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“High Quality Tea Comes From The Himalayas”
With its unique geography, topography and climate, Nepal has the most conductive environment for tea cultivation. High altitude, diverse agro-ecology, biodiversity, natural resources, virgin organic soil and mineral water which are naturally gifted to Nepal enable us to cultivate high-quality tea leaves.
AWARD – BRANDING
Nepal’s tea is unique in terms of texture, aroma and taste. Tea lovers, once they taste the tea from Nepal, are fond of Nepali teas. Nepal’s tea production quantity is relatively lesser, hence it is lesser known across the globe.
Jhapa, Ilam, Panchthar, Dhankuta, Terhathum are the major tea producing regions in Nepal. Of late, with the growing demand of Nepali tea home and abroad, the tea production has been extended to the new regions in the country including Kaski, Dolakha, Kavre, Sindhupalchok, Bhojpur, Solukhumbu and Nuwakot.
Currently, Nepal produces approximately 16.29 million kilograms of tea per year in an area of 16,718 hectares. This is only 0.4% of the total world tea output. Yet, the Nepali tea is in high demand across the globe. The teas from Nepal are mainly exported to India, Pakistan, Australia, Germany, France, Poland, the Netherlands, Japan, Belgium and the United States of America.
WORKING WITH LOCAL TEA FARMERS
Everest Organic Home is working with local farmers and those from marginalized communities in the tea production. Basically, we work on maintaining a value chain to add values to the labor of the local farmers. However, their labor is not much valued since there is a vulnerable value chain linking with production.
More than 100,000 farmers and others are directly and indirectly involved in tea farming. Nepal’s tea industry relies on more than 80 percent of tea products coming from small scale farmers. It is a source of livelihood for the farmers and local people. Tea production requires intensive labour because picking tea leaves is year-round work. The tea buds are picked routinely otherwise they turn into leaves within a few days. The tea buds after they are picked need to be processed within 24 hours. More than 70 percent of tea leaves pickers are women.
Thanks to the USAID, DANIDA and few other donors for their capacity building training to the local farmers in producing organic and high quality teas. Much work is still required to maintain the value chain to benefit the locals. However, there is a vulnerable link in the value chain. Nepal’s tea industry has not been able to penetrate the global market in a significant way.
We do not need aid now but what we require now is the trade. Everest Organic Home chips in fulfilling the gap and contribute with the promotion and trade worldwide. Your support in our mission adds to the best value.
Our mission is to promote Nepal’s authentic tea worldwide and reach out to the tea lovers with our high-quality products.
BENEFITS OF NEPALI TEA
Tea contains ECGC (antioxidants) that provides protective antioxidants action against harmful free radicals in the human body.
The level of ECGC is higher in White, Green and Oolong Teas.
Pure tea controls high Blood pressure.
Lowers Blood Sugar Level.
Helps in Weight Loss.(Oolong Tea)
Deters Food poisoning.
Prevents Skin diseases.
Helps stop cavities and tooth decays.
Lowers insulin and cortisol to slow aging.
Guards inflammation of the liver
Stops fat build up by cutting off glucose movement in fat cells.
Varieties of teas available with Everest Organic Home
Teas at Everest Organic Home are premium and selective in nature based on the high demand by tea lovers around the world. We produce and process teas in a limited quantity to meet and maintain high end quality.
We have multiple varieties of tea with different texture, aroma and taste. We have categorized our tea into 8 different types – Black tea, white tea, green tea, milk tea, oolong tea, herbal tea, flavour tea and special tea.
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YMEN’s comprehensive programs offer a wide range of educational support, mentoring from positive role models, spiritual and emotional guidance, vocational classes in the arts, career-based and entrepreneurial education, sports and recreational activities, family supportive services, and service learning to more than 300 students annually.
YMEN’s 30 programs seek to build layers of support that ensures students will:
Have excellent attendance in school and in after-school programs
Graduate from high school and college
Participate in levels of leadership within the community
Have the ability to make a positive contribution in a diverse world
View themselves and others as valuable to God and society
Central to our programs is our mission: "To prepare young men and women in North Lawndale for leadership by helping them grow in their faith and character, develop a love for learning, and use their talents to serve the community and strengthen our families."
In 2018, the Young Men’s educational Network launched Women of YMEN now called DELTA (Daughters Equipped to Lead Through Action), a leadership initiative for the young women of YMEN. DELTA is a place where each and every young woman gets an opportunity to break the cycle and grow in an environment where they are pushed to their individual degree of excellence. DELTA focuses on enriching relationships with other women, growing in faith and character and servant leadership.
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4 edition of Areas of critical state concern found in the catalog.
by Maryland Dept. of State Planning in [Baltimore, Md.] (301 W. Preston St., Baltimore 21201)
Written in English
|Series||Department of State Planning publication ;, 81-9|
|Contributions||Maryland. Dept. of State Planning.|
|LC Classifications||HT393.M37 A73|
|The Physical Object|
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Areas of Critical State Concern: Florida's Experience With the Green Swamp Article (PDF Available) in Southern Journal of Agricultural Economics 13(02) February with 49 Reads. florida keys area of critical state concern coordinated agency review: 9j local government comprehensive planning assistance program () 9j regulations for the city of key west area of critical state concern: 9j safe neighborhoods trust fund planning grant: 9j
The resulting Critical Area Maps will provide a uniform, consistent, and seamless map product that can be easily updated and accessed by the public. Public Information Meetings. The Critical Area Commission along with the Town of North East held a public information meeting on Wednesday, J SB (Flores) and HB (Rashcein) provides that a local government entity located within an area of critical state concern shall split with the state any award of compensation, costs, attorney fees and prejudgment interest awarded to a property owner if the court has found liability against the state and the local government.
The Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) datalayers provide digital polygon and line boundaries for areas that have been designated ACECs by the Secretary of Energy and Environmental Affairs (EEA). ACECs are places in Massachusetts that receive special recognition because of the quality, uniqueness and significance of their natural and cultural resources. area as an area of critical state concern. In mak- by low hills upon which citrus is grown, sur- ing its recommendation, the Division of State rounded by flatland pastures and wetlands.
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(1)(a) The state land planning agency may from time to time recommend to the Administration Commission specific areas of critical state concern. In its recommendation, the agency shall include recommendations with respect to the purchase of lands situated within the boundaries of the proposed area as environmentally endangered lands and outdoor recreation.
The Areas of Critical State Concern Program provides planning and regulatory oversight for areas containing natural resources of statewide significance.
Find maps and information about the areas designated as Areas of Critical State Areas of critical state concern book, read about the Florida Keys Hurricane Evacuation Workshops and review workshop materials.
Areas of Critical Environmental Concern or ACEC designations highlight areas where special management attention is needed to protect important historical, cultural, and scenic values, or fish and wildlife or other natural resources.
ACECs can also be designated to protect human life and safety from natural hazards. Established by the Florida Environmental Land and Water Management Act ofand described in Chapter of the Florida Statutes, the Area of Critical State Concern designation denotes areas that contain natural resources of regional or statewide importance, areas that are, or will be, significantly affected by major public facilities, or areas of major development potential.
Successful implementation of A Better Maryland will depend on the close coordination of state agencies with local governments. To facilitate this, Planning has identified areas of critical state concern that local jurisdictions may consider in their comprehensive / master planning and implementation of those plans.
The Areas of Critical State Concern (ACSC) Program was created by the Florida Environmental Land and Water Management Act of The program is intended to protect resources and public facilities of major statewide significance, within designated geographic areas, from uncontrolled development that.
State Facilities. Census Census Census Coastal and Marine Features. Conservation / Recreation. Cultural Resources. Environmental Monitoring (testing/monitoring sites) Areas of Critical Environmental Concern ACECs Boundaries. Areas of Critical Environmental Concern ACECs.
Detailed Features. Legend. (c) After receipt of the state land planning agency report and recommendation, the Administration Commission shall determine whether the requirements have been fulfilled and may remove the designation of the Florida Keys as an area of critical state concern.
If the commission removes the designation, it shall initiate rulemaking to repeal any rules relating to such designation.
For the reasons noted, the Green Swamp is considered an important hydrological area second only to that of the Everglades. Additional Information. Green Swamp Area of Critical State Concern Map; Rule ChapterFlorida Administrative Code - Boundary and Principles for Guiding Development for the Green Swamp Area of Critical State Concern.
Amendments that would change land uses within an Area of Critical State Concern, create a Rural Land Stewardship Area or sector plan, create a DRI or update a comprehensive plan based upon an Evaluation and Appraisal Report, also referred to as EAR, are required to use the State Coordinated Review process.
In a coordinated review, DEP must. Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACECs), defined in the Federal Land Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), represent areas within the public lands where special management attention is required to protect or to prevent irreparable damage to any of the following categories: Important historic, cultural, or scenic values Fish and wildlife resources Other natural.
The Beijing Platform for Action flagged 12 key areas where urgent action was needed to ensure greater equality and opportunities for women and men, girls and boys. It also laid out concrete ways for countries to bring about change.
UN Women works with governments and partners to ensure such change is real for women and girls around the world. (1) As used in this section, “Metolius Area of Critical State Concern” means the areas identified as Area 1 and Area 2 in the management plan recommended by the Land Conservation and Development Commission.
(1)(a) The state land planning agency may from time to time recommend to the Administration Commission specific areas of critical state concern. In its recommendation, the agency shall include recommendations with respect to the purchase of lands situated within the boundaries of the proposed area as environmentally endangered lands and outdoor recreation lands under.
Metolius Area of Critical State Concern (1) The Legal Effect of the Management Plan. This section of the Metolius Area of Critical State Concern contains the operative provisions of the designation. The earlier sections are intended only as background for.
Areas of Critical State Concern. Rookery Bay National Estuarine Research Reserve. The Florida Department of Environmental Protection is the state’s lead agency for environmental management and stewardship – protecting our air, water and land.
The vision of the Florida Department of Environmental Protection is to create strong community. YSIS No. 5: ISSUES AND RECOMMENDATIONS-STATE CRITICAL AREAS PROGRAMS 1 (). Historical resources were an important consideration in the designation of the Florida Keys as an area of critical state concern.
See note and accompanying text infra. Preservation of natural resources was the motivating factor in the New York. SDCI Inspections, Closures, and Service Updates. On Friday, June 5, King County received approval from the State Department of Health to move into a Phase 2 Restart for ALL private construction activities that are low-risk and adhere to strict COVID 19 Job site City of Seattle has issued requirements for construction projects seeking inspections.
Areas Of Concern synonyms. Top synonyms for areas of concern (other words for areas of concern) are cause for concern, area of concern and areas of interest. Areas of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) is a conservation ecology program in the Western United States, managed by the Bureau of Land Management (BLM).
The ACEC program was conceived in the Federal Lands Policy and Management Act (FLPMA), which established the first conservation ecology mandate for the BLM. Hotel Unit Allocation Program for the Florida Keys and City of Key West Areas of Critical State Concern: LAND PLANNING REGULATIONS FOR THE FLORIDA KEYS AREA OF CRITICAL STATE CONCERN - CITY OF MARATHON: LAND PLANNING REGULATIONS FOR THE FLORIDA KEYS AREA OF CRITICAL STATE CONCERN.
The Massachusetts Area of Critical Environmental Concern (ACEC) Program is a list of state-designated places within the Commonwealth that receive special attention due to their natural and cultural resources.
The program was established in and includes a list of thirty ACECs covering overacres in seventy six communities throughout the state.Local agencies may designate specific geographic areas within their boundaries as "Critical Environmental Areas" (CEAs).
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A peer-reviewed article of this Preprint also exists.
This is a very relevant study to all field ecologists, although the conclusions are quite scary given how we normally design our field surveys... definitively this is something we need to think more about! I have really enjoyed reading the manuscript. It is nicely presented, although I think some bits would benefit from some clarification, mostly the parts relating to the description of the study survey and definitions of study units (see my detailed comments below). In all, this is a timely contribution that calls for rigour when designing field experiments, which is especially important when trying to draw conclusions from studies conducted at different sites. I outline a few comments below that I hope will be helpful to the authors.
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Abstract L8. Applied to do what?
L16: “by great complexity”?
L28: maybe could add more details here – why is it particularly relevant to community ecology?
L74: I find this a bit confusing – but maybe it is just a matter of wording. Your research question is if both approaches to define sampling units lead to the same conclusions when measuring plant community characteristics in mesic and snowbed habitats. Then, you defined sampling units by one or other approach, and measured different parameters of those communities using the same methods. Right?
L121: maybe it would be helpful if in figure 1 you could somehow show this hierarchy, maybe adding labels for the terms you use in the text: sampling region > herding districts > landscape areas > sampling units > habitats (> transects > plots).
L126: what do you mean exactly by ‘landscape areas’? each of those 2x2 km pixels? ‘Sampling units’ are then the 25x25 m pixels within the landscape areas, right?
L138: but the two approaches (formal and subjective) were applied to define the habitats, not the sampling units (that were defined according to the criteria presented in the previous paragraph)…? Also, habitats are defined within each sampling unit – how do you use topographic criteria in GIS if your pixel size is 25x25 m? (actually what you state in L145).
L149: should it be ‘habitat patch’ instead of ‘sampling unit’ here? Did the two habitats have to occur within the same ‘sampling unit’?
L155: was this ‘expert knowledge’ always come from the same observer(s)? When were the assessments conducted? (would this affect selection if plants were in different phenological state?)
L171: how did you account for different sampling effort?
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Chapter LVI.—Teaching of Christ.
“And to those who think that He is not good, as the Scriptures say, He said, From which of you shall his son ask bread, and he will give him a stone; or shall ask a fish, and he will give him a serpent? If ye then, being evil, know to give good gifts to your children, how much more shall your heavenly Father give good things to those who ask Him, and to those who do His will! 1013 But to those who affirmed that He was in the temple, He said, Swear not by heaven, for it is Gods throne; nor by the earth, for it is the footstool of His feet. 1014 And to those who supposed that God is pleased with sacrifices, He said, God wishes mercy, and not sacrifices 1015 —the knowledge of Himself, and not holocausts.
Matt. vii. 9-11.248:1014
Matt. 5:34, 35.248:1015
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Learn a foreign language with the Nuns using virtual reality
Learning a foreign language using virtual reality has recently become possible at Language Institute Regina Coeli, also known as ‘The Nuns of Vught’. Regina Coeli is the first language institute to make use of virtual reality (VR) in language training to develop students’ communication skills.
VR is extremely well-suited for practicing presentations, job interviews, pitches and the like. With a VR headset on, a student can step into a real-life situation with an audience that responds and even asks questions. Students who have used VR to prepare for these types of situations have shared that the real-life situation has been a great deal easier afterwards.
Virtually travelling to another country
It is also possible to virtually leave our language institute in Vught and journey to other places in the world. This way, a student can use VR to realistically order an espresso in an Italian bar or pay at a Spanish kiosk.
Active grammar practice
A third VR application that Regina Coeli has developed is a grammar exercise. This exercise turns abstract grammar into something tangible which students can actively use.
“Because of the number of stimuli a student gets in the VR environment, he automatically breaks through his fear of speaking, as it were,” says Katharina Stoll, German language trainer and VR Project Manager at Regina Coeli. "We’ve already seen many students who suddenly start talking with their VR headsets on, despite the fact that they were nervous about that prior to using VR.”
Virtual reality is well-suited to private lessons. The language trainer sits in the same room as the student and can guide, ask and correct the student, while the student feels he is in a different place altogether.
Immediate feedback from language trainers
A group of Regina Coeli language trainers started experimenting with the use of VR in language training some time ago, although they soon realised that they could not lean on existing VR applications for learning foreign languages. The conclusion was that blending one-to-one coaching from a language trainer with VR is ideal because of the direct feedback that a language trainer can give on the student’s language use.
Stoll: “We’ve discovered that VR can make a solid contribution to learning provided it fits the learning objectives of the student. The applications we use are suitable for almost every one of our learners.”
VR not a goal in itself
The use of VR at Regina Coeli has been carefully considered. “For us, the use of new applications is not a goal in itself," says Esther van Berkel, Director of Studies at Regina Coeli. "We’re focused on finding opportunities to accelerate the learning of foreign languages. This has definitely been the case when it comes to VR. That’s why we’re also continuing to develop all kinds of applications for VR. We have a broad spectrum of students who have wide-ranging learning goals, and we all want to help them make as much progress as possible.”
The use of VR offers a colourful palette of opportunities. In addition to practicing conversations and presentations and virtually travelling to other countries, a student can also bring his own VR material to practice with.
Give a guided tour of your company using VR
“More and more organisations are developing content to provide VR guided tours or 360o photographs, which we can use when students are with us. Give a guided tour of your company in German or French! Most of our students come for business training and want to learn to communicate in a foreign language for their specific business needs. VR can make that all the more life-like," says Katharina Stoll.
Do you want to learn a language using VR?
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New Word-Analysis, or School Etymology of English Derivative Words with Practical Exercises in Spelling, Analyzing, Defining, Synonyms, and the Use of Words by William Swinton is a free download written in 1879 that covers word roots.
The exercises covered include:
- Latin prefixes.
- Latin suffices.
- Latin derivatives.
- Greek prefixes.
- Greek roots and derivatives.
- Anglo-Saxon roots and derivatives.
- Other miscellaneous derivatives.
Part I covers definitions and rules.
The information is broken into small, easily digested segments that make it ideal for creating a Word Roots notebook.
Writing has a way of committing things to our memories. Secondly, a Word Root notebook will become a valuable source of reference!
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A hunger ariseth out of my beauty: I should like to injure those I illumine; I should like to rob those I have gifted:--thus do I hunger for wickedness.
Withdrawing my hand when another hand already stretcheth out to it; hesitating like the cascade, which hesitateth even in its leap:--thus do I hunger for wickedness!
That's what anyone would ask when told that another sort of manna, come down from heaven, would satisfy our hunger for good.
Of this infinite set, we can dwell on three: our hunger for consolation, understanding, and love.
We are taken aback for a moment until we realize that indeed our hunger for consolation is fed by careful words and silent presences that speak to the desolation in our soul.
Average hunger for
2016 was 13.3 percent, almost unchanged from 2015's 13.4 percent, although lowest since 2004's average of 11.8 percent.
The number of Filipino families who said they have experienced involuntary hunger for
lack of anything to eat increased to 3.5 million households in the third quarter, the latest Social Weather Stations (SWS) survey results showed.
“It is a great feeling that Estuate and its members are able to participate in the fight against hunger for
a second year in a row,” says Prakash Balebail, founder and CEO of Estuate, Inc, “and we are doing our small part in making sure no one goes hungry.”
Is it a metaphysical desire (the hunger for
recognition) or a biological need (the hunger for
This author opens his book on hunger with some dispiriting facts: twenty-four thousand people die of hunger or hunger-related diseases every day (one every 3.6 seconds); eight hundred twenty thousand lack adequate food (one in eight worldwide); and on September 11, 2001, there were twelve dead from hunger for
every victim in New York (1).
Before all else then, the fasting we do in Lent is about this love for the poor and thus the hunger for justice to be done.
But that kind of charity isn't the Lenten Christian's hunger for justice.
Thanks to Feeding Minds Fighting Hunger for
this list of ideas.
When I saw you handing out the hosts, those pieces of white bread, I went to communion just out of hunger for
that little bit of bread.
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Achel beer loses Trappist designation
Achel beer, produced in the Limburg abbey of the same name, is no longer a Trappist beer. That is because the only actual monk still living in the monastery has moved out.
Trappist is a protected label, and a beer can only be designated as such if it is produced by Trappist monks in a monastery. The monastery must also re-invest any profits earned back into the order or into religious or charitable works.
Even one monk living in the monastery and actively working on the production of the beer is enough, but the lone monk still at Achelse Kluis in Limburg has moved to the Westmalle monastery in Antwerp province. Westmalle also produces a Trappist beer.
So while Achel beer isn’t going anywhere, it can no longer be called a Trappist product. Nothing will change about the beer, however, the production of which is in fact being overseen by the monks in Westmalle.
“So feel free to still call it a Trappist,” brother Nathanaël of Westmalle abbey told Radio 1. “We just can’t use the label anymore because there is no longer a community living in Achel.”
This brings Belgium’s number of Trappist breweries down to five: Westvleteren, Westmalle, Rochefort, Orval and Chimay. There are eight other Trappist breweries outside of Belgium. The International Trappist Association, based in Vleteren where Westvleteren is produced, maintains the strict quality control of the label. | <urn:uuid:dd2841c0-1a23-499c-99bb-acff46c88488> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.thebulletin.be/achel-beer-loses-trappist-designation | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573399.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818185216-20220818215216-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.927443 | 365 | 1.867188 | 2 |
NASA and Aerojet Rocketdyne recently finished testing a rocket engine injector made through additive manufacturing, or 3-D printing.
This space technology demonstration may lead to more efficient manufacturing of rocket engines, saving American companies time and money. The tests were conducted at NASA's Glenn Research Center in Cleveland.
The series of tests demonstrated the ability to design, manufacture and test a critical rocket engine component using selective laser melting manufacturing technology -- a method that employs high-powered laser beams to melt and fuse fine metallic powders into three dimensional structures.
"NASA recognizes that on Earth and potentially in space, additive manufacturing can be game-changing for new mission opportunities, significantly reducing production time and cost by 'printing' tools, engine parts or even entire spacecraft," said Michael Gazarik, NASA's associate administrator for space technology in Washington. "3-D manufacturing offers opportunities to optimize the fit, form and delivery systems of materials that will enable our space missions while directly benefiting American businesses here on Earth."
This type of injector manufactured with traditional processes would take more than a year to make, but with these new processes it can be produced in less than four months, with a 70 percent reduction in cost.
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Congress returns this week with President Biden’s social spending and climate package hanging by a thread after Sen. Joe Manchin threw the effort into chaos last month.
How the Senate responds to the West Virginia Democrat’s blockade will be the question of the year as more than $1.7 trillion — including a record $555 billion for climate-inspired initiatives — hangs in the balance.
Democrats have vowed to return to negotiations following Manchin’s public proclamation that he would oppose the reconciliation package as currently constructed.
“Let’s go back to the table, let’s get this done, it is too important for us,” Rep. Pramila Jayapal (D-Wash.), chair of the Congressional Progressive Caucus, said on MSNBC’s "Sunday Show" with Jonathan Capehart.
Last month, a frustrated Jayapal called on the president to use his executive powers to secure policies on climate and other priorities, but there has been a growing consensus around salvaging "Build Back Better."
Senate Democrats intend to force a vote on the package this month to put lawmakers on record, Majority Leader Chuck Schumer (D-N.Y.) announced in late December (Greenwire, Dec. 22, 2021).
That vote is expected to fail, but may serve as the catalyst for renewed efforts on the package. Over the holiday break, multiple Democrats said they remained confident that the bill would pass, though in reduced form.
Jayapal said yesterday her goal was to dial back the bill to the framework negotiated over the summer by multiple players, including Manchin.
“What we hope now, and what I know the president is working on with Sen. Manchin, is to go back to the original framework that he committed to,” she said.
Jayapal argued that only a few provisions, “maybe 10 percent” of the House-passed bill, H.R. 5376, were things he hadn’t agreed to.
“He also agreed to the provisions around climate change,” she said. “Those were already negotiated from what we had originally wanted,” but she said she still considered them “a significant investment on really taking on climate and reducing carbon emissions.”
Here’s a breakdown of four scenarios for how Congress could proceed:
1. Go small
Schumer and House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) both made clear late last year that efforts to pass the "Build Back Better Act" would continue into 2022. That might very well mean negotiating a smaller package.
Democratic leaders and the White House have already twice scaled back their ambitions: from $6 trillion to $3.5 trillion, then down to $1.7 trillion. While liberals groused about the myriad concessions that had to be made to accommodate smaller price tags, Senate Budget Chair Bernie Sanders (I-Vt.) and Jayapal were ultimately happy to tout the significant policy gains that would be achieved in the compromise bills.
If top negotiators are able to work with Manchin on a bill closer to his original $1.5 trillion ballpark, there’s a not impossible scenario in which Sanders, Jayapal and their allies would continue to stand by that even smaller bill for the good of the party, boasting it would still make historic investments in climate and social welfare spending.
Environmental advocates, too, would likely be hard-pressed to publicly complain about legislation that would still spend a record number of dollars fighting the climate crisis, even if the climate portion of the overall reconciliation bill is whittled below the current $550 billion mark.
At the same time, making cuts to the existing legislation is going to be a grueling, painful process, and there’s no guarantee lawmakers will be able to find satisfactory compromises in a 50-50 Senate and a House in which Democrats only enjoy their majority by a three-vote margin.
In the climate space, the first cuts could go to programs addressing natural solutions to combat climate change, like funding for coastal resiliency and wildfire mitigation on public lands.
Interior Department initiatives were originally going to be excluded entirely from the reconciliation bill until lawmakers and advocates fought to have that funding reinstated, a sign that the chief negotiators consider these line items expendable when stacked up against programs that would directly reduce emissions.
A final showdown could also take place around the imposition of a methane fee, which Manchin opposes as a punitive “natural gas tax” during a period of high inflation he has blamed for his opposition to advancing the larger, more expensive bill (E&E Daily, Dec. 21, 2021).
2. No deal
Even for Democrats vowing to return to negotiations in the new year, Manchin’s opposition may be too much to overcome.
That could mean no deal at all ahead of the 2022 midterm elections, and the bill’s demise. Most prognosticators see Democrats losing seats in the House in November, imperiling their majority there. The Senate is likewise considered in danger for the party.
Outside the climate portions of the package, Manchin has still not consented to allowing an expansion of the child tax credit. Excluding that provision is considered a dealbreaker for many Democrats. And even though Jayapal discussed compromise yesterday, progressives have also been cool to keep shrinking the bill.
Manchin has been upfront about his concerns about the package, especially as it relates to inflation and the national debt. Those concerns are unlikely to ease in the first weeks of 2022, which could further entrench the Energy and Natural Resources Committee chair.
Bad blood between Manchin and White House staff may also prove problematic. Manchin allies have blamed leaks from the White House and its decision to blame him for the bill’s delay as souring the senator to the entire budget reconciliation effort. Burnt bridges need to be repaired.
Manchin was direct in his criticism of "Build Back Better" and deployed GOP talking points. The White House responded by accusing the senator of breaking his word. But both sides seem to have cooled that heated rhetoric after Manchin and Biden talked via phone before Christmas, according to POLITICO.
Still, Manchin’s statement of opposition specifically targeted the climate portion of the bill as a key hurdle to his support. As part of that statement, he cited a fear that the bill’s provisions could disrupt grid reliability.
“If enacted, the bill will also risk the reliability of our electric grid and increase our dependence on foreign supply chains," he said. "The energy transition my colleagues seek is already well underway in the United States of America."
Manchin already killed a key policy to address climate change, the Clean Electricity Performance Program, and he has publicly raised doubts about electric vehicle tax credits and charging grants.
Even if the White House can get Manchin on board again, Sen. Kyrsten Sinema (D-Ariz.) also remains a wild card. And some of Manchin’s goals, including raising taxes on the rich, have encountered Sinema’s veto. The right balance could prove difficult to find.
3. Climate breakout
Some Democrats have suggested salvaging the situation by breaking the "Build Back Better Act" into chunks. That would mean separating the $555 billion in climate spending from the rest of the package and passing it individually.
Sen. Ed Markey (D-Mass.) suggested the strategy just hours after Manchin announced his opposition to the full legislation earlier this month.
In theory, that has some appeal. While Manchin’s objections to certain climate provisions sent a shudder through the green advocacy community, most observers think he would be amenable to a climate bill with some tweaks to satisfy his concerns.
Manchin had been negotiating with Environment and Public Works Chair Tom Carper (D-Del.) on the bill’s methane fee, but that matter was not seen as a hurdle to the clean energy tax credit expansions that make up the bulk of the climate spending.
But for now, there appears to be little appetite among Democrats for a breakaway package. For one, it seems impossible the party could get enough Republicans to join them in the effort.
Democrats could have multiple opportunities this year to pass legislation through budget reconciliation, the process they are using to skirt the Senate filibuster, meaning they could do more than one package on a party-line vote.
But process is time consuming, and Manchin has said repeatedly that he agreed to move forward with the current budget reconciliation effort to undo part of the Republicans’ tax reform law. He has also been reluctant to set policy along party lines.
"In the last two years, as Chairman of the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee and with bipartisan support, we have invested billions of dollars into clean energy technologies so we can continue to lead the world in reducing emissions through innovation," Manchin said in his December statement.
4. Spending bills
If climate legislation can’t move via the reconciliation package, lawmakers are likely to rely on the annual spending bills to bulk up agencies’ work on Democratic energy and environmental priorities.
Congress is currently working on an omnibus spending package for fiscal 2022, with a goal of finishing by Feb. 18 when current stopgap funding expires.
Under proposed fiscal 2022 spending bills, lawmakers are already eyeing record investments in clean energy research at the Energy Department, major increases in climate work across the government, and adding 1,000 workers at both EPA and Interior Department.
While the spending bills are not on the scale of the hundreds of billions of spending proposed in the "Build Back Better" legislation for climate, they could provide new money for environmental justice programs, a Civilian Climate Corps and resiliency.
Democrats and Republicans, however, have been unable to agree on overall spending levels. Democrats are pressing for record discretionary spending levels for domestic agencies and only modest increases for national security agencies. Republicans say both need to be raised equally.
After weeks of little negotiation, top appropriators in mid-December began weekly meetings on the omnibus — a sign they are eager to find a deal. But it remains to be seen if in a polarized Congress compromise is possible.
“I hope it will help advance the process,” Senate Appropriations Chair Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) said. "The alternative to completing the appropriations process is a full-year continuing resolution, which does not serve the American people and locks in outdated spending priorities.”
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Facebook will begin removing false claims about COVID-19 vaccines from its social media platform, the company said Thursday, as part of an ongoing campaign to combat the spread of misinformation about them.
“This is another way that we are applying our policy to remove misinformation about the virus that could lead to imminent physical harm,” Facebook said in a blog post.
The social media giant said it will begin removing information about the vaccines that has been discredited by public health experts in the coming weeks.
The decision, which also applies to Instagram, comes as the first COVID-19 vaccines are about to become available.
Britain may start vaccinations within days after becoming the first country to give emergency authorization for a vaccine developed by U.S. drugmaker Pfizer and Germany’s BioNTech.
Facebook has taken similar steps in recent months. The company removed 12 million posts with coronavirus misinformation from March to October, including a video post from President Donald Trump declaring that children are “virtually immune” to the coronavirus.
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International Symposium on Microarchitecture (Micro), Dec 2009.
Ability to replay a program's execution on a multi-processor system
can significantly help parallel programming. To replay a
shared-memory multi-threaded program, existing solutions record the
program input (I/O, DMA, etc.) and the shared-memory
dependencies between threads. Prior processor based record-and-replay
solutions are efficient, but they require non-trivial modifications to
the coherency protocol and the memory sub-system for recording the
In this paper, we propose a processor-based record-and-replay solution that does not require detecting and logging shared-memory dependencies to enable multi-processor replay. It is based on our insight that, a load-based checkpointing scheme that records the program input has sufficient information for deterministically replaying each thread. We propose an offline symbolic analysis algorithm based on a SMT solver that determines the shared-memory dependencies using just the program input logs during replay. In addition to saving log space, the proposed approach significantly reduces the hardware support required for enabling replay. | <urn:uuid:3f5358b0-1f8a-45c1-a0b9-ecf5473bca04> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://web.eecs.umich.edu/~nsatish/abstracts/MICRO-09-SAT.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817001643-20220817031643-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.894596 | 240 | 1.585938 | 2 |
Working towards resilient infrastructure networks
Service delivery by current infrastructure is under stress of intensifying use and change of use. In addition, parts of the infrastructure in the Netherlands is due for renovation or replacement and new infrastructure is constructed. Changing climatic conditions challenge us for coherent assessment of our infrastructure networks to identify vulnerabilities in the system and to take effective measures now and in the future. Deltares aims to assess and improve the resilience of infrastructure under extreme weather conditions and climate change.
Climate resilient networks
In 2021 we worked on improvements of RA2CE (Resilience Assessment and Adaptation for Critical infrastructurE). RA2CE supports decisions on investments in infrastructure, based on direct and indirect costs and benefits. Similar methodologies are used for the project 'Climate Resilient Networks' for Rijkswaterstaat. This resulted in a policy agenda for a more resilient road network in the Netherlands. In the Dominican Republic our work has been implemented at the Ministry of Infrastructure and Water management, resulting in a selection of 130m mln euro’s worth of climate resilient measures. The tools that has been used in this project have the potential to be rolled out in other countries.
Improving navigability of waterways, locks and weirs
Together with SmartPort and other partners Deltares has worked on the digital twin waterway corridor of the Rhine. This platform simulates the interaction between ships, the waterway, the infrastructure and the logistics chain and leads to optimized transport under various climatic conditions. For the new sea lock at IJmuiden, Deltares investigated the forces on ships in the lock and the exchange of salt and fresh water in a scale model. In order to accommodate the growing vessels, the lock is one of the largest in the world with dimensions of over 500 m in length. The lock is officially opened in January 2022. Our activities result in improved navigability for weirs and increased availability of waterways for transport.
It's important to identify high-risk areas accurately. By combining large datasets such as OpenStreetMap with new computational techniques, we now have a method where you can analyse vulnerable clusters on both the global scale and the urban scale in a short time. We calculated and interpreted thousands of flood scenarios for the national roads in the Netherlands in just a short period of time for Rijkswaterstaat.'
Thomas Bles, an expert on climate-resilient networks at Deltares
Assessing embankment stability to increase rail traffic
ProRail aims to increase rail traffic to contribute to sustainable transport by enabling faster trains, higher frequencies and heavier trains. Increased traffic might affect the stability of soft soil rail embankments, however. Deltares supports ProRail by developing methods to estimate embankment stability for the whole network. Our results are currently used by engineering firms in network stability assessments with support of Deltares. This results in known vulnerable spots and effective adaptation measures. In the end, our work enables increased rail traffic.
'The dry summer of 2018 in the Netherlands neighbouring countries was a wake-up call for the inland shipping sector. Due to the low water, transporters could not load ships as heavily. With the Digital Twin Waterway Corridor, we are working together with partners to make the Rhine-Meuse corridor more future-proof'
Johan Boon, department head River dynamics and inland shipping at Deltares
Deltares aims to improve infrastructure resilience and to embed transport infrastructure smartly and sustainably in the physical water & soil system. Through the involvement of end users from the start, we enable stakeholders to take decisions for resilient design, implementation and maintenance of infrastructure at minimal (societal) expenses. | <urn:uuid:fa0b3e12-bd24-405f-b99f-43629e49e81d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://specials.deltares.nl/impact_report/working_towards_resilient_infrastructure_networks | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571222.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810222056-20220811012056-00677.warc.gz | en | 0.919771 | 760 | 2.0625 | 2 |
Hosting the Common Language Runtime
For applications written using the .NET Framework, hosting the common language runtime is completely transparent. If you compile your managed code as an .exe assembly, the runtime is started automatically by mscoree.dll when the .exe is run. Unmanaged applications, however, can also benefit from hosting the common language runtime. The runtime provides a framework for extending applications such as Microsoft Internet Information Services and Microsoft SQL Server 2005.
Whether it is invoked automatically, as with managed .exe assemblies, or loaded using the unmanaged hosting API, a .NET Framework application requires a piece of code called a runtime host. The runtime host loads the runtime into a process, creates application domains within the process, and loads and executes user code within those application domains.
In This Section
- Hosting Overview
Provides an overview of runtime hosting.
- Loading the Runtime into a Process
Describes how to load the runtime into a process.
- Transitioning to Managed Hosting Code
Describes how to make a transition from unmanaged to managed code.
- Determining Application Domain Boundaries
Describes how to determine where to set boundaries for a new application domain.
- Creating and Configuring Application Domains
Describes how to create and configure application domains in which to run user code.
- Loading and Executing User Code
Describes how to load and execute user code.
- Setting Application Domain-Level Security Policy
Describes how to set an application domain-level security policy.
- Setting Role-Based Security Policy and Principals
Describes how to set a role-based security policy.
- Unloading Domains and Shutting Down a Process
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BREAKING Trump: “Fire and Fury” may not be tough enough
President Trump sparked more political fire and furry Thursday in a statement to the press saying “Frankly, the people who were questioning that statement, was it too tough? Maybe it wasn’t tough enough”, to reporters outside of his New Jersey Golf Club. Trump stated that the situation with North Korea remained without a response and vowed to continue his “America First” strategy.
Trump indicated that he had the situation under control and had the backing and support of the military. He further threatened North Korea if they chose to attack America or American interest. “The people of this country should be very comfortable, and I will tell you this: If North Korea does anything in terms of even thinking about attack of anybody that we love or we represent or our allies or us, they can be very, very nervous. “
The situation in question is the speculation that North Korea has miniaturized a nuclear bomb, following world-wide attention in recent, successful, ballistic missile testing. Trump would not comment on a preemptive or retaliatory strike. The speculation has been verified by the CIA and other agencies. The strong language concerning military action was echoed by South Korea and Japan who both have signaled they would join the US in a strong response for any attack against Guam.
The recent fury and fire in the press came after North Korea announce a detailed plan of a missile strike targeting Guam. Pyongyang detailed the four missiles that would be used and how quickly they could reach Guam. He vowed to have a complete plan by the middle of August and would give the final approval.
North Korea’s Pyongyang signaled he was preparing an attack against Guam and that led to the explosive and controversial statement made by Trump on Wednesday. Trump’s response to Pyongyang was “He was been very threatening beyond a normal state, and as I said they will be met with fire, fury, and frankly power, the likes of which this world has never seen before”.
Guam is situated in the Pacific Ocean within striking distance of North Korea and even closer to Japan. Guam is a US Territory and is the home of key U.S. military installations with over 160,000 US citizens, mostly civilians. Guam is considered a military stronghold of the Western Pacific and a key target for North Korean aggressions. Guam and other territories elect delegates to the House of Representatives that have no vote on legislation thereby rendering US citizens of such territories subject to no representation. | <urn:uuid:a18cdbd1-c176-49c0-937f-80c3034535c2> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://netnewsnetwork.net/breaking-trump-fire-and-furry-may-not-be-tough-enough/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570868.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808152744-20220808182744-00074.warc.gz | en | 0.970928 | 522 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Elsa Laundry Day
Elsa is doing laundry today and she wants you to join her! Learn every step of the way on how to get clean clothes in this fun simulation game. Start by separating the white clothes from the colored ones, give them a good wash and make sure they stay in the sun so they are nice and dry. Help Elsa iron them and you'll get the most neat and perfect clothes ever!
Instructions Elsa Laundry Day:
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Reforming the International Monetary System - Address by Mr. Alassane D. Ouattara
March 6, 1999Address by Mr. Alassane D. Ouattara
Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund
at the Academie de la Paix et de la Securité Internationale
Conference on Crises and International Security
Monaco, March 6, 1999
Some of these ideas involve ceding national sovereignty and go some way toward the creation of a world government, while others ask policymakers to step back from cushioning the harsh realities of today's volatile and unforgiving markets. Are these ideas realistic? Is this really where we are headed? Speaking both as an IMF official and a former policymaker, my approach by nature relies heavily on pragmatism. After all, political economy—and that is what we are talking about—like politics itself is the art of the possible.
It is in that spirit that I would like to sketch out where there is consensus, where there are gaps to be bridged, and where the IMF fits in. But first a few words on the lessons we have learned from the recent crises and contagion. For it is these events that have generated the calls for change.
Cracks in the system
The crisis that consumed Thailand, Korea, and Indonesia was not spawned only out of profligate government policies, as was typical of balance of payments crises in the past. Rather, it stemmed from excessive credit expansion, latent cronyism, financial sector weaknesses, and other structural shortcomings. It then turned into a capital crisis, sparked by a massive outflow of funds from these countries. The three tigers were particularly vulnerable to the sudden change in investor sentiment because of their very large short-term debt exposures.
But the cracks that were exposed so brutally in Asia were not entirely homegrown. What we faced was a systemic problem, a crisis of the international financial system. The problem was that the system had not yet developed enough to reconcile the needs of all the participants—investors seeking new opportunities, emerging market economies seeking resources for investment, and governments seeking to ensure that markets were operating safely and efficiently.
In the end, the global economy managed to escape a seizing up of financial markets and a widespread credit crunch. But the close brush raised troubling questions about the dynamics of international capital markets. First, why was it that Russia's effective debt default in August triggered a massive global reassessment and repricing of emerging market risk?
We believe that more was at stake than the size of the losses on Russian exposures and positions. Far more important was the role of Russia's default as a defining event that challenged widely held views about default risks for all emerging market investments, and the willingness and ability of the international community to help countries in trouble. The situation may have been compounded by Malaysia's move to impose capital controls, heightening the risk that others might follow suit. So far, this has not proved to be the case. Rather, many emerging markets have been quick to underscore their commitment to open capital markets.
Second, why did the turbulence generate severe strains, sharp rises in interest margins on credit, and extreme price movements in some of the world's deepest financial markets—prompting a major central bank to facilitate the private rescue of a hedge fund? We believe at root was a problem of many investors attempting to rapidly unwind highly leveraged positions at the same time. And here, I would like to be clear, it was not just the hedge funds that had taken such positions. Although comprehensive data is lacking, proprietary trading desks of many of the large international commercial and investment banks appear to have been doing the same.
Of course, this raises another troubling question. How could very large leveraged positions be built up across a large number of financial institutions to the point where systemic risk was raised to extraordinary levels? We believe that lack of transparency, poor internal risk management, inadequate prudential supervision, and the moral hazard induced by anticipated bailouts in the event of bankruptcy, all came into play.
Mending the cracks
So what together can the international community do to modernize the system to catch up with the breathtaking developments in international capital markets? At this stage, and this is important, financial leaders have agreed on the seven basic building blocks. Where the debate lies, and it is a vigorous one, is among a range of proposals within each of these blocks. The overarching idea is to improve the way countries monitor and discipline themselves, improve the way banks and borrowers interact, improve the way financial markets behave, adapt the IMF better to the new environment, strengthen relations between the multilateral bodies, such as the Fund and the World Bank, in other words, improve what is often referred to as the architecture of the international monetary system. Here, I am reminded of a West African proverb: "The beginning of all wisdom is to get yourself a roof." In this case, the roof is the structure that we are trying to give the system to ensure that it is sturdy enough for today's globalized world. The hopeis to prevent the kinds of crises that we have seen over the past few years, and deal better with those crises that may inevitably still occur. Let me briefly review each one of these blocks.
First, better international standards. Many standards for financial practices already exist, but a lesson of the recent crises is that we need more effective standards. That means two things: sensitizing countries to what are universally regarded as good practices, whether in producing statistics, conducting policy processes, or designing supervisory regulations; and second, monitoring observance of these standards. That doesn't mean that national practices should be identical. But they will be judged according to their compliance with a common set of international standards. Along this line, a number of efforts are under way at the Fund.
Standards, then, are the "stick." But what is the "carrot" to get countries to comply, and who will do all the monitoring? This brings me to the second block, greater transparency—a notion that applies to all the major players in the world economy: the public and private sectors, financial markets, and the multilateral institutions. Just think what might have happened if we had known, precisely on time, how quickly Mexico's foreign exchange reserves were being depleted in 1994. Or if we had known much earlier how fast the Thai central bank's forward transactions were accumulating in 1997. Or if we had known in time the amount of foreign exchange reserves Korea was lending to its commercial banks in 1997? Or even if we had had, at the time, a better idea of Indonesia's private sector indebtedness.
Clearly, timely and detailed information can prevent the accumulation of problems by forcing governments to take appropriate measures at the right time. It encourages a more widespread discussion and analysis of policies by the public. It enhances the accountability of policymakers and the credibility of policies, thus contributing to good governance. It also facilities the orderly and efficient functioning of financial markets. For in a world of sizable, sometimes extremely volatile, private capital flows, financial markets must be able to respond more continuously and smoothly to economic developments if dramatic corrections are to be avoided. But here, one caveat. Just the existence of the information won't do the trick. It needs to be taken seriously in the analysis conducted by investment houses, financial institutions, and others. And that analysis must actually work its way through to the people who make the deals and to public policymakers.
What can the IMF do? Besides establishing and refining standards, we have been releasing more information than ever before on the IMF's operations, policies, and processes, most of which can be accessed on our website—www.imf.org. But many groups, such as the G-22, would have us go even further. The G-22 is calling for the Fund-as part of its routine surveillance—to prepare reports that would assess the adequacy of transparency practices of member countries in critical areas. The problem is that some countries are less willing than others to divulge what they consider to be confidential information. Similarly, private or public companies may worry about disclosing what they consider to be proprietary information. Clearly, this is a major task and we are only just beginning to explore the possibilities. But whatever we can do, it will succeed only if the financial markets truly demand improvement on the part of those tapping the markets. That means there has to be a real reward for following the standards,—which should be reflected in the margins paid on borrowings.
Third block, financial sector soundness. It is striking that around the world, for the past five years, every major financial crisis has been either caused, or exacerbated, by banking sector weaknesses. Moreover, almost three quarters of the countries worldwide have experienced domestic banking stress or crises in the past 15–20 years, including in a number of industrial countries. In recent months, the risks of highly leveraged types of international transactions have also come to the fore.
So what can be done? The bottom line is that a sound international financial system must rest on sound and resilient national systems. And these must be monitored according to transparent and consistent standards. On this front, there is much activity. For some time, the Fund has been helping to disseminate a set of "best practices" in the banking supervision area—as developed by the Basle Committee—so that standards and practices that have worked well in some countries can be adapted and applied in others. We are stepping up our efforts to identify—and help correct—financial sector vulnerabilities with potential macroeconomic implications. We are looking into whether additional disclosure requirements or regulations are needed on the operations of institutional investors, including highly leveraged ones. And we are increasing our collaboration with the World Bank on financial sector issues.
But even with technical assistance from the Fund and others, many developing countries have far too few supervisors monitoring fragile banking sectors—a situation that will exist for some time to come. This raises the possible need for interim safety measures on capital flows, which brings me to the next building block.
Fourth, capital account liberalization. Open capital markets potentially bring enormous benefits to all-especially developing countries. They can supplement domestic savings, encourage the efficient use of scarce capital, and bring collateral improvements in knowhow. But the Asian crisis brought home the need for countries to take greater care in the way in which they liberalize, especially if they lack sound financial systems. It is clear that liberalization has to be done in stages, with due regard for the soundness of the financial market as a whole. A few examples:
In other words, it matters how markets open up. It matters if policymakers misuse the opportunities created by more open markets-with disastrous consequences. Policymakers must always be looking to minimize the vulnerability of their economies, because without this vigilance, vulnerability can increase at a startling pace. It also matters that creditors gauge risk better. So let us not blame liberalization for Asia's woes and choose to retreat.
That being said, we do recognize that there may be circumstances when temporary capital controls could be called for—and this is a matter that we will be studying. Our main worry, however, is that any breathing space such measures might bring would be outweighed by long-term damage to investor confidence, the distorting effects in resource allocation, and the loss of discipline and incentives that capital flows can bring.
Fifth block, private sector involvement in preventing and resolving crises. In all the recent crises, the initial pressures were severely aggravated by a rush for the exits by creditors, especially short-term creditors. How can such creditors be persuaded not to behave in this way? And, even trickier, how can they be encouraged to act in a way that permits a more orderly process of adjustment for the country involved—to the benefit of both the country and the investors and creditors? This notion of "bailing-in" investors and creditors is bound to be complicated. Indeed, it is the most complex and difficult of all the building blocks. The good news is that already a number of possible alternatives are being actively explored.
Sixth block, equitable social policies. Reform of the international monetary system can only be complete if it is consistent with the social goals endorsed by the international community. That is why, in order to deal with the worsening recession in Asia, and its social cost, the IMF pushed for greater fiscal expansion to support the needed social programs. In all of the Asian crisis countries, the IMF-supported programs included subsidies on some essential consumer products. In Korea, we supported expansion of the unemployment compensation system, and in Thailand, we supported employment creation schemes in the public sector.
But more needs to be done! When crisis strikes, whether it be from shocks emanating from the financial system, or from elsewhere, countries need to have automatic stabilizers and better social safety nets in place to help cushion the effects on the poor and the vulnerable-and we will work closely with the World Bank to this end.
Seventh and final block, adaptation of the international financial institutions, and here I will stick to the IMF. As the world adapts to a new economic order, so must we, for the IMF plays a central role in the global economic and financial system. We are being asked to take on more and more responsibilities, and a natural extension of that would be to engage our 182 member countries in the decision-making process even more than at present. That is why we have suggested transforming the IMF's ministerial level advisory body—the Interim Committee—into a "Council" with decision-making, rather than merely consultative powers. This idea, along with others on stabilizing the international currency system—possibly moving to a tripolar system, with the euro, yen, and dollar; possibly providing for a lender of last resort—are also on the international reform agenda.
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So where does this leave us? In some areas, we know what we want, but we aren't so sure
how to get there. In other areas, we know how to get there, but we aren't so sure that the political
will still exists. Rest assured that the IMF will do what it can to bring about the necessary
insights and international consensus. For it is our job to ensure that the global economy is a more
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Many Zoo animals received festive treats today in a Christmas version of Taronga’s regular enrichment program.
Taronga’s famous chimpanzee group received specially-made Bonbons filled with their favourite foods.
Primate Supervisor, Louise Grossfeldt, said: “Our Chimpanzees enjoy receiving these themed enrichment items from time to time as it encourages foraging behaviour and increases mental stimulation.”
“Our Behavioural Enrichment team, consisting mainly of volunteers, works tirelessly throughout the year to maximise the diversity of food and activities for all of Taronga’s animals and today they have a Christmas twist. These challenges make important contributions to the animals’ wild behaviours.”
The striking russet-coloured coat of the Tree Kangaroo contrasted against the green and red of watermelon which is definitely one of their favourite foods. Similar to kangaroos and wallabies, these amazingly adapted animals are found in the forests of New Guinea and Cape York. Taronga’s pair made easy work of the Christmas Tree-shaped watermelon that had been prepared for them.
Australia’s oldest Kodiak Bear, ‘Bethyl’, didn’t waste any time tucking into her specially-made piñata Snow Man. As this magnificent old bear turns 34 in January, Bethyl gets care that you would expect to see in an exclusive retirement home. Her exhibit has been modified with soft bedding areas and ramps to help her mobility and comfort.
Carnivore Supervisor, Louise Ginman, said: “Even at this stage of her life Bethyl still maintains her acute sense of smell which helps her find items we hide around the exhibit.”
“Sometimes they are fresh herbs or sprays of essential oils; other times its peanuts or fresh salmon. Today she got them in a carefully made papier-mâché snow man.”
Taronga’s Meerkats may be small but they definitely knew how to draw a crowd and a smile when they came out to explore their desert habitat exhibit to find it had been strung with piñata birds and boxes wrapped in Christmas paper.
“As usual, there was lots of scurrying and investigating to ensure all of the insects and other food inside the piñatas and boxes were snapped up quickly. We find that the Meerkats get a vast amount of enjoyment from themed enrichment activities like these which are a credit to the volunteer staff that make them for us,” Louise said.
Behavioural enrichment is an important part of caring for the animals at Taronga Zoo. Zoo Keepers and the Behavioural Studies Unit are constantly setting new challenges for the animals. This includes hiding food so the animals have to forage and work for their meals, stimulating their hunting abilities and in turn educating visitors about the extraordinary abilities of animals.
Taronga Zoo is open every day of the year, including Chistmas Day, Boxing Day and New Years Day. To celebrate 2011 being the UN Year of the Forest, Taronga has a Forest Discovery Trail running through the Zoo, featuring many threatened species that need our support.
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Editor's Note: In this article guest author David Buckles discusses a vinyl siding problem: leaks. It is a little like that expensive jacket you bought only to discover that the tag said "water resistant". It is a minor point until you have a trickle of icy rain dribbling down your neck.
With a house it is more serious. A vinyl siding problem may not become apparent until after serious damage has been done and your contractor has decided to relocate without a forwarding address.
by David Buckles
Vinyl siding as been around since the 1960s, and it is growing in popularity each year. It was originally designed to be a re-cover siding, intended to be installed over the top of an existing water-tight siding material as a means of quickly enhancing the exterior of a house. Unfortunately, the easy application and relatively low cost enticed builders into using this material as a primary waterproofing material. At this time, nearly 30% of new homes now have vinyl siding.
Over the years, roofers have witnessed the effects vinyl siding has had on the building industry. Multiple times every year, roofers are asked to investigate roof leaks, only to discover that the source of the leaks are a nearby vinyl-clad wall! Many homeowners and contractors are discovering that their initial cost savings by installing vinyl will ultimately cost them many times more through water damage to their homes. How can this possibly be the case? Let's take a look at the three "faces" of vinyl siding.
Vinyl siding is a contractor's dream material. It installs quickly and it is much less expensive than other siding materials on the market, resulting in both cheaper installation and material costs. With vinyl siding, no painting is required. This means a contractor can avoid painting-related scheduling delays that are often caused by cold and wet winters. Vinyl siding is available in a great variety of colors, and the newer generations of vinyl are less prone to fading. It is also available in a variety of faux wood grain finishes to mimic natural materials. With all of these positive attributes, it sounds like the ideal siding material, right?
Vinyl siding is not a watertight covering for a variety of reasons. The material expands and contracts with temperature fluctuations. The result of this is that vinyl siding cannot be caulked and sealed at wall penetrations like windows and doors. Wind-driven water can be forced into these gaps around the unsealed window and door trims, as well as into the overlapping ends of the siding pieces. In addition, the installation of vinyl siding requires the use of several pre-made trim pieces. These trim pieces have limitations in their applications, and they cannot possibly be bent, trimmed, and formed to meet every conceivable installation requirement. The Washington Post explains some of the problems that vinyl-clad homes face these days:
"...for most people, the real surprise is that vinyl siding leaks -- a lot. The industry puts a positive spin on this issue, describing the siding as a 'supplemental rain screen' that works by 'reducing the amount of water that reaches the underlying weather-resistant barrier.' The Vinyl Siding Institute says, 'vinyl siding is designed to allow the material underneath to breathe; therefore it is not a watertight covering' -- which is to say, it leaks.
Water enters through overlapped joints, but mainly at open-sided edge trim. Anticipating this, manufacturers provide weep holes along the bottom edges of clapboard panels. You can't stop water infiltration by caulking because, unlike stationary trim seams in wood or masonry, vinyl has to move freely."Since vinyl siding itself is not waterproof, the building is ultimately protected by a water-resistant underlayment (house wrap), with additional protection provided by peal and stick waterproofing membranes that are used at high-risk areas such as window and door openings. Unfortunately, the water-resistant underlayment is punctured by several hundred siding nails. Also, any installation mistakes with the underlayment, or the way the underlayment is integrated with the peal and stick window/door membranes, will ultimately result in leaks.
The number of lawsuits being filed against contractors and vinyl siding manufacturers has been on the incline for many years now. Many condominiums and housing developments have experienced lawsuits involving vinyl siding installations. Raynproof Roofing is called quite often by people throughout Seattle and King County to investigate phantom "roof" leaks, only to discover that the problem is the result of the siding.
Vinyl siding does not increase the value of one's home, and in some cases, can actually diminish its value if the home has historic value or is located in a nicer neighborhood with more traditional siding material such as wood, brick or stucco.
When used as a recovering material, many of the defects of the base siding will be reflected in the vinyl covering. In addition, using vinyl as a recover material "thickens" the wall and many window and door trims actually get buried so you start to lose some of your home's character.
Squeaking and even clattering has been heard when the wind blows strongly against vinyl-clad homes. This is due to the way vinyl must be installed leaving the width of a dime between the nail head and the vinyl panel to allow for movement.
The other "ugly" reality that homeowners sometimes forget to consider is that the color of the vinyl will be the color of their home forever -- or until they decide to reside it with something else. Yes, it could be painted, but then you lose the low maintenance quality that it provided in the first place. Vinyl siding can also be easily damaged either by windblown debris, lawnmower debris, ladders or anything else that is harder than the vinyl. Once damaged, the entire panel must be replaced and new replacement panels will not be an exact match since vinyl does tend to fade within five years or so.
As you can see, there is a lot to consider when facing vinyl siding and the possible effects it has on your home. If you do own a vinyl-clad home, be sure to check it out on a regular basis and in a variety of weather conditions, because trapped water behind the vinyl siding can cause all kinds of problems, including structural damage, mold, mildew and insect infestations.
If you suspect water intrusion into the interior of your house, have a professional siding company inspect your home. You might also consider having a thermal imaging analysis done to identify the extent of any leaks and/or damage. Finally, don't assume that all water leaks are due to a roof leak.
David Buckles has over 20 years experience in the construction industry and over four years experience specifically in the roofing industry with Raynproof Roofing. Raynproof Roofing has been re-roofing the Greater Seattle area since 1986.
Article Source: EzineArticles.com
Editor's Comments: Lest this vinyl siding problem scare you off from considering vinyl entirely, remember that most installations are problem free. Much depends upon the skill and integrity of the contractor.
Skill comes with experience, so it is best to only consider those contractors who have installed lots of vinyl. Since avoiding this vinyl siding problem requires proper preparation with the house wrap, the contractor needs to control that aspect of the job.
Also check into the experience of the crew. Your contractor may have been around for 100 years, but the crew that comes to your house may not have that much experience. If they can't shave yet, make sure the supervisor can. And make sure his experience is with vinyl. 20 years of installing aluminum may not give him the experience necessary to avoid the vinyl siding problem.
If you are working through a builder of tract housing you probably won't have much control over this aspect of the build, so you may want to consider other siding options. You can also check out the builder's performance on the internet. A builder with a vinyl siding problem will probably have some complaints showing up on the internet, especially if he refuses to correct the problem.
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Using an old idea, the Shadow Grid technique, and applying it to a new tube design, an audio power pentode, a tube with very desirable characteristics was obtained. Following the introduction of the 6FG5 Shadow Grid pentode, a logical extension of the low screen current advantages of this construction was to incorporate it in a power pentode for audio applications. Characteristics and construction of an experimental pentode are given, with typical output and distortion figures. Featuring very low audio input drive voltages, this new design may permit, in many cases, a reduction in the number of stages of amplification required.
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Photos of young people learning sketching and painting taught by our lead artist Tim Stokes
The young people delivered presentations at the Pentrehafod school showcasing the interviews they collected on the Windrush elders and sharing the skills they learnt in filming and mixing paint.
Photos from the celebration of Jamaican Independence on the 6th of August 2017 organised by Jamaican Jills in Swansea. It was a colourful day and brilliant display of Caribbean food, music and costumes. Our Elders and young people enjoyed the day.
Trip to the National Museum in Cardiff on a tour of the back of house where the young people learn a lot about the collections especially those from the African and Caribbean countries. We then had a workshop afterwards to discuss interpretation of the objects which we related to how we collect and interpret the stories of the Windrushian
Oral history workshop to learn how to record histories and types of video recording formats.
The young people had a lovely time at St Fagans.
Trip to Margam park to visit the places one of the Windrush elders spent his free time in the 70’s and 80’s with his family
Young people working hard at evidence gathering for their arts awards. 5 of the young people achieved the Bronze arts awards Video of interview with Tamara Madden The young people identified Tamara Madden as their arts inspiration for their arts award. Tamara granted the young people a skype interview where they asked her questions about her career, migration from Jamaica to the US and settling in a new country etc. Tamara was so gracious to share with them and they learnt a lot from her interview. One of the young people created a replication of one of Tamara's art piece (Masuma's recreation of Tamara's art).
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Life is Fair but not Always Fun
Have you ever thought that life was unfair? Have you ever thought that you have it really hard? Well when you feel like that I Believe the most important thing to remember is that you have life. I believe that people who complain and whine about life are the ones who truly love it the most but haven’t discovered their love yet. Life is good and sometimes great but never bad or unfair.
Those who say life in unfair don’t know what it’s like to have a life taken from you or a loved one. When you experience what it feels like to lose a loved one or even a pet. Life is precious and can be easily taken away. When my great great aunt passed away I realized that life is a precious gift that you can’t buy in the store or find on eBay. You couldn’t buy it with all the money in the world. Death is something I wouldn’t wish on my worst enemy. No one deserves to die but everyone does.
I hope that this essay can at least inspire one person. It can make someone have a positive outlook on life; that would make me happy. The best advice I can ever give someone is to live life to the fullest and to quote Dodge, “Grab life by the horns.” I think one of the main reasons people dislike life is because they see others that dislike life. It only takes one bad seed to spoil an apple.
Everyone needs to set an example of how we should be. To quote H. Jackson Brown “Live so that when your children think of fairness and integrity, they think of you.” I hope that one day I can be someone who is a symbol of fairness and integrity.
When I first started this essay I thought I would write about sports or a hobby of mine, but I realized there is so much more to life than sports or hobbies and I have to live the life I have because I’ll never get it back. So go skydiving, or bungee jump, or do something spontaneous. You only have this chance to do it. So live your life.
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HTML5 needs spokespeople to work. There are a lot of people out there who took on this role, and here at Mozilla we thought it is a good idea to introduce some of them to you with a series of interviews and short videos. The format is simple – we send the experts 10 questions to answer and then do a quick video interview to let them introduce themselves and ask for more detail on some of their answers.
As you will see in the video, John is neither mincing his words nor does he hold back in spreading good messages about the web as a whole and independent of technology. He has been around since connecting to the web meant enduring bleeping noises and has spent quite some time building software and online generators to allow people to build for the web.
He has been very outspoken about the lack of semantic improvement in HTML5 and you can count on him to speak up every time somebody claims that native apps on mobiles will always be better than web standards based apps.
The video interview
You can see the video on any HTML5 enabled device here (courtesy of vid.ly).
10 Questions for John Allsopp
1) You’ve been around this internet thing quite a while and seen a lot of things come and go. What makes you believe in HTML5?
Well, interestingly I’m probably known by some people for being the anti-HTML5 guy. I’ve been quite critical in particular of the semantics in HTML5, both about some of the specific decisions made, but more importantly the approach to extending semantics in HTML5.
My particular interest in HTML5 in the broadest sense (so, including CSS3, related extensions to the DOM, geolocation, DAP etc) is seeing the web become an increasingly powerful application platform.
Over the last 20 years or so, we’ve seen the web revolutionise publishing, journalism, and other essentially text based media. This emerging generation of technologies promise to revolutionise much more.
2) What are the things in HTML5 that still need tweaking in your book? Anything that ails you about the current state of the spec?
Well, I still think the ball has been dropped when it comes to increasing the semantic richness and expressibility of the language in any genuinely useful way. And I sadly don’t really see anything happening there.
I also think HTML needs to take a leaf from the CSS book – CSS2, a monolithic specification became increasingly bogged down in minutiae, and the failure to finalise it became a kind of running joke.
With CSS3, we saw the modularisation of the specification, with much more rapid innovation, much more experimentation. In truth, it was the experimental CSS3 features that I think ignited the excitement around what we call HTML5, far more than a new DOCTYPE and things like the header element.
The core of the HTML5 specification is really monolithic, and is suffering much the same way CSS2 did. We’re even seeing the same sort of glib jokes about how it’s going to be finished in 2020, which impacts on whether many developers will adopt something perceived (mistakenly, though somewhat understandably) as unready for commercial use. Some aspects of the initial monolithic HTML5 spec have been modularised, while related technologies like geolocation, which is widely considered to be part of HTML5 have always been their own small, independent activities.
So, if anything, I’d like to se the increasing modularisation of the HTML5 spec.
3) You seem to spend quite some time building code generators at the moment. The CSS gradient generator and the audio embed generator being just two of them. Do people use them a lot? And why the separation between Firefox and Webkit rather than generating both?
Just to clarify, all my new tools (audio, video, and some others in the pipeline), as well as the upgrades to existing ones (linear and radial gradients) are cross browser – they work in all browsers that support the technology they’re focussed on, and create code for all modern browsers (in some cases where they don’t even yet support the particular functionality – for example Opera and radial gradients).
In the past (and some of these are 2-3 years old now), I decided to focus only on those browsers which supported a particular technology. I had separate Firefox and Webkit versions of the gradient tools because they supported quite radically different models of gradients, which made a single interface to producing two separate versions of a gradient confusing, as well as essentially impossible.
It’s important to note that the primary motivation for these tools is to help people learn the concepts and syntax for these various features. I think many CSS3 features in particular are really quite complex, and learning them in the more traditional text oriented way is becoming increasingly difficult. For example, you can generate a radial or linear gradient with my tools for all modern browsers in a few seconds, even if you have no idea about how CSS gradients work. But the two articles I wrote on gradients in total come to nearly 10,000 words, and a couple of dozen or more illustrations.
Do many people use them? – they certainly generate quite a bit of traffic. They’re definitely popular – and I think as importantly, people really appreciate them – even really well known CSS experts let me know they really appreciate having them there, and I know others are using them to actually test browser implementations. So I think they are well worth doing.
The last thing I’ll say on them is I also build them to let *me* learn – I’ve been developing tools for web developers for 15 years, all the way back to the earliest days of CSS, and I find the best way to know a technology (and its and your limitations) is to build a tool to work with it.
4) You are also a conference organiser and run workshops. What are the current hot topics in those related to new, open web technology and are there things you’d like to cover more that are not yet requested?
5) A sure-fire way to tick you off and get you to blog seems to be to say that native experiences on devices will always be better than using open web technology. If you look at it straight from an end user perspective, this seems to be the case though – things look smoother in native apps. How can we make standards-based development more interesting for developers when the lure of native apps with a money-making store is that big? How can we break the notion of open tech apps being of lesser quality?
There’s a lot going on with this question, so let me begin by stating my basic case. I call BS on the argument that native apps are intrinsically better looking, have better UX, and so on, simply because they are built with say objective-c (when people say native, they almost invariably mean apps for iOS they *think* are built with cocoa touch).
Your observation that many “native” apps are slicker, etc than web apps is a fair one. I think that it *is* somewhat easier to create a cookie cutter native app for say iOS using CocoaTouch, and the really excellent tools Apple has been working on since the NeXT days. But it’s also important to note that for many categories of applications, for example games, these apps use technologies like Unity3D, so in a sense many of the most successful, most engaging applications people use on say iOS aren’t native. I think it really comes down to the tools – and for developing apps using web technologies, these are far less sophisticated on the whole than those like Apple’s. Which to me presents an opportunity.
As to the lure of big money – it’s again one of those myths that get repeated ad nauseam. In fact it started even before there were any apps in Apple App Store! Now we’ve seen several years of activity, what have wen learned? There are doubtless a small number of big winners – but all indications are that almost no one makes any more selling apps on app stores.
There’s a whole industry in app discovery, so the supposed bon to developers that the App Store was going to provide in allowing the little guys to get their apps discovered by users really isn’t panning out.
As soon as you start looking at any sort of numbers objectively, it’s hard to see business case for building a native iOS app and selling it on Apple’s App Store, compared with simply taking that money to Las Vegas for the weekend. You’re going to waste far less of your life.
Finally, the single best way we can address the challenge web technology based apps have of being perceived of inferior quality is to continue building apps that are of superior quality. There are plenty out there – and often you don’t know it, because they are packaged up as native apps.
6) I am worried about showcases these days. The latest “Chrome experiment” (the collaboration interactive video with OK Go) didn’t even work on my Macbook Air with Chrome and let my fan do the impression of an aircraft taking off (it also, ironically, doesn’t work on my Chromebook). There seems to be a – to me – dangerous move towards experimental web sites expecting certain browsers and even hardware. Are we facing a new “best viewed with IE6 and 1024×786 resolution”?
I understand the concern, but don’t think we’re seeing, or will see a return to those bad old days. The “best viewed in” was seen on many many production sites back in the day. Experiments are just that – something at the bleeding edge, pushing the technology to the edges of its capability. So, I love seeing these experiments. We’ve been involved in some ourselves. We typically kick off our conferences with an opening title sequence (we started this a long time ago, but we’re seeing loads of folks doing it now). In the last year or so, we’ve been commissioning people to create these sequences using web technologies – and we’ve got no trouble with them targeting even a really, really specific setup – after all, it’s being designed for a very specific circumstance.
I honestly don’t think we’ll head back to the best viewed in days. Developers and browser makers have learned the lesson of just how bad that is for everyone.
7) Whilst there is a lot of uptake on cool CSS3 transitions, animations, 3D transformations, WebGL and video it seems to me that the semantics of HTML5 and the forms get a bit forgotten. Even more so, it seems like a scam to tell people that there is a need for sections, articles and time elements when no browser uses them to create an outline or syndicates them. Do you see that changing? How can we make it more real for people? Haven’t we used the “use this and that markup as it is the right thing to do” argument too often?
I tend to think the use of various new HTML5 elements as something of a cargo cult. I don’t really see any practical benefit, and there’s still legacy browser challenges (IE6 and 7) to deal with there. And I doubt there’s ever really going to be particular benefits – there’s ultimately very little additional information we’re providing by saying “this is a section”, “this is navigation”, and so on. If the semantics were richer, there would potentially be much more browser developers, search engine developers and so on could do with the richer markup, but as I’ve mentioned, I think we’ve got what we’ve got.
As for forms, now, there’s a lot more going on here of practical use today, and into the future. We can use new elements like number, email and url, and attributes like required right now (I’m doing it myself), as these fallback nicely in older browsers.
In fact, it’s one of my next big areas of focus after I finish a little project involving animations! HTML5 forms stuff is awesome!
8) Let’s talk accessibility a bit. I get the feeling that right now the accessibility world is falling immensely behind. Whilst HTML5 and jQuery tells people to “write less and achieve more” it seems that ARIA roles are ridiculously verbose and rather tough to add. A lot of the needs of mobile and touch interfaces overlap with the needs of disabilities. However, it seems to me there is not enough interest in the a11y world for new technology as it is not proven. Do you find it hard to connect the two?
I’m very far from an accessibility expert, so there’s probably not a a great deal I can add to this particular area of any real value.
ARIA roles are how I’d actually go about enriching the semantics of HTML5, rather than adding a small number of new elements as is the current state of play.
There’s two aspects to ARIA roles. First is the role attribute, initially introduced in XHTML as a means for adding additional semantic information about an element – the role that element is playing. For example, we have a common markup pattern of a div element, playing the role of the page header. We can mark this up with the role attribute like so <div role=”header”>
role is actually quite separate to ARIA. What ARIA brings to the role attribute is a vocabulary, a number of possible values for role, that we can use to add further semantic information to our pages. But you aren’t restricted to ARIAs vocabulary, and indeed can define your own. ARIAs vocabulary is actually far more extensive than HTML5’s.
I think the markup pattern, of using an attribute with a value to give additional information about an element, is really well known and widely used by developers – who doesn’t use class more or less like this?
So, I don’t see the use of role as a particular challenge for developers to adopt.
It has to be noted that he ARIA vocabulary is a generic one for rich internet applications, not specifically designed for apps developed using HTML. And sadly the ARIA vocabulary, and HTML5 semantics don’t map onto each other well.
I guess the biggest challenge for web accessibility into the future is that while making essentially text based and static content accessible is not overly challenging, and is now well understood, making applications, dynamic media, and rich interactive content accessible is a far more significant challenge.
9) To me it is high time we stop doing showcases and demos and instead start documenting what people can do themselves and build real products with open web technologies.
I love the showcases, the demos, the proofs of concept, but I agree, I also think it is time to really draw attention to the real world examples. I guess with my articles and tools, what I’m trying to do is help developers adopt these technologies today. As are many other folk as well.
9) (ctd) Sadly, when it comes to conferences though a lot of the things shown on stage were written as a demo for the talk. Are there any exceptions you found? I remember some @media had a great talk on how Blogger saved money by moving to CSS for layout. We need more hard evidence talks like that. Do you actively try to find real life showcases?
Absolutely – one of our goals is to have people who walk the walk. We actively look for folks who go beyond the opinions, and can speak with experience about projects, showcase successes, talk about the challenges they face, and the solutions to those.
10) What’s the next big challenge? Where would you like the web to go and what are the next things that browser makers should agree on?
Those of us old enough will remember when suddenly everything had an LED then LCD screen – things that were once analog, with mechanical dials and the like, things like microwave ovens, suddenly had displays, for time, temperature settings, and so on.
I think far sooner than we realise, there’ll be high resolution touchscreens everywhere, on almost every device.
Not all these devices will necessarily be connected to the web, but many of them will be. But their UIs will be essentially browser technology.
Another really significant trend we’ve seen faltering steps toward, but which I think will genuinely be a paradigmatic change in technology use is “boot to web”.
Think back 3 or 4 years. The hardware, chip, motherboard, RAM speed of your laptop was a big deal. People really cared. They bragged about this stuff! Apple went through 2 incredibly complex expensive CPU architecture changes over about 12 years because of it. Now virtually no one cares. Hardware doesn’t matter any more. It’s been commodified.
The next layer to be commodified will be the OS. It may seem unimaginable now with iOS so dominant in the mobile, not to mention tablet space, but to me this is a very transitional period. The web will commodify operating systems. ChromeOS is a commercial example of this. Boot to Gecko, something Mozilla IMO should have been working on a long time ago is a more experimental example.
The technologies we currently call HTML5 will be the building blocks of the applications which run on these devices.
The as yet missing piece of this puzzle is the emerging Devices API standard, which exposes hardware and system APIs like the camera, address book, calendar, messaging services (for example SMS) to the browser. We’re already seeing support for aspects of this, such as the camera in Android 3 devices. I’m sure this is a big part of the “Boot to Gecko” project too.
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Some men lost the chance to be biological fathers last year after their sperm samples were destroyed when a tank keeping them frozen at Northwestern Memorial Hospital failed, an attorney who filed lawsuits against the hospital said Tuesday.
The 40 lawsuits were filed Tuesday in Cook County Circuit Court on behalf of men whose illnesses or treatments could eventually cause infertility. They target the hospital and Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation, technicians at which operated the tank, officials said.
“The sperm that had been banked there was their one and only shot for most of them or many of them to have a biological family of their own,” said Matthew Jenkins, an attorney working on the cases.
The lawsuits, all filed under “John Doe” to protect the patients’ identities, allege that in April of 2012, the cryopreservation and the storage procedure at Northwestern failed, causing damage to semen and testicular tissue, and that Northwestern staff failed to adequately monitor and respond when they knew the system failed.
In a release Tuesday, Northwestern officials said, “we deeply regret that this equipment malfunction occurred,” but that in many cases, the specimens in the tank that malfunctioned may still be viable for use in in vitro fertilization.
A team of specialty physicians from the Northwestern Medical Faculty Foundation urology and reproductive endocrinology departments reached out to more than 250 patients to advise them of the equipment failure in the sperm bank when it occurred over the weekend of April 21-23, 2012, the statement read. Since then, more than 100 patients have “engaged us in further evaluation and consultation,” the statement read.
Furthermore, according to the statement, specimens were immediately transferred to a working storage tank after the malfunction was observed.
But the lawsuits also allege that Northwestern was negligent because it put all the sperm samples into one tank, when it had “numerous additional tanks” available.
“It’s a no-brainer that we learn in kindergarten that you’re not supposed to store all your eggs in one basket,” Jenkins said Tuesday. “They were taking vials — multiple vials from people who were banking sperm under these terrible circumstances — and putting them all in one tank when they had many tanks available to them.”
Jenkins said no plaintiffs would likely speak publicly about the lawsuits because of the “sensitivity and privacy of the subject matter.”
“Not everybody wants the outside world, the local Chicago community, to know what sort of medical treatments they were going through, how tough chemo was and all those sorts of things, and that’s why they all chose to file, for us to file on their behalf, as John Does,” Jenkins said.
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How has this not been created before now? I don't think it's a tea you would really add milk to. I let the flavours of the leaves speak for themselves. These rods are a fabulous take on the old tea bag.
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WGBH invites the entire Greater Boston community to Celebrate Asian-Pacific American Heritage Month with other fellow WGBH supporters for an engaging evening of conversation. The presentation will include documentary film excerpts from WGBH’s The WORLD channel that highlight a range of issues facing Asian Americans in society today including hybrid and mixed-race heritage and Asian American female identity. You¹ll hear from a distinguished panel and have the chance to pose your questions during the Q & A, moderated by Liz Cheng, General Manager of WGBH Television and WORLD Channel.
A dessert reception and tours of the studios will follow the presentation. This event is free and open to the public, but space is limited. For more information or to RSVP, please visit www.wgbh.org/events
The event discussion will touch upon the following films you can view during the month of May on WGBH’s The WORLD channel including:
Local, USA 200F | Building an Identity
As the Asian American population in the United States rises, so do their questions about their place in America; a Japanese-Filipino man narrates the story of his ³becoming American²; a group of mixed race professionals in New York address issues of identity and acceptance; and new mothers try to balance their old heritage with their new culture
The Grace Lee Project
When award-winning Korean-American filmmaker Grace Lee was growing up in Missouri, she was the only Grace Lee she knew. As an adult, however, she moved to New York and then California, where everyone she met seemed to know “another Grace Lee.” But why did they assume that all Grace Lees were nice, dutiful, piano-playing bookworms? Pursuing the moving target of Asian American female identity, the filmmaker plunges into a clever, highly unscientific investigation of all those Grace Lees who break the mold, including the fiery social activist Grace Lee Boggs, the rebel Grace Lee who tried to burn down her high school, and the Silicon Valley teenager Grace Lee who spends evenings doing homework, playing piano, and painting graphic pictures of death and destruction.
This refreshing film reveals the intriguing contradiction of the “Grace Lee” persona, simultaneously impressive and forgettable, special and generic, an emblem of a subculture and an individual who defies categorization. With wit and charm, THE GRACE LEE PROJECT challenges the cultural investments made in the idea of Grace Lee, all the while sending her a love letter. | <urn:uuid:0c3a2a31-7f9a-40ad-ae5b-93bfb29a8f51> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://sampan.org/2014/05/may-22-asian-pacific-american-heritage-event/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00296-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936996 | 518 | 1.992188 | 2 |
Yoga speaks to the complex relationship between me (the eternal spiritual being residing within the body) and my mind. Alcohol and drugs increase the control the mind has over me and shackles me to material existence. To experience self-realization, God-realization, and to taste perfect happiness one needs to live a temperate life, a life of moderation and self-restraint. By surrendering to the constant demands and desires of the mind and the senses we commit ourselves to a life where unhappiness, loneliness and emptiness will be our companions. The yoga process offers a complete awakening, boundless joy, and the experience of deep spiritual love. So how is this achieved? The key is the meditation upon spiritual or transcendental sound, particularly kirtan.
I promised some verses from the Bhagavad-gita to contemplate upon:
2.64 One who can control his senses by practicing the regulated principles of freedom can obtain the complete mercy of the Lord and thus become free from all attachment and aversion.
2.65 For one who is so situated in the Divine consciousness, the threefold miseries of material existence exist no longer; in such a happy state, one’s intelligence soon becomes steady.
2.66 One who is not in transcendental consciousness can have neither a controlled mind nor steady intelligence, without which there is no possibility of peace. And how can there be any happiness without peace?
2.67 As a boat on the water is swept away by a strong wind, even one of the senses on which the mind focuses can carry away a man’s intelligence.
2.68 Therefore, O mighty-armed, one whose senses are restrained from their objects is certainly of steady intelligence.
2.69 What is night for all beings is the time of awakening for the self-controlled; and the time of awakening for all beings is night for the introspective sage.
2.70 A person who is not disturbed by the incessant flow of desires—that enter like rivers into the ocean which is ever being filled but is always still—can alone achieve peace, and not the man who strives to satisfy such desires.
2.71 A person who has given up all desires for sense gratification, who lives free from desires, who has given up all sense of proprietorship and is devoid of false ego—he alone can attain real peace.
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While visiting ART LA in January, I became fascinated by a piece of work that seemed to be a photographic negative print of some sort of enigmatic process that could have been occurring at either a subcellular or cosmic level. It was dark yet radiant, organic yet artificial, evocative yet impenetrable. The artist who created this paragon of contradictions was Christine Nguyen, a 31-year-old California native who currently has an exhibition called "Dark Matter of Fact" at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro which runs until April 11th.
My friends and I decided to make the expedition down to San Pedro to see the opening of the exhibit a few weeks ago, and it turned out to be one of the most glorious afternoons of my life. If you haven't explored the coastal parks of Pedro on a beautiful Saturday afternoon, give yourself a treat this weekend.
We were all awed by Christine's work, which exhibits mysterious resonances, syncopations and profundities while evoking myriad associations – fantastical subaquatic ecosystems, invisible spectral energies, radioactive images of subcellular chemistry, x-rays of unearthly objects, phosphorescent denizens of the crushing ocean depths, the unknown reaches of outer space.
"Ocean Within an Ocean"
As though sketching in the dark with a neon pencil, Christine creates both abstract compositions and fantastical narratives involving airborne boats, flying islands, crystalline cities and luminous forests. "My work draws upon the imagery of science, but it is not limited to technologies of the present," she wrote. "It imagines that the depths of the ocean reach into outer space, that through an organic prism, vision can fluctuate between the micro- and macroscopic. I have been developing a personal cosmology in which commonalities among species, forms, and environment become visible and expressive, suggesting past narratives and possible futures."
"Embracing the Invisible"
Christine's work begins with a rather naïve drawing on several layers of semitransparent mylar in pencil and pen, with thin washes of acrylic, ink and watercolor, sometimes enhanced with a spatter of spray paint or an array of glitter. Often she will finish a drawing by causing bubbly salt encrustations to form on its surface, which create fascinating effects in the photographic phase of the process which follows.
Christine explained, "My recent work has been 'photo-based,' in that it combines drawing and photographic processes. 'Negatives' are drawn on layers of mylar, which are projected onto light-sensitive paper. The paper is developed in a color processor, creating a camera-less photographic image. In addition to watercolor and ink, I use materials such as salt water, seaweed, coral, minerals, and crystals to manipulate the 'negative' and the print. The total process is similar to that of making a photogram."
Christine's work is inspired and informed by the green utopia envisioned in the 1975 novel Ecotopia, as well as visionary architect Buckminster Fuller's hopeful concern for the future of "Spaceship Earth" and its passengers, and the ideas of 1960s avant-garde architectural group Archigram, which playfully envisoned futurist technocratic concepts like the Walking City, the Instant City and the Living Pod.
"Sailing to the Kelp Forest"
"I start by drawing intuitively, allowing short personal narratives to develop," Christine described. "Then I visualize the formation, sound and movement of the creatures, as well as the environment. I envision this world to fluctuate between the macro and micro. The pictorial images simultaneously reference outer space and cellular structures. The drawings act like maps, but are boundless. I find myself discovering more about this world as I create its various systems, some of which include transportation, communication and transformation. All waste materials are a source of energy or food for others, creating a self-sustaining ecotopia. And like all things that evolve, death and decay exist side-by-side with procreation and birth."
"Emergence of the Kelp Deers"
"I am interested in the biological and social interactions between these imaginary beings," she added. "They are constantly traveling, sharing information, distributing various resources and constructing cities in an almost ritualistic manner. I question how they relate to one another and what their main 'duties' of existence are. How do they contribute and exist in this recycled world, where everything is interconnected? Compelled to investigate this world's ecosystem and social beings, I find this to be a lifetime project."
"Migration Over the Woods and its Strange Powers"
One particularly impressive element of Christine's work is that she has devised a method for displaying it at an imposing size. Her 2006 installation at the Hammer Museum was so large that she required scaffolding to erect it. The current exhibit has a similar (though somewhat less enormous) installation, which you'll just have to go see for yourself.
"Leaves are Falling"
My fantasy is that someday I will have the resources – and enough wall space – to have one of these crazy subaqueous installations in my own home.
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B-Tech CSE in Data Science
Data Science has gained popularity in the recent past. Data science deals in converting a huge amount of raw data to provide meaningful insights and strategy. The data is gathered from many sources, then it is structured and studied to gain insights. The process of drawing the key insights from structured and unstructured data is known as Data Science. The professionals working on gaining such insights and presenting them to key stakeholders are known as Data Analysts and Data Scientists. Today, data science finds its place in retail, finance, e-commerce, healthcare, and IT services industries.
The graduate & Post graduate Engineering programmers in Data Science at CPU Kota are about providing an innovative education filled with discovery, and dissemination of knowledge.
The programmers allow fresher to gain a practical understanding of different Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning functions and to grow individual networks through cross-functional relationships. From Data Science engineering , there are various programmes for the students addressing their interest.
Students get to learn under the supervision of highly adept and experienced faculty teams developing the skills you need to succeed and make a valuable contribution right from the start. The graduate & post graduate engineering programmes encourage students to think with internal perspective and design solutions that meet human and social needs and to create an economic value that helps them to sustain in this competitive environment
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Vishal is a business leader with 20 years of experience in managing complex global projects, problem solving, and building growth teams. He is an entrepreneur and he is successfully running an e-commerce company. During his tenure with Intel Technology India Pvt Ltd, he managed global teams and projects in Business Intelligence, data analytics, data storage, Google search, enterprise portal and HR domains.He has worked in go-to market strategy, marketing, product development, operations and enterprise IT architecture in Hi-Tech, gaming and retail domains. He is an alumn of IIT Kharagpur and IIM Ahmedabad
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Sunny is a former Business Consultant & Analytics & Visualization expert having 10 Yrs exp and worked with prestigious companies like FICCI, MobiKwik, Samsung, DDB Mudra Group OMNICOM, INTEX & FRANCHISE INDIA, REMAX LLC rich experience.Sunny is an expert as Research Scientist, Industry Lifecycle, Consumer Behaviour, Strategy/Mentor in Big Data, Visualization, Analytics, Idea Generation, Marketing Analytics, Boost up, and Career Coach.He has worked extensively in domains such as Sales Analyst and Forecasting expert, Market Research, Brand positioning, Data strategies, Consumer behaviour Analytics and Pricing for clients in various sectors like Payment solution, E-commerce, Advertising Agency, Automotive, Banking, Hi-tech, Pharma, Telecom & Mobile, Consumer Durable and Electronics.
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Mayank is MSc in Artificial Intelligence from University of Edinburgh UK. He is B Tech from University of Delhi. He has an experience of 3 years in Artificial Intelligence, Robotics and IoT based apps. His areas of interests in research are in the fields of deep learning, robotics, and driver less cars.
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Data science can be defined as a blend of mathematics, business acumen, tools, algorithms and machine learning techniques, all of which help us in finding out the hidden insights or patterns from raw data which can be of major use in the formation of big business decisions.
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You need to have the knowledge of programming languages like Python, Perl, C/C++, SQL, and Java—with Python being the most common coding language required in data science roles. Programming languages help you clean, massage, and organize an unstructured set of data.
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By Jim Hamilton, DSM Nutritional Products USA
Sustainability is one of our core values, something we take very seriously. In fact, DSM is one of the leaders in the chemical sector of Dow Jones Sustainability World Index since 2003. But besides being a core value and a responsibility to society, sustainability is good business. Embracing the necessary elements to ensure a sustainable world and brighter lives for generations to come also brings opportunities for growth and collaboration with our customers. There are three key elements of sustainability I would like to emphasize.
1. Our people
Sustainability starts with our people. When I am asked why DSM as an organization is so successful, I have a very simple answer: our people. Across the organization, DSM’s people are dedicated to creating brighter lives through innovation, sustainability and quality, and our management works very hard to support and enhance their successes. Any invention or patent can eventually be copied, but our people cannot. Our success is because of our people.
2. Meeting consumer needs
From a broader perspective, sustainability is ultimately one that is consumer-driven. Consumers are looking for solutions that enable them to contribute to a more sustainable world. So sustainability is not only important as a corporate value, it’s also good business. There are many examples. In product innovation, we see it in the creation of products that are more environmentally-friendly. Our ECO+ products and solutions, which have a much smaller environmental footprint than mainstream solutions, increased in 2012 to 43 percent of our total sales and accounted for 80 percent of our innovation pipeline. We see it in our operations people, who constantly strive to improve the energy efficiency of our facilities. Through their efforts we’ve achieved a 14% reduction in energy consumption through lighting innovations in our warehousing over the past four years.
3. Our products are essential to life
In North America we sometimes become so focused on “optimal nutrition” that we forget about the essential nature of the products our industry provides. One needs only to travel to developing nations to see that nutrition is not about being able to run faster, be active longer or have our kids do better in school – for many people in the world, it’s about life and death. I had the opportunity to travel last year with Vitamin Angels, a wonderful organization that is delivering vitamin A to impoverished and undernourished populations. In India I was introduced by one of their doctors to a little girl with Bitot’s spots who, without vitamin A, would go blind and possibly die within the year. DSM supports not only the Vitamin Angels but also other organizations including the World Food Programme, Sight and Life, US Aid, World Vision and Scaling Up Nutrition to help create and sustain a healthy future for millions of people in need.
We invite you to engage
If you’re already involved in your own sustainability effort, or if you would like to launch such an effort in your company, we invite you to submit your idea or program to our “Sustaining a Healthier Future” contest. The best submission will win $5,000 towards your own effort plus a matching $5,000 contribution to Vitamin Angels. We hope this might be a fun way to give recognition and motivation to you who are taking sustainability to heart.
Jim Hamilton is the president of DSM Nutritional Products USA.
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The Aircraft Design option of the MSc in Aerospace Vehicle Design (AVD) aims to provide a comprehensive overview of aircraft performance, structures and systems. A holistic teaching approach is taken to explore how the individual elements of an aircraft can be designed and integrated using up-to-date methods and techniques. You will learn to understand how to select specific systems such as fuel systems, and their effect on the aircraft as a whole.
This course is suitable for students with a background in aeronautical or mechanical engineering or those with relevant industrial experience.
Modern aircraft design focuses on the integration of new technologies and systems, with current and advanced configurations to lead us towards environmentally friendly and cost effective aviation in the civil arena and high performance and effective aviation in the military arena. This includes new structures, materials and manufacturing processes. New aircraft design is essential to address issues such as carbon footprint reduction, lower noise pollution and improved passenger comfort as well as contributing to national security.
Our work in this field covers all flying vehicles including civil and military aircraft, helicopters, Unmanned Aerial Vehicle Systems (UAVS), ultra-high capacity airlines and space vehicles. Current research being undertaken includes:
Advanced Configurations – such as blended wing and morphing wing aircraft design. This includes both fixed wing and rotorcraft vehicles.
Advanced Systems Integration – such as Distributed Propulsion using hydrogen or alternative fuels for power and high temperature superconducting materials technology.
Advanced Materials and Manufacturing Processes – exploring the benefits achieved through the application of advanced composite materials.
Advanced Design Methodologies – developing techniques to ensure that optimum designs are achieved.
Airworthiness Compliance – ensuring new designs demonstrate the same safety requirements as traditional aircraft.
Operational Aspects – cost, performance, reliability and maintainability are important features of aircraft design as well as advanced techniques such as Integrated Vehicle Health Management (IVHM). Vulnerability and susceptibility also have a major impact.
Biomimetics – taking lessons from nature for example insects and birds, and their application in aviation such as launch, recovery and flight.
English Language Requirements
If you are an international student you will need to provide evidence that you have achieved a satisfactory test result in an English qualification. The minimum standard expected from a number of accepted courses are as follows:
IELTS - 6.5
TOEFL - 92
Pearson PTE Academic - 65
Cambridge English Scale - 180
Cambridge English: Advanced - C
Cambridge English: Proficiency - C
In addition to these minimum scores you are also expected to achieve a balanced score across all elements of the test. We reserve the right to reject any test score if any one element of the test score is too low.
We can only accept tests taken within two years of your registration date (with the exception of Cambridge English tests which have no expiry date).
The Aircraft Design option consists of a taught component, a group design project and an individual research project.
In addition to management, communication, team work and research skills, each student will attain at least the following outcomes from this degree course:
•To build upon knowledge to enable students to enter a wide range of aerospace and related activities concerned with the design of flying vehicles such as aircraft, missiles, airships and spacecraft
•To ensure that the student is of immediate use to their employer and has sufficient breadth of understanding of multi-discipline design to position them for accelerated career progression
•To provide teaching that integrates the range of disciplines required by modern aircraft design
•To provide the opportunity for students to be immersed in a 'Virtual Industrial Environment' giving them hands-on experience of interacting with and working on an aircraft design project
The taught programme for the Aircraft Design masters is generally delivered from October to March. As well as completing the 12 compulsory taught modules, students have an extensive choice of optional modules to match their specific interests.
- Airframe System Design
- Design and Analysis of Composite Structures
- Initial Aircraft Design (including Structural Layout)
- Loading Actions
- Aircraft Stability and Control
- Aircraft Performance
- Design for Manufacture and Operation
- Fatigue Fracture Mechanics and Damage Tolerance
- Reliability, Safety Assessment and Certification
- Flight Experimental Methods (Jetstream Flight Labs)
- Detail Stressing
- Computing Aided Design (CATIA)
- Aircraft Aerodynamics
- Structural Dynamics
- Structural Stability
- Aircraft Accident Investigation
- Aircraft Power Plant Installation
- Avionic System Design
- Aerospace System Development and Life Cycle Model
- Integrated Vehicle Health Management
- Sustaining Design (Structural Durability)
- Finite Element Analysis (including NASTRAN/PATRAN Workshops)
The individual research project aims to provide the training necessary for you to apply knowledge from the taught element to research, and takes place from March to September. The project may be theoretical and/or experimental and drawn from a range of topics related to the course and suggested by teaching staff, your employer or focused on your own area of interest.
Recent Individual Research Projects include:
- Ultra Long Range Science UAV Structure / Systems Development
- Conceptual Design of a Hypersonic Space Launcher and Global Transportation System
- Effect of Aerodynamics on the Conceptual Design of Blended Wing Body Aircraft
- Review, Evaluation and Development of a Microlight Aircraft
- Feasibility of the Application of Low Cost Scaled Aircraft Demonstrators.
The extensive group design project is a distinctive and unique feature of this course. This teamwork project takes place from October to March, and recreates a virtual industrial environment bringing together students with various experience levels and different nationalities into one integrated design team.
Each team member is given responsibility for the detailed design of a significant part of the aircraft, for example, forward fuselage, fuel system, or navigation system. The project will progress from the conceptual phase through to the preliminary and detail design phases. You will be required to run project meetings, produce engineering drawings and detailed analyses of your design. Problem solving and project coordination must be undertaken on a team and individual basis. At the end of the project, groups are required to report and present findings to a panel of 200 senior engineers from industry.
This element of the course is both realistic and engaging, and places the student group in a professional role as aerospace design engineers. Students testify that working as an integrated team on real problems is invaluable and prepares them well for careers in a highly competitive industry.
The taught modules (10%) are assessed by an examination and/or assignment. The Group Project (50%) is assessed by a written technical report and oral presentations. The Individual Research Project (40%) forms the remainder of the course.
The MSc in Aircraft Design is valued and respected by employers worldwide. The applied nature of this course ensures that our graduates are ready to be of immediate use to their future employer and has provided sufficient breadth of understanding of multi-discipline design to position them for accelerated career progression.
This course prepares graduates for careers as project design engineers, systems design, structural design or avionic engineers in aerospace or related industries, with the aim of progressing to technical management/chief engineer. Graduates from the MSc in Aircraft Design can therefore look forward to a varied choice of challenging career opportunities in the above disciplines.
Many of our graduates occupy very senior positions in their organisations, making valuable contributions to the international aerospace industry. Typical student destinations include BAE Systems, Airbus, Dassault and Rolls-Royce.
For further information
on this course, please visit our course webpage http://www.cranfield.ac.uk/Courses/Masters/AVD-Option-Aircraft-Design
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Per Brinch Hansen
Per Brinch Hansen (1938-2007) var hovedmanden bag RC4000 Monitor, den operativsystemkerne, som administrerede ressourcer og multiprogrammering på RC4000.
I 1960'erne arbejdede Per Brinch Hansen på Regnecentralen, først i compilergruppen, og sidenhen som chefarkitekten bag RC4000 og dens operativsystem.
I USA udviklede han det første parallelle programmeringssprog, Concurrent Pascal, og skrev den første lærebog om parallel programmering. Brinch Hansen blev IEEE Fellow og IEEE Computer Pioneer.
Læs Henning Isakssons korte nekrolog over Per Brinch Hansen, eller læs nedenstående fyldige biografi fra IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, skrevet af J.A.N. Lee (firstname.lastname@example.org) and Thomas Haigh (email@example.com)
Per Brinch Hansen was born 13 November 1938, in Copenhagen, Denmark. He is a pioneer in the development of operating system principles and parallel programming languages.
Significant work Written over a period of more than 30 years, Brinch Hansen’s technical papers and textbooks describe a relentless search for simplicity exemplified by the RC 4000 mul- tiprogramming system; the Solo operating system; the monitor notation for modular parallel programming; the parallel programming languages Concurrent Pascal, Edison, Joyce, and SuperPascal; and his scientific programs for parallel architectures. Throughout his career, Brinch Hansen attempted to recognize the essence of complex software problems and express them in terms of a small number of abstract concepts. The technical ideas he rec- ognized are now standard material in textbooks on oper- ating systems and parallel programming. His scientific work can be divided into three phases: operating system principles (1966–1972), parallel programming languages (1972–1988), and computational science (1988–1998). In recent years, he has devoted increasing energy toward documenting the historical origins of modern operating systems and concurrent programming concepts. Brinch Hansen studied electrical engineering at the Technical University of Denmark. After graduating in 1963 he joined the Danish computer company Regnecentralen. There he was a member of a Cobol compiler group headed by Peter Naur and Jorn Jensen. He discovered that writing is a rigorous test of simplicity: “It is just not possible to write convincingly about ideas that cannot be understood.” At Regnecentralen he was responsible for the architecture and software of the RC 4000 minicomputer. The RC 4000 real-time control system was his first experience with multiprogramming and semaphores (1967). The project succeeded because they used the simplest possible techniques to solve an unfamiliar problem of modest size. The RC 4000 multiprogramming system introduced the novel idea of a system kernel for parallel processes and message communication that can be extended with a variety of operating systems.2 Brinch Hansen left the computer industry in 1970 and became a university researcher in the US. The implementation techniques of operating systems were reasonably well understood in the late sixties. But most systems were too large and poorly described to be studied in detail. While Edsger Dijkstra had clarified fundamental aspects of process synchronization, most of the literature on operating systems emphasized implementation details of particular systems rather than general concepts. The terminology was unsystematic and incomplete. At the time there really were no suitable textbooks on operating systems. Universities were therefore unable to teach core courses on the subject. In 1970 Alan Perlis invited Brinch Hansen to spend a year at Carnegie Mellon University where he wrote the first comprehensive textbook on the principles of operating systems, Operating System Principles. Of the process of understanding operating systems he said:
"While writing the book I reached the conclusion that operating systems are not radically different from other programs. They are just large programs based on the principles of a more fundamental subject: parallel programming. Starting from a concise definition of the purpose of an operating system, I divided the subject into five major areas. First, I presented the principles of parallel programming as the essence of operating systems. Then I described processor management, memory management, scheduling algorithms, and resource protection as techniques for implementing parallel processes. I defined operating system concepts by algorithms written in Pascal extended with an (unimplemented) notation for structured multiprogramming."
The book includes a concise vocabulary of operating system terminology, which is used consistently throughout the text.
The combined work of Dijkstra, Tony Hoare, and Brinch Hansen on programming notation for operating system concepts led to the initial development of parallel programming languages. It began in 1971 with Hoare’s notation for a conditional critical region that delays one or more processes until a Boolean expression is true.
Unfortunately, this elegant idea is inefficient because it requires periodic reevaluation of the expression as long as it is false. One of Brinch Hansen’s first papers on programming language concepts proposed an (equally inefficient) variant of conditional critical regions for priority scheduling. A more original idea was his introduction of scheduling queues, which eliminated superfluous evaluation (but complicated the programming somewhat). Dijkstra, Hoare, and Brinch Hansen suggested another parallel programming concept in 1971: the monitor, which combines synchronization procedures with the shared variables upon which they operate. Brinch Hansen’s oper- ating system book introduced a programming notation for monitors (shared classes), based on the class concept of Simula 67. Somewhat later, Hoare published a similar notation for monitors. His proposal included a variant of Brinch Hansen’s scheduling queues (“conditions”). By the fall of 1972 Brinch Hansen was already committed to the goal of developing a parallel programming language with a modu- lar (“object-oriented”) notation for processes and monitors. At the California Institute of Technology he defined the programming lan- guage Concurrent Pascal, which supports monitors and parallel processes for implementation of modular operating systems. Because syn- chronization errors can be extremely difficult to locate by program testing, Concurrent Pascal was designed to permit the detection of such errors during compilation. With the help of a couple of students, a portable implementation of the language was running on a PDP-11 mini- computer at the end of 1974. Concurrent Pascal had obvious limitations by today’s standards. But, in 1975, it laid the foundation for the development of programming languages with abstract concepts for parallelism. Brinch Hansen used Concurrent Pascal to program the portable operating system Solo as a realistic test of the new programming language. The most significant contribution of Solo was undoubtedly that the program text was short enough to be published in its entirety in a computer journal.5 The portable implementation of Concurrent Pascal and Solo was highly successful in spreading the software to almost 200 installations worldwide. The time was now ripe for a book about the principles of abstract parallel programming, and so he produced The Architecture of Concurrent Programs6 while at the University of Southern California. The book includes the complete text of three model oper- ating systems written in Concurrent Pascal. Technology was now moving from multiprocessors with shared memory toward multi- computers with distributed memory. For microcomputer networks, Brinch Hansen proposed a combination of processes and monitors called distributed processes, which communicate by means of synchronized “remote procedure calls.” After Concurrent Pascal, Brinch Hansen designed the parallel programming languages, Edison and Joyce, to experiment with Hoare’s concepts of conditional critical regions and synchronous message communication, respectively. At the end of the preface to his collection of classic papers, Brinch Hansen said of his activities:
"In the 1990s the programming problems of operating systems have surfaced again in parallel scientific computing: there is a serious need for machine-independent programming languages and algorithms. To understand this challenge I spent five years writing portable multicomputer algorithms for typical problems in science and engineering. My book, Studies in Computational Science,10 describes this work."
In 2002, the IEEE Computer Society awarded Brinch Hansen its IEEE Computer Pioneer Award for his accomplishments in operating systems and concurrent programming. Fittingly, this recognition came after several years of work on his part to document historical developments in these areas, and to celebrate and illuminate the accomplishments of his fellow pioneers. His efforts in this area have already produced two edited volumes, one focused on classic operating systems11 and the other on the major breakthroughs in concurrent programming.12 Brinch Hansen recently joined the editorial board of the IEEE Annals of the History of Computing, where we hope to benefit from his expertise and enthusiasm.
Quotations “Writing is a rigorous test of simplicity: It is just not possible to write convincingly about ideas that cannot be understood.” “Programming is the art of writing essays in crystal clear prose and making them executable.” “Although the practical demands of software design make simplicity essential, a more profound reason is to be found in the nature of creative work. The joy of discovery and the pleasure of making something work are the most powerful drives in science and engineer- ing. To sustain this motivation, a software engineer must look for astonishing simplicities and beautiful patterns of design.”
Background of Per Brinch Hansen
Education: Brinch Hansen earned an MS in electrical engineering in 1963 from Technical University of Denmark. Professional experience: Regnecentralen (Copenhagen): 1963–1970, systems programmer; 1967–1970, head of software development; Carnegie Mellon University: 1970–1972, research associate; California Institute of Technology: 1972–1976, associate professor of computer science; University of Southern California: 1976–1982, professor; 1982–1984, Henry Salvatori Professor of Computer Science; Technical University of Denmark: 1984–1987, professor; Syracuse University: 1987–present, distinguished professor of computer science. Honors and awards: Doctor Technices, Technical University of Denmark, 1978; Fellow, IEEE, 1985; Chancellor’s Medal, Syracuse University, 1989; IEEE Computer Pioneer Award, 2002.
- P. Brinch Hansen, “The Programmer as a Young Dog,” The Search for Simplicity: Essays in Parallel Programming, IEEE CS Press, 1996, pp. 142-146.
- P. Brinch Hansen, “Monitors and Concurrent Pascal: A Personal History” History of Programming Languages II, T.J. Bergin Jr. and R.G. Gibson Jr., eds., ACM Press, 1996, pp. 121-172.
Significant publications In addition to those listed in the “References and notes” section, here are some of Brinch Hansen’s significant publications:
- P. Brinch Hansen, “The Programming Language Concurrent Pascal,” IEEE Trans. Software Engineering, vol. 1, no. 2, June 1975, pp. 199-207.
- P. Brinch Hansen, “SuperPascal — A Publication Language for Parallel Scientific Computing,” Concurrency - Practice and Experience, vol. 6, no. 5, Aug. 1994, pp. 461-483.
- P. Brinch Hansen, "Programming for Everyone in Java", Springer-Verlag, 1999.
References and notes
- P. Brinch Hansen, "The Search for Simplicity: Essays in Parallel Programming", IEEE CS Press, 1996.
- P. Brinch Hansen, “The Nucleus of a Multiprogramming System,” Comm. ACM, vol. 13, no. 4, Apr. 1970, pp. 238-242.
- P. Brinch Hansen, "Operating System Principles", Prentice-Hall, 1973.
- P. Brinch Hansen, “Structured Multiprogramming,” Comm. ACM, vol. 15, no. 7, July 1972, pp. 574-578.
- P. Brinch Hansen, “The Solo Operating System,” Software-Practice and Experience, vol. 6, no. 2, Apr.–June 1976, pp. 141-205.
- P. Brinch Hansen, "The Architecture of Concurrent Programs", Prentice-Hall, 1977.
- P. Brinch Hansen, “Distributed Processes: A Con- current Programming Concept,” Comm. ACM, vol. 21, no. 11, Nov. 1978, pp. 934-941.
- P. Brinch Hansen, “The Design of Edison,” Software-Practice and Experience, vol. 11, no. 4, Apr. 1981, pp. 363-396.
- P. Brinch Hansen, “Joyce—A Programming Language for Distributed Systems,” Software-Practice and Experience, vol. 17, no. 1, Jan. 1987, pp. 29-50.
- P. Brinch Hansen, "Studies in Computational Science: Parallel Programming Paradigms", Prentice-Hall, 1995.
- P. Brinch Hansen, ed., "Classic Operating Systems: From Batch Processing to Distributed Systems", Springer-Verlag, 2001.
- P. Brinch Hansen, ed., "The Origin of Concurrent Programming: From Semaphores to Remote Procedure Calls", Springer-Verlag, 2002.
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Geckos are famous for their skill at skittering up any surface—even glass. It's not gluey goop or suction cups that make these little lizards stick. Instead, their toes are coated with millions of microscopic hairs that adhere to surfaces at a molecular level, creating a bond so strong that one gecko could support 280 pounds (127 kg). Geckos lose their grip on wet surfaces, but hey—every superhero has a weakness!
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The historic market, which attracts more than a million visitors each year, will mark its centennial in late 2012. As the city prepares for a party, community groups and developers are hatching plans to build up and brand the neighborhood as the Market District -- an eclectic blend of shops, restaurants and activity at the heart of the region's local food economy.
The Ohio City Near West Development Corp. hopes to create a seamless transition between the West Side Market and the surrounding streets, which still are speckled with vacant and little-used properties. During the next several years, the community development group hopes to promote the Market District brand, to put cleaning crews and safety forces on the streets, to install signs to guide pedestrians and drivers and to recruit more stores and other businesses.
The city of Cleveland has budgeted $1.5 million to remake Market Square Park, a small public space across from the market. The Ohio City Near West group and several partners are launching a $75,000 transportation-planning study that will pinpoint ways to make the neighborhood easier to navigate. And Cleveland Mayor Frank Jackson recently formed a commission to identify potential physical and operational improvements for the market and to plan for the centennial.
"I always say to people that if Cleveland were Rome, the West Side Market would be the Vatican," said Councilman Joe Cimperman, a member of the centennial commission. "It's the place where people come together."
Proximity to the market helped developer MRN Ltd. attract a new retail tenant, Penzeys Spices, to the old United Bank Building at West 25th Street and Lorain Avenue. The developer, known for turning downtown Cleveland's East Fourth Street into an entertainment and restaurant district, has spent $12.5 million so far on a $20 million project called Marketplace. In addition to the nine-story office and bank building, the redevelopment includes several retail spaces and parking lots around West 25th.
MRN partner Ari Maron said tenants have filled 90 percent of the office space in the former bank building, a historic structure with an ornate lobby and a massive underground vault. In February, the Alcohol, Drug Addiction and Mental Health Services Board of Cuyahoga County moved onto the sixth, seventh and eighth floors.
Now Penzeys, a mail-order and storefront spice-seller based in Wisconsin, has signed a lease on 2,500 square feet at the front of the former bank lobby. The retailer, which has a store at Eton Chagrin Boulevard in Woodmere, could open its West Side location within four to six months, said founder and chief executive officer Bill Penzey.
"I just love that whole West Side Market area," Penzey said. "The people who shop there, they're just real people who really cook, and that's so what we're all about. We've been looking up and down the couple of blocks outside of the market for years."
Holes in the neighborhood gradually are filling in. Ohio City Burrito, the Dragonfly Lounge, Horizontal Books and basement bar Speakeasy have opened since early 2009. Great Lakes Brewing Co., ABC Tavern, Le Petit Triangle Cafe, Market Avenue Wine Bar and Light Bistro have made improvements or are expanding. And the Market Garden Brewery, a $2.1 million brewpub and beer garden, is under construction next to the West Side Market.
Yashar Yildirim, one of the owners of Anatolia Cafe in Cleveland Heights, recently signed a lease to open a Turkish restaurant called Alaturka in a former hookah bar space at 1917 W. 25th St.
"You have a sense of community, like Cleveland Heights, like Lakewood," Yildirim said. "People like ethnic food and individual restaurants. There's no chains around."
Ohio City Near West aims to build the Market District on those local and international legs. The community development organization is studying prospects for bringing an international hostel or boutique hotel to the neighborhood. And the group wants to see an urban farm develop at West 24th Street and Bridge Avenue, on 6 acres now owned by the Cuyahoga Metropolitan Housing Authority.
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DARPA has announced that it is soliciting creative proposals for the fourth swarm sprint in its OFFensive Swarm-Enabled Tactics (OFFSET) program. OFFSET envisions swarms of 250 collaborative autonomous systems, such as UAVs (unmanned aerial vehicles) and UGVs (unmanned ground vehicles), providing critical capabilities to ground units in urban areas where challenges such as tall buildings, tight spaces, and limited sight lines constrain essential communications, sensing, maneuverability, and autonomous operations.
The swarm sprints aim to encourage rapid innovation and continuous incorporation of breakthrough technologies. Each of the five core sprints emphasizes one of the key OFFSET thrust areas – swarm tactics, swarm autonomy, human-swarm teaming, virtual environment, and physical testbed – to ultimately enable cross-cutting breakthroughs in swarm systems capabilities.
The fourth swarm sprint consists of two topic areas: developing synthetic technologies in the OFFSET virtual environments and identifying applications of artificial intelligence (AI) to discover and learn novel swarm tactics.
For the first topic area, proposers will seek to develop and implement synthetic capabilities in simulation, representing potential future technologies, such as distributed “see-through-wall” sensors, passive swarm communications, or enhanced sensor/computing arrays, to enable and demonstrate novel swarm tactics. Proposed technologies could be near-term advances that are being prototyped in laboratories or far-term ideas that are primarily conceptual but physically grounded.
The second topic area represents an ad hoc sprint for leveraging artificial Intelligence for accelerating swarm tactics design, for which sprinters will discover, learn, and harden novel swarm tactics by applying artificial intelligence frameworks via enhancements of the OFFSET virtual environments.
“With OFFSET, we are expanding the tactics available to warfighters, leveraging advances in autonomous systems to address complex challenges in urban environments,” says Timothy Chung, program manager in DARPA’s Tactical Technology Office (TTO). “Exploring and developing swarm technologies in virtual environments today can yield insights and impact for real-world breakthrough capabilities tomorrow.”
DARPA also has awarded separate contracts for the third swarm sprint to Carnegie Mellon University and Soar Technology Inc., each of which will focus on development of advanced swarm tactics.
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Researchers from Kaspersky and CrySyS Lab continue to analyze the MiniDuke backdoor and have discovered two previously unknown infection mechanisms.
Recently discovered to have been used to attack multiple government entities and institutions worldwide, MiniDuke is highly customized and very small in size, and was spotted being delivered to victims via malicious PDF documents rigged with exploits attacking Adobe Reader versions 9, 10, and 11, bypassing its sandbox.
But, as it turns out, this might not the only method by which it propagates.
While rifling through one of MiniDuke’s C&C servers, the researchers have unearthed files that seem to have been prepared for infecting visitors using web-based vulnerabilities.
The exploit page serves either an exploit for the Java CVE-2013-0422 vulnerability or the IE8 CVE-2012-4792 flaw. Both exploits are very similar to the ones published in the Metasploit kit, and both deliver MiniDuke’s main backdoor module that then fetches instructions from the same Twitter account. | <urn:uuid:e987008b-bd15-4441-a4af-373a649de7b0> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2013/03/11/miniduke-does-not-come-only-via-email/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281162.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00532-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936691 | 214 | 2.046875 | 2 |
If your Samsung machine displays the SUD error code, it’s a tell-tale sign that you are using too much detergent or the wrong type of detergent. It could also be a result of clogging in the washing machine’s drainage system. This short guide will show you how to fix SUD error code to have a stress-free washing.
Here is my video with instructions on how to resolve the SUD error on your Samsung Front Load Washing machine.
What is SUD on a Samsung washer?
Many people have written to me with the question, “Why does my washing machine display SUDS on the screen?” The sudsing usually occurs if you use too much detergent or a high sudsing detergent, leading to an overflow. If your washing machine displays the SUD error on the screen, most probably, it has detected an over-sudsing condition. Normally, it stops until the suds dissipate. The SUD error code is usually caused by too much detergent or using the wrong type of detergent.
New model washing machines do not use a lot of water like their predecessors. Hence, if you use more soap, it will result in excessive suds. This machine requires High-Efficiency detergent.
How to fix SUD error
If you are in the middle of a wash and your machine suddenly stops and displays a SUD error, you need to give it time for the suds to dissipate. Your washer will resume with the wash. Get rid of the excess powder by running the washing machine without clothes. Set along wash cycle at a high temperature;
However, your washer will have communicated to you that you are either using too much soap or the wrong type of detergent.
Steps to take:
1. You should cut the amount of the detergent.
2. You must only use High-Efficiency Detergent (HE detergent).
While the suds error code usually occurs due to using too much detergent or the wrong type of detergent, it may also be due to clogging in the drainage system. Hence, if you are not using too much detergent, and you only use HE detergent for your wash. The chances are that your washing machine has a drainage issue. If that is the case, you should clean your washing machine pump filter because, in most cases, it is clogged.
How to clean the pump filter
It would help if you located the small access door located on your machine’s front side. Press it inside to open. Inside, you will find the pump filter and the emergency drain hose. Before you open the pump filter, it’s advisable first to open the emergency hose and drain any water thats in the drum. Opening the pump filter can result in water flooding your floor.
After you have drained the water, close the emergency hose cap and return it to its position. Now you can open the pump filter and remove all the lint and any items you find inside there. Wash it and return it back. In most cases, you will have resolved the SUD error.
If you removed and cleaned the detergent draw like in my video and the pump filter, and you are still getting the error, it could be due to partial obstruction in the hose or branch pipe. You need to clean these parts as well.
Disconnect the drain hose from the machine and clean it using a wire.
In the case of the branch pipe, take it out of the washer and clean it. The easiest way is to access it through the bottom of the machine as follows:
1. Put the washing machine on its side;
2. Remove the bottom carefully if there is any;
3.Loosen the pipe clamps attaching the branch pipe to the tub and the pump;
4. Wash the element and reinstall it.
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Archaeology : General Discussion
Monuments in the Mongolian Altai can be divided into a variety of types, each with its own sub-types and probable function. These include khirigsuur, mounds, standing stones, dwellings and related lines, circles, and Turkic memorial structures (including enclosures, Turkic image stones, false image stones, and balbal). Altars may include some of the structures already mentioned as well as several of a distinctive variety. Tamga and inscriptions are here considered together with petroglyphs. | <urn:uuid:c296cc71-8e67-47c4-b1dd-c00b980b6858> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://mongolianaltai.uoregon.edu/archaeology.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720380.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00055-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.935404 | 114 | 2.96875 | 3 |
Juicing can be a healthy way to start losing weight, but more often than not, fruits have a bigger impact on your weight loss goals when they’re eaten whole, thanks to the fiber that gets lost in the juicer.
Learn more about the best fruits for weight loss, not just low calorie fruits, but produce which has other important nutrients which can aid you in to drop the extra pounds. Whether they’re high in carbs or healthy fats, these fruits can help you lose weight when eaten in moderation.
So good at weight loss that it actually has diets created around it, grapefruit has only 12 calories per ounce and it’s a great source of vitamin C. The grapefruit’s excellent reputation when it comes to weight loss is based on this fruit’s ability to lower blood sugar levers and help your metabolism burn more fats. And it’s not just a breakfast food, eating half a grapefruit before any meal will help you eat less without dealing with hunger pangs.
Definitely one of the most fatty fruits, avocado is full of healthy omega 9 fatty acids. With 45 calories per ounce, avocado provides important fats that help boots your metabolism. It’s one of the best fruits for weight loss when consumed in moderation. If you overindulge in guacamole, you might not lose weight as fast as you’d like.
With just 8 calories per ounce of raw fruit without peel, lemons are an ideal choice for many dieters. They can help detoxify your liver, and even if they taste acidic, they’ll turn alkaline once digested. Just like grapefruit, they’ll help boost your metabolism, but will be much less effective if you only drink them as part of sweetened lemonade.
While they have more calories than most fruit, coconut is also packet with fiber. They’re one of the best fruits for weight loss because they can both boost your liver function and improve your thyroid function, both of which are important for a good metabolic rate. The best ways to eat it include shredded and unsweetened coconut meat, along with coconut oil and flour. Avoid low fat coconut milk, since it lacks the most beneficial part of the fruit for weight loss.
High in water and low in carbs, fruits that include watermelons, honey dew melons, cantaloupes, and musk melons can improve your digestion and help detoxify your body. The sweeter they are, the smaller you should keep portions. When consumed in large quantities, they have the same effect on your blood sugar as refined carbs, making you hungry soon after.
Definitely among the best fruits for weight loss, blackberries and blueberries are loaded with fiber, along with powerful antioxidants. They’ll help you feel full for much longer than other sweet snacks, and they contain less than 100 calories per cup, delivers a lot of fiber when compared to other fruits.
High in fiber, pears also have more carbs than other fruit, so you’re better off eating them in the morning, or at least before noon. Most of the fiber is in the peel, so don’t get rid of the skins. Pears can range from around 85 calories for a small one to 135 calories for a big one, so stick to one serving per day.
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One of the best fruits for weight loss when eaten whole, oranges shouldn’t be juiced to often, since you’re getting all the sugar, while losing the fiber. The average orange has 60 calories and it’s much more filling then you eat everything but the peel.
While they’re higher in carbs that other fruits, bananas can also be beneficial to your weight loss efforts when eaten in the morning. Go for slightly green bananas or plantanes, not very ripe, if you want to get a boost to your metabolism thanks to its high content of resistant starch, one of the healthiest types of carbs, which promotes fat burning.
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If you’re a longtime iRunFar reader, then you’ve probably heard us talk about Girls Gotta Run. The Girls Gotta Run Foundation is a nonprofit that awards scholarships to young, female runners in several locations in Ethiopia, including the famous running town of Bekoji in which numerous Olympians live and train. iRunFar traveled to Bekoji in 2019 to learn about and participate in the organization’s work, and wrote a series of articles about Girls Gotta Run.
In short, the scholarships give girls elevated access to education, health care, organized run coaching, and life-skills development. These opportunities are traditionally afforded to girls less often than boys in Ethiopia, so Girls Gotta Run is an equity project.
You can support Girls Gotta Run in several ways. First, right now through May 4, consider buying Allegro Coffee’s 2021 Girls Gotta Run special-edition coffee either online or at your local Whole Foods Market. You can also directly donate to the nonprofit. I hope you’ll consider supporting this program which uses running to help elevate girls’ lives! | <urn:uuid:2b0cfdf0-2d5d-4def-a6d3-697c4e2414cf> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.irunfar.com/buy-coffee-and-support-the-girls-gotta-run-nonprofit | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00265.warc.gz | en | 0.935848 | 297 | 1.734375 | 2 |
With over 250 bird and bug boxes available in the stunning sculptural art installation, birds can choose from a range of shapes and sizes of boxes to use for shelter, nesting or feeding spaces. The diverse complex of bird boxes were designed to reflect the architecture in the nearby Georgian terraces and 1960s flats that surround the park in Duncan Terrace Gardens and Cremorne Gardens. We love the strangely organic forms that are created by stacking these distinct modular box shapes together and are happy to hear that they have been woven together using elastic bands, which means the structure can change over time as the tree grows.
The ‘Spontaneous City’ installations have developed from a concept that the London Fieldwork duo initiated in 2008 with the Super Kingdom, where they created a series of animal ‘show homes’ for the Kings Wood, which included the Mussolini Bird House.
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With age degenerative changes occur in our body including the vertebral bodies. New bone formation occurs at the margins of vertebral bodies as a consequence of use and degeneration and this is seen as marginal lipping of vertebral bodies. This is of no consequence other than being a sign of degeneration.
Pain in low back can be due to degenerative disc disease which would be picked up on MRI.
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Tom Silva provides a practical home window service, in which he shows Emily, a homeowner, how to install energy-efficient replacement windows. In the video titled ‘How to Replace Your Windows | Ask The Old House’, Tom takes Emily through the step-by-step process involved in replacing her old window.
The process of changing a window starts with taking precise measurements. These measurements are required to order the new window.
The replacement window has protective features such as weather stripping and double glass panes with argon gas in-between.
The old window is lifted out carefully after removing the stop, parting beads, and staples. The storm windows are also removed.
The new window is lifted into the window space. The new energy-efficient window should fit snugly into the space left by the old one. Tom says the space on each side of the window should be checked at this point to ensure that the window is properly balanced. The window is screwed into place with shims placed at appropriate spots.
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Carnations add colour to landscapes. Once the carnations produce blooms, you can harvest the seeds to grow new flowers next year. Gardeners often remove the dead or dying blooms from the flowers to encourage more blooms, but resisting deadheading the flowers will allow you to harvest the seeds. Once you harvest the seeds, they need to be stored properly to keep the moisture away from the seeds. Moisture can cause the seeds to mould and rot, which will ruin the seeds.
- Skill level:
- Moderately Easy
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Things you need
- Small paper bags
- Glass jar with lid
Select healthy carnations from the garden to harvest the seeds. Choosing healthy carnations will ensure that you have viable seeds.
Open a small paper bag and place it around the carnation flower head. Tie the bag around the flower with string to keep insects from eating the seeds.
Let the carnation flowers die back completely. The flowers will turn brown in colour and feel dry to the touch.
Cut the carnation flower from the plant with scissors. Spread newspapers on a flat surface and remove the flower head from the paper bag.
Roll the flower head between your hands carefully to remove the seeds. The tiny black seeds will fall onto the newspaper. Discard the leaf and petals.
Spread the seeds out in a single layer. Allow them to dry for two to three days. You can move the seeds outdoors in a shady and dry location away from the wind to help expedite drying.
Store the carnation seeds in a paper envelope. Place the envelope inside a glass jar and seal it tightly. Write the contents and date on the jar and store it in a dark location until the next planting season.
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In a narrative format, discuss the key facts and critical issues presented in the case focusing on marketing and strategic planning. Conduct a comprehensive SWOT and update the case to current time.
1. Do you think TOMS is successful because of its unique products, or the firm’s approach to social responsibility?
2. How does TOMS manage its supply chain in order to ensure ethical and socially responsible conduct?
How does TOMS’ business model relate to the understanding of stakeholders and strategic philanthropy?
Companies, which promote social responsibilities, are often ethical. As a result, these firms are compensated for being good corporate citizens (Pride & Ferrell, 2016). The social and ethical measures taken by the company has helped it build its reputation and image. The community views it as friendly because it helps the needy to live a good life. Therefore, companies that offer quality products would get good returns. With competition threatening the business, diversifying into other product lines would be a great opportunity for growth for TOMS. However, the activities at its foreign factories compromises of its corporate responsibility approach.
The success of the company borders on its social responsibility approach and unique products. Although the unique products could have attracted more customers, the social responsibility approach must have made its customers to create an emotional attachment to the brand. According to Godiwalla (2012), social responsibility ensures the business minimizes adverse impacts and maximizes positive impacts on the society. TOMS has invested in the approach that has seen it minimize negative impacts. For example, the company’s philanthropic nature of helping the society is pushing many customers to purchase the shoes.
To avoid compromising on its core competences and values, TOMS has used social and ethical responsibility approach in managing its supply chain. The business works with the various humanitarian bodies closely to avoid negative impact on the customers and community. For instance, it has established manufacturing standards as expected by the ILO. It further conducts regular audits on its supply chain to ensure the organization meets the ILO standards (Pride & Ferrell, 2016). It has further established a strong relationship with key stakeholders such as volunteers and employees as part of its obligation. Despite these efforts, the company’s factories in other countries such as Ethiopia, China, and Argentina have violated the ethical responsibility model.
TOMS’ business model embraces the strategic philanthropy and understanding the needs of stakeholders. For instance, the company has embarked on a robust use of synergy to emphasize its organizational resources and core competence in meeting the stakeholders’ needs thus “achieve its organizational and social benefits” (Pride & Ferrell, 2016, p. 118). Strategic philanthropy involves linking different assets such as expertise, employees, and resources to the needs of consumers. TOMS seem to be aware that the stakeholders are important and it would be prudent to make them the firm profitable. The company has thus emerged to be successful because of its definition of social and ethical responsibility. For example, the company has donated about 50 million shoes to the needy children. Therefore, its one-to-one model will benefit the firm as it maximizes different opportunities in the market.
Godiwalla, Y.H. (2012). Business Ethics and Social Responsibility for the Multinational Corporation (MNC). Journal of Modern Accounting and Auditing, 8(9), 1382-1391.
Pride, W.M., & Ferrell, O.C. (2016). Marketing, 18st Edition. Stamford, Conn: Cengage learning.
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Watermelon (citrullus lanatus) is a member of gourd family (Cucurbitaceae), a plant family which also includes cucumber, squash, and pumpkin that grow on vines on the ground. The melons which are either classified as fruit or vegetable are believed to be originated in southern Africa and now are widely grown across many tropical regions.
There are over 500 varieties of watermelons throughout the world, ranging in weights (from one pound to more than two hundred pounds), shapes (from globular to oblong) and colors (red, yellow, orange, or white flesh).
The watermelon contains about ninety percent of water and the pulp is sweet, making it a favorite thirst-quenching fruit. Apart from that, watermelon is considered as one of the world’s healthiest foods because it has no fats and has fewer amounts of calories. One cup of watermelon has just 46 calories, so it’s also an excellent food for weight loss.
In addition, watermelons are rich in many essential nutrient like vitamin A, B1, B6 & C, pantothenic acid, biotin, potassium, and magnesium. In red watermelon also contains a powerful carotenoid antioxidant known as lycopene (plant pigment that responsible for the red color of watermelon, tomatoes, and pink guavas). These powerful antioxidants help to neutralize free radicals that can lead to inflammation, general sickness and chronic illnesses such as heart attack, stroke, and cancer.
Nutritional Value of Watermelon, Raw
Health Benefits of Watermelon
Here are some health benefits of watermelon:
- Fight Cancer
The lypocene in watermelon has been found to be effective in preventing cancers, particularly breast cancer, colon cancer, lung cancer, prostate cancer, and endometrial cancer. A study conducted by Harvard University found that men who ate lycopene-rich diet had a lower risk of developing certain cancers, especially prostate cancer than those who did not.
- Relieve Kidney Disorders
Watermelon is a good source of potassium, which is very helpful in cleaning off the toxic depositions in the kidneys. Moreover, it is helpful in reducing concentration of uric acid in the blood, thereby reducing the chances of kidney damages.
- Reduce High Blood Pressure
As watermelons are rich in potassium and magnesium, they help in controlling blood pressure and maintaining the body’s proper electrolyte and acid-base balance.
- Improves Eye Health
Watermelons are an excellent source of vitamin A and beta carotene, which help improve overall eye health. Eating watermelon can also prevent age related macular degeneration (AMD), the major cause of vision loss in older people.
- Reduce Heart Disease Risk
Apart from protective cancers, lycopene in watermelon also provide cardiovascular benefits. Researchers found that women who consumed 7-10 servings of lycopene-rich diets every week had 29% lower risk of heart disease when compared with women who ate less than 1.5 servings of lycopene-rich diets each week. Watermelon also contains the amino acids citrulline and arginine, which can help promote arteries, blood flow, and overall heart health.
- Boosts the Immune System
Vitamin C in watermelon can help boost the immune system, which in turn help protect your body from various illness and infections.
- Treats Erectile Dysfunction (Impotence)
Arginine present in water melon is beneficial in treating erectile dysfunction. Arginine boosts nitric oxide, which relaxes blood vessels, the same basic effect that Viagra has. While watermelon may not be as organ-specific as Viagra, it is a best way to relax blood vessels without the side effects of prescription drugs. A study of 50 men with impotence reported significant improved sexual function after they were given arginine supplementation.
- Aid in Energy Production
Watermelon is an excellent source of vitamin B6 and vitamin B1, which are necessary for energy production.
- Promote Weight Loss
Watermelon is low in calories and high in water content, hence it is a perfect snack for people looking to lose weight.
- Prevent Osteoporosis
Watermelon is rich in magnesium, a nutrient known to help strengthen the bone, thereby beneficial in preventing osteoporosis.
- Reduce Blood Sugar
Minerals such as potassium and magnesium help in proper functioning of insulin in the body, thus reducing the blood sugar level. Arginine, another component found in water melons also has been shown to improve insulin sensitivity in patients with type 2 diabetes.
- Keep Body Hydrated
Since watermelon contains high water content – 92 percent water, it can help to replenish body fluids. Also, watermelons help in providing a cooling effect in your body. So it’s the best refreshing snack option during the hot summer season. By having watermelons, you can keep your body hydrated and healthy.
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“The house has been empty nearly 10 years,” the local aid worker told me. “No one wants to live there.” The small, one-storey building is enclosed by a low cement wall on a secluded, tree-lined street off the main thoroughfare in the town of Muttur, in Sri Lanka’s northeast. Its sky blue siding with white horizontal stripes gives the house an incongruous festive appearance.
I’ve often imagined the house in August 2006 after rebel fighters from the Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE) had unexpectedly overrun the town. I could picture the 17 Sri Lankan staff members – all ethnic Tamils save one Muslim, including four women – of the Paris-based international aid agency Action Contre la Faim (Action Against Hunger, ACF) huddled inside the house waiting for the shooting and shelling to end.
When Sri Lankan security forces re-took Muttur after the LTTE’s sudden withdrawal, they reported a terrible sight: the bodies of 15 ACF workers lying face down in the courtyard with bullet wounds to their heads and necks. The shots were fired at point-blank range. The bodies of two more ACF workers making a futile escape attempt were found in a vehicle nearby.
Foreign journalists brought to the gruesome scene were informed that the LTTE was the culprit. However, inconsistencies in the military’s version of events and investigative reporting by Jaffna’s University Teachers for Human Rights have since debunked the official account. Instead the evidence strongly indicates that Sri Lankan police and navy special forces were responsible for the Mafia-style executions, not the LTTE.
The previous Sri Lankan government of President Mahinda Rajapaksa check-marked the ACF case as a priority for investigation. But Rajapaksa, under whose administration the LTTE was defeated in 2009 at a terrible cost in civilian lives, actively opposed serious war crime investigations.
This past January Sri Lankans elected a new administration more attuned to human rights concerns. President Maithripala Sirisena and his top ministers have endorsed accountability for wartime abuses by both sides, as reflected in a United Nations Human Rights Council resolution adopted in September. The ACF case is back on the agenda.
One sticking point is the extent to which foreign judges and prosecutors will play a role in a future war crimes tribunal. The government should recognize that there can only be justice for the ACF killings if all those responsible – not just the low-ranking triggermen – are held to account. An ACF trial may place witnesses, prosecutors and judges at risk of threats and violence from defendants and their sponsors, as in past politically charged cases. Foreign judges and prosecutors would be far less susceptible to such dangers. The ACF house in Muttur is now a forsaken tombstone for a massacre. But it could someday become a living center not just for the 17 aid workers who lost their lives there, but also for the countless Sri Lankans who risked all to bring aid to their embattled countrymen and women in the midst of a terrible war. For that, justice must first prevail. | <urn:uuid:946e4476-2464-4467-8b18-3b5aeda72b87> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://sangam.org/hrw-justice-sri-lankan-massacre/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279933.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00128-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.963323 | 650 | 2.109375 | 2 |
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What is a Wormhole?
by Nola Taylor Redd
Credit: edobric | Shutterstock..A model of ‘folded’ space-time illustrates how a wormhole bridge might form with at least two mouths that are connected to a single throat or tube.
A wormhole is a theoretical passage through space-time that could create shortcuts for long journeys across the universe. Wormholes are predicted by the theory of general relativity. But be wary: wormholes bring with them the dangers of sudden collapse, high radiation and dangerous contact with exotic matter.
In 1935, physicists Albert Einstein and Nathan Rosen used the theory of general relativity to propose the existence of “bridges” through space-time. These paths, called Einstein-Rosen bridges or wormholes, connect two different points in space-time, theoretically creating a shortcut that could reduce travel time and distance.
Wormholes contain two mouths, with a throat connecting the two. The mouths would most likely be spheroidal. The throat might be a straight stretch, but it could also wind around, taking a longer path than a more conventional route might require.
Einstein’s theory of general relativity mathematically predicts the existence of wormholes, but none have been discovered to date. A negative mass wormhole might be spotted by the way its gravity affects light that passes by.
Certain solutions of general relativity allow for the existence of wormholes where the mouth of each is a black hole. However, a naturally occurring black hole, formed by the collapse of a dying star, does not by itself create a wormhole.
Science fiction is filled with tales of traveling through wormholes. But the reality of such travel is more complicated, and not just because we’ve yet to spot one.
The first problem is size. Primordial wormholes are predicted to exist on microscopic levels, about 10–33 centimeters. However, as the universe expands, it is possible that some may have been stretched to larger sizes.
Another problem comes from stability. The predicted Einstein-Rosen wormholes would be useless for travel because they collapse quickly. But more recent research found that a wormhole containing “exotic” matter could stay open and unchanging for longer periods of time.
Exotic matter, which should not be confused with dark matter or antimatter, contains negative energy density and a large negative pressure. Such matter has only been seen in the behavior of certain vacuum states as part of quantum field theory.
If a wormhole contained sufficient exotic matter, whether naturally occurring or artificially added, it could theoretically be used as a method of sending information or travelers through space.
Wormholes may not only connect two separate regions within the universe, they could also connect two different universes. Similarly, some scientists have conjectured that if one mouth of a wormhole is moved in a specific manner, it could allow for time travel. However, British cosmologist Stephen Hawking has argued that such use is not possible.
Although adding exotic matter to a wormhole might stabilize it to the point that human passengers could travel safely through it, there is still the possibility that the addition of “regular” matter would be sufficient to destabilize the portal.
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When a year nears its end there’s a natural inclination to take stock, and 2016 has been a year like few others.
At Runbox, while working hard each day to improve our product and ensure that our services are reliable and secure, we have watched the world’s events unfold from our vantage point in the high north.
With customers in 172 countries we feel that we are connected with people in every corner of the world.
And as our planet completes another revolution, its fate seems more uncertain than ever. Just since Runbox was launched in 2000,
- average global temperature has increased 0.4°C ,
- average sea level has risen almost 6cm (2 inches) ,
- human population has grown by more than 1 billion , and
- around 30,000 species have gone extinct [4,5].
Humanity’s ecological footprint is so large that we are literally about to eradicate the planet’s resources:
- Humans annually absorb more than 42% of the Earth’s terrestrial net primary productivity, 30% of its marine net primary productivity, and 50% of its fresh water .
- 40% of the planet’s land is devoted to human food production, up from 7% in 1700 .
- 50% of the planet’s land mass has been transformed for human use .
Clearly this is not sustainable, and humanity is on a collision course with its environment.
This increasing urgency implores us to do more to help decrease human impact. We all depend on our environment — and when it deteriorates it affects us all.
This includes both our email hosting and web hosting services, up to 100 email accounts and 1 000 MB website storage per organization. If you are a registered environmental NPO/NGO, please contact us to apply.
We encourage other email and web hosting providers to do the same.
And we wish everyone the very best for the new year.
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For the 2011 Xi’an International Horticultural Exposition, the Berlin-based landscape architecture office Topotek1 “dug” a hole to the other side of the world. From its edges visitors to this garden in China can peer into a real or imagined world at the end of the tunnel. Whether these are the cows from the pampas of Argentinas, commuters rushing among transit through New York City, the maritime life of Stockholm, and layers of history so audible among the streets of Berlin. These soundtracks pique the imagination of the visitors, transferring them away from China, away from the garden,” and into a far-off place.
“As tradition,” explains Topotek1, “a garden is a place that transfers someone into a ‘foreign’ space: from inside to outside, from city to nature, from one culture to another. This garden is the cusp at which two worlds are colliding, a foreign world entering China, defined by the visitor’s imagination.” | <urn:uuid:2b618e40-1fad-488a-9f89-8b9a2480e449> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.archdaily.com/153732/dug-by-topotek1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573876.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20220820012448-20220820042448-00072.warc.gz | en | 0.914265 | 217 | 2.53125 | 3 |
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Suicide jokes are not funny
This is for the people that pretend to shoot themselves in the head to express what they are feeling. And for the people that express frustrations by saying things like “I want to find the tallest building” or “I could just kill myself.” I have a message for you: Your joke is not funny - it's dangerous.
To be completely honest, I used to make jokes about suicide too. I also used to describe something off-putting by saying it was gay or retarded. But making fun of people, whether they’re homosexuals, disabled or even if they are thinking about suicide, just isn’t funny – it is harmful. Why? Keep reading...
Statistics show that most everyone will experience periods of anxiety, sadness and despair at some point in their life that may lead them to think about suicide. For someone who is contemplating suicide, even if it is just that one passing thought, they are not encouraged to seek help by hearing your jokes.
We need to be able to talk about our feelings of depression openly, and we need to encourage each other to seek prefessional help. I hear fewer references today about something being gay or retarded. Hopefully the way that we joke about suicide will catch up with these realizations, too.
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To create that crunchy coating fried foods are famous for, all-purpose flour is your solution. This kitchen staple is all you need to add a golden-brown coating to fried meats and vegetables and make them irresistible. Use all-purpose flour for all your frying needs to ensure your fried foods are done right.
Deep-fried items are made by either breading or battering foods and then frying them in hot oil. Breaded meats and vegetables are simply seasoned and rolled in all-purpose flour before being fried. For extra coverage and a super-crunchy coating, food should dredged, then dipped in a liquid, such as beaten eggs or milk, before dredging the item again in flour. For battered deep-fried items, the flour is mixed with a carbonated liquid, such as beer or sparkling water, to create a bubbly, thin batter; for a more simple batter, you can use water. Foods are dipped in this batter directly before frying and cooked to golden-brown.
All-purpose flour is the leading choice when deep-frying meats, as it can stand up to the prolonged heat needed to fully cook meats. Use all-purpose flour to bread chicken, beef, pork or fish for deep-frying. Always apply breading directly before frying; season the meat well and dredge it in unseasoned flour or season both the meat and the flour. Boneless meats will cook faster than bone-in cuts and cooking times will vary based on the cut of meat. Small boneless, cuts such as chicken strips and nuggets, cook in less than five minutes, though leaving them in the hot oil after they're fully cooked will ensure a well-browned coating on the all-purpose flour.
Deep-fried vegetables bring a new twist to meals. Dredging vegetables in flour can be problematic, especially when the vegetables are dry. Use an egg or milk wash to get the flour to really stick to vegetables or batter them for guaranteed coverage. Most vegetables cook quickly and will be done before the batter takes on a golden color. Watch deep-frying vegetables closely and remove them from the oil as soon as they are light golden-brown. For root vegetables like potatoes or sweet potatoes, parboil them for two to three minutes before breading or battering to ensure they will be fully cooked with a brown coating.
To achieve a crunchy coating using all-purpose flour when deep-frying, oil temperature is extremely important. Heat frying oil to 375 degrees Fahrenheit and maintain that temperature throughout cooking, using a candy thermometer if you're frying on the stovetop. Use a wide-bottomed pot for frying and do not fill it higher than halfway to ensure safety. Shake off excess flour before adding dredged meats or vegetables to the pot for frying. Clean the oil in between frying batches using a wire mesh strainer to remove any pieces of cooked flour in the oil. Always drain fried foods well before serving.
- Vegetables, Revised: The Most Authoritative Guide to Buying, Preparing and Cooking, With More Than 300 Recipes; James Peterson
- The Ultimate Guide to Frying: How to Fry Just About Anything; Rick Browne
- Quick and Easy Japanese Cuisine for Everyone; Yukiko Moriyama
- Vegetables Please: The More Vegetables, Less Meat Cookbook; DK Publishing
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Among the sad ironies that rattle our world is the mindless prediction by some religious extremists that the world would come to an end of May 21, 2011. This was to happen, not by natural disasters, not by unrest in the Middle East, not by explosions of weapons of mass destruction, but by the intervention of a very party-minded God who would transport all Christians to the bliss of Heaven, and cast all Non-Christians into the depths of a climatically intolerable Hell with a capital H. If such a pronouncement had come from an intellectually challenged medieval soothsayer in the Dark Ages inhabited by ghosts and goblins, jinns and asuras, it would have been understandable. But the fact that it came from a so-called religious leader in a country regarded as scientifically advanced and that it received much public space and was taken pretty seriously by quite a few gullible folks reflects the low level of general scientific knowledge in a section of the citizenry. Ignorance of scientifically informed worldviews has the potential for spelling disaster: we seldom remember the horrors perpetrated in ages past as a result of preposterous fears of the supposed powers of the supernatural.
Similar absurdities infect the minds of millions all over the world, stirred by corresponding worldviews resulting from other unreformed and stagnant religious frameworks. In this context it is important, however, not to yield to the temptation of condemning any particular religion. Every religion has at its core not only belief in a God Almighty but also injunctions to love and hope, to serve and help, to care and be compassionate, and above all to be humble and reverential towards the unfathomable mystery of the universe that has made life and love and laughter possible. The real culprits for our religious mess are leaders who keep the minds of the masses in the fetters of blind beliefs of which they themselves are victims – beliefs that should be relegated to the archives of ill-considered ideas. Their instigation to persist in values no longer appropriate and visions no longer relevant goads many millions to servile adherence to ancient worldviews and sometimes to hurtful behavior. Such men have not moved much in knowledge or understanding since the distant days of the sages, messiahs and prophets whose spiritual charisma instigated the great religions of the world, but not every inspired insight they articulated deserves perpetual acceptance.
Not surprisingly, in our own times the tension between religion and anti-religion has been growing in intensity. Anti-religious movements are fed up with the lingering dross of traditional religions with all their untenable views, including the conviction that one’s own versions of God and the hereafter are superior to those of others which must therefore be decimated. So the New Atheists are coming with full force in their ardent desire to dismantle all religions, and in their relentless efforts to make ours a faith-free species. Such goals are as naïve, though less ridiculous, than the belief that humanity will be salvaged on such and such a date. They also ignore the many positive and necessary contributions of religions to humanity.
What we direly need, and may hope for, is a recognition on the part of influential religious leaders of all traditions that one can be anchored to any faith without subscribing to the fairy tales of humanity’s infancy. Prayer to an unfathomable Mystery in whatever form or by whatever name and in whatever traditional mode is surely possible without denigrating other forms and names and modes towards that Mystery, including the ones that are seen in the laws and equations of physics. To respect reason and to be guided by the visions of science can also lead to the religious experience. Perhaps this embarrassment might stir rational religionists to reflect more carefully, fruitfully and meaningfully on their own faith system.
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Appro introduced the new Appro Xtreme-Cool Supercomputer, which features an energy-efficient design using warm water liquid-cooling heat exchangers and no chillers. The system also recaptures heat to support produces 80% heat capture to the warm water for possible heat reuse. The company will showcase the system at the SC12 event next week in Salt Lake City.
The new Xtreme-Cool supercomputer is composed of blade nodes that are typically installed in a cluster. The liquid cooling installed in the noded is connected to the Coolant Distribution Unit (CDU) via tubes with drip-free quick connects. Leak detection and prevention is integrated in the system for an extra measure of protection. Integrated remote power and temperature monitoring and reporting is also provided.
“Appro’s new Xtreme-Cool Supercomputer is aimed squarely at the worldwide high performance computing market, which reached a record $10.3 billion in 2011 and is predicted by IDC to exceed $14 billion by 2016,” said Earl Joseph, IDC HPC Program Vice President. “Appro’s new product is designed to address key customer requirements such as less or no air-conditioning in the datacenter with warm liquid-cooling heat exchanger technology, which enables direct cooling of the compute processor and memory combined with power and temperature monitoring software. This has the potential to improve price/performance and TCO for dense, large-scale cluster environments.”
Using a higher water temperature in a cooling system provides two benefits – it allows you to either use your chiller less, or not at all. Higher inlet water temperature maximizes the number of hours in which “free cooling” is possible through the use of water side economizers. Warm water cooling works best in a tightly-designed and controlled environment that focuses the cooling as closely as possible to the heat-generating components.
The Xtreme-Cool is targeted at medium-to-large data centers with HPC deployments up to 25 Petaflops of computing performance. The system is composed of two processors per node supporting approximately 80 nodes per rack in a standard 42U rack based on Intel Xeon processor E5 Family. It also supports hybrid processing based on Intel Xeon processors paired with Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. It uses 480 volt power distribution with a choice of 208 or 277 volt power supplies for further energy savings.
“Customers who are pressing the state of the art in scientific discovery are looking for not only outstanding performance and energy-efficiency, but also programmability and manageability”, said Dr. Rajeeb Hazra, VP Intel Architecture Group and GM Technical Computing, Datacenter and Connected Systems Group. “The Appro Xtreme-Cool meets those needs by combining the power of Intel Xeon processor E5 family with the programmability and energy efficiency of the Intel Many Integrated architecture based Intel Xeon Phi coprocessors. This combination of technologies establishes a new standard for both programmer productivity and performance per watt.”
NOAA Selects Appro
Appro also announced a delivery of a 113.2 Teraflop Xtreme-X supercomputer, based on a subcontract awarded to CSC, to the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration’s (NOAA) Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP). The $317 million contract was awarded to CSC in 2011, and included the requirement to build a supercomputer for modeling weathering patterns.
“By installing the Appro Xtreme-X Supercomputer as part of the NOAA’s Hurricane Forecast Improvement Project (HFIP), CSC and Appro are working together to improve the reliability, fault tolerance and redundancy of the HPC solution, as well as flexibility for system scalability for future installations.” said Steve Baxter, program manager of CSC’s North American Public Sector.
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Does the Bible say Mt. Sinai is in Saudi Arabia?
Many people believe the Bible indicates that Mt. Sinai is in Saudi Arabia. The principal source of this idea is probably Galatians 4:25 which says (NASB), "Now this Hagar is Mt. Sinai in Arabia,...". It is not safe to assume, however, that the boundaries of Arabia in Paul's day correspond to the boundaries of modern Saudi Arabia. In fact, as the map at right shows, Arabia at the time of Paul included a much larger area than it does today. At the time Paul wrote Galatians, Mt. Yeroham, the true Mt. Sinai, was just on the Arabia side of the border between Israel and Arabia.
Another verse which is often cited in relation to the location of Mt. Sinai is Exodus 3:1.
Now Moses was pasturing the flock of Jethro his father-in-law, the priest of Midian; and he led the flock to the west side of the wilderness, and came to Horeb, the mountain of God. (NASB)
The biblical Midian is associated with the area to the east of the Gulf of Aqaba (the right finger of the Red Sea). Therefore, this verse might be used to infer that Mt. Sinai was in Midian, and hence in Saudi Arabia. However, the Bible makes it very plain that Mt. Sinai was not in Midian, as discussed below.
Numbers 10:29 and 30
When the Israelites were preparing to leave Sinai, Moses asked his Midianite in-laws to stay with them. Moses said, "you know where we should camp in the wilderness, and you will be as eyes for us" (Numbers 10:31; NASB). Hobab, the Midianite, son of Reuel, replied, "I will not come, but rather will go to my own land and relatives" (Numbers 10:30; NASB). This indicates that Mt. Sinai was not located in the place where Moses' Midianite in-laws lived.
The Bible tells us that Moses' father-in-law, Jethro, lived in Midian (e.g., Exodus 3:1). After the Exodus, Jethro came to meet Moses at Sinai (Exodus 18:5). Following his visit the Bible informs us that Jethro "went his way into his own land" (Exodus 18:27; NASB). Since Jethro reentered Midian after leaving Mt. Sinai, we must conclude that the Bible places Mt. Sinai outside Midian's borders.
The Bible does not say Mt. Sinai is in Saudi Arabia. The Bible says Mt. Sinai was located in the Arabia of Paul's day, but the boundaries of Arabia at that time did not correspond to the boundaries of modern Saudi Arabia.
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The 2022 Sustainable Energy in America Factbook: Four Takeaways for Small Businesses
March 9, 2022 | Annabelle Swift, Associate, Clean Energy Business Network
Last week, the Business Council for Sustainable Energy and BloombergNEF released the 10th annual Sustainable Energy in America Factbook. The Factbook provides an overview of the clean energy economy through 2021, with data on policy, finance, economics, deployment, and emissions.
Small businesses are a vital part of clean energy industries – across every type of technology, innovators and entrepreneurs are propelling innovation and making a tangible impact in their communities. 2021 set records for clean energy, including for small businesses.
The CEBN has dug into the data in the Factbook. Here are four trends we’ve pulled out that affect small businesses.
First, start-ups and small businesses were part of overall record-breaking investments in new clean energy assets.
Global venture capital financing for technology start-ups set a new record at $53.7 billion.
Total sustainable financing hit $1.6 trillion globally, and $105 billion was invested in the U.S. into energy transition assets.
Second, the cycle of innovation continued. Across all types of clean energy, technologies continue to improve and mature. Meanwhile, clean energy technologies that were once novel have become increasingly common.
Over 8GW of new hydrogen-fired power plants were announced in the U.S.
Developers were awarded leases in 2021 that could support up to 8.5GW of offshore wind capacity. This plus the record-recording lease sale generating $4.37 billion in February 2022 shows a trajectory of growth in this new U.S. industry,
Lithium-battery storage has passed pumped hydrogen as the most common new build of storage capacity added to the grid.
EVs have crossed into the mainstream, as evidenced by the numerous Superbowl ads featuring electric vehicles. In 2021, 657,000 EVs were sold in the U.S. – twice as much as 2020.
Federal policy provided cleantech deployment a boost. Although a reconciliation package investing in clean energy is still pending, the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law (BIL) allocated $80 billion in funding for infrastructure supporting the energy transition. The establishment of a new Office of Clean Energy Demonstrations and the reorganization to include a dedicated Secretary of Infrastructure demonstrates new support through the Department of Energy (DOE) to bolster cleantech deployment.
The BIL includes $7.5 billion in funding for EV charging infrastructure and $7.5 billion for electric transit procurement.
The package also funds $28 billion for grid enhancement, $11 billion for CCUS demonstrations, and $9.5 billion for hydrogen hubs.
Fourth and finally, clean energy continues to translate into jobs. Although the COVID-19 pandemic had a sizable impact on employment, 3.5 million people in the U.S. were employed in sustainable energy, nuclear, and energy storage sectors in 2020 (when most recent data is available).Tangible impacts of clean energy are visible in every state. Already, announcements of planned manufacturing facilities and deployment continue to spur optimism about jobs in clean energy.
Energy efficiency employs by far the most workers with 2.1 million jobs, while natural gas and solar followed at 319,000 and 316,000 respectively. Wind energy supports 117,000 jobs.
Energy sector jobs are not only commonplace but also pay 34% higher than the national median wage.
$16.3 billion in investments were announced for battery factories in Tennessee, Michigan, and Kentucky.
Offshore wind contracts were awarded to New York, New Jersey, Massachusetts and Maryland. Upcoming lease auctions are expected in California and the Gulf of Mexico as well.
Press Release: Waste Heat to Power Investment Tax Credit Act Introduction in the House
Yesterday, Rep. Schneider (D-IL) introduced the The Waste Heat to Power Investment Tax Credit Act in the House. This bill would provide a 30 percent investment tax credit for WHP technologies that begin production in the next five years. The…
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Washed cuttings provide a continuous record of the rocks encountered during drilling of the main hole of the San Andreas Fault Observatory at Depth (SAFOD). Both protolith and fault rocks exhibit a wide variety of mineral assemblages that reflect variations in some combination of lithology, P-T conditions, deformation mechanisms, and fluid composition and abundance. Regions of distinct neomineralization bounded by faults may record alteration associated with fluid reservoirs confined by faults. In addition, both smectites occurring as mixed-layer phases and serpentine minerals are found in association with active strands of the San Andreas Fault that were intersected during drilling, although their rheological influence is not yet fully known. Faults containing these mineralogical phases are prime candidates for continuous coring during Phase 3 of SAFOD drilling in the summer of 2007. Copyright 2006 by the American Geophysical Union.
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Staff Sgt. Lee Nembhard, an aeromedical evacuation technician assigned to the 375th Aeromedical Evacuation Squadron from Scott Air Force Base, Ill., straps a simulated Ebola patient to a litter during a Transport Isolation System training exercise at Joint Base Charleston, S.C., October 23, 2019. The TIS is a device used to transport Ebola patients, either by C-17 Globemaster III or C-130 Hercules, while preventing the spread of disease to medical personnel and aircrews until the patient can get to one of three designated hospitals in the United States that can treat Ebola patients. JB Charleston is currently the only military installation with a TIS. The TIS mission is a sub-specialty of the aeromedical evacuation mission which requires frequent training to maintain readiness.
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Our aim of establishing and applying safe-practice standards in P.E. are to:
- Enable pupils to participate in P.E. that provides appropriate challenge with acceptable risk
- Promote pupils learning about risk management, and their responsibility in this, in order for them to participate independently in physical activity in later life
- Ensure clear management responsibilities and organisation provide for safe systems of work
- Identify and provide for any professional learning needs the staff are likely to encounter in their work
- Fulfill the provision of a broad, balanced and relevant curriculum for physical education through:
- An environment that is safe for activity
- Adequately supervised activities
- The use of regular and approved practice
- Progressive stages of learning and challenge
- Building a system of advice and the practice of warning
- The use of equipment for the purpose for which it was intended
- Providing basic care in the event of an accident
- The use of forethought and sound preparation
- Involving pupils in the process of risk management
National Curriculum aims for Physical Education underpin the planning of all P.E. lessons at Cherry Orchard. Within each key stage group our P.E. curriculum is varied in its aims and outcomes we have our core values
COPA Core Curricular Aims
- To develop physical competence to excel in a wide range or physical activities, including competitive sports.
- To develop an increasing ability to select, link and apply skills, tactics and compositional ideas.
- To improve observation skills and the ability to describe and make simple judgements on their own and others’ work, and to use their observations and judgements to improve performance.
- For pupils to be active for sustained periods of time and to develop an understanding of the positive effects of exercise on the body.
- To develop the ability to work independently and respond appropriately and sympathetically to others.
- To promote an understanding of safe practice and develop a sense of responsibility towards their own and others’ safety and well-being.
IB Primary Years Programme(PYP) Personal, Social and Physical Education (PSP)
The aim of all IB programmes is to develop internationally minded people who, recognising their common humanity and shared guardianship of the planet, help to create a better and more peaceful world. As IB learners we strive to be Inquirers, Knowledgeable, Thinkers, Communicators, Principled, Open-Minded, Caring, Risk-Takers, Balanced and Reflective. We encourage these traits within our curriculum through:
- Individual pursuits: The development of basic motor skills and the body’s capacity for movement through locomotor and manipulative skills and/or experiences; the techniques, rules and purpose of a range of athletic activities (for example, track and field, swimming, skating, skiing); recognising a high level of achievement and how to improve a performance.
- Movement composition: Recognising that movements can be linked together and refined to create a sequence of aesthetic movements. Movements can be in response to stimuli or performance elements and/or criteria and can communicate feelings, emotions and ideas (for example, gymnastics, dance*, martial arts).
- Games: Recognising the challenges presented by games; the importance of manipulating space; the categorising of games; identifying and developing appropriate skills and strategies; recognising the importance of rules and how they define the nature of a game; modifying existing games and creating new games; teamwork.
- Adventure challenges: A variety of tasks requiring the use of physical and critical-thinking skills by individuals and/or groups; challenges that require groups to work together collaboratively in order to solve problems and accomplish a common goal; recognizing the role of the individual in group problem solving.
- Health-related fitness: Recognising and appreciating the importance of maintaining a healthy lifestyle; the body’s response to exercise including the interaction of body systems and the development of physical activity.
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The traditional "5-pocket" jeans are a staple of every guy's wardrobe, and have been for decades.
With such longevity, it makes sense that some of the garment's original intent would be lost to history.
Some of that intent has been reclaimed on a (quite long) Quora thread asking essentially the same question: What is that tiny pocket-in-a-pocket for?
Well, it turns out, it was originally a watch pocket, meant to be just big enough to slip in a pocket watch, according to the Levi's blog.
A watch in this pocket would be protected from the elements and from scratching, while still being easily accessible to check the time.
Since then, watches have moved to the wrist or disappeared completely. Jeans still have the fifth pocket, though, so we may as well make use for it.
Here are some common modern uses for the vestigial small pocket:
- Coin pocket.
- Ticket pocket.
- Condom pocket.
- Lip balm pocket.
- USB dongle pocket.
- Gum pocket.
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Seventeenth-Century Illustration of Three Masques by Jonson
In lieu of an abstract, the first paragraph of the essay follows:
Students of Jonson's masques interested in their visual aspects have always depended very heavily on Jonson's own occasionally detailed descriptions of their scenes and choreography ( though his description of scenery etc., in his later masques is excessively meager) and particularly of recent years on Inigo Jones' architectural and costume designs,1 but it has not hitherto been noticed that illustrations for at least three of his masques, The Gypsies Metamorphosed, Augures, and For the Honour of Wales, were available in print and together not many years after the masques Were produced.
Cutts, John P.
"Seventeenth-Century Illustration of Three Masques by Jonson,"
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2, Article 4.
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House of Representatives passes abortion rights bill as U.S. Supreme Court prepares to weigh the issue
WASHINGTON, DC – The United States House of Representatives on Friday approved a bill that would prevent states from restricting access to abortion and establish a statutory right to provide and receive abortion care because of States like Texas pass bills that make the process virtually inaccessible.
All Ohio Democrats supported the “Women’s Health Protection Act,” which passed in a vote of 218 to 211. Republicans across the state opposed it.
Supporters of the bill said it would codify the abortion right established by the United States Supreme Court in 1973. Roe vs. Wade decision, which procedural enemies hope the U.S. Supreme Court will overturn after reviewing the legality of a Mississippi law that bans most abortions after 15 weeks. The Guttmacher Institute, which tracks reproductive health laws across the country, ranks Ohio among more than 20 states likely to ban abortion if Roe vs. Wade is knocked down.
At a press conference ahead of the vote, supporters of the bill said it was passed to show Americans support the Roe vs. Wade decision-making and want women to be able to make their own health care decisions. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, a Democrat from California, said the bill’s passage was about “freedom.”
âThe freedom of women to have the choice of the size and timing of their families, not the affairs of people on the ground or members of Congress,â Pelosi said.
Republican United States Rep from Texas Beth Van Duyne argued in the House of Representatives that the bill would allow “killing for convenience.”
âAmerica is built on protecting life,â said Van Duyne, who held a fetal doll as she spoke.
A statement by U.S. Bowling Green GOP Representative Bob Latta called the bill “radically out of step with the American public” and said state-imposed abortion restrictions would make “the protections illegal. for babies with Down syndrome and other life-altering conditions or disabilities. âLatta voted by proxy because he is in quarantine after testing positive for coronavirus earlier this week.
U.S. Senator Sherrod Brown, a Democrat from Ohio, co-sponsored the Senate counterpart in legislation, but it is unlikely to be voted on in a legislative body where Republicans can prevent him from speaking.
Colorado Democratic Rep. Diana DeGette told reporters the House âdoesn’t do what we do, thinking about what might happen in the Senate.
“We hope that when the Senate sees that this historic vote has taken place in the House, it will act on it,” DeGette said.
The Biden administration issued a statement to strongly support passage of the bill, and said the Texas law “flagrantly violates existing Supreme Court precedent established under Roe vs. Wade nearly half a century ago â,â severely impedes women’s access to essential reproductive health care âandâ turns private citizens into bounty hunters who have the power to sue anyone who , according to them, assisted another person to have an abortion, including family members, religious leaders, transporters and health care providers.
“Following the unprecedented attack in Texas, it has never been more important to codify this constitutional right and to strengthen access to health care for all women, regardless of their place of residence,” indicates the press release.
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A poor widow puts two small coins into the collection plate. Not much of an event, not much of a donation. However, Jesus immediately sees her real identity. Jesus loves her in her poverty and in her radiance.
Though neither materially poor nor widowed, I too am “a poor widow,” as perhaps are you. Like yours, my poverty is hidden from sight: my fears, my self-reproach, my doubts about God. I’m a widow inasmuch as I’m incomplete and insecure, inasmuch as I ache over what and whom I have lost and may now be losing. You, too, are incomplete. Maybe you, too, ache over someone or something you have lost or are now losing.
In my poverty, I want God. I want comfort. In your poverty, what do you want?
Two small coins were “all she had.” In the place where I am poor, what do I actually have? I have my desire to find God and to get past my own smallness; my hope that my messy life can become “a new heaven and a new earth,” that God really can get light out of darkest dark. In my poverty, I can still act, though I am vulnerable. At my poorest, I can give God my trust, though shaky it may be. Perhaps that shaky trust is all God asks of us in order to taste the riches of the Eucharistic banquet.
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KUALA LUMPUR, Nov 28 — While public discourse on the Covid-19 pandemic has centred around the concepts of effective infectivity rate (Rt) and intubation, those in the Orang Asli community have also rung alarm bells using terms they have lived with all their lives.
The Semai community who live in Perak, Pahang and Selangor, for example, used the word hawar — which is also the Malay word for “plague” — to describe illnesses that lie in wait only to strike many people in such a short time. Or, to use another word, an “epidemic”.
“We have this belief that there are certain sicknesses that will come once in a while, the sickness is always there, the virus is always there, it’s just a matter of time that it will strike the community, so it will come at a certain time.
“They call this hawar, when this sickness comes out, appears, it spreads and normally it is very contagious and affects a lot of people in the community,” Semai activist Anthony Williams-Hunt told Malay Mail when contacted recently.
According to a research paper Williams-Hunt co-authored with three others, the Semai community in Perak believe Covid-19 to be a type of hawar caused by nyaniik or an evil spirit, one that was able to cross geographical borders as it spreads via the wind.
Similarly, the Orang Asli communities such as the Semelai tribe in Pahang describe Covid-19 as sampar or an epidemic that requires a shaman to change the direction of the wind to keep the community safe.
The Jakun or Orang Hulu in Johor and Pahang, meanwhile, used the similar-sounding hawey, meaning an epidemic or disease that is capable of spreading quickly, when describing Covid-19.
Despite public perception that the indigenous community in Peninsular Malaysia are isolated folk, they are not exempt from the recent Covid-19 pandemic that has so far affected more than 2.6 million people in the country.
As Covid-19 cases grew more widespread in Malaysia from 2021 and amid record peak of new cases in August 2021, Orang Asli federal agency Jakoa recorded cumulatively 2,389 Covid-19 cases and 107 deaths among the community as of August 29.
Compared to the national cumulative total cases of 1,422,005 then, this made up merely 0.17 per cent, while deaths were at 0.67 per cent of the cumulative total deaths of 16,087 at that time.
Considering that Orang Asli made up roughly just 0.55 per cent of the total Malaysian population as of the most recent estimate in 2018, this was remarkable.
A recent paper titled “Indigenous resilience and the Covid-19 response: a situation report on the Orang Asli in Peninsular Malaysia”, which featured research completed in December 2020, cited Health Ministry data that showed just 16 Covid-19 cases among the 113,010 in the community — a miniscule incidence of 0.014 per cent.
The paper suggested that this tiny incidence may be due to the tribes already having long-standing concepts about epidemics and airborne diseases, and traditional practices that are strikingly similar to ways to avoid a pandemic — ranging from physical distancing, strict self-quarantine, and area lockdown.
Therefore, when Covid-19 struck, the Orang Asli community could quickly respond to protect their own community.
This has also aided volunteers from the community and other organisations under the coalition OA Lawan Covid (Malay for “Orang Asli fight Covid”) to protect the community by embracing traditional customs such as pendinding to encourage vaccinations and pantang to explain the standard operating procedures (SOPs).
Others who collaborated in these efforts included University of Malaya (UM), Gombak Orang Asli Hospital, Center for Orang Asli Concerns (COAC), the Malaysian Red Crescent Society (MRCS), and RTM’s Orang Asli radio channel Asyik FM.
Protecting oneself and protecting everyone with ‘pendinding’
Williams-Hunt, also known as Bah Tony, was one of the four co-authors of the paper, with the rest being UM’s Centre for Malaysian Indigenous Studies’ associate and senior lecturer Rusaslina Idrus, Universiti Kebangsaan Malaysia’s Anthropology and Sociology Programme lecturer Zanisah Man who is from the Semelai community, and Jaringan Kampung Orang Asli Semenanjung Malaysia chairman Tijah Yok Chopil who is from the Semai community.
It was published earlier this year in the international academic journal of indigenous peoples, AlterNative.
“[The message is] to tell the world that Orang Asli are not keeping quiet about this, they are as concerned as other communities about the spread of the virus, and therefore they have taken actions —- putting up barricades and roadblocks to regulate entry of people into the villages, so that in doing so, outsiders who might have been infected with the disease don’t come into the village and infect the other Orang Asli.
“[It is] also to show that Orang Asli do have their own traditional methods of curtailing or rather, controlling measures to stop to check the spread of sickness and virus in their communities, so that was basically the aim or the inspiration that came out, that led to the writing of the paper,” Bah Tony told Malay Mail.
He gave the example of pendinding, a concept that is still practised by the Orang Asli and also common among traditional Malays. Roughly meaning protective shield, it usually refers to a method to ward off illness.
“Pendinding is still being observed in many kampungs, especially those in the interior, they still have it, because they say it sort of acts as a wall that can ward off sickness from coming to the Orang Asli,” he said.
Usually in the community, the pendinding uses spiritual incantations, or a bracelet blessed by a shaman. The shamans for the Semelai in Pahang, for example, give out blessed strings as talismans to be worn by individuals as pendinding to ward off sickness, the research paper said.
So when it comes to Covid-19, it was only natural for the OA Lawan Covid group to utilise this concept and incorporate it into posters that were then shared within the community to explain that vaccinations work in the same way as a pendinding.
The message is that by getting inoculated, those in the community would have a safe and effective shield they could use to build up immunity against the virus and protect themselves, their families and communities.
OA Lawan Covid has also released a series of short video clips — using the same theme and which includes an episode featuring the word pendinding — presented by Dayoung Shaniera Seliman, and have received thousands of views on its Facebook page.
This video series was a collaboration between Asyik FM, COAC, Gombak Orang Asli Hospital, the Malaysian Red Crescent Society, and UM.
Pantang and preserving populace’s physical health
“When someone is sick or being treated by the shaman or the medicine man, you have to observe restrictions,” Bah Tony said, referring to pantang or taboos.
“Restrictions — not only like, ‘you can’t eat food which is spicy, you can’t eat food which will affect your health’ — but people also have to keep a distance from you, like people cannot come to your house.
“Because if they do that, they can infringe or can langgar pantang, and if this happens, the consequences will be very bad for the person who is being treated and even the shaman can suffer certain discomfort, because he is the one who treated this sick person,” he said, using the term for “breaking taboo”.
Among the Jakun community, a sick person is usually kept in a shelter away from the other villagers, while the Batek temporarily break into smaller groups and shifting away from their main settlement when there is serious illness or a death, the research paper said.
These practices would be familiar to many as self-isolation and keeping in one’s own social bubble to “break the chain” of Covid-19.
It was noted by the paper that the Batek in Pahang and Kelantan, as well as the Jakun in Pahang and Johor had retreated into the jungle where they could isolate themselves from outsiders who may carry the SARS-CoV-2 coronavirus with them.
Some villages had also set up checkpoints and barricades, along with banners telling outsiders not to enter to prevent Covid-19 from spreading to their communities. One Semai village in Perak had also put up a traditional gate named gawar to both stop evil spirits and signal to outsiders that they were not welcome to enter.
Incorporating the pantang concept, a Covid-19 educational poster by OA Lawan Covid had likened the enhanced movement control order (EMCO) to observing a pantang to recover one’s health, and subsequently enabling one’s community to regain health.
This poster — a collaboration with the Gombak Orang Asli Hospital, the Malaysian Red Crescent Society, University of Malaya, and RTM’s Orang Asli radio channel Asyik FM — has since been translated by volunteers into multiple languages and sub-dialects of the different Orang Asli sub-ethnic groups.
On September 10, COAC also released the Covid-19 Protocol for Orang Asli Communities amid a worrying situation for the community then as at least 202 of the 853 official Orang Asli villages had recorded infections and with at least 42 of them having been placed under EMCO.
In the protocol which serves as a guideline and advisory on what they can or should do to protect themselves, methods listed including setting up barricades to control entry of non-residents on a round-the-clock basis, self-isolation for villagers returning from outside of the village, quarantine facilities within the village or at nearby schools or places of worship.
Also included was the encouragement to “acknowledge the role and influence that traditional spiritualities play in some Orang Asli communities” and to not “belittle” such belief systems or practices.
“Try to merge the traditional and modern knowledge systems to attain the common goal of Covid-free communities,” the protocol noted.
Keeping traditions alive amid environmental destruction
Rusaslina noted that the Orang Asli community had long understood the severity of Covid-19 by describing it using their traditional beliefs of epidemics or sicknesses that spread quickly through the wind or through the air.
This notion seemed to be vindicated when the World Health Organisation recognised in late April 2021 that Covid-19 is airborne and can be spread through aerosols instead of just droplets.
Rusalina said that while some dismissed the Batek’s retreat into the interiors as superstitious, she argued that the move was rational and logical for the community that knew the forest as their customary home that was familiar, safe, and a clean refuge with ample supplies.
“The reason we wrote this paper was to acknowledge Orang Asli’s efforts and we were tying it to their land rights. It’s about them being able to have control over their territory and also to be allowed to continue their traditional way of life,” she told Malay Mail.
“Their traditional way of life revolves around the environment... For these efforts to be able to continue, the Orang Asli must have their land rights strengthened and the environment must not be threatened.
“Even as we were understanding about Orang Asli trying to protect the community, some even had to spend energy warding off loggers,” she added.
In the last couple of years, Orang Asli communities in Perak, Pahang and Kelantan have been forced to erect blockades against loggers who have encroached on their ancestral lands and wreaked havoc on the environment and biodiversity of the land.
Uncontrolled logging and farming, oftentimes with the approval of state authorities, have also been accused of leaving them vulnerable to floods and landslides.
Composed of 18 ethnic subgroups, the Orang Asli community numbered 178,197 spread out across 853 villages in Peninsular Malaysia, based on the latest statistics as of 2018 by the Jabatan Kemajuan Orang Asli.
By October this year, activist Reita Rahim in a report for the OA Lawan Covid coalition suggested that there have now been 122 deaths among the Orang Asli and 12,245 cases so far this year until October 18, which means 6.18 per cent of the Orang Asli population (estimated by Jakoa at 198,015 by 2019) has tested positive.
At 0.51 per cent of total Malaysia’s new cases (out of 2,396,121) and 0.44 per cent of total deaths (out of 27,993) as of October 18, the figures have now grown bigger and closer to the Orang Asli’s proportion of population — compared to the statistics when the research paper was written.
This has only stressed how important Orang Asli’s territories are to them and for Malaysians to respect their traditional ways of life, so they can stay resilient throughout the pandemic.
“Adaptation and resilience is only possible if they are able to continue their way of life. Everything about their way of life is related to the environment, having land allows them to be more resilient,” Rusaslina said.
“Some communities were able to go back to planting, in forests they have food security, allowing them to have resilience during this time of pandemic. When you have no land, no food, the pandemic doesn't allow you to go out for work, you are in trouble.
“When you still have land and have food, you are still able to survive.”
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SCC bands get a boost
For the first time in the history of the St. Croix Central middle and high school band program, St. Croix Central has a band booster association.
The group's first official meeting was Tuesday, Jan. 15.
"The main focus of the booster program will be to help support both the middle school and high school program," said high school band director Jason Koele.
Koele said most of the boosters' support will take the form of helping the band program raise the funds to purchase new instruments or fund any of the band's other needs, such as purchasing music.
"Right now... at the high school level, our biggest need is a new tuba and bari(tone) saxophone," Koele said, "and there are some percussive instruments that are really old and have been around since the high school was in Roberts."
Koele said most of the band's equipment is at least 20 years old. Replacing the dented tuba could cost anywhere from $1,500 to $3,000 Koele said. He said replacing the baritone saxophone could cost anywhere from $3,000 to $10,000. The music the bands play usually costs about $80-$100 While expensive, Koele said these items are also essential to the function of the band.
"Without music, you can't really have a band," Koele said.
Koele and middle school band director Kim Hopkins are trying to increase the difficulty of the music the bands play. But as the difficulty of the music increases, so does the price.
Koele said supporting music is important because music affects every one of the other core subjects taught at St. Croix Central.
"Music is just another catalyst for them to reach out and use as a base for them to understand different concepts," Koele said.
For example, Koele said students learning about World War II could be taught music from that time period and learn about the composers who wrote the songs and their histories.
"We can then, as a music program, provide music that they play that goes along with those subjects," Koele said, "speaking about composers of that time period, why they were writing the music that they did, what they were trying to express, the language that they used and then how music shaped the people and the event."
Koele said the band boosters will support that kind of learning through their support of the band program. Right now, there are around 300 stuents in the middle and high school band programs.
In their first official meeting, the band boosters set up their executive committee, which consists of a president, vice president, secretary, treasurer and one parent representative for each grade from sixth through 12th.
Band boosters don't have to be parents, Koele said. He said anyone in the Hammond community can be involved with the band boosters.
"We're looking for a very community-based approach," Koele said.
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Not even supercars are safe from recalls. Audi is recalling certain R8 Spyders for a potential fuel leak, caused by the fuel supply line rubbing against the heat shield in the engine compartment. According to a report from the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration, this effects droptop R8s built between May 18, 2010 and June 22, 2011.
We don’t need to tell you why a fuel leak is a potential disaster. Anyone who dropped the cash for an R8 Spyder surely will not want to see it go up in flames.
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Les deux variations que nous venons d'évoquer s'ajoutent l'une à l'autre pour donner cette fameuse "courbe d'équation du temps", qui est donc la somme de deux courbes élémentaires des figures 3 et 4. Elle est représentée figure 5.
- from June to September as the sun's speed increases, it edges ahead of so-called "mean" time. This difference is most noticeable around the middle of this period (towards the end of July).
- from September to December as the sun's speed decreases, it loses its lead and rapidly drops behind (in November).
- from March to June, it drops back once more.
If we plot this changing relationship between solar and mean time during the course of one year, we obtain a sinusoidal curve every 6 months, as shown in figure 3 :
The Eccentricity variation
Also known as the "equation of the centre".
In addition to the perturbation we have just examined, a second variation results from the fact that the earth's annual revolution around the sun describes not a circle but an ellipse, with the sun as one of its two centres. Since this ellipse is only slightly flattened off, it is however an acceptable approximation to regard it as a circle in which the sun is not quite in the centre, but slightly "eccentric". This "eccentricity" leads to an irregularity in the speed of the earth. According to the laws of stellar mechanics, the closer the earth is to the sun, the greater its speed and the further away it is, the slower it moves.
This variation of eccentricity that takes place within the duration of a year means the sun appears to us to be ahead of, or behind, mean time. In autumn, when the earth is furthest from the sun, it decelerates and the sun seems to be behind mean time. In early spring however the earth moves closer to the sun, accelerates and the sun moves ahead of mean time.
When juxtaposed, the two variations we have just looked at produce the famous "equation of time" curve, which is the sum of the curves shown in figures 3 and 4. It is illustrated in figure 5.
In addition to these two phenomena, there exist other sources of perturbation but they are so much smaller as to be not worth examining here.
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Since we were in the throes of calving, this made it a test of endurance, especially since the first day we had to call the vet to a cow that had prolapsed and the second day we had a cow with milk fever.
But it's grand to have it done now.
The spring barley hasn't been harvested yet which is about two weeks later than normal for this part of the country.
When this job is complete and we see how the crop turns out we will need to ask ourselves the question whether we should be growing less spring barley and more winter barley.
We would normally do some reseeding every year and we had planned to do some again this year. My preference is to do it in the spring but that just didn't work out this year.
So we then planned to reseed some of the stubble ground after the spring barley and plough next spring a field of ley that had a lot of dandelions in it when we recently took the second cut of silage.
But since the spring barley hasn't been harvested yet, I think it might run a bit late for that option so we will probably end up holding off until the spring to do anything on this front.
Our second cut silage is safely in the pit and bulked up quite well.
But I would be a little bit concerned about the quality since we were probably about two weeks late harvesting it. We will know more when we get it tested in a few weeks' time.
A quick look around the yard and I'd be confident that we have ample supplies of both pit and baled silage to see us safely through the winter.
All the grazing land has been blanket-spread with a compound fertiliser in recent weeks and we are building up grass covers nicely for the autumn.
We hope to house the under-16 month bulls this week. We have already started them on the TMR which they will be on when they come indoors. This consists of some straw, silage, barley, molasses, maize meal and a mineral.
It's important that they get fresh feed every day so the amount of TMR that they get has been steadily rising. At the moment, they are up to eating about 60pc of what they will get when they come in. So hopefully there will no check in their progress and they will power ahead.
We have also drafted out our 13-month Angus heifers from the main group. These are last year's calves. These will be finished off grass. We will probably give them a small bit of rolled barley later on but they definitely won't be put into the shed.
Some will finish at very light weights and couldn't carry the expense of being finished indoors. I expect the last of them will be gone by early November.
It's hard to believe the Ploughing is already looming on the horizon. Hopefully things will have quietened down by then and I will get to spend a day or two there.
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Stories of Collaboration in Remote Teams
Lisette Sutherland and Elinor Slomba have been collecting and sharing stories from people whose business models depend upon getting remote teams right. These stories showing how remote teams collaborate, bridge distance, build trust and get things done together will be described in the upcoming book Collaboration Superpowers: The Field Guide.
InfoQ interviewed Lisette and Elinor about how people work in remote teams, which tools they use to collaborate and communicate, and what it takes to work remotely as a team.
InfoQ: Why do people choose to work as a remote team?
Lisette: The need to attract the right talent and pull together people who have specific expertise is certainly an important driver. This goes for small enterprises as well as large, global organizations. Instead of being limited to people in a particular office, people can benefit from working with others with particular competencies without travel or commute. In this way, teams can get fast feedback from multiple disciplines.
Offices have implicit social conventions. What is productive for you is not productive for me, so the average becomes the least productive for all of us. If you design for success when working remotely, you have the freedom to do things in the most effective way.
Elinor: Not having to commit to a particular piece of real estate lessens the risk involved in starting and sustaining any business venture. Remote teams have less physical stuff to deal with, and this can be useful.
For organizations engaged in change, the old model went something like bring in a consultant, and within a certain timetable you’ll transform from a caterpillar to a butterfly (Mike Sutton gave us that metaphor.) Enterprises are finding, however, that in order to be deeply grounded and sustainable a change process may not follow such a strict linear progression. Over time they can benefit more from outside expertise if some of the access is remote.
To keep the right people in a conversation long enough to get something valuable done, there’s just no need to have them struggle with commuting, or be away from their families. In the new world of work, qualitative improvements are taking place that did not seem possible just a short time ago! Not everywhere, certainly, but in enough places that it’s worthy of study and raising the visibility for the folks who are succeeding.
InfoQ: What makes working in remote teams different from co-located teams?
Elinor: Face-to-face communication looks different, of course. And it can take some getting used to. But it can also be an advantage. Some pair programmers prefer working virtually to sitting alongside someone and working intensely together for hours at a stretch. The remote connection, when tended intelligently, becomes fluid and adaptive to the needs of particular individuals while supporting their interactions in a high bandwidth way. For instance, remote team members can ping each other during meetings to test assumptions right there on the spot. And a vice president of business development becomes just as accessible as a developer or anyone else on the team.
Focus is on the value that’s being created rather than following office protocols or worrying about how the process looks to a co-located manager. When you compare what’s possible in a distributed environment, a group of people showing up at a fixed location for set times under supervision, day after day can appear to be an antiquated relic of the industrial revolution.
Remote work can actually raise the value and enjoyment of standing among co-workers and sharing space physically. Because it’s more rare, it’s taken less for granted. For members of a distributed team, any chance to be together and interact becomes an occasion to be thoughtfully crafted and celebrated.
InfoQ: You are doing interviews with people that are working remotely together and sharing this as stories. What made you choose to do it in this way?
Elinor: We both have years of experience working remotely. And we’ve found that everyone at work must bridge some form of remoteness, even at the same address. We wanted to illuminate this problem with our stories and create a platform for sharing solutions. Each company and team requires its own special cocktail of communication, personality and technologies plus the ability to be adaptive in its remote practices. Co-learning across many sectors - from IT to the arts - we want to give remote collaborators and facilitators a collective voice and provide valuable insight into the nature of teams that excel.
Lisette: The book we are writing will be a visually rich survey of those who are getting remote working right. However the community we’re building is even richer. This space is so dynamic and people are trying so many different things. We want to be there to foster conversations, introduce people to each other, and capture the great stories so we can share knowledge and be powerful together.
InfoQ: What kind of tools do people use to work together remotely? Do they really work?
Lisette: From simple tools like instant messaging to entire collaboration platforms like Yammer, there are hundreds of tools that exist to make remote working possible. We are experimenting with and trying out many different tools: e.g., Sqwiggle, Trello, Boardthing, Hangouts, Sococo, Second Life. They all have their advantages and drawbacks, but in a way, the technology part is easy.
The most important thing is to choose a set of tools that works for your team and then inspect and adapt. More important than tools, though, is communication. Remote work demands proactive communication!
One proactive communication technique is called “working out loud”. It’s about narrating your work and making it observable to others. Essentially, it’s just journaling what you are working on to the people you are working with. There are many different ways to do this - and again, it’s important to choose a method that works for your team.
Elinor: To the degree that a team can be self-organized it will find its way to the best tools. But as we know, self-organization needs structure. When you’ve experienced the improvisational flow of working on meaningful projects with people on several continents, it is tempting to be a real booster. However, the challenges are real, and we do not gloss them over.
One of the best, most supportive things a manager can do to create this structure is set up an asynchronous chat. There, team members can check in about everything from the design of a new webpage to what the next quarterly business goals should be. You don’t have to worry about who to “cc” on what, and none of the context gets lost. An extra bonus is that there is less pressure to write policy manuals because you have a searchable record of latest decisions.
Lisette: It’s important to keep things simple. Communication should be easy, often, and light-weight. The focus should be whatever makes communication more efficient with the least amount of friction.
InfoQ: Can you give some examples of the practices that people use when working in time and place dispersed teams?
Lisette: Most teams at Spotify are co-located. However, one of their remote teams have chosen to use Google Hangouts, which the team keeps open at all times. The team connects via video with their microphones on mute. When someone has a question, they simply unmute themselves. This allows them to talk as if they were in the same room together.
Elinor: Treehouse Learning does everything on a project basis. If you want to initiate work, you draft it as a project and identify the roles needed (i.e. for a new webpage, you might need a developer, a designer and a data analyst). The projects get socialized and you can sign up to receive notices of new projects requiring your skills. If enough people sign up to fill the roles, the project moves forward.
A lot of teams working across multiple time zones have experimented with different work schedules to maximize overlap with the team.
Lisette: One of the more interesting ways we’re seeing this overlap represented spatially is in environments like Sococo. In Sococo you can spatially design a virtual office that is mapped according to your workflow. On a plan view, you can see all the team members and know which room they are in (i.e. what they are working on) - and team members can turn video/microphones on and off easily, chat with individuals or groups, and share screens. Bill Krebs of Agile Dimensions compiled an entire atlas of distributed tools, and runs a Distributed Agile Study Group there.
Elinor: One manager we spoke with designed an experiment to have everyone who normally works co-located, stay home for one full week and try to get their work done as usual. The idea is to help the co-located team members empathize more with the remote team. People need to understand how sensitive everyone is to feeling excluded, and how easy it is to default to focusing more attention on the people who are physically present.
Consciously crafting your physical face-to-face time is an important practice. One remote worker we interviewed does tech support for marathons, and when he visits the office, he meets with the CEO by going running together. This is quality time for bonding on a personal level as well as staying plugged in to the high-level conversations about business strategy.
InfoQ: What does it take when you want to work in a remote team? Do you need specific skills? Is it something that you can learn?
Lisette: In terms of personality, working remotely can be a life saver for people who are highly sensitive and work better in a quiet, personal space. Conversely, remote workers with social, extroverted personalities may thrive as a member of one of the coworking environments springing up in many cities and there are international directories like Sharedesk to help find one. It’s good to know what kind of person you are and to build a solution around your personality type.
One thing that doesn’t have an easy solution is the matter of discipline. You have to know when you’re procrastinating and then consciously stop. Sometimes it means powering through, and sometimes it means taking a break. You need the self knowledge and the ability to put triggers in place that work for you.
On a related note, workspace is also important. If you want to work from home, consider how your environment is set up to match your working needs. Make sure you have a proper work space with good lighting and sound quality for video conferencing. If you’re traveling, be sure to understand the technical requirements of the work you’re doing on the road and the connectivity options you may or may not have.
Elinor: For a manager, remote teambuilding requires trust in the emergent outcome and the ability to inspire team members. As for the ability to learn, we are doing things that have not been done before at work. So anyone who functions as a “purist” in terms of particular methodologies or treats a manifesto as dogma to be closely guarded to the letter will be at a disadvantage in this area of workplace evolution.
InfoQ: What would you like to give to people as advice when they want to work together remotely? Are there things they should do, or shouldn’t do?
Elinor: Everyone needs to keep a healthy sense of the absurd about the fact that things will always go wrong. We advocate having a number of workarounds. Don’t be dependent upon a particular piece of technology, but rather, focus on keeping the conversations going. We saw this during the all-virtual Stoos in Action conference back in October 2013. The conference was heavily relying on Google Hangouts, and the system went down for maintenance just as the conference was starting to broadcast! Local satellites simply set up individual conferences until things were back online.
Lisette: Make sure you schedule both structured and unstructured time for you team. Structured time is things like meetings or work sessions, where there’s a very specific agenda. And with a known agenda, you want to get in and out as quickly and smoothly as possible.
What structured time doesn’t allow for is room for intuition, for issues surfacing organically...for empathy and if someone has “the feels” to be able to express that. Unstructured time is the replacement for water cooler time where people just hang out and chat together. Remote teams can do this by having virtual coffee or virtual lunch. When your entire team is remote, you have to be deliberate about managing the environment so people can make spontaneous connections. We call this engineered serendipity.
About the Book Authors
BOOK AUTHOR - Lisette Sutherland creates online collaborative communities, specializing in web-based collaboration tools and online community management. Her goal is to get the best people working together regardless of location. She currently works as Happy Melly's Community Builder, coordinating the global marketing efforts and connecting pockets of knowledge all over the world to to turn work into a great and gratifying experience.
KEY CONTRIBUTOR - Elinor Slomba connects the arts and startup worlds to deepen understanding of principles necessary for innovation. From her home base in New Haven, Connecticut she collaborates remotely with professionals in visual, performance and literary arts as well as urban design, software and other technical fields. Elinor integrates her arts management background with training in ethnographic field research and Agile frameworks to help highly creative people share models and build value across domains. | <urn:uuid:69cbc2ad-f2a3-427b-bd79-311d1c7db68f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.infoq.com/articles/stories-collaboration-remote-teams | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281746.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00285-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958218 | 2,824 | 1.851563 | 2 |
"The solid waste situation in Tasajera is of critical condition" (Recio Paredes, 2015).
Waste is a natural by-product of economic and social activities, and its management needs to be properly addressed by the public authorities. However, in Tasajera, there is currently no solid waste management plan (SWMP) in place, which causes the local community to dump their waste in numerous unattended locations or burn it at the open air without proper safety regulations. It is important to note that community leaders and the community at large wish to have a clean island, but their bottom-up attemps have so far failed.
There are 3 main issues that we would like to highlight regarding solid waste in Tasajera:
- Health concerns
- Ecotourism hinderance
- Public involvement
Several health-related concerns have been raised by numerous NGOs and religious groups that have been involved in the community. Chief among them is the plausible correlation between the amount of solid waste burning and the high indices of respiratory diseases. At this point, Tasajera Tideas only posseses local data from 2013 on the percentage of households burning (63%) and burying (37%) their waste.
Another important motivation to establishing a SWMP is the perceived economic benefit in the form of tourism. External actors (e.g. CORDES, Sol de Tasajera, EMANA) have advocated that a clean community would be more inviting for tourists, who would consequently spend their money in Tasajera.
Finally, when it comes to community attemps to develop a comprehensive SWMP, its leaders have faced consistent disappointment from the municipal authorities. Tasajera island is within the jurisdiction of San Luis La Herradura, which is now being administered by Mayor Mario Ticas (PCN party). Community leaders and external actors have voice their disappointment to Tasajera Tides regarding the lack of support from Mr. Ticas to develop a SWM plan in Tasajera. | <urn:uuid:aa1bbce9-b0f2-4125-a745-4b5f15230832> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://www.mareasdetasajera.com/waste.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.956591 | 408 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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Preliminary results from a recent artificial reef colonization study conducted by the Department of Environmental Protection's Division of Fish, Game and Wildlife indicate that New Jersey's reefs have hundreds of times more marine life than areas of sea floor with no reefs. The study was conducted to determine the types and amounts of marine life that colonize ocean reefs and to compare that information with what is normally found on the sandy sea floor.
The study began two years ago when 30 experimental reef habitats were placed on the Barnegat Light Artificial Reef Site. Each habitat consisted of a 3' x 1' square plastic coated wire box embedded in a concrete base. The boxes were filled with a variety of materials to imitate the hiding places found on reefs and to duplicate common reef building materials. Each box contained 10 corrugated fiberglass panels, 40 whelk (large snail) shells and two 6-inch diameter plates each of four different materials -- steel, concrete, rock and tire rubber.
Part of the study focused on comparing the biomass on reefs with that found on the sandy sea floor. Biomass is a biologist's measure of the weight of all the organisms living in a particular habitat. In this study, biomass referred to the weight of all marine life inhabiting a square foot of sea floor.
More than 99-percent of New Jersey's sea floor consists of sand. Since sand is constantly shifting and does not provide a foothold for marine life, the biomass of sand bottom is low. Sand bottom life includes burrowing animals such as surf clams, snails, crabs and sand worms.
The first experimental reef habitat was raised from the sea floor in October of 1998. After spending two years on the sea floor, it was retrieved by scuba divers from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Division biologists then spent the next three months in a lab removing, sorting, counting, identifying and weighing the marine life living within the experimental habitat. The results were impressive. In just two years, the habitat was colonized by 39,938 marine animals, including 25,000 blue mussels, 8,500 barnacles, 2,000 snails, 1,300 worms, 350 crabs, 12 fish, 2 lobsters and much more. The total biomass (weight) of these organisms amounted to 9.5 pounds.
In another phase of the study, 60 square-foot samples were taken with a scientific sampling dredge on the sandy sea floor around the Cape May Artificial Reef. Marine organisms were separated from the sand using sieves. The biological samples were then analyzed by the Center for Coastal and Marine Studies at Rutgers University. These samples yielded an average of 58 marine organisms with a biomass of .2 ounces per square foot of sea floor. In comparison, the reef habitat had 689 times the number of organisms and 760 times more biomass than the same area of sandy sea floor. The increased biomass of the reef habitat is significant because it represents a far greater food source for marine life and a greater number of food and game species (fish, lobster, crabs, mussels) available to anglers.
New Jersey reefs are colonized entirely by marine animals. The depths (generally over 60 feet) on reef sites are too great for the penetration of sufficient light to sustain plant growth. Instead of plants, the basic level of the reef food web consists of many species of filter feeding animals that live attached to reef structures and feed by straining the plankton that is carried past them by ocean currents. The filter feeders (i.e., mussels, barnacles, tubeworms and others) are in turn eaten by fish, crabs and lobsters. The stationary filter feeders also serve another function on the reef by providing a carpet of cover or hiding place for small mobile invertebrates such as shrimp, snails and worms. These animals too, may end up as food for larger predators.
The goal of building reefs, which provide firm, stable substrate for the attachment of marine organisms, is to enhance the biological productivity of the sea floor. Based on the preliminary results of this study, building reefs does enhance New Jersey's marine environment. As an extension of this research, the survey will be continued in future years to determine how the species and biomass of reef communities change over time. | <urn:uuid:702269ab-cae0-4425-a801-2fef9e39f458> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.nj.gov/dep/fgw/news/reefstdy.htm | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00301-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949513 | 896 | 3.296875 | 3 |
Study Says Louisiana is a ‘Low Tax State’ [VIDEO]
LSU Baton Rouge economist Dr. James Richardson talks with 101.7 / 710 KEEL's Robert J Wright and Erin McCarty about a recent taxfoundation.org report that lists Louisiana as one of the lowest taxed states in the USA.
"Compared to other states, we're about number forty five or so," says Richardson. "The Tax Foundation has consistently said (Louisiana) is in the bottom ten states, sometimes in the bottom five."
Richardson adds that some Louisianans feeling overtaxed "is a matter of perception." But, he says, the reality is, "we don't pay as much as other states do."
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Old State Capitol reopens for tours
The Old State Capitol building in Springfield will again welcome visitors to tour the interior of the state historic site beginning Oct. 7, the Illinois Department of Natural Resources (IDNR) announced today. The building has been closed to visitors since last spring to facilitate work on a repair and restoration project.
The project, managed by the Illinois Capital Development Board (CDB), involves installation of a new roof on the drum that supports the Old Capitol dome, along with restoration of the drum columns and drum windows.
“We are excited to reopen the Old State Capitol since the interior portion of the dome restoration project is complete,” said Von Bandy, director of the IDNR Office of Land Management. “We invite guests to plan a visit to experience the new education gallery and video room.”
While work on the exterior of the building continues, painting of the interior of the drum, plaster repair and painting of interior ceilings and walls has been completed.
“The Old State Capitol building is one of Illinois’ most historic landmarks, and we are proud to have worked with the IDNR to oversee these important updates to the interior of the facility,” said CDB Executive Director Jim Underwood. “While work continues on the building’s exterior, we are pleased the public will now have the ability to tour and experience the State Capitol in a new and interactive way.”
While the Old State Capitol was closed to visitors, IDNR State Historic Sites staff installed a new education gallery and video room that will expand visitor experiences. A new 11-minute video highlights the historical significance of the Old Capitol, as well as the building’s relevance today. The video is also available on the Old State Capitol webpage.
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A tape measure, a clock and a calculator: How to MacGyver your fitness age
If you’ve never heard of VO2 max, it’s not a new energy drink, but the maximum amount of oxygen a person’s body can process during a peak-level exercise. A VO2 max score is now considered the best measurement for cardiovascular endurance and physical fitness.
Norwegian researchers studied more than 4,000 people to create a formula that gives a person their estimated VO2 max score, along with their fitness age, and you can calculate it yourself right at home. All you need is a tape measure, a clock and this handy calculator. After answering a few simple questions like how often you exercise, your waistline and your resting heart rate, their calculator will give you an estimate VO2 max score and your fitness age.
Your VO2 max score is expected to decrease by 9-10% every 10 years after the age of 25, but fitness training can stem that decline. Give yourself the test and see if you need to hit the gym a little more often or if you’re literally young at heart.
After you get a score, see where your score fits with others.
- Sedentary, non-athletic male in his mid-30s: 45
- Sedentary, non-athletic female in her mid-30s: 34
- Pro soccer players (in their 20s): 50-64
- Speed skaters: 56-73 (M), 44-55 (F)
- Nordic Skiers: 65-94 (M), 60-75 (F)
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The name refers to their shape, which recalls vaguely the one of the homonymous artisan cloth shoes used till a few years ago in this village. In the dialect of the shepherds, Scarpinòcc are also called “Orecchi” (ears) because of their particular shape.
This dish, native of the popular cuisine, in the course of time was extremely refined and can be tasted in characteristic restaurants and in high-level restaurants as well.
For the pastry (1 kg pastry)
• 800 gr white flour
• 2 eggs
• 40 gr butter at room temperature
• milk as needed
For the stuffing (1 kg stuffing)
• 700 gr Parmesan cheese
• 350 gr dry grated bread
• a clove of minced garlic
• 40 gr minced parsley
• 30 gr butter
• a pinch of mixed spices (coriander seeds, cinnamon, nutmeg, cloves, mace, aniseed)
Preparation of the stuffing
Mix Parmesan cheese and bread with spices in a bowl. Melt butter in a pan and add garlic and parsley thinly minced. Pour all in a basin and add milk and eggs until you get a soft, homogeneous mixture.
Preparation of the Scarpinocc
Roll out the dough and make disks of a diameter of 6-8cm. Put a bit of stuffing on every disk and fold up the little disk so that it’s half-moon shaped. Close well the borders pressing with your fingers, lift them vertically with the round part below and press in the middle with your forefinger so to have a shape resembling a candy. Cook in abounding salted water, drain, lay on a plate, sprinkle with Parmesan cheese and season with melted butter and sage well cooked. When put on the market Scarpinòcc de Parr must bear a specific countermark approved by the Committee that guarantees the conformity of the product to specific prescriptions established by the law. | <urn:uuid:3f2793eb-f77a-4735-85b3-4683837f4bbb> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.visitbergamo.net/en/scarpinocc-de-par/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00192-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.925217 | 410 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Table of contents:
- What is an offer and acceptance in contract law?
- When offer is accepted it is called?
- Can an offer be withdrawn after acceptance?
- What happens if buyer does not accept counter offer?
- Why you should never accept a counteroffer?
- Do sellers usually counter offer?
- Can a seller lie about multiple offers?
- Can a seller accept another offer if under contract?
- What is the difference between sale pending and under contract?
- Can you outbid a pending offer?
- Whats the difference between pending and under contract on Zillow?
What is an offer and acceptance in contract law?
The meaning of offer and acceptance is the basis of a contract. To form a contract, there must be an offer made by one party which is, in turn, accepted by another party, and then, in most cases goods and/or services must be exchanged between the two.
When offer is accepted it is called?
A conditional acceptance also referred to as an eligible acceptance, occurs when a person to whom an offer has been made tells the offeror that he or she is willing to accept the offer provided that certain changes are made to the condition of the offer. This form of acceptance operates as a counter-offer.
Can an offer be withdrawn after acceptance?
After acceptance, it is not possible to “withdraw” the offer. Technically, to end the employment, the employer has to serve notice and make the respective notice payment. The employment contract may state that during and at the end of the probationary period either party can end the contract on a shorter notice period.
What happens if buyer does not accept counter offer?
If a buyer rejects your counter offer, it's possible they're close to what they can spend. While it's easy to become frustrated, Freddie Mac suggests using the offer process to negotiate for what you want that isn't money-related. If the listing price isn't flexible, maybe other parts of the offer are.
Why you should never accept a counteroffer?
Counteroffers can be a stall tactic. Often employers will pay you more because they know it will only be for a short while. They will then start searching for a replacement who will take a lower salary with a similar skillset to yours. This is one reason why you should never accept a counteroffer.
Do sellers usually counter offer?
In some cases, a home seller may make a counteroffer if they are not happy with the buyer's offer. Counteroffers typically involve things like changing the price or increasing the size of the earnest money deposit.
Can a seller lie about multiple offers?
If you live in a market where there are now more buyers than there are homes for sale, you may encounter a multiple-bid situation. ... Those rules and laws would prohibit the real estate agent from lying, but the agent has the ability to market the property to get the seller the best price possible.
Can a seller accept another offer if under contract?
A seller cannot accept another offer if the listing became “in-contract.” A home is “in-contract” after the buyer and the seller have signed the contract. The buyer needs to pay the downpayment at the time of signing.
What is the difference between sale pending and under contract?
The home is under contract and all contingencies have been removed (that is, the requirements met). Basically, a sale pending property is much closer to being sold than an under contract property. ...
Can you outbid a pending offer?
Sale pending (or “offer pending”) simply means that a buyer has submitted an offer and the seller has accepted it. In other words, this isn't the sort of situation where you can simply opt to outbid all the other buyers – it's already past that point.
Whats the difference between pending and under contract on Zillow?
What does it mean when a house is pending or contingent? When your real estate listing goes from “active” to “pending,” it means you've accepted an offer, but the sale hasn't closed yet. (You'll also hear real estate agents use the phrase “under contract” for this post-offer, pre-close time period, too).
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, In an effort to simplify previous implementations of computers on spacecraft, Mars Climate Orbiter featured a single computer using an IBM RAD6000 processor utilizing a POWER1 ISA capable of 5 MHz (60 m), 10 MHz (30 m) and 20 MHz (15 m) operations. Also, what internal and external factors do we observe. It was intended to place the spacecraft at an optimal position for an orbital insertion maneuver that would bring the spacecraft around Mars at an altitude of 226 km (140 miles) on September 23, 1999. Orbiter stows solar array. On September 23, 1999 at 09:00:46 UTC, the space probe began this planned orbital manoeuvre. monitor the daily weather and atmospheric conditions, record changes on the Martian surface due to wind and other atmospheric effects, determine temperature profiles of the atmosphere, monitor the water vapor and dust content of the atmosphere. Map the three-dimensional and time-varying thermal structure of the atmosphere from the surface to 80 km altitude. With the use of technology and collaboration with its store managers, the company can produce only what is currently trending, which results in a significant reduction of unsold items caused by the rapidly changing tastes of consumers in this fast-changing indus…. Orbiter turns to correct orientation to begin main engine burn. Then, at 09:00:46 UT Sept. 23, 1999, the orbiter began its Mars orbit insertion burn as planned. Deployed, the solar array measured 5.5 metres (18 ft 1 in) in length. It was intended to place the spacecraft at an optimal position for an orbital insertion maneuver that would bring the spacecraft around Mars at an altitude of 226 km (140 miles) on September 23, 1999. Sign, Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap Investigation Board Phase I Report, pg 13, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, IEEE Spectrum: Why the Mars Probe went off course, "1998 MARS CLIMATE ORBITER ARRIVES AT NASA'S KENNEDY SPACE CENTER FOR FINAL LAUNCH PREPARATIONS", "Metric mishap caused loss of NASA orbiter", "Mars Climate Orbiter Flight System Description", "Pressure Modulated Infrared Radiometer (PMIRR)", "Mars Color Imager (MARCI) on the Mars Climate Orbiter", "Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap Investigation Board Phase I Report", Mars Climate Orbiter arrival at Mars press kit, NASA Space Science Data Coordinated Archive, Aerial Regional-scale Environmental Survey, Mars Astrobiology Explorer-Cacher (MAX-C), Sample Collection for Investigation of Mars (SCIM), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Mars_Climate_Orbiter&oldid=978361021, Space accidents and incidents in the United States, Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike License. Twenty-four hours prior to orbital insertion, calculations placed the orbiter at an altitude of 110 km (68 miles); 80 km (50 miles) is the minimum altitude that Mars Climate Orbiter was thought to be capable of surviving during this maneuver. This led to the 8 significant factors that allowed this error Its objectives:, The Mars Color Imager (MARCI) is a two-camera (medium-angle/wide-angle) imaging system designed to obtain pictures of the Martian surface and atmosphere.
, According to NASA, the cost of the mission was $327.6 million total for the orbiter and lander, comprising $193.1 million for spacecraft development, $91.7 million for launching it, and $42.8 million for mission operations. Specifically, software that calculated the total impulse produced by thruster firings produced results in pound-force seconds.
The Mars Climate Orbiter probe was launched on December 11, 1998 at 18:45:51 UTC by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration from Space Launch Complex 17A at the Cape Canaveral Air Force Station in Florida, aboard a Delta II 7425 launch vehicle. Their revenue dropped from $4.2 million to $3.3 million. Lastly, after launch, the spacecraft was put into a Hohmann transfer orbit to intersect with Mars. How Did Compsis Expand In International Market. NASA lost its $125-million Mars Climate Orbiter because spacecraft engineers failed to convert from English to metric measurements when exchanging vital … After the loss of Mars Observer and the onset of the rising costs associated with the future International Space Station, NASA began seeking less expensive, smaller probes for scientific interplanetary missions.
However, during the week between TCM-4 and the orbital insertion maneuver, the navigation team indicated the altitude may be much lower than intended at 150 to 170 km (93 to 106 miles). , Exploded diagram of Delta II launch vehicle with Mars Climate Orbiter, Launch of Mars Climate Orbiter by NASA on a Delta II 7425 launch vehicle, Interplanetary trajectory of Mars Climate Orbiter, Aerobraking procedure to place Mars Climate Orbiter into orbit around Mars. Insertion begins. The problem here was not the error; it was the failure of NASA's systems engineering, and the checks and balances in our processes, to detect the error. Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter has since completed most of the intended objectives for this mission. Post-failure calculations showed that the spacecraft was on a trajectory that would have taken the orbiter within 57 km (35 miles) of the surface, where the spacecraft likely skipped violently on the uppermost atmosphere and was either destroyed in the atmosphere or re-entered heliocentric space. A meeting of trajectory software engineers, trajectory software operators (navigators), propulsion engineers, and managers was convened to consider the possibility of executing Trajectory Correction Maneuver-5, which was in the schedule. 1) Identify at least three communication failures behind the loss of the Mars Climate Orbiter. This image of Mars on September 7, 1999 is the only image acquired by the Orbiter. Its principal investigator was Daniel McCleese at JPL/CALTECH.
To perform the Mars orbital insertion maneuver, the spacecraft also included a LEROS 1B main engine rocket, providing 640 N (140 lbf) of thrust by burning hydrazine fuel with nitrogen tetroxide (NTO) oxidizer. Compsis was facing headwinds in 2004. , Robotic space probe launched by NASA on December 11, 1998, Artist's conception of the Mars Climate Orbiter.
look for evidence of past climate change. In 1995, a new Mars Surveyor program began as a set of missions designed with limited objectives, low costs, and frequent launches. Every time an order is placed, all items are shipped to Spain for final design adjustments and inventory stocking. Analyze how the writer structured this sentence to convey information to the reader. Observe Martian atmospheric processes at global scale and synoptically. Missions are ordered by launch date. No further attempts to contact. NASA's Mars Climate Orbiter was designed to study Mars from orbit and to serve as a communications relay for the Mars Polar Lander and Deep Space probes. This page was last edited on 14 September 2020, at 12:58. What is Hill's framework for Operations Strategy ? The primary science objectives of the mission included:, The Mars Climate Orbiter bus measured 2.1 metres (6 feet 11 inches) tall, 1.6 metres (5 feet 3 inches) wide and 2 metres (6 feet 7 inches) deep. —Edward Weiler, NASA associate administrator for space science, IEEE Spectrum: Why the Mars Probe went off course, On November 10, 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap Investigation Board released a Phase I report, detailing the suspected issues encountered with the loss of the spacecraft. The spacecraft was schedule to re-establish contact after passing behind Mars, but, unfortunately, no signals were receive from the spacecraft. Orientation of the spacecraft was determined by a star tracker, two Sun sensors and two inertial measurement units. Arrival in orbit was date for Sept. 23, 1999. When entering into orbit around Mars, the solar array was to be utilized in the aerobraking maneuver, to slow the spacecraft until a circular orbit was achieved. Map the seasonal and spatial variability of atmospheric pressure. MCO would then reach its operational near-circular Sun-synchronous orbit at about 260 miles (421 kilometers) by Dec. 1, 1999. That's why we lost the spacecraft. The mission was unsuccessful due to a navigation error caused by a failure to translate English units to metric. s) specified in the contract between NASA and Lockheed. At launch, Mars Climate Orbiter weighed 638 kg (1,407 lb) including propellant. On November 10, 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter Mishap Investigation Board released a Phase I report, detailing the suspected issues encountered with the loss of the spacecraft. Reason for loss known. It performed four course corrections: Dec. 21, 1998, and March 4, July 25 and Sept. 15, 1999. Due to this, the Mars Climate Orbiter went out of radio … After the end of its main mapping mission Jan. 15, 2001, Mars Climate Orbiter would have acted as a communications relay for future NASA missions to Mars. In addition, its function was to act as the communications relay in the Mars Surveyor ‘98 program for the Mars Polar Lander. The trajectory calculation software then used these results – expected to be in newton seconds (incorrect by a factor of 4.45) – to update the predicted position of the spacecraft. Map the seasonal and spatial variation of the vertical distribution of atmospheric water vapor to an altitude of at least 35 km.
2)Find one sentence from the article that does a good job of conveying complicated information. Distinguish between atmospheric condensates and map their spatial and temporal variation. Mars Climate Orbiter began the planned orbital insertion maneuver on September 23, 1999 at 09:00:46 UTC. Nine and a half months after launch, in September 1999, the Mars Climate Orbiter was programmed to fire its main engine to achieve an elliptical orbit around Mars. © 2020 Excellent Tutors. What are the challenges Zara face to maintain it's growth? In 2013 Nokia’s CEO Stephen Elop made a memorandum named on media with the “Burning Platform.” In this essay, we are going to identify which elements relate to operation management definition.
The panel determined that the new line of miniature spacecraft should be under 1,000 kg (2,200 pounds) with highly focused instrumentation. The principal investigator on this project was Michael Malin at Malin Space Science Systems and the project was reincorporated on Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. The batteries were intended to be recharged when the solar array received sunlight and power the spacecraft as it passed into the shadow of Mars. Notably, Zara has a unique approach to handle changing demand, which has allowed the company to become widely successful and a leading business organization in the fashion retail industry, in which many corporations struggle to deal with fast-changing environments, operations, and inventory costs. While the implemented Electronic toll collection system successfully in Australia with the partnership with an American firm Philips. Due to complications arising from human error, the spacecraft encountered Mars at a lower than anticipated altitude and it was either destroyed in the atmosphere or re-entered heliocentric space after leaving Mars' atmosphere.
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Knowledge (Int; Trained Only)
Like the Craft and Profession skills, Knowledge actually encompasses a number of unrelated skills. Knowledge represents a study of some body of lore, possibly an academic or even scientific discipline.
Below are listed typical fields of study.
- Arcana (ancient mysteries, magic traditions and societies, arcane symbols, cryptic phrases, summoning, binding, demons)
- Architecture and engineering (buildings, aqueducts, bridges, fortifications)
- Geography (lands, terrain, climate, people)
- History (leaders, wars, migrations, founding of cities and nations)
- Local (particular regions; This skill can be used in place of Geography, History, Nature, Nobility & Royalty, Religion or Rumours for questions relating to a specific region)
- Nature (animals, plants, seasons and cycles, weather, vermin, were-beasts)
- Nobility and royalty (lineages, heraldry, family trees, mottoes, personalities)
- Religion (gods and goddesses, mythic history, ecclesiastic tradition)
- Rumours (legends, personalities, inhabitants, laws, customs, traditions)
- Warfare (tactics, battle formations, leading armies)
Check: Answering really easy questions within your field of study has a DC of 10, answering basic questions has a DC of 15 and answering really tough questions ranges DC 20 to DC 30.
In many cases, you can use this skill to identify monsters and their special powers or vulnerabilities. In general, the DC of such a check equals 10 + the monster’s Hit Dice. A successful check allows you to remember a bit of useful information about that monster.
For every five points by which your check result exceeds the DC, you recall another piece of useful information.
Action: In most cases, making a Knowledge check does not take an action; you simply know the answer or you do not.
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Morning and Evening, Pt. XIV
The fourteenth installment in an ongoing narrative, told week by week
A man, in a muffler cap and sable hat, thrust his head in through the doorflap.
“The Rebbe has come!” he announced, in a high, piercing voice. “Rebbe Meyer of Przemyslany has come to bestow blessings!”
At this, a throng of Hasidim bearing baskets of fragrant pastries burst into the room. A smell of hot poppy-seeds and jam rose up from the baskets, garlanded with wisps of steam, and the heavy sweetness of eggy dough still warm from goodwives’ ovens. They at once whisked off the cloths covering the pastries and began handing out warm cinnamon rolls and ruygelach and knobby circlets of fried dough that glistened with glazed sugar; the pauper children of Hanachiv cried out in a gleeful clamor, knocking each other with their elbows, racing to catch the pastries the Hasidim threw out into the throng and sink their teeth into the hot spiced dough. Meanwhile, their mothers, the gaunt-faced widows, stood at rigid attention, clasping their hands together. Their souls, which were accustomed to hardship—to the difficulties of a life dependent on the fruits of their outstretched hands—were open to this new and unforeseen opportunity. But it was a holiday, and therefore no money might be exchanged; and so it was only the souls of the widows that might receive the rebbe’s generosity, and not their hungry bellies, concave beneath their black garments. Chaneh-Soreh, the most aged of the widows, and perhaps the bitterest among them, muttered under her breath: “The cheapskate comes to bless us with words, when a few rubles would fill our pockets and our bellies.” And yet an expectant hush fell over the sukkah as more and more Hasidim streamed in; the cloth walls of the hut bulged out to accommodate their bulk, muffled in foxfur and lined with silk.
At last, resplendent in holiday robes threaded with gold, the Rebbe entered, his hands outstretched in a gesture of beneficence.
“Widows and orphans of Hanachiv,” he said, in his grand, booming voice, “I have come to listen to you spill out the bitterness of your hearts, to offer you ease in your hour of need. For it is God’s will that all among us pay heed most of all to the needs of the poorest, those to whom fate has been most unkind. All may approach, and receive blessings.”
And with that he seated himself with great ceremony at the empty seat at the head of the table, while his Hasidim laid baskets heaped with cinnamon-rolls and fragrant meats, and placed between them pitchers of spiced wine and pressed gooseberry juice, chilled by the air and wind. Honey-wine in clay jugs, amber as long autumn afternoons, covered the holes in the barren tablecloth; duck and chicken legs thrust knobbily up out of wooden baskets. The widows, beginning with those oldest and frailest, clustered close to the head of the table where the Rebbe sat. First among them, the queen of this wasted group of women, was Sore-Chaneh. In her piercing voice she began to recite the litany of her woes—beginning with an ailing girlhood, and continuing to tell the tale of her unhappy marriage, which had produced no children… Behind her the other widows crossed their thin arms and waited with bitter impatience.
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Elegant and prosperous inland city and major rural service centre.
There are a number of elegant inland towns in New South Wales (Albury, Bathurst, Armidale, Wagga Wagga) and Orange is arguably the most elegant of them all. Characterised by beautiful tree-lined streets, charming houses dating to the early twentieth century, and outstanding public parks it is a substantial and sophisticated rural service centre which lies at the heart of some of New South Wales' richest and most bountiful agricultural land. The city is known for its excellent local produce, its impressive vineyards and its fine dining restaurants. It is also known for its impressive autumn colours and its bitterly cold winters. It regularly gets snow in winter and is known as the country's snowiest city.
Orange is located 254 km west of Sydney via the Great Western Highway. It is 863 m above sea level.^ TOP
Origin of Name
In 1823 Lieutenant Percy Simpson passed through the district on his way to Wellington. He was accompanied by Chief Constable John Blackman who gave his name to Blackman's Swamp. This became the name of the first settlement. By the late 1820s the name 'Orange' had began to appear on official documents as a replacement for Blackman's Swamp. The name change was a result of Major Thomas Mitchell who renamed the town after the Prince of Orange. Mitchell had been involved with the Prince in the Peninsular War in Spain.^ TOP
Things to See and Do
Orange Heritage Trail
There is a free brochure, Orange Heritage Trail, available from the Orange Visitor Information Centre (and downloadable at http://www.orange.nsw.gov.au/client_images/880061.pdf) which lists 46 places of interest. It is an extended walk which takes approximately 90 minutes to complete, starts at the Visitor Centre and covers ten blocks of the centre of the city. The walk is up Byng Street, across to Cooks Park and down Kite Street. The highlights include:
1. Carrington Club Hotel
Located on the corner Byng Street and Lords Place, the Carrington Club Hotel began life as a general store in the mid 1850’s and is believed to have been the first brick building in the town. It became a hotel in the 1870s and eventually became the Carrington Club in 1886. Court sittings were held in the hotel’s dining room while the Court House over the road was being built.
2. Orange Court House
The Court House reputedly stands on a site which was originally used for corroborees by the local Aborigines. Between 1849-51 a simple slab and bark hut was constructed on the site and used both as a watch house and a courtroom. A sandstone building was completed on the site in 1860-62 and it was in this building that the bushranger Ben Hall was first tried for his alleged involvement in an armed robbery near Forbes on 14 April, 1862. After spending six weeks in custody Hall was tried and acquitted by a jury. That building was pulled down in 1882 when the present Neo-Classical building, designed by Colonial Architect James Barnet, was built. It was completed in 1883 and a new wing was added in 2001.
7. Town Hall
Located on the corner of Byng Street and Anson Street, this stuccoed Italianate Town Hall was designed by Sydney architect J.J. Clarke and completed in 1888. It was built by Arthur and Oliver at a cost of £3,800 and has housed the Orange Council for almost a century.
8. Holy Trinity Church of England
Located on the corner of Anson and Byng Streets, this fine example of High Victorian Gothic Revival was designed by Thomas Rowe in 1879 with the steeple being completed in 1924.
14. Union Bank Building
Located on the corner of Byng and Sale Streets, Orange’s first bank, The Union Bank, is a two-storey building and was constructed on land bought in October 1857. It opened in 1858. In 1862 the premises were taken over by the Commercial Banking Company of Sydney. The building was also used as a police station for a time and the stables still stand in the yard.
15-18. Historic Houses in Byng Street
There are a number of historic houses in Byng Street running from 82 to 60. At 82 is Brownholme, a handsome Federation-era residence built by Ernie Maguire, the local draper; at 70 is James Dalton's first home - the house he lived in before building Duntryleague in 1876; at 68 is Wendouree, a bungalow built by the merchant, Samuel George West; at 66 Byng Street is Emily which was built in Federation style by Jack Dalton in 1900; and at 60 is a large two-storey residence, Galbally, built in 1918 by Edward Dalton.
19. St Josephs Church
Located on the corner of Byng and Hill Streets, St Joseph's was designed by Edward Gell in High Victorian style in 1869-1870. The nave was completed in 1870 and the transepts were added in 1897. The roof was built of slate and there are unusual gabled ventilators on the ridge of the nave.
20. Gladstone Hotel
Located on the corner of Byng and Hill Streets, opposite St Joseph's, the Gladstone Hotel was opened in 1865 as the Globe Hotel. It changed its name to The Globe in 1874. It is a reminder of a time when hotels were modest, single storey buildings.
22-24. Houses on Summer Street
Opposite Cook Park there are three notable and interesting houses: Berrilea Cottage at 29 Summer Street was built in 1902 and is characterised by wooden verandas, impressive lacework and a large garden; Bruff at 31 Summer Street was lived in by Mary Cecilia Dalton (another member of the Dalton family); and Blair Athol at 43 Summer Street is a Victorian-style home built by local builder, James Douglas.
25. Cook Park
The outstanding park in Orange is Cook Park (located on Summer Street and covering 4.5 ha) which has a range of interesting features including a Caretakers Cottage built in 1887; an interpretation room with photos and historic information; cedars which are over 130 years old; the James Dalton fountain, a band rotunda, an aviary, a begonia conservatory, a duck pond, a German field gun and 24 pound cannon, and numerous walkways. It is best in spring and autumn but it offers an ideal location for a picnic at any time of the year. The park is famed for its 130-year-old Deodar Cedars (the first trees were planted in 1880), the interesting James Dalton Memorial Fountain (remodelled in the 1920s) and the octagonal Bandstand which was completed in 1907 and which still has the original gas fittings and music stands, and its impressive ornamental gates. The Orange Visitor Information Centre has produced an excellent Cook Park Discovery Walk brochure which describes all the main features in the park. It can be downloaded at http://www.orange.nsw.gov.au/client_images/1286039.pdf.
26 - 30, 32 and 34. Kite Street Houses
There are a number of impressive houses at 37 Kite Street - which is the street on the far side of Cook Park. At 37 Kite Street is a handsome Victorian cottage with a distinctive cast iron veranda and decorative brickwork on the chimney - it was built in 1878; at 39 Kite Street is The Channings built in 1912; Mena is at 50 Kite Street and was built in 1875 for Thomas Dalton - this gracious home still has its lead windows, cedar archways and mouldings; at 56 Kite Street is Pauline (named after J.M.Paul who had it built in 1887), which is notable for its mixture of Federation and Edwardian architecture; Newstead, now the Newstead Bowling Club, is a Victorian-era house built in 1890 and notable for the huge Indian Cedar tree outside; Hawthornden at the corner of Kite and Sale Streets was built in 1905 and Braemar is at 75 Kite Street
33. Orange Public School
The remarkable Orange Public School, on the corner of Kite and Sale Streets, looks more like a church than a school with its high pointed large-paned sash windows, steeply pitched roof and spire. It was designed by G.A. Mansfield and opened in 1880 with the foundation stone being laid by Sir Henry Parkes, the NSW Premier and the Founding Father of Australian Federation.
41. Orange Post Office
Designed by J. Barnet and completed in 1879 this is a typical two-storey Classical design with an arcaded facade which has been filled in over the years. It has an interested balustraded parapet. It is a handsome addition to the city's main street having a Victorian Italianate graciousness.
45. Robertson Park
These are attractive gardens opposite the Visitor Information Centre in Byng Street. There were extensive plantings of exotic and native trees when the park which came into existence in 1882. It is located on the original site of Blackmans Swamp. The Whitney Fountain was placed in the park in 1895; the bandstand was completed in 1913; and the Boer War Memorial was unveiled in 1905.
Other Buildings and Places of Interest
By any measure this is an extraordinary building. It was built in 1876 for the hugely successful local businessman, James Dalton. To inspect the building the visitor drives up the long gravel driveway, edged by huge deciduous trees, and arrives at a mansion with 4-metre-high ceilings, stained glass windows in the central stairway and 3-metre-high cedar doors. Dalton was a model, late nineteenth-century Irish Catholic émigré. He had twelve children, named his mansion after his birthplace in County Limerick, and was presented with huge glass windows (they are perfectly preserved in the stairwell) after his investiture as a Papal Knight. He died in 1919 and sixteen years later Duntryleague became the Duntryleague Golf Course. It is entirely appropriate that Dalton was the first patron of the Orange Golf Club. For more information check out http://www.duntryleague.com.au/ or tel: (02) 6362 3466.
Orange Regional Gallery
Located at 149 Byng Street the Orange Regional Gallery is recognised as one of the best rural art galleries in Australia. It regularly hosts touring art exhibitions and has a fine collection of works including Ian Fairweather, Sidney Nolan, Justin O'Brien, Brett Whiteley and John Olsen. It is open from 10.00 am - 4.00 pm daily. Check out https://org.nsw.gov.au for details of current and future exhibitions. Tel: (02) 6393 8136.
Stretching from 3-25 Bathurst Road (and immediately obvious to visitors arriving from Sydney), Bowen Terrace is an outstanding example of a two-storey terrace building. It was built in 1876 and renovated in 1972, has a total of twelve terrace houses, and is characterised by cast-iron balconies and columns. Designed by John Hale it is a rare example of a row of terraces in a rural town. It was built for Maurice Bebb Bowen, the owner of Orange's first tannery. For most of its life it was used as rental accommodation.
Orange Botanic Gardens
Located north of Orange at 1 Yellow Box Way, the Orange Botanic Gardens were created as a Bicentennial Project. The aim was to create a garden based "on a theme that relates to both past and current regional vegetation as well as those plants that enjoy cold winters and hot summers". The Gardens cover 17 hectares and are divided into Exotic Trees and Shrubs, Australian Native Plants and Clover Hill Display Gardens. The features include the 'Homestead Gardens', the 'Apple Orchard', twenty varieties of magnolia, sundials, the 'Sensory Gardens', the 'Biblical Gardens', the 'Heritage Rose Garden and Church' and a "Eucalyptus Lawn'. There is a brochure available at the Visitor Information Centre. it can be downloaded at http://www.orange.nsw.gov.au/client_images/1822662.pdf. A self-guided walk through the gardens is about 1.5 km and can take as little as 20 minutes or as long as you want to linger in those areas that capture your senses.
Now located in the Botanic Gardens on Yellow Box Way and open from 9.00 am - 4.00 pm, Emmaville Cottage is a four room cottage constructed from redwood, imported from North America in the 1850s, and possibly pre-fabricated. It was moved and installed in the Botanic Gardens in 2013 and some people argue that it was where 'Banjo' Paterson was born. It is unlikely to be his birth place as the 1947 location outside town on the Ophir Road is seen as the most likely. When the discussion about Paterson's birth place was raised the Rotary Club, which restored the historic cottage, insisted that they had no definite evidence but that the cottage had been located on Narrambla (where Paterson had been born) and, therefore, had some connection with Paterson's birth.
Located in the Botanic Gardens is the Federation Arch, sculptured by Bert Flugelman and unveiled in 2001. Flugelman is most famous for his "Shish Kebab" which once stood in Martin Place in Sydney. The arch was commissioned by the Orange Regional Arts Foundation and they explain that "The connection to the present is importantly expressed in the form of this stainless steel sculpture. The seemingly simple but yet quite complex geometric configuration with its clean and decisive lines is more in line with our technologically advanced society. It symbolises passing through from one century to the next and reaffirms that Australians one hundred years ago built arches to celebrate the Federation of the Nation. The sculpture spans the pathway adjacent to the main billabong. The path is white leading to the arch and changing to pink on the other side. The highly polished mirror finish reflects the surrounding landscape and symbolises the passage of an individual through time."
The Orange Visitor Centre has a wide range of brochures designed for visitors who want to explore specific aspects of the town and the surrounding district. Those of particular interest include:
Historic Pub Tour of Orange: a brochure listing 12 pubs around town.
East Orange Heritage Trail: a leisurely walk around East Orange covering a total of 16 sites many of which are memories rather than actual buildings.
Orange General Cemetery: a walk through the local historic cemetery which points out specific graves of historic interest.
Robertson Park Heritage Walk: records the history of the park and writes in detail about 8 monuments and pieces of interest in the park - notably the Whitney Fountain which celebrates William Franklin Whitney, a director of Cobb & Co. It was presented to the Borough of Orange by the Cobb & Co employees.
Walking & Cycling Orange: the brochure contains a huge, detailed map of the city with five pedestrian and cycleways around the city. As well there are maps of Lake Canobolas Walking and Cycle Track and Gosling Creek Reserve and Bloomfield Park.
Heritage Drives of Orange & District: outlines four drives around Orange -
Drive 1 - March - takes around an hour and goes out to the village of March
Drive 2 - Drive to Ophir, Byng, Shadforth and Lucknow. Takes around 90 minutes
Drive 3 - Drive to Lake Canobolas, Mount Canobolas, Borenore Cavesand Yuranigh's Grave. Takes around 90 minutes
Drive 4 - Drive to Gosling Creek, Millthorpe and Spring Hill. Takes around an hour.
Other Attractions in the Area
Located 12 km west of the city centre is Lake Canobolas, a pleasant artificial lake with poplars and deciduous trees growing on its shores and excellent picnic and barbecue facilities . It is said that 'canobolas' comes from 'coonoo baloo' a local Aboriginal expression meaning 'twin shoulders' or 'twin heads'. The lake is fed by the Molong Creek and, although it can be cold, it is suitable for swimming, canoeing and sailing. The lake is known for its rich birdlife. It was originally built in 1918 to provide the town with its water supply. There is a walking trail around the lake (a map is available at the Visitor Information Centre) and this trail is also suitable for cycling.
Mount Canobolas State Conservation Area
Another 6 km further on is the summit of Mount Canobolas, an extinct volcano which rises to 1,395 metres and offers 360° views from its summit. It is claimed that on a clear day visitors can see for over 100 kilometres. The vegetation on the mountain is particularly diverse with snow gums, heathlands and snow grass on the upper reaches and the lower lying slopes and gullies having dry and moist eucalypt forests. The mountain is home to the endangered yellow bellied glider, little pied bat and two rare eucalypts.
There are a total of seven walking tracks in the State Conservation Area. All depart, apart from the Towac Track, from the parking area at the top of the mountain:
Spring Glade Track is 3 km, 90 minutes return, moderate difficulty
Summits Track is 2 km, 60 minutes return, moderate difficulty
Snowgum Track is 1.3 km 60 minutes return, moderate difficulty
Nature Walk Track is 2.7 km, 60 minute loop, moderate difficulty
Hopetoun Falls Track is 5.6 km, 2 1.2 hours return, moderate difficulty
Federal Falls, 3.8 km, 2 1/2 hour loop, moderate
Mount Towac Track, 1.8 km, 1 hour return, moderate
There is a map of all the walks available at http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/visit-a-park/parks/mount-canobolas-state-conservation-area/map but the best option is the brochure which is available at the Visitor Centre.
Geologically Mount Canobolas is fascinating. It was formed around 11-13 million years ago when 800 square kilometres of lava covered the land. The central area of the mountain comprises over fifty volcanic vents, dykes, peaks, domes and plugs.
It is a comment on the flatness of the Australian continent that if you were to draw a straight line west from Mount Canobolas you would not find a higher point until you reached the coast of Africa. The mountain's walks offer excellent opportunities to see a wide variety of fauna including rosellas, cockatoos, parrots, lorikeets, grey kangaroos, wallabies, wombats, koalas and small possums.
Wineries in the District
The city's website - http://www.visitorange.com.au/search_resultall.asp - provides information about 41 vineyards in the local area.
The Borenore Trail
A particularly enjoyable way to experience a cross-section of vineyards is to collect the Explore the Borenore Trail brochure and take a pleasant journey along the Escort Way. There is also the Borenore Karst Conservation Reserve (about 17 km from Orange) with its two easy walks:
Arch Loop Trail - a 700 m loop to the Arch Cave which takes less than 30 minutes (http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/walking-tracks/arch-loop-track) and
Verandah Cave - a 3.5 km walk along the Boree Creek to a large limestone overhang above a pool of water. Check out http://www.nationalparks.nsw.gov.au/things-to-do/show-caves/verandah-cave.
Ophir (it rhymes with 'loafer' or 'sofa') is located in a gorge 27 km north-east of Orange. In April, 1851 what is now a peaceful recreation reserve with picnic and camping facilities where Summer Hill Creek and Lewis Ponds Creek meet, was the site of a discovery that changed Australian society and the Australian economy dramatically. Today it is a pleasant picnic area with two excellent walks through quiet bushland which was once the site of mines, tunnels and furious activity as more than 2,000 miners dug for their fortunes. Of particular interest in the area are the numerous old mines some of which are still operational and can be inspected.
The main attraction at Ophir is the 560 ha Historic Ophir Reserve which comprises camping and picnic facilities; the junction of the Summer Hill and Lewis Ponds Creeks which flow into the Ophir Creek; two pleasant walking trails which include the site of the original 1851 gold strike and of the 1866 Belmore Reef find; earthen water races, a rare stone gravity-fed water race (c.1890) for washing the crushed quartz from the stamper batteries; abandoned tunnels, old diggings, a flagstone causeway, mullock heaps, the remains of a flying fox and the old cemetery. One tombstone identifies Charlie Corse who received a bullet in the head when he dared Richard Spencer to shoot him in a dispute over a saddle. Spencer was gaoled in Bathurst prison. On the northern side of the causeway is an obelisk to commemorate the historical importance of the site which was built in 1923.
Birthplace of 'Banjo' Paterson
It is known and accepted that A.B. 'Banjo' Paterson was born at Narrambla near Orange on 17 February, 1864. But there is a problem. Some people argue that he was born at the home of John Templer, a local mill owner and the husband of Paterson's great-aunt Rosamund but no one is sure where the home was.
One Possible Home
On the road to Ophir, 5 km from Orange, is a white monument which was unveiled by Paterson's widow in 1947 which declares that this was the location where Andrew 'Banjo' Paterson, was born. There is a pleasant park area where enthusiasts can enjoy a picnic and appreciate the rolling countryside.
Now located in the Botanic Gardens on Yellow Box Way and open from 9.00 am - 4.00 pm, Emmaville Cottage is a four room cottage constructed from redwood imported from North America in the 1850s and possibly pre-fabricated. It was moved and installed in the Botanic Gardens in 2013 and some people argue that it was where Paterson was born. It is unlikely as the 1947 location on the Ophir Road is seen as the most likely. When the discussion was raised the Rotary Club, which restored the historic cottage, insisted that they had no definite evidence but that the cottage had been located on Narrambla and, therefore, had connections with Paterson's birth place.
Cadia is located 22 km south-west of Orange. The discovery of copper and gold in the Cadia area dates back to 1851, with modern era exploration in the district commencing in the mid 1960s. In 1992, the Cadia Hill gold copper porphyry deposit was discovered by Newcrest Mining Limited. The Cadia East deposit was subsequently discovered in 1994 followed by the Ridgeway deposit in 1996.
Newcrest have published a booklet on the Cadia Valley Operations - Heritage Walking Trail. It is downloadable at http://www.cadiavalley.com.au/client_images/1071622.pdf.
The walk includes an Aboriginal scar tree; a two-storey Cornish engine and pumping house, built of stone, with a circular stone and brick chimney; a single-storey boiler house annexe; a large stone paved working area; a Garden of Remembrance where the town's cemetery has been relocated; and an Open Pit Lookout. The equipment on display was probably erected by the Gulgong Copper Company in the 1870s it closed down in the 1880s. It is a genuinely fascinating look into old and new gold mining.
Cobb & Co Heritage Trail
The historic inland coaching company, Cobb & Co, celebrated the 150th anniversary of its first journey in 2004. The company's contribution to Australia's development was celebrated with the establishment of a heritage trail from Bathurst and Bourke.
Cobb & Co's origins lay in the traffic created by the goldrushes of the early 1850s. As the Heritage Trail website states: 'The company was enormously successful and had branches or franchises throughout much of Australia, New Zealand, South Africa and Japan. At its peak, Cobb & Co operated along a network of tracks that extended further than those of any other coach system in the world – its coaches travelled 28,000 miles (44,800 km) per week and 6000 (out of their 30,000) horses were harnessed every day. Cobb & Co created a web of tracks from Normanton on the Gulf of Carpentaria and Port Douglas on the Coral Sea down to the furthest reaches of Victoria and South Australia – in all, a continuous line of 2000 miles (3200 km) of track over eastern Australia from south to north, with a total of 7000 miles (11,200 km) of regular routes' (see http://www.cobbandco.net.au).
Cobb & Co partner, William Franklin Whitney, took up residence in Orange and he and his wife are buried in the local cemetery. The heritage trail also takes in the family's old residence (which was used as a company stables and depot) and the Whitney Fountain, built by Whitney's employees, in his honour. Other Cobb & Co sites include the Victoria Hotel, the Royal Hotel, the old booking office site, the former passenger pick-up point, and other sites in the shire, such as changing stations and track routes.
* Prior to the arrival of Europeans the area was occupied by Wiradjuri Aborigines.
* The first Europeans to reach the area were a party led by G.W. Evans which saw Mount Canobolas on 23 June, 1813.
* The Surveyor-General John Oxley passed through Lewis Pond and Ophir in 1817-18 but did not reach Orange.
* In 1820 Surveyor Meehan passed west of the present site of Orange.
* The first European to pass through the present townsite was Lieutenant Percy Simpson who was heading towards Wellington in 1823. He was accompanied by Chief Constable John Blackman who gave his name to Blackman's Swamp which was what the settlement was called until the name 'Orange' began to appear on official documents in the late 1820s.
* A town site was surveyed in 1828.
* In 1835, after he had suggested a name for the future town, Surveyor Thomas Mitchell camped at Boree and climbed Mount Canobolas.
* By 1836 land in the area was being sold. Notable early purchasers were W.E. Sampson and J. Moulder both of whom are commemorated by local street names.
* By the late 1830s a town was forming. Sampson and Moulder subdivided their landholdings.
* The first land had been sold in the area by 1836.
* A man named John Peisley obtained a license for the Coach and Horses Inn in 1838.
* By 1840 a blacksmith and a wheelwright had set themselves up near the inn.
* By 1845 there were more shops including a store, a tannery and a shoemaker.
* The site of Orange was officially proclaimed on 18 November, 1846.
* By 1848 there were only three buildings in the village.
* Payable gold was discovered at Ophir in April, 1851. Thousands of people flocked to the Ophir diggings.
* Gold was discovered at Lucknow in May, 1851.
* Between 1851 and 1871 the population of Orange grew from 28 to 1456 and businesses sprang up to meet the needs of the miners who passed through the area on their way to the goldfields.
* By 1862 Cobb & Co were running a regular coach service from Bathurst to Forbes which passed through Orange.
* In 1863 a tollgate was constructed on the road to the east of the present town.
* The poet 'Banjo' Paterson was born on 17 February, 1864 on a property outside the town.
* By the 1870s the area was known for its high quality wheat and was gaining a reputation as the finest wheat producing area in New South Wales.
* The railway reached the town in 1877.
* In 1880 Orange was proclaimed a municipality.
* The town hall was completed in 1887.
* In 1946 Orange was proclaimed a city.
* The first Australian Touring Car Championship, now known as the V8 Supercar Championship, was held in 1960.
* By the 1970s the district was producing over 10 per cent of the country's apple supplies and reputedly more than half the apples grown in New South Wales.
* Today the city prides itself on being one of the country's food baskets. Olives, grapes, apples, berries, fine lamb and beef are all grown in the local area and the produce is of the highest quality. The district has over 40 vineyards.
* A new Court house was built in 2001.
* The city's Electrolux white goods factory closed in 2017.^ TOP
Orange Visitor Centre, 151 Byng St, tel: (02) 6393 8226, 1800 069 466.^ TOP
The city's official website - http://www.visitorange.com.au - provides detailed information about accommodation and eating in the city as well as information about local attractions.^ TOP | <urn:uuid:682754a5-5568-4630-a26b-778a1392580b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.aussietowns.com.au/town/orange-nsw | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571190.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810131127-20220810161127-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.969036 | 6,335 | 1.914063 | 2 |
Health Impact News Editor Comments
The cholesterol-lowering statin drug empire continues to crumble. On Sunday February 15, 2015, the Sunday Express in the UK published a headline story stating that Oxford professor Dr. Rory Collins, whose research had been used to support putting millions of patients on statin drugs, was reassessing the data behind those studies for possible drug side effects they might have missed previously.
According to the Express:
Although the original research looked at the effect of statins on the heart and considered cancer risks it did not examine other side effects.
A Pharmaceutical Scandal that Can No Longer Be Hidden?
This announcement by Dr. Collins is stunning, to say the least, and points to a massive cover-up and scandal related to statin drugs.
In 2014, Dr. Collins supported calls in the UK to put more people on statin drugs. However, he met with some opposition, and the British Medical Journal (BMJ) published a couple of articles documenting some of the side effects of statin drugs, which would call into question new government guidelines that would encourage physicians to put more patients on the already popular class of cholesterol-lowering drugs. Statins are the world’s best selling pharmaceutical drugs of all time, with no close competitors.
Dr. Collins criticized the BMJ articles, and demanded that they retract them. According to Dr. Malcolm Kendrick:
He stated that these articles were irresponsible, worse than Andrew Wakefield’s work on the MMR vaccine, and that thousands would die if they were scared off taking their statins by such articles. (Source.)
An independent review panel set up by Fiona Godlee, editor of the BMJ, looked at the BMJ’s data and rejected his demands.
Dr. Collins is head of the Cholesterol Treatment Trialists’ (CTT) Collaboration, and as Dr. Kendrick points out:
you should know that for a number of years, people have been trying to get Rory Collins to release the data he and his unit (the CTT), holds on statins. [The CTT was set up purely to get hold of and review all the data on statins, it has no other function].
He has stubbornly refused to let anyone see anything. He claims he signed non-disclosure contracts with pharmaceutical companies who send him the data, so he cannot allow anyone else access. Please remember that some of the trials he holds data on were done over thirty years ago, and the drugs are long off patent.
Now, amazingly, after running the CTT for nearly twenty years, Collins claims that ‘he has not seen the full data on side-effects.’ In an e-mail to the Sunday Express he stated that ‘his team had assessed the effects of statins on heart disease and cancer but not other side effects such as muscle pain.’
Let that statement percolate for a moment or two. Then try to make sense of it. So, they have got the data, but not bothered to look at it? Or they have not got it – which surely must be the case if he hasn’t even seen it. Give us a clue. Either way, Collins states he has not assessed it. (Source.)
So why this sudden about face by Dr. Collins in admitting the data on statin drugs needs to be reassessed due to potential side effects not previously studied? Could the thousands of lawsuits currently being filed in the United States against Lipitor, the best-selling drug in the history of the world, for causing diabetes, be just the tip of the iceberg in terms of serious side effects that are now about to become public?
ABC Australia Investigative Report on Statin Scam Pulled from YouTube
Dr. MaryAnne Demasi’s documentary on the criminal activity of the pharmaceutical industry regarding cholesterol-lowering statin drugs sent shock waves through the mainstream media in Australia at the end of 2013. Published in two parts on the popular news show The Catalyst, the pharmaceutical industry complained loudly after the first show, and requested the network not air the second episode, “Heart of the Matter Part 2 – Cholesterol Drug War.”
ABC Australia aired it anyway, but the pharmaceutical influence was apparently too strong, as they later announced that the network would remove the videos from their website because “they breached its impartiality standards.” All copies found on YouTube were also removed.
Dr. Michael Eades has published them on his Vimeo channel, however, and you can watch them below. If you know anyone currently being prescribed statin drugs to lower their cholesterol, this information could save their lives.
Heart of the Matter – Part 1
Heart of the Matter Part 2 – Cholesterol Drug War
More on the Cholesterol Myth
More on the Statin Scam
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IUPUI University Library dean recognized as visionary, leader in library innovation
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INDIANAPOLIS -- IUPUI University Library Dean David Lewis argued in a College & Research Libraries article that the rapid evolution of information technology employed in teaching, learning and research presages a "fundamental change" in higher education that will require academic libraries to be less concerned with "the automation of old systems" and more concerned with the "restructuring of institutions."
While the necessity of keeping libraries relevant in the electronic era is a commonplace academic discussion in 2014, Lewis' article, "Inventing the electronic university," was published in 1988.
Today that breakthrough article is one of 30 semifinalists -- selected by the editorial board and past editors of College & Research Libraries -- from which the journal's readers will choose six "landmark" articles for publication in the College & Research Libraries' 75th anniversary issue.
Under Lewis' visionary leadership, Indiana University-Purdue University Indianapolis' University Library has become a leader in using technology to support academic research and learning.
When asked to comment on the importance of libraries, Lewis has said: "Libraries have always done three things: They have saved stuff (mostly documents) for the long haul. They have provided the knowledge communities and organizations need to be effective. They have assisted individuals and taught them the skills needed to find and use information. We do this so that individuals, organizations and communities are productive and so that civilizations are long lasting."
To continue to serve the community and fulfill the University Library's vision of being an innovative leader among urban university libraries, University Library established the Center for Digital Scholarship and built programs focused on information literacy. The center works to provide open access to IUPUI scholarship, research data and the cultural heritage of our community. University Library has created more than 60 collections of unique and historically important materials, accessible to any user via the Web.
"The particulars of what libraries do and how they do it has changed, but their goals are the same, and the need for libraries still exists," Lewis said.
College & Research Libraries is the official scholarly research journal of the Association of College & Research Libraries, a division of the American Library Association. The editorial board will also include one "people's choice" article as a seventh landmark article for the 75th anniversary special issue.
Voting for the finalists and the "people's choice" article will run through April 13.
University Library is celebrating its 21st year in 2014 with a collection of 21 stories focused on the University Library's history and impact.
Located at 755 W. Michigan St. in the heart of the IUPUI campus, University Library is a public library, serving nearly 1 million visitors a year, 10 percent of them community users. University Library supports students and faculty across all of IUPUI's more than 200 degree programs with research expertise and a wide array of resources. Any resident of Indiana is eligible for an IUPUI University Library card. | <urn:uuid:42f86ce0-7047-49cd-8d57-ff49760fb460> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://news.iupui.edu/releases/2014/03/lewis-landmark-article.shtml | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00518-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.938275 | 613 | 1.84375 | 2 |
A new study suggests that the polar jet stream has been fluctuating more than normal as it passes over the parts of the Northern Hemisphere, and that's affecting weather in Europe and North America.
The jet stream is like a river of wind that circles the Northern Hemisphere continuously. That river meanders north and south along the way, however. When those meanders occur over the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans, it can alter pressure systems and wind patterns at lower latitudes in Europe and North America. And that affects how warm or rainy it is on those continents.
Researchers at the University of Arizona and the Swiss Federal Research Institute studied tree rings to get a fix on how widely and how often the jet stream meanders.
Biologist Valerie Trouet took samples from four species of trees in Europe, including Scots pine, dating back to 1725. These revealed what kind of weather Europe had each year. And that helped them establish the normal pattern of the jet stream's fluctuations.
What surprised the scientists was that the jet stream's meandering has become more frequent. "Since 1960 we get more years when the jet is in an extreme position," Trouet says, either in its northernmost or southernmost position. She adds that this pattern of more frequent, extreme shifts north and south has never been seen before in her 290-year record. | <urn:uuid:ffdd1fc0-b060-43f7-bf98-73dbedfed3cb> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.climatesignals.org/headlines/scientists-say-fluctuating-jet-stream-may-be-causing-extreme-weather-events | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.96906 | 271 | 4.03125 | 4 |
Financial confidence among motorists seems to be on the rise with almost a quarter of adults thinking of buying a car in the near future.
According to a survey by Sainsbury's Bank, as many as 23% of drivers are mooting the prospect of buying a new or second-hand model over the next six months.
Some 13% of the 2,058 people questioned said they would opt for a shiny new car - the average buyer admitting they would spend around £15,921 on the most up-to-date 64 plate, released this month.
Meanwhile, those looking at second-hand models would likely spend £6,636, the survey suggests. It is highly recommended that all used models are subject to a car data check before you part with your cash.
This optimistic trend has been evident for some time, with the Society of Motor Manufacturers and Traders reporting repeated growth in the new car sales market for the past 30 months.
Those wanting assurance over their purchase will be keen to hear that in August, new-car sales rose 9.4% compared with the same month in 2013.
Sales up to the end of August this year, meanwhile, totalled 1.53 million - a rise of 10.1% over the same period last year.
September is traditionally seen as a popular time for car purchases, with around 18% of a year's worth of purchases taking place in this month.
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Google have seen a progressive increase in Chrome usage since 2009, who are now on par with Safari usage across the board. With around 11 percent of the market, they fall quite shy of Firefox and Internet Explorer, who also have notable loss in usage. You can check the latest stats of browser usage here.
As Chrome usage is on the up and the age of Google Chrome OS is on the horizon, the search engine giant has declared to the world that their browser can now be used in a corporate environment. Tools for administrators have been added to configure and deploy the browser on Windows, Mac and Linux platforms. Windows policy template support is a notable addition that lets administrators control all of Chrome’s settings throughout an entire organisation. Google have also added their support for the browser, with phone and e-mail now supported via Google Apps for Business.
As we stated, Chrome is not as popular as Mozilla Firefox and Internet Explorer from Microsoft — yet. “Let your administrator know to give it a try and let us know what they think,” Glenn Wilson and Daniel Clifford of Google said.
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Summary of Listening to Conflict
Finding Constructive Solutions to Workplace Disputes
Before you smash that smirking son of a gun, pause for a moment and actually listen to what he’s saying.
No matter what size your business is, chances are you’ve had to deal with conflicts at work. Relationship-management skills are critical in any business. Author Erik J. Van Slyke examines the underlying problems that cause conflicts and determines that resolution is not about negotiating strategy as much as it is about understanding people. Listening is your primary weapon. When arguing, cajoling and persuading fail to solve a conflict, listening can prevail. Throughout, the book strikes a delicate balance between explaining the psychological roots of communication problems and detailing strategies that can help you guide people in overcoming those obstacles. A series of step-by-step guidelines assists in understanding and employing the author’s suggestions. getabstract.com recommends this book for everyone who wants a clear approach to conflict resolution.
In this summary, you will learn
- How conflicts arise
- Why understanding yourself is the key to resolving conflicts with others
- Why listening is the only way to truly resolve a conflict
About the Author
Erik J. Van Slyke is a principal with HR Alliance, a human resources consulting and training firm. He has been cited in The Wall Street Journal and the BNA Employee Relations Weekly.
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Myth of American Dream
Or how we learned to stop worrying and love plastic — surgery and money
“I just want to say one word to you. Just one word . . . plastics.” When Mr. McGuire offers this advice, if you can call it that, to young Benjamin Braddock in the 1967 film “The Graduate,’’ is it possible he had “boob jobs, credit cards, and our quest for perfection” in mind? “[O]ne cannot understand America,” Laurie Essig writes, “without understanding plastic.” Like Mr. McGuire, Essig believes that understanding plastic is the key to understanding contemporary America.
Sounds absurd, doesn’t it? But in this fast-paced book, Essig, a sociologist at Middlebury College, makes a strong case for the idea that plastic — both in the form of money (e.g., credit cards and other forms of easy credit) and in the form of surgery (e.g., breast jobs, nose jobs, etc.), has become Americans’ favorite problem-solving tool, whether they can afford it or not. “We wish the world were different. We wish we were different. The solution, it seems, is plastic.”
Essig’s style is breezy but her message is as pointed as a syringe full of Botox: The American Dream is a myth and our addiction to plastic conspires in obscuring that fact. “Our desire for plastic is the result of massive shifts in our culture and our economy that affect us all. Plastic money covered up the fact that most of us were getting poorer while a few of us were getting richer.”
Hers is at heart an argument about political economy. Essig’s approach adds a new facet to a growing argument about the complicated web of consumerism, health, and the American ethos of individualism expressed in recent books such as Barbara Ehrenreich’s “Bright-Sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America’’ and Judith Warner’s “Perfect Madness: Motherhood in the Age of Anxiety.’’ As Essig argues, America’s cult of individualism “grew up alongside capitalism to free the state from responsibility to the individual and make the individual see failure as a personal, not a structural, problem.”
How all this relates to cosmetic breast surgery is surprisingly straightforward: “This ideology says that we are responsible for ourselves, and that we all have a chance to make it if we just work hard enough. In this case, the hard work of beauty becomes something we all must do, and if we don’t, then we deserve our low pay, or lack of healthcare, or lonely, unmarried futures.” If at first the reader finds this line of logic hard to take seriously, just spend some time with the many women Essig interviewed for the book (women make up 90 percent of the cosmetic surgery patients) who explain that they spent thousands of dollars on bigger breasts, smaller noses, and flatter stomachs because they hoped that by looking better they would be less likely to be fired from their jobs. Less likely to be dumped by their husbands. Less likely to hate themselves. It’s a sad story.
And a common one. Essig’s strength is her humor, combined with real compassion for and identification with the average American woman who finds it hard to love her own body. She coins a term that’s stayed with me since I finished the book: “ordinary ugliness.” This is the state of being, well, normal: “stretch marks, cellulite, wrinkles, the downward pull of gravity, the realization that our bodies are not and can never be perfect.” Ordinary ugliness has always been with us; it’s just plastic surgery that’s new. Essig notes that when her mother reached late middle age, she “believed it was acceptable to ‘let herself go.’ ” — to stop dyeing her hair, pulling on a girdle, and wearing uncomfortable shoes. “I don’t know at what age I can stop dyeing my hair or working out,” writes Essig, who is in her 40s, “but it’s definitely not anytime soon, if ever.”
Of course, the next generation of American women — her daughters — started their “beauty work” earlier than their predecessors and will probably keep doing it into very old age. Why? Because despite real advances in American women’s lives, women are still “trapped in a culture that insists happiness can only be obtained through the transformation of the body.” That, plus the fact that we live in a world trying to sell us stuff, constantly. Essig can’t simply blame the media for the problem; as she observes, many of the women who cite the media as the root of their dissatisfaction with their own appearance go on to get unaffordable plastic surgery anyway. As one cosmetic surgery patient explained, ruefully, “The hard part is to distinguish between what I want and what society wants.”
In the past decade the popularity of plastic surgery (measured in the number of procedures) has increased by 465 percent. Most of those procedures were paid for on credit. You may read these statistics and scoff, having never gone in for “a little work” yourself, but as Essig notes, even if you’ve never considered plastic surgery, “chances are you’ve assumed debt” — whether in the pursuit of a house, nicer furniture, or more education — “in order to create a more perfect future.” As the Reagan administration dissolved banking regulations in the 1980s and revised the tax code to benefit the richest among us, increasingly poorer working Americans turned to credit to finance their version of the American Dream. And we’re still doing it. Guess what, Benjamin Braddock? Mr. McGuire was right.
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Date spotted is incorrect. Was around fall of 2010
These guys are incredible but can inflict a nasty bite!
I would be careful picking that up; I heard that their bite is extremely painful!
There was an error in the spotting location; it should have been Rochester, NY
I don't feel confident identifying this past the genus Lethocerus without more information about the animal. There are at least 3 species in the genus that occur in Florida and on the surface, they all appear similar. Go ahead and update this spotting when you have a moment. You can also change the spotting date in edit mode. :-)
Spotted on Sep 26, 2010 Submitted on Feb 27, 2011
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How do I display ww1 medals?
According to the general protocol for displaying medals, the highest honors should be placed to the top left in order of precedence. It’s also advised to assemble medals of the same category together. For example, all the stars, with the highest-ranking to the top left, and then patches, pins, and ribbons.
What information does the map provide about the Austro-Hungarian?
What information does the map provide about the Austria-Hungarian Empire? Austria-Hungary was home to many different ethnic groups. their empire would be destroyed by nationalist forces. assemble its armed forces and move them quickly.
What medals did soldiers win in ww1?
Major military awards of World War 1: VC to MiD
- Victoria Cross. …
- Distinguished Service Order. …
- Distinguished Service Cross. …
- Military Cross. …
- Distinguished Flying Cross. …
- Air Force Cross. …
- Distinguished Conduct Medal. …
- Distinguished Service Medal.
What was the Austro-Hungarian army called?
The Austro-Hungarian Armed Forces (German: Bewaffnete Macht or Wehrmacht) or Imperial and Royal Armed Forces were the military forces of Austria-Hungary. It comprised two main branches: The Army (Landstreitkräfte) and the Navy (Kriegsmarine).
How do I find out what ribbons and medals I have?
Individuals can request information on military service medals, decorations and awards online: https://www.archives.gov/personnel-records-center/awards-and-decorations.
Are World war 1 medals worth anything?
Put simply, yes! War medals are worth money, but how much you make when selling them depends on a lot of factors. If your medals are in great condition they will make more money than if they are damaged. If you have the original papers and presentation boxes that go with your medals they will also be worth more.
Are Austrians Germans?
Historically, Austrians were regarded as ethnic Germans and viewed themselves as such. The Austrian lands (including Bohemia etc.)
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What territory was held by Austria-Hungary in 1914?
Austria-Hungary In 1914↑
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About the Environment
This tutorial requires a WebSocket server. We will use sandbox.kaazing.net, which hosts the Enterprise Edition of Kaazing WebSocket Gateway, Kaazing’s high-performance enterprise-grade WebSocket Server. All you’ll need to do is create a WebSocket connection to this server directly from your browser and start “talking” (read: send messages) to it from your browser. On the client side, you can use any modern browser, supported by JSFiddle (learn more about JSFiddle).
Getting Started Firstly, to understand how the tutorial environment in JSFiddle works, open up the completed demo in JSFiddle. If you’re using a tablet or a smart phone, use the full page mode of the demo.
JSFiddle provides a simple, integrated environment to edit the source of your web pages and apps. It has four panes:
- Top-left: HTML code (very minimal HTML code in our demo)
- Top-right: CSS code (empty in our case)
- Bottom-right: Result
In the bottom right pane, you can interact with the completed app. Using the slider, you can change the size of the image. Now, open another browser window, pointing to the same JSFiddle demo URL. You can also use a tablet or a smart phone. Position your two browser windows side-by-side. As you adjust the slider in the bottom-right pane, right above the image in one browser window, the slider position and image size change in the other one. They’re kept in sync.
The browsers are communicating with the WebSocket gateway which is running in Amazon’s EC2 cloud, hosted in North Virginia, USA. When you move the slider, messages travel from your browser, to the WebSocket gateway, and back to the other browser. Watch this video demonstrating the completed application (if the letters are blurry, switching the video to HD helps):
At this point, you can make any changes to the application. Click the Run button to test out your changes. To roll back to the original state, simply reload the original JSFiddle demo URL.
Note: If you see the image resize without you moving the slider, there’s a chance that somebody else is experimenting with the tutorial as well. To ensure that you’re not interfering with anybody else, change the topic name to something unique to you, for example by appending your name. Locate the following line in the bottom-left pane, towards the top of the file:
var TOPIC_NAME = '/topic/myTopic';
Modify the name of the topic. For example:
var TOPIC_NAME = '/topic/PeterTopic';
Test your code by clicking the Run button. As another test, you can also change the application’s logging behavior. To give it a try, change the value of the IN_DEBUG_MODE variable to false, located in the bottom-left pane towards the top of the file. Original line:
var IN_DEBUG_MODE = true;
After the changes:
var IN_DEBUG_MODE = false;
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Definitions of cannon
plural of cannon 1
n. - A great gun; a piece of ordnance or artillery; a firearm for discharging heavy shot with great force. 2
n. - A hollow cylindrical piece carried by a revolving shaft, on which it may, however, revolve independently. 2
n. - A kind of type. See Canon. 2
n. & v. - See Carom. 2
v. i. - To discharge cannon. 2
v. i. - To collide or strike violently, esp. so as to glance off or rebound; to strike and rebound. 2
The word "cannon" uses 6 letters: A C N N N O.
No direct anagrams for cannon found in this word list.
List shorter words within cannon, sorted by length
All words formed from cannon by changing one letter
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On 14 March 2007, the applicant submitted an application for restitution for what she described as ‘de collectie May’ [the May collection]. At that time, the Minister advised the applicant that he could only submit the claim for a recommendation in relation to the painting NK 2558, as the remaining objects were insufficiently specified. On 27 April 2007, the Minister asked the Committee for a recommendation concerning the claim to NK 2558 and on 10 November 2008 the Committee issued a recommendation to reject this claim.
As recommended by the Minister, the applicant then asked the RMA for assistance in investigating whether the objects from ‘the May collection’ were at that museum. This investigation resulted in a list of approximately 335 objects (hereafter referred to as: the May collection). In a letter dated 13 February 2009, the Minster requested the Committee to issue a recommendation concerning those works housed at the RMA.
Following this application for restitution, the Committee instigated a fact-finding investigation, the results of which were included in a draft investigatory report dated 7 March 2011. The draft investigatory report and a request for additional information were sent to the applicant on 17 March 2011, to which she responded, after an agreed deferral, in a letter dated 18 May 2011. The draft investigatory report was sent in letters to the RMA and the State Secretary for Education, Culture and Science (hereafter referred to as: the State Secretary) requesting more factual information, dated 17 March 2011. The RMA responded to this in a letter dated 13 May 2011 and answered the further questions posed by the Committee in the above-mentioned letter. On 16 May 2011, the State Secretary advised that he did not have any additional information he wanted the Committee to consider. The investigatory report was then adopted on 19 September 2011. For the facts of the case, the Committee refers to the investigatory report.
The Dutch State bought the currently claimed works in 1944, making them part of the Dutch national art collection. Although the objects are not part of the Netherlands Art Property Collection, which is made up primarily of works of art that were returned to the Netherlands after the liberation, the Committee will issue its recommendation under article 2, paragraph 1 in conjunction with paragraph 4 of the Decree establishing the Restitutions Committee, which stipulates that, with regard to items of cultural value that are in the custody of the Dutch State, the Committee has to issue a recommendation with due regard for the more relaxed restitutions policy.
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Story Time - Hansel and Gretel
Watch the story of Hansel and Gretel. Can you tell the story to someone in your house?
This will help you with your literacy later in the week.
This book is part of Ladybirds First Favourite Tales series - these retellings are perfect for introducing young children to classic stories and fairy tales,...
Play the matching game by matching the symbol with the meaning
Using the story you wrote on Hansel and Gretel, make a movie showing your story. You could use the puppets from the writing task or make your own or even get you family to act it out!
Send your teachers any videos you make.
Mrs McConville- firstname.lastname@example.org
Mrs Anderson- email@example.com
Think positive- Think Happy- feel happy
Watch Powerpoint and discuss with an adult in your house.
Discuss positive thinking
Listen to the story on Powerpoint about Jude. How can we turn negatives into positives?
Look at the cloud sheet, can you think of a positive to write?
How can you turn a negative into a positive?
Unfortunately not the ones with chocolate chips.
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