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Island dispute keeps Russia-Japan relations on rocks
Speaking before a rally in Tokyo on Thursday, known in Japan as the Day of Northern Territories, the Japanese leader reaffirmed his country’s determination to settle the dispute with Moscow.
"The Japanese government will continue to pursue the settlement of the territorial issues with a strong will,” Abe said, as quoted by RIA Novosti. “We aim to finally resolve the problem with Russia on the disputed islands, which will finally determine the ownership of the islands and realize the signing of a peace treaty."
Tokyo, however, has demanded that Russia recognize Japan as the rightful owners of the South Kurils – comprised of Kunashir, Shikotan, Iturup and the Habomai Rocks. The decades-long dispute has prevented Moscow and Tokyo from signing a formal peace treaty to recognize the end of their hostilities following the end of World War II.
This week, Tokyo announced the opening of a new government agency, called the Territorial Sovereignty Office of Planning and Coordination, which will implement public relations strategies regarding territorial issues.
The issue has become a politically-charged subject in Japan, where every year on February 7 Japanese nationalists and former residents of the islands stage protests demanding the return of the islands, which are surrounded by prime fishing waters.
Meanwhile, Moscow, which has expressed its willingness to cooperate with Japan in a number of development projects on the Kuril Islands, does not see Tokyo changing its stance on the issue.
Former President Dmitry Medvedev, who, in November 2010 became the first Russian leader to visit the South Kurils, ordered the deployment of weapons to the islands in February 2011 to guarantee security of the region.
Medvedev said the move was not targeted against Japan or any other country.
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Since this series began in January 2018 there have been over 1000 Posts from Your Archives where bloggers have taken the opportunity to share posts to a new audience… mine. The topics have ranged from travel, childhood, recipes, history, family and the most recent series was #PotLuck where I shared a random selection of different topics.
In this series I have shared posts from the last six months of 2020 and the series is now closed to new participants.
This is the second post from September 2020 by Carol A. Seidl and shares the transformational plans for the traffic logged Périphérique in Paris.
Le Périphérique, Congested Beltway Of Paris To Become Greenspace
These days, when I go online, it seems nearly impossible to avoid bad news. Between Covid, the U.S. election, the response to the BLM movement, and many other raw subjects, it’s tough to remain positive. My post this week is an attempt to avoid the merde and focus on man’s ingenuity, daring, and capacity for improving human life. My subject is Le Boulevard Périphérique, the first superhighway to encircle Paris. In addition to providing an efficient means of circumnavigating the city by automobile, the Périphérique creates an overcrowded, noisy, and polluted barrier that separates the Paris we tourists see from its outlying, poorer neighborhoods. As with most thoroughfares, the route has evolved since its inception, keeping pace with man’s changing needs. Last year, Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo proposed a 10-year plan to transform the congested causeway into a tree-lined green belt. What follows is a bit of the Périphérique’s remarkable history.
From Ancient Fortification to 8-Lane High-Tech Byway
Boulevard Périphérique is said to be the most traveled autoroute in Europe. The 8-lane highway offers four lanes in each direction with no shoulders to assist a stranded motorist. The speed limit is relatively low, 45 miles/hours, but for the uninitiated, the crowded voies can be a challenge to navigate.
Children Play Outside the Thiers Wall, 1913, Bibliothèque Nationale de France
Construction of le Périphérique began in 1956 and took 17 years to complete. The highway follows the path of ancient walls and a dry moat that were built in 1841 to protect Paris from invaders. This fortification, known as the Thiers Wall, at one time marked the outer boundary of Paris.
Constructing the new beltway presented many engineering challenges. For example, the road bisects the Bois de Boulogne, a massive park on the city’s western edge, so architects designed a tunnel to route traffic under a small lake and avoid the roots of prominent trees. The highway also crosses the ancient Batignolles cemetery so special measures were taken to elevate the road and shield gravesites from excessive noise. The complexity of the project as a whole, however, is mind-boggling. Engineers tried to limit the disturbance to densely populated areas while designing intricate interchanges with and around pre-existing streets.
Périphérique under construction, 1960
The first section of the beltway opened in 1960. The entire 34.5 kilometer loop was finally closed in 1973. The project required 81 bridges, 110 km of guardrail, 40,000 square km of anti-noise barriers, and 35,000 lights. The total cost was 2 billion francs. Today, close to 100 cameras monitor vehicle speeds, automatically issuing tickets after detecting a violation. There are 166 emergency telephones, one every 500 meters. 750 sensors are embedded in the road surface, monitoring traffic levels, vehicle occupancy rates, and average speeds.
A Legendary Motorcycle Ride
A current-day Black Prince, courtesy of Pixabay
If you obey the traffic laws and aren’t fighting rush-hour-like conditions, it takes roughly 30 minutes to circle Paris on the Périphérique. In 1989, however, an ambitious and fearless motorcyclist decided to establish a speed record for the famous Parisian roadway. Nicknamed the Prince Noir, the faceless daredevil filmed his trajectory which indeed broke all records, clocking in at 11 minutes and 4 seconds.
The identity of the rider remains a mystery to this day. Motorcycle enthusiasts refer to the Black Prince as Pascal and over the years theories have abounded regarding his identity. Some have dared to claim that they are the notorious motard. However, others in the biker community have poked holes in such declarations, proving them false and lampooning the imposters on social media.
If you watch the film of the Black Prince’s harrowing journey (embedded below) you’ll understand why the motorcyclist has failed to reveal his identity. The ride took place a little after 7:00 am on a Sunday morning, but there was already substantial traffic on the well-traveled artery. It’s evident that the Black Prince endangered not only his own life but the lives of others as well. Happily, no one was hurt but authorities are unlikely to forgive a man who averaged a mind-boggling 113 miles per hour, weaving between trucks and cars, on a moderately busy city thoroughfare. From the comments I’ve seen on multiple online forums, the French people hold an equally harsh opinion of the dangerous escapade.
The Black Prince’s Notorious Ride
An Audacious Mayor’s Plan for the Future
Paris Mayor, Anne Hidalgo speaking at Women4Climate
Last year, Paris mayor, Anne Hidalgo, announced an ambitious plan to place ecology “at the heart” of city policy. There are many components to the mayor’s “manifesto”, including drastic changes to the Périphérique. Before the onset of the Coronavirus, which has stifled people’s autonomy, the urban beltway served 1.1 million vehicles each day. Bottlenecks were prevalent and persistent. Pollution soared as drivers oscillated between sprinting to the next backup and idling in place. A longtime advocate of reducing dependency on automobile transportation, Hidalgo maintains that a greener periph will not only improve the health of 400,000 nearby residents but also eliminate a geographical barrier that separates central Paris from surrounding communities.
In order for the plan to become a reality, Hidalgo first had to win re-election. In June, the 61-year old socialist did so handily, earning herself another 6-yr term in office. One of the first changes to go into effect will be to slash the speed limit to 30 mph. This sounds drastic for an 8-lane highway, but the lower speed discourages the accordion-like behavior of drivers. This, in turn, cuts down on pollution without altering the effective throughput. One of the lanes in each direction will serve public transit, zero-emission, and rideshare vehicles only. By 2023, this lane will have embedded sensors that detect the number of passengers and issue fines to non-compliant vehicles. By 2024, diesel-powered cars and trucks will be banned from the route.
The eco-friendly project seeks to transform two of the existing eight lanes into a green space that serves bicycle traffic. The city intends to plant 100,000 new trees along the route, concentrating small groves near exchange ramps. By 2030, the number of lanes devoted to traditional, single-passenger traffic will be half of what it is today. Finally, new crossings for pedestrians and bikes will dot the route, opening the flow of non-polluting travel options between Paris and its banlieues.
Rendering of the Future Périphérique, by Céline Orsingher
A Conservative or Liberal Vision
The project is not without its detractors. Critics claim that the entire plan has been envisioned by the self-serving socialist elite of central Paris. Comfortably situated on the inside of the Périphérique, these residents have little need for efficient transportation routes in and out of the city. Working-class families in the suburbs, they argue, are the ones who will suffer as their affordable travel options diminish. Yet, proponents point out that 2030 is also the expected completion date for a widely expanded metro system known as the Grand Paris Express.
Former French President, Nicholas Sarkozy
In 2009, conservative president, Nicholas Sarkozy, tasked a team of architects to come up with an ambitious plan that would integrate Paris’ suburbs with the city center. After years of study and refinement, the Metropole of Grand Paris was officially signed into existence in 2016. In addition to improving the quality of life for working-class people, Sarkozy wished to bring the country in line with the environmental goals outlined in the Kyoto Treaty. The Grand Paris Express will greatly increase transportation routes in the expanded metropolis, thereby cutting down the need for single-passenger transit outside the Périphérique.
When completed, the new metro will be the largest public transportation system in Europe. 200 new kilometers of track along with 68 new stations will house automated trains running every 2 to 3 minutes. State-sponsored funding will commission local artists to decorate the terminal walls. Furthermore, the new stations will be surrounded by housing developments, recreation facilities, office space, and parkland. I’m sure there will be plenty of controversy and course correction along the way. How these projects will be financed, when the world is facing a sweeping economic downturn, I don’t know. Despite the inevitable quarrels to follow, I find it heartening that there are still societies on our planet where both conservatives and liberals dare to dream big for the benefit of all.
By Benh LIEU SONG (Flickr) – Paris at Dusk, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Le Monde, A Paris, « transformer le périphérique en six ans, c’est jouable »
- Ville de Paris, 40 propositions pour transformer le périphérique
- Sortir A Paris, LE FUTUR PÉRIPHÉRIQUE DE PARIS : UN CHANTIER POUR LES JO 2024 ?
- Metropole du Grand Paris, Carte Interactive
- France Culture, Une brève histoire du périphérique
- Paris Unplugged, Les fortifications de Paris
- Paris Unplugged, 1960 – La construction du périphérique
- WordPress blog, Un prince noir pas très clair
- Videos de Police, Le Prince Noir du Périph, la véritié 22 ans plus tard
- MotoMag, Le périphérique a 40 ans, le Prince Noir a 25 ans (vidéo)
- Bloomberg, Paris Speeds Up its Pursuit of a Slower Beltway
- The Atlantic, Paris Is About to Change
- The New York Times, Remaking Paris
- RFI, Hidalgo re-elected as Paris mayor as greens claim key cities
- The Parisians, An Adventure History of Paris, by Graham Robb
© Carol A. Seidl 2020
About Carol A. Seidl
I divide my life into three phases. Phase 1: After earning a Master’s of Science in Engineering, I spent 17 years working in the software industry, founding, operating, and selling two software companies. The businesses I ran with my husband were our babies or perhaps we were their slaves, but we dearly loved working together and had time for little else. Phase 2: At the age of 40, I became a mother with the birth of my son shortly followed by twin girls. My passion turned from professional work to staying home with “3 under 3” and looking after aging parents. When my kids went off to school, I decided to pursue a long-held desire to learn French, eventually earning a Master’s of Arts in French Language and Literature. Phase 3: Now, I’m working on becoming a writer. My blog is a space where I investigate subjects that are of keen interest to me. I mainly write about French life and culture but you’ll also find articles on other subjects. In addition to my family and the great outdoors, I cherish reading, travel, history, culture, cooking, fitness, and dinner parties with friends.
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Industrial climate disruption1 (aka climate change or global warming) is largely accepted among climate scientists in particular and scientists in general, but it’s a reasonably controversial topic among non-scientists and the public. This is especially true among those non-scientists who are concerned that mitigating or adapting to the effects of industrial climate disruption might restrict their personal freedom, increase their taxes, or cost them their job(s).
Over the course of a decade of reporting on the topic, I have heard hundreds of arguments against industrial climate disruption, and many arguments I’ve heard repeatedly. Unfortunately, the most common arguments also tend to be illogical – they’re not just mistakes, they’re examples of faulty logic.
I launched the “Climate Illogic” series with the goal of not just documenting the most common illogical arguments against industrial climate disruption, but also explaining in clear language why the arguments are illogical. And in the process I’m building a database of ready-made arguments against the most common logical fallacies made by people arguing against the reality of industrial climate disruption.
Galileo and denial of industrial climate disruption
Climate disruption deniers who claiming to be like Galileo battling the Catholic Church are making a fundamentally illogical argument. [The Galileo Fallacy is a Strawman fallacy, which is a suptype of a Red Herring.]
The flat Earth consensus
It’s most illogical for climate disruption deniers to arguing against the overwhelming scientific consensus regarding the industrial nature of climate disruption using the flat Earth analogy. [The Flat Earth Consensus is a Weak Analogy fallacy.]
Industrial climate disruption is not a popularity contest
Overwhelming evidence is why the vast majority of climate experts agree industrial climate disruption is real. But climate disruption deniers want you to believe it’s all a popularity contest. [When not a simple error this is an example of a Red Herring fallacy, usually a Strawman.]
Sometimes arguing from authority is the logical thing to do
Industrial climate disruption is sufficiently complicated that arguing from authority – even a consensus of authorities – is not only justified, it’s entirely logical. [When not a simple error this is an example of the Equivocation/Ambiguity or the Vagueness fallacies.]
Don’t be distracted by irrational assertions of global warming catastrophe and crisis
The terms “catastrophic global warming” and “global warming crisis,” as well as their variants, are distractions meant to provide climate disruption deniers an easier way to attack the scientific fact that is global warming. [Both terms are Straw Man logical fallacies.]
Poisoning discussion is easier than countering climate science
In arguments where one side has the clear factual advantage over the other, such as arguments about industrial climate disruption, attacking one’s opponent before the argument even starts is one of the few tactics that has a chance of winning the debate. [This is a form of an ad hominem fallacy known as “poisoning the well.”]
Appealing to history to predict the future is often illogical
Climate change in the past only has bearing on the present if the conditions that led to past climate changes are the same conditions we have now. Since the conditions today are different, relying on the past is an illogical appeal to history. [This is a form of a genetic fallacy (a fallacy of irrelevance) known as an “appeal to tradition.”]
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UPPER NAPPAN – Cumberland County plans to update land-use bylaws in an attempt to maximize wind energy potential.
The county is holding three public meetings to gather input on a series of wind turbine amendments. The first of these meetings was held last night in Wallace, with additional meetings planned for tonight in Parrsboro at the Fundy Geological Museum and Thursday at the E.D. Fullerton Municipal Building in Upper Nappan.
Director of planning Penny Henneberry said the bylaw changes are relatively minor, but will not change the most controversial of the bylaws – the separation between wind turbines and homes.
“Those provisions would stay the same,” said Henneberry, who added increasing the setback from the existing 500 metres to two kilometres would exclude pretty much the entire county from the development of wind energy.
Several years ago, when a firm was considering establishing a wind farm on the Gulf Shore, there was considerable debate in the community and on council as to the distance between homes and businesses and turbines. The county settled on the greater of 500 metres or three times the height of the turbine.
Henneberry’s proposed changes would also cover smaller turbines used for domestic purposes. As well, there are also larger turbines of about 30 metres in height that will be covered by the bylaw along with those that are put on the roofs of homes and businesses.
Finally, she said, the county is also producing maps including preferred areas for wind development as well as excluded areas so developers will have a better of idea of where turbines can and should be located.
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Apple's Win Settles Samsung's Complaint, Too
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Yesterday a jury handed down a mixed verdict in a patent dispute between Samsung and Apple. Both sides were found to have violated each other's patents, however Apple received most of the damages - over $119 million.
But as NPR's Laura Sydell reports, many experts say the case can be seen as a victory for Samsung and may mark a turn in the international battle between the two smartphone makers.
LAURA SYDELL, BYLINE: When the late Apple CEO and founder, Steve Jobs, introduced the first iPhone, he famously made this remark.
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STEVE JOBS: You can do multi-finger gestures on it. And, boy, have we patented it.
SYDELL: When other smartphones, like the Samsung Galaxy, started using touchscreens rather than keyboards, Jobs declared they were copying Apple and succeeded with a stolen product. In the most recent case, Apple was asking for $2.2 billion in damages from Samsung for violating five patents. Yesterday, the jury came back finding that Samsung only violated two of them. David Martin, who runs a patent evaluation company, says it's a rebuke of how much Apple thought its innovation was worth.
DAVID MARTIN: There's obviously a significant delta between what the jury figured out and what Apple thought it had figured out.
SYDELL: In a statement, Apple said that its victory on the two patents reinforced that Samsung stole its ideas and copied its products. But Martin believes that Apple is probably starting to rethink its strategy.
D. MARTIN: You look at the total expenditure that Apple has put on preparing for and prosecuting these cases. They're probably not coming out very far ahead with respect to a $119 million verdict.
SYDELL: However, Apple did get a larger verdict in an earlier trial against Samsung. It won over a billion dollars. But that verdict was reduced, and it's on appeal. Lately, Apple has been having a hard time winning patent fights around the world. Florien Mueller consults with companies on patents and writes a blog on the topic.
FLORIEN MUELLER: In the rest of the world, especially in Europe where Apple brought a number of lawsuits, it has been utterly unsuccessful.
SYDELL: Mueller and others also see the latest lawsuit as Apple's most direct attack on Google, which makes the Android operating system in Samsung phones. All of the patents at issue were software.
MUELLER: Google must be joyous because Apple has now been litigating against Google's Android operating system for more than 50 months. And more than four years later, Apple has been absolutely unable to gain decisive leverage.
SYDELL: In this most recent trial, the jury found that Apple had violated one of Samsung's patents as well, though it only awarded the company $158,000. Samsung only asked for a few million in damages. Samsung hasn't officially commented.
On background, a source close to the company told NPR it was pleased with the verdict. And the smartphone wars, as they've been called, probably aren't quite over. Apple still has other cases pending in the U.S. and around the world. Laura Sydell. NPR News, San Francisco. Transcript provided by NPR, Copyright NPR. | <urn:uuid:04d63acb-6e9b-48db-9a67-942b9b81051a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.wmky.org/2014-05-03/apples-win-settles-samsungs-complaint-too | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00070.warc.gz | en | 0.967866 | 711 | 1.5 | 2 |
A potato tower is essentially a supported wire cage about 4 to 5 feet high that is layered with straw and compost to grow potatoes vertically.
There are many plants that can be turned into oil that can be used for cooking, medicinal purposes – or even for heating and fuel.
Straw bale gardening is a convenient and clever way to grow food with many benefits. Here is how to start a straw bale garden.
Beets are probably the best vegetable you can grow. They grow quickly and have many nutritional benefits and healing properties.
If you’re hoping to get away from inorganic chemical fertilizers and give your garden a boost, try these fertilizer alternatives.
These homemade pest traps are easy to make and will save your garden from being eaten up by pests like beetles and slugs.
Since regular sugar is so unhealthy, you should try growing some of these natural sweeteners in your garden or backyard.
It seems that every February I find myself daydreaming and planning the upcoming garden season. However, it is often the coldest part of a Midwest winter. Luckily, there are several flowers that germinate best by going through a freeze and thaw season. With many spring bulbs planted in fall, there are always a few seeds […]
Growing your own wheat is easier than it may sound. Even if you have a small space, you can see big results. Here’s how to do it.
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Central City Pedestrian Signage
February 8, 2005
The purpose of the Central City Pedestrian Wayfinding Sign Program (CCPWSP)
is to develop a fixed, pedestrian oriented informational and directional signage
program in Portland’s central city. This is to create clear and concise
functional wayfinding information to increase safety and security, enhance
identity, prolong stays in the Central City and to leverage other public and
private improvements. Funding for planning, program creation and installation
comes from four Urban Renewal Areas (URA) in the Central City (Downtown
Waterfront, South Park Blocks, River District, and Oregon Convention Center).
It is the City’s desire to recognize our partners in the project with
sponsorship opportunities on the program signs. Sponsorship opportunities will
be limited to information identifying the sponsor and will not include other
information or advertising. Sponsorship revenues will be used to create a
dedicated fund for maintaining, upgrading, and expanding the sign program. Funds
can also be used for other components of the sign program, as determined by the
Transportation Director. The sponsorship program will be the sole source of
funding for maintenance of the signs.
Businesses, public agencies, community groups, non-profit organizations,
professional service providers and other entities headquartered and/or
physically located within the CCPWSP district boundaries.
All aspects of sign design will be determined by the project Design
Notebook adopted by the Portland Office of Transportation.
Font, type size and color will remain uniform for all sponsor plaques as
determined and be determined by the project Design Notebook adopted by the
Portland Office of Transportation.
Only one line per sponsor and one sponsor per sign face will be
Sponsors will be identified by text and name only, no logos, logotypes,
brand identity graphics, or other non-textual designs will be allowed.
- Every effort will be made to locate the sponsor’s name on a sign adjacent
to or as close as possible to the sponsor’s primary location.
- Final location of sponsor’s plaque(s) will be on a first come, first serve
Responsibilities of the Portland Office of Transportation
Coordinate with and act as point of contact for sponsors on siting of
- Design and sustain ownership, maintenance and operation of the entire sign
- Ensure signs meet the policies and guidelines outlined in this
- Decline use of sponsor’s name in other promotional activities, unless
approved by the sponsor.
- Install and maintain sponsorship name plaque.
Responsibilities of the Sponsor
Adhere to the written agreement with the Portland Office of
Accept the design standards determined by the Portland Office of
Adhere to sponsorship polices and guidelines as outlined in this
Allow city to use photographs of the sign system, with sponsorship names
as part of presentations and information.
Signs cannot be used for other public or private uses. Examples would include
bikes, newsracks, handbills, or bumper stickers.
The City of Portland will establish minimum rates to be adjusted as needed
based on actual maintenance costs.
The current rate is: $200 per sponsorship per sign face per year
Sponsors will agree to a 2 year contract
If, as a result of criminal acts, the maintenance costs of a particular
sign exceeds the annual sponsorship fee, at their election, the sponsor will
be required to pay the additional actual maintenance costs or discontinue
their sponsorship of the particular sign.
Fund and Program Management
Revenues generated from sign sponsorship will be deposited in an interest
bearing, dedicated City fund for maintenance and upgrade of the sign
Sponsorship funds will carry over each fiscal year.
Funds collected in excess of anticipated maintenance costs may be used for
other components of the sign program, as determined by the Transportation
Director. Examples include creation of paper maps, expansion of the sign
program into additional districts, or fabrication and installation of
Any additional proposals for use of excess funds will be reviewed by the
Pedestrian Wayfinding Signage Project Advisory Committee, established by the
Office of Transportation.
Any changes to the sponsorship program will be reviewed by the Pedestrian
Wayfinding Signage Project Advisory Committee, established by the Office of
Agreements between the City and Sponsor shall be subject to written
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HP Corporation has issued warnings about an increase in cyber security threats in 2021. The mentioned threats include ransomware operated by humans, attacks spoofing, internal system intrusion vulnerabilities, corporate email attacks and other “whaling attacks” (phishing / cyberattacks directly targeting people in high positions in an organization such as CEOs and managing director).
Warnings are issued by HP’s cybersecurity experts, including: Ms. Julia Voo – Global Cyber Security and Technology Policy Team Leader; Ms. Joanna Burkey – Director of Information Security; Mr. Boris Balacheff – Chief Technology Officer for Security Research and Innovation at HP Labs; Dr. Ian Pratt – Global Director of Personal Systems Security; Mr. Alex Holland – Senior malware analyst, and experts from HP’s Security Advisory Board, including: Ms. Justine Bone – CEO of Medical Security Solutions Company MedSec and Mr. Robert Masse – Partner at Deloitte. Experts and analysts have come up with their predictions for the 2021 cybersecurity outlook.
Weakness in enterprise security will bring many unpredictable internal threats
“The drastic changes in working methods in 2020 and the shift towards flexible working models have been and are challenges for the security system,” said Julia Voo. “The COVID-19 pandemic has weakened the security systems of businesses. Ineffective remote access methods, VPN vulnerabilities and the lack of IT professionals capable of supporting remote working models make enterprise data increasingly insecure ”. Summarizing the first 9 months of 2020, Vietnam ranks 18th on the global website attack map. In the first quarter of 2020 alone, the country saw about 838 attacks, according to security firm CyStack. In the second quarter and third quarter, this number continued to increase by 27.3% and 7.5% respectively over the same period last year.
Boris Balacheff pointed out that the changes from the pandemic are also increasing the pressure on electronic devices at home. “Home appliances gradually became the target of attacks. The increasing intensity of working from home makes cybercriminals redirect to attack personal IoT devices, thereby penetrating enterprise devices on the same system. In addition, when hackers successfully sabotage electronic devices at home, employees will not receive immediate troubleshooting assistance from IT professionals like when working in the office. ”
Man-run ransomware attacks are still a constant threat
Ransomware is becoming the top attack tool of choice for cybercriminals, and this trend will continue to increase over the next year. Mrs. Burkey commented: “Ransomware as a service (Ransomware-as-a-Service) attack is on the rise, at the same time criminals not only hold encrypted data, but also threaten to distribute raw data. ”
According to newly released data, Vietnam recorded more than 143,000 ransomware attacks on computers of small and medium enterprises in 2020. We are also ranked eighth in the world in terms of number of hacked computers. in the second quarter of 2020. “To maximize the impact of an attack, criminals seek to access systems at risk and slowly penetrate deep into the network. Criminal groups use security attack tools to gain control of victim servers. This is often the best blind spot for spreading ransomware, “ Dr. Ian Pratt explains.
This trend is particularly worrisome for those working in the public sector. Mr. Alex Holland said: “The proliferation of ransomware aimed at stealing data before being encrypted will be especially damaging to public institutions – the organizations that store and process identity information for millions of companies. people. Even with ransom paid and all data back, there is no guarantee that criminals will stop selling and monetizing the stolen data.
Email spoofing attacks are becoming more and more sophisticated
In 2021, more sophisticated and difficult to identify phishing methods will emerge, causing users to fall in love. Commenting on this trend, Ms. Justine Bone said: “We will see more attacks on individuals working remotely. In the context of increasing online authentication methods, hackers have more opportunities to participate in digital interactions to trick employees into disclosing their personal information.
“The forms of email fraud will continue to attack the fear of internet users,” said Ms. Voo. Vietnamese enterprises are one of the leading attack targets in Southeast Asia. According to global cybersecurity firm Kaspersky, in 2020, their systems prevented 834,993 frauds targeting small and medium-sized companies with 50-250 employees, an increase of 56% over the same period. 2019. “Attacks will hit users’ fear in the current context with topics such as the anti-COVID-19 vaccine, financial worries and political instability related to Translate”.
Hackers will target specific targets in verticals such as healthcare and education
Health and education will be among the verticals with the highest cybersecurity risks in 2021. According to information published at the International Conference – Exhibition “Vietnam Information Security Day 2020”, health and education is currently the two areas most at risk of cyberattacks.
Ms. Bone commented: “The medical industry is the perfect target for cybercriminals: medical organizations are often under-resourced and slow to change and adapt. Education is a similar field and is currently under the radar of criminals. Cyber security threats are also spreading beyond hospitals to attack other critical areas. “In the COVID-19 vaccine development race, pharmaceutical companies and research facilities will face safety risks and threats from criminals around the world,” Masse said.
The Zero Trust security model continues to apply, but needs to be more user-friendly
Security Model Zero Trust (roughly translated “Do not trust anyone”) is not a new concept. In short, the main principle of Zero Trust is not to trust anything inside and outside the network it is using, and at the same time dividing the system by dividing the system to protect important data.
With the proliferation of flexible working models, Zero Trust is becoming increasingly necessary and becoming the optimal solution for businesses. Sharing about this situation, Mr. Pratt said: “Traditional solutions for granting access to corporate networks, applications and internal data are now outdated and no longer suitable for the current working method. Over the past years, the workforce in Vietnam has increasingly worked outside the office and used more cloud computing technology (Software as a Service – SaaS). This means important data is being stored outside the enterprise firewall. It is time for businesses to apply a strict security model like Zero Trust, but in a way that is clearer to users ”.
The COVID-19 pandemic will be the main driving force behind the adoption of the Zero Trust model as well as new advances in this area. “Zero trust is the best security model for working remotely. However, this model needs to be developed in a user-friendly way to facilitate identity management and ensure seamless access. Good authentication methods are a key factor for the model to work properly. That is why technological solutions like biometrics are gradually being integrated into this system in the future ”Ms. Bone confirmed.
A new approach to improving security is needed
Mr. Nguyen Minh Duc, CEO of HP Vietnam shared: “With the rise of remote working methods in the post-COVID-19 world context, businesses need to consider innovating their security systems. Rapidly adopting new hardware technologies and improving security processes are the optimal solutions for businesses to easily adapt to new working models, and face increasing threats of attack ”.
“In 2021, organizations and businesses in Vietnam face major security challenges as cybercrime is expected to increase with more sophisticated methods,” said Duc. In order to deal with attack threats, businesses need a stronger security system, prioritizing building a strong defense system instead of just passively detecting intrusion threats “.
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Technology as culture
Countries with strong artistic traditions often promote their culture by sending exhibitions of paintings and sculpture abroad. But there is more to a nation's culture than mere art, and London's Science Museum believes that it has spotted a gap in the market. This week saw the opening in Japan of an unusual travelling exhibition: a display of pioneering British technology. Among the old masters sent to Kobe are Henry Bessemer's original converter for making iron into steel, John Logie Baird's first television, and George Stephenson's “Rocket”, the steam locomotive that ushered in the age of mass transport.
This article appeared in the Science & technology section of the print edition under the headline "Technology as culture"
From the March 28th 1998 edition
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Alert: It's Going to Be Hot, Hot, Hot Today
There's a heat advisory on, folks, from 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. Last year's first heat advisory of the summer didn't happen until mid-August, but Weather.com is reporting that high temperatures and humidity will combine today to produce a heat index of 95 to 100 degrees -- it might even feel like 105. Cooling centers will be open; check NYC.gov or call 311 to find the one nearest to you. Also, if you find you have any of the following symptoms, something may be wrong:
• Hot, dry skin or cold, clammy skin • Weakness • Dizziness • Nausea or vomiting • Shortness of breath or trouble breathing • Confusion, hallucinations, disorientation
Sometimes we feel all of those things, and drinking water has been known to help. If it doesn't, call 311, or lay down on a nice, cool floor with your eyes closed for a while. Your boss won't mind.
And move slowly. You finally have a good excuse to avoid strenuous activity. Also, be nice and maybe check in on your elderly neighbors if you have a chance.
The National Weather Service says a cold front could produce scattered thunderstorms later tonight, and that we'll have cooler air from Tuesday until July Fourth. Whew.
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Life coaching is useful for a variety of reasons. Life coaches can be helpful for many different reasons. Some people might need assistance in their work and others may want help in improving their relationships at home and romantic partnerships.
There are many kinds of coaches. But what happens if you’re looking to develop your spirituality and become a better coach? It’s good news for clients who require assistance with their souls (and possibly other stuff too), this new term known as “spiritual” or ” spiritually focused ” coaching has emerged. The benefits could be significant for helping people to find the peace they seek and work towards living a happy and authentic lifestyle.
Individualization is a spiritual journey that allows the person to be more aware of themselves and feel more confident about their abilities. They’re guided by a coach, who is there to provide support for their journey to self-discovery . While working to achieve the goals of the client. what they want out of life. They also discover the meaning behind it all.
Clients’ goals are achievable through the coach’s listening skills. Although it might seem difficult initially, this skill becomes second-nature as time passes. You can hear people’s words through their body tone and language. This makes it possible to listen intently which allows you to gather vital information that could assist your client achieve their goals.
The client has to express their goals when seeking assistance from a coach. This will ensure that assessments and preliminary assessments reflect the goals of the client.
If someone is having difficulty developing integrity, the coach can assist him or her get on the right track. Life coaching is created to assist individuals in achieving their goals. They provide advice and assistance, as well as advice for those looking to make a difference in their lives.
This article explains the ways that a spiritual coach can assist people with different requirements. For example, helping people to establish good boundaries and an intuitive understanding of their own needs. They offer their services to all who wish to lead a an authentic life which is satisfying and enjoyable.
Life coaches have many tools they can employ to analyze their present state of their client and boost their chances of success. These abilities are naturally acquired and require continuous learning to develop these methods But most coaches know-how as it’s a part of theirs too.
Individuals who want to be life coaches need to be ready to dedicate an amount of time helping others in their spiritual journey. It is important to understand the basics. For instance what’s the distinction between a novice and an advanced Christian? This will depend on how long you’ve been practicing professional counseling skills. While it might seem that all terms are the same but new coaches might not be aware of the distinctions in them. This could make their job easier.
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Author Affiliations: General Internal Medicine and Geriatrics, Palliative and Supportive Care, Medical University of South Carolina, Charleston.
In medicine, there is a brittle demand of words—once spoken, they cannot be called back, for their footprint is forever—particularly at the end of life. They embed themselves in the hearts of patients and families and hold dominion over understanding or uncertainty, acceptance or denial. They can also hurt or heal, or harm or help, and bear witness to the suffering of disease—and the manner of the physician.
“Mr Jones” is a good example. He was a 68-year-old man with sepsis and multiorgan failure and a poor prognosis. Everyone knew that he was dying, but the family wanted “everything done.” During a somewhat contentious family meeting, the attending physician asked about “withdrawing care.” The family looked at each other with surprise and dismay. “You mean pull the plug?” they asked. “Just let him die?” For all intents and purposes, a line in the sand had been drawn. Two words—withdrawing care—shifted the tone of the meeting and compromised any hope of decisional cooperation. To the family, the physician had asked to forgo all care for Mr Jones, to abandon their loved one. They were now distanced and, in all likelihood, distrustful. It was clearly a poor choice of words.
Jane Poulson called these conversations “bitter pills,” a term she coined after being diagnosed as having breast cancer and being told the hard and discomforting facts of her disease. Recalling the bitter pills she had unwittingly delivered during her 15 years of practice, she lamented that she did not truly understand the emotional rollercoaster precipitated by these conversations until she herself was on the receiving end.1 These bitter pills, and how they are worded, can affect the outcomes of all clinical encounters, be they good or bad, including the grief and bereavement of surviving family members.
Clearly then, these are difficult conversations. Patients and families are often distressed, in shock, and grieving, and frequently waiting to hear the words they don't want to hear. And physicians don't want to say the words—it's disheartening and stressful. Moreover, the emotional content of words and the asymmetrical and oftentimes paternalistic relationship1 between physician and patient can become overwhelming and unbearable, exaggerating vulnerability and fear, and further contributing to difficult and uncomfortable conversations.
Unfortunately, many physicians have a “dis-ease” caring for certain ailments and may be adversely affected by a clinical impotence to cure a life-threatening illness. This clinical impotence can bring about an unintentional detached remoteness, and far-too-often, time away from the bedside. Moreover, the practice of medicine can unknowingly harden a physician through years of practice, fostering a protective distance from the presence of death. In both cases, there is a scarcity of words and an uneasy relationship between physician and patient. That said, this is not a vilification of physicians, but rather an acknowledgment that it is so very hard to watch the relentless decline and death of a patient as disease takes its toll—it's a loss for both family and physician, and both grieve in their own ways.
In contrast, other physicians, like Poulson prior to her diagnosis of cancer, may have never endured the personal insecurity of illness2 and the want of a tomorrow, limiting an intimate understanding of the delicate emotions of a life-threatening disease. Like anything in life, the old adage “if you haven't walked in the shoes” may be true, even though physicians confront disease on a daily basis. The difference is, it is not the betrayal of their own bodies, it is the disease of others, and as such, there is an obvious segregation between the well and the sick. Nevertheless, it's during these difficult times that the demand of words is greatest, when the bitter pills of disclosure dissolve and leave a bad taste. Yet it's also the time when words can be the most difficult to find.
So when living becomes dying, I think it's time to step back from the physician-patient hierarchy and peer into the inherent bond between one human being and another—to see and feel the suffering, to promise nonabandonment, and to stand as equals. It's the art of medicine and the essence of healing, and most important, the primal need of us all—to be cared for and cradled as we leave this world. It is then that the demand of words lessens, and the bond between physician and patient matures.
In Anatole Broyard's insightful tome, Intoxicated by My Illness and Other Writings on Life and Death, written while he suffered from the ravages of prostate cancer, he said: “To the typical physician, my illness is a routine incident in his rounds, while for me, it's the crisis of my life . . . whether he wants to be or not, the doctor is a storyteller, and he can turn our lives into good or bad stories, regardless of the diagnosis.”3(p43)
To turn “lives into good stories”—what a humbling gift, and one that physicians must nurture and embrace. For if we can do that, if we can turn lives into good stories irrespective of diagnosis, in time, with time, things will be okay—they will be as they must.4
Correspondence: Dr Rousseau, Medical University of South Carolina, 81 On The Harbor Dr, Mount Pleasant, SC 29464 (Palliativedoctor@aol.com).
Published Online: April 1, 2013. doi:10.1001/jamainternmed.2013.333
Conflict of Interest Disclosures: None reported.
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Common Defense, basic obstruction (see spelling contrasts) or Civil Protection is a push to secure the subjects of a state (all around non-warriors) from military ambushes and cataclysmic occasions. It uses the gauges of emergency operations: abhorrence, easing, course of action, response, or emergency flight and recovery. Tasks of this sort were at first inspected in any occasion as ideal on time as the 1920s and were executed in a couple of countries in the midst of the 1930s as the danger of war and lifted attack created. It wound up obviously extensive after the threat of nuclear weapons was made sense of it.
Since the complete of the Cold War, the grouping of basic resistance has, as it were, moved from military strike to emergencies and disasters all around. The new thought is portrayed by different terms, each of which has its own specific shade of significance, for instance, crisis organization, emergency organization, emergency availability, plausibility masterminding, emergency organizations, and basic security.
The Civil Defense idea by and by got an appropriate push instantly after Sino-Indian clash amid October 1962. The post of DGCD was made and first DGCD was delegated on fourteenth November 1962.
Common Defense goes for sparing life, limiting harm to the property and keeping up coherence of modern generation in case of an unfriendly assault.
The Civil Defense Policy of the Government of India till the affirmation of crisis in 1962, was limited to making the States and Union Territories aware of the need of common assurance measures and to ask to them to keep prepared common security paper gets ready for significant urban areas and towns under the then Emergency Relief Organization (ERO) conspire. Chinese animosity in 1962 and Indo-Pak strife in 1965 prompted an extensive re-evaluating about the arrangement and extent of Civil Defense. Thus, the Civil Defense Policy as it exists today was developed and Civil Defense enactment was authorized in the Parliament in 1968. The nation was subjected to facilitate threatening assaults from Pakistan in December 1971 when the Civil Defense Organization cleared itself admirably.
Despite the fact that the Civil Defense Act 1968 is relevant all through the nation, the association is just brought up in such zones and zones which are strategically and deliberately thought to be powerless from adversary assault perspectives. At present, Civil Defense exercises are limited to 225 arranged towns spread more than 35 States/Union Territories.
Common Defense has fundamentally sorted out on the intentional premise aside from a little core of paid staff and foundation which is enlarged amid crises. The present focus of Civil Defense volunteers is 13.08 lakhs, out of which 5.69 lakhs have been prepared.To meet the early cautioning correspondence prerequisite against an adversary assault, a solid and adaptable system, both on phone lines and radio/remote, have been arranged and built up in the majority of the classified Civil Defense Towns. Against the objective of 165 Nos., the Ministry has just provisioned full compliments of VHS Sets. Furthermore, 285 Nos. of most recent era condition of-craftsmanship HF radio sets have just been provisioned against an objective of 288 Nos. Remaining 13 HF sets are probably going to be provided amid the following monetary year. Correspondence offices, on phone lines and radio, have additionally been arranged and built up in a large portion of the Civil Defense towns with the end goal of charge and control, co-appointment and contact and furthermore for common guide and co-operation. For this Fax Machines have just been approved for all Civil Defense Control Centers in Categorized Towns notwithstanding typical line and radio. Likewise, electronic strong state APP Equipment (EARP) and furthermore Wireless Controlled ARP (W-ARP) for Simultaneous Broadcast Facilities (SBF) and Centers Control of Sirens (CCS) has additionally been produced in a joint effort with ITI, Bangalore.
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For those interested in the above Regiment.
"Nov 1878 Stationed at North Camp, Aldershot
1-7th Dec 1878 Received orders to proceed to Natal on active service.
10th Dec 1878 6 companies embarked in transport ship “Dunrobin Castle”
13th Dec 1878 3 companies embarked in transport ship “Teuton”
1 –15thJan 1879 “Dunrobin Castle” arrives Cape Town, South Africa.
3 companies landed at Cape town and garrisoned at Cape Town.
3 companies led by Major Elliott and Capts Knox and Leggett and 2nd Lieuts. Bonomi and Ridley are landed at Durban
“Teuton” arrives and 3 companies landed and join others waiting in Durban
Jan 1879 6 united companies marched to Pietermaritzburg
Jan 1879 Receive news of the disaster at Isandlwana
Jan 1879 6 companies march to Helpmakaar
Jan 1879 6 companies moved from Helpmakaar to Utrecht and Greytown
Jan 1879 3 companies garrisoned previously at Cape Town receive orders to join HQ.
26th Jan 1879 These 3 companies embarked in the “African” a privately owned mail ship, rented by an entrepreneur to the Gov't to quickly get reinforcements to Durban.
29th Jan 1879 These 3 companies arrive at Durban
2nd Feb 1879 These 3 companies reach Maritzburg
Feb 1879 These 3 companies await arrival of 21st Regiment
Feb 1879 These 3 companies continue on viâ Colenso, Ladysmith, and Newcastle to
Utrecht and Greytown, from there they were despatched to Balte’s Spruit, Conference Hill, and Lüneberg. During this march Major Blake and Capt. Moore were surrounded by a Zulu impi (which, it is understood, was under orders to join the King), but were not attacked.
The companies of the battalion were distributed 'in reserve' over a wide area of country, including the Utrecht district, Potgreter’s Farm, Lüneberg, Balte’s Spruit, Conference Hill, etc.
28 Mar 1879 Involved in Battle of Inhlobana Hill
29th Mar 1879 Some 2nd/4th casualties incurred at Kambula.
3rd Jul 1879 Reconnaissance before Ulundi
4th Jul 1879 Battle of Ulundi
Jul 1879 After the battle of Ulundi, the companies were relieved by those of the 24th Regiment of Foot and then proceeded to Lüneberg and Standerton in the Transvaal.
6th Sept 1879 Colonel Bray, with three companies of the regiment, assisted by the Frontier Light Horse and a detachment of Engineers, blew up the caves known as Mbilini’s, in the neighbourhood of the Ntombe River.
Sept 1879 Manyanyoba, the independent chief who had long given great trouble, now surrendered. He had been holed up in the Mbilini's Cave, so commonly referred to as Manyanyoba's Cave.
8th Sept 1879 Some 2nd/4th casualties incurred at Luneberg
Sept 1879 The regiment received orders to return.
Sept 1879 2 companies left at Greytown with the other forces which, under Major Twentyman, were destined for the defence of the frontier.
Sept 1879 On the road back, the companies which had been stationed at Newcastle, Ladysmith, and Dundee rejoined the regiment passing through Pretoria and
Standerton en route.
26th Jan 1880 Regiment arrives at Pinetown
8th Feb 1880 Battalion embark for Bombay minus the 2 companies left at Greytown.
End Feb 1881 News of disaster at Majuba Hill
Xx Apr 1881 Census in England taken, some 2nd/4th on troopship ‘Serapis’
1st Jul 1881 Cardwell reforms, new name assigned ‘King’s own Royal Lancaster Regiment’
Nov 1881 Earl Frederick Roberts arrives in Madras
Xxx 1881 –5 India Poona (Pune) and elsewhere
NB Not quite finished collating movements in India from 1881 to 1885
NB Some named S Africa deaths included:
2nd Battalion 4th Foot (Infantry Regiment)
631 Private R. Beswick - killed in action at Kambula 29 March 1879
910 Corporal I. Pomfret - killed in action at Luneberg 8 September 1879
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This is a humble introduction as I have no blogging experience, and am only half way through my third year of teaching. I still have a lot to learn about being an inspiring teacher while still somehow teaching to the new common core standards, teaching in two languages and staying sane.
I’m a second grade teacher in a bilingual classroom. My students are amazing and inspire me every day. They've worked hard to learn literacy in English and Spanish and it is my job to help them continue that process.
I hope this blog will help motivate me and other teachers – especially any teachers in a bilingual or dual language setting. I plan on contributing to the blogging community by also creating resources for classrooms (hopefully as fabulous as the ones I've been able to scavenge from blogs).
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Legal framework on freedom of religion and actual application
The first amendment to the US constitution guarantees religious freedom, stating that “Congress shall make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof.” The fourteenth amendment to the US constitution guarantees the equal protection of the laws and the right to due process to “all persons born or naturalized in the United States, and subject to the jurisdiction thereof,” including all religious and non-religious people. Article six of the US constitution mandates that “no religious test shall ever be required as a qualification to any office or public trust under the United States”. The constitutions of the 50 states have similar mandates.
Collectively, these state and federal constitutional provisions guarantee the free exercise of religion for all individuals and religious communities and prohibit an established religion. As Chief Justice John Roberts puts it, the national government “possesses only limited powers; the states and the people retain the remainder”. The federal Bill of Rights and various states’ Declaration of Rights serve the same purpose: to ensure that individuals and groups will have legal remedies when governments encroach on specified fundamental rights that exist prior to the state, and therefore are not created by the state. The first of those rights is the free exercise of religion. The role of government is to recognise, protect, and encourage the free exercise of religion in public life, in part by forbidding a state establishment of religion.
The guarantee of free exercise of religion and the ban on establishment and religious tests for public office work to limit the power and reach of the state. They also encourage “common good” contributions by faith-based institutions as part of America’s traditionally vigorous civil society, including hospitals and clinics, universities, primary and secondary schools, orphanages, immigration services, hospices for the sick and dying, soup kitchens, and the like. One study estimates that religion contributes US$1.2 trillion to the US economy each year, which is more than the annual revenues of the top 10 tech companies combined and “would make US religion the 15th largest national economy in the world.”
In addition to the constitutional provisions identified above, the following statutes, listed chronologically, are included in the legal framework for religious freedom in the United States:
– The Civil Rights Act of 1964 prohibits discrimination “on the basis of race, color, religion, national origin, or sex”. Title Seven of the Act “requires that employers reasonably accommodate applicants’ and employees’ sincerely held religious practices, unless doing so would impose an undue hardship on the operation of the employer’s business.”
– The Religious Freedom Restoration Act of 1993 states that “Government shall not substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion even if the burden results from a rule of general applicability.” The only cases where the government is permitted to “substantially burden a person’s exercise of religion” is if “the application of the burden to the person (1) is in furtherance of a compelling government interest; and (2) is the least restrictive means of furthering that compelling government interest”. Twenty-one states have also enacted Religious Freedom Restoration Acts.
– The Religious Land Use and Institutionalized Persons Act of 2000 prohibits discriminatory land use regulation against “a person, including a religious assembly or institution,” and guarantees free exercise of religion to institutionalised persons.
In the last few years, there has been an increase in the levels of reported violence and discrimination against religious minorities in the United States, particularly Muslims and Jews. The Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) most recent Hate Crimes Statistics Report shows that 1,538 “hate crimes motivated by religious violence” were reported by law enforcement in 2016. About 55 percent of the crimes were classified as anti-Jewish, while approximately 25 percent were classified as anti-Islamic.
This and previous FBI reports display a troubling trend in the United States. Since 2014, the number of reported “hate crimes” motivated by religious bias has increased by about 41 percent. Examples of such crimes include assault, intimidation, and vandalism of property. The proportion of crimes motivated by religious violence that are classified as anti-Islamic has increased by over eight percent during this same period of time. More broadly, the proportion of all incidents characterised as being motivated by religious bias has increased in the last two years. Incidents motivated by religious bias are now the second-most reported category, trailing only those motivated by racial bias and surpassing those motivated by sexual orientation bias.The fact that these figures do not reflect the crimes or incidents of discrimination motivated by religious bias that go unreported each year should not be taken lightly.
The existence of these troubling trends in violence and discrimination is further substantiated by public polling of religious minorities, as well as by reporting on the number of active groups in the United States whose bias against religion in general or against particular religions is characteristic of their extremist views. Crimes against Muslims have reached the highest level since the aftermath of the 11th September 2001 attacks. The number of anti-Muslim groups in the United States tripled in 2016. In a 2017 Pew Research Center survey, 75 percent of US Muslims agreed that there is “a lot of discrimination against Muslims in the United States”, while 50 percent agreed that “in recent years, being Muslim in the United States has gotten more difficult.” The Institute for Social Policy and Understanding’s “American Muslim Poll 2017” similarly reports that “Muslims are the most likely faith group to report religious-based discrimination in the past year,” with 60 percent of Muslims surveyed reporting such discrimination in 2016-2017.
Specific instances of anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish violence and discrimination in the last few years include the murder of an imam and his assistant in New York, multiple counts of arson against mosques in Florida, Texas, and Washington State, “waves of bomb threats targeting the Jewish community,” and multiple incidents involving the desecration of headstones in Jewish cemeteries.
An equally troubling trend in the United States is the decline in support for the free exercise of religion in public life, especially for the expression of non-violent religious views that have recently become unpopular. In a 2016 report from the US Commission on Civil Rights (USCCR), an institution established by Congress to ensure protection of the civil rights of all Americans, Chairman Martin Castro wrote that “phrases like ‘religious liberty’ and ‘religious freedom’ will stand for nothing except hypocrisy so long as they remain code words for discrimination, intolerance, racism, sexism, homophobia, Islamophobia, Christian supremacy or any form of intolerance.” Mr Castro then went on to write that “as in the past, religion is being used as both a weapon and a shield by those seeking to deny others equality,” broadly comparing religious freedom arguments in today’s political and legal discourse to those used to justify slavery and Jim Crow laws in previous centuries. The USCCR, created at the dawn of the civil rights movement in 1957, describes itself as “an independent, bipartisan, fact-finding federal agency,” whose “mission is to inform the development of national civil rights policy and enhance enforcement of federal civil rights laws”.
Mr Castro’s views, expressed in an official US government publication, are representative of an increasingly visible cultural movement in America to marginalise and exclude from public discourse the ideas and arguments of long-standing American religious communities. A recent reflection of this trend can be seen in the Supreme Court’s 5-4 decision in Obergefell v. Hodges (2015), which declared a new right to same-sex marriage throughout the United States. This decision effectively ended public debate about same-sex marriage at a time when only 17 of 50 states had taken action to recognise same-sex marriage, and polls showed that 39 percent of US adults were opposed to same-sex marriage, including 66 percent of black Protestants and 76 percent of white evangelical Protestants. Chief Justice John Roberts, writing in dissent, called the decision, “an act of will, not of legal judgement. The right it announces has no basis in the Constitution or in this Court’s precedent.” The Chief Justice and three other dissenting justices warned that the free exercise of religion was imperilled by the decision and traditional religious voices were likely to be silenced because they did not align with the Court’s views.
This case reflects a broader cultural trend in the United States to delegitimise traditional religious views on sexuality, marriage, human rights, and other matters of law and public policy. The trend undermines both the No Religious Test Clause of Article VI and the First Amendment, both of which were written to protect all religious ideas and actors in public life, based on the conviction that the involvement of religion in the public square is necessary for the health of American democracy. The trend threatens the freedom of Christians, Muslims, Jews, and adherents of other faith traditions, who are increasingly condemned when they contend for laws and public policies on an equal footing with their more liberal and/or secular peers. It reflects an anti-pluralist movement in American political and social life that represents a serious threat to religious freedom and democracy itself.
The United States has seen incidents of religion-related terrorism. In 2016, of nine incidents with fatalities that were classified as terrorism by the Global Terrorism Database, four were committed by Jihadis or Muslim extremists. The deadliest attack was the 12th June 2016 attack on the Pulse Nightclub in Orlando, Florida committed by Omar Mateen, who pledged allegiance to Daesh (ISIS). In 2017, eight people were killed and more than a dozen injured in an attack carried out by Sayfullo Habibullaevic Saipov. Saipov drove a truck into pedestrians near the World Trade Center in New York City. A note found near the truck indicated that the attack had been carried out in the name of Daesh.
Prospects for freedom of religion
The prospects for religious freedom in the United States over the coming years are mixed. On the one hand, the Trump administration has offered consistent rhetorical support for the protection of religious freedom. This rhetoric has been accompanied by certain potentially fruitful actions, including a Presidential Executive Order directing the Attorney General to issue guidance on interpreting religious liberty in federal law. The resulting guidance included “20 high-level principles that administrative agencies and executive departments can put to practical use to ensure the religious freedoms of Americans are lawfully protected” and led to the creation of a Conscience and Religious Freedom Division within the Department of Health and Human Services. Such federal actions, including renewed support by the Department of Justice for judicial cases dealing with religious freedom, inspire some hope. To the extent that they increase religious freedom for all American citizens and groups, they may yield at least a short-term slowing of the negative trends cited above.
Within American civil society, there is a recognition of the need to address the growing polarisation around religious liberty issues. The US Conference of Catholic Bishops represents one of the leading actors working to protect and promote religious freedom in the United States today. The bishops voted in June 2017 to make permanent its Committee for Religious Liberty. They are major advocates for the promotion and defence of religious freedom in law and policy, including through the release of substantive educational materials.
However, there remain a number of reasons why both religious and non-religious Americans should be concerned about the future of religious freedom in the United States. A central reason is the increase in violence and discrimination against non-Christians. This has taken place as anti-Muslim and anti-Jewish extremist groups, such as the white nationalist movement, have become increasingly visible and vocal on the national stage, most infamously in the Charlottesville, Virginia rally of August 2017. The failure of President Trump and other officials at all levels of government to condemn, unequivocally and consistently, such acts of violence and discrimination seriously harms religious freedom in the United States. The increasing normalisation of anti-Muslim rhetoric in American political life, combined with the spread of inaccurate, biased media accounts that vilify entire religious groups, both minority and majority, will only serve to magnify these patterns in the near future.
Viewed from a long-term perspective, the protection and promotion of religious freedom in the United States are at a critical juncture. The American understanding of religious freedom acknowledges the value that religion has for individuals and society in general, including interior spiritual benefits and public benefits that help to advance the common good. Critical to this understanding is the idea that religion deserves special protection, both at the level of individual conscience and at the level of public action, for all individuals and all religious communities, so that everyone can engage equally in religiously inspired action in the public square. This understanding of religious freedom is a pillar of the American experiment in democracy and has made substantial contributions to the nation’s success over the last two and half centuries.
Religious freedom is necessary for the health of American democracy, and any decline in religious freedom would be detrimental to American society. If religious and non-religious Americans of all stripes do not take action to protect this freedom, it could eventually be lost.
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I have made a piece of garden art from a length of tree branch (gumtree)
about 8" (200mm)wide and 12"(300mm)tall. I want to stand it up in the
flower bed of the garden. To hold it in place I was going to drill a
hole up the centre of the bottom and place it over a steel rod stuck in
the ground. What nifty suggestions have you for weather proofing or rot
proofing the base where it touches the ground?. I don't want to use any
The top will have a roof-like protection.
I'm interested in seeing what other say about it, but one thing I've
been told is that water likes to leach right up the branch fibers, so
I'd try very hard to to seal off that bottom end. Including the drilled
hole. Do you consider paint or something similar to be a chemical in
I figure you know it can't last forever but you might be interested in
the story of this carving. After 16 years of repairing rot, they're
probably going to give up and cast it in metal. It's a beautiful piece
and we're grateful we were around during it's first incarnation.
I know you requested no chemicals but where's the fun in that?
One possibility that might pass as acceptable is to soak the
butt end in borax solution, harmless to people and animals but
deadly to insects and fungus.
Dissolve all the 40 mule team borax that will go into solution
in a couple of gallons of water and set the butt in a five gallon bucket
with the solution and let soak for several weeks.
That would probably gain you a few extra years.
On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 19:19:36 -0600, Dave Balderstone
...emphasize "...don't let it touch the ground!" Hold it up a couple
of inches...get yourself a couple of tubes of silicone and apply
liberally to the end grain...let it dry and do it again...be ready to
re-apply whatever finish is on the upper portion at intervals,
hopefully before it gets damaged by sun and water. Bugs need entry
points, make sure they are filled and no bugs...easier said than done.
After reading the last couple of contributions I went to the local
gardening shop and bought a terracotta pot saucer about the right
diameter and have since turned it upside down and siliconed my work of
art on to it. It works really well!
The colour blends in and the flange of the saucer looks like a little
pedestal and most importantly, it keeps the wood about an inch above the
So thanks for all your thoughts on this subject which lead me to a very
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Hiroki Kuroda tossed a four-hit shutout against the Yomiuri Giants at Mazda Stadium on April 2. It was his first shutout in Japan since June 3, 2007 against Rakuten.
At forty-one years and one month, Kuroda became just the eighth pitcher in NPB history to pitch a shutout after turning forty and the fourth to record a shutout victory after turning forty-one. He also became the second oldest pitcher in franchise history to toss a shutout, behind Yutaka Ono (forty-one years and eight months in 1997), and the second oldest right-handed pitcher in NPB history to record a shutout, behind Tadashi Wakayabashi (forty-two years and eight months in 1950).
Kuroda is the second oldest pitcher to record a shutout against the Yomiuri Giants, behind Masahiro Yamamoto (forty-five years and zero month in 2010), and the oldest right-handed pitcher to toss a shutout against the Yomiuri Giants.
Pitchers that recorded shutouts after turning forty-one
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George C. King Bridge
When the George C. King Bridge (formerly St. Patrick’s Bridge) opened in October 2014, it became a symbol of the new connection between East Village and downtown Calgary and the community of Bridgeland north of the Bow River. It also symbolized the easy hop, skip and jump that East Villagers will soon have to their backyard playground of St. Patrick’s Island.
Elegant and graceful, the aptly nicknamed “skipping stone” bridge is already racking up the design awards and its spacious bridge deck boasts some of the best views of the city. Head to the graceful arches for food truck festivals, curated art, and more.
More than just a way to get across the Bow River, George C. King Bridge is a pathway to a sustainable city, a civic connector that links well-functioning pedestrian commuting to the Centre City sustainability model.
Coming to check out the St. Patrick’s Bridge?
Find out what's on in the area
Building a graceful bridge over an active river is nowhere near as simple as it looks. It takes a lot of complexities and bright minds to construct such a simple elegant crossing.
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Phones with cameras that let you see through walls, paper or clothing? An iPhone with a case made of “liquid metal” and — wait, what’s an “in-cell” touchscreen?
I Can See-Phone You!
Let’s start with smartphones packing cameras capable of what we used to call “X-ray vision,” which researchers from the University of Texas at Dallas claim could be just around the corner. The whole “see through stuff” part is old news, of course: Cameras that detect infrared radiation can “see” through cotton-based clothing, for instance, and have been around for years. But imagine the technology bettered, miniaturized and manufactured cheaply enough to make it usable in everyday phones, where, as the L.A. Times notes, it could be put to work helping detect skin cancer and locating unseen cracks in objects or studs in walls.
For starters, the UT Dallas researchers figured out how to tap a narrow, little-used region of the electromagnetic spectrum between infrared and microwave, known as “terahertz” radiation. Terahertz waves pass through just about everything save water and metal, including paper, wood, plastic and — because it’s the nervous question on everyone’s mind when talk of plausible, portable X-ray vision pops up — clothing, too.
“The combination of CMOS and terahertz means you could put this chip and receiver on the back of a cellphone, turning it into a device carried in your pocket that can see through objects,” said Dr. Kenneth O, Texas Instruments Distinguished Chair and TxACE director. Cool! (And kind of spooky…)
How do you pack a cutting-edge terahertz detection system into something as small as a smartphone and keep it inexpensive? By designing a complementary imaging processor using CMOS (Complementary Metal-Oxide Semiconductor) technology. The result: A chip that can detect terahertz radiation, small enough to fit in a phone and cheap enough for mere mortals to afford.
Won’t this technology basically empower a newer, scarier generation of peeping Toms? “The major concern for this technology is privacy, so we’ve made it that you need to place the imaging device very close to the object you are looking at,” Dr. O told the Times. “We are talking about a distance of 10 centimeters, so it would be very difficult for someone to sneak up on you and…you know.”
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iPhone 5 Even Thinner than Rumored?
Rumormonger DigiTimes says Apple’s next iPhone will probably use what’s called “in-cell” touch panel technology when (okay, if) it rolls off the assembly lines this summer or early fall. What the heck does “in-cell” refer to? The position of the touch sensors in the panel itself. In “on-cell” setups, used in current smartphones, the touch sensors reside on top of the color filters — in “in-cell” configurations, they’re actually inside the color filters. That translates to even thinner touchscreens.
The DT rumor is supported by a Focus Taiwan report, which cites David Hsieh, the president of display market researcher DisplaySearch, as claiming Apple plans to trade Taiwan-based suppliers for Japanese panel makers (notably Sharp and Toshiba) when it starts manufacturing its next-generation iPhone. The reason: Japan currently has the edge on “in-cell” tech, explains Hsieh.
“Of course, Taiwanese panel makers are also developing this technology, but Japanese suppliers still run faster,” said Hsieh at a display-related conference in Taiwan.
“This Thing Can Imitate Anything It Touches?”
The term “liquidmetal” probably conjures visuals like Robert Patrick’s T-1000 commandeering a helicopter, head-butting the windshield and pouring like a worm made of mercury into the cockpit. Obviously the next iPhone won’t do that, but as my colleague Doug Aamoth wrote in August 2010, liquid metal — an alloy that’s stronger than titanium — is already used in flash drives, MP3 players, jewelry, medical devices, industrial machinery, space projects and luxury phones like those made by Vertu. What’s more, Apple’s reportedly had an exclusive deal with the company responsible for the material since 2010.
That deal may be near fruition: Korea IT News claims Apple’s next iPhone will finally integrate the sci-fi-sounding material, giving the next-gen smartphone an uncommonly smooth, liquid-like shell while bolstering its durability. Whether Apple and its partners can make the whole thing work and keep costs low enough is another matter — speculation in 2010 was that liquidmetal might never make it into consumer products given its high manufacturing costs. But if anyone stands a chance of striking a reasonable deal given iPhone sales and economies of scale, it’s probably the folks at Cupertino.
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A new report from the World Federation of Advertisers and consultant MediaSense finds that the current advertising and marketing employee shortage is the worst talent crisis ever experienced by the industry and one that is stunting industry growth.
The most critical staff shortages are in data and analytics, eCommerce, retail media and measurement, per the study, which is based on a global survey of more than 400 respondents across advertiser, agency, ad tech, platforms and tech companies representing more than $110 billion in ad expenditures annually.
Nearly half of those polled said the industry is facing its “worst-ever” talent crisis.
And 77% of respondents acknowledged that there is “some” or “high” scarcity of talent in their organizations, peaking at 85% among the agency and ad tech sectors, and at 81% in the US and 93% in APAC.
And most believe that industry growth is being negatively impacted as a result with about two-thirds of respondents stating so.
Respondents said that filling roles in the data and analytics segment is the single most important capability to prioritize for the next two years, followed by ecommerce and retail media.
The study also found that some skills are in less short supply, including disciplines such as media buying, social media, influencer marketing and creative.
“The talent crisis is affecting all parts of the industry and clients are feeling the pinch within their internal global media teams,” said Matt Green, the WFA’s director, global media services. Green noted that the research shows that “the impact is particularly pronounced on the agency side and this is having a profound impact on the ability of clients to execute campaigns globally.”
“While the industry couldn’t have predicted a global pandemic,” added Green, “this study also identifies intractable, but more predictable issues, that have had a dramatic impact including training, talent management and even a perceived lack of purpose.”
Tech companies—with their ability to pay more and offer better amenities—are to some extent causing a shortage of more technical roles for marketers and agencies, according to the report.
Burnout is also cited as a key contributing factor. Seventy-six percent of respondents think that readdressing the work/life balance would help alleviate the crisis. Investing more in internal talent management, greater flexibility about how and where people work and greater clarity around career progression were also cited as steps that could help ease the crisis.
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Steelcase Node Classroom
The story so far
Chapter 5 of my open textbook, ‘Teaching in a Digital Age’ is about the design of teaching and learning, which I am currently writing and publishing as I go.
I started Chapter 5 by suggesting that instructors should think about design through the lens of constructing a comprehensive learning environment in which teaching and learning will take place. I have started to work through the various components of a learning environment, focusing particularly on how the digital age affects the way we need to look at some of these components.
I started by looking at how the characteristics of our learners are changing, and followed that by examining how our perspectives on content are being influenced by the digital age, how both intellectual and practical skills can be developed to meet the needs of a digital age, and the importance of learner support within the learning environment. In subsequent posts, I will cover resources and assessment respectively.
In this post, I examine how resources can and do influence the learning environment and ultimately the design of teaching and learning.
Resources available to teachers/instructors and the learners are a critical component of an effective learning environment. As in the case of learner characteristics, an instructor may not have a lot of control over the resources available to him or her, but resources (or the lack of them) will impact a great deal on the design of teaching. Fighting for appropriate resources is often one of the most challenging tasks for many teachers and instructors. At the same time, of all the components, resources reflect some of the greatest changes resulting from a digital age.
I define teaching assistance as people such as adjunct or sessional instructors, teaching assistants, librarians, and technical support staff, including instructional designers, media producers and IT technical support. An institution may have policies or guidelines about how many support staff an instructor can have for a set number of students.
It is important to think about the best way to use supporting staff. In universities, the tendency is to chop a large class into sections, with each section with its own sessional instructor or teaching assistant, which then operate relatively independently, with often large differences in the quality of the teaching in different sections, depending on the experience of the instructor.
However, new technologies enable the teaching to be organised differently and more consistently. For instance, a senior professor may determine the overall curriculum and assessment strategy, and working with an instructional designer, provide the overall design of a course. Sessionals and/or teaching assistants then are hired to deliver the course either face-to-face or online or more often a mix of both, under the supervision of the senior professor (see the National Center for Academic Transformation for examples). Flipped classrooms are another way to organise resources differently (see Blended Learning in Introductory Psychology as an example.)
Furthermore, online learning may bring in more revenues through government grants for extra students and/or direct tuition revenue, so there may be economies of scale which would enable the institution to hire more sessionals from the extra revenues generated by the additional online students. Indeed, there are now examples of fully online masters programs more than covering the full cost, including the hiring of research professors to teach the program, from tuition revenues alone (the University of British Columbia’s online Master in Educational Technology is one example.) Thus design can influence resources, as well as the other way round.
This refers primarily to physical facilities available to an instructor and students, such as classrooms, labs, and the library. These may provide constraints on the teaching, because for example the physical set-up of a lecture hall or classroom may limit opportunities for discussion or project work, or an instructor may be forced to organise the teaching around three hours of lecturing and six hours of labs per week, to ‘fit’ with broader institutional requirements for classroom allocations (see How Online Learning is Going to Affect Classroom Design regarding attempts to re-design classrooms for the digital age.)
Online learning can free instructors and students from such rigid physical constraints, but there is still a need for structure and organization of units or modules of teaching, even or especially when teaching online (see Is content still important in a digital age?).
The development of new technologies, and especially learning management systems, lecture capture, and social media,have radical implications for the design of teaching and learning. This will be discussed in much more depth in Chapter 7, but for the purpose of describing an effective learning environment, the technologies available to an instructor can contribute immensely to creating interactive and engaging learning environments for students. However, it is important to emphasise that technology is just one component within any effective learning environment, and needs to be balanced and integrated with all the other components.
The instructor’s time
The greatest and most precious resource of all! Building an effective learning environment is an iterative process, but in the end, the teaching design, and to some extent the learning environment as a whole, will be dependent on the time available from the instructor (and his or her team) for teaching. The less time available, the more restrictive the learning environment is likely to be, unless the instructor’s time is very carefully managed. Again, though, we shall see in Chapter 7 that good design takes into account the time available for teaching.
Resources, class size and control
Nothing drives an instructor to distraction more than trying to juggle with what are perceived as inadequate resources. Certainly, if a teacher or instructor is allocated a class of 200 students, with no additional teaching support, and an expectation that the class will be taught as a unit with six one hour lectures a week allocated to a large lecture hall, then the instructor is going to have difficulty creating a rich and effective learning environment, because the lack of resources limits the options. On the other hand, an instructor with 30 students, access to a wide range of technology, freedom to organise and structure the curriculum, and with support from an instructional designer and a web designer, has the luxury of exploring a range of different designs and possible learning environments.
Nevertheless it is probably when resources are most scarce that the most creativity is needed to break out of traditional teaching models. New technology, if properly used and available, does enable even large classes with otherwise few resources to be designed with a relatively rich learning environment. This will be explored in more depth in the next chapter. At the same time, expectations need to be realistic. Providing adequate learner support with an instructor:student ratio of 1:200 will always be a challenge. Improvements are possible through re-design – but not miracles. (For more on increasing productivity through online teaching, see Productivity and Online Learning Redux.)
Over to you
Your views, comments and criticisms are always welcome. In particular:
- are there other resources that influence the design of an effective learning environment that I should have included?
- Winston Churchill once said ‘We shape our buildings and in turn our buildings shape us.’ To what extent do you think online learning can free us of some of the constraints that buildings impose on the design of teaching and learning? What new constraints does online learning bring in terms of design?
- how do you feel about the whole issue of teaching assistance? I have grave reservations myself about the use of students as teaching assistants in universities, in terms of the quality of the teaching. I also believe that sessionals and adjunct instructors are badly treated in terms of how they are managed. In British Columbia we have had two Supreme Court cases and a major teachers’ strike over class size and composition, and in particular how much help school teachers should receive for coping with students with learning disabilities. But by bringing in less qualified (and cheaper) support for instructors, do we strengthen or weaken the learning environment for students?
Or any other comments on resources as a critical component of a learning environment, please!
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This story is a collaboration between ProPublica Illinois and WBEZ Chicago.
The Chicago City Council on Wednesday overwhelmingly approved an overhaul of its punitive ticketing and debt collection system, including an end to the suspension of driver’s licenses over unpaid parking tickets.
The reforms begin to deliver on Mayor Lori Lightfoot’s campaign promise to stop balancing the budget on the backs of the poor with aggressive fines and fees, an issue that gained attention last year as a result of investigations by ProPublica Illinois in collaboration with WBEZ Chicago.
The investigations, which showed how unpaid tickets have sent tens of thousands of black and low-income motorists into bankruptcy, were amplified by advocates and community groups that mobilized to persuade city and state legislators to address the effects that ticketing has on low-income and minority communities.
With Wednesday’s 49-1 vote, Chicago becomes the largest U.S. city to enact major reforms to its system of parking fines and fees. City officials, who have estimated the cost at $15 million in lost revenues next year, say more changes are coming.
Lightfoot said the reforms, which are scheduled to take effect by Nov. 15, touch “thousands of Chicago families, moving us away from funding our city through an old regressive system.”
“Cook County has the highest [number of] Chapter 13 bankruptcy filings in the country and a huge percentage of those filings relate to debt people owe to the city of Chicago,” she said after the vote. “So we are working hard to make sure that we relieve that burden and give people their cars back and give them an opportunity to participate in the economy.”
In addition to immediately ending its decades-old practice of seeking license suspensions over unpaid parking tickets — something state lawmakers are also expected to vote on later this fall — the city is restructuring its ticket payment plan structure and reducing down payment requirements. Until now, drivers with significant ticket debt faced down payments of $1,000 and often turned to bankruptcy instead.
The city will also stop doubling fines for one of its costliest citations: the $200 ticket for drivers who fail to buy a required annual vehicle sticker. Under the new legislation, the late penalty will fall to $50, though motorists can still accrue a 22% collections fee. Vehicle sticker tickets account for the largest amount of outstanding parking ticket debt, ProPublica Illinois and WBEZ have found.
In addition, the city will reinstate a 15-day grace period after stickers expire to give motorists more time to come into compliance before facing tickets and offer an amnesty period later this year that would wipe out old sticker ticket debt if motorists come into compliance. Details on the amnesty program have not been finalized.
Finally, the city will also allow motorists whose vehicles have been immobilized by the so-called Denver boot an additional 24 hours to pay their ticket debt or get on a payment plan before the cars are impounded.
The legislation borrows from recommendations of a ticketing task force that had been launched in December by City Clerk Anna Valencia, whose office has also legislated its own modest reforms around city sticker tickets.
City officials said that though they project a $15 million revenue loss in 2020, they expect the reforms to become revenue neutral or even lead to an increase in revenue, as people who could not afford city payment plans come online and pay their debts.
Still, a handful of aldermen complained about the prospect of losing revenue in a time of financial hardship for the city, and insisted that so-called ticket “scofflaws” deserve to have their driving privileges taken away. In 2018, revenue from parking and automated camera tickets generated some $272 million for the city, or about 7% of its $3.8 billion operating budget, Finance Department officials said.
This year, the city faces an $838 million budget deficit.
During a Finance Committee hearing on Monday, Ald. Patrick Thompson said the reforms unfairly benefit motorists who repeatedly rack up tickets for parking in handicap zones at the expense of law-abiding citizens from neighborhoods like his.
Thompson, a nephew of former Mayor Richard M. Daley, represents the city’s 11th Ward, which is centered in the family’s Bridgeport neighborhood on the South Side.
“I understand there is a hardship with some folks in paying for it, but my residents in my community have a hardship with paying an increase [in] property tax, an increase [in] fees and fines, and they obey the law and they abide by the law and they pay their debts,” said Thompson, the only dissenting vote Wednesday.
Ald. Brendan Reilly of the downtown 42nd Ward, demanded to know how city officials had derived the projection that the reforms would cost $15 million in lost revenue. Eight years ago, aldermen did not question a claim by city officials that raising the cost of city sticker violations from $120 to $200 would generate some $16 million in new revenue.
ProPublica Illinois and WBEZ have reported how the decision to raise the cost of sticker tickets produced only modest revenue increases but led to hundreds of millions of dollars in debt for residents.
Lightfoot’s reforms don’t address the city’s impound program, which funnels tens of thousands of cars to a private contractor, some for as little as $200 each, WBEZ has reported. Administration officials say they are working to retool the program. The city was sued earlier this year over claims that some of the city’s crime-related impoundments are unconstitutional.
Ald. Raymond Lopez of the 15th Ward on the city’s Southwest side posed another possible reform: wiping out all ticket debt.
“Are you open to actually having a true amnesty and a zeroing event where we can actually just start fresh without having to carry all of this negative balances over and over again instead of giving us this false sense that we have some sort of collectible option available?” he asked.
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“You never know how strong you are until being strong is your only choice. ”
Up a lazy river
Three thousand kilometers from tidewater, a porpoise surfaces. Then a foot-long skinny slasher of a fish grabs the streamer fly you strip through water the color of Lapsong tea and shreds it. Sweat runs down your nose. The February sun blazes.
Welcome to the Amazon, and to a tropical watershed of three million square miles that empties an astonishing equivalent of seven Mississippi Rivers into the Atlantic. Welcome to a misty-morning world of chattering green parrots and to an aquatic Eden wherein swim 2,500 species of freshwater fish.
But enough geology and hydrology and biology. Let's go fishing in Brazil's Rio Negro, the Amazon's largest left tributary and the world's largest blackwater river. Be prepared to cast nonstop. Cast until it hurts, then strip your fly as fast as you've ever stripped it back to a beat-up tin bass boat.
The guys and gals throwing treble-hooked plugs the size of hatchery rainbows are outfishing you. Get used to it. With rods as stiff as pool cues and rapid-retrieve casting reels, they make several casts half the length of a football field to every one you struggle with your 10-weight to get a big, air-resistant popper out around first-down territory. Ah-WHOOSH! That's the sound of these huge surface lures spraying water every which way. Ka-POOSHHH! That's the sound of a 20-pound tucunaré açu peacock bass crushing the lure with the finesse of a Labrador retriever hitting a swimming pool.
You catch many exquisitely colored yellow tucunaré borboleta-butterfly peacock-with radiant blue fins and scarlet eyes, weighing one to two pounds. Then one evening your guide dips his hand-carved wooden paddle into a mirror-still inky lagoon and points to a patch of surface movement as subtle as pinpricks. "Criancinha," he whispers-babies. You drop your garish streamer on the barely discernable riffle and strip long and slowly. A swirl the size of a washtub engulfs your fly. The calm surface explodes in fury. Your rod plunges violently. Overhead against the red sky, two dozen macaws-their wings and tails fanned in magnificent flight-are heading to roost in the Brazilian nut trees. | <urn:uuid:8d1b744f-3bd2-4e4e-9a7e-9abb24088fe1> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.bjtonline.com/business-jet-news/up-a-lazy-river | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988721355.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183841-00013-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.92638 | 535 | 1.664063 | 2 |
Friday, May 14, 2010
Gaza: Music To Live By
By Eva Barlett
May 14, 2010
"Why are you rushing? Isn’t it nicer like this?" Mohammed Omer, oud teacher (an oud is similar to a lute) at the Gaza Music School, asks his student. Omer takes the oud and demonstrates, playing the song slowly, gracefully, with the ornamentations that are key to Arab music.
Mohammed Abu Suffiya, the 10-year-old student, has only been studying for six months but has already learned to read music and play a working rendition of a well known song by Lebanese singer Fairouz.
Glancing only now and then at the sheet music, he begins to play again, more slowly and with more expression, his teacher accompanying him on a tabla (hand drum).
Mohammed Omer, 28, is one of five teachers at the Gaza Music School in Tel el Howa, Gaza City. Formerly in the Al-Quds hospital Red Crescent complex, the school moved to its current location not far from the hospital after the complex was bombed and burned during the 23-day Israeli war on Gaza. A piano and at least two ouds were destroyed with the school premises.
The school opened about six months before the Gaza assault in December 2008-January 2009 as a response to the demand at the Qattan Centre for the Child in Gaza City.
School director Ibrahim Najjar holds a music degree from Cairo. Mohammed Omer studied oud in Iraq. The piano and violin teachers are from Russia.
"We are open in the evenings, five days a week. Students receive one-on-one classes, 40 minutes each lesson," says Najjar. "We teach the solfege system of note reading, because it is internationally understood."
Currently, students can learn the violin, guitar, oud, qanoon (a zither-like instrument) and the piano. "We’d love to teach other instruments, but we lack professional teachers aside from the five we have."
Fifty students now study at the institute, half in their first year, and half in their second, continuing from their start in the Al-Quds complex.
Elena, the Russian piano teacher, works with 11-year-old Hada. "All my students are girls this year, but I hope next year will have some boys studying piano," Elena says.
Tala, 11, is a second-year student, having studied piano in her first year. She sits with a qanoon before her, slowly plucking her way through a song, starting to find the techniques necessary to make music.
She has studied qanoon for a year now. "I chose it because it has a beautiful, unique sound. It is difficult, and not many people play it, so I wanted to learn it," she says.
"When I play, I forget any problems and just think about the music."
"All children like music, it’s the language of peace," says Ibrahim Najjar. "And it’s good for the mind, body and our daily lives."
At the moment, students are all from the Gaza City region. But this is more a question of logistics than preference.
"They don’t pay for the lessons," says Najjar. "The Qattan centre funds this programme."
But because transportation from regions outside of Gaza City is too expensive for most families, the students are local.
Najjar hopes to change this. "I’m trying to arrange a bus, so that students can come from any region of Gaza, if they have potential.
"Even if they’ve never played an instrument, they can have the chance to learn. We test their ear: can they hear and hum a melody? And we test their rhythm: can they replicate a rhythm?"Mahmoud Kohail, 8, has studied the qanoon for just under a year, but took first prize in a Palestine-wide competition in oriental music for ages 7 to 11.
"Everyone asked me how many years he had been studying," laughs Najjar. "When I told them it had been only 80 hours, they couldn’t believe me."
Emad Kohail, Mahmoud’s father, is an accomplished oud player, and his mother a talented singer.
Also a doctor of mental health and alternative medicine, Emad Kohail explains how music has helped his son.
"Mahmoud suffered the same post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) that nearly all Gaza’s children suffer, as well as an attention deficit disorder," he says.
"Music has made an immense difference in Mahmoud’s behaviour. It has been a therapy for his PTSD and as a means of teaching him to focus."
Ibrahim Najjar agrees that music is therapy, and constructive for children’s learning and mental health.
"There is a big difference in the students’ behaviour from when they first came. Now, they are calmer, and listen and respect each other. I teach them this, but also to behave like this in all aspects of their lives."
On a sunny Friday morning in Gaza’s south, east of Khan Younis, Abu Mohammed strums his oud for an appreciative audience: the children have been traumatised by a May 2008 Israeli invasion which destroyed their home and farm.
"They were terrified, we were in the house as Israeli tanks and bulldozers destroyed the land and our chicken coop attached to our house. My children were so frightened by the shooting and explosions," says Laila Abu Dagga.
The family has since vacated their house, 470 metres from the Green Line border, instead renting a house half a kilometre away. But on this Friday morning, they revisit their home, with friends, clapping and dancing to Abu Mohammed’s music. "Music really helps people improve their mental health," says Abu Mohammed.
The oud player says he had to struggle to learn music.
"My father was very religious and looked down on music, thought it was a waste of time. He used to keep me from playing, but I’d learn in private. He didn’t understand, but music can be resistance, my oud can be a weapon against the Israeli occupation."
With a stigma against musicians still prevalent in Gaza, projects like the music school, and individuals like Abu Mohammed are vital to the society.
Learning on his own, Abu Mohammed in 2004 won the Gold prize in a competition sponsored by Palestine Television. His winning composition featured the story of a pregnant Palestinian woman who died waiting at a checkpoint in the occupied West Bank for the Israeli soldiers to allow her to pass and continue to hospital.
He plays his own works, set to the words of poets, and highlights themes of the Israeli occupation, siege, and the war on Gaza. Political, traditional, therapeutic, Abu Mohammed’s music meets various needs.
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By Diana Hsieh
In Sunday's Rationally Selfish Webcast, I discussed the morality of selling your body. The question was:
Is it moral to sell your body? Selling our bodies or certain parts of them are perfectly acceptable in our society, such as being an egg or sperm donor, being a pregnancy surrogate, or selling hair. But others are condemned, such as prostitution or selling organs. Where should the line be drawn? When is it moral to sell a part of oneself -- and why?Here's the video of my answer:
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Late last month I had the opportunity to travel to Dusseldorf, Germany for the RECS Market Meeting, a conference that focuses on voluntary renewable electricity market and policy developments and is similar to our own Renewable Energy Markets conference. It is organized each year by RECS International, a Netherlands-based non-profit association of electricity market players that seeks to harmonize and open European voluntary renewable energy markets.
At Center for Resource Solutions, we regularly receive questions about how to use our Green-e programs internationally, and we have been growing our networks and understanding of other markets, particularly the European market, for some time now. While the European voluntary market is well-developed both in infrastructure and policy, national markets tend to take precedence over a pan-European market. Many of the issues the Green-e programs were created to address continue to be worked out in Europe, and are increasingly relevant in other parts of the world.
For example, on the first day of the conference I attended a panel discussion of ecolabels that largely operate at the national level. Many of the country-specific labels reported that sales and uptake were stagnant, however. Only in the past few years has a label, EKOenergy out of Finland, really started to actively try to serve multiple countries with a unified standard and certification available to electricity users across most of Europe. We’ve had good conversations with them starting at last year’s RECS Market Meeting and we’ve been watching how their standards and efforts have developed as an effort to counteract the stagnation.
Also, renewable energy tracking systems are generally more unified in the EU than in the US, but such systems don’t exist in many other voluntary markets. An effort to take the EU and US experience with renewable energy tracking to new markets with voluntary demand was discussed at the conference, called International REC or “IREC”. This system, where set up and integrated with local government efforts, should allow for new voluntary renewable energy purchasing to take place more quickly. While the system has not been launched, Turkey is scheduled to be its first market, largely to serve demand from LEED buildings.
There were many more issues discussed over the two-day conference, including national mandatory markets and looming issues they are facing (including lawsuits similar to US Commerce Clause challenges), wholesale electricity trading, customer disclosure best practices, and carbon accounting.
(As a quick aside, the World Resources Institute is holding the final comment period for its guidance on how renewable energy buyers can report the emissions from their purchases; if you are a supporter of voluntary renewable energy purchasing please take a look at their work and offer your thoughts by April 21; the discussion may seem like a lot to dive into at this point, but feel free to contact us for any guidance, since we’ve been involved for the past three years.)
I was encouraged to see a lot of overlap with the issues we at CRS work on in the US and positive developments since last year’s conference. We continue to see the potential for future collaboration to allow reliable and meaningful voluntary renewable energy purchasing beyond our current efforts, and we encourage interested parties to reach out to us to help move this forward. | <urn:uuid:871b785d-71f6-43f9-a6ff-ec5c88ba6881> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://resource-solutions.org/publications/blog/travelogue-recs-market-meeting-in-dusseldorf-germany/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284352.26/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00199-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968038 | 653 | 1.796875 | 2 |
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Identifying the Next Generation of Canadian Priority Markets - A Preliminary Analysis
Prepared for DFATD by the Conference Board of Canada
Canada’s traditional trade partners – including the US, much of Western Europe, and other advanced economies – plus the emerging economic powerhouses of Brazil, India, and China will continue to represent the most significant long-term potential for Canadian businesses. Canada’s global commerce strategy should necessarily focus on these usual suspects, but also consider the “next generation” of countries that could represent potential for Canadian businesses.
This preliminary analysis finds a fresh list (see Table) of additional, “next generation” economies that might represent economic potential for Canada going forward, despite being relatively modestly engaged with Canada at present. Our method is based on available economic data that proxies both Canadian business potential (two-way trade and two-way investment) and country growth potential.
We consider countries with a minimum economic and demographic size, and then look for those countries that hit our “sweet spot” of high growth potential and high Canadian business potential. We also include in our list countries that represent important growth potential and at least some Canadian business potential. The list is a starting point for policymakers to consider possible priority economic potential markets, which they can then put through relevant political and other filters.
|Country||GDP (2011, US$ billions)||Population (2011, millions)||Country growth potential index (0-100, higher is better)||Canadian business potential index (0-100, higher is better)|
|Republic of Korea||1,116||49||45||53|
Sources: The Conference Board of Canada; World Bank.
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Every fall, Katmai National Park and Preserve in Alaska hosts Fat Bear Week, an annual tournament celebrating the success of the bears at the park’s Brooks River. From Sept. 29 to Oct. 5, 2021, your vote will decide who is the fattest of the fat!
Fat Bear Week is a single elimination tournament in which Katmai National Park and Preserve invites its online community to compare photos of bears from when they first visit Brooks Falls in the spring to photos of the same bears at the end of summer. The differences are often huge. In just a few months, the bears have gorged on enough salmon to pack on some serious pounds. Fat Bear Week is fun, but it also brings up really important questions about survival and how we’re studying and learning more about these amazing bears.
Celebrate the success of Brooks River’s world-famous bears during Fat Bear Week by placing your vote. Matchups will be open for voting between 12-10 p.m. ET (9 a.m.-7 p.m. PT) from Wednesday, Sept. 29 to Tuesday, Oct. 5, 2021.
By the end of the week, only one well-fed ursine will receive the title of the fattest bear. For each pairing of bears, you will be given the opportunity to vote on the bear of your choosing. Your vote decides which bear will be crowned the fattest of the year.
To make sure you’re making an informed choice, meet the bears, learn about previous champions or watch a livestream at the bears of Brooks River. You can base your vote on many factors, such as the bear’s growth, extenuating circumstances, or which bear you think is the largest. However, Fat Bear Week is a subjective competition, so be sure to vote and campaign for your favorite!
This week is about body positivity. A fat bear is a healthy bear! Fattening up as winter approaches is a matter of life and death for the bears: relying on stored fat for energy, they can lose up to a third of their body fat as they slow down for the winter. The more bulk they put on, the more likely they are to survive the long, cold months. And we think any fashion blog would agree that these bears look fabulous and are runway ready!
The bears enter a medical state known as hyperphagia in which they eat non-stop and can gain up to four pounds in a single day. Some bears can eat dozens of sockeye salmon each day, with each salmon packing about 4,000 calories.
A coastal brown bear’s diet during the summer consists primarily of salmon with the addition of sedge grasses and berries. The fat of the salmon is what allows for such tremendous weight gain in a limited window. Most of the weight is put on in the late summer once bears enter hyperphagia. Leptin, the chemical that tells the body it’s full, is suppressed which allows for the bears to eat until it’s time to sleep. One bear was spotted eating 40 salmon in a single sitting. During this time the bears practice a technique called high grading. This is where they select the most calorie-dense parts of the fish to eat, such as the brain, skin and roe, leaving the less fatty fillets behind.
Wild bears have always been challenging to measure. Terrestrial Lidar scanning technology is used almost exclusively in civil engineering fields to scan the interior of buildings, roads and gravel stockpiles to get volume measurements. As an experiment, it was used on bears at Katmai’s Brooks Camp! This was a challenge as the animals had to stay still and not move long enough to complete a scan. When the bears were standing at the top of the falls or in the river wafting to catch a fish, they were still enough that this technology worked well. This is an exciting, new, non-invasive way to collect information on the bear’s volume — especially because weighing bears is not an option.
The last few documented salmon runs have shown high numbers — two years ago it reached a record-breaking 62.3 million and 2021 broke that record again with almost 65 million sockeye. Right now, there are enough salmon to go around. The question is pointed toward the future. It’s difficult to know what kind of impacts the heat and weather patterns of this summer will have on future runs of salmon. The heat may have impacted egg survival and some streams may have dried before salmon had the opportunity to spawn. One summer may not tip the scales toward disarray, but if the heat and weather conditions continue into future years, it may be a different story. Scientists will continue to monitor and collect data regarding changes in the climate in order to help predict future trends and provide park managers with the information needed to care for this landscape.
If a sow gains enough weight during the summer (and in this case it certainly seems she has) the chance of her having cubs is very high. After mating, the fertilized egg develops into a ball of cells known as a “blastocyst.” This blastocyst does not immediately attach itself to the uterine lining until the sow begins her torpor (semi-hibernation) state. This is known as “delayed implantation.” The sow must have enough fat reserves to continue the pregnancy, or the blastocyst may not implant itself. Cubs are usually born in the den in January or February with the actual gestation period only being about 3 months long.
At Katmai, cubs will generally stay with their mothers for two and a half years. During a cub’s first year of life, they are considered cubs-of-the-year or spring cubs. In their second year, they are generally called yearlings and will den with their mother for at least one more winter. Cubs generally stay close to their mothers, first nursing and then learning how to fish and hunt for themselves. Play among siblings is fun to watch but is also an important way for cubs to develop life skills. Male bears play no role in raising young and can actually be a threat to them.
Bears between two and a half and five years old are known as sub-adults. They are independent of their mothers, but not yet sexually mature. Some sub-adults have been part of Fat Bear Week, showing off a dramatic transition to chubby cubby.
It is a common misconception that bears hibernate during the winter. While bears tend to slow down during the winter, they are not true hibernators. Black bears, Grizzly bears and Brown bears do go into a deep sleep during the winter months, known as torpor. At times, they will wake up and move around their dens.
The bears at Katmai National Park and Preserve will retreat to their dens to bed down for the winter in October or November. Bears south of Alaska usually enter their dens later and emerge sooner, but it all depends on winter conditions. They’ll stay there for until the late spring when they’ll emerge thin and hungry.
The easiest way to watch the bears is to tune in to the bear cams at Explore.org. From the comfort of your home or office, you can watch these fascinating animals as they go from thin to thick. People often pick favorites and cheer them on as they splash through the river and snatch leaping salmon from the air. The best times to watch the bears at Brooks Falls are from July to September, though some bears remain in the area through October. Katmai National Park and Preserve also updates their social media pages with excellent photos and wonderful information during the season.
If you really want to witness these impressive bears in person, it’s going to take some planning. Unlike most national parks in the United States, Katmai is almost exclusively accessed by plane or boat. For bear viewing, Brooks Camp is the most popular destination in the park where the National Park Service operates a visitor center, ranger station, campground and auditorium with daily ranger-led programs from June 1 to September 17. All visitors to Brooks Camp are required to begin their stay by attending a brief bear safety talk outlining the park’s rules and regulations. Trails lead visitors to viewing platforms, where bear fans can watch the feast unfold.
Social media played a pivotal role in the rise of #FatBearWeek. Katmai National Park and Preserve is remote, making it difficult for the average American to gain access. The role of social media in the Fat Bear Week campaign was to provide that access for those sitting at home. The use of the Explore.org live cams paired with comparison photos of the bears being featured encouraged virtual visitors to participate. Social media extended the invitation to the fat bear party.
Social media also provided a platform to share about the larger issues facing the park and ultimately the peninsula’s bears. At face value #FatBearWeek is a light, comical look at wildlife; but underneath that veil is a hearty dose of reality. Without access to clean water and healthy ecosystems unaffected by climate change or human influence, the fat bears we celebrated this year will be at risk. Just like the bears, we saw reports on from British Columbia, bears along the Alaskan Peninsula experienced the effects of warming water and struggling salmon. In the northern regions of Katmai National Park, commonly observed salmon streams dried up, sometimes with salmon still trying to swim upstream.
Bears are wonderful and interesting animals that command our attention and deserve our respect. Fat Bear Week is a celebration and a chance to learn more about our ursine friends. We hope you’re looking forward to the next Fat Bear Week as much as we are. | <urn:uuid:07c2e991-9c3f-4612-83b7-deed15e8a97c> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.doi.gov/blog/everything-you-want-know-about-katmai-national-parks-fat-bears-3 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571536.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20220811224716-20220812014716-00272.warc.gz | en | 0.96646 | 2,026 | 1.84375 | 2 |
“Testing, testing, testing. Is this thing on?” That’s a question often asked by the engineering team at Cometic Gasket, Inc., led by Jeff Gorman and staffed by engineers like Mike Hupertz. Why are they asking? Because in order for them to design engine gaskets to perform in the most demanding conditions, they must perform dozens—sometimes hundreds—of hours of testing processes on the materials they select for use in these difficult situations. These techniques have been developed through years of experience and include the use of the company’s in-house engine dyno, which provides the ability to measure the variables required to help the company design these products.
So when Cometic reached out to us to see if we wanted to follow along as they worked to develop an all-new gasketing solution, we jumped at the chance—after all, it’s not every day that a manufacturer invites you into their inner sanctum to show you what they are working on from a behind-the-scenes perspective.
“For a long time we’ve been at the very top end as far as gaskets go, and that comes at a price. Part of what we were looking at here was to develop the same performance as our top-level product, at a more economical price. So what we started looking at were different materials that perform better than the other options in the marketplace, and are also a bit more forgiving. Not everyone is building an engine in a laboratory environment,” says Gorman.
Cycling Over And Over
Imagine, if you will, an engine which is set up to be repeatable with respect to power output and controllable variables, and you’ll get a small glimpse into the dyno cell at Cometic. Durability testing—while not extremely exciting like a dyno session centered around a twin-turbocharged big-cube engine or the like—still requires the same instrumented testing capabilities, if not more so. Controlling those variables is critical to ensuring the test process is providing accurate, quantifiable information.
“In collaboration with Jasper Engines, we came up with a 50-hour engine durability test for gaskets,” says Hupertz.
“What that testing comes down to is a whole bunch of cyclic loading. So with the 50-hour cycle, 25 of those hours will be at peak torque. The way the test criteria is written we’ll run from 20-percent below peak torque to 7-percent above. We’ll run for eight hours a day, shut it down, perform a compression test, leakdown test, change the oil and filter, and continue the next day. After the 25 hours are done with torque testing, we’ll move to peak power and do the same thing—20-percent below to 7-percent above for a total of 25.”
In an R&D situation, you usually walk away with more questions than you have answers, – Mike Hupertz, Cometic
“At this point, we disassemble the engine, inspect all of the gasket surfaces, and do our measuring,” says Hupertz.
“We’re looking at the coating performance: has it come off, was the cold seal good, were there any breaches or combustion in the coolant, those sorts of things. The benefit of running this long of a test means that we can put multiple platforms in. On the same test run, we can do exhaust header gaskets and valve cover gaskets, with a different one on each side. Different materials, different coatings, things like that.”
New Materials In Development
This most recent round of testing found the Cometic engineering team working with many new ideas during the testing phase.
“We utilized every gasket interface on the engine, so it was very useful for us,” says Gorman.
“Whether it was an O-ring, an exhaust gasket, a carburetor gasket, or a head gasket, every one was a brand-new type of material and design for us, and we learned quite a bit in the process.”
With respect to materials tested, they are sourced and developed after careful analysis of the requirements for each particular use. Since the material used for the exhaust gasket in this particular 50-hour test session—performed with a small-block Chevrolet engine—was a big focus for the Cometic team, we’ll focus on those for a moment.
Introducing less-than-ideal conditions and basically having a controlled failure helps us to learn what different failures look like. – Jeff Gorman, Cometic
To develop this new exhaust material—which they have dubbed Armor Ply—the Cometic engineering team reached out to one of their suppliers to initiate a collaboration on the required properties of the new material. With respect to exhaust gasket construction, there are often two sides of the coin, so to speak. On the cylinder head side of the gasket, the material needs to be rigid and offer the ability to seal against either cast iron or aluminum cylinder heads, yet on the manifold side, it needs to be squishy to conform to any imperfections in the manifold material. This “give” ensures that the hybrid material will be capable of holding the seal in demanding conditions.
“On one side is a perforated steel material, and on the other side is a compressible fiber material that has a heavy graphite impregnation. The graphite side is mechanically bonded to the armor side. With this hybrid you get the best of both worlds,” Gorman explains.
One of the concerns that the Cometic team encounters during the design phase for new products is that they don’t always know what types of materials the end-user will be trying to seal; in effect, the difference between a $1,000 set of headers on a race engine and a $125 set of swap-meet used headers on a street car.
“There are so many options on a small-block Chevy. This gave us the opportunity to come up with a host of different interfaces so we could come up with this material and see if it was a good fit, and it was,” says Hupertz.
“Some of the lower-grade headers have a welded bead around the port, and that’s what is compressing the gasket to provide the seal, where the higher-grade headers are made from 304 stainless steel and the surface has been machined completely flat.”
This is why the company offers more than one option: for the first condition, the new Armor Ply gasket might make the most sense, while in the second a traditional multi-layer steel gasket is ideal.
Planning To Fail
Swole Is Not The Goal
Valve cover gaskets are exposed to a fair amount of oil; in order to keep valvesprings, rocker arms, and pushrods cool and in top operating condition, a constant oil bath is required atop the cylinder head. Although the gaskets are sandwiched between the valve cover and the cylinder head, the inner surface of the gasket can swell quite a bit over time due to its exposure to the oil, and one of the materials Cometic was testing during this research and development phase was designed to resist swelling.
“In cases where the cover is removed often to run the valves and check the springs, a swell condition is not ideal. You don’t want the gasket to swell and pop out of the groove, and we went through a lot of different materials before settling on this one. We included it in the test and it worked quite well,” says Gorman.
“Introducing less-than-ideal conditions and basically having a controlled failure helps us to learn what different failures look like, so when our engineering team comes across something in the field, we can say that a failure looked a certain way with a detonation issue or a different way with a clamp load failure,” Gorman explains.
“We’re able to control and monitor everything in the dyno cell; we have eight oxygen sensors, eight EGT sensors, and in a perfect-running engine, we balance the EGTs and the O2s. But we wanted to induce detonation, so I increased the ignition timing until the engine began what I would consider auto-igniting,” says Hupertz.
“We had no failure where we had leaking combustion or coolant in the combustion chamber, but upon disassembly, we did see a considerable amount of bead fracturing, simply from the extreme amount of detonation we put it through.”
In the interest of identifying potential failures, they’ll continue the testing methodology with different assembly changes, such as installing non-lubricated fasteners or reusing torque-to-yield fasteners, both of which can negatively affect clamp load and see what happens to the head gaskets.
One thing they stressed during our discussion is that the research efforts are crucial to the company’s efforts. In fact, he mentioned that they are often surprised at the results they see when they dissect the test engines after dyno sessions. What they think might happen doesn’t, and sometimes what they least expect does occur.
“In an R&D situation, you usually walk away with more questions than you have answers,” says Hupertz. “The information you can extract helps you to develop other things. It’s an ongoing procedure.”
Continuing this type of testing is critical to the success of Cometic’s product line, and since the company makes use of their in-house dyno and own test engines to flog these—and other—potential products, it’s a concept that clearly helps them to build better gaskets for the performance and racing industries. | <urn:uuid:d6e1eea5-01d1-4792-b41d-e9b343b47431> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.enginelabs.com/engine-tech/cometic-shows-us-engine-gaskets-come-life/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571909.51/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813051311-20220813081311-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.953601 | 2,085 | 1.671875 | 2 |
The Roman Curia, The Holy See, Rome
In the aftermath of the sudden resignation of Pope Benedict XVI due to his advanced age and fear of delirium, which is reasonable taking into account the fact that when he was believed to be mentally fit he had said that condoms spread AIDS, as you seek a Supreme Pontiff of sound mind from an eminent pool of sixty-to-seventy-year-old virgins, kindly consider this application for the job of Pope from me, Manu Joseph I, a member of the laity. I am aware that you do not seek applications, but I apply because the Church is in a precarious state and it has to consider extraordinary solutions. My CV, which is enclosed, may appear unremarkable at first glance, even pointless when the marital status is noted, but if observed carefully the applicant has merit. For instance, the Church is surely wise enough to know that men in long faithful tropical marriages are indeed somewhat acquainted with celibacy. Also, I am a young male, though not so young that I will lead cardinals to sin; and, once on Indian national television I was accused of misogyny; and, through my writings and one Facebook post, I believe I have relentlessly advertised the Son of God though in the form of an endearing sub-culture, actually to be honest, in the form of a liquor found in Kerala, which is named Jesus Christ because after you drink it, you will rise only on the third day. But more important than all this is that I am a novelist, which none of the former Popes have been, even though Christianity has emerged from the Great Story.
In fact, I can see clearly that the crisis that has befallen the Church is that it has failed to grasp the single most crucial principle today in the promotion of a cultural franchise, which is what the Church is. And the principle is very simply—do not antagonise women for they are the patrons of culture. Any work of quality fiction that fails to get this is doomed. The Holy See has much to learn from modern male novelists. The art of the new man is nothing if he is unable to transmit what women hold dear. The Church, on the other hand, is constantly annoying them. I do too, I am told, but at least I am aware.
Also, as the Church fights to survive in Europe where commonsense has reached epidemic proportions, and in the rest of the world where Protestants have employed song and dance and epilepsy to diminish Catholicism, I believe it is time for an Indian to transform Catholicism.
I must confess now, though, an important fact. Ever since I remember, I suspected that the world goes around the Sun, I even said so in school, long before Pope John Paul II confirmed it for all Catholics in 1992. I am confident that my juvenile arrogance will not be held against me. If this helps my case, let me say that I do believe that the opening line of the Great Story has influenced a whole body of science that is obsessed with the idea that the Universe had a beginning. Most of the infidels had no concept of a beginning, or that it is important, but the Church succeeded in seeding the idea in everybody’s head through the Belgian Catholic priest Lemaitre and his “hypothesis of the primeval atom”, which later evolved into the Big Bang theory. There was a time when great scientists saw through the Catholic influence on the Big Bang, but the theory is now so fundamental to science that the Church has prevailed. If I am made Pope, I will ensure that the Pontifical Academy of Sciences crushes any dissent as long as I am alive.
As you are aware, church attendance is falling in the First World. In France, for instance, only 10 per cent of Catholics attend Sunday mass. In India, the secretary general of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of India told me (about seven years ago)* the figure is 80 per cent. And most of them donate. Because of their relative poverty and currency rates, their donation is not as valuable as that of the sheep in the rich world, but India is prospering and growing. Imagine what an Indian Pope can do for the Church in the next few decades. This is the place, Roman Curia, this is it. There are already 17 million Indian Catholics, four times the number of Catholics in Great Britain and one third of America’s herd. Also, for several years now, as there has been a paucity of priests in the West, it has been outsourcing Indian priests, who are plentiful.
I hope I am not insolent in stating the fact that the Pope is not the only Catholic who rules over 1.2 billion. There is a Roman Catholic in India who rules exactly as many people, and I have a letter of recommendation from her in your language, which I do not understand:
Sono felice di scrivere questa lettera. Non fidarti di questo ragazzo.
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There isn't much room left in New York City. It is no longer a metropolis (from the Greek for "crowded")--it is the center of a megalopolis (from the Greek mega, "impossibly over-crowded"). Traffic conditions are partially responsible for the city's slow death by strangulation, and in recent weeks, people who have been saying so all along have been heartened by the intelligence and energy of the City's new Traffic Commissioner, Henry A. Barnes.
But this good news has been pushed off the front page by the saga of Harry Weinberg, new president of the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines, and his one-man war against traffic sanity in New York. Weinberg, who took over the line several months ago from a management that confessed to its own incompetence, has proved an impossible man to deal with. His intransigence has resulted in the present strike of the Transit Workers against his line, and a new political struggle over the line's future between Mayor Wagner and Albany Republicans.
The problems which Weinberg's cabal was called in to solve affect every aspect of New York's present crisis. For a really adequate system of public transportation is the only alternative to increased private traffic on the city's streets. And, as Paul Goodman in a recent book of Utopian Proposals suggested, any final solution of the transportation problem must strictly limit--if not eliminate--the use of private automobiles, at least during certain hours.
An adequate system will involve a far-reaching reorganization of the City's transportation network, ultimately including take-over of the West chester and Lower Connecticut branches of the New Haven and perhaps the Long Island Railroad. The question of rates and fares will be a vexing one, but its introduction into the present controversy is a little misleading. For the real issue here is not a possible fare-rise; New Yorkers would grumble and pay, if they got in return a comfortable ride and a better-ordered city. What is at stake in the Weinberg-Wagner donnybrook is the City's right to secure those two desiderata for its citizens, if necessary at a loss.
No one who has either studied the problem or ever tried to get cross-town takes issue with this view--no one, that is, except Mr. Weinberg. After taking charge, he not only requested a price hike (from the present 15 cents to 20 cents); he called for a drastic cut-back in personnel, and suggested sharply reduced service (nothing after 11 p.m., little on Sunday). In protest against the dismissal of twenty-nine employees (which it interpreted as the beginning of a real purge), the TWU struck Mr. Weinberg, and the Mayor demanded fast action by the State on legislation enabling him to take over the line for reassignment.
There is no end in sight for the strike: Mr. Weinberg is not any more agreeable at the bargaining table than anywhere else. But the "go-slow" stand Governor Rockefeller and State Senate leader Walter J. Mahoney (R.) have taken on the legislation Mayor Wagner has requested can and should be rapidly reversed. Yet the pontifical Mr. Mahoney stated yesterday, "I will not be a party to any hastily contrived and poorly disguised effort by Mayor Wagner to sacrifice the passengers and the employees of the Fifth Avenue Coach Lines in preparation for a 20-cent fare on all the subway and bus lines operating in New York."
Mr. Mahoney's solicitude for the welfare of New York's citizens comes late, and is woefully misplaced. He has no record as a champion of the city's rights, which he has long helped bury in the dung-heap of rhetoric and red-tape which is Albany. In the present case, he has misjudged the Mayor. For the Mayor has recently learned at great expense the responsibilities of a real politician, and is not likely to support a fare-rise, even if he is worked on by whatever survives of "the boys" after last November's election.
But Mr. Weinberg has no real support even among these men; he offends everyone he talks to. In any event, the fare-rise is not the crucial problem, as noted. So Mr. Mahoney, with a crudity no one outside Albany could possibly imitate, is simply trying to make political hay out of the discomfiture of about one million New Yorkers. One hopes, after Tammany's defeat, that the Mayor will prove able to foster that political renaissance the city so desperately needs; but it will not be matched upstate for a while. The present struggle will be just another chapter in the long history of New York state's troubled "town-gown" relationships.
Big things were expected of Governor Rockefeller when he was elected. He has his problems, and he hasn't been able to produce all one hoped for. But he ought now to step on Mr. Mahoney and give Mayor Wagner the power to take the Line away from Weinberg. For Weinberg's history in other cities where he has taken power does not suggest a happy future for New York's bus lines: in Dallas, for example, he carried through the measures he has so far only threatened for New York. The results have not been good. In New York they would be little short of catastrophic. New York has no room--or time--for the likes of Mr. Weinberg. | <urn:uuid:9422cc75-61f0-4517-a487-16adef2daf1b> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.thecrimson.com/article/1962/3/9/bus-stop-pthere-isnt-much-room/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281419.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00488-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.968273 | 1,116 | 1.984375 | 2 |
Fatigue is one of the most common health complaints we hear about in the clinic. It’s a symptom with many possible sources, and once serious illnesses have been ruled out, finding the reason for your fatigue boils down to a process of elimination.
The good news, however, is that there are safe and natural solutions you can try for just about every possible cause for fatigue.
Reason #1: Adrenal burnout
Adrenal burnout is one frequent cause of fatigue. The adrenal glands are often referred to as our ‘fight-or-flight’ response organs, as they help us prepare for and deal with stress. They do so by boosting production of a hormone called cortisol.
Normally, when stress subsides, so does our body’s production of cortisol. However, with prolonged stress, the adrenals will continue producing cortisol, leaving them exhausted. Eventually the adrenals can’t keep up and cortisol levels drop, and so do your energy levels.
The result is excessive fatigue. In a recent study, researchers measured daily cortisol variations in a group of 78 subjects. Morning cortisol levels were significantly lower in the exhausted subjects than in subjects without fatigue1. Incidentally, morning cortisol levels also happen to be lower in female patients with chronic fatigue2.
If you suspect adrenal exhaustion, you might want to test your cortisol levels with a simple saliva test. Alternatively, you could try a formula such as Adren-All to help restore your energy levels. If you feel very anxious of have trouble sleeping, AdreneVive may be a better alternative.
Reason #2: Sluggish thyroid
Fatigue is also a common symptom of a sluggish thyroid gland; it is often accompanied by weight gain, hair loss, coldness, and depression. In this case, several studies have shown that a high-quality iodine supplement, such as Thyrosol, may help3. If you need additional support, T-100 is a great choice.
Reason #3: Depression
Depression often causes fatigue and is often caused by imbalances in brain chemicals called neurotransmitters. Giving your body the building blocks it needs to rebalance these neurotransmitters (NeuroReplete is the place to start), along with vitamin D (Bio-D-Mulsion Forte is a great option) could help to boost your mood, and your energy, significantly.
Reason #4: Food sensitivities
An often under-recognized cause of fatigue is delayed food sensitivities. Recently, Georgetown University Medical Center researchers noted there is emerging evidence to suggest that food allergies appear to be an important triggering event in chronic fatigue syndrome and fibromyalgia4. Taking a food intolerance test (email us, as there are many options) can help pinpoint whether this is a cause behind your exhaustion.
Reason #5: Poor quality sleep
Lastly, difficulty getting to sleep, or staying asleep, is probably the most obvious cause of excessive fatigue. More often than not, this problem is due to a reduction in your body’s levels of the hormone melatonin. Clinical studies have shown that melatonin supplementation can improve several measures of sleep quality, from sleep initiation to duration5. It’s also delivered noticeable benefits to patients with chronic fatigue syndrome6.
When trying to determine the reason for your fatigue, the only approach a layperson has is to begin eliminating potential causes. By playing detective and looking at all the factors mentioned above, the reason why you are fatigued will likely become apparent and you can then take steps to regain your energy.
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2. Nater UM, Maloney E, Boneva RS, Gurbaxani BM, Lin JM, Jones JF, Reeves WC, Heim C. Attenuated morning salivary cortisol concentrations in a population-based study of persons with chronic fatigue syndrome and well controls. J Clin Endocrinol Metab. 2008 Mar;93(3):703-9.
3. Abraham, GE. The safe and effective implementation of orthoiodosupplementation in medical practice. The Original Internist. 2004; 11:17-36.
4. Bellanti JA, Sabra A, Castro HJ, Chavez JR, Malka-Rais J, de Inocencio JM. Are attention deficit hyperactivity disorder and chronic fatigue syndrome allergy related? What is fibromyalgia? Allergy Asthma Proc. 2005 Jan-Feb;26(1):19-28.
5. Pawlikowski M, Kolomecka M, Wojtczak A, Karasek M. Effects of six months melatonin treatment on sleep quality and serum concentrations of estradiol, cortisol, dehydroepiandrosterone sulfate, and somatomedin C in elderly women. Neuro Endocrinol Lett. 2002 Apr;23 Suppl 1:17-9.
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ANNA UNIVERSITY, CHENNAI-
R - 2008
-B.E. CIVIL ENGINEERING
ELECTIVE – II
CE 2027 HOUSING PLANNING AND MANAGEMENT L T P C
3 0 0 3
The objective of the course is to train the students to have a comprehensive knowledge of planning, design, evaluation, construction and financing of housing projects. The course focuses on cost effective construction materials and methods. Emphasis has also been given on the principles of sustainable housing policies and programmes.
UNIT I INTRODUCTION TO HOUSING 9
Definition of Basic Terms – House, Home, Household, Apartments, Multi storeyed Buildings, Special Buildings, Objectives and Strategies of National Housing Policies, Principle of Sustainable Housing, Housing Laws at State level, Bye-laws at Urban and Rural Local Bodies – levels - Development Control Regulations, Institutions for Housing at National, State and Local levels
UNIT II HOUSING PROGRAMMES 9
Basic Concepts, Contents and Standards for Housing Programmes - Sites and Services, Neighborhoods, Open Development Plots, Apartments, Rental Housing, Co-operative Housing, Slum Housing Programmes, Role of Public, Private and Non-Government Organizations
UNIT III PLANNING AND DESIGN OF HOUSING PROJECTS 9
Formulation of Housing Projects – Site Analysis, Layout Design, Design of Housing Units
UNIT IV CONSTRUCTION TECHNIQUES AND COST-EFFECTIVE MATERIALS 9
New Constructions Techniques – Cost Effective Modern Construction Materials, Building
Centers – Concept, Functions and Performance Evaluation
UNIT V HOUSING FINANCE AND PROJECT APPRAISAL 9
Appraisal of Housing Projects – Housing Finance, Cost Recovery – Cash Flow Analysis, Subsidy and Cross Subsidy, Pricing o f Housing Units, Rents, Recovery Pattern (Problems).
TOTAL: 45 PERIODS
1. Meera Mehta and Dinesh Mehta, Metropolitan Housing Markets, Sage Publications Pvt.
Ltd., New Delhi, 1999.
2. Francis Cherunilam and Odeyar D Heggade, Housing in India, Himalaya Publishing
House, Bombay, 1997.
1. Development Control Rules for Chennai Metropolitan Area, CMA, Chennai, 2002.
2. UNCHS, National Experiences with Shelter Delivery for the Poorest Groups, UNCHS (Habitat), Nairobi, 1994.
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When an employee is injured on the job, the employer or insurer is required to provide the medical treatment and care to cure and relieve the employee from the effects of the injury. This includes all costs for authorized medical treatment, prescriptions, and medical devices. There is no deductible and all costs are paid by the employer or its workers’ compensation insurance company. The employer has the right to choose the healthcare provider or treating physician, however, the employee has the right to select a treating physician at the employee’s own expense. Regardless of whether the employee or employer chooses the treating physician, under the Missouri Workers’ Compensation Law, healthcare providers “shall have the affirmative duty to communicate fully with the employee regarding the nature of the employee’s injury and recommend treatment exclusive of any evaluation for a permanent disability rating.” Section 287.140 RSMo.
Forms to be Filed
Medical Treatment Form (WC-9) needs to be filled out by the treating physician indicating what treatment was provided to the injured worker as well as all results. This form will need to be forwarded to the employer or employer’s insurance company at the time of the initial treatment, at the completion of the treatment and any time the division requests a report.
Physician’s Report on Eye Injuries (WC-241) needs to be filled out in each case of eye injury resulting in any degree of permanent disability. This form will need to be forwarded to the employer or employer’s insurance company after treatment is rendered.
Physical Rehabilitation’s goal is to restore the injured worker, as quickly and as nearly as possible, to a condition of self-support and maintenance as an able-bodied worker, through physical rehabilitation. The physical rehabilitation program staff investigates and determines the employee’s eligibility to receive benefits. The program works closely with physicians, therapists, lawyers, insurers, and case managers. To be certified, each facility must meet criteria for certification of compliance to current professional standards.
All fees and charges under Missouri’s Workers’ Compensation Law per Section 287.140.3 RSMo “shall be fair and reasonable, shall be subject to regulation by the Division or the Commission, or the Board of Rehabilitation in rehabilitation cases. A healthcare provider shall not charge a fee for treatment and care which is. . .greater than the usual and customary fee the provider receives for the same treatment or services when the payor for such treatment or service is a private individual or a private health insurance carrier.”
Other than the healthcare provider selected by the injured worker at his or her expense, when the employee, employer or the employer’s insurance has notified the provider in writing of the injury being workers’ compensation related “no hospital, physician, or other health care provider. . .shall bill or attempt to collect any fee or any portion of a fee for services rendered to an employee due to a work-related injury.” Section 287.140.13(1) RSMo. If the injury is found to be non-compensable, the healthcare provider shall be entitled to pursue the employee for any unpaid portion/s of the fees or other charges for services provided to the employee.
If the hospital, physician, or other healthcare provider is having difficulties obtaining payments for services authorized in advance by the employer or employer’s insurance, they may want to file a Medical Fee Dispute.
Related: Medical Fee Disputes
In Missouri, it is fraudulent for a health care provider to use any of the following false billing practices:
- “Unbundling” an insurance claim by claiming a number of medical procedures were performed instead of a single comprehensive procedure;
- “Upcoding” a medical, hospital or rehabilitative insurance claim by claiming that a more serious or extensive procedure was performed than was actually performed:
- “Exploding” a medical, hospital or rehabilitative insurance claim by claiming a series of tests were performed on a single sample of blood, urine, or other bodily fluid, when actually the series of tests were part of one battery of tests; or
- “Duplicating” a medical, hospital or rehabilitative insurance claim made by a healthcare provider by resubmitting the claim through another healthcare provider in which the original healthcare provider has an ownership interest.
Any person in violation of the above referenced provisions is guilty of a class A misdemeanor and shall be liable to the state of Missouri for a fine up to twenty thousand dollars. Any person, who has previously pled guilty or has been found guilty of violating the provisions relating to the false billing practices and who subsequently violates the provisions of Section 287.129.1 RSMo is guilty of a class D felony.
The Department of Insurance, Financial Institutions, and Professional Registration is responsible for over-seeing this portion of workers’ compensation law as it relates to a person who is engaging in or has engaged in any fraudulent workers' compensation insurance act under Section 287.129 RSMo., and may take action when they deem necessary. To file a complaint with the Department of Insurance Financial Institutions, and Professional Registration please visit their website.
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O'Leary draws her examples from the full range of the Social Sciences, and this is the perfect text for any student in Health, Education or Applied Social Science.
- Format: Paperback
- Pages: 312 pages, Illustrations
- Publisher: SAGE Publications Ltd
- Publication Date: 04/11/2005
- Category: Social research & statistics
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Shear evaluation of tapered bridge girder panels with steel corrugated webs near the supports of continuous bridges
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Because of public construction budgets were cut over the last few years, new bridge girders with corrugated webs to reduce the construction costs have become more widely studied and used. In spite that tapered bridge girders with corrugated webs (BGCWs) are used in modern bridges, their shear strength and behaviour rarely exists in literature. Based on available literature, the web of the linearly tapered BGCWs may be divided into three typologies with different structural response to shear force. This paper presents a study into the shear strength and behaviour of the different web panels of the tapered BGCWs near the end and intermediate supports of continuous bridges using the dimensions of constructed bridges. Accordingly, parametric studies are conducted with variations in the aspect ratio of the web panel, different inclination angles of the tapered web panel and the flange slenderness ratio. After that, the paper checks the available design model under these additional parametric study models. The paper is extended to check corrugation dimensions for the use in conventional structures. It is noticed that as the corrugation angle (a) between longitudinal and inclined sub-panels decreases, the ultimate shear of the girders decreases because the rigidity of the web decreases. The available design model is compared to the FE results and it is found to yield suitable results for girders used in bridges as well as conventional structures. Overall, new conclusions on the shear strength and behaviour of tapered BGCWs are presented.
CitationZevallos, E., Hassanein, M., Real, E., Mirambell, E. Shear evaluation of tapered bridge girder panels with steel corrugated webs near the supports of continuous bridges. "Engineering Structures", Abril 2016, vol. 113, p. 149-159.
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You can easily go from being happy to being clinically depressed. It doesn’t take much at all to trigger a bout of depression. However, you do not have to let this condition control your life. Put into practice the following strategies for coping with depression.
Don’t let your depression spiral out of control. Cycling through your negative emotions over and over is counterproductive. Be positive, and keep positive people around you.
Diet, exercise, and adequate sleep all play a part in whether you are depressed or not. When you feel the blues coming on, take a walk, go for a ride or engage in an enjoyable activity. Over a period of time, the right exercise, eight hours of sleep and a diet without processed foods could help you more than you think.
There are many techniques that you can use to fight depression like avoiding triggers. You should do your best to avoid the things that trigger your depression. If you know what triggers your depression, do your best to avoid it.
Banish the words “depressed” and “depression”. Labeling yourself with a vocabulary that specifies depression will exacerbate the stigma attached to them. Rather, when feeling down, position it for yourself that you are in a low mood period. It’s much more positive to think about improving your mood than to think about fighting “depression”, even though you are doing the same thing.
Listening to music is a great way to battle depression, but choose your music wisely. You should try to avoid songs that induce feelings of sadness or despair. This music will cause you to think about the feelings mentioned in the song.
Take all prescriptions as your doctor instructs. Avoid over or under taking the medications and stick to your doctor’s directions. Avoid stopping the medications without first consulting your doctor to avoid dangerous reactions. Anti-depressant weaning is often necessary, and stopping cold turkey can have negative effects.
Going to activities is a great way to combat depression. Being around people who love you and that you care about should make you feel better instantly, and that can go a long way. If you keep your calendar filled with enjoyable activities, you won’t have time for depression.
Have you thought about signing up to an online forum for your depression? Online groups for depression can be helpful because the anonymity can help you be more open and willing to share your biggest fears. Look online to find a group you trust.
When it comes to depression, you should always talk with your doctor whether or not taking medication is the right path for you. This is vital because a lot of times, therapy might be enough when dealing with depression, and other times it may not. Depression is caused by a chemical imbalance in your brain and medication can help these chemicals balance out.
When you are depressed, you should take extra care to nourish yourself. Depression can affect your appetite, and make eating seem like an outright chore. Make sure to eat enough food to keep you healthy, even if you are not hungry.
Think about psychological counseling. Using medication in conjunction with therapy treatment can be helpful in dealing with depression. Studies show that these treatments when combined are more successful than only using one method by itself. Medication will help you get rid of mood swings and therapy will treat depression at its roots.
Don’t let depression take over your life. Dealing with negativity day in and day out is not the best way to live your life. As soon as you finish this article, get busy taking positive steps to banish depression. | <urn:uuid:90d3ed47-0f1a-4dba-b092-74d4995ec249> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://overcomedepression.ca/depressed-about-depression-cheer-up-with-these-tips/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00270.warc.gz | en | 0.947137 | 734 | 2.953125 | 3 |
In the wake of the terrorist attacks in New York City and Washington D.C. on September 11, 2001, there have been renewed calls among some lawmakers for restrictions on the use and availability of strong encryption products. In Congressional floor statements on September 13 and 19, Senator Judd Gregg (R-NH) called for a global "new regime" in the area of encryption which would grant law enforcement access to private keys. Sen. Gregg has now stated, however, that he does not intend to introduce a bill to give effect to this proposal. Civil liberties and privacy advocates strongly oppose any attempts to require key escrow, key recovery or other means of accessing encryption keys, arguing that they are an unjustified restriction of individuals' fundamental privacy rights, detrimental to security, costly, subject to massive abuse, and ultimately ineffective crime prevention methods. Technology and security experts also oppose any restricitons on encryption, arguing that they would damage comsumer trust in e-commerce transactions.
- Senator Backs Off Backdoors, by Declan McCullagh, Wired News, Oct. 17, 2001
- New Encryption Laws for E-Mail Unlikely, by Carrie Kirby, San Francisco Chronicle, October 6, 2001
- Techies Urge Senator To Drop Encryption Key Plan, by Brian Krebs, Newsbytes, Sept. 27, 2001
- Experts Say Encryption Can't be Limited, A Setback for Lawmakers Seeking Change, by Lee Gomes, Wall Street Journal, Sept. 26, 2001
- Opening Encryption `Back Door' is Problematic, Experts Say, Reuters, Sept. 25, 2001
- Disputes on Electronic Message Encryption Take On New Urgency, by John Schwartz, New York Times, Sept. 25, 2001
- Lawmaker, Lobbyist at Odds Over Encryption Legislation, by Bara Vaida, National Journal's Technology Daily, Sept. 24, 2001
- Bin Laden, Associates Elude Spy Agency's Eavesdropping, by Scott Shane, Baltimore Sun, Sept. 16, 2001
- Congress Mulls Stiff Crypto Laws, by Declan McCullagh, Wired News, Sept. 13, 2001
- EPIC, Cryptography & Liberty 2000: An International Survey of Encryption Policy.
- 'The Risks of Key Recovery, Key Escrow and Trusted Third-Party Encryption', a Report by Cryptography Experts (May 1998)
- Solveig Singleton, Cato Institute, Encryption Policy for the 21st Century: A Future without Government-Prescribed Key Recovery (November 1998)
- National Research Council, Cryptography's Role in Securing the Information Society (May 1996), NRC press release -- overview and recommendations -- full text of report.
- A. Michael Froomkin, The Metaphor is the Key: Cryptography, the Clipper Chip and the Constitution, The University of Pennsylvania Law Review (January 1995).
- Office of Technology Assessment, Information Security and Privacy in Network Environments (September 1994).
- Association for Computing Machinery, Codes, Keys and Conflicts (June 1994).
- Lance Hoffman et al., Cryptography: Policy and Technology Trends (January 1994).
- General Accounting Office, Communications Privacy: Federal Policy and Actions (November 1993).
- Banning Cryptography. U.S. Government efforts to restrict use of cryptography.
- The Clipper Chip. Information on the 1993 US Government computer chip with a back door for easy surveillance.
- The Computer Security Act of 1987. Information on the law that regulates who protects computer systems and developed cryptography in the US Government.
- Digital Signatures.
- Export Controls.
- International Cryptography Policy.
- Key Escrow (Government-proposed alternatives to Clipper including "key management" and "key recovery")
- OECD Cryptography Policy Guidelines. Information about the recent recommendations of the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development concerning cryptography policy.
Links to obtaining cryptography for your own use.
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Hey there, time traveller!
This article was published 29/10/2009 (2549 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
The northern port handled 529,000 tonnes of Prairie wheat. In 2007, it handled 621,000 tonnes, the largest volume since 710,000 tonnes went through the port in 1977.
The last ship, the Venta, left the port Oct. 27 with 23,000 tonnes of wheat and durum destined for Europe. In total, 18 ocean vessels loaded wheat this season for destinations including Africa, Europe, Mexico and Brazil.
The shipping season actually started later than usual on Aug. 12 due to late ice conditions. Grain shipped through the port is drawn mostly from northern Manitoba and Saskatchewan. | <urn:uuid:f5badf9f-1b66-477b-b78b-1a366d5f8f12> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.winnipegfreepress.com/business/wheat-exports-big-in-churchill-67497947.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719136.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00468-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.929187 | 155 | 2.234375 | 2 |
Health and Safety Cornerstone – Your Risk Profile
The point of forklift risk assessment is to deal with many available resources where they will be most operative. It is a serious workout and procedures to work for a great agreement of your safety and health organization method.
It should take a reasonable amount of time and would perhaps be best done by a small group in phases. Your risk profile can also be realized as a broad risk assessment. There’s no room for a theoretical workout here this is a pointers on group exercise that will take up a lot of period to yield a sensible outcome.
In a column you recognize all the tasks that your business conducts, keep it justly broad.
1. Front of House Customer Service
2. Plastic extrusion
3. Forklift operations
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An intercontinental crew of foremost experts, headed up by Paderborn physicist Professor Klaus Jöns, has compiled a complete overview of the possible, world-wide outlook, history and frontiers of built-in photonics. The paper — a roadmap for built-in photonic circuits for quantum technologies — has now been published by journal Mother nature Critiques Physics. The overview outlines fundamental technologies, offers the latest condition of play of investigate and describes attainable potential apps.
“Photonic quantum systems have attained a number of significant milestones around the last 20 years. However, scalability stays a significant obstacle when it comes to translating outcomes from the lab to everyday purposes. Purposes normally require additional than 1,000 optical factors, all of which have to be separately optimised. Photonic quantum systems can, while, profit from the parallel developments in classical photonic integration,” explains Jöns. In accordance to the experts, additional analysis is essential. “The integrated photonic platforms, which need a assortment of numerous resources, part designs and integration methods, bring a number of problems, in particular sign losses, which are not easily compensated for in the quantum entire world,” carries on Jöns. In their paper, the authors point out that the complex innovation cycle for integrated photonic quantum systems (IPQT) needs investments, the resolution of precise technological difficulties, the enhancement of the vital infrastructure and further more structuring towards a experienced ecosystem. They conclude that there is an expanding desire for researchers and engineers with significant knowledge of quantum mechanics and its technological programs.
Built-in quantum photonics uses classical built-in photonic technologies and equipment for quantum apps, whereby chip-amount integration is crucial for scaling up and translating laboratory demonstrators to serious-life systems. Jöns clarifies: “Attempts in the field of built-in quantum photonics are broad-ranging and contain the growth of quantum photonic circuits, which can be monolithically, hybrid or heterogeneously integrated. In our paper, we examine what programs might develop into possible in the upcoming by conquering the present-day roadblocks.” The scientists also provide an overview of the analysis landscape and discuss the innovation and industry possible. The aim is to promote even further investigation and investigate funding by outlining not only the scientific issues, but also the worries related to the enhancement of the required production infrastructure and source chains for bringing the systems to market.
In accordance to the experts, there is an urgent want to commit closely in education in buy to teach the upcoming technology of IPQT engineers. Jöns claims: “Regardless of the style of technological know-how that will be utilised in business quantum products, the fundamental principles of quantum mechanics are the exact same. We predict an escalating desire for experts and engineers with sizeable knowledge of both quantum mechanics and its technological applications. Investing in educating the future era will contribute to pushing the scientific and technological frontiers.” | <urn:uuid:a08310ea-aeb6-4aa0-901c-2f673d9333c5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://intodetails.com/built-in-photonics-for-quantum-technologies-sciencedaily.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573533.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818215509-20220819005509-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.924327 | 603 | 2.421875 | 2 |
Parade of death continues on Cornelius Pass Road
The unavoidable question that lingers in the minds of many Columbia County residents in the wake of Lonny Friberg's fatal automobile accident is how many more people must die before somebody does something to make Cornelius Pass Road safe.
That's not only a fair question in light of the fact that Friberg is the second Scappoose resident in two months to die on what unquestionably is one of Oregon's more dangerous roads, it is literally a question of life and death. Friberg, 62, affectionately known as the 'yacht doctor' because of his expertise in repairing boats, joins Scappoose High School senior Taija Belwood on the list of local residents who have died while driving the gauntlet between Highway 30 and Hillsboro. In the past five years, nearly 100 crashes have been documented on Cornelius Pass Road.
Members of the Taija Belwood Foundation, which formed to advance safety improvements after she died when her car plunged over an unguarded embankment New Year's Eve, aren't buying a Multnomah County Sheriff's Department report that attributed the crash to driver error rather than the condition of the highway itself.
In a classic case of Catch 22, highway authorities in the region are good at finding reasons why Cornelius Pass Road is somebody else's problem. Columbia County is sympathetic to the need for improvements because its citizens are primarily the ones who use the road, but technically is off the hook because the road itself lies in Multnomah and Washington counties. Even if it was within the county's borders, Columbia County is so 'broke' it cannot even afford to provide 24-hour police protection.
Washington County, where thousands of Columbia County residents are going to work, doesn't see the need for road improvements because it has already invested millions along its portion of Cornelius Pass Road. It's not seeing an unusually high number of wrecks in its jurisdiction.
Multnomah County, which has jurisdiction over the section where most of the crashes are taking place, has more pressing transportation matters to contend with, like the bridges in downtown Portland. Three of its county commissioners are up for election this year, and the candidates aren't going to get a lot of votes solving a problem for people in Columbia County.
The Oregon Department of Transportation is not in the habit of adding highways to its list of responsibilities just because some county can't or won't belly up to the bar.
The U.S. Department Transportation might be a possibility, except that it just dumped a lot of the $30 million used to replace the Sauvie Island bridge just a few miles down the road. The federal well is deep, but it isn't bottomless, especially in the aftermath of an expensive war and a big bank bailout.
As is so often the case, agencies are much better at pointing out the problems than finding solutions.
The problem is people dying on Cornelius Pass Road.
The solution is money - by Multnomah County's estimate, $40 million, which, county officials are quick to add, is in short supply. Who has the moxie to find that money and bring it to bear remains to be seen.
What is unique about Cornelius Pass Road is how it has become a lightning rod for change. More than 100 local residents have joined the Taija Belwood Foundation and are working hard to keep the pressure on people who are in a position to effect positive change. They have collected more than 6,000 signatures demanding improvements, written more than 500 letters to city, county, state and federal officials, published a dynamic Web site, and distributed press releases, flyers and bumper stickers raising awareness of the problem - too many deaths on Cornelius Pass Road. Perhaps their greatest accomplishment is harnessing the collective conviction that something can and must be done to save lives. Toward this end they are moving forward with plans to commission an independent study of what can be done to make the road safer, and on Monday at 7 p.m. they will host a town hall meeting at Scappoose High School to further mobilize and motivate their supporters and hold public officials accountable.
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[Scribus] Image frame doesn't make any sense to me
Wed Sep 5 04:32:12 CEST 2007
> As far as I (a beginner who just needs to get work done) can tell, image
> frame is utterly useless in Scribus. The image frame should adjust to the
> exact dimensions of the image you're placing.
The trouble is how to determine "exact dimensions".
Bitmap images have pixel dimensions, eg 2000x1500 pixels. That's their
only fundamental measurement. Many formats also contain hints to the
application about the creator's desired physical display size or,
equivalently, the expected physical DPI of the image. However, these
hints are often ignored, incorrectly set, or simply misunderstood by users.
Since Scribus, like any DTP app, works in real-world physical units like
cm, there's no one correct way to use a bitmap. It all depends on the
resolution the job will be output at - something that the user (by
design) can vary at export time.
Scaling a bitmap DOWN is generally a good quality process, it's only
scaling up that can be ugly. If you have an image with small pixel
dimensions and a high-res output target, that means you must place the
image in a small frame.
I do think it'd be good to be able to resize an image and its frame
together to the bitmap's optimal physical size at a given output
resolution. There are, however, good reasons why things are done like
they are, and image frames are both important and useful for DTP work.
The other utility of image frames is that they permit you to quickly and
easily crop off bits of the image you don't want without having to go
and make a new version of the original resource. With the contour editor
the crop doesn't even have to be rectangular. Their entire purpose is to
let you quickly crop & scale images, because that is useful and
important in DTP.
It sounds like you've come from working in a bitmap editor, where your
concerns would be valid. When targeting output that works in real-world
physical sizes like PDF, though, it makes much less sense.
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Although settlers hunted gray wolves to near extinction more than a century ago, the animal remains one of the most enduring symbols of the West. In 1994, the U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service authorized reintroduction of gray wolves into Idaho, Montana, and Wyoming under recovery provisions of the Endangered Species Act. Fourteen years later, the Service delisted wolves in these states, contending that the reintroduced population met the numeric and distributional criteria established for recovery in 1994. Months after a district judge enjoined the Service's 2008 delisting rule, the Service again delisted gray wolves. This Note asserts that both the 2008 and 2009 delisting rules violate provisions of the Endangered Species Act guaranteeing adequacy of state regulatory mechanisms prior to delistirig, and fidelity to the best available scientific data. The Note also contends that the Service unlawfully deployed conservation tools as delisting instruments contrary to congressional intent. Lastly, the Note illuminates administrative defects in the delisting rules, namely the Service's decision to disregard its own requirement of genetic linkage among the entire gray wolf population without providing a reasoned explanation. | <urn:uuid:d3781235-3ab2-4e6d-892c-b843b0f2bb28> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://lawdigitalcommons.bc.edu/bclr/vol50/iss4/6/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988719453.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183839-00230-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.873679 | 222 | 2.5625 | 3 |
A Jan. 20, 2007 incident over the English Channel resulted in the UK’s Air Accidents Investigation Branch (AAIB) recommending the FAA mandate operators adhere to a service bulletin Honeywell issued subsequently in late 2007. Falcon 900B G-HMEV had departed Farnborough en route to Tel Aviv. When the aircraft reached FL130 over the English Channel, there was a loud noise from the rear of the aircraft. Shortly afterward the engine fire aural warning sounded and the number-three engine fire warning light and the ITT warning light illuminated. Declaring an emergency, the crew carried out the engine fire procedure and after the first extinguisher shot the warning ceased. Ten minutes later, the crew landed the airplane at London Gatwick, the nearest airport with full emergency services.
The AAIB investigation found that the low-pressure turbine assembly on the TFE731-5BR-1C turbofan had suffered a major break-up, with debris penetrating the engine casings and cowlings, while causing light damage to the horizontal stabilizer. The fire warning that was recorded soon after the break-up was triggered by hot engine gases escaping onto the firewire element through a gap caused by the break-up. A substantial number of the failed parts were lost overboard into the sea. The remaining components indicated that fracture of a low-pressure turbine blade had led to further internal damage and there was indication of a casting defect in one of the Stage 2 blades. This probably initiated the failure.
Previous Fan Blade Failures
There have been 65 reported failures of Stage 3 blades in the TFE731, some 66 percent being on the -5B. The IN100 alloy used to manufacture the blades is sensitive to any degree of surface damage, such as stone chipping during ground maintenance runs. In addition, the low-pressure turbine blades are cast using molten IN100 to fill a mold in a vacuum furnace, the rate of cooling being controlled by the mold insulation and the environmental temperature. Occasionally, unsatisfactory cooling of the casting develops internal cracking, which should be detected by inspection. Experience gained from in-flight failures suggests that, on occasion, Stage 3 blade failure could initiate a “domino effect” with other blades in the stage and, in turn, Stage 2 and Stage 3 stators could spin up and burst, causing damage to the interstage turbine transition duct (ITTD).
The Garrett (later Honeywell) TFE731 was first certified in 1972 as the -2 version and development produced the -3,-4 and -5 versions, these being known as the “Classic” models. Further development produced the -20, -40, -50 and -60, known as the NG (Next Generation) models.
In September 2007, engine manufacturer Honeywell issued a service bulletin recommending the modification of the Classic ITTDs by replacing the rear portion with an Inconel heat-resisting alloy section as already in service with the NG series.
In its Safety Recommendation, the AAIB suggests that the FAA “require the timely incorporation” of Honeywell’s service bulletins regarding the ITTDs on the Classic engines. | <urn:uuid:25a680b2-53d3-403f-894e-f959afe15750> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.ainonline.com/aviation-news/aviation-international-news/2008-10-01/aaib-incident-highlights-value-sb-compliance | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281424.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00339-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.946767 | 650 | 2.109375 | 2 |
Posted by Henry on August 26, 2003
In Reply to: Today's Phrases. posted by kathaab on August 25, 2003
: hi..Today's list..Thank you very much.
: 1.to square the circle
Squaring the circle, i.e. constructing a square whose area equals that of a given circle, is one of the three famous construction problems of antiquity. The phrase can mean to balance or to square accounts. It is also used to mean to attempt the difficult or even the impossible.
: 2.may be acting out of character
He is not behaving normally
: 3.to get you hot under the collar.
to annoy you or make you angry
: 4.Saddam's forces simply melted away
the forces (soldiers) disappeared
: 5.withered away
died like a plant without water
: 6.to add color to the story
make the story sound more exciting
: 7.live out his days as ...
spent the rest of his life as...
: 8.To round out these speculations
Provide more information on, perhaps support the speculations?
: 9.time and again
: 10.worn down their loyalty
exhausted their loyalty - they might support someone else
: 11.I can understand where you are coming from
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Opinion: USDA gives Granite Staters a softer landing in housing
Agency has invested millions to help NH homeowners buy, maintain their homes
Some folks may not know that housing programs — not agriculture programs — take up the majority of the USDA Rural Development fiscal portfolio, investing both grant and loan dollars to help thousands of New Hampshire residents buy, maintain, weatherize and modernize their homes.
Rural Development funding through housing programs also helps subsidize multifamily properties with rent reduction for tenants — we know how important housing is for our rural families, and we work hard to make it safe and affordable. In 2021, our staff obligated more than $71.4 million in single- family housing purchases and repairs throughout the Granite State. The stories we hear from first-time homeowners about their experiences and their joy are so heartwarming, as are the tales of triumph from folks who’ve had crucial repairs done in the nick of time.
I remember the day my partner and I bought our house; mid-summer nearly a decade ago. Like many Americans, I had been a renter, enjoying the freedom from fixing roofs or leaky faucets, but spending my own funds every month without a place to call my own. The day we signed our paperwork was an incredible feeling. It felt like we had the future in our hands. Certainly, we had a mortgage and a commitment to pay off the house with our local lender, but it still felt like OURS. We could plan for the future, and put down roots in the community.
Sadly, this experience is not something everyone can reach. According to the National Association of Realtors, and their statewide single-family housing data, in 2018 the median price of a single family home in New Hampshire was $283,000, but by 2021 it had risen to $395,000. Moreover, the combination of a lack of new homebuilding, an underinvestment in the housing stock that exists, and rising prices has created a gap in supply and demand too wide for thousands of families and potential homeowners to cross.
This is even more true for Americans who have lower incomes, or lower wealth, and it hits black and brown Americans as a population the most. The opportunity to own a home, and to build and pass down wealth to the next generation are often completely out of reach. Homeownership isn’t just about your family’s financial future, however. It is also about community building. When you choose a home and a location, you are looking at access to schools, to culture, drive time to your job, and so on. When people are priced out of homes, we lose their intrinsic and skilled value as human beings: the opportunity lost from missed intellectual and physical contributions to our communities, and the substantive and significant roles of neighbor, friend and volunteer unrealized.
Housing is an issue of equity as well as community and economic development. New Hampshire, through its InvestNH housing funding, will dedicate $100 million dollars to this housing crunch by addressing four key imperatives:
- New construction and infrastructure for residential multi-family units
- Permitting of new construction within all New Hampshire municipalities
- Support of zoning studies and changes to zoning
- Demolition of older stock
These are critical elements that will loosen the bottleneck for developers and communities, easing the multi-stage processes that often slows down housing development. There is also a focus on affordability because the state of New Hampshire knows and is working toward that “missing middle” for workforce housing that is so crucial in our rural communities. These state funds will also complement the existing federal programs, such as our 504 Home Repair program, where existing homeowners can repair, improve and modernize their home. We all know that whether you’re in Hillsborough or Stewartstown, having a bad boiler or roof going into winter is no joke.
Rural homeowners’ lives are changing every day for the better, and yes, I’ve read their stories and visited their homes, so I may have a viewpoint that could be considered “rosy,” given other anecdotal evidence. But I feel a great deal of optimism about the housing outlook in New Hampshire. I believe in our RD staff, and our customers are some of the most resilient, dedicated and passionate people I’ve ever come across.
And I’m encouraged by New Hampshire’s commitment to making it easier and simpler to build new homes. After reading stories like that of Candice Donovan in Rockingham County, a single mom who refused to quit on her kids, and after visiting Rachel Rancourt’s home in mid-June with my colleagues and New Hampshire housing partners, you’ll understand why I believe USDA Housing Programs are the building blocks for sustainable community development.
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ENJOY THE GOURD At Damariscotta’s Pumpkinfest and Regatta, October 1-10.
Fall is festival season. It's when Mainers celebrate the height of the harvest season while hanging on to the remaining warm days left over from summer. Maine towns have found many different (and bizarre) ways to recognize this season. Whether you love fried fair foods, prefer locally grown produce, or feel extremely passionate about a particular crop — there's a fall festival for you.
Let's start with the quintessential agricultural fairs, like the FRYEBURG FAIR (October 2-9). Here you can eat deliciously bad fried food (deep-fried whoopie pies anyone?), make yourself sick on carnival rides, and cheer on massive horses pulling heavy cement slabs. (For more, see "Finding the Fairest Food," October 15, 2010, by Leischen Stelter.) In the same vein, there's the 140th Annual CUMBERLAND COUNTY FAIR (September 25-October 1), which also features a plethora of barnyard animals, farm equipment, decades-old carnival rides, and greasy fair food.
For those of you with hippie tendencies, the COMMON GROUND COUNTRY FAIR (September 23-25) is where you can learn about Maine organic-produced foods and attend educational demonstrations that showcase everything from gardening and farming techniques to processing acorns into flour and cooking cinnamon rolls over an open fire. You won't find any carnival rides here, but there's a sheep-herding demonstration that I promise will impress you.
Such fairs are all well and good and certainly worth attending, but there are several Maine towns who have taken festival season to the extreme — starting with some "extreme gardening."
Have you ever thought about the fact that 1000-pound pumpkins float? The folks from Damariscotta have and they use this as the climax of their ten-day PUMPKINFEST AND REGATTA (October 1-10). This festival features competitors paddling giant, hollowed-out pumpkins along a water course. And it doesn't stop there. Next they attach a boat engine to race these monsters, Maine style. There are also pumpkin catapult and hurling events as well as a pumpkin drop where half-ton pumpkins are hoisted 200 feet in the air and dropped onto old cars. What more could you want from a festival?
Oh right, food. As you might imagine, the food is also pumpkin-centric. There's a dessert contest that includes pumpkin pies, cakes, cookies, cobblers, ice cream — basically any dessert that could include pumpkin. If you still can't get enough, there's also a pumpkin pie-eating contest and a pumpkin pancake breakfast.
If you're looking for a more "refined" festival, check out the SWINE AND STEIN OKTOBERFEST in Gardiner on October 1. As you may have guessed, this festival features Maine craft beers and dishes made by local restaurants using Maine-raised pigs. But this isn't just for beer and food snobs. For good measure, festival organizers included a chicken fling (I'm not positive what that involves either, but it sounds fun), a dunk tank, and stick-pony races to "encourage mingling and general merriment," says the website. I believe that's another way of saying there will be organized drunken shenanigans. | <urn:uuid:a95dd3e3-2ee3-493c-87b3-699216ca4574> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://thephoenix.com/Boston/food/126762-fabulous-food-festivals/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280587.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00556-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.951244 | 714 | 1.8125 | 2 |
Free Alongside Ship (named place of delivery)
Incoterms FAS is used only for sea transport. The seller delivers the goods placing them alongside the ship named by the buyer at the agreed port of shipment. The export clearance is done by the seller.
This Incoterm is only used for certain commodities and materials that are not packed and cannot be individualized, such as grain, timber, minerals, steel products, etc.; delivery is done in those ports that have specialized terminals for this type of products. If the goods are carried in containers, Incoterm FCA should be used as containers are delivered at port terminals and not alongside ships.
The export clearance must be done by the seller. Usually, it is necessary to clear the goods before placing them alongside the ship.
When using FAS, the buyer is responsible for loading the goods on the ship. For this reason, the buyer must know very well the practices in the port of shipment because in the case of problems arise there. | <urn:uuid:a4d99805-bfef-4b03-b213-b7cb9a9d017f> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.globalnegotiator.com/en/incoterms-fas-en | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00038-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.953998 | 204 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Period: Late 19th/Early 20th Century
Height: 31 inches
Width (Shoulder to Shoulder): 9 inches
The head constructed of plaster, the body of paper maché, the legs and arms also of paper maché, with fabric attachments. The head, arms, and legs are painted a pinkish skin colour, the lips are painted red, the eyebrows and eyelashes black, and the eyes have rather menacing highlights in red.
The costume for the dummy is of exceptional quality, and is in very good condition. He wears a cotton-lined pink felt bonnet with ties, a double-breated silk lined wool overcoat with velvet collar, tartan trousers with elastic waist, cotton socks with original garters, and red leather shoes with stitched leather soles, and mother-of-pearl buttons. The glass eyes are of equally good quality; the genuine pupils and white-flecked blue irises make them uncannily realistic. On his head is a full (if ever so slightly thinning) shock of ginger hair.
The action is fully operational, and there are metal levers connected into the head the eyes move left, the leather lower lip moves all the way down to reveal white-painted teeth, the upper lip curls upward and the left eyelid fully closes.
Though the dummy is in good condition overall, there are a few minor condition issues, and it could perhaps benefit from some professional restoration. There are two small chips to the paint on the face which has been overpainted (as commonly with dummies of this date), some of the hair has been replaced, and the string to pull the mouth open has thinned and is no longer attached to the lever.
The uncanny nature of ventriloquist’s dummies has enthralled and spooked people for decades, and they continue to feature in horror films to this day. The idea of the ghost in the inanimate object is not a new one, Freud has written at length on the subject in his discussions on the uncanny, and ghost stories have featured dolls and portraits coming to life for centuries. What it is about these things that frighten it is hard to say, but if you buy him you can find out. I would keep him in a locked room. You never know what Hugo is capable of……. | <urn:uuid:3661a0c9-f770-4b67-a389-a0873eae7c5f> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.doeandhope.com/en-us/products/a-superb-early-20th-century-ventriloquist39s-dummy-as132 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571719.48/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812140019-20220812170019-00276.warc.gz | en | 0.963778 | 497 | 2.046875 | 2 |
Sunday, September 20, 2015
Produced by art21 Lucas Blalock's Digital Toolkit is a 6 minute and 7 second look at how the artist works with Photoshop. Lucas Blalock creates uncanny pictures using simple Photoshop tools. Blalock demonstrates how he tweaks analog photographs—all taken with a large-format camera - by digitally erasing, masking, cloning, and drawing on scans of images. Approaching each picture as a game of enhancing visual relationships, Blalock preserves the clumsy quality of his alterations in a kind of slapstick full of pathos and whimsy. Collaborating with the filmmakers, Blalock’s studio process is staged through a series of reenactments, sleights of hand, and animations that overtake the video itself.
Lucas Blalock (b. 1978, Asheville, North Carolina, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He earned a BA from Bard College (2002), attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture (2011), and is an MFA candidate at UCLA (2013). He has been a resident at The Fields Project, Oregon, Illinois (2005) and Yarding: Branch Summer Projects, Carrboro, North Carolina. Publications include the artist’s books Towards a Warm Math (2011) and I Believe You, Liar (2009), as well as a series of interviews with artists for The Photography Post (2010–11). His work has been included in the exhibitions The Whole Is Greater Than the Sum of the Parts, Contact Gallery, Toronto (2011); Chinese Take-Out, Art in General, New York (2011); WIN LAST DON’T CARE, Ramiken Crucible, New York (2011); LOOKbetween, LOOK3 Festival of the Photograph, Deep Rock, Virginia (2010); Off the Clock, 92Y Tribeca, New York (2010); Things Just Aren’t The Way They Used To Be, Kate Werble Gallery, New York (2010); Self Publish, Be Happy, Photographers’ Gallery, London (2010); Green Honey, Ramiken Crucible, New York (2010); 50 Artists Photograph the Future, Higher Pictures, New York (2010); Use Me Abuse Me, Smack Melon, Brooklyn; Redi-Mix, Kathleen Cullen Fine Arts, New York (2010); One Hour Photo, American University Museum at the Katzen Arts Center, Washington, DC (2010); and WRONG: a program of text and image, Eighth Veil, Los Angeles (2009).
Lucas Blalock's Digital Toolkit is well worth a look, you can go there HERE.
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This book was published in 1956 by World Landmark books a division of Random House. Our copy has a dustcover that we will protect with Brodart Archival Covering. It is a rare find.
Leonardo Da Vinci -Emily Hahn illustrated by Mimi Korach
If you are looking for books that are not dumbed down for your intermediate readers these books are for you. They are well-written and as the book states: “They will not only hold the interest of good readers but lure the reluctant ones.” —Chicago Tribune
We have seen this rare book for much more without the dust jacket. However, we would rather see it in the hands of a reader than wait for someone to pay full retail. Let’s have an education revolution for our young people.
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8 Myths to Avoid When Watering Your Plants
Watering plants isn’t an exact science. Read this article to help you understand when to and when to not water plants.
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Throughout the landscape, plants are preparing for winter. The days are shorter, signaling that it’s time to drop leaves. Frost zaps many perennials back to the ground. Plants are busy storing sugars and other nutrients in their roots to sustain them through winter.
To support plants through this season of transition, make sure they get adequate water until the ground freezes. This is especially important if the summer season has been hot and dry, and for newly planted trees, shrubs and perennials.
In fall, plants do not need as much water as they may have needed in summer. But rather than stop watering altogether, it’s best to wean them from weekly watering to every other week to monthly throughout fall.
Use a soaker hose or drip irrigation system to distribute the water where it does the most good: at the root zone of the plants.
Adjust impulse sprayers to keep the spray as close to the root zones of plants as possible.
Overhead sprinklers waste a lot of water due to evaporation, but if yours is adjustable, be sure to aim it at the base of plants.
Allow a garden hose to run a pencil thin stream of water at the base of trees and shrubs for 30 minutes to an hour. This small stream of water soaks slowly and deeply in the soil to the roots.
To test how deeply the water goes, stick a trowel, spade, knitting needle or soil probe into the ground. If the tool comes out moist, measure how many inches and you’ll have an idea of how long it takes water to reach that depth. Perennials should have four to eight inches of moist soil. Shrubs and trees should have moist soil 10 to 12 inches deep.
Evergreens, such as yews, junipers, rhododendrons and hollies will thrive if they go into winter well hydrated.
Flowering trees, shrubs and perennials also tend be more vibrant in spring if they are well watered before winter. | <urn:uuid:2c0139ab-9d51-40bf-8528-32c6c7f30478> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.preen.com/learn/lawn-garden-tips/care-maintenance/feeding-watering/water-plants-well-in-fall-to-prepare-them-for-winter/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573172.64/warc/CC-MAIN-20220818063910-20220818093910-00274.warc.gz | en | 0.942559 | 477 | 2.875 | 3 |
Google has announced a new “Search by Image” feature that allows you to start with a photo to conduct your searches online.
Google uses a photo either via link or uploaded to the service and tries to find similar results. Here’s how Google explains it:
Google uses computer vision techniques to match your image to other images in the Google Images index and additional image collections. From those matches, we try to generate an accurate “best guess” text description of your image, as well as find other images that have the same content as your search image. Your search results page can show results for that text description as well as related images.
Some searches are better than others.
One situation where I found it quite effective though is tracking down stock photography usage. If you shoot stock photos, you can find several uses of your image just by pasting the image URL into the Image Search box and see where else it has been used online. Again, some results are better than others.
While this new feature also has the ability to help photographers track down unauthorized image usage, it looks like it could use a little more refinement and some more image indexing before it’s ready for prime time when you’re actually trying to find similar images.
Has anyone else tried this new feature? What are your thoughts on the search results? | <urn:uuid:1706fdf2-caa3-4e5b-82bd-80f30f856d69> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.photographybay.com/2011/06/15/photos-become-a-contextual-search-tool-with-google-image-search/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560280718.7/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095120-00404-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952923 | 277 | 1.671875 | 2 |
EcoRINews.org: Justin Richard spent nearly 10 years as a beluga whale trainer at Mystic Aquarium in Connecticut, where he taught the Arctic marine mammals to voluntarily submit to regular health screenings. But it’s not so easy to conduct health screenings of wild whales, so he has taken what he learned at Mystic to the University of Rhode Island in an effort to find non-invasive ways of monitoring the health of wild belugas.
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Supervisors of railway transport operations supervise, co-ordinate, and schedule the activities of workers who operate trains, drive locomotives in railway yards, and perform other duties related to railway operations. They also train staff in job duties, safety procedures, and company policy.
Supervisors of motor transport and other ground transit operators supervise, co-ordinate, and schedule the activities of workers who operate trucks, buses, subway trains, light rail transit, taxicabs, and other transport vehicles.
Bus dispatchers dispatch bus drivers and monitor routes to make sure that drivers meet schedules. They also resolve operating problems.
Subway traffic controllers operate and monitor signal/track switch control panels.
1. To be a supervisor in a railway or motor transportation occupation, you usually need a high school diploma.
2. You usually need several years' experience in your industry, either in railway operations or as a driver of motor transport or ground transport equipment.
3. To be a supervisor in railway transport operations, you need various railway operating certificates.
4. Most recent entrants have a community college diploma.
2. Computer-related courses
3. English (Communication)
The average hourly wages for Supervisors, Railway and Motor Transportation Occupations is $21.89/HR, which is above average for occupations in the trades, transport and equipment operators sector and above average for all technical, professional, and skilled occupations. These wages grew at an above-average rate from 2002 to 2004. | <urn:uuid:c6629ec5-aa23-4bfe-81c2-ce1639df0045> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.studentscholarships.org/salary_ca/165/supervisors_railway_and_motor_transportation_occupations.php | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560284405.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095124-00032-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943296 | 304 | 2.640625 | 3 |
WIND-GENERATED WAVES FOR LABORATORY STUDIES
Mechanically generated, regular waves are used in laboratory wave basins and channels for testing engineering designs for the coastal zone. Wind-generated waves in the laboratory display irregularity, suggestive of the irregularity of the open sea. It has been suggested that the validity of laboratory tests would be increased if the laboratory waves were generated by wind. Examination of a simple approach to wave forecasting, based on dimensional analysis, leads to the conclusion that wind-generated waves in the laboratory cannot be expected to have the same form as prototype waves unless they correspond to equivalent scaled fetches. Very low windspeeds must be used to produce waves that are anywhere near fully developed in a laboratory facility of moderate length. The resulting waves are too small to be of much value in testing designs. An examination of the microscale procedures, now believed to be responsible for wave growth and of some secondary flow characteristics of wind tunnels, indicates that the relative importance of the mechanisms for wave generation in wind channels is very different from that in unconfined airspaces.
Coastal Engineering Research CenterVicksburg, MI United States
- Harris, D L
- Publication Date: 1976-8
- Pagination: 46 p.
- TRT Terms: Electromagnetic spectrum; Wind waves
- Uncontrolled Terms: Scale effect
- Old TRIS Terms: Wave generation
- Subject Areas: Design; Marine Transportation;
- Accession Number: 00147770
- Record Type: Publication
- Source Agency: National Technical Information Service
- Report/Paper Numbers: CERC-TP-76-12 Tech Pap.
- Files: TRIS
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Putin national policy overview sparks new patriotic movement
The new movement will hold its first congress in a month, said Rogozin, former envoy to NATO and Russia’s deputy prime minister in charge of the military industrial complex.
On Monday, Prime Minister and presidential hopeful Putin published an article, where he outlined his view on the country’s national policy, suggesting ways of overcoming such problems as ethnic clashes and national and religious intolerance. He called for the creation of a new state body that would deal with national policy issues and also suggested toughening immigration rules and introducing compulsory Russian language exams for migrants.
Rogozin said he agrees with all premier’s statements. “He is absolutely right concerning the role of Russians as the gatherers of the Russian lands,” the politician observed, as cited by Interfax.
The Deputy PM pointed out that Russians have always treated with respect people belonging to other ethnic groups or religions.
“Any ideas that are aimed at making our fatherland stronger will be welcomed, while those aimed at weakening its power will be countered,” Rogozin stressed.
Rogozin first spoke of the need to create a movement in support of the Army and defense industry in his article published on January 18 on the website of the Popular Front – Putin’s brain child that unites various organizations, activists, businessmen and individuals who support the premier and his ideas.
“Today is the moment of truth for Russia. Either our country puts up with an average but stable role, or it makes a quality breakthrough and gets back the status of a great world power,” Rogozin said. In order to achieve that, Russia should rapidly restore its scientific, industrial and military might, he added. | <urn:uuid:9c0480eb-80ab-4902-822e-e34f66251216> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.rt.com/politics/rogozin-patriotic-movement-army-643/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285289.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00154-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.960808 | 360 | 1.695313 | 2 |
Changing DNS Settings
If you are located off-campus and using CAE's DNS servers, here's how to change that to a server that will be able to perform all your address look-ups for you. You can check if this applies to you by following these instructions. You can also use the instructions to help you navigate to the IPv4 Properties so you can change the settings.
- Navigate to Start : Control Panel : Network and Internet : Network and Sharing Center : Local Area Connection : Properties : Internet Protocol Version 4 (properties). You can select Internet Protocol Version 6 if you prefer, as the same DNS information in in both places.
- At the bottom of the tab that will appear, you have the option to Obtain DNS server address automatically, or to Use the following DNS server addresses. Either one is fine.
- If you choose to obtain automatically, this will fill in with the DNS servers addresses of whatever network you are using. If you are satisfied with your internet service provider, you can select this option. If you are using a mobile device and select this option, the information is automatically updated every time you get a new internet connection.
- If you prefer to designate the servers to be used, there are a number of free options available. Following is a short selection. There are other options in addition to these. Each provides the server addresses and other configuration information that may be necessary. Some provide additional services or filtering as well.
- Once you have selected the service that you will use, click the button next to Use the following DNS server addresses. This will allow you to type in the addresses for the service you have selected. Check the box to validate as well, so you can be sure the settings you enter will work.
- Click OK, and you're all set. If the validation does not succeed, you can double-check the numbers entered, or select a different service. | <urn:uuid:02e3694e-03a2-42cd-b37b-cec7690ee490> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://kb.wisconsin.edu/15731 | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571989.67/warc/CC-MAIN-20220813232744-20220814022744-00474.warc.gz | en | 0.896593 | 390 | 2.40625 | 2 |
Edited by Stephen Gilchrist, with contributions by Sally Butler, John Carty, Jennifer Deger, Françoise Dussart, N. Bruce
Duthu, Stephen Gilchrist, Brian P. Kennedy, Howard Morphy, Will Owen, and Henry F. Skerritt
2012, 184 pages
paper, ISBN # 978-0-944722-44-2
This publication highlights the extraordinary Owen and Wagner collection at the Hood Museum of Art, Dartmouth College, through its reproduction of more than 120 works of contemporary Aboriginal Australian art. These objects, in styles both traditional and contemporary, are by artists from outback communities as well as major metropolitan centers and span five decades of creative activity. They also represent the many art-making practices of Aboriginal peoples across the Australian continent. Essay contributions feature established and upcoming scholars including Hood curator and volume editor Stephen Gilchrist. | <urn:uuid:44192234-0d9b-45a5-8b1d-66c6fe385b2a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://hoodmuseum.dartmouth.edu/explore/print-archive/crossing-cultures-owen-and-wagner-collection-contemporary-aboriginal | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882570921.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20220809094531-20220809124531-00275.warc.gz | en | 0.902253 | 178 | 1.96875 | 2 |
Stage 1 | Subject outline | version control
Accredited in May 2015 for teaching at Stage 1 from 2016
Stage 1 | Subject outline | Subject description
English is a 10-credit subject or a 20-credit subject at Stage 1.
In English students analyse the interrelationship of author, text, and audience with an emphasis on how language and stylistic features shape ideas and perspectives in a range of contexts. They consider social, cultural, economic, historical, and/or political perspectives in texts and their representation of human experience and the world.
Students explore how the purpose of a text is achieved through application of text conventions and stylistic choices to position the audience to respond to ideas and perspectives. An understanding of purpose, audience, and context is applied in students’ own creation of imaginative, interpretive, analytical, and persuasive texts that may be written, oral, and/or multimodal.
Students have opportunities to reflect on their personal values and those of other people by responding to aesthetic and cultural aspects of texts from the contemporary world, from the past, and from Australian and other cultures. | <urn:uuid:b2b08e50-8640-46de-8c87-9beed099819a> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.sace.sa.edu.au/web/english/stage-1/subject-outline/subject-description | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882573667.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20220819100644-20220819130644-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.907081 | 235 | 2.75 | 3 |
Meralgia Paresthetica Treatment
Meralgia Paresthetica | Burning Thigh Pain
What is Meralgia Paresthetica?
What causes Meralgia Paresthetica?
Some people won’t get the symptoms checked out because the symptoms lessen when they avoid what exacerbates it. Many brush it off the feeling as something they get “when they wear something too tight” or “overdo it.” But If the diagnosis is late or missed entirely, a patient can suffer permanent disability. Pain can keep increasing, and leaving it untreated can lead to paralysis
Most common causes for Meralgia Paresthetica include:
Meralgia Paresthetica treatment
How can doctors know meralgia paresthetica is the problem, and not something else? After all, it’s often misdiagnosed. To start, your doctor will look for clusters of risks and symptoms when they review your health history. And if your symptoms are relieved by a local anesthetic nerve block, your doctor can usually confirm that meralgia paresthetic is the right diagnosis.
If your doctor suspects that meralgia paresthetica is the problem, they’ll start you out with some conservative measures. For many people, symptoms resolve on their own, like with a pregnancy.
Some common treatments for Meralgia Paresthetica include:
Julie suffered from Peripheral Neuropathy pain for more than a decade. She tried many different treatments ranging from the standard to the bizarre....
Damage to the Posterior Femoral Cutaneous Nerve can be a tricky problem to diagnose since it can manifest as sciatica pain which can also be from...
Many patients with nerve pain waste months even years trying treatments such as injections or physical therapy. In reality surgery is usually the only way to get permanent relief. | <urn:uuid:1510bc28-1f9c-449a-a985-f75fe8ef786d> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://nevadanervesurgery.org/conditions-we-treat/meralgia-paresthetica/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572581.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20220816211628-20220817001628-00069.warc.gz | en | 0.935074 | 397 | 1.65625 | 2 |
The new collector label Solergy has just been created and has already sparked a lot of debate in Germany. On the one hand, there is a growing number of collector manufacturers, associations and also the certification body DIN Certco – which are supporting the implementation of the label (see the list of logos at the beginning of November). On the other hand, there are the European bodies relevant to the solar thermal sector, such as the European Solar Thermal Industry Federation (ESTIF) and the Solar Keymark Network (SKN), which are not in favour of Solergy, although they do fancy the idea behind such a collector energy output label. To understand the reasons for the controversy, one has to look at the evolution of the label.
Solergy was developed in 2014 by Stefan Abrecht, General Manager of German company Solar Experience. The reason behind it: The European energy label for heating and hot water systems, which has been mandatory since September 2015, does not give solar thermal technology the prominence it deserves. “According to EU directives, solar collectors are not heating devices, but can only improve the efficiency of conventional boilers in hybrid solutions,” Abrecht criticises EU legislation in an interview on the ecoquent website. The collector label will again increase customer awareness of solar collectors as the one and only renewable heating technology with the greatest potential, Abrecht is quoted. It will also help to increase transparency regarding the collector performance of different models.
Collector label based on Solar Keymark certificate
Solergy is based on the second sheet of Solar Keymark certificates
, which was introduced by SKN at the beginning of 2012, but has not been that visible to consumers up to now. This sheet includes the annual collector unit output at different solar radiation sites in Europe (Stockholm, Davos, Würzburg and Athens) and for various average collector temperatures of 25, 50 and 75 °C. Based on the collector energy output stated on this certification sheet, Abrecht developed efficiency categories, as well as a design for the label which refers to the energy label stipulated by the European Commission.
Design of Solergy label created by Stefan Abrecht. The managing director of the German company Solar Experience, gives all interested companies the free-of charge usage rights.
European sector bodies call for broad industry support
The Solergy collector label was discussed at the Solar Keymark Network meeting in Paris, France, in October and the participating certification experts issued the following joint statement: “The Solar Keymark Network supports the idea of a harmonised voluntary energy label for solar collectors and solar thermal only systems. One requirement for this label will be that the data used for the labelling is based on the Solar Keymark data sheets listed in the Solar Keymark database.” To understand the diplomatic response, it needs a more straightforward answer by SKN’s Chairman, Harald Drück: “We do not directly support the Solergy label, because the initiative is predominantly limited to Germany and lacks broad industry support.” The SKN includes instead the further elaboration of a solar collector energy output label with regard to technical and legal issues as one of the topics for the next call of the Solar Certification Fund
that will be published by the end of November 2015.
ESTIF’s board came to the same conclusion, saying that the “development of a collector label is an interesting prospect for the marketing of solar thermal collectors” and that the board “supports this idea to be further developed”. Although “understanding the urgency that some stakeholders give to the matter, the ESTIF Board stresses that this should be a joint industry initiative, resulting from broad consensus across the sector.”
DIN Certco Registration of Solergy labels could start at the beginning of 2016
As the creator and initiator of the collector label and the related calculation methodology, Abrecht gives all interested companies free-of-charge usage rights to it. A group of supportive businesses – among them in the first row of advocates, Ritter Umwelt- and Energietechnik – already followed through with label implementation, knowing that there is no time to wait for the European bodies to act. They formed the initiative Sonnenheizung (Initiative Solar Heating), brought together manufacturers and associations in support of the label developed by Abrecht and published them on a newly created website: http://solar-heating-initiative.com/. “We launched Solergy in September, at the same time when the EU labelling for heaters came into force,” explains Abrecht. “Hence, solar manufacturers have the possibility to show the performance of their collectors like conventional boiler manufacturers can.”
DIN Certco, the German certification body which is also responsible for issuing Solar Keymark certificates, is one of the label’s supporters. “We plan to start issuing and registering Solergy labels in January 2016, assuming general approval by the European Commission,” announces Achim Sadenwater, Product Manager Solar at DIN Certco in Berlin. An official request by Initiative Sonnenheizung was sent to the commission at the end of October, asking for approval of Solergy so as to ensure it does not oppose official EU energy labelling. “We plan to offer collector manufacturers the issue of voluntary collector labels for a certain fee and will publish a register of already issued labels online,” Sadenwater explains the support given to the initiative. But, obviously, this was again too slow for the label’s supporters: For example, Ritter has already delivered collectors with the Solergy label to some of its customers. Abrecht reports that there have been eight companies applying for the label so far and according to his information, German collector manufacturer Westech and Austrian solar thermal system supplier Riposol have already introduced the label to the market as well. | <urn:uuid:200021f1-3276-4fd7-b4a3-76b05b217cbe> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.solarthermalworld.org/content/germany-debate-about-voluntary-collector-output-label-solergy | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560285315.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095125-00574-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.942868 | 1,219 | 1.796875 | 2 |
Answer: It sounds like your tree may be suffering from peach leaf curl, a fungal disease which causes the symptoms you describe--newly emerging leaves become puckered and leathery-feeling, then turn brown. Mild infections can be kept in check with diligent pruning--remove affected areas immediately and destroy. Healthy trees will be able to withstand some infection, so be sure your tree gets plenty of water and nutrients. An annual mulching with well-rotted compost will help. If you see the infection spreading throughout the tree, contact your county Extension agent for your spray options for your region. Their number is 202/274-6900.
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Team painting, graffiti, sculpting or music is a great way to open the mind and approach problem solving. It has to be done correctly though…
Creative events provide a great opportunity for teams to socialise, break down barriers and unleash their more extrovert personalities. By working together, teams are strengthened and become focussed on a single goal – a final piece of art, a sculpture made of ice or an elaborate song or dance.
As a HR Manager or Corporate Event Manager, there are 5 rules to follow to ensure all goes to plan!
THE 5 RULES
1. Align the activity with company or meeting objectives. Artistic activities may not seem productive or conducive to team development unless a correlation with professional goals is explained. The organiser should briefly outline what the teams are going to achieve and of course make sure the group knows what the final outcome will be – a picture representing a new idea, a sculpture incorporating the company logo or a song and dance showing off a new product line.
2. Help participants feel comfortable. This is a key element as it’s hard to be creative in a tense environment. What makes your team relax? Aperitif with wine and food or do they require a pre-event ice breaker exercise?
3. Think about the venue. Will your group work best in the office cafeteria they know so well or will they appreciate something unique? On the edge of a lake, up a mountain or in a historical castle? It pays to invest time and (where needed) money to ensure the venue in conducive to your goals.
4. Rely on professional expertise. By using trained facilitators and experts in the team building field, you will not only ensure that the day runs smoothly but also benefit from the facilitators skills in bringing the best out of your team and may help to encourage out-of-the-box thinking.
5. Ask for feedback. Not only from your team but from the professionals you have working for you too. Don’t forget they do this for a living and they see a LOT of interesting things and know what could be improved or what went exceptionally well.
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There’s a gender gap when it comes to income, but is there one as well when it comes to owners receiving business loans? According to a congressional report issued this week, there is a huge disparity between what women and men receive when it comes to small business loans.
The report, which was issued by the Senate Small Business andamp; Entrepreneurship Committee, points out that women own 30% of small businesses in the U.S. — yet they only receive 4.4% of conventional small business loans in terms of dollars given. When it comes to the loans themselves, women receive only 16% of conventional loans, and 17% of loans which come backed by the Small Business Administration.
“It’s important for all business owners, women and men, having difficulty receiving the funding they need, to be aware of the array of alternative solutions to bank-based lending. At LendSpark, we recognize and understand the frustrations of these business owners and are experts in the options available today. When a business comes to LendSpark after being turned down by a bank, we are able to examine the business and determine the best alternative option for them, whether it be an Asset Based loan, Equipment Financing or Invoice Factoring to name a few” says Todd Stichler, Co-Founder of LendSpark, a Carlsbad based lending and advisory firm.
Additionally, the report found that loan applications are more likely to be denied if the company is owned by a woman, and the loans they do receive are likely to have less flexible terms. When it comes to venture-capital funding, women receive a low 7% of the total.
“The numbers are jarring, for sure, and we need to own up to the fact that we want to see more women entrepreneurs and to make sure they’re getting access to capital,” said Senator Maria Cantwell, the committee’s chairwoman.
The report indicated that Congress needs to take steps in order to support women-owned businesses. As 30% of all small companies, helping them reach their goals will have an impact on the overall economy’s success. The report noted that even though Congress, in 1994, set a goal of awarding 5% of federal contract dollars to women-owned small businesses, it has never come closer than 4% since then.
“Women entrepreneurs still face a glass ceiling,” cautions the report.
Although it’s clear that something needs to be done, exactly why are women-owned businesses receiving so few loans? There are likely several reasons. In addition to an environment where female entrepreneurs are frequently perceived as less competent than their male counterparts, there is often a lack of knowledge regarding the available small business loans to begin with.
Women often miss out on “legacy knowledge” — an understanding of what to do, and how to find funding, passed from business owner to business owner. For this reason, establishing additional mentorship programs could help connect female entrepreneurs to each other in positive ways.
spark loan, spark funding cash advance, san diego commercial and business financing, san diego equipment leasing, lend solutions. | <urn:uuid:20936ab3-eb93-47e1-be42-d950e0ac2dff> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://worldnewsstand.net/glass-ceiling-exists-female-entrepreneurs-seeking-small-business-loans-says-new-report/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882571745.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20220812170436-20220812200436-00468.warc.gz | en | 0.973436 | 661 | 1.9375 | 2 |
Glorifying Jesus through Costly Discipleship
The call to "follow" Jesus has been severely watered down through the passing centuries. In today's culture, "following Jesus" can simply mean upholding certain moral standards or having zeal for certain causes. In modernity, the gospel has turned into a message self-affirmation for the glory of man, not self-denial for the glory of Jesus.
In this teaching, Stephen Venable walks through each phrase of Jesus' call to discipleship in Luke 9, describing the normal lifestyle of the believer - self-denial, suffering, yet filled with unspeakable joy for the glory of Jesus.
Stephen gave this sermon in December 2010 at onething 2010. | <urn:uuid:781fbaad-0111-4252-b90b-8381cf7cb22e> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.joshuahawkins.com/resources/audio/glorifying-jesus-through-costly-discipleship | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560279915.8/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095119-00276-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930037 | 149 | 2.03125 | 2 |
By Sayer Ji
Early detection through x-ray mammography has been the clarion call of Breast Cancer Awareness campaigns for a quarter of a century now.
However, very little progress has been made in making the public aware of the crucial differences between non-malignant lesions/tumors and invasive or non-invasive cancers detected through this technology.
When all forms of breast pathology are looked at in the aggregate, irrespective of their relative risk for harm, disease of the breast takes on the appearance of a monolithic entity that you either have, or don't have; they call it breast cancer.
The concept of a breast cancer that has no symptoms, which cannot be diagnosed through manual palpation of the breast and does not become invasive in the vast majority of cases, might sound unbelievable to most women.
However, there does exist a rather mysterious clinical anomaly known as Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS), which is, in fact, one of the most commonly diagnosed and unnecessarily treated forms of 'breast cancer' today.
What women fail to understand -- because their physicians do not know better or have not taken care to explain to them -- is that they have a choice when diagnosed with DCIS.
Rather than succumb to aggressive treatment with surgery, radiation and chemo-drugs, women can choose watchful waiting.
Better yet, a radical lifestyle change can be embraced focused on eliminating exposure to chemicals and radiation, as well as improved exercise and nutrition.
Unfortunately this choice is not being made in most cases because the medical community is not informing their patients that there is one.
This article aims to fill the information gap in order to educate and empower women who, by accident or design, have been or are at threat of being misdiagnosed and consequently mistreated (in more ways than one) by the medical establishment.
Ductal Carcinoma in Situ: Breast Cancer or Benign Lesion?
Up to 33 percent of new breast cancer diagnoses obtained through x-ray mammography screenings are classified as Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS). DCIS refers to the abnormal growth of cells within the milk ducts of the breast forming a lesion commonly between 1-1.5 cm in diameter, and is considered non-invasive or "stage zero breast cancer," with some experts arguing for its complete re-classification as a non-cancerous condition.
Because DCIS is almost invariably asymptomatic and has no palpable lesions, it would not be known as a clinically relevant entity were it not for the use of x-ray diagnostic technology.
Indeed, it was not until the development and widespread application of mammography in the early 1980s as the central push behind National Breast Cancer Awareness campaigns that rates of DCIS diagnosis began to expand to their present day epidemic proportions.1 It is no wonder, therefore, that the United States, which has one of the highest x-ray mammography rates, also has the highest level of DCIS in the world.
As of January 2005, an estimated one-half million U.S. women were living with a diagnosis of DCIS.2
Proponents of breast screenings claim they are "saving lives" through the "early detection" and treatment of DCIS, regarding it as a potentially life-threatening condition, indistinct from actually invasive cancers. They view DCIS a priori as "pre-cancerous" and argue that, because it could cause harm if left untreated it should be treated in the same aggressive manner as invasive cancer.
The problem with this approach is that while the rate at which DCIS progresses to invasive cancer is still largely unknown, the weight of evidence indicates that it is significantly less than 50 percent -- perhaps as low as 2-4 percent.
Indeed, the 10-year survival rates of patients with DCIS (96 percent-98 percent) post-treatment speaks volumes to the relatively benign nature of the condition.3,8 Another study found that at the 40-year follow-up period, 40 percent of DCIS lesions still had no signs of invasiveness.4 Adding even more uncertainty, another study showed that coexisting ductal carcinoma in situ independently predicts lower tumor aggressiveness in node-positive luminal breast cancer, indicating its possibly protective role.5
Is Watchful Waiting the More Intelligent Approach?
A solid argument can be made that watchful waiting is the most appropriate response to the diagnosis of DCIS, and that in many cases DCIS would be better left overdiagnosed and under-treated.
As one paper discusses:
"The central harm of screening is overdiagnosis—the detection of abnormalities that meet the pathologic definition of cancer but will never progress to cause symptoms."
A solid body of evidence has emerged suggesting that when DCIS is left undiagnosed and untreated rarely will it become malignant. DCIS was in fact poorly named from the outset, as it is does not behave like most carcinomas (cancers). Cancer, like the constellation named after it, derives from the Greek word for CRAB, indicating the manner in which is expands outward in uncontrolled growth. In situ means exactly the opposite, "in place." An unmoving cancer is therefore a contradiction in terms. These problems with classification have not gone unnoticed in the medical journals:
"Despite the presence of the word "carcinoma," ductal carcinoma in situ (DCIS) is the poster child for this problem (a senior pathologist involved in developing classification systems confided to one of us that he regretted the use of the term carcinoma in DCIS).
No one believes that DCIS always progresses to invasive cancer, and no one believes it never does. Although no one is sure what the probability of progression is, studies of DCIS that were missed at biopsy (1,2) and the autopsy reservoir (3) suggest that the lifetime risk of progression must be considerably less than 50 percent."
The true irony here is that while participation in x-ray mammography is considered by the public a form of breast cancer prevention and "watchful waiting," it has become -- whether by design or accident -- a very effective way of manufacturing false breast cancer diagnoses and justifying unnecessary treatment.
This is not unlike what has been seen with prostate cancer screenings that track Prostate Specific Antigen (PSA); the aggressive treatment of lesions/tumors identified through PSA markers may actually increase patient mortality relative to doing nothing at all. Women diagnosed with DCIS are simply not given the option to decline treatment. The problem is illustrated below:
"Because the "best guess" is that most DCIS won't progress to invasive cancer, the risk of overdiagnosis would be expected to be greater than 50 percent. The problem with overdiagnosis is that it leads to overtreatment. Because it is impossible to determine which individuals are overdiagnosed, almost everyone gets treated as if they had invasive cancer."
Overdiagnosis is a huge problem, discussed in greater depth here:
"Overdiagnosis plays havoc with our understanding of cancer statistics. Because overdiagnosis effectively changes a healthy person into a diseased one, it causes overestimations of the sensitivity, specificity, and positive predictive value of screening tests and the incidence of disease (13). As the MLP and a recent analysis of Surveillance, Epidemiology, and End Results (SEER)1 data illustrate (14), overdiagnosis also markedly increases the length of survival, regardless of whether screening or associated treatments are actually effective.
However, overdiagnosis does not reduce disease-specific mortality because treating subjects with pseudodisease does not help those who have real disease. Consequently, disease-specific mortality is the most valid end point for the evaluation of screening effectiveness."
Ultimately DCIS overdiagnoses contribute to the appearance that conventional breast cancer screenings and treatments are more successful and less harmful than they actually are, while at the same time making the industry far more profitable than otherwise would be the case.
Groundbreaking New Finding: Many Invasive Breast Tumors Spontaneously Regress When Left Untreated
A new study published in The Lancet Oncology describes the natural history of breast cancers detected in the Swedish mammography screening program between 1986 to 1990, involving 650,000 women.
Due to the fact that breast lesions and tumors like DCIS, and even so-called "invasive" breast cancers, are aggressively removed and/or treated before they can be determined with any certainty to be a clear and present threat to health, there has been little to no research on what happens when they are left alone, i.e. their natural history. This study shows for the first time that women who received the most breast screenings had a higher 6-year cumulative incidence of invasive breast cancer than the control group who received far less. The study concludes:
"Because the cumulative incidence among controls did not reach that of the screened group, we believe that many invasive breast cancers detected by repeated mammography screening do not persist to be detected by screening at the end of 6 years, suggesting that the natural course of many of the screen-detected invasive breast cancers is to spontaneously regress."
Should we be so surprised?
Given that breast cancer is not caused by a lack of breast screenings, surgery, radiation, and chemotherapy, it should not be so difficult to understand that if the body is given an opportunity to heal itself, it will often do so. And what better way is there to promote healing than to AVOID unnecessary diagnostic and surgical procedures and chemical and radiation exposures?
New Study Shows Experts Agree that Annual Mammograms Radically Increase False Diagnosis
New research funded by the National Cancer Institute and published in the Annals of Internal Medicine actually revealed that getting an annual mammogram leads to an increased risk of false-positive results and unnecessary biopsies compared to getting a mammogram every other year.
After analyzing more than 386,000 mammograms from about 170,000 women over a 10-year period, the study found 61 percent of those who received annual mammograms would be called in for a follow-up at least once when in fact they did not have cancer. An additional 7-9 percent would receive an unnecessary biopsy. This is compared to 42 percent and 5-6 percent of the women, respectively, who had a mammogram every other year.
Further, the research showed that annual mammograms were not more effective at identifying late-stage cancers compared to the every-other-year group … The overall results led lead researcher Rebecca Hubbard to say that false positives are simply "part of the process of screening mammography." Unfortunately, this also means many women are exposed to increased stress as well as potentially invasive and potentially harmful treatments for absolutely no reason.
(Mis)treatment of DCIS
For most of the twentieth century mastectomy was the first line treatment for Ductal Carcinoma In Situ (DCIS), with younger patients more likely to undergo the procedure. Even after lumpectomy and radiotherapy were shown to be at least as effective for invasive cancer, still in 2002, 26 percent of DCIS patients were still receiving mastectomy.6
The most common scenario today following diagnosis of DCIS is for the oncologist to recommend lumpectomy, followed by intrinsically harmful radiation and hormone suppressive therapies such as Arimidex and Tamoxifen.
The tragedy here is that women are not being made to understand the nature of DCIS or the concept of "non-progressive" breast cancers. There is still the black and white perception out there that you either have cancer, or do not have cancer. In a poll on DCIS awareness published in 2000, 94 percent of women studied doubted the possibility of non-progressive breast cancers.7 In other words, these women had no understanding of the nature of DCIS.
And why should they?
Major authorities frame DCIS as "pre-cancerous," implying its inevitable transformation into cancer. When the standard of care for DCIS is to suggest the same types of treatment used to treat invasive cancer, very few women are provided with the information needed to make an informed decision.
The Dark Side of Breast Cancer Awareness Month - Part I
Natural Breast Cancer Research
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2. One Size Does Not Fit All
Providing SaaS and applications in the cloud is known for its scalability and practicality because organizations are sharing software and storing data in one database. Customers aren't just looking for a multitenant standardized system, they are looking for what's best for them, said Robins.
"It's not a question of one-size-fits-all. It’s the exact opposite," said Robins. "Each customer has a context, and they need a solution just for that context. While we can template our best practices to accelerate the provisioning of software, the customer is looking for a solution just for them, and it's about customizing."
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Catherine Wilson discusses work being carried out to understand diseases linked between people and animals in western Africa.
Janey Lowes, following on from the founding of the charity (part 1), looks at the practice of catch, neuter, vaccinate, release.28 mins
Janey Lowes, in the first of a three-part series, describes how a trip to Sri Lanka brought its stray dog problem to her attention and proved a life-changing experience.
Andrew Coe reports on his trip to India with VNs and staff from various UK institutions, where they learned how the country treats its animals and gives new life to strays.24 mins
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Claudia Hartley on Free the Bears’ work to save cubs from private owners in the Lao People’s Democratic Republic and difficulties performing eye surgery on them.15 mins
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Rakesh Chand reports on how the blocking of vital resources from India to Nepal caused a negative effect on the country’s veterinary centres, farmers and pet owners.
Jenny Jaffe, Liam Fitzpatrick, Ian Carter and Tony Sainsbury discuss the work of the Disease Risk Analysis and Health Surveillance for Interventions programme in safeguarding the health of endangered species.
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Colors United APKDownloads: 311 Updated: June 01, 2016 Category : Puzzle
by: Acun Medya Requires: Android 4.0 and upPrice:free
Colors United Description
Colors United is a puzzle game where players have to make all the squares on each level the same color. You start off being able to control the color of only one square, and when you change it to a different color, it will join up with all the other matching ones.
How to handle it?
★ Flood all cells in the field with one shade by using as few turns as possible
★ In every move you pick a tone and you try to capture the surrounding figures with the color of your choosing.
★ Plan your moves efficiently because the jazziness of united colors can be rough sometimes.
★ You will be rewarded with three stars if you can finish the level with two remaining moves
★In each level, there is a bonus task. If you can unlock them, you will be able to play bonus levels.
★ Rules change with levels. There is always a new object to tackle in and you should renew your strategy for each level to cope.
★ Board is sorted in a randomly generated order. On very rare occasions, there is a chance that the board becomes easier or harder than other boards of the repeated levels.
★ Circle: A circle can capture all its surrounding figures.
★ Square: A square invades only 4 neighboring squares. Corners are not counted.
★ Diamond: Diamonds are just like squares. They only connect with adjacent objects that are touching via edges.
★ Hex: A hex is connected with all surrounding objects. So both edges and corners are counted.
While playing, you will constantly find yourself in awkward situations that will force you to think and concentrate even harder. Even if you feel desperate at one point or another, by playing carefully and calmly you can see that each level has an optimal solution.
With this simple process you’ll have to try to turn all the squares on each level the same color. And you’ll get a bonus if you can get the final color to match the color of that particular level. Of course, ending up with one specific color is more difficult and will definitely require some strategy.
Altogether, Colors United has more than 75 different levels, including some bonus levels that you’ll be able to access if you beat all the other ones. You’ll also be able to play Colors United against a friend (or the computer) in a versus mode that’s very entertaining.
Colors United is a puzzle game that's as original as it is fun. It also has some really beautiful graphics. A perfect game for touchscreen devices that will keep you hooked for hours.
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- Requires: Android 4.0 and up
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- Colors United V1.4.1 Apk File [free] Date: 2016-06-04
What's New in Colors United
- - Deleted not important permissions
- - Fixed one visual bug with smiles
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I.S238 FIAMA L. HERNANDEZ
THE AGE OF EXPLORATION
In the late 1400's came an era known as the age of exploration. In this age it was that Christopher
Columbus this covered america a.k.a the new world. When this happened people became curious and
anxious to see the new world. The result of this was that soon many people came to america hoping
to start new lives. this passage will be on why, when, and the effect they had on the new world.
Back the in those times people believed that the world was flat. they thought that if you kept going you
would eventually reach the edge of the world and fall of into a pit of sea monsters. Christopher
Columbus changed that though. With the exploration he made it made people realize that the world
was not flat. The original plan was for him to find a new trading route to asia of course he didn't expect
to discover america. Columbus believed that if he went straight he would end up in asia. though what
he didn't know was that america was in between euro[pe and asia. what a surprise to land on the
shores of america.
THE TRADE WITH THE NATIVE AMERICANS
On america living there were the native americans. The english traded with them for many things.
such as, if the native americans gave the british animal pelts they would receive iron kettles and
nails in return. Of course not always was trading a good thing. one of the things that the english traded
with them although unwillingly was disease. since the was new to them this killed the native
americans. this explains that sometimes trade isn't good.
THE IMPACT OF THE NEW WORLD
COLONIZATION I EUROPE AFFAIRS
European colonization had big impacts on the new world. This was in especially for the indians.
because of this they lost land, people, food and self-sufficiency with the intrusion of the british. They
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Muskmelons belong to the cucurbit family, which includes cucumber, squash and pumpkin. Honeydew and cantaloupe are three common muskmelons. As such, these fruits experience a number of plant diseases that vegetable growers should be familiar with. Muskmelon diseases are caused by fungus living in the soil, so gardeners that experience disease must treat or remove the soil before planting melons again.
Melon plant leaves can contract powdery mildew, a fungal disease that leaves foliage and plant stems coated in a fine white dust. Affected plants develop fewer melon, and the melon is of poor quality. The disease occurs most frequently in humid or wet weather. Gardeners can plant muskmelon varieties that are naturally resistant to powdery mildew or can treat infected plants with copper-based fungicide.
Alternaria leaf spot affects melon plant leaves. Symptoms include spotting of the leaves; as the infection worsens, the lesions grow larger and display concentric rings. Lesions range in color from yellow to tan. The leaves also dry out and curl at the edges. The fungus that causes Alternaria leaf spot thrives in wet, warm weather. Gardeners can treat this disease preventatively (and not retroactively) using fungicides containing mancozeb.
Another fungal disease, anthracnose, affects both the fruit and the leaves of muskmelons. Fruits develop dark indented lesions on the rind. Leaves develop yellow, tan or black blotches and can dry out. Cantaloupe is less susceptible than other muskmelons, according to North Carolina State University. Gardeners can plant disease resistant varieties or treat infected plants with fungicide. North Carolina State University advises gardeners to check with their local county extension office, since approved fungicides vary from year to year.
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¿Cómo se dice “hacer la cama” en inglés? =Make the bed. 1. I made the bed at 9.30 am yesterday. 2. I hate making the bed. It’s boring!
¿Cómo se dice “ir a comprar ropa” en inglés? =Go shopping for clothes 1. My sister loves going shopping for clothes. 2. -Next Saturday I’m going to go shopping for clothes. Would you like to come? –No way! I’ll be reading Kafka at home.
¿Cómo se dice “me recuerda a…” en inglés? =Reminds me of 1. That girl reminds me of my sister. 2. That toy reminds of my childhood…I would play with it after finishing my homework.
¿Cómo se dice “ir al cine” en inglés? =Go to the cinema. 1. I’m going to go to the cinema with Peter next Friday night. 2. Last weekend, we went to the cinema with some old friends of mine.
¿Cómo se dice “estoy cansado de…” en inglés? =Be tired of (+ing)… 1. She’s tired of eating rice every day. 2. She was tired of arguing with her husband, that’s why they split up.
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Miroslav N. Jovanovic, "Economics of International Integration"
Edward Elgar Publishing (May 30, 2006) | ISBN: 1845422716 | 928 pages | PDF | 3 Mb
`The practices of land use planning are being given increasing attention these days in the challenge to create sustainable environments of high quality, available to everyone. This collection performs a valuable service in making available some key materials and debates about the concepts and practices of such planning.'
- Patsy Healey, University of Newcastle, UK
`This volume is comprehensive in its coverage of decades of academic thinking about land use planning from both sides of the Atlantic. At the same time, the editors show fierce determination to focus on the main arguments. This reader is sure to eclipse other offers on the research resource market.'
- Andreas Faludi, Delft University of Technology, The Netherlands
This is an authoritative collection of papers that are generally regarded as landmarks in the history of land use planning in the western world. A wide variety of leading articles have been selected for this comprehensive volume, which covers topics such as: urban form and urban dynamics; urban development and methods of urban analysis; land use planning methods and network cities and urban networks. The articles span both time and geography and will appeal to scholars and practitioners alike.
24 articles, dating from 1903 to 2002
Contributors include: W. Alonso, F.S. Chapin, R. Florida, J. Gottman, S. Graham, P. Healey, P. Hall, E. Howard, S. Marvin, L. Mumford
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New Internet of Things Research Hub announced
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Ed Vaizey, Minister of State for Culture and the Digital Economy, has today confirmed a new interdisciplinary Research Hub to drive forward UK research in the Internet of Things (IoT). The PETRAS consortium of nine leading UK universities will work together over the next three years to explore critical issues in privacy, ethics, trust, reliability, acceptability, and security.
Funding for the Hub includes a £9.8 million grant from the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC) which will be boosted by partner contributions to approximately £23 million in total.
The project is part of IoTUK, an integrated £40 million, three-year, Government programme that seeks to advance the UK's global leadership in IoT and increase the adoption of high quality IoT technologies and services throughout businesses and the public sector.
The Hub is a consortium of nine leading universities led by UCL with Imperial College London, University of Oxford, University of Warwick, Lancaster University, University of Southampton, University of Surrey, University of Edinburgh and Cardiff University. The Hub will draw in substantial support and leverage from over 47 partners from industry and the public sector.
Ed Vaizey, Digital Economy Minister, said:
UK universities are renowned for their creativity, and pioneering research and development. We want the UK to be a world leader in the adoption of Internet of Things technologies, and I know that bringing these universities together with partners from the UK's thriving tech industry will be instrumental in making this a reality.
Professor Philip Nelson, EPSRC's Chief Executive, said:
In the not too distant future almost all of our daily lives will be connected, in one way or another, to the digital world. Physical objects and devices will be able to interact with each other, ourselves, and the wider virtual world. But, before this can happen, there must be trust and confidence in how the Internet of Things works, its security and its resilience. By harnessing our world-leading research excellence this PETRAS research Hub will accelerate IoT technology innovation and bring benefit to society and business.
Designed to help create and deliver real-world impact, the investment will support the Hub's work over the next three years. The research will focus on the challenges associated with the IoT, including the various interactions, policy and governance, beliefs and behaviours between people and the IoT systems.
Professor Jeremy Watson, Hub Director and Vice-Dean of UCL Engineering, said:
We will maximize the economic and societal opportunities of the Internet of Things by removing barriers to adoption.
Working with business, public, and third sectors will enable the PETRAS IoT Hub members to investigate questions of safety, security, privacy and trust within real life settings.
The UK has the potential to be the world's most supportive environment for the development and deployment of a safe and secure Internet of Things. We will raise the bar using innovative collaborative and interdisciplinary research methods.
The PETRAS IoT Hub will focus on five themes:
- Privacy and trust (Lead Universities: Warwick, Oxford)
- Safety and security (Lead Universities: Imperial, Lancaster)
- Harnessing economic value (Lead Universities: Imperial, Oxford)
- Standards, governance and policy (Lead University: UCL)
- Adoption and acceptability (Lead Universities: Warwick, Lancaster)
Each theme has both a technical and a social science lead. The multidisciplinary nature of the PETRAS IoT Hub's work will enable research that aims to cause a step change in the way IoT systems are conceived, designed and implemented.
Across these themes, projects sharing core technologies will be linked in cross-cutting
- Infrastructure (Lead Universities: UCL, Cardiff, Warwick, Oxford)
- Health and care (Lead Universities: Imperial, Oxford)
- Control systems and supply chains (Lead Universities: Warwick, Lancaster, UCL)
- Ambient environments (Lead Universities: Lancaster, Surrey, Imperial, UCL, Edinburgh)
- Identification (Lead Universities: Warwick, Oxford)
- Transport and mobility (Lead Universities: Surrey, Lancaster, Imperial)
- Design and behaviour (Lead Universities: Warwick, UCL, Oxford)
Innovations will be created hand-in-hand with those who will use them, connecting cutting edge science and engineering, through social sciences to concrete action. By doing so, it will create the necessary solid foundations for technological innovations that are socially beneficial.
The initial 17 projects include large scale experiments at the Queen Elizabeth Olympic Park; the cybersecurity of low power body sensors and implants; understanding how individuals and companies can increase IoT security through better day-to-day practices; and ensuring that connected smart meters are not a threat to home security.
Future projects will adapt and respond to new issues, trends and innovations, as and when they emerge.
Evidenced based policymaking in the UK will be supported by the outputs of the PETRAS IoT Hub. Hub members aim to influence standards that facilitate interoperability and opening to new market entrants and inform policy options that are responsive to technological change whilst balancing potential benefits and harms.
Notes for Editors:
The funding for the research is led by the RCUK Digital Economy Theme, through the Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC), in conjunction with the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) and the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
IoT UK is an initiative between Government, industry, the research community and the public sector to help advance UK global leadership in the Internet of Things (IoT) and increase adoption of high quality IoT technologies and services by businesses and the public sector in the UK, benefiting citizens.
As part of this, Government (Department for Culture, Media and Sport, and the Department of Health) will invest up to £40 million between 2015 to 2018 in research, innovation and enterprise, including this cities demonstrator; healthcare demonstrators; a research hub focusing on privacy, security and trust; and activity for IoT innovators and entrepreneurs, for example demonstrations of technology, advice and incubation for small businesses specialising in IoT hardware.
The Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council (EPSRC)
As the main funding agency for engineering and physical sciences research, our vision is for the UK to be the best place in the world to Research, Discover and Innovate.
By investing £800 million a year in research and postgraduate training, we are building the knowledge and skills base needed to address the scientific and technological challenges facing the nation. Our portfolio covers a vast range of fields from healthcare technologies to structural engineering, manufacturing to mathematics, advanced materials to chemistry. The research we fund has impact across all sectors. It provides a platform for future economic development in the UK and improvements for everyone's health, lifestyle and culture.
We work collectively with our partners and other Research Councils on issues of common concern via Research Councils UK.
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Demand for an item is 1,000 units per year. Each order placed costs $10; the annual cost to carry items in inventory is $2 each.
a. In what quantities should the item be ordered?
b. Supposing a $100 discount on each order is given if orders are placed in quantities of 500 or more. Should orders be placed in quantities of 500, or should you stick to the decision you made in a?
a. We calculate the economic order quantity (EOQ) so as to minimize the total inventory carrying costs
EOQ = Square root ((2Xannual requirementXorder cost)/carrying cost)
annual requirement is 1,000
order cost is 10
carrying cost ...
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…and the Value of Clear Thinking
What is most likely to skew important decisions from the best-balanced choice? The biases we bring to the process of decision-making. Most risk in organizations today is not “from some exogenous contingent event, but rather is driven by the behaviors and decisions of people,” according to Enterprise Risk Management expert Robert F. Wolf, an actuary posting in the Harvard Business Review Blog Network.
This topic is explored in Nobel-Prize winner Daniel Kahneman’s groundbreaking book, Thinking, Fast and Slow , in which he describes the systematic irrationality of human beings and how our biases distort judgment even when facing simple problems and decisions. A few examples include our over-confidence in numbers—even when they are irrelevant or wrong, and our over-reliance on how information is presented in guiding our thinking.
Some biases have served us well for minimizing risks to bodily harm and for playing the odds of past experiences. But Wolf notes that bias is increasingly damaging in our knowledge-based work environment. Here what has worked in the past may not apply in the future or when circumstances arise that have never been experienced before. By falling back on our human biases, individuals add risk and overweight the significance of the wrong information.
What can we do to reduce bias and reduce the risks to key decisions? Kahneman is not hopeful about our ability to eliminate systemic human bias and to become rational beings. And Wolf stabs at it with specific cautions and actions that can be taken to reduce bias in risk management.
In our experience application of a structured, objective approach specifically addresses bias risks in decision-making. By focusing on the thinking pattern we use when making choices, we can identify what needs to be done, develop the specific criteria for its accomplishment, evaluate the available alternatives relative to those criteria, and identify the risks involved. A systematic approach helps clarify decision-making roles and responsibilities, sharpens the focus on the appropriate performance objectives for each decision, and provides a clear format for making and assessing recommendations.
Disciplined decision-making techniques provide a common language and logic that remove decision making from the realm of personal preference or idiosyncratic behavior in favor of agreements based upon rational consideration of tradeoffs.
Using an objective approach to the way decisions are made does not overcome bias and human fallibility but it can reduce their risks. At the very least, the structured process enables the decision maker to reduce the incidence of errors by providing a systematic framework for guiding rational thinking and for evaluating alternatives.
To explore how KT processes reduce irrationality within organizations, download Sam Bodley-Scott’s whitepaper, “Developing a Thinking Organization.” In this paper KT’s Bodley-Scott references Kahneman and explores why the thinking patterns we use to run the majority of our lives cannot, without modification, be relied upon to shape thinking within organizations. He shows how thinking patterns can be modified to produce superior performance for both individuals and teams and what actions can be taken to become a Thinking Organization.
Clear Thinking for a Complex World
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All of the operations in current feedstock supply systems are already functional today. These systems exist to supply virtually any cellulosic feedstock to a biorefinery facility, and most of the equipment is functioning in the forage, specialty crop, and/or forest products industries. As such, there are no shortages of conceptual designs for moving biomass feedstocks from the field to the biorefinery. Rather, the challenges for feedstock supply systems are to:
The logistical issues of feedstock supply systems are reasonably well-understood, and it is generally recognized that supply system logistics must be improved. Nevertheless, improving feedstock supply system logistics alone will not remove the most significant supply system barrier to achieving either the near- or longer- term cellulosic biofuel goals. When looking beyond a single biorefinery to an industry of biorefineries and commodity-scale cellulosic biomass supply systems, site-specific supply system logistics solutions will not be viable. For industrial-scale efficiency in the feedstock supply system, biomass handling must be minimized, and the numbers of unique types of equipment necessary to transport the various forms of cellulosic biomass from the field or forest to the biorefinery must be reduced. Achieving these biofuel goals can only be accomplished through development of a highly efficient commodity-like feedstock supply system consisting of modularized harvesting and preprocessing equipment that can be adapted to the diversity of feedstocks and yet connect to uniform commodity-scale receiving systems of “standardized” and highly replicable biorefinery designs. | <urn:uuid:dca1cd48-3943-4f16-9a5d-c85de733b7e6> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://bioenergy.psu.edu/crossover2007/abstracts/hess.asp | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281450.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00177-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.9143 | 320 | 2.59375 | 3 |
Ms. McMillan said she remembered Eunice Kennedy Shriver, the president’s sister, asking her at a Washington dinner party, “Why did Oswald hate my brother so?” To which she replied: “He didn’t. Oswald liked him. And he liked Jackie, too.”
But Ms. McMillan revealed Mr. Oswald as a confused, self-tutored Marxist who had soured on the American government’s aggressive prosecution of the Rosenberg atom spy ring and its lax enforcement of civil rights, and on capitalism’s exploitation of workers like his mother.
Ms. McMillan later told The Christian Science Monitor that while Mr. Oswald never mentioned Kennedy in that 1959 interview, he indicated that he had no qualms about resorting to murder as a political weapon. “From our conversation,” she added, “I could see that he was a man capable of a whole lot.”
In addition to writing “Marina and Lee,” Ms. McMillan translated “Twenty Letters to a Friend” (1967), a memoir by Svetlana Alliluyeva, Joseph Stalin’s daughter, who had defected to the United States, and wrote “The Ruin of J. Robert Oppenheimer and the Birth of the Modern Arms Race” (2005), about the scientist behind the atomic bomb who was falsely labeled a Soviet spy during the Red Scare of the 1950s.
“Priscilla combined the best traits of an investigative reporter, a scholar and an inquisitive citizen, pursuing exhaustive research and doing her best to be fair to all parties,” said Mark Kramer, director of the Cold War Studies Project at Harvard University’s Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies, where Ms. McMillan was an associate.
Steven Aftergood, director of the Project on Government Secrecy of the Federation of American Scientists, said that in the 1990s, “Priscilla helped inspire and support efforts to accelerate the declassification of Cold War U.S. government records.” He added, “She was a wonderfully generous colleague who was always ready to share her own findings and to support other authors and students in their research.”
In Ms. McMillan’s later years, her home in Cambridge, near Harvard, became something of a hostel for wayward students and scholars, a literary and political salon in the European tradition and a base for her campaigns on behalf of Soviet dissidents and other causes. | <urn:uuid:19c14794-4b1c-41b5-879f-d8d936e46714> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://cnnewstoday.com/3759/priscilla-mcmillan-who-knew-both-kennedy-and-oswald-dies-at-92/books/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572021.17/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814083156-20220814113156-00076.warc.gz | en | 0.965542 | 531 | 1.734375 | 2 |
Global Voices Online
Wednesday, February 7, 2007
Flickr user dittaeva, of Leikanger, Norway, traveled around Moldova with his brothers in the summer of 2006 and has photographed this mosaic on the way from the Chisinau airport to Colonita. The face on the wall appears to be that of poet Vladimir Mayakovsky.
More Moldova trip photos (254) by dittaeva are in this photoset.
There's also a separate collection from the war museum in Transnistria, a territory within Moldova that has been de facto independent since September 2, 1990, but whose "legal status continues to be an issue of contention." Here's dittaeva's introduction to the set:
These are photos from the war museum in Bender, Transnistria, Moldova. I tried to cover more or less the whole exhibition. We were let in on request and had a friendly but serious guide speaking in russian, which Daria very professionally translated into english. I also have a small book from the mueseum at home.
Remember that Transnistria is ruled by a quasi-communist dictatorial regime, which know how to do propaganda (just take a look at www.pridnestrovie.net).
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The government has been defeated in the Lords as peers voted to allow 3,000 unaccompanied child refugees into the country.
Peers voted by 306 votes to 204, a majority of 102, to amend the immigration bill in order to require the government to let the children, currently in Europe, come to Britain.
They warned the government it must act fast to take in unaccompanied child refugees amid complaints from cross-party MPs that child migrants in Calais were enduring terrible conditions.
The vote came as three unaccompanied Syrian children, including one orphaned by war, arrived in the UK from the Calais refugee camp to be reunited with relatives.
Labour peer Lord Dubs, who proposed the amendment to the bill, said the step would protect children from exploitation, people trafficking and abuse. Dubs, who was rescued as a child as he fled the Nazis, called on the government to remember the spirit of the Kindertransport and take the lead in Europe in giving homes to child refugees traveling alone.
The amendment stipulates that “the secretary of state must, as soon as possible, make arrangements to relocate 3,000 unaccompanied refugee children who are in European countries to the United Kingdom”.
Save the Children estimates that there are 24,000 unaccompanied child refugees in Europe, and calculates that 3,000 would be the UK’s fair share.
Earlier in the day, Yvette Cooper, the chair of Labour’s refugee taskforce, and Conservative MP Heidi Allen, called on the government to do more to support unaccompanied refugee children in Calais, after meeting some of the estimated 450 unaccompanied child refugees living there in caravans and tents.
They described their anger and frustration after meeting boys such as 12-year-old Kareem from Afghanistan, who told them he was exhausted after a night spent trying to hide in the back of lorries to get to England. “He wanted to keep hugging people, he wanted comfort. He has no one looking after him. He is about the same age as my son,” Cooper said.
They also met Majid, 17, from Syria, who has spent the past year trying to reach his mother and brother who are already in Birmingham. He showed them the scars on his hands from barbed-wire injuries incurred during his nightly attempts to board trains to get to England. He told them he was hoping to return to school and wanted to study to be a surgeon in England.
Cooper and Allen went to an undemolished section of the Calais camp where around 450 unaccompanied child refugees are living in caravans and wooden shacks. At least 150 of the children have family in the UK, and are entitled under Europe’s Dublin III regulation to have their asylum claims transferred there, so they can be with their relatives. But it can take up to nine months for the French authorities to issue a request to the UK to take over an asylum claim, followed by a further wait while the Home Office makes a decision.
Volunteers working in Calais told them many of the children had been badly treated by the French police, with some suffering from eye blistering after being hit with tear gas as they tried to approach the Eurotunnel tracks. Others had had their shoes removed by the police to discourage them from trying to walk to the railway. Still others had been hit with water cannon when much of the camp was destroyed last month.
The MPs also heard about the deteriorating condition of S, a 17-year-old Iranian boy travelling without his family who has been on hunger strike for the past three weeks, and who has stitched his lips together to protest against human rights abuses in the camp.
Allen said she felt “embarrassed” that British volunteers were having to pick up responsibility for these children in the absence of effective help from the French and UK governments. She said immigration ministers should travel to Calais to understand the situation that unaccompanied children were living in.
But David Cameron told the House of Commons that he did not support the Dubs amendment. In response to a question by Cooper, who had referred to how Dubs was himself rescued by the Kindertransport, the prime minister said: “We think it is right to take additional children over and above the 20,000 but to take them from the region and to do it with the UNHCR. And I think the unfairness of comparing child migrants in Europe with the Kindertransport is that countries like France, and Germany and Italy and Spain, these are safe countries and these are countries where anyone who claims asylum if they have family in Britain are able to come to Britain so I don’t think it is a fair comparison.”
After the government defeat in the Lords, Cooper said she would work to get the amendment passed in the Commons, too. “David Cameron must now drop his opposition to helping unaccompanied child refugees in Europe,’’ she said. “It is morally indefensible and does not do justice to Britain’s proud record of providing sanctuary to those most in need.” | <urn:uuid:78f72362-c256-4942-99d3-04e0d491bc67> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2016/mar/21/house-of-lords-votes-to-let-lone-child-refugees-come-to-britain?utm_content=buffer47218&utm_medium=social&utm_source=twitter.com&utm_campaign=buffer | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572033.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20220814113403-20220814143403-00267.warc.gz | en | 0.986084 | 1,034 | 1.78125 | 2 |
Whether you're growing them in a windowsill or in a planned outdoor garden, herbs provide foliage and a variety of flavors. Hundreds of herb varieties can be planted and grown indoors and outdoors, and maintaining them isn't a time consuming process. Herb gardening can be for an ideal hobby for the novice gardener.
Place 3 inches of sphagnum moss in the bottom of a planter box and fill it half-full with a mixture of equal parts vermicompost and potting soil.
Sow a variety of herb seeds such as thyme, mint, basil or oregano into the large planter box.
Prepare the outdoor garden soil with the same enriching mixture of vermicompost, potting soil and sphagnum moss as an alternative to growing the herbs in a container.
Scatter a variety of herb seeds over the outdoor plot of garden soil, allowing them to fall into the soil naturally.
Water the indoor herb plants once every three days with 2 cups of water. Provide the outdoor garden plants with approximately 4 gallons of water per week.
Trim the herb plants as necessary to prevent them from overgrowing the planting area.
Provide the plants with extra sphagnum moss to retain moisture in dryer climates or summer months.
Transplant large herb plants such as basil, rosemary and lavender from the container to an outdoor spot to prevent the roots from killing the other herb plants in a container. | <urn:uuid:261eb58d-fed8-4b65-8e03-7e250054a888> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.gardenguides.com/95369-grow-maintain-herbs.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 | 0.909288 | 299 | 2.75 | 3 |
Top Notched Image Extensions and Brief Outlook on Image File Formats
There are countless variants of images existing, but not all image file formats are appropriate for every purpose. Each image differs depending on its file extensions or file formats. There are image formats that suits for the web and those for printing and desktop publishing. Within every set there are formats better than the others for similar job. It is, indeed tough to decide which image format type should be used and which application can it be utilized in. Having knowledge to formats available and knowing about their pros and cons of each can aid you in crafting high-quality web pages, documents and presentations.
Image file extensions were developed to stock up large images from storage disk and cameras. Image file size is identified through the quantity of bytes. Images vary in the amount of colors they have. The larger digits of bits or pixels (“picture elements”), the larger number of colors and so is the image resolution, which results in a greater file.
Uniting with the fast paced technology advancement, high resolution cameras generate large graphic files. Larger file type indicates extra disk usage and can take more time to download. Thus, the need for compression is important; it refers to explain the means of trimming the size or dimension of the file.
There are two methods of compression, Lossless and Lossy. The former is described as using algorithms in reducing file size devoid of losing image quality, even though not being compressed into an undersized file as Lossy compression file is. It is often used when image quality is used or more than the file size. On the other hand, the latter defines as when a process gain advantage of the natural restrictions of the person’s eyes and removes unseen details. In the maximum compression stages, image downgrading turns out to be obvious.
There are several types of image file formats when naming them all. It is best to use one that is according to your purpose. Let us talk about the commonly used graphic formats, Raster image file format, as they are listed and shortly explained below.
Initially, Raster image formats is also referred to as a bitmap. It is formed from rows of tiny dots called pixels. At all times, the graphic can’t be directly re-scaled without losing definition whereas, a raster format applies a permanent procedure of identifying an image. Some Raster image formats include BMP, JPEG, GIF, PNG and TIFF.
The Windows Bitmap (BMP) format and .bmp as its file extension, has the ability to display millions of colors. It accommodates graphic files in the Operating System of Microsoft Windows. It is large in size because a BMP file is normally uncompressed. Its advantage is that it is plainness and extensively approved by the Window programs.
Secondly, the Graphics Interchange Format or also known as GIF and .gif as its file extension, since it is held up by approximately all Web browsers, it is considered as one of the mainly regular file designs for pictures on the Web. At its highest of 256 colors, it utilizes a Lossless compression that is further efficient when great areas contain a solo color and a useless color for meticulous images. However, it is best used for creating animation files, creating black-and-white images and displaying web picture.
Meanwhile, the other most ordinary file format in the World Wide Web (WWW) is the Joint Photographic Experts Group or JPEG format and its extensions are .jpeg or .jpg . Although it holds up to millions of colors to show high-resolution pictures, it can only bear 8 bits per color for a 24-bit total that creates quite small files. It is typically intended as a graphic storage format, that’s why it is capable of conveniently compressing large, expert photographs into an extremely compressed file. But frequently reducing picture’s file size may result to reduce its quality because it is in Lossy compression method. It doesn’t support animation but it use for photographs and natural- appearing graphics.
The PNG or Portable Network Graphics file format uses the extension of .png . It is said to be the GIF file format as its predecessor. It was created as free and open-source. It supports up to sixteen million colors or normally referred as true color. When picture has vast area of identical color and for editing images, PNG format is top matched. Although numerous web browsers don’t yet support the PNG format due to smaller file sizes. The process of compression it uses is Lossless.
Subsequently, the TIFF format or Tagged Image File Format and its file extension as .tif or .tiff, is frequently used in publishing because it generates extremely high-quality pictures. While it is displayed on a restricted 256 colors on gray scale pictures it can actually present millions of colors and basically results in bigger image files compared to JPEG or GIF file formats. Many programs distinguished this file format, so saving an image in this format will be useful. Web browsers don’t usually support this file format but the publishing industry acknowledged it as standard picture file.
Google designed a file format known as WebP that utilizes the method of Lossy compression. It decreases graphic file size to accelerate the loading of a web page but its foremost goal is to surpass JPEG, given that JPEG is the major format for image on the World Wide Web.
Other file image format that is trendy in Macintosh is the Picture File Format that uses .pict as its extension. It is applied with graphics programs and page design for moving documents among applications.
Based on the different image file formats stated above, every file format is best when used in their respective proper purposes. BMP is designed for screen display under Windows; therefore it is mainly used for Windows screen wallpaper, while GIF and JPEG are also for screen display and especially used for the Web. On other hand, TIFF is for printing for postscript printers and PICT is used for the screen display on the Macintosh. | <urn:uuid:2e506503-5535-44d7-b810-ca515c267ce5> | CC-MAIN-2022-33 | https://www.techyv.com/article/top-notched-image-extensions-and-brief-outlook-image-file-formats/ | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-33/segments/1659882572192.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20220815145459-20220815175459-00075.warc.gz | en | 0.941553 | 1,221 | 2.703125 | 3 |
Birds of the New England Coast
By Mark Garland
Features 68 bird species, both common and exotic, commonly seen on or near the New England coastline from Long Island Sound up to the Canadian Maritimes. Includes Shorebirds, Wading birds, Beach species, Gulls and Terns, Ducks and other swimmers, and Birds of Prey.
Includes info on how to clean and preserve shells. Indestructible lamination – water and beachproof. Instant access to just what you need to know. | <urn:uuid:ea328fd2-26bd-4d6a-b67c-1015fd107acb> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.plimoth.com/products/birds-of-the-new-england-coast | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988720475.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183840-00353-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.928921 | 107 | 2.53125 | 3 |
Can this book make your baby fall asleep?
Published 03/09/2015 | 02:30
Exhausted parents have sent 'The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep' soaring to the top of the bestseller list. But does it work? A sceptical mother experiments ...
The head is nodding and breathing is becoming deeper and slower. "Roger and you are relaxing deeply," I read aloud. "Now. You are letting your eyelids be as heavy as they are, just before you fall asleep, now." "It's working!" I think triumphantly, "Eyelids ARE heavy, here comes sleep!"
The only problem is, they're my eyelids that are closing, and me who is on the cusp of slumber; my infant son is happily chatting to his soft toy penguin and, despite it being 9.30pm, wide awake.
Sleep is the holy grail of parenting. New parents apparently lose something like six weeks of shut eye caring for their baby in their first year. One in five parents reckons their child has a sleep problem and, according to a recent survey, 21pc of mums and dads face a nightly battle trying to get their toddlers down for bedtime.
There are, of course, already a multitude of options on hand to help/ make money out of bleary-eyed, sleep-starved parents, from sleep experts and tomes on 'techniques' to vibrating mattresses and soporific, womb-impersonating sheep. But the latest in the arsenal of sleep aids is a new book by a Swedish psychologist.
Currently topping the Amazon charts is The Rabbit Who Wants to Fall Asleep by Carl-Johan Forssén Ehrlin. The 26-page story follows Roger, a young rabbit in that elusive stage of being sleepy but not asleep, as he travels to meet Uncle Yawn and sample his magic sleeping powder. The book uses psychological techniques to encourage the listener to doze off. These include using their name in the text so they identify with the protagonist, suggestive yawning, bold emphasised words, italicised passages to be read slowly, repetition and specially created language patterns all designed to subconsciously promote sleep.
That's the science bit, but did it work?
My son, Tom, has never been a fan of sleep. He fights it going down and wakes frequently. He'll be 13 months soon and has never slept for longer than five hours. He only falls asleep when he's rocked, pushed in the pram, breastfed or in the car. No, I haven't tried Cry It Out and yes, maybe I should be more diligent in observing a consistent night-time routine. But I'm tired, I've not slept in a year and frankly I just want to do whatever gets me into my jimjams fastest.
Enter Roger. The foreword suggests I use 'my best fairytale' voice which turns out to sound something between a satnav and a day spa employee.
"Once upon a time, there was a little rabbit called Roger who really wanted to fall asleep, and could not, right now," I begin, a little erratically.
"Roger could play in the park all day long until he fell asleep on the swings. Now. It allows him to swing back and forward, back and forward, slowly and relaxing."
"Mamamamamamama!" says Tom, hoisting himself to a standing position.
"This very night Roger's siblings fell asleep quicker than usual, whilst he was lying there thinking about falling asleep, now," I read, a little more urgently.
It's actually quite tricky to read, slowing the pace for the italicised passages and emphasising the bold bits with the word NOW popping up with unnerving irregularity. I understand that it's all been constructed very deliberately but the result feels like something that's come out the wrong end of Google Translate.
"Very tired. Now. So tired that you almost fall asleep [yawn]. Just as calm as it feels just before you fall asleep, now," I read.
By this point the baby is pacing the cot and rattling the bars. I wave the supposedly soothing illustrations under his nose, more in hope than expectation. He's not impressed. I can't say I blame him to be honest, the crooked-hat home of Uncle Yawn looks decidedly sinister and I get a strong Donnie Darko vibe from Roger. After just four pages, I concede defeat and resort to rocking to sleep once more, he conks out in five minutes.
"Well?" inquires my mum (we're staying at granny's whilst some emergency baby-proofing work is being done on our glass doors). I shake my head. "He's probably too young for it," she says. "You should try the woman across the road, I think her daughter's about two or three."
Having never met the woman across the road, I'm reluctant to knock on her door, offering to read her infant a weird story about putting a rabbit to sleep. But I agree on the age-appropriateness issue. Up to this point, our literary forays have mostly been of the one-line-per-page variety. Though excellent in sentiment, perhaps the concept of Uncle Yawn's big book of spells that make humans "feel good enough just as they are", isn't going to coax a 13-month-old into sleep. At least, I really hope it's not doubt and anxiety over self-worth that's keeping him awake.
I'm part of a great Facebook group dedicated to sleep resistant children whose parents only want to use gentle methods to get them slumbering (thank God for the internet, eh?). I would have scoffed at these sort of sites pre-child, but frankly I'm a bit in love with these ladies, there's always someone awake at stupid o'clock, ready with sympathy and (more importantly) they're never going to brag about Little Amelie who's been sleeping through since she vacated the womb.
Since we're the prime target market for gentle aids like The Rabbit Who Can Make You Sleep, the book was unsurprisingly a hot topic on the Facebook site. "Could it be true???" breathlessly asked one hopeful mum, linking an article to the book. "I'd try it!", "Sounds Amazing", "I know what I'm asking Santa for," replied others.
"I'm trying the audio book on my 25-month-old as we speak!" wrote mum-of-two Theresa Watterson, who then helpfully live-streamed the results to the rest of us sleep-obsessed madwomen ("update: she's looking pretty sleepy", then half an hour later: "still awake but looking close to sleep, starting the audiobook again, it's quite soporific"….)
Chatting to Theresa online afterwards, she was enthusiastic about the story's effect. "I'm fairly impressed given how hyper she was at the beginning," she said, informing me her daughter had been snoozing in under an hour. "No mean feat if you bear in mind that this is a toddler who often takes over two hours to fall asleep." Her eight-month-old also found it soothing. Interestingly, Theresa, and many of the other mums, had opted for the audio book, the tone and pace of which they felt had a calming effect on their children… sometimes. "I tried it for naptime yesterday, but she wasn't having any of it," Theresa told me a few days later. "I think if your child is already somewhat sleepy it helps get them to sleep faster, but if it's nowhere near their bedtime, it won't."
But others weren't wowed at all. "My child literally paid no attention except for the bits where I said her name when she'd look at me for a minute then get back to whatever messing she was doing," reported one mum with a 26-month-old.
Someone else's two-and-a-half-year-old freaked out at being named in the story and had to be calmed down with a lengthy discussion of the day's activities before she'd settle.
So is the book the wonder product that will solve sleep problems? Alas, probably not. But it won't stop us sleep-deprived parents dreaming that there's one out there. | <urn:uuid:8e7d7c93-3e22-4111-a258-5ba922c0b907> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | http://www.independent.ie/life/family/parenting/can-this-book-make-your-baby-fall-asleep-31498057.html | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560281151.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095121-00113-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.97468 | 1,738 | 1.609375 | 2 |
So runs the title of this week's editorial of The Tablet.
The editorial is a reflection on a foreword, written by Archbishop Nichols, to a booklet that will be given to priests taking part in the 24-28 August conference at All Saints Pastoral Centre, London Colney. I do not have the article to hand but can comment on the Tablet's editorial without bringing in personal likes and dislikes, but simply applying the Church's law.
The editor begins:
One of Pope Benedict XVI’s most controversial initiatives has been his promotion of the Tridentine Rite of Mass as an alternative to the revised rite that reflects the reforms of the Second Vatican Council.
Many things that the Church and her pastors direct are controversial simply by being controverted such as the teaching on artificial birth control contained in Pope Paul VI's encyclicalHumanae Vitae and Vatican II's Gaudium et spes. The fact of being controverted does not, however, make them any less legitimate.
The Tablet continues:
His message is unambiguous, and may not please some of those hoping to attend the conference. First, he has insisted that the training conference is officially sponsored by the Diocese of Westminster, “in conjunction with the Latin Mass Society”, thereby keeping it under his control. In church teaching and canon law, he states, bishops are responsible for the oversight of the liturgy. Many feel a bishop’s role in these matters has been undermined by Pope Benedict’s motu proprio “Summorum Pontificum”, which appears to allow priests to opt for the Tridentine Rite regardless of the attitude of local bishops.
Of course, the bishop is the moderator of the liturgy in his diocese, but always in accordance with the universal law of the Church. Whatever people feel, the fact is that Summorum Pontificum does indeed allow priests to celebrate the extraordinary form (which The Tablet insists on calling "the Tridentine Rite") without the permission of the bishop:
Art. 2: In Masses celebrated without the people, each Catholic priest of the Latin rite, whether secular or regular, may use the Roman Missal published by Bl. Pope John XXIII in 1962, or the Roman Missal promulgated by Pope Paul VI in 1970, and may do so on any day with the exception of the Easter Triduum. For such celebrations, with either one Missal or the other, the priest has no need for permission from the Apostolic See or from his Ordinary.
Archbishop Nichols gives no shred of encouragement to those who want the Tridentine Rite to replace the newer version. Conference participants “will wholeheartedly celebrate the Mass in each of these forms”, he instructs them bluntly, adding: “The view that the ordinary form of the Mass, in itself, is in some way deficient finds no place here.” People who hold that view are “inexorably distancing themselves from the Church”, he says. There is no scope, in other words, for “Tridentine Rite” parishes that set themselves up in the spirit of being “more Catholic than thou”.
Well, I hope it works both ways, that those who refuse to accept the extraordinary form do not consider themselves more catholic than those who prefer the extraordinary form. I would hope that The Tablet, which prides itself on dissent from - or at least controverting upon - much of the Church's official teachings will allow thinking catholics the space to discuss the relative merits of one form of the Mass over the other. After all, the whole point of the provisions of Pope John Paul II's Motu proprio Ecclesia Dei and Pope Benedict's Summorum Pontificum was to respond to the legitimate aspirations of those who remained attached to the older usage. In the former document, Pope John Paul had already written:
(M)oreover, respect must everywhere be shown for the feelings of all those who are attached to the Latin liturgical tradition, by a wide and generous application of the directives already issued some time ago by the Apostolic See for the use of the Roman Missal according to the typical edition of 1962.
Furthermore, Summorum Pontificum allows for the erection of personal parishes and chaplaincies exclusively dedicated to the provision of the extraordinary form:
The ordinary of a particular place, if he feels it appropriate, may erect a personal parish in accordance with can. 518 for celebrations following the ancient form of the Roman rite, or appoint a chaplain, while observing all the norms of law.
My experience of the conference in Merton last year was that most, if not all, of the priests attending were regular parish priests whose daily celebration of the Mass was and would remain in the ordinary form. They would continue to celebrate it "wholeheartedly" even if with the benefit of the "mutual enrichment" envisioned by Pope Benedict in Summorum Pontificum. Also, attendees were provided with the opportunity to celebrate Mass daily in the ordinary or extraordinary form according to their preference, or indeed to concelebrate (in the ordinary form, naturally). So, in fact, both forms of the Mass were being celebrated and the form one celebrated in was not, in my experience, a cause of division or being thought of by the others as being more or less catholic.
Recognising the threat of such moves, Archbishop Nichols is seeking to nip a potential schism in the bud.
Schism is a very technical word and The Tablet does its readers a great disservice in using it so imprecisely, just as it uses the term "Tridentine Rite" instead of "extraordinary form". There is no potential schism. All those attending the conference are faithful catholic priests.
His firm leadership in Westminster is one that other bishops in England and Wales – and elsewhere – will welcome. The Catholic Church does not need its own version of “culture wars”, and in his message the archbishop in effect declares a priest’s personal tastes or preferences to be irrelevant.
There would be no "wars" if all accepted peaceably the directives of the Holy Father in these matters. The priest now has a right to celebrate the extraordinary form privately whenever he wishes. Any decision to do so is bound to made on the basis of his preferences. The Tablet wants to deny priests their right in this matter.
Furthermore the distinctive feature of the Tridentine Rite, and the single most pressing reason why the bishops at Vatican II wanted it reformed, was the absence of any role for the laity. They were little more than spectators of what the celebrant was doing at the altar; in practice this meant many of them concentrated on their own private devotions.
We have here a very distorted understanding by The Tablet of active participation. The faithful for whom I celebrate the extraordinary form consider themselves to be very much involved, being drawn into the mysteries they celebrate and praying in union with the priest at the altar. They should not be bullied into making responses, shaking hands etc. if they do not wish to.
Archbishop Nichols insists it is an “established principle of good liturgy” to encourage the active participation of all those taking part in the Mass, a principle needing “careful consideration and application by every celebrant”.
This can be done by instructing the faithful - priests and laity - on the true nature of the Mass so that they have a greater understanding of what is being celebrated and accomplished. In my celebrations of the extraordinary form, I have indeed exercised very "careful consideration and application" so that I may celebrate the Mass with faithfulness to the rubrics and tradition so that the people do not get Father John's Mass but the Mass of the Church.
The Tablet now goes on to make a giant deductive leap:
Implicit in this directive is the rejection of any discrimination against girls and women among those who assist at Mass, such as altar servers, readers and extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist. That some Tridentinist priests have banished females from the sanctuary or lectern in the name of authenticity has more than a whiff of misogyny.
How can The Tablet deduce this conclusion from the Archbishop's words? The Tablet fails to remind its readers that Vatican II directed that the stable ministries of acolytate and lectorate be restored but that the Bishops have not restored these ministries. Why? Because they are reserved to men. So there is a selective application of the directives of the Council. The council and, indeed, the Code of Canon Law, states that other lay faithful - of either sex - may, in the absence of instituted ministers, exercise these roles. But their role is supplementary, not essential. As for extraordinary ministers of the Eucharist, these are not necessary in any Mass. They are permitted if, in the opinion of the parish priest, the distribution of Communion would take too long, but they are not required. And in the extraordinary form, Communion is only given under one kind (although that could be reformed).
What is a "Tridentinist" priest anyway?
Thus has Archbishop Nichols neatly answered virtually every objection to the motu proprio,...
Was that the Archbishop's intention, to "neatly answer virtually every objection to the motu proprio"? Or to give practical guidelines for its implementation.
... and the Tridentine Rite can henceforth take its proper – and necessarily marginal – place in the life of the Catholic Church.
Let the people - not The Tablet - decide whether the extraordinary form (again styled "Tridentine Rite" by The Tablet") will be marginal, as Pope Benedict has given them the right to.
Indeed, he has made it accessible to those who are fully committed to Vatican II.
Just as the ordinary form Mass is accessible to those who are fully committed to Vatican II, including its teaching on artificial birth control (Gaudium et spes) and other issues one could raise such as the infallibility of the Pope and the need for religious submission of intellect and will to the ordinary magisterium of the Church.
This timely display of clear leadership from the new president of the Catholic Bishops’ Conference of England and Wales bodes well.
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Greater New Orleans, because of its low-lying location, developed as a tight urban area. The original town clung at first to its limited high ridges such as those along the Mississippi River as well as the Esplanade, Metairie and Gentilly ridges. It later spread outward within a confined network of levees and pumps.
Founded in 1718, New Orleans was concentrated in the French Quarter on high riverfront land for nearly a century. After the Louisiana Purchase in 1803 the city grew rapidly, as nearby plantations were subdivided into streets. Rather than sprawling far outward from its original settlement, it tended to remain parallel to the river extending no more than a short distance inland. Most growth was upriver – Uptown – between St. Charles Avenue and the river, because this area provided a much wider riverfront ridge to build on than was available downriver – Downtown – which grew more slowly.
By the 1870s New Orleans was filling its available high land on the east bank, and was starting to grow away from the river into low flood-prone land – today’s Mid-City.
In 1899 a massive system of canals and pumps capable of draining low-lying areas was approved by voters. With this, New Orleans no longer grew alongside the river, but began pushing north toward Lake Pontchartrain. In the 1950s the city reached the lake as houses were going up in Lakeview and Gentilly, once cypress swamps were deemed uninhabitable.
With the main body of the city now occupied and its population still growing, movement accelerated into east Jefferson Parish, which grew dramatically to become an extension of the city. At about the same time subdivisions began sprouting downriver in St. Bernard Parish and in eastern New Orleans. With the opening of the Greater New Orleans Mississippi River Bridge in 1957 the Westbank joined in on the building boom.
By the last decades of the 20th century the core of greater New Orleans had reached its habitable limits, and growth began to expand still farther afield – upriver into the River Parishes and more dramatically to the North shore of Lake Pontchartrain.
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Kerouac: ‘Life is too sweet to waste on self propaganda’
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Among the items sold at the literary auction at Bonhams and Butterfields on Monday was a 1961 letter from Jack Kerouac to two friends, Jacques Beckwith and Lois Sorrells. Kerouac had been typing on the page, got a letter from Sorrells then switched gears, abandoning his thought (mostly) to write a letter to them. This is what he typed at the top of the page, before the letter:
I can just see the shabby literary man carrying a ‘bulging briefcase’ rushing from one campus to another, one lecture club to another, nodding confirmation with his hosts that he is right, hurrying to the next town ... a whole gray career of proving himself to others, to as many as can hear him, that he was right ... till finally people say: ‘Here comes the self-prover again, O dear ... bring out the papers and the canapes.’ This my friend is what I will become if I accept all lecture offers, TV appearances, radio interviews and start arranging with reviewers and critics who want information and my books through me, a great long lifetime in a briefcase proving my work and my work itself stopped dead at the level where I took to proving myself. So, I say, life is too sweet to waste on self propaganda, I quit self promotion, I enter my page.
This was four years after the publication of Kerouac’s greatest work, ‘On the Road.’ None of his other books would have the reach or impact of that book -- few do -- but he’d been publishing regularly in the years after. There was a 1958 follow-up, ‘The Dharma Bums,’ and ‘Lonesome Traveler’ in 1960.
If you know Kerouac’s biography, you know that in 1969 he died of internal bleeding associated with cirrhosis, brought on by years of excessive drinking. It is easy to look back at this refusenik Kerouac, the one crying against self-promotion, as the one who would hear the call of self-destruction, who was resigned, miserable, dissipated.
As Kerouac wrote the letter, he was working on another book. He was undertaking the trip to Europe that would become the basis of ‘Satori in Paris’ -- another disappointingly received novel, but a book nonetheless. In 1961, he couldn’t see his trajectory: He was just trying to write. In the letter, he continues, ‘I really wanta dig into my art like a maniac and pay no attention to promotion (which everybody wants me to do ... what a waste of sweet life!)’
Although it’s clear that Kerouac is no role model when it comes to a writer’s lifestyle -- big hit at 35, death from alcoholism 12 years later -- his thoughts have got to resonate with today’s authors.
Nowadays, it’s not just lecture offers, TV appearances and radio interviews that keep authors from authoring. There are also blogs, Twitter and Facebook, author videos, GoodReads and the rest of the great wide Internet.
Publishers encourage their authors to do any of these things, all of these things, as many as they can manage. Writer Luis Alberto Urrea (‘The Hummingbird’s Daughter’) is on Facebook and Twitter because his publisher suggested it. (In a tweet he explained, ‘Found out I liked this after early reluctance.’)
Where there might once have been a staff on hand to promote a book, now the more an author does, the better publishers like it. Simon & Schuster has an online marketing guide to help its authors get started.
What with the Facebook friending, the tweeting, the commenting, the blogging, the GoodReads reviewing -- and, with any luck, the lecture invitations, the radio interviews, the television appearances -- when is an author supposed to write? Can anyone dare, these days, to quit self-promotion and enter the page?
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12 Hyundai safety features that make driving today safer than ever.
Hyundai is always on the lookout for ways to make driving not only more enjoyable, but also safer. Our researchers and engineers are constantly working to develop technologies that minimise the risk our drivers face on the road.
By now you probably know all about traditional safety features like seat belts, airbags, anti-lock brakes and traction control, but what are some of the newer safety features that are making Hyundai vehicles safer than ever?
Here, we run through 12 you should know about.
3. RCT – Rear Cross Traffic Alert
When you reverse out of a parking space, your rear sensors will monitor approaching traffic and gives you an audio and visual warning if a vehicle is approaching, helping you to avoid parking-related accidents.
5. LCA – Lane Change Assist
While LKA warns you when you begin to change lanes without indicating, LCA kicks in when you do indicate to change lanes. Rear sensors activate to scan for any approaching vehicles in your blind spots and give an audio and visual warning if there is a potential to safe merging.
6. HBA – High Beam Assist
When you’re driving on unlit roads at night, HBA scans the road ahead for lights and automatically switch between high and low beam depending on what is in front of you.
7. SCC – Smart Cruise Control
While regular cruise control keeps your vehicle at a set speed, SCC uses the mounted camera or front radar sensor to monitor the speed of the vehicle ahead. If you get too close to the vehicle, it brakes to maintain a safe distance before accelerating back up to your pre-set speed when it is safe to do so.
11. SEA – Safe Exit Assist
SEA uses the front and rear sensors to check for any approaching hazards – for example, an approaching vehicle or cyclist – and gives an alert that it may be dangerous to exit the vehicle. If you have children and have the doors on child safety lock, the SEA system intervenes and prevents the doors from being unlocked.
12. ASPAS – Advanced Smart Parking Assist System
It’s not uncommon for drivers to be somewhat uncomfortable with parking, particularly when it comes to reverse and parallel parking. ASPAS is a steering assist system that helps you to manoeuvre in and out of parking spots – you simply select Reverse Parking (90°), Parallel Parking, or Parallel Exit mode, and then your vehicle does the rest.
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Giftedness and the Gifted:
What's It All About?
ERIC Identifier: ED321481
Publication Date: 1990-00-00
Source: ERIC Clearinghouse on Handicapped and Gifted Children Reston VA.
WHAT DOES GIFTEDNESS MEAN?
Many parents say, "I know what giftedness is, but I can't put it into words." This
generally is followed by reference to a particular child who seems to manifest gifted
behaviors. Unfortunately, there are many misconceptions of the term, all of which
become deterrents to understanding and catering to the needs of children identified as
gifted. Let's study the following statement:
"Giftedness is that precious endowment of potentially outstanding abilities which allows
a person to interact with the environment with remarkably high levels of achievement
This statement is the product of a small neighborhood group of parents who took a
comprehensive view of the concept of giftedness before focusing on any attempt to
define the gifted child. They thought,
Therefore, they reasoned that the "remarkably high levels of achievement and creativity" result from a
continuous and functional interaction between a person's inherent and acquired abilities
- first, that within giftedness is a quality of innateness (or, as they said, "a gift conferred by nature"), and
- second, that one's environment is the arena in which the gifts come into play and develop.
We often hear statements such as "She's a born artist," or "He's a natural athlete," or
conversely, "Success never came easy for me; I had to learn the hard way," or "He's a
self-made man." Those who manifest giftedness obviously have some inherent or
inborn factors plus the motivation and stamina to learn from and cope with the rigors of
We suggest that you wrestle with the term in your own way, looking at giftedness as a
concept that demands the investment of time, money, and energy. This will help you
discuss giftedness more meaningfully with other parents, school administrators, school
board members, or anyone who needs to understand the dynamics of the term.
WHO ARE GIFTED CHILDREN?
Former U. S. Commissioner of Education Sidney P. Marland, Jr., in his August 1971
report to Congress, stated,
"Gifted and talented children are those identified by professionally qualified persons who
by virtue of outstanding abilities are capable of high performance. These are children
who require differentiated educational programs and/or services beyond those normally
provided by the regular school program in order to realize their contribution to self and
society" (Marland, 1972).
The same report continued, Children capable of high performance include those with demonstrated achievement
and/or potential ability in any of the following areas, singly or in combination:
Using a broad definition of giftedness, a school system could expect to identify 10% to
15% or more of its student population as gifted and talented. A brief description of each
area of giftedness or talent as defined by the Office of Gifted and Talented will help you
understand this definition.
- general intellectual ability
- specific academic aptitude
- creative or productive thinking
- leadership ability
- visual or performing arts
- psychomotor ability.
- General intellectual ability or talent.
Laypersons and educators alike usually define this
in terms of a high intelligence test score--usually two standard deviations above the
mean--on individual or group measures. Parents and teachers often recognize students
with general intellectual talent by their wide-ranging fund of general information and high
levels of vocabulary, memory, abstract word knowledge, and abstract reasoning.
- Specific academic aptitude or talent.
Students with specific academic aptitudes are
identified by their outstanding performance on an achievement or aptitude test in one
area such as mathematics or language arts. The organizers of talent searches
sponsored by a number of universities and colleges identify students with specific
academic aptitude who score at the 97th percentile or higher on standard achievement
tests and then give these students the Scholastic Aptitude Test (SAT). Remarkably
large numbers of students score at these high levels.
- Creative and productive thinking.
This is the ability to produce new ideas by bringing
together elements usually thought of as independent or dissimilar and the aptitude for
developing new meanings that have social value. Characteristics of creative and
productive students include openness to experience, setting personal standards for
evaluation, ability to play with ideas, willingness to take risks, preference for complexity,
tolerance for ambiguity, positive self-image, and the ability to become submerged in a
task. Creative and productive students are identified through the use of tests such as
the Torrance Test of Creative Thinking or through demonstrated creative performance.
- Leadership Ability.
Leadership can be defined as the ability to direct individuals or
groups to a common decision or action. Students who demonstrate giftedness in
leadership ability use group skills and negotiate in difficult situations. Many teachers
recognize leadership through a student's keen interest and skill in problem solving.
Leadership characteristics include self-confidence, responsibility, cooperation, a
tendency to dominate, and the ability to adapt readily to new situations. These students
can be identified through instruments such as the Fundamental Interpersonal Relations
Orientation Behavior (FIRO-B).
- Visual and Performing Arts.
Gifted students with talent in the arts demonstrate special
talents in visual art, music, dance, drama, or other related studies. These students can
be identified by using task descriptions such as the Creative Products Scales, which
were developed for the Detroit Public Schools by Patrick Byrons and Beverly Ness
Parke of Wayne State University.
- Psychomotor Ability.
This involves kinesthetic motor abilities such as practical, spatial,
mechanical, and physical skills. It is seldom used as a criterion in gifted programs.
Robert Sternberg and Robert Wagner (1982) have suggested that giftedness is a kind
of mental self-management. The mental management of one's life in a constructive,
purposeful way has three basic elements:
According to Sternberg and Wagner, the key
psychological basis of intellectual giftedness resides in insight skills that include three
- adapting to environments,
- selecting new environments, and
- shaping environments.
Sternberg and Wagner emphasized problem-solving abilities and viewed the gifted
student as one who processes information rapidly and uses insight abilities.
- separating relevant from irrelevant information,
- combining isolated pieces of information into a unified whole, and
- relating newly acquired information to information acquired in the past.
Howard Gardner (1983) also suggested a concept of multiple intelligences, stating that there are
several ways of viewing the world:
Joseph Renzulli (1986) stated that gifted behavior reflects an interaction among three
basic clusters of human traits:
- interpersonal, and
- intrapersonal intelligence.
According to Renzulli, gifted and talented children are those who possess or are capable of
developing this composite of traits and applying them to any potentially valuable area of
- above-average general and/or specific abilities,
- high levels of task commitment (motivation), and
- high levels of creativity.
A good source for pursuing the characteristics of giftedness in depth is Barbara Clark's
informative book, GROWING UP GIFTED (1988), which presents an exhaustive list of
characteristics under five major headings:
No one child manifests all of the attributes described by researchers and the Office of
Gifted and Talented. Nevertheless, it is important for parents to be fully aware of the
ways in which giftedness can be recognized. Often, certain behaviors such as
constantly having unique solutions to problems, asking endless, probing questions, or
even the masterful manipulation of others are regarded by parents as unnatural, unlike
other children, and trying to parental patience. Therefore, our recommendation is to
study the characteristics of gifted children with an open mind. Do not use the list as a
scorecard; simply discuss and appreciate the characteristics and let common sense,
coupled with love, take over.
- Cognitive (thinking),
- Affective (feeling),
- Intuitive, and
SOME GENERAL CHARACTERISTICS
(These are typical factors stressed by educational authorities as being indicative of
giftedness. Obviously, no child is outstanding in all characteristics.)
A QUICK LOOK AT INTELLIGENCE
- Shows superior reasoning powers and marked ability to handle ideas; can generalize
readily from specific facts and can see subtle relationships; has outstanding
- Shows persistent intellectual curiosity; asks searching questions; shows exceptional
interest in the nature of man and the universe.
- Has a wide range of interests, often of an intellectual kind; develops one or more
interests to considerable depth.
- Is markedly superior in quality and quantity of written and/or spoken vocabulary; is
interested in the subtleties of words and their uses.
- Reads avidly and absorbs books well beyond his or her years.
- Learns quickly and easily and retains what is learned; recalls important details,
concepts and principles; comprehends readily.
- Shows insight into arithmetical problems that require careful reasoning and grasps
mathematical concepts readily.
- Shows creative ability or imaginative expression in such things as music, art, dance,
drama; shows sensitivity and finesse in rhythm, movement, and bodily control.
- Sustains concentration for lengthy periods and shows outstanding responsibility and
independence in classroom work.
- Sets realistically high standards for self; is self-critical in evaluating and correcting
his or her own efforts.
- Shows initiative and originality in intellectual work; shows flexibility in thinking and
considers problems from a number of viewpoints.
- Observes keenly and is responsive to new ideas.
- Shows social poise and an ability to communicate with adults in a mature way.
- Gets excitement and pleasure from intellectual challenge; shows an alert and subtle
sense of humor.
The attempts to define giftedness refer in one way or another to so-called "inborn"
attributes, which, for lack of a better term, are called intelligence.
Significant efforts have been made to measure intelligence, but, because the concept is
elusive, test constructors simply aim at testing what they feel are typical manifestations
of intelligence in behaviors. Perhaps a little rhyme used for years by kindergarten
teachers will help to describe this elusiveness:
"Nobody sees the wind; neither you, nor I. But when
the trees bow down their heads, the wind is passing by."
Just as we cannot see the wind, we cannot find, operate on, or transplant intelligence.
Yet we see the working or manifestations of intelligence in the behaviors of people.
The man-made computation of an intelligence quotient, or IQ, is probably the best
general indicator of intelligence, but in no way is it infallible. All too often, a child's IQ is
misunderstood and becomes a lifelong "handle." However, given our present
knowledge, the results of a standardized intelligence test administered by a competent
examiner provide as reliable an indication as possible of a person's potential ability to
learn and cope. Until some scientific breakthrough is developed, we will rely on the IQ
score to approximate how mentally gifted a person may be.
The nature of intelligence was once explained in this way: If intelligence were something
you could see, touch, and weigh, it would be something like a can of paint. The genius
would have a gallon, the person who has severe retardation, only half a pint. The rest of
us would have varying amounts between these extremes, with the majority possessing
about two quarts. This is clear enough, but it is only half the story.
Each can of paint contains the same five or six ingredients in varying amounts. One can
may be "long" on oil, another on pigment, a third on turpentine, the fourth on gloss or
drying agent. So, although two cans contain the same amount of paint, the paint may be
of vastly different consistency, color, or character.
Good painters want to know the elements in the paint with which they are working.
Parents and teachers want to know the kinds of intelligence with which they are
working. What are the special qualities of this intelligence? In what proportions are
these elements present? Most important, how can these elements be used?
We recommend that you do not become bogged down in probing into the concept of
intelligence. Its intricacies and mysteries are fascinating, but it must not become a
convenient synonym for giftedness. An excellent coverage of the concept of intelligence
is provided by Barbara Clark in GROWING UP GIFTED.
The exciting advances in research on brain functioning, coupled with the realization that
a child's intelligence is only one key to understanding giftedness, have underscored the
importance of studying all characteristics of the gifted child.
THE GIFTED CHILD IS CALLED MANY THINGS
Often parents are confused by the many terms used in referring to the gifted child. Many
parents hear these terms used--sometimes adopting them in their own
conversations--without knowing whether they are synonymous with "gifted" or are just
words that help to explain the concept.
The term "genius" used to be widely employed but now it is reserved for reference only
to the phenomenally gifted person. "Talented" tends to be used when referring to a
particular strength or ability of a person. Thought should be given to whether the talent
is truly a gift or is, rather, an ability that has become a highly developed skill through
practice. It is safe to say that generally the person identified as gifted is one who has
multiple talents of a high order.
The terms "prodigy" and "precocious" are most commonly used when a child evidences
a decidedly advanced degree of skill in a particular endeavor at a very early age, as well
as a very disciplined type of motivation. It is interesting to note that the derivation of the
words precocious or precocity comes from the ancient Greek word for "precooked" and
connotes the idea of early ripening.
"Superior" is a comparative term. When a child is classified as "superior," we would like
to know to whom, or what group, he or she is superior, and to what degree. A child may
be markedly superior to the majority of children in a specific mental ability such as
verbal comprehension and at the same time be equally inferior in spatial relations or
memory. The looseness of the term limits its usage in most cases to broad
generalization. A "high IQ" may be anything, depending on what it is higher than.
"Rapid learner" is a helpful term in understanding giftedness, because it is a distinct
characteristic manifested by the identified gifted child.
The term "exceptional" is appropriate when referring to the gifted child as being different
in the characteristics listed earlier.
At this point it is important to bring into focus a term that continues to be tossed around
altogether too loosely in reference to education of the gifted. That term is "elitism".
By derivation, elite means the choice, or best, or superior part of a body or class of
persons. However, time and an overemphasis on egalitarianism have imparted a
negative connotation to the word, implying snobbishness, selectivity, and unfair special
But in fact, gifted children are elite in the same way that anyone becomes a champion, a
record-holder, a soloist, an inventor, or a leader in important realms of human endeavor.
Therefore, their parents have a distinct responsibility to challenge those who cry
"elitism" and explain to them the true meaning of the term.
The only reason for mentioning these terms--and there are many more--is to caution
parents that semantics and language usage can be tricky and confusing. Thus, your
personal understanding and application of the term gifted becomes doubly important.
Adapted from D. W. Russell, D. G. Hayes, & L. B. Dockery, "MY CHILD IS GIFTED!
NOW WHAT DO I DO?" (2nd ed. 1988), North Carolina Association for the Gifted and
Talented, Inc., P. O. Box 5394, Winston-Salem, NC 27113-5394; and D. Sisk, "The
State of Gifted Education: Toward a Bright Future", MUSIC EDUCATORS JOURNAL,
(March 1990), pp. 35-39. Adapted by permission.
ERIC Digests are in the public domain and may be freely reproduced and disseminated.
This publication was prepared with funding from the U.S. Department of Education,
Office of Educational Research and Improvement, under contract no. RI88062007. The
opinions expressed in this report do not necessarily reflect the positions or policies of
OERI or the Department of Education.
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A bench of Justices Vipin Sanghi and Rekha Palli said according to news reports there is a daily wastage of six per cent of vaccines and till now 44 lakh vaccines out of 10 crore have been wasted, maximum in Tamil Nadu.
"This is a huge wastage. Give it to those who want it. Whomsoever you can vaccinate, please vaccinate. Whether 16 year old or 60 year old, all need vaccination. The pandemic does not discriminate," the court told the Centre.
It said if at the end of a day, a few shots are available in a vial, then it be given to someone whether they fall in the approved categories for vaccination or not.
The observations by the bench came during the hearing of a disposed of petition related to COVID-19 tests which was revived on April 19 (Monday).
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The highly cryptic Common Poorwill is heard far more often than it is seen. It is smaller than a nighthawk, with a shorter tail. Common Poorwills are mottled gray and brown with a white band across the chest and a pale collar around the neck. The upperparts vary from dark brown to light gray. Most, if not all, of the Common Poorwills in Washington are dark. Like other members of the family, Common Poorwills have large heads, short necks, and little difference between males and females.
Common Poorwills typically inhabit dry, open areas, including desert, grasslands, and open forests. They require a combination of rocky ledges or canyons and open, shrubby areas.
These nocturnal birds hunt from the ground, looking up into the sky and flying up to grab prey. They often hunt from roadsides and can be spotted when their eyes reflect in car headlights. The Common Poorwill was the first bird discovered to hibernate, or go into torpor. The birds' temperature can drop to as low as 41 degrees, and their rate of respiration is reduced up to 90%. They can remain in this state for days or weeks at a time. When vocalizing, Common Poorwills give repeated calls that sound like, 'Poor Will,' followed by a weak, lower, third note. The calls are almost always made from the ground.
Common Poorwills eat mostly flying insects, especially moths and beetles.
The male calls from the ground or a low perch to attract a female. Both parents incubate two eggs, which are laid on bare ground. No nest is built, but sometimes a slight scrape is present. The eggs are often placed in the shelter of a shrub or rock. If disturbed, the eggs (or young) will be moved. Incubation lasts for 20 to 21 days. Once the eggs have hatched, both parents brood and feed the young regurgitated insects. The young begin to fly at 20 to 23 days. Pairs often raise two broods a year. It is not uncommon for the female to be incubating the second clutch while the male is still tending the first.
Common Poorwills leave in late August or early September and migrate to Mexico. They return in April.
This cryptic species is very difficult to survey accurately, although recent studies show it to be more abundant in many places than was previously thought. It is widespread, and numbers are probably stable, although more study is needed to get a better sense of the population status.
When and Where to Find in Washington
Common Poorwills are very difficult to see but are common in canyons and shrubby areas at the ecotone where the Ponderosa pine forests and shrub-steppe habitats meet in eastern Washington from late April through August. They can also be found in mountainous sagebrush habitat and in the Columbia Basin. Migrants have been recorded in western Washington as well but are extremely rare.
Click here to visit this species' account and breeding-season distribution map in Sound to Sage, Seattle Audubon's on-line breeding bird atlas of Island, King, Kitsap, and Kittitas Counties.
Washington Range Map
North American Range Map
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With a rather lighthearted and fun tone, the host explains the purpose of these processing units and their basic operational process. You’ll learn more about the different ways that they cut wood and how much time they can save you when you’re trying to get all of your firewood properly cut and processed.
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