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There are times when an air vent causes so much noise that you need to equip it with a silencer. Fortunately, we are one of the country’s top suppliers of these products. This isn’t simply due to the fact that our silencers are very high quality. We also manufacture them so that they can match your unique specifications. Continue reading “Why is my HVAC system being noisy?”
Ventx is a company that specialises in industrial silencers, helping clients from across the globe. Industries that require this equipment include any who vent gas into the air. If you find yourself having to silence a noisy steam vent, then you should invest in our products. We offer steam vent silencers and other noise solutions.
Vent silencing can limit the noise of steam or gas flow inside a pipeline. These noises might exist because of the high velocity flow along the valve. It may also be due to a barrier inside the line that abruptly alters or impedes the flow’s direction.
Our silencers suit many applications with steam vents and purge outlets. They also prove useful when working with system blow downs, safety relief outlets, and high-pressure vents. Vent and blow down noise is generally because of upstream temperature and pressure, and the effect of downstream piping. The valve type and size, as well as the kind of gas you’re venting are vital too. We design every silencer to diminish the noise volume to the desired level at a set distance from the device.
Within any blow off/gas venting or steam set up, the main noise release happens at the open stack exit. You install the blow off silencer at the outlet or inside the stack. It cuts the noise off before it can escape. With passive silencer design, the product uses two foundational noise-limiting principles. Dissipative components offer balanced noise depletion over a large frequency scope. Reactive components supply maximal noise cutback in a more focused frequency band.
Looking for steam vent silencers?
At Ventx, we use our cutting edge computer software to provide customers with suitable silencing solutions. With it, we can perceive the noise volume that’s most likely and work from there. As a result we are confident we can provide the right solution for any kind of steam vent, noisy system or piece of machinery.
If you would like to know more about steam vent silencers or another area of our work , please get in touch.
Every employer is responsible for ensuring their employees are safe from things that could harm them. As a result there are many regulations to meet. One of the most important is Control of Noise at Work 2005. This details that employers must take steps to protect employees’ hearing, especially if they work with or around noisy tools and machinery. This is even more important when dealing with industrial noise.
What are the health effects of industrial noise?
Exposure to loud noises can cause temporary and permanent hearing loss. The effects can be sudden or gradual depending on the decibels. It is more common for damage to build up over time because of spending a lot of time in noisy environments.
In addition loud noises can cause tinnitus. The ringing, buzzing or humming can be very hard to live with because it is constant when there is no background noise to drown it out. As a result sufferers can end up having trouble sleeping and being in quiet environments.
Do you have noise at work?
All workplaces will be noisy in one way or another. When the sound reaches harmful decibels it is vital that employees and visitors have the correct hearing protection. You may need to provide this if:
•The noise is intrusive
•Employees need to raise their voices to have a normal conversation
•Power tools or machinery are in use for more than half an hour at a time
•The industry is noisy, including construction, demolition or fabrication
•There are regular loud impact noises
•Explosives are used
Do a risk assessment
If you think noise is a problem in your workplace you should do a risk assessment. This will help to identify sources, exposure and what kind of control measures might be necessary. You may need to install industrial silencers on the noisiest equipment.
Ventx is a leading authority on industrial noise. It is something we have helped a number of clients to deal with. Our highly trained team can provide unique solutions for various needs, including processes in gas and oil production.
Our team is happy to provide more information and recommendations. If you would like our help please feel free to contact us.
When it comes to industrial silencers, no company can perform better than ours can. Using our first class merchandise, we can help you to create a quieter, safer environment. If you are currently looking for a solution you can depend on, you’ve come to the right place.
Soundproofing technology is commonly used with HVAC systems. Heating, ventilation, and air conditioning can be very noisy. This is due to loud fans or motors. Sound waves can travel through the ductwork, filtering into the area. They can also echo through ducts and come out the end, causing a lot of noise as a result.
What you need to do
The first step should be to decide where you should set up the HVAC systems. It is important to get it right so that the noises won’t be disturbing or harmful to people. Therefore it is a good idea to have a map of noise propagation. The introduction of noise management solutions like silencers also means you need to think of space restrictions. It is vital you have enough room for the additional equipment, including any silencers. You also need to consider aerodynamic pressure losses and fan selection.
On one hand, the requirement is to limit the noise produced by gas or air flow. On the other, you must avoid the undermining of these flows. For this reason, you can consider a silencer appropriate for these situations.
Industrial silencers from the experts
At Ventx, we go above and beyond to ensure that our customers leave satisfied with our industrial silencers and services. Thanks to the materials we use, these utensils can endure any thermal shock generated via extreme temperatures. Furthermore, they come with an inlet diffuser. Its purpose is to decrease the valve’s size through a controlled back pressure.
If you would like more details about industrial silencers, feel free to contact us anytime. We offer a full service, from design to installation and after-care. Rely on us if you have a noisy HVAC system.
An industrial silencer can be useful in all kinds of scenarios. We happen to be a top supplier of this equipment. Our team create bespoke silencers to ensure they meet your needs. Furthermore, they exclusively use first class materials to bring you a product that will last. As a result we are the go to company for clients in various industries.
The silencers we create can be a big help in controlling the level of noise in the manufacturing industry. Managing sound levels is important for several reasons, including protecting workers and also improving the quality of the products that are made.
What is noise?
We define it as an unwanted sound that causes discomfort. A single decibel is the faintest sound we humans can hear. Unless the workplace has more than 85 decibels, noise pollution shouldn’t be a concern.
In recent history, workplace noises have been rising every decade, especially in industrial facilities. For example there are workers within the steel industry that work near heavy blowers. They encounter 112dB for eight hours a day. This can cause substantial harm to them.
Choosing a solution
There is a precursory step to choosing and designing a noise control solution. It is to recognise and examine the origins of the sounds. To set the control strategy up with the proper approach, you must consider certain factors. These include the type of sound, room acoustics, noise levels and temporal pattern, propagation, and also frequency.
You have to determine other critical factors as well. These include the type of work as well as the amount of time everyone exposes themselves to the noise. If possible, you should inspect levels in areas where the most work goes on.
At Ventx, we can create an industrial silencer that will deliver the performance you’re seeking. With this equipment your working environments shall become much quieter. In addition they will be much better for your employees and any guests. We’re sure that you’ll love the results.
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Can a windows 7 computer turn on by its self connect to a wifi internet connection start itunes and go to a specific radio station play for a few hours and then turn off and be able to do it all again night after night? I have a friend and she just can’t get how to use a computer no matter how I try and teach her. She has a wifi connection and would like to listen to a specific radio station at night while she falls asleep. At present she listens to a station via itunes when I come to visit and I get the station for her. I wonder can a computer that is off be made to boot or does it have to be in hibernation or stand by to come on and where in windows 7 do I make the settings as to what time of day to come alive or on from being off. And I assume the same place is where I will have to put in settings to power off or go into stand by or hibernation. So first off is this possible? I am a Mac guy so not sure but I think I already know where and how to tell it if a particular wifi is present to connect with it also if it loses the connection will it automatically reacquire that network? If the above is possible can I get itunes or Internet explorer or firerfox or other internet browser to startup and go and connect to a radio stations live feed via wifi without having to manually click on any button on the page? Is what I want to do very complicated and could be prone to hang or freeze and she would have to be computer savvy to get it all going again which like I said above she is not. Could she just hold down the laptops power button shut down and then repress to restart and it would come back on and all would be able to pick up where it left off? Do I approach this as have itunes always running connected to the station could the computer be made to go to standby or hibernation at a specific time and itunes would continue to run just not make noise so when it comes out of stand by or hibernation it will be on and connected streaming the radio stations music? | <urn:uuid:959ed1c7-e30d-437b-9c58-3fe5b359f714> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://windowsforum.com/threads/can-a-windows-7-computer-turn-on-by-its-self.79404/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00357-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97111 | 435 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Empower women on their recovery journey by connecting them with martial arts for healing, health, wellbeing and growth.
Pink Belt Project is a peak body for women involved in martial arts and an authority on martial arts for violence prevention and recovery.
Never give up!
No matter the challenge, we will never give up.
Treat everyone as equals.
We believe in and demonstrate equality for all.
We will never compromise our integrity.
WHAT WE DO
Pink Belt Project provides martial arts scholarships to women in need – particularly women healing from the trauma of domestic abuse and/or sexual assault.
Scholarships cover one year of training in any of the Traditional Martial Arts at the recipient’s nearest local club. Scholarships are provided through fundraising, corporate donors and sponsorship by martial arts clubs.
Pink Belt Project was started in 2018 by West Australian Black Belt mum Kristy Hitchens who was inspired by the journey of a friend impacted by domestic violence. Pink Belt Project became an Incorporated Association in early 2021 and a Board of Management was appointed soon after. You can READ MORE ABOUT THE BOARD HERE.
Applications for 2023 Pink Belt Scholarships will open in October. If you are interested in applying, visit our For Women page of the website.
You might also like to read the powerful stories by Pink Belt Scholarship recipients about the impact their training is having on their lives. And if you have any questions, feel free to email Project Founder Kristy Hitchens (firstname.lastname@example.org) or message the FB page. | <urn:uuid:d3b97724-00c6-4469-9356-688680c68724> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pinkbelt.com.au/about | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572089.53/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814234405-20220815024405-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.946207 | 338 | 1.515625 | 2 |
There are many things that we consider important in our lives. Our home and our work can be really important to us, but the most important thing is our family. We care a lot about our family, but most of us have such busy lives that it is a little bit difficult to find the time to be with the family as much as we would like to. But when we do find time to do that, we all struggle to figure out what we can do together as a family and to have a lot of fun?
One of the things that you can do together is to go camping. Of course, if your kids are still very young, probably that would not be the best idea. But if they are a little bit older, they will really love it. Kids like being in the nature and exploring all the bugs, trees and flowers, so a weekend in the nature is always a great idea. You can play all sorts of games together, run around and just have fun. And in the evening, you can all sit by the camp fire, roast marshmallows and just enjoy each other’s company. You will create many great memories while being together and camping.
Another fun thing you can do together is to go visit a zoo. If there is not a zoo where you live, I bet that there are farms that have animals that you can visit all together. Kids will have a chance not to only play with animals and feed them, but to also learn something about them.
However, if you do not feel like going anywhere or the weather is just bad, there are many things that you can do at home. You can set up a painting stationery where you could draw with your kids. Or, you can just sit with them and read their favorite books. There are many different things that you can do together and you do not have to try too hard to entertain your kids, because they will be just happy that you are with them and you want to play with them. No matter what you choose to do together, show your kids that you enjoy spending time with them and they will be absolutely happy about it. | <urn:uuid:a18b0c99-bf27-49b3-bdfb-06486a5c6b2b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.chameleonjohn.com/store/chick-fil-a-promo-codes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.983403 | 433 | 1.945313 | 2 |
Microsoft is suing Motorola for patent infringement. The suit, filed with the International Trade Commission and in the U.S. District Court for the Western District of Washington, alleges the Android smartphone maker violated nine different patents related to "e-mail synchronization, calendar and contacts, scheduling meetings and applications that alert users about battery and signal status," according to International Business Times.
The software juggernaut seldom resorts to formal legal action to resolve patent disputes. More often than not, the parties are able to reach an agreement before legal action is taken. And in the four previous instances in which Microsoft has taken formal legal action to defend its patents, most of them-including the case against customer relationship management software-as-a-service provider Salesforce.com earlier this year - have settled out of court.
That said, however, patent lawsuits in the smartphone arena are a dime a dozen today, even without Microsoft adding to the fray. Nokia and Apple have sued each other, as have Apple and HTC. At the time the latter was filed, observers said Google was Apple's true target, but IBT writer Carl Bagh says it is unclear at this time whether Microsoft is taking a swipe at Android with its suit or if it really does want a piece of Motorola. | <urn:uuid:d37a3a49-a5d1-41f0-ac55-0a7f5421fb58> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.itbusinessedge.com/cm/blogs/bentley/microsoft-sues-motorola-alleging-android-phones-violate-patents/?cs=43607 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00467-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.94857 | 254 | 1.523438 | 2 |
In the United States there are certain personal questions that cannot be asked during a job interview or on a job application.
You probably won't get illegal questions but you should be aware of issues relating to job discrimination. In general, questions should only pertain to legitimate job requirements. This is not necessarily true outside of the United States, however. If you are interviewing abroad, these questions may be customary.
An illegal question is one for which the answer could be used to discriminate against you. These include questions about your age, gender, disabilities, marital status, race/ethnicity/country of origin, U.S. citizenship, and religion. In New York State you cannot be discriminated against because of your sexual orientation but in some states it is legal.
When you encounter one of these questions it is best to try to answer the intent of the question. For example:
Q: Are you a U.S. citizen?
A: If your concern is whether or not I am eligible to work in this country, I am.
Q: How old are you?
A: I am over 21, if that is your concern.
If you are not sure what the intent is, ask. There could be a legitimate, job-related reason of which you are not aware. Jobs requiring security clearance may require that you be a US citizen. It is also important to not assume that someone is trying to discriminate against you. They may be making small talk and not realize they are asking an inappropriate question. If the interviewer is not a manager, he or she may not have been trained regarding inappropriate questions. If you are not sure how to respond, you can try saying, "That's a very personal question," and then change the subject. | <urn:uuid:5beccecf-ffac-4b38-9827-4952acf36094> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.albany.edu/career/interviewing/sample_questions/illegal_questions.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00284-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963617 | 356 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Please keep in mind that studying at Goethe University's Department of Computer Science requires German language profiency at DSH-2 level, as most courses are held in German. For more information on German language requirements, as well as general information on studying at Goethe University as an international student, please check out the Office of Global Affairs, Study and Teaching.
The websites of the Studien-Service-Center (SSC) provide information on the next steps once you're admitted as a student, such as enrolling, the semester ticket and living in Frankfurt (in German). The Wegweiser für Erstsemester, the digital guide for new students, is especially useful.
Each semester, the Department of Computer Science offers a Vorsemesterkurs Informatik as a preparation for your first courses as an undergraduate Informatics student (in German).
Do you want to improve, further or refresh your mathematics skills? Then we recommend you to participate in the Online Mathematik Brückenkurs (OMB+), as well as the Vorkurs Mathematik, which is offered during the winter semesters. Both of these are held in German. | <urn:uuid:0e6ad38e-2108-4477-a5b5-c31e0f728e47> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.goethe-university-frankfurt.de/106082162/New_Students | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.936943 | 242 | 1.6875 | 2 |
One sector in West Africa that has found itself crippled on many levels by COVID 19 is the third sector and specifically non-governmental organisations (NGOs) and community-based organisations (CBOs). The World Health Organisation (WHO) announced on March 11 that the Corona Virus emergency had now become a full-blown global pandemic and many organisations have found themselves in dire circumstances as this crisis hit without warning. Their plight has been compounded by the measures deployed by governments across West Africa to respond to the pandemic, including lockdowns, border closures, social distancing and bans on public gatherings (OECD Country Tracker, 2020).
There are several reasons for this situation. They include the nature of funding arrangements with NGOs/CBOs– project-based short-term contracts that contribute little to building strong and resilient institutions. With these being the mainstay, several of these organisations live from hand to mouth, sustained from project to project (Arhin, Adam & Akanbasiam, 2015). They have little or no reserves and have no emergency funds they can rely on in times of crisis like this. Funding is channeled mainly towards project delivery with the usual 7-10% for administrative overheads. This leaves them with nothing to fall on when rainy days come; how much more a tsunami like COVID-19. Governments in West Africa do not fund NGOs and CBOs and they are not considered in the government economic stimulus packages to mitigate the negative effect of the pandemic on businesses.
The dependence of NGOs and CBOs on external donor funding (Kumi, 2017) has done little to help as this already dwindling source is further squeezed because the traditional donors – European and American governments, development agencies, Foundations and in some cases International NGOs, have found themselves also fighting COVID 19 in their countries. Although they remain concerned and invested in their partners in West Africa, they have been compelled to invest also in addressing the COVID challenges in their countries and to focus on their own survival.
With lockdowns and social distancing came remote working. Organisations had to close their offices and allow staff to work from home. This required access to technology and data and for many NGOs and CBOs this remains a hurdle. A quick survey conducted by the West Africa Civil Society Institute (WACSI) in March 2020, revealed that many organisations had their work severely hampered because of the high cost of internet and data tariffs and the lack of laptops (because most of the organisations work with desktops in their offices). Other challenges were with procurement and approval of software and hardware because most of those processes could not be moved online. There was also the difficulty with procuring useful software such as the paid versions of Office 365, Zoom and Dropbox due to lack of adequate funds. Even where funds are available, organisations were unable to get the approvals for procurement, and for some who did acquire it, did not have the needed skill or capacity to use it effectively.
Programmatic interventions have stalled, which has had a negative impact on organisations that rely on physical interaction with participants and beneficiaries of their programmes to deliver efficient services and make the needed impact. Several of these have had to postpone or cancel programmes altogether. Even though several donors have given room to changes in project implementation and grant management such as redirecting funds towards addressing COVID-related programming (e.g Wilde Ganzen) or given flexibility in timelines for programme implementation, very few have gone a step further to enable organisations use the funds given to cushion the institutional shocks they are facing. The Hewlett Foundation is one of the very few that have taken this step (Kramer 2020).
Many of the programmes undertaken by organisations in this sector particularly around social accountability have required face-to-face meetings, group sessions, demonstrations, marches, and social audits which are hindered by social distancing and bans on public gatherings. Moving these activities online particularly where this has not been the culture has presented a hurdle in effective organizing, translating to some extent, to low energy and effectiveness in mobilizing support for causes (Mullard and Aarvik).
The ability to change programme focus to respond to COVID-19 needs of the constituencies they work with has also been challenging because of the lack of flexibility of grant agreements to enable that agility.
Yet, life for these organisations must continue as work remains to be done. There is need to continue the work on social accountability and ensure the effective and efficient delivery of public services to citizens especially the poor, vulnerable, socially excluded, and marginalized populations. As funds roll in from the IMF, World Bank, the United Nations, and other entities to assist governments’ responses to COVID 19, there is need for transparency and accountability in the use of those funds and to ensure that it reaches the beneficiaries for whom it has been sought. That watchdog role is that of civil society.
NGOs and CBOs have been actively supporting the vulnerable in their countries. Examples of self-help initiatives set up by civil society organisations have sprung up in different parts of West Africa to provide much needed essential supplies to vulnerable populations, especially during the lockdowns. In Ghana, a CSO COVID 19 response Fund has so far supported the mentally challenged, people living with disability, street children, widows and aged in the two cities that experienced the lockdown. Some organisations continue to provide psycho-social support to victims of domestic violence. Advocacy and research organisations have been vocal on real and perceived human rights violations with some cautioning that governments may overreach their powers during this time with the institution of emergency measures and legislation, some without timelines or limitations to the exercise of power in restricting freedoms. The need to protect civic space even in these times, remains critical (ICNL 2020). The security services in some countries have been called out for abuse of power in their bid to enforce lockdowns (Simpson, 2020). Digital security for citizens has also become an issue of concern and focus.
As governments roll out policies, one major gap that has been identified is the lack of engagement with civil society even though many of these policies and measures have an effect, some adverse, on citizens. Several civil society organisations have the expertise and knowledge to enable policy makers make informed policy choices that inure towards the benefit of citizens – leaving no one behind.
To fight and overcome this pandemic, public education is of the utmost importance and in countries like Ghana and others that have lifted lockdowns, the fate of people has been left in their hands. Personal responsibility is the requirement now. Prevention protocols may seem simple enough but adhering to them in practice requires key changes in everyday practices. That happens when people are well sensitised about an issue and take ownership of becoming a part of the change that is needed. It requires deliberate programming to create awareness – a role that civil society plays very well.
The issues that plagued the sub-region pre-COVID 19, such as inequality, climate change, terrorism threats, corruption, human rights violations etc. persist and will post-COVID 19. A strong civil society sector is needed to engage other sectors of society, government, and the private sector to tackle the problems and find the solutions to it.
Call for change
Clearly, the contribution of NGOs and CBOs is still needed in West Africa, but it cannot be business as usual. Things will have to change. There will be the need to have more flexible resourcing, longer term partnerships, solidarity would have to be built with unlikely groups even within civil society such as professional bodies and NGOs, faith-based organisations, and labour unions. Civil society must coordinate better and collaborate and make a strong case to government about the need to support the sector, showing evidence of its contribution to the development of countries.
There needs to be better engagement and collaboration between government, civil society, and the private sector- bilaterally and multilaterally. Local resource mobilization can no longer be just a dream and more effort must be invested into building a local philanthropic culture that contributes to social justice and accountability and the institutions that champion it. To do this though, there is a trust deficit that needs to be bridged between government and citizens and even between citizens and NGOs/CBOs. Ways of working, organising, and mobilizing support may never revert to what they used to be, and civil society organisations will have to devise more innovative ways of doing this, using technology. The capacity needed for this must be built and the necessary investments made.
COVID 19 has negatively affected many organisations in West Africa. To use the language of the times, the morbidity rate is very high especially because of underlying conditions that organisations suffer due to years of neglect and the lack of support in building strong and resilient institutions. The fear now is that if this status quo prolongs, the mortality rate of organisations would also be high. This will not augur well for the progress made in West Africa in development, good governance, human rights, and social justice. Many years of progress would be rolled back. There is still light at the end of the tunnel if the needed investments are made by all concerned to build a strong and resilient third sector in West Africa. That must be made now and need not wait for a post-COVID era. For all interested in the development, peace and prosperity of West Africa, the choice is ours to make.
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A supervillain is a variant of the villainous stock character archetype commonly found in American comic books and sometimes possesses superhuman abilities. A supervillain is the antithesis of a superhero.
Supervillains are often used as foils and could present a daunting challenge to the superhero. In instances where the supervillain does not have superhuman, mystical, or alien powers, the supervillain may possess a genius intellect or a skill set that allows them to draft complex schemes or commit crimes in a way normal humans cannot. Other traits may include a megalomaniac streak and possession of considerable resources to help further their aims. Many supervillains share some typical characteristics of real world dictators, gangsters, and terrorists, with aspirations of world domination or universal leadership.
The Joker, Lex Luthor, Loki, Magneto, Doctor Doom, Darkseid, Venom, Ra's al Ghul, Galactus, Apocalypse, and the Green Goblin are some well-known comic book supervillains in popular culture and have been adapted to film and television. Some notable examples of female supervillains are Catwoman, Mystique, Harley Quinn, Talia al Ghul, and the Dark Phoenix.
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Dec 07, 2006
By Abid Mustafa
On December 5, 2006 speaking before Indian TV channel, Musharraf said that Pakistan was prepared to give up its claim to Kashmir, if India and Pakistan agree on the four-point solution (a solution in which boundaries are not changed and India does not have to give up any territory).When pressed on Kashmiri Independence, Musharraf reasserted his objection. He said," Yes, we are against independence."
This is not the first time Musharraf has floated the idea of abandoning Pakistan's longstanding claim to Kashmir. On November 18, 2003 Musharraf said, "We are for the United Nations Security Council resolution, whatever that stands for. However, now we have left that aside. We keep saying that if we want to resolve this issue both sides need to talk with each other with flexibility... coming beyond stated positions... coming and meeting half way somewhere." Since then Musharraf has been working tirelessly to implement the Kashmir plan drafted by the US sponsored Kashmir study group.
America's road map for Kashmir echoes the four stages spelt out by NDTV during the interview with Musharraf-namely: i) Kashmir will have the same borders but people will be allowed to move freely back and forth in the region; ii) the region will have self-governance or autonomy, but not independence; iii) troops will be withdrawn from the region in a staggered manner; and iv) a joint supervision mechanism will be set up, with India, Pakistan and Kashmir represented on it.
What is particularly noteworthy about the interview is its timing. Pakistan has been pressing India to kick-start negotiations over Kashmir, which was brought to a sudden halt after the train bombings. Now with the impending visit of Indian Foreign Minister followed by the Indian Prime Minister to Islamabad next year, Musharraf wants to resurrect the peace process between the two countries. Musharraf's urgency to solve the dispute stems from America's wish to see a fully fledged civilian government in Pakistani during 2007. Before then, America wants Musharraf to cast in stone the Kashmir plan into a political framework that cannot be altered by anti-American politicians after the Pakistani general elections.
It also provides Manmohan Singh with the ability to convince skeptics both within his party and Congress's coalition partners-no matter who is in power in Islamabad the peace process will not falter. America believes that this is the all important first step necessary to facilitate the normalization of relations between Pakistan and India-eventually leading to America's domination of South Asia.
Musharraf is under no allusion that resolution of the Kashmir dispute is going to happen during his tenure office or sometime in the near future. Speaking during the interview he said, "My view is that it is easier said than done. I mean it's not as simple as put in across four stages or four aspects of it. This could be left for trial for five years, 10 years, 15 years and then we can get together again to see its efficacy, if it is functional, well. If there are some modifications required, again."
On the Indian side, Prime Minister Manmohan faces several obstacles before he can push ahead with the Kashmir plan. First, many of his cabinet members, as well as the coalition parties subscribe to Nehru's Kashmir doctrine- all of Kashmir belongs to India. He will have to convince then that that the doctrine is absolute now and India must be prepared to make concessions.
Second, there is great concern that if the central government acquiesces to some sort of autonomy for Kashmiris then other secessionist movement would also demand independence thereby leading to India's implosion. A lot will depend upon how Article 370 of the Indian constitution is modified to accommodate such concerns and at the same time not encourage others to demand independence. Third, and more importantly, the Kashmiri separatists do not speak with one unified voice. India will have to work with Pakistan to create an indigenous leadership that can be used as a vehicle to accomplish the implementation of the road map. The elevation of Mirwaiz Umar Farooq as party chairman of the AHPC marks the beginning of an arduous process to include militants and politicians that are committed to the Kashmir plan.
In conclusion, American efforts to normalize relations between India and Pakistan cannot succeed unless the Kashmir dispute is resolved. This also delays the accomplishment of America's overall plan for South Asia, which is to use Afghanistan, Pakistan and India as a counterweight to China. Given the Bush administration's pre-occupation with Iraq, Bush may not be able to provide enough support for Musharraf and Manmohan to push ahead with the Kashmir plan, thus stalling Pakistan's normalization with India. If this were to happen then China will be encouraged to quickly cement its ties with India and reduce the prospect of American hegemony in South Asia.
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Distance from Pilani to Mavelikara
Distance from Pilāni to Māvelikara is 2,117 kilometers. This air travel distance is equal to 1,315 miles.
The air travel (bird fly) shortest distance between Pilāni and Māvelikara is 2,117 km= 1,315 miles.
If you travel with an airplane (which has average speed of 560 miles) from Pilani to Mavelikara, It takes 2.35 hours to arrive.
Pilani is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates (DMS)||28° 21´ 55.4400'' N |
75° 36´ 10.6560'' E
Pilāni Distances to Cities
|Distance from Pilani to Mandsaur||479 km|
|Distance from Pilani to Baraut||181 km|
|Distance from Pilani to Lalsot||213 km|
|Distance from Pilani to Aligarh||249 km|
|Distance from Pilani to Morwa||630 km|
Mavelikara is located in India.
|GPS Coordinates||9° 15´ 33.4440'' N |
76° 33´ 23.1120'' E
Māvelikara Distances to Cities
|Distance from Mavelikara to Chennai||587 km|
|Distance from Mavelikara to Attingal||69 km|
|Distance from Mavelikara to Kozhikode||236 km|
|Distance from Mavelikara to Mangalore||445 km|
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Almost every tile company in the 1930s - Taylor, Tudor, Hispano-Moresque, D. & M. - had their version of the Racetrack design. They differed slightly in the choices of colors and texture of the glazes. Caltiles.com has a great comparison of a few different versions of this shared design.
This particular set of tiles was done by Taylor as evidenced by the colors and very shiny glazes. The design appears on page 239 of the California Tile, The Golden Era 1910-1940 (vol. 2) and page 265 of the Encyclopedia of American Art Tiles, Region 6. It's also shown in Santa Monica Tiles (Taylor Tilery) Catalog Number 2 as "25-A Cor."
This table has clearly seen a lot of use over the years. The glossy glazes have some surface scratches, and so does the wood of the table.
- Dimensions: 12" x 12" (not including the wooden edge), four 5 3/4" x 5 3/4" tiles
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Last June 15, 2012, the Deferred Action for Childhood Arrivals (DACA) process came into effect. It is under the oversight of U.S Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS). The OBAMA administration made this for the main purpose of DACA to answer the growing issue which is the undocumented immigrants who entered the U.S.A as children.
These children were innocent and not a part of the decision to enter the country illegally. They came in with their parents, attending schools in the country and have been shaped by the nation’s culture. They grew up as Americans but they have no legal standing in the country. They are known as the “DREAMers” which is after the proposed Development, Relief, and Education for Minors Act.
There are certain DACA requirements for the applicants to comply. The applicant must have arrived in the United States prior to age of sixteen and then continuously resides in the United States without the legal status since June 15, 2007. As of June 15, 2012 the applicants must be younger than 31 years old and at least 15 years old before they apply. But those applicants who faced deportation proceedings are exempted to this requirement. The applicants must be enrolled in or a graduate in any United States high school or possessed a GED. Those who are discharged honorably by military veterans are also qualified for DACA.
Those who are convicted of crimes and serious misbehaviors do not qualify for DACA. Likewise, applicants who are deemed to pose a risk to national security or public safety do not qualify too.
Once approved, DACA does not provide a permanent immigration status to applicants. What they offer is renewable deferred actions, which means an administrative relief from deportation is granted every two years. The applicant can legally work in the United States without fear or removal proceedings too.
Each of the applicants was born in 192 nations and a great percent of these applicants are accounted in only 25 nations. A huge number of applicants were born in Mexico. Most of the applicants were older adolescents and young adults who are in college, high school or learning online. The motivation of these applicants in applying DACA is to consider their future and see DACA as the only means for them to remain in the country while they are complying with the national law.
Even though this act has been declared effective by the OBAMA administration, immigration still remains a hot topic. Many DACA opponents question the program’s legitimacy. Despite the negativity, advocates of DACA believe that these DREAMers don’t take responsibility of their families’ decision in entering the country illegally.
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Annals of the Náprstek Museum
Annals of the Náprstek Museum, a National Museum journal, publishes the results of scientific research which have not been published yet, and which deals with material and spiritual culture and social relations in non-European cultures. Since its foundation in 1962 it was published once a year, since 2013 two issues per year are published. Each issue is structured into four sections: Papers, Research reports, Materialia, Revies of the literature dealing with non-European cultures. Since 2008 the journal has been included to EBSCO database with full-text searching, in a group "Central & Eastern European Academic Source (CEEAS)", and in ERIH PLUS.
Editor-in-chief: Todorovová Jiřina
Editorial board: PhDr. Jana Mynářová, PhD.; doc. PhDr. Jitka Malečková, CSc.; Mgr. Markéta Hánová, Ph.D.; Mgr. Michaela Pejčochová, Ph.D.; PhDr. Tomáš Winter, Ph.D; PhDr. Vlastimil Novák, Ph.D.; doc. PhDr. Peter Pavúk, Ph.D.; prof. PhDr. Jaroslav Vacek, CSc.; PhDr. Petr Skalník, CSc.; PhDr. Josef Ženka, Ph.D.; PhDr. Pavel Onderka | <urn:uuid:fb9b5616-a1db-4bb1-a5be-295f53ac017d> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.nm.cz/publikace/publikace-detail-en.php?id=2 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718278.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00239-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.73384 | 317 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Dr. Sara Barrento gave a keynote on the 26th of June during the free webinar on Precision Aquaculture in the Blue Economy. The program included live demonstrations on intelligent tools, advanced modeling systems, and cloud-based integrations for real-time monitoring of the behaviour, health, feeding, safety, quality, and environment.
Dr. Sara Barrento introduced the topic and showcased the importance of precision aquaculture through the Access2Sea project in lumpfish welfare management and restorative farming.
The event will be available on YouTube.
Text and images by Dr Sara Barrento
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The primary challenge in creating images for Web pages is the relatively low resolution of the computer screen. But today's computer screens can display thousands or millions of colors, and this wealth of color minimizes the limitations of screen resolution. Complex graphics or color photographs often look surprisingly good on Web pages for two reasons:
Digital publishing is color publishing: on the Web there is no economic penalty for publishing in color. Web pages may in fact be the best current means of distributing color photography it's a lot cheaper than color printing, and it's also more consistent and reliable than all but the most expert (and costly) color printing. | <urn:uuid:b1724f8f-f34b-43a5-8e5c-56ea7b9f62b9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://webstyleguide.com/wsg2/graphics/print/screen.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279650.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00435-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.913308 | 125 | 2.203125 | 2 |
Rules of the Hunt: Real-World Advice for Entrepreneurial and Business Success
Break a Few Rules and Build the Career of Your Dreams!
Rules of the Hunt is much more than a book about Sales, Marketing, and Business. You'll also get rule breaking advice for attaining Business and Life Success.
· Avoid meetings with more than three people in attendance.
· Raise your prices and sell more.
· Look at business strictly as a form of playing.
· Don't tell people what to do. (There is a better way to get what you want.)
· Turn down invitations to business lunches.
· Drop in on your competitors.
You'll learn things they don't teach in business schools. You'll get eye-opening, inspiring, and honest advice including unexpected business revelations and secrets for skyrocketing your Career. Best of all, you get the confidence-building guidance and encouragement you would expect from a world-class mentor.
The author points out that there is no magic formula for success. He writes that winning, both in business and in life, is about gaining an accumulation of small advantages. This book is written to show you how to grab those all-important advantages and put them to work for you.
With humor and clarity, this book gives you priceless ideas and surprising revelations into Sales and Marketing, Leadership, Communication, People, Career Success, and Self Growth.
There's a lot there. You also get hundreds of eye-opening insights (and a few bombshells) about Entrepreneurship, Business Operations, Integrity and Human Nature. You get it all in brief business anecdotes, short tutorials, case histories, an occasional rant, and a few horror stories.
Rules of the Hunt is refreshingly human, down to earth and straightforward. It's easy to read and you'll find nothing preachy, just friendly career and life-changing advice. It offers wisdom that will make your hunt for success easier and more rewarding. It's not hard to imagine sitting face to face with the author and getting his advice personally.
"To say that Rules of the Hunt is one of the most unusual business books I've ever read or reviewed would be an understatement."
--Ivana Taylor, Editor, Small Business Trends
Profit from this experienced and successful entrepreneur's knowledge of human nature, business and life. Order your copy today and learn ways to outfox the competition, track down big profits, maintain your sanity, keep your health and integrity and go home early. You'll be glad you did.
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“Eucalitin” cough syrup
“Eucalitin” for cough is a dietary supplement to the diet, which can be recommended as an additional source of vitamin C, for general strengthening of the body, to facilitate breathing in case of seasonal colds and bronchopulmonary diseases, favors mild expectoration and dilution of sputum.
The syrup contains natural substances that affect the improvement of well-being in case of colds and bronchopulmonary diseases.
Oregano extract has an expectorant and soothing effect.
Plantain extract has immunostimulating, anti-inflammatory and analgesic effects. Has a strong expectorant effect.
The extract of coltsfoot belongs to expectorant, emollient and anti-inflammatory substances.
Echinacea extract has an immunostimulating effect.
Eucalyptus oil is a good disinfectant. Refreshes the oral cavity and promotes the excretion of phlegm.
Ascorbic acid is good for fighting various infections and viruses.
Recommended to use: adults and children over 12 years old – 1-2 tablespoons (or measuring spoons), children from 7 to 12 years old – ½ teaspoon twice a day 30 minutes before meals. The course of application is 14 days.
Before use requires consultation with a doctor.
Ingredients: oregano extract, plantain extract, coltsfoot extract, echinacea extract, eucalyptus oil, ascorbic acid, menthol, sugar, purified water, tween-80, sodium benzoate.
Contraindications: individual sensitivity to individual components, children under 7 years old, pregnant women, lactating women, patients with diabetes mellitus.
Expiration date: 36 months from the date of manufacture.
Storage conditions and shelf life: store in the manufacturer’s packaging, in a dry, dark room at a temperature not exceeding 25 ° C. | <urn:uuid:15efb6e5-267b-4a93-a2f6-c458f38957c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://fitoproduct.ua/en/product/eucalitin-cough-syrup/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.867738 | 418 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Author: Supreme Court Usurped Congress On Voting Rights
SCOTT SIMON, HOST:
The Voting Rights Act of 1965 transformed politics. It abolished poll taxes, literacy tests and other gimmicks designed to keep African-Americans from voting. And when blacks began to cast ballots, the consequences were immediate but not always predictable. States that had supported Democrats were known as the Solid South, but in the 1960s they flipped and became Republican. Today, there are 44 members of Congress who are African-American, hundreds of black mayors, people of every color in every level of government, from city councils to the U.S. Supreme Court and of course, the White House. But what is the vote meant in the lives of African-Americans? Darryl Pinckney, the writer, novelist and longtime contributor to The New York Review of Books, has written what he calls a meditation, both personal and analytical. It's called "Blackballed: The Black Vote And U.S. Democracy." Darryl Pinckney joins us from New York. Thanks much for being with us.
DARRYL PINCKNEY: Thank you for having me.
SIMON: Let me get you to take on, as you do in the book, the 2012 Supreme Court decision of Shelby County Alabama versus Holder that said that the Voting Rights Act had been so successful that after 50 years it didn't need to be renewed. The South had earned the right to supervise their own elections without federal accountability. Why do you think that's a bad decision?
PINCKNEY: As Justice Ginsberg pointed out in her very eloquent dissent, these states would not have been under preclearance had they not had a history of suppressing minority votes. Ginsburg also pointed out that the justices and their decision - more or less you serve Congress' authority to determine election law. So it's an outrageous act. It's a real stepping back into darkness, and it almost is kind of violent in its disregard for the truth of American history.
SIMON: But your mind is in this book that during the civil rights movement there was disagreement among leadership over whether blacks should invest - or how much energy, at any rate - blacks should invest in electoral politics.
PINCKNEY: I think this is a long and deep-running argument, debate, feeling in black America about America itself. Many people perhaps don't trust the institutions or think that they're responsive enough, but this kind of feeling of not trusting what's going on or not feeling represented - withdrawal is not the answer and isolation is not the answer. And there never has been a way for blacks to go it alone. Separatism was maybe important as a kind of cultural attitude, but it was always a fantasy as a social and political possibility. I think we're...
SIMON: Your - in the book, you remind us of the days of what was called black consciousness and Stokely Carmichael and certainly, Malcolm X.
PINCKNEY: Yeah. I mean, it did a lot. These kind of leaps in self-perception were very important, but they should be directed now into participation.
SIMON: But can you see where a lot of Americans, while recognizing that their individual cases of voter intimidation, might look at the numbers that we talked about at the top - 44 members of Congress, an African-American president, members of the Supreme Court, hundreds of African-American mayors across the country - see those numbers and say, look, African-Americans are visibly voting without hindrance and a great effect in this country.
PINCKNEY: Well, there has been a lot of progress, but the thing is this progress is under threat. And there were people, very powerful people, who would like to see it rolled back. Districts are being redrawn so that black districts become even more - or the vote is sort of diluted in another direction. What we see in the gains that have been made are in spite of what the opposition, people opposed to these gains, have tried to do. They've not given up or relented, you know. Dr. King did, and every civil rights figure of the '60s and into the '70s did, stress that the struggle for equality required constant vigilance and, in a way, membership and U.S. democracy ask the same.
SIMON: I cast back to the civil rights movement that you read about in this book - that Civil Rights Act of 1964, the Voting Rights Act of 1965 - those would not have passed without Republican support.
PINCKNEY: Yes, but part of it is giving up the right to be right, in order to meet someone sort of halfway. I just feel, maybe it's because I'm at least getting old, such an urgency about what's coming. That the things we're fighting over now are so petty and beside the point, that I think that the future of the nation is at stake, really, in how we treat the vote.
SIMON: Darryl Pinckney. His new book "Blackballed: The Black Vote And U.S. Democracy." Thanks so much for being with us.
PINCKNEY: Well, thank you.
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Contains: 100% Dried Sweet Potato
Shown on display are the full contents of a single 4oz pack.
Dogs are not born with the required enzyme needed to break down plant cell walls called cellulose. Therefore, it is important to cook/blend/purée/dehydrate or steam to allow them fully enjoy the full nutritional benefits of all fruits and vegetables.
Large dogs can eat 2 pieces a day.
Medium dogs can have 1 piece a day.
Small dogs should only have 1/4 to 1/2 a piece per day.
Added fruits and veggies should not exceed more than 10% of a dog or cat’s daily intake!
🔺HEALTH BENEFITS OF SWEET POTATO:
Sweet Potatoes are an excellent low fat food containing high amounts of dietary fiber, Beta-carotene, Vitamin A, Vitamin C, Vitamin B6, potassium, iron and calcium. It is an appropriate treat for dogs with diabetes.
Sweet Potatoes are ranked second in the list of top vegetables high in fiber which can be used to alleviate constipation and diarrhea. It can regulate bowel movement, bulk stool, encourage good bacteria and replace calories with the feeling of fullness, making sweet potatoes useful for pets needing to shed a few extra pounds.
Serious deficiencies in Beta-Carotene & Vitamin A may lead to degraded night vision, poor skin quality and abnormal development in the bones, teeth, and reproductive system. The brilliant gold, orange, purple and white color found in potatoes is due to its presence Beta-Carotene, which dogs are able to then convert into Vitamin A. Cats on the other hand do not have this ability and must obtain Vitamin A through diet alone. Beta-carotene has also been found effective in reducing the risk of heart disease and certain types of cancers. | <urn:uuid:17101b86-1eee-4fea-84fb-c6f8d549a6f3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nakedbeasts.com/products/sweet-potato | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.914871 | 426 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Seawind to develop offshore wind farms in the Aegean Sea
The two-blade offshore wind manufacturer, Seawind, and solar park operator, WRE Hellas, have signed an agreement to develop small-scale offshore wind farms in the Aegean Sea.
The farms will be used to supply renewable energy to the nearby Greek islands as part of the Clean Energy for EU Islands Programme.
The programme will help more than 2000 people who live on the EU islands to generate their own coast and energy efficient power.
Miguel Arias Cañete, the European Commissioner for Climate Action & Energy launched the agenda in September this year in Crete.
“The development of economic, clean energy sources is of vital importance for many small Greek islands that rely heavily on tourism,” stated Victoria Alexandratou, Managing Director of WRE Hellas.
“Seawind’s technology will enable us to meet this objective at a cost comparable to the wholesale price on the mainland and independent from government subsidies.”
The company develop and assemble their turbines prior to delivering them to their offshore location.
“Seawind’s approach to assemble the entire system onshore and launch at sea by semi-submersible vessels is the key to bringing down the cost of offshore wind and being able to install 1 or 100 turbines in a very economical way,” commented Martin Jakubowski, CEO of Seawind Technology.
“We are delighted to partner with WRE Hellas and together look forward to showcasing how 100% green energy systems will work on Greek islands and other smaller economies.” | <urn:uuid:b2e3a0d4-364e-4dbb-bedc-85794d64f064> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://energydigital.com/sustainability/seawind-develop-offshore-wind-farms-aegean-sea | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00073.warc.gz | en | 0.913333 | 341 | 1.851563 | 2 |
Multimillion-dollar whitewater paddling park closer to reality, not far from Springfield
A section of the Illinois River near Siloam Springs, Arkansas, is on track to be turned into a whitewater paddling park — funded largely by the Walton Family Foundation.
The park, once completed, will be about 2.5 hours southwest of Springfield and just across the Arkansas-Oklahoma border, about four miles from Siloam Springs.
Missouri, renowned for its paddling streams and rivers, has no purpose-built whitewater paddling parks.
As envisioned, the park will provide paddlers a series of whitewater rapids built with native river stone to funnel a section of the river into a 1,000-foot curved side channel with seven or more challenging drops. The course could be used by canoe and kayak paddlers and people on inner tubes and rafts.
It's planned to be built near an old dam, which in years past backed up water to create Lake Frances, where Siloam Springs got its water.
But the once-popular recreation lake silted in over the years, and flooding damaged the dam. The Lake Frances White Water Park will provide a new recreation opportunity for the region while also helping repair and correct damage to the dam to make it safer, according to Ed Fite.
Fite is vice president of scenic rivers and water quality with the Grand River Dam Authority, which is working with Siloam Springs, the Walton Family Foundation and the Corps of Engineers to develop the 30-acre park.
"This project will clean up what many folks have known as an eyesore and environmental issue, and if it comes off as we envision, it would not only mitigate those deficiencies but lend itself to the quality of life and a robust economy in Northeast Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas," Fite said in an email.
Fite said the proposed project has been in the works for a number of years.
"While we’re making headway, it isn’t a done deal at this point," he said. "Seeking authorization and curtailing increasing costs has been a challenge. Final design is about 30%-40% complete."
The park envisions boat launching areas, public restrooms, parking areas for campers and large vehicles, a beach and viewing areas overlooking the course.
It's close enough that it will probably appeal to Springfield paddlers, according to Marty Zerr, president of Springfield-based Ozark Mountain Paddlers. He said several OMP members have driven even farther, to a whitewater park in Oklahoma City.
"I've been to the Oklahoma City whitewater park, and five or six others have been down there, too," Zerr said. "The Oklahoma City one is a little over my head. It's pretty intense when those pumps are running."
The Lake Frances White Water Park will rely on the river's natural flow, not pumps.
Much of the cost is being covered by the Walton Family Foundation, the charitable arm of the Walton family, which owns Walmart.
Foundation spokesman Luis Gonzalez said the foundation so far has only provided funding for design and permitting.
"A white water park would provide residents of northeast Oklahoma and Northwest Arkansas with a national-caliber quality of life amenity that also has the potential to attract visitors," Gonzalez said in an email. "Improving access to the river's natural scenic beauty would also give the community a vested interest in water quality."
Don Clark, Siloam Springs community development director, said the project will be a boon for the northwest Arkansas town of 17,000 people.
He said Siloam Springs already has a small but popular kayak park for novices. The Lake Frances White Water Park will provide more challenging paddling conditions over a much longer course.
The city and Siloam Springs Water Resource Authority are partners in the project. The city will contribute $700,000 to help rehabilitate the dam. Grand River Dam Authority is contributing a similar amount through in-kind services, Clark said.
"We have the resources and we're close to the river," Clark said. "It's a great opportunity for us to expand and highlight the area, not only for locals but for people who will want to visit the white water park and our city. The city of Siloam Springs has a lot to offer." | <urn:uuid:c0afa268-aae5-4f64-9e9b-7cf26520594f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.news-leader.com/story/news/local/ozarks/2019/03/29/multimillion-dollar-whitewater-paddling-park-closer-reality/3288187002/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571502.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811194507-20220811224507-00065.warc.gz | en | 0.953518 | 895 | 1.734375 | 2 |
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from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
- A historical region of southwest France between the Pyrenees and the Garonne River. The duchy of Aquitaine was joined with France after the marriage of Eleanor of Aquitaine to King Louis VII in 1137, but its possession was disputed after her subsequent marriage to Henry II of England.
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- proper n. A region of France.
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- n. a region of southwestern France between Bordeaux and the Pyrenees
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Once a favorite pirate hangout this old fishing port in Aquitaine's Basque Country continues to charm with its tiny narrow, winding streets and picturesque harbor.
His second and third sons were brought up in Aquitaine, and imbued with its poetical spirit; and the House of Anjou entirely overshadowed that of Capet.
This month, the French government agreed to enforce the original ban after campaigners revealed that an estimated 30,000 birds were still being poached each year in Aquitaine.
And these things -- for example, the role of ELF-Aquitaine, which is a partly-owned French company, is now under investigation judicially in France because of all the payoffs and so on that are involved.
Goths who occupied the country called Aquitaine lying south of the
When peace was finally made between England and France, after the wars described in the last chapter were over, one of the results of the treaty which was made was that certain provinces in the southwestern part of France were ceded to England, and formed into a principality called Aquitaine, and this principality was placed under the dominion of the Black Prince.
Undoubtedly most famous worldwide for its legendary wines, Bordeaux is the capital of the region known as Aquitaine and is a major cultural centre and a transportation hub between southern France and Spain. "
Under Henry II, king of England but also Duke of Normandy and Aquitaine, among a host of other titles, French acquired prestige among English-speakers in much the way that Global English has among native speakers of so many languages today.
It is amazing to know that the same side on which I am related to FDR, the husband of my second great-grand aunt Sophia Delano Luce, in a line that goes back to my eleventh great-grandfather Jean De Lannoy, born in Aquitaine, France in 1511.
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"International Journal of Physical Education, Sports and Health"
2016, Vol. 3, Issue 5, Part A
Role of integral yoga on mental healthAuthor(s):
Dr. Rajarshi KayalAbstract:
Mental health is concerned with well-being, positive attitude, life satisfaction and so on. All these may be influenced by following and practicing integral yoga. The present study was intended to compare mental health between followers of Sri Aurobindo and others. Sixty adults volunteered for the study. Hundred followers of Sri Aurobindo from different ashrams and hundred other adult people were considered as subject for the study. Their mental health was tested with the Mental Health Inventory Questionnaire. All the responses were then converted into scores following the guidelines. T –test was used to compare the result. The level of significance was set at 0.05 level. Significant difference was found in General Positive Affect, Life Satisfaction, Anxiety, Loss of Behavioural / Emotional Control and Mental Health Index among the followers of Sri Aurobindo.Pages: 28-31 | 1201 Views 46 DownloadsDownload Full Article:
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Tonight, President Barack Obama will deliver his eighth State of the Union address. For the first time, House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-WI) will sit behind him to his right, thinking “I could do that.” Of course, behind him to his left, Vice President Joseph Biden will be thinking the same thing but with the sorrowful knowledge that his time has passed. Finally, in front of him, at least a dozen U.S. Senators, some of whom are currently running for President, will also be thinking, “I could do that.”
The pomp and circumstance is always a bit fun. I always look around to determine which member of the cabinet doesn’t attend — it’s a nasty little Cold War flashback, but at least someone is thinking about these things.
Also, some of the Supreme Court justices seem less enthusiastic than they used to be about sitting through the entire speech. It’ll be interesting to see if they all show up.
Meanwhile, the president will use his considerable oratory skill to take some credit for his accomplishments over eight years. I’m sure enactment of the Affordable Care Act will take center stage along with some unexpected accomplishments like the restoration of relations with Cuba.
|President Obama at 2014 State of the Union|
I say “even further changes” because a dramatic transformation of the electricity sector is already underway. Energy Information Administration data shows massive shifts in the way we generate electricity. The use of coal is down 20 percent, natural gas generation is up 27 percent, nuclear is pretty steady but down 2 percent, and wind is up 200 percent (yet still produces only a small fraction of U.S. electricity).
In this context, something needs to be said about the President’s support for nuclear energy. My overarching impression is that really smart administration officials including Browner, Podesta, and even the president himself, know nuclear energy must have a large role (and I would say the largest role) in providing low-carbon electricity. That is why the administration has been somewhat supportive of five new nuclear plants being built during the President’s term in office. They know they need the clean electric generation.
Yet nuclear energy doesn’t fit the political model they’ve constructed in which regulations reduce coal generation, the government encourages renewables, and natural gas expands to fill the gap. So, for the time being, nuclear energy is the under-appreciated workhorse – except perhaps at EPA.
Most likely, when the president discusses his climate accomplishments, the congressional response will be partisan, telling us that broad energy and climate legislation remains years away. That means the ball remains in the White House’s court. Podesta is now chairman of Hillary Clinton’s campaign, and I wonder what his role will be on a potential Hillary Clinton White House. (I’d say something about potential GOP insiders, but that field is just too crowded to sort through right now). | <urn:uuid:27fa623f-3337-4959-bca4-aef28b0b2dbe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://neinuclearnotes.blogspot.com/2016/01/the-2016-state-of-union-and-nuclear.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00027-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965956 | 611 | 1.671875 | 2 |
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Noun pattern has 8 senses
- form, shape, pattern - a perceptual structure; "the composition presents problems for students of musical form"; "a visual pattern must include not only objects but the spaces between them"
--1 is a kind of structure
--1 is a part of percept, perception, perceptual experience
--1 has particulars: fractal; gestalt; mosaic; strand
- practice, pattern - a customary way of operation or behavior; "it is their practice to give annual raises"; "they changed their dietary pattern"
--2 is a kind of activity
--2 has particulars:
- design, pattern, figure - a decorative or artistic work; "the coach had a design on the doors"
--3 is a kind of decoration, ornament, ornamentation
--3 has particulars:
- convention, normal, pattern, rule, formula - something regarded as a normative example; "the convention of not naming the main character"; "violence is the rule not the exception"; "his formula for impressing visitors"
--4 is a kind of practice
--4 has particulars: mores; code of conduct, code of behavior
- pattern - a model considered worthy of imitation; "the American constitution has provided a pattern for many republics"
--5 is a kind of exemplar, example, model, good example
- blueprint, design, pattern - something intended as a guide for making something else; "a blueprint for a house"; "a pattern for a skirt"
--6 is a kind of plan, program, programme
- traffic pattern, approach pattern, pattern - the path that is prescribed for an airplane that is preparing to land at an airport; "the traffic patterns around O'Hare are very crowded"; "they stayed in the pattern until the fog lifted"
--7 is a kind of path, route, itinerary
--7 has parts: approach path, approach, glide path, glide slope
- radiation pattern, radiation diagram, pattern - graphical representation (in polar or cartesian coordinates) of the spatial distribution of radiation from an antenna as a function of angle
--8 is a kind of graph, graphical record
--8 has parts: lobe
Verb pattern has 2 senses
- model, pattern - plan or create according to a model or models
--1 is one way to imitate, copy, simulate
Somebody ----s something PP
- pattern - form a pattern; "These sentences pattern like the ones we studied before"
--2 is one way to match, fit, correspond, check, jibe, gibe, tally, agree
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During spring, alligators become more active and visible which most residents in Florida are aware of. When temperatures rise, their metabolism increases and causing them to become hungry, leading them to begin seeking prey. Although alligator bite incidents resulting in serious injury are rare in Florida, the Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission (FWC) recommends taking precautions when having fun in and around the water.
Florida’s state reptile is the American alligator and is an important part of Florida’s wetland habitats. You can find this large reptile throughout the state in freshwater lakes, ponds, swamps, and slow-moving rivers.
Alligators control their body temperature by basking in the sun, where they can be easily observed. If you see an alligator, keep your distance and never feed alligators because it is dangerous and illegal. Alligators that are fed can overcome their natural wariness and will learn to associate people with food.
According to the FWC, the most active time for Alligators happens between dusk and dawn. In order to reduce the chances of conflicts with alligators, only swim during daylight hours and in designated swimming areas.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife Conservation Commission also recommends pet owners to keep their animals on a leash and away from the water because pets can resemble an alligator’s natural prey.
The FWC places the highest priority on public safety and urges people who believe an alligator poses a threat to people, pets or property to call FWC’s toll-free Nuisance Alligator Hotline at 866-FWC-GATOR (866-392-4286). When someone concerned about an alligator calls the Nuisance Alligator Hotline, the FWC will dispatch one of our contracted nuisance alligator trappers to resolve the situation. The FWC also works diligently to keep Floridians and visitors informed, including providing advice about living with alligators.
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Costs for residential battery energy storage in the UK remain too high. For storage to enter the mass market, suppliers have to innovate their customer propositions and business models. This is the conclusion of new research from Delta-ee’s Energy Storage team.
The research shows that the payback for a newly installed PV + battery storage system is more than 16 years. Julian Jansen, manager of the Delta-ee Energy Storage Research Service, says “with PV + battery storage having been talked up to be the future of the UK’s residential PV market, finding ways to reduce this payback and make storage more attractive to customers is crucial to grow the market.”
The chart above shows the results of Delta-ee’s in-house modelling profiling end-customer payback periods for a PV system (4kWp) combined with a typical 3kWh Lithium-ion battery storage product, today and in 2020. The payback improves by 2020 but remains over 10 years despite the forecast reduction in storage system costs. “We expect prices for energy storage systems to fall by around 10% annually”, explains Julian Jansen, “but even by 2020 this may still not be sufficient to allow the UK market to grow above 15,000 units p.a.”
In contrast, the market in Germany is already above this level – as the result of a combination of subsidy, higher electricity prices and a bigger PV market. But Delta-ee’s research also shows that in Germany new business model approaches are being established, and that these approaches will be needed in the UK to reduce customer paybacks below 5 years* – the point at which mass market potential becomes realistic. Delta-ee identifies two key options:
Pay customers to allow third party control of their battery. Typically this involves the third party aggregating many residential batteries and bidding into ancillary services markets. However, in order to achieve a payback for customers of 5 years in 2020, Delta-ee’s modelling shows that customers will need to be paid around £500 per year. To put this into context, UK technology developer Moixa is currently offering payments of £75 p.a. to customers, although in Germany Fenecon / Ampard are already offering customers €400 p.a. (c £320).
Innovative financing approaches, such as leasing / rental models. In this case the customer pays a monthly fee and a utility or third party can take control of the battery systems at times to earn additional revenues. Thereby the upfront cost barrier for customers is removed and lifetime costs to the customer are considerably lower than if based on an outright purchase of the battery. There are fewer examples to date of this approach, examples including the US Vermont utility Green Mountain Power or German regional utility Entega.
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Charities based in Trowbridge and Melksham are among 12 organisations benefitting from grants worth over £300,000 from the Police and Crime Commissioner for Wiltshire and Swindon.
Angus Macpherson has used his Innovation Fund to commission community and voluntary projects which seek to reduce crime and anti-social behaviour and support victims and vulnerable people in innovative ways.
He said: “The Innovation Fund is a one-off fund I set up after I took office. It was a way of putting £1m from my reserves to very good use supporting new and exciting projects in line with my six main priorities.
“I have been keen to encourage organisations that are doing similar work to see if they can work together and provide greater resilience as well as covering a wider geographic area.
“Across the three funding rounds we have been able to support a total of 35 schemes.
“Now we must start to look at the early results of the schemes which we funded in 2013, so we will be asking them to feed back their experiences so far and the impact their projects are making in their area.
“We are drawing a line now under the Innovation Fund, but if any of the projects we have funded demonstrably reduce crime there is no reason why they should not be considered for mainstream funding.”
In the third and final Innovation Fund round, grants were awarded to west Wiltshire organisations as follows:
- £20,228 to avoid vulnerable young people staying in police stations
Wiltshire Child Protection Unit reports delays in finding accommodation for young people picked up by the police who are unable to return home immediately. This can result in them spending an excessive and stressful time at a police station, as well as the time and cost implications for the police.
Alabaré proposes to use its existing accommodation in Salisbury and Trowbridge to provide out-of-hours access of up to seven days accommodation for a vulnerable young person. Two beds are permanently available.
DASH (Discovering Autistic Spectrum Happiness)
- £11,500 to help protect vulnerable people
DASH seeks to employ a part time worker who can help to protect vulnerable people and hopefully prevent their involvement in offending.
Frontline workers would be trained and supported to be more aware of the condition and how to adapt working practices for a better outcome.
National Ugly Mugs
- £5,000 to improve safety and access to justice for sex workers
National Ugly Mugs (NUM) aims to reduce crime and protect vulnerable people by improving the safety of sex workers and their access to justice.
This project will provide for a training event and support for Wiltshire Police officers and further support for the project to reach sex workers across Wiltshire and Swindon.
- £35,000 to tackle date abuse among young people
SPLITZ wishes to address the issue of dating abuse (physical, emotional, verbal and sexual) among young people. The project aims to run a programme in four schools in Wiltshire, culminating in a conference to share the learning.
Through the project young people will gain a greater understanding of what is respectful behaviour in a relationship and be given strategies to challenge abusive behaviour.
Wiltshire Mind counselling project
- £28,405 for counselling for people at risk of offending
Wiltshire Mind, working with Swindon and Wiltshire Integrated Targets for Change (SWITCH) has identified the need for a non-clinical intervention, in this case a counselling service.
The aim of the project is to enable individuals to manage their lives better, moving away from dangerous and harmful lifestyles and offending.
The project will be a six month pilot providing a counselling service for 36 adults with mental problems who are at risk of offending or re-offending. The counselling will take place in Melksham, Swindon and Salisbury.
Three part-time counsellors will be employed, together with a part-time project manager.
Wiltshire Wildlife Trust
- £58,149 for training and work experience for long-term unemployed young people.
The project will provide training and work experience to long-term unemployed and NEET young people, particularly those at risk of offending.
The training will consist of the refurbishment and recycling of white goods and furniture, much of which will then be provided at low cost to low-income families and those in crisis.
Recipients of the refurbished goods will also benefit.
Wiltshire Council ZeeTee campaign
- £11,775 to counter homophobic bullying
The ZeeTee campaign will deliver a special 18-minute assembly into ten secondary and primary schools, benefiting an estimated 10 to 20,000 pupils.
The session will include a film made by LGBT young people from Trowbridge who talk about the issues that affect them.
The presentation also includes the story of a young man who took his own life after an incident on social media.
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Today I welcome sociologist Kyle Cleveland from Temple University Japan, co-editor of Legacies of Fukushima: 3.11 in Context.
Kyle Cleveland is Associate Professor of Sociology at Temple University’s Japan Campus (TUJ), where he is Faculty Director of Study Abroad and Honors Programming. He is the founding director of the university's Institute of Contemporary Asian Studies (ICAS), which organizes cross-disciplinary programming for public lectures and academic symposia, including a series of lectures and symposia related the 3/11 Tohoku disasters. Since 2011, he has done extensive ethnographic fieldwork in Fukushima, interviewing nuclear refugees, prefectural mayors, military officials, anti-nuclear activists and nuclear industry experts. He is writing a book on the political dimensions of radiation assessment in the Fukushima nuclear crisis, examining how foreign governments in Japan responded to the crisis. He is co-editor (with Scott Knowles and Ryuma Shineha of the book “Legacies of Fukushima: 3/11 in Context,” published by University of Pennsylvania Press (forthcoming in May of 2021). | <urn:uuid:f3060800-64ce-49f4-b3b7-34b1004b7602> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://covidcalls.podbean.com/e/ep-381-11232021-covid-in-japan-wkyle-cleveland/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.928148 | 227 | 1.648438 | 2 |
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5 Things You Must Know Before Buying a SUP
Get up paddle boarding is the fastest rising sport on this planet for good reason. Not only is it an incredible workout and simple to learn, paddle boarding can also be fun, invigorating and enables you to attach with nature.
While you might have a number of options, deciding on your first paddle board doesn’t need to be any more difficult than learning the craft.
How to decide on a get up paddle board — or SUP — comes down to your life-style, what you propose to make use of it for, and of course, the paddle board’s price. For those who’re not one hundred% sure which SUP is the best fit for your goals, you’ve come to the appropriate place.
. THE DIFFERENT TYPES OF PADDLE BOARDS
In order to find the most effective stand up paddle board, it’s essential to know the difference between every type.
Be advised that there could be some crossover, as most individuals will use their paddle boards for multiple types of activities, such as SUP surfing, leisure use, touring and even racing. Under, you’ll discover the 4 commonest types of SUP boards on the market.
ALL AROUND SUPS
Perfect selection for first-time and newbie paddlers
Versatile and might work in all conditions (flat or uneven water)
The most common standup paddle board form
Most newbie paddle boards are household friendly (and dog pleasant!)
Good choice for intermediate to advanced paddlers
For individuals who want more action out of their paddle board experience
Less stable on water = easier to fall off
Very maneuverable on waves, highly shreddable
Essentially oversized surfboards with a paddle
Excellent choice for critical paddlers with an interest in high intensity workouts
Designed for long distances in flatwater – open ocean, bays and lakes
Constructed for max glide and efficiency
Usually wide and stable enough for rookies
Designed for flat water races, downwinders, or open ocean competitions
Extra size and further width generates fast sprint speed and long glide effectivity
Typically difficult for newbies however excellent for elite and recreational racers alike
Perfect selection for those who like to go fishing, but don’t want to put money into a boat or kayak
Fishing SUPs have essentially the most volume, so you and your gear can keep high and dry out of the water
Remember to get a board with ample length and sufficient room for gear, fish finders, and anything you need in your expedition. Our boards like the Explorer have a dual bungee system to make positive you're ready to solid!
2. WHAT SIZE PADDLE BOARD DO YOU NEED?
Determine your stand up paddle board dimension based mostly on your weight and paddle boarding experience. Think of your perfect board dimension by way of volume. The wider, longer, and thicker the board, the more volume and weight capacity it will have. The more volume the board has, the more stable it will probably be on the water.
Beginner paddlers will usually want a board with more quantity as well as thickness because of the additional stability this offers. As your skin poor health, balance, and energy improve, you may downsize to a board with less volume. By then, your older board will likely be nice for friends and household to make use of!
Check out our SUP SIZE & WEIGHT CHART to seek out out what measurement paddle board is greatest for you.
SUP HULL TYPES
Another facet to consider as part of the SUP measurement is the design of your board’s hull or body. The hull may even determine the traits of how your board performs in the water. The two most typical types of paddle board hulls are:
Planing Hull – A planing hull is when the underside of the board slightly tapers off towards the perimeters (like the underside of a ship). This makes it a fantastic alternative for casual paddling as well as surfing because of the design’s added maneuverability and stability.
Displacement Hull – A displacement hull has a sharply pointed nose that displaces the water to either side, making it the proper selection for paddlers who need to cover long distances. The sharper nose permits the hull to slice by means of the water and offers the rider a fast and smooth ride. Most touring boards are designed with a displacement hull, allowing the rider to travel longer distances with ease.
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Public and Patient Involvement and Engagement
- Our aim for public involvement is to improve the quality and relevance of research in vaccines and immunisation by the HPRU.
- Our aim for public engagement is to raise awareness of our research at the HPRU and to share knowledge of research about vaccines.
- Presenting at ‘Pint of Science’ evenings, at ‘Science Museum Lates’, at science days in schools, Cheltenham Science Festival, Wellcome Packed lunch, and podcasts
- Representation from our public panel at the annual advisory board meeting
- Requesting and receiving feedback on research documents, such as study information sheets and questionnaires
- Speaking with parents and adults about their reasons for vaccine hesitancy
Recent PPIE events:
28 February 2022: Nigerian parent engagement Workshop
20 January 2022: Webinar: Covid-19 vaccination during pregnancy?
17 November 2021: Shaping Research in Vaccines and Immunisation Workshop
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Baby RB suffers from a rare, genetic condition
A doctor has agreed a baby in a "right-to-life" legal row may be able to interact - but any mental development would only make his fate more tragic.
The paediatric neurologist told the High Court the severely disabled child, Baby RB, would remain in a "no chance" situation even if he developed further.
He questioned the life the boy would lead if he was capable of cognitive function but physically so disabled.
The boy's father is fighting an attempt by the hospital to end life support.
The hospital is supported by the mother, who agrees with the lawyers who say her son will lead a "miserable, sad and pitiful existence", even if surgery allows him to be returned home.
Instead, they say they are seeking permission to withdraw fundamental life support "to allow him a peaceful, calm and dignified death".
One-year-old Baby RB suffers from a rare, genetic condition called congenital myasthenic syndrome which makes it impossible for him to breathe independently.
Dr M, as he is referred to for legal reasons, said further development would make Baby RB's life "even more unbearable". This, he said, was "the tragedy of it".
Martin Westgate, counsel for the father, showed a video of the baby apparently smiling and responding to a toy balloon and doll. This, it was suggested, was evidence he was capable of purposeful movement.
Dr M said he was "still not convinced" from the video the baby was displaying conscious "volitional" movements, but under questioning agreed this was possible. "Yes, I do accept that," he said.
However he said he did not believe small changes in muscle function would improve the boy's quality of life.
A year-old-child should be able to play peek-a-boo with his parents. Baby RB, he said, had "never got anywhere near anything that was clinically significant".
He also noted that the child had developed curvature of the spine as a result of his prone position, which would only get worse and lead to other problems.
'On a knife edge'
Baby RB's father believes he might be taken off his ventilator and returned home if surgeons carried out a tracheotomy, which creates an opening in the neck to deliver air to the lungs.
His doctor has agreed to carry out a tracheotomy assessment on Saturday and report back to the court next week.
On Tuesday, another clinician - Dr F, a paediatric intensive care consultant, agreed with the boy's hospital and his mother that his quality of life was so low that it would not be in his best interests to try to save him.
He told Mr Justice McFarlane that Baby RB was living "on a knife edge" and could suffer even greater distress if a tracheotomy was performed and some sort of blockage or infection developed.
For legal reasons, none of the parties in the court case can be identified.
Both parents, who are in their 20s and are said to be "amicably separated", have been present at the hearings.
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A festival held from time to time (kālānukālaṃ) in Rājagaha. (Perhaps elsewhere as well. The BuA. p.102 says it was an annual festival held all over Jambudīpa and was as old as Dīpaṅkara Buddha; see also J.iii.538). It was held in the open air in the afternoon and was attended by all people of all grades of society from Aṅga and Magadha. Special seats were prepared for the more eminent of the audience, and the festivities seem to have consisted chiefly of nautch dances (SNA.i.326). According to the Vinaya accounts (Vin.ii.107 f, 150; iv.85, 267) there were also singing and music, and the festival was attended not only by laymen, but also by members of religious orders, for otherwise it is unlikely that the “Group of seventeen monks (Sattarasavaggiyā)” and the “Group of six monks (Chabbaggiyā)” would have been there. Food was provided as well as amusements.
Buddhaghosa (Sp.iv.831) explains the name of the festival thus: “Giraggasamajjo ti girimhi aggasamajjo girissa vā aggadese sammajo,” and tells us that it was announced for seven days before its commencement, and was held on level ground under a shadow of a hill and outside the city. Perhaps it was originally a pagan religious festival, a survival of old exogamic communistic dancing (See Dial.i.7, n.4; VT.iii.71, n.3).
It was at a Giraggasamajjā that Upatissa (Sāriputta) and Kolita (Mahā-
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The Nielsen Company analyzed mobile usage data among teens in the United States for the second quarter of 2010 (April 2010 – June 2010). No one texts more than teens (age 13-17), especially teen females, who send and receive an average of 4,050 texts per month. Teen males also outpace other male age groups, sending and receiving an average of 2,539 texts.
I wonder how this really breaks down? The obvious headline result is that teen girls send a text every 6 minutes of every waking hour. But they probably don’t. More likely, it comes in bursts: a couple of texts an hour most of the time, but 40 or 50 an hour during serious texting times.
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What is a lumen in relationship to the different types of tubes?
A lumen is a tube:
- some lumens can have multiple tubes
- each tube has a separate function
What is the difference between a single, double, and triple lumen?
- a single lumen has 1 tube
- a double lumen has 2 tubes
- a triple lumen has 3 tubes
What is a (nasogastric) NG tube and what is its function?
A nasogastric tube is inserted in the nose and placed in the stomach.
The function of an NG tube is:
- to remove fluids or gas (called decompression)
- to give meds and nutrition (called tube feedings)
What is the difference between NG tube feedings and total parenteral nutrition (TPN)?
NG tube feedings and TPN both give nutrients to the client but in completely different ways:
- NG tube feedings put liquid food into a tube that goes directly into the stomach
- TPN are nutrients that go directly into an IV
Is the insertion of an NG tube a sterile or non-sterile procedure?
NG tube insertion is a non-sterile procedure and clean gloves are used.
The nose, mouth, stomach, and colon are not sterile.
How is an NG tube measured before insertion?
NG tube measurement: NEX (Nose, Earlobe, Xiphoid process):
Measure the length of the tube from:
- the bridge of the nose
- to the earlobe
- to the xiphoid process
That is the length of tubing that will be inserted.
What are the steps of an NG tube insertion?
Steps for NG tube insertion:
- place client in high-Fowler's position
- measure tubing (NEX)
- lubricate tip
- insert tube and have client swallow water while head is bent forward
- secure tube to nose with tape
Click HERE to view an example of the NG tube insertion procedure.
What test is done to confirm placement of an NG tube before being used for the first time?
NG tube placement is confirmed by x-ray.
This is to make sure the tube didn't accidentally go in the lungs, brain or get coiled in the back of the throat.
How is NG tube placement confirmed before meds or a feeding?
Before meds or starting a feeding, check the pH of gastric secretions by aspirating a small amount:
- pH < 3.5 indicates the tube is in the stomach
What is assessed before starting tube feedings?
Before starting tube feedings assess:
- residual amount of fluid in the stomach by using a syringe to aspirate
- bowel sounds to make sure they are not hyperactive
When should a tube feeding be held?
Hold tube feedings if:
- the residual is > 100 mL
- there are no bowel sounds
Healthcare providers have different preferences on when it is appropriate to hold an NG tube feeding.
Why should residual fluid from an NG tube always be replaced back into the stomach?
Residual fluid from an NG tube is replaced in order to prevent fluid and electrolyte imbalances.
What is the difference between a bolus feeding and continuous tube feeding?
Bolus feeding: NG tube feedings are given quickly at once and several times throughout the day
Continuous feeding: NG tube feedings are continuously given throughout the day
What position is a client placed in for bolus and continuous NG tube feedings?
Bolus feedings: high-Fowlers for 30 minutes afterward
Continuous feedings: semi-Fowler's at all times
These positions are to prevent aspiration.
What is used to flush before and after NG tube med administration and NG tube feedings?
Flush NG tubing with water or normal saline before and after meds and feedings.
Flushing is to assure that the client received all the meds or feeding and to prevent blockage in the tube.
How should meds be given through an NG tube?
When giving meds through an NG tube, crush meds one at a time and give one med at a time.
This prevents interactions between crushed meds.
Which types of meds should NOT be crushed?
Do NOT crush extended-release or enteric-coated meds.
These meds are designed to be released over a longer time. Crushing the meds causes the client to receive too much of the med too quickly.
What are the steps to remove an NG tube?
Steps to remove an NG tube:
- tell the client to take a deep breath and hold it
- gently pull the NG tube out while coiling it around the hand
What is a G-tube and J-tube?
They are both long term feeding tubes:
- G-tube: gastrostomy tube - placed in the stomach
- J-tube: jejunostomy tube - placed in the small intestine
Does placement need to be checked with a G-tube or J-tube?
No. The tube is permanently placed and comes out through the abdominal wall.
How often is a bolus tube feeding and water bolus done?
Both tube feeding and water boluses are administered about every 4 hours during the day.
Why do water boluses also need to be given for tube feedings?
To prevent dehydration.
How often does the tubing that connects to the NG tube need replacement?
Replace the tubing that is connected to the bag every 24 hours.
This is to prevent bacterial growth.
What is a lavage tube?
A lavage tube is used to pump out stomach contents very quickly.
It is usually used when a client has ingested poisons.
What is an esophageal Minnesota tube?
An esophageal Minnesota tube is used to place pressure against esophageal veins in order to control bleeding.
It is used for those with complications of cirrhosis.
What should be kept at the side of the bed for a client with an esophageal Minnesota tube?
Keep scissors at the bedside.
This is in case of respiratory distress. The tube is cut to relieve the pressure.
What is a Foley urinary catheter?
A foley urinary catheter is inserted through the urethra to continuously drain the bladder when the client is unable to urinate.
Is the insertion of a urinary catheter a sterile or non-sterile procedure?
Sterile: the tube is entering the sterile cavity of the bladder.
What are the steps to insert a Foley urinary catheter?
Steps to insert a Foley urinary catheter:
- wash hands
- clean perineal area with soap and water
- open catheter kit (it's sterile inside)
- apply sterile gloves
- lubricate catheter
- attach syringe to ballon port
- clean perineal area with cotton balls or swab sticks
- insert catheter until urine drains into bag
- inflate ballon and secure tubing
Click HERE to view the Foley urinary catheter insertion procedure.
What is a straight cath?
A straight cath is a urinary catheter that has one lumen. It is only used once to either:
- empty the bladder
- obtain a sterile urine specimen
- drain residual urine after a client voids
What are the steps to remove a Foley urinary catheter?
Steps to remove a Foley urinary catheter:
- insert 10mL syringe onto ballon injection port and remove all the fluid (about 10 mL)
- pull catheter out slowly and smoothly
What is a nephrostomy tube or ileal conduit tube?
Nephrostomy tube / ileal conduit tube is a stoma that is made through the skin to drain urine from the ureters or urethra.
What is an endotracheal tube (ET) tube?
An endotracheal tube (ET tube) is used to maintain a patent airway.
It is used with a ventilator or Ambu bag when the patient is unable to breathe on their own.
How is an ET tube placement confirmed?
X-ray: the tube should be 1 to 2 cm above the carina
Assess respiratory chest wall movement with the use of Ambu bag. Both sides of the chest should inflate. If only one side inflates the tube is too deep and needs to be pulled back.
What is a tracheostomy (trach)?
A tracheostomy is an opening on the front of the throat directly into the trachea to establish an airway. A tube is inserted.
The client may or may not be mechanically ventilated.
What are the steps to suction a tracheostomy?
Steps to suction a tracheostomy:
- prepare suction equipment and turn on suction
- hyperoxygenate client
- apply sterile gloves
- insert catheter without suction applied
- apply suction intermittently while rotating the tube and withdrawing the catheter
- hyperoxygenate client
Click HERE to view the tracheostomy procedure.
What is the immediate action if the tracheostomy tube dislodges?
If the tracheostomy tube dislodges:
- extend neck and open the tissues of the stoma
- pull the retention sutures to spread the opening
- use a tracheal dilator to hold the stoma open
What is the immediate action if the tracheostomy tube falls out within the first 72 hours?
If the tracheostomy tube falls out within the first 72 hours:
- manually resuscitate using an Ambu bag and call the HCP.
What are chest tubes?
Chest tubes drain fluid or air out of a client with a collapsed lung.
What are the 3 chambers in a chest drainage unit (CDU)?
The 3 chambers in a chest drainage unit are:
- suction control chamber
- water seal chamber
- drainage collection chamber
What is the purpose of the suction control chamber in a CDU?
Suction control chamber controls the suction on how quickly or slowly fluid or air is removed.
What type of bubbling is expected in the suction control chamber?
In the suction control chamber expect gentle, continuous bubbling.
What is the purpose of the water seal chamber in a CDU?
Water seal chamber is a tube that is placed in water that allows fluid and air to drain from the pleural space but prevents air from getting back into the pleural space.
How should the water move in the water seal chamber?
In the water seal chamber:
- the water moves up with inhalation
- water moves down with exhalation
What does excessive or continuous bubbling in the water seal chamber indicate?
Excessive or continuous bubbling in the water seal chamber indicates a leak.
The tube may need to be clamped to figure out where the leak is.
What has happened if the fluctuation of water stops in the water seal chamber?
If fluctuation of water in the water seal chamber stops, it means:
- the tube is obstructed
- there is a dependent loop
- the lung has re-expanded
What is the purpose of the drainage collection chamber in a CDU?
Drainage collection chamber collects drainage from the collapsed lung.
When should the HCP be notified about chest tubes?
Call HCP about chest tubes if:
- drainage is >70 - 100 mL/hour
- drainage suddenly becomes bright red or increases in the amount
- chest tube comes out of client
Can a chest tube be milked or stripped?
NEVER milk or strip a chest tube.
"Milking the tube" is when the tube is squeezed down the length of the tube with the hand. It can cause increased pressure and damage to the lung tissue.
What should be kept at the bedside for a client with chest tubes?
For a client with chest tubes keep at the bedside:
- to check for leaks
sterile occlusive dressing
- in case the tube comes out of the client
a bottle of sterile water
- in case the tube comes out of the CDU
What is the immediate intervention if the chest tube drainage system breaks or cracks?
Sometimes the CDU falls over and breaks.
Put the chest tube in a bottle of sterile water to act as a water seal so air doesn't go into the client.
What is done if the chest tube comes out of the client's chest wall?
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Environmental Protection Act (Act) (415 ILCS 5/1 et seq.),
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pollution cases. The Board therefore hears and decides environmental enforcement
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On this web page are sample complaint forms and related information on how to file a
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Russia intensifies military activity near Ukraine
Russia has launched new military exercises near its border with Ukraine, showing no sign of backing down in its plans to annex its neighbor's Crimea region despite a stronger than expected drive for sanctions from the EU and United States.
In an unusually robust and emotionally worded speech, German Chancellor Angela Merkel warned of "catastrophe" unless Russia changes course.
"We would not only see it, also as neighbors of Russia, as a threat. And it would not only change the European Union's relationship with Russia," she said in a speech in parliament. "No, this would also cause massive damage to Russia, economically and politically."
US Secretary of State John Kerry said a "serious series of steps" would be imposed on Monday by the United States and Europe if a referendum on Crimea joining Russia takes place on Sunday as planned.
Merkel, a fluent Russian speaker who grew up in Communist East Germany, has emerged in recent days as a leading figure in threatening tough measures against Moscow.
Her vice chancellor, Sigmar Gabriel, a member of the normally Russia-friendly Social Democrats (SPD), also struck a tough tone, saying it was up to President Vladimir Putin to decide whether he wanted to return to the Cold War.
Putin declared Russia's right to invade its neighbor on March 1, even as Russian troops were already seizing control of Crimea, a Black Sea peninsula with a narrow ethnic Russian majority and a Russian naval base.
The pace of events has moved rapidly on the ground, perhaps signaling an effort by Moscow to turn the annexation into a fait accompli before the West could coordinate a response.
Pro-Moscow separatist politicians, who took power in the province after armed men seized its parliament on February 27, are planning to hold a referendum on union with Russia as soon as Sunday. Western countries say the vote is illegal.
Russia has taken territory from its former Soviet neighbors in the past with no serious consequences - most recently in 2008 when Putin invaded Georgia and seized full control over two breakaway regions with little international opposition. But if Putin was hoping for a similarly tepid response this time, he may have misjudged.
In particular, he seems to have alienated Merkel, the Western leader with whom Putin - a German speaker once based as a KGB spy in Merkel's native East Germany - has had the closest relationship in the past.
Merkel was initially more cautious than other Western leaders in responding to Russia's seizure of Crimea, but has emerged in recent days as among the toughest critics of the Kremlin, pushing the European Union to match US sanctions.
The 28 member bloc has agreed on a framework to impose travel bans and asset freezes on Russian individuals and firms. It is expected to implement the measure and announce the target list as soon as Monday, the day after the Crimean referendum.
EU action is critical because Europe does 10 times as much trade with Russia as the United States, buying most of Moscow's gas and oil exports. Brussels had been widely seen as far less likely to act than Washington, both because of Europe's closer economic ties with Russia and because of the 28-member EU's laborious process of decision making and internal divisions.
The prospect that EU measures could be implemented as soon as Monday has weighed down the Russian economy.
Russia has pledged to respond in kind to any Western sanctions. China's ambassador to Germany warned of a "spiral" of sanctions hurting both sides.
But European leaders appear to be calculating that the damage to Russia would be far worse than to Europe. EU-Russian trade makes up 15 percent of Russia's economy and just 1 percent of Europe's. Although EU countries, and Germany in particular, depend on Russian natural gas imports, winter is nearly over and storage tanks are full after a mild season.
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schaeuble said on Wednesday he was not worried about serious damage to Germany's economy.
Diplomatic lines have been open between Russia and the West throughout the crisis: US Secretary of State Kerry and Russian Foreign Minister Sergei Lavrov spoke today as they have nearly every day. They are due to meet in London.
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2Enakshi Ganguly = ""A Kali without the tongue is called Bhadra-Kali or the decent-Kali who does not reject feminine grace totally. She resides in household shrines and serves as the guardian of the family.There is something about Kali's tongue that disturbs the viewer. It is feared; it is seen as shameful, a-bhadra or not-civilised.Why is she doing it? Is it a symbol of power or a symbol of shame? ....In Kali temples, the tongue is smeared with the blood of sacrificed animals — a reminder that Mother Nature is — 'red in tooth and claw', giving life as well as taking life. We may domesticate her, transform her into the demure Gauri, clothed and coy, but she will always stick out her tongue and slurp on our blood.Perhaps with the outstretched tongue, Kali teases and mocks her devotees — she sees through their social facade and knows the dark desires they try so hard to deny or suppress. She provokes them to delve into their unconsciousness and confront all those memories they shy away from."Source: http://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/life-style/Kali-and-her-tongue/articleshow/10816142.cms"
3Enakshi Ganguly = ""Mother Bhadrakali is a quite ancient
mythological deity. The entire Indian tantra
literature is full of prayers and hymns for mother.
The Gadaparva of Mahabharata Padma Puraha,
Markandeya, Purana, Chandi Purana of Sarala
Das, Vishnu Purana, Srimad Bhagabata
Tantraprasanga of Sri Krishna and the second part
of Harivamsa make vivid references to goddess
Bhadrakali as all pervasive and eternal incarnation
of Parambrahma. The eleventh chapter of Saptasati Chandi
makes references accordingly. Jwala Karala Mrutyugra Mahisasura Sadanam Trisula Patunobhite Bhadrakali namostute. According to Durga Astottara Satanama
Agnijwala, Roudramukhi karalivi stapaswini, Narayani Bhadrakali Vishnumaya Jalodari Thus she is the Emancipator of human
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Join other makers and crafters weekly at the Ely Folk School for a relaxed morning of creativity and sharing. Whether you crochet, quilt, solder, write, or weave, any project is welcome. This space is also excellent for students who did not finish a project during their class.
All are welcome, no matter skill level or (reasonable) project type. As we enter the darker months of winter, a space to share projects and work in a community setting are important! Drop in whenever as you like, for as long as you like.
Our equipment is available for you to use and select materials are available for purchase. You must clean and return any equipmemnt used. Registration is not required, but welcomed.
Kid's Makers Mornings
Fridays, June 3 through August 26, 2022
9:00 AM - 12:00 PM
Join other young makers and crafters at the Ely Folk School for a relaxed morning of creativity and sharing. Any project is welcome! The Ely Folk School and Ely Community Resource (ECR) are excited to partner this summer and offer this program.
All are invited, no matter skill level or age! Ages 8-18, or younger children accompanied by a parent or guardian. Drop in whenever as you like, for as long as you like.
A local instructor will be present each week to facillitate a fun, kid-friendly craft project in case you don't have anything to work on and still want to create.
Please register so that we know who to expect and so we may send you emails about the craft and snack for the week.
This activity is made possible in part by the voters of Minnesota through a grant from the Arrowhead Regional Arts Council, thanks to a legislative appropriation from the arts and cultural heritage fund.
Gyotaku: Fish Printing
with Lyn Reed
Friday, August 12, 2022
12:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Tuition: $36 Materials: $8
The Art of Gyotaku ( ghio-at’-koo ) is the ancient Japanese art of fish printing. Gyotaku has been used for over a century to record catches of sport fish. The Japanese fish printing technique provides valuable information for ichthyological studies. The process of Gyotaku gives us an appreciation for the beauty and diversity of nature.
In this class you will create your own fish prints using real fish caught locally. The process begins by using a fish to produce a black and white print. You will then be guided in enhancing the print using watercolor paints for a gorgeous piece of fishy wall decor!
About the Instructor: Lyn Reed is a lifelong teacher and learner. She has been an art educator for over 35 years. In her personal work, Lyn specializes in pottery. Lyn’s work also reflects the flora and fauna of her homeland, often carving her vessels with shapes and textures inspired by nature.
Maiolica Glazing Workshop
with Karin Kraemer
Saturday, August 13, 2022
10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
Tuition: $60 Materials: $35
Maiolica ceramic wares are exquisitely decorated and vibrantly colored handmade artworks initially made popular during the Italian Renaissance. Maiolica itself refers to the unique glazing process. First, a tin oxide glaze is applied to fired clay that dries to form a white, porous surface. The artist paints a design onto the white glaze with stains made with oxides and carbonates mixed in with a glaze base. The decoration becomes one with the glaze when fired the second time.
In this class, we’ll learn how to use Maiolica techniques on pre-made, ready to decorate raw tiles. Karin will give a little history of the material and talk about how to use it. Everyone will get to decorate with Maiolica and then the tiles will be fired over night to pick up later. We will also try our hand at making our own clay tiles, using several different techniques demonstrated by Karin.
This class is great for both experienced potters and those with no pottery experience.
About the Instructor: Karin Kraemer makes functional pottery with hand-painted maiolica glaze. Her hand-painted pots are great in your hand and colorful for your eye.
The Duluth Pottery is my studio and gallery in the Lincoln Park Crafts District of Duluth, Minnesota. I started as a biologist and glass-blower in college and blew glass for a few years. I wandered into clay around 30 years ago. Now, I make Maiolica functional and decorative pottery and tile.
I draw inspiration from nature, my garden, and scenes around me. I love color, and painting with a loose, expressive brush. I try to capture the energy in that painting to bring beauty to the day and the table. The pots are red earthenware, thrown and built, and fired once. They are dipped in my maiolica base glaze. Stains are brushed on the raw glaze, and fired in an oxidation firing.
with J. Jeffrey Messerole
Saturday, August 13, 2022
3:00 PM - 4:30 PM
Are you looking to write an original song but have gotten stuck somewhere along the way? Join singer-songwriter J. Jeffrey Messerole for a songwriting workshop. During this creative workshop, J. Jeffrey Messerole will gently guide you through your ideas and process.
J. Jeffrey Messerole released his first EP in 2013 and since then has written more than a hundred original songs and has released six additional full-length albums in those nine years. His songs are compared to John Prine, Jason Isbell, and even Bob Dylan. The motifs of his songs can vary as greatly as the wild flowers in the native tall grass. Messerole does frequently write about that flora, as well as the fauna of the region. Not to mention all of its wildlife. Not one to shy away from subject matter, the songs can frequently meander across the lines between love and loss, success and failure, or life and death.
J. Jeffrey Messerole Live in Concert
with J. Jeffrey Messerole
Saturday, August 13, 2022
Multi-award winning songwriter J. Jeffrey Messerole is an Americana musician from Iowa's capital city. From the depths of his Iowa roots, Messerole masterfully blends the sounds of his guitar with engaging lyrics, and often a harmonica, to tell gritty American tales that are bound to evoke emotion from all of his listeners. The motifs of his songs can vary as greatly as the wild flowers in the native tall grass. Messerole does frequently write about that flora, as well as the fauna of the region. Not to mention all of it's wild life. Not one to shy away from subject matter, the songs can frequently meander across the lines between love and loss, success and failure, or life and death.
J. Jeffrey Messerole has garnered awards and distinctions that have landed him in the same company as John Prine, Jason Isbell, and John Hiatt. Fans of the aforementioned artists will find satisfaction in his songs as well. Messerole is happy to share his original folk, blues, and alternative country music that's cultivated right here in the heart of the Great Plains.
with Alison Bell
Wednesdays, August 17 & 24, 2022
1:00 PM - 4:00 PM each day
Tuition: $40 Materials: $15
Learn how to make a rattle with rawhide, beads or found objects, and a carved wooden handle. In the first class we will be working with wet rawhide, cutting a pattern, hand sewing with sinew, and stuffing with sand to form a shape. The second class will be carving the handle and decorating the rattle. There will be beads, feathers, leather, and assorted objects for rattle adornment.
Help will be given to students not comfortable with carving the wooden handle.
About the Instructor: Alison Bell grew up in the midwest and is most at home in the woods. She has a degree in Experiential Education and taught wilderness skills to adults and children in the 1980's with Medicine Hawk, a wilderness school in Wisconsin, working with the scouts, schools, and camps, and private functions. Her life then took a different direction but she always knew the time would come to teach again. 30 years later and she is raring to go!
Chipping Away: Carving Club
First and Third Wednesdays, June through September
6:00 PM - 8:00 PM
Open to all wood carvers, whittlers, wood workers, and other artists! All levels of skill and experience are welcome. Everyone from a first time carver to a professional carver can join us, socialize, learn something, and get a little carving in!
We’ll meet every other Wednesday throughout the summer in the Ely Folk School’s Pocket Park on Sheridan Street and should we desire, we can carve around the campfire.
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There is one Irish rugby union, sponsoring one international team that picks its players from the whole island
Sir, There is an area where Protestants, as well as Catholics, in Northern Ireland are happy to profess a dual British and Irish identity and, furthermore, to share that sense of Irishness with those from the Republic (“Flagging up trouble”, leading article, and report, Jan 10). This is rugby union football.
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An immensely audacious and, to many, a naively idealistic experiment, Auroville is a township founded in 1968 by the Mother, a French collaborator of Sri Aurobindo Ghose and a great believer in his teachings. She dreamed of a place where "all the fighting instincts of man would be used exclusively to conquer the causes of his sufferings and miseries, to surmount his weaknesses and ignorance, to triumph over his limitations and incapacities ... where the needs of the spirit and the concern for progress would take precedence over the satisfaction of desires and passions." Auroville aspires to be such a place, "a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and harmony, above all creeds, all politics, and nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to realize human unity." Today it is home to 1800 people (600 Indians) from 35 countries in over 100 settlements.
At the city's heart is a place for silent meditation, the Matrimandir ("Temple of the Mother"), which the Mother deemed the "soul" of Auroville. The plan calls for setting up four zones—Cultural, International, Industrial, Residential—radiating out from the Matrimandir, with a wide "Green Belt" around the city. For various reasons (including shortage of funds to acquire the requisite land, despite help from private donors, NGOs, and GOs), the realization of these goals has been slower than expected.
For members, Auroville is not a retreat but their primary home, where they and their families live, work, and play. Day-trippers are restricted to the visitor center and a walkway to the Matrimandir. Prospective members and other multi-day visitors can stay in one of the many guesthouses and sample the life of the community. Membership is by invitation from the Auroville Entry Group. New regulation requires that members pay for themselves for the first two years, effectively shutting out those with limited means (the Indian membership has reportedly stagnated since this regulation).
The task of running Auroville is overseen by various working groups. Major community decisions are taken collectively by the Residents Assembly, rarely without animated debate. Authority and bureaucracy are hated words. Assets are held by The Auroville Foundation-no one owns real-estate and every member gets a minimum income; food, education, healthcare, entertainment, sports, etc. are free. A long-term goal (bucking a salient historical trend many associate with human progress) is to completely eliminate the use of money within its borders, though few members now consider this a possibility.
Many ideals at Auroville derive from Sri Aurobindo's vision, whose ashram (religious retreat) at Pondicherry is now an international study centre. The purpose of man, he claimed, is to transcend his lowly form of consciousness. Yoga is a technique not for personal liberation but for cooperating with the cosmic evolutionary urge destined to take mankind ahead to a higher, supramental stage of consciousness. Though generally progressive, his vision also betrays a muddled view of natural evolution. He brandishes the word "divine" all too often. Even the Auroville charter requires members to be "willing servitors of the divine consciousness." Too bad if you not only fail to see a "divine consciousness" around you, but see no need for it to live a moral life. Despite its many dubious foundational ideals, however, only the most cynical would dismiss the age-old quest for self-knowledge, meaning, and growth that must inspire many individuals who join Auroville.
Aurovillians research and practice environmental
regeneration, organic farming, renewable energy, building technology,
handicrafts, and various small scale industries (offset printing, graphic
design, food processing, electronics, garment manufacture, etc.), all with an
desire to live lightly on earth. Though their research is rarely at the cutting edge
in any given field, Auroville is perhaps unique in running so many projects in
parallel and exploring their synergies. Strong emphasis is placed on artistic
pursuits. Aurovillians also assist neighboring Tamil villages with
infrastructure development, healthcare, and education; their emergency relief
the Dec 2004 tsunami was exemplary. To an outsider, the idea of Auroville
may evoke the Jewish Kibbutz, the American Peace Corps, and an Indian ashram, all
rolled into one. [—Jan, 2006. Post a comment
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On May 13, a protest and prison break in the eastern city of Andijan, Uzbekistan, turned violent as police reportedly opened fire on unarmed civilians, leaving as many as 700 dead. Human Rights Watch has called for an international investigation and issued a recent report that charges the Uzbek government with covering up the massacre, forcing confessions from suspects, and silencing witnesses. Tashkent has denied these charges and has opened the first trial against fifteen suspects who confessed to involvement in the uprising.
Nancy Lubin, senior fellow for Eurasia at the American Foreign Policy Council and president of JNA Associates, Inc., a research and consulting firm on Central Asia and the Caucasus, says Uzbekistan’s behavior after Andijan is to be expected. In Uzbekistan, she says, “there’s always been a real tension between control and democratization, and maintaining control has always won.” She also discusses the uprising’s impact on U.S.-Uzbek relations, saying it “complicates our political relationship.”
Were you surprised by recent reports of forced confessions and other human-rights violations in the aftermath of the Andijan uprising in Uzbekistan?
No, mainly because there’s a good deal of precedent, in general, for the government of Uzbekistan when challenged to respond in such a way. It’s also typical that the strong crackdown on Uzbekistan’s own citizens would be accompanied by a good deal of spin on how to interpret this Andijan uprising in the first place. There’s certainly been a good deal of foreign support [for Tashkent], at least from Russia and China, which also limits the cost of [the government’s] reaction and the activity we see going on in Uzbekistan today. So, no, it’s not surprising. It’s certainly the way the government might have been expected to respond.
There’s been a highly critical report released by Human Rights Watch on the aftermath of Andijan. Do you think it will have any effect on the Uzbek authorities?
Uzbekistan cares deeply about its reputation in the world, but it’s balancing that against questions of maintaining stability and control at home. The tradeoff is leaning more toward cracking down and regaining strong, authoritarian control while trying to manipulate the way these events may be viewed abroad.
The report was timed to coincide with a trial of fifteen suspects charged with inciting the uprising. Will this be a show-trial of sorts?
I just received a report a few minutes ago stating that all fifteen suspects had pled guilty. So that’s a miracle of judicial efficiency that the trial could open and close on such a significant matter in one day.
Some experts say the Andijan massacre may have been overblown in the media and that there’s some shred of truth to the Uzbek government’s claim the police were quelling a terrorist uprising. Is there any truth to these claims?
There’re many reports lying around. The incident started when citizens stormed a prison in Andijan to free twenty-three businessmen accused of fomenting Islamic extremism, but ultimately sparked the freeing of hundreds of other prisoners and thousands took to the streets in protest against the Uzbek government. The government line has been that these businessmen, and those at the heart of the uprising, were closely aligned with Muslim terrorists in the region, who want to overthrow the government and create an Islamic state. Others claim the reason the government felt so threatened is that these particular businessmen were themselves very popular, in some cases eroding the government’s own political authority in Andijan. Still others argue that thousands of people spilled out onto the streets because of the enormous and growing discontent and poverty throughout the region itself. Whichever line you take, I think at the heart of it is this question of political power and control in Tashkent, and the perceived need on the part of the government to maintain strong, centralized authority over all parts of the country.
Human-rights groups have called for an international investigation of the Andijan massacre. Is it safe to say that will never happen?
There can be no international investigation without the concurrence of the Uzbek government and that’s very unlikely. The government has very little to gain and a great deal to lose from such an investigation. So the likelihood is very low, and were there to be some kind of investigation, it would be very much controlled.
Why were Russia and China so quick to come to Uzbekistan’s defense after the Andijan uprising?
Uzbekistan and its neighbors have been the focus of competition among China, Russia, the United States, and other major actors in the region for a whole host of reasons. A good part of everyone’s interests is what some call the continuation of the “Great Game,” simply the location of Central Asia as a whole situated right smack in the midst of many countries of the world that matter—Russia, China, Afghanistan, South Asia as a whole. So geography alone makes the region pretty critically important, as it has for centuries. But beyond that, certainly there are a host of economic, political, historical and societal questions the region raises. Central Asia has become, almost in spite of itself, a region of importance to all, and this only grew after the events of 9/11 and the advent of a concerted war on terrorism.
Do you think Russia and China are trying to push the United States out of the region?
I see it as part of the competition that has always been there and will be there for a long time to come.
Describe U.S.-Uzbek relations. Has the relationship always been a marriage of convenience?
I think what’s happened now both complicates and simplifies our relationship with Uzbekistan. On the one hand, much of what was driving our own interest in the region since 9/11 has been the K-2 Airbase, right near the Afghan border. With that gone, and with the Russians and Chinese making greater inroads, it certainly complicates our political relationship and foreign-policy interests in the region. At the same time, looking specifically at the myriad assistance programs we began, particularly since 9/11, in areas like anti-terrorism and law enforcement, this simplifies our assistance agenda and makes it more incumbent upon us to look at [our aid] more comprehensively and more seriously to see where those programs are really supporting our own objectives in the region, and where they may have been backfiring and supporting a regime cracking down on its own people.
As you mentioned, Uzbekistan has a long history of human-rights abuses. Was the United States wrong to overlook Tashkent’s past behavior?
I don’t think the United States overlooked human-rights abuses in Uzbekistan. The past few years have been a real balancing act, trying to address all of our policy objectives at the same time, but with a couple of objectives, namely the K-2 Airbase, being paramount. So in some ways, that base hamstrung our efforts to address some of these human-rights issues head-on. Now with the eviction notice that [the U.S. military] be out by January, our hands may be less tied and we can look at all of our programs with a little more serious scrutiny.
Were you surprised the Uzbeks kicked U.S. forces out?
I personally wasn’t surprised. I think that’s been an important area of negotiation for some time and one of the strongest cards that Uzbekistan had in its own hand. With the shifts that were occurring, it’s not a surprise we were invited to leave. The real challenge will be over the next six months. We’ve had a whole array of anti-terrorism and other training programs with the Uzbeks [for security purposes] for some time now, and how we handle those [military and human-rights interests], balancing both sides of our relationship with Uzbekistan, may end up being a bigger challenge for us.
Will the United States withhold aid from Uzbekistan, or tie it closely to Tashkent’s human-rights record?
The purpose of U.S. assistance is as much to pursue our own interests as it is to help Uzbekistan. We have to keep in mind that often the help we offer is not seen as constructive or welcome on the part of the Uzbek government. We’ve not only seen in the past couple months a crackdown on the participants in the unrest in Andijan, and on their families, but we’ve seen a real crackdown on the activity of international donors and international NGOs [non-governmental organizations], with the government closing some down, suspending the activity of others, denying accreditation to their employees, bringing in the heads of NGOs for often protracted court proceedings, and generally, really obstructing their work. This is something that started before May but has accelerated. One therefore shouldn’t view assistance as a gift to the Uzbeks but something that is supposed to be in pursuit of a joint objective—democratization and opening society up—but very often an objective that the Uzbek government doesn’t share. Viewed in this light, it would make little sense to punish Uzbekistan by withholding aid if there is a possibility that U.S. assistance can be re-shaped to be more effective in light of all these recent events.
Is Uzbek President Islam Karimov cracking down because of what happened at Andijan or because he fears he may fall victim to Uzbekistan’s own “color” revolution, similar to what befell leaders in Ukraine, Georgia, and Kyrgyzstan?
There’s always been ambivalence on the part of Uzbekistan toward opening up and democratization as a whole. The main priority of the Uzbek government is maintaining authoritarian control, opening up only in those areas where this control is not threatened. Watching three governments fall in the near vicinity certainly doesn’t help promote any democratic agenda there. For a government intent on maintaining control, there’s always been a real tension between control and democratization and maintaining control has always won.
What does Uzbekistan sacrifice by severing relations with the United States?
On both sides, we are not critical to the Uzbeks and they’re not critical for U.S. foreign policy in the region. We remain involved elsewhere in the region, and I believe we’ll remain involved in Uzbekistan because it’s in our interests to do so. So I don’t think this spells the end of the relationship, but it is a major and badly damaging shift in our relationship that we’ll have to address in the months ahead.
Will the United States continue to assist the Uzbeks with their own fight against Islamic extremists in the Ferghana Valley, a region that is divided between Uzbekistan, Tajikistan, and Kyrgyzstan?
I believe we should, but with much greater scrutiny over the impact of our involvement there—particularly our assistance programs—than we’ve ever had before. You’ll recall after the Andijan uprising, there was question in the U.S. press about the extent to which we ourselves may have actually trained the Uzbek troops sent in to shoot upon their own people. Whether or not we trained those particular individuals, the perception that we are training and equipping a government that may use this to so brutally crack down on its population is something we have to take far more seriously than we have in the past. The inadvertent impact of all our programs has to be looked at with much greater care to ensure they’re not backfiring, and we need far more oversight. In some areas, that oversight is practically nonexistent.
What do Islamic groups in Uzbekistan want? Are they separatists like the Chechens, or do they seek the overthrow of the government?
It is difficult to navigate among the agendas and actual activities of the several Islamic groups and those political opposition groups that have been labeled “Islamic” but have little in the way of an Islamic agenda. Hizb ut-Tahrir [a radical Islamic group] has become one of the most well known, advocating the establishment of an Islamic state but allegedly renouncing violence. Sorting out what that means in practice in Uzbekistan is not that straightforward. It would be hard to sort out the many other “Islamic” groups targeted by the government, particularly the extent to which they are Islamic extremist groups, or are simply labeled that in support of a broader political agenda on the part of the government.
Do these Islamic groups have links to Al-Qaeda?
There are alleged links, but as in other parts of the world, it’s hard to clearly define their reach.
Last question, do you think President Karimov will remain in power?
Karimov is facing some of the biggest challenges to his leadership since [1991 when he took power and] Uzbekistan became an independent country. We’ve seen protests in other parts of Uzbekistan as well. But he has a good deal of staying power, so I don’t think we should write him off. | <urn:uuid:d31630d6-f487-4158-9b02-acb0f59d5a8c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.cfr.org/human-rights/interview-nancy-lubin-us-uzbek-relations/p8887 | 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 | 0.967311 | 2,745 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Engineering classes building at MHS
Engineering classes at Marshalltown High School may lead some of the students into the field professionally, but teacher Mike Lazere said even those who don’t go into the field are learning valuable lessons in the classes.
Lazere feels the more than 100 students involved in the new courses are learning problem solving skills that will help them in their future. Lazere is the teacher of the new introduction to engineering and principles of engineering courses at MHS as part of Project Lead the Way.
“There are aspects of engineering and design that are useful,” Lazere said. “The teamwork and creative problem solving are useful in many professions.”
Lazere has previous experience with the Science, Technology, Engineering and Math (STEM) initiative in the state. One of the goals of STEM is to fill gaps in fields that are growing and need employees.
“There’s no doubt that the area of need in Iowa and many places is in middle and high skilled jobs,” Lazere said. “This kind of program gives kids an introduction into that and they may go into a career where jobs are needed. I think this presents some really good opportunities for kids.”
Sophomore Cole Keeler was working on building a tower from sticks of spaghetti in the introduction in engineering class Wednesday. He said he may look into engineering as a career field and feels PLTW is good for MHS.
“I think it’s pretty cool and good for the community,” Keeler said.
Later this fall, the classes are expected to move into a newly-renovated lab built for the project in the basement at MHS. The future also could mean expansion into higher level classes for students who are interested in taking the program to the next level.
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Marine photosynthetic microbial organisms are the major, sustaining components of ecosystem processes and are responsible for biogeochemical reactions that drive our climate changes. Despite this, many marine microorganisms are poorly described and little is known of broad spatial and temporal scale trends in their abundance and distribution. With new molecular and analytical techniques we can advance our knowledge of marine biodiversity at the species level to understand how marine biodiversity supports ecosystem structure, dynamics and resilience. We can then interpret environmental, ecological and evolutionary processes controlling and structuring marine ecosystem biodiversity. With better analytical methods available, we can augment our understanding of biodiversity and ecosystem dynamics in especially the pico- and nano-fractions of the plankton as well as in the deep sea benthos, both of which are very difficult to study. Here we provide examples of new and long standing molecular tools for researchers in marine ecosystems to enable them to provide better, faster and more accurate estimates of marine biodiversity in the community using tools at the forefront of molecular research.
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The European Union may expand its naval anti-piracy operations to cover the Seychelles islands, 1,500 kilometres from the Somali coastline, Germany's defence minister said Monday.
The Seychelles, an archipelago of more than 100 islands, has been the scene of several recent attacks.
"We see that the pirates are extending their activities into the Indian Ocean, so the area around the Seychelles should be included in the operation," German Defence Minister Franz Josef Jung said before a meeting of the European Union's foreign and defence ministers.
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
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The Red River spilled over its banks along the Minnesota-North Dakota border in mid-April 2011. The river also spilled onto floodplains farther north, in Manitoba. On April 18, 2011, the Advanced Hydrological Prediction Service (AHPS) of the U.S. National Weather Service warned that flooding would continue in rural areas near the river for the next several days. The AHPS also reported that many state, county, and township roads were already closed due to high waters.
The Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer (MODIS) on NASA’s Terra satellite acquired these images on April 14, 2011 (top), and March 18, 2011 (bottom). The images use a combination of infrared and visible light to increase the contrast between water and land. Snow and ice are bright turquoise. Water is navy. Vegetation is green. Soil is earth-toned. Clouds vary in color from pale blue-green to nearly white.
Although snow has begun to melt by mid-March, substantial snow cover remains throughout the region. The Red River appears confined to its banks along the Minnesota-North Dakota border and into Canada. A month later, after snows have melted, flooding is evident along the Red River. Standing water appears along the western margin of Fargo. The Red River is flooded between Fargo and Grand Forks, and more flooding appears north of Grand Forks into Canada. North of Grand Forks, water apparently spans as much as 20 kilometers (roughly 10 miles) in some places.
On April 15, 2011, Reuters reported that flooded conditions in the region were complicated by fresh snow and freezing temperatures.
- U.S. National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration. National Weather Service. Advanced Hydrologic Prediction Service. Accessed April 18, 2011.
- Reuters. (2011, April 15). Red River crests at Grand Forks; snow falls. Accessed April 15, 2011.
NASA images courtesy MODIS Rapid Response Team, Goddard Space Flight Center. Caption by Michon Scott.
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NASA study examines the effects of microgravity on the immune system
A new study by NASA intends to examine the detrimental effects of microgravity on the immune system, by studying the blood of rats and blue mussels over the course of a prolonged stay aboard the International Space Station (ISS). The experiments, TripleLux A & TripleLux B, will be transported to the station by consecutive SpaceX commercial resupply missions. It is hoped that the results of the study could potentially inform future treatment options for immune system deficiencies both in space and on Earth.
Ordinarily, the human body is protected by a highly-advanced immune system comprised of large cells known as leukocytes that swarm potentially hazardous foreign bodies, producing a bloom of oxygen that makes an invading entity easier to eliminate. However, thanks to previous studies on the immune system in microgravity, we know that an astronaut's immune system is for some reason less effective in space than it is back on Earth. NASA scientists hope to capitalize on this phenomenon, using the unique environment existing aboard the ISS to understand why the system is compromised, and examine how a weakened immune system fights off an infection in a controlled microgravity environment.
In the pursuit of this goal, the agency plans to send two experiments to the ISS, the first of which, TripleLux-B, is slated to launch to the station aboard SpaceX's fifth resupply mission to the station on the 16th of this month. This experiment will study the cellular changes exhibited by blue mussels, an organism with a highly-advanced immune system, whilst the second, TripleLux-B, will examine the protective system of mice. These animals were chosen as test subjects, as both boast relatively similar immune systems that are easy to maintain in microgravity.
In order to ensure the good health of the crew aboard the ISS, the station's sealed atmosphere must be kept free of potentially harmful agents. Therefore, to safely observe how a weakened immune system reacts to a potentially harmful foreign body, the crew will expose the subjects to zymosan, a non-harmful bacteria substitute derived from yeast. The crew will then observe the immune systems at work, using a luminescent chemical to emphasize the tell-tale oxygen bursts that appear as the leukocyte cells neutralize the invader.
"Our goal with TripleLux-B is to find out whether the cells of the immune system of the mussel, which is older in an evolutionary sense, are affected in the same way as those in the immune system of an astronaut – or, in this case, a rat," states Peter-Diedrich Hansen, a professor of toxicology and a senior research scientist at Germany’s Berlin Institute for Technology and Principal Investigator of the project. "And if not, what makes it different?".
It is also hoped that the experiments will be instrumental in shedding light on the effects of microgravity on a cellular level, and how these changes weaken the effectiveness of the immune system. Furthermore, NASA intends to isolate the effects resulting from prolonged exposure to microgravity from those caused by, for example, radiation, with help from the European Space Agency's (ESA) BIOLAB centrifuge, currently installed aboard the ISS.
During this stage of the experiment, specimens will be tested in BIOLAB's 1g centrifuge, simulating the effects of Earth's gravity whilst still exposing the subjects to cosmic radiation. This process will allow scientists to deduce whether the lowered immune system evidenced in astronauts returning from a stint aboard the station, is a result of microgravity, cosmic radiation, or a combination of the two.
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Hundreds of problems have been found at European nuclear plants that would cost 25bn euros (£20bn) to fix, says a leaked draft report.
The report, commissioned after Japan's Fukushima nuclear disaster, aimed to see how Europe's nuclear power stations would cope during extreme emergencies.
The final report is to be published on Thursday. The draft says nearly all the EU's 143 nuclear plants need improving. Anti-nuclear groups say the report's warnings do not go far enough.
For its part, the regulatory body for European nuclear safety has urged the Commission not to use language that could undermine public confidence, says the BBC's Chris Morris in Brussels.
The report - the wording of which could change before Thursday's final version is published - points out that in the EU, 47 nuclear power plants with 111 reactors have more than 100,000 inhabitants living within a circle of 30km.
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While cigarette use is declining precipitously among youth, evidence indicates that American adolescents are turning to ethnically-linked alternative tobacco products, such as hookahs, cigars, and various smokeless tobacco products, according to a recent report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC).
Now a new study by researchers affiliated with New York University's Center for Drug Use and HIV Research (CDUHR), in the August 2014 edition of Pediatrics identifies how prevalent Hookah use is and which teens are most likely to be using it.
The study, "Hookah Use Among U.S. High School Seniors," published online July 7, used data from Monitoring the Future (MTF), a nation-wide ongoing annual study of the behaviors, attitudes, and values of American secondary school students. The MTF survey is administered in approximately 130 public and private schools throughout 48 states in the US. Roughly 15,000 high school seniors are assessed annually. This study examined data from the 5,540 students (modal age = 18) who were asked about Hookah use from 2010-2012. The researchers found the annual prevalence (use in the last 12 months) of hookah use was nearly 1 in 5 high school seniors.
"What we find most interesting is that students of higher socioeconomic status appear to be more likely to use hookah," said Joseph J. Palamar, PhD, MPH, a CDUHR affiliated researcher and an assistant professor of Population Health at NYU Langone Medical Center (NYULMC). "Surprisingly, students with more educated parents or higher personal income are at high risk for use. We also found that hookah use is more common in cities, especially big cities. So hookah use is much different from cigarette use, which is more common in non-urban areas."
Hookah, an ancient form of smoking, in which charcoal-heated tobacco or non-tobacco based shisha smoke is passed through water before inhalation, is rapidly gaining popularity among adolescents in the US. The researchers found those students who smoked cigarettes, and those who had ever used alcohol, marijuana or other illicit substances were more likely to use hookah.
"Tobacco use and exposure to secondhand smoke are the leading preventable causes of morbidity and mortality in the US," said a study co-author Michael Weitzman, MD, a professor of Pediatrics and of Environmental Medicine at the NYULMC. "Cigarette use has decreased by 33% in the past decade in the US, while the use of alternative tobacco products such as hookahs has increased an alarming 123%. This is especially worrisome given the public misperception that hookahs are a safe alternative to cigarettes whereas evidence suggests that they are even more damaging to health than are cigarettes."
While the US is experiencing an alarming increase in hookah use among adolescents, Dr. Palamar does point out that "Use tends to be much different from traditional cigarette smoking. Right now it appears that a lot of hookah use is more ritualistic, used occasionally—for example, in hookah bars, and not everyone inhales."
"However, times are beginning to change," notes Dr. Palamar. "Now something called hookah pens, which are similar to e-cigarettes, are gaining popularity. While not all hookah pens contain nicotine, this new delivery method might normalize hookah use in everyday settings and bring use to a whole new level."
Researchers note that social stigma toward cigarette use appears to have played a large part in the recent decrease in rates of use, but they caution that it is doubtful these new hookah pens are frowned upon as much as cigarettes. Hookah pens also come in trendy designs and colors, which may be appealing to both adolescents and adults.
"These nifty little devices are likely to attract curious consumers, possibly even non-cigarette smokers," said Dr. Palamar. "And unlike cigarettes, hookah comes in a variety of flavors and is less likely to leave users smelling like cigarette smoke after use. This may allow some users to better conceal their use from their parents or peers."
Researchers conclude increased normalization might lead to increases in use, and possibly adverse consequences associated with repeated use. "This portends a potential epidemic of a lethal habit growing among upper and middle class adolescents," said Dr. Weitzman. They stress that it is crucial for educators and public health officials to fill in the gaps in public understanding about the harm of hookah smoking.
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Elia Kazan, c. 1960
|Pronunciation||Greek: [eˈlia kaˈzan]
English / /
September 7, 1909
Constantinople, Ottoman Empire (modern day Istanbul, Turkey)
|Died||September 28, 2003
Manhattan, New York City, U.S.
|Education||Williams College, Yale University|
|Occupation||Director, actor, producer, screenwriter and novelist|
|Spouse(s)||Molly Day Thacher
(m. 1932–1963; her death)
(m. 1967–1980; her death)
(m. 1982–2003; Elia's death)
|Children||5 including Nicholas Kazan (son)|
|Relatives||Zoe Kazan (granddaughter)
Maya Kazan (granddaughter)
Elia Kazan (born Elias Kazantzoglou, Greek: Ηλίας Καζαντζόγλου, September 7, 1909 – September 28, 2003) was a Greek-American director, producer, writer and actor, described by The New York Times as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history".
He was born in Istanbul, to Cappadocian Greek parents. After attending Williams College and then the Yale School of Drama, he acted professionally for eight years, later joining the Group Theater in 1932, and co-founded the Actors Studio in 1947. With Robert Lewis and Cheryl Crawford, his actors' studio introduced "Method Acting" under the direction of Lee Strasberg. Kazan acted in a few films, including City for Conquest (1940).
Noted for drawing out the best dramatic performances from his actors, he directed 21 actors to Oscar nominations, resulting in nine wins. He directed a string of successful films, including A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), On the Waterfront (1954), and East of Eden (1955). During his career, he won two Oscars as Best Director and received an Honorary Oscar, won three Tony Awards, and four Golden Globes.
His films were concerned with personal or social issues of special concern to him. Kazan writes, "I don't move unless I have some empathy with the basic theme." His first such "issue" film was Gentleman's Agreement (1947), with Gregory Peck, which dealt with anti-Semitism in America. It received 8 Oscar nominations and 3 wins, including Kazan's first for Best Director. It was followed by Pinky, one of the first films in mainstream Hollywood to address racial prejudice against black people. In 1954, he directed On the Waterfront, a film about union corruption on the New York harbor waterfront. A Streetcar Named Desire (1951), an adaptation of the stage play which he had also directed, received 12 Oscar nominations, winning 4, and was Marlon Brando's breakthrough role. In 1955, he directed John Steinbeck's East of Eden, which introduced James Dean to movie audiences.
A turning point in Kazan's career came with his testimony as a witness before the House Committee on Un-American Activities in 1952 at the time of the Hollywood blacklist, which brought him strong negative reactions from many liberal friends and colleagues. His testimony helped end the careers of former acting colleagues Morris Carnovsky and Art Smith, along with ending the work of playwright Clifford Odets. Kazan later justified his act by saying he took "only the more tolerable of two alternatives that were either way painful and wrong." Nearly a half-century later, his anti-Communist testimony continued to cause controversy. When Kazan was awarded an honorary Oscar in 1999, dozens of actors chose not to applaud as 250 demonstrators picketed the event.
Kazan influenced the films of the 1950s and '60s with his provocative, issue-driven subjects. Director Stanley Kubrick called him, "without question, the best director we have in America, [and] capable of performing miracles with the actors he uses.":36 Film author Ian Freer concludes that "if his achievements are tainted by political controversy, the debt Hollywood—and actors everywhere—owes him is enormous." In 2010, Martin Scorsese co-directed the documentary film A Letter to Elia as a personal tribute to Kazan.
- 1 Early life
- 2 Stage career
- 3 Film career
- 4 Literary career
- 5 Directing style
- 6 HUAC testimony
- 7 Personal life and death
- 8 Legacy
- 9 Awards and honors
- 10 Filmography
- 11 Bibliography
- 12 See also
- 13 References
- 14 Further reading
- 15 External links
Elia Kazan was born in the Fener district of Istanbul, to Cappadocian Greek parents originally from Kayseri in Anatolia. His parents, George and Athena Kazantzoglou (née Shishmanoglou), emigrated to the United States when he was four years old. He was named after his paternal grandfather, Elia Kazantzoglou. His maternal grandfather was Isaak Shishmanoglou. Elia's brother, Avraam, was born in Berlin and later became a psychiatrist.:21
As a young boy, he was remembered as being shy, and his college classmates described him as more of a loner. Much of his early life was portrayed in his autobiographical book, America America, which he made into a film in 1963. In it, he describes his family as "alienated" from both their parents' Greek Orthodox values and from those of mainstream America.:23 His mother's family were cotton merchants who imported cotton from England, and sold it wholesale. His father became a rug merchant after emigrating to the United States, and expected that his son would go into the family business.
After attending public schools in New York, he enrolled at Williams College in Massachusetts, where he helped pay his way by waiting tables and washing dishes, although he still graduated cum laude. He also worked as a bartender at various fraternities, but never joined one. While a student at Williams, he earned the nickname "Gadg," for Gadget, because, he said, "I was small, compact, and handy to have around." The nickname was eventually taken up by his stage and film stars.
In America America he tells how, and why, his family left Turkey and moved to America. Kazan notes that much of it came from stories that he heard as a young boy. He says during an interview that "it's all true: the wealth of the family was put on the back of a donkey, and my uncle, really still a boy, went to Istanbul ... to gradually bring the family there to escape the oppressive circumstances... It's also true that he lost the money on the way, and when he got there he swept rugs in a little store."
Kazan notes some of the controversial aspects of what he put in the film. He writes, "I used to say to myself when I was making the film that America was a dream of total freedom in all areas." To make his point, the character who portrays Kazan's uncle Avraam kisses the ground when he gets through customs, while the Statue of Liberty and the American flag are in the background. Kazan had considered whether that kind of scene might be too much for American audiences:
I hesitated about that for a long time. A lot of people, who don't understand how desperate people can get, advised me to cut it. When I am accused of being excessive by the critics, they're talking about moments like that. But I wouldn't take it out for the world. It actually happened. Believe me, if a Turk could get out of Turkey and come here, even now, he would kiss the ground. To oppressed people, America is still a dream.
Before undertaking the film, Kazan wanted to confirm many of the details about his family's background. At one point, he sat his parents down and recorded their answers to his questions. He remembers eventually asking his father a "deeper question: 'Why America? What were you hoping for?'" His mother gave him the answer, however: "A.E. brought us here." Kazan states that "A.E. was my uncle Avraam Elia, the one who left the Anatolian village with the donkey. At twenty-eight, somehow—this was the wonder—he made his way to New York. He sent home money and in time brought my father over. Father sent for my mother and my baby brother and me when I was four.
Kazan writes of the movie, "It's my favorite of all the films I've made; the first film that was entirely mine."
In 1932, after spending two years at the Yale University School of Drama, he moved to New York City to become a professional stage actor. His first opportunity came with a small group of actors engaged in presenting plays containing "social commentary". They were called the Group Theater, which showcased many lesser known plays with deep social or political messages. After struggling to be accepted by them, he discovered his first strong sense of self in America within the "family of the Group Theater, and more loosely in the radical social and cultural movements of the time," writes film author Joanna E. Rapf.:23
In Kazan's autobiography, he writes of the "lasting impact on him of the Group," noting in particular, Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman as "father figures", along with his close friendship with playwright Clifford Odets. Kazan, during an interview with Michel Ciment, describes the Group:
- The Group was the best thing professionally that ever happened to me. I met two wonderful men. Lee Strasberg and Harold Clurman, both of whom were around thirty years old. They were magnetic, fearless leaders. During the summer I was an apprentice, they were entertaining in a Jewish summer camp... At the end of the summer they said to me: "You may have talent for something, but it's certainly not acting."
Kazan, in his autobiography, also describes Strasberg as a vital leader of the group:
- He carried with him the aura of a prophet, a magician, a witch doctor, a psychoanalyst, and a feared father of a Jewish home.... [H]e was the force that held the thirty-odd members of the theatre together, and made them permanent.:61
Kazan's first national success came as a New York theatrical director. Although initially he worked as an actor on stage, and told early in his acting career that he had no acting ability, he surprised many critics by becoming one of the Group’s most capable actors. In 1935 he played the role of a strike-leading taxi driver in a drama by Clifford Odets, Waiting for Lefty, and his performance was called "dynamic," leading some to describe him as the "proletarian thunderbolt.":23
Among the themes that would run through all of his work were "personal alienation and an outrage over social injustice", writes film critic William Baer. Other critics have likewise noted his "strong commitment to the social and social psychological—rather than the purely political—implications of drama".:33
By the mid-1930s, when he was 26, he began directing a number of the Group Theater's plays, including Robert Ardrey's well-known play Thunder Rock. In 1942 he achieved his first notable success by directing a play by Thornton Wilder, The Skin of Our Teeth, starring Tallulah Bankhead and Fredric March. The play, though controversial, was a critical and commercial success and won Wilder a Pulitzer Prize. Kazan won the New York Drama Critics Award for Best Director and Bankhead for best actress. Kazan then went on to direct Death of a Salesman by Arthur Miller, and then directed A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams, both of which were also successful. Kazan's wife, Molly Thacher, the reader for the Group, discovered Williams and awarded him a "prize that launched his career."
The Group Theater's summer rehearsal headquarters was at Pine Brook Country Club, located in the countryside of Nichols, Connecticut, during the 1930s and early 1940s. Along with Kazan were numerous other artists: Harry Morgan, John Garfield, Luise Rainer, Frances Farmer, Will Geer, Howard Da Silva, Clifford Odets, Lee J. Cobb and Irwin Shaw.
In 1947, he founded the Actors Studio, a non-profit workshop, with actors Robert Lewis and Cheryl Crawford. In 1951, Lee Strasberg became its director after Kazan left to Hollywood to focus of his career as a movie director. It remained a non-profit enterprise. Strasberg introduced the "Method" to the Actors Studio, an umbrella term for a constellation of systemizations of Konstantin Stanislavski's teachings. The "Method" school of acting became the predominant system of post-World War II Hollywood, though it has waned in influence somewhat since.
Among the students of Strasberg were Montgomery Clift, Mildred Dunnock, Julie Harris, Karl Malden, Patricia Neal, Maureen Stapleton, Eli Wallach, and James Whitmore. Kazan directed two of the Studio's protegee's, Karl Malden and Marlon Brando, in the Tennessee Williams play A Streetcar Named Desire.
Though at the height of his stage success, Kazan turned to Hollywood as a director of motion pictures. He first directed two short films, but his first feature film was A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945), one of his first attempts to film dramas focused on contemporary concerns, which later became his forte. Two years later he directed Gentleman's Agreement, where he tackled a seldom-discussed topic in America, antisemitism, for which he won his first Oscar as Best Director. In 1949 he again dealt with a controversial subject when he directed Pinky, which dealt with issues of racism in America, and was nominated for 3 Academy Awards.
In 1947, he directed the courtroom drama Boomerang!, and in 1950 he directed Panic in the Streets, starring Richard Widmark, in a thriller shot on the streets of New Orleans. In that film, Kazan experimented with a documentary style of cinematography, which succeeded in "energizing" the action scenes. He won the Venice Film Festival, International Award as director, and the film also won two Academy Awards. Kazan had requested that Zero Mostel also act in the film, despite Mostel being "blacklisted" as a result of HUAC testimony a few years earlier. Kazan writes of his decision:
- Each director has a favorite in his cast, ... my favorite this time was Zero Mostel... I thought him an extraordinary artist and a delightful companion, one of the funniest and most original men I'd ever met... I constantly sought his company... He was one of the three people whom I rescued from the "industry's" blacklist... For a long time, Zero had not been able to get work in films, but I got him in my film.:383
In 1951, after introducing and directing Marlon Brando and Karl Malden in the stage version, he went on to cast both in the film version of the play, A Streetcar Named Desire, which won 4 Oscars, being nominated for 12.
Despite these plaudits, the film was considered a step back cinematically with the feel of filmed theater, though Kazan did at first use a more open setting, but he then felt compelled to revert to the stage atmosphere to remain true to the script. He explains:
- On "Streetcar" we worked very hard to open it up, and then went back to the play because we'd lost all the compression. In the play, these people were trapped in a room with each other. What I actually did was to make the set smaller. As the story progressed ... the set got smaller and smaller.
Kazan's next film was Viva Zapata! (1952) which also starred Marlon Brando. This time the film added real atmosphere with the use of location shots and strong character accents. Kazan called this his "first real film" because of those factors.
In 1954 he again used Brando as a star in On the Waterfront. As a continuation of the socially relevant themes that he developed in New York, the film exposed corruption within New York's longshoremen's union. It too was nominated for 12 Academy Awards, and won 8, including Best Picture, Best Director and Best Actor, for Marlon Brando.
On the Waterfront was also the screen debut for Eva Marie Saint, who won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role. Saint recalls that Kazan selected her for the role after he had her do an improvisational skit with Brando playing the other character. She had no idea that he was looking to fill any particular film part, however, but remembers that Kazan set up the scenario with Brando which brought out surprising emotions:
I ended up crying. Crying and laughing ... I mean there was such an attraction there ... That smile of his... He was very tender and funny ... And Kazan, in his genius, saw the chemistry there.:295–296
Life magazine described On the Waterfront as the "most brutal movie of the year" but with "the year's tenderest love scenes," and stating that Saint was a "new discovery" in films. In its cover story about Saint, it speculated that it will probably be as Edie in On the Waterfront that she "starts her real trip to fame."
The film made use of extensive on-location street scenes and waterfront shots, and included a notable score by noted composer Leonard Bernstein.
After the success of On the Waterfront he went on to direct the screen adaptation of John Steinbeck's novel, East of Eden in 1955. As director, Kazan again used another unknown actor, James Dean. Kazan had seen Dean on stage in New York and after an audition gave him the starring role along with an exclusive contract with Warner Bros. Dean flew back to Los Angeles with Kazan in 1954, the first time he had ever flown in a plane, bringing his clothes in a brown paper bag.:194 The film's success introduced James Dean to the world and established him as a popular actor. He went on to star in Rebel Without a Cause (1955), directed by Kazan's friend, Nicholas Ray, and then Giant, (dir. George Stevens, 1956)
Author Douglas Rathgeb describes the difficulties Kazan had in turning Dean into a new star, noting how Dean was a controversial figure at Warner Bros. from the time he arrived. There were rumors that he "kept a loaded gun in his studio trailer; that he drove his motorcycle dangerously down studio streets or sound stages; that he had bizarre and unsavory friends." As a result, Kazan was forced to "baby-sit the young actor in side-by-side trailers," so he wouldn't run away during production. Co-star Julie Harris worked overtime to quell Dean's panic attacks. In general, Dean was oblivious to Hollywood's methods, and Rathgeb notes that "his radical style did not mesh with Hollywood's corporate gears."
Dean himself was amazed at his own performance on screen when he later viewed a rough cut of the film. Kazan had invited director Nicholas Ray to a private showing, with Dean, as Ray was looking for someone to play the lead in Rebel Without a Cause. Ray watched Dean's powerful acting on the screen; but it didn't seem possible that it was the same person in the room. Ray felt Dean was shy and totally withdrawn as he sat there hunched over. "Dean himself did not seem to believe it," notes Rathgeb. "He watched himself with an odd, almost adolescent fascination, as if he were admiring someone else."
The film also made good use of on-location and outdoor scenes, along with an effective use of early widescreen format, making the film one of Kazan's most accomplished works. James Dean died the following year, at the age of 24, in an accident with his sports car outside of Los Angeles. He had only made three films, and the only completed film he ever saw was East of Eden.
In 1961, he introduced Warren Beatty in his first screen appearance with a starring role in Splendor in the Grass (1961), with Natalie Wood; the film was nominated for two Oscars and won one. Author Peter Biskind points out that Kazan "was the first in a string of major directors Beatty sought out, mentors or father figures from whom he wanted to learn." Biskind notes also that they "were wildly dissimilar—mentor vs. protege, director vs. actor, immigrant outsider vs. native son. Kazan was armed with the confidence born of age and success, while Beatty was virtually aflame with the arrogance of youth." Kazan recalls his impressions of Beatty:
- Warren—it was obvious the first time I saw him—wanted it all and wanted it his way. Why not? He had the energy, a very keen intelligence, and more chutzpah than any Jew I've ever known. Even more than me. Bright as they come, intrepid, and with that thing all women secretly respect: complete confidence in his sexual powers, confidence so great that he never had to advertise himself, even by hints.:603
Biskind describes an episode during the first week of shooting, where Beatty was angered at something Kazan said: "The star lashed out at the spot where he knew Kazan was most vulnerable, the director's friendly testimony before the HUAC. He snapped, 'Lemme ask you something—why did you name all those names?'"
Beatty himself recalled the episode: "In some patricidal attempt to stand up to the great Kazan, I arrogantly and stupidly challenged him on it." Biskind describes how "Kazan grabbed his arm, asking, 'What did you say?' and dragged him off to a tiny dressing room ... whereupon the director proceeded to justify himself for two hours." Beatty, years later, during a Kennedy Center tribute to Kazan, stated to the audience that Kazan "had given him the most important break in his career.":23
Beatty's costar, Natalie Wood, was in a transition period in her career, having mostly been cast in roles as a child or teenager, and she was now hoping to be cast in adult roles. Biographer Suzanne Finstad notes that a "turning point" in her life as an actress was upon seeing the film A Streetcar Named Desire: "She was transformed, in awe of Kazan and of Vivien Leigh's performance... [who] became a role model for Natalie.":107 In 1961, after a "series of bad films, her career was already in decline," notes Rathgeb.:199 Kazan himself writes that the "sages" of the film community declared her as "washed up" as an actress, although he still wanted to interview her for his next film:
- When I saw her, I detected behind the well-mannered 'young wife' front a desperate twinkle in her eyes... I talked with her more quietly then and more personally. I wanted to find out what human material was there, what her inner life was... Then she told me she was being psychoanalyzed. That did it. Poor R.J., I said to myself. I liked Bob Wagner, I still do.:602
Kazan cast her as the female lead in Splendor in the Grass, and her career rebounded. Finstad feels that despite Wood never receiving training in Method acting techniques, "working with Kazan brought her to the greatest emotional heights of her career. The experience was exhilarating but wrenching for Natalie, who faced her demons on Splendor.":259 She adds that a scene in the film, as a result of "Kazan's wizardry ... produced a hysteria in Natalie that may be her most powerful moment as an actress.":260
Actor Gary Lockwood, who also acted in the film, felt that "Kazan and Natalie were a terrific marriage, because you had this beautiful girl, and you had somebody that could get things out of her." Kazan's favorite scene in the movie was the last one, when Wood goes back to see her lost first love, Bud (Beatty). "It's terribly touching to me. I still like it when I see it," writes Kazan.:263 "And I certainly didn't need to tell her how to play it. She understood it perfectly."
Kazan was noted for his close collaboration with screenwriters. On Broadway, he worked with Arthur Miller, Tennessee Williams, and William Inge; in film, he worked again with Willams (A Streetcar Named Desire and Baby Doll), Inge (Splendor in the Grass), Budd Schulberg (On the Waterfront and A Face in the Crowd), John Steinbeck (Viva Zapata!), and Harold Pinter (The Last Tycoon). As an instrumental figure in the careers of many of the best writers of his time, "he always treated them and their work with the utmost respect." In 2009, a previously unproduced screenplay by Williams, The Loss of a Teardrop Diamond, was released as a film. Williams wrote the screenplay specifically for Kazan to direct during the 1950s.
Williams became one of Kazan's closest and most loyal friends, and Kazan often pulled Williams out of "creative slumps" by redirecting his focus with new ideas. In 1959, in a letter to Kazan, he writes, "Some day you will know how much I value the great things you did with my work, how you lifted it above its measure by your great gift."
Among Kazan's other films were Panic in the Streets (1950), East of Eden (1955), Baby Doll (1956), Wild River (1960), and The Last Tycoon (1976).
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In between his directing work he wrote four best-selling novels, including "America America", and "The Arrangement" both of which tell the story of Kazan's Greek immigrant ancestors. Both novels were later made into films.
Preference for unknown actors
Kazan strove for "cinematic realism," a quality he often achieved by discovering and working with unknown actors, many of whom treated him as their mentor, which gave him the flexibility to depict "social reality with both accuracy and vivid intensity." He also felt that casting the right actors accounted for 90% of a movie's ultimate success or failure. As a result of his efforts, he also gave actors such as Lee Remick, Jo Van Fleet, Warren Beatty, Andy Griffith, James Dean, and Jack Palance, their first major movie roles. He explained to director and producer George Stevens, Jr. that he felt that "big stars are barely trained or not very well trained. They also have bad habits... they're not pliable anymore." Kazan also describes how and why he gets to know his actors on a personal level:
- Now what I try to do is get to know them very well. I take them to dinner. I talk to them. I meet their wives. I find out what the hell the human material is that I'm dealing with, so that by the time I take an unknown he's not an unknown to me.
Kazan goes on to describe how he got to understand James Dean, as an example:
- When I met him he said, "I'll take you for a ride on my motorbike..." It was his way of communicating with me, saying "I hope you like me," ... I thought he was an extreme grotesque of a boy, a twisted boy. As I got to know his father, as I got to know about his family, I learned that he had been, in fact, twisted by the denial of love ... I went to Jack Warner and told him I wanted to use an absolutely unknown boy. Jack was a crapshooter of the first order, and said, "Go ahead."
Kazan chooses his subjects to express personal and social events that he is familiar with. He describes his thought process before taking on a project:
- I don't move unless I have some empathy with the basic theme. In some way the channel of the film should also be in my own life. I start with an instinct. With "East of Eden" ... it's really the story of my father and me, and I didn't realize it for a long time... In some subtle or not-so-subtle way, every film is autobiographical. A thing in my life is expressed by the essence of the film. Then I know it experientially, not just mentally. I've got to feel that it's in some way about me, some way about my struggles, some way about my pain, my hopes.
Film historian Joanna E. Rapf notes that among the methods Kazan used in his work with actors, was his initial focus on "reality", although his style was not defined as "naturalistic." She adds: "He respects his script, but casts and directs with a particular eye for expressive action and the use of emblematic objects.":33 Kazan himself states that "unless the character is somewhere in the actor himself, you shouldn't cast him.":33
In his later years he changed his mind about some of the philosophy behind the Group Theater, in that he no longer felt that the theater was a "collective art," as he once believed:
- To be successful it should express the vision, the conviction, and the insistent presence of one person.
- I don't think basically I'm a political animal. I think I'm a self-centered animal... I think what I was concerned about all my life was to say something artistically that was uniquely my own.:22
Nonetheless, there have been clear messages in some of his films that involved politics in various ways. In 1954, he directed On the Waterfront, written by screenwriter Budd Schulberg, which was a film about union corruption in New York. Some critics consider it "one of the greatest films in the history of international cinema." Another political film was A Face in the Crowd (1957). His protagonist, played by Andy Griffith (in his film debut) is not a politician, yet his career suddenly becomes deeply involved in politics. According to film author Harry Keyishian, Kazan and screenwriter Budd Schulberg were using the film to warn audiences about the dangerous potential of the new medium of television. Kazan explains that he and Schulberg were trying to warn "of the power TV would have in the political life of the nation." Kazan states, "Listen to what the candidate says; don't be taken in by his charm or his trust-inspiring personality. Don't buy the advertisement; buy what's in the package."
Use of "Method" acting
As a product of the Group Theater and Actors Studio, he was most noted for his use of "Method" actors, especially Brando and Dean. During an interview in 1988, Kazan said, "I did whatever was necessary to get a good performance including so-called Method acting. I made them run around the set, I scolded them, I inspired jealousy in their girlfriends... The director is a desperate beast! ... You don't deal with actors as dolls. You deal with them as people who are poets to a certain degree." Actor Robert De Niro called him a "master of a new kind of psychological and behavioral faith in acting."
Kazan was aware of the limited range of his directing abilities:
- I don't have great range. I am no good with music or spectacles. The classics are beyond me... I am a mediocre director except when a play or film touches a part of my life's experience... I do have courage, even some daring. I am able to talk to actors... to arouse them to better work. I have strong, even violent feelings, and they are assets.
He explained that he tried to inspire his actors to offer ideas:
- When I talk to the actors they begin to give me ideas, and I grab them because the ideas they give me turn them on. I want the breath of life from them rather than the mechanical fulfillment of the movement which I asked for... I love actors. I used to be an actor for eight years, so I do appreciate their job.
Kazan, however, held strong ideas about the scenes, and would try to merge an actor's suggestions and inner feelings with his own. Despite the strong eroticism created in Baby Doll, for example, he set limits. Before shooting a seduction scene between Eli Wallach and Carroll Baker, he privately asked Wallach, "Do you think you actually go through with seducing that girl?" Wallach writes, "I hadn't thought about that question before, but I answered ... 'No.'" Kazan replies, "Good idea, play it that way." Kazan, many years later, explained his rationale for scenes in that film:
- What is erotic about sex to me is the seduction, not the act... The scene on the swings (Eli Wallach and Carroll Baker) in Baby Doll is my exact idea of what eroticism in films should be.
Being an "actor's director"
Joanna Rapf adds that Kazan was most admired for his close work with actors, noting that director Nicholas Ray considered him "the best actor's director the United States has ever produced.":22 Film historian Foster Hirsch explains that "he created virtually a new acting style, which was the style of the Method... [that] allowed for the actors to create great depth of psychological realism."
Among the actors who describe Kazan as an important influence in their career were Patricia Neal, who co-starred with Andy Griffith in A Face in the Crowd (1957): "He was very good. He was an actor and he knew how we acted. He would come and talk to you privately. I liked him a lot." Anthony Franciosa, a supporting actor in the film, explains how Kazan encouraged his actors:
- He would always say, 'Let me see what you can do. Let me see it. Don't talk to me about it.' You felt that you had a man who was completely on your side—no qualms about anything you did. He gave you a tremendous sense of confidence... He never made me feel as though I was acting for the camera. Many times, I never even knew where the camera was.
However, in order to get quality acting from Andy Griffith, in his first screen appearance, and achieve what Schickel calls "an astonishing movie debut,":338 Kazan would often take surprising measures. In one important and highly emotional scene, for example, Kazan had to give Griffith fair warning: "I may have to use extraordinary means to make you do this. I may have to get out of line. I don't know any other way of getting an extraordinary performance out of an actor."
Actress Terry Moore calls Kazan her "best friend," and notes that "he made you feel better than you thought you could be. I never had another director that ever touched him. I was spoiled for life." "He would find out if your life was like the character," says Carroll Baker, star of Baby Doll, "he was the best director with actors."
Kazan's need to remain close to his actors continued up to his last film, The Last Tycoon (1976). He remembers that Robert De Niro, the star of the film, "would do almost anything to succeed," and even cut his weight down from 170 to 128 pounds for the role. Kazan adds that De Niro "is one of a select number of actors I've directed who work hard at their trade, and the only one who asked to rehearse on Sundays. Most of the others play tennis. Bobby and I would go over the scenes to be shot.":766
The powerful dramatic roles Kazan brought out from many of his actors was due, partly, to his ability to recognize their personal character traits. Although he didn't know De Niro before this film, for example, Kazan later writes, "Bobby is more meticulous ... he's very imaginative. He's very precise. He figures everything out both inside and outside. He has good emotion. He's a character actor: everything he does he calculates. In a good way, but he calculates.":210 Kazan developed and used those personality traits for his character in the film.:766 Although the film did poorly at the box office, some reviewers praised De Niro's acting. Film critic Marie Brenner writes that "for De Niro, it is a role that surpasses even his brilliant and daring portrayal of Vito Corleone in The Godfather, part II, ... [his] performance deserves to be compared with the very finest."
Marlon Brando, in his autobiography, goes into detail about the influence Kazan had on his acting:
- I have worked with many movie directors—some good, some fair, some terrible. Kazan was the best actors' director by far of any I've worked for... the only one who ever really stimulated me, got into a part with me and virtually acted it with me... he chose good actors, encouraged them to improvise, and then improvised on the improvisation... He gave his cast freedom and ... was always emotionally involved in the process and his instincts were perfect... I've never seen a director who became as deeply and emotionally involved in a scene as Gadg... he got so wrought up that he started chewing on his hat.
- He was an arch-manipulator of actors' feelings, and he was extraordinarily talented; perhaps we will never see his like again.
Until his death, Kazan remained controversial in some circles for testimony he gave before the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in 1952, a period that many, such as journalist Michael Mills, feel was "the most controversial period in Hollywood history." When he was in his mid-20s, during the Depression years 1934 to 1936, he had been a member of the American Communist Party in New York, for a year and a half.
In April 1952, the Committee called on Kazan, under oath, to identify Communists from that period 16 years earlier. Kazan initially refused to provide names, but eventually named eight former Group Theater members who he said had been Communists: Clifford Odets, J. Edward Bromberg, Lewis Leverett, Morris Carnovsky, Phoebe Brand, Tony Kraber, Ted Wellman, and Paula Miller, who later married Lee Strasberg. He testified that Odets quit the party at the same time that he did. All the persons named were already known to HUAC, however. The move cost Kazan many friends within the film industry, including playwright Arthur Miller.
Kazan would later write in his autobiography of the "warrior pleasure at withstanding his 'enemies.'" When Kazan received an Honorary Academy Award in 1999, the audience was noticeably divided in their reaction, with some including Nick Nolte, Ed Harris, Ian McKellen, and Amy Madigan refusing to applaud, and many others, such as actors Kathy Bates, Meryl Streep, Karl Malden, and Warren Beatty, and producer George Stevens, Jr. standing and applauding. Stevens speculates on why he, Beatty, and many others in the audience chose to stand and applaud:
- I never discussed it with Warren, but I believe we were both standing for the same reason—out of regard for the creativity, the stamina and the many fierce battles and lonely nights that had gone into the man's twenty motion pictures.
Los Angeles Times film critic Kenneth Turan agreed, writing "The only criterion for an award like this is the work". Kazan was already "denied accolades" from the American Film Institute, and other film critics' associations. According to Mills, "It's time for the Academy to recognize this genius," adding that "We applauded when the great Chaplin finally had his hour." In response, former vice president of the Los Angeles Film Critics Association, Joseph McBride, claimed that an honorary award recognizes "the totality of what he represents, and Kazan's career, post 1952, was built on the ruin of other people's careers."
In later interviews, Kazan explained some of the early events that made him decide to become a friendly witness, most notably in relation to the Group Theater, which he called his first "family," and the "best thing professionally" that ever happened to him:
- The Group Theater said that we shouldn't be committed to any fixed political program set by other people outside the organization. I was behaving treacherously to the Group when I met downtown at CP [Communist Party] headquarters, to decide among the Communists what we should do in the Group, and then come back and present a united front, pretending we had not been in caucus...
- I was tried by the Party and that was one of the reasons I became so embittered later. The trial was on the issue of my refusal to follow instructions, that we should strike in the Group Theatre, and insist that the membership have control of its organization. I said it was an artistic organization, and I backed up Clurman and Strasberg who were not Communists... The trial left an indelible impression on me... Everybody else voted against me and they stigmatized me and condemned my acts and attitude. They were asking for confession and self-humbling. I went home that night and told my wife "I am resigning." But for years after I resigned, I was still faithful to their way of thinking. I still believed in it. But not in the American Communists. I used to make a difference and think: "These people here are damned fools but in Russia they have got the real thing," until I learned about the Hitler-Stalin pact, and gave up on the USSR.
Mills notes that prior to becoming a "friendly witness," Kazan discussed the issues with Miller:
- To defend a secrecy I don’t think right and to defend people who have already been named or soon would be by someone else... I hate the Communists and have for many years, and don’t feel right about giving up my career to defend them. I will give up my film career if it is in the interests of defending something I believe in, but not this.
Miller put his arm around Kazan and retorted, "don’t worry about what I’ll think. Whatever you do is okay with me, because I know that your heart is in the right place."
In his memoirs, Kazan writes that his testimony meant that "the big shot had become the outsider." He also notes that it strengthened his friendship with another outsider, Tennessee Williams, with whom he collaborated on numerous plays and films. He called Williams "the most loyal and understanding friend I had through those black months.":495
Personal life and death
Elia Kazan was married three times. His first wife was playwright Molly Day Thacher. They were married from 1932 until her death in 1963; this marriage produced two daughters and two sons, including screenwriter Nicholas Kazan. His second marriage, to the actress Barbara Loden, lasted from 1969 until her death in 1980, and produced one son. His marriage, in 1982, to Frances Rudge continued until his death, in 2003, aged 94.
In 1978, the U.S. government paid for Kazan and his family to travel to Kazan's birthplace where many of his films were to be shown. During a speech in Athens, he discussed his films and his personal and business life in the U.S., along with the messages he tried to convey:
In my own view, the solution is to talk about human beings and not about abstracts, to reveal the culture and the social moment as it is reflected in the behavior and the lives of individual people. Not to be "correct." To be total. So I do not believe in any ideology that does not permit—no encourage—the freedom of the individual.
He also offered his opinions about the role of the U.S. as a world model for democracy:
I think you and I, all of us, have some sort of stake in the United States. If it fails, the failure will be that of us all. Of mankind itself. It will cost us all. . . . I think of the United States as a country which is an arena and in that arena there is a drama being played out. . . . . I have seen that the struggle is the struggle of free men.
Elia Kazan died from natural causes in his Manhattan apartment, September 28, 2003 aged 94.
Kazan became known as an "actor's director" because he was able to elicit some of the best performances in the careers of many of his stars. Under his direction, his actors received 21 Academy Award nominations and won nine Oscars. He won as Best Director for Gentleman's Agreement (1947) and for On the Waterfront (1954). Both A Streetcar Named Desire (1951) and On the Waterfront were nominated for twelve Academy Awards, respectively winning four and eight.
Kazan never lost his identification with the oppressed people he remembered from the depths of the Great Depression. With his many years with the Group Theater and Actors Studio in New York City and later triumphs on Broadway, he became famous "for the power and intensity of his actors' performances." He was the pivotal figure in launching the film careers of Marlon Brando, James Dean, Julie Harris, Eva Marie Saint, Warren Beatty, Lee Remick, Karl Malden, and many others. Seven of Kazan's films won a total of 20 Academy Awards. Dustin Hoffman commented that he "doubted whether he, Robert De Niro, or Al Pacino, would have become actors without Mr. Kazan's influence."
Upon his death, at the age of 94, the New York Times described him as "one of the most honored and influential directors in Broadway and Hollywood history." The Death of a Salesman and A Streetcar Named Desire, two plays he directed, are considered to be some of the greatest of the 20th century. Although he became a respected director on Broadway, he made an equally impressive transition into one of the major film directors of his time. Critic William Baer notes that throughout his career "he constantly rose to the challenge of his own aspirations", adding that "he was a pioneer and visionary who greatly affected the history of both stage and cinema". Certain of his film-related material and personal papers are contained in the Wesleyan University Cinema Archives to which scholars and media experts from around the world may have full access.
His controversial stand during his testimony in front of the House Committee on Un-American Activities (HUAC) in 1952, became the low point in his career, although he remained convinced that he made the right decision to give the names of Communist Party members. He stated in an interview in 1976:
- I would rather do what I did than crawl in front of a ritualistic Left and lie the way those other comrades did, and betray my own soul. I didn't betray it. I made a difficult decision.
During his career, Kazan won both Tony and Oscar Awards for directing on stage and screen. In 1982, President Ronald Reagan presented him with the Kennedy Center honors award, a national tribute for lifetime achievement in the arts. At the ceremony, screenwriter Budd Schulberg, who wrote On the Waterfront, thanked his lifelong friend saying, "Elia Kazan has touched us all with his capacity to honor not only the heroic man, but the hero in every man."
In 1999, when he was 90 years old, Kazan received an honorary Oscar for lifetime achievement. During the ceremony, he was accompanied by Martin Scorsese and Robert De Niro. The propriety of such an honor for Kazan who "named names" at the HUAC hearings remains contentious. Many in Hollywood felt that enough time had passed since the hearings that it was appropriate to recognize Kazan's accomplishments in this manner, although others in attendance of the ceremony did not and would not applaud, including actors Ed Harris and Nick Nolte; on the other side, Warren Beatty, a liberal, gave Kazan a standing ovation. Kazan appreciated the award:
- I want to thank the Academy for its courage, its generosity. Thank you all very much. Now I can just slip away.
Martin Scorsese has directed a film documentary, A Letter to Elia (2010), considered to be an "intensely personal and deeply moving tribute" to Kazan. Scorsese was "captivated" by Kazan's films as a young man, and the documentary mirrors his own life story while he also credits Kazan as the inspiration for his becoming a filmmaker. It won a Peabody Award in 2010.
Awards and honors
|Year||Film||Oscar nominations||Oscar wins|
|1937||People of the Cumberland (as assistant director only)|
|1940||City for Conquest (as actor only)|
|1941||Blues in the Night (as actor only)|
|1945||A Tree Grows in Brooklyn||2||1|
|Watchtower Over Tomorrow|
|1947||The Sea of Grass|
|1950||Panic in the Streets||1||1|
|1951||A Streetcar Named Desire||12||4|
|1953||Man on a Tightrope|
|1954||On the Waterfront||12||8|
|1955||East of Eden||4||1|
|1957||A Face in the Crowd|
|1961||Splendor in the Grass||2||1|
|1976||The Last Tycoon||1|
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Recently, Signum University MA student Mickey Corso presented his thesis “The Lady and Our Lady: Galadriel as a ‘Reflexion’ of Mary” to the public, which we were able to record for posterity. You can see the abstract and full discussion video below, and you can get a copy of the paper in the Signum library or here.
Besides the fact that a strong consideration of J.R.R. Tolkien and his Roman Catholic context along this line is sorely needed, I am proud to have been Mickey’s Supervisor. In this video, Mickey spent a bit of time presenting his ideas before responding to questions by me, by his second reader Dr. Sara Brown, and by the quite robust live audience. A global real-time conversation with research is one of the advantages of an interactive Thesis Theater. I hope that Mickey’s research can deepen your connection to Tolkien’s works.
J.R.R. Tolkien asserted that
“The Lord of the Rings is of course a fundamentally religious and Catholic work; unconsciously so at first, but consciously in the revision” (Letters 142).
In particular, Tolkien noted the influence of his devotion to the Virgin Mary on the character of Galadriel:
“I think it is true that I owe much of this character to Christian and Catholic teaching and imagination about Mary” (Letters 320).
While many Tolkien scholars and critics have affirmed or argued against this connection, there is no comprehensive presentation of specific evidence for Tolkien’s claim through a close reading of the text in the context of Tolkien’s English Catholic piety and worldview.
This thesis investigates such evidence and demonstrates a reciprocal applicability, or reflexion, between Tolkien’s primary world devotion to Mary and his secondary world Galadriel. After articulating what Marian pious practices were widespread in early twentieth century Catholicism in England and considering the probability that Tolkien engaged in such practices, the thesis traces Galadriel’s depiction through the manuscript history into final form and relates it to prayers and teachings current in Marian piety to shed light on Galadriel’s development.
About the Presenter
Michael J. Corso, Ph.D. is a lifelong Tolkien fan who is excited to have earned a degree at Signum University. He also has a doctorate in Theology and Education from Boston College and is currently the chair of the theology department at Catholic Memorial School in Boston—where he regularly brings up Tolkien to his students. “Mickey,” as he is known to family and friends, is married to Catherine, his wife of 35 years, and has two daughters, Rebecca and Elise, who are themselves enthusiasts of all things Middle-earth.
About Signum Thesis Theaters
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This Creative Writing programme at The University of Wales Trinity Saint David is designed for committed writers who wish to complete significant pieces of work and generally broaden their experience as writers.
The programme offers participants an opportunity to work with a range of writers across a number of genres, both campus based and visiting. It also introduces students to understanding how publishing works.
Modules focus on acquiring an understanding of creativity and genre, research skills for writers, and self determined projects. The creative project/dissertation element of the course allows students to develop work of a publishable standard with an individual tutor.
- Through its links to a host of subjects including Drama, Media, Journalism, Film Studies and Theatre Studies, Creative Writing offers a range of possible writing opportunities. Our location in west Wales enables us to draw on opportunities in a developing area of film and television production here.
- Students are introduced to understanding the world of the self-employed writer by being introduced to publishing (from approaching publishers, the steps of publication, the necessity of documents such as AI sheets), self-presentation in readings, collaborative, cross-disciplinary projects, residencies etc.
- One of the biggest areas of growth is viral advertising narratives and there are also collaborative opportunities in games design and narrative. Links with Literature or History can lead to other possibilities, for example into careers involving narratives associated with archives and museums.
- More widely the focus on both the structure and detail of language develops skills essential to any high-level graduate employment: to formulate and write clear and coherent narratives that present complex information to mixed (or at least varied) audiences. In addition, the programme focus on the respect and listening skills of the workshop is equally valuable. These skills are essential to any of the professions that deal directly with people. These may include social work, probation services, mental health advocates etc.
- The Craft of Writing: Exploring Voice, Form, and Practice
- Writing Workshop: Researching and writing to a single focus
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- Creative Writing Project (Dissertation)
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- Other applicants without a first degree but with a level of experience are also encouraged to apply. In all cases a writing sample and interview will form the major part of the application process.
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World Water Day is on Thursday, March 22. It is a day to not only celebrate the gift of water, but to also learn what we can do to protect this precious resource. In North Carolina, water pollution from coal ash, the residue from burning coal for electricity, is a huge state-wide problem that can no longer be ignored.
In order to educate and activate citizens who care about protecting our water, we have some great events planned in Charlotte and Asheville! We ask that you RSVP here.
Clean Water Not Coal Ash Cookout and Rally in Asheville, Thursday, March 22 at 5 p.m.
Join us for Clean Water Not Coal Ash Cookout and Rally with Western North Carolina Alliance. This event will be held on the shores of Lake Julian Park, across the way from the Asheville power plant.
The two high-hazard coal ash ponds at the plant are situated near I-26 and the French Broad River, and the community of Julian Trails.
Groundwater monitoring has revealed levels of boron, iron and manganese that exceed state groundwater standards. Samples taken from the plant’s discharge were tested in 2009 and were found to contain arsenic at more than 18 times the state’s health standard for fish consumption and drinking water.
Join us from 5 to 7 p.m. and hear from speakers like Hartwell Carson, the French Broad Riverkeeper, Richard Fireman with Interfaith Power & Light, and a local community member who has fugitive coal ash dust that lands in her backyard.
Come by, have a burger, meet other concerned citizens and learn what you can do to help.
Call Duke Energy Out Coal Ash Tour in Charlotte, this Saturday, March 17 at 1 p.m.
We are teaming up with Greenpeace to take citizens on a guided tour of coal ash ponds associated with the Riverbend power plant, with award-winning independent journalist, Rhiannon Fionn. The event will be this Saturday, March 17. We will be meeting in front of Duke Energy’s headquarters at 550 S.Tryon St. at 1 p.m. to load into a bus.
The Riverbend plant is owned and operated by Duke Energy, and is on the shore of Mountain Island Lake, where Charlotte and surrounding areas get their drinking water.
Not only is iron and manganese showing up in extremely high levels in groundwater surrounding the impoundments, testing by the Catawba Riverkeeper has found high levels of arsenic in the sediment of the lake.
Please join us for one of these two events, and bring your friends- we need to continue to grow our movement to protect our clean water.
And if you can’t make it, please sign our petition to the N.C. Department of Environment and Natural Resources and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency asking them to step up and protect us from coal polluters who are using our waters as dumping grounds for their toxic waste.
So what’s the big deal about coal ash?
Turning coal into electricity has tremendous impacts on our water at every step in the process, mostly through the release of heavy metals into our air and water. While the toxic contents of coal may vary depending on where the coal is mined, coal contains some of the world’s deadliest toxic metals: arsenic, lead, mercury, cadmium, chromium and selenium.
The waste from mountaintop removal coal mining has buried and polluted over 2000 miles of streams.
When coal is burned, more heavy metals are released into our air which then lands into our waterways, which is why mercury pollution of our waterways is rampant.
After coal is burned, about 10% is left behind in the form of coal ash. Coal ash is like liquid coal concentrate, because most of the coal is gone, leaving behind a lot of heavy metals.
Electric utilities tend to store coal ash in wet impoundments, and often those impoundments are unlined. Coal ash can leach into the groundwater below and make its way to people’s wells, lakes, rivers and streams.
In North Carolina, the big coal polluters are Duke Energy and Progress Energy. Combined, Duke and Progress have 14 plants across the state and produce over 5 million tons of coal ash– every year.
And a number of these plants are decades old so their coal ash impoundments can be upwards of 6-9 stories tall and contain several millions tons of coal ash.
Monitoring required by the state Department of Environment and Natural Resources reveals that heavy metals are migrating into our groundwater from all 14 coal-fired power plants in North Carolina.
These coal ash impoundments are located near rivers, lakes, and drinking water supplies; it’s easy to imagine that these toxins are making their way to those important water sources.
While the groundwater pollution is technically illegal, power plants are actually given permission by the state to actually dump untreated wastewater, full of heavy metals, into nearby waterways.
Another danger is the possibility that these huge impoundments, held back by earthen dams, could break, releasing a toxic wall of water and coal ash. 12 of the 26 coal ash ponds in North Carolina have a high-hazard designation, meaning that should a dam break occur, loss of human life would be likely.
With all of this very real danger, most people don’t even know what coal ash is and if they live near a coal ash impoundment.
So please join us if you can in Asheville and Charlotte.
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A Potty Training "Day in the Life"
Let’s talk POTTY TRAINING and ROUTINES… my two favorite topics 😝! A lot of the time mamas know what they should be doing or want to start doing, but aren’t quite sure HOW or WHEN to do it. If you’re like me and you do well with structure, calendars, and checking things off a list, this sample day-in-the-life is for you! 👆Once these activities become part of your child’s daily routine and they EXPECT them to happen, the more progress and less resistance you’ll see.
In my opinion, there is SO much more to potty training than simply expecting your child to begin going in the toilet, and voila! No more accidents 🙃 In reality, the process typically takes time and building awareness, interest, and buy-in (aka making it FUN!) is key.
If you’re still feeling lost, want to know HOW to actually do the above without your child spinning into a meltdown, or simply feel like you need more guidance, I am running another round of my 5-day POTTY TRAINING BOOTCAMP program 🚽💩 - we start July 20! I will help guide you through the process so you don’t have to feel confused, lost, or unsure about who’s advice to follow. Imagine having all of the info in one place! 👏 Link in my bio to learn more + to sign-up.
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Moscow is a city in northern Idaho, situated along the Washington/Idaho border, with a population of 23,800 at the 2010 census. The county seat and largest city of Latah County, Moscow is the home of the University of Idaho, the land grant institution and primary research university for the state, as well as the home of New Saint Andrews College.
Moscow is the principal city in the Moscow, Idaho Micropolitan Statistical Area, which includes Latah County. The city contains over 60% of the county's population and while the university is the dominant employer in Moscow, the city also serves as an agricultural and commercial hub for the Palouse region. Moscow is the birthplace of coach Hec Edmundson, writer Carol Ryrie Brink, singer Josh Ritter, and composer Zae Munn.
Along with the rest of northern Idaho, Moscow resides in the Pacific Time Zone, and the elevation of its city center is above sea level. Major highways serving the city are US-95 (north-south) and Highway 8 (east-west), both of which are routed through central Moscow. Limited commercial air service is four miles west (6 km) at the Pullman-Moscow Regional Airport.
Main Street runs north-south through Moscow along the 117th meridian west.
According to the United States Census Bureau, the city has a total area of , all of it land.
The city of Moscow lies on the eastern edge of the Palouse region of North Central Idaho in the Columbia River Plateau. East of the city is a valley within the mountains of the Palouse Range to the northeast, whose highest point is Moscow Mountain at above sea level. The less prominent Paradise Ridge at and Tomer Butte at are southeast of the city. Paradise Creek, with headwaters on Moscow Mountain to the northeast, flows through Moscow, then crosses the state border and joins the south fork of the Palouse River near Pullman, which eventually drains into the Snake River and Columbia River on its way to the Pacific Ocean.
The geology in and around Moscow represents varied formations: very old intrusive granite structures of the Jurassic−Eocene Idaho Batholith, fertile fields atop rolling hills of deep Pleistocene loess of the Palouse Formation deposited after the last ice age by westerly winds, and flood-worn channels of the Columbia River Basalt Group.
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Bioremediation of Soil Containing Toxaphene and DDT
The application of DARAMEND® served to reductively dechlorinate and subsequently mineralize chlorinated herbicides and pesticides present in soil. This project was the third in a series of three pilot-scale projects aimed at validating DARAMEND® bioremediation for use on various chlorinated organic pesticides.
Treatment of about 250 tons of soil impacted with various chlorinated pesticides including Toxaphene and DDT was conducted in a covered in situ treatment cell. Toxaphene, the principle target contaminant, is known to be extremely recalcitrant and is generally considered to resist biodegradation. Due to the in situ nature of this application, soil contaminant concentrations were highly variable and spatially distributed. For example, Toxaphene concentrations ranged from 1,600 mg/kg closest to the former production facility, to 12 mg/kg at the furthest point. The higher pesticide concentrations presented a particularly significant challenge for effective remediation.
The treatment process involved the application of DARAMEND® to a 60 cm thick layer of soil within a treatment area. To prevent unwanted precipitation from impacting treatment, the treatment area was covered with a polyethylene - clad greenhouse. Soil undergoing treatment was subjected to several anaerobic/aerobic treatment cycles. Anaerobic conditions were generated by the application of DARAMEND® organic amendments and zero valent powdered iron. Soil was then irrigated to increase the soil moisture content to 90% of the soil water holding capacity to minimize the diffusion of oxygen into the soil. Aerobic conditions were generated through the repeated introduction of oxygen into the soil via mechanical tillage. Eight separate treatment cycles were required to achieve the remedial goal in some areas of the treatment cell (total DARAMEND loading was <3.5% by weight).
The mean concentrations of the key target contaminants, Toxaphene and DDT, were reduced from 239 mg/kg and 89.7 mg/kg to 5.1 mg/kg and 16.5 mg/kg, respectively. This corresponded to 98% and 82% reductions in contaminant concentrations.
In heavily impacted areas of the treatment cell, the Toxaphene concentration was reduced from 1,600 mg/kg to 11 mg/kg after eight treatment cycles. The application of four additional treatment cycles in this area resulted in a further reduction of Toxaphene concentration to 5.1 mg/kg, which corresponds to a 99.7% reduction.
Estimates to apply this technology full scale at a similar site are approximately at $95/ton, including the treatment cell cover, and about $75/ton if the cover was not required.
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The Future of Mankind by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin
Pierre Teilhard de Chardin, S.J., was professor of geology at the Catholic Institute in Paris, director of the National Geologic Survey of China, and director of the National Research Center of France. He died in New York City in 1955. Published by Harper & Row, New York and Evanston, 1959. This material was prepared for Religion Online by Ted and Winnie Brock.
Chapter 19: On The Probable Coming of an ‘Ultra-Humanity’
1. Physico-biological definition of the Human: a specific super-state of living matter
At a first approximation, if to begin with we try to observe it from a purely experimental standpoint, the Human amounts to no more than a particular fragment of matter brought locally to a state of extreme complexity or (which seems to be only another aspect of the same phenomenon) extreme ‘corpuscularity’: the effect of its elaboration being to bring about the positive predominance, on a reflective level, of the purposeful operation of individual centers of action over the workings of hazard and large numbers.
On a reflective level: that is what it is important to understand. From the beginning and throughout the history of the vitalization of matter we see the progressive growth of what is in fact psychism within more and more complex and interiorized organic systems (living super-molecules). Millions of years before the birth of Man, the animal felt, discovered and knew; but its consciousness remained simple and direct. Only Man upon this earth, completing the circle of knowledge in the depths of himself knows that he knows -- with the multiplicity of consequences that we all experience, without having fully assessed their stupendous biological significance: prevision of the future, construction of ordered systems, power of invention, regulation (and rebounding) of the evolutionary process, etc. . . . We often hear talk of the ‘intellectual fringe of instinct’ and ‘animal intelligence’. Such expressions, to the extent that the word ‘intelligence’ is interpreted in its full sense of reflective psychism, are scientifically false and dangerous inasmuch as they conceal or invalidate the formidable event represented by the ‘punctiform’ in-folding of a psychic core upon itself -- that is to say, the progress of Consciousness from the first to the second stage of its powers. It is, of course, perfectly legitimate to regard all the biological stems composing the Biosphere as proceeding equally, each according to its own orientation, in the universal direction of considered thought. But what is even more certain, so that it becomes self-evident when we observe the revolutionary biological superiority of Thought over Instinct, is that if a given Phylum X, shall we say, preceding the anthropoids, had succeeded in passing the barrier separating reflective consciousness from direct consciousness, Man would never have come into existence: instead of him, Phylum X would have woven and constituted the Noosphere.
In short, sharply sundered by a critical evolutionary stage from the layers of organized matter in which he exists, Man does indeed represent, at the heart (or summit) of Life, a core of hyper-psychized’ cosmic substance, perfectly defined and instantly recognizable by its growing, pervasive power of reasoned auto-evolution which, so far as we know, it is unique in possessing.
2. Growth of the Human: the Historical Phase of Expansion
The fact that a crucial discontinuity exists between the purely animated envelope of the Earth and its thinking envelope (i.e. between the Biosphere and the Noosphere), which is manifest in the fundamentally different proceedings of Life on either side of this gap between the two layers, naturally does not mean that the Human sprang into existence among the Living in an immediate state of completeness.
In the first place, there is a wide zone of obscurity at the level of the zoological surface of hominization, seemingly impenetrable to our most searching methods of investigating the past, in which we can discern almost no outward evidence of the distinction between Irreflection and Reflection, although this had already been born. The human fetus in the earliest stages of its development, when it is virtually incapable of morphological definition, is a case in point. Even if by some inconceivable chance we were to come upon their traces, can we be sure that we should be able to recognize the first thinking beings, either by their bones or the products of their activity?
And when we come to those increasingly well-defined zones m which Mankind (become almost world-wide by the beginning of the Quaternary Period) spreads and grows as it approaches nearer to ourselves, the fact is surely undeniable -- moreover, it is a phenomenon loaded with consequences -- that in a Mankind in process of planetary expansion, the Human (or Reflective) behaves like a physical magnitude, not simply variable but irresistibly rising: like a vapor which becomes increasingly gaseous as it departs in a rising temperature from its point of liquefaction.
Let us note the two main phases, one anatomical, the other social, of this process of trans-hominization.
a The anatomical phase. A question that has long been debated among anthropologists is that of how far, given the osteological characteristics of a particular cranium, it is possible to deduce, not only the shape of the brain housed within the cranium, but the particular kind of psychism contained in the brain. It is increasingly clear that in the present state of our knowledge the process is beset by innumerable pitfalls. Nevertheless, in certain cases and within approximate limits, the attempt can yield useful results.
Generally speaking the brain of the hominized mammal not only grows rapidly in size, particularly in its frontal region, but also increases in what one might call its ‘compacity’ -- structurally through the development of associations among the sensory areas, and geometrically through the global folding of the lobes and hemispheres upon each other.
It seems logical, this being so, to postulate the osteological existence, at the beginning of anthropogenesis, of a prehominid fossil stage represented by crania decidedly less curved upon themselves (less ‘globular’) than is the case with modern man: a presumption which is borne out by the very significant fact that at this pre-hominid stage Mankind seems to have been made up of a more or less divergent sheaf of ethnic shoots (‘sub-phyla’?), very much more independent of one another than any racial groups have since been. These indications suggest that the Reflective element, although already discernible in that remote period, had not yet attained the degree of perfection in its functioning that it possesses today.
In fact, it is not until we reach the artist populations of the Upper Pleistocene Age -- the naturalist’s Homo sapiens -- that we really come, in a cerebral and phyletic sense, to the Human in full course of organic consolidation upon itself.
b The Social Phase. I say deliberately ‘in full course’ and not in a full state of completion’: because (and this is what we must realize) it is at this point, in order to ensure the continuance of the process of hominization, that the social element enters to take the place of the ‘anatomical’, which is at least temporarily arrested.
A great many of our contemporaries, perhaps the majority, still regard the technico-cultural knitting together of human society as a sort of para-biological epi-phenomenon very inferior in organic value to other combinations achieved on the molecular or cellular scale by the forces of Life. But in terms of sound science this tendency to minimize its importance is wholly unwarrantable. For if the distinguishing characteristic of authentically ‘vital’ arrangements of matter is that their ‘psychic temperature’ rises proportionately to their degree of complexity, how can we withhold the status of organisms (in the fullest sense) from the groupings, so strongly ‘psychogenic’ in their nature, which are effected within the human mass by socialization?
By this interpretation, it seems to me, nothing is more wrong than to treat the Human as though it has been biologically stationary since the ending of the Ice Age. It may be that to macroscopic observation nothing has changed during this period in the generalized arrangement of the cerebral neurons. But on the other hand, what an extraordinary and irreversible increase of collective consciousness is manifest in the growth, association and opposition of techniques, visions, passions and ideas! What an intensification of reflective life!
Indeed the grand problem with which Man confronts the biologist is not that of deciding whether anthropogenesis has effectively continued its physico-psychic progress during the past thirty thousand years, since the answer to this is clearly evident. It is far more a matter of determining whether, having reached the boundaries of its geographical expansion, Mankind may not be in process of leveling out, its vitality undermined by the very excess of its dimensions.
And here a great surprise awaits us.
3. Growth of the Human. The modern phase of super -- compression
For us to regard present-day Mankind as socially complete, it would be necessary for it, having achieved the limit of planetary expansion as it has now done, to show an appreciable waning of its power of numerical increase. But what we are witnessing is the exact opposite. The statistics for a century past show no gradual stabilization but an immense rise m the earth’s population. It is as though, being geographically compressed, Mankind were rebounding numerically upon itself; with the result that we can now clearly see the tightly meshed mechanism which from the first, although more or less obscurely, has governed its development.
At the beginning of the process we have increasingly severe demographic pressure, forcing the human mass to adapt itself as best it can to the confined surface of the earth: an inescapable, mathematical compression, of necessity entailing a concerted effort by individuals to find means of organizing their communal lives by arranging the world around them. So we have inventive effort and the growth of Reflection (i.e. that which is Human) within the Noosphere: a growth which is again transformed (to the degree in which the increasingly reflective and hominized individual acquires a larger radius of influence and greater powers of action) into a further increase of planetary compression. So it goes on: ever-tightening compression compelling ever more Reflection . . .
From the first beginnings of History, let me repeat, this principle of the compressive generation of consciousness has been ceaselessly at work in the human mass. But from the moment -- we have just reached it ! -- when the compression of populations in the teeming continents gains a decided ascendancy over their movement of expansion upon the earth’s surface, the process is speeded up to a staggering extent. We are today witnessing a truly explosive growth of technology and research, bringing an increasing mastery, both theoretical and practical, of the secrets and sources of cosmic energy at every level and in every form; and, correlative with this, the rapid heightening of what I have called the psychic temperature of the earth. A single glance at the over-all picture of surface chaos is enough to assure us that this is so. We see a human tide bearing us upward with all the force of a contracting star; not a spreading tide, as we might suppose, but one that is rising: the ineluctable growth on our horizon of a true state of ‘ultra-humanity’
4. The Face of the Ultra-Human
Clearly, in the light of what I have said, we have no grounds for expecting any relaxation, still less any end, of the process of compressive socialization which has now begun; and this being so it is fruitless to seek to escape the whirlwind that is closing in on us. What is of extreme importance, on the other hand, is that we should know what course to steer, and how we must spiritually conduct ourselves if we are to ensure that the totalitarian embrace which enfolds us will have the effect, not of de-humanizing us through mechanization, but (as seems possible) of super-humanizing us by the intensification of our powers of understanding and love.
The study of this vital question will enable us to define both the physical conditions necessary to the realization of the Ultra-Human and (to some extent!) its probable final aspect.
It may be said that for a long time, under pressure of the external forces engaged in concentrating it, the Human developed in a fashion that was mainly automatic -- spurred on principally, in Bergson’s expression, by a vis a tergo, a ‘push from behind.’ But when intelligence, which originally, as has been well said, was simply a means of survival, became gradually elevated to the function and dignity of a ‘reason for living’, it was inevitable that, with the accentuation of the forces of free will, a profound modification should become discernible in the working of anthropogenesis, and one of which we are only now beginning to experience the full effects. No doubt it is true that certain inward necessities, persisting in the most spiritualized recesses of our being, inexorably compel us to continue our forward progress. What power on earth has ever succeeded in arresting the growth of an idea or a passion, once they have taken shape? But the fact remains that, as Reflection increases, there is added and allied to this basic determinism the possibility of Man’s withdrawal or rejection of whatever does not appear to satisfy his heart or his reason. Which is to say that, given a sufficient degree of hominization, the ‘planetary sequence’ generating the Human can only continue to operate in an atmosphere of consent -- meaning, finally, under the impulsion of some desire. So that in line with, and gradually replacing, the thrust from behind or below, we see the appearance of a force of attraction coming from above which shows itself to be organically indispensable for the continuance of the sequence, indispensable for the maintenance of the evolutionary impetus, and also indispensable for the creation of an atmosphere enveloping Mankind in the process of totalization, of psychic warmth and kindness without which Man’s economic-technological grip upon the World can only crush souls together, without causing them to fuse and unite . . . The ‘pull’ after the ‘push’, as the English would say.
But whence may we expect it to come, this mysterious and indispensable force of attraction, exerting its radiance upon our minds and hearts?
In broad terms it may be affirmed that the Human, having become aware of its uncompleted state, cannot lend itself without reluctance, still less give itself with passion, to any course that may attract it unless there be some kind of discernible and definitive consummation to be looked for at the end, if only as a limit. Above all it rejects dispersal and dissolution and the circle from which there is no escape. The only air which Reflection can breathe must, of vital necessity, be that of a psychically and physically convergent Universe. There must be some peak, some revelation, some vivifying transformation at the end of the journey. Ultimately, and even under the spur of material necessity, only a hope of this kind is capable of sustaining our forward progress to the end.
But how are we to imagine it, how conceive it, this awaited peak of anthropogenesis, without which we shall refuse, and ever more stubbornly, to move at all?
Here we are confronted by two partly divergent and opposed answers: not merely theoretical and abstract solutions, but eventualities that have been slowly maturing in the experience of Man throughout the ages, and have now been abruptly brought into the daylight of our consciousness by the sudden emergence of the totalizing forces to which we are compelled to adapt ourselves.
According to the first answer (the ‘collectivist solution’) it will suffice to ensure the biological success of our evolution if Man organizes himself gradually on a global scale in a sort of closed circuit, within which each thinking element, intellectually and effectively connected with every other, will attain to a maximum of individual mastery by participating in a certain ultimate clarity of vision and extreme warmth of sympathy proper to the system as a whole. A higher state of consciousness diffused through the ultra-technified, ultra-socialized, ultra-cerebralized layers of the human mass, but without the emergence (neither necessary nor conceivable) at any point in the system of a universal, defined and autonomous Center of Reflection: this, by the first hypothesis, is all we are entitled to look for or desire as the eventual highest end of hominization.
According to the second answer on the other hand (the personalist solution’) a Center about which everything will be grouped, a keystone of the vault, is precisely what we must look for and postulate with all our strength, in order that nothing in the human edifice may crumble. For by this theory, if a real power of love does not arise at the heart of Evolution, stronger than all individual egotisms and passions, how can the Noosphere ever be stabilized? And if a nucleus of ultra-consistency does not emerge at the heart of the cosmic movement, by its presence ensuring the ultimate preservation of all the incommunicable sum of Reflection sublimated through the ages by anthropogenesis, how shall we be persuaded (even under the external pressure of planetary shrinkage) to embark upon a journey leading to total Death? Indeed, to fuse together the human multitude (even taken in its present state of super-compression) without crushing it, it seems essential that there should be a field of attraction at once powerful and irreversible, and such as cannot emanate collectively from a simple nebula of reflecting atoms, but which requires as its source a self-subsisting, strongly personalized star.
This, at least by implication, is the sense of Christian argument and feeling during two thousand years. I am convinced that it is a belief that the urgency of events will increasingly compel biologists and psychologists to adopt. So that the greatest event in the history of the Earth, now taking place, may be the gradual discovery, by those with eyes to see, not merely of Something but of Someone at the peak created by the convergence of the evolving Universe upon itself.
Many people, of course, will hesitate to accompany me so far in my inferences and predictions. But to keep within the bounds of what is indisputable, it appears to me that from the facts I have set forth two conclusions emerge which must be accepted by anyone who does not refuse to see what is happening in the world today.
The first is that the Human (Or the Reflective) not only genuinely represents, in the physical sense, a definite segregation of ‘cosmic matter’ raised to a higher (and ever-rising) state of complexity and consciousness; but also that this separate Human element cannot achieve its final equilibrium except by coiling and concentrating, though both compulsion and attraction, on a planetary scale upon itself, until it becomes a natural unity, organically and psychically indivisible.
The second conclusion is that, in terms of this ultimate state of organization and interiorization, our present condition is still so immature that Mankind in its existing form (and although there is nothing more ‘adult’ in the Universe with which, thus far, we can compare it) cannot be scientifically regarded as anything more than an organism which has not yet emerged from the embryonic stage.
So that in any event, whether personally centrated or a-centrated in its eventual form (we may leave that question open) a vast realm of the Ultra-Human lies ahead of us: a realm in which we shall not be able to survive, or super-live, except by developing and embracing on earth, to the utmost extent, all the powers of common vision and unanimization that are available to us.
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This paper aims to find the preferred combinations of illuminance and color temperature under RGB LED lighting in living rooms and to compare them with those found in the previous research under RGB fluorescent lighting. Subjective experiments were carried out using scale models illuminated by RGB LEDs with the dimmer. "Preference" and "Brightness" were evaluated as the scenes of "Relaxing" and "Getting together". 25 combinations which consist of 5 illuminances (501x, 1001x, 2001x, 4001x, 8001x) and 5 color temperatures (3000K, 3500K, 4200K, 5000K, 6500K) were investigated. Although the color rendering indices under RGB LED lighting were significantly lower than RGB fluorescent lighting, preferred combinations of illuminance and color temperature found were very similar to those under RGB fluorescent lighting.
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
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Nearly all healthcare organizations responding to a survey -- 96% -- reported that patient or related information has been lost, stolen, or otherwise compromised within the last two years.
The number of data breaches involving protected health information rose by 32% from 2010, according to interview data published online by the independent privacy and data protection group the Ponemon Institute.
Three out of 10 respondents (29%) said a data breach resulted in medical identity theft -- up 26%.
And two out of five respondents (41%) blamed data breaches on employee negligence -- not following data-handling procedures, sloppy mistakes, and using unsecure electronic devices -- and 49% reported lost or stolen devices. Third-party errors were responsible for 46% of breaches.
Information was collected through interviews with senior-level staff at 72 healthcare organizations regarding data loss and theft experiences at their facilities. Sites included parent holding companies of healthcare organizations, parts of a healthcare network, and individual hospitals or clinics. Staff interviewed included security, administration, privacy, compliance, finance, and clinical personnel. An average of four staff members were interviewed per site.
Breaches were most often detected by an employee (51%), but were also detected through audits and assessments (43%) and patient complaints (35%).
More than half of respondents said they had little or no confidence that all breaches were detected (55%), and 57% had little or no confidence that all patient data loss or thefts had been detected.
A growing number of healthcare facilities -- more than 80% -- use mobile devices to transmit, store, and/or collect protected patient health information, but half of respondents said those devices were unsecured, the institute wrote in a statement accompanying the report.
They found that 22% of organizations say their budget is sufficient for minimizing data breach instances. And although 83% of hospitals have a written policy and procedure for contacting authorities in the event of a data breach, 57% didn't think the policies were effective at curbing breaches.
The researchers outlined steps for patients and organizations to secure data and prevent future breaches, loss, or adverse effects of a loss. For patients, this included:
- Reading Explanation of Benefits and Medicare Summary Notices for missing goods or services
- Keeping online account passwords secure by using different passwords for each account, and making passwords not easily guessable
- Avoiding phishing emails, texts, and phone calls that may compromise personal data
- Contacting government agencies to keep a flag on personal files
- Monitoring financial accounts for suspicious activity
For healthcare organizations, they suggested:
- Creating inventories of private health data, including information about how that data is collected, used, stored, and disposed of
- Establishing an incident response plan that designates roles and creates guidelines in the event of a breach
- Reviewing contracts and agreements made with third-party information handlers
The study was limited by a number of factors. Data were collected through self report, and only a small segment -- 14% -- of healthcare organizations contacted responded to an interview request. Results of interviews were skewed to larger-sized groups. Interviews were mostly limited to staff tasked with protection, security, privacy, and compliance. The researchers also noted that some normatively important variables were omitted from the analyses.
The study was carried out by the Ponemon Institute, a data protection and security research group, through funding by ID Experts.
ID Experts is a data breach protection provider.
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A pilot study conducted by Davidson Water, a drinking water utility located in Lexington, North Carolina, indicated that by using Arad Group’s Octave ultrasonic bulk water meter, utilities can maximize accuracy while minimizing losses.
Davidson Water pilot-tested a variety of meters before choosing Master Meter, the North American arm of the Arad Group, to provide 60,000 Octave digital water meters with no moving parts and the ability to capture low flows. The Octave was chosen to provide reliability and accurate data logging information to Davidson Water’s residential customers.
Robert Walters, vice president of construction and engineering with Davidson Water said in a radio interview with Water Online that some of the products on the market were problematic. He said that moving parts made some meters an easy target for vandalism, and sizing inaccuracies led to incorrect flow measurements that resulted in customers being overcharged for their usage.
Walters said that Davidson Water chose Master Meter’s products for their superior reliability and performance and, 10 years later, was still a customer.
“The Octave Ultrasonic Meter can capture the full range of usage to help the end user with both the water bill and the sewer bill,” said Walters. “We believe that there’s a lot of promise for the future for these types of meters because, with no moving parts, nothing needs to be repaired or replaced.”
“The main problem with large meters is to capture all the water. Customers who use large meters at times have extremely low usable flows because of leaks, and the large meters don’t have the capability to capture the very small leaks,” Walters said. “That’s the great thing about the Octave. It’s able to capture some extremely low flows.” | <urn:uuid:9d262437-5019-4c55-9aeb-18900c7fe2e1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://arad.co.il/blog/davidson-water-uses-arad-octave-ultrasonic-meter-to-minimize-loss/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281649.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00448-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9567 | 369 | 2.234375 | 2 |
As the core component of the hydraulic end of the plunger pump, the emulsion pump head body bears great pressure. Therefore, the finite element analysis of the pump head body is of great significance to improving the reliability and rationality of product design. Due to the particularity of the pump head body structure, studying its processing technology and improving processing efficiency is the key to reducing production costs and improving product competitiveness. Analyze the movement law of the plunger pump, the pulsating flow rate and the pressure fluctuation caused by the pulsating flow rate, so as to obtain the relevant factors that cause the pressure fluctuation, provide a theoretical basis for the design and improvement of the plunger pump, and also for the analysis of the pump head body The state of force provides an important theoretical basis.
Use to analyze the stress distribution law and fatigue life distribution state of the emulsion pump head body under the maximum force condition, and propose improvement measures for the pump head structure based on the analysis results. According to the working conditions and structural characteristics of the pump head body, the process route of the pump head body from material, blank, large diameter hole nesting, lathing stepped holes, milling inch threads, rolling to hydraulic self-reinforcement is given, and the analysis is focused on The characteristics of nesting drills, selecting the structure type of workpiece rotation and external chip removal, detailed analysis of nesting drill drilling related technology, such as cutting power, cutting amount selection, cooling and chip removal, and nesting drills are different from ordinary holes Auxiliary device for processing equipment.
Tool parameters are an important factor affecting the machining efficiency and service life of the tool. Since the nest drill works in a confined space, while meeting the processing efficiency, the determination of chip breaking and chip removal is the key to the design of the nest drill. The influence of the tool axial vibration on the cutting angle during the hole drilling process is analyzed, and the theoretical basis for the influence factors of the hole axis deflection is given. Inch thread processing is performed by milling, and the application of macro programs improves the efficiency of thread milling. In order to increase the strength and service life of the pump head body, the inner cavity is prestressed by the hydraulic self-reinforcement method of the inner hole. | <urn:uuid:9478e67b-033b-4a77-bfc8-46475e8718d1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.youtuosprayer.com/news/design-analysis-and-manufacturing-process-research-of-plastic-pump-head.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.921155 | 466 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Former NFL player Emmanuel Acho penned a very compelling article “The Myth of the Angry Black Man”, in which he lays out a succinct history of its origin and how it was used by the ruling class, after the civil war and reconstruction, to keep Black people powerless and enslaved.
To do this they had to convince the white masses that despite the abolition of slavery, the containment of Blacks as a sub-class was in their best interest. And one of the most persuasive tools is fear. Enter cinematography to permanently etch on the eyelids of mankind a violently aggressive Black male, with uncontrollable sexual urges and a strong penchant for white women.
The portrayal of Black people in general, and the Black man in particular as massively threatening still persists even to this day. Darren Wilson, the 6 feet 4 inches tall, 210 pounds gentile/European officer who shot and killed Michael Brown, a 6 feet 4 inches tall, 289 pounds Black teen, said of him that he displayed extraordinary strength. “I felt like a 5-year-old holding on to Hulk Hogan.” Wilson also said of Brown “he had the most intense aggressive face. It looks like a demon, that’s how angry he looked.”
Throughout history Black men have not been afforded the same freedom of emotion, especially anger, for the most part, for public perception sake, as their gentile counterpart. And have suppressed a God created expression other races are privileged to feel with impunity. But there is ONE, who is Black, who will not hide his fury so as not to offend. Neither will he attempt to appear less threatening so that none are afraid, oh no. He has a grievance with the races and will provoke them to confrontation. And though they by second amendment take up arms to detain him or use lethal force to force him to obey, he will not be apprehended because he, Jesus that is, “WILL NOT MEET THEE AS A MAN.”
Isaiah 47:1 Come down, and sit in the dust, O virgin daughter of Babylon (Gentiles), sit on the ground: there is no throne, O daughter of the Chaldeans: for thou shalt no more be called tender and delicate.3 Thy nakedness shall be uncovered, yea, thy shame shall be seen: I will take vengeance, and I will not meet thee as a man.
Establishing His Blackness
“Cancel Culture” a term one can hardly go a day without hearing is politicized by “some” to accuse “the other” of the removal and/or destruction of their sacred historical statutes, monuments and narrative from the archives of American history. I hear it most prominently from evangelical Christians who, since the take-over of the gospel narrative, have been actively involved in a bit of culture cancellation of their own. As the myth of the angry Black man was a grand plot to change the perception of Black men in the eyes of white America, so is the myth of a white Jesus intended to alter the perception of the God of all creation to the whole world.
In Song of Solomon Jesus, a Jew, is described as ruddy, a reddish-brown hue on the color spectrum. The book of Revelation says His feet were like refined copper/bronze. Israel, Jesus’ brethren, is described in Lamentations as having bodies more ruddy than rubies. And it is recorded that David, in 1 Samuel 17, also a Jew and King of Israel 14 generations prior to Jesus’ birth, was likewise, you guessed it, ruddy. So how is it that an entire nation of ruddiness is erased and replaced with a people of pale complexion? It’s simple, cancel culture.
Jesus the Angry God
Many pastors paint a picture of a loving Jesus whose only joy is to fulfill our every wish and command. But while Jesus is the most loving God anyone could ever imagine, who else gave their life to save the world, contrary to popular preaching, his love is reserved for those who love and obey him, Proverbs 8:17 I love them that love me. And let’s face it. This ain’t that world.
This isn’t exactly the paradise he had in mind when starting His creation a second time after drowning the first. And that for not loving him the way he wanted to be loved. Corruption, wickedness and violence abounded then as it does now. And just like he didn’t allow it to go unpunished then he will not allow it to go unpunished now. He has a set time when he will return and WOE, (anguish, affliction, distress, despair and tribulation), to everyone whom his anger is aimed.
Gentrification by Elimination
Isaiah 5:8 Woe unto them that join house to house, that lay field to field, till there be no place, that they may be placed alone in the midst of the earth!
Gentrification is the process of changing the character of a neighborhood by bringing in newer more affluent businesses and people. This “transformation,” however, rarely takes place without elimination of the current usually poorer residents. Urban communities are typically the hunting ground for this redistribution of wealth from the poor to the rich. And valuable land in these underdeveloped areas ends up in the hands of rich developers. Natural Raw Ruby The less wealthy residents are then driven from their long-time family homes and communities by rising taxes and equity vultures not seeking to incorporate them into the new landscape but encouraging them to leave. But where shall the poor and not so rich go?
The documentary “70 Acres in Chicago” chronicles the demolition of the Cabrini Green housing projects and is a prime example of the devastation experienced by those being uprooted. In it residents describe the trauma. The sound of the wrecking ball as their homes were being destroyed and the sight of more affluent ones erected in their place. Demolished too and irreplaceable were the relationships, extended family, friends, and sense of community made stronger in the best and worst of times.
Gentrification not only takes place in inner-cities but countries as well. Gentiles seize valuable land in majority black countries, displace the indigenous people and replace them with foreigners. Apartheid, South Africa’s legal system of segregation, under British-immigrant control, that forcibly removed Black South Africans from their fertile land and gave it to white farmers, is a history not soon forgotten and one that, to this day, has left those adversely affected in poverty.
God hates respect of persons – esteeming the rich more highly than the poor when the Lord is maker of them all. Doesn’t the scripture say God has chosen the poor of this world rich in faith, and heirs of the kingdom? But at the same time to the rich, they shall hardly make it in who think more highly of themselves or trust in the uncertainty of riches. And those who do trust in riches and not God:
Psalm 52:5 God shall pluck you out of your house and root you out of the land of the living.
Micah 2:1 Woe to them that devise iniquity, and work evil upon their beds! when the morning is light, they practise it, because it is in the power of their hand. 2 And they covet fields, and take them by violence; and houses, and take them away: so they oppress a man and his house, even a man and his heritage. 3 Therefore thus saith the Lord; Behold, against this family do I devise an evil, from which ye shall not remove your necks; neither shall ye go haughtily: for this time is evil.
All Work and Low Wage Makes Jack a Poor Boy
Malachi 3:5 And I will come near to you to judgment; and I will be a swift witness against…those that oppress the hireling in his wages, and fear not me, saith the Lord of hosts.
In college I was required to read “The Jungle” the 1906 novel by Upton Sinclair, depicting the harsh working conditions of the working poor in the meat packing industry in the nineteenth century. Meat packing was big business and always in need of labor. And for those wanting employment, usually immigrants, it was a place to find it. Crowds of men would show up each day with hopes of being selected. And in the event of a worker shortage due to accidental dismemberment of finger or limb, discarding that worker, at a moment’s notice, for yet another eager and able-body was all in a day’s profits.
The industry paid employees ZERO dollars in healthcare coverage. That unaffordable burden lay solely on the worker whose wages were already inadequate for the cost of living and whose future potential to support himself or his family after an incident was greatly diminished.
Since the pandemic it’s been once again laid bare that the solution of livable wages is still only a talking point. When businesses were mandated to close, the federal government issued COVID relief payments to low wage workers many of whom for the first time were able to make ends meet.
Months later as businesses looked to reopen, they were greeted by a workforce unwilling to choose their low wage, no paid sick leave or benefits jobs, over their current federal subsidies that get the bills paid, even if temporal. And of course there were those in government holding the purse strings who were more than anxious to force the choice by ending the federal credits. Thinking of those who refused to return to a poverty-line existence, a drain on the very system that provides every politician what workers are denied: good wages, healthcare and benefits.
And speaking of a drain on the system, how many were equally as displeased by the 2020 report by the Government Accountability Office, which ranked big companies Walmart and McDonalds among top employers of full-time employees receiving federal assistance due to their low wages. These same companies then claim a significant share of the sales from those utilizing federal programs, rolling those taxpayer dollars back into these big businesses’ profits multiple times.
Jeremiah 22:13 Woe unto him that buildeth his house by unrighteousness, and his chambers by wrong; that useth his neighbour’s service without wages, and giveth him not for his work;
Jeremiah 23:1 Woe be unto the pastors that destroy and scatter the sheep of my pasture! saith the Lord.
Any given Sunday, the first day of the week, many churches gather either in person or virtually in the name of the Lord. The choir sings, the offering is collected and the pastor delivers a spirited word. Only problem that word can’t be confirmed in God’s word – the Bible. And that’s not me talking.
Many pastors have destroyed my vineyard, they have trodden my portion under foot, they have made my pleasant portion a desolate wilderness Jeremiah 12:10.
In other words, because of many pastors my people have about as much knowledge as a desert has water. Listen to many evangelicals and they speak of abortion as the greatest sin. But the Bible warns of the sin that goes on in church houses more than any other because the blasphemy taught from pulpits, social media, television, and radio each day to multiple countries around the world in the name of Jesus, kills millions more spiritually than abortion ever could.
The spiritually dead are the walking dead in the churches who have sipped on the fine wine of lies and deception until they are now drunk with false doctrine, Isaiah 29:9. Many are unaware of their condition. So I challenge you let us reason together. Let’s put scripture on the table and prove what is true. If our churches are really all we claim them to be, then their teaching should withstand the test of scripture.
1. I started out by saying most churches meet on Sunday, the first day of the week but the Lord’s Sabbath is the seventh day. If this is your church, I challenge you to ask your Pastor why you meet on the first day instead of the Lord’s Sabbath. The explanation will be quite fascinating but I GUARANTEE it won’t be biblical.
2. Legalism – a new-fangled Christian term to mean those who keep God’s commandments to obtain salvation are in bondage and error. And those who don’t keep his commandments are free knowing Jesus did away with the commandments because it was impossible to keep them. BUT, they say, we keep the commandments because we love God. Again, I challenge you to ask your Pastor:
a. If the commandments are abolished, why would you keep laws that no longer exist?
b. If it was impossible to keep the commandments when he commanded, how are we able to keep them because we say we love him?
c. If salvation isn’t earned by keeping the commandments, why did Jesus respond otherwise in Matthew 19:16-19, Proverbs 7:1-2?
3. It is taught that upon belief in Jesus and confession of him as Lord you are NOW saved. I challenge you to ask your Pastor:
a. What scripture says salvation is present tense?
b. Why does all of scripture confirm what is written in 1 Peter 1, salvation is reserved in heaven with Jesus to be revealed when he comes?
Spiritual death is reversible with an infusion of truth, but left unattended will eventually lead to eternal death from which there is no return.
Jeremiah 25:34 Howl, ye shepherds, and cry; and wallow yourselves in the ashes, ye principal of the flock: for the days of your slaughter and of your dispersions are accomplished; and ye shall fall like a pleasant vessel. 35 And the shepherds shall have no way to flee, nor the principal of the flock to escape. 36 A voice of the cry of the shepherds, and an howling of the principal of the flock, shall be heard: for the Lord hath spoiled their pasture.
The Lord is angry and when he returns he’s going to unleash that anger on all who do wickedly starting with the church.
1 Peter 4:17 For the time is come that judgment must begin at the house of God: and if it first begin at us, what shall the end be of them that obey not the gospel of God?
Scripture says in that day the slain of the Lord will be from one end of the earth to the other, Jeremiah 25:33. And in another, he shall judge among the nations, he shall fill the places with the dead bodies, Psalm 110:6; and I alone have trodden the winepress of the people: for I will tread them in mine anger, and trample them in my fury; their blood shall be sprinkled upon my garments, and I will stain all my raiment. For the day of vengeance is in my heart, Isaiah 63:3-4.
There is, however, hope. Until that time he has given each of us time to repent and get on his side by doing exactly what he says. Will you be like those in the days of Noah, who ignored the warning and were among the many drowned instead of the few saved? (P.S. I’m willing to bet those who drowned believed God loved them too and would save them despite). Or like Cain whose wicked thought to give God less than what he required got him cut off forever? You’re much smarter than that. Like the Apostle Paul, I am convinced of better things of you. I believe you’ll use your time wisely.
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Mashed vegetables are a staple at the holiday table, sweet or regular potatoes, butternut squash and others. Classic holiday potatoes get a bad wrap for being laden with calories and fat; however, small upgrades to classic recipes like this one can help to make a typical mashed potato recipe much healthier and lower in calories, while still maintaining delicious flavor.
These turnips were extremely easy to make, were relatively low maintenance, and this same recipe could be used with any vegetable you can mash including cauliflower, butternut squash, carrots, potatoes and more. The key is taste-testing the recipe as you go to ensure that it’s tasty and palatable. Don’t be afraid to add more spices, a little Himalayan salt, or maybe even a dash of olive oil to add more flavor.
More Tips for Upgrading Classic Holiday Recipes:
- use coconut oil or butter instead of classic butter
- use herbs and spices over salt
- use more nutrient-dense and concentrated sweeteners like maple syrup over white sugar, so you’re able to use less overall
- use plant-based milks like hemp, coconut, oat, over heavy cream and butter to maintain creaminess and taste without the extra added calories and saturated fat
Also try our other mashed veggie recipes:
Note: The nutrition facts are based off 4 small servings.
- 2 medium turnips, peeled and cut into 1-2 inch blocks (the smaller the blocks the quicker the cook time)
- 2 cups (500 ml) water (just enough to cover the turnips in the pot)
- 3 sage leaves (or 1 tbsp dried sage)
- 1/2 cup (125 ml) coconut milk
- 1/2 tbsp coconut oil
- salt and pepper, to taste
- 1 – 2 tbsp. maple syrup (optional)
- Wash turnips well, then peel and cut into small cubes.
- Add cubed turnips to a pot with the water and coconut milk. Cook for 20 minutes over medium-low heat. (You also have the option to roast the turnips: Add the cubed turnips to a roasting pan with coconut or olive oil, sage, sea salt and pepper and bake in the oven for 25 – 30 minutes at 425 F or 220 C, until fork tender. Then continue with step 4.)
- Add 2 sage leaves (or 1/2 tbsp of dried sage), salt and pepper to boiling pot and let simmer, stirring occasionally for another 25 – 30 minutes, or until soft.
- Once turnips are soft, drain water and coconut milk. Using a masher or a fork mash the turnips until smooth desired consistency is achieved. (You can also use a food processor for a smoother consistency.)
- Add coconut oil and extra sage, and a pinch of salt and pepper.
- Serve and enjoy!
Prep time: 10 minutes
Cook time: 50 minutes
Total time: 60 minutes
- Nutrition per serving:
- Saturated Fat3g
- Protein 1g
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You know that amazing feeling you get when someone sits down beside you and listens deeply to what you’re saying and how you’re feeling? When they:
- listen patiently as you struggle to describe the challenges and name the emotions you’re feeling,
- allow you to name the bad things as well as the good things (without trying to fix it!),
- take the time to put themselves in your shoes and say things like “Wow, that must’ve been really scary” (and actually mean it!), and
- cheer you on as you explore how God might see the situation…?
My husband and I are learning to do this for each other in a deeper way – and it is fantastic :-)!
As we know this process builds connection and trust and intimacy. And also helps us grow into the best version of ourselves.
It is so good that it is not just for adults. This process works so well that we need to remember to use it with our children.
Yes, right now, in the midst of all this uncertainty, this connection, trust and intimacy is exactly what our children need to help them feel safe!
Of course we want to teach our children, correct our children, direct our children. And of course (at times) we also need to teach our children, correct our children, direct our children.
But in order for our children to accept our teaching, our correcting, our directing, they need to first feel connected with us.
Can you tell that I’m preaching to myself, here? I’ve been too directive around my children this week, too keen to implement robust “morning jobs” for the whole family….
… which means that now is the perfect time for me to revisit the genius of the “No-Wrong-Answer-Question”.
Its genius lies in its effect on us, the adult. It prevents us from slipping into teaching or correcting mode. It helps us to listen, unconditionally, to our children’s opinions and experiences.
Because, seriously, amazing things can happen when we wait it out just a little bit longer than we are comfortable with….. I’ve been a visiting storyteller to classrooms in which all sorts of holy moments have occurred from the most mundane beginnings. Sometimes children’s reflections on dog poo, on stealing all the food, on dying …. really do progress to great insights.
So today let’s explore asking questions that do not have a wrong answer.. Because, yes, it takes a lot of practice, and yes, it is totally worth it!
And I wonder what happens inside you when you ask the right “no-wrong-answer-question” and listen deeply to your child’s answer?
Raising Happy Healthy Christian Kids
Your Domestic Ark
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Marilyn Timms, on being an artist:
Being creative is not simply carefully crafting form and design,creativity builds on opening up to brand new ways of seeing. Everything in life is creative so, when one listens to life, new ideas and ways of expressing oneself appear. Life keeps teaching me that the subject is of minimal importance but the exploration of what occurs when paint and water mix, now that is huge. As a teacher, my job is to excite the student. As an artist, my job is to excite myself (and the viewer). I must feel good when I paint, not confined or restricted in any way.
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Deepwater sculpins (Myoxocephalus thompsonii) are an important link in deepwater benthic foodwebs of the Great Lakes. Little information exists about deepwater sculpin spawning habits and early life history ecology due to difficulty in sampling deep offshore habitats. Larval and age-0 deepwater sculpins collected in northern Lake Huron and the Detroit River during 2007 were used to improve our understanding of their habitat use, diet, age, and growth. Peak larval density reached 8.4/1000 m3 in the Detroit River during April and was higher than that in Lake Huron. Offshore bottom trawls at DeTour and Hammond Bay first collected benthic age-0 deepwater sculpins in early September when fish were ≥ 25 mm TL. Otolith analysis revealed that hatch dates for pelagic larvae occurred during late March and larvae remained pelagic for 40 to 60 days. Diet of pelagic larvae (10–21 mm TL) was dominated by calanoid copepods at all sample locations. Diets of benthic age-0 fish varied by location and depth: Mysis and chironomids were prevalent in fish from Hammond Bay and the 91 m site at DeTour, but only chironomids were found in fish from the 37 m DeTour site. This work showed that nearshore epilimnetic sites were important for pelagic larvae and an ontogenetic shift from pelagic planktivore to benthivore occurred at about 25 mm TL in late summer. Age analysis showed that larvae remained pelagic long enough to be transported through the St. Clair–Detroit River system, Lake Erie, and the Niagara River, potentially contributing to populations in Lake Ontario. | <urn:uuid:72357073-ff45-4be9-aa16-9973b013b49f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubs.er.usgs.gov/publication/70103039 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.965641 | 357 | 2.859375 | 3 |
TECH SUPPLIER Mar 2022 - Market Perspective - Doc # EUR148883622
The Impact of the Semiconductor Shortage on European Industries: When Technology Deadlocks Spill Into the Wider Economy
This IDC Market Perspective analyzes the effects of the semiconductor shortage in Europe from 2020 across industries. The report focuses on the main causes behind the industry shortage before analyzing tech industry impacts by subvertical. The report also covers spillover effects in other industries (manufacturing, retail/wholesale, healthcare, transport, utilities, etc.). The report proceeds to analyze European organizations and their reactions to the semiconductor shortage. Finally, the report provides actionable insights for tech providers and end users facing the risks of a continued semiconductor shortage market dynamic.
"Tech suppliers need to be aware of the long-term market to position their strategies in this increasingly complex and uncertain scenario. The spillover effects on European economies created by the semiconductor shortage of 2021 may create unpredictable and unprecedented ripple effects that may alter other market dynamics even after shortages are over," said Anielle Guedes, senior research analyst, IDC European Customer Insights & Analysis.
"Considering the persistence of the semiconductor shortage crisis and its long-term butterfly effect, a wait-and-see approach is not a promising strategy for tech providers and buyers that want to react to this lingering headwind. More proactive actions — such as embracing open global value chains and accelerating the transition to hardware-agnostic solutions — are needed, and they are urgent," said Andrea Siviero, associate research director, IDC European Customer Insights & Analysis. | <urn:uuid:d79160d7-877b-4bad-9753-b9aca59e8cd3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.idc.com/getdoc.jsp?containerId=EUR148883622 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00064.warc.gz | en | 0.888897 | 335 | 1.632813 | 2 |
Mesenchymal stem cells are reported to exist all over the human body and are a promising tool for regenerative medicine. Our research group focuses on stem cells extracted from body fat (adipose tissue derived stem cells; ASCs) which are ethically uncritical. There is no need to propagate adipose tissue derived stem cells in cell culture since a reasonable number of these cells can be harvested from a little amount of fat.
Imagine loosing body fat by liposuction to treat a disease with your own stem cells. This is not just a figment of controlled imagination - it's the future of personal cell based therapy.
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The best thing about making mistakes is that it provides several opportunities to test one’s fortitude and character. Once you realize you screwed up, you can either act dumb and pretend you didn’t know you messed up, or you can look around to see if anyone else saw or heard you mess up and if they didn’t, you can then decide if you will fix your mistake or continue to act dumb. However, if you make a mistake and others see that you have made a mistake, here is what you do:
- Make sure what you did is actually a mistake – there is a small chance that what you thought was a mistake, wasn’t.
- If another person realizes your mistake, approach the person, explain what happened and then immediately begin to make it right.
- Now, if you erred in your words to another person, said something you regret, or lied, then that will take a bit of humbling of spirit. It’s better to just approach the person, not in a sappy superficial manner, but sincerely tell the other person, what you did and that you regret it.
- The key to admitting mistakes is to leave out the blame! Don’t try to sneak in excuses for what you did or said; don’t blame others for your mistake. No one wants to have to dig through your excuses to determine if you are truly sorry.
- Once you confess your mistake, simply be quiet. The other person may or may not forgive you, but you have no control over that. Your part is to admit the mistake, not manipulate the results or the other person. Confession alone should make you feel loads lighter.
You might be thinking, why admit my mistake if no one knows about it. Well, because integrity is an important thing, even if know other one knows – YOU know, and a believe it or not, your knowing your mistake will affect you more than others. Like the saying goes, holding a grievance inside is like drinking poison and expecting the other person to get sick and die. That won’t happen, will it? If you leave mistakes unfinished, they will haunt you. Even if you can put it out of your head, your soul will know it. It is not worth it.
Not only that, if your mistake is small, or really didn’t hurt anyone, you should still try to make it right because by doing that you will start to establish a foundation of integrity and self-preservation. That is always good.
So, If you did it, or said it, go confess it. Only good can come out of approaching mistakes with positive reactions and making things right. | <urn:uuid:b1b7464e-f854-43c6-9e59-366248e1a2f6> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.howtodothings.com/business/how-to-admit-mistakes | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719566.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00261-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.959813 | 556 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Genetic & Developmental Defects or Injuries
This neotropical bird spent the 2014-15 winter in Maryland staying at an apartment complex where residents fed the birds. He showed developmental defects in both feet with the right foot being more severe, yet he still seemed to manage well through life.
From this perspective the defects of both feet can be appreciated. The other two pictures below show greater detail.
In this picture he is balancing himself on his right foot stump while the left foot with its digits is clearly seen. It is possible that the left two digits are still fused.
The left foot shows blunt ends of the digits without nails. The right foot shows the initiation of forming three digits which never developed. | <urn:uuid:da00a809-efd3-4529-86fd-a7089459bf99> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.knaturfoto.com/genetics-summer-tanager | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.938755 | 150 | 1.976563 | 2 |
Bidorbuy has facilitated the online sale of a R210,000 ZAR 1892 Kruger pond.
According to bidorbuy this is an extremely rare coin which experts in the business will know about. This coin was given an extremely high rating by the Numismatic Guaranty Corporation of America (NGC).
“Those who trade in rare South African coins will know that a NGC grading of MS61 is of the highest grading a coin can have and that the coin itself is one of three ever to be graded by the NGC,” said bidorbuy.
Buying SA coins is not just a hobby though, there are also good financial reason for venturing down this path according to the online auction house.
SA coins are a good long-term investment according to bidorbuy: “In a recent international publication it was reported that most ZAR coins dated between 1874 and 1902 have doubled in value over the last year which although may not provide you with real money dividends, or instant monetary payouts, the fact remains that coin collections will yield gains in the long term.”
There are also those who may feel the gold is a safe bet as it serves as the ultimate protection or “hedge” against major crises such as economic collapse and global uncertainty.
Why pay R210,000 for a coin?
The buyer of the coin who wishes to remain anonymous says, “South Africa has a wealth of rare coins which are of high value due to the fact that not many were minted until much later on in our history. Rare South African coins also carry an intangible quality that contributes heavily to the coins value, the history of the coin. All of the rare South African coins carry a story; they are a fold in the page of our history books that teach us about where we are from and how we have evolved through time.”
The most valuable ZAR coin
South Africa’s rarest and most valuable coin at the moment is called the “Single 9” aka “The King of World Coins”, with a mintage of only one.
This exceptional South African resident has converted its value of R1, 500,000 ($326,087) in 1996 to today’s value of R18, 000,000 ($3,000,000) and it is said to eventually appreciate to a staggering $50,000,000 in years to come. | <urn:uuid:68567998-b60f-43f6-ad5d-91b1f5211b2b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://mybroadband.co.za/vb/showthread.php/291307-Coin-sells-for-R210-000-on-bidorbuy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00306-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966399 | 505 | 1.578125 | 2 |
AbstractLanguage resources are a major ingredient for the advancement of language technologies. Citizen linguistics can help to create language resources and annotate language resources, not only for the improvement of language technologies, such as machine translation but also for the advancement of linguistic research. The (language) resources covered in this article are a corpus related to the Question of the Month project strand, which was initially aimed at co-creation in citizen linguistics and a partially annotated database of pictures of written text in different languages found in the public sphere. The number of participants in these project strands differed significantly. Especially those activities that were related to data collection (and analysis) had a significantly higher number of contributions per participant. This especially held true for the activities with (prize) incentives. Nevertheless, the activities of the Question of the Month could reach a higher number of participants, even after the co-creation approach was no longer followed. In addition, the Question of the Month brought research gaps and new knowledge to light and challenged existing paradigms and practices. These are especially important for the advancement of scholarly research. Citizen linguistics can help gather and analyze linguistic data, including language resources, in a short period of time. Thus, it may help increase the access to and availability of language resources. | <urn:uuid:8d884ed7-1117-4c66-82f0-437e50a33909> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aclanthology.org/2020.cllrd-1.2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.946247 | 256 | 3 | 3 |
Student Rights & FERPA
The Family Educational Rights and Privacy Act (FERPA) affords students certain rights with respect to their educational records:
- The right to inspect and review their educational records with 45 days after request to the University. — A student may request to review their educational records by submitting a written, signed request to the Office of the Registrar indicating which records they wish to review. The Registrar will review the request, make arrangements for access and notify of when and where the records can be inspected.
- The right to request an amendment to a record the student believes to be inaccurate, misleading, or otherwise in violation of the student's privacy rights under FERPA. — A student who wishes to ask the University to amend their record must submit a written request identifying the record to be changed and the reason why it should be changed. If the custodian of the record and the student agree that information is inaccurate, misleading, or in violation of the student's rights, the custodian may make the necessary correction.However, if there is a dispute regarding the change, the student may request an Administrative Hearing Board hearing. If the decision of the Administrative Hearing Board is unsatisfactory to the student, the student may request a statement commenting on the information be placed upon the record. If the student believes that the resolution is not consistent with FERPA, he or she may file a complaint with the US Department of Education.
- The right to provide written consent before the University discloses personally identifiable information from the student's record, except to the extent FERPA authorizes disclosure without consent. — A student must provide a written request to release records which contain personally identifiable information. The written request must include which records are to be released, the purpose of the disclosure, the party to whom the records is to be released to, and be signed and dated by the student.
- The right to file a complaint with the U.S. Department of Education concerning alleged failures by the University to comply with the requirement of FERPA. — A student has the right to file a complaint alleging violation of FERPA within 180 days of the alleged violation to Family Compliance Office, Department of Education, 400 Maryland Ave SW, Washington, DC 20202-5901.
The Faculty Staff Handbook Section 2600 defines student education records, the custodian of records, and who has access to the records.
What is Directory Information?
Directory information are those items contained in the education record of a student that would not generally be considered harmful or an invasion of privacy. The items considered directory are:
- Student's name
- Individual photograph or electronic image
- Local address and telephone number
- Permanent address and telephone number
- Electronic mail address
- Academic major
- Full-time or part-time status
- Academic and other honors
- Heights and weights of members of athletic teams
- Specific athletic achievements
- Letters of commendation
- High schools and other academic institutions attended
- Scholarships awarded
- Withdrawal date
- Degree earned and date is was conferred
- Dates of attendance
- Leadership positions in university organizations
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Many of the traits described in Chapter 2 are emphasized again below. Kim Novak needs to be especially wary of the tendency to be oblivious to the personal feelings of others; otherwise she sometimes hurts others' feelings without realizing it.
She is a freedom-loving, strong-willed and independent-minded individual, and she insists upon living her own life as she sees fit, even if it means ignoring convention and tradition. In personal relationships, Kim Novak cannot be owned or possessed, and while she is willing to share herself with another, she does not always adjust easily to the emotional give and take of close relationships. Though intellectually open, Novak can be enormously stubborn, opinionated and inflexible on a one-to-one level. Kim has strong convictions and feelings about fairness and equality, and she tries to abide by them; however, her ideals about how people "should" treat one another do not always take into account human weaknesses, differences and needs. Kim Novak probably dislikes sentimentality and traditional gender roles and "games".
She is fair, intelligent, objective and rational and she often let her head rule rather than her heart. Kim Novak seems rather self-sufficient and emotionally detached because she is capable of putting aside her personal feelings and viewing things dispassionately. But once Kim makes up her mind on an issue, it is difficult to dissuade her, and she can be rather dogmatic.
Kim Novak thinks in broad terms and is concerned with the world beyond her own personal sphere - her town, nation, or even planet. She is likely to become involved in, or show a keen interest in, community endeavors, social organizations and groups of all kinds. She enjoys being part of a group endeavor, and she often assumes the role of organizing, managing or supervising group activities.
Forward-looking and progressive, she harbors great hopes for the future. Kim Novak stays current and up to date, and responds to contemporary cultural trends, both in terms of personal style and ideas. When young, Kim Novak was very influenced by peer pressure and by all the "latest crazes". Kim has an experimental mind and is attracted to novelty.
Her strong points include her concern for human welfare and social betterment, her sense of fairness and democratic spirit, and her vision. Her faults are her stubbornness and inflexibility, and a tendency to be very obtuse and insensitive when it comes to personal feelings and human needs.
Kim Novak has a clear sense of her own self and she therefore conveys a strong impression to others of who she is and what she wants. Assertive and self-motivated, Novak can be a leader - one whom others look to for direction - but she competes and often clash with other strong individuals. Kim Novak feels a need to be in control of her own life and she can be too self-involved, too immersed in her own interests, and oblivious to others at times.
Kim Novak tends to see things from her perspective only and to be rather subjective. She also enjoys talking and expressing her views but does not always listen as well. Kim Novak has a clear mind, a love of learning and new experiences, and she needs constant mental stimulation and activity.
She is apt to be a fanatic in some way, and cannot go halfway in anything she does. Her extremism may seem (and actually be) obsessive and somewhat blind. That is, Kim Novak does not always consciously understand why she feels as driven or intense about a given course of action as she does. There is a strong element of fate or inevitability in Novak's life. A significant death or loss in her close relationships is apt to profoundly influence Kim Novak and shape important decisions in her life, and she may consciously seek out intense, life-or-death experiences as well.
She is inclined to feel uncomfortable or restrained in some way in the presence of others and prefer to be alone. Kim Novak is modest and shy in her approach to others and tends to accept more responsibility than she really needs to.
Kim Novak loves to entertain and likes to cultivate social contacts. She enjoys forming close personal relationships with others and most of them should be harmonious. Kim prefers teamwork rather than separate efforts to realize her goals.
Astrological factors in this Astro Profile section:
Ascendant in Aquarius and Sun in Aquarius
Sun in Aquarius
Sun in 1st house
Sun Conjunct Mercury
Sun Quincunx Pluto
Sun Conjunct Saturn/N. Node
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Who would never have wished for a sound and peaceful sleep?. Well everybody do want to have a good rest every night. Sleeping is the natural process of rest observed by our body, occurring at regular intervals and necessary for the maintenance of health, it is the period of rest in which an individual loses awareness of his or her surroundings. It is when all of a person’s activity decreases and muscles relax.. Having enough sleep in a day will give you lots of benefits and not to mention starting your day in the right mood and full of energy, is our body and mind’s means to refresh and rejuvenate. Sleep may also have other benefits like improving physical and immune function, physical and cognitive performance and regulating mood. What would an individual be without sleep or even letting the body and mind without any sort of rest? an individual will feel very tired, uneasy, unable to think decisively and properly, is uneasy, lame, and goes on with a very very bad day.
There are several health benefits of sleep. Some of the major health benefits of good sleep are as below –
1. A proper sleep is necessary for good eye sight (vision). If you do not sleep properly at night then you will have defective vision.
2. Emaciation, weakness, impotency, sterility, lack of knowledge and death may be result of poor sleep.
3. A good night sleep strengthens the presence of your mind and consciousness. It makes you feel energized and physically more alert.
4. It enhances your memory and learning capacity. Getting adequate sleep will help you remember and process things better.
5. Good sleep strengthens your immune system and makes you less prone to various illnesses.
6. It reduces stress, tension and anxiety. A proper sleep allows your body to rest and relax. When your body lacks sleep it goes into a state of stress.
7. Good night sleep helps to lose weight. Sleep deficient individuals are more likely to be overweight or obese.
8. Good night sleep keeps your heart healthy. Lack of proper sleep has been associated with increasing blood pressure and cholesterol levels, both risk factors for heart attack and stroke.
It is certain that every individual needs to get to sleep for many reasons. As sleep is very important in our bodily process to function well. Sleeping is very important to all living things though there are disorders with regard to this natural bodily process. If an individual suffers from a sleep disorder like insomnia, it is needless to worry because there are means of relieving them and get that time your really need or really wanted to sleep. If you have noticed any individual who have the right length of sleep or have the body rested long enough compared to those who hadn’t, has enough or too much energy to start the day right. That person is also very logical and can think properly to perform a task or job and has a very active mind. That person’s interpersonal ability boost up as well. And if you have any sleeping disorders please contact me to learn how you can reverse this naturally without any addictive medications with harmful side effects or invasive medical treatments.
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An integration of existential psychology
and the multimodal model.
For example, cognitive psychology is compared and contrasted with behavior analysis, humanism, interbehaviorism, operant subjectivity, phenomenological and existential psychology
, and psychoanalysis.
Courage is a philosophical construct that belongs to the field of ontology and has been discussed in depth in the existential psychology
literature (May, 1967, 1969, 1975).
Drawing on the existential psychology
framework, I focused on aligning with the resistance.
Rooted in existential psychology
, primarily the work of Ernest Becker (1973), TMT attempts to understand the psychological mechanics involved in how persons cope with existential "terrors," most notably the fear of death.
Kaklauskas and Albert Chan, explores the commonalities and differences of existential psychology
and psychotherapy with cross cultural exchanges.
The educational adventure, taking place March 27 through April 14, includes a lecture in existential psychology
In her class, she illustrates the rich multi-disciplinary historical roots of contemporary psychology by tracing the history of the term psychology and examining its meanings in the existential psychology
of Soren Kierkegaard and in the 19th century novel.
Barry Chabot feels that for Frost, "walls perform a dual function; they both separate people, allowing them to keep their identity intact, and permit them because their integrity is assured, to approach each other" "The Melancholy Dualism of Robert Frost," Review of Existential Psychology
and Psychiatry [XIII.
The four givens, or premises, of the human condition that existential psychology
addresses are discussed in this section.
While it's certainly not a celebration of any belief system, ``Ice Harvest'' is informed by Ramis' recent contemplations of such diverse philosophies as Buddhism, existential psychology
and his own Jewish faith.
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Zephaniah is the next book we are studying in our chronological walkthrough of the Old Testament writing prophets. With Zephaniah, we again encounter a prophet who is not mentioned outside of the book that bears his name. Nevertheless, what we read about this prophet suggests that he had more of an impact on the history of God’s people than might be discerned at first glance.
In verse 1 of today’s passage, Zephaniah traces his ancestry to Hezekiah. While there is not presently enough evidence to be sure of Hezekiah’s identity, many commentators believe that it is none other than King Hezekiah of Judah, whose righteousness exceeded most of Judah’s other rulers (2 Kings 18:1–8). This conclusion is due to the fact that while the common people of Judah are not entirely outside of Zephaniah’s concern, he refers most directly to the ruling class of Judah—princes, court officials, priests, and kings (Zeph. 1:8–9; 3:3–4). One commentator even suggests the intriguing possibility that if Zephaniah had a connection to the royal court of Judah because he was Hezekiah’s descendant, he may have been a shaping influence on young Josiah. That would help explain Josiah’s piety once he ascended Judah’s throne (2 Kings 22:1–23:20).
Josiah reigned from about 640–609 BC, which gives us an approximate time frame for Zephaniah’s ministry, since he prophesied “in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah” (Zeph. 1:1). Because the prophet mentions evident idolatry and other wickedness (vv. 4–5, 8–9), it is more likely that he ministered during the early part of Josiah’s reign, before the king’s religious reforms began in earnest. However, interpreting Zephaniah’s oracles rightly does not depend on locating his preaching with chronological precision. He proclaimed the day of the Lord without reference to a specific historical event (vv. 14–16), indicating that his main concern was the final day of judgment and not the historical anticipation of it that occurred when Babylon conquered Jerusalem.
Although Zephaniah lived in an era of religious reformation, his announcement of the day of the Lord indicates that even the most thorough societal reforms are useless without heart change. From our perspective, reform may delay the day of the Lord (though God has fixed that day in His eternal decree; Mark 13:32–37), but humanity’s wickedness means that God must act to vindicate His justice and purify creation. | <urn:uuid:f207a259-1710-46f2-a1e7-2ce739f1a810> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://tabletalkmagazine.com/daily-study/2013/05/zephaniah-and-the-day-of-the-lord/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.95032 | 573 | 3.625 | 4 |
Guest Author - Gayle E. Santana
Book Review: Coffee--The Essential Guide to the Essential Bean
Background of the authors:
“Coffee: The Essential guide to The Essential Bean” is written by Catherine Calvert with recipes by Jane Stacey. The Author, Catherine Calvert, was a former features editor for “ Town and Country Magazine”, editor-at-large for “Victoria Magazine”, and author of “Having Tea, Lace” and “The Romance of British Colonial Style”. Jane Stacey, who wrote the recipes in this book, is an accomplished chef, cook and food stylist, and has worked on several books by Martha Stewart.
If with this book in hand, you settle in for a long read with a hot cup of coffee, you had better drink fast. This book is an ambitious endeavor covering a large amount of material in a very short space. With more than half of this book filled with recipes, this leaves only around 60 pages to cover where coffee began, European Traditions, America’s take on it all and a coffee lexicon, not to mention the obligatory photographs.
I can’t say it is a disappointment though because "The Essential Guide" does deliver on its promise giving you a hefty dose albeit quick of being the essential guide to the essential bean. Not only does it include history and traditions, it includes everything you wanted to know about our daily experience like types of grinds, roasts, equipment, storage, making your own blends and a bit about ten of the major coffee growing countries.
Although the book was printed 15 years ago and the story of coffee is certainly always evolving, coffee is also a timeless drink and the book is rich with history, traditions and basic information that is still relevant today.
More than half the book is filled with recipes for coffee drinks, recipes that include coffee and recipes that pair well with coffee--so they say--although some of those recipes and their actual connection with coffee were lost on me. There is no guidance or discussion on this subject and I was disappointed that there weren’t more recipes that included coffee in the list of ingredients.
All in all this book, in spite of its age and shortcomings, still has a permanent place on my book shelf between more the more in depth and the more contemporary offerings I already own as both a reference manual and a recipe book. | <urn:uuid:fbb1ea88-18a9-4f86-9f41-2ac607566b54> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.bellaonline.com/articles/art64067.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00189-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974909 | 498 | 1.625 | 2 |
The Graffiti Rock in Saudi Arabia has a stunning collection of petroglyphs—proving that graffiti is an ancient art form. But in our modern world, it’s been both reviled and romanticized. The fact that it’s illegal—often done without consent on private and public property—perpetuates those sorts of perceptions.
It’s often done under the cover of night. It’s connected with hip hop culture. With gangs. It’s aped in high art. It’s lovingly collected in underground magazines (and above-ground ones.)
What’s interesting about Jeremy Watterson’s exhibit Big Sky Boxcar is that it’s a series of photographs of graffiti here, in Missoula: Graffiti that comes through via boxcar, graffiti from local artists and graffiti from people passing through. For cities and authorities, it’s an expensive annoyance. For other people, it adds another aesthetic to everything else that is part of our viewshed.
Watterson was born and raised on the Fort Peck Indian Reservation in northeastern Montana and he holds a degree in Sociology from the University of Montana. His collection of photographs can be seen at the Zootown Arts Community Center, 235 N. 1st St. W., tonight for the opening reception from 5:30 to 8:30, where you can dig into some snacks and hear live music from Hoyt Smith. You’ll also get to see original work by artist Max Mahan graffiti-style on the gallery wall. Too good to miss. But if you can’t make it tonight, check it out before the exhibit’s end on Dec. 6. | <urn:uuid:fa28697d-d1f8-4149-a2a2-a0049bf17c6a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://m.bigskypress.com/missoula/blogs/Post?id=IndyBlog&year=2011&month=11&day=11&basename=check-it-graffiti-exhibit-tonight-at-the-zacc | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721174.97/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00283-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.923197 | 356 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Whether you want to transfer a video, music files, or other readable files, you can easily copy them to your PC computer without using any software other than the Windows Explorer program you already have. Videos on a CD are not burned into the disc like a DVD. This means there is no disc image you have to decode to view it. Your CD video may be in a number of file formats, including WMV, MP4 or AVI, all of which you can copy to your PC computer.
Insert your CD into the computer's disc drive and wait for the computer to recognize the disc. Choose to open your files using Windows Explorer. If your computer does not automatically read the CD, double-click the "CD-R" icon in the "Computer" window accessible from the "Start" menu.
Create a new folder in Windows Explorer, or select a preexisting folder to which you want the video copied.
Locate the video you want transferred off your CD. Drag and drop it into the desired folder on your PC or onto the desktop, if preferred. Wait for the copy to complete before removing the CD.
- You may right-click the video in the CD's contents and select "Send To" to choose a drive or folder where you want to copy the video.
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Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund
American Art before 1950
Stamped, on the bottom (twice): TH
Engraved, on front: [hand holding dagger] | [star symbol] P [star symbol] NS [star symbol]
1957-present, purchase by the Detroit Institute of Arts (Detroit, Michigan, USA)
attributed to Thomas Hammersley, Mug, probably between 1750 and 1780, silver. Detroit Institute of Arts, Founders Society Purchase, Gibbs-Williams Fund, 57.32.
Enoch Wood and Sons
Boston & Sandwich Glass Company
Ward and Cox
Mantua Glass Works
Lincoln and Reed
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||Eid-ul-Fitr and its injunctions|
By Mufti Taqi Usmani
The second meritorious aspect of Shawwal is that it has been chosen by Allah
Almighty for the celebration of "Eid-ul-fitr", one of the only two annual
festivals recognized by the Shari'ah. This happy day is designed by the Shari'ah
as a sign of gratefulness by the Muslims on the accomplishment of Ramadan, and
as an immediate reward by Allah for those who spent the month of Ramadan in
fasting and performing other forms of 'ibadah.
Instead of commemorating an event from the past, the Shari'ah has prescribed the
first of Shawwal as an annual festival for the Muslims at an occasion when they
themselves accomplish a great 'ibadah. This approach reminds the Muslims that
they should not rely only on the accomplishments of their ancestors, rather,
they should themselves perform meritorious acts to please their Creator.
In prescribing the ways to celebrate the happy day, Islam has adopted another
unique approach. The festivals of other religions or nations normally comprise
of some acts of rejoicing and enjoyment. The whole happy day is normally spent
in dancing, singing and playing.
In contrast, Islam has prescribed a simple yet graceful way to observe the happy
day. First of all, it is mandatory on all the well-off Muslims to start their
day by paying "Sadaqat-ul-fitr" to the poor of their society, so that they, too,
may enjoy the day along with others, and may not be worried for earning their
livelihood at least on that day of happiness.
After paying the "Sadaqat-ul-fitr", the Muslims are required to proceed to an
open place where they can offer the Eid prayer collectively. In this way, they
are supposed to present themselves before their Creator and offer two rak'ats of
this special type of Salah, which makes them receive blessings from Allah and
start their celebration by these divine blessings.
After the Salah also, they are supposed to rejoice the day in a responsible
manner, without violating the limits prescribed for them and never indulging in
the acts prohibited by Allah.
Keeping this point in view, we will now discuss specific rules prescribed for
observing the day of Eid-ul-fitr.
The Night Preceding 'Eid-ul-Fitr':
It had been the practice of the Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam, that he
would not sleep in the night preceding the day of Eid-ul-fitr. This night has
been named in a Hadith as the Night of Reward (Lailatul Jaiza). Almighty bestows
his rewards on those who have spent the month of Ramadan abiding by the dictates
of Shari'ah, and all their prayers in this night are accepted. Therefore, it is
desirable to perform nafl prayers in this night. The Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi
wa sallam, is reported to have said:
Whoever stands up (in worship) in the nights preceding the two Eids expecting
rewards from his Lord, his heart will not die when the other hearts will die. (Ibn
To benefit from this opportunity, one should perform as much worship in this
night as he can, and should pray for all his needs and desires.
Before Going to Eid Prayer:
The following acts are prescribed as Sunnah at the beginning of the day of 'Eid-ul-Fitr
before proceeding to the Eid prayer:
1. To wake up early in the morning.
2. To clean one's teeth with a Miswaak or a brush.
3. To take a bath.
4. To put on one's best available clothes.
5. To wear perfume.
6. To eat a sweet food, preferably dates, before the Eid prayer.
7. To recite the following Takbir in the low voice while going to the 'Eid
Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar La Ilaha Ila Allah Wa Allahu Akbar Allahu Akbar Wa
The second obligation on 'Eid day is to perform the 'Eid prayer. Some rules in
this respect are mentioned hereunder:
1. The Eid prayer is Wajib (obligatory) on every male Muslim.
2. The Eid prayer can be performed any time between the Ishraq and Zawal.
3. It is preferable that the 'Eid prayer is performed at an open field and not
in a mosque. However, if, it is difficult for any reason to perform it in an
open field, it can also be performed in a big mosque.
4. It is not advisable to hold the 'Eid prayer in every mosque, rather it is
preferable that the people from several small mosques get together to either
perform it in an open field or, in its absence, in a big mosque which can
accommodate a large number of people.
5. No Nafl Salah can be performed before the 'Eid prayer, neither in one's home,
nor at the place of' Eid prayer. Similarly, Nafl prayer cannot be performed
after the Eid prayer at the same place. However, it can be performed after one
comes back to his home.
6. The Eid prayer has neither Adhan nor Iqamah.
How to Perform Eid Prayer:
The Eid Prayer has two rak'ah to perform in the normal way, with the only
addition of six takbirs, three of them in the beginning of the first rak'ah, and
three of them just before ruku' in the second rak'ah. The detailed way of
performing the 'Eid prayer is as follows:
The Imam will begin the prayer without Adhan or Iqamah. He will begin the prayer
by reciting takbir of Tahrimah (Allahu Akbar). You should raise your hands up to
the ears, and reciting the takbir, you give a little pause during which you
should recite Thana' (Subhanak Allahumma.......)· After the completion of Thana'
the Imam will recite takbir (Allahu Akbar) three times, and after reciting each
Takbir (Allahu Akbar) in a low voice, you should bring your hands down and leave
them earthwards. But, after the third takbir, you should set them at the level
of your navel as you do in the normal prayer.
After these three takbirs the Imam will recite the Holy Qur'an, which you should
listen quietly. The rest of the rak'ah will be performed in the normal way.
After rising for the second rak'ah, the Imam will begin the recitations from the
Qur'an during which you should remain calm and quiet. When the Imam finishes his
recitation, he will recite three takbirs once again, but this time it will be
before bowing down for ruku'. At each takbir you should raise your hands up to
the ears, and after saying "Allahu Akbar' bring them down and leave them
earthwards. After these three takbirs have been called and completed, the Imam
will say another takbir for bowing down into the ruku' position. At this takbir
you need not raise your hands. You just bow down for your ruku' saying, 'Allahu
Akbar'. The rest of the Salah will be performed in its usual way.
Khutbah: The Address of 'Eid-ul-fitr:
In this Salah, Khutbah is a Sunnah and is delivered after the Salah, unlike the
Salah of Jumu'ah where it is Fard and is delivered before the Salah. However,
listening to the Khutbah of 'Eid Salah is wajib or necessary and must be heard
in perfect peace and silence.
It is a sunnah that the Imam begins the first Khutba by reciting takbirs 'Allahu
Akbar' nine times and the second Khutbah with reciting it seven times.
Note: The way of 'Eid prayer described above is according to the Hanafi school
of Muslim jurists. Some other jurists, like Imam Shafi'i, have some other ways
to perform it. They recite Takbir twelve times before beginning the recitations
from the Holy Qur'an in both rak'ah. This way is also permissible. If the Imam,
being of the Shafi'i school, follows this way, you can also follow him. Both
ways are based on the practice of the Prophet, Sall-Allahu alayhi wa sallam.
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Recently I wrote about the many problems polygamy tends to cause across the world, including high crime rates resulting from young men confined to singledom because older men are hoarding wives, and the subjugation of teenage girls forced to marry because there simply aren’t enough women to go around. With few exceptions, such as among India’s Toda people, a pastoral tribe in which one woman sometimes married several brothers, polygamy almost always expresses itself as the marriage of one man to several women. In America, polygamy is associated with fundamentalist Mormon culture, and more specifically with its domineering leader Warren Jeffs and his sexual abuse of underage girls.
Historically, though, there’s been an exception to the rule about plural marriage being bad for women. Polyamory, in which people openly take on multiple relationships, sometimes in the context of group marriage, has a radically different history. Nearly as marginal on the left wing of our culture as polygamy is on the right, modern-day polyamory is intertwined with the rise of feminism, and its roots go back to the ’40s— the 1840s. It’s hard to believe, but during the heart of the Victorian era, during a time when chastity was the rule, divorce was unheard of and petticoats were unmentionables, the most radical American women renounced monogamy as an instrument of their servility. A progressive attitude toward gender roles continues in the modern-day polyamory movement, which has been shepherded by women writers, historians, and organizers.
From the late 1840s to the late 1870s, under the leadership of a charismatic Christian minister named John Noyes, the Oneida commune in upstate New York conducted an experiment in promiscuity known as complex marriage. Noyes believed that sex was a kind of worship, and that in order to live without sin, men and women had to be free to worship all over the place with whoever they wanted. About 300 people lived at Oneida, and they were all considered married to one another. Noyes had radical and sometimes abhorrent ideas about sex; he tried to breed a better class of humans through eugenics, and he thought incest was just fine. (At various points he had sex with his niece, and possibly his sister.)
Despite its many faults, though, the system of complex marriage at Oneida amounted to remarkable progress for the women who lived there. Older women were responsible for teaching young men exactly how to practice spiritual sex. Men were responsible for birth control by resisting orgasms during intercourse. Oneidan women generally had sex only with whom they wanted, which, as Oneida historian Spencer Klaw points out, “could not be said of numberless married women in the world outside.” In her diary, Noyes’ niece Tirzah Miller wrote of the last, bittersweet days of complex marriage. She made love to one man, and then another, and then, while fetching a lemon for one of her lovers, came upon a third. “There seemed a subtle fire between us,” she wrote, and slipped into the bathroom with him.
This ethic of free love, honed during Noyes’ time, continued into the next century, albeit only on the fringes of society. Free love rejected the tyranny of conventional marriage, and particularly how it limited women’s lives to child-bearing, household drudgery, legal powerlessness, and, often enough, loveless sex. As historian Christine Stansell documents in her book American Moderns, bohemians paired the free-love ethic with the fight for birth control and the idea of women’s sexual self-determination. In practice, that made for some interesting romantic dynamics. The anarchist Emma Goldman lived with her boyfriend and another couple, and the four of them made love at the same time as they made political trouble. The writers Neith Boyce and Hutchins Hopgood were married to each other but compared notes on their various lovers. (“Tell me you love me and also tell me about the flirtations you are having,” Hutchins wrote Boyce.) In England, the intellectuals of the Bloomsbury group contorted themselves into all sorts of tortured love triangles.
In his book, The Lifestyle: A Look at the Erotic Rites of Swingers, journalist Terry Gould draws a direct line from Oneida to the bohemians, through the free love of the beatnik and hippie movements and into the modern-day polyamorous community. There is a thread of idealism that runs through all of it, he writes; polyamory has historically been as much about remaking one’s own little corner of the world as it has been about sex. Gould contrasts polyamory with swinging, which he traces to the most unlikely of sources—World War II era fighter pilots and their wives. Swinging thus has a more masculine and more conservative history, whereas polyamorists have tended to be more utopian, more New Age, and yes, more feminist.
In the 1970s, during what sociologist Elisabeth Sheff calls the second wave of polyamory, fringe groups around the country experimented with non-monogamy. A San Francisco-based commune called Kerista, founded by a man who called himself Jud the Prophet , consisted of three large group marriages, in which sleeping schedules were rotated regularly to keep intimacy evenly distributed. Although years later some former members would describe Kerista as a cult dominated by a charismatic man (not unlike John Noyes at Oneida), when the group was active it described itself as a product of the women’s movement. Its 1979 handbook mandated egalitarianism and required that members care for the commune’s children in “non-sexist parental roles.”
During the ’90s, the Internet sparked a third wave of polyamory, after AIDS had driven it underground during the ’80s. A Usenet newsgroup called alt.polyamory helped build a community, and a woman calling herself Morning Glory Zell, member of a “neo-Pagan” organization called the Church of All Worlds, helped popularize the term in an article called “A Bouquet of Lovers.” In more recent years, polyamory has mainstreamed somewhat, becoming fodder for features in Newsweek and on ABC’s Nightline. MTV did a True Life documentary on polyamorous young people, books like The Ethical Slut explored the topic, and Dan Savage continues to champion non-monogamy. Polyamory is no longer primarily identified with pagans and prophets.
In the most crunchy, West Coast communities, group marriages and open marriages are common enough that people can talk about being “poly” without having to explain what that is, says Sheff, a Georgia State University professor who is working on a book about polyamory. In her research, Sheff has even come across an area in Seattle populated by large polyamorous families: “You’ve heard of gayborhoods? This is the first poly-neighborhood I’ve heard of.”
Women are in many ways the driving force behind polyamory as a movement these days, having been integral in founding its organizations and documenting its history. As Jessica Bennett pointed out on Slate’s XX Factor back in 2009, the first books on the movement were written by women. Gould writes that a sizable number of polyamorous households consist of more men than women, the opposite of how polygamy typically expresses itself.
Group marriages are hardly dream harems for the women at the helm. The issues are those of monogamous relationships, but magnified considerably. In a marriage of five, who pays the bulk of the rent? Who empties the dishwasher? Polyamorous conventions tend to offer practical advice. Along with lessons in dancing in “Goddess” style, they have sessions on the logistics of large families sharing housing, and how to keep the peace between one’s various partners. Talking is the main tool of the polyamorists; they negotiate their time, their tasks, their emotional landmines.
In one triad, a female sexologist lives with her two boyfriends in Topanga, Calif. One boyfriend, with whom she has a son, works as a furniture designer, while her other boyfriend stays home and takes care of the baby. “Jealousy comes up,” the sexologist says, but they deal with it through “communication.”
On the other hand, there is something to be said for being the center of a polyamorous universe. This is the position of Terisa Greenan, an actress who lives with two men in Seattle. They all date outside the household, but this triad is their primary relationship, and both men appear deeply in love with Greenan.
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When we started what became Sencha, we made a bet on the web: a bet that modern application development didn’t need anything except the browser, a great set of frameworks and a great set of tools. With those three weapons in hand, we knew developers could build applications that would delight users. The advent of HTML5 upped the game and it gave developers even more tools to let them treat the browser as an application development platform and not a page rendering engine. Developers sprang at the opportunity and unleashed a torrent of apps — on both desktop and mobile — that leveraged the new HTML5 capabilities to build amazing applications using web standards.
So, when Mark Zuckerberg said HTML5 wasn’t ready, we took a little offense to the comment.
We thought to ourselves: HTML5 can’t really be the reason that Facebook’s mobile application was slow. We knew what the browser on modern smart phones was capable of and what kind of rich capabilities HTML5 offered. We saw the latest generation of mobile devices — running at least iOS 5 or Android 4.1 — push ever increasing performance and HTML5 implementation scores. But perhaps most importantly, we’d seen what our customers were building and the amazing things they were creating using HTML5.
“So, when Mark Zuckerberg said HTML5 wasn’t ready, we took a little offense to the comment.”
We had our suspicions about why Facebook’s mobile application team had problems, because it matched a common pattern. At Sencha, we build frameworks and tools for application developers, so we have pretty deep experience with development teams taking on HTML5 app projects. When a team has problems with HTML5, it usually stems from the fact that they take a “website” development approach to building an app, and often don’t use the right tools and architectures for application development. This is what we suspected about the Facebook HTML5 app. The way that app performed — slow loading, choppy user experience in the News Feed, low framerate — exhibited the usual symptoms.
In any event, we knew HTML5 was, in fact, ready, and we wanted to prove it. So we took it upon ourselves to rebuild the challenging parts of the Facebook mobile application in HTML5 in our spare time. Today, we’d like to introduce you to Sencha Fastbook, a technology proof of concept that shows how fast HTML5 can be, and demonstrates how readily HTML5 can be used to handle the toughest app challenges.
Learn the latest about Fastbook and the tech behind it at SenchaCon 2013. Register today!
This four-minute video gives you a quick overview of Sencha Fastbook, and shows you a side-by-side comparison of how well our HTML5 app performs against both the native iOS and the native Android Facebook apps (versions 5.2 and 1.9.12 respectively, the latest available when we made this video on December 10th). The rest of this post gets into the technical details of how we built Fastbook.
A Closer Look at the “Native” Facebook Application
We started the process of what became Fastbook by trying to understand the Zuckerberg claim that HTML5 “just wasn’t there”, and the best place to do that was to take a deep look into the latest native Facebook app on iOS. We connected an iPhone to a web debugging proxy, and started to look at the HTTP traffic the application pushed over the network. Our biggest shock: much of the application was still raw HTML pages. The News Feed had moved to native as had the profile page, but many of the other application UIs were simply HTTP GET requests to m.facebook.com. Today’s “native” Facebook application is a hybrid web / native application: there is content rendered on m.facebook.com and displayed in a UIWebView and native Objective C components mixed together.
Re-Implementing the News Feed
After we looked at how the native Facebook application worked, it was clear to us that the hardest part of the experience to build was the News Feed. Dealing with a billion content creators posting an unlimited amount of content in a completely unpredictable manner is a tough problem to solve even for the most seasoned developers, regardless of what technology they use.
We really wanted to ensure we had that smooth experience the News Feed should deliver when we re-implemented it in HTML5. To make that possible we added some new features and enhancements into the core of the current Sencha Touch framework.
It started with the implementation of an Infinite List Component that handles items with unknown sizes. Only a very small set of DOM nodes is actually created to fill in the actual visible screen area. They will then be constantly recycled to render next / previous data on-demand. As a result, memory footprint is kept minimal, regardless of the amount of data in the Store. Making this work is the easy part. Making it fast with the complexity and variety of items such as News Feed stories is the real challenge. The bottleneck lies within the core processes that a browser has to perform: layout and compositing.
Our experience with building frameworks has taught us that while a small demo component might work well on its own, it often then performs poorly when put into a much larger app. As an app grows, the DOM tree grows; and as the DOM tree grows it takes longer for the browser to calculate the layout, and the performance degrades. Moreover, as the number of visible layers increase, compositing performance for each layer also degrades dramatically. We needed a solution to make web apps more robust under large numbers of DOM nodes.
For Fastbook, the News Feed, Timeline and Story views are individually sandboxed. Since all DOM elements are re-used to render data on-demand at high frequency, reflows are inevitable. The key is to make that process as cheap as possible. Sandboxing enables the News Feed to perform as if it is standalone, while actually is still a part of the much bigger DOM tree.
“Sandboxing enables the News Feed to perform as if it is standalone, while actually is still a part of the much bigger DOM tree.”
Next, we added deeper integration to our TaskQueue, a feature we recently introduced into Sencha Touch. TaskQueue prevents the interleaving of read and write requests to the DOM, eliminating any unnecessary layouts. This, combined with the new sandboxing technique, significantly reduces costly layouts from complex views such as the Timeline and News Feed.
We then added the AnimationQueue, a new class that’s responsible for all animations and events, as well as scheduling heavy tasks for later execution during the CPU’s idle time. It acts as the framework’s traffic cop, prioritizing different operations and helps ensure the application stays responsive. When an app is animating, it suspends lower priority functions. When the app is idle, the AnimationQueue executes the suspended tasks. For example, while scrolling the News Feed at high speed, image loading and rendering is suspended until the app is idle in order to increase the scrolling performance. Additionally, heavy tasks are released gradually in a non-blocking manner with a high-speed timer. This ensures touch events always have a chance to be handled as soon as possible.
On the other hand, there are some classes of functionality that you don’t want to suspend, such as getting more data to feed the list. To help ensure this doesn’t slow down scrolling, we use Web Workers. These allow us to move XHR/RPC communications away from the UI thread. Saving network request cost and JSON encoding/decoding using Web Workers makes great use of today’s multi-core devices.
Those are the major points of what we did to bring Fastbook to life, and what allows it to perform well with pure open-standards based web technologies. It’s exciting for us to be able to show how you can leverage all the features of HTML5 to build an app like this.
One of the interesting things we found while investigating network performance of the native iOS Facebook app was that the API calls returns huge amounts of raw data to the client. A typical example is API calls made to https://graph.facebook.com/graphql/ to render News Feed items. In average, 15KB to 20KB of gzipped JSON data is transferred for every 10 items, much of that is not needed to render the actual views.
To demonstrate what could be done to optimize network transfers, we put a proxy server in place to clean up and parse the raw data returned from the Facebook FQL API. As a result, Fastbook transfers far less data than the native app to render the same views: as little as 10% to render the same items on the News Feed. The proxy also allows us to offload some of the more mundane tasks such as content formatting and filtering to the server-side.
Also, you may notice a difference in the scrolling deceleration time between the native iOS app and Fastbook. In the native app, scrolling doesn’t stop for about 3s. We decided to increase friction and reduce the animation duration to 1.4s. This not only makes content ready to read faster, it also provides extra idle time for the app to buffer more items while the user is still reading existing content.
Try It Yourself
Fastbook isn’t a replacement for the Facebook application. It’s a technology demo that shows what developers can do with HTML5 if they take the right approach, and use the right frameworks and tools. If you’ve been wondering if HTML5 is ready, try Fastbook for yourself on a modern smartphone (we recommend at least iOS 5 or Android 4.1). You’ll see that when you treat the browser as an application platform and leverage the features of HTML5 that even the most sophisticated applications can be made with HTML5. | <urn:uuid:4e891422-4948-4011-86e0-73861b3947ba> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.sencha.com/blog/the-making-of-fastbook-an-html5-love-story/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280266.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00496-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938827 | 2,055 | 1.867188 | 2 |
Daniel Goleman’s Harvard Business Review articles have been helping develop leadership skills up to the C-suite for decades. As the class of 2016 begins to enter the workforce, these highly acclaimed articles remain as relevant now as ever before.
What is it employers look for when hiring recent graduates? What Makes a Leader: Why Emotional Intelligence Matters is a collection of Dr. Goleman’s writings designed to explain the components of emotional intelligence and why they matter at work.
Recent Grads: What Makes a Leader?
Recent research by the Hay Group surveyed business leaders and recent graduates based in India, the U.S., and China. More than three-quarters of managers reported that entry-level workers and recent grads are not ready for their jobs.
According to the Hay Group, recent graduates often lack “soft skills” unrelated to their technical or cognitive abilities. These skills include key emotional intelligence (EI) abilities such as self-awareness, self-regulation, empathy and social skills.
Dr. Goleman’s article “What Makes a Leader” continues to be one of Harvard Business Review‘s best-selling articles. First published in 1998, Dr. Goleman’s message has resonated with people across all walks of life: what distinguishes outstanding leaders is emotional intelligence.
“What Makes a Leader” was just the beginning of Dr. Goleman’s writings about emotional intelligence in HBR. His next HBR article, “Leadership that Gets Results,” summarized the data from Hay Group on leadership styles that build on EI abilities and their impact on the emotional climate of organizations.
More Than Sound has reprinted “What Makes a Leader” and “Leadership that Gets Results” in a collection of Dr. Goleman’s writings, including three additional HBR articles, pieces about the importance of focus for leaders, and other recent brief articles.
What Makes a Leader: Why Emotional Intelligence Matters is available in affordable print and e-book formats, is a compact volume that delivers a wealth of insight and timely information for leaders young and old.
From Daniel Goleman’s Introduction to What Makes a Leader: Why Emotional Intelligence Matters
“This collection of my writing on leadership and EI – mainly articles I’ve written in the Harvard Business Review – reflects how my thinking has evolved. When I wrote Emotional Intelligence in the mid-1990s, I included a short chapter, called “Managing with Heart,” that made the simple argument that leaders need strengths in emotional intelligence. This, at the time, was a new and rather radical idea. That chapter, to my surprise, got lots of attention, particularly from people in management.
As I looked into the data on leadership and EI for my next book, Working with Emotional Intelligence, I became even more convinced. I took advantage of my training back in graduate school from David McClelland, who at the time was a pioneer in the method known as ”˜competence modeling,’ which allows a systematic analysis of the specific strengths that make someone in a given role an outstanding performer. When I did a rough analysis of close to 200 such models from a wide range of organizations, I found that the large majority of competencies that distinguished the best leaders were based on EI, not IQ.
That caught the eye of editors at the Harvard Business Review, who asked me to write an article summarizing this. Called ”˜What Makes a Leader,’ that article is the first chapter of this book. My next HBR article, ”˜Leadership that Gets Results’ – the second chapter here – summarized data from Hay Group on leadership styles that build on EI abilities, and their varying impacts on emotional climate of the organization.
As I looked more deeply at the new findings from neuroscience on the dynamics of relationships – and what that meant for the drivers of excellence and high-impact relationships – I again wrote for HBR. Those articles, too, are included in this book. My most recent thinking has shifted frameworks to explore how a leader’s focus matters for effectiveness. The chapter ”˜The Leader’s Triple Focus’ summarizes sections on leadership from my book Focus: The Hidden Driver of Excellence. And, the final chapter, written for a magazine (by coincidence called Focus) published by Egon Zehnder International, reflects on the ethical dimension of leadership. I’ve also included several of my blogs, placed after the relevant chapters, that either further delve into the topic or complement it. These first appeared, for the most part, on LinkedIn; some are from HBR.com.
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What operational requirements must be satisfied before takeoff?
(CA) Do not depart if the flight cannot be completed safely.
Do not exceed takeoff performance limits.
Takeoff is not authorized under the what weather and airfield lighting conditions?
Weather conditions are below FAA-established minima.
Wind limitations are exceeded.
Obs from the flt deck indicate that t/o cannot be made by following approved procedures.
During night operations, when the CA cannot ensure sufficient runway lighting exists to allow the takeoff to be completed safely.
Runway contamination limits are exceeded (e.g., water, slush, snow, braking action).
Greater than light freezing rain exists at the airport.
There are known or probable severe icing conditions. (No a/c will be dispatched when in the opinion of the CA and/or Dispatcher icing conditions exist or are anticipated that might adversely affect the safety of the flt. Flts may be dispatched into light to mod icing conditions only if all deicing equipment for the aircraft is in operable condition).
There is known or prob severe turbulence.
Frost, snow, or ice is adhering to the leading edge devices, any control surface, tab surface, upper wing surface, or winglets.
Are runway intersection takeoffs allowed?
- Runway intersection takeoffs are permitted if performance computation results in a stopping margin of 2,000 ft or greater. Intersection takeoffs that do not meet 2,000 ft minimum stopping margin are permitted for operational necessity only (e.g., partial
- runway closures that require intersection departures).
What is considered standard takeoff minimums?
1 SM or 5000 RVR visibility.
What action should be accomplished when reported visibility is below standard takeoff minimums?
- Review the Jeppesen -9A page (10-9A or
- equivalent) to determine takeoff requirements for the specific departure runway.
What is the minimum visibility allowed for takeoff at SWA?
Southwest Airlines is not authorized for takeoff visibility below 500 RVR unless the Jeppesen -9A page lists HGS 300 RVR.
What is the takeoff limitation for operations at or above 1600 RVR (TDZ)?
The TDZ RVR report, if available, is controlling. The MID RVR report may be substituted for an unavailable TDZ report.
What is the takeoff limitation for operations below 1600 RVR (TDZ)?
A minimum of two operative RVR reporting systems are required and all operative RVR reports are controlling.
What is the takeoff limitation for extremely long runways that use four RVR sensors?
TDZ, MID, Rollout, and Far End. When a fourth FAR END RVR value is reported, it is not controlling and is not to be used as one of the two required operative RVR systems.
When are takeoffs authorized with visibility down to 1600 RVR (TDZ), or visibility/RVV down to ¼ mile?
ONE of the following visual aids is available:
Operative high intensity runway lights (HIRL).
Operative runway centerline lights (CL).
Serviceable runway centerline markings (RCLM).
In circumstances where none of the above visual aids are available, visibility or RVV down to ¼ mile may still be used provided other runway markings or runway lighting provides adequate visual reference to continuously identify the takeoff surface and maintain directional control throughout the takeoff roll.
NOTE: The maximum crosswind component is limited to 35 kt.
When are takeoffs authorized with visibility less than 1600 RVR down to 1000 RVR?
RVR equipment and ONE of the following visual aids combinations is available:
HIRL and serviceable RCLM.
Operative runway centerline lights CL.
NOTE: The maximum crosswind component is limited to 20 kt.
When are takeoffs authorized with TDZ visibility less than 1600 RVR down to 500 RVR?
- RVR equipment AND both of the following
- visual aids are available:
Operative runway CL
NOTE: The maximum crosswind
component is limited to 20 kt
When are takeoffs authorized with visibility less than 500 RVR down to 300 RVR?
BOTH of the following requirements are met:
Operative runway CL lights
NOTE: Use HGS takeoff procedures.
NOTE: Pilots must comply with the following:
A 300 RVR takeoff must be specifically authorized on the Jeppesen -9A page (10-9A or equivalent).
The HGS system and both Pilots’ ILS receivers must be used.
The Captain must be HGS trained, qualified, current, and have 300 hours Southwest Airlines PIC.
The First Officer must be HGS trained.
The maximum crosswind component is limited to 10 kt.
When entering the departure runway either for takeoff or to “Line Up and Wait,” which lights need to be turned on?
Turn on all exterior lights except landing lights.
When “Cleared for Takeoff” or when commencing takeoff roll which lights need to be turned on?
Turn on the landing lights and the turnoff lights. Turn off the taxi light if on.
How is a rolling takeoff is defined?
A rolling takeoff is defined as releasing brakes before advancing takeoff thrust.
If required for cooling, when should the air conditioning packs be selected to HIGH?
Select air conditioning packs to HIGH after the flaps are retracted.
What is the caution on takeoff with heavy headwinds when the autothrottles are used?
Takeoff into headwind of 20 kt or greater may result in THR HLD before the autothrottle can make final thrust adjustments.
On takeoff using the A/T, when will the annunciation change to THR HLD?
At or after 84 kt.
On takeoff using the autobrakes, when will the RTO function arm?
Approximately 95 kts.
On takeoff, what are the rotation numbers to aim for?
- Maintain a smooth, continuous rotation using 3° per second rotation rate to 15° of pitch
- CAUTION: Do not use the flight director pitch reference for rotation rate.
- WARNING: Rotation rates in excess of the recommended 2-3° per second can cause a tail strike.
If an engine exceedance occurs after thrust is set and the decision is made to continue the takeoff, what is the minimum altitude to retard the throttles to maintain engine parameters?
400 ft AGL
After takeoff, what is normal climb speed?
V2 + 20 kt.
After takeoff and passing 400', what do you lose if you change the pitch mode from TO/GA to LVL CHG?
- This removes engine-out logic and windshear
After takeoff, flap retraction will be normally be made at what airspeed? What is the minimum speed for this?
Normal airspeed: V2 + 20
Minimum airspeed: V2 + 15
NOTE: Except for a flaps 1 takeoff.
NOTE: CL - Above 117,000 lb aircraft weight, add 10 kt to all speeds except V1, V2, and VR.
What is the limitation if it is necessary to cycle the landing gear after takeoff?
If necessary to cycle the landing gear, ensure the landing gear lever is in the UP position for approximately 10 seconds to provide positive landing gear up-lock.
If a bleeds off or unpressurized takeoff was performed, when should the packs and bleeds be reconfigured?
After the flaps are retracted (climb thrust should already be set).
Under what conditions should an RNAV departure be discontinued?
FMC message “UNABLE REQD NAV PERF-RNP” is displayed.
There is no operable FMC.
There is no operable CDU.
What are the requirements for takeoffs below 500 RVR?
An HGS takeoff is required.
Do not exceed a 10-kt crosswind component.
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Transportation safety investigations
Each year, approximately 3000 transportation occurrences (accidents and incidents) are reported to the TSB. From aircraft part failures and ship fires to pipeline ruptures and train derailments. As a result of these reports, the TSB conducts some 60 - 70 class 2 or class 3 investigations.
When the TSB is notified of an occurrence, it assesses the circumstances to determine if an investigation is warranted. Investigations must have a high probability of advancing transportation safety and reduce risks to persons, property or the environment (see the investigation process and the Occurrence Classification Policy).
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How strong is the wave? How high is the wall? These are the two questions that best describe the dynamics of the American congressional elections, which are now only three weeks off. There clearly is a political tide. The polls show severe dissatisfaction with Congress and the Republicans (though not much of a hankering for the Democrats). George Bush's approval ratings are falling again.
The Iraq war is more unpopular than ever (almost two-thirds of Americans say they disapprove of the war.) Not only do most Americans believe the house Republican leaders did not act appropriately in the ongoing congressional page scandal (which was triggered by allegations that a Republican congressman named Mark Foley had sexually targeted 16-year-old male pages); they believe the Republicans covered up this sordid affair. And the recent polling on specific and critical races show the Democrats faring better than the Republicans. Put all this together, and one can see a storm heading towards Capitol Hill.
The Republicans know they probably cannot change the weather. It's too late. Bush tried last month. Working off a Karl Rove game plan, he gave a series of speeches accusing the Democrats of being weak on terrorism, as he pushed Congress to pass legislation that would allow for the detention and possible rough questioning of suspected terrorists.
Yet what seemed at the time to be an upturn in the Republicans' fortunes quickly evaporated. Recent polls indicate that Americans now trust Democrats to handle the war on terrorism more than Republicans, a finding so incredible one is half-tempted to look for snow in hell. This development shows how much trouble the Republicans are in. Bush had hoped to cast the unpopular Iraq war as a crucial battle in the popular (so-called) war on terror. Instead, the failure of the Iraq war has come to taint his anti-terrorism campaign. His sharpest campaign spear has become a boomerang.
Short of something dramatic taking place, another terrorism attack or the timely capture of Osama bin Laden, the Republicans will be going into the elections for the entire House of Representatives and one-third of the Senate with popular sentiment hostile toward Congress and the party of the president. Republicans cannot argue against the public perception of the president, his party, and their war. They also cannot expect to change the political landscape by pointing to falling gas prices or a rising Dow Jones average. This is the playing field they have.
Which brings me back to the wall. The wall is the Republican effort to hold back the tide in a limited number of congressional districts and states. This is no longer a national election for the White House. Of the 50 or so house seats that are probably in play, the Republicans need to win about 18 of them to cling to control of the house (which has 435 seats). As for the Senate, they have to beat back strong challenges in two or so states (perhaps defeat one sitting Democratic senator) to remain in charge of that body, which has 100 slots. So the point is for the Republicans to build dams around a small band of seats to prevent the coming tsunami from washing them out of power in Congress.
This is doable, though it does seem harder every day. In the past week, yet another Republican house member has become the target of a corruption investigation and another house Republican has been compelled to run television ads in which he insists he did not physically abuse his mistress. The dwindling group of Republicans in Washington who have not abandoned hope, look to their party's impressive get-out-the-vote apparatus, which can supposedly locate reliable Republican voters anywhere in the country and urge them to the polls. And Sara Taylor, the White House political director, has been telling reporters that she believes her side will have $55m more than the Democrats to spend in the final weeks of the campaign (Bush and Dick Cheney so far have raised $220m for the Republican party in this election cycle.) Throw that money at a few races and train that legendary GOTV machinery at these contests, and maybe, just maybe, the Republicans can survive the flood.
Yet a powerful enough surge might crash through even these strategically placed dikes. This is especially true as the number of potential breaches in the Republican barricade grows each week, so much so that the Democrats are finding it tough to fund several challengers who have recently moved within striking distance of ousting Republican incumbents once considered invulnerable. But this much appears certain: There will be a wave (thanks to Bush). There will be a wall (thanks to Rove). What's left to see is which will be stronger. | <urn:uuid:9933577c-01c7-4b22-b70e-6267fb19c950> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2006/oct/17/davidcorn | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00296-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967011 | 919 | 1.5 | 2 |
A former Morpeth schoolboy has joined the likes of Einstein, Newton and Darwin after being elected a Fellow of the Royal Society.
Professor Alfred William Rutherford, known as Bill, has received the honour in recognition of his ground-breaking work in solar energy.
The Society is made up of some of the world’s most outstanding scientists, including Nobel Prize winners.
Prof Rutherford, 59, will formally be accepted in July when he signs the book dating back to 1660, using a quill.
He said: “Since I have spent most of my career working abroad I’m still learning just how important this is.
“There are a lot of eminent societies around the world, but this is the oldest and there are a lot of fantastic names in the book. It is a huge honour to be listed in that same book.”
Prof Rutherford is the son of former Morpeth Town Clerk Stan Rutherford. The respected solicitor died when his son was just nine, but he has been a huge inspiration.
“My dad is quite famous in Morpeth,” he said.
“He was an altruistic solicitor and whenever I go to Morpeth I still run into people who consider my dad a hero. He certainly has been a hard act to live up to.”
Prof Rutherford first showed academic prowess at the age of 12 when he was selected for the King Edward VI Grammar School team for the Bright Sparks school TV quiz show.
He said: “I was at the age when you just want to blend in and keep your head down, but we were dragged out to compete in front of the whole school. There was quite a bit of pressure, but we won the whole thing.”
It was at KEVI that Prof Rutherford met the people who were to have the biggest influence on his career.
“There was a biology teacher called Doc Brown and he was very inspirational,” he said.
“He was very important to me in that he was the kind of biologist who presented the evolutionary background. That aspect of my work came from Doc Brown from Day One.
“At school we often sat in alphabetical order so I sat next to a guy called David Saint, who is now a Professor of Biophysics at the University of Adelaide.
“He introduced me to the idea that as a school kid you could learn more than what was being taught by going to the library. I owe quite a bit to my name starting ‘Ru’.
“The other person was a chemistry teacher called Mick Dagless. His teaching was hugely exciting to me. I hated chemistry, but this guy taught me to love it and my whole career has been on the edge of chemistry and physics.”
Prof Rutherford studied Biochemistry at Liverpool and completed his PhD at University College London, where he had his first position. He then spent two years at the University of Illinois, before moving to a solar energy lab in Riken, near Tokyo.
He was the first foreigner to take a position in the Biophysics Department at the Saclay CEA (atomic energy centre) on the outskirts of Paris, and became Director of Research, Classe Exceptionnelle, one of just a handful of such positions in France.
“In a university, you tend to be in one department, but in France we had physicists, chemists, biologists and everybody there. It was a very interesting environment,” he said.
“It was very unusual to have a foreigner in a position of status, but by the time I left we had more foreigners than French. It was a huge shift, but we ended up with more diverse skills and innovative research.”
Three years ago, Prof Rutherford moved to Imperial College London as Chair of Biochemistry of Solar Energy.
He said: “I had always promised myself that I would take a job in real academia. I’m still trying to do research, but I’ve left all the fancy equipment behind.
“I was delighted recently to nominated by the students for a good teaching award. I didn’t get the prize, but I got a mug and for me that is almost as big a thrill as the Royal Society because it means that what I’m doing is good.”
Prof Rutherford still comes home to Morpeth every Christmas to visit family, only missing the year when his daughter was born, and also performs in the area with his band, Baskerville Willy.
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Growing old is an inevitability, and as we age, our ability to maneuver around and complete simple tasks that we once took for granted. As our loved ones age, we want to ensure that they are able to maintain their independence, and a private sitter for seniors will help them to remain in their homes for a longer period of time.
Alongside helping with tasks around the home, a private sitter for seniors is also able to help reduce feelings of loneliness and keep them more social.
What is a private sitter for seniors?
A private sitter for seniors is a form of care that does not administer and medical services. Unlike other forms of senior care, which are in a specific location, senior care sitters can operate across a wide range of facilities, including Nursing Homes, Hospitals, Assisted Living facilities, rehab centers, and in the home. Sitters are also able to work around the patient’s schedule and can work on a part-time or full-time basis.
Private sitters for seniors do not provide any medical tasks or physical support. Instead, they provide assistance around the home, helping with general housekeeping, running errands, transportation, and offering basic supervision. Their role is also one of a social aspect, helping to prevent feelings of loneliness and isolation in seniors.
What limitations does a private sitter for seniors have?
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When finding the right senior care for your loved ones, it is important to remember that a private sitter for seniors does not offer the same level of support as a medical home health aide. Although the roles are very similar, a senior sitter will not be able to help with getting dressed, toileting, or personal care. Another very important limitation to remember is that if the senior is in a wheelchair and will require transportation, they will need to be able to get in and out of the vehicle themselves.
While many senior sitters will be trained, they do not require any specific certification or experience to become a sitter. However, many sitters are also licensed to provide further support and care.
Benefits of a private sitter for seniors
Although there are certain limitations when it comes to a private sitter for seniors, they are also to provide a wide range of benefits. When a loved one needs some company and assistance that you cannot offer, a private sitter is able to provide companionship on a daily basis. This is a very important part of the aging process, and research has shown that regular social contact helps to reduce the onset of memory-related illnesses and depression.
A private sitter for seniors can also help to speed up recovery times by providing transportation, preparing meals, and completing housekeeping, allowing the patient to fully focus on their rehabilitation. Having a private sitter looking after your loved one will also help to give you peace of mind that they are supported and cared for when you are not around or have other commitments.
How to pay for a private sitter for seniors
Because most state or private insurance policies do not cover the cost of non-medical care, it means that they will not pay out for a private sitter for seniors. However, each insurance provider and policy is different, so it is important that you check with them to see if this is something that they would cover.
Although the cost of senior sitters is typically covered by private pay, there are alternatives to consider, including Medicare and Medicaid as well as various veteran and charity organizations. There are also often local community groups that help with senior companionship for a reduced fee.
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‘Something...Written to Aftertimes’
Milton’s literary and political writings have had a profound and lasting impact on our culture. It is possible to trace his fiercely argued republican ideals through into the French Revolution, or the American Declaration of Independence. Paradise Lost served as a well of popular teaching, mediating the Bible for generations of English Christians. The imaginative richness of the world Milton creates in Paradise Lost has served as a leaping-off-point for poets, novelists, composers, film-makers, and artists of all kinds. Without Milton could we have imagined modern-day epics such as George Lucas’s Star Wars, or Philip Pullman’s His Dark Materials?
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By: Zainab Ali
Have you come across the term redlining before? Maybe you heard a politician or activist use it in their speech. But what exactly does it mean, and what is the history behind it as well as its impacts today?
The term redlining refers to the practice of banks denying mortgages to people based on group characteristics such as a person’s race and ethnic background! This practice started in the United States of America with the introduction of Franklin Roosevelt’s Housing Administration. This housing administration granted mortgage loans to primarily white people who lived in “green” areas but denied lending loans to foreign-born or people of colour from “red areas.”
This practice was introduced as a result of the 1933 housing shortage, which led the federal government to increase and segregate America’s housing stock explicitly. These federal government efforts were designed to mainly provide housing for the white, middle-class to lower-middle-class families. Many people of colour were left out of the new suburban communities and pushed into urban housing projects.
Additionally, the Federal Housing Administration (FDA) subsided builders, mass-producing entire subdivisions for white people. They also required that none of the homes be sold to African-Americans and other people of colour. When questioned about this practice, the FDA’s justification was that if African-Americans purchased homes in or near these suburbs, the property values of homes they were insuring and the white homes they were insuring would decline, and because of this, their loans would be at risk.
However, there wasn’t any basis for this FDA claim. Property values rose when homes in all or mostly white neighbourhoods were attempted to be purchased by African-Americans. This is because African-Americans were more willing to pay more for properties than white people since their housing supply was so restricted and limited their choices. So the justification that the FDA used wasn’t based on actual data or proof.
The practice of Redlining has contributed to long-lasting effects on wealth inequality since people who grew up in the red-zoned neighbourhoods struggled to build intergenerational wealth.
Furthermore, Canada has also seen redlining historically, and a prime and well-documented example is the story of Africville. Africville in Halifax was a small thriving Black Community that was forcefully displaced on the order of the municipal government. In 1964 the area was bulldozed down. But even before the destruction, the Black neighbourhood was segregated and disadvantaged by many levels of the government.
The practice of redlining still continues to exist in Canada as many immigrants and people of colour face discrimination from banks, landlords, developers, etc. Also, due to the lack of Canadian housing data related to race compared to America, it’s difficult to monitor this issue and its impact. The lack of data in many cases also makes practices of race-based housing discrimination harder to identify and regulate.
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GNOME, Java, Jupyter, Python. If your friends or family members have ever eavesdropped on your work conversations, they might think you've made a career in Renaissance folklore, coffee roasting, astronomy, or zoology. Where did the names of these open source technologies come from? We asked our writer community for input and rounded up some of our favorite tech name origin stories.
The name "Ansible" is lifted directly from science fiction. Ursula Le Guin's book Rocannon's World had devices allowing instantaneous (faster than light) communication called ansibles (derived, apparently, from the word "answerable"). Ansibles became a staple of science fiction, including in Orson Scott Card's Ender's Game (which later became a popular film), where the device controlled many remote space ships. This seemed to be a good model for software that controls distributed machines, so Michael DeHaan (creator and founder of Ansible) borrowed the name.
Apache is an open source web server that was originally released in 1995. Its name is not related to the famous Native American tribe; it instead refers to the repeated patches to its original software code. Hence, "A-patchy server."
"awk(1) Stands for Aho, Weinberger, Kernighan (authors)" —Michael Greenberg
"The original Unix shell, the Bourne shell, was named after its creator. At the time Bash was being developed, csh (pronounced 'seashell') was actually more popular for interactive user logins. The Bash project aimed to give new life to the Bourne shell by making it more suitable for interactive use, thus it was named the 'Bourne again shell,' a pun on 'born again.'" —Ken Gaillot
"In early days, Ken Thompson and Dennis Ritchie at AT&T found it interesting that you could use a higher-level programming language (instead of low-level and less-portable assembly programming) to write operating systems and tools. There was an early programming system called BCPL (Basic Combined Programming Language), and Thompson created a stripped-down version of BCPL called B. But B wasn't very flexible or fast. Ritchie then took the ideas of B and expanded it into a compiled language called C." —Jim Hall
"I don't think you can publish such an article without mentioning dd. My nickname is Didi. Correctly pronounced, it sounds like 'dd.' I first learned Unix, and then Linux, in 1993 as a student. Then I went to the army, arrived to one of the very few sections in my unit that used Unix (Ultrix) (the rest were mainly VMS), and one of the people there said: 'So, you are a hacker, right? You think you know Unix? OK, so what's the reason for the name dd?' I had no idea and tried to guess: "Data duplicator?" So he said, 'I'll tell you the story of dd. dd is short for convert and copy (as anyone can still see today on the manpage), but since cc was already taken by the c compiler, it was named dd.' Only years later, I heard the true story about JCL's data definition and the non-uniform, semi-joking syntax for the Unix dd command somewhat being based on it." —Yedidyah Bar David
The classic anti-vi editor, the true etymology of the name is unremarkable, in that it derives from "Editing MACroS." Being an object of great religious opprobrium and worship it has, however, attracted many spoof bacronyms such as "Escape Meta Alt Control Shift" (to spoof its heavy reliance on keystrokes), "Eight Megabytes And Constantly Swapping" (from when that was a lot of memory), "Eventually malloc()s All Computer Storage," and "EMACS Makes A Computer Slow." —Adapted from the Jargon File/Hacker's Dictionary
Enarx is a new project in the confidential computing space. One of the project's design principles was that it should be "fungible." so an initial name was "psilocybin" (the famed magic mushroom). The general feeling was that manager types would probably be resistant, so new names were considered. The project's two founders, Mike Bursell and Nathaniel McCallum, are both ancient language geeks, so they considered lots of different ideas, including тайна (Tayna—Russian for secret or mystery—although Russian, admittedly, is not ancient, but hey), crypticon (total bastardization of Greek), cryptidion (Greek for small secret place), arcanus (Latin masculine adjective for secret), arcanum (Latin neuter adjective for secret), and ærn (Anglo-Saxon for place, secret place, closet, habitation, house, or cottage). In the end, for various reasons, including the availability of domains and GitHub project names, they settled on enarx, a combination of two Latin roots: en- (meaning within) and -arx (meaning citadel, stronghold, or fortress).
Where would we be without GIMP? The GNU Image Manipulation Project has been an open source staple for many years. Wikipedia states, "In 1995, Spencer Kimball and Peter Mattis began developing GIMP as a semester-long project at the University of California, Berkeley, for the eXperimental Computing Facility."
Have you ever wondered why GNOME is called GNOME? According to Wikipedia, GNOME was originally an acronym that represented the "GNU Network Object Model Environment." Now that name no longer represents the project and has been dropped, but the name has stayed. GNOME 3 is the default desktop environment for Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise, Ubuntu, Debian, SUSE Linux Enterprise, and more.
Can you imagine this programming language being named anything else? Java was originally called Oak, but alas, the legal team at Sun Microsystems vetoed that name due to its existing trademark. So it was back to the drawing board for the development team. Legend has it that a massive brainstorm was held by the language's working group in January 1995. Lots of other names were tossed around including Silk, DNA, WebDancer, and so on. The team did not want the new name to have anything to do with the overused terms, "web" or "net." Instead, they were searching for something more dynamic, fun, and easy to remember. Java met the requirements and miraculously, the team agreed!
Many of today's data scientists and students use Jupyter notebooks in their work. The name Jupyter is an amalgamation of three open source computer languages that are used in the notebooks and prominent in data science: Julia, Python, and R.
Kubernetes is derived from the Greek word for helmsman. This etymology was corroborated in a 2015 Hacker News response by a Kubernetes project founder, Craig McLuckie. Wanting to stick with the nautical theme, he explained that the technology drives containers, much like a helmsman or pilot drives a container ship. Thus, Kubernetes was the chosen name. Many of us are still trying to get the pronunciation right (koo-bur-NET-eez), so K8s is an acceptable substitute. Interestingly, it shares its etymology with the English word "governor," so has that in common with the mechanical negative-feedback device on steam engines.
What about the K desktop? KDE originally represented the "Kool Desktop Environment." It was founded in 1996 by Matthias Ettrich. According to Wikipedia, the name was a play on the words Common Desktop Environment (CDE) on Unix.
Linux was named for its inventor, Linus Torvalds. Linus originally wanted to name his creation "Freax" as he thought that naming the creation after himself was too egotistical. According to Wikipedia, "Ari Lemmke, Torvalds' coworker at the Helsinki University of Technology, who was one of the volunteer administrators for the FTP server at the time, did not think that 'Freax' was a good name. So, he named the project 'Linux' on the server without consulting Torvalds."
Following are some of the most popular Linux distributions.
CentOS is an acronym for Community Enterprise Operating System. It contains the upstream packages from Red Hat Enterprise Linux.
Debian Linux, founded in September 1993, is a portmanteau of its founder, Ian Murdock, and his then-girlfriend Debra Lynn.
Red Hat Linux got its name from its founder Marc Ewing, who wore a red Cornell University fedora given to him by his grandfather. Red Hat was founded on March 26, 1993. Fedora Linux began as a volunteer project to provide extra software for the Red Hat distribution and got its name from Red Hat's "Shadowman" logo.
Ubuntu aims to share open source widely and is named after the African philosophy of ubuntu, which can be translated as "humanity to others" or "I am what I am because of who we all are."
The open source learning platform Moodle is an acronym for "modular object-oriented dynamic learning environment." Moodle continues to be a leading platform for e-learning. There are nearly 104,000 registered Moodle sites worldwide.
Two other popular open source content management systems are Drupal and Joomla. Drupal's name comes from the Dutch word for "druppel" which means "drop." Joomla is an anglicized spelling of the Swahili word "jumla," which means "all together" in Arabic, Urdu, and other languages, according to Wikipedia.
Mozilla is an open source software community founded in 1998. According to its website, "The Mozilla project was created in 1998 with the release of the Netscape browser suite source code. It was intended to harness the creative power of thousands of programmers on the internet and fuel unprecedented levels of innovation in the browser market." The name was a portmanteau of Mosaic and Godzilla.
"Many tech people try to be cool and say it 'n' 'g' 'n' 'x'. Few actually did the basic actions of researching a bit more to find out very quickly that the name is actually supposed to be said as 'EngineX,' in reference to the powerful web server, like an engine." —Jean Sebastien Tougne
Perl's founder Larry Wall originally named his project "Pearl." According to Wikipedia, Wall wanted to give the language a short name with positive connotations. Wall discovered the existing PEARL programming language before Perl's official release and changed the spelling of the name.
Piet and Mondrian
"There are two programming language named after the artist Piet Mondrian. One is called 'Piet' and the other 'Mondrian.' [David Morgan-Mar writes]: 'Piet is a programming language in which programs look like abstract paintings. The language is named after Piet Mondrian, who pioneered the field of geometric abstract art. I would have liked to call the language Mondrian, but someone beat me to it with a rather mundane-looking scripting language. Oh well, we can't all be esoteric language writers, I suppose.'" —Yuval Lifshitz
The Python programming language received its unique name from its creator, Guido Van Rossum, who was a fan of the comedy group Monty Python.
Known for its tiny-but-mighty capabilities and wallet-friendly price tag, the Raspberry Pi is a favorite in the open source community. But where did its endearing (and yummy) name come from? In the '70s and '80s, it was a popular trend to name computers after fruit. Apple, Tangerine, Apricot... anyone getting hungry? According to a 2012 interview with founder Eben Upton, the name "Raspberry Pi" is a nod to that trend. Raspberries are also tiny in size, yet mighty in flavor. The "Pi" in the name alludes to the fact that, originally, the computer could only run Python.
Server Message Block for sharing Windows files on Linux.
ScummVM (Script Creation Utility for Maniac Mansion Virtual Machine) is a program that makes it possible to run some classic computer adventure games on a modern computer. Originally, it was designed to play LucasArts adventure games that were built using SCUMM, which was originally used to develop Maniac Mansion before being used to develop most of LucasArts's other adventure games. Currently, ScummVM supports a large number of game engines, including Sierra Online's AGI and SCI, but still retains the name ScummVM. A related project, ResidualVM, got its name because it covers the "residual" LucasArts adventure games not covered by ScummVM. The LucasArts games covered by ResidualVM were developed using GrimE (Grim Engine), which was first used to develop Grim Fandango, so the ResidualVM name is a double pun.
"You may know [SQL] stands for Structured Query Language, but do you know why it's often pronounced 'sequel'? It was created as a follow-up (i.e. sequel) to the original 'QUEL' (QUEry Language)." —Ken Gaillot
Zsh is an interactive login shell. In 1990, the first version of the shell was written by Princeton student Paul Falstad. He named it after seeing the login ID of Zhong Sha (zsh), then a teaching assistant at Princeton, and thought that it sounded like a good name for a shell.
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Hand drawing in website design is a trend that is still prevalent for many and varied businesses. Hand drawn elements can portray very different styles, it can include quite sketchy types of drawings or illustrations, coming across as friendly, down-to-earth and approachable, or the drawings can be very neat and artistic vectors, giving the impression of professionalism and a business-like attitude.
We previously published an article of Doodles and Sketches in Web Design, and to complement that article, today we are showcasing websites that include either a lot of hand drawn elements, very large drawings or illustrations and by giving over so much of their landing page to drawings, they can be labeled as ‘hand drawn websites’. Hopefully you will be inspired for your future projects after browsing these examples.
Hand Drawn Website Design
As you have been able to see after browsing this collection, I have considered any style of image that is not a photograph to be a hand drawing, whether it is digitally produced or drawn on paper. This was not a round up of sketches, so all imagery that has been produced by hand has been included here.
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If everyday practical bicycling had taken on political significance for you by the 1990s or earlier, in the US, chances are good you saw Ted White’s 1992 film _Return of the Scorcher_ at a gathering of like-minded souls. It claimed the expression “critical mass” from nuclear physics for people riding bikes as part of traffic. It’s a yearning survey of the bicycling societies China and the Netherlands, both of which have powerfully shaped our own aspirations for reclamation of Portland from nearly a century of automotive disorientation.
I never saw Return of the Scorcher before it made its way to the interwebs last month. Now you can too. Learn from your elders. It’s 27 minutes:
Seven years later came We Are Traffic, documenting what Critical Mass had become. I rode in the summer 1997 San Francisco Mass that made international news when the police decided it was a threat, though I admit I was just trying to ride home when I found myself engulfed in it. I didn’t inhale. It’s 50 minutes. Enjoy: | <urn:uuid:e110a09d-8888-4db6-80ce-d5363c0e9103> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://clevercycles.com/blog/2008/01/11/return-of-return-of-the-scorcher/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00180-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960652 | 227 | 1.6875 | 2 |
The Battle of Britain was an intense test of aerial superiority between the British Royal Air Force (RAF) and the German Luftwaffe.
Following the conquest of France, Hitler’s next big plan was an invasion of the United Kingdom, codenamed Operation Sea Lion. He had hoped that the British government would be bedazzled by the fall of France to the point of reaching out for peace talks. But because the British maintained their composure, much to Hitler’s disappointment, the invasion would be his last resort.
As a prelude to Sea Lion, the Luftwaffe was sent in numbers over the airspace of Great Britain in a bid to destabilize the RAF and secure aerial superiority. Concentrated airstrikes began all over the United Kingdom. Thus, the Battle of Britain was in full swing, with the RAF doing all they could to keep Britain from falling.
Several acts of bravery emerged from this, as the men and women of the RAF gave their all to protect their nation. Below are five remarkable stories of heroism and bravery culled from the Battle of Britain.
Eric Lock: Short Pilot, High Morale
Eric Lock’s friends called him “Sawn-off Lockie” owing to the fact that he was really short. However, when the moment came for him to make history, his morale did not fall short.
On August 15, 1940, as the RAF’s No. 41 Squadron engaged the Luftwaffe in northern England, Lock scored his very first victory. He fired at a Messerschmitt BF 110 at 20,000 feet, then followed it all the way down to 5,000 feet as he rained hell on the aircraft. He also struck a Junkers Ju 88 formation and effectively downed one of the planes.
On September 5, during aerial combat over southern England, Lock gunned down two Heinkel He 111s and a Messerschmitt BF 109. During his engagement with the BF 109, his Spitfire was hit, and he suffered an injury to his leg. The next day, he took his plane back into the air despite his injuries, and scored his seventh victory for the RAF.
Through a refined combination of good composure and skill, Lock served till the end of the Battle, scoring a total of twenty-six victories. With this achievement, Eric Lock became the most successful Allied aviator in the Battle of Britain.
However, Lock did not live to see the rest of WWII. In August 1941, his Supermarine Spitfire was shot down by enemy ground-fire and crashed in the English Channel. His body was never found.
Bill Millington: Choosing to Save a Village Over his Own Safety
On August 31, 1940, a group of RAF pilots caught sight of a massed formation of Dornier and Messerschmitt planes during a patrol over Kent.
The German planes were immediately engaged by the RAF and during the attack, Bill Millington’s Hurricane caught one of the bombers in its gunfire, effectively damaging it. However, he came under heavy fire from three Messerschmitt fighters. Responding rapidly, he maneuvered his way out of the line of fire and managed to gun down one aircraft.
He then became the target of a concentrated attack from the other Messerschmitts. Although dealing with an enemy force that outnumbered him, he refused to withdraw and instead kept his guns roaring.
He continuously outmaneuvered them, gunning down another Messerschmitt. However, his Hurricane was hit by a cannon shell that set his plane ablaze and inflicted an injury on his thigh. With his plane on the verge of exploding, he needed to bail if he was to survive. But beneath him lay a small village.
He knew that by bailing out of his Hurricane at that moment, he would be letting the plane crash into the village, putting civilian lives in danger.
He therefore stayed in the burning plane, steering it as it cascaded from the sky until it crash-landed on a farm close to the village. Injured and severely burned, he managed to leave the plane before it exploded.
His bravery and determination to save others from harm earned him the Distinguished Flying Cross on October 1, 1940. On October 30, he was killed in action.
Peter Brothers: Fighting 100 Luftwaffe Fighters
Peter Brothers was already a very skilled and experienced pilot by the time the Battle of Britain began. This was due to the fact that he had always been interested in flying and had begun to learn how at the age of 16.
He had his first combat flight during the Battle of Britain, and distinguished himself through exceptional gallantry in offensive flight operations.
In August 1940, Brothers was leading a flight on an offensive patrol when they encountered a group of 100 enemy aircraft. Although the Luftwaffe substantially outnumbered his group, Brothers led the flight towards the enemy for a spell of aerial combat. However, before he could fully launch his attack, a group of Messerschmitt 110s engaged him.
He faced them squarely, but then his aircraft stalled. Employing refined maneuvering tactics, he spun his aircraft out of the stalled position and quickly took on a Dornier 215. After downing the Dornier, he later scored another victory against a Messerschmitt 109.
By the end of the Battle of Britain, Brothers had scored ten aerial victories against the Luftwaffe.
Gordon Cleaver: Flying with Eye Injuries
Gordon “Mouse” Cleaver was already rich with combat experience by the time the Battle of Britain began. He had flown with RAF’s No. 601 Squadron over northern France, downing German aircraft in Merville, Douai and Dunkirk.
During the Battle of Britain, Cleaver’s base RAF Tangmere came under heavy attack by the Luftwaffe. All personnel fought to defend the base from the Germans, including Cleaver, who had eight kills to his credit by that time.
As he flew his section on combat over Winchester, Cleaver’s Hurricane received a hit from cannon shells. The impact shattered the Hurricane’s perspex canopy, blowing the fragments into his face. Cleaver, unfortunately, was not wearing goggles.
Although mostly blinded, his Distinguished Flying Cross citation states that “he refused to leave his aircraft and effected a successful landing.”
Cleaver’s flying career was over, but studies of the Perspex fragments in his eyes directly contributed to the development of the first intraocular lens, made from clinical quality Perspex.
Jack Adams: Flying on Empty
Jack Adams became a part of the RAF in 1936 and completed several night patrols from the outset of the war. He earned recognition for outstanding commitment to his duties.
During a night patrol on August 20, 1940, Jack Adams spotted a German aircraft a mile away. He quickly went after the aircraft in his Blenheim bomber in what became a 50-minute chase.
As he followed the Luftwaffe flier, he lost communications with his base. However, this did not deter him. He kept chasing after the aircraft until he caught up with it over the south coast, close to the Isle of Wight.
In the exchange that ensued, Adams successfully shot the airplane down before heading back to his base.
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