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Challenges for Joe and Kamala
The majority of Americans, and the vast majority of people in other countries throughout the world, heaved a sigh of relief when Joe Biden won the 2020 US presidential election. Hopes for the future soared, as the world seemed to be rid of Trump at last!
There is so much wrong with Donald Trump that one hardly knows where to start. He is a bully, braggart, narcicist, racist, mysogenist, habitual liar, and tax evader, in addition to being demonstrably ignorant. He has contempt for both domestic and international law, as well as for the US Constitution. In the words of Michael Moore, he is a “part-time clown and full-time sociopath”. However, it is Trump's climate change denial, withdrawal from the Paris agreement, and sponsorship of fossil fuels that posed the greatest threats to the future of humans society and the biosphere.
Trump's climate change denial, withdrawal from the Paris agreement, and sponsorship of fossil fuels posed the greatest threats to the future of humans society and the biosphere.
Why did Professor Noam Chomsky call the US Republican Party “The most dangerous organization in the history of the world”? In the primary that preceded the 2016 presidential election, every single Republican candidate with a chance of being nominated was a climate change denier. All received amazingly generous checks from giant fossil fuel organizations. When elected, Donald Trump not only pulled the United States out of the Paris Agreement; he also sabotaged the Environmental Protection Agency to such an extent that the carefully collected facts on climate change that the agency had accumulated had to be secretly saved by scientists to prevent their destruction by the Trump administration. Furthermore, Donald Trump not only subsidized giant coal corporations. He also has sabotaged renewable energy initiatives in the United States. This is a major crime. It is a crime against humanity and a crime against the biosphere.
Other crimes committed by Donald Trump include deliberately ignoring the dangers of COVID-19, of which he was well aware, for the sake of corporate profits. At least a hundred thousand Americans died needlessly because of his deliberate supression of the facts. This was mass murder on an enormous scale.
One should not forget the terrible cruelty of the separation of children from their families at the US border:
During his term of office, Trump has lied an average of 15 times every day, according to the Washington Post's fact checker. In this way he has cultivated a culture in which his followers came to have no regard for the truth. They live in a delusional world, believing whatever their leader tells them. In this delusional world Republicans believe in strange QAnon theories, and they believe that Trump actually won the 2020 election by a landslide.
Donald Trump is guilty of tax evasion and misuse of federal funds for personal gain; and he has violated the US Constitution, as well as international laws. He encouraged Georgia's Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger to commit fraud in a famous taped telephone conversation. And finally, on January 6, 2021, Trump incited a mob of his supporters to storm his nation's capitol in an insurrection and coup attempt, with the object of reversing the clear results of the 2020 presidential election. The fact that the large mob easily gained access to the capitol raises questions regarding police complicity, since the intentions of the mob of domestic terrorists were clearly known well in advance of the event.
An outraged House of Representatives has impeached Trump for the second time, giving him the destinction of being the only president in American history to be impeached twice. Ten Republicans broke ranks and signed the document charging Trump with inciting an insurrection. It remains to be seen what the Senate will do, but if the necessary 17 members do not cross the isle, Trump can nevertheless be prevented from holding future office throught the 14th Ammendment, which requires only a simple majority in both houses.
One hopes that this evil man will be prosecuted for his many serious crimes.
Congratulations on some good decisions
Joe Biden should be congratulated on some good decisions. Among these was his choice of Kamala Harris as his running mate. Because of his age, there is a danger that Joe Biden might die in office. We hope, of course, that this will not happen, but if it should, Kamala Harris would be the first woman to become President of the United States. She is well equipped for this office.
Other good decisions for which Joe Biden should be congratulated include his choice of strong teams to deal with the COVID-19 pandemic and with the climate crisis.
“Back to normal” is not good enough
Having praised Joe Biden for his good decisions, we must also notice his bad ones. Many of the people whom he has chosen for his cabinet, or for other high offices, have received large amounts of money from corporations. Many have supported war and torture. Most of Biden's cabinet choices held posts during the Obama administration. This is not good enough! The United States must renounce it aggressive foreign wars and its attempts to achieve global hegemony through military power! It is time for the United States to renounce exceptionalism and become an equal partner with all the other nations of the world. It is time for the vast river of money now wasted, or worse than wasted, on armaments, to be used for constructive social purposes, such as creating renewable energy infrastructure, relieving students' debt, and establishing universal health care. Finally, America's shockingly excessive economic inequality must be reduced. Neoliberalism and corporate rule are not good enough. The people's voice must be heard, rather than the voice of corporate greed.
The Biden-Harris Inauguration
Because of the threats of more violence from the far right, Washington D.C. was completely shut down. Bridges into the city were closed. The entire area near Capitol Hill was blocked off by high fences topped with rolls of barbed wire. Washington was guarded by more 20, 000 armed National Guard troops, who had been carefully screened by the FBI to prevent infiltration by right-wing domestic terrorists. In the capitol's Mall, where crowds of cheering spectators would normally stand, there instead waved 200,000 US flags. It was an Inauguration Day like no other in history.
January 20 was a cold day, but the sun was shining. On the platform before the Capitol, an array of distinguished guests were assembled, including former presidents and members of the Senate and the House of Representatives from both parties. Prominent roles in the ceremony were given to Republicans as well as to Democrats. A landmark moment occurred when Kamala Harris was sworn in as the first woman Vice President.
Then came the moment for which everyone had been waiting. Joseph R. Biden Jr. was sworn in as the 46th President of the United States. Speaking with deep sincerity and heartfelt emotion, he delivered his Inaugural Address.
Among other things, Joe Biden said:
“Few periods in our nation's history have been more challenging or difficult than the one we're in now. A once-in-a-century virus silently stalks the country. It's taken as many lives in one year as America lost in all of World War II. Millions of jobs have been lost. Hundreds of thousands of businesses closed.
“A cry for racial justice some 400 years in the making moves us. The dream of justice for all will be deferred no longer.
“A cry for survival comes from the planet itself. A cry that can't be any more desperate or any more clear.
“And now, a rise in political extremism, white supremacy, domestic terrorism that we must confront and we will defeat.
“To overcome these challenges -- to restore the soul and to secure the future of America -- requires more than words. It requires that most elusive of things in a democracy: Unity.”
We wish Joe Biden and Kamala Harris success in meeting these challenges.
John Scales Avery
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Here are some of my thoughts from Skilling v. United States,decided today by the Supreme Court.
From Justice Ginsburg’s holding:
We consider in this opinion two questions arisingfrom the prosecution of Jeffrey Skilling, a longtime Enron executive, for crimes committed before the corporation’scollapse. First, did pretrial publicity and communityprejudice prevent Skilling from obtaining a fair trial? Second, did the jury improperly convict Skilling of conspiracy to commit “honest-services” wire fraud, 18 U. S. C.§§371, 1343, 1346?Answering no to both questions, the Fifth Circuit affirmed Skilling’s convictions. We conclude, in common with the Court of Appeals, that Skilling’s fair-trial argument fails; Skilling, we hold, did not establish that a presumption of juror prejudice arose or that actual bias infected the jury that tried him. But we disagree with the Fifth Circuit’s honest-services ruling. In proscribingfraudulent deprivations of “the intangible right of honest services,” §1346, Congress intended at least to reachschemes to defraud involving bribes and kickbacks. Construing the honest-services statute to extend beyond that core meaning, we conclude, would encounter a vagueness shoal. We therefore hold that §1346 covers only bribery and kickback schemes. Because Skilling’s alleged misconduct entailed no bribe or kickback, it does not fall within §1346’s proscription.
Part I of the opinion, written by Justice Ginsburg, and joined by ROBERTS, C. J., and STEVENS, SCALIA, KENNEDY, THOMAS, and ALITO, JJ., focused on pretrial publicity,.
Part II of the opinion (beginning on page 11), written by Justice Ginsburg, and joined by ROBERTS, C. J., and SCALIA, KENNEDY, and THOMAS, JJ., focused on juror prejudice.
Part III, of the opinion, written by Justice Ginsburg, and joined by ROB-ERTS, C. J., and STEVENS, BREYER, ALITO, and SOTOMAYOR, JJ found that the honest services fraud statute is constitutional.
Justice Scalia, joined by Justices Thomas and Kennedy did not agree with Part III, and concurred separately. Scalia would have found that the honest services fraud was void for vagueness, and unconstitutional.
Justice Sotomayor, joined by Justices Stevens and Breyer, wrote a dissenting opinion, disagreeing with Parts I and II, though the troika joined Part III, upholding the constitutionality of the honest services fraud.
So how to score this? I see 9 votes for reversing Skilling’s conviction and 6 votes for upholding the constitutionality of honest services fraud.
The meat of the opinion focuses on the constitutionality of the honest services fraud. Skilling was convicted on a conspiracy theory of honest-services wire fraud. While the Court found that the statute was not unconstitutionally vague, Skilling’s conduct–conspiracy–did not fall within the statute’s compass. Only bribery and kickbacks were within the statute.
More analysis after the jump.
Justice Ginsburg discusses the history of honest-services fraud, and notes that when possible, the Court will avoid striking down a federal statute for vagueness:
It has long been our practice, however, before strikinga federal statute as impermissibly vague, to consider whether the prescription is amenable to a limiting construction. See, e.g., Hooper v. California, 155 U. S. 648, 657 (1895) (“The elementary rule is that every reasonable construction must be resorted to, in order to save a statute from unconstitutionality.” (emphasis added)). See also Boos v. Barry, 485 U. S. 312, 330–331 (1988); Schneider v. Smith, 390 U. S. 17, 26 (1968).41 We have accordingly instructed “the federal courts . . . to avoid constitutional difficulties by [adopting a limiting interpretation] if such a construction is fairly possible.” Boos, 485 U. S., at 331; see United States v. Harriss, 347 U. S. 612, 618 (1954) (“[I]f the general class of offenses to which the statute is directed is plainly within its terms, the statute will not bestruck down as vague . . . . And if this general class ofoffenses can be made constitutionally definite by a reasonable construction of the statute, this Court is under a dutyto give the statute that construction.”).
Narrowly construing the statute, Justice Ginsburg finds that it reaches at least bribes and kickbacks.
instructed “the federal courts . . . to avoid constitutional difficulties by [adopting a limiting interpretation] if such a construction is fairly possible.” Boos, 485 U. S., at 331; see United States v. Harriss, 347 U. S. 612, 618 (1954) (“[I]f the general class of offenses to which the statute is directed is plainly within its terms, the statute will not bestruck down as vague . . . . And if this general class ofoffenses can be made constitutionally definite by a reasonable construction of the statute, this Court is under a dutyto give the statute that construction.”). To preserve the statute without transgressing constitutional limitations, we now hold that §1346 criminalizes only the bribeand-kickback core of the pre-McNally case law.44
The Court also invokes the rule of lenity!
Further dispelling doubt on this point is the familiar principle that “ambiguity concerning the ambit of criminal statutes should be resolved in favor of lenity.” Cleveland, 531 U. S., at 25 (quoting Rewis v. United States, 401 U. S. 808, 812 (1971)).
In a footnote, Justice Ginsburg addresses how the government could criminalize the nebulous ““undisclosed self-dealing by a public official or private employee,”
45If Congress were to take up the enterprise of criminalizing “undisclosed self-dealing by a public official or private employee,” Brief for United States 43, it would have to employ standards of sufficient definiteness and specificity to overcome due process concerns. The Government proposes a standard that prohibits the “taking of officialaction by the employee that furthers his own undisclosed financial interests while purporting to act in the interests of those to whom he owes a fiduciary duty,” so long as the employee acts with a specificintent to deceive and the undisclosed conduct could influence the victim to change its behavior. Id., at 43–44. See also id., at 40–41. That formulation, however, leaves many questions unanswered. How direct or significant does the conflicting financial interest have to be? To what extent does the official action have to further that interest in order to amount to fraud? To whom should the disclosure be made and what information should it convey? These questions and others call for particular care in attempting to formulate an adequate criminal prohibition in this context.
Justice Scalia, joined by Justices Thomas and Kennedy, joined the Court’s opinion, except as to Part III. Scalia would have struck down the honest services fraud as void for vagueness. Scalia compares the Court’s construing of the honest-services fraud to only reach bribery and kickbacks to the development of common law federal crimes.
In my view, the specification in 18 U. S. C. §1346 (2006 ed., Supp. II) that “scheme or artifice to defraud” inthe mail-fraud and wire-fraud statutes, §§1341 and 1343(2006 ed.), includes “a scheme or artifice to deprive another of the intangible right of honest services,” is vague, and therefore violates the Due Process Clause of the Fifth Amendment. The Court strikes a pose of judicial humility in proclaiming that our task is “not to destroy the Act . . . but to construe it,” ante, at 43 (internal quotation marks omitted). But in transforming the prohibition of “honestservices fraud” into a prohibition of “bribery and kickbacks” it is wielding a power we long ago abjured: the power to define new federal crimes. See United States v. Hudson, 7 Cranch 32, 34 (1812).
In his lengthy criticism of the case law supporting honest-services fraud, Nino breaks out a little French. Citing international law: bad. Using international languages: continental.
The indefiniteness of the fiduciary duty is not all. Manycourts held that some je-ne-sais-quoi beyond a merebreach of fiduciary duty was needed to establish honestservices fraud.
Scalia lances the holding here, and criticizes the bribery/kickback core the Court finds underlying the statute.
The Court is aware of all this. It knows that adopting by reference “the pre-McNally honest-services doctrine,” ante, at 43, is adopting by reference nothing more precise than the referring term itself (“the intangible right ofhonest services”). Hence the deus ex machina: “[W]e parethat body of precedent down to its core,” ante, at 39. Since the honest-services doctrine “had its genesis” in briberyprosecutions, and since several cases and counsel forSkilling referred to bribery and kickback schemes as “core” or “paradigm” or “typical” examples, or “[t]he most obvious form,” of honest-services fraud, ante, at 43–44 (internalquotation marks omitted), and since two cases and counsel for the Government say that they formed the “vast majority,” or “most” or at least “[t]he bulk” of honest-services cases, ante, at 43–44 (internal quotation marks omitted),THEREFORE it must be the case that they are all Congress meant by its reference to the honest-services doctrine.
As my colleague Mike Sacks observed, Nino wrote in all caps for the therefore. Sharp.
Scalia notes that even if the bribery/kickback core made sense, the statute is still too vague–who does it apply to?
Even if that conclusion followed from its premises, it would not suffice to eliminate the vagueness of the statute. It would solve (perhaps) the indeterminacy of what acts constitute a breach of the “honest services” obligation under the pre-McNally law. But it would not solve the most fundamental indeterminacy: the character of the“fiduciary capacity” to which the bribery and kickback restriction applies. Does it apply only to public officials?Or in addition to private individuals who contract with thepublic? Or to everyone, including the corporate officer here? The pre-McNally case law does not provide an answer. Thus, even with the bribery and kickback limitation the statute does not answer the question “What is thecriterion of guilt?”
Scalia goes on to criticize the Court’s faux-modesty:
To say that bribery andkickbacks represented “the core” of the doctrine, or thatmost cases applying the doctrine involved those offenses, is not to say that they are the doctrine. All it proves isthat the multifarious versions of the doctrine overlap with regard to those offenses. But the doctrine itself is much more. Among all the pre-McNally smörgåsbord-offeringsof varieties of honest-services fraud, not one is limited to bribery and kickbacks. That is a dish the Court has cooked up all on its own.
Arriving at that conclusion requires not interpretationbut invention. The Court replaces a vague criminal standard that Congress adopted with a more narrow one (included within the vague one) that can pass constitutional muster. I know of no precedent for such “paring down,”3 and it seems to me clearly beyond judicial power. This is not, as the Court claims, ante, at 41, simply a matter of adopting a “limiting construction” in the face of potential unconstitutionality.
Scalia proceeds to talk about the avoidance canon, a topic that has been amply discussed this term.
The canon of constitutional avoidance, on which the Court so heavily relies, see ante, at 41–42, states that “when the constitutionality of a statute is assailed, if the statute be reasonably susceptible of two interpretations,by one of which it would be unconstitutional and by the other valid, it is our plain duty to adopt that constructionwhich will save the statute from constitutional infirmity.” United States ex rel. Attorney General v. Delaware & Hudson Co., 213 U. S. 366, 407 (1909); see also United States v. Rumely, 345 U. S. 41, 45 (1953) (describing the canon as decisive “in the choice of fair alternatives”). Here there is no choice to be made between two “fair alternatives.” Until today, no one has thought (and there is no basis for thinking) that the honest-services statute prohibited only bribery and kickbacks.
In prior vagueness cases, we have resisted the temptation to make all things right with the stroke of our pen. See, e.g., Smith v. Goguen, 415 U. S. 566, 575 (1974).I would show the same restraint today, and reverse Skilling’s conviction on the basis that §1346 provides no “ascertainable standard” for the conduct it condemns, L. Cohen, 255 U. S., at 89. Instead, the Court today adds to our functions the prescription of criminal law.
Scalia also seems to have some questions about Marbury.
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Irondequoit High School College Application Night Wednesday, October 15, 2008 Stacy A. Ledermann Director of Freshman Admissions St. John Fisher College
Key Factors in College Admissions: Academic performance in high school Standardized test results Extracurricular Involvement Personal Interview Letters of Recommendation Personal Statement/College Essay
Academic Performance in High School Best indicator of success in college GPA – grade point average Recalculation – academic core Strength of curriculum Senior year coursework Preparation for chosen major High school profile
Standardized Test Results Second factor at many colleges SAT ACT Combined scores from multiple test dates Relationship to academic performance
Extracurricular Involvement Quality, not quantity Commitment over time Specific involvements Leadership Roles Service/Volunteerism Employment in place of activities Activity resumes enhance application
The Personal Interview Important, even if not required Opportunity for the college to know you Way for you to learn about the college Parent vs. student roles Practice interviewing – it’s a skill
Letters of Recommendation Submit 1 – 3 even if not required Most valuable from those who know you Help to present you in a different light Be considerate of those you ask
Personal Statement/College Essay Opportunity for you to share personal values Choose your topic carefully Follow the directions Proofread, edit, and rewrite Don’t do it last
The Application Process Be neat, thorough, and punctual Present yourself honestly Promote yourself and your accomplishments Do more, not less Be mindful of deadlines Develop an organizational process
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A move by Alworth to schedule a referendum question on the school board election ballot to reduce the board from nine to seven members met with stiff resistance at a Tuesday, Feb. 12 meeting. When Alworth was appointed board president last April, he said one of his goals was to reduce the board membership to seven. At the board's Feb. 12 meeting, Alworth said that after researching the question, he believes the board would work more efficiently with fewer members.
However, the only way a school board can be reduced is with public approval in a referendum. Last Tuesday, members discussed the idea and a formal vote on a referendum will be made at the board's Tuesday, Feb. 26 meeting.
Alworth did not specify his sources but said his research has shown that teams work best with five to seven members. But, he said the research did not cover education teams or school boards. Large groups, Alworth said, end up having less communication and sometimes members will not speak up because they are intimidated.
The research showed, he said, that it is difficult to work with a group of nine and that fewer members would be more responsive to the public. It would also be easier for the public to change the make-up of the board if there are fewer members, Alworth said.
A reduction in number would reduce the chance for board members to get involved in the daily supervision of the school district while more members make it more difficult for the board to reach conclusions, Alworth said.
By going to referendum, the taxpayers would decide on the size of the board, Alworth said. In his speech when he was named board president, Alworth said he wanted residents to feel they are part of the process and having a referendum on the makeup of the board would help meet the goal.
Alworth also said that Joanne Borin, senior field service representative with the New Jersey School Boards Association, said seven members are preferable to nine.
The school boards association is an organization that represents boards of education around the state. In a telephone conversation last Thursday, Borin said it was her opinion and not necessarily that of the association, that for group dynamics, seven members is better than nine, however by decreasing the number by two, the district would be reducing the public's representation on the board.
Martin Grogan, who has been on the board for more than 30 years, said he was surprised the New Jersey School Boards Association would endorse a reduction when there are 412 school boards in the state with nine members and only 71 with seven members.
Board member Ann Marie Mauro said she "strongly opposes such a move."
Mauro, who has her doctorate degree in education, said she too has spoken with representatives of the New Jersey School Boards Association and was told the only district to reduce its membership was Tuckerton. The district cut its membership because they were having a difficult time getting residents to run for the board, Mauro said she was told.
With a nine-member board there is a broader representation and more stability if members leave, Mauro said. She also said nine members provide a safeguard against one group asserting its will on others on the board.
"And it does not make sense to reduce the number of members when the district is growing," Mauro said.
With more members, there are more to share the work load, she said.
Board member George McCloskey said that with projected population growth for the next five years it might be even more important to increase the board to 11 members to handle all the work.
Mauro said if the board was decreased, the work load on members would increase and it might be hard to find people willing to run if they knew that most of their time would be spent on board business.
Unlike Tuckerton, Washington Township has never had any difficulty finding people to run for the school board, Mauro said.
It will also be difficult for the board to operate if there are only seven members and some are sick or on vacation. There might not be enough members to h old a meeting, Mauro said. Reducing the board "is not in the schools' best interest," Mauro said. Resident Kelly Werth said that with the amount of work the board has to do, cutting back "would be fool hardy." | <urn:uuid:369b5a5e-3b55-4b6e-ae4d-15810b84cfb6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.newjerseyhills.com/school-board-s-president-says-smaller-would-be-better/article_58615d8f-5439-543b-a08e-f5f59cc488cc.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00233-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986103 | 880 | 1.726563 | 2 |
Will fear of the Tories be a decisive factor in the Scottish independence referendum?
If Scotland does vote to break away from the UK later this month, much of the blame will be laid at the Conservative party's door.
Support for the Tories north of the border is at historic lows, with fears about a future Conservative government playing a large part in the latter stages of the independence campaign.
If those fears prove decisive and the Scots do vote for independence, then David Cameron would face immediate calls to stand down as prime minister.
But how fair is this? How much of the vote for independence is simply a vote for Scots to free themselves from the clinches of the Conservative party?
"You can't over-estimate the extent to which your average Scot hates the Tories," leading commentator and Scottish historian David Torrance tells me.
"In her recent debates, Nicola Sturgeon repeatedly brought up Thatcher and the Poll Tax, all of which was a very deliberate attempt to push buttons deep within the Scottish psyche about their fears of a future right-wing Tory government."
This button-pushing is not always explicit.
"The framing is very much about the Westminster system but Westminster here is being used as a proxy for London, the establishment, the City, bankers, The Tories and dare I say it the English in general.
"All of that is quite effective as lots of people in Scotland do not really like those things.
"They've playing on a usually benign anti-Englishness essentially."
So will this anti-Tory, anti-English sentiment be enough to swing the result of the referendum?
"Generally I've been a bit sceptical about the effect of this as I'm sure most Scots can separate out the two issues [of identity and independence], but it definitely does have an effect," Torrance believes.
So how much of an effect does it have? Recent polls have shown a significant rise in support for independence, coinciding with the 'Yes' campaign increasingly playing on fears of future Tory cuts to the NHS.
So are the two related?
Tanya Abraham from pollsters youGov believes they could be.
"Our polling shows that significantly more Scottish people think the NHS would be worse under the union than if they vote for independence," she says.
"Our most recent poll found that only nine per cent thought the NHS would get better under a continuing union, with 42% believing it would get worse. By contrast 37% believe it would get better under independence."
So are fears over the NHS simply a proxy for fears over future Tory governments? Torrance thinks the two have been unfairly linked by the independence campaign.
"It's all complete nonsense, because the NHS budget in Scotland is not linked to the one in England and Wales and the NHS reforms in England have not happened in Scotland," Torrance tells me.
"It's all totally spurious but there's evidence that it's working because the average Scot is concerned about these things. The independence campaign is playing on those fears in a very cynical way."
So could those fears, spurious or not, be a decisive factor? Tanya Abrahams suspects they won't be.
"All of our polling shows that the biggest factor for voters is the economy. If they believe the economy is going to get worse, then they will vote on that basis.
"We've seen from our regular trackers that the economy and immigration are typically the biggest issue on a national level and that applies in Scotland as much as in the rest of the UK."
And it is precisely for this reason that the campaign against independence has so heavily concentrated on fears over the future of the Scottish economy.
Those fears appear to be particularly ingrained among the older generation. A recent YouGov poll found that support for independence was in a majority amongst all but the oldest Scots.
And with those voters far more likely to turn out, fears of independence currently look set to trump wider fears of the Tories.
It is for all these reasons that Cameron has appeared so reticent during the referendum campaign.
On the one hand, it's essential for him as prime minister to make the case for Scotland to remain in the UK. On the other hand, he is aware that most Scottish voters simply do not believe what he has to say.
A recent YouGov poll found that almost three quarters of Scottish voters do not trust Cameron's claims about independence. By contrast, 40% of Scots trust statements on independence made by Nicola Sturgeon.
Because of this, Cameron's involvement in the campaign has been decidedly low-key.
"Its always been a difficult position for him because he has to be involved but he and his advisors are acutely conscious of the feeling about him in Scotland," Torrance says.
"So they've done low-key things. He was in Glasgow speaking to the CBI and he was in Shetland which was about as remote as it's possible to get, but he's not about to do a walkabout on a Scottish high street any time soon."
Until this week, this low-key approach appeared to be paying off.
But with the polls rapidly narrowing, Cameron will increasingly find himself under pressure to do everything he can to fight against the break-up of the UK.
The dilemma for Cameron is huge. Get too involved and risk scuppering the campaign, or sit back and risk being seen as the prime minister who let Scotland walk away.
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Modes of explanation and treatment for ill-health based on ideas about spirit attack or other non-material causes exist in many societies, usually alongside forms of explanation and treatment which appear more 'rational' by Western biomedical standards. The separation between mind and body, and between self and other, in Western thought present obstacles to understanding such modes of treatment. They lead anthropologists and others to see spirit healing and similar techniques as concerned with 'subjective' aspects of ill-health (illness rather than disease, in Kleinman's well-known formulation) and to focus explanatory and analytical models on social aspects of the healing process. The body can only be integrated into such analyses through assumptions of 'somatization', the 'placebo effect', etc., but these are of only limited use in understanding how spirit healing might affect bodily processes. I argue that we can go further, but only if we take the spirit-language more seriously; not in terms of occult forces, but as providing tokens and images for operating on the structure of human life at all levels, within a framework which does not assume rigid distinctions between mind and body, or self and other. An initial approach derives from taking spirits as representative of particular modes of action and feeling. This enables us to see the language of the spirits as a way to rebalance organismic functioning in relation to various kinds of physiological stress, a rebalancing which may be seen as contributing directly to organismic healing at a physiological (material) level, rather than operating in purely 'psychological' terms.
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‘Every Question Matters’, a new campaign supported by councils and health agencies in the North East, launched this week with the aim of giving people the opportunity to learn more about the vaccine.
Questions answered include information on possible side effects, and if the jab is suitable for those who avoid animal products and alcohol (and it is, according to the experts).
The Government’s roadmap to lifting restrictions has been delayed by four weeks until July 19 to help get more people vaccinated and stem the spread of the Delta variant.
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And health chiefs are keen to help those with concerns over the vaccination programme the chance to have their questions answered.
Tom Hall, director of Public Health for South Tyneside, said the campaign – run by the BeatCovidNE partnership – was an important one.
“It’s natural for people to feel hesitant about getting the vaccine and we know that many people share common questions, worries and anxieties about it,” he said.
“It is a very personal decision, but the key message of this campaign is simple: it’s okay to have questions about the Covid vaccines, but you need a reliable source to answer them, such as your GP, a healthcare professional or the Beat Covid NE website. These sources will be able to answer many common questions like what’s in the vaccine or which vaccine is recommended for your age group.
“What we do know is that getting both doses of the vaccine is our best hope of reducing the serious health harms caused by Covid, and avoiding a return to the lockdown situations of the previous year. It is effective against all current variants, particularly if you have received both doses and the more of us who have it, the more we will lower the rates of Covid infections in our communities.
“If you were initially hesitant when your cohort was first called, but have changed your mind, you can still get the vaccine - it’s not too late.
“Call your GP and they will be able to advise on how to book an appointment.”
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Integrated & comprehensive data management system.
Geoscope™ is a state-of-the-art monitoring information hub.
The platform is truly versatile, fit for projects of any size but particularly well-suited to large projects where different types of data are consolidated for analysis.
Geoscope is a data hub that manages all types of geotechnical, structural and environmental data with an emphasis on real-time monitoring.
Geoscope is versatile, whilst equally suited to small projects with a few sensors and large & complex projects with thousands of sensors.
The Geoscope platform includes a desktop, web and mobile application. It takes into consideration the size and portability of each platform for a better user experience.
The mobile application (IOS & Android) is dedicated to alarm management: receive notification, visualise & analyse time series data, acknowledge alarms with comments & share the information.
As a data hub, Geoscope acquires data from third parties in real time, allowing for enhanced data analytics and insights.
Alarm management and data reporting are the key deliverables of a monitoring system.
Geoscope includes a powerful alarm management system across the ecosystem as well as automatic integrated data reporting.
For monitoring a tunnel, heritage building, railway, mine or waterway, Geoscope is a tool box that allows to create your own application, whatever its domain and size.
Sixense has been awarded the comprehensive monitoring (Geotechnical, Structural & Environmental) of the tunnel section and environmental monitoring of the freeway & bridge sections.
To monitor the instrumentation, a site-wide radio network has been established and used in conjunction with hundreds of wireless self powered dataloggers.
For structure and deformation monitoring Cyclops is deployed to monitor the 3D deformation of retaining walls, structures and roadways.
For geotechnical monitoring a large array of instruments are installed, including ground water piezometers and inclinometers.
Cyclops + 1,000 Prisms
Measurements (& counting)
Jwaneng Mine is the flagship of the Debswana Diamond Company in Botswana. The mine became fully operational in August 1982 and there is an ongoing program to reach 624 metres. This operation is supported by a far-reaching instrumentation and monitoring network.
Instrumentation is provided by different vendors and Sixense has integrated all data in Geoscope allowing for cross-correlation of data types to enhance data insights and sytem reliability.
Slope stability radar
Types of different instrumentation
Measurements per day
The Barangaroo development project is completing the sweep of experiences along the Sydney CBD western waterfront and involves the construction of a number of landmark towers and structures.
A comprehensive and integrated real-time monitoring system was installed to monitor the foundation excavation and construction. Due to the heavily polluted ground material, all instruments were automated with wireless real-time dataloggers, to reduce man-power on site, and streamline data collection and reporting.
The Metro Tunnel is Melbourne involves constructing 9km of twin rail tunnels and five underground stations from North Melbourne through to the Domain precinct, via the CBD. The two stations caverns in the CBD are complex, each involving multiple shafts, entrance-ways, and adits, which are constructed with minimal disruption to the bustling city above.
Sixense is using CYCLOPS to provide automatic real-time deformation monitoring of structures and buildings. A significant achievement, and a first-of-a-kind, has been the real-time monitoring of the interior cavern construction using a complex group of networked Cyclops, allowing reference data to be transferred along the cavern to provide data with sub-millimetre precision.
A number of sensitive infrastructures exist along the path of West Gate Tunnel project, which require monitoring to ensure their safe and continued operation, one of which is the Williamstown railway track.
Sixense has installed a Cyclops system to monitor the displacement of the Williamstown railway tracks in real-time. Prisms are installed and monitored to ensure track movement is within tolerances, with data sent wirelessly to Geoscope for data visualisation and reporting. Any movement of track monitoring prisms exceeding set thresholds will automatically trigger alarms to be sent to the stakeholders involved.
Solar powered Cyclops
Track monitoring prisms
The City Rail Link is the largest transport infrastructure project ever to be undertaken in New Zealand. It includes a 3.45km twin-tunnel underground rail link up to 42 metres below the city centre transforming the downtown Britomart Transport Centre into a two-way through-station that better connects the Auckland rail network.
The Contract 1 (C1) consists of the construction of the tunnels under the Chief Post Office and involved a load transfer of the supporting columns of the building allowing for excavation underneath. It required real-time monitoring with millimeter accuracy to guarantee the integrity of the heritage structure.
Days of monitoring
Sensors in the field
The New M5 tunnel is Stage 2 of WestConnex, Australia’s largest integrated transport and urban revitalisation project and is being delivered by Sydney Motorway Corporation (SMC) on behalf of the NSW Government.
Sixense has designed and installed a system to monitor track deformations in real-time during adjacent tunnel construction works. Our patented Cyclops system is measuring track-parameters, such as top, line, cant and twist with millimetric precision, and sending real-time alarms to stakeholders when set thresholds are exceeded.
Solar powered Cyclops
Track monitoring prisms
Live railway tracks
The Victorian Government is removing 75 dangerous and congested level crossings across Melbourne by 2025, the largest project of its kind in Victorian history. The level crossing at Glenroy Road, Glenroy is being removed by lowering the rail line under the road.
Sixense have installed structural monitoring sensors, including monitoring prisms, tiltmeters and crackmeters, on sensitive infrastructure adjacent to the works and is providing real-time monitoring, with data, sensor exceedance alarms and reports available in Geoscope.
Additionally, Sixense is providing environmental consultancy services to optimise the works and provide mitigation measures where applicable. Environmental monitoring is also being carried out using noise and vibration sensors, with data available in Geoscope.
The construction of the State Library Station Cavern of the Melbourne Metro Tunnel project involves mining twin nozzle tunnels that come within less than 1m of the existing City Loop tunnels, which are critical to the smooth running of Melbourne's entire public transport network and must not be impacted in any way.
Sixense has installed its patented Cyclops system in each of the four City Loop tunnels for the monitoring of tunnel deformation in real-time. Displacement data with sub-millimetre precision is delivered to our client in real-time whilst trains continuously travel through the tunnel, ensuring all stakeholders that tunnel construction works are not impacting the safe operation of existing passenger train services.
Live railway tunnels
Distance from new to existing tunnel
The City Rail Link (CRL) Contract C6 involves storm water diversion works in Mt. Eden for the construction of a new underground storm water tunnel between Water and Nikau Streets. Sixense has been selected to install and monitor groundwater and structure deformation sensors during micro TBM works.
Deformation monitoring included deploying Sixense's patented Cyclops system to monitor KiwiRail railway tracks in real-time, which included calculation of track parameters, such as gradient, cant, twist, vert and horz. Groundwater monitoring was conducted wirelessly using a proprietary site-wide radio datalogging system. Geoscope was used to display data and generate reports, where any sensor reading exceeding set thresholds will automatically generate alarms that are distributed to all stakeholders.
Road monitoring prisms
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Two hundred NGO's from across Europe gathered at the European Parliament in Brussels on December 4, 2012. They called for the abolition of prostitution and presented outlines for a European policy to abolish prostitution. This event presented the first opportunity for such a debate to take place within the European Parliament. In fact, the European Parliament is currently developing a comprehensive evaluation report of European prostitution policies.
For the abolitionists, prostitution criminalisation is the key to counter human trafficking for sexual exploitation. Grégoire Théry, general secretary of the Movement du Nid states on the Egalité website:
Regulation here means that it would make pimping legal. Regulating prostitution means in fact that we would allow someone to take advantage of other people prostituting themselves
In France, 90% of prostitutes are foreigners. The Minister for Women Rights Najat Vallaud-Belkacem introduced a bill to abolish prostitution and protect it's victims, following Sweden's lead on the matter. Its purpose is to “protect the vast majority of prostitutes who fell victims of violence from the networks of pimps.”
In the Netherlands, where prostitution is authorised and regulated, police estimates that 50% to 80% prostitutes are forced into the industry.
It is difficult to find reliable data on the number of prostitutes trafficked internationally. On one hand, accounting practices for these cases are different from one country to another; on the other hand the phenomenon is generally underground and victims avoid reporting crimes in fear of other reprisals. In Switzerland, according to the Federal Statistics Office, there were 147 complaints registered in the three years between 2009 and 2011 and only 66 people were convicted for human trafficking since 2000.
In France, 60 investigations have been open since 2004, and other cases have been prosecuted under different qualifications as slavery and procurement. Forty criminal networks were dismantled in 2011 in Paris, Caen, Bordeaux and Strasbourg and revealed victims were coming from Columbia, China, Ecuador, Nigeria, Romania and Brazil.
According to new information from the International Labour Office published in June 2012, 21 million people globally are victims of forced labour and human trafficking. Among them, 4.5 million are sexually exploited, mostly women and children, out of which 880,000 are recorded in the European Union. “Sometimes bought for only a few euros” it is reported they can lead to average annual earnings of €150,000in western states, the Scelles Foundation insists.
The Foundation highlights that human trafficking has a “worrying” evolution in Europe. The foundation's report published in December 2012 named, “Sexual Exploitation: prostitution and organised crime,” is an assessment of prostitution in 54 countries and its procurers that had set networks in an ” exemplary capitalist model”. The turnover of the sex industry is estimated to be over €1.5 billion in Greece (about 0.70% of GDP) and up to €18 billion in Spain where prostitution is permitted and regulated like any other job.
Voices in favour of abolition spoke out in the press and on social media platforms.
On December 18, 2012, Christine Le Doaré, a lawyer on her blog Total solidarity, feminism, and all that! commits herself to support abolition:
Aux clichés du libre choix et du moralisme abolitionniste, j’opposerais tout d’abord que de plus en plus de témoignages et d’études établissent qu’un grand nombre de personnes prostituées ont été victimes de violences sexuelles dans l’enfance. […] Se pourrait-il que les réglementaristes soient, à ce point, cyniques pour admettre que notre société n’a pas de proposition plus généreuse que la prostitution pour les aider à se reconstruire ? […] Les réglementaristes se sont-ils seulement posé la question de l’âge moyen d’espérance de vie d’une personne prostituée ? Une société ne doit-elle pas d’abord penser à protéger les personnes les plus vulnérables ? Les principes d’intégrité et de non marchandisation des corps humains ne constituent-ils pas des droits inaliénables qui doivent rester hors du commerce et des lois des marchés ? ».
To clichés of freedom of choice and abolitionist morale, I would oppose firstly the evidence from studies and testimonies that most prostitutes were victims of sexual abuse in their infancy. […] It might be possible that the pro-regulation are, at the moment, cynical to admit that our society has no other more generous proposal to help them rebuilt than prostitution? […] Did these regulationists even ask the question of the average life expectancy of a prostitute? Society shouldn't at first think about protecting the most vulnerable of its members? Are the principles of integrity and non-commercialisation of the human body are not inalienable rights that need to stay out of business and market laws?
However all across Europe and the world, sex workers may they be French or foreigners, express their disagreement vis-a-vis the criminalisation of prostitution actors. With the support of feminist movements, they claim the right to self-determination and respect for human rights and call for the establishment of a proper status for their profession.
A joint letter by French intellectuals and feminists published in August declared that:
Chaque adulte doit être libre de ce qu'il veut faire ou ne pas faire de son corps. Décréter illégal ce qu'on trouve immoral n'est pas un grand pas vers le Bien, c'est une dérive despotique. Le pouvoir politique n'a pas à intervenir dans les pratiques sexuelles des adultes consentants. La priorité, c'est de faire de la lutte contre les trafiquants d'êtres humains une cause nationale et d'y mettre les moyens.
Every adult should be free to do what he wants or does not want to do with his own body. To declare unlawful what is immoral is not a big step towards the Good, it is a despotic drift. Political power does not intervene in the sexual practices of consenting adults. The priority is to make the fight against human traffickers a national priority and offer the means for this clash.
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On this page I will be discussing various techniques I use in my reconstruction of Celtic Combat. These are my own personal ideas and do not reflect the ideas of any Rigfennidh but me, the author. Whenever possible I have stayed away from the Oriental Arts in my reconstruction. Instead I placed Indo-european martial components from Pagration, Glima, boxing and Greco-R***n Wrestling. I am looking for info on Highland wrestling. I have also included techniques from Catchascatchcan Wrestling that has it's foundation in the Britsh Isles. But most importantly I used common sense and included the truths of combat that I have discovered myself. I think it is very important to remain free and relaxed and move in a natural free way while practicing celtic fighting. The Celts were a free people therefore I find that rigid movements and unatural postures are not fitting for the Celtic Warrior. I plan on adding pages devited to various topics such as defense and advanced theory. Please check back often to see what new tidbits of violence I have left for you. If you have any question, or if something doesn't seem to click, drop me a line.
Ranges of armed combat1. Projectile range- at this range the only way to attack your opponent is through the use of throwing or projectile type weapons such as spears, slings, bows, knifes, darts, etc..... 2. Long Weapons Range- Thrusting weapons such as spears and lances are the main weapons of this range but some of the longer swords ie. Claymore fall into this range as well. Long range attacks can also be made by using the linge manuever with shorter weapons. 3. Medium Range- here the use of most weapons can be realized. In this range your are close enough to your opponent that you can easily strike him and he in turn can easily strike you. 4. Close range- This range is dominated by the shorter thrusting and slashing weapons such as short swords and dirks. Longer weapons are some what limited in this range. Not to say they have no use here but if you had to do battle in a phone booth would you take a claymore or a dagger. In this range many empty handed maneuvers can be executed as well. But care must be taken to keep your limbs out of the way of the opponents weapon. 5. Weapons grappling range- In this range ( not a very good one to be in I might add, but better to be prepared for than not ) The use of weapons is limited to dirks and the butts of some weapons. Chokes using the shafts of hafted weapons can also be employed.
Ranges of empty handed combat1. Long range- In this range you are close enough to kick your opponent but still far enough away to retreat from his kicking attack. 2. Medium range- This range is your basic boxing range. All types of punches and kicks can be deployed. 3. Clinching range- This is the getting down to business range that I look for in a fight. Welcome to the land of elbows knees and headbutts. In the sport of boxing this is where the fighters rest and the ref separates them. Not so in real combat. From this range many of the fights will automaticaly go to the next range. 4. Grappling range- This range is the wrestling range. here various chokes strikes and locks are used to end the confrontation. This is a very important range. You cannot survive too many fights without the use of some form of grappling. Whether it be offensive or just being able to defend against a grappling attack.
FootworkGood footwork is very important to the well rounded fighter, celtic or otherwise. It will be your best defense in some situations and your best weapon in others. Here I will outline a basic structure of footwork based on boxing and fencing footwork. First off we must talk about stance. Right now I am only dealing with unarmed fighting. In a later section I will discuss stance and its' relation to weapon combat. First stand naturaly in a normal upright posture. Then step forward with your left foot. only move your foot the normal distance you move it when taking a step. Now, turn your right foot out at a 45 degree angle. make sure your feet are about shoulder width apart. Your feet should look like this | in relation to each other. / Now raise your hands to eye level keeping your elbows bent at 45 degree angles with yourhands about one foot from your face. Make sure you are looking through your hands at the space your opponent will occupy. Keep your front foot pointing directly at your opponent. Remember to practice this stance on both your left and right sides. I will now go through the basic footwork. 1. Step and slide to the front. With your front foot step towards your opponent. Wait until your foot is where you want it to be, now slide your rear foot up to its original distance from the front foot. Remember not to lunge (you will do this later) just keep everything smooth and relaxed. 2. Step and slide to the rear. With your rear foot step back away from your opponent. When your foot is planted slide your front foot back to its original distance from the rear foot. This is a wonderful means of defending against attacks whether they are strikes or grappling attacks. It's incredible how well just not being in range works as a defense. For example; Your opponent punches at you with his lead hand. Instead of trying to block it with force on force contact, you step and slide to the rear. Fading back just enough to nullify his attack but not so far as to make a counter attack by you be out of easy range. This may seem difficult to those of you with out much experience in combat but I assure you that if you take the time and practice this step you will be able to use it like it's part of you. 3. Step and slide to the inside. Now what do I mean by inside? When I use the term inside I am referring to the open part of the body. Meaning If you are standing in the fighting stance that I gave a little earlier with your left leg in the front. Anything to the right of your left hand is considered inside and anything to the left of that hand would be considered outside. Now back to the step. Step with the foot that is closest to the direction you wish to go. If you are standing with your left foot in the front. And wish to go inside move your right foot to the right, you can move it directly to the right or angle the step to the front or rear. Now slide your left foot to its original distance from the right. 4. Step and slide to the outside. This is the exact opposite of the previous step. If you wish to move to your left or outside, step with your left foot to your left and slide your right foot to its original position. and like the step to the inside the angles can varie according to the situation. Step 3 and 4 are great for out flanking your opponent. 5. Circle to the inside.Keeping your front foot planted firmly, pivot on it to the inside. 6. Circle to the outside. Do the opposite of #5 more to come
Natural striking weapons1. Headbutt 2. Fist or open hand 3. Elbow 4. shoulder and hip 5. Knee 6. Shin and foot
On Defense Empty handsIn defending against punches it is very important not to reach out and try to catch the punches before they reach you. This is one of the best ways to get cracked a good one. Keep your defense tight to your body and to your head. It is better to absorb a punch on your forearm that is lying against your chin than to try and block it on the way in. Blocking the way you see traditional Martial Artists block punches is pure stool sample. Try blocking one of Tyson's hooks with one of those traditional blocks and I tell you good luck. The only way to fight a boxer is to know how to box and wrestle him and conversely the best way to fight a wrestler is to know how to wrestle but box him. In other words never play your opponents game. understand what he does but don't play up to his strengths. The same applies to weapons combat as well. Don't be taken in by the Hocus-Pocus of the martial arts world. An ass whooping in China and one in Scotland is still an ass whooping none the less.
1. When engaged in clinch position with your opponent, wrap your arms around his waist drawing him close. While squeezing towards your self with your arms push forward on his chest with your chest, now push him backward using your legs. This will cause him to fall backward, unless you let go of him you will fall ontop of him. If you choose to follow him to the ground quickly crawl up his body and assume the mounted position by kneeling astride your opponents chest. Get your knees up under his armpits but not onto his shoulders as you can be thrown off. Now rain heavy blows down upon your foe. Sure it may not look pretty but it sure works good and it's simple and natural. 2. Another takedown very close to #1. When engaged in the clinch range grab your opponent the same way as in #1 but instead of pushing him over with your legs, give him a nice sharp pushing kick to the back of his knee with your right or left foot using your heel. When you feel his knee start to buckle apply downward pressure to the back of his knee with the same foot you kicked with. Once again you can remain standing or follow him to the ground. 3. A defense against a tackle. ( this ones pretty choice, I can tell you this because I was forced to use it one night ) When your attacker goes for a double leg tackle usually their head will go to the left or right of your waist. When you feel what side his head is on you need to get a good front headlock, now sprawl with your legs to the rear. You should end up on the ground with your attackers head under your chest. Now you must apply pressure to the sides of his neck causing him to visit dreamland in approx 7 seconds. Do not squeeze directly on his throat as this will crush his windpipe. 4. Closing the Distance with a Kick. Once again from a left lead, kick to the knee of your opponent with your rear leg. This kick should be performed as though you were walking through a door foot first. Also try to get the feel of a strong push with all your weight behindit rather than a snappy kick. At the completion of this kick your foot that was in the rear will be in the front and you will have gained several feet of distance. The knee is just one of the targets for this kick, also try the front of the hip, and the groin. At the same moment your rear foot hits the ground in it's new position throw a powerful jab with the same side hand. When you put your step and punch together you get much more power. 5. A nice striking combo - In the old texts many references were made to not just punching but kicking as well. What follows is a nifty and natural combo that will take you from kicking range all the way into grappling. First take a small shuffle step and kick extremely low. I am talking no higher than the knee on this one. Try to hit the inner part of your foes front shin with the outer part of your shin. Now instead of retreating to see what happens plant your kicking foot down while at the same time throwing a straight cross with your rear hand followed by a front hook to the head and another straight cross. Now if every thing has gone as planned(it never will) Your foes should be on queer street at this time. Now thrust forward (not upward) with your front knee into his midsection this should cause a bending reaction. Follow up with a move such as # 3 above only modify it to meet the situation (not going for a tackle but having his head low enuff for you to wrap around it)
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Mold testing in Tulsa is a way of ensuring your home and business are mold-free. The dangers of mold are well known among homeowners and those in the building industry, and it’s important to understand how dangerous these can be. It’s particularly important for those people who have a history of allergies or asthma to be on guard against mold; anyone with such allergies should test their homes on a regular basis to ensure they’re mold-free. Here’s what you need to know about testing for mold in Tulsa.
There are some basic things to know before you even start testing in Tulsa. First of all, mold testing services in Tulsa will typically be cheaper than having someone come out and check your house for you. That’s because professional mold inspectors don’t have to pay for the convenience of coming out every now and then to do the inspection. They already have the equipment they need to perform inspections on a home, so they can perform inspections whenever they want (which saves them money in the long run). This means that the mold inspectors you find will almost always be more affordable than the services you find elsewhere.
Mold testing professionals also know where to look for mold growth. They know which rooms in a home are likely to experience mold growth due to the fact that they’ve usually experienced mold growth in those areas before. In some cases, they’ll even be able to tell you where on your roof the mold is most likely to grow. This information helps the homeowner by allowing him/her to keep parts of the house warmer and other parts cooler, reducing or eliminating any potential health risks. It also helps the customer by making mold testing services in Tulsa less expensive in the long run.
You should hire a certified mold testing service in Tulsa if you’re seeing a lot of black mold on surfaces in your home or in the shower or bathroom. Typically, when there’s a mold problem, the person doing the mold inspection service in Tulsa will go into the affected rooms with a handheld moisture meter. He’ll take samples from various places inside the room. Those samples will then be sent to a lab. Once the mold testing service in Tulsa has analyzed the samples, the results will be given back to the customer.
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You can also use the mold testing experts to determine whether a building is a good candidate for being a potential mold breeding site. For instance, if you’re in Tulsa and you find mold growing in your home or in the basement, you can contact the experts for mold testing and inspection in Tulsa. They’ll tell you if there’s a serious mold problem in the building. They can also tell you whether the mold growth is actually dangerous for people and the quality of the air in the building.
Mold can grow anywhere inside a building but it thrives in areas with a lot of moisture, especially around plumbing and behind drywall. The professionals know how to test the walls and the ceilings for mold growth, determining what type of mold is growing and where it’s growing. With their expertise and knowledge, they can tell you in a professional manner whether you need a water repair or whether there may be a different type of mold that needs to be dealt with. After the mold testing and inspection is complete, the experts will give you a detailed report on the mold growth issue in your building. You’ll get a report with pictures and information about what the mold looks like, when it first started to grow, how much of it is growing at any given time, and what type it is.
Whether you have a small mold problem or a large mold problem, hiring a mold testing and inspection company to come to your home and test and inspect is very important. These companies are trained to handle all types of mold emergencies. And when it comes to paying for the mold testing and inspection, you can pay up to $200 for the entire process, not just once. Make sure to hire an experienced service that knows what they’re doing. | <urn:uuid:8714839d-e47a-4f4e-a9fb-4e76f9bdf2a7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://weldingdealer.com/the-importance-of-mold-testing-and-inspection/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00678.warc.gz | en | 0.956952 | 946 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The European Union’s 28 governments blacklisted the military wing of Hezbollah, striking a political blow against the Iranian-backed Shiite group that is helping President Bashar al-Assad cling to power in Syria.
Britain and the Netherlands led the push for the EU to brand the Lebanese group’s military arm a terrorist organization, making it harder for it to raise funds and recruit in Europe. The EU stopped short of the U.S. and Israeli policy of proscribing all of Hezbollah, seeking to maintain leverage in Lebanon by not cutting off contact with the group’s officials in the Beirut government.
The move by EU foreign ministers in Brussels “is added pressure on Hezbollah,” said Magnus Ranstorp, research director at the Swedish National Defence College in Stockholm. “It restricts the movements of the individuals, it damps their legitimacy.”
Hezbollah portrays itself as an anti-Israel resistance group, waging an inconclusive war against Israel in 2006 and now aiding Assad in fighting rebels in Syria in a civil war that the United Nations estimates has claimed 93,000 lives. Sunni-ruled Gulf Cooperation Council countries including Saudi Arabia blacklisted Hezbollah last month.
EU foreign ministers justified the ban as a defense of European territory after Hezbollah was implicated in the killing of five Israelis in the bombing of a tourist bus in Bulgaria in 2012. In March, a Hezbollah operative was convicted of plotting a similar attack in Cyprus.
“It’s important to show we are united and strong in facing terrorism,” U.K. Foreign Secretary William Hague said at the Brussels meeting. “We don’t think this will adversely affect the stability of Lebanon.”
Israel welcomed the EU announcement. EU-Israel tensions flared last week when the European Commission barred the use of EU funds for research projects and grants to Israeli organizations operating in territories occupied by Israel since 1967.
Reacting to initial reports from Brussels, Israeli Deputy Foreign Minister Zeev Elkin told Israel Radio: “It’s hard to exaggerate the importance of the decision.” Israel said it will make a statement after a formal EU announcement later today.
Legal measures will be in force in a matter of days, EU officials said. A small group of EU countries had been hostile to the anti-terror move, endorsing it today only after obtaining guarantees that the EU will continue to provide political and financial support for the Lebanese government.
Czech Foreign Minister Jan Kohout said he gave the go-ahead for the decision, which required unanimity, in exchange for a pledge that the EU will “keep the dialogue with other political parties, with financial support.” The EU will review the listing every six months.
EU governments will continue to do business with the civilian side of Hezbollah. Some EU countries have questioned whether it is possible to distinguish between the political and military wings. Today’s move came after the Lebanese government last week called the group an “essential component of Lebanese society.”
Hezbollah brushed off the Brussels announcement. The group is “too big to be isolated,” Sheik Nabil Qawooq, deputy chief of its executive council, said today in the southern Lebanese village of Selaa, the official National News Agency reported. Hezbollah “will stand firm,” he said.
Hezbollah’s financial network throughout the Middle East will limit the practical impact of the EU sanctions, said Paul Salem, director of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace’s Middle East Center in Beirut.
“This group’s financial, military, security and political access is well-known and it runs from Tehran, through Baghdad, Damascus, Lebanon and it never relied on Europe for anything important,” Salem said.
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Recently, the Teton Valley News reported that many people are still sniffling and sneezing from lingering pollen across Indiana.
Although it seems difficult to overcome the symptoms associated with allergies, especially when obligations exist outdoors, there are a few ways that individuals can combat the itchy eyes and runny noses.
A saline nasal spray is one of the most popular ways that allergy sufferers are coping with symptoms. This type of spray not only clears the nasal passages, but it can also prevent potential infections associated with allergies.
Neti pots have also become a mainstream form of treatment for those who do not want to take medicine. Streaming water through the nasal passage can also remove irritants from sinuses.
Individuals who suffer from allergies throughout the year may want to consider using an air purifier as well. The IQ HealthPro Plus is a system that can help those with allergies and respiratory ailments.
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I got a few e-mails pointing out this system and wondered if I should write about it or not. After all, it’s not really ham radio related. Before I could shake off my indecisiveness, Brick beat me to it.
So, what is it? It sure looks and feels like the typical (ham radio) hand-held. If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck, and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck, right? Wrong.
The IP100H will serve as an alternative for conventional license-free radios, such as PMR (Europe) and FRS (USA). While conventional radios generally do a fine job, the bands they operate in are overcrowded. With only 8 PMR channels and 14 FRS channels interference is inevitable. Adding CTCSS or DCS will offer some relief, but can only do so much.
Instead this radio operates on 2.4 GHz and/or 5 GHz and makes use of standard WiFi channels. On one hand this will limit the range of a particular radio. It must be able to reach the nearest access point, and 100mW EIRP (NL legal limit) generally translates into 50 meters at best. On the other hand, when access points are plentiful, these radios can theoretically communicate around the globe, because roaming (seamless switching from access point to access point) is a standard feature. Programming is done ‘over the air’ by use of a controller, the IP1000C.
Features from the digital world
- SMS. The IP100H can send status and short data messages to other users. The radio will vibrate when receiving these messages.
- Full Duplex. Half duplex at default, full duplex with optional headset.
- Remote Monitor, Kill, Revive and Stun. If in an emergency, the IP100FS can enforce individual IP100H to transmit anything the microphone hears to identify the situation. The remote kill command disables individual IP100H, if the IP100H is used by an unauthorized person.
- Extensive calling features. The IP100H/IP100FS can make individual call, group conference calls, ‘to all’ calls and area calls. The area call function allows you to call any user who is accessing a specified access point.
- Mixing Function. The mixing function receives multiple user’s voices at the same time. One-to-many communication is possible and increases efficiency of information sharing.
- Up to 100 users can be loaded on a system and all users can communicate at the same time.
- Phone and transceiver interconnection. With a VE-PG3 RoIP gateway, the IP advanced radio system can interconnect with an IP phone, analog transceiver and IDASTM NXDNTM digital transceiver.
All in all this system could be very interesting for large companies: license-free, scalable, infinite range when configured properly, and listening secretly to their private conversations (eavesdropping) will be nearly impossible.
Any good for us hams, too? I don’t know, but wouldn’t be surprised — we have great hackers amongst us. Affordable? I seriously doubt it, this system won’t come cheap.
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Kansas Historical Quarterly - Spring 1962
Spring 1962, No. 1
George L. Anderson, "Atchison and the Central Branch Country, 1865-1874," p. 1.
Louise Barry, comp., "Kansas Before 1854: A Revised Annals, Part Five, 1826-1829," p. 25.
Nyle H. Miller and Joseph W. Snell, "Some Notes on Kansas Cowtown Police Officers and Gun Fighters—Continued," p. 60. (Volunteer: Mike McFadden)
The Annual Meeting, p. 114.
Bypaths of Kansas History, p. 136.
Kansas Historical Notes, p. 140.
White Plume (Mon-chonsia; or Nom-pa-wa-rah), who was for some years considered head chief of the Kansa Indians. Portrait (1821?) by artist Charles Bird King, as reproduced from the McKenney and Hall History of the Indian Tribes of North America. | <urn:uuid:630516a5-ea4b-43c6-8063-acff790d4054> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://kshs.org/p/kansas-historical-quarterly-spring-1962/17477 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00056-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.873045 | 207 | 2.265625 | 2 |
An economic analysis of improvements to recreation opportunities in the Grampian countryside
Arrangements within the UK to enhance recreational opportunities in the countryside are currently implemented in a somewhat ad hoc manner. The result of this is that current arrangements for recreation provision may be ineffective in terms of institutional arrangements, efficiency of spending on access enhancement and equity of benefit distribution. It is these issues which are addressed in this thesis. To analyse the effectiveness of recreation provision, the current research develops and applies a number of economic and political science techniques to a case study of Grampian Region, Scotland. First, the research evaluates the economic effectiveness of current arrangements for recreation provision and identifies where additional investment may be required. It achieves this by evaluating the costs and benefits associated with recreation improvements in Grampian Region and analyses these using a cost-benefit framework. The economic benefits accrued from recreational enhancements are measured using the Contingent Valuation method, whereas the costs are elicited from a survey of the actual expenditures of countryside organisations. The findings from this analysis allow the identification of those improvements to recreation opportunities which generate the greatest gains in social welfare. In turn, the effectiveness of current arrangements is further analysed in terms of the distribution of benefits across individuals and locations. The second component of the research addresses the adequacy of current provision using political science methodologies to the analysis of the roles and responsibilities of the public and voluntary sector organisations involved in recreation provision. The application of political science models to interpret the processes involved in recreation decision-making provided clarity to the nature of the interactions between countryside organisations. The application of both economic and political science methodologies ensures a theoretical diverse and policy relevant analysis of current recreation provision. The combination of both approaches results in comprehensive review of priorities for improvement to recreation policy. | <urn:uuid:65920283-ca19-46bf-8d3c-ba1aab807ba3> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.244313 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281331.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00222-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910932 | 353 | 1.710938 | 2 |
KL Bird Park is a renowned eco-tourism destination situated right in the heart of Kuala Lumpur.
Located in the serene and scenic Kuala Lumpur Lake Gardens, it is only 10 minutes’ drive away from the city centre of Kuala Lumpur. It is home to more than 3,000 local and foreign birds of approximately 200 different species.
Sprawling approximately 20.9 acres of verdant valley terrain, the park is divided into 4 zones; Zone 1 and 2 make up the free-flight zone; Zone 3 is the Hornbill Park and Zone 4 is where the birds are placed in separate cages and mini aviaries.
One of KL Bird Park’s most extraordinary features is that in Zone 1, 2 and 3, birds are able to fly free in the aviary which closely resembles their natural habitat. With this free-flight concept, birds are able to breed naturally in this unique environment.
Visitors will have an exciting experience of watching colourful and melodic birds perching and winging about freely while relaxing in a natural and beautifully landscaped surrounding. KL Bird Park is also wheelchair-friendly and is reputed to be the largest free-flight walk-in aviary in the world. | <urn:uuid:98669499-7ffd-4457-9892-e43cee8f6a35> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://access-malaysia.com/?page_id=9340 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00671.warc.gz | en | 0.926596 | 248 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Originally Posted by Number 3
A lie is only telling something that you know not to be true. If you believe it to be true but it turns out to be incorrect, that does not constitute a lie by the definition of lie. On the other hand not telling something when you do know something by some is considered a lie of omission. In which case anyone who knows anything but isn't saying is by that definition, lying. However, if you don't know anything and aren't saying anything then you are by default being truthful by not telling a lie or a truth as you would know neither. So in this case it would be hard to tell whether there was a lie or not. Now on the other hand there is smaller classifcation of lie known as a fib. A fib may generally be considered to be ok in some circles, but in others it merely falls into the category of lacking truth and, hence, simply a lie. But I digress.
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This bizarre statue at Wellesley College is making students feel 'unsafe' http://t.co/W5U48gJ3hi pic.twitter.com/3vja80rPTI
— Daily Mail US (@DailyMailUS) February 5, 2014
At Wellesley College, a hundred women have signed a letter of protest about a highly realistic sculpture by the artist Tony Matelli that's appeared outdoors on campus, the Boston Globe is reporting.
A representative for some of the protesting women says he's disturbing for women who've been raped, molested, assaulted sexually. People on the other side say some art is naturally disturbing to some people.
This is a tough one. People are already slinging around Tweets mocking the women protesters, telling them not to go to Florence, ha ha, et cetera. But this guy's not a classical sculpture in the vein of either Michelangelo's (idealized) David, or Donatello's (come-hither) David. In pictures, it looks like there's something pointedly monstrous and zombie-like about him, blank-minded, liable to do anything—yet liable for nothing, since he's not even conscious. When you look at it that way, you can see him as a predator. And from there the feeling easily wanders into the territory of rape, the most difficult violent crime of all to report, the crime that lets the greatest number of perpetrators just wander away mindlessly.
And you think, A museum at a women's college would probably have to be obtuse not to foresee that there might be some reaction to planting on the lawn a guy in his underwear who looks like he's out to get you.
Then again, the museum director clearly sees the man on the other side of the spectrum of potential danger: as vulnerable, in danger, not a perp but a would-be victim. In a defense of the piece, she describes how he's by the roadside, wandering. It's a classic case of differences in interpretation, these opposites. I can't say what he's like. I haven't come across him except in pictures, and he really seems to vary according to the picture. In this picture below, he looks a little pathetic, lost.
It's a good thing when people are empowered to call out horrors like being attacked for sex and forced into sex, and people are getting more and more comfortable doing that. Now what happens when art stumbles into the fray of a good thing?
The museum's original explanation of Matelli's work, written before the protests began, describes it in terms of "discursive use of time," "existential equivalents," and "profound reorientations of perspective." But the effect seems more basic in this case than those highminded ideas sound. It hardly matters that movie animators and sculptors like Duane Hanson have crossed this terrain many times—this is still the uncanny valley. March people through the uncanny valley and you invite them to blur the line between life and art, real and remembered.
At the same time, I'm not sure I see how taking down this art is a real statement or action against rape culture. How do you draw the line? A probably unanswerable question I wish I could know the answer to: What about the art would have to change for it not to be upsetting? If his arms were down? Is it the near-nudity? Is it something else we don't know about, something having to do with inside campus knowledge or the placement of the sculpture or the way it's being presented and talked about? I'm not advocating that art should be committee-edited—speaking of disturbing ideas—but I am advocating ongoing conversation, and maybe even responsive actions that do more than merely remove or destroy. As for next time: I think it's possible to anticipate a reaction like this one, especially in this context. But every environment is different, and every time another time. Can you really control for reactions when you're presenting art? Knowing curators and artists, I know there is plenty of self-censorship before anything even gets out there. What's being controlled for already? It is strange to use the word "control" in relation to art, but the idea that art is some flail-around free zone is not true, either. These kinds of conversations always draw out extremes, when the areas in between are far more interesting.
You'll remember the case of Ben Beres's print at Cornish in 2012. He made a print using the full names of many female Seattle artists, each name printed under a generic pair of cartoon breasts, and it was removed from an exhibition by the college after faculty members whose names were included (without their consent) said they'd feel sexually harassed if it was on display in their workplace. That was a very different case in many ways, and in some ways a simpler one: people's actual names used, their actual private workplace, laws that govern such things.
But it again brought art and politics into conflict. The discussion it engendered was the work of art that was communally created; that dialogue was a more powerful cultural force than the single piece itself, and more art will come out of that, too, if it hasn't already.
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One Big Question
There might not be a more important question to be answered in the life of a Christian than “what does a disciple of Jesus look like?” How you answer that question will have major implications on every area of your life. Your answer will impact what kind of friend you are, how you parent your children, how you love your spouse, how you look at dating, how you treat your job, how you handle conflict, and every other part of your life. A disciple is a follower, one who learns from a teacher. The point though is not to learn for the sake of knowledge. The point is to grow so that they become like the teacher.
A disciple is not above his teacher, but everyone when he is fully trained will be like his teacher. – Luke 6:40
Not only does this question effect you, it also effects how others understand who Jesus is. Every day a Christian has the opportunity to paint a picture of who Jesus is to the world. Christians are either painting an accurate picture of who Jesus is by their lives or they are painting a picture that looks nothing like our Good King.
So, what does a disciple of Jesus look like? Below are five marks of a disciple. This by no means is an exhaustive list, but most other marks could fit into one of these. Read through them and look at your life. Are you becoming like Jesus? Are you painting an accurate picture to the world around you?
A follower of Jesus believes that Scripture is the very word of God (2 Timothy 3:16). Because of this, the Bible is the final authority in all areas of life. The Bible gives the disciple all that they need for life and godliness. Being a Christian means that one has laid down their life for Jesus. We show we are his disciples by humbly living according to Scripture.
When you are making a decision where do you turn to first? Is it Scripture? Do you make decisions based off what Scripture says? Do you rely on your own thoughts, attitudes and experiences when understanding the world around you? What about your understanding on God? A disciple of Jesus doesn’t say what our God would do based on our own opinions. That would make us our own personal God. A disciple of Jesus searches the Scriptures and sees the world through a biblical lens. What lens are you looking through?
A disciple of Jesus is one who pursues peace in every relationship that they have (Romans 12:18). God has reconciled sinful people to himself. If he can do that, he can restore any relationship on this earth. A disciple of Jesus sees people the way that God sees them. The key to this is remembering the good thing that our Great King has done for us on the cross (1 Peter 3:18). When we enter into a right relationship with God, we are able to pursue healthy relationships with the world around us.
God is a God of community. For eternity he has been in perfect community with himself in the Trinity. We are created in his image (Genesis 1:27) therefore we have a longing for that same community. God is a good and gracious God so he has filled this earth with others that we can enter into relationships with. The deeper purpose of those relationships is not to fulfill some sense of importance in our lives. The deeper purpose of those relationships is to glorify God. This is what a healthy relationship is, one that glorifies God.
Are you using the relationships you are in for self or are you allowing God to use them? A married couple can show the mystery of the Gospel through their marriage (Ephesians 5:32). If you are married to someone who doesn’t believe, you can glorify God in your marriage by showing them the love of Jesus (1 Corinthians 7:16). Christian friendships are there to encourage and build each other up (1 Thessalonians 5:11). Other friendships are there to share the Gospel (Acts 1:8). Christians should even have healthy relationships with those who oppose them (Romans 12:20-21). Are you in relationships that are bringing glory to God?
Christians were bought with a price (1 Corinthians 6:20). The most valuable commodity in the history of the world is what purchased you, the blood of Christ. He gave it freely. God has given us life through the death, burial, and resurrection of his Son. He has lavishly given us his love (1 John 3:1). He generously gives wisdom (James 1:5). God is rich in kindness, forbearance, and patience (Romans 2:4). His grace overflows in our lives (1 Timothy 1:14). God is generous. He is a giving God.
A disciple of Jesus is one who is generous as well. A disciple realizes that all that they have comes from God (1 Chronicles 29:14). Because all things come from God everything ultimately is God’s. A disciple is one who gives of his time, talents, and treasure with joy (2 Corinthians 9:7). A disciple is able to give joyfully because they are storing up for themselves treasure in heaven where moth and rust cannot destroy (Matthew 5:20). Jesus gave everything of himself for the joy set before him (Hebrews 12:2). Are you doing that with what God has given you?
Invested In The Ministry Of The Church
The church is more than an institution. The church is the vehicle that Jesus gave his disciples to take the message of the Gospel to the nations. If the church wasn’t an important part of a disciple’s life, Jesus would not have set it up. A disciple of Jesus loves the Church (Big C) and is actively involved and in love with a local church. Every believer receives gifts to fulfill their role in the context of a local church (1 Corinthians 12:7). When every member of the body is working together, the church is the most effective in the mission that Jesus has given.
A local church is both a place to receive and to give. At a church, a disciple receives the message of the Gospel and are discipled. They also give through serving the rest of the body and the world around them. When someone is focused on receiving only they are not putting into practice what they have learned and will not grow in their faith. When someone is only focused on serving and not sitting under the truth of the Bible they will lose track of the reason behind what they are doing and will begin to serve in their own power. A disciple is involved in a local church so they can fill up with the truth of Scripture. Once they are filled they are able to pour out that truth in service and love to the people around them.
Engaged In Evangelism
A disciple of Jesus is engaged in evangelism. Christians know the greatest story every told. The beautiful thing about this story is that it is true and it is for all people (1 John 2:2). Jesus gave the Great Commission as marching orders for his disciples to share the Gospel everywhere they went (Matthew 28:18-20). We have an incredible opportunity to share the story of creation, the fall, redemption, and restoration every single day. Can you share that story? Are you able to give someone a reason for the hope that you have (1 Peter 3:15)?
One of the best ways to do that is to share the story of what Jesus did with your life. If you are a Christian, you are a new creation (1 Corinthians 5:17). Jesus has changed you. He has given you life, hope, joy, peace, and purpose. Are you sharing that story and his glory where you go and are you proclaiming the marvelous works he has done in your life (Psalm 96:3)?
Evangelism can happen at work or in Panama. A disciple has a heart for their neighbor and the person on the other side of the world. We need to think globally and share locally.
Christians are saved by grace (Ephesians 2:8-9). These marks are not what brings salvation to a disciple. These marks show that a disciples has been changed by the grace that does. Are you becoming more like Jesus? Are you painting an accurate picture of Jesus with your life? | <urn:uuid:d64de1d3-8b7b-4599-a5e9-2004629e8164> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.jeffbeckett.salem-bc.org/blog/d-path/marks-of-a-disciple/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573908.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820043108-20220820073108-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.975487 | 1,719 | 1.507813 | 2 |
5. Belamcanda Adanson, Fam. Pl. 2: 60. 1763 (as Belamkanda).
Blackberry-lily [apparently based on a vernacular name in western India]
Gemmingia Kuntze; Pardanthus Ker Gawler
Herbs, perennial, from creeping rhizomes. Stems few- to several-branched. Leaves several; blade plane, ensiform. Inflorescences rhipidiate, several-flowered; spathes green, membranous distally. Flowers fleeting, erect, unscented, actinomorphic; tepals erect, basally connate into vestigial tube, light orange to reddish (rarely yellow), with scattered spots of darker pigment, obscurely clawed, ± equal, outer whorl slightly larger than inner; stamens diverging; filaments distinct; anthers diverging, not appressed to style branches; style slender, short, not extending between stamens, branching distally into lobes; lobes 3, flattened, stigmatic distally, stigmatic surfaces each subtended adaxially by paired flaps of tissue. Capsules ovoid-truncate, ± woody, apex obtuse. Seeds several, globose; seed coat blackish. x = 16.
Species 1 or 2 (1 in the flora): introduced; Asia including Japan; introduced in tropical Asia, the Pacific Islands, and parts of South America.
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Is there a cost to global sea level rise? Yes, approximately $50 trillion per year in damages. The infrastructure needed to create and maintain sea walls and flood defenses cost tens of billions of dollars a year according to John C. Moore. What is adding to the cost? The infrastructure costs approximately $20-33 billion to build. For the installment of the Three Gorges Dam in China spend $33 billon to construct the dam.
Most of the water from sea level rise will come from the melting ice sheets in Greenland and Antarctica.
In their research, they explore three ways we can delay the loss of ice sheets. They suggest to block warm water, support ice shelves, and dry subglacial streams. Note that all of these potential solutions could disrupt natural ecosystems, fisheries, tourism, and water flow. However, Moore and his co-authors argue their solutions may be worth the risk to the present dilemma in the rise of global sea levels.
To block warm water from the Atlantic Ocean, the authors suggest constructing a 100-meter-high wall with sliding sides along the 5-kiometer fjord in front of the Jakobshavn glacier near western Greenland. A fjord is a narrow inlet with steep sides or cliffs created by a glacier. The importance of this project would be similar to other large civil-engineering projects like the Suez Canal in Egypt, Hong Kong airport, Three Gorges Dam in China. However, this project would need 0.1 cubic kilometers of gravel and sand compared to 1, 0.3, or 0.028 cubic kilometers of material needed for the projects in Egypt, Hong Kong, or China.
The Jakobshavn glacier is one of the fastest moving ice masses on Earth, and it contribute to most of the sea level rise than other glaciers located in the Northern Hemisphere. Furthermore, 4% of twentieth century seal level rise can be attribute to this glacier.
For their second solution, Moore and his co-authors they would construct a berm (raised banks bordering river or canal) and islands to artificially pin ice shelves in front of the Pine Island and Thwaites glaciers in West Antarctica. Ideally, this would temporary prevent the movement of the glacier. Similar to the first plan, these materials need to be outsourced to material to build the berm and island. Models predict that Pine Island Glacier and Thwaites will be the largest source of se level rise in the next two centuries, contributing 4 centimeters a year.
For dry subglacial streams, they want to reduce the rate of melting by removing the glacier’s ice bed to reduce frictional heating in Antarctica. When they remove the ice bed, they will use a pumping station to extract or freeze the water at the glacier’s base to slow sliding. This process would be important to mitigate sea level rise because glacier ice beds supply 90% of ice in the sea.
With this intensive construction and extraction of materials, do their plans sound plausibly or worthwhile? The authors leave it to other glaciologist and engineers to test their projects. Also, if this plan does carryon, who will need to approve this project? This project may result in global consequences if they do not structure it properly. What are your thoughts on this project?
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You may be wondering how cat sickness can effect us if we don't own a cat.
When we look at a common problem from a new angle we may see problems we hadn't noticed previously. Cats can and should have a standard regular diet. This will make it easier to find the foods and habits that irritate the bowels. This may help us examine our own foods and habits.
Of course we don't know exactly what causes the disease but we can determine what makes it worse for the feline or the individual. Since we have so much control over our cats environment we can evaluate and make changes to make feline irritable bowel syndrome better to live with.
One combination to be avoided is proteins, fats, and proteins combined for our cats as well as ourselves. This combination is very difficult for the digestive system to process. Canned cat foods seem to help with digestion for most cats.
The cat food we think is so good for our feline may be causing most of the problems. Those problem may include a strong odor and bowel movements that are uncontrollable due to abnormal contractions in the digestive system. These contractions also cause mucus and more toxins to be released in the intestines that cause inflammation.
Most cats have difficulty digesting dairy products. Some cat foods may contain some dairy so be aware that your cat may be receiving these ingredients in much greater quantities than you originally thought.
We also try to give our cats variety when we should be giving them consistency. When change flavors of cat foods to try to keep our cats interested in the food we create a problem for the stomach and intestines. To many of us our cats are part of our family. Which means we want to share our lives with them. This can lead to table food scraps for the feline that can create further digestive problems.
The right food and eating habits is also the most boring. Small amounts of the same food everyday at the same time in the same small amounts. No wonder none of us eat properly. We think we are not treating our pet well if we limit the amount and variety of their food.
Are you aware of how much stress is in our cats life? Our busy lives add stress to our feline friends lives. The changes may seem insignificant to you, but it looks very different to your cat when changes happen. If your cat starts having flare ups with irritated bowels replay the last few days. Have they been very busy or have changes been made to the house hold? If so they could be the cause of the anxiety in your cat.
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Advanced battery maker Ener1 (OTC: HEVV) announced yesterday that it has “voluntarily” entered Chapter 11 bankruptcy, and reached agreement with its creditors on a restructuring plan. The firm’s EnerDel unit, which builds lithium-ion batteries for EVs, is not part of the reorganization, and according to the company, “is not expected to be adversely impacted by the legal proceedings.”
Ener1 is one of several battery makers that have received pots of money from the DOE. If the company does go down the tubes, it could be an embarrassment for the Obama administration, which has strongly supported the high-tech energy and transportation industries (Ener1 also received millions in grants under the Bush administration). The battery business is growing fast, but is highly competitive – analysts have noted that Ener1 is up against much larger competitors, including Panasonic and Johnson Controls.
CEO Alex Sorokin discussed some of the reasons for the setbacks. “Our business plan was impacted when demand for lithium-ion batteries slowed due to lower-than-expected adoption for electric passenger vehicles. That pressure was exacerbated by volatility in the debt and equity markets that further limited our borrowing ability and the loss of a major customer, Think Global, which filed for bankruptcy in June 2011, and for which we were exclusively providing commercial lithium-ion battery packs. We believe that the restructuring plan will enable us to address our business and financial challenges comprehensively, quickly and efficiently, and position us to compete much more effectively in the energy storage market.” | <urn:uuid:e6d53888-9ecf-4879-b0f9-4455c38d6670> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://chargedevs.com/newswire/ener1-files-for-chapter-11/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.969331 | 325 | 1.554688 | 2 |
You’re probably a very busy person and finds it difficult to fit another appointment into your super hectic day. However, despite that, do remember that your dentist plays a vital role in maintaining your overall dental health. It would help if you always kept those regular six-month visits to keep your teeth and gums in excellent condition. Royal Park Dental – dentist recommends visiting the dental clinic at the very least two times each year to maintain proper hygiene and optimal health for your teeth, gums, and mouth.
Here are some reasons why you should go for regular dental checkups every six months:
1.) For Early Diagnosis of Any Tooth Decay
The primary reason why you should visit your dentist is for prevention. Your dentist can help you avoid any dental issues such as gum problems and tooth decay. These oral issues may seem small at first, but they can potentially get worse and can even lead to major dental concerns if overlooked and not addressed early. Regular visits to a dental clinic can help diagnose and treat these conditions.
2.) Maintain Clean Teeth All Year
You may be working your very best on remembering to brush and floss at least twice per day to avoid any dental problems. However, that isn’t enough to help you. For proper oral hygiene and health, you need to brush and floss the correct way. Your dentist can show you how and can even give you some useful tips along the way. Not only that, but he or she will also clean your teeth and gums, reaching through tight places that are unreachable by your brush and floss for a deep, holistic clean. They will remove dental plaque (tartar) while also making essential suggestions on your daily oral health routine.
3.) Early Diagnosis of Serious Dental Disease
Recent reports indicate that over 30,000 Australians suffer from oral cancer each year. You can avoid getting oral cancer or any other type of severe oral diseases by regularly visiting your dentist. He or she will conduct oral cancer screening during your visits, ensuring that your mouth is safe from any potential oral conditions. Oral cancer is known to spread fast but can be countered if detected early.
Never Overlook Your Dental Visits
Royal Park Dental – dentist strongly urges you always to visit your dentist every six months. Not only will it maintain strong and healthy teeth and gums but will also prevent any oral issues in the future. So call your dentist’s secretary today to book an appointment. | <urn:uuid:fd6b538b-82d7-413c-b3f3-2679703f0034> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://sellerscustomlures.com/dentist/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.953577 | 505 | 2.25 | 2 |
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Imagine for a moment a world of apps where there are more than 10 platforms to choose from – and where most of these platforms are closed to developers. A world where only a few applications have been developed. A world where no one is using these apps anyway.
Of course this is describing the current state of the connect TV market. The description could equally apply to the mobile world pre-iPhone, when the focus of app development was on a frustratingly diverse set of platforms.
I spent a few years building businesses which operated in the mobile space pre- and post- iPhone, and lately I’ve been building a business attempting to disrupt web and connected TV. I am constantly struck by the similarity of both environments and believe that the TV industry should spend some quality time looking at the evolution of apps on the mobile from the feature phone to smart phone to avoid re-learning some painful lessons.
The word “app” can mean something subtly different on TV. In many cases a TV app is an access point for a set of content – for example, the YouTube, Netflix or LoveFilm apps. In other cases an app refers to functionality just as the Facebook or the eBay app.
In my more cynical moments I sometimes think we’ve ended up with apps on TV because nobody could think of anything better to do. “It worked for phones, so lets try it on TV! The right apps will be useful on TV, but at the same time it is important to recognise what the TV experience is:
Many developers crossing over from web development to TV development aren’t recognising these nuances. This may end in apps just not getting used. Do you really want to be allowing your personal information on a shared screen? Will the other people sharing the TV screen really want it to be used for you scrolling through your Facebook messages?
There are roughly three different categories for TV app development;
1. TV-only apps
Apps for the TV screen or set-top box are usually your favourite web services extended to the TV screen. Examples are Spotify, Flickr and of course Twitter and Facebook. The apps need to be modified in order to work with a TV remote as well and with limited text input – which is easier said than done. Some will be more suitable for crossing over to TV than others. CNet has a comprehensive listing of mainstream music, video and communication apps that have been launched by TV manufacturers.
2. Mobile-only apps
These are mobile or tablet apps that complement the TV but don’t interact with it. Examples here are Zeebox (which recently secured an interesting investment from Sky), Flip.tv, GetGlu, and Miso. These apps focus on providing a concurrent experience to watching the TV, allowing you to interact on your personal device while watching the TV. In this category you can add apps that provide listings content and so on. Consumer surveys show tablets are a natural companion to TV – according to Forrester, 85% of US tablet owners use their tablets while watching TV, and according to Nielsen, 30% of total tablet time is spent while watching TV.
3. Closed loop apps
These are apps that close the loop between mobile and TV experience. Some examples here use DLNA and AirPlay to allow the selection and control of streamed content to the TV screen. The simplest example here would be Apple’s AirPlay allowing you to play movies stored on your MacBook on your TV screen via the Apple TV. Closed loop apps allow you to stream content from one device to the TV screen, for instance. Harder to find are apps which interact with the broadcast TV functions as opposed to using the TV as a monitor, such as allowing you to set recordings on your STB from your smartphone. However, discovering content or channels on one device and using that same device to bring up the content on TV is a more difficult proposition because of the integration required with the TV or STB. This is where innovation starts to break down.
Developing for TV or STB platforms is challenging, whether you are developing TV/STB apps, attempting to ‘close the loop’ or develop a standalone app. Why is that?
- There are a 10+ target platforms. Everyone is pushing some kind of application environment for their TV or set-top box. Examples are, Samsung, Panasonic, Sharp, LG, Sony, Yahoo, Google TV, Boxee, InView, WyPlay, YouView (eventually) and HBBTV – not to mention Android spin-offs. Some of these are closed systems and some have developers programs. For a comprehensive list it is worth looking at this Wikipedia page.
No developer can target all of these platforms, so how do you pick the right one for success?
- How many connected TV screens are there going to be? According to the CEA (www.cea.org), about 260m TV’s were sold in 2011, and around 27% of these were connected (FutureSource). The percentage of TVs that come with Internet connectivity as standard will increase rapidly. Assuming the all connected TVs that are sold are actually plugged into the Internet, the addressable market is still way lower than for mobile phones. In reality, the picture is much more complex.
- Many ‘Connected TVs’ are TVs which happen to be ready for connection. Just because it’s Internet ready, it doesn’t mean that the TV will be actually plugged into the Internet and used.
- Not enough of these devices have been bought yet for consumers to realise how poor some of the experiences are. Good products evolve from feedback and there are simply not enough devices in the market for manufacturers to learn from consumer feedback yet. Moreover, there is no compelling reason for consumers to give feedback when they can just go the TV content they want with their existing systems such as traditional set top box services, or use catch-up TV services on PCs and tablets.
Having worked through the iPhone disruption in the mobile space I can safely say that this has not yet occurred in the TV market. However, when it comes it will decisively change the dynamics of development. This is important for start-ups working in the TV space and the investors, VC or Angels who back them.
Consider the dynamics of app development pre-iPhone. Often you would have to work with an operator or with a handset manufacturer and would have to pay close attention to the changes in the target platform. Dealing with handset manufacturers and operators is notoriously tricky and time-consuming – and while can make you a superstar if you get it right, more often it wastes time and precious resources.
Post-iPhone, the way of reaching users and making money with apps has radically changed. No need for deep relationships with operators or handset manufacturers – you can just target the obvious winners in the platform space and push your app to the store. This environment does not exist yet in TV.
There are candidates for an ‘iPhone moment’ in TV. Obviously Apple are rumoured to be launching a proper TV. The current Apple TV box is a great device but is not yet an open app platform.
Google TV is a slow burn project but is making steady progress and could be a candidate.
Xbox is also a dark horse, especially with the recent reports (http://t.co/DrM7mu1t) which show that more time is now spent watching content through and Xbox than gaming on it.
And don’t forget the TV incumbents who have been working on this for a while. TiVo, Sky+, YouView in the UK, HBB TV in Europe are all active in TV platform development and Roku has been providing Over The Top (OTT) boxes for a couple of years now.
TV is a confusing place to be working at the moment, in an industry that could be going through an inflexion point in the next couple of years. Its very hard to place the right bet when it comes to TV app development platforms. That said, if you want a list of places to focus on I would list:
TV Manufacturers: Samsung and Sony because of their volume
STB Companies: Boxee, Roku for as thought leaders so far
Platforms: Google TV is the most open platform, and are doing a great deal to encourage development, including signing up major tier-1 services like Hulu. They have low volumes at the moment though so keep an eye on product announcements (http://www.google.com/tv/)
And of course, watch Apple. The next significant step may be the opening up of the current Apple TV product to app development (it is currently closed). The announcement many are waiting for though is of an actual TV set.
TV will have its iPhone Moment, but it might not be Apple that creates it.
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Dallas – Changes in technology and the need to hire an educated workforce are driving the creation of a new eight-week technology training program which is the result of a new partnership that involves North Lake College, Nokia and Premcell. The training program will focus on helping individuals develop competence in basic technology related to cellular mobile networks.
The announcement was made recently during an event at North Lake College that was attended by Beth Van Duyne, mayor of the city of Irving; Dr. Joe May, chancellor of the Dallas County Community College District; Dr. Christa Slejko, president of North Lake College; Soman Kumar, CEO for Premcell Global; Claus Winberg, head of sales consultancy for Nokia; Joyabrata Mukherjee, senior director at Nokia; and Beth Bowman, president and CEO of the Greater Irving Las Colinas Chamber of Commerce and the Irving Economic Development Partnership.
Nokia is one of the world’s largest companies specializing in telecommunications and information technology. Premcell is a world leader in wireless technology consulting, network roll-out, project support and technology training.
Training is key
“The two telecommunications firms, who have offices and facilities in Irving, realized that there is an urgent need for qualified technicians,” said Slejko. “North Lake College is excited to collaborate with both companies and create a training program which will provide them and other firms with the skilled workforce they need in the North Texas market.”
“Our new partnership with Nokia and Premcell is an excellent example of how higher education benefits workforce and economic development,” said May. “Through education and training, DCCCD – along with North Lake and our other six colleges – support student success, businesses and the communities we serve. Our students earn credentials which help them find good jobs, earn a living wage and support both their families and their communities.”
Premcell Global has teamed with Nokia, Tier 1 universities and community colleges globally to provide wireless technology training that uses world-class instructors and consultants who have industry experience in research and development, network roll-out and systems engineering. All courses offer technology tools or test simulations, as well as question-and-answer sessions and 24/7 online support.
The first cohort of students – limited to 18 individuals – will start in January 2107; during the first year, the goal is to train a total of 60 students. They will attend classes eight hours each week for eight weeks, or a total of 64 hours of theory, plus a maximum of five days of practical test bed training both on- and off-site at Nokia. Successful students will receive a certificate of completion from Nokia and Premcell.
Students who successfully complete the training through North Lake College can seek employment as installation, commissioning and integration technicians with companies such as Nokia, Sprint, T-Mobile, Metro PCS, US Cellular, Frontier, Verizon and others.
Jobs with potential
According to Interlink 2016-2021, these jobs are considered “high skill/high demand occupations.” The job outlook for 2014-2024 in these fields indicates a faster-than-average, 9 percent growth rate. For example: Computer network architects with two to four years of education can earn wages ranging from $35.15 to $59.88 per hour; computer network specialists who have two to four years of education can earn an hourly wage that ranges from $24.17 to $42.50.
The cost of the eight-week training program is $1,699 per student. Texas Private Education Grant funds (TPEG) may be available for some students; some incumbent workers may have funding through their employers.
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CN suspends feasibility for rail link to Quebec/Labrador iron ore range
by Greg Klein
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The Labrador Trough might hold some of the world’s largest undeveloped iron ore resources. But is the market ready? That’s a question some people are asking as CN TSX:CNR shelves a feasibility study to build what might have been a $5-billion, 800-kilometre rail line to the isolated Quebec/Labrador iron ore range.
CN formally announced the decision February 12, citing “current market realities.” The rail giant added that “mine construction schedules and diverging needs for each specific individual project will make it difficult to obtain the critical volumes of iron ore necessary.” Also a factor was “the decision by some miners in the region not to join the group of mining companies supporting the CN infrastructure project.” The study was originally scheduled for release in May.
It began last August under a partnership of the continental railway, pension/insurance fund manager Caisse de depot et placement du Quebec and a group of mining companies.
In separate February 12 announcements, two of those companies announced they were unaffected by the suspension. Referring to its Taconite project straddling the Quebec/Labrador border, New Millennium Iron TSX:NML stated the “base case for product transportation is through a ferroduct and does not depend on a new rail line.”
The project’s KeMag deposit pre-feas suggests pumping concentrate along a 700-kilometre slurry ferroduct to the St. Lawrence port of Sept-Iles. “Slurry transportation is being used in many iron ore projects located in Brazil, India and Australia because of its low-cost advantage compared to rail transportation,” the company states. “This has the potential to make KeMag the lowest-cost pellet producer in North America.”
The region also has a second, private rail line operated by the Cartier Railway Company, a subsidiary of ArcelorMittal. The 420-kilometre route connects the company’s Mont-Wright operation with Sept-Iles.
The 415-kilometre QNS&L Railway links Labrador City with Sept-Iles. Although it’s owned by the Iron Ore Company of Canada (itself owned 58.7% by Rio Tinto and 26.2% by Mitsubishi), Alderon president/CEO Tayfun Eldem emphasized that the QNS&L is “a common carrier that operates with the legal obligation to accommodate third-party traffic. It currently has ample surplus capacity and runs within 15 kilometres of the Kami property.”
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Last month, America's favorite science teacher Bill Nye the Science Guy, blasted the US for not having a high speed rail system. Meanwhile, on the other side of the planet, China completed its first underwater railway tunnel on Saturday. The government there likes to call it the "world's fastest" underwater railroad. It will be.
Nye was lambasting our lack of high speed trains during a National Engineers Week event at Walt Disney World's Epcot Center in late February.
China's Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong bullet train is run by Hong Kong based MTR Corporation, (MTRJY). These are the guys who run the Hong Kong metro. MTR's GSHK express train will be able travel 217 miles per hour, the company says. By comparison, our Acela Express, which has daily runs from Boston to Washington, DC, can only go up to 150 miles per hour.
MTRs super train is not ready to glide at top speeds under ground just yet. What was completed this weekend was just the Shiziyang Tunnel under the Pearl River estuary in south China's Guangdong Province. The tunnel is around 7 miles long and designed especially for high speed, underground transit. China's underground will be the world's fastest when the express train is operational by as early as 2012, according to MTR.
The tunnel is a key part of a 140-kilometer high-speed rail link that connects Guangzhou, the capital of China's southern economic powerhouse Guangdong, with the city of Shenzhen, also in Guangdong, and Hong Kong. Liu Guangjun, project manager with the Shiziyang Tunnel, told Xinhua that large shielding machines had been used in digging the tunnel at 196 feet underwater.
Construction of the tunnel started in November 2007. The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong express rail would slash travel time between Guangzhou and Hong Kong to 40 minutes from the current two hours and will ultimately be part of an 88 mile stretch of high speed railroad connecting Hong Kong with mainland China. According to the environmental impact study on the project back in 2009, the train "will significantly increase integration of cities, and promote business and tourism towards a greener economy."
The tunnel is just the beginning. The Guangzhou-Shenzhen-Hong Kong rail is part of China's "Medium to Long Term Rail Network Plan", established in 2004. The plan seeks to create a 9,941 mile rail line to integrate most of China's major cities. So, yes, the infrastructure and growth narrative is very much in place in China. But let's not forget the technological know-how to build this thing.
At 217 miles per hour, the new train will be China's fastest below ground, but not China's fastest overall. The Siemens AG (SI) built Shanghai magnetic levitation train can reach top speeds of 267 miles per hour, according to passengers who have traveled on the Shanghai Maglev.
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Career and Education Opportunities for Technical Directors in Glendale, Arizona
Glendale, Arizona provides a wide variety of opportunities, both career and educational, for technical directors. There are currently 1,170 jobs for technical directors in Arizona and this is projected to grow 15% to 1,350 jobs by 2016. This is better than the nation as a whole, where employment opportunities for technical directors are expected to grow by about 9.8%. Technical directors generally coordinate activities of technical departments, such as taping, editing, and maintenance, to produce radio or television programs.
Technical directors earn about $20 per hour or $41,970 per year on average in Arizona and about $30 hourly or $64,430 yearly on average nationally. Earnings for technical directors are the same as earnings in the general category of Theater, Film, and Television in Arizona and the same as general Theater, Film, and Television category earnings nationally. Technical directors work in a variety of jobs, including: production superintendent, production supervisor, and producer.
The Glendale area is home to seventy-four schools of higher education, including eight within twenty-five miles of Glendale where you can get a degree as a technical director. The most common level of education for technical directors is a Bachelor's degree. It will take about four years to learn to be a technical director if you already have a high school diploma.
CAREER DESCRIPTION: Technical Director
In general, technical directors coordinate activities of technical departments, such as taping, editing, and maintenance, to produce radio or television programs.
Technical directors act as liaisons between engineering and production departments. They also monitor broadcasts to insure that programs conform to station or network policies and regulations. Equally important, technical directors have to supervise and assign duties to staff working on technical control and production of radio and television programs. They are often called upon to operate apparatus to produce programs or broadcast live programs from remote locations. They are expected to train staff in use of equipment such as switchers and lights. Finally, technical directors test apparatus to insure proper operation.
Every day, technical directors are expected to be able to articulate ideas and problems. It is also important that they listen to and understand others in meetings.
It is important for technical directors to talk with operations directors to formulate and maintain fair and attainable technical policies for programs. They are often called upon to schedule use of studio and editing facilities for producers and engineering and maintenance staff. They also switch between video sources in a studio or on multi-camera remotes, using equipment such as switchers, video slide projectors, and video effects generators. They are sometimes expected to direct technical aspects of newscasts and other productions, checking and switching between video sources, and taking responsibility for the on-air product, including camera shots and graphics. Somewhat less frequently, technical directors are also expected to follow instructions from production managers and directors during productions, such as commands for camera cuts and takes.
and prepare and execute video transitions and special effects such as fades and supers, using computers to manipulate pictures as needed. And finally, they sometimes have to train staff in use of equipment such as switchers and lights.
Like many other jobs, technical directors must be reliable and want to innovate to meet new challenges.
Similar jobs with educational opportunities in Glendale include:
- Actor. Play parts in stage, television, or motion picture productions for entertainment, information, or instruction. Interpret serious or comic role by speech, gesture, and body movement to entertain or inform audience. May dance and sing.
- Artistic Director. Audition and interview performers to select most appropriate talent for parts in stage, television, or motion picture productions.
- Director. Interpret script, conduct rehearsals, and direct activities of cast and technical crew for stage, motion pictures, or radio programs.
- Film or Videotape Editor. Edit motion picture soundtracks, film, and video.
- Producer. Plan and coordinate various aspects of radio, television, or motion picture production, such as selecting script, coordinating writing, directing and editing, and arranging financing.
- Program Director. Direct and coordinate activities of personnel engaged in preparation of radio or television station program schedules and programs.
EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: Technical Director Training
South Mountain Community College - Phoenix, AZ
South Mountain Community College, 7050 S 24th St, Phoenix, AZ 85040. South Mountain Community College is a medium sized college located in Phoenix, Arizona. It is a public school with primarily 2-year programs and has 5,138 students. South Mountain Community College has an associate's degree program in Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts.
Mesa Community College - Mesa, AZ
Mesa Community College, 1833 W Southern Ave, Mesa, AZ 85202. Mesa Community College is a large college located in Mesa, Arizona. It is a public school with primarily 2-year programs and has 23,825 students. Mesa Community College has an associate's degree program in Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts which graduated one student in 2008.
Collins College - Tempe, AZ
Collins College, 1140 S Priest Dr, Tempe, AZ 85281-5206. Collins College is a small college located in Tempe, Arizona. It is a private for-profit school with primarily 4-year or above programs and has 1,519 students. Collins College has an associate's degree and a bachelor's degree program in Cinematography and Film/Video Production which graduated sixty-three and thirty-five students respectively in 2008.
Grand Canyon University - Phoenix, AZ
Grand Canyon University, 3300 W Camelback Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85017. Grand Canyon University is a large university located in Phoenix, Arizona. It is a private for-profit school with primarily 4-year or above programs. It has 22,087 students and an admission rate of 100%. Grand Canyon University has a bachelor's degree program in Dramatic/Theatre Arts and Stagecraft, Other Specialties which graduated one student in 2008.
Scottsdale Community College - Scottsdale, AZ
Scottsdale Community College, 9000 E Chaparral Rd, Scottsdale, AZ 85256. Scottsdale Community College is a large college located in Scottsdale, Arizona. It is a public school with primarily 2-year programs and has 10,077 students. Scottsdale Community College has 3 areas of study related to Technical Director. They are:
- Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, associate's degree which graduated 1 student in 2008.
- Film/Cinema Studies, one to two year which graduated 3 students in 2008.
- Cinematography and Film/Video Production, one to two year which graduated 39 students in 2008.
Phoenix College - Phoenix, AZ
Phoenix College, 1202 W Thomas Rd, Phoenix, AZ 85013. Phoenix College is a large college located in Phoenix, Arizona. It is a public school with primarily 2-year programs and has 10,917 students. Phoenix College has an associate's degree program in Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts which graduated one student in 2008.
Arizona State University - Tempe, AZ
Arizona State University, , Tempe, AZ 85287. Arizona State University is a large university located in Tempe, Arizona. It is a public school with primarily 4-year or above programs. It has 67,082 students and an admission rate of 82%. Arizona State University has 2 areas of study related to Technical Director. They are:
- Radio and Television, bachelor's degree which graduated 4 students in 2008.
- Drama and Dramatics/Theatre Arts, bachelor's degree, master's degree, and doctor's degree which graduated forty-one, fifteen, and one students respectively in 2008.
The Art Institute of Phoenix - Phoenix, AZ
The Art Institute of Phoenix, 2233 W Dunlap Ave, Phoenix, AZ 85021-2859. The Art Institute of Phoenix is a small school located in Phoenix, Arizona. It is a private for-profit school with primarily 4-year or above programs. It has 1,144 students and an admission rate of 52%. The Art Institute of Phoenix has a bachelor's degree program in Cinematography and Film/Video Production which graduated seven students in 2008.
Program Management Professional: Project Management Institute's newest credential is specifically developed to acknowledge the qualifications of the professional who leads the coordinated management of multiple projects and ensures the ultimate success of a program.
For more information, see the Project Management Institute website.
LOCATION INFORMATION: Glendale, Arizona
Glendale is located in Maricopa County, Arizona. It has a population of over 251,522, which has grown by 14.9% over the last ten years. The cost of living index in Glendale, 92, is below the national average. New single-family homes in Glendale are priced at $278,800 on average, which is far greater than the state average. In 2008, seventy-eight new homes were built in Glendale, down from two hundred ninety-eight the previous year.
The three big industries for women in Glendale are health care, educational services, and finance and insurance. For men, it is construction, public administration, and administrative and support and waste management services. The average travel time to work is about 28 minutes. More than 21.0% of Glendale residents have a bachelor's degree, which is lower than the state average. The percentage of residents with a graduate degree, 7.1%, is lower than the state average.
The unemployment rate in Glendale is 8.9%, which is less than Arizona's average of 9.3%.
The percentage of Glendale residents that are affiliated with a religious congregation, 39.7%, is less than the national average but more than the state average. The most common religious groups are the Catholic Church, the LDS (Mormon) Church and the Southern Baptist Convention.
Glendale is home to the Southwest Poultry Experiment Station and the Maryvale Substation as well as Thunderbird Park and Bicentennial Park. Shopping malls in the area include Glen Fairs Shopping Center, Glendale Plaza Shopping Center and Glendale Shopping Center. Visitors to Glendale can choose from Best Western Inn Phoenix Glen, AriTime Personal Services and Four Seasons Flowers & Gifts for temporary stays in the area. | <urn:uuid:da87316e-0172-4c01-8a40-3e9f6abc4c94> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.careeroverview.com/usa/arizona/glendale/art-design-entertainment-and-sports/theater-film-and-television/technical-director/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719079.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00033-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951351 | 2,130 | 1.757813 | 2 |
FSFE Newsletter - December 2015
From the FSFE
MEPs in support of our amendments
The European Parliamentary committees for Internal Market and Consumer Protection (IMCO) as well as Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) issued their joint own-initiative report based on the Commission's Digital Single Market Strategy. FSFE's policy team analysed their report and proposed changes to include standards that are open, minimalistic, and implementable with Free Software, to integrate users' control over their data and to make sure that the single open science cloud is implemented with Free Software.
The report received more than 1000 amendments from Members of the European Parliament (MEPs), several of whom supported our points and proposed amendments. This shows increased awareness in the Parliament towards the importance of Free Software in "cloud computing", big data and standardisation, as well as in public sector. Shadow rapporteur Cornelia Ernst even highlighted the need to address Free Software during her talk in the joint meeting of IMCO/ITRE on 10 November. This month, on December 14, the Parliament will vote for the final version of the report.
Although the report is non-binding and the Commission is not obliged to follow the Parliament's recommendations, the fact that our amendments were supported by several MEPs is an important step. Especially in the Parliament that is usually less receptive when it comes to the issues concerning digital rights and Free Software.
Germany passed law against compulsory routers
After three years of intensive lobbying by the FSFE and other organisations, the German Parliament as well as the second chamber, the Federal Council, passed a law against compulsory routers but for free choice of the user. This is an important step towards consumer protection and fair competition of manufacturers. Free choice also empowers users to take care of critical features like security or privacy on their own preferred device. The law will become effective in the mid of 2016 and should set an example across Europe. We will support similar legislation wherever needed.
Sony Rootkit makes headlines 10 years later
In the end of October FSFE reminded of the dangers posed by technical restrictions on technology to promote everyone's right to tinker. As a result, the topic got picked up by the press and the FSFE info page was linked with at least a dozen articles from several big name news sources. Our ex-intern Asa Ritz summarised in his blogpost the media coverage we received.
What else have we done?
- FSFE president Matthias Kirschner gave a talk about the computer as a universal machine at Codemotion Berlin, and ran a workshop about restrictions on technical restrictions at the "Open IT Summit" in Berlin. In a podcast, Matthias argued against a "non-military clause" in Free Software licenses.
- FSFE community coordinator Erik Albers and FSFE legal team coordinator Matija Šuklje participated at Copycamp Warsaw to host a booth and Matija to gave a talk about "Implications of the EU Copyright Reform on Free Software".
- FSFE was present at FSCONS in Goteborg, Sweden. Christian Kalkhoff wrote about his FSCONS experience in a blogpost.
- FSFE had its booths also at Open Source Summit in Paris, at Linuxday in Dornbirn, Austria, at T-Dose in Eindhoven, Netherlands, and at OpenRheinRuhr Oberhausen, Germany.
- If you like to meet us in person, you will meet members, staff and community of the FSFE at our booth at FOSDEM. And if you go to this year's Chaos Communication Congress, #32C3, then do not miss to pass by the FSFE assembly, participate in one of our sessions or simply take a break in our "Free Software lounge".
- The FSFE Education team is redesigning its educational leaflet. If you like to join or share ideas, feel free to participate on the wiki page.
- The local group FSFE Zurich started a Free Software photo book to show people that use Free Software. If you like, you can be part of it.
- In our Free Your Android campaign we highlight the importance of Replicant as a 100% free Android-based operating system. We are happy to see that business grows, that start to sell phones with Replicant pre-installed and we hope there are more companies who follow this example.
- If you like what we have done in 2015 and you like us to continue the good work in 2016 or even grow stronger, then consider to support us with a donation or to become a sustainable member. Funding is crucial to our existence.
Out of the community
- A new team got established: North Rhine-Westphalia is the biggest state of Germany with currently three local FSFE groups. This month, they had an inaugural meeting of a state-wide action group, the Team NRW. Besides coordination, the primary tasks shall be the education of teachers.
- At the local meeting of FSFE Düsseldorf, Andreas Schreiber talked about the open source strategy of Germany’s Aerospace Centre DLR and this event was picked up by the European Open Source Observatory
- After offering pre-flashed Libreboot Laptops at freie.computer the local group FSFE Zurich now decided to start doing Flashdays
- Daniel Pocock reports about team building around SIP and XMPP communication in Debian and Fedora, and Daniel has also written a quick start to use Blender for video editing
- Marcus Möller customised Fedora 23 in a Freed version, which includes linux-libre kernel and Icecat webbrowser. All proprietary firmware has been removed.
Good Free Software News
At the EU level: the European Parliament calls upon the Commission for the systematic replacement of proprietary software by verifiable Free Software in all the EU institutions. In Italy, the Italian Ministry of Defence is replacing Microsoft Office with LibreOffice on 150,000 PCs in what is Europe’s second largest LibreOffice implementation. Meanwhile, the second most important industrial city in Southern Italy, Bari, is about to complete its transition to LibreOffice and the ODF. At the same time in Switzerland, the council of Bern ordered the IT department to end its dependence on proprietary software, and replace proprietary software by Free Software solutions. The same example was followed in Denmark where the city of Aarhus is requiring the use of open IT standards for all of its future IT projects in order to rid itself of IT vendor lock-in. Lastly, recent study in France confirmed that country's administration is still a large enabler of Free Software in France. According to the study, the Free Software market is growing on a linear trend and will grow by 9% annually until 2020.
This was the final newsletter in 2015. Thank you very much for your attention. You will receive the next newsletter in the beginning of February 2016.
BTW: We are still experimenting with new ways and formats for our newsletter. Please feel free to give us your feedback at firstname.lastname@example.org.
Happy Christmas and a Happy GNU-year!
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It’s been a while since we added free printables to our site but I couldn’t resist these gorgeous Gingerbread boy and Gingerbread girl line study activities for kids. We’re huge fans of gingerbread and love any activities around the story. We are delighted to add this Gingerbread boy and girl line activity for kids. It’s a fun craft activity which will help develop kids fine motor skills.
Gingerbread boy and girl line activity for kids supplies:
Construction paper (or card)
Crayons, Markers or coloured pencils
Gingerbread boy and girl line activity for kids instructions:
Choose a section to start with and start to draw lines in each of the separate lined areas. Pay close attention to keep the lines within the right areas. This is great for developing your childs’ concentration and fine motor skills.
Change the direction of your pattern to really mix things up! Keep doing this until you have finished the whole sheet.
Colour each block. We chose traditional brown for the body but added colourful detail and background.
Once finished you can cut the excess border off the template and glue onto black paper or card to make it really stand out.
You could reduce the print size and turn these into unique and fun Christmas cards or even cut along the lines to make your own puzzle! | <urn:uuid:9880bd10-45c6-42f9-b6aa-d019bf3f633a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://the-gingerbread-house.co.uk/gingerbread-line-study-for-kids/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.913216 | 288 | 2.8125 | 3 |
Men ages 55 to 69 who are considering prostate cancer screening should talk with their doctors about the benefits and harms of prostate-specific antigen testing and proceed based on their personal values and preferences, according to a new clinical practice guidelines released recently by the American Urological Association. Dr. Ruth Etzioni of the Public Health Sciences Division served on the panel that developed the guidelines.
The highest quality evidence for screening benefit (lower prostate cancer mortality) was in men ages 55 to 69 years screened at two- to four-year intervals; data demonstrated that one man per 1,000 screened prevented a prostate cancer death over a decade. However, over a lifetime, this benefit could be much greater. There are also men outside this target age range who could benefit from screening because they are at a higher risk of prostate cancer due to race, family history, etc. These men should discuss their risk with their physicians and assess the benefits and risks of testing.
The guidelines indicate:
- PSA screening in men under age 40 years is not recommended.
- Routine screening in men between ages 40 to 54 years at average risk is not recommended.
- For men ages 55 to 69 years, the decision to undergo PSA screening involves weighing the benefits of preventing prostate cancer mortality in one man for every 1,000 men screened over a decade against the known potential harms associated with screening and treatment. For this reason, shared decision-making is recommended for men age 55 to 69 years who are considering PSA screening and proceeding based on patients' values and preferences.
- To reduce the harms of screening, a routine screening interval of two years or more may be preferred over annual screening in those men who have participated in shared decision-making and decided on screening. As compared to annual screening, it is expected that screening intervals of two years preserve the majority of the benefits and reduce overdiagnosis and false positives.
- Routine PSA screening is not recommended in men over age 70 or any man with less than a 10- to 15-year life expectancy.
"I think the guidelines will help men to have a realistic view of the threat that prostate cancer presents to their health and the likelihood that PSA screening will reduce that risk," Etzioni said. "It will help them to determine at what ages and how often to be screened should they decide that the benefits outweigh the risks. Most of all, it will clarify the point that there are potential harms associated with screening that increase as men age, and their decision about whether to be screened should be an informed one based on the available evidence regarding harm and benefit."
The new guidelines are significantly different from AUA's 2009 PSA best-practice statement as they were developed using evidence from a systematic literature review rather than consensus opinion; they provide rating and interpretation of the evidence based on randomized controlled trials with modeled and population data as supporting evidence; and the developed statements that do not go beyond the available evidence. In developing the guidelines, the panel acknowledged that ongoing research (including studies on biomarkers other than PSA) might lead to changes in the guidelines statements. They plan to update the guidelines regularly based on new evidence.
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Professor Emeritus of Botany
He continued his research on nitrogen fixation at the Harvard Forest of Harvard University, where he investigated the energy cost of nitrogen fixation by nodulated woody plants, particularly alders. His recent research and teaching interests include the biophysics of gas diffusion into and out of root nodules and compost piles; computer models of forest succession applied to inquiry learning and the regulation of cell wall expansion during oscillatory growth in lily pollen tubes.
He teaches in the Environmental Science and Sustainability Program, sponsoring courses on sustainable living and the production of biomass fuels. In addition to teaching plant biology and forest ecology, Professor Winship is the current director of the Southwest Studies program and occasionally leads desert field courses on the US-Mexico border. His other interests include sustainable building and timber framing, the natural history of the Pioneer Valley, hiking, and sailing.
Standing as silent sentinels, trees in temperate regions record temperature, rainfall, amount of sunlight and response to disturbance in the width of their annual growth rings. We can use the patterns of these rings as surrogate climate records for years before people recorded weather data. In this project-based course, we will first learn the techniques of dendochronology, the science of reading tree rings, including collection and preparation of samples, data collections and analysis, and the biology of tree growth. We will travel to various sites around New England and collect tree cores in stands where the climate signal is likely to be strong and where we can also find evidence of significant ecological events such as fire, logging, hurricanes and farm abandonment. 300-level students will act as team leaders for the main course projects.
A lively debate roars in both the popular and scientific press - will we run out of food? This debate seems to beg several crucial questions: what food, for whom, produced how and where, at what cost to the world's non-human biota (among others)? We might try to answer these questions politically, or ethically, or ecologically - in this class I propose to explore the implications of our food choices and production methods as quantitatively as possible using mathematical models. Many, many studies have produced models of this kind, so we have a good set of starting points. And, a model is only as good as its input data, and the validity of assumptions about rates and interrelationships. We will explore and critique a few such models, then try out our own project. Depending on interests, skills and available information we might take on local food production and consumption on our own campus, in the Pioneer Valley, or even throughout the world. Some skills or at least comfort with computers, simulations and numerical methods are strongly recommended.
Unlike many plant biology survey courses, this class will not attempt comprehensive coverage, but rather will consist of a series of guided explorations into how plants around us grow, adapt and reproduce. Class will meet twice per week, once to discuss relevant literature and last week's results, and once to conduct experiments, take field walks, make observations and collect data. Likely topics include pigments and leaf color change, photosynthesis and respiration, seed germination, vegetative and reproductive anatomy, nutrient uptake, nitrogen fixation, tropisms and canopy structure, among others. We will grow plants in the Bioshelter and explore the woods and fields around us. Written work for the course will consist of short write-ups of each week's exploration. No formal prerequisites are required, but some experience with science and quantitative analysis is very much recommended.
Shaped by climate, elevation, and continuous disturbance, the forests of New England are diverse, ever-changing, and frankly beautiful. In this class we take day-long field trips to twelve forests, reading the literature on each forest type and learning to identify trees and other denizens. We will practice methods for scientific investigation, including community census and analysis and dendrochronology. We will learn to read the landscape for clues about history and stand dynamics. | <urn:uuid:73d5a295-db8a-43ed-ba9c-8a5e285c7cc2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.hampshire.edu/faculty/lawrence-j-winship | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00297-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945746 | 814 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Muscle and NeuroMuscular Junction
Our research program focuses on the interactions existing between skeletal muscles and the nerves. A functional innervation of skeletal muscles is essential for their contraction but also for their homeostasis. This innervation involves motor neurons, which transmit the information from the brain. Altered innervation of muscle fibers and/or defective muscle response to changes in neural activity are hallmarks of several diseases associated with muscle dysfunction. Thus, determining the mechanisms leading to the loss of the functional and plastic interplays between muscle and nerve is paramount. The aims of our research program are 1) to identify processes or effectors supporting the formation and/or the maintenance of the muscle / nerve connections and, 2) to unveil mechanisms threatening neuromuscular integrity in pathological conditions, such as myopathies. The research program is conducted with the long-term goal to delineate potential therapeutic strategies to limit muscle alterations in these disabling diseases. | <urn:uuid:ed54f245-f397-4fd2-a6cb-11701a52df5e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.unige.ch/medecine/phym/en/research/perrine-castets/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00679.warc.gz | en | 0.93484 | 188 | 1.835938 | 2 |
TAAT stands for Estonian Academic Authentication and Authorization Infrastructure (Eesti haridus- ja teadusasutusevahelise autentimise ja autoriseerimise taristu). It enables electronic identities (user accounts) issued by education or research institutions to be used to access several web based services.
The principle of TAAT is that users don’t need a separate user account for each service but they can use their excising account and authentication system of their home institution.
Only the information that is necessary for using the service is being sent during the authentification process. Users have to their consent to have information about them passed on.
TAAT also permits using a single log-in between different services (SSO).
TAAT is a free service provided by EENet to Estonian education and research institutions.
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New Jersey held a wildly successful Safe Surrender program last week, during which 3,901 people turned themselves in—including 550 people who weren’t actually wanted for anything. “For some people, this seemed to be a way to check: Do I have a warrant or not?” explains a spokesperson. The program offers people wanted for nonviolent crimes to surrender and, usually, be granted probation or a reduced fine instead of jail time. In exchange, authorities are spared the risk and expense of searching for and jailing these people.
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A goal keeper may pick up a ball directly from a throw-in by an opponent.A goal keeper may not pick up a ball directly from a throw-in by a teammate. This is one of the Indirect Free Kick infractions.
It depends on how the goalkeeper received it. If the goalkeeper received it from a deliberate kick or a throw-in by a team-mate, then no. Otherwise, yes.
Only inside the box.
yes he/she can for example if the goalkeeper is going to kick the ball and puts it down he/she can pick it up and move it somewhere else.
yes he can. as a goalkeeper you dont give up on goal never ever!
When their are outside their own Penalty Area. When their teammate passes it to them deliberately with their feet. When their teammate directly performs a throw-in to them. After, after having possession of the ball in their hands, they release the ball. (dribbling doesn't count)
Only if it was thrown-in by the opponents, not from a team-mate.
Yes it can be done, as it is not a back pass.
If a defender passes the ball back to his own goalkeeper using his feet then the keeper cannot pick it up, he can only use his feet to clear or pass the ball. however if the defender passes the ball back to his keeper using another part of his body (excluding arms and hands) then the goalkeeper can pick it up.
No, a keeper may not pick the ball up on a pass back. If they do so, an indirect free kick is awarded to the opposing team.
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Bad breath can be an embarrassing problem for children, as well as parents. Bad
breath, or halitosis, can be a symptom of various conditions including:
postnasal drip, dry mouth, dental problems, and sinusitis. Halitosis in children
is often due to the decomposition of mucus secretions and debris which
accumulate on the tongue, in the nose, and between the teeth.
Halitosis is an offensive odor which comes from the mouth, nose, or airway. It
is also defined as exhaled air containing more than 75 parts per billion of
odor-producing volatile sulfur compounds.
WHAT ARE THE SOURCES OF HALITOSIS IN CHILDREN?
Halitosis can be caused by oral sources, non-oral sources, and
The source of halitosis is the oral cavity in up to 85% of affected
individuals. The most common odor-causing sites in the mouth are: the dorsum
(back) of the tongue, the area between the teeth, and under the gum line.
The coating on the tongue usually consists of desquamated (shed)
epithelial cells, blood cells, and bacteria. It is possible for more than
100 bacteria to attach to just one oral epithelial cell. The worst oral odor
occurs when many desquamating oral epithelial cells are trapped in the
plaque and crevices on the dorsum of the tongue.
Halitosis results from the action of specific bacteria (gram-negative
anaerobes) on oral debris and dental plaque. Sulfur-containing substrates
are eagerly devoured by these bacteria. The bacterial breakdown of
methionine and cysteine molecules yields hydrogen sulfide and
methylmercaptan – both of which produce bad breath. These volatile sulfur
compounds (VSCs) have a “rotten egg” smell.
The oral conditions which predispose to the production of bad breath are:
a decrease in the flow of saliva, stagnation of saliva, a predominance of
gram-negative anaerobes, an increase in the relative amount of protein in
the diet, a reduction in the relative amount of carbohydrate in the diet, a
rise in the oral pH to a more alkaline environment, and an increase in the
number of dead or necrotic oral epithelial cells in the mouth.
ORAL SOURCES OF HALITOSIS:
Dry mouth (xerostomia):
Dry mouth is an important factor in the production of bad breath. Xerostomia
may be due to: mouth breathing, a decrease in salivary flow, sleeping,
dehydration, salivary gland disease, chemotherapy, diabetes, and certain
medications. Saliva is very important because it cleanses the teeth and
mouth, and destroys oral microorganisms.
The most common source of bad breath is the back (dorsum) of the tongue.
An abscessed tooth or dental caries can cause halitosis. In the case of
dental caries, food debris gets stuck between the teeth and can cause
putrefaction. Faulty dental restorations or poorly fitting crowns allow food
and bacteria to accumulate – producing a foul odor.
Oral fungal infection:
Children who take antibiotics for a long time may develop a Candida
infection in the mouth. Children undergoing chemotherapy, or who are
immunosuppressed, are prone to develop oral fungal infections. Such oral
yeast infections produce a characteristic sweet odor.
Gingivitis and periodontitis are the most common inflammatory diseases which
cause halitosis. The resulting foul odor is very distinct. Gram-negative
bacteria such as Veillonella, Fusobacterium nucleatum, and Porphyromonas
gingivalis hide in diseased periodontal tissues, and produce foul gases.
Oral cancer and its treatment causes tissue destruction, bleeding, and
necrosis. The resulting oral debris is an ideal substrate for the anaerobic
bacteria which produce the offensive gases.
NONORAL SOURCES OF HALITOSIS:
Bad breath can also be caused by systemic (medical) problems such as:
Liver problems, respiratory and sinus conditions, tonsils, kidney problems, Helibactor
pylori infection, diabetes mellitus, timethylaminuria, medications, and
Liver failure and cirrhosis are associated with a sulfur or “rotten egg”
smell from the mouth.
Timethylaminuria, a metabolic disorder of the liver, causes the buildup of
trimethylamine in exhaled air.
Respiratory and sinus conditions:
Postnasal drip is probably the most common cause of halitosis in children.
Secretions from a sinus infection, runny nose, or nasal allergy drip down
the back of the throat and onto the tongue. Odor-causing bacteria thrive on
these secretions, and produce volatile sulfur compounds (VSCs). VSCs are the
gases which cause bad breath.
Asthmatic children who use corticosteroids may develop bad breath due to the
development of oropharyngeal candidiasis.
Enlarged adenoids may lead to mouth breathing.
Foreign bodies in the nose and respiratory tract will produce an
inflammatory response, a discharge, and eventually a foul odor.
If a child’s tonsils have deep crypts, food and debris will accumulate in
them, producing some halitosis. Sometimes tonsilloliths form in the crypts.
These tonsilloliths are small, soft, whitish-yellow secretions which produce
a foul odor as they break up.
Kidney failure causes uremia, which produces an ammonia smell in the breath.
Helibactor pylori infection:
This gastric infection can cause inflammatory changes in the stomach.
Achalasia of the esophagus also can result in halitosis.
Uncontrolled diabetes mellitus eventually results in ketoacidosis, causing
the breath to have an acetone smell.
Antihistamines, antipsychotics, bronchodilators, antidepressants, and
antispasmodics cause dry mouth (xerostomia).
Children who have been taking antibiotics during the last month often have
halitosis which is bacterial in origin. This oral malodor is transient, and
usually disappears when antibiotic therapy has ceased.
Bad breath during menstruation may be caused by transient gingivitis.
PSYCHOLOGICAL CAUSES OF HALITOSIS:
Pseudo-halitosis occurs when bad breath does not actually exist, but the
child or parent believes it does. Some parents and patients can be convinced
that there is no malodor problem when a portable sulfide monitor (Halimeter)
proves the lack of halitosis.
If the child or parent still believes that bad breath exists after
successful treatment of genuine halitosis or pseudo-halitosis, the problem
is then diagnosed as halitaphobia. Children or parents with halitaphobia
should be referred to a psychologist for further assistance.
HOW IS HALITOSIS DIAGNOSED AND MEASURED?
Establishing a diagnosis of halitosis involves three steps:
Obtain a complete medical history, perform a thorough clinical examination
of the patient, and measure or evaluate the patient’s breath.
1) Medical history:
A complete medical history needs to be completed, including taking a
medication history. Detailed information about current and past medications
is very important. A detailed face-to-face interview with the patient and
parent is needed. A review of systems is performed. Questions that deal with
the patient’s and parent’s psychological health need to be included.
2) Clinical examination:
A physical examination is done, with special given attention to the
structures of the head and neck. A complete oral and dental examination is
mandatory, evaluating for potential periodontal disease, dry mouth, salivary
gland disease, tooth decay, poor dental restorations, orthodontic
appliances, and oral ulceration.
3) Measurement and evaluation of the breath:
The two practical methods of detecting and measuring halitosis are: sensory
(organoleptic) and instrumental.
a) The organoleptic technique is the most reliable, and is based on the
examiner’s perception of the patient’s breath. In the organoleptic
technique, the examiner smells the patient’s breath while positioned 4 to
6 inches away from the mouth. The odor level is scored on a five-point
scale. The tongue odor is measured by gently scraping the back of the tongue
with a plastic spoon and evaluating the odor on the spoon. The patient is
asked to refrain from ingesting food or drink, and to refrain from any oral
hygiene procedures two hours before the procedure. No garlic or spicy food
should be ingested within 48 hours before the evaluation procedure.
b) Instrumental measurement is performed using a portable sulfide monitoring
unit (Halimeter). This device is specific for hydrogen sulfide gas, but not
for methylmercaptan gas. A flexible straw is inserted into the partially
opened mouth, or into the nostrils, while the patient holds their breath.
The peak VSC level is measure in parts per billion. Any measurement over 75
ppb is diagnostic for halitosis.
WHAT IS THE TREATMENT FOR HALITOSIS?
The cause of halitosis is often the coating on the middle third of the
tongue. Therefore, gentle daily cleaning of the back (dorsum) of the tongue
is very important. A small, soft-bristled brush should be used to gently
clean the tongue surface.
Routine oral hygiene procedures such as brushing and flossing are very
important. Remember that children younger than 8 years of age are usually
not able to floss on their own. Mouth rinses can also be useful, but only
for children who have learned to expectorate.
When bad breath is due to dry mouth (xerostomia), treatment involves
having the child drink lots of sugar-free fluids. Sugarless gum may
stimulate salivary flow. In very severe cases, an artificial salivary
substitute such as carboxymethylcellulose may be needed.
If bad breath is due to periodontal disease, an important part of the
treatment is to improve oral hygiene at home. The dentist may need to
intervene with surgical or pharmacologic treatment.
If halitosis is due to dental disease, treatment will be needed to restore
dental caries or defective dental restorations. In case of a dental abscess,
endodontic or surgical treatment may be needed.
TIPS FOR PREVENTING HALITOSIS:
Children should brush their teeth three times a day with a soft-bristled
toothbrush. They should use dental floss every day to help reduce mouth
odor. Children younger than 8 years of age will need to have their parents
help them floss.
Children should gently brush the posterior part (dorsum) of the tongue
with a soft-bristled toothbrush every day.
Children should eat a good breakfast, as this will stimulate the flow of
saliva and reduce oral microbial levels. Eating fibrous foods is highly
Children with halitosis should rinse frequently with water, and drink
plenty of fluids to help reduce dry mouth. Chewing sugar-free gum will also
help stimulate salivary flow.
Children should always avoid alcohol-containing mouth rinses, as they dry
the oral tissues and may cause oral tissue sloughing. Remember that
mouthwashes can poison young children, and should be kept out of reach of
Children should visit their dentist and physician regularly.
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breath in children. It presents some common clinical scenarios, discusses
some basic research on halitosis, reviews the main causes of bad breath in
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Worse than buggery? Incest discourses in the 12th and 13th centuries
Christof Rolker (Universität Konstanz, Geschichte, Post-Doc)
Paper given at the Fourteenth International Congress of Medieval Canon Law on 11 August (2012)
Building on an earlier paper on incest discourses mainly in the 11th c. (Two models of incest:, Carlsberg conference 2011), I argue that in the 12th and 13th centuries there were at least two distinct modes of speaking to discuss the prohibited degrees. Both modes of speaking co-existed for a long time, and one should be very careful to deduce “deeply rooted fears of pollution” from the use of a language of purity and pollution in certain sources.
Those of you who attended Anne Duggan’s paper already have learned that I am into fox hunting, and while Anne is hunting in the woods of papal decretals, my own hunting grounds are mainly the pre-Gratian canon law collections. The fox we are both hunting, hoewever, is indeed the same: an answer to the old and puzzeling question of how the canon law on marriage evolved with respect to the prohibited degrees of kinship. This question has long puzzeled scholarship, and will continue to do so. For good reasons, scholars have concentrated on the early Middle Ages, asking why the prohibited degrees and the way to count them evolved in such a way as to finally exclude such an extreme number of potential marriage partners. In the early eleventh century, the Decretum of Burchard of Worms (to which I will come back to) made it quite clear that one could not marry relatives by blood in the seventh degree of canonical computation, that is, any of the great-great-great-great- grandchildren of any of one’s 64 great-great-great-great-grandparents.
In my paper today, I will not attempt the question why it was possible that the law developed in such an extreme way as to exclude such an excessive number of people as potential marriage partners, although my opinions on some recent approaches to this problem may become transparent in the course of this talk. Instead, my interest is focussed on what I call the incest discourses in the twelfth and thirteenth century. | <urn:uuid:c2e52d0f-18cc-4e10-94cf-39aa985c9fe2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://au.masterschamps.org/8178-worse-than-buggery-incest-discourses-in-the-12th-and.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00670.warc.gz | en | 0.958798 | 508 | 2.21875 | 2 |
Alternator Converted to a Motor Putting Out 2.8 Horsepower (HP).
Video of Alternator Converted to a Motor Driving a 2.8 HP Dynamometer Load powered by 100A.
In this video, a small alternator is tested to see how much power it can output with a maximum current limited to 100 Amps:
An alternator dynamometer test is performed to measure the net mechanical output power of an alternator converted to a motor.
The alternator on the right has been converted to a motor. This is the same alternator (Chevrolet Camaro) as in the first video.
The alternator on the left is used as a conventional alternator to generate electricity.
The alternator motor on the right drives the conventional alternator on the left (belt drive), which generates electricity. The alternator on the left loads down the alternator on the right by acting as a dynamometer load ("Dyno") by generating electricity which is dissipated in a resistive electrical test load.
The sequence in this video:
Video starts by showing alternator converted to motor (right side) running at 5200 RPM with no load.
Next, the load is increased to 2.8 HP in 3 steps, then back to light load in 3 steps. (Again, the load is provided by the conventional alternator on the left generating electricity.)
Next, the load is abruptly raised from zero (no load) to 2.8 HP. The alternator speed drops from 5200 RPM to 2800 RPM from this load. The alternator speed drops because the current is limited to 100 Amps by the power source (inverter).
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Update: This poor dog’s intestines were inflamed, his skeletal muscle cells were dying, and his muscles were wasting away, yet Hugh Neff forced him to pull a sled until he inhaled his own vomit and died of pneumonia. This should earn Neff a lifetime ban from the Yukon Quest and the Iditarod—which allowed him to compete just a month later and drop seven suffering dogs along the way—and all other races. Until the Iditarod releases the veterinary records of all of the dogs dropped from the race, we can only assume the worst—that many were close to experiencing a horrible death just like this one. PETA is calling on Alaskan and Yukon authorities to launch a criminal investigation into his death and conduct an assessment of all surviving animals in Neff’s custody.
Originally published February 10, 2018:
We’re still weeks away from the 2018 Iditarod, but an Iditarod musher has already raced one dog to death. Yukon Quest race officials have verified that a dog run by Iditarod veteran Hugh Neff has died on the trail.
Yukon Quest race officials say a dog on musher Hugh Neff's team has died on the trail. https://t.co/VWXAP5v50R
— CBCNorthComms (@CBCNorthComms) February 9, 2018
According to reports, initial necropsy results show that the five-year-old dog named Boppy died from aspiration. One speculation is that he had pneumonia, which was exacerbated when he was forced to run, but it means that Boppy couldn’t breathe and ran himself to death. More details on the death are expected to be released one month after the 2018 race ends.
Learn more about the Iditarod on The PETA Podcast:
When will these senseless dog deaths end?
With the 2018 deadly Iditarod race just around the corner, PETA suspects that this poor dog won’t be the last body. This cruel, greedy game in which the dogs are unwilling players, pushes them to the max. Their paws often become painfully damaged, they are forced to run up to 100 miles a day across treacherous ice through biting winds, blinding snowstorms, and subzero temperatures, and they are kept on short tethers when not racing.
Help PETA shut down the horrific dog-sled industry, starting with the Iditarod.
Dogs deserve far better than to have to endure a lifetime of isolation, cruelty, suffering, and death.
After hearing from PETA supporters, many companies have dropped their Iditarod sponsorships. But some others, including Jack Daniel’s, Coke, Chrysler, and Alaska Airlines, continue to fund this deadly spectacle. Stand with PETA by demanding that they stop sponsoring this abusive race. Write to these companies now: | <urn:uuid:e13a8593-2676-4d29-9bf1-4f2079fd8450> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.peta.org/blog/dog-forced-run-yukon-quest-race-dies/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00466.warc.gz | en | 0.971329 | 614 | 1.546875 | 2 |
With David Brent: Life on the Road released in cinemas this week, we thought we’d take the opportunity to see what we can learn from the Brentmeister General when it comes to marketing.
Now a sales rep for a Slough-based cleaning products distributor called Lavichem, Brent no doubt knows a thing or two about marketing. So does his creator Ricky Gervais, as the Life on the Road campaign has proved.
These marketing lessons, then, are a mixture of ‘tips’ from Gervais and Brent if that makes sense? Maybe this GIF will help:
Go out of your way to share positive feedback
Gervais and Brent are similar in that they both have an ability to not be affected by criticism or ridicule – not outwardly anyway. Life on the Road has received a mixed response from critics so far, but Gervais isn’t willing to entertain the negative press – he’s too busy sharing the positive feedback.
While brands can’t afford to ignore the negative feedback in the way Gervais and Brent do, they can (and should) be going out of their way to share positive comments about the product/service on social media.
Many of the reviews Gervais has retweeted on Twitter do not include his handle (@rickygervais) or the Life on the Road hashtag (#LifeOnTheRoad) which suggests that he spends some time searching out the positive content. It’s a smart move – looking at his Twitter feed, it suggests that Life on the Road has received universal praise.
— David Brent (@DavidBrentMovie) August 19, 2016
Can we do something similar with our social media feeds and give prospects a great first impression as they look for some reassurance about our organisations?
Make the most of user-generated content
As well as posting reviews from critics, Gervais has shared plenty of user-generated content (UGC). As much as everything else, it keeps things varied. As every good social media manager should, Gervais re-shares content, but you don’t want to share the same piece of content too often, or it’ll give your feed a tired look, and your followers will get bored of being exposed to the same piece of content time after time.
UGC keeps things fresh while allowing you to keep up with the rate at which customers demand new content. It also encourages a more personal bond between you and your customers.
Gervais knows that by posting a healthy flow of UGC, others will share Life on the Road-related content with their followers, in the hope of Gervais giving them a retweet. It’s a win-win.
Don’t be scared of bringing back a successful campaign
Gervais took a chance in deciding to bring back Brent. However, it looks like it’ll pay off. Twitter quickly got on board with the idea, giving Brent his own emoji, which appears whenever the #BrentsBack hashtag is used.
— David Brent (@DavidBrentMovie) August 18, 2016
Brent himself took a chance in resurrecting his band Foregone Conclusion. We’ve yet to see the film, but we don’t hold out much hope that it proved a wise move, with Gervais revealing he cashed in all his pension investments to fund his band’s tour….
However, brands stand a better chance of enjoying some success by bringing back a successful campaign or character.
Speaking to Marketing Week about bringing back old characters specifically, Vince Kerrigan, strategic solutions manager at agency Vital Communication, said: “Heritage is important for brands as it establishes an emotional connection with audiences, as well as helping form a platform to communicate core brand values.
“While brands shouldn’t just rely on what has worked in the past, using it as a way to reinvent itself can be beneficial when targeting new audiences in an emotional sense.”
A small detail can go a long way
As part of the campaign for Life on the Road, Gervais and the film company behind it created Brent business cards, complete with Lavichem branding. It’s only a small detail in terms of the overall campaign, but fans of Gervais and The Office have been desperate to get their hands on one of the cards.
Note that there’s even the +44 number code included, because Brent is an international salesman. Obviously.
As well as scattering the Brent business cards, the marketing team delivered Life on the Road beermats to local boozers, complete with iconic, pub-friendly quotes.
— Matt Dinsdale (@1MattD) June 15, 2016
It’s this sort of attention to detail which we think will make Life on the Road a raging success. Sure, the Brent character is good enough in its own right to make money, but Gervais is not leaving anything to chance. Brands have much to learn from the campaign.Ben Hollom
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Komodo Dragon Basics
The Komodo dragon is a monitor lizard of the family Varanidae. In the wild, it’s found on Komodo Island and a few of the neighboring Lesser Sunda Islands of Indonesia. They have thrived in the tropical forests of the Indonesian islands for millions of years. While they have been known to travel up to seven miles a day, they prefer to stick close to home and rarely venture far from where they hatch.
One of the attributes that the Komodo dragon is best known for is its size. When fully grown, it can reach up to 10 feet in length and weigh more than 300 pounds. Their large size has helped drive interest in the animal and they have become an ecotourist attraction. This has encouraged the protection of the species which is currently endangered.
The Komodo dragon was placed on the endangered species list in 2021. From 1996 to 2021, the International Union for Conservation of Nature and Natural Resources (IUCN) listed the species as vulnerable. But in 2021, the IUCN listed them as endangered because climate models show that between 30% and 70% of their habitat will be lost to increases in sea level by 2040.
Many lizard species eat plants, but the Komodo dragon is carnivorous. They mostly eat carrion but have also been known to ambush large prey, including pigs, deer, cattle, and members of their own species. On occasion, they will also attack and kill humans. They rarely capture live prey directly, as they typically attack their prey and wait for their venomous bite to kill the animal.
The venom delivered in a Komodo dragon bite contains toxins that inhibit blood clotting. It’s believed that their victims go into shock from rapid blood loss. Herpetologists note that the physical trauma of the bite and the introduction of bacteria from the lizard’s mouth also help slow and kill their prey.
To help deliver their deadly bites, Komodo dragons have 60 sharp, serrated teeth that grow up to an inch long. Lost teeth are constantly replaced, and a lizard will often go through four to five full sets of teeth in their lifetime. The teeth are designed to tear off large chunks of flesh from the prey, which is then swallowed whole. During a single feeding, a dragon can eat up to 80% of its body weight.
Komodo Dragon Threats
Despite the Komodo dragon’s dangerous nature, the species does face several serious threats to its own survival. One trait that has become both an evolutionary advantage and disadvantage to the species is its ability to reproduce asexually. While most young are produced through sexual reproduction, isolated females sometimes produce offspring through parthenogenesis.
Asexual reproduction is generally helpful for maintaining the population. However, this process only results in male offspring and the scarcity of other females has led to evidence of inbreeding. The animal’s reluctance to stray far from home intensifies the issue as the species’ population declines and fragments. This poses potential genetic threats to future generations of the species.
Humans have threatened the Komodo dragon’s survival by burning their habitat and poaching both the reptile and its prey. Tourists can also cause issues by offering food handouts and disrupting the animals’ mating process. To help with conservation efforts, Indonesia established Komodo National Park in 1980. The refuge is now recognized as a UNESCO World Heritage site. It’s home to other unique species like the orange-footed scrub fowl and Timor deer. It also includes a rich marine environment supporting whales, dolphins, sea turtles, and over 1,000 species of fish.
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16 U.S. Code § 551c - Planning for fire protection
The Secretaries of Agriculture and the Interior shall annually offer training programs to certify volunteers for suppressing forest fires on National Forest System lands, National Park System lands and Bureau of Land Management public lands in the event that the appropriate Secretary determines that such volunteers are needed. In carrying out this subsection, the Secretaries should utilize existing authorities to train volunteer firefighters for use in fire emergencies. The Secretaries should assess the capabilities of educational institutions and other public and private organizations to provide such training programs.
For the purposes of this section, the term “educational institutions” shall include institutions established pursuant to the Act of July 2, 1862 (7 U.S.C. 301 et seq., commonly known as the “Morrill Act”), or the Act of August 30, 1890 (7 U.S.C. 321 et seq., commonly known as the “Second Morrill Act”).
Not later than one year after May 9, 1990, information from the Secretary of Agriculture on presuppression needs for each region of the National Forest System and information from the Secretary of the Interior on the presuppression needs for each region of the National Park System and for each State unit of the Bureau of Land Management shall be submitted to Congress. These reports shall include needs, including an estimate of the funds required, for fire prevention, fuel reduction, training and seasonal fire crews.
Act of July 2, 1862, referred to in subsec. (b), is act July 2, 1862, ch. 130, 12 Stat. 503, as amended, popularly known as the Morrill Act and also as the First Morrill Act, which is classified generally to subchapter I (§ 301 et seq.) of chapter 13 of Title 7, Agriculture. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 301 of Title 7 and Tables.
Act of August 30, 1890, referred to in subsec. (b), is act Aug. 30, 1890, ch. 841, 26 Stat. 417, as amended, popularly known as the Agricultural College Act of 1890 and also as the Second Morrill Act, which is classified generally to subchapter II (§ 321 et seq.) of chapter 13 of Title 7. For complete classification of this Act to the Code, see Short Title note set out under section 321 of Title 7 and Tables.
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Written by Paulina Golikova
We often think of chocolate as a symbol of love, indulgence, and celebration rather than one of suffering and destruction. There’s a huge gap between how most big name chocolate companies market their products to us and the circumstances of cacao production on the ground. I would venture to say that the vast majority of chocolate consumers in the world have no idea how their chocolate is made, let alone how its primary ingredients—cacao and sugar—are grown. Similarly, many cacao farmers never get to experience the final product into which the fruits of their labor are destined to be transformed. | <urn:uuid:eec9049d-ecc4-4488-8d7e-e4cad0462211> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nature.berkeley.edu/food-systems-projects/semester/paulina-golikova/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572870.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817062258-20220817092258-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.966968 | 131 | 1.75 | 2 |
Poland, M, Nugent, CD, Wang, H and Chen, Luke (2009) Development of a smart home simulator for use as a heuristic tool for management of sensor distribution. Technology and Healthcare, 17 (3). pp. 171-182. [Journal article]
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Smart Homes offer potential solutions for various forms of independent living for the elderly. The assistive and protective environment afforded by smart homes offer a safe, relatively inexpensive, dependable and viable alternative to vulnerable inhabitants. Nevertheless, the success of a smart home rests upon the quality of information its decision support system receives and this in turn places great importance on the issue of correct sensor deployment. In this article we present a software tool that has been developed to address the elusive issue of sensor distribution within smart homes. Details of the tool will be presented and it will be shown how it can be used to emulate any real world environment whereby virtual sensor distributions can be rapidly implemented and assessed without the requirement for physical deployment for evaluation. As such, this approach offers the potential of tailoring sensor distributions to the specific needs of a patient in a non-evasive manner. The heuristics based tool presented here has been developed as the first part of a three stage project.
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ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (KRQE) – New Mexicans are speaking out against anti-Asian hate crimes that have been seeing across the country. City leaders hosted a rally at Civic Plaza in Albuquerque Sunday, which comes just two weeks after the mass shooting in Atlanta that killed eight people, including six Asian women.
Albuquerque City Councilor Lan Sena spearheaded Sunday’s rally. She’s the city’s first Asian American city councilor. She and other city leaders addressed how they’re working to stop hate crimes in our communities. More than 100 people of all ages and races showed up to the rally Sunday afternoon, holding signs saying “Stop Asian Hate” and “We are Not a Virus” among other things.
During the rally, various Asian community leaders as well as Mayor Tim Keller, Albuquerque Police Department Chief Harold Medina, and Attorney General Hector Balderas took to the mic. Sena said hate crimes against Asians rose nationwide by nearly 150% last year, with Asian women twice as likely to be targeted.
Sena said she plans on drafting resolutions that are much more impactful than just saying the city is condemning anti-Asian violence discrimination. “To say that we are a welcoming city,” said Sena. “We are doing what’s necessary, especially in the realm of language access and also committing funds for our youth to have culturally appropriate services when it comes to mental behavioral health.”
Attorney General Balderas said he’s calling on the governor and New Mexico Legislature to increase resources to investigate hate crimes. APD Chief Medina said the department has recently created an ambassador program that has various community leaders from different cultural groups to voice their concerns. The rally remained peaceful. | <urn:uuid:44353f63-e2cb-46d2-9db1-75804ee0438b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.krqe.com/news/protests/new-mexicans-protest-against-anti-asian-hate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.971374 | 367 | 1.71875 | 2 |
More fires, to prevent burning down the house
During the presidential campaign, Barack Obama promised to increase the use of controlled burns to reduce the onset of wildfires. The initiative would, according to President Obama, create new job opportunities and provide an alternative source for low cost energy.
Controlled burning is a common technique used to eliminate fuels like dead wood and brush that often start and exacerbate wildfires. According to the U.S. Forest Service, "this low-intensity fire is vital to the life cycles of fire-dependent range and forest lands."
To rate this promise, we wanted to check whether there has been an increase in the use of prescribed fires since President Obama took office in January 2009. We called the National Association of State Foresters, which directed us to the National Interagency Fire Center. According to its website, NIFC is "the nation's support center for wildland firefighting," composed of eight different agencies and organizations. NIFC also maintains a database of prescribed fires dating back to 1998. In 2008, there were a total of 7,669 controlled burns, but that number jumped to 12,669 in 2009 under President Obama. That's an increase of over 65 percent.
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Something VERY exciting has been going on in Berkeley in recent months. It's so exciting that we've been afraid to talk for fear of jinxing it. That is, empty kennels ... lots and lots of empty kennels in the city shelter.
Ten years ago, the 60 runs at open-admission Berkeley Animal Care Services were depressingly full, sometimes doubled up, and staff was forced to euthanize for space...up to 600 dogs a year. But in 2007, the number of dog euthanasias was down 90%, with only 50 dogs put to sleep. Check it: BACS Stats
Our girl Sally was set to be euthanized in BACS due to lack of space, way back when. You-know-who actually inspired us to start BAD RAP.
Since last summer, the number of dogs coming in to BACS has dropped so much that almost one half of the runs are now consistently EMPTY. Last week, an all time low with 34 empty runs. It's almost too quiet in there! What's going on? We have to credit a combination of efforts: Successful Marketing of Shelter Dogs, Owner Education including Free Training, Volunteerism, Rescue and Voluntary Spay/Neuter Programs.
In short: The shelter staff and the local community kicked ass to make some changes.
We're really proud to be part of the these changes. Every week, dog owners pour into our Berkeley classes to learn how to be good stewards for their dogs and volunteers train unowned shelter dogs (pit bulls and their mixes are the most over-represented breed in BACS). It's extremely gratifying to see dogs that were once ill-mannered and a wee bit out of control turn into well behaved canine good citizens thanks to the help of the diehards who keep trucking in every week, some from over an hour away. It gets even better when the shelter dogs' new adopters show up to learn the drill.
This month, 25 new dog owners started BR's Beginning Class, and our Drop In class is at an all time high with up to 25 volunteer handlers and new adopters working the dogs together. (Over 400 people are on our waiting list trying to get in - EEK!) To keep up with the demand, we've called in reinforcements, and now the talented Linda Chwistek and Donyale Hoye (Photo) are giving up even more of their Saturdays to help train the new influx of people. It's going to be a busy summer!
So, there. It's out: Voluntary spay/neuter works, and Community Partnerships will save the world. At least, that's the plan. Here's more info: Cooperation & Compassion, Not Compulsion.
Congrats to Kate O'Connor and the staff at Berkeley Animal Care Services. With unwavering tenacity - not to mention a lot of class - you've shown everyone how to make it work. Well done. | <urn:uuid:cd79580a-0eb2-4202-bdb8-71fb2af58b8b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://badrap-blog.blogspot.com/2008/05/its-working.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00302-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959975 | 614 | 1.882813 | 2 |
ERIC Number: ED044059
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1966-Mar
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A Study of Language Laboratory Teaching in German.
Jiven, L. M.
This report contains experiment results obtained from a comparative study of two groups of seventh grade students learning German in Sweden. The main objectives of the investigation, which lasted one school year, are: (1) to investigate possible achievement differences in German between similar groups of students when one group is instructed mainly in the language laboratory and another group in the classroom only, and (2) to investigate possible differences in attitudes between the two groups. Results are expressed statistically in 10 tables and illustrated graphically through 11 additional diagrams. (RL)
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Authoring Institution: School of Education, Malmo (Sweden). Dept. of Educational and Psychological Research.
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Like Coal Black, Tin Pan Alley Cats focuses heavily on stereotypical gags, character designs, and situations involving African-Americans. As such, the film and other Warner Bros. cartoons with similar themes have been withheld from television distribution since 1968, and are collectively known as the Censored Eleven.
The cartoon opens with a cat who resembles a Fats Waller caricature going out for a night on the town. He is about to go into a club when a street preacher warns him that he will be tempted with "wine, women and song" if he goes in. This, however, only excites the cat ("Wine women an' song? What's de matter wid dat?") who immediately runs in. At first, he enjoys the club, but he becomes so immersed in the music that he is carried "out-of-this-world" to a manic fantasy realm filled with surreal imagery. This world frightens him so much that, when he wakes up, he gives up his partying ways and joins the religious music group singing outside, much to their surprise. | <urn:uuid:0a2788ea-8696-4480-8788-0579eddd86c4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://looneytunes.wikia.com/wiki/Tin_Pan_Alley_Cats | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00297-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970414 | 218 | 1.929688 | 2 |
ERIC Number: ED172919
Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1979
Reference Count: 0
Group Homes for Children: Types & Characteristics.
This booklet is intended primarily to assist persons who are planning and administering group care home programs for children. The fast growth of group homes has increased the variety of resources that are available for children. It may be questioned, however, whether placement skills have kept pace with the increase in placement choices. This material, in briefly overviewing the history, optimal size, program differences, coed populations, placement criteria, staffing and examples of group home care, indicates what some of the group home variables are and how they affect a child in care. (Author/RH)
Publication Type: Guides - Non-Classroom
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a majority of people use different social networks including Facebook, Google+ and Twitter. It’s annoying having to open each service one by one to check updates, post comments and update your status. Here’s how to get rid of they annoyance and manage multiple social networks from one place. The G++ extension is a handy extension for Google Chrome and Firefox that lets you manage Facebook and Twitter from inside Google+.
Visit G++ homepage to install the extension in Chrome or Firefox.
Now, open you Google+ stream and you’ll see Facebook and Twitter check boxes under the comment box.
The first time you use Facebook, it redirects you to Facebook login page. Log in and authorize G++.
Allow the extension to access your Facebook information.
Now, refresh you Google+ Stream and it will show you updates from both Facebook and Google+. You will be able to post updates, comments on your status. | <urn:uuid:08efc512-c01f-4019-b726-3330bebb0a8a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.groovypost.com/reviews/integrate-facebook-twitter-google-plus/ | 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 | 0.846787 | 189 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Emotional climate, feeding practices, and feeding styles: an observational analysis of the dinner meal in Head Start families
© Hughes et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. 2011
Received: 3 September 2010
Accepted: 10 June 2011
Published: 10 June 2011
A number of studies conducted with ethnically diverse, low-income samples have found that parents with indulgent feeding styles had children with a higher weight status. Indulgent parents are those who are responsive to their child's emotional states but have problems setting appropriate boundaries with their child. Because the processes through which styles impact child weight are poorly understood, the aim of this study was to observe differences in the emotional climate created by parents (including affect, tone of voice, and gestures) and behavioral feeding practices among those reporting different feeding styles on the Caregiver's Feeding Styles Questionnaire. A secondary aim was to examine differences on child weight status across the feeding styles.
Participants were 177 Head Start families from Houston, Texas (45% African-American; 55% Hispanic). Using an observational approach, the relationship between the observed emotional climate of the meal, behavioral feeding practices, and self-reported parent feeding styles were examined. Mean age of the children was 4.4 years (SD = 0.7) equally distributed across gender. Families were observed on 3 separate dinner occasions. Heights and weight were measured on the parents and children.
Parents with self-reported indulgent feeding styles made fewer demands on their children to eat during dinner and showed lower levels of negative affect and intrusiveness. Surprisingly, these parents also showed higher levels of emotional detachment with their children during dinner. Hispanic boys with indulgent parents had significantly higher BMI z scores compared to Hispanic boys in the other three feeding style groups. No other differences were found on child weight status.
Results suggest that the emotional climate created by indulgent parents during dinner and their lack of demands on their children to eat may play an important role in how young children become overweight. Numerous observed emotional climate and behavioral differences were found between the other self-reported feeding styles as well. Results suggest that parents' self-reported feeding styles may be a proxy for the emotional climate of the dinner meal, which may in turn influence the child's eating behaviors and weight status.
A number of studies with low-income minority families have shown that children of parents with an indulgent parenting or feeding style are at the greatest risk for childhood obesity [1–4]. Indulgent parents are those who are responsive to their child's emotional states but have problems setting appropriate boundaries with their child. In three separate cross-sectional studies of ethnically diverse, low-income parents from different geographical areas of the United States (both urban and rural), researchers found that indulgent parents had children with the highest BMI percentiles [1–3]. In a longitudinal study of parenting and low-income Mexican American children's health behaviors, Olvera and Power found that young children of indulgent mothers were most likely to become overweight three years later. Finally, in a self-serving experimental study, Fisher and colleagues found that young children of parents reporting indulgent feeding styles served themselves and consumed larger entrée portions. Despite the numerous studies showing a link between indulgent feeding and child eating behaviors and weight status, the processes through which parenting and feeding styles impact these child outcomes are not well understood. Indulgent parents are likely to differ from other parents in both the feeding practices they use to get children to eat and in the emotional climate they create during mealtime.
According to parenting theory [6, 7], an important distinction has been made between parenting practices and the larger context in which these behaviors are expressed (defined as styles). Styles have the broadest influence on a child's behavior because they create the emotional climate within which practices can be accepted or rejected by the child . Styles are considered an emotional context rather than a compilation of specific parenting practices. In contrast, parenting practices are goal-directed behaviors used by parents to get children to do something specific (such as eating their food) . The emotional climate of parent-child interactions is determined by the style. The construct of emotional climate has been inferred from styles and is assumed to be specific to particular styles but has not been explicitly measured within that framework. For example, parents with an authoritarian style are characterized as negative, intrusive, and restrictive but the affect, tone of voice, and gestures corresponding to these emotions and behaviors have not been explicitly measured.
Based on dimensions of responsiveness and demandingness, parenting and/or feeding styles are termed as authoritative if the parent is responsive, involved, and makes appropriate demands on the child (high on both dimensions); authoritarian if the parent is demanding and highly directive but unresponsive to the child's individual needs (high demandingness, low responsiveness); indulgent if the parent is warm and accepting but makes few demands on the child (low demandingness, high responsiveness); and uninvolved if the parent exerts little control over the child and lacks involvement (low on both dimensions) . The authoritative style has been associated with the most positive child outcomes including better social competence, mental health, academic achievement, and weight status [7–9]. The authoritative style is thought to be the most effective because 1) the responsivity and involvement characteristic of authoritative parents allow a child to be more receptive to parenting directives and 2) parent child-interactions among authoritative parents engage a child in a dynamic that fosters self-regulation and competence.
Self-regulation is a key construct in parenting style theory with parents influencing the development of child self-regulation in specific ways (see Power, 2004 for a review) . Self-regulated children have parents who show positive versus negative emotion [11–13]; who are accepting and not dismissing of their children's emotional expression [14, 15]; and who are not overly controlling in their approach to children's behavior [16, 17]. Thus, parents who are negative, controlling, dismissing and/or detached from their child may foster problems with the development of their child's self-regulation. Negative and dismissive/detached parenting likely contributes to poor self-regulation by increasing the level of children's negative arousal in challenging situations, making it difficult for them to learn, practice, and implement effective coping strategies . In the feeding environment, a consistently maladaptive eating situation may influence how much and what children eat during a meal. Children could learn to use food as a comfort tool if parent-child interactions are maladaptive during mealtimes [18, 19].
In addition to the emotional climate contributing to the development of child self-regulation in general, certain types of behavioral feeding practices have also been shown to diminish the ability for children to self-regulate food intake. Highly directive/controlling feeding practices have been linked to lower self-regulation in eating and higher weight status among children across numerous studies (see Clark, Goyder, Bissell, Blank, & Peters, 2007 and Faith, Scranlon, Birch, Francis, & Sherry, 2004 for reviews) [20, 21]. For example, children who were instructed to "clean their plates" were less responsive to energy density cues than children who were taught to focus on internal cues of hunger and fullness . Snoek and colleagues found that low maternal support paired with high levels of psychological control was associated with emotional eating in young adolescents. Such findings are often interpreted to suggest that when parents are highly controlling of their children's food intake, their children focus more on external rather than internal cues to regulate intake, leading to lower levels of self-regulation and greater eating in the absence of hunger [24, 25]. To our knowledge, however, the emotional climate of the dinner meal in conjunction with highly directive/controlling behavioral feeding practices believed to diminish self-regulation in children has not been explicitly measured in the home meal.
The primary aim of this study was to observe differences in the emotional climate created by parents (including affect and other parent behaviors such as tone of voice and gestures) and specific behavioral feeding practices that may interfere with child self-regulation among those reporting different feeding styles on the Caregiver's Feeding Style Questionnaire (CFSQ) . The CFSQ is a parent-report tool measuring parent feeding styles of low-income children. It was developed based on a parenting style paradigm and classifies parents into one of four feeding styles based on the parenting style framework. Using an observational approach to measure parent emotions and feeding practice behaviors during dinner, the relationships between the observed emotional climate of the meal, observed behavioral feeding practices, and self-reported parent feeding styles were examined in low-income families. Regarding emotional climate, it was hypothesized that parents with an authoritative feeding style would be observed to be more sensitive, parents with an authoritarian feeding style would be observed to be more negative and intrusive, indulgent parents would be observed to be more positive, and uninvolved parents would be observed to be more detached compared to the other feeding styles. Regarding specific behavioral feeding practices, it was hypothesized that parents with high demandingness styles (i.e., authoritarian and authoritative) would show more attempts to influence child eating than parents with low demandingness styles (i.e., indulgent and uninvolved). A secondary aim was to examine differences across the feeding styles on child weight status. Parents with an indulgent feeding style were expected to have children with a higher weight status compared to the other styles of feeding.
A total of 177 families (45% African-American; 55% Hispanic) were recruited from Head Start centers in the Houston metropolitan area. Data were collected on the recruited families in 2007 and 2008. Head Start is a comprehensive child development program that serves preschool children and their families. The overall goal of the program is to increase school readiness in young children from low-income families. Children attend Head Start during the weekdays from 7 a.m. until 2 p.m. with some Head Start centers providing after school care from 2 p.m. to 5 p.m.
Characteristics of the Sample (n = 177)
Parent gender (%)
Education of parent (%)
Less than a High School diploma
High School diploma
Child gender (%)
Employment of parent (%)
Age, mean in years (SD)
Relationship to child
Parents were recruited to participate in the study during drop off and pick up at the Head Start centers, during parent meetings, and through the registration process at Head Start. Parents were asked if they would like to participate in a study involving three home observations of their dinner meal. The parent who was primarily involved in feeding the Head Start child was designated as the target parent (96% mothers). Staff members from our study explained that the purpose of the study was to better understand what families do during dinner. Consent forms were signed by the target parent at the beginning of the first home observation and confidentiality was assured. During the three home observations, parents and children were observed and coded live during dinner by staff members. Audio/videotapes were also made during the home observations for use as backup for the live coding. Therefore, each of the three home observations included both audio/videotaping of the entire meal and live observation/coding of behavioral feeding practices and domains of the emotional climate of the meal. At the end of each observation, a packet of parent-report questionnaires (available in English and Spanish) was left for the parent to complete. The completed packet was picked up by staff members at the next observation. Parents received an incentive (graduated in amount) at the end of each of the three observations. The study was reviewed and approved by the Institutional Review Board at Baylor College of Medicine.
Self-reported Feeding Styles
The feeding styles of the parents were measured by the Caregiver's Feeding Styles Questionnaire (CFSQ) . Based on dimensions of demandingness and responsiveness reflective of a general parenting paradigm , the CFSQ measures the overall feeding pattern of parents. Dimensions of demandingness and responsiveness are derived through 7 child-centered and 12 parent-centered feeding directives measured on a 5-point Likert scale (ranging from never to always). Child-centered feeding directives are those that promote child autonomy (e.g., reasoning, complimenting, and helping the child to eat). Parent-centered feeding are directives that control children's eating through external pressure (e.g., demands, threats, and reward contingencies). A cross classification of high and low scores on the two dimensions indentifies four feeding styles: authoritative (high responsiveness, high demandingness), authoritarian (low responsiveness, high demandingness); indulgent (high responsiveness, low demandingness), and uninvolved (low responsiveness, low demandingness). A more complete discussion of the scoring procedure can be found in a previous study . Convergent validity of the CFSQ has been demonstrated by associations with independent measures of general parenting and authoritarian feeding practices . Differences across feeding styles on an independent measure of children's BMI have been shown in a low-income sample . Evidence of test-retest reliability, internal consistency, convergent validity, and predictive validity has been demonstrated [1–3]. Confirmatory factor analyses support the factorial invariance of this measure across low-income African-American and Hispanic parents . In the current sample, parents were classified into feeding styles as follows: authoritarian (n = 35); authoritative (n = 55); indulgent (n = 51); uninvolved (n = 36).
Observed Global Emotional Climate
Global emotional climate was measured by the Home Observation Coding System developed by Belsky and colleagues and adapted for the dinner meal. Emotional climate during the meal was defined by five parent behavior domains (variables) that were observed by staff and coded using 5-point global rating scales. The five observed parent domains were positive affect, negative affect, sensitivity, intrusiveness, and detachment. During the duration of each dinner meal, staff members observed and coded the five parent domains in two-minute epochs. At the end of each two-minute epoch, staff members were given one minute to complete global ratings for each of the five domains. The global ratings ranged from 1 (not-at-all-present) to 5 (a-great-deal-present). Thus, each dinner meal was divided into multiple two-minute epochs of observation followed by one-minute epochs of observer ratings. Parent positive and negative affect were rated separately based on the parent's affect measured by tone, gesture, and facial expressions. Parent sensitivity was rated on the level of sensitivity and responsiveness shown by the parent toward the child. Parent intrusiveness was rated based on the level of insertion of the parent's own agendas with little regard for the child. Parent detachment (which is also considered dismissive) was rated on the level of lack of involvement and responsiveness to the child. At the beginning of each epoch, staff members rated whether there was an opportunity for interaction between the parent and target child. A parent was considered to have an opportunity for interaction if he or she was in visual or verbal proximity of the child. If there was no opportunity for interaction, no ratings were completed for that two-minute epoch. Ratings were composited across the epochs for each individual parent and averaged over the three home observations to construct measures for each of the five parent emotional climate domains (variables).
Observed Behavioral Feeding Practices
The 25-item measure used to observe parent behavioral feeding practices was adapted from a previously developed measure (Feeding Behavior Coding System; FBCS) used to observe childcare providers in Head Start centers . Functionally, the FBCS is an observational checklist of the self-report CFSQ. The FBCS documents specific feeding practices exhibited by parents and the frequency of occurrence of practices. Sample practices include reasoning or explaining why a child should eat a food, showing disapproval for not eating, and asking the child to at least try a small bite of the food. Behavioral practice codes were computed by calculating the average frequency for each behavior across the three meals (i.e., frequency/meal).
Each staff member in the study who observed during the dinner meals completed extensive training and certification on both of the observational measures (global emotional climate and behavioral feeding practices). Group sessions were conducted with training tapes, so staff members could obtain an in-depth understanding of the constructs to be observed and rated. For the global emotional climate measure, staff were trained to differentiate the frequency and intensity of each of the global rating levels for the five domains. For the behavioral feeding practices, staff were trained to comprehensively understand, differentiate, and rate the 25 behavioral items. Staff members then individually coded "gold standard" audio/video training tapes for each measure and their ratings were compared to the "gold standard." Pilot testing was also conducted with non-study families prior to live coding of study participants to ensure the quality of the procedures and staff member ratings. Periodic re-training was conducted on both measures during the duration of the study to protect against observer drift. Tests of interobserver reliability were conducted before actual data collection and periodically during the study to ensure staff members were consistent in their understanding of the measures and ratings. During the study, reliability checks were conducted for 20% of the global emotional coding observations and 14% of the observed behavioral feeding observations. Correlations between observers for mean emotional climate variables were as follows: positive affect (.66), negative affect (.86), sensitivity (.33), intrusiveness (.82), and detachment (.76). Due to low reliability for the sensitivity variable, this variable was dropped from further analyses.
Live coding of the behavioral feeding practices included 25 variables. Fifteen of the twenty-five variables were dropped due to low base rates (see below) resulting in 10 behavioral feeding practices with sufficient frequency for analysis. Interobserver agreement was calculated by determining for each code whether the two observers agreed (with a margin of two) on its frequency of occurrence for each observation. (Note: because of the high frequency of verbal prompts to eat (M = 25; range = 0 - 131) an agreement was coded if the difference between coders was six or less). Following standard procedures for frequency data, the percent agreement between two observers for the ten feeding behaviors was calculated as follows: helps (100%), spoon feeds/physically intervenes (74%), eat small amount (88%), hurries (90%), reasons (90%), compares (98%), praises/approves (96%), disapproves/scolds (86%), makes positive comments about food (94%) and verbal prompts (74%).
Body mass index (BMI)
Height and weight measurements were obtained by trained staff members following procedures described by Lohman, Roche, & Martorell . Parents and children were dressed in light clothing and asked to remove their shoes. Height and weight were measured in duplicate to assure accuracy. Height and weight scores for children were converted to age- and gender- specific BMI z scores using the revised 2000 growth charts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention . Height and weight scores for parents were converted to BMI.
All statistics conducted with the data were run using the Statistical Package for the Social Sciences (SPSS 19.0). Differences across the four feeding styles on emotional climate ratings, behavioral feeding practices, and child BMI were examined through multivariate general linear modeling using MANOVA or MANCOVA. A 2 X 4 MANOVA (ethnicity X feeding style) was run on the emotional climate variables; three MANCOVAs, controlling for meal length, were run on the behavioral feeding practice variables. Because preliminary analyses of the global ratings and feeding practices revealed no significant main effects or interactions involving child gender, child BMI status, or maternal BMI status, these variables were not included as independent variables in these analyses (unfortunately, the sample size prevented examination of the four-way interaction between weight status, gender, ethnicity, and feeding style). To provide a reliable estimate of maternal feeding styles, the global rating and feeding practice variables were averaged across all three meals per family. Estimated marginal means were calculated at the mean meal length (17.5 minutes). A 2 X 2 X 4 MANOVA (ethnicity X gender X feeding style) was run on the child's BMI z score (normed for age and gender). Approximate F statistics were calculated using Rao's transformation of Wilk's lambda. All significant multivariate effects were followed up by examining the corresponding univariate effects. Significant univariate feeding style effects were followed up with least significant differences post hoc tests. To control for Type 1 error, univariate effects (ANOVAs) were examined only if the corresponding multivariate effects (MANOVA or MANCOVA) were significant at the p < .05 level. However, given the exploratory nature of the analyses, the p < .10 level was used for all follow-up ANOVAs and post hoc tests .
Relationship between Feeding Styles and Observed Global Emotional Climate Variables
A 2 X 4 MANOVA (ethnicity X feeding style) was conducted on the four parent emotional climate variables. The MANOVA analysis yielded significant main effects for feeding styles, F(12,439) = 3.74, p < .001, and ethnicity, F(4,166) = 8.85, p < .001. Two univariate main effects were significant for ethnicity: positive affect, F(1,169) = 35.09, p < .001, with Hispanic parents scoring higher (M = 2.24, SD = .60) than African-American parents (M = 1.72, SD = .46) and detachment, F(1,169) = 4.67, p < .05, with African-American parents scoring higher (M = 2.20, SD = .96) than Hispanic parents (M = 1.80, SD = .87).
Feeding Style Differences on Observed Emotional Climate Variables
Relationship between Feeding Styles and Observed Behavioral Feeding Practices
Frequencies of Observed Behavioral Feeding Practices per Meal
Parent Takes Seconds
0 to 2
0 to 6
Arranging the Food
0 to 2
0 to 6
0 to 6
Allows the Child to Choose
0 to 1
Spoon Feeds/Physically Intervenes
0 to 36
Verbal Prompts to Eat
0 to 131
Offers Child Second Helping
0 to 3
Tells Child to Eat a Small Amount
0 to 11
0 to 31
0 to 14
0 to 14
Threatens Food Punishment
0 to 5
Promises Food Reward
0 to 5
Threatens Other Punishment
0 to 10
Promises Other Reward
0 to 4
0 to 6
0 to 25
Positive Comments About Food
0 to 7
Negative Comments About Food
0 to 4
Gives Child Multiple Servings of Food
0 to 1
Allows Child to Take 2nd or 3rd Helping
0 to 2
Offers Second Helping (non-verbal)
0 to 1
Ignores or Shows Indifference to Child
0 to 3
Examination of the feeding practices that occurred with sufficient frequency (see Table 3) showed that verbal prompts to eat were by far the most common followed at a much lower frequency by spoon feeds/physically intervenes and disapproves/scolds. Slightly less frequent than these last two practices were hurries and tells child to eat small amount. These were followed by helps, reasons, praises, comparison, and positive comments about food. Although the average parent made about 26 verbal prompts to eat per meal, the variability was significant, and this variable was positively skewed (skewness = 2.04, SE = .20). For example, 22% of the parents verbally prompted eating an average of 1 to 10 times per meal, 32% prompted 11 to 20 times, 34% prompted 21 to 50 times, and 12% prompted 51 to 131 times. Some of this variation was due to variability in the length of the meals. The length of the meals ranged from 5 to 40 minutes (M = 17.68, SD = 6.88); however, the correlation between meal length and verbal prompts to eat was only r(145) = .27, p < .001, and the length of the meals did not differ significantly across feeding styles, F(3,132) = 1.39, p = .25. Meals for African-American parents were slightly longer (M = 18.84, SD = 7.14) than meals for Hispanic parents (M = 16.69, SD = 6.64), F(1, 132) = 6.43, p < .05. Because most of the behavioral feeding practice variables were positively skewed, the natural log transformation was applied to each variable before the analyses. Also, the length of the meal was controlled for through the use of multivariate analyses of covariance.
Three 2 X 4 MANCOVAs (ethnicity X feeding style) were conducted on the observed behavioral feeding practices: one for the two situational management codes (helps and spoon feeds/physically intervenes); one for the five verbal directive codes (verbal prompts to eat, tells child to eat a small amount, hurries, reasons, and comparison); and one for the three scold/praise codes (praises, disapproves/scolds, and positive comments about food). The ethnicity main effect was significant for both the situational management, F(2, 130) = 11.87, p < .001, and the verbal directives, F(5, 127) = 5.42, p < .001, analyses. The feeding style main effect was significant in all three analyses: situational management, F(6, 260) = 2.26, p < .05; verbal directives, F(15, 361) = 1.79, p < .05; and scold/praise, F(9, 314) = 2.83, p < .01.
Feeding Style Differences on Observed Behavioral Feeding Practices (Natural Log Transformed)
Verbal Prompts to Eat
Eat Small Amount
Positive Comments Food
Relationship between Self-Reported Parental Feeding Styles and Child BMI
A 2 X 2 X 4 MANOVA (ethnicity X gender X feeding style) was run on the children's BMI z scores (normed for age and gender). Only the ethnicity by gender by feeding style interaction was significant, F(3,157) = 3.20, p < .05. This interaction was followed up with four simple main effects analyses examining the effects of feeding style (one for each ethnicity by gender combination). Of these, only one group showed a main effect for feeding style--Hispanic boys, F(3,48) = 4.98, p < .01. Least significant difference post hoc tests showed that the mean child BMI z score was significantly greater (p < .05) for Hispanic boys of indulgent parents (M = 2.14, SD = 1.23) than for Hispanic boys in the other three groups (authoritative: M = -.16, SD = 1.04; authoritarian: M = .70, SD = 1.47; uninvolved: M = .26, SD = 1.66). The other three groups did not significantly differ from one another.
The overall aim of this study was to observe differences in the emotional climate created by parents during dinner and specific behavioral feeding practices that may interfere with child self-regulation among those reporting different feeding styles on the CFSQ. This was done in order to better understand the consistent relationship found in previous studies between self-reports of an indulgent parenting and/or feeding style and higher child weight. Cross-sectional [1–3] and longitudinal studies of ethnically diverse, low-income parents have found that young children of indulgent parents were most likely to have a higher weight status or become overweight when measured three years later. Indulgent feeding has also been linked to child eating behaviors among diverse ethnic groups , Hennessy E, Hughes SO, Goldberg JP, Hyatt RR, Economos CD: Permissive parental feeding behavior is associated with an increase in low nutrient-dense foods among American children living in rural communities, submitted].
In an attempt to better understand mechanisms that might help explain this association between indulgence and child weight, we were specifically interested in how parents interacted with their children during the dinner meal. We observed that parents with an indulgent feeding style were significantly different from other feeding styles on three of the four emotional climate variables. Additionally, indulgent parents were observed to be significantly lower on almost all of the observed behavioral feeding practices. Our results confirmed that parents with self-reported indulgent feeding styles made very few demands on their children to eat during dinner and were less negative and intrusive with their children during the meal. Surprisingly, these parents also showed higher emotional detachment with their children during dinner. Because detachment was defined as low levels of involvement and responsiveness toward the child, this finding may have been a consequence of the raters' observation of low parental involvement during meals. Because styles of parenting/feeding constitute ways that parents establish and manage the home environment, it is expected that indulgent parents are trying to control the emotional climate of the meal by making sure their child is happy. Indulgent parents are supportive and non-directive with their child but do not spend a lot of time at the task of getting their child to eat.
The current data also replicate findings of previous research showing that children of parents with an indulgent feeding style are at the greatest risk for obesity [1–4]. However, in the current study, this finding was significant only for Hispanic boys. This finding is unexpected given that the families in this study were similar demographically to the families in our previous research [2–4]. Because Hispanic preschool boys show higher obesity rates than Hispanic girls or African-American boys or girls , it appears that the indulgent feeding style only had effects on child weight status for this high-risk demographic group.
The association between indulgent feeding style and child obesity suggests that too little control may be just as problematic for children as too much control [cf., ]. If parents do not provide enough emotional investment and supervision in the eating context (essentially allowing children to consume as much energy-dense food as they wish), their children may ignore their internal fullness cues resulting in inappropriate weight gain. An intermediate level of parental involvement may be optimal. This is supported by research by Jansen and colleagues who found that both high and low levels of parental restrictiveness in feeding were related to the amount of snacks that children consumed in their parents' absence in a laboratory setting--i.e., intermediate levels of parental restriction were associated with the lowest levels of snack consumption. Such results are consistent with the predictions of self-determination theory, which posits that intrinsic motivation is facilitated by autonomy supporting practices [34, 35]. As demonstrated in research in other domains, young children with high levels of self-regulation have parents who provide them with sufficient attention, assistance, and support to complete difficult tasks that they cannot complete on their own (see Power, 2004 for a review) . The same may hold true for children in the eating context.
Our analyses revealed other significant feeding style differences in the emotional climate of the meal and in the behavioral feeding practices that parents used to get their children to eat. As expected, authoritarian parents exhibited significantly higher negative affect and intrusiveness during the meal compared to the authoritative and indulgent parents. Uninvolved parents, also as hypothesized, exhibited higher detachment during dinner compared to authoritative and authoritarian parents. The uninvolved parents also exhibited higher negative affect relative to authoritative and indulgent parents. Even though parents with an indulgent style showed lower negative affect, as expected, they were also observed to exhibit more detachment similar to the uninvolved parents.
Most of the differences between the self-reported feeding styles on the behavioral feeding practices variables were seen between the authoritarian parents and the indulgent parents. Parents with an authoritarian feeding style were significantly higher on all of the observed feeding practices except for making positive comments about food compared to parents with an indulgent style. Furthermore, parents reporting authoritarian and authoritative feeding styles (high demandingness) used spoon feeding/physical interventions and verbal prompts to eat more frequently than parents with indulgent and uninvolved styles (low demandingness). Parents with authoritarian and authoritative styles also showed more reasoning and made more positive comments about food than parents with styles characterized by low demandingness. Parents with authoritarian feeding styles engaged in practices such as disapproving of and scolding their child, hurrying their child, and asking their child to eat a small amount more frequently than did parents in the other three groups.
This study extends our understanding of the relationship between feeding styles, the emotional climate of the meal, and feeding behaviors/practices of parents [1–3]. Results suggest that the emotional climate of the dinner meal may play an important part in how parents socialize their children around eating. Results also suggest that parents' self-reported feeding styles might be a proxy for the emotional climate of the dinner meal, which may in turn influence the child's eating behaviors and weight status. Parental behaviors exhibited during the child's eating activities and the emotional climate created by these behaviors can significantly impact the eating behaviors of the developing child in a positive or a negative way depending upon the feeding style of the parent [37–40].
One of the most significant strengths of this study was the use of direct observation to examine parent-child interactions during home meals. Direct observation plays a significant role in advancing our understanding of the family process during mealtime. By observing family dynamics during dinner as opposed to relying on self-report data, researchers can draw conclusions about parent-child interactions that may be difficult to assess through self-report . For example, parents may underreport feeding practices such as ignoring the child, yelling at the child, or forcing the child to eat. Some parents may also inaccurately self-report their behaviors due to cultural norms, language barriers, or lack of awareness . Observational data also provide more detailed information about the how and why of the parent-child dynamic thus offering a link between qualitative data and quantitative research methods. One limitation of being observed in the home is that observation may impact parents' usual meal time practices. The problem of participant reactivity has been addressed in a review article by Gardner . The author suggests that the presence of an observer does not markedly distort participant behaviors. She also found no differences in the frequency and nature of behaviors between the first and later observations and little evidence of systematic changes in the frequency of negative and positive behaviors.
While one strength of this study was multiple observations on each family, these observations were conducted in a relatively short time frame such that seasonal influences on food intake could have been present. It is also possible that by observing the family three times during the two- to three-week interval and only at the dinner meal did not allow for the entire spectrum of parental feeding behaviors to be observed. Furthermore, as noted by other researchers, parents adapt their feeding practices to the child's traits, needs, and weight . For example, if the child has recently gained weight at the time of the observation, the parent might discourage certain types of food (low-nutrient energy-dense foods). As children's weight sometimes fluctuates when they are young, a snapshot of feeding such as the one collected during this study may not be representative of usual parent behavior. A longitudinal study, over the course of a year or two, could resolve this issue.
This work suggests that feeding styles play a crucial role in the emotional climate of the dinner meal. Furthermore, the emotional climate created by the parents and the specific feeding practices used to get children to eat may negatively influence the child's internal cues of fullness and self-regulation. This learned process can carry over into the child's adult life. An authoritarian parent might be able to "control" the child's weight at a healthy level while the child is very young, but if the child does not learn to self-regulate eating during childhood, he/she might gain weight when no longer under the parent's complete control (e.g., when the child enters elementary school and has access to other foods beyond the parents' control). The information from this study may be used to improve family interactions around eating while the child is still young. Interventions to improve parent-child interactions during meal time could focus on getting indulgent parents to make more demands on their child to eat and setting boundaries regarding what types of food should be eaten. Furthermore, authoritarian parents could be taught to use less controlling practices such as physical interventions, hurrying, and disapproving of or scolding their child. These interventions may help children to learn to have a good relationship with food.
This research was supported by funds from the United States Department of Agriculture, Grant No. 2006-55215-16695 and, in part, with funds from Kraft, Inc. This work is a publication of the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA/ARS) Children's Nutrition Research Center, Department of Pediatrics, Baylor College of Medicine, Houston, Texas, and had been funded in part with federal funds from the USDA/ARS under Cooperative Agreement No. 58-6250-0-008. The contents of this publication do not necessarily reflect the views or policies of the USDA, nor does mention of trade names, commercial products, or organizations imply endorsement from the U.S. government.
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13 Trigger Finger/Thumb Release
Release of the A1 pulley relieves the triggering phenomena and allows for improved range of motion of the digit in cases of limited and restricted flexor tendon excursion. This condition is also termed stenosing tenosynovitis or tendovaginitis. This procedure can, in most cases, relieve finger locking, catching, and allows for improved range of motion of the digit. The indication for this procedure is a triggering finger or thumb that is refractory to conservative treatment in the form of activity modification, anti-inflammatory medication, and corticosteroid injections.
Technique for the surgical correction of triggering fingers and thumbs with release of the A1 pulley.
13.2 Key Principles
Identifying proper external and internal landmarks will keep this routine procedure consistent and avoid pitfalls.
This procedure can, in most cases, relieve finger locking, catching, and allows for improved range of motion of the digit in cases of limited and restricted flexor tendon excursion. Some patients with triggering fingers may develop flexion contractures of the proximal interphalangeal (PIP) joint of the same digit. Such contractures will not directly correct with this procedure, but may have an opportunity to improve with postoperative stretching exercises once the restriction of the flexor tendon excursion has been relieved with surgery. For the more severe contractures, removal of one of the slips of the flexor digitorum superficialis (FDS) tendon can help improve the contracture at the PIP joint.
The most common indication for this procedure is the surgical correction of a triggering finger or thumb that is refractory to conservative treatment in the form of activity modification, anti-inflammatory medication, and corticosteroid injections (► Fig. 13.1). This exposure and technique can also be utilized for as part of other procedures that necessitate exposure of the proximal flexor sheath, such as:
Decompression of the proximal flexor sheath in cases of flexor sheath infection
Proximal pull-through testing of the flexor tendons in cases of flexor tenolysis or flexor tendon repair to confirm flexor tendon slide
Debridement or biopsy of the flexor tenosynovium
Distal release of the FDS tendon for tendon transfer
Release of flexor tendon entrapment in cases of complex/irreducible dorsal metacarpophalangeal (MP) joint dislocation
A1 pulley release in the face of ulnar drifting of fingers secondary to rheumatoid arthritis may exacerbate and worsen the progression of the ulnar drift deformity and volar subluxation at the MP joint. In such cases, resection of the ulnar slip of the FDS flexor tendon while maintaining the A1 pulley integrity may be a better choice.
13.6 Special Considerations
Digits that click and pop for reasons that are not related to catching of the flexor tendon at the A1 pulley will not be corrected with an A1 pulley trigger release. One must consider other common reasons for digital clicking and popping when selecting patients for this procedure. Other causes for digital clicking and popping can include instability of the extensor tendon over the dorsal MP joint due to rupture or instability of the sagittal bands. Additionally, instability or congenital laxity of the PIP joint volar plate can allow the PIP joint to assume a hyperextended position when the finger is extended and the PIP joint may then click as it initiates flexion from its hyperextended position.
Treatment of the thumb requires special consideration to the radial digital nerve, as it is often found directly in the middle of the incision or centrally over the flexor tendon. Similarly, the index and small fingers require a bit more attention as the trajectory of the flexor tendons, nerves, and arteries is more angled to these fingers as compared to the central long and ring fingers. Additionally, the small finger, especially in a small patient, may have a small A1 pulley, necessitating careful attention to landmarks and to the anticipated A1 pulley size so as to avoid an inadvertent A2 pulley release.
13.7 Special Instructions, Positioning, and Anesthesia
Patient participation can be helpful to confirm that there is no longer any flexor tendon catching or triggering with active digital motion. The procedure can be performed with local anesthesia alone or in combination with light sedation.
Lidocaine can be combined with Marcaine in a single syringe for an anesthetic solution that provides a quick acting and a longer lasting anesthetic effect. Alternatively, drawing an additional milliliter of bicarbonate solution into a 10 milliliter Lidocaine syringe makes the infiltration of the local anesthesia more comfortable for the patient.
A lead hand is helpful for trigger release of the fingers, but has no role for the treatment of a trigger thumb. Surgery for the thumb requires special positioning with a rolled towel behind the patient’s hand and an assistant holding the wrist in flexion so as to rotate the palmar aspect of the thumb toward the surgeon.
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It appears that Lenin did indeed own several cats over the years.
According to Louis Fischer's The Life of Lenin (the source cited by the Wikipedia article):
He had had a brown cat in Geneva. During her visit to Lenin at Gorky shortly following the August 30, 1918, attempt on his life, Angelica Balabanoff saw two cats in the household. Lincoln Eyre, an American journalist who went to Lenin's Kremlin apartment, noted that the dictator was "fond" of his several cats.
One reasonably well-known image that you may have seen is this one:
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Pedaling for affordable housing: Bike & Build participants stop over in Williams
Cross-country cycling group helps raise awareness for U.S. housing crisis
WILLIAMS, Ariz. — Cyclists with Bike & Build stopped in Williams for a two-day stay at the Community United Methodist Church, July 20 as they prepare to continue their cross-country trip.
Williams Area Habitat for Humanity hosted 29 members of Habitat International’s Bike and Build program. The Bike and Builders arrived in Williams July 19, with volunteer workdays on July 20 and 21. The group worked on projects for Williams Parks and Recreation, Williams Unified School District and the Community United Methodist Church.
Riders with Bike & Build started their trip in mid-May in Jacksonville, Florida and plan to complete the trip in August at Santa Barbara, California. Their organization’s goal is to engage young adults in service-oriented cycling trips to raise awareness for the affordable housing cause.
Throughout their journey, highlighting the need for affordable housing, the Bike and Builders stop at various locations and work with Habitat affiliates building houses or helping with A Brush With Kindness Community projects.
While in Williams the young volunteers stayed at the church, showered at the
Williams Aquatic Center, and had their meals provided by Williams Area Habitat for Humanity and the church community.
“Pedaling for affordable housing means two different things. One, we act as physical help on build projects with organizations like Habitat for Humanity… and we also work on general advocacy for housing,” said Nate Sepic, a rider with the group. “The whole point is to develop this knowledge base and point of advocacy so that when the trip is over they have a broad knowledge across the U.S. to really build from in their own communities.”
This is the first summer the group has been able to organize a trip since the 2020 COVID-19 pandemic.
“The trips were put on pause,” he said. “There were some alternative programming that was done in smaller communities where there wasn’t high risks … last year they had regional rides.”
Participants are responsible for individual fundraising for the $5,000 to cover the cost of the trip.
When they are not biking, participants, are working and advocating for the things they are passionate about.
“Some of us quit our jobs to be able to do this and others are college students. Most of us are young professionals who are working,” said rider Erin Dominici.
The group typically stays in churches, camps or finds alternative lodging while traveling.
About Bike & Build
Bike & Build was founded in New York City by Marc Bush who, after leading a cross-country trip with the (now discontinued) Yale Habitat Bicycle Challenge in 2001, was inspired to expand and improve their model.
Bike & Build’s inaugural routes – Central United States and Northern United States – dipped their wheels in the Atlantic Ocean for the first time in 2003. After that, Bike & Build added a new cross-country trip every year for the next six summers.
More information is available at bikeandbuild.org.
More information about Habitat for Humanity, A Brush With Kindness, Bike and Build or how to be a
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Iceland can be found near the top of the world map: east of Greenland, west of Norway and south of the Arctic Circle. Iceland is located in the North-Atlantic Ocean, just south of the Greenland Sea.Continue Reading
Iceland is the second-largest island in the North-Atlantic Ocean, with 39,769 square miles of land mass. Its latitude and longitude is 65° 00' N and 18° 00' W on a world map. Iceland is a part of Europe, making it the furthest west European country.
Due in part to how close it is to the Arctic Circle, Iceland has a fairly cold climate, with average temperatures ranging from 27 F to 57 F. It is also moderately cloudy for nearly 90 percent of the year, and experiences rainfall or snowfall nearly for 80 percent of the year.
While Iceland is too far south of the Arctic Circle to experience polar days and nights, the phenomenon of 24 hours of daylight and no daylight respectively, it does experience more daylight during the summer and less daylight during the winter than countries that aren't near the Arctic Circle. Iceland can have daylight for as long as 21 hours and 11 minutes during the summer, and as little as 4 hours and 8 minutes during the winter.Learn more about Maps & Cartography | <urn:uuid:882243be-e0f4-4187-b204-b904c28eed70> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/geography/iceland-world-map-a232d2d5eee91b21 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00573-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957201 | 261 | 3.640625 | 4 |
A level 2 was issued for the northern Bay of Biscay region mainly for severe wind gusts and large hail and to a lesser extend tornadoes and excessive precipitation.
A level 1 was issued for parts of northern and central France mainly for large hail.
A level 1was issued for western Russia mainly for large hail.
A level 1 was issued for the southern Alps mainly foir large hail and excessive precipitation.
A level 1 was issued for southern Italy mainly for large hail and excessive precipitation.
A level 1 was issued for regions in central and south-eastern Europe maily for excessive precipitation and locally large hail.
A broad upper trough is placed over the Balkans and Black Sea region. A rather moist and slightly unstable air mass will allow for diurnally driven thunderstorms over a widespread area. A ridge axis extends from the west Mediterranean to central Europe. With a south-westerly flow from Iberia to Scandinavia, several upper waves travel north-east on Thursday.
A well-developed short-wave trough travels across the Bay of Biscay to the British Isles. Ahead of this trough, a plume of well mixed and very warm air originating from the Atlas mountains will spread northward, reaching the southern British Isles late in the period. At lower levels, moisture will increase in the warm air advection regime from northern France to the southern British Isles. This will result in increasing instability with MLCAPE in excess of 1000 J/kg over northern France. Moisture will be weaker over southern France what results in smaller CAPE and a quite strong capping inversion.
Due to strongest large scale lift ahead of the approaching trough and near a cold front that enters the area from the west, storms are forecast across the central Bay of Biscay during the day that will spread northward in the afternoon and evening. Due to strong vertical wind shear below a low-level jet ahead of the cold front, storms will merge to a broad MCS that moves into the southern British Isles during the evening and night hours. The main threat will be severe winds along the leading gust front. Large or even very large hail is forecast especially with more discrete cells over France, but is also not ruled out with the MCS that enters the British Isles. Excessive rain is not too likely as the system moves northward quickly. Moreover, tornadoes may be possible given the strong low-level vertical wind shear. The main limiting factor is the weak buoyancy of the boundary layer over the British Isles.
Weak vertical wind shear will be present over most of Europe, and chances of storm organization are weak. A level 1 was introduced for a large area over central and south-eastern Europe due to the chance of excessive precipitation given slow-moving storms and rich low-level moisture. Large hail is not ruled out with the stronger storms, though, with the highest chance over the southern Alps as well as across western Russia due to steep lapse rates. Storms are forecast to weaken after sunset, and the severe potential will gradually decrease. | <urn:uuid:46a62726-e1ce-4f76-bb33-a12594022faf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mtoactive.blogspot.com/2014/07/european-storm-forecast-experiment_17.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00486-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962152 | 624 | 2.453125 | 2 |
Dental operative excavators are essential tools used in dental procedures. These instruments are defined as dental instruments used to remove injured tissue from wounded cavities and teeth channels. These instruments facilitate in excavating out damaged pathological tissues.
The excavator dental tool is widely used in dentistry. Its unique composition makes it stand out among others. The ergonomics and the metallic working part's functioning ensure a controlled and firm grip and aim at lessening hand and wrist fatigue.
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The argument concludes that people, in general, are less concerned about regulating their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses than they were 10 years ago. The argument cites couple of instances to derive this conclusion. The argument in it's current form and with the instances quoted is flawed and based on assumptions whose validity can be questioned without much effort.
This intro could be improved a tad. In the beginning you just need to get started and get past the intro, so I would recommend tightening up your intro. Your first sentence is strong and powerful!
But then the second sentence doesn't do much and the ideas could be combined with the last sentence: "However, the conclusion is based on flawed logic and assumptions that would need to be corrected before this would be considered a convincing argument."
Firstly, the argument compares the general population of 2 different decades on the regulation of their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses without providing any relevant data or information on which this comparison is drawn.
The argument has many pitfalls as it makes major assumptions. For example, the general population of the previous decade may be consuming red meat and fatty cheeses without any regulation and in high quantities. The population of the current decade may be much more aware about the negatives of high consumption of red meat and fatty cheeses and thus would be regulating their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses manifolds compared to general people of the previous decade. Additionally, the argument assumes that more people buying red meat and fatty cheeses this decade implies that the people of current decade are less concerned about their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses.
This paragraph is good, and on it's way to being great. One thing you need to do is return to the main conclusion of the argument and the end of the paragraph and explain explicitly how the flaw you just pointed out makes the conclusion doubtable. Always return to the conclusion at the end of your body paragraph and talk about how it affects the conclusion. What particular part of the conclusion is weakened and why.
Also, let's look at one of your sentences: "The population of the current decade may be much more aware of
the negatives of the
high consumption of red meat and fatty cheeses,
and thus would
be regulating regulate
their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses
compared to the
general people of the previous decade."
As you can see from my corrections, I am adding some articles and also taking out awkward phrasing. You should aim to save some time towards the end of writing to go back and make these types of changes and edits.
Secondly, the argument quotes an example of Heart's Delight store. The store now also sells red meat and fatty cheeses along with organic fruits and vegetables. The argument tries to justify it's conclusion based on this example but the argument ignores the possibility of the store increasing it's domain of products and inturn catering to a wider audience which consists of both vegetarian and non-vegetarian population. Also, this example in no way implies that people would be less concerned about their consumtion of red meat and fatty cheeses as people may be given a choice of buying red meat and fatty cheeses at the store but still they may choose not to do so. Moreover, the store may be appealing to a select minority who do not regulate their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses and not the people in general.
You hit the mark perfectly in this sentence: "Also, this example in no way implies that people would be less concerned about their consumption of red meat and fatty cheeses as people may be given a choice of buying red meat and fatty cheeses at the store but still they may choose not to do so." I think this is the best sentence in the paragraph, and you should get it much faster. This gets at the heart of the issue and really should be the focus of this paragraph.
Thirdly, another example is quoted in the argument to support it's conclusion. Good earth cafe may be making a modest living when compared to the new House of Beef but this in no way implies that people, in general, are less concious about their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses. There may be a scenario where the Beef House may have greate range of services than the Good Earth Cafe. AFor example, the Beef House may be providing home delivery services which caters to larger audience while Good Earth Cafe does not. Also, there may be a case where the owners of Good Earth cafe are less ambitious and happy with the current operation of their restaurant and may not want to extend their operations which in turn might lead of increased sales and profit. Thus, citing this example to support the conclusion is like comparing apples and oranges.
Your intro sentence to this paragraph is fairly weak and doesn't provide much information. Your next sentence is much stronger and should be the point of focus.
In conclusion, the argument makes
derives a conclusion about people in general about why they regulate regulating their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses based on various assumptions. These assumptions are open to attacks of reasoning and thus make the argument weak and seriously flawed. The argument could have provided relevant data to compare people's views regarding their intake of red meat and fatty cheeses over the decade to support it's claim. Moreover, much more relevant examples may have been much more beneficial in supporting and justifying the currently flawed argument's conclusion.
Conclusion is generally good and sums everything up nicely.
Overall I think that you are doing a great job of picking apart the argument and identifying the fatal flaws. But you'll need to work on editing and revising at the end to really boost your score.
Hope this helps!
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Definitions for mafufunyana
This page provides all possible meanings and translations of the word mafufunyana
In Zulu and Xhosa culture, a mental disorder in which the sufferer is believed to have been possessed by evil spirits, causing hysteria.
The evil spirit who causes such a disorder.
The numerical value of mafufunyana in Chaldean Numerology is: 1
The numerical value of mafufunyana in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6
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National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is upon us again, and it’s a great time to be reminded that the top cause of corporate data breaches is phishing. The very nature of phishing is to elicit an end-user response that makes it seem like the responsibility falls on employees. After all, they are ultimately the ones being tricked into clicking on bad web ads or filling in credentials to a fake form. Hackers are smart. They would much rather avoid spending a significant amount of time and resources breaking into what could be a heavily secured network through brute force attacks and searching for possible vulnerabilities in defenses, when they can target users who are a much softer target that provides quicker and cheaper access to corporate networks.
While security awareness training is important to weed out the most obvious of Nigerian Prince scams–especially during National Cybersecurity Awareness Month–phishing scams have become so rampant and so sophisticated that it’s almost impossible for anyone, even IT or security employees, to definitively detect a every threat by viewing their screen. With this year’s theme to “Own IT. Secure IT. Protect IT.” it’s a great time to strengthen the partnership with your employees, to not only teach them to be wary of common attack types and how to look for them, but also to set them up for success with the right automated security tools that prevent them from being exposed to phishing campaigns in the first place.
Cybercriminals are successful in large part because many organizations are not carrying out due diligence in addressing the problems of business email compromises (BEC), phishing, spear phishing, ransomware and other socially engineered threats. One common phishing threat that’s hard to detect is malvertising, which uses distributed ad networks to serve up malicious advertisements on legitimate websites. These enable cybercriminals to lure more victims to their phishing pages, which can compromise corporate and BYOD with malicious browser extensions that are hard to detect. Ad networks enable advertisements to be served up on numerous legitimate sites, so the bad guys benefit from the implied trust visitors have of those sites, enabling them to hook more people. Here’s an example malvertising being served up through Google ads on the New York Times online, a trusted website.
The malvertising ad looks innocent enough in promoting a download of a simple PDF viewing and conversion tool.
But once the app is downloaded, users are directed to a phishing page that conducts user behavior monitoring by hijacking browser and search functionality. The app also automatically runs unsecured malicious third-party content within a browser.
Of course, the human element is the inherently weakest link in the security chain and the sophistication of today’s socially engineered attacks leaves employees and organizations at risk. During a typical day, employees can browse numerous websites and go through hundreds of emails, so even the most well-trained and observant employee can get distracted and be directed to an insecure website, click on a phishing link or malvertising site or download a file with malware.
Again, while it’s easy to place the blame on an employee, IT and security teams should take the following precautions to ensure their organizations are protected:
- IT policies should encompass Shadow-IT issues for installing unapproved software or browser extensions, or granting access from personal devices and service logins.
- Put real-time phishing threat intel feeds (or block lists) in place to remove access to sites serving up rogue browser extensions and other forms of malware.
- Use Network Traffic Analysis (NTA) systems to detect signs of unauthorized systems access, lateral movement, or data exfiltration.
- Determine frequency with which every endpoint is backed up, where it is backed up, and the procedures for testing these backups.
- Create policies for how employees handle and share sensitive and confidential data, stressing the importance of classifying and encrypting data plus instilling policies regarding which tools must be used to send and store sensitive data.
- Employ best practices for password management including minimum requirements (length, special codes, upper/lower case), the use of passphrases instead of passwords, and frequently changing and storing login credentials safely.
- Determine systems and data assets that require dual-control procedures so a single employee can’t steal or delete sensitive data assets.
- Determine which data assets are made available through the internal corporate network or the public network, and what should be air gapped.
- Create requirements for the use of at-rest and in-use encryption for every platform or device, especially mobile devices, laptops, or personal devices that touch corporate data or financial assets and must have remote wipe capabilities.
National Cybersecurity Awareness Month is a good time to stress that better security defenses, automated tools, and smarter users help interrupt the kill chain sequence or detect post-compromise activity that help reduce the risk of costly breaches from malvertising. Organizations need to be careful not the shift the blame entirely to users but continue to invest in the right tools that catch these new types of attacks before they can ever reach the inbox or web browser.
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Science Magazine announced its top pick for "breakthrough of the year" this week — and it's a great choice! CRISPR, the gene-editing technique, definitely dominated the news in 2015. For the uninitiated, scientists use CRISPR to target and alter DNA segments with a high level of accuracy. It’s very cool — and very controversial. So this year, the biggest science story was accompanied by an intense debate over the ethics of a method that could, hypothetically, be used to permanently alter the human gene pool.
But, as this Science Magazine video suggests, CRISPR had some pretty stiff competition this year. In fact, CRISPR lost to Pluto in the magazine's "People's Choice" poll. So here are a few of Science Magazine's biggest stories of the year, as The Verge covered them:
Yeast can now make opiates
In August, scientists made a surprising announcement: a strain of yeast had been engineered in a lab and was now able to transform sugar into a pain-killing drug — called hydrocodone — for the first time. In addition, a second strain could produce thebaine, an opiate precursor that pharmaceutical companies use to make oxycodone. The finding was touted as a potential avenue for making new pain-relieving drugs. But others suggested that the technique might one day be used to "home-brew" heroin.
New species of ancient human discovered
In September, scientists announced the discovery of 15 partial skeletons belonging to what they think was a previously unknown species of ancient human. The bones were collected from Rising Star Cave in South Africa and the species was dubbed Homo naledi. The bones of H. naledi display a mixture of primitive and modern traits, with a small skull that's about the size of a gorilla's, and humanlike extremities.
A surprising number of psychology studies can’t be reproduced
In August, a very large group of researchers published a study in which they tried to recreate 100 psychology studies that had recently been published in major psychology journals. They found that only 39 of those studies' results could be replicated. The scientists suggested two possible explanations for finding: it could mean that the studies were wrong, or it could mean the difficulty of designing a reproducible study got in the way.
Ebola vaccine is 100 percent effective in Guinea trial
In July, the World Health Organization proclaimed that a vaccine was "highly effective" against Ebola. Early results from a clinical trial in Guinea demonstrated that the vaccine protected 100 percent of the people who received it. Margaret Chan, director-general of the World Health Organization, said in a press conference at the time that the drug could turn out to be a "game changer."
On July 14th, NASA’s New Horizons spacecraft zipped past the dwarf planet Pluto — an event that secured its place in history as first man-made object to reach the space rock. Thanks to this mission, scientists learned that Pluto is larger than we thought, that is had a number of icy mountains on its surface, and that it's very colorful. More recently, researchers suggested that it might even be home to an icy volcano.
In April, scientists in China revealed what had long been a rumor: they had used CRISPR to edit the genetic code in human embryos — non-viable human embryos, to be precise. The work was an attempt to remove a gene responsible for a potentially fatal blood disorder. The experiment didn't work all that well — only a small number of embryos were successfully edited — but the attempt was enough to convince the public of the technique's importance. It also prompted a debate over the ethics of human gene editing. Earlier this month, an international panel of experts concluded that scientists shouldn't use CRISPR to modify human embryos that might result in a person. | <urn:uuid:58b7e547-3bae-4b9e-aa36-6201cd5c66da> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theverge.com/2015/12/19/10622156/these-are-science-magazines-picks-for-science-stories-of-the-year | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.970513 | 797 | 3.25 | 3 |
1st webinar on Forensic Medicine will be hosted on December 14, 2020 at 10:00 AM as per London, UK (GMT+4). Panel of speakers will be delivering their presentations on their recent research related to Drug Toxicology, Aromatherapy, Biosensors In Environmental Monitoring, Forensic Anthropology, Forensic Medicine and its applications will be discussed in detailed. Longdom invites all experts to be part this webinar series and make it a perfect platform for knowledge sharing and networking.
The branch of medicine managing the use of clinical information to build up realities in common or criminal legitimate cases, for example, an examination concerning the reason and season of a dubious passing. Otherwise called forensic pathology.The essential instrument of forensic medicine has consistently been the post-mortem examination. Habitually utilized for recognizable proof of the dead, examinations may likewise be directed to decide the reason for death. In instances of death brought about by a weapon, for instance, the legal pathologist by looking at the injury can frequently give point by point data about the kind of weapon utilized just as significant logical data. Forensic medication is a main consideration in the recognizable proof of casualties of calamity, for example, avalanche or plane accident. In reason for death conclusions, legal pathologists can likewise altogether influence the result of preliminaries managing protection and legacy.
Forensic medicine emerges from a long convention of connections between the law and medication and now grasps a wide assortment of necessities and abilities interlacing medication, pathology, science, the law, and morals. Every specialist, regardless of whether clinical, obsessive, or both, should know about their obligations, not exclusively to their patient or the perished, yet to society as entire, and have the option to use their clinical mastery chasing after reasonableness and equity inside the system of lawful necessities and moral qualities. An ongoing report from Australia underscored the inlet among yearning and practice. The bay between wanted practice and real practice is wide and speaks to the circumstance in numerous nations.
Forensic pathology is the portion of forensic medicine managing assessment of perished people, and this is the focal point of the current section. In the accompanying, some broad standards of the work in forensic pathology are introduced. In spite of the fact that the enactment with respect to forensic pathology varies between nations, a typical rule is that in the examination of a potential or suspected criminal demise, a forensic pathologist is locked in through a proper solicitation from the police or the examiner. The errand of the forensic pathologist is then to aid the examination as a clinical master. This master job proceeds all through the cycle, remembering the court procedures for solicitation of the court or potentially one of the gatherings.
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Located in the heart of the Limestone Coast, Naracoorte is home to the famous World Heritage Listed Fossil Site, Bool Lagoon and wetlands, museums, galleries, playgrounds and parks, a unique swimming lake and a variety of shops and accommodation properties.
Many caves and sinkholes surround Naracoorte, including the incredible World Heritage Listed Naracoorte Caves Fossil Site. Inscribed in the World Heritage List in 1994 for its rich deposits of fossil mammals, it is the only natural World Heritage Site in South Australia.
Guests can experience the fossil site in a range of ways. The Wonambi Fossil Centre recreates the environment and landscape, from approximately 200,000 years ago. Inside, visitors step back in time and experience what it may have been like and what the Mega Fauna may have looked like. Fully-guided interpretative cave tours allow visitors to view the spectacular cave formations, bats and real fossil sites. The more adventurous can explore the remote areas of the cave system. These areas house many other fossil sites. Book an adventure caving tour to explore the remote areas.
Visit Bool Lagoon and the surrounding wetlands, home to a vast array of birdlife. Boardwalks allow visitors to see more than 150 species of birds in their natural habitat. The lagoon has one of the largest populations of Brolgas in South Australia, with 47 of the 75 recorded water bird species known to breed in the surrounding wetlands. Entry to the Lagoon is via a self registration permit at the gate.
Naracoorte is a rich agricultural centre that produces fine wines, outstanding meat and livestock produce. Local produce can be sampled in many of the local restaurants and cafes. Cellar doors allow you to sample some of the fine Wrattonbully wine produce.
The award-winning Sheep Back Museum is located in the heritage listed 1870s Simpson Flour Mill. It is also home to the town's Visitor Information Centre. The centre gives a great insight into the region's development and outstanding local production.
Naracoorte proves an ideal base for your next holiday. We look forward to welcoming you.
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Littleton, CO, May 6, 2009 – According to a recent survey completed by Lasso Communications, 61% of volunteer travel operators predict that their 2009 sales will exceed those of 2008. The purpose of the survey was to get an accurate pulse of the volunteer travel industry and the results show that the field is booming.
“Travelers have high interest in the kind of authentic, personal travel experiences available through volunteering, “comments Christina Heyniger of XOLA Consulting. “Add to this the stresses of the current financial environment and the desire to know travel expenditures have value beyond their immediate leisure benefits, and we see an excellent climate for volunteer tourism.”
Based on the 28 companies that participated in the survey, it was found that:
– 61% expect to send more volunteers abroad in 2009 than 2008
– 18% expect to send the same amount of volunteers in 2009 as in 2008
– 21% expect to send less volunteers abroad in 2009 than 2008
The total number of volunteers sent abroad from the US by these 28 companies was 20,089. The highest number of volunteers sent by one company was 3,400 and the smallest was 10.
Several of the companies that are down year on year have blamed bad strategic moves, poor
marketing or strategic shifts, as the reason for their lower numbers in 2009. The companies that are growing in 2009 tend to be the smaller to mid-size companies who find they are agile enough to adjust to the market’s demands and change their messaging to appeal to changing traveler motivations.
Of the 28 companies surveyed, the average number of countries offered per provider was 10, with Peru, Costa Rica and South Africa being the most popular countries. When grouped by continent, South America seems to be the leading continent of volunteer travel followed by Africa and Asia. The most popular volunteer activity for the majority of respondents was building and teaching, followed by community development and conservation.
The companies surveyed had to meet stringent criteria in order to obtain an accurate pulse of the industry. Travelers must pay to volunteer, the companies cannot be faith based, must have an office in the US and must offer travelers the chance to volunteer for 4 or more straight days. Research has been previously done on the total number of volunteers going abroad, but this is the first survey to get a specific indicator on the ‘pay to volunteer’ niche.
To read the full report visit: http://lassocommunications.com/research.htm
Lasso Communications is a voluntourism consulting firm. At Lasso we try to further the volunteer travel field by helping companies with strategic decisions, marketing campaigns and research. Through the http://www.voluntourismgal.com blog we seek to help the field share best practices and learn from each other. To learn more visit: http://lassocommunications.com, call 303-898-3376 or email [email protected]
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Campus Divestment Campaigns
The billionaire boys' club: How college students and Wall Street are thinking alike. The Guardian, Dec 11, 2013.
Can a divestment campaign move the fossil fuel industry? The Guardian, March 18, 2013.
Can Fossil Fuel Divestment Prevent The Carbon Bubble From Bursting? Clean Technica, 26 April 2013.
College Fossil Fuel Divestment Movement Continues To Grow On Campuses Huffington Post, May 22, 2013.
Combating climate change: is divesting from fossil fuel companies a good idea? Guardian, 21 November 2013.
Divestment now! A recent graduate says universities are uniquely positioned to send a strong message to polluters. Boston Globe, July 14, 2013.
Fossil Fuel Divestment Campaign Escalates At Swarthmore. Huffington Post, May 17 2013.
Fossil fuel divestment continues to GROW — a conversation with student organizer Kate Aronoff. Waging Nonviolence, August 30, 2013.
Fossil fuel divestment movement is picking up steam and unlikely to go away. Inside Higher Ed, April 18, 2013.
How Ivy League Universities Are Failing Us on Climate Change. The Nation. Dec 4, 2013.
Movement aims to curb climate change through divestment in fossil fuel. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel, July 20, 2013.
A New Divestment Focus on Campus: Fossil Fuels. New York Times, September 5, 2013.
On campuses, a fossil fuel divestment movement. Washington Post, November 25, 2013.
RISD Students Stage Nation’s First Fossil Fuel Divestment Sit-In. Huffington Post, April 29, 2013
To Stop Climate Change, Students Aim at College Portfolios. NY Times, December 4, 2012.
Students Are Leading the Fight Against Climate Change With a Simple Strategy: Divest Now! The Nation. November 21, 2013.
Student fossil-fuel divestment movement persists. Associated Press. December 1, 2013.
UW Madison Faculty senate divestment discussion just beginning.
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Shin’s Toilet Project sees the artist install a series of statues in the bathrooms of 16 galleries and museums across the UK.
Shin is known for her work recreating Eastern and Western Classical statues in relief, and for the Toilet Project she has decided to use soap as her material, which is very hygienic.
And toilet-users are being encouraged to use the statues to help them wash their hands, which, over the three-month period they are being installed, will lead to a natural ‘weathering’ affect.
The soap statues are in place until October at galleries including Birmingham’s IKON Gallery, The Scottish National Museum of Modern Art and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park.
The ‘weathered’ statues will then be brought together for the Translation Museum exhibition at the Korean Cultural Centre in London in November.
Toilet Project is at Cass Sculpture Foundation, the Centre for Contemporary Art in Glasgow, Craft Study Centre in Farnham, Edinburgh International Festival, FACT Liverpool, Grund Art Gallery, The Holbourne Museum, IKON Birmingham, the Korean Cultural Centre, Lakeside Art Centre, Leach Pottery, the National Museum for Craft and Design, Oriental Museum in Durham, Russell-Coates Art Gallery & Museum, the Scottish National Gallery of Modern Art and the Yorkshire Sculpture Park until October. | <urn:uuid:6b0d443e-db9d-4d27-956f-adcb4d66965f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.designweek.co.uk/issues/august-2013/art-in-the-toilet/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00427-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929868 | 282 | 2.140625 | 2 |
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Ethnologue: Languages of the World, Fifteenth edition.
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The Young Citizens program for students aged 10 – 16 focuses on citizenship and is a complementary component to Heritage Fairs. Applicants for the 2017 Kingston Young Citizens program will create a short video about their Heritage Fair topic, much like an evening news report or short documentary film. Their videos will be adjudicated at the Kingston Regional Heritage Fair May 11, 2017 and two or possibly three young filmmakers will be chosen to represent Kingston in the national Young Citizen program. Profiles and videos of past Kingston Young Citizens are provided as examples. Links to Documents concerning the 2017 Kingston Young Citizen program opportunities and applications for students interested in being a 2017 will be posted mid-October.
Introduction to Young Citizens 2017
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Americans strongly believe it is not possible to entirely prevent mass shootings like the one in Washington, DC on Monday but think help for the mentally ill will do much more than gun control to reduce the number of incidents of this kind. Perhaps in part that's because most do not trust the government to fairly enforce gun control laws.
The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey finds that only 16% of American Adults think it is possible to completely prevent mass shootings like the one in Washington. Seventy-one percent (71%) say it is not possible to fully stop shootings like this. Thirteen percent (13%) are undecided. (To see survey question wording, click here.)
Nineteen percent (19%) think stricter gun control laws will do the most to reduce the number of mass murders like the one this week, but that's down from 27% just after the elementary school massacre in Newtown, Connecticut last December. Three times as many (57%) believe more action to treat mental health issues is the most effective way to limit incidents of this nature, up nine points from 48% in the previous survey. Just 13% feel that limits on violent movies and video games would be the most effective move.
Forty-four percent (44%) believe the United States needs stricter gun control laws, but that’s the lowest support for increased gun control since July 2012, just after the mass shooting in a movie theater in Aurora, Colorado. Just 33% believe it’s at least somewhat likely that stricter gun control laws would have prevented the mass shooting in Washington, DC, with 15% who say it's Very Likely.
Only 26% of Americans trust the government to fairly enforce gun control laws. Sixty-two percent (62%) do not trust the government to administer these laws fairly. Twelve percent (12%) are not sure.
We know beyond a reasonable doubt that IRS agents targeted Americans based on their political beliefs. This is not up for debate. So why should Americans trust the federal government to enforce gun control laws fairly and impartially? Hint: They shouldn’t. But this IRS “scandal” (if that’s the right word), shouldn’t just have conservatives up-in-arms. Yes, the vast majority of groups targeted (roughly 80 percent) on the “political advocacy case” list in 2011 were politically conservative, but not all of them. Some were indeed left-leaning. Which is to say if the government believes it has the authority to harass and punish one group of Americans, how can any group be safe? Hence why Americans are exceedingly skeptical Uncle Sam could enforce gun control laws in a fair and balanced manner.
Meanwhile, Reason’s Nick Gillespie is warning that more gun control laws will not necessarily deter more mass killings:
Any calls for new gun legislation need to be squared with two long-term trends that are directly relevant to the unspeakable crime at the Navy Yard. The first is that mass shootings are not increasing. Northeastern University’s James Alan Fox, co-author of the 2011 book Extreme Killing, defines mass killings as those in which four or more people die and says there is no increase in such events in recent years. As he told Bloomberg, “Our tendency is to go overboard and overreach in terms of trying to increase levels of security … [but] this is not an epidemic.”
In the wake of the December 2012 Sandy Hook shooting, Mother Jones published a widely cited tally suggesting that mass shootings were in fact trending upward. In an article for The Boston Globe, Fox criticizes Mother Jones for “exclud[ing] cases based on motive, location, and victim-offender relationship.” Despite shootings in Aurora, Colorado, and Connecticut, “there has been no upward trend in mass shootings” wrote Fox, who provides an illuminating chart of incidents and casualties covering the years from 1976 to 2010. “What is abundantly clear from the full array of mass shootings, besides the lack of any trend upward or downward, is the largely random variability in the annual counts.”
The second trend is a continuing decline in violent and gun-related crime, including murder. Newly released FBI statistics show that 8,855 murders were committed using firearms in 2012 compared with 9,528 in 2008. During the same five-year period, overall murders dropped from 14,224 in 2008 to 12,765 in 2012. Over the past decade, “serious violent crime” (rape, sexual assault, robbery, and aggravated assault) with weapons declined by 26 percent. Such declines are of a piece with longer-term declines in violent crime rates. In 1993, for instance, the violent crime rate per 100,000 people was 747. In 2003, it was 476, and in 2012 it was 387.
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You can improve your personal growth with sports because you learn so many lessons on the field or court.
You need to learn how to work as a team, how to feel supported by others, how to support others, and how to accept winning/losing in a graceful way.
It helps kids became more social and it also helps them build lasting relationships.
As you grow, you take those lessons and you learn from it. It also teaches you the difference between listening and hearing.
Significance of Listening in Sports
For those who are not aware of the fact that hearing is the act of picking up vibrations and turning them into sound bits. Listening happens to be where you can understand those messages into phrases and sentences. You get the message, sort of speak.
With listening you will not only hear someone talking, but you are listening to them and following directions. When it comes to sports, you have to know when to listen to someone and when you should listen to yourself.
You need to learn when to follow instructions and when to give instructions. The key to sports is that it makes you a good leader. A good leader knows when to speak and when to listen.
They know when to get ideas from teammates and when they need to give their team direction. You can improve your personal growth because it teaches you how to be a good leader.
You will lose if are not a good leader. After a couple loses, you see what it takes to bring the team to victory. Also, when you are part of a team you get to know different people. It also teaches you how to deal with certain people.
If you look at Maslow’s hierarchy of needs you have basic needs, safety, social, self esteem, and self actualization. When it comes to sports, you satisfy your basic needs by having a team.
You get the attention and time required to become a good athlete. You also get guidance needed to play the sport.
Then for safety, you are taught how to play the game safely. You may also feel safe in a group to tell others how you feel and come up with your own ideas. There are so many people in a board room who do not speak because they are afraid to be judged.
They don’t recommend good ideas because they are afraid. Sports teach you how to let people know your ideas irrespective of being judged.
It helps you feel comfortable speaking up. Then for social needs, sports let you to feel like you are apart of something. It makes you feel important because you have a role and you need many other people to help you and there are many other people who are depending on you.
Sport teams are a support system. If you get use to being part of a support system you won’t feel so awkward in new situations and you will also understand you role in the group easier.
Teams also help with self esteem. Self esteem is the most important part of the hierarchy. If you don’t have self esteem then you can never make it in the world and have fulfillment.
Sports give you self esteem so that you can be secured with who you are. You need to find a way that will make you feel good about yourself and sports is the ticket.
When you win in sports you feel so good about yourself, but if you lose, it can be a little hard to accept. It’s the same way when it comes to goal setting.
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By Sean Dart, Forte Design SystemsEmbedded.com (04/20/09, 07:27:00 PM EDT)
Electronic System Level (ESL) design is a rapidly involving and ever more important segment of the Electronic Design Automation (EDA) industry. While ESL is still in a relatively early stage of deployment, there are many experiences that have been garnered from careers in the register transfer level (RTL) market that are applicable to this evolving domain.
A couple of important lessons learned from the RTL space:
- Hardware design has become highly "language" oriented
- Description of hardware devices requires specific hardware-oriented constructs, including hierarchical blocks, communicating modules, time and concurrency
- Efficient synthesis of the hardware description language (HDL) is critical
- Simulations in new languages must coexist with existing intellectual property (IP) blocks
- Development and support of industry standard languages is essential
High-Level Synthesis (HLS) is a critical element of a long-term ESL strategy. It provides a logical path to silicon for those parts of a system that a design team will implement as custom blocks, as opposed to existing block implementations from either past designs or those commercially acquired.
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India's elections are in the final stages and votes will be counted on May 16. With 814 million Indians eligible to vote, this has been the biggest election in history — understandably, the world has been watching to see how this plays out
Opposition leader Narendra Modi is widely expected to be India's next prime minister and the ruling Congress party is expected to lose. Modi is currently the Chief Minister of Gujarat, a region known for economic progress but also violent riots.
While he has managed to position himself as a champion of economic growth, his plans remain largely unclear.
"He's selling a dream," said Ruchir Sharma, head of emerging markets and global macro at Morgan Stanley Investment Management. "We don't have specifics as yet."
We spoke with Sharma, author of "Breakout
Nations," on the Indian elections.
Here are some highlights from the interview:
- Sharma thinks the elections have had an 'anybody but Congress' theme to it. Modi has planned his campaign like a U.S. presidential election.
- Modi could win the election comfortably even if two-thirds of the country didn't vote for him because India has a very fragmented polity.
- Gujarat has had two advantages, an entrepreneurial population and its coastline, but its performance has improved a bit under Modi. Modi has positioned himself "as a connoisseur of all of India's problems."
- Politics have helped drive Indian equities in the past five to six months. But the bigger picture is that the Indian market is the most highly correlated to other emerging markets.
- India's investment cycle has many problems that Modi might not be able to solve.
- India has largely fallen off the map but we're still in a low growth world. If India could revive growth again it could offer an interesting opportunity for investors.
- The emerging world is seeing a large anti-incumbency wave.
Here's the entire interview:
Business Insider: What would a Modi term mean for India?
Ruchir Sharma: I've been traveling in India, although I'm based in New York, what really strikes me here is the fact that this campaign started out, as what I described, as an 'anybody but Congress' campaign. It was quite apparent over the last 24 to 36 months that people were quite disgusted with the ruling Congress government because they thought it was inept on every front, whether it was inflation, corruption, or getting anything executed. It was seen as incompetent.
Modi has very smartly — this is the first time that I've seen this in India — been planning this like a U.S. presidential election. That is to say that ever since the BJP lost the election in 2009, five years ago, he has been sensing that the next election he really wants to take a shot at it. He has been behind the scenes working at it, in his own state of Gujarat. He's offered a complete contrast in terms of economic performance and governance, and the way the government runs there. He has systematically been planning this for five years in a U.S. presidential election style way.
As I've been traveling what's been very apparent is that, I was
in the interiors of Uttar Pradesh, one of India's poorest states
and what I find remarkable is that in the villages, people would
speak about how they think their problems could be fixed by Modi.
From the depths of despair they've come to see Modi as the man
who will come and change things. I don't know whether this
feeling is irrational, because none of the people have ever been
to Gujarat or possibly been outside their state and yet this
feeling exists that he's going to come and change things. The
whole Muslim issue is controversial, and it is baggage for Modi,
and people understand that but think what the hell, things look
so bad let's give this guy a shot.
BI: Do you give credence to the talk of the emergence of a messy coalition, or what some folks are calling the third front, with the rise of regional parties?
RS: The current trend in India, and as you rightly pointed out the polls can be quite unreliable, really seems to suggest that Modi has made it all about himself, that he's succeeded in doing so, and that he's not going to need much outside help. That seems the way this election is headed currently, unless something dramatic happens this week or unless there's a voice out there that we're not picking up.
The rise of the regional parties has been one of my favorite themes as well. I think that's a train that's continuing, but this is about the decimation of the Congress party. The Congress party in this election is likely to fall to its lowest tally ever in post-independence India. Its vote share has plummeted, so this is as much about Congress being completely decimated. And the regional parties are still doing what they have to do.
One of the most fascinating statistics I find, which people can't quite appreciate, is that even if Modi wins this election quite comfortably, two-thirds of India would not have voted for him in this election. India remains a multiparty system, its polity is very fragmented. The regional parties are here to stay and possibly rise but Modi's real big gain is coming at the cost of the Congress party.
The reason behind that statement is that the polity in India is
very fragmented with strong regional identities...there are many
states where the national parties such as the BJP only have a
marginal presence and the regional or state level parties call
the shots...that's why even in what is being described as a 'wave
election' for Modi, his party is unlikely to win more than a
third of the vote with the regional parties still cornering
significant vote shares in states where the BJP and the Congress
only have a marginal presence.
BI: There are loads of publications that have pointed out that Gujarat was doing quite well before Modi came to power too. It isn't necessarily that's kept economic growth going in that state…
RS: That's true. Gujarat has two advantages, one: the population is quite entrepreneurial and industrial and so Gujarat has been doing well for a longer period of time. And two: the geographical sweet spot — that it's basically located on the Western coast, and has good coastline, and that helps Gujarat a lot.
Having said that, a look at the history of economic performance of Indian states, and what it shows typically is that many of the other states that were doing well in the previous decade, often tend to fade in the subsequent decade, so often we've seen examples of states, like some of the southern states, like Karnataka or Andhra Pradesh, they'll do well for five or 10 years, and then they won't do that well. In Gujarat, what's been remarkable is that it's continued to do well for long periods of time, under Modi, in fact the performance has improved a bit at the state level.
But I really feel that this debate about what Gujarat has done, and how things have stayed in Gujarat has almost become a bit irrelevant because the perception which has spread like wildfire, is the fact that India needs a tough, decisive leader, at a time when it's going through a lot of economic turmoil — where inflation is really high, growth is really low — that we need a really decisive leader to come cut through this mess. Modi has been able to effectively position himself as just the answer to India's problem. We can spend a lot of time parsing through the data, and that's true of most debates, but the key here is that — and I can't understand whether it's rational or irrational — he has been able to position himself as a connoisseur of all of India's problems, including inflation which has been so high for five years now.
BI: What are the big reforms we should expect from Modi and what reforms does India need?
RS: Here's the thing about Modi, he's selling a dream. We don't have specifics as yet. Indian campaigns are very different from U.S. campaigns where polices are debated a lot. In India the debate on policies, or even what they say in the manifesto, just doesn't mean much because those things aren't followed through. Or, the manifesto could be drafted by somebody who is not even supposed to that relevant in the next administration. It's very difficult for me to know what they're going to do. This election is about selling an economic dream, it's not about what the specifics are.
What he will come [to power] and do, I don't know. What should he
do? I think we all know — India needs better labor laws, the
labor laws are much too rigid; Indian fiscal spending is out of
control, spending needs to be put under check; you can't have
wage inflation which is running way higher than productivity
levels; we can't have subsidies for so many essential items in
India; and similarly we can't have retroactive taxes; we can't
have regulation which is unclear for so many critical sectors in
India from power to coal. So the list of what needs to be done is
long, and expectations are high, but specifics of what have been
offered in the campaign so far, as is true of most Indian
election campaigns, has been low.
BI: After a pretty terrible run, Indian equities have been doing well recently. Are they just riding on the sentiment of Modi?
RS: I've seen in emerging markets over the past five to six months, all the emerging markets where you're expecting political change, markets have rallied quite a bit. We're seeing that in Indonesia, in India, and we're seeing that now in Brazil. Every time the polls show a drop for the incumbent there, the markets tend to rally.
There's a real feeling among investors in all these emerging markets, that economic change is required and reforms are required, because the old model is not delivering results anymore. Whether the incumbents are tired and out of energy or they got too complacent. So yes, politics has been playing a role in influencing the Indian market direction over the last five to six months.
Having said that I think the bigger picture is that the Indian market is one of the most highly correlated emerging markets in the world. In fact it's possibly the highest over a five, 10, 15 year period — there's no other emerging market that has a correlation as high, to other emerging markets, as India has. That still remains the dominant story but yeah, from a short-term stand point, it has been very driven by politics.
BI: Some have argued that it doesn't matter who comes to power, India's investment cycle is going to languish for a while. Do you agree with that?
RS: I do sort of agree with the statement in that India's investment cycle has many problems which Modi may not be able to solve. For example a lot of stalled projects are at the state level, and not at the center. But having said that, I think the issue is that if he does carry out some of the critical reforms that we've spoken about — labor market reform, reducing government spending which allows interest rates to start coming down — I think those kinds of things will help investment.
That's economics 101, if you do manage to get lower interest rates because inflation is brought under control, you do manage to get some sort of labor market reforms that will help the investment cycle.
BI: Why should the rest of the world be watching the Indian elections? What are the implications for U.S. investors for instance?
RS: For U.S. investors, the key thing is that India has fallen off the map. After all the talk about China and India in the same breath, interest in India in general has faded a lot. Having said that, it is still a low-growth world, there are few growth opportunities out there. So if India manages to get its growth rate up to 6 to 7% or so, it becomes a meaningful thing because it's a $2 trillion economy, and if it starts growing again at 7%, rather than the 4.5% we're currently down to, it becomes an interesting opportunity for lots of people because it means the pie is growing faster. Without getting something to shake the system up it will be difficult to get growth again.
India, on the international stage, is a power that keeps punching below its weight. I don't think geopolitics is a factor at all. It's almost as if the world has told India go sort out your own problems in terms of the political and economic mess that we have. And in terms of geopolitics we're just not featuring much anymore. The focus in Asia, the pivot as you know, is basically about the rise of China and how that disturbs the relationship of other countries in the region. India is really out of that equation. Geopolitics isn't where India is featuring at the moment, it's really abut China and that west.
BI: Is there anything else you'd like to add that I haven't asked you about?
RS: This is a big year for political change across the emerging world. Forty percent of all democracies in the emerging world are going to the polls this year. And there's a big anti-incumbency wave which is sweeping through the emerging world, where people want political change because they're fed up with the poor economic performance of the last two or three years.
Even in India this was very different from five years ago when investors were rooting for the Congress party to come back to power. And on the first day when the party returned to power, on the first day the stock market had to be shutdown because it lost 15% in a day or something which is the maximum upper limit. That should also remind investors that initial reaction can be quite impulsive and you've got to look at things over a period of time and how things play themselves out. The initial reaction can be quite impulsive, up or down, when you get the results, but it's worth remembering back in 2009, how quickly expectations were disappointed after that initial burst of enthusiasm. | <urn:uuid:b91549da-f6be-41a2-9fee-f7c8c74d79c4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.businessinsider.com/ruchir-sharma-on-indian-elections-2014-5?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+businessinsider+%28Business+Insider%29 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280504.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00143-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.983709 | 2,934 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Good Samaritan Humanitarian Project
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, with all your soul, with all your strength, and with all your mind, and your neighbor as yourself…” (Luke 10:27)
Who is my neighbor?
It was in answer to this question that Jesus told the parable of the Good Samaritan. With that question still on our minds, SOYO introduces a brand new program: The Good Samaritan Project. Through this new program SOYO chapters are given the opportunity to minister to their neighbor; whether it is a member of their local Church community, someone in a nursing home, a person who is homeless or just about anyone that they meet. It is through these projects that we learn about the love of God through serving our neighbor. The Good Samaritan Project is a great way to learn to live up to the great command and to love God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength.
Brothers and Sisters in Christ,
As SOYO members in our parishes, we are called to be leaders to our peers and as such we need to take an active role in our communities. We have decided as officers of SOYO that this would be a wonderful opportunity to show our love for God in our communities and grow closer to Him. The Good Samaritan Project enables us to fulfill the Gospel commandments and share the love of Christ on a broader scale, while also influencing and inspiring others.
We need to promote the principles of SOYO and the teachings of the Orthodox faith. Worship, Witness, Service, and Fellowship bring each of us closer together, to the Church, and to God. Many SOYO chapters are active within their own parish, but it is also important to share our service with a broader community. The Good Samaritan Project will also give non-active chapters a jump start in community service and will encourage humanitarian work. As teens we are searching to find purpose in life and our own identity. These service projects will help us realize what we stand to gain from helping our fellow man.
It is important that we thank God for all of the many blessings, gifts, and talents that He has given us and use them to spread His love to others. If every church did their part we could not only help individual cities but our Diocese and ultimately Archdiocese as a whole. We can show our thanks to Him by serving those that are less fortunate than us, truly realizing the small things in life that we should be extremely thankful for and may take for granted. It is important to remember that you as an individual often get just as much out of the project as the person you are serving. We must have love, an optimistic attitude, and patience while helping those in need.
NAC SOYO Good Samaritan Committee
How the project works
Each participating church will be sent two blank sheets of white scrapbook paper. Please cover front and back of both of these pages. Please include your church's name, location, and project information. In your project summary please include how many people participated and what you gained spiritually from this experience. Feel free to decorate your pages with vivid colors, stickers, word art, and any other creative materials you can think of. Please use lots of pictures to help show others what you have done! Be as creative as you can! Remember, this will be used to decide the most humanitarian award.
Once both your pages are decorated and complete please send them to:
Miami Dice Good Samaritan Project
1244 Poinset Place
Decatur, GA 30033
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Intel Scientists Create World's Fastest Silicon Photonics Device
Silicon Could Bring High-bandwidth Fiber Optic Connections to PCs
SANTA CLARA, Calif., Feb. 12, 2004 -- Scientists from Intel Corporation have achieved a major advance using silicon manufacturing processes to create a novel "transistor-like" device that can encode data onto a light beam. The ability to build a fast photonic (fiber optic) modulator from standard silicon could lead to very low-cost, high-bandwidth fiber optic connections among PCs, servers and other electronic devices, and eventually inside computers as well.
As reported in today's issue of the journal Nature, Intel researchers split a beam of light into two separate beams as it passed through silicon, and then used a novel transistor-like device to hit one beam with an electric charge, inducing a "phase shift." When the two beams of light are re-combined the phase shift induced between the two arms makes the light exiting the chip go on and off at over one gigahertz (one billion bits of data per second), 50 times faster than previously produced on silicon. This on and off pattern of light can be translated into the 1's and 0's needed to transmit data.
"This is a significant step toward building optical devices that move data around inside a computer at the speed of light," said Patrick Gelsinger, senior vice president and chief technology officer at Intel. "It is the kind of breakthrough that ripples across an industry over time enabling other new devices and applications. It could help make the Internet run faster, build much faster high-performance computers and enable high bandwidth applications like ultra-high-definition displays or vision recognition systems."
To date the fabrication of commercial optical devices has favored expensive and exotic materials requiring complex manufacturing, thus limiting their use to such specialty markets as wide area networks and telecommunications. Intel's fabrication of a fast silicon-based optical modulator with performance that exceeds 1 GHz demonstrates the viability of standard silicon as a material for bringing the benefits of high-bandwidth optics to a much wider range of computing and communications applications.
Inside Silicon, Light and Electronics Can Work Together
Silicon Photonics research at Intel began in the mid-1990s with efforts to test and measure transistors switching inside microprocessors optically. Although silicon appears opaque to the naked eye, it is transparent to infrared light.
"Just as Superman's X-ray vision allows him to see through walls, if you had infrared vision you could see through silicon," said Mario Paniccia, director of silicon photonics research at Intel. "This makes it possible to route infrared light in silicon, which is the same wavelength typically used for optical communications. The way electrical charges move around in a transistor when voltage is applied can be used to change the behavior of light as it passes through these charges. This led us to explore manipulating the properties of light, such as phase and amplitude, to produce silicon-based optical devices."
Why Bring Fiber Optics To The Chip?
Bandwidth. The 1GHz of today's experimental device equates to a billion bits of information traveling down a single fiber. Intel researchers think they can scale the technology up to 10GHz or faster in the future. A single photonic link can carry multiple, simultaneous data channels at the same speed by using different colors of light, just like multiple radio stations are transmitted to a car radio or hundreds of channels on a cable TV. Additionally, fiber-optic cables are immune to electro-magnetic interference and cross-talk, which makes traditional high-speed copper interconnects difficult to build.
"We have a long-term research program in place to explore how we can apply our silicon expertise in other areas with a long-term goal of developing integrated optical devices," Paniccia said.
The report on this research was published in Nature, Volume 428 dated Feb. 12. The paper, titled "A high-speed silicon optical modulator based on a metal-oxide-semiconductor capacitor," was authored by Ansheng Liu, Richard Jones, Ling Liao, Dean Samara-Rubio, Doron Rubin, Oded Cohen, Remus Nicolaescu and Mario Paniccia of Intel's Corporate Technology Group. A copy of the paper and more information about Intel's silicon photonics research can be found at techresearch.intel.com/articles/Tera-Scale/1419.htm.
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Juvet – the Norwegian word for “gorge” – hints at the hotel’s setting on a steep, natural levee among a forest of birch, aspen, and pine trees.
stay at the Juvet Hotel is a unique opportunity to experience an intimate connection with nature. It is the first landscape hotel in Europe, and has won design accolades all over the world. The Juvet was built to highlight the landscape and natural beauty of the surroundings.
Juvet – the Norwegian word for “gorge” – hints at the hotel’s setting on a steep, natural levee among a forest of birch, aspen, and pine trees. Located in Western Norway on a farmstead in Burtigarden near the town of Andalsnes, the hotel is off the beaten path, and guests only arrive here intentionally.
The construction plan of the Juvet is deliberate. Each of nine the rooms are independent structures and thoughtfully situated to give each room its own perspective to the rugged, jaw-dropping landscape – and ensure each guest appreciates the impact of being alone in this landscape. The minimalist decor and modern design allows these stunning views to take center stage with minimal impact to the surroundings.
What the hotel lacks in traditional amenities it makes up for in unique contact to nature. There are no bellhops, and the owner himself, Knut Slinning, acts as the concierge. Knut Slinning has been visiting this area to holiday for 30 years and is a wealth of knowledge.
Architects Jensen & Skodvin first came to the area when the Norwegian government implemented the National Tourist Routes project. They had an idea for a hotel that would not intrude upon nature, but needed a site to build it. Around the same time, Knut had been approached with an offer to purchase Burtigarden farm. From there the Juvet Hotel was born. Visitors leave the Juvet with a renewed connection to nature and an appreciation for a spending time in a place that exists in harmony with the landscape around it, just as the vision for the hotel intended.
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This week we’re hearing from Will Mirabel in Anchorage. Will is originally from Venezuela and came to America two years ago.
MIRABEL: I’ve been here in Alaska since July 1. I used to live in California. I was taking English courses in California for the last two years. There are many differences, no? First off, the weather. The weather is different here; it’s very cold. You can learn a lot of culture from people from many countries, from everywhere. It’s fine, and I like because, like I told you, you’re always learning about this.
In Venezuela, as a Latino country, everyone’s a little more, sometimes, noisy. In Venezuela and in South America, you can be close to everybody and talk. Sometimes in the U.S., you have to give room. Some of that culture you can learn with a couple years.
Alaska, or Anchorage in this case, is a small city. I mean, of course we cannot compare it, in this case, with major cities like Los Angeles, New York, Miami, Houston because in the other states, maybe it’s more metropolitan.
Like you say, in California, there are many Latinos. Actually, the Spanish language in California is growing up. People say that in many years, more than 50% can speak Spanish. It’s different in Alaska. For example, right now in Alaska it’s easier for me to speak English because there are not many Latinos. In California, when I was talking for two years in California, it was a little difficult because in every corner, every square, you see Latinos. When you wanted to go shopping or buy food, many people don’t help you too much, because they speak your own language, you know what I mean?
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We believe that care and education settings should be human places
that are fun and support the growth of children and adults alike.
Our goal is to transform professional development for educators
to make life better for children.
Our Founder and CEO
Like all teachers, I was required to take part in a lot of professional development experiences. Some were exciting, some were excruciating, but most of them had no impact on my practice.
Instructional coaching is vital for improving both teaching and child outcomes, but many instructional coaching programs just don’t live up to their promises. We equip coaches to make a positive impact on teaching and learning.
I started Gerety Education Team and the Coach PD Project to provide everything that coaches need to be effective, no matter their context or experience level. My goal is to help every coach stop struggling, searching, or stagnating, and start transforming classrooms.
Our Master Coaches
When I first began to coach I would often think – “Just give me the kids back so I can do it!” Then I realized when a teacher gains a new skill, the entire class receives the benefit. Multiply that by all her future classes, and the power of coaching is clear.
I seek to learn with my coachees. I enter the collaborative partnership curious and stay that way, reflecting throughout the process.
After a year of intense coaching, it's such a victory to come back the following year and realize that a coachee doesn't need me anymore because she absorbed the strategies and is using them fluently with a whole new group.
Ke'Shon Mack Brown
Aside from 19 years in the field, two early childhood programs I started from the ground up and 10 years mentoring and coaching others, I use all of my experiences to advocate for equity and change more effectively.
I approach this work with my heart and use my experience and training to help coaches stay focused on what's best for children.
I remember coaching an exceptional teacher. I wasn't sure what I could support her with and I'm sure she didn't think she needed to learn anything. But through coaching, this teacher learned she was capable of even more and is now coaching others at her site. Never underestimate the power of coaching!
As someone who has taken lots of detours and different roles throughout my career, my experiences as an early childhood provider and mental health provider have shaped me into the coach I am today.
I value being comfortable sitting with coachees in the messy, the unknown, and the frustrating - as well as the successful moments!
One of my favorite things about coaching is when a coachee moves from understanding why something is a “best practice” or a good idea on a theoretical level to actually implementing it and seeing a shift in children’s understanding or behavior, or in a teacher’s practices.
I have faced many challenges as a coach, from implementing a new coaching model, to getting buy-in for coaching, to partnering with resistant teachers. This makes me well-prepared to help our members face their challenges and enhance their practice.
I bring active listening, real-world application and a generous sprinkling of humor to this work.
I intentionally model compassion and empathy in all I do. I am committed to bringing out the hidden strengths and skills of our member coaches and helping them use those skills so that children, families and educators thrive.
Our Support Heroes
I am a licensed K-12 teacher and also have a background in nonprofit management and communications, so this truly feels like a merging of my experience, background and passions.
It is a joy to get to work with our team and our members - I love helping others do their best work!
There is a lot of weight in education, with needing to stay current and researched, connected and empathetic, flexible and reliable - the list goes on! I love hearing about how practical and and relevant the Coach PD Project is for our members, and how we've been able to make learning personal and meaningful.
When I saw Gerety Education Team's mission I knew it was the perfect place to use my ability to foster intentional connections and authentic relationships.
My favorite part about doing this work is the opportunity to see real changes happen that will positively affect the lives of children.
I feel like I make a difference for educators whenever I get to help someone! I believe every encounter is equally important, and being able to serve and support those that have a direct impact on children's lives is such a gift.
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Sweet Basil (Ocimum basilicum) essential oil has been widely used over the years. It's fresh, sweet, and somewhat spicy scent make it the ideal oil to use in many warming blends.
Combine it with Bergamot, Clary Sage, Clove Bud, Lime, Eucalyptus, Juniper, Lemon, Neroli, or Rosemary for its aroma.
Because of its high menthyl chavicol, eugenol, and camphor content, Sweet Basil essential oil has been used for many colds, coughs, and headaches.
Diffuse it during stressful situations and to increase clarity and energy.
Sweet Basil should be used in moderation, in low dilutions, and should be avoided during pregnancy.
Sweet Basil has many different chemotypes because it is found in countries all over the word such as India, Africa, America, Brazil and even Indonesia. Each different chemotype will have its own unique, yet similar, scent as well as uses and cautions.
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Google in Push to Make the Web Faster
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Speed is a relative term. Someone surfing the Web on a high-speed Internet connection might think the interaction is fast, but it's probably not as speedy as, say, flipping through pages in a magazine.
Google (NASDAQ: GOOG), which has long said it's made speed a top requirement in the design of all its services, thinks it can help the Web go faster. The search giant released a series of best practices this week and a new Web site, code.google.com/speed, focused on the issues of speed and performance in Web site design.
One specific targeted contribution Google is making to the effort is PageSpeed, an open-source, Firefox/Firebug add-on it says will help Webmasters and Web developers evaluate the performance of their Web pages and get suggestions on how to improve them.
Google also noted Yahoo has a similar Web page analysis tool called YSlow.
"I think we're just at the beginning of how fast we can make the Web," Google's vice president of engineering, Vic Gundotra, said in a video blog post. "It's hard for us to imagine the improvements that we've made in just in the past 15 years if you think about how slow the Web was when we initially started to how far we've come
But as big and influential as Google is, senior vice presdident of engineering Bill Coughran said making the entire Web faster is a big challenge. He noted Google "cannot move the entire Internet on its own."
Google said it plans to work with standards bodies, developers and other groups to figure out ways to maximum performance.
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Course Descriptions for CHEM 2425
CHEM 2425 (4 Credit Hours)
Offered at BHC, CVC, EFC, ECC, MVC, NLC, RLC
Organic Chemistry II
This is a Texas Common Course Number. This is a Core Curriculum course selected by the colleges of DCCCD.
Prerequisite Required: CHEM 2423.
Course Description: Advanced principles of organic chemistry will be studied, including the structure, properties, and reactivity of aliphatic and aromatic organic molecules; and properties and behavior of organic compounds and their derivatives. Emphasis is placed on organic synthesis and mechanisms. Includes study of covalent and ionic bonding, nomenclature, stereochemistry, structure and reactivity, reaction mechanisms, functional groups, and synthesis of simple molecules. Laboratory activities will reinforce fundamental principles of Organic Chemistry II. This course is intended for students in science or pre-professional programs. (3 Lec., 4 Lab.)
Coordinating Board Academic Approval Number 4005045203
Designated by the Texas Higher Education Coordinating Board for transfer among community colleges and state public four year colleges and universities as freshman and sophomore general education courses.
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Astrocytes, an abundant cell type in the central nervous system, are generally believed to play a homeostatic, supportive role for neurons. In the last two decades, a growing body of evidence suggests that they contribute actively to brain functions, including cognitive ones such as learning and memory. Our laboratory has recently shown that astrocytic mechanisms underlie long-term memory formation. Blocking glycogenolysis in the rat hippocampus impairs memory. In the adult brain, glycogen is stored in astrocytes, but not in neurons, and its breakdown produces lactate. We found that levels of lactate increase in the hippocampus following learning, and that blocking hippocampal transport of lactate from astrocytes to neurons blocks long-term memory formation and its underlying molecular activations. Lactate, but not equicaloric concentrations of glucose, rescues the amnesia suggesting that metabolic coupling between astrocytes and neurons via lactate is required for long-term memory formation. This project aims to further elucidate mechanisms of astrocyte-neuron metabolic coupling. Specifically, I hypothesize that astrocyte-neuron lactate transport is a general mechanism important for memory consolidation across brain regions and learning paradigms. The contribution of glycogenolysis and lactate transport to memory formation will be examined in various brain regions known to be critical for a fear-based learning task and a social learning task, respectively. Also, as the noradrenergic system has long been known to enhance memory, and studies in vitro suggest that glycogenolysis is stimulated by norepinephrine via astrocytic ?2-adrenergic receptors, I hypothesize that ?-adrenergic receptors found on astrocytes mediate long-term memory formation. I will test this hypothesis using an in vivo, astrocyte-specific, viral-mediated knockdown strategy. Lastly, I will investigate the mechanisms by which lactate mediates memory consolidation after being transported into neurons. Beyond its function as an energy source, lactate is implicated in regulating cellular and organelle redox balance, as well as the generation of reactive oxygen species. Proteins that are known to be regulated by redox state and reactive oxygen species include sirtuins, a class of deacetylases involved in a number of cellular functions, of which SIRT1 is known to play a role in memory. I hypothesize that downstream targets of learning-induced astrocyte-neuron lactate coupling include sirtuins, and will test whether sirtuin expression is regulated by learning through astrocytic mechanisms. Astrocytic pathology is found in numerous brain diseases, including neuropsychiatric diseases affecting cognition, and thus the molecular pathways underlying astrocyte-neuron interactions are promising targets for therapeutic interventions.
Glial pathology is seen in every brain disease, from astrocyte activation in neurodegenerative disorders such as Alzheimer's disease, to abnormal astrocyte density in neuropsychiatric disorders such as depression and schizophrenia;however, the pathophysiological mechanisms underlying these changes are not well understood. Astrocytes play active roles in what were previously thought to be solely neuronal functions, from signal transmission and synaptic plasticity, to cognitive functions such as learning and memory. This project aims to elucidate the molecular mechanisms underlying this neuron-astrocyte interplay, a promising locus for potential therapeutic targets. | <urn:uuid:f3c45c2c-a0c5-411c-b857-b491f75b7c60> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://grantome.com/grant/NIH/F30-MH098570-02 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00344-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939352 | 706 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Even when a conflict seems insurmountable, a powerful action is always open to you: you can acknowledge your point of view. Then you enter a different world, one in which respectful disagreement is possible and people sometimes, miraculously, change their minds.
We can’t avoid having a point of view. It’s an inescapable aspect of being human—a neurobiological inevitability. Case in point: I had planned to begin this article by saying, “The U.S election is finally over.” But many Americans wouldn’t agree with me. They have a different point of view. And so we come to another equally inescapable aspect of being human: conflict.
How on earth do we handle conflict when we can’t even agree on our perceptions of the truth? This dilemma is front-and-center right now here in the U.S., where we are starkly divided along political lines. But the question of perception comes up in all our conflicts, not only political ones. It affects our relationships with our husbands, wives, partners, colleagues, friends, parents, and children.
Fortunately, while we can’t help having a point of view, we can become more conscious of, and take responsibility for, our perceptions. We can observe how our perceptions and assumptions affect our behavior. This gives us more choice over our actions.
HSPs and conflict
While these observations apply to all of us in the human family, I believe those of us who are highly sensitive have a particularly urgent call to contribute to a better way of approaching conflict. We are the canaries in the conflict mineshaft, after all. Conflict scares us. At best, it can leave us unpleasantly overaroused. At worst, it can trigger old attachment wounds, sending us into nervous-system shutdown.
But HSPs also bring powerful gifts to the conflict arena. We can be highly empathetic to others, and sensitive to their subtle cues and messages. And we are keenly imaginative, possessing a heightened awareness of cause and effect and consequences in relationships. So we have both the skills and the motivation to set an example for a better approach to conflict.
It all starts with acknowledging that we have a point of view. Once we do that, we can much more easily acknowledge the reality that others, too, are bound to have a point of view. Simple as it sounds, this mutual acknowledgment fosters the respect that makes communication possible.
What do we actually see?
I took the above photo during a walk last month, mesmerized by the image of fall colors reflected in the pond. When I showed it to my partner, he said, “Nice! It almost looks like an Impressionist painting, doesn’t it?” Intrigued, I went home to refresh my memory about Impressionism.
Perusing the website of the National Gallery in London, I was surprised to learn that “the term ‘Impressionist’ was first used as an insult.” Late 19th-century critics detested the bright colors and obvious brushstrokes that now draw millions of us to exhibits of the works of Monet, Renoir, Pissarro and Degas. This was fascinating, but it was the Impressionists’ psychological approach to painting that particularly caught my attention:
Even more significant to the Impressionists was an interest in the way in which the human mind processes what it sees [italics mine.] When we look at a landscape, or a crowd of people, we do not instantly see every face, or leaf in detailed focus, but as a mass of colour and light. Impressionist painters tried to express this experience.
How fascinating to think an artist could capture what we actually see, before we make objects out of what we see. In reality, my impressions have no more objective reality than my leaf photo. But doesn’t this apparent lack of subjective reality only add to the already daunting complexity of conflict resolution? No doubt, our impressionability can be problematic, even dangerous.
How first impressions are formed
First impressions are influenced by a complex array of factors. But several facts stand out. We form our first impressions extremely rapidly—in as little as a tenth of a second. Then we hang onto them doggedly. We interpret subsequent events through the lens of our first impressions, and we may even distort observable reality in our minds, to make it fit our preconceptions.
No wonder we end up polarized, forming enemy images of each other. An enemy image, explains Marshall Rosenberg, is a judgment, diagnosis, or analysis of another person, often based on assumptions about their appearance, age, race, sex, political leanings, or religious beliefs. Enemy images feed into violence by disconnecting us from the humanity of the person we are describing.
For example, enemy images of Tutsis as insects and reptiles fueled the genocidal madness in Rwanda in 1994. An article by Kennedy Ndahiro in The Atlantic about the relationship between hateful speech and violence described the results:
The radio station RTLM, allied with leaders of the government, had been inciting Hutus against the Tutsi minority, repeatedly describing the latter as inyenzi, or “cockroaches,” and as inzoka, or “snakes.” The station, unfortunately, had many listeners….
Within 100 days, an estimated 1 million people, the overwhelming majority of whom were Tutsis, lay dead… What began with dehumanizing words ended in bloodshed.
In other words, what we see—or what we think we see—matters extremely, because it determines what we do. And what I see is entirely subjective. Is there a way out of this vicious cycle?
Working to be conscious of my point of view
Yes. There is a way out. I’ll always be subject to the neurobiological imperatives of first impressions. But if I know this, I can work to counteract it. In kindergarten, we pressed our hands into soft clay to make an impression. Once the clay dried, the impression hardened. Our first impressions harden, too, if we leave them unexamined.
But with self-examination and strong intent, we can develop a more open stance. This requires a deliberate, ongoing effort to see each other as individuals, not as caricatures based on assumptions. Once again, fortunately, we can bring our sensitive strengths to the task. Specifically, we can apply our deep processing abilities to work backwards and find ways to acknowledge and counteract our impressionable tendencies.
Here are seven actions I find helpful in this consciousness-raising process:
- Remind myself daily that I have points of view on all sorts of topics, and question my assumptions
- Give myself a safe outlet to process the pain, rage, and helplessness I may feel in the face of others’ words and actions
- Do my homework: find out as much as I can about people and situations before forming conclusions
- Remember that we all share the same basic human needs—even when we have very different ideas of how to meet those needs.
- Get feedback from others about what they see me doing and hear me saying. Others can see our impressions, biases, and assumptions much more clearly than we can.
- Use language that owns my subjectivity: rather than making definitive statements, say, “I’m telling myself that…” or “I’m making up a story that…”
- Take time before responding to honor the other person’ s point of view, even if I disagree with it: “I’m hearing that for you, __________.”
Notice that all these suggestions involve actions that are in my control. I can’t control what others think or do. But I can choose what I think and what I do, including the way I respond to others. If I’m willing to own my perceptions, and acknowledge the perceptions of others, I can much more easily stay in conversation with them. But there is still a final ingredient I need.
Using the power of imagination
I cannot see what I cannot see: I can’t see my own bias. But I can use my imagination to make the leap into another person’s world—or to step out of my own world momentarily so I can observe it with fresh eyes. In reality, there is always more to know. As Einstein so beautifully put it,
Imagination is more important than knowledge. For knowledge is limited to all we now know and understand, while imagination embraces the entire world, and all there ever will be to know and understand.
I’m not saying knowledge doesn’t matter. It matters a great deal. But when I conclude I know all there is to know about another person with whom I’m in conflict, I’ve given up my only avenue of hope for connection. On the other hand, if I can admit I don’t know everything, I create space in myself for freshly imagined possibilities. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow wrote,
If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.
Note that Longfellow didn’t say we’d end up agreeing with our enemies. We may never agree. But once we disarm all hostility, we can find creative ways to disagree without attacking and dehumanizing each other. It’s our best chance to foster peaceful coexistence in a world where people see the same events from very different perspectives. And as sensitive people, we are uniquely well-equipped to do that.
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CALIFORNIA: State Senate Votes To Raise Cigarette Buying Age To 21
Via the Los Angeles Times:
The state Senate on Tuesday approved a bill that would raise the minimum legal age for buying cigarettes and other tobacco products from 18 to 21 as part of an effort to reduce smoking by young people. Sen. Ed Hernandez (D-West Covina) said he introduced the bill, SB 151, out of concern that an estimated 90% of tobacco users start before age 21. Raising the minimum age will mean that fewer teenagers pick up the habit, said Hernandez, an optometrist. He cited a study done by the Institute of Medicine for the federal Food and Drug Administration that concluded that raising the smoking age to 21 would cut smoking by 12% more than existing control policies. “It’s time to stop allowing tobacco companies to make the deadly product so readily available to our youth,’’ Hernandez said.A similar age 21 requirement was approved by the Hawaii legislature in late April and awaits the governor's signature. Four states have set their cigarette purchasing age at 19: Alabama, Alaska, New Jersey, and Utah. New York City raised the buying age to 21 in late 2013. | <urn:uuid:e152093d-b144-4c9e-afb5-492e6f3d58c4> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://joemygod.blogspot.com/2015/06/california-state-senate-votes-to-raise.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00322-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941454 | 247 | 1.679688 | 2 |
Guelph City Hall
1 Carden Street, Guelph, Ontario N1H 3A1
City Hall is built to meet the LEED Silver Standard (Leadership in Energy and Environmental Design) set out by the Canada Green Building Council. Its use of local and eco-friendly building materials, efficient lighting, its green roof and its heating and cooling systems are just some of the ways to reduce the City’s use of water and energy and lower its environmental footprint.
Compared to a typical office building, City Hall uses 30 to 40 per cent less water and energy.
Fewer cars commuting to City Hall
- Bicycle storage and showers encourage City employees to walk or cycle to work, which can reduce fuel consumption and greenhouse gas emissions from cars driving to and from City Hall.
- City employees can exchange a parking pass for a transit pass. Taking transit to City Hall reduces traffic congestion, air pollution and fossil fuel consumption as Guelph Transit vehicles use biodiesel fuel.
- Carpooling is promoted using an employee ride-sharing program.
- Using 43 underground parking spaces instead of a parking lot preserves green space and reduces storm water runoff. Limited parking also encourages City Hall employees to use other forms of transportation
Plant life inside and out
About half of City Hall’s roof is covered by a living, growing collection of plants. The green roof provides excellent insulation and helps to keep the building warm during the winter and cool during the summer. The soil and plants absorb rain water and melted snow to reduce stormwater runoff and, like all plants, they convert carbon dioxide into oxygen, which reduces air pollution.
Just inside the front doors of City Hall you can see a vertical garden called a living wall. The wall is filled with lush, green plants that act as air filters, improving the indoor air quality.
City Hall’s multi-floor design reduces its footprint and preserves green space while accommodating service counters, public meeting rooms, employee work spaces, Council Chambers and more.
A simple landscaped garden will be the green heart of City Hall. The courtyard will provide a pleasant setting for civic functions, and allows daylight to filter into work spaces near the centre of the building.
Less water, less waste
- City Hall’s efficient faucets and fixtures reduce the use of water in the building. Compared to a typical office building, City Hall uses 30 per cent less water each year.
- Landscaping outside the building features a variety of beautiful plants that are drought, disease and insect resistant, reducing the need for water or fertilizer.
- Drinking fountains encourage visitors and employees re-fill water bottles to reduce waste; bottled water will not be available in City Hall.
- The City strives to divert waste from landfill wherever possible, and City Hall is no different. Recycling bins will be provided at employee workstations, and green wet waste and clear waste bins will be provided in central areas. The employee lunchroom is equipped with refrigerators and microwaves where people are encouraged to bring a litter-less lunch
Less energy, lower emissions
Compared to a typical office building, City Hall uses almost 40 per cent less energy each year.
Natural and energy-efficient lighting
The design of City hall allows the sun to shine into work areas and minimizes the need for artificial light during the day. Energy-efficient lighting fixtures are used both inside and outside City Hall.
Motion sensors are used in common areas, and lights turn off automatically when they are not in use.
Minimal night-time light pollution – very little light is cast beyond the Civic Square.
Efficient Heating and Cooling
- City Hall uses a smaller than average heating and cooling system because of the building’s insulation, air-sealing, window glazing, and its green roof.
- For maximum energy-efficiency and comfort, City Hall has state-of-the-art control systems to manage temperature, humidity and fresh air exchange.
- High-efficiency natural gas boilers deliver warmth in the winter, and CFC-free chillers cool the building during the summer.
Eco-friendly building materials
- Typical carpets, glues and paints contain toxic volatile organic compounds (VOCs) that cause air pollution and potential health problems. Using low-VOC materials protects the health of the people building and working in City Hall.
- Flooring in the Mayor and CAO’s offices is made from bamboo rather than hardwood; bamboo grows much more quickly, and is more durable so it is more sustainable.
- At least 10% of the materials used to build City Hall came from local suppliers. Using local sources lowers the fuel needed to deliver supplies, and supports local businesses.
- Over half of the demolition and construction waste was diverted from landfill and recycled.
Heritage and History
Photo courtesy of the Guelph Public Library Archives, City Hall, 1870(F38-0-15-0-0-93)
Photo courtesy of the Guelph Public Library Archives, City Hall, 188?(F38-0-15-0-0-309)
Photo courtesy of the Guelph Public Library Archives, City Hall, 1867(F38-0-14-0-0-153)
Photo courtesy of the Guelph Public Library Archives, City Hall, 1896(F38-0-14-0-0-156)
Photo courtesy of the Guelph Public Library Archives, City Hall, 1900(C6-0-0-0-0-724)
Photo courtesy of the Guelph Public Library Archives, City Hall and Winter Fair Buildings, 1911(C6-0-0-0-0-1213)
Photo courtesy of the Guelph Public Library Archives, Guelph Memorial Gardens, 1963(F45-0-4-0-0-57)
Photo courtesy of the Guelph Public Library Archives, Guelph Memorial Gardens, 1968(F45-0-4-0-0-163)
Photo courtesy of the Guelph Public Library Archives, City Hall, 1970(C6-0-0-0-0-664)
Photo courtesy of the Guelph Public Library Archives, Guelph Memorial Gardens, 1970(C6-0-0-0-0-687)
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Building City Hall – by the numbers
Guelph has invested in a new City Hall to meet the needs of our growing city and consolidate operations that have, until now, been located in rented spaces throughout the downtown core. The new City Hall will mean better customer service, more meeting space for staff and the community, room to accommodate future growth, and efficiencies that come from staff working together in one location.
Guelph’s new City Hall will allow the City to realize hundreds of thousands of dollars of savings each year in rent, energy and water costs.
Rent savings each year
Eliminating rent costs on four downtown locations will save the City more than $685,000 per year.
Water and energy savings
City Hall is built to meet the LEED Silver Standard (Leadership in Energy Efficiency and Design) set out by the Canadian Green Building Council. The building’s green features mean that operating costs are 30 to 40 percent lower than that of a typical office building of the same size.
Thanks to its efficient faucets and fixtures, it uses more than 30 per cent less water than a typical office building. This amounts to a savings of more than 952,000 litres per year – enough to fill a bathtub every day for 17 years! Water efficiency will save the City nearly $2000 per year.
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What defines a luxury brand? Traditional wisdom suggests that it's one that's selective and exclusive—to such a degree that only one brand can exist within each retail category (automobiles, fragrances, cosmetics, etc.). But this definition is inherently restrictive, failing to take into account the way in which luxury brands today are increasingly identified as such by their placement in stores and how consumers perceive them. This revised and updated edition of Luxury Brand Management, the first comprehensive book on luxury brand management, looks at the world of branding today.
Written by two renowned insiders, the book builds on this new, broader definition of luxury and examines more than 450 internationally known brands from a wide range of industries. Packed with new information covering the financial crisis's impact on luxury brands, and looking towards a new period of growth, the book reconciles management, marketing, and creation with real-life examples and management tools that the authors have successfully used in their professional careers.Includes dedicated chapters focusing on each of the main functions of a luxury brand, including brand creation, the complexity of managing brand identity, the convergence of arts and brands, and much moreAddresses the practical functions that can make or break bottom lines and affect brand perception, such as distribution, retailing, logistics, and licensingFocuses on brand life-cycle, brand identity, and licensing issues
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Although ice hockey is not the Finnish national sport, it is by far the most popular sport when measured by attendances and by national television coverage. Despite the country’s tiny population, the Finns punch far above their weight on the international scene, and Leijonat (The Lions) are considered a member of the ‘Big Seven’, along with Canada, Russia, the USA, Slovakia, Sweden, and the Czech Republic.
The Lions finest moments came in the 1995 & 2011 World Championships when they won gold, beating arch-rivals Sweden 4-1 and 6-1 in the finals. In total, Finland has won 2 gold, 8 silver and 3 bronze medals in the World Championships since 1992.
The strength of Finnish ice hockey can be seen in the fact that their top professional league, the SM-liiga, is ranked as the second strongest league in Europe. The SM-liiga was created in 1975 to replace the SM-sarja, which was in essence an amateur league. There are 14 teams playing in the SM-liiga, and the league takes the format of 58 matches over the course of the season, with the six best teams proceeding directly to the quarter finals. The teams between seventh and tenth play preliminary play-offs, with the best two filling the last two slots of the quarter finals. The losers of the semi-finals then play for the bronze medal, with the gold and silver fought out between the last two.
The winners of the playoffs receive gold medals and the Kanada-malja, the championship trophy of the SM-liiga. The winners of the regular season receive a trophy (Harry Lindbladin muistopalkinto) as well, though it is considered less prestigious than the bronze medals of the playoffs, similar to the difference in the National Hockey League between the status of the Stanley Cup and the Presidents’ Trophy.
Of the 14 teams playing in the SM-liiga, there are two apiece from Helsinki and Tampere, with teams representing Espoo, Hämeenlinna, Jyväskylä, Kuopio, Oulu, Rauma, Lahti, Lappeenranta, Turku, and Pori.
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The switching regulator is increasing in popularity because it offers the advantages of higher power conversion efficiency and increased design flexibility (multiple output voltages of different polarities can be generated from a single input voltage). This paper will detail the operating principles of the four most commonly used switching converter types: Buck: used the reduce a DC voltage to a lower DC voltage. Boost: provides an output voltage that is higher than the input. Buck-Boost (invert): an output voltage is generated opposite in polarity to the input....
This book is a departure from those that have gone before it. The Resource Handbook
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The book “Testing Electronic Components” is a highly condensed course in electronics repair. Read, study and implement the various techniques and see for yourself. If you complete all the exercises in the book, you’ll have enough knowledge and information to work in an electronic repair shop as an apprentice. Now you have a way to pay for your school if you decide you really like electronics. This is a great electronic repair guide.
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A voltage regulator circuit automatically maintains the output voltage of a power supply constant, regardless of - a change in the load - a change in the source voltage
The simplest of all voltage regulators is the zener diode voltage regulator. A zener diode is a special diode that p is optimized for operation in the g breakdown region.
ZENER DIODE CIRCUIT
The zener diode is typically connected reverse biased, in parallel with the load. Resistor Rs limits current to zener.
A buck converter is a step-down DC to DC converter. Its design is similar to the step-up boost converter, and like the boost converter it is a switched-mode power supply that uses two switches (a transistor and a diode), an inductor and a capacitor.
The simplest way to reduce the voltage of a DC supply is to use a linear regulator (such as a 7805), but linear regulators waste energy as they operate by dissipating excess power as heat.
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Automatic Voltage Regulator adjusts the excitation so that at the system design power factor, the voltage
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power factors, then two machines will not run in parallel. One can supply a huge leading current and the
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In practice, consumption devices are not only resistive but also reactive and this reactance varies with time. Therefore, grid voltage is not stable and coefficients always change in spite of using Automatic Reactive Power Regulator. To regulate voltage and cosφ in an expected range, it is necessary to change the parameters of regulators as the loads change.
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Profile: Faith -- and Respect for the Natural World -- Motivate Episcopal Pastor
Rev. Fletcher Harper heads up GreenFaith, an interfaith group committed to environmental leadership
Name: Rev. Fletcher Harper
Title: Executive director of GreenFaith, a Highland Park-based organization that works to motivate people of diverse religious backgrounds to become environmental leaders.
How he got here: An Episcopal parish priest for 10 years, Harper has been executive director of GreenFaith since 2002. A Hackensack resident, he also served in leadership positions in the Episcopal Church. He is a graduate of Princeton University and Union Theological Seminary. While no longer a parish priest, Harper often speaks at houses of worship of various denominations.
How he embraced environmental causes: Harper has always loved the outdoors, an attraction that began for him in grade school. “The natural world is this incredible gift. How we are trashing it is clearly wrong.’’ When he got involved with environmental issues, there were few religious groups focusing on these topics, but that is changing, he said.
Biggest frustration: “Right now, it is the U.S. government’s failure to act on climate change,’’ a stance he calls “embarrassing and a disgrace. I think people increasingly get that this is a huge problem and we need to take action on it.’’ At the same time, his interfaith organization’s focus on the issue has led to some success, Harper said, citing GreenFaith’s role in mobilizing between 10,000 and 15,000 people to take part in a climate change march in Washington, D.C., as well as a similar event in Rome.
GreenFaith’s other priorities: The group has been working on reducing exposure to toxics both in the state and nationally. It also has worked with dozens of other like-minded organizations to promote water conservation and improve water quality, according to Harper.
How New Jersey is doing on the environment: “Unfortunately, at present, there is more backward progress than forward progress,’’ Harper said, citing the Christie administration’s withdrawal from a multistate program to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from power plants that contributes to global warming. “I can’t say I’m a big fan of the current administration in the steps it has taken or not taken.’’
What about environmental justice: “As a faith-based group, this is an important issue for us. There is no question that citizens of color and poorer citizens suffer way more than their share of pollution. The challenge is one of the ways to address this issue, to say no further polluting sites in our urban areas.’’
Do other faith-based groups share GreenFaith’s commitment to the environment? “With some people, they do; with some people they don’t,’’ said Harper, adding that religious organizations tend to be moderate to conservative. Environmental issues typically fall to the second or third tier for the clergy. “No matter what your political persuasion is, there’s a very strong moral imperative to protecting the environment. The science is incredibly clear. We’ve got a very narrow window for making progress on this.’’
Does he miss pastoring? I’m doing work that I love. I am in the right place. It is what God called me to.’’
How he relaxes: Hiking, fly fishing, and jogging.
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The sermon title was "The Security of Believers; Or, Sheep Who Shall Never Perish." It was preached at the Metropolitan Tabernacle on September 5, 1889. Here was the text:
"My sheep hear my voice, and I know them, and they follow me. 28 I give them eternal life, and they will never perish, and no one will snatch them out of my hand. 29 My Father, who has given them to me,1 is greater than all, and no one is able to snatch them out of the Father's hand. 30 I and the Father are one."Here is the part that vividly remains with me still, some 25-30 years after first reading it, with my personal highlights emphasized:
What glorious encouragement. I've found none who can improve on Spurgeon's way of crystallizing and expressing the Biblical truths he grasps -- and here he captures exactly the import of the Lord Jesus' words. I see no honest way around them, and I see everlasting comfort and grounds for hope in them.Now we must go a step farther. We have no time to urge these arguments at any great length. They are safe, next, by outer injuries being prevented. "Neither shall any man pluck them out of my hand." Many will pluck at them, but none shall pluck them away. The devil will give many a horrible pluck and pull, to get them away; but out of the great Shepherd’s hand he shall never take them. Their old companions, and the memory of their old sins will come, and pluck at them very hard, and very cunningly; but the Savior says, "None shall pluck them out of my hand." So, first, here is their security: they are in his hand; that is, in his possession, and he grasps them, as a man holds a thing in his hand, and says, "It is mine." Neither shall any take them away from being under his protection. Never shall they be plucked away from Christ. When he says this, he pledges his honor to preserve them, for if it could be that one were plucked out of his hand, then would the devils in hell rejoice, and say, "He could not keep them. He said that he would, but he could not. We have managed to pluck this one, or that one, out of the pierced hand of their Redeemer." But such a horrible exultation shall never be heard throughout the ages of eternity. "They shall never perish; neither shall any pluck them out of my hand."Some one wickedly said, "They may get out of his hand themselves." But how can this be true, when the first sentence is, "They shall never perish"? Treat Scripture honestly and candidly, and you will admit that the promise "they shall never perish" shuts out the idea of perishing by going out of the Lord’s hand by their own act and deed. "They shall never perish; neither shall any pluck them out of my hand." Who is to loosen the clasp of that hand which was pierced with the nail for me? My Lord Jesus bought me too dearly ever to let me go. He loves me so well that his whole omnipotence will work with that hand, and unless there is something greater than Godhead, I cannot be plucked away from that dear, fastholding grip. | <urn:uuid:1ca8cc2b-8efc-4ac5-a4da-73db912399e6> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://bibchr.blogspot.com/2005/12/solid-gold-spurgeon-sheep-who-shall.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00426-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980154 | 704 | 2.015625 | 2 |
UNITED NATIONS, July 2 (UPI) -- A new United Nations report documents the use of children as soldiers by eight national armies and 51 militant groups in Middle Eastern and African conflicts.
The report, released Tuesday, indicated armed militant groups -- including the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria and Jhabat al-Nusra -- use children to handle ammunition, operate checkpoints, participate in attacks on schools, and sometimes as combatants. The children are subject to death, injury and sexual violence.
The most critical examples are in Syria, Iraq, Nigeria and South Sudan, the report said.
The U.N. estimated over 10,000 children were killed in fighting in Syria in 2013.
On the topic of South Sudan, report author Leila Zerrougui, U.N. envoy on children and armed conflict, said, "I saw (for) myself children with guns; with the government, but also with armed groups -- with David Yau Yau, with the SSLA (Southern Sudan Legislative Assembly) and with the opposition under Riek Machar." | <urn:uuid:4150b96f-9f86-4146-8c4b-3f31980a9dad> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.upi.com/Top_News/World-News/2014/07/02/UN-reports-on-children-recruited-by-armies-and-militant-groups/7911404321694/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00064-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957667 | 218 | 2.359375 | 2 |
Americans in the past year got access to 24 new medicines before they became available anywhere else, U.S. drug regulators said as they seek to show they are doing enough to promote medical innovation.
Releasing a report on the approvals in the year ended on September 30, the Food and Drug Administration also said it had approved 35 drugs, the second-highest number in the past decade after 37 new treatments reached the U.S. market in 2009.
The FDA also used the report to highlight how user fees from brand-name drugmakers such as Pfizer and AstraZeneca have helped it speed up review times.
The agency has drawn fire from some manufacturers for being too cautious in reviewing medical products, hindering U.S. innovation and competitiveness with unnecessarily tough requirements.
In the past, the FDA has attributed lower approval numbers to a decline in applications from drugmakers.
Janet Woodcock, the head of the FDA's drugs center, said there had not been significantly more applications recently, but they had been of higher quality, making approval more likely.
The report showed 22 of the 35 drugs were approved in their first review cycle, meaning manufacturers provided enough data right away, without the FDA having to ask for more information that could delay the process.
"The point we're trying to make is that when high-quality science, good applications come before us, we are able to act swiftly and surely, and we are able to apply considerable regulatory flexibility in our application review process," FDA Commissioner Margaret Hamburg told reporters on a call.
The FDA report said about half the drugs were "significant therapeutic advances" over existing medicines, including seven treatments for cancer and 10 for rare diseases.
The agency report mirrors a similar finding in June from the nonprofit advocacy group Friends of Cancer Research, which found new cancer drugs reach the U.S. market several months before they go on sale in Europe.
Much of the recent criticism of the agency, however, has come from the medical device industry, which has said the FDA is driving companies to Europe, where developers and investors see a quick path to market.
Consumer advocates, meanwhile, say the FDA may sacrifice safety for speed and should demand more data from companies.
The report comes as the FDA is in negotiations with the medical device industry over user fees that help pay for product reviews. Device makers have said higher fees in the past have not led to speedier review times.
But in the report, the FDA said fees from brand-name drugmakers helped it approve 34 of the 35 drugs on schedule.
"At the present time, MDUFA (medical device user fees) is a younger program, and it pays for a much smaller percentage of the overall device review program, and I think that makes a difference as well," Hamburg said, when comparing device fees to those from the pharmaceutical industry.
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The district around the town of Dirranbandi has been described as some of the finest wool growing country in Australia. In 1885, the town site was surveyed and named Dirranbandi which means 'swamp abounding in frogs and waterfowl' or 'frogs around the waterhole'.
Dirranbandi is the gateway to the Culgoa Flood Plains National Park. The park is situated on the Queensland/New South Wales border and is ideal for birdwatching. Visitors wanting to camp at the National Park should contact the Ranger in Charge. Dirranbandi is also home to 'Cubbie Station'' which is believed to be the largest privately owned cotton property in the Southern Hemisphere.
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Dirranbandi has hot summer temperatures. The summer high temperature for Dirranbandi is approximately 34 °c. The summer low temperature is approximately 21 °c.
Dirranbandi has warm winter temperatures. The winter high temperature for Dirranbandi is approximately 20 °c. The winter low temperature is approximately 6 °c.
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OSCOLAOSCOLA is a referencing system specifically designed for legal materials. It has been devised by the University of Oxford. Now in its 4th edition, it is intended to facilitate the accurate citation of cases, legislation and other legal materials, along with books, journals and other literature.
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