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Brooklyn in Kings County, New York — The American Northeast (Mid-Atlantic)
Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House
Revolutionary War Heritage Trail
The house was built along Canarsie Lane, which linked the settlement of Canarsie with Kings Highway. During the Revolutionary War, Pieter and Grietje’s great-great grandson, Peter A. Wyckoff, and his wife, Heyltie Remsen lived here with three small children and several slaves.
The Wyckoff house is an excellent example of Dutch Colonial vernacular style with its H-frame structure, shingled walls, split Dutch doors, and deep, flared “spring” eaves. Today, it is one of the few surviving examples of the many hundreds of such buildings that dotted the landscape of Kings County when British and American forces clashed in the Battle of Brooklyn on August 27, 1776.
The Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House is owned by the New York City Department of Parks & Recreation, is operated by the Wyckoff House & Association, and is a member of the Historic House Trust of New York City.
Erected by New York State.
Location. Click for map. Marker is at or near this postal address: 5816 Clarendon Road, Brooklyn NY 11203, United States of America.
Other nearby markers. At least 8 other markers are within 2 miles of this marker, measured as the crow flies. Canarsie Veterans Memorial (approx. one mile away); Dutch Reformed Church of Flatlands (approx. 1.7 miles away); The Kings Highway (approx. 1.7 miles away); Robert J Crawford (approx. 1.7 miles away); Thomas F Norton (approx. 1.7 miles away); Floyd Bennett Post # 1060 (approx. 1.8 miles away); Father Kehoe Triangle (approx. 1.9 miles away); John J. Fraser (approx. 2 miles away). Click for a list of all markers in Brooklyn.
More about this marker. An old photo of the Pieter Claesen Wyckoff House appears on the right side of the marker. Photo is from the Eugene Arbruster Collection, courtesy of Lee Rosenzweig. The bottom left of the marker features a picture of soldiers from the Continental Army. Picture Collection, the Branch Libraries, the New York Public Library, Astor, Lenox and Tilden Foundations. Next to this is a map showing A Plan of the Battle of Brooklyn. This map highlights the appropriate location of this historic site.
Also see . . .
1. The Wyckoff House & Association. (Submitted on April 25, 2010, by Bill Coughlin of North Arlington, New Jersey.)
2. The Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776 at Long Island, New York. The American Revolutionary War website. (Submitted on April 25, 2010, by Bill Coughlin of North Arlington, New Jersey.)
3. Battle of Long Island, August 27, 1776. (Submitted on April 25, 2010, by Bill Coughlin of North Arlington, New Jersey.)
4. The Battle of Long Island 1776. A British perspective of the battle from BritishBattles.com. (Submitted on April 25, 2010, by Bill Coughlin of North Arlington, New Jersey.)
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Unitarian Universalist Church
The Universalists were the first religious group in North Carolina to espouse a theology based on a belief in universal salvation-stressing that, since "God is love," there can be no endless punishment or hell for sinners in the afterlife. The first Universalist minister in North Carolina was Abner Kneeland, who preached in Wilmington in 1825. Two years later Jacob Freeze settled in Wilmington, where he began to publish the Liberalist. Also in 1827, the Southern Convention of Universalists was organized in the hope of bringing "Universalists into acquaintance with each other, to unite their energies, and make arrangement for preaching." At that time one of the few Universalist churches in the South was the First Universalist Church of Sampson County. Hopes for a Universalist organization in the South faded, although the denomination continued to survive in small numbers well into the twentieth century.
Unitarianism is a faith based on individual freedom of belief, the free use of reason in religion, a united world community, and liberal social action. While Unitarian churches existed in Georgia and South Carolina before the Civil War, no efforts were made to organize permanent congregations in North Carolina until after World War II. The first Unitarian congregation to be organized in the state was in Charlotte in 1947. It is the largest in the state and has over 350 members. A second church was founded in Asheville in 1950, a third in Greensboro in 1951, and a fourth in Winston-Salem in 1953. The next decade saw the creation of congregations in Greenville in 1961 and Durham in 1966. A fellowship was organized in Franklin in 1976. The 1980s saw the organization of similar congregations in Fayetteville (1987), Hendersonville (1981), Hickory (1983) and Harrisburg, near Concord in Cabarrus County (1988). A lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and heterosexual, "intentionally welcoming congregation" was organized in Kernersville in Forsyth County in 1994.
In 1961 the American Unitarian Association and the Universalist Church of America merged to form the Unitarian Universalist Association (UUA). All modern-day Unitarian and Universalist churches in North Carolina are members of the UUA, although the titles used by some churches may vary. Two churches in North Carolina use only the name Universalist in their titles. These are the First Universalist Church of Sampson County, organized at Red Hill near Clinton in 1834, and the Outlaw's Bridge Universalist Church near Seven Springs in Wayne County, which dates from 1905. The congregations at Charlotte, Hickory, and Morehead City use only the name Unitarian. Fourteen other North Carolina congregations are listed as Unitarian Universalist. The Community Church of Chapel Hill retains its original name although it joined the UUA in 1993.
In the early 2000s there were approximately 4,000 members of these churches along with just over a hundred "friends." Some congregations use the term "fellowship" even though that term is technically used for smaller congregations without a minister. Larger congregations with ministers use the term "church." All of the congregations in North Carolina are also members of the Thomas Jefferson District of the UUA, which includes the Carolinas, most of Virginia, eastern Tennessee, and three congregations in Georgia.
Blanche Raper Zimmerman, New Dimensions of the Spirit: The Story of Unitarian-Universalists of Winston Salem (1982).
"Unitarian Universalist Church of Asheville (NC)." Available from https://www.flickr.com/photos/melystu/5358546044/ (accessed June 5, 2012).
Unitarian Universalist Association: http://www.uua.org/
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Landslides, caused due to the floods, damaged several houses and structures, killing those who were trapped. Because of the landslides and rains, over 164 houses collapsed. The Mandakini river, a tributary of the Ganges, washed down 40 hotels near Gaurikund, a populated region near the Kedarnath Temple. Pilgrimage centres in the region, including Gangotri, Yamunotri, Kedarnath and Badrinath are visited by thousands of devotees, especially after the month of May onwards. About 73,000 people were stuck in various regions because of damaged or blocked roads. People in other important locations like the Valley of flowers, Roopkund and the Sikh pilgrimage centre Hemkund were stranded for more than three days in remote regions. An important road for the region, NH58 was also washed down near Jyotirmath. Because the month of June is a busy tourist season, the number of people stranded increased considerably. For more than two days, the stranded tourists and pilgrims in various remote areas of the region were without food supplies. The roads were seriously damaged at more than 450 places, resulting in huge traffic jams, and the floods caused many cars and other vehicles to be washed away. On 18 June, more than 12,000 pilgrims were stuck at Badrinath, the popular pilgrimage center located on the banks of the Alaknanda River.The main market at Rambada, a hamlet on the way to Kedarnath, was washed out due to rain and the market of Soneprayag was heavily damaged. The police outpost at Rambada hamlet vanished and two policemen and three ITBP troopers died in Uttarakhand.
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The investigation into the attacks against high-profile Web sites in South Korea and the U.S. is a winding, twisty electronic goose chase that may not result in a definitive conclusion on the identity of the attackers.
Computer security experts disagree over the skill level of the DDOS (distributed denial-of-service) attacks, which over the course of a few days in early July caused problems for some of the Web sites targeted, including South Korean banks, U.S. government agencies and media outlets. The DDOS attack was executed by a botnet, or a group of computers infected with malicious software controlled by a hacker. That malware was programmed to attack the Web sites by bombarding them with page requests that far exceed normal visitor traffic. As a result, some of the weaker sites buckled. | <urn:uuid:23948561-acfd-44dd-bc11-2d9d11f54d57> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.itu.int/ITU-D/cyb/newslog/Attacks+On+US+Korea+Web+Sites+Leave+A+Winding+Trail.aspx | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280900.71/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00006-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953647 | 164 | 2.3125 | 2 |
New York, Aug 18 (IANS) Listening to live or recorded music significantly reduces anxiety for women undergoing surgical breast biopsies for cancer diagnosis and treatment, new research has found.
The two-year study involved 207 patients.
“We discovered that anxiety levels dropped significantly from pre-test to post-test in patients who heard one preferred song of either live or recorded music before surgery,” said lead author Jaclyn Bradley Palmer, music therapist at University Hospitals of Cleveland in Ohio, US.
Patients were randomly assigned to one of three study groups.
One group listened to preferred live music before surgery, one listened to preferred recorded music, and one experienced usual care with no music before surgery.
“In this trial, both live and recorded preoperative music therapy interventions reduced anxiety significantly more than usual preoperative management by 28 and 27 points, representing percent reductions of 43 percent and 41 percent, respectively,” she said.
“There wasn’t a significant difference in anxiety between live music and recorded music,” Bradley Palmer said.
“It seems like music, no matter how it is delivered, had a similar effect on reducing a patient’s preoperative anxiety,” she said.
“We know that music touches parts of our brain: The emotional centre that creates release of our body’s natural opiates, for example, endorphins, enkephalins and serotonin. All of those things that are released, are triggered by auditory stimulation, and music is prime in that,” said one of the co-authors of the study, Deforia Lane, from University Hospitals Seidman Cancer Centre.
The music groups and controls did not differ in the amount of anaesthesia requirement needed to reach moderate sedation.
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Thinking more about the Monuments to the Failed Future (see pst of November 14, 2012). It may take several more posts to unravel the many tangled thoughts about the series. There is no historical sequence, no hierarchy of themes, dreams and disillusions run through all the disparate thoughts (and fun with words), starting with ideas around water and folly.
Above, The Water Tower: a ferro-concrete structure raised on pilotis, by Richard Pare (1999). Built for a Socialist city of workers from a production facility in Ekaterinburg, Russia, it remains an important symbol of the early promise of the soviet dream: mass production for mass well-being. One of the first structures to use ferro-concrete, it was designed by Moisei Reisher in 1929.
The brutalism of the Socialist agenda made concrete, a watch tower holding one of the necessities for life… an abandoned failure, a Socialist ruin, a folly to oppression.
Ledoux, Inspector’s House at the Source of the Loue, engraving after Ledoux by Van Maëlle and Maillet, Chaux project, 1773-79.
“In 1767, Ledoux happened to visit the saltworks in Lorraine and Franche-Comté. This industrial center was among the most important of the period, and included housing and facilities for the working people. But Ledoux deplored what he saw. To him, they were ‘buildings put up haphazardly and stingily,’ and he lamented, ‘if the growth had been foreseen and studied, and if construction had been well-planned, an important town could have resulted.” Visionary Architects: Boullée, Ledoux, Lequeu, Dominique de Ménil, University of St. Thomas, 1968.
Reisher’s brutalist tower falls on its side, water spilling out. Virile and passionate, freudian sublimation stripped to its bare essentials. Ledoux’s project for Chaux was never realized but fully imagined: a wet dream.
In 1872, President Ulysses Grant made Yellowstone the first National Park in the world. After the Civil War, westward expansion continued to be rationalized by the doctrine of Manifest Destiny, as well as a combination of American exceptionalism and Romantic nationalism. “From 1800 to 1900, the United States tripled in size, the population shifted from about seven percent living in the West to roughly sixty percent.” (Guillaume Vandenbroucke, “The U.S. Westward Expansion,” International Economic Review, vol. 49, no. 1, February 2008) While destroying, containing, and driving out the native people, the growth in the white population, new technologies (cotton gin, steam engine), and cheaper transportation led to massive environmental destruction and the depletion of resources continuing today.
The natural dreamscapes, the national monuments of the American West, had to be protected from these energetic individualists consuming land and resources with little social constraint or government regulation.
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But it is a reason that eludes that strain of U.S. academia that first defines war as something that nations and groups other than the United States do, and then concludes that war has nearly vanished from the earth.
Since World War II, during a supposed golden age of peace, the United States military has killed or helped kill some 20 million people, overthrown at least 36 governments, interfered in at least 85 foreign elections, attempted to assassinate over 50 foreign leaders, and dropped bombs on people in over 30 countries. The United States is responsible for the deaths of 5 million people in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia, and over 1 million just since 2003 in Iraq.
Since 2001, the United States has been systematically destroying a region of the globe, bombing Afghanistan, Iraq, Pakistan, Libya, Somalia, Yemen, and Syria, not to mention the Philippines. The United States has “special forces” operating in two-thirds of the world’s countries and non-special forces in three-quarters of them.
The U.S. government provides weapons, military training, and/or military funding to almost every dictatorship and oppressive government on earth. See my 2020 book 20 Dictators Currently Supported by the U.S.
U.S. weapons are used on both sides of many wars.
In an attempt to quantify U.S. warmaking, I’ve copied below lists from these sources:
David Vine: The United States of War
William Blum: America’s Deadliest Export: Democracy
Dr. Zoltan Grossman: A Century of U.S. Military Interventions
James Lucas: U.S. Has Killed More Than 20 Million People
William Appleman Williams: Empire As a Way of Life
From David Vine’s The United States at War:
A list of wars (italic) and of military combat that for some reason isn’t called a war (non-italic) that does not attempt to include every war and combat against Native Americans:
1774-1883 Shawnee, Delaware
1777-1781 Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee)
1790-1795 Miami Confederacy
1792-1793 Muskogee (Creek)
1806-1810 Spanish, French privateers
1810 Spanish West Florida
1810-1813 Shawnee Confederacy
1812 Spanish Florida
1812-1815 Canada (Great Britain)
1812-1815 Dakota Sioux
1812-1815 Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee)
1813 Spanish West Florida
1813-1814 Marquesas Islands
1813-1814 Muskogee (Creek) Confederacy
1814 Spanish Florida
1816 Spanish Florida
1817 Spanish Florida
1818 Oregon (Russia, Spain)
1820-1861 African Slave Trade Patrol
1822-1825 Cuba (Spain
1824 Puerto Rico (Spain)
1831-1832 Falkland Islands
1836-1837 Muskogee (Creek)
1840 Fiji Islands
1851 Johanna Island
1853-1854 Ryukyu, Ogasawara islands
1855 Fiji Islands
1855-1856 Rogue River Indigenous Peoples
1855-1856 Yakima, Walla Walla, Cayuse
1856 Panama (Colombia)
1858 Coeur d’Alene Alliance
1858 Fiji Islands
1865 Panama (Colombia)
1866-1868 Lakota Siouw, Northern Cheyenne, Northern Arapaho
1867 Formosa (Taiwan)
1873 Colombia (Panama)
1874-1875 Comanche, Apache, Arapaho, Cheyenne, Kiowa
1877 Nez Perce
1878 Bannock (Banna’kwut)
1885 Panama (Colombia)
1890 Lakota Sioux
1891 Bering Straight
1895 Panama (Colombia)
1898 Cuba (Spain)
1898 Philippines (Spain)
1898 Puerto Rico (Spain)
1903 Dominican Republic
1903-1904 Abyssinia (Ethiopia)
1904 Dominican Republic
1914 Dominican Republic
1916-1924 Dominican Republic
1917-1918 World War I (Europe)
1932 El Salvador
1941-1945 World War II (Europe, North Africa, Asia/Pacific)
1948-1949 Berlin, Germany
1950 Formosa (Taiwan)
1953-1954 Formosa (Taiwan)
1964 Congo (Zaire)
1965 Dominican Republic
1967 Congo (Zaire)
1978 Congo (Zaire)
1981 El Salvador
1990 Saudi Arabia
1991 Congo (Zaire)
2000-2002 East Timor
2001 – Afghanistan
2011 Democratic Republic of the Congo
c2012- Central African Republic
c2013-2016 South Sudan
c2013- Burkina Faso
2014 Democratic Republic of the Congo
2015 Democratic Republic of the Congo
2016 Democratic Republic of the Congo
2017- Saudi Arabia
The supreme international crime according to 2017 U.S. media reporting is interferring nonviolently in a democratic election — at least if Russia does it. William Blum, in his book Rogue State, lists over 30 times that the United States has done that. Another study, however, says 81 elections in 47 countries. France 2017 makes that total at least 82. Honduras 2017 makes it 83. Russia 2018 makes it 84. The 2020-revealed 1964 coup in British Guiana makes it 85.
In a reality-based assessment of U.S. crimes, the serious offenses begin beyond that threshold. Here’s Blum’s list of over 50 foreign leaders whom the United States has attempted to assassinate:
- 1949 – Kim Koo, Korean opposition leader
- 1950s – CIA/Neo-Nazi hit list of more than 200 political figures in West Germany to be “put out of the way” in the event of a Soviet invasion
- 1950s – Chou En-lai, Prime minister of China, several attempts on his life
- 1950s, 1962 – Sukarno, President of Indonesia
- 1951 – Kim Il Sung, Premier of North Korea
- 1953 – Mohammed Mossadegh, Prime Minister of Iran
- 1950s (mid) – Claro M. Recto, Philippines opposition leader
- 1955 – Jawaharlal Nehru, Prime Minister of India
- 1957 – Gamal Abdul Nasser, President of Egypt
- 1959, 1963, 1969 – Norodom Sihanouk, leader of Cambodia
- 1960 – Brig. Gen. Abdul Karim Kassem, leader of Iraq
- 1950s-70s – José Figueres, President of Costa Rica, two attempts on his life
- 1961 – Francois “Papa Doc” Duvalier, leader of Haiti
- 1961 – Patrice Lumumba, Prime Minister of the Congo (Zaire)
- 1961 – Gen. Rafael Trujillo, leader of Dominican Republic
- 1963 – Ngo Dinh Diem, President of South Vietnam
- 1960s-70s – Fidel Castro, President of Cuba, many attempts on his life
- 1960s – Raúl Castro, high official in government of Cuba
- 1965 – Francisco Caamaño, Dominican Republic opposition leader
- 1965-6 – Charles de Gaulle, President of France
- 1967 – Che Guevara, Cuban leader
- 1970 – Salvador Allende, President of Chile
- 1970 – Gen. Rene Schneider, Commander-in-Chief of Army, Chile
- 1970s, 1981 – General Omar Torrijos, leader of Panama
- 1972 – General Manuel Noriega, Chief of Panama Intelligence
- 1975 – Mobutu Sese Seko, President of Zaire
- 1976 – Michael Manley, Prime Minister of Jamaica
- 1980-1986 – Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya, several plots and attempts upon his life
- 1982 – Ayatollah Khomeini, leader of Iran
- 1983 – Gen. Ahmed Dlimi, Moroccan Army commander
- 1983 – Miguel d’Escoto, Foreign Minister of Nicaragua
- 1984 – The nine comandantes of the Sandinista National Directorate
- 1985 – Sheikh Mohammed Hussein Fadlallah, Lebanese Shiite leader (80 people killed in the attempt)
- 1991 – Saddam Hussein, leader of Iraq
- 1993 – Mohamed Farah Aideed, prominent clan leader of Somalia
- 1998, 2001-2 – Osama bin Laden, leading Islamic militant
- 1999 – Slobodan Milosevic, President of Yugoslavia
- 2002 – Gulbuddin Hekmatyar, Afghan Islamic leader and warlord
- 2003 – Saddam Hussein and his two sons
- 2011 – Muammar Qaddafi, leader of Libya
Let me know of any updates or corrections, and I’ll add them.
Thanks to Said Zulficar for pointing out the need to add Jaime Roldos, President of Ecuador, assassinated May 1981. John Perkins, in his book Touching the Jaguar, makes a case that both Jaime Roldos of Ecuador and Omar Torrijos of Panama (also in 1981) were very likely U.S.-backed assassinations.
According to the evidence in Nicholson Baker’s 2020 book Baseless, we also need to add the 1948 assassination of Jorge Gaitán in Colombia.
Here is Blum’s list of U.S. attempts to overthrow governments (* indicates success):
- China 1949 to early 1960s
- Albania 1949-53
- East Germany 1950s
- Iran 1953 *
- Guatemala 1954 *
- Costa Rica mid-1950s
- Syria 1956-7
- Egypt 1957
- Indonesia 1957-8
- British Guiana 1953-64 *
- Iraq 1963 *
- North Vietnam 1945-73
- Cambodia 1955-70 *
- Laos 1958 *, 1959 *, 1960 *
- Ecuador 1960-63 *
- Congo 1960 *
- France 1965
- Brazil 1962-64 *
- Dominican Republic 1963 *
- Cuba 1959 to present
- Bolivia 1964 *
- Indonesia 1965 *
- Ghana 1966 *
- Chile 1964-73 *
- Greece 1967 *
- Costa Rica 1970-71
- Bolivia 1971 *
- Australia 1973-75 *
- Angola 1975, 1980s
- Zaire 1975
- Portugal 1974-76 *
- Jamaica 1976-80 *
- Seychelles 1979-81
- Chad 1981-82 *
- Grenada 1983 *
- South Yemen 1982-84
- Suriname 1982-84
- Fiji 1987 *
- Libya 1980s
- Nicaragua 1981-90 *
- Panama 1989 *
- Bulgaria 1990 *
- Albania 1991 *
- Iraq 1991
- Afghanistan 1980s *
- Somalia 1993
- Yugoslavia 1999-2000 *
- Ecuador 2000 *
- Afghanistan 2001 *
- Venezuela 2002 *
- Iraq 2003 *
- Haiti 2004 *
- Somalia 2007 to present
- Honduras 2009
- Libya 2011 *
- Syria 2012
- Ukraine 2014 *
[arguably, Syria 1949 needs to be added to this list. –DS]
The above list does not include numerous coups by U.S.-trained fighters, such as (other than Honduras) those discussed here: “from Isaac Zida of Burkina Faso, Haiti’s Philippe Biamby, and Yahya Jammeh of The Gambia to Egypt’s Abdel-Fattah el-Sisi, Mohammad Zia-ul-Haq of Pakistan, and the IMET-educated leaders of the 2009 coup in Honduras, not to mention Mali’s Amadou Sanogo.” These are just in very recent years, by no means a complete list, though the Haiti coup referenced here was earlier than the one included in the list above.
We might want to the list of U.S.-backed coups: Venezuela 2018. We should certainly add Bolivia 2019. Also Venezuela 2019. And Venezuela 2020. And it seems we need to add New Zealand 1987. Also Guinea 2021, Mali 2021, Mauritania 2008, Mali 2012, Egypt 2013, Burkina Faso 2015, Mali 2020, etc.
We might want to add to the list of coups by U.S.-trained troops: these from a 2022 report in The Intercept: “Since 2008, U.S.-trained officers have attempted at least nine coups (and succeeded in at least eight) across five West African countries, including Burkina Faso (three times), Guinea, Mali (three times), Mauritania, and the Gambia.” Also in 2022, Democracy Now reported on these coups by U.S. trainees just in Africa: Chad 2021, Mali 2021, Mali 2020, Guinea 2021, Sudan 2021, Bukina Faso 2022.
Here is Blum’s list of nations bombed by the United States:
- Korea and China 1950-53 (Korean War)
- Guatemala 1954
- Indonesia 1958
- Cuba 1959-1961
- Guatemala 1960
- Congo 1964
- Laos 1964-73
- Vietnam 1961-73
- Cambodia 1969-70
- Guatemala 1967-69
- Grenada 1983
- Lebanon 1983, 1984 (both Lebanese and Syrian targets)
- Libya 1986
- El Salvador 1980s
- Nicaragua 1980s
- Iran 1987
- Panama 1989
- Iraq 1991 (Persian Gulf War)
- Kuwait 1991
- Somalia 1993
- Bosnia 1994, 1995
- Sudan 1998
- Afghanistan 1998
- Yugoslavia 1999
- Yemen 2002
- Iraq 1991-2003 (US/UK on regular basis)
- Iraq 2003-2015
- Afghanistan 2001-2015
- Pakistan 2007-2015
- Somalia 2007-8, 2011
- Yemen 2009, 2011
- Libya 2011, 2015
- Syria 2014-2016
[Drone strikes in the Philippines should be added to this list. As perhaps should be all the islands and territories destroyed by test bombings. –DS]
Blum adds these further bombings:
Iran, April 2003 – hit by US missiles during bombing of Iraq, killing at least one person
Pakistan, 2002-03 – bombed by US planes several times as part of combat against the Taliban and other opponents of the US occupation of Afghanistan
China, 1999 – its heavily bombed embassy in Belgrade is legally Chinese territory, and it appears rather certain that the bombing was no accident (see chapter 25 of Rogue State)
France, 1986 – After the French government refused the use of its air space to US warplanes headed for a bombing raid on Libya, the planes were forced to take another, longer route; when they reached Libya they bombed so close to the French embassy that the building was damaged and all communication links knocked out.
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, May 13, 1985 – A bomb dropped by a police helicopter burned down an entire block, some 60 homes destroyed, 11 dead, including several small children. The police, the mayor’s office, and the FBI were all involved in this effort to evict a black organization called MOVE from the house they lived in.
If we add in other missing instances and go back to and prior to WWII the list starts to look like this:
Dominican Republic 1915 – 1935
Haiti 1915 – 1934
Logan County, West Virginia 1921
Tulsa, Oklahoma 1921
Honduras 1924, 1925
Nicaragua 1927 – 1933
Algeria, Austria, Belgium, Bulgaria, China, Crete, Czechoslovakia, France, Germany, Greece, Guam, Hungary, Indonesia, Italy, Japan, Libya, Luxembourg, Morocco, Myanmar (Burma), Netherlands, New Guinea and the Solomon Islands, Okinawa, Philippines, Poland, Romania, Saipan, Taiwan (Formosa), Thailand, Tinian, Tunisia, Vietnam (French Indochina), Yugoslavia 1941 – 1945
Marshall Islands, Republic of Kiribati, Alaska, Nevada, Colorado, Mississippi, New Mexico nuclear testing 1945 – 1962
Korea and China 1950 – 1953
Cuba 1959 – 1961
Laos 1964 – 1973
Vietnam 1961 – 1973
Cambodia 1969 – 1970
Guatemala 1967 – 1969
El Salvador 1980s
Lebanon 1983, 1984
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania 1985
Iraq 1991 – 2017
Bosnia 1994, 1995
Afghanistan 2001 – 2017
Pakistan 2002 – 2003
Pakistan 2007 – 2017
Somalia 2007 – 2008, 2011
Yemen 2009, 2011, 2016-2017
Libya 2011, 2015 – 2017
Syria 2014 – 2017
Then there’s Blum’s list of instances of the United States attempting to suppress a populist or nationalist movement (* indicates success):
- China – 1945-49
- France – 1947 *
- Italy – 1947-1970s *
- Greece – 1947-49 *
- Philippines – 1945-53 *
- Korea – 1945-53 *
- Haiti – 1959 *
- Laos – 1957-73
- Vietnam – 1961-73
- Thailand – 1965-73 *
- Peru – 1965 *
- Dominican Republic – 1965 *
- Uruguay – 1969-72 *
- South Africa – 1960s-1980s
- East Timor – 1975-1999 *
- Philippines – 1970s-1990s *
- El Salvador – 1980-92 *
- Colombia – 1990s to early 2000s *
- Peru – 1997 *
- Iraq – 2003 to present *
Zoltan Grossman provides the following list of all variety of hostile actions:
IRAN 1946, Nuclear threat, Soviet troops told to leave north.
YUGOSLAVIA 1946, Nuclear threat, naval Response to shoot-down of U.S. plane.
URUGUAY 1947, Nuclear threat, Bombers deployed as show of strength.
GREECE 1947-49, Command operation, U.S. directs extreme-right in civil war.
GERMANY 1948, Nuclear Threat, Atomic-capable bombers guard Berlin Airlift.
CHINA 1948-49, Troops/Marines evacuate Americans before Communist victory.
PHILIPPINES 1948-54, Command operation, CIA directs war against Huk Rebellion.
PUERTO RICO 1950, Command operation, Independence rebellion crushed in Ponce.
KOREA 1951-53 (-?), Troops, naval, bombing , nuclear threats, U.S./So. Korea fights China/No. Korea to stalemate; A-bomb threat in 1950, and against China in 1953. Still have bases.
IRAN 1953, Command Operation, CIA overthrows democracy, installs Shah.
VIETNAM 1954, Nuclear threat, French offered bombs to use against seige.
GUATEMALA 1954, Command operation, bombing, nuclear threat CIA directs exile invasion after new gov’t nationalized U.S. company lands; bombers based in Nicaragua.
EGYPT 1956, Nuclear threat, troops Soviets told to keep out of Suez crisis; Marines evacuate foreigners.
LEBANON l958, Troops, naval Army & Marine occupation against rebels.
IRAQ 1958, Nuclear threat, Iraq warned against invading Kuwait.
CHINA l958 Nuclear threat, China told not to move on Taiwan isles.
PANAMA 1958 Troops, Flag protests erupt into confrontation.
VIETNAM l960-75 Troops, naval, bombing, nuclear threats Fought South Vietnam revolt & North Vietnam, one million killed in longest U.S. war; atomic bomb threats in l968 and l969.
CUBA l961 Command operation, CIA-directed exile invasion fails.
GERMANY l961 Nuclear threat, Alert during Berlin Wall crisis.
LAOS 1962 Command operation, Military buildup during guerrilla war.
CUBA l962 Nuclear threat, naval Blockade during missile crisis; near-war with Soviet Union.
IRAQ 1963 Command operation, CIA organizes coup that killed president, brings Ba’ath Party to power, and Saddam Hussein back from exile to be head of the secret service.
PANAMA l964, Troops Panamanians shot for urging canal’s return.
INDONESIA l965, Command operation, Million killed in CIA-assisted army coup.
DOMINICAN REPUBLIC 1965-66, Troops, bombing Army & Marines land during election campaign.
GUATEMALA l966-67, Command operation, Green Berets intervene against rebels.
DETROIT l967, Troops, Army battles African Americans, 43 killed.
UNITED STATES l968 Troops After King is shot; over 21,000 soldiers in cities.
CAMBODIA l969-75, Bombing, troops, naval Up to 2 million killed in decade of bombing, starvation, and political chaos.
OMAN l970, Command operation, U.S. directs Iranian marine invasion.
LAOS l971-73, Command operation, bombing U.S. directs South Vietnamese invasion; “carpet-bombs” countryside.
SOUTH DAKOTA, l973 Command operation, Army directs Wounded Knee siege of Lakotas.
MIDEAST 1973, Nuclear threat, World-wide alert during Mideast War.
CHILE 1973, Command operation, CIA-backed coup ousts elected marxist president.
CAMBODIA l975, Troops, bombing Gassing of captured ship Mayagüez, 28 troops die when copter shot down.
ANGOLA l976-9,2 Command operation, CIA assists South African-backed rebels.
IRAN l980 Troops, nuclear threat, aborted bombing Raid to rescue Embassy hostages; 8 troops die in copter-plane crash. Soviets warned not to get involved in revolution.
LIBYA l981, Naval jets Two Libyan jets shot down in maneuvers.
EL SALVADOR l981-92 , Command operation, troops Advisors, overflights aid anti-rebel war, soldiers briefly involved in hostage clash.
NICARAGUA l981-90, Command operation, naval CIA directs exile (Contra) invasions, plants harbor mines against revolution.
LEBANON l982-84, Naval, bombing, troops Marines expel PLO and back Phalangists, Navy bombs and shells Muslim positions. 241 Marines killed when Shi’a rebel bombs barracks.
GRENADA l983-84, Troops, bombing Invasion four years after revolution.
HONDURAS, l983-89, Troops, Maneuvers help build bases near borders.
IRAN, l984 Jets, Two Iranian jets shot down over Persian Gulf.
LIBYA l986 Bombing, naval Air strikes to topple Qaddafi gov’t.
BOLIVIA 1986 Troops, Army assists raids on cocaine region.
IRAN l987-88 Naval bombing, US intervenes on side of Iraq in war, defending reflagged tankers and shooting down civilian jet.
LIBYA 1989, Naval jets, Two Libyan jets shot down.
VIRGIN ISLANDS 1989, Troops, St. Croix Black unrest after storm.
PHILIPPINES 1989, Jets Air, cover provided for government against coup.
PANAMA 1989, Troops, bombing, Nationalist government ousted by 27,000 soldiers, leaders arrested, 2000+ killed.
LIBERIA 1990, Troops, Foreigners evacuated during civil war.
SAUDI ARABIA, 1990-91, Troops, jets Iraq countered after invading Kuwait. 540,000 troops also stationed in Oman, Qatar, Bahrain, UAE, Israel.
IRAQ 1990-91 Bombing, troops, naval Blockade of Iraqi and Jordanian ports, air strikes; 200,000+ killed in invasion of Iraq and Kuwait; large-scale destruction of Iraqi military.
KUWAIT 1991 Naval, bombing, troops Kuwait royal family returned to throne.
IRAQ 1991-2003 Bombing, naval No-fly zone over Kurdish north, Shiite south; constant air strikes and naval-enforced economic sanctions
LOS ANGELES 1992 Troops Army, Marines deployed against anti-police uprising.
SOMALIA 1992-94 Troops, naval, bombing U.S.-led United Nations occupation during civil war; raids against one Mogadishu faction.
YUGOSLAVIA 1992-94 Naval NATO blockade of Serbia and Montenegro.
BOSNIA 1993-? Jets, bombing No-fly zone patrolled in civil war; downed jets, bombed Serbs.
HAITI 1994 Troops, naval Blockade against military government; troops restore President Aristide to office three years after coup.
ZAIRE (CONGO) 1996-97 Troops Troops at Rwandan Hutu refugee camps, in area where Congo revolution begins.
LIBERIA 1997 Troops Soldiers under fire during evacuation of foreigners.
ALBANIA 1997 Troops Soldiers under fire during evacuation of foreigners.
SUDAN 1998 Missiles Attack on pharmaceutical plant alleged to be “terrorist” nerve gas plant.
AFGHANISTAN 1998 Missiles Attack on former CIA training camps used by Islamic fundamentalist groups alleged to have attacked embassies.
IRAQ 1998 Bombing, Missiles Four days of intensive air strikes after weapons inspectors allege Iraqi obstructions.
YUGOSLAVIA 1999 Bombing, Missiles Heavy NATO air strikes after Serbia declines to withdraw from Kosovo. NATO occupation of Kosovo.
YEMEN 2000 Naval USS Cole, docked in Aden, bombed.
MACEDONIA 2001 Troops NATO forces deployed to move and disarm Albanian rebels.
UNITED STATES 2001 Jets, naval Reaction to hijacker attacks on New York, DC
AFGHANISTAN 2001-? Troops, bombing, missiles Massive U.S. mobilization to overthrow Taliban, hunt Al Qaeda fighters, install Karzai regime, and battle Taliban insurgency. More than 30,000 U.S. troops and numerous private security contractors carry our occupation.
YEMEN 2002 Missiles Predator drone missile attack on Al Qaeda, including a US citizen.
PHILIPPINES 2002-? Troops, naval Training mission for Philippine military fighting Abu Sayyaf rebels evolves into combat missions in Sulu Archipelago, west of Mindanao.
COLOMBIA 2003-? Troops US special forces sent to rebel zone to back up Colombian military protecting oil pipeline.
IRAQ 2003-11 Troops, naval, bombing, missiles Saddam regime toppled in Baghdad. More than 250,000 U.S. personnel participate in invasion. US and UK forces occupy country and battle Sunni and Shi’ite insurgencies. More than 160,000 troops and numerous private contractors carry out occupation and build large permanent bases.
LIBERIA 2003 Troops Brief involvement in peacekeeping force as rebels drove out leader.
HAITI 2004-05 Troops, naval Marines & Army land after right-wing rebels oust elected President Aristide, who was advised to leave by Washington.
PAKISTAN 2005-? Missiles, bombing, covert operation CIA missile and air strikes and Special Forces raids on alleged Al Qaeda and Taliban refuge villages kill multiple civilians. Drone attacks also on Pakistani Mehsud network.
SOMALIA 2006-? Missiles, naval, troops, command operation Special Forces advise Ethiopian invasion that topples Islamist government; AC-130 strikes, Cruise missile attacks and helicopter raids against Islamist rebels; naval blockade against “pirates” and insurgents.
SYRIA 2008 Troops Special Forces in helicopter raid 5 miles from Iraq kill 8 Syrian civilians
YEMEN 2009-? Missiles, command operation Cruise missile attack on Al Qaeda kills 49 civilians; Yemeni military assaults on rebels
LIBYA 2011-? Bombing, missiles, troops, command operation NATO coordinates air strikes and missile attacks against Qaddafi government during uprising by rebel army. Periodic Special Forces raids against Islamist insurgents.
IRAQ 2014-? Bombing, missiles, troops, command operation
Air strikes and Special Forces intervene against Islamic State insurgents; training Iraqi and Kurdish troops.
SYRIA 2014-? Bombing, missiles, troops, command operation
Air strikes and Special Forces intervene against Islamic State insurgents; training other Syrian insurgents. Missile strikes against Syrian military begin April 2017.
William Appleman Williams’ book Empire As A Way of Life includes a list from 1798 to 1941 of “interventionist activity (excluding declared wars)” (and also apparently excluding the indigenous nations of the mainland of North America) (for longer descriptions, a few sentences for each item, see the book):
1798-1800 Naval war with France
1806-10 Gulf of Mexico
1810 West Florida
1812 Amelia Island
1813 West Florida
1813-14 Marquesas Islands
1814 Spanish Florida
1816 Spanish Florida
1816-18 Spanish Florida
1817 Amelia Island
1823 Cuba [sic]
1824 Puerto Rico
1831-32 Falkland Islands
1840 Fiji Islands
1841 Drummond Island
1851 Johanna Island
1853-54 Ryukyu and Bonin Islands
1855 Fiji Islands
1858 Fiji Islands
1864 Japan [sic]
1867 Island of Formosa
1870 Hawaiian Islands
1874 Hawaiian Islands
1889 Hawaiian Islands
1891 Bering Sea
1894-95 China [sic]
1899-1901 Philippine Islands
1902 Colombia [sic]
1903 Dominican Republic
1904 Dominican Republic
1904 Tangier, Morocco
1914 Dominican Republic
1916-24 Dominican Republic
1918-20 Soviet Russia
1920-22 Russia (Siberia)
1921 Panama-Costa Rica
1940 Newfoundland, Bermuda, St. Lucia, Bahamas, Jamaica, Antigua, Trinidad, and British Guiana.
1941 Netherlands (Dutch Guiana)
Now, here’s James Lucas’ list of victims of U.S. wars
(His footnotes are here.)
37 VICTIM NATIONS
The U.S. is responsible for between 1 and 1.8 million deaths during the war between the Soviet Union and Afghanistan, by luring the Soviet Union into invading that nation. (1,2,3,4)
The Soviet Union had friendly relations its neighbor, Afghanistan, which had a secular government. The Soviets feared that if that government became fundamentalist this change could spill over into the Soviet Union.
In 1998, in an interview with the Parisian publication Le Novel Observateur, Zbigniew Brzezinski, adviser to President Carter, admitted that he had been responsible for instigating aid to the Mujahadeen in Afghanistan which caused the Soviets to invade. In his own words:
According to the official version of history, CIA aid to the Mujahadeen began during 1980, that is to say, after the Soviet army invaded Afghanistan on 24 December 1979. But the reality, secretly guarded until now, is completely otherwise. Indeed, it was July 3, 1979 that President Carter signed the first directive for secret aid to the opponents of the pro-Soviet regime in Kabul. And that very day, I wrote a note to the President in which I explained to him that in my opinion this aid was going to induce a Soviet military intervention. (5,1,6)
Brzezinski justified laying this trap, since he said it gave the Soviet Union its Vietnam and caused the breakup of the Soviet Union. “Regret what?” he said. “That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it?” (7)
The CIA spent 5 to 6 billion dollars on its operation in Afghanistan in order to bleed the Soviet Union. (1,2,3) When that 10-year war ended over a million people were dead and Afghan heroin had captured 60% of the U.S. market. (4)
The U.S. has been responsible directly for about 12,000 deaths in Afghanistan many of which resulted from bombing in retaliation for the attacks on U.S. property on September 11, 2001. Subsequently U.S. troops invaded that country. (4)
An indigenous armed struggle against Portuguese rule in Angola began in 1961. In 1977 an Angolan government was recognized by the U.N., although the U.S. was one of the few nations that opposed this action. In 1986 Uncle Sam approved material assistance to UNITA, a group that was trying to overthrow the government. Even today this struggle, which has involved many nations at times, continues.
U.S. intervention was justified to the U.S. public as a reaction to the intervention of 50,000 Cuban troops in Angola. However, according to Piero Gleijeses, a history professor at Johns Hopkins University the reverse was true. The Cuban intervention came as a result of a CIA – financed covert invasion via neighboring Zaire and a drive on the Angolan capital by the U.S. ally, South Africa1,2,3). (Three estimates of deaths range from 300,000 to 750,000 (4,5,6)
Argentina: See South America: Operation Condor
Bangladesh: See Pakistan
Hugo Banzer was the leader of a repressive regime in Bolivia in the 1970s. The U.S. had been disturbed when a previous leader nationalized the tin mines and distributed land to Indian peasants. Later that action to benefit the poor was reversed.
Banzer, who was trained at the U.S.-operated School of the Americas in Panama and later at Fort Hood, Texas, came back from exile frequently to confer with U.S. Air Force Major Robert Lundin. In 1971 he staged a successful coup with the help of the U.S. Air Force radio system. In the first years of his dictatorship he received twice as military assistance from the U.S. as in the previous dozen years together.
A few years later the Catholic Church denounced an army massacre of striking tin workers in 1975, Banzer, assisted by information provided by the CIA, was able to target and locate leftist priests and nuns. His anti-clergy strategy, known as the Banzer Plan, was adopted by nine other Latin American dictatorships in 1977. (2) He has been accused of being responsible for 400 deaths during his tenure. (1)
Also see: See South America: Operation Condor
Brazil: See South America: Operation Condor
U.S. bombing of Cambodia had already been underway for several years in secret under the Johnson and Nixon administrations, but when President Nixon openly began bombing in preparation for a land assault on Cambodia it caused major protests in the U.S. against the Vietnam War.
There is little awareness today of the scope of these bombings and the human suffering involved.
Immense damage was done to the villages and cities of Cambodia, causing refugees and internal displacement of the population. This unstable situation enabled the Khmer Rouge, a small political party led by Pol Pot, to assume power. Over the years we have repeatedly heard about the Khmer Rouge’s role in the deaths of millions in Cambodia without any acknowledgement being made this mass killing was made possible by the the U.S. bombing of that nation which destabilized it by death , injuries, hunger and dislocation of its people.
So the U.S. bears responsibility not only for the deaths from the bombings but also for those resulting from the activities of the Khmer Rouge – a total of about 2.5 million people. Even when Vietnam latrer invaded Cambodia in 1979 the CIA was still supporting the Khmer Rouge. (1,2,3)
Also see Vietnam
An estimated 40,000 people in Chad were killed and as many as 200,000 tortured by a government, headed by Hissen Habre who was brought to power in June, 1982 with the help of CIA money and arms. He remained in power for eight years. (1,2)
Human Rights Watch claimed that Habre was responsible for thousands of killings. In 2001, while living in Senegal, he was almost tried for crimes committed by him in Chad. However, a court there blocked these proceedings. Then human rights people decided to pursue the case in Belgium, because some of Habre’s torture victims lived there. The U.S., in June 2003, told Belgium that it risked losing its status as host to NATO’s headquarters if it allowed such a legal proceeding to happen. So the result was that the law that allowed victims to file complaints in Belgium for atrocities committed abroad was repealed. However, two months later a new law was passed which made special provision for the continuation of the case against Habre.
The CIA intervened in Chile’s 1958 and 1964 elections. In 1970 a socialist candidate, Salvador Allende, was elected president. The CIA wanted to incite a military coup to prevent his inauguration, but the Chilean army’s chief of staff, General Rene Schneider, opposed this action. The CIA then planned, along with some people in the Chilean military, to assassinate Schneider. This plot failed and Allende took office. President Nixon was not to be dissuaded and he ordered the CIA to create a coup climate: “Make the economy scream,” he said.
What followed were guerilla warfare, arson, bombing, sabotage and terror. ITT and other U.S. corporations with Chilean holdings sponsored demonstrations and strikes. Finally, on September 11, 1973 Allende died either by suicide or by assassination. At that time Henry Kissinger, U.S. Secretary of State, said the following regarding Chile: “I don’t see why we need to stand by and watch a country go communist because of the irresponsibility of its own people.” (1)
During 17 years of terror under Allende’s successor, General Augusto Pinochet, an estimated 3,000 Chileans were killed and many others were tortured or “disappeared.” (2,3,4,5)
Also see South America: Operation Condor
China An estimated 900,000 Chinese died during the Korean War.
For more information, See: Korea.
One estimate is that 67,000 deaths have occurred from the 1960s to recent years due to support by the U.S. of Colombian state terrorism. (1)
According to a 1994 Amnesty International report, more than 20,000 people were killed for political reasons in Colombia since 1986, mainly by the military and its paramilitary allies. Amnesty alleged that “U.S.- supplied military equipment, ostensibly delivered for use against narcotics traffickers, was being used by the Colombian military to commit abuses in the name of “counter-insurgency.” (2) In 2002 another estimate was made that 3,500 people die each year in a U.S. funded civilian war in Colombia. (3)
In 1996 Human Rights Watch issued a report “Assassination Squads in Colombia” which revealed that CIA agents went to Colombia in 1991 to help the military to train undercover agents in anti-subversive activity. (4,5)
In recent years the U.S. government has provided assistance under Plan Colombia. The Colombian government has been charged with using most of the funds for destruction of crops and support of the paramilitary group.
In the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba on April 18, 1961 which ended after 3 days, 114 of the invading force were killed, 1,189 were taken prisoners and a few escaped to waiting U.S. ships. (1) The captured exiles were quickly tried, a few executed and the rest sentenced to thirty years in prison for treason. These exiles were released after 20 months in exchange for $53 million in food and medicine.
Some people estimate that the number of Cuban forces killed range from 2,000, to 4,000. Another estimate is that 1,800 Cuban forces were killed on an open highway by napalm. This appears to have been a precursor of the Highway of Death in Iraq in 1991 when U.S. forces mercilessly annihilated large numbers of Iraqis on a highway. (2)
Democratic Republic of Congo (formerly Zaire)
The beginning of massive violence was instigated in this country in 1879 by its colonizer King Leopold of Belgium. The Congo’s population was reduced by 10 million people over a period of 20 years which some have referred to as “Leopold’s Genocide.” (1) The U.S. has been responsible for about a third of that many deaths in that nation in the more recent past. (2)
In 1960 the Congo became an independent state with Patrice Lumumba being its first prime minister. He was assassinated with the CIA being implicated, although some say that his murder was actually the responsibility of Belgium. (3) But nevertheless, the CIA was planning to kill him. (4) Before his assassination the CIA sent one of its scientists, Dr. Sidney Gottlieb, to the Congo carrying “lethal biological material” intended for use in Lumumba’s assassination. This virus would have been able to produce a fatal disease indigenous to the Congo area of Africa and was transported in a diplomatic pouch.
Much of the time in recent years there has been a civil war within the Democratic Republic of Congo, fomented often by the U.S. and other nations, including neighboring nations. (5)
In April 1977, Newsday reported that the CIA was secretly supporting efforts to recruit several hundred mercenaries in the U.S. and Great Britain to serve alongside Zaire’s army. In that same year the U.S. provided $15 million of military supplies to the Zairian President Mobutu to fend off an invasion by a rival group operating in Angola. (6)
In May 1979, the U.S. sent several million dollars of aid to Mobutu who had been condemned 3 months earlier by the U.S. State Department for human rights violations. (7) During the Cold War the U.S. funneled over 300 million dollars in weapons into Zaire (8,9) $100 million in military training was provided to him. (2) In 2001 it was reported to a U.S. congressional committee that American companies, including one linked to former President George Bush Sr., were stoking the Congo for monetary gains. There is an international battle over resources in that country with over 125 companies and individuals being implicated. One of these substances is coltan, which is used in the manufacture of cell phones. (2)
In 1962, Juan Bosch became president of the Dominican Republic. He advocated such programs as land reform and public works programs. This did not bode well for his future relationship with the U.S., and after only 7 months in office, he was deposed by a CIA coup. In 1965 when a group was trying to reinstall him to his office President Johnson said, “This Bosch is no good.” Assistant Secretary of State Thomas Mann replied “He’s no good at all. If we don’t get a decent government in there, Mr. President, we get another Bosch. It’s just going to be another sinkhole.” Two days later a U.S. invasion started and 22,000 soldiers and marines entered the Dominican Republic and about 3,000 Dominicans died during the fighting. The cover excuse for doing this was that this was done to protect foreigners there. (1,2,3,4)
In December 1975, Indonesia invaded East Timor. This incursion was launched the day after U.S. President Gerald Ford and Secretary of State Henry Kissinger had left Indonesia where they had given President Suharto permission to use American arms, which under U.S. law, could not be used for aggression. Daniel Moynihan, U.S. ambassador to the UN. said that the U.S. wanted “things to turn out as they did.” (1,2) The result was an estimated 200,000 dead out of a population of 700,000. (1,2)
Sixteen years later, on November 12, 1991, two hundred and seventeen East Timorese protesters in Dili, many of them children, marching from a memorial service, were gunned down by Indonesian Kopassus shock troops who were headed by U.S.- trained commanders Prabowo Subianto (son in law of General Suharto) and Kiki Syahnakri. Trucks were seen dumping bodies into the sea. (5)
The civil war from 1981 to1992 in El Salvador was financed by $6 billion in U.S. aid given to support the government in its efforts to crush a movement to bring social justice to the people in that nation of about 8 million people. (1)
During that time U.S. military advisers demonstrated methods of torture on teenage prisoners, according to an interview with a deserter from the Salvadoran army published in the New York Times. This former member of the Salvadoran National Guard testified that he was a member of a squad of twelve who found people who they were told were guerillas and tortured them. Part of the training he received was in torture at a U.S. location somewhere in Panama. (2)
About 900 villagers were massacred in the village of El Mozote in 1981. Ten of the twelve El Salvadoran government soldiers cited as participating in this act were graduates of the School of the Americas operated by the U.S. (2) They were only a small part of about 75,000 people killed during that civil war. (1)
According to a 1993 United Nations’ Truth Commission report, over 96 % of the human rights violations carried out during the war were committed by the Salvadoran army or the paramilitary deaths squads associated with the Salvadoran army. (3)
That commission linked graduates of the School of the Americas to many notorious killings. The New York Times and the Washington Post followed with scathing articles. In 1996, the White House Oversight Board issued a report that supported many of the charges against that school made by Rev. Roy Bourgeois, head of the School of the Americas Watch. That same year the Pentagon released formerly classified reports indicating that graduates were trained in killing, extortion, and physical abuse for interrogations, false imprisonment and other methods of control. (4)
The CIA began to destabilize Grenada in 1979 after Maurice Bishop became president, partially because he refused to join the quarantine of Cuba. The campaign against him resulted in his overthrow and the invasion by the U.S. of Grenada on October 25, 1983, with about 277 people dying. (1,2) It was fallaciously charged that an airport was being built in Grenada that could be used to attack the U.S. and it was also erroneously claimed that the lives of American medical students on that island were in danger.
In 1951 Jacobo Arbenz was elected president of Guatemala. He appropriated some unused land operated by the United Fruit Company and compensated the company. (1,2) That company then started a campaign to paint Arbenz as a tool of an international conspiracy and hired about 300 mercenaries who sabotaged oil supplies and trains. (3) In 1954 a CIA-orchestrated coup put him out of office and he left the country. During the next 40 years various regimes killed thousands of people.
In 1999 the Washington Post reported that an Historical Clarification Commission concluded that over 200,000 people had been killed during the civil war and that there had been 42,000 individual human rights violations, 29,000 of them fatal, 92% of which were committed by the army. The commission further reported that the U.S. government and the CIA had pressured the Guatemalan government into suppressing the guerilla movement by ruthless means. (4,5)
According to the Commission between 1981 and 1983 the military government of Guatemala – financed and supported by the U.S. government – destroyed some four hundred Mayan villages in a campaign of genocide. (4)
One of the documents made available to the commission was a 1966 memo from a U.S. State Department official, which described how a “safe house” was set up in the palace for use by Guatemalan security agents and their U.S. contacts. This was the headquarters for the Guatemalan “dirty war” against leftist insurgents and suspected allies. (2)
From 1957 to 1986 Haiti was ruled by Papa Doc Duvalier and later by his son. During that time their private terrorist force killed between 30,000 and 100,000 people. (1) Millions of dollars in CIA subsidies flowed into Haiti during that time, mainly to suppress popular movements, (2) although most American military aid to the country, according to William Blum, was covertly channeled through Israel.
Reportedly, governments after the second Duvalier reign were responsible for an even larger number of fatalities, and the influence on Haiti by the U.S., particularly through the CIA, has continued. The U.S. later forced out of the presidential office a black Catholic priest, Jean Bertrand Aristide, even though he was elected with 67% of the vote in the early 1990s. The wealthy white class in Haiti opposed him in this predominantly black nation, because of his social programs designed to help the poor and end corruption. (3) Later he returned to office, but that did not last long. He was forced by the U.S. to leave office and now lives in South Africa.
In the 1980s the CIA supported Battalion 316 in Honduras, which kidnapped, tortured and killed hundreds of its citizens. Torture equipment and manuals were provided by CIA Argentinean personnel who worked with U.S. agents in the training of the Hondurans. Approximately 400 people lost their lives. (1,2) This is another instance of torture in the world sponsored by the U.S. (3)
Battalion 316 used shock and suffocation devices in interrogations in the 1980s. Prisoners often were kept naked and, when no longer useful, killed and buried in unmarked graves. Declassified documents and other sources show that the CIA and the U.S. Embassy knew of numerous crimes, including murder and torture, yet continued to support Battalion 316 and collaborate with its leaders.” (4)
Honduras was a staging ground in the early 1980s for the Contras who were trying to overthrow the socialist Sandinista government in Nicaragua. John D. Negroponte, currently Deputy Secretary of State, was our embassador when our military aid to Honduras rose from $4 million to $77.4 million per year. Negroponte denies having had any knowledge of these atrocities during his tenure. However, his predecessor in that position, Jack R. Binns, had reported in 1981 that he was deeply concerned at increasing evidence of officially sponsored/sanctioned assassinations. (5)
In 1956 Hungary, a Soviet satellite nation, revolted against the Soviet Union. During the uprising broadcasts by the U.S. Radio Free Europe into Hungary sometimes took on an aggressive tone, encouraging the rebels to believe that Western support was imminent, and even giving tactical advice on how to fight the Soviets. Their hopes were raised then dashed by these broadcasts which cast an even darker shadow over the Hungarian tragedy.“ (1) The Hungarian and Soviet death toll was about 3,000 and the revolution was crushed. (2)
In 1965, in Indonesia, a coup replaced General Sukarno with General Suharto as leader. The U.S. played a role in that change of government. Robert Martens,a former officer in the U.S. embassy in Indonesia, described how U.S. diplomats and CIA officers provided up to 5,000 names to Indonesian Army death squads in 1965 and checked them off as they were killed or captured. Martens admitted that “I probably have a lot of blood on my hands, but that’s not all bad. There’s a time when you have to strike hard at a decisive moment.” (1,2,3) Estimates of the number of deaths range from 500,000 to 3 million. (4,5,6)
From 1993 to 1997 the U.S. provided Jakarta with almost $400 million in economic aid and sold tens of million of dollars of weaponry to that nation. U.S. Green Berets provided training for the Indonesia’s elite force which was responsible for many of atrocities in East Timor. (3)
Iran lost about 262,000 people in the war against Iraq from 1980 to 1988. (1) See Iraq for more information about that war.
On July 3, 1988 the U.S. Navy ship, the Vincennes, was operating withing Iranian waters providing military support for Iraq during the Iran-Iraq war. During a battle against Iranian gunboats it fired two missiles at an Iranian Airbus, which was on a routine civilian flight. All 290 civilian on board were killed. (2,3)
A. The Iraq-Iran War lasted from 1980 to 1988 and during that time there were about 105,000 Iraqi deaths according to the Washington Post. (1,2)
According to Howard Teicher, a former National Security Council official, the U.S. provided the Iraqis with billions of dollars in credits and helped Iraq in other ways such as making sure that Iraq had military equipment including biological agents This surge of help for Iraq came as Iran seemed to be winning the war and was close to Basra. (1) The U.S. was not adverse to both countries weakening themselves as a result of the war, but it did not appear to want either side to win.
B: The U.S.-Iraq War and the Sanctions Against Iraq extended from 1990 to 2003.
Iraq invaded Kuwait on August 2, 1990 and the U.S. responded by demanding that Iraq withdraw, and four days later the U.N. levied international sanctions.
Iraq had reason to believe that the U.S. would not object to its invasion of Kuwait, since U.S. Ambassador to Iraq, April Glaspie, had told Saddam Hussein that the U.S. had no position on the dispute that his country had with Kuwait. So the green light was given, but it seemed to be more of a trap.
As a part of the public relations strategy to energize the American public into supporting an attack against Iraq the daughter of the Kuwaiti ambassador to the U.S. falsely testified before Congress that Iraqi troops were pulling the plugs on incubators in Iraqi hospitals. (1) This contributed to a war frenzy in the U.S.
The U.S. air assault started on January 17, 1991 and it lasted for 42 days. On February 23 President H.W. Bush ordered the U.S. ground assault to begin. The invasion took place with much needless killing of Iraqi military personnel. Only about 150 American military personnel died compared to about 200,000 Iraqis. Some of the Iraqis were mercilessly killed on the Highway of Death and about 400 tons of depleted uranium were left in that nation by the U.S. (2,3)
Other deaths later were from delayed deaths due to wounds, civilians killed, those killed by effects of damage of the Iraqi water treatment facilities and other aspects of its damaged infrastructure and by the sanctions.
In 1995 the Food and Agriculture Organization of the U.N. reported that U.N sanctions against on Iraq had been responsible for the deaths of more than 560,000 children since 1990. (5)
Leslie Stahl on the TV Program 60 Minutes in 1996 mentioned to Madeleine Albright, U.S. Ambassador to the U.N. “We have heard that a half million children have died. I mean, that’s more children than died in Hiroshima. And – and you know, is the price worth it?” Albright replied “I think this is a very hard choice, but the price – we think is worth it.” (4)
In 1999 UNICEF reported that 5,000 children died each month as a result of the sanction and the War with the U.S. (6)
Richard Garfield later estimated that the more likely number of excess deaths among children under five years of age from 1990 through March 1998 to be 227,000 – double those of the previous decade. Garfield estimated that the numbers to be 350,000 through 2000 (based in part on result of another study). (7)
However, there are limitations to his study. His figures were not updated for the remaining three years of the sanctions. Also, two other somewhat vulnerable age groups were not studied: young children above the age of five and the elderly.
All of these reports were considerable indicators of massive numbers of deaths which the U.S. was aware of and which was a part of its strategy to cause enough pain and terror among Iraqis to cause them to revolt against their government.
C: Iraq-U.S. War started in 2003 and has not been concluded
Just as the end of the Cold War emboldened the U.S. to attack Iraq in 1991 so the attacks of September 11, 2001 laid the groundwork for the U.S. to launch the current war against Iraq. While in some other wars we learned much later about the lies that were used to deceive us, some of the deceptions that were used to get us into this war became known almost as soon as they were uttered. There were no weapons of mass destruction, we were not trying to promote democracy, we were not trying to save the Iraqi people from a dictator.
The total number of Iraqi deaths that are a result of our current Iraq against Iraq War is 654,000, of which 600,000 are attributed to acts of violence, according to Johns Hopkins researchers. (1,2)
Since these deaths are a result of the U.S. invasion, our leaders must accept responsibility for them.
[For a more up-to-date look at studies of deaths in Iraq, see https://davidswanson.org/iraq –DS]
About 100,000 to 200,000 Israelis and Palestinians, but mostly the latter, have been killed in the struggle between those two groups. The U.S. has been a strong supporter of Israel, providing billions of dollars in aid and supporting its possession of nuclear weapons. (1,2)
Korea, North and South
The Korean War started in 1950 when, according to the Truman administration, North Korea invaded South Korea on June 25th. However, since then another explanation has emerged which maintains that the attack by North Korea came during a time of many border incursions by both sides. South Korea initiated most of the border clashes with North Korea beginning in 1948. The North Korea government claimed that by 1949 the South Korean army committed 2,617 armed incursions. It was a myth that the Soviet Union ordered North Korea to attack South Korea. (1,2)
The U.S. started its attack before a U.N. resolution was passed supporting our nation’s intervention, and our military forces added to the mayhem in the war by introducing the use of napalm. (1)
During the war the bulk of the deaths were South Koreans, North Koreans and Chinese. Four sources give deaths counts ranging from 1.8 to 4.5 million. (3,4,5,6) Another source gives a total of 4 million but does not identify to which nation they belonged. (7)
John H. Kim, a U.S. Army veteran and the Chair of the Korea Committee of Veterans for Peace, stated in an article that during the Korean War “the U.S. Army, Air Force and Navy were directly involved in the killing of about three million civilians – both South and North Koreans – at many locations throughout Korea…It is reported that the U.S. dropped some 650,000 tons of bombs, including 43,000 tons of napalm bombs, during the Korean War.” It is presumed that this total does not include Chinese casualties.
Another source states a total of about 500,000 who were Koreans and presumably only military. (8,9)
From 1965 to 1973 during the Vietnam War the U.S. dropped over two million tons of bombs on Laos – more than was dropped in WWII by both sides. Over a quarter of the population became refugees. This was later called a “secret war,” since it occurred at the same time as the Vietnam War, but got little press. Hundreds of thousands were killed. Branfman make the only estimate that I am aware of , stating that hundreds of thousands died. This can be interpeted to mean that at least 200,000 died. (1,2,3)
U.S. military intervention in Laos actually began much earlier. A civil war started in the 1950s when the U.S. recruited a force of 40,000 Laotians to oppose the Pathet Lao, a leftist political party that ultimately took power in 1975.
Also See Vietnam
Between 8,000 and 12,000 Nepalese have died since a civil war broke out in 1996. The death rate, according to Foreign Policy in Focus, sharply increased with the arrival of almost 8,400 American M-16 submachine guns (950 rpm) and U.S. advisers. Nepal is 85 percent rural and badly in need of land reform. Not surprisingly 42 % of its people live below the poverty level. (1,2)
In 2002, after another civil war erupted, President George W. Bush pushed a bill through Congress authorizing $20 million in military aid to the Nepalese government. (3)
In 1981 the Sandinistas overthrew the Somoza government in Nicaragua, (1) and until 1990 about 25,000 Nicaraguans were killed in an armed struggle between the Sandinista government and Contra rebels who were formed from the remnants of Somoza’s national government. The use of assassination manuals by the Contras surfaced in 1984. (2,3)
The U.S. supported the victorious government regime by providing covert military aid to the Contras (anti-communist guerillas) starting in November, 1981. But when Congress discovered that the CIA had supervised acts of sabotage in Nicaragua without notifying Congress, it passed the Boland Amendment in 1983 which prohibited the CIA, Defense Department and any other government agency from providing any further covert military assistance. (4)
But ways were found to get around this prohibition. The National Security Council, which was not explicitly covered by the law, raised private and foreign funds for the Contras. In addition, arms were sold to Iran and the proceeds were diverted from those sales to the Contras engaged in the insurgency against the Sandinista government. (5) Finally, the Sandinistas were voted out of office in 1990 by voters who thought that a change in leadership would placate the U.S., which was causing misery to Nicaragua’s citizenry by it support of the Contras.
In 1971 West Pakistan, an authoritarian state supported by the U.S., brutally invaded East Pakistan. The war ended after India, whose economy was staggering after admitting about 10 million refugees, invaded East Pakistan (now Bangladesh) and defeated the West Pakistani forces. (1)
Millions of people died during that brutal struggle, referred to by some as genocide committed by West Pakistan. That country had long been an ally of the U.S., starting with $411 million provided to establish its armed forces which spent 80% of its budget on its military. $15 million in arms flowed into W. Pakistan during the war. (2,3,4)
Three sources estimate that 3 million people died and (5,2,6) one source estimates 1.5 million. (3)
In December, 1989 U.S. troops invaded Panama, ostensibly to arrest Manuel Noriega, that nation’s president. This was an example of the U.S. view that it is the master of the world and can arrest anyone it wants to. For a number of years before that he had worked for the CIA, but fell out of favor partially because he was not an opponent of the Sandinistas in Nicaragua. (1) It has been estimated that between 500 and 4,000 people died. (2,3,4)
Paraguay: See South America: Operation Condor
The Philippines were under the control of the U.S. for over a hundred years. In about the last 50 to 60 years the U.S. has funded and otherwise helped various Philippine governments which sought to suppress the activities of groups working for the welfare of its people. In 1969 the Symington Committee in the U.S. Congress revealed how war material was sent there for a counter-insurgency campaign. U.S. Special Forces and Marines were active in some combat operations. The estimated number of persons that were executed and disappeared under President Fernando Marcos was over 100,000. (1,2)
South America: Operation Condor
This was a joint operation of 6 despotic South American governments (Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Paraguay and Uruguay) to share information about their political opponents. An estimated 13,000 people were killed under this plan. (1)
It was established on November 25, 1975 in Chile by an act of the Interamerican Reunion on Military Intelligence. According to U.S. embassy political officer, John Tipton, the CIA and the Chilean Secret Police were working together, although the CIA did not set up the operation to make this collaboration work. Reportedly, it ended in 1983. (2)
On March 6, 2001 the New York Times reported the existence of a recently declassified State Department document revealing that the United States facilitated communications for Operation Condor. (3)
Since 1955, when it gained its independence, Sudan has been involved most of the time in a civil war. Until about 2003 approximately 2 million people had been killed. It not known if the death toll in Darfur is part of that total.
Human rights groups have complained that U.S. policies have helped to prolong the Sudanese civil war by supporting efforts to overthrow the central government in Khartoum. In 1999 U.S. Secretary of State Madeleine Albright met with the leader of the Sudan People’s Liberation Army (SPLA) who said that she offered him food supplies if he would reject a peace plan sponsored by Egypt and Libya.
In 1978 the vastness of Sudan’s oil reservers was discovered and within two years it became the sixth largest recipient of U.S, military aid. It’s reasonable to assume that if the U.S. aid a government to come to power it will feel obligated to give the U.S. part of the oil pie.
A British group, Christian Aid, has accused foreign oil companies of complicity in the depopulation of villages. These companies – not American – receive government protection and in turn allow the government use of its airstrips and roads.
In August 1998 the U.S. bombed Khartoum, Sudan with 75 cruise míssiles. Our government said that the target was a chemical weapons factory owned by Osama bin Laden. Actually, bin Laden was no longer the owner, and the plant had been the sole supplier of pharmaceutical supplies for that poor nation. As a result of the bombing tens of thousands may have died because of the lack of medicines to treat malaria, tuberculosis and other diseases. The U.S. settled a lawsuit filed by the factory’s owner. (1,2)
Uruguay: See South America: Operation Condor
In Vietnam, under an agreement several decades ago, there was supposed to be an election for a unified North and South Vietnam. The U.S. opposed this and supported the Diem government in South Vietnam. In August, 1964 the CIA and others helped fabricate a phony Vietnamese attack on a U.S. ship in the Gulf of Tonkin and this was used as a pretext for greater U.S. involvement in Vietnam. (1)
During that war an American assassination operation,called Operation Phoenix, terrorized the South Vietnamese people, and during the war American troops were responsible in 1968 for the mass slaughter of the people in the village of My Lai.
According to a Vietnamese government statement in 1995 the number of deaths of civilians and military personnel during the Vietnam War was 5.1 million. (2)
Since deaths in Cambodia and Laos were about 2.7 million (See Cambodia and Laos) the estimated total for the Vietnam War is 7.8 million.
The Virtual Truth Commission provides a total for the war of 5 million, (3) and Robert McNamara, former Secretary Defense, according to the New York Times Magazine says that the number of Vietnamese dead is 3.4 million. (4,5)
[I would add that the latest study from Harvard puts deaths in Vietnam at 3.8 million, which Nick Turse argues in Kill Anything That Moves is a significant understatement. –DS]
Yugoslavia was a socialist federation of several republics. Since it refused to be closely tied to the Soviet Union during the Cold War, it gained some suport from the U.S. But when the Soviet Union dissolved, Yugoslavia’s usefulness to the U.S. ended, and the U.S and Germany worked to convert its socialist economy to a capitalist one by a process primarily of dividing and conquering. There were ethnic and religious differences between various parts of Yugoslavia which were manipulated by the U.S. to cause several wars which resulted in the dissolution of that country.
From the early 1990s until now Yugoslavia split into several independent nations whose lowered income, along with CIA connivance, has made it a pawn in the hands of capitalist countries. (1) The dissolution of Yugoslavia was caused primarily by the U.S. (2)
Here are estimates of some, if not all, of the internal wars in Yugoslavia. All wars: 107,000; (3,4)
Bosnia and Krajina: 250,000; (5) Bosnia: 20,000 to 30,000; (5) Croatia: 15,000; (6) and
Kosovo: 500 to 5,000. (7)
Thanks to David Vine’s book (Base Nation) and other sources, I’ve started making a list of instances of the United States conquering territory:
During World War II the U.S. Navy seized the small Hawaiian island of Koho’alawe for a weapons testing range and ordered its inhabitants to leave. The island has been devastated. In 1942, the U.S. Navy displaced Aleutian Islanders. Those practices did not end in 1928 or in 1945. President Harry Truman made up his mind that the 170 native inhabitants of Bikini Atoll had no right to their island in 1946. He had them evicted in February and March of 1946, and dumped as refugees on other islands without means of support or a social structure in place. In the coming years, the United States would remove 147 people from Enewetak Atoll and all the people on Lib Island. U.S. atomic and hydrogen bomb testing rendered various depopulated and still-populated islands uninhabitable, leading to further displacements. Up through the 1960s, the U.S. military displaced hundreds of people from Kwajalein Atoll. A super-densely populated ghetto was created on Ebeye.
On Vieques, off Puerto Rico, the U.S. Navy displaced thousands of inhabitants between 1941 and 1947, announced plans to evict the remaining 8,000 in 1961, but was forced to back off and — in 2003 — to stop bombing the island. On nearby Culebra, the Navy displaced thousands between 1948 and 1950 and attempted to remove those remaining up through the 1970s. The Navy is right now looking at the island of Pagan as a possible replacement for Vieques, the population already having been removed by a volcanic eruption. Of course, any possibility of return would be greatly diminished.
Beginning during World War II but continuing right through the 1950s, the U.S. military displaced a quarter million Okinawans, or half the population, from their land, forcing people into refugee camps and shipping thousands of them off to Bolivia — where land and money were promised but not delivered.
In 1953, the United States made a deal with Denmark to remove 150 Inughuit people from Thule, Greenland, giving them four days to get out or face bulldozers. They are being denied the right to return.
Between 1968 and 1973, the United States and Great Britain exiled all 1,500 to 2,000 inhabitants of Diego Garcia, rounding people up and forcing them onto boats while killing their dogs in a gas chamber and seizing possession of their entire homeland for the use of the U.S. military.
The South Korean government, which evicted people for U.S. base expansion on the mainland in 2006, has, at the behest of the U.S. Navy, in recent years been devastating a village, its coast, and 130 acres of farmland on Jeju Island in order to provide the United States with another massive military base.
Vine’s later book The United States of War (2020) includes a map with these instances of U.S. bases displacing populations:
Pearl Harbor (Hawaii) 1898
Guam 1899, 1945-1946
Puerto Rico 1939-1942
Kaho’olawe (Hawaii) 1941-1942
Vieques (Puerto Rico) 1941-1961
Culebra (Puerto Rico) 1941-1970
Aleutian and Attu Islands 1942
Thule (Greenland) 1953
Diego Garcia 1968-1973
Daechuri (South Korea) 2006-2008
Plus U.S. nuclear tests displaced populations in 1944-1978 in Marshall Islands, Ailinginae Atoll, Bikini Atoll, Enewetak Atoll, Kwajalein Atoll, Lib Island, Rongelap Atoll, Rongerik Atoll, Wotho Atoll.
Use of U.S. Military Within U.S.
One final list.
Here is a complete list of those actions compiled from all the lists above that have been successful and made the world a better place:
Note from Al Carroll:
I have some additions to your list.
Nixon intervened to keep the Bengali genocide going. He threatened
Indira Gandhi for stopping the genocide by sending a US nuclear armed
aircraft carrier. Soviets sent their own nuclear armed ships in
Operation Condor was in the US too. Cuban exiles killed Orlando
Letelier, former Chilean ambassador, with a car bomb on embassy row in
DC. Kissinger knew in advance and did not stop it.
Somewhere on the list there needs to be the 136 Cuban exile bombings
both of their critics and Cuban govt buildings. Miami in the 70s had a
higher bomb rate than Beirut. Exiles also killed 3562 Cubans in Cuba
with their campaigns in the 1960s and 70s, plus blowing up a Cuban
airliner in the 1990s. The bomber was pardoned by Jeb Bush at Bush
Sr’s request. Miami honored him with a holiday.
1996-2000 USAID worked with Peru’s govt under Fujimori to forcibly
sterilize over 300,000 Quechua Indians, mostly without anesthesia.
I have a book on the human rights records of US presidents which might
interest you, Presidents’ Body Counts.
Comment from Art Spencer:
I wanted to add to the otherwise complete above list the alleged
covert operations by the United States and Israel, with the help of
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Physician and Scientist Prof. Shmuel Shapira MD has been the Director of the Israel Institute for Biological Research for 8 years from 2013 to 2021. He recently claimed that mRNA vaccinations caused the monkeypox outbreak, as reported by Kanekoa Substack.
Prof. Shapira, who suffered from an adverse reaction following his third Pfizer vaccine, was suspended by Twitter last week and was compelled to remove a tweet where he linked the monkeypox outbreak to the Covid vaccines.
“Monkeypox cases were rare for years. During the last years, a single case was documented in Israel. It is well established the mRNA vaccines affect the natural immune system. A monkey pox outbreak following massive covid vaccination: *Is not a coincidence,” Shapira wrote on his Twitter.
Prof. @shmuelcshapira, head of Israel Biological Institute (the most senior medical-scientific position in Israel) posted on the connection between monkeypox and you-know-what.— Dr. Eli David (@DrEliDavid) July 28, 2022
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An examination of major Russian writers and literary trends from about 1860 to the Bolshevik Revolution as well as a sampling of Russian émigré literature through a reading of representative novels, stories, and plays in translation. Readings include important works by Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, Chekhov, Gorky, Sologub, Bely, and Nabokov. The evaluation of recurring themes such as the breakdown of the family, the “woman question,” madness, attitudes toward the city, childhood and perception of youth. Conducted in English.
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- Combined oral contraceptives, including Camrese, increase the risk for blood clots, strokes, and heart attacks. These risks are minimal for healthy, young nonsmokers. However, tell your healthcare provider if you have ever had a blood clot, stroke, heart attack, or chest pain.
- This product does not protect against HIV, AIDS, or other sexually transmitted diseases (STDs). In many cases, it is advisable to use condoms in addition to Camrese.
- Smoking cigarettes significantly increases the risk for serious Camrese side effects, such as heart attacks, strokes, and blood clots. This risk is particularly high for smokers over the age of 35.
- Even though you will have fewer periods while taking Camrese (only four periods per year), many women have breakthrough bleeding between periods while taking it. This bleeding may be inconvenient and unpredictable. Keep taking the contraceptive as usual, but contact your healthcare provider if the bleeding is heavy.
- Combined oral contraceptives may also slightly increase the risk for breast cancer or cervical cancer, although this is an unresolved and controversial issue. However, combined oral contraceptives seem to help protect women against ovarian and uterine cancer.
- Birth control pills are sometimes not the best contraceptive choice for obese women. They may be less effective in these women, and obese women may have a higher risk for some of the serious side effects of Camrese.
- Oral contraceptives can increase the risk of benign (noncancerous) liver tumors. In rare cases, these tumors can rupture and cause serious problems.
- Hormonal contraceptives, including Camrese, can make gallbladder disease worse. Therefore, if you have had a problem with your gallbladder, this product may not be the best contraceptive method for you.
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Servo speed control is one of the most common and important control system problems. In this webinar, we will highlight several MathWorks and Quanser software tools that you can leverage for modelling, control design, simulation, and implementation. Depending on your engineering background, you may find one method easier to use than another. Practical examples to control the speed of the Quanser QUBE-Servo 2 servo system will be presented using MATLAB®, Simulink®, Simscape™ and the Quanser QUARC™ Real-Time Control software.
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Insulin resistance and obesity are associated with reduced gonadotropin-releasing hormone (GnRH) release and infertility. Mice that lack insulin receptors (IRs) throughout development in both neuronal and non-neuronal brain cells are known to exhibit subfertility due to hypogonadotropic hypogonadism. However, attempts to recapitulate this phenotype by targeting specific neurons have failed. To determine whether astrocytic insulin sensing plays a role in the regulation of fertility, we generated mice lacking IRs in astrocytes (astrocyte-specific insulin receptor deletion [IRKOGFAP] mice). IRKOGFAP males and females showed a delay in balanopreputial separation or vaginal opening and first estrous, respectively. In adulthood, IRKOGFAP female mice also exhibited longer, irregular estrus cycles, decreased pregnancy rates, and reduced litter sizes. IRKOGFAP mice show normal sexual behavior but hypothalamic-pituitary-gonadotropin (HPG) axis dysregulation, likely explaining their low fecundity. Histological examination of testes and ovaries showed impaired spermatogenesis and ovarian follicle maturation. Finally, reduced prostaglandin E synthase 2 (PGES2) levels were found in astrocytes isolated from these mice, suggesting a mechanism for low GnRH/luteinizing hormone (LH) secretion. These findings demonstrate that insulin sensing by astrocytes is indispensable for the function of the reproductive axis. Additional work is needed to elucidate the role of astrocytes in the maturation of hypothalamic reproductive circuits. | <urn:uuid:1371fa1e-6145-4f5e-8c76-80023f0674a4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/30893295/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571198.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810161541-20220810191541-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.917968 | 343 | 1.703125 | 2 |
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As a city grows, memories linger
Commuters, high-rises give Malden a new look
‘I have had a wonderful life,’’ said Cathy Winslow Foley, a 1974 Malden High graduate and former cheerleader who recently turned 55. “It started in Malden.’’
She’s spent the last 22 years living around the world, including the Philippines, Iceland, India, England, and most recently in Germany — in different roles as a wife and new mother, then teacher, and eventually as a counselor — so her first impressions when she returned to her old hometown in February weren’t all that surprising.
“I was hit by how it has changed. More concrete, less trees,’’ Foley said.
It’s not just the soaring skyline, now dotted by a dozen or so high-rise apartment buildings in the city of about 56,000 — nearly the same number of residents as 40 years ago. During her trips home, Foley has been struck by Malden’s transformation from a home-grown community to one that now entices a constant flow of those wishing to commute to Boston because of the Orange Line and relatively low rental rates.
According to Malden Mayor Richard C. Howard, the city has focused on development in the past decade, and the people have come. New high-rises with easy access to the T include the 204 apartments at 160 Pleasant St. in Malden Center. Partnerships with neighboring cities have created other rental developments: River’s Edge, built with Medford and Everett near Wellington Circle; and Oak Grove Village, created with Melrose near the Oak Grove T station, which boasts on its website “City convenience with a suburban lifestyle.’’
Howard, a lifelong resident in his 16th and final year as mayor, said that the uptick in the city census numbers — an increase of 3,110 from 2000 — shows “the city is growing; the population numbers are good.’’
Interestingly enough, if Foley had stayed in Malden, she would have found a worldwide experience of cultures and languages right at home. The latest US Census numbers show Malden is among the most diverse cities in the state, with about 20 percent of residents reporting as Asian in 2010, 14.8 percent African-American, and 8.4 percent Hispanic.
“There are 60 different first languages spoken at Malden High School,’’ Howard said. “If you go to a Malden High School graduation, of the 400 grads, there’s representation of easily 50 to 60 different countries.’’
In 2000, the latest year Census figures were tabu lated for housing data, of the 23,009 occupied units in the city, 43 percent were owner-occupied and 58 percent were renter-occupied, the latter figure compared with 39 percent for communities nationwide.
There’s no longer enough space in Malden’s 5.1 square miles for everyone to live in a house with a porch and backyard or hold a local job, as was the trend when Foley was a child. Citing “Big Yellow Taxi,’’ Joni Mitchell’s hit 1970 song, Foley lamented, “They paved paradise and put up a parking lot. People are paving their front yards to make a bigger driveway to park their cars.’’
Growing up, Foley said, Malden was a “vibrant, alive community where people lived and worked in the community.’’
Foley recalled the excitement when, as a second-grader, she joined other students attending Faulkner Elementary School on Salem Street in a march to the new Chester W. Holmes School on Mountain Avenue. Salem Towers, an eight-story elderly apartment house, rose on the Faulkner site in 1964.
Foley has fond memories of shopping at Jordan Marsh on Pleasant Street, at a site where a
“I was about 10 years old. My mother treasured it. She still has it.’’
There were movie theaters on Pleasant Street, too. At the Strand or Granada, “I used to go to matinees as a kid,’’ she recalled. “We only had two choices, a 1 p.m. or 3 or 4 p.m. matinee.’’ Or she’d bowl at Granada Lanes. “It had 30 lanes.’’
When Foley’s father died in 2009, a desire to spend time with her mother, Grace, now 81, and the rest of her family brought her back to the United States, eventually to stay. “I was tired of spending holidays away from the people I love and care about,’’ she said.
Foley applied for jobs all over New England from Schweinfurt, Germany, where she worked for the US Army counseling soldiers about substance abuse. She eventually found a position at the Springfield Vet Center, a storefront clinic providing readjustment counseling services to combat veterans suffering from post-traumatic stress disorder, anxiety, and other issues associated with returning from war. Currently renting in Northampton (“It’s much closer than Germany, or anywhere else I’ve lived during the last 30 years.’’), Foley makes trips to Malden to spend time with her mother.
While she waits for her husband, John, to sell their house in England and retire from teaching, Foley has been house-hunting, searching for a home that will have space for their four dogs.
The couple’s children, now older and independent, live across the country: her twin sons, 29, Joseph Astroth in Los Angeles and Justin Astroth in Alabama, along with her stepchildren, Sean Foley, 37, in Missouri, and Eva Foley, 35, in Oregon.
“I can’t live in the city,’’ Foley said. “I need someplace quiet, open, and beautiful, something more than tall buildings.’’
Still, while visiting her mother, Foley looks forward to getting reaquainted with old friends, and perhaps exploring some new finds in Malden, such as All Seasons Table and The Exchange, popular new restaurants in Malden Square.
The restaurants abut Sparks, a 90-year-old shopping institution with entrances on Pleasant and Exchange streets, which is the biggest supplier of school uniforms in the Northeast.
Mystic Valley Regional Charter School, based in Malden, refers students there for mandatory school uniforms. With a long reputation for good service and low prices, Sparks also sells scrubs, ladies sportswear, lingerie, and costume jewelry. Customers include anyone looking for a good-quality bargain.
Amy Sparks, 46, a third-generation owner, said, “A lot of professionals take the subway into Boston and don’t do their shopping here.’’ Still, the store is busy and both of Amy’s parents are still “very active’’ in the business.
Her father, Albert, is about to turn 84 and her mother, Myrna, who Amy says “likes to tell people she’s in her 20s,’’ helps out during uniform season, August through September.
“Twenty to thirty years ago,’’ Albert said, “the foot traffic was so heavy you couldn’t walk down Pleasant Street. No more. People come to our store for a specific purpose,’’ he explained. “They’re not just walking by.’’
Amy was more optimistic. “The new restaurants are bringing people back,’’ she said.
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Pelosi Remarks at National Clean Energy Project Roundtable This Morning
Washington, D.C. — Speaker Nancy Pelosi spoke this morning at the National Clean Energy Project Roundtable, held at the Newseum and hosted by the Center for American Progress Action Fund and chaired by Senate Majority Harry Reid. Other speakers included former President Bill Clinton, former Vice President Al Gore, Energy Secretary Steven Chu, Congressman Edward Markey, Chairman of the House Select Committee for Energy Independence and Global Warming.
The forum discussed policies and strategies to build a clean energy smart grid and expand the use of domestic alternative fuels. Below are the Speaker’s remarks as prepared:
“I would like to thank the Center for American Progress Action Fund for hosting the National Clean Energy Project Roundtable and to thank the chair of this event and one of America’s boldest leaders in creating a clean energy future, my friend Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
“In a time that demands bold ideas, this forum brings together some of the most innovative and visionary thinkers in our nation. I come here to thank you for your efforts to tackle the greatest challenges of our time.
“America was founded upon the tradition of bold thinkers ensuring opportunity for future generations. More than 200 years ago, Albert Gallatin, Secretary of the Treasury under President Thomas Jefferson, submitted a plan to Congress to develop America’s infrastructure.
“As Secretary Gallatin said at the time, his vision of roads and canals to unite our young nation could not ‘be left to individual exertion.’ He understood that public capital was needed for the public good.
“And because of his vision, America grew: the Erie Canal, the transcontinental railway, and the national road all are products of Gallatin’s plan.
“It is in the tradition of Albert Gallatin that a century later, in 1908, Theodore Roosevelt launched a similar commitment by convening a White House Conference on Conservation to preserve America’s natural beauty. That led to the creation of the National Park Service and helped a growing America remain a green America.
“Today again, we stand at a crossroads, with an opportunity to reinvest in America for the next generations.
“This issue is the flagship issue of my Speakership, and when Democrats took control of Congress two years ago, I formed the House Select Committee on Energy Independence and Global Warming, chaired by Ed Markey.
“I am also proud that Congress passed comprehensive energy legislation, signed into law in December 2007, which for the first time in almost 30 years increased fuel efficiency standards.
“We are also hopeful that this year we will be able to pass a renewable electricity standard – President Obama is proposing 25 percent by 2025. We can build a superconducting smart grid that will allow wind or solar power to travel from America’s plains or deserts or even rooftops to our cars .
“Last week, President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act to create and save 3.5 million jobs with new investments in health, education, science, infrastructure, and in clean, efficient American energy.
“The recovery package will also help bring our country’s electrical infrastructure into the 21st century. With these investments, we will begin updating our aging transmission networks to make the power grid smarter and greener.
“Mr. Markey and I were just at an energy conference in Italy and modernization of the grid was of the highest interest to the participants. We cannot move to a clean energy economy that relies on renewable and energy efficiency without deeper investments in transmission systems.
“Many states have already begun to adopt innovative policies to move toward more clean, efficient transmission systems. But what we need is a national framework for planning, developing, and financing transmission infrastructure.
“As you may know, the recovery package requires the Department of Energy to do a study on the transmission issues facing renewable energy, which should help guide Congress.
“We have an opportunity to shape this framework as Energy and Commerce Committee Chairman Henry Waxman works with his colleagues on legislation to address global warming and promote energy independence.
“We must change the energy marketplace so we can save our country and our planet. We began with the 2007 energy bill, we continued it in the stimulus package, and now we must complete the work. It is a moral, environmental and health, economic, and national security issue.
“You have assembled a distinguished panel of experts to deal with complicated issues surrounding how we connect, transmit, distribute and use the power that provides the engine for our economy.
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Definition of unwreathe
v. t. - To untwist, uncoil, or untwine, as anything wreathed.
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ERIC Number: ED250952
Record Type: Non-Journal
Publication Date: 1983
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English as a Second Language Resource Manual, Volume III, Part Two. Supplement 1983.
Center for Applied Linguistics, Washington, DC.
This is the second part of a two-part volume of supplementary materials intended for use in the Department of State's Intensive English as a Second Language, Cultural Orientation, and Pre-Employment Training Program for United States-bound Southeast Asian refugees. It contains classroom activities developed for the English as a second language (ESL) component of the program and a bibliography and list of resource materials. The ESL activities are specified for one or more levels of language and literacy ability but can be modified or expanded. One or more teaching techniques are suggested, and each activity has also been referenced to a competency in the standardized program curriculum. The activities are prefaced by a definition of the five language and literacy levels and a list of the ESL competencies from the standardized curriculum, grouped by topic area. The topic areas include classroom orientation (identifying and introducing oneself, introducing others, greetings, ending conversations, expressing lack of understanding and need for clarification, following simple directions, finding out the English for unknown terms, and observing classroom etiquette), banking, clothing, employment, food, health, housing, post office, transportation, and the transit process from Southeast Asia to the United States. (MSE)
Publication Type: Guides - Classroom - Teacher
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Sponsor: Department of State, Washington, DC. Bureau of Refugee Programs.
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Home to a culture that is considered to be one of the richest cultures in the world, Kerala is one of the best-kept secrets of India. A culture in which the heritage of the land is proudly preserved in the hearths and hearts of all the people of the land, a study into the culture of Kerala is a fascinating tale of natural beauty coupled with an ancient heritage. Perhaps no other aspect of the heritage of Kerala exhibits it as much as do the various festivals in Kerala, notable among which is the Champakkulam Boat Race.
Time for celebrating the Champakkulam Boat Race
The Champakkulam Boat Race is all set to begin on July 15, this year. The festival, which is one of the most-awaited events in the calendar of Kerala, has an origin which dates back to centuries in time. This spectacular snake boat race is held on the River Pampa on the day of the ‘moolam’, which is followed in accordance with the Malayalam month of Midhunam. The day is considered to be especially sacred as it is the day when the Deity at the AmbalappuzhaSree Krishna Temple was installed.
Description of Champakkulam Boat Race
The Champakulam Boat Race is held in accordance with a legend which is strongly adhered to by the people of Kerala. According to the legend, the king of Chempakasseri in Devanarayana, under the influence of instructions, provided to him by the royal priest erected a temple in his kingdom. However, just before the installation, he was informed that the idol was not auspicious. To make amends, the king brought the idol of Sree Krishna from the Karikulam temple in Kurichi, which legend claimed was handed over to Arjuna by Lord Krishna himself. It was during this journey that the king made a stopover at Champakulam. The next morning saw thousands of boats assembled at the site in a riot of colors in order to honor the sacred event and to escort the idol home
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Many of us have difficulty putting our faith into words. We do believe, and we live by what we believe, but as soon as we consider telling someone else about our faith, we are at a loss for words.
Faith is lived. The profound and wonderful reality of life is beyond words.
And yet life is incomplete if we do not find a way to share it.
So we attempt to tell of what is most important to us, even if the words are not perfect. Perhaps this is why people sing, dance, draw, paint and sculpt.
Art may enlighten us, or challenge us or delight us; it is also a means of sharing what is in the heart of the artist, which we may recognize and grasp because it is in our hearts as well.
Sandra Grassi Nelipovich, a local artist, creates batik on silk.
This means she dyes the silk with a light color and paints with wax on the areas where she wants this color preserved.
She designs delightful scenes of cities and towns, real and imagined. Last year I watched a child find the characters from children's stories that were drawn into the details of one of her beautiful batiks.
Another local artist, Leroy Schmaltz, often begins with recycled boards, assembled into larger panels to form an old wood surface for a painting or collage.
Schmaltz is known internationally for his Polynesian-inspired art, which is often used in the entertainment industry, major stores, restaurants, and countless yards and homes.
Nelipovich and Schmaltz are the featured artists this year at the 53rd annual Hillcrest Festival of Fine Arts, taking place at Hillcrest Congregational Church from Feb. 22 to 24.
About 200 other artists will show their work as well, and most of the paintings, sculpture, pottery and photos will be for sale. Musicians will provide live entertainment.
If you spend an hour or two at the art festival, you are likely to find a piece that reflects what is most meaningful to you. Even if the subject is not specifically religious, a friend may see this and understand the deeper truth that motivates and guides you.
- The Rev. Paul Clay ispastor of Hillcrest Congregational Church in La Habra Heights. He has served churches of the United Church of Christ in Washington, Oregon and California for 25 years. He lives with his wife in La Habra.
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|Title:||A Surface Spectroscopy Study of U Overlayers on Graphite.|
|Authors:||GOUDER Thomas; COLMENARES C.a.; NAEGELE Jochen rainier|
|Citation:||Surf. Sci. vol. 342 p. 299-306|
|Type:||Articles in periodicals and books|
|Abstract:||X-ray and ultra violet photoelectron spectroscopies have been used to study U overlayers deposited on graphite by magnetron and straight diode sputtering. We investigated the mode of growth, the electronic structure of the U phase and overleyer-substrate reactions after deposition and annealing. At submonolayer coverage U deposits as clusters pointing to a low overlayer-substrate interaction. With increasing dosage, U clusters agglomerate forming eventually a continuous U overlayer. At low U dosage, U4f and valence band spectra exhibit correlation satellites which are attributed to the narrowing of the 5f bands and eventual 5f localization, because of the decreased coordination of U atoms. In thicker overlayers these satellites are missing showing U to have the same electronic structure as in bulk U metal. Even immediately after deposition some of the surface carbon loses its graphite character and becomes carbidic, which is mainly attributed to a weak interaction between surface U and the graphite substrate. Annealing at 600*C results in further reaction between U and graphite and leads to the formation of UC.|
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Everything is worth what its purchaser will pay for it.
– Publilius Syrus
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A major project to tackle congestion at a key motorway junction on the M56 in Cheshire, boosting the prospects for new jobs and homes, is due to begin next week (Monday 10 November).
The £2.4 million Highways Agency scheme at junction 11 of the motorway near Daresbury is being seen as playing a significant role in the creation of 15,000 jobs and almost 3,000 new homes in the area, served by the Daresbury science and innovation campus by 2020.
The work includes adding an extra lane to the exit slip road from the westbound M56 onto the roundabout at the junction, as well as creating a third lane on the A56 on the northern approach to the roundabout.
Traffic lights will also be installed at the junction, lanes around the roundabout will be widened, and the road will be resurfaced.
As part of the scheme, CCTV cameras will be fitted at the junction so that the Highways Agency can monitor incidents from its regional control centre in Newton-le-Willows and quickly take action to tackle congestion.
Jakub Malaj, Project Manager at the Highways Agency, said:
This is a major project which has the potential to support thousands of new jobs and homes in the area.
Sci-Tech Daresbury – the world-class science and innovation campus – is just over a mile away from the motorway and this new scheme will expand capacity at the junction, making it easier for many more people to reach it.
There will inevitably be some disruption while the work takes place but when it is completed there will be significant benefits for both the local and regional economy.
The majority of the project will be carried out overnight, but some lane closures will need to remain in place for safety reasons during the day.
The first stage of the work will require the closure of the westbound exit slip road and the eastbound entry slip road on the M56 between 8pm and 5am for three nights from Monday 10 November.
The southbound side of the A56 between the A558 Daresbury Expressway and the M56 junction will also be closed overnight between 8pm and 5am from Monday 10 November until Wednesday 17 December. Clearly signed diversions will be in place when roads are closed.
The project is due to be completed by the end of March 2015, and is among 123 in the government’s £317 million ‘pinch-point’ initiative – a two year programme of targeted work being carried out alongside larger schemes and routine maintenance and improvements on motorways and major A roads.
The pinch-point programme, devised with the input of councils and Local Enterprise Partnerships, is designed to help stimulate new development and local economic growth by improving road safety and tackling congestion bottle necks. In all, 28 projects, worth £66 million, are taking place across the North West.
More details and updates on the projects are available on the Highways Agency’s website.
Members of the public should contact the Highways Agency Information Line on 0300 123 5000.
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There have been few periods as fertile in the development of Church doctrine than the age of the early Church fathers. In this course, Fr. Mosey covers some of the fundamental themes found in the writings of these amazing early theologians.
6 1-hour Lectures
- The Importance of Studying the Church Fathers
- Introduction to the Major Church Fathers
The Trinitarian Question
- Christ's Saving Work According to the Fathers
- The Fathers' Theological Anthropology
Teaching of the Sacraments
- St. Augustine "The Magister"
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Tokyo — Tokyo's eastern suburbs, persimmons hang ripe on the limb and a hush hangs over the stadium in Tokorosawa. Bases are loaded, and mighty Tabuchi has choked up on his bat, waiting for Egawa, the Giants' ace pitcher, to throw his inevitable slow curve.
In the bleachers, a kimono-clad grandmother anxiously gnaws a dried squid stick. The sushi and hotto dogu vendors stop in their tracks. Miles away in the Ginza, businessmen cluster in front of television store windows.
Like the Lions' first baseman, Tabuchi, all of Tokyo this week is waiting for the next pitch. All eyes are on baseball and the annual Japan Series, this year between two bitter Tokyo rivals: the Tokyo Yomiuri Giants and the defending champion Seibu Lions.
News of former Prime Minister Kakuei Tanaka's possible resignation from the national Diet (parliament) and of President Reagan's upcoming visit to Tokyo has been temporarily eclipsed. The talk of this town is box scores and batting averages. The common refrain in the streets of Tokyo: ''Take me out to the ball game'' - a refrain certain to increase in volume next year if, as proposed, the winner of the Japan Series plays its American counterpart in what the Japanese are calling the ''real'' World Series.
If you want to understand modern Japan, forget the tea ceremony and the bonsai trees, and study its besuboru mania. Nothing so reflects Japanese character as the way the nation has adopted the ''great American pastime'' and turned it into outdoor Kabuki.
Introduced here by missionaries in 1873, baseball was first played by college students. After World War II, it quickly became Japan's most popular sport, far surpassing sumo (wrestling).
Along the way, the Japanese managed to mix with the bunts and pop-ups an ample dose of 16th-century Bushido samurai discipline, traditional respect for age and authority (players never mouth off to the paternal team managers), and contempt for individual antics. As the Japanese proverb goes, ''The nail that sticks up shall be hammered down.''
In American baseball, the teams represent cities. In Japan, they represent corporations - and are carefully choreographed into the company's morale and marketing programs. Most corporations have amateur or semiprofessional teams; of Japan's more than 10,000 softball fields, nearly half are owned by corporations.
The country has 12 professional baseball teams advertising the products of parent companies, including the Yukalt Swallows (soft drinks), the Nippon Ham Fighters (pork products), the Lotte Orions (chewing gum), the Hiroshima Carp (Mazda automobiles), and so forth. The Taiyo Whales, owned by a fish company, actually sell ''whaledogs'' at their ballpark.
The Japan Series this year between the Tokyo Giants (owned by the Yomiuri newspaper and TV conglomerate) and the Seibu Lions (owned by a railroad and department-store chain) is the Japanese equivalent of the New York Times playing Bloomingdale's in Yankee Stadium.
The series opened Oct. 29 with the usual pomp and pageantry at Seibu Stadium in Tokorosawa, a bedroom suburb 30 minutes west of Tokyo. As the rising-sun flag was hoisted in center field between neon scoreboard ads for Datsun and Seibu, a military marching band blared out the national anthem. Drum majorettes in white knee socks strutted to the pitcher's mound to present chrysanthemum bouquets to the opposing team managers. The managers ceremoniously cradled the flowers back to the dugout, looking more like homecoming queens than hard-nosed major leaguers.
Nine innings of Tokyo baseball is sufficient to change any stereotypes you may have about the Japanese. With the first pitch, you might as well chuck the myth of a nation populated by nothing but strong, silent types. How, for instance, does one explain karate-chopping pompon girls who lead the left-field bleachers in cheers that in sheer decibels would match any Ohio State-Michigan football game.
Sango Morita, an Osaka businessman wearing a Giants-logo necktie, slurps his green tea and explains that ''baseball has a great history in Japan. It's a team sport, and group-oriented, which the Japanese like. But it's also a chance for us to expose our feelings.
''It's like a festival. Just look at that,'' Mr. Morita says, pointing to the banner-strewn Giants rooting section.
''Baseball is Japan's national game, but remember, it's also a big part of the corporate image, and every time your team plays on television it's worth millions,'' adds Morita, a high-ranking executive in the booming 410-restaurant McDonald's Japan. The fast-food chain is contemplating the purchase of a professional baseball team to promote its hamburgers and fries.
The whole Japanese corporate world jealously eyes the Seibu Lions - the ''miracle team'' of Japanese baseball - whose parent corporation is now cashing in on runs batted in. The Lions were in the Pacific League cellar when Seibu bought them five years ago. With some first-rate management, team discipline (the Lions have a season-long ban on drinking, smoking, and mah-jongg), and the signing of former San Francisco Giants sluggers Terry Whitfield and Steve Ontiveros (who together accounted for 40 percent of the team's runs last year), Seibu molded the Lions into a championship team. Moreover, the Lions have challenged the dominance of the Tokyo Giants, a Yankee-like team that has played in 22 of the last 33 Japan Series and won 16 of them.
The Lions, of course, advertise the goods and services of the multibillion-dollar Seibu Corporation, which owns some 48 Prince Hotels, 30 Seibu department stores, the vast Seibu supermarket chain, 25 golf courses, two Tokyo rail lines, two ice-hockey teams, and the Prince Hotel semiprofessional baseball club, the Lions' farm team.
For Seibu, baseball is more a matter of dollars and yen than foul balls and strikeouts. ''We would like to see every schoolboy in Japan wearing a Seibu Lions baseball cap,'' said Masaru Tanaka, the savvy assistant manager of the 37 -story Sunshine City Prince Hotel in north Tokyo - near one of Seibu's showcase department stores and its Ikebukuro train line to the Lions' stadium.
''It's long-term strategy, but the children who develop a loyalty to the Seibu Lions and Seibu products will be the foundation of our business in the future,'' he said.
''Baseball is part of our overall business,'' Mr. Tanaka added. ''We own the stadium, but don't provide parking, so our fans must ride our train. Of course we advertise on the train. Around the stadium we have an amusement park, three golf courses, and a housing development. Seibu is basically a real estate company, with the largest assets of any in Japan.''
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PSC operating with impunity
The Alabama Public Service Commission smugly congratulated itself this month for a minuscule rebate Alabama Power customers will receive on electric bills.
As the Montgomery Advertiser’s Brian Lyman reported, the new rates will save a typical residential customer an average of $5 over the year, or about 1.3 cents a day.
That’ll just about cover a gallon of milk and a loaf of bread. Or five rides for a senior citizen on a Montgomery Area Transit System bus.
Every little bit does help, but the crowing from the PSC is the kind of blarney that tells the public how out-of-touch state officials can be.
Especially since the slightly lower rates are a return of part of $146.5 million in money that was over-collected, due to cheaper-than expected fuel costs.
Alabama Power piled on, saying the decrease wasn’t larger because of regulatory costs for environmental and other protections.
Which sounds disingenuous when one notes state law essentially guarantees Alabama Power a profit, as it allows them to recover costs, including the costs to finance business.
Not bad, considering most businesses suffered from a deep recession during those years.
It’s true environmental regulations come at a hefty price. Alabama Power says it has spent $3.6 billion to date to cut emissions of pollutants to comply with Environmental Protection Agency rules.
Compliance costs for 2016 to 2020 are estimated at $895 million, including for new EPA carbon emission restrictions, plus $263 million to close dangerous ponds used to store coal ash.
Power customers ultimately bear those expenses, but they are justified by the enormous benefits that result – health-wise and for Alabama’s natural resources.
Emissions of mercury and sulfur dioxide from coal- and oil-burning electric plants, for instance, are linked to serious health impacts, from respiratory illnesses to heart attacks and nervous system damage in children.
Commendably, Alabama Power is using new technology and the closure or conversion of some coal-fired units to help meet tough emission restrictions.
But when it comes to the PSC’s claims of helping the utility’s customers keep more money in their pockets, we say “not so fast.” And not just because Alabama residents pay some of the highest prices for electricity in the South.
The commission is charged with fairly balancing the interests of consumers with the need for reliable, safe services from utilities.
Too often, however, it rubber stamps rate increase requests, operating with impunity in the dark.
A 2015 study from the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis found the PSC stonewalls the rate-paying public and governmental watchdog organizations with closed-door hearings and other secretive dealings.
State lawmakers should stand up for their constituents by demanding greater transparency at the PSC.
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Directed by Natalie Kottke-Masocco & Erica Sardarian • Documentary • 2017 • 90 minutes
Crossett, Arkansas is home to about 5,500 people, one Georgia-Pacific paper and chemical plant owned by the billionaire Koch brothers, and a startling rate of cancer and illness. This documentary follows local pastor David Bouie as he fights to save his community. It offers a rare look inside a small town ruled by a single company, where the government's environmental protections have been subverted and ignored, leaving its citizens to take on entrenched powers in a fight for justice.
The filmmaking team brings to light the bravery and collective action of Pastor Bouie, his congregation, and a variety of activists, organizers and environmental scientists—from Ouachita Riverkeeper Cheryl Slavant, who has been collecting health surveys and assisting scientists with air and water testing, to Barry Sulkin, Wilma Subra and Anthony Samsel, environmental scientists investigating pollution in the town's river.
"Powerful... A vital, eye-opening portrait. Georgia-Pacific and its owners, Koch Industries, are taken to the proverbial woodshed in the trenchant, disturbing documentary."—Los Angeles Times | <urn:uuid:4eeb8c24-b678-4e57-8fa6-1d8b061abfac> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.ovid.tv/sustainable-communities/videos/company-town-1 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571284.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811103305-20220811133305-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.939544 | 243 | 1.945313 | 2 |
David Butler, the EBEA’s Advocacy Lead and past HMI explains the key features of the new OFSTED Inspection Framework and its implications for teaching economics and business.
Ofsted published its new inspection framework on 14 May 2019, following an extensive period of consultation and trialling of the draft proposals. The new framework will be introduced in schools and colleges in September of this year. The outcomes of the consultation (which the EBEA took part in), the framework and handbooks are all available on the Ofsted website (www.ofsted.gov.uk). The purpose of this article is to draw members’ attention to some of the main features of the new inspection process and to discuss its implications for teaching economics and business.
SOME KEY FEATURES
The inspection process
While the framework itself looks very different from the current one, the actual inspection process has not been radically changed. Ofsted’s draft proposal for inspectors to be on site during the afternoon before the start of the inspection to carry out preparation work was overwhelmingly rejected in the consultation and will not be implemented, at least for the time being. The duration of the inspection will normally be two days in schools and two to five days in FE colleges. Schools judged as outstanding will be exempt from inspections unless there are indications that their performance has declined or there are complaints from parent or others, for example, about safeguarding issues. There is an emphasis on reducing the amount of documentation schools and colleges are expected to produce. Inspectors will not evaluate lesson plans and will not use the institution’s own performance data to make judgements. As is the case now, lessons and the performance of individual teachers will not be graded.
The inspection framework
The key change is the shift in emphasis from schools and colleges being judged primarily on examination results and other performance measures to evaluating the quality of education being provided to achieve these outcomes. ‘Are results the outcome of a broad, rich curriculum and real learning, or of teaching to the test and exam cramming?’ (Preface to framework). So it will be interesting to see how inspectors evaluate schools and colleges which provide a broad, rich curriculum and ‘real learning’ but have relatively poor examination results (possibly because they do not teach to the test or provide ‘cramming’)
There is also to be a new judgement for behaviour and attitudes, which will be separate from that for personal development. Inspectors will make only five graded judgements:
- The overall effectiveness of the institution
- The quality of education provided
- Personal development
- Behaviour and attitudes
- Leadership and management
(Where schools have sixth forms, there will be an additional grade for post-16 provision.)
This is a far cry from inspection frameworks in the not so distant past that required inspectors to make a large number of subsidiary graded judgements, including the grading of teaching in each lesson observed, which were then combined according to particular formulae to produce key grades. The new quality of education grade includes the curriculum, teaching and learning, assessment and achievement. Quite how inspectors will weight these various aspects to reach a grade, remains to be seen. Similarly, the personal development judgement is very wide ranging, including British values, aspects of citizenship, preparing for next steps in education, training or employment and developing resilience, confidence and independence. The handbooks do contain ‘best fit’ grade criteria but the task of making these very broad judgements remains problematic and the suspicion must be that inspectors will inevitably need to make private subsidiary judgements.
THE IMPLICATIONS FOR ECONOMICS AND BUSINESS TEACHERS
The implications for teaching examination courses in economics and business.
The framework has few implications for the post-16 economics and business curriculum and there is nothing in the framework that might threaten existing A level and vocational courses.It is a rather different picture pre-16 because of the emphasis on the EBacc, which does not include economics or business. However, the precise wording in the handbook for school inspections is confusing in terms of how schools will be judged in relation to the EBacc. It cites the DfE’s aim of 75% of Year 10 pupils studying the EBacc subjects by 2022 and 90% by 2025 but it emphasises that this is an ambition and not a target for individual schools and that ‘inspectors will not make a judgement about the quality of education based solely or primarily on a school’s progress towards the EBacc ambition’. However, it goes on to say ‘nevertheless it is an important factor in understanding a school’s level of ambition for its pupils’ (para 175). One of the criteria for the judgment for the quality of education being good (or outstanding) is that ‘the school’s aim is to have the EBacc at the heart of its curriculum, in line with the DfE’s ambition, and good progress has been made towards this ambition’. The distinction between ‘ambition’ and ‘target’ appears to be splitting hairs. Inspectors will surely have to identify what proportion of Year 10 pupils are currently taking the EBacc, how that has increased during the past few years and how it is likely to increase in the future. It is difficult to see how inspectors will avoid using the DfE’s ‘ambitions’ as targets when measuring progress. All this is important as the more the EBacc is emphasised (or other measures of performance that do not include economics and business qualifications), the more GCSE and vocational qualifications in economics and business are threatened. It is true that the EBacc is not the whole curriculum but, once other compulsory elements are included, it leaves very little time for anything else. Numbers taking business related courses at key stage 4 have fallen in recent years and anecdotal evidence suggests that business teachers in 11-16 schools are frequently not being replaced when they leave or retire. The framework will do little to reverse this trend and may even exacerbate it.
Lessons in economics and business may or may not be observed – there is no set number of lessons that inspectors are expected to observe and no particular pattern of visiting. While individual lessons will not be graded, inspectors’ observations will help them to form (non graded) judgments about the quality of teaching which, in turn, will inform the grade for the quality of education. Many teachers will welcome the shift in emphasis from examination results per se to how these results are achieved. However, the term ‘teaching to the test’ needs some unpicking. Many would agree that a narrowing of the curriculum in primary schools to focus almost entirely on getting the best possible SATs results or secondary schools starting GCSE courses in key stage 3, is detrimental to providing a broad and balanced education. However, the term becomes more problematic when considering the teaching of examination courses, which often takes up the entire timetable for economics and business teachers. Teachers may well say that their main aim is to educate pupils, rather than get them through exams but the reality is often rather different and for good reasons. Teachers are heavily judged on exam outcomes and pupils and parents mainly see exam results as the only outcome that really matters. This means that teachers often stick almost entirely to what they expect examiners to ask, spend considerable time on exam technique and provide additional support and revision sessions outside of lessons, which might well be construed as ‘cramming’. Teachers will often have little time for developing deeper understanding and exploring issues in greater depth if there does not appear to be a pay off in terms of examination results. If the blame for this lies anywhere it is not with Ofsted but with the content of exam courses and the nature of the questions that are set. An example of this is the requirement for pupils to manipulate supply and demand graphs in GCSE economics courses without requiring an understanding and questioning of the assumptions that underlie them. This results in bad economics education but which is not necessarily reflected in the grades pupils achieve. Teachers will inevitably ‘teach to the test’, so the trick is to ensure that the test is fit for purpose and encourages good education. Unfortunately, the reform of A level and GCSE economics and business courses have in many ways failed to achieve this.
The implications for developing economic, business and enterprise education as part of the core curriculum.
The new framework might at first sight appear to give encouragement to the promotion of economic, business and enterprise education for all pupils and students. There are worthy statements in the handbooks about schools and colleges having curriculums that prepare young people for their futures and equipping them with the knowledge and cultural capital to succeed in life. Having a separate graded judgement for personal development and a statement that ‘the curriculum promoted by schools should extend beyond the academic, technical and vocational’ might also give hope to those who favour the provision of economic, business and enterprise education as part of the core curriculum. After all, many would argue that having basic economic understanding, including financial literacy and key enterprise skills, are vital to succeed in and participate fully in 21st century Britain. However, such optimism is dashed by reading the detail of the handbooks and evaluation schedules for schools and colleges. There are a few mentions of careers programmes and the need for older pupils and students to encounter ‘the world of work’ but absolutely no mention of economic and business understanding, employability and enterprise skills and financial literacy, all widely supported across political parties and by organisations such as the CBI and trade unions. This is equally true of the college inspection handbook and evaluation schedule where, arguably, these aspects of the curriculum become even more essential. The EBEA, along with other organisations, argued strongly for the E (economic) in PSHE education to be given greater prominence in the evaluation schedule, even though the DfE had failed to make it statutory. Alas, despite the case being well made, it was not reflected in the published framework and evaluation schedules. However all is not lost as Ofsted states that there is no Ofsted curriculum (despite its emphasis on the EBacc at key stage 4) and that it will ‘judge schools taking radically different approaches to the curriculum fairly …… (and) recognises the importance of schools’ autonomy to choose their own curriculum approaches’. (para 173, school inspection handbook). So, there is no reason preventing a school providing a curriculum that emphasises business and enterprise as part of a broad and rich overall educational provision. According to the evaluation schedule, provided the curriculum is well thought through, takes account of the needs of all learners and is effectively delivered, it should be judged favourably.
The new framework is intended to be a radical departure from previous incarnations. Whether it proves to be will only become clear when evidence is gathered from inspections of a range of institutions, including those that adopt radically different approaches to the curriculum. For those who had hoped that it might give greater credence to economic, business and enterprise education as part of the curriculum and personal development, it is a huge disappointment. The promotion of the EBacc, which many would argue is outdated and fails to effectively prepare young people for their futures, means that the position of business and economics at key stage 4 is increasingly under threat. However, the new framework does provide scope for schools and colleges to adopt different approaches to the curriculum to meet the needs of all learners. As has always been the case, it will be up to economics and business teachers and leaders to ‘fight their corner’ and convince senior managers of the vitally important role these subjects play in preparing young people for life in the 21st century.
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Social Networks Must Stand Against Censorship
The pressure for social networks to censor the content that appears on them just won't cease, and the networks are bending. Censorship, however, is not what users want. Nor is it technically possible, even if the platforms won't admit it.
The European Union is pushing Facebook, Twitter and other social networks to comply with member states' hate speech laws. In the U.S., many in the media and on the losing side of the recent presidential campaign would like to see the platforms take action against fake news. Unlike in cases involving abuse of market dominance (the charge Google faces in Europe) or the release of users' private data (over which Microsoft has fought the U.S. government), the platform owners aren't fighting back.
In May, Facebook, Twitter, Google's YouTube and Microsoft signed a code of conduct, in which they promised to review most hate speech reports within 24 hours and remove content that they find illegal. The EU wasn't content with that; Justice Commissioner Vera Jourova voiced dismay this week that only 40 percent of reports are reviewed within 24 hours, according to a compliance audit.
Jourova's tone was stringent. "If Facebook, YouTube, Twitter and Microsoft want to convince me and the ministers that the non-legislative approach can work, they will have to act quickly and make a strong effort in the coming months." This is a threat: Unless the social networks step up self-censorship, legislation will be passed to force them to comply.
In the U.S., where free speech is protected by the First Amendment, there's no such urgency, but plenty willing to offer well-meaning advice. For the most part, demands have to do with having users flag offensive content and then reacting quickly to the complaints. That is a deeply flawed process, as Microsoft's Kate Crawford and Cornell University's Tarleton Gillespie explained in a 2014 paper:
Disagreements about what is offensive or acceptable are inevitable when a diverse audience encounters shared cultural objects. From the providers’ point of view, these disagreements may be a nuisance, tacks under the tires of an otherwise smoothly running vehicle. But they are also vital public negotiations. Controversial examples can become opportunities for substantive public debate: Why is a gay kiss more inappropriate than a straight one? Where is the line drawn between an angry political statement and a call to violence? What are the aesthetic and political judgments brought to bear on an image of a naked body—when is it “artistic” versus “offensive?”
Flagging has been gamed ever since it became available to users. Campaigns have been run to flag pro-Muslim content on YouTube as terrorist, pro-Ukrainian content on Facebook as reprehensibly anti-Russian (and vice versa), gay groups as offensive to Christians and so on. In many cases, the social networks' abuse teams have removed posts flagged by both sides so as not to alienate anyone. I see many of the bloggers I follow disappear for a few days due to bans imposed in such campaigns, then resurface and keep going until the abuse team is overwhelmed with new flags.
Still, regulators and well-wishers want the networks to make flagging easier and more prevalent -- and then work as fast as possible with the complaints. The tech firms can only comply by hiring more censors, inventing technological solutions and going to third parties for validation. Facebook chief executive officer Mark Zuckerberg has said his company plans to use automation to take down offending content before users flag it and to work with outside organizations to verify stories. The EU-dictated code of conduct encourages the latter scenario, too.
Yet given the current, primitive state of natural language processing the automation will do more harm than good. A new gimmick -- a shared database of content removed by Facebook, Microsoft, Twitter and YouTube as terror-related -- will only amplify the effect of errors made by each of the networks, and only until the posters start gaming it by making minor changes to their content.
As for outsourcing censorship, the partisan biases it brings into the process are too numerous to account for. A report from Morning Consult, a polling and research company, shows that 24 percent of Americans believe the reader holds the most responsibility for preventing the spread of fake news; just 17 percent believe the social networks do.
Indeed, a social network user is much better able to police her own feed than the network is to censor the staggering amount of content it carries. A reader is usually able to tell fake news from real news; in the Morning Consult survey, 55 percent of respondents said they had, on more than one occasion, started reading a story only to realize it was untrue. People have a social incentive not to share fake stories: They will be mocked by friends if they do. In many cases, people share fake news knowingly -- because it confirms their biases or because they want to troll the subject of the fake story -- but in these cases, Facebook and Twitter cannot expect a flag from these users, only from their equally emotional opponents. Reacting to such flags will often be a mistake.
Similar mechanics are involved in the spread of "hate speech," terrorist recruitment videos and cyberbullying posts. It's easy for a user to block those who spread this kind of content. Some won't, however, because they're not offended by it or because they're interested in it for various, often legitimate, reasons. Instead of signaling compliance, the social networks should stand up and make a few simple points.
If a government has passed laws against hate speech, it should be able to enforce them with the large security apparatus at its disposal. It cannot delegate the policing to companies any more than it can outsource, say, the fight against terror. If the governments admit they are unable to police the social networks, how can they expect the private firms to be able to do it? In any case, in the Morning Consult survey, only a small minority wanted the government to prevent the spread of fake news. That reflects the average user's attitude toward any government-enforced censorship, no matter how it is exercised.
In a free society, specific people are responsible for their thoughts and actions. Social platforms can provide the tools for getting rid of offensive or irrelevant posts, and try to block bots, but they should not exercise some kind of misguided parental authority over their adult users.
The social networks may see taking a stand as an unnecessary risk given the legislative threats. Yet they may be better off fighting censorship now, before they're choked by ever-increasing, unreasonable demands to step it up.
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National Public Lands Day, Sept. 28, is the nation’s largest single-day volunteer effort for public lands.
To encourage volunteerism, the Indiana Department of Transportation has partnered with State Parks so its employees have a place to volunteer as part of the INDOT Cares initiative. Agency employees will volunteer their time to help maintain trails, paint structures, clean lakes, and help with various other projects.
“Volunteering is a great team-building activity for businesses and organizations,” said Jody Heaston, state parks volunteer coordinator. “The state parks are thankful INDOT chose us as a place to volunteer. With a large group of people, we will get a lot of much-needed work accomplished.”
“Through our INDOT Cares program, our team strives to make a positive impact in the communities in which we live and work,” said INDOT Commissioner Joe McGuinness. “One of the most meaningful ways we can make a difference is through completing projects in Indiana’s beautiful state parks.”
State Parks properties participating with INDOT Cares include Chain O’Lakes, Turkey Run, Prophetstown, Fort Harrison, Potato Creek, and Clifty Falls state parks, and Patoka Lake.
In 2018, more than 100 INDOT employees volunteered their time for National Public Lands Day. Employees removed invasive plants, picked up litter, cleaned and widened trails, pulled weeds, painted signs, and repaired erosion.
To find a National Public Lands Day event near you, go to calendar.dnr.IN.gov and look on Sept. 28. | <urn:uuid:c47aaa9c-255e-4bc4-abee-48a036bb9a88> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wrebfm.com/2019/09/24/state-parks-and-indot-partner-to-celebrate-public-lands-day/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572063.65/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814173832-20220814203832-00674.warc.gz | en | 0.941733 | 333 | 2.125 | 2 |
The World Bank has approved financing the Sustainable Development Program for Fisheries in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden with a grant of $41.15 million.
The Minister of Planning, Waed Badeeb, said that funding the program came after unremitting efforts made by his ministry in mobilizing resources and enhancing cooperation with international donors.
In a statement to Saba Agency, he indicated that the funding will be through the United Nations Development Program in addition to the grant of the Regional Authority for the Preservation of the Environment of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden in the amount of $3.85 million.
Pointing out that this project is the first operation of a series of projects aimed at strengthening regional cooperation for the sustainable management of fisheries in the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden region and enhancing the effective production of fisheries and the value chain in the countries of the Red Sea and Gulf of Aden region.
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The purpose of your cover letter and resume is to get you to the Interview. The purpose of the interview is to LAND YOU THE JOB!!! Now is not the time to relax, you still have work to do!
Interviews come in many different forms. Understanding the basics will prepare you for anything.
Types of Interviews
Face to Face Interviews:
These are generally sit down, one on one or one on a few interviews.
These are used either as a way of screening applicants during the intial interviewing phase or they are used to interview someone who is geographically far away.
The interviewer may ask you to demonstrate your problem-solving skills. They will outline a situation and ask you to formulate a plan.
Usually designed to uncover leadership potential of employees. These interviews are used to see how you interact with others and how you use knowledge and reasoning to influence.
This type of interview develops a common ground with your interviewer.
Regardless of what type of interview setting you are about to walk into, it is important to prepare and be aware of what happens during, and after the interview.
- Dress the Part
- Practice, Practice, Practice
- Put your best foot forward
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sp3 Diamond Technologies,
Inc. (sp3), a leading supplier of diamond film products, equipment and services,
today brought to market the newest member of its Model 650 Series of Hot Filament
CVD (chemical vapor deposition) Diamond Coating Systems with the Model 655D
for doped diamond applications. The Model 655D incorporates advanced process
capabilities to dope diamond as it is deposited, making it electrically conductive
with resistivity from .05 to 10 ohm-cm, while maintaining excellent uniformity.
The Model 655D has been configured with two dopant flow ranges giving the user
flexibility to tailor processes with very specific electrical characteristics.
By adding gas loops to the baseline diamond deposition configuration, the 655D
has the ability to deliver Boron dopant via a Hydrogen carrier gas. Boron is
required to dope diamond films in order to render them electrically conductive.
The Model 655D also integrates new system controls and a dedicated user interface
to assure process repeatability and intrinsically safe operation.
“Over the past 15 years, sp3 has gained a deep understanding of the potential
applications for diamond based on extensive customer experience and in-house
R&D activities,” said Dwain Aidala, president and COO for sp3 Diamond
Technologies. “In the Model 655D, and the entire Model 650 Series, sp3
is bringing its industry leadership in diamond deposition to market in the form
of turnkey systems that are fully configured and ready-for-use for specific
sp3’s hot filament diamond deposition technology offers customers a critical
advantage in terms of reduced development time and shortened time-to-market.
By incorporating electrically conductive diamond into its reactor’s broad
range of commercial applications, which includes cutting tools, wear surfaces
and wafer-scale diamond, sp3 is expanding future customers’ opportunities
to implement thin film diamond in conductive diamond applications, such as in
coated electrodes for water treatment and electrochemistry. Having been developed
originally for internal use, the company has deployed over twenty hot filament
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Its a feature of The Liberties with many names: the Fountain (as it was originally intended to be), The Catholic Emancipation Monument, the Sacred Heart statue and even the ‘Holy Mary’ statue – at the junction of Gray Street and Reginald Street. The decorative arch has recently been freshly repainted and planted (big thank you to the very keen local gardener!) as part of a refurbishment of two prominent Liberties’ landmarks.
The original structure was a much more ornate water fountain installed by Reginald Brabazon, Earl of Meath in 1897, commemorating the visit of Queen Victoria to Ireland and also adding to his model artisan housing development undertaken by the Dublin Artisan Dwellings Company, of which he and his reforming wife were members. It’s a shame that original stricture was lost. The new simpler canopy and statue of the Sacred Heart was installed in 1929 to commemorate the centenary of Catholic Emancipation and that year’s Eucharistic Congress in Dublin, while the canopy was further modified over the years and its latest incarnation dates from the early 1980s (possibly to mark Pope John Paul II’s visit to Ireland in 1979).
Around the corner on The Coombe, the lone portico of the former hospital has also been upgraded with repainting of its railings, new planted areas and new floodlighting. The portico of course doubles as a record of some of the well-known street characters of 20th century Dublin, who are listed on the rear steps.
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New business and IT trends are causing serious disruptions in how we approach information security. With corporate identities under siege, a single successful login is no longer a sufficient way to attain trust.
While in the past there was a defined perimeter around important information – today that perimeter is virtually non-existent.
Cloud, workforce mobility, BYOD and Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) platforms have dissolved the traditional boundaries while adding to the headache of potential points of breach IT departments have to work out in securing assets they don't own or operate.
Defending the enterprise
A different type of defence must be implemented to adapt to this new normal and secure a borderless enterprise from an ever-changing threat landscape.
More specifically, as an organisation's employees become the front line of cyber attacks IT departments today need a system of identity access management (IAM) that is more dynamic, agile, intelligent and risk-aware: in short, adaptive IAM.
Whereas traditional IAM approaches guarded stationary perimeters around data largely in one, centralised location, adaptive IAM creates a dynamic "situational perimeter" that patrols and safeguards against attacks by enforcing security wherever users interact with corporate data and resources – not only across various devices and platforms, but throughout the entire process of interaction.
Today's advanced threats and multi-vector attacks (the different methods in which employees can be targeted i.e. through malicious emails, accesing wireless networks on smart phones, chatting on social network sites etc) can strike at any moment during the user experience, and many of today's IAM solutions are too primitive to spot suspicious behaviour.
IAM systems today assume that users providing correct credentials at first log-in can be trusted, but the fact is that establishing trust cannot just be a one-time thing.
While convenience must be placed at the centre of the operations, users are acclimatising to the idea of signing onto multiple websites when using online "passports", such as their Facebook ID, Google sign-in or Microsoft account.
It's just a matter of time before people expect similar or even greater levels of integration when signing into corporate IT services.
The Basic Principles
So how do we achieve this new level of responsive, adaptive, intelligent security? The concept rests on four basic principles:
- Creating rich user profiles drawn from many attributes that can independently corroborate the trustworthiness of users and their activities in real-time against a historical baseline, with significant deviations from "normal" behaviour signalling security problems.
- Providing intelligence through big data analytics that can assess risk, detect problems and interrupt users attempting unsafe activities.
- Monitoring and risk-based intervention should be implemented to keep track of what users do after initial authentication, and adjust access controls to measured risk levels.
- Consumer-level convenience must always be top of mind, meaning identity controls and risk assessments must occur behind the scenes, intruding upon corporate end users only when necessary.
While these principles are fairly straightforward, the path to adaptive IAM will not necessarily be a quick or easy one. Companies must rethink the way they think about security to take into account the way their employees are interacting with company data.
Employees are no longer accessing information on one central server from the PC; they are interacting with it at home, on the go and from a pool of devices that grows every day.
In reality, we are likely a few years from this IAM ideal, but progress is being made and more importantly, the charge has been set forth. IAM solutions must adapt as fast as the rapidly changing threat scenarios they protect against.
By implementing an IAM solution that is adaptable, intelligent and dynamic, we can establish effective, situational perimeters around the borderless enterprise and arm ourselves for the front lines of today's cyber security battle.
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I'm struggling to enable NTFS share between two Windows (XP and 7) hosts through a Linux firewall.
Here's my setup:
What I want to do is to NAT the NTFS input from the XP machine to the same ports on the Win7 machine.
The problem is that when I try from the XP machine to open the network share
\\LINUXFIREWALL then the firewall doesn't seem to be NATing the packets to the Win7 machine.
I've opened the standard NTFS/Samba ports like 135:139 and 445, some of them need UDP and the others TCP (details available on various sites).
However since I am running 2 different versions of windows I tried to google that to see if there would be a change between XP and 7 and that list is available on MS website : http://windows.microsoft.com/en-GB/windows7/Networking-home-computers-running-different-versions-of-Windows#section_2
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A program just for youngsters on the life cycle of the Monarch butterfly was presented Monday morning, at the Garden Center and it was surprising how much some youngsters already knew about butterflies. Youngsters were in grades K through 5.
A DVD on the life cycle of the butterfly was presented, followed by a discussion on what they had just seen. David Farah led the discussion, along with Bea Imhoff who explained the anatomy of a butterfly.
The program was presented by the Garden Club of St. Augustine’s Environmental Committee.
Youngsters learned there are approximately 20,000 species of butterflies in the world with about 575 occurring regularly in the lower 48 states of the United States. There are probably about 100 species of butterflies living in Florida.
Most adult butterflies live only about a month, however the Monarch can live up to nine months.
Most adult butterflies drink nectar from flowers through their tongues which function much like straws. Butterfly caterpillars mostly eat leaves of host plants.
Diane Daly showed youngsters her son’s butterfly collection after which they adjourned outside to place host plants such as parsley and milkweed, favored by Monarchs, into containers they carried home.
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Space for Cycling
Our Space for Cycling campaign aims to improve quality of life for all, by making local streets safe and inviting for everyone to cycle.
In 2014, ahead of the local council elections in May, we called on every candidate to support safer cycling in their area and asked them to back a specific local improvement identified by our local groups. 50% of candidates agreed to do this, which translated to 47% of Councillors who were elected. That's a huge, 862 Councillors who support Space for Cycling! Read more
We're now working hard to make sure those promises are kept.
The local cycle improvements we're calling for in each electoral ward in London can be viewed on our interactive campaign map. The improvements range from making sure there are safe cycle routes to a named local school to installing a physically protected cycle lane on a named major road. Most of the suggested measures fall in one of these 6 categories:
- lowering vehicle speeds
- removing through motor traffic on minor/residential streets
- installing physically protected space for cycling on main roads
- opening up our green areas for cycling
- creating safe cycle routes to schools
- improving London's town centres to make them easier to visit by bike | <urn:uuid:9773f2ba-fd9b-494f-9f59-229e82e9ca83> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://lcc.org.uk/pages/space-for-cycling | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560283301.73/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095123-00505-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956818 | 250 | 2.4375 | 2 |
Date: April 29 to May 25, 2019
In memory of Eugène Ysaÿe, the celebrated Belgian violin virtuoso and composer, the competition was first set up in 1937 by Queen Elisabeth of Belgium. It is considered to be one of the most prestigious and demanding music competitions in the world. Participants are expected to perform works by a Belgian composer and a compulsory piece written especially for the contest. It features four disciplines – the violin (since 1937), the piano (since 1938),voice (since 1988), and the cello (from 2017 onwards). Previous winners include Vladimir Ashkenazy, David Oistrakh and Marie-Nicole Lemieux, just to name a few.
- China International Music Competition First launched in 2019 by the Global Music Education League and China Conservatory of Music, the annual competition focuses on different disciplines each year.
- Hong Kong International Operatic Singing Competition Presented and organized by Musica Viva, the competition is the first major vocal event in Hong Kong.
- International Chopin Competition on Period Instruments In celebration of the anniversary of Poland’s independence, the Fryderyk Chopin Institute launched the first international competition in 2018.
- The Alice & Eleonore Schoenfeld International String Competition First established in 2013, the competition aims to promote highly gifted young musicians. | <urn:uuid:f470477f-fa71-4be2-9ffe-2c71b6ef85b7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://interlude.hk/queen-elisabeth-of-belgium-international-music-competition/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572212.96/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815205848-20220815235848-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.918315 | 293 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Offering a unique look at interior design, Materials and Components of Interior Architecture, Seventh Edition fully covers the nonstructural materials available to interior designers. With an eye on the environment, it provides a firm understanding of the products, properties, and uses of all materials, from floors, walls and ceilings to installation, and recycling. Going beyond paint and carpet, it explores over 27 different floorings and devotes separate chapters to kitchens and baths. Filled with the latest information provided directly from the suppliers, it helps readers think knowledgably and creatively about the “nuts and bolts” of interior design—both in terms of structure and style. With an eye on the environment, it provides a firm understanding of the products, properties, and uses of all materials, covering everything from floors, walls and ceiling to installation, and recycling. Progressing from the ground up—literally—it looks beyond the more decorative aspects of design to study the properties and uses of both finishing materials in the design field and structural materials in the architectural field. For interior designers and specifiers.
The fourth edition of STRATEGIC LOGISTICS MANAGEMENT is an excellent balance of theory and practical application and continues to include state-of-the-art logistics information and technology. This is one of the few books to have a view of logistics from a marketing perspective. In addition, it integrates the areas of logistics, marketing, finance, accounting, technology and manufacturing. Extensive coverage of customer satisfaction, global issues, and accounting/finance issues are incorporated throughout the text as well as in separate chapters. Examples of “real world” illustrations of concepts are also included in each chapter. This book has been extensively revised and updated in the areas of technology, global coverage, and transportation.
From the Author
A number of important topics not covered in many other logistics texts, or covered only superficially, are given significant treatment in this book, including: supply chain management, measuring and selling the value of logistics, order processing and management information systems; e-commerce and the Internet; reverse logistics and packaging; financial control of logistics performance; logistics organizations; and global logistics. Our goal in covering these topics in addition to the traditional activities is to provide readers with a grasp of the total picture of logistics within the context of supply chain management processes. There are a number of worthwhile improvements in the fourth edition.
We have included many more references and examples from general business and other literature because of the impact of logistics on a variety of business processes. This edition covers the academic and trade literature in the area of logistics extensively, and includes the most up-to-date information and examples. Readers will notice the significant number of citations from the year 2000. We have retained those elements that are “timeless” and those that made the previous editions successful.
About the Author
James R. Stock is Professor of Marketing and Logistics at the College of Business Administration, University of South Florida. Dr. Stock held previous faculty appointments at Michigan State University, University of Oklahoma, and the University of Notre Dame. From 1986 to 1988 he held the position of Distinguished Visiting Professor of Logistics Management, School of Systems and Logistics, at the Air Force Institute of Technology, Wright-Patterson Air Force Base. Dr. Stock is the author or co-author of over 90 publications including books, monographs, articles, and proceedings papers. He is author of Development and Implementation of Reverse Logistics Programs and Reverse Logistics; co-author of Distribution Consultants: A Managerial Guide to Their Identification, Selection, and Use; and co-author of Fundamentals of Logistics Management.
He currently serves as editor of the International journal of Physical Distribution and Logistics Management. He received the Armitage Medal (1988) f! rom the SOLE—The International Society of Logistics in recognition of his scholarly contributions to the discipline. His areas of expertise include reverse logistics, supply chain management, and the marketing-logistics interface. He has lectured on various logistics topics throughout Europe and Africa. Dr. Stock holds BS and MBA degrees from the University of Miami (Florida) and the Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Douglas M. Lambert is the the Raymond E. Mason Professor of Transportation and Logistics and Director of The Global Supply Chain Forum, Fisher College of Business, The Ohio State University. He is also the Prime F. Osborn III Eminent Scholar Chair in Transportation, Professor of Marketing and Logistics, and Director of The International Center for Competitive Excellence at the College of Business Administration, University of North Florida. From 1983 to 1985 he was PepsiCo Professor of Marketing at Michigan State University.
Dr. Lambert has served as a faculty member for over 500 executive development programs in North America, South America, Europe, Asia, and Australasia and he has given more than 100 presentations to professional associations around the world. He is the author of The Development of an Inventory Costing Methodology, The Distribution Channels Decision, The Product Abandonment Decision and co-author of Management in Marketing Channels, Fundamentals of Logistics Management, Str! ategic Logistics Management, and Supply Chain Directions for a New North America. He has authored or co-authored more than 150 publications.
In 1986 Dr. Lambert received the Council of Logistics Management’s Distinguished Service Award, “the highest honor that can be bestowed on an individual for achievement in the physical distribution/logistics industry,” for his contributions to logistics management and has also received CLM’s Founders Award (1997) and Doctoral Research Grant (1975). He holds an honors BA and MBA from the University of Western Ontario and a Ph.D. from The Ohio State University. Dr. Lambert is co-editor of The International Journal of Logistics Management. | <urn:uuid:19f398a2-6d19-4e6b-b863-bd3db75812b6> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://studymoose.com/business-its-nature-and-environment-essay | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720475.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00354-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.940224 | 1,192 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Despite the negative press Asian economies have received in connection with the recent financial crisis, their record of spectacular growth over the past few decades remains irrefutable. In an effort to provide a rich, textured analysis of these economies, editor W. Mark Fruin presents a collection of essays that explores the wide range of network organizations that have been established in the Pacific Rim. Conventional studies of economic organization have tended to center on markets and hierarchies, the two forms of organization most common in the West. But today the world moves too quickly and too unpredictably for the idealized organizations of microeconomic theory to keep up. It is no accident that the region that has generated the world's most explosive economic growth is also the region where network organizations--sets of independent actors who cooperate frequently for mutual advantage--are most pervasive. Rapid economic, social, and technical changes favor the formation of network organizations, and vice versa. The contributors to this volume identify and elucidate four basic types of networks: naturally occurring networks, market replacing networks, hierarchy replacing networks, and market enhancing networks. They show how all of these have been shaped by the history, government, legal system, and culture of each country under consideration. These network organizations allow the authors to compare and contrast network forms in China, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan, and the United States according to features such as degrees of formalization, rule definition, and market conformance. The works collected here make an important contribution to a networks-markets- hierarchies framework that recognizes and emphasizes the diversity of organizational forms and behaviors. A unique resource for scholars and professionals in the fields of management and economics, this book enables a complex analysis of one of the world's fastest growing and most theoretically challenging regions.
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I get annoyed when people dismiss certain vegetables out of hand as ‘fattening’. I spoke with a lady the other day who said she couldn’t eat potatoes because they had too many ‘empty carbs’ and she questioned ‘what’s in them anyway?’ Firstly, you don’t have to eat potatoes for breakfast, lunch and tea. Secondly, we could all learn to shown some restraint with portion size. But to rule out an incredibly nutritious vegetable altogether I think is wrong – especially one that has such a strong history with this country to the point where it has become synonymous with Ireland.
How the potato got to Ireland in the first place is a bit of a mystery. Sir Walter Raleigh, Sir Francis Drake and John Hawkins have all been credited with introducing the tuber into Europe. The usual story for Ireland is that Sir Walter Raleigh brought it here when he was came to help suppress the Desmond Rebellions between 1579 and 1583. However, there is absolutely no evidence to support this dating from that time in any of the Raleigh-related estate records. Some evidence comes in the form of hearsay some 100 years later through the minutes of a Royal Society meeting held 13th December 1693 when it’s president Sir Robert Southwell (1635-1702) stated that his grandfather had ‘brought potatoes into Ireland who had them from Sir Walter Raleigh after his return from Virginia’. This may or may not have been the case. There does seem to be a connection with Spain however as an early name for potato was An Spáinneach. A likely scenario is that the first potatoes reached us from Spain via commercial trading routes.
Either way, Ireland fell in love with the spud. And as a staple food of a country, potatoes weren’t a bad option. They were one of the few staples that one could live nutritionally on exclusively which was the case for about 40% of the population in the 1800s. Potatoes are a good source of protein, vitamins and minerals such as iron and zinc, and of course the First World dreaded starch. All was good until 1845 when the potatoes were struck by blight and this, coupled with Ireland’s political and commercial practices at the time, resulted in the famine.
When Irish people think of potatoes their eyes often glaze over at the thought of freshly boiled new potatoes and rubbing the thin skins off before eating them with butter, salt and some new onions. Or colcannon, which is one of the most celebrated of Irish potato recipes and one of our favourites. It has all the simple goodness of floury potatoes, kale, milk, butter and scallions – Heaven! Maybe this is what the lady meant when she said that she couldn’t eat potatoes as they were fattening. But is there any dish that can evoke an Irish childhood more?
What you need:
- 2lb or 1kg of Floury potatoes
- 400g chopped kale
- 1¼ cup/ 320ml milk
- 6 tablespoons butter
- 4 scallions, finely chopped
- Salt and pepper
What to do:
- Boil the potatoes in a large pot until tender. Always start with cold water, never using hot water. Otherwise you will end up with floury outside and a hard middle.
- Add 3 tablespoons of butter to a pan over a medium heat. Add the kale and cook until just wilted. This should take about 5 minutes.
- Strain the potatoes. Add the milk, butter and scallions to the pot and let simmer gently for 2 minutes to infuse the milk with the scallion. Add the kale and the peeled potatoes to the pot. Mash until smooth.
- Season with salt and pepper
- To serve traditionally, make a crater on top of each portion using the back of a spoon. Add a knob of butter to each crater so that every forkful of colcannon can be dipped into the lake of melted butter.
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Several recent letters have understandably expressed concern that doctors may not be able to fully share information related to natural gas drilling activity that may be necessary for the care of their patient. I write to assure your readers that this is not the case.
Under legislation passed by the General Assembly and signed by Gov. Tom Corbett, Pennsylvania became just the second state in the nation to expressly guarantee that all health care professionals — including doctors — are entitled to receive details on all chemicals that are used in the process of hydraulic fracturing and to use that information to ensure their patients receive the care they need.
Moreover, health care professionals can use this information in whatever manner they deem is necessary to care for their patient should the need arise. This includes consulting with their medical colleagues and, most importantly, their patient.
We are appreciative of groups such as the Environmental Defense Fund and the Pennsylvania Environmental Council for bringing these important provisions to our attention.
It is important to note that, over the past 18 months, we are not aware of a physician having to actually request this information. However, ensuring health care professionals have a legal right to access the information they need to treat their patients is not only common sense — it is the right thing to do. Pennsylvanians can be proud of this and other important provisions that are helping to protect public health.
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Ukraine bans 13 foreign journalists
The Ukrainian secret service SBU has issued entry bans for 13 foreign journalists for producing "commissioned material for the Kremlin propagandists" since the war began in late February.
"In their provocative 'stories,' they published disinformation about the situation at the front and discredited Ukrainian military," the agency said in a statement on Friday.
The entry ban initially applies for three years.
In one case, a Dutch journalist was deported after publishing photos of a fuel depot in Odessa which was hit by rockets.
The ban was extended to 10 years after he tried to re-enter the country.
When the war began, the authorities set strict rules for the publication of pictures of civilian and military objects hit by Russian troops.
The censorship under martial law also prohibits reporting about the movements and positions of the Ukrainian military.
Foreign journalists face charges of espionage in addition to expulsion for violations.
The SBU also announced the arrest of Ukrainian government critics, including the Odessa journalist Yuri Tkachev.
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For Hamas, the Arab uprisings have been both a blessing and a curse. They have raised tensions with Syria and Iran, the movement’s largest backers, while strengthening ties with United States allies such as Egypt, Qatar and Turkey. The Arab uprisings have also deepened internal contradictions and rifts among the Palestinian Islamist movement's varied constituencies.
Before the upheaval, Hamas was able to keep its many differences largely beneath the surface. With few significant opportunities on the horizon, no contest among visions was necessary. But following the tumult of 2010-11, Hamas found itself in a dramatically altered environment with novel challenges and possibilities, and longstanding tensions and new forms of friction emerged.
In broad terms, these reflect four interrelated factors:
* the group’s geographic dispersion and its leadership’s varied calculations, themselves caused by differing circumstances (in Gaza, prisons, the West Bank or outside)
* ideological distinctions, particularly - albeit not exclusively - related to varying assessments of the impact of the Arab upheavals
* varying roles in the movement’s political, military, religious, and governance activities
* pre-existing personal rivalries.
The contest within Hamas has played out most vividly and publicly over the issue of Palestinian reconciliation. That is because the latter is a primary demand of Palestinians and touches on many important strategic questions faced by the movement, including integration in the Palestine Liberation Organisation (PLO), control of the Palestinian Authority (PA), the status of security forces in the West Bank and Gaza, the formation of a national strategy with Fatah, and Hamas’s political endgame with Israel.
Hamas’s internal differences over national strategy, particularly how far to go in reconciliation negotiations, stem in large part from contrasting perceptions of what short-term effects the Arab uprisings will have on the movement. These visions have been shaped by the distinct first-hand experiences of the leaderships in Gaza and, until recently, Damascus. The strategic divide corresponds to two main views related to two different sets of interests.
The first is that because regional changes are playing largely to Hamas’s favour, the movement should hold fast to its positions and wait for the PA to weaken, economic conditions in Gaza to improve and its allies to grow in strength. The second view is that Hamas should take this rare opportunity to make tough decisions that might bring significant long-term gains.
The international community has a stake in the choices Hamas ultimately makes. The movement will continue to play a vital role in Palestinian politics, affecting the prospect of renewing Israeli-Palestinian negotiations as well as their odds of success.
Reuniting the West Bank and Gaza is not only desirable, it also is necessary to achieving a two-state settlement. And territorial division, coupled with Gaza’s persistent economic isolation, contains the seeds of further conflict with Israel. For these and other reasons, the world - and the west in particular - must do more than merely stand on the sidelines as Hamas wrestles over its future.
Instead, the US and Europe should test whether they can seize the opportunity presented by two related developments: first, the rise to power (notably in Egypt) of Islamist movements that are keen on improving relations with the west, crave stability and are signalling that they do not wish to make the Israeli-Palestinian issue a priority; second, the intense debates taking place within Hamas over the movement’s direction.
A third chance
But even if Hamas is susceptible to influence by third parties, the west should not overreach or exaggerate its own influence. The Islamist movement is uncertain and in flux but not about to abandon fundamental positions; persuading it to accept the conditions of the Quartet (United Nations, United States, Russia and the European Union) as such is out of the question. Instead, acting in concert with Egypt and others, the US and the European Union should set out to achieve changes that are at once less rhetorical, more meaningful and less onerous for Hamas.
These could include entering a more formal ceasefire agreement with Israel over Gaza; exerting efforts to help stabilise the situation in Sinai, the gravity of which was underscored by the militant attack on Egyptian soldiers on 5 August 2012; reaffirming, as part of a unity deal, President Mahmoud Abbas’s mandate to negotiate a final-status agreement with Israel; and pledging to respect the outcome of a popular referendum by Palestinians on such an accord.
In return, Hamas could benefit from reciprocal Israeli guarantees over a Gaza ceasefire; an improvement in the strip’s economic status; and an assurance by the US and EU that they would engage with a Palestinian unity government that carried out those commitments.
Egypt - even under the Muslim Brotherhood - shares interests with Israel on each of the above. It too wants calm in Gaza; it too would prefer to stabilise the Sinai, as it has sought to do with a military campaign launched in reaction to the August attack; and it too might benefit from resumed negotiations under Abbas’s aegis, which would help remove a potential irritant in US-Egyptian relations, improve the overall regional climate, and prepare the ground for a new peace process. Why not try to take advantage of this?
Twice in the past - after the Palestinian parliamentary elections of January 2006, and after the Mecca unity accord of 2007 - the international community missed the boat in its approach toward Hamas, adopting policies that produced almost precisely the reverse of what it expected. Hamas consolidated its control over Gaza; a war and dangerous flare-ups have occurred with Israel; Fatah has not been strengthened; democratic institutions in the West Bank and Gaza have decayed; and a peace deal is no closer. Now. with a third chance coming, amid dramatic improvements in relations with Islamist movements region-wide, the west should make sure it is not, once more, left stranded at the dock.
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Bring Your Profession To Life With A Computer System Computer Animation Level
Lots of pick video clip game manufacturing, the globe of computer system animation can lead to a large number of various other alternatives. This suggests that will certainly not be predestined to continue to be in just one element of a profession course. Throughout the years one can move their profession in simply the instructions they require to accompany life’s modifications.
Those that pick this type of work typically do so since they enjoy computer games, modern technology and also the wide variety of gizmos that make pc gaming much more enjoyable. They have the ability to see convenient ideas and also services in almost every facet of trouble addressing and also have an ability for information. With computer game manufacturing being a greatly collective initiative, they are additionally one that appreciates operating in groups.
Upon finishing the called for collection of training courses one gets their level, enabling them to properly go after the profession of their desires.
A computer system animation level can aid bring a remarkable occupation to life when all is claimed and also done. It enables one to operate in a most expert however laid back setting with others that additionally enjoy video gaming as well as innovation. One of the most gratifying job is one that integrates enthusiasm with an income.
The quantity and also various kinds of modern technology made use of worldwide of computer game implies a computer system animation level will absolutely be needed to get into the market. It is not most likely one will certainly have the ability to stroll in off the roads and also acquire a profession with little or no training. One have to hang out in a recognized program learning more about computer animation from scratch to also land an entry-level setting.
Over the years one can change their occupation in simply the instructions they require to synchronize with life’s adjustments.
Making the selection to seek this profession course needs registering in a recognized program. A great program not just educates as much as day abilities with cutting-edge modern technology, their educational program is accepted to satisfy all state needs and also criteria. Upon finishing the needed collection naturally one gets their level, enabling them to legally seek the profession of their desires.
Several that select this sort of level discover discovering the educational program to be fairly delightful. Sometimes it can appear like there is much to discover; nonetheless, those that select this profession have such enthusiasm of what they do, it comes to be greater than simple to absorb. With a job as a computer system animator, one will essentially have the ability to present all that they have actually discovered.
For most of computer game, computer animation is the heart of the item. While lots of never ever assume past the glossy completed bundle that winds up on shop racks, there’s an universe of prep work that have to happen prior to a video game can be enabled right into the marketplace. From principle to complete item, a computer game relies upon a qualified animator to stay up to date with the multitude of adjustments that happen prior to it is ended up.
With innovation pressing the limitations of what computer game can do, a computer system animation level is among one of the most searched for profession accreditations around. The computer game sector is one that is most definitely thriving without any end visible. This sort of level can cause a meeting occupation that reaches the creative imagination leads.
With innovation pressing the limitations of what video clip games can do, a computer system animation level is one of the most looked for after occupation qualifications around. It is not most likely one will certainly be able to stroll in off the roads and also get a job with little or no training. With a profession as a computer system animator, one will essentially be able to present all that they have actually discovered.
If a video game is to be taken into consideration effective out on the market, a huge number of aspects should function with each other. With a computer system animation level, one will certainly discover exactly how to deal with these numerous aspects to develop a practical item. Animators should additionally deal with editors, designers as well as also marketing professionals to obtain the item out in a viable quantity of time.
To assist trainees relieve their economic problem, several recognized programs provide financial assistance to pupils that certify. A financial assistance professional can assist identify what alternatives are readily available and also assist draw up a strategy making use of any type of gives or scholarships that might be offered. Sometimes, previous university debts might also count in the direction of obtaining one’s level. | <urn:uuid:1b3ec30d-f341-4ac5-98e8-7756d9c0441b> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://ipadsupport.info/bring-your-career-to-life-with-a-computer-animation-degree/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570793.14/warc/CC-MAIN-20220808092125-20220808122125-00676.warc.gz | en | 0.958719 | 910 | 1.570313 | 2 |
Accounting nomenclatures often get thrown around like accountant, bookkeeper and CPA without an understanding for their true meaning and differences. As a business owner who has lots of solid business acumen, you may (or may not) understand the contrast between an bookkeeper vs accountant vs CPA. And, even if you do, you may not have a full grasp on what is needed for the optimization of your business. This easy-to-skim guide can get you up to speed on the lexicon and, more importantly, help you drill down on what would help your business thrive.
Your Accounting Vocabulary Lesson Begins Now
Let’s start with some simple definitions then unpack the relevant part – ways to determine what your business needs.
What is a bookkeeper?
Bookkeepers are typically responsible for the business’s accounts as they relate to the general ledger. They record all the day-to-day transactions of the business posting debits and credits. They may also produce financial statements and other reports to provide insights into the books. They reconcile the accounts, pay bills and receive payments from customers. They also produce financial statements and other reports for supervisors and managers. Bookkeepers prepare bank deposits by compiling data from cashiers, verifying receipts, and sending cash, checks, or other forms of payment to the bank. In addition, they may handle payroll, make purchases, prepare invoices, and keep track of overdue accounts.
What is an accountant?
An accountant is a professional who manages the financial aspects of your business at a higher level than the bookkeeper who takes on the tasks at hand. Your accountant prepares financial documents like profit-and-loss statements, balance sheets and more. They will perform routine audits of your books, prepare reports for tax purposes as well as provide financial information to help you minimize your tax liability and comply with regulations.
What is a CPA?
The CPA, or Certified Public Accountant, takes on the highest level of financial support for the organization. This highly-trained professional helps you plan and reach your financial goals. You can rest assured that your CPA has a deep knowledge of finance and accounting as the standards for becoming a CPA are stringent and to hold the CPA certification, CPAs must complete ongoing education. One major difference between a CPA and a non-certified accountant is that only CPAs can write an audited financial statement, such as a balance sheet or income statement.
What does my business need?
You may need a bookkeeper if…
You have many daily tasks that your team is battling to keep up with or lacks the skills to execute properly. Keeping the books up to date is critical as you optimize your business operations. Without well-kept and accurate books, you lose important insights into your business performance, could be at risk of non-compliance and could be wasting money.
You may need an accountant if…
You need someone to handle higher level financial needs for your organization. such as filing payroll reports, fielding questions from the IRS or preparing the books for tax deadlines. An accountant can help you with tax advice and tax planning, financial projections for the business’s future as well as provide oversight and recommendations regarding company spending. Your accountant can also review your books (as maintained by your bookkeeper), double-checking that all records are accurate.
You may need a CPA if…
At major milestones during your business’s tenure, you may require more than the day-to-day task fulfillment of the bookkeeper or the higher level consulting of your accountant, you may need to help of a CPA. The CPA can help you as you launch your business, deal with a complicated tax event (like an IRS audit) or during mergers, acquisitions or initial public offerings.
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Learning and Development SVQs
The Scottish Vocational Qualifications (SVQs) at Levels 3 and 4 in Learning and Development are suitable for people working in a training or learning development role, with individuals or groups of learners.
They include a wide choice of optional Units which allow candidates to develop planning, design, delivery, assessment and evaluation skills. These two SVQs replace the previous six, but accommodate all target groups covered by the lapsing qualifications.
Please contact our Customer Contact Centre using e-mail email@example.com or telephone 0345 279 1000 for providers delivering these qualifications.
SQA support materials are available from the SQA secure site via centre's SQA Co-ordinators. These include the Standards with assessment guidance and evidence requirements; CPD Toolkit and Templates; and a range of other support and guidance materials.
Why deliver this qualification
- they mirror the latest National Occupational Standards (2.78 MB)
- the language used has been simplified, making it easier for candidates and assessors to know what is required of them
- practitioners have more scope to use professional judgement when assessing candidate performance - there is no need for independent assessment
- duplication between Units has been removed
- the reduced number of Units makes the SVQs more attractive to candidates
- the Units meet the needs of a diverse range of practitioners
- comprehensive range of support materials available from SQA
Who does this qualification suit
The SVQ in Learning and Development at level 3 is suitable for trainers, facilitators, mentors, tutors, coaches, instructors or anyone with a training responsibility in addition to their main job.
The SVQ in Learning and Development at level 4 is aimed at senior trainers, or training co-ordinators/managers who plan, deliver and evaluate programmes and/or have some management responsibility for others.
Entry is at the discretion of the centre. As these are work-based qualifications candidates should be working in a training role to ensure they are able to generate the required work-based evidence.
Level 3 candidates would be expected to have responsibility for planning, delivering and evaluating training. Level 4 candidates would be expected to have responsibility for developing and implementing training programmes, and some management of direct trainers.
For candidates where English is not their first language it is recommended that they possess English for Speakers of other Languages (ESOL) level 5 or a score of 5.5 in IELTS.
Candidates could progress to a higher level SVQ in Learning and Development or in management.
Centres interested in offering this qualification should come forward for approval and contact SQA’s Business Development Team for guidance.
Assessors and verifiers must be able to meet SQA’s general requirements for technical/occupational competence as outlined in the Systems and Qualification Approval Guide (510 KB). The specific delivery requirements are set out in the Assessment Strategy.
Where can you take this course?
Qualification content and delivery tools
Information about the qualification(s)
National Occupational Standards
Unit information for this qualification is available on our Accredited Qualification Unit Search.
Relevant Assessment Strategies
Information about delivery, assessment, quality assurance and support material
Assessment is through performance in the workplace and simulation is not allowed. Evidence may be classified into three categories:
- work produced by the candidate as part of his/her job
- work produced by others relating to the work that the candidate does
- witness statements produced by others about what the candidate has done
This evidence may be gathered by observed performance, products of work, witness testimony and personal statement, and presented as a portfolio of candidate work.
Assessing the Management Units included in the Learning and Development SVQs 3 and 4.
The requirements in the Management Units ,as included in the Learning and Development SVQs at levels 3 and 4, has up until now stated that the behaviours in these units should be assessed. However, following a recent Awarding Body Forum meeting with Skills CFA and discussions with SQA’s Accreditation department, it has been advised that while behaviours are desirable and likely to be demonstrated through performance, they do not need to be assessed. Therefore, behaviours should be used as guidance on how the performance criteria should be achieved, but not assessment in themselves.
More information relating to this decision can be found on the Management Webpage under Recent News and Events (behaviours).
Candidate Guidance and Portfolio
Internal Assessment Reports
- Learning and Development level 3 and 4 Award Frameworks and Unit Standards (548 KB)
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One of the country's leading researchers updates his revolutionary approach to solving--and preventing--your children's sleep problemsHere Dr. Marc Weissbluth, a distinguished pediatrician and father of four, offers his groundbreaking program to ensure the best sleep for your child. In Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child, he explains with authority and reassurance his step-by-step regime for instituting beneficial habits within the framework of your child's natural sleep cycles. This valuable sourcebook contains brand new research that- Pinpoints the way daytime sleep differs from night sleep and why both are important to your child- Helps you cope with and stop the crybaby syndrome, nightmares, bedwetting, and more- Analyzes ways to get your baby to fall asleep according to his internal clock--naturally- Reveals the common mistakes parents make to get their children to sleep--including the inclination to rock and feed- Explores the different sleep cycle needs for different temperaments--from quiet babies to hyperactive toddlers- Emphasizes the significance of a nap schedule-Rest is vital to your child's health growth and development. Healthy Sleep Habits, Happy Child outlines proven strategies that ensure good, healthy sleep for every age. Advises parents dealing with teenagers and their unique sleep problemsFrom the Trade Paperback edition.
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Marc Weissbluth is an American pediatrician who has written several books. He appeared on The Oprah Winfrey Show and was listed in Chicago Magazine's "The Power 100", at number 100. He is a sleep disorders specialist at the Children's Memorial Hospital in Chicago.
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Woven geotextiles and non-woven geotextiles are two different production processes. Woven geotextiles are at least two groups of yarns interwoven in the warp and weft direction. And nonwoven geotextiles are interwoven directly through a process such as needling. Because of the difference in production processes. Two geotextiles in the process and performance also have certain differences. Each has its own advantages and disadvantages, not necessarily which is better. The choice is mainly based on engineering The choice is mainly based on the project requirements for selection. Here's a look at the difference between spun and non-woven geotextiles, what are they?
Woven geotextile is a cloth-like product that is woven into a flat structure for geotechnical engineering after processing synthetic polymer raw materials into silk, yarn, or tape. And can also be used as woven landscape fabric, also known as satin modeling geotextile. It is the earliest geotextile product. It is often woven with two groups of mutually perpendicular filaments, namely warp and weft filaments. Depending on the type of filaments (monofilament, multifilament, and mixed filaments) and the weaving method (plain, twill, and satin), as well as the material of the filaments (polypropylene ages faster, polyester and polyethylene slower, etc.). The woven geotextiles can have different properties to suit the requirements of strength, warp and weft strength ratio, coefficient of friction, equal pore size and durability, and other indicators proposed by the project to the fabric.
Most woven geotextiles are made of monofilaments (round or flat), and most woven geotextiles are made of flat filaments. Woven geotextiles woven from a combination of round and flat filaments have high permeability. And when high-strength geotextiles are required, multifilaments are often used.
Woven geotextile is a kind of geosynthetic material with high dosage, wide use, easy construction, and low price. Its most common function is as a wrapping material that is sewn into woven bags, filled with sand, stone, and soil materials. Made of different sizes of soil pillows or bags as filler or ballast, and used for flood control, and rescue, or temporary support projects. Some areas in China will also have spun geotextiles made of geotechnical mold bags, filled with concrete as slope protection. High-quality woven fabric can also play a reinforcing role in some reinforcement projects. Besides, it also has a certain reinforcement and isolation function. The surface coated with plastic woven fabric can play a temporary impermeability. There is also a kind of warp knit geotextile in the woven geotextile. It is tied up with finer warp knitting threads at the intersection of warp and weft threads to form a firm knot, so that it has high tensile strength and a small extension, and is used in parts with special needs.
Nonwoven geotextile is a type of nonwoven geotextile. Its characteristic is that it does not need to be woven. And we often say that non-woven geotextiles are mainly made by repeated needling processes. So some non-woven geotextiles will also be called needled geotextiles. And classification they are mainly divided into two kinds, namely filament needled geotextiles and staple fiber needled geotextiles.
Since nonwoven geotextiles are made by repeated needling of filaments or short fibers. They have many characteristics that other geotextiles do not have. Such as the pore structure belonging to the three-dimensional state, which also determines the permeability of nonwoven geotextiles is very good. So it will also be called permeable geotextiles. Different geotextiles have a different range of pore sizes, so the permeability is also strong and weak.
Due to the differences in production processes, the impact on product performance varies.
Nonwoven geotextiles are made by interweaving filaments and staple fibers with the help of mechanical equipment and other production processes such as needling.
Woven geotextiles are woven fabrics, produced by interweaving at least two groups of yarns in the warp and weft direction.
Because of their high circulation rate. Nonwoven geotextiles are permeable. And are also called geotextile drainage fabrics or geotextile filter fabrics
Spun geotextiles are semi-impermeable and have a low circulation rate.
Nonwoven geotextiles have good deformation though. And are well suited for filtration, separation, and drainage applications to serve.
Woven geotextiles have a considerable tensile strength effect in the horizontal direction, and have more practical characteristics in the reinforcement effect. Playing a role in preventing erosion control.
Nonwoven geotextiles are usually measured by weight.
Woven geotextiles have a higher load-bearing capacity and tensile strength. These are commonly used in road construction.
That is the use of geotextiles to have different physical properties (particle size, distribution, consistency, density, etc.) of the construction materials for isolation. So that the two kinds of materials do not lose, not mixed, to maintain the structure and function of the material. So the load-bearing capacity of the structure is strengthened.
When water flows from the fine material soil layer into the coarse material soil layer. Use the needle-punch geotextile good permeability and water permeability to make the water flow through, while effectively intercepting soil particles, fine sand, small stones, etc... To maintain the stability of soil and water engineering.
Needle-punch geotextile is a good water-conducting material. It can form a drainage channel inside the soil body and drain the excess liquid and gas out of the soil structure.
Needle-punched geotextiles are used to enhance the tensile strength and deformation resistance of the soil body. And increase the stability of the building structure to improve the quality of the soil body.
Effectively diffuse, transfer or decompose the concentrated stress to prevent the figure body from being damaged by external forces.
Needle-punched geotextile works with other materials to form an impermeable compartment in the soil layer.
That can stabilize and limit the project's long time use to shift. And can make the local stress act on the soil transfer or distribution to a larger area.
Geotextile fabric is used to separate different geotechnical structure materials to form a stable sub-interface. And play their respective characteristics and overall role according to the requirements.
Geotextile and geomembrane are used together in two different pressure materials. That can play the role of tension and diaphragm.
The function of placing the geotextile across a flowing liquid channel with suspended particles to stop mud particles. And allow the liquid to pass through.
Placing geotextiles on slopes can stop the loss of mud particles due to rainfall or planting turf.
It is widely used in water conservancy, electric power, harbor, highway, railroad construction, and other projects.
High strength, it can maintain enough strength and elongation in dry and wet conditions.
Corrosion resistance, it can resist corrosion for a long time in different acidity and alkalinity of soil and water.
Good water permeability, there are gaps between the fibers, so it has good water permeability.
Good anti-microbial property, it is not damaged by microorganisms and insects.
Compared with non-woven geotextiles, the main disadvantage of spun geotextiles is that they do not have the function of filtration (i.e. plane drainage). And they are relatively costly.
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[REPORT FROM BEIJING]Revenge of the beastsOn June 4, 1989, a student who was demonstrating in Tiananmen Square said he had an important announcement; many Chinese and foreign reporters came over to cover the news, wondering if he were going to immolate himself to protest the government crackdown.
But the student shouted and said that he would begin a 24-hour hunger strike to make democracy happen. The foreign journalists were perhaps disappointed, but the Chinese reporters were in shock, because eating is such an important daily ritual for Chinese.
In some parts of the country, especially in Guangdong province, the emphasis on food is even higher. There is a saying in China to describe the ideal life: born in picturesque Suzhou, wearing silk outfits from Hangzhou and enjoying food from Guangdong province.
The Guangdong cuisine, however, is now being criticized in the press because the region was the origin of SARS, severe acute respiratory syndrome. While more analysis is needed, it appears that the SARS virus may have jumped the barrier between other animals and humans.
The Chinese press said that Chinese people are infected with SARS because they will eat anything.
Another proverb says that Chinese eat everything that stands, flies and swims, except desks, airplanes and submarines.
SARS might have broken out because southern Chinese people with big appetites recklessly overhunted wild animals.
The first SARS-infected person was reported in Shenzhen, near Hong Kong; he was a chef at a restaurant whose specialty was wild animal cuisine. Other SARS patients were also cooks at wild animal restaurants.
It is very well-known that Guangdong people love cooking animals that live in the wilderness, such as monkeys, rats and lizards. They praise such food as healthy food from the wild world. On Lunar New Year’s Day in 2001, the year of the snake, restaurants in China had a slogan that you would be healthy after eating a snake in the year of the snake.
Then wild snakes almost disappeared from Guangdong province. In Shenzhen, 10 tons of snakes were slaughtered and cooked daily. That amounts to about 10,000 snakes a day.
“SARS might be revenge by wild animals because the Chinese have killed so many animals to enjoy a natural and wild taste,” a wild animal protection activist in China said.
Some Chinese who made huge amounts of money after China’s economic development also wanted to show off their assets by enjoying expensive and rare wild animals at their dinner tables.
It might be jumping to conclusions, but the outbreak of SARS might encourage the Chinese to protect wild animals better than they have in the past.
by You Sang-chul
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“Mr. Salinas’s Seven Scary Stories” is the first in an ongoing horror anthology series based in a small town in Midwestern America. This proverbial Nowheresville is the backdrop for seven characters who find their lives in disarray. They are, each in their own way, consumed by loss, suffering, or terror. Set around Halloween and its superstitions, this collection of short stories will immerse the reader in a tale of small-town, American horror.
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It is believed that growing bonsai trees first start during the Han Dynasty (206 BC~220 AD) in China. Later on it came to Japan where the art of bonsai tree growing was perfected. Bonsai tree growing is nature captured in miniature, thus, the small trees in pots.
A bonsai tree has a unique beauty. It is almost like you take your favorite tree that you enjoy sitting under and shrink it down small enough to set on your table. By growing your own or shopping for the perfect bonsai tree, you can find one that reminds you of your favorite tree that you grew up enjoying.
Growing Bonsai Trees
Bonsai trees can be purchased easily, ranging in budget from affordable to several thousands of dollars for a perfectly formed and healthy bonsai tree. Because of the captured beauty in a bonsai tree, many people began growing their own.
Here are some tips on how to grow a beautiful bonsai tree.
1. Choosing the right pot is essential. You have to consider not only its sturdiness to support the little tree but it should also complement perfectly the kind of tree you want to grow. The size and shape of the pot in relation to the tree also matters.
2. It pays to know the different seasons. As seasons change, so does bonsai trees. So, in order to grow a beautiful bonsai tree, choose the season wisely wherein your tree will grow better as there are some seasons where bonsai trees will need more attention.
3. Visualise how your bonsai tree will mature over the years. You should have a mental picture of what your bonsai tree will look like before you manipulate its shape and branches.
4. Wiring to give shape. This is more an advanced technique to shape and train your bonsai into beautiful shapes to give character. Wiring requires certain skill and is not recommended for beginners. Wrapping the wiring too close to each other will suffocate your bonsai and eventually kill it. Wrapping it too loosely will have no effect on your tree's shape. For those new to bonsai growing, wiring is not necessary, and you can still give your tree enough shape via simple pruning and trimming of branches. | <urn:uuid:410ed5c3-f281-4f0d-8c4f-23138205dea5> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.damncoolpictures.com/2009/03/bonsai-trees-and-their-beauty.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00473-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.958145 | 470 | 2.4375 | 2 |
The CEO is the Most Confident Man in the Company
Posted by Bob Warfield on November 5, 2011
Why confidence as the defining quality for these leadership roles?
It’s because these roles will ultimately have to deal with leadership in the absence of data. A lot of folks, particularly those from the engineering disciplines, view decision-making as a matter of waiting until there is enough data to make the decision obvious and then making it. Unfortunately, leaders frequently have to make decisions absent sufficient data. To be clear, another role of the leader is to make a determination whether the necessary data for a good decision is “tragically knowable“, but if it isn’t knowable, they still have to lead. They can’t afford to heave to in the information doldrums and wait it out until inspiration strikes.
I’ve been thinking about all this after reading a series of posts in various places that have absolutely harpooned Reed Hastings of Netflix. These posts have labeled Hastings egotistical, arrogant, full of hubris, and most recently Om Malik says he’s a narcisist. None of these is very sympathetic to the man or to the role of CEO. Wikipedia defines narcisist as:
“narcissism” usually is used to describe some kind of problem in a person or group’s relationships with self and others. In everyday speech, “narcissism” often means inflated self-importance, egotism, vanity, conceit, or simple selfishness. Applied to a social group, it is sometimes used to denote elitism or an indifference to the plight of others.
I don’t know whether Om means to be so derogatory, and I suppose the article he links to good be interpreted as giving narcists a back handed compliment by implying the can be good leaders.
Nevertheless, I do wonder whether all of these bloggers really understand what it means to be in a leadership position without sufficient data and with a scenario that demands rapid, decisive, decision-making. I know Reed Hastings reasonably well, having had a startup acquired by him and going on the work for him for a short time after. All I can say is that “arrogant, egotistical, full of hubris, and narccissistic” are the furthest things I would use to describe the man. In my experience, he is self-deprecating, humble (he sold the Porsche he bought not long after his first IPO because he thought it was too ostentatious), and filled with a need to collect as much data as possible to do the right thing. In fact, I’ve chided one of my all-time favorite bloggers, Seth Godin, on the need to collect data if it is available rather than “Just doing it.”
Based on what I know about the man, some set of circumstances were happening at Netflix that forced him to make some decisions without data that have led to the company’s current problems. More than likely, the circumstances involved the content owners radically increasing their prices to Netflix. They created one of those times when there was no opportunity to test, decisions had to be made, and it was “bet your company time.”
Watching this debacle, I am reminded of a common Silicon Valley saying: CEO’s never deserve as much credit as they get when times are good nor as much blame when times are bad.
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Queenstown’s council isn’t ruling out regulating residential boarding houses.
But for now it’ll try to deal with overcrowding by making it easier to build houses – through mooted planning rule changes to increase residential density and introduce mixed-use business zones.
Queenstown Lakes District Council district plan manager Matthew Paetz says: “There’s a massive problem in terms of the mismatch between demand and supply, especially with the .”
His comments come after a Fernhill house – - shot to national attention last week.
The mismatch has sent rental prices rocketing – and led to overcrowding and the creation of residential boarding houses, which don’t require consent.
Trade Me data shows median rents across the district have increased by almost 32 per cent in two years.
The median rent, district-wide, in 2013 was $380. This year it was $500.
Paetz says: “That’s across the district, so I wouldn’t be surprised if there are some parts in central Queenstown that have increased more in percentage terms than that.”
By increasing the housing supply the council hopes to address overcrowding, he says.
Paetz says the council has no immediate plans to regulate residential boarding houses.
“At the heart of this problem is a lack of supply and anyone who’s tried to rent in this town – including myself – will know that it’s costly and availability is very poor.
“A natural outcome of that is that you’ll get overcrowding.
“So, we’re trying to address the issue by addressing the cause of the issue.
“We’re not saying we won’t consider potential regulation [of residential boarding houses] but we also need to be cognisant of unintended consequences.
“For example, if we start to clamp down on boarding house development, where are people going to live?”
Last week council property services manager Peter Laurenson said provided a property was not unsafe or unsanitary it could be run as a residential boarding house – for example, a Fernhill property housing up to 20 tenants.
All that’s required is for tenants to be aware it’s a boarding house, for them to provided with an agreement identifying their room and for them to know who the other tenants are.
However, if a property owner wants to rent their property for “short-term” accommodation to fee-paying guests for up to 90 days a year, they might need to register as visitor accommodation or obtain resource consent, which can result in a rates hike.
Submissions on the proposed district plan close on October 23.
Hearings are tentatively scheduled between February and July next year and decisions are expected in the second half of 2016, Paetz says.
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Starting and operating a online business is an exciting prospect, and presents many challenges to consider. If running your own business is a serious course of action for you, take heed of the advice found in this article.
Be on the lookout for websites where home based business owners gather. If you search them out, you can get some good tips from them. Use blog platforms to get in touch with other home business owners, and learn from them.
Make sure you do some research on any potential recruits to your home based business staff. The people that you hire must be dependable and knowledgeable with regard to the product you will be selling or else your business may fail.
Be sure to keep your website up to date on which products are available and which, if any, are out of stock. Back-ordered products are a nuisance to customers, and it can really upset them. Give your clients the option to chose other products and let them know when a product is on back-order.
Affiliates can be used to help you to market what you’re selling. Swap affiliate links with like-minded business owners. There are also formal affiliate networks that you can join to promote yourself or other products. This is a great way to increase your income without having to do any hard work.
Protect your business’s financial security by setting aside money in an emergency fund. You will be able to pay any surprise expenses with an emergency fund, which will assure your business continues to run smoothly. However, the emergency funds should be used for emergency only.
Start by establishing a good plan and a budget for your business. It’s possible that you’ll make alterations to this plan as time passes, and you may wind up throwing it out completely. This plan will help you get organized and go through the process of creating a business with a clear goal in mind. Your business plan should be consistently evolving.
You need to have full control and comfort in using self-promotion to successfully run your home-based business. Since you own your home business, you’re going to have to speak with many potential customers. Stressing the high quality of your products is essential in attracting your customers. You must know how to promote your business if you want to achieve serious success.
Look for ways to get your business supplies wholesale. There are great sources online for locating the information and supplies you will need to become a work from home business owner. Having a business license entitles you to buy these supplies at the wholesale cost.
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Sugarcane growers are nearing the end of the harvest season with the last mill set to shut down at mid-January.
Growers have a “really good crop” this year, but trying to compare the 2009 crop with 2008 is a “tale with two endings,” said Kenneth Gravois, the LSU AgCenter’s new sugarcane specialist.
“Even with the hurricane last year, we had a very dry harvest, but this year has been a really wet harvest,” Gravois said. “I would say in 2008, our tonnages were lower, but our sugar recoveries were higher. In 2009, our tonnages were higher, and sugar recoveries were lower. They are polar opposites.”
Gravois had served as head of the LSU AgCenter’s Sugarcane Research Station and the sugarcane breeding program since 1997 before assuming his new duties as the sugarcane specialist.
He said his new position will allow him to work more closely with sugarcane growers and to share his many years of experience with them.
“I grew up on the farm, and I think my farm background will help in relation to the growers. I guess I view this specialist position much like an elder statesman, where you can use your years of experience to relate to growers.”
Gravois, who began his career as a rice breeder in Arkansas, has a combined 21 years of experience in breeding rice and sugarcane. He said he will approach his new position as he has with other new challenges — “talk little and listen much the first year.”
Gravois replaced Ben Legendre, who had been the AgCenter’s sugarcane specialist since 2000 and has been head of the AgCenter’s Audubon Sugar Institute since 2007.
This harvest has been a long and grueling one with the weather being the main story, Gravois said. “We had record October rainfall, a little drying in November. Then the rains started again around Thanksgiving and it’s still wet.”
Gravois said every time field conditions have dried out, sugar recovery has increased. It’s really a decent crop, but an expensive crop to get out. ”There may be some abandoned acres after this harvest, where growers just can’t get equipment into the fields anymore, and some fields are actually underwater.”
A bright spot in this crop is that sugar prices have been in the mid-30 cent per pound range.
“However, the big misnomer is that just because you see a 33-cent price on the Internet or in the paper, the growers won’t be getting that price, since sugar is marketed year-round. The growers will actually be getting about 23 cents per pound, which is 2 to 3 cents higher than they received last year.”
The price of sugar has to stay high over a long period for growers to take advantage, since fuel, fertilizer and equipment costs are up as well.
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This magisterial two-volume set, the latest in an important series of reprints published by Gorgias Press, is a “must have” for every student of ancient Near Eastern history and archaeology. The first volume, by Herman V. Hilprecht, the first Clark Research Professorship of Assyriology at the University of Pennsylvania, focuses on the history of Mesopotamian archaeology. It is the most thorough and important of the two volumes. The second volume, edited by Hilprecht, contains several brief essays on the history of archaeology in Palestine (by J. Benzinger), Egypt (by G. Steindorff), and Arabia (by F. Hommel), as well as a short piece on “The So-called Hittites and their Inscriptions” (by P. Jensen). Combined, the two volumes make available an enormous body of early research encapsulating the state of scholarly knowledge on ancient Near Eastern archaeology at the turn of the 19th century. They thus constitute important primary resources for those interested in the sociology of knowledge that informs the birth of ancient Near Eastern Studies as an academic discipline.
These volumes open up a world now largely forgotten, in which scholars were facile with both spade and languages, and in which the success of the scholarly enterprise greatly depended upon a passion for risky exploration and an ability to withstand incredible physical and mental hardships. Though over a century old, Hilprecht’s work serves to remind us of the incredible personal sacrifices of many individuals whose names are scarcely mentioned in contemporary Assyriological circles, such as G. Grotefend, Claudius James Rich, J. S. Buckingham, Sir Robert Kir Porter, Robert Mignan, G. Baillie Fraser, and James Felix Jones. Hilprecht’s work also gives us far more complete stories that lie behind the discoveries of more well-known pioneers such as Sir Henry Rawlinson, Paul Emil Botta, Henry Layard, Jules Oppert, and a great many others, whose contributions to the field typically receive only thumbnail sketches or remain unmentioned1 in more modern surveys. Moreover, to provide a background for the book, Hilprecht discusses a number of travelogues and topographical surveys of Mesopotamia dating from the 12th to the 18th centuries—sources (many now rare) that he amply cites in footnotes, and which constitute a veritable gold mine of now largely neglected resources.
Indeed, on most topics, but especially with regard to the period closer to Hilprecht’s own time, the treatment is exhaustive, providing a behind-the-scenes glimpse into the personal, political, and academic intrigues and difficulties long since overshadowed by the accomplishments and discoveries to which they led. (His very lengthy and fascinating treatment of the University of Pennsylvania’s first expeditions to Nippur [Hilprecht’s “Nuffar”], with which he was involved most intimately, is a case in point.)
While these volumes shed a great deal of light on the earliest period of Western fascination with the ancient Near East, they invariably reveal a great deal about their authors as well. This is especially the case in Volume One, where the Christological lenses that Hilprecht wears are clear already in the preface.
It was our aim to bring the history of the gradual exploration of those distant oriental countries, which formed the significant scene and background of God’s dealings with Israel as a nation, more vividly before the educated classes of Christendom (p. ix).
In fact, throughout the two volumes, one sees Assyriology (one could add Arabian and Anatolian history) as a fledgling field still viewed through biblical verses; one whose purpose as a discipline is in large part measured by its ability to bolster biblical “truths” such as the moral corruptness of Mesopotamian civilization.
Yet, as the numerous discoveries described in these volumes make evident, the “resurrection” of Assyria and Babylonia served only to create a tension between a newly revealed Mesopotamian world—now more sophisticated than anticipated, and thus, more technologically advanced than “biblical” Israel—and an ever present need to justify the excavation and appreciation of Mesopotamia by way of its importance for our knowledge of the Bible. So great was the perceived importance of Assyriology in the year 1903 that in his article on Arabia, F. Hommel could make the following offhand remark with conviction: “Now, when archaeological discoveries make it more and more apparent that Egyptian civilization came from Babylonia … ” (p. 716). Indeed, the perceived importance of Mesopotamia to world history, and the aforementioned theological tensions that accompanied it, explain both the accessible and Christological tone of the volume by Hilprecht, as well as its large size relative to Volume Two. Given such a context, one must wonder to what extent these volumes were intended to abet the authors’ attempts to raise the costly finances (expressed herein by Hilprecht so candidly and frequently) necessary to continue excavations in the Near East.
Having mentioned the Christological perspective that informs this work, I note similarly that readers will be forced to call into check their genuine awe for the abilities and accomplishments of the discipline’s pioneers against a Western cultural arrogance that presents itself on nearly every other page. To demonstrate, I cite Hilprecht’s remark with regard to the Maladan tribes of southern Iraq.
Practicing the vices more than the virtues of the Arab race, extremely ignorant and superstitious, they live in the most primitive state of barbarism and destitution … (p. 6).
Such views are reprehensible, but also somewhat paradoxical, especially when juxtaposed with Hilprecht’s statement concerning the topographical observations of Claudius James Rich, whose 18th century discoveries and perspicacity he otherwise praises: “… how detrimental to scientific investigation any preconceived opinion or impression must be” (p. 31).
As one might reasonably assume with a work published a century ago, one encounters a number of subjects in these volumes that require one to supply the necessary “updates” by drawing on contemporary knowledge. Thus one sometimes must alter the readings of particular names as well as a few chronologies (e.g., the Ur III period appears 500–600 years earlier than we date it today).2 But such adjustments are relatively easy to make with a basic knowledge of the discipline.
These are exceptional volumes that attest to an exceptional age. They bring us back to a time when Iraq was largely unexplored by Western travelers, and when Assyriology, then fueled by popular support and often by public and State finances, paved the road to a peaceful interest in Iraq’s rich history. How time has changed.
Indeed, even works that focus on the historiography of the ancient Near East appear unaware of these figures. Compare, for example, Omar Carena, History of the Near Eastern Historiography and its Problems: 1852–1985. Part One: 1982–1945 (AOAT 218; Kevelaer: Butzon & Bercker; Neukirchen-Vluyn: Neukirchener Verlag, 1989), which makes no mention of the work of Hilprecht under review here!
There also is a misplaced insert marking the start of the “Excavations in Egypt” section along with an image of Jean François Champollion on its other side. It is inserted between pp. 598–599 in the middle of the Palestine section instead of before p. 625 where it belongs. I have been unable to ascertain if this misprint was original to the first edition. | <urn:uuid:9e725563-ba35-4eef-aab3-c1c8c444b1cd> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://ejournals.library.ualberta.ca/index.php/jhs/article/view/5919/4972 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281226.52/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00379-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.93503 | 1,611 | 2.5 | 2 |
Finca Santa Paula lies at around 1,375 metres near the small town of San Pedro Carcha, in the cool, humid Alta Verapaz region in north-central Guatemala. The area is known locally as Tezulutlán and is still populated by indigenous peoples who live and work the land using traditional methods.
Cobán is known for being very, very wet despite the lack of above ground water sources in the region. Constant rain (much of it gentle drizzle accumulating to 3,000 to 4,000 ml a year!) means that flowering is very staggered, with 8-9 flowerings per year. Due to this prolonged flowering season, coffee ripens at different stages, which means that up to 10 passes (with breaks of up to 14 days between passes) are needed to ensure that only the very ripest cherries are selected. The accompanying low temperatures ensure a long and steady maturation of the coffee cherries, allowing the coffee to develop a complex and distinctive cup profile.
The washed coffee is then pre-dried for about 8 hours at a constant 40˚ C before being moved to the farm’s extensive greenhouse for approximately 21 days. In fact, there are no patios at Santa Paula due to the constant rain in the region. Controlled pre-drying helps prevent over fermentation, and the Schapp’s greenhouses are sealed at both ends with adjustable vents in the roof, which ensures more control over air circulation and, thus, drying.
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Reality is the state of things as they actually exist, rather than as they may appear or might be imagined.
A major aspect of assessing reality is one's ability to think abstractly. Can the Habs' scoring woes be attributed to the coaching staff struggling with this abstract thinking?
Any discussion about reality is incomplete without talking about the idea of existence. What does it mean to exist? Does math hold the key into expressing the existence of things seen and unseen? Are we even here right now? What is life?
I think in the end, we can all agree there are many layers, or dimensions, to reality. How we perceive an event may be different from someone else depending on our beliefs, attitudes and desires. So, when it comes to the question as to whether or not the Habs are a successful franchise, it would depend on who you ask. | <urn:uuid:287e0c2f-5f89-4282-abee-60d7a6cd3a16> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.habseyesontheprize.com/a-hockey-city/2016/1/17/10779520/a-hockey-city-reality-montreal-canadiens-habs-comic-gohabsgo | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572833.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220817032054-20220817062054-00472.warc.gz | en | 0.968412 | 177 | 1.773438 | 2 |
On August 30, 2010, Obama addressed the nation from the Oval Office for just the second time, declaring a formal end to combat operations in Iraq.
"We have sent our young men and women to make enormous sacrifices in Iraq, and spent vast resources abroad at a time of tight budgets at home," he said. "Now, it is time to turn the page."
Turn the page.
Two-and-a-half years later, the phrase still rankles Catherine Lutz, professor of anthropology and international studies at Brown University's Watson Institute for International Studies.
"That's just crazy-making," she says, sitting in her office on a recent afternoon. "It implies that we wrote this book — and we don't even know what's in it. How can you turn the page on something you never read?"
Sure, she suggests, we all have some general sense for the war's costs. We all know, as the president said, that our military made "enormous sacrifices" and our government "spent vast resources."
But that is a poor accounting. A vague and incomplete one. More easily forgotten, perhaps, than we'd care to acknowledge.
And so, with the tenth anniversary of the war upon us, Lutz and a team of 30 economists, lawyers, humanitarian personnel, and political scientists from Brown to Boston University to the University of London have developed something more robust: a comprehensive, by-the-numbers look at the human, financial, and social impacts of the conflict.
The "Costs of War" study, which follows a similar report detailing the toll of the Iraq and Afghanistan wars ten years after 9/11, insists on a more accurate count of the big numbers: the death toll and the blow to the US Treasury.
But it also examines the underappreciated impacts of the conflict: on the environment, on civil society, on Iraq's children.
Neta Crawford, a professor of political science at Boston University who co-directs the "Costs of War" project with Lutz, says the nation — time and again — has overestimated the utility of war and underestimated its toll.
And with tension building in Iran and other global hot spots, she says, it is vital that we have a clear sense for the costs of the Iraq War so we don't make the same mistake.
"I think basically, deep down, my personal motivation is that I believe in democracy," she says. "I believe that we should have informed conversation, informed deliberations."
But the Iraq War can already seem a forgotten conflict. And while Crawford wants to believe that a report like "Costs of War" can jog our memory — and expand our understanding — she's not entirely sure. "Mostly what we have here is bad news," she says. "And it's hard to listen to bad news."
Indeed, it's hard to listen to the story of what may be the greatest geopolitical blunder in American history. But here it is.
DOLLARS AND CENTS
$100 BILLION–$200 BILLION The estimate for the "upper bound" costs of the war in Iraq, offered in September 2002 by President Bush's chief economic adviser, Lawrence Lindsey.
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Many good programming practices boil down to preparing for change or expressing intent. It seems to me that novices emphasize the former, experts the latter.
One of the first things you learn in programming is to use symbolic constants rather than magic numbers. For example, if you have a maximum of 12 items in a shopping cart, define a constant like
MAX_ITEMS to be 12 and use that symbol rather than the number “12” throughout the code. That way if you have to increase the maximum to 25 some day, you can just make the change in one place. Symbolic constants prepare for change.
Sounds good, but then why define a constant for pi? It’s not going to change. But having a constant
PI in source code conveys the intention of the number.
There are 3,628,800 seconds in six weeks. Coincidentally, this number also equals 10!. But constants like
TEN_FACTORIAL clearly convey where the numbers come from. That’s why it’s sometimes worthwhile to give one thing two names. The symbol
SECONDS_PER_SIX_WEEKS looks like a conversion factor, while
TEN_FACTORIAL makes you think somewhere there are 10 things being arranged. Using the symbols in the opposite context would be clever, but not in a good way.
Expressing intent is easier to justify than preparing for change. If you argue that some chunk of code should be pulled out into its own function in case it needs to change, someone may argue “But that’ll never change.” If you argue that the same chuck of code should be pulled out and given a name to express what it’s trying to do, you’re likely to get less resistance.
If you focus on making your intentions clear, your code will be easier to maintain. If you focus on maintainability alone, it might backfire. You might get lots of unneeded code, inserted with the intent of making future maintenance easier, that makes maintenance harder.
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I see Jews, Asians, and Persians making something of themselves and conducing safe, walkable communities. Of course, they're not perfect, but I don't see high Jew-crime communities, either. I see these people sticking together and helping each other out instead of envying their own. Why can't Mexicans get their act together and promote the message behind the Christian billboards they have on their chests?
Writing From the Bueno Side of the Tracks
Is that the best you can do? Fault Mexicans for crime-ridden neighborhoods, despite a recent study by Harvard sociologists that found lower rates of violence among Mexicans than gabachos or blacks? Claim no community solidarity exists amongst us even though Mexican immigrants maintain an extraordinary fraternal society network that sends back billions of dollars in remittances to Mexico? Then end with a lame tattoo joke? Where's the wab jab? Of course, Mexicans aren't perfect, but the rough ethnic enclave is as American as Uncle Sam. The forlorn, decrepit immigrants squatting in tenement slums that Jacob Riis memorably captured in his 1890 photojournalism exposé, How the Other Half Lives, were the same Jews, Asians, Italians, and Slavs you and so many others now celebrate as "good" immigrants different from the Mexicans of today. Give Mexicans time, let them move from barrio to suburb, and they'll join the descendants of previous waves of immigrants in forgetting history and bashing the new guys in the slums. Really, the only exception to this immigrant trajectory are wealthy refugee communities such as Persians and Cubans, who arrived on our golden shores with money in their pockets and government handouts to help them adjust.
About a year ago, you said Mexicans favored Calvin-pissing-on-stuff car decals over Tweety Bird. The explanation for Pissing Calvin worship was much appreciated, and makes total sense, but Tweety Bird shows up on just as many cars, trucks, and tattoos as Pissing Calvin. There is nothing macho at all I can see in Tweety Bird, or anything that a Hispanic youth would admire. So what's the deal?
Half Gabacho, Half Japonés
What is it with Mexicans and Looney Toons stickers on their cars? Specifically, Tweety Bird. Mexicans act tough, but Tweety is a total pussy. What's the connection?
El Diablo Blanco
The chino who asked the first question refers to a previous column where I claimed Mexicans preferred to decorate their cars with decals of Calvin of Calvin and Hobbes pissing on various logos instead of Tweety Bird. Tweety, along with Bugs Bunny and Speedy Gonzalez, always maintained a large following among Mexicans because they personify the Trickster, the universal archetype who uses mayhem and wits to wile his way through tough situations. Nowadays, however, slapping a Tweety sticker on your truck or carro also signifies allegiance to El Piólin ("Tweety Bird" in Spanish). He's the Los Angeles–based Spanish-language DJ who used his nationally syndicated show to help organize the immigrant-rights marches that gripped the United States this spring. Born Eduardo Sotelo, El Piolín's nickname (which came from his Tweety-like frame and big lips) is appropriate. Contrary to what Diablo Blanco and the chino state, Tweety is muy macho and definitely not a pussy. Consider Tweety's constant escape from Sylvester the Cat's jaws a metaphor for the Mexican immigrant experience, with Mexicans assuming the trickster Tweety role and gabachos personifying the clueless, fat cat who fails to stop his short, colored antagonist again and again.
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The program provides students with the opportunity to be introduced to, and practice in, a work place setting, enabling them to gain invaluable real-world experience. Students will be required to actively participate in finding a placement location. Once placed, successful completion of the placement is a graduation requirement.
- Career and Employment Strategies
This course will assist students in planning, preparation, and job search execution. Students will prepare personal marketing collateral and will practice a variety of interviewing techniques.
- Microbiology and Sterile Products
Students will be introduced to the fundamentals of microbiology, terminology, sterile technique, contamination protection, and infection control. Students will also learn aseptic techniques in the preparation of pharmaceutical products.
- Pharmacy Software Applications
Pharmacy software applications are necessary in both the retail and institutional settings. Students will learn how to effectively and efficiently use KROLL pharmacy software to enter and manage patient records, prescriptions, and third party and private insurance billing.
This course introduces students to pharmaceutical preparation and documentation. Students will learn how to perform a variety of commercial compounding and mixing techniques. The student will become proficient at accurate ingredient measuring and weighing as well as equipment cleansing and maintenance.
- Community Pharmacy
This course introduces students to computerized and manual dispensing procedures, community pharmacy business practices: dispensary and storefront inventory maintenance, insurance plan processing, patient profiles and filing, billing and claim reconciliation, and the roll of the pharmacy assistant with respect to the pharmacy technician and pharmacist.
Pharmacy equipment and dispensing techniques will be demonstrated, explained, and practiced in the lab.
- Pharmaceutical Calculations
Students will learn how to perform critical dosage and compounding calculations.
- Fundamentals of Pharmacology
This course will introduce the student to pharmacological fundamentals. Topics include receptor mechanisms, kinetics, and the actions of drugs and toxins at the cellular, organ, and system level. Students will be introduced to dosage formulations, drug administration OTC medications, adverse effects, contraindications, common dosage regimens, and administration considerations. Students will learn various mechanisms of drug action and pharmacokinetic processes that affect drug-body interaction.
- Anatomy and Physiology
This course explores basic human anatomy and physiology. Students will be introduced to human body systems and their components. Students will study how these systems function separately and as a collaborative whole. The impact of disease on systems and the purpose and function of medications in treating illness are studied.
- Introduction to Pharmacy
This course introduces the student to the pharmacy profession, the role of the Pharmacy Assistant in the drug dispensing process. Other topics include benefit plans, third party insurance, billing practices, standards of practice, legislation, and professional codes of conduct.
- Fundamentals of Computers
This course presents an introductory look at Windows 7 and its interface, tools, and features. You will learn about the fundamentals of navigating and personalizing the interface, organizing files and folders, using media devices, and searching for information. This course relies heavily on practical hands-on activities that allow you to learn the concepts by practicing them on a regular basis.
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All stakeholders would get a chance to share their views on the proposed new line of the Delhi metro joining Central Secretariat and Kashmere Gate.
The DMRC has sent its proposal for the new line to the competent authority-designated after an amendment in the Archaeological Act in 2010-who plans to involve stakeholders in the decision making process. The proposed line manoeuvres through a heritage corridor with a number of ASI-protected monuments.
As first reported by HT on February 7, the alignment proposed by the DMRC-Central Secretariate-Janpath-Mandi House-ITO-Delhi Gate-Red Fort-Kashmere Gate-have raised concerns about the route. The entire 9-kilometre stretch is proposed to be underground.
After an amendment in the Archaeological Act, any construction near a protected site now requires clearance from a competent authority, which in turn, forwards it to the National Monument Authority (NMA). The NMA, likely to be formed only by March end, will weigh the proposal with respect to monument specific heritage bye-laws-again, yet to be formulated-only after which the decision can be taken.
Designated competent authority Vijay Singh said, "The alignment will be examined from the point of view of heritage structures." He added, "We would take into consideration the views of the residents, the traders' associations and also those of local representatives."
Earlier lines did not see this kind of consultation. Said DMRC spokesperson, "We have held more than 200 public meetings/consultations as part of community interaction programme since phase I." Singh further added, "The proposed line should improve the environment around the heritage site and their accessibility."
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How to Manage Checkpoints
Use the Checkpoints tab in Virtual Machine Properties to create checkpoints, restore a virtual machine to a checkpoint, edit a checkpoint description, or merge a checkpoint to free disk space when the checkpoint is no longer needed.
You can create and manage checkpoints for a virtual machine only when the virtual machine is deployed on a host. The checkpoint actions are available only in Virtual Machines view; the actions cannot be performed on a stored virtual machine.To manage checkpoints for a virtual machine
In Virtual Machines view, expand All Hosts in the navigation pane, and then navigate to the host on which the virtual machine is deployed.
To open the Checkpoints tab in Virtual Machine Properties, perform either of the following actions:
—In the results pane, double-click the virtual machine to open Virtual Machine Properties, and then click Checkpoints.
—In the results pane, click the virtual machine. Then, in the Actions pane, under Virtual Machine, click Manage checkpoints. This action is available only if the virtual machine has checkpoints.
Use buttons on the Checkpoints tab to perform the following actions:
New—Create a new checkpoint that can be used to restore a virtual machine to its current state. For more information, see How to Create a Checkpoint.
Edit—Modify the description of a checkpoint. For more information, see How to Edit a Checkpoint Description.
Merge—Merge a checkpoint to free disk space when the checkpoint is no longer needed. For more information, see How to Merge a Checkpoint.
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PCI Eligible AWS services deployed in AWS Wavelength can now store, process, or transmit cardholder data (CHD) or sensitive authentication data (SAD), including merchants, processors, acquirers, issuers, and service providers. PCI DSS (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standard) is a proprietary information security standard administered by the PCI Security Standard Council. Many Wavelength use cases like interactive live video streams, AR/VR, and real-time gaming require in-app purchases. Starting today, you can use AWS Wavelength to build, deploy, and run applications that store and use sensitive payment card data in compliance with PCI DSS.
Wavelength brings AWS compute and storage services at the edge of communications service providers’ 5G networks while providing seamless access to cloud services running in an AWS Region. AWS Wavelength minimizes the latency and network hops required to connect to an application hosted in AWS from 5G devices. For more information please visit the AWS Wavelength webpage. You can request access to Wavelength Zones here. | <urn:uuid:61e178c1-1d5b-413e-8a82-a9df760b12b4> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://aws.amazon.com/about-aws/whats-new/2021/01/pci-dss-compliance-for-aws-wavelength/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573760.75/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819191655-20220819221655-00668.warc.gz | en | 0.87436 | 221 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Learn about the building blocks of a great brand strategy that will have the potential to capture the full commercial value from a product. Unsurprisingly, pharma’s era of blockbuster drugs led to a relatively simple approach to brand and marketing. However, with the competitive landscape driven by patent cliffs and generics, the complexity of multiple stakeholders and empowered patients, it’s now time for pharma to up the ante on their brand strategy.
“When the environment
The Active Pharmaceutical Ingredient (API) is the part of any drug that produces the intended effects. Some drugs, such as combination therapies, have multiple active ingredients to treat different symptoms or act in different ways. PhotoAlto/Sigrid Olsson / Getty Images Production of APIs has traditionally been done by the pharmaceutical companies themselves in their home countries. But in recent years many corporations have opted to send manufacturing overseas to cut costs.
Drugs often have several names. A marketed drug may have up to four different types of names: a chemical name, a company name, a generic name, and a brand name. Chemical name: When a drug is first discovered, it is given a chemical name. This describes the atomic or molecular structure of the drug. The chemical name is thus usually too complex and cumbersome for general use and is almost never used to identify the drug in a clinical or marketing setting. Company name: A short
When a new disease is identified in a group of patients it needs a name so it can be described, researched and treated. But, unlike naming a child, there is no little book of names for diseases. So how do you choose the right name for a new condition? It isn't easy. Image copyright Eye of science/science photo library In the 1970s, Dr Graham Hughes, a rheumatologist working at London Bridge Hospital noticed that a group of his patients suffered from "sticky" blood that increa | <urn:uuid:540488f1-ae33-40b0-a835-335dfa15081e> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.pharmanaming.com/blog/archive/2020/06 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571097.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20220810010059-20220810040059-00271.warc.gz | en | 0.937485 | 390 | 2.640625 | 3 |
An interesting trend is emerging from the consumer auto insurance industry. Progressive Insurance Co. became the first company to issue a "usage-based" auto insurance policy, whereby the insured agrees to have a GPS system installed in his or her vehicle. Progressive successfully tested the program in Houston with several hundered policy holders from August 1998 to July 2001.
The test determined that it was technologically feasible to calculate auto insurance based on usage-based variables. Every six minutes, the equipment recorded how often a vehicle was driven, where and when it was driven, and the duration of each trip. This data was automatically transmitted to the insurance company's computers via cellular phone, where it was used to identify an individual's driving habits to enable
Progressive to calculate the monthly insurance premium, which varied based on actual usage, along with other underwriting variables. Does this have a fleet application? Sure. There are many possible applications. One fleet application would be a way to deal with the high-risk driver, who also happens to be the "star salesperson." How many of us have encountered the refrain, "But he's one of our best salesmen," when attempting to discipline an accident- or ticket-prone driver?
To avoid negligent entrustment and retention lawsuits, you can't afford to ignore these high-risk drivers. What if an interim disciplinary action would require high-risk drivers to have their "actual use" driving monitored via a GPS system prior to more severe disciplinary action such as the forfeiture of the company vehicle or even termination? Using such a system, if an employee's reckless driving behavior continues, you now have the documentation necessary to deal with the problem instead of waiting for a catastrophic event to occur. What will make "actual use" monitoring relatively easy to perform in the future is the new generation of vehicles the auto manufacturers are developing, which will incorporate telematic tracking devices. A corollary trend involves American Car Rental, d.b.a. Acme Rent-A-Car in New Haven, CT, which electronically monitors the road speed of the vehicles it rents to consumers through the use of AirIQ's GPS-based vehicle tracking system. Whenever customers exceed 79 miles per hour for more than two continuous minutes, Acme automatically debits $150 from a customer's bank account or credit card for each speeding occurrence. According to Acme, the purpose of the speeding penalty is not to generate additional revenue, but to prevent accidents in order to keep its insurance costs down. Since implementing the program, Acme says its accident rate has dropped more than 50 percent. However, following complaints from consumers, the Connecticut Department of Consumer Protection filed a complaint against American Car Rental, accusing its Acme Rent-A-Car operation of unlawfully charging speeding fines to its customers. American Car Rental said it will challenge this complaint and has refused to discontinue the practice, arguing that the terms are clearly stated in the rental agreement and that customers are required to acknowlege in writing their understanding that the rental vehicle will be electronically monitored and that they are willing to comply to the speed restriction. One fleet manager with non-union drivers, who wished to remain anonymous, has wondered out loud whether employee drivers in the future could likewise be penalized with automatic payroll deductions for driving faster than specified speeds in their company vehicle.
Symptoms of a Larger Trend
What is interesting about these two examples is that they are manifestations of a much larger trend of employee monitoring by their employers. According to a recent Privacy Foundation study, employers are monitoring one of every three workers online, which most likely includes many of us who are currently reading this column. Thirty percent of the U.S. work force is online. Of that number, 14 million are subject to a fast-growing corporate trend that is being referred to as "continuous surveillance." What is motivating employers to engage in continuous surveillance is the threat of legal liability, according to more than two-thirds of the respondents to a recent American Management Association survey. The question is whether the corporate umbrella of continuous surveillance, in the future, will extend beyond employee computer usage and into fleet management, especially as telematically-enabled fleet vehicles become more commonplace. Will acquiescence to continuous surveillance become a future requirement for employees prior to being assigned a company vehicle? At the moment, these issues are strictly academic. But most likely sooner, rather than later, they will become real-world issues and we will all be forced to balance the conflicting goals of using continuous employee surveillance to minimize liability exposure and enhance productivity while, at the sme time, not violating employee privacy. Let me know what you think. | <urn:uuid:411645b1-742b-4e52-9b8a-587abceba675> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.automotive-fleet.com/144970/acquiescence-to-employer-monitoring-may-be-a-future-condition-to-getting-a-compa | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572161.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815054743-20220815084743-00477.warc.gz | en | 0.962869 | 937 | 1.625 | 2 |
People living in the same community are 65% identical. How? Over 65% of the human body is made of water, and neighbors drinking water from the same source share more in common than they realize! Unfortunately countless Americans cannot name the river, aquifer, lake or ocean their water comes from. A married couple from Texas hopes to change that.
Sarah and Patrick Houston with Wander Like Water (YouTube) started bicycle touring to connect viewers with water sources and the complex issues they face. Currently the couple is cycling down the whole Mississippi River! Sarah and Patrick will ride and camp over 2,000 miles to connect you with one of the most important watersheds in the United States, revealing ways to protect this mighty river.
Starting at the headwaters in Northern Minnesota down to New Orleans, Louisiana, Sarah and Patrick will monitor water quality at strategic locations. Their previous journeys focused on water conservation along the Colorado River, down Mexico’s Baja California, and around two Hawaiian islands. But the Mississippi moves the conversation to quality. The River has been a chemical waste dump since the Industrial Revolution. High amounts of fertilizer and nutrient runoff cause deadly red algae blooms in the Gulf of Mexico each year.
The Mississippi River is the drinking water source for over 18 million people, touches 10 states and its watershed covers more than 40% of the United States. Wander Like Water aims to create a connection to the River that so many have lost!
Sarah and Patrick will be interviewing people with unique connections to the Mighty Mississippi. Through YouTube, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter, they will bring you local knowledge of the health and wellness of the River and populations that rely on it. They want to share where the water quality differs throughout the basin and how the local treatment facilities are keeping residents’ water safe to drink.
Join them on the journey as they pedal, cartwheel and learn about your impact on the Mighty Mississippi!
To find out more about Sarah & Patrick: www.wanderlikewater.com
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Halloween Count by 10
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Solve Multiplication Problems: Using Skip Counting
Explore yet another use of number lines as young mathematicians learn to answer multiplication problems by skip counting. This problem solving approach is clearly modeled with the examples presented in the third video of this series....
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Eyeglass wearers value advanced technology, but often defer to eyecare professional as shown by a new national research study sponsored by PPG Industries which reaffirms that, while consumers are interested in a lens that provides a combination of desirable attributes, they are unfamiliar with their choices. Results suggest that patients would benefit from further education on the part of their eyecare professional, especially since most would ultimately defer to their eyecare professional’s recommendation when selecting a lens material.
“As a leader in optical lens material technologies, we believe it is critical to understand how consumers interpret the information about lens materials that they receive from their eyecare professionals,” said Christine Camsuzou, PPG general manager of optical materials. “The lens material is the foundation of the lens. It plays an important role in helping eyecare professionals offer their patients a more complete eyewear experience, by complementing advanced lens designs, treatments and coatings to provide the clearest, most comfortable vision and protect vision for a lifetime.”
Compared with a similar survey of adult eyeglass wearers sponsored by PPG in 2007, the new survey of 500 eyeglass wearers found that the majority of consumers have become even more focused on their frame selection than their lenses (84 percent vs. 78 percent in 2007).
The research also pointed to a lack of awareness about lens material options in general, with nearly 67 percent of respondents reporting that they didn’t know which lens material was used to make their eyeglasses. When asked to name as many lens materials as possible, consumers were primarily only familiar with glass (21 percent), plastic (18 percent) and polycarbonate (11 percent). There was little awareness about newer materials – even when presented with several of them in a follow-up question – and numerous non-lens materials were also named, such as metal and titanium. Further demonstrating the confusion about lens materials, respondents also mentioned lens treatments and lens designs when asked about lens materials, including photochromics, anti-reflective coatings and progressives.
However, the research also showed that while consumers aren’t familiar with specific lens material options, they expect a lot from their lenses, with 71 percent saying that it is important to them that their eyeglasses are made with the most advanced lens technology. When prioritizing the most important attributes of an eyeglass lens, on average, respondents ranked clearest vision the highest [Table 1]. In addition, nearly 38 percent of respondents agreed that a combination of lens attributes – such as clearest vision, thinness, light weight and impact resistance – was most important when selecting a lens [Table 2], followed by price (20 percent).
Despite the importance placed on these factors, however, most respondents (90 percent) said they would defer to their eyecare professional’s lens material recommendation.
The survey findings also reinforced that, in terms of most valued lens material attributes, price has not surpassed lens material features and benefits in the minds of consumers, Camsuzou added. “These new research findings remind us that eyecare professionals are in a powerful position to use their unique relationship with their patients to educate them about exciting lens technologies,” said Nathan Troxell, global marketing manager, optical materials, PPG Industries. “This includes discussion of options such as TRIVEX material, which can provide a true value to patients through its unique combination of the most desirable lens attributes while serving as a perfect foundation for other advanced lens options such as digital surfacing, glare-free and TRANSITIONS lenses.”
Without proper education, many consumers may mistakenly believe that all materials provide the same features and benefits, Troxell noted. An overwhelming majority (90 percent) of respondents said knowing some lens materials provided clearer vision than others would influence their decision.
In order to assist eyecare professionals in educating patients about lens materials, PPG developed the Trivex material e-learning program. Available at www.PPGTrivex.com/education, this resource provides a user-friendly overview of various aspects of Trivex material, including performance benefits, dispensing tips, compatibility with other lens designs and enhancements, and the business advantages of offering lenses made with Trivex material. The e-learning program concludes with an interactive quiz to reinforce learning, and is currently available in 13 languages. In addition, PPG offers an ABO-accredited course on Trivex material. Requests for copies of the course can be sent to Nathan Troxell.
Trivex lens material is available from leading lens manufacturers, such as Younger Optics, Hoya, Essilor, Carl Zeiss Vision, X-Cel Optical, Augen Optics and others. More information about optical materials and products from PPG is available at www.ppgopticalproducts.com, or from Nathan Troxell at (724) 325-5168 or firstname.lastname@example.org.
We agree that this new survey reinforces need to educate consumers on lens material options and hope we all take action to make sure that it happens!
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R provides a lot of interesting packages to analyze cryptocurrency markets. The goal of this exercise is to introduce you to one of the packages (crypto) to retrieve cryptocurrency data in R, as well as building some basic plots to understand how these markets have behaved in recent times.
Cryptocurrencies are digital assets that facilitates exchange of value between two parties. They are intended to be secure and safe. Encryption systems are used to regulate the generation of coins and verify the exchange of value between the parties involved. Cryptocurrencies have recently taken the world by storm, grabbing attention from investors, academia, financial institutions, governments and individuals.
The crypto package uses data provided by ‘Cryptocurrency Market Capitalizations’ (here) to retrieve data on cryptocurrencies. CoinMarketCap is a website that provides present and historical data on numerous cryptocurrencies through web scraping tables.
Answers to these exercises are available here.
Please install and load the crypto package, along with all its dependencies. You will also need to be connected to the internet to retrieve data from the website. This exercise also assumes basic knowledge of ggplot2 for graph plotting and will require you to load the package.
Get the list of all coins available in CoinMarketCap.
Retrieve the current prices and market capitalization data for the top 20 coins (by Market Capitalization.)
Plot a bar graph to see the top 20 coins by market capitalization.
Which coin (name) among the top 20 has been most profitable in the last 7 days? Store the name in a variable called “most_profitable.”
Retrieve data on historical prices from May 1st, 2017 to May 1st, 2018 for the most_profitable coin. Store data in a variable called “historical_data.”
Plot the closing price in a line graph to see how the cryptocurrency price has fluctuated in recent times from “historical_data.” Save the plot as a variable named “p.”
Cryptocurrency prices fluctuate a lot within a day. Let’s add the absolute price spread (maximum.price – minimum.price) from “historical_data” in the graph plotted above. In case the plot doesn’t come out well due to bad data (like in the figure in solutions page), try the same graph for “Bitcoin.” Replace “most_profitable” with “Bitcoin” in the solutions for Ex. 5,6 and 7.
Now, let’s retrieve historical data for a few more coins. Use the function getCoins() to retrieve data from May 1st, 2017 to May 1st, 2018 for the top 20 coins (hint: use the “coins_data” variable.)
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OVERFLOWING Victorian sewers in Scotland’s largest urban area are to be upgraded in the biggest regional investment in sewage works for more than a century, it was announced yesterday.
The Greater Glasgow waste water network will undergo a £250 million, five-year improvement programme to stop sewage polluting the Clyde and connecting waterways.
The Victorian-era system of pipes, designed to discharge sewage into the natural environment when they became full, will be replaced by underground tunnels funnelling waste water to storage tanks, where it will be held until it can be treated, and then pumped out into nearby waterways.
A combination of rising populations and climate change causing heavier rainfall has increased overflow from the region’s sewage system into rivers and streams, threatening water quality, wildlife and plants.
Scottish Water said the modernisation plans would transform the region’s ageing network into a sustainable drainage system suitable for the needs of a 21st century city.
Geoff Aitkenhead, Scottish Water’s asset management director, said: “We are delighted to be starting this massive investment in the Glasgow area’s waste water infrastructure which will transform the network and make it fit for the 21st century.
He added: “We have been able to find integrated drainage solutions for the future which will provide knowledge and experience that can be used across the rest of Scotland.”
The Scottish Environment Protection Agency (Sepa) welcomed the move to help safeguard the nation’s biodiversity.
David Sigsworth, Sepa chairman, said: “This is an important step forward in improving the natural environment of the River Clyde and alleviating sewer flooding in Glasgow. Sepa has worked closely with Scottish Water to support the development of the long-term strategy for the Clyde catchment and to help create solutions which address the needs of the city.”
The Scottish Government welcomed the investment, which will support about 500 jobs and up to 50 new apprenticeships. Nicola Sturgeon, cabinet secretary for infrastructure, investment and cities, said the work was “essential” to Glasgow’s economic prosperity.
The Deputy First Minister added: “It will improve the environment and ensure that new customers can connect to this essential public service.”
The final design of the scheme, which will also see upgrades to safety valves used to control waste water during heavy rainfall, will go out for consultation later this year before engineering companies bid for the project.
It is based on the conclusions of years of research by the Metropolitan Glasgow Strategic Drainage Partnership, which includes Scottish Water, Sepa and Glasgow City Council.
Council leader Gordon Matheson said the scheme was “great news”. He said: “As a city built on the banks of the River Clyde, we are keenly aware of the importance of looking after and managing our natural resources.”
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“The Lord your God in your midst, The Mighty One, will save;
He will rejoice over you with gladness,
He will quiet you with His love,
He will rejoice over you with singing.”
Why is it that we often think of God as some larger than life being, who sits and watches us from afar off?
What a sad, lonely place the world would be if this were true.
I want to start off today with a word of encouragement for you: HE IS HERE!
Does that give you a little more hope today?
I want us to realize that we were not put on this earth to wander around aimlessly, until our life has ended. No, God has placed us here for a reason and He is here!
Do you remember what Jesus told His disciples when He ascended into Heaven? He told them: “Nevertheless, I tell you the truth: it is to your advantage that I go away, for if I do not go away, the Helper will not come to you. But if I go, I will send him to you.”( John 16:7) Jesus is talking about sending the Holy Spirit to be with the disciples after He has gone back to Heaven.
That very same Holy Spirit whom Jesus promised was coming then, still dwells here with us today. Is that not encouraging?
When life gets hard, when your day takes a turn for the worse, or when you are facing a trial, do not wonder where God is. Trust that He is here. He is working things out.
Life may not always turn out the way we had hoped or planned, but we can rest assured that God is not surprised. He does not mess up, He does not make a mistake, and nothing surprises Him. Now that is encouraging.
The last part of today’s verse says that the Lord rejoices over us with gladness, He comforts us with His love, and He rejoices over us with singing.
The Lord is not going to leave you. No matter how hard life may seem, no matter how bad your day gets, God is right there rejoicing over you, comforting you, and loving you every step of the way.
I pray today that you will allow God to cover you with His love. I pray that you will remember our verse from today and find comfort in knowing that we have not been left on this earth to just wander and wait. No! We have the Holy Spirit here to guide and comfort us. We have our Lord and Savior rejoicing over us.
I pray that these words have been an encouragement to your heart today.
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SpaceX launched its heftiest rocket with 24 research satellites Tuesday, a middle-of-the-night rideshare featuring a deep space atomic clock, solar sail, a clean and green rocket fuel testbed, and even human ashes.
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It was the third flight of a Falcon Heavy rocket, but the first ordered by the military.
The Defense Department mission, dubbed STP-2 for Space Test Program, is expected to provide data to certify the Falcon Heavy — and reused boosters — for future national security launches. It marked the military’s first ride on a recycled rocket.
Both side boosters landed back at Cape Canaveral several minutes after liftoff, just as they did after launching in April. But the new core booster missed an ocean platform, not unexpected for this especially difficult mission, SpaceX noted.
NASA signed up for a spot on the rocket, along with the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, the Air Force Research Laboratory, the Planetary Society and Celestis Inc., which offers memorial flights into space.
An astronaut who flew on NASA’s first space station back in the 1970s, Skylab’s Bill Pogue, had a bit of his ashes on board, along with more than 150 other deceased people. Pogue died in 2014.
SpaceX said the mission was one of its most challenging launches. The satellites needed to be placed in three different orbits, requiring multiple upper-stage engine firings. It was going to take several hours to release them all.
The Deep Space Atomic Clock by NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory is a technology demo aimed at self-flying spacecraft. Barely the size of a toaster oven, the clock is meant to help spacecraft navigate by themselves when far from Earth. NASA also was testing a clean and green alternative to toxic rocket and satellite fuel.
The Planetary Society’s LightSail crowd-funded spacecraft will attempt to become the first orbiting spacecraft to be propelled solely by sunlight. It’s the society’s third crack at solar sailing: The first was lost in a Russian rocket failure in 2005, while the second had a successful test flight in 2015.
“Hey @elonmusk et al, thanks for the ride!,” tweeted Bill Nye, the society’s chief executive officer.
The Air Force Research Laboratory had space weather experiments aboard, while NOAA had six small atmospheric experimental satellites for weather forecasting.
The Falcon Heavy is the most powerful rocket in use today. Each first-stage booster has nine engines, for a total of 27 firing simultaneously at liftoff from NASA’s Kennedy Space Center.
The first Falcon Heavy launch was in February 2018. That test flight put SpaceX founder Musk’s red Tesla convertible into an orbit stretching past Mars.
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Some might consider it cheating to attach an NES controller to an Etch-A-Sketch, but not this guy. Those little vertical and horizontal knobs just weren’t cutting it so he got to work and created the NES-S-Sketch, which is like having the worst NES paint program ever that only uses the D-pad to go up and down and side to side.
He wired up an Arduino board, connected some motors to drive the dials and attached a controller. You can watch modder alpinedelta32 use it in the video. I know, I know, you’ve seen people draw with an Etch-A-Sketch before, but when is the last time you’ve them use one with an NES controller?
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BOOKS: by Peter WestmoreNews Weekly
Culture of Life: Culture of Death, edited by Luke Gormally
, January 25, 2003
Culture clashCulture of Life: Culture of Death
Edited by Luke Gormally
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Rec. Price: $59.70 plus $4.40 p&hIn July 2000, a number of important papers were delivered and discussed at an international conference in the UK on contemporary challenges in the fields of ethics and bioethics, where Christian principles conflict with the values of the prevailing secular society.
The Linacre Centre, which published the papers, is one of the principal bioethics institutes in Great Britain, and is supported by the British Catholic Bishops.Culture of Life - Culture of Death
is a compilation of many of the papers delivered at that conference, and includes contributions by Archbishop George Pell, the late Cardinal Thomas Winning, Professor Anthony Fisher, Professor John Finnis, Professor Robert George of Princeton, and Dr Robert Walley, Director of Matercare International.
The theme around which the conference was organised was suggested by the Pope's 1995 encyclical letter, Evangelium Vitae (The Gospel of Life)
, in which John Paul II described the prevailing secular and materialist culture of Western societies as "the culture of death".
Professors Finnis and George emphasised that every human person - whether sharing a religious faith or not - is capable of choosing what is morally good, based on human knowledge and human nature.
In his paper, "Secularism, the root of the culture of death", Professor Finnis explicitly dealt with the problem of intention, which is a sharp dividing line between deliberate killing - as in abortion, the killing of newborns with disabilities, and euthanasia - and letting die.
He pointed out that this confusion has influenced legal judgments in the US and the UK.
Interestingly, it was also an important contributor to the outcome of the recent Parliamentary debate in Australia on the Human Embryo Experimentation Bill 2002, in which the Prime Minister said he did not believe there was a sufficient distinction between allowing embryos to be experimented upon, and letting them die, to proscribe such experimentation.
The conference discussed many of the most pressing moral issues currently facing Western societies, including utilitarianism as a guiding principle in medical ethics; HIV/AIDS; the efforts to enforce population control, both within countries such as Australia and on developing nations; and the more familiar issues of abortion, human embryo experimentation and euthanasia.
The conference also discussed some of the most contentious issues in the bioethics field, including the attempts to modify abortion laws, use of the rubella vaccine, despite the fact that it had been grown on a cell line derived from an aborted baby; and withdrawal of life-sustaining treatment from dying patients.
The book does not contain the discussion which followed the presentation of these papers, where at times strong differences of view were expressed. This is unfortunate, but would have further delayed publication of the book, and made it substantially longer than its 350 pages.
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Thinking Ethics was a project launched in Geneva to foster the debate about ethics. A few friends, fed up with only reading about abuses in the media, decided to hold a forward-looking seminar on five subjects: ethics and performance, ethics and knowledge, ethics and consciousness, ethics and disobedience and ethics in real time. If moral has to do with right and wrong, then ethics is its application in society. We believe that people need to talk about the subject to determine the level of ethics they want. The book Thinking Ethics, a result of the seminar, is to start the discussion. This blog is a contribution to the conversation. :
IMD, the Swiss international business school, and the World Wildlife Fund have just announced a partnership to launch the best in class sustainability program for business leaders. One Planet Leaders, the name of this innovative training program for driving sustainability into the core of business, is a series of three 3-day modules.
The learning will focus on developing a winning business case and robust strategy for change, leading to sustainable practices while delivering profit.
There was a study done in the UK a few years ago (London Business School) that showed that students who chose to do an MBA were less ethical than other students. This worried the Business School deans because they did not know if the less ethical students chose to do an MBA, or if something in the curriculum made them less ethical.
There is a great resource for teachers and researchers in the on-line library at www.globethics.net. They have over 400'000 articles and books, research papers, case studies and teaching materials in applied ethics. And their scrolling daily ethics news from around the world is pretty neat too.
Harvard has opened one of their most popular college courses Justice, led by Professor Michael Sandel to the web. Sandel challenges the audience on difficult moral dilemmas and asks "What is the right thing to do?". Sure to be thought provoking.
Usually in a downturn of the economy businesses get rid of all the "nice to have" programs and it was generally feared that social responsibility was going to take a back seat to survival.
Not so with the up and coming generation. Across America the best business schools are seeing an explosion of interest in ethics courses. The students have initiated public commitments in the form of volontary student-led pledges called honor codes or the M.B.A. oath where they vow to serve the greater good. They will take the high paid jobs - but they will change them from the inside. More details in the article from the New York Times.
A few years ago I saw a report (I think from London Business School, but can't find it again) on the comparison of students from Business Schools versus universities specializing in the humanities. The results showed in a statistically significant manner that the students from the Business Schools were less ethical than their fellow students from universities.
This was a worrying development for the deans of the Business Schools. Because it could mean etiher that less ethical persons chose to study Business, or that something in the curriculum made the students less ethical.
Since then the deans have been playing with different approaches to make sure that all students get exposure to ethics training. From making it mandatory to take an initial 2 week course on ethics, to spreading ethic case studies in all subjects. And yet the the results are still not good. An article in Ethical Corporation by Chandran Nair entitled "Business Schools are failing society" proposes some reforms that help the schools to produce more ethical graduates.
MBA programs are leaning towards social enterprise. Apparently 54% of US business schools require a course in Corporate Social Responsibility, up from 34% in 2001. Columbia University has a Social Enterprise Board composed of professors and students that is looking into including CSR in all areas of the curriculum. Article in Forbes.com
Speaking about performance enhancement... there is a concern about performance enhancement in academia - both from the student side - do better on tests, and from the professor side - work harder for scientific recognition - a very competitive area.
Most people would agree that to give memory enhancement drugs to help sick or elderly people is fine - but the objective was not to use them on healthy people to improve their performance. As we move into an "on demand" society, some people do not see why we cannot have self-improvement on demand. Especially if the means to do so are readily available. Somehow the relationship between struggle to improve and building of character is getting lost. Good article on the subject with lots of links here. Education is about learning, and should not be about performance. As we are going to have to retrain continuously and move into lifelong learning, it will not be about passing one test or checking a box, but really turning the journey into the end. | <urn:uuid:34e03313-f841-4c9a-a7e2-af0b9608b494> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thinkingethics.typepad.com/thinking_ethics/education/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280891.90/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00153-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965212 | 982 | 2.34375 | 2 |
Hi all,this is my first post on the forum. I am solving a programming problem where I need to find factors of a big number N(can be even or odd). The problem is:
I need to test different i such that (N-i) is divisible by i+1
For a number as large as 100 crores it would take a lot of time. And therefore I need some method by which I am able to reduce the divisions to 100000 or 1000000 at maximum. Is there any way this is possible. Any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. | <urn:uuid:b477a61b-3ae8-41cd-b1fc-87827842485e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://mathhelpforum.com/number-theory/169694-reducing-number-divisions.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279224.13/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00478-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.970934 | 118 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Hayward has a population of 140,030 and is located in Alameda county.
Electrician schools in Hayward charged students an average tuition of $4,080.00 if they were California residents, and $9,573.00 if they were non-residents, during the 2009 - 2010 school year.
Books and supplies for electrician schools in Hayward cost an average of $1,670.00. The average cost for room and board for students living on campus at electrician schools in Hayward was $10,029.00. The average cost for students living at home was $4,111.00 for the 2009 - 2010 school year. There is one electrician college in Hayward for students to choose from. Electrician programs in Hayward reportedly graduated 0 students in the 2008 - 2009 school year.
|Profession||Average Salary||Number Employed in City|
|Electrical and Electronics Repairers, Commercial and Industrial Equipment||$69,930.00||450|
|Electronic Equipment Installers and Repairers, Motor Vehicles||$30,100.00||290|
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News Brief – July 23, 2011
Friday’s twin bombings in central Oslo and shooting on an island resort nearby are thought to have left nearly 80 dead.
It was the worst terror attack in recent years and may be the work of one man.
Norwegian police are currently holding a 32-year-old Norwegian man in connection with both attacks.
Initially 7 were killed and at least 15 were injured in the twin bombing that rocked central Oslo.
Saying he was “on a routine check in connection with the terror attack in Oslo”, according to one witness quoted by a Norwegian national newspaper, he entered the camp, whereupon he opened fire at the teenage campers inside.
As the gunmen opened fire many tried to escape from the island by swimming.
“He first shot people on the island,” one 15-year-old camper named Elise told The Associated Press. “Afterward he started shooting people in the water.”
Initial reports were quick to point the finger of blame on “Muslim radicals”. However, when reports surfaced that police were holding a “Nordic looking man” in connection with the shootings it became apparent that we might be seeing a return of a familiar figure from the terrorist’s repertoire: the “right-wing extremist”.
Made famous by Timothy McVeigh, the “right-wing extremist” is often apparently motivated by racist ideology and, although far-less well publicised, by government handlers and mind-control experts too.
Sure enough by Saturday morning Norwegian police announced that they had the chief suspect in custody, one Anders Behring Breivik. Characterised by officials as a “right-wing extremist”, Breivik is not known to have had any links with radical Islam.
Speaking on terms of anonymity, a Norwegian official said that the outrage was “not linked to any international terror organisation”.
“It seems it’s not Islamic-terror related,” the official continued. “This seems like a madman’s work.”
Looking every inch the blond-blue-eyed Nordic, Anders Behring Breivik, is reported to have turned to “right-wing extremism” while in his late twenties.
It took police investigators some time to realise the full extent of the casualties, as attention was initially focused on the blasts in central Oslo. However, as news of the shooting at the youth camp emerged it became clear that the death toll was far higher than first thought.
Norway’s Prime Minister Jens Stoltenberg, described the attacks as “a national tragedy” for Norway: “Never since the Second World War has our country been hit by a crime on this scale.”
What follows next will be interesting. Will the revulsion and outrage provoked by the killings be used as a pretext for the imposition of more draconian legislation? Or will it be used to foment more friction with Norway’s Islamic community?
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KOCHI -- Condemning the row over serving beef in Kerala House, Viswa Hindu Parishad (VHP) today said Sangh Parivar organisations were not against making beef a part of the menu in Kerala government guest houses or hotels across the state.
A day after the alleged Delhi police raid at Kerala House over serving beef snowballed into a controversy, Kerala unit president of the VHP, S J R Kumar accused organisations like Hindu Sena and Rama Sena of trying to tarnish the image of Narendra Modi government by enforcing their dictum on the people on various issues including their food habits.
"We are not against serving beef in Kerala House. We have not created any row over serving beef in hotels in Kerala or state government guest houses including New Delhi's Kerala House," Kumar told PTI here, when asked about VHP's comment on the Kerala government's decision to put the popular buffalo meat dish back on the menu of the Kerala House from today.
Kumar said Kerala House beef episode is the handiwork of organisations like Hindu Sena, which is not part of Sangh Parivar.
"We don't know anything about them. Their aim was to tarnish the image of Modi government which has earned global reputation for the good work being carried out in the country."
"Sangh Parivar organisations would never try to tarnish the image of Modi government. The Kerala House beef episode is the handiwork of organisations like Hindu Sena. We condemn it," Kumar said.
The VHP leader reiterated that the Sangh Parivar outfits have never opposed serving beef in hotels across Kerala.
"Beef is served in almost all hotels across Kerala. VHP has been actively working in Kerala for the last 50 years and we have not created any problem so far over the issue. In such a situation why should we go to New Delhi and create problems there?" he asked.
Kumar said VHP is a global organisation which is active in 80 nations --majority of them serve beef as an important food item-- and it was bound to respect the sentiments of the people of these countries.
He also said Delhi Police did not overstep in their action at Kerala House.
"They reached Kerala House to provide protection to it from organisations like Hindu Sena," Kumar said.
Action of Delhi Police entering Kerala House on a complaint that it serves beef on October 26 had triggered widespread protests and condemnation from various quarters.Suggest a correction | <urn:uuid:31861831-8c7d-4f6d-946b-968b9a77889f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.huffingtonpost.in/2015/10/28/kerala-house-beef-row-vhp-not-against-having-beef-as-part-of-me/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280825.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00202-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97278 | 505 | 1.546875 | 2 |
A majority of high-net-worth individuals (HNWIs) in the Middle East are aware of the importance of effective succession planning, but do not have a wealth succession plan in place for their family businesses, a report said.
Given the outsized economic contribution of family-run businesses in the Middle East, strong family governance is critical for the region’s continued economic success, according to the second instalment of its Middle East Investment Survey released by Lombard Odier, a leading global wealth and asset manager.
However, whilst 87% of the 300 HNWIs surveyed believe their family business is structured to allow for efficient intergenerational wealth transfer, only 24% say they already have an estate plan in place for all of their private assets.
The difference between younger and older business owners is significant. Over half of older respondents (55%) say they have a full estate plan in place, compared to just 9% of younger respondents. Conversely, more than one third of younger respondents (36%) do not have any kind of estate plan in place at all but are interested in it, while a further 26% expressed no interest. The remaining respondents have a partial estate plan in place.
In a region where family is the dominant social institution, the wealth of HNW individuals is often intertwined with their family business, its governance and Islamic values. This topic of family governance reveals a discrepancy between younger and older HNWIs: 66% of older business owners said they had a formal and rigid system of governance in place, compared to 50% of younger respondents.
Younger HNWIs also show a greater degree of openness to change: nearly half (45% vs. 28% older respondents) say they have a formal and flexible system of governance, evolving over time to reflect their family's values.
A lesser degree of divergence is found in HNWIs’ views on Islamic values. Having a succession plan that complies with Sharia principles is important for two thirds (67%) of respondents, with a tilt towards older respondents (74% vs. 62% younger respondents). This was also found to increase with wealth: 79% of those with more than USD 10 million in assets say that Sharia principles are important to them, versus 61% of those with assets between USD 1 million – USD 3 million.
Yet a consensus was revealed between the respondents on the geographical placement of family wealth. The overwhelming majority (90%) intend to keep their wealth in the region for the foreseeable future.
Commenting on the findings, Arnaud Leclercq, Partner Holding Privé and Head of New Markets at Lombard Odier, said: “The results of our survey reveal several important factors in the realm of succession planning amongst HNWIs in the Middle East. Chief among them is a consensus that intergenerational wealth transfer is of great importance, yet an absence of estate planning across both older and younger respondents is also present.”
“The findings around geographical wealth placement are encouraging though, with a majority of respondents planning to preserve their wealth in the region, reflecting positively on the Middle East’s investment environment. At Lombard Odier, we will continue to encourage wealthy individuals to prepare for their family’s future by delivering tailored wealth planning solutions structured around their specific objectives.
“As our 50-year legacy in the region has demonstrated, we have an ongoing commitment to providing Middle East families with trusted banking and wealth planning solutions,” he added. – TradeArabia News Service | <urn:uuid:a46a6dc2-47ae-4f0a-b936-6dd0657badf7> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | http://tradearabia.com/touch/article/BANK/397911 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571538.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812014923-20220812044923-00467.warc.gz | en | 0.960654 | 716 | 1.828125 | 2 |
Supports Bone Health**
Many factors contribute to the development of osteoporosis including sex, race, age, and hormonal status. Caucasian women of northern European ancestry and Asian women in their bone forming years (teens and young adults), have a higher risk of developing osteoporosis.American women of African heritage have the lowest incidence of osteoporotic fracture.
It’s important to remember that everyone loses bone mass with age. Regular exercise, a healthy diet and adequate Calcium intake help maintain good bone health and may reduce the high risk of osteoporosis later in life, especially for teens and young adult Caucasian and Asian women. A total dietary intake above 2,000 mg has no further known benefit to bone health.
|Serving Size 1 Tablet|
|Amount Per Serving||% Daily Value|
|Total Carbohydrate||1 g <1%*|
|Sugars||1 g **|
|Calcium (as Calcium Carbonate)||500 mg 50%|
|*Percent Daily Values are based on a 2,000 calorie diet.|
|**Daily Value not established.|
Directions: For adults, chew one (1) wafer two to three times daily, preferably with meals.
Other Ingredients: Sugar, Vegetable Cellulose, Vegetable Stearic Acid. Contains <2% of: Acacia Gum, Malic Acid, Natural and Artificial Flavors, Silica, Sodium Chloride, Vegetable Magnesium Stearate.
WARNING: If you are pregnant, nursing, taking any medications or have any medical condition, consult your doctor before use. Discontinue use and consult your doctor if any adverse reactions occur. Keep out of reach of children. Store at room temperature. Do not use if seal under cap is broken or missing.
No Artificial Color, No Preservatives, No Milk, No Lactose, No Soy, No Gluten, No Wheat, No Fish,
PHARMACY NUMBER: 281962
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Watchdog clears Novartis in flu jab scare
AFP · 4 Dec 2014, 08:32
Published: 04 Dec 2014 08:32 GMT+01:00
- Italy examines 13 deaths in Novartis flu jab probe (01 Dec 14)
- Italy suspends Novartis vaccine after three die (27 Nov 14)
- EU clears Novartis sale of animal health unit (03 Oct 14)
The European Medicines Agency (EMA) said on Wednesday that its Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) concluded "there is no evidence that Fluad . . . has caused serious events including deaths" in Italy.
EMA said that four million doses of Fluad, produced by Basel-based Novartis, had been distributed for the current vaccination campaign in Italy, and the vaccine had also been used in Austria, Germany and Spain.
"Fluad is used in older people (65 years of age and older), especially in those who have a number of illnesses at the same time and are at an increased risk of health complications," the statement noted.
"After the review of the cases reported, the PRAC concluded that there was no evidence for a causal relation between the reported fatal events and the administration of Fluad."
On Monday, the Italian Pharmaceutical Agency (AIFA) said it had been notified of 19 deaths among people who had died following vaccination with Fluad.
But it said preliminary tests ruled out any contamination in two batches of the drug that were taken out of circulation the previous week.
Novartis says there is no evidence to link the deaths to the vaccine, which has been in use since 1997 and of which 65 million doses have been given to people around the world.
EMA, citing World Health Organization (WHO) figures, said flu caused about three to five million cases of severe illness worldwide each year, resulting in between 250,000 and 500,000 deaths.
"Influenza vaccines are the most effective way to prevent the disease and the serious complications it can cause," the London-based agency said. | <urn:uuid:68267b90-1089-4ec0-b31c-d9cdb779d912> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | https://www.thelocal.ch/20141204/drug-watchdog-clears-novartis | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720972.46/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00251-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971946 | 425 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Usability and design are critical to a new website design for conversions. By Chris Burns
Succeeding online comprises of largely two aspects – a good marketing strategy and a functional and appealing landing page. The appearance, navigability and functionality of your website are what constitute good web design. Your landing page is the first point of contact between you and your potential customers. Hence, it has to be able to effectively communicate to the visitor about the kind of products you are dealing with and your brand in general. Only an easily navigable user friendly website can achieve this. Let us now examine the parameters required to construct a visually appealing website that is easily navigable.
Clean layouts are always easy on the eye and are easier to browse. It is advisable to avoid cluttering your web page and instead allow some amount of white space on your pages. This would not only enhance the look and appeal but also draw attention to the content displayed on your site.
Fonts are a major element to consider during the web design process. Fonts render differently on different computers. This is due to the fact that each computer has its own unique preset fonts that may or may not always be compatible with the ones displayed on your page. Hence to avoid this problem always use universal fonts.
Stretch layouts are basically layouts that are compatible with any screen resolution. The advantage of stretch layouts is that they provide your visitors with a visually appealing browsing experience. This would make them stay longer on your site and encourage them to continue browsing your pages.
If you are having trouble selecting the right web design, feel free to use templates. Ace web design platforms such as Joomla have some very attractive and customizable templates which you can use to enrich the visual appeal of your website.
The color scheme can make all the difference in your websites look and appeal. You could either use the colors of your company logo or select a couple of complementary colors for your site. Mix and match some good combinations such as yellow, red and white etc that would captivate your visitors.
This is a very important component in your overall web design and structure of your website. A site map is especially necessary when you have a lot of data or pages on your website. This would help visitors access the information about your business effectively and make your website appear well organized.
While constructing a visually appealing website you need to keep in mind the kind of demographic that you are targeting and what they would prefer to see when they visit your website. Customizing your website to suit your customer’s needs would go a long way in establishing a long lasting mutually beneficial business relationship. | <urn:uuid:fd25364e-b5a5-49f4-b81a-c8ed388f1b48> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.webmasterview.com/2011/06/visually-appealing-website/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280835.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00049-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.941298 | 528 | 1.6875 | 2 |
Why is a commercial real estate group like ours so concerned about affordable housing?
The success San Francisco has enjoyed in attracting new employers has enormously benefited everyone living in The City. A new tax study released recently by Mayor Ed Lee identifies what we think is the main solution: “Increasing the supply of market rate housing in the city would put downward pressure on all housing units.” His report recommends a building goal of 100,000 units.
“However,” his study continues, “100,000 new housing units represents all the net new housing the city has constructed since the 1920s, before it was fully built-out. Such a level of new construction would not occur without a significant change in the regulatory framework.”
The solutions to our housing problem are complex, but that should not delay needed actions. Here are some things that should be done ASAP.
Legalize in-law units without declaring them two units and subject to rent control.
Raise height limits along major transportation arteries and create incentives for housing near transit stops.
Cut development fees that currently run at more than $100,000 per unit, before you add the land and construction costs.
Reform and simplify the California Environmental Quality Act, which has added exorbitant time and cost to every new development.
Respect the established rules for project approval and abide by decisions reached by the authorized bodies.
We are fortunate people want to live in our city, and we should do all we can to make it easy for employees to live near work, if they choose. People have many alternatives — like Oregon, Nevada, Texas and Washington state — where housing costs are two or three times more affordable. Do we really want cities in those states to enjoy the benefits of economic abundance The City has worked so hard to achieve? And how enjoyable will The City be if we are no longer able to fund our many needed public programs?
Sarah MacIntyre is president and Marc Intermaggio is executive vice president of the Building Owners and Managers Association of San Francisco. | <urn:uuid:ce634e8b-e592-4f34-be34-968b7baa6689> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://archives.sfexaminer.com/sanfrancisco/boma-supports-more-affordable-housing-opportunities-in-sf/Content?oid=2679482 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280761.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00098-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967371 | 420 | 1.546875 | 2 |
Indexing Spark Plugs on Evinrude E-Tec Outboards
The process to index the spark plugs of an Evinrude E-Tec outboard motor is relatively simple. Start by turning a spark plug until the gap between the ground electrode and the anode is facing toward you. Make a vertical index mark on the ceramic insulator. Then, insert the spark plug into the number one spark plug bore. Tighten it with a spark plug wrench. Be sure to not the orientation of the index mark previously made.
It may be necessary to move the plug to the opposite cylinder bank if the index mark cannot be lined up. Di-electric grease should be applied to the tip of the ceramic plug. Install the plug wire and repeat the process for all cylinders on your E-Tec engine. | <urn:uuid:282dece2-ae38-4dbd-826a-69b5dff4318a> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.outboardmotoroilblog.com/boating/2958-indexing-spark-plugs-on-evinrude-e-tec-outboards/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719079.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00034-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.88995 | 167 | 1.5625 | 2 |
“Anything steel related, everything we produce, and the coal industry is the essential key components to the steel industry… we are primarily focused on the metallurgical coal assets,” American Resources Corporation CEO Mark Jensen told FOX Business’ Charles Payne on “Varney & Co.” on Tuesday.
Metallurgical coal is used to produce high grade coal --- a vital ingredient the steel making process. The U.S. produces the highest quality metallurgical coal in the world, he said, adding that it could also have a global impact.
“Growth worldwide comes from our products and the steel that we produce is of the highest quality because of the coal -- we’re the essential key component, the key component that enables that to happen. And so without it—it’s our safety as a country, our safety as citizens,” Jensen said.
Jensen also said while he’s not concerned about New York City Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to ban inefficient steel and glass skyscrapers it would have an impact on his business.
The U.S. is one of the world's largest producers of raw steel along with China and Japan but in March last year President Trump imposed a 25 percent tariff on steel imports from most countries. Earlier this month, Canada and the U.S. reached a deal to end the tariffs that were being charged by the U.S. on Canadian-made steel and aluminum. | <urn:uuid:1370d6c4-f58e-4fd8-a7e2-c2ce2de3b173> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.foxbusiness.com/business-leaders/big-coal-ceo-warns-ocasio-cortezs-green-new-deal-would-devastate-steel-industry | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572043.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814143522-20220814173522-00471.warc.gz | en | 0.953535 | 303 | 1.5625 | 2 |
Ruby SimpleDelegator Functions
EditRocket provides the following information on SimpleDelegator functions in the Ruby source code builder.
clone() - Clone support for the object returned by __getobj__.
dup(obj) - Duplication support for the object returned by __getobj__.
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Politicians pledge to clean up Brent’s filthy air
- Credit: Archant
You wait ages for a bus and then three come along at once.
That’s no longer just an idiom: according to anti-pollution campaigners, it’s a real problem for Brent’s air quality.
Students at Imperial College who were commissioned to carry out the biggest ever pollution study of Harlesden High Street and Chamberlayne Road counted three number 18 buses in a line earlier this year, when they’re meant to arrive several minutes apart.
And they said it wasn’t a one-off, with buses that were meant to turn up every eight to 10 minutes arriving just every one or two minutes.
Their report reveals that air pollution, which breaches EU limits in Harlesden and Kensal Green, is caused by rat-run traffic and diesel buses.
Sorting out the timetables is one of the recommendations made in the paper, published this week. It also says shops should trial greener delivery methods while Brent’s buses should be refitted to meet lower emissions targets.
Now senior Brent politicians have vowed to use all their powers to clean up the problem.
- 1 Pensioner dies and bus passengers injured in Wembley collision
- 2 Victim speaks out after Hampstead machete robbery
- 3 'Predator' acted as masseur to assault women
- 4 Man shot in his heart outside Queen's Park flats named
- 5 Brent tenant 'distressed' at housing waiting list change
- 6 Product sold at Tesco recalled due to risk of disease-causing bacteria
- 7 Met Office: Thunderstorm warning issued for London
- 8 New Kilburn mural to highlight borough's cultural heritage
- 9 Man due in court over Wembley murder
- 10 Unarmed boy stabbed to death in his home by group ‘out for blood’, court told
MPs Barry Gardiner and Dawn Butler joined Brent councillors to sign a clean-air pledge at the Clean Air Day event on Thursday, organised by campaigning group Clear Air for Brent, Friends of the Earth and the council.
The campaigners are calling for the council and TfL to urgently improve the air being breathed by pupils at John Keble in Harlesden and Ark Franklin in Kensal Rise. Both schools were included in the mayor’s recent Air Quality School Audit as two of the 50 most polluted primary schools in London.
Chair of Clean Air for Brent Fiona Mulaisho said: “Children are the most vulnerable; air pollution causes asthma and problems with lung development.
“It is a silent killer – these costs will have to be born in the very near future.”
In Brent it is estimated 200 premature deaths occur each year that are directly attributable to air pollution.
Dawn Butler, MP for Brent Central, said: “We have some of the most polluted roads in Europe running through Brent. This is completely unacceptable.
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Aloevera (Aloe barbadensis) is a popular medicinal plant. It belongs to liliaceae family. It is a perennial plant, growing to the hight of 1½ – 2½ ft. Its leaves are long and thick, juicy with a wheel like phylotaxy. The two sides of the leaves have thorny structure with a thorny tip. The inner substance of the leaves is jelly like, with bad odour and bitter in taste. The length of the leaves ranges from 25-30 cm., while the breadth ranges from 3-5 cm. Normally it flowers during October to January and the long inflorescence has a large number of small pink flowers all around. Fruits are developed during February to April. It is normally not propagated through seeds. Vegetative propagation is easy and convenient. Of late, because of sky rocketing price of allopathic medicines with its known side effects, medicinal plants and ayurvedic medicines are becoming popular. World trade worth about 80 million US$ dollars exists now and this is likely to increase by 35-40 percent within 5 years. USA dominates the market (65%) while India and China have a share of 10 percent each which could be enhanced by its commercial cultivation.
Soil and Climate
Aloe vera is found to grow in hot humid and high rainfall conditions. It is grown in all kind of soils but well drained soil with high organic matter, is most suitable. It grows well in bright sun light. Shady conditions results in disease infestation It is highly sensitive to water stagnation. Therefore, well drained high land should be selected for its cultivation. A rainfall ranging from 1000 – 1200 mm is ideal for aloevera cultivation. Seedling Preparation and Planting Since it is difficult to grow aloevera from seeds, seedlings are normally raised from roots of the plants. Sucker itself can be used as seedlings as in Banana. Rainy season is ideal for sucker plantation. A spacing of 1.5 x 1 ft, 1 ft x 2 ft or 2 ft x 2 ft is followed. Land Preparation About 2-3 ploughings and laddering are done to make the soil weed free and friable. Land leveling is then followed. Along the slope, 15-20 ft apart drainage are made.
Application of Plant Nutrients
Before land preparation, about 8-10 tonnes FYM/ ha is applied. Before the last ploughing, 35 kg N, 70 kg P 20 5, and 70 kg K2 0/ha are added. For controlling termites, 350-400 kg Neem Cake / ha may be applied . In September – October about 35-40 kg N as top dressing may be applied. If the soil is rich in organic matter, N dose can be reduced.
Irrigation and Interculture
After 40 days or so weeding and earthing up are done. Earthing up is also practiced after top dressing of fertiliser. Aloe vera is slightly tolerant to drought, but very sensitive to water stagnation. Therefore, proper drainage is more important than irrigation. As per need light irrigation during drought is enough.
Aloe vera is infested by various insets and pests. Special care is needed for their control in medicinal plants like aloevera where the juice of the leaves are directly taken as medicine. Clean cultivation, interculture operation, regular and need based irrigation, application of adeguate organic manure, treatment of suker before planting, and cultivation of aloevera in sunny conditions are conducive for healthy growth of the aloe vera crop. Use of organic source of plant protection materials like raw garlic juice, neem oil (10,000 ppm) 2-3 ml / lit, tobacco extractant 20 ml / lit gave reasonably good result.
Harvesting of leaves starts after 7-8 months of planting. Sharp knife is used for harvesting. Care has to be taken to reduce the loss of juice from the cut portion. If harvesting is done once in a year, October – November are the best period for harvesting. Second year gives maximum yield and for about 4-5 years good yield could be harvested . After harvesting leaves are dried in shade and then in sun before storages. Flowers are collected in December – January and preserved after proper drying. Yearly 100 – 115 quintals raw leaves and 350 – 400 kg flowers / ha are obtained (3).
Both the juice of leaves and flowers are used as medicine, but medicines are prepared from leaves. Intake of juice of leave, improves hunger, and helps in digestion. Juice when mixed with sugar cures cough and cold. Besides these, it also cures nervous weakness, asthma, Jaundice, etc. The leaf flesh (about 7-Sg) mixed with honey, taken in morning and evening cures constipation. Besides, it is good medicine for many other diseases.
It contains various organic compounds which ci1res diseases. Of these, the main use is aloine. Besides, these it contains 12 types of vitamin, 20 kinds of amino acids, 20 kinds of minerals, 200 different types of polysaccharides, and various kinds of glycol- protein which are used for human health. Alaine A, and Alaine B, are principles of the ayurvedic medicine (3).
Expenditure to be incurred for Aloe vera cultivation normally amounts to about Rs.1,10,000 / ha. The expected income with a yield of about 110 – 115 quintal would be about Rs. 340,000/ha. The net profit would be about Rs.230,000 /ha/year. In addition to monetary benefit, social benefit would be anormous. Better management can results in much higher income and net profit. | <urn:uuid:e97f2317-bead-41d9-b94f-590ca738f0e8> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://research-blogs.com/2019/03/30/aloevera-cultivation/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571692.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812105810-20220812135810-00077.warc.gz | en | 0.946049 | 1,199 | 2.71875 | 3 |
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Stock and custom scientific and medical images available for lease to the medical, legal, and health care professions.
Renderings of figures, anatomy, medical instruments, editorial, and biological work.
Medical and biological illustration for editorial, advertising, surgical technique and biotech device manufacturers.
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