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Here is a rather splendid looking but not terribly user friendly Magnetic Constructional Toys set. It comprises a variety of painted / printed / enamelled (I’m not too sure how best to describe the method) metal panels, painted rectangular magnets, two metal support beams plus some decorative parts which are essentially ball bearings and washers. The box is metal so that it can be used as a building base and despite how it looks in my photograph, is dark green.
The panels depict an interesting range of both exterior and interior designs, ranging from the straightforward brick house and contemporary domestic interiors, through a chronologically confused stone terrace house with castellations and Georgian-meets-Elizabethan details to a collection of Moorish arches. The panels with what look like coach lining seem to be intended primarily for bridges although the accompanying leaflet shows them in other uses too.
The toy was made by Goodtoy Products Ltd of Kentish Town Road, London and shows a provisional patent number of 3926. I’ve not had a chance to check this out in the library, but the set appears to date from the 1930s. One thing I particularly like is the company slogan: “A Goodtoy product ‘makes’ a good child”! | <urn:uuid:be0cc6a6-998a-40cf-807d-4a51fafc0fef> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://architoys.net/blog/tag/england/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00041-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.949398 | 262 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Abidin Elderoğlu, graduated from the Istanbul School of Education in 1926. The artist, who began painting at an early age, won a state scholarship in 1930
with which he traveled to Paris. There, in addition to the courses he followed at the Beaux-Arts, he studied with Paul Albert Laurens at the Julian Academy, and with André Lhote at the Académie Lhote. On his return to Turkey in 1932, he was appointed art teacher to the Izmir School of Education and opened his
first solo exhibition that same year in Denizli. In the thirty years that followed, Elderoğlu continued teaching and painting contemporaneously. His solo
exhibitions were opened in Madrid, Brussels, Paris, Berlin, Vienna, Venice and Milan. He was deemed worthy of the “Honorary Prize” at the Sao Paulo Biennial in 1963, the “Shah of Iran Grand Prize” at the Teheran Biennial in 1966, attended also by Ferruh Başağa, and the “National Prize” at the Cagnes-sur-Mer
Biennial in France in 1972.
In addition, Elderoğlu penned articles on the theoretic and idealistic concepts of Turkish painting, like many other artists of the Republican Era, among them Ercümend Kalmık, who is also represented by Gallery Nev. Elderoğlu’s manifesto, entitled “My Art”, published a year before his demise in 1974, had a considerable impact on both his contemporaries and his students. | <urn:uuid:4fed83f2-2bb8-4adc-9961-37119b1976b6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.galeriselvin.com/artists.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571869.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813021048-20220813051048-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.979951 | 342 | 2.09375 | 2 |
Women in History|
Lynn Abrams. The Making of Modern Woman: Europe, 1789-1918. Longman. 2002. 382pp.
Angela Boswell; Judith N. McArthur (editor). Women Shaping the South: Creating and Confronting Change. University of Missouri Press. 2006. 269pp.
Linda L. Clark. Women and Achievement in Nineteenth-Century Europe. Cambridge University Press. 2008. 312pp.
Catherine Clinton; Christine Lunardini. The Columbia Guide to American Women in the Nineteenth Century. Columbia University Press. 2005. 331pp.
Sara Margaret Evans. Born for Liberty: A History of Women in America. Simon and Schuster. 1997. 408pp.
Laura Hapke. Daughters of the Great Depression: Women, Work, and Fiction in the American 1930s. University of Georgia Press. 1997. 312pp.
Susan M. Hartmann. The Home Front and Beyond: American Women in the 1940s. Twayne. 1982. 235pp.
Angela Kershaw; Angela Kimyongür (editor). Women in Europe Between the Wars: Politics, Culture and Society. Ashgate Publishing. 2007. 249pp.
Beth Light; Veronica Strong-Boag. True Daughters of the North: Canadian Women's History: An Annotated Bibliography. Ontario Institute for Studies in Education. 1980. 210pp.
Fiona McHardy; Eireann Marshall (editor). Women's Influence on Classical Civilization. Routledge. 2004. 196pp.
June Purvis. Women's History: Britain, 1850-1945: An Introduction. Routledge. 1995. 341pp.
Alison Sim. The Tudor Housewife. McGill-Queen's University Press. 2001. 192pp.
June Sochen. Herstory: A Woman's View of American History. Alfred Publishing Co.. 1974. 448pp.
Martha Vicinus. A Widening Sphere: Changing Roles of Victorian Women. Indiana University Press. 1977. 326pp.
Elizabeth Wilson. Only Halfway to Paradise: Women in Postwar Britain, 1945-1968. Tavistock. 1980. 233pp.
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It’s that time of year when you’re preparing your kid for going back to school after the vacations, and that means buying new school uniforms. As a parent, buying a new pair of uniform are often quite emotional experience – not because it reminds you that your children are growing up, but because you know that those new, clean uniforms will soon be covered in paint, glue, and pen, and that’s just in a day. When buying uniforms, you’re reminded that your relaxing evenings are a thing of the past, replaced by standing over the tub scraping and scrubbing all manner of stains out of your children’s clothes, including the dried-on remains of their school dinner – yuk. Don’t worry – stain removal doesn’t have to be time-consuming. If you follow these great pieces of recommendation of Dress Code Ranchi, you’ll be finished washing in time.
Try a Stain Remover on Tough Stains
As a supplier of best School Uniforms in Ranchi, we follow One of the simplest ways to ruin a school uniform is to be rough with it. You might think that vigorously scrubbing away at stains is the most efficient and quickest way to remove dirty marks, but what this is often likely to try to do is spread the stain over a bigger area of the clothing, and also cause the fabric too thin, making it more likely to snag and tear on a limb while your kids are twiddling with their friends. to guard your clothes, and make stain removal easy work, pre-treat the stain before washing. Stain removers soak down deep into the material to loosen dirt particles from the fibres, so that they begin easily when washed. If you don’t have a stain remover handy, apply a little amount of detergent, or create a thick paste from a powdered detergent mixed with water.
Use Cool Temperatures if Possible
As a Uniform Manufacturers in Ranchi, we will suggest Unless your kids’ uniforms are very heavily soiled try to use cooler temperatures when running water into the washing tub, or when using your washing machine. Cooler temperatures of 30 degrees celsius or less will reduce the amount of color that bleeds from the fabric, helping to keep the uniforms looking bright and vibrant for longer. If your kids wear a colored sweater that is very heavily dyed, you could try soaking the garment in white vinegar before its first wash as vinegar is said to help set the colors. If you absolutely must use a higher temperature, such as if you need to sanitize your kids’ clothing, for example, be sure to wash with similar colors to avoid discoloring your whites.
Dry Naturally if Time Allows
Kids grow all the time, and sometimes it seems like you put them to bed like a baby and they wake up looking like a teenager. As kids are constantly growing, the last thing you want is for their school uniform to shrink. Drying using a machine can increase the risk of shrinking, as the high heats break down the fibres in the material causing it to shrivel up. If you’ve got the time to do so, always allow your kids’ uniforms to dry naturally, either on a clothes horse inside or on a washing line outside (but take care not to leave in direct sunlight as this could have a bleaching effect and fade the colors). As a Best Uniform Collection in Ranchi, we will give advice to you that must dry uniforms using the machine, set the temperature to the lowest, and don’t leave in the machine for a longer time.
Take Extra Care with Embroidery
If you’ve had to embroider your kid’s names into their school uniform, or if they wear a patch on their sweater that has been sewed on, take extra care if you’re washing using a washing machine. Sometimes, embroidery and stitches can snag on the internal workings of the machine, causing them to unravel. It’s the best idea to turn the sweater inside out before washing, which helps to safeguard the embroidery, and you can also use a washing bag, too, for extra care. | <urn:uuid:4e5289d6-c115-4ab5-ab92-a1bfed59095f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dresscoderanchi.com/how-to-wash-uniform-properly/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571056.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809155137-20220809185137-00669.warc.gz | en | 0.950983 | 864 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Summer is well and truly here. Temperatures are rapidly rising. But, you don’t need to pack up your trainers with your woolly jumpers. Of course you can keep exercising but BE CAREFUL! Exercising in hot weather puts extra stress on your body. If you don't take care when exercising in the heat, you risk serious illness. Both the exercise itself and the air temperature can increase your core body temperature. To help cool itself, your body sends more blood to circulate through your skin. It’s working over time. This can jack up your heart rate to a dangerously high level. This is especially true in high humidity since sweat takes longer to evaporate from your skin so it's harder for heat to dissipate.
So what can we do? We know it’s important to maintain an exercise regime and keep moving. We can’t simply STOP completely for the summer months! Well, the answers are obvious. Walk early in the morning or much later in the evening. Drink large quantities of water. Wear lots of suncream and a hat. And ALWAYS avoid the highest temperatures. If you are unsure about how you will handle it then please avoid risk at all costs and go for a nice cool swim instead.
There are some fantastic walking fitness videos on YouTube. With offerings from 1 mile to 10,000K steps that can be completed indoors. So, put on your air con and smash out your exercise in the safety and comfort of your own lounge. If you do find you let your walking routine slip over the summer you can drop me a line and sign up for my 28 Day Challenge in September. Don’t worry too much about cutting back as the temperatures soar as we need to be sensible. But, try not to come to a full halt. I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a happy, healthy and sunny season and always remember to look after #1. That’s you! Keep safe and always try to Walk Your Way Well.
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World's first passenger drone: EHang 184 sets world record (VIDEO)
LAS VEGAS, NE -- The Ehang 184 Autonomous Aerial Vehicle (AAV) is a single-passenger drone that transports people at 11,000 feet; it is a 142-horsepower "personal flying vehicle" that can transport a single human being from Point A to Point B at an altitude of more than 11,000 feet, thus setting the world record for being the World's first passenger drone, according to the World Record Academy.
Photo: EHang 184 is the world's first passenger drone, capable of autonomously carrying a person in the air for 23 minutes. The Ehang 184 can carry a passenger weighing up to 264 pounds, and can reach a maximum flying altitude of 11,480 feet. The drone can reportedly be controlled entirely through a mobile app. (enlarge photo)
The Guinness World Records world record for the largest single objects to be transported by air are the 37.23 m. (122.17 feet) NASA space shuttles, which are "piggy-backed" on top of modified Boeing 747 jets from alternative landing strips back to Florida's Cape Canaveral.
Guinness World Records also recognized the world record for the largest bus mosaic; it consisted of 156 buses and was achieved by Department of Transport (UAE), in Abu Dhabi, UAE, on 18 November 2014.
As the company says in its marketing copy, the Ehang 184 aims to provide a "short- to medium-distance transportation solution" and is designed for "average consumers who may have very little experience with piloting any flying objects."
The company based in the Guangzhou province of southern China, already makes camera and hobbyist drones, but its passenger drone is the first of its kind.
The Ehang 184 has a span of 18 feet when fully unfolded, weighs 440 lbs, and can carry a passenger weighing up to 264 pounds. Its maximum flying altitude is 11,480 feet, and the AAV can fly for as long as 23 minutes at sea level.
The main structure is made of a composite material, along with carbon fiber and epoxy. In the cabin, there's one seat, one control pad, air conditioning, and a reading light.
On the outside, there are lights on each of the four propellor arms (red at the front, green at the back), flashing airline signal lights, a downward-facing video camera, and a headlight.
EHang 184, the world's first passenger drone, capable of autonomously carrying a person in the air for 23 minutes, has been cleared for testing. The approval was given out by the Nevada governor's office to develop and test the vehicle at the state's Federal Aviation Administration-approved drone test site.
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The ratings agency Fitch changed Pakistan’s outlook on Tuesday from stable to negative, citing a worsening of the nation’s external cash position and financing constraints as well as the dangers of resurgent political unpredictability.
However, Fitch maintained the nation’s Issuer Default Rating (IDR) for Long-Term Foreign-Currency (LTFC) at “B-“.
It stated that the International Monetary Fund (IMF) board would probably accept a restart of bailout payments, but it also stated that there were significant risks associated with the implementation of the programme and Pakistan’s access to external financing after June 2023.
On June 2, the rating company Moody’s revised Pakistan’s outlook from stable to negative.
The nation’s economy is in disarray due to rapidly diminishing foreign reserves, a weakening currency, and growing fiscal and current account deficits.
Since the coalition administration led by Prime Minister Shehbaz Sharif took over from ousted premier Imran Khan in April, political turmoil and a delay in the IMF bailout have exacerbated the economic crisis.
In early Tuesday interbank trade, the Pakistani rupee suffered a severe decline against the US dollar, dropping about 6 rupees to reach 122 per dollar.
On Tuesday, the Pakistan Stock Exchange Ltd. KSE100 Index decreased by 978 points, or 2.36 percent, to close at a level of 40,389.07, according to information on the website.
According to Fahad Rauf, head of research at Ismail Iqbal Securities, the rupee is particularly under pressure from the declining reserves and the hold-up in foreign inflows from the IMF and other sources.
Reserves are at only $9.8 billion, barely enough to cover imports for 45 days.
“The health of the economy will improve and an outlook upgrade would follow if Pakistan is able to maintain fiscal and monetary discipline,” Rauf said.
Political unpredictability, according to Fitch, might jeopardise the fiscal and external adjustment, particularly in light of the slowing economic growth and rising inflation, which was 21.3 percent in June.
Policy interest rates have already been raised to 15% by the State Bank of Pakistan (SBP). It predicts that the gross domestic product will expand by between 3 and 4 percent in the fiscal year 2022–2023, which is less than the government’s budget projection of 5 percent.
Last week, the IMF and the PML-N-led government came to a staff-level agreement to open the door for the transfer of $1.17 billion. The $6 billion bailout agreed upon in 2019 will now be worth $7 billion if this is accepted by the board. | <urn:uuid:c5b0173a-6880-40ca-a937-8239997acb39> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.dailynationpakistan.com/pakistans-outlook-is-downgraded-by-fitch-from-stable-to-negative/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572221.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816060335-20220816090335-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.948059 | 566 | 1.65625 | 2 |
Edit: After half day, my wife’s Mac started having the same problem. I have then applied the solution that I found in the Apple
Update Software Automatically
If you want to constantly enjoy new features of Mac OS software or have security concerns, then you can schedule automatic software updates by following these steps:
1. From the Apple menu, select System Preferences.
2. Under the System group, select the Software Update item.
3. Select the Check for updates option and choose the check interval – Daily, Weekly, or Monthly – from the drop-down list.
4. If you wish, select the Download important updates automatically checkbox. It means that your system will not only check but also download available updates. However, if you feel that your Mac is running slow, better disable this option until your Mac’s performance is optimized.
To view the list of the installed software, go to the Installed Updates tab. Here you can see the versions of the installed updates as well as the date when they were installed. You can open this list as a log file when troubleshooting. | <urn:uuid:6283a53e-4a36-431f-b79b-da040e095aab> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.mac-reviews.net/update-software-automatically/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00305-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.899647 | 228 | 1.710938 | 2 |
Print version ISSN 0188-4611
SICILIA MUNOZ, Alejandrina De. Economic evaluation of the impact of cultural tourism in the city of Zacatecas. Invest. Geog [online]. 2012, n.78, pp.89-103. ISSN 0188-4611.
This essay has the purpose of evaluating the economic impact of cultural tourism in the city of Zacatecas, giving special emphasis to its historic downtown. Therefore this work examines briefly the change recorded in the shift of the economic activities in the city, before and after its historic downtown was declared Cultural Human Heritage by the UNESCO. Moreover, the evolution of the city of Zacatecas as a touristic destiny is described, as well as the changes that have taken place in the expansion of the touristic services such as hotels, number of rooms, number of tourists, economically active population and the incomes inside the context of the tourist activity in the city of Zacatecas. Furthermore, tourism in México is discussed, initially aimed at promoting places with tourist tradition inside the country with the idea of exploiting the existent cultural resources; continuing with the geographical and historical context of the city of Zacatecas; and its touristic evolution as an historic downtown. The methodology employed was the qualitative order in which, three were confirmed and completed, such as observation (tour of the city of Zacatecas and its historic downtown, cultural tourist sites), interviews ( with authorities implicated in heritage) and the lecture of texts related to the theme and its analysis (search and compilation of bibliography, cartography, statistics and newspapers), finally, to complete this methodology, the triangulation method was used to enrich this research (Ruíz, 2009). Having systematized the acquired information, it was analyzed using tables, graphs, and cartographic references at various scales. Thus, it was concluded that despite the growth of the tourist activity and despite the efforts made by the local government, the expected results have not been obtained.
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Instant shipping moves in
In the third quarter of 2012, adjusted U.S. retail e-commerce activity hit $57 billion, a 3.7 percent increase from the second quarter, according to the U.S. Census Bureau.
While this total still represents a shadow of overall retail sales, which the bureau said passed $1 trillion in the third quarter, e-commerce in the United States is a steadily rising force. Now, it seems, this online shopping experience is about to be transformed. Shipping will undergo a sea change in 2013 toward instant-gratification shipping.
This year, e-commerce shippers will enter a new world of shipping options, promoting same-day, and even same-hour, shipping over now-dated, passé options like overnight mail. Consumers living in densely populated areas, those in the industry reason, want their goods as soon as they order them, and no speedy shipment time — even, as is the case with one company, a mere 15 minutes after an order is placed — is too quick.
As with most things in e-retail, this all started with Amazon and its decision to begin collecting sales taxes on purchases in some states, a burden the company was able to run away from for years by not establishing a physical presence within the state. The company recently agreed to being charged a sales tax in Massachusetts, and a new-year rule change in Georgia may pave the way for sales tax in the Peach State.
By agreeing to the new guidelines, Amazon has also paved the way to move closer to consumers. This proximity will allow for faster and cheaper shipping, setting the stage for a change in consumer shipping expectations.
The progression to the cities has already started. Just last month, Amazon said it would build a 1-million-square foot distribution facility in Robbinsville, N.J., that will be ready for business by early 2014. The development marks the company’s first project in New Jersey.
Super shipping isn’t Amazon’s for the taking, however, as companies like Walmart and eBay, and service providers like the U.S. Postal Service, have begun experimenting with their own hyper-fast shipping services.
eBay is currently testing eBay Now, a phone app that connects consumers in San Francisco and parts of New York with retailers and promises to deliver items in less than an hour for a $5 fee. Participating retailers include Best Buy, Guitar Center, Home Depot, Macy’s and Toys “R” Us.
A third-party entrant into to the super-shipping game, the British firm Shutl, is rolling out its American services early this year, and it will expand its services from an initial limited offering of New York and San Francisco to more than 10 metro areas by the middle of 2013. Shutl has already permeated the U.K. shipping game, but while Chief Executive Officer Tom Allason said same-hour shipping took a while to catch on in the United Kingdom, the idea has been spreading like wild fire in the United States because of Amazon.
“When Amazon announced they were giving up their sales tax advantage in order to put in local distribution in order to be able to provide faster delivery — potentially even cost-effective same-day in some metros — that got all the major retailers over here moving,” he said.
Shutl’s service works by using a series of couriers routing from retailer distribution points that are less than 10 miles from the consumer, using bicycle couriers and truckers to deliver the goods in no more than 90 minutes. (Allason said the service’s fastest speed has been clocked at a mere 15 minutes.) Shutl can deliver goods so quickly because it connects unknown, regional couriers to a broader, sustainable network. There’s no hub-and-spoke for his company, he said; by using a courier network, he can make this type of super-shipping available at the same price of standard delivery.
The company works within the retailer’s existing shipping options, so same-hour or same-day shipping simply appears as a new option for order fulfillment.
“2013 will be the year that shipping moves to the consumer from the retailer, when it starts becoming about fitting delivery into the consumer’s supply chain, rather than the other way around,” he said.
Allason said this is a unique position because instead of competing with the retailers, he’s offering a service that could work with them. The only potential competition he sees in the arena, aside from Amazon, is the USPS.
The Postal Service’s Metro Post test program — which enables consumers to order goods as late as 2 p.m. and have them delivered by 8 p.m. the same day — was launched in San Francisco during the holiday season. The year-long test phase will initially be capped at 200 packages per day, but officials have the flexibility to adapt the program as necessary by adding a larger handling capability, terminating the program altogether or even bringing it out of the test phase early.
“The explosion of e-commerce is such that we are in a world of instant gratification,” USPS spokesman John Friess said. “We see this as an opportunity to leverage our infrastructure because we already deliver to every address.”
So far, the service has been going well, and Postal Service officials are already looking at the next step.
The viability and sustainability of these services is, of course, still unknown, as are the affects on the average shipper. Also, population density is key to all of this, so rural consumers will continue to have to wait for the next day for their shipments. Officials contend, however, that the majority of the consumers will actually want shipping times that are almost instantaneous. Once consumers realize same-day and same-hour shipping is possible, Allason said it will be difficult to convince them that instant-gratification shipping isn’t really needed.
“We, as a race, cannot live with things that we didn’t even know existed a short while previously,” he said. “As soon as people know that they can start getting things same-day or even same-hour, that’s what they’re going to expect.” | <urn:uuid:a57f3a4e-9458-469f-b31b-ee7956a825f1> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.americanshipper.com/Main/News/Instant_shipping_moves_in_52628.aspx?taxonomy=AmericanShipperMagazine | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00568-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958959 | 1,306 | 1.515625 | 2 |
To make information to tourists easily available, the Bengal Government has decided to open as many as 50 tourist information centres across the State.
Though aimed primarily at tourists from other parts of the country as well as from across the world, the information centres would cater to tourists from the State as well. All information related to a particular area would be available at each centre. These would be run by the Tourism Department.
These tourist centres would play a major role in making Bengal more tourist-friendly. As it is, it is one of the top States in terms of tourist arrivals, both nationally and internationally. This project would take Bengal significantly higher in the rankings.
Where to stay, what to do, what to eat, what to buy, what are the specialities of a particular place or area – information of every kind would be available at these centres. Guide books would be available in English, Hindi and Bengali. They would contain detailed information about the history, geography and culture of a place.
These centres are already running at the airports in Kolkata and Bagdogra. Soon they would come up in four other places in Kolkata (Kolkata and Sealdah railway stations, Rabindra Sadan and Madhusadan Mancha), Howrah and Santragachi railway stations, Kakdwip and Diamond Harbour railway stations (South 24 Parganas district), Murshidabad, Malda, Bankura, Birbhum district, Darjeeling, Jalpaiguri, Siliguri and other places to cover all the districts.
The information available at the centres would also help tourists to decide how and where to go next. All in all, the tourist information centres would act as one-stop centres for all tourists visiting Bengal.
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Thomas Hirschhorn at RMIT Gallery, Melbourne
Thomas Hirschhorn is part of the group exhibition ‘ The Image Looks Back’ at RMIT Gallery in Melbourne, Australia. In an era of post truth, fake news, and manipulated images, ‘The Image Looks Back’ explores the reconfiguration of photography, asking how notions of visual truth and human experience are shaped by new technologies of vision. If the photograph has conventionally been understood as a record or memory of the world, what happens when the image looks back? March 27 – May 16, 2020. | <urn:uuid:a258a549-3ad1-47a1-b3e5-fa9b6294ff0b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://dvirgallery.com/thomas-hirschhorn-at-rmit-gallery-melbourne/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572304.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816120802-20220816150802-00465.warc.gz | en | 0.92924 | 118 | 1.601563 | 2 |
JWoww's Palin comments are causing controversy as the "Jersey Shore" reality star weighed in on Bristol Palin's ideas about gay marriage. Palin felt that the President's "evolving" views on same-sex marriage were influenced too much by his daughters, whose friends have homosexual parents.
JWoww called Bristol Palin, daughter of former Vice Presidential candidate Sarah Palin, "uneducated" for supporting traditional marriage in a blog post following the President's surprise announcement.
"Bristol should keep her uneducated, ignorant mouth shut," tweeted the reality star. Her attack on Palin didn't end there though. She pointed out that Bristol Palin became pregnant while unmarried to her baby's father, Levi Johnston, calling her a "hypocrite."
"If you're living in the past you wouldn't have a kid without marriage. Hypocrite. It's 2012!" she added.
Despite JWoww's claims that Palin is "living in the past" for supporting biblically-based marriage, it's likely her attacks on the mother were more motivated by her close friend's homosexuality than anything else.
"My best friend will get married one day and not just have civil union with his man. Stop hating people," tweeted the "Jersey Shore" guidette.
Palin's blog post was less centered on the emotional attachment some have to traditional marriage and more on the President, whom she felt demonstrated poor leadership by basing his decisions on his daughters, Malia and Sasha, ages 13 and 10, respectively.
"While it's great to listen to your kids' ideas, there's also a time when dads simply need to be dads. In this case, it would've been helpful for him to explain to Malia and Sasha that while her friends parents are no doubt lovely people, that's not a reason to change thousands of years of thinking about marriage," wrote Palin.
"Sometimes dads should lead their family in the right ways of thinking. In this case, it would've been nice if the President would've been an actual leader and helped shape their thoughts instead of merely reflecting what many teenagers think after one too many episodes of Glee," she added. | <urn:uuid:59ebb68a-0301-45d0-8d7f-c41b36801d2c> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.christianpost.com/news/jwoww-to-palin-keep-your-mouth-shut-about-gay-marriage-74825/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00484-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.986287 | 445 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Be Kind People Project visits Bossier City
Hundreds of students at Stockwell Place Elementary pledged to be kind Tuesday morning.
The Be Kind People Project, a cultural youth development program, visited Stockwell and R. V. Kerr Elementary School this week to initiate social change, influence positive behavior, improve students' academic performance and build a foundation based on kindness. Students engaged with crew members by singing, dancing and thanking their teachers.
"We really were looking for something with this grant to be a positive message," said Georgette Price, military student coordinator for Bossier Schools. "A lot of times schools have to focus on what students shouldn't be doing and we really wanted to make this about what they should do. When I found this organization, I thought it would be perfect."
Price added, "The great thing about it is that it's sustainable with zero to little money because its online component is completely free. They provide activities that go with their monthly tenants and align with standards. So it might be a math lesson, but you're learning how to be friend in a math activity."
The Be Kind crew has visited 47 schools nationwide since August 1, said Senior National Director of School and Community Projects and Relationships Bo Whittenton. After the initial assembly, crew members visited with teachers to present classroom strategies, learning aides and helpful resources dedicated to promoting interpersonal relationships and positive approaches to behavior.
The group is headquartered in Phoenix, AZ. As of Tuesday, more than 5,000 students nationwide have taken the pledge to be supportive, encouraging, positive, helpful, honest, considerate, thankful, responsible, respectful and a friend.
Ivory Meyers, school program leader, said seeing students' faces during the performance is priceless. Meyers has been with the Be Kind People Project since 2011.
Most of the crew members have other occupations outside of the Be Kind crew.
"It's fun because we're affecting them emotionally and telling them stuff that will hopefully help them in their education," Meyers said as he waved goodbye to students leaving the gym. "It's getting them active with different aspects of fun. It's super fulfilling just to see them light up."
Meyers added, "The whole first two weeks of August — we did an entire school district in Phoenix."
Be Kind student of the month and fifth grader, Connor Henderson, said he received his school recognition for being kind and helpful to his classmates. He was also recognized during the assembly.
"I thought today was really cool," he said. "I liked when we danced. I learned to not be rude and to share kindness always."
Bossier Parish Schools received a $1 million Project SEW-B-IT grant from the Department of Defense Education Activity in 2015-16, which helped bring the high-energy and social change organization to Bossier City.
The online component of the program is free for parents and teachers to see what students are learning in the classroom and has activities parents can do with their student, Price said.
"Teachers will receive a classroom kindness kit once a quarter with stickers and pay it forward cards for students to pass out," Price said. "We were looking for something that was pro-social behavior."
Jazlynn Brooks, Stockwell Place third grader, said she's always kind to her peers, but this made her even more aware of her actions. Brooks has never experienced hip-hop dancing and enjoyed participating.
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Tag Archives: faux paint
Garage doors don’t often make news headlines. But they did recently, as a woman in Holland, Ohio had a mural painted on her house depicting Oprah Winfrey. The mural was to commemorate the 25 years of her talk show, which ended recently. This shows one extreme example of garage door customization. There are other more practical options to upgrade your home’s exterior using garage doors.
Customized garage doors are an easy way to personalize your home as well as add curb appeal and value. They can make a home look more attractive and inviting, and they are generally affordable.
When deciding on new garage doors, one of the most important things to consider is what kind of material you want to use. The two most popular garage door materials are wood and metal. Wooden doors come in a great variety of colors and textures, from natural wood that can give your home a rustic feel, to popular wood paneling used to make your garage look like a carriage house. Metal doors also come in a great amount of varieties, and can be made to look similar to wooden doors.
A newly popular trend with metal garage doors is to paint them a shade lighter [more]
Modern-day garage doors are not limited to the wood of centuries past or steel of decades past. You can also get garage doors made of other materials like aluminum and wood composites. But which of these many materials is most cost-effective and durable? Which looks best? We’ll examine the pros and cons of each material.
Steel is by far the most often picked material for garage doors. They aren’t terribly expensive, they’re quite durable and require very little maintenance, and they can come in pretty much any style you might demand. Steel’s appearance is flexible, as it can be painted or formed into panels, and can be treated with a gel stain that makes it look similar to wood.
When you’re actually doing your shopping there is a few things to keep in mind about steel: it’s a pretty ineffective insulator, and probably requires an outside source of insulation to keep your garage habitable and save you energy. Also, steel panels tend to vary in their thickness, usually varying with the price, and if you want a steel door that will withstand basketball games, you’ll have to pay for it. Aluminum doors are similar to steel in many ways, especially in that they [more] | <urn:uuid:2417aeee-88e4-42d8-b7b8-02b35f2b4634> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://firstudt.com/blog/tag/faux-paint/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00277.warc.gz | en | 0.96498 | 504 | 1.507813 | 2 |
Recent Tutoring Session Reviews
"The student and I talked about similar triangle and how their angles relate. Her practice problems gave her two similar triangle with different angles labeled with equations x and asked her to solve for x. We talked about how we could add those angles together and set it equal to 180 degrees because of how similar triangle angles stay the same. She and I also talked about how to work with polynomials and foil/factor them. Her practice problem was a triangle comparing side lengths that required polynomials after cross multiplying. I went through the problem with her and gave her a bunch of steps to follow that would lead her to set up the polynomial and eventually solve it. I advised her to redo practice problem in order to study as usual."
"We reviewed the whole chapter of quadrilaterals for her test, including rectangles, squares, rhombi, trapezoids, and parallelograms. The student felt pretty confident that she understood everything and just needed to make sure that she reviewed the quadrilateral properties again before the test. I suggested that she take notes on the properties for each quadrilateral to help her distinguish the properties."
"During the session we worked through some lessons that the student had missed in class. Then we went to the textbook and worked on a few examples. We were primarily dealing with logical reasoning, geometric proofs, and basic geometric theorems, which we seem to have made progress on. While working through his homework he seemed to get a better grasp on the material as we continued. We also talked about the best way to start a problem when it looks difficult. We will continue to work on this next session."
"We reviewed material on polygons and the formulas that allow us to solve for sides, interior and exterior angles. The student worked mostly on recalling the formulas required to solve certain problems and strategic problem solving. We discussed ways in which he can study and practice for the class. He can easily be motivated which makes working with him during each session smooth and fun."
"The student had homework about proving congruent triangles. He was able to learn the theorem and answer all of the problems. He seems to forget some concepts easily, but he knows what to do even when I vary the approach of the questions. Taking notes will help."
"We worked on problems and I saw she was not having any issues solving them. I am going to make her a worksheet in accordance to her homework assignments. I will email it to her and she will send me the answers by Sunday night, and we will review it next Tuesday." | <urn:uuid:3f9aea9a-c8a5-4993-825f-24d21b865cfd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.varsitytutors.com/henderson-geometry-tutoring | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00001-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.985266 | 532 | 1.851563 | 2 |
A social construction is something that doesn't exist independently in the "natural" world, but is instead an invention of society. Cultural practices and norms give rise to the existence of social constructs and govern the practices, customs, and rules concerning the way we use/view/understand them. In other words, we all act as if they exist, and because of our intersubjective agreement, they do.
The classic example of a social construct is money. Various cultures utilize paper, gold, silver, or other items as a medium for trade. To do this, we invest the object with value that we all acknowledge (we act as if it has value), and this informs our practices when it comes to money. But money is not a thing that occurs independently of human activity in the natural world. Thus it is a social construction. It's very real - calling it a social construct does not amount to calling it imaginary or non-existent. But its existence is dependent on our culture and our practices. This means that its definition, use, meaning, value, etc. is entirely contingent on culture.
As our culture changes, so do our constructs. Some constructs come into being and then fall into disuse and thus go out of existence. Others remain but change from one culture and historical period to another. Gender is one such construct. The traits and behaviors that are thought to be "masculine" and "feminine" differ dramatically from one culture and time period to another. Appropriate ways of behaving, the labor that's assigned to gender groups, beliefs about natural abilities and propensities, etc. change significantly. And this variation and adaptation to conditions and social pressures reinforces the idea that gender is a social construction rather than some sort of essence that arises from biology. Because if gender was determined by physical sex, then it wouldn't vary in this way, but would remain constant, just as other biologically determined attributes remain constant. Instead, gender varies with cultural change.
Generally speaking, gender is assigned at birth according to physical sex. Medical professionals look at the baby's genitals and announce that the baby is a boy or a girl (unless the child is intersex, in which case much work is done to force the child into one camp or the other). And then the work begins to socialize the child and teach them the script that goes with the gender they've been assigned. And most of us get to be pretty darn good at acting out the appropriate script. We learn which emotions we're supposed to display, which activities we're supposed to enjoy and excel at, and which ones we're supposed to avoid or suck at, how to talk to each other, how to manage our body language, which kind of work and hobbies we're supposed to pursue, etc. And for many of us it's not a great fit, but we manage, or we learn how to make those features of ourselves that don't fit the script less conspicuous (i.e., we pass). But for some of us, it feels wrong enough that we can't just fit in or pass. For transgender and genderqueer individuals, performing the other script, or a different script altogether, is the only way to make life livable. (For transsexuals, the issue encompasses more than gender, so they will have other issues, except insofar as they often also learn to perform "the other" gender script.)
So this description raises a number of questions. Why are there only two scripts, when bodies seem to come in more than two shapes? Why do we need these scripts at all? Why are we so committed to the idea that there must be a one-to-one correspondence between the two scripts we have and the two kinds of bodies we insist on believing people are born into? These are all good questions, and all things that feminists should be pushing on and tugging at the loose strings. A few brief answers:
We need the scripts and the clearly delineated categorical distinctions, because you can't build hierarchy without difference. Hierarchy depends on difference, so you choose some physical differences, like genitalia and skin color, and invest them with significance. Once you have groups which are thought to be essentially different, you can build up and justify your hierarchy on the basis of them. Making them essential, or biologically grounded, gives them immutability and God-ordainedness.
So then we need to maintain the one-to-one correspondence in order to maintain the stability and essential nature of the distinctions. We can't allow people to go around determining their own identity and position in the hierarchy will-nilly, or everything will fall apart. And we especially must maintain the gender-sex link because of heteronormativity. After all, one function of gender is to indicate to the world what kind of bidness you've got going on under your clothes. As an outward marker of physical sex, gender allows us to identify which individuals are potential mates for us, and avoid the oh-so-horrifying experience of being attracted to someone with (gasp!) the wrong set of genitalia.
So what follows from the view of gender as a social construction? First, it reveals that gender is not immutable or set in stone. Harmful aspects of our construction of gender can and should be discarded. But beyond that, if gender exists to support hierarchy, then gender, as it is viewed and practiced in our culture, is not only uncomfortable for many people, but a tool of oppression. So at the very least, driving a wedge between sex and gender, and putting pressure on the notion that everyone has to fit into some kind of neat binary or follow some kind of carefully delineated script, benefits everyone and serves to weaken patriarchal structures. And allowing every individual to navigate their own identity formation and locate their own spot on the gender continuum would lead to a lot less disonnance and uncomfortable performances, not to mention physical danger and stigma for those who don't adhere to the script to which they were assigned.
However, one thing that the social construction view of gender does not get you is a condemnation of trans people for "reifying gender." First, this view (espoused by some very vocal radical feminists, to the horror and dismay of other radical feminists) is based on a profound misunderstanding of social constructionism and reification. Second, the view is inconsistent in that it condemns one group (trans folk) for performing gender, but ignores the fact that all of us are performing gender all the time. If trans people reify gender by adhering to a script, then so do cis people. And even if this view was coherent, it shows a profound lack of compassion and understanding of the individuals. We are all of us born into a system that is already gendered, and our social survival depends on our learning how to perform the script. This is not an individual decision that's ours to make. So this is an instance where we ought to hate the game, but not the player.
And one thing's for sure: we all benefit by discourses and practices which drive a wedge between sex and gender. The loosening of these strict categories and binaries can result in a view of sex and gender which is far more fluid and flexible, allowing more breathing room for everyone. | <urn:uuid:31f2e7c9-d4cb-4310-8b18-a2f6bb501b5f> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://thefeministagenda.blogspot.nl/2009/04/social-construction-of-gender.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718423.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00271-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960251 | 1,479 | 3.296875 | 3 |
The best way to build a savings account
Forget about those get rich quick schemes. Saving slowly by cutting out non-essentials, investing broadly, and establishing an emergency fund will pay off in the long run.
"Get rich quick” schemes are everywhere. Late night cable teaches us that we can earn millions if we just buy this or that video set. Guru wannabes claim we never have to put in more effort than lifting a finger. Is this all true? Is it probable that we can reach fame and wealth overnight? Not likely.
Americans live in a microwave culture – we want things and we want them now! But what does the Bible teach? How are we to obtain wealth? Little by little!
“Dishonest money dwindles away, but he who gathers money little by little makes it grow.” -Proverbs 13:11 NIV
Here’s how The Message reads:
“Easy come, easy go, but steady diligence pays off.”
So many people try to get ahead in life by winning the lotto, gambling in day trading, or betting at the casino. But as easily as the money can come, it goes – and fast. Instead, what if there was a surefire way to build wealth? What if there was a method that almost certainly produces riches?
I believe that formula is Patience + Hard Work. One Fruit of the Spirit is patience (Galatians 5:22). Why be in an absolute rush to obtain wealth? I’m not claiming all of us should be lackadaisical and give up on trying to produce more money. But what I am saying is that we should not be so zealous that we forget what really matters in life.
So, how do you gather money little by little?
What methods should one use to build wealth with time? Here are a few ideas:
- Skip “death by a thousand cuts.” It’s the coffee. It’s the extra bagel. It’s the chewing gum. It’s anything that you REALLY DON’T NEED! Okay, maybe you need the coffee. Understood. But you know what I mean! Sometimes it’s the little expenditures in life that can destroy us financially. Skip the non-essentials in life and save that money instead – little by little!
- Create a solid foundation – build that emergency fund! Sometimes people get too far ahead of themselves and invest money before they have a solid emergency fund. Don’t try it! Instead, work hard and build up that rainy day fund. Later, you can invest with confidence knowing that if you lose money in the market, you’ll still have your emergency fund if something goes wrong. Don’t jump ahead of yourself!
- Invest in many, not few. Spread your money out. Don’t yield to the temptation to “go all in” on any investment (see Ecclesiastes 11:2). That way, if disaster falls upon one of your investments, you’ll be spared by the other investments. Don’t get greedy! Build wealth slowly through diversification and you’ll arrive at your destination.
Remember, it’s all about Patience + Hard Work. We’ve covered the patience part, but what about hard work? I’m convinced that hard work is the means by which God allows us to discover our full potential. Hard work builds our self-confidence and can be an income-producing machine. Easy money easily goes. Hard-earned money tends to stick around.
We’ve all seen or heard of those who walk into a casino and easily win big money. In their greed, they turn right back around and waste it away. They end up with less money than they walked in with. Why does this happen so often? Quick money blinds us to the true value of money. Quick money compels us to try to get more money quickly. As we pursue even greater riches, we trip and fall.
Why gather money little by little? So it doesn’t dwindle away. Gathering slowly will build our character and ensure that our riches aren’t temporary – but lasting.
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Before I get into my teacher mode....can I get into Mommy mode first???
Well, since I can't hear your answer, I'm going to go ahead and do it...if you don't want to see it - just scroll down - hehe...
The other day, hubs was doing a fundraiser for American Cancer Society at work...so we stopped by to say hi!
Good thing about being a firefighter's wife/kids...you can always get pictures with a truck and firefighter! ha!
Me and my girls!
Daddy's #1 fan!
And we dyed eggs!! (wait 'til you see what I make with these eggs after Easter - hehe)
She's so serious....until....
There it is - MELTDOWN! haha!!
Ok, we're okay again..lol...Look Mommy - pretty eggs!!
Ok, back to teacher mode now.
Sorry for the detour :)
So as you know, we started our Chicks study this week.
We "read" Chicks & Chickens by Gail Gibbons...I say read, but really it was just me pulling out the important parts...lol...it's a pretty heavy book.
We then did a tree map (love me some tree maps!)
we did something I found over at Spend a Day in 2nd
It's called Stoplight Paragraphs...It's BRILLIANT!!
We did the first one together....
And I showed them how to set it up - green is topic, yellows are details (they had to pick 3 details from the tree map), and red is closing.
Then they have to puzzle piece it together....
The next day, we did another one on Chicks.
See the stars?? That was how they chose their 3 details they wanted to use.
Then, they got to work on their strips.
This one (below) is actually from one of my ESOL kids...he told me, "Oh - I get Mrs. Ross...the yellows are about the green, so they're like details about it, right?!"
hehe - it was so cute...with his little accent and everything!
So go check it out - she explains it in her post.
I am a writing teacher - I love to have my kids write ALL. THE. TIME!
And we are a Thinking Maps school, so we do organize our information that way, but sometimes some kids just need something different for it to click...case in point.
I LOVE this!
P.S...don't forget to enter the giveaway of my Know-It-All Gnat unit!
Click HERE to enter.
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Use FieldWatch to locate sensitive sites prior to pesticide applications
As the season progresses, it’s a good time for pesticide applicators to review where sensitive crops and beehives are located. FieldWatch has tools such as DriftWatch, FieldCheck, and BeeWatch which allow specialty crop growers (fruits, vegetables, organic produce) and beekeepers to mark the locations of their sites on a map so that applicators are aware of their presence.
Larry VanLieshout from the Minnesota Department of Agriculture shares this important information to better navigate the FieldWatch web-based resource:
To get started, go to FieldWatch.com. From this page producers and applicators can choose the service they use to access their account or create a new one. DriftWatch allows specialty crop producers to mark the locations of their fields and beehives. BeeCheck is a simpler version for producers with only beehives. The FieldCheck tool allows pesticide applicators to mark their area of operation and receive email updates if new sensitive crop sites are added in their region.
Each of the icons on the map represents a specialty crop field or beehive location that has been submitted. Applicators who register for FieldWatch can access the maps to check for sensitive sites. You can zoom in to see the field borders and selecting an icon brings up contact information for that producer.
For more information about using FieldWatch, select the “Resources” tab on the main website page. On the “Resources” page, there are links to videos and detailed user guides explaining how to use the FieldWatch system. Download the free BeeCheck and FieldCheck Apps for your mobile device by selecting the link on the bottom of the resources page.
DriftWatch is for commercial producers with at least 1/2 acre (not for home gardens). The Driftwatch program has been around for a number of years. This voluntary program’s goal is to promote pesticide sensitive site awareness and enable communication between applicators and producers of sensitive crops to prevent unwanted pesticide drift. DriftWatch is not owned by MDA and it is not a regulatory program.
BeeCheck can be used by hobby or commercial beekeepers. Remember, these services are voluntary, free, and non-regulatory.
Although there is free public FieldWatch map online, applicators should still register for FieldCheck. Beekeepers can choose not to have their hives displayed on the public map if theft or vandalism is a concern. However, registered applicators are shown the locations of all the enrolled beehives.
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Southwest Ohio Project Cautious About Bats
Workers have bats on their minds as they prepare a Dayton area pathway for bicycle riders, runners and walkers to use this summer.
That's because some species of the flying mammal near the path are threatened or endangered. The tiny Indiana bat present in Ohio has been listed as endangered for nearly five decades.
The Dayton Daily News reports that trees in the way of the bikeway were taken down before April to avoid disrupting winter hibernation. A federal grant of nearly $200,000 to help the project also restricts tree removal, and the state of Ohio urges that trees that might be bat habitats be left alone when possible.
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A squirrel baffle is a device designed to deter squirrels, raccoons and other small mammals from accessing birdfeeders to retrieve birdseed. They are typically mounted on the pole of a birdfeeder, and most effectively at least four feet from the ground, as squirrels can jump rather high.
Squirrel baffles vary in design. One type may employ a rotating cylinder to destabilize the climbing surface, while another will feature a large round tube difficult for a squirrel to grab onto. Other designs include tapered cones and sloped disks. Many squirrel baffles are made of painted metal or plastic, in order to create a slippery surface.
The roof of a hanging birdfeeder can also be designed to act as a baffle to prevent squirrels from jumping down onto the feeder.
Providing an alternate equivalent food source in conjunction with a squirrel baffle is often the best way to minimize unwanted visits to a birdfeeder. There are many squirrel feeders available, as they love to eat all sorts of food.
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Solving the “faint young Sun paradox” — explaining how early Earth was warm and habitable for life beginning more than 3 billion years ago even though the Sun was 20 percent dimmer than today — may not be as difficult as believed, said a new University of Colorado (CU), Boulder, study.
In fact, two CU Boulder researchers say all that may have been required to sustain liquid water and primitive life on Earth during the Archean era 2.8 billion years ago were reasonable atmospheric carbon dioxide amounts believed to be present at the time and perhaps a dash of methane. The key to the solution was the use of sophisticated 3-D climate models that were run for thousands of hours on CU’s Janus supercomputer, rather than crude, one-dimensional models used by almost all scientists attempting to solve the paradox, said Eric Wolf from CU.
“It’s really not that hard in a 3-D climate model to get average surface temperatures during the Archean that are in fact moderate,” said Wolf. “Our models indicate the Archean climate may have been similar to our present climate, perhaps a little cooler. Even if Earth was sliding in and out of glacial periods back then, there still would have been a large amount of liquid water in equatorial regions, just like today.”
Evolutionary biologists believe life arose on Earth as simple cells roughly 3.5 billion years ago, about a billion years after the planet is thought to have formed. Scientists have speculated the first life may have evolved in shallow tide pools, freshwater ponds, freshwater or deep-sea hydrothermal vents, or even arrived on objects from space.
Scientists have been trying to solve the faint young Sun paradox since 1972, when Cornell University scientist Carl Sagan — Toon’s doctoral adviser at the time — and colleague George Mullen broached the subject. Since then, there have been many studies using one-dimensional climate models to try to solve the faint young Sun paradox, with results ranging from a hot tropical Earth to a “snowball Earth” with runaway glaciation, none of which has conclusively resolved the problem.
“In our opinion, the one-dimensional models of early Earth created by scientists to solve this paradox are too simple. They are essentially taking the early Earth and reducing it to a single column atmospheric profile,” said Toon. “One-dimensional models are simply too crude to give an accurate picture.”
Wolf and Toon used a general circulation model known as the Community Atmospheric Model version 3.0 developed by the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder and which contains 3-D atmosphere, ocean, land, cloud, and sea-ice components. The two researchers also “tuned up” the model with a sophisticated radiative transfer component that allowed for the absorption, emission, and scattering of solar energy and an accurate calculation of the greenhouse effect for the unusual atmosphere of early Earth, where there was no oxygen and no ozone, but lots of carbon dioxide (CO2) and possibly methane.
The simplest solution to the faint Sun paradox, which duplicates Earth’s present climate, involves maintaining roughly 20,000 parts per million (ppm) of the greenhouse gas CO2 and 1,000 ppm of methane in the ancient atmosphere some 2.8 billion years ago, said Wolf. While that may seem like a lot compared to today’s 400 ppm of CO2 in the atmosphere, geological studies of ancient soil samples support the idea that CO2 likely could have been that high during that time period. Methane is considered to be at least 20 times more powerful as a greenhouse gas than CO2 and could have played a significant role in warming the early Earth as well, said the CU researchers.
There are other reasons to believe that CO2 was much higher in the Archean, said Toon. The continental area of Earth was smaller back then, so there was less weathering of the land and a lower release of minerals to the oceans. As a result, there was a smaller conversion of CO2 to limestone in the ocean. Likewise, there were no “rooted” land plants in the Archean, which could have accelerated the weathering of the soils and indirectly lowered the atmospheric abundance of CO2, Toon said.
Another solution to achieving a habitable but slightly cooler climate under the faint Sun conditions is for the Archean atmosphere to have contained roughly 15,000 to 20,000 ppm of CO2 and no methane, said Wolf. “Our results indicate that a weak version of the faint young Sun paradox, requiring only that some portion of the planet’s surface maintain liquid water, may be resolved with moderate greenhouse gas inventories,” the authors wrote in Astrobiology.
“Even if half of Earth’s surface was below freezing back in the Archean and half was above freezing, it still would have constituted a habitable planet since at least 50 percent of the ocean would have remained open,” said Wolf. “Most scientists have not considered that there might have been a middle ground for the climate of the Archean.
“The leap from one-dimensional to 3-D models is an important step,” said Wolf. “Clouds and sea ice are critical factors in determining climate, but the one-dimensional models completely ignore them.”
Has the faint young Sun paradox finally been solved? “I don’t want to be presumptuous here,” said Wolf. “But we show that the paradox is definitely not as challenging as was believed over the past 40 years. While we can’t say definitively what the atmosphere looked like back then without more geological evidence, it is certainly not a stretch at all with our model to get a warm early Earth that would have been hospitable to life.”
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The United States is a developed nation that is home to many cars and trucks both private and commercial, meaning that there are countless roads and parking lots found across the nation. Asphalt and paving companies work hard to lay down these streets and parking lots as well as repair them, but there’s other maintenance and upkeep to consider, too. Street sweeping services, for example, are companies that provide street sweeper trucks that can clean up debris of all kind from today’s streets and parking lot with great efficiency. This is important work, and parking lot sweeping prices are something for town or city governments to consider for this public service. Of course, parking lot sweeping prices will vary, but such services nearly always find their way into a city or town budget, and for good reasons. Parking lot sweeping prices are paid so that streets are not cluttered, unsanitary disaster zones.
The Business of Street and Parking Lot Sweeping
When parking lot sweeping prices are paid to hire street sweeper services, a city is tapping into a large and important industry. Speaking more broadly, there are around 9,224 different American companies offering road maintenance services today, and many of them are in fact street sweepers. Just how large is this mundane but essential industry? The industry for manufacturing street sweeping machines is estimated to generate around $283 million in revenue in the United States each year, and this industry is older than some Americans might think. Way back in 1849, a man named C.S. Bishop invented and patented the first ever street sweeping machine, meaning that street sweepers out-date cars themselves.
These machines are built to handle nearly any mess, liquid or solid, that they come across on today’s American road and parking lots alike. What might they come across? Liquids, for example, are a real hazard and are routinely scrubbed and sucked up to keep roads clear. Pesticides, industrial chemicals, oil spills, and more might be found on the roads, and these may constitute a serious biohazard to both local wildlife and human society alike unless cleaned. Rain water often washes these chemicals around, so street sweepers will be diligent about scrubbing them off the road and removing them.
And of course, plenty of solid trash will be found and removed as well. The spilled contents of a trash bag or trash can, for example, may be swept up and removed, along with natural debris such as fallen tree branches, twigs, and sweet gum balls, among others. These street cleaning machines are mounted on trucks, and they are most often used in areas with a lot of traffic. Solid trash makes for an unpleasant visual at best and is a health hazard or an obstacle to cars at worst. Curbs often have their own gutters, analogous to a roof’s gutter, and those curb gutters tend to collect a lot of trash over time, and street sweeper machines can clean them right out.
Trash like this is removed not only to remove a biohazard, but also to maintain appearances and safety. If a lot of trash is allowed to build up on streets or in parking lots, that makes a very poor impression on guests, and people are likely to simply leave the area. Apartment owners, for example, work hard to keep not only the interior of their buildings pleasant but also keep the outside attractive as well. This means repainting or refinishing the building’s walls, as well as landscaping and removal of trash from the front ground and pavement alike. Potential tenants are unlikely to be impressed when an apartment has trash everywhere on the premises, and a strip mall or shopping square may see little traffic if there’s trash all over the place.
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What makes it interesting is that before widespread literacy and especially the printing press, religion played a significant role in education and values transmission. If someone wants to know what a culture thought important for young people to learn, look at their religious teachings.
Elizabeth Warren is one of the few people who understands the NEED for financial regulation. I included a speech of hers in an earlier post. Turns out, she is a good Methodist who learned a bunch of useful values from her upbringing.
Elizabeth Warren and Goliath
Founder of Sojourners; speaker, author, activist
Posted: February 11, 2010 04:28 PM
I had a most instructive conversation this week with Elizabeth Warren, the Harvard economist who is also the Chair of the TARP Congressional Oversight Panel. Warren has a way of cutting through the jargon and confusion of many economists and of this economic crisis -- right to the moral core of the issues at stake. I knew her for her keen insights, but I didn't know she was from, as she puts it, a "mixed marriage from Oklahoma" -- Baptist and Methodist -- and that she is a former Methodist Sunday school teacher. In the interview I did with her for Sojourners, her moral and even theological comments were as impressive as her economic analysis of our present crisis. She said the battle for financial regulatory reform is like the battle between David and Goliath. (You can read the interview in the April issue of Sojourners magazine, which comes out in early March.)
Warren's narrative of the U.S. economy, and the banking industry in particular, was very clarifying. For most of U.S. history, our country went through repeated periods of boom and bust, with all the consequences of those cycles. But after the Great Depression, a number of new financial regulations -- rules for the road -- were put into place that were designed to protect average Americans in particular from the continued abuses of the big banks and the often terrible results in bad times for ordinary people. Two important examples were the FDIC (Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation) to protect people's savings and the Glass Steagall Act of 1933 to prevent banks from speculating with depositors' money. And the new rules worked for several decades, creating both prosperity and security for many American families and an emerging middle class. But starting in 1980, the rules were first watered down and gradually removed, and banks were free again to engage in both the abusive and very risky speculative behavior that helped to bring on the Great Depression, and resulted again in the current Great Recession. moreTo read another Theological Reflection on the Economy, see this. (pdf alert) | <urn:uuid:149a0038-6b10-47fa-94d8-6864cad55e7b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://real-economics.blogspot.com/2010/02/on-religion-and-values.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285001.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00299-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979488 | 539 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Ellu Urundai is a snack which is made with sesame seeds and jaggery with a hint of cardamom in it. These sesame jaggery balls are delicious and easy to make too.
Check out this video to make Sesame jaggery balls:
We usually make ellu urundai for festivals like Krishna Jayanthi or Karthigai Deepam but you can also eat it as an “any time snack”. I have already shared a sweet recipe with sesame seeds in it called Til Nariyal Mawa Ladoo. Now you can try these yummy Ellu Urundai too. You just need 3 ingredients and flat 15 minutes to make these balls. So, sharing the recipe and hope you all try it too.
You can also watch this video to make Nei appam for karthikai Deepam:
Ellu Urundai Recipe
- Sesame seeds/Ellu - 1 cup
- Jaggery – 1 cup powdered
- Green Cardamom - 2 (crushed)
- Sesame oil - 1 tsp (to grease your hand)
Heat a pan and add sesame seeds. Roast it on low flame for few minutes till it turns light brown. Transfer it in a plate and let it cool down.
Now add 1/4 cup water and jaggery in the pan and bring it to boil. Once it starts boiling, switch off the gas stove and strain it to remove impurities.
Heat the pan again. Add the jaggery syrup, cardamom powder and boil it again. Keep a small bowl with little water handy. Once the jaggery syrup starts thickening, lower the flame and add few drops of jaggery syrup in the water to check consistency. It should not get dissolved in water immediately and you should be able to form a ball with it. If you’ve not reached this consistency, cook it for few more minutes and check again.
Once you’ve reached that consistency, switch off the gas stove and add the sesame seeds and gently mix well with jaggery syrup till you don’t find any syrup at the bottom of the vessel.
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It’s a fun month, for a variety of reasons.
- First, you’re getting closer to summer. Hey – teaching is tough!
- Next, the weather starts to get better so your mood improves.
- Then, love is in the air, and if you’re a lonely ESL teacher, this could benefit you.
- Finally, you can get my St. Patrick’s Day ESL PowerPoint.
That’s right – the weather is changing.
Have you noticed the trees changing colors or getting leaves?
How about those shamrocks?
In my ESL St. Patrick’s Day PPT they’re as green as ever.
Check out the St. Patrick’s Day ESL post I put up last year – it has tons of cool ideas for you.
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Comparable opportunities are afforded to all
The school administration is responsible for adherence to these regulations. The school may be subject for violations. The administration as well as the coaches/sponsors have the right to limit attendance at open gyms for students from their own school district as well as others in the community.
The objective and purpose of any sport and/or summer program is to provide opportunity for all student-athletes to improve and to prepare their teams and themselves for the up-coming season. We must all keep in mind the following guidelines:
Any summer conditioning program must follow the guidelines of the SIJHSAA and, preferably, the IHSA
The coordination of the program and events should be through the Athletic Director
The program is open to head coaches specifically, and hired assistants if necessary
The program is open to all students who attend VGS (not just designated athletes)
Student attendance is optional and not required for season participation
Conditioning and not coaching, will be stressed. Reasonable time spent conditioning must be kept in mind
Programs will be evaluated annually by athletic director and principal.
As a result of House Bill 452 and pursuant to Section 10-20.30 of the Illinois School Code, VGS has adopted the following policy: To be eligible to participate in any school-supported athletic and or extra-curricular activity, the student may be failing no more than one class as indicated by the weekly teacher report to be turned in to the Athletic Director on every Friday.
If the above criterion is not met, a student is placed on probation until the next weekly grade report. The student may participate in all athletic events during the probationary week. However, if a student is failing more than one class after the probationary week, the student-athlete is then ineligible for the following week’s activities, or until the student-athlete can meet the academic requirements during that week for the following week. Case by case exceptions will be handled by the administration.
A second week of not meeting academic standards will result in another week of ineligibility. A third week of not meeting academic standards applied to our student-athletes will result in a student being qualified as academically ineligible for the remainder of the athletic season that they are currently participating in. If a student-athlete participates in more than sport, their eligibility would be determined by (a) their nine week grade report or (b) their next weekly grade report that falls within the current sport season. If a new season begins the week of or the week after the nine week grade report, a student-athlete may be placed on academic probation for a week to determine their athletic eligibility for the following week and so on.
It is the responsibility of the teachers to turn in the reports. It is the responsibility of the athletic director to verify a student’s eligibility. It is also the responsibility of the coaches to verify eligibility as well as enforce the academic eligibility standards. We feel that this eligibility procedure provides us a better opportunity to monitor the academic standing of our student athletes. We also feel that this procedure provides a better transition into I.H.S.A. standards that student athletes will have to adhere to at the high school level.
It is also important to note that the participation privilege in VGS athletics may be at the discretion of the coaching staff regarding a player’s academic status. In other words, poor academic progress and or behavioral issues in the classroom may result in a loss of playing time even though a student may not be determined to be academically ineligible. Communication between teachers, coaches, administration and parents is key to better ensuring that our
student athletes understand that academics are always first and foremost important. This also applies to how a student athlete conducts themselves in school as well as in the community. | <urn:uuid:a3161e99-fd01-47b4-924c-e55549bedfa8> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.hitpages.com/doc/4508443276738560/16/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280364.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00028-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967213 | 778 | 1.59375 | 2 |
Directly imaging exoplanets is both scientifically exciting but notoriously challenging. Scientifically, obtaining images of rocky planets in the habitable zones of stars is key to finding if and how life developed outside the solar system. Large-scale biological activity can modify the chemical composition of the planet's atmosphere and its surface properties, both of which can be studied by spectrophotometry. The measurement is however extremely challenging, as the planet light is considerably fainter that the host star's light, and the angular separation between the two objects is about 0.1 arcsecond or less.
Conventional imaging systems cannot overcome the high star to planet contrast, and unusual optics are required for imaging exoplanets. Dr. Guyon will describe such systems (coronagraphs) and the upcoming scientific opportunities associated with their deployment on ground-based telescopes and in space. He will show that ground-based extremely large telescopes (ELTs) will have the ability to directly image and spectroscopically characterize rocky planets in the habitable zones of nearby M-type stars, thus providing scientific evidence for (or against) the presence of life outside our solar system. Space telescopes operating in optical light are well suited to target Earth-like planets around Sun-like stars.
Dr. Guyon will also describe the PANOPTES (Panoptic Astronomical Networked OPtical observatory for Transiting Exoplanet Survey) project, aimed at supporting a world-wide network of small robotic digital cameras built by citizen scientists and schools to identify a large number of transiting exoplanets. | <urn:uuid:f665d70e-4d37-4729-a93f-23bd1bc6eb76> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.seti.org/weeky-lecture/optics-tricks-image-and-study-habitable-exoplanets | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280065.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00545-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.932994 | 317 | 3.296875 | 3 |
New To Bitcoin? Welcome! Here’s How To Take Those First Steps
If you’re new to Bitcoin, welcome. We’re a community of people from every part of the world, from as many walks of life as you can imagine, exploring the future of money. Let’s skip the philosophy and technical jargon, and just get you started using it. Also read: Bitcoin.com Getting Started Page
Bitcoin, Like Anything New, is Confusing at FirstFour years into its popular adoption, even a well-regarded economist like Paul Krugman thought little of the Internet’s potential, predicting, “The growth of the Internet will slow drastically,” he wrote, “most people have nothing to say to each other! By 2005 or so, it will become clear that the Internet’s impact on the economy has been no greater than the fax machine’s.” It’s fair to look back and acknowledge not everyone fully appreciates a technology at the time of its inception or early years. The same is true for Bitcoin, or will be. Mainstream accounts of Bitcoin range from terrifying criminal portrayals to a speculative mania rarely seen. While some of that is for sure going-on, the vast majority of Bitcoiners are people interested in a reliable payment system and a money that holds its value (or better). Leave the hype behind, both good and bad, and instead consider the basics of Bitcoin as a network and bitcoin as a money.
Install a Wallet on Your Phone or ComputerThink of it like electronic mail, email. You don’t really understand how it works either, but you’ve used it in some fairly serious communications. Same might said of social media: you have an appreciation of its power because you’ve experienced it. To really get bitcoin, you have to use it, experience it in some practical way. The first thing to do is download a wallet, a piece of software to install on your smartphone or home computer. Continuing with the email analogy, you’re setting up your email address, but for money. I am biased, of course, and believe Bitcoin.com’s wallet is the easiest to use, but there are many available options. For beginners, ours is ideal. Follow the wallet prompts, and you’ll find a snazzy little window. It’ll show a Quality Response code (QR), a square of black and white rectangles and other squares within squares. Beneath that will be a generated string of letters and numbers, capitalized and lower-case. The QR and that alphabet and numeric soup beneath are basically the same thing, it’s your email address — sorry, your money’s address. It’s from here you can receive and send bitcoin in whatever desired amounts.
Buying Bitcoin, Buying with BitcoinNow that you’re set up to receive and send, you might wish to actually get some bitcoin. There are a few ways to accomplish this. One, if you have a friend who already has some and who wouldn’t mind sending a few fractions of it along as a test, ask. Sitting down with someone and getting a first-hand glimpse at the future of money is pretty great. Two, if you do not need instant gratification and can wait a while, try earning some. See if someone will pay you for a service you can provide, a good you’re selling. Check around. You may be surprised who might be willing. Three, the easiest way is just to jump-in. Find an exchange, and again I am biased. I suggest clicking through our site, here. One thing I like about all our services is their ease of use. You will have to buy a minimum of 50 dollars worth, and fees apply, but at least you’ll be onboard! The handy conversion fields tell you exactly how much to expect for however much you wish to purchase. From there, you can shop for where to spend bitcoin or you can simply hold onto your wallet amount. I suggest at least trying one purchase, but it’s also a lot of fun to ride bitcoin’s price wave (hint: it doesn’t always go up).
Technical StuffOn purpose, I’ve avoided technical issues like cryptography, hash-rates, nodes, blocks, decentralization, forks, and all the rest that comes with a deeper dive into bitcoin. They’re wonderful to explore as well, and they’ll broaden your appreciation for what bitcoin is, ultimately. But for now, spend just enough of your money, relatively small amounts, to dip your toes. If you’re still stuck on what bitcoin is, and just cannot wrap your mind around it enough to give it a go, check out our Academy. It’s a visual guide, and, showing my bias again, it rules as a starting place. I think you’re going to find it an amazingly great future. Happy bitcoining! What are the best ways to introduce new people to bitcoin? Tell us in the comments below!
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If we take KIPP's own numbers of 80% of those who complete 8th grade at KIPP go on to college, what does that really say? If, as the research shows, 40-60 percent of students who begin KIPP in 5th grade do not finish 8th grade, we have a much less impressive number. If my math is working, and we use an average of 50% as average dropout and kickout rate between grades 5 and 8, then we have 4/5 x 1/2=4/10, or 40% of those who began KIPP in 5th grade going to college.
Still nothing to sneeze at if we consider the national average of college attendees among urban high school graduates is 20 percent. But then, if you consider the KIPP creaming that occurs in these urban communities, and the 70 percent more time that KIPPsters spend in school than their counterparts, and the soul sacrificing that children are forced to undergo, then that 20 percent gain in college enrollment begins to look more like an incredible cost that cannot be sustained by a society based on ethical treatment of our fellow human beings.
As for the ever-soaring test scores, we now know that at least at KIPP Fresno, testing violations occurred as a matter of habit that now throw into question any high flying status that might have accrued over the past five years. From the Report:
The investigation determined that the Charter School failed to administer all state and national tests for grades five through 8 as determined by the state and national testing schedule, according to regulations established by the state, to ensure the security and integrity of test and assessment questions and materials for the 2005-2006 and 2006-2007 STAR testing sessions. . . .15 particulars cited. Examples:
1. In 2006, completed state tests swere stored in a location where students and parents had access to the tests. Two of the . . . former teachers, Kim Kutzner and Marcella Mayfield, stated that they witnessed vialations of the testing procedures.a. They stated that tests were not placed in a secure environment.6. Kim Kutzner an dMarcella Mayfield stated that the school adopted a policy that students were required to check their answers again and again aftr they had finished their tests and were not allowed to do other activities.
b. State tests were stacked in boxes around the school's office, tests were not returned promptly by teachers after the closing of that day's testing, and tests were left in classrooms, ther principal's office and the school's office. . . .
7. Ms. Kutzner also witnessed teachers record students' answers during testing, review student's tests, and tell students which page to correct.
8. Chi Tschang [subsequently referred to as T], as the test site coordinator for 2006, also admitted that in a couple of cases, teachers forgot to bring tests back . . . .
10. In a staff meeting in May of 2006, Ms. Kutzner, who had five years experience as a test site coordinator, reviewed with the entire staff the vilations that she had witnessed during testing and presented the written testing protocol materials to T. The staff actively opposed any changes in procedures which would potentially lower test scores, and T and Mr. Hawke stated that the legal and ethical requirements for testing were, in fact, only guidelines that could be ignored. . . ..
15. The violations were knowingly in disregard of state testing procedures in that T signed the STAR Test Security Agreement and the Charter School's teachers signed the STAR Test Security Affidavit in which they agreed to the conditions designed to ensure test security. T also failed to report the testing irregularities to the District STAR Coordinator. | <urn:uuid:a95909e9-a31f-4a73-ac8d-b8ff725eb574> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.schoolsmatter.info/2009/03/kipp-fresno-part-3-state-mandated.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00477-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977359 | 764 | 1.90625 | 2 |
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When I was a lad, it was all soundcards 'round here. Now a trip to your local PC emporium's a very different experience. You'll find a handful of cards pitched at pro-gamers, a couple of USB interface devices and lots of speakers. Speakers and headphones. Aisles of them stretching as far as the eye can see, like that bit in The Matrix.
Okay – we exaggerate – but only a bit. The PC audio industry has turned topsy-turvy. Where once the soundcard was an essential component in every system, it now seems like an afterthought – if it's included at all. Check out a cross section of ready built systems aimed at Joe Public; like Dell's Studio XPS range.
They're high performance desktop PCs aimed at power users, shipping with Windows 7 Ultimate and up to 16GB of dual channel memory, but with integrated audio by default.
Or there's the Mesh's Matrix Pro PII 955, it's great for gaming with 8GB of memory and 512MB ATI Radeon graphics but with 7.1 audio built into the Asus multimedia motherboard.
Where did the soundcard go?
The ability to upgrade PC hardware has long been one of the platform's most appealing aspects. Memory and storage can be slotted in at will. Even CPU upgrades are no longer the rocket science they once were. So what's happened to the soundcard? When did they become so scarce and why?
We already had some ideas of our own. The switch from XP to Vista then Windows 7 seemed to play its part. Integrated audio is looking pretty good these days, too. To confirm our speculation, we spoke to a panel of industry experts; bigwigs in the world of PC audio production. They paint a picture of an industry that's very far from being sent to the knackers' yard. In fact, it's looking healthier than ever.
For some, the shift in attitude towards PC audio can be traced back to the release of Windows Vista and DirectX 10 in 2006. In the previous versions, DirectSound: the API layer between the software on your machine and your soundcard directly communicated with the hardware through its drivers. In Vista, this functionality was radically altered so that DirectSound ran in emulation mode instead, as a software process.
The immediate result was that apps requiring hardware acceleration took a performance hit. Games with DirectSound3D sound went silent, DVD soundtracks didn't play back properly, mixing was glitchy and effects were dry.
Reading through messages left on gaming boards revealed much more than leet speak and bad punctuation. There was a lot of frustration, not only with Microsoft, but with soundcard manufacturers for a response to the issue that was perceived as slow.
Considering that the Universal Audio Architecture deployed in DirectX 10 had been around on paper since 2002 – and had even been implemented previously in the 2004 release of Windows 2000 SP4 – that frustration may have had some foundation. Three years down the line, what's the state of play?
Microsoft hasn't budged on the issue. It's following a decade long plan to help standardise audio hardware support, after all. Windows 7 and DirectX 11 still emulate DirectSound in software. But, audio component developers have caught up and, more significantly, have even made strides to correct legacy game behaviour on Vista and Windows 7.
"When we transitioned from XP to Vista, we came up with a utility called Creative ALchemy that intercepted DirectSound calls and rerouted them to OpenAL APIs, which has direct access to the hardware," says Steve Erickson, VP of Audio at Creative Labs, "That solution is still relevant for Windows 7. We provided that as a free service to anyone who owns our (legacy) products, so that they would have a good experience going forward".
Good for the industry?
Some manufacturers even say that the change that began with Vista has been a good thing for the industry. Asus make discrete soundcards and motherboards with integrated audio, so are well placed to survey the market from the top and the bottom.
"In Vista and Win7 - everyone's at the same starting point," says Asus spokesperson, Iain Bristow, "Even in XP, the CPU resource required by audio is so little that the difference isn't noticeable". Referring to benchmarks that show little difference in response time between hardware accelerated systems and CPU reliant audio, Bristow says it makes little sense for gamers to chase nanoseconds of latency.
"The key to great gaming experience is sound quality, which Asus provides consistently throughout all of our sound products".
Altec Lansing is well known for its speaker solutions. Adrian Bedggood, who oversees PC audio for the company in Europe is in agreement with his competitors at Asus: "Windows Vista did make significant changes to the handling of audio within Windows OS. Over the long course, this will allow more integration of software with the sound system allowing new features and convenient function".
Arguably, the changes in the PC audio market go back much further. There have been sound chips on mobos since the first PCs, but it wasn't until 1997, with the introduction of Intel's AC97 codec that it became feasible to drive game audio and music apps with an onboard chip:
"Integrated audio is a reality. It's been like that for over 10 years now," says Steve Erickson. Rather than seeing it as a threat to the soundcard, the Creative Labs VP thinks that integrated audio is just another segment of the market.
"If I'm going to play a first person shooter, I'm probably going to use a discrete soundcard, because the graphics load is still very high, to get a good game experience".
"We also deal directly with PC OEM producers like Acer, Asus, MSI. We provide them with the software stack that goes on their motherboards to give them functionality that's similar to our high-end soundcards, but that runs in software. From a consumer perspective it's good no matter what they have; it just depends on what their desire is".
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Australia’s three levels of government – Commonwealth, State, Council – are all responsible for various parts of the country’s housing affordability crisis, but no one level is responsible for solving it. Each level can pass the buck and the blame, and opt for politically safe choices that result in houses being built on urban fringes where very few residents will object, but where jobs and infrastructure are scarce.
Magnus Linder and Philippa Yelland present some solutions in this paper, Housing Solutions for Dummies, the second in a two-part series.
NIMBYs (Not In My Back Yard) are frequently blamed for successfully opposing infill development in inner- and medium-ring suburbs. Ironically, appealing to a different facet of self-interest could be a way through this impasse. Insufficient medium-density housing (three to five storeys) in inner- and middle-suburbs is now beginning to prevent the very NIMBYs who opposed such buildings from moving to smaller dwellings in their own suburbs, a practice labelled as ‘ageing in place’.
The second part of this changed conversation can be an appeal to NIMBYs’ concerns for their children, grand-children and other relatives or friends. The housing affordability crisis no longer is elsewhere, affecting other, unknown people. It is here now, in middle-class homes, affecting now-adult children.
Affordable housing is a difficult political issue but it is not unsolvable. It is a mess created by two decades of both major political parties’ decisions that favour the existing 65.5% of owners – who are voters – at the expense of the 30.9% who rent privately – and who are also voters. However, this ratio is changing to more renters, particularly among younger renter-voters.
Another disincentive to change is the Federal Government’s annual deficit ($33 billion a year in 2016-17) – with an election looming. In contrast, most State governments are in surplus –and they also want to be re-elected.
Given that the complex ‘spaghetti bowl’ is split between the three levels, the solutions presented are divided between Federal (broadly responsible to demand-side contributions to the housing crisis), State (broadly on the supply-side) and Councils (planning).
- Wind-back negative gearing gradually and lessen Capital Gains Tax (CGT) discount
At present, negatively geared investors can deduct losses on their property investments from their income from work.
Capital Gains Tax treats net capital gains as taxable income in the tax year in which an asset is sold or disposed of. If an asset is held for at least one year, then any gain is first discounted by 50% for individual taxpayers, or by 33.3% for superannuation funds.
Over 10 years, if negative gearing was phased out and the CGT discount cut from 50% to 25% gradually, then property prices could drop 2%.
That price drop could be more for cheaper properties because tax breaks have funneled investors into low-cost homes that are minimally taxed by state land taxes and tax-free thresholds.
University of Tasmania modelling shows that these changes would have little impact on the mom’n’pop investors. Over 10 years, the initial $20,000 cap on housing-related tax deductions would be lowered by $1,500 a year until the dropped to $5,000.
In the first year (with $20,000 cap), 6.3% only of all property invetors (1.1% of all taxpayers) would be affected. By year 10, 28.5% only of high-income property investors would pay more tax, while most mom’n’pops would pay no more tax.
In addition to lowering house prices, these two reforms would improve the Federal Budget by about $5 billion a year.
Contrary to scaremongers, rent levels would not change much and housing markets would not collapse. The change would be in lower land prices because the supply of suitable urban land is constrained.
- Age Pension assets test to include family home
At present, for the Age Pension assets test, the first $203,000 only of home equity is counted and the rest is ignored. If this was inverted gradually to assess all of a home’s value above a threshold of, say, $500,000, then this would be fairer and add from $1 billion to $2 billion a year to the Federal Budget.
For low-income retirees who have high-value houses, the effect could be reduced if they kept receiving the pension and then repaid the over-payment when their house is sold. Thus, the reform would have very little effect on retirees, but would lower inheritances.
These reforms would be introduced gradually so that retirees had time to respond.
Another reform could include more of the family home in the means tests for residential aged care. At present, the means test for support-only in such care includes the first $162,815 of the home and only if no other protected residents (spouse or dependent children) live there.
- Restrict bank lending to reduce macro-economic risks
Australia’s financial regulators, APRA and ASIC, can limit banks’ lending to limit macro-economic risks caused by higher household debt. In late March 2017, APRA (Australian Prudential and Regulatory Authority) limited banks so that new interest-only housing loans could not be more than 30% of total housing loans. In late 2014, APRA had stopped banks from increasing their total lending to property investors by more than 10% each year. Ongoing restrictions on credit now appear to have successfully cooled the housing market.
- Enforce existing rules on foreign investment
Four existing policies should be enforced more explicitly.
First, the Foreign Investment Review Board (FIRB) prohibits third parties (such as real estate agents, lawyers and accountants) from knowingly helping people to breach foreign investment rules and yet existing properties have been sold to overseas investors. So, non-financial businesses and professions must be compelled to ensure that buyers are residents or have FIRB approval.
Second, foreign investors should be encouraged to rent out their investment properties, despite enforcement being difficult. The Victoria Government’s vacant-property tax will be self-reporting in 2018, the first year of operation. This is putting the fox in charge of the hen-house, a triumph of hope over experience.
Third, the Commonwealth Government can:
- raise FIRB application fees
- disallow claiming CGT exemption for main residence
- tighten CGT withholding
Fourth, anti-money-laundering laws can be tightened to stop Australian properties being bought to launder black money from overseas. Real estate agents, lawyers and accountants must be subject to money-laundering controls.
- Reduce immigration until housing infrastructure catches up with existing population
Immigration adds to demand for housing – Australia’s population would have grown 0.7% a year over the past 10 years without immigration. The actual growth has been 1.7% a year.
This growth also adds to infrastructure costs: schools, hospitals, roads, transport.
- Fund and build infrastructure in Sydney and Melbourne, encourage regionalisation
Infrastructure-building has been used in marginal seats to win votes rather than being built in the cities to which immigrants flock. It follows that infrastructure must be built where people are actually living rather than where rhetoric says they should live.
Both State and Federal Governments are now talking about incentives to encourage immigrants to move to regional centres – the success or otherwise of this rhetoric remains to be seen.
- Develop coherent national housing policy
The National Housing Supply Council was formed in May 2008 by the Rudd Government (Labor) but abolished in by the Abbott Government (Liberal) in late 2013. A new agency must be formed as an independent statutory body with its own staff.
In the area of social housing alone, to move people in the bottom-income quintile out of housing stress in Sydney, more than 7,000 social housing dwellings need to be built each year for the next two decades.
According to Dr Laurence Troy, ‘Around a third of this is just to maintain the (existing) share, which we are not currently doing.’
Dr Troy, who is Research Fellow/Lecturer, City Futures Research Centre at the University of New South Wales, says ‘the bottom quintile households we identify would (almost) all be eligible for social housing under the current system.
‘If we put this next to current housing targets of 30,000 per year, around 20% of all housing growth would need to be social housing.
Speaking about AHURI’s report on social housing as infrastructure, Dr Troy’s team have quantified social housing needs across Australia according to ABS’s SA4 (Statistical Area Level).
The figures suggested are based on existing residents, so AHURI’s estimates are not premised on ‘some grand social redistribution across Sydney’, says Dr Troy.
The report costs-out delivery of such a program, based on a not-for-profit model, but with different subsidy arrangements. ‘The cheapest way to fund this, from a government point of view, is to provide capital grant funding,’ Dr Troy says.
While Australia has a lot of land, it does not have an abundance of well-serviced land near major city-centres. In 1990, land comprised 50% of the cost of residential dwellings – in 2016, this amount was 70%.
- Reform infrastructure and charges
State governments and local Councils must work together to:
- speed new housing
- align population forecasts with housing
- tighten timeframes for re-zonings
- reform infrastructure charges
- use State land bodies to develop affordable rental housing
- mix lot sizes and housing types
Transport infrastructure that is close to affordable housing is crucial if lower-income residents are to be able to live close to employment. In Sydney, 2% only of suburbs and 38% of home meet NSW Government’s target for access. Transport for NSW aims for all the city’s residences to be within 400m of a busy stop that is serviced every 30 minutes or within 800m of a train station serviced every 15 minutes.
- Improve rental conditions
Australia’s weak tenancy laws favour landlords by allowing no-cause evictions. Tenants say that the insecurity of renting is one of its biggest drawbacks, with this problem worsening as more people rent because they cannot afford to buy. States’ tenancy laws (and land tax rules) must change to offer tenants more security.
Other factors that contribute to tenants’ insecurity are:
- State land taxes favouring small mom’n’pop investors
- negative-gearing benefits encouraging landlords to turnover properties frequently
- tenancy leases allowing landlords very broad rights to end leases
- Reform property taxes
Stamp duties on property transfers are inefficient because they discourage people from moving to dwellings that better suit they needs and can also discourage people from moving to better jobs. Such duties also put the tax burden on prospective home buyers rather than existing owners, thus entrenching intergenerational inequity.
So, two reforms should take place, First, general property taxes should replace stamp duties. Second, land tax should apply regardless of the owner’s total property holdings.
States could fund this in either of two ways through property levies paid through Councils’ rates bases. First, an annual flat tax of between 0.5 and 0.7% could be charged on unimproved land values or, second, a levy of between 0.3 to 0.5% could be charged on capital-improved property values.
Land taxes could be assessed on the value of each property owned rather than the combined value.
- Flatten rates of land tax
State land taxes have tax-free thresholds and progressively higher taxes based on aggregate landholdings in any one state. So, an institutional holder (with various properties in one State) could pay land tax of 2% in contrast to a mom-n-pop investor with one property only in that State who may pay no land tax.
This must change so that large-scale institutional (industry superannuation funds) can develop build-to-rent dwellings.
- Owner-occupied housing to be included in land taxes
In all states, the main place of residence is exempt from land tax – this makes home-ownership more attractive and inflates prices.
As explained in the first article in this two-part series, land tax – in NSW – is paid on the total value of taxable land above the threshold of $629,000. The tax is $100.00 plus 1.6% of land value between $629,000 and the premium rate threshold of $3,846,000. Thereafter, the rate is 2%.
An alternative way to do this would be to impose a $2 levy for every $1,000 of unimproved land value used for owner-occupied housing.
Either approach would lower land values from 3% to 6% and housing prices by about 3%.
- Adopt inclusionary zoning policies
In NSW at present, Councils must show the NSW State Government why affordable housing is needed in their LGA (Local Government Area). This is SEPP 70 (State Environmental Planning Policy No. 70 Affordable Housing [Revised Schemes]). This process costs time and money and is a disincentive to Councils.
Instead, State governments should mandate affordable housing for every LGA. This would compel new developments to include at least 15% of social housing or pay an equivalent levy for such housing to be built. Clear rules with little ‘wiggle room’ will give developers certainty and add to the supply of affordable rental housing.
- Work with Councils on community consultation
Talking with residents can yield surprising results and lessen opposition to medium-density housing. The experience of the Brisbane City Council is instructive (see Council section that follows). Rather than removing planning controls from Councils, State Governments can allow more ownership and consultation.
- Enforce existing rules on foreign investment
State Governments could:
- increase or introduce stamp duty
- introduce land tax surcharges
- Increase supply
Despite massive increases in supply over the past few years, demand did not dissipate and prices still escalated. What we need is supply of social and affordable rental housing, not a greater supply of expensive housing.
- Community consultation
In 2014, the Brisbane City Council published its City Plan 2014.
This was the result of almost 10 years’ work. In 2005-06, more than 60,000 Brisbane-ites commented on the CityShape plan for the next 20 years. The process then moved into five years of community consultation. While the process and final plan have critics, the overall outcome has been much less resistance to inner- and medium-density infill housing.
To re-phrase Tina Turner in Mad Max Beyond Thunderdome, we don’t need another report. What we need is action from all three levels of government.
Tax and welfare reforms are urgent, as are decisions about immigration levels.
Community consultation can go a long way towards enlightening self-interest – people can oppose more density in their suburb but they will not then be able to age in place, nor will their children be able to buy in the same area.
While the mess, the concatenation, the spaghetti took 20 years to occur, we do not have another 20 years in which to talk endlessly about possibly solutions that some other level of government should do.
We must act now to make housing more affordable, to increase the supply of housing for low-income Australians to rent or buy and to end homelessness.
The blockage to affordable housing is not lack of money, it is lack of political will and bravery.
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For many, a packet of crisps is a staple snack at lunchtime. However, we all know they’re not healthy. As well as being high in calories and unsaturated fat, the frying process produces a possibly cancer-causing chemical known as acrylamide.
Good: Baked kale crisps
If it’s something satisfyingly crispy and salty you’re after, take 30 minutes out of your evening to bake some kale crisps. Kale is known as a super-food because it is rich in nutrients including fibre, vitamin A, calcium, vitamin A and vitamin K. Take a handful of kale, season with salt and paprika, dip in extra virgin olive oil and cook them in the oven for 25 minutes. The result will be a healthy, moreish and satisfying snack that you can even bag up and take to work the next day.
Bad: Fish ‘n’ chips
Let’s face it – potatoes deep fried in fat teamed with fish coated in batter and deep fried in fat was never going to be a particularly nutritional dish. Add to that the creamy tartar sauce and sugary ketchup we’re all partial to, and you’ll probably be exceeding your daily fat, salt and sugar allowance in one sitting.
Good: Breaded salmon and salad
It’s unlikely that we’re ever going to find a perfect alternative to Britain’s favourite dish, but fresh salmon coated in peppery bread crumbs and grilled until crisp is a close match. Salmon is full of omega 3 and calcium – fantastic for healthy hair, skin, heart and head – not to mention it tastes delicious. Nutritionists recommend you eat at least two portions of oily fish a week.
Bad: Milk chocolate
No one wants to hear this, but chocolate contains around 542 calories per 100g, and if eaten regularly, can contribute to obesity, diabetes and heart disease. In moderation, eating chocolate is fine. But how are we supposed to eat anything in moderation when it tastes so good?!
Good: Dates, nuts and dark chocolate
When you feel that chocolate craving creeping up on you, try this: eat one big, juicy, fresh date, a couple of brazil nuts and one square of dark chocolate. Dates are incredibly sweet, brazil nuts are satisfyingly rich and dark chocolate will give you that much-needed cocoa hit without the huge amount of sugar found in milk chocolate.
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This is a hilarious, heartwarming portrayal of a father-daughter relationship. It places equal emphasis on the scale of a child’s imagination as well as the quiet resourcefulness of a doting parent.
This mouth-watering book answers all kinds of questions about food. With over 60 flaps to lift children can discover which foods grow in rainforests, who discovered potatoes, why cheese smells and lots more where, how, why, what, which and yes or no questions.
This story encourages children to respect food and understand why they should eat healthily. Every day, instead of eating his lunch, Dinku runs out to play. His lunchbox intervenes and teaches him why he needs to eat healthy meals.
Do we know where our food comes from? Do we know its history, what it does to the Earth, or the stories behind it? How is it connected to our customs and festivals… to our health? Does it matter what we choose to eat?
Introduce the value of eating a healthy balanced meal your child. Teach him about theFood Pyramid. Coco only drinks milk. Not porridge, not soup... nothing but milk!
Ten fun stories about a little boy (who loves superheroes!) who discovers the surprising superpowers of everyday foods. Each illustrated story is followed by fun facts about the superfood and a kid-friendly recipe. | <urn:uuid:58533f42-bc7a-4d00-8e69-a1487a3fdc4a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://thenestery.in/blogs/editors-pick-at-the-nestery/editors-pick-8-books-to-make-your-child-go-yum | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572908.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817122626-20220817152626-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.953027 | 351 | 2.84375 | 3 |
Newest Recent Inventions Interesting From the Scientific and Mechanical Viewpoint (Feb, 1935)
Newest Recent Inventions Interesting From the Scientific and Mechanical Viewpoint
• EACH month, about five thousand patents are issued from the patent office at Washington, exclusive of trademarks, but including design patents. Of these, the largest proportion are intended for purely technical applications and as improvements on machinery previously in use, and are therefore of limited interest. On the other hand, many are novel in their utilization of known principles; and it is our endeavor to present here those of interest to any mechanically-inclined reader, whether or not they can be used by the public.
For instance, that pictured at the upper left is a new version of an attempt to secure a universal travelling vehicle. The air propeller, often used on such craft, is suitable only at high speed, while the stern wheel can dig in where going is rough. It would probably find use in the lake and marsh region of Arctic and sub-Arctic America.
At the upper right, an application of pure science. On locomotives in France, the glass which often obscures the engineer’s vision is done away with; yet, by proper shaping of the shields, no air is driven into the cab. Much experimenting was necessary to make this practical. Another example of mathematical work is the show case (lower left), where the glass becomes invisible as if it were not there. The refrigerator truck (lower right) is an application of a principle used in the operation of aircraft radio sets in past years.
Other ideas here shown are more obvious.
• THE patent illustrated at the upper right deals with the problem of an aircraft designed for such high speed that it can hardly be got off the ground—since the take-off speed is very high. But, with a large plane, of the load-carrying type, the high-speed (stratosphere) plane might be lifted from the ground by the slower craft; which then gets up a speed of a hundred, or hundred and fifty miles an hour. The angle of the wings of the upper plane is increased until it is lifting its own weight; the catches holding it are released—and the speed plane soars away on its own. The booster plane returns to ground, perhaps for another plane; and so on. Having used up its load—perhaps dropped it in the form of bombs—the speed plane may be able to descend at a practical landing speed—or it might even be picked up in the air by the slower plane and lowered to ground.
The photoelectric signalling system shown below may seem complicated; but has been applied in Europe, and has the support of traffic authorities. As the diagram makes clear, the driver of an overtaking car can make clear his desire to pass, by an unmistakable signal; and the driver of the car ahead indicates that the way is clear. It may become as standard as the present “Stop” light.
The parking meter shown is the invention of the well-known economist, Roger W. Babson. The patent contemplates, first, a lighting system to show when parking time is up; second, a coin-box meter whereby parking privileges may be obtained at public grounds on a pay-in-advance basis.
Below, we have a device which has already been in use in foreign countries for those desiring local application of sunlight. Lower left corner, an invention based on the theory that infra-red radiation is reflected from platinum in the form of longer, visible light rays. | <urn:uuid:647a58c4-e9fb-473b-989e-698110e00d65> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://blog.modernmechanix.com/newest-recent-inventions-interesting-from-the-scientific-and-mechanical-viewpoint/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721595.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00478-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960508 | 747 | 2.71875 | 3 |
Coffee Crisp is a chocolate bar made in Canada. It consists of alternating layers of vanilla wafer and a foamed coffee-flavoured soft candy, covered with a milk chocolate outer layer.
Rowntree’s is a British confectionery business based in York, England.
Mexico, officially the United Mexican States (Estados Unidos Mexicanos), is a country in the southern portion of North America.
A siesta (from Spanish, meaning “nap”) is a short nap taken in the early afternoon, often after the midday meal. Such a period of sleep is a common tradition in some countries, particularly those where the weather is warm.
Sombrero in English refers to a type of wide-brimmed hat from Mexico, used to shield from the sun. It usually has a high pointed crown, an extra-wide brim (broad enough to cast a shadow over the head, neck and shoulders of the wearer) that is slightly upturned at the edge, and a chin strap to hold it in place.
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With THE CONFESSIONS OF EDWARD DAY, the Orange Prize award winning author Valerie Martin has created an engrossing fictional memoir. The title character guides the reader through his adventures as he strives for professional success on the stage in New York, while also fighting his personal demons.
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"We cannot allow terrorists to have safe havens from which they launch attacks and kill our forces. We cannot allow that to happen. And we have to bring pressure on the Pakistanis to do their part to confront that issue," US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta told the powerful Senate Armed Services Committee.
Without elaborating the options that the US has on its table, Panetta told the lawmakers that America can't allow terrorist safe havens to operate in Pakistan from where carry out strikes against its personnel.
Testifying before the powerful Senate panel, Panetta identified it as one of the major challenge for the US in Afghanistan.
"I've made clear that we are going to do everything we have to do to defend our forces. I don't think it would be helpful to describe what those options would look like and talk about what operational steps we may or may not take," Panetta said in response to a question from Senator Carl Levin, Chairman of the Committee.
Panetta said the first order of business right now is to "put as much pressure on Pakistan as we can to deal with this issue from their side." He said Admiral Mike Mullen, Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff, has met with the Pakistan Army Chief General Ashfaq Parvez Kayani and CIA Director David Petraeus met with ISI chief General Pasha over the issue.
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Allen, C. C., and N. F. Alleman. 2019. “A Private Struggle at a Private Institution: Effects of Student Hunger on Social and Academic Experiences.” Journal of College Student Development 60 (1): 52–69.
“I guess it’s changed my academic life because if I wasn’t worrying about where I was going to get food, and if it was going to be healthy, and if I had stuff to live off of where I didn’t have [to] work, then I would be able to study more” (p. 59). This quotation reflects the central thesis of this exploratory, qualitative study that examines food insecurity as a reason for disruptions in students’ social and academic experiences at an unnamed, affluent, private institution. Findings showed that some students in this selective university were food-insecure and that this problem interfered with students’ academic trajectories (namely, students who had to work longer hours could not find the time needed to study and perform their best in class) and social experiences (that is, students selected social experiences based more on free food options than actual interest).
DISCUSSION OF THE FINDINGS
The authors use the definition by Coleman-Jensen, et al. (2016) of food insecurity as a condition that exists when individuals do not have “access to enough food for an active, healthy life.” Also relying on the work of Broton, Frank, and Goldrick-Rab (2014), the authors discuss food insecurity on college campuses as a particularly challenging and often invisible problem given the shame and stigma often associated with poverty.
Of particular interest, the authors chose a university that was “selective, [and] normatively affluent” (p. 56) in order to challenge the assumption that food insecurity is often linked only to students from low-income families who attend community colleges or public institutions. For this study, selectivity was defined “simply as the difference between the number of students who apply and the number who are accepted” (p. 57). The institution where the study takes place had an overall acceptance rate of 40 percent and reported a median family income of $130,000; 15 percent of its total enrollment consisted of Pell-eligible students.
The students selected for the study were screened based on their availability to participate and on their experiences with food insecurity. Appropriate to phenomenological approaches to inquiry, the authors selected ten students who “had experienced the most severe level of food insecurity” (p. 57) and interviewed each for one to three hours. Students were asked about their “food experiences as children, college choice perceptions and processes, academic experiences, how they spent their time outside of class, experiences with food scarcity, strategies for managing food scarcity, sources of support, insights or lessons gained from their food insecurity experiences, and their recommendations for institutional solutions” (p. 57). In terms of academic experiences, findings suggested that these food-insecure students remained highly committed to their progress as well as that certain campus resources (for example, plentiful free tutoring opportunities) helped them succeed in the face of food uncertainties. Across the interviews, students noted that time spent worrying about food was time taken away from their studies. Academic progress was disrupted by students needing to take semesters off to work, taking courses at cheaper community colleges, and changing majors to those that required less out-of-classroom time.
Students acknowledged the help that came with being enrolled at a well-resourced institution, specifically citing faculty members as a critical source of mentorship, confidentiality, and advocacy. They provided these students with the navigational and emotional support often needed to persist. Not only did faculty members help students understand how to navigate the culture of the institution successfully, they also served as confidantes—frequently they were the only ones on campus with knowledge of the students’ struggles with food insecurities. Unfortunately, the study does not report the students’ experiences with institutional support such as food pantries; however, the nature of the interviews suggests that many of these students attempted to conceal their struggles with food insecurity from the campus community.
Turning to social experiences, most students chose to conceal their struggles rather than share them with peers. These students valued social events and activities with peers, just not the price tag often associated with participation; as one student noted, “It really does impact your social life….Especially with the sorority. To them it was $5, $7, at [a local fast food restaurant]…or stuff like that…Food is how sometimes people bond. It’s where they socialize…I couldn’t do that” (p.62). Finally, many of these students were forced to choose work over friendship. Taking on more work hours meant sacrificing the time needed to develop meaningful friendships with their peers.
IMPLICATIONS FOR ACTION BY CAMPUS LEADERS
Faculty members need to be aware of food insecurity as a pressing issue for some of their students and be equipped with information on resources to help students with food insecurities. How can faculty members be educated that food insecurities exist even at selective, private institutions? How can they be informed regarding which institutional, local, and federal resources are in place to help students deal with these crises?
Turning to student life, time seems to be an ubiquitous source of stress for food-insecure students. Time spent managing food insecurities affected their choices related to work, social engagement, and selection of major, to name a few. Recognizing the reality that students dealing with this issue are making a broad array of academic and social choices dependent on limited time left over after managing it, a first step may be for institutional stakeholders to consider what can be done to help these students maximize the time they do have. As one example, institutional stakeholders may wish to consider suggestions from authors such as Goldrick-Rab (2016), who recommends that advisors, faculty members, and student affairs educators be open to scheduling demands of food-insecure students because these students manage time differently. These students may take courses in the morning to prevent sitting through class hungry, avoid studying late at night because hunger prevents them from concentrating, and seek out free on-campus events that offer food.
Given the change in student demographics with larger numbers of lower-income students enrolling in college, it is increasingly likely that many colleges and universities—both public and private—will encounter more students with food insecurities. Institutional leaders may need to devote more attention to and support for students with these needs.
About the Authors
Cara Cliburn Allen is a doctoral candidate in higher education studies and leadership at Baylor University.
Nathan F. Alleman is associate professor of educational leadership at Baylor University.
Literature Readers May Wish to Consult
Broton, K., V. Frank, and S. Goldrick-Rab. 2014. “Safety, Security, and College Attainment: An Investigation of Undergraduates’ Basic Needs and Institutional Response.” Wisconsin Hope Lab. Paper presented at the annual meeting of the Association for Public Policy and Management, October. 1–40.
Coleman-Jensen, A., C. Gregory, and M. Rabbitt. 2016. “Definitions of Food Security.” Food Security in the U.S. Washington, DC: U.S. Department of Agriculture.
Government Accountability Office. 2018. Food Insecurity: Better Information Could Help Eligible College Students Access Federal Food Assistance Benefits. (GAO Publication No. 19-95). Washington, DC: U.S. Government Printing Office.
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Going to college keeps getting more expensive. In 2011 the College Board estimated it would cost $20,000 a year, on average, for students to go to an in-state, public university.
Kim Sapkowski’s family is asking themselves if a college education and the accompanying tens of thousands of dollars in debt are worth it. Her husband is going back to school, her son doesn’t know if school makes economic sense, and Sapkowski is somewhere in the middle. She has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s degree.
“I have to be honest, I’ve been struggling over the last five years, was it worth it?,” Sapkowski said. “I’d say yes, it was worth it,” she pauses as if unsure. “The education was worth it.”
Sapkowski’s husband Tom is an auto technician (a term he prefers to mechanic) at a General Motors dealership in Grand Rapids. He has seen his income fall by about $30,000 annually in five years. Kim Sapkowski worked part-time so she could spend time with her kids, but had to find full-time work to make up some of that lost income. Even with her education it took two years for her to find full-time work.
Despite seeing his wife go through that experience, Tom Sapkowski thinks a degree is critical to his upward mobility. He’s going back to school this fall at Ferris State University to earn a bachelor’s degree. He hopes to use it to move on from work that is physically punishing and continues to be slow.
“Auto technicians at big dealerships get paid by the job. If there’s no work coming in you’re just not getting paid,” Kim Sapkowski said. “He’s looked at other jobs and he knows he’s qualified. He has the experience, but they’re asking for a bachelor’s degree and nothing less.
Her son, 16-year-old Peter, entered the family debate when he alarmed his parents by mentioning he wasn’t sure if it made sense to go to college. He might prefer to start working on a trade now, and work his way slowly through school. After some family discussion he said he’s not sure what he wants to do yet, and that his parents just “freaked-out.”
“When my son said 'I’ll start working on a trade in high school,' I struggled with it,” Kim Sapkowski admitted. “We said, ‘ultimately, it’s your choice but we really wish you’d go to college and explore your options’.”
Statistics suggest a bachelor’s degree in the United States correlates strongly with higher income. A bachelor’s degree is expected on average to add about $26,000 to annual income than a high school degree. Associates degrees confer an economic benefit too, although a smaller one. But parents increasingly need or expect their children to shoulder some of the cost. That’s the case in the Sapkowski household.
“Our parents paid our way through college. I don’t think we’ll be able to do that.”
Kim Sapkowski thinks you can’t put a price on the life experiences her kids, Peter and 10-year-old Kate, could gain from college. But it’s equally important to her because it seems like a way her children will find economic security and do better financially than she and her husband.
“We’ve found ourselves in a place where we thought at this point we thought we’d be more secure than what we are,” she said. “We look back at our parents and they were pretty secure. My parents grew up during the Great Depression. I think that generation was keenly aware of economic instability and therefore, they created policies and an economic climate that was less volatile than what we have now.”
Sapkowski is still happy with her life, her job, and her choices, but she says she does worry about the economic landscape her children will inherit.
“I know that our political leaders and our community leaders have some great plans for the future. But you hope those things take hold,” She said. “Right now we’re in such a transition and the transition in my mind is just taking far too long to happen. It’s hard to hang on to that hope. And you hope that those plans that our community leaders and our political leaders have, that they’re on the right track.” | <urn:uuid:a32d70e2-acfe-4989-bb41-579780b393aa> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://michiganradio.org/post/your-story-college-worth-it | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280483.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00292-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.98189 | 988 | 2.140625 | 2 |
|Investigation the Spermatogenesis and Testis Structure in Diabetic Rats After Treatment With Galega officinalis Extract|
|Farnaz Shokri1, Majid Shokoohi2, Hamid Reza Niazkar3, Ayda Roudi Rasht Abadi4, Hossein Kalarestaghi5, Maliheh Ahin6|
|1Women’s Reproductive Health Research Center, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
2Department of Anatomical Sciences, Faculty of Medicine, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
3Student Research Committee, Gonabad University of Medical Sciences, Gonabad, Iran.
4Department of Animal Biology, Faculty of Biology, University of Kharazmi, Tehran, Iran
5Department of Anatomy and Pathology, Research Laboratory for Embryology and Stem Cell, Faculty of Medicine, Ardabil University of Medical Sciences, Ardabil, Iran
6Taleghani Hospital, Tabriz University of Medical Sciences, Tabriz, Iran
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Keywords : Oxidative Stress, Diabetes, Galega officinalis, Testis, Sperm parameters
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Objectives: This study aimed to evaluate the anti-oxidative potential of Galega officinalis extract on oxidative damages in the testes and sperm parameters of diabetic rats.
Materials and Methods: In this experimental study, 32 male Wistar rats were segregated in 4 groups: Control, Diabetic control, Diabetic treated with G. officinalis extract and healthy group that received G. officinalis extract. An instillation of distilled water was performed in the control and diabetic groups. Also, treatment groups received Galega extract (50 mg/kg body weight) for 8 weeks. After treatment period all of subjects were anesthetized, their blood samples were taken, the serum level of insulin and glucose were measured then the testicles and epididymis were removed and sperm parameters and oxidative stress markers were assessed.
Results: Treatment of diabetic rats with G. officinalis extract significantly increased the Johnson score and diameter of seminiferous tubule as well as reduced the glucose plasma levels (P = 0.001) and increased the insulin levels (P = 0.001). Furthermore, during diabetes an upsurge in the level of malondialdehyde (MDA) and a decrease in the levels of superoxide dismutase (SOD) and catalase (CAT) enzymes activity were observed in the testes. Administration of G. officinalis extract (50 mg/kg BW) significantly rectified these parameters (P < 0.05). Moreover, the sperm parameters decreased in the diabetic group, while the use of G. officinalis significantly improved the mentioned disorders in the treatment groups (P < 0.05).
Conclusions: The results of this study confirm the antioxidant role of hydroalcoholic extract of G. officinalis in the improvement of the testicular oxidative damage caused by diabetes.
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The medicinal plant Momordica charantia L is known for its healing properties from ancient times, originally from India, this plant was grown in the climatic conditions of Asian countries, including Uzbekistan. It is used in folk medicine for the treatment of diabetes, and fruits are used as a vegetable. Phytochemicals such as proteins, polysaccharides, flavanoids, triterpenes, saponins, ascorbic acid and steroids were found in the plant. The literature provides data on its various biological activity, including antihyperglycemic, antibacterial, antiviral, antitumor, immunomodulatory, antioxidant, antidiabetic. As a result of the research, the chemical composition of the fruits of the plant was studied, as well as information about the use of the plant in folk medicine. | <urn:uuid:a7e8d834-4b32-4821-92eb-1e471a338b0d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ajpbr.org/index.php/ajpbr/article/view/162 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573744.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819161440-20220819191440-00473.warc.gz | en | 0.962148 | 172 | 2.8125 | 3 |
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One of the most characteristic landscapes of the province of Salamanca is known as ‘dehesa Charra’ or ‘Campo Charro’. It is characterized by a predominance of Holm Oaks and wild cattle.
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Dentures are a removable solutions for replacing missing teeth. Most people think of dentures as a replacement for all the teeth that many people’s parents or grandparents may wear. Whereas dentures can be a solution if you are fully “edentulous”, partial dentures are also a cost-effective option for replacing one or more teeth.
Because no teeth are left, full dentures use suction or various types of adhesive to remain in position. Alternatively, dental implants can also placed and connected to the denture with clips or magnets as a more secure method of retention.
When you are missing as few as a single tooth, a partial denture is a cost-effective option. Partial dentures are “clipped” to the remaining adjacent teeth and use these for support.
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The work shows a classroom where students practice their drawing skills. You can see my portrait on the easel. I would like to present my vision of the process of an artist’s creative activity. Sculptures symbolize educational steps that every portrait artist should make. A large plaster sculpture symbolizes the difficulties that most painters face. The work was created by means of 3ds Max 2008, ZBrush, and V-Ray. Thanks for your attention. | <urn:uuid:1c99da5d-1ad1-489d-8740-64744fa13844> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.3dtotal.com/galleries/image/Scenes/3699-self-portrait-by-michail-kalinich-3ds-max-v-ray-zbrush-easel-workshop-studio-still-life | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719646.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00126-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974947 | 95 | 1.757813 | 2 |
You can use fonts in any word processing program like Microsoft Word, Word Perfect, or OpenOffice (it's free, works on Mac and PC, and is *just* as awesome as Word! :)). You can also use fonts in photo editing programs like Paint Shop Pro, Adobe Photoshop, or the Gimp (also free, Mac & PC friendly, and a great program!).
Here are a couple articles to get you started. Pretty soon you'll be fonting like a pro! :D
Computer Journaling Basics - This informative article from Denise Gormish at Scrapjazz.com goes over the basics of using fonts in a word processing program, then printing them out to use in your traditional, paper and scissors scrapbook. :)
How to use Fonts in a Photo Editing Program - Jen Strange offers this great article on how to use fonts in Adobe Photoshop. This is a great resource if you want to use fonts in Digital Scrapbooking or to make an image using fonts and text to make, for example, a blog banner for your blog! :) | <urn:uuid:1b7da716-5b44-4a26-aa1d-45165297d8f6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://kevinandamanda.com/scrapbook/fonts/download-and-install/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00412-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.857183 | 219 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Laurene Powell Jobs is not just the widow of Apple cofounder Steve Jobs. She's also an accomplished businesswoman and a generous philanthropist.
And she ranks among the 50 richest people in the world, according to Wealth-X.
Upon her husband's death in 2011, Powell Jobs inherited his fortune — primarily shares of Apple and Disney — which has grown to an estimated $14.4 billion. Though she remains staunchly private about her personal life and relationship with her late husband, Powell Jobs has more openly discussed her business ventures and philanthropic pursuits in recent years.
Read on to meet the mysterious woman who's carrying on Steve Jobs' legacy, in her own way.
Laurene Powell Jobs was born in West Milford, New Jersey, in 1963 to a teacher and a Marine pilot. Her father, the pilot, died in a plane collision when she was 3 years old, and her mother later remarried.
After double-majoring in political science and economics at the University of Pennsylvania, Powell Jobs worked on Wall Street for Merrill Lynch and Goldman Sachs before heading west to earn her MBA at Stanford’s Graduate School of Business in 1989.
The Knight Management Center at the Stanford Graduate School of Business.Steve Castillo/Wikimedia Commons
Source: New York Times, Stanford
It was during her time at Stanford that Laurene Powell met Steve Jobs. He briefly sat next to her during a lecture, before getting up to address the room as the guest speaker. Still thinking of her afterward, he asked the young Powell out, in the parking lot. She said yes to dinner, and they were together from then on.
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Sources: The New York Times, International Business Times
They married in March of 1991 at the Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park.
Ahwahnee Hotel in Yosemite National Park, California.Thomson Reuters
Source: International Business Times
The couple had three children: Reed, Erin, and Eve. The youngest, Eve, will head to college in the fall, leaving her mother an empty nester. But Powell Jobs has plenty keeping her occupied. “I have more time to work; I just do. Because once your kids are up and running, that frees you up a good 20, 30, hours a week,” she told Vogue.
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Even though she married one of the most powerful and influential people in Silicon Valley, Powell Jobs was never a bystander to her husband’s success. Smart and educated, she pursued her own projects and career, with a strong focus on philanthropy. “In the broadest sense, we want to use our knowledge and our network and our relationships to try to effect the greatest amount of good,” she told The Times in 2013.
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Source: The New York Times
In the early '90s, she cofounded Terravera, a natural-food company aimed at developing organic raw materials, such as legumes and grains, for the food and feed industries. She later backed off from Terravera to spend more time tutoring and raising her growing family.
Sources: Terravera, Vogue
In 1997, Powell Jobs founded College Track, a storefront nonprofit organization that helps prepare low-income students for college through tutoring and mentoring. College Track has expanded to eight locations across California, Colorado, and Louisiana.
Source: College Track
Last September, Powell Jobs pledged $50 million via Emerson to fund XQ: The Super School Project, a venture that aims to reform education from the inside out by revamping how high schools approach curriculum. She is the chairwoman of XQ's board of directors.
Source: The New York Times
XQ will collect proposals for overhauling the high-school experience, and a team of judges will then narrow the nominations to 10 winners who will receive financing. The project aims to create a new kind of school that can better prepare all students for success in both college and life. “There is a huge gap between what students want for their future and what their schools are offering,” Powell Jobs told The Times.
Source: The New York Times
Powell Jobs serves on the board of several organizations, including Teach for America, Conservation International, and the New America Foundation. She's a member of the Council on Foreign Relations and Stanford University's board of trustees.
Like her husband, Powell Jobs has rarely discussed her personal views publicly, though recently she's become vocal on some issues. Apart from her education-reform efforts, Powell Jobs has openly supported and financed efforts to pass the Dream Act, which would grant citizenship to undocumented minors. She's also donated to groups supporting Hillary Clinton's presidential campaign and wrote a glowing endorsement of Clinton for Time's "100 Most Influential People"' list.
Source: Vogue, The Wall Street Journal, Time
As for her husband’s legacy, Powell Jobs has at times taken an active role in shaping it. She urged Walter Isaacson to write Steve’s biography back in 2009, though some speculate that she wasn't thrilled with the result and felt similarly to Tim Cook and Jony Ive, who publicly criticized how the book depicted the Apple founder.
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Last October, she spoke out against "Steve Jobs" — the Aaron Sorkin-written movie based largely on Isaacson’s book — which portrays her husband in a harsh light. Powell Jobs, who called the movie "fiction," was against the project from the get-go, reportedly calling Leonardo DiCaprio and Christian Bale personally to ask them to decline roles in the film.
Aaron Sorkin won the Golden Globe for best screenplay — despite Powell Jobs' efforts to derail the movie.Reuters/Lucy Nicholson
Sources: CNN Money, Fortune
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I left Grenada in late September 1983, to begin work on my thesis on the living Grenada Revolution as a PhD student at the University of the West Indies at Mona, fully intent on returning to do further research the following year and without any forewarning of the disaster that would occur in the coming weeks. I come therefore with the perspective and biases of someone who lived and worked in the Revolution in its final days.
In spite of new and refreshing writing in recent years, there is, nevertheless, a certain established and encrusted narrative structure of the Revolution which goes something like this: Power was taken from Eric Gairy in 1979; four and a half years intervene; then there is a leadership crisis which we need to understand and apportion blame; the crisis itself is explanatory of the revolution. We can therefore assign blame and come to one of two conclusions: either avoid in the future the ideology, tactics, or even the very people who were guilty of despoiling the process, or, conversely, avoid revolution altogether, for the proof that Saturn always devours his children is evident once again in the Grenadian instance.
There is, of course, nothing inherently wrong in trying to understand the origins and course of the 1983 crisis. This is necessary and much of my own work on Grenada has tried, agonizingly, to walk and re-walk those moments to try to grasp what went wrong. Yet, this exercise inevitably obscures the day-to-day reality of some four and a half years — more than 1,670 days of the most remarkable social experiment in the Anglophone Caribbean since emancipation in 1838. My argument is straightforward: It is that lost in the detritus of the 1983 tragedy, there were initiatives taken that went beyond any experiment tried anywhere in the history of the Anglophone Caribbean. And that if in the future, we are to rethink and rebuild a Caribbean that is more in the interest of the people, we must learn not only from what the Grenada Revolution did wrong but also what it did right.
Living the Revolution
The first is to trace what I call the sublime moment of revolution. It was Marx who considered revolutions the locomotives of history, that is, the fastest possible vehicle to institute change in the descriptive language (locomotives) of his time. And it was William Wordsworth who in his well-known references to the early days of the French Revolution penned his famous lines:
Bliss was it in that dawn to be alive,
But to be young was very heaven.
Of course, the subsequent path of the French Revolution, the guillotine, the wars, Napoleon, and the restoration of the monarchy are only too well known. But what did it mean to live in an actual moment of popular upheaval, when the integuments of an old society are dissolved and, for a moment, all that is solid melts into air? What does it mean when you wake up in the morning and the possibilities for a new world, for dramatic, transformative change, are placed on the table by the leader of the uprising himself, who proclaims that this is a revolution and it is for work, bread, and dignity?
For many among the poor, and particularly the young of Grenada, the revolution of March 13, 1979, was a new day. Let us recall a few of their voices.
This is Patsy Romain, shop assistant, twenty-six years old in 1981:
On March 13, following the radio message when the Revolution took over the radio station, we marched to our local Police Station at Birchgrove — about 200 of us, mostly women — and told the police to put up the white flag. Then we took up positions in different areas, cooking for our soldiers, running messages and keeping guard — and also listening out for any counter-revolutionary plans.
I attended many seminars and conventions for women, and I began to notice that in Byelands the women were not organized, even though they were supporters of the Revolution. So we organized the women for a meeting and formed a N.W.O. [National Women’s Organization] group there.
The group looked at the needs and problems of the area. There were pipe stands with no taps, so women had to carry water a long way to their homes. So we went to the Ministry of Communications and Works to apply for pipe taps, and we got them in a few days. So that was our first concrete gain. Then we had a problem with the roads. Byelands had been neglected by Gairy so we combined with the Farmers’ Association, the N.Y.O., the Militia, the Party Support Group and made a joint complaint to the same Ministry. So now the road is being fixed. And we spend our own Sunday mornings in community work, clearing drains and cutting overhanging branches.
And this from Roy Cooper, mason, aged forty:
When the Revolution came I greeted it with glory. It was the only democratic process that could rescue the people from poverty and backwardness. After the Revo I came here [the Queens Park Quarry] to work. Gairy had closed the works down, so the Party decided to give the people work. We had to re-make everything here. But the workers were feeling real happy when we re-opened and they worked harder, with a better understanding. And we have a lot of improvements. There is better discipline, the workers realize they must work hard if the Revolution is going to grow and their children are going to enjoy a good life. . . .
. . . We have 75 women workers here and they are particularly grateful for the law against sexual exploitation. We had a foreman who tried to seduce the women before giving them work, and he once slapped up a female worker on the job. We stepped on him and he was fired forthwith. The women were glad. They saw it as another revolution!
And thirdly, Theresa Simeon, sixty years old, returning home from the United States:
Then when the revolution happened, I was in the States. So I came back here, I really wanted to make up for not being here. I started going to the rallies. The first one I went to was with Kaunda [Zambian President], and I was so impressed, I’d never seen people so together and united like that before in Grenada.
I was thinking how can I help? I knew we needed a lot of money, and I wondered, how could I raise some? Then in November 1979 we heard about the International Airport idea. So I called all of my friends together, and twenty-two of us met and decided to form the St. George’s Airport Development Committee. . . .
All this involvement has changed my life so much, you know, and all the members of the Committee say the same thing. We are much more involved in the Revolution, and we are always being called upon to help.
I landed in Grenada for the first time in the summer of 1981. The revolution was a mere two years old, but it had already gone through major challenges, among them the confrontations with Rastas in Tivoli, the closing of the Torchlight newspaper, and, most violently, the Queens Park bombing, in which an attempted assassination of the leadership of the People’s Revolutionary Government (PRG) had led tragically to the deaths of three young girls and a hundred others being wounded.
Nevertheless, coming from the first year of Edward Seaga and the conservative Jamaica Labour Party’s triumph in the 1980 Jamaican elections, and the drastic rightward turn in Jamaican politics, there was still a palpable sense of energy, excitement, and possibility for the future in the air. The daily and weekly agenda of activities was relentless. There were the openings of new facilities, like the Cuban-funded Sandino construction facility, the Beausejour radio transmitting station, the new National Transport Service bus system, and overarching them all, the work on the international airport at Point Salines, which was transforming an impossibly hilly and swampy area in the south of the island into what would be a runway for full-sized commercial jets.
These were interspersed with international solidarity conferences, among them the 1981 Intellectuals Conference, which brought Caribbean writers and thinkers from across the region and the diaspora and heads of state, among them Zambia’s president Kenneth Kaunda, Mozambique’s Samora Machel, Nicaragua’s Daniel Ortega, and (when he was still in power) Jamaica’s Michael Manley. And then there were the famous personalities, among them Angela Davis, Harry Belafonte, and Barbados’s own George Lamming. In this tsunami of popular activity, in which crowds intermingled with leaders, both visiting and local, and in which voluntary Sundays working to fix roads was just another excuse for a rally, to work together and come together, there was a noticeable loosening of the traditional distance between the formalities of officialdom of the state and the celebratory space of the people.
If we think of Mikhail Bakhtin’s development of the notion of carnival as a revolutionary space, a space of transgression and subversion, then turning it around, “the Revo,” as it was fondly called by supporters, was a carnival of popular expression and empowerment through mutual association, participation, and voluntary engagement.
Nowhere was this more fully on display than in the militia. I say this with some trepidation in the full knowledge that of all the dimensions of the Grenadian Revolution, many of which were cause for concern in the rest of the “decent, normal, and parliamentary” Caribbean, the one which led to the greatest consternation was the policy of arming the people. Let us for a minute trace a little history. The origins of military force in the Caribbean follow an unbroken line of ancestry back to slavery and the plantation. The notion of the state as holding a monopoly over force and the legal use of violence is considered sacrosanct. This proscription was turned on its head in revolutionary Grenada, where the people were given arms to defend their Revo, without the state apparently harboring any fear as to whether this might endanger its own survival.
In illustration of this point, I was witness to the 1982 “Heroes of the Homeland Maneuver,” which was designed to help prepare for an anticipated mercenary attack against the country. After a weekend of mobilization and arduous exercises aimed at preventing a beach landing of hostile forces, “Heroes” culminated in a huge armed rally filling two football fields at Seamoon near Grenville on the east coast. My rough estimate of perhaps ten thousand armed militia members, or roughly ten percent of Grenada’s entire population, may be slightly inaccurate, but not far off the mark.
What was noticeable, however, amid the elation and carnivalesque atmosphere at Seamoon, was the discipline and order. No shots were fired. No one hurt. There was just determination, solidarity, and celebration. I remember, shortly after this, traveling to Trinidad and seeing how this event had been transformed in the newspapers and television into a wild, anarchic display of banditry. The distance between the Trinidad perception and what I perceived to be the real mood at Seamoon was equivalent to the distance the Revolution had taken the Grenadian people beyond the spaces and limited horizons of liberal Caribbean Westminster democracy.
From a position of extreme alienation from the state under Gairyite authoritarianism, Grenadians had traveled some distance toward altogether erasing the boundaries between the people and the state. Popular power was to be determined not via the brittle integument of elections every five years but, in part, through the very possession of the means of power by the people themselves. However, in a point that I will return to again, this transition was young and tender and itself subject to a certain brittleness. It would eventually break.
The Economic Transformation
If little time is spent in the literature reflecting on the revolution itself, even less is spent on the Grenadian economy as a wellspring of originality. This may in part be due to the absolute triumph of neoliberal notions in the decades since 1983 and the ways in which the initiatives taken in Grenada ran counter to these. Yet, at this moment of the collapse of the neoliberal sandcastle, it’s worth remembering another moment of world recession in the early 1980s.
When all its neighboring economies were stagnant, the Grenadian economy grew robustly, reduced unemployment drastically, and was considered, ironically by the IMF and World Bank, to be a star performer. Yet these surprising indicators are not what I want to focus on. Rather, I want to suggest there are three lessons to be learned from Grenada: the first is the need for alacrity and flexibility in leadership; the second is the question of credibility; and the third is the importance of democracy and transparency.
On the question of leadership: when the first manifesto of the New Jewel Movement (NJM) was released in 1973, the economic agenda suggested, following the influence of the New World Group and the dependentista school, an import substitution, community-based approach to development. However, in the decade that followed and in the lead up to March 13, 1979, it became very apparent that such a model would be politically very difficult to implement and defend on an island which was used to a relatively high level of consumption.
Put crudely, a model tending toward autarky would likely alienate most of the PRG’s support base, bringing to a halt any attempt at transformative change. The decision arrived at was to pivot away from this to a foreign investment–led model of infrastructural development, led by the construction of the airport and followed by roads, the seaport, housing, and the like. This was wise, as not only was the airport the dream of most Grenadians, but it provided a concrete, achievable objective around which to mobilize loans from overseas and engender support at home and in the region.
Of course, there were numerous questions to be asked, for instance, what would happen after the airport was finished and the fairly extensive foreign lines of investment dried up? And, if Grenada’s hostility to the United States continued unabated, where would the tourists come from on the new jetliners which would now be able to land at the airport? The point here is that the ability and willingness of the leadership to pivot, bob, and weave to the exigencies of the global economy had yielded enormous benefits in the choice of the airport model in the first place, and this flexibility augured well for the future.
Surely, in light of this, further turns in response to new exigencies would be possible, particularly considering the fact that a tiny island, in the scheme of things, needs relatively small injections of capital to make a difference. All this, of course, was made moot by the tragedy of October 1983.
The second point of the credibility of the regime relates to a central, though insufficiently illuminated, aspect of the revolution: its honesty. When the PRG came to power, civil servants, used to Gairy’s authoritarianism and arbitrariness, braced for dismissal if not worse. This did not happen, and in the months beyond, many pro-Gairy workers turns to the PRG for this reason alone. Alongside this, the conscious decision to avoid petty favoritism and corruption, as in the instance of longtime NJM supporter Ralph Thomas, who demanded a job and favors and was promptly expelled from the party as a result, won often grudging support.
This was most evident in the dealings with the IMF and World Bank, which, as Claremont Kirton, who worked as an economist with the PRG, pointed out, know from long experience when books are being cooked, but this was never perceived in the case of the PRG; and though it is difficult to quantify, there is no credible narrative of corruption from the leadership to be found in the archival records or any of the many commentaries.
The final factor relates to the emergence of a new kind of economy, based on democracy and accountability. More than anywhere else in the Caribbean up to that moment in time, the revolution sought to bring people into the process of economic planning and management. Through a layered process of critiques, proposals, and responses that began in zonal councils, went up to parish councils, and ended in national budget debates (of which three were held), the mystery of the economy (and of economics) was slowly being unraveled. Some of this is already evident in comments quoted earlier, but let us return briefly to the voices of Grenadians as they engaged in the profound act of understanding their economy and lives and helping to determine their own futures. First, the “Summary report of the St Patrick Workers Council Meeting February 18, 1982”:
- More community work should be done on weekends on the roads of the country. Materials and technical manpower should be provided by the PRG.
- More local foods should be grown, e.g. peas, vegetables, etc. as too much of these are now being imported.
- The production of coconuts should be increased. New plantations should be established as well as 1-2 acres of idle land on large estates can be used for that purpose.
- The preparation of a softer textured saltfish should be looked at. More sales can be achieved if this is done.
- More use should be made of compost so as to cut back on the use of artificial fertilizers, thereby saving foreign exchange.
And second, these from “Farmers Workshop 3, St David’s Parish Council, February 15, 1982”:
- What was responsible for decrease in manufacture, wholesale, and retail hotel and restaurant?
- In order to determine whether there is growth or decline, where do they get their first figure?
- How did consumption manage to fall in 1981?
a. Build cement factory
b. Instead of subsidizing saltfish, subsidize water rates, since cost of saltfish is so high and the ordinary man can’t buy it.
c. Strict supervision and control on the use of Government transport, because it is affecting the farmers in terms of tax.
d. Subsidies to farmers.
e. Farmers are paying too much in taxes.
I wish I could go on. It is not that all of these suggestions were wise and implementable, though, indeed, many of them were. Instead, what is evident is the gradual erosion of the barrier between the experts and the ordinary people, between the producers and those assigned to manage them, in ways that empowered both and began to lay the foundations for a different kind of economy. This meant a transformation not only in the notion of who is capable of making decisions but also in the sharing of responsibility for both good and bad decisions that follows inevitably with the sharing of power.
The Question of Politics
Commonly understood, however, it was politics, not economics, that led to the demise of the revolution, with divisions in the NJM, often perceived as stemming from the desire for power, leading to fatal attempts to readjust power in the direction of the deeply flawed notion of “joint leadership,” which saw a jostling for control between Prime Minister Maurice Bishop and Deputy Prime Minister Bernard Coard. I want to follow a somewhat different path, however, in trying to trace, as I have done elsewhere, how the notion of the Leninist vanguard came to dominate as a political strategy in the party, how it served the insurrectionary moment of 1979, and how subsequently it became its opposite and contributed greatly to the disaster of 1983.
The 1973 manifesto of the NJM, which we have already referenced, conceived a political strategy, along lines loosely adapted from the work of C. L. R. James, as one built around popular assemblies. These were conceived as organs of popular power, located in villages and townships, and were presented as an alternative to the typically centralized governmental apparatus of Westminster-style parliamentary democracy. Somewhat sketchy in outline, one feature nonetheless was prominent: there was no place in the structure for political parties. This shift away from the party, even at the very moment of the drafting of a party manifesto, is, I suggest, adopted from, and a recurring proclivity of, the Caribbean left as it evolved out of the New World / Black Power moment of the 1960s.
From this perspective, and more than implicitly influenced by James, political parties in general were part of the problem, not part of the solution. So, it was two-party politics that divided the people into warring factions, or tribes, if you will, and the purpose of revolutionary politics was to transcend this divide and unite the “tribes” as one impregnable populace. The dangers of monolithic power embodied in the adage that “power corrupts and absolute power corrupts absolutely” were far from the imagination of young radicals who, particularly in the Grenadian, Gairyite context, understood just how parliamentary democracy could be abused and elections corrupted to benefit the incumbent parties.
A second feature that was noteworthy was the history in Latin America and the Caribbean of the overthrow of democratic regimes by the CIA and local right-wing forces. Jacobo Árbenz in 1954 in Guatemala and Juan Bosch in 1965 in the Dominican Republic were known, but the two most immediate examples were the overthrow of Salvador Allende in Chile in 1973 and the nearby undermining of the Michael Manley government by finely honed techniques of destabilization, followed up by punishing economic policies until defeat in “free and fair” elections was inevitable. This led to the view that dominated in the NJM, but also other left-oriented organizations in the Caribbean, that parties that did not prepare for the most thorough and determined resistance to imperialism would suffer ignominious defeat.
Let us put these ideological and tactical inclinations against a specific history of Grenada from December 1973 through the spring of 1974, when there is an uprising against the notion of Gairy taking the country into independence, because it is felt that his abuses of power, legion under the British, would now have even greater sway without the Crown present. Huge swathes of the population are mobilized, the country is shut down, people are brutalized, and Maurice Bishop’s father is killed. However, not only does Gairy remain in charge but he wins, and against the popular will, takes the country into independence. The NJM leadership is now convinced that the tactic of popular mobilization that had carried them through the turbulent year of 1973–74 was insufficient in the face of what they saw as a consolidating dictatorship.
What seemed to provide the appropriate organizational and tactical tools was a very specific interpretation of Leninism, which included the following playbook.
First, according to this approach, popular mobilization alone could not defeat Gairy, as it had been tried and didn’t work. Second, while the tactic of contesting elections should continue, Gairy would never concede to the popular will via an electoral process over which he had ultimate control. Third, therefore, underground forms of organization must be put in place to remove Gairy if and when the appropriate time came. One could not wait until that moment to begin the process of preparation. Fourth, in order to simultaneously sustain both a legal, parliamentary organization and an underground, military one, particularly in the context of tiny and porous Grenada, where everyone knew everything, it was necessary to develop a secretive, highly disciplined cadre of party members, in whom there could be absolute trust. Fifth, as in any insurrectionary organization, discipline and order must always trump democracy and debate.
Nothing fit this framework more appropriately than Leninism, as it came to be popularly understood, with its emphasis on selectivity of cadres (“better fewer, but better”), discipline (democratic centralism), and willingness to engage in clandestine insurrectionary tactics when necessary. The Jamesian notion of popular assemblies was not so much defeated in debate as shunted aside, because it did not seem to provide a credible set of tools for an insurrectionary moment.
And the Leninist tactic as applied in Grenada had, at first, stunning results. The willingness to adapt legal forms and participate fully in elections led to the emergence of the NJM as dominant party in the alliance that led to Bishop becoming leader of the opposition in 1976. While he, and the party more generally, contested the results and argued that there was massive rigging, he now held a constitutional position and had unprecedented national, regional, and international access and exposure. When, therefore, it was alleged that Gairy had planned to arrest and incarcerate the Jewel leadership in the days leading up to March 13, 1979, the other element of the new approach rose to the fore: the underground insurrectionary force was mobilized and power was taken.
The NJM’s popular support, and the widespread distaste for Gairyism, ensured that in the following days power was consolidated, with hundreds of people, like Patsy Romain suggests, taking to the streets and putting their bodies on the line in support of the Revo.
Here, however, is where the plot should have changed. Lenin, in the peculiar conjuncture of seizing power in St Petersburg in October/November 1917, understood that the restricted size and structure of the Bolshevik party, designed initially to operate under tsarist repression and clandestinity, could not work in the new conditions that were emerging. Requirements for membership were loosened and thousands of new cadres drawn into the party.
In Grenada, the realization of the need for an entirely new model came too little and too late. The party, for much of the four and a half years, was now required not only to run itself but rule a country with all of its complexities, and it was entirely unprepared for this. Despite heroic efforts, overburdened cadres tired and got sick. Duties were often unfulfilled. Others left the party.
In particular, at numerous times in the process, but with increasing urgency in 1982 and ’83, women party members had protested at the lack of time available for them to spend with their children and families. How, they argued, could they be expected to recruit other women and men into the party when they were increasingly perceived in their communities as being irresponsible to their own homes by virtue of their preoccupation with party duties?
It was the women’s protests, along with other signs of flagging efforts in the overburdened vanguard, that led not to a rethinking of the entire utility of vanguardism but rather a doubling down on the very principles that had brought the party to the point of disintegration in 1983.
It was, therefore, this flawed decision to reassert the unyielding “rightness” of Leninism that was the background to the party meetings of mid-1983 and to the highly flawed joint leadership proposals that led, at least retrospectively, in lockstep fashion to the house arrest of Bishop, the murders at Fort Rupert, and the US invasion.
Revolutions are, inevitably, fraught periods of great danger and uncertainty. At their moment of triumph, the old order is temporarily prostrate, but there remains great hostility to the new regime both internally and internationally. The chances of initial consolidation and success are slim, and the very act of asserting authority in order to survive becomes the definitive and often negative signature of revolution.
However, if the brief history of the Grenada Revolution is to serve as a lesson, then lost in its tragic ending and the US invasion is another narrative that traces its origins back to emancipation and the post-slavery struggle for black self-realization. This is a story of creativity, popular assertion, self-determination, and liberation that urgently needs to be remembered and told. | <urn:uuid:d1df9737-8aea-494d-a28b-36bf610f248e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://jacobin.com/2021/03/grenada-revolution-njm-prg/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.975074 | 5,804 | 1.820313 | 2 |
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DEPARTMENT OF LABOR
MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH ADMINISTRATION
COAL MINE SAFETY AND HEALTH
REPORT OF INVESTIGATION
Surface Coal Mine
Fatal Powered Haulage Accident
December 6, 2005
Wadesville - P33
Reading Anthracite Company
Wadesville, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania
ID No. 36-01977
Coal Mine Safety and Health Inspector/Accident Investigator
Thomas M. Leshko
Coal Mine Safety and Health Inspector/Accident Investigator
Eugene D. Hennen, P.E.
Mine Safety and Health Administration
7 North Wilkes-Barre Blvd.
Wilkes-Barre Pennsylvania, 18702
John A. Kuzar, District Manager
At approximately 2:00 P.M. on Tuesday, December 6, 2005, a 64-year old truck driver with 35 years of mining experience was fatally injured at Reading Anthracite Company's Wadesville P-33 Pit. Robert Chattin (victim) lost control of the Euclid R-85 haul-truck while descending a grade into the mine's lower pit. The victim failed to negotiate a hard right turn near the bottom of the haul-road. The truck traveled between a deactivated substation and a wooden utility pole. The truck traveled approximately 330 feet, overturned onto the driver's side, slid 20 feet through an earthen berm, and came to rest on a sloped embankment. The victim was trapped in the truck's cab between the seat and hand-railing. The victim was not wearing his seat belt.
The accident occurred as a result of the Euclid R-85 haul truck not being maintained in a safe operating condition. Also, a seat belt was not being used and controls were not in place to allow a runaway truck to be safely stopped.
The Wadesville P-33 surface strip mine is owned and operated by Reading Anthracite Company. The mine is located approximately 3 miles northwest of Pottsville, New Castle Township, Schuylkill County, Pennsylvania. The United Mine Workers of America represents the 28 miners typically employed at the mine.
The mine has been active since October 14, 1961 and is 300 to 400 feet deep. Approximately 1,130 tons of anthracite coal is mined during a single production shift per day. Overburden is removed using a dragline equipped with a 35 yard bucket, an excavator, high wall drills, and haul trucks. Coal is transported from the pit by tri-axle trucks to a preparation plant, located approximately 20 miles from the pit.
The principal officers for Reading Anthracite Company are:
John W. Rich, Jr. .......... PresidentPrior to the accident, the Mine Safety and Health Administration (MSHA) completed the last regular safety and health inspection of the mine on September 27, 2005. During the first three quarters of 2005, the Non-Fatal Days Lost (NFDL) injury incidence rate for the mine was 23.64, compared to the National NFDL rate of 4.16 for mines of similar type and classification.
Brian R. Rich .......... Vice President
Frank Derrick .......... General Manager
Stanley Wapinski .......... Mine Superintendent
Robert Shellhammer .......... Maintenance Superintendent
DESCRIPTION OF ACCIDENT
At 7:00 am, on December 6, 2005, Robert Chattin, truck driver and victim, was assigned to operate a front-end loader to transport stemming material, (fine breaker refuse rock), to the blasting area of the Wadesville P-33 Pit. Chattin drove the front-end loader into the pit where he found that the stemming stockpile was empty. He then drove the front-end loader to the blasting area and told the blasting foreman, Josh Derrick, that there was no stemming material at the stockpile area. Derrick asked Chattin to drive a truck hauling stemming material from the preparation plant to the blasting area. Chattin parked the front-end loader at the blasting area and traveled with Derrick to check the conditions of the haul roads. A snowfall of approximately 2.5 inches occurred two days prior to the accident. The haul road was found in a safe condition.
Derrick contacted the maintenance superintendent, Robert Shellhammer, and requested the mechanics to start a haul truck to transport stemming material. Mechanics Ed Mitchell and Jim Freeman started a Euclid R-85 haul truck, Company No. 671, at approximately 7:30 am. This truck was used primarily to haul stemming material but had not been operated for four to six weeks. Both mechanics had a brief conversation with Chattin as he conducted a pre-operational inspection of the truck, during which time he found no deficiencies and no fluids were added to the truck.
Chattin left the truck parking area and traveled toward the stemming stockpile area, a distance of approximately 2.5 miles. After traveling approximately � mile, the truck's engine shut off. Two mechanics traveling on the same haul road observed the disabled truck, stopped to provide assistance and determined there was no fuel in the truck. The blasting foreman and a fuel truck arrived, fuel filters were changed, and the fuel tank filled. Chattin helped with the repairs. Chattin then continued driving the truck to the stemming stockpile. He delivered his second load of stemming to the blasting area at approximately 10:30 am. Derrick told him to continue hauling stemming material for the rest of the shift.
A blast was fired at about noon. Derrick then observed the loaded Euclid haul truck parked near a deactivated substation, where Chattin was-signaling for Derrick to come to his location. Chattin asked Derrick where he wanted the load of stemming delivered and Derrick told him to dump the load near the Demag 185 hydraulic excavator. After delivering this load of stemming material, Chattin returned to the stemming stockpile. At approximately 1:30 pm, the Euclid R-85 haul truck was loaded with the fifth load of stemming material. Francis Hale, front-end loader operator, told Chattin that this would be the last load of the day because his quitting time was 2:00 pm. Hale did not see any oil leaks or puddles of oil when the truck left the loading area.
Myles Miller, member of the blasting crew, was returning left-over blasting materials to the magazine when he saw Chattin crossing Dark Water highway at approximately 1:40 pm. Approximately five minutes later, William Zak, Caterpillar haul truck driver, was waiting to get loaded with overburden in the southwest corner of the Wadesville Pit when he saw the Euclid R-85 haul truck on the upper portion of the haul road descending into the pit at a slow rate of speed.
At approximately 1:55 pm, John Pennypacker, Caterpillar haul truck driver, arrived at the rock refuse dump and saw the Euclid R-85 haul truck on its side. Pennypacker was concerned the driver may be hurt and yelled to the bulldozer operator at the refuse rock dump, John Wagner, to summon the foreman. Wagner radioed Shellhammer and told him there is a truck over the bank by the substation. Wagner proceeded to the accident site.
Shellhammer traveled to the location where the previous load of stemming was delivered. Upon arrival he did not see the truck. Wagner radioed Shellhammer and told him the accident was at the old truck parking area. Upon arrival at the accident scene Shellhammer ran up the bank to the truck and saw Chattin inside the operator's cab. The truck's engine was still running and the rear tires were spinning. Shellhammer yelled to Chattin and knocked on the windshield. There was no response. The truck started sliding down the embankment and Shellhammer moved to a safe location. Mitchell and Freeman arrived and were told by Shellhammer that the truck's engine was still running.
At 2:05 pm, Shellhammer called the Schuylkill County Communication Center (911). The truck's engine stopped. Shellhammer and Mitchell traveled up the bank to the operator's cab. They tried but could not gain entry into the cab. They received no response from their shouts to the victim and could see that his face was blue. They started gathering material to stabilize the truck and to gain entry into the cab.
At approximately 2:30 pm, fire and rescue crews arrived. Shellhammer and other mine personnel returned with equipment to stabilize the truck. Fire and rescue personnel removed the windshield and paramedics checked the victim. Finding no vital signs, the paramedics summoned Deputy Coroner John Hurley who pronounced the victim dead at 3:20 pm. Fire and rescue crews removed the victim from the truck at 4:10 pm.
INVESTIGATION OF ACCIDENT
The MSHA Shamokin Field Office was notified of the accident at 2:15 pm, on Tuesday, December 6, 2005. An accident investigation team was assembled and dispatched to the mine. A 103(k) order was issued to ensure the safety of all persons at the mine. Photographs and initial interviews were conducted at the accident scene. Investigation interviews were conducted in co-operation with the Pennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection and the United Mine Workers of America. The mine operator and mine employees also assisted in the accident investigation. (Refer to Appendix A for a list of persons that participated in the investigation).
The Wadesville pit was accessed via an unpaved haul road. This haul road was approximately 4000 feet long and ranged in width from 50 to 75 feet. Maximum/minimum grades for this haul road were 17 and 1 percent respectively. The average grade for this haul road is 10.5 percent. The haul road surface was reasonably smooth and clear of snow. Although portions of the haul road were frozen, they were not icy. Left-side tire marks were visible on a rock refuse bank approximately 600 feet from the accident scene. This area of the haul road had a variable grade of 9.6 to 14 percent. After exiting the haul road the victim steered the Euclid R-85 haul truck sharply to the right. The truck traveled between a deactivated substation and a wooden utility pole, hitting a guy wire and snapping off the top of the pole. The truck overturned on the driver's side as it traveled through the earthen berm. The truck came to rest approximately 20 feet down a 60-foot sloped embankment. The truck traveled a distance of approximately 330 feet after it left the haul road to where it stopped on the slope. Stemming material and items from the victim's lunch box were scattered on the ground near the substation. The majority of the stemming material was on the sloped embankment.
The victim found in the cab, positioned between the seat and the hand railing with his back against the handrail. The victim was not wearing the seat belt. When checked, the seat belt fastening mechanism worked properly. The driver's cab door was open and bent toward the dump body. The driver's side walkway and handrail were pushed in toward the cab, striking the victim. The transmission shift lever was in sixth gear and the retarder lever was in the on position.
The truck involved in the accident was a 1975 Euclid R-85 haul truck. This truck was equipped with a 12-cylinder V12-1710 Cummins engine capable of producing 800 horsepower at 1710 rpm. The transmission was an Allison 6-speed automatic transmission. The truck was owned by Reading Anthracite Company which was also responsible for the maintenance of the truck.
The net vehicle weight (light weight) of the truck was 117,100 pounds. The estimated weight of the load at the time of the accident was 170,000 pounds (85 tons). The gross vehicle weight of the truck was 287,100 pounds.
The truck was equipped with drum brakes on all four wheels, none of which were properly maintained. The brake system was air over hydraulic. The check valve in the air system to prevent air going from the dry air tank to the wet air tank was defective. The brake shoe lining, brake drum, and all related brake parts of the left front wheel were contaminated with brake fluid and grease. The brake fluid and grease compromised the braking ability of the left front brake shoe lining and the brake drum. The main hydraulic line fitting on the right front brake was completely blocked with a piece of rubber from the inner lining of the brake hose. This blockage rendered the right front brake inoperable. Measurements on both rear brake drums were beyond the wear limits recommended by the manufacturer's specifications. The maximum allowable wear of the brake drums was 30.250 inches. Measurements taken on the rear brake drums ranged from 30.403 to 30.525 inches.
This truck was equipped with three brake converters, one for the front brakes and one for each of the rear brakes. The brake converter pressures were within manufacturer's specifications. Tests for the rear brake converters indicated the ratios were sufficient for this truck. The test of the front brake converter indicated a lower ratio. These lower ratios reduced the hydraulic pressure to the wheel cylinders, causing a reduction in the available brake force. The engine mounted air compressor functioned properly.
The park brake was a shoe drum brake mounted on the output shaft of the transmission. The brake was operated by a spring applied-air released actuator and was controlled by a push-pull air valve mounted on the dash. Tests performed on the park brake indicate that it was working properly.
The truck was equipped with an Allison Series DP-8961 automatic transmission. The transmission had six speeds forward and one reverse. The transmission gear selector was controlled by an Allison electric shift control inside the operator's cab. The retarder was activated by a hand lever located on the right side of the steering column inside the cab. The transmission was rebuilt on July 16, 1996.
When the truck engine was started, the torque converter pressure was 50 psi, which was well below the normal operating pressure. The 1 � inch diameter hydraulic hose from the transmission filter housing to the top of the transmission was leaking through an abrasion hole where it had rubbed against another hose. Approximately, 4 � gallons of transmission oil was measured remaining in the 28-gallon reservoir. The transmission was filled to capacity with oil, the engine was started and the converter pressure gauge registered 200 psi. The retarder lever was activated and the retarder cylinder worked properly.
A transmission converter test was performed on December 12, 2005. The converter pressure was 210 psi cold, with the engine at idle and the transmission full of oil. A similar test was conducted on January 11, 2006 to determine if the transmission would engage when the clutch pressure was at 50 psi, which was the pressure when the truck engine was started after the accident.
With the engine running at idle (650 rpm) and the transmission draining, the pressure readings/results were as follows:
Transmission full, 28 gallons, normal pressure observed 150 psi-250 psi. 9 gallons drained, the pressure dropped to 215 psi.Based on this test and the amount of oil found in the transmission, the truck's transmission would not have been engaged at the time of the accident. Most of the oil drained from the transmission through the damage hose while the truck was operating on the day of the accident, which rendered the transmission and retarder inoperable.
10 gallons drained, the pressure dropped to 213 psi.
12 gallons drained, the pressure dropped to 180 psi.
14 gallons drained, the pressure dropped to 60 psi and then rose back to 155 psi.
16 gallons drained, the pressure dropped varying between 30 and 50 psi.
18 gallons drained resulted in extremely low and erratic psi readings.
The Euclid R-85 haul truck specifications showed that it should be capable of operating on a grade of 10.5 percent. The retarder chart indicated the fully loaded truck could operate at 12 mph on a 17% grade with the transmission in second gear. The retarder control was checked with the truck engine running and the air system fully charged. Movement of the control and linkage indicates the control for the retarder was working properly.
The retarder "on" indicator light, located on the dashboard of the truck, did not work. The brake pressure differential indicator light, located on the dashboard did not work. The brake pressure differential switch was not connected to the brake warning light.
The park brake warning light did not work because the wire from the pressure switch to the warning light was not connected.
Experience and Training
The victim worked at the mine site as a truck driver for 35 years. The victim was task trained on the proper operating procedures on steep grades. The victim's experience would have made him knowledgeable of the controls inside the cab. An examination of the victim's training records found no violations of 30 CFR, Part 48, that contributed to the accident.
ROOT CAUSE ANALYSIS
An analysis was conducted to identify the most basic causes of the accident that were correctable through reasonable management controls. During the analysis, causal factors were identified that, if eliminated, would have either prevented the accident or mitigated its consequences. Listed below are causal factors identified during the analysis and their corresponding corrective actions implemented to prevent a recurrence of the accident:
1. Causal Factor: The operator did not have a comprehensive maintenance program in place to ensure that equipment was properly maintained.
Corrective Action: The operator should establish and implement a comprehensive haulage equipment maintenance program, in strict compliance with the manufacturer's recommended maintenance procedures, to ensure that all mechanical/electrical components are routinely checked and maintained.
2. Causal Factor: Maintenance personnel were not adequately task trained to recognize and correct mechanical/electrical deficiencies.
Corrective Action: The operator should have a procedure to insure maintenance personnel and supervision are thoroughly trained to recognize and correct mechanical/electrical deficiencies as per manufacturer's recommendations.
3. Causal Factor: A proper pre-operational inspection designed to recognize potential mechanical/electrical hazards for haulage equipment was not conducted.
Corrective Action: The operator should implement a program to conduct a pre-operational inspection on mobile equipment as per manufacturer's recommendations. The program should identify who is responsible to conduct the inspection and who is responsible to insure the inspection was done properly before the equipment is put into operation.
4. Causal Factor: Controls were not in place to allow a runaway truck to be safely stopped.
Corrective Action: The operator should develop a program to require mine haul roads, grades and turns are designed within the manufacturer's recommendations to insure the mine's equipment is capable of safely traveling on the haul roads. Runaway truck ramps should be at critical locations along the haul roads. Signs should be posted directing equipment into the escape ramps. Mine personnel should be trained in the location, proper procedures and use of these ramps.
5. Causal Factor: The victim was not wearing a seat belt at the time of the accident. The operator did not have procedures in place for ensuring the use of seat belts.
Corrective Action: The operator should take the necessary steps to implement and enforce a proactive seat belt program.
The accident occurred as a result of the Euclid R-85 haul truck not being maintained in a safe operating condition. The Hydraulic hoses were not examined during scheduled maintenance, and an appropriate pre-operational inspection was not conducted on the truck. The braking capacity was compromised due to defective brake components on the front and rear brakes of the truck's service braking system. These defects resulted in the loss of control of the truck while descending into the Wadesville pit. Also, a seat belt was not being used and controls were not in place to allow a runaway truck to be safely stopped. The root causes of the accident represent lacking or ineffective systems and procedures for maintenance, preoperational checks, training, and supervision.
1. A 103 (k) Order, Number 7007859, was issued to Reading Anthracite Company on December 6, 2005, which stated the following: This mine has experienced a fatal truck haulage accident in the Wadesville P-33 pit involving a Euclid R-85 haul truck Company No 671. This order is issued to insure the safety of any person in the coal mine until an investigation and examination of the truck and the areas of the north east sub-station and old truck parking area. Only those persons selected from company officials, miners representative and other persons who are deemed by MSHA to have information relevant to the investigation may enter or remain in the affected area.
2. A 104(a) Citation, Number 7008313, was issued to Reading Anthracite Company, for a violation of 30 CFR 77.1606 (a), which stated the following: The operator did not perform an adequate pre-operational inspection on the 1975 Euclid haul truck serial #65607 before it was placed in service on 12/6/05. There were no records indicating that deficiencies were found with the truck. Upon inspection of this truck during the accident investigation, the following defects were found: (1) The braking system for this truck was not properly maintained. (2) Wires were disconnected for the park brake indicator light, (located inside the cab), to show when the park brake is applied. (3) The wires were disconnected for the light inside the operators cab to show that the transmission retarder was working. There is no listing on the operators pre-operational check list to test steering or brakes. The last pre-operational inspection was done on 06/10/2005, and the only deficiency reported was an exhaust leak near the left turbo. The mine operator placed this truck back in service on 12/06/2005 without an adequate pre-operational inspection being conducted. Through interviews with mine supervision, no supervisors observed or conducted a complete pre-operational check. Through interviews with mine management it was revealed that no program was in place to assure that pre-operational checks were conducted. All mobile equipment operators are to be trained in making appropriate pre-operational inspections. These are contributing factors to the fatal accident that occurred on December 6, 2005.
3. A 104(d)(1) Citation, Number 7008315, was issued to Reading Anthracite Company for a violation of 30 CFR 77.1605(b), which stated the following: The Euclid R-85 haul truck serial #65607, was not equipped with adequate brakes: (1) The brake on the right front wheel was nonfunctional, due to a piece of rubber from the inside of the hose which blocked a fitting that stopped the flow of brake fluid to the wheel. (2) The left front brake was contaminated with grease and oil. (3) The check valve in the air system to prevent air going from the dry air tank to the wet air tank was defective; therefore air pressure was ineffective to the rear braking of the truck. (4) The inside diameter of the both rear brake drums exceeded the manufacturers maximum recommendations, (inside diameter) by �-inch. The current maintenance inspection report, used by maintenance supervision to inform the mechanics of what repairs and inspections need to be done does not include scheduled brake testing/maintenance as required by the truck manufacturer. These defects diminished the braking capacity of the haul truck and were contributing factors to the fatal accident on December 6, 2005.
4. A 104(d)(1) Order, Number 7008316, was issued to Reading Anthracite Company for a violation of 30 CFR 77.404(a), which stated the following: The Euclid R-85 haul truck serial #65607, was not maintained in a safe operating condition at the Wadesville P-33 pit. (1) The brake system on the truck was not maintained in a safe operating condition due to a piece of rubber blocking a fitting that supplied brake fluid to the right front wheel. (2) The left front brake was contaminated with grease and oil. (3) The inside diameter of both rear drums exceeded the manufacturers maximum recommendations. (4) Hydraulic hoses were not examined during scheduled maintenance and (5) The instrument panel inside the cab of the truck was not checked periodically to assure all warning lights on the panel are working properly. (6) The wires were disconnected for the light inside the operators cab to show that the transmission retarder was working and the wires were disconnected for the park brake light to show the brake is applied. Mechanics need to be trained to identify these problems when maintenance is performed and equipment shall be taken out of service immediately when serious defects arise. These conditions contributed to the fatal accident that occurred on December 6, 2005.
5. A 104(d)(1) Order, Number 7008317, was issued to Reading Anthracite Company, for a violation of 30 CFR 77.1710(i), which stated the following: The seat belt in the Euclid R-85 serial #65607 was not in use by the driver of the truck at the time of the fatal accident. The seat belt operated and buckled properly when it was tested. The operator has no program to ensure that miners are properly using seat belts. There is no records indicating that disciplinary action has been administered for not wearing seat belts. This condition was a major factor to the fatal accident that occurred on December 6, 2005. This order will be terminated when all employees are trained in the necessity and proper use of seat belts.
Persons Participating in the Investigation
Reading Anthracite Company - Company Personnel
Brian Rich .......... Vice PresidentReading Anthracite Company - Employees
Stanley Wapinski .......... Stripping Superintendent
Robert Shellhammer .......... Maintenance Superintendent
Joshua Derrick .......... Mine Foreman/Blaster
David Imschwiler .......... Maintenance Foreman
John Wagner .......... Bulldozer OperatorUnited Mine Workers of America
Edward Mitchell .......... Mechanic
James Freeman .......... Mechanic
Miles Miller .......... Drill Operator
Francis Hale .......... Loader/Bulldozer Operator
Jon Pennypacker .......... Truck Driver
Robert Zack .......... Truck Driver
Richard Kazmari .......... Demag Operator
Bill Lurwick .......... Fuel Truck Driver/Mechanic
Christy Loftus .......... Dragline Operator
Michael Mihalsky .......... Equipment Operator
Dan Peletsky .......... Mechanic/Fuel Truck Operator
Timothy Baker .......... Deputy Administrator, Dept. of Occupational Health and SafetyPennsylvania Department of Environmental Protection
Ron Bowersox .......... International Representative, District 2
Mark Green .......... Safety Committeeman, Local 1686
Dan Bass .......... Grievance Committee
McCarthy .......... Tire Service Company
Robert Novak .......... Tire Technician
Michael Menghini Compliance ManagerMine Safety and Health Administration
Colleen Stutzman .......... Surface Mine Conservation Inspector Supervisor
Randy Shustack .......... Surface Mine Conservation Inspector Supervisor
George McIntyre .......... Coal Mine Inspector/Accident Investigator
Thomas M. Leshko .......... Coal Mine Inspector/Accident Investigator
Gregory J. Mehalchick .......... Coal Mine Inspector/Civil Engineer
Eugene D. Hennen, P.E. .......... Mechanical Engineer
James Kelly .......... Civil Engineer
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Everything is cyclic. Widespread terrifying events have happened before and they will continue to manifest. Because consciousness is vacillating, not always good or what we judge as bad, the outer conditions change. The point of matter's existence is to transform itself back to its original form. Its original form is Light.
Whether we experience something good or not good is always the result of cause and effect. Frequently, the effect is not understood because we are not aware of the cause. There are no accidents.
This does not imply that those who become ill or die are being punished nor the fact that we happen to be alive at this life changing time. We are the ones who choose when and where we are to enter a physical body. As I said in my beginning comment, everything is cyclic and major changes occur when the earth and its life is ready for movement. Progress and greater understanding is usually triggered by disruption and great changes. We chose to be here at this time. The patterns can be seen and that is why there are always people who receive visions, prophecies and the like because of the repetitive nature of the aspects of matter. There is more to come.
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The story from Clarke County is that if the trend in nitrate levels continues, the ground water in the karst areas of the county will contain nitrate concentrations that exceed the US EPA drinking water limit of 10 mg/l of nitrate as N in the latter part of this century or possibly in the next. Most of us in the Shenandoah Valley live in the karst areas and thus, in the future, many of our rural wells could yield water containing high nitrate concentrations. The five streams FOSR has been monitoring for the past 18 years in Clarke County all show increasing low-flow nitrate concentrations of between 0.6 to 1.5 mg/l. (The Wheat Spring Branch record includes only the last 10 years.) a straight line projection of this increase suggests that, if this trend continues, two streams could reach EPA’s drinking water limit of 10 mg/L before 2100: Wheat Spring Branch FC32 and Dog Run FC06. Chapel Run CF18 and Lewis Run FC03 are projected to reach 10 mg/L during 2100 to 2200. Spout Run FC02 and Page Brook FC09, a Spout Run tributary, are increasing more slowly and will not exceed 10mg/l till after 2300.
Low-flow stream nitrate concentrations are linked to groundwater concentrations. FOSR’s recent analysis of springs showed that in general springs yield water with higher nitrate concentrations than the streams to which they are tributary. For example Carter Hall Spring water contained 3.5 mg/L during a period when Spout Run contained a little less than 2.5 mg/L of nitrate. See www.fosr.org and “FOSR Report: Risks of biosolid fertilizer application on water quality.”
Ground water is the entire water supply of the streams during periods of low flow. (See http://pubs.usgs.gov/sir/2010/5112/ ) The definition of low flow for this report is when the flow of Spout Run at the gage is less than 0.5 cubic feet per second per square mile (cfsm) or 10.6 cubic feet per second (cfs). The gage flow records for USGS 01636316 SPOUT RUN AT RT 621 NEAR MILLWOOD, VA show that the discharge (flow) averaged no more than 0.5 cfsm 23% of the days during the 12-year period of record.
USGS Fact Sheet FS 2004-3067 published in 2005 shows that Clarke County karst areas have a very good chance of having 3 mg/L of nitrate in the ground water and about a 50% chance of having the EPA drinking water limit of 10mg/L in the ground water. Low-flow nitrate concentrations indicate the minimum concentration in the ground water. After water enters the stream, algae use nitrate to grow, thus reducing the nitrate concentrations in the water. It’s possible that animal waste washing into streams could increase nitrate concentration as flow increases. Dog Run, Lewis Run and Wheat Spring Branch increase in nitrate concentration as the flow increases. The other streams decrease in nitrate concentration as flow increases. However, there is no wash off when the flow is 0.5 cfsm or less.
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We thanked him as we briefly skimmed through the book. My wife started reading it that night and placed it beside the bed on the carpet when she went to sleep.
The next day, Manu was talking to us in our room and noticed the book on the floor. "Please put the book on the table," he said. "It is a religious book and it's disrespectful to place it below you."
Now, we're used to dealing with cultural faux pas after interacting with international students. My wife is a former exchange student to Germany. My daughter studied in Germany and France. We have had several foreign students live with us, and we are active as volunteers in AFS, a cultural exchange program, where we befriend students from all over the world.
You don't touch a Thai student on the head, for instance. Arab students have to be specifically invited into your home; they don't just follow you through the door.
But this was new. We of course placed the book on a shelf at eye level.
When I started preparing for the trip to India, I noted that the Christians in India demand the same respect for the Bible. It is disrespectful to place the Bible beneath you.
Rituals and liturgy usually cloak a hidden spiritual truth, and this custom certainly speaks to me. Not regarding my Bible though. Mine is disintegrating, partly from overuse and partly from being in some strange situations over the years. I will replace it eventually.
But if we are living letters as Paul described, then this Indian custom is making me look at my fellow believers in a new light. Do I take them for granted? Do I place them beneath me? Do I dismiss them until they're needed? Or do I carry a continual appreciation for my brothers and sisters?
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Known for their ability to thrive in low-light conditions typical of many homes and offices, Philodendron hederaceum plants are often grown for their lush foliage. It can be grown as a climbing or training specimen depending on whether its long stems are trained up supports or are allowed to trail over the rims of the pots or hanging baskets.
Philodendron hederaceum as a climbing species is usually tried to a stake inserted into the potting mixture for support. For best results, dress the stake in sphagnum moss until form a 5-8cm (2-3 inch) thickness over the full length of the stake above the potting mixture level. Alternatively, nail a piece of rough-textured cork-bark to the stake. The sphagnum moss or cork-bark being used must then be sprayed with water at least once a day. Doing this it will stimulate the aerial roots of the Philodendron hederaceum to get a firm hold on this support. Be sure that the support is tall enough to accommodate the eventual total growth of the plant. | <urn:uuid:26bb51e7-eec2-4c30-8e23-8c095a5a8dbd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.olaladirectory.com.au/indoor-plants-heartleaf-philodendron-noted-by-nasa/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280730.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00248-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939504 | 454 | 2.625 | 3 |
In a damning submission to the Government's nuclear review, Oxera says Nuclear Electric's calculations on the viability of Sizewell C are 'hopelessly optimistic'.
It adds that the environmental arguments in favour of nuclear power are far from established and that, in the short term, reductions in emissions from coal-fired and gas-fired stations could be achieved more cheaply by managing demand for electricity.
Oxera deals a further blow by calling for a break-up of Nuclear Electric, which generates 25 per cent of the electricity in England and Wales. It suggests giving at least one large modern power station to Scottish Nuclear, and creating a separate company for the Sizewell B pressurised water reactor, now nearing completion.
The industry would like to be privatised. However, Dieter Helm, author of the report, argues that decommissioning risks would command a high premium that would deter investors.
He favours maintaining a nuclear option for long-term environmental reasons but says privatisation could spell the end for the industry. He believes that if Nuclear Electric, Scottish Nuclear and British Nuclear Fuels were privatised, they would choose to invest in gas for new power stations unless the Government subsidised new nuclear plants.Reuse content | <urn:uuid:64be2641-ba5d-4a91-9c62-c57e63bf954f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.independent.co.uk/news/business/nuclear-scheme-hopelessly-optimistic-1440563.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280763.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00514-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.934389 | 252 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Learning, how to become a better writer depends on what you are thinking about writing, what you just write and what writing skills you have. To become a better writer is not that easy, it takes hard work. For writing grammar and Vocabulary knowledge is very important. There is no supernatural power or magic that will make you better writer. You have to express your creative sprite through writing .There is no short cut process of writing , you have to develop skills by practicing more and more. There are some principle that helps to speed up the writing process.
- Habit of Writing Everyday:– Practice makes perfect writing skills. At least daily writing just 15 minutes or one paragraph if possible more than one paragraph. Daily writing habit essential for developing growth as a better writer. After finished writing , you can check your grammar at https://www.grammarly.com/. It will help you to spot mistakes in the sentence.
- Habit of Reading:– A daily reading habit is also very essential for writing.If you do not read great writing then you will not write good . You should follow great writers , learned from them and apply it your own writing skill. If you read a lot then your vocabulary skills will also be strong. If you don’t understand any sentence then take help from dictionary . Pay attention to the sentence structure, words, adverbs , flow of writing.
- Select a Goal:- Before you can start writing content , you will need overview of specific content. If you don’t decide what points you should add, facts related to the content and basic structure of the content then you will not write.
- Eliminate Distraction:- Writing does not work with multitasking work , distraction or background noise. It is done in quiet. Turn off TV, Mobile notification, Email Notification , Chatting. You can remove all distraction things from your table because it’s writing time. Quiet environment helps you to think deeper and focused. In these way remove all distraction to keep concentration on writing.
- Sign up for free writing Course online:- You can join various free writing online classes like Udemy, Edx, Coursera, Hardvard University, The open University, Yale University, Standford University ,University of Michigan etc. You can take their only free courses. These will help you lot to learning about writing.
- Always think about your audience:- You should write with formal grammar that is understand by all readers. Don’t use Phases , Idioms or Buzzwords too much. Some buzzwords may be trendy but that doesn’t necessarily means they are effective to communicating to readers. Always use simple and meaningful words.
- Write Down Uncommon word:– When you are reading magazine, newspaper or any content , you should write down the uncommon word that you see first time. With the help of dictionary you have to write down the meaning of the word in the notebook. When you will write next day, you should try to apply these word in your writings.
- Get The Professionals In:– If you’re an amateur writer, then you can hire a professional editor / writer. After writing of yours, Editor will check errors and mistakes of the content So he can modify it. It will take little cost to hire professional editor for temporary basis .
- Read your writing out loud:– You should read through it out loud quickly after completed writing. It may seem a little strange, but reading your writing out loud is one of the most finest ways to catch typing mistakes, grammar errors, and awkward phrasing etc.
- Revisions:– Revisions are very much important . At least 3 times revision required after writing.
<1> First,you have to check if you miss something in the paragraph, then edit it after findings.
<2>Second:- You have to check the grammar of all sentence and fix these.
<3> Lastly Read the total article , check titles, key words.
Final words- Write every single day if you can. If you found these tips are valuable then please comment me below. Thanks………… | <urn:uuid:acd07ebd-7627-4f62-82ae-bff7ca987d90> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://bloggdiary.com/how-to-become-a-better-writer/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570871.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808183040-20220808213040-00266.warc.gz | en | 0.920643 | 836 | 2.703125 | 3 |
13 products sold online and in Walmart stores in select states across the country have been removed from store shelves. The reason for the voluntary recall is due to plastic parts that could potentially be in the product. Due to the ability to purchase these products online, consumers in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota and Wisconsin are urged to look in their pantries and cupboards.
13 products voluntarily recalled in the United States due to possible plastic in baked goods
On June 30, 2022, Enjoy Life Natural Brands LLC voluntarily recalled 13 items sold at Walmart stores due to products that may contain plastic. No injuries were reported, but the company wanted to make sure the public was safe and issued the recall out of an abundance of caution. Below is the post they shared on Facebook with the announcement:
Enjoy Life Foods today announced a precautionary voluntary recall in the United States and Canada of a limited quantity of a select list of baked snack products due to the potential presence of pieces of hard plastic . This is not allergen related and no other Enjoy Life products are affected by this voluntary recall. The company became aware of this issue as a result of internal quality assurance monitoring.
The products included in the recall by Enjoy Life Natural Brands LLC include the following description, UPC and best buy date:
- Enjoy Life – Soft Bake Cookies – Snickerdoodle, 6 oz
- 03/04/2023, 03/10/2023
- Enjoy Life – Soft Baked Cookies – Chocolate Chip, 6 oz
- 02/05/2023, 02/06/2023, 03/05/2023
- Enjoy Life – Soft Baked Cookies – Double Chocolate Brownie, 6 oz
- Enjoy Life – Soft Baked Cookies – Sunflower Butter Chocolate Chip, 6 oz
- Enjoy Life – Soft Baked Cookies – Monster, 6 oz
- 02/06/2023, 03/03/2023
- Enjoy Life Chew Bars – Sunshine Seed Crunch, 5.75 oz
- Enjoy Life Chew Bars – Caramel Blondie, 5.75 oz
- Enjoy Life Sweet Baked Fruit & Oatmeal Breakfast Ovals – Apple & Cinnamon, 8.8 oz
- 02/12/2023, 02/13/2023, 02/20/2023, 03/12/2023, 03/13/2023
- Enjoy Life Soft Baked Fruit & Oat Breakfast Ovals – Chocolate Chip Banana, 8.8 oz
- 06/01/2023, 07/01/2023, 19/01/2023, 20/01/2023, 12/02/2023
- Enjoy Life Soft Baked Fruit & Nut Breakfast Ovals – Berry Medley, 8.8 oz
- 02/10/2023, 02/11/2023, 02/17/2023, 03/10/2023
- Enjoy Life Brownie Bites – Rich Chocolate, 4.76 oz
- Enjoy Life Brownie Bites – Salted Caramel, 4.76 oz
- Enjoy Life Soft Baked Cookies – Amazon Variety Pack (2SND, 1CC, 1OAT, 1SBCC, 1MSTR) – 6/6 oz
- 09/24/2022, 01/20/2023
What to do if you have any of the products that have been recalled:
According to globenewswire.com, if you have any of the recalled products, you are asked NOT to eat it and to discard the items you purchased. However, you should keep the packaging and call the company at 1-855-543-5335 to find out how to get a refund.
Learn more about recall Enjoy the Life Natural Brands LLC website here.
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The new year is celebrated with great enthusiasm and fun all over the world. The first used to be the Roman calendar which had only ten months and March 1 was celebrated as the New Year. In the Gregorian calendar, there are 12 months each year and the new year falls on 1 January which is widely celebrated as a festival. In this way, this day is celebrated with great joy and gaiety all over the world.
The first day of the new year is a special day for the people as this day marks the beginning of the new year. People start preparations for the New Year celebrations several days in advance. People buy new clothes, gifts and many new things from the market. Also, the shops are very crowded on those days. The new year is celebrated in India and all over the world on the midnight of 31 December and 1 January.
After the Christmas celebration, people wait for the night of the 31st, the day when we remember all the good and bad memories of the whole year and say goodbye to the ongoing year and welcome the new year. People celebrate this day with music and dance.
Although different communities celebrate their new year on different days according to their calendar, then one celebrates the new year on 1 January. Although different religions, the new year falls on different days.
A large number of people in the country celebrate the New Year with fun at parties, events and New Year fireworks at midnight. A special assembly is held in a public square in many cities of the states. People make sweets in homes and children also celebrate happiness.
In the new year, people take many kinds of resolutions. Yes, in the new year people make a lot of promises to themselves that what they will do in the coming year, which they should do and should be special. For example, when people start their own startup, some people take a vow to quit. In this way, it is celebrated with great joy and gaiety all over the world.
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Create a modern summer tablescape that pops and plant your own fern terrarium with this DIY guide from Alison of Alison of Deuce Cities Henhouse!
Alison is constantly updating her 100-year-old home, and her blog is full of fun craft projects that are perfect for DIY beginners.
Read on for Alison’s step-by-step guide, including how to plant your own fern terrarium!
“The heart and soul of any good tablescape is, of course, the centerpiece. This one packs a lot of punch and can be set up or taken down in a matter of seconds.” – Alison Allen
PAINTED GLASS CANDLE SLEEVE SUPPLIES
• Glass Candle Sleeve
• Acryllic Paint
• Painter’s Tape
• 2″ Sponge or Brissle Brush
1. About 3″ from the base of the sleeve, wrap the inside of glass with painter’s tape. I found it worked best to tear the tape into apprx 3″ strips. You’ll drive yourself crazy trying to wrangle a piece of tape any longer than that inside the sleeve. The key to this look is painting the inside of the sleeve instead of the outside. It gives it a glossy and finished look from the outside.
Although this project is extremely easy, it will take a little time. Be prepared to add four coats of pink paint to your sleeve, this means a 1-2 hour dry time between coats. So don’t think you’re gonna cram this all in over the course of an afternoon!
2. After all your paint is dry, use a straight edge razor blade or exacto knife to ensure a crisp paint line. Run the blade along the edge of the tape using the tape edge as a guide. Gently pull the tape away and clean up any smudges with a damp paper towel. A ton of color and a super modern look for your table!
“Terrariums are great and bring a lot of life to any tablescape. I use them all the time in lieu of flowers.” – Alison Allen
STAINED-WOOD TERRARIUM SUPPLIES
• Wood Base Terrarium
• Teak Oil
• 2″ Sponge Brush
• Lint-Free Cloth
1. The process for adding the teak oil is so incredibly easy that you might be inspired enough to add a coat of teak oil to your entire patio set or other loved wood furniture. Make sure to apply the oil in a well-ventilated area to avoid getting a vapor buzz. I recommend using a sponge brush, but a lint-free cloth would work just as well.
- 2. Let the oil sit for 20 minutes and use a clean cloth to remove excess oil. If so desired, repeat the process again to achieve a slightly darker finish.
PLANT YOUR STAINED TERRARIUM
“Ferns and mosses do great in a closed terrarium because the love high humidity. You would not want to plant a succulent or other desert plant in a closed terrarium. You’ll want your closed terrarium to make a home where it’s not in direct sunlight, but is able to get a little sunshine.” – Alison Allen
- Layer 1 & 2, Sand and Pebbles for Drainage:
You need adequate drainage to make your ferns and mosses happy, so having a layer of pebbles or sand and pebbles is key. I used white river rock in my terrarium. For this terrarium I layered the sand and soil about an inch per layer.
- Layer 3, Activated Charcoal:
You will need to place a thin layer of activated charcoal on top of the drainage layer. The charcoal helps to purify the terrarium and fights against mold.
- Layer 4, Soil:
For ferns and mosses I like to use regular potting soil. Keep the soil deep enough to plant the root balls of your ferns and mosses. I added about 3″ of soil to my terrarium.
- Layer 5, Ferns and Mosses:
Pick an assortment of ferns and mosses, but make sure they all have the same soil and watering requirements as they will be coexisting together in the same environment. I choose four small plants for my terrarium.
- Layer 6, Rocks & Pebbles:
I like to add a few stones and pebbles in the last layer to add some texture and interest. This step isn’t necessary, but it makes everything look cooler. Once you have watered your terrarium you should be able to let it sit and flourish. It will rarely need more water as long as the top stays on.
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Yes. Construction innovation is becoming essential for transformation of the UK industry, delivering value throughout the supply chain and delighting the end customer with the final outcome. In times of rapidly changing markets, technologies and communications, construction firms have become increasingly reliant upon innovations and improvement. The focus of attention on innovation will improve the reputation of the industry by increasing the performance of the end customer businesses and their customers who use the assets. As individuals, we have a common expectation that we want more when we purchase something the second time, and we look for how this will improve our own experience (e.g. a more fuel conservative car, or a TV with more features). Innovation is an important ingredient to meet our expectations and to improve the way we live.
Can UK business innovate and collaborate?
The UK is a hot-bed for innovation. Across industry we are seeing business congregate around geographical and virtual hubs to share research resource and address big issues that individually cannot be addressed alone. MIRA in the Midlands has all the key vehicle manufactures looking at Intelligent Mobility, Manchester focus on energy and Edinburgh seems to have a technology revolution occurring. The construction industry has made significant steps forward with the work at Cambridge University Centre for Smart Infrastructure and Construction, by forming a group that brings together industry with technology to look at how infrastructure can become more intelligent. Business is becoming more interested in these collaborative relationships. For those companies that are committed to accelerating innovation to market the research end of the innovation spectrum is allowing challenges to be shared and new ideas to immerge. Collaborators are then evolve the innovation that then can be taken to market in a more robust and cost effective approach.
Innovation networks delivering better value outcomes
The network of universities, Catapults and grant funding connected by the Knowledge Transfer Network is allowing business to embrace innovation and provide more high-value services that are changing the perception of the industries innovation capability. We are seeing unprecedented investment and attention by Government, customers and business to advance innovation capability to deliver new business outcomes that will redefine collaborative relationships across the supply chain, increase repeat business with customers and demonstrate that our industry is not a commodity and cannot be procured solely on price. What we deliver is complex and requires highly skilled people to look at delivering the best solution. An industry that has more of an integrated supply chain that repeatedly works together, given the right environment will invest in innovation and deliver value to customers. In the next 10 years we will see customers embrace and recognise to achieve better delivery they will allow the supply chain to organise in a way so they can repeatedly work together reducing waste in the supply chain, increasing performance and allowing the industry to deliver more for less.
Evolution through construction innovation to demonstrate a high performing sector
It is important we evolve and as a group of businesses lead change in our sector by incorporating innovation in our solutions. This includes those who procure and those who deliver. If we want to change traditional characteristics that inhibit performance and leave the end customer disillusioned with what they have received, we need to use innovation as an accelerator of change, to make a difference to the end result we deliver. We have got to think of ways of accelerating innovations from the initial ideas to the delivery of the innovation in the market and we all have a role to play. An industry that can demonstrate high innovation capability will be seen as high value, attract investment and continue to grow. This approach will attract investment demonstrating the sector has good return on investment potential. For those who do want to capitalise on the sector, we believe the revolution that will happen, will drastically change the market for the better with new solutions developed that will inspire other sector business looking favourably and supporting our success.
The role of Constructing Excellence in accelerating construction innovation
Innovation is a fundamental to the Constructing Excellence members and that is why we are investing in a four year programme with UCL to advance the industries understanding around the benefits of inter-business innovation relationships. There is a lot we can learn from each other around business-to-business innovation. The programme will look at how innovation is encouraged to market, what are the barriers stopping the industry from innovating and how do we remove these barriers through understanding value, how to incentive business decisions, incorporate innovation in procurement, understand how to recognise the businesses that are investing how you get the best from your partners through better relationships. If you would like to find out more or be a part of this programme, please contact Tim Embley, Innovation and Knowledge Manager at Costain ([email protected]) or Natalya Sergeeva ([email protected]), Lecturer in the Management of Projects, at UCL.
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|New Jersey Division of Fish and Wildlife|
Nov. 13, 2003
“The youth deer hunt follows a long line of traditional youth hunts in New Jersey,” said Division Director Martin J. McHugh. “Special youth pheasant hunts have been held in the Garden State since 1995 and youth waterfowl days have been authorized by Federal regulations since 1998. Like other youth hunting programs, Youth Deer Hunt Day is not designed to introduce youngsters to the sport of hunting, but intended for existing youth hunters who have successfully completed a hunter education course and obtained a youth license. The youth hunt provides a special opportunity for young hunters to share the hunting experience with a parent or mentor who can focus solely on providing a quality hunting experience for their child on that special day.”
“The Youth Deer Hunt Day increases a young hunter’s chances of harvesting a deer since they are the only hunters allowed to hunt deer with a firearm on that day. Even though last year’s weather was less than ideal; it was cold, rainy and windy – a record 805 responsible, young hunters were successful,” said Division Hunter Education Administrator Paul Ritter. “In fact, some of these youngsters took their very first deer during this special hunt.”
The youth hunter must be directly supervised by a licensed, non-shooting adult aged 21 or older. The bag limit is one deer of either-sex. Neither the “Earn-a-Buck” requirement, nor antler point restrictions apply on that day for the youth hunter. This hunt is an extension of the Six-day Firearm Season, so no special season deer permit is required. Note that youth hunters may still harvest two antlered deer during the statewide Six-day Firearm Season that occurs December 8-13, 2003.
Any firearm and ammunition approved for deer hunting may be used. Youths can hunt with either shotguns or muzzleloaders. If using a muzzleloader, both parties must have a valid rifle permit.
All other hunting requirements apply. Hunting hours are ˝ hour before sunrise to ˝ hour after sunset EST. Youth hunter status applies to the holder of a valid Youth Hunting License or the immediate family members of qualified occupant farmers who are between the ages of 10 and 15.
Direct supervision means that both the youth hunter and parent/guardian are set up together at the same location, hunting as a unit and not hunting independently of each other. The adult cannot hunt or possess a firearm. However, he or she can grunt call or rattle for the youth. In addition to the youngster, the accompanying adult must wear the required hunter orange.
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The 21st century has been fairly smooth sailing as far as gun deaths go, but in the last few years we’ve begun to ruin our track record.
Data from the Centers for Disease Control shows that 2017 was the third consecutive year that the mortality rate from firearms rose. We’re now up to 12.0 deaths per 100,000 people, a rate we haven’t seen in the U.S. in 20 years. Two-thirds of those are suicides, the vast majority of which are white men. The remaining one-third of deaths are homicides, which are predominantly black men.
Of course, this information comes not from a study of firearm mortality but from a CDC database. In America we don’t allow federal funding for studies to understand gun deaths, which means we are woefully uninformed about how to combat firearm violence and prevent those deaths. We only recently confirmed that semiautomatic weapons kill more people than non-automatic ones do.
As a nation, we’re one of two countries responsible for a third of the world’s gun deaths and we don’t seem to be getting any better at controlling them. If anything, we’re getting worse. We’ve only been tracking firearm deaths as their own category since 1979, but this is what our rates have looked like since then:
We’ve certainly improved since the late ’80s and early ’90s, when gun violence was at its peak, but that upwards trend in the last few years should be cause for concern. Both suicide and homicide rates are rising and last year nearly 40,000 people died by gun. Research suggests that these deaths are largely preventable. Gun control laws work and most Americans support enacting gun control of some kind. Even firearm suicides, which many people think of as solely a mental health problem, can often be prevented by removing the firearm from homes. We don’t have to stand for this.
There are some steps you can take on your own. You can call your congressperson to let them know your opinion. It’s easy to find their information by entering your street address and zip code on this site, or you can ring up the U.S. Senate switchboard. You can also donate to groups who are fighting for gun control, like Everytown or Americans for Responsible Solutions—and yes, you can support groups like these even if you are a proud gun owner. We know that the states with the highest rates of firearm mortality are also the states with the most relaxed gun laws, and countries like New Zealand prove that you can have a strong gun culture without having a high level of gun violence. It’s not an either/or situation. But if we don’t do something about these deaths, the rates may keep climbing—we’re already slipping backwards. | <urn:uuid:a6e18e71-1d20-421e-bdb1-17cd5f841860> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.popsci.com/gun-death-rates-rising-map/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.966725 | 592 | 2.03125 | 2 |
New Chronic Inflammation Test Available!
Chronic Inflammation is Silent
Medical experts are finding more and more evidence that chronic inflammation is the primary cause of the diseases of aging. Acute inflammation usually detected by pain or swelling, is a normal part of the body's defense system. Inflammation becomes chronic when it persists at a low level with no noticeable pain to reveal its presence. Life-style and nutritional choices also play a major role in chronic inflammation development. The cumulative consequences of chronic inflammation are linked to chronic diseases including heart disease, cancer, diabetes and Alzheimer's.
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EPAs Chesapeake Bay Program Office coordinates the goals of the
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A Guide to the John Ellis Chaffin Family Bible, 1854
Born in Clinton County, Illinois, to John Elias and Lavinia Ernst Row Chaffin, John Ellis Chaffin (1831-1870) moved to Texas sometime before 1850, where he was a farmer near Limestone County. Chaffin married Sarah Christ on January 5, 1854. The couple eventually had three children, all of whom were born in Texas in the 1850s.
Published in New York by the American Bible Society in 1854, the John Ellis Chaffin Family Bible, 1854, documents births, deaths and marriages in the Chaffin family through handwritten notes in the volume.
This collection is open for research use.
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Publication Date: 1970-Feb
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Existing Disparities in Public School Finance and Proposals for Reform.
Weiss, Steven J.
The purposes of this report are (1) to document the present inequalities in public school spending and local tax burdens and to identify the principal reasons for existing disparities; and (2) to review and evaluate proposals for reform of the currently inadequate public school finance systems. Previous studies, current State and Federal aid programs, and data on New England's property tax base, school tax rates, and expenditure per pupil are examined and analyzed. The following proposals for financial reform are discussed: more equalizing State aid, consolidation of small districts, broader property tax bases, State assumption of public school costs, and Federal block grants. The study strongly recommends reform of State systems to break the dependence of local school spending and tax effort on local wealth. A description of data and sources, calculation procedures for analysis of hypothetical equalizing State aid systems, and a list of selected references are included. (Author/LLR)
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It was an unsympathetic reference, insisting -- as I tend to do -- that poker is really a “game” not a “sport,” although not elaborating on the point much further.
This debate or conversation starter or whatever you want to call it comes up occasionally in my “Poker in American Film and Culture” course, thanks largely to a reading I assign early on, the first chapter of Al Alvarez’s book Poker: Bets, Bluffs and Bad Beats titled “The American Game.”
In that chapter Alvarez makes a good case for why poker is, in his opinion, the “American national game.” In fact the first move he makes as he launches into the argument is explicitly to distinguish poker from baseball and football -- i.e., a couple of other games which might spring to mind as candidates for the title he’s bestowing on poker.
The difference, says Alvarez, is that “baseball and football are spectator sports, and, airtime and column inches notwithstanding, not many people go on playing them once they have left school and lost their physical edge. Poker, in comparison, is a game for life and a great equalizer -- what the young gain from stamina the old make up for with experience -- and it is played by at least sixty million Americans.”
The book was published in 2001, when about 285 million lived in the U.S. Today the population is edging toward 320 million. You continue to see estimates of the number of poker players ranging from 40-60 million, although that’s obviously a hard number to pinpoint.
In any case it’s probably safe to say there are more people playing poker in America than are playing baseball or football. According to one report, there were a little over one million football players in high school last year and a little under half a million playing baseball. You could extrapolate from that how many total players (older and younger) there might be in each sport, but I think the total would be well below the 40-60 million poker players.
A lifelong sport like golf might be a better comparison, actually. It sounds like there are about 25 million golfers in the country at present, a number that has held steady for the last three years or so according to another report.
Stepping back from all of this (and perhaps getting a little abstract as I do), it occurred to me that calling poker a “sport” rather than a “game” could make it seem more like something you watch than something you play.
Many of us love to play one sport or another, but don’t necessarily look upon all sports as providing opportunities for participation. Or any, even. Each sport requires some specific set of physical skills that can potentially limit involvement for those who lack them. Meanwhile playing a game of cards also requires some skills (more so mental than physical), and to play cards well requires even more, but the game of poker is nowhere near as exclusive as are sports like baseball and basketball.
I know the idea behind “sportifying” poker is to make the game more accessible (and acceptable), but could calling poker a sport and championing its most successful players as superior mental “athletes” actually make the game less inviting to new players? That is, could it make the game seem more exclusive as far as participating is concerned, though (perhaps) more inviting to spectators?
Another way of posing the same question: Today the International Federation of Poker (@IFPoker) tweeted “#Poker is a game where the best players think about the way hands are played at a level most people couldn't even imagine! #mindsport #skill.” That’s a view I imagine most of us who have studied poker and who take the game seriously can readily appreciate to be true.
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Types of Renewable Energy Resources
In all over the world, scientists have found six number of renewable energy resources, which are ready to use for commercial and industrial purposes, those are in the following-
1. Solar Energy
Solar energy is the primary and one of the best renewable energy resources among all other types of renewable energy. In solar energy, sunlight needs and it is available in every place. The amount of sunlight which is stored in one hour is enough for the total energy of the whole planet for one year. Solar energy is now used to operate vehicles by using solar panels. It also reduces environmental pollution.
The main advantage of using solar energy is it can be used from any location of the planet. The demand for solar energy is increasing day by day in some countries like USA, UK, India, Bangladesh, etc.
2. Wind Energy
Wind energy is that type of renewable energy which is second largest, and the usage of wind energy is just after solar energy. Wind energy plant is used in the coastal areas and deserts because the wind speed of those areas are higher than other areas.
Here, turbines drive generators which generate electricity and after that electricity will be supplied to the cities. Wind turbines is only constructed for commercial purpose, and it is not constructed for personal property or personal usage.
3. Hydro Energy
Hydro energy is the most commercially profitable renewable energy in all other renewable energy. The generating of hydro energy is very easy and economical because you just need to construct a dam or reservoir, or a barrier to store a huge amount of water, then you drive turbines through the power of water and generate electricity by driving a generator.
Hydro energy is very much reliable than solar energy or wind energy. This is the only type of renewable energy which can be stored because if you store the water, then you indirectly store the energy, so when the electricity demand is high, then you can use this energy according to the requirement. The one disadvantage of this energy is the initial cost of hydro energy is too much high.
4. Tidal Energy
Tidal energy is a modern type of renewable energy which is very popular nowadays. In tidal energy, the energy is stored in two times per day. Tidal energy is one type of hydro energy because tide comes two times per day in a river. But if the tide is not so much strong, then the electricity generation is also very low.
5. Geothermal Energy
Geothermal energy is another type of renewable energy. Geothermal energy is stored in the earth, and it is generally for heating purposes of homes. Geothermal energy is a less important energy which is widely used the countries like UK, Iceland, etc.
6. Biomass Energy
Biomass energy is the last type of renewable energy, which is basically the conversion of solid turns to electricity. In biomass energy, It includes organic compounds to generate electricity. Biomass energy is the most efficient and clean process. Biomass energy requires lowest cost energy and economical type of renewable energy.
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What Are Renewable Energy Resources?
Renewable energy resources mean those natural energies which are never finished, which are sustainable, which are endless. Renewable energies are alternative energies because we generally use non-renewable energies as our primary energies. Renewable energies are the substitute of non-sustainable energy like coal energy, petroleum, etc.
Examples of renewable energies are-
- Solar energy
- Wind energy
- Tidal energy
- Biomass energy
- Geothermal energy
- Hydro energy
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Why Use Renewable Energy Resources?
There are various reasons are there for using renewable energy resources, those are in the following-
1. Better for the Environment
All the non-renewable energies are produced from fossil fuels, and those products damage the whole environment very much. These are the main cause of the increase global warming. Due to global warming, icebergs melt the seal level is rising day by day.
Renewable energies are more recycled and sustainable products, and it does not harm the surrounding environment. That’s why renewable energy provides a better atmosphere for living.
2. Better for Human Health
Burning of fossil uses will increase the hydrocarbon and particulate matter density in the surrounding air. But if we use renewable energies like solar energy, wind energy, tidal energy, etc, then the particulate matter density will reduce, and the air pollution will also decreased because renewable energies do not harm the environment.
3. Energy in Abundance
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4. Cheaper to Run
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arginyl-tRNA synthetase 2, mitochondrial
The RARS2 gene provides instructions for making an enzyme called mitochondrial arginyl-tRNA synthetase. This enzyme is active in cell structures called mitochondria. Each cell contains hundreds or thousands of mitochondria, which convert the energy from food into a form that cells can use.
Mitochondrial arginyl-tRNA synthetase interacts with a molecule called transfer RNA (tRNA). This molecule, which is a chemical cousin of DNA, helps assemble protein building blocks called amino acids into functioning proteins. To build new proteins, tRNA must collect different amino acids and then attach them to one another in the correct order. Mitochondrial arginyl-tRNA synthetase is one of several enzymes that link amino acids to tRNA. Specifically, this enzyme links the amino acid arginine to the tRNA molecule, which then incorporates it into new proteins in mitochondria.
At least 13 mutations in the RARS2 gene have been identified in people with a disorder of brain development called pontocerebellar hypoplasia. The major features of this condition include delayed development, problems with movement, and intellectual disability. Most of the known RARS2 gene mutations cause a form of the disorder designated pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 6 (PCH6). One mutation has been found in an individual with the characteristic features of another form of the condition, pontocerebellar hypoplasia type 1 (PCH1).
The RARS2 gene mutations that cause pontocerebellar hypoplasia significantly reduce or eliminate the function of mitochondrial arginyl-tRNA synthetase. A loss of this enzyme's function likely disrupts the production of new proteins in mitochondria. However, it is unknown how these changes lead to abnormal brain development in people with pontocerebellar hypoplasia.
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Deadly hornets have killed at least 28 people in China following a string of recent attacks that have injured hundreds.
A number of tragic cases have been reported, including a mother and son who died after being surrounded by a killer swarm.
Hundreds of people have been stung by swarms of giant insects
A man who tried to help them suffered kidney failure after the giant hornets chased him for 200 metres and stung him repeatedly on the head and legs, The Mirror reported.
In the city of Ankang alone, 18 people have died from the stings, while a further 212 people have been injured health official Zhou Yuanhong told Associated Press.
Experts are blaming the vicious attacks on Asian giant hornets, which terrifyingly grow up to 5cm in length. The mammoth insects also wield a stinger in excess of 6mm long.
The natural predators have jaws powerful enough to chew through regular protective bee suits and their venom, which they can spray, dissolves human flesh.
If their venom lands in the eyes, the eye tissue will melt, according to a National Geographic documentary.
The giant hornets’ highly toxic stings can also lead to anaphylactic shock and renal failure.
The attacks are an annual problem, The Guardian reported, but have worsened this year, possibly due to warmer weather boosting breeding.
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Li Jiuzhou, deputy director of the Shaanxi Bee and Wasp Industry Association, said that hundreds or even thousands of hornets could live in a single nest.
They attack humans only if disturbed, he told the Associated Press. But they are carnivorous and can quickly destroy bee colonies.
Earlier this month, it was revealed a deadly breed of hornet was threatening Britain’s bees.
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Sadly, many people can suffer from back pain. This is common across most professions and can end up taking a serious toll on your life. But what can you do about it?
Top 6 WAYS TO RELIEVE BACK PAIN AT HOME
1. Maintain the Correct Posture
It’s common for back pain to stem from poor posture. This places excess pressure on the spine. Because of this, you will need to have a stronger focus on maintaining the correct posture. This can often mean making a few changes to the way you do things. For example, you might need to focus on lifting with your knees, rather than your back. If you have a desk job, you’ll need to avoid slouching.
2. Change Your Screen Position
If you work in an office, you’ll need to consider changing the way your desk has been set-up. One of the most important things to consider is where your computer screen has been positioned. It should be at eye-level. This will ensure that you don’t need to bend your neck to look at it.
You might also want to look at the way that your keyboard has been set-up. You should have your elbows at 90-degrees. This will help prevent your shoulders from slouching. It can help to make sure that everything you need is within arm’s reach. This will reduce the chances that you will strain a ligament reaching for something.
3. Try a Sit-Stand Desk
The sit-stand desk is becoming an increasingly popular option in offices around the globe. With the push of a button, you’ll be able to raise your desk. This will allow you to switch between standing and sitting throughout the day. This will give you a chance to stretch out your spine. It will also promote blood flow through the body.
4. Get More Activity Throughout the Day
In many jobs, it can be easy to become inactive. This can be damaging to your overall health and might be making your back pain worse. Thankfully, there are a few simple ways that you can build more activity into your day.
First, you might want to try stretching before you start work. You should also make sure to stretch at the end of the day. Though this will only take a few minutes, it can be a great way of reducing the amount of pain you are experiencing.
You might also want to plan breaks every few hours. This will give you a chance to get up and walk around the office. You might want to install an alarm on your phone to remind you to do this. You don’t require a long walk. Five minutes will be all that’s needed.
Lastly, you can make some bigger lifestyle changes to get more exercise. For example, you can try going to the gym or riding a bike to work. These will improve your blood flow and help prevent obesity. Exercise is also a great way to release endorphins. These will improve your mood.
5. Massage Office Chair
The chair that you are using can often have a big impact on the amount of pain you are experiencing. Because of this, you might want to consider turning to a massage chair. There are numerous benefits that you will be able to get. For example, it has been shown to lead to an improvement in mental health. The calming massage was able to reduce stress and depression.
These chairs have also been shown to lower blood pressure. They will be able to help you reduce the strain associated with repetitive movements. They can also help reduce the duration and intensity of headaches. Most importantly, though, they can help identify the places where your muscles are too tense. They can then knead them, releasing the tension and lowering the pain.
If you don’t have these chairs at your office, there are alternative options such as massage chair pads or you can find what experts say on back pain relief.
6. Use Breathing Exercises to Overcome Stress
Sometimes back pain can be caused by stress. When your muscles get too tight, they can pressure the spinal column. The best way to overcome this is with some simple breathing exercises. One of the easiest is the 4-7-8 technique. Inhale to a count of four. Hold the air to a count of seven. Then, breathe out through your mouth to a count of eight. You can do this whenever you feel stressed. You might also want to try talking to a mental health professional to find some other ways to lower stress.
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With today's scientific age, writing a blog is now a crucial part of anyone's electronic digital appearance on-line. Lots of people have blogs and forums and if you don't have 1, you may be remaining in the dust. To understand writing a blog, you have to know every aspect of it. If this is your need, then carry on reading through.Take any suggestio
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Few times in a person’s life the feeling of loneliness, emptiness and helplessness strike but unconsciously he or she is able to find ways on how to overcome the depression felt. There are times, however, that this kind of emotional disturbance stays on for quiet sometime that eventually affects a person outlook in everything he sees and feels. In this case, the disorder must be taken seriously so as not to cause any other problem.
Tips on How to Overcome the Depression Felt Inside
Depression starts in the core of the person’s emotional, psychological and social functions. Knowing how to overcome the depression felt inside takes a lot of courage and determination. The person suffering from this disorder battles himself from the onset of the sickness up to the end of it. Below are some tips you might want to consider in conquering depression:
1. Try as much as possible to stay happy. Welcome companionship from friends and families. Do not isolate yourself from the people that make you feel important.
2. Eat healthy. This sounds difficult especially when the cause of depression is the lost of somebody special. However, try to think positively for yourself and not for the one who have gone astray.
3. Keep yourself busy with beneficial activities such as joining organizations and groups. These organizations can load you with activities you will find fruitful. Always make yourself available for others especially when you need it the most.
How to Overcome the Depression Felt Inside Depends on You
You will discover many ways how to overcome the depression. But the effectiveness of this remedy dependent on a lots of elements: severity in the disorder, person’s attitude towards therapy, and coping how to overcome the depression from the individual suffering from it.
Good words help to make a reflection of thoughts. Try to use positive words every day. If you need help to control depression, never give up, you will find a great solution. Take positive words encouragement for your life, especially if you are depressed.
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Memories - Working with Two Mountain Gorillas in the Cologne Zoo
The two mountain gorillas from the Virunga Mountains in Rwanda, Coco and Pucker, arrived in the Cologne Zoo in May 1969. At that time it was a very controversial theme worldwide. Coco and Pucker were a present from the Rwandan government to the mayor of Cologne, Theo Burauen. The Cologne Zoo was the only zoo in the world at that time to display mountain gorillas. They were given as a pair to breed, unfortunately they turned out to be two females.
I was fortunate to work as a keeper with Coco and Pucker from 1973 to 1978. During the summer I took them out for walks. I remember they loved to climb the beech tree opposite the zoo director's house. On top of the tree they built themselves sleeping nests. Every time I pass this tree during my walks through the zoo today, I think of Coco and Pucker. They were very playful.
Gorillas prefer varied diets and have individual preferences for food. Since we did not have the same food as in the wild, we supplemented their food with celery, onions, broccoli, other vegetables, bamboo shoots and wheat sprouts. Celery, both sticks and root, and fresh spinach leaves were their favourite food.
Coco and Pucker had an occasional cold or diarrhoea but nothing serious. In March 1978 Pucker showed signs of discomfort and did not have an appetite. In spite of the consultation of a paediatrician and immediate treatment she died a few days later. Coco had the same symptoms and died several weeks later (on 1 June). They both died of a bacterial infection. The post mortem results showed symptoms of a defect in the immune systems (hereditary or acquired) of both mountain gorillas which might have been the reason why the treatment with antibiotics etc. failed.
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Washington, Dakota counties hope collaboration brings more bidders, better price
Washington and Dakota counties will collaborate on the purchase of new election equipment in hopes of attracting broader vendor interest and more competitive bids after the Washington County Board of Commissioners approved a cooperative purchase agreement Tuesday.
The county’s current 13-year-old election equipment was purchased in 1999 and is used in 89 precincts. In a memo to commissioners, Property Records and Taxpayer Services Director Jennifer Wagenius added that the county’s current equipment “has outlived its live expectancy of 10 years, and replacement parts are difficult to obtain.”
PRTS officials said a combination of almost $265,000 in federal grant funds, of which more than $179,500 must be spent by March 31, 2014, and $451,700 in levy and county program aid would fund the equipment purchase.
Commissioners were told that Dakota County sought requests for proposals for the new equipment June 24, with requests due July 26. Metro-area counties, including Hennepin, Ramsey, Anoka and Scott counties, are currently planning to purchase new election equipment.
Wagenius said in her memo that approval of the cooperative purchasing agreement with Dakota County allows Washington County to purchase election equipment and services under the same terms and conditions offered to Dakota County by RFP respondents.
The new equipment would have ballot programming software and include ongoing maintenance and an absentee ballot central count machine, according to PRTS staff. The absentee ballot central count machine is important because the state allows no-excuse absentee balloting.
Before the board approved the collaboration between Washington and Dakota counties, Commissioner Autumn Lehrke asked if the new machines would be compatible with any future voter identification laws that might be introduced.
Wagenius explained that the Minnesota Secretary of State’s Office approves all election equipment for compatibility and if a voter I.D. law was passed, a program would need to be integrated into the new machine’s existing computer system.
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A dune in the northern polar region of Mars shows significant changes between two images taken on June 25, 2008 and May 21, 2010 by NASA's Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter. This motion includes landslides and sand advancing at the dune front (upper left); changes in the position of the rest of the dune boundary relative to the fixed, underlying terrain; and changes in the position of ripples on the dune surface.
This is one of several sites where the orbiter has observed shifting sand dunes and ripples. Previously, scientists thought sand on Mars was mostly immobile. It took the mission's High Resolution Imaging Science Experiment (HiRISE) to take sharp enough images to finally see the movement.
While dust is easily blown around the Red Planet, its thin atmosphere means that strong winds are required to move grains of sand.
The Mars Reconnaissance Orbiter is managed by NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory for NASA's Science Mission Directorate in Washington. The University of Arizona's Lunar and Planetary Laboratory operates HiRISE. The camera was built by Ball Aerospace & Technologies Corp. in Boulder, Colo. Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md., provided and operates CRISM. JPL is a division of the California Institute of Technology in Pasadena. | <urn:uuid:f4bb5e5c-fb24-4afb-9485-2e94752a7ede> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.jpl.nasa.gov/spaceimages/details.php?id=PIA14880 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00335-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.910489 | 258 | 3.84375 | 4 |
In most cases patients tend to trust their doctors and health care providers but what if you did not? A recent study found that overweight and obese patients trusted diet advice from overweight doctors more than those who have a weight considered to be normal. It was found that overweight and obese patients trust their doctors in general, but on the topic of weight they trust those doctors with a higher weight more. So what could be the cause of this trust difference? There are many possibilities. One reason may be that normal weight doctors do not treat overweight patients as equals. If these patients are getting advice from someone like this they may not feel confident in following their recommendations. Another possibility could be that overweight doctors could be struggling with the same issues and can relate to their patients better, leading to better trust of the patients. No matter what the reason behind the results of this study are they are still helpful in determining how to best treat these patients for the best results. | <urn:uuid:14b8b010-1cc2-4bff-9d16-981da94a5c83> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ashlanddietetics.blogspot.com/2013/06/weight-advice.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00568-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971404 | 188 | 2.328125 | 2 |
At the IESE MBA, you’ll be stretched, pushed and challenged to master the essentials.
You’ll hone your entrepreneurial skills. And you’ll be exposed to business in different sectors, markets and regions – across five continents.
Give us 19 months. We will give you a lifetime of impact.
UNIQUE GLOBAL SCOPE
Today’s world is interconnected. If you want to do international business, you need to have a global mindset.
With campuses and alliances that span Europe, the Americas, Africa and Asia, IESE has more global scope and reach than most other top-ranking business schools.
You will learn alongside students from 64 different countries, guided by a faculty of world-class academics, researchers and global business experts of more than 30 nationalities. At IESE, you’ll have access to the biggest picture in global business.
What makes someone a good leader?
We believe that leadership is about striving for the best in yourself, and in others. It’s about drawing inspiration from diversity and the interchange of perspectives. It’s about respecting cultural and individual differences. And it’s about committing to leave a positive and lasting impact on the people, the businesses and the societies that surround you.
At IESE you will be challenged, stretched and encouraged to become the very best that you can be; as an entrepreneur, as a professional, as a responsible leader and as a person.
THE GENERAL MANAGEMENT PERSPECTIVE
All of our programs take an integrative, long-term approach to business and organizations. You will understand business from a general management vantage point, gaining deep insight into how the different and complementary functions of a company work together.
You’ll be exposed to active learning methodology – simulations and the case method – which will help you see the big picture, as you explore new approaches and perspectives to real-life business problems from all over the world.
“It’s the perfect MBA in terms of entrepreneurship. It gives you a general management perspective so that you can direct your company better in the future.”
David ZarateDAVID ZARATE, MEXICO, MBA ‘13
“At IESE there’s a different way of thinking – strategically and globally. It means you don’t get lost when there is so much information to process. And the way you learn to work with people – this has really helped me throughout my career.”
LAURENCE FONTINOYLAURENCE FONTINOY, BELGIUM, MBA ’02
ENTREPRENEURSHIP AT THE CORE
You’ll be encouraged to think creatively. To be flexible. To make mistakes – and learn from them. And to pursue your dream to the full.
Whether you want to succeed with your own enterprise or adopt an entrepreneurial mindset within an organization, you will find a breadth of resources, practical projects and on-going support to help you reach your goals.
BILINGUAL FOR BUSINESS
Did you know that Spanish is the fourth most spoken language on the planet? Being fluent in Spanish unlocks doors to opportunity all over the world.
At IESE you have full access to a Spanish-speaking environment. You can take language classes and even graduate with a bilingual MBA degree.
A business education in two of the world’s largest languages gives you a unique advantage and fresh perspectives on international business. When you do your MBA at IESE you will be exposed to a breadth opportunities to become fluent in Spanish:
- Multilingual campus
- Daily life in Barcelona
- Structured and intensive Business Spanish Program
Acquire a strategic business tool, unlock international business opportunities and gain access to different cultures around the world.
To obtain the bilingual MBA degree, in your second year you will need to:
- Non-native speakers of Spanish need to pass the highest module of the Business Spanish Program (passing the Program grants students the DIEN level B2 CEFR).
- Native Spanish-speaking students need to communicate their desire to graduate with the bilingual MBA degree title by March 31st of their second year MBA.
The Business Spanish Program is designed specifically for IESE MBA students. The goal is to empower you to engage fluently in a variety of business situations.
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Increasingly it makes sense to me that the workforce is segregated by gender.
There are, in fact, jobs where mostly women belong, and there are jobs where mostly men belong, and that's fine. It's outdated to think there are no differences between men and women. And once we accept there are differences, we need to study them instead of downplay them.
One of the most difficult parts of coming of age today is that there are no clear paths in the new topography of work. The terms quarterlife crisis and emerging adulthood have come to us as a result of the new scramble to figure out where to go in adult life. In order to create safe, compassionate, growth-oriented paths through adult life, we need to understand where women and men fit best.
I have taken a lot of shots at this topic before. Most notably, I've pointed out that women want to be with kids more than men do. That explains Pew’s findings that most women want part-time jobs rather than full-time jobs after they have kids, but men do not.
But what about gender differences before there are kids? Where do men belong? Where do women belong? Here are three places women do not generally fit:
1. Highly competitive sales jobs are not for most women.
Most women are not happy when they are competing, rather than collaborating with their co-workers, whereas men love competition, according to a study from the University of Chicago. And research from the National Bureau of Economic Research shows that even in the case of men who are poor competitors or women who are strong competitors, the gender-based preferences for competition persist.
Women who achieve high levels of success played sports as kids and experienced huge satisfaction with winning. However women are less likely than men to choose competitive environments due to millions of years of evolution encouraging women to mitigate risks to protect themselves for their children. (Tons of studies support this, but my current favorite is from Anne Campbell, psychologist at Durham University in England.)
So who is a good fit for a career in sales? Richard Goldman, COO of Birkman International, a company that helps businesses make intelligent hires by using the Birkman Method for personality assessments, explains that collaborative, team-player types simply do not make good salespeople. When it comes to sales, though, the people who are the best fit for the high-level jobs are those who have an eat-what-you-kill mentality.
2. Men are better at very high-level math, science and engineering.
A 2008 survey of US universities by the National Science Foundation revealed that less than 30% of PhDs in the physical sciences were awarded to women. Higher up the ranks, women make up only about 10% of full professorships in physics-related disciplines. Yet a study from psychologists Stephen Ceci and Wendy Williams of Cornell University found no evidence of gender bias during the interview and hiring process for science positions.
Now that we have a few decades of data coming from girls who were encouraged to do math, we can say, with a decent amount of certainty, that the average girl is as good at math as the average boy. But in the world of hotshot math, women are outclassed.
One fundamental difference between the male and female brain is gray matter. And University of California at Irvine released solid data to explain why men are good at math.
“Evolution has created two different types of brains designed for equally intelligent behavior,” said Richard Haier, professor of psychology who led the study.
“In general, men have approximately 6.5 times the amount of gray matter related to general intelligence than women, and women have nearly 10 times the amount of white matter related to intelligence than men. Gray matter represents information processing centers in the brain, and white matter represents the networking of—or connections between—these processing centers.”
This chart, from Gene Expression, shows the difference in brain makeup.
Also, now that we have a slew of data about Asperger's syndrome, we can say that the people who are incredibly terrible with language (white matter) or incredibly gifted with mathematical thinking (gray matter) are usually boys. Boys, rather than girls, populate the two extreme ends of the bell curve.
So it should not be surprising or controversial that studies repeatedly find that there are large gender differences among extremely gifted math students. More boys are gifted.
Now the world starts making sense. This is why there are more men in math and science positions in universities. This is why the hot-shot companies in Silicon Valley are full of male engineers and not women. And this is why we need to stop complaining that science departments are boys clubs. It's not just the department—high end scientific thinking is a boys club.
3. Men are best suited for the insanely fast-paced startup arena.
More than 95% of venture capital goes to male-run startups. (To be clear, we are talking here about companies that plan to grow to more than $100 million in sales over five years and these companies court investors to achieve that.)
These startups are largely male, and the reason is that women are not interested in the crazy life that startup founders live. Women prefer lifestyle-focused companies where they can have better control over the intersection of their work life and personal life.
I laid out the argument in a post on TechCrunch, but, as you can imagine, it comes down to kids. Women want to spend more time with kids, and they have less desire to give up everything for their company. It would be great if you could do both, but when it comes to startups, you can't.
If you poll women who are CEOs of venture-backed startups as well as mothers, you will find that most women have either lost their marriage or their sanity while trying to run a startup and a family. Of course, no woman (besides me) will say this publicly because it will kill her career as an entrepreneur. One woman, (who has been lauded on TechCrunch for her startup), told me confidentially that she is getting a divorce and her husband thinks her drive is pathological. Which, frankly, is probably true, because much has been written about how most successful entrepreneurs are almost-but-not-quite crazy.
And Sara Lacy has explained the process whereby the boys-club startup founders perpetuate the boys club: if you get through it once, you can keep going, and helping other people to live out the crazy, family-unfriendly pipe-dreams of startup founders.
Many of you will want to tell me stories of the exceptions. I know. I'm one of them. I've driven myself and my ex-husband completely insane with my startup dramas, and I keep doing them. Each time I tell myself I will stay small. I will do a lifestyle business, and then I don't. I think too big and I take in outside funding.
But going into a field where you are the gender minority is very difficult. For one thing, people judge you more harshly, and you are more quickly to be deemed a failure. And it feels uncomfortable. Sure, it's fun to be the only woman in the room because you get a lot of attention, but on balance, Live Science reports that women are uncomfortable in a male-dominated setting.
One of the worst adages of feminism was “you can be anything.” Because you can't. You can't be an iconoclast if you're not. And most of us are not. It's a lonely life. Why encourage it? Look at the paths that have a more sure footing. Look at the lives they create. If you like that life, give it a try.
When we look to create new paths for new careers, look at what real lives look like along the way. If you are 20 and you want to be the rare woman getting a PhD in math, ask yourself, are you really that different from all other people? And if you are 30 and you want to get funding for your startup, ask yourself if you truly are crazy enough to give up sanity for a company. Most of us look for more stable, surefooted ways to go through life. That's rational behavior. | <urn:uuid:5141551a-6b2d-4dd7-a33b-e76c5be9f4e7> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://blog.penelopetrunk.com/2011/03/05/the-workplace-should-be-segregated-maybe/comment-page-2/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280310.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00185-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967921 | 1,698 | 1.859375 | 2 |
Youssef Rakha on Beirut39 Poet Nazem Elsayed
Over on The Arabophile, poet/novelist/critic Youssef Rakha makes his way through and around two books by the young Lebanese poet Nazem Elsayed, one of the poetic standouts of the Beirut39 group.
Rakha explores Elsayed’s personal and poetic histories, telling us, “I am thinking of two short books by a Lebanese poet called Nazem Elsayed, who happens to be the 10th of 11 siblings, born to illiterate parents the year the [Lebanese] civil war broke out, only months before I was born; and it is these two books that I am discussing and partially translating here….”
Never mind the illiteracy of his parents; Arabic linguistic tradition is an important part of Elsayed’s work:
He remembers picking up shrapnel and empty bullet shells to resell, he remembers showing talent as a footballer, but mostly he remembers his family’s orally transmitted verses and the long pre-Islamic classics known as al-mu’alaqat.
These traditions are not strictly followed or reanimated in Elsayed’s work, Rakha says, but instead, “Tradition lies low and by so doing it energises and animates what is being uttered….”
Rakha translates from “The Truth About My Knee“:
It occurs to me at the height of darkness
To jump out of bed and smoke
But instead I place my knee on your back which like you is asleep
And thinks my knee is a dream
The eyes are more beautiful than the night you lock up in your head
Darkness is one thing
Night is another thing
Get up so you can see my knee in reality
Bent in walking and in the fancy of walking
And the first of Elsayed’s 13 poems in the Beirut39 collection, translated by Sinan Antoon:
The Advice of Others
I do nothing except write the advice of others
I write it on small pieces of paper
and put them in the dark drawer
after a long or short time I go back to their advice
and am not surprised to find
that they don’t resemble what they gave me
so I write it down
and leave it there to change on its own
Coptic Egyptian Poets
Also, from Al Masry Al Youm: Poet leads campaign against religious designations on national IDs and (yes, I know it’s not poetry) Cinema Coptic: Egypt censors religion in film.
Another Doodle for Khalil Gibran
I am not personally a fan of Gibran, but—according to The New Yorker–the Arab-American poet is the third-best-selling poet of “all time.” His birthday was yesterday.
If you’re a fan, certainly you should read The New Yorker article, and here are three poems translated from the Arabic, published in Grape Leaves: A Century of Arab American Poetry, edited by Gregory Orfalea and Sharif Elmusa, 2000.
Much more on the doodle (and Gibran’s career) from Meedan.
Poetry Translation Workshop (in London) to Focus on Poems from Abboud al Jabiri
The London-based Poetry Translation Centre has announced that their next poetry translation workshop will be held on Jan. 12. The session, led by translator Worod Musawi, will focus on the work of Iraqi poet Abboud al Jabiri. Places are free.
The Zajal Making a Comeback in Lebanon?
This AFP article reports that the battle between the Arabic novel and the Arabic poem continues, this time with one point in the poetry column: “Zajal, an old form of improvised Arabic poetry that enjoyed its heyday in Lebanon before the 1975-1990 civil war, is making a tentative comeback with thousands of fans on Facebook and YouTube.” | <urn:uuid:cdb3558a-1121-45fa-bce1-122be45d6e39> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://arablit.org/2011/01/07/arabic-poetry-friday-beirut39er-nazem-elsayed-coptic-egyptian-poets-translating-abboud-al-jabiri-more/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572127.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815024523-20220815054523-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.93845 | 848 | 1.789063 | 2 |
CERT stands for “Community Emergency Response Teams.” The program was first developed by the Los Angeles Fire Department in 1985 to train civilians and private or government employees to be able to help in case of earthquakes. It was successful, and in 1993 it was made available nationally. Since then, all states plus Puerto Rico, Guam, the Virgin Islands, American Samoa, and the Northern Mariana Islands have CERT programs. The Emergency Management Institute and the National Fire Academy adopted and expanded the CERT materials so that they now apply to all types of disasters, natural and man-made.
Emergency Essentials wants you to be prepared to help yourself. We also encourage you to get involved in your community and help those around you prepare. (We also sell CERT gear, so once you're CERT-ified you can get everything you need.)
What is CERT’s present purpose?
CERT exists to educate people about disaster preparedness with particular attention to hazards that might exist in their area—and to train them in basic response skills, so that they can jump in and help until professional responders can get there. In any disaster, professional responders can be overwhelmed with calls for help, and their efforts are often complicated by blocked roadways, communications breakdowns, and the sheer number of injured people. People will need to help each other, and CERT is designed to prepare them to do just that.
Who conducts CERT training, and how is it given?
CERT teams, fire departments, emergency medical technicians, FEMA workers, or anyone who has been “CERTified” can provide the training from approved materials. The training is given in seven 2 ½-hour sessions, once a week, including classroom teaching as well as practical experience and drills. There are classes especially for teens, and online CERT classes as well.
Who can participate in CERT training?
Anyone who is interested can sign up to participate. The FAQ on FEMA's CERT page says, "Naturals for the training are neighborhood watch, community organizations, communities of faith, school staff, workplace employees, scouting organization and other groups that come together regularly for a common purpose. CERT skills are useful in disaster and everyday life events."
Check in your area to see if you think joining a CERT team would be a good fit for you.
What exactly is included in CERT training?
Following major disasters, volunteer rescue efforts can help save hundreds of lives. Sadly, it's also true that volunteers without adequate training have lost their own lives in their efforts to save someone else. Such a high price is preventable through training in proper emergency response—and that is one of the factors that CERT training addresses. CERT aims to:
- Train people in what to expect after various types of disasters
- Teach them their responsibilities in mitigating damage and preparing to help
- Train them in lifesaving skills, with emphasis on decision-making, rescuer safety, and on doing the greatest good for the greatest number
- Organize teams to be an extension of the corps of first responders, able to give immediate aid without doing harm to themselves or others until the professionals arrive.
What are the seven topics covered in the classes?
- Disaster Preparedness (localized information) plus CERT concept and organization
- Disaster Fire Suppression
- Disaster Medical Operations I—diagnosing and treating airway obstruction, bleeding, and shock
- Disaster Medical Operations II—head-to-toe assessment, basic first-aid, sanitary procedures, and establishing a treatment area for the injured.
- Light Search and Rescue Operations—planning, size-up, search techniques, rescue techniques, and rescuer safety
- Disaster Psychology and Team Organization
- Course Review and Disaster Simulation
Where can I learn more about CERT programs in my area?
Go to www.citizencorps.gov/cc/listCouncil. To start a CERT training program in your community, here are the steps:
- Identify the program goals that CERT will meet and see what resources are available to conduct the program in your area. (You will need trained responders to teach the course.)
- Gain approval from elected and appointed officials to conduct the training.
- Identify and recruit potential participants. Contact community groups, hospitals, business and industry workers, local government workers and church groups.
- Train a cadre of CERT instructors who are already first responders
- Conduct CERT sessions (the 7-week course)
- Offer CERT refresher courses, drills, and exercises to keep trained “graduates” on their toes.
To pique community interest in CERT, you can sponsor events such as picnics, barbecues, community clean-ups, simulated disaster drills, or a disaster education fair. Make the program as desirable and interesting as possible to encourage participation, and advertise widely.
CERT publishes an online national newsletter with tips and updated information. To search for CERT materials and information, go to www.citizencorps.gov. (Don’t confuse this with www.US-Cert.gov, which stands for United States Computer Emergency Readiness Team (formed to improve our country’s cybersecurity!)
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Learning is a cumulative process and in language and maths, it is especially critical as every year of learning sets up the building blocks for the next year of learning.
A love of mathematics could help sports stars solve problems on court.
The national curriculum expects teachers to teach some maths concepts through a financial lens. The revised curriculum includes the financial lens as an example teachers can use, if they choose to.
Students with expert maths teachers scored significantly higher on an international maths test than any other group. But a student’s level of advantage also affects assessment scores.
Think of yourself as learning alongside your child.
For years you may have been adding and subtracting numbers in your head in a certain way, but these strategies were never formally taught at school. Now they are, and they all have names.
Results from the world’s longest running large-scale international assessment of maths and science show Australia has significantly improved in Year 8 maths and science, and Year 4 science.
Grade 9 learners in top and lower performing schools have difficulties with the same topics in maths. This has implications for curriculum revision and for teaching.
Findings from a study that followed more than 70,000 high school students in Greece suggest why girls may be less likely to pick careers in science and maths than boys.
There are a few things South Africa needs to do to close the gap between what the education system produces and what the job market needs.
Performance in mathematics matters for university entrance. Without it, school leavers are not eligible for many programmes.
Australian education is still going backwards from where we started in 2000 – new PISA results show.
In a three-year project, students were taught STEM skills by designing solutions for real-world problems. An evaluation of the project found most students were stimulated and engaged.
Studying maths is likely to make you smarter and more employable.
We asked 252 Australian Greens party supporters and 252 One Nation party supporters to do some simple maths. Their answers changed when we told them it was climate change data.
Maths anxiety can be made a thing of the past, as new research shows.
To multiply two numbers by hand take a few steps but it’s something we’re taught in school. When dealing with big numbers, really big numbers, we need to a quicker way to do things.
Make maths more fun with these tips
The Romans may not have had a symbol for zero, but bees understand what it means beyond just the simple assumption “there’s nothing there”.
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"Hurrah! Hurrah! Long may she stay there! Now, do let us drop this tiresome subject. We have only ten minutes to ourselves before the rest of the committee arrive, and that point with regard to Evelyn Percival must be arranged. Come, Dorothy, let us race each other to the Lookout!"Bridget stood by the window, but she heard none of these soothing sounds. Her spoilt, childish heart was in the most open state of rebellion and revolt.
"So it is, Bridget. But you will permit me, an old woman compared to you, to point out a fact—the self-denying people are the happy ones, the selfish are the miserable. Take your own way now in your youth, sip each pleasure as it comes, turn from the disagreeables, trample on those who happen to be in your way, as you did on that rosebud just now, and you will lay up misery for yourself in the future. You will be a very wretched woman when you reach my age."
"People will like you here too," she said. "I am certain you are very good-natured; come and let me[Pg 19] show you some of our snug little arrangements in the common room, and then I think it will be time for bed.""Only the head girl of the school," remarked Dolly in a soft tone. "But of course a person of not the smallest consequence. Well, Janet, what next?"
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But this new girl was not following out any of the old precedents.
Bridget stood and watched her. Olive kept a little apart, and the smaller girls clustered close together, watching their new friend's face with interest and admiration."I'd make it up if I was you, miss," she said.
"New girl!" exclaimed Katie, "why, she's about the very oldest girl in the school—the oldest and the nicest. She's the head of the school. We call her our queen. She's not like you, Biddy, of course; but she's very nice—awfully nice!""What do you mean, Olive?" Olive turned and looked at Janet.
Dorothy turned with her companion; they walked along the wide gravel sweep, then entered a narrow path which wound gradually up-hill. They soon reached a rural tower, which was called by the girls "The Lookout," mounted some steep steps, and found[Pg 4] themselves standing on a little platform, where two other girls were waiting to receive them.
Olive Moore belonged to the toadying faction in the school. Toadies, however, can be useful, and Janet was by no means above making use of Olive in case of need.
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The follies of a day: or, the marriage of Figaro. A comedy in five acts. Written originally by Monsieur Beaumarchais, ... translated and adapted for the English stage, by Mr. Holcroft. ...
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Investigating the effect of liquid viscosity on two-phase gas-liquid flows
Abdulahi, Abolore (2014) Investigating the effect of liquid viscosity on two-phase gas-liquid flows. PhD thesis, University of Nottingham.
Simultaneous flow of gas-liquid in pipes presents considerable challenges and difficulties due to the complexity of the two-flow mixture. Oil-gas industries need to handle highly viscous liquids, hence studying the effect of changing the fluid viscosity becomes imperative as this is typically encountered in deeper offshore exploration. This work looks at the effect of liquid viscosity on gas-liquid flows. The work was carried out using two different pipes of 67mm and 127mm internal diameter. For the experiments carried out on the 67mm diameter pipe, air and three different liquids were used with viscosities 1, 42 and 152cp. With these experiments, the effect of viscosity on the entrainment process from the Taylor bubble in a vertical tube was investigated with the Taylor bubble being held stationary in a downward liquid flow with the use of three different gas injection methods. Taylor bubble length, the gas flow rate and the liquid flow rate approaching the stationary bubble were varied. In addition, the wake length below the stationary bubble was measured at different conditions of gas and liquid superficial velocities and comparison was made with the work by previous authors. Videos were taken with high speed camera to validate the measurement taken on wake lengths. A Wire Mesh Sensor system was placed at two different positions below the air injection point on the 67mm diameter pipe of the stationary bubble facility whose data acquisition provided time and cross-sectionally resolved information about spatial distribution. This information was used to generate time averaged void fraction, bubble size distribution and contour plots of the two-phase flow structure. A Probability Density Function (PDF) of void fraction can be obtained from the former, with PDFs of the wake section of the stationary bubbles showing that the flows are in the bubbly region while the PDF for the entire slug unit assumed that for a typical twin-peaked slug flow. The interpretation of this is that holding a bubble stationary can simulate real slug flow. Results on the bubble length measurement and gas loss into a bubble wake have shown good agreement with existing work by other authors. Experiments on the 127 mm diameter pipe were carried out because most published work on gas/liquid flow were on smaller diameter pipes with air and water, yet many of the industrial applications of such flows in vertical pipes are in larger diameter pipes and with liquids which are much more viscous than water. Another important parameter considered in the study is pressure because of its effect on gas density. This part of the research goes some way to rectify this lack and presents void fraction and pressure gradient data for sulphur hexafluoride with gas densities of 28 and 45 kg/m3 and oil (viscosity 35 times water). The gas and liquid superficial velocities were varied in the ranges 0.1-3 and 0.1-1 m/s respectively. The void fraction was also measured with a Wire Mesh Sensor system. Flow patterns were identified from the signatures of the Probability Density Function of cross-sectionally averaged void fraction. These showed the single peak shapes associated with bubbly and churn flow but not the twin-peaked shape usually seen in slug flow. This confirms previous work in larger diameter pipes but with less viscous liquids. For the bubble to churn flows investigated, the pressure gradients decreased with increasing superficial gas velocity. The change in pressure ultimately affects the density of gas in the two-phase flow mixture. Though there was little effect of pressure on void fraction below certain transitional flow rates, the effect became significant beyond these values. Different statistical analysis techniques such as power spectral density, probability density function, mean, standard deviation and time series of the acquired data have been used which also show the significant effect of pressure on void fraction at high gas density which have not been measured previously.
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I am very much looking forward to the last weekend in February:
Note: This blog post was originally published on the MIT Public Service Center website. It’s the second post in a blog series sharing findings from a research project I’m working on throughout the month of January.
January 10, 2012
Paul Artiuch and Sam Kornstein are graduate students at the Sloan School of Management. Throughout the month of January they are researching market-oriented approaches to reducing agricultural food waste in India. They will be sharing their project scope and some of their findings in this blog series.
Soon after arriving in Delhi, we took a walk over to a local market and spoke with a man who runs the community produce stand. We asked him where he buys his fruits and vegetables. “I take my truck to Azadpur Mandi every day at five in the morning,” he said. “Is that where all of Delhi’s markets get their produce?” we responded. “Just about, except for the government-run shops.” We probed a bit more about seasonality, food waste, and prices, but found that his operation is fairly simple, and nearly nothing gets wasted at the retail level. Even if food becomes damaged someone in the community finds a use for it.
Azadpur Mandi turns out to be the largest wholesale produce market in all of Asia. Covering 80 acres in North Delhi, it not only supplies the city and its surrounding communities with fresh produce but also serves as a hub for the rest of India. We took a ride over to Azadpur at the break of dawn the following day, and walked around for a few hours talking to traders, truck drivers and storage managers. There were colorful trucks being unloaded everywhere, stacks of vegetables in bags being stored under tin roofs, and thousands of traders, commission agents, storage vendors and buyers haggling over quality and prices. It was chaotic, and messy, but it all seemed to work even though Azadpur Mandi is significantly over capacity.
We asked people where their produce had come from and found peppers that had traveled 24 hours from Gujarat, chilies that had been hauled for 17 hours from U.P., and onions that were grown only a few hours away. In short, Azadpur Mandi is an aggregation point for produce grown in virtually every corner of India.
Despite its dilapidated appearance, and with thousands of tons of produce moving through it each day, the market was remarkably efficient with minimal edible food waste. The highest quality goods get sold to high end markets, restaurants, or are exported. Medium grade items make their way to markets in less affluent areas. Finally damaged or irregular produce, even if discarded by larger traders, is picked through and sold in push carts on the street. The whole system works quickly enough that it’s rare for food to spoil once it arrives at Azadpur.
There was however quite a bit of inedible food waste generated by the estimated 12,000 tons of produce that moves through the market every day. Once produce shipments are received, leaves, husks, and clippings are typically removed before the items are sold. The approximately 2 000 tons of waste need to be moved from the market daily to make room for new produce to come in. The market operator, a government agency, loads it onto carts and dump the waste into sectioned off enclosures, where cows and dogs pick at it until dump trucks come twice daily to haul the waste off to the city dump.
Here we saw an opportunity. Organic waste can be converted into compost and bio-gas, useful commodities, using a process known as bio-digestion. This is often done on a small scale in villages, and has been successfully completed on a commercial scale in many places around the world, including by the Massachusetts based company Harvest Power. To do this commercially, you need a large, reliable, and constant supply of organic feedstock – exactly what we saw in Azadpur Mandi.
While we found untapped value in the form of an agricultural waste stream, value that could be recognized by communities surrounding wholesale markets, we still haven’t observed the massive quantities of edible food waste that is known to be present along the supply chain. In a few days we’ll be traveling outside the city to some rural parts of Punjab. We’ll be speaking with farmers, traders and logistics companies to see what happens between the field and the arrival of produce at wholesale markets such as Azadpur Mandi.
(See photographs in previous post on Azadpur).
A Montana store is offering a free gun to customers who sign up for satellite-TV service, drawing criticism from an advocacy group and the dealer’s parent RadioShack Corp. (RSH), which is trying to stop the promotion.
The shop, located in the Bitterroot Valley of Montana about 50 miles off the highway, has tripled the number of signups for Dish Network Corp. (DISH)’s service since starting the offer in October, store manager Fabian Levy said. When customers sign a Dish contract, they get a gift certificate for a gun that can be redeemed at Frontier Guns & Ammo, about 10 miles from the store.
Assuming customers pass an FBI background check at the gun store, the coupons can be exchanged for a Hi-Point 380 pistol or a 20-gauge shotgun that retail between $130 and $140. No license is needed in Montana to buy a gun.
All I got for subscribing to Comcast was a lousy stress ball and a free month of cable.
I’m really beginning to like this show:
Sam has previously stated that “this blog is supposed to be loosely about beer.” So for twenty minutes, I stared idly at my computer screen, sipping my Yuengling and wondering how I was going to relate this post to the topic of beer. So here goes nothing.
I like beer. I also like television. In fact, I like to drink beer while watching television. Although I have not taken a math course since 2001, I was able to arrive at a simple yet accurate equation: B + TV(x) = Happy James. (A problem arises when B is greater than or equal to six beers [read: the six beers I’ll admit to my doctor]. At that point, Happy James is on the verge of becoming Drunk Spector, but that’s another tale).
B clearly represents beer, and TV is obviously television. So, then, what is the x factor (please note: this is not a reference to Simon Cowell’s upcoming talent show on Fox)? This x factor is usually a road leading to cancellation. It’s a variation of smart writing, clever producing and on-point acting. But don’t just take my word for it. What follows is a spot-on guide by Mitch Hurwitz, the creator of Arrested Development, on how to effectively ensure your sitcom will be canceled:
Have a confusing title
Come up with an unwieldy title that perhaps comes from the realm of psychology, so that the title of your show is almost instantly forgettable. For example, if you were to call the show “Welcome Matt”, an audience could immediately understand the concept: this must be a character named Matt and he must either be a welcoming person or stepped on. If you call a show “Arrested Development” it’s confusing and sufficiently disorientating to guarantee that a wide audience never discovers the fruits of your labour.
Audiences love fast cars and exciting vehicles
So see if you can put in some heavy machinery like a stair-car, that isn’t easily associated with speed or sex appeal.
Try to do too much for a 20-minute programme
If in your particular medium an audience is used to a simple plotline or maybe one or two stories, see if you can get eight in there, and find a way that they somehow intertwine. Also, it’s important that you have a lot of anxiety when they don’t intertwine, sufficient to deprive yourself of sleep so that you are miserable during the production of the show – but then upon completion of the show, you’re guaranteed to be miserable, because nobody will watch it.
Add a sprinkle of incest
They’ll never admit it, but viewers love sex. In fact, they love any sort of titillation, with the exception of incest. So focus on that.
First impressions are everything
So if you can screw that up, you’re made. With Arrested Development, we tried showing the deep disdain that connects a family. We wanted to hold up a mirror to American society. And, just as predicted, America looked away.
Don’t be afraid to give characters the same names
Audiences tend to run from confusion. So a show, for instance, where one character is named George Michael, one character is named Michael, one character is named George and one character is named George Oscar (and perhaps another character is named Oscar), will be the kind of show you can almost guarantee people won’t develop a fondness for.
Make easy jokes about minority groups
Whether they be Mexicans, Jews or homosexuals, any group can be dismissed with a few stereotypical cracks. At least, that’s what we tried to do. And given their “lack of coming to the party”, it seems we succeeded!
Squander iconic guest stars
As an example, Liza Minnelli has famously appealed to the homosexual audience. Note: it’s very important to alienate the homosexual audience first, or they might “come to the party”.
Don’t bother with a laughter track
Audiences don’t always know “when to laugh”. By omitting a laugh track you can almost guarantee they’ll never find out.
Audiences like nicely dressed characters. They also enjoy nudity
Split the difference by putting your character in a pair of cut-offs and call him a Never-Nude. Advanced: feel free to dip him in a vat of blue paint. That’s a real turn-off.
Make a show for British sensibilities
And then show it in America.
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These days, all the talk in financial markets is about when the Federal Reserve will start paring its debt purchases. What’s more important, for everything from stocks to bonds to currencies, is when they will end.
There have been few major moves ahead of the Kansas Fed’s virtual Jackson Hole symposium, where Chair Jerome Powell on Aug 27 may provide insight into how and when officials will start pulling back their bond market support. That will set the timetable for how soon the Fed will raise interest rates.
The stakes are high, with the gusher of cash awash in the financial system driving US stocks to record highs, and Treasury yields holding just above six-month lows. Pulling back too quickly may derail the economic recovery just as the surge in the delta variant is posing a new risk. Moving too slowly could fuel the inflation pressures unleashed by the reopening from the pandemic. | <urn:uuid:4187a1fa-c3e7-4afb-8f97-adeb089a6ae6> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theedgesingapore.com/capital/global-review/fed-taper-end-matters-more | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573197.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818124424-20220818154424-00666.warc.gz | en | 0.939942 | 183 | 1.609375 | 2 |
This richly illuminated 14th-century German homilary is particularly interesting for its rare bifolium of drawings bound in at the front of the book. The headgear worn by the nuns in the drawings is characteristic of Cistercensian and Premostratensian nuns in northern Germany as early as circa 1320. Evidence for dating and localization is also found in the manuscript's relationship with a second homilary in the Bodleian Library (Oxford, Bodleian Library, Ms. Douce 185). Despite minor codicological differences—page layout, text-block dimensions, and ruling—it seems likely that the two homilaries were composed as a set in one scriptorium. The drawings at the beginning of the present Walters manuscript were inspired by miniatures within the book and are very similar to the style of artist of Ms. Douce 185 who has recently been identified as a collaborator of the Willehalm Master. Although the Walters homilary lacks internal evidence for localization, it can be attributed to the lower Rhine on the basis of general affinities between work of this region and English art. The Walters homilary is stylistically close to the small ivory book illustrated with 14 paintings of the Passion in the Victoria and Albert Museum (London, Victoria and Albert Museum, inv. no.11-1872), which has Westphalian and north German characteristics. The palette, figural drawings, the use of checkered spandrels, large ivy-leaf terminals, and ape marginalia in the Walters homilary are also close to fragments of an antiphonary from Westphalia scattered in German collections (Düsseldorf, Universitätsbibliothek, Ms. D. 37a, b, and c, and Hamm, Städtisches Gustav-Lübcke-Museum, Mss. 5474−76). A second group of stylistically related manuscripts can be found in a two-volume antiphonary from the Dominican nunnery of Paradise near Soest (Düsseldorf, Universitätsbibliothek, Mss. D.7 and D.9).
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In Calabria’s interior, COSENZA is a burgeoning city with a small and atmospheric historic centre surrounded by rings of featureless modern construction. Tradition has it that Alaric the Goth, the barbarian who gave the Western world a jolt when he prised open the gates of Rome in 410 AD, is buried under the Busento River. Struck down for his sins by malaria while journeying south, he was interred here along with his booty, and the course of the river diverted to cover the traces, lending Cosenza a place in history and giving rise to countless, fruitless projects to discover the tomb’s whereabouts.
In the new town, you might take a stroll around the pedestrianized main axis, Corso Mazzini, and Piazza Bilotti to see half a dozen open-air sculptures by the likes of Dalí, De Chirico and Pietro Consagra, part of a bequest that makes up the Museo all’Aperto Bilotti, or MAB. At the top of the old town, the mainly thirteenth-century Castello Svevo (Tues–Sun 9.30am–1pm & 3.30–7.30pm; t0984 813 806) affords excellent views over the city and occasionally holds exhibitions and concerts. | <urn:uuid:f4fb3d92-17a2-47bd-9a95-9361c14b0ff6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.roughguides.com/destinations/europe/italy/basilicata-calabria/cosenza-around/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00094-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.944545 | 282 | 1.664063 | 2 |
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In ancient Rome there lived a gentle and humble man named Valentine. He was a physician, but he was also a Christian priest whose life and freedom were in constant danger in a city of people who believed in so many gods, not just one. So Valentine tended to his patients in the daytime, but he prayed for them only at night. One day a jailer from the emperor's prison appeared at Valentine's door with his small child, a girl who was blind. Knowing the difficulty of curing blindness, Valentine vowed to do his best, and over the weeks of treatment and prayer the three became fast friends. But even his friendship with the jailer could not save Valentine when the Roman soldier came to imprison him. Here, accompanied by Robert Shabuda's dramatic mosaics evoking the time period in which the story takes place, is the story of a man whose goodness and faith brought about a miracle, and whose name lives on today in one of our most celebrated holidays.
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Concert Band - Grade 4.5
Composed by George Gershwin (1898-1937). Arranged by James P. Ripley. Concert Band; Masterworks. Donald Hunsberger Wind Library. 20th Century; Masterwork Arrangement. Conductor Score. 132 pages. Published by Alfred Music (AP.DHM011C).
Item Number: AP.DHM011C
Originally titled "Rhapsody in Rivets" and inspired by the composer's emotional reaction to his native New York City, the work was premiered by the Boston Symphony with Gershwin as piano soloist in 1932. This arrangement by James Ripley is based on the manuscript full score and the composer's sketches, located in the Library of Congress. This arrangement offers a wonderfully musical opportunity to spotlight your piano soloist. Score is sold with the piano solo included.
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by WorldTribune Staff, December 5, 2021
A physicist and professor emeritus at Princeton University not only contends that climate change is “not a problem” but that extra CO2 is beneficial to humanity.
Dr. Will Happer said during a lecture in Amsterdam last month:
“The rationale for the crusade against CO2, it’s almost a religious thing people believe in. … What are the facts? Is climate change a problem? The answer is NO, it’s not a problem at all and co2 is not a problem at all.”
Happer, who was a climate advisor in the Trump administration and is founder of the U.S. think tank the CO2 Coalition, restated his contention that extra CO2 is no problem for the climate and for humanity. He even thinks that it is beneficial because of the positive effects on plant growth and agriculture. | <urn:uuid:d103644a-7a89-4eb1-a64d-214a04f6972c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.worldtribune.com/princeton-physicist-climate-change-is-not-a-problem-co2-a-good-thing/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.966303 | 186 | 2.03125 | 2 |
A Future of Engineered Design?
Did you hear? Print is dead!
That’s what they’ve been saying for years, decades even. The decline in newspaper sales is often the evidence for such a statement, citing that ‘digital/social/new media’ is what the kids are craving. I’ve always felt that the bullshit and lies printed on the front page (and every page thereafter) is what’s killing newspapers, but what do I know? Good content is good content whatever format you hungrily consume from.
I’ve recently purchased Amazon’s Kindle. After reading a few books on this nifty little thing I can’t see myself ever buying a paperback again. It is undoubtedly the perfect replacement for its printed predecesor, improving the system in all the right places; the next evolution.
The ‘wall of text’ content format has survived the test of time. It existed before the printing press and has existed for over half a millenium after, and if our schools don’t fail us, it will continue into the digital age for millennia to come. If Google has its way digitizing the World’s books, not much will get left behind either.
The question that’s been on my mind lately is what’s going to happen to more advanced content formats like newspapers and magazines? The page-turning paradigm is an archaic one in the digital world. The design of iBooks for example is that of immaturity rather than anything ground breaking.
The biggest breakthrough in digital content to date is perhaps the humble hyperlink, unleashing us from a linear information pathway. The web has evolved into a rich media format with HTML and CSS combining to form a strong backbone. But with website design we still look back to the safety of design principles established in traditional print. Stepping forward we embrace a concept that is new to the digital world - interactivity.
It would seem technology is evolving faster than the design required for it. Will we have established at least the basic rules of interactive content design before the digital paradigm shifts again? Or will we continue to play catch-up, hitting the occasional design element that we’ll bring along for the ride? Imagine what will be achieved after a hundred years of design on touchscreens similar to today’s. I don’t think we’ll ever find out.
Virtual or augmented reality (if you will) is already in the labs. I have no doubt we’ll be dropping the aforementioned devices within decades, and probably before I or anyone has truly learnt to design for them. Does technology need to slow down and allow design to catch up? Even as a designer the advances in technology are more exciting right now, and design by engineers has proved adequate so far; just look at Google.
With that all said I would be disillusioned not to expect a touch of design genius to set the bar higher every now and then.
I’m going to retreat behind the safety of my Kindle and its trusty wall of text, see if William Gibson’s latest novel has anything on the matter. I’ll watch the future of content design unfold through necessity, at least for now. One day I hope to make a splash.
Perhaps it’s because I refuse to buy an iPad…
Update 17th January 2011 - How Facebook Ship Code - a fascinating article on the engineer driven environment at the world’s biggest website. I wonder how many designers they have? | <urn:uuid:70fde364-ce59-40e8-9e9b-444c5d13ec1a> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://dbushell.com/2010/09/21/a-future-of-engineered-design/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00174-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946597 | 733 | 1.992188 | 2 |
By Kimberley Donoghue PBN Web Editor Twitter: @kdonog
PROVIDENCE – The R.I. Center for Freedom and Prosperity asserted that the tax and fee hikes proposed by Gov. Lincoln D. Chafee on Jan. 31 would cost the state 1,400 private-sector jobs.
The conservative think tank, which formed from the ashes of the Ocean State Policy Research Institute, said Thursday that it bought a State Tax Analysis Modeling Program customized for Rhode Island in order to do an analysis of the state budget. It was developed by the Beacon Hill Institute at Suffolk University and is a five-year, dynamic, computable, general-equilibrium tax model.
Chafee unveiled a $7.94 billion state budget for fiscal 2013 last month that boosts spending on local schools by extending the reach of the state sales tax and cutting spending on other areas, including health care services.
“Because a sales tax increase would make Rhode Island even less competitive with its regional neighbors, and nationally overall, consumer and entrepreneurial behavior would be significantly altered, resulting in lower economic activity and actually worsening the state’s economic plight,” the Tax Plan Analysis outlined.
The center’s economist, J. Scott Moody, entered revenue targets from the budget. He asserted that since tax increases “depress overall economic activity,” the state’s expected $95 million revenue increase would be just $35 million.
He also contended that the state would lose 1,400 private-sector jobs. To compare, the 2011 R.I. Employment Trends and Workforce Issues brief, published by the state labor department, found that private-sector employment decreased by 819 jobs, or 0.2 percent, between 2009 and 2010, while increasing by 1,900 jobs from 2010 to 2011.
The center also claimed that municipalities would lose $9.75 million in revenue due to lower commercial property taxes, as a consequence of lower overall economic activity. In addition, Rhode Island would lose nearly 1 percent in overall gross state product, and “investment” – or new capital in the state – would drop by $27 million.
“Balancing the budget is the wrong goal; and tax increases are precisely the wrong solution!” the report said.
Center CEO Mike Stenhouse acknowledged that the algorithm was a “broader tool” than the specifications of the governor’s budget and the projections were rough estimates, based on revenue bumps from $69.7 million in sales tax; $13.6 million in motor vehicle registration fees; a $7 million increase in smoking products and $3.8 million in other miscellaneous taxes and fees that were not included in the projection, he said.
University of Rhode Island economist Leonard Lardaro made some preliminary observations on the analysis, noting:
“First, [the Tax Plan Analysis] does what the state of Rhode Island should have been doing all along but seldom does - due diligence,” he said. “Second, this analysis is not merely restricted to the very short-term (static) effects of proposed policy change, but extends the effects to what also occurs at later times in response to these changes. So, I very much like the methodology – perhaps someday in our lifetimes the state of Rhode Island will actually ‘evolve’ to this level of sophistication in its policymaking.”
Lardaro also noted that the model, like any other, makes assumptions on how the economic pieces fit together and that should be kept in mind when using it.
“I do have to say, however, that if we are to rely on numbers from other than our state, this is the type of model we should pay attention to,” adding that he would need more time to evaluate the specifics of the model before giving a definitive judgment. | <urn:uuid:30b1461c-f11a-483b-94e6-33829907e8e4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://pbn.com/Analysis-Budget-tax-fee-hikes-to-cost-jobs,65276?category_id=40&sub_type=stories,packages | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719273.38/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00065-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.964601 | 795 | 1.53125 | 2 |
Mineral Sulphides Crossword Clue
Mineral sulphides crossword clue. Daily Telegraph Sydney quick clues crossword question today, 26 July 2017. 7 letters.
Of the rarer bismuth minerals we may notice the following: – the complex sulphides, copper bismuth glance or wittichenite, BiCu 3 S 3, silver bismuth glance, bismuth cobalt pyrites, bismuth nickel pyrites or saynite, needle ore (patrinite or aikinite), BiCuPbS 3, emplectite, CuBiS 2, and kobellite, BiAsPb 3 S 6; the sulphotelluride tetradymite; the selenide guanajuatite, B12Se3, Iv.
Free sulphur may also result from the decomposition of pyrites, as in pyritic shales and lignites, or from the alteration of galena: thus crystals of sulphur occur, with anglesite, in cavities in galena at Monteponi near Iglesias in Sardinia; whilst the pyrites of Rio Tinto in Spain sometimes yield sulphur on weathering. | <urn:uuid:cf37fc4a-1442-435e-beb9-a7b412c5246b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://croswod.com/mineral-sulphides-crossword-clue/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570977.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809124724-20220809154724-00475.warc.gz | en | 0.726667 | 257 | 2.625 | 3 |
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