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Birth injuries are devastating, and they can occur in a wide variety of ways. In some cases, birth injuries are nobody’s fault, and they occur as a result of uncontrollable variables related to the child or mother. However, there are times when birth injuries occur as a result of the careless or negligent actions of medical professionals. Here, we want to review some of the most common causes of birth injuries.
What Causes These Devastating Injuries?
Birth injuries are injuries that happen to a child before, during, or right after they have gone through the labor and delivery process. In some cases, birth injuries result in temporary symptoms that are resolved within days or weeks, but there are times when birth injuries can be long-term or even permanent and affect a person’s entire life.
Maternal conditions that cause birth injuries
The health and physical condition of a mother directly impacts the child in her womb. Some of the ways that a maternal condition can impact the health of a child include:
- The mother’s pelvis being the wrong shape or size for delivery of the child. If the pelvis shape is not conducive to natural birth, then there is a potential that the child will have issues coming through the birth canal, which could lead to them twisting and reducing oxygen flow.
- Difficult labor and delivery process. Difficult labor could be caused by the fetus being in an awkward position or by the cervix not expanding as normal. Both of these conditions can lead to birth injuries.
- Prolonged labor. In general, longer labors are associated with a higher risk of birth injuries.
Infant conditions that cause birth injuries
There are conditions associated with the child that could directly lead to them sustaining birth injuries:
- Children weighing more than 8 pounds 13 ounces. Infants that are heavier will have more trouble going through the birth canal and be more susceptible to birth injuries.
- A child born before the 37th week of pregnancy. Premature babies have higher rates of birth injuries because their nervous and musculoskeletal systems have not fully developed.
- Abnormal positioning. When an infant is in an abnormal position, including breach positions, heads up positions, or buttocks first, they are more likely to sustain a birth injury.
External factors that cause birth injuries
There are also external factors aside from the mother and child that could lead to significant birth injuries. This includes:
- The doctor or gynecologist not properly monitoring a mother. The monitoring of a mother and child should begin early in the pregnancy and happen all the way through until after a child is delivered. Failing to adequately monitor a mother’s health and the health of the child in the womb is a dereliction of duty.
- Misuse of birth tools such as vacuums or forceps. Sometimes, a mother needs additional assistance to help deliver a child, but the misuse of working tools could lead to significant birth injuries.
- Failing to perform a C-section. There are times when a C-section should be performed, but if this decision is prolonged, it could lead to maternal and fetal distress. | <urn:uuid:4365521c-e437-4078-93f0-894d16b54884> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.branchlawfirm.com/common-causes-of-birth-injuries/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571150.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810070501-20220810100501-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.951179 | 644 | 2.96875 | 3 |
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“I took a day to search for God, And found Him not; but as I trod, By rocky ledge, through woods untamed, Just where one scarlet lily flamed, I saw His footprint in the sod”
William Bliss Carman
“Rama for you should mean the Path He trod, the ideal He held aloft, and the Ordinance He laid down. They are eternal and timeless.”
Sri Sathya Sai Baba
“When we are young we long to tread a way none have trod before”
William Butler Yeats
“The feet of the humblest may walk in the field Where the feet of the Holiest trod, This, then, is the marvel to mortals revealed.”
“He that makes himself dirt is trod on by the swine”
“Against her ankles as she trod The lucky buttercups did nod.”
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As most of us already know, flowers are extremely versatile and make perfect gifts for all occasions. However, have you ever wondered about the meaning behind certain types of flowers? That’s right – every flower has its unique symbolism that were derived from ancient myths and legends. Once you understand the language of flowers, picking the right flowers for any occasion will become a breeze. Keep reading to learn the spiritual meaning behind certain types of flowers, and the types of flowers that are suitable for specific occasions.
One of the most common flowers to represent love is the rose. It’s a symbol of romance and affection and is often the flower of choice when couples want to celebrate their relationship and the deep connection they share. While there are plenty of colours, the red variety is predominantly associated with love.
The Red Roses Bloom Box is a popular choice for couples who wish to celebrate their love. The dahlia is another flower that encompasses love and represents a lasting bond and commitment. Hence, it is one of the sought-after flower choices when it comes to assembling a bridal bouquet.
As a symbol of inner strength, it’s also suitable as a gift if your loved one is going through some challenges and needs encouragement.
Two flowers people generally favour for celebrations are peonies and daffodils. When it comes to the former, peonies are ideal for floral wedding arrangements and bridal bouquets. As a symbol of happy marriage and a lasting union, peonies are often the flower of choice for brides to walk down the aisle.
Daffodils signify hope and new beginnings. Whether someone just started a new job, welcomed a newborn in their home, or moved to a new location, this flower conveys your well wishes and good luck to your recipient.
If you wish to express your appreciation to a close friend, the yellow rose is a perfect option. It represents friendship and symbolises joy, which allows your recipient to know how happy you are to have them in your life.
Freesia is another option to consider if you’re looking to gift a flower hamper to a friend. Symbolising trust, friendship and thoughtfulness, it is an ideal flower choice if you want to show your support for a friend who is going through a difficult time.
Pink roses represent gratitude, appreciation and admiration. If you have someone you look up to or want to thank someone for something they helped you with, these are ideal.
Hydrangeas are another suitable option if you wish to convey your heartfelt sincerity and gratitude. Blue hydrangeas are often used to show gratitude, while pink hydrangeas are more commonly used to express sincere emotions and genuine feelings.
As a symbol of purity, innocence and sympathy, white lilies are the most popular choices when it comes to sending condolences to the bereaved. They also represent a rejuvenation of the soul, which is why they’re linked to the natural balance of life and death.
White and pink orchids are also suitable as sympathy flowers. As a representation of eternal love, it symbolises the everlasting love and affection for the departed one.
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Immortality by 2045? 3D Printers Are Reshaping Medicine… Electronic Pill, Future of Medicine?
Russian Tycoon Aims to Make Immortality a Reality Using Robots
A Russian multimillionaire is targeting the business community to raise money to fund a project that aims to make immortality a reality by 2045.
t may sound like something straight out of a science fiction novel, but 32-year-old Dmitry Itskov is seeking investors to fund research for technology that will make eternal life possible by transferring human consciousness in an artificial form to avatars (robotic bodies).
How 3D Printers Are Reshaping Medicine
Printing off a kidney or another human organ may sound like something out of a science fiction novel, but with the advancements in 3D printing technology, the idea may not be so far-fetched.
While 3D printing has been successfully used in the health care sector to make prosthetic limbs, custom hearing aids and dental fixtures, the technology is now being used to create more complex structures — particularly human tissue.
Electronic Pills May Be the Future of Medicine
Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University are working on edible electronic devices that can be taken to monitor people’s health and improve patient care.
“We are basically interested in electronically active medical devices that can perform some functions in the body and that can leave body in an innocuous way,” said Christopher Bettinger, an assistant professor in the biomedical engineering department at the university.
These electronic pills could perform functions like targeted drug delivery for certain types of cancer, stimulate damaged tissue, measure biomarkers or monitor gastric problems. But before these pills are actually possible, an edible power source is needed to charge the pills. That’s where Bettinger and his fellow researcher Jay Whitacre, a professor of materials science and engineering, come in. | <urn:uuid:2ac76a08-6773-4250-8e46-810e5ca25ce6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://investmentwatchblog.com/immortality-by-2045-3d-printers-are-reshaping-medicine-electronic-pill-future-of-medicine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280221.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00233-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.91877 | 378 | 2.140625 | 2 |
Punk has been difficult to define since its inception. Even its exact D.O.B. is up for debate. Who were the first “punk bands”? What’s the qualifying criteria? Obviously there are artists like The Kinks and The Sonics, who uncontrovertibly displayed punk characteristics long before the genre itself was coined, and in 1969, years before punk’s germination, The MC5 were performing with unbridled intensity very few bona fide punk bands have rivaled. It seems safe to say that in 1977, “punk” simply referred to a new wave of intense, straightforward rock and roll, the way it was before the “dark days” (the era where disco, inane singer-songwriters and progressive rock reigned).
Ironically, the majority of “authentic” present-day punks are about as turgid and humorless as the Rick Wakemans and Greg Lakes the movement’s UK and American harbingers reviled. Punk is—or should be—a reclamation of rock and roll’s dumbshit idealogical and musical fundamentals, with an additional dollop of speed and irreverence for good measure. Anything else that calls itself punk rock arguably isn’t. Mean Jeans are the manifestation of this atemporal punk essence, then. They’re the genre’s savior. They’re fast, they’re nasty, and stupid as hell, and above all else, indelible. They consider themselves a “party” band, and the three members go by the Ramones-esque pseudonyms “Billy Jeans”, “Jeans Wilder”, and “Freak Daniels”. What more could you ask for? Mean Jeans are hedonist buddhas, and …on Mars is poppy-punk nirvana.
And like The Ramones—whose music markedly serves as a template for The ‘Jeans—there’s a bounty of unwitting lyrical and musical genius at the center of these songs. It took walking my soaking-wet, carless ass home in a tempestuous hail storm earlier this afternoon to realize that “School Lunch Victim” could be a subtle metaphor for the inequity in life. It probably isn’t, but the point is that these songs are more multidimensional than their titles suggest. And they’re catchier than you could possibly imagine. The vocal melodies are always the highlight, and even when the words are irredeemably dumb, the notes they’re pinned to are wonderful. Plus, the band might be more musically adept than they let on—calculated instances like the key change at the end of opening track “Ready 2 Rip” and the glockenspiel intro to “Anybody Out There?” set the band apart from mere Ramones imitators, but moments like these are rare and always appropriate.
The songs on ...on Mars simultaneously feel too short and just the right length, something the best pop songs have in common. A song like “Nite of the Creeps” for example, which clocks in at 1:21, feels decidedly complete in spite of its short length, and the nearly four-minute punk dirge “Don’t Stop Partying” goes by far too quickly. It’s that inarticulable ingredient that makes a pop tune so infectious, and what motivates repeated listens. Whatever it is, Mean Jeans have it down. Please don’t stop partying, guys.
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The question is somewhat specious: judging from the number of military occupying high government positions, judging how the armed forces behave, judging how they feel superior than anyone else and judging by how Chavez keeps seducing them with more and more goodies, this blogger has long ago made up his ming that this is a military regime, the ultimate one in that the army reached power without the need of a coup. But apparently with the enabling law decrees, we are now an official military regime.
Veneconomia editorial today reports the results of a seminary where one of the speakers was general Uson, famed political prisoner, now released under the condition that he never discusses his case and abstain of any press declaration. But in this symposium he did talk and explained to us that form now on, no matter who becomes president after Chavez, Chavez will still remain for all practical purposes the army chief. Of course, if the opposition were to elect a president soon Chavez would be stripped of any army role he might want to keep. But if Chavez cannot run for office and must settle for a Putin like arrangement, well, he could indeed retain full control of the army.
True, from the hypothesis to the reality there is quite a distance, but at the very least we an see that these decree laws were much more calculated and carefully worded than what some naive writers thought at first.
To simplify your life, the editorial in full below (link on the right side on the "daily reads" section).
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In any other country where independence of the branches of government exists, there is respect for the constitution, and the rule of law prevails, the highest court of the land would have already annulled any laws such as the 26 enacted in Venezuela via special presidential powers. But, as everyone knows, Venezuela with Chávez at the helm does not enjoy those bounties.
It is common knowledge that Hugo Chávez used the package of laws enacted under his special powers to get around the people’s rejection of his proposed communist constitution on December 2, 2007.
A first reading of the 26 decree laws so enacted reveals that Chávez has, to all intents and purposes, eliminated private property, truncated an endless number of civil freedoms and rights, wiped out decentralization, and created his own private army by giving legal status to the militia as the fifth component of the now “Bolivarian” National Armed Force, to name just a few of the many unconstitutional changes he has introduced.
However, if one does a more detailed analysis, as General Francisco Usón did at a VenEconomy seminar, it also becomes clear that, if these laws are not abolished by the Supreme Tribunal of Justice, Chávez will rise up as the country’s lifelong master. And don’t think that this is an exaggeration.
Article 6 of the new Organic Law of the Bolivarian National Armed Force (FANB after its initials in Spanish) is a new stratagem that grants the President of the Republic the military rank of “Commander-in-Chief,” with five stars included, and makes him the de facto “maximum hierarchical authority” not only of the FANB but of the entire country as well.
This article confers on him the authority to direct “the general development of operations, define and activate the area of conflict, theaters of operations, and strategic overall defense regions.”
What is more, Article 64 announces that “the character acquired with a rank or hierarchy is permanent” and that said rank or hierarchy “will only be lost by a firm sentence that carries with it the additional punishment of downgrading or expulsion from the FANB handed down by a court marshal.”
In case that is not clear enough, it means that Hugo Chávez will be able to continue as Commander-in-Chief for as long as he lives. And what is even worse, not even the election of a new president will relieve him of his powers, because, as anyone familiar with military lore knows, the first person to assume a rank will always have supremacy over those who come after him. In other words, the new president will be subordinate to Hugo Chávez in military matters.
In addition, Article 23 of this law grants the Commander-in-Chief the power to establish “strategic overall defense regions,” which will have their own Chief and Joint General Staff, both answerable to the Commander-in-Chief, and broad functions in matters of strategy, planning, and management and control of the nation’s defense.
To top it all, the civil authorities are now subordinate to the Commander-in-Chief when it comes to control over means and resources and their use in states of emergency or whenever such control is deemed necessary “in the interests of the defense of the nation.”
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GEORG SOLTI - IN REHEARSAL
Richard WAGNER: Tannhauser Overture - Rehearsal and Performance;
Hector BERLIOZ: Hungarian March from "La Damnation de Faust" - Rehearsal and Performance
Suddeutsches Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester, Georg Solti
NTSC 101 069
Running Time: 87 mins
Picture Format: 4:3
Sound: PCM Stereo
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Menu Languages: GB, D, F, SP
Subtitles: GB, F, SP
Conducted by Sir Georg Solti, widely regarded as the world's finest conductor, with more Grammy awards to his name than any other artist, these performances demonstrate his conducting skill and great interpretative vision.
These rare black and white recordings produced in 1966 and 1968, during his time as music director at Covent Garden, show how Solti's amiable but insistent leadership in rehearsal with the Suddeutsche Rundfunk Sinfonie Orchester Stuttgart turns Wagner's Tannhäuse Overture and Berlioz's Hungarian March into a sharpened and haunting performance. | <urn:uuid:6d09cfb0-74fa-4e02-ada7-0d72ad166bd0> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.naxos.com/catalogue/item.asp?item_code=101069 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988717783.68/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183837-00076-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.863724 | 254 | 1.5625 | 2 |
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This is the VOA Special English Technology Report.
An organization called the World Future Society publishes a yearly report about how technology, the economy and society are influencing the world. Tim Mack heads the World Future Society. He says medicine is one area of growth.
TIM MACK: “I was surprised by the enormous growth in medical technology.”
Mr. Mack says the fields of nanotechnology, biotechnology and information technology are working together to create new ways to help patients. These include better ways to provide medicine and identify disease without invasive operations.
Mr. Mack also says developments in artificial intelligence could lead to a future where disabled patients could be cared for by a voice-activated robot.
The World Future Society also publishes The Futurist magazine. Every year it examines developments in technology and other areas to predict the future. The magazine released the top ten predictions from the Outlook 2011 report.
Several of the predictions dealt with technology. The report said Internet search engines will soon include both text and spoken results. It said television broadcasts and other recordings could be gathered using programs developed by the Fraunhofer Institute for Intelligent Analysis.
Outlook 2011 also examined refuse collection. It said industrial nations will send much more waste to developing countries. This will cause protests in those countries. In about fifteen years, developing countries will stop accepting foreign waste. This will force industrial nations to develop better waste-to-energy programs and recycling technologies.
The report also had a prediction about education. It said young people use technologies for socializing as well as working and learning. So they solve problems more as teams instead of competing. In this way, social networking is supporting different kinds of learning outside the classroom.
The World Future Society also predicts that robots will be able to carry out mental commands from human beings. Scientists have shown that individuals can type by using their brains without physically touching computer keyboards. In the near future, experts say brain e-mailing and “tweeting” will become more common.
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Friday, February 18, 2011
It crops up in our speech dozens of times every day, although it apparently means little. So how did the word "OK" conquer the world, asks Allan Metcalf.
"OK" is one of the most frequently used and recognised words in the world.
It is also one of the oddest expressions ever invented. But this oddity may in large measure account for its popularity.
It's odd-looking. It's a word that looks and sounds like an abbreviation, an acronym.
We generally spell it OK - the spelling okay is relatively recent, and still relatively rare - and we pronounce it not "ock" but by sounding the names of the letters O and K.
Visually, OK pairs the completely round O with the completely straight lines of K.
So both in speech and in writing OK stands out clearly, easily distinguished from other words, and yet it uses simple sounds that are familiar to a multitude of languages.
Almost every language has an O vowel, a K consonant, and an A vowel. So OK is a very distinctive combination of very familiar elements. And that's one reason it's so successful. OK stands apart.
Ordinarily a word so odd, so distinctive from others, wouldn't be allowed in a language to begin with. As a general rule, a language allows new words only when they resemble familiar ones.
Clever coinages may be laughed at and enjoyed, but hardly ever adopted by users of the language.
So it was in Boston, Massachusetts, USA, in the late 1830s, when newspaper editors enjoyed inventing fanciful abbreviations, like "WOOOFC" for "with one of our first citizens" and OW for "all right".
Needless to say, neither of these found a permanent place in the language. But they provided the unusual context that enabled the creation of OK.
On 23 March 1839, OK was introduced to the world on the second page of the Boston Morning Post, in the midst of a long paragraph, as "o.k. (all correct)".
How this weak joke survived at all, instead of vanishing like its counterparts, is a matter of lucky coincidence involving the American presidential election of 1840.
One candidate was nicknamed Old Kinderhook, and there was a false tale that a previous American president couldn't spell properly and thus would approve documents with an "OK", thinking it was the abbreviation for "all correct".
Within a decade, people began actually marking OK on documents and using OK on the telegraph to signal that all was well. So OK had found its niche, being easy to say or write and also distinctive enough to be clear.
But there was still only restricted use of OK. The misspelled abbreviation may have implied illiteracy to some, and OK was generally avoided in anything but business contexts, or in fictional dialogue by characters deemed to be rustic or illiterate.
Indeed, by and large American writers of fiction avoided OK altogether, even those like Mark Twain who freely used slang.
But in the 20th Century OK moved from margin to mainstream, gradually becoming a staple of nearly everyone's conversation, no longer looked on as illiterate or slang.
Its true origin was gradually forgotten. OK used such familiar sounds that speakers of other languages, hearing it, could rethink it as an expression or abbreviation in their own language.
Thus it was taken into the Choctaw Native American language, whose expression "okeh" meant something like "it is so".
US President Woodrow Wilson, early in the 20th Century, lent his prestige by marking okeh on documents he approved.
And soon OK was to find its place in many languages as a reminder of a familiar word or abbreviation.
But what makes OK so useful that we incorporate it into so many conversations?
It's not that it was needed to "fill a gap" in any language. Before 1839, English speakers had "yes", "good", "fine", "excellent", "satisfactory", and "all right".
What OK provided that the others did not was neutrality, a way to affirm or to express agreement without having to offer an opinion.
Consider this dialogue: "Let's meet again this afternoon."
Compare that with: "Let's meet again this afternoon."
Reply: "Wonderful!" or "If we must."
OK allows us to view a situation in simplest terms, just OK or not.
When someone falls down, the question is not "how well are you feeling?" but the more basic "are you OK?".
And any lingering stigma associated with OK is long since gone. Now OK is not out of place in the mouth of a US president like Barack Obama.
Speaking to schoolchildren in 2009 he said: "That's OK. Some of the most successful people in the world are the ones who've had the most failures."
The word would also easily slip from the mouth of a British prime minister like David Cameron.
And yet, despite its conquest of conversations the world over, there remain vast areas of language where OK is scarcely to be found.
You won't find OK in prepared speeches. Indeed, most formal speeches and reports are free of OK.
Modern English translations of the Bible remain almost entirely OK-free. Many a published book has not a single instance of OK.
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6. Plant Selection
Animals need plants for shelter, cover, and tactile stimulation (fig 45). Important for their needs is just that the plants survive and can – to some extent – be interacted with. Habitat simulation – re-creating the essence of a natural habitat – is, however, very important for the visitor experience. Animals should be presented as parts of specific, intricate, and unique ecosystems. An animal exhibit should be very specifically planted for the particular species it will house, to best meet the behavioral needs of the animal, as well as to maximize the message and identity of each exhibit.
Narrowly focusing the intended message of each exhibit, will help use the zoo’s limited space wisely. Rather than try to portray all the aspects of a diverse ecosystem, an animal exhibit can focus on that animal’s specific niche and attempt to draw attention to particular physical or behavioral features. A defined message is more easily learned and retained by the casual observer. The specific educational or conservational message required should serve as the basis for the portrayed setting and layout of the exhibit. Replicating a specific location and focusing interpretation on the local culture and problems, will have more impact than showing animals in a general scene and trying to explain everything about all the habitats they inhabit.
It is not important that gorilla exhibits in temperate zones cannot be faithfully planted with rainforest plants. What is important is that the essence of the gorilla’s natural habitat is conveyed. This can be done with hardy plants, as habitat replication depends more on the character, growth habit, arrangement, spacing, massing, and diversity of plants, rather than the actual species.
The secondary forests that gorillas inhabit generally consist of straight-trunked, high-branching trees, creating a broken canopy above (fig 46). A few taller trees may emerge from the canopy. Ground vegetation consists mostly of a carpet of herbaceous plants. There are few shrubs to create a middle story, other than that formed by a few tree saplings. Tall grasses are not abundant, with the exception of bamboo in wetter areas. Vines, lianas, and epiphytes abound (Weigel), covering any available surface (fig 47). Most current gorilla exhibits appear bare in comparison (fig 48).
Rainforest plants in Africa differ greatly from those in Asia and South America. Differing plant palettes can be used to distinguish different areas of the zoo, aiding in visitor orientation, as well as accurately portray natural ecosystems. African rainforest plants usually have large, whole leaves that are generally dark green in color. They rarely have variegated or toothed leaves. Leaves are usually waxy and shiny and often come to a point (drip-tip) at the end (Weigel). Trees are usually single-stemmed, smooth-barked and have grayish trunks (Cousins).
Leaves on African rainforest plants, then, resemble those of laurel (Prunus larocerasus) (Clousdley-Thompson). Laurel is an evergreen and outstanding plant. It is little used in primate exhibits, because it is known to be toxic. However, it used successfully in the chimpanzee exhibit at the Chester Zoo, where the animals do not eat the plants (Sparrow) (fig 49). A plant only becomes toxic when the animals ingest it. Often, animals are naturally deterred from toxic plants, due to their bitter taste, meaning that the plants grow lushly in the exhibit, undisturbed by the animals. There is variance among primate individuals and colonies in their use and eating of certain plant species. The risk of animal illness is a serious one, and very toxic plants that the animals have been known to ingest should be avoided, both in the enclosure and on the zoo grounds in general (should a leaf or branch reach the animals by means of wind or visitors trying to feed animals). However, a plant with desirable horticultural characteristics (such as large, lustrous, year-round leaves) that the animals will not eat and destroy, can benefit the exhibit greatly. It is worth experimenting with plants such as laurel and viburnum (the fibers on the leaves of which can cause skin irritation) (Turner), which have great simulating-capacity.
While few temperate-zone trees are truly high-branching, canopy-creating trees, there are many that have leaves that simulate African rainforest plants and also possess desirable growth characteristics. A brief list appears at the end of this article. Indoors, tropical plants from West Africa, or plants that mimic these, that endure low-light conditions should be used.
Needle evergreens do not represent the plant palette of a tropical rainforest. However, gorillas tend not to destroy them, and for the sake of maintaining a green landscape during the winter months, they may be useful – particularly at the back of the exhibit where they are not obvious to visitors, but will make a green backdrop (fig 50). Needle evergreens are generally not translucent, and are thus good when a severe visual screen is needed. Placed in the center of an exhibit, however, the animals may find them very good to hide behind from visitors.
Gorillas are large, heavy animals that move over the ground a great deal. It is important to prepare for soil compaction in their enclosures. A fast-draining soil should be used to minimize this, and, thus, plants that grow in well-drained soil, in addition to being somewhat compaction-tolerant, will fare best. Wear-resistant turf, as used on professional sports fields, or pervious substrates, as used in urban plantings and horse pastures, can even be employed in this realm (Jackson).
Exhibit soils are often high in salt content, due to animal feces, so salt-tolerant plants may fare better. Also, because chemical pesticides cannot be used in the zoo setting, plants that are pest-attracting are not ideal. However, in both visitor and animal areas, plants that attract native birds and butterflies can lead to a more stimulating environment and realistic depiction of an ecosystem. Fine-stemmed vines can be used along barriers in gorilla exhibits, as the animals are heavy enough to break them, should an animal try to escape by climbing the vines.
Because gorillas enjoy and benefit from handling plants, durability and fast growth are extremely desirable for plants that will be unprotected in the exhibit. Many plants that are often thought of as being “invasive” (such as Hops vine or Arundo), can be used effectively in animal spaces, as the animals will naturally control them. Plants that propagate through shoots or rhizomes may be able to regenerate quickly enough to avoid annihilation by the animals. This is helpful in deflecting costs that quickly add up when plants must be constantly replaced. Choosing plants that are durable and aggressive in their growth, over-planting them, and allowing them to be well-established before the animals have access to them will reduce maintenance and costs later on.
Some plants are affordable enough that they can be replaced often, including some tropical species that can be used as annuals. Bananas, papaya, taro, sweet potato, and gunnera will all add to the tropical atmosphere of the exhibit, and create a lush landscape during the summer months, as they will grow to extreme sizes in a matter of weeks. Bananas and papaya can be easily purchased from fruit suppliers and propagated in house, making them cost-effective solutions. Ideally, the plants could be over-wintered in a greenhouse (Jackson). Corn plants resemble some species of the tropical plant Dracena, are easily available, and can be used as browse. Giant rhubarb is used effectively in many gorilla exhibits, including the one at Paignton Zoo.
Another easily-available group of plants is the Aframomum family, or gingers. These make up a substantial part of gorillas’ diet in the wild (Cousins). Naturally, a group of gorillas would be found near Aframomum growths, adding a specific touch of reality to a gorilla exhibit. Ginger tubors can be bought at most (Jackson).
Plants can be used in the visitor space to break up views into the enclosure, however, where viewing is desired, plants that grow taller than .75 meters will block the view for children and people in wheelchairs. It is better to use plants of appropriate height, than to create excess maintenance caused by plantings that must be continuously cut back. Also, plants with messy fruits can create additional maintenance when planted near pathways.
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n2n looks like a lovely piece of technology.
It's basically a VPN system, but quite different from existing VPN technologies. Existing VPNs work by creating a point-to-point link between two systems, usually a personal computer on an untrusted, remote, and often frequently changing network - and a router which then routes or bridges traffic (depending on the layer the VPN operates on) to other VPN clients and/or a physical private network.
The usual configuration is that there's a network with some resources on it that can't be trusted to the open Internet - insecure file sharing or network management services, for example - with an access device connected both to that network and the public Internet, such that remote computers can connect to the access device via the Internet and thus be virtually and securely connected to the private network so they can access the resources therein as if they were physically plugged into it. All over an encrypted link that they need to authenticate to set up, keeping third parties from reading or injecting traffic.
But the conventional VPN approach doesn't work so well for more complex setups. I, for example, have two private networks with various servers and workstations on, an isolated server, and two roaming laptops. It would be nice if I could set up varying levels of trusted connectivity between the three; the isolated server should really appear to be local to the first private network, which could be done with a conventional VPN, except that a permanent connection would require the isolated server to try to set the VPN up on boot and, if it goes down due to network problems or the access server on the private network rebooting, retry the connection automatically. Likewise, I'd like some level of routing between the two private networks, with a bit of packet filtering to tailor the precise trust relationship; I'd have to choose one network's router to be the VPN server and the other the client, set up another auto-reconnecting VPN, and set up routing across it. Then have the laptops also connect to a VPN server on one of the private networks, or perhaps the isolated server, to then use routing across the VPN links between the two private networks in order to reach everything they should be able to.
In practice, I'd probably pick the best connected private network to be the hub, and run a VPN server on it, and have everything else connect to that. Traffic between a laptop and the other private network would go via the hub, causing double bandwidth consumption at the hub and increasing latency. If the hub goes down, the whole network is fragmented.
Plus, mainstream VPN protocols are a pain to configure and use, as they tend to use strange protocols like GRE.
But n2n is much better than all that.
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The N.C. House will again pursue legislation in 2013 to compensate state residents sterilized decades ago by a state-sanctioned board, House Speaker Thom Tillis says.
Tillis, the Mecklenburg County Republican expected to lead the 120-member House for two more years, said in an interview that the stripping of people’s ability to reproduce by the former N.C. Eugenics Board is akin to other “government takings,” such as people’s properties through eminent domain.
“To me, the Republican Party is all about opposing government takings,” said Tillis, who was outspoken in his support of payments for eugenics victims earlier this year. “I can’t imagine anything more demonstrative of an egregious government taking than one’s reproductive abilities.”
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$1 Billion of Historic Numismatic Treasures – North Denver Tribune.com
The public also can find out what their old coins and currency may be worth during the five-day show in the Colorado Convention Center.
“The World’s Fair of Money is a family-friendly, educational event sponsored by the Colorado Springs-based American Numismatic Association,” explained Jeff Garrett, president of the 25,000 member non-profit association.
“This year is the association’s 50th anniversary for our Colorado headquarters, and to celebrate we’ll be publicly displaying in Denver famous rare coins and bank notes from our money museum. Money is history you can hold in your hands, and there will be more than $1 billion of numismatic treasures on public display from spectacular ancient Greek coins to modern money,” said Garrett.
The United States Treasury Department Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the agency that prints all our paper money, will exhibit high denomination currency including $100,000 bills and $500 million Treasury Notes. There also will be daily demonstrations of a Civil War-era money printing press.
Among the special displays of extraordinary items from the American Numismatic Association Money Museum will be historic gold coins struck in Denver during the Colorado gold rush of the mid 1800’s and one of the five known, famous 1913 Liberty Head nickels that’s insured today for $3 million.
The museum display will also include examples of “funny money” — U.S. currency mistakenly printed with various errors, such as upside down or entirely missing serial numbers.
More than 500 dealers from across the United States, Europe, Asia and South America will be buying and selling rare coins, vintage paper money, medals, tokens and gold and silver ranging in price from $1 to more than $1 million. Many of the numismatic experts will provide free, informal appraisals of the public’s old coins and paper money.
Educational seminars and a children’s treasure trivia game will be offered during the show. Heritage Auctions of Dallas, Texas and Stack’s Bowers Galleries of Santa Ana, California will conduct public auctions of rare coins and paper money.
The World’s Fair of Money will be in Hall F of the Colorado Convention Center, 700 14th Street in Denver. The show will be open Tuesday, August 1, from 1:00 pm to 5:30 pm; Wednesday through Friday, August 2 through August 4, from 10:00 am to 5:30 pm, and on Saturday, August 5, from 10:00 am to 4:00 pm.
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As I have mentioned Agrippa's work has a general structure in which the first chapter introduces a topic and subsequent chapters develop it, thus the section on Occult Virtues:
Here is the general structure of Book One. If we make an index which first gives these broad categories and then when each of these main topic chapters is introduced create a sub-index for the other individual chapters, that might be a good way to organize the material.
One of the most important and misunderstood aspects of traditional magic is that of "Occult Virtues". Agrippa introduces them here:
Of the Occult vertues of Things
Developed in Chapters 10-21, of which chapters 10-14 are of critical importance.
In the Nineteenth Century when Magic was being revived there were not many people who really understood how Occult Virtues fit into the philosophy and worldview of the Renaissance. When I was first reading Agrippa's first Book back in 1972-74, these chapters were to have a very strong influence on me developing a totally different view of magic and its practice than I had developed from my reading of late Nineteenth and Twentieth Century authors.
First I would like to quote from Thomas Kuhn, the man whose book, The Structure of Scienfific Revolutions, introduced the concept of the paradigms and their shifts:
“...historians confront growing difficulties in distinguishing the ‘scientific’ component of past observations and beliefs from what their predecessors had readily labeled ‘error’ and ‘superstition.’ The more carefully they study, say, Aristotelian dynamics, phlogistic chemistry, or caloric thermodynamics, the more certain they feel that those once current views of nature were, as a whole neither less scientific nor more the product of human idiosyncrasy than those current today. If these out-of-date beliefs are to be called myths, then myths can be produced by the same sorts of methods and held for the same sorts of reasons that now lead to scientific knowledge. If on the other hand, they are to be called science, then science has included bodies of belief quite incompatible with the ones we hold today. Given these alternatives, the historian must choose the latter. Out-of-date theories are not in principle unscientific because they have been discarded.” (My emphasis, Thomas Kuhn, The Structure of Scientific Revolutions, p. 2)
After finishing his discussion of the elements with a discussion of the Virtues dependent upon the elements in Chapter 9, Agrippa introduces the Occult Virtues in the following way:
There are also other vertues in things, which are not from any Element, as to expell poyson [poison], to drive away the noxious vapours of Minerals, to attract Iron, or any thing else; and these vertues are a sequell of the species, and form of this or that thing; whence also they being little in quantity, are of great efficacy; which is not granted to any Elementary quality. For these vertues having much form, and litle matter, can do very much; but an Elementary vertue, because it hath more materiality, requires much matter for its acting. And they are called occult qualities, because their Causes lie hid, and mans intellect cannot in any way reach, and find them out. Wherefore Philosophers have attained to the greatest part of them by long experience, rather then by the search of reason . . . (Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book 1, Chapter 10)
to attract Iron: the attraction of iron to a lodestone was one of the primary illustrations of occult virtues, while we now explain this in a certain way, there is no rational reason why considering it also a manifestation of the "virtues" or "powers" inherent in lodestone and iron is not valid and an example of looking at things in the context of a different paradigm.
these vertues are a sequell of the species, and form of this or that thing: Though I was not completely familiar with Aristotle's Four Causes at this time, I was reading texts in alchemy in which Aristotelian terminology was used and in which the medicinal "virtue" of an herb could be viewed as the result of extracting its "form" through "spirit of wine", i.e. alcohol. I will examine the most important of these texts as I go along and this idea will make more sense after the second post in this series.
these vertues having much form, and litle matter, can do very much: It is a matter of learning to extract the virtue or power or to enhance the activity of the virtue through appropriate action. Again more in the next post.
they are called occult qualities, because their Causes lie hid, and mans intellect cannot in any way reach, and find them out. Wherefore Philosophers have attained to the greatest part of them by long experience, rather then by the search of reason: They are "occult" because hidden and unlike elemental virtues, which can be deduced from the qualities of the elements and the proportion of their compound, the occult or "hidden" virtues must be found out by experience.
Those who were following my discussion of Aristotle's Four causes may now realize why in a humorous response to Descartes criticism of Formal Causes I said:
their defenders admit that they are occult: Gosh, I wonder what this is leading to . . ., could it be Occult Philosophy?
Agrippa outlines the cosmological setting for this in Chapter 11:
Chap. xi. How Occult Vertues are infused into the severall kinds of things by Idea's, through the help of the Soul of the World, and rayes of the Stars: and what things abound most with this Vertue.
Platonists say that all inferiour bodies are exemplified by the superiour Ideas. Now they define an Idea to be a form, above bodies, souls, minds, and to be one, simple, pure, immutable, indivisible, incorporeal, and eternall: and that the nature of all Idea's is the same. Now they place Idea's in the first place in very goodness it self (i.e.) God, by way of cause; and that they are distinguished amongst themselves by some relative considerations only, least whatsoever is in the world, should be but one thing without any variety, and that they agree in essence, least God should be a compound substance. In the second place, they place them in the very intelligible it self (i.e.) in the Soul of the world, differing the one from the other by absolute forms, so that all the Idea's in God indeed are but one form: but in the Soul of the world they are many. They are placed in the minds of all other things, whether they be joyned to the body, or separated from the body, by a certain participation, and now by degrees are distinguished more, and more. They place them in nature, as certain small seed of forms infused by the Idea's, and lastly they place them in matter, as Shadows. Hereunto may be added, that in the Soul of the world there be as many Seminal Forms of things, as Idea's in the mind of God, by which forms she did in the Heavens above the Stars frame to her self shapes also, and stamped upon all these some properties; on these Stars therefore, shapes, and properties, all vertues of inferiour species, as also their properties do depend; so that every species hath its Celestiall shape, or figure that is sutable [suitable] to it from which also proceeds a wonderfull power of operating, which proper gift it receives from its own Idea, through the Seminal forms of the Soul of the world. For Idea's are not only essential causes of every species, but are also the causes of every vertue, (Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book 1, Chapter 11)
Platonists say that all inferiour bodies are exemplified by the superiour Ideas: At the top is "God" or "The One", depending on ones ontological commitments, the ideas as conceived of by Plato, are rooted in this one and then they exert an influence all the way down, through the forms as envisioned by Aristotle and into our world, where they manifest as the occult virtues or "hidden powers" of natural things. Ideas in this sense are active and creative powers, not mere abstractions present in our consciousness.
they define an Idea to be a form, above bodies, souls, minds, and to be one, simple, pure, immutable, indivisible, incorporeal, and eternall: On the highest level they are simple, but as they descend they mix with each other and become more complex.
they place Idea's in the first place in very goodness it self (i.e.) God: While Agrippa my mean God in a circa 1500 Roman Catholic sense, this is not to be confused with god as thought of by your local neighborhood fundamentalist yahoo and it can also be separated from any taint of Abrahamic revelation by being conceived of as Plotinus' One, or even the Dao.
In the second place, they place them in the very intelligible it self (i.e.) in the Soul of the world: Here they are on a lower level and are a part of the animating power of the Universe. It must be remembered that a Platonic world is a living soul, filled with souls, not a mechanical universe consisting of dead matter.
They place them in nature, as certain small seed of forms infused by the Idea's: Here we start to get closer to our own world and this idea of a seed of forms was to prove “fruitful” as I began to look at them as “seeds of power” which the Platonic Magician learned to cultivate, both in him or herself, but also in the external world.
For Idea's are not only essential causes of every species, but are also the causes of every vertue: This simply reaffirms what I said before, the causal efficacy of the “ideas” is manifest all the way down to our world, where they manifest as “power” that can be harvested and harnessed.
This cosmological structure going from ideas in the “Mind of God” to their manifestations as physical objects here on earth, is called “the Great Chain of Being" and was the fundamental idea of how the Cosmos functioned from the Hellenistic period to about 1800. Its History and development have been admirably chronicled by A. O. Lovejoy in his book of the same name, The Great Chain of Being.
For the moment skipping over chapter 12, we will quote from Chapter 13, where the Great Chain of Being is further examined:
Therefore Plato, and his Schollers [scholars] attribute these vertues to Idea's, the formers of things. But Avicen reduceth these kinds of operations to Intelligencies, Hermes to the Stars, Albertus to the specificall forms of things. And although these Authors seem to thwart one the other, yet none of them, if they be rightly understood, goes beside the truth: since all their sayings are the same in effect in most things. For God in the first place is the end, and begining of all Vertues, he gives the seal of the Idea's to his servants the Intelligencies; who as faithfull officers sign all things intrusted [entrusted] to them with an Ideall Vertue, the Heavens, and Stars, as instruments, disposing the matter in the mean while for the receiving of those forms which reside in Divine Majesty (as saith Plato in Timeus) and to be conveyed by Stars; and the Giver of forms distributes them by the Ministry of his Intelligencies, which he hath set as Rulers, and Controllers over his Works, to whom such a power is intrusted in things committed to them, that so all Vertues of Stones, Hearbs [herbs], Metals, and all other things may come from the Intelligencies, the Governours. The Form therefore, and Vertue of things comes first from the Idea's, then from the ruling, and governing Intelligencies, then from the aspects of the Heavens disposing, and lastly from the tempers of the Elements disposed, answering the influencies of the Heavens, by which the Elements themselves are ordered, or disposed.
There is therefore no other cause of the necessity of effects, then the connexion [connection] of all things with the first Cause, and their correspondency with those Divine patterns, and eternall Idea's, whence every thing hath its determinate, and particular place in the exemplary world, from whence it lives, and receives its originall being; And every vertue of Hearbs [herbs], Stones, Metals, Animals, Words, and Speeches,(Agrippa, Three Books of Occult Philosophy, Book 1, Chapter 13)
Therefore Plato, and his Schollers [scholars] attribute these vertues to Idea's, the formers of things.: Again affirming the causal power of the ideas.
The Form therefore, and Vertue of things comes first from the Idea's: The form in the Aristotelian sense is the idea manifesting as a "formal" cause.
There is therefore no other cause of the necessity of effects, then the connexion [connection] of all things with the first Cause, and their correspondency with those Divine patterns, and eternall Idea's, whence every thing hath its determinate, and particular place in the exemplary world: Again the Great Chain of Being. At the top is the One, which differentiates on down the Hierarchy to manifest in our world.
And every vertue of Hearbs [herbs], Stones, Metals, Animals, Words, and Speeches: It is noteworthy that Agrippa includes words and speeches as a potential manifestation of “hidden powers”. He ends his First Book on the subject of "Words, and Speeches" and then expands on it in later books.
These two sections are Agrippa's basic exposition of a cosmological structure that occurs in other places in the Three Books and is an important part of his “theory of the practice”, the base cosmic circuit board, you might say, of Platonic Engineering.
All cited references to Agrippa's Occult Philosophy are from Joseph Peterson's Twilight Grotto, a very useful site.
Edit: Changed humerous to humorous, the spelling being something of a bone of contention.
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Once the Lighting Tech heard this news he decided to declare his undying love for her. He came up with an elaborate “Will you marry me” proposal plan. Off he went. Poster’s in hand leaving the rest of the cast wiping down the set and hanging out costumes and trying to “hospital clean” every prop and the surrounding areas of the set.
Katie stood there. This was the moment. Things are falling apart. She was the producer/director. She was afraid. Only 15 days left before the show opens. Five more days after that is Christmas. Cast and crew were in process of leaving and closing for the night. When she heard a feather weight of sound.
The Snowflake effects finally were dropping on cue with the music. And the singers were finally singing as a group instead of individuals. So maybe, just maybe, things would work out after all. Still Katie waited. Listening. She stood thinking of her audience. The faintest light shone through the bottom of the curtain. Katie walked over(stage left) near the Mini Christmas Tree Village and sat on the mini stool and envisioned the set design and the cast. Her mind wandered back to eight months ago when she first approached the church board about this play/project.
Immediately it was rejected as too expensive. “Not a required event for the church this year”, said Chairperson Bailey. The other members shook their heads in total agreement. She felt defeated when she left the meeting. Then her phone rang and the New Pastor had asked if she would mind meeting with him and a small group of community leaders to see if funding could be garnered with church and community resources. She readily agreed.
After hanging up the phone, she smiled. This was the sign of hope she needed. Business and Community involvement was the main focus of any church. Her mind raced as she thought of designing audition announcements and seeing new faces in her production!
She remembered how she tried to hold on to her excitement as she contacted the Theater committee. She called Lucy first. Lucy who was the first to tell her not to hesitate. Lucy her dearest friend since 9th grade. Critique person of all her stories and plays. Saw this only as opportunity knocking. “You Go, Girl!” She exclaimed.
But as she stood on the stage her faith seemed halted.. This play is my future. My dream. My hope. “God, there has to be just one more word” to let me know everything will be allright.” “Please don’t be upset with me Father”.”help my unbelief”.
She sat and listened. Her mind raced with “to do” lists for everyone. Opening night was getting nearer. Lucy had teased her about Pastor Mack’s sudden interest in this production. They laughed together as they both said, “Such a wonderful, Man.” She like him. But she had to wait. Before the Mono outbreak everything was finally moving in the right direction. The Church had approved the additional funding. The countdown was on. But still Katie waited. She thought of how her Dad would pray before preaching. She began to bite her nails. Her knee jumped. She prayed again, “Help thou my unbelief”. She waited. Then she felt the shift in the air.
As the door opened slowly, the Janitor, Paul Haines startled her with his cough. When he saw her nervously sitting there. He said to her, “Young lady let go of your worries and just let God handled everything”. She stopped biting her nails and her knee stopped jumping as she stood. He smiled. Then helped Katie with her coat and reached upward to the back shelf to begin his work as she was leaving.
As she walked out the backstage doorway, she began to count away her worries and count in all the good things that were possible. She neared her car and Pastor Green was approaching with a smile. She tilted her head towards the stars and whispered.....three, two, one.
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Ohio Adds More Summer Food Program Sites
“People think of the summer as a time to relax and vacation,” said the Ohio Association of Foodbanks’ Executive Director Lisa Hamler-Fugitt. “When school’s closed for the school year, childhood hunger increases in our state.”
Hamler-Fugitt said one of the ways her organization is working to combat that problem is by increasing awareness of the federally-funded Summer Food Service Program, where kids can grab a bite to eat at various program sites. Each site is sponsored by a community organization, such as a school or a a city recreation department. There's more than 100 new sites this year, bringing the total to about 1,700 across Ohio.
Hamler-Fugitt said offering kids a chance to eat a nutritious meal when school’s out can be a lifesaver for low-income families.
“Communities know that childhood hunger is a significant problem for low-income families and their children,” she said. “It provides an opportunity to meet the most basic of all human needs, food.”
Out of the state's more than 633,000 students who received free or reduced-price meals every day while in school last year, only around 10 percent participated in the daily summer meal program, according to a report released by the Food Research and Action Center.
Hamler-Fugitt said she hopes the addition of both extra AmeriCorp staff members and the new food sites across the state will help to increase participation this summer.
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Since its founding in 1986, the National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS), has had the mandate to support full access to education and employment for post-secondary students and graduates with disabilities across Canada.
NEADS is a consumer-controlled, cross-disability charitable organization (corporation # 1007761975RR0001). We represent our constituents through specific projects, resources, research, publications and partnerships. NEADS is governed by a national Board of Directors representative of all of the provinces and territories.
Our work as an organization focuses on three core Strategic Program areas:
- Student debt reduction
- Student experience in class and on campus
- Student and graduate employment
The organization functions collaboratively with post-secondary stakeholders, other non-governmental organizations, employers, disability service providers (on college and university campuses) and communities that can improve opportunities in higher education and the labour market for persons with disabilities in Canada. NEADS also provides ongoing expert advice to Employment and Social Development Canada and provincial/territorial governments. We have been a stakeholder group of the Government of Canada’s National Advisory Group on Student Financial Assistance — Chaired by the Director General of the Canada Student Loans Program — since 1987. Our work includes promoting government programs and services that support higher education for Canadians with disabilities. The Association is a member organization of the Council of Canadians With Disabilities (CCD).
National Office Support and Services:
The Association effectively delivers a number of core programs. Our primary activities include: maintaining a comprehensive, unique Web site www.neads.ca and financial aid portal www.disabilityawards.ca; offering skill training resources relevant to students with disabilities in post-secondary education and employment; conducting relevant research on access to post-secondary education and employment opportunities; and, holding regular regional events across Canada to provide resources and skill development to students with disabilities. NEADS has also developed a feature rich Breaking It Down employment portal: http://breakingitdown.neads.ca/.
The Association provides information and referrals to hundreds of post-secondary students with disabilities through its national office. It also responds to requests for information and advice from: employers, provincial and federal government departments, service providers and faculty members/teachers on college and university campuses, the offices of federal members of parliament and provincial and territorial members of parliament/legislature, and other non-profit organizations.
NEADS National Student Awards Program
NEADS runs three scholarship programs as well as the AMI Robert Pearson Memorial Scholarship. These awards provide funding to students in all fields of study and are the only programs of their kind in the country that recognize the academic and community achievements of post-secondary students with disabilities. The NEADS National Student Awards Program supports disabled students, who often need additional financial assistance to be successful in their studies due in part to accommodating their needs in the campus setting.
You can read more about each scholarship on our website:
Donate now to help NEADS Continue Its Work on Behalf of Post-Secondary Students and Graduates with Disabilities
The National Educational Association of Disabled Students (NEADS) is a registered charity. Donations are tax deductible and you will receive a charitable tax receipt for 100% of your gift(s) to the National Educational Association of Disabled Students.
To minimize administrative costs, NEADS uses the services of CanadaHelps for our on-line donation transactions. Canada Helps is a secure and easy way to give. To donate to our organization through CanadaHelps.org please visit their website at: https://www.canadahelps.org/en/dn/344
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The New Formalism: Requiem for Tiered Scrutiny?
Calvin R. Massey
Univ of New Hampshire Law School
A by-product of Lawrence v. Texas and Grutter v. Bollinger is that the rationales employed by the Court contribute to the destabilization of tiered scrutiny. Ever since the New Deal revolution in constitutional law the Court has employed and refined tiered scrutiny to resolve two questions: 1) When should the presumption of validity that attaches to government action be reversed? and 2) How strong must be the proof offered by governments to justify the validity of actions that are presumptively invalid? The considerable superstructure created by courts in the service of this endeavor has become ever more complex and unwieldy, but Lawrence and Grutter suggest that this analytic structure is now subject to new and severe strain.
In striking down Texas's prohibition on private consensual sexual intimacies between adults of the same sex, the Court was unwilling to declare that consensual sex between adults is a fundamental liberty interest, or even that the ability to enter and maintain a consensual intimate relationship with another adult is a fundamental liberty interest. Instead, the Court declared that Texas had no legitimate interest in declaring its vision of morality. This rationale undervalues the very liberty that it purports to protect, undermines a host of laws and practices that represent widely held public values, and renders less coherent the entire enterprise of substantive due process.
In upholding under strict scrutiny the presumptively unconstitutional racially based admissions practices of the University of Michigan Law School, the Court in Grutter exhibited remarkable deference to the judgment of academic administrators and employed an unusually loose form of narrow tailoring. The result of this analytic mode is to call into question the meaning of strict scrutiny and raises questions about the differences between strict and intermediate scrutiny.
Taken together, Lawrence and Grutter suggest that the pigeonhole categories of tiered scrutiny are ill-defined, if not in danger of outright collapse. The Court must necessarily consider alternatives. Possible alternatives include a version of Justice Thurgood Marshall's sliding-scale analysis, a revived and stiffened version of tiered scrutiny, or invention of an entirely new analytical mode.
Number of Pages in PDF File: 71
Keywords: Constitutional law, judicial review, equal protection, due process
JEL Classification: H11, K19, K40
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We are acutely aware of being under the influence of many things: drugs, alcohol, jealousy, manipulative media, and racism. We fight to create awareness so we can move beyond the influences of these negative emotions and situations. Just as important as letting some things go, there is the importance of bringing new things toward us. One of the influences that we can and should embrace is joy. Being under the influence of joy has the ability to shift your focus and change the trajectory of your life.
How Can I Create Joy?
When you are in the midst of turmoil, uncertainty, pain or sadness, remember to be love in action -- and this includes forgiveness. In every dark moment there exists its opposite. Continue to hang on and know you have the strength within you to find joy. It is there -- I promise.
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The Clement Hancock Family
Even as a child I wondered at the strangest of the name of my grandfather, Little Berry Moody. The mystery of this names origin was only recently solved for me through the research of Wm. O. (Bill) Moody. Its origin entails a poignant and tragic part of our familys history as well as that of our nation's.
|Clement Hancock, Jr. and Temperance Jackson Hancock of Crawford
County, Georgia gave four of their five sons in defense of the Confederacy as well as a
grandson. At war's end there remained but one son & two grandsons to carry forth the
Hancock name from Clement's family. Thus in our family was perpetuated the tragedy that
befell so many Southerners during this bloody conflict.
John C. Hancock was the only son to survive the war. He served with Co. F, 57th Regiment,Ga. Volunteer Infantry as did his brother Wilborn. He surrendered with the command of General Joseph E. Johnston in Greensboro, NC on April 26, 1865. He returned to Crawford Co., married but never had children.
Henry H. Hancock and his younger brother, Thomas Jackson Hancock, joined Company C, 27th Regiment, Georgia Volunteer Infantry on September 10, 1861. Henry fell in battle on September 17, 1862 at the Battle of Sharpsburg (Antietam), Maryland and Thomas Jackson became ill with pneumonia in December 1864 while with the Army of Virginia. He was hospitalized in Richmond, died there on December 3, 1864 and is buried in Hollywood Cemetery in Richmond.
Henry's son, John H. upon turning 19 entered the same unit as his father, Co. C, 27th Regiment, Georgia Volunteers. He joined on February 22, 1864 as Henry H. Hancock, Jr. and was shown as "present" for duty as of April 30, 1864, then there is no further record of him. Where he died and where he is buried remains unknown.
Wilborn Hancock, Co. F, 57th Regiment,Ga. Volunteer Infantry was wounded in the
Battle of Vicksburg, Mississippi on July 4, 1863. Wilborn was hospitalized in Mississippi
and later moved to a hospital in Macon, Georgia. He never recovered from his injuries and
died in 1865 and is buried in the Clement Hancock family cemetery.
|Visit The Briar Patch site to learn more about this
Great Southern Tragedy.
|The Virtual CSA Purple Heart||Awarded to:
Little Berry Hancock
The Virtual CSA Purple Heart Website
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“…The Setantii were the ancient British inhabitants of the north west littoral of what is now modern-day Lancashire. Mentioned by Ptolemy in his second century geography of Britain (the earliest written record of their existence), they are thought to have been a sept or clan of the Brigantes tribe which dominated northern England throughout the Roman period. Later commentators also talk of the Segantii, a name referring it is claimed to “the dwellers in the country of water”. The tribe was defeated by the Romans in AD 71.
Sept of the Brigantes – The Setantii
Historical linguists suggest the nt element in Setantii confirms the tribe were indeed Brythonic Celts descended from the Iberian “beaker folk”. Certainly, the tribe appears to have been linked to Sétanta, the birth name of the British/Irish hero Cúchulain and meaning “he who knows the way”. His tribal centre was at Teamhair (Tara) in present-day County Louth. This in turn suggests that the Setantii may have been present on both the Ulster and Lancastrian seaboards of the Irish Sea and were a seafaring group (“dwellers in the country of water”).
This assumption is supported by Ptolemy’s observation that the tribe possessed the only pre-Roman port on the western coast of Britain at Portus Setantiorum. This port is now generally thought to have been situated off Rossall Point near present-day Fleetwood at the mouth of the River Wyre. The southernmost boundary of the Setantii tribal lands was Seteia, the Mersey River . Their territory is thought to have reached as far north as Borrow Beck, just south of Tebay, in southern Cumbria. A form of their Celtic tongue survived in this area until the twelfth century.
The ancient Irish epic Tain Bo Cuailnge records the history of Sétanta, son of the God Lug. At the age of seven, Sétanta inadvertently killed the watchdog of the smith Culann. He offered to take the dog’s place for a time and became known as Cúchulain, the Hound of Culann, ever after. Described as short and dark, his battle-frenzy was legendary. In his final battle, Cúchulain had himself strapped to a pillar so that he might die standing. Afterwards, his blood was scattered over the soil of Ireland.
There are also links to Welsh epic and Arthurian legend. In the Welsh epic of Culhwch and Olwen, Seithennin, the bard, is grandfather to Gwenwynwyn, generally identified as Gawain, Arthur’s First Fighter. Historians suggest this may indicate that the Setantii were among the first to resist the English invaders in the fifth century and that Gawain was the name under which the mediaeval descendants of the Setantii in England kept alive their collective tribal memory.
The involvement of the Setantii seems to be implied in Nennius’ account of the twelve battles of King Arthur. He points out that four of these battles took place on the banks of the River Dubglas (black water / blue-black water), now identified as the Douglas, a tributary of the Ribble, in southern Lancashire….”
Letters sent to the south of England by a Roman military commander in 81 AD are said to mention a tribe in the Morecambe/Heysham area called the Setantii, of a people known collectively as ‘Brigantes’, who painted themselves blue with woad and continually attacked the Roman encampment. The letters state that the ‘blue-painted savages’ worshipped the sun, and Druids were their priests…”
“…the similarity of these tales may indicate a common source, or even that Gawain is identical in origin with CuChulain as the tales about him may be indigenous to the north of England; in ancient times, the north-west of England contained a tribe called the Setantii, while the original name of CuChulain was Setanta. It may well have been that CuChulain was a Setantii hero with a reputation on both sides of the Irish sea, whose memory was kept alive under the name of Gawain by the medieval descendants of the Setantii in England. J. Matthews points out that the story of Gawain’s birth and his being set adrift in a cask parallels that of his brother Mordred and suggests that originally Gawain was Arthur’s son, who fathered him incestuously on his sister who, in the original story was Morgan. The adult Gawain became Morgan’s knight and his story is predated by the mythical tale of the Celtic god Mabon whose mother, Modron (earlier Matrona), is the prototype of Morgan. He also suggests that Galahad replaced Gawain as a Grail quester because of Gawain’s pagan associations. That Perceval similarly replaced Gawain was suggested earlier by J. L. Weston.
In some works, his strength waxes and wanes with the sun; in the most common form of this motif, his might triples by noon, but fades as the sun sets. His knowledge of herbs makes him a great healer, and he is credited with at least three children: Florence, Lovell, and Gingalain, the last of which is also called Libeaus Desconus or Le Bel Inconnu, the Fair Unknown. In later Welsh Arthurian literature, Gawain is considered synonymous with the native champion Gwalchmei…”
“… Agricola later sailed his 9th Legion into Morecambe Bay and after subjugating the troublesome local Celts and eliminating their Druidic priests (including, presumably, those in the Setantii stronghold of Heysham) he moved inland to fortify the hilltop settlement of Longovieus (Lancaster)…” | <urn:uuid:96189e34-57f5-4e65-81c1-c9adb27f6427> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://blindbrotherhod.wordpress.com/sept-of-the-brigantes-the-setantii/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00208-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97641 | 1,278 | 3.25 | 3 |
DML 1/72 Aichi Type 99 (Val) Dive Bomber Kit First Look
|Date of Review||July 2012||Manufacturer||DML|
|Subject||Aichi Type 99 (Val) Dive Bomber||Scale||1/72|
|Kit Number||5045||Primary Media||Styrene|
|Pros||Simple build, nice detailing||Cons||See text|
|Skill Level||Basic||MSRP (USD)||$40.95|
The Aichi D3A Type 99 dive bomber was the Imperial Japanese Navy's primary carrier-based dive-bomber during the early and mid years of World War 2. Code-named VAL by allied intelligence, the aircraft was developed from a 1936 requirement and entered service in 1940. The Val used a similar dive-brake system as their German counterpart, the JJu 87 Stuka, and a trapeze-based centerline bomb release to safely release the bomb clear of the propeller during a dive attack similar to most dive-bombers of the era including the Ju 87 and the SBD Dauntless.
The Val took part in most major naval air actions from Pearl Harbor through the end of the war. This one aircraft type was responsible for the destruction of more allied ships than any other axis aircraft even after it was replaced on carrier decks by the D4Y (Judy), the Val continued its attacks from shore stations right through the final stages as kamikazes.
DML has produced this very nice kit of the D3A in 1/72 scale. While certainly not the first kit of this subject in this scale (Airfix, Fujimi, Skymax, and others have released their own toolings of this aircraft), this it certainly one of the nicest I've seen to date. Molded in light gray styrene, the kit is presented on three parts trees plus one tree of clear parts. Among the features and options of this kit:
- Slide-molded cockpit tub
- One-piece lower wing makes dihedral easy
- Nice engine details
- Positionable outer wing panels (flight or folded)
- Positionable rudder
- Positionable ailerons
- Positionable elevators
- Choice of closed or open canopy arrangement
- Centerline bomb on trapeze
The kit has nice engraved surface detailing and easy assembly (the whole model is built in five steps) yet it has some nice options to work with in this scale including the positionable outer wing panels and two complete sets of canopies, one single piece for all-closed and a second in sections so you can position the canopies (front and rear) as you'd like them.
This kit has markings for eight examples, all participants in the Pearl Harbor attack:
- D3A, AI-256, No.2 acft, 22nd section, 1st Sqn, Akagi, Pearl Harbor, 1941
- D3A, BI-259, No.3 acft, 25th section, 2nd Sqn, Soryu, Pearl Harbor, 1941
- D3A, BI-214, No.2 acft, 26th section, 1st Sqn, Hiryu, Pearl Harbor, 1941
- D3A, EI-238, No.1 acft, 20th section, Command Sqn, Shokaku, Pearl Harbor, 1941
- D3A, EII-206, unidentified unit, Zuikaku, Pearl Harbor, 1941
- D3A, AI-201, No.1 acft, 25th section, 2nd Sqn, Akagi, Pearl Harbor, 1941
- D3A, AII-250, No.1 acft, 27th section, 3rd Sqn, Kaga, Pearl Harbor, 1941
- D3A, AI-251, No.1 acft, 21st section, 1st Sqn, Akagi, Pearl Harbor, 1941
The sheet provides the proper identification bands and markings for this attack group.
This looks to be one of the nicest releases of the D3A in this scale and while it will be an easy build straight out of the box, the AMS modeler can really have some fun with this kit.
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Injured animals are left homeless after country's only seal sanctuary destroyed
Published 17/02/2014 | 02:30
They have been bruised, battered and broken by the recent storms, and now critically injured baby seals have been left without a home.
The country's only seal sanctuary in Dingle, Co Kerry, last week became a casualty of Storm Darwin when it was totally destroyed by gale force winds.
Ally McMillan from the sanctuary said that this blow couldn't have come at a worse time for them at the centre, as the recent bad weather has left a large number of the defenceless mammals with serious injuries.
"There has definitely been an influx of more seals, and I would put that down to the storms," she said.
"We have seals coming in who are essentially being thrown off rocks, so they have experienced severe trauma, with broken bones and bruises," she said.
Many of the seals at sanctuary required surgery and there are currently four of the mammals in intensive care.
Unfortunately, many were beyond rescue.
"It's just been one thing after another for us this season. Winters are always tough.
"You usually get an average of 30 seals, and this season it has been over 45," the Australian woman said.
She has been running the centre with her partner Ciaran on a volunteer basis over the last number of years, and explained that the operation relies almost solely on money raised during the summer months.
They are currently operating the centre by themselves, due to financial constraints, and they were devastated when the strong winds destroyed the centre.
"We managed to patch up what we have temporarily. Our pools were broken and with the power outages the pumps weren't working.
"There are four seals in a critical state, so we have them inside where it is warm.
"We are just working with what we have got here for the minute," she said.
A campaign has been launched to raise the funds needed to repair the centre and Ally said that they have been "overwhelmed" by the support that they have received over the last number of days. | <urn:uuid:78e6ba35-f0a5-46b7-82de-886da14e1461> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.independent.ie/irish-news/injured-animals-are-left-homeless-after-countrys-only-seal-sanctuary-destroyed-30015446.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00182-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986498 | 437 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Poison, Sorcery (pharmakeia)
PHARMAKEIA (Pharmaceia) was the Naiad-nymph of a poisonous spring near the river Ilissos of Athens (southern Greece). She was a playmate of the maiden Oreithyia who was abducted from her spring by the north-wind Boreas.
ILISSOS (Plato Phaedrus 229)
PHARMACEIA (Pharmakeia), the nymph of a well with poisonous powers, near the river Ilissus, in Attica; she is described as a playmate of Oreithyia (Plat. Phaed. p. 229, c.; Timaeus, Ixr. Plat. s.v.).
Source: Dictionary of Greek and Roman Biography and Mythology.
CLASSICAL LITERATURE QUOTES
Plato, Phaedrus 229 (trans. Fowler) (Greek philosopher C4th B.C.) :
"Phaidros (Phaedrus) : I should like to know, Sokrates (Socrates), whether the place is not somewhere here at which Boreas (the North Wind) is said to have carried off Oreithyia from the banks of the Ilissos (Ilissus)? . . .
Sokrates : Oreithyia was playing with Pharmakeia (Pharmaceia), when a northern gust carried her over the neighbouring rocks; and this being the manner of her death, she was said to have been carried away by Boreas."
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Jean-Jacques Poucel is Associate Professor of French at Yale University where he teaches courses in modern and contemporary literature. He is the author of Jacques Roubaud and the Invention of Memory (UNC Press, 2006) and co-editor of Pereckonings: Reading Georges Perec (Yale French Studies 105). He is currently writing a study of French lyrical poetry from the early nineties to the present.
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Most Catholics will walk into a candlelight procession this weekend and be completely surprised by it. The Catholic Church blesses and lights candles every year on February 2nd. But because it rarely falls on a Sunday, this important feast has been virtually forgotten. What exactly are we celebrating?
You probably know the Feast of the Presentation as the Fourth Joyful Mystery of the Rosary. It commemorates the moment when Mary and Joseph brought baby Jesus to the Temple. He as greeted there by Simeon and Anna. You can read about it in Luke 2:22-40. The law required the purification of a mother 40 days after the birth of a male child (Leviticus 12:1-8). It also stipulated that the first-born belonged to the priests. A firstborn cow, sheep or goat would be sacrificed to God by the priest. God's law forbid the sacrifice of children and instead specified that the child be ransomed by a payment of money (see Exodus 13:11-16, Numbers 18:13-16). It is a reference to the 10th plague in Egypt, the death of the firstborn, that finally convinced Pharaoh to free the Israelites. We are also reminded of the sacrifice of Issac by Abraham.
St. Luke loves the Temple (his Gospel begins and ends in the Temple, and his symbol is the Ox, a sacrificial animal). The way he writes this moment, Jesus isn’t being redeemed but rather presented. The unseen God has been worshipped here for centuries. Now God himself, in the person of Jesus, is visiting his own temple. He comes in humble form as a little baby. However, his visit does not go unseen. Simeon and Anna are symbols of the whole Old Testament. They have grown old waiting for God’s promises to be fulfilled. And they have not been disappointed. Simeon declares: “My eyes have seen thy salvation which thou hast prepared in the presence of all peoples, a light for revelation to the Gentiles, and for glory to thy people Israel.” Remember how back at the beginning of Advent we were told to watch? Well these two old people are the only ones still watching. And they are rewarded with a vision of the Savior and Lord that all the people are waiting for.
A Light! That reminds us of Christmas and candles. So traditionally this feast is celebrated with a blessing and procession of candles, giving it its old English name of Candlemas. And that's probably why the blessing of throats for St. Blasé's feast day make use of blest candles (his feast is February 3rd). Apparently some old traditions connect this feast with its more popular name as Groundhog Day. It's also traditionally the day after which Christmas decorations must be removed. Why does this feast matter?
A Sparkler Send-off for the Christmas Season
A year ago I attended a cousin’s wedding. As the reception wore on, I got tired and planned to leave. People were telling me: “The sparkler sendoff is coming.” I didn’t know what they were talking about. The next day I saw a printed copy of the schedule. There, in black and white, was clearly listed: Sparkler Send Off. It was scheduled for just 15 minutes after I had left. The guests had all lit sparklers and the couple had walked through them on their way out to the car. The pictures on Facebook made it look pretty cool. I was sorry I missed it.
Have you noticed how the Christmas season ends strangely? Christmas music disappears from the radio basically on Christmas day. Some folks even throw out their trees that day. Most of us celebrate through New Years and then it’s back to work again. The Church keeps up her decorations until the Baptism of the Lord, but it feels out of place, as though Christmas is bleeding into Ordinary Time. Christmas needs a better ending. And this is why our ancestors celebrated Candlemas. We light candles one last time and celebrate the Light of the World being presented in the temple. It is a sparkler send-off for the Christmas season.
There are several things I love about this feast. First, it reminds us to never stop watching for Jesus. We lit one candle after another on the Advent wreath to prepare our hearts for the Light of Christ. God’s light has continued to grow brighter and brighter in the Christmas season. His light should fill our hearts, our homes, and our church. We should carry the light of Christ out into our dark world.
The next time that Mass will start with a procession will be the blessing and procession of palms on Palm Sunday. Then we will process with lit candles at the Easter Vigil. We spent the four(ish) weeks of Advent preparing for Christ. Now we have spent 40 days celebrating Christmas. This is similar to the way we will spend 40 days in Lenten fasting, followed by 50 days of Easter feasting. Candlemas is guaranteed to happen before Lent begins. It calls us back to Christmas, and forward to Easter. And frankly, it's just plain cool. Who doesn't like another excuse to party?
A Suggested Timeline for Your Christmas Celebrations Next Year
I’ll let you in on a little secret: I’ve been writing a book of meditations for the Advent and Christmas season. The book begins with the First Sunday of Advent and runs until February 2nd. The more I’ve worked on this book, the more convinced I am of the value of the Feast of the Presentation as a capstone to Christmas. I encourage you to plan for it in to your family’s celebrations. Here is a suggested timeline for Christmas next year:
- November 29, 1st Sunday of Advent: Light the first candle on your Advent wreath.
- December 6 (Sunday): Surprise! Treats for St. Nicholas Day!
- December 8 (Tuesday, holy day): Put up your Crèche (manger scene).
- Before December 17: Put up your Christmas tree. Decorate it, but don’t plug the lights in. Wait until the Light of the World is born.
- After attending Christmas Mass, put the Baby Jesus in the crèche and light up your Christmas tree. Change the candles in your Advent wreath to white.
- January 1 (holy day): Octave Day of Christmas; start the New Year with Mary.
- January 6 (Wednesday): Epiphany. Have a family party to bless your home with blest chalk. Afterwards you can take down the tree (if you want to) and the decorations but don’t take down the Advent wreath or the crèche.
- February 2: Feast of the Presentation. Have one last Christmas party! Light the candles on your wreath and have a family Candlemas procession to the crèche. Sing Christmas carols. Then put away any remaining Christmas decorations.
- PS: Buy your new purple-and-pink Advent candles after Christmas when they are on sale, and store them with your wreath so it's easy to get started next year.
The Ritual of the Blessing of Candles
Here's what happens at the Mass. The people should all be holding candles, which are then lit just before Mass begins. The people may gather in the back of church or in a gathering space where they can process into the church. After starting Mass with the sign of the cross and the greeting, the priest begins:
Dear brothers and sisters, forty days have passed since we celebrated the joyful feast of the Nativity of the Lord. Today is the blessed day when Jesus was presented in the Temple by Mary and Joseph. Outwardly he was fulfilling the Law, but in reality he was coming to meet his believing people. Prompted by the Holy Spirit, Simeon and Anna came to the Temple. Enlightened by the same Spirit, they recognized the Lord and confessed him with exultation. So let us also, gathered together by the Holy Spirit, proceed to the house of God to encounter Christ. There we shall find him and recognize him in the breaking of the bread, until he comes again, revealed in glory.
Then he blesses the candles:
Let us pray. O God, source and origin of all light, who on this day showed to the just man Simeon the Light for revelation to the Gentiles, we humbly ask that, in answer to your people’s prayers, you may be pleased to sanctify with your blessing ✠ these candles, which we are eager to carry in praise of your name, so that, treading the path of virtue, we may reach that light which never fails. Through Christ our Lord. Amen.
The priest says: Let us go in peace to meet the Lord.
Or he may say: Let us go forth in peace.
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What better way to celebrate National Reconciliation Week than with a popular bush tucker plant and recipe.
Back when I was in school, we were taught that Australian history began when Captain Cook “discovered” Australia. And celebrations of Indigenous culture were almost non-existent. Thank goodness things have changed!
Nowadays, we have a Welcome to Country ceremony at most official functions. Children are immersed in Indigenous culture from their pre-school days. And at school, Australian history begins long before 1770.
Bush tucker is becoming increasing popular and many of the plants are super easy for kids to grow. In this blog, we will highlight a bush tucker plant that you will probably have seen growing wild and thought it was just a weed. Continue reading
The weather has definitely turned chilly in many parts of Australia so now is the perfect time for kids to be planting some winter crops in the garden. Many people think that not a lot can be grown in winter however this is not necessarily the case. There are still plenty of great fruit and vegies that can be planted now that kids love. Continue reading | <urn:uuid:7e935e0f-fc02-4f66-92f3-f26244c71d2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://gardening4kids.com.au/tag/spinach/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.975723 | 228 | 2.375 | 2 |
A great alternative to garlic!
Never again pay expensive store prices for shallots! An Allium, like onions, garlic, and leeks, shallots are sweeter and more productive than onions, their subtle flavor making them a favorite of chefs. Shallots, which generally produce a reddish-brown bulb, are best planted in fall and can be grown much like garlic, as they require very little effort and space. From French to Dutch yellows and reds to larger frog-leg and bananas to organic varieties, shallots are many and delicious, bringing delicate, spicy flavor to any dish! | <urn:uuid:a0b4503e-e156-49c9-a482-0fb12d00d2a6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://parkseed.com/Category.aspx?sb=NAME&sd=DESC&c=shallot&ss=&pgnum=&filter= | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00346-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945933 | 122 | 1.765625 | 2 |
Note, this is part 2 of an 8 part series of the agile principles series. You can find part one here.
One of the most important things you can do is foster an environment, culture, and habit of collaboration. This is a key feature of whatever agile framework you chose to employ at your work. All of the procedures, ceremonies, and processes are built around the idea of collaboration.
Collaboration is how we can quickly find a solution to a problem. It doesn’t require technical expertise, or detailed knowledge about how to solve a problem. If you are on a team that may not have the most advanced technical knowledge, don’t worry. You still have value.
One of the things that helps in those situations is being a sounding board for other more technical people on the team. They can throw out technical solutions or talk through some implementation details, and in the middle of their sentence, they will either see the flaw in their idea, or will find a solution to their issue.
One thing to keep in mind is that collaboration is not linear. Collaborative efforts are more circular in nature. Often times we’ll jump from one subject to the next only to come back to the original subject later in the conversation. This is all fine.
The Agile Manifesto in review
To better understand how critical collaboration is, let’s take a look at the Agile Manifesto.
The third value states:
[We value] Customer collaboration [more] over contract negotiation
In addition to specifically calling out collaboration, the agile principles that support the four values of the agile manifesto give additional weight to the importance of collaboration.
The third value is supported by the principles of face-to-face communication (principle 5) and business and developers are to work together daily (principle 3) by telling us when and how to collaborate.
The original creators of the Agile Manifesto knew that for a company to be able to accommodate, adjust, and react to changes, the developers and business had to talk to each other. And not only did they have to talk to each other, they had to do it on a daily basis, in person.
The various agile frameworks out there capitalize on this principle by creating various meetings meant to facilitate this collaborative communication. In scrum, you have backlog refinement meetings, sprint review meetings, and daily stand ups where people are meant to discuss face to face about what the team is creating. Additionally, the scrum framework places a business person directly into the scrum team (the product owner).
Scrum isn’t alone in trying to enshrine the idea of collaboration. Collaboration is a key element in XP via the use of feedback loops. You will also find collaboration a key component in Acceptance Test Driven Development (ATDD), Pair Programming, Kanban, Lean, etc.
So, with that said, let’s take a look at how we can collaborate better.
All about Collaboration
The environment matters
The space where you work needs to be conducive to collaboration? This means that you can see the people that you work with. You are not farther than 30 feet apart (they are within earshot). You have rooms setup where you can easily gather and review code, product backlog items, designs with one another.Within the space that you work, you have business people apart of that space and team.
When it comes to communication, the environment matters. A good, collaborative environment isn’t the only factor to better communication, but is a principle contributing factor to enhanced communication.
Not only is the environment important, but how you communicate is also a factor.
There is a reason that face-to-face communication is specifically mentioned in the agile manifesto. Face-to-face communication is the richest form of communication than other forms of communication. Why? Because when you communicate directly to another person, you capture all of the non-verbal communication. Studies have shown that 80% of communication is all nonverbal. Other forms of communication are less effective because they don’t capture the full spectrum of communication that happens.
With collaboration, there is a scale of effectiveness. Two people at a whiteboard discussing various options to a problem are more effective than a requirements document gathered by one person and distributed for review by the development team. The reason for this is there is a give and take between two people discussing an issue that is not present with a requirements document.
In a requirements document, there can be a give and take of ideas and feedback but it spans over days, weeks, and possibly months. The give and take between two people at a white board happens in the moment rather than longer spans of time.
To see how this works better, let’s take a hypothetical situation:
Let’s say that there is a problem you and your team is working on. Now, let’s implement this rule: to get to the solution, there has to be 9 exchanges of ideas and feedback. If the team is discussing the problem at the whiteboard, how quickly will you get through the 9 exchanges to get to the solution? Relatively quick.
Now, changing the form of communication, if you sent a document for review by your team that would count as one exchange. You then get the document back with further clarifications. That is the second exchange. You make updates to the documents and send it back for further review, thus making the third exchange. This repeats until you reached the 9 exchanges to get to the solution. How long will it take to get to the possible solution? Obviously it depends on how quickly you can change the document, but it would be much longer in comparison to people to people talking in person at a whiteboard.
Trust matters too
One of the things that hamper collaboration is the idea of trust. When there is trust within the team, people can throw out ideas without stifling fear. When you have trust people are more creative and collaborative. Agendas are put away, posturing quits, and everyone gets down to the business of solving problems. How you harbor trust is a subject for another post. But, suffice it to say that when you are assessing your team, keep trust on your radar.
The Summation: Don’t just talk, collaborate.
You need to make sure the team is collaborating. Make sure that developers are not separated off in their cones of silence banging out code. Make sure that they reach out to one another so that they don’t build the wrong things. For the same reason, make sure the business staff is embedded in your team on a daily basis. The more collaboration that you do, the more effective your products will be. Collaboration can energize your team, provide additional motivation and get you over challenging hurdles. You will know when collaboration is happening. It’s not hard to miss.
Thanks for reading.
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Aggressive graphics power management
My current desktop PC has an RS790-based Radeon on-board graphics controller. It also has a Radeon X1900 plugged in. Playing with my Watts Up, I found that the system was (at idle!) drawing around 35W more power with the X1900 than with the on-board graphics.
This is clearly less than ideal.
Recent Radeons all support dynamic clock gating, a technology where the clocks to various bits of the chip are turned off when not in use. Unfortunately it seems that this is generally already enabled by the BIOS on most hardware, so playing with that didn't give me any power savings. Next I looked at Powerplay, the AMD technology for reducing clocks and voltages. It turns out that my desktop hardware doesn't provide any Powerplay tables, so no joy there either. What next?
Radeons all carry a ROM containing a bunch of tables and scripts written in a straightforward bytecode language called Atom. The idea is that OS-specific drivers can call the Atom tables to perform tasks that are hardware dependent, even without knowledge of the specific low-level nature of the hardware they're driving. You can use Atom to do several things, from card initialisation through mode setting to (crucially) setting the clock frequencies. Jerome Glisse wrote a small utility called Atomtools that lets you execute Atom scripts and set the core and RAM frequencies. Playing with this showed that it was possible to save the best part of 5W by underclocking the graphics core, and about the same again by reducing the memory clock. A total saving of 9-10W was pretty significant.
The main problem with reducing the memory clock was that doing it while the screen is being scanned out results in memory corruption, showing up as big ugly graphical artifacts on the screen. I'm a fan of doing power management as aggressively as possible, which means reclocking the memory whenever the system is idle. Turning the screen off to reclock the memory would avoid the graphical corruption but introduce irritating flicker, so that wasn't really an option. The next plan was to synchronise the memory reclocking to the vertical refresh interval, the period of time between the bottom of a frame and the top of the next frame being drawn. Unfortunately setting the memory frequency took somewhere between 2 and 20 milliseconds, far too long to finish inside that time period.
So. Just using Atom was clearly not going to be possible. The next step was to try writing the registers directly. Looking at the R500 register documentation showed that the MPLL_FUNC_CNTL register contained the PLL dividers for the memory clock. Simply smacking a new value in here would allow changing the frequency of the memory clock with a single register write. It even worked. Almost. I could change the frequency within small ranges, but going any further resulted in increasingly severe graphical corruption. Unlike the sort I got with the Atom approach to changing the frequency, this corruption manifested itself as a range of effects from shimmering on the screen down to blocks of image gradually disappearing in an impressively trippy (though somewhat disturbing) way.
Next step was to perform a register dump before and after changing the frequencies via Atom, and compare them to the registers I was programming. MC_ARB_RATIO_CLK_SEQ was consistently different, which is where things got interesting. The AMD docs helpfully describe this register as "Magic field, please use the excel programming guide. Sets the hclk/sclk ratio in the arbiter", about as helpful as being told that the register contents are defined by careful examination of a series of butterflies kept somewhere in Taiwan. Now what?
Back to Atomtools. Enabling debugging let me watch a dump of the Atom script as it ran. The relevant part of the dump is here. The most significant point was:
MOVE_REG @ 0xBC09
src: ID[0x0000+B39E].[31:0] -> 0xFF7FFF7F
dst: REG[0xFE16].[31:0] <- 0xFF7FFF7F
, showing that the value in question was being read out of a table in the video BIOS (ID[0x0000+B39E] indicating the base of the ROM plus 0xB39E). Looking further back showed that WS[0x40] contained a number that was used as an index into the table. Grepping the header files gave 0x40 as ATOM_WS_QUOTIENT, containing the quotient of a division operation immediately beforehand. Working back from there showed that the value was derived from a formula involving the divider frequencies of the memory PLL and the source PLL. Reimplementing that was trivial, and now I could program the same register values. Hurrah!
It didn't work, of course. These things never do. It looked like modifying this value didn't actually do anything unless the memory controller was reinitialised. Looking through the Atom dump showed that this was achieved by calling the MemoryDeviceInit script. Reimplementing this from scratch was one option, but it had a bunch of branches and frankly I'm lazy and that's why I work on this Linux stuff rather than getting a proper job. This particular script was fast, so there was no real reason to do it by hand instead of just using the interpreter. Timing showed that doing so could easily be done within the vblank interval. This time, it even worked.
I've done a proof of concept that involved wedging this into the Radeon DRM code with extreme prejudice, but it needs some rework. However, it demonstrates that it's possible to downclock the memory whenever the screen is idle without there being any observable screen flicker. Combine that with GPU downclocking and we can save about 10W without any noticable degradation in performance or output. Victory!
I gave the code to someone with an X1300 and it promptly corrupted their screen and locked their machine up. Oh well. Turns out that they have a different memory controller or some such madness.
So, obviously, there's more work to be done on this. I've put some test code here
. It's a small program that should be run as root. It should reprogram an Atom-based discrete graphics card to half its memory clock. Running it again will halve it again. I don't recommend doing that. You'll need to reboot to get the full clock back. This isn't vblank synced, so it may introduce some graphical corruption. If the corruption is static (ie, isn't moving or flickering) then that's fine. If it's moving then I (and/or the docs) suck and there's still work to be done. If your machine hangs then I'm interested in knowing what hardware you have and may have some further debugging code to be run. Unless you have an X1300, in which case it's known to break and what were you thinking running this code you crazy mad fool.
Once this is stable it shouldn't take long to integrate it into the DRM and X layers. I'm also trying to get hold of some mobile AMD hardware to test what impact we can have on laptops.
Shockingly enough, it's somewhat harder to underclock graphics memory on a shared memory system
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June 15, 2011 12:28:00 PM
The comments after articles on The Commercial Dispatch website sometimes feel like a virtual battlefield. Anonymous commentators hide in the bunkers, waiting to fire bullets about topics like the CVB or the public schools. When they do, a brigade of commentators defend or respond to the attacks with equal ferocity. The back and forth name calling, accusations, and challenges between the commentators can go on for days, and there''s rarely a peace accord.
Yet, I believe these anonymous battles can help improve the quality of local reporting in the Internet age.
The emergence of computers and the Internet has dramatically changed what has been a staple of American discourse for centuries, the printed newspaper.
The Internet has gone from being the new frontier for communication to a medium that permeates our lives. We have e-mails, instant messaging and social networking. Every interest, every topic, and the answer to every question is a Google search away.
Needless to say, the popularity of the Internet has resulted in a significant decrease in newspaper subscriptions. Across the country, newspapers have struggled to respond to this decrease. The free ethos of the Internet makes it difficult for newspapers to charge for online content, and, even the newspapers that charge a subscription fee are not able to remotely replace the lost revenue from the decline in print news.
This development has had negative side-effects on local reporting about municipal government. A recent study ordered by the Federal Communications Commission found that the reduction in revenue for newspapers has resulted in less money available for community papers to investigate and report about local government. The writer of the report, Steven Waldman, warned that this means the press is less of a watchdog and, as a result, local governments are less accountable to its citizens.
Newspapers can compensate for the decline in local reporting by emphasizing the interactive features available with the Internet. Unlike with print newspapers, readers can respond to online articles. They can instantaneously express their opinions about the statements and actions of local officials and comment on the accuracy or thoroughness of a reporter''s work. Other readers can respond to these comments and important, organic dialogue can take place.
The anonymity of most commentators allows people to make these comments without exposing their identity, and this can allow for sharper criticism and aggressive rhetoric. A few of my columns have been subjected to this. After reading "Cheering for Leondra and Omar," zenreaper, a regular commentator at the Dispatch website, called me a "disgrace to my race." (In all fairness, zenreaper has complimented subsequent columns.)
Despite this, the benefits from allowing anonymity far outweigh the negatives. In a small town like Columbus, opinions spread fast. People are more likely to know each other, and, if they don''t know each other, are more likely to have similar acquaintances or be familiar with a name. Therefore, it can be difficult to keep conversations and opinions confidential. Anonymity allows people to speak without worrying about subjecting themselves to animosity or revenge or breaking our tradition of Southern politeness.
Certainly, online commentary can''t completely replace local reporting. Local papers should take additional steps to use the interactive features of the Internet to replace traditional news, such as inviting bloggers to write on the website or creating online forums to question politicians. The trend towards reading news online will only increase in the decades to come as younger generations, folks who grow up reading news on a computer screen rather than in a paper, mature. The newspapers that realize people are becoming more accustomed to interacting with the news and effectively respond to this trend will prosper.
Scott Colom is a local attorney.
hope commented at 6/15/2011 2:30:00 PM:
Thank you for this article. This is an opportunity for me to present this comment without having to place it in the dispatch with my real name attached to it. If people find out who I am, they will want me to run for office, but I don't want to divert my time away from fishing and being with my family, and ofcourse working.
I just read that some lawmakers have filed a suit against President Obama because they think he abused the War Powers Act over Libya, by not getting their permission, although he has until june 17th. Also the House has voted to cut off all funding for Libya.
But if you lie like Bush, Rumsfeld, Cheney, Rove and many more, and go by the book with the lawmakers, you can fight a war until you run out of bullets, manpower, and money. The name of that one is IRAQ!
frank commented at 6/15/2011 5:17:00 PM:
A well written article Scott. In the "olden days" I always heard that the subscription price of a newspaper was set at a level to cover the cost of printing including the paper, ink, labor, etc. The actual profits were in the advertising sales. As papers move to the web, production costs go down and potentially circulation goes up. If done right, I think good newspapers will survive and even thrive long into the future. Like many other businesses, the survivors will be the ones that evolve with changing times. The interactive features the Dispatch have implemented are a sign that this paper is a survivor. As much as us evil commenters like to bash it, one must compliment the CD on their web efforts. Hey, I think they even pay attention and make changes every now and then even if the menu on the obit page is three generations behind the rest of the paper...
Hopeless for Mayor? NOT!
raider commented at 6/15/2011 11:12:00 PM:
Scott, this is an excellent article. I totally agree with you on the importance of anonymity of the commenters. The commenters truly bring a different and refreshing dimension to the paper. Opinion writers are forced to do some homework because they will be called out for any mis-statements.
Keep up the good work. I think your next story should be a more in-depth report on the FCC study. I believe the loss of revenue by newspapers has had a negative effect on in-depth investigations and reporting on complex issues and has turned news reporting into 30 second ads and sensationalized headlines.
melody commented at 6/16/2011 7:44:00 AM:
You gotta be kidding me. Hope thinks someone will ask him to run for office? What office would that be? Is there an office of Bush haters around somewhere? But wait, Obama has finally claimed to be the owner of our economy so there's no need for "blame Bush" demonizers anymore , so don't worry hope, no one will ask you to "run for office". If you are thinking about Obama asking you to join his pitiful administration, unless you are a huge donner to his campaign you don;t stand a chance. He loves to pay back those who give over 500k , naturally using our money. The shovel ready jobs he spoke of in the "stimulus" hand out acounted for 5 percent of the trillion dollars. The rest went to his big supporters. So you don't have a chance there and he just laughs about the whole thing, about making chumps out of the poor libs who were sucked into sending that 10-15 dollar donation to his campaign. What a disgrace --actually laughing in your face about making a fool of those who voted for him while believing his lies. Frank is right-you are hopeless---bless your heart
hope commented at 6/16/2011 10:03:00 AM:
@melody:To hate someone they must give you a reason. Here's one more Bush blunder. The Iraqi and U.S. governments have been unable to account for a substantial chunk of the billions of dollars in reconstruction aid the Bush administration literally airlifted into the country. Pentagon officials determined that one giant C-130 Hercules cargo plane could carry $2.4 billion in shrink-wrapped bricks of $100 bills. They sent an initial full plane load of cash, followed by 20 other flights to Iraq by May 2004 in a $12 billion haul that U.S. officials believe to be the biggest international cash airlift of all time. More than $6.6 billion became unaccounted for. And the Republicans claim President Obama and the Democrats are the big spenders.
Witnesses testified that millions of dollars were shoved into "gunnysacks" and disbursed to Iraqi contractors on pick-up trucks with little or no accounting by the U.S. government.
The Republican party broke our government and now we are being blackmailed by them with all of their propaganda.
(Deceivers and Liars)
gogetum commented at 6/16/2011 11:54:00 AM:
Might as well go fishing hope--the bush bash is a waste of your time. To help your argument in support of Obama why not try to come up with a positive accomplishment that Obama has done . I bet you won't be able to find any so you might as well go fishing. Hard to believe you have a job, if so when do you work? Looks like you will be under republican rule after next year so might stock up on the fish bait and plan on fishing a lot for the next 8 years to keep you from exploding . Obama is already talking like he's finished , sorta like the wee wee weener who is hanging it up today.
hope commented at 6/16/2011 12:08:00 PM:
@gogetum;just saw on the news that 64% of the people do not blame Obama for our bad economy.
newsjunkie commented at 6/18/2011 12:22:00 AM:
Scott, just to play the devil's advocate... it could be said that when we all have to sign our names to what we say, we will be sure to say exactly what we mean with much more tact and civility than when we do when we are anonymous. We do end up with several rumors, inuendos, and just plain rude personal remarks on these comment pages! I guess that's progress?
hope commented at 6/18/2011 11:05:00 AM:
@newsjunkie;Going Global;would you please forward your comments to FOX news, to the devil's advocate, Glenn Beck, and to the "flame thrower" Rush Limbaugh, with a lot of emphasis on "just plain rude personal remarks."
FOX had a guest speaker the other day explaining how to cut expenses on Medicare. He says you only need to get a colonoscopy every ten (10) years. What a nut! They must think people who listen to them are illiterate.
gogetum commented at 6/18/2011 2:49:00 PM:
Your neighbors would move if they new you were posting as "hope". The devils acvocate and newsjunkie are the same person, hope. You never watch fox news or glenn beck and you never listen to the rushmo. All you know about them is what msnbc feeds you, hope. Speaking of wasting our tax money, just look what the Obama clan is doing now, they are going on another vacation but this time to the mother land. Maybe they'll stay and not come back. they don't like it here anyhow so why not.
hope commented at 6/18/2011 3:41:00 PM:
@gogetum:Was probably watching FOX when you were posting your comment. This guest speaker was saying how much better off this country would be without trial lawyers. They even had their own audience and they would applaude every time he made a remark against the lawyers. Typical Republican network, against the people. FOX is a brainwashing network, with the people on there saying what the people who own 90% of the wealth, are telling them to say.
frank commented at 6/18/2011 4:35:00 PM:
Hopeless is getting a satellite dish so she can watch Keith Olbermann who was too corrupt even for MSNBC.
gogetum commented at 6/18/2011 4:38:00 PM:
If fox is a brainwashing network and you arn't brainwashed by it, you either don't watch it or you don't have a brain to wash. Which is it? Surely you have a brain so I think I was right in my previous post- all you know about it is what your liberal biased msnbc feeds you. Liberals have a tendency of putting both feets in mouths. By the way , you never did say where you work.
zenreaper commented at 6/18/2011 6:32:00 PM:
Gosh Scott, your are making me blush, LOL. Thanks for the shout out, and especially for the addition of the compliments I have posted about ya. Good to see we can disagree on TOPICS, but respect each other overall.
Hope, I think we should ALL follow the words of Obama. Not the Obama NOW, who thunmbs his nose at the War Powers Act, the then Senator Obama, who hammered Bush for violating the War Powers Act.
Of course, you little Obamaniacs are in a real quandry now, because regardless of the side you take, Obama was wrong on ONE of them.
hope commented at 6/18/2011 7:35:00 PM:
@zenreaper;Too bad they didn't vote to defund which ever war you're talking about, as they're talking about doing to Libya.
zenreaper commented at 6/18/2011 7:56:00 PM:
Gee Hope, they didn't defund it, because Bush took it in front of them, provided them with the intelligence HE had, from the CIA, MI5 and the Russian intelligence agency (this part I added to defuse what will INVARIABLY be said, that he LIED to them, which he did not). He made his case, and Congress APPROVED it. All congress is asking is for the same opportunity. But Obama is to IMPORTANT to be bothered by such things as the law and procedure.
hope commented at 6/20/2011 7:19:00 AM:
@gogetum;here's more brainwashing by FAUX. O'Reily was showing this T-shirt to his many viewers and selling it, that had printed on it Navy Seals 1, Bin Laden 0. But here's what they left off. Bin Laden attacked us on US soil, killing over 3,000 Americans. He caused us to go to war with Afghanistan for 10 years with no end in sight, at a cost of trillions of dollars and countless number of lives lost and injuries, and having to add more manpower and money to homeland security, just to mention a few. His intention from the start was to destroy us finanacially, and he may very well have accomplished that.
roscoe p. coltrain commented at 6/20/2011 12:36:00 PM:
Mr. Mayor, when are we going to see some movement on that ditch project you promised last month?
walter commented at 7/5/2011 1:08:00 PM:
Once more, Scott, you have written another very timely article and one that is right on point. CD had some very gifted writers already on staff, including a great publisher and editor. With you submitting periodic articles, like the ones you have compiled, The CD is a top-flight paper that others will find it impossible to surpass.
Columbus has always had residents and citizens who have bever been afraid to express their opinion. Thanks to you, we now have a forum that enbles us to post and also to receive feedback, whether the feedbck is pro or con.
KEEP ON KEEPING ON, SCOTT. WE READ YOU LOUD AND CLEAR
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Zanzibar Excursions, Zanzibar Island Tours
Tour to the North
This trip leads you through the Mangapwani cave which is a 30minute drive from Zanzibar town, upto 1911 the cave was a secret hideout from which the slaves were illegally led out to the sea through a secret passage and then transported by dhow after the official closure of the Slave Market in June 1873. The tour then proceeds to Nungwi in the North of Zanzibar which is an hours drive from the cave. Nungwi has crystal clear waters an excellent place for diving, snorkeling, swimming and sunbathing. As Zanzibar is a turtle conservation area you will be able to see the natural turtle aquarium here.In this tour we also take you to a site where local villagers build dhows and boats todate using traditional tools.
Sunset dhow cruise
This tour starts an hour before sunset, the guests are picked from their hotels and transferred to thee drop off point at the sea front, where the guests then board the dhow. The skilled crew on board take the dhow about 1 km away from the shore by means of an engine, once out in the sea the engine is shut off and during a tense moment the skillful crew put up the sail, when the sail is in favour of the wind, the guest can sit back and relax enjoying the peacefulness of the ocean, as the dhow glides through the water, you can watch the wonder of the fiery golden sun setting beyond the horizon (while savouring a glass of chilled wine) .
The drive from town to the South takes one hours. On your way you might get a chance to see the famous Red Colobus Monkeys of the Jozani Forest. Kizimkazi fishing village is the home of several schools of the bottle-nosed dolphins, here you are taken by boat out into the sea to view the dolphins and if lucky will be able to swim quite close to them as they are very friendly and playful, Kizimkazi is also the site of a 12th Century Mosque, the earliest evidence of Islam in East Africa.
Jozani Forest Tour
Jozani Forest lies 35kms South-East of Zanzibar Town with an area of about 1,000 hectares, it is a natural forest where long ago you could find leopards and antelopes. At present it is the habitat for the Red Colobus Monkeys (Colobus badius kirkii) and the Blue Sykes Monkey. The Red Colobus monkey is one of the most endangered and rarest species in the world, they are very friendly creatures and love to be photographed and can be viewed at close quarters by the help of your guide.
You may also get a glimpse of various butterflies, birds and snakes. Other interesting features suitable for tourist in this forest include the coastal evergreen bushland, mangroove forest, saline grassland and ground water forest, though these may require longer walks to reach.
Stone Town Tour
The city of Zanzibar is often referred to as Stone Town because of the coral stone used in the construction of many of the older buildings found along the narrow alleys ways. No visits to this exciting island is complete without a tour of this historic town. The three hour guided tour includes the city market, a century old Anglican Church of Christ, built on the site of the notorious slave trade in 1874; and some of the rooms where slaves were stashed before their sale. The tour also include the National Museum, Forodhani Gardens, the Arab Fort (circa 1700) and some interesting shops found along the narrow streets and walkways. The tour ends at Livingstone.
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Washington, July 9 : Scientists at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine have revealed that bluetongue virus (BTV) uses unique viral enzymes to replicate, which is key to the establishment of infection.
This understanding is significant because it may help scientists develop antiviral therapies to treat many human pathogens.
"Replication of the viral genome is the 'heart' of a virus. It is the key process that allows establishment of infection. Understanding the fundamental processes of how bluetongue virus initiates and sustains infection will help us determine the best way to prevent and control bluetongue disease," said Professor Polly Roy from the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine.
Bluetongue disease is transmitted to ruminant animals like cows when they are bitten by a midge carrying the virus.
The researchers say when bluetongue virus enters animal cells, infection is initiated through a process which requires a number of enzymes to work together.
They say that they could learn this with the aid of a range of research methods, including the use of genetically engineered proteins, and by looking at the 3D structure of the enzymes.
Now that the scientists know that it is possible to synthesise the structures that allow replication of the virus in the lab, they believe they will be able to examine the effects of viral mutations on replication.
Recently, a DNA-based system has been developed that will provide breakthrough experimental techniques of relevance to many viruses that infect humans and animals.
It will also pave the way for the development of a highly safe, and successful vaccine against bluetongue disease.
"Viruses depend on the cells they infect for certain functions that enable them to exist. This dependence limits the number of possible targets for the development of antiviral therapy. Bluetongue virus uses unique viral enzymes to replicate. At the Roy laboratory we have been using bluetongue as a model system to study detailed molecular processes for many years. This contributes to a better understanding of other similar RNA genome viruses, such as rotavirus, which are also responsible for a large burden of disease in humans," said Professor Roy.
"The knowledge accumulated through this work will have an impact on the fundamental understanding of the structure-function relationships underpinning bluetongue virus replication. It will also contribute to the understanding of viral replication in general and help us to understand the very essence of infection process of viruses. Understanding the fundamental biological processes of virus replication is the best route to achieving effective control of the diseases caused by the virus, in a way that is both clinically effective and safe," he added. | <urn:uuid:13457ef0-f599-45e0-ae05-a029441e2fba> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.oneindia.com/2008/07/09/bluetongue-virus-unique-viral-enzymes-replicate-1215594360.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00185-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.948027 | 534 | 3.796875 | 4 |
Now the astute reader might say, gee that is the same thing that has happened in business. No longer can you just be the best in your own small town, but rather competition has become global. This is true not only for manufacturing but even retailing. (EX. Wal Mart will very soon become a global retailer!)
Over the past century, the scale of sporting competition has increasingly moved from the local to the national and international stage. The great Brazilian soccer players no longer play in their home country, but for top teams in Europe. The best American talent plays there as well. Asian and European players now dot the landscape in American baseball, basketball, and hockey (should they ever get started again).
Change does come with this increased globalization. For instance, in the business world, less efficient businesses do go out of business and there is a shift in how the work force is allocated. Similarly, in sports some long standing rivalries are no longer played. Again quoting the SportsEconomist:
The consequence of this form of globalization is that traditional, local-based competition faces serious challenges. This scenario has been played out before. Competition in intercollegiate athletics has become competition not so much against your local or regional rivals, but competition to gain a share of attention on the national stage, in a national market. The result: conferenceThe analogy between sports and business does not end there however. In each some do not like the increased competing and the changes that are being forced onto participants. While thankfully we do not see terrorists trying to block large conferences, there are some protectionism that tries to block the move towards globalization.
expansion beyond a regional footprint has been the trend for the past thirty years or so.
European soccer has to come to grips with these forces as well. UEFA currently mandates that its member clubs compete in domestic competitions. This rule precludes countries like Ireland and Switzerland from generating enough supportAnd like protectionism in business, the loser is the consumer who no longer can watch the best players, but rather is entertained with watered down "local" competition.
to field a team that can compete with the best on the continent.
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Winning district teams have advanced to State Finals and World Finals.
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Our efforts include:
We perform an assessment of the materials and countries of origin in our raw material supply chain. The baseline for the assessment is the U.S. Department of Labor's (DoL's) 2010 report listing "goods from countries" that the Bureau of International Labor Affairs has reason to believe are produced by forced labor, child labor or both, in violation of international standards. The risk assessment results indicate we use a small number of materials listed in the DoL report. Through our Supplier Certification (described below), we are working to mitigate the risks for those sourced materials listed in the DoL report.
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We have a Supplier Code of Conduct (Code) which contains specific language regarding human rights and other workplace issues, as well as the right for us to perform human trafficking and slavery audits at any time. Beginning January 1, 2012, we will require our raw material suppliers with materials found on the DoL report to certify to our Code, or provide their own code of conduct that we must review and accept. We may decline to make future purchases from a supplier that does not certify to the Supplier Code of Conduct, or does not provide an acceptable version of their own code.
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Ukrainian President Viktor Yanukovych appears poised to regain his parliamentary majority after Sunday’s elections.
With about 70 percent of the ballots counted, the president’s Regions Party and his Communist allies have received about 48 percent of the vote. With the addition of deputies elected as independents, analysts say the president seems guaranteed to be able to forge a majority in Parliament.
Ukraine's parliamentary elections on Sunday drew attention from afar - the country rests between Europe and Russia - and were viewed by many as a mid-term litmus for President Viktor Yanukovych. A record 3,500 foreign observers came here to monitor the vote.
'A step backwards'
But European observers harshly criticized the campaign, which came halfway through Yanukovych’s five-year term.
Walburga Habsburg Douglas, observation mission leader for Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe (OSCE), said the vote was a backward step for the nation of 46-million people.
“Considering the abuse of power and the excessive role of money in this election, democratic progress appears to have reversed in Ukraine," Douglas told a packed press conference. "The October 28 parliamentary election was characterized by a lack of level playing field, lack of transparency, and a lack of balanced media coverage.”
Even with key party leader Yulia Tymoshenko in jail, European observers noted that her pro-Western Fatherland Party was receiving 23 percent of the vote. The other two opposition parties, UDAR led by a heavyweight boxing champion, was getting 13 percent, while Svoboda, a nationalist party, was drawing nine percent.
Two Sunday night exit polls gave the three opposition parties higher percentages, and the two governing parties lower percentages. The Central Election Commission has been criticized for refusing to publish detailed voting returns.
Audrey Glover, OSCE's long-term observation leader, criticized the vote-counting and the campaign.
"The competitive nature of the campaign was negatively affected by intimidation, violence and vote buying," she said.
Voter turnout was 58 percent, about six percent lower than the last parliamentary elections five years ago. Almost half of voters surveyed earlier this month said they feared fraud would be big enough to affect the outcome.
"Most worrying is the fact that the campaign was marred by abuse of administrative resources – blurring distinction between state and ruling party," Glover added.
Reflecting voter alienation, almost one-quarter of voters cast ballots for a radical party – for communists on the left or for the nationalist Svoboda, or Freedom Party, on the right.
Ukrainian Prime Minister Mykola Azarov dismissed the criticism.
"We already know statements from the whole range of election observation missions, every one of them is positive," he said. "And we hope that, as a whole, all those international observers will finish their work with such a positive conclusion."
Earlier Monday, Ukrainian Vice Prime Minister Sergei Tigipko said he was pleased with the outcome.
"We are satisfied with the results Party of Regions has received – it's the best result for a ruling party in over 20 years," he said. "I think an even more convincing victory will come after all the votes are counted, and the total will give us the chance to become the majority party and continue the reforms we have started."
Implications of ruling party victory
Victory for the ruling party will likely cement the leadership of Yanukovych, whose first term has been marked by an accumulation of presidential powers and antagonism with the West.
Still, the initial results show some newer opposition parties making some gains, including the pro-Western Udar Party, whose leader, Vitaly Klitschko, is uncertain of how much impact his party will have.
"According to the results, opposition forces have gained more than 50 percent," said Klitschko. "Some suggest 55-57 percent. I'm sure that if not for the new election laws, we could form the majority, impeach today's government and form a coalition government.
"Also, in the shortest possible time we could decriminalize the law for which the leader of Fatherland, Yulia Tymoshenko, and Yuri Lutsenko are jailed," he added. "But today, new laws on individual races possess a real threat because manipulation is possible, and it is taking place."
On election day and again on Monday, computer attacks knocked out web sites of several opposition leaders and Opora, the nation's biggest election watchdog. With 3,500 Ukrainian observers working across the nation, Opora recorded thousands of violations on Sunday, from ballot-stuffing to dead people on the voting lists to home-vote requests by people who weren't ill.
Tymoshenko launches hunger strike
A huge test for Ukraine's fragile democracy, the parliamentary elections are already overshadowed by Tymoshenko's imprisonment.
Fatherland's jailed leader, who has already served the first of a seven-year prison sentence for abuse of power while in office, announced Monday she is launching a hunger strike to protest the vote.
Tymoshenko's lawyer, Serhiy Vlasenko, read her statement to the press.
"If I were with you now and had an opportunity to act freely, I would without doubt call on you to stage an indefinite civil disobedience action, and we together would show these forgers their place as we've done many times in the past," the statement said. "But now, being behind bars, I cannot call on you to come out to the square because I cannot guarantee that such gatherings will be peaceful and well-organized, so I do all I can do under such circumstances - I declare hunger strike to protest against fake elections and illegitimate parliament."
Voters cast ballots to select party lists to fill half of the 450 seats in the unicameral parliament; the other 225 seats are filled by individual races in geographic constituencies.
Many in the West view the elections as a signal of Ukraine's future course in managing its relationships with both Russia and the European Union.
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A tornado ripped through downtown Tulsa early Sunday, injuring at least 25 people and causing severe damage to many businesses.
The storm knocked down power lines, signs and trees, AccuWeather said. No deaths were reported from the storm that struck shortly after 1 a.m. Sunday.
A National Weather Service survey team rated the tornado as an EF-2, which has winds of 113-157 mph.
It was the first August tornado in Tulsa since 1958, Weather Channel meteorologist Jonathan Erdman said.
All the injured have since been treated and released, according to Newson6.com.
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|Brown, Eugene F.
|Roe, Larry A.
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Data collected with a three-component laser Doppler anemometer system is used
to investigate velocity bias. The data is collected in the viscous layer of a fully developed
turbulent open water flow at a Reynolds number of 14,766 based on the flow depth. The
data collected at a relatively low data rate is analyzed using different correction methods
including: straight forward arithmetical averaging, inverse velocity and transit time
weighting. The streamwise mean velocity components, the RMS values and the kinematic
Reynolds stress are computed using the various weighting methods and are conlpared to a
three-component inverse velocity bias correction model which is taken to represent the
"true" values. The three-component inverse velocity bias correction results are in general
accordance with the expected behavior in open channel flow and are comparable to the
results reported by other researchers employing different experimental techniques. The
results of this study show that the bias is sensitive to the correction method used and the
theory that the mean streamwise velocity error (without correction) is proportional to the
square of the turbulence intensity is confirmed experimentally. Averaging the data without
correcting it produced the largest bias while the results from the different inverse velocity
techniques were approximately the same although the level of the bias varied with the
turbulence variable that was analyzed. As reported in the literature, the transit time
weighting method requires accurate determination of the residence time. The relatively
poor performance of the transit time method in the present comparison is attributed to the
poor accuracy in the measurement of the residence time.
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It is always a good thing when people with substance abuse realize that they need change. There is always a bit fear, of course, with many wondering how they should start to make that change happen. Most benefit from seeking professional help and support from loved ones and friends.
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Small Steps Toward Recovery
Know that recovery does not happen overnight, as this involves taking small steps to regain control of life. This will help them develop or increase self-esteem and learn to take responsibilities. Recovery may require individuals to have faith in themselves, be ready to overcome any challenge, and get committed to attain their goal.
Recovery, of course, takes time and support. While preventing relapse is one goal of the treatment, it can happen at any stage and is a part of the recovery. Relapse, furthermore, can make recovery impossible. But, it is important to note that is only temporary and everyone can bounce back from this setback. | <urn:uuid:dfe5251f-457c-4aaa-919d-3da226c1610e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.fresh50.com/recovery-from-substance-addiction-there-is-always-help/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.954118 | 419 | 1.960938 | 2 |
University of Notre Dame medical entomologist Nicole L. Achee is a member of a committee convened to summarize the scientific discoveries related to gene drives and considerations for their responsible use. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health asked the National Academies of Sciences, Engineering and Medicine to convene the committee. The committee report, titled “Gene Drives on the Horizon: Advancing Science, Navigating Uncertainty and Aligning Research with Public Values,” was released Wednesday (June 8).
Gene drives are systems (either existing in nature or human-made) that transfer genetic material from a parent organism to its offspring through sexual reproduction. The result of a gene drive is the preferential increase of a specific trait from one generation to the next, which therefore can spread throughout the population.
“For example, a gene drive system could change the ability of a female mosquito to ‘smell’ a human and therefore succeed in ‘finding’ a person to bite,” Achee said. “Inheritance of this trait could potentially cause a reduction in that mosquito’s population over time because blood is needed by the females to develop eggs.”
The report is intended to be used as a tool by the general public and professionals alike who are either interested in gene drives or directly involved with their evaluation, development and use. It is based on six core themes: values, science, phased testing, risk assessment, public engagement and governance of gene drives.
Gene drive systems are being proposed to solve a number of problems. These include challenges in public health, agriculture and conservation.
“Most research on gene drive systems to date has been focused on generating a basic understanding of their function and mechanisms for controlling or altering organisms that transmit infectious diseases to humans, such as mosquitoes that carry parasites causing malaria,” Achee said. “Other applications of gene drive systems range from the control of weeds that compete with cash crops to management of invasive species that threaten biodiversity of ecosystems.”
Achee’s research focuses on preventing and controlling human diseases caused by arthropods, such as mosquitoes. She is research associate professor in Notre Dame’s Department of Biological Sciences and a faculty member of the University’s Eck Institute for Global Health. The National Academies of Science invited her to participate in the study based on her expertise in mosquito ecology, international field-based research and global health.
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Circle in the Square Theatre School at Times Square
Circle in the Square Theatre School (CITSTS) is the only conservatory for acting and musical theater in a Broadway theater facility. The School was founded by Theodore Mann in 1961, developed with Paul Libin since 1963, and has been under the leadership of Executive Director E. Colin O'Leary since 1979.
Kevin Bacon, Benicio Del Toro, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Felicity Huffman, Justin Kirk, Lady Gaga, Matthew Lillard, Andrew McCarthy, John C. McGinley, Idina Menzel, Nicole Ari Parker, Jeremy Shamos, Thomas Sadoski, Molly Shannon, Nick Wyman and many of America's finest performers have studied and blossomed at The School, which attracts students from across the United States and around the world.
Students are engaged in a vibrant and comprehensive curriculum for deep learning and career development. The School's accomplished faculty prepare students for successful careers using an eclectic mix of approaches. Two-year professional training and a seven-week summer intensive are offered, with tuition among the lowest for conservatory training in New York City. CITSTS is accredited by the National Association of Schools of Theatre. Financial aid and scholarships are available for students in the two-year Professional Workshops.
The School's Outreach Program has served over 120,000 youth, teens and senior citizens by utilizing the talents of our graduates and current students to help New York City schools educate and engage students through two popular performance series and a playwriting residency serving 139 underprivileged third-graders this year. The new initiative “Teens On Broadway” celebrates and encourages students from New York City public performing arts high schools who are invited to present their best works of the year at Circle in the Square Theatre each spring. | <urn:uuid:2eeeacf3-f4ea-422f-9234-ff0dd0f1fed8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.timessquarenyc.org/broadway/2400/circle-in-the-square-theatre-school/details.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284411.66/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00455-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.955561 | 367 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Want your employees to learn more about how Electric Vehicle systems work? Or obtain a better understanding of AC Transistorized controls? Just sign them up for one or both of our annual service school classes!
“What will my technicians get for the money” you may ask….well we are here to fill you in on that information. FSIP holds a 3 day Basic Service School. Technicians will learn how to troubleshoot common problems seen in the field and set up Electric Vehicle controls. They will also receive first-hand knowledge of how Electric Vehicle systems operate. The class will cover : Basic Electronics, Motor Control Theory, Panel Components, GE & Curtis troubleshooting.
We also hold a 2 day AC Service School. This class is designed to give your technician a better understanding of AC Transistorized controls found on Electric Vehicles. They will learn: Magnetism & Contactor operation, Motor operation-Series wound, Separately Excited and AC, Operation & troubleshooting of Danaher, AC, Curtis AC & Zapi Dual Motor AC systems. We do recommend that technicians attending this class have some prior knowledge of basic electric circuits and components found on electric vehicles.
Students will receive a certificate of completion and a tour of our facility where they can see what happens to the controls they send in for remanufacture. They will also receive a “goodie” bag to bring back with them and make them the envy of the shop!
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An elderly dog abandoned at a shelter in a hot box with no water and maggots under her fur has been reunited with her previous owner.
Ken Ross, April's owner for 15 years, came forward following media appeals after she disappeared over a year ago. Staff at the Dogs Trust Ballymena had been caring for the canine since April 22 this year.
April, or Amber as she was known then, went missing from the Ross family home on Easter Sunday in 2014 when she walked out the garage door and never came back.
Mr Ross said: "I was at work eating my lunch when I first saw her rehoming appeal in the local paper, I recognised her immediately and thought, that, just maybe, it could be our Amber.
"I told my partner, Nicky and when we saw the news report on TV, we just knew it was her.
"When we showed our daughter she was so emotional, it was a truly magical moment."
The family had searched tirelessly.
"The minute I realised she'd gone missing I looked everywhere for her. We searched our local streets and fields for days, we even asked the local children to help us in our search.
"But after a week, I have to admit I feared for the worst and thought we had lost her forever."
The cross-breed was dangerously dehydrated and had reduced vision when she arrived in Ballymena.
She was so weak she could hardly put one foot in front of the other.
Her matted fur caused ulcers in both eyes and she was reluctant to eat due to a mouth infection.
Her coat had to be shaved off and workers at the rehoming centre put her in jumpers to keep warm.
Manager Oonagh Philips built a strong bond with April in the 24 days she was with them.
She said: "After finding her in such a state I immediately felt very maternal towards her. We had a large number of calls about April after we launched her rehoming appeal, she definitely pulled on some heartstrings.
"I just couldn't believe it when Ken called out of the blue and told me his story."
She added: "April was still recovering when the Ross family came to visit but as soon as they walked through the door she suddenly perked up.
"April is partially deaf and blind so we didn't think she'd recognise them. But it must have been their scent because she immediately remembered them and snuggled up to Ken, it was a special moment for all of us."
Mr Ross said it was just like she had never left.
"She continues to fill our daughter's life with joy and is always making us laugh. We are just so glad to have her back with us. The staff at Dogs Trust Ballymena were incredible and so supportive, the week we were reunited was a rollercoaster of emotions.
"We were all saddened by the condition she was abandoned in but now so happy we have her back after a year apart."
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John Adam Neal, who is a well known farmer of Knoxville township, was born in Adams county, Ohio, April 7, 1867,
a son of George G. and Mary Frances (Stumm) Neal, both natives of Fayette county, Pennsylvania. The father, who
was of German descent, was born in November, 1816, and the mother's birth occurred on the 4th of March, 1892. The
maternal grandfather was a native of Germany.
Mr. and Mrs. George G. Neal were married in their native county but later removed to Adams county, Ohio, where
they lived for three and one half years. At the end of that time they came to Marion county, Iowa, arriving here
in the fall of 1867. They went from Pella to Knoxville by stage and remained in the latter city for a few months,
after which the father purchased seventy two acres of land on section 6, Knoxville township. His farm was covered
with brush which it was necessary to clear before crops could be planted, but Mr. Neal set himself resolutely to
work to develop his farm and became the owner of a valuable property. He subsequently bought forty acres more and
continued to follow agricultural pursuits until his death. He became well to do but was without capital when he
started upon his independent career and the hard work by means of which he gained material prosperity undermined
his health and perhaps hastened his death, which occurred on the th of May, 1880, when he was sixty four years
of age. He was a republican in politics and his religious affiliation was with the Presbyterian church of Knoxville.
His wife survives and resides at her old home. They had three children, as follows: Sylvanus S. is a farmer and
stockman of Knoxville township and has traveled extensively. He is married and has several children. Sarah Isabelle,
who was familiarly known as Sallie, was born December 6, 1853, and married William I. Morris. She died March 17,
1892, and left three children. Her husband survives and is a retired farmer living at Indianola, Iowa. John Adam
of this review is the youngest of the family.
The last mentioned grew to manhood in this county and was a student in the public schools, thus acquiring a serviceable
education. When thirteen years of age his father died and from that time on he has depended upon his own resources
for his livelihood. He has devoted his energies to agricultural pursuits and has been very successful, especially
in the line of stock raising. He is now operating his mother's farm of one hundred and twelve acres on section
6, Knoxville township, an eighty acre tract on section 5, which he owns, and one hundred and sixty acres, known
as the Joe Fisher farm, which he bought in the fall of 1896. Altogether' he operates three hundred and fifty two
acres, devoting his time chiefly to the raising of stock. He understands the care and feeding of live stock and
as he also studies the markets carefully he is able to secure good prices.
On the 27th of December, 1893, Mr. Neal was united in marriage to Miss Dora Marsh, a daughter of William J. Marsh,
who is mentioned elsewhere in this work. To Mr. and Mrs. Neal have been born four children, George G., Ethel Marie,
Harry M. and Florence, all at home. Mr. Neal attends the Eden Methodist Episcopal church, of which his wife and
son are members. Politically he supports the republican party and for six years served as township assessor. He
is much interested in the cause of education and is a director of the Lincoln school district. His fraternal affiliations
are with the Masonic order, in which he has attained the Knight Templar degree, being a charter member of Knoxville
Commandery, and the Modern Woodmen of America. He is highly spoken of in his locality and is a valued and useful
History of Marion County, Iowa
And its People
John W. Wright, Supervising Editor
W. A. Young, Associate
The S. J. Clarke Publishing Co.
Marion County, IA
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United States government, be forewarned: Your credit won’t always be good if you fail to get control of the debt while keeping up your big-spending ways. And merely raising the debt limit won’t be enough to solve your problems.
That was the message delivered yesterday by Standard & Poor’s (S&P) credit rating firm, which lowered its outlook on the U.S. credit rating. Though the S&P kept the rating at AAA, it expressed a negative outlook for the future, saying, “We believe there is a material risk that U.S. policy makers might not reach an agreement on how to address medium- and long-term budgetary challenges by 2013.”
Barclays Bank issued its own analysis of S&P’s announcement, as James Pethokoukis writes. A key point:
This announcement was not about the debt ceiling; in fact, the debt ceiling is not even mentioned in the S&P release… [E]ven if the debt ceiling debate were to be resolved in the near term, it would not be enough to restore the outlook to stable.
What’s needed is what many in Washington already knew to be true: the key to the U.S. government’s financial situation is to get spending under control, in both the medium and long term. S&P’s announcement also makes clear how vitally important it is for congressional conservatives to insist on taking action immediately to meet those challenges on the debt limit bill that will be moving through Congress in the May–July time frame.
Some in Congress are hearing that message. House Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R–VA) responded to the news, calling spending reductions a necessary part of any debt limit action:
Serious reforms are needed to ensure America’s fiscal health, and today S&P sent a wake-up call to those in Washington asking Congress to blindly increase the debt limit. Today’s announcement makes clear that the debt limit increase proposed by the Obama Administration must be accompanied by meaningful fiscal reforms that immediately reduce federal spending and stop our nation from digging itself further into debt.
Wall Street reacted adversely to the news, but the daily ups and downs of the markets aside, Congress and the President must be concerned about what is good for America in the long run. That’s why they should heed this warning and act now to get spending under control.
The U.S. House took a serious step toward putting America on a sounder fiscal path when it passed House Budget Committee Chairman Paul Ryan’s (R–WI) budget proposal. Heritage’s Alison Fraser says, under the plan, “solving the twin crises of spending and debt is achieved through real spending reductions and reforms—not new taxes or higher rates.”
Unfortunately, the Senate has failed to pass a budget, and President Obama has not offered a plan—he has delivered only a partisan campaign blast that failed to address the problem. There are things Congress can do to help achieve a stronger America. Fraser writes that to fix the federal budget, Congress should establish spending targets, fix the budget process, provide for a strong defense, implement spending reforms and keep taxes low. | <urn:uuid:a4b6a921-1089-42f6-b6e9-5ef146b6bc6a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dailysignal.com/2011/04/19/what-the-sps-warning-on-spending-means-for-america/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283008.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00083-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951157 | 668 | 1.914063 | 2 |
HAYWARD, Calif. (AP) - Every time the ground trembles in the San Francisco Bay Area, people ask themselves: Could this be the big one?
For years now, the region has been bracing for a major earthquake that many worry could unleash near-apocalyptic chaos. On Saturday, scientists hope to get one up on the looming temblor, courtesy of the demolition of a university building.
Workers plan to implode the 13-story Warren Hall at Cal State East Bay, located about 600 meters from what researchers call one of the most dangerous fault lines in the country: the Hayward fault.
The demolition is expected to send out shockwaves similar to a magnitude-2.0 earthquake. U.S. Geological Survey scientists hope the unique experiment will help map out where the ground might shake the most when the big one hits. | <urn:uuid:aedc67e2-44e9-40aa-948f-594c4e6a4657> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.wkyt.com/home/headlines/SF-Bay-area-building-demolition-fuels-quake-study-220033871.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00056-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.907573 | 175 | 2.6875 | 3 |
White text and photograph of Dorothy Hamill on olive-green background.
Dorothy Hamill is an American figure skating champion. At the age of 12, she won the novice ladies' title at the US Championships in 1969. She placed second at the junior level the following year, and began competing internationally in 1971, at 14 years old. Hamill held the the title of US Champion from 1974 to 1976, and won the gold medals at both the 1976 Winter Olympics held in Innsbruck, Austria and 1976 World Figure Skating Championships in Goteborg, Sweden. The media dubbed young Dorothy as "America's sweetheart" and her signature bobbed hairstyle and oversized eyeglasses started a trend in the 1970's. Hamill is also known for developing a new skating move, a camel spin that turns into a sit spin, which became known as the "Hamill camel". After turning professional, she was a headliner for the Ice Capades, a traveling figure skating show, from 1977 to 1984. Hamill is known as one of America's most popular athletes and has remained active in the figure skating world. | <urn:uuid:66af6c4f-dd68-4155-b84b-7d175cf94274> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.buttonmuseum.org/buttons/dorothy-hamill | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809003642-20220809033642-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.971833 | 229 | 2.265625 | 2 |
The PKP Pecheneg is a Russian light machine gun appearing in Medal of Honor: Warfighter. It is an improved and modernized version of the previous PKM. It features a heavier barrel that makes it more accurate than its predecessor and keep the weapon cooler. It also can mount a great variety or sights and optics. Pecheneg comes from the name of a warlike Turkish tribe of the past.
In singleplayer, the PKP is the standard Light Machine Gun of all the enemy factions, and can be obtained by killing an enemy who is using one. This is the only light machine gun that can be used by the player on the ground. It also appears as the weapon of choice of the armored Heavy Gunners faced in the campaign. It is usually found without any attachment or sight. It has a very high firepower, but has poor accuracy during sustained fire and a very slow reload time.
The PKP is also useful as a breaching weapon, as its large ammunition capacity allows players to spray any enemies with a large volume of fire, and clear the room in a very short time. Because failing a breach often results in a near instant death, this tactic is useful on harder difficulties where a quick reaction time is more important that accuracy.
This gun boasts a quite high firepower, and a moderate fire rate (higher, anyway, than the M240's). Despite its moderate damage and ease of control in close quarters, the PKP is quite inaccurate and has severe recoil when fired fully automatically if not stabilized, making standing still and burst firing essential when engaging enemies at medium and long ranges. Its high fire power and relatively moderate recoil, however, make it a very good weapon for medium ranges, though in close quarters its power may be countered by the more nimble PDWs and the more versatile Assault Rifles.
Interestingly enough, it's bipod has the fastest deploying time for its class.
It has a 100 round magazine, and cannot equip extended or reduced magazines. Just like other LMG in multiplayer, the weapon has infinite reserve ammo.
- The Marksman Pin for the PKP is incorrectly titled as "PKM Marksman".
- The iron sights are misaligned.
- Some PKM parts can be attached on the weapon, makes it looks like a PKM. | <urn:uuid:4d696bf2-59de-48cd-a215-8050474a1cc5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://medalofhonor.fandom.com/wiki/PKP | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571950.76/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813111851-20220813141851-00673.warc.gz | en | 0.961584 | 481 | 1.570313 | 2 |
What do you do when your leader leaves?
I recently read a saying that great leaders don’t create followers, they create other leaders. I think this is true,
and the truth of how good a leader they were can be seen in how the“troops” carry on once they’re gone. If the strength of any organization is in the individuals, then these are the times when you see if the previous leader created wise, competent, individuals that can keep flowing with the spirit of the organization or mindless drones that have to be led by the nose everywhere. And surviving this “sink or swim” time after a leader leaves brings to light two very important facts:
1. Leaders are meant to guide us, not carry us. Internal motivation is the driving factor that should be
moving every individual everywhere, regardless of the circumstances. Did you know that you can still flourish under a lousy leader if you’re motivated enough to seek knowledge and opportunity on your own? It’s true. If a person has a mindset that they are only going to do what they’re told and will never do one thing more than they have to, even the best leader in the world can’t make them succeed. In fact, I’d go so far as to say that following is the fastest road to failure. If you don’t eventually find the strength and courage to stand on your own then you’ll never get further than you are right now. Sure, leaders set the standard and hold us accountable to it, but it’s our responsibility to rise above the minimum.
2. Our actions do affect others, and they have a right to react to that, for better or for worse. This is a sticky one. Of course, you should do your very best all the time. Giving your all will help you succeed and it will help the people around you as well. But you also have to realize that we live in a community, so if you decide to shirk
your responsibilities, do the bare minimum, or skip out, then people will react, and they have a right to. Sure, sometimes you have your reasons, and they might be very good reasons. Sometimes you need the grace and mercy of others to get through tough times. Just make sure you don’t make a habit of being a “drama queen” or somebody who’s life is fraught with problems, or you create unnecessary hardship for yourself. And while I’m on the subject, that brings up an interesting third point:
3. You never know when you might have to recross a bridge someday. When I started my career, I moved from one division of my agency to another. Three years later, they consolidated the divisions, and all of my old colleagues moved in my office. I was shocked – I never expected that to happen, but it did. I was also very glad I left with a sense of humility and gratitude to them for helping me start my career. So whether you stay, go, or leave it alone, it’s wise to remember that you reap what you sow, and not all paths are linear. You never know where you might come back around – or when someone might come back around to you!
So what does this all mean. How do you survive when your leader leaves? By relying on your own strength, and the strength of those around you. That’s why it’s important to have internal motivation – so you can keep things running even with a significant absence. That’s why it’s important to be accountable not just to your leaders, but to everybody around you – to form a stronger community that works together efficiently. That’s why you mind your manners and always give your best – to help others and shine that light of hope that even though it might be dark and confusing, there is hope and that hope will help you as you find new leaders for the next chapter.
People come and people go, and there’s nothing you can do about it. You just have to learn from the leaders you have and realize that they are helping to form you into a stronger person that’s able to stand – no matter what.
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Saturday, February 28, 2009
1. How / why does Baltar communicate w/ 6 in his head if he's not a cylon? Why does this seem so similar to the "cylon projection" we saw between Boomer and Chief?
2. What is Starbuck's "special destiny"?
3. How did Starbuck survive the crash if she's not one of the thirteen cylons?
4. How did Starbuck know how to find Earth?
5. Why is the human/cylon hybrid child Hera so important to Cavil and the "hardcore" cylons?
6. Why does President Roslyn share the visions with 6 about Hera?
7. Where did resurrection technology original from, and how was it lost?
8. What was the cause of the destruction of Earth?
What we've learned so far about these questions:
1. On Friday night's episode we saw Starbuck playing piano with her father (or a memory of her father, at any rate). Her father was a composer who left her mother because she asked him to stop playing.
2. We know there is a missing cylon model (Daniel, #7) who was an "artist."
3. Baltar is still capable of imagining/having visions of 6.
4. The final five cylons "re-invented" resurrection/download technology before Earth was destroyed, led by Ellen.
5. The cylon models created by the final five have been infertle, and as Cavil has explained, feel existentially trapped between machine and human (except that Caprica Six and Tigh were able to have a child).
6. The 8 cylcon models created by the final five seem much more capable of deception and murder than do the final five, with the notable exception of Caprica Six and Athena.
7. The child Hera seems to intuitively know the same song that activated the final five on Gallactica.
So my theory, or the enhanced version of the theory others have proposed, is this:
Starbuck is the original cylon/human hybrid, born of Number 7 (Daniel) and Starbuck's mother, an army officer who died of cancer. Like Hera, the latest cylon/human child, her heritage has given her an intuitive understanding of the location of Earth.
Sensing that their cylon creations were about to turn on them, Ellen and the final five must have programmed some of the cylons (Daniel, possibly number 8 - Athena - and maybe 6?) with some kind of musical DNA that could be pass on to his heirs and that would re-call and re-activate the memory of the final five at some future time.
There may be other secrets programmed into the DNA, and perhaps Cavil wants Hera in order to plumb what else she might know and have stored, perhaps even as a way to achieve control over the final five.
As for the shared visions that 6 has with Roslyn and the projection she's capable of with Baltar, my theory is that the final five are really humans that were able to "crack" download technology and that the potential exists for cylon projection with all humans. In other words, a shared heritage that suggests there is little difference between cylons and human, other than who created them, or rather, the only difference is technology. As in all wars, the original war on Earth was over both the religious and technological differences over this technological advance.
And what of Baltar and his seeming cylon projection with 6? How was it possible that Baltar survived the initial blast on Caprica?
My theory: he didn't survive. He was, like Starbuck, resurrected. But unlike Starbuck, I don't think Baltar is a cylon-human half breed. I think he is a human who 6 decided to try to resurrect, using Ellen's technology. He is the first successful human resurrection - which is why he has visions of 6 (they were resurrected together) and also why Baltar believes in the one God like the cylons.
Then again, maybe not. In three more weeks, we'll find out what we'll find out.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Went on our usual hike through Palm Canyon - that's the canyon that gave Palm Springs its name. It winds behind the town between the hills, and a mountain spring creates a microclimate with cottonwood trees and Palms.
Also went hiking in Box Canyon, which is about fifteen miles east toward the town of Indio. You drive to the end of the desert cities, then cross the All American canal (which is a canal off the Colorado River that pumps water into the valley for date and orange farms), then head into the Mecca Hills, which are low, dirt-colored hills on the north side of the San Andreas fault. There was no-one there at all, it was eerily quiet, and with temperatures in the mid-sixties, it was a much more forgiving environment than it usually is in summer, when temperatures can reach 125. Of course, we also took lots of pictures of our lot in Desert Hot Springs, which you can see here. | <urn:uuid:a5c7fc4c-8a8d-4d16-be27-16de101bc1f8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.martinschecter.com/2009/02/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.979604 | 1,067 | 1.578125 | 2 |
Here are some suggestions how to prevent cancer found in the “Expert Report” published by the World Cancer Research Fund.
Of the thousands of afflictions that have plagued mankind over the centuries, perhaps the most daunting one of all is cancer. Not only can it affect practically any part of the body, but the medical literature surrounding the subject is convoluted at best and a practical joke on humanity by ill humored physicians at worst.
It seems that on a daily basis either A) a new, previously hidden, extreme cancer risk factor is discovered or B) a new miracle cure is found that promises to fraction the risk of cancer developing. Often times, sadly enough, a product or item is cited as both over the course of its life.
The Expert Report
While the science behind cancer research is ever changing and hardly definitive, there have been a number of promising and helpful studies that at least attempt to both get the information right and present it in a straightforward manner.
One of the most popular of these reports is the so called “Expert Report” published by the World Cancer Research Fund. This report lists a number of simple lifestyle suggestions that at best minimize your risk of developing cancer and at worst will lead to a healthier life overall.
Cancer Prevention Suggestions
The panel developed ten suggestions ranging from exercise to nutrition. Most of these suggestions are rather intuitive, but when these suggestions are combined, they can be extremely powerful. It can be drawn from the panel’s findings that overall good health leads to cancer prevention.
1. The first recommendation made was related to body weight; specifically, it finds that one should be as lean as possible within the recommended, or normal, range of body weight. This is calculated by one’s BMI, or Body Mass Index.
2. The second recommendation merely states that one should be as physically active as possible on a daily basis. This does not mean occasional periods of lethargy interspersed with intense spurts of “working out”, but rather to be active as a lifestyle.
3. The third recommendation is perhaps the most cryptic of all, suggesting one should avoid energy dense foods and sugary drinks.
4./5. The fourth says to eat mostly foods of plant origins, while the fifth warned against too much red meat (especially processed). This suggests that a more natural, herbivore lifestyle is healthier. Processed foods have long been linked to a significantly increased risk of cancer.
6. The sixth of the panel’s recommendations was to avoid the overconsumption of alcoholic beverages. While science cannot seem to balance moderate alcohol consumption’s potentially beneficial effects with its overconsumption’s detriments, it is a safe bet that abstinence from the beverage cannot hurt.
7/8. Recommendations seven and ten dealt with heavily preserved foods and dietary supplements, specifically suggesting to avoid foods with high sodium content while still attempting to receive adequate nutrition through direct food consumption alone rather than through supplementation.
9/10. Recommendations nine and ten were specific to certain individuals; nine suggesting that mothers should breast feed and have their children breast fed, while ten ordered the same previous guidelines for cancer survivors.
While much of this information could be called obvious, it represents most of what we definitively know about cancer prevention and can one day down the road save many, many lives. | <urn:uuid:12b3dc60-8a5e-428a-9584-29216c59748a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.healthtipswebsite.com/health-tips/10-tips-on-cancer-prevention-the-expert-report/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.957831 | 723 | 2.921875 | 3 |
With Support from the Mary and Gary West Foundation, The Balboa Park Online Collaborative (BPOC) established the Convoys to Computers Internship Program; a technology-focused training program for young wounded service members, and other transitioning veterans, to help them secure employment in the civilian sector.
The innovative program grew out a harmonious confluence between the BPOC’s need to grow their staff while on a tight budget, and a keen awareness of the BPOC’s local community by former BPOC Director, Rich Cherry.
In October of 2010, Cherry and his team looked to solve their staffing needs by searching locally – to their neighboring Naval Hospital, whose own struggles included finding ways to help transition hospitalized veterans who were not eligible for the GI Bill funds or the Workforce Partnership. By turning around the traditional question of “what do we need,” to “what have we got?” – museum and technology professionals at the BPOC began to forge creative approaches to community problems and the Convoys to Computers Internship Program, affectionately nicked named the “Wounded Warriors” project, was born.
In addition to working alongside BPOC staff and participating in office meetings, the newly minted veteran interns attended numerous museum receptions and openings where in some cases, their own projects were invited to become part of local exhibits. The interns interacted with museum staff, media and guests, had the chance to describe what it was like participate, presented their skills, and gained the opportunity to network. As the program grew, it cultivated a more effective referral enrollment process and the BPOC began to cultivate an even stronger network of referral organizations and agencies serving the target population.
Together, Cherry’s team and the 24 participating museums and cultural centers that were serviced by Balboa’s Online Collaborative, witnessed significant changes in the abilities and demeanor of the participants as they acquired technical expertise in areas such as computer networking, website development, and video and photo editing. Participants also gained social and professional skills that helped them to be successful at corporate or nonprofit jobs. For some, the program became an important source of support as they dealt with the physical and emotional consequences of their pending discharge from military service.
A total of 16 participants from multiple military branches (Navy, Army, and Marines) were enrolled in the program and as a group, they successfully challenged the many barriers common to employment for most veterans including injuries, PTSD, unstable living environments, and other civil issues. Thirteen (81%) of the participants completed the program which included hands-on internships, professional mentors, IT and work readiness training.
The Convoys to Computers program was an ambitious undertaking for BPOC, an organization that primarily provides technology support to arts organizations. Although obstacles were encountered working with strictly regulated military entities and people experiencing profound upheaval and transition in their lives, the program improved and evolved in response to the challenges presented and the particular needs of the participants resulting in many lessons learned, best practices adopted, community partnerships, and a strong foundation for future programs.
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Any economic stimulus package must include an initiative to retrofit homes and public buildings for low-income communities and communities of color.
Low-income people and communities of color are disproportionately energy insecure. Here’s how energy efficiency policy can address the divide.
Experts discuss the role of renewable energy in alleviating global energy poverty during a panel at the spring IMF and World Bank Group meetings.
They did it! After pre-announcing that no major decisions would result from Cancun talks and nearly two weeks of debates and discussions, the army of international climate change negotiators reached an agreement fully in line with the low expectations for it.
Is China smartening up its environmental and social act in Africa? It certainly wants to be seen as doing just that.
A Critique of the World Bank’s Strategic Framework for Development and Climate Change. | <urn:uuid:e1a57e2e-f23b-463f-81c6-9e5b54539910> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ips-dc.org/tag/energy-access/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571982.99/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813172349-20220813202349-00068.warc.gz | en | 0.944588 | 173 | 1.6875 | 2 |
[Obama] has again and again reached out to the Islamic world, assuring Muslim countries of his respect for Islam. Again and again he has been rudely rebuffed, but that has not stopped him from making the attempt again and again. After the death of Osama bin Laden, he claimed that Osama was “not a Muslim leader, but a mass murderer of Muslims.” Then he made sure to give this mass murderer of Muslims a solemn Islamic funeral.
John O. Brennan, Obama’s top counterterrorism advisor, summed up the Obama administration’s warmly positive stance toward Islam in an August 2009 address: “Nor does President Obama see this challenge as a fight against `jihadists.’ Describing terrorists in this way–using a legitimate term, `jihad,’ meaning to purify oneself or to wage a holy struggle for a moral goal–risks giving these murderers the religious legitimacy they desperately seek but in no way deserve. Worse, it risks reinforcing the idea that the United States is somehow at war with Islam itself. And this is why President Obama has confronted this perception directly and forcefully in his speeches to Muslim audiences, declaring that America is not and never will be at war with Islam.”
That may be so, but Netanyahu’s statement is true as well – at least the first part of it: “Militant Islam threatens the world.” America is not and never will be at war with Islam, but a significant element of Islam is at war with America, Israel, and the rest of the free world – and Netanyahu is much more realistic about that fact than any other Western leader.Update: O'Bama (his Oirish surname) reminds us that it's always easy to ask someone else to make a "wrenching compromise." | <urn:uuid:74d409ac-382c-4fa3-9275-ea46217c5d30> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://scaramouchee.blogspot.com/2011/05/hows-all-that-outreach-workin-for-you.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280929.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00427-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956791 | 373 | 1.789063 | 2 |
An Israeli army committee has recommended stopping the practice of demolishing the houses of Palestinian suicide bombers and their families.
Rights groups say many homes are demolished for "military reasons"
The committee's interim report found the policy had little deterrent effect and inflamed Palestinian hatred.
In the past four years of the Palestinian uprising, Israeli soldiers have destroyed hundreds of homes.
The Israeli government argues that demolitions deter attacks as bombers do not want to leave family homeless.
The committee's interim findings have been presented to Israeli army Chief of Staff Moshe Yaalon, who has requested more information for the final draft.
In the past four years, Israeli soldiers using bulldozers or explosives have demolished 666 houses as punishment for attacks on Israelis, according to the Israeli human rights group Btselem.
The committee did not look into the demolition of homes, mostly in Gaza, which the Israeli army has argued is needed to make army posts, settlements or roads used by settlers safer.
Over the last four years, Btselem says, 1,356 houses in the occupied territories were demolished by the Israeli army for what the group calls "alleged military purposes", making more than 10,000 Palestinians homeless.
Palestinians in the occupied territories, including East Jerusalem, complain that the Israeli authorities make it very difficult for them to gain licences for new buildings or extensions on existing properties.
According to Btselem, 253 Palestinian homes were demolished in 2004 because they did not have the correct licences. | <urn:uuid:4cc07fa8-3e20-4d5e-b084-84fe0a930314> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4273205.stm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00148-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962383 | 306 | 1.71875 | 2 |
Springfield, MA, January 23, 2014 --(PR.com
)-- Interdisciplinary collaboration may play an important role in the education of future clinicians in the rapidly changing healthcare environment. That, according to researchers at American International College. The research was presented recently at the Annual Conference of the American Association of Schools of Allied Health held in Orlando.
Students and faculty at AIC's School of Health Sciences investigated the impact of collaborative, inter-professional teaching by nursing and physical therapy faculty using structured patient simulation lab experiences in the preparation of physical therapy students.
Cesarina Thompson, Ph.D., Dean of the AIC School of Health Sciences, said a group of 33 AIC students were divided into two groups, with half of them working on patient care case studies, as is the traditional approach, and the others took the same patient, and essentially bought him to life through simulation, where students were able to interact with the case study, and evaluate a real patient. "The students in the simulation group were co-taught by a physical therapy professor, Patrick Carley, and a nursing professor, Dina Ditmar. Thus, students benefited from the interprofessional instruction and gaining a broader insight into patient care," she said.
Carley said the study is important because the The Affordable Care Act (ACA) will result in significant changes to the delivery of healthcare. “One of the main ways the Affordable Care Act seeks to reduce health care costs is by encouraging doctors, hospitals and other health care providers to form accountable care organization networks to coordinate care better, which are expected to keep costs down while improving patient care outcomes,” he said.
According to Ditmar, using structured patient simulation lab experiences in the preparation of physical therapy students, the objective was to measure and compare the correlation between pre and post perceived self-assessment ratings of clinical performance measures.
"While both groups showed gains in learning and understanding the management of patients with cardiopulmonary issues, the learning specifics and concepts emphasized in each of the different lab experiences were different. For example, a major concept in the patient simulation group was critical thinking, which they were rated higher on by their clinical instructors. The control group did better with PT diagnosis and treatment outcomes, which were emphasized in the PT faculty only group," she said.
Ditmar said it was a great learning experience for everyone involved. "We all feel that this is a very current and exciting topic that warrants more investigation. Regardless of statistical evidence, the growth of the students was very obvious by the end of the four sessions," she said.
While further study is well warranted, Ditmar said, "It is quite clear that patient simulation and interdisciplinary collaborative instruction would provide better learning opportunities and increase critical reasoning and clinical skills." | <urn:uuid:ab43b0b9-d73e-479c-85d6-dccd74099092> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pr.com/press-release/538237 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279368.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00328-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.973907 | 565 | 2.0625 | 2 |
On the North Pole of Pluto there stands an enigma: a huge circle of standing blocks of ice, built on the pattern of Earth's Stonehenge--but ten times the size, standing alone at the farthest reaches of the Solar System. What is it? Who came there to build it?
In Kim Stanley Robinson's Icehenge, the secret lies, perhaps, in the chaotic decades of the Martian Revolution, in the lost memories of those who have lived for centuries.
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- Land lines will often work after a disaster when cell towers are overloaded.
- Texting often works even when cell towers are being overloaded with phone calls.
- Communicating can be done via: phone calls, texting, email, an IM program, Facebook/Twitter/Instagram and other social media platforms, and video game consoles.
- Prearranging a meet up spot in your neighborhood and at another location (should your neighborhood be inaccessible) in your town is a good way to gather the family after a disaster when all communications are down.
- Even when local phone systems are down you can often call to other states without a problem.
- Use a friend or relative in another state to be the emergency communication hub should there be a disaster in your area (be sure all family members have this person's address, email, and phone number for this purpose).
- Have a way to charge your cell phone and laptop in your car should all electricity be down in your area (like an AC/DC converter that plugs into the lighter).
- Don't forget the oldest ways of communication: leaving a written note on your door (with your evacuation details or messages for others) as well as sending a runner if needed (ie: if communication systems are down and you need 911 help, run--or bike or drive--to the nearest fire department).
- HAM radio is one of the best ways to communicate when all other systems are down. Consider getting licensed as a HAM operator and joining your local HAM NET to practice your skills. For even better practice, volunteer with ARES/RACES to help during a disaster.
- Two way radios usually only have a couple mile range but you never know who might pick up your call so consider keeping these radios (and extra batteries) on hand.
- Satellite phones are an option however they have plenty of drawbacks (the phones are expensive, monthly service is expensive, you need to be in direct line of the satellite, and, at different times during the day your location may be out of satellite range).
- If you are in a disaster area (or are looking for someone in a disaster area) consider posting on the Google Person Finder or Red Cross Safe and Well sites. The reddit site for the closest city is also an option.
- Personal Locator Beacons are another option to call for help.
- Keep a wind-up/battery-powered radio on hand. While you can't call out on this type of radio, you can receive news and information from the outside world with it.
Thursday, March 5, 2015
March Challenge #5 Your Communication Plan
In the event of a disaster, the first thing most people want to do is communicate with others. Whether they are trying to call 911 or need to contact loved ones to let them know they are OK, being able to communicate right after a disaster can often be a challenge. Here's some things to consider: | <urn:uuid:7f690f88-8369-4994-b06d-8541c472953d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.codenameinsight.com/2015/03/march-challenge-5-your-communication.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572198.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815175725-20220815205725-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.947526 | 600 | 2.734375 | 3 |
All styles no substance
I always wince when I hear people warble on about Learning Styles. Roger Schank thinks educationalists are simply confusing personality with the flaky, faddish idea of ‘learning styles’. Frank Coffield proved him right. Through Learning and Skills Development Agency research, he found a ‘bedlam of contradictory claims’ with a ‘proliferation of concepts, instruments and strategies’. In total they uncovered 71 competing theories. All were found ‘seriously wanting’ with ‘serious deficiencies’. Many were downright dangerous as they ‘over-simplify, label and stereotype’. But when did serious research ever affect the behaviour of the education and training world? | <urn:uuid:9e53144e-09ea-4920-b812-1583c46121a0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://donaldclarkplanb.blogspot.com/2006/01/all-styles-no-substance.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00550-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939774 | 152 | 2.171875 | 2 |
Despite the increasing number of successful vaccinations, COVID-19 cases are still rampant in almost all parts of the country. It is even interesting to note that a small percentage of people who are fully vaccinated against COVID-19 are re-catching COVID-19. Normalcy seems to be near, but we must prioritize self-care to eradicate this pandemic. We obviously need to do more than washing hands and wearing masks; it is high time we considered disinfection technologies like UV-C lighting to maintain cleaner and sanitized spaces.
Reduced transmission and keeping occupied spaces clean are two major challenges we currently face in minimizing the virus’s spread. People emit water droplets containing the virus into the air by speaking, coughing, and sneezing. Larger droplets may fall fast to surfaces, but smaller ones might float for several minutes and circulate through the air.
The immense benefits of UV-C lighting for disinfecting purposes means we can correctly employ upper-air and HVAC germicidal UV fixtures to disinfect the air in occupied spaces. This is especially important because the virus that causes COVID-19, SARS-CoV-2, is predominantly transmitted via airborne particles. UV-C technology reduces transmission rates dramatically by cleaning the air, which is the primary medium for this transmission.
So, which method is the most effective? Let’s first start, with a basic understanding of how each application works.
Upper-Air Germicidal Ultraviolet (GUV)
It is no news that UV-C rays may damage our skin and eyes if and when we come into close contact with them. Installing upper-air or upper-room UV lamps that release UV-C rays over the heads of occupants of a space will keep them entirely safe. The disinfection of the UV-C light is very effective, despite being directed at the air in a room’s upper region.
Air changes are always ongoing because air normally goes from higher to lower locations in a room. This occurs naturally even without HVAC or fans, although HVAC and fans usually increase the extent of air changes each hour in a room.
We can establish that upper-air GUV fixtures are:
Extremely effective – Proved by several studies in airborne and pathogens, including COVID-19, influenza, and Tuberculosis.
Safe – The fixtures are designed to maintain the UV-C radiation in the upper room.
Runs constantly – Offer continuous disinfection in occupied spaces over the useful long lifetime of the lamp and luminaire.
* Pictures from CDC.
What role does UV play in HVAC?
UV lighting on HVAC equipment has two advantages for the entire system. First, the air that enters and circulates through the building is initially cleansed and cleaned. Second, UV-C eliminates mold and fungi, making the overall system healthier.
In-duct and on-coil UV applications are the two most common UV use for HVAC equipment. The amount of space available may determine the optimal application.
This is how an on-coil system disinfects the air:
*Photo adapted from Regency Lighting
However, HVAC has a number of drawbacks:
Lower transmission reduction — While UV fixtures in HVAC systems disinfect the air, they do nothing to prevent the transfer from person to person within rooms.
Higher energy bills - The extra fixtures on your system may result in increased energy costs.
Slow air disinfection - Upper-air systems disinfect air 20x faster than HVAC.
While the systems can inactivate viruses, they are not 100 percent effective. The virus must be exposed for a specific amount of time and under specific conditions to be inactivated. However, exposure will be limited if the air velocity is too high, and limited exposure may not be enough to deactivate all of the viruses present in the airflow. Dust and moisture in the airflow can also shield the viruses from UV-C light. Also, any buildup of dust or filth on the lamps will diminish light output. Therefore, the construction of the systems must be such that they ensure maximum exposure.
HVAC vs. Upper-Air Germicidal UV Fixtures
Take a quick look at the chart below for easy comparison:
Disinfects and cleans air
Reduces airborne transmission
Continuous disinfection in occupied spaces
Faster air disinfection (up to 750 sq. simultaneously)
UV disinfection in upper rooms and HVAC systems both contribute to a healthier indoor environment. Both are effective air disinfection procedures that may be used continuously, regardless of the number of people in the room. However, only upper-room fixtures are known to limit airborne and person-to-person virus spread.
Most experts recommend installing upper-air germicidal ultraviolet lamps in an occupied space. Check out what the CDC has to say about ultraviolet germicidal irradiation (UVGI). Click here. Let’s not forget that breathing in clean air is now the topmost priority, and we need to take care of ourselves much more than before to stay safe.
We are one step closer to feeling safe again with upper-air GUV solutions!
Learn more about UV-C lighting at www.clean-uvsolutions.com.
5 Things To Know About UVC Light And COVID-19 Click here.
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Mobile-first – Cut content and keep usability
When your website has been designed to be displayed on a spacious PC monitor, what happens when its contents appear on a mobile device? Responsive design techniques can make the site work well on a handheld device, but the practicalities of reading what is on the screen and accessing menu items mean that, to put it bluntly, content has got to be cut.
How can you cut content and maintain the purpose of the site? Beyond condensing existing text into a more concise message, it is possible to relocate some text from one page to a new, different page. A more orderly approach to this issue, however, is to tackle it the other way round. Design the website principally for mobile usage – and then modify it for the PC desktop.
Known as ‘mobile-first’, this method of web design involves using only essential content for the initial design. Careful consideration needs to be given to sound and video, as mobile devices may be used anywhere from a crowded workplace to the middle of the countryside. Sound may not be heard, and the device’s 4G connection may be too feeble to make the most of any multimedia creation.
For anyone with reams of content to incorporate in their site, the difficulty will be in deciding what constitutes essential content. However, once a ‘sliding scale’ of content has been decided on, the web developer will use something called ‘progressive enhancement’ which grows the content and the functionality of the site automatically as the screen size, bandwidth and processing power increase.
Some features only work on mobiles and tablets, such as swiping and touch dialling. Similarly, desktops have their own special features, such as being able to hover over buttons. All this differing functionality is taken into account when using the progressive enhancement technique so that the content exploits the features of whichever device is being used to view the site.
A noticeable advantage of a mobile-first approach is the fresh-looking simplicity of the initial design, which then scales up to give a clear, compelling, content-rich version for the computer desktop.
In a world where the growth of handheld devices is increasing exponentially, and more and more people are browsing the internet using pocket-sized technology, mobile-first design provides user-friendly content that is perfectly in tune with the devices being used to view it. | <urn:uuid:0906ed0e-1dda-4a84-817b-d30fe9a772a3> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://logodesign.co.uk/mobile-first-content-keep-usability/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00667.warc.gz | en | 0.935944 | 486 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Are you making these money mistakes?
If you are all about getting your dollars to go further, you may want to take a good hard look at your money habits. There’s a chance that you are making money mistakes which are effectively preventing you (or making it make unnecessarily harder) from reaching your financial goals. And what’s even worse is that you may not even realize that you are making them.
Are you guilty of these money mistakes?
Not including savings in your budget
If your goal is to reduce your debt load, you might find it difficult to sock money away in savings, when you could be putting it down on your cards.
What if emergency expenses arise? Wouldn’t you be better off to dip into your savings account, rather than racking your credit card up again, which means that you’re right back where you started? Accumulating savings is actually an important part of paying down debt.
Focusing on the sale, not what’s on sale
Scoring a good deal can be exciting (even euphoric for those ardent deal sniffers), but if the item in question isn’t on your need list, its money wasted.
Always be mindful of marketing. Buy 3! Get one free is a compelling offer, but if you only need one to start, you’re spending money you don’t have to.
Not taking an interest in your finances
Your eyes may glaze over at the mention of any/all financial matters, but you need to have vested interest in your finances.
Having an interest leads to being more knowledgeable. Being more knowledgeable helps you to understand your options to make good financial decisions that will benefit you the most.
Spending for points
Using a rewards program should help you extend your spending power, not cause you to accumulate debt or to make unnecessary purchases.
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Originally the festival was primarily for the Shudras who were otherwise not allowed to participate in festivals. This is specially significant in the rural areas where in many places, there still exists a clear demarcation between each caste and community. In ancient India too, this festival was celebrated as a day when people forgot caste and gender differences and were allowed many liberties, otherwise forbidden. In fact Holi bears close resemblance to the important ancient festival called Vasantotsava.
Mythologically, the Holi fire is regarded as a funeral pyre, for it is understood to have destroyed Holika, a demoness. According to a legend, Hiranyakshipu was a demon king. He wanted to avenge the death of his younger brother, who had been killed by Vishnu. He performed severe penance for many years to gain enough power to become the king of the three worlds. So intense was his penance that a smoke billowed from his head and the entire world was in danger of annihilation. Worried, the gods ran to Brahma for help. Lord Brahma then appeared before Hiranyakshipu and the demon asked for a boon that he would be killed by neither man nor beast, neither indoors nor outdoors, neither on earth nor in the heavens, neither during the day nor at night. Brahma granted him the boon.
Believing himself to be invincible, Hiranyakshipu soon became pompous and ordered all his people to worship only him. The demon however, had a son named Prahalad who was an ardent devotee of Vishnu. Much to his father's chagrin, Prahalad continued to pray to Vishnu. The evil demon decided to kill his own son, but each attempt failed. The king then summoned his sister Holika who, because of a boon, was immune to fire. He prepared a pyre, lit it and asked Holika to sit on it, holding Prahalad in her arms. Vishnu intervened to save Prahalad and the evil Holika perished instead. This legend is re-lived on Choti Holi when the pyre is re-lit. The burning of Holika also signifies the end of evil and darkness. Scientifically it is an ideal time for spring cleaning after the cold winter months, thus hay and old rubbish is thrown into the bonfire for spring cleaning.
The main ritual on this day centres around a bonfire ceremoniously kindled at the time of the rising moon. This suggests that the festival is also a celebration of the barley harvest. People start collecting fire - wood, cow-dung and rubbish around a central pole in their locality many days in advance. On Choti Holi, they come together to light the fire. Men and women circumambulate the fire singing and dancing. A pot of new barley seeds is buried under the pyre for roasting. These seeds are eaten after the fire is extinguished . Divinations for the coming harvest are cast by interpreting the direction of the flames or by the state of the seeds in the buried pot. People sometimes take embers from the fire to their homes to rekindle their own domestic fires. The ashes from the Holi fire are also believed to provide protection against diseases.
The next day is called 'Dhulendi' and it is during these celeberations that people throw colored powder or 'gulal' and colored water on each other using 'pichkaris' shouting 'bura na mano holi hai'. The origin of this custom can be found in the pranks of Krishna, who used to drench the village belles or "gopis" with water and play tricks on them. 'Thandai', a drink made with almonds and milk, and cannabis 'bhang' pakoras are extremely popular on this day. A typical sweet meat served on this day is 'gujhia' and 'kanji vadas' are a popular appetiser.
Holi at Mathura and Vrindavana is celebrated with great gusto for many days, as these were the places where Krishna spent most of his childhood. Each major temple celebrates Holi in a different day. People throng the temples to get drenched with colored water and consider it a blessing from the god. Of particular interest is the Holi festival in the village of Barsana, 42 km from Mathura. Radha belonged to Barsana while Krishna hailed from Nandagaon. On Holi, men from Nandagaon come to Barsana to celebrate Holi with the women here, who are ready to beat them with sticks instead of playing with 'gulal'. This is called "lathamar Holi". This is very similar to the "Dhulendi Holi" played in Haryana, where the "bhabhi" (sister-in-law) beats her "devar" (younger brother-in-law) with her sari rolled up into a rope. All this is done in good humor and in the evening the devar brings sweetmeats for his bhabhi.
Holi though is not very popular in South India, but a similar festival in the honor of the god of love, Kama, takes place there at the same time. While there does not seem to be a direct link between the two rituals, literary sources suggest that both occasions are examples of an age-old tradition of celebrating the arrival of spring.
In Maharashtra and Gujarat, a grand procession of men soaked with colored water walk through the streets shouting 'Govinda alha re alha, zara matki sambhal brijbala''. This refers to Krishna's habit of stealing butter and milk stored in terracotta pots from people's homes. As a child, Krishna who was extremely fond of milk and milk products would prowl into any accessible house with his friends and steal pots of butter or break pots of milk. During Holi, a pot of buttermilk is hung high up in the street. Men forming a human staircase try to break this pot, and whoever succeeds is crowned the Holi king of the locality for that year.
In Bengal, Holi is called Dol Yatra, or the swing festival. Idols of Radha and Krishna are placed on swings and devotees take turns to swing them. Women dance around the swing and sing devotional songs, as men spray colored water at them. In Manipur too, Holi is extremely interesting. It is a six-day festival here, commencing on the full moon day of Phalguna. The traditional and centuries-old Yaosang festival of Manipur amalgamated with Holi in the18th century with the introduction of Vaishnavism. The entire theme of the festival is woven into the worship of Krishna and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, also known as Lord Gauranga.
Thabal Chongba, a popular Manipuri folk dance, is associated with this festival. The literal meaning of Thabal is 'moonlight' and Chongba means 'dance', thus 'dancing in the moonlight'. Traditionally conservative Manipuri parents did not allow their daughters to go out and meet any young men without their consent. Thabal Chongba therefore provided the only chance for girls to meet and talk to the boys. In earlier times, this dance was performed in the moonlight accompanied by folk songs. The only musical instrument used was a dholakor drum. It is performed in every locality on all the six days of the festival. Instead of a fire, a hut is built and then set ablaze. The next day, boys go in groups to play gulal with the girls. And in return for playing with them, the girls extract money from the boys.
Another significant feature of the festival in Manipur is the groups of devotees from different areas who gather at the Shree Govindaji Temple in Imphal. Dressed in the traditional white and yellow turbans, they sing songs in praise of Krishna and Chaitanya Mahaprabhu, play gulal and dance in front of the temple. On Halangkar, the last day of the festival, hundreds of devotees gather at the temple as usual and march together towards the Vijay Govindaji Temple about 3 km west of Imphal where various cultural activities are performed. This brings to an end the Yaosang festival. | <urn:uuid:e4b509ae-5b1f-4082-8a55-7e9f56f54271> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.thebuddhagarden.com/holi-festival-hinduism.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00470.warc.gz | en | 0.967753 | 1,727 | 3.375 | 3 |
- “Under President Bush’s plan, an average family of four’s inflation-adjusted disposable income would increase by $4,544 in fiscal year (FY) 2011, and the national debt would effectively be paid off by FY 2010.”
- “The plan would save the entire Social Security surplus and increase personal savings while the federal government accumulated $1.8 trillion in uncommitted funds from FY 2008 to FY 2011.” (“Uncommitted funds” is a fancy way of saying “surplus”.)
Did your family’s disposable income increase by $4,544 last year? (Wondering how the top 1% are doing? Browse through “How to Spend It” here.)
Has the national debt been paid off?
Is the Social Security surplus “safe”?
Has your family been able to increase your savings?
What happened to the $1.8 trillion federal surplus that was supposed to appear, after the tax cuts stimulated the economy and the “job creators” created jobs?
Lots of promises were made, back when Republican Leadership was forcing the Bush tax cuts through Congress. [Historical footnote: both the 2001 tax cuts and the 2003 tax cuts were passed in a way that made them exempt from Senate filibuster. In 2003, the Senate vote was 50-50 after Republican Senators John McCain, Lincoln Chafee and Olympia Snowe voted “nay”; and Vice President Dick Cheney cast the deciding vote to enact the bill.]
Those promises never panned out. But now, Republican leaders in Congress are acting as if high-income taxpayers are somehow entitled to the low tax rates they have been enjoying for the last decade
What’s up with this idea of “entitlement”?
Millions of American workers have paid into the Social Security system for decades, based on the promise that we would get Social Security benefits when we retired. Isn’t it reasonable for all of us workers to think we’re entitled to the benefits we contributed to? But now, Congressional Republicans are insisting on “adjustments to eligibility and benefits in the Social Security and Medicare programs.”
One man – Dick Cheney – cast the deciding vote to give the wealthy their tax cuts; but now Congressional Republicans think those tax cuts are somehow sacred. Just two days ago, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell told a hometown newspaper that any “fiscal cliff” deal “must not raise taxes on wealthy.”
The Bush tax cuts were supposed to “jump-start” our economy. They were supposed to “trickle down” and enrich working families. They were supposed to eliminate the country’s debt. They didn’t do any of that – but now Congressional Republicans want us to pay the price, through cuts to our Social Security and Medicare benefits.
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Complicated jejunal diverticulosis: Report of a case
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- Fronticelli, C.M., Bellora, P., Ferrero, A. et al. Surg Today (1996) 26: 192. doi:10.1007/BF00311506
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The authors report a case of complicated multiple jejunal diverticulosis and review the data from the literature on this pathology. A 74-year-old man was admitted to our unit presenting with symptoms of intestinal obstruction. He had previously experienced three episodes of the same symptomatology with melena. Endoscopy excluded gastroduodenal or colonic bleeding; an X-ray of the small bowel detected multiple large jejunal diverticula. The patient underwent surgery: a jejunal resection was performed just below the Treitz angle extending about 60–70 cm. The postoperative course was uneventful and the patient was discharged on the 8th postoperative day. At present, the patient is doing well and has not since demonstrated any symptoms of either intestinal obstruction or melena. | <urn:uuid:bdc80dff-5d10-4792-a14a-3d3ed10f7baa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://link.springer.com/article/10.1007/BF00311506 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00480-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.900212 | 233 | 1.679688 | 2 |
EDCTP has activated its emergency funding mechanism to support 22 international partnerships helping countries in sub-Saharan Africa prepare for and manage the COVID-19 pandemic.
The research community globally has rapidly mobilised to gather information on SARS-CoV-2. Much of this information will be relevant to sub-Saharan Africa, but there are several reasons why specific data from the region are required: biological response, demographics, testing and control measures.
This publication is one of four publications presenting the 2020 EDCTP portfolio. See also publications on international collaborative clinical research projects, fellowships and clinical research capacity development. | <urn:uuid:b62fecbb-3bab-45c0-bd8c-1d1beceee14d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.edctp.org/publication/edctp2-portfolio-covid-19-collaborative-clinical-research/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571147.84/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810040253-20220810070253-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.901501 | 125 | 1.6875 | 2 |
GOLDEN, Colo. — President Barack Obama and Mitt Romney entered new political terrain on Thursday, Sept. 13, as their campaign debate moved more solidly onto issues of foreign policy, a subject that had largely been absent as a major general election issue until this week.
With the killings of four U.S. diplomats in Libya thrusting foreign policy to the forefront of the race, Romney sought to broaden his indictment of Obama’s approach to the world a day after he was roundly criticized for his initial reaction to the president’s handling of the crisis in Libya and Egypt. But officials in the Obama campaign were almost welcoming the fight, saying they were glad to be challenged on what they now consider the comfortable territory of foreign policy.
Despite the rapidly unfolding events in the Mideast, Obama decided to continue his campaign schedule, and he spent the second day of what was to be an upbeat swing through the politically vital Mountain West on Thursday balancing the somber tone that a foreign policy crisis demands and the partisan speech that 8,000 Coloradans came to hear in Golden.
At an outdoor rally where the crowd was so primed with excitement that it cheered a flock of honking geese that flew overhead before the president spoke, Obama began with a sad reminder of the four Americans’ deaths in Libya.
“Obviously, our hearts are heavy this week,” Obama said, as a hush went across the field. But he vowed to his wider television audience, “I want people around the world to hear me — to all those who would do us harm: No act of terror will go unpunished,” adding, “No act of violence shakes the resolve of the United States of America.”
One word went unspoken: Romney. Instead, Obama referred only to his “opponent,” which aides said was prompted by the president’s desire to remain mindful of the tone of his political oratory as the Mideast crisis continues to unfold.
But his aides acknowledged that they were watching the developments overseas carefully, with the prospect that if violent protests continue he could face new questions about his approach to handling the nascent democracies in Egypt and Libya.
Romney, in an appearance in Virginia, said that under his presidency the United States would regain its role in shaping events in the region.
“The world needs American leadership; the Middle East needs American leadership,” Romney said at a modestly attended rally in Fairfax, Va. “And I intend to be a president that provides the leadership that America respects and will keep us admired throughout the world.”
Though Romney’s aides had dismissed criticism from even some Republicans that his initial response to the Mideast violence was overly political — and his comments received support on Thursday from National Review and an editorial in The Wall Street Journal — he did not repeat his attack on Thursday, and struck a more sober note.
“I also recognize that right now we’re in mourning,” Romney said, referring to the deaths of Ambassador Chris Stevens and three others. “We’ve lost four of our diplomats across the world; we’re thinking about their families and those that they’ve left behind.” | <urn:uuid:d9620873-6533-4337-9bf4-eb19241f513c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.twincities.com/2012/09/12/events-in-the-mideast-slice-into-campaign-debate/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00048-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.981528 | 669 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Regional District Transit Consultant Richard Drdul presented his regional transit review to the regional district board at the Thursday, Nov. 3 Community Services Committee meeting.
The review focused on four main areas: Area “D” around Skaha Lake, Area “F” between Summerland and Penticton, Areas “G” and “H” along the Highway 3 /3A corridor, including Princeton, Keremeos, Hedley and Olalla, and Okanagan College, where the needs of staff and students were considered.
The review pointed out the most likely people to use transit:
– Low income persons without access to an automobile.
– Seniors, many of whom have disabilities.
– Persons with disabilities.
Drdel also noted that the main reason for people to use transit would be for medical appointments, shopping and entertainment, and work and school.
Currently, Greyhound operates services on Highway 3 and on Highway 97. There are two trips per day, each way between Princeton, Okanagan Falls and Penticton. Minimum fares are $6.50 plus tax between Okanagan Falls and Penticton, and $16.50 plus tax between Princeton and Penticton.
Drudel prepared a number of options for transit service in the areas considered. For Area “D” around Skaha Lake, Drudel proposed a flex route to Okanagan Falls with a demand responsive service to Kaleden. The route would be “interlined” with the current route 10 service to Naramata.
Flex route service is similar to conventionlal bus service, the only difference being the ability of the passenger to call ahead to be picked up right at their door. The flex route allows for slight route deviations for pick up and drop off.
Demand responsive service operates only in response to a request for service. If no service is requested, the bus does not go to that portion of the route.
Estimated costs for the new service are in the range of $60,000 per year for the flex route service to Okanagan Falls. The demand responsive service to Kaleden is estimated at $20,000 per year, but Drudel advised the board not to implement this service until after the province completes its provincial regional transit service review next year.
Drudel’s recommendations for transit service in the Similkameen included continuing the present bus service from Princeton, with the option of demand responsive service to Keremeos, Olalla, and Cawston. He also suggested offering an extension of the present service to Penticton to go on to Kelowna upon request, as the bus is basically in standby mode during the time it is in Penticton with the present service. If the bus route were extended to Kelowna, it would arrive 30 minutes earlier and leave 30 minutes later than the present schedule. Drudel noted that the present service provided good, reliable transportation that was affordable.
The cost for the present service to be extended for an additional weekday would cost $15,000 per year; adding an additional hour of service would tack an additional $5,500 on to the budget.
In summary, Drudel advised the directors to implement the new route 11 service to Okanagan Falls immediately in addition to extending the Princeton – Penticton route to Kelowna. He suggested waiting until the conclusion of the province’s transit study next year before increasing services on Highway 97, or adding other demand responsive services.
“Be careful what you wish for.” Osoyoos Director Stu Wells cautioning the board to make sure that a need existed before embarking on increased public transit programs, to which Drudel replied that “people are imagining a different service than you can provide.”
Keremeos Director Walter Despot told the board that he was receiving more inquiries about the demand service to Kelowna, stating that he would like to see it happen soon. | <urn:uuid:a6714857-0b4c-4151-a082-b321d307fe68> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.keremeosreview.com/news/final-draft-of-regional-transit-study-presented-to-rdos-committee/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570765.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808031623-20220808061623-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.957061 | 844 | 1.5625 | 2 |
By Brother Guy Consolmagno, SJ
Special to Catholic News Service
The Bible is not without its share of wrathful moments. Like a stern parent, God challenges his people to do better, and warns them of the tragedy that will result if they do not change their ways. What could be more tragic than the end of the world? And so, when the prophets warn Israel, they use the loss of the sun, moon and stars as a symbol of the worst that could happen:
Is 13:9-11 See, the day of the LORD comes, cruel, with wrath and fierce anger, to make the earth a desolation, and to destroy its sinners from it. For the stars of the heavens and their constellations will not give their light; the sun will be dark at its rising, and the moon will not shed its light. I will punish the world for its evil, and the wicked for their iniquity; I will put an end to the pride of the arrogant, and lay low the insolence of tyrants.
Ez 32:7-11 When I blot you out, I will cover the heavens, and make their stars dark; I will cover the sun with a cloud, and the moon shall not give its light. All the shining lights of the heavens I will darken above you, and put darkness on your land, says the Lord GOD. I will trouble the hearts of many peoples, as I carry you captive among the nations, into countries you have not known. I will make many peoples appalled at you; their kings shall shudder because of you. When I brandish my sword before them, they shall tremble every moment for their lives, each one of them, on the day of your downfall. For thus says the Lord GOD: The sword of the king of Babylon shall come against you.
Jl 2:10-11 The earth quakes before them, the heavens tremble. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. The LORD utters his voice at the head of his army; how vast is his host! Numberless are those who obey his command. Truly the day of the LORD is great; terrible indeed – who can endure it?
Jl 3:14-16 Multitudes, multitudes, in the valley of decision! For the day of the LORD is near in the valley of decision. The sun and the moon are darkened, and the stars withdraw their shining. The LORD roars from Zion, and utters his voice from Jerusalem, and the heavens and the earth shake. But the LORD is a refuge for his people, a stronghold for the people of Israel.
There is an interesting if unspoken assumption in these descriptions. The sky and the things in that sky are a part of “us” — when our world ends, they end with it.
This image continues into the end-of-the-world scenarios found in the Gospels: in every case, the true end-times are not merely the end of planet Earth, but the end of the universe itself. In each case, the passage quotes Jesus:
Mt 24:29 “Immediately after the suffering of those days the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light; the stars will fall from heaven, and the powers of heaven will be shaken.”
Mk 13:24-26 “But in those days, after that suffering, the sun will be darkened, and the moon will not give its light, and the stars will be falling from heaven, and the powers in the heavens will be shaken. Then they will see ‘the Son of Man coming in clouds’ with great power and glory.”
Lk 21:25 “There will be signs in the sun, the moon, and the stars, and on the earth distress among nations confused by the roaring of the sea and the waves.”
But stars symbolize more than the end of the world, because the end of the world is most assuredly not the end of everything. We have immortal souls. In Paul’s first letter to the Corinthians, we see stars as an example of the range of possibilities of what God can create, especially what he does with us after death:
1 Cor 15:38-42 But God gives it a body as he has chosen, and to each kind of seed its own body. Not all flesh is alike, but there is one flesh for human beings, another for animals, another for birds, and another for fish. There are both heavenly bodies and earthly bodies, but the glory of the heavenly is one thing, and that of the earthly is another. There is one glory of the sun, and another glory of the moon, and another glory of the stars; indeed, star differs from star in glory. So it is with the resurrection of the dead. What is sown is perishable, what is raised is imperishable.
We are creatures — things created — made of matter, and in that sense the same as every other material being. But even among the created bodies, not all are the same. And we are also more than that because we humans have within us the spark of intellect and free will, the soul, which makes us the image and likeness of God. In that, we are more glorious than even the stars themselves.
(Scripture quotations are from the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible, ©1989 by the Division of Christian Education of the National Council of Churches of Christ in the U. S. A. All rights reserved. Used by permission.)
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THE Real Scoop on Tim Geithner's dad working with Barack Obama's mom both for the CIA back when AGENCY WAS ALL OVER INDONESIA although both ostensibly worked for the FORD FOUNDATION ---
(This stuff's better than a soap opera )
We have uncovered a lovely bit of conspiratology. I'm not sure what it
all means; maybe nothing, or maybe much. Ponder: Did you know that Turbo
Tax Timothy Geithner, tax cheat (TTTG, tc) is the son of Peter Geithner,
former Ford Foundation head of the Indonesian region's microfinance
program, which formerly employed one S. Ann Sutoro, Program Director,
and Mother of the Obamessiah? Betcha didn't.
No, we didn't. Here's what we did know. Forgive the self-quotation,
but these key paragraphs should help newcomers get up to speed on an
important, but neglected, aspect of history: Ann spent most of her time
in Indonesia, where she was married to an executive with the American
Mobil corporation. The CIA had, of course, played a key role in
Indonesia's history. At least one Agency veteran of the time has said
that "the CIA took it upon themselves to make, not just to enact, policy
in this area." (Also see here and here.)
To make a long and very gruesome story far too short: Back in the 1960s,
two oil companies linked with the Rockefeller dynasty -- Stanvac and
Caltex -- felt that their investments in Indonesia were threatened by
President Sukarno, who was considered soft on Communism. Stanvac, for
our purposes, is simply another name for Mobil.
To protect American business interests, the CIA engineered a coup in
Indonesia in the 1965-67 period, which led to one of the most appalling
episodes of mass murder in history. Over 500,000 people died in the
resultant bloodbath, which ended with the installation of a CIA puppet
Lolo Sotero, Barack Obama's stepfather, was the key liaison between
Mobil/Stanvac and the Suharto regime.
These events may now seem "long ago and far away" to many modern
Democratic voters. But the situation was quite different in 1967, when
Ann Dunham married Lolo Soetoro. An active leftist -- which Ann Dunham
supposedly was -- with an interest in international affairs would have
known all about the bloodbath. It was in the newspapers. Any true
student radical would have refused to eat lunch with a Suharto/Mobil
And yet she married the man.
How does the Ford Foundation fit in? Well, if you fire up Google -- or
better still, head into a university library -- you'll see plenty of
evidence that the CIA and the FF were likethis during the period when
Timmy's dad and Barry's mom took such a keen interest in Indonesia.
Given the wealth of available material, I hate to cite Wikipedia -- but
if you want a quick summary, you can do worse than to run your eyeballs
over the following:
The former Binghamton University professor of sociology, James Petras,
and other critics accuse the Foundation of being a front organization
for the CIA. Petras names the exchange of high-ranking personnel between
the CIA and the Foundation, Ford Foundation's big donations to the
CIA-backed Congress for Cultural Freedom, the former Foundation
president Richard Bissell's relationship with DCI Allen Dulles and
involvement with the Marshall Plan during the 1950s, among other things.
According to Petras, the Ford Foundation funds "anti-leftist human
rights groups which focus on attacking human rights violations of U.S.
Another American academic, Joan Roelofs, in Foundations and Public
Policy: The Mask of Pluralism (State University of New York Press, 2003)
argues that Ford and similar foundations play a key role in co-opting
opposition movements: "While dissent from ruling class ideas is labeled
'extremism' and is isolated, individual dissenters may be welcomed and
Indeed, ruling class hegemony is more durable if it is not rigid and
narrow, but is able dynamically to incorporate emergent trends." She
reports that John J. McCloy, while chairman of the Foundation's board of
trustees from 1958 to 1965, "...thought of the Foundation as a
quasi-extension of the U.S. government. It was his habit, for instance,
to drop by the National Security Council (NSC) in Washington every
couple of months and casually ask whether there were any overseas
projects the NSC would like to see funded." Roelofs also charges that
the Ford Foundation financed counter insurgency programs in Indonesia
and other countries. Now, instead of bitching about the inclusion of a
quote from Wikipedia, why don't you do something useful -- like, y'know,
double-checking the information? While you're at it, consider looking
into the very interesting backgrounds of John J. McCloy and Richard
If you want a much more extensive history of the Ford Foundation, the
CIA and the ghastly Indonesian coup, read David Ransom's piece here.
Bottom line: But it is the foreign-investment plan that is the payoff of
Ford's twenty-year strategy in Indonesia and the pot of gold that the
Ford modernizers -- both American and Indonesian -- are paid to protect.
The nineteenth-century Colonial Dutch strategy built an agricultural
export economy. The Americans are interested primarily in resources,
mainly mineral.But the real prize is oil...Isn't it always...?
You may also want to visit here, where you'll learn why many
left-leaning journals rarely discuss the relationship between the FF and
the CIA. The Ford Foundation has tossed a fair chunk of money at the
left-wing media. That loot may explain why the old left media (Z
magazine, The Nation, and so forth) tended to avoid CIA stories.
Let's get back to Cinie's piece. She quotes from a resume for Timmy's
dad.Peter F. Geithner is an advisor to the Asia Center at Harvard
University and a consultant to the Asia Pacific Philanthropy Consortium,
Rockefeller Foundation, Sasakawa Peace Foundation, and other
organizations...The last-mentioned Foundation is not without interest.
Homework assignment: Look up Roichi Sasakawa and his links to fascism,
the Yakuza and Reverend Moon.Prior to joining The Ford Foundation, Mr.
Geithner served with the U.S. Agency for International Development in
Zimbabwe, Zambia, and Washington, D.C. AID...? The very mention of those
initials is enough to make any old spook-watcher break into fits of
Heath-Ledger-as-the-Joker laughter: Ha. Ha. HA. Heh. Heh. Ha ha ha. Ha.
Did Papa Giethner know the Mother of the Blessed One during their time
together in Indonesia? Did little Barry and little Timmy play together?
This has yet to be established, although the likelihood seems high,
considering the natures of Lolo's job, her job, and Peter's job. Still,
you may want to heed these words from Cinie...Stanley Ann Dunham Obama
Dunham met her second husband, Lolo Sotoero, at the East West Center on
the University of Hawaii Campus. Ann Dunham had met her son's father,
Barack Obama, Sr., on the same campus years earlier, that time in a
Russian language class. She seems to have had a thing for men who work
for oil companies, too, since ObaOne worked for Shell and Lolo worked
for Mobil. By the way, Cinie links to this earlier post on Cannonfire
(referenced above), of which I'm rather proud: Spies, lies, Barry and
his mom. That piece probably would have received a great deal of
attention in lefty circles if Barack Obama were a white Republican. But
he's neither, which means that the evidence I present will never be
considered sufficient, and the questions I raise will always be ignored.
Nevertheless, if you have a bold streak and an open mind, check it out.
And if you know what Barry and his mom were getting up to in Pakistan,
please share the information with the rest of the class.posted: 9:00 AM8
COMMENTS - CLICK HERE
Comments: Bill Clinton was said by three biographers to have been
recruited by the Agency while at Georgetown. At least one of them
referred to having an eyewitness to his '201' (government personnel)
Others have claimed something similar about Hillary Clinton (but no
mainstream biographers, to my knowledge, and without the claim of anyone
having seen documentary evidence).
Assuming readers here liked the job President Clinton did, perhaps such
a suggested pedigree for Obama is not necessarily a bad thing.
One thing it might explain would be the meteoric rise of Obama from
junior senator to president status, just as it appears Clinton had
powerful patrons boosting his youthful rise to national prominence and
the Oval Office.
While I and others may decry the Agency and its work, there is an
argument that at least it represents the old school power structure, as
opposed to the modern heist of government many think the neo-con faction
performed. So it might represent a return to normalcy, relative to the
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- March 27, 2015
Are Robots The Death Nail For Many Future Jobs?
As I wrote previously https://strategicsearch.com/technical-recruiting-blog/will-robots-steal-future-jobs/ the proliferation of robots in all aspects of our life may be job killers of the future. Economist Erik Brynjolfson at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) recently echoed this sentiment.
Contrary to many of his colleagues at MIT, Mr. Brynjolfson had previously thought that robots and automation would not replace many uniquely human skills such as judgment and dexterity. However, when Google launched a fleet of driverless cars that had safely navigated more than 1000 miles of American roads, Mr. Brynjolfson’s opinions began to change.
This and other recent technological advances, such as computers reading facial expressions, have convinced experts like Mr. Brynjolfson to now believe that robots and automation may adversely affect the labor market. “It’s gotten easier to substitute machines for many kinds of labor,” said Mr. Brynjolfson.
Two other major examples are in mining and surgery. In the Australian Outback mining giant Rio Tinto uses driver-less trucks and drills to mine iron ore. They also plan automated trains to soon carry the ore to ports 300 miles away.
Intuitive Surgical has gained fame recently with their da Vinci line of robot surgery. In fact the U.S. Department of Defense recently signed a $430 million, five-year contract with Intuitive Surgical to provide robotic surgery to all military branches including the army, navy and marines.
All this has prompted technology research firm Gartner, Inc. to predict that almost 33% of all jobs will be replaced by robots and automation within 10 years! Furthermore, Oxford University economists forecast that within 20 years almost 50% of today’s jobs will be performed by machine technology.
But is this all cause for alarm? Maybe not because automation may move a lot slower than many predict. For example, bank ATMs spread quickly across the U.S. over the past 30 years, but only recently has the number of bank tellers declined. In 1985, there were 484,000 U.S. bank tellers. That number only dropped slightly to 472,000 in 2007. Now, mainly prompted by the recent recession, that number is 361,000.
Additionally, as there are more breakthroughs in AI (Artificial Intelligence), robotics and automation, there will be the need for more R&D, scientific, engineering, technical, IT and manufacturing talent to launch those innovations as well as manufacture, refine and service them. This will be a boon to technical recruiters like myself. Especially over the past few months where the demand for key technical people has far outstripped the supply, our executive recruiting firm has been swamped with engineering recruiting requests.
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Arthur Miller was born October 17, 1915 in New York City: he was a playwright, writer and essayist. Son of a family of Jewish Polish immigrants, his father was successful in his profession as a tailor of women’s clothes, his mother was a schoolteacher. In 1940, he married Mary Slattery, but the union ended in divorce in 1956. It was that same year that he married Marilyn Monroe! The famous writer had met her in 1951, and at the time, he was the celebrity. The one who wrote Death of a Salesman in 1949, had come to Hollywood to visit his friend and director of his masterpiece, Elia Kazan, when he met the gaze of the sublime blonde.
After this first meeting, the beauty and the brain, as the newspapers of the time headlined about their union (The beauty and the brain), found themselves at the end of 1955. They were married in the house of Arthur Miller. in Roxbury, Connecticut, a week after the announcement, June 29, 1956. Two days after their civil marriage, Rabbi Robert Goldburg converted the actress to Judaism for the couple to unite religiously. Unfortunately the two personalities divorced on January 24, 1961. Until her death on August 5, 1962, Marilyne Monroe kept her Siddur and a Menorah (a seven-branch candlestick). Her prayer book was auctioned in New York City in October 2018, for an estimated price of between $ 100,000 and $ 150,000.
Did Arthur Miller rebuild his life after his divorce from Marilyn Monroe?
On February 17, 1962, Arthur Miller married Inge Morath, an American photojournalist: the two met while reporting on The Misfits. Together, they will have two children, Rebecca and Daniel. According to biographer Matin Gottfried, Daniel was born with Down’s syndrome and his father placed him in a specialized institution in Roxbury, a small town in the United States. The latter never visited him, unlike his mother. Strange fact: Marilyn Monroe’s ex-husband does not mention her son in his autobiography, Timebends, published in 1987.
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BENEATH THE SPIN • ERIC L. WATTREE
The Filibuster: A Platform for Prima Donnas to Obstruct Democracy
It's time to get rid of the filibuster in the United States Senate. The filibuster is a senate rule where if there is less than sixty votes on any issue, any one senator can hold up the people's business by blocking the issue from coming to a vote before the full senate.
The movie "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington," with Jimmy Stewart, portrays the practice in its most charitable light. There, Jimmy Stewart's character uses the filibuster to prevent legislation from being enacted against the people by a corrupt political machine. But in reality, the filibuster is virtually always used to obstruct legislation beneficial to the people in favor of a corrupt or malevolent status quo.
In 1957 Sen. Strum Thurmond (Sen., S.C.) filibustered to obstruct the 1957 Civil Rights Act. Then in 1964 a group of Southern senators mounted a filibuster in an attempt to obstruct a vote on the 1964 Civil Rights Act, which included anti lynching legislation. And just recently Sen. Joe Lieberman threatened to filibuster to prevent healthcare legislation from coming to a vote in order to protect the greed of the insurance industry - and that was in spite of the fact that a full 68% of the people who voted him into office stood firmly in favor of healthcare reform.
The filibuster is symbolic of the many ways that Americans are being manipulated by the encroachment of an increasingly insidious class system. Thus, the time has long since past for the American people to rediscover the necessity of keeping tight reins on governmental power.
It is absolutely incumbent upon us to strip individual politicians of the tools to hold badly needed legislation hostage for their own personal interest. Not only is it undemocratic to allow one senator to override the will of the people and the majority of the senate, but recent history has clearly demonstrated that politicians are much too self-serving, irresponsible, and corrupt to be vested with such tremendous power.
In an article in Slate.com, it was pointed out that Joe Lieberman's opposition to healthcare reform came only one day after the insurance lobby released a report attacking it. Slate also pointed out that Lieberman's home state of "Connecticut is home to 72 insurance companies, including Aetna, a major player in the health-insurance industry whose PAC and employees have this year given Lieberman $65,200." As a result, Lieberman didn't blink an eye before throwing his constituents under the bus.
So while Joe Lieberman didn't follow through with his threat to filibuster healthcare legislation, it certainly wasn't because he prayed over the issue and suddenly found God. Lieberman didn't follow through with his threat for the very same reason that seems to generally motivate his machinations - self-interest. First, he wants to keep his chairmanship of the Homeland Security Committee in the senate, which the Democrats allowed him to keep even after he turned on them in the 2008 election. And secondly, the pressure for him to fall into line became much too intense for his cowardly heart to take. His threat to filibuster the legislation was designed to pull other Democrats onboard, but when he failed to do so, he lacked the character to stand alone.
President Eisenhower pointed out in his speech on the military/industrial complex that "Only an alert and knowledgeable citizenry can compel the proper meshing of the huge industrial and military machinery of defense with our peaceful methods and goals, so that security and liberty may prosper together [emphasis added]." That also applies to every other area of American governance. But due to the under funding and concerted attack on our educational system, we're rapidly losing that essential characteristic, which is absolutely necessary to maintain the viable democracy that was established by this nation's founders.
Over the years America has become increasingly hostile toward education and the pursuit of knowledge in general. In fact, many of our politicians have started to actively demonize education in much the same way that they demonized the term "liberal" in the sixties. The educated members of our society are now often referred to as "elitist." The hostility of our politicians toward education stems from the fact that the demagoguery of control and manipulation cannot thrive in a knowledgeable society. A knowledgeable society would immediately recognize that one man should not be able to obstruct public policy.
So they've mounted a brutal attack on our educational system by trying to starve it to death. Those who are entrusted with the nation's most valuable asset - the intellectual development of our nation's youth - are denigrated, paid like paupers, and relegated to among the lowest tiers of our society, when they should be at the top. And while other countries are guaranteeing a higher education to all who are qualified, the children of the poor and middle class in the United States are being arrested for demonstrating against college tuition being raised far beyond their ability to pay.
This is not by accident. Our educational system is being purposely undermined so the American people can be easily trained, like Pavlov's dog, to respond to emotional cues rather than rational thought. In that way, corporate manipulators like Joe Lieberman, Fox News, and the Republican Party are left to define, for the people, what's in their best interest. It allows the likes of Rush Limbaugh or a Glen Beck to instruct them in when it's appropriate to become outraged.
That leaves the nation in a very precarious position, because now, instead of loving America, and American ideals, the people have been conditioned to vest their love and loyalty in individuals. We currently see the effect of that in the people's response to Sarah Palin on the right, and President Obama on the left. While certaintly not equating the president with Sarah Palin, the point is, many people have confused their love for individuals with patriotism, and the character of that "patriotism" is determined by the character of the individual. That's extremely dangerous, especially since these people lack the education to reflect back on WWII.
The problem is, in order for American citizens to truly love America, they have to know what it is about America that's worth loving. But due to the attack on our educational system, we've spawned a generation of Americans who know absolutely nothing about American traditions, nor ideals. That's why they so easily accept torture, and the invasion of privacy as though it's business as usual. That's also why they so casually accept the fact that there's a class of people who are obviously above the law. That's what they see in American life, and they have no other frame of reference or educational background to inform them that having a class above the law is un-American. As a result, we have a constant chipping away of American values.
While part of President Eisenhower's warning was "make no assumptions," those of us who do have a knowledge of American ideals have made the false assumption that a knowledge of America's traditions are so fundamental that it's common to all Americans. But the fact is, it's not. There's a large segment of our population who don't know what it means to be an American. Thus, it's not necessary for corporate controllers to take away our rights, we've become so ignorant as a people that we're fighting one another to give them away - and don't make the mistake of thinking that applies to only the least of us.
Our military personnel all get a crash course in what it means to be an American, but what of the corporate and political class? The politicians tell us that we're at war. That used to mean that the entire country pulled together to sacrificed equally to defeat the enemy. But how many sons and daughters of the political or corporate class have died in this war? That's right - not one.
Yeah, I know. We have a volunteer army. But if America is in such a life and death struggle, why aren't the rich and political class urging their children to volunteer in the name of patriotism? I'll tell you why - because the pride of the founding fathers has become so remote that the rich and powerful now see patriotism as pedestrian. These people have learned from their parents - Dick Cheney, for example - that the pride of patriotism is nothing more than a tool to manipulate the masses.
Why isn't the super-patriotic Liz Cheney driving a truck in Iraq? The simple answer is, because she sees it as beneath her station. She feels that there are "little people" to do that sort of thing. Her job is to be a cheerleader.
Thus, we've become the victims of our own ignorance, and it's time to set that straight before it's too late. And the only way that we can restore ourselves as "we the people," is by reasserting ourselves over the lofty and arrogant by stripping then of their political power. And the very first step in that process should be regaining control of congress, and stripping these prima donnas of the right to filibuster the will of the American people.
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You may be wondering: «What are some simple onepot vegetarian meals recipes?» In this article, we’ll give you some great ideas! From Sweet potato soup to roasted butternut squash and cauliflower soup, these meals are guaranteed to keep you full and satisfied for days. Vegetarian meals are also a great way to get extra protein without sacrificing flavor. In addition to their high nutritional value, these meals are low in fat and high in protein.
Easy one-pot vegetarian meals
Vegetarians will enjoy these meatless weeknight dinners, which are delicious and quick to prepare. With a few additions, these recipes are high in fibre and flavour, and they can be made at home in just one pot. To give you more options, here are a few popular one-pot recipes:
A vegetarian one-pot meal is a great choice for busy people. You won’t need to wash multiple pots, mix ingredients in a mixer, or separate cook pans. All you need to prepare it is a chopping board, a knife, and a frying pan. Each recipe is photographed with a side dish for you to serve. These meals are a quick way to feed a family.
Another one-pot meal idea is shakshuka. It takes only about an hour to cook, and it can be served with fresh vegetables, rice, or quinoa. Another one-pot vegetarian meal is Greek baked beans. While these recipes may seem complex, they are easy to prepare and are low-calorie. They also work well as a main dish or as a side dish to an entree. Whether you are looking for a quick and easy meal or a vegetarian feast, these recipes will help you find something delicious.
Easy one-pot vegetarian chili is a comfort food packed with protein. This wholesome dish is packed with veggies and is perfect for those cold winter days. For the kids, try a vegetarian version of meatballs made of quinoa, cauliflower, chickpeas, spices, and avocado. Then drizzle with tahini sauce for a colorful and filling side dish. It will make a delicious meal for any family!
High protein vegetarian meal options
Whether you crave a high-protein vegan burger or a classic meat-based enchilada, you can find an impressive variety of high-protein vegetarian meal options in one pot. Vegan shepherd’s pie, for example, is filled with potatoes, chickpeas, and vegetables. Its low-calorie composition makes it an excellent option for those on a diet. Whether you’re on a tight budget or simply want a flavorful meal with a lot of protein, you’ll find many high-protein vegetarian recipes in one pot.
For vegetarians, it can be difficult to find meals that are high in protein, but many of today’s high-protein vegetarian meal options offer over 20 grams of plant-based protein per serving. These protein-rich dishes not only meet your daily protein requirements, but also help you feel full and satisfied. High-protein foods are essential for good health, so finding a way to incorporate them into your diet has never been easier.
When it comes to making a high-protein vegetarian meal, you’ll need to make sure each ingredient counts. Load your meal with protein-packed vegetables and fiber-packed nuts. This will make it satisfying for both you and your family, and help you get your daily recommended intake of protein. You can also find high-protein recipes in one pot for those who are particularly sporty or need a lot of protein.
The benefits of beans and pasta are also obvious. The roasted vegetables have an incredible texture, and the addition of chia seeds to the batter increases the omega-3 content of the dish. To make this meal even more nutritious, you can also use pre-cooked tempeh or a jar of tahini sauce. These recipes require just a single pot, but they’re still highly nutritious and filling, and can be made ahead of time.
Sweet potato soup
A healthy and tasty dish made from a single pot, sweet potato soup is an ideal choice for cold winter nights. Sweet potatoes and vegetable broth go hand in hand to create a hearty and delicious soup. Adding onion and garlic to the mix will bring out the sweetness of the sweet potato and enhance its flavor. Other spices such as coriander, ginger, smoked paprika, and coconut milk add flavor and richness. A few drops of sea salt are also a tasty topping to add to the soup.
Roasting the pumpkin and sweet potatoes is another way to add a little spice. It’s also a great way to use up some of the pumpkin you’ve been saving from your fall harvest. You can also garnish the bowl with some sage or vegan sour cream and serve with a grilled hummus or red pepper wrap. It also freezes well, so it’s a great meal for those long winter nights.
A delicious and nutritious winter comfort food, sweet potato soup is simple to make and is ready in less than 40 minutes. Sweet potatoes are packed with fiber and antioxidants that help your body heal and replenish nutrients. In addition to being tasty, they are also good for your health, so consider this recipe as part of your vegan diet plan. This vegan meal will warm your heart and satisfy your cravings for a tasty soup.
Adding a little spice to your soup is always welcome! A sprinkle of curry powder is the perfect match for sweet potatoes, and you can add a mild or spicy version depending on your taste. You can also add a pinch of fresh ginger, garlic, thyme, and citrusy orange juice for a more complex and rich taste. To add an extra dimension of flavor, add some toasted walnuts to the pot.
Roasted butternut squash and cauliflower soup
If you’re looking for a delicious soup that is full of nutrients and low-carb, try this roasting butternut squash and cauliflower recipe. With just a few simple ingredients, you can enjoy a nutritious and tasty meal in no time. It’s easy to prepare, too — all you have to do is wash your vegetables and pre-heat the oven.
These vegan and dairy-free soups are easy to make, with the added bonus of being dairy-free! You’ll be pleasantly surprised at how much flavor you’ll get out of them! Roasted butternut squash is naturally creamy, umami, and colorful, and you don’t need any cream or butter to add flavor. If you’re not vegan, you can substitute store-bought vegetable stock with homemade veggie stock or chicken broth. For a richer taste, you can use oat milk or coconut milk instead of water. If you’re not vegan, you can also use half-and-half, but it’s not necessary.
This creamy soup freezes well, and is suitable for special diets. It’s also dairy-free, gluten-free, and vegan. You can also use cashews instead of butter, if desired. If you’re worried about the taste of cauliflower, it’s possible to switch the ingredients for another variety. It can be topped with anything that you like, from pumpkin seeds to chives.
These two vegetable soups are both delicious, satisfying, and easy to make. They’re dairy-free, vegan, and low-carb. This hearty one-pot vegetarian meal is the perfect wintertime soup and is a delicious, easy way to get a healthy dose of both vegetables and dairy-free goodness. Roasted butternut squash and cauliflower soup are simple onepot vegetarian meals recipes.
Quinoa, cauliflower and chickpea meatballs
These hearty, nutty-flavored balls are packed with protein and fiber. If you’re not familiar with quinoa, it’s a pseudo-grain that you can find at most grocery stores, usually in the bulk bin section. It’s a great addition to any vegetarian meal because it’s so low-maintenance and is so simple to prepare.
You can serve these savory vegetarian meatballs as a simple appetizer, as a meal over rice or pasta, or as a delicious appetizer. You can also make meatball subs by adding them to your favorite spaghetti dish. These meatballs are also easy to freeze, so don’t worry if you don’t have a meatball maker!
This recipe can be prepared up to a day ahead. The cauliflower and quinoa are best cooked the night before. Once cooked, make the meatballs and store them in the refrigerator for up to 5 days or freeze them for three months. If you’re preparing these meatballs in advance, you can cook them ahead of time. If you’d like to make more than you can eat, simply freeze them before serving.
You can also substitute hummus for the tahini drizzle. Simply mix a teaspoon of tahini, a teaspoon of lemon juice and a few tbsp of water. The quinoa should be cooked for at least 10 minutes before serving. Top the dish with fresh herbs and additional salt if desired, and enjoy!
Quinoa, cauliflower and chickpeea meatballs are a delicious way to make a hearty vegetarian meal. They are packed with flavor and texture, and they are packed with plant-based protein. And since you can serve them as a side dish or a main course salad, they’re a great choice for vegetarian dinners.
If you’re a vegetarian, you have many delicious options. Tofu can be a bland protein, but you can marinate it in Thai red curry paste, sugar, and Asian fish sauce for an exotic, delicious meal. Serve it with tender green beans for a vegetarian twist on a classic dish. Shepherd’s Pie is a classic meat and vegetable pie; try this vegetarian version with eggplant, pearl onions, and the traditional mashed potatoes.
If you are pressed for time, try this delicious and healthy quick vegetarian recipe! This stir-fried dish uses tofu, which is flavorless but a great source of vegan protein. It is also ideal for meal prepping. This recipe features a flavor-packed sauce and perfectly seasoned tofu. It’s a quick vegetarian recipe that is packed with protein and can be prepared ahead of time. You’ll be delighted with the results!
Cabbage soup is an excellent low-calorie, fast-to-prepare vegetarian recipe that can satisfy any cravings. It also contains a variety of seasonings, so it makes a tasty snack or lunch. It also packs plenty of vitamins and minerals, making it the perfect meal for busy people. Once cooked, cabbage soup makes a hearty and nutritious snack or lunch. You can add a little salt and pepper for additional flavor and serve it hot or cold.
Another quick vegetarian recipe is cheela. This dish can be prepared in less than half an hour. It contains vermicelli, a traditional pasta similar to spaghetti. It’s made of veggies, spices, dahi, sprouts, and semolina. It’s perfect for breakfast or snack time. The creamy texture makes it a filling dish that can be refrigerated or frozen for a quick vegetarian dinner.
For vegetarians on a budget, the Mexican Quinoa dish is an ideal meal for two people. It is low in calories and quick to prepare. The leftovers can be frozen and reheated at a later date. The vegetarian fajita wrap is a satisfying and healthy quick vegetarian meal. It can be made in advance and shared with friends. You can also prepare vegetarian burgers to feed four people. And if you’re looking for a meal for four people, a vegetarian falafel burger might be perfect for you.
Vegetarians often have a difficult time creating delicious and nutritious meals. Many meat-based meals are reminiscent of their meat counterparts, and the idea of preparing meatless meals is difficult. However, these recipes are not intended to mimic the taste of meat but rather to celebrate the deliciousness of plant-based and vegetarian dishes. In addition to the simple preparation steps, many of these recipes use basic ingredients and include ingredients such as pumpkin, yogurt, nutritional yeast, cooked fettuccine, and fresh basil.
An easy vegetarian recipe is lentil salad with cucumber. The lentils are tossed with dates, cucumbers, parsley, and a homemade lemon vinaigrette. The dish can be served with socca, a delicious, gluten-free flatbread made from chickpea flour. You can even make it ahead of time and serve it with grilled vegetables to keep it moist and tasty. Alternatively, you can make your own vegan penne and serve it with rice.
A meat-free tart can be prepared with canned tomatoes and white beans. Tofu is usually bland, but you can marinate it in Asian fish sauce, sugar, and Thai red curry paste to make it more palatable. The dish is best served with a side of tender green beans and rice. Another vegetarian meal is Shepherd’s Pie. Traditionally, this dish contains minced meat, but in this recipe, eggplant and pearl onions replace the meat. The traditional mashed potatoes are also replaced by a vegan polenta crust.
Depending on the ingredients, an easy vegetarian dish may require less than 30 minutes to prepare. For instance, a 15-minute gnocchi recipe may be ideal. Another quick vegetarian meal involves a savory Asian-inspired vegetable dish with Asian flair. This meal can be prepared in under 20 minutes and is guaranteed to satisfy hungry vegetarians and their families. The ingredients are easy to find, and you’ll love the taste. If you don’t have time to prepare the dish, simply freeze the vegetables in advance and cook them together.
A classic Chinese dish has become a vegetarian mainstay. Lo Mein (or vegetable noodle soup) is a dish often served during the Chinese New Year. Long noodles are considered a symbol of longevity. In this vegetarian version, the ingredients include mushrooms, red pepper, snow peas, scallions, and Toasted Sesame Oil. This recipe serves four people. For a more filling meal, try substituting tofu for the noodle soup.
The vegetarian version of shepherd’s pie is a great way to use up leftover mashed potatoes. It’s a quick meal and tastes just like the real thing. It’s full of black lentils and veggies, curried mashed potatoes, and gravy. You can use leftover mashed potatoes for this dish or buy pre-cooked curried mash potatoes to save time. It can be prepared in 20 minutes and is a great meal for a cold day.
In a nutshell, a vegetarian recipe can be delicious and convenient, whether you want a quick weeknight meal or an elaborate meal that is fit for a dinner party. One easy recipe is to whip up creamy ricotta cheese in 10 minutes. Top it with fresh herbs and honey for a flavorful, satisfying dip. You can also make vegetarian finger foods and dips using the same basic recipe. Once you’ve mastered the basics, you can add a little flair to your vegetarian cooking.
When you’re looking for a hearty, satisfying comfort food recipe, go meatless. A meatless version of a classic is just as satisfying. For example, a meatless shepherd’s pie can be made with lentils and a yeast extract spread to impart umami flavor. This recipe will be a crowd-pleaser and will satisfy your craving for traditional comfort foods without sacrificing taste. Here are a few vegetarian comfort food recipes to make.
Enchiladas are another delicious comfort food recipe. Enchiladas are usually served in a casserole and are filled with a savory blend of vegetables, black beans, carrots, and zucchini. Whether you prefer the traditional enchilada sauce or a vegan version, you’ll find comfort in this savory blend of vegetables. There are even vegetarian versions of enchiladas that contain eggs or cheese.
If you want to cook a vegetarian recipe but don’t know what to use, look no further! There are many delicious, healthy dishes that are free of meat and dairy. In this article, I’m going to share some of my favorite vegetarian recipes with you. These meals can be cooked any night of the week, but are particularly great for meatless Mondays. They can also be adapted to vegan ingredients. These recipes are quick and easy to prepare, and they taste amazing!
In this dish, you’ll find a roasted tomato and white bean stew that packs a lot of flavor in a short amount of time. It’s easy to make and transforms simple pantry ingredients into a gourmet meal. You can also add hearty greens and grated cheese for an extra-delicious meal. It’s perfect for vegetarians who want to make their meal a bit different, but still eat well.
Alternatively, you can mix the vegetables and leeks with the cheese before mixing it all together. Then, spread the mixture into a casserole dish. Bake it for 30 minutes and then add the vegetables. Let it rest for about 10 minutes before serving it. If you have leftovers, you can store it in the refrigerator for up to three days. Or, you can freeze it for up to three days. You can even prepare a meal ahead of time for a week and then eat it anytime.
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Interviewer: Gillian Zhang (GZ); Interviewee: Kathleen Walker-Meikle (KW);
Time: December 20, 2021; Location: Zoom
GZ: Hello, everyone. Welcome to the Nouvelles Nouvelles podcast. I am Gillian Zhang. Today we are very pleased to invite Dr. Kathleen Walker-Meikle to have a brief conversation with us. Dr. Walker-Meikle received her PhD from University College London. Her research interests focus on the relationship between animals and humans, particularly in medicine and natural history. She has published a number of books including Medieval Pets (2012), which is the first social and cultural study of companion animals in the late medieval period, and two charming gift books, Medieval Cats and Medieval Dogs. Her research has also included works on medieval toxicology and animal bites, the 11th-and-12th -century pharmacology in the Antidotorium magnum, late medieval magic and cosmology, and most recently, skin diseases and animal skin on the Renaissance Skin Project at King's College London. Early this month [Dec. 3, 2021], Dr. Walker-Meikle gave a fabulous keynote address entitled “Rabies, Scabies, Beast and Man: Animals and Disease in the Medieval and Early Modern Period” in CMRS’s annual symposium. Recently, she has started at the Science Museum Group in London as Research Grant Manager. With that, Dr. Walker-Meikle, thank you for joining us today.
KW: Thank you very much. And thanks very much for inviting me to your podcast.
GZ: When did you start getting interested in the whole idea of studying the Medieval and Renaissance period, and what brought your attention to animals?
KW: Well, I started off as an undergraduate actually very interested in the ancient world. By the time I started postgraduate study, I thought, I'll stay in Late Antiquity, and then I found myself slowly getting drawn to the early Middle Ages, high Middle Ages, and then late Middle Ages. I think why I love the Medieval period is that it always defies stereotypes and common assumptions. To me, that is wonderful that I'm working in a period in which people just have such really strong stereotypes of what it was like and then discovering something new every day. I also love working in a field in which you really have to work hands-on with your sources. You might be reading manuscripts that nobody has perhaps really studied in depth for hundreds of years. You are moving parchment pages, which are basically preserved animal skins, and looking at words written on them. So to me, that's part of the love for the Middle Ages. For animals, I started actually quite early on. When I wasn’t getting interested in the Middle Ages, I started by seeing animals and bestiaries, these wonderful medieval didactic religious texts, in which model tales are told through animals, and they're often superbly illustrated. Then I began to think, well, animals are interesting and started there. And from there, I've really never stopped. I've tried to go when in with any other field I've looked at whether it's medicine or science, there's always an animal angle, whether it's looking at animals that are diseased, or looking at the diseases that animals give us, more looking at pets.
GZ: I see. I think your early research focused on the animals like as pets. Did you have a pet, or what primary sources led you to study the animals that were a companion to humans?
KW: This was my PhD on medieval pet keeping. And I didn't originally start looking at pets. I originally was looking at animals in medicine and medical texts. And my PhD supervisor, the wonderful Professor David d’Avray, asked me one day, I think on about the second week, “Did they keep pets in Middle Ages?” And I looked at him and I said, “I don't really know.” And he said, “Well, come back next week when you know the answer.” So I went off to the British Library, which fortunately – being University College London, there's only about five minutes walk away – and spent the next week looking around, and all of a sudden finding, they were keeping tons of pets. And nobody really had done much work on this. And I was particularly interested in certain aspects of how animals are gendered. What are suitable animals for men, for women, for clerics, for people in different walks of life. And so I then went back to him and said, “Well, I'm changing my PhD topic, I'm now going to be doing pets.” And it's through the entire PhD, almost the first question at any conference paper would be, “Do you have a pet?” Because I think people had this idea that I either had half a dozen Dachshunds or was a crazy cat lady, and that couldn't explain this mania. I have to say that I did not have a pet when I was doing the PhD. At the moment, however, I do have a rescue cat, called Tommy. I often would be very firm and tried to make a distinction that this is an academic study of pets. This is very serious. It is possibly because Animal Studies is a lot more respected in academia [now] than it was. Several years ago, I remember, when I started, it was seen as slightly flippant and not real history. When I would be at a conference, and somebody would be saying like, “I’m working on this particular aspect of literacy and nuns,” and someone else was saying, “Well, I'm doing Norwegian kingship.” And I would say, “Well, I'm doing late medieval pets,” and you could almost see the giggles among everyone [thinking] that's not serious history. I would be saying that it is. To me, it is an entire interesting aspect of social and cultural history. It is just as important as knowing, what were people eating? What did people wear? How would they live their lives? Particularly, I find animals could help me to ask very interesting questions, because we've always had this very nebulous connection to them. What are we, as humans, if not another animal? I always found in my work, for example, clerics and scholars writing Latin elegies about, “I hope my little dog goes to heaven.” You think at the same time, illogically, this really shouldn't be working, but they are cheerfully writing, and there are just so many sources. Partially, I think I was so free, because I was working at that time in a field, where I was practically just the one person. I just looked at anything I could. I would go through all accounts and see if I could find references to feeding dogs, or pet animal accessories, like collars for cats, or parrot cages. A lot of [this required] a huge amount of work, because materials usually would be poorly indexed or not indexed at all. I would just go down rabbit holes, and I would just assume things like, let's go through all the tax records for Paris in the thirteenth century and see if we can find references to people selling pets, or making items for pets like cages and dog baskets. Actually, in the end, it was very rich.
GZ: I think that's a wonderful story, that you realized not many people focused on medieval pets. And you were doing this groundbreaking research. You mentioned that the British Library is not far away from UCL, so you must benefit a lot from the resources collected there. I also noticed that your first two gift books, Medieval Cats and Medieval Dogs, used the manuscripts from the British Library. Is it because you went there a lot that you have this collaboration with them?
KW: It was the case that the British Library is always fabulous, and was very useful. And during my PhD, I used a huge amount of rare book libraries and archives, including the British Library, Bodleian [Library at Oxford University], several Oxford and Cambridge college libraries, [and] material in France. I also looked at a huge amount of material in Italy. Particularly, I think in a chapter I wrote about animals of court, which were involved a lot in archives in Mantua, but also looking at material in Venice. Actually, not long after my PhD, I was approached by British Library Publishing, and they asked me, “Would you like to write some little books about medieval dogs or medieval cats that highlight the animals in our collection?” For reference, they have been recently published under different titles. It's now Cats in Medieval Manuscripts and Dogs in Medieval Manuscripts, because the previous titles are out of print. [. . .] the little books they have a selection on each page of a medieval source about a dog or cat, and then an illustration. To give the disproportionate nature of medieval illuminations of cats versus dogs, the volume on cats, Cats in Medieval Manuscripts, has cats from both the British Library and the Bodleian Library in Oxford, because I needed about 60 images. Meanwhile, for the one on Dogs in Medieval Manuscripts, because dogs overtake cats by about 1:20 in medieval illuminations, that whole book has purely got dogs from the British Library because there were just so many. It was a case where I really chose which ones I wanted. Meanwhile, with cats, it was a case of if I can find a cat in this manuscript, it's going in.
GZ: Okay, I see. I know you explored tons of manuscripts and looked at the images and literature of animals or medieval pets. Were there animals that were kept as pets in the medieval period, but would it be hard to imagine having one as a pet in the present time?
KW: That's a very good question. A hugely popular pet in the Middle Ages is the red squirrel. They used to keep these squirrels on little leashes. They often had little collars. People would take the squirrel out for little walks, or you would go walking with the squirrel on your shoulder. It was just very popular, appearing in illuminations. I found references to squirrel collars in aristocratic and royal accounts. In literary sources, they talked and laughed about people spoiling their pet squirrels. It is an animal that now seems really unpopular, even though I did find a very close parallel in 18th-century colonial America, when there was an entire fad for gray squirrels, because you don't have red squirrels in America. For gray squirrels, they were kept as pets. I found a nice selection of paintings of people keeping animals as pets. I have to say that if I was doing the research nowadays, I probably could have even more access to imagery than I had then, because just in the past fifteen years alone, the amount of digitized material that is now available is huge. I mean, you know, I have an entire Twitter account, Medieval_Badger, for reference, which mainly concentrates on just animal imagery. There's just so much now available online that just wasn't there. I think of other unusual pets is that there's a late-15th-early-16th-century Italian artist Giovanni Bazzi, known as Il Sodoma, who kept pet badgers. I was rather delighted when visiting a monastery in Tuscany, Monte Oliveto Maggiore, where he painted the frescoes of the life of Saint Benedict in the cloisters, and there was a self-portrait of Giovanni Bazzi with his pet badgers, and they have little weird collars. Possibly again on unusual animals, … [the] French King Charles VIII – I found a record in his accounts to pet marmots. The marmot is like a groundhog. They had little jackets that were made out of velvet that were made out of both red and tan little squares. His little marmots were wearing jackets! There are two aspects I have found very entertaining: (1) references to the animals wearing very over-the-top accessories, things like squirrels with collars covered in pearls, or marmots with little velvet jackets; (2) and the other one that always entertained me was references to pets that were too fat.
GZ: I see, because people liked to feed them.
KW: And actually, it was a good thing to look for, because you found lots of criticism, particularly for example of preachers would complain about why do people just keep their pets so fat, and not give that money to poor people? It was actually a good thing to look for in sermons of preachers complaining about fat pets, but I was always very fond of fat pets and pets wearing lots of bling.
GZ: Yeah, those are all very interesting stories. How could we know they were pets or they were just animals in nature? And you mentioned, for example, sometimes they were too fat, or sometimes they wear collars or a jacket, so in that way, they are kind of similar to human beings, because we wear clothes, but usually the animals in nature don't wear anything, right?
KW: No. I found it was actually a very helpful thing when I was trying to define what I should call a pet. I realized very early on, I could not just stick with an animal that you have a strong emotional connection to, because if I did that, then I would have people [with] strong emotional connections to horses, or farm animals. I didn't want to have the entire PhD filled with donkeys, so I specified that that it had to be an animal mostly kept for companionship. And it had to be an animal that you often have indoors or in your internal space. It's not kept outside in kennels or doesn't live outside. I was also interested in things, for example, animals that [you] can give names to, or animals that you especially feed, rather than just let them try to find their own food. However, the two things I particularly looked for were companionship and being kept inside. This of course then led me to all these wonderful references of people complaining about dogs on the table, cats on chairs, and pets on beds. There were lots of references to pets on beds. I was always delighted because to me that made a very clear distinction. A pet is an artificial category of animal. It's a human construct. To me that was very helpful when trying to identify what these animals were.
GZ: Okay, I see. So yeah, they were usually staying in the interiors. I think later on you switched your research direction to skin disease and animal bites from pets. When did you switch the research direction?
KW: As soon as I finished my PhD, I got a grant to be a fellow at the Wellcome Trust Center for the History of Medicine at UCL for a year, working on medieval medicine and animals, which was my remit. There were always animals, but I began to get very interested in, for example, animals in pharmacological products, the use of an animal’s body parts. Often the kind of things that people laugh about in medieval medicine such as you know, putting burnt hedgehogs on your head to cure baldness. All those kinds of recipes I was very interested in. Why were certain animals [used]? Why would you use them? Where were they getting this material from? I then received a Wellcome Trust grant with the University of York on animal bites. And in many ways, I call this almost the opposite of pets. That was when animals were nice, and then I was very interested in animals biting you. ... When I started with pets, people used to tell me that you can't do a PhD on that; there's no sources. I would say “No, I have too many sources.” And similarly with bites, I could write an entire book just on one species of snake biting people in the Middle Ages, because there was so much material. I got very interested in toxicology, and rabies, and ... on to ideas of animal diseases and animal skin. Even with the animal diseases, I'm very interested in zoonotic diseases, which is very actually apt in our current age of COVID-19. The ideas of diseases that are shared between both humans and animals are ones in which there’s transmission between animals and humans, and vice versa. I started this when I was looking at rabies, and then looking at skin diseases in which you're sharing the same mites. Actually, one of my latest projects at this very moment is working with a team of ancient DNA specialists in Switzerland. We're trying to basically identify leprosy and plague in rodents in the Middle Ages. They are looking at bones of squirrels, bones of rats, to see what strain of disease these animals had. I joined the project because they emailed me and they said, “We're looking for somebody who knows something about medieval squirrels. Would this be you?” I did feel like saying, “Well, it's probably JUST me.” This has started an entire fascinating avenue of work, in which I'm now looking at the fact that not only were they keeping squirrels as pets, but it's the number one fur in the late Middle Ages … They were using hundreds of thousands of squirrel bellies to line all these clothes. And it's very much connected because it's believed that leprosy in the Middle Ages was a zoonotic disease going between squirrels and humans. That's the squirrel connection. So yes, I have to say, I don't think I'll ever leave animals because there's just so many avenues and it's just such a rich vein to [pursue].
GZ: When I read your paper or your book, I realize there are so many footnotes. That surprised me because you provide us so many resources that we just didn't pay enough attention to. As you mentioned, you're studying toxicology in the medieval period, and it's related to science history and natural history. It is definitely an interdisciplinary project. It bridges humanities and science. So, during this process, what's the most difficult thing for your research?
KW: I wouldn't say it's difficult, but I would say the challenge is that, from the very start, I had to be very interdisciplinary. Right from the start, I was reading zooarchaeological reports. I was getting quite obsessive. I would go and look through any report on animals dug up in the Middle Ages to see what type of animals these could be. You'd be looking at literary sources, looking at everything from letters to poetry, historical sources. You're going through everything from sermons to chronicles. It's a challenge, I enjoy it, but I would say it's just a huge amount of material. Even, for example, medical material – you mentioned toxicology. I'd be looking for snakebite, and I’d find this in surgical texts; you then go and find this perhaps in texts on medieval pharmacy, and in different genres, so you have to be very adaptable. This does mean having to read a lot of secondary literature, and trying to keep up with finding so much material. Yes, I do like footnotes. I have to say that for the Medieval Pets book, I must thank my editor at Boydell and Brewer, Caroline Palmer, for making me make those endnotes much smaller. I have to confess that I am one of those academics that enjoy a nice, long footnote, and she really wisely steered me into making them a little bit more concise, and so that they were not, you know, taking up half a page per footnote. Recently I've got an article coming out on an Arabic text that was translated in the 11th-12th century on animals. It's all about using the body parts of animals from medicine and magic. To me, it's just a perfect example that this field is just so rich.
GZ: Yes, I think based on your research, I can see there are so many directions and [so much] potential to study human-animal relationships. I still have another question. Because I'm studying art history and visual culture, I noticed that you always paid attention to the iconography of animals in your research, so I'm very curious about whether there is an example in which the image contrasts with the literary descriptions in the textual material.
KW: Not a case of contrast, but it was often the case that it was actually strengthened. For example, I might find in sermon literature preachers complaining about fat dogs, and then I would see Books of Hours for female owners, in which they are accompanied by very clearly rotund little fat dogs. These are drawn in quite a noted fashion, different from sleek hunting hounds. They're very clearly fat [Labrador] dogs. Getting back to squirrels, I first saw that in a Hans Holbein’s Portrait of a Lady with a Squirrel and a Starling. She is holding a squirrel with a little chain and a collar. At the time, I thought that's unusual, but did they actually have them with collars in squirrels, or is it just a little artistic affectation? I was delighted to see accounts, going through poetry references to know it isn’t [just an affectation limited to paintings]. They are putting little collars on their squirrel. I think iconography can really strengthen [textual evidence] … Sometimes when I see a lot of animals, particularly Medieval and Renaissance iconography, I am quite obsessive about it. I will go to an art gallery, and it will be a case of “there's a dog,” “there's a cat,” and “there's a pet that you want.” If you're next to me as I go to any collection that sort of pre-1800, you are warned that that's me throughout. However, I've always thought that so often the imagery of animals gets reduced to pure symbolism, so that people would say, “It's a dog, symbol of fidelity. That's why they're carrying it,” or “That's a cat. It's evil. That's why it's there.” Because these were animals that I'd done a lot of work on, seeing that they're very ordinary pets, sometimes their inclusion there was quite basic. They're there because they're kept as pets. It's normal that you'd expect to see them. At the foot of an aristocratic lady, yes, you would expect to see a dog, as you expect to see her in beautiful clothes. She has a dog that's almost an automatic accessory. Similarly, for example, in religious paintings, paintings of the Last Supper in the Renaissance, it's very common at the middle of the Last Supper that there will be a dog and a cat fighting, or there will be a dog and a cat eating table scraps. Sometimes I found that this would be overly interpreted. Is the cat Judas? What does the dog represent? Rather than just a symbol, I think it's more like a symbol of domesticity. Dogs and cats are at dinner. Having a dog and a cat at a place next to a table, chairs, and food is not iconographically that strange. They would be seen as something completely normal when you were eating.
GZ: I totally agree. Sometimes they probably don’t have any specific symbolic meaning, but just a common motif there.
KW: Well, for the symbolism to work, it means that the animals still have to signify something. For example, when you see a hound at the foot of a knight, it can mean that the dog has very positive virtue of fidelity and faithfulness, but it also works on the fact that he is a knight and it has a strong connection of medieval hunting culture. Having a hound is not unusual, so it works both ways. I don’t think it’s an either/or. By the way, I do recommend this to anybody if you are looking at any Medieval or Renaissance art: do look out for the animals. Because once you start looking, you just can’t stop thinking “Oh my goodness, is this the age of animals?” You would be seeing a courtly scene, then at the corner there would be a monkey on the head of a dog, and you would be saying, “Come on!”
GZ: Haha, okay. Thank you for sharing your experience with us. I don’t want to take too much of your time. I know you’re really busy, so maybe we will stop here. Thank you for spending the time with us. I wish you a relaxing holiday, since the holiday is approaching.
KW: Thank you very much! I’ll probably be spending a lot of the time working on some articles that are due and some chapters that I have to finish, as most scholars sadly do, if they have got any spare time. Thank you so much for inviting me. It was delightful to talk, and I hope I’ve encouraged listeners to start looking at the [manuscript] pages and looking for animals.
GZ: Thank you very much!
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A good PT wants to know what causes back pain. A few of the things we’ll look for can include: muscles that are weak or too short; vertebra that don’t move well with those above and below it; loss of motion; inflammation.
Then, we use time-honored and evidence-based strategies that can provide relief quickly. For example: tissue release techniques similar to massage, spinal joint mobilizations that restore motion and relieve pain, or modalities like ultrasound to reduce swelling and pain.
The trademark of PT’s however, is not so much what we do to you, but rather what we can teach you to do for yourself. We are the exercise experts! and you will almost always be given instructions at the first visit that you can use for immediate relief.
How Do Physical Therapists Differ From Other Providers?
Many people benefit greatly from the services of massage therapists or chiropractors. You should know however, that many of these practitioners are trained to teach you that you will need them regularly, and maybe forever. And in some cases, this may be appropriate care.
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Our musculoskeletal systems – our muscles and bones – are remarkably designed to work efficiently and painlessly for a lifetime. If used as directed! PT’s have read and studied the owners’ manual for you: within a minimum of visits, we can get you back on track. Continue as directed, and you can join the millions of others who have returned to pain-free living. | <urn:uuid:f1ef5917-aabf-4e3d-b53d-9c69161845ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://backneckwellnesscenter.com/blog/?p=6 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00268.warc.gz | en | 0.961099 | 413 | 1.976563 | 2 |
A monthly injection will almost eliminate cravings, reveals the team at the University of Chile in Santiago.
“The vaccine delivers an instant hangover of epic proportions,” said the university’s Dr Juan Asenjo.
The vaccine delivers an instant hangover of epic proportions
“If a patient takes one sip of alcohol after the injection, those typical hangover symptoms, such as rapid pulse rate, sweating and nausea, are magnified to the point where the mere idea of another drink is repellent.”
The vaccine will be tested on humans until at least the end of 2013. In early trials it has reduced alcohol intake by more than 90 per cent and completely in a number of cases. | <urn:uuid:7e468008-794e-4761-a79f-e7e89340e024> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.express.co.uk/news/uk/375209/Jab-to-save-alcoholics | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00292-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910908 | 148 | 2.078125 | 2 |
Estudi dels efectes de l'exposició a l'unari en la reproducció i la conducta. Influencia de l'estres
Depleted uranium has been used in medial and industrial applications for decades but only since its use in military conflicts in the Gulf and the Balkans has public concern been raised about potential health consequences from exposure to it.
Moreover, uranium contamination becomes dispersed across the natural environment, thus entering the food chain. It means that for certain populations, the chemical toxic effects of uranium intake can be a matter of notable concern.
On the other hand, stress is a highly individualized response of an organism to external or internal challenges. It is obvious that general population, as well as the military personnel are probably subjected to remarkable stressful events or experiences.
It is also well known that neurobehavioral changes, together with physiological and biochemical alterations, are common response to stress. Taking into account that humans be potentially exposed to uranium, while they can be also concurrently subjected to stressful situations, the consequences could become apparent as an interaction,
like an increase or a decrease of the effects.
The main objective of the present study was to assess whether stress could enhance the potential adverse effects of uranium (UAD) on reproduction and behaviour.
Neither UAD doses tested nor restraint stress induces alterations in the behavioural tests carried out in adult male rats exposed to uranium.
The results of the current study suggest that chronic UAD exposure in males affects sperm production and morphology, as well as reveal dose related tubular and interstitial alterations of the testes. Moreover, histopathological examination of the kidneys revealed an angiomatose transformation in UAD-exposed animals.
In brain, testes and kidneys, graded doses of UAD elicit depletion of the antioxidant defence system of the rat and induce oxidative stress.
General data on pregnancy outcome measures show, neither in the number of total implants per litter nor in the number of viable and nonviable implants per litter significant differences among groups. However, UAD produced a significant (not dose-related) decrease in the pregnancy rate of treated rats.
In the current study, restraint stress did not enhance the induced physical, neuromotor and behavioural changes in the offspring of UADexposed male rats.
This doctoral thesis shows that oral UAD exposure in rats causes signs of toxicity in testes, kidneys and brain. The results of this investigation show that at the current UAD doses, restraint stress did not enhance the uranium-induced adverse effects in male rats. However, the influence of stress on these potential toxic effects cannot be discarded.
Advisor:Sanchez Cervelló, Domingo J.; Gómez Arnaiz, Mercedes
School:Universitat Rovira i Virgili
Source Type:Master's Thesis
Keywords:departament de ciències mèdiques bàsiques
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Mormons prefer Romney by 84% to 13%
PRINCETON, NJ -- Mormon registered voters overwhelmingly support the candidacy of the first major-party presidential candidate of the Mormon faith, with 84% saying they would vote for Mitt Romney, compared with 13% who prefer Barack Obama. Obama, meanwhile, enjoys solid support from Jewish voters, 64% to 29%.
Gallup previously analyzed the preferences of the major religious groups in the United States. Currently, Protestants favor Romney by 52% to 40%, nonreligious voters favor Obama by 65% to 25%, and Catholics are evenly divided between the two (46% Obama, 45% Romney).
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Roughly 2% of Americans identify their religious faith as Mormon, or the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Two percent also identify their religion as Jewish. Though relatively small in number, Jews and Mormons represent the next-largest religious faiths in the United States after Protestants (including those who identify simply as Christian) and Catholics.
Since Gallup began tracking 2012 presidential vote preferences in April, it has interviewed more than 500 Jewish and Mormon registered voters each. Overall, U.S. registered voters are evenly divided in their voting preferences, with 46% supporting Romney and 46% Obama.
U.S. Jews and Mormons have been strongly politically aligned with the Democratic and Republican parties, respectively, so their current candidate preferences are consistent with their usual political leanings. Gallup Daily tracking from January 2011-May 2012 shows 70% of Mormons identifying as Republicans or leaning to the Republican Party, and 19% identifying as or leaning Democratic. Meanwhile, 64% of Jews affiliate with the Democratic Party and 27% with the Republican Party.
Although Romney's current advantage among Mormons is greater than Obama's is among Jews, Jews may be more likely to turn out and vote than Mormons are. According to Gallup Daily tracking since mid-April, 83% of Jewish registered voters say they definitely will vote, compared with 77% of Mormon registered voters. The national average among all registered voters is 78%.
Romney Doing Better Among Mormons, Obama Worse Among Jews, Than in 2008
In comparison to registered-voter data from October and November 2008, Romney appears to be doing better among Mormons than John McCain did, and Obama appears to be doing worse among Jews than he did in the last election. This is the case on both an absolute and a relative basis, taking into account the fact that Obama is running less well now among all registered voters than he did in the fall of 2008.
Among all registered voters in October-November 2008, Obama led McCain, 51% to 42%, compared with a 46% to 46% tie with Romney this year. So overall, Obama is running about five percentage points lower than he did just before the 2008 election among registered voters, and Romney is running four points better than McCain did.
In 2008, Mormons preferred McCain to Obama by 75% to 19%. Romney's current 84% share of the Mormon vote is thus nine points better than McCain's, and five points better than the average shift from McCain to Romney among all registered voters.
Among Jews, Obama's current 64% to 29% advantage compares with a 74% to 23% advantage before the election in 2008. Thus, he is running 10 points lower among Jewish registered voters than in 2008, which is five points worse than his decline among all registered voters compared with 2008.
Jewish and Mormon voters show decided preferences for Obama and Romney, respectively, consistent with their usual political leanings. Romney's historic candidacy as the first Mormon presidential candidate has him currently running a bit more strongly among that religious group than McCain did as the Republican candidate in 2008, and above what would be expected, given the overall increase in support for the GOP presidential candidate compared with 2008.
Obama remains the favorite of Jewish voters but appears to be running a bit weaker among them than he did in 2008, given the 10-point drop in Jewish support for him compared with a five-point drop among all voters.
Given the relatively small size of each group, and their strong Democratic and Republican leanings, Jewish and Mormon voters typically are not critical groups in deciding presidential election outcomes. However, with Romney and Obama so closely matched thus far, every additional bit of support they can muster among these groups could be valuable to their winning the election.
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Results are based on telephone interviews conducted as part of Gallup Daily tracking April 11-June 5, 2012, with a random sample of 24,181 registered voters, aged 18 and older, living in all 50 U.S. states and the District of Columbia.
For results based on the total sample of registered voters, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±1 percentage point.
For results based on the total sample of 576 Jewish registered voters, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±5 percentage points.
For results based on the total sample of 524 Mormon registered voters, one can say with 95% confidence that the maximum margin of sampling error is ±5 percentage points.
Interviews are conducted with respondents on landline telephones and cellular phones, with interviews conducted in Spanish for respondents who are primarily Spanish-speaking. Each sample includes a minimum quota of 400 cell phone respondents and 600 landline respondents per 1,000 national adults, with additional minimum quotas among landline respondents by region. Landline telephone numbers are chosen at random among listed telephone numbers. Cell phone numbers are selected using random-digit-dial methods. Landline respondents are chosen at random within each household on the basis of which member had the most recent birthday.
Samples are weighted by gender, age, race, Hispanic ethnicity, education, region, adults in the household, and phone status (cell phone only/landline only/both, cell phone mostly, and having an unlisted landline number). Demographic weighting targets are based on the March 2011 Current Population Survey figures for the aged 18 and older non-institutionalized population living in U.S. telephone households. All reported margins of sampling error include the computed design effects for weighting and sample design.
In addition to sampling error, question wording and practical difficulties in conducting surveys can introduce error or bias into the findings of public opinion polls.
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Cleats prevent products from getting sucked in. They increase the retention force of the vacuum cup by enlarging the active suction area. The product is stabilized by enhancing the axial stability.
Cleats are particularly recommended for flexible products or in case of high acceleration forces in the machine, since the product is prevented from shifting or slipping.
Oval and rectangular vacuum cups are suitable for longitudinal or cylindrical work-pieces occupying low space (e.g. rails, framings, tubes and bolts). They are also suitable for corrugated work-pieces and products having bars and webs.
They offer considerably greater suction force compared to round vacuum cups having the same width
The use of vacuum cups at high temperatures is always dependent on the product and the time period in which the vacuum cup is in contact with the work-piece. In general, the following materials can be used:
Silicone: up to +200 °C
FKM: up to +200 °C
Thermalon®: up to +160 °C
HNBR yellow: for a short period up to +160 °C
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The skill of creating a vacuum cup lies in finding the optimum ratio between material weight, centrifugal forces, friction and air flow underpressure during handling: and doing this afresh for every application.
Non-marking – this may well only be a theoretically achievable goal, but we pursue this aim as far as possible in the practice, and for every application. When selecting the material for our vacuum cups, we choose those which suit the respective thermal, physical and chemical conditions. The contact surface on the vacuum cup and the contact surface on the workpiece are optimally tailored to one another. This results in homogeneous contact surfaces whereby the material contact is restricted to the sealing function for the underpressure. This means our vacuum cups work almost exclusively using air – thus making them virtually non-marking.
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The demands on vacuum cups in the food industry range from the handling of already wrapped foods to the direct handling of unpacked food products. Due to the specific contour and texture of the products, they mostly require a distinct adjustment of the construction of vacuum cups. Specific requirements are also posed upon the material. Thus, in the food industry there should only be used vacuum cups whose material is FDA conformal. Mostly silicone is used.
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FIPA offers a wide product range of vacuum cups. Resistance against chemicals depends on several factors and varies from one material to another. We would be pleased to furnish information to you regarding the chemicals that various vacuum cups are resistant to.
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The flat vacuum cups of FIPA offer lateral stability owing to their shape during the suction process and positional accuracy when depositing the products.
Additional cleats in the cup provide greater lateral strength and prevent flexible products from being sucked in and the vacuum cups from shifting or slipping in case of high acceleration forces.
Bellows vacuum cups are particularly suitable for sensitive materials having an uneven surface.
They facilitate easy level and angular compensation with varying product surfaces and pick up the product as soon as the vacuum is switched on.
The more folds that the vacuum cup has, the larger is the lifting movement and thus, the height compensation. However, the lateral stability reduces with the number of folds.
Bellows vacuum cups, hence, are recommended only for vertical handling of products.
In general, it may be said that the color of the vacuum cup is independent of the material. For example, silicone is available in several colors from transparent right up to red.
Conversely, you cannot draw any inference on the material of a vacuum cup from its color.
FIPA offers a very wide range of vacuum cups, which means that a large number of applications can be covered with the cups available in its standard product range.
If, however, a product calls for a non-standard geometry or consistency, the FIPA team would be pleased to advise you regarding the manufacture of a customised product for your company.
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There are different values for each component. These are listed in our Product Section in most cases.
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Oil-lubricated vacuum pumps achieve a very high level of the final vacuum of 99.9% (= -999.5 mbar max.), generate high volume flow and can sometimes be used even in moist or humid ambient conditions. Moreover, they are suitable for continuous operation.
Oil-free or non-lubricated vacuum pumps generate high volume flow and a high level of vacuum (up to -880 mbar max.). They are particularly suitable for dry air, when the vacuum level changes frequently, and also for constant low-vibration extraction.
Side channel blowers generate a high volume flow with a low to medium level of vacuum. They are particularly suitable for handling porous materials (e.g. paperboard containers, insulating materials or similar) and compensate for leakages with their high suction power. Side channel blowers can also be used as extractors for particles that are not too coarse or abrasive.
Most of the oil-lubricated vacuum pumps can be used in continuous mode of operation only under full load. For this purpose, a vacuum level of at least 99.8 % is necessary.
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Vacuum pumps (a) are vacuum generators driven by a motor, in which the vacuum is generated from suctioned ambient air either in accordance with the displacement principle (= rotary vane pumps) or the impulse principle (= side channel blowers).
Ejectors (b) are vacuum generators, without a motor, that generate the vacuum from compressed air using the Venturi principle.
The FIPA product range covers ejectors having air consumption from ~ 10 l/min up to a maximum of about 800 l/min as well as vacuum pumps from ~ 2 m3/h. up to ~ 310 m3/h.
Rotary vane vacuum pumps are primarily used in applications demanding a high level of the final vacuum with a large volume flow at the same time. Areas of application are, for example, vacuum supply for centralised vacuum systems or for handling sealed work-pieces.
Their performance range: Final vacuum up to ~ - 999.5 mbar, volume flow ~ 2 m3/hr. up to about 300 m3/h.
Side channel blowers offer a very high volume flow with a low to medium level of vacuum: Performance range: Final vacuum up to ~ -300 bar, volume flow up to 310 m3/h.
Their application areas: Handling of porous products or products having a high degree of leakage, pneumatic extraction or evacuation of particles that are not too coarse or abrasive, for example, extraction of wood dust in the timber processing industry
Ejectors provide a high level of final vacuum (~ -900 mbar) with low to medium volume flows at the same time (10 l/min. up to around 800 l/min.). They can be mounted directly in the suction line or on the vacuum cups.
Their application areas: targeted vacuum supply directly at the material to be handled, e.g. supply to vacuum cup units in a packaging machine. They represent an economic alternative to vacuum pumps, particularly for smaller quantities of suctioned air. Over and above this, FIPA ejectors are practically maintenance-free.
In-line and mini ejectors:
These types of vacuum generators are single-chamber ejectors having a vacuum nozzle.
They are installed either directly in the hose line or directly at the vacuum cup or solenoid valves. Their air consumption values range from ~ 10 l/min. up to about 100 l/min.
Products with expandable options are also available (e.g. EMI models: Blow-off feature for short cycle times, vacuum switch connection and silencer options).
These include the single-chamber ejectors of the models EKP, EKPP and EMM, which provide add-on features such as vacuum and blow-off control.
They are practically maintenance-free as a result of the dirt-proof design that does not use any filter. Moreover, the intelligent pressure control saves up to 50 % of compressed air or energy costs compared to other models available in the market without having to make any compromises. The EMM model is suitable for block assembly
Multi-chamber ejectors have several ejector nozzles connected one after another. As a result, they need up to 3.5 times less compressed air compared to single-chamber ejectors.
They provide an economical alternative particularly for high values of air consumption and are used for large volume flows and high vacuum levels.
They are used for handling air-permeable and porous materials (e.g. paperboard containers, wooden fiber boards and insulating materials) having extremely high air requirement.
Heavy-duty ejectors are the robust vacuum generators for harsh working conditions. They are insensitive to fluctuations in the compressed air network (3-6 bar). Their square design facilitates space-conserving installation of ejector blocks.
Partially available with the blow-off feature, with air consumption values up to about 100 l/min.
Since the service life of a vacuum pump depends on the application to a large extent, it is not possible to make any blanket or across-the-board statement in this regard.
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Foam vacuum grippers can be used in almost all automated handling processes, such as, for example, stacking and unstacking pallets, separating and sorting. They are suitable particularly when the gripping position is not fixed or the quantum of material varies (you grip either a piece or an entire layer of the product).
In the process, gripping is independent of the surface, porosity, size or weight of the product.
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Directly controlled vacuum valves
When using a solenoid to control the valve, the valve flap is operated directly and a pneumatic line is not necessary. Versions with the switching functions NO (normally open) and NC (normally closed) are available separately.
Valves supported by compressed air
These valves are used in applications that require short cycle times and correspondingly fast switching operations. The valve function is supported by controlled compressed air.
The switching functions, NO and NC, can be realized with the same valve, since the vacuum supply and blow-off / bleeding or vent connections can be interchanged. It is not necessary to have a pneumatic line for these vacuum valves.
A Bernoulli vacuum cup generates a vacuum based on the Bernoulli principle from compressed air and thus facilitates low-contact and torsion-resistant transport of sensitive products.
Extremely thin, air-permeable and sensitive work-pieces (e.g. in the photovoltaic and semiconductor industry - wafer) can be handled in this manner.
Vacuum tanks are used whenever compressed air, vacuum or non-corrosive liquids need to be stored. They ensure efficient and energy-conserving utilization of compressed air and vacuum.
Vacuum tanks are particularly suitable when the compressed air or vacuum networks have highly fluctuating consumption patterns.
The size of the vacuum tank depends on the requirement of your application. We would be pleased to assist you with the selection, if you get in touch with us: +49 89 962489-0
No, the blades must be selected according to the geometry or type of application and ordered out separately. You can browse the blades that are suitable for various types of air nippers in our Overview.
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Single-action grippers or air nippers are automatically restored to the initial position by a compressed spring, i.e. it is sufficient to apply compressed air to operate the gripper or the air nipper.
Double-action grippers or air nippers have separate compressed air connections for opening and closing. They are especially suited for short duty cycles as they do not rely on the reset time of a return spring.
A 3/2-way valve is required for single-action grippers or air nippers.
A 5/2-way valve is required for double-action grippers or air nippers.
Which blade is suitable for cutting different types of materials is given in the technical specifications of the blades in our product section.
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Yes, all connectors and clamps are mounted and delivered complete with the channel nuts.
The channel nuts are also available separately as spare parts.
The choice of a suitable air nipper depends on the application to a large extent and can be determined only on a case-to-case basis.
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All FIPA fixtures have been designed very universally and can be used with several extrusion systems. By using clamp diameters of 10, 14 and 20 mm, the gripper components are also interchangeable with those of other manufacturers.
The universal channel nuts of FIPA offer the maximum level of flexibility. They facilitate the integration of other FIPA gripper components in all framing systems available in the market.
The service life of a gripper is dependent on the application to a large extent (property of the work-piece, cycle time, ambient temperature, etc).
However, using the Hartcoat® coated aluminum housing and the Hartcoat® coated gripper jaws, the FIPA grippers have demonstrated that they are highly robust and wear-resistant. As a result, they often have significantly longer service life, as compared to others made of steel or brass, which are completely uncoated or those whose housing alone is coated.
There are spare part kits available for most FIPA grippers and air nippers that facilitate easy replacement of worn out parts. Our technical marketing team would be pleased to advise you on the choice of the suitable replacement part kit: +49 (0) 89 / 96 24 89-0
The tube lifter, also called the vacuum lifter, is a lifting device or lifting equipment that is fixed to a crane and uses a vacuum for ergonomic, easy fluid lifting of various types of loads, such as packages, boxes, wooden and plastic panels, sheet metal or glass panels, as well as barrels and canisters. Lifting and load carrying are completed in a single procedure. Additional lifting equipment such as a chain hoist is not required here.
Holding and lifting of the loads is realised by a vacuum. The lifting procedure is realised using a spiral tube, the so-called lifter tube; the load-carrying equipment is mounted at the end of this tube. The load-carrying equipment mostly also functions with a vacuum, but can also be mechanical. The suction foot, also called a vacuum cup, is placed on the load to be moved, e.g. a carton, the air in the suction foot and in the lifter tube is evacuated, the lifter tube folds together like an accordion, the load sticks to the suction foot and is lifted. If the vacuum is reduced, the load is lowered again. The vacuum is generated by a side channel blower, a vacuum pump or a multi-chamber ejector (venturi nozzle), depending on the application. Control of the tube lifter is by an operating component at the bottom of the vacuum lifter; this is used for one-hand lifting, lowering, suction and releasing of the load. These properties permit very rapid ergonomic and fluid load handling for the greatest possible efficiency.
The suction area of the load-carrying equipment and the diameter of the lifting tube are matched to each other in such a way that the lifting force of the suction foot (vacuum cup) or the vacuum gripper is always larger than the lifting tube. If you were to try to lift a load that exceeds the capacity of the suction foot, this load would never be lifted in the first place. A power failure also presents no danger; if the vacuum supply were to fail for such a reason, a non-return valve ensures safe, slow and controlled lowering before the load can fall off. A tube lifter (vacuum lifter) is thus a safe system that is far better in this regard than other lifting equipment.
BGR 500 Chapter 2.8 is applicable in this area. VBG 9a has been replaced by this. As the BGR does not address vacuum lifters in particular, we feel that §22 of VBG 9a still provides a good guideline.
A FIPA tube lifter is a very universal piece of equipment, and even the standard version has a wide range of application possibilities, so that the same unit can be used to master a wide range of tasks. This means that all areas of internal logistics from goods receiving to production, warehousing and goods despatch are served and that problem-free material flow is guaranteed. With partially different load-carrying equipment we can move a large variety of types of goods, such as sacks, boxes, cartons, plates, sheets, windows, doors, glass panes, barrels, beverage crates and canisters. Virtually any application can be considered. Tube lifters can be used in any conceivable sector; these systems are often found in producing companies, such as in sheet metal processing, carpentry, window manufacture, breweries and in all types of logistics companies, as well as in all companies that have to control their material flow in the course of their internal logistics.
For use in the food processing industry, above all for direct contact with foodstuffs, we can offer tube lifters with metal parts largely made from stainless steel, which are thus easy to clean. In addition, we can offer food grade vacuum cups made from silicone that have been approved in accordance with EU1935/2004 and FDA.
The rail systems produced by many manufacturers are based on standard dimensions so that is possible that our components will fit with your crane. A revision of some of your steel rail systems in the project is available on request. Speak to us about it and our Technical Sales Department will be pleased to provide advice and information.
In accordance with §26 of the BGV D6 (Accident Prevention Regulations Cranes), the operator is obliged to have the cranes inspected by an expert authority, depending on the deployment conditions and the operating environment, but at least once a year. We would be pleased to offer this service, our colleagues with this responsibility have gained the expert authority certification for cranes and lifting devices from TÜV Süd (Germany) and are therefore authorised to test your crane system.
If the rail system cannot be directly mounted on the roof or overhead construction, for static loading or other reasons, FIPA uses a frame gantry system. This is a steel construction that stands on the floor from which the rail system is suspended. FIPA has developed a construction kit which allows us to offer this system to you within a short time and at low cost.
In most cases the standard designs of our suspensions are adequate, but, if specific structural conditions require a special type of suspension (re-clamping from wooden beams, a wall bracket), this is definitely possible on request.
In the course of projects, we can, of course, also offer crane systems with motorised crane bridges or trolleys, having one or two speed settings.
A vacuum traverse, also called vacuum lifter, is a load handling device for lifting loads with smooth surfaces, for example, wooden panels, metal sheets and glass panels. The load is held by vacuum cups while the lifting process is carried out by a chain hoist, The vacuum generation is already permanently installed on the traverse.
When operated within defined parameters, the vacuum traverse is an extremely safe tool.
The main traverse is designed as a vacuum accumulator that maintains a vacuum reserve for at least five minutes.
In the event of a power failure, the load is held for this time. An acoustic warning signal is emitted if the vacuum falls below the minimum value. At the same time, the employee can read off the vacuum level from a pressure gauge.
Optionally, the vacuum lifter can also be equipped with a signal lamp.
The acoustic warning signal and the optional signal lamp are equipped with a battery.
This allows the vacuum lifter to operate flawlessly in the event of a power failure.
Yes. You can run single-phase power from your chain hoist without problem, even if it is designed for three-phase.
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LONDON, United Kingdom – Britain’s prime minister Boris Johnson will return to work at the start of this week, according to reports Sunday, April 26, just hours after it was announced that the United Kingdom’s coronavirus death toll had passed the “tragic” milestone of 20,000.
The Press Association said Johnson would be back in his Downing Street office on Monday, April 27, after himself recovering from the virus.
A Number 10 source quoted by Sky News said the 55-year-old was “raring to go.” Johnson has been recuperating at the British prime ministerial retreat, Chequers, outside London since his release from hospital on April 12
Johnson spent 3 days in intensive care and later admitted “things could have gone either way,” after contracting the virus.
The prime minister’s return to work comes as pressure intensifies on his government on several fronts over its handling of the crisis. (READ: UK gov’t accused of slow response to virus outbreak)
Health department figures released Saturday, April 25, showed a further 813 people had died in hospital after contracting COVID-19, pushing the official number of fatalities to 20,319.
Home Secretary Priti Patel described it as “a deeply tragic and moving moment.”
Passing 20,000 was an unwanted milestone, as the medical director of NHS England Stephen Powis and Britain’s chief scientific advisor Patrick Vallance had said previously during the pandemic that keeping the number of fatalities below 20,000 would be “a good outcome.”
“The nation today will be deeply moved by the figures of the number of people who have died,” Patel said during the daily Downing Street briefing.
It was an increase on the 684 deaths reported the previous day and comes after the government claimed the virus had hit its peak.
However, there was some optimism as the number of new infections fell by 473 to 4,913, according to the same health department figures.
University of Oxford analysis also showed that the numbers dying in England may be on a downward spiral as it said a 3rd of the 711 additional deaths recorded in the latest government figures on Saturday occurred more than a week ago.
Despite that, the latest figures confirm Britain has been one of the worst-hit countries in the world and the actual death toll could be much higher when deaths in the community are taken into account, particularly at care homes.
As well as a rise in fatalities, questions are being asked of the government over shortages in personal protective equipment and a lack of widespread testing, particularly of frontline health and social care workers.There is also pressure, reportedly from within the ruling Conservative party, to relax social distancing rules.
Johnson ordered the country into lockdown on March 23, but Patel said ministers would not yet give a date for any relaxation of the rules.
“We’ve made a great deal of progress, but actually we’re not out of the woods yet, we really are not,” she said.
The lockdown was extended on April 16 and is due for review on May 7.
Concern over political influence
Meanwhile, there was brewing row over the role played by Johnson’s controversial chief advisor, Dominic Cummings, after it emerged he attended meetings of the main scientific group advising ministers on the coronavirus pandemic.
Downing Street denied that Cummings and another advisor, Ben Warner, were members of the politically independent Scientific Advisory Group for Emergencies (SAGE).
However, following reports in The Guardian newspaper, the government admitted that Cummings had sat in on group meetings.
In a statement, a Number 10 spokesman said they attended meetings “to understand better the scientific debates concerning this emergency.”
The statement added it was “factually wrong and damaging to sensible public debate” to suggest the committee’s advice was affected by the government.
Labour’s health spokesman, John Ashworth told BBC radio on Saturday that his “concern” was “that political advisers have influenced the debate.”
A former Conservative frontbencher, David Davis, tweeted that “we should publish the membership of SAGE: remove any non-scientist members.”
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Do you have a large painting project coming up? Maybe you’re painting a whole room or the outside of your house. Or maybe you’re looking for a way to tackle a smaller project with a lot of hard-to-reach spots like a gate or a piece of furniture. If you’re looking for a high-quality finish and to get the job done in record time, look no further than a paint sprayer.
Paint sprayers can shorten your paint time by hours and leave you with a professional-looking final product. These tools produce a fine, even mist of paints and stains to evenly coat patterned, rough, or smooth surfaces of all kinds.
However, while paint sprayers are the easiest way to get some projects done, there’s a definite learning curve. If you don’t know how to use one, it can be a frustrating, messy, and expensive experience.
There’s good news! This post will go into detail on everything you need to know to choose and use a paint sprayer.
Read on for everything you need to know about how to use a paint sprayer!
How to Choose a Paint Sprayer
There are three types of paint sprayers used most commonly: High Volume Low Pressure (HVLP) sprayers, airless sprayers, and pneumatic sprayers. Once you’ve learned how to use a paint sprayer in general, you’ll be able to use any of these. But it’s still good to be aware of the different kinds that are best suited to different projects and budgets.
HVLP paint sprayers are best used when you are working on something with a lot of details that requires accuracy and a smooth finish. These types of sprayers use paint volume controls and airflow for even and fast paint spraying. HVLP paint sprayers can cover large surfaces quickly but is also effective for touch-up work. To avoid your arm getting worn out, choose a standing or a lightweight, stationary model since these sprayers can be heavy.
Airless paint sprayers are used by both beginning and professionals for large surfaces like your interior walls or house siding. An airless sprayer can deliver up to a half gallon to 2 gallons of paint a minute. It uses pressurized force to deliver that volume of paint so quickly. This is a good choice for a project that is pretty large but doesn’t require much precision work.
Pneumatic paint sprayers use compressed air to spray the paint and can apply an even greater volume of paint than HVLP or airless sprayers. Pneumatic sprayers are pretty niche and aren’t usually used by beginners, but you should know all your options before choosing one. These are typically used for commercial or industrial work such as car body parts.
If you’re still not sure which one to choose or would like more information, check out The Best Paint Sprayer for Every Home Painting Project.
How to Use a Paint Sprayer
There are a few simple steps you need to follow to get the results you hope to see from your paint sprayer. Make sure you follow these while you’re learning how to use a paint sprayer so that you can build good habits from the start and achieve the best results.
1. Prep Your Space
Here’s a little pro-tip you may not want to hear but need to understand— when it comes to how to use a paint sprayer, about half of the entire project time will be used prepping everything to get it ready for painting. It’s a longer process and can be tedious, but it’s absolutely worth it.
Move & Cover Your Stuff
One thing you should know when learning how to use a paint sprayer is that paint sprayers make a big mess. Take the time to move out any furniture or decorations that are in the space you’re painting. If you don’t have another room to move it into, scoot it all to the middle of the room and cover it all with plastic.
Emptying the room not only ensures your furniture will stay paint-free, it also ensures your air hoses, power cords, airless hoses, and paint containers won’t get caught on anything. Make sure that absolutely any area you don’t want paint to get on—like floors, windows, or trim— are covered with plastic sheeting or drop cloths.
Check the Temperature
It may sound insignificant, but being aware of the temperature it will be when you’re using your paint sprayer is one of the most important steps to the whole process. If it’s too hot or too cold, your sprayer won’t work well.
The ideal temperature in which to paint is between 45-75°F. If colder, your paint sprayer will clog and leave your frustrated. If it’s hotter than that, your paint will dry too quickly and not bond properly. It’s also not ideal to paint in direct sunlight if you can avoid it. That will also cause your paint to dry quickly and not bond.
There are a few different ways to protect yourself while using and learning how to use a paint sprayer. If you’re painting inside, make sure it’s well ventilated. You can open the windows or use window-mounted fans to get the paint vapors out of your environment. Make sure to wear a respirator or face mask to protect yourself from breathing in tiny airborne paint particles.
You’ve also got to prepare to get messy! If you wear glasses, make sure to wear goggles that will keep them paint free. Gloves to keep your hands clean are also a must. And since the paint sprayer makes the paint go all over the place, either wear clothes you don’t mind getting covered in paint or invest in some coveralls.
Besides not wanting to get yourself covered in paint, keeping your skin covered with some protective gear is a good idea in general because some high pressure airless sprayers produce enough force at the spray tip to break your skin!
2. Practice, Practice, Practice!
Each paint sprayer will be slightly different and each will definitely have a learning curve. You’ll be so excited to get a fresh coat of paint on whatever you’re painting, but don’t skip this step because you think you don’t need it. If it is your first time learning how to use a paint sprayer, you need to practice using it!
Choose the Right Paint
Each type of sprayer uses a different kind of paint and has a specific way to use them to ensure an even, smooth spray. But once you’ve learned the general steps for how to use a paint sprayer, you’ll be all set to use any of them.
HVLP paint sprayers work with oil-based paints, but anything thicker than that, such as a water-based latex, can clog the nozzle, leaving you with a big mess to clean up! To avoid that, add a half cup of water for every gallon of latex paint you’re using in a bucket and stir it to thoroughly combine it and thin its consistency before adding it to an HVLP paint sprayer.
An airless paint sprayer can be used with oil-based paint or stain, making it a great choice for staining a deck or another large area of wood.
Pneumatic paint sprayers are the most flexible and work with oil-based enamel, acrylic paint, and latex paints.
Practice the Motion
Whatever sprayer you’ve decided to use, use a paint strainer to get out any rouge chunky bits, then load it up and practice spraying on a piece of cardboard or some scraps of wood. Get the feel of the pressure needed, arm motions to make, and what it feel like to use it before you commit to your actual work surface.
Here are some general tips and ideas of what you need to practice when learning how to use a paint sprayer:
- Move the sprayer in both vertical and horizontal spraying movements. Find out what feels comfortable because you’ll need to use a steady, consistent movement to get the uniform look you want at the end.
- Hold the spray gun closer to the surface. This will apply more paint at once and create a narrower spray pattern.
- Hold the gun further away from your practice material. It will create a thinner coat of paint and a wider spray pattern.
- Don’t hold the nozzle too far away from your surface! The paint can actually dry in the air before getting to your surface, making you need paint it again which would waste your paint supply.
Don’t Skip This!
This extra step of practice will make the actual paint process go much, much quicker once you get started! So please take your time in the beginning and learn how to use a paint sprayer the right way.
3. Get your Paint On!
Now that you’ve prepped and practiced, it’s time to get to painting! Here are our top tips and tricks to make using your paint sprayer a piece of cake.
Now that you know the right movements for how to use a paint sprayer, it’s important to stay aware of the distance your gun is away from the surface you’re painting. It needs to stay as consistent as possible to make the finished product smooth and splotch-free. It’s easy to get lazy or lax about this and start moving your arm in an arching motion, but don’t do this!
The correct painting motion should feel more robotic. You should be turning your whole body, not just your arm and certainly not just your wrist. Spray straight towards the surface and don’t direct the spray at any steep angles.
Take Your Time
Work in short, even strokes while learning how to use a paint sprayer. Your strokes shouldn’t be more than 18 inches wide or tall, depending on if you’re painting vertically or horizontally. Make sure your nozzle tip is adjusted for the application pattern you’ve chosen.
To ensure you’re not missing spots, overlap the strokes by 50%. Move quickly enough that there aren’t drips, but slow enough to get a good, even coverage.
Start Moving Before Pulling the Trigger
This is a crucial tip to master when learning how to use a paint sprayer. Start your stoke movement, either vertically or horizontally, before pulling the trigger. This stops too much paint from building up at the start of your strokes in the split second before you start moving.
The opposite is true for when you end a stroke. Let go of the trigger before you end your stroke. Or in other words, continue the stroke after you’ve released the trigger.
Your movement pattern should be:
Move :: Trigger :: Untrigger :: Stop
Avoid ever pulling the trigger at a standstill or you’ll end up with a whole puddle of paint drips you’ll have to deal with!
Start with the Corners
When it comes to how to use a paint sprayer the most efficient way, t make your life easier, do any eaves or corners first. Go from the top down. Spray vertically and go quicker than usual to avoid completely overloading the area with paint.
Check Your Work
One important habit to build while learning how to use a paint sprayer is to regularly take a step back and check your work. If there are any missed or light spots, you can fill them in with a paintbrush or a roller.
Take note of where it isn’t looking perfect and adjust your technique to fix the problem moving forward.
If you have one available to you, shining a bright work light at an angle onto the surface you are painting can help illuminate any less than perfect spots.
Keep It Clean
Another important step to learning how to use a paint sprayer is to make a habit of regularly wiping off the tip of the paint spray gun with a rag to stop paint from drying and messing up the spray pattern.
Don’t store any paint in the paint sprayer for any extended period of time. Only load up what you’re planning on using at that moment.
When you’re done painting, don’t wait to clean it out. Clean the entire paint sprayer thoroughly, carefully following the manufacturer’s instructions. Some sprayers even come with a flush feature, letting you connect it to your garden hose for a super easy cleanup! Every sprayer is different, so make sure to pay attention to your particular model’s instructions.
Wrapping Up How to Use a Paint Sprayer
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Hydrogen Compressors Market Size And Forecast
Hydrogen Compressors Market size was valued at USD 2.0 Billion in 2020 and is projected to reach USD 2.93 Billion by 2028, growing at a CAGR of 5.61% from 2021 to 2028.
Growing focus on hydrogen usage in refineries and rising applications of hydrogen in the power industry are the key drivers of the market. The Global Hydrogen Compressors Market report provides a holistic evaluation of the market. The report offers a comprehensive analysis of key segments, trends, drivers, restraints, competitive landscape, and factors that are playing a substantial role in the market.
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Global Hydrogen Compressors Market Definition
The Hydrogen Compressor is a device that is typically used to increase hydrogen pressure by reducing volume, resulting in liquid hydrogen, also known as compressed hydrogen. Reciprocating piston compressors are used to create pressure on the hydrogen. The method is widely used in refineries to assist in the refining of crude oil. Electrochemical hydrogen compressors, guided rotor compressors, ionic liquid piston compressors, hydride compressors, piston-metal diaphragm compressors, and linear compressors are the other ways. The use of hydrogen in refineries for processing refined fuels, removing contaminants, and other purposes are growing rapidly. The hydrogen fuel cell has the advantage of providing continuous electricity while requiring less maintenance, space, and noise. It is widely used in the chemical, oil & refining, and utility industries.
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Global Hydrogen Compressors Market Overview
The hydrogen compressors are effective for compressing small to medium amounts of hydrogen to high pressures, and they can even be utilized for extremely high pressures of more than 5,000 bar depending on the application (75,000 PSI). Furthermore, compressing large amounts of oil-free hydrogen requires less than 250 bar (3,600 PSI) pressure. If a drive power of more than 10 Megawatts is required to meet any hydrogen compression requirements. Furthermore, if oil traces are allowed in the gas, lubricated compression can achieve discharge pressures of more than 600 bar (9,000 PSI), which is one of the major drivers likely to increase the market throughout the forecast period.
Furthermore, in response to rising worries about natural resource depletion and environmental degradation, various technologies have been created and announced in the market that promotes an eco-friendly approach to environmental sustainability. Similarly, a rise in public awareness about the consequences of air pollution, as well as increased traffic and greenhouse gas emissions, is encouraging the adoption of hydrogen fuel cell vehicles. Furthermore, the growing development of fuel cell electric vehicles (FCEVs) delivers better fuel economy than internal combustion engines (ICEs). On the road, the FCEV has a fuel efficiency of roughly 63 miles per gallon gasoline equivalent (MPGge), whereas an ICE vehicle has a fuel economy of 29 MPGge.Hybridization improves the fuel efficiency of an FCEV by about 3.2 percent. This is expanding the global demand for hydrogen compressors even more. However, volatile crude oil prices, fluctuating raw material prices, and expensive hydrogen compressor costs may limit the hydrogen compressor industry’s growth over the predicted period.
Global Hydrogen Compressors Market: Segmentation Analysis
Global Hydrogen Compressors Market is Segmented Based on Type, Technology, End-User, And Geography.
Hydrogen Compressors Market, By Type
On the basis of Type, Hydrogen Compressors Market is bifurcated into Oil-Free and Oil-Based. The oil-based sector has accounted for a higher share of the market in 2020. The oil in the compressor also aids in heat dissipation and maintains air compression efficiency. The oil-based hydrogen compressor necessitates more regular oil changes and routine maintenance. It also necessitates improved hydrogen filtering employing separators and coalescing filters to remove the oil and protect downstream equipment and processes.
Hydrogen Compressors Market, By Technology
Based on Technology, Hydrogen Compressors Market can be segmented into single-stage and multi-stage markets. The multi-stage sector had a bigger market share in 2020.
Hydrogen Compressors Market, By End-User
• Utility Industries
• Oil and Gas
• Chemical Industries
Based on End-User, the market is segmented into Utility Industries, Oil and Gas, Chemical Industries and few others. The oil and gas segment held the greatest share of the market in 2020.
Hydrogen Compressors Market, By Geography
• North America
• Asia Pacific
• Rest of the World
On the basis of Geography, this market can be divided into North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, and the Rest of the world.
The “Global Hydrogen Compressors Market” study report will provide valuable insight with an emphasis on the global market. Major players in the Hydrogen Compressor Market are Atlas Copco AB, Burckhardt Compression AG, Fluitron, Inc., Gardner Denver Nash, LLC, Howden Group, HAUG Sauer Kompressoren AG, NEUMAN & ESSER GROUP, Hydro-Pac, Inc., Lenhardt& Wagner GmbH and PDC Machines Inc, Ariel Corporation, Corken Compressor.
Our market analysis also entails a section solely dedicated for such major players wherein our analysts provide an insight to the financial statements of all the major players, along with its product benchmarking and SWOT analysis. The competitive landscape section also includes key development strategies, market share and market ranking analysis of the above-mentioned players globally.
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1 INTRODUCTION OF GLOBAL HYDROGEN COMPRESSORS MARKET
1.1 Overview of the Market
1.2 Scope of Report
2 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY
3 RESEARCH METHODOLOGY OF VERIFIED MARKET RESEARCH
3.1 Data Mining
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4 GLOBAL HYDROGEN COMPRESSORS MARKET OUTLOOK
4.2 Market Dynamics
4.3 Porters Five Force Model
4.4 Value Chain Analysis
5 GLOBAL HYDROGEN COMPRESSORS MARKET, BY TYPE
6 GLOBAL HYDROGEN COMPRESSORS MARKET, BY TECHNOLOGY
7 GLOBAL HYDROGEN COMPRESSORS MARKET, BY END-USER
7.2 Utility Industries
7.3 Oil and Gas
7.4 Chemical Industries
8 GLOBAL HYDROGEN COMPRESSORS MARKET, BY GEOGRAPHY
8.2 North America
8.3.4 Rest of Europe
8.4 Asia Pacific
8.4.4 Rest of Asia Pacific
8.5 Rest of the World
8.5.1 Latin America
8.5.2 Middle East & Africa
9 GLOBAL HYDROGEN COMPRESSORS MARKET COMPETITIVE LANDSCAPE
9.2 Company Market Ranking
9.3 Key Development Strategies
10 COMPANY PROFILES
10.1 Hydro-Pac Inc.
10.1.2 Financial Performance
10.1.3 Product Outlook
10.1.4 Key Developments
10.2 Howden Group
10.2.2 Financial Performance
10.2.3 Product Outlook
10.2.4 Key Developments
10.3 Ariel Corporation
10.3.2 Financial Performance
10.3.3 Product Outlook
10.3.4 Key Developments
10.4 Corken Compressor
10.4.2 Financial Performance
10.4.3 Product Outlook
10.4.4 Key Developments
10.5 Atlas Copco AB
10.5.2 Financial Performance
10.5.3 Product Outlook
10.5.4 Key Developments
10.6 Burckhardt Compression AG
10.6.2 Financial Performance
10.6.3 Product Outlook
10.6.4 Key Developments
10.7 HAUG Sauer Kompressoren AG
10.7.2 Financial Performance
10.7.3 Product Outlook
10.7.4 Key Developments
10.8 Gardner Denver
10.8.2 Financial Performance
10.8.3 Product Outlook
10.8.4 Key Developments
10.9 Hitachi Ltd
10.9.2 Financial Performance
10.9.3 Product Outlook
10.9.4 Key Developments
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In the last 30 years, Delhi, the capital of India, has displaced over 1.5 million poor people. Resettlement and welfare services are available—but exclusively so, as the city deems much of the population ineligible for civic benefits. The Right to Be Counted examines how Delhi's urban poor, in an effort to gain visibility from the local state, incrementally stake their claims to a house and life in the city. Contributing to debates about the contradictions of state governmentality and the citizenship projects of the poor in Delhi, this book explores social suffering, logistics, and the logic of political mobilizations that emanate from processes of displacement and resettlement. Sanjeev Routray draws upon fieldwork conducted in various low-income neighborhoods throughout the 2010s to describe the process of claims-making as an attempt by the political community of the poor to assert its existence and numerical strength, and demonstrates how this struggle to be counted constitutes the systematic, protracted, and incremental political process by which the poor claim their substantive entitlements and become entrenched in the city. Analyzing various social, political, and economic relationships, as well as kinship networks and solidarity linkages across the political and social spectrum, this book traces the ways the poor work to gain a foothold in Delhi and establish agency for themselves.
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hi this is dr. Berg in this video I want to talk about weird in unexplainable symptoms a lot of people go to the doctor with symptoms and there’s really no test that they can pick up a lot of these symptoms and I want to talk about there’s a part of the body called the autonomic nervous system and this system runs an automatic it’s the system behind all of their systems it controls something called homeostasis which is you your body’s ability to adapt to this environment okay so it’s constantly adjusting digestion even hormones a temperature fluids valves in the body so let’s just kind of go through all the symptoms some of the symptoms that could occur if you have a problem with the autonomic nervous system dysfunction urinary problems urinary frequency and count and incontinence all these problems with the bladder because the autonomic nervous system controls the valves the valve of the eye so if you actually put some light into the eye in the mirror and you see your that little black part go down like this it should contract or constrict that’s controlled by the autonomic nervous system if you have a weak autonomic nervous system that contraction will won’t be able to hold for 20 seconds it starts going it’s weak it cannot hold the constriction so that’s a valve problem next one can’t sweat you exercise but you don’t sweat that’s the autonomic nervous system dysfunction sensitivity with sound or light ringing the ears coughing at night fainting especially maybe getting up too fast and then passing out or feeling light-headed that’s the problem with this too irregular heart rhythm temperature issues let’s say you feel always hot or always cold see if you go to a new chronologist and they test and your thyroid is normal well it could be this right here low blood pressure or high blood pressure pots which is when you stand up from lying down your pulse rate can go too high or eve sometimes it goes too low based on a little bit of stress on your body dry eyes sweating easily see you get on the shower and you just break on the sweat or your palms are sweaty boom premature ejaculation sleep disorders all sorts of digestive problems with a the food doesn’t digest or you get constipation and the next day you get diarrhea epilepsy these are all symptoms that a lot of people have and they go to the endocrinologist to go to the immune doctor they go to the GP and they don’t find it the expert of the autonomic nervous system would be the neurologist neurologist is an MD that studies the autonomic nervous system and there’s dirt and tests that you can do to to learn about this one of the first two symptoms to know that this is breaking down is one you stand up too fast you get dizzy and number two you start having bladder problems at night okay those are the first two but there’s a lot of other things that can go wrong I even have a test that measures the autonomic nervous system using a technology called heart rate variability HRV testing I don’t use it to diagnose any diseases I use it mainly for stress testing and to pick up the strength of this system because I also specialize in the nervous system but I don’t treat these conditions I do improve this condition but I don’t treat the symptom this autonomic nervous system is is really three parts one is the flight or fight mechanism which is sympathetic and then the other system that’s the stress reaction and any of the parasympathetic which is the recovery of the stress and then the last system is called enteric which is all about your digestion and those are the three systems and part of the system is embedded inside your adrenal it’s also in your mid-back and it’s up in the back of the neck so it’s all over the place and it helps you regulate a lot of body functions so if you have these weird symptoms just realize it could be a problem with that system and you can kind of investigate it more fairly yourself
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The autonomic nervous system controls homeostasis and if it becomes dysfunctional, it is called dysautonomia, which can cause the following symptoms:
1. Urinary frequency
2. Difficulty sweating
3. Sensitivity to light and sounds
4. Ringing in ears
5. Coughing at night
6. Irregular heart beat
7. Temperature dysfunction
8. Low and high blood pressure, high and low pulse rate
10. Dry eyes
11. Sweats easily
12. Premature ejaculation
13. Sleep problems
14. Digestive problems
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What is ducted gas heating?
Ducted gas heating is an excellent option to evenly heat your home. With all the benefits of even heat distribution throughout the rooms it is used in, cost-effectiveness and versatility it is also environmentally friendly and will keep running even if the electricity goes out.
A ducted gas heating system has a heating unit that is often installed in the roof space or outside your home and which funnels the warm air through heating ducts and out into the rooms of your house. The heating vents can be installed in the floor or in the ceiling. The air in the room passes back through return grills and is then rewarmed by the heating unit and recirculated into the house.
With ducted gas heating, you can warm the whole house with just one system. But you don’t have to. If the system has zone control connected and you are not using one or more of the rooms, you can turn the system off in that part of the house. This amounts to energy and cost savings.
Likewise, ducted gas heating runs on natural gas which is a more economical fuel and results in further cost savings on your energy bill. Depending on the star rating of your system, you could save up to 30% on your energy bill.
Unlike using a gas heater, ducted gas heating is installed such that it keeps an even temperature across the whole room in which it is working. There are no cold spots where it feels like the heating isn’t on. The system is composed of variable speed fans that control the air flow and keep the rooms toasty.
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By definition, those who participated in the revolution rejected the Mubarak regime. The reasons for the revulsion varied however, and the associated conceptual gaps were often deep and wide. Take for example the issue of the transfer of power. There were those whose opposition to hereditary inheritance stemmed solely from political principles; they had no elemental quarrel with the person of Gamal Mubarak, with his worldview or with his lifestyle. Then there were those who resented the heir and his entourage principally because they perceived them as alienated, not only economically but also culturally. A huge conceptual and political chasm separates these two positions.
Members of the first group opposed the regime because it did not take its ostensibly modernizing schemes to their logical conclusion. The regime that had taken to linking the country to the world economy, all the while wiring it with one of the most effective Internet services in the developing world, seemed quite recalcitrant when it came to the political sphere. Here, it adopted a stunningly anachronistic approach, complete with spectacularly fraudulent elections, partly overseen by pro-government thugs enforcing a primitive power structure largely built on ties of blood.
However, while some opposed the regime from a liberal modernizing stance, the rejection of the opposing camp embodied a culturally conservative reaction, born of the perception that the heir apparent and his entourage did not fit the image of proper full-blooded Egyptians. This camp did not only reject the regime's relations with the West, but also the sort of people it associated most with these relations. It resented in particular the clique of technocratic experts and businessmen that surrounded the young Mubarak, a group whose jet setting members seemed so at ease in a globalized world, effortlessly mingling with its elites while maintaining a condescending attitude towards other Egyptians, their values and their traditions.
Contradictory economic needs and demands accompanied these conflicting worldviews. Some revolutionaries resented the economic status quo because it put a ceiling on the ambitions of those finding themselves outside the inner circle of patronage, while a second group complained of the absence of social safety nets. While members of the first group generally support a free market system operating within the norms of liberal democracy, many belonging to the second group are weary of free enterprise, are deeply suspicious of an entrepreneurial class they see as incorrigibly corrupt and exploitative, and consider social justice to be at least as important as political liberty. Secular leftists and Islamist factions were amongst the components contributing to this trend.
However, Islamists also resented the regime's refusal to follow literal readings of Islamic tradition and impose conventional religious jurisdiction in its entirety. Agreement on economic issues did not necessarily translate into the cultural domain. Among the Tahrir demonstrators there were many leftist writers and artists who resented the controls that the former regime imposed on creative activities, including the banning of books and artworks on religious grounds. While this group decried the regime's populist appeals to religion, an opposing traditionalist camp considered the regime far too liberal in its tolerance towards secular values, discourse and dissent.
At the epicentre of these crosscurrents stands a mass of “middle Egyptians”, people who despised the decades of humiliating dictatorship but are now weary of the prospects of economic collapse and societal chaos. Given the fundamental fault-lines just described, and in the absence of a consensus concerning the future nature of the state, any attempt by a particular group at imposing its will is likely to ensure that these fears would be borne out, and that aspirations to liberty and dignity will be deferred. For, given the scale of the expected opposition, any such group will likely be unable to maintain stability or economic growth. It will eventually have to resort to violence to maintain order, and we know from the experience of the past six decades that process of humiliation, subjugation and betrayal starts with the persecution of the active opposition.
The prospect of the current transition period ending with such a scenario will probably be perceived in retrospect as a catastrophic failure of historic proportions. Perhaps it is for this reason that the military council responsible for the transition keeps on declaring its neutrality, repeatedly reiterating that it is not facilitating the eventual domination of any particular agenda or trend. The greatest challenge now facing it pertains to the faithful application of this principle. | <urn:uuid:c5aaaa53-65f0-4b1b-90a8-4218069b83b0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.copts-united.com/English/Details.php?I=453&A=3812 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00027-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964507 | 858 | 2.34375 | 2 |
The majority of UK consumers do not care if their wine is organic or Fairtrade, and do not understand what biodynamic means, says a new study.
Market research firm Wine Intelligence asked 2000 regular wine drinkers for their views on wine that is produced with consideration to social, ethical and environmental issues.
Both qualitative and quantitative results revealed a great deal of confusion and mistrust about the terminology applied to such wines. The study revealed that while most people understand the concept of Fairtrade, some believe that all wine is organically produced, and at least one consumer thought organic wine meant vegetarian.
‘While 60% of respondents are aware of organic and Fairtrade wine, only 11.9% claim to have bought organic or Fairtrade wine in the last three months,’ said research director Lulie Halstead. ‘This is compared to 60-70% who claimed to have bought organic and Fairtrade food.’
The survey did, however, indicate that 20% of regular wine drinkers might be willing to pay up to 50p more for Fairtrade wine.
One study participant said,‘Fairtrade is something you do for others, while organic is something you do for yourself.’
Halstead explained that many of the responses to the survey were driven by lack of awareness due to limited exposure and availability.
Unlike organic and sustainably produced food – which respondents believe tastes better and merits a premium compared with non-organic food – wine has a perception problem: most respondents said they thought organically produced and Fairtrade wine would not taste good.
The study also highlighted the confusion caused by the sheer quantity of wines available – as well as the potential conflict posed by differing logos and seals of approval of accreditation schemes around the world.
Consumers have enough trouble recalling labels and names, so even if they drink an ethically or environmentally sound wine that satisfies, they may not remember it next time.
As for biodynamically produced wine, a further study revealed a near-total absence of awareness and knowledge on the part of UK consumers.
‘I admit I had to download information about this myself,’ said Halstead. ‘So I’m no different from most consumers.’
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Real Estate and Public Utility Tangible Personal Property Taxes
Property Tax Mileage Rates: Average Tax Rates on the Two Classes of Real Property and Public Utility Tangible Personal Property, by City, for Taxes Collected in 2011
Table PR-5 shows average real and public utility tangible personal property tax rates due in calendar year 2011 in each of Ohio's cities (presented with their corresponding county location). These rates reflect all levies imposed on property located within the municipality by various local government units, such as the county, school district, township, special districts, and the municipality itself. The calculated tax rates are shown for three separate classifications: Class I Real (residential and agricultural), Class II Real (commercial, industrial, mineral, and public utility) and Public Utility Tangible Personal property. Rates are expressed in mills; a mill is equivalent to $1 per $1,000 of taxable value.
Gross and net tax rates are shown for the two major classes of real property. The gross rates are the actual rates applied to the real property values. The net rates are the rates after applying the percentage reductions on taxes levied required by Section 319.301(D) of the Ohio Revised Code (these percentage reductions are generally referred to as "tax reduction factors"). These rates were computed prior to any reduction of real property taxes resulting from the 10 percent rollback for all real property, the 2.5 percent rollback for residential property, or the homestead exemption. Unlike real property, only the gross rate is applied to public utility tangible personal property.
Average tax rates were calculated by dividing tax year 2010 property taxes by tax year 2010 property values. The statewide average Class I gross tax rate was 97.22 and 94.27 mills for Class II gross. The statewide average Class I net tax rate was 64.00 mills and 70.35 mills for Class II net. The statewide average public utility tangible personal property tax rate was 92.53.
The City of Shaker Heights (Cuyahoga County) had the highest real property tax rates in the state - for both Class I and Class II, both gross and net, and for public utility tangible personal property. The City of Wellston (Jackson County) had the lowest gross real property tax rates (both Class I and Class II) and the lowest public utility tangible personal property tax rate, all at 41.9 each. The City of Upper Sandusky (Wyandot County) had the lowest net tax rates for both Class I and Class II, at 33.38 and 35.68, respectively.
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Greetings on behalf of NIELIT Tura Extension Centre. The extension centre is a centre in its stage of infancy with an aim in imparting training and in the field of IECT (Information, Electronics and Communication Technology). With a perspective view on the changed scenario of modern education in recent times and also keeping in mind the needs of the demography, training programs have been designed and offered with thrust in IT and electronics. Besides imparting training on long term courses like DOEACC O/A Level courses, it is also planned to offer various short and long term computer courses for all categories of students and professionals. Soft skill is another important area where youths are given the scope to hone their communication and behavioral skills.
Our extension centre will also reach out to rural areas of its adjacent districts so that IT literacy reaches out to the remotest and weakest sections of the society. We draw inspiration from the verse “mookam karoti vachalam pangum langayate girim, yatkrupa tamaham vande paramananda madhavam “---meaning that with the Grace of the Almighty, a dumb person can speak and a physically disabled person can climb a mountain.
We still believe that there is scope of improvement and we are moving fast towards achieving academic excellence and the target of NIELIT- Digital Literacy for ALL.
Presently we are operating from Tura Government College, Hawakhana, Tura but very soon we will be starting our full fledged activities from Dakopgre centre in Tura Town wherein we have been given a built up space by the Meghalaya State Government.
Prospective students, irrespective of age are welcomed to browse our website for more information and explore our committed services to them. We wish the best for all our students and the staff of NIELIT Tura extension centre, who reiterate their aims at providing the best to promote Capacity Building and all other projects in IECT. We look forward to your suggestions & active participation in our endevour in the days to come.
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SpaceX has successfully completed its first launch of a commercial satellite into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO). This marks the seventh ever flight of the SpaceX Falcon launch system, and the second launch of the recently upgraded Falcon 9 v1.1 rocket. Impressively, except for a small glitch on its fourth flight, SpaceX has retained a perfect launch record. SES actually got a discounted price from SpaceX for the launch, presumably due to the added risk of this being the company’s first attempt to reach GTO.
The Falcon 9 rocket launched from SpaceX’s Cape Canaveral Launch Complex 40 (LC40), a launch pad that was previously used by the US Air Force to launch Titan rockets, but which SpaceX now leases from the US government. After the standard 180-second burn of the first stage to propel the rocket into outer space (around 100km), it detached, allowing the single-engine second stage to burn for five minutes and 20 seconds, pushing the payload into a high-altitude parking orbit. 18 minutes later, when various variables were just right (azimuth, eccentricity, apogee, etc.) the second stage reignited for a further 60 seconds to place the payload into geostationary transfer orbit (GTO).
The Falcon 9’s payload was SES-8, a 3170-kilogram (6990lb) communications satellite that will provide extra bandwidth for rapidly growing markets in south-east Asia and the Indo-China peninsula. SES-8 is equipped with 33 Ku-band transponders, which is fairly beefy, but not that crazy (SES-6 has 43 C-band and 48 Ku-band transponders). Gallium arsenide solar panels provide five kilowatts of power, with two 4,850 watt-hour lithium-ion batteries providing backup power for when the satellite is in shadow. “The successful insertion of the SES-8 satellite confirms the upgraded Falcon 9 launch vehicle delivers to the industry’s highest performance standards,” said SpaceX CEO Elon Musk.
Falcon 9 v1.1 is essentially an upgraded version of the original Falcon 9, with an overhauled design and more thrust. Externally, not much has changed, except the nine primary-stage Merlin 1D rocket engines are arranged in a circular fashion, rather than a square. Ultimately, v1.1 is another step towards SpaceX’s realization of a reusable primary stage — a primary stage that, after detaching from the second stage, can safely land back on the launchpad. The next version of Grasshopper, SpaceX’s vertical-takeoff-and-landing prototype, will be outfitted with nine engines, just like Falcon 9 — once more testing is done with Grasshopper v1.1, SpaceX may start landing Falcon 9 rockets by mid-2014.
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- BUDGEE FLAG
- A late 17th, early 18th Century English/UK naval term, now obsolete, for an
ensign that bore a union flag canton rather than a canton with the cross of St
George, and before 1707 for use only outside home waters (see also
‘budgee pendant’, ‘privateer jack’ and
English Red Ensign c1625 – 1707 Budgee Flag for
use outside home waters until 1707, then British Red Ensign 1707 – 1801 (fotw)
Please note that prior to 1707, as far as can be discovered, the budgee flag was invariably a red ensign –
see ‘red ensign 2)’.
- BUDGEE JACK
- See ‘privateer jack’, and for background on the term see also
‘budgee flag’ and
‘budgee pendant’ below.
Budgee/Privateer Jack until 1801. UK
- BUDGEE PENDANT (or PENNANT)
- A late 17th, early 18th Century English/UK naval term, now obsolete, for a
red swallow-tailed pennant which bore a union flag rather than the cross of St
George at its hoist for use as a pennant of distinction by senior captains in
command of a formation of ships outside home waters – a union pendant (see also
‘pendant of distinction’,
‘union jack’ and
The Budgee Pendant c1700, England (CS)
a) As far as is known the budgee pendant
had disappeared by 1710
b) The Editors – whilst no firm evidence could be
found – have taken the colour of the pendant’s fly from that of the standard
distinction pennant as introduced in 1674.
- BUDDHIST FLAG
- A flag with a number of variations symbolizing Buddhism, most often (but not
invariably) showing five vertical and five horizontal stripes and first raised in 1885
(see also ‘chakra’,
‘religious flag’ and
"Standard" Buddhist Flag (fotw) with those used in
- BUDDHIST WHEEL OF LAW
National Flag of Thailand 1782 – 1817 (fotw)
- In largely (but not exclusively) US usage, a term for that shade of beige, which corresponds
to uniform facings worn during the American War of Independence by some general officers and
by many line regiments of the Continental infantry.
Flag of Southampton, New York, US (fotw); Flag of
New Jersey, US (fotw); Flag of
Winchester, Virginia, US (fotw);
a) Buff was also one of the facing colours used by the British army at the time of the American War of Independence – see ‘facing colour’.
b) It is suggested that use of the facings mentioned
above could have derived from the buff-coloured (leather) coats worn by both infantry and
cavalry in the 17th Century.
- BUGLE HORN
- The heraldic term that covers any type of traditional, musical horn – a hunting horn or post horn etc. (see also ‘stringed’).
Flag of Bojanów, Poland (fotw);
Flag of Stralendorf, Germany (fotw);
Flag of Cornellŕ del Terri, Spain (fotw)
- BUILDING SITE FLAG (or BSF)
- See ‘logo on a bed sheet’.
Flag of the State of Minnesota, US (fotw)
- See ‘federal service flag’.
Budesdienstflaggen/Federal Service Flags of Austria and
- BULLOCK PENNANT
- In 18th Century French naval usage the term, now obsolete, for a red pennant
hoisted from the flagship to signal that a ration bullock had just been slaughtered
(see also ‘beef flag’,
Conjectural image (Željko Heimer)
Please note, information suggests that this term -
a direct translation of the French "flamme de boeuf" - may have ceased after 1792,
however, this is not certain.
- An alternative spelling, now largely obsolete, of bunting – see ‘bunting 1)’.
- 1) Strong, loosely woven cloth used for making flags, originally of cotton
and/or wool but sometimes of other fibres, and now largely replaced by synthetic
materials materials – buntine, bewper or beaufort (see also ‘breadth
- 2) A series of small, simple flags connected by a line, or a length of gathered
decorative fabric, generally in the national colours and usually hung or draped
between two anchor points. Often employed when flag usage would be inappropriate
or unsuitable (see also ‘fan’,
‘national colours’ and
‘rules of respect’).
- 3) In heraldry a species of bird as a charge.
- BUNTING TOSSER (or BUNTS)
- In British Royal Navy usage and some others, a traditional nickname for those sailors
in the signals branch whose duties include the care and hoisting of signal flags, flags
of command and ensigns etc. - but see ‘flags 1)’
(also ‘command pennant’,
‘flag of command’,
‘naval ensign’ under ‘ensign’,
‘yeoman of signals’).
- 1) The small distinguishing flag of a yacht or boating club, usually (but
not exclusively) either triangular or in the shape of a tapered swallowtail (see
also ‘broad pennant 3)’,
- 2) In obsolete naval usage, a term sometimes applied to the swallow-tailed
pennants used in flag signalling but see ‘burgee command pennant’ ’ (also
‘international code of signals’,
‘signal flag’ and
Royal Lymington Yacht Club
UK, Burin Sailing Club, Croatia (fotw) and Knysna Yacht Club RSA (fotw)
Please note, it is suggested by some sources that
the term derives from ‘budgee’ which it is proposed was an alternative 17th Century
name for bunting (see also ‘budgee flag’ and
- BURGEE COMMAND PENNANT
- In US naval usage, a pennant that is flown at the main masthead in place of
the commission (or masthead) pennant to indicate the presence on board of an officer
in command of a formation of vessels (or an aircraft wing), but who holds the
rank of captain or lower - see ‘broad command pennant’
(also ‘broad pennant’,
‘burgee command pennant’, command pennant’,
‘flag of command’,
‘masthead pennant 1)’ and
Burgee Command Pennant, US (fotw)
Please note however, that the US practice of displacing
the commission (or masthead) pennant by the burgee or the broad command pennants
differs from general naval practice where the various command pennants (excepting
the broad pennant) are usually (but not invariably) flown in addition and subordinate
to the masthead pennant.
- BURGUNDY CROSS
- See ‘ragged cross’.
Flag of The Carlists, Spain (fotw)
- BURIAL FLAG
- See ‘pall flag’.
- In heraldry see ‘flamant’ (also ‘inflamed
Arms and Flag of Karasjok, Norway (fotw)
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The results indicate that the newest CLC has, in reality, impacted the text usage inside tweets. The first hypothesis are supported; this new pre-CLC tweets were seemingly alot more textisms, particularly shortenings, contractions, strange spellings, signs and you will numerals. The following hypothesis is partially supported. Affirmed, the newest grammatical build is actually influenced by the fresh CLC: post-CLC phrases was extended and had been far more blogs, conjunctives, and you may prepositions than just pre-CLC phrases. not, adjectives and adverbs didn’t boost in relative volume. To discuss the outcomes and ramifications, this area are organized below: first, we talk about a significant understanding regarding the performance, which is, a modification of brand new formality off vocabulary need. Next, all the examined POS section are chatted about individually. We finish having you’ll interpretations of one’s overall performance for representative conclusion and you can limits of our research.
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New CLC seems to have brought about a great qualitative change in words need in the tweets. Pre-CLC tweets include relatively far more informal language (we.age., textisms, self-referential pronouns, and interjection terminology), whereas article-CLC tweets tell you relatively a lot more authoritative words usage. So it change in formality are specifically evident regarding cousin wavelengths of your own individual pronoun ik (I) plus the post term de- (the), and that studies show the wavelengths for ik and you may de- are symptoms from everyday and certified vocabulary usage (Bouma, 2015). Including, ik is used very frequently into the mind-referential and you can subjective texts https://datingranking.net/sugar-daddies-usa/wi/ eg individual societal-news texts. In addition, de- can be used relatively more frequently within the natural and goal texts like news blogs and you will books. The outcome recommend that the CLC has led to an over-all change in the brand new foregone conclusion regarding code need for the Twitter.
Blogs suggest if or not an effective noun relates to a specific organization otherwise to help you a keen unspecified organization or group of agencies (elizabeth.grams., ‘the fresh new house’ vs., ‘a beneficial house’). This information is never important, which, articles are excluded to store space or slow down the count away from terms and conditions, a strategy one characterizes each other telegraphese and you will textese, (Carrington, 2004; Oosterhof and Rawoens, 2017). Blogs took place seemingly more frequently after the CLC. With plenty of area, frequently, profiles choose to is posts.
Conjunctions are accustomed to link terms, sentences, otherwise conditions. The increase during the conjunctions following the CLC have several reasons. First and foremost, the newest leisure of the past restraining reputation limit setting conjunctions try not any longer ‘wasting’ profile area, conjunctions don’t fundamentally must be excluded any further. Furthermore, so much more readily available place entails there can be more room to have summations and you will subordinate conditions, ergo, raising the significance of conjunctions. Some other reasons for the increase in conjunctions ‘s the pre-CLC accessibility conjunctive symbols as opposed to conditions (e.grams., ‘/’, ‘+’, ‘’ as compared to ‘or’, ‘and’).
Prepositions suggest ‘where’ otherwise ‘when ‘an item otherwise an individual is in relation to something different. Prepositions can describe the brand new spatial arrangement of entities (elizabeth.g., ‘This new tree is during top of the property.’). not, also they are routinely stretched to represent the interactions ranging from abstract records, for example objectives and you will contrasts (elizabeth.g., ‘We don very casual outfits to function despite the grievance out of my personal colleagues.’). In place of posts and you will conjunctions, very prepositions can not be excluded instead of switching the fresh shown definition (e.grams., ‘The 3 are new house’). Remarkably, the fresh CLC enhanced preposition incorporate, which implies your prepositional recommendations had been withheld in advance of this new CLC, to save reputation area. It restraint results in good truncated style of the newest originally intended sentence. Analogy (I):
Each other example (I) and (II) show the way the relative frequency away from prepositions ple (I) shows that recommendations had been withheld. Remarkably, the latest bigram investigation revealed that the new CLC particularly increased the employment of away from preposition and blog post combinations (e.g., by, in the, to help you a good), and therefore appear to create non-omissible prepositional guidance. So it looking aids the notion you to definitely guidance had been withheld and you will some sentences was indeed required truncated pre-CLC, just like analogy (I). | <urn:uuid:c0c0c432-5e7d-4e57-9854-c788ba0eb6e1> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://prawase.com/2022/07/31/i-investigated-the-effect-of-the-reputation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.917674 | 1,088 | 2.5 | 2 |
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