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Theft-Murder: The Inadequacy of Reparations and Restitutions as a result of Anti-Semitism
At a conference regarding Holocaust-era assets, Elie Wiesel, a Nobel Prize Laureate and distinguished writer, quoted the First Book of Kings, "You have committed murder and now you wish to inherit the victim's fortune as well" (Authers XII). He was clearly pointing to the modern example of this type of theft-murder. Wiesel described analogous instances of industries and governments taking the lives of the Jews and then their possessions. The Nazi government perpetrated the largest genocide of the twentieth century, thereby committing some of the most heinous acts ever played out on the wor…
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This weekend I’ve seen two different WordPress.com sites with the default tagline, “Just another WordPress.com weblog.” This is the default tagline which WordPress.com uses for every new site when it’s created. The tagline of your WordPress.com site is displayed by most WordPress themes in the header section of your blog. It’s like a byline. It’s a good idea to change this default tagline either to something appropriate for your site (which gives visitors more information about it) or to delete it completely. The image below shows two WordPress.com sites with the default tagline, and another (our family learning blog – technically a self-hosted WordPress site) with a customized tagline.
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Church of the Rock
Church of the Rock Sedona Reviews
Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona Aug 12, 2008
The Church of the Rock is the Chapel of the Holy Cross in Sedona. Built on two pinnacled spur rocks approximately 250 feet high. It juts our of a thousand foot red rock wall representing the solid Rock of Peter in the Bible. The concept of building the chapel was Marguerite Bruswig's. The New York native with three names – Margueritte Bruswig Staude came up with the idea in 1934, the chapel was completed in 1956. Staude conceived the idea while traveling through Sedona, where she was taken by the beauty of the land. It was to be a monument to faith. A spiritual fortress guarded only by God, and aimed at bringing back lost souls to God.
The chapel is a testimony of great architectural achievement. It is a great place of meditation, a pilgim place for many catholics. It is but a small chapel, a great reminder to many to renew their faith. It has a small gift shop below.
I highly recommend a stop here if you visit Sedona. I had a great time with the travbuddies I traveled with. I was able to light a candle for my Dad and brother, both deceased.
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Sleep apnea is a form of sleep disorder that impedes the breathing process during sleep, and if you have it, you know it’s absolutely no fun. It can cause your breathing to pause or even to stop during sleep. It can be dangerous, and lead to a variety of other risky health problems.
Problems associated with sleep apnea
It may lead to problems with cognitive abilities such as learning and memory skills, as well as impede other cognitive abilities. Sleep apnea can also mean that you don’t get as much sleep as you should, and the sleep you do get is not restful and does not help restore and refresh your body.
Getting a good night’s sleep is vital
A good night’s sleep is actually extremely important for your body. It restores the body to prepare it for a new day, and refreshes the cells. Not getting a good night’s sleep is a tremendous problem, as sleep serves an incredibly important part of maintaining a healthy lifestyle. Lack of good, restful sleep can interfere with your daily functioning and impede on your life.
Other effects of sleep apnea
Sleep apnea, otherwise known as obstructive sleep apnea, is a condition that deprives your body of oxygen while you are asleep. A person who suffers from this condition may experience pauses in breathing while asleep, and their breathing may even stop. This can lead to a drop in oxygen levels, and if oxygen doesn’t get everywhere that it’s supposed to, this can have a negative impact on organs in the body. Breathing is tremendously important, and during sleep it is especially dangerous not to get enough oxygen into your body.
This condition also increases the risk for other health problems such as heart attacks, high blood pressure, and strokes. It’s definitely a condition that is necessary to prevent, and green tea may be an aid in sleep improvement.
Green tea can help
Green tea is packed with antioxidants which may help improve memory and other cognitive functions. It also contains polyphenols which counteract oxidative stress that occurs in the brain. Damage to cells caused by free radicals, a type of harmful molecule, causes oxidative stress. This in turn causes other types of complications and illnesses. It can also affect memory and learning skills.
Fortunately, the polyphenols that occur in green tea work to counteract oxidative stress. They are found in abundance in loose leaf green tea and also in various fruits and vegetables. Loose leaf tea is also the best way to get all the nutrients from the tea. It is more natural, healthy, and hasn’t been processed to the point of beating out all the nutritional value. Loose leaf green tea is also much more flavorful, and far superior.
Tea bags have pounded and processed the leaves, leaving you with a bag full of tea dust that is, while not entirely void of, lacking in many nutrients found in loose leaf tea. Organic tea is even better for you, as tea that is not organic may have traces of harmful chemicals. When you drink tea, you want to be drinking the tea that is going to actually give you the health benefits that you need to improve your sleep.
Is there even an argument of loose leaf over using tea bags? Loose leaf tea has been left in its natural state and the brewing of it brings out the flavor of the tea. It’s not really a contest over flavorless tea bags.
And green tea is delicious; it has a sweet, natural flavor. It can be paired with certain fruits or sometimes spices or nuts to complement its flavor. Beyond being completely delicious, green tea is a healthy choice.
Green tea has just enough caffeine to give you energy, but doesn’t lead to the crash effect that coffee or espresso can give. The way caffeine is released from tea is in such a way that regulates how the caffeine is released, due to a compound that exists in the tea itself.
Green tea also reduces stress. There are compounds that occur naturally in tea leaves that have a calming effect, which decreases the stress response in your body. Try brewing some green tea when you’re worried or stressed.
Research has also shown that tea may help speed up the metabolism. This would help people who are trying to lose weight. Newer studies have found catechins in tea which help reduce fat in the abdomen. Catechins are found in weight loss supplements, but why take those when you can drink brewed, naturally occurring tea leaves?
This tea has also been proven to fight off cavities. It reduces gingivitis and it reduces the bacteria in the mouth. The tea leaf has fluoride which occurs naturally, and is a substance that helps build up strength and health in teeth. Green tea also destroys the bacterium that causes strep throat.
Green tea helps ward off many viruses and sicknesses. It has the most antioxidants among the four types of teas, and also has naturally occurring polyphenols, catechins, and many other naturally occurring compounds which increase immunity in the body.
It also helps reduce inflammation. Green tea has anti-inflammatory properties which are natural. It’s a better choice than taking even over the counter chemical compounds.
Another benefit of green tea is that it can reduce cholesterol. Studies have shown that consuming green tea regularly can reduce levels of the “bad cholesterol” while increasing “good” cholesterol.
Helps Protect Against Alzheimer’s Disease
And green tea also helps protect against Alzheimer’s disease, a form of dementia. Research shows that green tea can help improve memory related learning and have also been shown to help reverse mental deterioration.
Green tea may also protect against cancer, and it possibly kills off existing cancer as well. Research has shown that drinking between four and eight cups of green tea every day can really help when fighting off these diseases.
Beyond all this, remember that green tea is also delicious. The most benefit of course comes from high quality loose leaf tea. These have less caffeine and more antioxidants. It doesn’t even seem like that difficult of a choice. The loose leaves can be brewed again to make three to six cups of tea. It’s affordable, delicious, and helps with everything from maintaining healthy weight and teeth to fighting off infections, preventing cancer, and even reversing the effects of Alzheimer’s disease. Green tea truly seems like a magical elixir.
There are so many types of herbal teas available to help you in so many ways. Drink them regularly and you'll find yourself better than you've been in a long time. They have the power to affect your healing from various conditions from which you may suffer. They will also assist in recovering from the stress we're all prone to these days, and in detoxifying from the poisons our bodies carry from these stresses, from poor lifestyle choices, and also from the environment. In terms of its detoxification properties, herbal tea is a real boon. It can go into the colon and help you pass the toxins that have gathered there.
What's Wrong with Us?
Many of us don't feel completely well but don't realize it or don't understand why. With our lack of exercise, stress that's common in our fast-paced world, and fast food/junk food diets, waste cannot be passed as it should and accumulates within the digestive track. That means you've got a bloated feeling and a bloated appearance. Bacteria grow where the waste accumulates so that you get sluggish and sick without knowing why. Added to that, the new food you take in can't be processed well, so any nutrients they could bring can't be absorbed and you're not getting their benefits. Herbal teas with cleansing capacities take care of this problem.
How do Herbal Teas Help?
There are lots of different teas that have this cleansing property, and you can ask at your local health food store for some more names. Senna, barberry, raspberry, and rhubarb are some of the commonly known teas that help with fostering your digestive well-being. Your colon's health improves immensely when you drink these or other cleansing herbal teas over time. The natural process of waste elimination begins to happen regularly again once you've begun drinking these teas.
They also support the strength of the muscles in this area of the body, which means that they are strong enough to contract as they should in order to push this stuck fecal waste, as well as future contributions, out of your body. Your body is meant to let go of food once their nutrients have been absorbed. If it doesn't, that food turns into poison in your body. So it's not like you're adding something foreign to your body. Rather, you're restoring it to the way it's meant to work in nature.
Herbal Tea Ideas
If you run out and can't get what you need at the moment and just want a simple tea solution, boil a piece of ginger root. Or you can drink green tea, which is readily available, or just boil water with some lemon until it's hot. Any of these will greatly benefit your digestive system and help you cleanse and feel lighter and healthier. Your elimination will become more regular and you'll be more positive and radiant without that sluggish feeling. It's unquestionably important that you watch what you eat when you're aiming for a healthy colon.
How it Affects Your Diet
Fast foods don't get digested properly and leave toxic plaque on the intestinal track. Fresh fruits and vegetables, preferably organic, pass through this are as they're meant to do. After all, your body was made to process its food well. It's our contemporary lifestyle of fast food and junk food, combined with stressing out over small issues, and getting little sleep that contributes to our digestive woes. A good start is to buy some herbal teas that are good for cleansing and detoxification and use them regularly. Then your body can begin to get back to normal and you can have the advantages of the good food that you're going to start buying and consuming as part of your everyday diet.
The beneficial qualities that tea brings to both mind and body have long been recognized by the vast majority of people around the world. However it’s always the green leaf variety that takes the plaudits with other varieties playing second fiddle at best, and often times ignored. We are constantly bombarded through the media and treated to information overload to the extraordinary attributes of the green tea variety. It is certainly then no surprise that it is to green tea that one’s thoughts first turn while looking for a healthy drink to refresh. Whilst it is certainly true that green tea does come packed with an incredible health-giving pedigree, the black tea variety, or ‘crimson’ as it is known in Chinese and languages influenced by Chinese, should most certainly not be ignored.
What's the Difference?
Black tea has as much to offer as the green leaf variety to those that choose to give it a try. A fact of which many people are not aware is that both black and green tea comes from the same plant, Camellia sinensis. The larger leaves from the Assamese plant are used for the black variety, with the smaller leaves from the Chinese plants being used for green and also white tea too. Whilst much has been said of the health giving qualities of green tea, those benefits can be said to be present in black tea also as they are essentially derived from the same source. This is despite its more intense processing and consequently lower levels of antioxidant. There also tends to be more caffeine in black tea and hence black tea can be considered more stimulating.
It is often of a better flavor too as green tea tends to lose its flavor after a year or so, whilst black leaf tea can retain the flavor for many years more. It is due to this attribute of black tea that it has long been used a commodity for trading, and black tea bricks were even used as a form of currency in the 19th century in countries such as Mongolia, Tibet and Siberia. TF-2 is a compound present in black tea. It is an antioxidant and as such is very helpful to the human body in the fight against cancer, diseases of the heart and other inflammatory ailments.
Black Tea Research
Studies carried out in Europe spanning a decade have shown that drinking in excess of 2 cups of black leaf tea a day can cut in half the incidence of heart problems in males. The best method by far with which to imbibe tea is in its loose form, and in the authors opinion the bagged variety should be kept firmly on the shelf. It’s not just a great flavor from which you will benefit with black tea but also the extraordinary health-giving benefits that it will bring to your body. And there are of course many brands from which to choose with varied tastes and flavors. All without exception compete admirably with their green leaf counterparts in health properties and arguably make a more enjoyable and flavorsome drink.
Due to the variety of minerals, vitamins and other elements contained in tea, this drink improves health, relieves fatigue, strengthens the immune system and has an overall tonic effect on the body.
Mineral substances contain in green tea leaf and in finished products, it constitutes about 5-6% of dry matter. Among them are the following: potassium, phosphorus, calcium, magnesium, sulfur, iron, manganese, fluoride and others. With the aging of the plant total number of minerals increases, while the most valuable part of the soluble reduces. Only the components of relatively small molecular weights which are infused with hot water give a specific accent to the tea infusion. Between the quality of tea and the content therein of soluble mineral substances there is a direct link.
The potassium content in the tea leaf is 50-60% of all mineral substances and depends on the mineral nutrition of plants. This compound plays a very important role in the livelihood of tea tree; it is given a great importance in the synthesis of carbohydrates and proteins, and in the general metabolism. Potassium is very important to the human body; it prevents muscle cramps and regulates fluid and electrolyte balance.
Another important mineral is located in the tea - phosphorus. Its content ranges from 15-20% of weight of all mineral substances in tea. The properties of the finished product depend on its quantity. The two top leaves and a bud have higher content of phosphorus compare to the lower coarse tea leaves and stems. It is known fact that phosphorus is needed for the human body for normal functioning, as part of the nervous, brain tissue and bones.
Despite the slight content, copper and iron play an important role in plant’s life. They are part of some physiologically important organic compounds, such as enzymes. Another, small in content, but necessary for redox processes, is manganese. Its share is approximately 1-4%. Due to the iron content, tea has a beneficial effect on the human blood, as well as a good means for the prevention of various vascular diseases. In addition, the body needs iron to transport oxygen.
The complex experiments revealed effects of the duration of brewing tea and the quantity of the tea leaves on the degree of content in the drinks of various trace elements. Adding citric acid increased the yield of all elements, except copper. In the end, it was found that a tea drink satisfies the daily requirement of zinc, copper and manganese at 1, 2 and 50% respectively.
Now let us turn to vitamins contained in tea. This is mainly vitamins B complex and C. The tea shoot has the following B complex vitamins: B1 (thiamin), B2 (riboflavin), B3, and B5 (PP), B6, B12 and P. Since these compounds are very stable, in the processing they are almost completely transformed into finished products. Content of vitamin B1 is small - an average of 0.3 - 10 mg per 1 kg of dry tea leaves. In the body this vitamin (B1) regulates metabolism of carbohydrates, amino acids, fatty acids, has versatile affect on the function of the cardiovascular, endocrine and central nervous system. Vitamin B2 has positive effect on the skin and mucous membranes, the health of the liver. The most important is the presence in tea of vitamin P. One of its most important properties is the strengthening of the capillaries of the plant. During the technological processing of raw material quality and quantity of the vitamin are undergoing significant changes. Its content is reduced from 20-25% in green tea to 8-15% in the final. Along with others, the tea contains vitamin PP that is important for normalizing the higher nervous activity, the functions of the digestive system. It also affects the cardiovascular system, in particular, expanding the small vessels.
Tea leaves are rich in Vitamin C. Gentle leaves contain approximately 2-3 times more of this vitamin than the coarse. In the process of refining its amount is sharply reduced, especially during the fermentation and drying. This vitamin is essential for strengthening the immunity of a person, it reduces the risk of infections, but also useful for the prevention of osteoporosis and periodontitis (inflammation of the periodontal tissue, i.e. tissue surrounding the tooth root). Tea fluoride also provides the beneficial effect on teeth. This element exists in tea leaf as anion. Fluoride anion produces various fluoride compounds and covers the surface of teeth to prevent bacterial attack. Just wanted to point out that tea is very useful for vision, because it contained β-carotene and other elements, strengthens blood vessels. | <urn:uuid:b9988d2f-a9f1-4ed0-a766-cb7731dd6e5a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.espemporium.com/?tag=/drink&page=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00209-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962859 | 3,614 | 3.1875 | 3 |
Asset and liability offsetting
Clarifying amendments to IAS 32
At the July 2011 IASB-only meeting, the Board decided not to proceed with finalising the proposals in the offsetting exposure draft and retain the existing offsetting guidance in IAS 32 Financial Instruments: Presentation. However, the Board asked the staff to explore ways to address the areas of diversity in practice identified during the offsetting project. Those areas of diversity primarily focused around:
- the meaning of 'currently has a legally enforceable right of set-off'
- the application of the simultaneous settlement criterion
- the treatment of collateral and margin
- issues around unit of account.
Meaning of 'currently has a legally enforceable right of set-off'
IAS 32 does not provide specific guidance as to the meaning of currently having a legally enforceable right of set-off. The offsetting exposure draft instead proposed that an entity have an unconditional and legally enforceable right to set off in order to qualify for offsetting. The exposure draft states that an unconditional right of set-off is one in which the exercisability is not contingent on the occurrence of a future event while a legally enforceable right of set-off is enforceable in all circumstances (both in normal course of business and on default, insolvency or bankruptcy of one of the counterparties).
The staff asserted during the meeting that the exposure draft proposals were not intended to change practice for IFRS preparers but highlighted inconsistencies in the interpretation of the word 'currently' in IAS 32. The staff believe that while IAS 32 does not specifically refer to an 'unconditional right', if a right of set-off were contingent or conditional on a future event then an entity would not currently have a legally enforceable right.
The exposure draft also specified that the right of set-off should be in all circumstances. However, current practice has often interpreted the term 'currently' to mean a right exercisable under current conditions (or in the normal course of business). The staff highlighted that the IAS 32 criterion does not refer to a currently enforceable right but rather to rights the entity currently has. To avoid inconsistent application, the staff believes the Board should clarify in IAS 32 that the right of set-off must be legally enforceable both in the normal course of business and in the event of default, bankruptcy and insolvency.
The exposure draft also stated that the right of set-off be enforceable on default, insolvency or bankruptcy of one of the counterparties. Some felt that this changed IAS 32 because they felt only the default, insolvency or bankruptcy of the counterparty should be considered rather than the reporting entity itself as doing so is inconsistent with a going concern basis of the financial statements. However, the staff believe that such an argument is would be inconsistent with the principles and objectives in both the exposure draft and IAS 32.
One of the IASB members had concerns with the staff view that the right of set-off be enforceable in all circumstances by one of the counterparties as they felt that a going concern basis is used in other areas of accounting and therefore this approach would be inconsistent. Another of the IASB members had issues with the staff not recommending any changes to the 'currently' guidance in IAS 32 and would prefer incorporation of the term 'unconditional' as used in the exposure draft.
The Board tentatively decided to not to add further clarification or application guidance with respect to the use of the word 'currently' in 'currently has a legally enforceable right of set-off'. However, the Board will include application guidance to confirm that a right of set-off should be legally enforceable both in the normal course of business and in the event of default, bankruptcy and insolvency of one of the counterparties.
IAS 32 requires that an entity must intend to settle on a net basis or realise the asset and settle the liability simultaneously in order to set-off financial assets and financial liabilities. The exposure draft also utilised the term simultaneous settlement and defined the term as when 'settlements take place at the same moment (ie there is exposure to only the net or reduced amount). Many respondents to the exposure draft asserted that simultaneous settlement is currently interpreted in various manners but a requirement of 'at the same moment' would be inconsistent with settlement practices. For example, many have taken a view under IAS 32 that settlement through a clearing house would always meet the simultaneous settlement criterion. Others have analogised to ASC Topic 210-20-45-11 under US GAAP related to offsetting of repurchase and reverse repurchase agreements.
Based on the feedback received by constituents and the acknowledged diversity in current practice under IAS 32, the Board tentatively decided to clarify the definition of net settlement in the application guidance of IAS 32 to include gross settlement mechanisms with features that eliminate or result in insignificant credit and liquidity risk and under which processing of receivables and payables occur in a single settlement process. The staff will likely include guidance on distinguishing factors for such gross settlement mechanisms including:
- financial assets and financial liabilities that meet the right of offset criterion are submitted for processing at exactly the same point
- once submitted for processing, the transactions cannot be cancelled or altered
- there is no potential for the cash flows arising from the assets and liabilities to change once they have been submitted for processing unless the processing fails
- if the processing of one asset or liability that is offset against another fails, then the processing of the related security used as collateral also fails
- processing is carried out through the same settlement depositary
- there is a high likelihood that an intraday credit facility is available and would be honoured until the settlement process is complete.
Treatment of collateral and margin
IAS 32 currently allows collateral that meets the offsetting criteria to be offset against recognised financial assets or financial liabilities. However, the exposure draft proposed prohibiting offsetting assets pledged as collateral or the obligation to return collateral obtained against the associated financial assets and financial liabilities. Many respondents raised issue with the treatment of collateral and margin as they felt the proposed guidance was more restrictive than current IAS 32. Some clearing houses require counterparties to provide or receive variation margin on a daily basis based on fair value changes for the effect of discounting and settlement of contracts based on the net position of certain asset classes or product types; these payments often meet the IAS 32 offsetting criteria today. The staff further analysed this issue and noted no existing practice issues or concerns around netting of collateral under IAS 32. One Board member inquired about collateral that could be clawed back, but another Board member reiterated that such an arrangement would not qualify for offsetting currently under IAS 32. The Board tentatively decided to not include the additional guidance from the exposure draft in IAS 32 around collateral arrangements such that existing practice would continue unchanged.
Unit of account
Current IAS 32 and the proposals in the exposure draft did not specify the appropriate unit of account for applying offsetting (e.g. the individual financial instrument level or specific cash flow level). Many respondents to the exposure draft requested clarification on the unit of account for offsetting. The feedback identified existing diversity in practice with regards to application of the unit of account for offsetting. Energy companies often apply the offsetting criteria to identifiable cash flows while financial institutions often apply the offsetting criteria to the entire financial assets and financial liabilities as the volume of transactions would make applying to individual cash flows impractical and burdensome. The IASB staff agree that applying offsetting to individual cash flows may conceptually be preferable, but they had concern over how to operationalise such a requirement for large financial institutions. One alternative would be to develop a practical expedient to scope out certain entities where offsetting individual cash flows may be impractical, but defining the correct set to scope out could also prove difficult. As a result, the staff recommended the Board not provide additional guidance regarding unit of account and permit the current diversity in practice to continue. The Board tentatively decided not to add additional guidance regarding unit of account to IAS 32.
Effective date and transition
Consistent with the proposals for the offsetting disclosure requirements, the staff recommended the amendments to IAS 32 to provide additional application guidance also be retrospectively applied with an effective date of annual periods beginning on or after 1 January 2013. One of the Board members questioned the staff's assertion that the amendments were not changing IAS 32 and if so then why retrospective application was necessary. Another Board member clarified that there would be no use of hindsight in applying the clarifying amendments retrospectively. The Board tentatively decided to require retrospective application and an effective date for annual and interim reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2013 for the clarifying amendments to IAS 32.
The staff received permission from the Board to proceed with drafting the amendments to IAS 32. Two Board members mentioned they are likely to dissent to the amendments.
Offsetting disclosures - Effective date and transition
During the July IASB-only meeting, the staff had presented the Board with proposed effective date and transition requirements for the offsetting disclosures. The staff recommended retrospective application of the disclosure requirements and an effective date of annual and interim reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2013.
The Board expressed general support of the proposals but did not take an official vote because of the limited participation during that meeting. Since that meeting, the FASB has tentatively agreed on the same staff proposals. During this meeting, the IASB tentatively decided to require retrospective application of the disclosures with an effective date of annual and interim reporting periods beginning on or after 1 January 2013.
The staff received permission from the Board to begin drafting. No Board members expressed that they planned to dissent to the disclosure amendments.
Location of offsetting guidance
IAS 32 currently includes the guidance regarding offsetting financial assets and financial liabilities. However, some comment letter respondents to the exposure draft suggested the offsetting requirements be included in IFRS 9 Financial Instruments so that all guidance for financial instruments are contained within a single standard. However, the staff feel that IFRS 9 is a replacement of IAS 39 and that presentation is a separate issue and should continue to be included in IAS 32. Additionally, the joint disclosure requirements on offsetting developed with the FASB would be included in IFRS 7 Financial Instruments: Disclosures with the other disclosure for financial instruments rather than IFRS 9.
One Board member expressed his support for the disclosure requirements to be a part of IFRS 7 but a preference for the offsetting guidance to be part of IFRS 9 rather than IAS 32. He suggested the IFRS 9 already contains presentation guidance with regards to changes in fair value being recognised in earnings or other comprehensive income. For endorsement purposes, he believed a single standard would be preferable. However, the staff responded that doing so would push the effective date back, likely until 2015, and the staff felt that the diversity in practice issues identified should be resolved more timely.
The Board tentatively decided that the offsetting criteria and amendments to the offsetting application guidance be contained within IAS 32 and that the proposed offsetting disclosure requirements be contained within IFRS 7.
The Board also discussed whether any consequential amendments were necessary to other IFRSs. The staff identified two other standards that have linkages to the offsetting criteria in IAS 32: IAS 12 Income Taxes and IAS 19 Employee Benefits. However, the staff note that neither IAS 12 nor IAS 19 contains the term 'currently' and therefore the additional application guidance would not impact those standards. The Board tentatively decided that no conforming amendments to other IFRSs were required based on the additional application guidance made to IAS 32.
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What was the Department of Energy's role in loaning now-bankrupt solar panel maker Solyndra half a billion dollars? That was the focus of a Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee hearing today to consider the nominations of three DOE officials, including Gregory Woods as general counsel.
"We have a colossal failure within the DOE loan guarantee program, calling into question every loan guarantee issued and any going forward,” said Sen. Lisa Murkowski (R-Alaska).
In 2009, DOE selected Solyndra to be the first recipient of a loan guarantee under the federal stimulus program. The company folded on Aug. 31, leaving taxpayers on the hook for the $535 million loan. The Washington Post reported yesterday that the Obama White House tried to rush through loan approval so Vice President Biden could announce it at a groundbreaking for the company’s new factory.
Sen. John Barrasso (R-Wy.) pressed Woods, who currently serves as deputy general counsel of the Department of Transportation and is a former partner at Debevoise & Plimpton, on the office’s duty to review loans. When Solyndra’s loan was restructured, Barrasso said, DOE lawyers allowed the federal debt to be subordinated to that of private investors. “Does the law allow private investors to get paid before taxpayers?” he asked. “Did the administration violate the law?”
Woods was noncommittal, replying that he would review the statute, and that as general counsel he’d “ensure all loans are made in accordance with the law, and evaluated in accordance with their technical and financial merit.”
Barrasso noted that DOE is slated to issue another $10 billion in loan guarantees by Sept. 30, and asked whether in light of Solyndra, it was appropriate to do so.
“If I’m confirmed before the decision is made, I’ll look at the transactions to make sure [the general counsel’s office] has done all the work necessary,” Woods said.
Murkowski pressed Woods on how the GC’s office worked with the rest of the agency in evaluating loans. “There’s a team of attorneys who review the transaction documents to make sure they’re consistent with the terms,” Woods said. But he added that to his knowledge, these lawyers are not involved in the underwriting process to determine the business merits of the venture.
“I’m hoping the finance guys aren’t just checking the boxes,” Murkowski said. “I don’t have the level of confidence I want to have. When we’re putting taxpayer dollars at risk, I want to know for a fact that we’ve got systems that work.” | <urn:uuid:33291b43-c1b8-421b-9c00-b7972e076f5a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://legaltimes.typepad.com/blt/2011/09/senators-look-at-does-half-billion-dollar-loan-to-solar-panel-maker.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00199-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96538 | 586 | 1.609375 | 2 |
A major overhaul of China's armed forces appears to have affected one of seven regionalized commands in charge of the Korean Peninsula, according to Chinese and Hong Kong media reports on Saturday.
The Chinese Shenyang Military Area Command, which is close to North Korea, is one of the seven battle-zone commands and believed to be tasked with coping with contingency plans on the Korean Peninsula.
Citing a "source familiar with the matter," Hong Kong-based South China Morning Post reported on Thursday that the seven regionalized commands will be replaced by five new commands -- North, South, East, West and Central.
The move is "to modernize and increase the efficiency and combat readiness of the People's Liberation Army," the report said.
Chinese President Xi Jinping "has ordered the new military zones to be operational by January 1," the report said, adding that Xi has chosen four out of the five commanders.
Some Chinese media reports have suggested that the Shenyang Military Area Command might have been replaced by the new command in charge of China's northeastern region.
Xi inaugurated three new military units, including a missile force, on Thursday, according to China's state-run media report.
Earlier this week, China's defense ministry confirmed that it is building a second aircraft carrier amid Beijing's increasingly assertive actions in the South China Sea.
China is rapidly building up its naval hardware at a time when tensions mount over its land reclamation works in the South China Sea.
China claims sovereignty over nearly 90 percent of the South China Sea, worsening relations with neighbors such as the Philippines, Malaysia and Vietnam. Beijing is also in a bitter dispute with Tokyo over islets in the East China Sea. (Yonhap) | <urn:uuid:323b6950-a7b1-4193-9e2e-f24e40a19cf7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.koreaherald.com/view.php?ud=20160102000068 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573623.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819035957-20220819065957-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.956413 | 348 | 1.835938 | 2 |
Mr Tehan has called on the Prime Minister to adopt the recommendation from the Royal Commission into Trade Union Governance and Corruption and has issued a call to action for bipartisan support from his Labour colleagues.
He says individual union officials who break the law should be held to account for their actions and unions should be prohibited from paying the fines of their officials, akin to how the Corporations Act works for companies.
"You would start to see unions treated in the same way as companies are, so it actually is a good measure in that regard in that it brings unions further to account as to how public companies are dealt with," Mr Tehan told the ABC on Monday.
Mr Tehan highlighted the recent September 2015 case lost by the Construction, Forestry, Mining and Energy Union (CFMEU) where Federal Court ordered Ralph Edwards, the boss of the construction division, to pay $7,500 for a contravention of the Fair Work Act.
He says the fine would do little to deter illegal behaviour and argued it should be a criminal offence for unions to pay the penalty of officials under the Fair Work (Registered Organisations) Act.
“This amounts to little more than a slap on the wrist given his division of the CFMEU can pay the fine and they had an operating surplus of $2.9 million in 2014 and declared assets to the sum of $14.3 million,” Mr Tehan said.
He points says all sides of politics should support the recommendations of the Heydon Royal Commission Final Report.
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Procurement framework agreements and G-Cloud
Get to grips with the benefits of using a framework agreement when buying goods and services for your school, including the government's G-cloud service.
This article is about using framework agreements, including the government's new G-Cloud service. If you're looking for information on choosing a Management Information System (MIS), read this article.
What's a procurement framework?
A framework agreement means that a body - such as the government or a local authority (LA) - has already selected suppliers and agreed the procurement terms and conditions with them. This includes prices, which can be set for up to 3 years in advance. These agreements are then offered to public organisations - in this case, your school.
Crown Commercial Service (CSS) - the biggest public procurement organisation in the UK - lists over 100 agreements on their website, covering areas such as buildings, people and | <urn:uuid:b07175e3-59e6-426c-99c0-fff28927e490> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://schoolleaders.thekeysupport.com/administration-and-management/financial-management/procurement-and-payment/using-procurement-framework-agreements-and-g-cloud/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573163.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818033705-20220818063705-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.944624 | 189 | 1.945313 | 2 |
BATON ROUGE – Despite the turmoil and the ongoing court battles, state education officials point out that Common Core is still the law and policy used in Louisiana classrooms.
“The confusion has been public, general confusion,” says Chas Roemer, president of the Board of Elementary and Secondary Education. “I want the message to teachers and districts in this state to be clear: Common Core is law in this state and what’s what we’re going to move forward with.”
Preliminary actions in lawsuits related to Common Core and the test to determine how students perform using the tougher standards were in two separate Baton Rouge courtrooms this past week.
One of those suits, in which parents, teachers and a charter school operator charge that Gov. Bobby Jindal overstepped his constitutional authority in interfering with education policy by blocking a testing contract, goes back to court Monday for a hearing on whether he did.
After a preliminary hearing Tuesday, Judge Todd Hernandez determined that the plaintiffs have legal ground to sue him but their attorneys can’t force the governor or his commissioner of administration and some of her employees to testify before the trial.
School is now in full swing across the state and while teachers know what they’re teaching, they’re still wondering what tests they’ll administer at the end of the year.
In a Friday hearing, Judge Tim Kelley threw out the request of 17 lawmakers to put a temporary hold on Common Core until their lawsuit to permanently enjoin it and force BESE to hold administrative hearings to re-adopt the standards.
Kelly did not throw out the lawsuit but made it clear that the current filings were not enough for him to side with the plaintiffs.
Friday’s ruling affirmed that BESE legally adopted Common Core without using the Administrative Procedures Act because the Legislature exempted the board from using that law. Roemer said he’s not surprised that some people are fighting Common Core and he expects the fight to go on.
“I expect opponents to what we’re doing to continue making attempts to derail what we’re doing,” he said. “But the law is clearly on our side and the standards being so clearly a higher standard, this is the direction our state needs to be moving in.”
The court victory was important because “the teachers in our districts need to have confidence moving forward right now.”
Superintendent of Education John White says he’s also not surprised by opposition to the standards.
“As with any significant change, there’s going to be a day-by-day process,” he said. “People are going to disagree and that’s fine. We keep making adjustments.
“But there’s one thing we won’t make an adjustment on, and that’s the idea of the highest expectations in the country for our kids,” he said. “Our kids are just as smart and just as capable in America and we make daily adjustments and communicate with our teachers but we’re not going to waiver on that.”
The court battles aren’t affecting what’s going on in classrooms, White said.
“Our teachers have their heads down. They’re focused on having higher expectations for our kids. They know we’ve been on this track for four years and they’re not going to stop just because there’s some deliberation.
“There’s been deliberations for months and there probably will continue to be deliberations,” he said. “But our teachers know what’s good for our kids. They’re keeping their expectations high.”
Roemer said BESE is fighting with the governor because the state needs an assessment that gives a clear picture of how well students are learning. Three BESE members who support the governor’s side of the argument continue to fight to continue using the current test that’s been administered for several years.
One of the problems with what’s used now, Roemer said, is “what’s required to achieve basic or to achieve mastery and proficiency is watered down. So one of the reasons to do an apples-to-apples comparison is that kind of watering-down is no longer acceptable. Our score in Louisiana is going to mean the same thing as a score in Tennessee. So whether we call is mastery or something else, we’ll know exactly how we compare.
“It’s a higher standard and a higher level of accountability,” he said. “Comparing ourselves to other states is a higher level of accountability than comparing ourselves to ourselves.”
Roemer said one the problems plaguing Louisiana, though, is “we deal with probably a more significant number of kids who enter school not kindergarten ready. So we had to address that in an early childhood program, making sure the parents of those students who want access to high quality early childhood education can get it. That’s one of the reasons we’re seeing progress and success.
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Deuteronomy 21. v 23
‘If a man has committed a crime punishable by death and he is put to death, and you hang him on a tree, his body shall not remain all night upon the tree. but you shall bury him the same day, for a hanged man is accursed by God; you shall not defile your land which the Lord your God gives you for an inheritance.’
Hanging on a cross was the ultimate penalty for murderers, robbers, mischief-makers, and it was a typical punishment for slaves. Crucifixion was a horrible and cruel death, including flogging beforehand and the victim being made to carry the beam of his own cross to the place of execution, where he was nailed to it with outstretched arms, raised up and seated on a wooden peg. Slaves and foreigners in the Roman Empire knew that this punishment, whether carried out by the government authorities or even landlords, might one day be their fate. When Jesus talked about being ready ‘to take up your cross’, this was the destiny and destination he had in mind for his followers. He meant it quite literally, and in many cases, it became an ultimate ‘acted parable’, as for our Lord himself. But this was, like the entry into Jerusalem and the clearing of the Temple Courts, a real historical event. A death like this could not be other than the final event in Christ’s life. This is John’s account of the aftermath of Jesus’ death upon the cross:
‘Then the Jewish authorities asked Pilate to allow them to break the legs of the men who had been crucified, and to take down their bodies from the crosses. They requested this because it was Friday, and they did not want the bodies to stay on the crosses on the sabbath, since the coming sabbath was especially holy.
‘So the soldiers went and broke the legs of the first man and then the other man who had been crucified with Jesus. But when they came to Jesus, they saw that he was already dead, so they did not break his legs. One of the soldiers, however, plunged his spear into Jesus’ side, and at once blood and water poured out. (The one who saw this happen has spoken of it, so that you also may believe. What he said is true, and he knows that he speaks the truth.) This was done to make the scripture come true: “Not one of his bones will be broken.” And another that says, “People will look at him whom they pierced.”
‘After this, Joseph, who was from the town of Arimathea, asked Pilate if he could take Jesus’ body. (Joseph was a follower of Jesus, but in secret, because he was afraid of the Jewish authorities.) Pilate told him he could have the body, so Joseph took it away. Nicodemus, who at first had gone to see Jesus at night, went with Joseph, taking with him one hundred pounds of spices, a mixture of myrrh and aloes. The two men took Jesus’ body and wrapped it in linen cloths with the spices according to the Jewish custom of preparing a body for burial.’
‘There was a garden in the place where Jesus had been put to death, and in it was a new tomb where no one had ever been buried. Since it was the day before the Sabbath and because the tomb was close by, they placed Jesus’ body there.’
John 19 vv 31-42
(see also Mt. 27, vv 51-61; Mk. 15, vv 38-47 and Luke 23, vv 47-56)
The only man in the Sanhedrin who we know supported Jesus, though not openly, was Joseph of Arimathea, whom Matthew tells us owned the nearby tomb, just recently dug out of solid rock. He could even have been a close relative of Jesus, perhaps his uncle, which would have permitted him to prepare the body for burial, in the tomb, with the crowd of women outside. In the gospel accounts, he appears as a transitory figure at the trial and crucifixion. However, other writers have pointed to his significance in preserving ‘The Word’, proclaiming ‘The Way’ and protecting both Jesus’ mother and the small band of disciples during the perilous years after the crucifixion. The legends surrounding his role as ‘the Apostle of Britain’ have had a profound influence on British history and culture, not least in William Blake’s great poem, Jerusalem, which has become the unofficial anthem of England. But, for now, the scriptural record tells us that it was him who laid the body of Jesus to rest, properly anointed, in his own tomb, and that it was this tomb which Pilate had sealed and guarded, the only events of Saturday, the Sabbath.
Joseph of Arimathea was a man of refinement, well-educated, possessing many talents. He had extraordinary political and business ability and was reputed to be one of the wealthiest men in the world of that time, a metal magnate controlling the tin and lead industries across much of the Roman Empire. Tin was the chief metal for making alloys and was in great demand by the Romans. Many authorities claim that his control of tin was due to his holdings in the ancient tin mines of Britain, in particular in Cornwall, where it was smelted into ingots and exported throughout the Mediterranean by Joseph’s ships. The tin trade between Cornwall and Phoenicia is frequently referred to by classical writers, especially by Dioderus Siculus as well as by Julius Caesar himself. In the Latin Vulgate of the gospels of Mark (15: 43) and Luke (23: 50), both refer to Joseph as ‘Decurio’, the common term employed by Romans to designate an official in charge of metal mines. In St Jerome‘s translation, Joseph’s official title is ‘Noblis Decurio’, indicating a prominent position as a ‘minister of mines’ for the Romans. It was quite remarkable for a Jew to hold such a high rank in the Roman State. We know he was an influential member of the Sanhedrin and a legislative member of a provincial Roman senate. He owned a palatial home in Jerusalem and a fine country residence just outside the city. In addition, he possessed another spacious estate at Arimathea, several miles to the north of the city, at Arimathea, known as Ramelleh today. Everything points to him being as a person of affluence and influence in both the Jewish and Roman hierarchies.
According to the Talmud, Joseph was the youngest brother of the Virgin Mary’s father, making him Jesus’ great uncle. Joseph the Carpenter seems to have died while Jesus was still quite young. Under these circumstances, the Law appointed the next male kin of the husband, in this case Joseph of Arimathea, as legal guardian. We now that Joseph never abandoned his great-nephew. He defended him at the trial, defied the Sanhedrin by going to Pilate and claiming the body, when all others feared to do so. His arms were the first to cradle the broken corpse, taking it from the cross to the tomb. He continued to protect the body from the conspiratorial Sanhedrin members, risking his wealth, power and position in doing so, The disciples spoke of him as ‘just’, ‘good’, ‘honourable’ and ‘a disciple of Jesus’. The Gospel of Nicodemus shows that Joseph believed in the validity of Jesus’ teaching.
The speed with which Joseph called on Pilate after Jesus’ death indicates that he had been present at the crucifixion, together with John the Divine and a number of the women following Jesus. Pilate appears to have been surprised at the news of Jesus’ death, asking those near him to verify it. According to both Jewish and Roman law, unless the body of an executed criminal was immediately claimed by the next of kin, it would be cast into a common grave with others and all physical record of them was completely obliterated. Why then, didn’t Mary the Mother, as the immediate next of kin, claim the body of her beloved son? Perhaps John, fearing for her safety, suggested leaving this duty to Joseph of Arimathea, as family guardian, to make the request. Also, Joseph had a nearby tomb ready, a private sepulchre, within the garden of his estate. Meanwhile, a reign of terror continued to prevail within the city walls. No follower of Christ was safe from the Sanhedrin, who were not just enjoying the Passover, but also a Roman holiday in the persecution of the followers of ‘The Way’.
All but two of the disciples had fled the city and gone into seclusion for fear of their lives. Nicodemus and Joseph remained, but only the latter dared walk openly in the streets without fear of physical attack. Yet he knew he was dealing with dynamite. Why then did he go to Pilate? Why didn’t he simply claim the body, according to the custom, on the hill of crucifixion itself? Under normal circumstances, there would have been no reason for him to go further than the Sanhedrin, but he knew that its fanatical Sadducean Priesthood sought the total extinction of Jesus, even in death. Annas and Caiaphas, the High Priests, would have preferred Jesus’ body to be cast into the common pit so that all memory of him would be steeped in shame. To have him decently interred within a family sepulchre would run the risk of allowing a shrine to be set up, a martyr’s tomb, to which multitudes of pilgrims might flock for generations to come. The Sanhedrin might therefore have intervened to prevent her taking the body, but they could not interfere with Joseph. Nevertheless, he went before Pilate and boldly asserted kinship rights on behalf of his niece, thus securing the procurator’s support, just in case…
Following the entombment, the Sadducees, suspicious of the disciples, and determined to prevent any possible tampering with the body, requested a guard from Pilate, reminding him that Jesus had claimed he would rise again on the third day. Whether Pilate gave them a Roman guard, or whether he simply allowed them to arrange a guard from the Temple’s own men is unclear from the gospel accounts. The fact that they met with him on the Sabbath of the Festival shows just how determined they were to take every possibly precaution. They accompanied the guard to the tomb and saw to it that the tomb was sealed.
So, on the Sabbath, the Saturday, the tomb was sealed and guarded, and the disciples, except for Joseph, were in hiding outside the city. The next day, Joseph of Arimathea was no longer guardian over his nephew’s body, but over Christ’s mission on earth.He was also to become the guardian of all the beloved against their arch-enemy, the Sanhedrin, and the Chief Priests. He made the work of Peter and Paul possible, and planted the roots of Christianity in fertile soil a long way from his homeland.
Prayer: Joseph of Arimathea
Bless all, O Lord, who worship you in secret; all whose hearts are growing round an undeclared allegiance; all whose life is laden with a treasure they would pour out at your feet; all who know with greater certainty each day that they have found the pearl of greatest price: then by the power of the Cross, O Christ, claim your victory in their heart, and lead them to the liberty of being seen by all men to be yours, for your dear name’s sake. Amen.
- Easter Saturday: Joseph, the secret follower (wonderingpreacher.wordpress.com)
- Holy Saturday: Mar. 30 (prayerscapes.wordpress.com)
- Good Friday Evening and Holy Saturday: The Waiting (johnestorge.com)
- Our Rational Faith: Examining Theories of The Resurrection of Jesus Christ (piathompson.wordpress.com)
- Spy Wednesday: The treachery of our unfaithful hearts. (chandlerozconsultants.wordpress.com)
- Nicodemus, the mystery man of Holy Week (religionnews.com)
- The Public Burial of Jesus (truthmattersblog.wordpress.com)
- Some Thoughts on John’s Account of the Crucifixion (briancoatney.com)
- Thirteenth Station (riverrunchurch.wordpress.com)
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Britain Has Class
A grassroots movement of Working Class people fighting class inequality. Tired of being spoken for instead of spoken to, we're forming a new understanding of classism in modern Britain and equipping our communities with the tools to fight it.
Class inequality is deeply engrained in our society, connected to and compounded by other inequalities including race, gender and disability. While politicians and the media fawn over ‘hard-working families’ and ‘authentic’ British stories, our rights at work are assaulted, our community funding is slashed and our representatives are frozen out of the discussion. Social, economic and cultural class bleed into every part of British life, and with them comes a structural classism than needs fighting.
At Britain Has Class, we believe that real systems change needs consistency and strategy: explicit, permanent positions for working class representatives in public life; proper support and resources for working class communities; and a coherent vision of a society without inequality, built by a new generation of working class activists. We’re putting the debate about class back into the hands of working class people. | <urn:uuid:3c0dc53d-11b3-49ed-bcdd-3a3e6db3a66b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.britainhasclass.org/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.95107 | 225 | 1.992188 | 2 |
It is a mantra you could repeat in your sleep: eat less, make healthier choices, and get more exercise. But let’s face it—you are busy, and even though you have sworn a thousand times that you will lose the 10 pounds you have gained since you started your job, between the doughnuts at every meeting, the vending machine down the hall, and the long hours at the office, it feels like the deck is stacked against you. Here are some tips to help you regain control of your nutrition and your weight.
In general, the culprits behind weight gain at work are no different than those that trigger weight gain anywhere else. These include:
A major component of success is preparation. Advance planning can keep you focused and in control. Plan the next day the night before. Prepare meals ahead of time so you can grab them on the go. When you grocery shop, pick up small portions and buy healthy snacks or cereal to keep in your desk. If you have a refrigerator at work, use it to store foods like low-fat milk, yogurt, fruit, or salad dressing.
Grabbing fast food for lunch, or skipping it entirely is a dietary no-no when it comes to your weight loss plan. But a busy lifestyle does not have to mean an unhealthy diet. Here are some tips to help:
There are other things you can do to maintain control over your waistline at work. Space meals out more evenly so you eat every 3-4 hours. Think before you act. Instead of a candy bar boost in the afternoon, substitute it with:
You already know exercise is good for you, but it can be hard to find time given the demands at work and home. However, it can be done. Here are a few ways to work exercise into your workday:
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Like it or not, the children's audience is considered a niche that broadcasters have been abandoning for years. Some, like NBC, have abandoned it completely while others (Fox, CBS) have just leased out their children's timeslots rather than bother to originate programming themselves.
I recently spoke to a Canadian studio owner who said to me that while there are quotas for how much Canadian content a channel must broadcast, there's no requirement that the Canadian content be new. As overall audiences shrink (and the world heads into a recession), there's lots of incentive to avoid commissioning new children's programming. Here's an article from the Telegraph in the U.K. about the British situation.
There are 26 channels available to satellite and cable viewers that specifically cater for children. They include Cartoon Network, which shows the popular US-made cartoon Ben 10. However, the number of original and native programmes has plummeted. One per cent of the 113,000 hours of children's programmes broadcast last year were new commissions made in Britain.The situation in Britain is complicated by a ban on junk food advertising during children's programming. That's undoubtedly good for children's health, but not so good for animation artists' bank accounts.
These pressures have also affected budgets. I heard from the same studio owner that producers are attempting to get half hour shows produced in China for $25,000. That price is only for the visuals, not scripts, boards, audio tracks and post-production, but I commented that in the 1970's in New York, Zander's Animation Parlour would get $30,000 for the visuals of a 30 second commercial. Commercials always had higher budgets per minute than the shows they interrupted, but it's hard to imagine how any studio could produce 22 minutes for $25,000.
Disney's recent live action successes have also reduced the amount of new TV animation being produced. The big question is whether this situation is temporary and will improve or if we're seeing the a permanent change in children's TV.
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Apparently, some refining is being done in Canada, and it is already being transported by truck and train. However, the oil people want to transport more, faster. The initial extraction apparently leaves a peanut butter consistency mass with high sulfur (acid), other toxins, much quartz sand, etc. It is then mixed with other chemicals to allow it to be pushed through the pipeline under high pressure. It is highly corrosive and abrasive, far more so than other forms of raw crude, and has a much higher pipeline break rate. Having broken, especially into waterways, it is many times more expensive to clean up. This is the problem with the Kalamazoo River break. It will be used for the export market from Houston, not our US consumption. Let them build it to the Pacific if they are selling it to China. | <urn:uuid:e4bc406d-b343-44d0-a49b-cc6b0c63fe43> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2989301/replies?c=92 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988722459.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183842-00344-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973121 | 166 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Symposium on the History of the Legal Profession (in Canada)
CALL FOR PAPERS
In celebration of the 175th anniversary of the official opening of Toronto's Osgoode Hall, the home of the Law Society of Upper Canada, there will be a one-day symposium on "The History of the Legal Profession" at historic Osgoode Hall. The symposium will start with a dinner on 11 October 2007, and conclude with the presentation of papers and a final reception on 12 October 2007.
Funding for costs of travel, conference fees, and accommodation for those who present papers will be provided by the Law Society of Upper Canada.
We would like to hear from individuals able to offer papers on any aspect of the history of the profession in Canada including, for example, studies of legal education, the aesthetics and architectures of law, professional regulation, professional discipline, legal practice, professional independence, and the cultures of professionalism.
Potential presenters are asked to submit:
1.a working title,
2.a 250 word summary of the paper,
3.a one page curriculum vitae
Please provide this information by 28 February 2007 by email to Professor Constance Backhouse: email@example.com. All proposals will be considered by the conference organizing committee. Symposium Organisers: Constance Backhouse, University of Ottawa and Heritage Committee, Law Society of Upper Canada, Jim Phillips, University of Toronto and Osgoode Society for Canadian Legal History, W. Wesley Pue, Nemetz Professor of Legal History, University of British Columbia. | <urn:uuid:85bc4a43-6121-4f02-bd1d-a8ef3f29f3af> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://legalhistoryblog.blogspot.com/2007/01/call-for-papers-history-of-legal.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.903459 | 327 | 1.640625 | 2 |
Despite Same-Sex Marriage Ruling, Gay Adoption Rights Uncertain in Some States
Casanova and Daniel Nurse stand with children Ava Rose, 2, and Neijal and Cameron, both 4, whom they adopted from Florida’s foster care system. Some states still have barriers for married gay couples looking to adopt from foster care.
As soon as Daniel Nurse met baby Cameron in 2011, he knew he wanted to adopt him.
“It was just like instant love. He was so sweet and loving, and seeing him smile—it was just an instant connection,” Nurse, of Tallahassee, Florida, said of the baby, then 11 months old.
But going about adopting Cameron proved challenging for Nurse and his husband, Casanova. Florida’s 1977 ban on gay adoption had only recently been overturned when the Nurses began looking to take in foster children in 2011 with the hope of ultimately adopting them.
While same-sex couples have long been able to adopt from private, gay-friendly adoption agencies, adopting children from the foster care system has proved more difficult in some states.
The U.S. Supreme Court decision in June that made same-sex marriage legal nationwide is changing that, but not everywhere—particularly in states with laws that limit joint adoption to a husband and wife.
“Marriage doesn’t create this completely certain playing field,” said Ellen Kahn, director of the children, youth and families program at the Human Rights Campaign, which advocates for gay rights.
And some states have taken up legislation that would allow taxpayer-funded contractors that oversee state adoptions to refuse to let gay or lesbian individuals adopt children if it conflicts with the organization’s religious beliefs. Michigan passed such a law right before the court decision.
The Nurses became familiar with all these roadblocks when adopting Cameron and their two other children.
The couple found they were limited in which contractors they could work with because some wouldn’t allow gay and lesbian couples to adopt. And though Florida’s ban on gay adoption was overturned in 2010, the Nurses were unable to marry in the state until this year. Thus, they couldn’t file adoption paperwork together. The adoptions had to be filed under Daniel’s name only, and the couple faced the added time and expense of adding Casanova’s name later.
Change Comes State by State
Thirteen states—Arkansas, Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Michigan, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, North Dakota, Ohio, South Dakota, Tennessee and Texas—prohibited same-sex marriage before the Supreme Court decision.
All but Arkansas and Tennessee also had policies that did not allow gay and lesbian couples to adopt foster children jointly, according to the Human Rights Campaign. In Alabama, where a federal court overruled the state’s ban on gay marriage, gay couples were also not allowed to adopt jointly.
But many of those states are changing their policies in the aftermath of the Supreme Court decision. That’s the case in North Dakota, where the law allows single people to adopt but specifies that adopting couples must be “husband and wife.”
“It’s simple,” said Julie Hoffman, adoptions administrator for the state Department of Human Services. “Now that gay couples are allowed to marry, they’ll be treated like any other married couple who’s adopting.”
Georgia, Kentucky, Louisiana, Missouri, Ohio and South Dakota also are changing their practices to allow married gay couples to go through the adoption process together. Some of them said they’re starting to update their forms to make them gender neutral.
In Alabama, married gay couples will be allowed to adopt a foster child, but they’ll have to wait longer than most—the state requires married couples interested in adopting to have been married for a year before beginning the adoption process.
Mississippi is the only state that has a law that specifically bars gay couples from adopting foster children, and Julia Bryan, spokeswoman for the state Department of Human Services, said the law will be followed unless the legislature makes any changes when it reconvenes in January. However, the ban is being challenged in the courts.
The Texas Department of Family and Protective Services also will wait on the legislature before changing how it operates, according to spokeswoman Julie Moody. Gay couples in the state will have to continue to have one member of the couple formally adopt the child, she said, and then the other member has to come back later to do a second parent adoption—a similar process to a step parent adopting a stepchild.
Nebraska policy prevented unmarried couples, gay or straight, from fostering or adopting state wards until 2012, when the state started allowing gay couples to become foster parents, ultimately placing foster children with 15 same-sex couples, according to the Omaha World Herald.
A county judge recently struck down the unmarried couple ban. But the state is planning to challenge that, saying that the broad scope of the order would require its Department of Health and Human Services to treat “unrelated, unmarried adults residing together” the same as it treats individuals and married couples. A statement from the Attorney General’s Office said that would make it more difficult to make placements in the best interest of the child.
Although the court decision is leading to changes in some states, others are creating new roadblocks to gay adoption.
Michigan is one of the first states to enact a law that allows groups that contract with the state to oversee adoptions to decline service to any person or couple that conflicts with their “sincerely held religious beliefs.” Similar bills were considered in Alabama, Florida and Texas.
Republican state Rep. Thomas Hooker, who worked on the Michigan bill, said he was worried that if the state didn’t pass the law, it might have lost the roughly 30 percent of adoption agencies the state contracts with that are religiously affiliated.
But opponents of the Michigan law say its language is too broad, giving religious organizations leeway to discriminate against not just gay couples, but single people, interracial couples, people of other faiths or anybody who they say conflicts with their faith.
“Discrimination shouldn’t be happening at all, and it shouldn’t be done using taxpayer dollars,” said Lonnie Scott, executive director of Progress Michigan, an advocacy group that lobbied against the law.
Hooker said the law doesn’t pose a disadvantage to gay couples because the organizations will have to refer anyone they turn down to an organization that is willing to serve them.
While religious groups often argue that same-sex parents could be damaging to children, nearly all research has found the opposite. A 2015 project at Columbia University assembled scholarly, peer-reviewed studies on the well-being of children with gay parents. Of 77 studies, just four found that having gay parents negatively impacts a child.
Even in states that require agencies to work with gay couples, there are no guarantees against discrimination in deciding whether to allow them to adopt.
“It’s easy to find a way to say no to a couple. It’s easy to prioritize some couples over others,” said April Dinwoodie, chief executive of the Donaldson Adoption Institute, which researches adoption policy. She said if case workers have a bias, “they can find something within a home study that doesn’t suit them or find a reason a child wouldn’t be a good fit for a home.”
‘Love Is Love’
Daniel Nurse went to Florida’s Capitol earlier this year to testify against a bill that would have protected state contractors’ ability to turn him away. He put up pictures of his family. In addition to Cameron, now 4, the couple has adopted Neijal, also 4, and Ava Rose, 2.
Nurse questioned how someone could look at faces like those and argue they didn’t deserve the home that they now have.
“Love is unconditional. Love is love, and it’s what these children deserve,” Nurse said. “A person’s lifestyle shouldn’t matter if they can provide love and compassion.”
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Research released today by the UK Safer Internet Centre (SIC) has revealed the extent to which young people are influenced by the internet, with many claiming that their online activities help to shape their identities offline.
With Safer Internet Day 2020 now well underway, the research coincides an annual event that sees millions of children, schools, and UK businesses explore online safety under this year’s theme: ‘free to be me’. This year, the event has garnered more than 1,500 supporters across the UK – including schools, charities, police services, industry bodies, businesses, government ministers, Premier League football clubs, and celebs who are driving discussion and hosting events that promote the safe, responsible and positive use of technology.
The youth’s offline identities are shaped by the world online
According to the SIC’s research, almost half (49%) of young people aged 8-17 today feel that their internet browsing activities impact their offline personalities, forming an essential part of who they are in the real world. On top of this, 54% said they would feel lost, confused, or like a part of them was missing if their online profiles were to be taken down. A further 38% felt they were more comfortable in themselves online, considering the World Wide Web as a space where they are able to experiment, explore and grow.
It is important for all of us – adults, businesses, and government – to support young people to harness the internet for good and make it a place where everyone is free to be themselves – Will Gardner OBE, director of the SIC
With instant access to support via chatbots and 24/7 helplines, young people are using the internet to help them unravel their own unique character. Fifty-one percent told the SIC that surfing the web has helped them feel more emotionally stable or less alone, 47% have gained confidence that has translated to their lives offline, while 31% have found access to support they had not been able to find in the real world. The SIC also found that the internet plays a vital role in social acceptance, with 46% of respondents saying they better understand other people’s identities because of things they’ve seen online.
Driving positive change
The research has confirmed that the internet is both informing and inspiring younger generations, with 34% of participants stating that their online activity and observations have motivated them to take positive action for a particular cause within the last four weeks. Furthermore, 43% said it helped them feel their voice was heard, while almost 52% said they have sent a message of support to someone who they felt was being victimised purely for being different.
Encouraging young people to be themselves
With 61% of respondents saying that certain web platforms empower them to experiment with their identity, it’s clear that the internet has a fundamental role in helping today’s young people creatively explore their inner self. On top of this, 76% believe that the element of fun is important to the development of online personas; while 66% of participants cited their unique thoughts and ideas as the backbone of their online identity.
However, in light of Safer Internet Day 2020, it’s important to note that external pressures still exist. Almost half (47%) of 8-17 year olds are desperate to ‘fit in’ with their peers online, while 61% agree that the internet puts pressure on young people to come across as ‘perfect’. A hefty 70% of young people believe the internet offers a platform for bullying, with 62% admitting to screening their activity to avoid falling victim to negativity online.
Almost a third of respondents reported holding more than one account on the same platform, with many doing so to curate their identity positively and creatively. Conversely, 40% admit to creating multiple accounts to alter how they are perceived by others, with 30% claiming they had done so to escape a bullying situation.
The study surveyed a sample of various UK communities, including disabled, BAME, and LBGTQ+ youth, unveiling just how disparate online experiences can be. Fifty-four percent of disabled youth across the nation said it was easier to express their true selves online, compared with 38% of non-disabled people; 52% also claimed to have found someone online with similar ideas and beliefs as them within the last four weeks. Disabled (47%) and BAME youth (43%) are also more likely to be motivated to pursue positive action because of the internet, compared to 34% of youth overall.
The SIC acknowledges that some of these groups are being targeted disproportionately, with 25% of 13-17 year olds claiming they had been targeted by online hate in the last month because of their gender, sexuality, race, religion or disability, while 45% of disabled teens and 32% of BAME students reporting the same thing.
Parents and carers also have worries and concerns when it comes to their children’s lives online, with 65% worrying that the internet is largely fuelled by negativity, and 39% believing that that the internet has more influence over their child than them. But the views of the youth differ somewhat, with 51% of children harbouring a desire to discuss their online personas with their parents or guardians.
“The internet is primarily a place of positivity for young people. Whether being inspired to be the next campaigner, supporter or friend – it’s a place for them to find their voice, explore their identities, and support each other,” said Will Gardner OBE, director of the SIC.
“We must help people on this journey by acknowledging the pressures, challenges and limits the internet also brings. We can do this by listening to them and starting conversations about our online lives. We know talking works; as a result of Safer Internet Day last year, 78% of young people felt more confident about what to do if they were worried about something online.
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Set in 19th-century Belgium, this classic tale, based on the Flemish novel by Oui'da, celebrates the affectionate bond between an innocent boy and his faithful dog. The stunning animation, a masterful combination of traditional and computer-aided animation, captures the natural splendor of the Flanders countryside and recreates the spirit of this classic story that has captivated audiences world wide for more than 130 years. In fact, the popularity of The Dog Of Flanders led the local Belgian government of Flanders to dedicate a statue to Nello and Patrash in 1985, immortalizing their devotion to each other.
There are many anime that have the ability to bring one to tears, for any number of reasons. Barefoot Gen, Grave of the Fireflies, Clannad: After Story, Air, Ushiro no Shoumen Daare, etc, etc, etc, are but some of the titles that have tried to make the audience sympathise with their tales, some with more success than others.
Where Flanders no Inu (or, to give it it's correct moniker, A Dog of Flanders), differs from those stories though, is that it's all been done before...
For those of you who don't know, the story known as "A Dog of Flanders" was originally written by Ouida (the pen name of English novelist Maria Louise de la Ramé), and was first published in 1872. For over 135 years the tale has captivated the hearts and minds of audiences the world over, and has been adapted for TV and movies no less than 8 times. The anime movie itself is an adaptation, not only of the novel, but of the TV series as well, with both the TV anime and this movie having the same director (Kuroda Yoshio).
The tale, for those of you who don't already know the story, is set in a small town called Hoboken, near the city of Antwerp in Belgium, and is about a young boy named Nello, who has lost his mother, and comes to the town to live with his Grandfather. One day, Nello finds a dog that has been almost beaten to death. He decides to care for it, and calls it Patrasche.
The story is very much in keeping with the novel and, although it's far more abridged than the TV series, it still maintains the essence of the tale. A Dog of Flanders is not simply about love and friendship against the world, it's also a social commentary on how the rights of man seem to work against a scale called money - something which isn't really an uncommon theme, but there's a reason this story is called a classic. The plot makes for pretty powerful reading, however the transfer to anime has served to enhance the story in several ways, the most obvious being accessibility. Like Barefoot Gen and Grave of the Fireflies, Flanders no Inu makes the inequities and personal trials, triumphs and tragedies that little bit harsher than normal by giving them a "cartoon" setting.
Animation is, on the whole, very good for the movie. The character have a distinctly European flavour about them, and the animation is very smooth overall, however both can look dated compared to more recent anime. There are some blips, however these are easily overlooked as there is often enough going on to keep your attention. The backgrounds are delightfully rendered, with much of the rural setting possesing a quaint charm which adds to the movie as a whole. There are, again, some minor inconsistencies in how things look, however these do no impact on the movie in any way (so don't worry about them).
One thing I did like about the movie was how much more representative the changing seasons were to the events in Nello's life, something which is often missed when reading the book.
Sound is extremely good throughout the movie. The voice actors are very good in the Japanese dub, however this movie is actually better in English, especially as the original story is English so nothing is lost in translation. The English seiyuu have been chosen very well on the whole, however there is a bit of woodenness about some of the characters at certain points (unfortunately the same can be said of the Japanese dub as well).
The music has a generally pastoral feel to it, and is very much in keeping with the rural setting of the story. There are some scenes where the music not only adds to the impact, but acts like a punch to the stomach, the most memorable tracks being the tragic yet triumphant score during the scene with Patrasche and Nello in the church, and the ED "When I Cry" (sung by Dianne Reeves), an original piece that was written specifically for the movie.
As far as characters go, the movie isn't a patch on the book (so let's get that out the way right now), nor is it a rival for the TV series (which is 52 episodes long and part of the World Masterpiece Theater. This movie, like others before it, is very much an abridged version of the story, and as such it loses something in terms of it's characters. However, even with this disadvantage the characters are still as lovable, joyous, hateful, spiteful, proud, envious, sad, etc, as they are in the other versions, and this comes across to the viewer in a very direct manner, with very little melodrama needed (thankfully). Others may not see it that way, however it's important to remember that the story comes from another age altogether, and that life was much harder then, with societal lines far more definite and rigid, and above all, enforced.
Anyone who's read and "enjoyed" A Dog of Flanders knows there's no real way to for me to give the story a nice spin, and truth be told, I shouldn't. This is a very sweet, but also very cruel tale, and whilst it's easy to make light of it because it's a story, the same thing happens every day somewhere in the world - even now. Like I said, the novel is also a social commentary, with money and status being the enemies of one's basic humanity.
I loved the book, and I really do like this movie. It's a far better adaptation than some of the live-action efforts I've seen, even though it has it's own flaws. That doesn't mean that anyone who likes the novel will love the movie though, as you may find that your favourite bits have been removed.
I would definitely recommend this to anyone who wants a good cry. There are those who claim that nothing will move them to tears, yet I have proof that this movie is enough to turn hard-nosed, world weary, 30+ year old rugby players (my old team mates), into blubbering heaps, and nobody I've ever shown the movie to has managed to maintain a dry eye come the end. It's up to you if you want to try it, although it is said that a good cry can work wonders.
Also, if you're a dog lover then you may want to keep those tissues handy. You have been warned.
This is nothing like Barefoot Gen, GotF, or Ushiro no Shoumen Daare. There are no wars in this tale, no armies bent on world domination, no bombs, no guns. This is more horrific than those movies in a certain sense, as this is an example of what was occuring during peacetime. For that reason alone it stands apart from these and many other anime, especially as the concept of one being outcast is, in this tale, not a cue for god-like superpowers, or for multiple girl/women to fall out of the sky, etc, etc.
Over the decades the story has been referenced and parodied by so many shows, anime and otherwise, a testament to it's influence in both Eastern and Western media, as well as to it's enduring appeal worldwide. There are many reasons why this story is called a classic, and has been a beloved work of fiction for well over a century (there's even a statue to Nello and Patrasche in the town of Hoboken, Antwerp).
What really brought it home to me though, was the fact that this is simply a tale about a boy and his dog, and of the loyalty they had to each other.read more
Do not let the above synopsis fool you, while the relationship between dog and boy certainly is affectionate PLEASE do not watch this film expecting a light-hearted, heart-warming, Homeward Bound-esque story because this film is certainly far from it. ;-;
Flanders no Inu (Dog of Flanders) is based on the book by Marie Louise de la Ramée, it has been widely read and also adapted into several films and anime (MAL actually lists two series). This film is pretty much a compacted version of said series.
I found the story very... honest. It addresses poverty issues that occurred back in those days and it really doesn't beat about the bush.
The film was quite a downer, to be honest. His best friend's father keeps stopping his daughter from seeing him, Patrasche's old abusive owner tries to reclaim him, forcing Jehan to pay him off with their rent money. Jehan dies, Nello is accused of starting a fire, he loses an art competition for money that will save his life, no one wants his milk delivery business anymore, he gets kicked out of his home, he walks around in the snow with no shoes on and in the end he freezes to death in front of paintings that he has forever longed to see in a church with Patrasche.
The art was very good, although it did get a bit sloppy in some areas, as is wont with many anime films and series.
I found the sound very moving, it certainly made the ending scenes more hard-hitting.
I feel that there could have been more character development with Aloise and her father, especially as to why he dislikes Nello so much. I think it would've been nice to see more of Nello's two other friends as well. But considering this had the time limit of a film, I'm sure there simply wasn't enough time. I haven't seen the series, so I'm also sure that there's more character development in there.
It was a good film, yes. Did I enjoy it? Yes and no. I enjoyed it for its honesty. But overall... no. I'm not saying that I wanted a happy ending... but it could've been less... pathetic, to be honest. Not pathetic as in crap, but pathetic as in... let this poor kid go with some dignity, eh?!
Overall, it's definitely one to watch if you can stomach VERY unhappy endings. But it's also nice to watch for those playful and fun scenes when things are still going right for our Nello. :]read more
I've watched many movies throughout my child. Namely the Pokemon movies, some Disney movies (namely Aladdin), and others. But none of them have really made a huge impact on me because of the limited time they have to get made. Characters aren't always developed, plots are too narrow, and some just turn out plain terrible...that is, until I stumbled upon THIS. I read about it on a blog and I thought "This looks interesting. Maybe I'll watch it." And right when I did...I WAS BAWLING LIKE A BABY AT THE END!!! I FOUND MY NUMBER ONE MOVIE EVER!!! Movies I've watched in my lifetime never really made an impact on me, and I read good reviews about this one...and I'm glad to say, I never expected it to be THIS awesome and...THIS ONE MOST CERTAINLY HAS!!! This movie has left me an emotional wreck, and I am glad to say that this is my all-time favorite movie ever made!
So the story's about Nello, a good-hearted young boy in 19th century Belgium who lives a poor but happy life with his grandfather Jehan. He saves a dog, Patrasche, from a cruel and abusive owner and keeps him as his own. They develop a VERY strong brotherly bond. Nello also has Alois (pronounced Ah-Lou-Ah in Flemish), a young girl from a rich family whose father doesn't like Nello for his poor upbringing. Nello wants to become an artist just like Peter Paul Reubens, but tragedy strikes Nello one after another and his bond with Patrasche is put to the test. Simple enough, yes? Let me tell you this: This isn't some cheesy Disney movie with a cheesy happy ending! This movie will leave you crying buckets at the end!
Unlike most movie characters who don't always get explored, everyone in this movie feels complete, even the side characters who all have their own personality and contribution to the story. All of them have subtle backgrounds that you can easily figure out just by looking at them. All of them have their own personality and they're never incomplete. The soundtrack is also wonderful, always knowing when to be joyful and sweet and sad and heartbreaking. The music at the end left me broken to tears. The movie itself is just one big tearfest. When one grievingly heartbreaking scene ends, yet ANOTHER one comes right after! When will it end!? The end of course!
The only things that aren't all that are the visuals and some of the voices in the Japanese version. But hey, the movie was made in 1997 so of course they're not gonna be pretty and sparkly all the time. But they do, however, do an awesome job at making the capital of Belgium come to life in animated form, more specifically the city hall with all the flags on it. And I will say this: When it comes to the voices and casting, I think I prefer the English dubbed version over the Japanese because some of them sound a bit shaky, like Mrs. Nulette. In the Japanese version she sounds like she has strep throat. Jehan sounded like he had a sinus infection. The only Japanese voices I liked in the movie were Alois, George, and Paul. They were perfect. But I hear that the Japanese version has scenes that were cut out of the dub, so in respect to that, I'll prefer the Japanese over the English version.
Despite the slightly old visuals and slightly shaky Japanese voice acting, these should be NO reasons to NOT watch this adorable, beautiful, heartbreaking, and awesome movie! This movie shows that life is fragile and not eternal, and it deals with serious issues such as death, poverty, and classism. It also emphasizes the benefits of honesty, friendship, work ethic, creativity, and knowledge, and how the ignorance of various people's actions and thoughts can really shape the person. All of you MUST see this wonderful movie! I would love to own it myself, but it's both out of print and appallingly expensive! It's the best movie I ever saw, and the best movie ever made!read more
Story: This movie will bring you too tears, if not than you have no heart.
This is a story about a boy and his dog and the wonderful relationship they have together. It is the most emotional film i have ever watched
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Women in Contemporary Architecture
by Maggie Toy
The gender issues surrounding architecture are extraordinarily complex and, frequently, highly emotionally charged. Even the title of this book generated controversy:
The original title, The Female Architect, was rejected because it highlighted the fact that the architects whose work is featured here are women, when most want to be considered just as architects. All want their work to be read on its own merits.
Architecture grows and develops according to the challenges it faces. Taking up the challenge of refuting the gender divide and welcoming intelligent input, from whatever source, will benefit a profession that, by definition, is serving the people for whom it works and therefore needs to operate within a collaborative framework, one offering equal opportunities according to talent rather than gender. In the second year of the new millennium, such is not the case.
Gender Inequality in the 21st Century?
Statistics from the United Kingdom indicate that in the years 1909 and 1989, the percentage of architects in Britain who were women was the same — a shocking nine percent! Since 1996, there has been a fractional improvement (estimates range from 10 to 11 percent), but the number is still appallingly low.
If the number of women architects continues to grow at the present rate, their representation in the profession might just achieve parity by the year 3000. In the United States, only 10 percent of licensed architects in firms are women.
Some individuals, of course, have taken action. Annette Fischer, who has been a president of the Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) Council in London as well as running her own practices, has championed the cause of both women and minority architects.
This article is excerpted from The Architect: Women in Contemporary Architecture, edited by Maggie Toy, with permission of the publisher, Watson-Guptill Publications.
Night view of the east facade of the Niigata City Performing Arts Center, by Itsuko Hasegawa.
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One of the six floating gardens that surround Hasegawa's arts center.
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25 Surefire Indoor Play Ideas from a Preschool Teacher's Bag of Tricks
Dance, move, create, sing, make music and have a blast!
Northwest kids are used to gearing up to go outside: hats, jackets, rain boots and gloves. But sometimes, staying inside is the only option, and you need a quick game plan for fun.
Here's my grab bag of easy kids’ activities I’ve gathered from teaching Pre-K in Seattle. Any of them can also be the centerpiece for a preschool birthday party.
Toys, technology and rules not required. Just add imagination!
Music and Movement
These activities and games are flexible for different ages. There’s no winning or losing; the point is just to get moving. Don’t feel silly joining in!
1. Freeze dance. A classic! All you need is music, and the only guideline is to freeze when the music is paused. Encourage kids to "freeze" in fun poses or with funny faces. Use a variety of musical styles and tempos. Tip: An older child can do the music while you dance with younger ones.
2. The sleeping song. Here are the short lyrics "Sleeping, sleeping, all the children are sleeping. And when they woke up, they were all ---." Fill in the blank with various animals, insects, or even inanimate objects and lets their imaginations run wild. Kids love acting like cats, snakes, and even robots or babies!
As soon as one thing has run its course, begin the song again in a quiet voice as the children stop and pretend to sleep until the next thing is called. Keep cue cards for yourself, or let the kids be the "caller." They can even help make the flash cards (ex. write "snake" on one side, and on the other draw a picture of a snake). Keep the cards handy; they’ll want to play again and again.
3. Indoor obstacle course. Push aside some furniture, and practice gross motor skills without breaking any priceless antiques! Set out a laundry basket and use balled up socks to practice throwing and accuracy. Tape down some yarn or string for a makeshift balance beam. Do moves in place, like running, jumping, and hopping. Add yoga moves, use a timer, and cheer them on. There are an infinite number of possibilities here.
4. Scavenger hunt. Take any theme, such as patterns, letters, or colors and hunt around the house. Make it official with a clipboard and check off items as you go. Crawl around, reach up high, and get down low!
5. Yoga for kids. If you enjoy yoga, your kids probably do, too! Just remember, they won’t stay quiet and breathe; expect laughter at the names of animal poses and even make up songs as you go. For added literacy practice, make flash cards with the names of the poses and a picture. Classroom favorites are usually airplane (flying warrior), lion, and table top. It’s incredible to hear a five-year-old say, “Yoga calms me down!”
6. Copy dancing. I think a 4-year-old named this game that originated from a preschool dance party. This game can be played with two to twenty participants, and it’s as simple as it sounds. One person dances while the others copy their moves. Kids love being the leaders, and imitation is, after all, the highest form of flattery. So put on some dancing tunes and show off those moves!
7. Make up a dance. Five, six, seven, eight! Didn’t everyone do this as kids? I was constantly making up dances with my buddies, and now I do it in the classroom. My organized method is for each participant to choreograph eight counts of movement, and put them together, practicing them in sequence. You can really work up a sweat this way. If this sounds too complicated, just make a Soul Train; no counting required, and it only takes three people!
8. Story go-round. This is the same concept as the dance-making game. Make up a cooperative story by letting each person add one sentence. Start with characters and a simple plot, like “a dog and cat went to the beach,” and let the children take it from there. The sillier, the better!
Arts and Crafts
If your child is 4 or 5 or older, let them take the lead on most of these projects; if younger, help them get started. Show your interest in their ideas, encourage their suggestions, and ask open-ended question to keep the momentum going!
1. Homemade collage with reusable materials. Simply provide a few items that can be rearranged again and again. Arrange them on a tray or placemat to make patterns, designs, and objects. Since the materials are reusable, take a picture to commemorate each creation. Ideas: craft sticks, buttons, paint samples, fabric swatches, spare keys.
2. DIY stuffed animals. You really can make a loveable stuffed animal (or insect!) with only four things: markers, construction paper, a stapler and recycled newspaper. It’s so easy and gets the kids excited every time. Put two pieces of paper together, draw your animal’s outline, and cut it out, making two identical shapes. Decorate, color, and add as much detail as desired. Then staple the two pieces together about halfway. Now for the fun part — stuffing! Use pillow stuffing from a craft store, or just rip and ball up newspaper, and begin stuffing it into your creation. When fully stuffed, staple closed, and you’ve got a keeper!
3. Self-portraits. Using a mirror, let the child draw themselves. Point out facial features like eyebrows and eyelashes. If they draw their whole body, add in some fashion design! Don’t be surprised if your child takes some liberties, i.e. “Yes, I do have purple hair!”
4. Shapes. Help your child learn their shapes by tracing common household items. Turn over a cup to make circles, and trace your cell phone for rectangles. Hunting is part of the fun. Kids may want to decorate their shapes, cut them out, and glue them on to larger paper for fancy art projects.
5. Abacus. Use art supplies to practice math and fine motor skills. You just need string, scissors, tape, paper and beads. Cut a piece of string, tape one end of the string onto the paper, and begin stringing the beads. String 10 beads on and tape down the other end of the string. That makes one row. Your child can make as many rows as they like. Tip: Circle-shaped cereal (like Cheerios) or candies (like Lifesavers) can replace beads in a pinch. Keep the abacus for counting practice.
6. Ice cube tray sorting and pattern making. Here’s another way to mix math, art, and fine motor skills. You’ll need an ice cube tray, egg container or muffin tin, plus small items to play with, such as various dried beans, buttons, coins or marbles. Jewelry, like plastic rings or earrings have that lost their partner, makes it extra exciting. Your child can sort the items (by color, size, pattern or any way they like), make patterns with them, or invent their own game. There are tons of possibilities and no right answers; this type of play blends logical thinking and mathematical reasoning with creativity. For extra fun and challenge, use tweezers or clothespins to pick up the items.
7. Dyed paper. Art, science, or interior design? This project is so versatile and produces such attractive results you may want to use it as decoration. Similar to tie-dye, but without the tying, just use paper towels and a few colors of either diluted food coloring or liquid tempera paint to make fantastic designs.
Steps: Fold a paper towel until it’s the size of cracker, then dip it into the paint until saturated, dipping each corner into a different color. Then carefully unfold it and let dry, preferably on a tablecloth or anything you don’t mind staining. Be prepared for repetition as children experiment with different ways to fold the paper and marvel at the lovely results. When dry, the paper towels can be strung together and hung up, or taped to windows for a stained glass-like effect.
8. Squiggle art. Each player gets a piece of paper, makes a squiggle on it, then trades with someone. Then make a picture out of the squiggle. The beauty is in the simplicity, as children see that you can turn any mark into art. It’s fun for the adults to see what kids come up with, too!
9. Book making. Yep, just make your own books. Children have so many stories to tell, and only need help writing it all down. Fold paper in half and staple at the crease to make pages. After the story is written, go back and read it to the child so they can illustrate each page. This simple activity builds confidence, self-esteem, and literacy skills.
10. Collage. Recycle your old magazines and exercise the imagination, all in one! Let children choose and cut their favorite pictures out of magazines (or help them). Then they glue them on paper, then draw and decorate all around it.
Scissors and glue are a must; markers, crayons, oil pastels, stickers and glitter are optional. In addition to magazines, recycle wrapping paper, post cards (you know, like the ones for take-out pizza), tissue paper and (clean) cotton balls to make even grander creations.
11. Melted crayons. If you have old, broken crayons hanging around, then you have an instant craft project! Reuse those old crayons by making them new again. Unwrap the crayons, arrange them in a muffin tin in a single layer, and cook in the oven on 200 degrees for about 10 minutes. Let cool, then stick them in the freezer to make it easier to pop them out. Just turn the pan over and you’ll have new cool, round crayons. Note: When the crayons are fresh out of the freezer, they may not color well. Warm them up in your hands to get them going.
12. Masks. Homemade masks are fairly easy to make, yet are highly covetable. There are so many possibilities for characters, from animals to superheroes, and lots of variations in how to make them.
Children’s masks can be made out of different types of paper or fabrics, and either tied with elastic or glued on to a craft stick to hold up. The adult will probably need to measure where the eyes should be cut out of the paper or fabric, and how long the elastic should be to go around the child’s head. No matter how it’s done, it’s likely to get a big smile when the child wears it and peeks in the mirror.
The Kitchen Sink
1. Drama. Put on a play using puppets, dolls, or just yourselves! Use a favorite book, classic tale, or make up your own story. Find props and costumes and play dress-up with younger children, or put on longer plays with preschoolers. Just act it out and have fun. If your child has a flair for the dramatic, they’ll take charge of this one and it can easily last an hour (“OK, pretend I’m the queen. Now you say…”). They love it when you just play along and let them be the director.
2. Cooking. When you have some extra time, make up an easy, hands-on cooking project for your next snack or meal. For children, cooking can mean sensory exploration, logical ordering, and confidence boosting. Let them do as much of the work as possible. The easiest recipes are ready-to-eat foods like sandwiches, wraps or roll ups, and salads. Even sophisticated kale chips are kid-friendly; kids wash the kale and pat it dry, tear it off the stem into bite-size pieces, toss it in olive oil and spices, and spread the pieces on a tray. Adults work the oven then everyone crunches away!
3. Gardening. Kids love doing grown-up work, like watering plants, and they excel at playing with dirt. Want some new indoor greenery? Let the kids help you plant, pot, and water them! They also love learning plant and flower names.
4. Music. Try free play with instruments real, found, or homemade. Have you noticed your child can make sounds with anything? This is the time to let them bang away! Utensils, hands, or feet can drum a beat. Put dried beans, paper clips, or coins in paper, plastic, or cloth bags to make shakers. Make a drum out of an old coffee can.
And don’t forget to sing along! Older kids may enjoy learning beats, following along to favorite songs, or making up their own songs. Record their music and play it back for added delight!
5. Water play. Most preschools have a water table that children use for sensory exploration, dramatic play, and more. You can make your own using any sized plastic tub. Let kids use cups or pitchers to fill it with water. Add natural materials like rocks or crystals, household items like spoons, measuring cups and bowls, or any little plastic toys they like. Then let the fun begin! It’s amazing to see the stories children build from just these few items. Sensory play is open-ended, engaging, and can also be surprisingly calming for kinesthetic learners.
Resources for More Ideas
1. Everything Preschool. The site is out-dated, but there's a large volume of activities here. Just click the "Themes" tab to explore A-Z themes with multiple games, arts projects, and science ideas.
2. The Seattle Early Education Collaborative created these readiness guidelines to be used by both educators and families. Though the document is long and daunting, it has ample "Suggested Activities" catorgized into learning areas, from page 6-22.
3. Teach Preschool. Accessible ideas from a longtime educator.
4. Tinkerlab. One of our favorite arty-crafty blogs.
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Investment Property Finance
The main problem is there are potentially more property loans to choose from than there are investment properties.
With so much choice its hard to know where to begin. However, one thing is for sure – you shouldn’t go with the first lender to approve your application. Gone are the days when borrowers visited the bank manager cap in hand. Today most lenders are keen to visit you. Borrowers today are in the driver’s seat, so take advantage of it!
What do you want?
Questions that every lender will ask you are: –
- How much do you need to borrow ?
- What will the loan represent as a proportion of the property value (i.e. the LVR)?
- Are you borrowing for investment or personal purposes?
- How long do you intend borrowing for?
- Are joint incomes required to meet repayments?
- Which State/Territory is the property located?
You may also have special needs –
buying the property through a unit trust or company structure, or you could be buying land with a view to building a house.
So, lets look at loan structures. Loans can be : –
- Standard Amortising;
- Line of Credit (Equity)
- Amortising Equity; or
- Standard Interest Only
One way of describing the structure of the loan is the repayment schedule. The repayment schedule is defined by the term of the loan (say 25 years) and the types of payments you make – interest only, or principal plus interest. A traditional principal and interest loan for the purpose of buying the property (and nothing but the property), is known as a Standard Amortising Loan.
More and more borrowers are taking advantage of the equity in their property by using it as a security to borrow for other purposes. Loans that allow you to use a mortgage for purposes other than investing in property fall into the “Line of Credit” category. These loans dont have a strict repayment schedule therefore, work best for borrowers who have plenty of self discipline.
Amortising Equity Loans let you borrow against the equity you have built up against your home. However, each time you change the loan amount, your repayment schedule is reset. You pay principal and interest repayments on the basis of your specified terms. These loans are good for borrowers who have built up equity in their home but like (or need) the repayment discipline that an amortising loan provides.
If you don’t need to build up equity in a property, you may choose to use an interest only loan. Investors typically use interest only loans to maximise tax deductibility over the life of the loan.
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Do you have your legal and financial documents stored (maybe stashed) in various places around your home? Some in a desk drawer? Others in your closet? Some in a safe? Even more in a file cabinet in the basement? It’s time to get a handle on all your documents and store them safely, noting the location. You can use this list as a starting point, and also as a reminder to follow through on moving any of these documents or tasks from your “to do” list to your “it’s done” list!
Would you like to make a charitable gift to help organizations or people in need; to support a specific cause; for recognition such as a naming opportunity at a school or university? Perhaps you would do it just for the tax incentives. There are any number of reasons, and life insurance can be one of the most efficient tools to achieve these purposes. So the question becomes, how does this work?
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The thing to remember is that time is on your side. This means you’re young enough to recover from even the most spectacular financial failures. On the flip side, making good, informed choices now can have a huge impact on your lifestyle in the decades ahead. The thing to remember is that time is on your side. This means you’re young enough to recover from even the most spectacular financial failures. On the flip side, making good, informed choices now can have a huge impact on your lifestyle in the decades ahead. Be smart and avoid these six common missteps.
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"Scatter my ashes on the Shannon." That was the last request from Frank McCourt, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of “Angela’s Ashes."
McCourt died at a Manhattan hospice today surrounded by family and friends who had been keeping vigil with his wife Ellen over the past week.
McCourt had recently been treated for melanoma but became gravely ill with meningitis last week.
NIall O'Dowd, the publisher of IrishCentral.com said "The greatest tribute I can pay Frank McCourt is that he never lost the run of himself.
In May 2009 a publicist for McCourt first confirmed to the press that he had cancer.
McCourt was being treated for melanoma, said his agent Molly Friedrich, the deadliest form of skin cancer.
Although the sad news was greeted with shock today in the Irish community, in May McCourt’s well-known brother Malachy initially sought to calm nerves by telling the press the reports were “exaggerated” and that his brother was “a hearty fellow and he’s survived worse than this.”
On hearing of his death today critics have begun the task of assessing McCourt’s legacy.
It would be hard to understate his achievements.
As the author of “Angela’s Ashes,” a searing and unforgettable account of his impoverished Irish upbringing in Limerick - that spent a remarkable 117 weeks on The New York Times hardcover best-seller list - McCourt has assured his place in the august company of great Irish writers.
Despite the poverty, abuse, and countless sorrows of his deprived Irish Catholic upbringing, “Angela’s Ashes” has a wry tone that has the power to make the reader laugh out loud on almost every page.
No Irish writer since Jonathan Swift has had McCourt’s skill to address and implicate the reader in the tale he is telling.
When McCourt’s memoir first appeared in hardcover in 1996 it became a literary sensation, a testament to its authors narrative gifts.
It was the sheer force and clarity of McCourt’s voice that jolted the reader, setting his book apart from almost all others of that decade.
Speaking of his childhood in Limerick, McCourt wrote: “It was, of course, a miserable childhood: the happy childhood is hardly worth your while. Worse than the ordinary miserable childhood is the miserable Irish childhood, and worse yet is the miserable Irish Catholic childhood.”
The truth telling, the disarming directness, two of McCourt’s particular gifts, were an affront to some Irish readers but – more often – a source of delight and recognition to the majority. McCourt himself was in no doubt about the hive of controversy his unforgettable memoir had created.
In an interview in 2007 McCourt said: “When the book was published in Ireland, I was denounced from hill, pulpit, and barstool. Certain citizens claimed I had disgraced the fair name of the city of Limerick, that I had attacked the church, that I had despoiled my mother's name, and that if I returned to Limerick, I would surely be found hanging from a lamppost.”
At 78, McCourt came from a generation of conservative Irish Catholics who had experienced first hand the many abuses of the insular, defensive and frequently philistine Irish Catholic Republic of the 1930’s through the 1960’s, and his book will certainly be remembered as a fierce rejoinder to its self-regard and outward piety.
Angela’s Ashes tells a distressing story of spiritual, physical and emotional privation, but there’s a drollery in the authors tone, a gently satirizing impulse that lifts the veil on hardship as it beguiles the reader to follow.
McCourt’s family, we discover, are evicted from their home after Frank takes a hatchet to the beams to burn for winter heat and the ceiling collapses in on them. Relatives treat them poorly; Church authorities often send them away empty-handed. This is hardly an advertisement for the Irish Tourist Board.
Considering that he was recounting his own lived experience as accurately as he knew how, the strength of the resentment directed at McCourt from some quarters was remarkable to behold.
In 2000 fellow Limerick man and award winning actor Richard Harris took him to task in a scathing article attacking McCourt for his perceived bitterness: “There are stories about Limerick in Angela’s Ashes that just don’t make sense. Of course I knew that the poverty was going on but I also knew many people with difficult lives who grew up on the lanes of Limerick but yet, even to this day, there isn’t one ounce of bitterness in them.”
But it’s neither fair nor accurate to call Angela’s Ashes a “bitter” book. In fact its tone is descriptive and consistently dispassionate, in a style that is often reminiscent of James Joyce.
McCourt knows that he is trafficking in holy cows but he consistently gives them their due: motherhood, Catholicism, poverty, nationalism, regional pride, all are acknowledged and addressed.
For a man of his particular background, age and era it was considered treasonous to venture an opinion at variance from long established Irish traditions: whatever else don’t knock the Church, the nation, your Mammy But he had a tale to tell – his own, in fact - and for this McCourt paid a steep price, being relentlessly and personally attacked on the airwaves and in the national press.
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In August 2022, British researchers will harvest their first crop of a gene-edited wheat that could one day let you enjoy your favorite toasted cereal without worrying if it might be raising your risk of cancer.
The challenge: Many plants, including wheat and potatoes, naturally contain a compound called asparagine. When those plants are exposed to high temperatures — like in an oven or a fryer — the compound can turn into acrylamide.
“Acrylamide has been a very serious problem for food manufacturers since being discovered in food in 2002,” Nigel Halford, a crop scientist at Rothamsted Research, explained in 2021. “It causes cancer in rodents and is considered ‘probably carcinogenic’ for humans.”
“It occurs in bread and increases substantially when the bread is toasted,” he continued, “but is also present in other wheat products and many crop-derived foods that are fried, baked, roasted or toasted, including crisps and other snacks, chips, roast potatoes and coffee.”
Gene-edited wheat: Studies in people suggest the amount of acrylamide that’s actually in food isn’t likely to be related to an increased risk of most common cancers, but given that we eat a lot of foods that contain at least some of the compound, regulators have taken an interest in it.
The FDA has provided suggestions for ways the agriculture industry can reduce acrylamide in food, but the European Union appears poised to take a stricter approach, setting limits on acrylamide levels in food.
In greenhouse trials, some edited plants saw a 90% reduction in asparagine.
To help ensure UK wheat products don’t exceed those limits, Halford and his colleagues have developed a new variety of wheat, using the gene-editing technology CRISPR to knock out a gene linked to asparagine production.
In greenhouse trials, some edited plants saw a 90% reduction in asparagine, and the group is now running a field trial expected to end in 2026. The first harvest will start in summer 2022.
“We believe that asparagine levels can be reduced substantially in wheat without compromising grain quality,” said Halford. “This would benefit consumers by reducing their exposure to acrylamide from their diet, and food businesses by enabling them to comply with regulations on the presence of acrylamide in their products.”
The big picture: Even if the gene-edited wheat exceeds all of the UK researchers’ expectations, it still might never make it into Europeans’ breakfast bowls — gene-edited foods are regulated as GMOs in the European Union, which essentially bans the technology.
But because the UK left the EU in 2020, Parliament is now considering a law that would lift this ban for gene-edited crops, allowing for the sale of foods edited to be healthier or less environmentally taxing. GMOs produced with older technology would still be prohibited.
It’s worth repeating that we don’t know for sure that acrylamide causes cancer in humans or how much of it a person would need to eat to experience a negative effect — it could be way more than a human is capable of ingesting.
But the data does lean toward it being a probable carcinogen, so the gene-edited wheat may be healthier, even if the precise benefit is hard to calculate.
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BARTLESVILLE, Okla. (AP) - Hours before a gunman opened fire at a Connecticut elementary school, police in Oklahoma arrested a teenager for allegedly plotting to attack his high school and trying to recruit classmates to help him.
Police in Bartlesville, a community about 40 miles north of Tulsa, arrested 18-year-old Sammie Eaglebear Chavez shortly before 5 a.m. Friday on charges of conspiring to cause serious bodily harm or death. He remained in Washington County Jail on Saturday on $1 million bond, and he is due in court Jan. 11.
Court documents didn't list an attorney for Chavez, and calls to a number listed in court documents as his reached a recorded message saying the line wasn't available.
Layne Jones, an assistant principal at the school, alerted police to the alleged plot on Thursday, according to a probable cause statement. A student told authorities that Chavez had tried to "recruit other students to assist him with carrying out a plan to lure students into the school auditorium where he planned to begin shooting them after chaining the doors shut," Bartlesville Police Lt. Kevin Ickleberry wrote in the affidavit.
Chavez told the students he planned to place bombs at the doors that he'd detonate when police arrived, and he threatened to kill students who didn't want to join him, police wrote.
Investigators said Chavez told a teacher earlier this month that he had bought a .45-caliber gun and had been learning to shoot it. Also, the affidavit said Chavez had been trying to obtain a diagram of school facilities and had used a school computer to seek information on a .22-caliber rifle that could be mounted on a machine gun platform.
Students said they saw Chavez researching the 1999 Columbine High School massacre, in which 12 Colorado students and a teacher were murdered by two students who also died.
The district alerted parents and faculty by email around noon on Friday that it had investigated a "potential incident" Thursday and forwarded the information to the police department, which dealt with it appropriately. News was still trickling out about the attack in Newtown, Conn., in which a gunman forced his way into an elementary school and killed 20 children, all ages 6 or 7, and six adults before killing himself.
Superintendent Gary Quinn, in a news release, credited administrators' quick action in following up on what he said had been unsubstantiated rumor and presenting their findings to the authorities.
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Lenticular plates add an appropriately eye-catching gimmick to this quick profile of the 19th-century photographer whose sequential photographs of a horse galloping established that during its stride, all four hooves left the ground.
The four lenticular plates (one of which is duplicated for the cover) are based on Muybridge’s photos and more or less suggest what audiences who viewed the originals through his spinning Zoopraxiscope might have seen. Unfortunately, two are silhouettes, and none can be angled to offer a clean single image. More helpfully, the full sets of stills from which the plates are drawn along with sequences of other characteristic subjects—from the galloping horse that first made him famous to a flying bird and a winsome child picking up a doll—are included too. These, along with Braun’s terse but specific account of Muybridge’s career and achievements offer a clearer sense of why his photos are still worth studying for what they reveal about animal and human movement. Not to mention that they’re entertaining to pore over. As he regularly rates mention in histories of early filmmaking but almost never anywhere else, his work may be new to young readers and viewers, to boot.
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All children have dreams, and those of children with critical diseases deserve to be fulfilled no matter how farfetched the dreams may be. Make-A-Wish Israel understands how important it is to create joy in the lives of these children, and its volunteers know that granting their wishes should not be postponed until Covid-19 has been eradicated.
Although the coronavirus has made it much more difficult to fulfill wishes due to health concerns and a sharp drop in donations, some sick children have nevertheless had their wishes granted during Covid-19 and the NGO has organized a series of creative, innovative initiatives to help raise the required funds during these challenging times.
Wishes improve health
Make-A-Wish Israel was founded in 1996 by Denise and Avi Bar-Aharon in loving memory of Denise’s brother David Spero, who died of cancer. The Israeli NGO is part of an international non-profit organization that is active in 45 countries around the world. Its sole purpose is to fulfill the wishes of children between the ages of 3 and 18 who are battling major health problems and whose lives revolve around hospitals, unpleasant treatments and an uncertain future.
In 2015, a scientific study proved what Make-A-Wish already knew: that wishes actually improve a child’s overall health, both mentally and physically. The first study of its kind in the world, the research was conducted by Prof. Anat Shoshani under the direction of Dr. Tal Ben Shachar, from IDC Herzliya, and examined the effect of fulfilling a wish for a child with a critical illness.
The children served by Make-A-Wish Israel come from all over Israel and from all sectors of society, including Jews, Arabs and Christians. Their wishes fall into four general categories: to be, to go, to have and to meet. Examples of “to be” wishes include wanting to be a firefighter, a veterinarian, a CEO of a company or even a king or queen for a day. “To go” wishes have included travelling to places such as New York, Disneyland Paris, a soccer match in Barcelona or a musical in London. “To have” wishes could be anything from a new laptop to an electric guitar, while “to meet” usually involves meeting a celebrity in person, such as a favorite singer, television personality or sports star.
Approximately 600 children are diagnosed with critical illnesses in Israel every year and Make-A-Wish Israel is determined to reach each one. Since many of the wishes are expensive to fulfill – such as requests for computers or a special trip – the NGO is struggling to raise the necessary funds, especially during Covid-19. “We are celebrating our 25th year of granting transformational wishes in Israel in my beautiful brother David's memory,” says Make-A-Wish Israel co-founder and CEO Denise Bar-Aharon. “So far we have granted over 4,000 wishes and even though our cash flow came to a complete halt in March, we found new creative ways to fundraise and truly showed that we can make the impossible possible!”
One of Make-A-Wish Israel’s special initiatives during Covid-19 was the “Stars for Wishes” online auction held last June. The public was invited to bid for the opportunity to take part in activities with Israeli celebrities; the superstars donated their time, and the money that was raised helped pay for wishes that had been delayed due to Covid-19.
Dozens of A-list stars volunteered to take part in “Stars for Wishes” and in most cases the suggested opening bid was surpassed significantly. Among the many offers, people could bid to have beloved comedian Tzipi Shavit babysit their kids, or to be on the set as an extra of the Netflix sensation “Fauda” with actor Lior Raz, or to talk to the Hollywood actress Gal Gadot (“Wonder Woman”) for 15 minutes on Zoom, or to be invited behind the scenes of a popular TV show.
For the first time, Make-A-Wish Israel is collaborating with Disney Israel on another creative project. Together, they are launching a Mickey Mouse necklace campaign in order to make more children’s wishes come true. In the next few months, beautiful silver and gold necklaces which feature Mickey Mouse’s face will be sold in over 600 stores throughout Israel that belong to the Fox Group, including Fox Home, Laline, American Eagle, TerminalX and many other well-known retail chains. The Mickey Mouse necklace campaign was launched with the help of Make-A-Wish Israel’s Chairperson Dvir Benedek, who is a well-known Israeli actor, and Make-A-Wish Israel international ambassador Noa Kirel, one of the most popular singers in Israel.
This coming Valentine's Day, Genius 100 is planning a special once-in-a lifetime virtual event for Make-A-Wish Israel. The event will be hosted by master mentalist Lior Suchard together with Dvir Benedek. Suchard will perform acts with members of the Zoom audience as well as with international celebrities.
Making dreams come true
Every wish that Make-A-Wish Israel grants a sick child is special and the organization spares no effort in making sure that each child receives exactly what he or she dreamed about. More often than not, granting wishes involves a great deal of logistics, including coordinating with the child’s medical team and approaching famous people and other volunteers to donate their time. Covid-19 presented a whole new set of challenges, but Make-A-Wish continued to do everything possible to make children smile.
When Dvir Dahan, a teenager who became ill with Hodgkin’s lymphoma, recently told Make-A-Wish representatives that his dream is to meet American superstar Dwayne Johnson, aka The Rock, Covid restrictions prevented an actual face-to-face meeting. However, Make-A-Wish arranged for The Rock to receive a letter and a portrait from Dvir, who is an avid artist, and then to tape an inspirational video message for Dvir. The Rock even sent gifts and surprises to Dvir and to his whole family.
Yocheved, a 12-year old girl from Ashdod who has leukemia, loves music and learned to play the harp at a conservatory. She dreamed of having her own harp at home, so that she could continue playing during the coronavirus. Make-A-Wish fulfilled Yocheved's wish. “I didn’t believe you would succeed in making my dream come true!” she said, elated with the gift.
Joseph is an 8-year old who is enduring a long period of hospitalization. His wish was to have a laptop with earphones for his hospital room, so that he could stay in contact with his family and friends. His wish was granted, much to Joseph’s delight.
Lavie, who is six and has cancer, also requested a laptop. Make-A-Wish not only gave him a computer, they arranged for it to be personally delivered to Lavie by Idan Vered, the captain of his favorite soccer team, Beitar Yerushalyim. The entire team hosted Lavie and his family at a training session, while maintaining social distancing restrictions.
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2016_Calendars.zip A group of three templates for 12-month calendars for 2016. Each calendar is provided in both Word 97-2003 (*.dot) and Word 2007-2013 (*.dotx) format. These templates are based on the ones from Microsoft Office Online.
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bookmark_addin.zip An add-in that displays on the status bar the name of any bookmark that you select. Works in all versions. To install it, follow the instructions below under "SaveView2013.zip".
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SaveView2013.zip Word 2013 and Word 2016 force all documents to open in Print Layout view. This add-in restores the behavior of previous versions, saving the current view and zoom in the file and showing that view when you reopen the document. Includes Graham Mayor's contribution here. To install it, follow the instructions below.
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LONDON (AP) — Since the first test-tube baby was born more than three decades ago, in vitro fertilization has evolved into a highly sophisticated lab procedure. Now, scientists are going back to basics and testing a simpler and cheaper method.
In the West, many would-be parents spend thousands of dollars for IVF, which involves pricey incubators and extensive screening. But European and American scientists say a simplified version of the entire procedure aimed at developing countries could be done for about 200 euros ($265) with generic fertility drugs and basic lab equipment that would fit inside a shoebox.
“IVF is made to sound complicated but the fact is that the early embryo is not very demanding,” said Jonathan Van Blerkom, a fertility expert at the University of Colorado.
A human embryo doesn’t need much beyond some basic solutions, a steady pH level and constant temperature, he said.
The simpler approach calls for women to take cheaper fertility tablets to stimulate their ovaries to release more than one egg per month. In conventional IVF, expensive, potent drugs that are injected can produce more than 20 eggs.
Van Blerkom developed the simplified technique after European colleagues asked him how IVF could be done in developing countries.
“My first reaction was, ‘You’ve got to be kidding,’” he said.
But with two test tubes and special solutions, “it’s possible to generate the exact same conditions, or very similar, to what people are generating in a $60,000 incubator.”
One test tube is used to prepare a solution including carbon dioxide, which creates the ideal conditions for fertilization. That’s piped into a second tube, where one egg and a few thousand sperm are added, before being placed in a heating block. After about two to three days, any resulting embryo is examined under a microscope before being transferred into the woman.
Van Blerkom and colleagues estimated that about half of all people seeking infertility treatment could potentially be helped by the method. Those who have complicated infertility problems, like men with severe sperm problems or women with very few eggs left, will still need standard IVF.
In an ongoing trial in Belgium, researchers are comparing the techniques. Women under 36 seeking IVF for the first time are given a mild dose of injectable fertility drugs. If at least eight eggs are retrieved, half undergo traditional IVF, and half use the simpler method.
A specialist who doesn’t know which technique was used picks the best-looking embryo to be transferred.
For the more than 100 women treated so far, the pregnancy rate was about 34 percent for both methods. So far, 14 babies have been born using the simplified method and 13 babies from traditional IVF.
The World Health Organization estimates there are between 120 and 160 million couples struggling with infertility worldwide.
“Nobody thinks that infertility in developing countries is a problem but it is an even bigger problem there than in (the West),” said Sheryl Vanderpoel, a WHO reproductive health expert.
She said more people in developing countries have complications from untreated infections, including sexually spread diseases, than in the West, which can hurt their fertility.
“Making IVF affordable is a public health priority,” she said.
Dr. Hassan Sallam, director of the Alexandria Fertility and IVF Center in Egypt, said the cheaper IVF method would be welcomed. He said there is considerable social pressure on young Egyptian couples to have children — and that is compounded by the fact in rural areas, many newlyweds live with the man’s family.
“All eyes are on the newlywed couple to see if pregnancy has happened after the first month,” he said in an email.
He said couples married for two to three months occasionally come to see him “just to please their in-laws.”
Although the new IVF strategy is intended for use mainly in developing countries, doctors in rich countries are also interested.
“You should not have to be rich just to have IVF,” said Dr. Geeta Nargund, medical director for Create Health Clinics, a private fertility center in London. “There are so many people who cannot afford the treatment (in the West) that there would be huge demand if there were something cheaper available.”
In many European countries, national health systems pay for several IVF cycles for eligible couples but it can cost more than $10,000 for those seeking it privately. For many couples, up to three cycles are necessary to create a baby.
She has asked Britain’s regulatory agency for fertility treatment for permission to test the simpler technique.
Some said the success rates of the cheaper IVF method would likely be lower than those for regular IVF. The simplified method does not include any extensive screening of embryos or any procedures to inject sperm directly into the eggs.
“You aren’t producing as many eggs with this (cheap) method so the numbers will not be as high,” said Ian Cooke, an emeritus professor of reproductive medicine at Sheffield University. Cooke also thought training enough health professionals in developing countries might be an issue.
Still, he said the method was promising. Because doctors were planning to use less potent fertility drugs, he said it was fine to cut back on the regular screening and daily tests used in normal IVF regimens.
“From a technical point of view, they have proven it works,” he said, adding it was now necessary to test the technique in developing countries.
Patient groups said doctors should offer the cheaper IVF method if it is approved.
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APM Terminals (APMT) has increased the power supply from 20kv to 66KV at its terminal at the Port of Algeciras to improve the stability of the electrical supply and enhance safety and productivity.
In a statement, APMT said the $3.51 million (€3.2 million) project was designed and managed in full by APM Terminals Algeciras, with support from The Port Authority and Algeciras Polytechnic School (University of Cadiz).
The terminal will now be able to take advantage of 100% of the energy regenerated by the cranes, in addition to monitoring the quality of the electricity supply – which comes from renewable sources – and consumption.
The change in the voltage level will mean a 20% annual saving for the terminal, as well as an added value in terms of safety, because disruptions and sudden stops of the machinery will be reduced and the 20KV power line will be available as an auxiliary supply.
“We have used the most efficient brands and an optimal design to avoid, for example, the use of electric pumps in the transformer pit,”said APMT Algeciras Engineering Coordinator, Juan Jesús Lara.
“In addition, it is now possible to take advantage of 100% of the energy regenerated by the cranes,” Lara added.
Engineering and Procurement departments planned the project in three phases: a new 20 MW substation in Isla Verde Exterior, three 4 km supply lines to terminal, and a new hub, which has been integrated into the container stacks.
The substation is supplied from the existing 66 KV network in Isla Verde, which comes from the El Cañuelo substation. The 20 KV power line remains as an emergency supply.
APM Terminals Algeciras’ Chief Operating Officer, Jesús Cáceres, stated that the connection to 66KV marks “a milestone in the more than 30 years of the terminal’s life”, as it ends the possibility of suffering network disruptions and machinery stoppages, “and also looks to the future, with a new electrical network capable of supporting the latest generation of technologies in machinery”. | <urn:uuid:a6ac8d65-60f7-4620-8425-1e9978fe99c9> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.porttechnology.org/news/apmt-unveils-major-electricity-upgrade-at-algeciras/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.930718 | 474 | 1.617188 | 2 |
Both the 2014 winner of the Peter Beaconfield Prize, Dr Manish Kalla, and one of two runners up, Mr Sumeth Perera, are DPAG students.
The Prize is open to postgraduate students in Physiological Sciences (registered in the department of Physiology, Anatomy and Genetics, Pharmacology, Pathology, Biochemistry or Experimental Psychology), who, in the 12 months preceding the closing date for applications for the prize, have applied for transfer to D.Phil. status.
Oxford’s strengths in the basic sciences and its more recent dramatic expansion in clinical science together provide new avenues for translational medicine and the opportunity for the Medical Sciences Division to establish itself as one of the best centres for such research in the world as a strategic priority. By translational medicine is meant the immediate interface between basic and clinical science, where advances in the basic sciences are examined for their possible implications for the prevention, diagnosis and treatment of disease and where clinicians challenge basic science for the answers to clinically relevant questions.
In keeping with Dr Peter Beaconsfield’s vision for the medical sciences, and the importance the Division places on the scientific/clinical interface, the prize is intended to reward young researchers who are capable of escaping from the stereotype of narrow specialisation to engage with translational medicine, and display a wider grasp of the significance and potential applicability of their research. Accordingly, essays submitted for the prize should situate the research being undertaken in the translational context. Previous prize winners have gone on to develop their research internationally.
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Civil Protection refers to all the activities aiming at the protection of the lives and properties of citizens from the risks stemming from natural, man-made and environmental disasters by decreasing their effects at a European level in accordance with the national policies on the basis of the principle of subsidiarity.
Commission Decision of 29 July 2010 amending Decision 2004/277/EC, Euratom as regards rules for the implementation of Council Decision 2007/779/EC, Euratom establishing a Community civil protection mechanism (2010/481/EU, Euratom)
The Civil Emergency Planning Committee (CEPC) is operating within the context of the political pillar of NATO; all the countries of the alliance are represented in it. The Euro Atlantic Partnership Countries (EAPC) are also participating in CEPC.
In the context of CEPC are operating four sub-committees, which have been recently merged into each other and are the following:
BSEC initially started as an informal Intergovernmental Organization of the Black Sea Economic Cooperation and was transformed into an international financial organization on May 1, 1999; on the same date the Charter of the United Nations, which was signed in June 1998 in Yalta (4-5/6/1998) entered into force. | <urn:uuid:48d6d95b-f28e-41a6-b7c3-12917776757b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.civilprotection.gr/ru/semantic-views-demo/list-semantic?page=484 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.947517 | 250 | 2.34375 | 2 |
J. Arthur Trudeau Memorial Center has received a $10,445 grant from the City of Warwick’s Department of Human Services’ contributive support program. The grant money will go directly to Trudeau’s Early Intervention (EI) program and Home-Based Children’s Services (HBCS), both of which exclusively support Rhode Island children, many of whom reside in Warwick, Rhode Island.
This grant funding is focused on technology and community and will help Trudeau educators teach language and academic skills in center and home-based settings. Enhanced technology such as iPads and online training programs will be purchased with the grant funds, along with interactive learning tools for our community programs.
The Trudeau Center is especially grateful for this grant as the agency rebounds from the pandemic with a fierce focus on its mission: to promote an enhanced quality of life for individuals with developmental disabilities.
“The City of Warwick and the Trudeau Center have had a long history of working together and I thank Mayor Frank Picozzi and his administration for their confidence and support,” says President and CEO Judith Sullivan.
Early Intervention is essential for infants and toddlers with developmental delays or disabilities and Home-Based Children’s Services are the next step in the continuum of care that the Trudeau Center provides children and families. Trudeau’s newly revitalized ABA Center, located in Warwick, Rhode Island, offers on-site individual and group behavioral treatment and academic instruction to children aged two to seven with developmental delays.
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Solid bronze 2″ Souvenir Mission Bell, “San Antonio De Padua”. Mission San Antonio de Padua is a Spanish mission established by the Franciscan order in present-day Monterey County, California, near the present-day town of Jolon. It was founded on July 14, 1771 and was the third mission founded in Alta California by Father Presidente Junípero Serra. The mission was also the site of the first Christian marriage and the first use of fired-tile roofing in Upper California. Today the mission is a parish church of the Diocese of Monterey.
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St Crispin and Crispinian
Martyrs (entered heaven probably towards the end of the third century)
Thanks for sending me the rather amusing photo of you and your roommates. Nice to see your smiles and camaraderie. I happened to notice that you were quite unshaven, your hair was unkempt, and your clothes appeared not to have been washed in too long. As your conscientious uncle, I feel that it is my duty to remind you that your body and soul are linked; the way we treat our body and our appearance always affects our soul. If I am physically sloppy and lazy, chances are my soul will get just as messy as my room – and a messy soul is a seedbed for temptation. If two months of college have sufficed to strip off your old habits of cleanliness and self-respect, they weren’t habits at all. But now you have a chance to work on this point, and I would encourage you to do so. Take today’s saints, for example.
They seem to have been brothers who left Rome in order to spread the gospel in northern Gaul (today’s France). They took up residence at Soissons, and followed in the footsteps of St Paul, discoursing and instructing the people during the day, and earning a living by making and fixing shoes (St Paul made tents) at night. It is said that they only accepted payment for their work on a voluntary basis, and in this way won the hearts of many who were astonished by their selflessness and detachment from riches. They made numerous converts and thereby also made enemies among the pagan leaders, who soon denounced them. After refusing to sacrifice to the Roman gods, the two saints were brutally tortured and finally beheaded.
Besides their obvious zeal for spreading the faith and courage in professing it, you should emulate their truly Christian spirit of hard work and self-discipline (evangelizing by day and earning their living by night). There’s no need to go on dramatic fasts and perform extreme penances; you can show your desire to conquer your own selfish tendencies by maintaining simplicity and order among your things and your appearance. It takes constancy, humility, and self-discipline – three virtues that the Holy Spirit needs your help to develop. I hope you don’t let him down. | <urn:uuid:e1a0881c-e066-484e-85ae-ec934e62dbe6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://rcspirituality.org/uncle_eddy/st-crispin-and-crispinian/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.974753 | 506 | 1.804688 | 2 |
Answer the following problems.
problem 1) Describe the influence of interpersonal behaviour in the selection of the occupation.
problem 2) Describe with appropriate exs, the ascertainment of interpersonal response by traits.
problem 3) Describe the factors that influence the attitude of an individual.
problem 4) prepare down the role of conservatism and modernism among people in bringing them as a political personality.
problem 5) “Effective public speaker needs an intuition to internalise and criticize.” - describe.
problem 6) Describe the theory of cognitive dissonance.
problem 7) “Culture shapes personality.”- Describe.
problem 8) “Group’s performance is rather effective than the individual’s performance.” – Illustrate with suitable reasons.
problem 9) “Verbal communication plays a main role compared to non-verbal communication.” -Why?
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- Five heads were found inside a sack by the school
- Teachers had been threatened for extortions payments
- Many schools have canceled classes because of lack of security
Five severed human heads were found near an elementary school in Acapulco, Mexico, in an area where some schools had already canceled classes because of lack of security.
The heads were found Tuesday inside a sack that had been placed inside a small wooden crate, the Guerrero state public security secretariat said. Officials gave no further details other than to confirm that the heads had been found.
Photos of the scene showed a board with a message that had been left with the heads. The note, in an apparently sarcastic tone, told people to thank the governor for continuing "this war."
Teachers this month held protests over threats they received, presumably from drug cartels.
The calls threatened harm if teachers did not pay a portion of their salaries to the drug gangs.
Schools that refused to pay the kickbacks would be attacked, the threats said.
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Exemption 13—Marine Safety (Wildlife or other sightseeing)
You can apply to us for a wildlife or other sightseeing operation exemption by completing and submitting an application for wildlife or other sightseeing exemption (AMSA 791).
What this exemption will allow you to do
Exemption 13 allows you to participate in a wildlife or other sightseeing operation in inland waters without the required certificate of competency.
To be approved for Exemption 13, we must consider that you are capable of being the master of a vessel that is:
- less than 12 metres long
- powered by an inboard engine of less than 100 kilowatts, or by an outboard engine of unlimited power.
You must restrict the operation of your vessel to a speed of less than 10 knots during the operation.
We may impose additional restrictions on your operation depending on the condition of the waters you are operating in.
Legislation and incorporated material
- Application for wildlife or other sightseeing exemption form 791
- Fees, levies, and payments
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A Plea to Return to the Lord
1 Return, O Israel, to the Lord your God,
for you have stumbled because of your iniquity.
2 Take with you words
and return to the Lord;
say to him,
"Take away all iniquity;
accept what is good,
and we will pay with bulls
the vows of our lips.
3 Assyria shall not save us;
we will not ride on horses;
and we will say no more, 'Our God,'
to the work of our hands.
In you the orphan finds mercy."
4 I will heal their apostasy;
I will love them freely,
for my anger has turned from them.
5 I will be like the dew to Israel;
he shall blossom like the lily;
he shall take root like the trees of Lebanon;
6 his shoots shall spread out;
his beauty shall be like the olive,
and his fragrance like Lebanon.
7 They shall return and dwell beneath my shadow;
they shall flourish like the grain;
they shall blossom like the vine;
their fame shall be like the wine of Lebanon.
8 O Ephraim, what have I to do with idols?
It is I who answer and look after you.
I am like an evergreen cypress;
from me comes your fruit.
9 Whoever is wise, let him understand these things;
whoever is discerning, let him know them;
for the ways of the Lord are right,
and the upright walk in them,
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The simplest way to discuss Neolithic pottery in Highland Region is to consider it in three chronological segments – 39th century BC to c 3600 BC; c 3600 – c 3000 BC; and c 3000–c 2500 BC. These roughly correspond to the date ranges conventionally used to describe the Early, Middle and Late Neolithic.
Note: the following account cannot be regarded as definitive, since a significant amount of the Neolithic pottery finds, especially from recent developer-funded excavations in and around Inverness (especially those relating to the Inverness West Link Road), have not yet been published and in several cases the requisite specialist post-excavation work has not yet been undertaken.
220.127.116.11.1 Early Neolithic
18.104.22.168.2 Early to Middle and Middle Neolithic
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Let G be a group and let a, b ∈ G. Using only the definition of a group show that the two equations xa = b and ay = b have unique solutions in G. Is it always true that x = y?
Multiply xa = b by the inverse of a from the right and ay = b by the inverse of a from the left and you'll get uniqueness (since x (y) is expressable by means of a,b)
No, in general the solutions aren't equal (if the group is non-abelian).
Take for example, in the symmetric group S_3, x(12) = (123), (12)y = (123).
The first equation's solution is x = (123)(12) = (13), whereas the second one's is y = (12)(123) = (23).
I already did: xa = b ==> xa*a^(-1) = b*a^(-1) ==> x = ba^(-1) and you're expressing the solution x as a function of a,b and this means x is unique since a, b are unique (arbitrary. but once they're given they're fixed and unique).
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The S7V8F5 switching step-up/step-down regulator efficiently produces a fixed 5 V output from input voltages between 2.7 V and 11.8 V.
Its ability to convert both higher and lower input voltages makes it useful for applications where the power supply voltage can vary greatly, as with batteries that start above but discharge below the regulated voltage. The compact (0.45″ × 0.65″) module has a typical efficiency of over 90% and can deliver 500 mA to 1 A across most of the input voltage range.
The Pololu step-up/step-down voltage regulator S7V8F5 is a switching regulator (also called a switched-mode power supply (SMPS) or DC-to-DC converter) that uses a buck-boost topology. It takes an input voltage from 2.7 V to 11.8 V and increases or decreases the voltage to a fixed 5 V output with a typical efficiency of over 90%. The input voltage can be higher than, lower than, or equal to the set output voltage, and the voltage is regulated to achieve a steady 5 V.
This flexibility in input voltage is especially well-suited for battery-powered applications in which the battery voltage begins above the desired output voltage and drops below the target as the battery discharges. Without the typical restriction on the battery voltage staying above the required voltage throughout its life, new battery packs and form factors can be considered. For example:
- A 4-cell battery holder, which might have a 6 V output with fresh alkalines or a 4.0 V output with partially discharged NiMH cells, can be used with this regulator to power a 5 V circuit.
- A disposable 9 V battery powering a 5 V circuit can be discharged to under 3 V instead of cutting out at 6 V, as with typical linear or step-down regulators.
In typical applications, this regulator can deliver up to 1 A continuous when the input voltage is higher than 5 V (stepping down). When the input voltage is lower than 5 V (stepping up), the available current decreases as the difference between the voltages increases; please see the graphs at the bottom of this page for a more detailed characterization. The regulator has short-circuit protection, and thermal shutdown prevents damage from overheating; the board does not have reverse-voltage protection.
- input voltage: 2.7 V to 11.8 V
- fixed 5 V output with +5/-3% accuracy
- typical continuous output current: 500 mA to 1 A across most combinations of input and output voltages (Actual continuous output current depends on input and output voltages. See Typical Efficiency and Output Current section below for details.)
- power-saving feature maintains high efficiency at low currents (quiescent current is less than 0.2 mA)
- integrated over-temperature and short-circuit protection
- small size: 0.45″ × 0.65″ × 0.1″ (11 × 17 × 3 mm)
- Size: 0.45″ × 0.65″ × 0.1″1
- Weight: 0.6 g1
- Minimum operating voltage: 2.7 V
- Maximum operating voltage: 11.8 V
- Maximum output current: 1 A2
- Output voltage: 5 V
- Reverse voltage protection?: N
- Maximum quiescent current: 0.2 mA3
- PCB dev codes: reg09b
- Other PCB markings: 0J7031
1Without included optional headers.
2When stepping down; current available when stepping up depends on input and output voltages (over 500 mA in most configurations).
3While enabled (SHDN = HIGH) with no load. Actual quiescent current depends on input voltage.
Using the Regulator
During normal operation, this product can get hot enough to burn you. Take care when handling this product or other components connected to it.
The step-up/step-down regulator has four connections: shutdown (SHDN), input voltage (VIN), ground (GND), and output voltage (VOUT).
The SHDN pin can be driven low (under 0.4 V) to power down the regulator and put it in a low-power state. The quiescent current in this sleep mode is dominated by the current in the 100k pull-up resistor from SHDN to VIN. With SHDN held low, this resistor will draw 10 µA per volt on VIN (for example, the sleep current with a 5 V input will be 50 µA). The SHDN pin can be driven high (above 1.2 V) to enable the board, or it can be connected to VIN or left disconnected if you want to leave the board permanently enabled.
The input voltage, VIN, should be between 2.7 V and 11.8 V. Lower inputs can shut down the voltage regulator; , so you should ensure that noise on your input is not excessive, and you should be wary of destructive LC spikes (see below for more information).
The output voltage, VOUT, is fixed at 5 V. The output voltage can be up to 3% higher than normal when there is little or no load on the regulator. The output voltage can also drop depending on the current draw, especially when the regulator is boosting from a lower voltage (stepping up), although it should remain within 5% of the set output.
Typical Efficiency and Output Current
The efficiency of a voltage regulator, defined as (Power out)/(Power in), is an important measure of its performance, especially when battery life or heat are concerns. As shown in the graph below, this switching regulator has an efficiency between 80% to 95% for most applications. A power-saving feature maintains these high efficiencies even when the regulator current is very low.
The maximum achievable output current of the board varies with the input voltage but also depends on other factors, including the ambient temperature, air flow, and heat sinking. The graph below shows output currents at which this voltage regulator’s over-temperature protection typically kicks in after a few seconds. These currents represent the limit of the regulator’s capability and cannot be sustained for long periods, so the continuous currents that the regulator can provide are typically several hundred milliamps lower, and we recommend trying to draw no more than about 1 A from this regulator throughout its input voltage range.
LC Voltage Spikes
When connecting voltage to electronic circuits, the initial rush of current can cause voltage spikes that are much higher than the input voltage. If these spikes exceed the regulator’s maximum voltage, the regulator can be destroyed. If you are connecting more than about 9 V, using power leads more than a few inches long, or using a power supply with high inductance, we recommend soldering a 33 μF or larger electrolytic capacitor close to the regulator between VIN and GND. The capacitor should be rated for at least 16 V.
More information about LC spikes can be found in our application note, Understanding Destructive LC Voltage Spikes.
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New Delhi : What have brushing and cleaning your teeth to do with your heart? A lot, say health experts, suggesting that taking care of your teeth and gums will not only help keep oral hygiene or make you smile better but also save your heart from various heart diseases.
Gum disease can be a reason for heart disease because bacteria from infected gums can dislodge, enter the bloodstream, attach to blood vessels and increase clot formation.
"Swelling caused by gum disease may also trigger clot formation. Clots decrease blood flow to the heart, thereby causing an elevation in blood pressure and increasing the risk of a heart attack", said Dr Subhash Chandra, chairman (cardiology) at BLK Super Speciality Hospital in the capital.
Dr Chandra recently treated Neelam, an 18-year-old girl who was diagnosed with endocarditis (suffering from leaking heart valve). The infection in her heart valves was caused by mouth bacteria.
Endocarditis is an infection of the heart's valves or inner lining. It occurs when germs get into the bloodstream and settle inside the heart, often on a valve.
The infection is usually caused by bacteria but in rare cases it is seen to be caused by fungi.
Not brushing the teeth increases the bacterial count in the mouth which can travel to the damaged heart valves to cause infection.
Many of the risk factors for gum disease are the same as those for heart disease, such as tobacco use, poor nutrition and diabetes.
Overall, people who have chronic gum disease are at higher risk for a heart attack. The people with moderate or advanced gum (periodontal) disease are more likely to have heart disease than those with healthy gums.
There are two groups - namely coronary heart disease and infection in heart valves - in which the effect of poor oral health can be studied. Poor oral healthcare increases the risk of coronary heart diseases.
"Poor oral health increases the risk of infection in heart valves, especially in case of pre-existing damage in the heart valve. With such a condition, the infection due to poor oral health can reach to the already damaged heart valves, causing an infection there too." explained Dr Tapan Ghosh, director (cardiology sciences) at Paras Hospitals, Gurgaon.
Brushing your teeth twice a day is a mandate to maintain good oral healthcare. It is always advisable to go for a regular dental checkup in order to maintain a good oral health.
"One of the biggest mouth-heart connections is related to gum disease. The spread of infected bacteria by swollen and bleeding gums not only destroys the structure of teeth jawbones but can also cause heart attack," the experts cautioned.
Gum disease which is called "gingivitis" in its early stages and periodontal disease in the late stages is caused by plaque build-up along and below the gum line.
"Apart from heart attack, poor oral health hygiene may result in various serious health consequences as respiratory infections, diabetes, poor nutrition, osteoporosis and stomach disease like gastro-intestinal infection, H Pylori, gastritis and stomach cancer," added Dr Ramesh Garg, head (gastroenterology) at Saroj Super Speciality Hospital in Delhi.
So next time when you ignore brushing your teeth, hear the voice of your heart!
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Getting To Know Your Joints
Dr Rajesh Singh, Consultant Orthopaedic Surgeon
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A lot of the musculoskeletal aches and pains that we experience are due to joint problems. As a starting point, joints are where two bones in our body meet, but what more do we need to know about these complex structures? Consultant orthopaedic surgeon Dr Rajesh Singh gives us a 101 on joints.
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It is often in the most challenging of times that the value of art to society is clearest. Such has surely been true of this uncertain era of Covid-19, in which isolated Americans all across the country have turned time and again to film, television, music and literature in search of a moment’s respite or an inspiring tale of resilience on which to draw.
Art’s ability to contextualize our individual struggles and remind us of our place in the order of things is a power it shares with nature. As anyone who has found peace through hiking, camping or gardening this year can attest, the natural world is an inherently meditative and restorative space in which we would all do well to pass a little time.
Given the restorative potential of both art and nature, it is entirely fitting that this year’s Renwick Invitational—a biennial exhibition celebrating a diverse ensemble of gifted craftspeople—is themed around the intersection of these two spheres.
The exhibition, which opened this October at the Renwick Gallery of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, is titled “Forces of Nature” and uses the language of sculpture and other visual art to mediate between humanity and the wonders of the world around us. Installations by a select group of artists hailing from Portland, Maine; Provincetown, Massachusetts; Seattle, Washington; and Bloomington, Indiana will offer striking perspectives on this theme through June 27, 2021.
Opening the show is a larger-than-life installation from the Indiana farmer and mixed-media artist Rowland Ricketts, titled Ai no Keshiki – Indigo Views. Soaring toward the top of its high-ceilinged gallery, the work is composed of pieces of cloth suffused with rich Awa indigo dye cultivated by Ricketts himself. Suspended in neat rows like linens on clotheslines, the sheets nonetheless have an uncanny natural elegance to them, resembling a flock of beautiful bluebirds in flight.
Some of the sheets are more faded than others, owing to the fact that each spent a summer in a specific household in a specific part of the world and organically absorbed a unique amount of light. In all, 450 volunteers from ten countries agreed to keep a swatch of Ricketts’s dyed cloth in their care, their disparate lifestyles all literally coloring the ultimate artwork.
The lighting in the exhibition is also tinged with human experience: its intensity varies dynamically according to changes in local and global Covid statistics, which are algorithmically “interpreted” by the installation’s suspended incandescent bulbs. The ethereal music filling the space, in turn, adapts to the changing lighting. This ever-evolving quality, guest curator Emily Zilber says, “gets to the core of what Rowland’s piece is about: How can nature bear witness to everyday moments?”
Following on from Ricketts’s exploration of nature and human experience, Portland-based artist Lauren Fensterstock stops museumgoers in their tracks with an otherworldly comet of deepest black, titled The totality of time lusters the dark. Running the full length of its large oblong gallery, the surreal, spike-headed missile seems to transcend place and moment—it is eternal and cosmic, all-encapsulating yet stubbornly impenetrable.
Inspired by an image in the 16th-century manuscript The Book of Miracles, Fensterstock’s obsidian-encrusted piece speaks to both the wonder and the folly of human efforts to reckon our place in the cosmos. It exemplifies the sculptor’s approach to art as “unconventional landscape architecture,” which draws on the decorative arts and often features large-scale, fastidiously detailed centerpieces. “There are these huge feats of engineering in it,” Zilber says of the work, “but also these small moments that are just as impressive as the overall splendor.”
Fensterstock’s gallery feeds into the heart of the exhibition space: the home of Washington State sculptor and glassworker Debora Moore’s Arboria series. Arboria is an exquisitely detailed quartet of hand-sculpted trees, each possessed of a delicate, transient beauty that belies both the intensity of its birth in Moore’s hot shop and the finality of its hardened form. Coated in a “liquid skin” of silicone, crushed glass, and pigment, the trees of Arboria at once honor and transcend nature, amalgamating details remembered from across Moore’s world travels—including lichen she observed in Antarctica—into dreamlike hybrid organisms.
Moore’s admiration for her artistic forebears is apparent in the crown of her cherry tree, which she sculpted using a centuries-old chandelier-making technique, and in the body of her magnolia, which she shaped with a 150-year-old Italian glassworkers’ tool. At the same time, her work is emphatically alive, unabashedly of the present. “I love the liquid form,” Moore says, “the hot molten glass you can freeze in a moment.” Inspired by the Japanese concept of shinrin yoku, or “forest bathing,” Arboria envelops you in its hyperreal landscape—an impressive feat for an installation in such a large gallery. “These works demand a lot of psychic space,” Zilber explains. She encourages visitors to “spend some time thinking about what it takes to make something like that”—to find “power through materiality.”
Rounding out the show is the art of Timothy Horn, an Australian mixed-media sculptor who resides in Provincetown. His work playfully explores the imposition of human ideas of class and beauty on the inscrutable elegance of the natural world. Horn’s branching Gorgonia 12, for instance, named for a genus of corals, is ornamented with blown glass orbs, Christmas tree-like in its contrivance yet still unmistakably bound to the deep, unknowable ocean.
Also on exhibit are a shocking pair of sculptures that Horn fashioned entirely of crystallized rock sugar: one an ornate carriage, the other a massive chandelier. Both smack of rococo excess and impracticality, literally cloying in their brown sugary extravagance. They provide stark warnings against the exploitation of nature’s resources to line the pockets of a privileged few, pleas to preserve the natural world and to ensure that access to its wonders remains universal forevermore. “The pandemic has really drawn attention to inequality in unforeseen ways,” Zilber says, so she anticipates visitors to the museum will find these pieces particularly resonant.
Regarded as a whole, this year’s Renwick Invitational is remarkable for both the breadth of its subject matter—from farmland to Antarctica, from the ocean depths to outer space—and the cohesiveness of its message: that the natural world not only deserves our love and admiration, but has the power to inspire us, pick up our spirits, and spur us down the long, uneven path to an equitable, sustainable future. “It offers a pure physical and mental sense of relief and belief,” Zilber says. “It’s an exhibition that has the capacity to meet people where they are, and that’s something that feels especially important now.”
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I Love You So Big! Blog – Lynne Namka, © 2011-14
“So think as if your every thought were to be etched in fire upon the sky for all and everything to see. For so, in truth, it is. So speak as if the world entire were but a single ear intent upon hearing what you say. For so, in truth, it is.So do as if your every deed were to recoil upon your head. For so, in truth, it is. So wish as if you were the truth. And so, in truth, you are.” – Mikhail Nimay, Book of Mirdad
Listen to yourself, your spouse and other members of your household. What is the quality of the ways you speak to each other? If there are sharp tongues, sarcasm and loud tones in your household, your child will use the same kind of talk. Children act out what they hear in the home. You can’t expect your child to be loving if you or someone else in your home is critical and rude. If you or someone else in the family is constantly irritable or angry, then take responsibility for it and get some professional help. Parent to child anger and vice versa gets worse during the teen years. Yeah, if it is broke, fix it.
If you want to have a peaceful household, it is absolutely imperative that family members learn some cool down techniques to deal with anger.
If you want to have a peaceful household, it is absolutely imperative that family members learn some cool down techniques to deal with anger. Talk to your family about stopping the sharp tongues and sarcasm. Tell them you are starting a new family tradition of learning to express anger in safe, appropriate ways.
Learn to bite your tongue and fire up your Inner Censor when you are having a “Teen Intensive Day.” Stop yourself from blurting out whatever comes to your mind. Do some isolation yourself to get away when it becomes too challenging. Teach your child Chill Out Words Helper Words by modeling them yourself when you are upset.
- I can handle this. I tell myself to calm down.
- I remind myself to breathe deeply and cool down.
- I’ll take a moment to chill. I’ll turn my hot thoughts down.
- I’d better take a time out and go somewhere to reflect on this.
- My bad feelings come and go. I can let them go if I share them.
- It is okay to be angry. I can talk about my anger.
Keep telling your child that they are responsible for how they think. They can learn and use more productive ways of thinking that will empower them. Your own use use of cool-down words when you are upset gives your child positive messages to carry around when you are not present. You model the very behavior that you want from your child. The small amount of time that you spend in teaching your child chill down statements will save you from time spent on reprimands.
Speak with love when you discipline your children. More parenting information is available at www.angriesout.com. Learn more about helping your child with angry feelings from my article A Letter to Parents of Children with Problems of Anger.
I Love You So Big! Blog – Lynne Namka, © 2011-13
“Children need love even when they don’t deserve it!” – Anonymous parent (In truth, we all deserve love, even if we made a mistake.)
Business management experts, Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson in The One Minute Mother and The One Minute Father give a great parenting technique which is a take off from their business model of managing people. Their reprimand process helps YOU break into your mean-spirited anger and lengthy tirades. This one-minute approach puts a time limit on your own anger outburst and encourages your child to do better next time. It bypasses blame and punishment, which do not work to change behavior, and leaves your child thinking. Thinking about what he or she did wrong and how to correct it, instead of becoming angry! The One Minute Reprimand builds self-esteem in your child while you are correcting him. What a novel idea!
The One Minute Reprimand holds you to a one-minute correction procedure and gives the child a compliment so that he does not tune out. Brilliant!
Limiting your anger by using this technique will help you break into the most breakdowns in parent/child relationships–parent deafness! Kids learn to shut out long lecturing parents! Shutting out what we do not want to hear is normal human behavior. The One Minute Reprimand holds you to a one-minute correction procedure and gives the child a compliment so that he does not tune out. Brilliant! Get one of these books immediately and commit this technique to memory!
The One-Minute Reprimand (My slightly modified version of the Blanchard and Johnson technique)
- Tell your child beforehand that you are going to let him know how he is to do in no uncertain terms.
- Reprimand your child immediately. Tell him specifically what he did wrong in one sentence.
- Tell him how disappointed, upset, sad, frustrated, angry you are.
- Stop and let it sink in. Allow a half moment of uncomfortable silence where he gets how you feel. If he starts to get defensive or angry, say, “Hold on. I’m not finished yet.”
- Reach out to your child physically in a friendly manner. Shake hands, pat him on the back, or touch him in a way that lets him know that you are on his side despite your upset feelings at his behavior.
- Remind him how much you value him, what a cool person he is, etc.
- Reaffirm that you think well of him, but not his behavior. (You area a great kid who messed up!)
- Remind him that you realize he will make a better choice next time.
- Let it go. No lectures. No more. Just stop. Realize when the reprimand is over, it’s over. End the correction with a positive! Change the subject. Give a smile, a hug or an acknowledgement. Leave the room with him scratching his head wondering where his formerly acting out parent had gone. End the talk with you believing in your child and his ability to make good choices. (Smiling, not moralizing.)
Get your own copy of The One Minute Mother and The One Minute Father Kenneth Blanchard and Spencer Johnson. These small books are invaluable for your parenting library. They can be found online at most bookstores that feature used books at a small price.
I Love You So Big! Blog – Lynne Namka, © 2011-13
“You don’t always get what you want. You don’t always get what you want … You get what you need.” – Line from a Rolling Stones song
Children and their feelings and their tempers! Do you have a kid who is super sensitive who blows up every time you say “no”, which is numerous times a day because he constantly asks for ridiculous things. Welcome to the teen years! If you have more than one offspring, chances are one child will have the mindset of gimme gimme. The children that learn to beg successfully and wear their parents down grow up to be telemarketers.
Do you have a demanding child who is super sensitive who blows up every time you say NO. You need a different set of parenting skills to deal with this challenging type of youngster.
You need a different set of parenting skills to deal with this challenging type of youngster. So here is the basic philosophy that could come from your mouth to teach your demanding child about the realities of the cold, hard world.
“How happy you are is related to how you think about things. Life is a series of decisions that are based on your goals. You could have a goal to get a new “whatever.” You could put your energy in demanding you get it. Perhaps you do. Are you any happier or is that material goal just replaced by a new demand – you expect a new “whatever.” An important goal is to get a better life for yourself. Focus on what works that you can control to get this happy life.
So, darling child of mine, here it is in a nutshell: Sometimes you can get what you want. Sometimes you don’t. Tough beans. That’s life. If you interpret things more realistically, you will be more likely to get what is important to you. Behavior is a product of thinking! How you think determines how you react. See things how they are instead of insisting your expectations be met on how you want them to be. Learn this well and you will save yourself a lot of grief.
Often the failure to get what you want is a result of unrealistic expectations and faulty thinking. Thoughts mess you up! Thoughts go into feelings, which then go into actions. Sometimes you distort your perceptions and make assumptions that are not really true. Assumptions are merely speculations you make up in your mind. Here is a newsflash! Modify your thinking and you will feel and act differently.
Analyze the situation. What did you want to have happen? Is it a realistic outcome given the other person’s point of view? Is it an attainable outcome given the other person’s wants and needs? Why should you get what you are demanding?
Ask, “What are you choosing to do to make what you want happen?
How could you have acted to make your desired outcome more likely?
Is what you are doing helping or hurting your chances of getting what you want?
Have your unrealistic expectations hijacked your common sense?
At times, the failure to get what you want is based on your misperceptions and expectations of other people. You look through dark sunglasses and distort what is really there.
Did you get what you wanted?
What did you do?
What happened then? Evaluate your thinking and your actions. Did you get what you wanted?
Did your actions get you closer to your goal?
Did your thinking get you what you wanted?
Did your interpretations and expectations help you get to where you want to go?
Did your anger or victim thoughts take you off course from your goal?
Let’s make a plan. How could you think differently so that you could be happier with yourself?
Are you willing to make a commitment to yourself to act in ways that are in your best interests?”
After finishing this list, reach out and hug your child. The sense of touch is so important to a child in their feeling like they truly belong to the family. Being touched through gentle pats, hugs, high fives and smile give children a sense of security. So, as the song says, “Reach out and touch someone.”
We all need a little TLC. Reach out with love to show your child that your love is SO BIG!
Read Aw, Man! Why Can’t I Have What I Want? The High-Demand Child and Children of Entitlement at my website at www.angriesout.com.
I Love You So Big! Blog – Lynne Namka, © 2011-13
“I believe in the sun even when it’s not shining. I believe in love even when not feeling it. I believe in God Even when He is silent.” – Anonymous
Intentional Dialogue is a process of communication that you and your partner can learn to create an atmosphere of safety. It is also a great way to validate your child and help him or her open up more. Using this communication tool with your partner really helps him or her feel safe and listened too. It works if it is done right to recreate that sense of connection that healthy families have.
Empathy is the greatest gift you can give your partner when he or she is hurting. It helps a person be seen and feel totally understood.
What we all really want is to be understood and accepted for whom we are. To really live in Conscious Relationship, in my opinion, Intentional Dialogue is the best tool for keeping love alive. Having someone really listen to you is as close to unconditional love we can get in our lifetime. Empathy is the greatest gift you can give your partner when he or she is hurting. It helps a person be seen and feel totally understood. The childhood wounds no longer are so deep when we are truly heard and understood.
A recipe for having a loving relationship equals commitment, learning powerful, how-to-stay-connected techniques during times of stress and darn hard work. This formula is doable for those determined to be happy in relationship. The Imago Therapy Tools help you keep the love you want and become a responsible, loving adult secure in the knowledge that you are truly seen and heard.
Here is the short version of the three steps of Hendrix’s Intentional Dialogue:
- Mirror back what your child said and ask for more. This shows your child that you are willing to take the time to truly listen to him. It is an active listening technique which forces you to pay attention instead of planning a retort or a correction.
- Validate his message by saying that it makes sense from his point of view. You don’t have to agree with what your child says. You do have to walk in his footsteps about this issue and see it from his point of view. “Given who you are and where you are coming from, I can understand why you would think this way.
- Empathize and guess his feelings. When you take it to a feeling level, your child will feel more understood and most likely will stop feeling hurt and angry. If you don’t guess the correct feelings, chances are your child will correct you.
If you have a youngster who doesn’t talk much, you still have the opportunity for letting him or her know what you stand for. Talk with your friends about what you value (not what you do not like in young people) where your child will over hear you. Or talk out loud to yourself. Remember the saying, “Little pitchers have big ears?” Children are natural eavesdroppers. Share your feelings and your joys and frustrations about life. Comment out loud about role models and the inappropriateness of some commercials. Talk about the important family values that you want to impart to your child. If he or she has a friend that is more talkative, engage them in conversation so that your child can overhear positive ideas. Ask for their perspective on issues and get your own opinions known.
Here’s a popular quote to be passed on from my teacher, Virginia Satir whose legacy on the web is at http://www.satirglobal.org:
“I believe the greatest gift I can conceive of having from anyone is to be seen, heard, understood and touched by them. The greatest gift I can give is to see, hear, understand and touch another person. When this is done, I feel contact has been made.” – Virginia Satir
I Love You So Big! Blog – Lynne Namka, © 2011-13
“The FREEDOM to see and hear what is here, instead of what should be, was, or will be. The FREEDOM to say what you feel and think, instead of what you should. The FREEDOM to feel what you feel, instead of what you ought. The FREEDOM to ask for what you want, instead of always waiting for permission. The FREEDOM to take risks in your own behalf, instead of choosing to be only “secure” and not rock the boat.” – Virginia Satir
One of the best things you can teach your children is how to be a loving human being. Partners and families sometimes fall out of love. Harville Hendrix gives you guideline on how to get the love back. Remember when you first fell in love with your partner and how the world was so rosy and your partner was simply wonderful? And how you felt deeply connected and understood? Ahh, the joys of the early part of relationship.
Imago Therapy presents safe ways of relating to each other that helps both partners feel heard and understood by the other and moving toward creating a spiritually conscious union.
What we really want is to be truly understood. And to be really seen by the person we care about. To find someone who can read our minds and meet our needs. To find true love and intimacy that lasts a lifetime. To be loved unconditionally by our partner. To get the “Happy Ever After” promised by fairy tales. We want love especially when we are angry and wounded by our partner.
We want to work through the unfinished childhood agenda with our partner. We want to stay in that euphoric space of new love. But despite our deep longing to be connected with the one we choose to be with, it rarely happens. Most often, when one partner is angry, the other person becomes angry back or shuts down. During conflict, the two partners disconnect from each other. The relationship suffers as people become disillusioned with their partner. The two people may even secretly start to look for exits from the relationship. Common exits are addictions, silence and withdrawal, increased fighting, self blame and depression, anxiety and threatening to leave the relationship.
The main purpose of a committed love relationship is to become a responsible loving adult and complete unresolved childhood issues says Harville Hendrix, Getting the Love You Want–a Guide for Couples and Keeping the Love You Find -a Guide for Singles. Hendrix’s approach, more than any other current marriage counseling model, helps couples move their union towards a Conscious Relationship.
Hendrix fashioned the name Imago Therapy to illustrate how we fall in love with the image that we put on another person. And we fall in love with those chemicals that the rush of new love brings. You have heard that love is blind? We don’t see the real person, imperfections and all, but we put our illusion of what we expect in a romantic relationship on the other person. Later, when the bloom goes off the romance, we have to deal with what the person is really like.
Imago Therapy teaches major tools of communication and connection to bond people who love each other together. Blaming, criticizing, withdrawing and pouting are the common distancing defenses in relationships. The big challenge for a happy relationship is to stop using these destructive defenses! We can replace these negative defenses with actions that keep us in partnership even when times get rough.
“We all got wounded in relationship as children with our parents and siblings,” Bonnie Brinkman, Imago Therapist, explains. “The healing can only come in relationship. We need our partners for this. The old mom and dad stuff becomes the template for selecting a partner. We choose people to be in relationship with that represents the best and worst of our parents. The psyche holds an unconscious agenda to select the right person who can help us heal. Hendrix says that our partner, with all of their frustration about us has the blueprint for our healing.”
The heart of Imago Therapy is to use the relationship to mend the pain of being hurt and disappointed in childhood. Brinkman continues, “We are the walking wounded. Our partner holds the blueprint for our healing and growth. The elegance of this process is that we heart flutter over only a few people in the entire world. We fall in like with some of them and then find a person to fall in love with and hook up with. We unconsciously pick the perfect partner to help us do the growing up work. God, the Universe, Fate or whatever you call it helps us zero in on that perfect partner who will push our buttons so we can get on with our work. There are no accidents why we get together with the person we choose out of all the millions of potential partners. The one we choose is someone who is familiar to us–we have met aspects of them before in our mother and father. That sets the stage for doing the work of growing past our present defenses.”
In the Power Struggle stage of relationships, the partners become stuck in trying to tell the other what to do and gathering data to make the other person wrong, at least in their own eyes. Conflict sends grownups, back into the defenses of their little child. There can be wounding if each person knows the trigger points of the other and goes for them pulling forth the defenses they learned as a child. In power struggles, nobody wins. But as the saying goes from A Course in Miracles, “Would you rather be right or happy?”
According to Brinkman, there are four options that happen in relationships where there are unresolved power struggles
1. Adios! Start the cycle over. Find someone new with whom to move through chemical soup into power struggles.
2. Have a silent divorce. Stay together for religious or financial reasons or fear of being alone and become roommates with passion for life atrophying.
3. Become the Bickersons and fight over everything, constantly injuring each other emotionally.
4. Start to cooperate with the unconscious agenda and use the volatile situations for growth. Learn techniques to stay connected during conflict and practice reconnection. This is the “becoming a grownup stage” called The Reality Love Stage.
Making Your Relationship Conscious
The next stage is The Reality Love Stage of relationship where we are presented with many challenging opportunities to use each other to put the childhood pain to rest. Like everything we have a fight – there is another growth opportunity. But of course, it is an opportunity only if we choose to make it one. Some couples never reach this stage, switching partners when fighting get too toxic.
A new set of relationship skills and tools are needed to get the Reality Love Stage. Moving past the Power Struggle stage, the couple begins to realize that not only is their job to grow up but their other job is to help their partner grow up. Imago Therapy presents safe ways of relating to each other that helps both partners feel heard and understood by the other. It provides a process to travel the path of creating a spiritually conscious union.
Intentional Dialogue – A Way to Keep Connected During Arguments
Intentional Dialogue gives you a process of obtaining The Five Freedoms and the ability to have intimacy that Virginia Satir, pioneer in family therapy talked about. What creates intimacy? What we really want is to be heard and feel safe with our partner. Hendrix’s technique of Intentional Dialogue is a way of relating to your partner when he or she is upset by something that you did. It is a process that keeps the contact going even in times of feeling threat and stress – IT KEEPS THE COUPLE CONNECTED EVEN WHEN THEY DISAGREE! Intentional Dialogue gives the partner the love and attention they need when they most need it.
Sound good? Well you can get it! You and your partner can find the Happy Ever After, after all. That is one of the greatest gifts you can give your children – parents who work together to keep the kindness and love going in their relationship.
But – it takes learning a process of active listening and hard work. It takes resolution from both partners to do Intentional Dialogue when friction starts to build up. It takes being able to be vulnerable and stomach some uncomfortable feelings. It takes you out of your comfort zone into really being REAL! Ouch! It requires listening and talking from the open heart; now that is scary stuff. The payoff is that you and your partner become a team actively working though the rough spots in your relationship. It makes you conscious in your relationship. You can actually feel closer with your partner after an argument when you stick to the dialogue.
And the technique works in all relationships, not only in romantic relationships. It even works with adolescents! I highly recommend Hendrix and his wife, Helen Hunt’s book on parenting, Giving the Love That Heals.
Want more ideas to help create a healthy, happy family? I carry on my teacher, Virginia Satir’s ideas on creating functional families. Go to my www.angriesout.com web site and scroll down to the articles listed under COUPLES. You will find the latest research on how to achieve happiness in your relationship which is then passed down to security and self-esteem in your children.
I Love You So Big! Blog – Lynne Namka, © 2011-13
“I wove my webs for you because I liked you. After all, what’s a life, anyway? We’re born, we live a little while, we die … By helping you, perhaps I was trying to lift up my life a trifle. Heavens knows anyone’s life can stand a little of that.” - Charlotte from the book Charlotte’s Web by E.B. White
Harville Hendrix and his wife Helen Hunt have written two excellent books for parents called Getting the Love that Heals: a Guide for Parents and The Parent’s Companion: Meditations and Exercises for Giving the Love that Heals. Every home should have one of these books in their parenting library. Here are the three steps from their great communication enhancer called Intentional Dialogue.
- Mirroring, Validate and Empathize are the three crucial steps from their great communication enhancer called Intentional Dialogue. Practice these step with your children and other to encourage honest, open communication.
1. MIRRORING: Parrot or paraphrase your child’s message back showing you got their viewpoint. Mirroring connects you with your child. It helps her feel like you are on the same wavelength as she is.
- Let me see if I got this right . . .
- I heard you say . . .
- So you said…
- Let me see if I understood this….
Then ask her for more. Get to the bottom of everything there is to be said about the topic. After you paraphrase, ask.
- Is there more?
- Tell me more about that.
- Anything else?
- Did I get it all?
Listen and repeat, and ask for more information is the basis of mirroring. Repeat what your child says until she wears her idea out. If you don’t get it right and she feels safe with you, she will clarify the message for you. Keep it going until the topic is exhausted for her.
2. VALIDATE what she has said: Validating is not agreeing with what your child says. It is accepting her feelings as being his true feelings. It is seeing it from her point of view. It is walking the mile in her shoes and understanding from her perspective. Never tell your child that she should not feel a certain way. Feelings are normal. Expressing them and being heard and validated by someone else often helps the excesses of emotion go away. Having someone hear you and not judge you allows a safe release of pent up feelings. Remember the research that said that most kids act out because they do not feel heard and validated by adults.
Listen to your child until you really get their internal logic! Remember you do not have to agree with it, just understand it. No attempts to correct the irrational thinking now – that will come later.
Let him know you might have a clue (however a small one and never, never say I KNOW what you are going through). You can say I understand or I might have felt that way myself, but never I KNOW. Validating their feelings by relating them to something you might have experienced does two things: 1. It forces you to see the experience from their eyes because you, yes, you ancient one, were once a teen yourself, and 2. It builds a bridge that the two of you could meet in the middle to talk.
Here is the hardest part: Empty yourself of the need to lecture. Do not go into problem solving with your child. Listen to her and he upset feelings! Tune into her message and say how you might understand (not that you do necessarily, but that you might.)
- I can see that you might feel that because . . .
- I can understand that because….
- That once happened to me so I get where you are coming from…
- That makes sense to me because once I . . .
Keep your example how you felt the same way very short! Only one or two sentences. Don’t retell stories she has heard many times before. All you need to say is “I understand, because something like that happened to me once.” Then turn the topic of concern back to your child and his feelings. This is about your being there for your child – not being the reactive parent.
3. EMPATHIZE and GUESS the Feeling: Really get what your child and take the conversation to the feeling level. Try your best to understand what your child is saying and try to get the feeling.
Pick one or more feelings and reflect that back to her. Help her give a label to the feelings. Guess if you have to. If you get it wrong, she will correct you. The key here is to be genuinely understanding of what your child is saying and express it back so she can label and validate the uncomfortable feelings.
- That must make your feel . . .
- I can imagine that you might feel confused about….
- I wonder if you are feeling hurt under all that anger?
You don’t have to agree with your child’s feelings. And you don’t have to do anything about it other than give it a name. Just try to understand. Go to the place of “Given your experience, I can see how your might feel” or “I don’t feel that way, but I’m big enough to understand that you might feel that way”.
Don’t just mouth the feelings words here. Be sincere. Sarcasm will distance you. Again, no problem solving. Sometimes all it takes is for the child to feel heard and empathized with; a solution is not always necessary.
Your child desperately wants your love. She wants to be connected not matter how she acts on the outside. Young people often feel misunderstood. Teenagers make feeling misunderstood an art form! Then he or she will react with anger, hurt or sullenness and refusal to talk. Intentional Dialogue gives a format where your child has a safe place to go with feelings.
Taking things down past the intellect (the head) to the feeling level (the heart) helps people feel understood. Remember, you don’t have to agree with what is being said. It helps when you get to a level of empathy as to the deepest part of what is going on – the feelings. Empathy is the ability to see things from the perspective of another person and feel compassion.
The ability to have satisfying personal relationships and a well-defined sense of self is boosted with developing the skill of empathy. This dialogue approach teaches your child how to become an empathetic person.
Check out Lynne Namka’s award-winning site www.AngriesOut.com for more articles on communicating with your families.
I Love You So Big! Blog – Lynne Namka, © 2011-13
“If I can keep still and listen to my sixteen year old, I’ll be the first parent on the block to know what’s going on with this alien teen nation by tuning into my inner trend meter! – Anonymous
Be there fully when your child talks to you. So, even if you are facing a hundred shades of hostility during those Years of Unbearable Kid Tension, take time to stop and listen. Listen from your heart. Don’t be a halfway listener. Don’t tune out when your children talk or start doing something else. I notice that my children would sometimes choose my most incontinent time to talk to me about something trivial which then might turn into something important. It’s like they had to test me to see if I were really listening before they would unburden their heart.
You can increase closeness with your child if you really hear what he says. Your listening helps him feel understood and breaks into the loneliness that young people get into.
You can increase closeness with your child if you really hear what he says. Your listening helps him feel understood and breaks into the loneliness that young people get into. Reflecting back the content of his message and getting to the real meaning without becoming defensive is one of the highest-level skills you can achieve! Put your own feelings on hold for a few minutes to totally listen. If you have a youngster who withholds information about his life, learn ways to get him to open up.
Just keep remembering as you listen – “This is not about me being the parent who must discipline. Discipline will come later. This is not about explaining things to him or punishing him. This is only about listening so he can express his feelings. This is seeing it from my child’s point of view! This is my trying to understand my child’s feelings, so he can get them out.” No shoulds. No problem solving. This is total unconditional – “I’ll be there for you!” Science fiction writers Arthur C. Clarke and Stephen Baxter tell it well: “What we need is a machine that will let us see the other guy’s point of view.” We don’t have such a machine, but we do have a fantastic technique.
Listen for information about what is really going on in your child’s world. Let your child be the expert and teach you about teen culture, about drugs, alcohol and sex. Active listening is a skill that is necessary for relationships. Feeling understood in this world of confusion and chaos allows the young person to risk opening up more.
So talk with your children about risky behaviors. Two talks with teens leads to less marijuana use for at least a year, a recent study found. A brief, voluntary conversation with an adult led to up to a 20 percent decrease in marijuana use for teenagers who frequently used the drug. And then listen to learn!
Harville Hendrix gives a formula that encourages active listening, called Intentional Dialogue. This approach keeps the person who is hurt or upset talking to get down to the bottom line feeling and express their deepest pain. Hendrix’s book, “Getting the Love You Want, A Guide for Couples,” offers great tools for understanding family dynamics. Read this fine book for your own growth, improving communication in your marriage and with your children. Many people choose to do the exercises together from the book to strengthen their relationship.
You know you need the Intentional Dialogue Technique if you are having free-for-alls if you and your child yell a lot or don’t communicate at all. Hendrix has authored two books for parents along with his wife Helen Hunt which are Getting the Love that Heals: a Guide for Parents and The Parent’s Companion: Meditations and Exercises for Giving the Love that Heals.
Another good book on supporting your teen and getting them to open up to you is How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish. This small book is written in cartoon style so will be an easy read for you.
Button your lips on your own anger when attempting to listen to your youngster! You have to resist any need to lecture or teach when your child is talking about something that is upsetting to him. Not responding in anger yourself or setting him straight is tough.
Intentional Dialogue works. It can defuse the hurt and disappointment under the outburst. Three simple steps will make your child feel really heard and validated. Keep your focus on the three steps rather than moralizing at this point. (You will get to make your own point across later.) First just help your child talk his issue of feeling misunderstood through to get to the bottom line feelings. Doing an Intentional Dialogue when your child is upset is going into the eye of the storm.
Check out the books mentioned in this article through these links:
Getting the Love You Want, A Guide for Couples by Harville Hendrix
Getting the Love that Heals: a Guide for Parents by Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt
The Parent’s Companion: Meditations and Exercises for Giving the Love that Heal by Harville Hendrix and Helen Hunt
How to Talk So Your Kids Will Listen and Listen So Kids Will Talk by Adele Faber and Elaine Mazlish
I Love You So Big! Blog – Lynne Namka, © 2011-13
My wife played a tape of me arguing with my daughter and I couldn’t believe it was me talking. I was out of my head. – A co-dependent dad
Stay listening. You will be surprised at what you can learn from your children. Practice active listening. Children feel validated when someone really listens rather than just judging them, that’s one reason their peers gain so much power over them. If their friends listen and make them feel accepted and you do not, guess whose values they will take in.
Try to understand that children do go through phases and the best thing to do is just ride them out. Learn active listening and work on cleaning up your lecturing so you can talk in the ways that your children will actually listen.
To encourage open communication get your child to think and express his or her opinion. Know that the opinion is probably a transitory one and won’t be acted upon unless you overreact and go ballistic. Listen to their opinion then ask them to respect you and listen as you express yours. Remind your child that your opinion is based on years of experience and living. Remember that he is trying on different ways of thinking and opinions and may not even believe what he passionately says. He may say thing just to shock you. It may be an idea he just heard and is working though. See this as a time to teach your child values, but if you start to insist or argue for your side, he will become more entrenched in his. Opinions are not set in stone during the teen years, but fluctuate according to the ever shifting mood and who is influencing him from the outside world.
Kids’ unusual ideas can be anxiety provoking to parents if you give it power and make it out to be more than it is. If you start to panic at what you hear, tell yourself, “Jeez-Louise, it is just his IDEA or OPINION at this moment. What if I just hear it through as if it’s an idea, not something he is actually going to do? Kids’ opinions are fickle, they change all the time.” Then think back to some weird belief that he used to have and how that changed. Don’t buy into your fear that he will always thing this way or act it out.
So if you are worried about her dressing Goth or playing Doom or games with too much gore, see it as another children phase that he is going through. Just as the monsters under the bed phrase or calling everyone “Poopie” chapter of your lives together that drove you crazy, this too will pass, if you let it. I thought I would go crazy as a young mother when my children went through the phrase of calling each other fatso. Guess what? They outgrew it.
Try to understand that children do go through phases and the best thing to do is just ride them out. Learn active listening and work on cleaning up your lecturing so you can talk in the ways that your children will actually listen. You are the adult here! Most of your values will come through in the long run if you don’t protest too much about their latest one. The longer you protest in days, months and years, the longer their phase will be. Don’t turn differences in values into a power struggle.
Look for my article Parent Cues To Teach Children To Express Upset Feelings at www.angriesout.com or other articles for help with communicating with children at www.timetoloveyourself.com/blog.
I Love You So Big! Blog – Lynne Namka, © 2011-13
The most deadly of all sins is the mutilation of a child’s spirit. – Erik Erikson
When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings.
When I ask you to listen to me and you feel you have to do something to solve my problem, you have failed me, strange as that may seem.
Listen! All I asked was that you listen, not talk to or do – just hear me.
When I ask you to listen to me and you begin to tell me why I shouldn’t feel that way, you are trampling on my feelings. Please, just listen and hear me.
Advice is cheap; 35 cents will get you both Dear Abby and Billy Graham in the same paper.
I can do for myself; I’m not helpless – maybe discouraged and faltering, but not helpless. When you do something for me that I can and need to do for myself, you contribute to my fear and inadequacy.
But when you accept as a simple fact that I do feel what I feel, no matter how irrational, then I can quit trying to convince you and can get about this business of understanding what’s behind this irrational feeling. When that’s clear, the answers are obvious and I don’t need advice.
Irrational feelings make more sense when we understand what’s behind them.
Perhaps that’s why prayer works, sometimes, for some people – because God is mute, and He/She doesn’t give advice or try to fix things. “They” just listen and let you work it out for yourself.
So please listen and just hear me.
And if you want to talk, wait a minute for your turn – and I’ll listen to you.
Here’s some advice about listening to your Inner Wisdom from my book on anger management techniques, Your Quick Anger Makeover Plus Twenty Other Cutting-Edge Techniques to Release Anger!
“Daily listening rituals for healing are part of becoming a loving, calm person. You can set yourself free from unwanted emotions and problems if you are willing to take the time to do the work. There are loving spiritual forces around us that are waiting for an invitation to help as described by the anonymous saying, “We entertain angels unawares.” You can call on your God, guides and teachers and spiritual deities you believe in from higher realms to assist you in achieving peace. You can download higher frequencies from above through intention and asking for what you want. We can always ask for clarification about an issue that is troubling us. To increase your own healing ability, set your intention for change with love. Take a long, slow, deep breath and hold it while focusing on love. Go deeper into love and see healing as happening now. See, feel and experience the power of love plus intention as a powerful change agent in your life.”
To improve your relationships and learn more about improving your listening skills, we recommend the book The Lost Art of Listening, Second Edition: How Learning to Listen Can Improve Relationships by Michael P. Nichols.
I Love You So Big! Blog – Lynne Namka, © 2011-13
“Find the extra time. Yes, teens take more time to parent. You need to be there when your teens want to talk about what is churning in their heads. Start out by listening – don’t half listen while you think of something else.” – Marilyn Heins
“Nobody understands me” is a common complaint of young people. Feeling different from others and feeling alone creates more confusion and conflict in the adolescent mind, which is working so hard to find an identity. One study showed that most behavior problems were caused by the child’s not feeling heard by adults.
The research says that feeling invalidated by others is the most common reason young people act! Young people do not feel respected when they are ignored, not listened to, or order to feel differently. They feel put down and reason that others do not care about them, so why should they care about themselves. They seek others in rebellion like themselves who seeming care and start to adopt values of giving up, alcohol and drug use.
Underneath all these new behaviors of insisting on being left alone is the child’s ongoing need for the Three Big A’s—attention, affection and approval. Young people do not feel respected when they are ignored, not listened to, or order to feel differently.
“Why questions” typically do not work in getting to the root of why your youngster is acting the way he does. Children do not feel validated when parents ask them why they feel the way they do and then tell them how the “should” act. They also feel invalidated when you do not approve of their friends. A cardinal sin for most young people is being dissed by someone. They are furious and defensive when parents call their friends names. Some young people have a misguided sense of loyalty to their friends and keep hanging around people they would normally let go of just because their parents talk disrespectfully about the qualities of the friend.
Philosophizing and dismissal of a child’s problems will make him shut you out and become “parent deaf.” The time of the teen years are at a time of life when he is trying to interpret his world which is changing rapidly. It stings when a parent puts him down by calling him too sensitive, a crybaby, a whiner, stupid, too dramatic or a drama queen.
Underneath all these new behaviors of insisting on being left alone is the child’s ongoing need for the Three Big A’s—attention, affection and approval.And of course structure and clear, strong limits. I love the cartoon showing one porcupine talking to another who says, “Just once, I’d like to be petted!”
Our kids are like that at times. Prickly on the outside but needing that nurturance and connection even at the same time they deny it. They want you to love them despite how irrationally they are acting. So take a deep breath, drop into your heart to find what you really want for them at those moments when they are driving you crazy. That takes you out of your anger in the moment and puts you back in a space of rationality and clarity. Find your loving intention before words come out your mouth.
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TEMPLE TERRACE — Temple Terrace’s secret is out.
The city is featured on a list of best places to live by CNNMoney, a service of the CNN cable network and Money and Fortune magazines. It placed sixth on a top ten list of small cities with affordable home prices.
The online news service touted Temple Terrace as an elegant, unique-looking city with winding streets covered with a canopy of oaks. It has an abundance of trees, Mediterranean style homes built in the 1920s and newer ranch-style properties.
Temple Terrace boasts a healthy housing market, where the median home price is $75,000 and the median family income is $56,963, according to CNNMoney. It is one of 25 growing cities where residents see their incomes go the furthest.
That comes as no surprise to Mayor Frank Chillura, a lifelong resident.
“That’s why a lot of people choose to live here,” the mayor said. “We hear people say, ‘Temple Terrace is the best kept secret.’ But we don’t want to keep it secret.”
More people, including captains of industry, are becoming familiar with the Northern Hillsborough County city adjacent to Tampa. Banking investment giant Morgan Stanley moved its Florida headquarters to Temple Terrace early this year.
Built on the banks of the Hillsborough River as a vacation spot for nature-loving Northerners nearly 100 years ago, Temple Terrace became a city in 1925. It now is home to 25,000 residents.
The national publicity could not have come at a better time, said Barbara Sparks-McGlinchy, executive director of the Greater Temple Terrace Chamber of Commerce.
The city is encouraging new families to move to town, she said.
“We want their children to attend our schools,” Sparks-McGlinchy said. “We want them to bring in new businesses and to shop at our current businesses.”
Prudential Tropical Realty real estate agent Annette Renny, who has been selling homes in Temple Terrace for 26 years, said buyers are attracted to the city’s small-town charm.
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BEIRUT (AFP) – A siege imposed by rebel forces on regime-controlled areas of Syria's second city Aleppo has created food shortages ahead of the Muslim holy fasting month of Ramadan, a watchdog said on Tuesday.
"A large number of food products are no longer available, and others have become increasingly difficult to find, driving up prices," the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights said.
The group said rebel forces have surrounded certain neighbourhoods and the regime has been unable to deliver food, because a highway into the northern city from the south has been blocked and the airport closed.
Rebels moved into Aleppo exactly a year ago, and have since seized large swathes of both the city and the surrounding province.
But after months of fighting, a relative stalemate has set in, with the army unable to recapture much territory and rebels unable to take the city as a whole.
For now, the army is focusing its efforts in the central city of Homs, where it is trying to retake several rebel-held districts.
The fighting has created enormous destruction, and the Observatory said troops had brought in bulldozers on Tuesday to remove rubble as they advance.
The Observatory warned that civilians in the city were dying for want of medical equipment.
"The army's continuous bombardment over the past 11 days has made the critical humanitarian situation in rebel areas of Homs even worse," Observatory director Rami Abdel Rahman told AFP.
"An unknown number of rebels and civilians wounded in recent days are dying from their injuries, because there is no medical equipment to treat them," he added.
The Khaldiyeh and Old City neighbourhoods of Homs have been under army siege for more than a year and since late June have come under steady shell and rocket fire as well as air strikes in a withering offensive by the regime.
"The little medical equipment the rebels could get into these areas was coming through underground tunnels. Now, these have been bombed too," Abdel Rahman said.
Activists on the ground confirmed the shortage of medical care.
"The medical community in the besieged areas of Homs is suffering from shortages," said Homs-based activist Yazan.
Large quantities of medical supplies had been used up due to the increased number of injuries caused by the shelling, Yazan told AFP via the Internet.
"This campaign on Homs has been the fiercest" since the start of the siege on rebel areas more than a year ago, he added.
Witnesses and activists have said Syria's forces have been joined in the assault by fighters from Lebanese Shiite movement Hezbollah.
At the start of the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad in March 2011, Homs was dubbed "the capital of the revolution" when it was shaken by widespread protests against his rule.
Now, the rebels are caught in a small segment of the city, covering barely two square kilometres (less than a square mile) in the centre.
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How to Turn Trash into Profit
Join Ecova, Graybar and Environmental Leader for a free waste management webinar, Tuesday, Nov. 12 at 11am PST/2pm EST.
Waste management has long been viewed as a necessary expense that has commanded little attention next to larger operational expenses. The waste and recycling industry is at a crossroads of change, and this change has opened up a significant opportunity for multi-site businesses to drive financial and environmental savings.
With this opportunity comes some significant challenges, as consolidation of haulers continues across the country and recycling and composting options grow, so is the complexity waste generators must manage through. Businesses are under greater presser for transparency and sustainability, creating new pressures and the need for increased collaboration with haulers.
Register to join Ecova, Graybar and Environmental Leader for the webinar, “Money in the Trash: Savings through an integrated approach to waste management,” to learn how to maximize on the opportunities and strategies to navigate the challenges created as a result of these industry changes.
Christopher Laughman, corporate facilities manager at Graybar Electric, will detail how Graybar successfully implemented a landfill diversion program that resulted in 50 percent cost reduction year-over-year. In addition to corporate facility management, Laughman serves on the Graybar Corporate Green Team as a subject matter expert, leading projects that impact the triple bottom line, providing assistance in sustainability planning at both the strategic and tactical level.
Brad Ouderkirk, director of solutions engineering at Ecova, will bring a financial focus to the waste management discussion. Ouderkirk has been with Ecova for more than seven years, focusing on energy conservation, carbon management and sustainability in a variety of roles including strategic consulting and sales.
For more information, speaker bios and to register, click here.
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In this course, students will examine policy, theory, research, and practice issues related to mental health disabilities across the lifespan. The course focuses on problem definition and evidence-based service provision in mental health settings, utilizing a trauma-informed, human rights perspective when relevant, within the context of social policies and macro-level practices. The course illustrates multiple roles social workers take across settings when working with people with acute or severe and persistent mental illnesses. Central to this course is an understanding of historical policy formations at national, regional, and local levels, particularly as they influence current practice realities. Students will examine multiple levels of response to deterioration in mental health and adaptive abilities. Students will examine multiple levels of response to deterioration in mental health and adaptive abilities. Students will develop understanding of mental health policy based on critical advocacy roles that social workers play in ensuring equitable access to services, reasonable accommodations, and legal remedies related to discrimination, oppression, and human rights violations for those with mental health-related disabilities. The effect of social location and context will be examined as they influence access to mental health services. This advanced year course will provide students with the knowledge and skills to be effective practitioners across micro, mezzo, or macro mental health practice realities. | <urn:uuid:7633e331-4f2a-4b1b-a674-f86a4c033f80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://socialwork.buffalo.edu/education/master-of-social-work-msw/curriculum.host.html/content/shared/socialwork/home/course-descriptions/advanced/advanced-topics/sw572.detail.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.927774 | 249 | 2.953125 | 3 |
Antyodaya Anna Yojana has been launched by the Hon'ble Prime Minister of India on the 25th December,2000. This scheme reflects the commitment of the Government of India to ensure food security for all create a hunger free India in the next five years and to reform and improve the Public Distribution System so as to serve the poorest of the poor in rural and urban areas. It is for the poorest of poor that the Antyodya Anna Yojana has been conserved. It is estimated that 5% of population are unable to get two square meals a day on a sub stained basis through out the year. Their purchasing power is so low that they are not in a position to buy food grains round the year even at BPL rates. It is this 5% of out population (5 crores of people or 1 crore families) which constitutes the target group of Antyodaya Anna Yojana. | <urn:uuid:63123b37-ba44-4c60-aa20-82cce4f88e90> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://testfunda.com/examprep/mba-resource/user-resources/article/antyodaya-anna-yojana.htm?assetid=7815a6b2-cf34-48be-9472-d2a24d001eb8 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719027.25/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00301-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952042 | 187 | 2.15625 | 2 |
Every July, the largest sockeye salmon migration in the entire world occurs on the Brooks River in Alaska’s Katmai National Park and Preserve. The guarantee of a bountiful food source draws many of the park’s 2,300 brown bears– which are like grizzlies, but 100-150 pounds heavier!– and around 10,000 tourists annually, eager to observe and photograph this epic occurrence on Brooks Falls.
Brooks Camp is situated 1.2 miles from the falls, on the banks of the Naknek Lake, the largest lake within a National Park. In my opinion, it must also be the lake with the most number of bears swimming in it… because bears were constantly swimming and walking along the lake’s shores.. and startling some people who dared to take a dip!
The only way to arrive to see this phenomenon is by sea plane, which keeps the daily visitors down to a really reasonable number. I, personally, was terrified by the thought of flying on a sea plane… and with good reason. Right before we took off from King Salmon, the plane before us had crashed into a boat and overturned! Mom looked at me and matter-of-factly said, “We’re going.” So, that was it. Fear or not, to the skies I went.
Brooks Camp is so remote and spectacular that many people opt to stay in one of the two lodging options available: a campground run by the National Park Service, and Brooks Lodge— an independently owned grouping of rustic cabins with 2 bunk beds. These cabins aren’t cheap (they run around $650/ night) and book up over 18 months in advance for the peak July visiting dates, but they provide a little comfort in this very simple place.
There are some shared facilities, like a restaurant serving buffet-style meals and alcoholic beverages in the evening, but it’s pretty bare bones. People don’t come for the lodging… they come for the bears!
At the falls, the scene is one of constant activity. The bears (often numbering over 10 at a time) vie for prime placement in and on the falls. The big males sit and stake out their position, often staying in the same spot for hours, fishing and eating to their heart’s content.
Wandering around the outskirts, the younger bears and females loiter, waiting for their opportunity to sneak in amongst the big boys. Occasssionally, they’ll try and inch forward, only to be shoo’d away by an alpha male’s angry roar.
During our visit we also saw two sets of mama bears and cubs. First, a mother bear had her hands full with a trio of spring cubs, which are easy bait for the territorial males. She cautiously fished, all the while watching her cubs who waited on the shore, watching her.
Another mom with a trio of yearlings is able to venture a little farther out. The biggest cub was brave and tried to help mom fish and protect the group. But it was the runt who won over our hearts with his cautiously skittish demeanor.
Watching the bears for hours on end, personality patterns begin to emerge. Some are expert hunters, catching fish after fish with effortless ease.
Other bears are thieves, using their strength to intimidate other bears to abandon their hard-earned salmon.
Finally, there are those like the bear affectionately named Otis, who sits for hours, quietly and alone, somehow managing to peacefully catch fish un-disturbed.
Then, there are the birds. The seagulls are greedy scavengers who bravely approach the feeding bears to swipe a piece before flying away.
But when the eagles decide to descend, the seagulls scatter in frenzied fear and it’s quite the sight!
Then, there are the people. We watch in near silence a mere 15-feet above the scene, and we are simply enthralled with these bears. We begin to find our favorites and get invested in the drama of the falls. Will the mother of the 3 spring cubs finally catch a fish? (Yes!) Will the adorable runt yearling find the courage to join his siblings in the water? (Not this time.) Will Otis ever move from his favorite spot? (Nope! He’s happy just where he is.)
As a salmon jumps and lands into a bear’s open jaws, the once silent crowd erupts in cheers. It’s a cheer for the bear, a cheer for themselves catching the moment on camera, or perhaps a little bit of both.
Non-feeding bear behavior is on display all around Brooks Camp as well.
Oddly, humans and bears share the land here in what the NPS calls an “uneasy coexistence.” Bears here are somehow tolerant of humans, but it’s on us to keep our distance. In the area immediately around the falls, a boardwalk suspended 15-feet above the ground provides protection.
However, for the nearly mile-long walk to the boardwalk, you’re walking on a narrow unprotected trail, often alone and in a very densely wooded area. The fact that bear trails criss-cross the entire journey is not comforting to skittish hikers, and you’ll often hear hikers talking loudly or singing to try to announce their presence.
During the mandatory “Bear Etiquette” training class, rangers recommended we keep a 50-yard safe distance at all times. Along the path to the boardwalk it’s not unusual to be delayed by a “Bear Jam” — AKA a bear walking on or sleeping near the trail. During peak hours, Park Rangers are set up at key spots, viewing for bears and advising visitors about the latest Bear Jam status.
However, it’s kind of hard to keep your distance when bears are literally everywhere you look.
Our first night, we were taking a photo outside the dining hall when two huge bears came barreling past us, apparently playing a rowdy game of tag. Before we had a chance to lift our jaws off the ground, they were running past us again the other direction. That first night, it was pretty hilarious watching the bears continue to run around the building throughout the evening– each time, people immediately left their beer or game of cards to rush to the nearest window to watch the show.
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The Lost Land
Categories: 21st Century, Irish, Women
Imprint: Carcanet Poetry
Publisher: Carcanet Press
Paperback (128 pages)
(Pub. Sep 1998)
Beautiful land the patriot said
and rinsed it with his blood. And the sun rose.
And the river burned. The earth leaned
towards him: Shadows grew long. Ran red.
Beautiful land I whispered. But the roads
stayed put. Stars froze over the suburb.
Shadows iced up. Nothing moved.
Except my hand across the page. And these words.
Eavan Boland's new book, her first since the Collected Poems, is in two parts. The opening sequence entitled 'Colony' explores the theme of Irish language and culture. This is followed by a collection of individual poems which open out from autobiography into a sense of larger belonging. 'The Lost Land' of the title, the poet says, is
'not exactly a country and not entirely a state of mind ... the lost land is not a place that can be subdivided into history, or love, or memory. It is the poet's own, single, and private account of the ghostly territory where so much human experience comes to be
Awards won by Eavan Boland Winner, 2020 Costa Poetry Award
(The Historians) Winner, 2017 Bob Hughes Lifetime Achievement Award
Praise for Eavan Boland
'...She has a dazzling gift for marrying the poem's narrative to its underlying considerations and themes, her carefully enacted restraint heightening the impact of the frequently stunning closing image.''The poems, all of them, have that familiar, spare, feel to them - the clarity of cold water, the measured cadence, the plain diction and the leaping insight so characteristic of her mature work - but there is grief here of a depth and of a kind that chills the heart... against the darkness that eddies and gathers in this, the last book we will have from her hand, there is indeed redemptive light'
Maya C. Popa, Poetry Review
Theo Dorgan, Dublin Review of Books
'This is a fitting tribute to a poet whose work has revised history as we know it and whose talent will be much missed.''The first poem in Boland's book, The Fire Gilder, is one of the best Irish poems of the past half-century.'
Poetry Book Society Winter Bulletin
Colm Tóibín, The Irish Times
'Truly consumable, enjoyable and emotive... all the things that great poetry should be.'
Jasmine Reads, YouTube
'[The Historians] zooms in with characteristic musicality and intelligence on what the stories that are often overlooked - those of women'
Rishi Dastidar, The Guardian Poetry Books of the Year 2020
'It is, as came to be expected from Boland, filled with stories of ordinary Irish women, sensitively rendered in her understated verse. In revisiting the otherwise erased experiences of her subjects, Boland asks us to reconfigure our own understanding of the past, though she acknowledges the difficulties of that, too'
The New Statesman
'There's a poignancy here that is hard to avoid... This modest collection is welcome and those who have not read Boland - few though they may be - will find here at least an introduction to her always-potent art. For others, it will serve as a coda to a poetic life well lived.'
Books Ireland Magazine
'It feels, reading it in the wake of her death, to be unsettlingly prophetic, a fitting close to the life's work of a great poet'
Seán Hewitt, The Irish Times
'... a rich, unsettling moral adventure in memory and responsibility.'
Eavan Boland's A Journey with Two Maps: Becoming a Woman Poet contains essays both personal and public written in a tone urgent and wise, with astute observations on her own trajectory as a poet and the work of Elizabeth Bishop, Sylvia Plath and Paula Meehan, among others.
Colm Toibin, The Irish Times, Our Favourite Books of 2011
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Growing up in Southfield, Michigan, Celeste Watkins-Hayes noticed the vast economic, political, and cultural differences between her town and nearby Detroit. “There was a very clear awareness of how fortunate we were and how not everyone had the opportunities that I had,” she says. With an early interest in social justice issues, Watkins-Hayes enrolled at Spelman College in Atlanta, and then attended Harvard University, where she received her master’s and Ph.D. in sociology. In 2003, she arrived at Northwestern University, where she has taught sociology and African American Studies for eight years.
Her book, The New Welfare Bureaucrats: Entanglements of Race, Class, and Public Reform, was published by the University of Chicago Press in 2009. That same year, Watkins-Hayes was awarded with a National Science Foundation grant to study women living with HIV/AIDS in the Chicago area.
Here, a few questions for our newest writer-in-residence:
Did you grow up wanting to study sociology? What piqued your interest in social justice?
I came from a family that was always interested in social justice issues. I grew up middle-class in Southfield. My father was a banker. By the time he retired, he was president of Bank One Michigan, which went on to become part of Chase. My father was the second black member of the Detroit Golf Club, which was ironic because my grandfather used to park cars at country clubs. He was a bank messenger, so the idea that his son ended up being a president of a bank is interesting. My father also ended up helping to integrate a country club. It wasn’t just about him wanting to play golf, but also about pushing to see networks of business people integrated.
Also, our church was in Detroit, and it was one that was very involved in social justice issues. Detroit has gone through so much strife in the last several decades, and much of the wealth in the area is now concentrated in the suburbs. To see the city struggle in the way it has has been sad, but at the same time, there’s a potential story of redemption there.
I would definitely say servant-scholar. I very much enjoy being a researcher and a teacher, but I see it more as a means to an end. I’m very interested in analyzing and responding to issues of inequality, whether that’s racial, gender, class inequality that prevents people from getting access to opportunities. For me, research, writing, and teaching are ways to address those issues, and my service work is another way. I am a trustee for Spelman—it’s a volunteer board position. I mentor several young people across the country, mostly young women with connections to Spelman, and I do some local board work too, including for the Test Positive Awareness Network. [Watkins-Hayes was on the board there from 2007 to 2010.]
Your first book, The New Welfare Bureaucrats, was about how welfare officers deal with the tricky bureaucratic, political, emotional aspects of their job. How did you come up with the topic?
My early work [at Harvard] was on welfare recipients, but I started to get interested in the very important role that institutions play in the lives of low-income families. In my research, I would hear a lot about was the welfare offices. They had these notorious reputations, and I became curious about what it was happening in those places. I was interested in the institutional aspects of how people navigate poverty.
The New Welfare Bureaucrats opens like a journalistic piece of work, describing a quintessential scene in a welfare office. Not many academics write that way.
I wanted to grab the reader. I wanted the book, as much as possible, to be rigorous in terms of scholarly standards, and useful to the people who could potentially benefit from it. Hitting the theoretical arguments and speaking to the sociological literature is important, especially with your first book, but I wanted to begin it in a way that would attract readers.
For me, the writing process is one where I have to be motivated and inspired. I can’t just kind of sit down and write about anything. And I have to feel as though I have a sense of what I’m going to say. The nice thing about being a professor is that I can balance writing with teaching, engaging in verbal dialogue, and taking on leadership roles in organizations.
What’s it like doing research in Chicago as opposed to Boston, and what has been the most surprising finding in your HIV/AIDS research so far?
Because I didn’t do HIV/AIDS-related research in Boston, it’s a bit of an apples-to-oranges comparison. But I think one of the biggest differences is that Chicago has such a history of being a social laboratory—it’s one of the epicenters of sociological research, so continuing in that tradition is important. Also, so much of my research in Boston was first-time work, so I was learning what it takes to be a good, rigorous researcher. Now I think I have it down a little more. And you have more credibility when you’re doing the research as a faculty member than as a student, so access has been easier here than in Boston.
In Chicago, I’ve been most surprised by how extensive the network of providers is for people living HIV/AIDS and how strong the activist activity is around the disease. Typically the way people think about coping with a serious diagnosis such as HIV/AIDS is that friends and family are the most important resource. We’re finding that the majority of economic and social support and information for women living with HIV/AIDS is actually coming from the network of nonprofit service providers.
You’re very busy these days—researching, advising post-docs and grad students, chairing the African American Studies department, and traveling for lectures across the country. Why take on Off the Grid?
That is a very good question—because I don’t know how to say no? To be honest, I am very interested in making sure that my work reaches a broader audience. That is very important to me, and any opportunity that I get to make that happen, I’m likely to say yes, even if it means adding a little more to my stress level. In my research, we’re finding out how women with HIV are making ends meet, and about the social dynamics—their relationships with families and friends—that inform how they get their money and spend their money. The research has implications for health management, things that have been proven to improve the quality of life for people living with HIV. We’ve got this very big research study, and it would be really a shame if only other academics learned what we are learning.
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The 1998 financial report shows that SingTel, the largest telecommunications company in Singapore, has a huge reserve (cash and bank deposits) of S$4.44 billion. This is the company’s strength as not many companies have such large reserves. The debt-to-equity ratio1 in the last 3 years was also very low. In fact in 1997, it was just 0.05 as opposed to in 1998 and 1999 when it was merely 0.06. With such a huge reserve and low debt-to-equity ratio, SingTel is thus capable to generate internal funds as well as afford high demand of debt and equity to finance any expansion. For instance, the 1999 annual report shows SingTel was able to seize opportunities and invest substantially in overseas ventures (S$2.3 billion in 55 investments) during the 1990s. This goes to show that the combination of financial resources and its managerial capabilities had served as a source of competitive advantage for the firm over its rivals. The ability to invest substantially at any point of time is indeed valuable, rare, difficult to imitate and non-substitutable. As such, it is a core competence of SingTel.
Although SingTel has remained the profitable, we must also be cognizant with the fact that the company faced tough challenges in the recent years. Based on the financial performance of 1996-1999, the return on shareholders’ funds and total assets as well as the operating return on turnover and net fixed assets had actually declined. This indicates that the net return of the firm (or shareholders’ investments) and the effectiveness of SingTel in employing/ utilizing its inventory and total assets are no longer as good. The inability to effectively use its equity/assets is a possible weakness of SingTel. Organizational Resources:
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With the new TT5, German analogue masters Clearaudio offer vinyl fans a more affordable entry point into tangential tonearm technology.
The first tangential tonearm (also known as ‘linear tracking’, ‘parallel tracking’ or ‘straight line’) was reportedly devised by Thomas Edison and featured on the Edison Phonograph from 1877. But the technique of parallel tracking was abandoned with Emil Berliner’s Gramophone, and remained so until almost a century later when its benefits were finally rediscovered and a small number of manufacturers began again to design arms that would open up the full potential of the LP record.
Why go tangential?
In a word, fidelity. To achieve the most faithful music reproduction, the playback of a record should mimic the original cutting of the vinyl as closely as possible. During the cutting process, the cutter diamond maintains a consistent angle of 90 degrees from the beginning of the groove to its end. Therefore the optimum way to extract the purest information from that groove without distortion is with an arm that reads the groove in precisely the same way as it was cut.
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With the new TT5, Clearaudio offers vinyl fans a more affordable entry point into tangential tonearm technology. The TT5’s excellent value for money is down to eschewing one or two of the features of its ‘big brothers’, the covetable TT2 and TT3.
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Tracking force and azimuth are easily and finely adjustable so that the cartridge and stylus are always in the perfect position to faithfully read the musical information in the record groove.
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Issue 293 – Restoration through science
In this issue of ECOS, we look at how science is helping to improve our environment and industries. Read on to find out how CSIRO research is leading the way.
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G&M Realty’s David Wolkoff, the developer behind a controversial plan to replace Long Island City’s graffiti-covered 5Pointz buildings with twin luxury high rises, has reached an agreement to more than double the number of affordable housing units included in the proposal.
Wolkoff said yesterday that the company will include 209 affordable apartments in the plan for 22-44 Jackson Avenue, an increase from the previously promised figure — 75 units, which Wolkoff pledged in June.
Wolkoff told members of the City Council’s zoning subcommittee that G&M would make its “best efforts” to rent the affordable units to area residents. He said he agreed to the alteration, along with a pledge that the development would create 1,000 union jobs, after talks with City Councilman Jimmy Van Bramer.
The planned building requires a zoning variance to build to the proposed height of 41 stories, but has drawn criticism from many in the community who defend 5Pointz as a landmark. The City Council and the city’s Department of City Planning need to approve the variance for the towers to move forward with construction.
The residential project would end the long tradition of lawful graffiti at the 5Pointz buildings, which are covered in graffiti works by artists both known and obscure.
Wolkoff and his father Jerry, who run G&M together, have said they would welcome 5Pointz artists back to curate the art walls in the future development, should the plan be approved.
But some local artists are not convinced.
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Try to assume the best intentions from individuals until you have repetitive attestations that they have other plans. I have encountered even the most unfriendly people, (even through my own actions) are typically not trying to harm others. Instead, they generally want to defend or protect themselves and to meet their own ideals.
The most aggressive individuals are often people who have suffered a lot of cruelty and criticism and are incredibly hypersensitive to it. That understanding helps dispel anger. That awareness does not inevitably mean that we should cease from using consequences to discourage unfavourable behaviour. But it does mean that we can deal with the individual more serenely and efficiently. How does the awareness that people are generally aggressive to guard themselves pertain to less unsympathetic individuals, including me? If a person who generally appreciates you is annoyed or knowingly upsets you, then he (or she) is possibly doing it out of a defensive attitude or fair-mindedness!
He (or she) possibly assumes that you did something to him/her first, and they are just defending themself, getting even, or trying to teach a lesson so you won’t harm them again. In short, they are undoubtedly operating under the same reasons that you are when you perpetuate the cycle of conflict! They are assuming the worst intentions of you — that you don’t care about them or that you tried to hurt them intentionally.
Does this make it right? No! Did I learn something? Yes!
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Head-to-Head: Parallels Desktop for Mac vs. VMware Fusion
Volume Number: 25 (2009)
Issue Number: 04
Column Tag: Virtualization
Head-to-Head: Parallels Desktop for Mac vs. VMware Fusion (cont.)
How do VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop for Mac stack up?
by Neil Ticktin, Editor-in-Chief/Publisher
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We won't keep you in suspense. In the majority of overall averages of our tests, Parallels Desktop is the clear winner running 14-20% faster than VMware Fusion. The one exception is for those that need to run Windows XP, 32-bit on 2 virtual processors, VMware Fusion runs about 10% faster than Parallels Desktop.
Here are the overall conclusions, but you should really look at more of the detail to understand what works best for you. (Note: In all cases except battery life, when looking at the graphs in this article, take note that shorter bars are better.)
Figure 1: Overall Results, Parallels Desktop vs. VMware Fusion
For 32-bit Windows OSes, running under a single virtual processor (the default when you create virtual machines in either product, and therefore, the most commonly used configuration), Parallels Desktop runs both XP and Vista 14% faster than VMware Fusion. (Comparing 3 types of VM launch times, compression, transcoding MP3, 7 types of file and network IO, 3 types of application launches, and 3 application performance tests.)
For 32-bit Windows OSes, running under two virtual processors, VMware Fusion runs XP 10% faster than Parallels Desktop, and Parallels Desktop runs Vista 20% faster than VMware Fusion. (Comparing 3 types of VM launch times, compression, transcoding MP3, 3 types of application launches, and 3 application performance tests.)
For 64-bit Windows Vista, running under two virtual processors, Parallels Desktop runs 15% faster than VMware Fusion. (Compares 3 types of VM launch times, compression, and transcoding MP3.)
Another way to look at this is the color-coding on the results matrix. Green cell coloring means Parallels Desktop was faster than VMware Fusion. Blue cell coloring indicates VMware Fusion was faster than Parallels Desktop. Darkest coloring means faster by 10% or more, medium coloring indicates 1-10% difference, and lightest coloring means less than 1% difference. (Note: Not all tests were run on all configurations, hence the empty cells.)
Figure 2: Test Results Matrix with Coloring
(Note: This is not intended to be read, but to give you an overview of results
by coloring. See the ftp site for the spreadsheet.)
One thing to note: VMware Fusion was several times slower than Parallels Desktop in the Internet Explorer tests (across the board), so we removed IE from the overall analysis to avoid skewing the overall results. See more on this in the Internet Explorer section below.
The Test Suite and Results
In the sections below, we'll walk you through what we tested, and the results for each. These tests are designed to arm you with information to help you make the best decision for your type of use.
For each set of results, you can see the analysis for each model of computer for XP, and for Vista. If you want to see more detail for multiple processors, 64-bit, or on an individual Mac model, you can review the spreadsheet for those details.
For the launch tests (launching the VM, Windows, and Applications), we had the option of an "Adam" test, and a "Successive" test. Adam tests are when the computer has been completely restarted (hence avoiding caching). Successive tests are repeated tests without restarting the machine in between tests, and can benefit from caching. Both mimic real use situations.
The tests used were selected specifically to give a real-world view of what VMware Fusion and Parallels Desktop are like to run for many users. We eliminated those tests that we ran which were so short in time frame (e.g., fast) that we could not create statistically significant results, or that had imperceivable differences.
For some of the analysis, we "normalized" results by dividing the result by the fastest result for that test across all the machine configurations. We did this specifically so that we could make comparisons across different groups, and to be able to give you overview results combining a series of types of tests, and computer models.
Instead of a plain "average" or "mean", overall conclusions are done using a "geomean", which is a specific type of average that focuses on the central results and minimizes outliers. Geomean is the same averaging methodology used by SPEC tests, PCMark, Unixbench, and others, and it helps prevent against minor result skewing. (If you are interested in how it differs from a mean, instead of adding the set of numbers and then dividing the sum by the count of numbers in the set, n, the numbers are multiplied and then the nth root of the resulting product is taken.)
For those interested in the benchmarking methodologies, see the more detailed testing information in Appendix A. For the detailed results of the tests used for the analysis, see Appendix B. Both appendices are available on the MacTech web site.
Launch and CPU Tests
There are three situations in which users commonly launch a virtual machine:
- Launch the virtual machine from "off" mode, including a full Windows boot
- Launch the virtual machine from a suspended state, and resume from suspend (Adam)
- Launch the virtual machine from a suspended state, and resume from suspend (Successive)
For the first test, we started at the Finder and launched the virtualization application, which then immediately launched the virtual machine. The visual feedback is fairly different between Parallels Desktop and VMware Fusion when Windows first starts up. As a result, we focused on timing to the point of actually accomplishing something. In this case, we hovered over the Start button and launched Internet Explorer. The test ended when the home page (a very small locally served page which loaded fast in all environments) was rendered.
The primary difference between the last two types of VM launch test is that the computer is fully rebooted (both the virtual machine as well as Mac OS X) in between the "Adam" tests. The successive tests are launching the virtual machines and restoring them without restarting the Mac in between.
Successive tests benefit from both Mac OS X and possibly virtual machine caching, and are significantly faster. But, you may only see these types of situations if you constantly launching and terminating your virtual machine.
We noticed that while doing these tests, results wildly varied even within the same test machines. To be fair, we did these tests multiple times, and took the best results for each product.
End result for each of these sets of tests (geomean across Mac models) is:
Figure 3: Windows OS Launch Performance
Clearly, machines with more memory took far longer to restore, so if you are going in and out of a VM often, you may want to think about using less RAM, not more. In fact, you should just use as little as you need anyway for the best experience under either virtualized environment. (We suggest 1GB for most people.)
There are two CPU performance tests that are commonly run as part of benchmarks, and that we did here as well. These include:
As a matter of interest, we used compression instead of decompression, because with today's fast computers, decompression is actually much closer to a file copy than it is to CPU work. Compression requires the system to do a good amount of analysis to do the compression, and is therefore a better measurement of CPU.
Figure 4: Virtual Machine CPU Performance
Application Launch Test
Here, we tested two of the most common applications used in virtualized desktop environments: Microsoft Word and Microsoft Outlook. Most applications, including these, launch very quickly with the worst performance being under Vista for Adam launches.
Similar to the OS launch tests, an Adam launch is one where Windows has been completely rebooted, and then given a few minutes to finish its startup process. A successive launch test is done repeatedly without restarting Windows.
Here are the results:
Figure 5: Windows Application Launch Performance
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These stones are to be a memorial to the people of Israel forever. – Joshua 4:7 (NIV)
Sept. 11, 2001, dawned clear and bright. Fall was in the air—in the coolness of the misty morning, in the hints of red, yellow and orange beginning to splash the hillsides, in the honking of geese winging overhead. America shut off the alarm clock, rolled out of bed, opened the curtains and let in the day. With coffee in hand, we set off to work.
By 9 a.m. our world had profoundly, irreversibly changed. By noon we’d gone from disbelief to numbing shock. By evening we vowed, “We will not forget!”
And we haven’t. One of the most tragic days in American history was also one of our finest. We looked in the mirror on that watershed day and said, “We are America.” And then we showed the world what makes America the greatest nation on earth.
America is a land of opportunity. We still open our arms to the tired, poor, huddling masses yearning to breathe free. To those homeless, tempest-tossed souls the lamp is still lifted beside the golden door. In every community modern day immigrants practice medicine, serve cultural cuisine, sell cars. Some are so desperate they sneak in. Don’t let anyone fool you. Opportunities abound in the home of the brave. But that isn’t what makes America great.
America is a land of prosperity. We have houses for our cars. We have closets jam-packed with clothes we grew out of or that we forgot we owned. We have winter clothes and summer clothes. We have footwear for every occasion. We have everyday dishes and good dishes. We have bank accounts, credit cards, investments, retirement plans. We have boats and swimming pools and RVs and motorcycles and four-wheelers and garages so full of stuff that we don’t have room for the car. We eat three square meals a day and then some. Diet and exercise businesses are booming. But our material wealth isn’t what makes America great.
America is the land of the free. We work and still have time to play. We race cars and horses and the clock. We are free to worship and work where we choose. We are free from want and, for the most part, from fear. We have homeless shelters and Homeland Security. We have soup kitchens and supersonic jets. We have policemen, firemen, EMTs, the Red Cross, the Salvation Army and the military protecting and aiding us. We can be whatever we want to be, go where we want to go. We can choose who, what, when, where, and how. We have life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. But freedom isn’t what makes America great.
What, then, makes America great?
Its generous heart, resilient spirit and can-do attitude. The Spirit of America born on the shores of Plymouth Rock nearly four centuries ago was found on Sept. 11, 2001, in the rubble that was the World Trade Center and in the wreckage of a plane that slammed into a Pennsylvania field.
On a memorial stone, those stalwart Pilgrims inscribed: “This spot marks the final resting place of the Pilgrims of the Mayflower. In weariness and hunger and in cold, fighting the wilderness and burying their dead in common graves that the Indians should not know how many had perished, they here laid the foundations of a state for which all men for countless ages should have liberty to worship God in their own way. All ye who pass by and see this stone, remember, and dedicate yourselves anew to the resolution that you will not rest until this lofty ideal shall have been realized throughout the earth.”
We will not forget Sept. 11, 2001. We will not forget that for a moment evil prevailed. We will not forget how, by the grace of God, we rolled up our sleeves and went to work, fighting that evil with goodness. We will not forget who and what we are. Let our memorial stones reflect the spirit of America.
God, bless America, land that I love. Amen.
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The ancient wisdom of Ayurveda has a wide range of potential benefits for the modern athlete. The principles of Ayurveda allow the needs of many of today’s athletes to be met in a more holistic and gentle fashion compared to many of the present-day “trends” and “fads”. Before we can understand the benefits, we must understand first the correlation between the worlds of Ayurveda and athletics.
Pitta dosha is our metabolism, what digests our food, and burns calories; which ultimately results in a leaner physique. Kapha dosha is what builds, it allows our body to become fortified and strengthened. This both increases our size and protects us from injury. Vata dosha is purifying, it promotes weight loss by means of its light quality. Vata can also be a major causative factor of injury if not managed properly. Excess Vata can make life much riskier for the athletes themselves. The two main focuses of the Ayurvedic athlete should be on both diet and lifestyle practices. With comprehension and mastery of these two concepts alone, almost any goal can be achieved.
Understanding The Ayurvedic Diet
Diet is one of the easiest ways to influence the doshas. Intake of foods that are spicy will increase Pitta. This in turn will raise our agni/metabolism and promote weight loss. Care must be taken in the selection of heating foods. Too much heat will cause inflammation in the body, which can lead to hyperacidity in the stomach, and anger/intensity in the mind. Examples of Pitta increasing foods are going to be things that are primarily warming, such as spicy peppers, ginger, yogurt, and sour fruits. Tonifying foods, which are nutrient-dense, will increase Kapha and promote the building of the tissues. Examples of Kapha-raising foods are meats, oils, nuts/seeds, grains, root vegetables, and dairy. Light foods will increase Vata and promote weight loss. Examples of Vata-raising foods are primarily leafy greens and raw foods.
Agni and Digestion
Agni, which is related to our metabolism, can be thought of as the fire of our digestive system. It is what allows us to process and absorb our food. Agni should always be regulated for overall health and prosperity; however, it is immensely important in relation to athletics. Many present-day athletes adhere to strict dietary protocols in relation to their bodily needs and goals. But, if your body is not able to digest and absorb all of the nutrients properly, what’s the point? By raising our agni, we are better able to digest/absorb the nutrients of our food. This heightened absorption leaves our body with more energy and increases our quality of life. The best way to increase agni is to increase the intake of dietary spices. Dietary spices act like pieces of wood or kindling, which once ignited, increase the fire’s size. They also have the added benefit of tasting delicious! The first thing every athlete should do is increase the amount of spices used in their meals.
Cumin, coriander, and fennel are tridoshic, meaning they will not raise or deplete any of the Doshas. This makes them safe to use in copious amounts while cooking. Other spices you may consider incorporating into your diet are ginger, black pepper, turmeric, mustard seed, cardamom, clove, cinnamon, cayenne, salt, basil, oregano, thyme, rosemary, and many more! You can fill an old salt shaker/grinder with a mix of your favorite spices to sprinkle onto your food. Many of these herbs can also be used as a digestive tea to raise agni. This brings us to the next point, stop drinking liquids with ice in them. Water puts out fire. When we drink extra cold water, it shuts down our agni even more. This makes food much harder to digest, and in turn lowers our metabolism. You should not drink large amounts of water during a meal, water depletes our agni. The easiest way to discern if you aren’t digesting your food well is by looking at your own tongue. First thing in the morning, you may notice a thick coating on your tongue which ranges in color from white to yellow, to gray. You might also notice small scallops or notches on the sides of your tongue as well. Both of these physical manifestations serve as diagnostic tools to show your current state of agni. If they are present, agni is depleted and needs to be regulated/increased.
How An Ayurvedic Lifestyle Can Improve Athletics
Pranayama is what the Vedic sciences describe as “breath restriction” which is a series of breathing techniques utilized for different purposes. In athletics, these can be useful for increasing lung capacity. Many people in today’s society struggle to utilize the full capacity of their lungs. We breathe with shallow breaths which do not provide near enough oxygen for the body. These shallow breaths also trigger the sympathetic nervous system, which puts our body into a perpetual state of fight or flight syndrome.
Working with the breath can actually be quite simple and can be done while you’re at work, on a drive in the car, or while relaxing at home. The first point of awareness should be between the nose and the mouth. The nose was anatomically designed as the main mode of air intake for the body. It has hairs, mucous membranes, and sinus cavities all to filter out toxins and regulate the temperature of the air before it is brought down into the lungs. Focus on breathing in through your nose and out through your mouth during your daily life. Once this has been mastered, try incorporating it into high strenuous exercises like weight lifting and running. This breathing technique, which reduces the stress hormone cortisol, will help to keep unnecessary fat off the body. Another breathing practice to habituate is to increase the capacity of the lungs. Take as deep of a breath as is possible and feel the way your body moves and expands to bring the air in. The awareness of how much our lungs can expand is the most important. Pay attention to how deeply you are breathing and then consciously try to deepen your breath. This can be done during exercise to deeply oxygenate both your lungs and circulatory system, giving your body more energy to complete the task at hand.
Ayurvedic Body Therapies
Abhyanga translates into English as the application of oil or massage. This practice has great potential for the weary athlete. Oil is generally very tonifying, and in Ayurveda, we use a lot of it! A daily self-oil massage is a wonderful way to promote longevity, repair sore muscles, and prevent burnout. Oil is nourishing to the muscles, lubricates the joints, and builds our immunity. The practice of abhyanga is relatively simple: apply a palmful of warm oil to each section of the body, upper arm, lower arm, shoulder/neck, chest, stomach, upper leg, and lower leg. Using warm oil in a warm room is recommended which helps the skin absorb it better. When the pores are open, the oil can be pulled deeper into the dermis. You can set a bottle of oil in a bowl of hot water to warm it. When applying the oil to the body, you can also massage your sore/tense muscles by making small to medium-fast circles to create friction, this also will help with the absorption of the oil. The type of oil used will vary from dosha to dosha and specific indication. Choose organic and cold-pressed whenever possible. Sesame oil is tonifying for a body that has taken a beating. Sunflower oil is lighter and better for the summer months. Olive oil is excellent for the joint, and Castor oil is a remarkable remedy for painful muscles. Essential oils can also be added for therapeutic benefits and to further help with the absorption of the oil. The oil should be left on for 30-60 minutes, during this time most of the oil will have been absorbed into the skin. Afterward, you can either pat dry with a towel or take a brief shower without soap, as soap will strip away the oil you just worked into your body. Daily abhyanga is ideal, but start out slowly, try abhyanga once a week, and then gradually increase the frequency. The long-term benefits of abhyanga for your body are immense.
Yoga and Ayurveda
Yoga has gained a lot of popularity in the Western world over the last half-century. It is a sister science to Ayurveda. Whereas Ayurveda is a science of our health, Yoga is a science of our movement. Yoga is imperative to the athlete for two main reasons: strength and flexibility. While yoga may appear to be a simple guided stretching sequence on the surface, we can dissect the anatomy of our movement a little further. There are three concepts necessary for the comprehension of how yoga can be strengthening: concentric, isometric, and eccentric movement.
Imagine yourself doing a pushup, you start lying flat on your chest and begin to perform the pushup, this is called a concentric motion. While your body is in a plank you are in an isometric state. When you begin to lower yourself back towards the ground, the opposite portion of the pushup is called an eccentric movement. Eccentric (negative or lowering) movement lengthens the muscle fibers, while concentric (positive or pushing) movement shortens the muscle fibers. Although a concentric movement (think of pushing up on a bench press) is commonly believed to be more strengthening for the muscles, eccentric movement (slowly lowering the bar towards the chest) will actually promote more muscle growth. In yoga, which typically emphasizes a slower pace, the eccentric portion of movement will in reality provide a great deal more of a workout than you may have initially realized. To take it a step further, whenever you are in eccentric movements, make them even slower to provide more of a workout! Yoga is constantly moving the body into new directions that we don’t experience in our normal day-to-day life. Yoga is also intimately linked to the breath. Whenever you find yourself in a yoga pose (asana), focus on taking a full deep breath. If the diaphragm is constricted by a slight twist or pressure, breathing deeply will help to strengthen the muscles of the diaphragm. This will make taking deep breaths less burdensome in our normal day-to-day life. A simple sun salutation sequence can be a magnificent pre-exercise stretching routine to get all of the muscles warmed up for activity. It is incredibly common when lifting/building muscle for the muscles and tendons to become more rigid and less limber. Yoga is a great way to combat this tendency, increase flexibility, and slowly allow the body to develop a superior range of motion. This will help prevent injuries such as ligament or tendon tears. Balance is another aspect of yoga that has great potential for prospective athletes. The intricate movements within a yoga set put the body into new positions, with new centers of gravity, and unfamiliar weight-bearing on our appendages which do not usually experience that type of a weight load. This all contributes to the greater attunement of your own balance which translates into a heightened level of athletic prowess.
Ayurveda and The Seasons
The seasons are closely related to the doshas as well. Spring is the Kapha time of year. Kapha being both heavy and tonifying, means springtime is the easiest for us to retain extra weight and build our body up. This can be further expedited by increasing Kapha qualities in our diet. Kapha is known for possessing a low agni, so take care during the spring season to increase the digestive spices in your diet. This will ensure you are properly absorbing all of the heavy foods you may be consuming to increase body weight. Summer is related to Pitta dosha. The intense heat of the summer is ideal for increasing our agni/metabolism to promote a lean, refined body type. Fall is the Vata time of year. During this season, the body will be in its most fragile state and is more prone to injury during this time. Manage Vata properly by staying warm and making sure the body is well nourished. Keep Vata at bay by practicing Abhyanga daily and emphasizing grounding, hearty soups, and cooked root vegetables. Fall is a time of year when weight loss will naturally become easier. Vata scrapes away the tissues, whereas in the summer Pitta burns them away. A balanced combination of these two doshas (and seasons) will provide the most harmonious and comprehensive weight loss program.
Ayurvedic Practices To Enhance Athletic Performance
While Diet and Lifestyle are at the core of Ayurvedic Athletic philosophy, other Ayurvedic modalities that could be explored include Herbalism, Panchakarma, and Meditation. Herbs can be used to promote the strengthening of the body or to help purify it. They also provide a holistic option within sports medicine. Topical pain salves, pain tinctures, anti-inflammatory teas, and wound healing salves are just a few possibilities. Panchakarma, an ancient Ayurvedic cleanse, has been receiving media attention lately. This is a powerful tool to eradicate deep-seated toxins within the body and act as a “reset button” for the doshas. Meditation is another tool that can be utilized to calm an athlete’s mind.
Ayurveda is a very individualized medicine and there will always be variations in treatment protocol from individual to individual which should be managed under the guidance of an experienced practitioner. The concepts outlined above have potential benefits which could be right for someone, but not always what is best for everyone, even when their goals are similar. The possibilities of Ayurveda are truly endless, limited only by the human mind. Let these concepts serve you in your quest toward your own Athletic and Ayurvedic goals.
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- Tell your HCP if you or your child has ever abused or been dependent on alcohol, prescription medicines or street drugs.
- Your HCP can tell you how physical and psychological dependence and drug addiction are different.
XELSTRYM is a federally controlled substance (CII) because it contains amphetamine that can be a target for people who abuse prescription medicines or street drugs. Keep XELSTRYM in a safe place to protect it from theft. Never sell or give your XELSTRYM to anyone else because it may cause death or harm to them and it is against the law.
Do not use XELSTRYM if you or your child are:
- Allergic to amphetamine or any of the ingredients in XELSTRYM. See the end of the Medication Guide for a complete list of ingredients in XELSTRYM.
- Taking or have taken within the past 14 days a medicine called a monoamine oxidase inhibitor (MAOI), including the antibiotic linezolid or the intravenous medicine called methylene blue.
XELSTRYM can cause serious side effects, including:
- Heart-related problems, including:
- sudden death, stroke, and heart attack in adults
- sudden death in children who have heart problems or heart defects
- increased blood pressure and heart rate
Your HCP should check you or your child carefully for heart problems before starting treatment with XELSTRYM. Tell your HCP if you or your child have any heart problems, heart defects, high blood pressure, or a family history of these problems. Your HCP should check your or your child’s blood pressure and heart rate regularly during treatment with XELSTRYM. Call your HCP or go to the nearest hospital emergency room right away if you or your child have any signs of heart problems such as chest pain, shortness of breath, or fainting during treatment with XELSTRYM.
- Mental (psychiatric) problems, including: new or worse behavior and thought problems, new or worse bipolar illness, new psychotic symptoms (such as hearing voices, or seeing or believing things that are not real) or new manic symptoms. Tell your HCP about any mental problems you or your child have or about a family history of suicide, bipolar illness, or depression. Call your HCP right away if you or your child have any new or worsening mental symptoms or problems during treatment with XELSTRYM, especially hearing, seeing or believing things that are not real, or new manic symptoms.
- Slowing of growth (height or weight) in children. Children should have their height and weight checked often while on XELSTRYM. Your HCP may stop treatment with XELSTRYM if your child is not growing or gaining height or weight as expected.
- Circulation problems in fingers and toes (peripheral vasculopathy, including Raynaud's phenomenon): fingers or toes may feel numb, cool, painful, fingers or toes may change color from pale, to blue, to red. Tell your HCP if you or your child has any numbness, pain, skin color change, or sensitivity to temperature in your fingers or toes. Call your HCP right away if you or your child have any signs of unexplained wounds appearing on fingers or toes while using XELSTRYM.
- Serotonin syndrome: symptoms such as agitation, fast heartbeat, flushing, seizures, coma, sweating, loss of coordination, confusion, dizziness, tremors, stiff muscles, muscle twitching, seeing or hearing things that are not real (hallucinations), changes in blood pressure, high body temperature (hyperthermia), nausea, vomiting, or diarrhea may occur. Stop using XELSTRYM and call your HCP or go to the emergency room if symptoms occur. Serotonin syndrome may occur if XELSTRYM is taken with certain medicines and may be life-threatening.
- Allergic skin rash (contact sensitization): Stop using XELSTRYM and tell your HCP right away if you or your child develop swelling or blisters at or around the application site.
- Application site reactions have happened while wearing XELSTRYM and after removal of the patch. Symptoms include pain, itching, burning feeling, redness, discomfort, or swelling at the application site. Call your HCP if you or child develop any application site reactions that do not resolve on their own.
Before taking XELSTRYM tell your healthcare provider if you:
- Are pregnant or plan to become pregnant. It is not known if XELSTRYM may harm your unborn baby.
- Are breastfeeding or plan to breastfeed. XELSTRYM can pass into your milk. Do not breastfeed while taking XELSTRYM. Talk to your doctor about the best way to feed your baby if you take XELSTRYM.
What should I avoid while using XELSTRYM?
- Do not drive, operate heavy machinery, or do other potentially dangerous activities until you know how XELSTRYM affects you.
- Avoid exposing the application site to direct external heat sources such as hair dryers, heating pads, electric blankets, heat lamps, saunas, hot tubs, and heated water beds as exposure to heat can cause too much medicine to pass into your body and cause serious side effects.
What are the possible side effects of XELSTRYM?
- The most common side effects of XELSTRYM include:
- decreased appetite
- trouble sleeping
- stomach pain
- increased blood pressure
- muscle twitching (tics)
- increased heart rate
Please read the Medication Guide and Full Prescribing Information including the Boxed Warning.
To report suspected Adverse Reactions, contact Noven at 800-455-8070 or FDA at 1-800-FDA-1088 or www.fda.gov/medwatch.
There is a pregnancy registry for females who are exposed to XELSTRYM during pregnancy. The purpose of the registry is to collect information about the health of females exposed to XELSTRYM and their baby. If you or your child becomes pregnant during treatment with XELSTRYM, talk to your HCP about registering with the National Pregnancy Registry for Psychiatric Medications at 1-866-961-2388 or visit online at https://womensmentalhealth.org/clinical-and-research-programs/pregnancyregistry/othermedications/ | <urn:uuid:5980cab0-fe1e-46f6-a78b-5da44fc8248b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.noven.com/xelstrym/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571090.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809215803-20220810005803-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.899475 | 1,447 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Would You Pay More to Sit in a Quiet Zone on Planes?
The Federal Communication Commission’s decision to end the ban on in-flight calls has not only sparked a furious debate of technology vs. courtesy, it appears it also might dip into the wallets of fliers everywhere.
In two separate surveys, half of Americans said they would pay extra to sit in a “quiet zone” designated by an airline if the ban on cellphone usage is lifted.
Three airlines – Delta, JetBlue and Southwest – have already said they will not allow cellphone usage in-flight even if the ban is lifted, but many other airlines are still evaluating the dilemma.
Several airlines have already introduced so-called ‘quiet zones,’ albeit mostly in response to what turned out to be the No. 1 annoyance on Expedia’s survey – screaming children.
Just as the old smoking vs. non-smoking sections of planes didn’t prevent second-hand smoke from wafting to nearby rows, if not the entire plane, it remains to be seen if quiet zones will work.
Then again, if there’s a fee to be made by the airlines, somebody will make it work. | <urn:uuid:0cefff40-ace0-4488-9af0-2e9944099e78> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dalytravel.com/would-you-pay-more-to-sit-in-a-quiet-zone-on-planes/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570692.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807181008-20220807211008-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.941802 | 253 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta: The Epicenter of California's Water Challenge
Caltech Earth Week Speaker Series: Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta: The Epicenter of California's Water Challenge
Join us for a riveting discussion on the complexity of the proposed changes to the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta, the hub of California's water system. The Delta presents what is arguably California's most important test of successfully managing change in order to address the needs of the environment, economy and local communities simultaneously.
Curt Schmutte, civil engineer, consultant to the Metropolitan Water District and senior authority on California's water supply, will take us through the region's unique ecosystem and diverse recreational and agricultural economy. The challenges of the region range from declining health of fish species, island subsidence, potential levee failure, predicted sea level rise, water quality degradation and urbanization.
All members of the community are welcome to attend.
When: Monday, April 21, 2014 4:30pm-6:00pm
Where: Ramo Auditorium
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February 10, 2009
Payson High School students Marissa Garcia (left) and Ashley Anglemire conduct scientific experiments on river water during a recent science field trip. See the story on page 6A.
Stories this photo appears in:
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Unlike so many major city art museums, the Seattle Art Museum isn't really an 'encyclopedic' museum with broad representation across the history of art. Its collections of 'classic' European art are relatively thin. That didn't really dawn on me until well after, because there was so much else to hold my attention, starting with the lobby.
Middle Fork by John Grade was made from a plaster cast of a 140-year-old hemlock growing in the Middle Fork area near Seattle. Grade and hundreds of volunteers assembled it from reclaimed old-growth cedar chips. Since its first display in 2015, new height and limb have been added each time it has traveled to another museum; it's now 105 feet long. Grade is known for work that makes natural elements like lava flows and calcium deposits visible in art.
An exhibit of traditional masks from Africa starts with the question "What is the job of a mask?" and then answers it in part for these: They represent human desires or wishes for humans to possess the characteristics of particular spirits or animals.
But, just a bit further on, it turns to another use of masks: to disguise and keep secrets. In this particular case, the masked figures represent a Dry Season Festival among Nigeria's Afikpo people. Adult men are the paraders, and the preparations are kept secret from women and younger men. In the parade, men may be almost anything: women, teachers, children, Europeans, Muslims or more. They are judged by how persuasive they are in their disguises.
And yet another kind of disguise: not a mask, but a cloth of sorts, which the Ghanaian artist, El Anatsui, calls Conference. It's made of liquor-bottle tops, evaporated milk cans, and aluminum and copper wires. He speaks of them as fragments, and describes it as representing in part the fragmentation of the African continent and the African diaspora.
Issues of Africa's division and colonization are explored further in this painting by Congolese artist Cheri Samba, who started her career doing billboards and comic strips. In The 90s, a corrupt politician who has emptied the treasury box says "I gave them democracy and they are still hungry, what should I do?" while at the edge, an investor labeled with the initials of the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development has moved on, saying "Patience...the sun is rising in the East."
The exhibits that focus attention on encounters between Europe (and America) and Africa span 500 years and make note of the long and complex history, and what Europe's exploitation of Africa and Africans has meant.
One of the delights of visiting smaller museums is the chance to see works by artists whose reputation is regional, or who are less well-known than others. In a museum this size, their works are often front-and-center, where a museum with various Van Goghs, many Monets and rooms of Rembrandts will leave them to the side or not show them at all. Above, a work by Danish artists Vilhelm Hammershoy (1864-1916). For ten years, most of his paintings were made of, and inside, his apartment.
This painting by Paul Camille Guigou (1834-1871), who mostly painted Provence landscapes, in styles that can resemble Courbet and Millet. Like Van Gogh, he never made a living as an artist, and worked as a notary clerk and tutor. His work had a brief vogue thirty years after his death. I wish the fine brushwork in this painting could be seen in my photo; it is impressive. That's an 1869 self-portrait at left. Wheat Field, above, is from 1860.
In the next room, I found a temporary exhibit, looking at one of the well-known views painted by many of the Impressionists and other 19th-century artists: the arched cliffs at Etretat, in Normandy. Monet was there, so was Boudin, Courbet, Daubigny, Delacroix and Corot. Surprisingly, although I've seen many paintings of the area, I don't think I'd seen photos before!
The names of the photographers are lost, but the focus of the second image, of humans on the beach (in this case fishermen) was not. Boudin, for example, put fishing boats and the equipment to haul them in at the center of one picture, and a crowd of washerwomen hardly concerned with the massive formation in another.
Monet made a number of paintings of the rock formations, although none were on hand for the exhibition. He had some doubts, too; he wrote to his wife that "I count on doing a large canvas of the cliff of Etretat, although it is certainly bold of me to do that after Courbet, who did it admirably, but I will try to do it differently."
Two other Monet paintings that were on hand are of fishing boats hauled onto the Etretat beach; the first painted in 1883 on his first trip, and the second in 1885 when he returned.
Next stop for me: One of the largest collections I've seen of domestic china, pottery and stoneware, showcased and lit so that the room almost seemed magical even without looking closely at the collection.
A first glance at Katharina Fritsch's Man and Mouse seen from a mezzanine gave an impression of playfulness—an impression that totally disappears at close range with the realization of what it is standing on.
Three disturbing (to me, at least) works by Anselm Kiefer, finish today's visit. Kiefer, born just after World War II, has explored themes and images that were based on romantic mythologies, but incorporated by Nazi ideology and iconography. The untitled work above is said to comment on Albert Speer's grandiose Nazi architecture.
In Orders of the Night, above and The Wave also known as Lilith at the Red Sea, Kiefer used a variety of materials including acrylic, emulsion, ashes, shellac, cloth, straw and wire to create deeply textured effects.
There's enough more at the museum to demand another visit, and this is only of its three campuses. Its former home on Volunteer Hill is now the Seattle Asian Art Museum, and it has a sculpture garden on the Seattle waterfront. | <urn:uuid:4ea4be01-7879-4865-91a8-0d02cdbee210> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.travelgumbo.com/blog/seattle-art-museum-a-big-small-museum#comments | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.978133 | 1,328 | 2.328125 | 2 |
NEW Year’s resolutions may have waned somewhat since January...so organisers of a Preston race are urging women to sign up for the annual event.
The event, held by Cancer Reserch UK at Preston’s Moor Park on June 16 is a way to celebrate life but also remember those who have been lost to cancer.
Maria Montgomery, Cancer Research UK’s Preston event manager, said: “Women of all shapes, sizes, ages and levels of fitness take part in Race for Life. They come from different backgrounds and walks of life but they are united by their absolute determination to take on cancer and beat it.
“We know many women want to take part but are worried about completing the 5k course. But Race for Life is non-competitive.
“It’s not about being fit or fast. Taking part is about uniting against a disease that affects all of us.
“You can walk the 5k route, run it or jog it if you prefer, and many participants may be decked out in pink or fancy dress
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Notre Dame Sigma Beta
Notre Dame, IN 46556
Charter Date March 24, 1963
Chapter No. 75
Advisor Dr. Svetlana Neretina
During the fall of 1962, interest in Pi Tau Sigma was aroused among the highly ranked junior and senior mechanical engineering students by Dr. Edward Jerger, Head of the Mechanical Engineering Department. This group then petitioned the National Council of Pi Tau Sigma for a chapter to be installed at the University of Notre Dame. When word was received that a chapter would be installed, officers were elected for the forthcoming semester.
The petition was approved. and the Notre Dame Sigma Beta Chapter was officially installed on March 24, 1963 by National Officers E. Kent Springer, President, Erwin C. Hoelscher, Vice-President and James W. Bayne, Secretary-Treasurer.
In order to promote the high ideals of Pi Tau Sigma, the Notre Dame Sigma Beta Chapter plans future projects which will help advance the engineering profession.
ANNUAL SUMMARY REPORTS
2021-2022 Ashley Newbold, President
Twenty-five new members were inducted into the Notre Dame Sigma Beta chapter of Pi Tau Sigma this year. For the past few years, the Notre Dame Sigma Beta chapter has been involved in a program called MathCounts. MathCounts is a national mathematics competition for middle school students. The event was held in the Hesburgh library on Notre Dame’s campus and 4 middle schools in the surrounding area participated. 12 chapter members volunteered at the event. Pi Tau Sigma members participated by grading math exams throughout the day and entering the scores into the MathCounts site online. Pi Tau Sigma members were also involved in tutoring for sophomore level mechanical engineering courses throughout the year. Members tutored in both thermodynamics and mechanics II/dynamics regularly.
2020-2021 Miranda Roberson, President
The Notre Dame Sigma Beta chapter held several events during the 2020-2021 academic year, despite the COVID-19 pandemic. The first event of the year was our Fall Initiation which was held virtually. During this ceremony, 18 students who demonstrated academic excellence were inducted into the chapter. Four additional students were inducted in a make-up ceremony as well. Also, the chapter implemented a new voluntary tutoring program for mechanical engineering students. Several chapter members participated, helping underclassmen with mechanical engineering classes such as Differential Equations, Dynamics, Solid Mechanics, and Thermodynamics. Students were able to meet virtually, and tutors were able to provide insightful guidance for students despite not meeting in person. The plan is to communicate with the Notre Dame Aerospace and Mechanical Engineering Department to make this program a long-term resource for mechanical engineering students. Additionally, every year, the Notre Dame Sigma Beta chapter participates in a local middle school math competition, MathCounts, volunteering as graders. This event allows for our chapter to get involved with students in the South Bend community and encourage younger students to be excited about math. Unfortunately, due to the COVID-19 pandemic, this competition was unable to be held in person, but the entire chapter looks forward to continuing this rewarding tradition next year.
2019-2020 Amanda Bono, President
The Notre Dame Sigma Beta Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma hosted various events during the 2019-2020 academic year. Our Fall Initiation was the first event of the year, where we inducted 23 new members who demonstrated academic excellence in the mechanical engineering major. The Notre Dame Sigma Beta Chapter volunteers every year for a middle school mathematics competition called MathCounts to give back to the South Bend community. During this event, members of the chapter acted as graders for the various rounds of competition in which challenging math problems were presented to students. This is a favorite event among members since it serves our local schools and promotes enthusiasm for mathematics among younger students in the surrounding community. Additionally, our chapter holds an annual guest speaker event in which a popular mechanical engineering professor is invited to come and speak to members about a specific area of research, their experiences in industry, or about what it means to be a mechanical engineer in today’s society in general. We have always had very positive responses to this event in the past and planned to hold it in the spring semester, but unfortunately it was not able to be held this year due to the sudden end of the in-person school year. We were able to remotely hold elections for our new officers and look forward to them continuing with the organization next year!
2018-2019 Bianca Jurewicz, President
The Notre Dame Sigma Beta Chapter of Pi Tau Sigma hosted several events this academic year, 2018-2019. The first event was our annual Fall Initiation, which saw the organization induct 35new members. For our service to the community, Pi Tau Sigma served as volunteer graders for a local middle school mathematics contest called MathCounts. The members graded 5 different rounds of mathematics problems challenging the young people of South Bend as the local grade schools competed against each other. Some members also volunteered an extra day to allow more schools to participate in the competition and promote excitement of math among the younger generation. In our efforts to help the professional development of our members, the Sigma Beta chapter hosted a guest speaker event with Professor Michael Stanisic. He shared about his experience in undergraduate education, his doctoral work, his experiences applying for various jobs as a professor. For an element of fun, he also spoke about his fascination of automobiles from the 50’s and 60’s. This was a great chance for Pi Tau Sigma members considering further education to learn about their options and post-grad work entails as well as allowing the professor to give a lecture on a subject he finds fascinating. Another meeting was held in the first week of April for the junior members to speak with the seniors about advice on which classes to take and mentor one another. | <urn:uuid:0050eb0a-7522-46c7-8dd9-8858924aa9e5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pitausigma.org/index.php/%CE%A0T%CE%A3%20CHAPTERS/Notre%20Dame%20Sigma%20Beta | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571234.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811042804-20220811072804-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.974257 | 1,206 | 1.671875 | 2 |
Plaza Sésamo. Zhima Jie. Takalani Sesame. Galli Galli Sim Sim. Behind the various incarnations of 'Sesame Street' around the world stands the Sesame Workshop , the non-profit group committed to help children (and especially young children) develop literacy and numeracy skills, build the resilience they need to cope with tough times, establish an early foundation for healthy habits, and help fostering respect and understanding.
Sesame claims that it produces the "most studied TV progam in history". While I don't have hard data to support this assertion, I can't even imagine a potential competitor to this claim. Long a touchstone for many of us who work in the educational technology field, I would add that it is probably the most studied educational technology initiative in history as well.
Recently a group from Sesame spoke to a packed conference room at the World Bank about what it does around the world, and how it does it. It was an entertaining presentation -- videos of small children cavorting with the likes of Elmo and Kami do tend to engage people in ways that, say, arguments about multivariate regression analysis do not. The event was organized by the World Bank's early childhood development (ECD) group , but attracted many people from our more diffuse 'EduTech' thematic community as well. This led me to wonder: What can those of us of work on educational technology initiatives within large institutions like the World Bank learn from how Sesame Workshop operates?
While attempting to answer this question for myself, I came away from the entertaining and thought-provoking presentation with quick notes on five core 'lessons' to consider:
1. go to where your users are -- and be interesting once you get there
Why should we be promoting the use of ICTs among children? Don't kids around the world already watch too much television and waste too much time using computers (playing games, etc.)? These are questions I hear regularly from certain quarters in 2012; one person asked a version of this at the Sesame presentation. In the paper she wrote for the Carnegie Corporation in 1967 that led to the creation of Sesame Street, Joan Ganz Cooney noted that lots of pre-school children were already watching TV -- and were especially fascinated by the commercials they saw. Why not then adopt and adapt some of the successful tools and approaches of the advertising companies -- approaches which in many ways mirrored effective teaching techniques, she noted -- and put them to use to help educate children, especially if they were going to be watching TV anyway? As a result, Sesame used a widely available common technology (in the late 1960s, this was broadcast TV) to go to where kids were, subverting some of the impactful approaches for using that technology for its own ends. In 2012, Sesame not only seeks to engage children via broadcast television (although of course it does do this, a lot), but also is actively exploring and experimenting with a variety of the technologies already at hand in the lives of children (from oversized picture books to the mobile phones that parents increasing hand to their children to keep them occupied. (The first time I ever heard a name given to the 'pass-back effect ' -- where parents hand their phones back to their children to keep them occupied -- was as a results of discussions kicked off by reading from the Pockets of Potential paper produced by the Joan Ganz Cooney Center, Sesame's affiliated research arm). Go to where the children already are, the Sesame experience teaches us, and be interesting and engaging when you arrive there. Whether you do this via a printed picture book, a TV, or a mobile phone, the point isn't that you are using a particular technology, it's that you are effectively using a technology already in use.
2. embrace non-traditional approaches
Some may question whether you can really laud Sesame for 'non-traditional' approaches to educating young children, given that it has been around since the 1960s. While continuing to be known largely for its television programs, the organization self-consciously proclaims that it is in its '42nd experimental season' as a way to remind its staff that they need to be forward looking. Today in Bangladesh, Sesame sets TVs on rickshaws and pedals them into slum communities, bringing messages to students where they live and gather (one lesson for other groups doing this in similar settings -- make sure you use rickshaws small enough to navigate narrow alleys!). Some of the available technologies that Sesame is trying to take advantage of may not be that obvious. Recognizing that printers are really just (increasingly powerful) single function computing devices (with the display not an LCD monitor, but rather a piece of paper), Sesame is looking at how they can utilize these devices in innovative ways to help disseminate its materials without the need of standalone computers. Instead of inventing something new, Sesame prefers to adopt and adapt traditional or established technologies and put them to new uses.
3. put research at the heart of the process
"Research informing practice" -- this is a mantra that Sesame holds dear. Many other groups espouse similar things as well, of course. That said, in the cases of some such groups, this is perhaps more accurately stated as 'we need to do research before we start a new practice' (while at the same time 'old' practices remain unquestioned because they been followed for a long time, with tradition and inertia conspiring to support 'business as usual', even if there is no compelling no research base supporting them -- and in fact, even where there is evidence to the contrary!). The 1967 report to the Carnegie Corporation noted that "There is no substitute for trying [something] and evaluating its effects", and this assertion still guides Sesame's work today. Remain in continual experimental mode. The best way to figure something out is to do it. Learn from what you are doing. Change course along the way based on what you learn. These were messages that the Sesame folks conveyed quite strongly. This means that mistakes will be made, they said, but this is an important part of the learning process -- for organizations just as it is for young children.
4. international models, contextualized locally
In some ways, Sesame Street looks decidedly different in different countries ... and yet there is no denying that the end product is still Sesame Street. Essentially Sesame prescribes a process for local partners to follow, but not the actual program or product that is meant to result from the process. Of course, it does offer many examples of successful programs or products from around the world for its local partners to emulate, and it does care (a lot) about quality control. One of the benefits of developing things locally is that this helps ensure local buy-in. Another benefit to this approach is that it can result in lots of context-specific programs and products (like Math Bingo in Nigeria) that those in 'headquarters' would never have anticipated. While productions are local, and despite the diversity of approaches and products that results from local production, the Sesame branding remains -- and remains strong.
5. to reach your target audience, you need to consciously reach out to other groups as well
If one were forced to reduce the World Bank's new Education Strategy 2020 to just three words, they would be: Learning For All. For the World Bank, "Learning for All means ensuring that all children and youth – not just the most privileged or the smartest - not only can go to school but also acquire the knowledge and skills they need to lead healthy, productive lives and secure meaningful employment." Sesame Workshop's mission is "to use the educational power of media to help children everywhere reach their highest potential." In pursuit of this goal, Sesame understands that its audience is not just children, but also their parents and caregivers. If you want to reach children, you need to reach out to, and support, those who are closest to them as well. Do this in ways that are inventive and engaging, using the tools (including the ICT tools) at hand, and you are more likely to be successful in your overall mission.
These are some of the quick impressions I took away from the Sesame Workshop presentation. No doubt there are examples from Sesame's history, or current practice, in each of these five cases where things aren't exactly as I have painted them here, where Sesame itself doesn't follow these lessons 100% of the time. Such is the nature of organizations -- especially long established organizations. But even if these aren't being followed all of the time, or if the quick lessons I have drawn are a bit fuzzier and nuanced in reality than how I have quickly presented them here, the general intentions and directions that help guide the staff of the Sesame Workshop are pretty clear. What is also clear to me after spending two hours learning lessons from the Sesame Workshop experience is that, if they are to remain relevant (let alone helpful), initiatives within institutions like the World Bank (especially those in fast moving fields, like the use of technology in education) will need to continue to challenge themselves to learn from, learn with, and work with a wider variety of organizations than may have been the case in the past. "There are many paths to the top of the mountain", or so goes an old Chinese proverb. Even if they all eventually lead to the same place, it doesn't mean that others won't get there first.
You may also be interested in research from the Cooney Center , the independent research and innovation lab at Sesame Workshop that catalyzes and supports research, development, and investment in digital media technologies to advance children's learning. And: Wikipedia contains a useful short summary of the 'influence of Sesame Street ', primarily in its U.S. incarnation, including discussions of criticisms of the show and related controversies.
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Recognising and understanding the signs and symptoms of is something everyone should be aware of. Depression tends to be more prevalent in women than men, and a high percentage of sufferers either don’t know they have the disorder or they are not getting the required treatment to aid their recovery. Here are some of the signs and symptoms of depression in women.
Consistently sad, anxious, of having a feeling of emptiness. Maybe the individual isn’t as loquacious as they normally are. They’re not practicing their normal tendencies or idiosyncrasies.
Other physical symptoms may include headaches, migraines, indigestion or other digestive disorders and chronic pain anywhere in the body.
The signs and symptoms of depression in women are very broad, as can be evidenced above, but they all carry a lot of weight none-the-less in the diagnosis of depression. Everybody is different, so some of these may affect some and not others.
You may be unaware that you are suffering yourself, but upon reading this you are a little wiser about your own situation. Maybe have yourself checked out by your doctor if you’re not confident you are living a mentally stable life. If you see these symptoms in any of your friends, family or acquaintances, then it’s advised to have a brief chat with them about it.
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This essay is about how the users make the correct economic decisions. It explains how the development of conceptual framework has affected the objectives and nature of general-purpose financial reports (GPFRs). The purpose of financial reporting is to help users or stakeholders to develop the usefulness in economic decision making. All the stakeholders or the users like employees, suppliers, investors, lenders, government and their agencies, customers, and the public supposed to know how to use the information from GPFRs.
Accounting can be defined as a concerned with communicating, collecting, and analyzing financial report (McLaney & Atrill 2008). Its information is helpful for those who have to make decisions and plans about businesses, as well as those who want to control its businesses (Jones 2006). Accountants require to the standard that can guide them in preparing the GPFRs which include the important characteristics like understandability, reliability, relevance and comparability (Alexander & Britton 2004).
2. Conceptual Framework
The conceptual framework can be defined as the development of a consistent and coherent set of accounting principles that emphasize the presentation and preparation of financial reports (Jones 2006). Standard-setting bodies such as the UK's ASB (Accounting Standards Board), the US's FASB (Financial Accounting Standard Board), and the IASB (International Accounting Standards Board) have sought to build up a conceptual framework that would support accounting practice (Alexander & Britton 2004). The basic idea of a conceptual framework is to create a set of fundamental accounting principles which will help in standard setting (Jones 2006).
2.1 The development of the Conceptual Framework
There were four steps to develop the conceptual framework which taken by the AASB (See figure 1). Firstly, it was to define the scope of financial report. The second step was to define the reporting entity. This step means, to establish which type of entities should set up the GPFRs. Thirdly, it was to decide the objectives of GPFRs which establish the types of report, the users of financial reports, and the information needs that suitable for those needs. The last step was to describe the concepts of reporting processes as well as the qualitative characteristics of financial reporting.
Before that, the AASB (Australian Accounting Standards Broad) was developed four concepts statements which namely SACs (Statements of Accounting Concepts). On the other hand, the AASB was rejected its own part of framework as known as SAC 3 and SAC 4 in 2005 (Elliott & Elliott 2008). However, it still uses the SAC 1 and SAC 2 as component of concept statements which are more detail in the objective of financial report and the reporting entity than the IASB.
3. The Nature and Objectives of GPFRs
SAC 1 is about which entities are required to publish financial statements. Hence, SAC 1 interprets the reporting entity as a user that's obliged to prepare GPFRs for making economic decision (Hoggett & Edwards 1996). SAC 1 also aims to establish and interpret the concepts of the reporting entity, and to set a benchmark for the minimum standard required for financial reporting (Hoggett et al. 2009).
SAC 2 is about the objectives of GPFRs. SAC 2 needs to identify the users of GPFRs and the types of information which GPFRs should provide (Walker 2003). Furthermore, both of the FASB and the IASB broadly agree that the objective of financial reports is to prepare useful information which relevant and reliable to help the users or stakeholders to decide the allocation of its resources (Elliott & Elliott 2008). This objective is included in decision making model as illustrated in appendix figure 2.
In other word, the main idea of accounting is provide accounting information to users that fulfils their needs, thus enabling them to make decision (Jones 2006). Another objective of GPFRs is to present financial statements for evaluating the stewardship of managers (Alexander & Britton 2004). Stewardship can be defined as making individuals accountable for assets and liabilities (Jones 2006). In particular, stewardship focuses on the physical existence of assets and seeks to prevent their loss and fraud.
The main users are usually considered to be the present and future shareholders. Based on the IASB's Framework that adopted by the AASB, the users of GPFRs are investor, lenders, suppliers, government and other agencies, employees, customers and the last user is public (Hoggett & Edwards 1996). The first user is investors which need the information to help them to take decision about management and its investments (Elliott & Elliott 2008). For example, to help investors to decide whether to sell or buy, hold shares and measure the ability to pay those shares. Lenders use the information to establish whether its interest and loans would be paid on time (Hoggett et al. 2009).
Moreover, suppliers need the information to decide whether to sell to the entity and determine longer-term stability if the company is a major customer (Jones 2006). Employees need the information to assess the ability to provide remuneration, retirement benefits and employment opportunities (Elliott & Elliott 2008). Customers use the information to assess the stability of the continuance existence of the company (Elliott & Elliott 2008). Example, for future provision of servicing product warranties. Government and other agencies apply the information to be aware of the commercial activities of the company, and to produce national statistics (Alexander & Britton 2004). Furthermore, the last user is public. The members of the public apply the information to assess recent developments in the company's property and changers in its activities.
In order to be helpful to users, there are four principal characteristics which can classify into the relating to content (reliability and relevance) and the relating to presentation (understandability and comparability) (See figure 3). The reliability information is open from unbiased and material error (Jones 2006). Relevance in financial statements means the information needs to have the quality of relevance when it influences the economic decision of the users (Elliott & Elliott 2008). Understandability refers to the information which must be presented in a readily understandable way (Jones 2006). Even though, the comparability characteristic means that users can be informed of the accounting policies employed in the preparation of the financial reports, any changes in its policies and the effects of the changes (Alexander & Britton 2004).
In conclusion, a conceptual framework is created to help accountant to make a set of accounting principles that will help standard-setting. The essence of this is the objective of GPFRs is to provide financial information useful to a wide range of users for making economic decision (Jones 2006). In order to be helpful, the financial statements need to have the understandable, reliable, comparable, and relevant information. Therefore, the users or the shareholders have to know or understand about the objectives and the nature of GPFRs that listed in the conceptual framework. | <urn:uuid:ca340730-d5ac-4550-a7ef-1519b15aab52> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.ukessays.com/essays/accounting/the-impact-conceptual-framework-has-made-on-gpfrs-accounting-essay.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00464-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.937173 | 1,444 | 3.328125 | 3 |
Published: 27th November 2015
£1.65million for Brighton’s Volks Electric Railway
Volks Electric Railway, which runs for a mile along Brighton seafront, is to benefit from £1.65million Heritage Lottery Fund (HLF) grant. The grant has been awarded to Brighton & Hove City Council, which has owned the line since 1940.
Key elements of the project are:
Opened in 1883, the 2ft 8.5in gauge line it is the world’s oldest electric railway and the first public electric railway in Britain. Taken into council ownership in 1940 (it closed in 1939 when WW2 broke out and reopened in 1948) it is run by teams of council staff, with support from small team of volunteers who help with all aspects of railway maintenance and operation. The volunteers include broadcaster Nicholas Owen, who is a regular driver. The railway is supported by Volk’s Electric Railway Association (VERA). It is open to the public seven days a week between Easter and the end of September and attracts around 200,000 visitors a year.
The railway runs from Aquarium Station (next to Brighton Pier) with a stop at Paston Place to Black Rock Station near Brighton Marina. Its shed near Peter Pan’s Playground was erected between 1884 and 1886 and is currently unsafe to use.
“The Volk’s Railway is a much loved and integral part of our city’s history. The funding success announced today is recognition from the HLF of the importance of this fascinating Victorian attraction which is still so very popular today in the 21 century. We will put the funds to good use to maintain and improve the railway, creating an even better experience for future passengers while staying true to Volk’s vision,” commented Councillor Alan Robins, Deputy Chair of the city’s Economic Development and Culture Committee.
“We are delighted that, thanks to National Lottery players, we are able to support this exciting project. The importance of the Volk’s Railway as the world’s oldest electric railway is clear, and we are pleased that this project will help more people engage with this fascinating heritage,” observed Stuart McLeod, Head of HLF South East.
“After months of anticipation Volk’s Electric Railway Association is thrilled to receive this exciting news. The Heritage Lottery Fund grant will secure the future of Volk’s Electric Railway for generations to come and will provide visitors with a new heritage experience based around the legacy that Magnus Volk left to the city of Brighton and Hove. At long last, staff and volunteers will be able to operate the railway’s historic cars from a modern, well-equipped depot,” said Peter Williams, spokesperson for the Volk’s Electric Railway Association.
The Eskdale (Cumbria) Trust has secured a £488,700 Heritage Lottery Fund grant for its Renovation, Extension and Volunteer and Events programme. The project encompasses restoration and extension of the existing museum (itself recently refurbished) at the 15in gauge Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway’s Ravenglass station.
Key project features are:
The significant items which will have a permanent and secure home enabling their display to the public include 15in gauge 1912-built ‘Little Giant’ Synolda and reconstructed ex-Eaton Hall Railway 0-4-0T Katie, a 19th century coach from the lines 3ft gauge era, granite tubs and other items of stock.
New volunteer opportunities will become possible in restoration work and through interpretation roles within the extended museum, which hitherto has been a self-guided experience. A new museum website will tell the story of the railway and the Eskdale Valley online.
Ravenglass & Eskdale Railway - colloquially known as La'al Ratty - originally opened as a 3ft gauge railway, carrying its first goods traffic in May 1875 with passenger services following from November 1876. In 1915 conversion to 15in gauge commenced (covering Ravenglass to Muncaster Mill) with regauging of the full line completed in 1917.
“This is magnificent support from the Heritage Lottery Fund. We shall now be able, with additional assistance from the Preservation Society, to complete our development project, preserving the heritage of this much-loved railway and opening up new opportunities for visitors, volunteers and the local community,” commented Peter Hensman of the Eskdale (Cumbria) Trust.
“The museum extension will provide new insights into the rich history of the Ravenglass and Eskdale Railway and its interaction with the lives of those living in the local area since its arrival in the Western Lake District. It’s fascinating collections will now become more engaging and accessible, whilst new learning opportunities will enable the museum to attract a diverse range of visitors,” said Sara Hilton on behalf of HLF. | <urn:uuid:bd98bed6-a1f2-40ad-a7a3-7129677ac38f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.rail.co.uk/rail-news/2015/little-lines-land-lottery-lotty/ | 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 | 0.941517 | 1,017 | 1.789063 | 2 |
On Monday, President Obama suggested a tax break that will benefit America's wealthiest citizens -- as well as some of its poorest. He proposed that the Bush-era tax cuts, which are set to expire on January 1, 2013, be extended for a year for the first $250,000 of taxable income. As for the Bush-era cuts affecting taxable income over $250,000, he suggested that they be allowed to expire.
This isn't the first time that Obama has proposed this compromise; he has already proffered this suggestion twice in his presidency, and it has already been rejected twice. In both cases, opponents described Obama's proposal as "class warfare," and suggested that he was pitting the poor against the rich. And, as media outlets across the country have reported on Obama's most recent resurrection of the policy, the same old attacks have reared their head.
The odd thing is, as "class warfare" goes, Obama's proposal would actually give the wealthiest Americans a pretty solid tax break. Under the plan, a single filer making $250,000 a year or more would keep the $6,021.36 break that they got from President Bush's 2001 and 2003 tax cuts. On any taxable income over $250,000, Bush's breaks would expire and taxes would go up.
If Obama's proposal will benefit all taxpayers, why are reporters suggesting that it is only giving a cut to the middle class? In New York magazine, Dan Amira suggests that the problem lies with Obama. Facing a wealthy opponent, the president -- Amira argues -- is playing up the benefits for the middle class in an attempt to force Mitt Romney into a corner where he has to defend tax cuts for the rich.
Thanks Mitt and Newt: A Dozen Tax Tips for the Rest of Us
Obama's Tax Cut for the 1% (and Everyone Else, Too)
If you think Romney and Gingrich disagree about undocumented immigrants, their tax returns suggest that they're polar opposites when it comes to investing in municipal bonds to earn tax-free interest.
The former speaker's 2010 return shows he earned $10,754 of tax-free interest, compared to $26,655 of the taxable variety. Romney's forms show just $557 of tax-free interest and $3,295,727 of taxable interest income.
Remember, to figure the taxable-equivalent yield of a tax-free bond, divide the tax-free yield by 1 minus your marginal tax rate. Since Gingrich's marginal rate is 35%, a 3.5% tax-free yield is worth the same as a 5.38% taxable yield (3.5/0.65). Romney was hit by the alternative minimum tax in 2010, so his marginal rate was 28%. Avoiding a 28% tax makes a 3.5% tax-free rate equal to a 4.86% taxable yield (3.5/0.72).
When you buy your principal residence, points you pay to get your mortgage are fully deductible on your tax return for the year you close. When it comes to a second home (or a rental property or a refinancing), however, that cost must be amortized over the life of the loan -- 1/30th a year if you have a 30-year mortgage, for example. That can lead to relatively small -- and relatively easy-to-forget -- write offs.
But if you follow Gingrich's example, you won't miss this tax break. His return shows a $19 deduction for a portion of the $2,261 it cost him to refinance the mortgage on a rental property he owns in Whitehall, Wisc. Since the refi was in October, 2010, he got to write off one-fourth of 1/30th of the cost on that year's return.
Anyone planning a substantial charitable gift this year should take a page from Romney's playbook and consider donating appreciated securities rather than cash.
As long as you have owned the asset for more than a year, you get to deduct the full fair market value of the gift, not what you paid for it. (And neither you nor the charity ever has to pay tax on the appreciation that accrued while you owned the stock.)
Romney's 2010 return shows that he and his wife, Ann, donated $1,525,167 in cash and another $1,458,807 in non-cash gifts -- much of it appreciated stock in Domino's Pizza.
Even if you don't itemize deductions, you can write off alimony paid to an ex-spouse ... as long as you also include the ex's Social Security number so the IRScan make sure he or she reports the amount as taxable income. Gingrich fulfilled that requirement and deducted the $19,800 he paid his ex-wife in 2010.
Tax law allows you to deduct the loss on a stock that becomes worthless, treating it as though you sold it for $0 at the end of the year in which it lost all value. That appears to have happened to at least one of Mitt Romney's investments. His return shows a $63,511 loss on shares in an investment fund that were disposed of for $0.
The stock market meltdown of 2007-2009 was not kind to Mitt Romney. He suffered losses so serious that, even after wiping out all of his capital gains, he carried $4,844,089 of long-term losses over to his 2010 tax return.
Remember, losses are used to offset gains dollar for dollar, but then only $3,000 of excess loss can be deducted against other kinds of income such as salary or interest income. Any excess is carried over to the next year. On his 2010 return, Romney used nearly $5 million of such losses to offset gains that would have otherwise been taxed at 15%, saving him $726,613.
If you had carryover losses on your 2010 return (as the Gingriches did), be sure to revive them when you complete your Schedule D this spring.
Congress has created special rules for what it calls "passive activities," a group that includes most investments in real estate and limited-partnerships.
Basically, losses from such investments can only be deducted against gains from similar activities. There's an exception that allows up to $25,000 of loss from rental real estate to be deducted if you are "actively" involved in the rental.
We don't know if Gingrich is actively involved in the rental in Wisconsin, but even if he was, he would not have been permitted to deduct the $4,646 loss he reported. The $25,000 allowance gradually disappears as adjusted gross income moves between $100,000 and $150,000. With AGIof $3,142,066, Gingrich is out of luck. (He can stockpile the disallowed loss and deduct it when he sells the property.) By the way, the Romneys return shows that the passive loss rule blocked the deduction of over $2 million in losses from limited partnerships.
Plenty of politicians have gotten in trouble in the past for failing to pay Social Security taxes for their child-care providers and household help. For 2012, if you pay household help more than $1,800, you are required to file a Schedule H with your return and pay Social Security and Medicare taxes for your employee.
Both Romney and Gingrich included the form and paid the piper for their household help in 2010. Ann Romney reported that she paid four household employees a total of $20,603 in 2010 and paid $3,152 in taxes for them. Gingrich reported that he paid household help $14,774 and paid $2,260 in Social Security and Medicare tax.
The federal income tax is on a pay-as-you-earn system. If you don't pay in enough during the year -- via withholding from paychecks or estimated tax payments -- the IRSwill slap on an underpayment penalty. Generally, you avoid the penalty if your payments during the year are at least 90% of what you owe. Gingrich owed an extra $382,734 when he filed his $2010 return, 38% of his tax bill for the year. That triggered an underpayment penalty of $1,543.
The opposite side of the coin from the underpayment penalty is paying in too much doing the year. About 75% of all taxpayers are in this boat, and get tax refunds every spring. We think that's silly, and have a calculator to help you match withholding from your paychecks to what you'll owe for the year. Our calculator won't help Romney, though, since he has no wages from which to withhold. He overpays via quarterly estimated tax payments, and boy does he overpay! His 2010 return shows that he paid in $1,609,441 more than the $3,009,766 that he owed. He didn't ask for a refund, though. He let the IRSkeep the cash as a down payment on his 2011 tax bill.
For 2010, the 6.2% employee share of the Social Security tax applied to the first $106,800 of wages. (The wage base is $110,100 for 2012; the rate is 4.2% for January and February and will jump back to 6.2% if Congress fails to extend the payroll tax holiday.) If you work more than one job and your combined salary exceeds the wage base, too much tax will be withheld from your pay. That happened to one of the Gingriches in 2010, so they claimed a credit of $367 to reclaim the excess tax withheld.
A special rule allows qualifying self-employed workers to deduct 100% of their medical insurance premiums, even if they don't itemize deductions. That might have helped Romney, who reported that he paid $14,176 in self-employed health insurance premiums in 2010. But he didn't get the tax break. Rather than claim the special deduction, Romney reported the premiums as medical expense on Schedule A, where a deduction is allowed only to the extent such expenses exceed 7.5% of adjusted gross income. Romney's $14,176 of premiums fell well short of $1,623,488 (7.5% of his AGI).
Amira's theory is good, but there's another possibility. When discussing the tax code, most analysts and pundits -- not to mention average citizens -- focus on the highest rate that an individual pays. One rarely hears about the fact that everybody pays only 10% tax on their first $8,700, 15% on everything between $8,701 and $35,350, and so forth. In other words, a millionaire pays the exact same amount in taxes on that piece of their income as someone who makes $35,350 per year...or $85,000, or $150,000. (Before deductions, of course.)
It's not hard to see why tax issues are drawn along wealth lines -- after all, creating barriers between the rich and the middle class makes for good headlines and hot political battles. In truth, though, the line isn't between cutting taxes for the rich and cutting them for the middle class; it's between cutting taxes for the rich, and cutting taxes for the rich more. | <urn:uuid:427e61b5-c2f4-4f6e-ae38-6b638a865142> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.aol.com/article/2012/07/12/obamas-tax-cut-for-the-1-and-everyone-else-too/20276054/?gen=1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00033-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.975903 | 2,307 | 1.992188 | 2 |
The Handside Barn
Agricultural uses 1830 – 1940
A summary by Denys & Marion Wells, Barn Theatre Archivists for many years.
The occasion of recent Heritage Open Days, when the building itself, rather than its present occupants, was the centre of attention, gave us the opportunity to summarise what we know about the origins and uses of the great Barn at Handside, Welwyn Garden City. Many writers have given accounts of the history of the area, but even those who have written about the Handside Barn in detail have dealt mostly with the later period, after the foundation of Welwyn Garden City in 1919/20. We also include here a summary of the later years, but most of the new information we now have concerns the origin and uses of the building over its first century or so.
For the earlier period we have relied mainly on two primary sources of information, the archives of the Panshanger estate, which for at least a century owned the land on which the Barn stands, and the reminiscences and history of the Horn family, who farmed the area as tenants for some ninety years. Claire Calvete, a local student, in 1978 studied the Panshanger Estate Archives (Ref. 1) for part of her degree thesis (Ref. 2), a copy of which she kindly gave to the Barn Theatre. We have used some of her findings about the Handside Barn, and supplemented them with our own research in these archives, and with 19th century census details. There are no longer any members of the Horn family in this area, but past accounts given by some of them have been widely reported (Refs. 2,5,6): also James Horn, a descendant of the Handside family, now living in Australia, has given us more information about their family history (Ref. 4), both by correspondence and in person during his visit to Welwyn Garden City in June 2011.
Farming at Handside
The Handside farm area is roughly that between [using modem names] Bridge Road in the north, the River Lea in the south, Stanborough Lane in the southeast, and a lane through Dognell Green in the west. Between the latter lane and the (Great) North Road was Brickwall farm. Ownership of land, by individuals who had inherited land from early yeoman farmers, or by the estates of Hatfield, Panshanger and Brocket, was constantly changing in the early part of the 19th century, and it was as a result of these changes that the great barn came to be built on its present site. Though the detailed picture is complex and still incomplete, we can now broadly explain what happened, when, and why.
Upper and Lower Handside Farms
The names ‘Upper’ and ‘Lower’ were not always used consistently, but in general can be taken to refer to lands on the west and east sides respectively of Handside Lane. In 1799, Land Tax papers gave the occupiers as Edmund Fearnley at Upper, and Mrs Perkins at Lower Handside, each having about 240 acres: we know nothing of Mrs Perkins, but the Fearnley family were key to what happened some 30 years later. William Battell of Handside (from a family said to have farmed at Stanborough since 1468) had died in about 1723, and in 1786 some or all of his land (part freehold, part copyhold from the Manor of Hatfield) passed to his great-great-granddaughter Sarah, who had recently married her second husband, Edmund Fearnley, a farmer from Hatfield. We do not know exactly how much land Sarah inherited, but the Fearnleys owned and occupied a large area of Upper Handside in 1809, when the earliest Panshanger estate map was made: the estate records show that they also rented 233 acres of Upper Handside from Panshanger. Lower Handside (212 acres) was rented from Panshanger, and farmed, by Thomas Ephgrave.
The 1809 map shows the Handside area with a complex distribution of fields between the two farmers, plus some fields occupied by others: much of the area from about Applecroft Road/Attimore Road down to the River Lea was commonland, fanned by strip cultivation, with various occupiers intermingled (in 1723 the Battell land included some 64 acres of commonland, divided into 146 pieces!). The original 1809 map and survey did not record any barn at Lower Handside, but a barn and farmhouse had later been pencilled in on the map, to scale, on their present site.
The estate records show that Sarah Fearnley over the farm from her husband after his death in 1810, until her own death in 1828, after which both the Panshanger farms, Upper and Lower, were in the rent accounts as ’empty’. They continued empty until 1832, when Thomas Horn was shown as the tenant of a single Handside farm. From 1828 the Fearnleys’ son, also Edmund (who changed the family name to Feamley-Whittingstall) was actively rationalising his inherited land, by buying the freehold of his Hatfield copyhold land, and then exchanging fields, particularly those in the commonland, with the Panshanger estate. This Edmond was a businessman in Watford, not a farmer, so he rented his reorganised Upper Handside to a tenant farmer (the 1839 Tithe Apportionment survey records Henry Cox, probably Edmund’s cousin, as occupier of about 130 acres).
A second Panshanger estate map of 1833, as well as the 1839 Tithe map, shows the result of these land exchanges, including some (with the Hatfield and Brocket estates) at the margins of Handside, to tidy up the boundaries. The great barn, and a new farmhouse, are in place on their present sites, as the main house and barn of the unified Panshanger Handside farm.
All this confirms that the barn was erected on its present site in or about 1830. Claire Calvete (Ref. 2) found supporting evidence for this in the estate accounts for this period, with a very large bill for building work at Handside farm, the biggest single item being carpentry. As the new farmhouse was not a timber building, it is a reasonable assumption that most of the carpenters’ work was on building the timber barn, certainly a very big undertaking: they clearly made a good job of it, as it is still going strong 170 years later.
Origin of the Handside Barn
It is commonly stated (probably from information passed down through the Horn family) that the present barn in Handside Lane was originally built closer to Handside hamlet, possibly in the late 1600’s. Claire Calvete’s suggestion (Ref. 2), based on smaller-scale maps of 1810, that it had been the Upper Handside barn listed in the 1809 survey, now seems unlikely. It is obvious from the larger-scale 1809 map, where individual buildings were shown to scale, that the new barn, over 200 feet (60 metres) in length, was enormous in comparison with other buildings in the area – it seems to be bigger than the three Upper Handside buildings combined (all of which were anyway still in place on the 1833 map).
We respect the tradition that a 17th century barn was moved to Lower Handside from somewhere in the immediate area, but we still have no firm evidence to confirm this. It is possible that an old barn had previously been taken down and stored for future use, or it might have come from non-estate land in the area, so would not have been shown on the 1809 map. Another possibility is that the present building, with a distinct change in roof angle about halfway along the main structure, may be the result of combining two smaller barns. It is unlikely that a totally, or even partially, new structure would have been erected with this step in the roof, so maybe we should be looking for two previous sites, not one! Our searches of the Panshanger archive have not found anything relevant to this, so it is likely that we may never know the age or origin of the barn(s).
Handside Farm – the next 90 years
According to the Horn family history (Ref. 4), Thomas Horn (1771 — 1846) was a farmer from Bramfield, though his family were from Bedfordshire. He married Anne Cooper in 1797, and their son William Cooper Horn, born in 1810, moved to Handside in about 1830. William died at an early age in 1838, when his widow Mary Ann became tenant: their son William James Horn had been born in 1837.
Census records for 1841 show the farmer as Mary Horne, age 25, living with her son James, age 3, and her mother Anne Woodhouse. By 1851 Mary Ann Horn was head of a farm of 280 acres, with 13 labourers.
Edmund Fearnley-Whittingstall sold his Handside farm to the Panshanger estate in about 1858, and in 1860 William James Horn married Sarah Cox (second cousin to Edmund) and built a new farmhouse, Upper Handside, on the site of Edmund’s old Handside farmhouse. The 1861 census shows how the farms had grown. Mary Ann Horn and her mother were still at Lower Handside, which was now 300 acres, with 8 men and 12 boys: At Upper Handside William and Sarah had 130 acres, employing 5 men and 2 boys. In 1881 the whole family was living at Upper Handside, including Mary Ann (now aged 66).
In his 1976 reminiscences (Ref. 3) of the period just after the Great War, ie about 1919/20, William Harvey Cooper Horn (190 — 1987) said that by then the family farmed the two Handside farms and Brickwall farm as one unit. Old William James’, now over 80, and only recently retired, lived at Upper Handside with his son Jack and daughter Mildred, while at Brickwall were another son William Cooper Horn, his wife May and W.H.C. Horn himself, then aged about 18. Lower Handside farmhouse was occupied by the farm foreman Tom Lines and the head cowman, Fred Lines. The farm horses were stabled at Lower Handside, and the farm workers had to walk there from Lemsford each morning to start work. (1913 valuation survey map)
The pond and outbuildings of Handside Farm c.1920 By 1920 the total farm was 640 acres, mostly arable, with a herd of dairy shorthorns. The Horn family had become very prominent in the local community. William James became in 1889 one of the first County Aldermen in Hertfordshire, and was also a JP: he was very highly regarded for his agricultural expertise. His son William Cooper was a magistrate too, and later became Chairman of Welwyn Garden City Urban District Council.
The coming of Welwyn Garden City
Unlike some local farmers, the Horn family generally welcomed the foundation of the new town. They decided to continue until the remaining land became too small to be economic, after which they would retire from farming. In the event, the New Towns Trust, set up to promote new towns, based on co-operative or guild ideals of organisation, agreed with the Welwyn Garden City Company to set up model dairy farms to provide high quality pure milk for the new town, and agreed to take over the Horn family farms as part of the New Town Agricultural Guild.
The Guild had a Director of Agriculture, supported by an advisory committee. W.C. Horn was appointed to give expert advice to this committee, while his son W.H.C. Horn worked for the Director of Agriculture, in charge of dairying and arable. It was during this time, from about 1921 to 1926, that the Handside Barn was converted to a milking parlour and dairy: the cows were stalled and milked in the front part of the building, and the milk was processed and bottled in the rear part. The concrete silo, now such a prominent feature of the building, was put up in about 1922. W.H.C. Horn felt that the Guild experiment was not entirely successful, at a time when agriculture was in a difficult period, but whatever the reason, the dairy farm was closed in 1926. However, the Welwyn Department Store’s dairy department continued to use it as a bottling plant until the late 1930’s. By 1940 the dairy equipment had all been removed, and the rear part of the building was occupied by Welco, the social club of the Department Store.
The front part of the building was used by the Welwyn Garden City Company and the Store’s social club (some drama productions were presented), after the farm closed, until that part was converted to a theatre for use by amateur drama groups, in 1931/32. It seems that for a few years the dairy at the rear coexisted with the theatre in the front. In 1940 the building was requisitioned for military purposes: the resulting damage was such that the theatre had to be completely refurbished after the war, but that is the start of another story.
We wish to thank Claire Calvete for her work in the Panshanger archives, some of which we have included here, and James Horn in Australia, for sharing his family research with us. Our thanks also to Mrs Judy Faraday, Archivist of the John Lewis Partnership, for her help with information about the use of the Barn as a dairy for the Welwyn Department Store: also to Harry Stull, whose extensive written and photographic records of the Barn Theatre have for many years been an invaluable source of information about the building and its uses.
- Panshanger Estate Archives: in Hertfordshire Archives & Local Studies, County Hall, Hertford.
- ‘The Barn – from Fanning Hamlet to New Town Theatre’, by Claire Calvete: thesis for BA (Hons), Leicester Polytechnic, 1978.
- ‘Reminiscences of pre-Welwyn Garden City and Area’, by W.H.C. Horn: transcript of tape recording, August 1976 [Welwyn Garden City Local Studies Library, Pamphlet P942 – 58/WGC].
- Correspondence with James C.H. Horn, New South Wales, Australia, 1994.
- The Book of Welwyn’, by Richard Busby: Barracuda Books 1976 (ISBN 0 86023 023 6).
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A film telling the historic Ngoc Hoi-Dong Da victory titled Tay Son Hao Kiet (Tay Son heroic soldiers) produced by Ly Huynh Film Studio was recognized as the first historical movie with a large total investment capital of more than VND12 billion (US$600,000) in the country.
Actor Ly Hung ( King Quang Trung ) in the film Tay Son Hao Kiet
More than thousands of people, an elephant herd and numerous horses joined the film.
The film also received 10 certificates of merit from the Ho Chi Minh City People’s Committee to artists and producer.
Written by Huy Thanh who was honored with the noble title “People Artist”, Cao Duc Truong and famous writer Pham Thuy Nhan, the film tells the story of King Quang Trung and his Tay Son troop, in which they defeated 200,000 Chinese Qing soldiers in Ngoc Hoi-Dong Da, suburban area of Thang Long (an old name of Hanoi) in 1789. It is one of the nation’s most remarkable and remembered historical moments
The film star Ly Hung and Miss Vietnam Universal 2008 Thuy Lam played in the main roles of King Quang Trung and his wife Princess Le Ngoc Han of Le dynasty.
Princess Le Ngoc Han was a daughter of Le Hien Tong, a talented and beautiful woman who married the national hero Nguyen Hue when she was 16 years old. The marriage led to the peaceful unification of the central Tay Son and northern Le dynasties.
Nguyen Hue became Emperor Quang Trung in 1788 and passed away in 1792. Queen Ngoc Han followed him seven years later when she was just 29 years old.
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By MATT GOURAS
HELENA, Mont. (AP) - Montana Gov. Brian Schweitzer told downstream Missouri River states Friday that they are free to adjust their flood management plans as long as they leave his state out of it.
Schweitzer said the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers has indicated it will change its management plan if all the states along the river agree on the solution.
States hit with record flooding earlier this year want to lower upstream reservoirs so there is more room to control runoff. North Dakota has offered to reduce water levels in its reservoirs now so there is more space for flood water in the spring.
Schweitzer has resisted such a plan, arguing it could lead to empty reservoirs when drought hits - harming recreation, wildlife and agriculture.
The governor said Friday he would support the new plan as long as Montana reservoirs are excluded.
"They can run their dams based on their forecasting, and we will just extricate ourselves from their predictions," he said.
In a letter sent to the Army Corps and downstream governors, Schweitzer made some specific demands he argues will benefit Montana if the river's master management plan is changed. The corps did not immediately return a call seeking comment late Friday.
Schweitzer said Montana reservoirs could never be used to refill empty reservoirs downstream when water is scarce. And he said the dams in Montana would be allowed to always offer the higher discharges needed to prompt fish spawning.
The Democrat, revisiting a contentious debate from several years ago, also said the downstream states would have to drop their demands for more seasonal water to float barges.
"They've thrown an offer out there, and I've said, "Sure, I will agree with you under the following conditions,"' Schweitzer said. "Montana is not going to roll over like a fat dog so they can just scratch us on the belly. If they want to make some changes, I am going to make sure we get a fair shake out of this."
At a meeting earlier this month, Schweitzer sparred with his Republican counterparts over the matter.
The downstream governors, who have already been warned by federal officials that damage from this year's high water may make their states even more vulnerable next year, made it clear they want to make flood control the top management priority.
So far, $27.7 million has been set aside for repairs. The corps is waiting on funding by Congress for the rest. Early estimates have shown repairs could top $1 billion.
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The Kenyan government on Friday announced a raft of measures to maintain social distancing between people in a bid to contain the coronavirus pandemic.
Among the measures is that starting Monday next week, all bars, social places and entertainment joints will be closed at 7.30pm (East African Time) until further notice.
During operational hours, such facilities must define the number of people in those public spaces so as to strictly follow regulations on social distancing of 1.5 metres apart between persons.
The public transport vehicles have been directed to also implement the social distancing requirement where 14-seater vehicles (locally known as matatus in the East African nation) will be required to carry 8 people.
The 25-seater vehicles will henceforth ferry 14 passengers while those with a capacity of 30 persons will be required to transport 60 percent of their space.
Supermarkets have been encouraged to open doors to the public for 24 hours and request the government to provide security for their premises.
However their managements were directed to control the number of shoppers entering such places.This will be done based on the size of the supermarket. This regulation also applies to the eateries.
According to the Kenyan health minister Mutahi Kagwe, preferences should be accorded to the elderly, expectant mothers and People With Disabilities.
This even as such places were encouraged to come up with innovative ways to deliver services to their customers at home.
“Supermarkets and eateries also will be required to disinfect their premises regularly.This even as vegetable markets must ensure their goods are displayed at a raised platform,” the minister said.
Both private and public hospitals will effectively restrict the number of people visiting patients.
“The next two weeks are going to be critical in the fight against coronavirus pandemic.However the government is prepared for all the scenarios including the worst cases,” Kagwe added.
He revealed that a total of 44 people have been given a clean bill of health and were released from hospital after being in isolation for 14 days.
Additionally, he said the government is awaiting results on four patients admitted to Mbagathi Hospital, as one tested negative and is being prepared for discharge.
The seven who tested positive for the coronavirus are continuing with treatment but in stable condition he said.
According to the minister, authorities were forced to move in and pick an individual from the coastal parts of the country and who had disobeyed directive to self isolate after it emerged that he had entered the country from abroad.
The minister also said that no plane will be allowed to fly in people from the “pandemic epicenter” countries if they are not Kenyans or foreigners residing and with work permits in the country.
He said this week Kenyan authorities returned certain foreigners to their countries of origin and who had jetted in the country on-board Ethiopian Airlines and the national career Kenya Airways.
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Record Type: RIE
Publication Date: 1983
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Guidelines and Standards for Proprietary Schools.
Georgia State Board of Education, Atlanta.
As provided in the Georgia Proprietary School Act, this guide contains information on the laws, regulations, and standards applying to proprietary schools operating in Georgia. "Proprietary school" under the law means any business enterprise operated for profit for the purpose of training, preparing, or improving a person for business, trade, technical, or industrial occupation. Section 1 of the guide explains the regulations' statutory basis and provides definitions of terms, exemptions from the law (including private kindergartens, elementary, and high schools), and procedures for getting the required certification of approval from the State Superintendent of Schools. Section 2 sets out the minimum standards for proprietary schools, in the form of a lengthy chart on which are listed 30 categories of standards, a self-evaluation checklist, and notations of exhibits required to be submitted to the superintendent. The chart includes state standards for school policies and procedures; curriculum, instruction, and academic requirements; facilities and equipment; personnel; records and financial resources; and advertisement and representation. (RW)
Publication Type: Legal/Legislative/Regulatory Materials; Guides - Non-Classroom
Education Level: N/A
Authoring Institution: Georgia State Board of Education, Atlanta.
Identifiers: Georgia; State Regulation
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At a lower level of organization, infantry units commonly incorporate organic armour or artillery units to improve their combined arms capability. Organic assets are closely integrated into their parent unit's command structure and their personnel are familiar with other personnel in the parent unit, improving coordination and responsiveness and making the parent unit more self-sufficient.
However, over-emphasis of organic assets can create wasteful redundancy. For instance, an infantry unit assigned to urban peacekeeping duties might have little use for its organic artillery, while another unit deployed elsewhere might have less artillery support than it required. The question of how much to emphasise the use of organic assets, as opposed to coordination with separate units ('joint organization') is a subject of debate and heavily dependent on questions of command and control.
The core group of generic top-level domains consists of the com, info, net, and org domains. In addition, the domains biz, name, and pro are also considered generic; however, these are designated as restricted, because registrations within them require proof of eligibility within the guidelines set for each.
Historically, the group of generic top-level domains included domains, created in the early development of the domain name system, that are now sponsored by designated agencies or organizations and are restricted to specific types of registrants. Thus, domains edu, gov, int, and mil are now considered sponsored top-level domains, much like the themed top-level domains (e.g., jobs). The entire group of domains that do not have a geographic or country designation (see country-code top-level domain) is still often referred to by the term generic TLDs.
The Allmusic review by Mark Deming gave the album 3½ start stating: "Robert Earl Keen is an archetypal Texas singer/songwriter, someone who can mine both laughter and tragedy from life along the dusty margins of life in the Lone Star State... a comprehensive and well-programmed compilation offering a fully rounded introduction to his music would be more than welcome. However, 2007's Best isn't quite that album... If you're looking for a concise, career-spanning overview of Robert Earl Keen's long career in music, Best isn't as much help as you might wish, but the consistent quality is a sure convincer." | <urn:uuid:18a7b1af-c228-4f75-a181-1d94f77845e4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bestorganicgrowers.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00672.warc.gz | en | 0.95681 | 465 | 1.929688 | 2 |
The Boeing 787 Dreamliner has started it’s fatigue testing. The fatigue test frame might look like a crazy construction rig, but think of it more like a time machine.
The fatigue rig will put the Boeing 787 through 100,000 simulated flights, which is equivalent to about three times an expect life of the Dreamliner. The best part? It never has to leave the ground.
The fatigue test rig simulates every part of the flight. From the push back at the airport to the arrival at its destination. This process is called a ground-air-ground (GAG) cycle. Boeing has five different GAG cycles that put the aircraft through different simulations, ranging in duration and flight severity.
While the structural test program already has validated the strength of the airframe, fatigue testing looks at long-term, continued use. It allows Boeing engineers to see what will give over time and create inspection techniques for airlines.
“Every kid’s dream is to build something and then try to break it, right?,” asks Peter Brownlow, the fatigue testing conductor for the 787 program. “In essence, that’s what we’re doing. We take an airplane and we try to put it through its paces and try to break it at the end.”
To create this havoc, 100 mechanical devices have been connected to the exterior of the Dreamliner. Engineers in a control room use the devices to mimic actions the 787 will go through.
Boeing told me that they expect the fatigue testing to take about three years. Not bad. Too bad someone can’t earn any frequent flier miles for all those flights! | <urn:uuid:8d5186a4-555c-4e64-8b70-364d28ef87ae> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.airlinereporter.com/tag/fatigue-testing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570651.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20220807150925-20220807180925-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.922202 | 352 | 2.828125 | 3 |
Star Snail (Astraea sp.)
Phylum: Mollusca, Class: Gastropoda
Range: Tropical Seas
Size: 1 in. Space:: 1+ gal. Diet: Filamentous algae, diatoms
Reef Safe: Yes Care Level: Easy Temperament: Peaceful
Natural History: The Star Snail is an avid feeder on algae in rocky reef zones. It eats filamentous alga, cyanobacteria, and diatoms.
Husbandry: The Star Snail is commonly used to control nuisance algae in captivity. An aquarium with a healthy growth of algae is an excellent place for this snail. It will likely be attacked and killed by hermit crabs. It will only feed on algae. It cannot traverse sand so it should be provided a large section of live rock on which to move.
In Stock: 08/09/14, Yes
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NIST’s experiments show that Through-focus Scanning Optical Microscopy (TSOM) is able to detect tiny differences in 3-D shapes, revealing variations of less than 1 nanometer in size among objects less than 50 nm across. Last year, simulation studies at NIST indicated that TSOM should, in theory, be able to make such distinctions, and now the new measurements confirm it in practice.
“Up until this point, we had simulations that encouraged us to believe that TSOM could allow us to measure the 3-D shape of structures that are part of many modern computer chips, for example,” says NIST’s Ravi Attota, who played a major role in TSOM’s development. “Now, we have proof. The findings should be helpful to anyone involved in manufacturing devices at the nanoscale.”
NIST’s Ravi Attota shows how Through-Focus Scanning Optical Microscopy (TSOM) able to detect tiny differences in the 3-D shapes of computer chip components, revealing variations less than 1 nanometer (billionth of a meter) in size.
Attota and his co-author, Ron Dixson, first measured the size of a number of nanoscale objects using atomic force microscopy (AFM), which can determine size at the nanoscale to high accuracy. However, the great expense and relatively slow speed of AFM means that it is not a cost-effective option for checking the size of large numbers of objects, as is necessary for industrial quality control. TSOM, which uses optical microscopes, is far less restrictive—and allowed the scientists to make the sort of size distinctions a manufacturer would need to make to ensure nanoscale components are constructed properly.
Attota adds that TSOM can be used for 3-D shape analysis without needing complex optical simulations, making the process simple and usable even for low-cost nanomanufacturing applications. “Removing the need for these simulations is another way TSOM could reduce manufacturing costs,” he says. | <urn:uuid:344a47e2-c6f5-4906-9552-0c45838cfd73> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nanowerk.com/nanotechnology-news/newsid=37091.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00305-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942553 | 431 | 3.203125 | 3 |
Alfalfa & Broccoli Sprouts (100g)
Alfalfa has been shown to help lower cholesterol and may also have benefits for blood sugar management and relieving symptoms of menopause. People also take it because it contains antioxidants, as well as nutrients like vitamin K, copper, folate, and magnesium. Alfalfa is extremely low in calories.
- Weight: 100g
- Origin: UK
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- confessor (n.)
- late Old English, "one who avows his religion," especially in the face of danger, but does not suffer martyrdom, from Latin confessor, agent noun from confiteri (see confess). Meaning "one who hears confessions" is from mid-14c.; this properly would be Latin confessarius, but Latin confessor was being used in this sense from the 9th century.
Edward the Confessor (c.1003-1066, canonized 1161), last Anglo-Saxon king, was pious enough but does not seem to fit his title; perhaps so called to distinguish him from another Anglo-Saxon saint/king, Edward the Martyr, who does fit his. | <urn:uuid:635deb44-c13e-4da4-b730-e206b0ae2953> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?term=confessor&allowed_in_frame=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00189-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979115 | 151 | 3.546875 | 4 |
Susanne Posel, Contributor
Many oil-producing nations such as Saudi Arabia, the US, the UK, Japan and Kuwait have pledged $165 million to fund an initiative of the World Bank that will allegedly prop up countries that have been affected by manufactured Arab Spring uprisings.
Along with the approval of the UN, International Monetary Fund (IMF), the World Bank, the Islamic Development bank and the OPEC fund for International Development are supporting the partnership.
The IMF and the World Bank, at a meeting in Tokyo, focused talks on the Middle East and their economies of which recent Arab Springs have paved the way for globalist influence in the region. Kim Yong-Yim, newly appointed president of the World Bank remarked that these revolutions have allowed for the international community to refine their development of such areas.
In burgeoning nations, the World Bank and IMF have traditionally given loans to governments that would be impossible to repay. In exchange, the sovereignty of those nations is compromised as the World Bank demands repayment in natural resources. The succession of multinational corporations in those countries is evidence of the swindle the IMF and World Bank preformed along with the International Financing Institution that forces a grave reduction of governmental spending with the initiation of austerity against the people of those nations.
The World Bank defines “civil society” as being transformed by what they refer to as perfect opportunities to stabilize the economy of a nation in terms of bringing them to the whims of the international community by way of unpayable loans within a volatile revolutionary setting.
At a meeting held in 2011, the World Bank postulated on how “international financial institutions [can] facilitated citizen empowerment” by way of manufactured uprisings. Through the use of civilian armies protesting against their government, the World Bank sees grand schemes whereby they can manipulate the developing situation and implement public policies by coercion that suit their agenda.
As the IMF and World Bank continue to move under cover of an ignorant populace, their hand in the destabilization of nations goes unnoticed. In the countries they control through economic terrorism, it is abundantly clear how much influence they wield.
As fake revolutions continue to plague the Middle East, their ardent cry for “democracy” imbues the UN and other globalist entities to aid with seemingly friendly support of the transitions taking place.
In 2011, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper asserted that international aid to post-revolutionary countries should be facilitated by the central banks in those countries and announced at a G8 summit that Canada would not be directly offering “financial assistance” to those countries implanted with Arab Springs.
It is believed by globalists that Arab Springs are the “only bastions against extremism in the Arab World.”
The World Bank is focusing on controlling private sector development once these nations are toppled by internal uprisings. Once in those places of power, the international community can assess how a nation is able to hide their wealth and use international mandate to retrieve assets in off-shore accounts or trustee corporations.
The Arab Forum on Asset Recovery which was held on September 11th – 13th of this year, coalesced the Deauville Partners to speak under the organization of Qatar and the US Presidency of the G8 countries.
Through internal meetings held at specified intervals, the assets of nations in need of recovery will be decided based on intelligence provided by the Deauville Partnership in conjunction with Arab Countries in Transition.
In May at Camp David, the G8 Summit recognized the necessity of dealing with the Middle Eastern countries afflicted with Arab Springs and their commitment to maintaining control over their transitions into “democratic” governments so that their grip on natural resources would not falter under the blanket of nation building.
UN Secretary-General, Ban Ki-moon, has made Arab Springs his top priority and is committing the resources of the international community to moving these nations “toward democracy”. Ban said that he encourages the younger generation to rise up against their governments and expressed disappointment at the Occupy Movement for not being as effective as other manufactured revolutions.
Based on the Counterintelligence Program (COINTELPRO), the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) have been infiltrating, surveying, discrediting and disrupting domestic political organizations.
Some of the groups compromised by COINTELPRO are:
- The Southern Christian Leadership Conference
- Congress for Racial Equality
- American Indian Movement
- Students for a Democratic Society
- National Lawyers Guild
- Black Panthers
- The Weather Underground
There is also a long history of premeditated social unrest which is manufactured by governments to control the flow of “grassroots efforts” and engage in psychological operations against the general public.
The Occupy Wall Street Movement (OWS) began its career after the US government finished its hand in the Arab Springs that toppled governments in Egypt and other Middle Eastern nations. To make sure that OWS was successful, the CIA imported Ivan Marovic who was an integral component in creating and organizing the Egyptian citizens against their government. Marovic was placed in New York City to assist the burgeoning OWS and provide guidance.
Evidence of this can be found in the symbolism of OWS. Immediately the icon of the fist was adopted, which was a favorite of Marovic because of its effect on the psychology of the would-be protesters. Another technique of Marvoic is the “mic check” mind-control tricks of having the crowd mimic the words of the facilitator thereby inciting enthusiasm by escalating the momentum of the crowd.
At the most recent UN General Debate, UK Prime Minister David Cameron implored the UN to stay in its support of the Arab Spring movements and that given more time, the globalist definition of democracy would be installed. Supporting Cameron, European Council President Herman Van Rompuy explained that “achieving lasting change takes time.”
Susanne Posel is the Chief Editor of Occupy Corporatism. Our alternative news site is dedicated to reporting the news as it actually happens; not as it is spun by the corporately funded mainstream media. You can find us on our Facebook page. | <urn:uuid:0111717f-c639-4916-9340-35c0d976097a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.activistpost.com/2012/10/the-imf-and-world-bank-use-arab.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00321-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948438 | 1,239 | 2.140625 | 2 |
PORTLAND, Maine — Cleanups and calculations continued Tuesday after the Aug. 13 storm that dumped more than 6 inches of rain on the city.
City Hall spokeswoman Jessica Grondin on Monday said damage estimates were still being tabulated as the city considered whether it is eligible for disaster aid from the Federal Emergency Management Agency.
According to the National Weather Service in Gray, 6.43 inches of rain fell, with 4.2 inches falling between 9 and 11 p.m. The storm set a city rainfall record for the date, and became the fifth-wettest day in city history dating to 1871.
The storms ranked ahead of the Aug. 13 deluge were all related to tropical events, according to the NWS.
The waters inundated low-lying areas in Bayside and Parkside, and the pond at Deering Oaks Park flooded even though city crews lowered its level by a foot in anticipation of the storm.
Flowing water also caused washouts of curbs and sidewalks on High Street between York and Commercial streets. In Bayside, Marginal Way was swamped and customers at Whole Foods reported getting stranded in the store parking lot.
Municipal buildings including City Hall, Merrill Auditorium and the Traffic Division and Building Trades offices at 65 Hanover St. were flooded.
Grondin said the City Hall basement and the bathrooms, lobby, backstage area, rehearsal hall and dressing rooms at Merrill Auditorium were particularly messy, because storm water combined with sewage backups.
Crews worked through Wednesday night and Thursday morning to clean up Merrill Auditorium, and Sunday’s Jackson Browne concert went on as scheduled.
The rain also swamped city emergency dispatchers with 841 calls, Grondin said.
“That number is several hundred higher than a normal day,” she said.
High water displaced 13 manhole covers and led to evacuation of eight buildings, including the La Quinta Inn and Suites at 340 Park Ave.
Grondin said 200 guests were forced from the hotel. Cleanup continued this week, according to staff. On Aug. 15, water-damaged vehicles were still being removed from the parking lot, while crews swept away grit and debris.
Across the street at the J.P. Hood Dairy bottling plant, operations were relatively unaffected, although employee-owned vehicles parked on Park Avenue were damaged.
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There are currently ten impact areas at White Sands Missile Range (WSMR) which can be used for air to surface or surface to surface flight test missions. The impact areas are circular and range in diameter from 4,200ft to 10,000ft. The impact areas are grouped into three categories: Phase I Impact Areas, Live Payload (Phase II) Impact Areas, and Special Purpose Areas.
Phase I Impact Areas:
There are seven Phase I Impact Areas. These impact areas are used exclusively to test inert warheads which do not contain a high explosive charge and are used for dispensing of inert submunitions with only live detonators in the fusing system. The impact areas are free of vegetation to enhance the safety of the impact area.
Live Payload (Phase II) Impact Areas:
There are currently three Live Payload (Phase II) Impact Areas. These impact areas are designated as Warhead Impact Target (WIT) areas and are used for testing fully tactical high explosive warheads and for dispensing tactical configuration submunitions. Only visual analysis is allowed in these areas. Recovery of these submunitions is not allowed and dud submunitions are destroyed in place.
Special Purpose Areas:
A 40 foot drop tower is available in the WSMR "Denver" (Phase II) area. Extensive test beds located in the WSMR "Rhodes" (Phase II) area are used for explosive hazard classification tests such as static detonation, slow and fast cook-off, sympathetic detonation, and bullet impact tests. The ABC-1 Impact area is specially designed for testing target engagement capabilities of conventional and smart submunitions. The ABC-1 complex encompasses a 5,000 foot diameter cleared area, a racetrack, and a tank staging area. | <urn:uuid:db0bc67c-246a-47fc-9dde-569a6755c955> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.wsmr.army.mil/testcenter/tai/Pages/WeaponsImpact.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279189.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00062-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.906945 | 366 | 2.1875 | 2 |
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