
How will students learn?
Most importantly, WHY WILL STUDENTS LEARN?
If you choose to participate, add the #disrupty2024 hashtag to your tweet or link to your blog post.
We’ll share some of our student’s thoughts from St. Louis, feel free to post a few of your student’s ideas as well.
We look forward to speaking with you.
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What Would The Stupak Amendment Do?
The Stupak amendment is contained in the health care overhaul bill passed by the House on Saturday. The amendment restricts federal funding for abortion services, even in private health insurance plans.
Anti-abortion groups say the amendment only codifies current law, which already bans federal funding for abortion.
Abortion rights advocates argued that the Stupak amendment expands the ban well beyond the existing law.
Read a primer about the Stupak amendment and how it would affect abortion services and funding.
Democrats have been showing a fresh determination to make Republicans' near-unanimous opposition to a national health care overhaul — and its implications for women — the GOP's Achilles heel during next year's midterm elections.
Democrats have produced a hit list of 32 House Republicans from districts that voted for President Obama last year. And they're touting a video of Republican men repeatedly interrupting Democratic women during Saturday's House floor debate on health care.
But that tactic just got a lot more complicated.
There is growing outrage among the Democrats' own activist base over new and far-reaching abortion restrictions contained in the historic health care bill approved Saturday by the Democratic-controlled House.
And some of the party's staunchest supporters are suggesting that Democrats will have their own problems with health care — and women voters — come 2010 because of the proposed abortion limits and the Catholic Church's pivotal role in ensuring that restrictions would make it into the bill.
"This has already hurt the Democrats," says Terry O'Neill, president of the National Organization for Women, which has now turned its attention to the Senate, where members are considering their own health care legislation.
When and if the Senate passes a health care bill, it will be melded with the House version and sent back to both chambers for a vote. Few are predicting that the abortion limits will survive.
But the party still has to engage in some immediate damage control.
"It really breaks my heart when your supposed friends pass a health care bill for 49 percent of the population, and a partial health bill for the other 51 percent of the population," said O'Neill. "We're furious at the Democrats, and dismayed about what's going on."
In an interview Monday with ABC, President Obama acknowledged the growing backlash among the Democrats' liberal base, saying "there are strong feelings on both sides" of the abortion amendment issue. "And what that tells me," the president said, "is that there needs to be some more work before we get to the point where we're not changing the status quo."
"I laid out a very simple principle, which is this is a health care bill, not an abortion bill," he said.
"And we're not looking to change what is the principle that has been in place for a very long time, which is federal dollars are not used to subsidize abortions."
Will Language Survive?
The so-called Stupak amendment included in the House bill would prevent women eligible for government tax credits for health insurance from using that money to enroll in any plan that covers abortion. Of 258 House Democrats, 64 voted for the amendment, along with 176 Republicans, guaranteeing its passage.
The U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops actively lobbied for the amendment, offered by Democrat Bart Stupak of Michigan and Republican Joe Pitts of Pennsylvania. The Catholic Church, though opposed to abortion funding, has long advocated for universal health care as a fundamental human right and essential to the common good. Stupak was among 19 Democrats who in midsummer vowed to oppose any health overhaul plan that didn't specifically prevent taxpayer money from being used for abortions.
The Senate is far less likely to impose such restrictions. And though both pro-choice and anti-abortion activists say they don't expect the abortion language to be in a final bill hammered out between House and Senate leaders, the Catholic Church isn't going away. Its leaders have pronounced unacceptable two bills now under consideration in the Senate.
Barry Lynn, who heads Americans United for Separation of Church and State, said he's been "horrified" by the church's influence on the sweeping health care bill.
"What we saw over the weekend was an act of unparalleled arrogance on the part of church officials," he said. "Basically, they were claiming they would kill health care for the sick and the poor if the Democrats didn't give them the votes to impose religious doctrine into law."
"It's scandalous that this religious group has such extraordinary control over the fate of women's lives in this country," Lynn said.
Backlash Among Liberal Lawmakers
By late Monday, Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette of Colorado had collected more than 40 signatures from fellow members who vowed they would not vote for a combined House-Senate health care bill if it contains language "that restricts women's right to choose any further than current law."
And Florida Rep. Debbie Wasserman-Schultz, in a Monday interview with MSNBC, said that she is confident the abortion language will be stripped.
"We're all going to be working very hard — particularly the pro-choice members — to make sure that's the case," she said.
And there's no question that they'll have some vigorous prodding from their base.
"We were outraged that these people — all these people who voted for the Stupak amendment — were willing to just ignore the needs of women," said Judy Waxman of the National Women's Law Center.
Ted Miller, communications director for NARAL Pro-Choice America, echoed the sentiment. "We will hold those lawmakers who voted for this measure accountable for abandoning women and capitulating to extreme factions of the anti-choice movement," he said.
"Our focus now is defeating any attempt to add the Stupak abortion ban to the Senate bill," he said.
Waxman characterized the health care debate as a "perfect storm" for the Catholic Church because of the narrow margin of passage for the overall bill.
"We are hopeful we will not have this amendment," Waxman said. "In fact, we will make sure this amendment is not in the Senate version."
The Democratic strategists who are cooking up ways to get out the vote next year may be trying to make sure of the same — so that health care ends up being a negative next year not for them, but for their erstwhile opponents. | <urn:uuid:02ca2195-5393-4a5d-8eaa-9669982c341c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=120254656 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282935.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00245-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972071 | 1,310 | 1.820313 | 2 |
In a message to priests of the Schoenstatt Movement, Pope Francis said that priests “must never be above or in front of others, but instead must walk alongside them, loving them with the same love of Christ.”
The Schoenstatt Movement was founded in 1914 by Father Jose Kentenich, and dedicated to spiritual renewal. The movement draws its name from the Marian shrine in Koblenz, Germany, where its headquartered are now located.
In his September 3 message to participants in a general chapter of the movement, the Pope cited with approval the inside of the founder, Father Kentenich, that “it was necessary to keep an ear to God’s heart and a hand on the pulse of the time… These are the two pillars of an authentic spiritual life.”
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- Explore the terms environmental racism and environmental justice.
- Use print sources and fellow students' knowledge to collect information about environmental racism.
- Use the newsgathering questions Who?, What?, Where?, When?, Why? and How? to record notes.
- Make inferences and draw conclusions about environmental racism.
- Create a mock newscast to share their findings with others.
- Copies of University of Michigan case studies on environmental racism:
o "Emelle, Alabama: Home of the World's Largest Hazardous Waste Landfill"
o "Maquiladora Workers and Border Issues"
o "The Dearborn, Michigan Arab American Community and Industrial Air Pollution"
o "The Yucca Mountain High-Level Nuclear Waste Depository and the Shoshone"
Environmental racism refers to the fact that communities of color are more likely to bear the brunt of environmental degradation than white communities. Environmental justice seeks to provide fair treatment to all people, regardless of race, culture, gender or income.
By creating a mock news broadcast to cover an instance of environmental racism, your students will build understanding of the news values that shape media coverage, while exploring the concept of environmental justice.
Tell students that today we are going to learn about some of the basic values and techniques that drive and shape the news coverage they see on television and the Internet.
Ask if any of your students know the "Five W's" of news reporting. Explain to them that every news story strives to answer the basic questions of Who?, What?, Where?, When?, Why? and How? Ask students to make notes as you discuss these elements: students will soon be asked to create their own news stories.
Ask students if they know what makes a story newsworthy. They may identify key elements of newsworthiness such as timeliness, proximity, human interest, impact and so on. Fill in any elements the students do not mention, and remind students to make notes as you discuss.
Tell your students they are going to create a mock news broadcast on environmental racism. Explain the concepts of environmental racism and environmental justice. Invite students to list examples from community, state, and global incidents. For example, the cleanup of Hurricane Katrina, toxic waste sites near poor and minority communities, asbestos or peeling lead paint in poor schools, the shipping of hazardous materials from developed nations to developing ones, etc. Encourage students to share their opinions and feelings.
Divide students into teams of four and give each group a copy of all four case studies from the University of Michigan. Tell students they are producers and reporters in a television newsroom, looking for stories to cover on the evening news. Each student in the group should read one of the case studies, and then students should come together to discuss the case studies they read. Students will select one case study as the subject of their news report – or, if they have personal knowledge of another instance of environmental racism, they can report on that topic instead. (For instance, a student who lives near an industrial site or waste dump may want to tell her own story.)
Tell students to script and create a mock television news report on their example of environmental racism. One person should be assigned to play the reporter, and the other three should play "sources" – fictitious people who provide additional insight on the problem. Remind students to keep the "Five W's" and the elements of newsworthiness in mind while writing their scripts.
Each group will perform its news story for the entire class.
If you have access to a computer lab, students can do their own research
to find cases of environmental racism. Encourage them to look for
instances in their own city or state, so they can draw on their
background knowledge of the area. If you have access to digital video
recorders, your students can create videos in which student presenters
report on an environmental problem – with suggestions for possible
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MIDDLESBROUGH FC and MFC Foundation are helping fans to tackle their weight, get healthier and be happier by joining FIT FANS, a free 12 week programme at the Riverside Stadium.
Launched in January 2020 at 30 Clubs in England, the EFL Trust’s FIT FANS programme is supported by over £2.25 million of National Lottery funding from Sport England and aims to use the magnetism of football to tackle obesity levels in over 10,000 fans across the UK.
36.4 million people (61.4% of England’s population) live within 10 miles of an EFL ground, with four in 10 residents within this catchment area falling into the most-deprived population groups.
Sport England has identified lower physical activity participation rates among people living on low incomes and that is why they have joined forces with the EFL Trust network to help people create a long-term healthy and active lifestyle. FIT FANS is one of a number of initiatives to tackle lower physical activity participation rates among people living on low incomes, which is one of Sport England’s key priorities.
FIT FANS is the operating name in England and Wales for Football Fans in Training, which was created in a Scotland by the University of Glasgow and the Scottish Professional Football League Trust.
The programme shows individuals how to:
- Improve their eating habits by reducing portion sizes and swapping fatty and sugary foods for fruit, vegetables and high fibre foods
- Achieve at least 45 minutes of moderate intensity physical activity on most days of the week. They receive weekly exercise sessions at their club for 12 weeks, and follow a personal pedometer based walking programme that encourages them to fit physical activity into their daily lives
- Use tried-and-tested behaviour change techniques to become more active and improve their diet. These include regular self-monitoring of their weight and pedometer step counts and setting SMART goals to make changes that can be sustained long term.
The 12 week programme gives fans unprecedented access to their Club and a look behind the scenes.
Helena Bowman, Head of MFC Foundation
We are delighted to be a part of the FIT FANS programme. MFC Foundation uses the power of the football club badge to inspire confidence and inspire hope in the people of Teesside and FIT BORO encapsulates these aims. After delivering the programme for four years, FIT BORO has been proven to support weight loss and increase physical activity less and sustain them.”
Mike Evans, Director of Operations, EFL Trust
FIT FANS is an example of our potential to make a really significant contribution to the health of our communities. We are excited by the prospect of rolling the programme our across out network and reaching many thousands of men and women.”
Patrick Brosnan, Sport England’s Football Lead
We are delighted to see the success FIT FANS has had in its pilot phase at 5 EFL clubs in England and hope that the National Lottery funding to EFL Trust will go a long way in harnessing football fans’ love for the game to support more people to lead healthy and active lives.”
Nicky Reid, Chief Executive, SPFL Trust
We are delighted to have reached agreement with the EFL Trust to bring Football Fans in Training to clubs right across the EFL. The programme – which was developed in Scotland – has been life changing for thousands of men and women, in both the short and long-term. I am sure that thousands of football fans are going to love being part of the programme, and are going to reap enormous rewards by being healthier and happier.”
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AUSTIN (AP) – The Texas unemployment rate is up for the second consecutive month to 7.2 percent despite job growth.
The Texas Workforce Commission on Friday reported that the state added 17,800 nonfarm jobs in July. But that wasn’t enough to keep up with rising population, causing the jobless rate to tick up from 7 percent in June.
The reversal comes after Texas saw eight consecutive months of falling unemployment through April.
Education and health services accounted for seven out of every 10 new jobs in Texas last month. The leisure and hospitality sector took the biggest hit, shedding 6,500 jobs.
The national unemployment rate is at 8.3 percent.
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Transcript for Powerball Fever
Just hours from now, the giant power ball drawing. Perhaps later this evening, an american family with no budget problem at all. Tonight, man who has won the lottery seven times, is the quick pick really a bad option? Here's rob nelson. Reporter: Most of us have battled our inner procrastinator at one time or another. Tonight, time is running out. And $320 million is on the line. I need a lot of reminders. Then I feel like the pressure of the deadline. I need to get the ticket. Reporter: Lottery officials say 60% of the power ball tickets are bought on the last day. 2 and a dream. Reporter: But seven-time lottery winner, richard lustig, who wrote a book on winning the lottery says, waiting until the last minute won't give you an edge. Thinking that waiting to the last minute to buy your tickets will increase the chances of winning is absolute foolishness. Reporter: He doesn't believe in quick picks either. He says, you're better off picking your own numbers. Every time you get a quick pick, your odds are always going to be at their worst. Reporter: Either way, let's face it. The numbers remain stacked against you in a big way your odds still stand at 1 in 175 MILLION, AS MILLIONS OF çs Dream of striking it rich. If you need even more sobering numbers as you clutch your ticket tonight, consider this. You're more likely to become president, or date a supermodel. On a day like today, it's hard not to get caught up in the power ball frenzy. So excuse me for a minute. I gotta get my tickets. There you go, sir. David, if you don't see me tomorrow this is why. Duly noted rob, thanks.
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The Matter of Britain
The term "Matter of Britain" is a play-on-words on the term "Matter of France," which
was the story of Charlemagne, mainly the Song of Roland. This term was in widespread use at the time when the French
romances about Arthur were being written. Since the Charlemagne stories were about the beginnings of France, and the
Arthurian stories were about the beginnings of England, the analogy was an obvious one at the time. Eleanor of Aquitaine
made both terms popular because she used the stories to strengthen the positions of each of her husbands by stressing their
respective illustrious "ancestors." Arthur and his court have grown beyond just being a matter of Britain. His
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Mantle of Power
Elijah's no-death contract suddenly went into effect. Elijah, prophet of power—gone. Elisha, prophet of double power—here, ready, and about to be used greatly by his God.
When a man or woman of God dies, nothing of God dies. We tend to forget that. We get so caught up in the lives of certain individuals that we begin to think we cannot do without them. What limited thinking! When even a mighty servant is gone, God has seven thousand who have never bowed the knee to Baal. He has them ready, waiting in the wings. Classic case in point: Elisha. God always has a back-up plan.
Think about it. Through the ages He has had His men and women in every era to carry on His work. Never once has God been frustrated, wondering, What will My people do now that he's gone? Now that she's no longer with them? Our Creator-God is omnipotent. He is never caught shorthanded.
Elisha may have been momentarily surprised and stunned, but that didn't last long. Remembering Elijah's words, he reached down and picked up the prophet's cloak. Claiming the power that now was his, he crossed back over the Jordan and began his own prophetic ministry. God's plan never missed a beat. Exit Elijah. Enter Elisha.
We can't help but wonder if, in the years to come, Elisha didn't stop and study that old mantle, calling to mind those great days of the past when his mentor and friend stood alone, representing God's presence and proclaiming God's message. The memory of the older Elijah—a man of heroism and humility—served to strengthen the younger Elisha, whom God destined to serve in even greater ways.
There are times, to this day, when I call to mind my granddaddy, L. O. Lundy. His wise words of counsel still linger. His life of quiet, deep character sometimes seems so close to me I can almost feel his warm breath on the back of my neck. Yes, to this day I miss him, but the mantle of his memory spurs me on to greater heights and deeper devotion.
The good news is this: I will one day see him. And we, together, will worship the same Lord face to face, " . . . and thus we shall always be with the Lord."
Whose mantle have you received? And what will you do with its inherited influence?
Through the ages God has had His men and women in every era to carry on His work.— Charles R. Swindoll Tweet This
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PSYC 337 Diagnosis of "Abnormal" Child and Adolescent Behavior (1)
When diagnosing psychological disorders, clinicians rely on the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM). In this class, we will examine the scientific evidence regarding the reliability and validity of the DSM for diagnosing psychological disorders, particularly in children and adolescents. We will begin by considering the concepts of “abnormality” and mental illness as defined in the DSM and then examine child and adolescent disorders found in the DSM with regard to symptom presentation and etiology. Finally, we will evaluate the evidence regarding the reliability and validity of the DSM child and adolescent disorders we review.
- Prerequisite: PSYC 210
- Offering: Fall
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According to Emergen Research, the global face mask market size was USD 76.72 billion in 2020 and is expected to reach a significantly smaller size of USD 58.17 billion in 2028 and register a decreasing CAGR of 5.2% during the forecast period, 2021-2028. Rising air pollution across the globe, increasing incidence of infectious diseases, and implementation of government mandates to wear face masks during the COVID-19 pandemic are some key factors expected to drive global Face Mask market growth.
A face mask is a protective covering worn to cover the face and prevent individuals from breathing bad air or from inhaling and spreading germs. These masks are widely used in the healthcare and medical sector to protect healthcare professionals from acquiring hospital infections. There has been a significant increase in the demand for reusable and disposable face masks due to the rapidly spreading COVID-19 infection.
Factors such as rising incidence of acute respiratory infections, chronic lung cancer, and chronic pulmonary diseases due to deteriorating air levels, high demand for surgical masks and respirators in health centers, and increasing usage of social media platforms to promote the use of masks during coronavirus outbreak, and growing elderly population are expected to drive global market revenue growth during the forecast period.
In addition, the rising number of surgical procedures owing to the high prevalence of road accidents, and sports injuries, increasing sales of face masks through online platforms, and growing awareness about the importance of face masks among the public are other factors expected to fuel the market growth during the forecast period. However, increasing environmental concerns due to improper masks disposable and plastic pollution caused due to the plastic used in disposable face masks, and rising skin issues and allergies by the constant use of masks, especially during the coronavirus outbreak are some key factors that can limit the adoption of certain types of face masks and hamper market revenue growth to a certain extent going ahead.
COVID-19 Impact Analysis
- Social distancing and restrictions severely disrupted businesses and operations
- Lockdowns caused disruptions in transportation and logistics
- Impacted manufacturing activities and mining operations globally
- took a toll on the economy of various countries revenue-contributingCaused sudden and drastic downturn in economic activity
- Disrupted agriculture, fisheries, dairy, and other sectors
- Caused loss of employment and financial crisis
- Supply impacts were further compounded owing to reduced disposable income
- Emergence of variants continues to cause concerns and impact normal routines
Reusable Segment To Register Rapid Revenue Growth:
The reusable segment is expected to register rapid revenue growth between 2021 and 2028. Revenue growth can be attributed to increasing awareness about the harmful effects of dust, pollution, and smoke, high demand for reusable face masks due to the shortage of disposable face masks during the COVID-19 outbreak, and availability of a broad array of reusable face masks on online platforms at affordable rates. There has been a steady inclination toward reusable masks as people are becoming aware of the increasing environmental concerns caused due to disposable mask material.
Hospitals and Clinics Segment to Account for Largest Revenue Share:
The hospitals and clinics segment is expected to account for the largest revenue share during the forecast period. Factors such as increasing number of hospital admissions, rapidly spreading coronavirus, rising incidence of infectious and lifestyle-associated diseases, high risk of inhalation of infectious germs in hospitals and clinics, and rising number of surgeries are expected to drive revenue growth of the segment over the forecast period.
Asia Pacific To Register In Robust Revenue CAGR:
Asia Pacific is expected to register robust revenue CAGR over the forecast period attributable to the rapidly increasing regional population, rising prevalence of infectious respiratory diseases, high usage of surgical face masks in hospitals and clinics, and growing demand for disposable face masks amidst the COVID-19 pandemic. Other factors such as deteriorating air quality levels, growing geriatric population, and rising disposable income are expected to fuel Asia Pacific market growth during the forecast period. China, India, and Japan are some major revenue-contributing countries in this region.
Major Companies in the Market Include:
- Alpha Pro Tech Ltd.
- Cardinal Health Inc.
- The 3M Company
- Ambu A/S
- Cantel Medical Corporation
- Medline Industries Inc.
- Honeywell International Inc.
- Owens & Minor Inc.
- Uvex Group
For this report, Emergen Research has segmented the global face mask market based on product type, material type, usability, end use, and region:
Product Type Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2018–2028)
- Surgical Masks
Material Type Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2018–2028)
Usability Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2018–2028)
End Use Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2018–2028)
- Hospitals & Clinics
- Ambulatory Surgical Centers
- Research Institutes
Regional Outlook (Revenue, USD Billion; 2018–2028)
- North America
- the U.S.
- the U.K.
- Rest of Europe
- the Asia Pacific
- South Korea
- Rest of APAC
- Latin America
- Rest of LATAM
- Middle East & Africa
- Saudi Arabia
- South Africa
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The 2013-2014 agricultural farming season has set in but some Zimbabwean farmers say their hopes of a bumber harvest have already been dampened by the shortage of fertilizer and the high cost of inputs.
The country is struggling to feed millions of people in drought prone regions and other areas that were once regarded as the nation’s bread basket.
Zimbabwe has been struggling over the past few years to fully prepare for the agricultural season and the 2013-2014 farming season is no exception.
The rains have started falling in some parts of the country but some small-scale and communal farmers say they are failing to access inputs under the $160 million state-sponsored agricultural scheme.
Last year, farming inputs such as maize seed and fertilizer that were distributed under the financially-troubled Grain Marketing Board (GMB) run by the government, were allegedly looted by some politicians said to be linked to President Robert Mugabe’s Zanu-PF party.
Farmers say the situation is also chaotic this year as compound d fertilizer, used in the early stages of planting, is not readily available. Mashonaland West farmer, Peter Muza, says compound d fertilizer cannot be found in most shops while maize seed is too expensive.
According to Muza, some state agricultural agencies have informed farmers that the government is struggling to import compound d fertilizer from china.
Some farmers in mashonaland central’s Mazowe district, Marange in Manicaland, and some parts of Matabeleland also say they cannot access compound d fertilizer.
One of them, Chisidzo Mutungwarungwa of Marange, says only top dressing fertilizer, ammonium nitrate, is available in most retail outlets but farmers will struggle to raise money to buy it due to the scarce American dollar.
Jack Murehwa, chief executive officer of Sable Chemicals – major producers of ammoninum nitrate – says farmers with cash can buy it from various suppliers.
Murehwa says Zimbabwean farmers need a lot of the top-dressing fertilizer per agricultural season.
But farmer Muza says this product is also not readily available in retail outlets.
Critics like Everson Ndlovu, an agriculturalist and development expert, say Zimbabwe should fully prepare for the farming season to curb widespread hunger in most rural areas.
Government officials claim that the country’s farming input scheme is going on well contrary to reports that it is in disarray.
Zimbabwe needs 1,2 million metric tonnes of the staple food, maize, per year and at least 500,000 tonnes in strategic reserves to avert hunger.
The country’s silos are currently empty, a situation that has forced Zimbabwe to import maize from neighbouring Zambia.
The world food programme estimates that at least 2 million people will need food aid at the peak of the hunger season next year.
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Johann Sebastian Bach
Bach in a 1748 portrait by HaussmannJohann Sebastian Bach (31 March 1685 – 28 July 1750) was a German composer, organist, harpsichordist, violist, and violinist whose sacred and secular works for choir, orchestra, and solo instruments drew together the strands of the Baroque period and brought it to its ultimate maturity. Although he did not introduce new forms, he enriched the prevailing German style with a robust contrapuntal technique, an unrivalled control of harmonic and motivic organisation, and the adaptation of rhythms, forms and textures from abroad, particularly from Italy and France.
Revered for their intellectual depth, technical command and artistic beauty, Bach's works include the Brandenburg concertos, the Goldberg Variations, the Partitas, The Well-Tempered Clavier, the Mass in B minor, the St Matthew Passion, the St John Passion, the Magnificat, The Musical Offering, The Art of Fugue, the English and French Suites, the Sonatas and Partitas for solo violin, the Cello Suites, more than 200 surviving cantatas, and a similar number of organ works, including the famous Toccata and Fugue in D minor and Passacaglia and Fugue in C minor, as well as the Great Eighteen Chorale Preludes and Organ Mass.
Bach's abilities as an organist were highly respected throughout Europe during his lifetime, although he was not widely recognised as a great composer until a revival of interest and performances of his music in the first half of the 19th century. He is now generally regarded as one of the main composers of the Baroque style, and as one of the greatest composers of all time.
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Off-highway motorcycles are categorized by a number of off-road sports, the most notable being the following.
- Motocross: These motorcycles are designed for racing over jumps and are not legal for the street.
- Enduro: These long-distance competition motorcycles meet minimum standards to be “street legal,” as well as Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) standards.
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- Lights and turn signals are approved for highway use.
- Tires are approved by the Department of Transportation (DOT).
- Spark arrestors are approved by the U.S. Forest Service (USFS).
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Interior designing has been a way of shaping the interior experience in homes, offices and any indoor premise. It integrates special manipulation of surface treatment and spatial volume. Interior designing is largely different from interior decoration and draws on the various aspects of architecture, product design and environmental psychology. Interior designing takes the whole house as a totality. In simpler words, it visualizes homes as a series of interconnected spaces that require a common theme running throughout. Interior designing can thus be thought of as a complete story line where construction, colors, furnishing, etc come together to wrap the story. So, what makes a perfect interior designing project?
A Knack for Design Backed by Education
Anyone who loves playing with colors cannot be said to be an interior designer. Interior designers require an accredited certification from a recognized institution. The work isn’t all fabric and fun. Apart from having a flair for spatial arrangement, textile, architecture and color, you also need to understand the things associated with building codes, structural integrity, psychology, building ethics, ergonomics and much more. Technical knowledge in software like CAD (computer aided drawing) also becomes an important part of your work. Thus, this is a professional that is well rounded in terms of passion and education.
It’s not about the Personality of the Designer, but that of the Client
In the field of interior designing, it’s not the easy job of putting your imagination into work. The choices you make must be run though the client. After all, it is the client who would be spending the rest of his personal / professional career in the space you are creating. There are several interior designers across the globe who have completed thousands of projects but have never been able to design a premise that suits his/her own personal tastes. It’s all about understanding what the client would feel good with. Thus, interior designing draws a lot from the subject of psychology. Overall, it’s a professional that requires one to be a “people’s person”.
The Dynamicity of Design
As already said interior designing doesn’t just harp upon beauty and looks but also integrate the ability to showcase a space in its full potential. The use of patterns, colors, lighting and décor improves the efficiency and look of a space. A good interior designer can make a small room look larger and a big room feel cozy. Working with a variety of other professionals (plumbers, electricians, carpenters, etc), the job of an interior designer is highly dynamic.
While, every interior designer is knowledgeable of the above, they ensure that the whole life of the client is changed for the good. Who doesn’t like being in a space that confers to his own personality and tastes? Interior designers across the globe are in fact changing the whole concept of living. Be it homes or museums, dreams are being shaped into reality every day. Check out some of the top stories from across the globe in the space below! | <urn:uuid:1562881e-163a-4720-91a8-0d6436a88069> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.designtrends.com/category/arch-interior/architecture | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00407-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953179 | 612 | 2.421875 | 2 |
We commissioned narrative case studies of several countries in which we previously had a long-term presence. Though making the transition to scale was not then an explicit aim, we wanted to see what we could learn from these experiences to inform our scale-focused partnerships today.
From 1990 to 2008, the Bernard van Leer Foundation funded FUNDAESPRO (Fundación Esfuerzo y Prosperidad, or Strength and Prosperity Foundation), a grassroots women’s organisation in Guatemala City. Our involvement started at a time when the civil war drove refugees from rural areas, and the government – not wanting to encourage more migration – made little effort to provide basic services. Unemployment and violence were rife.
As you will read in the coming pages, the organisation not only pioneered a community-based model for early childhood development, but also grew into an organisation that today has local chapters in 126 neighbourhoods. Beyond service delivery, its leaders have routinely been consulted by government on policies relating to children’s rights, elements of its curriculum were adopted for publicly provided childcare centres, and other non-governmental organisations in Guatemala have been influenced by its philosophy and practices.
All this said, Guatemala remains a challenging country for families, with the region’s highest rate of child malnutrition and lowest level of public spending on education, raising the question: what else could the Foundation have done during its engagement in the country to help the work and ideas of FUNDAESPRO spread even further?
I am most grateful to Ms Olga Hernández for her support to the author, Jean Friedman-Rudovsky. Also, to our programme officer at the time, Marc Mataheru, for his valuable guidance and recollections. My own learning questions after reading this piece are shared at the end.
Michael Feigelson, Executive Director, Bernard van Leer Foundation, August 2018
The La Verbena neighbourhood of Guatemala City occupies an area ten blocks square, just west of downtown. The main entrance to the colonia, which runs along a busy avenue, has tall walls and the gate, although allowing free access, is under constant watch. Directly to the north of the neighbourhood sits a cemetery. Most of the residents’ homes are on a steep slope, cascading downwards precariously towards one of the city’s main landfills.
In 1993, the last time Guatemala did a census count, La Verbena had 25,000 occupants. Current estimates put it at over 40,000. The average home is made up of multiple generations; mothers are more likely to be single than not. Although the neighbourhood is no longer under the control of the notorious Mara Salvatrucha gang, as it was during the 1990s, La Verbena’s high unemployment rate and poverty level mean that teenagers are still easily lured into gangs. The area has recently been referred to as ‘a haven’ for hit men.
None of this makes La Verbena particularly exceptional, in a city which primarily comprises small sections of impoverishment and crowded living conditions. What does make La Verbena unique, however, is a small group of people within the community pushing back to ensure that the future of this neighbourhood and many others like it doesn’t follow the path of the typical Guatemalan urban story.
Upon entering La Verbena, evidence of the presence of this strong community organisation is noticeable. On any given morning, right inside the border along the avenue lined with walls, you can see approximately 30 toddlers climbing on brightly painted playground equipment and throwing balls around a concrete courtyard. Their play area is situated directly between their classroom space and a bright blue medical clinic that houses a pharmacy, a blood lab, a dentist’s office and a doctor’s consultation area, providing services and products to La Verbena’s residents at a nominal cost.
These facilities were established mainly due to the efforts of a group of La Verbena residents who are part of a city-wide women’s organisation known as FUNDAESPRO (‘Fundación Esfuerzo y Prosperidad’, or Strength and Prosperity Foundation). Founded in 1989 by female community health workers living in marginalised areas, the group aimed to carry out advocacy and service work to improve the lives of the city’s most vulnerable populations. Over the past three decades, they have formed local chapters in 126 neighbourhoods, with each group deciding for itself what kinds of projects and issues it will prioritise, depending on the needs of the families living in that area.
Early on, FUNDAESPRO’s founders realised that children’s rights and early childhood development would be a cornerstone of their work, and they started to receive funding and support from the Bernard van Leer Foundation. In this alliance with the Foundation, FUNDAESPRO initiated more than a dozen childcare centres in the city’s most needy neighbourhoods and led important political organising efforts.
There is a plethora of civil society organisations dedicated to the well-being of children. In part that’s because this is an area that the government traditionally neglects. Guatemala invests less in education than any other Central American country: it hovers between 1.6% and 2.5% of GDP in recent years. Early childhood development receives scant direct government attention, with only 1% of the nation’s preschool-age children attending educational programmes. According to Magali García, who until recently worked for the Organization of American States in Guatemala, ‘early childhood development is not a governmental priority in this country.’
But, over the course of several days in Guatemala City, I learned that in this crowded landscape, FUNDAESPRO stands out. ‘There are a lot of us who do work with children, either through direct service or advocacy in other spaces but not necessarily from a base in the community and from the perspective of prevention as FUNDEASPRO does,’ says Miguel Ángel López, Executive Director of CONACMI, Guatemala’s National Association Against Child Abuse.
Indeed, it seems that FUNDAESPRO has come to be known as the premier community-based advocacy organisation for the rights of children in the city, and perhaps in the nation. Its hallmark is its grassroots approach and its ability to establish not just high-quality childcare centres, but neighbourhood-based programmes that offer a range of services supporting holistic and healthy development for the city’s youngest. And, as it turns out, it’s hard to see how the organisation could have gained its strength were it not for the Bernard van Leer Foundation’s support.
Guatemala’s civil war between leftist insurgents and repressive government forces, which lasted from 1960 to 1996, triggered one of the largest internal migrations the Americas had seen to date. During the 1970s and 1980s, the state unleashed a brutal campaign targeting the Mayan highlands, prompting a mass rural–urban exodus. More than 1,000,000 Guatemalans are estimated to have been displaced.
Most of the refugees headed towards Guatemala City. The city swelled suddenly and without adequate preparation: the new migrants squatted on land with no access to potable water, electricity or medical care. The Guatemalan government reacted with what seemed like a policy of intentional abandonment. ‘The government did not want to encourage more migration,’ says Julio Cano, a professor and economist in Guatemala City. He says that rather than providing assistance to the new residents and establishing services that would make the refugees’ new living area more habitable, the authorities did almost nothing at all.
The hope that this would inhibit more people from arriving didn’t pan out: Guatemala city’s population exploded as the war raged on. The lack of attention being paid by the state to the humanitarian crisis unfolding in the new slums prompted international aid agencies to scramble to fill in the gaps. Of all the concerns about people’s welfare in the new areas, health rose to the top, with multiple programmes being put into operation to stem illness and infection. In 1986, Doctors without Borders began training legions of community health workers; local women, often with no formal education, were taught how to administer IVs, treat skin irritations or respiratory infections, and educate their neighbours on reproductive health and the basics of good hygiene and nutrition.
In 1989 a handful of these women, known as ‘Reproinsas’ (Representatives of the Integrated Health Programme), living in the Plaza del Toros neighbourhood, started discussing the potential of doing something together beyond administering health aid. ‘We were in a place where minimum basic services necessary to sustain life were absent,’ recalls Olga Hernández, a founder of FUNDAESPRO and its current General Coordinator of Projects. ‘The origins of FUNDAESPRO were rooted in the inhumane conditions we lived in.’
In 1989 a handful of these women, known as ‘Reproinsas’ (Representatives of the Integrated Health Programme), started discussing the potential of doing something together beyond administering health aid.
Hernández was clear that it should be a women’s organisation. ‘It is women who suffer more in situations like these because we are the ones who are in charge of the household,’ she told me, and their initial mission was to lobby for better living conditions in marginalised urban areas, and for health improvement projects specifically. But soon after its founding FUNDAESPRO realised that there was perhaps nothing more important than trying to safeguard the well-being of their community’s children. Hernández recalls: ‘When there isn’t potable water, when there aren’t sewage systems, we witness great sickness. Children were dying every day. That’s when we realised we had to work on childhood welfare and development. These were our kids, our neighbours’ kids. All of this was happening in our own communities.’
The origins of FUNDAESPRO, founded in 1989, were rooted in the inhumane conditions we lived in.
Their first tangible project concerning children was simple: to provide a midday meal for the kids whose parents disappeared for long hours to work in low-paid jobs in other parts of the city. With space borrowed from a local church in Plaza de Toros, Hernández and other women would prepare atole (a nutritious corn-based drink) and offer it to any child who showed up. That’s when ‘we saw something really interesting happen,’ Hernández told me. ‘The kids showed up for food but they stayed because they liked the environment. It was a nicer place for them to be than in their homes all day, which were overcrowded and chaotic. With us they could play and feel safe.’
FUNDAESPRO had secured financial support from Unicef and in 1990, around the time that the organisation was working on its non-profit status in Guatemala, the group made the connection with the Bernard van Leer Foundation. FUNDAESPRO was eager to expand and develop its work with children. It wanted to mature its programming from simply providing a safe space for kids to offering real educational opportunity to the children in the city’s vast slums, with staffing by community members themselves. The Bernard van Leer Foundation was intrigued by the idea: they wanted to support early childhood programmes for vulnerable urban communities and FUNDAESPRO’s commitment to advocacy was aligned with the Foundation’s goals to influence the debate and policies on social programmes in Guatemala with a focus on children. The Foundation decided to fund FUNDAESPRO: from 1990 to 1996 the grants went through Unicef; from 1996 to 2008 they were made directly to the local organisation.
Hernández credits the Bernard van Leer Foundation with being the most influential external element of their development as an organisation. She said that the Foundation’s expertise in early childhood development and curricular models, and their ability to connect FUNDAESPRO to other organisations in Central America striving for the same goals, were key to helping the organisation develop its childcare programming with best practices – including play-based learning and a stimulative curriculum – at its root.
But the Foundation’s significance for FUNDAESPRO is as much about what they didn’t do as it is about what they did. Hernández told me: ‘Van Leer did not impose a model that we were told to follow. They accompanied us on our own path. I think this is one of the biggest accomplishments of [the Foundation]: supporting processes that come from and are directed by the community, and that are not driven by the international agency.’ Also important, says Hernández, was the fact that the Foundation didn’t insist on funding one particular service, as many in the aid world do. They cared about helping the organisation mature. ‘Van Leer wasn’t about project-based funding. They believed in the power of community organising and that enabled us to become strong over time,’ she says.
With the core financial support and flexibility offered by the Bernard van Leer Foundation, FUNDAESPRO became a strong, large and capable organisation – and one that has grown since the Foundation left the region in 2008. FUNDAESPRO is now in 126 neighbourhoods; in each area, there is a cohort of local women who work with the organisation’s staff (numbering 40) to do a thorough needs assessment of their area in order to establish a plan for which programmes to develop and how. ‘We’re not just talking about focus groups,’ says Hernández. If there are 50 homes in a neighbourhood, she says, they go into every single one, getting to know the families personally: ‘to understand their reality. From this assessment, we are able to understand the situation of each individual family and the community as a whole. Based on this, we design work plans with the community itself and discuss where resources should go, depending on which are the most vulnerable groups in the community.’
On the morning I visited La Verbena, the medical clinic was already in full swing. Inside, towards the front end of the single-story concrete building, a group of young medical students stood in a semicircle, listening in as the doctor starting looking into the ears and mouth of a child, probably around the age of 3, who had come in with a bad cold. Down the hall in the lab, which is equipped to process blood samples and carry out urine and stool tests, María Teresa Chacón, a Reproinsa, was showing Gisela Vásquez, a 24-year-old medical student from San Carlos University, how to spin down the blood she’d just taken from an elderly man seated in the waiting area. Across from the lab, pharmacist Rosa Plata Escobar – a Reproinsa who hadn’t completed schooling past the sixth grade when she did her pharmaceutical training with other FUNDAESPRO members – was selling her first paracetamol of the day.
Although it might not seem exceptional, it is unusual to find a health clinic of this sort inside a neighbourhood like La Verbena. Most of the time, medical services are located in central parts of the city and not inside the neighbourhoods that need them most. Were it not for this clinic, for example, the closest medical centre to La Verbena would be at least 40 minutes away.
What allows this to function is the unique staffing model that FUNDAESPRO established: Reproinsas (pharmacy, lab and nursing), medical professionals (the physician and dentist) and a rotating cohort of medical students who spend four months at a time working in the facility for no fee. Early on, FUNDAESPRO set up a relationship with San Carlos University to bring students into their neighbourhood medical centres. It’s a win–win programme: community medical clinics get staffing assistance they desperately need; the medical schools can offer their students opportunities for valuable experience in the real world. ‘I’m glad I was assigned here,’ Vásquez, the lab student, told me. It was her first week but she already knew it would be a valuable experience. ‘You learn more here than in large hospitals. In hospitals, all you’re doing is shuffling lab results back and forth. Here, we help with interpreting the results.’
Reproinsas receive a small stipend, and can put their valuable skills to use. The doctor and dentist are the only ones who receive a full salary. This enables the clinic to provide services at a nominal cost: the equivalent of about 1 euro for a blood test or routine exam, a few cents for a package of basic medicines.
Geographic proximity was also behind the vision for the childcare centres – having them in the community rather than taking children out. While this sounds glaringly logical, in Guatemala it’s more the exception than the rule, says María Elvira Sánchez, who leads an NGO named ISMUGUA (‘Instituto para la Superación de la Miseria Urbana de Guatemala’, the Institute for Overcoming Urban Poverty in Guatemala). What makes FUNDAESPRO unique and effective, she told me, is that the organisation ‘locates its services where they are actually needed. The child is not removed from his or her environment. When you take kids out of these areas, it implies a condemnation of their own living spaces, which is harmful to a child. Keeping them in their community, where their families are then part of their educational upbringing, is very important.’
Not having to travel long distances to drop off her son is a huge benefit, says Claudia Flores, whose son attends the FUNDAESPRO daycare centre in La Verbena. She’s also appreciative of the price: just 35 quetzals monthly (about 4 euros). She had been paying 400 for a sitter – close to a third of her total earnings – plus food, but that was unsustainable. She’s very pleased too with the education he gets. ‘My son was slow to develop, it took him long time to learn to write and he was antisocial,’ Flores told me. The school and FUNDAESPRO helped him through these challenges by visiting the home, connecting him with a psychologist and providing personalised attention in the classroom. ‘Now he’s a thriving 5 year old. He’s so happy there that I don’t want him to keep getting older because that means at some point he’ll have to leave[for primary school],’ she told me.
The sort of individualised attention that Flores’ son received is not uncommon, says Hernández. The thorough groundwork that’s laid by local FUNDEASPRO members, when they begin working in a community (through home visits, needs assessments, relationship building) proves critical for other parts of a child’s life. For example, teachers know which of their students don’t yet have an identity card, which is needed to enter primary school. The FUNDAESPRO network will help that child’s parents navigate the bureaucratic system to make sure the child has what he or she needs.
What makes FUNDAESPRO unique and effective is that the organisation locates its services where they are actually needed. The child is not removed from his or her environment. – María Elvira Sánchez
Also, the close relationship between the teachers – who are FUNDAESPRO members trained on an eight-month community educator course formerly funded by the Bernard van Leer Foundation – means that it’s easier for teachers to approach parents when they see worrying changes in a child. Isabel Martínez, one of two educators in La Verbena, told me about a child who was doing very well in his first year with them: he ate well, washed his hands, and was developing on a par with other children his age. Over the summer, when school was out, he slid backwards. When he returned in the autumn, he had forgotten a lot of the lessons he’d learned, didn’t want to eat and his hygiene was poor. Martínez visited the child’s home and spoke with the mother. It turned out she was going through a severe depression and all summer long had not had the emotional energy to engage with her son. She sat him in front of the television and rarely cooked. Martínez was able to put them both in touch with psychologists and the child has now bounced back almost completely, she said.
The therapy element is new to FUNDAESPRO’s work and to La Verbena and it is part of the organisation’s development since the involvement of the Bernard van Leer Foundation. After the Foundation’s exit, Hernández sought other key allies and found it with InterRed, which allowed them to continue their work with children. Currently, it develops the Community Strengthening Project CONVIVIMOS, led by Mercy Corps and funded by USAID. This programme seeks to address the causes and consequences of violence through participation and community strengthening with vulnerable populations, engaging specifically with family support and young people at risk – which is a phrase that could describe most young people in this city. Bringing in psychology students to work with these groups is a part of the new programme.
On the day I visited La Verbena, there were five psychology students beginning their rounds. They said they expected to encounter resistance because in Guatemala there is often a stigma that only ‘crazy’ people need therapy, but FUNDAESPRO has laid the groundwork well. Through the existing monthly family workshops that the organisation has hosted for decades, with parents and with the community at large, FUNDAESPRO members had explained the roots of trauma, the wide range of mental health issues that may be encountered, as well as the potential benefits of professional help.
The psychologists work with adults and children. For the latter, they carry out personalised interventions when teachers or others bring cases to their attention. They also visit the classrooms weekly to observe the kids in order to detect any problems that others may have been overlooking. ‘I love the psychologists,’ Rosa Gonzáles, a mother with two kids in La Verbena’s childcare centres, told me. ‘I’ve seen changes in my kids. They are much more expressive with their feelings and more communicative at home,’ she said. ‘Thanks to the psychologists, now when they get home from school they show me their drawings and say to me “this is the picture I drew and this is how it reflects what I’m feeling”.’
This kind of institutionalised holistic programming is another important element of FUNDAESPRO’s strategy, says Sonia Reyes, who works at ‘Hogares Comunitarios’, the programme within SOSEP (Secretaría de Obras Sociales, the Secretariat of Social Works), the governmental agency for children’s welfare that is housed in the office of the First Lady. Reyes says that while she sees other schools or an organisation seek out the help of a therapist on an ad hoc basis, this kind of core and sustained support is novel and effective. ‘This level of systematisation is what’s impressive,’ she told me, ‘FUNDAESPRO has really sought out sustainable alliances and support that will strengthen children on a deep level.’
The childcare centre itself also still runs on partnerships, with SOSEP in particular. The relationship with SOSEP began in the 1990s when the post-war government sought to create some state-supported early childhood programming. The model has remained largely unchanged since it began almost 30 years ago: SOSEP itself runs some childcare centres, but mainly it offers some base support for others that are already in the community. In the case of FUNDAESPRO’s 13 centres, SOSEP provides the food and drink for the children, gas for cooking, a minimal amount of curricular materials and a stipend of 1400 quetzals (about 160 euros) for the educators. (During the time of the Foundation’s support, FUNDAESPRO was able to give their educators an additional stipend on top of the government payment. I was told by teachers that this no longer occurs.)
We want to transform children and the future by supporting the development of young kids in such a way that they have a desire to return to where they grew up.
– Olga Hernández
The centres themselves are characteristically ‘van Leer’: happy children being engaged and respected. The teachers were trained in child-centred learning and their activities in the classrooms all focus on the formation of good values, critical thinking skills and play-based learning. Although there hasn’t been rigorous research or tracking of the long-term outcomes of the kids who attend FUNDAESPRO centres, anecdotally the organisation is known for preparing the children exceptionally well. ‘The kids who are provided early education by FUNDAESPRO head to primary school with a lot of knowledge,’ ISMUGUA’s Sánchez told me. ‘They enter with a foundation that allows them to move through the rest of their education more easily. These students adapt well and there are many fewer cases of needing to repeat further grades.’ Hernández is proud, of course, of these individual outcomes. But she says that her long-term goal with the holistic work in places like La Verbena is not just to lift up some children so that they can break out and get ahead, but also to transform communities. ‘There was a recent study that found that most kids in neighbourhoods like these want to leave as soon as they have the chance,’ Hernández told me. ‘What we want to do is upend this reality. We want to transform children and the future by supporting the development of young kids in such a way that they have a desire to return to where they grew up in order to keep the process going – and that their neighbourhoods improve over time so they feel worthy of this return.’
FUNDAESPRO’s impact extends far beyond its work in La Verbena and the other neighbourhoods where there are women organisers and programming. From its founding, FUNDAESPRO perceived itself as an advocacy organisation. Hernández told me that she and the other founders knew that in order to create lasting change they had to do more than provide direct services.
Over time, their macro-level impact has advanced in two ways: it has been through the organisation’s involvement in and leadership of inter-institutional networks and government commissions for almost three decades. It seems Hernández and her team have been involved in almost every major policy proposal and decision by the government with regard to children’s rights since the mid-1990s: the Committee for the Rights of the Child, the law of holistic child protection, the law against sexual exploitation and violence, the national permanent forum on health (foro permanente de salud), the (now defunct) Network of Social Movements, the Adoption Law. Most recently they have been key players in the national Child Network, ‘Red Niño a Niño’, an alliance made up of the 30 leading organisations doing work on children’s rights and considered the most central civil society alliance for child welfare and development advocacy. This network does everything from advocating for more child-centred policies to increasing government accountability by monitoring the progress of Millennium Goals, to tracking state expenditure in relation to its budgetary promises on this issue.
When I visited Guatemala, a string of high-level child welfare advocates there showered praise on Hernández and FUNDAESPRO, recounting many instances when she and the organisation’s work had proved pivotal in advancing the rights of children in Guatemala. ‘FUNDAESPRO is a force in the social movement sector,’ said Gloria Castro, the Ombudsman for Children and Youth (Defensora de la Niñez y la Adolescencia), in the Human Rights Office (Procuraduría de los Derechos Humanos). ‘They are one of the most important and strategic organisations for this kind of work.’
In part, I was told, Hernández herself is a terrific advocate and ambassador for the work. ‘She is very active and dynamic, but at the same time conciliatory,’ said CONACMI’s Miguel Ángel López, adding that her ability to be both lighthearted and also very serious is ‘one of her most valuable contributions’. He said he had been in numerous meetings in which Hernández had played a key role in helping the group come to an agreement. ‘She’s always able to lighten the mood with a joke, which helps everyone relax. Then she has a proposal and tries to mediate and find points of consensus,’ he said.
FUNDAESPRO’s macro-impact has not only been through its political advocacy. The organisation has been able to influence large-scale change by positioning itself as an entity with replicable best practices. For example, when FUNDAESPRO first started working with state programme Hogares in the early 1990s, the government’s only curricular materials for the community educators were a set of rudimentary manuals with graphic drawings. Part of the agreement between SOSEP and FUNDAESPRO was to align the educational materials, and what SOSEP found was that FUNDAESPRO’s materials were better: simple yet dynamic exercises that could be used with a range of ages, and that got children thinking and moving. ‘[FUNDAESPRO] had previous experience in the community education model,’ Sonia Reyes told me. ‘They already had processes set up for training the mothers and they had the educational materials to go along with it.’ So, rather than reinvent the wheel, the government essentially adopted the FUNDAESPRO curriculum. In 1996, the Bernard van Leer Foundation paid for the printing of the joint booklets and the materials were sent to all SOSEP daycare centres – over 100 childcare facilities in almost every corner of Guatemala.
FUNDAESPRO has been able to influence large-scale change by positioning itself as an entity with replicable best practices.
Soon after that, FUNDAESPRO had another opportunity to offer its curricular influence. When the civil war ended, the Guatemalan government installed educational reform commissions to write a new national curriculum. Selected civil society groups participated in the discussion. The organisation participated in the educational reform commissions that designed the curricula for the age ranges birth–3 years and 4–6 years, and Hernández says she was able to impart some of their play-based stimulative learning that was a cornerstone of Bernard van Leer Foundation partners. (These curricula eventually replaced the SOSEP–FUNDAESPRO ones in the childcare centres.)
FUNDAESPRO also coordinated with higher education programmes to help instill their philosophy in the adults being trained to work with young children. In the year 2000, the Organization of American States (OAS) founded the Institutos de Innovación Educativa en Educación Inicial, in partnership with several universities throughout Central America. It was an eight-month programme that included tracts on everything from early infancy to neuroscience, all centred on how to provide higher-quality services and attention to children under 6 years of age. In Guatemala, the degree was accredited by the OAS and the Ministry of Education. FUNDAESPRO helped to develop the modules for the educators, based on the holistic, community-based model that they had developed in their own work. Virtually all of the community educators who work in the 13 FUNDAESPRO childcare centres are graduates of this programme.
More recently, the municipal government of Guatemala City has been trying to learn from FUNDAESPRO’s community-based methodology for establishing social programmes and childcare centres in neighbourhoods with vulnerable populations. Norma, a FUNDAESPRO staff member, told me that the municipality has ‘requested we send them everything related to our methodology’. María Elvira Sánchez, who leads ISMUGUA, affirmed this, explaining that one person high up in city government ‘spent a lot of time working closely with FUNDAESPRO in order to learn their methodology with regard to how to implement the childcare centres.’ I was unable to secure an interview within Guatemala City government to confirm this. That fact, says Sánchez, could be telling in and of itself: ‘I don’t know if [the municipality] would admit that they are using FUNDAESPRO’s methodology. But those of us who are in this space know that what the municipality is doing now is exactly what FUNDAESPRO has done for years.’
Other NGOs have also carried out similar efforts to replicate the FUNDAESPRO methodology. Hernández said that more than ten civil society organisations have approached them over the years to understand how to carry out thorough needs assessments and to build programming based on what a specific community needs. FUNDAESPRO takes it upon itself to advise thoroughly when approached for guidance and has even developed a manual that explains their philosophy and practices as a handy how-to guide.
López says that he has, more than once, encouraged colleagues to approach FUNDAESPRO to learn from its methods. Recently, he says, he recommended officials within SOSEP – which is trying to establish a new child protection policy – to go back and learn from FUNDAESPRO. López told me, ‘I said to them: FUNDAESPRO already knows how to do this. Go talk to them. Learn from them.’
Similarly, Magali García, who used to be with the OAS in Guatemala, explained that in her course at a local university she used FUNDAESPRO health centres (like the one in La Verbena) to show students how healthcare can be practised in a community-oriented setting. ‘FUNDAESPRO centres were practically our labs for explaining to students how to do intersectoral, holistic, community-based work with a focus on human rights,’ she said, adding that other professors still, to this day, use FUNDAESPRO centres as convenient places to visit and demonstrate to students how holistic child welfare programming can work.
On 8 March 2017, a fire broke out in an orphanage approximately 25 km outside Guatemala City: 19 girls under the age of 18 died at the scene; 21 more perished soon after from injuries sustained during the blaze. It has since been presumed that this group of girls had tried to run away from the orphanage the night before – because of the inhuman treatment and possible sexual violence they were suffering daily. On the day of the fire, they were probably locked inside a room as punishment. The fire may have been started by the girls inside, when it quickly spread from one flammable mattress to another. Although the scale of the tragedy was exceptional and devastating, for people working in the child advocacy sphere, it was not surprising. The same orphanage had been found in violation of human rights because of conditions there the previous year. In 2013, some of its staff were convicted of sexual abuse. More broadly, state and private orphanages alike in Guatemala are known for being dungeons, arguably no better than living on the street or being drawn into gangs at an early age.
And the Guatemalan government is widely recognised for having failed to establish structures or legal systems that ensure the protection of rights or the advancement of well-being for its youngest citizens. For example, Guatemala’s childhood malnutrition rate is close to 50%, the highest in Latin America, and the state spends less than a dollar a day per capita on children under the age of 13, the lowest in Latin America. According to government figures, approximately just 1% of preschool-age children are actually enrolled in educational programmes.
One of the reasons for this, several people told me, is the fact that since the war the Guatemalan government has constantly changed hands: no one party has been in power long enough to establish lasting policy. Laws and funding priorities fluctuate every few years on the whim of whichever party happens to be at the head of the table. One government might claim child welfare as a priority but by the time groundwork has been laid for new policies or programmes, the next administration comes in and that progress has been lost. Also, administrative personnel turn over with the changing of the guard: people are offered positions in SOSEP and other departments connected to child welfare, based on their political loyalties and not because of their expertise in the field. ‘There is no country-wide strategic vision with regard to childhood and adolescent policy,’ López told me.
While she recognises the uphill battle, Hernández says that the advocacy of the wider child-rights community has ‘managed to make visible the situation of kids in this country and we have forced various government Ministries to pay attention to this issue.’ There has been some progress. Guatemala ratified the Convention on the Rights of the Child in 1990 and this has provided a basis for advocacy efforts, pushing the state to live up to what the document outlines. This has led to some small steps in policy reform, although Hernández and others told me that Guatemala is far from having solid, sustainable policies with regard to children’s rights and development. ’We considered it important to do advocacy work and form networks because we believe the state must be the one to guarantee children’s rights,’ Hernández told me.
Internally, FUNDAESPRO faces some challenges as well. There is, of course, the omnipresent obstacle of financial sustainability. It now has a 40-person staff team and that comes with its own needs and demands. FUNDAESPRO’s vision ‘from below’ – allowing the needs of the communities to guide their programming – makes the funding process even more challenging, since international aid agencies often have their own agendas. (Several people I talked to, however, commended Hernández and FUNDAESPRO for having stuck to what it does best: serving the needs of the community and not bowing to the demands of the donors based on whatever is the trend of the moment.)
We considered it important to do advocacy work and form networks because we believe the state must be the one to guarantee children’s rights.– Olga Hernández
There also does not seem to be a plan for the next generation of leadership. For now, Hernández is vibrant and engaged, working 50- to 60-hour weeks. But several people I interviewed privately expressed concern that she still does so much herself and that there is no clear successor.
There is almost no likelihood, however, of FUNDAESPRO fading away, precisely because it is an organisation with such strong roots in the communities where it operates. ‘What is so special about FUNDAESPRO is that the community has made it their own,’ Magali García told me. ‘FUNDAESPRO has prompted a process in which the community itself figures out how to resolve, little by little, its own challenges. And that’s what makes them genuinely sustainable.’
Hernández agrees. She shows no concern about the solidity or strength of her organisation, despite its challenges. And she says that FUNDAESPRO would not be where it is today were it not for that early support from the Bernard van Leer Foundation. ‘I always like to say that the Bernard van Leer Foundation’s accomplishments were not only establishing quality programming for early childhood, but also strengthening an entire community-based movement,’ Hernández told me. ‘This is one of the most significant impacts of the Foundation: to have been willing to bet on community-based models as a key to creating child-centred programmes and policies. Everything that the Bernard van Leer Foundation was financing lives on today in the communities.’
We commissioned these historical studies in part to identify questions we should ask ourselves as we plan future work. Learning questions raised for us by this story include:
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The solution - a good appearance and good vision with one and the same lens - came in the form of the asphere and the atorus. In 1986 Carl Zeiss was the first manufacturer - and still is the only manufacturer - to offer a single vision lens with an atoroidal front surface: the Hypal lens.
This modern surface design permits outstanding image quality over a wide field of view and, at the same time, flat, cosmetically attractive lenses.
Aberrations influence the image quality of spectacle lenses and are perceived as blurring by the spectacle wearer.
In spherical plus lenses, peripheral rays are more strongly refracted than rays near the optical axis. This aberration is known as spherical abberation.
If the surface of the plus lens is "folded open" in the peripheral areas so that the surface structure deviates from the spherical shape (aspherical surface), all rays coming from the distance meet again at one point. The aberration is corrected.
In the peripheral zones of spectacle lenses, the interplay of spherical aberration with the viewing eye leads to a deviation from the specified dioptric power (spherical error). This spherical error is perceived as blurring by the spectacle wearer.
If an object point lying outside the optical axis is imaged by a lens with a spherical power, astigmatism results due to the oblique incidence of the light bundle. A dot is no longer imaged as a dot, but as two image lines.
This aberration, known as astigmatic error, primarily influences the image quality of spectacle lenses. When the wearer looks at an angle through the lens, there is a deviation (astigmatic error) from the specified dioptric power which he perceives as blur. The higher the dioptric power of the lens, the more pronounced this error becomes.
In the design of aspherical and atoriodal surfaces, oblique astigmatism can be minimized by deviating deliberately from the spherical shape.
In ca. 1804 the English physician Wollaston discovered that visual acuity decreases when a spectacle wearer looks through the periphery of the biconvex lenses used at that time, and that meniscus-shaped lenses provided a sharper image. After this discovery, repeated attempts were made to improve the imaging properties of lenses. The first endeavours to design meniscus-shaped lenses with reduced peripheral blurring were undertaken by the ophthalmologists Ostwald and Tscherning. However, the results were of no practical significance, as they were only computed for very small viewing angles and for lenses with a theoretical centre thickness of zero.
In 1908 the company Carl Zeiss entrusted a member of its scientific staff, Moritz von Rohr, with the exact computation of spectacle lenses. He succeeded in designing a point focal lens in which peripheral blurring was minimised. These computations of Moritz von Rohr laid the foundations for today’s Punktal lenses from ZEISS.
Although optimum imaging properties were achieved with the first point focal lenses, the pronounced curvature of the lenses proved to be a major cosmetic drawback, especially for high prescriptions in the plus range.
To make lenses more attractive, so-called periscopic lenses were introduced, in which one surface was almost flat. This also made the lens flatter overall, but considerable aberrations were experienced in the peripheral zones. In higher dioptric powers in particular, these aberrations led to blurred vision.
The solution – a good appearance and good vision with one and the same lens – came in the form of the asphere and the atorus. In 1986 Carl Zeiss was the first manufacturer – and still is the only manufacturer – to offer a single vision lens with an atoroidal front surface: the Hypal lens. This modern surface design permits outstanding image quality over a wide field of view and, at the same time, flat, cosmetically attractive lenses.
Every rotationally symmetrical surface which deviates from a spherical shape is termed as an aspheric surface (asphere). The radius of curvature of such a surface changes continuously from the vertex to the periphery.
In ZEISS single vision lenses, the asphere is generated on the front surface of the lens. The computer calculates the ideal front surface design for every dioptric power.
The asphere is used for lenses with a spherical and astigmatic power. In lenses with a spherical power the blur occurring in the peripheral zones is optimally corrected with an asphere. However, in lenses with an astigmatic power the asphere can only be optimised for one principal meridian.
If the rotationally symmetrical asphere is optimised for the stronger principal meridian of a lens with an astigmatic power, astigmatic error remains in the other principal meridian. In lenses with a low astigmatic power this error is negligibly small, but in plus lenses with a high cylinder it becomes so noticeable that correction for both principal meridians is recommended. ZEISS has solved this problem with the development of the "atorus".
A non rotationally symmetrical surface with unequal curvatures in principal meridians perpendicular to each other, of which at least one curvature is not circular in shape, is known as an atoroidal surface, or atorus in short.
In single vision lenses, the atorus – like the asphere – is generated on the front surface of the lens. The atorus is used for spectacle lenses with an astigmatic power, with the front surface of the lens deviating to different degrees from a spherical shape in each meridian.
The surface design of the atorus is specially adapted to each dioptric power so that the optimum correction is always obtained for both principal meridians. The atoroidal surface design – a ZEISS exclusive – therefore permits outstanding correction of aberrations for single vision lenses with an astigmatic power.
Progressive lenses by ZEISS are the ultimate in high technology. Thanks to the aspheric design of the distance zone of the progressive surface, the correction of aberrations is directly incorporated in the progressive lens design. The front surface of a ZEISS progressive lens is both the progressive surface (asymmetrical free-form surface) and a correcting asphere. This design is used in the progressive lenses Gradal HS and Gradal Top.
In single vision lenses with an astigmatic power, the correction of aberrations can be achieved by the atorus on the front surface. For progressive lenses, however, the development of an atoroidal Rx surface (back surface) was necessary for this purpose.
In the past:
No aspheric progressive lens design was available
The computation and production of an atoroidal Rx surface are extremely complex. ZEISS has succeeded in developing and implementing a special technique for this purpose. Every atoroidal Rx surface is exactly computed giving due consideration to sphere, cylinder, axis and addition. This means that outstanding imaging properties are also achieved for a progressive lens with an astigmatic power.
With an aspheric progressive surface and an atoroidal Rx surface, it is possible to take both image quality and cosmetic aspects of the lens into account to a very high degree.
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Egypt officially changes rules for ID cards
CAIRO, Egypt — Egypt’s Ministry of Interior this week published a decree that allows individuals to obtain government documents without identifying themselves as belonging to a particular religion.
The decree is the result of a recent Egyptian Supreme Administrative Court ruling – in a case involving Baha’is – that on government ID cards and other documents, individuals may put a dash in the field denoting religious affiliation.
“We are very pleased that the Egyptian government has moved to officially change the regulation that prevented Baha'is and others from realizing their rights of citizenship,” said Bani Dugal, the principal representative of the Baha’i International Community to the United Nations.
The computerization of ID cards introduced by the government had locked out all religious classifications except Islam, Christianity, and Judaism. This had meant that Baha'is were unable to get documents essential to day-to-day life.
The decree was signed by General Habib al-Adly, Egypt’s Interior Minister, and dated 19 March 2009, and was published on 14 April in the official gazette. According to the Egyptian Initiative for Personal Rights (EIPR), which represented Baha’is in many of the recent court cases concerning religious affiliation on government documents, the decree amends the Implementing Statutes of Egypt’s Civil Status Law of 1994. It specifically instructs officials to place a dash (--) before the line reserved for religion in the official documents of citizens who can show that they, or their ancestors, were followers of a religious belief other than the three recognized by the state. | <urn:uuid:2ba6b49f-5a22-4353-a981-5d2e4e5e1c17> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://news.bahai.org/story/707 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00273.warc.gz | en | 0.962236 | 338 | 2.03125 | 2 |
K.R. Sultana, K. Pope, L.S. Lam, Y.S. Muzychka
This paper numerically examines phase change of free falling droplets in a sub-zero environment. The model is based on the solution of the Navier-Stokes equations coupled with the Volume of Fluid (VOF) methodology for tracking the droplet-air interface. A 2D axisymmetric model is adopted to implement the influential numerical parameters. The phase change phenomenon of fresh and salt water droplets with constant and variable properties are considered in this model. Current results reveal that the internal circulation enhances heat transfer to the surrounding air and increases the nucleation phenomenon. Furthermore, larger sized droplets have a higher nucleation temperature than the smaller sized droplets. The computational results are compared to previously published experimental data for nucleation and droplet dynamics. The results of this paper provide new insights on phase change and droplet dynamics and contribute to the understanding of mechanisms involved with spray freezing applications.
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Refugees missing in Myanmar cyclone capsizeTuesday May 14, 2013 - 15:22 EST
Many Rohingya Muslims are feared drowned after a boat carrying of them out of danger from a cyclone capsized off western Myanmar.
It was the start of a mass evacuation from low-lying regions ahead of cyclone Mahasen.
Barbara Manzi, head of the Myanmar office of the UN Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, said the boat struck rocks off Pauktaw township, in Rakhine state, and sank.
The United Nations warned last week that the tropical cyclone could bring "life-threatening conditions" to thousands of people living in camps in the west of Myanmar.
They fled after their homes were destroyed in violence between majority Buddhists and minority Muslims last year.
"The possibility of the cyclone hitting has added a real urgency to our plans," said Vivian Tan, a spokeswoman for the UN refugee agency.
"We're building temporary shelters made out of bamboo which will hopefully stand the heavy rains, but with a cyclone, you just don't know what will hold up."
Evacuations began on Monday in some areas such as Pauktaw, a port town about 27 kilometres by sea from the Rakhine state capital of Sittwe.
Nearly 20,000 Rohingyas are living in makeshift camps in Pauktaw after last year's violence.
This includes about 12,000 in flood-prone areas, according to UN data.
The mostly stateless Rohingya Muslims are denied citizenship by the Myanmar government and considered by many in the country to be immigrants from Bangladesh.
The slow-moving cyclone Mahasen was raised to a category four warning level by Bangladesh authorities on Monday.
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AGRICULTURE IN INDIA : AGRICULTURE IN INDIA GROUP 8
Atul Pandey(54) 1 Contents : Contents Introduction
Employment in Agriculture sector
Facts & figures
Conclusions 2 Introduction : Introduction One of the strong sector of Indian economy(18% of GDP).
Around 58 % population of India depends on Agriculture.
Average growth rate of agriculture and allied sector in 2006-07 & 2007-08 has been 4% per annum.
140.7 million hectare area is available for sown.
Major agricultural products include rice, wheat, oilseed, cotton, jute, tea. 3 History : History Indian agriculture began by 9000 BC as a result of early cultivation of plants.
Double monsoon leads two harvest in a year.
The Grow More Food Campaign (1940s) and the Integrated Production Program (1950s) focused on food and cash crops supply respectively.
In 1960s Green revolution took place.
Agriculture production rose.
Export increased at 10% in 1990s. 4 Production : Production India is largest producer of coconuts, mangoes, bananas, cashew nuts, pulses, ginger.
Second largest producer of rice, wheat, cotton, fruits and vegetables.
A growth of 3.2% is projected during fiscal year 2009.
Among cereals production, India is placed third,
having second largest production in wheat
and rice and the largest production in pulses. 5 Slide 6: Bt cotton is the only commercialized Biotech crop in India.
3.8 million hectare of land is under its production.
Coffee production is over 293000 metric tonnes and tea production is over 981 million kg.
The allied sectors like livestock, fishing and forestry are
projected with growth rate 4.8% in fiscal year
2009. 6 Production (2008) : Production (2008) 7 Fertilizers : Fertilizers Increase in fertilizers with time
Bio fertilizers, chemical fertilizers, urea fertilizers, compost, organic fertilizers, etc. 8 Development : Development Domestic production of food grains was not adequate to meet domestic demand.
Programs like The Grow More Food Program, the Community Development Program and Intensive Area development Programs – To regenerate Indian agriculture.
Green Revolution came as a breakthrough for India
There was a constant improvisation in the technology in agriculture for better yield of crops and better profit. 9 Green Revolution : Green Revolution The introduction of high yielding varieties of seeds after 1965 and increased used of fertilizers and irrigation is collectively known as green revolution.
Dr Norman Borlaug - Father of Green Revolution
Many famines in India before it and in 1961 was on a brink of a mass famine and were considered inevitable
Indian agriculture - Low growth rate of 0.3% per annum.
So massive expansion of HYV production started with use of fertilizers. 10 Outcome of Green Revolution : Outcome of Green Revolution Food grain production grew from 50.8 million tonnes in 1950/51 to 500 million tonnes in 2001/02.
Food imports were almost eliminated.
In 1970s cost of rice was $550 a ton and it reduced to under $200 a ton.
Extension of irrigation facilities, better agricultural techniques, water management, plant protection etc improved. Contd… : Contd… In 1980s despite of three years of meager rainfall and a draught in the middle of decade, India managed to get along with very few food imports.
India became self-sufficient in early 1990s in food grain production and later it also started exporting food grains in other parts of the world. Employment in Agriculture : Employment in Agriculture 60% Indian population employed in Agriculture
In 2008, Indian agro-based companies attracted a host of private equity players
The Mahindra & Mahindra (M&M) group’s agri-business initiative, Mahindra ShubhLaabh Services (MSLS), has tied-up with the Netherlands-based HZPC, the world’s largest seed potato supplier.
Blackstone invested US$ 50 million in Hyderabad-based Nuziveedu seeds.
Morgan Stanley picked up a minority stake for US$ 36.51 million in castor oil maker, Biotor Industries, through its Asia fund. 13 Investment : Investment 14 Investment : Investment 15 Subsidies : Subsidies In 2007 govt. has waived loans of worth Rs. 75000 crore 16 Exports : Exports India’s overseas shipments of coffee rose by 9.6 per cent to 300,000 bags even as global coffee exports decreased by 1 per cent.
India's natural rubber exports have increased by 38 per cent in the April-July 2008–09.
Spice exports registered a 17 per cent increase in revenue in rupee value and five per cent in quantity this year compared to last year.
India exported 1.40 million tones of oil meal in the first three months of the current financial year, up 70 per cent from the corresponding period last year.
Cashew exports touched US$ 413.21 million, an increase of 40.2 per cent during the April-November period of 2008–09. 17 Export : Export 18 Credit : Credit Total credit to agriculture is increased from Rs. 62045 crore in 2001-02 to Rs. 200000 crore in 2007-08
Priority sector lending
Kisan credit card
In 2006-07 co-operatives given Rs. 42480 crore 19 Facts & Figures : Facts & Figures Contributes to 18% of GDP
Provides food to 1Billion people
Sustains 65% of the population : helps alleviate poverty
Produces 51 major Crops
Provides Raw Material to Industries
Contributes to 1/6th of the export earnings
One of the 12 Bio-diversity centers in the world with over 46,000 species of plants and 86,000 species of animals recorded 20 Conclusion : Conclusion Agriculture is set to play a more dynamic role in the economy.
A progressively larger number of states have been amending their Agricultural Produce Marketing Committee (APMC) Act, to allow farmers to directly sell their produce to the buyers.
Agriculture credit is likely to touch US$ 49.05 billion in 2008
Total investment is up from 10.2 per cent in 2003–04 to 16 per cent for the 11th Plan.
Significantly, services related to agro and allied sectors have been thrown open to 100 per cent foreign direct investment (FDI) through the automatic route. 21 Thank you for your kind attention. : Thank you for your kind attention. 22 Facts & Figures : Facts & Figures Total Geographical Area - 328 million hectares
Net Area sown - 142 million hectares
Gross Cropped Area – 190.8 million hectares
Major Crop Production (1999-2000)
Rice 89.5 million tonnes
Wheat 75.6 million tonnes
Coarse Cereals 30.5 million tonnes
Pulses 13.4 million tonnes
Oilseeds 20.9 million tonnes
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The Morning Report
San Diego news and info
you need to take on the day.
When parents and teachers plead and protest to save beloved programs and people, strapped school districts have had to think twice about whether it is prudent, knowing a higher power is watching
County offices of education can refuse to sign off on unsound budgets and force school districts to rewrite them if financial projections are flimsy. They can even stop districts from cutting checks. And they have forced school districts to plan two years into the future, explaining publicly how their budgets will be balanced.
Now those powers are on hold.
Schools still have to show the county office that they can get through this coming school year. But this year, the county office cannot judge their budgets for the next year or the year after, the first step that can trigger more intensive interventions to keep school districts solvent. School districts can just disregard their advice on how to keep themselves afloat in the future.
The changes, made with little public discussion, came in an 11th-hour budget passed by Democratic lawmakers last week. They put a pause on oversight powers that were given to county offices of education two decades ago, after several school districts suffered financial meltdowns.
Now the biggest watchdog over school budgets has been pulled back at a time when more and more districts are weighing financial peril against the yearning to cancel painful, unpopular cuts.
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“School districts are under a lot of pressure,” said Lora Duzyk, assistant superintendent of business services at the San Diego County Office of Education. “It’s hard sometimes to withstand that pressure.”
Financial hawks lambasted lawmakers for cutting back on budget oversight and pressed the governor to veto that part of the bill. School Services of California, which advises school districts on finances, argued it would put hundreds at risk of insolvency. The president of the California School Boards Association called it “a statutory invitation to fiscal recklessness.”
Teachers unions cheered the move. They argue the decisions should rest solely with the local school board members that voters elect and oust.
County offices tend to be more financially cautious than school boards, a step removed from the political and emotional turmoil of school cuts. While the San Diego County Office of Education does have an elected board, it attracts much less public attention and protest.
“Their budgets are not going to be changed or rejected by someone else,” said Jim Groth, a longtime Chula Vista teacher and a board member for the California Teachers Association, the biggest teachers union in the state. “It puts the decision-making back on local districts and local school boards.”
The San Diego County Office of Education has been a palpable presence as San Diego Unified crafted its budget this year, one that cost 1,400 workers their jobs. The school board nearly balked at sending out pink slips this spring, complaining they had proved agonizing and unnecessary in the past.
“I don’t think this is right. I don’t think this is smart,” President Richard Barrera lamented.
But school district staff warned the County Office could stop them from borrowing money to pay their bills. Barrera voted for pink slips, a politically poisonous step that soured the teachers union against him.
The loosened rules come at a time when year after year of cuts has left a stunning number of school districts on the financial brink. One out of seven school districts in California says it might not be able to cover its costs in the next two years. That is a sixfold increase over the number of school districts statewide that were stuck with those labels a decade ago.
Four of them are in San Diego County: Borrego Springs Unified, La Mesa-Spring Valley, Ramona Unified and San Marcos Unified. Now that the County Office is supposed to stop looking at their future budgets, some could lose that label. That would stop the office from taking aggressive steps to intervene if school districts don’t just follow their advice.
The county office also tells school districts what kind of cuts they should prepare for, something that has grown tricky as state budgets become less predictable. Earlier this year, the governor came up with a Plan A for school budgets if voters approved tax extensions and a Plan B with deeper cuts if they didn’t. County offices warned school districts to bet against the taxes when they made their plans.
“The county would not permit school districts to project revenues that may or may not come to pass,” said Ron Little, the San Diego Unified finance chief. “Now the state is saying, ‘Districts, do exactly that.’”
Schools could have been in trouble if they had counted on tax extensions: Republicans stopped them from even getting onto the ballot. But the County Office didn’t predict — and couldn’t have predicted — that lawmakers would later spare schools from cuts based on projected higher revenues.
“I don’t think the County Office of Education has any greater ability to predict how the state budget is going to turn out than our folks do,” Barrera said. He argued that while smaller districts might need their help, big ones like San Diego Unified don’t. “It’s about political decisions, not financial analysis.”
State finance officials have argued that schools would be unlikely to totally stop planning ahead, since it would hurt them later. School districts still need to make financial plans to get loans. And the county office can still offer advice to districts that want it.
Borrego Springs Unified Superintendent Carmen Garcia said the district is “sticking with the spirit” of the older law. San Marcos Unified Superintendent Kevin Holt says he’ll still plan for the future and listen to County Office advice.
The new law also removes a possible roadblock to rehiring teachers who were laid off.
The state budget could spare teachers, since schools were bracing for deeper cuts. But many districts still face future shortfalls. That could make school districts hesitate before rehiring, if they had to prove to their county office that their future budgets would balance.
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A strong earthquake measuring 6.8 has shaken southwestern Siberia in Russia.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the epicenter of the tremor was located 100 kilometers east of Kyzyl, the capital city of Russia’s Tyva Republic.
The regional emergencies ministry was quoted as saying the quake was felt throughout the Tyva and neighboring regions but caused no casualties or resulted in any serious structural damage.
Nonetheless, several locals reported their apartment windows breaking. The remote and scarcely populated republic on the Mongolian border is one of Russia's most seismically active regions.
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06/01/2010 - "The sera of facial eczema-affected cattle and sheep had concentrations of phytoporphyrin ranging from 0.4 to 1.8 and 0.9 to 2.8 microM, respectively. "
06/01/2003 - "To establish a method for measuring phylloerythrin in plasma or serum and skin from lambs photosensitised after ingestion of the plant, Narthecium ossifragum, which induces an hepatogenous photosensitisation similar to the disease known as facial eczema in sheep. "
06/01/2003 - "To study the increase in phylloerythrin concentration in plasma and the disposition of phylloerythrin in skin and other tissues of sheep in which the hepatogenous photosensitisation,facial eczema, had been experimentally induced by dosing with the mycotoxin, sporidesmin. "
03/01/1983 - "While an obliterative cholangitis is responsible for the retention of phylloerythrin in facial eczema, the occlusion of bile ducts with crystalloid material (microliths) appear to perform a similar function in geeldikkop. "
06/01/2003 - "Spectrofluorometric analysis of phylloerythrin (phytoporphyrin) in plasma and tissues from sheep suffering from facial eczema."
|2.||Photosensitivity Disorders (Photodermatitis)
11/01/1976 - "Presence of phylloerythrin in the blood is a prerequisite for the photosensitization. "
12/01/2006 - "Hepatogenous photosensitization occurs in livestock following damage to the liver or biliary apparatus that results in impaired excretion of phytoporphyrin (phylloerythrin), a photosensitizer. "
|5.||Dehydration (Water Stress)
09/14/2007 - "Single dehydration of 2,3-dihydroxychlorin 3 gave a mixture of 2- and 3-(1-hydroxyethyl)porphyrins 7, while that of 12,13-dihydroxychlorin 5 resulted in the sole formation of 131-hydroxyporphyrin 9. The latter was modified smoothly to the phytoporphyrin analogue 2, whose molecular skeleton was similar to that of naturally occurring chlorophylls possessing a 131-oxo group fixed on an exo-five-membered ring." | <urn:uuid:d6f0c5c9-1351-47c6-a716-b2e47476b284> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.curehunter.com/public/keywordSummaryC008904-phytoporphyrin.do | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00419-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.815142 | 738 | 1.648438 | 2 |
Bud burst standby
Blue tits lay 10-12 eggs, which are incubated over 13-16 days. At this time, the female needs 40 per cent more food and may be fed by her mate up to 1,000 times a day. Once hatched, a nestling needs feeding up to 97 times a day, for about a month. Does the adult tit in this picture look a touch driven?
Research by, among others, Dr Martyn Stenning of the University of Sussex, into the blue tit (species Parus caeruleus), a passerine (genus of bird which flies acrobatically), 11cm long and up to 13gm in weight, has reealed that egg-laying can be synchronised - sometimes to the day - with the bud burst of pedunculate oak (Quercus robur). The moth caterpillars which blue tit chicks love to eat live in the pale green of just-unfurled oak leaves. See epunix.biols.sussex.ac.ukHomeMartyn_Stenning Dr Jefferies, whose video diary has made the Surrey website a hot hit this spring, speculates that late laying may correlate with late oak bud burst: is that agitated female trying to delay her brood until she knows food is secured?
If global warming changes the date of bud burst too much, bird breeding success may wane. It seems unlikely that blue tits' well-publicised success at dunking into foil-capped milk will be able to offset huge ecological change. More on blue tits on www.home.istar.caamonbluetitsintro.htm | <urn:uuid:00bf1b70-9495-4bf5-91d2-7edbad2578ee> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.tes.com/news/tes-archive/tes-publication/bud-burst-standby | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721555.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00179-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907053 | 343 | 2.671875 | 3 |
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People Skills for Library Managers: A Common Sense Guide for Beginners.
This practical handbook focuses on interpersonal skills that will increase the effectiveness of recent library school graduates, paraprofessional librarians, and aides who have assumed the role of managing small public or school libraries. It describes numerous techniques that librarians can use to become better leaders and offers specific examples to illustrate management principles. In the introduction, the need for interpersonal skills in the library setting is examined and necessary skills and related issues are discussed. Chapters include (1) "Successful Management Skills"; (2) "Types and Sources of Power"; (3) "Motivation"; (4) "Team Building"; (5) "Problem Solving"; (6) "Conflict Management"; (7) "Communication Skills"; (8) "Working With Administrators and Other Managers"; (9) "Conducting Successful Workshops, Presentations, and Meetings"; and (10) "Effective Leadership Skills." Short bibliographies with suggested readings follow each chapter. A sample perception survey form is appended. (Author/AEF)
Descriptors: Communication Skills, Elementary Secondary Education, Higher Education, Interpersonal Competence, Leadership Qualities, Librarians, Library Administration, Management Teams, Problem Solving, Professional Development, Public Libraries, School Libraries, Workshops
Libraries Unlimited, Inc., P.O. Box 6633, Englewood, CO 80155-6633 ($19; $23 outside North America).
Publication Type: Books; Guides - Non-Classroom; Tests/Questionnaires
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How to cook a diced steak?
Let me show you step by step how to do it! STEP 1: Place the meat on a cutting board. STEP 2: Sprinkle the meat with a little flour and a little salt and pepper. STEP 3: Beat each steak with a large knife. STEP 4: Turn the meat over and repeat steps 1-3 on the other side.
What can cube steak be used for?
You can use diced steak, just as you would use round steak or beef stew, and simmer until soft in good soups, stews and slow-cooked meals. But since the checkered steak has become soft and flat, it is also often fried in a pan on the stove.
Why is my steak tough?
Diced beef is made from several hard pieces of meat and is processed in a way that helps to create a softer piece of meat. However, the cooking method you use can turn your tender steak into a hard, inedible piece of meat.
Do you need to wash the steak before you cook it?
A common mistake that consumers make in the kitchen is to wash or rinse meat or poultry before cooking. However, it is not recommended to wash raw poultry, beef, pork, lamb or veal before cooking. Bacteria in raw meat and poultry juice can spread to other foods, utensils and surfaces.
Is it dipped in the steak in milk?
As a marinade, however, you get better results by soaking the steaks for four hours or overnight. Remove the steaks from the refrigerator and allow them to reach room temperature in the milk mixture. By letting the steaks heat up, the milk can penetrate deeper into the meat and further soften your steak.
What is the second name of kuberbiff?
The term checkered steak refers to a piece of meat that has passed through a mechanical plasticizer, called a meat bowl or Swiss manufacturing machine. The resulting steak is called checkered steak or Swiss steak due to the cube-shaped depressions made by the tenderer.
Is minced beef equal to beef?
Interestingly, cube steak is like ground beef. The cut comes from the round or rear end of the beef, so it is usually a top or round loin, which can be a little harder than other pieces of beef. However, the structure of beef cubes is very different from minced meat.
Is cube beef the same as Salisbury beef?
Salisbury beef is similar to chicken roast beef, both are different kinds of beef (or beef pressed into burgers) fried in a pan and served with sauce. It is made with a thin, tough steak that is crushed until it is tender or it is made with diced steak.
How can I tenderize meat quickly?
8 easy ways to tenderize meat Physically tender meat. For hard cuts like steak, a meat hammer can be a surprisingly effective way to break down the hard muscle fibers. Use a marinade. Do not forget the salt. Let it come to room temperature. Boil slowly. Achieve the correct internal temperature. Rest the meat. Cut against the grain.
Worcestershire sauce softens the meat?
It turns out that Worcestershire sauce already contains many of the components of a good marinade! It has vinegar to make the meat soft, sugar for sweetness and luster and delicious tasty flavors including onion, garlic, tamarind and anchovies.
Do you wash meat with cold or hot water?
Foods such as fruits or vegetables can contain dirt and bacteria on the surface. Running cold water over fresh products helps to clean them so that things are ready to be eaten. Bacteria are found in the juice of raw meat and poultry.
What do you put in the steak?
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Teach your baby the a hundred commonest phrases within the English language. This will be certain that they’re able to read roughly half of everything written within the English Language. This could range from the bible to a medical encyclopaedia. All books and written materials will comprise these one hundred words. This gives an excellent basis for their future studying.
Don’t concern, nevertheless, in case your seek for an all-in-one mentor leaves you without. Your mentors can be as different as your instructional plan. As said earlier, the internet homeschooling community is an unlimited one. There are numerous forums and groups you can be part of without cost the place other homeschoolers are solely too completely happy to help with your enquiries.
50% of 85 % (.5 instances 85) is 42.5.
So, going again to my experiment, I counted every word in A Treasure Hunt. There are 160 phrases in total in this ebook, of which 102 are widespread words. This means that 63% of the phrases in my son’s first reading guide are common phrases.
Developed text comprehension expertise.
It is advisable ask your youngsters’s opinion concerning the matter. Earlier than you ask their opinion, you must clarify to them first what is home schooling and why you suppose that it is a good selection for them. Listed below are some tips about how you can talk to your youngsters:
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"The Marching Morons" is probably the best-known science fiction story written by Cyril M. Kornbluth. First appearing in Galaxy magazine in 1951, it was reprinted in 1978, in the premier issue of Bob Guccione's slick new magazine, Omni. In it, "Honest John Barlow", a real estate dealer from Evanston, is put into suspended animation during a freak dentistry accident, and is accidentally discovered centuries later by a potter who happens to be one of the few intelligent people left on the planet, overwhelmed by a sea of morons. The few remaining thinking people huddle at the South Pole wondering what to do. Some of them think John Barlow has a solution. Oh, he has a Solution all right, and he demands to be made world dictator first.
The superficial premise of "The Marching Morons" is that intelligent people limit their reproduction while stupid people do not, and
the Social Darwinistic consequence that reason will drown under a tide of stupidity. Something that Harvey Danger would probably agree with. In the words of one of these latter day supermen:
"We need the rockets and trick speedometers and cities because, while you and your kind were being prudent and shortsighted and not having children, the migrant workers, slum dwellers, and tenant farmers were shiftlessly and shortsightedly having children -- breeding, breeding. My God, how they bred!"
Probably something the authors of The Bell Curve would agree with, too. If you read the above paragraph and do not recoil in horror, wondering about the character of the author, thinking "What a fucking racist!" you have something wrong with you.
But, never fear, dear children. Never confuse the attitudes of a story's characters with the attitudes of its author. Hollywood has so conditioned us to expect a happy ending to a story, that some people might think Kornbluth wrote the ending as "happy". In little ways throughout the story, and very clearly at the end, he shows that this is not the case.
Barlow's Solution would have been chillingly familiar to readers of the early 1950s. Kornbluth would have seen it firsthand in Germany, as a soldier at the end of World War II. And when Kornbluth wrote this story, he was at the height of his talent; there are layers upon layers of subtlety here.
So what's the real premise? I've had to think about that for awhile. "Knowledge may be power, but remember power corrupts" is the best I can come up with right now. Perhaps "The world is what we make of it", something that comes across more clearly in his collaboration with Frederik Pohl from about the same time, The Space Merchants.
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Amid a surge in coronavirus infections in some parts of the world, the EU has been working with member countries to agree on which travelers could be considered safe to visit the block from July 1. The orientation will be based on how the countries of origin are doing. with the coronavirus pandemic.
“The criteria will focus on the circulation of the virus,” said an EU diplomat, adding that Brussels is trying to keep travelers away from countries “where the virus is most actively circulating.”
However, the recommendations made by the Commission are not binding. Only an individual country can make the decision to open and close a border.
When asked if the US USA They were on a list of countries of origin that could be banned from traveling to Europe, an EU diplomat directed CNN to the first point of a June 11 checklist published by the European Commission on what to consider when allowing travelers to enter to the EU.
The first item on the checklist asks whether the country can be “considered to be in a comparable or better epidemiological situation as the average in the EU + area” with respect to the number of new infections, the trend of new infections and the answer in areas like testing. , surveillance, location of contacts, containment, treatment and reports.
The United States has the highest number of deaths and infections from coronavirus in the world. Tuesday afternoon in the US In the United States, at least 2,329,637 were infected in the country and 121,029 died, according to the Johns Hopkins University Coronavirus Resource Center.
The diplomat added that some European countries were “reluctant to reopen,” for fear of the second wave of the coronavirus.
A State Department spokesperson told CNN: “We are committed to coordinating with our European partners and allies as we hope to reopen our economies and ease restrictions. We continue to urge American citizens to consult the websites of the websites of the US embassies or consulates information on entry restrictions, foreign quarantine policies, and urgent health information provided by local governments
Among the options being discussed are travel restrictions based on the geographic regions of the US. In the US, instead of a widespread ban across the country, as some regions have higher infection rates than others, two EU officials told CNN.
Another EU diplomat told CNN that the permanent representatives of the EU member states to the European Union discussed this issue on Monday and will discuss it again tomorrow. The diplomat said they had not seen a list of countries, only criteria. This criterion includes the incidence of coronavirus per 100,000 people in the last 14 days.
The White House so far has shown little interest in getting involved on the issue, according to two European officials. “The travel ban on the United States is much stricter, so it is difficult to imagine them making a fuss over this, and they have not,” said a senior European official.
A second European diplomat said the travel ban has nothing to do with the EO signed by United States President Donald Trump this week, which freezes visas for foreign workers. “It is based solely on health considerations,” said this person.
The European Commission tasked with reviewing the checklist criteria is currently “working 24 hours,” according to a Commission official, to get the guidelines back to Member States as soon as possible before the reopening scheduled for 1 December. July.
The ambassadors will meet again on Wednesday and Friday this week to discuss the next steps in the process.
Correction: This article has been updated to reflect that EE. USA It has the highest number of deaths and coronavirus infections worldwide, according to Johns Hopkins University.
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At this point, it seems safe to say that psychedelics are making a remarkable and respectable comeback. Although they’re unlikely to fully shed their association with counterculture anytime soon, numerous research programs are currently underway exploring the curative, therapeutic, and spiritual benefits of these curious substances. It’s still not entirely clear exactly how psychedelics work on us, but a growing body of literature suggests what looks like their almost miraculous potential to, among other things, ease the symptoms of severe depression, erase the more devastating effects of PTSD, and help those in the last stages of life accept their deaths with dignity and, to use a more religious term, grace.
Accompanying the therapeutic benefits of psychedelics has always been fascination with their spiritual potential. Indeed, it’s pretty much a commonplace among many researchers that the intentional use of psychedelics in certain environments (what users and researchers refer to as “set and setting”) can mimic and perhaps even produce authentic mystical experiences. Indeed, many who take psychedelics do so mainly for what they consider to be the spiritual benefit of the experiences they offer. Using psychedelics isn’t so much recreational, in this sense, but a controlled spiritual practice.
We’re probably all familiar with the standard psychedelics used for such purposes—LSD, psilocybin (“magic mushrooms”), mescaline (peyote), and now the ever-popular ayahuasca. But there are literally hundreds of lesser-known naturally occurring and synthetic psychedelics that make similar promises, albeit with varying degrees of success. Case in point, DMT—or 5-methoxy-N,N-dimethyltryptamine (5-MeO-DMT). Found in several plants and, perhaps most famously, in the venom of the Colorado River toad, a recent study in the Journal of Psychopharmacology found that the majority of people who use the substance do so for the expressed purpose of spiritual exploration. Although the article suggests the therapeutic potential of DMT, it seems that the spiritual potential for “the spirit molecule,” is its main draw.
This represents something of a reversal of current trends, at least when it comes to reassuring the public that psychedelics were never the monster they were made out to be. Sure, studies into the potential value of psychedelics often focus on the spiritual components of the experiences, but the actual marketing involved focuses largely on the measurable and the medicinal. Otherwise put, in order to “sell” psychedelics to the public, especially the legislative and legal establishments, it must not only be put on par with other drug therapies but also shown to be even more effective. The approach, in other words, is thoroughly pragmatic, and understandably so: remember that legal, recreational marijuana was first medical marijuana.
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[Twisted-Python] unsafe tracebacks in PB
warner at lothar.com
Sat Sep 24 20:32:59 EDT 2005
> Just wondering, why is it possible to turn on unsafe
> tracebacks only at the server and not at the client?
> PB being symmetrical, this discrimination makes it
> arbitrarily difficuly to debug PB applications
Hey, sorry for the slow response.
It *is* possible to set the 'unsafeTracebacks' flag on both ends of the wire.
PBServerFactory() takes a constructor argument to set this flag, while
PBClientFactory() does not, but you can always set it after the fact:
f = PBClientFactory()
f.unsafeTracebacks = True
I'm more inclined to resolve the asymmetry by removing the argument from
PBServerFactory rather than adding it to PBClientFactory. As a debugging
thing, I feel it isn't entirely appropriate to have as a constructor
argument. However, I don't really feel that strongly about it either way.
For the record, I'll describe a little bit more about what exactly this flag
does, because there *is* a sense in which unsafe tracebacks can only be
enabled on the "server" side of a given method call. The important thing to
remember is that there are two different ways to divide the connection into
"client" and "server" ends.
Suppose you have program A, which has a pb.Referenceable named Alice that
implements remote_foo. Likewise, you have program B, which contains a
pb.Referenceable named Bob that implements remote_bar. Let us further suppose
that program B used PBServerFactory and reactor.listenTCP to make the object
Bob available to the world. Program A then used PBClientFactory and
reactor.connectTCP to obtain a RemoteReference to Bob (and somehow passed a
reference to Alice over to program B at the same time, so that both programs
have a RemoteReference to the other's Referenceable).
Now, the setting of this "unsafe tracebacks" flag on side A only affects
tracebacks being sent *from* side A: that is, for exceptions that occur on
side A, during a remote method invocation that was requested by side B. If
you consider any given method call to have a "client side" (which requests
the call by doing rref.callRemote("foo", args)), and a "server side" (which
implements the method remote_foo(self, args)), then the unsafe-tracebacks
flag is only relevant for the "server side".
In our example, when B does alice.callRemote("foo"), B is the "client" side
and A is the "server" side. If an exception occurs inside Alice's remote_foo
method, it is the setting of A's clientfactory.unsafeTracebacks flag that
determines whether's A's internal state will be exposed to B. On the other
hand, when A does bob.callRemote("bar"), B is the "server" side, so it is B's
serverfactory.unsafeTracebacks flag that matters.
The important point is that the requesting side for any particular method
call does not get to ask for an "unsafe traceback": only the owner of the
sensitive information (in this case, the stack frames leading up to the
exception, and the globals/locals that are in those stack frames) gets to
decide whether or not to share it with the outside world.
The second usage of the terms "client" and "server" here has to do with which
side initiated the TCP connection and which side accepted it. This is how the
PBClientFactory and PBServerFactory classes use these terms. Both of these
classes have an 'unsafeTracebacks' flag, and if you set it to something
non-zero, then any exception-raising methods invoked on that side will send
back a full traceback to the other side. The minor asymmetry here
(constructor argument versus set-the-flag-later) is just an oversight in the
hope that's useful,
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The people of Quincy, Illinois, received the Mormon refugees with kindness. However, it became quickly apparent to Brigham Young and others that some provision must be made for the settlement of this large group of exiles so that they might again undertake productive enterprise.
On April 22, 1839, Joseph Smith and those who had been imprisoned with him in Liberty, Missouri, arrived in Quincy. Their guards had let them go, and they had made their way to the Illinois side of the Mississippi. The following day a conference was called by the Prophet, and a committee was detailed to investigate the purchase of lands. On May 1 the initial purchase was completed, and other purchases were subsequently made until extensive holdings were secured on both the Iowa and Illinois sides of the river.
The principal location was the site of Commerce, Illinois, about forty-five miles north of Quincy. At this point the river makes a broad bend, giving the land on its east bank the appearance of a promontory. At the time of the purchase, one stone house, three frame houses, and two blockhouses constituted the village.
It was an unhealthy place, so wet that a man had difficulty walking across most of it, and teams became mired to their hips. Of the place and its purchase the Prophet later said, “Commerce was so unhealthful, very few could live there; but believing that it might become a healthful place by the blessing of heaven to the Saints, and no more eligible place pre-senting itself, I considered it wisdom to make an attempt to build up a city.” 1
The Prophet’s faith in the future of this site is evident from the name he gave it—Nauvoo, derived from the Hebrew and meaning “the beautiful location.”
A Manifestation of God’s Power
The swamps were drained, and a city was platted with streets crossing at right angles. But the work of building moved slowly. The people were prostrate, exhausted from the trials through which they had passed. Their energies were depleted, and they became easy victims of malaria.
On the morning of July 22, Joseph, who was sick himself, looked about him only to see others sick. The house in which he lived was crowded with them, and tents sheltering other invalids stood in his dooryard. Wilford Woodruff recounts the events which followed the Prophet’s appraisal of this discouraging situation:
“He [Joseph] called upon the Lord in prayer, the power of God rested upon him mightily, and as Jesus healed all the sick around Him in His day, so Joseph, the Prophet of God, healed all around on this occasion. He healed all in his house and dooryard; then, in company with Sidney Rigdon and several of the Twelve, went among the sick lying on the bank of the river, where he commanded them in a loud voice, in the name of Jesus Christ, to rise and be made whole, and they were all healed. When he had healed all on the east side of the river that were sick, he and his companions crossed the Mississippi River in a ferry-boat to the west side. … The first house they went into was President Brigham Young’s. He was sick on his bed at the time. The Prophet went into his house and healed him, and they all came out together.
“As they were passing by my door, Brother Joseph said: ‘Brother Woodruff, follow me.’ These were the only words spoken by any of the company from the time they left Brother Brigham’s house till they crossed the public square, and entered Brother Fordham’s house. Brother Fordham had been dying for an hour, and we expected each minute would be his last. I felt the spirit of God that was overpowering His Prophet. When we entered the house, Brother Joseph walked up to Brother Fordham and took him by the right hand, his left hand holding his hat. He saw that Brother Fordham’s eyes were glazed, and that he was speechless and unconscious.
“After taking his hand, he looked down into the dying man’s face and said: ‘… Do you believe that Jesus is the Christ?’ ‘I do, Brother Joseph,’ was the response. Then the Prophet of God spoke with a loud voice, as in the majesty of Jehovah: ‘Elijah, I command you, in the name of Jesus of Nazareth, to arise and be made whole.’
“The words of the Prophet were not like the words of man, but like the voice of God. It seemed to me that the house shook on its foundation. Elijah Fordham leaped from his bed like a man raised from the dead. A healthy color came to his face, and life was manifested in every act. His feet had been done up in Indian meal poultices; he kicked these off his feet, scattered the contents, then called for his clothes and put them on. He asked for a bowl of bread and milk, and ate it. He then put on his hat and followed us into the street, to visit others who were sick.” 2
Elijah Fordham lived forty-one years after this experience.
A Mission to England
Even while facing the task of building a city, Church members did not neglect the preaching of the gospel. During the summer of 1839, seven members of the Council of the Twelve Apostles left Nauvoo for England. These men were powerful missionaries. The trials through which they had passed had strengthened their convictions concerning the cause with which they were associated, and they won hundreds of converts through the powerful testimonies which they bore.
Wilford Woodruff’s efforts were particularly successful. While preaching in Hanley in the Potteries district of England, he felt impressed to leave that area without knowing why. Obedient to this impression, he traveled to a rural section of Herefordshire. At the home of one John Benbow, a prosperous farmer of the district, he received a cordial welcome and the news that a large group of religionists in that area had broken away from their church and had united themselves to study the scriptures and seek the truth.
Elder Woodruff was given an invitation to speak, and other invitations followed. The organization numbered six hundred, including more than a score of preachers. All of these, with one exception, embraced the restored gospel. Before he left the district, eighteen hundred members had been converted to the Church through his efforts.
At a conference held in the British Isles in April 1840, the decision was made to publish an edition of the Book of Mormon, a hymnbook, and a periodical.
An unusual mission undertaken during this period was that of Orson Hyde, upon whom the Prophet had once pronounced the blessing: “In due time thou shalt go to Jerusalem, the land of thy fathers, and be a watchman unto the house of Israel; and by thy hand shall the Most High do a work, which shall prepare the way and greatly facilitate the gathering together of that people.” 3
In January 1841, Orson Hyde left the States and went to London, where he labored with other missionaries for some months. Then he made his way to Palestine. Early on the Sunday morning of October 24, 1841, he climbed to the top of the Mount of Olives, and there in prayer and with the authority of the priesthood, he dedicated the land of Palestine for the return of the Jews. The prayer reads in part:
“Grant, therefore, O Lord, in the name of Thy well-beloved Son, Jesus Christ, to remove the barrenness and sterility of this land, and let springs of living water break forth to water its thirsty soil. Let the vine and olive produce in their strength, and the fig-tree bloom and flourish. … Let the flocks and the herds greatly increase and multiply upon the mountains and the hills; and let Thy great kindness conquer and subdue the unbelief of Thy people. Do Thou take from them their stony heart, and give them a heart of flesh; and may the Sun of Thy favor dispel the cold mists of darkness which have beclouded their atmosphere. … Let kings become their nursing fathers, and queens with motherly fondness wipe the tear of sorrow from their eye.” 4
Following the prayer, he erected a pile of stones as an altar and a witness of his act. With his mission completed, he returned to Nauvoo, arriving in December 1842.
A City from the Swamps
Meanwhile, things had been happening in the western Illinois colony. Homes, shops, and gardens rose from what had been the swamps of Commerce. But because of the extreme poverty in which these people found themselves, their problems were seriously aggravated. Several unsuccessful attempts were made to secure compensation and redress for the losses they had suffered in Missouri. The most notable of these was a petition to the Congress of the United States and an interview between Joseph Smith and the President of the United States, Martin Van Buren.
The petition availed nothing, and Mr. Van Buren replied with a statement that has become famous in Church history: “Your cause is just, but I can do nothing for you. … If I take up for you I shall lose the vote of Missouri.” 5
The governor of Missouri reacted to these efforts by requesting that the governor of Illinois arrest and deliver to him Joseph Smith and five of his associates as fugitives from justice, although two years had elapsed since they had been allowed to escape from imprisonment in Missouri. The Illinois governor honored the requisition, but on a writ of habeas corpus Judge Stephen A. Douglas released the defendants. This action, however, only delayed the Missourians in the execution of their avowed purposes.
The Building of the Temple
During this same period, a decision was made to build a temple in Nauvoo. This sacred edifice was to be reserved for special ordinance work, including baptism for the dead.
The doctrine whereby one who has the opportunity to be baptized is saved, while he who does not have the opportunity is damned, has always appeared discriminatory. And yet the scripture reads, “Except a man be born of water and of the Spirit, he cannot enter into the kingdom of God.” 6 The law is all-inclusive.
Joseph Smith resolved this question with the doctrine of vicarious baptism for the dead, announcing it as a revelation from God. When performed under proper authority, baptism may be received by living proxies acting in behalf of the dead. Such a practice existed in the primitive Church. This is attested by the words of Paul to the Corinthians: “Else what shall they do which are baptized for the dead, if the dead rise not at all? why are they then baptized for the dead?” 7
To provide facilities for such vicarious work, as well as for other sacred ordinances, the Prophet was commanded through revelation to erect a temple. On April 6, 1841, ten thousand members of the Church assembled for the laying of the cornerstones of this structure. By November 8 the baptismal font was completed, and by October 30, 1842, the building had progressed sufficiently to permit the holding of meetings in some rooms. However, it was April 30, 1846, after most of the Saints had left Nauvoo, before it was completed in detail. The building cost approximately one million dollars, and at the time it was regarded as the finest structure in the state of Illinois.
This magnificent edifice stood on the highest elevation of the city and commanded a view of the entire countryside on both sides of the river. It became the crown of Nauvoo, which in itself was remarkable in contrast with most of the frontier towns of America, and which prior to its evacuation was the largest then in Illinois.
Many distinguished visitors called at Nauvoo during this period of intense activity. In 1843 an English writer described the community in an article which was widely published:
“The city is of great dimensions, laid out in beautiful order; the streets are wide, and cross each other at right angles, which will add greatly to its order and magnificence when finished. The city rises on a gentle incline from the rolling Mississippi, and as you stand near the temple, you may gaze on the picturesque scenery around; at your side is the temple, the wonder of the world; round about, and beneath, you may behold handsome stores, large mansions, and fine cottages, interspersed with varied scenery. … Peace and harmony reign in the city. The drunkard is scarcely ever seen, as in other cities, neither does the awful imprecation or profane oath strike upon your ear; but, while all is storm, and tempest, and confusion abroad respecting the Mormons, all is peace and harmony at home.” 8
Colonel Thomas L. Kane visited Nauvoo three years later. His description is particularly interesting:
“Ascending the Upper Mississippi in the Autumn, when its waters were low, I was compelled to travel by land past the region of the Rapids. … My eye wearied to see everywhere sordid, vagabond and idle settlers; and a country marred, without being improved, by their careless hands.
“I was descending the last hillside upon my journey, when a landscape in delightful contrast broke upon my view. Half encircled by a bend of the river, a beautiful city lay glittering in the fresh morning sun; its bright new dwellings, set in cool green gardens, ranging up around a stately dome-shaped hill, which was crowned by a noble marble edifice, whose high tapering spire was radiant with white and gold. The city appeared to cover several miles; and beyond it, in the back ground, there rolled off a fair country, chequered by the careful lines of fruitful husbandry. The unmistakeable marks of industry, enterprise and educated wealth, everywhere, made the scene one of singular and most striking beauty.” 9
Visitors who came to Nauvoo were impressed with the man under whose direction this remarkable city had risen from disease-ridden swamps. The Prophet at this time was at the zenith of his career. Many of those who knew him during this period have left descriptions of him. He was well built, about six feet tall, and weighed approximately two hundred pounds. His eyes were blue, his hair brown and wavy, his skin clear and almost beardless. He was a man of great energy and dignified bearing.
After visiting him, the Masonic grand master of Illinois wrote: “On the subject of religion we widely differed, but he appeared to be quite as willing to permit me to enjoy my right of opinion as I think we all ought to be to let the Mormons enjoy theirs. But instead of the ignorant and tyrannical upstart, judge my surprise at finding him a sensible, intelligent companion and gentlemanly man.” 10
One of the most distinguished men to visit Joseph Smith during this period was Josiah Quincy, who had been mayor of Boston. Out of his impressions of the Prophet he later wrote:
“It is by no means improbable that some future textbook … will contain a question something like this: What historical American of the nineteenth century has exerted the most powerful influence upon the destinies of his countrymen? And it is by no means impossible that the answer to that interrogatory may be thus written: Joseph Smith, the Mormon prophet. …
“Born in the lowest ranks of poverty, without book-learning and with the homeliest of all human names, he had made himself at the age of thirty-nine a power upon earth. Of the multitudinous family of Smith, from Adam down (Adam of the ‘Wealth of Nations,’ I mean), none had so won human hearts and shaped human lives as this Joseph.” 11
Such was the reaction of strangers who came to Nauvoo and called upon its most prominent citizen.
In 1839 the Saints had purchased land so swampy that a horse had difficulty walking across it. By 1844 they had built on this same ground a city without equal on all of the Ameri-can frontier. Sturdy brick homes, some of which are still occupied, broad farms and orchards, shops, schools, and a magnificent temple—with twenty thousand citizens, gathered not only from the eastern states and Canada, but from the British Isles as well—This was Nauvoo—the Beautiful!
1. HC 3:375.
2. In Matthias F. Cowley, Wilford Woodruff (Salt Lake City: Bookcraft, 1964), pp. 104–5.
3. CHC 2:45.
4. HC 4:457.
5. HC 4:80.
6. John 3:5.
8. In George Q. Cannon, Life of Joseph Smith the Prophet (Salt Lake City: Deseret Book Co., 1964), pp. 354–55.
9. The Mormons (Philadelphia: King and Baird, 1850), pp. 3–4.
10. In Cannon, Life of Joseph Smith the Prophet, p. 352.
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Homosexuality was a criminal offence in the UK until I was nine years old. Attitudes towards gay people remained extremely hostile in much of society even after it was legalised for people over 21 in 1967. At school, I am sorry to say I shared to a large extent in the sneering and intolerant culture that was prevalent at that time.
In an age where there were just three television channels and nobody watched one of them, a new television play was a major event that could reach a mass audience in the way nothing can today. That is partly why Ken Loach had even more political effect with Cathy Come Home than with I, Daniel Blake. I am convinced that John Hurt’s towering performance in The Naked Civil Servant changed society. It brought the individual confrontations Quentin Crisp had engineered his entire life, and expanded them to confront half of the nation with the existence, and right to dignity, of gay people.
Of course Crisp himself was the hero, but John Hurt took a career threatening risk in taking the part and showed great courage and conviction. Hurt’s ability to manipulate the palette of courage, arch wit, and vulnerability that the role required gave the drama its impact, and propelled it with a shocking force I don’t believe any other actor could have managed.
I am not gay, but in a kind of solidarity I immediately adopted as a boy a number of Quentin Crisp’s mannerisms, including the long fingernails, hair and velvet jacket! I persisted with this for a great many years. A group of us at school adopted similar style, though I don’t recall ever discussing the Crisp influence. In 1978 I was delighted to meet Quentin Crisp, still pushing the boundaries by performing to a Dundee pub.
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ADPH wants you to be mindful of monkeypox symptoms
JEFFERSON COUNTY, Ala. (WBRC) - We’re getting new advice on what you need to know now that at least two cases of monkeypox are confirmed in Alabama.
Doctors don’t know yet how the patient in Mobile County or the one here in Jefferson County picked up the virus.
But Dr. Wes Stubblefield with the Alabama Department of Public Health said it’s does not spread easily.
He said it’s mainly transmitted through prolonged skin-to-skin contact.
Although, there are rare instances where it spreads through respiratory droplets.
The CDC said there are now more than 1,800 probable or confirmed monkeypox cases across the country.
While ADPH isn’t especially concerned right now, health officers want you to be mindful of the symptoms.
“Between the time that the virus passes into the body until you show symptoms, generally, 1 to 3 weeks and then sometimes in that period you’ll develop most of the time some lymph node swelling just not feeling well maybe some fever and then 1 to 3 days later, you’ll have the lesions pop up. They can be anywhere, usually, historically it’s been mostly on the face and upper chest and then kind of moving down from there,” Dr. Wes Stubblefield said.
Dr. Stubblefield said if you believe you’ve been exposed to monkeypox, he advises you to go to your local health department to get tested right away.
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Definitions of degrade
v. t. - To reduce from a higher to a lower rank or degree; to lower in rank; to deprive of office or dignity; to strip of honors; as, to degrade a nobleman, or a general officer. 2
v. t. - To reduce in estimation, character, or reputation; to lessen the value of; to lower the physical, moral, or intellectual character of; to debase; to bring shame or contempt upon; to disgrace; as, vice degrades a man. 2
v. t. - To reduce in altitude or magnitude, as hills and mountains; to wear down. 2
v. i. - To degenerate; to pass from a higher to a lower type of structure; as, a family of plants or animals degrades through this or that genus or group of genera. 2
The word "degrade" uses 7 letters: A D D E E G R.
No direct anagrams for degrade found in this word list.
Words formed by adding one letter before or after degrade (in bold), or to addeegr in any order:
b - badgered d - degraded g - daggered h - hardedge n - dangered deranged gandered gardened o - dogeared r - degrader regarded regraded s - degrades
Shorter words found within degrade:
ad add adder ae ag age aged agee ager agree agreed ar are dad dag dare dared de dead deader dear dee deed deer dere drag dragee dread dredge dree dreed dreg eager eagre ear eared ed edge edged edger egad eger er era ere erg gad gadder gae gaed gar gear geared ged gee geed grad grade graded gree greed rad rag rage raged ragee re read readd red redd rede reded ree reed reg
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The Unclaimed Baggage Center is a family-run Alabama treasure—one that’s well-known all across the country. Since 1970, it has offered a place for unwanted and unclaimed luggage to find a home. It even donates or recycles some of its findings! Now, as Unclaimed Baggage is celebrating 50 years, we’re stepping back in time to take a look at its history.
Heading to the Skies
In the years after World War II, airplanes became a viable, widely-available form of transportation. Because post-war soldiers and pilots had more experience flying, they realized they could head to the skies for work and travel. Some became private pilots, while others contributed to the sudden, fast-growing arrival of the commercial airfare industry. By the 1950s, it became a full-fledged phenomenon—and a popular form of travel, too.
Commercial flights meant more people could see the world. They also came with a new quirk: lost or unclaimed baggage. So, a new question arose: what would airports do with unclaimed luggage?
Founding of Unclaimed Baggage
In 1970, Entrepreneur Doyle Owens learned that people could actually buy unclaimed baggage. That made him realize that he could turn an inconvenience into a business! He began a long-running local venture, retailing unclaimed luggage from card tables.
Unclaimed Baggage is celebrating 50 years—and it’s all because of the Owens family. Doyle, his wife, and children turned this business from a two-day-a-week sales opportunity to a full-time establishment. They also streamlined the operation by earning contracts with baggage handling and airline companies. Eastern Airlines became the first to join their venture, and other airlines soon followed.
Bryan and Sharon Owens ran the Center after buying it from Doyle Owens, Bryan’s father in 1995. They are both responsible for the adjoining museum, which offers a look at the cool treasures that come their way.
This iconic business is more than just a family tradition—it’s a way of life. Currently, Bryan and Sharon’s three sons are running the Unclaimed Baggage Center. Matt, Micah, and Ben Owens are even working to bring the store online.
Wondering just how many folks like to visit this Scottsboro landmark? Under the ownership of the Owens brothers, the Unclaimed Baggage Center welcomes more than a million different guests each and every year!
You can find the Unclaimed Baggage center at 509 West Willow St. in Scottsboro, Alabama. That’s right—it’s near us! Though they’re currently closed to help prevent the spread of COVID-19, you can always add a visit to your post-social-distancing plans!
Just can’t wait? Visit their site. They plan to reveal a new online store soon!
Scottsboro, Alabama is filled with amazing sites—just like the Unclaimed Baggage center. Congratulations are in order! After all, Unclaimed Baggage is celebrating 50 years. Here’s to a full century—or longer!
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By now most people are familiar with the ongoing debate about how far government should be able to go in monitoring Internet communications. Such was the topic of a recent discussion at the Voice of America building in Washington, D.C. Judging by the remarks of the event’s panelists, especially those of Ambassador Philip Verveer, the State Department’s Coordinator for International Communications and Information Policy, there seems to be a considerable diversity of opinion within the government itself on the issue of cyber security.
There are some very good reasons for the government to put in place good cyber-security policies. The Internet is a cultural, social, and economic engine that acts as the very infrastructure on which most of America operates. But we also know that criminal networks and terrorist organizations often use the Internet for propaganda, operations, and recruitment.
However, as Congress pursues new cyber security legislation and DHS institutes its new cyber awareness campaign (Stop Think Connect), among other federal cyber initiatives, it remains important to reflect on just how much authority government ought to have on cyber matters.
Earlier this year, there was intense debate over the controversial “kill switch” capability which would have granted the President emergency control of the Internet to shut down online traffic in the event of a serious threat. The provision has since been removed from the Senate’s Cybersecurity Act of 2010; however, this is not the end of the debate in terms of Internet freedom and the role of government.
Tellingly, Ambassador Verveer first cited the ability of an Administration to monitor and censor the Internet when asked about the greatest threat to online freedom—before he went on to mention security threats posed by terrorists. Verveer and others have also argued that there are economic reasons for the importance of online freedom.
It remains important to fight terrorists on the electronic battlefield. The Cybersecurity Act’s emergency plan for collaboration between private and public sectors has the potential to bring some benefit in terms of national security. However, cyber-security legislation must avoid focusing too much on instituting a large scale regulatory regime that would force the private sector to spend too much money meeting regulations—a move that would certainly be bad for business and consequentially bad for consumers. | <urn:uuid:ba0ba27a-0bf2-4057-9c3c-d8a1ac67b188> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dailysignal.com/2010/10/20/cyber-security-vs-online-freedom/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00555-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.961523 | 451 | 2.515625 | 3 |
WATCH: Mass Bike-Sharing in Hangzhou
A new video by StreetFilms takes us to Hangzhou, China, to see the "biggest, baddest bike-share in the world." More than 240,000 people ride every day, from suited-up businessmen to college kids, hopping on their bright-red public bicycles and zipping through wide bike lanes.
While there are bike-sharing programs all over the world, Hangzhou's scale and efficiency is unparalleled. More than 2,000 bicycle stations are less than 1,000 feet from each other and seamlessly integrated with busses and trains, solving the “last-mile” problem of public transit. With no fee for the first hour, and 50,000 bikes in the city, everyone has access.
As one woman says, “Biking certainly is cheaper than taking the taxi and faster than walking. It’s convenient, and the rental is essentially free.” It's no wonder that the program has the highest satisfaction rate of any city development project, and that Hangzhou Bicycle Co. plans to increase the number of bikes to 175,000 by 2020.
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Last month in Southern California, Coronado High School's mostly white basketball team beat Orange Glen High School's mostly Latino team in a regional championship. After the game, there were confrontations on the court during which Coronado players and fans threw tortillas at the Orange Glen High School players. Since then, the the Coronado Unified School District Board fired the coach.
NBC 7 reported that the adult who brought the tortillas, Luke Serna, claims that, "the tossing of tortillas is used as a celebratory action by the UC Santa Barbara Gauchos at various sporting events including basketball and soccer" and that "there was absolutely no racial intent behind that action."
Yesterday, the California Interscholastic Federation which investigated the incident announced in a news release that Coronado High School has been stripped of its championship title and received additional sanctions including putting players on probation for three years. From CNN:
The team and its athletic staff are also required to complete a sportsmanship workshop, which includes training on racial and cultural sensitivity.
"In this instance, there is no doubt the act of throwing tortillas at a predominately Latino team is unacceptable and warrants sanctions," the release states. "The path towards real change comes with the development of empathy for those who are on the receiving end of this type of degrading and demeaning behavior, no matter the proffered intent of that behavior." | <urn:uuid:25e6d5c2-41cf-4271-aa87-df13251ed1c0> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://boingboing.net/2021/07/01/mostly-white-high-school-basketball-team-sanctioned-after-players-threw-tortillas-at-mostly-latino-opposing-team.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.971243 | 289 | 1.515625 | 2 |
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