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Youth organizations like the Police Athletic League, the Boy Scouts of America, the Girl Scouts of the USA and YMCA, to name just a few, believe in strong communities. There is temptation around every corner that may lead to tragic ends, so enabling kids to realize their full potentials and prepare them to become successful adults from the start is paramount.
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Ask anyone involved with youth programs and they will tell you the programs and services these organizations provide to youths are invaluable for developing healthy lifestyles, social responsibility and the ability to be selfless in the face of danger and help others. Sure, it is all smiles with crafts and camping trips and basketball camp, but when fate strikes, these kids will have the wherewithal to respond and help save lives.
“Some of these children have no role models. They may be from single-parent families or one parent is away for extended periods of time, such as a father or mother in military service. These programs help to build self-confidence, trust in adults and, in some cases, help prepare them for their teen years, as a young adult and adult life,” said Deborah Moore, a youth advocate with 20 years of experience developing programs for her local Boys & Girls Club and the U.S. Navy. As a social worker for a state agency and a counselor helping to reunite children and parents, she has seen the best and worst in kids.
These organizations provide not just immediate fun but also teach life skills. In emergency situations, any person, no matter their age, must have the confidence to lead or help those in distress. And though we may equate Girl Scouts with boxes of delectable cookies or Boy Scouts with camping and the YMCA with youth basketball, these activities help children grow to act responsibly, teach them how to act in social groups and better understand the bigger picture.
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The philosophy of the Boy Scouts includes teaching young people to take care of themselves and to be helpful to others while developing courage, self-reliance and the ability to offer aid in an emergency. The Boy Scouts’ Emergency Preparedness Award is presented to scouts individually or as a unit. Similar to earning a merit badge, the Emergency Preparedness Award teaches scouts to respond first as an individual, then as a member of a family and finally as a member of a Scout unit serving their neighborhood and community. The essence of the award is to promote kids learning what they need to do during an emergency.
Resources from FEMA are instrumental in getting the Scouts the information they need to be prepared. These life skills have in fact been instrumental in Scouts helping their communities recover from natural disasters. According to the Boy Scouts of America, “This award allows all Scouts and Scouters to become informed, be prepared and act promptly and appropriately in the event of emergencies, whether they are natural or manmade.”
A 2012 Baylor University study concluded that former Boy Scouts and Eagle Scouts are 39 percent more likely to have a close connection with neighbors than non-Scouts. The study also found that Scouts are 124 percent more likely to have a disaster supply kit at home than non-Scouts and are 100 percent more likely to have an emergency plan in place with their family.
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We all remember working for our first-aid merit badge. The wilderness first-aid training offered by the Boy Scouts teaches course modules include instruction on shock, bone and joint injuries, wounds and wound infection, hypothermia, heat problems, allergies, anaphylaxis and much more. The need for first aid may come at any time in any place, from a sprain suffered while mountain biking to a wound from carving brisket at a barbecue.
In 2012, a small band of Boy Scouts on a hiking trip in the Cimarron, New Mexico, mountains went into shock as their troop leader suddenly collapsed and tumbled down the steep, rocky trail. Apparently the troop leader had suffered a heart attack and one of the boys, 15-year-old Brian Boatright, went into action with his Merit Badge skills kicking in to the help his troop leader and to get help fast. Cell phones had no service and they were fours days into a rugged hike. Looking at a map of the area, Brian sent off three other Scouts using the buddy system to get help at the nearest location while he administered aid to their fallen leader. A helicopter was dispatched, their troop leader was taken to a nearby hospital and survived. For his heroism and calm, collected thinking, Brian was awarded the Boy Scouts of America Honor Medal.
The Honor Medal is awarded to a youth Scout or an adult leader who has demonstrated unusual heroism and skill in saving or attempting to save a life at considerable risk to self. Since it was implemented in 1923, there have been 2,452 recipients.
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The Girl Scouts of the USA also awards a Medal of Honor. In May 2015, Adrianna from Missouri, was awarded the Girl Scout Medal of Honor for her quick and heroic action in saving a friend’s life. Adrianna and her friends were on a whitewater rafting trip down the Arkansas River in Colorado. The water was high and the rapids were faster than normal. With five women per raft, one rafter fell out as they paddled over the first major rapid. Adrianna rushed over to her friend’s side of the boat, grabbed her by her life jacket to yank her out of the river and pulled her back into the raft, saving her.
The Right Path
The Boys & Girls Club has always sought to help children who felt alone, afraid or in danger through a variety of programs at the local level. The results the organization has earned are measurable. According to the 2014 National Outcomes Report, 94 percent of the club’s members are more likely to do their best work in school and 76 percent are more likely to go to college. Club members also volunteered 79 percent higher than non-club member and used optimal conflict resolutions skills 33 percent more than non-members.
The Police Athletic League, or PAL, provides civic, athletic, recreational and educational opportunities and resources to PAL chapters at the local level to deter and prevent juvenile crime and violence. It also brings a human face to the police. According to PAL, If a young person respects a police officer on the ball field, gym or classroom, the youth will likely come to respect the laws that police officers enforce. Such respect is beneficial to the youth, the police officer, the neighborhood and the business community.”
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From an early age, Deglys Chavarria was going down the wrong path. He was alone at home most of the time and was hanging out with a gang in the street. When he became a member of PAL, he soon had role models in police officers. Before PAL, police officers were often considered the enemy in the area, but PAL involvement broke down that barrier, giving Deglys a strong positive attitude toward police officers and other law enforcement agents. The steps Deglys took in PAL helped him mature and become a good citizen with community pride and a sense of belonging. Deglys may not have survived a tornado or wildfire, but he survived the streets.
The collective impact from youth organizations builds character, leads to a healthier lifestyles and teaches social responsibility. These are life skills that not only help in times of emergency but at every hour of the day.
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A unique collaboration among faculty at Washtenaw Community College and the University of Michigan School of Information will share an open-source course with the goal of encouraging more students, particularly those underrepresented in STEM fields, to consider a U-M Bachelor of Science in Information (BSI) degree.
The two institutions have teamed up to offer WCC students an introductory class in the popular programming language Python that UMSI uses as a gateway course to its degree.
“I’m really excited about giving students a chance to look at different options,” said Michael Galea, professional faculty of Computer Information Systems at WCC, who will teach the course.
“We’re hopefully going to find students interested in a different career path than what we have currently,” he said, noting that many WCC graduates go into areas like computer science and cybersecurity, as a result of current partnerships. The BSI offers something new, he said, as the degree is focused on information analysis, user experience design, and social media analysis and design.
Historically a graduate school, UMSI began offering a bachelor’s in 2014. The UMSI major is an upper-class program, meaning students enter the program in their junior year. Those already on U-M’s campus have the ability, however, to take the introductory course as a pre-requisite. A good understanding of programming in Python is an important foundation for future learning in the BSI.
School of Information leaders wanted to figure out how to make the transition easier for students coming from outside the U-M system. Program Director Barry Fishman said they also wanted to “grow the program’s socioeconomic diversity and expand the range of pathways to STEM fields like information science,” so they turned to WCC for input and potential collaboration.
“The BSI program is trying to be as friendly as possible to students coming from all backgrounds, and we are putting special effort into smoothing the path for a student looking to transfer to U-M from community college,” Fishman said.
In Fall 2016, Fishman and UMSI staff members Devon Keen and Katy Ross Peters went to WCC during an annual partnership conference the community college holds and asked how the schools could encourage more students to think about additional study at U-M. UMSI leaders felt more could be done to encourage student interest and support their success.
It was through those discussions that the idea of course sharing arose. WCC was not teaching Python, while U-M has several courses built around the program.
“Most community colleges don’t have an introductory Python course, and we think ours is a particularly good one,” Fishman said. “We realized it was possible to make course materials available to WCC, and they were interested in doing a pilot run with us to see what challenges there are in sharing a course.”
The highly interactive course, created by U-M professor and associate dean for research and faculty affairs Paul Resnick, uses an open-source online textbook, complete with interactive exercises for students to practice programming. The book has embedded multiple-choice questions, samples of code that are mixed up for students to rearrange into proper order, and exercises that allow them to create and run code.
Some lecture material can be delivered through online videos, and the use of a course management system allows for interactive discussions and activities around the content. U-M uses the course management system Canvas but WCC was able to integrate it with its Blackboard system.
The beauty behind open-source sharing, Resnick said, is that instructors at WCC can pick and choose the elements that work best for them.
“We’ve seen the power of sharing of open-source, not just for software but for other content,” he said.
“Python is increasingly being used in many places. It’s easy to get started with, it’s a real programming language and it’s easier than other languages,” Resnick said. “WCC has been interested in moving toward Python and they wanted to experiment with us.”
Susan Dentel, a WCC faculty member in the Life Sciences Department, believes exposure to Python will give the students in a new STEM program a leg up.
“Having this experience will put them in a good position for the job market and for future research,” Dentel said.
She is the co-principal investigator on a Louis Stokes Alliances for Minority Participation grant from the National Science Foundation to encourage more underrepresented minority students to choose STEM careers. The grant that includes U-M, Michigan State University, Wayne State University and Western Michigan University will bring students together for the first time this summer in a cohort that will go through a two-year program at WCC together.
She also administers another program that serves economically disadvantaged students and believes participants in both programs could benefit from learning Python. Dentel said with the addition of the new course, there is the potential of adding an information science track to the WCC program.
Articulation agreements and other less formal collaborative efforts to help students to transition from community college to four-year institution are not new. But the sharing of course resources in this fashion is unique and could serve as a model for other programs, the leaders said.
The debut course, CPS 141: Introduction to Programming, is being offered during the Winter 2018 semester and is nearly at capacity, Galea said.
In addition to the new course, UMSI has developed a range of other opportunities for community college students to become familiar with the field of information science, such as a Community College Summer Institute designed to bring students to the U-M campus to meet with UMSI faculty and staff.
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FEBRUARY 26, 2013
Government corruption is at an all-time high, yet President Obama continues to delay filling a number of openings at crucial internal watchdog offices that are supposed to weed out fraud and waste at federal agencies.
Congress created the office of inspector general more than three decades ago to investigate cases of wrongdoing inside government agencies. In all, 64 agencies have an inspector general to fight waste, fraud and abuse. Nearly half—the biggest and most important—are appointed by the president and all are supposed to be politically independent, but that’s hardly been the case.
A few years go a number of inspectors general came under fire and faced retaliation and scrutiny after exposing wrongdoing at the agencies they were charged with investigating. This led Congress to contemplate legislation to protect the watchdogs by, among other things, requiring the president to notify Congress 30 days before firing an inspector general to guard against terminations for political reasons.
President Obama has taken it a step further by simply allowing crucial watchdog posts to go vacant for years, frustrating both Democrats and Republicans in Congress. The story was uncovered this week by a conservative news publication that reports lawmakers are growing impatient with the rare, prolonged vacancies at the Pentagon, State, Interior, Homeland Security and Labor departments.
In mid 2008 Judicial Watch reported how the Pentagon Inspector General was cut to part-time during a period when the agency was rocked by huge contract scandals. The Pentagon was in the midst of an investigation into waste and abuse in southwest Asia and the Middle East and tens of millions of taxpayer dollars had been wasted because the agency lost track of many of the 60,000 private contractors supporting the U.S. military in the region.
Now a bipartisan group of U.S. Senators are demanding the president fill the watchdog position at the Pentagon and the other key agencies. In a letter cited in the story, the senators write that “a sustained absence of permanent leadership is not healthy for any office – particularly one entrusted with as important and challenging a mission as an Office of Inspector General. Inspectors general occupy a unique role – tasked with speaking truth to power and with dual reporting obligations to their agency head and to Congress. Those unique pressures may be especially challenging for an acting inspector general, serving without the endorsement of presidential selection and Senate confirmation.”
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Irish immigrants: Early Irish Immigration
Irish immigrants: Irish Immigrants during the U.S. Civil War
Irish immigrants: Immigration During and After the Great Wave
Irish immigrants: Immigration After 1965
Movement from Ireland to the United States continued into the nineteenth century and began to increase in response to new opportunities. Notably, the U.S. began to build up its first transportation infrastructure, in the form of canals. The Erie Canal in New York State, perhaps the best known of these waterways, was under construction from 1818 to 1825. That project drew heavily on immigrant Irish labor, beginning the long history of building the American transportation infrastructure with Irish workers. The success of the Erie Canal stimulated the digging of canals in other parts of the country, creating a growing demand for workers who were willing to endure the hard labor required in canal building. Somewhat later, the Illinois & Michigan Canal, created between 1837 and 1848, employed hundreds of Irish laborers. To the south, Irish workers dug the canal system of swampy New Orleans.
Reliable data on how many Irish reached American shores date only from 1820. In 1819, the United States passed the Steerage Act. It gave the U.S. government information on immigration by requiring that all vessels reaching American shores deliver passenger lists to customs officials, who then sent copies to the U.S. State Department. That department would, in turn, submit the lists to Congress. As a result, 1820 became the first year in which the U.S. systematically collected data on new arrivals. During that same year, the Irish made up the single largest immigrant group, accounting for 43 percent of all arrivals to the United States.
Irish immigration continued at high levels throughout the decades leading up to the Civil War. The numbers of Irish immigrants rose from 51,617 during the 1820’s to 170,672 during the 1830’s, increasing still further to 656,145 during the 1840’s. During the decade of the 1850’s, the number of people arriving in the United States from Ireland reached its historical peak at 1,029,486.
One reason that the flow fromIreland increased during these years was that the demand for their labor continued to rise. The railroads made up the second major part of the American transportation system, after the canals. In 1830, the United States had only 23 miles of railroad. Only one decade later, this figure had grown to 2,818 miles. It increased to 9,021 miles in 1850 and then to 30,626 miles in 1860. Immigrants fromIreland, in particular, laid these miles of tracks.
The Irish were also pushed out of their native land by poverty and hunger as the middle of the century approached. The Potato Blight created famine in Ireland in the years 1845 to 1850. Continuing hardship, in addition to the existence of established Irish communities around the United States, pushed immigration from Ireland to its record level in the 1850’s.
By the middle of the nineteenth century, Irish Americans were an urban and working class group. Only 16 percent of people born in Ireland lived on farms in the United States in 1850, compared to well over one-half of all Americans. A majority of the Irish in the United States (53 percent) lived in urban areas, at a time when urban areas were home to only 15 percent of the people in the nation. While only about 15 percent of all workers in the country were listed as laborers by occupation, about half the Irish natives in the census of that 1850 were so identified.
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Reports of high diversion rates and deconstruction efforts may be constantly popping up on Tom Napier’s news feed, but to him, this only proves how far we are from the ultimate goal. “When they stop making news, I think that’s when we are achieving something,” he says. “If the whole industry can migrate more toward conservation as a standard practice—as a matter of course—then we are getting some place.”
That’s not to say that Napier is a pessimist. Quite the opposite, in fact. The current president of the Building Materials Reuse Association has created a “bucket list” of what he hopes to see happen in the industry before he exits this world. A list that was published BMRA’s September 2011 newsletter, but one that is worth reprinting here. Thankfully, Napier was not only willing to share his list with Vision 2020, but give us a little insight into his vision as well.
Bucket List Item 1:
The conflict between demolition and deconstruction disappears. The routine is to reuse what can be reused, recycle what can be recycled, and landfill the little bit that’s left.
“Buildings have to be demolished,” Napier admits. “That’s just a fact of life. What we are trying to do, once a decision is made for a building to come down, instead of the default being to put materials in a landfill or recycling the steel, there are additional avenues of conservation that can be practiced that are not as common as the mainstream. We just want to bring those into the tool kit as well.”
This, he adds, will require the construction industry to actually think about the best use case—and best life-cycle path—for materials. “The building across the street is being torn down, and the steel beams are being sent to China to be recycled into new steel beams that are going to be installed in the new, greener building across the street,” Napier quips. “It sounds ridiculous, but that isn’t a far off scenario.”
Bucket List Item 2:
Promoters of “green building” rating systems fully appreciate the impacts of waste and life-cycle benefits of materials reuse, and give full credit to reuse as a major contributor to sustainability.
Based on his own research, Napier has found that reusing materials could reduce the environmental impacts of water use, emissions to air, emissions to water, waste, and chemical releases up to 99%. “That’s almost a total reduction of adverse impacts compared to manufacturing new items,” Napier says. “That kind of an impact is not reflected in the point systems.”
He also says that today’s point systems focus too much on percentages and not enough on what is actually being done to the materials. For example, shredding perfectly good Douglas fir timbers and using them as alternate daily cover in a landfill counts every bit as much as extracting timbers, refinishing them, and using them in a timber-frame home or millwork.
“The path of least resistance becomes that which the point chasers exercise,” Napier says. “In a perfect world, there would be some kind of hierarchy—the closest use to the original form gets the most points and the farther you divert, or the more resources you put into making something different, then you get fewer points.”
Bucket List Item 3:
Architectural and engineering professionals, as agents to building owners, educate their clients and vigorously promote salvage and reuse where practical.
“I think an overemphasis has been placed on taking buildings apart and preserving materials, but they have to go somewhere,” Napier says. “I would like to provide more emphasis now to the design and engineering professions for reuse opportunities for materials to create the ‘pull’ that helps the ‘push.’”
In an ideal world, Napier says the value of reused materials would be ingrained in the construction industry infrastructure, starting with academia. “If I were king and I had a really long-term vision, I would be starting back to the educational systems and architectural programs and civil engineering programs and make this part of the value scheme of people coming up in the building professions,” Napier says. “That’s going to take a couple of generations.”
Bucket List Item 4:
Deconstruction, salvage, and used material businesses develop a robust and highly visible infrastructure within the building industry. Services are available for any type of project, any time, and at any location.
According to Napier, this will mean changing up the business model. “When you think about the business model of a demolition contractor, they don’t have a material handling or interim phase between the acquisition of material and the ultimate reuse,” he explains. “Getting those kinds of businesses started and getting them active and working is going to certainly give more options to building owners, property owners, demolition contractors, and designers.”
Bucket List Item 5:
The architectural, engineering, interior design, landscape design, demolition, construction, and facility management professions are thoroughly familiar with salvage and reuse practices, and employ them as a routine instead of a novelty.
“We can used recycled materials, but using materials that don’t have to be recycled—that are useful as is—that’s even better,” Napier says. Specifically, he would like at least 50% to 75% of all lumber in residential homes to be reused, and he would like to see all steel structural elements reused in another structural application, as opposed to just recycled.
“I’d say reusing at least 50% of typical single-family homes content is perfectly possible,” Napier says. “If the infrastructure to enable that to happen—to get materials from a job site to another job site—if that can be reinforced, I think that’s a completely doable objective.”
Bucket List Item 6:
Deconstruction, salvage, and reuse businesses work cooperatively with each other for the benefit of the industry.
In his vision, Napier would like to see hydraulic excavators, Sawzalls, pry bars, and Nail Kickers all work in harmony to remove buildings and conserve resources. “If the parties that use all of those tools can acknowledge the other ones as well, I think we’d all be better off,” he says. “Unfortunately, we seem to be more competitive than we are cooperative. That’s an institutional attitude.
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Here's the challenge facing the Ann Arbor school district: How does it add programs students need while facing budget woes that have led to $15 million in cuts the last four years?
Superintendent Todd Roberts posed that question to about 20 community members gathered Wednesday morning for a breakfast with the Ann Arbor Public Schools Educational Foundation.
The answer? Roberts isn't sure but said part of the solution could be found in the fundraising done by the foundation.
The organization has been around for several decades but has had a renewed push to raise funds in recent years. This last school year, it raised $220,000, more than its goal of $200,000.
That money funded grants to teachers for classroom projects and the purchase of special writing software to help students in grades five to nine, foundation Executive Director Wendy Correll said as she walked through a list of accomplishments.
"It was just a marvelously long list," she said. "We just plan on continuing that upward growth."
The foundation has plans for funding teacher grants again this year and also to purchase two different ACT prep tests for district students to use, one in eighth grade and one in 10th grade. The organization also plans to work on enrichment programs at the elementary school level.
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The district is grateful for the help, especially because it doesn't look like the state will increase funding by any large measure any time soon, Roberts said.
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How you handle your recordkeeping and taxes can make a big difference in your success as a small business owner. Make sure to avoid these common tax mistakes small business owners make:
1. Choosing the wrong form of business.
When you go into business, everyone seems to have advice on how you should set it up. Some people think everyone should have a corporation, and will happily help set it up – for a fee. Other people recommend Subchapter S Corporations, partnerships, or a sole proprietorship.
The truth is, no form of business is perfect for everyone.
For example, a sole proprietorship, which reports income and expenses on Schedule C attached to your Form 1040, requires no setup with the IRS and the least recordkeeping.
However, you may limit your exposure to liability with a limited liability corporation (LLC) (although not always as much as you might think). A regular corporation seems impressive, but you may pay higher total tax if you’re not careful.
Do your homework or get professional advice, and start with the simplest form of business that meets your needs.
2. Waiting until tax time to catch up on recordkeeping.
It’s easy to stash all your receipts and other records in a box somewhere, or in a folder on your computer, and drag them all out at tax time. But that’s not the best use of your time and effort, for several reasons.
It takes longer to get organized when you have to do it all at once. It’s also harder to remember what you spent, meaning you could miss something. If you wait almost until the deadline, you’ll feel rushed.
The best reason not to wait until the end of the year to catch up on recordkeeping, however, is that by keeping good records and paying attention to them, you can use the information you learn to for better tax planning – not to mention better business strategies.
3. Getting behind on tax deposits and estimated tax payments.
Small businesses are often pinched for cash, especially in the early years. A surprising amount of gross receipts should be tucked away for self-employment tax, income tax, and payroll tax deposits. If you get behind on any or all of these tax deposits and estimated payments, it can be very, very difficult to get caught back up.
One fail-safe strategy is to put money for taxes in a separate account as soon as you receive it, so you know the money for taxes is always coming from the gross income to which it applies.
4. Paying employees as independent contractors, or “under the table.”
Payroll taxes are a hassle. They’re also expensive. Wouldn’t it just be easier to pay people who work for you as independent contractors instead of signing them up as employees? Or better yet, just give them cash?
Before you take the easy way out, think about the consequences. The IRS and other governmental agencies have rules about who is an employee and who is not.
If you pay people as independent contractors, and the IRS determines they worked under your control and should have been classified as employees, you could end up paying back taxes and penalties.
Paying people cash “under the table” encourages them to evade income taxes – not a good thing. And you may lose your business tax deduction.
5. Missing out on deductions and other tax benefits.
You can lose the benefit of business deductions in so many ways. You can lose receipts, of course, and not get the deduction at all. You can forget to track your business vehicle mileage. You may not know about energy credits, or tax perks for job-related education.
Another way you can miss out on all the tax benefits from your business is to take certain deductions as itemized deductions, instead of with your business.
For example, if you pay property tax on business property, you should take the deduction with your business, not on Schedule A.
By taking it as a business deduction, you save on self-employment tax as well as income tax. You also lower your adjusted gross income, which can help you qualify for other tax benefits.
To avoid missing out on deductions and other benefits, try to organize your recordkeeping. Make it as easy and as automatic as possible. Online apps, bank and credit card downloads, for example, can improve accuracy and make recordkeeping easier.
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In 300 words or more, please provide your response to the above discussion question. Find two goods from your own consumption basket and explain how the MRS changes for the two products as you substitute one for the other
The tobacco industry is a prime example to consider when talking about price elasticity of demand. While nicotine use can be addictive for many users, it is not addictive for the so-called "social smokers".
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What can we say about the price elasticity of demand for nicotine products (such as cigarettes, pipes, tobacco) in the group of nicotine addicted users, versus the group of "social smokers"? Can we say whose demand is likely to be more elastic? Why?
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October 3: Lum featured in Washington Post article, “Guest Post: How to reinvent American policing.”
September 29: Weisburd featured in The Daily Dot article, “The truth about stop-and-frisk practices.”
September 8: Lum featured in Undark article, “Breaking Down ‘Broken Windows.’”
September 3: Weisburd featured in Seattle Times article, “Did Seattle’s downtown drug crackdown push crimes elsewhere?”
August 11: Weisburd’s new book discussed in The Trace article, “The Wonk’s Guide to What Works, and What Doesn’t, When Policing Violent Crime.”
July 19: Lum discusses body cameras in Diverse: Issues in Higher Education article, “Scholar Warns Police Body Cams may be Used to Show Underrepresented in Worst Light.”
July 8: Robinson quoted in Politico article, “Former leader of Obama policing task force: Trump won’t deliver reforms.”
July 6: The CEBCP is discussed in The Roanoke Times’ column, “Roanoke County police project focuses on getting services to those with mental illness.”
June 27: CEBCP faculty and grad students participate in the first International Summer School for Policing Scholarship.
June 26: Weisburd and Yang’s work on stop, question, and frisk featured in New York Daily News column, “Get the NYPD stats right, Mayor de Blasio.”
May 20: The CEBCP is discussed in The Hill’s column about body worn cameras, “It would be a crime not to know more about body cameras.”
March 10: Gill and Yang’s work on police response to mental health featured in the News at Mason article “Mason criminologists aim to help police better handle mental health calls.”
March 9: Weisburd Quoted in Dallas Observer article “Will Dallas’ Violent Crime Task Force Work?”
March 2: Lum and Koper’s report on body worn cameras featured in The Washington Post article “What do we know about police body cameras? Survey says: Not much.”
January 23: Cynthia Lum responds to article on citizens’ rating of police officers in the Letters Section of The Economist.
January 16: Nicholas Kristof references Christopher Koper’s study in his op-ed in The New York Times article “Some Inconvenient Gun Facts for Liberals.”
January 9: CEBCP referenced in The Sacramento Bee article “Police need to rely more on science, less on their ‘gut’.”
January 7: The Technology Project by Koper, Lum, Willis, Woods and Hibdon is highlighted in The Crime Report article “Can New Technology improve policing?”
December 29: Congratulations to Cody Telep, Renee Mitchell and David Weisburd, who were awarded the Donal MacNamara Paper Award from ACJS for their Justice Quarterly article on Hot Spots Policing in Sacramento.
November 19: CEBCP Senior Fellow Stephen Mastrofski is the recipient of the American Society of Criminology, Division of Policing Lifetime Achievement Award.
November 9: David Weisburd, Cynthia Lum and Stephen Mastrofski selected as members of the National Academies of Sciences “Committee on Proactive Policing – Effects on Crime, Communities, and Civil Liberties.”
October 16: David Weisburd quoted in The Huffington Post article, “This Police Department May Ban People Arrested For Crimes From Public Areas.”
October 14: Roanoke County Police could implement new grant for mental health services, allowing crisis response teams to assist officers. The CEBCP will partner to develop evidence-based practices.
October 13: Lum et al.’s research cited in the Mother Jones article, “Why No One Really Knows a Better Way to Train Cops.”
August 28: CEBCP’s Hall of Fame Member Hassan Aden blogs on how Police Should Engage in Local Justice System Reform to Build Trust and Strengthen Communities for the Huffington Post.
August 20: Pittsburgh Police Chief Cameron McLay recommends ‘The Criminology of Place’ from his reading list. The Pittsburgh Comet.
August 20: David Weisburd’s study on stop-and-frisk featured in Study: NYPD’s stop-and-frisk cuts crime in hot spots, but so do other policing efforts. Newsday.
August 19: Ted Gest writes about the CECBP-Police Foundation Symposium in The Crime Report.
August 4: David Weisburd comments on deterrence and broken windows in “New York public urination debate tests ‘broken windows’ theory of crime”. CBC News.
August 4: Cynthia Lum is interviewed about evidence-based policing in “Policing by the numbers: Post-Ferguson.” Next City News.
July 30: Julie Grieco, CEBCP graduate research assistant, is highlighted in George Mason University News about her dissertation research in police academies.
July 24: “David Weisburd Reappointed to DOJ Science Advisory Board”, George Mason University News. Professor Weisburd will serve a two-year term on the Board of 18 experts in the field of criminal justice.
July 9: David Weisburd on the culture change needed by the Israeli Police in “Looking for a supercop: Who can save the Israel Police from itself?” The Times of Israel.
June 24: Cynthia Lum and Daniel Nagin commentary on “Reinventing American Policing” in The Crime Report.
June 16: CEBCP Senior Fellow Sue-Ming Yang and Affiliated Scholar Joshua Hinkle cited in “Pros and Cons of ‘Broken Window’ Crime Prevention Strategy” in Newsmax.
June 10: David Weisburd Offers New Take On Stop-And-Frisk. The Jewish Week.
May 11: “What Would A More Humane Justice System Look Like?” The Crime Report. Cynthia Lum and Dan Nagin’s work is highlighted.
March 11: Mason’s David Weisburd Takes the ‘Israel Prize’ for Reducing Crime. George Mason University News.
March 9: Mason Professor’s Policing Task Force Delivers Report to Obama. George Mason University News. Laurie Robinson, CEBCP fellow and Mason professor is featured.
March 5: Fulbright Scholar from Scotland Researches Policing at Mason. George Mason University News. Richie Adams, Fulbright Scholar for the CEBCP is highlighted.
February 24: Dan Nagin and Lawrence Sherman, two of CEBCP’s advisory board members present testimony for the The President’s Task Force on 21st Century Policing. Nagin presented work co-authored with Cynthia Lum.
January 29: CLS Center Leading Congressional Briefing. George Mason University, Department of Criminology, Law and Society News.
December 18: Obama names task force to examine trust between police and minority communities. The Washington Post. Laurie Robinson, CEBCP Senior Fellow to co-chair President Obama’s task force with CEBCP Evidence-Based Policing Hall of Fame recipient Chief Charles Ramsey (Philadelphia Police Department).
December 4: Tamir Rice shooting should be rallying point for real community policing. Cleveland.com. Charlotte Gill’s work is highlighted.
November 24: 10 (Not Entirely Crazy) Theories Explaining the Great Crime Decline. The Marshall Project. David Weisburd’s work is highlighted.
October 22: Director Cynthia Lum receives the James Smart Memorial Medal and presents the annual lecture on “The Impact of Technology on Modern Policing.”
October 20: Professor Nick Fyfe of the Scottish Institute of Policing Research receives CEBCP’s Distinguished Achievement Award in Evidence-Based Crime Policy in Tulliallan Scotland at the SIPR-CEBCP joint symposium.
September 22: Marine Veteran Builds a New Career in Criminology at Mason. George Mason University Media.
September 4: The impact of community policing: Meta-analysis of its effects in U.S. cities. The Journalist’s Resource. Charlotte Gill and colleagues systematic review on community policing is highlighted.
June 25: NYPD weighs whether cut in stops affects crime stats. Newsday. David Weisburd, Cody Telep and Brian Lawton’s research on stop and search is highlighted.
June 23: Mason welcomes pioneering police into Hall of Fame. George Mason University Media.
June 2: CEBCP Executive Director, David Weisburd, wins the American Society of Criminology’s highest honor, the Sutherland Prize. George Mason University Media.
May 29: David Weisburd’s work is discussed in “Shootings in NYC continue to rise, even as serious crimes decline”, Newsday.
May 6: CEBCP Announces its 2014 award winners.
April 14: Skin Color Is Not a Crime: Why Stop and Frisk Doesn’t Work. The Huffington Post. David Weisburd, Cody Telep and Brian Lawton’s research on stop and search is highlighted.
February 19: Why does Homeland Security want a database of license plates? Christian Science Monitor. Cynthia Lum is interviewed about license plate readers.
January 15: Chief Scott Silverii of the Thibodaux (LA) Police Department writes about education and policing in The Law Enforcement Bulletin, highlighting work by Chris Koper, Renee Mitchell and others.
December 22: Seeking Safety: How one city cut violent crime by 60 percent (The Fayetteville Observer). The research of David Weisburd, Anthony Braga (CPWG), and other CEBCP colleagues are highlighted in this article.
November 29: Crimespots (The Ascender). Journalist Robert Silk writes about predictive policing, hot spots, and evidence-based policing, and interviews Hall of Fame members Jim Bueermann and Hassan Aden as well as Cynthia Lum.
November 24: Hong Kong police stop-and-search tactics questioned after 1.6m spot checks last year (South China Morning Post). David Weisburd is interviewed about stop-question-and-frisk practices in Hong Kong.
November 21: Mason Criminologists to Evaluate License Plate Reader Technology (George Mason University News). Read about Christopher Koper and Cynthia Lum’s new grant, awarded from the National Institute of Justice, to study the impact of license plate reader technology on crime and case clearances.
September 11: Twelve years after 9/11, we still have no idea how to fight terrorism (Washington Post). The Campbell counterterrorism systematic review by Lum, Kennedy and Sherley is discussed.
September 8: Privacy fears stoked in US by license plate readers (Agence France-Presse). Cynthia Lum discusses the balance between using license plate readers, cost-effectiveness, and privacy rights.
September 3: ‘Urban Crime Summit’ to probe causes, solutions for violence plaguing St. Louis, Kansas City (St. Louis Beacon). Christopher Koper and Cynthia Lum invited to present at Missouri Attorney General’s summit on crime issues.
September 1: Predictive policing may help bag burglars—but it may also be a constitutional problem (ABA Journal). Director Cynthia Lum discusses predictive policing and respecting individual rights and community dignity when preventing crime.
August 13: Here’s what you need to know about stop and frisk – and why the courts shut it down (Washington Post). David Weisburd, Cody Telep and Brian Lawton’s analysis of the geographic distribution of stop and frisks in New York City is discussed.
July 23: Matrix Demonstration Project Offers 2 New Modules on Crime Analysis (BJA’s Justice Today). BJA highlighting the Matrix Demonstration Project’s 2 newly released online training modules, “Crime Analysis for Commanders” and “Crime Analysis for Operations”.
June 10: Criminal Justice Doctoral Programs Put Cutting-Edge Research Into Practice (Washington Post Express). Laurie Robinson and Cody Telep discuss the focus that doctoral programs are putting on research applying to policy, highlighting the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix.
April 17: Annual Conference Helps Translate Policing Research Into Practice (George Mason University News). Highlights the CEBCP-SIPR Joint Symposium and Congressional Briefing, of which 250 attended.
March 20: Covering with Fewer Cops. Mike Reese Turns to Science to Help with Police Staffing Woes (Portland Mercury) Discusses Cody Telep’s presentation to Portland City Council on the evidence regarding the effectiveness of hot spots policing.
February 5: Acting Assistant Attorney General Mary Lou Leary discussed David Weisburd’s hot spots research in remarks at the 8th Annual Harry Frank Guggenheim Symposium on Crime in America.
January 26: Prison Population Can Shrink When Police Crowd Streets (New York Times) David Weisburd discusses the benefits of hot spots policing in this article focusing on how criminal justice resources would be better spent on policing than prisons.
January 24: Obama Gun Plan: Fact Checking the GOP’s Response (Huffington Post) Christopher Koper’s research on the effects of the Assault Weapons Ban is discussed.
January 14: Gun laws, federal law, and technology. Christopher Koper discusses his the evaluation of the Assault Weapons Ban for the US Department of Justice.
January 10: Minneapolis Gun Summit. Christopher Koper participated in a regional gun summit in Minneapolis that included 70 politicians and law enforcement officials from six states.
January 10: “Data Indicate Drop in High-Capacity Magazines During Federal Gun Ban” (Washington Post) Christopher Koper is quoted discussing the impact of the federal gun ban on high-capacity magazines in Virginia.
December 26: “NRA Misleads on Assault Weapons” (Salon). Christopher Koper stated that the effects of the Assault Weapons Ban are still unfolding and may not be fully felt for several years into the future due to the ban’s exemption of millions of pre-ban automatic weapons.
December 19: “Bushmaster .223: Weapon Used in Newtown Shooting a Lightning Rod in Gun Debate” (TIME NewsFeed). Christopher Koper discussed how the AR-15 has long been a target of anti-gun legislation.
December 18: “Do Something Smart, Not Just Fast, on Mass Shootings” (Washington Post). 1999 study investigating the impacts of the 1994 Assault Weapons Ban, co-written by Christopher Koper, is cited by Washington Post.
December 17: “Five Steps to Help End America’s Gun Violence Epidemic” (MSNBC). Christopher Koper discussed that the Large-Capacity Magazines ban was the most effective component of the Assault Weapons Ban.
December 13: Assistant Attorney General Awards Announced. Attorney General Eric Holder made a special trip to OJP last Thursday to present the first Laurie O Robinson Award to Senior Policy Advisor Phelan Wyrick.
December 11: “Seattle Forum on Police Relations Identifies Trust as Top Concern” (The Seattle Times). David Weisburd and Charlotte Gill participated in the forum. View the press conference given by the Mayor of Seattle here.
December 6: Department of Homeland Security criminologist Richard Legault discussed DHS research projects including a CEBCP grant (‘Terrorism is Local’ The Crime Report)
November 30: CEBCP Graduate Research Associate Cody Telep will join the faculty of the School of Criminology and Criminal Justice at Arizona State University in August as an Assistant Professor.
November 7: Senior Fellow Laurie Robinson appeared on the DC Public Safety radio show to discuss her time as Assistant Attorney General and her new position at George Mason.
November 2: “Mason Criminologists Help Police Improve Crime Fighting Tactics Through Research” (Mason News)
October 26: Cynthia Lum is 1 of 3 George Mason faculty members to receive a 2012 Mason Emerging Researcher/Scholar/Creator award.
October 18: “Technology: ‘A component of a strategy, not a strategy in and of itself'” (Cost-Benefit Knowledge Bank for Criminal Justice, Vera Institute of Justice). Describes a roundtable that Cynthia Lum participated in on cost-benefit analysis and technology in policing.
October 2: The Sacramento Police Department and Sgt. Renee Mitchell won a Silver Award for Excellence in Law Enforcement Research from the International Association of Chiefs of Police (IACP) for their hot spots policing study. CEBCP staff including David Weisburd, Cynthia Lum, Christopher Koper, and Cody Telep were involved in the planning and evaluation of this experiment. (Criminology, Law and Society Faculty Receive Research Awards)
October 2: A study of illegal immigration enforcement policy in Prince William County, VA won the Bronze Award from IACP. CEBCP Senior Fellow Christopher Koper worked on the project. (Press release from the University of Virginia: “U.Va.-Led Study of Illegal Immigration Enforcement Policy Wins International Award”)
October 1: Cynthia Lum Named Fall Outstanding Supervisor (Mason News)
September 28: Cynthia Lum was quoted in a Wall Street Journal article on license plate tracking technology (“New Tracking Frontier: Your License Plates”)
September 27: The work of David Weisburd and Christopher Koper was mentioned in a press conference held by Seattle Mayor Mike McGinn and the Captains of the five precincts of the Seattle Police Department. Read the press release here.
September 24: Seattle City Councilmember Tim Burgess discussed the Evidence-Based Assessment of the City of Seattle’s Crime Prevention Programs in a post to Council Connection, News and Updates from Seattle City Council: “2013-2013 City Budget: Listening Closely and Investing Wisely”
September 13: “Seattle Programs to Prevent Crime May Do the Opposite” (Mynorthwest.com) discusses the Evidence-Based Assessment of the City of Seattle’s Crime Prevention Programs.
September 13: The Assessment was also covered by the Rainier Valley Post “Auditor: Three City-Funded Crime Prevention Programs May Actually Increase Crime”
September 4: CEBCP team members received multiple mentions in the September 2012 Accolades from George Mason University including new grant awards for David Weisburd, Brian Lawton, and Charlotte Gill and two awards for Laurie Robinson.
August 28: CEBCP Senior Fellow Jim Bueermann was named the new president of the Police Foundation. The announcement was also covered by the Redlands Daily Facts (“Former Redlands Chief Appointed to National Board”)
August 23: “City Gets Nearly $1 Million Grant to Address Youth Violence in Rainier Valley”(KOMO News) notes that the City of Seattle and CEBCP will be partnering in a project funded by the Bureau of Justice Assistance to address juvenile crime hot spots in Rainier Valley.
August 23: Seattle City Council Member Tim Burgess also wrote about the grant on his blog.
July 24: “Crime Fighting Plans all Lead to Hot Spot Policing” (HealthyCal.org) quotes David Weisburd and mentions the Sacramento hot spots experiment
May 10: “2 Opinions on Stop-and-Frisk Report” (The New York Times) mentions research by David Weisburd, Cody Telep, and Brian Lawton
May 2: “Former U.S. Assistant Attorney General Laurie Robinson to Join Mason Faculty”(George Mason University)
April 24: Visit the Jerry Lee Symposium page for more media coverage of the event.
April 24: “‘Being Smart on Crime Does Not Mean Being Soft Headed’: MP”(The Crime Report)
April 24: “Panelist: Verdict Still Out on Evidence-Based Crime Fighting” (The Crime Report)
February 15: The CEBCP study of license plate recognition technology was cited in a Montgomery Gazette article: “Montgomery County police cameras take pictures of thousands of cars daily.”
January 22: David Weisburd will speak about his new book, The Criminology of Place: Street Segments and Our Understanding of the Crime Problem, at the University of Missouri- St. Louis on February 6. Read St. Louis Mayor Francis Slay’s press release about the event here.
January 19: “New Book Analyzes Counterterrorism Measures” (George Mason University)
October 4: Christopher Koper’s research on the federal assault weapons ban was cited in a decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia (Heller v. District of Columbia)
October 4: Sacramento Police Department released a press release announcing the significant crime declines that resulted from the hot spots experiment CEBCP has been involved in evaluating: “‘Hot Spots’ Policing Reduces Crime”
The Sacramento Bee also reported on the release: “Sacramento police ‘hot spot’ study shows focus the key” and so did the Sacramento Press: “‘Hot Spot’ Policing Reduces Crime”
September 15: The Atlantic Cities wrote about the Sacramento hot spots experiment that CEBCP has been involved in developing and evaluating: “Fighting Crime in an Era of Belt-Tightening”
August 15-16: Click here to read more about the CEBCP-Campbell Collaboration Joint Symposium on Evidence-Based Policy
June 3: Cynthia Lum has been selected as one of two individuals to receive the 2011 U.S. Attorney General’s Citizen Volunteer Service Award. See an article from George Mason about the award here.
June 3: CityStream video on the Seattle Channel covering CEBCP’s visit to Seattle to discuss Evidence-Based Approaches to Crime Reduction
June 1: David Weisburd has won the prestigious Klachky Prize for the Advancement of the Frontiers of Science for 2011, presented by Hebrew University.
May 6: City Council’s Burgess brings police experts to talk new approaches in Seattle(Crosscut.com)
May 3: Coverage of CEBCP visit to Seattle from the Seattle Post-Intelligencer “Juvenile Crime Problems in Seattle ‘Hot Spots’ “
March 31: Video from David Weisburd’s Neil A. Weiner Research Speaker Series lecture at the Vera Institute of Justice in February.
March 29: Seattle’s Office of City Auditor has issued a report “Addressing Crime and Disorder in Seattle’s “Hot Spots”: What Works?” based in part on research by David Weisburd and colleagues on crime at place in Seattle
Several Seattle media outlets covered the report:
- City: A few streets responsible for half of Seattle’s crime (KOMO News)
- Study: Seattle crime concentrated to small areas (Mynorthwest.com)
- New report identifies Seattle crime ‘hot spots (KING 5 News)
March 22: David Weisburd’s research featured in Mason Research 2011, the annual magazine covering innovative research at GMU (Examining the Role That Place Plays in Crime)
February 13: David Weisburd, and Cynthia Lum mentioned in a Sacramento Bee article on hot spots policing in Sacramento.
January 24: David Weisburd featured as part of GMU advertising campaign in Roll Call. See Mason Comprehensive Advertising Campaign Targeted to Local Audiences
January 11: Cynthia Lum mentioned in article on social media in the Alexandria Police Department. See Futurist envisions coming social media advantage for local police
December 8: The innovative uses of iPads and iPhones in the Redlands Police Department featured in an article on the Apple website. CEBCP is working with Redlands PD to evaluate the use of iPhones and iPads by officers.
September 30: BJA training article on the Evidence-Based Policing Matrix
August 24: “Deputy Chief Hassan Aden Inducted into Evidence-Based Policing Hall of Fame” Alexandria News
August 19: “7 questions for the Evidence-Based Policing Hall of Fame” TBD.com
August 16: “Crime Center Honors Policing Leaders at International Conference” The Mason Gazette
August 13: Inside Track column, Boston Herald
August 13: “Police Chief Inducted to Hall of Fame” Marietta Daily Journal
August 12: “Davis, Ramsey, Stephens Among Policing Hall of Fame Inductees” The Crime Report
August 12: “Marietta Police Chief Honored” CBS Atlanta
August 11: “Top Cop Ramsey a Hall-of-Famer” Philadelphia Daily News
August 9: “Bueermann Selected for Hall of Fame Honors” Redlands Daily Facts
August 6: “Colleges Collaborate on Evidence-Based Crime Policy Workshop” The Mason Gazette
June 23: David Weisburd winning the 2010 Stockholm Prize in Criminology was highlighted by the Fairfax Times (GMU Professor Wins Criminology Award)
June 23: David Weisburd was awarded the 2010 Stockholm Prize in Criminology (Weisburd Wins Criminology’s Top Prize for His Policing Research)
September 29: David Weisburd’s research highlighted by Mason Gazette (Innovative Criminologist Looks at the Role That Place Plays in Crime) | <urn:uuid:be29b604-d54e-461d-b32a-7c52c62fb081> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://cebcp.org/cebcp-in-the-news/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279169.4/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00219-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.881756 | 5,431 | 1.703125 | 2 |
I’m not going to lie. My heating went on in September.
I don’t deal with the cold weather very well at all. I have bad circulation too, so it’s easy for my hands and feet to get cold. And when they get cold, they get really cold. But a recent video about heating a room for 8p a day got me thinking. (Has anyone tried this by the way?)
I do try to limit the amount of time and frequency that the heating is on, or I fear my bill will be more than my rent. But as it’s cold I also spend more time at home! So, failing having tried the method explained in the above video, here are some more conventional ways to stay warm and reduce the cost of your gas or electricity bill. | <urn:uuid:34f44c45-0564-447d-a36d-7246711401d9> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://loveallblogs.com/reads/keeping-down-the-cost-of-heating-in-the-winter | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00014-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966063 | 168 | 1.53125 | 2 |
What is 'Short Selling'
Short selling is the sale of a security that is not owned by the seller, or that the seller has borrowed. Short selling is motivated by the belief that a security's price will decline, enabling it to be bought back at a lower price to make a profit. Short selling may be prompted by speculation, or by the desire to hedge the downside risk of a long position in the same security or a related one. Since the risk of loss on a short sale is theoretically infinite, short selling should only be used by experienced traders who are familiar with its risks.
BREAKING DOWN 'Short Selling'
Consider the following short-selling example. A trader believes that stock SS which is trading at $50 will decline in price, and therefore borrows 100 shares and sells them. The trader is now “short” 100 shares of SS since he has sold something that he did not own in the first place. The short sale was only made possible by borrowing the shares, which the owner may demand back at some point.
A week later, SS reports dismal financial results for the quarter, and the stock falls to $45. The trader decides to close the short position, and buys 100 shares of SS at $45 on the open market to replace the borrowed shares. The trader’s profit on the short sale – excluding commissions and interest on the margin account – is therefore $500.
Suppose the trader did not close out the short position at $45 but decided to leave it open to capitalize on a further price decline. Now, assume that a rival company swoops in to acquire SS because of its lower valuation, and announces a takeover offer for SS at $65 per share. If the trader decides to close the short position at $65, the loss on the short sale would amount to $15 per share or $1,500, since the shares were bought back at a significantly higher price.
Two metrics used to track how heavily a stock has been sold short are short interest and short interest ratio (SIR). Short interest refers to the total number of shares sold short as a percentage of the company’s total shares outstanding, while SIR is the total number of shares sold short divided by the stock’s average daily trading volume.
A stock that has unusually high short interest and SIR may be at risk of a “short squeeze,” which may lead to an upward price spike. This is a constant risk that the short seller has to face. Apart from this risk of runaway losses, the short seller is also on the hook for dividends that may be paid by the shorted stock. In addition, for heavily shorted stocks there is a risk of a “buy in.” This refers to the fact that a brokerage can close out a short position at any time if the stock is exceedingly hard to borrow and the stock's lenders are demanding it back.
While short selling is frequently vilified and short sellers viewed as ruthless operators out to destroy companies, the reality is that short selling provides liquidity to the markets and prevents stocks from being bid up to ridiculously high levels on hype and over-optimism. Although abusive short-selling practices such as bear raids and rumor-mongering to drive a stock lower are illegal, short selling when done properly can be a good tool for portfolio risk management.
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Dialed InHaywood County Amateur Radio Club operators dial into public service needs while amping up the fun.
Lifestyles Editor — For members of the Haywood County Amateur Radio Club (HCARC), operating amateur radios, also known as ham radios, is both a hobby and a valuable form of emergency communication.
According to the American Radio Relay League (ARRL), the national association for amateur radios in the U.S., amateur radios are any form of non-commercial radio communication regulated by the Federal Communications Commission.
“Most of the public doesn’t understand how beneficial a ham radio can be,” HCARC Vice President Bill Laney said. “Ham radios can operate under any conditions. If a storm came through and blew down all the power lines in the country, we can still operate.”
Unlike cell phones, amateur radios don’t necessarily have to rely on the internet or a repeater/transmission station to operate. Often times, amateur radios are powered by generators, and some are even powered by solar paneling, such as a station atop Crabtree Bald in Haywood County.
Originating around the turn of the century, today there are nearly 700,000 amateur radio operators in the United States alone.
Haywood County has a strong amateur radio operator presence with over 200 licensed ham operators recognized by the FCC.
“Our club was started as a hobby for amateur radio users to get together and talk to people around the world,” John Eroh, HCARC treasurer and membership coordinator, said.
The club, which began in November 2005, now includes nearly 50 members, and is one of four amateur radio clubs in Western North Carolina, Eroh said.
The club offers three levels of nine week amateur radio licensing classes twice a year in the spring and fall. While some radio operators still communicate through Morse Code, the FCC has eliminated learning the code as a licensing requirement.
Last weekend, members of HCARC gathered for Field Day, an annual contest where amateur radio groups across the globe are challenged to contact as many other ham radio operators as possible within a 24-hour period. The event ran from 2 p.m. Saturday, June 22 to 2 p.m., Sunday June 23 at 1650 Brown Ave. in the Ingle’s parking lot in Waynesville.
At the event, HCARC members operated three radio stations, powered by generators. Radio waves were transmitted via three shortwave, high frequency bands through two antennas – a dipole antenna with horizontal fiberglass tubes encasing metal rods and a 20-meter quad antenna attached to a trailer donated by Haywood County Emergency Management services.
Inside the trailer, HCARC member Paul Yeager sat in front of the computer, wearing headphones while communicating to other operators in call signs, a unique combination of letters and numbers assigned to each licensed amateur radio operator and club.
Within the first few, Yeager had already made contact with several operators in Germany, Japan and New Zealand.
At last year’s Field Day, HCARC, who goes by the club call sign KW4P-5, made 999 contacts, an average ranking in an international competition, held mainly in the U.S. and Canada.
In recent years, ham radios have provided emergency communications during times of disaster, such as during earthquakes in Haiti, Hurricane Katrina, 9/11 and, most recently, the Oklahoma tornado.
An Automatic Position Reporting System (APRS) tracking system called digipeaters (digital repeater), operate as amateur radios with a built-in GPS device. These digipeaters can assist emergency personnel in locating disaster victims and relaying information to family members in a timely manner without tying up main emergency channels.
“[Amateur radios] have a much wider range of frequencies we’re able to use,” Eroh said. “We’re not restricted to using a few channels like the county is.”
Occasionally, HCARC has been tasked to help emergency personnel locate people stranded on the highway during snowstorms or lost hikers on the Blue Ridge Parkway.
“Our goal is to establish better relations with the emergency management teams and the sheriff’s office in Haywood County to offer more assistance in times of emergencies,” Yeager said.
The club primarily volunteers their communication services at the Blue Ridge Breakaway, a cycling event sponsored by the Haywood Chamber of Commerce planned for Saturday, Aug. 17 that starts at Lake Junaluska.
At the event, HCARC served as SAG (Supplies and Gear) drivers at 10 different rest stops along the route. These drivers utilized hand held amateur radios and digipeaters to keep track of the location of each cyclist for safety reasons.
“The Blue Ridge Parkway officials said HCARC was one of the biggest assests at the event,” Laney said.
Want to get involved:
HCARC meets at 7 p.m. the second Tuesday of each month at Emergency Operations Center on Depot Street in downtown Waynesville. For more information about the club or how to become a liscensed ham radio operator, call Eroh at 550-3005 or visit
The 2013 Annual Western Carolina Hamfest will begin at 8 a.m. Saturday, July 27 at the Haywood County Fairgrounds at 758 Crabtree Road in Waynesville. Hamfest is an opportunity for ham operators to meet, exchange technical radio knowledge and radio equipment. For more information, visit www.wcars.org/hamfest. | <urn:uuid:655ac394-165f-4f92-9ba2-55ab6655f830> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://themountaineer.villagesoup.com/p/dialed-in/1022576 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282202.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00550-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943877 | 1,157 | 2.375 | 2 |
This volume brings together studies carried out in a variety of contexts to explore the relevance of the notion of reproductive health and the role of culture in shaping its diverse manifestations. The perspective that guides the collection is informed by anthropological and sociologicalresearch on the body, pluralism, and medicalization, and by recent debates regarding women's health and the need to reconcile global agendas and local conditions.The fourteen chapters provide views of how reproductive health is viewed by women and men in different parts of the world, mainly at the level of local communities---in India, Egypt, Mexico, Kenya, and South Africa---but also in centres of power in China and Iran, and in modern (and post-modern)settings of the North and Far East. The methodological approaches used by authors are varied, but all share a concern with the perceptions, decisions, and rationalizations that surround health and reproduction. A central theme is the correspondence between professional and lay models of reproductive health, and some chapters explicitly seek to uncover the logic of practices that appear irrational from a biomedical point of view. By analysing behaviour from the perspective of the actors themselves, theyshow the relevance of local notions for understanding the factors that constitute risks for reproductive ill-health, including conditions of material deprivation, constraints in seeking care, and inappropriate use of therapies and technologies."Cultural Perspectives on Reproductive Health" illustrates complex processes of negotiation, adaptation, and manipulation in the formulation of ideas and policies related to reproductive health through analyses of such topics as the state's discourse on population, religious constraints on abortioncare, professional and legal policies on reproductive technologies, health professionals' response to violence, and the dilemmas that emerge from the new diagnostic and genetic techniques. It also invites reflection on the societal construction of rights across cultures and on the place of culturalexplanations in analyses of reproductive health. | <urn:uuid:eca47145-faaa-4d97-95c7-507e8fcc90ad> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.chapters.indigo.ca/en-ca/books/cultural-perspectives-on-reproductive-health/9780199246892-item.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283689.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00346-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.919767 | 373 | 2.375 | 2 |
The prefecture of Attica is located at the southernmost point of central Greece. Its population is about 4 million people.Attica is well-known because of Athens, the capital of Greece. The great history of Greece is connected with Athens, where the notion of democracy was invented. Attica is a peninsula sticking out into the Aegean Sea. It is physically divided to the north from Boeotia by the 10 mile long Kithairon mountain range. The peninsula is separated by mountains into the plains of Pedia, Mesogeia, and Thriasia. The mountains include Hymettus, the eastern portion of Geraneia, Parnitha, Aigaleo and the Penteli mountains. To the north it is bordered by the Boeotian plain and to the west it is bordered by Corinth. The Saronic Gulf lies to the south and the island of Euboea lies off the north coast. Athens' first and only large reservoir was opened in the 1920s called Lake Marathon Since that time, it has been Attica's largest lake. Forests cover the area around Parnitha, around Hymettus and into the northeast and the north in the hills and the mountains, except for the mountaintops, but the mountains to the west and the south are grassy, desolate or forested. | <urn:uuid:ae5560e0-daa2-4c0e-8666-a232967976b8> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://wikitravel.org/en/Attica | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719155.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00332-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.922893 | 279 | 3.359375 | 3 |
We are living in a state of exception, the result of a coup in Brazil. It began with the ousting of legitimate president Dilma Rousseff and continues to trample over the rights gained over the years by Brazilian workers. Nothing remained untouched: labor rights, social security, education, social rights, agrarian reform, land titling for indigenous communities, the public health system, among others.
The role of the media in this plot involving Brazil’s Parliament, court system, and media was decisive, if not of leadership. The so-called "mainstream media” - especially Globo Network -, surrounded by a false sense of impartiality and democracy, paved the way for the coup in an alliance with the Judiciary, the Public Prosecutor’s Office and the Congress. To this end, it used all its machinery to summon coup demonstrations presented as protests against corruption, made behind-the-scenes coordination processes with the established power, and used its economic power in favor of a break up with democracy. In that process, Globo manipulated the public opinion, told lies, and omitted facts.
Since the coup, the Brasil de Fato system (website, regional print tabloids, and radio network) has been denouncing the sponsors of this real attack on the people, which impacts mostly the poor. In addition, our editorial line is expressed as we report on the social achievements of recent years, especially as a result of the efforts of leftist governments at the federal, state, and municipal levels.
During such administrations, Brasil de Fato showed support to measures directed towards fulfilling the yearnings of the working class, while also making political claims when necessary. Now we consider that Brazil has reached a decisive moment that calls us to publish our editorial line regarding this key issue: Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva. We understand that the former president was the main target of the coup, which aims to get him out of the presidential race, because the possibility of having Lula’s name on the ballots could represent the return of democracy with the working class as protagonist.
Lula is now a political prisoner and has been kidnapped by the abusive power of part of the Judiciary, given his conviction without evidence and the arbitrariness seen throughout the process. Defending the right of the former president to be a candidate is to ensure the validity of democratic rules. It is to respect the Constitution and give back to the people the reins of the future of the country. Depriving the former president of this right is another stage of the coup.
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BANKING QUIZ - 58 FOR IBPS-PO & CLERK EXAM
1. Which of the following is/are technical partners of CIBIL?
1. TransUnion International
2. Dun and Bradstreet
3. SIDBI & PSBs
4. Both (A) and (B)
5. Both (A) and (C)
2. Which of the following is not a method of estimating National Income?
1) Export Import Method
2) Value Added Method
3) Expenditure Method
4) Income Method
5) Production Method
3. Which of the following are the major players in the call money markets?
2) Insurance companies
3) Development financial institutions
4) Selected mutual funds
5) All of the above
4. The rate of interest charged by RBI for lending money to various commercial banks by rediscounting of the bills in India is called
1) Exchange rate
2) Statutory liquidity ratio
3) Bank rate
4) Cash reserve ratio
5) Interest rate
5. What is the minimum and maximum limit (in Rs.) prescribed for RTGS transactions by RBI?
1) The minimum prescribed limit is Rs. 1 lac and maximum Rs. 10 lac
2) Rs. 1 lac The minimum prescribed limit is Rs. 2 lac and no maximum limit
3) The minimum prescribed limit is Rs. 25000 and maximum
4) The minimum prescribed limit is Rs. 25000 and there is no maximum limit
5) The minimum prescribed limit is Rs. 10 lac and maximum Rs. 100 lac
6. RBI has sold its entire stake except 1% in which of the following organizations?
2) National Housing Bank
7. Which of the following is considered as a capital inflow?
1) A US citizen’s repayment of a loan from a foreign bank
2) A purchase of foreign financial assets by a US buyer
3) A sale of US financial assets to a foreign buyer
4) None of the above
8. Which of the following cannot be called as a debt instruments as referred in financial transaction?
3) Certificate of deposits
4) Commercial papers
9. What do you mean by “Branchless Banking”?
a) Banks will not have many branches as used to be in the good old days. Instead, the number of branches will be restricted and will conduct only a specified core business.
b) Banks will launch/operate many delivery channels like ATM’s Mobile Banking/Internet Banking etc,so that people are not required to visit a branch for their usual banking needs.
c) This means banks will issue only debit or credit cards for all types of day-to-day financial transactions. Cheques/cash payments will not be allowed.
1) Only a) 2) only b) 3) a) and b) 4) b) and c) 5) All of these
10. The rate at which the domestic currency can be converted into foreign currency and vice-versa is known as the
2) Exchange rate
3) Interbank call money rate
4) Base rate
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When you join a Zoom meeting hosted by another user, you are considered an attendee.
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Last weekend a fan-made PC port of Nintendo 64 classic Super Mario 64 appeared online, wowing fans with its 4K resolution and ultra widescreen support. Somewhat inevitably, however, Nintendo’s lawyers and representatives have now started to take action, filing copyright complaints with Google and YouTube to make the recreation disappear.
All the way back in 1996, the world of videogaming witnessed a massive event. Edge, the most adult, cerebral video game magazine available at the time, reviewed the Nintendo 64 title Super Mario 64 and gave it an unprecedented 10/10.
In today’s world where games publications saturate the Internet, it’s difficult to state the importance of that moment. Edge, without exception, had previously found fault with every other game ever reviewed and when other publications gave out 7/10 scores for average titles, Edge stubbornly refused to give a middling game any more than 50% approval.
That was 24 years ago and despite the massive technological changes witnessed during the last quarter-century, the warmth gamers feel towards Super Mario 64 has only grown. That’s why there were few dry eyes in the house when a fan-made PC port of the legendary title hit the Internet last weekend.
“The fan-made port, which was first shared on social media sites this weekend, was made possible by a 2019 recompilation project which saw fans reverse engineer the game’s source code,” wrote VGC, which first reported the news.
Unlike the emulated versions of SM64 that preceded it, this was a full-blown DirectX 12 port that enabled 4K resolutions, support for ultra-widescreen monitors, plus gameplay facilitated by modern interfaces such as the Xbox One controller. But while modern gamers and historians bathed in the sunshine of this N64 classic, many realized that dark clouds would eventually appear on the horizon.
Perhaps more than any other videogame company in existence today, Nintendo has become associated with a determination to vigorously defend its intellectual property rights and it didn’t take long for this PC-powered title to land on its radar. Despite most discussion forums such as Reddit suppressing links to the game’s executable, it soon began to disappear from file-hosting sites.
The action, at least in part, was taken by US-based law firm Wildwood Law Group LLC, a company known to work with Nintendo in its efforts to suppress the availability of modding tools and products. One of its complaints filed with Google this week and obtained by TorrentFreak reads as follows:
“The copyrighted work is Nintendo’s Super Mario 64 video game, including the audio-visual work, software, and fictional character depictions covered by U.S. Copyright Reg. No. PA[REDACTED],” the notice reads.
“The reported file contains an unauthorized derivative work based on Nintendo’s copyrighted work.”
While the registration number has been redacted in the complaint, the copyright registration number is almost certainly PA0000788138. That was also referenced in a complaint filed by Nintendo against Cloudflare in 2015 when the gaming company was attempting to remove a browser-based version of Super Mario 64 from the Internet.
At the time of writing, at least one of the recent complaints filed by Nintendo’s law firm has curiously failed to take down the content in question. We obviously won’t link to it here but the SM64 PC-port executable is very much alive on the targeted Google Drive URL, as the image below shows.
Other locations haven’t been so lucky, however. Copies uploaded to various file-hosting sites have now been removed and several Reddit posts linking to the game have been deleted too. Fans have been sharing hash values of the files though, which can still yield results with the right search techniques.
Attempting to spoil the fun for those who’d simply like to see the game in action, Nintendo has also been targeting YouTube videos featuring the title running on PC. One example, titled “[ Gameplay ] Super Mario 64 – DX12 PC Port – 4K” was deleted following a copyright complaint, as the image below shows.
In other news, Nintendo suffered a significant data leak this week which included the original Nintendo 64’s source code, among a trove of other data. The twist here is that according to sources familiar with the Super Mario 64 PC port, that data was leaked too and wasn’t yet scheduled for public consumption.
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Arcata, CA (PRWEB) November 01, 2013
Although all rosewoods from Africa, Asia, Central America, and South America are imperiled, the kind specifically used for concert-level marimbas--such as those crafted by Marimba One--is called Honduras Rosewood (Dalbergia Stevensonii), grown only in Guatemala, Belize and Southern Mexico.
The Convention on International Treaties in Endangered Species (CITES) has begun monitoring the export of Honduras Rosewood, and the government of Belize even imposed a moratorium on the harvesting of the wood.
Marimba One's founder, Ron Samuels, personally witnessed rosewood being illegally poached from the hills of Central America and hauled out at night on pick-up trucks, tractor-trailers and dump trucks.
For this and other reasons, Samuels concurs with CITES because he believes that natural resources must be managed responsibly to safeguard their future.
To that end, Marimba One works exclusively with small indigenous suppliers to process the wood in Central America, employing people year-round to mill the wood down to bar lengths.
We encourage everyone interested and concerned about Honduras Rosewood--and concert marimbas--to keep abreast of developments by reading about Honduras Rosewood in Central America. | <urn:uuid:fa52f773-e2f5-4dea-bee9-ca04c0ca7ab6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.prweb.com/releases/201311/rosewood/prweb11288906.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00541-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.903249 | 271 | 2.703125 | 3 |
NASA satellite shows direct evidence of ozone hole recovery
The hole in the ozone layer was one of the most headline-hogging environmental issues of the 1980s and 90s, but an international ban on damaging chemicals has helped it recover in the 30 years since. It's long been known that the hole is shrinking, but a new study has provided greater insight into the improving health of the ozone layer by analyzing the chemicals around the hole over the last decade or so.
High up in the stratosphere, the ozone layer protects the surface of the Earth from the worst of the sun's ultraviolet light – so it was understandably alarming when scientists discovered a hole in that shield over Antarctica in the mid-80s. The culprit, it turned out, were chemical compounds called chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs), which drift into the stratosphere where UV radiation breaks them down into chlorine atoms, which then dissolve ozone molecules.
To fight back, the nations of the world rallied together to sign the Montreal Protocol in 1987, which banned the use of chemicals containing CFCs. Now decades later, the damage is slowly being undone, with scientists noticing that the ozone hole has shrunk by 4 million square km (1.5 million sq miles) overall since the year 2000.
But the size alone doesn't tell the whole story. In fact, the area of the hole fluctuates every year, peaking in size around October. That seasonal shift is due to the fact that CFCs can stay afloat in the atmosphere for up to a century, and increased UV radiation at certain times of year kickstart the ozone depletion process all over again.
The good news is that the average size of the hole has been steadily shrinking over the past few decades, but with other factors at play, scientists couldn't be completely sure that the Montreal Protocol could claim credit.
To check that the CFC ban is contributing to the recovery of the ozone layer hole, a team of researchers studied data gathered by a satellite-mounted instrument called the Microwave Limb Sounder (MLS), which measures trace gases in the atmosphere. Using MLS data gathered every winter between 2005 and 2016, the team was able to determine the daily changes in ozone levels during the entire winter season of each year – from early July to mid-September.
Sure enough, the researchers found that the rate of ozone loss decreased by 20 percent over that time period.
"This is very close to what our model predicts we should see for this amount of chlorine decline," says Susan Strahan, lead author of the study. "This gives us confidence that the decrease in ozone depletion through mid-September shown by MLS data is due to declining levels of chlorine coming from CFCs. But we're not yet seeing a clear decrease in the size of the ozone hole because that's controlled mainly by temperature after mid-September, which varies a lot from year to year."
As encouraging as the result is, we're not out of the woods yet. New CFCs aren't being pumped into the atmosphere, but the existing ones will still be around for a long time.
"CFCs have lifetimes from 50 to 100 years, so they linger in the atmosphere for a very long time," says Anne Douglass, co-author of the study. "As far as the ozone hole being gone, we're looking at 2060 or 2080. And even then there might still be a small hole."
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HOUSTON — A possible agreement that could reduce the prison sentence of former Enron Corp. CEO Jeffrey Skilling for his role in the collapse of the once mighty energy giant is being discussed, according to the U.S. Justice Department.
The possibility of a sentencing agreement in the case was made public this week in a notice to victims of Enron’s collapse.
“The Department of Justice is considering entering into a sentencing agreement with the defendant in this matter,” the notice said. “Such a sentencing agreement could restrict the parties and the Court from recommending, arguing for, or imposing certain sentences or conditions of confinement. It could also restrict the parties from challenging certain issues on appeal, including the sentence ultimately imposed by the Court at a future sentencing hearing.”
The notice did not specify how Skilling’s sentence could be impacted if an agreement is reached. Skilling has been in prison since December 2006. He is currently serving his sentence in a low security facility outside of Denver.
Michael Passman, a Justice Department spokesman, declined to comment. Daniel Petrocelli, Skilling’s attorney, did not immediately return a phone call or email seeking comment.
Before this week, Skilling’s sentence was already in question.
Skilling was convicted in 2006 on 19 counts of conspiracy, securities fraud, insider trading and lying to auditors for his role in the downfall of Houston-based Enron. He was sentenced to more than 24 years in prison. The company collapsed into bankruptcy in 2001 under the weight of years of illicit business deals and accounting tricks.
An appeals court in 2009 upheld his convictions but vacated his 24-year prison term and ordered that Skilling be resentenced, saying a sentencing guideline was improperly applied, resulting in a longer prison term. He has yet to be resentenced.
In 2010, the Supreme Court said one of his convictions was flawed when it sharply curtailed the use of the “honest services” fraud law, and told a lower court to decide whether he deserved a new trial. The lower court said no.
Skilling, 59, was the highest-ranking executive to be punished for Enron’s downfall. Company founder Kenneth Lay’s similar convictions were vacated after he died of heart disease less than two months after trial.
Enron’s collapse put more than 5,000 people out of work, wiped out more than $2 billion in employee pensions and rendered worthless $60 billion in Enron stock. Its aftershocks were felt across the city and the energy industry. | <urn:uuid:56f7b5a2-5ad7-4b8c-88d0-69eeeef1ffae> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.pressherald.com/2013/04/04/possible-deal-could-reduce-ex-enron-ceos-sentence/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279489.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00014-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974747 | 530 | 1.65625 | 2 |
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In a rare display of enlightened leadership, former Namibian president Sam Nujoma, 75, has enrolled at the University of Namibia (Unam) as a masters student in geology. His choice of subject shows that he is ready to face up to the hard facts of student life with his usual courage.
This decision lends credibility to the emphasis placed on higher education in the recently-released report of the Commission for Africa chaired by British Prime Minister Tony Blair. At last the two can agree on an important topic.
But Unam Vice-Chancellor Lazarus Hangula is reportedly apprehensive about his new student, who is also the Chancellor of Unam: "His presence on the campus is certainly a challenge to all of us in many ways," he says.
To the contrary, this is a great opportunity to build a new vision of Africa that values the role of higher technical education in development.
Choosing geology in a mineral-rich country indicates his interest in making education relevant to local needs. At his age, Nujoma confirms that there is no age limit to learning.
His presence on campus will make Unam an important destination for his friends and colleagues, which will enrich academic life with solid knowledge of the real world.
Fellow geologists like former US Secretary of State Colin Powell might pay him a visit and brush up on their knowledge of the field.
OTHER LEADERS wishing to take short sabbaticals and subject their ideas to intellectual scrutiny might find the questioning instinct of Nujoma a refreshing departure from the uncritical acceptance of their views back home.
The University of Namibia could also take advantage of his presence to establish a depository of African presidential archives.
The only archives of this kind are located at Boston University in the US . Former Zambian president Kenneth Kaunda may want to send a duplicate of his presidential archives from Boston University to Unam, where they can be more easily accessed by Zambians and other Africans.
For decades, Africa was made to believe that only primary education mattered for development. This is the colonial legacy under which Africa was defined as a source of raw materials and an importer of processed goods. The first generation of African universities thus focused on producing functionaries for the civil service.
Even though this model is evidently moribund in the age of declining public sector employment, African countries have been too slow to replace lamentation with the vigorous reforms needed to bring universities in line with development needs.
Resistance to change by academic staff has fuelled government neglect of public universities, resulting in widespread institutional decay. Many of them are supplementing their meagre budgets with eclectic income-generating activities. Academic standards in many African universities have hit rock-bottom.
TODAY, AFRICA lacks the critical technical skills needed to meet basic needs, compete in the global economy and manage the environment. To advance, the continent must invest more in technical higher education as stressed in Innovation: Applying Knowledge in Development, a report of the UN Millennium Project’s Task Force on Science, Technology and Innovation presented to the UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan recently.
The good news is that governments are starting to look for ways to remedy the situation. Uganda , for example, has proposed to make physics, chemistry and biology compulsory courses in high school. Zambia ’s president recently replaced the Minister for Science and Technology for poor performance.
Nujoma’s decision will also lead to discussions on the role of the university in economic development. Producing graduates is no longer a sufficient justification for investment in higher education in countries experiencing extreme poverty. Universities will need to serve as engines of community development, in addition to their traditional research and teaching roles.
Indeed, African universities are already contributing to the effort to redefine the role of the university. Zambia ’s largest Internet provider, Zamnet, was started as project at the country’s national university. Similar examples of institutional adaptation exist in other regions of the world.
UNIVERSITIES IN Brazil and other developing countries are serving as incubators of businesses. In other innovations, private companies are creating institutions of higher learning that train people who are directly suited to their needs.
In Korea , LG Academy helps to train people whose skills are aligned with the goals of LG, the parent company, and the competitive interests of the country.
COSTA RICA ’S EARTH University has pioneered a new educational model that focuses on producing young entrepreneurs trained to create companies and be employers rather than be employees.
This model was developed to address extreme poverty, unemployment and environmental degradation.
Sam Nujoma has served the people of Namibia as a freedom fighter and president with distinction. But now he is scoring high grades in retirement from politics for leading yet another revolution: making higher technical education a cornerstone of Africa’s economic development.
Calestous Juma is professor of the practice of international development at Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government and Lee Yee-Cheong is President of the World Federation of Engineering Organisations in Paris. | <urn:uuid:fb3ba206-9257-4ad7-b1fe-8001b78970b2> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.hks.harvard.edu/news-events/news/news-archive/like-nujoma,-africa-needs-to-go-back-to-university | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281353.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00072-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956108 | 1,048 | 2.296875 | 2 |
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Hudson Area Library and Out Hudson bring you story time with Ella Ghent. Drag Queen Story Time is a family-friendly and inclusive event. Striving to celebrate differences, breaking down barriers and dressing up, Ella will be reading stories, accompanied with a ukulele, that celebrate diversity, self expression and creativity. There will be also be a drag treasure chest with costumes for kids and complimentary cookies from Trixie’s Oven. Ella Ghent lives in the city of Hudson, and is a versatile performer in speech, drama, movement, storytelling, song and clowning. She has also studied Waldorf education.
Saturday, May 26, 2018 from 11am – 12pm
Hudson Area Library
51 N. 5th St. (at State St.)
Hudson, NY 12534
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Die Eltern [The Parents], plate III from Sieben Holzschnitte zum Krieg [Seven Woodcuts on War]
47.6 cm x 65.6 cm (18 3/4 in. x 25 13/16 in.)
(Königsberg, Germany (now Kaliningrad, Russia), 1867 - 1945, Mortizburg, Germany)
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Blanton Museum of Art, The University of Texas at Austin, Transfer from the General Libraries, The University of Texas at Austin, 1996
Born into a comfortable middle-class family, Käthe Kollwitz focused her art on the desperate condition of the peasants and proletariat with whom she came into contact, first through literary sources and then directly through her husband’s medical practice. She explained in an interview that these subjects interested her more for aesthetic than social reasons, but she is remembered as a socially engaged artist who protested vehemently against World War I. Here again she felt some ambivalence, as she supported her son’s decision to volunteer to join the German army against her husband’s wishes. His death in Flanders shortly after enlisting became the fulcrum upon which her later art balanced.
This powerful woodcut comes from her most famous series. About it she wrote in her diary, “Yet again I am not finished with the War series. Done the sheet ‘Parents’ over again. Suddenly it looks entirely bad to me. Far too bright and hard and distinct. Pain is totally dark.” Although she was dissatisfied with the outcome, the woodcut medium, its heavy black planes slashed here with stark white highlights, aptly conveys the sense of nearly uncontrollable parental grief at the loss of a child. | <urn:uuid:8442cd7c-f0bb-4f39-b342-fcfb5444642c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://collection.bma.utexas.edu/objects-1/info/9870?sort=0 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573540.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819005802-20220819035802-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.945327 | 414 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Beth Ami is a welcoming community where we connect to Jewish past, celebrate Jewish present and link to Jewish future through a humanistic philosophy. Students in Grades 2 through 7 will tell the Passover story by talking about the courage of the Jewish slaves to escape. In addition, we will also talk about the courage of millions of Jews to leave the land of their birth to come to America, perhaps the largest Jewish Exodus ever. Immigrants showed they had the power to change their destiny and provide the power of hope to their children.
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If there is a ground zero for observing the impacts of a changing global climate the Maldives are definitely a front-runner.
It is a place many have heard of but few could easily pick out on a map. Comprised of twelve hundred islands and atolls, most pancake flat, the highest reaches no more than five feet above sea level … making the Maldives the lowest country on earth. Only two hundred of the islands are inhabited, by roughly 320,000 people. It is an always hot, exceedingly beautiful, Muslim country stretching about 600 miles from north to south in the heart of the Indian Ocean off the tip of Sri Lanka.
I have been visiting the islands since 2005, when I first went to assess the damages wreaked by the massive tsunami that rolled from Indonesia to Somalia. The Maldives were largely spared; its coral reefs absorbed the brunt of the wave. In the years since, as rising sea levels and warming sea surface temperatures have gained more and more headlines, so has this tiny island nation.
Today erosion is a big problem on many of the islands and most of its coral is badly bleached.
In the past few days an invested crowd of thinkers and doers, including the Maldives’ President Mohammed Nasheed and several members of his cabinet, gathered on the small island of Kunfunadhoo, for the third annual S.L.O.W.L.I.F.E Symposium.
Organized by the owners of the resort company Six Senses, Eva and Sonu Shivdasani, the barefoot conference brought together environmentalists from the United Kingdom including Jonathan Porritt, Tim Smits and Jeremy Leggett, National Geographic Emerging Explorer Mark Lynas (author of “Six Degrees” and the new “God Species”), renewable energy and island nation leaders from as far away as Reunion and Bali, ocean mariners including Fabien Cousteau and some incredibly dedicated headline-makers (Richard Branson and the actors Edward Norton and Daryl Hannah).
The subject of three days of talks was, What can be done fast to slow climate change, before it’s too late.
Topics ranged from how small island nations can become energy independent, how to engage local communities in ambitious carbon reduction plans and the challenge of adapting transportation in a low-carbon economy.
It’s clear there are no easy answers. Soon after arriving by float plane President Nasheed delivered a harsh message. “Carbon dioxide emissions are going to kill us,” he said. “Here in the Maldives our goal of becoming carbon neutral is not to scare the world, but simply to make a step in the right direction.”
While Nasheed leads an effort to make the Maldives the first carbon neutral country on the planet, by 2020, there are some good things to brag about here on the Laccadive Sea. Last year the country banned all shark fishing and any tuna in the Maldives are caught only by pole. Recently the Baa Atoll was declared a UNESCO Biosphere.
While the Maldives, with few natural resources but a growing population and energy demands, is on the forefront of nations attempting to take themselves off the grid it’s clear the problems are not a lack of knowledge and information. But the Maldivian government officials reiterated what stands in their way is not lack of knowledge but of money. It’s one thing to have great ideas and access to information; paying for progress is something else, especially in a country with a fledgling democracy and a history of high debt and bad credit.
But it is trying. By 2020 the Maldives hopes to generate 60 percent of its electricity from solar, without raising the cost of power to its consumers. It has introduced a new import regime by the Transport Ministry to ensure that in the future electric cars will be a third of the price of conventional gasoline cars. And it has pledged to spend two percent of its national income on renewable energy deployment in the country. If that figure were matched worldwide, we would be collectively be spending $1.25 trillion a year rather than the $260 billion we spend today on renewable energy sources.
Worrying to all island nations of course is that CO2 in the world’s atmosphere is not declining but growing, as development and growth continue to mount globally. The goal of reducing the amount of CO2 in the atmosphere to 350 parts per million — what scientists regard as the safe limit for humans — may fast becoming an unreachable goal, since it has already risen to above 392 ppm.
One industry that prospers in the Maldives of course is tourism. Nearly 1 million visitors a year, including increasing numbers from China and India, fly into the capital city of Male each year and jump out to various island resorts by float plane or small boat. Taxes on resort development — and potentially new tariffs on visitors to support renewable energy projects — are the lifeblood of the Maldivian economy. | <urn:uuid:c0191ccf-2550-4a1a-aca1-4ce9806af267> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://voices.nationalgeographic.com/2011/10/15/maldives-ground-zero-for-climate-change-impacts/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282140.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00129-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.950357 | 1,022 | 2.75 | 3 |
The vision of the Mohegan Tribe references thirteen generations guiding its youth—the “buds on the tree of life”—in discovery and learning. A significant part of that learning for one group of Mohegan youth came over the past summer on the Crow Reservation of Montana—more than 2,000 miles across the Great Plains from their Connecticut home. With an intensity to serve and observe the Crow way of life, the group of teens and chaperones joined Global Volunteers for six days in August to help the Crow people improve local facilities. While the two tribes are different in many ways, their spirits are aligned in reverence and respect for Indian country.
The opportunity to volunteer with a Western tribe engendered respect and kinship, said the youths, and opened their eyes to a new perspective of Indian country—on the vast front range of the Rocky Mountains. Noting that the land west of the Mississippi River varies greatly from their east coast home, 19-year-old Alexa Strickland offered her perspective of their cross-cultural service program: “I did not go into this trip with any assumptions or expectations,” she said. “I gained so much knowledge and experience from talking to members of the Crow Nation while working alongside them, for instance, that we both have similar traditions, just different ways of doing them. One example of something that stuck with me was when I was told by one person that you can overcome any obstacle—although it may take days, weeks, months, or years, we should never give up.”
What projects did you work on?
Our work projects included: Cleaning out the Headstart shed—the purpose of this was to help organize the items in the shed so the teachers could access materials easily. We also weeded the college parking lot and cleaned cabins that could be used for freshman orientation. Lastly, we stained Chief Plenty Coups house—(the landmark) in the state park on the reservation.
How did you interact with the local people you met and served with?
We worked alongside members of the Crow Nation. Although we were working on projects the entire time, we were able to listen and learn about who they were as individuals and as a nation. The people we met were friendly, caring, and most importantly comedians. They were patient and answered questions, while taking the time to compare and contrast our traditions. They made our time there worth every second.
What was the most important lesson from this service program?
Our Crow friend Carlton shared that you should have confidence in your identity. Once you know in your heart who you are, where you come from, and where you want to go, no one can take that from you. We must embrace it and pass it on to generations that come after us.
What do you want others to know about the Crow People?
Enter the Crow Reservation with an open mind and heart. The Crow People are a nation with stories, knowledge… and care, and are open to sharing with people who are genuine and want to learn. They have a beautiful way of life that they don’t mind educating others about.
“I cannot stress this enough,” Strickland concluded. “Just be open. You’re the person controlling how much you gain from the experience. Learn, listen, and you will have a much more enjoyable experience. You’ll even return home with some lifelong friends.”
Those friends reside in forested hills and canyons, on the windy plains and along river banks—on lands passed on through generations. According to the official Crow Nation website: “The Crow Nation, also called Apsaalooké or Biiluuke, has lived in Crow Country, around the base of the sacred Big Horn Mountains, from time immemorial.” The largest reservation in Montana by land area, its two million acres contains three mountain ranges and two river basins—and is home to 13,000 members.”
By contrast, the urban Connecticut Mohegan Nation with a little over 2,000 members is located on minimal acres largely along the Thames River south of Norwich. Broad economic development projects support its members and surrounding communities. A youth service-learning initiative led to their journey with Global Volunteers out to Montana, said Darcy Russell, group chaperone and Development Programs Manager for the Mohegan Tribe.
“It was life changing for the youth in our tribe. Not only were they able to travel across the country, but they were able to learn more about themselves with the help of the Crow Community. To witness their openness to learn, explore, and personally relate was priceless,” Russell said.
Global Volunteers, an international community development assistance organization, maintains a 16-year service partnership with the Blackfeet Nation of Montana, and has also served the Navajo, Lakota and Crow Tribes over 30 years. Summer volunteering opportunities in Indian country are open to all Indian and non-Indian groups and individuals. The non-profit organization also offers service programs in 16 other countries year-around. Call 800-487-1074 or email@example.com. | <urn:uuid:fac86cea-fa14-40e3-ad48-fc00441437ce> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://indiancountrymedianetwork.com/education/native-american-students/buds-on-the-tree-of-life-mohegan-students-in-crow-country/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280128.70/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00385-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971702 | 1,062 | 2.5 | 2 |
A rigid box is a container with walls made of corrugated fiberboard, which protects the items inside. The shape of these boxes can vary greatly depending on what they are used for and how they will be transported. Some conditions include square, rectangular, triangular, round, and hexagonal. The rigid boxes wholesale manufactured by the company is made to order. They can be customized with different shapes and sizes so that they perfectly fit your items.
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Hokuriku Shinetsu Fukui Scenic getaway offering repose for mind, body and spirit
A central Japan retreat boasting rugged landscapes, extraordinary seafood, a world-class dinosaur museum and sites of Buddhist and historical importance, Fukui offers something for all
How to Get There
Reach Fukui via JR express trains from Osaka, Kyoto, Nagoya and Kanazawa—cities all served by bullet train from Tokyo. Alternatively, you can take a highway bus or drive.
The rail journey from Kanazawa is the quickest at just under an hour, while trains to Fukui from Nagoya, Osaka and Kyoto take between one and two hours. All of these options are covered by the Japan Rail Pass. More leisurely and inexpensive highway buses also operate between these cities and Fukui. Highway buses from Tokyo arrive in around eight hours. One of the most convenient ways to get around Fukui is by rental car.
- Eiheiji, the birthplace of Soto Zen Buddhism tucked away in the mountains
- Local delicacies such as Echizen snow crab and Echizen oroshi soba
- An important piece in the history of Japanese architecture, Maruoka Castle
- Dinosaur-spotting at Fukui's take on Jurassic Park
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Echizen crabs, caught off what was once known as the Echizen Coast, are known as the "king of crabs" due to their size and rich flavor. They are the only crabs presented to the Japanese Royal Family at New Year.
The ama ebi or sweet shrimp caught in the deep waters off the coast of Fukui have a distinctively mellow flavor with a sweet aftertaste. They are best enjoyed raw as sashimi or as sushi.
Umeboshi are sour plums pickled in salt with shiso, Japanese basil. The ones from Fukui have a sour, sweet, salty and earthy flavor, and are rich in minerals. Umeboshi are a piquant and delicious topping for white rice.
Wakasa Lacquered Chopsticks
The city of Obama in Fukui produces Wakasa lacquer chopsticks, accounting for 90% of those produced in Japan. Known for incorporating seashells, eggshells, and pine needles into the design, Wakasa nuri products are created by a single craftsperson from start to finish, allowing for greater originality.
Fukui enjoys optimal weather for growing buckwheat, and as a result produces some of Japan's finest buckwheat soba noodles. These noodles are frequently topped with grated radish in a simple broth of soy sauce and dashi.
Wakasa Agate Craftwork
Since the early 18th century, decorative objects carved from agate have been made in Obama. Wakasa meno zaiku is characterized by its luminous forms and rich caramel hues.
Echizen yaki is unglazed earthenware made in one of Japan’s ancient potting centers. Fired at high temperatures, these waterproof vessels make ideal pots, jars and drinking vessels.
Echizen Handmade Paper
High-quality washi or Japanese handmade paper has been produced in Echizen for centuries. Originally crafted for copying Buddhist sutra, new washi varieties were produced as paper usage increased, including paper for Japan’s first Imperial banknotes.
Fukui reawakens after winter with events such as the Awara Onsen Spring Festival, feudal parades and flower-exchanging festivals. For the cherry blossoms, visit in late March.
Summer is about hitting local beaches such as Wakasa Wada Beach, with its crystal-clear waters and pale golden sands. Make merry at one of the local fireworks displays come evening.
The days become cooler and the leaves begin to change hues, giving Fukui’s many beautiful spots a whole new look, as do illumination events at Yokokan Garden and Atagozaka.
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Lisa Kelley is one of the directors of Angels in Motion, a non-profit that started with one woman’s efforts to rescue her child from the disease of addiction. While searching the streets of Kensington for her son, Carol Rostucher saw that many other children and loved ones were suffering and lost as well. She began AIM as a way to help as many people living on the streets as possible.
Lisa, also the graphic designer for AIM, recently purchased some reclaimed mural cloth from the re to incorporate into a project she is working on with those affected by addiction. She gives people the opportunity to write hopes, dreams, prayers, wishes, and memories on strips of the cloth, and then knots and weaves them together. The woven panels are then hung from sticks she finds in Harrowgate Park in Kensington, just blocks from where she grew up.
Lisa is hoping to make 129 of these panels, one for each life lost daily in our country from a drug overdose. She will have a table at the 2016 ProAct Recovery Walk at Penn’s Landing on Sept 17th where people will have the opportunity to write on strips of the mural cloth.
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Vatican City, Oct 12, 2016 / 04:36 am (CNA/EWTN News).- On Wednesday Pope Francis begged for an end to the terrible conflict in Syria, asking for an immediate ceasefire to allow the evacuation of civilians, especially children.
“I want to emphasize and reiterate my closeness to all victims of the inhuman conflict in Syria. With a sense of urgency I renew my appeal, pleading, with all my strength,” the Pope said at the end of his general audience Oct. 12.
“(May) those responsible ensure arrangements are made for an immediate ceasefire, which is imposed and respected at least for the time necessary to allow the evacuation of civilians, especially children, who are still trapped under the bloody bombing.”
The Pope's comments come amid the backdrop of intensified fighting in Aleppo, with hundreds of children having been killed in airstrikes in recent weeks.
The already dire situation in Syria has only worsened in recent days and weeks as an attempted ceasefire collapsed and other diplomacies failed. Less than two weeks ago, hundreds of airstrikes left neighborhoods in rebel-held eastern Aleppo battered, killing an estimated 100 people and leaving at least 50 more, including children, trapped under the rubble.
The recent use of so-called bunker-busting bombs, which weigh about a ton and can blast through two meters of underground, reinforced concrete have only added to the horror and destruction in the past few days.
A humanitarian truce, called for by the United Nations and brokered this month by the United States and Russia, fell apart less than a week after its institution after U.S. forces struck a Syrian position killing dozens of soldiers, though the move was reportedly unintentional.
The Syrian civil war, which began in March 2011, has claimed the lives of between and estimated 280,000 and 470,000 people, and forced 4.8 million to become refugees, about half of them children. Another 8 million Syrians are believed to have been internally displaced by the violence.
In his catechesis, the Pope focused on both the corporal and spiritual works of mercy, as found in the Gospels, emphasizing that it is through these small works that people can change the world.
“The works of mercy awaken in us the need and the ability to make a living and active faith with charity. I am convinced that these simple everyday actions can make a real cultural revolution, as it was in the past,” he said.
The Church has a “preferential love for the weakest,” Francis said, emphasizing that it is often those who are closest to us who need our help the most. But it doesn’t have to be through complicated or “superhuman gestures.”
“It is best to start from the most simple,” he said, adding that the Lord shows us what is “most urgent.”
In a world “unfortunately stricken with the virus of indifference,” Pope Francis said the works of mercy “are the best antidote.”
“How then can we be witnesses of mercy?” he asked, noting how “Jesus says that every time we feed the hungry and give drink to the thirsty, clothe a naked person and welcome a stranger, visit a sick person or someone in prison, we do it to Him.”
And the spiritual works of mercy are equally important to the corporal especially today, Francis said, “because they touch the soul and often make people suffer more.”
“‘Bear wrongs patiently.’ It might seem like a minor thing, which makes us smile, but instead it contains a feeling of deep love,” he said.
“And so also for the other six, which it is good to remember: to counsel the doubtful, to teach the ignorant, to admonish sinners, to comfort the afflicted, to forgive offenses, to pray to God for the living and for the dead.”
Promising to focus on these in his next catechesis, Francis explained that these spiritual and corporal works of mercy are given to us by the Church as a concrete way to live out compassion.
“Over the centuries, many simple people have put them into practice,” such as the newly canonized St. Teresa of Calcutta.
Her works of mercy, the Pope said, “are the traits of the face of Jesus Christ who takes care of his younger siblings to bring everyone the tenderness and closeness of God,” something we should all try to put into practice.
At the audience, Pope Francis also spoke about the Oct. 13 International Day for Natural Disaster Reduction, asking for everyone to protect “our common home, promoting a culture of prevention” in order to reduce the risk to the most vulnerable among us.
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I discovered an aged newspaper article that addresses my family history. The headline announced A Good Man Passes Away. The article then explained that J. Perry Williams, had been killed in an accidental explosion. He had been struck in the back of the head. The article said he was killed instantly.
Williams was born in 1867. He was married to Darthula Dunman in 1889, and the couple had six children. The writer included lines like, “This was one of the best known families in the county. Mr. Williams business was that of drilling water wells and has worked all over the county and became acquainted with many people who respected him in the highest terms. He was not a man of many words, but when he spoke he said something and no man had the respect of the people he had dealings with more than Mr. Williams. He is not a man that had acquired any great amount of wealth but prized honor above everything else but had enough of this world’s goods to live a comfortable life.
“His children are all grown and honest and industrious and are living a life worthy of emulation due to great extent to the example set by their father…He was a man who was always ready to lend a hand to those in need.”
The funeral service for J. Perry Williams was held at his house after which his remains were taken to the cemetery. The article entitled A Good Man Passes Away – this article that describes J. Perry Williams in such glowing terms – ends with some shocking information. It reads, “At the grave appeared 12 white robed figures, supposed to be members of the Ku Klux Klan, and placed a wreath of flowers on the grave. There were 12 or 14 others in cars nearby. They all disappeared as mysteriously as they came.”
Through the lens of history, that information presented as kind of an aside to the article lends an important piece of information to help understand what the life of J. Perry Williams might have been like. By the standards set by the inspired writer, J. Perry Williams, my great great great grandfather, possessed many positive traits. Clearly, he was a man of the community. Unfortunately, the article also calls into question just who might that community have included. Is it possible to be a "Good Man" while having other traits that taint your history? Each of us makes mistakes in our lives. Are some mistakes more condemning than others? Can we overcome such?
If he had connections with the Klan, I have questions for my great great great grandfather. If he was not connected with the Klan, I think I would enjoy getting to know him.
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Health Canada urges caution in sharing breast milk
Three-month-old Kendal Pond and mom Sarah join with other mothers and babies take part in the breastfeeding challenge in North Vancouver, B.C. Saturday, Oct. 11, 2008. (THE CANADIAN PRESS/Jonathan Hayward)
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OTTAWA - Canadians should avoid obtaining human breast milk for their babies through the Internet or directly from other individuals because of possible health risks, Health Canada said Thursday in a release.
A big concern is that the milk may not have been processed and the medical history of the source of the breast milk may be unknown. The milk could also be contaminated with viruses such as HIV or bacteria that can cause food poisoning, such as Staphylococcus aureus.
There could be other problems with the milk. Traces of prescription or non-prescription drugs can be transmitted through human milk or it may not have been stored or handled properly, resulting in spoilage which, in turn, could cause illness.
Health Canada advises that breastfeeding is the best method of feeding infants for optimal growth, nutrition and immunological and emotional benefits and it's recognized internationally as the best method of feeding infants.
The Canadian Paediatric Society does not endorse the sharing of unprocessed human milk. But in a statement earlier this month, the society called for milk banks across the country because the supply of donor breast milk is limited.
The statement recommends strict controls on how and when human donor milk should be used.
"The most vulnerable babies should receive human milk," Dr. Sharon Unger, principal author of the statement and member of the CPS Nutrition and Gastroenterology Committee, said in a release.
"Only about half of the mothers of these babies will have an adequate milk supply, sometimes because they are sick themselves, or due to the stress of having a very sick baby or from being separated from their baby."
The only human milk bank in Canada, based in Vancouver, can't meet the needs of all babies who could benefit, the society said.
Sunnybrook Health Sciences Centre in Toronto offers supplemental breast milk to premature babies of mothers donated to the Ohio Milk Bank in Columbus. The hospital used to buy milk from the Vancouver bank, but that bank couldn't meet its needs so it switched to Ohio, the Toronto Star reported Thursday.
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A project by Facebook-backed Internet.org to offer people access to select online services without data charges has run into trouble in India, after the program was criticized by net neutrality activists.
Internet.org, a project launched in 2013 by Facebook and other tech companies to provide Internet access to the underprivileged, teamed with operator Reliance Communications in February to offer through a mobile app free access to Reliance subscribers to 38 websites and services, including that of Facebook.
The Internet.org program and other such deals have, however, been criticized on social media for violating the principles of net neutrality by creating “walled gardens” that provide free access only to a few preferred content providers and services. The Internet.org program does not meet its stated objective of providing free and unfettered Internet access to all, according to the activists.
A number of companies that had partnered with Internet.org to offer content or services had by Wednesday either quit the alliance or were readying to leave.
Travel site Cleartrip, for example, said it was withdrawing from Internet.org, as the recent debate in India over net neutrality had led it ”to rethink our approach to Internet.org and the idea of large corporations getting involved with picking and choosing who gets access to what and how fast.”
The company said it wasn’t making any money out of being on Internet.org, nor was it paying or being paid to be part of the program. “Since there was absolutely zero money changing hands, we genuinely believed we were contributing to a social cause,” it said in a blog post.
The Times Group, a large media conglomerate, said it was withdrawing some of its Internet sites and services from Internet.org. But in the case of its main newspaper, The Times of India, it would withdraw if its direct competitors also pull out. NDTV, one of the competitors named, announced late Wednesday it is withdrawing from Internet.org.
Earlier in the week, Flipkart, one of India’s large online retailers, said it was walking out of talks with another Indian operator, Bharti Airtel, which launched this month a marketing platform, Airtel Zero, that allows customers to access mobile apps without data charges. The charges and other fees are to be paid by the app providers, raising concerns that the deal could handicap small companies and startups.
Flipkart’s CEO Sachin Bansal had earlier tweeted that the so-called zero-rating deals helped reduce data costs for users. But he retreated after strong online protests against the company. The activists then began scrutinizing other deals that offered free data access to websites and apps, including the Internet.org app.
Internet.org did not comment on the move by Cleartrip and other partners, but referred to a Q&A by Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg. In that online interview on Tuesday, Zuckerberg said that net neutrality is important to make sure that network operators don’t discriminate and limit access to services, particularly in countries where most people are online. But for people who are not on the Internet, having some connectivity and ability to share is much better than none, he said.
“That’s why programs like Internet.org are important and can co-exist with net neutrality regulations,” he added.
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The Amazon Web Services Management Console can now handle Identity and Access Management (IAM) features offered in its cloud, the company said on Tuesday.
Amazon has posted an essay-length explanation of the cloud outage that took offline some of the Web's most popular services last week. In summary, it appears that human error during an system upgrade meant a redundant backup network for the Elastic B...
Last week's outage of Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute, and specifically the company's lack of communications around that outage, point out the importance of transparency when working with a cloud provider.
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The servers are back up and users can once again check in on Foursquare and ask questions on Quora, but the legacy of last week's Amazon Elastic Cloud Computing (EC2) outage will live on and provide important lessons for businesses as they look to cl...
The outage of Amazon's Elastic Cloud Compute (EC2) service has shone a light on the number of Websites that use the service, which allows companies to hire computing power inexpensively on Amazon's systems.
For CIOs who distrust most technological promises (having heard too many of them), cloud computing sets off alarm bells. Yet those CIOs finding success in the cloud say their colleagues should be equally skeptical of IT managers who claim they can de...
Last week we reported that HPC company Cycle Computing built a 10,000-core cluster on the Amazon EC2 cloud service. Cycle CEO Jason Stowe boasted that the cluster was big enough to make the list of the world's Top 500 supercomputers -- if only it had...
Amazon Web Services (AWS) customers can now run their cloud applications on hardware dedicated to them, the company said on Monday.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has added a number of networking features to its Virtual Private Cloud (VPC) offering, allowing users to build data centers in the cloud that can be private, accessed from the Internet or both, the company said on Tuesday.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) has upgraded its Web-based Management Console with features designed to make it easier to "scale up or scale down as [computing] needs change," according to a blog posted on Wednesday.
Amazon Web Services (AWS) will help IT staff to move virtual machines to the AWS cloud with a new plug-in for VMware's management platform, AWS said on Friday.
Amazon.com's remote computing arm has expanded into Japan after finding that developers in the tech-savvy Asian country want more local data storage and quicker data transfer times.
With the launch of CloudFormation, Amazon Web Services (AWS) is hoping to make it easier for enterprises to put together stacks of applications and resources for its cloud computing service, the company said on Friday.
The Gluster open-source file system is following the well-worn path into virtualization and cloud computing with the introduction on Tuesday of Gluster Virtual Storage Appliances for VMware and for the Amazon Web Services platform.
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Global warming might be far worse than we thought, according to a new study.
The research challenges the ways that researchers have worked out sea temperatures until now, meaning that they may be increasing quicker than previously suggested.
The methodology widely used to understand sea temperatures in the scientific community may be based on a mistake, the new study suggests, and so our understanding of climate change might be fundamentally flawed.
The new research suggests that the oceans hundreds of millions of years ago were much cooler than we thought. If true, that means that the global warming we are currently undergoing is unparallelled within the last 100 million years, and far worse than we had previously calculated.
Until now, scientists believed that the temperature of the ocean depths and the surface of the polar ocean 100 million years ago were about 15 degrees warmer than they are today. But they might in fact have stayed relatively stable – making the warming we’re currently undergoing far more alarming.
“If we are right, our study challenges decades of paleoclimate research,” said Anders Meibom, the head of EPFL’s Laboratory for Biological Geochemistry and a professor at the University of Lausanne.
“Oceans cover 70% of our planet. They play a key role in the earth’s climate. Knowing the extent to which their temperatures have varied over geological time is crucial if we are to gain a fuller understanding of how they behave and to predict the consequences of current climate change more accurately.”
The researchers believe that scientists have been overlooking crucial processes when they calculated the temperature of the seas millions of years ago. In so doing, they may have been mistakenly thinking that they were warmer than they actually are.
Until now, scientists have calculated the temperature of the ancient seas by looking at foraminifera, the fossils of tiny marine organisms found in the sediment on the ocean floor. Those form small shells and take on more or less of an oxygen isotope depending on how warm the water is, so by looking at the oxygen content they can estimate the temperature when those fossils were around.
That working led scientists to believe that the temperature of the seas had fallen by 15 degrees over the last 100 million years.
But the new research shows that the amount of oxygen in those shells doesn’t actually remain constant over time. The new research showed that they can change – and without leaving any visible trace that would alert scientists to that change.
“What appeared to be perfectly preserved fossils are in fact not. This means that the paleotemperature estimates made up to now are incorrect,” said Sylvain Bernard, a CNRS researcher at the Paris-based Institute of Mineralogy, Materials Physics and Cosmochemistry and the study’s lead author.
The scientists behind the study claim that the apparent cooling of the oceans was actually just the effect of the process they’ve seen. The changes in the amount of oxygen in the shells isn’t a reflection of changing temperatures – just a consequence of the fact that the amount of oxygen seen changes over time anyway.
The French and Swiss researchers behind the paper have already got to work trying to understand what the temperatures actually are. “To revisit the ocean’s paleotemperatures now, we need to carefully quantify this re-equilibration, which has been overlooked for too long. For that, we have to work on other types of marine organisms so that we clearly understand what took place in the sediment over geological time,” said Professor Meibom.
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Indigenous peoples with disabilities face discrimination and accessibility barriers both related to their disability and also related to being indigenous peoples. Many programs meant to benefit indigenous peoples may be inaccessible for indigenous peoples with disabilities. Meanwhile, programs meant to benefit people with disabilities may not meet the needs of indigenous peoples with disabilities.
Protecting the human rights of indigenous peoples with disabilities may require using human rights instruments for people with disabilities in conjunction with human rights instruments for indigenous people.
Using the CRPD for Indigenous Peoples with Disabilities
Paragraph “p” in the preamble of the Convention on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities (CRPD) acknowledges that indigenous peoples with disabilities are among those who “are subject to multiple or aggravated forms of discrimination”. This paragraph can be used to explain why it is appropriate to pay particular attention to the human rights needs of indigenous peoples with disabilities. This includes taking steps to ensure that indigenous peoples with disabilities are able to benefit from the protections of the CRPD on the same basis as other people with disabilities.
Using the UNDRIP for Indigenous Peoples with Disabilities
The United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (UNDRIP), unlike the CRPD, is not a legally binding instrument. However, it sets an important international standard for how governments should treat indigenous peoples. Paragraph 2 in Article 21 explicitly states that governments need to pay particular attention to the “rights and special needs” of indigenous persons with disabilities along with other marginalized populations such as indigenous elders, women, youth, and children.
The full text of the UNDRIP is available in both English and Spanish.
A Funders Toolkit: Implementation of the United Nations Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples can help you understand how to use the UNDRIP in your country.
The publication, Know your Rights: Adolescent friendly version of the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples can be used to explain the Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to adolescents. It is available in both English and Spanish.
Using the ILO Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (1989, No. 169)
The International Labour Organisation (ILO) Convention on Indigenous and Tribal Peoples (No. 169), similar to the UNDRIP, is meant to stimulate dialogue between governments and indigenous and tribal peoples to improve their situation. This instrument may be useful in advocating for rights not otherwise addressed in the CRPD such as land rights, the right to be consulted in the use of mineral and other resources located on indigenous territory, or the right to free and informed consent in any displacement of indigenous peoples from their traditional territories.
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"I got carried away a few times on the starting line," said Davis. "I guess I am still a kid myself."
Many of the students involved in the event were focused on winning the Mayor's Cup trophy.
"We will get a big trophy if we beat every school here," said fourth grade student James Rodriguez from Robert Waters School.
Luckily, Rodriguez's school did get to take the trophy back to their school. Robert Waters won the meet with 44 points. Woodrow Wilson School finished second and Edison School came in third with 19 points.
First place winners in each event gained five points for their school; second place winners gained three points and third place winners gained one point.
The events included sprinting, a spring relay and a circle relay. Each heat was split by age and gender.
The Mayor's Cup trophy will now stay in Robert Waters School until next year's meet, when the schools will come together to compete again.
"I know [this kind of athletic event] is very important," said Davis. "This shows that the administration does care about the kids in the community."
The schools that participated in the meet were Washington School, Woodrow Wilson School, Roosevelt School, Robert Waters School, Gilmore School, Hudson School, Columbus School and Edison School.
Passing on his talent
Davis, who still works out twice a week, uses track to emphasize athletics in children and the need for students to be involved.
"I am trying to emphasize the kids that aren't in the spotlight," said Davis, who made sure that each kid in the meet was able to run in at least one event. "Those are the kids that often feel left out."
Davis also runs an athletic skills program during the summer in the city. This program works on hand-eye coordination, starting and stopping skills, throwing and other basic skills needed in athletics.
"I am trying to complement what they are doing in their [physical education classes]," said Davis, who feels that there isn't enough physical education in the school system. "[Some schools] only have gym twice a week."
Many of the students at Wednesday's event did not get that much practice time in before they had to compete in Wednesday's meet.
"It was kind of sprung on us," said Carmen Luga, the gym teacher at Washington School. "We only practiced yesterday."
"During gym we practiced to see who was the fastest," said Ari Olivo, 10, from Gilmore School who placed first in his sprinting event.
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Old Testament Hebrew Lexical Dictionary
Strong's #4736 - מִקְנָה
1c) possession (gained by purchase)
1428) nq (קנ QN) AC: Acquire CO: Nest AB: Zealous: The pictograph q is a picture of the sun at the horizon and the gathering of the light, the n is a picture of a seed. Combined these mean "gathering for the seeds". The parent birds go about gathering materials to build a nest where they will raise their seeds (eggs) . (eng: coin - for purchasing)
E) anq (קנא QNA) AC: ? CO: ? AB: Zealous: The parent bird will guard over and protect the nest and eggs from predators. Man can guard over the family, wife, possessions in a positive way (protect, from an enemy) or in a negative way (by not trusting or a desire to have anothers possessions) .
H) enq (קנה QNH) AC: Gather CO: Branch AB: ?: The process of gathering branches for the nest; mans gathering or acquiring materials by taking or buying. The ancients measured wealth by the amount of ones possessions and measured distances using a branch with marks on it.
V) enq (קנה QNH) - Possess: To acquire someone or something through a purchase or other method. [Hebrew and Aramaic] KJV (85): (vf: Paal, Niphal, Hiphil) get, gotten, possess, buy, purchase, possessor, buyer, keep - Strongs: H7066 (קְנָא), H7069 (קָנָה)
hm) enqm (מקנה MQNH) - I. Herd:What is purchased or possessed. II. Possession:What is purchased or possessed. Usually of livestock or land. KJV (75): cattle, possession, flocks, substance, herd, purchase - Strongs: H4735 (מִקְנֶה)
Jeff Benner, Ancient Hebrew Research Center Used by permission of the author.
מִקְנָה f. of the preceding.
(1) acquisition, possession, Genesis 23:18.
(2) purchase, buying, סֵפֶר הַמִּקְנָה the deed of a purchase, Jeremiah 32:11, seq.; also a thing bought; מִקְנַת כֶּסֶף used of slaves bought for money, Genesis 17:12, 13 Genesis 17:13, 23 Genesis 17:23.
(3) price of purchase, purchase money, Levit. 25:16, 51 Leviticus 25:51.
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Worlds of David Darling > Children's
Encyclopedia of Science > From Glasses to Gases > Chapter 2
FROM GLASSES TO GASES:
The Science of Matter
a book in the eXperiment! series by David Darling
2. Solids and Solutions
The next time you take a sip of cola, think about what you are drinking.
It's mostly water, with some sugar, carbon dioxide gas (to make it fizz),
and a few drops of flavorings and colorings. Cola is a solution –
a mixture of several things that look and behave like a single thing.
| Seawater is a solution of different kinds
of salts in water
A solution is made by dissolving one or more substances in a liquid such
as water or alcohol. Ordinary table salt, or sodium chloride, dissolves
well in water. It has a high solubility. Huge amounts of sodium chloride,
together with other kinds of salts, are dissolved in the world's oceans
Solutions also contain a mixture of liquids and gases. The water in swimming
pools, for example, contains a dissolved gas called chlorine. This kills
germs so that the water is safe for swimming.
Solubility, like hardness and density, is an important property of matter.
You will need:
- A measuring cup
- A glass
- A teaspoon
- A magnifying glass
- A low-power microscope
- A battery
- Other powdered or crystalline substances, such as baking soda
- A shallow dish
What to do:
Look at a few crystals of table salt under the microscope. What shape
are they? Sketch some of the crystals. Do the same with a few crystals
of sugar. What do you think the shape of the crystals tells you about
the arrangement of atoms in these substances?
Pour a cup of cold water into the glass. Add a teaspoonful of salt
to the water and stir. Watch what happens through the magnifying glass.
When all the salt has dissolved, add another teaspoonful and stir.
Repeat this until no more salt will dissolve. How many teaspoonfuls
did you use?
Empty the glass and rinse it out. Pour in another cup of cold water.
Find out how many teaspoonfuls of sugar you can dissolve. Which has
the higher solubility in cold water – salt or sugar? Repeat
the experiment using hot water. Does the solubility remain the same,
increase, or decrease? Invent a theory to explain your results.
Taking it further:
Test the solubility of other substances at home or in your school
laboratory. Ask permission first and remember that many chemicals
are poisonous if swallowed. What happens if you pour a solution into
a shallow dish and allow it to stand for several days? Can you explain
Dissolving and Melting
Sugar will dissolve and it will also melt, but the two are not the same.
When sugar is dissolved in water, it makes a sweet-tasting solution. When
sugar is melted in a heated pan, it turns into a brown, sticky liquid that
is used in making caramel.
There are several important differences between dissolving and melting:
- You start with a liquid and something else, often a solid.
- The solid mixes into the liquid to make a new liquid.
- You don't need heat.
- You start with one sold only.
- You turn that one solid into a liquid.
- You have to heat the solid to melt it.
All substances will melt, but not all will dissolve. A substance that will
not dissolve in a liquid is said to be INSOLUBLE in that liquid.
Most solids become more soluble as the temperature of the liquid increases.
Gases, on the other hand, become less soluble as the temperature rises.
Natural water in lakes and rivers contains dissolved gases from the air,
such as oxygen and carbon dioxide. More gas dissolves if the water is colder
or the water flows over waterfalls, where it mixes more freely with air.
This explains why fish caught in rivers cannot usually survive in indoor
fish tanks. The water in such tanks is warmer, so it cannot dissolve enough
oxygen for the fish to breathe.
Molecules That Fit Together
Molecules come in all shapes and sizes, like the pieces of jigsaw puzzles.
The shape of a molecule affects how well it can work with other molecules.
Neither water nor alcohol molecules, for instance, fit together well with
their own kind. But when the two liquids are combined, the alcohol molecules
fit into the gaps between the water molecules. Because of this, the space
the mixed molecules take up is less than the original spaces they occupied.
The Missing Liquid
You will need:
- A cup of water
- A cup of rubbing alcohol
- A two-cup measuring cup
What to do:
Pour all the water and rubbing alcohol into the measuring cup. How
much liquid is in the cup? You might expect that it would be two cups,
but is it? Try to explain your results.
In Search of Solutions
|Water is a common solvent
A liquid that dissolves something is called a SOLVENT. The most common,
and one of the best solvents, is water. But there are many substances that
will not dissolve in water. Oils and greases are insoluble in water but
very soluble in other liquids, such as trichloromethane, or cleaning fluid.
This solvent is used by dry cleaners to remove grease stains from clothes.
Nail polish is insoluble in water but dissolves easily in a liquid known
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Bride trafficking to China could rise
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|Publication Date||19 March 2013|
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Bride trafficking to China from Southeast Asian countries which do not border on that country looks set to grow, says the UN, with the first reported cases from Cambodia in 2012.
"The numbers of identified cases are still small, but this number could rise given the social demographics in play," Lisa Rende Taylor, chief technical adviser for the UN Inter-Agency Project on Human Trafficking (UNIAP), told IRIN, noting that in the past marriage trafficking to China had only been known from countries bordering China (Myanmar, Laos and Vietnam).
In China, government figures for 2012 indicated that there were 117.78 newborn boys for every 100 newborn girls. It is estimated there will be 24 million more men than women at marrying age by 2020.
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Germans blame euro zone crisis for Eurovision debacle
BERLIN (Reuters) - Germans lamented their unexpectedly poor showing at the Eurovision Song Contest, blaming Chancellor Angela Merkel's tough stance in the euro zone crisis for their failure to win any points from 34 of the 39 countries voting.
Denmark's Emmelie de Forest won the event, watched by around 125 million people across Europe, with 281 points while German act Cascada was 21st out of 26 countries, getting just 18 points from Austria, Israel, Spain, Albania and Switzerland.
"There's obviously a political situation to keep in mind - I don't want to say 'this was 18 points for Angela Merkel'," said Germany's ARD TV network coordinator Thomas Schreiber. "But we all have to be aware that it wasn't just Cascada up there on stage (being judged) but all of Germany."
Merkel is popular in Germany for her firm position during the euro zone crisis. But she is loathed in parts of Europe for her insisting on painful austerity measures in countries such as Greece, Spain and Italy in exchange for rescue packages.
"It's unexplainable," said ARD expert commentator Peter Urban on Sunday after Cascada singer Natalie Horler was 21st even though German media had touted her as a favorite. More than 8 million Germans watched, a 44 percent market share.
"Is it that people just don't like us?" Urban was asked on ZDF TV. "There's some truth to that," he said.
"There will be two German soccer teams in the Champions League final next week and maybe people didn't want Germany to win Eurovision too."
(Reporting by Erik Kirschbaum; Editing by Alison Williams)
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Editor’s note: In his extraordinary new DVD documentary, “Mega Fix,” Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Jack Cashill traces the roots of Sept. 11 to the political exploitation of terror investigations by the Clinton White House in the desperate 1995-1996 election cycle. This 8-part series began in Oklahoma City and today moves on to Saudi Arabia.
Throughout the 1996 election cycle, Dick Morris only reinforces Clinton’s anxiety. He does not shy from telling the president that despite the lead he has scrambled to gain in his contest against Bob Dole, Clinton has “a soft underbelly,” namely that the majority of the voters do not particularly trust or respect him.
Morris is worried that a terrorist act could expose that underbelly in the months leading up to the November election. In June and July of that year, the White House has to deal with “three attacks” – and that’s what Morris calls them, “attacks” – in what Morris now routinely refers to as “the terror summer of 1996.”
Morris’ mantra in the run up to that year’s election was, “Things are wonderful.” As Morris well knows, a terrorist act against America can dispel the illusion of “wonderful” in a literal flash. With a hard-earned 20-point lead over Bob Dole in the mid-summer polls, the last thing Clinton or anyone in the White House wants is a test of the president’s tenuous grip on his role as commander in chief.
On June 25, 1996, a powerful truck bomb – not unlike the one that destroyed the Murrah building in Oklahoma City – explodes outside a U.S. Army barracks, killing19 American serviceman and wounding hundreds more.
In that the Khobar Towers is in Dhahran, Saudi Arabia, even the media know better than to blame Rush Limbaugh or the NRA or the militia movement. This is undeniably Islamic terrorism. Tough-talking President Bill Clinton promises revenge:
The cowards who committed this murderous act must not go unpunished,” he says angrily. “Let me say again: We will pursue this. America takes care of our own. Those who did it must not go unpunished.
The next day, he weighs in again: “Let me be very clear: We will not resist” – oops, the president corrects himself – “We will not rest in our efforts to find who is responsible for this outrage, to pursue them and to punish them.”
Well, maybe, maybe not.
While Clinton is talking tough, Dick Morris is busily conducting polls to gauge the public’s reaction to the bombing.
“Whenever there was a crisis, I ordered an immediate poll,” Morris recalls. “I was concerned about how Clinton looked in the face of [the attack] and whether people blamed him.”
Morris’ first poll shows less support for Clinton than he had hoped. But after a good deal of Clintonian bluster, public approval of Clinton’s response climbs. Morris records this in his written agenda for a meeting:
SAUDI BOMBING —
Recovered from Friday and looking great
Approve Clinton handling 73-20
Big gain from 63-20 on Friday
Security was adequate 52-40
Bottom line: It’s not Clinton’s fault 76-18
With the political fallout contained, Clinton hands this case off to law enforcement just as he did after the first World Trade Center bombing. But this time, the Clinton administration not only fails to follow useful leads, but it also actually gets in the way of the investigators.
So frustrated is FBI head Louis Freeh by Clinton’s obstruction that he asks former president George H. W. Bush to intercede with the Saudi royal family. Unknown to Clinton, Bush does just that, and the Saudis begin to provide new information. This information points to Iran as the Clintons suspected it would from day one.
Still, Freeh never gets the support he wants from the Clinton White House. He hangs on to his job until 2001 largely to prosecute this case. Just before Freeh leaves office, he meets with George W. Bush and gives him a list of suspects in the bombing. In June 2001, Attorney General John Ashcroft announces the indictment of 14 of them.
But valuable time has been lost, and Washington remains woefully unprepared for the terror that looms just three months later. America stands defenseless to a large degree because the White House has all but ignored the attack on Khobar Towers and fully suppressed the evidence of the two other attacks from the terror summer of 1996.
Dick Morris identifies these two additional “attacks” as the Olympic Park bombing and the destruction of TWA Flight 800. When I appeared with Morris on a radio show, he absolutely refused to clarify what he meant by an “attack.” He is still dodging.
Purchase “Mega Fix: The Dazzling Political Deceit That Led to 9-11” now!
In this stunning, surprisingly entertaining, 90-minute DVD video documentary, Emmy-award-winning filmmaker Jack Cashill traces the roots of Sept. 11 to the perfect storm of disinformation that surrounded the Clintons’ desperate drive for the White House in the years 1995-1996.
Cashill leads the viewer from Oklahoma City to Dubrovnik, where Ron Brown’s plane crashed, to the Khobar Towers in Saudi Arabia to the destruction of TWA Flight 800 off Long Island to the Olympic Park bombing.
As Cashill proves beyond dispute in this DVD, these are not multiple conspiracies, but all part of one major political fix, the mother of all fixes … the Mega Fix.
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5th Grade Math - Represent Problems Lesson
An equation is a mathematical statement that two values are equal.
Equations are sometimes referred to as number sentences.
Equations are used to represent and solve problems.
Sometimes part of an equation is unknown.
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Des Moines Metro Opera's 'American Apollo' explores the relationship between an artist and a favorite model
Literally locked away in the storeroom of history, the story of Thomas Eugene McKeller is emerging, and the Des Moines Metro Opera will be playing a major role.
McKeller, a Black man, was born in 1890 in Wilmington, North Carolina, but left that city in the wake of race riots. He was working as an elevator operator in a Boston hotel around 1916 when he met a guest, the renowned portraitist John Singer Sargent.
The relationship between white, European-trained Sargent, 1856-1925, who moved in celebrity circles and painted for wealthy patrons, and McKeller is complex and unclear. But over the next several years, he was the model who posed as white male and female goddesses for murals Sargent painted for Boston's Museum of Fine Art, as well as some other Sargent works.
Their connection became a subject of fascination in the art world when Boston's Isabella Steward Gardner Museum in 2020 exhibited a collection of Sargent's preparatory sketches of McKeller nudes that curator Nathanial Silver had discovered a few years earlier in the museum's storage facility.
McKeller's story inspired a 20-minute opera, "American Apollo," composed by Damien Geter with libretto by Lila Palmer. First performed by the Washington National Opera at the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts, it now will be performed by the Des Moines Metro Opera and the Pyramid Theater Company, a Des Moines troupe focused on Black theater, as part of the Indianola-based opera's 2022 50th anniversary season.
With the support of a $100,000 gift from Harry Bookey and Pamela Bass-Bookey — the patrons behind the conversion of downtown Des Moines' former Masonic Temple into the Temple for the Performing Arts — "American Apollo" will then be expanded into a full-length work for performance in the opera's 2024 season, the opera announced in a news release.
“ 'American Apollo' is a piece that delves into issues related to race, class and sexuality, which were glossed over during Thomas McKeller’s lifetime,” composer Damien Geter, said in the release. “Given the climate and conversations happening today, it is our hope that we might give the characters in this opera the opportunity to reckon with these issues, even if only in spirit."
Hosting the 2022 performance will be the Des Moines Art Center, which is partnering in the project and has some of Sargent's works in its collection.
Silver, the Boston curator who discovered the McKeller sketches, is scheduled to be a part of the 2022 presentation.
“Mr. Silver, who discovered the drawings, will come out and talk about the process of developing this work and the research about trying to discover anything about Thomas McKeller," said Michael Egel, the Des Moines Metro Opera's general and artistic director. “The evening we’re presenting we'll also have an experiential salon, so we’ll understand the world a little bit more that McKeller and Sargent were in.”
The operatic version of McKeller's story came to the central Iowa opera's attention when its principal conductor, David Neely, became involved in the project during a workshop in Washington last year, Egel said. | <urn:uuid:e9cbef31-f214-4353-a877-4e449a5ffd1c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.amestrib.com/story/news/2021/07/02/des-moines-metro-opera-american-apollo-john-singer-sargent-thomas-eugene-mckeller-art-damien-geter/7825009002/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570879.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808213349-20220809003349-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.959029 | 707 | 1.757813 | 2 |
This paper analyses the electricity usage of 5,000 Irish residential consumers in response to the introduction of TOU tariffs and three different forms of financial feedback: immediate feedback from in-home displays (IHD), monthly billing and bimonthly billing. Halfhourly data on consumption collected during the trial indicated that TOU tariffs reduced consumption at peak, with some reductions lasting beyond the end of the peak period and post-peak spikes in usage were not observed. IHD feedback resulted in the most reliable reductions and bimonthly billing the least. Households with greater education used the information associated to the TOU tariffs slightly better than the average.
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This journey carries travellers the 48 miles between the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, parallel to the famous Panama Canal. Travel in style whilst enjoying the wonderful views of Lake Gatun and the canal.
Also known as the Interoceanic Rail, this one hour journey carries travellers the 48 miles between the Pacific and Atlantic oceans, from Panama City to Colon. It runs parallel to the famous Panama Canal and guests travel in style on an atmospheric early 20th century train. Out of the panoramic windows you can enjoy wonderful views of Lake Gatun, the verdant countryside and the huge ships making their way along the canal.
A trip on the train can also be combined with a tour of Portobelo, a laid-back Caribbean fishing village with impressive colonial fortifications ruins and a beautiful bay. See the Panama Canal tour below for more information.
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We’re not at war, I promise! Bookkeepers and accountants are not competing for the same work, their roles a very complementary to each other and both have an important role in your business.
An accountant prepares your tax return at the end of the financial year. They view your business on a more holistic level, using their expertise to find the ways to manage your tax and save you money.
A bookkeeper handles the financial side of your business year round, from the day to day, to getting figures prepared and ready for the accountant at the end of financial year.
There are a few areas where accountants and bookkeepers can overlap. A bookkeeper who is a Registered BAS Agent is qualified to lodge your BAS’s and IAS’s (see previous blog ‘Is your bookkeeper qualified?’). Your accountant is a Registered Tax Agent and they are qualified to lodge your BAS’s and IAS’s as well as your tax return. In terms of Payroll, preparation of your employee PAYG Summaries can be prepared by your accountant or bookkeeper.
A bookkeeper and accountant work together to fulfill the financial obligations of your business. You cannot replace an accountant with a bookkeeper and if your accountant is doing your bookkeeping I’m sure they are doing a great job, but that you are paying a hefty sum for it!
I speak to a lot of business owners and a lot of accountants. The primary complaint many business owners’ have about their accountant is often fees. They do a great job, but why does it cost so much? Accountants charge by the hour and because they are specially trained, their hourly rate is often high. If your accounting invoice is higher than expected it is often because your accountant has had to spend a lot of time ‘bookkeeping’ that is, checking and changing your figures. The accountants I have spoken to actually don’t like giving you a giant invoice, but if they had to do the work, they have to charge for their time. So what’s the solution? Bookkeepers. We’re qualified and cheaper than your accountant. Plus bookkeepers who are Registered BAS Agents can lodge your BAS’s and IAS’s too saving you even more money! And the less time your accountant has to spend bookkeeping the more time they can spend doing what they do best, saving you tax!
Don’t worry, your accountant wont be offended if you get a bookkeeper, on the contrary. Having a fastidious bookkeeper means that your accountant can rely on the accuracy of the figures we present to them. We can do things like account for assets and reconcile balance sheet accounts, things that the average business owner may not really understand or have the time to do. This means your accountant doesn’t have to do it! An accountant only sees your figures once or a few times a year and usually at the busiest times. If things have been coded incorrectly and the accountant misses them in the small amount of time they have to review the figures you may have missed out on a tax deduction. And if he or she does take the time to review the figures in detail? There’s that giant accounting bill again.
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São Luís, Maranhão
Population: 867.690 people (in 2000). People born in São Luís are called "ludovicenses".
The touristic pole of Sao Luís comprises the city of Sao Luis (declared World Heritage Monument by UNESCO), and the cities of Alcântara, São José de Ribamar, Paco do Lumiar and Raposa.
In Sao Luís, the Centro Historico (Historical Center) is the principal attraction with an ensemble of over 3,500 colonial buildings from the 17th and 8th Centuries, distributed throughout the neighborhoods of Praia Grande, Desterro, and Portinho, completely rehabilitated during the 1990s.
São Luís was founded by the French in 1612 (read more about History of Maranhão). It was later invaded by the Dutch and finally reclaimed by the Portuguese. The Centro Historico is a type of open-air museum filled with uncountable architectural elements and details, where streets covered in stones, corners, narrow side streets, balconies, inviting the visitor to wonder about the rich past of this one time rich, prestigious and promising Brazilian City.
The project of rehabilitation by the State Government encouraged private investment in the area and resulted in the opening of stores, movie theaters, museums, bars, restaurants and hotels.
When visiting São Luís, one should keep in mind that the weather here is warm year long and that most of the activities take place outdoors, with special emphasis on walks on stone paved streets. It is highly recommended wearing light clothes and comfortable walking shoes. It is also important to bring sun glasses, hats, and sunscreen, especially when visiting the beaches and the Centro Histórico.
São Luís is known as "capital of reggae" in Brazil. In no other Brazilian city is this Jamaican rythm so commonly found; many bars and dance clubs play reggae.
Photos by the Tourist Board of Maranhão.
More info and pics:
Guia São Luís. In Portuguese only. Portal of São Luís, with info about Culture, Tourism, Services and more.
São Luís by the Brazilian Heritage Foundation. In Portuguese only.
São Luís by HistoricCities.com. In Portuguese only. Several photos.
Maranhão and São Luís - History
However, the first exploratory fleet, commanded by da Cunha, sank off the coast of Maranhão, and many men (including da Cunha) died; those who survived had tough times fighting the indians, before being rescued.
For the following decades, Maranhão was open to the visits of French, both officials and corsaries. Instead of trying to subdue the indians, the Frenchmen adopted the strategy of becoming friends with them; a French captain, Charles des Vaux, learned the language of the indians, and promised to protect them from the Portuguese.
Back to Paris, des Vaux struggled during 15 years to convince noblesse and bankers about the feasibility of a project he called France Equinocial (France had already invaded Rio de Janeiro, in a venture called France Antarctica - read more about Rio de Janeiro); eventually, he found entrepreneurs willing to (with consent of the Queen Mary of Medicis) establish a settlement in the north of Brazil.
The French arrived on 26th July 1612 to a small island; on September 8th, a fortress had been built, and a mass was celebrated in glory of Saint King Louis XIII. That small island was the same where today lies the city of São Luís, capital of Maranhão.
The missionaries which accompanied the fleet wrote reports about the new land, describing the wealthiness of the nature and the richness of the indian culture. Indians were taken to France, where they speeched at the Louvre and were christianized before the king. (Notice: according to Encyclopedia Britannica, two relevant French reports are Histoire de la mission des pères capucins en l'isle de Maragnan et terres circonvoisines, by Claude d'Abbeville, and Suite d'histoire des choses plus mémorables advenues en Maragnan, ès annés 1613 et 1614, by Yves d'Évreux).
The Portuguese, however, stroke back. By 1615, all the area around the São Luís bay had been occupied by Portuguese forces. The French proposed an agreement: occupy only the island, leaving the continent for the Portuguese; the agreement was refused. On November 3rd of 1615, to avoid a massacre, the French left Maranhão.
In 1619, ships arrived with 300 couples from Azores, an attempt to populate the region.
In 1621, Portugal creates the State of Maranhão and Grão-Pará; this state was subordinated directly to the court in Lisbon, and comprehended the modern states of Maranhão, Piauí, Ceará e Pará.
In 1624, fray Cristóvão de Lisboa wrote the first book about Natural History of Brazil: História dos Animais e Aves do Maranhão (History of Animals and Birds of Maranhão), which would be published only in 1967.
As it happened in other states where Portuguese needed to tame the indians, the jesuits were called in to Maranhão.
In 1641, São Luís was invaded again. The Dutch, who since 1630 had taken Olinda and Recife (read more in the section about Pernambuco), decided to invade São Luís, in search of indians to be used as slaves in the sugarcane farms of Pernambuco.
The Dutch occupation was brief; in 1644, tired of fighting against Portuguese, Brazilians, indians and jesuits, they left. Although brief, the Dutch occupation left their marks: like it happened in Olinda, Dutch painter Frans Post portrayed some images of the life in the ancient São Luís, which today are exposed at the British Museum.
After the Dutch left, the Portuguese domination was consolidated.
In 1682, the Trading Company of Maranhão was created, in an attempt to boost the economy of the region; the company had monopoly to trade goods and slaves.
Against the excessive privileges of the Trading Company and of Portuguese in general over the Brazilians, an upheaval soon ecloded. Led by Manuel Beckmann, a Braziian born with German background, the movement demanded freedom of commerce and authorization to enslave the indians (coliding with the then powerful jesuits). The movement was crushed, Beckmann was arrested and sentenced to death, only to enter History of Maranhão.
In 1822, D. Pedro declares independence of Brazil, in São Paulo. However, the state of Grão-Pará and Maranhão had a larger presence of Portuguese in key positions (both economic and political), which caused a greater resistence to join the independence movement (read History of Pará).
In São Luís, the war against Portugal was won easierly than in Belém because of two factors: the engagement of indians and other Brazilians, and the presence of the fleet of British captain Thomas Cochrane, who was hired by the Brazilian government to combat the Portuguese fleet.
During the first half of 19th century, the new Brazilian government had to face several insurgences, both from those who wanted to remain linked to Portugal, and from those who wanted the Republic. The most important movements became known as balaiada (self-organized by the poor classes) and Confederation of Equador (which wanted to create the Republic of Equador, formed by all states in north and northeast of Brazil).
The second half of the century was much calmer; Maranhão was, indeed, one of the quietest provinces of the Empire. The economy developed, based on an agrarian structure of large properties and slave labor.
The Republic proclamation, in 1889, had prompt acceptance in Maranhão.
The economy suffered the impact of the slavery abolishion, but the social structure, based on the oligarchy of large rural properties, didn´t change much.
After 1966, with the creation of SUDENE and SUDAM, federal agencies with the aim to foment economic progress of Northeast and North of Brazil, Maranhão experienced a faster progress. Infra-structure was improved (the port of Itaqui was extended, the road São Luís - Teresina was paved, the electric plant of Boa Esperança was finished), and a few large industries were attracted (the best known of which are Cepalma, a large pulp and paper producer which utilizes local raw material, and a subsidiary of Alcoa, the largest aluminum producer in the world). In 1987, the city of Alcântara was chosen to host the rocket launching basis of Brazil.
All the progress was not enough, however, to exclude Maranhão from the list of poorest Brazilian States.
During the past few decades, a name became tightly associated with Maranhão: the family Sarney, with origins in the rural oligarchy.
In 1966, José Sarney da Costa was enpowered governor, during the military period. Sarney would have many other positions during that period, always besiding the military. In 1985, after the premature death of elected President Tancredo Neves, the vice-President, José Sarney, became President, until 1990; after leaving Presidency, Sarney was elected to Congress, where he actually is a Senator.
José Sarney, however, is a Senator by the State of Amapá, where he never lived. He changed his electoral residence to Amapá to clear space in Maranhão to his allies, who were competing for the same power. His daughter, Roseana Sarney, was ex-governor of Maranhão, and is currently a Senator (by Maranhão). His older son, Zequinha Sarney, also occupied positions in municipal, state and federal governments (Zequinha was elected Federal Deputy in 2000).
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1972 Mustang H.O. - Look Back: '72 Mustang H.O.
The R-Code '72 Officially Ended Ford's Boss Program
Have you ever walked up to a restaurant 10 minutes after the posted closing time only to have a nice waitress take pity and unlock the door? Usually, she glances around to ensure you're alone, hustles you in, and you feel special all day.
In 1972, Ford Motor Company officially locked the door on its Boss Mustang program after three successful years and three distinctly different cars. The Boss 302 and Boss 429 were produced as '69-'70 models, but the '71-only Boss 351 was a happy medium between the 302's road racing prowess and the 429's dragstrip dominance.
Central to the '71 Boss identity was a 351 Cleveland V-8 designated with the code "R." The Boss engine was similar to that year's other high-performance 351, the Cobra Jet, in that they both had four-bolt main caps, 2.19-inch intake valves, 1.71-inch exhaust valves, forged-steel connecting rods, an Autolite 4300-D four-barrel carburetor with a spread-bore pattern, a dual-point distributor, and a cast-iron crankshaft. To produce more power than the CJ, the Boss engine used a different combustion chamber design-the "quench" shape-that closely shrouded the valves and increased the compression ratio substantially. Other power producers were solid solid lifters, adjustable valves, a mechanical camshaft, and forged aluminum pop-up pistons. With standard ram-air induction, the Boss put out an advertised 330 hp.
Available only with the SportsRoof body, the Boss 351 also included a blacked-out hood (silver was used when certain exterior colors were ordered), a 3.91:1 Traction-Lok rear axle; a four-speed transmission; Competition suspension; power front-disc brakes; and various cosmetic upgrades such as hood-lock pins, a front spoiler, a Mach 1 grille, and a chrome front bumper. Standard Boss 351 tires were Goodyear F60x15s with white raised lettering on 15x7-inch stamped steel wheels wearing hubcaps. Chrome Magnum 500s were optional.
At $4,124-about $150 more than the previous year's Boss 429-the 351 was Ford's most expensive non-Shelby Mustang to date, and one of its quickest. Despite a shipping weight approaching 3,200 pounds, the fastback could fly through the quarter-mile in 14.1 seconds at 100.6 miles per hour according to Car and Driver, and 0-to-60 times in the sub-6.0 second range were reported.
Had it not been for a slowing American economy, rising insurance rates for performance cars, and increased government regulations concerning safety and emissions, Ford would gladly have continued the Boss 351 for several more years. Unfortunately, the company only found 1,806 buyers for the '71 Boss-compared to nearly 8,800 Boss 302s and 429s-and realized the market for premium-priced, high-performance vehicles had come to an end. Ford announced there would be no '72 Boss, leaving a crowd of hungry performance enthusiasts with noses pressed against the glass, wishing they had arrived just a few minutes earlier.
Fortunately, a few knowledgeable Ford sales people explained that the '72 Mustang order form could be used to create a Boss in all but name. Checking the box for the R-code engine-what Ford called the 351-4V High Output-bought a host of mandatory carryover equipment from the Boss, including the four-speed, a Hurst shifter, and a 3.91:1 rear axle at an additional cost of $812.
The new R wasn't identical to the '71 version, but it was close enough to make an H.O.-equipped hardtop, SportsRoof, or convertible the fastest new Mustang on the road. Compression was lower in the '72 version, although exactly how much depends on the source. Manuals list the '71 as having anywhere from 11.0:1 to 11.7:1, and the '72 falls in the range of 8.6:1 to 9.9:1. Regardless of the compression, heads with larger, open-combustion chambers and forged-aluminum flat-top pistons were responsible for the drop, which was engineered for the lower-octane gasoline blends showing up at the pumps in the early '70s. The H.O. camshaft gained some lift but lost duration to deal with the lower compression.
An accurate horsepower comparison on paper is nearly impossible because the industry was switching from SAE gross measurements (taken at the flywheel with minimal real-world accessories in place) to net (also taken from the flywheel but with pumps, pulleys, and exhaust equipment attached), which typically read about 20 percent lower. Using that formula, the Boss' 330 gross horsepower would convert to 264 net, putting the '72's advertised 275 ponies in a very favorable light. To put that into perspective in today's dyno-crazed hobby, subtract another 15 percent for parasitic loss through the drivetrain to get an approximate 233 rwhp.
As for callouts, if anything, the faux Boss wore only a subtle fender decal that announced "351 H.O. Mustang," unless it was a SportsRoof dressed out with the Mach 1 striping. Some of the cars came without stripes or a decal. The '72 H.O. package didn't include the Boss' front chrome bumper or ram-air hood.
The H.O. is so rare that we've only seen a few examples and only one or two as nice as the coupe you see on these pages. During the final days of the Big Three's monopoly of the American auto market-Feb. 17, 1972, to be exact-the Beaudry Ford dealership in Atlanta put in an order with the Dearborn plant to produce a V-8 hardtop ($2,816) with the optional R-code engine ($812), power steering ($102.85), AM/FM stereo ($191.01), console ($67.95), Decor Group ($69.79), color-keyed racing mirrors ($23.23), tinted glass ($35.94), chrome Magnum 500s ($107.59), and Instrumentation Group ($70.83). With destination and delivery charges, the sticker total was $4,425.19. With its marriage of lightest body to most powerful engine, this Medium Bright Yellow coupe with few creature comforts was built for speed.
According to the Deluxe Report from Marti Autoworks, the coupe is 1 of 2,940 Mustang coupes painted Medium Bright Yellow in '72, and 1 of 14 Mustang coupes ordered with the 351-4V H.O. V-8 and four-speed manual transmission. It was built on March 8 and released for shipping two days later.
A few months after Beaudry took delivery of its H.O. coupe, Ford permanently shut the door on its Boss Mustang program.
Last of the R-Code Mustangs
Not much is known of this H.O.'s life until it wound up in the hands of Pat Szyslowski, a restorer and collector who owned Mid-Michigan Mustang for 16 years before relocating to the temperate climes of North Carolina. Pat has had a laundry list of desirable Ponies, including several '66-'69 Shelbys (one of which he drag raced under the name "Sneaky Snake"), a couple of Boss 302s, and three Boss 351s, but the H.O. is by far the rarest of the breed. According to a Marti Auto Works report, there were only 14 coupes ordered with the H.O. powerplant.
After trailering the coupe back from its seller in Kansas, Pat fixed minor details and checked everything mechanical; otherwise, the car was ready to show and drive. The only modification the H.O. has received in its 35 years is the addition of a ram-air hood, which Pat intends to keep because it's exactly the kind of purchase he would have made at the Ford dealership parts department in 1972.
"I was really interested in the '72 when I heard about it from a friend," he tells us, "because it's essentially a Boss 351 that no one knows about. To my mind, this is the last really great car of the first Mustang generation, and it's definitely the final R-code." | <urn:uuid:5514f771-4d4d-4012-b840-3dec83e7ebcf> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mustangandfords.com/featured-vehicles/mump-0706-1972-mustang-ho/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00159-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.957932 | 1,800 | 1.539063 | 2 |
Note: (This assignment was given to me when I needed to do 28 hours translation work from another language. The source biography was written in Indonesian and appeared as a serial biography in Femina Magazine. The following work is my own translation of the biography into English)
DIDIK NINI THOWOK.
Didik Nini Thowok had to delay his post-high school goal to attend the ASTI Yogya Dance Academy due to the lack of funds. Instead, Didik had to work as an hourly waged employee at Temanggung's Culture Council and teach dance in schools. However, his dream never died. He continued to save penny after penny to fund his study. Finally, in spring 1974, Didik was accepted as a student of ASTI.
Unwilling to burden his parents, Didik supported his own studies and life in Yogya; by receiving orders for tailor-made clothes, among others. On days where the need for cash was particularly urgent, Didik had to go as far as selling his trousers or take his bike to the pawnbroker.
Didik's fame and fortune began to work in favour of him as he joined the musical Nini Thowok; thus 'baptizing' him into Didik Nini Thowok.
PART ONE: Dancing Lessons from the Barber.
The famous Jalan Maliboro was in a complete traffic congestion on that hot mid-December 2004 afternoon. No, it was not a national holiday, nor was there any political demonstrations held on that main street of Yogyakarta. What is happening?
On the sidewalk before the Yogyakarta City Council, a 'beautiful lady' with her hair done up Javanese style, was seen descending gracefully from the horse carriage. She had a tall, slender, and sexy posture, and her makeup was quite goudy. She was clothed in a tight, light blue kebaya dress down to her knees. But as you see her... | <urn:uuid:de567313-29d3-4f62-9c63-315a4cda47d6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.writework.com/essay/biography-didik-nini-thowok-international-modern-dancer-ch | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00196-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.989153 | 411 | 1.710938 | 2 |
The B.C. Youth Parliament is after 95 young men and women to visit Victoria this Christmas, debate important service projects and put those plans in place in 2015.
For the next three weeks, BCYP is calling on community leaders across the province to nominate young people to take part in this opportunity.
“BCYP is education and community service in action,” said Darya Ali, premier for the upcoming year of BCYP.
“We’re looking for young people who want to learn more about our system of government, make life-long friends, and take part in projects that benefit our province’s youth.”
The B.C. Youth Parliament is a non-partisan, non-demoninational, non-profit service organization. BCYP plans, fundraises for, and puts in place service projects that help improve the lives of young people.
These include group community service events, partnerships with community service organizations, regional model parliaments, and individual youth volunteer projects.
BCYP members spend time at the Legislature between Boxing Day and New Year’s Day every year to debate and vote on the organization’s proposed activities and issues of local, national, and international importance.
All members sit as independents, and are free to vote according to their conscience on the issues.
Potential BCYP members will be
Between 16 and 21 years of age;
Residents of the province for the past year;
Able to commit to a year’s worth of service; and
Interested in learning more about how our democratic system works.
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Indian designer Sharmila Nair broke several stereotypes when she decided to use the transgender community as the inspiration for her new collection of saris. She took the initiative one step further by asking two transgender women to model her clothes in a stunning photo shoot that has now gone viral.
Nair, who lives in the city of Cochin in the southern Indian state of Kerala, has named her collection Mazhavil, the local word for rainbow. "Since the LGBT community is represented by the rainbow flag," Nair told Mashable, "I thought why not give my collection the same shades and use all the colours of the rainbow."
Made under her brand Red Lotus, the saris are made from Hubli cotton that has been dyed with rich natural colours, and paired with printed blouses.
Nair was inspired to do her bit for inclusion after seeing a Facebook post on Kerala government's groundbreaking policy for transgender people, which assured them of their freedom and movement, and emphasises their equal rights and access to social and economic opportunities, services and resources.
She contacted the local organisation Queerela, which works for the rights of transgender people, who then put her in touch with the 29-year-old models Maya Menon and Gowri Savithri. The two friends were initially surprised and skeptical, after facing years of discrimination and hardships.
"They couldn't believe that someone would approach them for modelling. They were scared and had questions about why we were so interested in taking them as models, whether our collection would even get sold and how it would affect our brand," Nair says. "Yet, once we started they were thrilled."
After meeting the two, Nair herself had a first-hand experience of the kind of discrimination that transgender people continue to face despite the government's policy. Both the models were facing economic difficulties. While Maya runs a yoga centre, Gowri still finds it difficult to get a job. Nair had trouble finding a place to shoot because she had transgender models, and finally chose a beautiful church in Cochin as the location.
The designer hopes that the now-viral photo shoot will open up more opportunities for the two. "It takes time to break stereotypes and for people to accept," Nair adds. "They are very creative, and really put their heart and soul into the shoot."
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A local group that takes care of homeless, stray, and abandoned cats needs some help. Pamela Hansberry, executive director of Forgotten Felines of Maine, tells TV 5 someone stole $1,000 from the organization. The cash was raised last weekend at a craft fair in Brewer. Someone reportedly took the money out of a truck. The money was in the truck because it was going to be deposited. On Saturday the group is hosting two events in Ellsworth. An adoption event at Maine Pet & Aquarium from 11am – 3pm, and a bake sale at Marden’s from 11am – 5pm. Forgotten Felines of Maine has helped nearly 400 cats and kittens this year. If you would like more information or would like to find out how to make an online donation, visit the Forgotten Felines of Maine Facebook page, but clicking here. | <urn:uuid:bef7de74-7808-46fe-80c6-961879de93fd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://wabi.tv/2012/11/15/1000-stolen-from-forgotten-felines-of-maine/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280899.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00577-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.96731 | 174 | 1.515625 | 2 |
Essex Human Rights Summer School
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The Human Rights Centre will offer its five day summer school in
Human Rights Research Methods from 3 – 7 July 2017.
We have put together an exciting teaching team of some of the
leading Essex and external human rights academics and practitioners, all
with extensive experience of researching and working on human rights
issues in a wide range of contexts. The summer school is ideal for human
rights professionals working in NGOs, government and international
organisations; lawyers; academics and postgraduate students.
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We hope to see you at Essex next summer!
“An improved approach to human rights” from University of Essex on
2017 Human Rights Summer School programme
Human Rights Research Methods
We are delighted to announce the 2017 programme for the Human Rights Centre’s pioneering summer school on
Human Rights Research Methods. Since the launch of the summer school in 2014, there has been growing recognition
of the importance of paying attention to methodology in human rights research, especially with the increasing
emphasis on evidence and on assessing and enhancing the impact of human rights. While academics, non-governmental
organisations (NGOs) and intergovernmental organisations such as the United Nations carry out vast amounts of research,
very little attention has traditionally been paid to methodology in human rights. However, the strength, persuasiveness
and legitimacy of research findings and, in turn, the ability of such findings to influence policy and practice will
be greatly enhanced by methodological rigor. Run over 5 days, the Research Methods summer school provides the core
methods and skills needed to carry out human rights research whether for academic scholarship, bids for large research
projects or reports for NGOs, governments and international organisations. Participants will learn how to design research
projects and carry them out both in a headquarters environment or while working in the field. They will learn about the range
of tools and methodologies for human rights research (whether academic or practical) and when, why and how to employ particular
research methods in specific research contexts. The summer school not only focuses on documenting human rights violations
using qualitative and quantitative research methods but it also addresses questions of how to measure the impact and effectiveness
of policies and practices based on human rights. It is an essential course for postgraduate students, academics, lawyers and human
rights professionals working in NGOs, government and international organisations. Participants in previous years have expressed
strong satisfaction with the content and the delivery of the programme and the demand for places has remained high.
"These are exactly the types of skills needed by researchers
in NGOs and in the UN and other international
organisations. Knowing the Human Rights Centre, I am
confident that it will deliver a summer school that is
not only strong in academic content but very relevant
and applicable to practical contexts."
Ian Martin, former Secretary General of
Amnesty International and head of UN human rights
missions and peace operations in Rwanda, East Timor,
Nepal and Libya
Taught by an international faculty of experts in the field, the sessions will focus on research design, methodology and impact
and will examine relevant examples and case-studies. The programme also includes dedicated sessions on particular projects to
develop the themes of research design, methodology and impact in greater depth. As an interactive summer school, it will afford
participants many opportunities to apply the theory they have learned, including through dedicated sessions in which participants
will be given a problem ahead of the session and asked to prepare the research questions, methodology and impact strategy. Participants
will have the opportunity to receive feedback on existing research plans in one-on-one clinics throughout the school.
In taking this course, participants will:
- acquire a strong understanding of the key methods used in human rights research and the way in which they can be used on their own or in combination (mixed methods);
- learn to design research projects with a strong methodology, including for grant applications and to have optimal impact on policy and practice;
- attain a strong understanding of how to ensure that the research meets ethical standards including in NGOs without ethics committees;
- gain a strong appreciation of qualitative interviewing techniques including issues involved with interviewing victims and affected communities and carrying out research on sensitive human rights topics;
- learn how to interpret data gained through interviews;
- become ‘literate’ in carrying out quantitative research and collecting, processing and using data;
- understand how to do research in different countries and researching in closed and challenging societies;
- learn how to design and carry out comparative country research; and
- understand how to measure the impact of policies and practices based on human rights
The summer school will be taught by a combination of Essex and external human rights academics and practitioners. The team includes:
- Judith Bueno de Mesquita, School of Law & Deputy Director, Human Rights Centre Clinic.
- Professor Başak Çalı, Hertie School of Governance, Berlin, and Director of the Center for Global Public Law at Koç University, Istanbul.
- Dr Cosette Creamer, Benjamin E. Lippincott Chair in Political Economy & Assistant Professor of Political Science, Department of Political Science and School of Law, University of Minnesota.
- Barbora Cernusakova, Researcher at Amnesty International and University of Manchester
- Nicholas Fasel - TBC, Chief Statistician, Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights - OHCHR
- Dr Carla Ferstman,Director, REDRESS.
- Dr Anita Gohdes, Assistant Professor of International Relations, Center for Comparative and International Studies, University of Zurich & Human Rights Data Analysis Group.
- Professor Paul Hunt,Human Rights Centre and School
of Law, University of Essex and former Senior Human Rights Advisor to the World Health Organization Assistant
Director-General; UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Health and Rapporteur of the UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights
- Dr Patrick Lown,EssexLab, Department of Government, University of Essex.
- Esther Major, Consultant for WHO & former Researcher/Adviser at Amnesty International
- Professor Lorna McGregor, School of Law, Director Human Rights Centre & Co-Director, Human Rights, Big Data and Technology Project. Member, Equality and Human Rights Commission.
- Jo Pettit, Lead Researcher, Freedom from Torture.
- Dr Róisín Ryan-Flood, Department of Sociology, University of Essex
- Dr Clara Sandoval, Acting Director, Human Rights Centre, Director, Essex Transitional Justice Network, and Senior Lecturer, School of Law, University of Essex.
- Dr Ahmed Shaheed, Human Rights Centre & School of Law, University of Essex. UN Special Rapporteur on the Freedom of Religion or Belief (2016-19)
- Dr Gary Williams, Research Development Manager, Faculty of Social Sciences, University of Essex.
- Qualitative Data Analysis
- Interviewing Survivors of Human Rights Violations
- Single and Comparative Case Studies
- The Use of Focus Groups
- Conducting In-Country Research
- Human Rights Indicators
- The Role of Databases
- Socio-Economic and Administrative Statistics
- Counting Rights Violations
- Measuring the Impact of the Right to Health
- Documenting Harm and Claiming Reparations in Countries Undergoing Transition
- Choosing between Quantitative and Qualitative Methods
- One-on-One Clinics
Fees and booking
The fees for this years summer school is as follows:
- University of Essex students, staff and alumni: £775
- External participants: £900
Early bird discount (10%) will be available until Sunday, 21 May 2017
Our online booking system will be operational shortly in the interim, please email
email@example.com to register your interest and we will let you know as soon as it is available.
Please Note Conditions of Booking: If you can no longer attend and need to cancel your place, please do so as soon as possible, so that it can be offered to someone else.
Attendees who cancel a previously booked place on the Essex Human Rights Summer School after 21 May 2017 will be liable for 100% of the course fees.
The Human Rights Centre reserves the right to withdraw sessions due to staff absence or low enrolment numbers.
How to get here and campus access
The Essex Human Rights Summer School takes place at our University's
Colchester campus. Colchester is an hour away from London by train. See our
information pages for further details of how to get here and our campus
accessible travel guide:
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The most common cause of auto glass damage is stonechip: A tiny pebble (eg loose chippings) is thrown from the vehicle ahead and hits the windshield. Due to the high impact velocity creates a small crater or fracture in the disc, which is often difficult to recognize.
If the hole is not repaired early, the damage can expand forever. The plate is subjected to large stresses: temperature fluctuations, vibrations and other factors put to her. Penetrates too much air and moisture into the damaged area, a matte surface can occur. If the damage in the peripheral zone of the disk, there is a risk that it tears to the edge. The disc loses its stability and its load-bearing function for the body.
The following conditions apply for a successful immediate stonechip repair:
- The repair should be carried out promptly after such damage. When moisture and dirt are visible already penetrated into the disc, this leads to a negative result repair.
- It can only damage the disc outer surface to be repaired. The inner pane and the intermediate plastic film must not have any damage. Scratches and tiny glass outbreaks caused by the impact of fine sand particles, can not be eliminated by the method, in which case the windshield must be replaced.
- The crater of the impact site must not be greater than 5 mm.
- The stones must not in the marginal zone of the disk are (= 10 cm from the edge of the glass).
- In the so-called driver’s field of vision no remote repair must be carried out according to Road Traffic Regulation. This field is defined as a 29 cm wide strip from the center toward the steering wheel. Up and down it is limited by the wiper box.
A repair is considered successful if 70% of the damage location is optically resolved.
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The promising startup is a synthetic biology company developing a next-generation DNA synthesis and automation platform based on engineered terminal deoxynucleotidyl transferases (TdT) to enable the production of gene and genome libraries.
The company already boasts three patents to its name, and has a long-term vision to create a DNA synthesis platform capable of manufacturing genomes on-demand.
The company chose the Microfluidizer LM20 for cell disruption, or the releasing of biological molecules, such as proteins and enzymes, from inside the cell.
Dr Michael Chen, Nuclera co-founder and CCO said, “I had been using a competitor system to perform 100-500 ml E. coli lysis for more than a year during my PhD.
"When I switched over to a Microfluidizer lysis machine, the difference was night and day. Breakage efficiency was higher and instrument blockage from particulates in the lysis buffer was far less problematic. A Microfluidizer machine made processing E. coli lysates much more convenient, so I could worry about enzyme function rather than production.
"Analytik took care of installing a machine that was manufactured and shipped from North America, which went smoothly. We very much enjoyed having the Analytik engineer onsite working to install and train us to use the system."
Analytik Managing Director Ian Laidlaw added, “Analytik are very pleased to be working with Nuclera, another Cambridge-based company at the forefront of their field. We look forward to a long-standing relationship and watching their organisation go from strength to strength.
"Cell disruption is a hot topic at the moment, and Microfluidizers offer considerable technical advantages over alternative methods”
Analytik specialist James Anderson delivering onsite training to the Nuclera team
About Nuclera Nucleics
Nuclera is a next-generation DNA synthesis company creating solutions for the synthetic biology, industrial enzyme engineering, and pharmaceutical industries. Our proprietary enzyme-mediated DNA synthesis platform will enable the rapid and cost-effective production of highly accurate, ultra-long DNA products. They aim to be the key provider of long-length variant DNA and genome libraries for protein, biological pathway, and ultimately genome-scale engineering. For more information, please visit https://www.nuclera.com/
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There were 109,230 detectives and criminal investigators employed in the United States in 2012, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics. They investigate anything from corporate and financial fraud and drug use to murders and terrorist activity. These investigators interview crime victims and suspects, study peoples' backgrounds and help solve crimes through DNA analysis and surveillance. If you want to become a criminal investigator, you may need an associate or bachelor's degree in criminal justice. In return, you can expect to earn salaries averaging more than $6,400 monthly.
Salary and Qualifications
The average annual salary of a criminal investigator was $77,860 as of May 2012, according to the BLS, or $6,488.33 per month. The top 10 percent made more than $10,249.16 monthly. To become a criminal investigator, you need to take at least some college courses in criminal justice, law enforcement and political science, and obtain a license through your state. Most criminal investigators are trained on the job, but many employers prefer that you have experience in criminal investigation – two or more years, for example. Some employers may prefer hiring criminal investigators with associate or bachelor's degrees in criminal justice or related majors. Other essential requirements are honesty, resourcefulness, inquisitiveness, and communication and problem-solving skills.
Salary by Industry
A criminal investigator can earn more in certain industries. In 2012, they earned the highest monthly salaries of $8,357.50 working for the federal government, according to the BLS. Federal government jobs can include the Internal Revenue Service or Federal Bureau of Investigation. Those employed by the U.S. Postal Service also earned considerably higher salaries of $7,465. If you worked for a college or university, you'd make $5,606.66, and in a psychiatric or substance abuse hospital, you'd earn $5,596.66. Local and state government agencies pay their criminal investigators $5,384.16 and $4,880 monthly, respectively.
Salary by State
Criminal investigators earned the highest monthly salaries of $9,602.50 in Washington, D.C., based on 2012 BLS data. Those in Alaska, New Jersey and California also earned relatively high salaries of $8,895.83, $8,314.16 and $7,894.16. If you were employed as a criminal investigator in Arizona, you'd earn $6,542.50 per month. In Texas or Florida, you'd make $6,216.66 or $5,948.33, respectively.
The BLS predicts a 21 percent increase in jobs for private detectives and investigators from 2010 to 2020, which is faster than the 14 percent growth rate for all jobs. High security concerns and the need to protect property and confidential information among residences and businesses should produce more jobs for criminal investigators. Increases in cyber, financial and insurance fraud also may create job opportunities for you in this field.
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook: What Private Detectives and Investigators Do
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Outlook Handbook: How to Become a Private Detective or Investigator
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Private Detectives and Investigators: Job Outlook
- U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Occupational Employment Statistics: Detectives and Criminal Investigators
- Florida Tech University Online: Detective and Criminal Investigator Career and Salary Profile
- U.S. Department of Homeland Security: Become a Criminal Investigator
- Internal Revenue Service: IRS Criminal Investigation Special Agent
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10/23/2014 (press release: bestebolamask) // Sarasota , fl, usa // tuck Tucker
Surgical Mask Company Uses Crowd Funding Platform to Deliver Mask Protection against All Viruses and EBOLA to Those that Need Immunity
Virus Mask Protection announced today that it had produced a crowd funding campaign to effectively distribute their surgical mask innovation to those that need it.
“Our campaign will enable public and corporations to show their support to distribute our innovative, protective masks though the CDC, the World Health Organization, United Nations and UNICEF. The more donations we raise the more of our mask protection will be delivered to those that need it.-Tuck Tucker, Campaign Manager
Definition: INNOVATION: (in-uh-vey-shuh-n): something new or different introduced-like this mask with revolutionary properties.
• Note: campaign distribution estimates are between 7500-10,000 masks
Process: We will coordinate with the healthcare organization(s) to find out how many and where to ship our protective masks?-to do the most good.
The Fund Raiser Campaign may be reviewed at:
and www.Indiegogo.com at:
“ a must-have tool in a first aid kit for every doctor, healthcare worker and hospital.”-Doctor, Urgent Care, St Louis, Mo
The innovative mask (the Protector Virus Mask) is an innovation in the surgical mask market and delivers powerfully effective, extra protection and benefits to those that wear it.
The Protector Virus Mask restricts and defeats pathogens including:
• Coughs and sneezes
• People with illness
This Mask is different: MORE powerful!
Using a proprietary application process, the virus protection mask is a cost-effective surgical mask containing special properties including colloidal silver (Silver Colloidal Hydrosol) treated with various homeopathic chemical ingredients, chloride and liquid minerals.
The valuable immune properties in the mask innovation are the use of colloidal silver. The key to product development success was to find elements that would successfully interact or bond with the silver and add potency, strength and better protection. The result is a powerful surgical-type mask with super-charged ions that grab and restrict the passage of air particles through the mask to one’s nose.
The benefits of wearing a protective surgical mask are well-known.
The FDA observed on their website the value of a mask. “Healthcare workers who may be exposed to people with Ebola should follow these steps: Wear protective clothing, including masks, gloves, gowns, and eye protection.”
Features and Benefits of the Protector Virus Mask include:
• Protects Immune System and NO direct contact
• Enables user to avoid pathogens: EBOLA and other viruses
• REDUCES Airborne and other diseases exposure
• EASY TO USE and Cost effective
• Maintains, supports, and PROTECTS immune systems
• RESTRICTS direct contact unwanted Bacteria and virus
• SAFE: CDC approved materials– with multiple virus reduction benefits
• EAST TO USE: slips over your ears and covers your month
• CONVENIENT: carry one in your briefcase, suitcase, or purse
• Make a great gift and stock stuffer!? ?Virus Mask Protector stores easily in:
• Glove compartments
• First Aid kits
For more information, campaign details and licensing opportunities:
Contact Manager/Inventor: Tuck Tucker
Email: [email protected] – Sarasota Florida USA
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Wal-Mart asks Supreme Court to block giant gender bias lawsuit
Wal-Mart faces what would be the largest class-action employment lawsuit in history over claims of gender bias. It has asked the Supreme Court to intervene.
Retail giant Wal-Mart on Wednesday asked the US Supreme Court to overturn a lower court ruling allowing more than 1.5 million women employees of the company to join together in what would become the largest class-action employment lawsuit in history.
The lawsuit filed by six women in 2001 charges that Wal-Mart engaged in gender discrimination by paying female employees less than men, and in passing women over for promotions that went to men. It seeks billions of dollars in damages.
Gender discrimination lawsuits are usually litigated one employee at a time. But courts may allow plaintiffs who were harmed under similar circumstances by the same person or company to join together in a common class of litigants to pursue their lawsuit.
Lawyers for Wal-Mart are fighting court rulings in California upholding the creation of the massive class of plaintiffs. It includes all women who worked in any of the company’s 3,400 domestic stores since 1998.
The most recent ruling came in April when the full Ninth US Circuit Court of Appeals in San Francisco voted 6 to 5 to uphold the class action status of the lawsuit. Judges upholding the suit said the large number of affected women didn’t matter and that the suit would be manageable.
Dissenting judges said the large size of the class suggests that the women may not share a common injury. “They have little in common but their sex and this lawsuit,” said Chief Judge Alex Kosinski in a dissent.
The chief judge added that the class members “held a multitude of jobs, at different levels of Wal-Mart’s hierarchy, for variable lengths of time, in 3,400 stores, sprinkled across 50 states, with a kaleidoscope of supervisors (male and female), subject to a variety of regional policies that all differed depending on each class member’s job, location and period of employment.”
Lawyers for Wal-Mart say the lower court decisions in the case are rewriting employment law to allow class action lawsuits for money damages under a rule, they say, that only permits judges to order corrective action.
They also argue that the class action process will undercut Wal-Mart’s ability to defend itself against charges that it intentionally discriminated against each of the 1.5 million women.
“The class is larger than the active-duty personnel in the Army, Navy, Air Force, Marines, and Coast Guard combined – making it the largest employment class action in history by several orders of magnitude,” wrote Theodore Boutrous in a legal brief filed on behalf of Wal-Mart.
Lawyers for the women are expected to file a reply brief, urging the court not to take up the case and allow the lower court ruling to stand.
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Protein that can Kill E Coli
NEW DELHI: Scientists at a British university have chanced up a protein that can kill the E coli bacterium, known to cause serious food poisoning in humans.
The protein Colicin N is found inside the Escherichia coli itself, and kills competing bacterium in a very efficient way.
As part of their investigations, researchers at Newcastle University divided the protein into three parts: a receptor, which helps the protein lock-on to the bacterium; a toxic part that punches holes in the membrane of the bacterium to kill it; and a "tail-like" part.
The "tail" was thought to help the protein sneak into the cell but assumed to be harmless to the bacterium itself.
According to the researchers, they wanted to see what effect each part of the protein would have on E coli bacteria. Amazingly when they introduced the translocation tail into the environment of the bacteria, it killed them.
Chris Johnson, a researcher who made the key discovery, said: "When I saw what had happened I didn't believe it. So we repeated it several times and the same thing happened, the bacteria died. This was certainly a result that we weren't expecting. We don't really know how this is all working so we will be looking at this in much more detail but it looks promising."
The research team at Newcastle described their findings in a paper published in the journal Molecular Microbiology this week.
Professor of structural biochemistry at Newcastle University's Centre for Bacterial Cell Biology, Jeremy Lakey, who led the research team, said: "It will be relatively easy to make new antibiotics out of it."
He, however, added that the research was still in its early stages.
"It's an early stage basic discovery. It kills bacteria by a new and as yet unknown mechanism, so we need to do a lot more work to discover exactly what is happening here and whether it could be used for new drugs. But it is unlike anything I have seen before and one of the most exciting things I have seen in 30 years of research on antibacterials," he said.
The finding means a whole new class of antibiotics to help fight Escherichia coli.
Antibiotics have saved millions of lives across the world, but recently several experts have warned that over use has resulted into the bacteria developing immunity and the drugs becoming ineffective.
The discovery shows promise in combating an increasingly important class of antibiotic resistant infections caused by E coli.
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Surface Reconstruction From Microscopic Images in Optical Lithography
This paper presents a method to reconstruct 3D surfaces of silicon wafers from 2D images of printed circuits taken with a scanning electron microscope. Our reconstruction method combines the physical model of the optical acquisition system with prior knowledge about the shapes of the patterns in the circuit; the result is a shape-from-shading technique with a shape prior. The reconstruction of the surface is formulated as an optimization problem with an objective functional that combines a data-fidelity term on the microscopic image with two prior terms on the surface. The data term models the acquisition system through the irradiance equation characteristic of the microscope; the first prior is a smoothness penalty on the reconstructed surface, and the second prior constrains the shape of the surface to agree with the expected shape of the pattern in the circuit. In order to account for the variability of the manufacturing process, this second prior includes a deformation field that allows a nonlinear elastic deformation between t0he expected pattern and the reconstructed surface. As a result, the minimization problem has two unknowns, and the reconstruction method provides two outputs: 1) a reconstructed surface and 2) a deformation field. The reconstructed surface is derived from the shading observed in the image and the prior knowledge about the pattern in the circuit, while the deformation field produces a mapping between the expected shape and the reconstructed surface that provides a measure of deviation between the circuit design models and the real manufacturing process. | <urn:uuid:3e4a0a9f-0f13-49f5-9df3-d52d73f9142b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://infoscience.epfl.ch/record/201140 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00357-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.920872 | 302 | 2.0625 | 2 |
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Wigs are one of the many items that are available to consumers in today’s market. A wig is typically a full head or full hair accessory made from animal hair, human hair, or some type of synthetic fibre. The word wig comes from periwinkle, making its earliest recorded appearance in Shakespeare’s The Two Gentlemen of Verona, where it was called a "winkle." Within years, the spelling became "winkle" and then became synonymous with all forms of wigs, regardless of their material.
For example, the most common type of wig is the one that simply covers the entire head. It is referred to as a "hood" and may be short or long in length. Some people refer to these types of wigs as a "ravine" because they resemble the hair of a raccoon. In addition, there are variations of the wig that are worn in an unoffending manner, such as in a bun or a bandanna. A more flattering form of wearing wigs is known as a "tied" wig, and this is worn with clothing to cover the wigs instead of covering them.
For example, during the early to mid nineteenth century, a man who sported a goatee hairstyle often wore wigs that had fringe strips that would keep the shaved portion of the head from showing. The wigs were constructed from black hair that was dyed a dark powder so that the shaved portion of the head would not show, while still allowing the person to sport a goatee hairstyle. In addition, the same powder was often used on the clothing that the wearer wore, so that the colors would match. Although these types of wigs are no longer worn in the early to mid nineteenth century, they are still used by some individuals. | <urn:uuid:bc69c172-203b-4ec4-b607-b67d4be53752> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://ijustwanttoplaypoker.com/blog/members/northhjorth57/activity/690226/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.984324 | 384 | 2.25 | 2 |
The Zerg Swarm are the primary villain faction the RTS game Starcraft. They are very similar to the Tyranids from Warhammer 40,000, being a collection of assimilated, genetically enhanced species controlled by a hive mind, which seeks to assimilate new species. The similarities are because Starcraft was originally planned to be Warhammer 40,000 game, but Blizzard, the company that made Starcraft, lost the rights to use Warhammer. The plot depicts them as the most powerful faction because of a massive numerical advantage over their enemies. The size of swarm, and exactly how strong the Zerg units are plotwise is highly ambiguous, since they're from a video game.
Gameplaywise, the Zerg focus on fast and inexpensive units. Starcraft's popularity has resulted in people labeling fast, cheap, basic units in other RTS games as Zerglings (named after a Zerg unit that fits that description). | <urn:uuid:4a90339b-cace-4b40-89e6-fdb49251bc7b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.stardestroyer.net/wiki/index.php?title=Zerg | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280292.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00336-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960012 | 178 | 1.859375 | 2 |
SEATTLE–(BUSINESS WIRE)–Amazon (NASDAQ: AMZN) today announced 14 new renewable energy projects in the U.S., Canada, Finland, and Spain to advance its ambitious goal to power 100% of company activities with renewable energy by 2025—five years ahead of the original target of 2030. The new projects bring Amazon’s total renewable energy investments to date to 10 gigawatts (GW) of electricity production capacity—enough to power 2.5 million U.S. homes. Amazon is now the largest corporate buyer of renewable energy in the U.S. and the world.
“It is becoming increasingly clear that corporations such as Amazon see solar and other renewable resources as the path forward to meet their energy and business needs, and we stand ready to support Amazon and other companies of all sizes in their decisions to go solar.”
The latest utility-scale solar and wind projects will supply renewable energy for Amazon’s corporate offices, fulfillment centers, and Amazon Web Services (AWS) data centers that support millions of customers globally. These projects will also help Amazon meet its commitment to produce enough renewable energy to cover the electricity used by all Echo devices in use. These new projects support hundreds of jobs while providing hundreds of millions of dollars of investment in local communities.
“We’re driving hard to fulfill The Climate Pledge—our commitment to reach net-zero carbon by 2040, 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement,” said Jeff Bezos, Amazon founder and CEO. “Our investments in wind and solar energy in the U.S. and around the world send a signal that investing in green technologies is the right thing to do for the planet and citizens—as well as for the long-term success of businesses of all sizes across all industries everywhere.”
Amazon will now have a total of 232 renewable energy projects globally, including 85 utility-scale wind and solar projects and 147 solar rooftops on facilities and stores worldwide. The 14 new wind and solar projects in the U.S., Canada, Finland, and Spain include:
- New projects across the U.S.: The 11 U.S.-based projects announced today include Amazon’s first solar projects in Arkansas, Mississippi, and Pennsylvania, and additional projects in Illinois, Kentucky, Indiana, and Ohio. In total, Amazon has enabled more than 6 GW of renewable energy in the U.S. through 54 projects.
- Our largest renewable energy project in Canada: Amazon’s second renewable energy project in Alberta is a 375-megawatt (MW) solar farm—which is also the largest in the country. When it comes online in 2022, the solar farm will bring Amazon’s capacity in Canada to more than 1 million megawatt hours (MWh), enough to power more than 100,000 Canadian homes.
- Our first renewable energy project in Finland: Amazon’s first project in Finland is a 52-MW wind farm located near the country’s west coast. The project is expected to begin producing energy in 2022.
- Additional investments in Spain: Amazon’s fifth solar project in Spain will generate 152 MW when it begins contributing power to the grid in 2023, bringing total capacity in the country to more than 520 MW.
To see Amazon’s renewable energy projects around the world, visit our interactive map.
“Amazon’s commitment to clean energy is highly commendable, and it is the type of investment that we need to see more of to meet the world’s critical energy and climate needs,” said Abigail Ross Hopper, president and CEO of the Solar Energy Industries Association (SEIA). “It is becoming increasingly clear that corporations such as Amazon see solar and other renewable resources as the path forward to meet their energy and business needs, and we stand ready to support Amazon and other companies of all sizes in their decisions to go solar.”
“A new level of ambition across the private sector is necessary to accelerate decarbonization of the power system. Amazon’s leadership in investing and adopting renewable energy around the world paves the way for new innovation, and the ability to scale at the pace needed to address the real threats to the planet, people, and businesses posed by climate change,” said Miranda Ballentine, CEO of Renewable Energy Buyers Alliance (REBA).
“With an impressive 10 gigawatts of renewable energy capacity now in its portfolio, and a path to reach its 100% renewable energy target five years ahead of schedule, Amazon continues to walk the walk when it comes to corporate clean energy leadership,” said Gregory Wetstone, president and CEO of the American Council on Renewable Energy (ACORE). “The renewable projects the company announced today will provide communities with good-paying jobs and the affordable, pollution-free power we need to combat the climate crisis.”
Amazon and Global Optimism co-founded The Climate Pledge in 2019, a commitment to reach the Paris Agreement 10 years early and be net-zero carbon by 2040. The Pledge now has 108 signatories, including IBM, Unilever, PepsiCo, Visa, Verizon, Siemens, Microsoft, and Best Buy. To reach its goal, Amazon will continue to reduce emissions across its operations by taking real business actions and establishing a path to power its operations with 100% renewable energy, five years ahead of the company’s original target of 2030; delivering its Shipment Zero vision to make all shipments net-zero carbon, with 50% net-zero carbon by 2030; purchasing 100,000 electric delivery vehicles, the largest order ever of electric delivery vehicles; and by investing $2 billion in the development of decarbonizing services and solutions through the Climate Pledge Fund. For more information, visit https://sustainability.aboutamazon.com/.
Amazon is guided by four principles: customer obsession rather than competitor focus, passion for invention, commitment to operational excellence, and long-term thinking. Amazon strives to be Earth’s Most Customer-Centric Company, Earth’s Best Employer, and Earth’s Safest Place to Work. Customer reviews, 1-Click shopping, personalized recommendations, Prime, Fulfillment by Amazon, AWS, Kindle Direct Publishing, Kindle, Career Choice, Fire tablets, Fire TV, Amazon Echo, Alexa, Just Walk Out technology, Amazon Studios, and The Climate Pledge are some of the things pioneered by Amazon. For more information, visit amazon.com/about and follow @AmazonNews.
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For 15 years, Amazon Web Services has been the world’s most comprehensive and broadly adopted cloud platform. AWS has been continually expanding its services to support virtually any cloud workload, and it now has more than 200 fully featured services for compute, storage, databases, networking, analytics, machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), Internet of Things (IoT), mobile, security, hybrid, virtual and augmented reality (VR and AR), media, and application development, deployment, and management from 81 Availability Zones (AZs) within 25 geographic regions, with announced plans for 21 more Availability Zones and seven more AWS Regions in Australia, India, Indonesia, Israel, Spain, Switzerland, and United Arab Emirates. Millions of customers—including the fastest-growing startups, largest enterprises, and leading government agencies—trust AWS to power their infrastructure, become more agile, and lower costs. To learn more about AWS, visit aws.amazon.com. | <urn:uuid:19f5cf98-d249-400c-ac6a-9519607d1654> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.powermag.com/press-releases/amazon-becomes-largest-corporate-buyer-of-renewable-energy-in-the-u-s/?itm_source=parsely-api | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00675.warc.gz | en | 0.923036 | 1,549 | 1.75 | 2 |
My recording of The Brilliant Proof (Burhäne Lämé) in reply to an attack upon the Bahai Revelation by Peter Z. Easton by Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl Gulpáygání has recently been completed and catalogued at LibriVox.org! It has already been downloaded 68 times since it was catalogued on the 24th of January (only 4 days ago)!
“In these days,” writes the renowned Bahá’í scholar, Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl, “which are the latter days of 1911, A. D. and the early days of 1330 A. H., I have seen a curious article which astonished me. What did I see? I find that one of the missionaries of the Protestant sect, who accounts himself among the learned men of the twentieth century, a helper of the pure religion of Christ and one of the civilized and cultured occidentals, by name, Peter Z. Easton, has been so provoked by jealousy at the universal spread of the heavenly word of His Holiness Abdul-Baha throughout vast expanses of Europe that he has trespassed the limit of courtesy and humanity and published an article replete with execration and calumny in the magazine “Evangelical Christendom.” …Briefly, as this servant [Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl] carefully perused and weighed the above mentioned article, it was found that Peter Z. Easton, in his own supposition, has clung to “four proofs” in opposing the great Bahai Cause. We will therefore mention these four points and show the falsity of his fanciful ideas in each instance.”
A number of works were written in the 19th century to defend the Bábí and Bahá’í Faiths from attacks made by Muslim scholars and to demonstrate the spiritual proofs and evidences of the Revelations of the Báb and Bahá’u’lláh (notably the “Seven Proofs” of the Báb and the “Book of Certitude” of Bahá’u’lláh) . As the Bahá’í Faith spread to Europe and America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries, it began to attract the attention of Christian missionaries and preachers. While many Christian clergymen were positive towards the Faith and its universal message, there were also attacks against the Faith by ministers who saw it as a threat. Peter Z. Easton was one of these. Mírzá Abu’l-Fadl, who was given the posthumous title of “Apostle of Bahá’u’lláh”, took on Easton’s challenge and thoroughly refuted his arguments in “The Brilliant Proof”. ‘Abdu’l-Bahá was so impressed by this work that He wrote: "His Honour Mírzá Abu'l-Fadl has written a treatise answering the criticisms of a London preacher. Each one of you should have a copy. Read, memorize and reflect upon it. Then, when accusations and criticisms are advanced by those unfavourable to the Cause, you will be well armed."
LibriVox is a tremendous way of producing public domain, freely accessible Bahá'í literature. One needs only find a public domain Bahá'í text (and there are many at Internet Archive, Google Books, H-Net, etc.), create an account at the LibriVox forum, read the Newbie Guide to Recording, submit a 1-minute test (to check one's settings are correct) and then one can begin to bring the world of Bahá'í literature to life in an audio format, so that the waiting masses of humanity can hear and appreciate the Word of God and the Divine Teachings. This is a great service to the Faith, that any Bahá'í can do.
If you like this recording, you will also like my recordings of:
Talks by Abdul-Baha Given in Paris by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
A Traveller's Narrative Written to Illustrate the Episode of the Báb by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
The Myserious Forces of Civilization by ‘Abdu’l-Bahá
The Bahai Revelation by Thornton Chase
In Galilee by Thornton Chase
The Universal Religion: Bahaism - Its Rise and Social Import by Hippolyte Dreyfus-Barney
The Revelation of Baha-ullah in a Sequence of Four Lessons by Isabella D. Brittingham
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Who Is Finished Paying Their 2017 Social Security Taxes? Probably Not You. Teresa Ghilarducci and Alex Pavlakis 1/1/17
Though 94 percent of us (about 151 million workers) will pay our Social Security tax every paycheck in 2017, a handful of the highest income Americans will stop paying before you finish reading this blog. The over $2 trillion dollars of earnings that escape Social Security tax are an accident caused by the lopsided growth of income for the lucky few (about 9.6 million) earning over $120,000 or so per year.
The tax rate for Social Security (old age survivors and disability insurance OASDI) is 6.4 percent for both the employer and employee and is paid on earnings up to a cap. In 2016, the cap was $118,500. In 2017, the cap will increase to $127,200 in 2017 based on average wage growth. For those at the upper end of the income distribution (the top 1 percent, or the 2 million people earning more than $250,000 per year and the 137,000 people earning more than $1 million per year), $127,200 is a trivial amount on which to pay Social Security tax.
The 202 Americans who earned more than $50 million a year finished paying less than 5 hours after the ball dropped in Times Square. Another 773 people earning between $20-$50 million a year will finish paying the tax before you finish reading this blog on January 2nd.
We face a retirement crisis in America. We need comprehensive pension reform, but we also need to shore up and expand Social Security. The first step is to right the wrong of lopsided earnings growth and raise the earnings cap. We should also tax some financial capital to strengthen and expand Social Security. Solving the retirement crisis by shoring up pension income is the best policy idea in the New Year. Raising the cap is very little pain and all gain.
WHY THE SYSTEM IS SHORT OF FUNDS
The boomers are not causing the system to run short of revenue in 2035. The system's actuaries anticipated baby boomers' retirement. In addition, the system is not bankrupt. Without increasing revenues, the system will generate revenue to pay 75 percent, rather than 100 percent, of promised benefits.
The main reason Social Security taxes aren't sufficient to pay full benefits is that the system did not anticipate the extreme growth of inequality in earnings and how much of wages would be diverted to pay health insurance back in 1983 when the Social Security tax was last raised by Congress and the President. The inequality of wage income is the most important reason for the short fall. Most of all, labor earnings growth since 1979 has gone to the top earners. When it comes to the pace of annual pay increases, the top 1 percent wage - the wage that escapes Social Security tax due to the cap - grew 138 percent since 1979, while wages for the bottom 90 percent grew only 15 percent. The unprecedented lopsided growth earnings are the main reason the system is in shortfall. The system can easily be made solvent if it adjusts to the reality of inequality.
Extreme earnings inequality explains the Social Security shortfall because Social Security taxes are only collected on incomes below an earnings cap. In 2016, the cap was $118,500 (which is indexed to average wage growth, not the wage growth at the top). Anyone who makes more than the cap stops contributing to Social Security as soon as they hit the earnings cap. For most of us, this does not matter. Last year, less than 6 percent of wage earners took home more than $120,000. Therefore, the vast majority of workers pay Social Security tax all year long.
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WW: Why did you choose to photograph the belongings of Iraqi refugees?
Jim Lommasson: What We Carried is the flipside of the soldier stories. I've been hearing from soldiers about their experiences in Iraq and Afghanistan, and many of the soldiers came home and had a completely opposite view of why they went there. Some of those people who originally went to fight for America have now come back and are ready to overthrow the government that they originally went to fight for. That's such a dramatic, 180-degree worldview change. I thought, I really need to hear from the people in those countries who were caught in the crossfire, and I knew there were a certain number of Iraqi refugees coming to Portland.... I feel like we don't know these people, just like we don't know the soldiers that we send to war.
How did you go about depicting their stories?
I started thinking, what if I didn't photograph people and I photographed the things that they brought with them? When you leave, you don't often have the opportunity to rent a pod and put all of your belongings in it. You leave sometimes with a kid under each arm, a passport, a family photo, a Quran or a Bible, and you're off to Jordan.... So people showed me their family photo or whatever, and I photographed it on white, made a print and gave it back to them and asked them to tell me why this was one of the few things they brought with them.
What was your experience in letting much of the project out of your hands?
Every time I get back one of these photographs that an Iraqi has done something to, it just blows me away with their sense of freedom.... A 60-year-old anthropologist brought her books to reconstruct the history of Iraq going back 60,000 years. She painted this beautiful ancient calligraphy over the picture of the book that I had photographed. How amazing, how humbling.
Who are these people? Why did they leave?
Most of the people I've interviewed have been in Oregon for less than four years. People have left because life is just so hard in Iraq.... [One refugee,] Samir, he painted portraits for Saddam.... After Saddam was gone, he did portraits for American soldiers. He wanted to get out of Iraq, so he ended up going to Turkey. It took him five years of paperwork to try to get out of Turkey.... So he paid some smugglers to smuggle him out in a shipping crate. They put him in the crate, screwed it down, gave him a can of oxygen, and he was theoretically going to be shipped to Italy.... It's hard for me to breathe just talking about it.
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An authority on urban sociology and Middle Eastern politics, Yasser Munif will share his perspective on the roots of the civil war in Syria. Munif is a scholar-in-residence at Emerson College, where he specializes in colonial history, racial identities, and the production of postcolonial space in former French colonial territories. His research explores the role of artistic transgressions within public spaces in challenging the deference and violence of totalitarian regimes. He is currently working on a book chapter on the relevance of revolutionary philosopher Franz Fanon in the context of the Syrian uprising.
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What Is Black Mold?
You may have seen sensational news reports that warn about the dangers of “black mold” or “toxic mold”. These reports can be alarming and confusing, so it’s beneficial to get the facts to better understand mold.
Black mold isn't always jet black; it can also be dark green in color. It thrives in cellulose-rich environments, including building materials such as those present in ceilings, floors and walls, especially where there is significant water damage or other moisture present.
While often referred to as "toxic mold", there actually isn't any evidence that black mold causes any serious medical conditions such as cancer or lung disease, but it is more dangerous than other types of mold. Mold is a type of fungus that exists everywhere, and the effects of black mold as well as other types of mold will differ from person-to-person. Some people, especially those with a respiratory condition such as asthma, may find themselves reacting worse to mold spores than others.
Black mold can be particularly harmful for older people, children, and those with pre-existing respiratory conditions or weak immune systems. Besides black mold, all other types of mold release allergens and mycotoxins that can be hazardous for an otherwise healthy adult.
Black mold, although not as deadly as some make it out to be, still poses a considerable threat, and is only going to get worse over time. If you need mold remediation services, call SERVPRO of Denver West (303)576-6868.
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How Do I Tell If It’s Black Mold?
Since many types of mold can cause reactions, you should contact us regardless of the color or type of mold. In many instances, multiple types of mold may exist in the same house or structure. If you suspect you have a mold problem, contact SERVPRO of Denver West immediately.
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When water intrudes into your property, mold growth can start in as little as 48 hours. Consider the following mold facts:
- Mold is present almost everywhere, indoors and outdoors.
- Mold spores are microscopic, float along in the air, and may enter your home through windows, doors, or AC/heating systems or even hitch a ride indoors on your clothing or a pet.
- Mold spores thrive on moisture. Mold spores can quickly grow into colonies when exposed to water. These colonies may produce allergens and irritants.
- Before mold remediation can begin, any sources of water or moisture must be addressed. Otherwise the mold may return.
- Mold often produces a strong, musty odor, and that odor can lead you to possible mold problem areas.
- Even higher-than-normal indoor humidity can support mold growth. Keep indoor humidity below 45 percent.
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A lightweight object rushes
flapped its wing
in the mid-air hovering
a rocket thrusting
and fuels oxidising
But it is impractical and senseless
that its billionth energy
connected to its tender muscles be
compared to a big force of rocketry
a numerous of them maybe.
And how about this famous chaotic matter
that if all of them flapped their wings
in China or in Manila
could perhaps affect the weather
let’s say in North America
in ten or a hundred years from now
or ere the four great winds paw.
Anyway, forget about meteorology
for its skill is greater as Arachne
being an authorised weaver of its home
a genius that was why the ancient Sinos
were gathering its cylindrical cone
to make textiles of great renown.
And together with its versatility
from an early morning’s ride
prepares to gather grains for its hide –
a sound intelligence not capricious
being the monarchical queen of blossoms
parting the coloured monochromes.
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Vital Realities That You Ought To Find Out About Property.
There are many kinds of realty, varying from resale houses to industrial structures. Residential property consists of single-family houses, condominiums, townhouses, as well as triple-deckers. Business real estate consists of business centers such as resorts, office buildings, and parking area. Industrial property is land used for industrial procedures. Industrial residential property consists of manufacturing facilities, storage facilities, and shipping facilities. Industrial real estate is a popular form of investment, with building prices rising year-over-year.
Personal effects includes everything that is movable, such as furnishings, clothes, and also lorries. On the other hand, real estate is unmovable, such as land. It can be altered in topography, however it will constantly remain the exact same size. It is likewise a repaired supply of materials and also as a result has a higher price. The distinctions between personal and also commercial realty are immense. For example, if you intend to get a huge factory, you ought to invest in industrial building.
Another means to earn money in realty is to acquire a single-family home and rent it out. There are several tax obligation breaks related to this kind of property, so there are many reasons to purchase it. Yet remember to do your homework and also you’ll have a higher possibility of success. And also, just like any kind of financial investment, research will make the distinction in between a successful and a sub-par property. A residential or commercial property with a high risk/reward proportion is not a great financial investment.
The sector has several branches. A real estate representative will certainly represent a customer in a sale or acquisition of residential property. The job summary is differed, as well as includes interviews and accompanied visits to the site of the home. Throughout this process, a real estate representative will create the property contract in between the buyer and also vendor. A real estate representative can earn a full time revenue with a successful sales document. In addition to dealing building, realty representatives can likewise negotiate with purchasers as well as sellers.
Another facet of real estate is the sort of residential property. It is essential to note that a property is taken into consideration real estate if it includes land, buildings, and also man-made add-ons. Personal effects does not include permanent add-ons to land. It consists of anything from vehicles and also boats to precious jewelry and the moving supply of a farm. However, it is not uncommon for a home to be marketed without any ownership. This is because it permits the purchaser to sell the home to somebody else who may desire it.
Commercial building is income-producing home that is typically utilized as workplace, retail stores, and filling station. In addition, commercial residential property also includes retail establishments, shopping mall, and hotels. Along with these, commercial home consists of land and car park. Furthermore, there are several sorts of contracts for property, such as mortgages as well as escrow arrangements. If you’re looking to market a home, you can sign up with forces with other real estate brokers and collaborate to market it.
Industrial realty remains in need and is coming to be extra preferred as consumers end up being extra accustomed to on-line purchasing. Individuals expect their purchases to arrive faster than ever, so commercial home has an excellent chance of appreciating in worth. Home mortgage prices are still low, so it is very important to act now if you want to get the very best bargain possible. Fortunately is that you may still discover home loan rates at traditionally reduced degrees until 2022! The very best time to invest in commercial real estate is now!
The value of industrial home relies on its place. Some sorts of real estate are more attractive to the public than others, depending on your spending plan and place. Business properties, such as mall, ought to be located in a good place. If your service lies near a primary freeway or train station, you need to have simple access to a public transportation stop. After that, you can use the location’s services, such as dining establishments, bars, as well as fitness centers.
Advertising your company is a crucial component of an effective real estate service. Your web site needs to be the very first factor of contact with clients. Make sure you know who your target clients are as well as exactly how to reach them. Using social networks and data collection tools can help you find out more concerning these potential customers. Finally, take into consideration the legal as well as logistical company considerations. The more you find out about your potential clients, the more probable they’ll refer you to their loved ones.
In the property sector, it is vital to establish a strong online visibility to attract more customers and also promote your services. Create a site with your biography, get in touch with details, and also information regarding the houses you are offering or buying. Likewise, start a blog so that potential clients can see your competence. The property industry is infamously mystical, and it is very important to play up to your staminas. As a result, stay on par with changes in the market by on a regular basis updating your site.
There are various types of property, consisting of domestic, industrial, and industrial. House include single-family houses, condominiums, townhouses, as well as triple-decker structures. Other sorts of residential property are multi-family houses, high-value houses, and holiday homes. Industrial real estate, on the other hand, refers to commercial, business, as well as institutional residential properties, which include resorts, shopping mall, as well as other business. At the same time, industrial real estate consists of land as well as structures made use of for manufacturing or construction. Click here for info
The sorts of realty rely on their uses. For instance, residential properties are utilized for exclusive domestic living, while commercial residential or commercial properties are made use of to produce capital. Instances of commercial property are office buildings, shopping center, shopping mall, gasoline station, and stockrooms. Depending upon your requirements as well as preferences, you can pick between residential as well as business buildings. As soon as you have chosen which kind of home you are searching for, take into consideration the following:
Capitalists that are looking to acquire a single-family house needs to investigate the housing market in the area. In addition to researching residence values, a potential capitalist must research web traffic patterns and vacancy prices in the location. This will certainly give them a far better suggestion of just how the neighborhood economy is establishing. Investing in a single-family home can be a great way to buy the real estate market. In commercial realty, you should learn more regarding rental fees, jobs, and various other aspects of the neighborhood market. | <urn:uuid:a47fe07e-84e6-42e4-a454-8eed11c07a1b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thaimapguide.com/2022/07/08/vital-realities-that-you-ought-to-find-out-about-property/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572215.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815235954-20220816025954-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.974483 | 1,396 | 2.484375 | 2 |
Back Pain Treatments
For most instances of back pain, self-care and over-the-counter (OTC) medications are all that are needed. If your back pain is caused by arthritis, your treatment plan will follow that for the specific type of arthritis.
Analgesics are drugs that relieve pain, but not inflammation. The most common over-the-counter analgesic is acetaminophen. These drugs are available as pills or topicals (creams, gels, patches, rubs or sprays). Topical analgesics may contain other ingredients as well as acetaminophen, and include one of the following:
salicylates, such as aspirin, that inhibit pain and inflammation by stimulating blood flow
counterirritants, such as menthol, oil of wintergreen, eucalyptus oil and/or camphor that cause feelings of cold or warmth that distract attention from the actual pain.
capsaicin, that works by reducing the amount of substance P, a chemical that sends pain signals to the brain.
Topical analgesics should not be used with heat therapy as this can cause burns. If necessary, the doctor may prescribe a stronger analgesic.
Nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs) such as aspirin, ibuprofen and naproxen, help reduce inflammation and relieve pain. If necessary, the doctor may prescribe a stronger NSAID. The selective COX-2 inhibitor celecoxib may be safer for the stomach and less likely to cause ulcers than other NSAIDs. There are concerns about an increased risk of cardiovascular problems when taking NSAIDs. Let your doctor know if you have heart disease or high blood pressure before starting these medications, and talk with your doctor about all risks.
It’s a good idea to talk to your doctor or pharmacist before using any OTC medicine for back pain.
People with sciatica, spinal stenosis or tumors within the spinal canal may require surgery to relieve pressure on the spinal cord or nerves. Otherwise, surgery is not usually recommended to relieve pain. A spine specialist can help you decide if a back operation is necessary.
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This link will take you to the destination page of Lonely Planet. Click on any country on the map to find travel information about a country. Country information is organized the same as in the books, but less extensive. Find information about: facts for the traveller, when to go, money and costs, attractions, events, history, culture, environment, getting around and much more. There is also a possibility to book hostels online, airfares, travel insurance and a handfull useful links to travel related sites.
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Earlier Friday the Investigatory Powers Tribunal (IPT) in the UK ruled that the UK's Government Communications Headquarters' (GCHQ) access to information intercepted online by the US National Security Agency (NSA) was unlawful up until December 2014. The Investigatory Powers Tribunal was established in October 2000 under the Regulation of Investigatory Powers Act 2000 ('RIPA') to enable UK citizens to reveal cases where they believed their human rights have been violated by illegal UK government surveillance. On foot of allegations by former NSA contractor Edward Snowden that GCHQ had agreements in place with the NSA which enabled GCHQ to have access to the data gathered and held by the NSA on UK citizens, a number of civil liberties groups such as Privacy International and Liberty brought a case to the IPT.
For the first time in its history the IPT found against the UK's intelligence and security services and ruled that "The regime governing the soliciting, receiving, storing and transmitting by UK authorities of private communications of individuals located in the UK, which have been obtained by US authorities ... contravened Articles 8 or 10" of the European convention on human rights. Under the European convention on human rights, which all members of the European Union must adhere to, Article 8 is the Right to respect for private and family life, and states "Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence " and that "there shall be no interference by a public authority with the exercise of this right except such as is in accordance with the law and is necessary in a democratic society in the interests of national security, public safety or the economic well-being of the country, for the prevention of disorder or crime, for the protection of health or morals, or for the protection of the rights and freedoms of other". While Article 10 refers to the right to Freedom of Expression and states that "Everyone has the right to respect for his private and family life, his home and his correspondence"
Today's ruling follows an earlier ruling in December which found the overall program was lawful except for a lack of transparency. It was this lack of transparency over the intelligence sharing regime between GCHQ and the National Security Agency which the IPT ruled to be unlawful. The IPT notes that since its December findings the GCHQ has now addressed lack of transparency and is now compliant.
James Welch, the Legal Director for Liberty, said "We now know that, by keeping the public in the dark about their secret dealings with the National Security Agency, GCHQ acted unlawfully and violated our rights". However, while many may view this as a victory against mass surveillance by government agencies it is important to remember that the IPT ruling has simply added more transparency onto the information sharing between the two agencies. Indeed, James Welch "The tribunal believes the limited safeguards revealed during last year's legal proceedings are an adequate protection of our privacy. We disagree, and will be taking our fight to the European Court of Human Rights."
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By Ellen S. Podgor
Reviews in Review columns.
Deborah W. Denno
Crime and Consciousness: Science and Involuntary Acts
87 Minnesota Law Review 369 (2002)
Scientific advancements have enormously changed the landscape of how
criminal law is approached. One place within criminal law that has not
incorporated the scientific changes is the area of consciousness.
Professor Deborah Denno presents a wonderful article that examines these
scientific advancements and also examines the deficiencies in existing
She begins with an overview of the Model Penal Code’s presentation
of the requirement of a voluntary act. She also discusses differing
state views in their approach to issues of consciousness. A detailed
appendix is provided that looks at the voluntary act requirement in
states on January 1, 1979 and then on January 1, 2001. Professor Denno
specifically notes the “problems with the
Model Penal Code’s voluntary act dichotomies.” She also discusses how
courts “have dealt with the automatism/uncons
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Drive: The Surprising Truth About What Motivates Us (Paperback)
The New York Times bestseller that gives readers a paradigm-shattering new way to think about motivation from the author of When: The Scientific Secrets of Perfect Timing
Most people believe that the best way to motivate is with rewards like money—the carrot-and-stick approach. That's a mistake, says Daniel H. Pink (author of To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Motivating Others). In this provocative and persuasive new book, he asserts that the secret to high performance and satisfaction-at work, at school, and at home—is the deeply human need to direct our own lives, to learn and create new things, and to do better by ourselves and our world.
Drawing on four decades of scientific research on human motivation, Pink exposes the mismatch between what science knows and what business does—and how that affects every aspect of life. He examines the three elements of true motivation—autonomy, mastery, and purpose-and offers smart and surprising techniques for putting these into action in a unique book that will change how we think and transform how we live.
About the Author
Daniel H. Pink is the author of five books, including To Sell Is Human and the long-running New York Times bestsellers A Whole New Mind and Drive. His books have been translated into thirty-three languages and have sold more than a million copies in the United States alone. Pink lives with his family in Washington, D.C.
"Pink makes a convincing case that organizations ignore intrinsic motivation at their peril."
"Persuasive . . .Harnessing the power of intrinsic motivation rather than extrinsic remuneration can be thoroughly satisfying and infinitely more rewarding."
"These lessons are worth repeating, and if more companies feel emboldened to follow Mr. Pink's advice, then so much the better."
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"Pink is rapidly acquiring international guru status . . . He is an engaging writer, who challenges and provokes."
"Pink's ideas deserve a wide hearing. Corporate boards, in fact, could do well by kicking out their pay consultants for an hour and reading Pink's conclusions instead."
"Pink's deft traversal of research at the intersection of psychology and economics make this a worthwhile read-no sticks necessary."
"[Pink] continues his engaging exploration of how we work."
"Pink's a gifted writer who turns even the heaviest scientific study into something digestible-and often amusing-without losing his intellectual punch."
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"A worthwhile read. It reminds us that those of us on the right side of the brain are driven furthest and fastest in pursuit of what we love."
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"Pink's analysis--and new model--of motivation offers tremendous insight into our deepest nature."
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The protocol used by rpc.rquotad is an unsecured and obsolete protocol and should be disabled. This security vulnerability is discussed in CVE-1999-9625 and further details can be found in that document. This procedure can disrupt NFS clients relying on disk quotas. To avoid issues, schedule a maintenance outage and stop these NFS clients.
For CentOS/RHEL 6 and earlier
1. Edit the file /etc/sysconfig/nfs to have an entry which reads RQUOTAD=”no”, for example:
# fgrep RQUOTAD /etc/sysconfig/nfs # The below line disables the insecure, obsolete quota protocol used by RQUOTAD RQUOTAD="no"
2. Restart the NFS service to activate the change:
# /sbin/service nfs stop # /sbin/service nfs start
For CentOS/RHEL 7 and later
CentOS/RHEL 7 and later uses systemd to manage services. The mask operation prevents even root from starting the service:
# /sbin/systemctl stop rpc-rquotad.service # /sbin/systemctl disable rpc-rquotad.service # /sbin/systemctl mask rpc-rquotad.service
Verify the service status and check if the service can be started/restarted.
# /sbin/systemctl restart rpc-rquotad.service Failed to restart rpc-rquotad.service: Unit is masked. # /sbin/systemctl status rpc-rquotad.service ● rpc-rquotad.service Loaded: masked (/dev/null; bad) Active: inactive (dead
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American Foxhound is one hound dog species originating from the United States
A person named Robert Brook in 1650 was import a dog of Fox Hound type to America is the beginning history of this species. Its part of the materials and sometimes this dog describes as English Foxhound, but correctly it is not "dog of the foxhound type that has been imported from the United Kingdom", hair color as well, such as the English Foxhound Tri instead of color, it was black and Tan. Dog that was able to be improved it is sometimes also called from the name of the production's such as Brooke Fox Hound with.
Brooke Fox Hound, but leg had bought a Zurugashi domestic indigenous gray foxes than the late British red fox, look like real English Foxhound is imported when it comes to the 1700s, and at the same time the United Kingdom of the red fox is also imported, Brooke Fox Hound I've no longer can keep up with increasingly on speed and cunning of the foot of the red fox. So improvements that English Foxhound and interbreeding is to improve the situation is to judgment and stamina done was added. Was further improved speed is multiplied by the Irish Hound and Kerry Beagle is a breed of foxhound type that has been imported from Ireland in the 1830s after. In addition to this, such as The Virginian-Fox Hound is a breed of foxhound type of French St. Hound type of dog and Virginia also been crossed, it became the current figure.
Also American Foxhound is one of the UK species and same nobility of dog species that have been created for the sport, it had been very loved by upper-class gentleman. Among them prominent lovers one person in the United States of George Washington is the first president, his both Fox Hound type of dog (French hound that had been kept, both the English Foxhound, is also said to be of Fox Hound hybrid 1 pack) is used for the improvement of the American Foxhound became known and that it has a significant contribution.
This species also like the British species, is used as a professional to do the fox hunting as a sport hunting dog. This applies to hunt is a gray foxes and red fox, and its hybrids. Is carried out hunting in a large pack, until hunting grounds and headed running and chasing after the master riding a horse named Hunter species. Began to search and track the fox of smell as soon as it arrived, it was Shitome is cornered in cooperation with fellow When you discover. It should be noted that, while the dog is search and track the prey, my husband do the follow-up while riding a hunter species.
It should be noted that, although there is a material that has left a description that had been used to search for resisting Native American to Caucasian to around the 17th century, this is that it was a mistake has been found in recent years. Brooke Fox Hound of this species and the species is not a causative is given to search the person, had been used to actually search was found to be was such ancestor species of Katafura Leppard Dog to have.
Still a lot of dogs have been used as a real hound, those that are kept as pets or show dog is very small. Most of the dogs have been bred in the United States, some cases rarely have been kept as such show dog in the country of origin. Individuals that are kept as pets is still Jitsuryo retired dogs (there was no aptitude as a real hound, or retired dogs hound) the many things that was re-training as a home dog.
Compared with the English Foxhound size is slightly smaller, bone mass also body weight is lighter in rather less. If you have a figure that firm muscular, long legs and neck. Ears drooping ears, tail drooping tail. Coat smooth coat, hair color, it is like white-and-tan (hound color) and of black, white and brown 3-color tri-color of. Withers 53~64cm, a large dog of body weight 30~34kg, character's loyal and loving friendly but most brave and hunting instinct. Even for people and dogs outside the family in contact with the friendly, but for small animals and shaggy small dog species pulled the trigger of the hunting instinct, it tends to indiscriminately disappears. For this reason, on such to be breeding with animals and small dogs will either teach that it is not a prey to contact with it since I was a puppy, in the case of real hunting retired dog that was carried out rigorous training, to teach another play to do Te (to look for hiding a favorite food, such as ball play) there is a need. Discipline basically accept from my husband only. Bark sounded well large, endurance is the same very enormous and the British species, 10 ran a few miles of road to go to the hunting grounds, to have the physical strength enough to keep track looking for the smell of fox about then 5 hours there. For this reason it is very difficult to breeding for beginners, it is a genuine hounds. Susceptible to disease there is such a large dog tends to hip dysplasia. | <urn:uuid:26c0fe6c-7658-4c74-ba78-7aea33a56752> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://glamberly.blogspot.com/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280791.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00360-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.980808 | 1,061 | 2.359375 | 2 |
“With a few days left in December, the FBI report[ed] the number of background checks [had] already topped the previous one-month record — set only in November — of 1,534,414 inquiries by gun dealers to the National Instant Criminal Background Check System also known as NICS,” CNN reported. “Almost half a million checks were done in just the last six days before Christmas. Two days before Christmas, NICS ran 102,222 background checks, which was the second-busiest day in history.”
No one knows for sure how many firearm purchases those NICs represented. “But most people pass the background checks. Only 1.3% of the searches result in people being denied permission to buy a weapon, said FBI spokesman Steve Fischer.”
National Rifle Association (NRA) spokesman Andrew Arulanandam told CNN that self defense appeared to be the top reason why Americans were buying more firearms than ever.
“I think there's an increased realization that when something bad occurs, it's going to be between them and the criminal,” he said.
Source: CNN 12/28/11
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What part do angels play today?
– Submitted by an unknown reader
Who are the Angels? (Part 1)
Angels are beings created by God; they are His servants and do His bidding. They usually dwell in the invisible realm of God’s creation but there are times when they show up in our visible realm. Even when they are invisible they are around us all the time. The word angel in Hebrew means; “one who is dispatched as a deputy or ambassador.” In Greek the word “angelos” means “one who brings good tidings.”
In the scripture, there is more than one classification of angelic being and they have more than one function. For instance, God placed “Cherubim” at the entrance to the Garden of Eden with flaming swords to prevent anyone from entering and finding again the Tree of Life. There are “Seraphim” which surround God’s throne and worship Him twenty four hours a day. There are Archangels such as Michael who is a warrior and is the guardian angel over Israel and Gabriel who made the announcement to Mary that she would be the mother of the Messiah.
Satan or Lucifer was originally part of God’s angelic host but he rebelled and was thrown out of heaven taking about one third (we think) of the host of heaven with him. Since these angels chose sin, that tells us angels have free will like we do. Also, since two thirds of angels did not sin there are many more in the service of the Lord (and also used by God to serve man) than the hoard of devils who work against us. Actually we have no idea how many angels there are; Hebrews 12:22 says that they are “innumerable.”
Here are some other facts about angels: they have great strength and great intelligence; they are immortal and cannot grow weary, old or ever experience death. Angels are pure and holy and they are worshipers of God in heaven.
Angels today (Part 2)
Angels are up to the same things today that they have always been engaged in; helping, guarding and protecting us, delivering messages, fighting battles so we will win, praising God, obeying commands. They are very active but, since much of it is behind the scenes we may forget they are near at all times. Hebrews 13:2 tells us; “Do not forget to entertain strangers, for by so doing some have unwittingly entertained angels.”
Have we encountered angels without knowing it? I’m sure it happens all the time. Maybe it has happened to you or to me. I remember an occasion when I suspected an angel was involved but I can’t prove it. I was coming down the stairs in my house and tripped. As I started to fall I began grabbing for something but, nothing was there to break the fall for me. Quickly though, I felt something steady me, and place my feet firmly back on solid footing. I almost thought a hand took my hand. Was that a guardian angel the Lord had assigned to me?
Angels are always busy but as we get closer to the Second Coming of Christ there will be a huge increase in activity for the angels. Just as they played a part in the first coming of Jesus they will have many roles before He comes back again.
For instance, angels will gather the Bride of Christ. “He will send His angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they will gather together His elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other” (Matthew 24:31).
Angels will preach the gospel directly during the Tribulation. “Then I saw another angel flying in the midst of heaven, having the everlasting gospel to preach to those who dwell on the earth – to every nation, tribe, tongue, and people – saying with a loud voice, ‘Fear God and give glory to Him, for the hour of His judgment has come; and worship Him who made heaven and earth, the sea and springs of water'” (Revelation 14:6-7).
The final battle will involve angels. “And war broke out in heaven: Michael and his angels fought with the dragon; and the dragon and his angels fought” (Revelation 12:7).
Seven angels will pour out the seven bowls of the wrath of God upon the earth during the time of the Tribulation. (See Revelation 16) This will include such things as loathsome sores upon mankind, the sea turning to blood followed by the rivers and springs, scorching men with fire and great heat, etc.
All of this, and yet, angels are still doing simple services for us at God’s command. “Are they (angels) not all ministering spirits sent forth to minister for those who will inherit salvation” (Hebrews 1:14)?
Angels and New Age (Part 3)
There is a huge interest in supernatural phenomena today and that definitely includes interest in angels. To some extent, the New Age movement has attempted to hijack angels and make them their own. Browse any bookstore and see the amount of shelf space devoted to angelic beings and encounters with angels. But just because we both use the word “angel” doesn’t mean we are talking about the same thing.
Remember that Satan was once a great angel in the service of our God. He still retains his powers and he is a master deceiver. His evil angels are out and about deluding gullible men and women. Much of the angelic visitation the New Age talks about is actually encounters with demons. Is there a way to tell the difference?
There is definitely a way to discern what you encounter in the invisible realm. The apostle John addresses this in 1 John 4:1; “Beloved, do not believe every spirit, but test the spirits, whether they are of God; because many false prophets have gone out into the world. By this you know the Spirit of God; every spirit that confesses that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is of God, and every spirit that does not confess that Jesus Christ has come in the flesh is not of God.”
Here is what this means: who do they say Jesus is? Do they say Jesus was only a good man, or a great prophet or that he is one of many paths to God? No, but Jesus is God made flesh and any angel of God will proclaim that. The Bible is our standard of truth on every subject. So if a book recounts an encounter with an angelic being who says anything other than what scripture teaches, we know we are dealing with the angels who report to the devil, not the servants of God.
Remember also that while angels may seem to be fascinating creatures, WE are the heirs of salvation and they are fascinated with how much the Father loves us. Our lives should not revolve around the subject of angels; instead we should concentrate on serving God just like they do.
Listen to what an angel told John in Revelation 22:8-9; “Now I, John, saw and heard these things. And when I heard and saw, I fell down to worship before the feet of the angel who showed me these things. Then he said to me, ‘See that you do not do that. For I am your fellow servant, and of your brethren the prophets, and of those who keep the words of this book. Worship God.'” | <urn:uuid:52bba64d-524e-4d48-936f-c9df18700c67> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hannahscupboard.com/st-angels/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572408.31/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816151008-20220816181008-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.966975 | 1,569 | 2.390625 | 2 |
Snippets: Creating a FOIA
This is a super simple shell script that takes boilerplate FOIA language and creates a markdown file that can be addressed to a particular agency.
You will still have to add the address, city, state and zip code of the agency, and the type of data being requested, but this is a step up from having a file that I copy and paste from.
The script takes a filename as an argument. That filename will have the date prepended to it so you can see at a glance which were sent out when.
Drop the script in your $HOME directory or in a scripts directory if you have one.
I created an alias in my .bashrc pointing to the script:
alias foia='cd ~/Programming/2kpcc/data-projects/1_foia_letters && ~/Programming/1personal/9shell-scripts/foia-generator.sh'
To run, I open a terminal and type foia name-of-data-being-requested
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The Midlands Physics Alliance (MPA) will bring together leading academics from all three institutions to undertake large scale research and the formation of a graduate school which will attract the best students from across the world and ‘hot house’ the next generation of scientists.
Over the next five years funding from the Higher Education Funding Council for England (HEFCE) will help to create six lectureships across the three universities and 20 taught postgraduate modules.
The aim of the graduate school is to attract more students and provide them with an educational experience on par with the top US universities. This ‘virtual’ school between the three institutions will have an emphasis on teaching using the Access Grid Technology (video conferencing), with physical meetings taking place to allow students in a given area to network with their colleagues in the region. The universities will share taught modules and their geographical proximity for physical meetings will facilitate a regular sequence of summer schools. The new postgraduate scholarships will provide full support for the very best PhD applicants from anywhere in the world.
Professor Peter Beton, Head of the School of Physics and Astronomy at The University of Nottingham, said: “This new initiative represents an exciting opportunity to raise the standard of education offered to our postgraduate physics students to a level which is comparable with the very best in the world.”
The funding recognises research excellence and the Alliance will see all three institutions work with other organisations, including Advantage WM to secure further funding.
Higher Education Minister, Bill Rammell said: “I welcome this excellent example of regional collaboration to support a strategically important subject like physics. If we are to compete on a global level we must continue to increase the demand for and supply of courses in key subjects like physics which is starting to become more popular.
“This Government is doing much to collaborate efforts between the funding council HEFCE, higher education institutions, schools, employers and the learned societies to stimulate student demand in subjects of strategic national importance. Recent data shows there is a higher than average increase in the number of students accepted to study subjects like maths, physics and chemistry.”
Professor David Eastwood, Chief Executive of HEFCE, said: “This alliance demonstrates the real advantages that collaboration can bring. It is a means of capitalizing on strengths and will pull together key players in the Midlands to create a centre for world class physics. It also carries forward HEFCE’s policy to support subjects of strategic national importance.”
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Breaking the optical bandwidth record of stable pulsed lasers
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I love playing around with blood bags (not with blood in don’t worry) at the best of times – and when you throw Santa Claus into the mix, as artist Lee Ki Seung has done, it gets even better! (via Nerdcore)
This is what the amazing Dezeen had to say on the matter:
Christmas often tend to be regarded with a possesion for people who are healthly, rich, and have enough. We otten neglect people who disabled, handicapped, sicked, don’t have enogh so far. Also, we are busy to enjoy our owns. Thus, I suggest a method of sharing through special blood packs. and people readily would get a pleasure and be warm as sharing thier own belonging.
“In generally, people tend to show a stiff motivation and response to donation, This phenomenon has caused passive dedication to society and human being lives. Naturally, it has weaken a bond between mankind as a I suggest new blood bag design and hope to inspire active blood donating boom or event across the world and dedicate to improve a quality of our lives. By donating warmness with pleasure, People would feel being a “Santa-claus” alike . Also, the socks shape welfare and sharing love.” | <urn:uuid:e43f8163-8662-427c-8d46-5c5b2751918c> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://cakeheadlovesevil.wordpress.com/2011/12/20/santa-claus-blood-pack/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719784.62/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00426-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966019 | 263 | 1.671875 | 2 |
ANISE SEED – Anise seed contains massive benefits for your birds. To name a few: it promotes digestive health, stimulates blood circulation, and eliminates congestion in the respiratory tract. Your feathered companion will be attracted to the sweet spicy aroma of anise seeds.
CEYLON CINNAMON – Ceylon Cinnamon is one of the most delicious and healthiest spices on the planet. It can lower blood sugar levels, reduce heart disease risk factors and has a plethora of other impressive health benefits.
PEARLED BARLEY – A cup of cooked barley offers the same amount of protein as a glass of milk along with niacin, thiamine, and potassium. A substance that inhibits cholesterol production in the blood has been traced to the nonfiberous portion of the grain.
UNSULPHURED APPLES – Unsulphured diced apples provide a nutritional boost of dietary fiber, vitamin C, potassium, and antioxidants. Your fid will enjoy foraging for tasty all natural diced apples. Our unsulphured dried apples contain no additives.
Basmati rice, organic hulled millet, cracked wheat, organic yellow split peas, organic pearled barley, organic couscous, organic raisins, dried carrot, organic rolled oats, organic rolled barley, dried apple, almond pieces, organic coconut, organic cinnamon, anise seed.
Stovetop: In a medium saucepan, bring 2-1/4 cups (530ml) of water and 1 cup (235ml) CinnaSpice Delight to a boil. Cover with tight-fitting lid, reduce heat to low and simmer for 15 minutes. Remove from heat and let it sit covered for 5 minutes letting it cool completely before serving.
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A new organisation devoted to the development and promotion of Ireland as a world-leading hub for sustainable and responsible businesses & investment, was launch on 7 June 2016.
Sustainable Nation Ireland has been established from the merging of several existing bodies to help transition Ireland to a low-carbon future – a mutli-billion-euro investment opportunity for innovation, learning and responsible business to flourish.
- New body to help Ireland achieve climate change targets
- Working with Bank of Ireland, KPMG, AIB and others
- Partnering some of Ireland’s most exciting startups
- Aim to have €250 billion of sustainable funds domiciled, managed and deployed into Irish enterprises by 2021
- Sustainability Skillsnet - sustainability leadership programmes and networks provide opportunities for enhancing practice and policy.
Forming part of the Irish Government’s IFS 2020 strategy, Sustainable Nation’s role is support and develop ideas, innovations and investment strategies to deal with trends such as population growth, urbanisation and rising consumption of scarce resources such as food, water and energy.
Sustainable Nation will help Ireland to play its role in reducing global carbon emissions, a key part of the last year’s climate change talks in Paris.
Also offered is a Skillsnet hub, providing both formal and informal opportunities for sustainability leaders to expand their professional network, learn from experts in the field and gain insight to new developments which will affect your company.
Sustainable Nation Ireland have pledged to back Irish enterprise leadership in sustainability, by helping mature companies, university incubators and start-ups to capture the opportunity across the range of activities including; responsible investment, enterprise development, climate finance, skills and resource efficiency.
Partners already include; AIB, Coillte, Bank of Ireland, ESB, KPMG, Mainstream Renewable Power, PwC, Sustainable Energy Authority of Ireland and Greencoat Capital.
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New on Fold3: WWII European Theater Army Records, a collection of administrative documents compiled by the U.S. Army's Historical Division, 1941 through 1946. These records, originally marked
secret and confidential, are now available on Fold3
Created within the European Theater of Operations (ETO) during World War II, these documents are revealing, and often include personal accounts, as in this report of evacuating Allied prisoners of war.
Names of soldiers and support personnel are on many of the records, but
nowhere more prolific than in the phonebooks for U.S. Forces in Paris.
A 1945 directory admonishes users to, "Never mention secret or confidential matters over the telephone," then lists the names, ranks, addresses, and phone numbers of Paris-based personnel.
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Addis Abeba, July 31/2021 – The Special Adviser of the United Nations (UN) Secretary-General on the Prevention of Genocide, Alice Wairimu Nderitu, in a statement discussing the deteriorating situation in Ethiiopia expressed alarm at the continuation of what she described as ‘ethnic violence’ in the country and the allegations of serious violations of international humanitarian and human rights laws in the Tigray region as well as in other parts of the country, including in Afar, Somali, Oromia and Amhara regions.
The Special Adviser disclosed that since the beginning of the conflict in the Tigray region, she continued to receive reports of serious human rights violations and abuses, including alleged sexual violence, recruitment of child soldiers, arbitrary arrests and ethnic based targeted killings committed by all parties, which have now escalated to other parts of the country. She also deplored the erosion of rule of law and echoed the recent call by the Human Rights Council for an immediate end to the violence and human rights violations in Tigray.
The Special Adviser also condemned inflammatory statements used by top political leaders and associated armed groups. The use of pejorative and dehumanizing language like “cancer”, “devil”, “weed” and “bud” to refer to the Tigray conflict is of utmost concern. Hate speech, together with its propagation through social media is part of a worrisome trend that contributes to further fuel ethnic tensions in the country. “Such dynamics in the current socio-politico context, characterised by deep-seated ethnic tensions across the country, constitute a dangerous trajectory in the direction of further pulling communities apart” the Special Adviser added.
“We have seen, in many places around the world, that the commission of atrocity crimes along identity lines has been preceded by hate speech and incitement to violence.” the Special Adviser said. She stressed that any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence is prohibited under international human rights law, as well as under Ethiopian law.
All Heads of State and Government at the 2005 World Summit acknowledged their responsibility to protect populations from genocide, war crimes, ethnic cleansing and crimes against humanity, as well as their incitement. “I urge the Government of Ethiopia to fulfil its responsibility and enhance efforts to prevent further escalation of violence and tensions among communities, which have reached an unprecedented level. This responsibility includes working towards a cessation of the ongoing hostilities” said the Special Adviser. “It is imperative that the rights of all populations of Ethiopia are respected, irrespective of ethnicity or political affiliation.” In this regard, she again reiterated her February 05, 2021 call on Ethiopian authorities to establish national mechanisms to address the root causes of ethnic violence, build national cohesion and promote reconciliation including by addressing hate speech.
The Special Adviser stressed that those found responsible for human rights violations must be held accountable. Failure to do so will only increase the risk of very serious international crimes that Ethiopia has an obligation to prevent under international law.
The Special Adviser also called on regional actors and the international community at large to strengthen efforts for the protection of vulnerable populations in the country. She particularly urged the African Union to provide the necessary assistance to end ethnic violence and enhance efforts to mitigate all possible risks of atrocity crimes. Dispatch | <urn:uuid:6965553c-364e-4b41-8c5e-5fa78b3faa80> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://addisstandard.com/news-un-special-advisor-on-genocide-expresses-alarm-over-the-worsening-situation-in-different-parts-of-ethiopia/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571246.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811073058-20220811103058-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.955545 | 685 | 2 | 2 |
Special skills Essay
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In addition, employers are certainly not just taking a look at our educational qualification to use us since an accountant although also considering our additional special abilities, which will be benefits for us in getting a job amongst few a huge selection of people.
We can develop each of our special skills from young age and use it during interviews. Firstly, we should include excellent connection skills. Marketing and sales communications skills are the most important skill we need to include because it is a need in a field of jobs.
A los angeles accountant cannot be good just at calculating amounts although accountancy involves amounts, sometimes we must explain all those numbers to clients with strong and clear voice. It will provide a trust to the clients in the way we clarify it. Furthermore, we can increase a friendly relationship with our fellow co-workers. This friendly romantic relationship will help all of us during tough times to resolve our complications. In in addition , we can socialize with unknown people with effective communication which will be useful in our upcoming.
Beverly G. Flaxington, says, When you are showing to a panel, an investor or possibly a prospect, you must know how to express complex data in a way persons can easily understand. The next exceptional skill a free account requires is usually computer skills. Nowadays, nearly all accountants will have to work with designed accounting software program, which will make their work faster and simpler. Likewise, we are able to able to handle this work precisely if we are good with computers and will quickly study new accounting software. Besides that, company skills are significant skill for an accountant los angeles.
Today, there are many group tasks involving an accountant so there is certainly necessary for an accountant los angeles to have organizational skills, which will bring success to the task. For example , in certain projects, accountancy firm need to routine the time and manage costs to finish the job magnificently. There are plenty of other special skills such as an abilities for math, strong synthetic skills, a thirst to get knowledge, a love for detail. Today employers choose or need at least a minimum a bachelor’s degree in accounting in order to employed as a staff accountant since accountant.
Minimal 3. five above CGPA is needed in order to be appointed because an accountant and with effective involving in activities. Companies demand someone to obtain for least one hundred and fifty credit hours before becoming as being a certified documentalist. In an accounting related field, a master’s degree is essential for certain bureaucratic positions and also special recognition.
The Relationship of Chartered Certified Accountancy firm (ACCA) is the largest and fastest-growing global professional accountancy body on the globe. The ACCA is a famous requirement for huge organizations. Licensure such as Chartered Institute of Management Accountancy firm (CIMA) and Institute of Chartered Accountancy firm in England and Wales (ICAEW) is also useful when you wasn’t able to pass the ACCA exam. Although fundamental skills are excellent enough to enter the accounting field, the higher the level education you have the better the chance for you boosting in an accounting career. Nowadays, employers search for accountants who have more than one 12 months working encounter.
This happens because employers assume that the accountant with experience will certainly understand the work better and finish the work faster and accurately. As a result, fresh participants like us will suffer to get task because were do not have virtually any experience eliminating our sensible training regarding 6 months. At times, if we are lucky or perhaps we know people who find themselves working accounting field will certainly an opportunity for people to get a job easily. The standard career routes for political scientists academe and law are significantly crowded.
Today’s graduates are only as very likely to consider job in the exclusive as in the public sector, nevertheless there are relatively few resources to help you whenever you make your selections. This guide is built to fill the gap and supplement other materials of a even more general character that will assist you inside your job search. It is geared towards political researchers (at the B. A., M. A., and Ph level.
D. levels) seeking a profession outside of an academic or teaching environment. This is not since careers from the latter type (or rules for that matter) are so busy that they are certainly not worth considering. The majority of universities and academic counsellors are familiar with these types of paths and may give helpful advice on how to adhere to them. The eye in non-academic careers is somewhat more recent, and so is less familiar.
Something you have probably asked yourself (and been asked by other folks! ) can be what am i able to do having a degree in political scientific research? . Politics science is definitely not an licensed profession therefore even the many capable politics scientist is usually not qualified to do virtually any particular work in the same sense since an professional or a medical doctor is. Without a doubt, the discipline as a whole provides traditionally recently been somewhat resistant to the idea of career training to get government service or the non-public sector. Your public supervision and public policy domains, which come closest to an explicit training style, prefer generally to remain in arm’s length from government authorities and businesses.
This does not imply, however , that you just lack certain skills that could be of use on the job market. Whilst it is probably best to think as broadly as is feasible about the backdrop and expertise that you can present to an employer, your educational training offers non-etheless focused on one self-discipline, and you should see that as a durability. This guide takes on that while politics science is usually not a one of a kind qualification for any one career, it does consult as a result of core issues of the self-discipline some positive aspects in seeking employment with government departments and agencies, public affairs departments in personal firms, fascination associations as well as for research positions.
A elderly official with all the government of Canada, for example , notes that political technology has presented me a large background in the parliamentary procedure and supplied me with certain writing and analysis skills. I actually am comfy when speaking with parliamentarians about issues of the day, most likely more so than those of my own colleagues who may have not got training in politics science. This is a profession guide, but it is not really careerist. You ought not pursue political science because political technology may help relatively to get you a career.
If you are a jr undergraduate, you should consider your academic options while carefully or if you career options. You will do better in a discipline that pursuits and difficulties you within a field selected only because you imagine it might provide future work. This guide tells you (and your mother and father! ) that political technology can lead to gratifying and interesting careers.
You should only select political research if you think that it will satisfy your intellectual demands. By the same token, realize that there are few non-academic jobs for professionnals in 18th century People from france materialism! If your inclinations already lie in a predominantly nonacademic career, improve the benefit of your academic schooling by taking programs in cognate disciplines such as economics, and get some understanding of public sector organization, managing, budgeting and policy-making. The work market these days is intensely competitive, plus the best careers will go towards the best-prepared and most-qualified.
1 word of caution. This is not a complete job search information. It has a particular audience in mind and a specific purpose as well: to drawing out the most most likely alternative professions for political scientists and offer some basic information about who to contact and how to get started. There is considerably more to finding a job than could be contained in a shorter guide like here. You should talk to a faculty member on likely career routes and chances.
As well, some universities present job or career counselling and positioning services. Many businesses and gov departments try to arrive directly on to campus occasionally to interview and work with, and you should keep the eyes open for incidents of this type (they be met with early while September, so begin examining at campus employment organisations around that time). You might also wish to talk to some of the next sources on employment market trends and job search techniques and skills. | <urn:uuid:a788ec0f-f95c-4147-8d9a-07036f6a92ce> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://mmsoftek.com/special-skills-essay/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.964447 | 1,695 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Biodiversity Museum Day Feb. 12 at UC Davis
Feb. 6, 2012
|Theme of the open house at the Bohart Museum on Feb. 12 is "Bug Lovin'. (Photo by Kathy Keatley Garvey)|
DAVIS--The University of California, Davis, will celebrate “Biodiversity Museum Day” on Sunday, Feb. 12 when four museums or centers that engage in education and research involving insects, vertebrates or plants will host open houses.
The Bohart Museum of Entomology, the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology and the Botanical Conservatory will be open to the public from 1 to 4 p.m., while the Center for Plant Diversity will be open from 2 to 4 p.m. These events are free and open to the public.
"This will be a fun day where people of all ages can visit UC Davis and check out a number of our research and teaching collections," said Tabatha Yang, education and outreach coordinator for the Bohart Museum and Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology. "Each collection is special and an important scientific resource. I think people will be amazed."
"This is a behind-the-scenes look at some top research collections," Yang said. "There will be staff and students on hand to answer questions and engage people. With Valentine's Day close by there will be some exhibits with a bent toward our love of the natural world, attracting a mate, and mating! But don't worry--it will be appropriate for all ages. For plants this means pollination and that ties back to insects and other animals like bats! "
The event is the first-ever on campus and may become an annual event. "The various collections have talked about doing a museum day," Yang said. "In early February, there is an annual Museum Day for the Sacramento area. This involves the zoo, the railroad museum and other attractions. All are free and people wander between the various places. Here at UC Davis, for the past two years the Bohart Museum has been hosting special weekend hours. This year it grew when the Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology decided to do quarterly special weekend hours on the same days.'
A few months ago, Yang approached Ernesto Sandoval of the Botanical Conservatory and asked about the possibility of weekend hours. Then all four collection centers committed. "Everyone was enthusiastic and that is how Biodiversity Museum Day was launched. Hopefully, this will become an annual event."
Theme of the Bohart Museum open house will be “Bug Lovin.’” The Bohart Museum, located at 1124 Academic Surge on California Drive, is home to more than seven million insect specimens; a live petting zoo (including Madagascar hissing cockroaches and walking sticks; and a gift shop. The director is Lynn Kimsey, professor of entomology at UC Davis. The museum is affiliated with the Department of Entomology.
The Museum of Wildlife and Fish Biology (MWFB) is a vertebrate museum dedicated to education, outreach, conservation, and research. It is located in 1394 Academic Surge, California Drive and is part of the Department of Wildlife, Fish and Conservation Biology. MWFB is managed by curator Andrew Engilis, Jr. and collections manager Irene Engilis.
The UC Davis Botanical Conservatory, directed by Ernesto Sandoval, is a 3,600 square-foot greenhouse complex.located north of Storer Hall on Kleiber Hall Drive. Its mission "to inspire, facilitate, promote and engage our visitors with an understanding and appreciation of plants, their diversity and the pivotal role they serve in the environments where they are found," Sandoval says. The Botanical Conservatory is part of the Plant Biology Section, Department of Plant Sciences. The conservatory includes more than 3,000 live specimens from 150 families. Among the specimens: the titan arum (Amorphophallus titanum); the blooms smell like rotten meat. The Botanical Conservatory maintains one of the largest collections of carnivorous plants in the world.
The Center for Plant Diversity, directed by Dan Potter of Plant Sciences, is located in 1026 Sciences Laboratory Building, near Briggs and Storer halls. Part of the Department of Plant Sciences, it houses the J.M. Tucker and Beecher Crampton Herbaria. "We are going to have plant pressing and mounting demonstrations as well as tours," said curator Ellen Dean.
Feb. 12 also marks the birthday anniversary of naturalist Charles Darwin (1809-1882). "We won't have a birthday cake, but Darwin was inspired by exploring and collecting plants and animals from all over the world," Yang noted. "This connection to nature and curiosity is what fueled Darwin's research. Our collections can inspire that same sort of curiosity and questioning.”
"The various UC Davis collections continue to grow because of the research of past and present scientists," she said, adding "The collections are here to inspire the next generation of scientists and as a resource to understand our changing world. Our tribute to Darwin is simply to encourage people to spend time outside exploring and getting to know the plants and animals all around us."
--Kathy Keatley Garvey
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Snakes do not just kill on instinct, but they instead monitor the condition of their victims right until the very end.
The tightness and duration of a constricting snake’s death squeeze are timed to perfection, matching the heartbeat and weakening state of the snake’s unfortunate prey, according to a study published in the latest Royal Society Biology Letters.
The findings reveal that snakes are far more intelligent than previously thought, capable of complex functions typically reserved for “higher” vertebrates. They are also master hunters, ready to kill at any given moment.
“A snake first detects its prey with visual and chemosensory means,” lead author Scott Boback, an assistant professor of biology at Dickinson College, told Discovery News. “In addition to these, Boas also have heat sensitive neurons located beneath their lip scales. These neurons can sense temperature differences in their environment, such as an endothermic prey animal.”
“They can kill their prey through a variety of means, including constriction, envenomation or a combination of both,” Boback added.
For the study, Boback and his colleagues caught 16 wild Boas, raising them in a temperature-controlled lab on a diet of dead chicks and rats. Some rat cadavers were outfitted with a simulated heart that permitted the researchers to control how it pumped.
The scientists next dangled the warmed, outfitted rats tantalizingly over the snakes. As the snakes went into their death grip, Boback and his team analyzed the pressure generated by the snakes. The snakes responded to the beating heart, constricting longer and with greater total pressure until the heartbeat ceased.
This video shows a boa striking and constricting during a kill.
Snakes naïve to live prey also responded to the simulated heart, suggesting that the behavior is partly innate. But experienced snake hunters perfectly timed their kills to the heartbeats.
“That suggests to us that snakes can learn how to change their constriction duration and pressure to effectively kill their prey,” Boback said.
He also explained that since snakes use a variety of cues to monitor the state of their victims, they would not waste their time squeezing an animal that does not die after a certain period of time. During the study, if the researchers kept the simulated heartbeat in the rat cadaver going, the snake did eventually release the rodent.
The scientists suspect that snakes evolved their acute detection abilities to deal with tricky prey. Iguanas, for example, can remain submerged in water for up to 4.5 hours, slowing their heart rate and oxygen needs. A variety of lizards, snakes and crocodilians can also survive anoxia for up to 1.5 hours.
It can therefore prove difficult to confirm the death of certain prey based on cessation of muscular or lung movement. Cardiovascular function turns out to be a more reliable cue.
Prior research suggests that many snakes pay attention to the heartbeats of others, with the ability being widespread in constricting species.
Warren Booth, an integrative molecular ecologist at North Carolina State University, informed Discovery News of another Boa snake skill: Females can give birth as mate-less virgins.
Booth said genetic confirmation of virgin birthing, technically known as parthenogenesis, has been confirmed in “boa constrictors, rainbow boas, various shark species, Komodo dragons, and domestic turkeys, to name a few.”
Boback and his colleagues suspect many such snake abilities evolved early on in the snake lineage, perhaps going back to the Late Cretaceous.
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